Silencing the lemmings in the U.S. Intelligence and diplomatic agencies

There has been a lot written about the mullah obamaham's directive banning the use of words like "Islamic terrorism, Muslim terrorist, Islamism, Islamic fundamentalist, and Islamic radicalism," one can think this does not mean anything really new as Barry Rubin mentions. But what and where obama, the first mussie president of the United States, has done this is what makes this extremely alarming.It is really quite sickening to me, and I hope many others how badly obama is capitualting to islam and muslims. As Rubin states; "That's both scary and shocking. Because the implication won't be lost on career officials that along with not using these words it isn't going to help their future prospects to use these concepts.


I don't want to overstate the situation. In internal government discussions, people do refer to "Islamic radicals," for example. It is the written work that is more likely to suffer. And are things going to tighten up under this administration in the years to come?" I think things will get much worse as time goes by unless this coming November obama's power can be reduced by massive Democratic losses. He will still POTUS and further damages will be harder to accomplish. Still happy you voted for him, you libtards out there reading this?

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Is the U.S. Diplomatic and Intelligence Community Being Brainwashed in Dealing with Islamism?
By Barry Rubin

When I first heard the story that President Barack Obama was barring from national security documents the use of terms like "Islamism," "Islamic fundamentalist," "Islamic radicalism," or any reference of any connection between Islam and terrorist or revolutionary groups; al-Qaida, Hamas, and Hizballah; Iran's regime or al-Qaida, I said to myself, oh that's nothing new. That kind of policy started under Bush.

But then I realized--and this isn't obvious in the coverage but is the most important aspect of all!--that this policy applies to internal government documents not just public statements. That's both scary and shocking. Because the implication won't be lost on career officials that along with not using these words it isn't going to help their future prospects to use these concepts.

I don't want to overstate the situation. In internal government discussions, people do refer to "Islamic radicals," for example. It is the written work that is more likely to suffer. And are things going to tighten up under this administration in the years to come?

Suppose I'm an intelligence analyst in the State Department, Defense Department, armed forces, or CIA, and I'm writing about one of these groups or this ideology. How can one possibly analyze the power and appeal of this ideology, the way that ideas set its strategy and tactics, why it is such a huge menace if any reference to the Islamic religion and its texts or doctrines isn't permitted?

Indeed, it is worse. Can you refer to the claims of these groups about Islam, even while insisting that they are wrong? Remember it isn't just a matter of forbidding officials from doing something, they are going to get the signal that it is better for their careers not to do so.

And if one cannot talk about "Islamist" groups can you identify them as a huge threat or is the analyst tempted to suggest that they can be won over and moderated rather than they need to be combatted? Perhaps, say, the coming to power of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt might not be such a bad thing, or Hizballah is something the U.S. government can work with?

How could one even talk about a coherent Islamist movement, which is possibly the most single significant feature of international affairs today, at least in the Middle East--if I cannot use the "I" word even as part of a different word?

Suppose I'm reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Could I say without fear:

Yes, of course, Islam is a religion of peace but these people want to hijack and distort it. So what they do is look at certain basic texts and important Muslim theologians and interpet their statements to mean that ultimately no compromise is possible, Egypt must become an Islamic [oops] state, America is going to be their enemy, and Israel must be destroyed. Of course, this is just a distortion of Islam [which is a religion of peace] but many people believe it because they have been taught an interpretation similar to the one the Brotherhood is using.

Or would I have to say:

Since Islam is a religion of peace and is really moderate and there's nothing in it that lends itself to a radical [mis]interpretation, therefore, the Brotherhood will realize this and become moderate or the Muslim masses--who, of course, understand their own religion--will inevitably reject the Islamists [oops!] false interpretation. In short, no worries and every little thing's gonna be all right. [Footnote: Bob Marley.] Continue reading

Battle with crybaby Muslim forces British couple to auction hotel.

I remember when this spat blew up last year and reading about it at Jihad Watch, if my memory is correct. At any rate, a Muslim guest sued them for insulting Islam and the pervert Mohammad. Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang prevailed in court but their business has tanked thanks to a smear by a this nasty Muslim who bad mouthed the couple and their hotel to her doctors, who used the hotel to stay at for nearby conferences. This is a typical reaction, non-violent assault of Jihad. One could call it stealth Jihad. Jihad is Jihad as I have  said many times before. It varies in the approach, method and tactics but the end result is always the same. Cry baby Muslims make me sick!

