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		<title>Talking About ‘the Moroccan Issue’ Is Not a Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geert Wilders]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A democracy must allow for the frank discussion of the problems it faces.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/wilders-marked.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247969" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/wilders-marked.jpg" alt="wilders-marked" width="174" height="259" /></a><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://online.wsj.com/home-page">wsj.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Four years ago I was taken to court in the Netherlands on hate-crime charges. After a trial that lasted almost two years, I was finally acquitted. But the case cost me a lot of time and energy that, as an elected politician, I would rather have devoted to my parliamentary work.</p>
<p>Now, just as my Party for Freedom (PVV) is taking the lead in the polls and the Dutch government is facing serious political difficulties, the public prosecutor is again bringing me to court, this time for asking my party supporters, during a PVV electoral meeting in March, whether they want more or fewer Moroccans in the country.</p>
<p>This question needs to be understood in proper context.</p>
<p>In the Netherlands, as in many other Western European countries right now, problems arise when Muslim immigrants refuse to assimilate and integrate into the wider community. In our case I referred specifically to the Moroccans not because I have anything against them generally but because they are one of the largest immigrant groups here and are overrepresented in our crime and welfare statistics.</p>
<p>Moroccans are suspects in violent robberies 22 times as often as indigenous Dutch. Between 1996 and 2010, more than 60% of the Moroccan male youths born in 1984 had at least once been suspected of a crime, a rate three times as high as their indigenous counterparts. Meanwhile, 14% of the Moroccan population between ages 15 and 64 is dependent on welfare, compared with 9% for the Turks and 3% for the indigenous Dutch. According to Dick Schoof, the Dutch national coordinator for counterterrorism and security, Moroccans also account for three-quarters of all Dutch Muslims who leave for Syria to wage jihad.</p>
<p>The Dutch often refer to this problem as the “Moroccan issue.” If instead the Americans were the largest group of immigrants refusing to assimilate in the Netherlands, we would no doubt be referring to it as “the American issue.”</p>
<p>For almost a decade, my party has proposed three measures to address this issue. First, we want an end to immigration from Mulslim countries. Second, we want to expel all criminals of foreign nationality and, for those offenders who have dual nationality, deprive them of their Dutch citizenship, sending them back to the country of their other nationality. Third, we want to encourage the voluntary repatriation of non-Western immigrants.</p>
<p>These three measures don’t target any particular ethnic group, but given the demographics in our country it would immediately entail the presence of fewer Moroccans. Hence my question: “Do you want more or fewer Moroccans?” I never advocated that all Moroccans should leave. Nor do I object to every Moroccan. The decision to prosecute me for insulting an ethnic group and inciting hatred and discrimination is preposterous.</p>
<p>The prosecutor’s decision can’t be seen as being anything but politically motivated, especially when he has refused to prosecute two leading politicians of the governing Labor Party, Diederik Samsom and Hans Spekman, for similar statements on Moroccans. Mr. Samsom said that Moroccans have an “ethnic monopoly” on street crime, while Mr. Spekman said that Moroccans who don’t abide by the law have to be “humiliated in front of their own people.”</p>
<p>Polls have indicated that more than 43% of Netherlanders agree with me. I was thus expressing the feelings of millions in my country. In a democracy, a public debate about important political issues, such as “the Moroccan issue,” shouldn’t be restricted by criminalizing the expression of certain problems and policy proposals.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, political debate is now being increasingly restricted, not just in the Netherlands but across many European countries. Laws limiting freedom of expression, including the freedom of political debate, are introduced to protect subjective rights such as the right of certain groups to not feel offended, preventing the open discussion of pressing problems like those that arise from large-scale immigration across Western Europe. The unwillingness to address such problems is leading to the growth of parties, similar to my own PVV, in many other Western countries.</p>
<p>And existing laws are being applied ever more vigorously. Earlier this month, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that the existing Dutch penal laws not only criminalize incitement to hatred and discrimination but also “incitement to intolerance.”</p>
<p>I don’t believe in political self-censorship. During the past 10 years, I have drawn attention to the problems that Dutch citizens experience related to integration, immigration and the Islamization of our society. And I have paid, and continue to pay, a very high price for it. For more than a decade now I have lived under constant police protection because I am on the death list of several Islamist terror groups. However, I will never let anyone silence me, no matter the consequences. My voters have elected me to express their concerns, and that is what I will do.</p>
<p>Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd. Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won’t lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution. This prosecution, moreover, is also dangerous. People will begin to lose their trust in the democratic process. Festering political problems do not go away simply because they are kept in a dark corner. I wish the Dutch public prosecutor had been wise enough to see that.</p>
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		<title>Moroccan Islamists Throw Chairs at Kissing Couples</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We are an Islamic country and kissing in public is forbidden. These are atheists who are acting against Islam."]]></description>
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<p>The Arab Spring, Thomas Friedman&#8217;s favorite thing since his mustache and flat earth theories, has brought many benefits to the region. One is the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s political victory in Morocco.</p>
<p>And where there&#8217;s the Brotherhood&#8230; <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20131013-morocco-protest-stage-kiss-in-support-arrested-teens-picture-facebook-kissing-islam">the good times really begin to roll.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>A few dozen Moroccans took part in a “kiss-in” Saturday in Rabat to support three teenagers arrested for posting a picture of themselves kissing on Facebook. The protesters were confronted by onlookers as they kissed and chanted &#8220;Long live love&#8221;.</p>
<p>Only around a dozen couples actually locked lips in the gathering outside parliament, but the demonstrators insisted they had defended the right to public displays of affection in Morocco’s conservative society.</p>
<p>The kissing case has sparked uproar online, with citizens protesting against what they see as creeping conservatism in the Muslim country long known for being relatively liberal and tolerant.</p>
