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		<title>Evidence Shows Minnesota Somali Explosion that Killed 2 Linked to Al Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two bodies were found in the rubble, and fourteen people were hospitalized]]></description>
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<p>The United States is being overrun <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/02/the-ec-knows-why-doesnt-the-fbi/">by communities from terrorist countries</a>. Despite all the news reports about 5-year-olds ending up on No Fly Lists, Muslims with actual links to terrorism routinely travel back and forth.</p>
<p>Very little has changed since before 9/11. We&#8217;ve built up a large bureaucracy, but it&#8217;s still too bulky and unwieldy to use.</p>
<blockquote><p>On New Year’s Day 2014 a powerful explosion and fire occurred at 514 Cedar Avenue South in Minneapolis, in a predominantly Somali neighborhood of the city.</p>
<p>The building was gutted by the blaze. Two bodies were found in the rubble, and fourteen people were hospitalized, one of whom died later. Within 72 hours, the building had been pulled down into a heap of rubble by a backhoe.</p>
<p>Two days after the blast, before any real investigation occurred — which could never be conducted, anyway, with the potential crime scene destroyed — Greg Boosalis, the supervisory special agent with the FBI in Minneapolis, told the press that there was “no evidence of terrorist activity”.</p>
<p>For those who have been following the story of the Cedar-Riverside explosion, the name “Garad Nor” may ring a bell.</p>
<p>[Garad K. Nor] According to the MN Secretary of State website, Garad Nor is recorded as a “Registered Agent” of Wadani Properties, the company that owned and managed the apartments of the Cedar-Riverside building located at 510 and 512 Cedar Ave South that exploded and burned on January 1. In some reports, Garad Nor himself as listed as the owner.</p>
<p>According to the website of the Minnesota Secretary of State, Garad Nor is also the Chief Executive Officer of Dar Al Tawakul General LLC. Dar Al Tawakul General LLC is one of the companies listed in the indictment against the two Rochester citizens found guilty of money laundering for al-Shabaab.</p>
<p>Why did the European Commission list Garad K. Nor et al. as being associated with Islamic terrorists? As it happens, the EC was acting on a list drawn up by the United States Treasury the previous year, not long after 9/11.</p>
<p>Since being listed as a terrorism-associate by the U.S. Treasury and the European Commission, Garad K. Nor has managed to clear his name.</p>
<p>A press release issued in 2012 says the President and CEO of Tawakal Money Express successfully completed a four-day training workshop (teleconferenced from Somalia) for its staff and agents regarding procedures for complying with anti-money laundering regulations in the USA.</p></blockquote>
<p>Problem solved then, pay no attention to the explosions. The training workshop was completed. All is well. Pay no attention to the Little Mogadishus growing across the country.</p>
<p>This <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/02/the-ec-knows-why-doesnt-the-fbi/">investigative report comes from Gates of Vienna </a>which is doing the job that the FBI won&#8217;t do.</p>
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		<title>Did UNICEF Give Money to Al Qaeda?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al-Shabab insisted on distributing the aid and kept much of it]]></description>
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<p>The<a href="http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8749.pdf"> Heritage Institute for Policy Studies r</a>eport that discusses <a href="http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/charities-paid-off-al-shabaab-to-work-in-somalia/">how international aid agencies operating</a> in Somalia <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/somalia-aid-agencies-paid-jihad-group-al-shabab-during-famine.html">paid al-Shabab, an Al Qaeda linked group</a>, to be able to operate there avoids naming names. Instead of naming the non-profits that paid for the privilege, it discusses those that were, eventually, banned.</p>
<p>But reading between the lines, the banned groups had to first pay off Al Qaeda years before they were banned&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Aid agencies paid Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabab militants for access to areas under their control in the 2011 famine, according to a joint report by two think tanks.</p>
<p>In many cases al-Shabab insisted on distributing the aid and kept much of it for itself, the report says.</p>
<p>The report &#8211; by the Overseas Development Institute and the Mogadishu-based Heritage Institute for Policy Studies &#8211; details how al-Shabab demanded from the agencies what it described as &#8220;registration fees&#8221; of up to $10,000 (£6,100).</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/28/us-somalia-aid-idUSTRE7AR0N720111128">UNICEF was banned in</a> 2011, but demands for money began earlier. For example&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>In November 2009, Al-Shabaab imposed 11 conditions on remaining aid agencies in Bay and Bakool, including payment of registration and security fees of up to $20,000 every six months, the removal of all logos from agency vehicles and a ban on female employees. Some resisted. Prior to 2009 the World Food Programme (WFP) was able to establish some degree of productive dialogue with Al-Shabaab, but later withdrew from some areas under its control, citing the 11 conditions as part of the reason behind this decision</p>
<p>For many agencies withdrawal was seen as unacceptable, particularly given the scale of need around the famine in 2011, which affected an estimated 750,000 Somalis, many living in areas under Al-Shabaab control.</p></blockquote>
<p>Apparently funding Al Qaeda was more acceptable. So did UNICEF or any other UN agency pay fees to a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a question worth asking and answering considering how much money UNICEF derives from the goodwill of Americans.</p>
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		<title>The Psychology of Apocalyptic Hostage Takers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 04:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Riccardo Dugulin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sinister ties that bind. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Nairobi-mall-attack-010.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-206772" alt="Nairobi mall attack" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Nairobi-mall-attack-010.jpg" width="224" height="164" /></a>The slaughter perpetrated by members of the al-Shabaab terrorist organization in the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi left approximately 67 innocent people dead. While the ramifications of this incident are still being investigated, the crisis generated by a small unit of a radical Islamist militia is in itself instrumental in highlighting the psychology of those who may be considered as apocalyptic hostage takers.</span></b></p>
<p>The Dubrovka Theater in late October 2002, a public school in Beslan in September 2004 or the Westgate Mall in September 2013 are all tragedies that led to the same conclusions. While Chechens holding spectators hostage in an Opera House, Arab foreign fighters massacring children in their classrooms and Africans killing shoppers in the middle of a random day may have nothing directly linking them, their modus operandi and especially the psychology behind their actions establish a direct bridge between those diverse groups of Islamic terrorists.</p>
<p>The concept of apocalyptic hostage takers may be defined by three key aspects intrinsic to the crises mentioned above. The first and most straight-forward point is the choice of targets that, in this case, represent the terrorists’ will to destroy the key to intellectual and social life of a world they do not understand and cannot integrate into. The second aspect stemming from the choice of targets is the need to destroy life in its most natural form. For this, Islamist hostage takers do not simply torture and kill but also express no willingness to live. The last notion central to this idea of apocalyptic hostage taking is that Islamist terrorists see the process of leading dozens of innocent people to death as an irrational spiritual experience linking the group of self-proclaimed righteous to the early followers of the Muslim prophet Mohamed.</p>
<p>The first step necessary for understanding the nihilistic and apocalyptic vision of the world present in the hostage takers’ minds is the analysis of the objectives chosen by the Islamist terrorists for their attacks. In the fall of 2002, approximately 50 armed elements of the Riyad As Salahideen took control of the Moscow Dubrovka theater. The hostage taking of hundreds of innocent spectators during a representation of the Nord-Ost opera underlines an essential element revealing the disregard Islamist terrorists have for culture and arts. In an end of the world mentality built upon a dogmatic understanding of a totalitarian ideology, opera houses are part of a freedom of mind that cannot be tolerated. While adults are not supposed to indulge themselves in the pleasures of music and dance, children are not free to study and learn. The massacre in Beslan was the outstanding proof that, pushed by their irrational understanding of life, militiamen are unable to grasp the sanctity of a school and its classrooms. In the apocalyptic state of mind no one is out of reach from the wrath of God, a wrath meant to destroy every aspect of individual freedom and brought forward by men and women armed with automatic weapons and strapped with explosive vests. The Westgate mall is the latest example pointing in that direction. Al-Shabaab militiamen did not only target civilians, they perpetrated an attack on an infrastructure constituting an utter blasphemy in their corrupted mindset. Leisure and self-appreciation found in shopping are elements highly incompatible with the ultra-conservative understanding of Islam espoused by these terrorist groups.</p>
<p>The second element essential to the Moscow, the Beslan and the Nairobi hostage taking crisis is the absolute will to destroy life. Hostage taking incidents led by radical Islamists differ from any other event of this kind as they are based on abuse of the victims, an apocalyptic discourse and utterly unattainable objectives. The overall irrationality of the goals stated by terrorists, may it be the independence of Chechnya or the supposed act of war against Kenyan policies, underlines the inexistence of a clear strategy pursued by the perpetrators. Neither al-Shabaab operatives nor Arabs and Chechens wish to obtain a clear strategic victory out of these hostage takings. In addition, the assailants clearly express their will to die. Their discourse, their attire and their tactics set them at the margins of the society they intend to demolish. For this, the arbitrary execution of innocent spectators and the gruesome torture of random shoppers is only part of the hostage takers’ macabre walk toward a certain death. Since the victims do not and objectively cannot enter the exclusive spiritual circle of the terrorists, any act of brutality is apparently justified to destroy the social fabric of the radical Islamists’ perceived enemies.</p>
<p>The psychology of apocalyptic hostage takers may better be understood by linking it to the modern intellectual fathers of radical Islam: Sayyid Qutb and Ayman Al Zawhiri. These two Egyptians have contributed in developing the concept of a Muslim vanguard using physical and aggressive Jihad to lead fellow coreligionists toward the real meaning of Allah’s precepts. In this vision, all those who are not part of the vanguard movement are to be considered legitimate targets whose death would serve the goal of cleansing the world’s sins. In this theory, the amount of dead cannot be limited and the final objective cannot truly be quantified leading it to be an irrational way of preaching the apocalypse. Both Al Qutb and Al Zawahiri have developed their theories by building on the much fantasized experience of early Muslims, the Muhajireen, who performed hijra from Mecca to Medina with Mohammed. Detached from its motherland, the community is meant to fight for a sacred cause and rely solely on its members.</p>
<p>The utter detachment from any temporal and earthly reality along with the unwillingness to set clear and attainable goals are the key elements setting radical Islamist hostage takers at the margin of a society they do not want to be part of. Since, in their understanding, only the destruction of human life can bring out the truth of the Quran’s teachings, their resulting apocalyptic views are key to understand and counter the tactics used in Moscow, Beslan and Nairobi. Shall other incidents of this kind occur, no negotiations, no socio-political understanding and no indirect support should be allowed as all of it reinforces those who disregard the core of human life. In fact, only the direct destruction of these nuclei of irrational killers may save the lives of innocent men and women.</p>