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We're selling our hotel, say Christian couple in row with Muslim guest
Jonathan Petre

Daily Mail U.K., The two Christian hoteliers cleared last year of insulting a Muslim guest are being forced to sell up because their business has collapsed. Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang are putting their nine-bedroom hotel up for auction in May because they can no longer pay the mortgage. Despite donations sent to them by Christian supporters from around the world, they still have debts of well over £400,000.

Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang

They are also considering a civil action against the police who brought the prosecution. Mrs Vogelenzang, 54, said last night it was 'devastating' that they could be left with nothing as the result of a case that should never have come to court. 'Where do we go from here?' she said. 'How do we start all over again?' The couple saw their Liverpool business brought to its knees after an investigation into what was deemed a religiously aggravated hate crime against Ericka Tazi. The 60-year-old white British convert complained that the couple had called the prophet Mohammed a 'warlord' and told her that Muslim women were oppressed.

They were just telling the truth about Mohammad and Muslim women.

The case against them was thrown out after a judge at Liverpool magistrates' court said it flew in the face of their right to freedom of religious expression. After the victory, the couple hoped they would be able to revive the Bounty House Hotel near Aintree racecourse, which they had built up over ten years.

Four months later, however, they have failed to attract enough customers and are losing about £8,000 a month. One of their main sources of income before the case was the National Health Service, which used Bounty House for doctors attending conferences and groups of patients on pain-relief courses at the Walton Centre, part of Aintree Hospital. But the centre stopped sending guests to the hotel after the complaint by Mrs Tazi, one of its patients. 'Before the complaint, we were their first choice,' said Mrs Vogelenzang. 'But they seem to have lost interest in us. Despite the excellent feedback we received at the end of every course, our reputation hasn't counted for anything. That is upsetting.'

The couple remain furious with the police for the way the case was handled and are consulting The Christian Institute, the independent pressure group that paid for their defence, about launching a civil action.

Lawyers believe they might be able to claim they were discriminated against because of their Christian background. Mrs Vogelenzang added: 'Many people thought that when we won in court, everything would be OK. In reality, it has brought us to the brink of destruction, so it has not been a victory at all.'

Hat tip: Vlad Tepes

This is NOT a shocker but it is disgusting. Radical Islamofascist allowed into U.S.

Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University will be allowed into the United States to speak at the Cooper Union. This is an absolute disgrace and is ONLY happening because we have the first Islamist, Muslim president in the history of the Untied States. This man is a pig. His connections to Hamas are well known and only the dhimmi administration of a Muslim born traitor would allow such filth into this country.

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Tariq Ramadan




Muslim Scholar, Formerly Barred, Is to Speak in New York
Andy Newman

NYT, A prominent Muslim scholar barred from the United States for six years under the Patriot Act will speak on a panel at the Cooper Union next month, his first public appearance in this country since the restriction was lifted.

The scholar, Prof. Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University, will take part in a panel discussion on “Secularism, Islam and Democracy: Muslims in Europe and the West,” to be presented on April 8 by the American Association of University Professors, the American Civil Liberties Union, PEN American Center and Slate.

Professor Ramadan, who is Swiss and teaches contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford and has written more than 20 books, was about to take a job as a tenured professor at the University of Notre Dame in 2004 when the Bush administration pulled his visa. The government said it did so because of evidence that Professor Ramadan had given $1,300 to a Swiss charity that funneled money to Hamas, the Palestinian militant group.

The professor sued to get his visa reinstated, saying that he had believed the charity had no connection to Hamas or terrorist activities. In July 2009, a federal appeals court reversed a ruling that had allowed the government to bar him. And in January, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed an order lifting the restriction, which paved the way for the professor to reapply for a visa.

The panel, at the Cooper Union’s Great Hall, will also include the journalist Ian Buruma; Dalia Mogahed, director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies; and Joan Wallach Scott, a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study and the author of “The Politics of the Veil.”

The panel will be moderated by Jacob Weisberg of Slate.

