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		<title>ISIS Calls for Poisoning and Running Down Westerners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Avel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrorist group calls on Muslims in the West to do their duty. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/isis.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246076" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/isis-450x253.jpg" alt="isis" width="304" height="171" /></a>In a new video, ISIS threatens to murder Westerners through a wide range of new means, including poisoning of food and drink and hit-and-run attacks.  This marks an increase in ambitious threats as ISIS (also known as Islamic State, ISIL, and Daesh) calls on Muslims to wage “jihad in the path of Allah” using easily accessible weapons.</p>
<p>The seven-minute video, entitled, <i>What Are You Waiting For</i>, opens with a group of Francophone ISIS fighters denouncing the West and throwing their French passports into campfire. French is the spoken language in the video, which also contains Arabic and English subtitles.  One jihadi known as Abu Osama Al-Faranci, states: “This is a message from your French brothers who have made Hijra, to the Muslims who are still living in the land of Kufr.”  In other words, it is an appeal by ISIS fighters who have emigrated to lands controlled by the Islamic State to Muslims living in the land of the infidelity.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-246046" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed1-450x293.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="413" height="269" /></a>Though the fighters in the video mostly speak to Muslims living in France, they also have a broader audience in mind; for instance, Abu Maryam al-Franci addresses “those Muslims in France and elsewhere.”</p>
<p>The jihadis featured in the video implore Muslims to make “Hijra” and emigrate to lands controlled by the Islamic State. But if Muslims do not emigrate, Abu Maryam (holding a machine gun and a machete) reminds them, “Indeed you have been ordered to fight the Kafir [unbeliever/non-Muslim] wherever you find him” and encourages Muslims in the West to attack civilians in their home countries.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-246049" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed2-450x293.jpg" alt="unnamed2" width="450" height="293" /></a>Abu Salman al-Faranci introduces new methods to entice potential terrorists living in the West to commit murder in France, telling them to “terrorize them and do not allow them to sleep due to fear and horror.” Abu Salman continues, “There are weapons and cars available and targets ready to be hit… Kill them [infidels] and spit in their faces and run over them with your cars.” He goes on: “Even poison is available, so poison the water and food of at least one of the enemies of Allah.”  Abu Maryam hopes that infidels “will even fear travelling to the market.”</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed3.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-246051" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed3-450x293.jpg" alt="unnamed3" width="450" height="293" /></a>ISIS has proven itself successful at recruiting thousands of fighters from Western countries to join its ranks.  Should this resonance continue and jihadis living in the West heed the new ISIS call, it would have dire consequences for non-jihadi Muslims; any driver, waiter, or grocery clerk could be perceived as a terrorist in waiting.  For all of us, ISIS’ latest message hopes to turn a stroll down the street into a walk of terror and to turn our food and drinks into recipes for murder.</p>
<p><i>Danielle Avel is an investigative researcher and photojournalist. She can be reached through her </i><a href="http://danielleavel.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>website</i></span></a><i>, on </i><a href="https://twitter.com/DanielleAvel"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Twitter</i></span></a><i> @DanielleAvel and on </i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Avel.Danielle"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Facebook</i></span></a><i>.</i></p>
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		<title>Terror Decentral</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for Israel to destroy the indoctrination and incitement that trigger Palestinians to kill. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/F141105YS01-e1415190015595-635x357.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244812" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/F141105YS01-e1415190015595-635x357-406x350.jpg" alt="F141105YS01-e1415190015595-635x357" width="328" height="283" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Terror-decentral-381065">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>In the postmortems of the terrorist car attacks in Jerusalem, it is easy to see the writing on the wall. Ibrahim al-Akary, the terrorist who on Wednesday ran over crowds of people waiting to cross the street and catch the Jerusalem Light Rail, was the brother of one of the terrorist murderers freed in exchange for IDF hostage Gilad Schalit.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">He had placed the photograph on his Facebook page of Moataz Hejazi, the terrorist killed by police after shooting Yehuda Glick outside the Begin Heritage Center last Wednesday.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A few days before Abdur Rahman Slodi got into his car and mowed down three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun and a dozen other pedestrians two weeks ago, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas exhorted the Palestinians to prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, by all means possible.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Slodi had served time in prison for terrorist offenses and was active on social media where he expressed murderous hatred for Jews and a desire to kill them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So yes, the writing was on the wall. But unfortunately, the writing is on all the walls, or Facebook walls. It is not at all clear how Israeli security services could have known to distinguish these men from the thousands of other Palestinians and Jerusalem Arabs who hate Israel, support the murder of Jews and identify with various terrorist organizations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Thursday security forces arrested several people in villages around Hebron with suspected ties to Akary. So he may not have been acting on his own. But all the same, neither he nor Slodi seem to have been directed to carry out their attacks by a cell commander who himself was directed by a higher level terrorist operative.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather, in all likelihood, something triggered both men to carry out attacks in a wholly independent or semi-independent manner.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The question is, what was the trigger and how was it pulled? The Israeli media are obsessed with the question of whether or not we are experiencing an third Palestinian terrorist onslaught, or intifada. Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch insists that we are not. Others insist that we are. Whatever we want to call it, we are seeing a new form of Palestinian terrorist warfare against Israel, which in many key aspects mimics the larger jihad carried out by al-Qaida and its affiliates and spin-offs.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a recent article in the online Small Wars Journal, Maj. Nicholas Pace from NATO’s Joint Forces Command discussed how al-Qaida and Islamic State have decentralized their terrorist networks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Due to the superior signals intelligence fielded by the US, Pace explained, al-Qaida and Islamic State have diffused and decentralized their networks into smaller hubs that operate independently.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The role of terrorist chiefs like al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is to inspire and incite, and to a degree direct, operations, rather than plan and order them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today the main factor unifying al-Qaida and Islamic State and their sister groups and followers in the region and worldwide is ideology.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They all share the same hatred of the West, of all religions other than Islam and of all competing forms of Islam. They all seek the establishment of a global caliphate that will rule the world under the banner of Islam.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Pace notes, this shared ideology was all that US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan needed to feel that he was a member of al-Qaida when in 2009, after have a few Internet communications with al-Qaida ideologue Awar al-Awlaki, he walked onto the Fort Hood military base in Texas and massacred his fellow soldiers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Pace argues that Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria also operate along a decentralized model of operations, and the more they are directly targeted by the US and its allies, the more they will decentralize and compartmentalize their force structure.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The operational advantage of this model is that it gives enormous flexibility and independence to operatives in the field to maximize their resources. The drawback is that those resources tend to be less sophisticated than those that can be brought to bear by a centrally organized and resourced military organization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But this isn’t really a problem for jihadists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Pace notes, they see themselves as soldiers in a long-term struggle. Their goal is not necessarily to conquer their target populations. Rather they seek to make life impossible for target societies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Mass chaos sowed by constant, low intensity, near-scatter-shot attacks can over time be sufficient to break the will of a targeted society or military organization to fight them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Certainly this has been the case for the Iraqi military that has melted away in the face of Islamic State’s fanatical troops.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For such a decentralized military system to work, the leadership needs two things: a shared ideology, and communications capabilities that enable them to incite and loosely directly violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ideology is not something that people pick up or discard quickly or easily. For a person to be attracted to the jihadist cause he has to undergo indoctrination over a significant period of time.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">You cannot incite a person to strike if he hasn’t already been indoctrinated in a manner that makes him amenable to your incendiary call to action.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to the Palestinians and the trigger for the attacks conducted by independent or semi-independent terrorist operatives.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With the exception of Pakistani students in madrassas, few societies have undergone the mass indoctrination that the Palestinians have undergone over the past 20 years of Palestinian Authority rule. From the cradle to the grave, and most significantly in the school system, Palestinians are indoctrinated to hate Jews and seek the violent destruction of Israel. They are told that it is an Islamic duty to fight Jews and destroy Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is as true in regular PA schools as it is in schools run by the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA).</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We are experiencing today in Jerusalem a decentralized terrorist campaign rooted in the 20-year indoctrination of the Palestinians.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Yes, Hamas and Fatah still operate terrorist cells and units that are members of terrorist hierarchies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But at the same time, they have used a model similar to al-Qaida’s in developing semi-independent and wholly independent networks of operatives and operational cells. These independent cells are highly motivated and are willing to wait until they receive generalized signals from their leadership to strike.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So it was for instance in June with the kidnapping and murder of the three teenagers in Gush Etzion. A few weeks before the kidnapping took place, from his home in Qatar, Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal remarked that Hamas needed more hostages to trade for jailed terrorists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The terrorists in Hebron were motivated to strike. With the financial assistance of Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas ideologue and operational commander in Turkey, they were able to purchase what they needed for the kidnapping. And when Mashaal said the time had come to kidnap Israelis, the countdown to the kidnap and murder of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah began.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The cell was isolated and tiny. Mashaal’s order was indirect.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the case of the violence in Jerusalem, indoctrination in UNRWA schools in places like Shuafat refugee camp where Akary lived, not to mention throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza, has raised generations of Arabs who hate Israel and Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Owing to this indoctrination, when presented with mass incitement by preachers in the mosques, and most importantly by the official Palestinian Authority media, these calls for violence are immediately embraced on a massive scale. Indeed, the comfort level that the Arabs of Jerusalem feel today in supporting terrorism may well be unprecedented.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For instance, until this Wednesday night, every time terrorists in Jerusalem used motor vehicles to murder Israelis, their families and neighbors insisted that they were not terrorists but hapless drivers. There had been no attack, merely a traffic accident.