<p>A small group of counter-protesters shoved some of the couples and threw chairs.</p>
<p>“We are an Islamic country and kissing in public is forbidden. A simple kiss can lead to other things. These are atheists who are acting against Islam,” one of them said.</p>
<p>The couple at the heart of the case, a boy and a girl aged 15 and 14, and their 15-year-old male friend who took the photos outside their school in the northern town of Nador, were arrested last week, charged with “violating public decency” and held in a juvenile centre.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile marrying little girls for some reason doesn&#8217;t violate public decency in Islam.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Turns out the guy who denounced the kissing teens in Nador posts pics of naked girls riding horses on his FB page. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FreeBoussa&amp;src=hash">#FreeBoussa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Morocco&amp;src=hash">#Morocco</a></p>
<p>— ibnkafka (@ibnkafka) <a href="https://twitter.com/ibnkafka/statuses/388795933695410176">October 11, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Moroccans Protest Against Muslim Brotherhood Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We're protesting because of high prices of milk, meat and now petrol," 48-year-old Hassan Marrakchi said. ]]></description>
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<p>The Islamist takeover may have been most visible in Egypt, but it actually took hold in a number of countries. Morocco, which still has a king, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/muslim-brotherhood-taking-morocco-into-repressive-islamist-territory/">saw a win by the Muslim Brotherhood</a>.</p>
<p>But just like Egypt and Tunisia, Islamist rule isn&#8217;t proving to be too popular.</p>
<blockquote><p>Up to 5,000 people protested in the Moroccan capital Sunday against the Islamist government and the high cost of living after price rises of staple goods, a journalist said.</p>
<p>Some protesters brandished placards bearing a &#8220;thumbs down&#8221; symbol.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re protesting because of high prices of milk, meat and now petrol,&#8221; 48-year-old Hassan Marrakchi said. &#8220;And there&#8217;s no work. We don&#8217;t want Benkirane &#8212; he&#8217;s done nothing.&#8221;</p>
<p>The government is scrambling to limit the impact of oil price fluctuations on Morocco&#8217;s ailing public finances, with fuel subsidies weighing heavily on the budget of the North African country, which imports almost all its energy needs.</p>
<p>Under the controversial indexation system, the price of diesel surged 8.4 percent to 0.79 euros per litre, while petrol hit 1.14 euros a litre, a rise of 4.8 percent, a government official confirmed.</p>
<p>The move increased the pressure on many ordinary Moroccans already struggling to make a living.</p></blockquote>
<p>Economic discontent helped take down Mubarak and Morsi. It may take down Benkirane as well.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Brotherhood Taking Morocco into Repressive Islamist Territory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmed Assid, Amazigh activist, criticized the attempts of Islamists in Morocco to infiltrate women's rights organizations to make them obedient to Islamist associations, replacing the demands of women with their own demands. ]]></description>
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<p>By the standards of the region, Morocco has not been all that of a place. At least until the Arab Spring. The Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s election victory in Morocco has gotten less press in part because the country is small, its Justice and Development Party has tried to claim that it isn&#8217;t Brotherhood (a lie that came toppling down <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/morocco-pm-claims-he-isnt-muslim-brotherhood-muslim-brotherhood-says-he-is/">when the Muslim Brotherhood described it as one of its own</a>) and because the king still has the final say, in theory.</p>
<p>The Supreme Ulema Council of Morocco, its highest religious authority, published a <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/04/supreme-ulema-council-of-modern-moderate-morocco-muslims-who-leave-islam-should-be-condemned-to-deat.html">fatwa calling for the death penalty for</a> anyone who leaves Islam. And Morocco&#8217;s Islamist Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane is neglecting the economy <a href="http://www.halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2013/04/it-is-unacceptable-to-criticize-prophet.html">and getting into clashes with human rights activists</a> over blasphemy law.</p>
<blockquote><p>Morocco’s Islamist prime minister says it’s unacceptable to criticize the Prophet Muhammad, entering a war of words between a secular activist and hardline Salafists that has strained the balance between freedom of expression and religious sensitivities.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane took a not-so-veiled swipe at secular activist Ahmed Assid at a party rally late Saturday in Rabat.</p>
<p>Assid has drawn fire for saying a Moroccan school textbook has implied that Islam could be imposed by force.</p>
<p>At least one Salafist leader retorted that Assid was trying to paint Muhammad as a terrorist — a claim Assid denies — and called Assid an “unbeliever,” which could be seen as an incitement to violence.</p></blockquote>
<p>The AP predictably fails to delve into the subject but <a href="http://www.libe.ma/Les-droits-des-femmes-en-net-recul-sous-le-gouvernement-Benkirane_a37550.html">Assid does make some interesting comments</a> about the Brotherhood.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ahmed Assid, Amazigh activist, criticized the attempts of Islamists in Morocco to infiltrate women&#8217;s rights organizations to make them obedient to Islamist associations, replacing the demands of women with their own demands. Islamists use the same tactic with the Amazigh movement.</p>
<p>&#8220;But we do not only defend the Amazigh language, but also the universal values ​​of democracy and modernity,&#8221; he says. He added that the Moroccan Islamists also want to replace their substance by redefining their ideology as &#8220;Wahhabi and Muslim Brotherhood.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ahmed Assid called on democratic forces in Morocco as well as in other Arab countries to unite because &#8220;the Islamists are an organized minority, while the democratic forces are the majority in society, but disunited.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Muslim Brotherhood Government Now Experiencing Blowback in Morocco</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chanting, the "people want the fall of the government" and calling for the departure of Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, the activists marched through the colonial-era streets of downtown Rabat in a light rain.]]></description>
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<p>Unlike Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s victory in Morocco was little commented on, in part because it&#8217;s unclear how much power the king has actually ceded to them.</p>
<p>Still, much as in Tunisia, where the Islamists have run into an organized labor buzzsaw, and Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood is facing a dedicated protest movement,<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/31/thousands-march-as-morocco-labor-unions-protest-economic-reforms-by-islamist/"> tensions have begun to rise between the Islamist regime and the left</a>.</p>
