How do we express our concern?

Posted by: annakita at February 12, 2006 7:53 PM

We must write letters to Congress! Lest we forget --- there were only three governments in the world who refused to withdraw diplomatic relations with the Taliban in Afghanistan until days before the American assault in 2001 -- Those were:

Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
UAE

This fact speaks volumes about their character and intentions as Muslim nations...

Posted by: jsla at February 12, 2006 8:10 PM

Annakita:

1. Contact your senator ASAP.

2. The Dept. of Homeland Security is one of the members of the U.S Committee on Foreign Investment, the body which approved the sale. Reach Homeland Securtiy at:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/contactus

You can call or use an online form to submit your concerns.

3. Contact Senator Charles Schumer, dem. from New York who objects to the sale. Reach him via this online form:

http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/contact/webform.cfm

4. Finally, here is the contact info for the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment:

Ms. Gay Hartwell Sills
Staff Chair
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS")
Office of International Investment
Department of Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Room 4201 NY
Washington, DC 20220

Phone: (202) 622-9066
Also: (202) 622-1860

E-Mail: gay.sills@do.treas.gov

Posted by: libbysmom at February 12, 2006 8:11 PM

Absolutely stunning. This is an adminstration some falsely believe to be "tough" on terror.

Posted by: Kafir Nonbeliever at February 12, 2006 8:15 PM

Their is no end to the lack of vision this admion seems to have .It is longpassed embarresing it is down right dangerous now

Posted by: KAOSKTRL at February 12, 2006 8:41 PM

Meet the guy who may soon control most of the ship cargo (non-nuclear and nuclear) entering the United States:

Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem

Posted by: Hulegu Khan at February 12, 2006 8:49 PM

Tell me, will the duties paid be called jizya, and do Muslim vessels get a discount?

Posted by: jewdog at February 12, 2006 8:57 PM

Homeland Security comment line:
202-282-8495

Posted by: Foehammer at February 12, 2006 8:58 PM

There needs to be some sort of reciprocity if this deal is going to go down: Put the Crips and Bloods in charge of various Mideast ports. :)

Posted by: Shinoliite at February 12, 2006 9:00 PM

“The Bush administration considers the UAE an important ally in the fight against terrorism”

Islam, any representative, or any country thereof, is not an “ally” in any sense of the word. Why doesn’t the President know this? I’m beginning to regret my support for Mr. Bush. Lately, with culture clash growing intense across the world, he has consistently let me down.

Mr. Bush, defend this Nation or get the hell out of the way.

Posted by: butterfly at February 12, 2006 9:02 PM

Seems the trend is catching on around the world.
In Sydney Australia, Mascot international airport, the biggest in the country, security guards and baggage handlers of "middle east appearance" can be seen everywhere.

Large amounts of drugs being transported to muslim countries eg. Indonesia are occasionally discovered in passengers baggage to the passengers bewilderment.

The infidel passengers are either put to death or locked up for the best part of their life.

Posted by: Buddy at February 12, 2006 9:10 PM

OT, and apologies, but this Liar needs get his facts straight:

To defenderofislam, who claims this group in Kashmer are Christians:

That group in Kashmir is Muslim, you ignorant jackass, and they said as much. Why don't you look them up?

SRINAGAR, India - An Islamic separatist women’s group, known for its fierce opposition to Western-style romance, vowed on Saturday to prevent couples celebrating Valentine’s Day in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir.

“We will not allow anyone to observe Valentine’s Day as it does nothing but spread immorality among youth,” said Aasiya Andrabi, firebrand leader of the separatist Dukhtaran-e-Millat or Daughters of Faith.

The group, which supports a 16-year-old separatist insurgency against New Delhi’s rule in Indian Kashmir, is also engaged in a crusade to stamp out immorality in the Muslim-majority region.

Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14, is “against our culture and Islamic teachings,” Andrabi said in a statement reported by Current News, a local news agency.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/February/subcontinent_February464.xml§ion=subcontinent

Now shut the hell up, or tell the truth, if you are capable.

