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		<title>Islam: Built on the Blood of (Christian Child) Martyrs</title>
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		<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>Christian Convert Illegally Imprisoned and Tortured, Begins Hunger Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victim of religious persecution vows to starve himself to death. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/egypt-bishoy.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246557" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/egypt-bishoy.jpg" alt="egypt-bishoy" width="319" height="255" /></a>According to attorney Karam Ghobrial (“Gabriel”), his client, Bishoy Armia Boulous, a Muslim convert to Christianity, <a href="http://www.coptstoday.com/Copts-News/Detail.php?Id=91625"><span style="color: #0433ff;">remains</span></a> illegally incarcerated and has “vowed to starve himself to death.”</p>
<p>Bishoy, more notoriously known as Mohammed Hegazy, is the first Egyptian ever to try legally to change his religious identity from Muslim to Christian on his official ID, prompting much shock and outrage in Muslim-majority Egypt.</p>
<p>Ghobrial further cited that Bishoy’s detention—in the execution room no less—is illegal, prompted solely by malicious charges against him, all of which stem from his original attempt to formally change his religious identity.</p>
<p>In the words of his lawyer: “Bishoy is imprisoned in the execution room in violation of the law.  Trumped up charges against him have not been proven and he is being treated even worse.  He has not seen the light [of day] since being released from Minya’s misdemeanor court.”</p>
<p>Bishoy was arrested in July 2014.  Then, the judge in Minya cited “disturbing the peace by broadcasting false information” as the reason for sentencing the apostate, who in the weeks before was documenting political unrest in Egypt brought on by numerous Islamic attacks on Christians.   He was eventually released, but then immediately scooped up again by State Security acting on behalf of Cairo, now under the charge of insulting the Islamic faith.</p>
<p>Bishoy’s lawyer further said that “the [current] judge is behaving in a prejudiced manner in this case because Bishoy had public announced his conversion to Christianity.”  He stressed the “need for attention to this case, and escalating it, so everyone knows what this convert is being exposed to.”</p>
<p>Bishoy has been imprisoned for nearly six months, without any action being done in his case.  He is being held on charges of “contempt to the Islamic religion” and reportedly spreading “false news” about the existence of State Security “torture chambers” where Muslim converts to Christianity are detained and tortured.  Bishoy apparently refuses to recant this claim (quite possibly because he himself is now experiencing it first hand).</p>
<p>As lawyer Karam Ghobrial maintains, it is clear that the real reason his client is being tortured in prison—where he is being held illegally under ever morphing charges—has to do with what made Bishoy Armia, formerly Mohammed Hegazy, notorious in Egypt in the first place: his audacity not only to convert to Christianity, but to try formally to change his religious identity from Muslim to Christian on his ID card, prompting much enmity for him in Egypt.</p>
<p>In short, Bishoy is just another prisoner of conscience, just another born Muslim who wishes to be Christian—but whose actions have been deemed offensive to the state.  His story occurs with great frequency all around the Islamic world.  In nearby Iran, for example, Iranian-American Christian pastor Saeed Abedini—also seen as an apostate agitator—continues to rot in prison.</p>
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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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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 04:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nicholas-michael-teausant.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239685" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nicholas-michael-teausant-450x317.jpg" alt="nicholas-michael-teausant" width="288" height="203" /></a>In March <i>Frontpage</i> <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/fbi-bags-aspiring-american-assad/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">profiled Californian Nicholas Michael Teausant</span></a>, </span>indicted for attempting to support ISIS, a foreign terrorist organization. Teausant remains in custody but recently <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/26/6656921/lodi-area-terror-suspect-says.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">granted an enlightening interview</span></a> to Sam Stanton and Denny Walsh of the <i>Sacramento Bee</i>.</p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">In March Teausant was en route to Canada and near the border texted a friend who told him “</span>if I get myself out of the country everything will be taken care of, they’ll pay for me to go over there, they’ll give me a gun.” He had been in the National Guard but had not brought along a weapon. His friend also told him “They’ll give me everything I could possibly want. They’ll take care of my family, and that I can always come back to America when this is over.” The friend turned out to be an FBI informer, and that led to his arrest.</p>
<p>“I’m not going to say that I’m completely innocent and I have no fault in this,” Teausant told the reporters. “Some of it is my fault, yes. But then again I also feel that if the informant hadn’t come along I would have just been making idle boasts and I wouldn’t have done anything.” But there’s more to the story.</p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Teausant told the reporters that while living in Montana he</span> met a beautiful Muslim woman who would speak only to Muslim men. That spurred his interest in Islam, but it wasn’t only romantic. The zealous convert came to believe his daughter’s day care center was “Zionist.” He wanted to blow it up but claims he told the informant he would only bomb the place when nobody was there. Teausant doesn’t recall discussing any bomb attacks in Los Angeles but on fighting overseas he showed good recall. The newly minted Muslim soon became convinced that the government of Syria needed to be taken down.</p>
<p>“I wanted to go help fight for these people because the New Hampshire slogan is ‘Live Free or Die,’” he told the <i>Bee</i> reporters. “In 1775, we rebelled against Britain because we felt we were being tyrannized and conquered, so we wanted our own freedom. So I felt like I could try and help with that, and give the people freedom that they were fighting for.”</p>
<p>In May his lawyers argued that he would <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/05/13/6402038/lodi-area-terror-suspect-renews.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">never make it to Syria</span></a> and never provide support for anyone. He now tells the <i>Bee</i> his support for ISIS was the informer’s suggestion and that “at the time they were not doing the brutal stuff that they’re doing now,” adding that he is “absolutely abhorred at that Foley thing. I did not see that coming.”</p>