<p>This is an AP article, <a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/thousands-march-in-rabat-to-protest-govt/622920.html">so you have to read between the lines</a>. &#8220;Moderate Islamist Party&#8221; is spelled &#8220;Muslim Brotherhood&#8221;. &#8220;Economic Reforms&#8221; means concentrating power within the Brotherhood&#8217;s oligarchy.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Morocco is witnessing social regression,&#8221; chanted protesters, including activists from the February 20 pro-reform movement, which was born of the Arab Spring protests sweeping the region in 2011. They also accused Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane of pushing the country into a &#8220;ravine.&#8221; Police said 3,000 marchers took part in the peaceful protest that wound its way to the parliament building in central Rabat. Other estimates said they numbered between 5,000 and 10,000.</p>
<p>The MAP news agency said members of opposition parties as well a human rights activists and civil society figures were also on the streets, alongside activists of the February 20 movement. The agency quoted unidentified union leaders as saying the march was &#8220;a sort of warning&#8221; to Benkirane&#8217;s government, which is expected in the coming months to implement sweeping reforms as Morocco grapples with economic hardships. Morocco is facing slower growth and the budget deficit reached over six percent of GDP in 2011, against a backdrop of 30 percent youth unemployment.</p>
<p>Chanting, the &#8220;people want the fall of the government&#8221; and calling for the departure of Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, the activists marched through the colonial-era streets of downtown Rabat in a light rain.</p>
<p>Benkirane&#8217;s moderate Islamist party won the most seats in elections following pro-democracy uprisings in 2011, and he took the helm of the government promising to fight corruption and address the North African country&#8217;s huge gap between the rich and the poor.</p>
<p>His fractious coalition has achieved little, however, and is currently embroiled in the sensitive process of reforming the massive subsidies and pension systems.</p>
<p>&#8220;The government has done nothing so far, not for the economy, not for social reforms and not even for the fight against corruption,&#8221; said Bouchra Sandeel, a teacher from Marrakech marching in the demonstration.<br />
She expressed fear that efforts to reform the subsidies on fuel and food staples would hit the poor hardest in this country of 32 million.</p>
<p>A poll published Friday by the daily L&#8217;Economiste gave Benkirane a 64 percent approval rating after just over a year in office. The paper noted it was a comfortable margin, but a 22 point drop from his 88 percent rating last year.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s going to fall farther as food prices rise.</p>
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		<title>Morocco PM Claims He Isn&#8217;t Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood Says He Is</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with Benkirane's denial is that not only does his Justice and Development Party look and sound like the other Islamist fronts for the Brotherhood in the region, and it is widely known as the local Brotherhood franchise, but the Muslim Brotherhood's own site described the JDP as its offshoot in an article with the topic "MB Around the World."]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s a testament to the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s growing unpopularity in the Middle East over their abuses of power in Egypt, that other Brotherhood cells are trying to disguise their identity again.</p>
<p>In Morocco, the Islamist political victories captured less attention than those in Egypt and Tunisia because it still has a king, but the Islamists still won there. But now <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/64790/World/Region/Were-not-the-Brotherhood-Moroccos-Islamist-PM-.aspx">Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane is trying</a> to back away from being identified with the Brotherhood.</p>
<blockquote><p>Morocco&#8217;s Islamist premier, Abdelilah Benkirane, denied links with the Muslim Brotherhood, Arab press reported on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Benkirane, head of the ruling Islamist Justice and Development party, emphasised that Islamist movements have &#8220;their own political thought&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;People voted for us as a political party as Moroccans are Muslims by nature; the government does not plan to Islamise society or interfere in people&#8217;s personal lives,&#8221; he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The problem with Benkirane&#8217;s denial is that not only does his Justice and Development Party look and sound like the other Islamist fronts for the Brotherhood in the region, and <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=247340">it is widely known as the local Brotherhood franchise</a>, but the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s own site <a href="http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=13845">described the JDP as its offshoot</a> in an article with the topic &#8220;MB Around the World.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>Abdullah Baha, the leader of the PJD bloc in parliament and the party’s under secretary-general told Ikhwanweb&#8230;</p>
<p>Bahaa said about the coming elections:” They allow them as a party to have a direct contact with and listen to people. However, they require more preparations and efforts. The Under Secretary General of the Justice and Development Party in Morocco &#8220;the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot there&#8221; added that his party will field candidates in all constituencies and that the administrations of the election campaigns are working day and night and everything is moving smoothly.</p></blockquote>
<p>So yes PJD is indeed the Brotherhood and it has the same agenda. It just doesn&#8217;t yet have the same degree of power to carry out that agenda.</p>
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		<title>Forcing Women to Marry Their Rapists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young Moroccan girl left with no alternative but to take her own life to avoid this fate. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/99461_620.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-126084" title="99461_620" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/99461_620.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>While American progressives remain in high dudgeon over a woman&#8217;s &#8220;right&#8221; to &#8220;free&#8221; government-provided contraception, a genuine woman&#8217;s rights issue has been unfolding in Morocco. In Larache, near the city of Tangiers, 16-year-old Amina Filali <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/15/suicide-moroccan-girl-16-forced-to-marry-rapist-sparks-outrage/">committed suicide</a> after she was forced by a judge to marry. Whom did the judge force her to marry? Her <em>rapist.</em> &#8220;The prosecutor advised my daughter to marry, he said &#8216;go and make the marriage contract,&#8217;&#8221; said Lahcen Filali, the girl&#8217;s father. Thus, once again the wonders of Sharia-based jurisprudence are revealed.</p>