Read here for background on Tariq Ramadan

Hat tip: China Confidential

Nonie Darwish: Obama's Bow to the Saudi King was just the beginning

This is a an excellent, yet extremely disturbing opinion by Nonie Darwish
on the door Obama has opened for Islam by bringing the KSM trial to the
United States. Ms. Darwish is spot on here. There is no sweeping this under
the rug, no making it out as opportunity to show the bad side of Islam as the
Obama administration is 'hoping' this trial will do. Islam will gain the
sympathy of many Americans who have been brainwashed by MSM
propaganda and years of attacks on various American institutions such as our
education system. The damages wrought by the toxic stew of honoring
diversity, multiculturalism and political correctness will be on stage for all
Americans to witness. The question is will they recognize this for what it
really is? How much Islamic poisoning of the well can America take?

"Knowingly or unknowingly, Obama has given a great gift for the New Year to the custodian of Islam, King Abdullah; a self-imposed trial by the victim nation of 9/11, a free televised propaganda machine from ground zero, to rescue mainstream Islam’s reputation. Protecting the image of Islam is one of the basic duties of Muslim leaders and the utmost obligation of every Muslim who is obliged by Islamic law to lie, cheat and kill for its sake. "



Obama, the very worst President at the very worst time. Here is a former
Muslim,  Nonie Darwish on the 911 NYC terror trials. Bear in mind that today.
a federal judge has tossed out most of the government's evidence
against a terrorism detainee.



Obama’s New Year Gift To The Saudi King
Nonie Darwish for Atlas Shrugs


"This trial will create unnecessary sympathy among the many uninformed Western citizens to Islamist fictitious ‘causes’ and finger-pointing Muslims have been taught and believed in since birth. Like the OJ Simpson trial, a good portion of Americans will be confused over glaring truths which will cause a huge set back to America’s war on terror.

Knowingly or unknowingly, Obama has given a great gift for the New Year to the custodian of Islam, King Abdullah; a self-imposed trial by the victim nation of 9/11, a free televised propaganda machine from ground zero, to rescue mainstream Islam’s reputation. Protecting the image of Islam is one of the basic duties of Muslim leaders and the utmost obligation of every Muslim who is obliged by Islamic law to lie, cheat and kill for its sake.

By holding such a trial in New York, America, intentionally or unintentionally, will be contributing to reforming Islam’s image, supporting its old ways of doing business and suppressing the brave reformation movements across the Muslim world, a true New Year’s gift to King Abdullah."

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Mosque near the WTC? This is an insult and Islam is a lie.

This is a disgusting and should be stopped.
Near Ground Zero? Sacred, hallowed ground
is what this is. It would be the ultimate
insult to have a mosque here. Islam would
call this a monumental triumph and there is
no doubt that this mosque would be huge.
New Yorkers unite! Do not let this happen
under the guise of being politically correct,
honoring multiculturalism and diversity!

Mosque At the World Trade Center: Muslim Renewal Or Insult Near Ground Zero

A mosque near here? How do you think these

men would feel about a mosque close to

where 3,000 Americans were murdered by

radical Islamists? Think about the last few

months alone, and how many terrorists and plots

have been broken up. Remember Fort Hood.

An identified group with unknown sponsors has purchased building steps away from where the WorldTrade Center once stood -- to turn it into potentially one of the largest New York City mosques.

At the moment the building, the old Burlington Coat Factory, already serves as a mini-mosque: an iron grill lifts every Friday afternoon for a little known Imam leading prayers a few yards away from where Osama Bin Laden’s airborne Islamist bombers killed nearly 3000 people back in 2001.

The Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, told the New York Times -- which put the story on its front page Wednesday -- that he has assembled several million dollars to turn it into ‘’an Islamic center near the city’s most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero’s more unexpected and striking neighbors.’’

The 61-year-old Imam said he paid $4.85 million for it -- in cash, records show. With 50,000 square feet of air rights and enough financing, he plans an ambitious project of $150 million, he said, akin to the Chautauqua Institution, the 92 Street Y or the Jewish Community Center.

The origins of such monies are unexplained; neither are the countries or entity advancing such huge donations. Most US mosques, including many in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx are funded directly or indirectly by Saudi Arabia the country to which 15 of the 19 hijackers who bombed the World TradeCenter belonged. The UAE, Qatar and Iran are other major sponsors across the USA.

The money trail is an important question that must be answered by the Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg with more than a bland comment by one of his spokesmen, Andrew Brent, who quipped to the Times, “If it’s legal, the building owners have a right to do what they want.”