<p>That is a stretch, even for someone reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia. That “Foley thing” would be a beheading, something Islamic jihadists have been doing for centuries for such offenses as being non-Muslim. So despite claims he is “kind of like a cracked egg,” the authorities are sticking to their guns. They told reporters that they reviewed all the evidence, conducted the investigation properly, and are prosecuting the case by the book.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Teausant’s case has drawn no comment from Mohamed Abdul Azeez, leader of the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/fbi-to-honor-cair-linked-group/"><span style="color: #6b0901;">Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims</span></a> (SALAM) Islamic Center and frequently interviewed in the local press. The SALAM center co-hosts events with CAIR and in 2009 Abdul Azeez was the recipient of the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2009/lloyd-billingsley/the-fbi-awards-by-lloyd-billingsley/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">FBI’s community service award</span></a> “for preventing violence, creating understanding, bringing people together.”</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Last year after the Tsarnaev brothers bombed the Boston Marathon Abdul Azeez <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/the-fbis-favorite-imam-sounds-off-on-boston/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">lamented the “explosions in Boston,”</span></a> but told reporters “I don’t want to have to apologize for any crime that’s been committed.” The California Muslim leader said “I feel similar to a gun owner worried about gun laws all the time because people are shooting people, or a Jew who has to worry about the atrocities being committed in Israel.”</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">The articulate Abdul Azeez, who holds degrees from Ohio State and the University of Chicago, has remained quiet about Boko Haram in Nigeria and the beheading of James Foley by ISIS. Meanwhile, Nicholas Teausant, who wanted to support ISIS and blow up a “Zionist” day care center, remains upbeat.</p>
<p>“Even if they gave me the maximum 15 years I’d come out of prison at 35,” he told the <i>Bee</i> reporters. “That still leaves me the rest of my life to go to college and get a Ph.D., do what I want and be with my family.”</p>
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		<title>Islam: ‘Appalling and Abhorrent’ in the Eyes of a Blind World?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 04:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/meriam-yehya-ibrahim-apostasy-sharia-law-sudan.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225946" alt="meriam-yehya-ibrahim-apostasy-sharia-law-sudan" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/meriam-yehya-ibrahim-apostasy-sharia-law-sudan-450x254.jpg" width="315" height="178" /></a>A few days ago in Sudan, an eight-month pregnant wife and mother was sentenced to death by hanging for refusing to renounce Christ and embrace Islam.  According to the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-sudan-court-sharia-christianity-20140515-story.html"><i>LA Times</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, who has a young son and is married to a Christian from South Sudan, violated Islamic sharia law, the court said. She insists she was raised Christian, not Muslim.</span></p>
<p>The court also ordered Ibrahim to be flogged for having sexual relations with her husband, since her marriage is not recognized by officials.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ibrahim refused a court order Sunday giving her several days to renounce her Christian faith, which resulted in the sentencing Thursday….</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ibrahim, currently jailed with her son, will be allowed to give birth and raise her second child until the age of 2 years but then faces execution. Sudanese authorities refuse to allow Ibrahim’s son to reside with her husband because the husband is Christian.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Tragic as this story is, it is also immensely commonplace in Islamic countries.  Why? Because Islamic law does in fact punish the apostate from Islam—including with death—in accordance with the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.cmje.org/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/084-sbt.php">commands of the Muslim prophet Muhammad</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.  Indeed, many Muslim clerics believe that “If the [death] penalty for apostasy was ignored, there would not be an Islam today; Islam would have ended on the death of the prophet,” as top Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUsgTzOZfsyosq4j9qVi3YWg&amp;v=917pAS-Ccjs">once declared</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on live television.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Of more significance is the Amnesty International statement concerning Meriam Ibrahim’s plight. While its criticism is aimed at Sudan’s legal system, the statement unwittingly provides a glimpse of how the international community would view Islam if it could actually understand that these human rights abuses are not products of this or that government or regime, but of Islam itself. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/sudan-abhorrent-death-sentence-woman-grounds-her-religion-2014-05-15">Amnesty International statement</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>The fact that a woman has been sentenced to death for her religious choice, and to flogging for being married to a man of an allegedly different religion is <i>appalling and abhorrent</i>.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Adultery and apostasy are acts which should not be considered crimes at all. It is </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">flagrant breach of international human rights law</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.  The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, which includes the freedom to hold beliefs, is far-reaching and profound; it encompasses freedom of thought on all matters, personal conviction and the commitment to religion or belief (emphasis added).</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If, as Amnesty International declares, flogging and executing a person, in this case a pregnant woman, because of her “religious choice” and marrying a man of a “different religion” are “appalling and abhorrent”; if they are a “flagrant breach of international human rights law”—what do we make of the fact that Muslim converts to Christianity are punished and sometimes killed all across the Islamic world?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Consider the following anecdotes, a few examples, most from 2013 alone (culled from my monthly “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/becomes-chief-enabler-of-christian-persecution-muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2014/">Muslim Persecution of Christians</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">” series and listed in country alphabetical order):</span></p>