<p>This outrage is actually codified. Article 475 of the Moroccan penal code <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/morocco/9146082/Moroccan-teenagers-suicide-after-she-was-forced-to-marry-her-rapist.html">states</a> that a rapist may be exonerated of his crime if he marries his victim. In Morocco, rape is punishable by five to ten years in prison, but the sentence doubles to ten to twenty years if the victim is a minor. The law is designed to protect the honor of the family, which is considered stained when a woman loses her virginity prior to getting married. Marrying one&#8217;s rapist simultaneously &#8220;restores&#8221; that honor and exonerates the rapist of his crime.</p>
<p>Incredibly, the 26-year-old attacker initially refused to marry his victim, and only relented when faced with prosecution. Perhaps his reluctance was bolstered by the reality that, in many cases of reported sexual misconduct, Moroccan law puts the burden of proof on the victim. If a woman can&#8217;t prove she was attacked, she risks being prosecuted for debauchery.</p>
<p>Apparently Amina Filali, raped a year earlier at the age of 15, couldn&#8217;t cope with such &#8220;reasonableness.&#8221; On March 10th, she swallowed rat poison to escape her court-mandated fate. According to local media reports, the girl had complained to her mother that her husband/rapist &#8220;beat her repeatedly&#8221; during the five months they were married. It was further reported that her own family disowned her as a result of those complaints. As for the girl&#8217;s husband, witnesses told the media he became so outraged upon discovering she drank poison, that he dragged her down the street by her hair. She died shortly afterward.</p>
<p>Thankfully, this travesty has sparked outrage. Activists in Morocco have set up a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/188082354639954/">Facebook</a> group called &#8220;We are all Amina Filali.&#8221; It has almost 2,200 members. A <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/urge-morocco-to-create-amina-s-law-and-get-rid-of-article-475-that-protects-rapists">petition</a> has garnered more than 1,000 signatures, and a Twitter account was established using the hashtag #RIPAmina. Twitter contributer and women&#8217;s rights activist Abadila Maaelaynine encapsulated the essence of the protest. &#8220;Amina, 16, was triply violated, by her rapist, by tradition, and by Article 475 of the Moroccan law,&#8221; she wrote.</p>
<p>Abdelaziz Nouaydi, who runs the Adala Assocation for legal reform, explained that a judge can recommend marriage only in the case of agreement by the victim and both families. &#8220;It is not something that happens a great deal&#8211;it is very rare,&#8221; he said. But he also offered a cultural reality check, noting that the victim and/or her family will acquiesce to such an arrangement out of fear a woman will never be able to find a husband if it becomes known that she was raped.</p>
<p>Fouzia Assouli, president of Democratic League for Women&#8217;s Rights, countered that such arrangements are &#8220;a recurring phenomenon,&#8221; which is why activists have demanded a repeal of Article 475, a law that &#8220;allows the rapist to escape justice.&#8221; She further notes the peculiar aspects of such laws. &#8220;In Morocco, the law protects public morality but not the individual,&#8221; she contended, adding that legislation outlawing all forms of violence against women, including rape within marriage, has been stuck in legal limbo since 2006.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human-rights abuser Morocco leads the international campaign to dismantle Israel. ]]></description>
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<p>Morocco, replacing Lebanon on the United Nations Security Council, wasted no time in raising the issue of Israeli settlements after a closed-door Security Council meeting on January 10th about the unrelated topic of Children and Armed Conflict. As the United States representative is reported to have pointed out, Morocco&#8217;s request was &#8220;ill-timed and counter-productive.&#8221; Morocco&#8217;s decision to begin its tenure on the Security Council by carrying the Palestinians&#8217; torch on the Israeli settlements issue is also the height of hypocrisy, considering Morocco&#8217;s continuing illegal occupation of the Western Sahara territory and repression of its people who yearn for self-determination.</p>
<p>Expect to see a continuing effort to insert the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, particularly the settlements issue, on the Security Council agenda whenever the Palestinians&#8217; allies, such as Morocco, possibly can. It&#8217;s all part of the Palestinians&#8217; campaign to persuade more Security Council members to support the Palestinians&#8217; bid for full UN membership and to isolate the United States diplomatically if it does not drop its veto threat. So far, the United States has not had to exercise its veto power because the Palestinians were unable last year to garner a majority of other members to support their application for membership.</p>
<p>Palestine&#8217;s Observer to the UN, Riyad Mansour, told UN correspondents last week that the Palestinians would employ &#8220;new creative ideas&#8221; to gain full membership in the United Nations:</p>
<blockquote><p>Are we giving up because there is one powerful country that has a veto power saying the Security Council should not be involved? We&#8217;re not giving up. So now we&#8217;re coming up with these new creative ideas.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mansour referred to a letter he had handed to Bass Sangqu, the UN Ambassador from South Africa, which holds the Security Council presidency for the month of January. The letter purports to document &#8220;crimes committed by the occupying authority against our people in the occupied territory, including the terrorist activities by the settlers against our civilian population.&#8221; And Mansour called for a report on Israeli settlements to the Security Council by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.</p>
<p>Mansour also announced that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will be visiting Palestinian leaders in the West Bank within the month, presumably to report back to the Security Council their testimonials of Israeli &#8220;crimes.&#8221;</p>
<p>How about Ban Ki-moon adding to his itinerary a stop in the Western Sahara, illegally occupied by Morocco? The people of Western Sahara, which was once a Spanish colony, were entitled under international law to decide for themselves whether they wanted complete independence or association with another state after the colonizing power gave up control. Morocco never gave the people of Western Sahara this chance. Instead, it invaded and occupied their territory.</p>
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		<title>Deadly &#8216;Diversity&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police in a Western European capital admit they have “lost the city” to marauding immigrants.]]></description>
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<p>The neighborhood of Grønland in Oslo, Norway, is not terribly large.  It&#8217;s on the east side of town, adjacent to central Oslo, and has traditionally been a place of working-class flats and unpretentious pubs.  Ever since Norway began to be the destination of immigrants from the Muslim world, however, Grønland has been home to an increasing number of Muslim families and businesses.  In recent years, furthermore, it has become an attractive residential area for young Norwegian singles and families, for many of whom part of the lure of living in this part of town was that they wanted to be part of a “multicultural” community.  As a result of the influx of these these young people – including no small number of gays – a number of hip restaurants and cafes have sprung up in the area.</p>
