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		<title>Taliban School Slaughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamic child sacrifice reaches grisly new low in Pakistan. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/635543241836764189-AP-Pakistan-002.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247656" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/635543241836764189-AP-Pakistan-002-450x316.jpg" alt="635543241836764189-AP-Pakistan-002" width="313" height="220" /></a>The mind-numbing savagery of radical Islam plumbed new depths in Pakistan yesterday. Taliban terrorists shouting &#8220;Allahu akbar&#8221; <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/pakistan-school-massacre/pakistan-school-attack-taliban-militants-kill-more-140-peshawar-n269011"><span style="color: #1255cc;">attacked</span></a> the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar, slaughtering 142 people, including 132 children <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/taliban-storms-pakistani-military-school-kills-20-students-article-1.2046714"><span style="color: #1255cc;">between</span></a> the ages of six and 16. Another 10 staff members, including the principal, were also murdered. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t take any hostages initially and started firing in the hall,” said Maj. Gen. Asim Bajwa, a military spokesman.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The details of the slaughter are horrific. “We were in the education hall when militants barged in, shooting,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/world/asia/taliban-attack-pakistani-school.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> Zeeshan, a student, speaking at a hospital. “Our instructor asked us to duck and lay down and then I saw militants walking past rows of students shooting them in the head.” Another student confirmed those shootings. &#8220;The gunmen entered class by class and shot some kids one by one,” he told local media. Jamshed Khan, a school bus driver, also described the scene. &#8220;We were standing outside the school and firing suddenly started and there was chaos everywhere and the screams of children and teachers,” he said.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peshawar-school-attack-taliban-burn-teacher-alive-front-pupils-behead-children-1479767?">According</a></span> to the <i>International Business Times</i>, the Taliban monsters allegedly stooped even lower to satisfy their bloodlust. &#8220;They burnt a teacher in front of the students in a classroom,&#8221; an unnamed military source revealed. &#8220;They literally set the teacher on fire with gasoline and made the kids watch.” Moreover, Pakistani officials revealed that many of the dead children brought to the hospital had their heads chopped off.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The assault began around 11 a.m. local time (1 a.m. EST)  when <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30491435"><span style="color: #1255cc;">seven terrorists</span></a> wearing police uniforms and suicide vests scaled the wall of the school. They immediately began lobbing hand grenades and shooting indiscriminately at a time when approximately 1,000 of the school’s 2,500 male and female students in grades one through 10 were in attendance. The siege lasted more than eight hours, with Pakistani security forces forced to deal with five “heavy” explosions heard around 5 a.m. EST, in a seeming attempt to hinder rescue efforts. All seven attackers were ultimately killed, with the <i>Daily News</i> reporting that once they were finally cornered by Pakistani commandos &#8220;they blew themselves up rather than surrender.&#8221; A sweep of the compound for additional explosives was subsequently undertaken.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">An unnamed security official illuminated the one and only objective of these savage thugs. “These attackers were not in the mood to take hostages,” he said. “They were there to kill and this is what they did.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The killers <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2014/12/126-dead-in-taliban-attack-on-school-hundreds-of-children-held-hostage.html/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">were</span></a> part of the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) group, a Pakistani terrorist organization attempting to over throw the Pakistani government, and the same group to which wannabe 2010 Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad belonged. TTP spokesman Mohammed Khurasani <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/807564/gunmen-target-school-in-peshawar/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> the Karachi-based <i>Express Tribune</i> the attack was an act of revenge. “We selected the army’s school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females,” he said, referring to Pakistan’s ongoing military offensive taking place on the Afghan border. “We want them to feel the pain.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Gen. Bajwa confirmed that almost all of the children killed belonged to members of the Pakistani military. Army chief of staff General Raheel Sharif called the killers “inhuman beasts.” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who arrived in Peshawar where authorities have declared a three-day mourning period, promised certain reprisal. “Those behind the heinous act will not be spared,” he vowed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Sharif also announced a meeting of all government parties scheduled for today. Its comes amidst political turbulence orchestrated by opposition leader Imran Khan whose political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), controls the provincial government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Khan has led a series of protests in a effort to unseat Sharif, because he believes the Prime Minister’s supporters rigged the 2013 election, and because he disagrees with the army’s ongoing effort against terrorists in tribal areas. That effort, known as Operation Zarb-e-Azb, has killed approximately 1,800 terrorists operating in North Waziristan, an epicenter of Taliban terrorist activity. And while public support for that campaign has been described as “lukewarm,” due to what by government policy-makers attribute to &#8220;lack of consensus&#8221; and &#8220;large pockets of sympathy” for terrorists, Khan&#8217;s belief the government should negotiate with the terrorists instead of fighting them has garnered considerable criticism.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unfortunately, he is not alone in that regard. The same day President Obama insisted the Taliban had &#8220;once again shown their depravity,&#8221; Breitbart News <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/12/16/Obama-2012-My-Administration-is-Negotiating-With-The-Taliban"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revealed</span></a> a statement made in 2012 by Obama at Bagram Airfield Base, home of the U.S. Air Forces Central Command in Afghanistan. &#8220;We&#8217;re pursuing a negotiated peace. In coordination with the Afghan government my administration has been in direct discussions with the Taliban &#8230; Many members of the Taliban, from foot soldiers to leaders, have indicated an interest in reconciliation,” he said at the time.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The BBC wonders whether this heinous attack will constitute a “watershed” moment for the Pakistani government. Americans might be forgiven for wondering the same thing with regard to the Obama administration.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Other world leaders issued forceful condemnations of the slaughter. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon referred to it as &#8220;an act of horror and rank cowardice.” British Prime Minister David Cameron characterized it as “deeply shocking,” adding that it was “horrifying that children are being killed simply for going to school.<i>” </i>Indian prime minister Narendra Modi called it “cowardly,” and a &#8220;senseless act of unspeakable brutality that has claimed lives of the most innocent of human beings&#8211;young children in their school.”<i> </i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nobel Prize winner<i> </i><a href="http://www.dailyworth.com/posts/3014-10-fast-facts-about-malala-yousafzai"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Malala Yousafzai</span></a>, the young girl shot in the head by would-be Taliban assassins in 2012 when she was only 15, also added her voice to the mix. “Innocent children in their school have no place in horror such as this,” she said in a statement. “I, along with millions of others around the world, mourn these children, my brothers and sisters — but we will never be defeated.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Pakistan has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/pakistan-taliban-peshawar-massacre-attack"><span style="color: #1255cc;">already responded</span></a> to the tragedy. Gen. Shariff tweeted that “massive air strikes” had been carried out in the Khyber region of the country, and Sharif insisted that Operation Zarb-e-Azb &#8220;will continue until the terrorism is rooted out from our land.” The latest attack is part of a bloody track record in a nation where 50,000 people have been killed by terrorist violence in the past 13 years.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Devastated parent Tahir Ali expressed the grief undoubtedly shared by every parent victimized by this brutality. &#8220;My son was in uniform in the morning, he is in a casket now,” Ali said. “My son was my dream. My dream has been killed.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One would hope the world’s denial about radical Islam, pockmarked by occasional outbursts of horror whenever the next atrocity occurs, will suffer the same fate. We are two days removed from the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lindt-chocolat-cafe-hostage-drama-in-martin-place-sydney-20141215-1278cx.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">attack</span></a> in Sydney, one of many where the mainstream media and feckless politicians seek the false comfort of the “lone wolf” theory that amounts to nothing more than a willful refusal to connect the dots.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">An Obama administration that refers to the war on terror as “an overseas contingency operation” and applauds the conclusions of a one-sided report denigrating the CIA, hardly inspires confidence that the status quo will change. Thus, the only question is when the next horrific atrocity will occur. Should Americans have confidence that it won&#8217;t be in their own shopping malls, train stations, airports and city squares? The answer is a clear &#8220;no.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Islam: Built on the Blood of (Christian Child) Martyrs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISIS's gruesome crimes against Christian children who refuse to renounce Jesus. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/450667614.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246752" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/450667614-450x350.jpg" alt="IRAQ-UNREST-CHRISTIANS" width="359" height="279" /></a>In a recent interview on CBN News, Andrew White, an Anglican priest known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” <a href="http://www.cbn.com/tv/3879370412001"><span style="color: #0433ff;">tried to recount</span></a> the horrific atrocities Christians in Iraq are suffering at the hands of the Islamic State.  After explaining how Christian minorities fled Baghdad to Ninevah when Islamic militants began terrorizing them and bombing their churches, White said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Then one day, ISIS, the Islamic State, the Islamic caliphate came [to Ninevah] and they hounded all of them [Christians] out.   Not some, <i>all</i> of them.  And they killed huge numbers.  They chopped their children in half; they chopped their heads off.</p></blockquote>
<p>It should be noted that the targeting of Christian children in Iraq goes back years before the creation of ISIS.  For example, in June 2008, a Canadian parliamentary committee heard about how “militant Muslims” were <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=e7649576-0ebe-4b4f-b803-9a2c64449c41"><span style="color: #0433ff;">crucifying Christian children</span></a>: “Since the war began in 2003, about 12 children, many as young as 10, have been kidnapped and killed, then nailed to makeshift crosses near their homes to terrify and torment their parents.”</p>
<p>During his interview, White offered the following, likely surreal to Western sensibilities, anecdote:</p>
<blockquote><p>ISIS turned up and they said to the [Christian] children, “You say the words [<i>shehada</i>, convert to Islam], that you will follow Muhammad.”  And the children, all under 15, four of them, they said, “No, we love Jesus [Yesua].  We have always loved Jesus.  We have always followed Jesus.  Jesus has always been with us.”  They [ISIS] said, “Say the words!”  They [children] said, “No, we can’t.”  [White starts sobbing] They chopped all their heads off.  How do you respond to that?  You just cry.  They’re my children.   That is what we have been going through.  That is what we <i>are</i> going through.</p></blockquote>
<p>As callous as it is to say, perhaps these faithful children are better off.  After all, ISIS members have been known to compel Christians to convert to Islam, and <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/muslims-hack-off-christian-mans-head-after-forcing-him-to-deny-jesus-christ-and-salute-mohammed-as-messenger-of-god-124300/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">still cruelly hack their heads off</span></a>—thus damning them twice.</p>
<p>Similarly, in one of his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/apbw2/posts/10152620972646369"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Facebook postings</span></a>, White wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Today’s Pictures are too awful to show.  You know I love to show photos but the photo I was sent today was the most awful I have ever seen.  A family of 8 all shot through the face laying in a pool of blood with their Bible open on the couch. They would not convert it cost them their life.</p></blockquote>
<p>During his CBN interview, White also told of how ISIS members came to a Christian man saying, “Either you convert to Islam or we kill all your children.”  The desperate father declared the words, the <i>shehada</i>, that “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” thus becoming a Muslim.  Contrite at heart, he phoned White crying, “Abouna, abouna [father, father] I said the words! Does that mean Jesus doesn’t love me anymore?  I’ve always loved Jesus but I said those words because I couldn’t see my children being killed!”</p>
<p>White responded: “No Elias, Jesus still loves you—he will always love you.”</p>
<p>The two types of anecdotes offered by White—Christians refusing to embrace Islam and dying for it, and Christians embracing Islam under duress—are an integral part of how the “Islamic world,” the majority of which was almost entirely Christian before <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-historical-reality-of-the-muslim-conquests/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Islamic conquests</span></a>, came into being: a historic fact Western people were once well acquainted with, before the current age of <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/surreal-and-suicidal-modern-western-histories-of-islam/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">political correctness and alternate realities</span></a>.</p>
<p>A <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=8uo0335b22a5238f94f758d049b0b4b588290#bookmark="><span style="color: #0433ff;">historic anecdote</span></a> that combines the twain—forced conversion to Islam followed by Christian remorse—comes from Egypt:</p>
<blockquote><p>In 1389, a great procession of Copts who had accepted Muhammad under fear of death, marched through Cairo.  Repenting of their apostasy, they now wished to atone for it by the inevitable consequence of returning to Christianity. So as they marched, they announced that they believed in Christ and renounced Muhammad. They were seized and all the men were beheaded one after another in an open square before the women. But this did not terrify the women; so they, too, were all martyred. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Crucified Again</i></span></a>, pgs. 113-114)</p></blockquote>
<p>First forced to convert and then forced to remain in Islam—both on pain of death: these are two facts of Islam, past and present; facts that, according to top ranking Islamic cleric Sheikh Qaradawi are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huMu8ihDlVA"><span style="color: #0433ff;">responsible for the existence of Islam today</span></a>.  Just ask  Sudan’s <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islam-appalling-and-abhorrent-in-the-eyes-of-a-blind-world/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Meriam Ibrahim</span></a>, Egypt’s <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/christian-convert-illegally-imprisoned-and-tortured-begins-hunger-strike/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muhammad Hegazy</span></a>, or Iran’s (rather America’s forsaken) Saeed Abedini.</p>
<p>Aside from the numerous historic accounts of Christians slaughtered for refusing Islam—whether <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-importance-of-witnesses-newly-translated-georgian-christian-martyrdoms-expose-islamic-jihad-continuity/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">100,000 Georgian beheaded or burned alive</span></a>, or a <a href="http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/how-the-800-martyrs-of-otranto-saved-rome"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“mere” 813 Italians beheaded</span></a>—Christians are still being forced to convert to Islam, and not just at the hands of ISIS:</p>
<p>•Palestine, July 2012: Christians in Gaza protested over the “<a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=8uo0335b22a5238f94f758d049b0b4b588290#bookmark=http://global.christianpost.com/news/christians-say-forced-conversions-to-islam-happening-in-gaza-79011/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">kidnappings and forced conversions of some former believers to Islam</span></a>.”  The ever-dwindling Christian community banged on a church bell <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=8uo0335b22a5238f94f758d049b0b4b588290#bookmark=http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/07/16/christians-in-gaza-protesting-forced-conversions-to-islam/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">while chanting</span></a>, “With our spirit, with our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Jesus.”</p>
<p>•Pakistan:  In 2004,<a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=8uo0335b22a5238f94f758d049b0b4b588290#bookmark=http://www.fides.org/en/news/35368-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Women_in_Pakistan_Christian_girls_raped_by_Muslims"><span style="color: #0433ff;"> a-two-year old child was raped because her Christian father “refused to convert to Islam</span></a>.”  Another “devoted Christian” was <a href="http://www.persecution.org/2010/03/23/muslims-murder-pakistani-christian-with-axe-blows/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">butchered by Muslim men</span></a> “with multiple axe blows [24 per autopsy] for refusing to convert to Islam.” In April 2014, A Muslim security guard <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/family-of-christian-shot-dead-in-pakistan-doubts-suicide-claim/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">murdered a Christian worker who refused to convert to Islam</span></a>.</p>
<p>•Uganda, July 2014: After a gang of Muslims brandishing machetes stormed a church during service, <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christian-teenager-killed-by-machete-in-attack-on-church-in-Uganda.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hacking one 18-year-old woman to death</span></a> and leaving three others, including a one-year-old baby, injured, the pastor explained that the attackers belong to a local “group of Muslims” which seeks “to transform [Christian-majority] Uganda into an Islamic nation and would kill anyone who refused to convert.”</p>
<p>•Nigeria, May 2014: A Christian teenage girl told of how Boko Haram came to her household and slaughtered her father and brother <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/christian-teen-whose-dad-brother-slain-boko-haram-was-denied-us-visa"><span style="color: #0433ff;">because they refused to convert to Islam</span></a>.  After abusing her, they tied her up and left her in a state of shock between the two corpses.</p>
<p>•Bangladesh, October 2013:  After shutting down the construction of a church, a local government official threatened Christians with eviction from their village unless they renounced their faith and <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/41264-bangladeshi-christians-told-to-close-church-convert-to-islam"><span style="color: #0433ff;">embraced Islam</span></a>.  Said one of the Christians: “Their threats chilled me to the bone. That is why I pretended to accept Islam, but faith in Christ is the wellspring of my life.” Another said: “The chairman is clipping the wings of our faith. I do not know how long we can grin and bear it. We want religious freedom. We want to practice our religion freely.”</p>
<p>•Russia, 2013: In Tatarstan, a Muslim-majority republic in Russia, seven churches were burned and “<a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Russia:-seven-churches-burned-in-one-year-in-Tatarstan-29713.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">increased pressure on Christians to convert to Islam</span></a>” was widespread.</p>
<p>•Uzbekistan, August 2012: A 26-year-old Christian woman, partially paralyzed from youth, and her elderly mother were violently attacked by invaders who ransacked their home, confiscating “icons, Bibles, religious calendars, and prayer books.” At the police department, the paralyzed woman was “<a href="http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&amp;cid=3&amp;nid=20659"><span style="color: #0433ff;">offered to convert to Islam</span></a>.” She refused and was accordingly fined almost two years’ worth of her wages.</p>
<p>Pakistan, Uganda, Russia, Nigeria, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh: these are not “ISIS.”  Yet Christians there are experiencing the same intolerance and violence that Christians under ISIS are experiencing.</p>
<p>The lesson?  If all around the Muslim world Christian minorities are being forced to embrace Islam, the very least the non-Muslim world can do is embrace the fact that <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-koran-and-eternal-war/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islam is inherently hostile</span></a>—a costly lesson that countless innocents have been paying for nearly 1,400 years.</p>