<p><b>Afghanistan</b>: A member of Afghanistan’s Parliament said that all <a href="http://www.mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=7458:afghani-mp-execute-afghan-christian-converts&amp;catid=81:regions&amp;Itemid=278">Afghans who convert to Christianity should be executed</a>.  His exact words: “Afghani citizens continue to convert to Christianity in India. Numerous Afghanis have become Christians in India. This is an offense to Islamic Laws and according to the Quran they need to be executed.” As one of many live examples,  Said Musa, an amputee and father of six young children, was once charged with apostasy and <a href="https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2011/02-February/33433/">pressured to renounce Christianity</a>, but he refused. So he was imprisoned, suffering “sexual abuse, beatings, mockery, and sleep deprivation because of his faith in Jesus.”</p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Algeria</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:</span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The wife of Ali Touahir, a 52-year-old Muslim convert to Christianity, left him, taking their seven-year-old daughter, and is divorcing him in court.  One of his wife’s brothers openly threated to kill apostate.  The wife’s lawyer asserted: “It is not possible that my client [the Muslim wife] still remain under the same roof with a man who has renounced his religion, as he became apostate; and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christian-convert-in-Algeria-loses-wife-faces-death-threats-for-leaving-Islam.html">we are not ignorant of the punishment that is due an apostate under sharia [death]</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.” </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Cameroon</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Two Muslim converts to Christianity were shot dead and two others wounded, in the Christian-majority African nation where Muslims make approximately 20 percent of the population.  One of them was previously threatened by the Nigerian Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram to return to Islam or “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Two-Christian-converts-killed-by-Islamists-in-Cameroon.html">face Allah’s wrath</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.” </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Egypt</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: A court sentenced an entire family—Nadia Mohamed Ali and her seven children—to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263727/Mother-Nadia-Mohamed-Ali-seven-children-jailed-15-years-Egypt-converting-Christianity-Islam.html">fifteen years in prison for converting to Christianity</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. A born Christian, Nadia had earlier converted to Islam and married a Muslim man; reconverting back to Christianity after the death of her husband, she attempted to reflect this change formally on her identity card and her children’s, which created suspicions among security, who arrested the family.  Separately and days ago in Egypt, after a former Muslim woman on live television announced her apostasy and lack of faith in Muhammad as the “Messenger of Allah,” she was insulted, ridiculed, and thrown off the set by the host.</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Iran</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: Imprisoned American pastor Saeed Abedini was reported as “facing physical and psychological torture at the hands of captors demanding he renounce his beliefs.” The 32-year-old married father of two, who left his home in Boise, Idaho, to help start an orphanage in his former country, once detailed “horrific pressures” and “death threats” in a letter to family members: “My eyes get blurry, my body does not have the strength to walk, and my steps become very weak and shaky…  </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/22/imprisoned-american-says-iranian-captors-waiting-for-me-to-deny-christ/print">They are only waiting for one thing…for me to deny Christ</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. But they will never get this from me.”  The imprisonment and torture of Muslim converts to Christianity in Iran is quite common (recall the plight of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/islams-predictability-apostasy-execution-and-lies/">Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">).  According to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Religion/Iran-Woman-who-converted-to-Christianity-jailed_32721259388.html">Adnkronos News</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, “renouncing the Muslim faith is punishable with the death penalty [in Iran]. Over 300 Iranian converts to Christianity have been arrested over the past two years, according to opposition websites.” </span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Kyrgyz</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: After a young Muslim girl converted to Christianity, her parents “wanted her to recant and renounce her faith in Christ, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/25344-kygyzstan-girl-burned-for-faith-in-christ">so they began to beat her systematically till she lost consciousness</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">… It was winter when all of this happened, so her parents put her into a cold room and kept her there for several days. Still they were unable to break her spirit.  They then started pulling her hair and put her face against the stove, burning her face. In spite of this, she remained faithful.”</span></p>
<p><b>Morocco</b>: A fatwa, or Islamic decree, by the government’s top religious authority, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/05/christians-in-morocco-fear-fatwa-portends-harsher-treatment/">calls for the execution</a> of those Muslims who leave Islam, causing many Christian converts to live in fear. Lamented one Christian: “The fatwa showed us that our country is still living in the old centuries—no freedom, no democracy.  Unfortunately, we feel that we aren’t protected. We can be arrested or now even killed any time and everywhere. The majority of the Christian Moroccan leaders have the same feeling.  We are more followed now by the secret police than before. Only the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ gives us courage and peace.”</p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Pakistan</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: A 16-year-old Muslim boy who converted to Christianity was abducted in Peshawar by Taliban-linked Islamic militants “and his fate may already be marked, as he is considered ‘</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/33854-ASIA_PAKISTAN_A_young_Christian_boy_converted_from_Islam_reported_missing">guilty of apostasy</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.’” As one Pakistani pastor explained, “If a young Muslim converts to Christianity in Pakistan, he is forced to live in hiding. Every Muslim might feel compelled to kill him. The change of religion is not punished by the civil law, it is punishable by Islamic law. For this reason cases of Muslim conversion to Christianity are very rare and some convert in secret.”   Muhammad Kamran, a Muslim convert to Christianity, exemplifies the pastor’s words.  After he told his wife of his conversion, she abused and exposed him, resulting in his being severely beaten by local Muslims.  In his words: “No one was willing to let me live the life I wanted [as a Christian]—</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2012/05-May/article_1539631.html/">they say Islam is not a religion of compulsion</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, but no one has been able to tell me why Muslims who don’t find satisfaction in the religion [such as myself] become liable to be killed.” </span></p>