<p>Of late, however, as the city&#8217;s Muslim population has boomed, Grønland has been undergoing a transition from a mixed neighborhood to an essentially Muslim one.</p>
<p>In an <em>Aftenposten </em><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3456633.ece%20">article</a> in January 2010, Olga Stokke and Hilde Lundegaard cited one Grønland resident&#8217;s observation – which is consistent with my own and that of many of my friends and colleagues – that since 9/11 the neighborhood has taken a sharply negative turn.  More women are wearing hijab, if not burkas; and there has been a rise in what the <em>Aftenposten </em>article&#8217;s headline called “[m]oral control in Oslo&#8217;s immigrant streets.”  For example, a young social worker who was chowing down on a somosa one day on his way home from work through a Grønland street was confronted by two aggressive young men who demanded of him in a bullying tone: “Don&#8217;t you know it&#8217;s Ramadan?  You should know better!”</p>
<p>Once upon a time, gays in Oslo thought of “multicultural” Grønland as gay-friendly.  No more.  In the fall of 2009, a gay couple walking in Grønland were kicked and yelled at by a man who told them that they were in a Muslim neighborhood where their kind was unwelcome.</p>
<p>This was not an isolated incident: as Stokke and Lundegaard wrote, “many others&#8230;experience an at least equally strong sense of control” in Grønland by self-appointed moral police.  Muslim girls who would prefer not to wear hijab, for example, do so in Grønland simply to avoid being rebuked.  The <em>Aftenposten </em>article quoted Fatima Tetouani, who when she moved in 2000 from Morocco to Oslo to live with her Norwegian husband, “expected a Western, open society.”  “But Grønland is more Muslim than Morocco,” she told <em>Aftenposten</em>.  “I had never seen a burka before I came here.  And I had never experienced nasty looks if I ate or drank a cup of coffee during Ramadan.”</p>
<p>Tetouani&#8217;s son had been scheduled to attend a school where over 95 percent of the students were non-Norwegian speakers.  She said no.  “All the girls were covered.  I felt like I was in a mosque.  My son will not be bullied because he has a father who eats pork and is not circumcised.”  Tetouani had worked at a local day-care center, where she heard an Algerian mother chastize her son for playing with Norwegian children: “You know they eat pork and are going to hell!”  Tetouani&#8217;s verdict was blunt: “they are trying to take over this neighborhood.”</p>
<p>While Tetousani from Morocco was clear-eyed about what was going on in Grønland, Michael Hartmann from Bergen, after five years in the neighborhood, was still in something of a fog.  The self-described anti-racist, who “moved to Grønland precisely in order to experience the cultural diversity,” was now being regularly tormented by his neighbors for being gay.  This left him disillusioned; he feared being beat up.  “I was very naïve when I came here,” he admitted.  But somehow, it appeared, he still didn&#8217;t get it: “We can&#8217;t give up the diversity.  As minorities we really should be standing together and helping one another.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ralph Peters]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, sorry, it's about Islam. 
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<p>Last weekend, the feds popped two more US citizens who yearned to kill their fellow Americans for Allah.  They hoped to join al-Shabab, Somali’s ruthless jihadis, but fantasized about slaughter right here at home.</p>
<p>And, once again, any mention of Islamist extremism was absent from government statements, as if these guys were just angry about parking tickets.</p>
<p>The would-be Times Square car bomber, the guess-what’s-in-my-knickers Christmas Day airline bomber, no end of got-‘em-in-time apprehensions, plus the Ft. Hood butcher, Major Nidal Hasan…and even the media barely hint at what all these fanatics have in common.</p>
<p>Dare to suggest that radical Islam might be to blame, and you’re a bigot.  Just as pointing out that Palestinian terrorism led to Israel’s hard line stand makes you a fascist.  But those who reject radical Islam’s role as the driving force behind today’s terrorism must answer one obvious question:</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Where are the Christian terrorists?</em></p>
<p>The <em>ignored </em>persecution, deprivation and massacres aren’t in Gaza, the global left’s favorite petting zoo.  The cover-up victims are the Middle East’s Christians.</p>
<p>Set aside for now the <em>vast</em> Christian communities that once thrived between Morocco and Mesopotamia.  The multiple holocausts they suffered for over a thousand years at Muslim hands doesn’t fit the White-House-approved narrative.</p>
<p>Let’s concentrate on today—when the only country left in the Middle East in which Christians enjoy <em>complete</em> freedom of worship, freedom from secret police surveillance, forced conversions, pogroms or civil strife, is Israel.</p>
<p>But that won’t do, either.  Can’t make Israel the good guy.  So how about those “suffering Palestinians?”  You know, the folks that chick-lit Che Guevara, Rachel Corrie, sought to rescue from an Israeli bulldozer…</p>
<p>Well, the Palestinians who’ve suffered the most have been <em>Christians.</em> And it hasn’t been the Israelis who’ve been persecuting them.</p>
<p>Take the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the literal cradle (or manger) of Christianity.  A half century ago, its Arab population was 80% Christian.  Today, Christians make up no more than 15% of the locals, and their numbers continue to shrink.</p>
<p>Throughout the Palestinian territories, the once-vibrant Christian population is estimated to have collapsed to a mere 25,000.  Muslim rapes, murders, kidnappings, extortion, death threats and property theft are to blame.</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Where are the Christian terrorists?</em></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/koran.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-62474" title="koran" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/koran.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="269" /></a></p>
<p>In neighboring Egypt, Christianity’s intellectual center in its formative centuries, centuries of Islamization reduced, but failed to eliminate the Christian faith.</p>
<p>Coptic Christians, with their ancient traditions, still make up as much as 15% of Egypt’s population, which is nearing 80 million.  But the faith is under siege again.  The Mubarak regime appears to have decided to let its mortal enemy, the Muslim Brotherhood, have some leash in the persecution department.</p>
<p>Copts suffer village pogroms, ghettoization in cities, and kidnappings and forced conversions (often of marriage-age girls).  They’re prevented from constructing new churches and suffer general discrimination.  Killings of Copts go uninvestigated by Egypt’s police.</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Where are the Christian terrorists?</em></p>
<p>Then there’s Iraq, where a tragic unintended consequence of the removal of Saddam Hussein&#8211;the region’s worst mass murderer&#8211;has been the destruction of ancient Christian communities.</p>
