Shoaib Choudhury: Stop the Imam Now!

Stop the Imam Now!
By Shoaib Choudhury

Despite series of protests, Kuwait-born Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf is silently getting set in erecting the ‘Tower of Terror’ under the garb of a mosque at Ground Zero site in New York City in United States. The prospective developer of the US$ 100 million 13-story mosque, which will be located just 600 feet from the Ground Zero, projects himself as a moderate Muslim. But, it is recorded that, Faisal Abdul Rauf inherits the notion of Muslim Brotherhood from his father, Dr. Mohammed Abdul Rauf [1917-2004], an Egyptian contemporary of Muslim brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Banna. Dr. Rauf conveyed to his family a long tradition of radicalism which he acquired at Islam’s closest equivalent to Vatican, Al Azhar University in Cairo.

Imam Abdul Rauf, the man behind this controversial mosque is a prominent member of a group that helped sponsor the pro-Palestinian activists who clashed violently with Israeli commandos at sea several weeks back. Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf is a key figure in Malaysia based Perdana Global Peace Organization. Perdana is the single biggest donor [US$ 366,000] so far to the Free Gaza Movement, a key organization of the six-ship flotilla that tried to break into Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza strip.

In the ultimate act of Islamic conquest and callous insensitivity to the victims' families and all Americans who were attacked by Islamic jihad on 9/11/01, the Free Gaza, Jew-killing supporting Imam and his Islamic supremacist wife are ignoring the pleas and cries from millions of Americans, and intend to build their Islamic supremacist mosque. The imam, at Friday prayers two weeks ago, said he didn't understand the hostility of the opposition to the monster mosque, especially since our "children and our grandchildren would be Muslim."

These pro-Jihadist Imam and his deceitful wife speak of "building bridges" and "outreach," yet completely ignore the pain and the pleas of patriots and Americans asking them to stop this divisiveness, this insult, this slap on the national face America.

Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf refuses to describe notorious terrorist group Hamas as a terrorist organization, though according to US State Department’s assessment, "Hamas terrorists, especially those in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, have conducted many attacks, including large-scale suicide bombings, against Israeli civilian and military targets."

Walid Shoebat, an Arabic speaker who says he found an Arabic-language interview in which Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to make a statement about religious tolerance and reconciliation, and to spite radical Islam - advocates turning America into an Islamic state.

Recently - in fact on May 26 2010, one day after his Daily News column - Abdul Rauf appeared on the popular Islamic website Hadiyul-Islam with even more disturbing opinions. That's the same website where, ironically enough, a fatwa was simultaneously being issued forbidding a Muslim to sell land to a Christian, because the Christian wanted to build a church on it.
In his interview on Hadiyul-Islam by Sa'da Abdul Maksoud, Abdul Rauf was asked his views on Sharia [Islamic religious law] and the Islamic state. He responded:

Throughout my discussions with contemporary Muslim theologians, it is clear an Islamic state can be established in more than just a single form or mold. It can be established through a kingdom or a democracy. The important issue is to establish the general fundamentals of Sharia that are required to govern. It is known that there are sets of standards that are accepted by [Muslim] scholars to organize the relationships between government and the governed.

When questioned about this, Abdul Rauf continued: "Current governments are unjust and do not follow Islamic laws." He added:

New laws were permitted after the death of Muhammad, so long of course that these laws do not contradict the Quran or the Deeds of Muhammad ... so they create institutions that assure no conflicts with Sharia.

In yet plainer English, forget the separation of church and state. Abdul Rauf's goal is the imposition of Shariah law - in every country, even democratic ones like the U.S.

Imam Rauf is dreaming to construct this mosque with his ultimate goal of Islamizing America. But, he possibly forgets one point. When Americans are attacked, they come together as one, under one flag, under one law against a common enemy that they are not afraid to identify. Religious freedom is central to America as a nation - and that is why the location of this project is so misguided. Ground Zero is purely about being American. And, there is no room for anyone to let this sentiment be anyway ignored by anyone.

I precisely understand the reason behind such huge flow of fund for this Tower of Terrorism at Ground Zero site. Many of the radical Muslim nations in the world are willing to give a ‘proper lesson’ to Americans by planting a so-called mosque at the very wound of those family members of the martyrs as well as patriotic Americans.

Secondly this very mosque, like many other large mosques and so-called community mosques in United States will turn into epicenter of Tablighi Jamaat activities. It is well documented that, Tablighi Jamaat preaches Jihad and encourages deceitful conversion of non-Muslims to Islam. Due to decade-long activities of Tablighi Jamaat in Bangladesh, the percentage of religious minorities, including Hundus, Christians and Buddhists are on fast decline. It is feared that, if Tablighis will be able to continue its activities inside Bangladesh for another decade, the country may witness a complete elimination of religious minorities from its population.