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		<title>Kenya Mall Islamic Terrorists Financed Killing People by Killing Elephants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 2011 report by the Elephant Action League dubs elephant ivory “the white gold of jihad.”]]></description>
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<p>Religion of death. From beginning to end. &#8220;You love life, we love death,&#8221; is the Islamist battle cry. And it doesn&#8217;t just involve exterminating and enslaving non-Muslims.</p>
<p><a href="http://sheikyermami.com/the-white-gold-of-jihad/">Even the animals must die</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/bloga.cfm/blog_id/50588/The-White-Gold-of-Jihad">The cult of death lives off death</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>How is the carnage at an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi linked to a surge in the poaching of wild elephants in Africa?</p>
<p>Elephants are being slaughtered in record numbers in Africa. As reported in The Washington Post last summer, more than 30,000 elephants were killed by poachers last year, the largest number in decades. Over the last five years there has been a huge spike in poaching that threatens the extinction of one of the planet’s most intelligent and iconic species.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab finances as much as 40% of its operations this way. The supply of ivory for al-Shabaab and other militant groups is, obviously, dead elephants. As demand for ivory continues to surge in China and other Asian countries, the slaughter is growing industrial in scale and efficiency, fueling a trade worth $7 billion to $10 billion a year.</p>
<p>Al Shabab is financing a significant portion of its military operations by poaching elephants. A 2011 report by the Elephant Action League, whose mission is to fight elephant exploitation and wildlife crime, dubs elephant ivory “the white gold of jihad.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Last year, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/sudanese-islamists-financing-genocide-by-wiping-out-africas-elephants/">we discussed how that firepower </a>gives Jihadists superiority over park rangers.</p>
<blockquote><p>The heavily armed and well coordinated poachers, who had told local villagers of their plans to kill as many elephants as possible, claimed they had killed as much as 650 out of some 1,000 that roamed the park.</p>
<p>In 2010, Ugandan soldiers, searching for Mr. Kony in the forests of the Central African Republic, ran into a janjaweed ivory caravan. “These guys had 400 men, pack mules, a major camp, lots of weapons,” a Western official said. A battle erupted and more than 10 Ugandans were killed.</p></blockquote>
<p>Islam. Always making the world a worse place.</p>
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		<title>Why Terrorists Kill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deadly combination of money, power and Islam.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ss-130924-kenya-mall-attack-tease-526p.photoblog600.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205875" alt="ss-130924-kenya-mall-attack-tease-526p.photoblog600" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ss-130924-kenya-mall-attack-tease-526p.photoblog600-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>The Westgate attack in Kenya with its accompanying butchery of every man, woman and child in a shopping mall who couldn&#8217;t name Mohammed&#8217;s mother is being met with baffled mutterings about &#8220;senseless violence.&#8221;</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s nothing senseless about the violence that took place.</p>
<p>Terrorists kill because it&#8217;s what they do. Plumbers unclog toilets. Computer companies sell you software. Terrorist organizations kill people.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab&#8217;s real audience wasn&#8217;t the Americans watching CNN and trying to make sense of the violence. It was the millionaires and billionaires in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar who can turn any terrorist group from wannabes into RPG toting superstars racing through the desert on last year&#8217;s model Toyota pickup trucks with crates full of night vision equipment.</p>
<p>You may think of the news as a collection of tragedies. To the dozens of Al-Qaeda franchises and assorted Islamist terrorist groups; it&#8217;s American Idol. The CNN coverage of their attack is their audition on a worldwide reality show that shows off their skills and makes them famous.</p>
<p>Not every terrorist group is lucky enough to have its own Bin Laden; its Saudi sugar daddy with the cash and the cachet to get them the money they need in exchange for being the one to appear on camera and proclaim &#8220;Death to America&#8221;. And the Jihadists in Afghanistan fighting over Osama at times nearly killed each other over access to their effete money man.</p>
<p>Terrorists kill people &#8220;senselessly&#8221; because a spectacular terrorist attack gets them noticed. It sets them apart from every other Islamist terrorist group that throws together a name and waves a flag with a bunch of swords on it while vowing to drive out all the infidels. The 12 PM CNN audience may not applaud, but the Al Jazeera audience does. And it&#8217;s the one that matters.</p>
<p>Muslim terrorist organizations fight to impose Islamic law. But what does that really mean, aside from the little girls wearing Burkas and the demolished churches?</p>
<p>Think of the letters of marque that allowed privateers to prey on enemy shipping during wartime. The difference between a privateer and a pirate was the letters of marque. The difference between a warlord, a bandit, a rapist and a Muslim terrorist is the Koran and the Fatwa based on it that acts as his letter of marque.</p>
<p>Muslim terrorism is in no small part legalized banditry with each terrorist group leader hoping to set up shop as the Emir of his own little territory while fighting for the Caliphate.</p>
<p>Get some thugs together, form a terrorist group waving a black flag and stake a claim on some territory. Kill enough people and you&#8217;ll get weapons and training from terrorist networks and money from Gulf billionaires eager to impress their friends by sponsoring their very own terrorist attack. &#8220;Abdul, You know the Westgate attack? That was my money.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kill even more people and foreign governments will come to you hat in hand, offering you foreign aid and pressuring your government to give you autonomy. So why not be a terrorist?</p>
<p>Israel has been hailed as the Start-Up Nation for its dot com companies, but more Middle Eastern youth are joining a different kind of start-up.</p>
<p>Put a website. Set up a Twitter account. Upload YouTube videos of your men shooting at things. Recruit idiot British converts to Islam who traded in Billy and John for Rasheed and Mahmoud. Use your brother-in-law&#8217;s mosque contacts to recruit Muslims born in America, Canada or Australia who have no clue what life is really like back in Somalia or Pakistan, but are enthusiastic about overcoming their cultural inferiority complex by being part of the Jihad.</p>
<p>Atrocities get you noticed. If Mohammed in the Islamic Army for a Free Syria ate a lung, get one of your men in the Jihad Against Chess and Kites for Justice and Freedom brigade to eat a heart. If they kill a three-year-old, you kill a two-year-old. If they fire a chemical weapon, get your hands on a nuke.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all about who gets the most attention with the worst atrocities and nothing is over the top.</p>
<p>The most successful Al-Qaeda franchise is its Iraqi branch which was considered psychotic by the original Al-Qaeda leadership. Its tactics were described as completely deranged, senseless and bound to accomplish nothing. Now its splinter groups are in line to take over Syria. It may have taken a decade of horrifying murders of innocent people, but they are finally within sight of someone else&#8217;s promised land.</p>
<p>What of the men, the plodding goons getting pumped on Jihadi music videos full of black flags, reciting Koran verses, taking hits of cocaine and dreaming of virgins in paradise before rushing into a sniper&#8217;s line of fire; what&#8217;s in it for them?</p>
<p>Some join terrorist groups for the same reason that young men in Chicago or Oakland join gangs. It&#8217;s a brotherhood of crime. And the Muslim version comes with a  pardon from Allah and the promise of a paradise full of virgins to rape when that Syrian sniper spills all the Koranic quotes in that quivering mass of Hashish-addled grey matter onto a pockmarked street at 200 yards.</p>
<p>Islam provides the structure for these murderous recreations of Mohammed&#8217;s conquests with Japanese pickup trucks instead of mules and camels, and machine guns instead of spears and swords.</p>
<p>It tells the Muslim idealist that killing for Allah is the only thing that will bring about a just world. It tells the Muslim criminal that his crimes can be virtues. It tells the ambitious Muslim that he can have his own Emirate. It tells the embittered Muslim that nothing will be right until he kills the non-Muslims who are causing all the trouble.</p>
<p>It tells each man what he needs to hear to kill.</p>
<p>Guns don&#8217;t kill people. Ideas do. Islam, like Nazism or Communism, is a set of weaponized ideas.</p>
<p>Islam is the world within the heads of Muslim terrorists and it&#8217;s sensible if you&#8217;re a fat old Saudi billionaire impressing your friends with piles of African corpses, the third son of some backwater farmer with a worthless clan trying to move up from drug smuggling or a Chechen kid in Boston trying to find the glory of your own people while comparing the promises of the Koran to the dingy reality of your family grubbing off welfare while talking up the good old days back home.</p>
<p>Islam doesn’t just promote killing, it incentivizes it. It’s not just a motive; it’s also a rewards program. Its history demands war. Its nature compels killing. Even the most well-meaning Muslim cannot escape the vortex of Jihad at its center. Even if he does not support it in any way; it is always there tugging at him in a hundred different ways.</p>
<p>Islam is the chronicle and blueprint of an unfinished conquest. Its existence inevitably tempts its followers to try and complete Mohammed&#8217;s unfinished business.</p>
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		<title>Al-Shabaab and Obama&#8217;s Family Push For Islamic Kenya</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 04:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore Shoebat]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Nairobi mall massacre really means.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/obamais.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205687" alt="obamais" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/obamais-450x298.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>Both the al-Shabaab terrorists and the Obama family want the nation of Kenya to be under Sharia code.</p>
<p>Al-Arab <a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/10/10/the-obamas-kenyan-branch-revealed-in-shocking-video-obama-family-member-spills-the-beans-about-baracks-wahhabi-connection/" target="_blank">wrote</a> that Obama’s cousin, Musa Obama, “studied Sharia in Medina” and has called</p>
<blockquote><p>“upon the Arab and Islamic states to put more effort toward aiding the Kenyan Muslim brethren, especially since there is much support coming from Western nations and Western churches.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Musa has also confirmed that his organization, the Mama Sarah Obama Foundation, “gives scholarships to study Sharia in Medina [Saudi Arabia].”</p>
<p>He stated, furthermore,</p>
<blockquote><p>“that despite the fact that Barack Obama hasn’t visited his tribe in Kenya since his election in the United States, there is a continual communication between him and several members of his family and his tribe in Kenya, of which the Kenyan prime minister is also a member.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Thus, we know for a fact that Musa Obama studied Sharia in Medina, that his organization gives scholarships for Muslim youths to study Sharia in Saudi Arabia, for the purpose of de-Christinizing and extinguishing Christianity in Kenya, where the majority of people are Christians. Musa Obama, Sarah Obama (Obama’s grandmother) and Sayed Obama (Obama’s uncle) are lending scholarships for youths to enter the three major Sharia schools in Saudi Arabia: Umm al-Qura, the Islamic University in Medina, and the University of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh.</p>
<p>Now we have al-Shabaab terrorists executing a slaughter of people in a Nairobi mall, and when we look into what this group is, what we find is that they are a result of youths being sent to these very same universities in Saudi Arabia, including the one where Musa Obama studied.</p>