<p><b>Saudi Arabia</b>:  After a woman was exposed as having converted to Christianity, she was sentenced to six years in prison and 300 lashes.  Although she managed to flee the nation and went into hiding, the Christian Lebanese man accused of introducing her to Christianity <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/05/13/Father-to-contest-sentence-in-daughters-conversion-to-Christianity/UPI-70861368461098/">received six years in prison and 300 lashes</a>.</p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Somalia</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:  The Al-Qaeda linked Al Shabaab (“The Youth”), which has vowed to cleanse the Horn of Africa of all Christian presence, has slaughtered countless Muslim converts to Christianity—men, women, and children—in the last few years.  Most recently, Al Shabaab </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/04/christian-widow-in-somalia-killed-four-months-after-husband-slain/">shot to death</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> 42-year-old Fartun Omar, a widow and mother of five, for converting to Christianity.  Months earlier, they had killed her husband for the same “crime,” and had been hunting for the wife. In a separate incident, Al Shabaab </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/06/islamic-extremists-in-somalia-kill-christian/">publicly executed a 28-year-old man after determining that he had in fact become a Christian</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.    Al Shabaab Muslims also seized Hassan Gulled, 25, for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity, and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/04/muslim-extremists-in-somalia-seize-torture-convert-from-islam/">imprisoned him, and tortured him</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.  According to local sources, “Al Shabaab have been torturing him to see whether he would deny his Christian faith. Since last week, no information has surfaced concerning Gulled. There is a possibility that he could have been killed.”</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Tanzania</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: At the time pregnant and with three children, Lukia Khalid explained how when she told her Muslim husband that she had converted to Christianity, “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/04/pregnant-mother-in-tanzania-forced-out-of-home-for-putting-faith-in-christ/">He threatened to kill me</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> if I was to stay with him. I then decided to escape that night with my three children to a neighbor’s house….  We left only with the clothes that we were wearing.  The command was so urgent that we could not wait any longer. We had to leave immediately.”  Last heard, they were living in destitute conditions.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One can go on and on with examples (see </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" 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"><i>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, pages 96-135, for a more thorough expose, including on the doctrine and history of apostasy in Islam, and dozens of more recent examples). </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Returning to Meriam Ibrahim, the pregnant Sudanese mother set to be executed for refusing to recant Christ and embrace Islam, some questions and observations are in order:</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Are all the other anecdotes listed above not equally “appalling and abhorrent”—to use Amnesty International’s words describing Meriam’s specific plight?  Are they not all a “flagrant breach of international human rights law”?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If so, and if the international community is actually serious about putting a stop to them, should it not try to ascertain the true source behind them? </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After all, considering that Muslim converts to Christianity are being attacked all throughout the Islamic world—including in nations as diverse as Algeria, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, and Kyrgyz—surely the source is not something as simple as “Sudan’s legal system.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The fact is, Muslim converts to Christianity are even under attack in Europe.  In Norway alone, for example, two Iranian converts out for a walk were </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/01/norway-two-iranian-converts-from-islam-to-christianity-stabbed-called-kuffar.html">stabbed with knives by masked men shouting “infidels!”</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> One of the men stabbed had converted in Iran, was threatened there, and immigrated to Norway, thinking he could escape Islam’s apostasy penalty.  Earlier, an Afghan convert to Christianity was scalded with boiling water and acid at a Norwegian refugee processing center: “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=3365:afghan-christians-in-danger-at-home-and-abroad&amp;catid=81:regions">If you do not return to Islam, we will kill you</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">,” his attackers told him.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Of course, the true source for all these attacks on Muslim converts to Christianity—in nations that do not share race, language, culture, politics, or economics—is Islam itself.  Anyone with common sense, anyone with the ability to be honest with oneself, must concede as much.  There is no other reasonable way to explain such identical patterns of abuse in such a wide array of nations. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But so long as the international community and human rights organizations fail to employ some common sense and honesty—fail to call a spade a spade—so will they ensure that countless more innocent humans like Meriam Ibrahim continue to suffer “appalling and abhorrent” treatment, simply for trying to exercise their “right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion” under Islam. </span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Nicholas+Michael+Teausant+FB.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222105" alt="Nicholas+Michael+Teausant+FB" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Nicholas+Michael+Teausant+FB-450x321.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>A federal grand jury has <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/26/6271828/san-joaquin-county-man-indicted.html">indicted Nicholas Michael Teausant</a> for attempting to support a foreign terrorist organization. In recent months, “Assad Teausant bigolsmurf,” as he called himself online, discussed his desire to train Syrian fighters, bomb the Los Angeles subway system and launch a civil war that would topple the American government.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Teausant, 20, is a student at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California, but Taj Khan, a college board member, told reporters that Teausant was not known to Muslim American students there. Some may have regarded him as an FBI informer.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Teausant was also a member of the National Guard, assigned to the 118th Maintenance Company in Stockton. The Guard recently released Teausant reportedly because he lacked minimum qualifications. The Muslim convert had little military experience but gathered information on bomb making and jihad tactics from the English-language al-Qaida magazine </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Inspire</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Teausant wanted to join the ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which the indictment explains is the new name of an organization under the control of al-Qaida, a foreign terrorist organization. Teausant said “I would love to join Allah’s army” and “I want to go fight in Syria.” He would only return to America after President Obama was dead, Congress gone, and chaos prevailing across the nation. Teausant offered to make a video for the ISIS and leave his face “wide open to the camera.” He wanted to be a “commander” and if he landed on the FBI’s 12 most wanted list “that means I’m doing something right.” The aspiring terrorist was unaware that the</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/17/6244452/acampo-man-arrested-on-terrorist.html">FBI had been on to him for months.</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Assad” planned to reach Syria by flying from Canada but FBI agents arrested him on March 16 in Blaine, Washington, near the Canadian border. A Seattle magistrate returned Teausant to Sacramento where he faces a maximum penalty of 15 years.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The case drew no comment from Mohamed Abdul Aziz, leader of the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/fbi-to-honor-cair-linked-group/">Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (SALAM) Islamic Center and frequently interviewed in the local press. The SALAM center co-hosts events with CAIR and in 2009 Abdul Aziz was the recipient of the FBI’s community service award “for preventing violence, creating understanding, bringing people together.”</span></p>