While Tablighis are actively working inside United States for Islamizing America, rogue Islamists like Abdul Rauf are not sitting silent. This man is moving ahead with his agenda of constructing the mosque at Ground Zero. Americans need to wake up now. Because, their silence will put America into further risk.

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Afghanistan: Worse than a nightmare

I seldom agree with Bob Herbert but there are exceptions to everyone and every situation. That said. Herbert raises some serious questions about where we are at in Afghanistan. It pains me to draw the comparison to Vietnam but we went into Vietnam with blinders on and not completely committed to winning that war, which we could have done. Now in Afghanistan, we are in a situation that is erringly familiar. This time it is under a president who is unwilling to commit the forces needed to win, nor give the proper ROE or equipment to totally stomp on the Islamic terrorists that we are at WAR with. Obama talks about taking the fight to the Islamic terrorists, in this case the Taliban, while in the same sentence he states how we will begin drawing down our troops out of Ratistan on schedule. General McCystal's scathing criticism of Obama and his lack of commitment to our troops in Afghanistan take on deeper meaning in the wake of McCrystal getting sacked. Afghanistan is a rat hole of corruption and tribal alliances that shift like sand dunes in a tornado. Our 'allies' today might be our enemy the next day.


Afghanistan may not be worth the cost of more of our troops dying of there unless it is backed 100% by the White House, POTUS and the American people. I do not see this happening in the near or long term future.

"For us to even consider several more years of fighting and dying in Afghanistan — at a cost of heaven knows how many more billions of American taxpayer dollars — is demented.

Those who are so fascinated with counterinsurgency, from its chief advocate, Gen. David Petraeus, all the way down to the cocktail-hour kibitzers inside the Beltway, seem to have lost sight of a fundamental aspect of warfare: You don’t go to war half-stepping. You go to war to crush the enemy. You do this ferociously and as quickly as possible. If you don’t want to do it, if you have qualms about it, or don’t know how to do it, don’t go to war. The men who stormed the beaches at Normandy weren’t trying to win the hearts and minds of anyone."


In Afghanistan, we are playing a dangerous, half-hearted game in which President Obama tells the America people that this is a war of necessity and that he will do whatever is necessary to succeed. Then, with the very next breath, he soothingly assures us that the withdrawal of U.S. troops will begin on schedule, like a Greyhound leaving the terminal, a year from now.

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Worse Than a Nightmare
By BOB HERBERT

President Obama can be applauded for his decisiveness in dispatching the chronically insubordinate Stanley McChrystal, but we are still left with a disaster of a war in Afghanistan that cannot be won and that the country as a whole will not support.

No one in official Washington is leveling with the public about what is really going on. We hear a lot about counterinsurgency, the latest hot cocktail-hour topic among the BlackBerry-thumbing crowd. But there is no evidence at all that counterinsurgency will work in Afghanistan. It’s not working now. And even if we managed to put all the proper pieces together, the fiercest counterinsurgency advocates in the military will tell you that something on the order of 10 to 15 years of hard effort would be required for this strategy to bear significant fruit.

We’ve been in Afghanistan for nearly a decade already. It’s one of the most corrupt places on the planet and the epicenter of global opium production. Our ostensible ally, President Hamid Karzai, is convinced that the U.S. cannot prevail in the war and is in hot pursuit of his own deal with the enemy Taliban. The American public gave up on the war long ago, and it is not at all clear that President Obama’s heart is really in it.

For us to even consider several more years of fighting and dying in Afghanistan — at a cost of heaven knows how many more billions of American taxpayer dollars — is demented.

Those who are so fascinated with counterinsurgency, from its chief advocate, Gen. David Petraeus, all the way down to the cocktail-hour kibitzers inside the Beltway, seem to have lost sight of a fundamental aspect of warfare: You don’t go to war half-stepping. You go to war to crush the enemy. You do this ferociously and as quickly as possible. If you don’t want to do it, if you have qualms about it, or don’t know how to do it, don’t go to war.

The men who stormed the beaches at Normandy weren’t trying to win the hearts and minds of anyone.

In Afghanistan, we are playing a dangerous, half-hearted game in which President Obama tells the America people that this is a war of necessity and that he will do whatever is necessary to succeed. Then, with the very next breath, he soothingly assures us that the withdrawal of U.S. troops will begin on schedule, like a Greyhound leaving the terminal, a year from now.

Both cannot be true.