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Wednesday night when reporters went to interview Akary’s family and neighbors, they were met by shouts of praise for his murderous act. He was embraced as a martyr. And just as important, his act inspired mob violence in Shuafat and other Arab neighborhoods against police forces. For the first time, support for terrorism outweighed concern about alienating their Jewish neighbors or forcing police retaliation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Thursday Fatah’s Facebook page was full of images calling for Palestinians to run over Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Palestinian Media Watch reported, one used a play on words between the Arabic acronym for Islamic State and the Arabic word for running something over, thus positively associating the terrorists who run over Jews with members of Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas – Fatah’s partner in the PA’s coalition government – was similarly quick to praise Akary and call for more such attacks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In dealing with this burgeoning, decentralized terrorist campaign, aside from taking action to protect bus stops with various barricades, Israel needs to go after the triggers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It needs to break up the indoctrination system.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And it needs to destroy the Palestinian leadership’s ability to communicate their incendiary messages.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since UNRWA schools operating in Jerusalem engage in anti-Semitic indoctrination, Jerusalem municipal authorities must give them the choice of using Israeli textbooks or shutting down. If Israel wishes to assert its sovereignty, UNRWA schools would be a good place to start. Beyond that, preachers in mosques who incite murder and call for the destruction of Israel should be arrested.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for the PA’s communications networks, all of the radio and television signals operating in the PA come from the Israeli electromagnetic spectrum. It is time to shut them down. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Wednesday, Abbas is directly inciting the murderous attacks on Jerusalem through the PA media organs. The way to protect Jerusalem is to remove him and his Hamas partners from the airwaves.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There has been a lot of talk over the years about providing positive and negative incentives to convince the Palestinians not to engage in terrorism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But now is not the time for incentives. The population mobilized through incitement has become too fanatical to engage with reason.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The terrorists who take the wheel and run over pedestrians know that they will more than likely never come home. And they don’t care.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They certainly don’t care that Israel will destroy their homes. And they also certainly won’t be impressed by discounted mortgages if they integrate into Israeli society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the long term, it is imperative that Israel provide incentives to both the Jerusalem Arabs and the Palestinians to integrate peacefully with Israeli society. But before the government can seriously engage in this task, it needs to destroy the triggers of this terrorist onslaught. It is not enough to complain about Palestinian indoctrination and incitement. It is time for Israel to end them.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disaster of Obamanomics. ]]></description>
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<p>While Barack Obama spends his time running victory laps around the country over the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the American economy is careening toward a dangerous cliff. Royal Weddings, Obama’s multiple birth certificates, and absurd arguments about the NFL lockout dominate the news while daily Americans get poorer.</p>
<p>Obamanomics is a disaster. A greater disaster hasn’t been visited on the United States in our economic history because we are taking no substantial steps toward recovery. The real news, which should be screaming from every television and newspaper isn’t pro Obama, therefore, it is ignored.</p>
<p>Here are the stories on which we should be focusing. The US dollar has slumped to a record low against major currencies. Since we have devastated our manufacturing base over the last two decades, this will result in Americans paying substantially more for goods on the store shelves in retailers from Walmart to Costco.</p>
<p>The outlook for the recovery has diminished to almost zero. If you subtract the impact of inflation, many economists believe we are actually still in a recession. When I talk to my friends and neighbors outside of Washington DC, we unanimously agree we are still in recession.</p>
<p>Here are some statistics which will help you understand the pain. More Americans are on food stamps today than at any other time in history. That’s right—the most in history. The number of persons on food stamps is 44.2 million according a recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.</p>
<p>Those not on food stamps feel a different pain when they buy groceries. We see unbelievably high prices at the grocery store. The cost of living in the U.S. rose at its fastest pace since December 2009 in the 12 months ended in March. Wheat, meat, vegetables and other grains are all surging in price.</p>
<p>But if you don’t have a job, it is hard to shop for groceries.</p>
<p>Bloomberg reported this week, “Applications for jobless benefits jumped by 43,000 to 474,000 in the week ended April 30, the most since August, Labor Department figures showed today.” This is a serious darkening in the employment clouds just as the recovery was supposed to be broadening.</p>
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		<title>Denying Jihad &#8212; Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 04:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mainstream media can't find Islam in the Times Square car bomb attempt.]]></description>
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<p>We know now that the car bomb in Times Square was an attempted Islamic jihad attack. But the mainstream media, following its usual pattern, is once again denying, minimizing, or obfuscating this fact.</p>
<p>Writing in <em>The Nation</em> on Monday, Robert Dreyfuss epitomized the mainstream media’s hope that the car bomber would turn out to be a right-wing extremist: “It may be that the Pakistan-based Taliban, the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has quietly established a Connecticut franchise while we weren’t looking. That&#8217;s possible. But it seems far more likely to me that the perpetrator of the bungled Times Square bomb plot was either a lone wolf or a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government far right. Which actually exists in Connecticut, where, it seems, the car&#8217;s licence plates were stolen.”</p>
<p>In reality, according to Pakistani authorities, Faisal Shahzad, the would-be car bomber, attended a jihad training camp in that country. He spent five months in Pakistan recently, including some time in Peshawar, a center of Al-Qaeda and Taliban activity. A Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for the attack &#8212; a claim that American authorities immediately dismissed, but which gained a new claim to serious consideration when Shahzad’s Pakistani connections were revealed.</p>