<p><a href="http://almanac.afpc.org/sites/almanac.afpc.org/files/Somalia.pdf" target="_blank">In the sixties and seventies,</a> the major conduit of Wahhabism into Somalia, was the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood bringing in Islamic schools into Somalia. Somalian youths were then given scholarships for three major Islamic universities, Umm al-qura University, the University of Medina, and Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, all three of these institutions are the same schools to where the Mama Obama Sara Fund is sending Kenyan youths to learn Sharia.</p>
<p>The <em>Gulf Issues Centre For Strategic Studies</em> <a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/10/10/the-obamas-kenyan-branch-revealed-in-shocking-video-obama-family-member-spills-the-beans-about-baracks-wahhabi-connection/" target="_blank">describes</a> these institutions as “the spring of Wahhabism,” and further <a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/10/10/the-obamas-kenyan-branch-revealed-in-shocking-video-obama-family-member-spills-the-beans-about-baracks-wahhabi-connection/" target="_blank">writes</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Wahhabists] grew up in the Wahhabi and Salafi schools which imbibed radical ideas in the Islamic University in Medina, Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah, and the University of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.crisisgroup.org/%7E/media/Files/africa/horn-of-africa/somalia/B74%20Somalias%20Divided%20Islamists.ashx" target="_blank">A 2010 African Policy Briefing for the International Crisis Group,</a> in writing on the history of Wahhabism and the al-Shabaab group in Somalia, places its significant growth with Somalian youths being recruited into Umm al-Qura University and the University of Medina, the same schools to which the Mama Sarah Obama Fund brings Kenyan youths to study Islamic Sharia:</p>
<blockquote><p>Saudi Arabia – flush with petro-dollars after the oil shocks of the 1970s – was particularly instrumental in promoting Wahhabism. and Islamic charities sprang up in all the major urban centres and even in the remote countryside. Well-funded madrasas (religious schools) Thousands of Somali youngsters were brought to Saudi universities – principally Medina and Umm al-Qura – to study Wahhabi jurisprudence (fiqh) and missionary work (da’wa).</p></blockquote>
<p>The two named universities are the ones which the Obamas are heavily associated with. Moreover, Obama’s brother, Malik Obama, is the executive secretary for the Islamic Dawah Organization of Sudan, which is working to make Africa Islamic, the same goal of the two named universities’ dawah programs.</p>
<p>The Foreign Policy Council attributed the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Somalia substantially to these same three universities:</p>
<blockquote><p>After Somalia’s independence in 1960, Egyptians opened secondary schools in many of the country’s towns. In the 1960s and 1970s, Saudi religious and educational institutions—especially the Islamic University of Medina, the Umm al-Qura University in Mecca, and the Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh—joined al-Azhar in offering scholarships to the graduates of these institutions. This development has parallels with the entrenchment of radical Islam in nearby Sudan via the establishment of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood, the precursor to the currently-ruling National Congress Party (formerly the National Islamic Front).</p></blockquote>
<p>It was from this very Islamism that al-Shabaab arose, and, furthermore, the report parallels this rise to the founding of the National Congress Party in North Sudan, which is ran by Omar al-Bashir, the same Muslim Brotherhood member who Barack Obama’s brother, <a href="http://shoebat.com/2013/05/24/obamas-brother-works-with-man-who-attacked-us-embassy/" target="_blank">Malik Obama, is working with to make Africa fully Islamic and free of all Christianity. </a></p>
<p>This goal to replace Christianity with Islam in Kenya by the Obamas, was <a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/10/10/the-obamas-kenyan-branch-revealed-in-shocking-video-obama-family-member-spills-the-beans-about-baracks-wahhabi-connection/" target="_blank">expressed</a> by al-Arab in their interview with Musa Obama in the World University Ruff in Nairobi:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Muslims [in Kenya] suffer from the monumental Christianization aided by Zionist expansionism that infiltrates the nation.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Al-Shabaab, as well, wants to purge Kenya of all Christianity. When they were slaughtering people in the Nairobi mall, they lined civilians up, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/09/mall_survivors_recount_executions_of_non-muslims_by_terrorists.html" target="_blank">and executed them</a> after deeming them non-Muslims because they could not “name the Prophet Mohammed’s mother or recite passages from the Koran.” There was one man who was Muslim who was spared after he recited some verses of the Koran.</p>
<p>Lets not forget that Kenya is 83% Christian, so we know that this massacre was done specifically to kill Christians. In 2011 <a href="http://www.worldea.org/news/3694/Christians-in-Somalia-Bear-the-Brunt-of-Al-Shabaabs-Terror-" target="_blank">it was reported</a> that al-Shabaab decapitated a Christian in Somalia named Juma Nuradin Kamil.</p>
<p>There is a very significant figure in the Nairobi mall shooting, Hassan Mahad Omar, also known as Hassaan Hussein Adam “Abu Salman.” Hassan is the <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201309251625.html" target="_blank">unofficial</a> mufti and ideologue for al-Shabaab, and their terrorist attacks are linked, directly and indirectly, to his fatwas.</p>
<p>Hassan teaches Islamic doctrine and has a <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201309251625.html" target="_blank">degree</a> from an Islamic university in Saudi Arabia, which means that he is interlinked with the three major Islamic universities to where the Obamas are sending Islamic youths to study Islam and Sharia.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab, the group who slaughtered the people in the Christian majority nation of Kenya, and the Obamas, are associated with the universities which gave rise to the ideology of al-Shabaab, and both are striving for the same goal: an Islamic Kenya where Christianity would be outlawed.</p>
<p>Is it any wonder, now, that Obama prevented the revolution against the Muslim Brotherhood dictator of North Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, and that he is giving weapons to the jihadists in Syria?</p>
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		<title>Jihad in Kenya</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi shopping mall slaughterers force media into honest reporting.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/A-Kenyan-woman-is-helped-008.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-204927" alt="A Kenyan woman is helped to safety after shootings in a Nairobi shopping mall" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/A-Kenyan-woman-is-helped-008.jpg" width="217" height="160" /></a>As of Sunday afternoon, Islamic jihadists in an upscale Kenyan mall have murdered 59 people and wounded 175, and were still holding at least 30 hostages. All (or at least most) of the victims have been non-Muslims, for as witness <a href="http://gma.yahoo.com/kenya-mall-shooting-least-59-killed-175-injured-142309995--abc-news-topstories.html">Elijah Kamau reported</a>: “The gunmen told Muslims to stand up and leave. They were safe, and non-Muslims would be targeted.”</p>
<p>The murderers didn’t just take the word of those who were trying to leave that they were Muslims. One of the hostages, a non-Muslim named Joshua Hakim, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/21/nairobi-shopping-centre-terror-attack">recounted</a> that the jihadists were “firing indiscriminately, they shot a lot of people” – hence the possibility that some Muslims may have been hit. Hakim himself covered his Christian name on his ID card and showed it to the jihadists, who were apparently satisfied that he was Muslim. However, Hakim said, “Then an Indian man came forward and they said, ‘What is the name of Muhammad’s mother?’ When he couldn’t answer they just shot him.”</p>
<p>Non-Muslims who wish to prepare for the future of the United States and other non-Muslim nations may wish to commit to memory the factoid that Muhammad’s mother was Amina bint Wahb; however, the most noteworthy aspect of these jihadists’ selection process was that it forced the mainstream media, which generally ignores, denies, and/or obfuscates the Islamic identity and motives of jihad murderers, to report about the jihadists’ desire to kill only non-Muslims, not Muslims.</p>
<p>This was singular. Remember that before the Boston Marathon jihad murderers were identified, the mainstream media was full of hope that they had finally witnessed a violent terror attack by Bible-quoting Christian killers, as they had hoped for for years.</p>
<p>Media reports were full of speculation about how the bombings appeared to be the work of “right-wing extremists,” “Tea Partiers,” and the like. On the day of the bombings, Charles P. Pierce <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/boston-marathon-bombing-041513">in Esquire</a> was one of the first of many to caution people against thinking that the Marathon had just been the site of a jihad attack (“foreign terrorism”) and to try to link the bombings to the Right: “Obviously, nobody knows anything yet, but I would caution folks jumping to conclusions about foreign terrorism to remember that this is the official Patriots Day holiday in Massachusetts, celebrating the Battles at Lexington and Concord, and that the actual date (April 19) was of some significance to, among other people, Tim McVeigh, because he fancied himself a waterer of the tree of liberty and the like.”</p>
<p>Likewise, CNN’s national security analyst, Peter Bergen, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2FBreitbart-TV%2F2013%2F04%2F15%2FCNN-Natl-Sec-Analyst-Speculates-Right-Wing-Extremists-Could-Be-Behind-Marathon-Bombing&amp;ei=jSg_Uv63M-ni4AO12ICAAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNGpm2pCVRoOVTbUVYnJJbNuqN4sVw&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">speculated</a> that if “conventional explosives” had been used, “that might be some other kind of right-wing extremists,” as opposed to Al Qaeda. He reminded viewers that “we’ve also seen other extremist groups attacking, right-wing groups, for instance trying to attack the Martin Luther King parade in Oregon in 2010.”</p>
<p>Most egregiously of all, David Sirota of Salon <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2F2013%2F04%2F16%2Flets_hope_the_boston_marathon_bomber_is_a_white_american%2F&amp;ei=rig_UuiJDbiz4APW8IDgBw&amp;usg=AFQjCNF8T4RdvGeRjotXvrVOe_CW2Fy8bg&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">hoped</a> that the bomber would turn out to be a “white American.”</p>
<p>Sirota, of course, got his wish. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were indeed white – indeed, veritable Caucasians – and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a naturalized American citizen.</p>
<p>The Tsarnaev brothers’ motivations quickly became clear. <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2013%2F04%2F22%2Fus%2Fboston-attack%2Findex.html&amp;ei=8Cg_Us6MF7jG4APAr4GIDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHAvFtPiAQDPyVTcE87EZhHBrDHRQ&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">CNN reported</a> a week after the bombings that “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, wounded and held in a Boston hospital, has said his brother &#8212; who was killed early Friday &#8212; wanted to defend Islam from attack.”</p>
<p>Also, just before he was captured, when he was hiding out inside a pleasure boat, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCsQtwIwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2F8301-505263_162-57584771%2Fboston-bombings-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-left-note-in-boat-he-hid-in-sources-say%2F&amp;ei=ECk_UvDpEoe64AOuzoGIDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFiui_DP5b91wRE6PybiGo81UZ_DA&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">Dzhokhar wrote</a> a long self-justification on the inside of the boat, including the line: “When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims.”</p>