What is true is that we aren’t even fighting as hard as we can right now. The counterinsurgency crowd doesn’t want to whack the enemy too hard because of an understandable fear that too many civilian casualties will undermine the “hearts and minds” and nation-building components of the strategy. Among the downsides of this battlefield caution is a disturbing unwillingness to give our own combat troops the supportive airstrikes and artillery cover that they feel is needed.

In an article this week, The Times quoted a U.S. Army sergeant in southern Afghanistan who was unhappy with the real-world effects of counterinsurgency. “I wish we had generals who remembered what it was like when they were down in a platoon,” he said. “Either they never have been in real fighting, or they forgot what it’s like.”

In the Rolling Stone article that led to General McChrystal’s ouster, reporter Michael Hastings wrote about the backlash that counterinsurgency restraints had provoked among the general’s own troops. Many feel that “being told to hold their fire” increases their vulnerability. A former Special Forces operator, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, said of General McChrystal, according to Mr. Hastings, “His rules of engagement put soldiers’ lives in even greater danger. Every real soldier will tell you the same thing.”

We are sinking more and more deeply into the fetid quagmire of Afghanistan and neither the president nor General Petraeus nor anyone else has the slightest clue about how to get out. The counterinsurgency zealots in the military want more troops sent to Afghanistan, and they want the president to completely scrap his already shaky July 2011 timetable for the beginning of a withdrawal.

We’re like a compulsive gambler plunging ever more deeply into debt in order to wager on a rigged game. There is no victory to be had in Afghanistan, only grief. We’re bulldozing Detroit while at the same time trying to establish model metropolises in Kabul and Kandahar. We’re spending endless billions on this wretched war but can’t extend the unemployment benefits of Americans suffering from the wretched economy here at home.

The difference between this and a nightmare is that when you wake up from a nightmare it’s over. This is all too tragically real.

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Back up to speed after more ISP service fun.

Sorry about the Absence the last couple of days but we had massive internet problems that resulted in our ISP actualy having to come out and do a service call. They found that woodpeckers had wrecked the incoming line and old style splitters and filters that were not helping the signal get through. Seems all is better but will wait for a few days to declare victory. So I will be back to posting later tonight, if all remians working. What a pain!

Oppose Unionization of Police & Firefighters

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk



"Whadda ya mean youse don't wanna join da union?"


I have received a message from the National Right to Work Committee alerting me to a proposed bill to put police and firefighters under union control. This is a bill that Harry Reid is trying to push through before November to please his union buddies. It is called the Police and Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bill (S 3194). The below link has a petition by which you can urge your senators to vote no.


http://www.righttoworkcommittee.org/pfactionfax.aspx

When I was a Customs Agent in the early 1970s, there was a move to bring us under a union (I think it was the AFL-CIO.) In an office meeting, one of our agents stated that if we, as law enforcement personnel, joined a union, we could never call ourselves professionals. I agreed with him then, and I agree with him now. The thought of police and firefighters being under the thumb of a union and engaging in strikes is abhorrent to me.

I hope you will sign the petition. Believe me, there are young staffers galore in Washington whose job it is to count the yeas and nays from their constituents

I agree with General McCrystal's assesment of Obama and Afghanistan

“Now that General McChrystal is no longer part of the military chain of command, he is free to expose the mismanagement of the war by the Obama administration, which is what got him in trouble in the first place.” said Move America Forward’s Director of Communications, Danny Gonzalez.


“In a time when America is at war, when the greatest threat to American security is Islamic terrorism, it is appalling and inexcusable that the Obama administration is preoccupied, uninformed, and disinterested in winning the war in Afghanistan. It’s now public that McChrystal was frustrated with Obama’s people who are getting in the way of progress in Afghanistan, and the American people deserve to know the truth. We implore General McChrystal to blow the whistle and go public with what he knows.” Gonzalez said. I would love to see McCrystal share his complete view and expose Obama for the arrogant, ignorant fool that he truly is. Read the rest below.

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McChrystal's opinion of Obama shared by others
By Jim Kouri

Examiner.com: Although many Americans are being spoon fed the Obama propaganda machine's side of the McChrystal controversy, there are some Americans who are hoping to find a silver lining to the end of a dedicated soldier's career.

"General McChrystal has acknowledged that the Rolling Stone article was a mistake, predicated on poor judgment, that never should have happened; and he has apologized accordingly. He also reiterated his steadfast commitment to continuing to strive to ensure victory in the Afghanistan theatre," noted Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) today.

"If the Obama Administration had chosen to do so, it could have easily laid the controversy to rest by issuing promptly a public acceptance of his apology as well as a private dressing down to those who made the inappropriate comments and who were involved in the decision to allow the interview in the first place. The fact is that the article, while inappropriate, was not grounds for dismissing the most critical leader in our war effort in Afghanistan and expert on counterinsurgency strategy, especially at this critical juncture of the war," he added.