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		<title>More Beheadings, More Denial</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many more will feel the blade at their necks before Obama and the rest embrace reality?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/67035_54_news_hub_60072_588x448.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245410" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/67035_54_news_hub_60072_588x448-450x342.jpg" alt="67035_54_news_hub_60072_588x448" width="338" height="257" /></a>All you have to do is change the name of the victim, and this could be a story from August, or September, or October: the Islamic State has beheaded yet another hostage, this time Peter Kassig, aka Abdul-Rahman Kassig, and Barack Obama has declared yet again that the beheading has nothing to do with Islam. Obama might as well have a form ready for the next jihad beheading or mass murder attack: all he will have to do is fill in the blank and then take to the airwaves to say that the latest bloodshed has nothing to do with Islam. If the victims are British, he can lend his form to David Cameron.</p>
<p>But all this repeating of the political elites’ “Islam is peace” meme will never make it so. And the constant repetition of this falsehood is doing nothing less than endangering Americans. It keeps people ignorant who might otherwise get a clear idea of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat. It fosters complacency. It makes all too many Americans assume that this kind of behavior is restricted to the “extremists” of the Islamic State, and could never happen here.</p>
<p>It could happen here. It could happen anywhere that people read the phrase “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4) as if it were a command of the Creator of the Universe. But to point out that simple and obvious fact nowadays only brings down upon one’s head charges of “hatred” and of “demonizing all Muslims,” when in a sane society it would bring honest explanations from Muslims of good will of what they were doing to ensure that no Muslim ever acted on that verse’s literal meaning.</p>
<p>In reality, they’re doing nothing. No Muslim organization, mosque or school in the United States has any program to teach young Muslims and converts to Islam why they should avoid and reject on Islamic grounds the vision of Islam – and of unbelievers – that the Islamic State and other jihad groups offer them. This is extremely strange, given the fact that all the Muslim organizations, mosques and schools in the United States ostensibly reject this understanding of Islam. And even stranger is that no American authorities seem to have noticed the absence of such initiatives, much less dared to call out Muslim groups about this.</p>
<p>On the contrary, instead of calling on Muslim groups to take some action to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/obama-islamic-states-actions-represent-no-faith-least-of-all-the-muslim-faith-which-abdul-rahman-adopted-as-his-own"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obama’s latest denial</span></a> was even more strenuous in its dissociation of the beheading from Islam: “ISIL’s actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own.”</p>
<p>“Least of all”! As if it were possible that the Islamic State’s actions represented Buddhism, or Methodism, or Christian Science, or the Hardshell Baptists, or the Mandaeans, to greater or lesser degrees, but the most far-fetched association one could make, out of all the myriad faiths people hold throughout the world, would be to associate the Islamic State’s actions with…Islam. The Islamic State’s actions represent no faith, least of all Islam – as if it were more likely that the Islamic State were made up of Presbyterians or Lubavitcher Hasidim or Jains or Smartas than that it were made up of Muslims.</p>
<p>Why do not just some, but all of the political leaders in Western countries cling to this outlandish fiction? Because reality indicts them. Not only do they insist that Islam is a religion of peace despite an ever-growing mountain of evidence to the contrary; they have made that falsehood a cornerstone of numerous policies. They have encouraged mass immigration and refugee resettlement from Muslim countries, without even making an attempt to determine whether or not any of the people they were importing had any connections to or sympathies with jihad groups. Their governments have for years partnered with and collaborated with groups with proven ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. They have favored and aided the Brotherhood and groups like it to attain power in the Middle East and North Africa, deeming them “moderate” because they claimed to eschew violence, and blithely ignoring that their goals were the same as those of groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.</p>
<p>If Barack Obama or David Cameron admitted that Islam was not a religion of peace, all these disastrous policies and others would be called into question. Cameron’s government might, quite deservedly, fall, and Obama’s would be crippled.</p>
<p>However, the primary reason why Obama and his cohorts continue to stand athwart the pile of beheaded bodies shouting that Islam is a religion of peace is because if they didn’t, the mainstream media – following its own policies as delineated by the Society of Professional Journalists – would immediately denounce them as “racists,” “bigots,” and “Islamophobes,” and their career not just as politicians but as respectable people would be over. It’s not that bad, you say? Just look at how the sharks are circling Bill Maher and tell me that.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the Big Lie, however ascendant it may be today, is foredoomed. The fact that it is repeated, and must be repeated, so often is evidence of that. No one has to run around insisting that Christianity is a religion of peace, because Christian leaders are reacting to the escalating Muslim persecution of their brethren by opening up their churches to Muslim prayer and muting their criticism of that persecution out of deference to their Muslim “dialogue” partners. If anything says “religion of peace,” it’s Christians <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/woman-proclaiming-christ-ejected-from-muslim-prayers-at-national-cathedral"><span style="color: #0433ff;">forcibly ejecting</span></a> a Christian woman from a Christian cathedral for proclaiming Christ, so that Muslims could deny him there.</p>
<p>“Religion of abject surrender” might be more apt, but in any case, no one thinks contemporary Christianity is a religion of war. All too many Muslims worldwide, however, energetically go about illustrating every day that Islam is not a religion of peace, and so they keep Obama’s printer busy turning out denial forms, ready for him to fill in the blanks with the name of the next victim: “The murder of _________ has nothing whatsoever to do with the great religion of Islam…”</p>
<p>But this is a counsel of despair. The truth will get out; indeed, it is already abundantly out. We can only hope that not too many more will have to feel the blade at their necks before Obama and the rest can no longer avoid taking realistic and effective action.</p>
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		<title>Latest IS Beheading Video: New Levels of Ritual Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 05:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawn Perlmutter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A preview of what the Islamic State intends to do.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/article-kassig2-1116.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245352" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/article-kassig2-1116-413x350.jpg" alt="article-kassig2-1116" width="316" height="268" /></a>On November 16, 2014 the Islamic State released a <a href="http://reblop.com/breaking-video-isis-video-which-shows-beheadings-of-syrian-pilots-and-an-american-aid-worker/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">16-minute video</span></a> that displayed the severed head of 26-year-old former U.S. Army Ranger Peter Kassig. The video was characteristically different than the four previous Islamic State beheading videos of American and British hostages by the man known as Jihadi John. Although there have been many previous videos of mass beheadings by various al Qaeda-linked groups and Islamic State militants, this film is unique in content and quality. The Islamic State is the first terrorist group to film and stage a formalized ritual mass beheading. Shot in high definition, slickly produced and edited with Hollywood precision, 19 jihadists simultaneously behead 19 Syrian air force pilots and military officers in a ceremonial ritual execution.</p>
<p>Prior to the ritual mass murders the first half of the video is the usual propaganda that provides justification for the violence. The video opens with images of a map of the world graphically indicating the Islamic State’s goals of world domination. The title that appears in segments throughout reads &#8220;Although the disbelievers dislike it.&#8221; The first 4 ½ minutes is a history of the Islamic State with tributes to its fallen leaders beginning with Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the father of modern beheading. There are images of alleged victims of American airstrikes, including dead children to evoke hatred and clips of Islamic State battles to demonstrate that the jihadist militants are the heroic good guys. This is all a prelude to the featured segment.</p>
<p>At exactly 8 minutes, halfway through the video, the Islamic State ritual begins. Syrian military personnel each accompanied by a jihadist militant are marched through the desert, led by Jihadi John. The militants are dressed in camouflage uniforms with black head coverings but their faces are not concealed. The Syrian soldiers are dressed in dark blue. Jihadi John is dressed in his usual black uniform with his face covered. The ritual procession continues with each jihadist taking a black handled knife out of a wooden box that contains the ceremonial weapons. The footage is very dramatic and powerful, zooming in with slow motion visual effects and melodramatic sounds as each blade is taken from the box. The ritual procession continues until the jihadists file into a formal line with nine on each side of Jihad John and their victims on their knees in front of them.</p>
<p>The jihadists hold their knives in their right hand and their victims in their left. The ritual execution begins with a reading of offenses by Jihad John who also has a Syrian soldier in front of him. Jihad John begins the ritual execution by insulting and threatening President Obama:</p>
<blockquote><p>To Obama, the dog of Rome. Today we are slaughtering the soldiers of Bashar and tomorrow we will be slaughtering your soldiers. And with Allah&#8217;s permission we will break this final and last crusade. And the Islamic State will soon, like your puppet David Cameron said, begin to slaughter your people in your streets.</p></blockquote>
<p>He points the knife at the camera during the threats to America. Then there is silence as the camera pans over the faces of the men who know they are about to suffer a horrible death and the faces of the executioners who are about to pledge their allegiance in sacrificial blood. Dramatic images and sound effects portray the moment as a sacred solemn rite. The camera fades to black and appears with Jihad John signaling with one word for the ritual killing to commence.</p>
<p>The victims are immediately pushed to the ground, the camera keeps fading in and out of black in-between the cutting of throats, with the loud sound of hearts beating in the background. In one of the most inconceivable mass murders ever committed, 19 men are simultaneously beheaded at one time by 19 other men. The camera returns to focus on Jihadi John. Of the four previous videos this is the first time we ever see him actually kill anyone, and it is obvious that he has experience. As he is cutting through the carotid artery the sound of blood hitting the ground is exaggerated adding to the horror. Then the culmination of the ritual killing and the most disturbing act in the entire film occurs when Jihadi John pulls his knife out of the throat of his victim and looks directly at the camera while exposing the partially decapitated neck. The look in Jihadi Johns eyes is chilling; pure, unadulterated feral bloodlust. Then the camera in fast motion displays Jihad John pounce on his victim in a wild animal movement to finish the decapitation. The camera then pans over all of the soldiers completing their beheading and zooms in on a large stream of blood.</p>
<p>The ritual ends with each soldier holding his bloodstained knife standing above his sacrificial victim, whose heads are placed on the center of their backs. The camera then shows the faces of the jihadist executioners, all from different countries, a multicultural mass murder team. They are somber and serious, not laughing or desecrating the bodies, demonstrating how a warrior should behave during and after the kill. Then as the camera slowly pans over images of the beheaded men a voiceover from Islamic State&#8217;s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Arabic says, “Know that we have armies in Iraq and an army in Sham of hungry lions whose drink is blood and play is carnage.” After viewing the ritual murders that is an apt description.</p>
<p>The next segment, also titled &#8220;Although the believers dislike it,&#8221; demonstrates how many individuals and groups from around the world have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.  The final segment at the 14:30 mark opens with the disarticulated head of American Peter Kassig at the feet of Jihadi John. The camera pans up Jihad John’s body and he makes the following statement in English:</p>
<blockquote><p>This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen of your country. Peter, who fought against the Muslims in Iraq while serving as a soldier under the American army, doesn&#8217;t have much to say. His previous cell mates have already spoken on his behalf.&#8217; But we say to you Obama &#8230; you claim to have withdrawn from Iraq four years ago. We said to you then that you are liars, that you have not withdrawn and that if you had withdrawn that you would return, even if after some time.&#8217;You would return. Here you are. You have not withdrawn. Rather, you hid some of your forces behind your proxies and withdrawn the rest. Your forces will return, greater in number than they were before.&#8217;You will return and your proxies will not benefit you.&#8217;And we also remind you of the haunting words that our Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi told you. The spark has been lit here in Iraq and its heat will continue to intensify by Allah&#8217;s permission until it burns the crusader army in Dabiq. &#8216;And here we are, burying the first American crusader in Dabiq. Eagerly awaiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive.</p></blockquote>
<p>The video ends with the classic image of the jihadist carrying a large Islamic State flag across the land. Dabiq is a highly symbolic location which has historical and religious significance for Islam. The Islamic State has designated the place for the &#8220;Final Hour&#8221; where Armageddon will begin in an Islamic apocalyptic tradition that designates the West as modern-day Romans. That is why Jihadi John referred to president Obama as the dog of Rome.</p>
<p>This video goes way beyond just propaganda and psychological warfare &#8212; it is the documentation of an Islamist ceremonial ritual mass murder. For the jihadist executioners it was an initiation ritual, a somber rite of passage that grants them status and honor as Mujahideen warriors. As a recruitment tool it is a tour de force, a murder masterpiece that will resonate with young men around the world. This video will recruit more soldiers for the Islamic State, incite lone wolves and inspire more beheadings in Western countries than any of the others that preceded it. Unlike the unsophisticated beheading videos that involve laughter and body desecration that diminishes the sanctity of the act, it elevates beheading to a ceremonial rite of purity that distinguishes it from accusations of barbarism.</p>
<p>The video also functions as proof of death of Peter Kassig and proof of life of Jihadi John who reportedly had been injured in a U.S.-led air strike. Significantly there is no new victim displayed at the end of this video as in the prior four. That is because the Islamic State has successfully sent its message. They no longer need to do their own dirty work. They have inspired lone wolves all over the world to continue their beheading tradition. The threat in this video that &#8220;tomorrow they will be slaughtering American soldiers&#8221; should be taken very seriously. The Islamic State has made good on every threat to murder hostages. This video should be viewed as a preview of what they intend to do. For example, if the Islamic State breaches the American Embassy in Baghdad they are going to make the Fall of Saigon look like a garden party. Instead of Syrian pilots it will be American Marines ritually murdered and filmed.</p>
<p>President Obama’s response was that this incident was &#8220;pure evil by a terrorist group.&#8221; How large does the Parents of Beheaded Americans Club have to get before President Obama will use the words &#8220;Islamic terrorists&#8221;? There should be no doubt that these murders are done in the name of Islam and for the honor of the Prophet Muhammad, whom they are emulating. Beheadings are ritual expressions of authentic Islam and the Islamic State has turned them into Hollywood blockbusters.</p>
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<p>Beheadings of innocent human beings are unspeakable acts reflecting the barbaric savagery of the Islamic “holy war” against the West — against us. Yet despite the intentions of their perpetrators, they have had an unexpected utility. Their gruesome images have entered the living rooms and consciousness of ordinary Americans and waked them up.</p>
<p>The barbarity of the Islamic movement for world domination has actually been evident for decades: in the suicide bombing of the Marine compound in Lebanon in 1982, in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, in the suicide attacks on Jews — men, women, and children — during the second Palestinian Intifada in 2000, in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, and in the beheadings perpetrated in Iraq by al-Qaeda’s Abu al-Zarqawi and the Salafist group known as Ansar al-Islam during the Iraq War.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the response to these barbarities on the part of the Democratic party and the liberal elites has been to condemn and marginalize anyone who called them barbarous. In their eyes, it is racist to use the word “barbarism” to describe the acts of any Third World people. To associate Islam with the Islamists was Islamophobic. President Obama is still trapped in this time warp, denying in so many words that the Islamic State is Islamic. For America’s commander-in-chief to make such an obviously moronic statement about his country’s enemy in wartime reflects how deeply settled is the ideology of protecting the Islamists (and jeopardizing the innocent). Even Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, could not bring himself to describe the enemy as Islamic. Settling on “War on Terror” as a descriptive term was a way of eliding the fact that the savagery was motivated by not by nihilism but by Islamic faith. The Obama Democrats have gone even deeper into denial, eliminating “War on Terror” from the government vocabulary and replacing it with “overseas contingency operations.”</p>
<p>For more than a decade, a handful of conservatives, of whom I was one, tried to sound the alarm about the Islamist threat. For our efforts, we were ridiculed, smeared as bigots, and marginalized as Islamophobes. In 2004 I published a book called Unholy Alliance about the Islamist movement and the support it was receiving from the American Left. For my concern, Harvard professor and Islam expert Noah Feldman dismissed me as a “relic” in the New York Times Book Review. It was the last time the Times mentioned one of my books.</p>
<p>In 2006 and 2007, I organized nearly 200 “teach-ins” on American campuses, which I called “Islamo-Fascism Awareness” weeks. The idea was to legitimize the term “Islamo-fascist” as a description of the enemy confronting us. These demonstrations were attacked by the Muslim Students Association, which is a recruiting organization for the Muslim Brotherhood, and by Students for Justice in Palestine, a front for the terrorist party Hamas. They also inspired the contempt of the liberal Left. Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo devoted two YouTube videos to ridiculing me for holding the demonstrations. Campus leftists called the students who organized them racists, bigots, and Islamophobes.</p>
<p>Resolutions denouncing critics of Islamic misogyny and terror as “Islamophobes” were unanimously passed by leftist-run student councils at UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and a dozen other elite schools. Lengthy reports on the menace of Islamophobia targeted me and other speakers at our campus demonstrations, including Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes. These reports, costing tens of thousands of dollars to produce, were published by FAIR, CAIR, the egregious Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Center for American Progress — the brain trust of the Democratic party.</p>
<p>And then came ISIS. The horrific images of the beheadings, the reports of mass slaughters, and the threats to the American homeland have accomplished what our small contingent of beleaguered conservatives could never have achieved by ourselves. They brought images of these Islamic fanatics and savages into the living rooms of the American public, and suddenly the acceptable language for describing the enemy began to change. “Savages” and “barbarians” began to roll off the tongues of evening-news anchors and commentators who never would have dreamed of crossing that line before, for fear of offending the politically correct.</p>
<p>Virtually every major Muslim organization in America is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, the fountainhead of Islamic terror. Huma Abedin, who was deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (and is still Clinton’s confidante and principal aide), comes from a family of Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Yet legislators who have the power to investigate these matters are still intimidated from even raising them. Representative Michele Bachmann, who did raise them, was excoriated as a racist not only by the Left but also by John Boehner and John McCain.</p>
<p>Language is a weapon in the battle against the threat we face. We cannot fight a war effectively when we cannot name the enemy or describe his methods or examine his influence on our own policy. The Islamic State has created an opportunity for common sense and realism to prevail. The tragedy is that it has taken the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Christians in the Middle East and the ongoing extermination of the Catholic presence in Iraq to begin to wake people up. And, unfortunately, the president is still asleep or, less charitably, is hostile to American purposes, is hostile to the military that defends us, and identifies more with the Islamic world that has produced these forces who would destroy us than with the country he is sworn to defend.</p>