<p>Tamerlan <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=5&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CDoQFjAE&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeadspin.com%2Fheres-everything-we-know-about-tamerlan-tsarnaev-the-476415081&amp;ei=Oyk_UrTxO6jl4AOL-YDABA&amp;usg=AFQjCNFqKCGXxtZ8Kt7WL-hV0cG9fDUZiA&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">also said</a>, “I’m very religious.” His friend Donald Larking <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bostonglobe.com%2Fmetro%2F2013%2F08%2F07%2Funlikely-friendship%2FxQao9NHjkUvtvhTcK1uwCL%2Fstory.html&amp;ei=WCk_UufME9XK4AOb44GIDg&amp;usg=AFQjCNGhBJul51WH_WP-hr5ZK-1gtByAfQ&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">affirmed this</a>: “Tamerlan Tsarnaev was my friend and we talked about everything from politics to religion. He was very, very religious. He believed that the Qur’an was the one true word and he loved it.” Tamerlan noted that he did not drink alcohol because Allah forbade it: “God said no alcohol,” and that his Italian girlfriend had converted to Islam, as his American wife did later. Even his name indicated the world from which he had come: Tamerlan Tsarnaev was apparently named for the warrior Tamerlane, the fourteenth-century conqueror of much of Asia, who was as noted for his Muslim piety as he was for his bloodlust: in 1398, he massacred 100,000 Hindus in Delhi, and killed 90,000 more people in Baghdad in 1401, all the while his devout adherence to the religion of Muhammad. This was the figure for whom Tamerlan Tsarnaev was named.</p>
<p>Combine all that with the fact that the Boston Marathon bombs were similar to IED’s that jihadis used in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that Faisal Shahzad, who tried to set off a jihad car bomb in Times Square in the summer of 2010, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2013%2F04%2F17%2Fus%2Fofficials-investigate-boston-explosions.html%3Fpagewanted%3Dall&amp;ei=gSk_Urz0Oezj4AO8i4CQDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNEybUwkbmZr5ZB8WK0uQGZ_-N6wSg&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">used a similar bomb</a>, and that instructions for making such a bomb <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2FBig-Peace%2F2013%2F04%2F16%2FPressure-Cooker-Bomb-Construction-Detainled-in-al-Qaeda-s-Inspire-Magazine&amp;ei=nyk_UsLHAteq4APpm4G4AQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNHByp1yl-N1xR_bxO7QXEaqOJwNNA&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">had been published</a> in al-Qaeda’s <i>Inspire</i> magazine, and the motivations of the Tsarnaev brothers were abundantly clear.</p>
<p>Yet despite all this, the mainstream media continued to obfuscate the truth. On July 15, 2013, three months after the bombings and long after the Tsarnaev brothers’ motivations had become clear, PBS &#8212; without mentioning Dzhokhar’s statements or any other evidence of the bombers’ motivations – <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/07/15/3800954.htm#transcript">expressed hope</a> that the surviving brother’s trial would “shed more light on the motive behind the bombing.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCkQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tedmontgomery.com%2Fremarks%2F13.1-6%2FBoston%2FTsarnaev.html&amp;ei=-yk_UqDkIre84AOFuoHgCA&amp;usg=AFQjCNHivSO4GgfBYI00Bwk8AFmrfb8Myw&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">NBC made only scant mention</a> of the brothers’ connections to Islam in their profile of them, noting only eight paragraphs down in a lengthy story that “Tamerlan had a YouTube page that featured videos about Islamic radicalism.” CNN’s initial profile of the bombers never mentioned Islam at all, and suggested instead that the bombers had decided to blow up the Marathon because Americans had not extended to these two immigrants a welcoming hand, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCkQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2013%2F04%2F19%2Fus%2Fboston-area-violence%2Findex.html&amp;ei=RCo_UvvtI5LG4APNhYHoDA&amp;usg=AFQjCNG-0saWEsixOaCoaZSlTcvg1xhCRg&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">quoting</a> a comment Tamerlan made on a social media site: “I don’t have a single American friend. I don’t understand them.”</p>
<p>When journalists deigned to examine the brothers’ Islamic identity, they downplayed it. <i>The Atlantic</i> ran a piece entitled “<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fnational%2Farchive%2F2013%2F04%2Fthe-boston-bombers-were-muslim-so%2F275154%2F&amp;ei=siw_UpWlGaL_4AP46oH4Ag&amp;usg=AFQjCNHrdNA1TUoUnCLCjj-f2VWQcNnItg&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">The Boston Bombers Were Muslim – So?</a>” It complained that “we confuse categories – ‘male,’ ‘Muslim’ — with cause,” and cautioned against stereotyping all Muslims, painting them with a broad brush.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, MSNBC’s <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCkQtwIwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realclearpolitics.com%2Fvideo%2F2013%2F04%2F23%2Fchris_matthews_on_bombers_what_difference_does_it_make_why_they_did_it.html&amp;ei=2Sw_UsaVOpCi4AOgjoCYAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNGqa3-nrectTy_QSQlrRRtTv5UCjA&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">Chris Matthews had on an FBI agent</a> who asked about the bombers, “Where was their inspiration? Where did they get the guidance?” To that Matthews  responded: “Why is that important? Why is that important to — is that important to prosecuting? I mean, what difference does it make why they did it if they did it? I’m being tough here.” Also on MSNBC, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCkQtwIwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realclearpolitics.com%2Fvideo%2F2013%2F04%2F22%2Fbashir_suspected_boston_bombers_hurt_peace-loving_religion_of_islam.html&amp;ei=Ci0_Uqu2Bonc4APSrICgDg&amp;usg=AFQjCNHnLDvnORYmHT1UKHfYzlz6ECbAMg&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg">Martin Bashir lamented</a> about how these Muslim bombers were “burying the ‘peace, compassion and kindness of the Qur’an.’”</p>
<p>The jihad murderers in Kenya, unbeknownst to themselves, did not allow for this kind of media obfuscation. With their single act of freeing Muslims and murdering non-Muslims, they did more to raise awareness of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat than anyone in recent memory in this age of denial, obfuscation, and misinformation. The media couldn’t ignore their selection process. And now thousands of people know that they’ve been lied to, and lied to for years. We can only hope that these newly enlightened will be moved to act for justice before yet another jihad mass murderer makes his bloody arrival on the scene.</p>
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		<title>In the Name of Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Kenya killings were really about.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/kenya.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205003" alt="kenya" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/kenya.jpg" width="305" height="240" /></a>Denial is the first stage of coming to terms with the unthinkable.</p>
<p>In Westgate, a Kenyan mall oriented toward expats, terrorists separated Muslims from non-Muslims before killing them. The Muslims were allowed to go free if they could recite a Muslim prayer.</p>
<p>During the attack, Al Shabaab’s Arabic Twitter account quoted the Koran, “Plant firmly our feet and give us victory over (Al-Kafireen) the disbelieving people.&#8221;  (Koran 2:250). The Kuffar, the non-Muslims of Westgate, included small children.</p>
<p>“I don’t understand why you would shoot a five-year-old child,” one of the survivors said. But the five-year-old was not a Muslim.</p>
<p>Moments like these put the Clash of Civilizations into bloody context. This isn’t abstract politics. It’s not about economics, the environment or foreign policy. It’s about a worldview in which a five-year-old who can’t recite the Islamic confession of faith deserves to be killed.</p>
<p>The crime is not being a Muslim.</p>
<p>Or as Al Shabaab put it on Twitter, “Only Kuffar were singled out for this attack. All Muslims inside #Westgate were escorted out by the Mujahideen (Islamic Holy Warriors) before beginning the attack.”</p>
<p>Not getting the message, UK Prime Minister David Cameron declared, “These appalling terrorist attacks that take place where the perpetrators claim they do it in the name of a religion – they don’t.”</p>
<p>“They do it in the name of terror, violence and extremism and their warped view of the world,” he elaborated. “They don’t represent Islam or Muslims in Britain or anywhere else in the world.”</p>
<p>Considering the number of British Muslims who have joined Al Shabaab or support it financially, including reportedly at least one of the attackers, that is not the case.</p>
<p>Cameron, hardly an expert theologian even on his own religion, describing himself as a “committed,” but “vaguely practicing” Christian, is in no position to expostulate on Islamic theology. But that hasn’t stopped him before.</p>
<p>When a British soldier was beheaded in London, Cameron called it “a betrayal of Islam and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country.” Demonstrating again his utter ignorance, he added, “There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act.&#8221;</p>
<p>The attackers who had quoted the Koran during their butchery clearly disagreed. But every politician becomes an instant expert on Islam when it comes to giving it a clean bill of health after every attack.</p>
<p>Challenged on the Islamist orientation of the Syrian rebels, Senator McCain claimed that Allahu Akbar was just like “Thank God.” Allahu Akbar originates from a Hadith describing Mohammed’s attack on a Jewish settlement; a chain of atrocities culminating in the Muslim ethnic cleansing of Jews and Christians from what is today Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>The Syrian rebels screaming Allahu Akbar are living up to its original use as a battle cry by Mohammed in the Khaybar Massacre. Syria is low on Jews, so the Allahu Akbarers are ethnically cleansing Christians from places like Homs using weapons supplied to them by the CIA.</p>
<p>It’s an authentic war crime overseen by John Kerry, who had built his political career on falsely accusing American soldiers in Vietnam of having “cut off ears, cut off heads… blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan.”</p>
<p>Now Kerry is helping run guns to the Genghis Khans who cry Allahu Akbar before cutting off a head. And they don’t mean “Thank God.” They mean Allah is superior to your god because he enables me to cut off your head.</p>
<p>In July, Al Shabaab terrorists burst into the African Inland Church in Kenya and opened fire. Among the eleven dead was a nine-year-old boy. Twelve other children were injured.</p>
<p>“The Mujahideen punished with their hands those believing and worshipping other than Allah,” Sheikh Hassan Takar, an Al Shabaab leader, explained.</p>
<p>In Nigeria, Boko Haram, another Al Qaeda linked group that cooperates with Al Shabaab, explained its motivations after the simultaneous bombings of three churches. The first of these bombings had targeted the children’s section of a church on Father’s Day.</p>
<p>“Today Almighty Allah has given us victory against Christian Churches in Kaduna and Zaria which led to the deaths of many Christians.” The Boko Haram spokesman added that Allah had commanded Muslims to kill Christians and Jews citing the Koran.</p>
<p>“Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”</p>
<p>(Koran 9:29 – the Hilali-Khan translation which is sponsored and distributed by the Saudi government)</p>
<p>The message of the Koran here is not subtle. Accept Islamic law and Muslim rule or die.</p>
<p>It’s not an artifact of a previous savage era that Muslims have left behind. The dead bodies in Kenya and Nigeria make that all too clear. As do the dead bodies in Syria, Egypt and Pakistan. And those murdered in the United Kingdom and the United States.</p>
<p>Cameron and every Western leader can insist that there is nothing in Islam that justifies violence, but Muslims know better. A quarter of British Muslims were willing to endorse the Al Qaeda 7/7 bombings in the UK where such opinions are all but illegal. What then is the true number?</p>
<p>The true number is much too frightening. That’s why denial is easier.</p>
<p>When Cameron wrote before his election that “it is mainstream Britain which needs to integrate more with the British Asian way of life, not the other way around”, he was, in his own way, getting at the same message as that of the terrorists.</p>
<p>Islam is not going to integrate into the UK. So the UK must integrate into Islam.</p>
<p>That same message was behind the election of Barack Hussein Obama to handle our foreign affairs. When he said that America is one of the world’s largest Muslim countries, he was demonstrating our willingness to integrate into the Islamosphere.</p>
<p>Islam in its most compact form is best represented by Aslim Taslam; “Accept the Religion of Peace and You Will Have Peace.” It was the offer that Mohammed made to the Jews before he killed them. It was the offer he made to Byzantium.</p>
<p>After September 11, Osama bin Laden wrote a letter to the American people. “In the Name of Allah,” it began. Explaining what he wanted, “The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam,” he wrote.</p>
<p>America and Europe have accepted Mohammed and Osama bin Laden’s call. Islam is praised incessantly. Its mosques have a special status, its Mohammedan icons are sacred and its Korans are protected by distortions of the law.</p>
<p>But none of that will be enough.</p>
<p>Ask the five-year-old murdered at Westgate. To believe that anything short of total and absolute submission will suffice is denial. And to hope that even that will be enough is wishful thinking.</p>