Within hours of General Stanley McChrystal's ouster by President Barack Obama and his "national security team," the nation’s largest grassroots, pro-troop organization, is calling on discharged General McChrystal, formerly in command of the American forces in Afghanistan, to go public with the true extent of the Obama Administration’s disengagement with the war in Afghanistan.

As the Obama administration fumes over General Stanley McChrystal’s comments in the upcoming Rolling Stone article “Runaway General,” the pro-troop group, Move America Forward, is expressing shock that the President of the United States can be disinterested and uninformed on the war against Islamic terrorism in Afghanistan.

“Now that General McChrystal is no longer part of the military chain of command, he is free to expose the mismanagement of the war by the Obama administration, which is what got him in trouble in the first place.” said Move America Forward’s Director of Communications, Danny Gonzalez.

“The focus of news media reports has been on the poor judgment shown by McChrystal is his Rolling Stone article, but the real important issue to Americans is the conduct of the war to protect us against Islamic extremist. Our doubts and concerns about President Obama and his seeming lackluster approach to the war have been accentuated by the McChrystal revelations. We hope that he would do a great service to the American people by elaborating on the frustrations that ultimately led to his ouster.

“In a time when America is at war, when the greatest threat to American security is Islamic terrorism, it is appalling and inexcusable that the Obama administration is preoccupied, uninformed, and disinterested in winning the war in Afghanistan. It’s now public that McChrystal was frustrated with Obama’s people who are getting in the way of progress in Afghanistan, and the American people deserve to know the truth. We implore General McChrystal to blow the whistle and go public with what he knows.” Gonzalez said.

Afghan political and military officials are reportedly saying that firing Gen. Stanley McChrystal will disrupt progress in the war and could jeopardize a pivotal security operation under way in Taliban strongholds in the south. Gen. McChrystal was summoned to Washington to explain disparaging comments published in Rolling Stone magazine that he and his top aides made about Obama's national security team..

In a conversation with President Barack Obama, Afghan President Hamid Karzai defended the American general as did other leaders, but to no avail. McChrystal was relieved of his command by the president.

"McChrystal's fate has been sealed by a thin-skinned Commander-in-Chief," said former detective and military intelligence officer Sid Franes.

"General McChrystal is indeed a military hero-- a noble leader and devoted patriot-- whose leadership came at an absolutely crucial juncture in our war against jihadist terrorism. He has served this country honorably and valiantly and I wish him every good thing in his future service and endeavors," said Rep. Franks.

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a columnist for The Examiner (examiner.com) and New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's a blogger for the Cheyenne, Wyoming Fox News Radio affiliate KGAB (www.kgab.com). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.

He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer and columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. Kouri appears regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc.

Original article can be found here

Fair wages for illegal aliens? Hilda Solis say yes!

Update: I just received Hilda Solis direct line: 202-693-6000

Start Calling that Number now!

UNBELIEVABLE!!!! Flood the number she mentions and let her know how you feel about this!!!!

Obama Labor Chief: states Illegals Have a Right to Fair Wages. Dept. of Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis turns a 'blind eye' to illegal immigrants in the work place in violation of federal immigration laws. Pursuiant to the Federal Immigration and Nationality Act Section 8 USC 1324 it is 'illegal' to both knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions and * assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization.

Please send this to everyone you know...we need this to go viral! Call the US Labor Secretary and express your outrage!!

From Resistnet.com

Testimony of a former Muslim

From a former follower of Islam and Mohammad. I will let this speak for itself. I found this quite powerful and very moving. This person has asked to have their name left out for the obvious reasons. There are those within the Islamic community that would like to see this person dead. That is the penalty for leaving Islam for another religion. Especially when one becomes a Jew or a Christian.

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My Testimony
By a former Muslim

I was a Muslim, a Reformist, for 25 years. Much like Irshad Manji, my quest was trying to prove that Islam teaches beautiful things, that it has been hijacked by the Radicals. Once I widen my research to include Hadis and Sira (Muhammad's biography), it becomes clear that Muhammad is not a noble person that one should follow.

He was a murderer, a thief, a rapist, a torturer, and a slave trader. The culmination was when he oversaw the slaughter 800 Qurayza Jews in Medina market on a single day! I felt betrayed and deceived by the fake religion of Islam. Muhammad just made all up, combined with purchased tales from apocryphal text of Jews and Christians, where he then abrogated these inviting verses into much violent ones once he migrated to Medina.

Since 2 years back, I was left wandering with the God shaped hole in my heart, until Jesus touched me through my understanding of Biblical Eschatology. That the book of Daniel was locked and now is open, and we are now at the End, as 1260 is 1948, the rebuilding of Israel, minus 688, the building of Dome of Rock on Temple Mount. So the anti-Christ is named, it is Islam itself, as the sheep clothed fox.