<p>If convicted Teausant would join Hamid Hayat of Lodi, California, now serving 24 years for providing material support to terrorism. Hayat was born in the United States but spent half his life in Pakistan where he attended terrorist training camps. Last year the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/hayat-terror-conviction-upheld/">Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Hayat’s conviction</a>. His father, Umer Hayat, also of Lodi, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in a different case and served 11 months.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Teausant case confirms that California continues to serve as a farm team of sorts for foreign terrorist organizations. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/walker/profile.html">John Walker Lindh</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> converted to Islam at 16 after seeing the movie </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Malcolm X</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Lindh lived in northern California and attended mosques in Mill Valley and San Francisco. The Redwood High School student learned Arabic in Yemen and studied at a madrassa in Pakistan before decamping for Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 2001 U.S. troops in Afghanistan captured Lindh and in 2002 he pleaded guilty to supplying services and transporting explosives for the Taliban government. The “American Taliban,” as he became known, was sentenced to 20 years in a high-security federal prison in Terre Haute Indiana. Last year a judge ruled that Lindh must be allowed to pray daily in a group with other Muslim inmates. In 2019 he gains eligibility for release.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In northern California and elsewhere the FBI appears to be taking all terrorist threats seriously. Meanwhile, the Bureau has also kept busy on sting operations against corrupt state politicians.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On March 26 FBI agents raided the Sacramento offices of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/26/6271916/fbi-california-sen-leland-yee.html">state senator Leland Yee, San Francisco Democrat</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, who faces seven charges of corruption and firearms trafficking. Among the 26 people charged is Yee’s former political consultant Keith Jackson, who served on the board of the San Francisco Unified School District. Jackson was indicted on charges of murder-for-hire and drug trafficking. Yee, a candidate for Secretary of State, could face 20 years in federal prison. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Last year the FBI raided the Sacramento offices of senator Ron Calderon, a Montebello Democrat who faces corruption charges. A Los Angeles jury recently found California state senator Rod Wright, a Baldwin Hills Democrat, guilty of voter fraud and perjury.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 05:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The jihadist slaughter ensues.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/yh.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-215005" alt="yh" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/yh.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>Arabic language websites <a href="http://www.khabararmani.com/arabic/news/936">reported</a> earlier this week that the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant—which, throughout the course of the war against the Assad government has committed any number of atrocities, from decapitating “infidels” to burning churches—has successfully “forced” two Armenian Christian families to convert to Islam.</p>
<p>A video accompanies some of these reports.  In it, what appears to be an elderly Armenian man stands alongside an Islamic cleric who announces the Christian man’s conversion to Islam—to thunderous cries of “Allahu Akbar!”   In his exultation, the cleric makes exuberant statements like “You see, we have no honor without Islam—without proclaiming aloud that “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet!” (Without the religious jargon, this is simply another way of saying, “Only by joining our team can you ever escape dishonor,” <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-racism-muslim-blood-superior-to-infidel-blood/">the lot of all non-Muslim, subhuman “infidels.”</a>)</p>
<p>The cleric also adds that, because the man is the head of his household, his Christian wife and children are all now Muslim as well—“all praise to Allah!”  Naturally, if they reject their new Islamic identity, they become “apostates,” a crime punishable by death.</p>
<p>The rather flippant and sarcastic text that accompanies this video points out the obvious:</p>
<blockquote><p>After decades of peaceful coexistence between the various religions of Syria, and after decades of living under the moderate form of Levantine Islam … these two Armenian families were none too keen on entering Islam or learning of its eminence—except at the hands of DAASH [al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant], which has been presenting a “rosy” picture of Islam and Muslims, by way of chopping heads, whipping people, and general repression.  Thus did these two Christian Armenian families finally enter Islam, “willingly”—but only at the hands of DAASH.</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, it’s “curious,” to say the least, that Christians who for generations lived amid moderate Muslim majorities in Syria but opted to remain Christian, are now “suddenly” attracted to Islam—and at the hands of a jihadi organization that has been bombing churches, kidnapping and beheading Christians, and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-cleric-incites-children-to-slaughter-christians-and-alawites-in-syria/">even teaching children to slaughter Christians</a> wherever they may be found.</p>
<p>Sound like genuine conviction to you? Maybe things like the 2012 news that “a family of Armenian Christians was found murdered, and <a href="http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32111&amp;lan=eng">all members of the family horribly decapitated</a>” in Syria is compelling these Armenian families into seeing the “wisdom” of embracing Islam?</p>
<p>Here we reach an important but overlooked historical point.  While many Christians, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islamic-forced-conversions-past-and-present/">past and present</a>, have indeed <a href="http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/64403.htm">willingly embraced martyrdom</a>—the sword, death—rather than recant Christ for Muhammad, the majority of born Christians, when faced with converting to Islam or dying, have opted for the former.  Indeed, call it a lack of idealism or a lack of faithfulness, when faced with converting to the “winning team” of Islam or simply being third-class subjects (<i>dhimmis</i>), many nominal Christians throughout the centuries have opted for the former.</p>