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		<title>Bill Whittle: A Beheading in Oklahoma</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>It was not just a &#8220;workplace incident.&#8221; The brutal beheading of an American woman by a radicalized Muslim is just the latest in a series of un- or under-reported atrocities deemed unfit for the American people by the Mainstream Media. In this horrifying analysis, Bill Whittle describes the events in Oklahoma and discusses WHY the Leftist Media doesn&#8217;t want stories like this being told. See the video and transcript below. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">On Thursday, September 25th, 2014 – to hear the media tell it – disgruntled worker Alton Nolen arrived at work at the Vaughan Foods plant in Oklahoma City, shortly after being fired.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Apparently he lost his temper, and a tragedy ensued.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Okay.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">((LADY GAGA))</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">You know who this is? This is Stefani Germanotta. Surely that name rings a bell? No? How about Lady Gaga? That’s the name she chose for herself.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The name Alton Nolen chose for himself is Jah&#8217;Keem Yisrael. Why do we call Stefani Germanotta Lady Gaga while Alton Nolen is still Alton Nolen? Well, because if the press referred to Alton Nolen by the name he uses to refer to himself &#8212; Jah&#8217;Keem Yisrael – then we would have to face some unpleasant facts. And reporting unpleasant facts is not allowed in the Era of Obama, because if unpleasant facts were reported in the Era of Obama there wouldn’t be an Era of Obama.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Is it really fair to refer to Alton Nolen as Jah&#8217;Keem Yisrael? It sure as hell seems fair to me. Here are some images from his Facebook page. Here’s one of Jihadi terrorists, to which Jah&#8217;Keem Yisrael added “Some of my Muslim Brothers!” Here’s one that says “Islam will dominate the earth – freedom can go to hell.” Jah’Keem had nothing to add to that apparently.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So after allegedly spending a great deal of time and effort trying to convert his co-workers to Islam, Jah&#8217;Keem Yisrael entered the Vaughan Foods building, where he met – apparently at random – 54 year old Colleen Hufford. After stabbing her repeatedly with his knife, he then proceeded to saw her head off. He then went on to stab 43 year old Traci Johnson.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">On his Facebook page, Jah&#8217;Keem Yisrael had also posted a picture of the Statue of Liberty, to which he added the caption, “She is going into flames. She and Anybody who’s with her.” Apparently, one of those people who ARE with the Statue of Liberty, as she heads into the flames, was company CEO and reserve sheriff’s deputy Mark Vaughan, who stopped this Islamic ritual with his personal firearm. Because unlike the soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, where an identical Islamic murderer, Nidal Hassan, stood on a table shouting Allahu Akbar! as he killed 13 back in 2009, Mr. Vaughn had not surrendered his Constitutionally guaranteed, 2nd Amendment right to life and so he took action as an American citizen, saving the life of Traci Johnson and God knows how many others. No doubt Mr. Vaughan – who should be given the Medal of Freedom – will live forever regretting that he didn’t arrive on the scene in time to save Colleen Hufford.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This story is profound.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">No, what’s happened in Oklahoma City is bigger than a media blackout. Bigger than the lack of outrage, the absence of candlelight vigils, the missing comments of the President saying that Colleen Hufford could have been his grandmother and all the rest. That story had to be buried: a Muslim extremist’s murder spree, stopped by private citizen with his own firearm? Please.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">No, what happened in Oklahoma City is even bigger than the collision of reality and the Narrative. Because both domestic Islamic radicalism, and the issuance of concealed carry permits, are both sharply in the rise.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So the question we had better start asking is not whether or not you have a right to defend yourself &#8211; But rather whether we have an obligation to defend ourselves.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Because the left, you see, admires people like Jah&#8217;Keem Yisrael. They admire them for having the courage to do what they will not do – namely, get their hands dirty. Or bloody, as the case may be. The left, and these Islamic murderers, are in a symbiotic relationship, and they both know it. Both depend on the other to weaken traditional American strength – the left at home, and the Jihadis overseas. Papering over a few beheadings is a small price to pay to keep that alliance together – especially since this happened in Oklahoma. I mean, it’s not like Colleen Hufford was a celebrity or a real person or anything. If they had beheaded Barbara Streisand, then there would have been some hand wringing.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">No, they will let this domestic cancer grow, because if Americans wake up to the reality that the media is in fact in the news suppression business, they may start to wonder what other stories have been suppressed. No, they will let this cancer grow, unreported, until the Statue of Liberty and anyone who is with her, goes into the flames.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140927140307-beheading-suspect-oklahoma-facebook-alton-alexander-nolen-01-horizontal-gallery.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242272" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140927140307-beheading-suspect-oklahoma-facebook-alton-alexander-nolen-01-horizontal-gallery-435x350.png" alt="140927140307-beheading-suspect-oklahoma-facebook-alton-alexander-nolen-01-horizontal-gallery" width="329" height="265" /></a>Jah’Keem</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Yisrael</span><span class="zw-portion"> (formerly Alton Alexander Nolen), who beheaded one of his coworkers and was shot while in the process of trying to behead another on September 26 in Vaughan Foods, a food processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma, didn’t live in a vacuum.</span><span class="zw-portion"> His mosque, the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, worked hard to distance itself from him before its leaders stopped talking to the media altogether, and has denounced his actions. That will probably be good enough for the clueless and politically correct </span><span class="zw-portion">Obamoid</span><span class="zw-portion"> FBI, which has forgotten what the “I” stands for in its name, but it leaves too many questions unanswered. Chiefly this one: when </span><span class="zw-portion">Jah’Keem</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Yisrael</span><span class="zw-portion"> went to his mosque, what kind of teachings did he hear?</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Unfortunately, the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City</span><span class="zw-portion"> doesn’t offer tapes or transcripts of Friday </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">khutbas</span><span class="zw-portion">. And while they have been affecting a pose of being as moderate as the day is long, some clues to the contrary have appeared. Last week </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/oklahoma-beheaders-mosque-taught-caliphate-destruction-of-us-and-israel" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">I received this insider report</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> from a former member of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City:</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">I went to the same mosque the Oklahoma Muslim who beheaded his co-worker today. I live ten minutes away!</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The Imam was </span><span class="zw-portion">Imad</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Enchassi</span><span class="zw-portion"> the last I heard. He was a friend of mine. He is a Lebanese-born Sunni who hates Israel. He once gave a sermon that the Israelis were trying to collapse al-Aqsa mosque by digging tunnels underneath it. They have no issue with Palestinian suicide bombings because, as it was explained to me, that is the only weapon the Palestinians have.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">They sold </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">Milestones</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the </span><span class="zw-portion">book shop</span><span class="zw-portion"> while I was there, which as you know calls for replacing all non-Islamic governments with Islamic ones. I remember listening to a tape a friend of mine, </span><span class="zw-portion">Yahya</span><span class="zw-portion"> Graff, another white convert to Islam, had that prayed for the destruction of Israel and America.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The imam when I first converted, </span><span class="zw-portion">Suhaib</span><span class="zw-portion"> Webb, is hailed as a moderate by liberals in the United States but he was the one that explicitly told me that according to Islam, three choices are to be given to non-Muslims: convert, pay the </span><span class="zw-portion">jizyah</span><span class="zw-portion"> tax and live under Islamic rule, or jihad. They try very hard to whitewash Islam when the media is around, but they believe in their religion and the ultimate goal of an Islamic caliphate.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Then o</span><span class="zw-portion">n September 30, </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_DQHCsghs" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">I interviewed this man</span></a><span class="zw-portion">, who has left not only the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City but also Islam as a whole. </span><span class="zw-portion">He gave more details to demonstrate that </span><span class="zw-portion">th</span><span class="zw-portion">is</span><span class="zw-portion"> mosque was not at all as “moderate” as its leaders claimed in the wake of the </span><span class="zw-portion">beheading:</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Among the explosive revelations: Mosque members said that if Osama bin Laden showed up at the door and needed help, he would help him because he is a Muslim brother. Once this former member went target shooting AK-47’s with two other Muslim converts — the targets were labeled George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Has the mosque changed since this man stopped going there? That’s unlikely. The current imam, </span><span class="zw-portion">Imad</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Enchassi</span><span class="zw-portion">, is a friend of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)</span><span class="zw-portion">. In a sermon he preached on September 19, just a week before the beheading, </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/29/Deleted-Sermons-Reveal-Close-Ties-Between-Muslim-Brotherhood-Group-CAIR-and-Beheader-s-Mosque" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">Enchassi</span><span class="zw-portion"> said</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> that CAIR Oklahoma City Executive Director Adam </span><span class="zw-portion">Soltani</span><span class="zw-portion"> “doesn’t do anything without consulting me.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">While CAIR is quite mainstream these days, this self-styled “civil rights group” was </span><span class="zw-portion">actually</span><span class="zw-portion"> named an </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016754.php" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014963.php" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">refused</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016017.php" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">to</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014790.php" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">denounce</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> Hamas and </span><span class="zw-portion">Hizballah</span><span class="zw-portion"> as terrorist groups. Several </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2003/06/cairs-legal-tribulations.html" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror</span></a><span class="zw-portion">. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53303" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">Islamic supremacist statements</span></a><span class="zw-portion">. Its </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/cairs-honest-ibe-hooper-admits-dont-talk-to-the-fbi-poster-crossed-a-line-but-those-who-noticed-that.html" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">California chapter distributed </span><span class="zw-portion">a</span><span class="zw-portion"> poster</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI. CAIR has opposed every anti-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In sum, </span><span class="zw-portion">Imad</span><span class="zw-portion"> Enchassi’s association with CAIR doesn’t speak well of his moderate bona fides.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Enchassi</span><span class="zw-portion"> also claimed, just days before Jah’Keem Yisrael’s jihad rampage at Vaughan Foods, that “Islamophobes” in Oklahoma were </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/27/Beheader-s-Imam-Claimed-just-days-before-incident-that-people-were-threatening-to-Behead-Muslims-and-their-Children" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">plotting to behead Muslims</span></a><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">This was the environment in which </span><span class="zw-portion">Jah’Keem</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Yisrael</span><span class="zw-portion"> lived and moved. His Facebook page contained numerous photos of himself at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, and it has since been revealed that he attended frequently, at least once a week. While there, he would likely have heard about the anti-Muslim machinations of the </span><span class="zw-portion">kuffar</span><span class="zw-portion"> (unbelievers)</span><span class="zw-portion">, and come out seething with resentment and righteous rage. Maybe he even beheaded Colleen </span><span class="zw-portion">Hufford</span><span class="zw-portion"> at Vaughan Foods before the Infidels could behead him.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City should be thoroughly investigated, and if found to be fomenting hatred, violence and sedition, shut down. Instead, however, Obama’s </span><span class="zw-portion">politically correct </span><span class="zw-portion">Keystone Kops will likely only go there to conduct an “outreach” program.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242134" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mk-450x216.jpg" alt="mk" width="329" height="158" /></a>In a segment that was tone-deaf, tasteless, disrespectful to the victims and their families, and inappropriate to the gravity of the situation, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry briefly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qhlHXt52U">discussed</a> Muslim-related topics including the recent Moore, Oklahoma beheading with a pair of Muslim panelists on Saturday. As you might expect, their chief concern was not the implications of the crime itself, but the specter of anti-Muslim bigotry.</p>
<p>“I would be remiss not to bring up the story out of Oklahoma,” Harris-Perry began, inadvertently revealing her reluctance to address a news item that might make Muslims look bad. “It is a story I read as a ‘workplace violence’ story.”</p>
<p>Of course she does, because to acknowledge that Islam might have motivated the alleged killer Alton Nolen would deal a blow to the progressive narrative about Muslims. The investigation is ongoing, but there is certainly <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/30/what-we-know-about-alton-nolen-who-has-been-charged-with-murder-in-the-oklahoma-beheading-case/">enough circumstantial evidence</a> to warrant the suspicion of a religious, specifically Islamic, motive.</p>
<p>After considering the crime scene, Dawn Perlmutter, Director of the Symbol Intelligence Group and one of the leading experts in ritualistic crimes, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dawn-perlmutter/oklahoma-beheading-crime-scene-analysis/">declared</a> that “the Moore Oklahoma murder meets all the criteria of Individual Extremist Religion Homicide.” Perlmutter further noted that, “according to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Classification_Manual">Crime Classification Manual</a> (CCM) the murder of Colleen Hufford is a textbook case of Individual Extremist Religion Inspired Homicide which describes the motivation for the murder as based on a fervent devotion to a cause or system of beliefs and to further the goals and ideas of the group.”</p>
<p>Harris-Perry was joined by <em>Daily Beast</em> writer Dean Obeidallah, who bills himself as a comedian but keeps busy hyping the mythical threat of the Brotherhood neologism “Islamophobia” in order to shift blame for Islam’s bad reputation onto good Americans who have legitimate concerns about it. He is a friend of CAIR, having performed at a <a href="http://myemail.constantcontact.com/You-re-Invited--Comedian-Dean-Obeidallah-and-Imam-Siraj-Wahhaj-to-speak-at-CAIR-WA-Banquet---June-1--2012---REGISTER-NOW-.html?soid=1102055440418&amp;aid=oATT0MCqOas">CAIR banquet</a> featuring the Brotherhood-linked, Islamophobia fearmonger <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/09/wajahat-ali-coauthor-of-islamophobia-report-was-board-member-of-muslim-brotherhood-group.html">Wajahat Ali</a> and radical imam <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=716">Siraj Wahhaj</a>, who supports violent jihad. I’ve <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/the-muslims-are-coming-part-ii/">dealt with him before</a> – he’s an intellectually dishonest apologist, preferring to spew accusations of hate speech and bigotry at critics of Islam rather than address their arguments. So he’s a perfect fit for the propagandists at MSNBC, the network <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-the-least-trusted-tv-news-source-among-all-americans/">rated</a> as the least-trusted TV news source among all Americans.</p>
<p>They were joined in the video segment by writer and comedienne Negin Farsad, featured in Obeidallah’s documentary <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/the-muslims-are-coming/"><em>The Muslims Are Coming!</em></a> about a troupe of Muslim standup comics touring the country, trying to enlighten all the middle-American bigots who have somehow gotten the crazy impression that there are Muslims who pose a threat. The documentary aims to show people that not all Muslims are terrorists; some of them are funny. It’s unclear how this changes the fact that many of them <em>are</em> terrorists and are an ongoing threat.</p>
<p>Harris-Perry played a snippet of press conference video in which a police official mentioned that Alton Nolen reportedly tried to convert some of his coworkers to Islam. “And then, that’s it,” she said after playing clip, <em>while Farsad laughed</em>. “And now, this is somehow about Islam.” Yes, it is “somehow” about Islam because Nolen himself made it about Islam, from his Facebook page <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/26/Alton-Nolen-s-Facebook-Page-Included-Image-of-Beheading-and-Jihadists-Abroad">praising Islamic fighters</a>, to his proselytizing, to the Islamic phrases he may have shouted (unconfirmed) during the commission of the crime, to the beheading, which as anyone who watches the news lately knows is a favorite method among Islamic terrorists for dealing with infidels.</p>
<p>Obeidallah jumped in with, “<em>It’s funny</em>,”[emphasis added]. “You know, just so it’s clear for everyone, there is nothing in the Koran that says if you get fired, go back to your workplace and kill people,” he said, grinning while Harris-Perry chuckled – because beheadings are hilarious.</p>
<p>Then he expressed that the moment he learned the killer is a Muslim convert, “I knew instantly, this will be used… We’re seeing the right-wing media continuing the narrative that Muslims are here in America, they’re committing jihad.” If the right-wing media is continuing that narrative, it’s for two reasons: one, the left-wing media won’t touch it because it might expose their own multiculturalist narrative as a lie, and two, there <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CB4QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBoston_Marathon_bombings&amp;ei=EzsrVP6KDYvnoASa-ILACA&amp;usg=AFQjCNFG6WIupR3PKA_rwnB_kaViAJb4CQ&amp;sig2=6BIp6NDWSAFUun1_oJxK3A"><em>are</em></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CCUQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F2009_Fort_Hood_shooting&amp;ei=vjYrVMGTD5DooASgqICIBA&amp;usg=AFQjCNGChFtLgv_kbXOoaqAvYVqPtp-k6w&amp;sig2=vfwotA_E3wNuz8-kjEXU8w">Muslims</a><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/suspect-killed-n-teen-vengeance-military-article-1.1911964">here</a> in <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/06/02/little-rock-shooting-suspect-joins-growing-list-muslim-converts-accused/">America</a> committing violent jihad.</p>
<p>Obeidallah added, “There were over five hundred workplace killings last year. We don’t know about the religion of any of those murderers, but if someone is Muslim, [people think] it’s gotta be a terrorist.” This is more intellectual dishonesty. The reason we don’t know the religion of other workplace murderers is because religion reportedly wasn’t a factor in those incidents, the same way that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who did not commit his crime because the Bible told him to, cannot be considered a Christian terrorist.</p>
<p>Obeidallah is also being disingenuous when he claims that Americans leap to bigoted conclusions about Muslims and terrorism. Our news media and government bend over backward to cover up Islam’s central responsibility in acts of homegrown Muslim terrorism, such as deeming the Fort Hood massacre to be workplace violence. But it’s vital for Obeidallah to push the narrative that we’re a nation of Islamophobes.</p>
<p>Harris-Perry went on to complain about the idea that being Muslim is “<em>the</em> relevant piece of information,” when in fact, as the investigation now stands, it <em>is</em> very relevant.</p>
<p>“That’s the biggest problem,” Farsad interjected. No, the biggest problem is that people like the ones on this panel insist on denying that the world has an Islam problem. She continued: “There should be a cultural paradigm shift in which it’s not okay to create that linkage immediately,” said. “We already know that it’s not okay to link all white men with school shootings.” Correct – because the connecting thread among such men tends to be mental illness, not a religious ideology that justifies school shootings. “We have gone on and on and on creating this language between Muslims and violence,” she continued, “and we need to have a counter-narrative, and we don’t. And that’s what we trying to do.”</p>