<p>Shahzad parked his explosives-laden SUV outside the offices of Viacom, the parent company of Comedy Central, which presents <em>South Park</em>, the cartoon whose creators were just threatened with death by Islamic supremacists in New York for daring to lampoon Muhammad. The Muslim group that issued the threat, Revolution Muslim, was proselytizing in Times Square just hours before Shahzad’s car bomb was discovered.</p>
<p>Yet for all this, virtually no media reports are saying anything about Shahzad being a Muslim. Such a reference, however, would hardly be gratuitous: Islamic jihad theology and the death penalty enshrined in Islamic law for anyone who insults Allah or Muhammad are the most likely keys to Shahzad’s motivation. But the politically correct, multiculturalist imperative demands that Islam and Muslims, being (at least in this addled view) non-white and non-Western, must always be portrayed as victims, no matter how imaginative the lengths to which analysts must go in order to find something, anything, to blame for the carnage other than Islam’s doctrines of hatred of and violence against unbelievers.</p>
<p>Ezra Klein in the <em>Washington Post</em> led the way in the imaginative department. Observing that Shahzad defaulted on the mortgage on his home in Connecticut and that the property is now in foreclosure, Klein discovered a hitherto-unnoticed motivation for violent jihad: “foreclosures generate an enormous amount of misery and anxiety and depression that can tip people into all sorts of dangerous behaviors that don’t make headlines but do ruin lives. And for all that we’ve done to save the financial sector, we’ve not done nearly enough to help struggling homeowners.” Help struggling homeowners, or they’ll try to set off car bombs in Times Square!</p>
<p>MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer, meanwhile, may not have had to face the heartbreak of foreclosure, but she had her own reason to feel “an enormous amount of misery and anxiety and depression”: what got Brewer down was that Shahzad turned out to be a Muslim. “There was a part of me,” lamented Brewer once the perpetrator was identified, “that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country.”</p>
<p>Brewer explained that she hoped that Shahzad’s action would not give rise to a resurgence of what she called “outdated bigotry” – voicing the common mainstream media preoccupation with a “backlash” against innocent Muslims. This preoccupation manifests itself in a flood of articles about Muslims fears of this “backlash” every time there is an attempted or successful jihad terror attack in America or Europe; the only thing that never appears is the backlash itself, which remains more a figment of the Leftist media’s imagination than an actual threat against innocent Muslims. <strong> </strong></p>
<p>Nonetheless, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was likewise preoccupied with this phantom threat of a backlash, warning New Yorkers several times that any action against Muslims or Pakistanis. Bloomberg ought to be ashamed of himself. He should have been making statements about protecting Americans of all creeds, and calling the Muslim community in America to account for its tolerance of jihadists. There has never been a backlash against innocent Muslims in the U.S. It is a fiction that we only hear about when a Muslim plots mass murder of Americans. And then we hear about it endlessly, as if Muslims were the victims rather than the perpetrators.</p>
<p>Faisal Shahzad and his car bomb is yet another indication of the tenacity and persistence of the jihad against the United States – and of the continuing and even hardening resistance of American officials to the elementary step of even admitting that that jihad is being waged.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 05:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if it wasn’t, only Muslims are praising it.]]></description>
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<p>Like the Fort Hood jihad massacre and virtually all such attacks and attempted attacks these days, the car bomb discovered in Times Square Saturday was initially dismissed as having nothing to do with terrorism. The <em>New York Times</em> reported: “A federal official said it was not considered a terrorist threat and that the New York Police Department had told the Department of Homeland Security to stand down.”</p>
<p>Soon, however, the weight of evidence became too great for officials to sustain this wishful thinking. New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said: “I think the intent was to cause a significant ball of fire.”’ New York Governor David Paterson declared the incident an “act of terrorism.” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano revealed on Meet the Press that the car bomb was being treated as a “potential terrorist attack.”</p>
<p>Napolitano offered no hint as to which terrorists might have done it: “It’s too soon to tell who was responsible.” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was just as puzzled: “We have no idea who did this or why.”</p>
<p>Yet for all this official agnosticism, there were a number of clues – and even a group claiming credit. The explosives-laden car was found on 45th Street between 7th and 8<sup>th</sup> – not far from the offices of Viacom, which owns Comedy Central. Comedy Central, of course, presents <em>South Park</em>, the irreverent cartoon series that recently lampooned Islam’s prophet Muhammad. After the show aired, the jihadist website RevolutionMuslim.com posted this threat against the creators of <em>South Park</em>, Matt Stone and Trey Parker: “We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.”</p>
<p>Theo Van Gogh was brutally murdered by a Muslim on an Amsterdam street in the middle of the day in November 2004 after he made a film, <em>Submission</em>, about the oppression of Muslim women. Younus Abullah Muhammad of RevolutionMuslim.com told journalist Aaron Klein Sunday that the car bomb was “a retaliation for what your government is doing overseas. If you want to continue killing civilians, then you’re going to get many incidents that resemble what happened yesterday.” Not that RevolutionMuslim.com was claiming responsibility: “We do not condone nor condemn terrorism. There is no relation between our organization and these attacks.” However, “there will be a lot more terror attacks in the United States.”</p>
<p>Younus Abullah Muhammad’s denial of responsibility notwithstanding, have authorities questioned the owners of RevolutionMuslim.com about this attempt to explode a car bomb outside Viacom’s offices?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Pakistani Taliban rushed to claim responsibility, releasing a video calling the botched attack a “jaw-breaking blow to Satan’s USA.” Sounding much like Younus Abdullah Muhammad, a Taliban spokesman said that the attempted car bomb was revenge for American “interference and terrorism in Muslim countries, especially in Pakistan.” American officials, however, said there was no evidence to back up this claim, and Bloomberg added: “So far, there is no evidence that any of this has anything to do with one of the recognized terrorist organizations.”</p>