I am now a Jew loving Christian since God himself guarantee it in Genesis 12:3, "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." Jews is the front line dam against the flooding Islam, we must protect them to safe Humanity. Once broken, the rest will be swept away.

This is in accordance with Islamic prophecy of world domination before the End of Days. Which is kind of an irony, judging by how intolerance Islam is to others, Islamic world domination will mean the destruction of all known Civilizations to men, hence the End of Days itself. And once they can attain it, it would once again be war within them.

Not all 1.5 billion Muslims are required to be Radical, just a few millions will do. But these floating Moderates are the fuel to keep the whole Islamic iceberg afloat. Therefore, once we can liberate most of these hollow Moderates, it will collapse, and it's shrapnel will no longer be a pose to our Humanity ship.

The Moderates are exposing dangers in their own way. Apart from contributing themselves as the bulk of that huge mass, they are spewing poisons by campaigning that Islam is a Religion of Peace, especially to the uninitiated. They might do this out of their gullibility trying to live their live under the entrapment of Islam. But they can do this on purpose, as a manner to deceive us all.

I know it is hard to bring the truth to them, they cower themselves under all those mind numbing rituals as their self comfort. But we must not give up, we must continue to alert the World about the real intention of Islam. We must participate in influencing the leaders to be firm in avoiding the Political Correctness. Multiculturalism is great, but without Islam set into the equation.

Within Christ, I have found my life back, I feel that each steps I take now is guided and being used by Him. And I feel calmer, knowing that I can rely on Him on any challenges I am facing. For a fortnight, may be I am still in a honeymoon with Him, but I just want it to last forever. Now I have a place to make personal prayers, I know that each words I utter I understand, and be heard, anywhere, any place. A relationship that would be impossible in the past.

Bülent Yildirim, leader of the radical Islamic Turkish IHH

This is from Traveler and is a good look at Bülent Yildirim. He is the leader of the IHH, who was responsible for the flotilla that tried to break the Israeli naval blockade of gazastan. Yildirim has a long history of recruiting for and being connected to Islamic terrorism. You could call him the 'mastermind' of the flotilla. For all practical purposes, Israel and Turkey have nothing left between the two countries. Turkey just recently severed a water agreement that was supposed to have lasted for twenty years. The Iranian influence inside Turkey is growing at an alarming rate. Once secular Turkey is now, in this blogger's opinion an Islamic country with bad intentions for the shell of Middle East peace.

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IHH Leader Yildirims Role in Flotilla and Violence. Learn the truth and please share.
By Traveler

Portrait of Bülent Yildirim, leader of the radical Islamic Turkish IHH and his central role in preparing the aid convoy and violent confrontation with the IDF

1. Bülent Fahmi Yildirim, 44, was born in Erzurum, Turkey, and studied law at Istanbul University.

Today he lives in Istanbul and practices law. He is married and has four children. In 1995 the events in Bosnia and Herzegovina prompted him to help found IHH with the primary intention of providing humanitarian assistance to the battle zones.

1 He eventually came to lead the organization. In the past IHH has been involved in providing logistic support for global jihad and terrorist networks in the Middle East and beyond. Bülent Yildirim's name was also mentioned in the past as providing support for the global jihad.

2. A study carried out by an American expert named Evan Kohlman examined the links between IHH and the global jihad. It indicated, among other things, that in the mid-90s Bülent Yildirim was involved in recruiting ex-military personnel and sending them to battle zones in Muslim countries to gain experience (Page 11 of the study). Between 2002 and 2004 Bülent Yildirim played a key role in inciting Turkish Muslims to anti-Americanism in the issue of the war in Iraq (Page 12 of the study).2

3. Bülent Yildirim is firmly attached to the Islamic regime of Erdogan, who was involved in IHH preparations for the flotilla. During the voyage Bülent Yildirim was on board the Mavi Marmara and played a key role in directing the IHH operatives' preparations for a violent confrontation with the IDF and in inciting them to violence with fiery speeches. He also ordered the operatives not to allow IDF soldiers on board the ship and to throw those who managed to board into the sea.

Yildirim's role in organizing the flotilla

4. Bülent Yildirim was the moving spirit behind the last flotilla and the most senior figure to accompany it on its journey. It began with purchasing the ship, organizing contributions and drawing up a list of passengers. Organizing the flotilla necessitated a long series of preparations and a vast organizational system which maintained contact with hundreds of organizations and operatives around the globe, most of them affiliated with radical Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood, and some of them pro-Palestinian from Western relief organizations.