<p>Prior to 2003, there were about a million Christians in Iraq.  Most are now refugees.  Successive Iraqi governments have shown little interest in protecting those who remain.  Leading churchmen have been assassinated, Christian families have been slaughtered, churches have been bombed and burned.  And we’ve done nothing—to avoid irritating Muslims.</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Where are the Christian terrorists? </em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>Given the excuses made for Islamist terror, shouldn’t we have seen a violent response by now?</p>
<p>Of course, none of this is an issue in Saudi   Arabia, where the Christian (and Jewish) communities that thrived at the dawn of Islam were wiped out centuries ago.  Even Lebanon, long a state where Christians enjoyed religious freedom, suffers from the grim Islamist contagion.</p>
<p>The absence of Christian terrorism in the savagely anti-Christian Middle East goes beyond Christ’s call to “turn the other cheek.”  It further highlights extremist Islam as the source of today’s terror.</p>
<p>But Washington will continue to shut its eyes and bluster about the “legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people,” etc., etc.  Dead Arab Christians are even less important than dead Jews.</p>
<p><em>Ralph Peters’ latest book is “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/04/16/endless-war-2/">Endless War</a>.”</em></p>
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<p>Seven years after its application, <em>Al Jazeera English</em> has been launched in Canada. The three largest cable providers  (Bell TV, Rogers and Videotron) are carrying the digital channel.<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6962" target="_new"> Al Jazeera (AJ)</a>, a.k.a. the “CNN of the Arab World” was given its approval papers by the Canadian broadcast regulator—the CRTC (Canadian Television and Telecommunications Commission).</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, the Managing Director of <em><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6962" target="_blank">Al Jazeera</a> English </em>is Tony Burman, former Editor in Chief of the CBC—the leftist network propped up by its infinite bank payroll—taxpayer dollars. Yet the publicly funded CRTC has blocked several applications by Fox News, which by the way is in demand in Canada, but not Liberal and politically correct enough for a country long dominated by leftist media ideologues.</p>
<p>Oh, and there’s something else funded by Canadian taxpayers:  <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/fp/articles/Readb88d.html?GUID=A53FE649-F1F9-4CF0-B80A-9C4ECA46DC10" target="_blank"> Harems</a>! Hundreds of GTA (Greater Toronto Area) Muslim men in polygamous marriages are receiving welfare and social benefits for <em>each</em> of their spouses.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mumtaz Ali, president of the Canadian Society of Muslims, said wives in polygamous marriages are recognized as spouses under the Ontario Family Law Act, providing they were legally married under Muslim laws abroad. – Toronto Sun</p></blockquote>
<p>So here we “stand on guard” in Canada incorporating foreign Muslim laws into our provincial social benefits system. This is possible because, while polygamy is officially outlawed in Canada, there is a loophole in the law which is, it goes without saying, being capitalized upon by fundamentalist Muslims.</p>
<blockquote><p>Canada is a very liberal-minded country, Ali said…way ahead of Britain in this respect. – <em>Toronto Sun</em></p></blockquote>
<p>It’s a troubling statement given that Canada shares its borders with the United States – the leader on the terrorist war front. And let’s not even mention the fact that Britain has actually gone so far as to sanction Sharia law to rule to replace common law in civil cases between Muslims.</p>
<p>That’s bad, but it becomes even worse. A Montreal man, Mohamed Omary, has been collecting welfare cheques for nearly two decades, crisscrossing ‘ Europe to meet with six other men who have since been killed, convicted or linked to global terrorism.</p>
<p>Lawyers for RCMP and CSIS have filed documents, alleging Omary has been living off taxpayers ever since he arrived from Morocco, yet finding cash to fund his escapades throughout Europe.</p>
<p>Some advice:  if Canadian taxpayers’ dollars aren’t lucrative enough, then go the Arar route, which means:  sue, big time.   Maher Arar originally had the audacity to demand $400-million, but settled for a meager 10.5 million.  He’s still on a U.S. terrorist list, yet received an apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and 10.5 million dollars in a legal settlement from the government (read: taxpayers) because of a s0-called injustice.  Arar– with dual Syrian and Canadian citizenship– was detained by American authorities in New York on terrorism suspicions, sent back to his country of origin (Syria), where he was imprisoned and tortured.  A judicial inquiry  subsequently found that the Canadian RCMP mislabeled him as an Islamic extremist with suspected ties to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211" target="_new">al Qaeda (al Qaida) (AQ)</a> and  shared  that “misinformation” with U.S. authorities which led to his deportation to Syria.</p>
<p>Down the road, Omar Kadhr, the Canadian kid raising all kinds of controversy among naïve, bleeding hearts because he’s stuck in Guantanamo, said he saw Arar in safe houses and Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan.  Well, 10.5 million dollars later, who cares?  Arar is happy with his new found wealth and personal apology from the Prime Minister’s Office. It takes little imagination to predict what he’ll do with these millions.</p>
<p>Conclusion:  with its lucrative potentials and its strategic location so close to the United States, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=124&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">dhimmi </a>Canada has made itself the ideal place to live for extremist Muslims. <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Untitled.jpg"><br />
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<p>Frontpage Interview&#8217;s guest today is Vijay Kumar, who is currently running for the U.S. Congress as a Republican candidate for Tennessee 5th Congressional District. The Primary vote comes on August 5 of this year, and the General Election is on November 4. When he ran before, in 2008, he received about 30% of the vote in Republican Primary. His website is <a href="http://kumarforcongress.com/" target="_blank">kumarforcongress.com</a>. Visit his blog at <a href="http://kumarforcongress.net/" target="_blank">kumarforcongress.net</a>.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Vijay Kumar, welcome to Frontpage Interview.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>You are one of the rare individuals running for office in America who is actually making the issue of Islamic Jihad a significant part of your campaign. Tell us your view of Islamic Jihad and the background you have to make you see it the way you do.</p>
<p><strong>Kumar:</strong> I am a native of Hyderabad, India, which is where I first encountered the Muslim culture. We have a substantial number of Muslims there, a higher percentage than most other parts of India, and I began to observe things that troubled me. Later, I traveled a number of Islamic nations, and I lived in Iran from 1976 to 1979, during the Islamic Revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini. I immigrated to the United States in 1979. All my life, I have been interested in political thought. During my travels, I came to realize that Islam is unlike any of the other world religions for a variety of reasons, and they summate to the Islamic ideology behind Jihad.</p>