<p>“Muslims are funny,” Harris-Perry chimed in.</p>
<p>“That’s the new stereotype,” Farsad quipped. “Pass it around: Muslims are hilarious.”</p>
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		<title>Analyzing the Oklahoma Beheading Crime Scene</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 04:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawn Perlmutter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the gruesome incident will inspire more jihadists. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/crimescene1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241981" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/crimescene1-450x337.jpg" alt="crimescene1" width="318" height="238" /></a>At approximately 1600 hrs. on September 24, 2014  30-year-old Alton Nolen was fired at Vaughan Foods in Moore, Oklahoma. He immediately drove to the front of the business, struck a vehicle and walked into the front office area. He attacked 54-year-old Colleen Hufford with a knife until he severed her head. Then he began attacking 43-year-old Traci Johnson with the same knife. He would have severed Ms. Johnson’s head if Mark Vaughan, an Oklahoma County reserve deputy and a former CEO of the business, hadn’t taken him down with three gunshots. Both Hufford, who was pronounced dead at the scene, and Johnson, who suffered multiple knife wounds, were random victims.</p>
<p>Nolen had a history of violence. He was convicted in January 2011 of multiple felony drug offenses, assault and battery on a police officer and escape from detention. But it was the murder MO and the fact that Nolen had recently converted to Islam and had been trying to convert people at Vaughn Foods to Islam that prompted the local police to call the FBI to assist in the investigation.</p>
<p>Nolen&#8217;s conversion to Islam, digital footprint and most significantly his decision to not just kill but behead his victim has prompted a heated debate over whether this crime is a case of workplace violence or lone wolf terrorism. Distinctions between the two are not based solely on the motivation for the murder. Forensics, victimology, weapons and crime scene indicators factor into classifications of violent crimes. Aspects that are consistent with workplace violence are that the incident occurred at a work place, was triggered by Nolen being fired, the victims were employees and that Nolen probably intended to die at the scene.</p>
<p>There are notable aspects of the homicide that are inconsistent with workplace violence. Nolen did not target the person who fired him or others who he perceived wronged him, he did not take hostages, the attack was not mission oriented and most significantly he did not use multiple firearms. Workplace homicides typically involve active shooters with an abundance of weapons (semiautomatic assault weapons), ammunition and other gear to support a sustained attack. Similarly lone wolf terrorist attacks typically are highly organized, involve specific targets, are preplanned paramilitary type operations and usually involve firearms and/or explosives. The victimology, crime scene, weapons, trauma and offender characteristics of the Oklahoma homicide technically do not neatly fit into either workplace violence or lone wolf terrorism categories.</p>
<p>The Crime Classification Manual (CCM), the standard system for investigating and classifying homicides and other violent crimes, has specific categories for every type of homicide. Workplace violence almost always is classified in the category of Personal Cause Homicide which is described as motivated from interpersonal aggression resulting from an underlying emotional conflict and is not sanctioned by a group. The most common workplace violence homicide subcategories are Authority Murder and Domestic Homicide. Lone wolf terrorist attacks are classified under the category of Group Cause Homicide which is described as motivated by ideas based on a particular political, economic, religious or social ideology. Lone wolf terrorism subcategories include Extremist Religious Homicide and Extremist Political Homicide. Although the motivation for this homicide category applies to the Oklahoma incident, Group Cause Homicide generally involves multiple offenders, multiple crime scenes and multiple victims. The Boston Marathon bombings were a classic example of lone wolf terrorism in the category of Extremist Religious Homicide.</p>
<p>According to the Crime Classification Manual (CCM) the murder of Colleen Hufford is a textbook case of Individual Extremist Religion Inspired Homicide which describes the motivation for the murder as based on a fervent devotion to a cause or system of beliefs and to further the goals and ideas of the group. The victims may be strangers or acquaintances of the offender and since many religious killings are relatively spontaneous, victims are most frequently opportunistic targets. A disorganized crime scene reflects the spontaneity and distress of the perpetrator. The homicide is intended to communicate some message on behalf of the group and the forensics demonstrate the calling card or signature aspect of the group. The killing may have ritualistic features such as religious symbolism, messages and particular corpse defacement and frequently involves uncommon weapons that have a relationship to religious symbolism. The offender may not be outwardly devout, but often evidence of traditional observance is found in the suspects home, including literature, pamphlets, symbols, writings and videotapes pertaining to the offenders belief system. Suspects may have experienced a recent loss or loss of self-esteem due to rejection. Committing the murder in the name of religion is a method to restore a sense of significance and respect.</p>
<p>The Moore Oklahoma murder meets all the criteria of Individual Extremist Religion Homicide. A symbolic analysis of the crime scene confirms the religious motivation. Colleen Hufford and Traci Johnson were not just employees they were also uncovered non-Muslim women, hence to a jihadist, legitimate targets. If the women were wearing hijab he would have moved on to other victims. Colleen Hufford was ritually murdered. Nolen picked up a 10 inch filet knife to stab her in the throat. He did not grab a hammer or pipe to inflict blunt force trauma he grabbed a standard knife used by employees and chose to completely sever her head from her body. Beheading in the context of Islam is symbolic of jihad.  Witnesses heard Nolen shouting in Arabic while killing her. He most likely was saying &#8220;Allahu Akbar.&#8221; Shouting Arabic phrases is highly symbolic and one of the calling card signature aspects of the crime. Quoting the Quran or praising Allah ritualizes and justifies the violence as a religious execution sanctioned under Islam. Body positioning, mutilation or dismemberment is an extremely significant identifier when analyzing crime scenes. Nolen may have taken a few seconds to position her head on the back of her body which is the Al Qaeda in Iraq/Islamic State forensic signature. This crime was tactically, symbolically and forensically different than other disgruntled employee homicides.</p>
<p>This is neither workplace violence, nor lone wolf terrorism; this is a new tactic in the global jihad that I have previously referred to as a Jihad murder M.O.  The distinction between lone wolf terrorism and Jihadist murder is important particularly when investigating active and cold case homicides that are not immediately recognizable as having links to Islamist jihadists.  Homicides with similar forensic trauma have gone unsolved and unrecognized such as the triple ritual murder of Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman, and Raphael Teken in Waltham, MA by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombers, and Ibragim Todashev. The case was initially investigated as a drug deal gone wrong although all three victims were nearly decapitated on September 11, 2011. The reason these cases are difficult to solve directly corresponds to the prohibitions on law enforcement training that banned any references to Islamic jihad or Islamism as the underlying ideology motivating crimes. So when evidence involves writings such as “Sharia law is coming!!!” that Nolen posted on his Facebook page, officers have no idea what that means and cannot perform an accurate threat analysis.</p>
<p>Further impediments to homicide investigations is that there is no training in Jihadist murders and little if none in Islamist terrorist identifiers, although similar to gangs, they have emblems, symbols, hand signs, flags, graffiti, headbands and clothing. Nolen’s Facebook page has a photo of him standing between two men dressed in Muslim garb throwing the ‘Tawheed’ hand sign, the index finger pointing up that is the most popular hand sign of Salafi Jihadists. It represents the doctrine of Tawheed (monotheism) and their willingness to die as martyrs to attain paradise. Even tattoos, one of the most prevalent law enforcement identifiers have been compromised by political correctness and lack of training in Islamist ideologies. Nolen’s conversion from Christianity to Islam is written on his body. His tattoos include an image of Jesus Christ on his chest, RIP Lil Kris, Judah tattooed on his left arm, an image of praying hands on his right arm and tattooed on his abdomen as-salaamu alaikum,  Arabic for “peace be with you.” His religious tattoos are symbolic of a spiritual seeker who was ripe for recruitment. His Facebook page demonstrated that his radicalization was complete. His new Islamic identity included changing his name to Jah&#8217;Keem Yisrael and glorifying the ideals of global jihad.</p>
<p>Nolen was not simply a disgruntled employee seeking revenge, he envisioned himself as a Mujahideen warrior who was publicly dishonored by infidel unbelievers. Islamist propaganda that continually reminds young recruits like Nolen that they do not have to suffer the humiliation of non-believers prompted the murder. The shame of being fired triggered overwhelming emotions of disrespect that could only be alleviated by restoring his honor through violence.  Nolen understood that whether he lived or died beheading would increase his status and reputation among jihadists worldwide. The murder of Colleen Hufford transformed an ex-con loser who can’t hold down a job into a Mujahideen rock star who will be hailed as a hero on jihadist forums and by the Islamic State. This will inspire more Jihadist murders not more workplace violence.</p>
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		<title>Allah Made Me Do It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just another “nothing to do with Islam” atrocity.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/nolen-facebook-two.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241917" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/nolen-facebook-two-450x337.jpg" alt="nolen-facebook-two" width="318" height="238" /></a>Stop me if you’ve heard this story before.</p>
<p>A Muslim convert who recently became very religious beheads a woman while reportedly shouting Islamic phrases. The authorities rush to convince everyone in sight that it has nothing to do with Islam.</p>
<p>I’m not talking about Alton Nolen in Oklahoma at the end of September, but Nicholas Salvador in the UK at the beginning of September. Salvador, a Nigerian Muslim convert, beheaded an 82-year-old European woman with a foot-long blade. Nolen killed a 54-year-old American woman with a 10-inch blade.</p>
<p>The bios of both men are fairly similar to the beheaders of British soldier Lee Rigby. The perpetrators were Nigerian converts to Islam. Alton Nolen was a black convert to Islam. They had a history of criminal behavior followed by a conversion to Islam and the inevitable bloody ending.</p>
<p>On his Facebook page, Nolen posted, “Sharia law is coming!!!” The killers of Lee Rigby had chanted for Sharia law in the streets of London. That is the same Sharia law of stonings and beheadings.</p>
<p>It is the law of the Koran which states, “When you meet the unbelievers in Jihad smite at their necks until you have slaughtered many of them.” (Koran 47:4)</p>
<p>Or as Nolen quoted after posting a gory beheading photo on his Facebook page, &#8220;Thus do we find the clear precedent that explains the peculiar penchant of Islamic terrorists to behead their victims: it is merely another precedent bestowed by their Prophet.&#8221;</p>
<p>The quote underneath the beheading photo backed that up, “I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off of them.”(Quran 8:9-13)</p>
<p>An unbeliever is anyone who isn’t a Muslim.</p>
<p>This latest “Nothing to do with Islam” atrocity follows the Islamic State’s beheading of two Americans. These acts were admired by an Oklahoma City nursing home worker who was arrested for threatening a female co-worker with an ISIS style beheading on account of her being a Christian.</p>
<p>Again, nothing to do with Islam. Much like the Islamic State beheadings which we have been told also have nothing to do with Islam.</p>
<p>This sort of “Nothing to do with Islam” beheading pops up now and again.</p>
<p>A decade ago Ariel Selloul was nearly decapitated in Texas by Mohammed Ali Alayed. Mo had recently gotten religion and become a devout Muslim. His victim was Jewish. Before Mohammed got serious about Islam, the two men had been friends.</p>
<p>Again<a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Saudi-pleads-guilty-to-killing-Jewish-friend-here-1567401.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">, it had nothing to do with Islam</span></a>. At least that’s what the authorities said.</p>
<p>Around the same time a Jewish disc jockey was murdered in Paris by a Muslim friend who announced, &#8220;I killed a Jew, I will go to paradise. Allah made me do it.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Two-sons-of-France">The Muslim killer</a></span>, Adel Amastaibou, had threatened a Rabbi and a pregnant Jewish woman before. Instead the authorities decided that he was mentally ill.</p>
<p>Nothing to do with Islam. Not a thing.</p>
<p>And so we have a rash of mysterious beheadings and vicious stabbings that we know nothing about except that they have nothing to do with Islam. The more they obviously seem to have something to do with Islam, the more it has to be denied that they had anything to do with Islam.</p>
<p>Alton and Adel, Mohammed, Mujahid and Ismail, the latter two being the Muslim names of the Lee Rigby killers, have nothing to do with Islam. Even the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam.</p>
<p>And yet Alton Nolen decided that beheading had quite a lot to do with Islam. All he had to do to figure that out was open a Koran. Expecting to convince Muslims to believe that the Koran has nothing to do with Islam will be even harder than convincing them that beheadings and the Islamic State have nothing to do with Islam.</p>
<p>You might as well argue that Islam has nothing to do with Islam.</p>
<p>The CVE programs under Barack Obama keep promising to counter the Islamic narrative on Twitter, but instead Twitter is full of ISIS Jihadists displaying severed heads as trophies and quoting the appropriate verses from the Koran.</p>
<p>Obama denounces ISIS as un-Islamic  for beheading people while leading a coalition against them which includes Muslim countries that use beheading as an Islamic punishment. The S<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/saudi-arabia-beheads-man-for-being-a-sorcrerer/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">audis recently beheaded a man</span></a> accused of sorcery. What’s the difference between the Islamic State and the Saudis? They both have lots of oil, terrorists and a penchant for beheading people, but the Saudis have better public relations.</p>
<p>Maybe when the Islamic State starts funding chairs at Georgetown and UCLA, and donating to the Clinton Global Initiative, it’ll start getting better press.</p>
<p>The Saudis can’t possibly be un-Islamic because the establishment’s official definition of Islam comes from them. Even the idea of denying that the Islamic State is Islamic is a Saudi strategy. But if Alton Nolen is un-Islamic then ISIS is un-Islamic and if ISIS is un-Islamic then Saudi Arabia is un-Islamic. And then Islam, whose holy book contains numerous verses calling for the brutal murder of non-Muslims, must also be un-Islamic.</p>
<p>Perhaps then there really isn’t an Islam. Or rather there are two Islams.</p>
<p>One is the oriental Unitarianism of the Western imagination whose practitioners are liberals with prayer rugs. The other is a grim relentless Jihad of murderous men who chant the Koran while severing heads. This is the Islam of the Arabian imagination. It is not always what it is, but to them it is the purity of what it should be.</p>
<p>The convert to Islam rarely becomes a liberal with a prayer rug. To become devout is to become more certain, not less certain. And that certainty ends in Jihad. It ends in a murder commanded by Allah.</p>
<p>The real Islam’s symbols carry powerful meanings. The beheading is the final and ultimate meaning. By killing non-Muslims in the name of Allah, its followers become Allah, they gain the power of life and death, to kill and enslave, to rob and rape; they become the murderous masters of creation.</p>
<p>When they say that “Allah made me do it” what they really mean is that the part of them that wants to kill, to rob and rape, to burn and kidnap, made them do it. By submitting to Allah, the Muslim becomes Allah. When he kills, it is Allah killing. His religion is reducible to his will to kill. This is ISIS. This is Islam.</p>
<p>It has nothing to do with the imaginary Islam of the liberal. It has everything to do with the real Islam.</p>
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		<title>The Oklahoma Beheading: More &#8216;Workplace Violence&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration misrepresents another jihad terror attack.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-28-at-10.24.09-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241920" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-28-at-10.24.09-PM.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-09-28 at 10.24.09 PM" width="280" height="212" /></a>A convert to Islam who calls himself Jah’Keem Yisrael (formerly Alton Alexander Nolen) beheaded one of his coworkers and was shot while in the process of trying to behead another last Friday in Vaughan Foods, a food processing plant in Oklahoma. And now the predictable denial and obfuscation from the Obama Administration has begun.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Tony Blinken, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/oklahoma-city-beheading-case-leaves-national-security-experts-wondering/article/2554075"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was asked</span></a> whether the beheading was an act of terror or, as the Obama Administration notoriously classified the Fort Hood jihad massacre of November 2009, workplace violence. “We don’t know,” said the Dickensian-named Blinken, blinkers firmly in place. “The FBI has an active investigation. I’m not going to get ahead of it. Let’s see what they find.” Wynken and Nod were unavailable for comment.</p>
<p>As for the FBI itself, FBI Special Agent in Charge James E. Finch <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OKLAHOMA_WORKPLACE_BEHEADING?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2014-09-27-17-52-00"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said Saturday</span></a> that the bureau hadn’t yet figured out what Yisrael’s motive was. He didn’t say whether or not the feds were examining his Facebook page, which, according to the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/okla-beheading-suspect-filled-facebook-terrorist-messages-article-1.1954910"><span style="color: #0433ff;">New York Daily News</span></a>, is “<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2554065/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">riddled with phrases</span></a> like ‘Sharia law is coming’ and calling America ‘wicked.’ It also has photos of various terror groups and their leaders, including bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. forces operating in Pakistan in 2012.”</p>
<p>Not only that. Jah’Keem Yisrael filled his Facebook page with quotations from the Qur’an and exhortations to his fellow Muslims to be more rigorous and correct in their observance of Islamic ritual and morality. Also the page is a photograph of him with two members of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City; Yisrael stands between them holding up his index finger in the sign of the Islamic State, signifying Islam’s uncompromising monotheism. Nor is even that all: his page features photographs of beheadings.</p>
<p>And while the mosque is <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/oklahoma-beheaders-mosque-leaders-say-he-was-searcher-far-away-from-islam"><span style="color: #0433ff;">issuing statements</span></a> implying that Yisrael was a bad Muslim or hardly even a Muslim at all, and that hardly anyone knew him there anyway, I received this insider report from a former member of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City:</p>
<blockquote><p>I went to the same mosque the Oklahoma Muslim who beheaded his co-worker today. I live ten minutes away!</p>
<p>The Imam was Imad Enchassi the last I heard. He was a friend of mine. He is a Lebanese-born Sunni who hates Israel. He once gave a sermon that the Israelis were trying to collapse al-Aqsa mosque by digging tunnels underneath it. They have no issue with Palestinian suicide bombings because, as it was explained to me, that is the only weapon the Palestinians have.</p>
<p>They sold <i>Milestones</i> in the book shop while I was there, which as you know calls for replacing all non-Islamic governments with Islamic ones. I remember listening to a tape a friend of mine, Yahya Graff, another white convert to Islam, had that prayed for the destruction of Israel and America.</p>
<p>The imam when I first converted, Suhaib Webb, is hailed as a moderate by liberals in the United States but he was the one that explicitly told me that according to Islam, three choices are to be given to non-Muslims: convert, pay the jizyah tax and live under Islamic rule, or jihad. They try very hard to whitewash Islam when the media is around, but they believe in their religion and the ultimate goal of an Islamic caliphate.</p></blockquote>
<p>Does all this mean that Jah’Keem Yisrael’s beheading of Colleen Hufford was a jihad attack? Not necessarily. Yisrael wouldn’t be the first person to be distraught over being fired and react violently. Many non-Muslims have done that. The difference here, however, is that when Yisrael became violent, he began beheading – just as the Islamic State is doing, and just as the Qur’an exhorts believers to do (“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” &#8212; 47:4).</p>
<p><span style="color: #222222;">At the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City and elsewhere, as he learned the teachings and attitudes of his new religion, Jah’Keem Yisrael breathed in an environment in which beheading was under certain circumstances a proper, even praiseworthy response.</span></p>