<p>Still, even if no Muslim group had anything to do with the car bomb, it was noteworthy that only Muslim groups went on record praising it as a good thing. Recently I have received an increased number of emails and Facebook messages from Muslims telling me that I have completely misunderstood Islam and jihad, and that Islam is in fact the Religion of Peace of fable and fantasy. The only problem with all such messages, and with various windy pseudo-academic “refutations” of explanations by me and others of Islam’s doctrines of warfare against unbelievers and their subjugation under Sharia, is that however good they sound on paper, somehow the last people to be convinced seem to be Muslims themselves – Muslims like Younus Abdullah Muhammad and the Pakistani Taliban spokesman who claimed responsibility for the car bomb.</p>
<p>Somehow Muslims like those two – and there are untold numbers of others like them around the globe &#8212; seem to have missed the memo about Islam’s vaunted respect and tolerance for non-Muslims. And Younus Abdullah Muhammad and other Muslims like him can and do point to Qur’anic verses enjoining violence against unbelievers in order to justify bombings and all manner of murder and mayhem – for Muslims are to “fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you” (Qur’an 9:123).</p>
<p>Until such the ways in which jihad violence and supremacism is rooted in Islamic texts and teachings is studied openly by law enforcement and intelligence officials, we will see many more jihad attacks in the U.S. – and some will be successful. For the belief system that motivates them is being neither challenged nor even examined. While officials in this case had to revise their initial dismissal of terrorism as a factor, they have never reexamined or reevaluated their dismissal of any need to understand Islam in order to understand jihadis and how they can be stopped.</p>
<p>And so they are not being stopped, except when we get lucky, as we did Saturday night in Times Square. But our luck is unlikely to hold forever.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the United States cannot buy off the Islamic fanatics of the Taliban.  ]]></description>
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<p>It has been widely reported, <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/78351-report-plan-being-considered-to-buy-off-taliban-for-1b-or-so">most recently by Al-Jazeera</a>, that the Obama administration and the British government have been contemplating paying off “moderate” elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan – to the tune of perhaps one billion dollars – as a means of pacifying resistance in that troubled nation. That proudly defiant American slogan, “millions for defense, but not one penny for tribute,” which traces its roots to the eighteenth century, would fall to the wayside if this attempt at appeasement turns into public policy.</p>
<p>The idea that “moderate” Islamic terrorists exist and that their loyalties can be bought are central concepts to the philosophical construct that Obama has brings to the war on terror. The President naively believes that the majority of Muslim terrorists are misunderstood, disenfranchised freedom fighters who want nothing more than to take control of their lives and prosper. A billion dollars or so will go a long way, in Obama’s view, toward helping them organize their communities in a peaceful, loving way.</p>
<p>The reality behind the fanatic, ultra-fundamentalist mindset that guides the Taliban has been revealed time and time again. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8499578.stm">This disturbing BBC interview</a> of a thirteen year old Pakistani girl named Meena is another reminder of the true nature of the Taliban, and the way that fundamentalist Muslims treat women in general.</p>
<p>At one point, Meena described how her family turned her nine-year-old sister Nahida into a suicide bomber:</p>
<blockquote><p>“They attached a bomb to my sister Nahida. They tied rectangular pieces to both her arms, and a black strip was wrapped around both her legs. Then they connected the whole thing. She told my brother the bomb was heavy and she could not walk. He said she would be comfortable once she was sitting down in the car. They gave her medicine. But she was crying very loud for my mother. She kept going to her and hugging her. When my sister looked down at the bomb, she shivered. Then my brother and my father started beating my mother, and they were shouting: ‘Why you are distracting the girl from her mission?’ I heard my sister saying: ‘Where is Meena? I want to see her.’ But I didn&#8217;t have the strength. My heart couldn&#8217;t take it.</p>
<p>My mother fainted when they put her in the car. My brother said my sister&#8217;s attack was in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>I always think about my sister. She was healthy and a very nice girl. She was younger than me, but she was wiser. My mother used to tell me that I was an idiot, but she was very wise.”</p></blockquote>
<p>No doubt that someone, probably claiming to be an American who has lived in the Arab world for at least a decade, will deny that this sort of thing could ever happen. We see that all of the time, at <em>Front Page</em> and other sites that dare to point out the horrors that accompany strict adherence to Islamic teachings.</p>
<p>These sorts of denials should come as no surprise. The Quran expressly allows <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/011-taqiyya.htm">Muslims to lie to non-Muslims</a> whenever they can advance the teachings of the prophet Muhammad through the use of such deceptions. Muslim apologists can lie through their teeth about this sort of evil, but there are far too many examples of it for people who cherish liberty to ignore.</p>
<p>Which brings us back to the Taliban. You can’t pay someone off to abandon an ideology this evil and deluded. Does anyone believe that we can purchase the loyalties of people who think that they are fulfilling the “will of God” by strapping high-explosives to a nine-year-old girl, drugging her and sending her on a mission to blow herself up? Why on earth would anyone want to? The west is at war with an ideology, not impoverished, deluded freedom fighters who would abandon their evil ideas if only they could afford a big screen TV.</p>
<p>From painful experience, we know what happens when you try to appease evil fanatics. The fanatics make promises that they don’t intend to keep, wait a while, and then go back to work on their agenda. Dropping a billion dollars on the “moderate Taliban” in Afghanistan would amount to nothing more than providing terrorists with a grant that will cheerfully put to the worst use possible.</p>
<p>Ideas like this are an insult to our men and women in uniform on the front lines in Afghanistan and will ultimately place them in greater danger. Worse, trying to pay off terrorists makes it more likely, not less, that more fanatic Muslim fathers are going to be able to get their hands on enough C-4 to turn nine year old girls into bombs.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sure some idiot at Audi thought these “Green Police” commercials for the Super Bowl would be funny. I found them downright offensive and not the least bit funny. In the collection of ads below, you see a guy at the store pick “plastic” when the checkout gal asks “paper or plastic” and the Green [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m sure some idiot at Audi thought these “Green Police” commercials for the Super Bowl would be funny. I found them downright offensive and not the least bit funny.</p>