<p>First, Islam was conceived as a world empire to govern all mankind. It teaches that all the world, and everyone and everything in it, already belongs to Islam&#8211;some people just haven&#8217;t been made to understand that. Until they have, according to Islam, they are considered &#8220;infidels&#8221; and inferiors. Put another way, the Islamic view is that all of us in the world are subjects of the Islamic Empire, and those of us who do not acknowledge our subjugation to it must be overcome and brought to submission, through conversion or force. No other religion in the world has such a purpose of world conquest and domination.</p>
<p>Second, Islam does not allow any introspection or self-criticism. It calls for total acceptance, total submission. The very word &#8220;Islam&#8221; means &#8220;submission,&#8221; and the word &#8220;Muslim&#8221; means &#8220;one who submits.&#8221; The other side of submission, of course, is domination. Islam seeks to dominate every individual and every nation into submission. In that, it shares a key element of slavery, which the civilized world has properly decried and abolished. Such submission is a political act. I am a freeman, and I refuse to submit to Islamic hegemony.</p>
<p>Third, Islam does not have any exit policy for its believers. The act of submission required to become a Muslim is held to be final, irrevocable, and permanent. So criticizing or questioning Islam or its teachings or leaders, or attempting to leave Islam, all are considered severe crimes against Islam, punishable by death.</p>
<p>In contrast, non-Islamic religions allow for dissenting views, introspection, and reasoned debate. In non-Islamic religions, if you so choose, you can leave the faith you were born into without being threatened with physical violence or death. In Islam, both criticism of the faith and apostasy are capital offenses.</p>
<p>All of that is what drives Jihad: Jihad is a permanent war against the unbeliever and his land to bring about his submission. It has been going on for fourteen centuries all over the world, which is why I coined the term &#8220;Universal Jihad.&#8221; Islam&#8217;s Universal Jihad is the single greatest threat to Western civilization and to the entire non-Islamic world in general. It is more dangerous than Nazism and Communism combined.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> More dangerous than Nazism and Communism combined? Please explain this perspective.</p>
<p><strong>Kumar:</strong> Nazism was in power for 15 years or so. Communism was in power for about 70 years. Today, Germany, Japan, and Russia, our former adversaries, are now our allies. Also, they are liberal democracies.</p>
<p>Nazism, Communism, and Islam are all three totalitarian ideologies. Communism and Nazism, though, lack a system of transcendental metaphysics, which Islam has. Nazism and Communism do not claim to be religions, and there is no threat of hell-fire to hold over its adherents. By contrast, Islam is a totalitarian form of governance that also claims to be a religion, and so has proved to be far more sustainable than any other form of aggressive totalitarianism.</p>
<p>The doctrine and politics of Universal Jihad have been assaulting the world for 1,400 years. It is exactly what launched the Christian Crusades, which were an attempt to save European civilization from the relentless onslaught and wholesale murder of invading Muslim forces.</p>
<p>Under Universal Jihad, non-Muslim civilizations have been annihilated. To mention just a few examples: Turkey was Christian; Iran was Zoroastrian; North Africa and the Middle East were predominantly Christian; Afghanistan and Central Asia were Buddhist; Pakistan was Hindu; Egypt was Coptic, orthodox Christian. All have fallen prey to invasion by Islam.</p>
<p>Today, Universal Jihad has been brought to the West&#8211;not just by overt violence, but through every strategy and tactic conceivable. Islam is not just the faith of another immigrant group; it is a complete political and paramilitary ideology. Political Islam is here to Islamize the Western nations, and that includes the United States.</p>
<p>So Universal Jihad is a permanent form of warfare against the infidels, their nation-states, and every non-Islamic form of government in the world. It has been Islam&#8217;s mandate for 1,400 years that other cultures must submit to it. Islam is devoted to an eternally-unchanging doctrine: it is obligated to conquer entire world.</p>
<p>No one needs to take my word for it. Syed Abul A&#8217;ala Maududi, a Pakistani, was arguably the most influential Muslim theologian and thinker of the 20th Century. He said the following point-blank:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the  earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a State on the basis of its own ideology and program . . . [T]he objective of Islamic Jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of State rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single State or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Any Muslim or apologist who claims otherwise, or who insists that Islam is just &#8220;a religion of peace&#8221; is not arguing against me: they are arguing against their own most revered leaders and experts on Islam and its true purpose. They are spreading Islamic propaganda that has no other purpose than to lull the infidel into a false sense of  friendship and security.</p>
<p>Such propaganda is a primary and vitally important tool of Islam&#8217;s psychological warfare. Syed Abul A&#8217;ala Maududi also spelled out clearly how many different ways Universal Jihad is to be waged against &#8220;the infidels&#8221;:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;In the jihad in the way of Allah, active combat is not always the role on the battlefield, nor can everyone fight in the front line. Just for one single battle preparations have often to be made for decades on end and the plans deeply laid, and while only some thousands fight in the front line there are behind them millions engaged in various tasks which, though small themselves, contribute directly to the supreme effort.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Unlike any other religion anywhere in the world, Islam&#8217;s clear, inarguable overarching purpose is Universal Jihad and global conquest, using any means. It is not waged just through terrorism and violent conflict. That is an extraordinarily naive view. Islam also uses psychological warfare, propaganda, covert operations, infiltration, and demographic saturation.</p>
<p>Universal Jihad exists and no amount liberal &#8220;political correctness&#8221; is going to wish it away. It is here on the soil of the United States right this minute. Its openly-declared goal is to destroy the United States as a system of government, to tear up our Constitution, and subject us all to Islamic totalitarianism under Sharia law.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Let me ask you this: World War I was won in four years, World War II was won in six years. But the Israel/Palestine and the India/Pakistan conflicts have not resolved after 62 years. Why do you think?<strong><br />
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<strong>Kumar:</strong> It&#8217;s simple: Muslims do not want peace, they want conquest. When they enter into an alleged &#8220;peace accord,&#8221; it is only a ploy to buy time to build their position for ultimate conquest. This is by their own creed: in Islam&#8217;s system of &#8220;ethics,&#8221; it is perfectly acceptable to lie to mere infidels.</p>