<p>If the Obama Administration and its FBI were at all interested in the truth of this case, they would be investigating whether or not Jah’Keem Yisrael considered the beheading of an unbeliever to be something that Allah would reward, in line with Qur’an 47:4, and seized the opportunity of his firing from Vaughan Foods (after <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/breaking-beheading-suspect-alton-nolenjahkeem-yisrael-fired-after-argument-over-stoning-women"><span style="color: #0433ff;">an argument</span></a> over whether or not adulteresses should be stoned to death; Yisrael argued yes) to combine his desire for revenge with his desire to wage jihad.</p>
<p>Instead, they will probably be doing all they can to make sure such investigations are <i>not</i> pursued.</p>
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		<title>Blood In: Beheading as Islamic State Initiation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 04:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawn Perlmutter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Algerian jihadists perpetrate their first decapitation to please ISIS -- who will strike next? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/perl.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241838" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/perl.png" alt="perl" width="229" height="217" /></a>A beheading video of French hostage Hervé Gourdel was released on September 24, 2014 by the Algerian group Jund al-Khilafah (Soldiers of the Caliphate). The video is significantly different than the three previous high production Islamic State beheading videos of Americans James Foley and Steve Sotloff and British hostage David Haines. The Algerian jihadist group kidnapped Gourdel, a 55-year-old mountaineering guide, while he was hiking in the Djurdjura National Park in Algeria. They released a video two days prior to the beheading giving France an ultimatum, either stop the aggression against the Islamic State or Gourdel would die within 24-hours. France rejected the ultimatum and the jihadists made good on their threat.</p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The video</span><span class="zw-portion"> begins with a clip of French President Francois Hollande at a press conference announc</span><span class="zw-portion">ing</span><span class="zw-portion"> strikes against </span><span class="zw-portion">the Islamic State</span><span class="zw-portion"> in Iraq</span><span class="zw-portion"> and then the title appears on the screen</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> The </span><span class="zw-portion">black</span><span class="zw-portion"> flag emblem of the Islamic </span><span class="zw-portion">S</span><span class="zw-portion">tate</span><span class="zw-portion"> flies in the corner throughout. </span><span class="zw-portion">That</span><span class="zw-portion"> is where the </span><span class="zw-portion">similarity</span><span class="zw-portion"> between </span><span class="zw-portion">the </span><span class="zw-portion">I</span><span class="zw-portion">S</span><span class="zw-portion"> videos end.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The </span><span class="zw-portion">re</span><span class="zw-portion">st of </span><span class="zw-portion">the content of the </span><span class="zw-portion">beheading</span><span class="zw-portion"> video is</span><span class="zw-portion"> much more similar to the dozens of other </span><span class="zw-portion">al Qaeda-linked </span><span class="zw-portion">beheading</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">videos that have </span><span class="zw-portion">been posted </span><span class="zw-portion">on the Internet.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">What distinguishes it from other videos</span><span class="zw-portion"> is that</span><span class="zw-portion"> the film was edited </span><span class="zw-portion">so that the violent imagery is</span><span class="zw-portion"> framed in and softened</span><span class="zw-portion"> giving it the appearance of a painting</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Th</span><span class="zw-portion">is portion</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">begins in an outdoor area with</span><span class="zw-portion"> Gourdel on his knees with his hands behind his back in front of four armed militants</span><span class="zw-portion">. Their</span><span class="zw-portion"> faces </span><span class="zw-portion">are </span><span class="zw-portion">covered except for their eyes.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Two jihadists are holding AK47 rifles</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> one is holding a paper he is reading from </span><span class="zw-portion">and the </span><span class="zw-portion">other</span><span class="zw-portion"> is</span><span class="zw-portion"> holding a blindfold. There is a sheet behind them with some kind of hand-drawn emblem and other imagery.</span><span class="zw-portion"> The ritual execution</span><span class="zw-portion"> begins with a statement by Gourdel expressing</span><span class="zw-portion"> his love for his family</span><span class="zw-portion">. Then there is the mandatory</span><span class="zw-portion"> reading of offenses by o</span><span class="zw-portion">ne of the jihadists</span><span class="zw-portion"> which includes</span><span class="zw-portion"> denounci</span><span class="zw-portion">ng</span><span class="zw-portion"> the actions of the “French criminal crusaders” against Muslims in Algeria, Mali and Iraq</span><span class="zw-portion"> and to</span><span class="zw-portion"> “avenge the victims in Algeria… and support the caliphate” proclaimed by IS in Iraq and Syria.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">There</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">can</span><span class="zw-portion"> be no </span><span class="zw-portion">doub</span><span class="zw-portion">t</span><span class="zw-portion"> that this is their first </span><span class="zw-portion">beheading</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">They are all </span><span class="zw-portion">fidgeting</span><span class="zw-portion"> and seem to have trouble staying still</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">Interestingly they are all wearing a black wrist</span><span class="zw-portion"> band</span><span class="zw-portion"> on their right hands</span><span class="zw-portion">. This is unique to them,</span><span class="zw-portion"> perhaps signifying their role as executioners. </span><span class="zw-portion">Gourdel </span><span class="zw-portion">is </span><span class="zw-portion">the bravest</span><span class="zw-portion"> person </span><span class="zw-portion">there. He makes his statement and</span><span class="zw-portion"> honorably does not show fear</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> He is </span><span class="zw-portion">not</span><span class="zw-portion"> dressed in the </span><span class="zw-portion">orange</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">jumpsuit</span><span class="zw-portion"> of the previous victims, most likely because there was not one </span><span class="zw-portion">available</span><span class="zw-portion">. After the statement of offenses is read justifying the </span><span class="zw-portion">execution, the blindfold is quickly placed </span><span class="zw-portion">over</span><span class="zw-portion"> his eyes and he is thrown to the ground</span><span class="zw-portion"> and held down by two of the men</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">The jihadist who held the blindfold i</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> the executioner</span><span class="zw-portion">. He</span><span class="zw-portion"> pulls the knife out of his shirt and starts to cut his </span><span class="zw-portion">t</span><span class="zw-portion">hroat. </span><span class="zw-portion">The</span><span class="zw-portion"> murder is not shown on the video</span><span class="zw-portion"> and was</span><span class="zw-portion"> most </span><span class="zw-portion">likely</span><span class="zw-portion"> edited out by whoever added the news footage and the </span><span class="zw-portion">Islamic State </span><span class="zw-portion">emblem. </span><span class="zw-portion">The video f</span><span class="zw-portion">ades to black and</span><span class="zw-portion"> then</span><span class="zw-portion"> the four </span><span class="zw-portion">jihadists</span><span class="zw-portion"> are standing behind </span><span class="zw-portion">Gourdel’s</span><span class="zw-portion"> body whose head </span><span class="zw-portion">has been</span><span class="zw-portion"> placed on </span><span class="zw-portion">his</span><span class="zw-portion"> chest. </span><span class="zw-portion">This is </span><span class="zw-portion">slightly </span><span class="zw-portion">different than the</span><span class="zw-portion"> Islamic State</span><span class="zw-portion">’s</span><span class="zw-portion"> forensic</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">beheading </span><span class="zw-portion">signature</span><span class="zw-portion"> which has </span><span class="zw-portion">the bo</span><span class="zw-portion">d</span><span class="zw-portion">y facing down and the head on the back. </span><span class="zw-portion">A detail they </span><span class="zw-portion">got</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">wrong. It</span><span class="zw-portion"> fades to </span><span class="zw-portion">b</span><span class="zw-portion">lack again and now a fi</span><span class="zw-portion">f</span><span class="zw-portion">th jihadist appears with his foot on the body as a </span><span class="zw-portion">sign of </span><span class="zw-portion">desecration and </span><span class="zw-portion">disrespect</span><span class="zw-portion"> while </span><span class="zw-portion">the </span><span class="zw-portion">e</span><span class="zw-portion">xe</span><span class="zw-portion">cutioner</span><span class="zw-portion"> hold</span><span class="zw-portion">s </span><span class="zw-portion">Gourdel’s</span><span class="zw-portion"> head in the air, displaying his trophy </span><span class="zw-portion">head </span><span class="zw-portion">to the </span><span class="zw-portion">Islamic State and the </span><span class="zw-portion">world.</span><span class="zw-portion"> The </span><span class="zw-portion">fifth</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">jihadist</span><span class="zw-portion"> who is quite chubby has his entire head </span><span class="zw-portion">covered</span><span class="zw-portion"> with a black cloth, he appears to be the leader.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Disconcertingly the loud sound of what must be beautiful birds are chirping </span><span class="zw-portion">in the background </span><span class="zw-portion">throughout the </span><span class="zw-portion">entire </span><span class="zw-portion">ritual execution</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">rev</span><span class="zw-portion">e</span><span class="zw-portion">aling that the location is probably</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">in or </span><span class="zw-portion">near the</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Djurdjura</span><span class="zw-portion"> National Park</span><span class="zw-portion"> which was </span><span class="zw-portion">Gourdel’s</span><span class="zw-portion"> hiking destination.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">This video shows much more violent imagery and for a longer period of time than the I</span><span class="zw-portion">slamic State beheading </span><span class="zw-portion">videos</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">32 seconds </span><span class="zw-portion">of proof of death </span><span class="zw-portion">versus ten seconds</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The </span><span class="zw-portion">beheading</span><span class="zw-portion"> is a direct response to the Islamic State</span><span class="zw-portion">’s</span><span class="zw-portion"> Sept 21, 2014</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">audio</span><span class="zw-portion"> recording that was widely distributed on </span><span class="zw-portion">social media</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">urg</span><span class="zw-portion">ing</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">jihadists</span><span class="zw-portion"> all over the world to attack citizens of Western states, including the U.S., France and their allies.</span><span class="zw-portion"> The Algerian jihadists </span><span class="zw-portion">heeded</span><span class="zw-portion"> the call to vengeance by </span><span class="zw-portion">kidnapping Hervé</span><span class="zw-portion"> Gourdel</span><span class="zw-portion"> soon after the Islamic State called on its supporters to harm Europeans. The </span><span class="zw-portion">Soldiers of the Caliphate didn’t just shoot </span><span class="zw-portion">Gourdel;</span><span class="zw-portion"> they chose to perform a ritual </span><span class="zw-portion">beheading</span><span class="zw-portion"> to </span><span class="zw-portion">increase</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">status with other jihadists and to impress the </span><span class="zw-portion">Islamic</span><span class="zw-portion"> State. The beheading of Hervé Gourdel by the obscure new splinter group </span><span class="zw-portion">Jund</span><span class="zw-portion"> al-</span><span class="zw-portion">Khilafa</span><span class="zw-portion"> was </span><span class="zw-portion">a blood</span><span class="zw-portion"> initiation ritual. They </span><span class="zw-portion">earned</span><span class="zw-portion"> their stripes and pledged their allegiance to Abu</span><span class="zw-portion"> Bakr al-Baghdadi with the murder of a French infidel. This </span><span class="zw-portion">is no</span><span class="zw-portion"> different tha</span><span class="zw-portion">n the blood-in gang </span><span class="zw-portion">initiation</span><span class="zw-portion"> ritual that requires new members to kill</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> Even the</span><span class="zw-portion"> title of the video “A Message with Blood to the French Government” symbolizes a blood ritual. </span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The</span><span class="zw-portion"> Islamic State </span><span class="zw-portion">pro</span><span class="zw-portion">paganda</span><span class="zw-portion"> audio</span><span class="zw-portion">tape</span><span class="zw-portion"> utilizes</span><span class="zw-portion"> the language of the streets with loaded words that evoke disrespect and humiliation. The </span><span class="zw-portion">statement</span><span class="zw-portion"> entices </span><span class="zw-portion">recruits</span><span class="zw-portion"> with the promise of war booty and specifically calls for blood </span><span class="zw-portion">vengeance</span><span class="zw-portion">. Most significantly the Islamic State incites violence by telling their recruits that murder and plunder is sanctioned</span><span class="zw-portion"> by Allah</span><span class="zw-portion">, hence murder becomes righteous slaughter.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military, for they have the same ruling. Both of them are disbelievers. Both of them are considered to be waging war [the civilian by belonging to a state waging war against the Muslims]. Both of their blood and wealth is legal for you to destroy, for blood does not become illegal or legal to spill by the clothes being worn. The civilian outfit does not make blood illegal to spill, and the military uniform does not make blood legal to spill. The only things that make blood illegal and legal to spill are Islam and a covenant (peace treaty, dhimma, etc.). Blood becomes legal to spill through disbelief. So whoever is a Muslim, his blood and wealth are sanctified. And whoever is a disbeliever, his wealth is legal for a Muslim to take and his blood is legal to spill. His blood is like the blood of a dog; there is no sin for him in spilling it nor is there any blood money to be paid for doing such.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Jihadists are</span><span class="zw-portion"> leaving al </span><span class="zw-portion">Qaeda</span><span class="zw-portion"> and pledging allegiance to the </span><span class="zw-portion">Islamic</span><span class="zw-portion"> state because it is the badd</span><span class="zw-portion">est and richest gang in town. They </span><span class="zw-portion">receive</span><span class="zw-portion"> honor, wealth and </span><span class="zw-portion">can morally commit </span><span class="zw-portion">murders</span><span class="zw-portion">. They are absolved of any remorse</span><span class="zw-portion"> and in fact achieve honor and status through violence.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">T</span><span class="zw-portion">he same </span><span class="zw-portion">Islamic State </span><span class="zw-portion">video that inspired the </span><span class="zw-portion">new </span><span class="zw-portion">Algerian</span><span class="zw-portion"> group praised another jihadist group, </span><span class="zw-portion">Ansar</span><span class="zw-portion"> Bayt al-</span><span class="zw-portion">Maqdis</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">operat</span><span class="zw-portion">ing in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula</span><span class="zw-portion"> for their beheadings</span><span class="zw-portion">. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis pledged </span><span class="zw-portion">allegiance</span><span class="zw-portion"> to the Islamic State </span><span class="zw-portion">by beheading </span><span class="zw-portion">eight</span><span class="zw-portion"> people, </span><span class="zw-portion">videotaping</span><span class="zw-portion"> and posting </span><span class="zw-portion">the</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">beheadings</span><span class="zw-portion"> online. </span><span class="zw-portion">By</span><span class="zw-portion"> prais</span><span class="zw-portion">ing the beheadings</span><span class="zw-portion"> the Islamic </span><span class="zw-portion">State sanction</span><span class="zw-portion">ed</span><span class="zw-portion"> the violence and sen</span><span class="zw-portion">t</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">a message</span><span class="zw-portion"> to others </span><span class="zw-portion">that </span><span class="zw-portion">you </span><span class="zw-portion">too </span><span class="zw-portion">will be honored by beheading our enemies.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A lone wolf also</span><span class="zw-portion"> heeded the Islamic State’s call to vengeance</span><span class="zw-portion">. On Sept. </span><span class="zw-portion">23 </span><span class="zw-portion">an </span><span class="zw-portion">Australian</span><span class="zw-portion"> teenager</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Numan</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Haider</span><span class="zw-portion"> attacked</span><span class="zw-portion"> a Victorian police officer and a federal police agent outside Endeavour Hills police station in Melbourne, Australia. The 18-year-old slashed one </span><span class="zw-portion">officer</span><span class="zw-portion"> with a </span><span class="zw-portion">knife</span><span class="zw-portion"> pretending to shake his hand and stabbed another officer in the arm, stomach and head. He was immediately </span><span class="zw-portion">k</span><span class="zw-portion">illed with a single shot. </span><span class="zw-portion">When</span><span class="zw-portion"> his body was</span><span class="zw-portion"> searched </span><span class="zw-portion">they found</span><span class="zw-portion"> a larger knife and an Islamic State flag.</span><span class="zw-portion"> It was reported that he was under instructions from the Islamic State to </span><span class="zw-portion">behead</span><span class="zw-portion"> the</span><span class="zw-portion"> officers</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> cover the</span><span class="zw-portion">ir</span><span class="zw-portion"> bodies in the </span><span class="zw-portion">IS </span><span class="zw-portion">flag and then take photos to post </span><span class="zw-portion">on </span><span class="zw-portion">social media</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion">  </span><span class="zw-portion">Islamic State</span><span class="zw-portion"> propaganda</span><span class="zw-portion"> inspired </span><span class="zw-portion">all of these beheadings. Their messaging</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">appeal</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> to</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">disaffected young </span><span class="zw-portion">people who feel humiliated</span><span class="zw-portion"> and disenfranchised. They provide a method for them to r</span><span class="zw-portion">estor</span><span class="zw-portion">e their honor and respect</span><span class="zw-portion"> through</span><span class="zw-portion"> blood </span><span class="zw-portion">vengeance</span><span class="zw-portion">.  In their </span><span class="zw-portion">Sept</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> 21</span><span class="zw-portion">st</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">audiotape, two days prior to </span><span class="zw-portion">stabbing </span><span class="zw-portion">two</span><span class="zw-portion"> police officers</span><span class="zw-portion">, the language in the video</span><span class="zw-portion"> promise</span><span class="zw-portion">d </span><span class="zw-portion">Numan</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Haider</span><span class="zw-portion"> honor in life or death.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">An </span><span class="zw-portion">Islamic State soldier</span><span class="zw-portion">… &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">has realized that the life of his nation is through blood and the honor of his nation is through blood. So he went on with a bare chest and bare head towards death eagerly searching for life and honor. If he survives, he lives as a victor with freedom, might, honor, and authority. And if he is killed, he illuminates the path for those after him and goes on to his Lord as a joyful martyr. He has taught those after him that might, honor, and life are through jihad and being killed, and that humiliation, disgrace, and death are through submission and subservience.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Pledging</span><span class="zw-portion"> allegiance through a ‘blood in’ </span><span class="zw-portion">beheading</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">initiation</span><span class="zw-portion"> ritual is the latest phenomenon in the global jihad. The next</span><span class="zw-portion"> beheading ritual could be a</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">lone wolf in the United States, Canada or Europe or it could</span><span class="zw-portion"> be </span><span class="zw-portion">Philippine</span><span class="zw-portion"> jihadist</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> members of the</span><span class="zw-portion"> Abu Sayyaf</span><span class="zw-portion"> group</span><span class="zw-portion"> who</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">according to a transcript provided by </span><span class="zw-portion">the </span><span class="zw-portion">SITE</span><span class="zw-portion"> Institute</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">ha</span><span class="zw-portion">ve</span><span class="zw-portion"> announced that it is holding two German citizens and ha</span><span class="zw-portion">ve</span><span class="zw-portion"> threatened to kill them if Germany does not back out of the intervention in Syria</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Blood-in.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/378657_ISIL-David-Haines.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241064" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/378657_ISIL-David-Haines-450x341.jpg" alt="378657_ISIL-David-Haines" width="342" height="259" /></a>The Sept. 13, 2014 beheading video of David Haines, British aid worker and military veteran, is almost identical to the Foley and Sotloff productions establishing an Islamic State forensic signature, PSYOPS pattern and a winning recruitment strategy. The David Haines beheading video titled “A message to the allies of America” is addressed to Prime Minister David Cameron who failed rapper turned jihadi executioner calls the “obedient lapdog” of America. This expression is a double insult signifying that he is controlled by America and intrinsically impure. The in your face disrespect will have particular appeal in recruiting British Islamists. Although the latest victim David Haines is British, the beheading video continues to symbolically reference Gitmo by making the hostages wear orange clothing. The disarticulated head placed on the center back of the body is identical to the forensic signature of the beheadings by Al Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor group to Islamic State. The end of the video is a uniquely terrifying characteristic of IS messaging displaying their next victim, in this case hostage Alan Henning.  Similar to the two previous videos, Haines is not murdered on film and only ten seconds of the 2:30 second film displays violent imagery. Unlike the Foley and Sotloff videos that humiliated President Obama the Haines video was easily accessible online.</p>