Posted by: Gary at February 12, 2006 9:19 PM

You all have renewed my hope!

Gawd, I'm glad to see all of you rightly indignant on this issue, REGARDLESS of your political party affiliations!

Thank You Jihad Watch for having the good sense to post this article!

Posted by: witness at February 12, 2006 9:24 PM

Off topic for one moment. Reading JW, I have been impressed by the depth, knowledge, and passion of many of those posting here. Your skills and wit would be invaluable in countering the inbred logic at various Islamic Blog sites. I am convinced that many here could take apart their arguments with surgical precision. Here's a nice "moderate" site. Just ease your way in until you're under the radar. then let her rip. http://www.muslimwakeup.com/

Posted by: Thumper at February 12, 2006 10:05 PM

...and here's the challenge from "Muslims wake up"

Nibs of Steel

...I wield my pen
Defending the Prophet
From Left and Right
I claim the Prophet's verses
And write across the page
Declaring my intention
To argue until reason wears thin
And none who oppose me
Remain lucid

None remain lucid? This poor gal hasn't met Isabella

Posted by: Thumper at February 12, 2006 10:25 PM

Thumper-

Ws there at MWU over a year ago, and found their disinformation cum apologetics nauseating post haste. And I'm not conventionally "religious", but an agnostic mystic, so they couldn't use the old anti-Christian or pawn of Zionism diatribes. Or trot out the lets compare evil Old Testament farragos versus 'wonderfully compassionate suras' stuff. I buy neither.

They got frustrated hearing arguments from science, philosphy, psychology and basic human decency real quick, and went back into obscu-rant-isms, calls to Arabic declensions, and essentially ignored my root question:

-why don't you use the brain that grew on top of the spine for something original like thinking for yourself?

Or, more verbosely:
-why don't you study comparative religion, clasical philosophy, modern psychological research into the meanings behind the desire for Absolute Certainty, or some study of epistomology ("how do you know what you know"), the evolution of the meaning of "God", the word "solipicism", and related explorations of the frail thing we call human consciousness (in its astonsihing panoply of incarnations, whether the Collective Unconscious, the id, the commonplace conscious state, the pre-conscious, the "super-conscious"/idiot savant hints of unknown powers).

Generally, the people at WMU had zero clues about anything on these lines, but only the barest outline of technological skills (engineering, medicine) if any, and were simply stumped by the type of questions. They were outside of the Koran box that they wanted everything to remain safely locked within.

But, I kept returning to my main wonder:

-why do you buy the unexamined words of an apparently unintelligent dead man? Can't you learn what has happened, since Mohammad's time, with the developing human mind? Psychology is only 120 years old. Why trust in the thinking processes of a being who had no clue, and could have no clue, what his real desires were. Or that such a thing as the unconscious (with all of its amorally suspect motives) even existed.

After hearing a mass of Islamo-flapdoodle, I moved on.

But anyone who likes the sound of their skull hitting stone should feel free to engage them.

But it is like dueling with W.C. Fields.

His sword is made of rubber.

Posted by: profitsbeard at February 12, 2006 10:35 PM

"I’m beginning to regret my support for Mr. Bush"
-- from a posting above

You, and a very large army -- not all of its members being in uniform, or in Iraq.

Rhetoric but no energy policy, and no gasoline tax. No attempt to diminish Saudi and other Arab and Muslim oil revenues. Lowering American dependnece on Middle Eastern oil, since oil is fungible, could be achieved next year, but would be meaningless. The goal is not "energy indendence" but a lowering of the overall revenues that fund mosques, madrasas, armies of Western hirelings, Da'wa campaigns, arms purchases, and all the other elements of the world-wide Jihad that would not be possible without those revenues.

Continued Jizyah payments to Egypt, Pakistan, the "Palestinians." An inability to see why they should be halted, and rich Arabs and Muslims forced to disgorge and thereby use up some of their wealth on the poorer Arabs and Muslims. Nothing like forcing the latter to go, hat in hand, to the former to increase divisions within the world of Islam.