<p>In the collection of ads below, you see a guy at the store pick “plastic” when the checkout gal asks “paper or plastic” and the Green Police immediately arrest the earth-destroyer for his intended assault on Mother Gaia. (Didn’t these enviro-idiots come up with the plastic bags some 20 years ago to save the earth from all the trees being killed for paper bags?) You also have Green Police digging through people’s trash for batteries, and shining a searchlight into a guy’s kitchen for putting (or not putting–not being a green wacko, I’m not sure which is “proper”) something down his drain. And (oh my) we have evil maniacs being busted for using incandescent light bulbs, plastic water bottles, and having the water too warm in the hot tub. Of course at the end of the commercial, you have the greenie driving an eco-friendly car who is blessed by the Green Police High Priests.</p>
<p>If Audi really meant to point out the idiocy of the “green” movement and its very real threats to freedom…they failed to deliver anything which clues the viewer in to a message that “We think this is nuts.” The commercial is presented with too much seriousness to be taken any other way than as approval of such Gestapo tactics. But if Audi wants to appeal to the real environmental wacko out there, they definitely hit the mark with these commercials. The ending tag line is “Green has never felt so right.”</p>
<p>Perhaps even more offensive is the next commercial where you have real police sitting in their patrol car drinking coffee as the limp-wristed, shorts-wearing Green Police rides up on his little green thingy to harass the police for drinking from styrofoam cups.</p>
<p>via  http://www.dakotavoice.com/2010/02/audi-green-police-ads-downright-offensive.</p>
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		<title>Obama: Bank Bailout &#8220;Necessary,&#8221; Iraq War &#8220;Dumb&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we sure the bank baillout was a success?]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;If there&#8217;s one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans — and everybody in between — it&#8217;s that we all hated the bank bailout. I hated it. You hated it.&#8221; — President Barack Obama, Jan. 27, 2010</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t oppose all wars. &#8230; What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.&#8221; — Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, Oct. 2, 2002</p>
<p>This week the watchdog of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Neil Barofsky, submitted his quarterly review and testified before Congress. In England, former Prime Minister Tony Blair also testified — for six hours under cross-examination — at a widely anticipated inquiry into the Iraq War.</p>
<p>TARP and the war in Iraq, begun with bipartisan congressional support, are now unpopular. In both cases, proponents argued that without action, we risked greater danger. President Obama defends TARP, which he voted for in the Senate and has expanded as President. But he bemoans having inherited a war he called &#8220;dumb.&#8221;</p>
<p>Under TARP, the federal government committed hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out financial institutions. But for this bailout, argued the Bush and Obama administrations, banks would stop lending, and our entire financial system faced collapse — directly affecting all Americans.</p>
<p>Watchdog Barofsky, when asked last fall whether TARP was &#8220;working,&#8221; said: &#8220;It really depends on your perspective. We were told by Treasury that the point was to increase lending. &#8230; Today we hear that the purpose of TARP was to prevent systemic collapse.&#8221; Lending has not increased, he said, but &#8220;it <em> appears </em> that we&#8217;ve avoided a total systemic collapse (emphasis added).&#8221;</p>
<p>Is TARP, then, a success?</p>
<p>Barofsky&#8217;s report to Congress says that TARP can only be called a success if the program &#8220;is both managed well <em> and </em> its positive effects are enduring.&#8221; Let&#8217;s set aside the highly criticized management of the program.</p>
<p>Will TARP have &#8220;enduring positive effects&#8221;?</p>
<p>The argument for the bailout is that some institutions were &#8220;too big to fail.&#8221; But Barofsky now says: &#8220;These banks that were too big to fail are now bigger. Government has sponsored and supported several mergers that made them larger. And that guaranteed that implicit guarantee of moral hazard. The idea that government is not going to let these banks fail &#8230; is now explicit. &#8230; In a lot of ways, the government has made such problems more likely.</p>
<p>Potentially, we could be in more danger now than we were a year ago.&#8221;</p>
<p>So did TARP save us?</p>
<p>&#8220;Even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008,&#8221; writes Barofsky, &#8220;absent meaningful reform, we are still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car.&#8221;</p>
<p>As to the Iraq War, former Prime Minister Blair&#8217;s detractors — during his testimony — shouted &#8220;liar&#8221; and &#8220;murderer.&#8221; Blair stood his ground. He denied that he and President Bush decided on war irrespective of whether Saddam Hussein complied with the final U.N. resolution. He acknowledged mistakes in intelligence and in the execution of the war.</p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t Saddam, left in power, have provided leverage over Iran?</p>
<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear,&#8221; Blair said. &#8220;There&#8217;s another view of foreign policy in this instance, which is if we&#8217;d have left Saddam in place, he would have controlled Iran better. I really think it&#8217;s time we learned, as a matter of sensible foreign policy, that the way to deal with one dictatorial threat is not to back another.&#8221;</p>
<p>Would you make the same decision?</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t ask the March 2003 question, but ask the 2010 question. Suppose we back off. What we now know is that he retained absolutely the intent and intellectual know-how to restart a nuclear- and chemical-weapons program when inspectors were out and the sanctions were changed. &#8230; This isn&#8217;t about a lie or a conspiracy or a deceit or a deception. It&#8217;s a decision. And the decision I had to take was could we take the risk of this man reconstituting his weapons programs or is that a risk that it would be irresponsible to take?&#8221;</p>
<p>Any regrets?</p>