At the moment, the location is not designated a mosque, but rather an overflow prayer space for another mosque, Al Farah, at 245 West Broadway in TriBeCa, where Imam Feisal is the spiritual leader. Call this creeping annexation. On 9/11, the Burlington building, with 80 employees in its basement, is where a piece of a plane plunged through the roof, from either Flight 11 or Flight 175 crashing into the south tower at 9:03 a.m..

One of the investors for future oncoming funds is listed as the Cordoba Initiative, defined as an ‘’interfaith group’’ - and founded by Imam Feisal. Cordoba is the name militant Muslims often invoke when they recall the glory of Muslim empire in the centuries they occupied Spain.

As a former New York Times and Wall Street Journal correspondent, and as a New York Sun columnist who covered Islamic Fundamentalism extensively overseas and in the USA, I find the facts oddly lacking. The story as reported fails to answer, and avoid asking, so many pertinent questions.

The source of money matters as a significant part of the hundreds of mosques being built and already erected in this country double up as cultural Islamic centers for distributing literature-- Islamist propaganda in fact—from Bay Ridge Brooklyn to Detroit, and for schooling growing Muslim minorities. They house Imams of unknown origin and education, many of whom do not speak a word of English but preach in Arabic and Urdu -- radical messages, it often turns out.

As a reporter familiar with the Arab communities of the USA, I doubt the faithful fork out all that money for mega mosques, and if they did, the mayor’s office should prove it, not merely accept someone’s say so. It is an established fact that a significant percentage of the mosques built in the USA in the past two decades are receiving a disproportionate amount of their funds not only from the Saudis, but also the UAE, Qatar and Iran -- all problematic Islamists activist nations. The government just discontinued work on a major Iranian-funded mosque and center in New York City, which had operated under the radar since the days of the good old Shah of Iran under the auspices of the Pahlavi Foundation, and has beenowned since 1979 by the Mullahs of Iran.

The context here is that 15 of the 19 perpetrators of the attacks -- on the very site where this new mosque shall rise -- came from Saudi Arabia.

The murdering 19

We saw how, in the case of Major Nidal Hasan of Ft. Hood, it turned out that three of the original participants in 9/11 had listened to the same preacher Major Hasan listened to: a man with a radical violent Islamic website now operating out of Yemen to radicalize American Muslims. In such a context,knowing more about the Imam overseeing a potential multimillion mosque at the World Trade Center site is essential to the story. Nearly 3,000 people were deliberately killed there – and the New York Times is papering over what is about to be built on the site in a nice, beatific pseudo-profile of the Imamoverseeing the mosque? Limiting access to this Imam to some nice quotes, showing him nattily dressed in a suit, and describing him merely as a Sufi, is vacuous, crafted and couched in public relations spin to obscure rather than explain. ‘’What happened that day was not Islam’’ is all that the Times quotes the Imam saying -- a rather lame comment given the enormity of his ambition and the iconic status of where he wants to put his mosque.

The mayor’s office should tell us more.

Just as importantly, who Is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf ? And what is his background? Given that much Islamist radicalism originated in mosques at the hands of imams in virtually all the terrorist attacks inAmerica and Europe -- as we found over and over again – the omission of this information is a glaring mishap.

All we get learn about the Imam in the Times story about him is some anodyne, rather anemic, focus on a man of peace. No real searching. Mayor Bloomberg’s folks need to tell us what are the Imam’s origins, where he was schooled, whether he is an immigrant, a visitor, of which country is he a citizen, and what is his philosophy, among other relevant questions.

Merely describing the man as a Sufi ‘’who follows a path of Islam focused more on spiritual wisdom than on strict ritual,’’ is far too little . After every terrorist atrocity, any number of Sufi and Muslims savants ritually come out with the hackneyed saying: ‘’Islam is a religion of peace and brotherhood.’’ Accumulated as they are, these statements are added a heap of nothing for those tens of thousands of Muslims killed by other Muslims in suicide and other bombings from Pakistan to Iraq every day.

One would hope for a follow-up story or stories, and that New York City and its citizens at least ask harder questions, rather than submit to being mislead in the interest of political correctness.


Hudson New York
http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/12/mosque-at-the-world-trade-center-muslim-renewal-or-insult-near-ground-zero.php

The Investigative Project on Terrorism

The Investigative Project on Terrorism

The missed signal on American Muslim Radicalizatiion.