<p>That is precisely how and why the so-called “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/">the Islamic conquests</a>—came into being: a fact Western people were once well acquainted with, before the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/surreal-and-suicidal-modern-western-histories-of-islam/">current age of political correctness and alternate</a> realities fell upon us.</p>
<p><b>Update</b>:</p>
<p>New information has just emerged concerning the recent killing of a young Armenian man, Minas, for refusing to convert to Islam, again at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (so much for their claims that they do not threaten Christians to convert).</p>
<p>He was reportedly killed in one of ISIL’s dungeons in Aleppo, north Syria, which has a notable Armenian minority.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.mepanorama.com/402257/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3-%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%84-%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%B6-%D8%A5%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7/">iNews</a>, “Minas and his father were held in ISIL’s prison for 115 days, according to one activist, and his accusation was that he refused to submit [to Islam, i.e., convert].”</p>
<p>iNews adds that activists from the region sent the accompanying picture, saying it is of the slain Minas.  Others confirm that the picture is of a slain Armenian in Syria, but not of Minas.  In any case, the man appears to be wearing the garments of the Armenian Evangelical Church of Aleppo.</p>
<p>The same report mentions other Christian Armenians slaughtered, including one who reportedly had “his head chopped off and placed in a biscuit box.”</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why new followers gravitate toward jihad with such frequency. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/article-2531254-1A58FDE900000578-258_634x361.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214365" alt="article-2531254-1A58FDE900000578-258_634x361" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/article-2531254-1A58FDE900000578-258_634x361-430x350.jpg" width="301" height="245" /></a>Both of the suicide bombers who struck in Russia were Muslim converts. They follow a long string of Muslim terrorist converts, including the murderers of British soldier Lee Rigby, who were sentenced last month, and Terry Lee Loewen, who plotted to car bomb the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport that same month.</p>
<p>Muslim converts engage in terrorism at a higher rate than Muslims. It&#8217;s gotten so bad that converting to Islam is almost a form of suicide.</p>
<p>The popular theory is that Muslim terrorist groups use converts because they blend in better. But in most Western countries, screening by race is nearly illegal and even in targeted countries where it isn’t, there are usually many members of Muslim ethnic groups in most major cities.</p>
<p>There are four reasons for the rise of the Muslim Suicide Convert. Muslim converts are gullible, fanatical, suicidal and expendable.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with the last one. Muslims usually come from tribal cultures with extended family groups. Despite its claims of transnationalism and multiculturalism, Islam is an ethnic religion with the descendants of Mohammed elevated over everyone else, the families in the region of his first conquests elevated over other Arabs, Arabs elevated over non-Arabs, Asian Muslims over African Muslims and African Muslims over Western converts to Islam.</p>
<p>A convert to Islam is lowest on the totem pole because he has no family group. In a tribal society, not having a family connection makes you an outsider. A Muslim who Jihads himself to death creates a hole in the network of arranged cousin marriages, illegal business arrangements and other extended family support structures. A Muslim convert was never part of the network unless he married into it. And even then he can easily be unplugged because he shares no common ancestry with them.</p>
<p>In a Muslim country, he can be killed without having to pay blood price. In a Western country, he can be sent off to die without the &#8220;tribe&#8221; of Pakistanis or Egyptians who built the mosques and hired the Imams who converted him and convinced him to kill non-Muslims being affected by his death.</p>
<p>He is expendable.</p>
<p>Converts are not part of the family networks of the Muslim settlers in their Western diasporas. That makes them useful cannon fodder. If they are captured, the mosque denies all responsibility and blames the Internet even though most mosques and Muslim student groups host those same speakers who &#8220;radicalize&#8221; converts over the Internet at their own facilities and events.</p>
<p>Muslim converts are also suicidal. The act of conversion destroys the entire cultural and faith background of the individual. It cuts him off from his family, his people and his way of life. Converts to Islam often discuss feeling empty. They expect Islam to fill the void within them and when it does not, they are told that the failure is theirs.</p>
<p>The Muslim convert finds Islam in a search for fulfillment and still feeling unfulfilled, seeks out its &#8220;purer&#8221; forms whose commitment to Jihadist violence is more overt. The violence of their rhetoric and the force of their commitment briefly feel like fulfillment, but then dissatisfaction sets in again. Told to blame himself for this final failure, the Muslim Suicide Convert makes his final kamikaze run hoping to find the meaning and fulfillment in the afterlife that evaded him in this life.</p>
<p>Muslim converts have personal problems that they try to treat with Islam the way that sufferers from conventional diseases try to treat their illnesses with phony cures. Muslim clerics promise that Islam will solve the personal problems of non-Muslims and non-Muslim societies, but like so many criminal gurus, they are peddling phony cures that kill the patient.</p>
<p>That is one reason why Muslim converts are fanatical. Another reason is that they have no baseline. Converts plunge into another religion and culture as into deep water.</p>
<p>Muslims have learned to make the necessary compromises with their fanatical religion that make their lives livable. That is why most of them do not go out and blow themselves up; instead they undermine Western societies in slower and steadier ways through demographics, disinformation and political influence.</p>
<p>The Muslim Suicide Convert seeks an uncompromising purity. He rejects the compromises that Muslims have learned to make over the centuries. Seeking the core revelation in a religion of death; he finds that revelation only in death. The truth of Islam is in its killing fields. It preaches war for power and paradise. The Muslim convert who searches for its essence finds a grinning skull in the desert sands and hurries to emulate its terrible example.</p>
<p>Finally, Muslim converts are gullible. The natives of every land have games that they play with tourists, relying on their unfamiliarity with another culture to mislead them and trick them. Muslim converts are strangers in a strange land, slowly learning a foreign way of life and pathetically eager to be accepted by another culture. It is all too easy for Muslim clerics to lead them down the garden path to the suicide bomber’s paradise by offering and withholding affection until they are willing to do anything to belong.</p>
<p>Muslim Suicide Converts are enlisted in a war the way that men have been enlisted in wars throughout the ages with appeals to patriotism, tales of outrageous atrocities and myths of incredible heroism. The Muslim clerics tailor their pitch to the disposable people who are the least likely to be missed.</p>
<p>Muslim recruiters thrive on campus for the same reasons as cult recruiters and leftist academics.</p>