<p>&#8220;The decision I took — and frankly would take again — was if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction, we should stop him. That was my view then, and that is my view now. &#8230; (I feel) responsibility, but not regret, for removing Saddam Hussein. I think that he was a monster. I believe he threatened not just the region but the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Both the Iraq War and TARP are monumental decisions with far-reaching consequences. We don&#8217;t know what would have happened had we not bailed out the banks. We don&#8217;t know what would have happened had we not gone into Iraq. But even in opposing the Iraq War back in 2002, Obama said, &#8220;The world and the Iraqi people would be better off without (Saddam).&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, are we better off <em> with </em> TARP? It sure seems as if we are driving on the same winding road — only &#8220;in a faster car.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Failed attempt to kill Israeli envoy in Jordan &#8211; Jerusalem Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bomb exploded near a two-car convoy belonging to Israel&#8217;s embassy in Jordan on Thursday afternoon. The cars were making their way to Amman. No one was hurt in the incident and the vehicles continued to their destination shortly thereafter. The Foreign Ministry received a briefing on the incident. According to several reports, the ambassador [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A bomb exploded near a two-car convoy belonging to Israel&#8217;s embassy in Jordan on Thursday afternoon.</p>
<p>The cars were making their way to Amman.</p>
<p>No one was hurt in the incident and the vehicles continued to their destination shortly thereafter.</p>
<p>The Foreign Ministry received a briefing on the incident. According to several reports, the ambassador was not traveling in any of the vehicles.</p>
<p>Jordanian security authorities opened an investigation into the blast, which occurred some 20 kilometers from the border crossing at Allenby Bridge.</p>
<p>The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) was cooperating with Jordanian security agencies in the investigation.</p>
<p>Due to the high threat in Jordan, embassy employees were put on a 24-hour lock-down, and are not allowed to leave the embassy premises without large security details.</p>
<p>The embassy in Amman is one of the most highly guarded Israeli embassies in the world.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147894753&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">Bomb detonated near Israeli embassy car in Jordan | Israel | Jerusalem Post</a>.</p>
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		<title>Islamic Radicalization U.S.A. &#8211; by Ryan Mauro</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 witnessed a frightening spike in homegrown terrorist activity.]]></description>
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<p>If a major homegrown terrorist attack happens on U.S. soil in the coming years, 2009 will be looked at as the year when the warning signs were missed. According to the Rand Corporation, the U.S. has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580173,00.html">experienced</a> 30 homegrown terrorism plots since 9/11. One-third of these occurred in 2009; a frightening spike that warrants more attention than it is currently being given by public officials.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration began its term by refusing to include terms like “radical Islam” as part of its lexicon. The Global War on Terrorism was alternatively <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032402818.html">called</a> an “overseas contingency operation” or “a <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0309/The_artist_formerly_known_as_GWOT.html">campaign</a> against extremists who wish to do us harm.”</p>
<p>The Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509597,00.html">described</a> terrorism as a “man-caused disaster. When asked about not even mentioning the word “terrorism” in her first address to Congress, she said, “That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear towards a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.”</p>
<p>The homegrown terrorist activity this year has startled the Obama Administration, which now is forced to privately <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-us-radicalization7-2009dec07,0,3941551.story?track=rss">conclude</a> that the radicalization of American-Muslims is increasing.</p>
<p>In today’s 30-second news culture, shocking incidents such as these quickly fade away as the topic of coverage as other news develops. A summary of some of the biggest incidents this year is needed for the American people to understand how much activity took place:</p>
<p>* In May, authorities broke up a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520908,00.html">plot</a> by four prison converts to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and fire Stinger missiles at aircraft flying around the Air National Guard base in Newburgh,  New York.</p>
<p>* On June 1, a Muslim convert <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520908,00.html">shot</a> up a military recruiting center in Arkansas, killing one soldier and wounding another. The attacker, Abdulhakim Muhammad, was previously jailed in Yemen for traveling on a fraudulent Somali passport. Robert Spencer of JihadWatch.org <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35094">reported</a> that a “well-placed source” informed him that he had gone to Yemen to try to study under a radical cleric named Yahya Hajoori.</p>
<p>* In July, seven Muslims were <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/28/nation/na-terrorism-arrests28">arrested</a> in North Carolina for training with high-powered weapons in preparation to join a jihad overseas. The leader of the group, Daniel Patrick Boyd, had previously trained in guerilla camps in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and enlisted his two sons in his plans.</p>
<p>* In September, FBI and local law enforcement <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,555340,00.html">raided</a> two apartments owned by Afghans in New York after the occupants were visited by Najibullah Zazi, a suspected terrorist who had traveled to an Al-Qaeda training camp last year. Nine backpacks and cell phones were confiscated, and Zazi was found to have purchased chemicals similar to those used in the 2005 London subway bombings, causing concern that the suspects were planning an attack styled after that operation.</p>
<p>* Also in September, FBI sting operations led to the arrest of two desiring to carry out acts of terror. A Jordanian named Michael Finton, an admirer of the “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/us/28springfield.html">arrested</a> for planning to set off car bombs outside of a courthouse in Illinois and a skyscraper in Texas. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/25/texas.terror.arrest/index.html">arrested</a> in Texas after trying to detonate a decoy car bomb underneath an office tower.</p>
<p>* In October, the FBI tried to arrest a radical imam in Detroit connected to a range of criminal activity. When they arrived at a warehouse to get Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, he <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125677249132814537.html">responded</a> with gunfire, killing one of the FBI’s dogs before he was shot and killed. Six of his associates were arrested. In the same month, Tarek Mehanna was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/22terror.html">arrested</a> in Boston for planning to attack a shopping mall and assassinate two public officials.</p>
<p>* The next month, Nidal Malik Hassan carried out the horrific shooting at Fort Hood, killing 13 people. He is now known to have previously expressed his support for suicide bombers and to have communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam in Yemen who has acted as a recruiter for Al-Qaeda and praised Hassan’s shooting. <em>To this day, President Obama and senior officials have not publicly described the incident as terrorism.</em></p>