<p>Although the beheading video was addressed to Prime Minister Cameron it was also a response to the ineffectiveness of President Obama’s September 10, 2014 speech that obviously did not strike fear into the hearts of the IS. The Presidents refusal to call the Islamic State by their chosen name or to recognize them as Islamic or a state not only demonstrated his inability to understand the threat but symbolically reflected an unwillingness to know and face the enemy. A semiotic principle expressed in magical thinking is that fear of naming something represents actual fear of the thing itself. Ancient societies believed in word magic, the idea that words, particularly names are imbued with magical powers. They attached great importance to the knowledge of names and believed that to know the true name of something gives one power over it. Furthermore it was a common belief that pronouncing the names of gods or demons in their original form and language would bring them into existence. That is the origin of the expression ‘speak of the devil and he will appear’. To name something makes it real and a force to be reckoned with. Hence to choose politically correct messaging that creates taboo words such as Islamic, State or War has the unintended consequence of evincing fear and weakness. Conversely, tribal warrior cultures like the Islamic State instinctively understand the power of words.</p>
<p>The significance of names as a form of symbolic warfare is evident in gang graffiti where it is common for gang members to cross out names of rival gangs. For example, to spray paint over another gangs tag, cross it out and then put your name up right next to it is an act of disrespect. Crossing out a rivals name and putting a &#8216;K&#8217; next to it, signifies your intent to kill a member of that rival gang if they come into your territory. This is precisely the same message that the Islamic State sent in their beheading videos, if you enter our territory we will kill a member of your gang. By making good on their threats to kill, the Islamic State raised their street cred. Their credibility and level of respect is what attracts new recruits. Islamic State beheading videos and social media messaging should be interpreted in the same manner as gang codes. For example, the hundreds of IS beheadings of soldiers and civilians can be understood as initiation rituals similar to the concept of ‘Blood in Blood Out’ which requires a new member to commit murder. The beheading videos can be viewed as similar to the revenge threats coded in gang graffiti dissing President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron. Similar to gangs without the appropriate timely, symbolic and proportional response the videotaped revenge killings will not only continue but escalate.</p>
<p>Islamic State recruitment has been so successful because they understand the signs, symbols and language of the street and the urge to jihad. This is evident in the thousands of Westerners they recruited to join the fight in Syria and Iraq. Conversely The State Department’s ‘Think Again Turn Away’ campaign demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of jihadist messaging. The campaign which utilizes twitter, Facebook and jihadist own violent imagery to attempt to dissuade foreign recruitment into IS is based upon a nonexistent we-are-the-world shared humanitarian rational worldview that presumes everyone is appalled by acts of brutality.  The campaign is based on a false premise that permeates President Obama’s policies and strategies, a fallacy of universal characteristics of human nature, in this case the belief that all people are inherently good and strive for the same things. The Obama fallacy can only comprehend beheadings, violence and terrorism as a direct or indirect result of oppression, colonization, child abuse, poverty, lack of education or some other social ill.  This dangerous misconception is also responsible for the inexplicable denial that countries can be invaded and conquered in the 21st century and the denial that Islamist jihadists around the globe want to rule the world.</p>
<p>While the state department sometimes utilizes the words shame and honor in their messaging they completely misunderstand the nature of warrior honor cultures, particularly the importance of instilling fear, showing strength and making good on their threats. Once the Islamic State took control of cities, like any gang or cartel, any attempts to reclaim designated territory provokes revenge killings.  The president’s refusal to acknowledge the conquered territory in Iraq and Syria as an Islamic State reveals that the administration does not comprehend that when Westerners join IS they are essentially pledging allegiance to another country, the enemies of America. Instead of ‘Think Again Turn Away’, a better slogan would be ‘Join Jihad, Lose Citizenship, Stay Away’.</p>
<p>Similar to President Obama the Prime Minister refuses to call the enemy by name and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg does not recognize them as a state. In response to the beheading of David Haines Prime Minister David Cameron said, ‘They are killing and slaughtering thousands of people – Christians, Muslims, minorities across Iraq and Syria. They boast of their brutality. They claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is nonsense. Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters”….“This murderous organisation calls itself Islamic State. But it is not a state, it is a brutal terrorist outfit” The hundreds of potential British recruits interpret this language as punk ass fear unworthy of respect. The Islamic State names their enemies and through the power of words, images and videos they sounded a call to arms throughout the world. Their first strategic advantage is their willingness to name their adversary, hence the acknowledgement that they are ready, willing and able to confront the West. Their second strategic advantage is the West’s reluctance to name them which allows Islamist jihadists to live in America and Britain hiding in plain sight. It’s time for the West to properly name, thereby, accept the nature of their enemy.</p>
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		<title>Beheading Infidels: How Allah ‘Heals the Hearts of Believers’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic State traces its most gory and sadistic practices straight to Allah and Muhammad.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/taliban-sword-11052007.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240748" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/taliban-sword-11052007.jpg" alt="taliban-sword-11052007" width="282" height="229" /></a>To understand why the Islamic State not only decapitates its “infidel” captives, but also mutilates and mocks their corpses—and all to sadistic laughter—one need only turn to the Koran and deeds of Islamic prophet Muhammad.</p>
<p>The Koran exhorts believers to “Fight them [those who oppose Islam], Allah will torment them with your hands, humiliate them, empower you over them, and heal the hearts of the believers, removing the rage from their hearts” (Koran 9:14-15).</p>
<p>As usual, to understand the significance of any Koran verse, one must turn to the <i>sira</i> and <i>hadith</i>—the biography and anecdotes of Muhammad, respectively—for context.</p>
<p>Thus we come to the following account concerning the slaughter of ‘Amr bin Hisham, a pagan Arab chieftain originally  known as “Abu Hakim” (Father of Wisdom) until Muhammad dubbed him “Abu Jahl” (Father of Stupidity) for his staunch opposition to Islam.</p>
<p>After ‘Amr was mortally wounded by a new convert to Islam during the Battle of Badr, Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud, a close companion of Muhammad, saw the “infidel” chieftain collapsed on the ground.  So he went to him and started abusing him.  Among other things, Abdullah grabbed and pulled ‘Amr’s beard and stood in triumph on the dying man’s chest.</p>
<p>According to <i>Al-Bidaya wa Al-Nihaya</i> (“The Beginning and the End”), Ibn Kathir’s authoritiative history of Islam, “<span style="color: #0433ff;">After</span> that, he [Abdullah] cut his [‘Amr’s] head off and bore it till he placed it between the hands of the Prophet. <i>Thus did Allah heal the hearts of the believers with it</i>.”</p>
<p>This, then, is the true significance of Koran 9:14-15: “Fight them, Allah will torment them with your hands [mortally wounding and eventually decapitating ‘Amr], humiliate them [pulling his beard], empower you over them [standing atop him], and heal the hearts of the believers, removing the rage from their hearts [at the sight of his decapitated head].”</p>
<p>The logic here is that, pious Muslims are so full of zeal for Allah’s cause that the only way their inflamed hearts can be at rest is to see those who oppose Allah and his prophet utterly crushed—humiliated, mutilated, decapitated.  Then the hearts of the believers can be at ease and “healed.”</p>
<p>This is surely one of the reasons behind the Islamic State’s dissemination of gory videos and pictures of its victims: the new “caliphate” is trying to heal the hearts of every believer inflamed for the cause of Allah.</p>
<p>If this sounds too farfetched, consider the following picture of a decapitated “infidel” from the Islamic State’s websites.  The Arabic caption to the left says “healing for hearts”—a clear reference to the aforementioned Koran verse:</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed1.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240734 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed1-450x258.png" alt="unnamed1" width="450" height="258" /></a></p>
<p>Koran 96:15-16 also alludes to the fate of ‘Amr and offers more context applicable to the Islamic State: “No! If he does not desist, we will surely drag him by the forelock—a lying, sinning forelock.”</p>
<p>According to al-Alusi’s <i>tafsir</i>, or exegesis, after Abdullah placed his foot on the dying foe of Islam, ‘Amr opened his eyes and recognized him.  The once proud chieftain lamented that he was being killed by a common “goat herder,” to which Abdullah replied, “Islam elevates and nothing is elevated above it.”  He then sheared his head off.  “But he could not carry it, so he made holes in the ears and put thread through them and dragged the head to the prophet.  Then Gabriel, peace be upon him, came laughing and saying, “O prophet, you got an ear and an ear—and the head between for a bonus!”</p>
<p>Based, then, on the treatment of ‘Amr bin Hisham (AKA “Abu Jahl”) as recorded in Islam’s core texts—Koran, hadith, sira, and tafsirs—all sadistic acts being carried out by the Islamic State were in fact committed by the earliest Muslims and all to the complete approval of Muhammad (and apparently the “angel” Gabriel, too).  They include:</p>
<p>•Beheadings and mutilations (e.g., holes in ears of ‘Amr)</p>
<p>•Humiliation and gestures of triumph (feet on chest of fallen victim, dragging his body, or head, on the ground)</p>
<p>•Laughter, mockery, and celebration (for the hearts of the believers are now “healed”)</p>
<p>Indeed, along with the “healing for hearts” image above, consider some other pictures taken from the Islamic State’s websites and how well they conform to the above accounts describing the slaughter of ‘Amr#:</p>
<p>Note how in the following four pictures, to demonstrate that the enemies of Islam have been brought low, as Koran 9:14-15 promised, Islamic State members make it a point to place their feet atop their fallen corpses, most of which were first decapitated.  Note also how the ubiquitous black flag of Islam is always raised above the fallen “infidels”—a reminder that “Islam elevates and nothing is elevated above it,” as Abdullah told ‘Amr, with his foot on his chest, before beheading him.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240735 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed2-450x271.jpg" alt="unnamed2" width="450" height="271" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed31.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240739 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed31-450x274.jpg" alt="unnamed3" width="450" height="274" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed4.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240740 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed4-450x241.jpg" alt="unnamed4" width="450" height="241" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed5.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240741 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed5-450x301.jpg" alt="unnamed5" width="450" height="301" /></a></p>
<p>Note the jocularity in the following picture—reminiscent of the “angel” Gabriel laughing and joking about the mutilated head of ‘Amr.  (If Allah’s angel finds such human carnage amusing, shouldn’t Allah’s jihadi servants as well?)</p>
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<p>The following picture is reminiscent of how ‘Amr’s head was treated: mutilated and dragged on the ground.  In this case, it is a decapitated body that is being degraded:</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed8.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240743 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed8-450x315.jpg" alt="unnamed8" width="450" height="315" /></a></p>
<p>The next two pictures are of especial interest because they actually use the relatively arcane Arabic word <i>haz </i>(bottom left-hand corner), which literally means “to make an incision,” to describe the beheading of Islam’s enemies.  The standard Arabic word for “cut” generally used to describe a beheading is <i>qata‘</i>.  That the word used (<i>haz</i>) is the same word found in the early jihad literature is no coincidence and indicative of the source of inspiration: Islam’s scriptures.</p>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed6.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240744 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed6-450x259.jpg" alt="unnamed6" width="450" height="259" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed7.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-240745 aligncenter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/unnamed7-450x248.jpg" alt="unnamed7" width="450" height="248" /></a></p>
<p>In short, not only are the members of the Islamic State closely patterning themselves after Muhammad—whom Koran 33:21 exhorts believers to emulate in all ways—but even in the most sadistic of details are they finding support in their prophet.</p>
<p>Nor should it come as any surprise that Muslims are aware of these accounts from early Islamic history.  After all, the near hagiographic Battle of Badr, including the story of ‘Amr’s slaughter, is routinely glorified worldwide in mosque sermons, on Islamic satellite stations, and in Islamic texts.  It is a source of great pride.</p>
<p>Thus when young Muslims express their anger and frustration at the state of affairs of the Islamic world, their clerics council them to go to the jihad in Iraq and Syria and decapitate themselves an infidel—which, according to the Koran, should “heal their hearts.”</p>
<p>(Perhaps that’s why one former British rock star and convert to Islam <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2739006/Revealed-How-middle-aged-mother-two-Kent-used-girl-rock-band-reinvented-jihadi-threatening-behead-Christians-blunt-knife.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is so eager to decapitate Christians</span></a>?  Perhap that’s why a jihadi savagely pulled out and <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/13/303319/syria-rebel-cuts-eats-soldiers-heart/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">bit into the heart</span></a> of a fallen Syrian soldier—to heal his own heart by sating his rage against Allah’s “enemies”?)</p>
<p>Such Muslims join the jihad, and not only do they decapitate, but they mutilate, humiliate, and laugh at the disgraced enemies of Allah—in perfect emulation of the Islamic glory/gory stories they grew up on.</p>
<p>This is the true cult of jihad which few non-Muslims can begin to comprehend—and little wonder, considering that their political leaders, professors, and media continue to babble foolishly about how Islam is the “religion of peace.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 04:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Howard Rotberg]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why "losing your head" won't be just a metaphor for us much longer.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis-syria.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240446" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis-syria-450x252.jpg" alt="isis-syria" width="334" height="187" /></a>The most important story of the day is O.J. Simpson’s supposed <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/report-circulates-that-o-j-simpson-has-converted-to-islam-in-prison">conversion to Islam</a> in prison.</p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>If this is true, it teaches us a lot about the profound attraction to Islam for those who repudiate the Ten Commandments or the Seven Noahite laws: Islamist Muslims do not accept the commandment applicable to Jews and Christians not to murder. More widely, this religion (or has it become, or has it always been, an ideology in the guise of a religion, or is it a religion that has been taken over by evil fundamentalists?) now appeals to murderers, wife beaters, pedophiles and racists.</p>
<p>Congratulations O.J. Simpson, you have been redeemed. (And lookout world!) Are there &#8220;moderate Muslims&#8221;? I know many good Muslim people, but they have to be committed to MAJOR reform of Islam and hence have an almost insurmountable task which may take a few hundred years, and I am not sure we have that long if Iran gets the nuclear bomb.  And those who are admitted to our country must first have to repudiate certain views that are at present ascribed to their religion. Big problem.</p>
<p>I fear that some people will choose to suddenly become very angry or upset to go with the latest excuse they can find to do what their baser instincts want, and will be off to the store to buy a machete, as beheading becomes the hippest crime of our times. &#8220;Losing your head&#8221; won&#8217;t just be a metaphor anymore for becoming confused or overly emotional about someone or something, or for suddenly becoming very angry or upset, or not having control of your emotions. &#8220;Losing your head&#8221; will exclusively apply to those who by their beliefs, gender, religion, nationality, or commitment to freedoms have given offense to Islamists who require for symbolic purposes to further Jihad by separating the “offenders’” heads from their bodies with or without displaying same on a fence post or stick or passing it around to children to pose in front of the cameras.</p>
<p>So, I am very concerned about all these jailhouse conversions of thugs, mainly but not exclusively black, to the “religion of peace” which is actually the “religion that appeals to thugs”.  Not only because upon conversion their past sins are forgiven.  (Christianity has a certain appeal to those who want to accept Jesus and get forgiveness of their sins. But the conversions to Christianity tend to be with convicts who want forgiveness so that they can start over and live morally). The conversion to Islam is attractive to those who see (in their eyes, at least) a religion in which they can pursue murder, spousal and child abuse, racism, and loss of their identity within a mass movement where Jihad needs their special skills.     We have a problem.</p>