<p>At the Khaybar Massacre and the birth of the battle cry Allahu Akbar, Mohammed’s cousin asked why he meant to massacre the Jews. “Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his Messenger,” he replied.</p>
<p>That message in one form or another permeates Islam. It is the essence of the Jihad.</p>
<p>The five-year-old at Westgate, like the Jews of Khaybar, like the 3,000 dead on September 11 wouldn’t or couldn’t testify to that. So they were murdered for the glory of Islam and in the name of Islam.</p>
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		<title>America&#8217;s &#8220;Little Mogadishus&#8221; Produced 3 of the Kenya Al Qaeda Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 02:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmed Mohamed Isse, 22, “native” of St. Paul, Minn., Abdifatah Osman Keenadiid, 24, of Minneapolis, and Gen Mustafe Noorudiin, 27, of Kansas City, Mo.]]></description>
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<p>America has taken in large numbers of Somalis producing Little Mogadishus in unexpected places. These Little Mogadishus invariably become sinkholes of crime, welfare and terrorism.</p>
<p>Now we&#8217;re told that<a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/09/22/al-shabaab-three-americans-among-gunmen-in-kenya-mall/"> three of the Kenya Westgate mall terrorist</a>s were from the United States.</p>
<blockquote><p>“We received permission to disclose the names of our mujahideen inside #Westgate,” their latest account tweeted.</p>
<p>They proceeded to tweet the names one by one, including Ahmed Mohamed Isse, 22, “native” of St. Paul, Minn., Abdifatah Osman Keenadiid, 24, of Minneapolis, and Gen Mustafe Noorudiin, 27, of Kansas City, Mo.</p></blockquote>
<p>A<a href="http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_23831484/minneapolis-men-who-fought-and-died-somali-militia">l-Shabaab had already released </a>a video of Somali Muslim terrorists from the Little Mogadishus.</p>
<blockquote><p>Three Minneapolis men who went to fight, and later die, with a Somali Islamist militia were the subject of a propaganda recruitment video released by the organization Thursday.</p>
<p>Titled &#8220;The Path to Paradise: From the Twin Cities to the Land of Two Migrations,&#8221; the nearly 40-minute post allegedly details the travels of Dahir Gure, Muhammad Al-Amriki and Mohamud Hassan to Somalia over 2007 and 2008.</p>
<p>In one segment, Al-Amriki, born Troy Kastigar, likened his experiences to being at an amusement park.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you guys only knew how much fun we have over here, this is the real Disneyland,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You need to come here and join us, and take pleasure in this fun.&#8221;</p>
<p>Eventually, he and Hassan are pictured next to each other, shrouded and dead.</p></blockquote>
<p>I imagine there will be another video coming out soon. <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/01/beware-we-are-c.html">Meanwhile we ought to start reconsidering</a> Somali migration to America.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ibrahim Al-Maqdasi: &#8220;We want to inform Bush and our rivals about our real intentions. We will establish Islamic rule from Alaska and Chile to South Africa, and from Japan to Russia. Beware, we are coming.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Ignoring an Al-Qaeda Sponsor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why isn’t Eritrea labeled a State Sponsor of Terrorism?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/shabaab_1959028c.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203447" alt="shabaab_1959028c" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/shabaab_1959028c.jpg" width="248" height="194" /></a>A U.N. report in July confirmed that the African government of Eritrea is still supporting Al-Qaeda’s Somali branch, a group known for its reach into America. The Eritrean dictator, an ally of Iran and top persecutor of Christians, is met with silence. Is President Obama’s desire to <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/obama-declares-war-terror-must-end" target="_blank">end the war on terror</a>stronger than his desire to punish Al-Qaeda’s allies?</p>
<p>The U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-07-17/news/sns-rt-somalia-eritreaun-exclusive-20130716_1_shabaab-mogadishu-eritrean-government" target="_blank">concluded</a> in July that Eritrea, though governed by a self-professed Christian dictator, is materially aiding al-Shabaab, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia that has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/07/27/muslim.radicalization.hearing/index.html" target="_blank">recruited over 40 Americans.</a> The group has an estimated 5,000 terrorists controlling central and southern Somalia and earns millions for Al-Qaeda through the sale of charcoal. The Eritrean government, led by President Isaias Afewerki, has two main liaisons to Al-Shabaab.</p>
<p>The first, a warlord named Abdi Nur Siad ‘Abdi Wal,’ works with an unnamed senior al-Shabaab commander and collaborates with other Somali Islamists. The second liaison is named Mohamed Wali Sheikh Ahmed Nur and he is described as Al-Shabaab’s “political coordinator.” He is on Eritrea’s payroll and has admitted in private meetings to being an Eritrean agent.</p>
<p>Ahmed Nur also works with the terrorism-sponsoring governments of Iran and Sudan, visiting the former in December. One of the purposes of these meetings was to explore ways of covertly financing him. The Eritrean ambassador to Sudan was kicked out from Kenya in 2009 because of his meetings with al-Shabaab.</p>
<p>The Eritrean embassy in Kenya had been <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10900677" target="_blank">utilized</a> as a bank for its terrorist allies, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/un-links-eritrea-to-ethiopian-terror-plot-20110729-1i490.html" target="_blank">funding</a> Al-Shabaab with $75,000 a month. The financial network is now spread out through front businesses in Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda and Yemen.</p>
<p>The existence of these fronts in Yemen raises the possibility that Eritrea also has a relationship with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and/or the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the north. It was first reported in 2009 that Iranian Revolutionary Guards personnel in Eritrea were training Houthis. There are also unconfirmed reports of Iranian missiles in Eritrea.</p>
<p>In January, Arab media sources <a href="http://www.yemenfox.net/news_details.php?sid=5613" target="_blank">reported</a> that Iran was transporting weapons to Yemen through Eritrean islands where Houthis also receive training. The weapons are smuggled into Yemen in fishing boats. Also that month, the Yemeni authorities <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/02/us-somalia-arms-un-idUSBRE96101E20130702" target="_blank">intercepted</a> an Iranian ship delivering arms to the Houthis and, possibly, Al-Shabaab via Eritrea. A diplomatic source said it had 16,717 blocks of C4 explosives and the Houthis aren’t known to use C4, but Al-Shabaab is.</p>
<p>According to a Yemeni political source, Iran’s operations in Eritrea and Yemen have heightened because of the Syrian civil war.</p>
<p>“Iranian national security council adopted a new strategy intended to shift the battle from Syria and Lebanon in the north to the Yemen on the southern tip of Arabian Peninsula, after Tehran has realized that its allied regime of Bashar Assad in Damascus cannot continue,” the source <a href="http://www.yemenfox.net/news_details.php?sid=5613" target="_blank">told ASharq Alawasat.</a></p>
<p>The Afewerki regime has even directly organized potential mass-casualty terrorist operations. According to an earlier U.N. report, Eritrea <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/28/eritrea-planned-ethopia-bomb-attack" target="_blank">planned</a> “mass casualty attacks against civilian targets” in January 2011 during a high-level African Union meeting in Ethiopia. The dispatched terrorists were instructed to make “Addis Ababa like Baghdad.” Nothing happened in response to the foiled plot.</p>
<p>The 47% of the Eritrean population that is Christian is oppressed (as are many non-Christians), even though Afewerki says he is a member of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The country is <a href="http://www.persecution.org/2013/06/20/africas-north-korea-and-the-most-repressive-nation-on-earth-this-is-eritrea/" target="_blank">described</a> as a “giant prison” and Reporters Without Borders gave it the title of “most repressive nation on earth.”</p>
<p>All but three Christian denominations have been outlawed, and even members of the permitted denominations face persecution. Somewhere between <a href="http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=40850" target="_blank">1,200</a>and <a href="http://www.persecution.org/?p=46454&amp;upm_export=print" target="_blank">3,000</a> Christians are in prison in “unimaginably atrocious conditions.” In July, 39 high school students, including 11 girls, were <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2013/july/eritrea-punishes-future-high-school-grads-for-christian-fai.html" target="_blank">arrested</a>, banned from graduation and sentenced to hard labor and beatings because of their public expressions of faith. Reportedly, they have been given an opportunity to leave if they renounce their faith in Christ.</p>
<p>The viability of the Eritrean opposition makes the West’s tolerance of Afewerki even more disheartening. On January 21, about 200 soldiers with two tanks took over a government ministry and demanded the release of all political prisoners. The coup failed.</p>
<p>The Afewerki regime is dividing against itself, with many youth and forced conscripts fleeing the country. Recently, 180 members of the navy were<a href="http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refdaily?pass=463ef21123&amp;id=521aebe35" target="_blank">massacred</a> by the security forces when they tried to get out. The known <a href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/experts+Eritrea+courting+Somalias+leaders+well+warlords/8682552/story.html" target="_blank">defections</a> include three senior air force pilots and senior officials “have started to manifest open dissent to military and economic policy decision-making.”</p>
<p>In 2010, Rep. Ed Royce of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, <a href="http://royce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=199328" target="_blank">wrote a letter to the State Department</a> demanding that Eritrea be added to the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Even under President Obama’s vision of the war on terror as solely a war on Al-Qaeda, Eritrea qualifies as a state sponsor, but nothing has happened.</p>
<p>Sanctions were first placed on Eritrea for its arming of terrorists in December 2009. For three and a half years, the regime has been allowed to sponsor Al-Shabaab, oppress its citizens (especially Christians) and ally with Iran. For two and a half years, Eritrea has not been held accountable for its direct involvement in a major terrorist plot.</p>
<p>Al-Qaeda’s favorite “Christian” leader is known by virtually no American and Al-Shabaab and Iran can thank the Obama Administration for that.</p>
<p><em>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org/" target="_blank">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></em></p>
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<p>Predictably enough this is the Somali issue again. The U<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/afghanistan-comes-to-london/">K is chock full of Somali Muslim refugees</a> who support al-Shabaab, which is the local Al Qaeda franchise.</p>
<p>Michael Adebolajo, one of the London beheaders, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/editors-choice/editors-picks/10080958/Woolwich-attack-soldiers-killer-in-dock-on-terror-link-three-years-ago.html">was arrested for attempting to join al-Shabaab </a>and deported to the UK. At which point a sane country would have denaturalized him and sent him packing.</p>
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<blockquote><p><i>The Sunday Telegraph</i> can disclose that Michael Adebolajo was held by police close to the Somali border with a band of &#8220;radicalised&#8221; Muslim youths who wanted to join the notorious al-Shabaab group.</p></blockquote>
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<p>He was deported to Britain after he appeared in court in Mombasa in November 2010.</p>
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<p>Two months previously the head of MI5 had warned that Britons were training in Somalia and it was &#8220;only a matter of time before we see terrorism on our streets inspired by those who are today fighting alongside al-Shabaab&#8221;. It also emerged that the other suspect in the soldier’s murder, Michael Adebowale, 22, was detained by police in London two months ago after shopkeepers complained about a group of Muslim activists.</p>