<p>The modern university is the place to find insecure young people questioning everything that they believe in and unsure of what to do when their impulse to tear down everything does not fulfill their need for something to believe in.</p>
<p>Into this universe of doubt, the Muslim cleric intrudes with his false offer of certainty, with the air of the victim, the badge of the underdog, the mysticism of the east and the romance of the grass that, like the terrorist flags that wave among it, always grows greener on the other side of the world.</p>
<p>Westernized Muslims are urged to purge themselves of Western culture, embrace the black flags and atone for their beers they drank, the girls they kissed and the songs they sang with the death screams of sirens and the blood of their non-Muslim friends and neighbors.</p>
<p>The seduction of the non-Muslim aims for the dissatisfied and unhappy who were trained by a liberal culture contemptuous of its own values and traditions to instinctively value non-Western spirituality over their own &#8220;materialistic&#8221; and &#8220;imperialistic&#8221; faiths.</p>
<p>The children of an intellectual tradition that taught them to reject absolutes; embrace with fervor an absolutism that calls for their deaths and the death of the world.</p>
<p>The Muslim Suicide Convert embraces his role as the vanguard of a spiritual world order, destroying the oppressive materialism of the world to make way for the superior rule of Islamic law, believing that he can only overcome his own materialism by destroying his material substance and the material substance of the society that nurtured someone as unworthy as him in the ultimate act of submission for the death drive of the Islamic religion of submission.</p>
<p>His suicide is the extension of the national suicide that brought the Muslim preachers who worked on his mind into the country and into its universities.</p>
<p>The Muslim Suicide Convert, like his Islam-friendly liberal society, kills himself and his society to atone for its materialism, reaching instead for a material paradise of virgin demon women, young boys serving wine and rivers and hills made of the bounties of seventh century Arabia, drowning his guilt in death and his hope for eternity in the innocent blood of his victims.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lesson for the U.S. in inter-agency counter-terrorism collaboration. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/8613497.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-195946 alignleft" alt="8613497" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/8613497-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>A foiled plot to bomb the British Columbia legislature confirms that Canada has learned some hard lessons in counter-terrorism and is now outpacing the United States in such operations.</p>
<p>Canadian Muslim convert John Stewart Nuttall and his “lover,” Amanda Marie Korody, plotted to plant pressure-cooker bombs at the British Columbia legislature in Victoria, scene of a mass celebration for Canada Day, July 1.</p>
<p>Adrian Dix, leader of the socialist New Democratic Party, told reporters that <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/Terror+plot+Christy+Clark+urges+people+vigilant+change/8606955/story.html">“had bombs gone off on Canada Day here it would have been a terrible and horrendous situation.”</a> Dix lost a cousin in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. His wife, Renee Saklikar, lost two relatives when terrorists bombed Air India flight 182. At least <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/list-of-canadian-victims-of-9-11-1.693626">24 Canadians were killed on September 11, 2001</a>, including several from British Columbia.</p>
<p>As in the Boston Marathon bombing, Nuttall and Korody were targeting a mass gathering. The pressure-cooker bombs were the same type Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev deployed, packed with rusty nails and bolts. But unlike the Boston attack, the authorities foiled the plot. No explosions, no injuries, no deaths, and two arrests.</p>
<p>Wayne Ridout, an assistant commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) told reporters, “The suspects were committed to acts of violence and discussed a wide variety of targets and techniques.” The RCMP described Nuttall as <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/07/02/bc-rcmp-terrorism.html">“inspired by al-Qaeda ideology”</a> but not supported from abroad. What contact Nuttall and Korody may have had with terrorist organizations and websites remains an open question.</p>
<p>The RCMP launched Project Souvenir, their five-month investigation, based on information from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, an espionage agency. The CSIS made no statements and the RCMP offered no details about how, exactly, they had tracked the bomb plot, what emails or calls they might have intercepted, and so forth. Vic Toews, Canada’s minister for public safety, credited the information sharing for achieving the arrest.</p>
<p>Thomas Nuttall, the Muslim convert, is reportedly a rock musician and has been in trouble before. In the course of a robbery in 2002, he struck a businessman on the head with a rock. His lawyer, Thomas Morino, described Nuttall as “always a compassionate, kind, caring person” and a lover of music. Nuttall and Korody now face terrorism charges.</p>
<p>The Canada Day celebrations went on as planned in Victoria. BC Premier Christy Clark told reporters, “Let me say this about those who would resort to terror: You will not succeed.” Clark has good grounds for that statement.</p>
<p>The RCMP heads the Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams (INSET) of law enforcement, intelligence and border services agencies. But such close cooperation between intelligence and law enforcement has not always been the practice in Canada. For example, in 1999 in Vancouver, BC “millennium bomber” <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/lessons-from-the-l-a-airport-terrorist-plot/">Ahmed Ressam prepared explosives destined for Los Angeles International Airport</a>. But Ressam never should have been in Canada in the first place.</p>
<p>Ressam became a militant Islamist in the early 1990s after an Islamist party won the Algerian elections. Ressam left for France where he lived illegally for four years before departing for Montreal with a bogus French passport Canadian officials easily spotted, but which did not prevent him from remaining in Canada. Ressam requested political asylum and Canadian officials accepted his story without checking with France, Algeria, or Interpol.</p>
<p>In Montreal Ressam augmented his welfare payments by robbing tourists. He was arrested four times but convicted only once and, incredibly enough, served no jail time. In Montreal, Ressam also linked up with the Osama bin Laden network and the Algeria-based Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which hijacked an Air France plane and attempted to crash the Eiffel Tower. The GIA also bombed the Paris Metro and attempted to murder European leaders at a G-7 meeting.</p>
<p>A car bomb case near Roubaix gave French police evidence that led to Ressam’s Montreal apartment. French authorities asked Canada for a search warrant but Canada took six months to process the request. When Canadian authorities did finally attempt to deport Ressam, he adopted the alias of Benni Noris and easily eluded them. When Ressam crossed the border Canadian officials failed to inspect the rented Chrysler in which he had stashed 100 pounds of explosives. Fortunately, a sharp-eyed customs inspector in Port Angeles, Washington, found the explosives and Ressam was arrested. He had targeted millennium celebrations, so hundreds of lives were surely saved.</p>