<p>I have lost my head many times in my anger over what is happening to freedoms in the West and what I perceive as a Muslim-backed anti-Semitism growing in the West. But I am now facing losing my head in a very different way. I used to give lectures, but after being shouted down by Islamists who stopped my lecture by shouting me down with taunts of “f&#8212;ing Jew” without the police or the authors’ rights or civil rights or mainstream Jewish organizations coming to my assistance, I don’t lecture much anymore.  In fact, I don’t travel too much, anymore. According to my doctor it is best for your health to keep your head while others around you are losing theirs.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">During his yearlong captivity at the hands of the barbarians from Islamic State, Steven Sotloff’s colleagues in Israeli media organs purged all of his articles from their websites to erase his connections to Israel and hide the fact that he was an Israeli citizen. So, too, every effort was made to hide the fact that he was Jewish.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The reason was clear. Given the genocidal Jew-hatred endemic in jihadist doctrine, it was obvious that if Sotloff’s Judaism was exposed, he would have been singled out for torture and execution.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Much has been written since Islamic State released the video of its British executioner chopping off James Foley’s head last month. We have been told by leaders and commentators alike that with this singular crime, Islamic State awakened the sleeping lion of the West. That act of barbarism, we have been assured, will now force the US to lead a global coalition against this Islamic army of butchers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Clearly Islamic State is not convinced. With the release of the Sotloff beheading video this week, it appears that Islamic State thinks its cinematographers will move the West in another direction – apathy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Foley’s execution video ended with the preview of coming attractions for the Sotloff execution video.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And the Sotloff execution video ended with the preview of a British hostage’s execution video.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By releasing the films gradually, Islamic State is apparently trying to routinize beheadings. Its leaders are probably betting that by the seventh or eighth beheading video, we will greet the violence with a shrug of our shoulders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In this, Islamic State is channeling Iran, the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Taliban.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">No, it isn’t that all these terror-supporting regimes and terror groups have engaged in beheading. It is simply that when they began engaging in terrorism, their actions shocked the civilized world until their actions didn’t shock the civilized world anymore.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Once the shock wore off, these terror states and enterprises began enjoying the stature of legitimate parties to a political dispute. As Islamic State sees it, it is only a matter of time before it too is accepted as a legitimate force in world affairs.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To understand why its gamble may well pay off, it is worth considering a seemingly unrelated matter.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At the beginning of the week, the ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor group was expelled from a Mayan village in Guatemala. Earlier this year Lev Tahor members had fled to Guatemala from Canada.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They left Canada to evade a child abuse probe.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The group set up shop in Canada after fleeing Israel, due to similar charges.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Lev Tahor is a fanatical cult that numbers a few hundred members. Its women and girls are clad in all-black robes and covered from head to toe. The only thing they are allowed to expose is their faces.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to Canadian child services authorities, Lev Tahor married off girls as young as 12. Its members routinely engage in polygamy. Child abuse, including forced medication with unprescribed psychiatric drugs and starvation, is allegedly rampant.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, according to Canadian officials, the cult denies its children access to education.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Lev Tahor’s alleged behavioral norms are an affront to the rule of law and human rights. Although the cult was apparently expelled from the village in Guatemala due to anti-Semitism, its members fled both the Canadian and the Israeli authorities to evade prosecution.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And yet for all of its alleged moral depravity and criminal behavior, that fact is that Lev Tahor’s treatment of its girls is certainly no worse, and in many respects better, than the treatment that Islamic societies mete out on their girls and women. And the sad truth is that for hundreds of thousands of Muslim women and girls in the West, their residency in human rights-protecting societies has failed to protect them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Consider female genital mutilation, which Lev Tahor is not accused of engaging in.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In late July, Islamic State forces in Mosul, Iraq, decreed that all girls and women between the ages of 12 and 42 must have their genitals mutilated.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The order was an act of pure evil. Yet it was not particularly controversial within the Islamist context Islamic State operates.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Soeren Kern wrote for the Gatestone Institute last July, throughout the world, some 140 million women and girls, the overwhelming majority of whom are Muslims, have been subjected to the barbaric practice. Three million girls under the age of 15 are forced to undergo clitoridectomies each year.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In Europe, at least 180,000 Muslim females have undergone this defilement. According to British authorities, in England alone, at least 20,000 girls are at risk of “being cut” each year.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Yet, despite the cruelty and degradation inherent to female genital mutilation, and despite the fact that under British law, anyone found guilty of carrying out this practice is supposed to face criminal charges and up to 14 years in prison, so far no one has been convicted and only a five or six offenders have even been charged for the crime.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are two principal causes for British authorities’ failure to protect Muslim girls residing in England. First, neither the children themselves, who live in a permanent state of terror and abuse, nor their communities, which turn a blind eye, and so condone the practice, are willing to come forward and finger those responsible for this endemic abuse and violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And second, non-Islamic British authorities, including welfare workers and teachers, who are in a position to protect the children, are unwilling to stick their necks out. This unwillingness has two causes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, they fear for their lives. The murder of Theo van Gogh and the repeated attempts by Muslim fanatics to execute the Danish cartoonists who drew the caricatures of Muhammad are central components of the cost-benefit analysis most Westerners carry out when considering whether or not to get involved with human rights abuses carried out by Muslims.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Second, they fear excommunication from and defamation at the hands of the Left. Over the past 15 years, the international Left has consistently expanded its political alliance with Islamists in the West.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Among other things, this alliance has required the Left to turn a blind eye to barbaric Islamic practices like female genital mutilation and rape and to defame those who dare to openly oppose these reactionary, obscene behaviors as Islamophobic racists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And so we have a situation where, both at home and abroad, the West has become habituated to Islamic barbarism and passive in the face of its expanding threat to their lives and their way of life both abroad and at home. Observing this behavior, clearly Islamic State’s terror masters are betting that once habituated to the beheading of Westerners, the West will yawn and go to sleep as Islamic State expands its conquests to additional countries.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It isn’t that the Westerners, led by the leftist elite, lack the ability to feel or express moral outrage. It is just that they refuse to direct it against Islamic jihadists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to their political alliance with the Islamists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The only meaningful commonality between Islamist and leftist dogma is hatred for Jews with power, first and foremost for Israel. And the singular creation of this alliance is the sides’ joint determination that it isn’t racist to hate the Jewish state, or Jews who refuse to condemn it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In this state of affairs, the only outlet that leftists have for their moral outrage is Israel. Because while they fear being called racist, they know that being anti-Semitic will not expose them to charges of racism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And they know Jews won’t assault them for attacking Israel and its supporters. So they project all the crimes perpetrated by Islamic fanatics on Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For instance, this week Megan Marzec, the president of Ohio University’s Student Senate, posted a video of herself dousing herself in a bucket of “blood.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Marzec explained, “This bucket of blood symbolizes the thousands of displaced and murdered Palestinians – atrocities which OU is directly complacent in [sic] through cultural and economic ties with the Israeli state.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, she accused Israel of the crimes Hamas seeks to inflict on Israel, and of the crimes that Islamist forces, such as al-Qaida, Islamic State and Boko Haram, are currently carrying out in their areas of operations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The growing prevalence of anti-Semitism in leftist circles has placed Jewish leftists in a vulnerable position.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Their ideological movement is denying Jews the right to self-defense and self-determination and siding with Islamists who seek to annihilate them. For a growing number of leftist Jews, their new status as members of a hated group has made them feel it necessary to publicly side with Israel’s enemies against it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Consider the recent New York Times op-ed by Antony Lerman which ran under the title “The End of Liberal Zionism.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Lerman insisted that there is no way to square Zionism with liberal values.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to this disaffected Jewish leftist, “The only Zionism of any consequence today is xenophobic and exclusionary, a Jewish ethno-nationalism inspired by religious messianism. It is carrying out an open-ended project of national self-realization to be achieved through colonization and purification of the tribe.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But of course, outside the fringes of Israeli society, no such movement exists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather, Lerman is describing Islamic supremacism and, like his fellow leftists, projecting its pathologies on Israel, which Islamic supremacists seek to destroy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Lerman quoted an article published a few weeks before his in The New York Review of Books by Jonathan Freedland titled “Liberal Zionism After Gaza.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Freedland argued that as the two-state solution becomes more and more remote, liberal Zionists “will have to decide which of their political identities matters more, whether they are first a liberal or first a Zionist.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But this is of course absurd. The only way a person can uphold liberal values is by being a Zionist. Israel is the only country in the region that is a human rights-respecting liberal democracy that is governed by the rule of law.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What is becoming more and more difficult is being a Zionist while being a leftist. As the Left becomes more and more tied to Islamic fanatics, anti-Semitism is going to become more and more of a staple of leftist dogma. And that anti-Semitism will express itself first and foremost as a virulent rejection of Israel and of Jews who refuse to disavow and condemn the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Sotloff reportedly maintained faith with his Judaism in secret while in captivity. He refused food on Yom Kippur and secretly prayed toward Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In so doing, he showed that the evil that controlled him physically, could not penetrate his soul. For this he died a Jewish hero.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Leftist Jews must take a lesson from Sotloff, who was reportedly a product of a Jewish-leftist worldview.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They should understand that the decision they are being required to make is not a choice between liberalism and Zionism, but between liberalism and a reactionary dogma that sits comfortably with genocidal Jew-haters and misogynist oppressors. It shouldn’t be a particularly difficult choice.</span></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/steven-sotloff.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240109" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/steven-sotloff-450x329.jpg" alt="steven-sotloff" width="304" height="222" /></a>A</span><span class="zw-portion"> video, entitled “A Second Message to America,” </span><span class="zw-portion">was released on September </span><span class="zw-portion">2nd</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">purporting to show </span><span class="zw-portion">the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff</span><span class="zw-portion"> by an ISIS jihadist</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">The Obama administration could not immediately verify the authenticity of the video. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Meanwhile, as strange as it may seem, ISIS itself decried the early release of the video “before the official time,” but did not deny responsibility for the barbaric act. Apparently, ISIS not only combines its medieval </span><span class="zw-portion">barbarism </span><span class="zw-portion">with 21</span><span class="zw-portion">st</span><span class="zw-portion"> century social media technology, but also </span><span class="zw-portion">wants to time the </span><span class="zw-portion">marketing</span><span class="zw-portion"> of</span><span class="zw-portion"> its barbarism</span><span class="zw-portion"> for maximum </span><span class="zw-portion">prime time </span><span class="zw-portion">effect.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Mr. Sotloff</span><span class="zw-portion"> was </span><span class="zw-portion">reportedly </span><span class="zw-portion">executed</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the same manner as </span><span class="zw-portion">the journalist </span><span class="zw-portion">James Foley </span><span class="zw-portion">was </span><span class="zw-portion">two weeks ago</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">The chilling voice in the video, which appeared to be same voice </span><span class="zw-portion">with a British accent</span><span class="zw-portion"> that was heard</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">o</span><span class="zw-portion">n the video </span><span class="zw-portion">of Mr. Foley’s execution, uttered these taunting words directed at President Obama:</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State, because of your insistence on continuing your bombings and … on Mosul Dam, despite our serious warnings. You Obama, have but to gain from your actions but another American citizen. So just as your missiles continue to strike out people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">We take this opportunity to warn those governments that enter this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State to back off and leave our people alone.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">President Obama himself did not have any immediate comment. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, </span><span class="zw-portion">upon </span><span class="zw-portion">learning about the beheading while speaking to reporters at the daily White House press briefing, said that he was not then in a position to confirm t</span><span class="zw-portion">he authenticity of the video</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> but </span><span class="zw-portion">said: </span><span class="zw-portion">“Our thoughts and prayers, first and foremost, are with Mr. Sotloff and Mr. Sotloff&#8217;s family and those who worked with him</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">The United States, as you know, has dedicated significant time and resources</span><span class="zw-portion"> to try and rescue Mr. Sotloff.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Whether the Obama administration did everything it could to rescue </span><span class="zw-portion">Steven Sotloff</span><span class="zw-portion"> and James Foley is in question. The White House is said to have delayed a decision on whether to launch a rescue operation for at least 30 days, according to a report in </span><span class="zw-portion">The Sunday Times of London</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> That could well have made the difference between success and failure.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">State D</span><span class="zw-portion">epartment </span><span class="zw-portion">Deputy S</span><span class="zw-portion">pokeswoman Jen Psaki said that if the </span><span class="zw-portion">latest beheading </span><span class="zw-portion">video was genuine, “we are sickened by this brutal act.” However, she refused, in response to a question, to characterize Mr. Sotloff&#8217;s execution as an act of war. “I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a useful exercise to go back and forth about new terms,” she remarked. “What&#8217;s important is what we&#8217;re doing about it.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The Obama administration’s solution, Ms. Psaki said, was to create “an international coalition to address this threat.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The question is why President</span><span class="zw-portion"> Obama has waited this long to begin building the coalition</span><span class="zw-portion">, let alone take any effective action on his own as the leader of the free world</span><span class="zw-portion">. ISIS was identified by our intelligence and military services as a major threat months ago. Yet, as of last week, President Obama shockingly admitted that in dealing with ISIS in Syria &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a strategy yet.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">ISIS reconstituted itself and gathered strength</span><span class="zw-portion"> in Syria before it re-emerged i</span><span class="zw-portion">n Iraq and took over large swaths of territory in northern Iraq. Syria was in effect ground zero for key ISIS bases</span><span class="zw-portion"> from which it launched its attacks</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">Obama was </span><span class="zw-portion">reportedly </span><span class="zw-portion">warned about the growing threat that ISIS posed </span><span class="zw-portion">months ago in great detail, </span><span class="zw-portion">but dismissed ISIS as a junior varsity team.  </span><span class="zw-portion">Obama made </span><span class="zw-portion">his flippant </span><span class="zw-portion">junior varsity </span><span class="zw-portion">remark last January in the face of clear evidence to the contrary, according to a former Pentagon official with knowledge of the </span><span class="zw-portion">daily intelligence briefings that were presented to the president.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">As Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a major varsity team. I see nothing that compares with its viciousness.&#8221; Senator Feinstein added that she believed President Obama was being “too cautious” in dealing with the ISIS threat. That is the understatement of the year.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The former P</span><span class="zw-portion">entagon official was quoted by Fox News as saying that </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;[we] were ready to fire, on a moment&#8217;s noti</span><span class="zw-portion">ce, on a couple hundred targets.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">However, President Obama did not issue the order. Now it is </span><span class="zw-portion">more urgent than ever </span><span class="zw-portion">to do so</span><span class="zw-portion"> without any further delay</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">Saturation bombing</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">using</span><span class="zw-portion"> drones, fighter planes and </span><span class="zw-portion">missiles</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">against </span><span class="zw-portion">all known ISIS locations wherever they are located – in Syria or Iraq – should not have to await the building of a</span><span class="zw-portion">n “international”</span><span class="zw-portion"> coalition.  Obama should for once lead from the front and not from behind.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Moreover, ISIS represents a clear and present danger not only to Americans </span><span class="zw-portion">and U.S. interests </span><span class="zw-portion">in the region where ISIS has taken control</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> but also to Americans right here at home. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Some U.S. citizens and Western Europeans who do not need visas to enter the United States are believed to have joined the ISIS jihadists. These recruits are ready-made time bombs when and if they enter the United States after </span><span class="zw-portion">receiving their training </span><span class="zw-portion">fighting for</span><span class="zw-portion"> the so-called Islamic State. British Prime Minister David Cameron, who, unlike President Obama, immediately cut short his vacation after the Foley video was released, is moving to thwart the return of British jihadists to his country after they have been in the Middle East fighting with ISIS</span><span class="zw-portion">. Prime Minister Cameron</span><span class="zw-portion"> is also planning on strengthening the hand of the police in seizing the passports of individuals trying to join the ISIS jihadists.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">To date, we have heard nothing from President Obama on taking comparable steps to </span><span class="zw-portion">prevent fifth columns of ISIS-trained operatives with U.S. or Western European passports </span><span class="zw-portion">from </span><span class="zw-portion">coming back </span><span class="zw-portion">after </span><span class="zw-portion">their ISIS experience to wage jihad here at home. </span><span class="zw-portion">State Department Deputy Spokeswoman Psaki </span><span class="zw-portion">refused to say whether passports </span><span class="zw-portion">belonging to Americans confirmed to be fighting with ISIS have been revoked</span><span class="zw-portion">, claiming </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;It&#8217;s not as black and white as that</span><span class="zw-portion">.” Yes it is, </span><span class="zw-portion">if </span><span class="zw-portion">the</span><span class="zw-portion"> president</span><span class="zw-portion"> decided to use his executive powers as commander-in-chief for something constructive </span><span class="zw-portion">rather than abusing</span><span class="zw-portion"> the executive order process to usurp Congress’s </span><span class="zw-portion">domestic </span><span class="zw-portion">legislative powers.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Even more ominously, ISIS has taken note of the porous border between the United States and Mexico. </span><span class="zw-portion">“A review of ISIS social media messaging during the week ending August 26 shows that militants are expressing an increased interest in the notion that they could clandestinely infiltrate the southwest border of [the] US, for terror attack,” warns the Texas Department of Public Safety &#8220;situational awareness&#8221; bulletin, obtained by FoxNews.com. “Social media account holders believed to be ISIS militants and propagandists have called for unspecified border operations, or they have sought to raise awareness that illegal entry through Mexico is a viable option,” the bulletin stated</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> as quoted by Fox News</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Instead of taking steps to stop the inflow of illegal aliens across the </span><span class="zw-portion">southern </span><span class="zw-portion">border into the United States, the Obama administration has all but put out the welcome mat</span><span class="zw-portion"> for more illegal aliens to enter</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">Border agents are overwhelmed. Without sufficient National Guard or other military resources </span><span class="zw-portion">monitoring </span><span class="zw-portion">vulnerable portions of the border, it is only a matter of time until ISIS infiltrators make their way into the United States and begin wreaking havoc.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">When will President Obama stop treating ISIS as a junior varsity team and </span><span class="zw-portion">finally </span><span class="zw-portion">act like a senior varsity United States president himself in dealing with the ISIS threat?</span><span class="zw-portion"> Not likely in time.</span></p>