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<blockquote><p>The disclosures raise further questions about the monitoring by the security services of Adebowale and Adebolajo, 28, whom sources have said was known to MI5 but not assessed as a &#8220;threat to life&#8221;.</p></blockquote>
<p>What exactly makes a Muslim an official &#8220;threat to life&#8221;? Is there any possible way that one can attempt to join a terrorist group and not be a &#8220;threat to life&#8221;?</p>
<p>Or do you actually have to sign an affidavit stating that you intend to kill non-Muslims before you make the list? We had the same problem with the Boston bomber.</p>
<p>Once you attempt to join a terrorist group, it should be assumed that you are willing to commit acts of terror. Any further fine distinctions only get innocent people killed.</p>
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<p>Mexico’s drug war is still raging, with over 22,000 people having been <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36485196/ns/world_news-americas/">killed</a> since 2006. Now, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, often referred to as the FARC, are teaming up with the drug lords. The Marxist terrorist group’s ties to Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and other organizations make the conflict to the south a major threat to the United   States.</p>
<p>The violence in Mexico is severe. In the first two days of May, 25 people were <a href="http://www.alternet.org/rss/breaking_news/181170/drug_war_violence__sweeps_mexican_border_state,_25_dead/">killed</a> in Chihuahua, with several of the murders happening in Ciudad Juarez. As the month of May began, 62 people had been killed in the city over the previous week, bringing the total to 850 lives lost in that city alone in 2010. Last year, the Joint Forces Command <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479906,00.html">warned</a> that Mexico and Pakistan were the two countries most at risk of “rapid and sudden collapse.” There have been arrests of high-profile drug lords, but the violence and corruption continues.</p>
<p>The latest arrest of Mario Ernesto Villanueva Madrid revealed how deeply he had corrupted Mexican law enforcement. Documents captured after his arrest found that he was bribing those commanding the police and soldiers searching him, which explains how he was able to avoid capture for 11 years. The <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/world/americas/12mexico.html">described</a> Madrid as running “a sophisticated counterintelligence operation.” The drug lords are growing bolder, and instead of opening fire when they are pursued, they are now on the offensive. They are directly attacking the police, soldiers, and those serving the government.</p>
<p>Dr. Maria Velez de Berliner, the President of the <a href="http://www.lat-intel.com/">Latin Intelligence Corporation</a>, told FrontPage that the brutality of the Mexican drug lords now surpasses that of the Colombian drug traffickers, which is quite a feat.</p>
<p>“If this situation continues, the time will probably come when Mexico will replace Colombia as the largest producer and exporter of cocaine,” she said.</p>
<p>Now, it is known that the FARC is teaming up with the drug lords, offering a major source of income for their own operations and potentially providing the criminals with the military expertise they need to further destabilize Mexico. The FARC connection also gives Hugo Chavez the ability to covertly attack Mexico and the United States and gain intelligence. It also means that other terrorist groups that are connected to FARC or the drug lords have the ability to send arms and operatives into the U.S. if they are willing to pay for it.</p>
<p>The leader of the FARC until 2008, the late Raul Reyes, is now known to have written a letter to his top commanders confirming that a relationship with the Mexican drug lords existed. He was enthusiastic about the new partnership, saying it would allow them to double their profits. It is estimated that FARC already makes $1 billion annually through its work with drug lords. According to Michael Braum, a former operations chief for the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Mexican criminals <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/Mexican-drug-dealers-strengthen-ties-to-Colombia-terrorist-93988399.html">want</a> to buy “multiton quantities of cocaine directly from South America.”</p>
<p>Dr. Maria Velez de Berliner said that the “FARC is not interested in attacking the U.S, they don’t have the field capability to do so.” However, she warns that FARC’s business with other terrorists and drug traffickers does threaten the U.S.</p>
<p>Olavo de Carvalho, a philosopher from Brazil who has written extensively about the activity of the Marxists in Latin  America, agreed with her, saying that the FARC will not initiate military operations against the U.S. in the near-term.</p>
<p>“…but they can give strategic support to Mexican gangs operating in American territory, exactly as they did with several Brazilian gangs, transforming them from mere bunches of criminals into powerful and well-armed organizations. This is a serious and imminent threat,” he said.</p>
<p>The instability in Mexico is directly benefiting Hezbollah, which is now tied to the Venezuelan government and possibly the FARC. The smuggling routes used by the Mexican drug lords are being utilized by Hezbollah, using “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels,” <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/hezbollah-uses-mexican-drug-routes-into-us/">said</a> Braun. The terrorist group has a long history of engaging in drug trafficking in order to fundraise.</p>
<p>“They [Hezbollah] are doing the same thing in Latin  America that they are doing in the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon, and providing medical and social services,” Dr. de Berliner said.</p>
<p>She also mentioned that the FARC is working with Chinese gangs in the tri-border area of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. These gangs could potentially buy and upgrade the FARC’s semi-submersibles and use them in their human trafficking efforts, allowing them to potentially insert operatives into the U.S.</p>
<p>Al-Qaeda also will benefit from the FARC’s new ventures, and could conceivably pay them, or the Mexican drug lords, to help them smuggle in operatives. In fact, Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, Al-Shabaab, may have already done so as someone connected to the group oversaw the <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime/Feds-can_t-find-270-Somalis-they-say-Va_-man-illegally-helped-come-to-U_S_-84799152.html">smuggling</a> of 270 Somalis into the U.S. through Mexico.</p>
<p>FARC has already begun using Al-Qaeda members in West  Africa in order to deliver drugs to Europe. Three members of Al-Qaeda have been <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6034L920100104">arrested</a> in West  Africa and were extradited to the U.S. in December. The DEA’s director of South America’s Andean region says that “All of the aircraft seizures that have been made in West  Africa, and we’ve made about a half a dozen of them, had departed from Venezuela.”</p>
<p>The separatist Basque ETA terrorists of Spain have entered into an alliance with the FARC as well, an unsurprising development considering the hostile relationship between Spain and Venezuela. A Spanish court has charged a Venezuelan official and a dozen FARC and ETA members with terrorism-related offenses, and Venezuela is refusing to extradite the suspects.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/19/AR2010051905472.html">evidence</a> against them stems from seizures made by the Colombians that provided evidence that ETA members attended FARC camps from 2003 to 2008, located near Machiques in Venezuela. The ETA members provided explosives training for at least five FARC units, and two former FARC operatives have confirmed seeing ETA members training at their camps in 2008. The ETA members traveled with Venezuelan military officers, proving that Chavez’s government is involved in the relationship. This is a reminder that Chavez and other leaders often use the terrorists they support as a liaison with other groups, providing them with deniability.</p>
<p>The crisis in Mexico can not be seen in isolation. The worst enemies of the United   States and the West are seeing it as a platform with which to expand their own capabilities. The debate about how the open border facilitates illegal immigration must be modified, because the problem goes much further than that. Terrorist groups are using the strife in Mexico and the open border to fundraise and sneak their operatives into the U.S. as we speak.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 04:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Last week, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/238265" target="_blank">Newsweek</a> published yet another liberal opinion piece: Superficially but falsely even-handed, optimistic, pro-Arab and Muslim culture, pro-Judeo-Christian Western culture—safely middle-of-the-road. So “middle” that the reader does not really know what road she is on or where she is going. The journalist, Christopher Dickey, is writing about the new winner of the Miss America contest, Rima Fakih, who is an Arab-American Shiite Muslim with family roots in Lebanon.</p>
<p>And they say that Americans are “Islamophobic?”</p>
<p>Speaking out of all sides of his mouth, Dickey tells us that the French Cabinet has drafted an anti-burqa/anti-niqab law; that the new Miss America has been accused both of having “family ties to Hezbollah terrorists”—and of being too-sexy a pole dancer; that in 1985, Lebanon was filled with “bearded radicals holding Americans hostage at the Beirut airport in 1985” and, at the same time, with women “tanning in their bikinis at a beach club just a couple of miles away.”</p>
<p>This continues for another ten-eleven paragraphs. All things are true. Opposites exist. Contradictions abound. Therefore, nothing is true, there are no objective or universally moral truths. What exists is Dickey’s and the mainstream media’s point of view: He writes: “The fact is that most Arab and Muslim women, like people anywhere, are basically just trying to get by in the culture that’s been handed to them, looking to make a little space for their ambitions, take advantage of opportunities, and find freedom where they can.”</p>
<p>Does he include Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Islamic Jihad (in Palestine and Egypt), the Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jemaah Islamiya or the Islamist terrorists who perpetrated 9/11, 3/11, 7/7, 11/25 in this happy-go-lucky description of Muslims who are just like us? He mentions the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, but he does not seem truly worried about them. Alright, Dickey and his supporters might say: C’mon, these terrorists are national and supra-national players. They have hijacked the true, peaceful Islam and have nothing to do with the large majority of Muslims who are peaceful and pro-modernity. A good point—and I believe in supporting anti-Islamist Muslims: the dissidents, the feminists, the pro-democracy activists, the secularists, etc. Alas, they are an endangered minority both in the West and in their countries of origin.</p>
<p>But really, how can Dickey so totally overlook the local, indigenous, tribal, cultural, and/or religious customs that define Islamic gender apartheid? How about those Islamist men who throw <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8661387.stm" target="_blank">acid</a> into the faces of young Muslim schoolgirls because they are wearing their Islamic Veils improperly? How about those civilians who <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8661387.stm" target="_blank">honor-murder</a> their daughters, sisters, and wives when they refuse to wear the Islamic Veil, who dare to leave a dangerously abusive husband, who are seen as too “Western?”</p>
<p>Dickey avoids these questions entirely. Instead, he focuses upon the false moral equivalence between the burqa and the bikini. He quotes Amal Gandour, a Stanford-educated Shiite (unveiled) woman who says that “the very educated and professional—but veiled—woman in the southern suburbs of Beirut may have a stronger claim on the cosmopolitan vision than the bimbos with bare stomachs, big lips, and fake eyelashes walking downtown on Rue Foche.”</p>
<p>Just a minute. While I may not like the pornographication of the female body that has taken over Western culture, neither my family nor the state will ever force me to wear a bikini—or kill me if when I refuse to do so. Increasingly, the Islamic Veil has become either a life—or a death sentence for Muslim women. The veiling of women is also related to fundamentalism and terrorism. Bin Laden’s wives are all fully veiled. Follow the chador or the burqa, in Muslim lands and in the West, and soon enough, you will stumble upon an anti-infidel, anti-Zionist den of extreme haters or terrorists.</p>
<p>Dickey is right to say that “The real test of modernity, including our own, is tolerance.” But to suggest, as he does, that the more a person is willing to tolerate, the more modern you are, is just as mistaken as suggesting that the more nakedness you reveal, the more liberated you are. Tolerance and liberty without limits will eventually lead to their opposite.</p>