5. It was not the first time Yildirim was involved in support for the Gaza Strip. In January 2010 he was responsible for organizing the Turkish section of the Viva Palestina convoy organized in London by a former British MP, the pro-Palestinian George Galloway. The Egyptians stopped the convoy and did not let most of its participants enter the Gaza Strip, and only some of them succeeded in reaching it.

6. Yildirim has very close ties with the highest echelons of the Turkish government, especially Tayyip Erdogan, who gave the government's blessing to the flotilla and according to all accounts helped organize it. Additional evidence for the ties were found in a letter in one of the lap top computers on board the Mavi Marmara. It was written by Bülent Yildirim to Turkish President Abdullah Gül and requested the release of IHH operative Izzam Shahin from an Israeli jail.3

Yildirim's ties with Hamas

7. IHH, headed by Bülent Yildirim, has close ties with Hamas and also provides it with funding. To further its activity with Hamas it established a branch in the Gaza Strip headed by IHH operative Muhammad Kaya. In January 2009 Bülent Yildirim met with Khaled Mashaal, head of the Hamas political bureau in Damascus. Mashaal thanked him for his organization's support for Hamas.

8. In February 2009, after Operation Cast Lead, Yildirim visited the Gaza Strip and met with Ismail Haniya, head of the de facto Hamas administration. During his visit he attended a rally in the Gaza Strip in support of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, who criticized Operation Cast Lead at the Davos Convention.

9. Yildirim visited the Gaza Strip again in January 2010 as part of the Viva Palestina convoy. During his visit he met with Ismail Haniya. Haniya gave Yildirim a letter for Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, inviting him to visit the Gaza Strip. At the meeting Yildirim stated that he intended to visit the Gaza Strip again with ships to render the "siege" superfluous (www.worldbulletin.net, January 7, 2010).
At the end of January 2010 Muhammad Sawalha, a senior Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood activist in Britain, announced his intention to send another aid convoy to the Gaza Strip by sea to confront Israel and not Egypt (having learned the lesson of the Viva Palestina affair).

Preparations for the flotilla

10. Senior IHH personnel dealt with the practical preparations for the flotilla, in our assessment with the coordination and collaboration of senior figures in the Turkish government. Apparently most of the practical coordination and logistical preparations were carried out by Yavus Dede, Yildirim's deputy, and not by Yildirim himself. The preparations included purchasing the passenger ship Mavi Marmara and two cargo ships, in our assessment with the support and funding of the Turkish government.

11. On the eve of the flotilla's sailing, Bülent Yildirim often delivered fiery speeches about the activists' determination to reach the Gaza Strip, which included propaganda attacks on Israel (See Appendix). At the same time IHH operatives made practical preparations for the violent confrontation with the IDF which were kept secret from the other participants in the flotilla's "coalition."

On May 16, 2010, about two weeks before the ships set sail, a meeting was held in Istanbul attended by representatives of the "coalition" of the six groups and organizations which had organized the flotilla. At that meeting IHH was represented by Yildirim's deputy, Yavuz Dede, not Yildirim himself.

12. As opposed to the hard core of IHH operatives who boarded the ship in Istanbul, Yildirim boarded in Antalya with other senior IHH figures and most of the flotilla's activists.

Briefing the operatives and fiery speeches made by Bülent Yildirim during the voyage

13. During the voyage itself Bülent Yildirim had practical control of the Mavi Marmara and in fact of the entire flotilla. He prepared the operatives for battle, briefed them before the confrontation and ordered them to fight the IDF soldiers. In our assessment he was in continuous contact with the organization's land command, where his deputy was in charge (and possibly with representatives of other organizations).

14. Evidence photographed aboard the Mavi Marmara documenting the voyage shows that a group of IHH operatives headed by Bülent Yildirim was the dominant factor controlling everything that occurred on board. The operatives all wore vests with stickers identifying them as "crew," which apparently enabled them to pass freely throughout the ship (while the movements of the ordinary passengers were limited). Most of the time the operatives were on the upper deck.

15. Bülent Yildirim and other senior IHH figures apparently kept to a designated area guarded by two IHH operatives in the media situation room on the lower deck. The area contained an editing room and the ship's computer security cameras. When the IDF soldiers entered the area they found large sums of money scattered around.

16. During the voyage the activists aboard the Mavi Marmara, especially the hard core of IHH operatives, received ideological and religious indoctrination from Bülent Yildirim and other Islamists, such as Arab Israeli sheikh Ra'ed Salah and Egyptian Dr. al-Baltagi, a Muslim Brotherhood representative in the Egyptian Parliament.