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		<title>Beheadings, Bombings and New York&#8217;s Little Bangladesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 05:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something sinister grows in Brooklyn. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/article-throat-0108.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216527" alt="article-throat-0108" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/article-throat-0108-427x350.jpg" width="299" height="245" /></a>Walk along Church Avenue and turn east onto McDonald Avenue and you will see where the old standards of working class Brooklyn, aging homes with faded American flags and loose siding, surly bars tucked into the shadows of street corners and the last video stores hanging on to a dying industry give way to mosques and grocery stores selling goat meat.</p>
<p>Mosques grow like mushrooms in basements, cell phone stores offer easy ways to wire money back to Bangladesh and old men glare at interlopers, especially if they are infidel women.</p>
<p>This is where Mohammed Siddiquee settled a dispute the old-fashioned way by beheading his landlord.</p>
<p>Mohammed wasn&#8217;t the first man in Brooklyn to use violence to settle a rental dispute, but beheadings are more traditional in his native Bangladesh than in Brooklyn, though over in neighboring Queens, Ashrafuzzaman Khan, Bangladesh&#8217;s most wanted war criminal, heads up the local Islamic Circle of North America, whose Islamist thugs beheaded poets and buried professors in mass graves.</p>
<p>Here in Kensington, where the alphabet streets that march across Brooklyn down to the ocean begin, the bars retreat along with the alphabet from those areas marked by the crescent and the angry glare. And there is another one like it at the other end of the alphabet where the Atlantic Ocean terminates the letters at Avenue Z bookending the Brooklyn alphabet with angry old men and phone cards for Bangladesh.</p>
<p>These spots aren’t no-go zones yet. There aren&#8217;t enough young men with too much welfare and time on their hands who have learned that the police will back off when they burn enough things and councilmen will visit to get their side of the story. That generation will grow up being neither one thing nor the other, ricocheting from American pop culture to the Koran, from parties with the infidels to mosque study sessions until they explode from the contradictions the way that the Tsarnaevs, who huffed pot and the Koran in equal proportions, did.</p>
<p>It isn&#8217;t the old men who plant bombs near 8-year-olds. It isn&#8217;t the young women laughing with their friends outside a pizza parlor, knowing that in a year or two they will have to go back home for an arranged marriage. It is the young men who call themselves Freddy or Mo at the local high school or community college, who drink and do drugs and who all their American friends swear aren&#8217;t serious about religion, until they suddenly become fatally serious.</p>
<p>For now the Bangladeshi settlements in Brooklyn are quiet places where the tenements and shops close off the streets into small private worlds with their own justice systems, feuds and secrets.</p>
<p>“I feel like I’m living in my own country,” the editor of one of the Bangladeshi newspapers in New York, said. “You don’t have to learn English to live here. That’s a great thing!”</p>
<p>Overhead may be the same sky, but Little Bangladesh has been cut off from Brooklyn and attached to a country thousands of miles away. Immigrants step off a plane from Bangladesh at JFK airport, get into a taxi driven by a Bangladeshi playing Bengali pop tapes and step out into a small slice of Bangladesh on McDonald Avenue.</p>
<p>And when the infidels of Brooklyn wander into their territory, they are glared at as the foreign intruders that they are.</p>
<p>After Mohammed beheaded his landlord Mahmud, he rushed to JFK to catch a flight. It was natural for him to think that having settled matters in the traditional fashion; he could fly away without considering what lay in the intervening spaces of the American Dar al-Harb between the Dar al-Islam of Avenue C and the Dar al-Islam of Bangladesh.</p>
<p>For the Mohammeds of Brooklyn, the infidels are the empty air between the rungs of a ladder that their foot passes through without noticing. They are little aware of the other Brooklyn that they are pushing aside, the great stretches of the working middle class, the little homes where police officers and firefighters once lived together with teachers and clerks, where plumbers walked to work and bus drivers got on, where the thousands of small businesses from diners to pharmacies turned the grassy stretches of land into neighborhoods.</p>
<p>Bugs Bunny was born here with his Flatbush accent along with a million real workers, soldiers, sailors, inventors, engineers, bums and salesmen who won wars, broke cases, sobbed in bars and brought dinner home to their families. And now, like so much of the urban working class, they are being swept away by time and tide, not from the familiar shores of Coney Island, but by the murkier waters of the Karnaphuli River and the strange world that its tides bring to Brooklyn.</p>
<p>The city has always had its micro communities; Chinatown at the bottom of Manhattan and Little Tokyo near NYU, Little Brazil off Times Square and Koreatown a block up from the Empire State Building.  The Russians have their stretch of Brighton Beach with its tea rooms and fur coats and Little Italy&#8217;s butcher shops, bakeries and rows of restaurants are still hanging on.</p>
<p>But Islam is not just a culture and the cultures who carry its baggage with them to the old worlds and the new are not toting it along like another ethnic food, a dialect or a national holiday.</p>
<p>In Chinatown, Buddhist temples and protestant churches sit side by side and in Latino neighborhoods, Adventist storefront churches and massive Catholic edifices co-exist; along with them can be found synagogues, Hindu and Zoroastrian temples and the whole dizzying array of religious diversity of a port city defined by its swells and tides of immigrants.</p>
<p>Bangladesh is more than 90 percent Muslim. Hindus are being attacked in the streets of its cities by Islamist mobs because Islam does not co-exist. The other religions of the city do not demand that everyone join them or acknowledge their supremacy and pay them protection money for the right to exist.</p>
<p>Islam does.</p>
<p>Its immigration is also a Jihad, a form of supremacist manifest destiny to colonize the Dar al-Harb and subdue it to the will of a dead prophet with sheer numbers or sheer force.</p>
<p>The number of Bangladeshis in New York has increased by 20 percent in only four years to an estimated 74,000. And those numbers don&#8217;t take into account the unofficial Mohammeds living in basements while nursing their murderous grudges.</p>
<p>Jamaica, Queens is becoming the center of the Bangladeshi presence in New York. Another Mohammed, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, lived here in a low rise development of indistinguishable buildings crammed together and studded with satellite dishes so the dwellers could watch the television programs of their home countries, and plotted the mass murder of Americans.</p>
<p>“We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom,” he said in a video recorded before his planned attack.  His modest goal, in his own words, was to &#8220;destroy America&#8221; and quoted &#8220;Sheikh Osama&#8221; to justify the killing of American women and children.</p>
<p>Mohammed described the United States as the Dar al-Harb, the realm of war, the territory yet to be conquered by the armies of Islam, and said that the only permissible reason for a Muslim to move to the United States was to conquer it by missionary work or by armed terror.</p>
<p>&#8220;I just want something big. Something very big,&#8221; Mohammed said, &#8220;make one step ahead, for the Muslims . . . that will make us one step closer to run the whole world.&#8221;</p>
<p>At this hour no one in Little Korea, Little Italy, Little Brazil, Brighton Beach or Koreatown is plotting to destroy America so that his religion can rule the world. That is what sets the Little Bangladeshes, Little Pakistans, Little Mogadishus and Little Egypts apart from every other immigrant group whose dreams for the future are not overshadowed by the iron dream of Islam.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 04:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their ultimate significance.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Murad.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197215" alt="Murad" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Murad-450x295.jpg" width="315" height="207" /></a>Based on a widely circulated video and statements from the Vatican, it was believed that Fr. Francois Murad, a Catholic Syrian priest, was recently beheaded in Syria.  It was not long before others “<a href="http://it.custodia.org/default.asp?id=4&amp;id_n=23589">vigorously denied</a>” the story, saying that the Christian priest was actually shot dead.  And now that’s fast become the “big” news.  For example, according to the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10153954/Priest-beheaded-in-Syria-video-actually-shot-dead.html">Telegraph</a>, “The footage, said to show Father Francois Murad, 49, as the victim in a brutal summary execution by foreign jihadists is likely to be an older video that bares no relation to the death of the Catholic priest. Father Murad ‘died when he was shot inside his church’ in the northern Syrian Christian village of Ghassaniyeh on June 23, three separate local sources, who did not wish to be named, told the Telegraph.”</p>
<p>So apparently that makes it better?  That seems to be the Telegraph’s take, for it continues: “Claims that Father Murad was one of two men to be decapitated by a foreign jihadist group went viral, with outrage expressed in blogs and articles worldwide.”</p>
<p>So now that he wasn’t beheaded, only shot dead inside his church, there’s no longer any call for “outrage”?</p>
<p>At any rate, welcome to the “distraction” tactic being exploited by the many elements <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/enza-ferreri/christians-in-syria-separating-grim-reality-from-islamist-propaganda/">trying to minimize the atrocities</a> being committed by the jihadis—also known as the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA)—in Syria.  Supporters of these jihadis exploit the fact that, in a time of war, as currently in Syria, news is not always reliable.  They also claim that any news that portrays the Syrian government as the “good guys”—such as nonstop videos of the FSA committing atrocities—is just pro-Assad propaganda, that cannot be trusted (they never seem to see the flipside to this logic, that Western media can be disseminating false anti-Assad propaganda).</p>
<p>Thus, let’s not focus too much on the exact particulars—for indeed, exact information is not always clear—and rather acknowledge the <i>big picture</i>: namely that beheadings have become very common in Syria, even if we don’t always know the identities of those beheaded.  But we do know who are doing the beheadings: al-Qaeda linked jihadis who are trying to transform Syria into a Sharia-ruling emirate.</p>
<p>Consider <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ead_1372329728">the video</a> which some are now saying was not Fr. Murad—who was only shot (whew!)  Whoever the men being beheaded are, what you are witnessing is the true face of the Syria “rebellion”—jihadis, most of them obviously foreigners.  The ring leader appears perhaps Chechnyan, and can hardly speak proper Arabic (but one of the few phrases that he utters that is understandable is “we are enforcing the rules of Allah”).  The bound men are then beheaded to wild cries of “Allahu Akbar!”</p>
<p>To appreciate the frequency of such beheadings, do a quick YouTube search with words like “Syria” and “beheadings,” and you will see any number of graphic videos of Syrians being beheaded by U.S.-backed jihadis.  These are the videos that have still not been identified and removed by YouTube, but which likely soon will.  Before them, there were many others that are now gone.</p>
<p>Among some of the ones currently up, are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4g2b5ziAs4&amp;bpctr=1372875480">A video</a> of reportedly a Syrian policeman, having his head sliced off, to screams of Allahu Akbar; his head is then picked up and chucked to the ground.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyWldmhg00I">A video</a> of reportedly a Muslim apostate to Christianity, either in Tunisia or Syria, also having his head sheared off to screams of Allahu Akbar.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjmH5kU8msc&amp;bpctr=1372876128">A video</a> of a child, prodded by the Free Syrian Army, cutting the heads off of Syrian men for apparently being loyal to the Assad government.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqByC1ccFio&amp;bpctr=1372876763">A video</a> of the FSA making another child hack a man’s head off—again, to cries of Allahu Akbar.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpee0dOcoqg">A video</a> of the FSA torturing and humiliating an obviously mentally-handicapped man, torturing another man, and at the very end beheading a third man—to cries of Allahu Akbar.</li>
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<p>While strictly not a beheading video, let’s also not forget <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/world/meast/syria-eaten-heart">the video</a> of an FSA fighter cutting out and biting into the heart of a dead soldier—the same video Russian president Putin <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/16/putin-warns-against-arming-syrian-rebels">rightly shamed</a> the pr0-FSA West with.   Before biting into the organs of his foe, the cannibalistic jihadi declares, “I swear to Allah, soldiers of Bashar, you dogs—we will eat your heart and livers! Allahu Akbar!”</p>
<p>So what’s to be learned by all this savage carnage, beheadings, cannibalism and what not?  Those who wish to distract will insist that we cannot be sure of all the facts and circumstances—the identity of the executioners, the identity of the victims, the exact context, etc.  They will nitpick and lose sight of the big picture.  Hence the debate on whether Fr. Murad was beheaded or shot  (incidentally, here’s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?client=mv-google&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=US&amp;v=mb9Ur_KMlxI&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;oref=http%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2F&amp;has_verified=1&amp;nomobile=1">a video</a> of a man executed by jihadis in Syria by gunfire—again, to screams of “Allahu Akbar”; it’s not a whole lot better than the beheadings).</p>
<p>Even so, there is one thing we can be absolutely sure about—and it’s perhaps the most significant and existentialist point of these barbaric beheadings: they are all done in the name of the god of Islam; they are all accompanied by cries of distinctly Islamic slogans, most prominently, Allahu Akbar.</p>
<p>This speaks volumes, or at least it should. Even Muslims raping Coptic Christian girls, as in <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/video-christian-girls-gang-raped-to-screams-of-allahu-akbar-in-egypt/">this video</a>, shout this most distinctive of Islamic cries, first uttered by Islam’s prophet himself when attacking non-Muslims.</p>
<p>To understand the significance of all this, consider if Christian groups around the world started beheading people while screaming things like “In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”  What would that say about Christianity?</p>
<p>What does it say about Islam?</p>
<p>Hence the true lesson of Syria’s beheading videos.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Picture-4.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-194797" alt="Picture 4" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Picture-4-450x344.png" width="270" height="206" /></a>“Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar.” This chant, meaning “God is great” in Arabic, is repeatedly heard in this barbaric and savage video clip (below). Amidst a crowd of men standing on a small hill, while women and children watch behind, are three kneeling men – supposedly supporters of Assad’s regime – who are beheaded by a large knife. In the background, someone exclaims, “This is the punishment of the Shabiha.” Sabiha, a militia group, has been unleashed by Assad’s regime as a tool for cracking down and suppressing his opposition.  After the gruesome beheading, in which one of the detached heads falls to the side, another rebel yells, “Place the head of that dog straight.” In Middle Eastern Muslim culture, calling someone a dog is considered a grave insult. The beheading by the Islamists, who appear to be imported from another country and are supposedly connected to the Jabhat Al-Nusra front, is a reference to Islamic Sharia law.</p>
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<p>This recently released video is just one among a plentitude of other videos that draws attention to two significant phenomena. First, the jihadist, Islamist, and Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups have gained substantial control and dominance in various cities in Syria, including Idlib, Aleppo, Homs, and suburbs within Damascus. Secondly, through the operations conducted by the jihadists, Islamists as well as Assad’s regime, the conflict in Syria has increasingly taken sectarian elements; people – particularly minorities – are being slaughtered based solely on their religion. In one <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/world/meast/syria-eaten-heart">video</a> released earlier, a rebel fighter is shown cutting out and biting into the heart of a dead soldier. The leader of these rebels is Khaled Al Hamad, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar. Sakar, who is from the Baba Amro district in Homs, is a former senior figure in the Al Farouq Brigade. In this graphic video, Sakar exclaims, with bloody organ in hand, &#8220;I swear to God, soldiers of Bashar [referring to the Alawite minority], you dogs – we will eat your heart and livers! God is great! Oh my heroes of Baba Amr, you slaughter the Alawites and take their hearts out to eat them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Recently, the Obama administration – after the Syrian conflict entered its third year and long after critical world powers have taken decisive action – has decided to make a policy decision to arm the Syrian rebels. For the last three years, the Obama administration has preferred to use the “wait and see” policy in Syria: avoiding taking robust geopolitical and strategic action against Assad’s regime, avoiding taking a leadership role, and leaving the destiny of Syria to be determined by Russian, Iranian and Hezbollah leaders. Currently, the liberals have been projecting the Obama administration’s current strategy to arm the rebels as a tactically successful policy achievement.</p>
<p>First of all, it is crucial to point out that although the Obama administration has made one of the most significant strategic, geopolitical, and security policy gaffes in the last decade by not taking leadership when the popular uprisings first erupted in Syria, the current and delayed policy decision to arm the rebels will in fact fuel more severe repercussions to U.S. national interest in the Middle East and beyond. Undoubtedly, Syria is the closest military and strategic ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as a sworn enemy of Israel. If the Obama administration had taken a more robust course of action earlier, when the peaceful uprisings first started, the United States would have been capable of achieving a vital strategic and geopolitical breakthrough by revising Assad’s brutal regime and completely isolating Iran in the region. This would have accumulated further pressure on Iran by shifting the balance of power in the region, eventually leading to the regime’s collapse.</p>
<p>The delayed decision to arm the rebels will result in a more severe backlash against U.S. national and security interests. The reason is that currently the jihadists, Islamists and Al-Qaeda-linked groups are the most dominant, aggressive, and successful forces among the rebel forces throughout Syria. These groups are sworn to turn Syria, Lebanon and Iraq into an uncompromisingly Islamic state, ruled by Islamic and Sharia law. In addition, there is no command-and-control system between other rebel groups. As a result, arming the rebels equates to directly or indirectly financing and arming these terrorist groups who are implementing atrocious practices like beheading and mass execution and other inhumane behaviors.</p>
<p>Although liberals argue that the U.S. will send arms to the “good” rebels, it is nearly impossible to distinguish the “good” rebels from the barbaric ones anymore. It is unrealistic to insure that arms and weapons will fall into the hand of the peaceful revolutionaries; in fact, they are more likely to fall into the hands of the same Islamist and Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups who are slaughtering, beheading, and mass-executing people and pushing for a Sharia-law based Islamist state. These are the severe repercussions of not taking leadership in Syria, adopting a “wait and see” policy, and being among one of the last countries to make a decision on such a strategically and geopolitically critical issue.</p>
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