<p>When President Sarkozy calls the Islamic Veil a threat to France and to democracy, he may be exaggerating but he is also taking a legitimate moral stand. Dickey scoffs at French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie who insists that burqa wearers are “a threat to the values of the Republic and democracy.” Dickey finds it hard to “take her seriously.” Two thousand burqas in France (Dickey’s estimate) may not be an epidemic, but what Dickey misses is that this is the just the tip of the iceberg of Islamic misogyny. He also completely misses a larger truth: that burqas are a <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/07/02/should-america-ban-the-burqa/" target="_blank">health hazard</a> to women, a violation of their human and civil rights.</p>
<p>There may be many women like Rima Fakih in the Muslim World, but they are increasingly endangered. The once modern, educated, unveiled women of Turkey and Egypt have been <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/01/28/the-steady-erosion-of-womens-rights-in-egypt-a-photographic-story/" target="_blank">re-veiled</a>. The once emerging women of Afghanistan and Iran have been sent back to the tenth century. The women of Saudi Arabia have not yet left the seventh century—although some women are feminists and are actually <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=175779" target="_blank">fighting back</a> against the dreaded Muttawa’a, the religious “vice and virtue” police. Muslim girls and women in the West are veiling too—as if it’s a form of “resistance” against “Islamophobia” or a statement of jihad. Some are veiling in order to show solidarity with their family or religion and in order to remain marriageable—or simply in order to avoid being beaten or killed.</p>
<p>I am really tired of these politically correct multi-culturally relativist pieces on this important subject. And, I do understand that a) there is absolutely no religious imperative for Muslim girls and women to veil; b) a secular state ban against the burqa is as problematic as a family who forces a girl to veil against her will. And yet—we live in treacherous times. This is not the time to sue for the right to wear this barbaric, anti-woman clothing as if winning such a “lawfare” lawsuit represents a victory for freedom. This is the time to end the practice of veiling women on behalf of women’s freedom.</p>
<p>Clearly, this battle must begin in the West.</p>
<p>Mr. Dickey: You begin your article by asking: “Do clothes make the Muslim?” My answer: Buddhists don’t wear burqas. Mr. Dickey: The ball is now squarely in your court.</p>
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		<title>The Second Battle for Mogadishu</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Al-Qaeda resurrect the network it lost in Afghanistan?]]></description>
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<p>The U.S., European Union and their African allies are training and equipping the security forces of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government to try to take back the parts of Mogadishu now under the control of an Al-Qaeda affiliate. Large portions of the city, known to most Americans as the site of the 1993 ambush that prompted the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country, is controlled by the al-Shabaab terrorist group. Should Al-Qaeda and its allies succeed in seizing Somalia, they will be able to resurrect the network they lost in Afghanistan and activate their Somali networks in the West to deadly effect.</p>
<p>Recent incidents show the terrifying reach of al-Shabaab. An individual in Virginia named Anthony Joseph Tracy that admits having contact with the terrorist group is known to have <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Feds-can_t-find-Somalis-they-say-Va_-man-smuggled-into-U_S_-90381114.html">smuggled</a> 270 Somalis into the U.S., all of whom are believed to remain in the country and have proven extremely difficult to identify. It is improbable that al-Shabaab would use its resources to sneak random Somalis into the country. The odds are that these are their recruits and they are being used to establish sleeper cells in our midst. Considering that less than 20 terrorists were needed to execute 9/11, the number of nearly 300 could have catastrophic consequences.</p>
<p>A law enforcement report <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/Somalis-with-terrorist-links-feared-headed-to-U_S_-border-89954247.html">reveals</a> that 23 Somalis suspected of being connected to al-Shabaab were arrested in Mexico early in the year as they planned to enter the United States. The Mexican authorities released the group on January 21, despite the fact that only 16 had been identified. One of those arrested was Mohamed Osman Noor, a member of al-Shabaab. It is not clear why the Mexicans released them but it is more than likely that the Somalis made their trip to the U.S. as they intended, albeit a little later than they had hoped.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab has had great success in recruiting among the Somali communities in the West, many of whom have arrived under refugee programs meant to help those in the war-torn country. About 20 Somali-Americans have disappeared from the Minneapolis area alone and are assumed to have joined al-Shabaab’s ranks, at least six of whom have died in Somalia. The first American citizen to become a suicide bomber, Shirwa Ahmed, killed himself and as many as 30 others in Somalia in October 2008. Fourteen Americans have been charged for their involvement in al-Shabaab’s recruiting and transporting of Somali-Americans. This Al-Qaeda affiliate’s infrastructure in the West, particularly in the United States, is undoubtedly expansive, sophisticated, and successful.</p>
<p>In November 2007, terrorism expert Patrick Poole <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33399">wrote</a> that “…there exists an active recruiting and transportation network in the U.S., including Minneapolis, for Somali-run terrorist training camps, many of which have recently reopened. In many instances, these same Somali leaders purporting ignorance and innocence for the local media are not only aware of these recruiting operations, but have actively participated in them.”</p>
<p>At least five Somalis from Canada disappeared and probably <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/737965--did-five-torontonians-join-jihad-in-somalia">joined</a> al-Shabaab in November 2009, and <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5741300.ece">dozens</a> of Somalis in the United   Kingdom have gone to their homeland for training and returned back. A Somali member of al-Shabaab is <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/01/danish.cartoon.break.in/index.html">charged</a> with trying to murder the Danish cartoonist who authored a degrading picture of Mohammed. This month, the Kenyan authorities <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Escaped%20man%20a%20key%20al%20Shabaab%20sponsor/-/1056/886126/-/x1xeyl/-/index.html">arrested</a> a Somali-Australian believed to be involved in an al-Shabaab terrorist plot in Australia but was accidentally released. Last August, the Australians arrested four suspected al-Shabaab terrorists believed to be planning attacks, some of whom had fought in Somalia.</p>
<p>Somalis have been captured in Saudi Arabia and Yemen after linking up with the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels, and Al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen are <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20001978-10391695.html">reinforcing</a> al-Shabaab in Somalia. In this way, Yemen and Somalia can be compared to Afghanistan and Pakistan, as progress in one is offset by the harbor available on the other side. The increasing role of al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen in ongoing terrorist operations make an aggressive effort on both ends imperative.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab currently controls southern Somalia and large portions of Mogadishu. Absent extensive aid to the forces of the Transitional Federal Government and militias like the Sunnah Wal Jama that are fighting them, Al-Qaeda will win the battle of Mogadishu and take control of Somalia. It is well within al-Shabaab’s capability to authorize attacks inside the United States, Canada and Europe, especially in light of the new revelation that one of their partners has smuggled in 270 Somalis into the U.S. The question is why they haven’t. It’s possible that they fear that doing so will expose their networks in the U.S., or that they don’t want to provoke the West into intervening further in Somalia.</p>
<p>It is unclear why al-Shabaab has not tried to perpetrate an attack in America yet, but it is clear that they have the capability and that capability will dramatically expand as they conquer Somalia. Al-Shabaab has pledged its allegiance to Al-Qaeda, and they fully intend to use their networks to carry out the follow-up attacks on America that Bin Laden has thus far been unable to. If Somalia falls to Al-Qaeda and its affiliates, then it will be their biggest victory since 9/11.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 witnessed a frightening spike in homegrown terrorist activity.]]></description>
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<p>If a major homegrown terrorist attack happens on U.S. soil in the coming years, 2009 will be looked at as the year when the warning signs were missed. According to the Rand Corporation, the U.S. has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580173,00.html">experienced</a> 30 homegrown terrorism plots since 9/11. One-third of these occurred in 2009; a frightening spike that warrants more attention than it is currently being given by public officials.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration began its term by refusing to include terms like “radical Islam” as part of its lexicon. The Global War on Terrorism was alternatively <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032402818.html">called</a> an “overseas contingency operation” or “a <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0309/The_artist_formerly_known_as_GWOT.html">campaign</a> against extremists who wish to do us harm.”</p>
<p>The Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509597,00.html">described</a> terrorism as a “man-caused disaster. When asked about not even mentioning the word “terrorism” in her first address to Congress, she said, “That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear towards a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.”</p>
<p>The homegrown terrorist activity this year has startled the Obama Administration, which now is forced to privately <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-us-radicalization7-2009dec07,0,3941551.story?track=rss">conclude</a> that the radicalization of American-Muslims is increasing.</p>
<p>In today’s 30-second news culture, shocking incidents such as these quickly fade away as the topic of coverage as other news develops. A summary of some of the biggest incidents this year is needed for the American people to understand how much activity took place:</p>
<p>* In May, authorities broke up a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520908,00.html">plot</a> by four prison converts to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and fire Stinger missiles at aircraft flying around the Air National Guard base in Newburgh,  New York.</p>
<p>* On June 1, a Muslim convert <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520908,00.html">shot</a> up a military recruiting center in Arkansas, killing one soldier and wounding another. The attacker, Abdulhakim Muhammad, was previously jailed in Yemen for traveling on a fraudulent Somali passport. Robert Spencer of JihadWatch.org <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35094">reported</a> that a “well-placed source” informed him that he had gone to Yemen to try to study under a radical cleric named Yahya Hajoori.</p>
<p>* In July, seven Muslims were <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/28/nation/na-terrorism-arrests28">arrested</a> in North Carolina for training with high-powered weapons in preparation to join a jihad overseas. The leader of the group, Daniel Patrick Boyd, had previously trained in guerilla camps in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and enlisted his two sons in his plans.</p>
<p>* In September, FBI and local law enforcement <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,555340,00.html">raided</a> two apartments owned by Afghans in New York after the occupants were visited by Najibullah Zazi, a suspected terrorist who had traveled to an Al-Qaeda training camp last year. Nine backpacks and cell phones were confiscated, and Zazi was found to have purchased chemicals similar to those used in the 2005 London subway bombings, causing concern that the suspects were planning an attack styled after that operation.</p>