Continued obstinate refusal bythe Bush Administration to see how impossible it will be to obtain any further benefit to Infidels from remaining in Iraq, and a refusal as well to see that Iraq could be the source of division and demoralization in the Muslim world.

Inability to focus completely on two things: Iran, and the islamization of Western Europe, because of this crazed focus on Iraq two years after any conceivable justification for remaining came to an end with the capture of Saddam Hussein.

That furious army of former supporters is growing. If Iran is allowed to acquire, because of the Administration's continued inability to figure out what the menace of Islam is, and therefore what would be for Infidels the most sensible and helpful outcome in Iraq (and it is not the birth of a bouncing boy, a healthy and happy nation-state, the delivery made possible by the long-suffering American midwife who is given no thanks, and instead of her tendering a bill, she is sent one.

Tarbaby Iraq. But all that we-can't-cut-and-run rhetoric entraps its own speaker. What a mess.

Posted by: Hugh at February 12, 2006 11:27 PM

I can't remember a time when I read anything as idiotic as this. What kind of nuts are running our government? I wrote Dianne Feinstein right away. The Repubs can forget about the White House in 2008, if the Dems work this right. I still can't believe it.

Posted by: Kay at February 12, 2006 11:29 PM

Profitsbeard - Kudos's to you for trying, though you used a more cerebral technique than my own. I had a distinct advantage if not in erudition - certainly in the power of the (don't squirm) Holy Spirit. I just stuck to the core belief of most religions - how are you justified before God. this led to the efficacy of Christ's atonement which really got the house rockin'. Somebody in central command jettisoned me.

Posted by: Thumper at February 12, 2006 11:47 PM

Thumper-

They claim that Jesus is one of their "beloved prophets", but they then don't believe anything he said.

I always found that curious.

"He who is without sin, cast the first stone."

They forgot that one.

Dietary taboos were disposed by their "beloved Issa" ("It is not what goes into a person's mouth, but what comes out of it that makes a person unclean."), but they are still offended by references to pigs and pork ("haram"- unclean!).

They take the name of Jesus in order to sucker naive Christians with the b.s. that "we are the same, you see, because we both believe in Jesus!", then do not follow the Sermon on the Mount's profound insights at all.

I could have gone that route with them, but I figured others would be more willing.

I just tried to go "behind the scenery" and get to the raw, unprogrammed human. It didn't work. They didn't want to be merely human. Or talk about the foundation of all of our beliefs. It threw off their rote propaganda replies.

Mohammad left out all of Jesus' best, most soul-shattering, anti-hypocrisy, anti-earthly power thoughts from the Koran. Naturally. Since they negate his "ministry".

Try that angle it you go back to any of their parallel discussions.

But have a shot of something strong first.

Jesus liked homemade wine.

I prefer a gimlet.

Posted by: profitsbeard at February 13, 2006 12:21 AM

Thumper-

They claim that Jesus is one of their "beloved prophets", but they then don't believe anything he said.

I always found that curious.

"Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone."

They forgot that one.

Dietary taboos were disposed by their "beloved Issa" ("It is not what goes into a person's mouth, but what comes out of it that makes a person unclean."), but they are still offended by references to pork ("haram"- unclean!). And literally panic if a pig wanders in a mosque.

They take the name of Jesus in order to sucker naive Christians with the proselytizing b.s. that "we are the same, you see, because we both believe in Jesus!", then do not follow the Sermon on the Mount's profound insights at all.

I could have gone that route with them, but I figured others would be more willing.

I just tried to go "behind the scenery" and get to the raw, unprogrammed human. It didn't work. They didn't want to be merely human. Or talk about the foundation of all of our beliefs. It threw off their rote propaganda replies.

Mohammad left out all of Jesus' best, most soul-shattering, anti-hypocrisy, anti-earthly power thoughts from the Koran. Naturally. Since they negate his "ministry".

Try that angle it you go back to any of their parallel discussions.

But have a shot of something strong first.

Jesus liked homemade wine.

I prefer a gimlet.

Posted by: profitsbeard at February 13, 2006 12:23 AM

Type key is glitchy for me today.