<p>Canada clearly learned from that experience. Last April <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/world/americas/canada-terror-plot-thwarted">Canadian authorities arrested two men plotting to derail a train</a> between Montreal and New York City. Meanwhile, the Boston bombing and the 9/11 attacks confirm that American intelligence, border and law enforcement agencies aren’t collaborating with each other nearly as much as they should.</p>
<p>U.S. officials knew that Major Nidal Hasan, an acknowledged jihadist, was a clear and present danger but did nothing to stop him from murdering 13 and wounding more than 30 at Fort Hood in 2009. American officials added absurdity to their incompetence, proclaiming the attack a case of <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/22/ft-hood-survivors-attack-was-not-workplace-violence/">“workplace violence,”</a> not terrorism or even gun violence.</p>
<p>Nothing like that has surfaced in British Columbia. As the Canadian national anthem says, stopping the terrorists was one of those <i>plus brilliants exploits</i>, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/argo-and-the-continuing-iranian-crisis/">like helping American hostages escape from Iran</a>. In Canada, they really do stand on guard for thee.</p>
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<p>In 1853, the British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton visited Mecca. Since Mecca was and is off limits to non-Muslims on pain of death, Burton passed himself off as a Muslim by undergoing circumcision and disguising himself as a Pashtun. “Nothing could save a European detected by the populace, or one who after pilgrimage declared himself an unbeliever,” Burton wrote.</p>
<p>Three hundred and fifty years earlier, the Italian adventurer Ludovico di Varthema became the first non-Muslim to enter Mecca since the Muslim conquest. Ludovico had enlisted as a mercenary and succeeded in passing as a Mamluk, one of the white slave soldiers of the Sultanate, who had been converted to Islam.  Ludovico was eventually caught out as a Christian, but escaped after a love affair with one of the Sultan’s wives.</p>
<p>Other Christians had visited Mecca, but always disguised as Muslims. The British cabin boy Joseph Pitts, captured by Muslim slavers and forcibly converted to Islam, visited Mecca, before managing to return home and return to his religion. Similar accounts were told by other European Christian slaves.</p>
<p>In 1979, hundreds of Islamists using weapons smuggled in a coffin seized the Grand Mosque of Mecca. The Saudi military, commanded by the sons of important men, rather than by competent men, proved absolutely hopeless in fighting them. So instead they turned to the French.</p>
<p>The French commandos of GIGN were expert at dealing with terrorist crises, but they were not Muslim and so could not be allowed into Mecca. The solution was simple. The Frenchmen underwent a rapid conversion to Islam and the siege of the Great Mosque commenced. The conversion did not take hold, but the principle remained. An infidel could not enter Mecca, even to save the House of Saud.</p>
<p>During his time as the CIA Station Chief in Saudi Arabia, John Brennan spoke of marveling “at the majesty of the Hajj and the devotion of those who fulfilled their duty as Muslims by making that pilgrimage.”  If Brennan did indeed visit Mecca during the Hajj, then he could have only done it by converting to Islam, like John Pitts, or pretending to have done so, like the GIGN commandos.</p>
<p>John Guandolo, a former FBI agent and Islam expert, has alleged that the conversion took place during Brennan’s time in Saudi Arabia. And he also alleges that this conversion has been confirmed by other American officials who were in Saudi Arabia at the time. These allegations are especially explosive as Brennan has moved up through the ranks to become Obama’s nominee to head the CIA.</p>
<p>Guandolo’s allegation goes beyond the question of religion. Rather he alleges that the conversion was part of an espionage recruitment process.  In an interview with Tom Trento of The United West, he said, “Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in a senior official capacity in Saudi Arabia. His conversion to Islam was the culmination of a counter-intelligence operation against him to recruit him.”</p>
<p>The Soviet Union recruited spies by convincing them of the virtues of Communism. Saudi Arabia might well recruit its infidel agents by convincing them of the worth of Islam. There is of course no way to know what is in Brennan’s heart. But while we may not know what Brennan believes, as John Guandolo has pointed out, we do know what he has done.</p>
<p>Brennan’s supposed conversion to Islam was only the third of two other points that the former FBI agent argued make him unfit for duty. The first is that Brennan has developed links with the Muslim Brotherhood and that he has brought “known leaders of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood into the government in positions to advise the US Government on counterterrorism strategy as well as the overall quote unquote War on Terror.” And the second is that Brennan reduces the War on Terror to Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>While Brennan did not innovate either of these two approaches, if he was indeed recruited by the Saudis, then they may be more than mere cluelessness. It’s not unusual for military and intelligence officials to visit Saudi Arabia and then leave it repeating the classic Saudi talking points about Islam as a stabilizing influence on the region and Israel as a destabilizing influence.</p>
<p>There are countless generals and diplomats who robotically insist that Bin Laden must not be referred to as a Muslim to diminish his influence and that the Muslim Brotherhood and other political Islamists are the only hope for countering the violent Islamism of Al Qaeda. The fundamental question is whether such disinformation is spread out of ignorance, or out of knowledge.</p>
<p>That is the final question that Guandolo raises about John Brennan. “The fact that foreign intelligence service operatives recruited Mr. Brennan when he was in a very sensitive and senior US Government position in a foreign country means that he is either a traitor, which I’m not saying, but that’s one of the options, and he did this all unwillingly and unknowingly ,or he did this unwittingly, which means that he is naive and does not have the ability to discern, to understand how to walk in those environments, which makes him completely unfit to be the Director of Central Intelligence.”</p>
<p>What is problematic in a general or a senator is even more troubling in the Director of the CIA. Military men are expected to be somewhat direct and take things as they are. But the director of an intelligence agency is expected to see threats where no one else does, to test the waters and look past the obvious. And if he cannot do that, then he is simply not qualified. And that is the larger point that John Guandolo makes.</p>
<p>Whether or not Brennan had a moment of submission on the road to Mecca or whether he is simply acting as a useful idiot for the people who perpetrated the attacks of September 11, he is not qualified to be the point man in the War on Terror. As the military side of the war draws to a close with a defeat in Afghanistan, the Central Intelligence Agency will take on a greater degree of importance in the fight against Islamic terrorism.</p>
<p>During the Cold War, the CIA was often infiltrated by the KGB, nullifying America’s intelligence capabilities in the Cold War. It would be a terrible shame if history repeated itself with Islam in the War on Terror.</p>
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