<p>* Also in September, FBI sting operations led to the arrest of two desiring to carry out acts of terror. A Jordanian named Michael Finton, an admirer of the “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/us/28springfield.html">arrested</a> for planning to set off car bombs outside of a courthouse in Illinois and a skyscraper in Texas. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/25/texas.terror.arrest/index.html">arrested</a> in Texas after trying to detonate a decoy car bomb underneath an office tower.</p>
<p>* In October, the FBI tried to arrest a radical imam in Detroit connected to a range of criminal activity. When they arrived at a warehouse to get Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, he <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125677249132814537.html">responded</a> with gunfire, killing one of the FBI’s dogs before he was shot and killed. Six of his associates were arrested. In the same month, Tarek Mehanna was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/22terror.html">arrested</a> in Boston for planning to attack a shopping mall and assassinate two public officials.</p>
<p>* The next month, Nidal Malik Hassan carried out the horrific shooting at Fort Hood, killing 13 people. He is now known to have previously expressed his support for suicide bombers and to have communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam in Yemen who has acted as a recruiter for Al-Qaeda and praised Hassan’s shooting. <em>To this day, President Obama and senior officials have not publicly described the incident as terrorism.</em></p>
<p>* Most recently, five Americans were <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/10/world/main5959772.shtml?tag=stack">arrested</a> in Pakistan on their way to link up with the Al-Qaeda and Taliban. They were arrested at the home of a member of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group, who is the uncle to one of the suspects.</p>
<p>These are only some of the major incidents related to radical Islamic activity in the U.S. that occurred this year. A total of 14 Somali-Americans from Minnesota have been <a href="../2009/12/07/the-threat-at-home-by-ryan-mauro/">indicted</a> for helping to recruit fellow members of their community to join the Al-Shabaab terrorist group fighting for control of Somalia. The case of <a href="http://www.rifqabary.com/">Rifqa Bary</a> received considerable attention, as did the honor <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2009/11/02/20091102noor1102-CR-CP.html">killing</a> in Arizona of a daughter by her father for being “too Westernized.”</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.christianaction.org/">Christian Action Network</a>, where I serve as a national security researcher, released the “Homegrown Jihad” documentary in February about the isolated communities in the U.S. run by a radical Islamic group used as paramilitary training and recruitment centers. A new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebg6AFylios">tape</a> provided to me as part of CAN’s investigation into the group called “Muslims of the Americas” shows female recruits of the organization receiving such training at their headquarters in New York called “Islamberg.”</p>
<p>The media is failing to compile all these events and see the frightening increase that the Obama Administration is now admitting exists. When the problem is mentioned, the ideological component is not discussed or is misunderstood. On December 12, Kimberly Dozier <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/12/14/cbs-anti-muslim-propaganda-blame-u-s-homegrown-terrorism">reported</a> on the Obama Administration’s realization regarding the problem on CBS Evening News, but attributed the rise in homegrown terrorism to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying they were “portrayed by the militants as America’s war on Islam.”</p>
<p>Dozier also said that “Muslim community leaders here say young people are also being driven to extremes by post-9/11 anti-Muslim propaganda” and cited the Council on American-Islamic Relations as saying that civil rights complaints by Muslims have increased by ten percent in 2009, attempting to draw a connection between bigotry against Muslims and homegrown terrorism. If Dozier had done her research on her source, she would have found that the view of the War on Terror as a war on Islam that she says is causing the increase in homegrown terrorism is actually <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/632/cair-portrays-war-on-terrorism-as-malicious-war-on-islam">promoted</a> by CAIR.</p>
<p>2009 should put to rest the idea that any homegrown terrorist plot is an isolated incident. The participants in these plots might not be operationally connected, but a political-religious ideology binds them together. The fight for the home front continues into 2010.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing trend among Somali immigrants in the West.]]></description>
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<p>As the United States turns its attention to security threats abroad, the disturbing trend of extremism in America’s Somali communities is a reminder that there are also real and present dangers at home.</p>
<p>A growing body of evidence suggests that Somali communities in the Unites States have become fertile ground for terrorist groups to recruit and implant operatives. On November 23, the federal government <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/23/us/AP-US-Missing-Somalis.html">announced</a> eight more indictments of Somali-Americans in Minnesota on charges of recruiting members of their community to join the al-Shabaab terrorist organization in Somalia. This brings to 14 the number of Somalis from Minnesota who have been indicted for helping the Al-Qaeda-linked group.</p>
<p>Of the eight indicted, only one has been arrested; the rest are currently outside of the United States. Four of those previously arrested have pled guilty and two have been released while they wait to be tried. The government believes that about 20 Somali-Americans have left the state to join al-Shabaab’s jihad in Somalia, at least three of whom have <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575850,00.html">died</a> since departing. One, Shirwa Ahmed, died when he became the first American suicide bomber.</p>
<p>Several of those indicted attended the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in St. Paul, as did many of those who were recruited. The mosque released a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529796,00.html">statement</a> in March saying that “Abubakar Center didn’t recruit, finance, or otherwise facilitate in any way, shape, or form the travel of those youth.”</p>
<p>Somali gangs are also becoming an issue in Minnesota. Shukri Adan, a former Somali community organizer, said in 2007 that there 400-500 members of his community were involved in gangs. <em>The Associated Press</em> <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/-muslim-gangs-get-foothold-in-minnesota-.html">reported</a> in July that</p>
<blockquote><p>“Despite anger and despair over the killings in Minnesota’s Somali community—the nation’s largest—police and prosecutors have struggled to catch and try the killers. Few witnesses have stepped forward because of a fear of reprisal and deep-rooted distrust of authority.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The concern over extremist elements in the Somali community is not limited to Minnesota. The FBI is <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&amp;pageId=98997">worried</a> about the community of 6,000 living in the Washington D.C. area. The Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, which was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573050,00.html">attended</a> by two of the 9/11 hijackers and the Fort Hood shooter, has many Somali attendees. The former imam of the mosque has acted as an Al-Qaeda recruiter and may be part of the group’s <a href="http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/awlakishebab1208.pdf">efforts</a> to help al-Shabaab. The FBI’s investigation into disappearing Somalis who may have joined the terrorist group <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509839,00.html">includes</a> Seattle, Columbus, Cicinnati, Boston and San Diego.</p>
<p>Brian Moseley, a reporter for the <em>Shelbyville Times-Gazette</em>, won an award for documenting of the inability of Somali immigrants in Shelbyville, Tennessee, to assimilate, causing a culture clash in the town. Moseley <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/15124/sec_id/15124">described</a> how law enforcement and fire department personnel had described to him how the immigrants were hostile to them, and how police officers were often reluctant to patrol areas where they live when it is dark. I also broke a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=97946">story</a> in May about how counter-terrorism expert Dave Gaubatz and his researchers had found extremist material at a mostly Somali mosque in Nashville. Gaubatz and his team collected evidence of child abuse and accused the Department of Child Services of failing to act.</p>
<p>A similar clash was caught on tape when on June 27, 2009 a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfW9inRkTpU">video</a> was uploaded to YouTube showing about 15 Somali youth harassing and throwing rocks at a homosexual man leaving the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis.</p>
<p>Terrorism researcher Patrick Poole <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/homeland_security_snoozes_whil/">wrote</a> in November 2007 that an organization tied to radical Islamic militants in Somalia was holding conferences in Falls Church and Minneapolis, where those attending were instructed on how to send money overseas without being detected. Poole <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33399">wrote</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“…there exists an active recruiting and transportation network in the U.S., including Minneapolis, for Somali-run terrorist training camps, many of which have recently reopened. In many instances, these same Somali leaders purporting ignorance and innocence for the local media are not only aware of these recruiting operations, but have actively participated in them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Al-Shabaab’s ranks have been swelled by the addition of non-Somalis. The president of Somalia’s government has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/02/fbi-director-al-qaeda-linked-somali-group-attack/">said</a> that up to 1,100 foreign terrorists have joined the group, which now is operating training camps in the East African country. The terrorist group has a wide international network and its training of foreign operatives means it has sympathizers willing to act in the West.</p>
<p>One Somali-American from Minneapolis was <a href="http://www1.voanews.com/somali/news/news-makers-in-english/Somali-Man-Arrested-in-the-Netherlands-on-Terrorism-Charges-69769692.html">arrested</a> in November in the Netherlands for financing the transportation of American recruits to Somalia. Up to five Somalis living in Canada <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2230011">disappeared</a> in November as well and are believed to have traveled together to their homeland via Kenya. Previously, a Toronto-based businessman was killed in 2008 after he joined Somali terrorists fighting Ethiopian troops who had invaded the country to stop extremists from coming to power. British intelligence has <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5741300.ece">said</a> that dozens of people have gone to Somalia and received terrorist training and returned to the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab has taken large control over large swaths of territory, including parts of Mogadishu, potentially allowed Al-Qaeda to replicate the safe harbor and reverse some of its most major losses since the war in Afghanistan began. Already, Somalia is being used as a base to export terrorism. Saudi Arabia has <a href="http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/22531.htm">captured</a> Somalis that were helping the extremist Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and were planning attacks in the Kingdom.</p>
<p>Of course, not all Somalis are sympathizers with extremism. There has been outrage in the Somali community over these developments. On June 11, Somali-Americans in Minneapolis <a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/47883727.html?elr=KArksUUUU">protested</a> the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which they accused of encouraging members of their community not to cooperate with the government’s investigation. The <a href="http://terrorfreesomalia.blogspot.com/">Terror-Free Somalia Foundation</a>, which closely tracks events related to al-Shabaab, is led by Abdurahman Warsame, a Somali-American activist.</p>
<p>The failure to integrate these Somali immigrants into American society is causing strife and has proved to be an asset to al-Shabaab. The majority of the immigrants oppose such extremism. But it doesn’t take many sympathizers to create a network of support for terrorists. The current focus of al-Shabaab is Somalia, but when the day comes that they change their focus to the U.S., they will have American recruits ready for action.</p>
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