Sorry for the double post.

(The second is a smidgeon better, since I clarified of word or two.)

Posted by: profitsbeard at February 13, 2006 12:25 AM

"UAE company to help oversee six ports in U.S."

Has our government gone mad? Have the Muslims bought their way into port security, or are we being sacrificed on the altar of political correctness?

Jesus, sometimes I'm sorry I read this stuff...some of the actions of our government are so damn stupid as to completely defy reason.

My congressmen and the White House will hear about this from me tomorrow.

God help us all, and save us from this pack of fools that supposedly guide us!

Posted by: Elad at February 13, 2006 1:36 AM

Mo treason from the inside:

From LGF:
Al Gore Hits Bottom, Digs
Al Gore, former vice president of the United States, in Saudi Arabia: Gore Laments U.S. ‘Abuses’ Against Arabs.

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed “terrible abuses” against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.

Gore said Arabs had been “indiscriminately rounded up” and held in “unforgivable” conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida’s hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.

“The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake,” Gore said during the Jiddah Economic Forum. “The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States.”

Gore told the largely Saudi audience, many of them educated at U.S. universities, that Arabs in the United States had been “indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable.”

“Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it’s wrong,” Gore said. “I do want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country.”

Gore speaks of Arabs being "held in conditions that were just unforgivable" in a land where Third Country Nationals (TCNs) are treated as slaves; women are the property of their guardian: a father, a brother or a husband; alcohol possession is met with a public beheading; stealing leaves one with only one hand; and the Religious Police -- the Mutaween -- enforce the backward and barbaric Sharia laws.

The Saudi regime is the very nerve center of what we fight. Yet, Al Gore consoles them while spitting at his own government. In a party filled with opportunistic, unprincipled and defeatist politicians, Al Gore has earned the distinction of being the most despicable of them all.

No further comment.

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at February 13, 2006 5:58 AM

Gore is just a shining example of how a silver spoon and an Ivy Leage education (Harvard for Mr. Gore) can not necessarily produce cutting wisdom.

There are many "leaders", both in Washington and hovering around it, that need to be put out to pasture post-haste.

Hugh and Robert should run for political office. I'd help make the buttons and the bumperstickers!

Posted by: Foehammer at February 13, 2006 6:33 AM

The jihadi's have every intention of bringing the west to it's economic knees.

Permitting the purchase of intellectual influence at our universities, investment in our strategic ports, giving jobs to followers of RoP within the hallowed halls of our government vested in our security . . . . . .these PC concessions have the potential to reciprocate with devastating consequences.

Posted by: justamomof4 at February 13, 2006 8:23 AM

Count me as a guy regretting his support for Bush too.

Unfortunately, I think the Democrats would do a worse job given Al Gore's speech in Saudi Arabia and Howard Dean's histrionics over the Patriot Act.

Looks like I'll be voting for "C -None of the above" next election cycle.

Posted by: Mr Ape Pig at February 13, 2006 9:52 AM

"Hugh and Robert should run for political office. I'd help make the buttons and the bumperstickers!"

Me? Vote for Hugh?

Perhaps.

Posted by: witness at February 13, 2006 2:29 PM

We have a government on both sides of the political spectrum who have caught the PC Virus. A virus that has the unfortunate side effect of limiting their ability to gain knowledge of our enemy.

Us citizens who have not caught this bug have continued to educate ourselves and are now beginning to see the effects this disease has caused.

Now, we need a cure. Quick!!

Posted by: Christine at February 13, 2006 8:17 PM

Now that it has been approved and signed in by Bush -- look how quickly the wire services dropped!

Posted by: witness at February 13, 2006 10:25 PM

Now that it has been approved and signed in by Bush -- look how quickly the wire services dropped the story!

Posted by: witness at February 13, 2006 10:26 PM

If Cheney or Bush permitted this, then, I hate to say it, but, they're Freakin' Blockheads!

And I VOTED for these jerks, TOO!

Posted by: pythagoras at February 14, 2006 9:24 PM