<p>* Most recently, five Americans were <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/10/world/main5959772.shtml?tag=stack">arrested</a> in Pakistan on their way to link up with the Al-Qaeda and Taliban. They were arrested at the home of a member of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group, who is the uncle to one of the suspects.</p>
<p>These are only some of the major incidents related to radical Islamic activity in the U.S. that occurred this year. A total of 14 Somali-Americans from Minnesota have been <a href="../2009/12/07/the-threat-at-home-by-ryan-mauro/">indicted</a> for helping to recruit fellow members of their community to join the Al-Shabaab terrorist group fighting for control of Somalia. The case of <a href="http://www.rifqabary.com/">Rifqa Bary</a> received considerable attention, as did the honor <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2009/11/02/20091102noor1102-CR-CP.html">killing</a> in Arizona of a daughter by her father for being “too Westernized.”</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.christianaction.org/">Christian Action Network</a>, where I serve as a national security researcher, released the “Homegrown Jihad” documentary in February about the isolated communities in the U.S. run by a radical Islamic group used as paramilitary training and recruitment centers. A new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebg6AFylios">tape</a> provided to me as part of CAN’s investigation into the group called “Muslims of the Americas” shows female recruits of the organization receiving such training at their headquarters in New York called “Islamberg.”</p>
<p>The media is failing to compile all these events and see the frightening increase that the Obama Administration is now admitting exists. When the problem is mentioned, the ideological component is not discussed or is misunderstood. On December 12, Kimberly Dozier <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/12/14/cbs-anti-muslim-propaganda-blame-u-s-homegrown-terrorism">reported</a> on the Obama Administration’s realization regarding the problem on CBS Evening News, but attributed the rise in homegrown terrorism to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying they were “portrayed by the militants as America’s war on Islam.”</p>
<p>Dozier also said that “Muslim community leaders here say young people are also being driven to extremes by post-9/11 anti-Muslim propaganda” and cited the Council on American-Islamic Relations as saying that civil rights complaints by Muslims have increased by ten percent in 2009, attempting to draw a connection between bigotry against Muslims and homegrown terrorism. If Dozier had done her research on her source, she would have found that the view of the War on Terror as a war on Islam that she says is causing the increase in homegrown terrorism is actually <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/632/cair-portrays-war-on-terrorism-as-malicious-war-on-islam">promoted</a> by CAIR.</p>
<p>2009 should put to rest the idea that any homegrown terrorist plot is an isolated incident. The participants in these plots might not be operationally connected, but a political-religious ideology binds them together. The fight for the home front continues into 2010.</p>
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<p>How many things in our lives would we like to depend upon the generosity and selflessness of our fellow man, and do you think we would like the outcome? You say, &#8220;Williams, are you now putting down generosity and selflessness?&#8221; No, I&#8217;m not. Let me ask the question in a more direct way. Say you want a nice three-bedroom house. Which human motivation do you think would get you the house sooner: the generosity of builders or the builders&#8217; desire to earn some money? What about a nice car? Which motivation of auto companies and their workers do you trust will get you a car sooner: the generosity of owners and workers, or owner desire for profits and worker desire for wages?</p>
<p>As for me, I put my faith in people&#8217;s self-interest as the most reliable way to get them to do what I want and believe most other people share my faith. What would your prediction be about the supply of housing, cars and most other things if Congress enacted a law mandating that a house or car could only be donated, not sold? If you said there would be a shortage of houses and cars, go to the head of the class.</p>
<p>Bone marrow transplantation is a relatively new medical procedure that is used to treat diseases once thought incurable such as leukemia, aplastic anemia, Hodgkin&#8217;s disease, immune deficiency disorders and some solid tumors such as breast and ovarian cancer. Every year, at least 1,000 Americans die and others suffer because they cannot find a matching bone marrow donor. The reason why there is a shortage of donors is the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA), enacted by Congress in 1984. NOTA makes it illegal to give anything of value in exchange for bone marrow and that includes, for example, giving a college student a scholarship or a new homeowner a mortgage payment. Everyone involved in such a transaction — doctors, nurses, donors and patients — risks up to five years in a federal penitentiary.</p>
<p>There might be light at the end of the tunnel because the Washington-based Institute for Justice (ij.org), one of my very favorite liberty-oriented organizations, has brought suit against this inhumane practice of the U.S.</p>
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<p>Congress. The suit, Flynn v. Holder, was filed in the Los Angeles Division of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Oct. 26, 2009. Doreen Flynn, the plaintiff, is the mother of five children, three of whom have Fanconi anemia, a serious genetic disorder affecting the blood whose sufferers often need a bone marrow transplant during their teen years.</p>
<p>The Institute for Justice is not challenging Congress&#8217; ban on compensation for solid organs such as hearts, kidneys and livers. Instead, the lawsuit challenges only the provision of National Organ Transplant Act that bans compensation for bone marrow. The premise of the Institute for Justice&#8217;s legal challenge is that there is a fundamental biological distinction between renewable marrow cells and nonrenewable solid organs. In the case of bone marrow, the donor&#8217;s bone marrow is completely replenished in a few weeks. That&#8217;s less time than it takes for the human body to fully replenish a pint of donated blood that is often sold to blood banks.</p>
<p>Just about everyone would agree that there would be massive shortages and discontent if there were a congressional mandate that we must depend on our fellow man&#8217;s generosity for our home, our car, our food and thousands of other items that we use. Why then must a person depend on his fellow man&#8217;s generosity for an item like bone marrow that might mean the difference between life and death? There is no rhyme or reason for the congressional prohibition of bone marrow other than arbitrary unconstitutional abuse of power that far too many Americans tolerate and would like to see extended to other areas of our lives.</p>
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