How many times must we miss the obvious signals,
signs, events, attacks from Radical Islam in America?
How many more innocent deaths are going to be at
the hands of radical Islamists that will never rest until
us or they are dead? Fort Hood has slipped into the
backwaters of our thoughts(not all of us) and what,
if anything will change in how we combat Islam from
the ground up?

This article from IPT shows the past into the present
and future unless we we wake up. Again, Europe is
offering us a perfect storm example of what might
happen here.  The article is pretty lengthy and the links
are here so there is just the first part posted here.
Please take the time to read the entire article. It will
be time well spent.

Al-Shabaab Logo

"Leaders of several national Islamist organizations held a news conference Wednesday to broadcast their role in encouraging the families of five D.C.-area students now detained in Pakistan to report their children's disappearance to law enforcement.




That the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) thought it was news that they and others cooperated with law enforcement is an interesting statement in itself. But it was more interesting to see CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad acknowledge "that there is a problem" of American Muslims turning to jihad at home and abroad. In an effort to combat the trend, Awad announced his organization would "launch a major campaign of education to refute the misuse of where are verses in the Quran or the misuse of certain grievances in the Muslim world."



This acknowledgement by CAIR and fellow Islamist groups like the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) comes after at least nine cases of homegrown Muslim extremism in 2009 and the disappearance in 2008 of about 20 Somali men from Minneapolis who returned to Africa to fight with the Al-Shabaab terrorist group. It also follows their collective insistence that religious motivation be kept out of the discussion of Nidal Malik Hasan's shooting spree at Fort Hood last month.



These past actions followed a pattern, in which CAIR spearheaded efforts to dismiss any concern about radicalization in America. That denial was on full display in 2007, after a Pew survey found a quarter of Muslim American men under age 30 found suicide bombings justifiable. In a television appearance, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper bobbed and weaved to avoid confronting the question."

The rest is here:  http://www.investigativeproject.org/1565/the-missed-signal-on-american-muslim


This article is what stealth Jihad is all about. Islamic groups that have
suppossedly rejected the extremist calls to violence in the past, have
now justified it, and they lend their support to this extremist message
from radical Islam.

Flight 93 father denounces civilian trial for 9/11 terrorists: From Alec Rawls' Error Theory blog

Error Theory: Flight 93 father denounces civilian trial for 9/11 terrorists


Flight 93 father denounces civilian trial for 9/11 terrorists








Tom Burnett Sr:

A military trial will do the same thing--give them justice, give them a chance to talk--but not out, you know, in the public.

Nicely framed and edited by KSTP Minneapolis:







Second Burnett interview here. If only our government, with all its resources, could make 1/100th the sense of this honest patriot, but honesty and patriotism seem to be completely absent from the Obama/Holder makeup. Mr. Burnett says he will fight.


Mr. Burnett is also trying to stop the Park Service from planting a giant Mecca-oriented crescent atop his son's grave


Video expose of what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace design, contains footage of Mr. Burnett and Alec Rawls (author of this blogburst post) at last year's Memorial Project meeting:






This is just disgusting that this sacred
ground is being used by Islam and
Islamosympathizers alike.

No responses from the ISNA or CAIR. I am not surprised. Read on...

CAIR/ISNA- Troubling Responses-or Silence
From fousesquawk: Gary Fouse

Here is a reminder of what can happen

CAIR and the ISNA were pretty silent
about 9/11 and those who were
responsible for it. The poster is from
England. A radical Islamic group had it
made up for a conference they were
hosting and sponsoring. It can happen
again.

The silence from two of the largest,
mainstream Muslim organizations on
what happened to Luqman Ameen Abdullah
last week is troubling, but not surprising.
These two organizations have failed time
after time to condemn honor killings,
terrorist plots broken up before they could
be carried out(by Muslims!) among other
things. Both of these groups are in the
forefront of the attacks from within via
'Stealth Jihad.' You have read or heard
about it here before and I will continue
to be vigilant and keep this on the front
burner. If these two groups truly do
represent the face of Islam and Muslims
in this country then the FBI should be
watching them. Perhaps the FBI and other
intelligence organizations here at home
should be doing much more to keep tabs
on Muslims, mosques and Islam.

http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2009/11/cairisna-troubling-responses-or-silence.html