17. A video found on board, apparently taken by one of the photographers documenting the events on the upper deck, shows a meeting of operatives (most likely the IHH hard core operatives). The meeting was held during the day, apparently close to the time of the confrontation. The main speaker was Bülent Yildirim, who incited his audience and encouraged them for a possible confrontation with IDF forces. He stated that if Israel lowered commandos onto the ship the operatives should throw them down and humiliate Israel before the eyes of the entire world.4

18. During the voyage Bülent Yildirim was frequently interviewed by the media. In one interview he was photographed holding a small child. When asked about possible violence with Israel he said that the youngest passenger aboard the ship was one year old and that there were people in their 80s. He added that although their resistance would be non-violent, they would not allow Israeli soldiers to board the ship (IHH official website, May 29, 2010).
The flotilla's organizers wanted the confrontation with the Israeli Navy to take place during the day so that the media could document it and transmit it to the international media (Al-Jazeera TV, May 29; interview with the IHH's open channel, May 30, 2010).

The last briefing before the confrontation with IDF forces

19. In the hours before the IDF takeover of the ship Yildirim conducted preparations for the confrontation. Two hours before it (and after the Israeli Navy had hailed the ships) a kind of media situation room was set up. In addition, Bülent Yildirim briefed the hard core operatives who were supposed to confront the IDF on the upper deck. He instructed them to make a human chain and throw the soldiers back into the sea with chairs and iron bars. According to statements from IDF soldiers and visual material seized on board the Mavi Marmara, in practice the instructions were followed.

Yildirim questioned in Israel

20. During the takeover of the ship Bülent Yildirim was detained by IDF forces, brought to Israel, questioned, released (along with the other passengers) and sent back to Turkey. Under questioning he denied that the operatives had been organized for violence and that weapons had been prepared. He said that if there had been violence on the part of the passengers it was spontaneous and made use only of "available objects" (the vast amount of evidence in Israeli possession unequivocally proves that the version provided by Yildirim is not true).

Yildirim's statements after returning to Istanbul

21. As opposed to what he said during questioning, interviewed after his return to Turkey he did not contradict the fact that he and his men had used violence in dealing with the IDF soldiers and he even had a "legal" explanation. On June 4, 2010, the Turkish newspaper Zaman wrote that when Yildirim returned to Turkey he told newspapermen at the Ataturk airport in Istanbul that the Israeli investigators had asked him if he and his men had attacked the soldiers with iron bars and axes. He said that "we did what we did in self-defense," adding that "first our comrades neutralized ten soldiers.

Yes, we took their guns away from them. You are considered legally innocent if you take a weapon away from someone who attacks you." He also said that they threw the guns they took from the soldiers into the sea (Todayzaman.com, June 4, 2010).

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Selected remarks by Bülent Yildirim (to the media and to IHH operatives aboard the Mavi Marmara)

1. The flotilla would be a "test" for Israel. He said that if Israel opposed it, it would be considered "a declaration of war" on the countries to which the activists on board belonged (Press conference in Istanbul, April 7, 2010).

2. He advised Israel to take care in conducting the crisis. If Israel prevented the activity of the ship, it would remain isolated in the world and harm itself (Yildirim to Israel at the sailing of the Mavi Marmara from Antalya, May 23, 2010).

3. "We are determined to enter Gaza, regardless of what happens" (During a press conference in Antalya before the ships set sail).

4. He said that children were brought aboard to prevent Israel from attacking the ship. He added that the organizers of the flotilla were in no hurry to set sail and were waiting for the right time, and perhaps in the meantime Israel "would begin thinking logically" (Interview aboard the ship, May 30, 2010).

5. "Form a human chain and throw the IDF soldiers back into the sea using chairs and iron bars" (Briefing the operatives on the upper deck before the IDF took control of the ship).

6. "The time before morning," he said, "will be a war of nerves. There are passengers from more than 50 countries aboard, and if we are stopped the honor of 50 countries will be sullied. We want the entrance of the Israeli embassies in Istanbul and Ankara locked, and we will protect themselves on board the ship. We know there is a price and we are willing to pay it. We will not retreat one step. Israel is acting like a pirate in international waters. Will the world look on from the side?" (Press conference held during preparations for the confrontation with the IDF).

7. In a speech held during the voyage he said the following about Israel: "They are so weak that for the past four or five days they have been making propaganda against us and our flotilla. They see themselves as governing, but in reality they do not. Now they say that they will send the fleet [against us], that they will send in their commando and we tell them, if you send in the commando, we will throw you down from here and you will be humiliated before the whole world..." (From a video found aboard the Mavi Marmara).

(article sources)

1 The organization was actually founded in 1992 but was officially registered in 1995.

2 See http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/WP2006/DIIS%20WP%202006-7.web.pdf.

3 Izat Shahin is an IHH operative who was sent to establish an IHH branch in Judea and Samaria. His main activity was transferring funds to Hamas "charitable societies." He was detained for questioning in April 2010 and later deported at an official Turkish request.

4 For further information see the June 10, 2010 bulletin, "IHH Leader and Other Islamist Activists Incite Passengers to Violence Aboard the Mavi Marmara" at http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/ipc_e097.pdf.

All information sourced from: rightsidenews.com.

A list of those who stand with Arizona

ResistNet's "We Stand With Arizona" Project

Grassfire Nation http://www.grassfire.com/
ResistNet.com
NumbersUSA
ALIPAC
ATLAS Shrugs
banamnestynow.com
Michael Berry - KTRH - Houston Radio Talk Show Host
Redpills.org
HelpCorp.org - Houma Louisiana
6th Congressional District of Virginia
Costa Mesa, California City Council
L.A Lakers Coach Phil Jackson
Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick
Kentuckians for Immigration Reform and Enforcement - http://www.kfire,org/
Andrew Wilkow - Satellite Radio 166 - http://www.sirius.com/andrewwilkow
Rivoli Revue
KFI Radio Hosts - John & Ken - Los Angeles California
Yorba Linda California city Council - Orange County
The Sons of Liberty Riders - Tennessee Chapter - Phil Hoffman President
The Rancho Santa Margarita City Council
The Quinn and Rose Show - radio talk show hosts - http://www.warroom.com/
Michigan State Representative Kim Meltzer - 33rd District Michigan
Tennessee State Legislature - HJR 1253 - http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HJR1253
North Carolinians for Immigration Reform and Enforcement - http://www.ncfire.info/
Damascus Road Ministries International/American - Rev. Michael A. Albert, D.D; Louis F. Albert
Nebraskans Advisory Group - Susan Smith - http://www.nebraskansadvisorygroup.org/
Stand Up America - http://standupamericaus.com/
Tony Katz - California Radio Talk show host
Actor Lou Ferigno
Patriot Freedom - http://www.patriotfreedom.org/
Gary Graham, Actor
No VA 912
Cindy's Arizona Cafe
Georgia Gubernatorial Candidates - Republican: Nathan Deal, Eric Johnson, Karen Handel, John Oxendine, Jeff Chapman, Ray McBerry
Georgia Gubernatorial Candidates - Democrat: BIll Bolton
Bar Industries
Southern Lights Scented Candles
Menifie California City Council
The Rochester New Hampshire 912 Group
Coalition of Independent Citizens: http://www.coalitionofindependentcitizens.org/; Ohio
Telekom Technology affirmed by the President / CEO and Vice Pres. of the Corporation
WV Delegate Jonathan Miller
Dude, Where's My Justice???
Miami 912 Project
Guardian Yacht Mgt. & Yacht Sales Palm City, FL
TCUnation (http://www.tcunation.com/)
Washington DC Tea Party
Corey Stewart Chairman of the Board of County Supervisors Prince William Co.
The Paradise Post (Paradise, CA)
Grassroots America - We the People East Texas
Quality Sleep Consultants, LLC Jamesville, NY
Scotty and Son Towing and Auto Center, Holbook AZ
Linda's Indian Arts and Crafts, Holbrook, AZ
Mark Williams, Radio Talk Show Host Sacramento, CA
Greater Greensboro Republican Women's Club and Conservatives for Guilford Co.
Tyler Tea Party http://www.tylerteaparty.org/
Damsel Fly Designs
Take Our Country Back Now http://tocbnow.com/
The Georgia School of Shooting Inc.
Theo & Linda at Haltom Auto Service, Haltom City, Texas
The Otero Tea Party Patriots of Alamogordo, NM
We the People - Ohio Valley Wheeling, WV
Stand With Arizona Facebook page
ksfo radio san francisco
East Valley TEA Party Patriots http://www.evtpp.com/
Bill Montgomery for County Attorney of Maricopa County, Arizona
Well Regulated American Militias http://wellregulatedamericanmilitias.com/events/event/listByType?ty...
http://www.warroom/
http://paul-reveres-riders.ning.com/
Chattanooga Internet - http://www.chattanoogainternet.com/
Rolen - http://www.rolen.com Band
The Oath Keepers
Yorba Linda City Council (Orange County), California
Orange City Council (Orange County), California.

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Video of Christians getting arrested in Dearbornistan

Just in case you have not watched this video of the Christian folks getting arrested and thrown out of an Arab festival in Dearbornistan, Michigan. Also watch the video from the same festival from last year, 2009.

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2010 Festival in Dearbornistan



2009 Festival: Note the way the Muslims lie about waht really happened.