<p>In the case of Israel, the West has never been 100% behind Israeli sovereignty. Both the West and Israel have always only wanted to buy truce with the Islamic nations&#8211;never peace. It is an endless case of appeasement that puts Neville Chamberlain to shame.</p>
<p>As I have said before, and as history proves conclusively and invariably, Islam does not recognize pluralism, and Islam never wants a lasting peace with any non-Islamic people or states. When Muslims are in a relatively weak position they may offer truce&#8211;a temporary agreement&#8211;but never lasting peace. Even a cursory study of the treaties made by Muhammad proves at once that every Islamic treaty is merely another tactic toward ultimate conquest and domination. He set the standard for using treaties as a path to conquest.</p>
<p>Since then, Islam has been waging a relentless war for the past 1,400 years against every non-Muslim within their reach. In the last century, technological advances have extended the reach of the Muslim world considerably. Anybody who believes that it&#8217;s suddenly going to change&#8211;for any reason, through any amount of &#8220;diplomacy&#8221;&#8211;is either grossly uninformed or delusional.</p>
<p>Islamic imperialists have no desire at all for peaceful coexistence with Israel. They want to annihilate the &#8220;Zionist Entity.&#8221; By the way, during the last 60 years, Israel has absorbed more than a million Sephardic Jews from Arab countries. The Arab nations, on the other hand, refuse to absorb two million Palestinians. It&#8217;s a sad irony that two million Palestinians are considered so important while at the same time the suffering inflicted upon 50 million Kurdish people by Muslim nations goes almost unnoticed, unremarked.</p>
<p>Muslims do not recognize the right to existence of either Israel or India. They simply consider them roadblocks to world conquest that need to be removed, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes. Universal Jihad is infinite, endless war against the infidel. It has been formally, blatantly declared. To the Muslim, Jewish Israel and Hindu India are nothing more than inferior infidel nation-states that must be torn down and brought under Islamic control.</p>
<p>Remember this: Kashmir was a Hindu land continuously for 5,000 years. That&#8217;s over twice as long as the time that has passed since the birth of Christ. Islam went there as an imperial force, subjugated the local people, and conquered them, both politically and demographically, after 5,000 years of Hindu peace and civilization. Hence, today the Kashmiri Hindus are refugees in their own land. They have been reduced to a minority.</p>
<p>It is not Kashmir alone. Now Muslims of India wants Mughalstan, the Land of Mugal empire. They want to build an Islamic state from Pakistan to Bangladesh that includes the entirety of north India.</p>
<p>Every year, we are paying Islamic tribute to Pakistan, Egypt, and Palestinians in hopes of maintaining a tenuous truce. We are not really giving them &#8220;aid.&#8221; It is nothing but Islamic tribute to keep them at bay.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really too simple for anyone to try to complicate it: Islam wants the entire world to submit. India and Israel are simply two obstacles or roadblocks to that goal. If they can get Israel and India to disappear from the face of earth, Islamic Umma&#8211;community, or &#8220;nation&#8221; in the larger sense&#8211;would be one unified imperialism from Morocco to Indonesia. Then it would be Europe&#8217;s turn to be annihilated.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>How do we best win the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in your opinion?</p>
<p><strong>Kumar:</strong> It can&#8217;t be overstated or said too many times that these are merely the current fronts of open conflict in Universal Jihad. In fact, it plays into the purposes of Universal Jihadists for the Western world to be fixated on isolated actions in various geographical locations, and thereby never see the bigger picture.</p>
<p>Universal Jihad is an ideology, a doctrine, that is fixed and unchanging. Waging battles of force and military action alone&#8211; especially on Islam&#8217;s home turf&#8211;and continuing to send troops out as reaction to the latest flare-ups or hot-spots in Islam&#8217;s endless war will never succeed. Never.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s also why the idea of a &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; is absurd. Terrorism is nothing more than one of the many technique and tactics used to advance Islam&#8217;s political ideology. On this subject of terrorism, groups like the Taliban are a bunch of obedient foot soldiers. They are what Karl Marx called the &#8220;lumpen-proletariat.&#8221; Allow me to direct your attention to the fact that we never see Islamic Imams&#8211;religious leaders&#8211;blowing themselves up. If martyrdom is such a high holy act, as Islam&#8217;s leaders preach, why aren&#8217;t they the ones strapping on the explosives? It&#8217;s a curious case of &#8220;do as I say, not as I do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan form the Axis of Universal Jihad. Unless and until we address the leaders of this Axis of Jihad, and the militaristic ideology of world domination that is their chief export, there is no possibility for peace in the future for humanity.</p>
<p>The real power behind Universal Jihad, in all of its manifestations, lies with the Pakistani ISI&#8211;the intelligence services of Pakistan&#8211;along with the Pakistani military, the Pakistani feudal elite, and the Islamic theological leaders. As a nation-state, Pakistan exists for two reasons: its pathological hatred of India and Hindus, and its parasitic dependence on American aid. Their leaders&#8217; battle cry is always &#8220;Islam in danger&#8221; when they want to stoke the fires of Jihad, and of course Muslims are commanded by the Quran to go forth immediately when called to fight by their Islamic leaders.</p>
<p>Make no mistake: you can only solve the problem of Afghanistan when you address the problem of Pakistan, because Afghanistan is a client state of Pakistan. And you can only solve the problem of Pakistan when you address the problem of Saudi Arabia, because Pakistan is a client state of Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>The Pakistanis are being sponsored by the hedonistic rulers of Saudi Arabia. Saudi rulers are materialistic hedonists in their practice, but preach Wahabi Islamic fundamentalist doctrine to the world.</p>
<p>The bottom-line is this: The hedonist Saudi ruling elite form the epicenter for global terrorism, because it is they who fund all mosques and madrasas around the world&#8211;and that includes the United States.</p>
<p>They export oil and worldwide Islamic fundamentalist revolution.</p>
<p>That fundamentalist revolution is Universal Jihad, and its entire force comes solely from its ideology, an ideology that was born right in the deserts of Saudi   Arabia. Therefore, the only real war, and the war that is winnable, is against the ideology that is the doctrine of Universal Jihad.</p>
<p>All three of these nations that make up the Axis of Jihad are ready for internal revolutions. We, the West, are not taking advantage of that situation.</p>
<p>In Iran, for example, a majority of the Iranian population is under 25 years old. They were born after the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979. All of those young men and women are ready to be liberated from the totalitarianism that prevails at the hands of the Ayatollahs. We must appeal to their reason and their own human desire for freedom, liberty, and the right to free will.</p>
<p>Similarly, the Saudi regime is ready to collapse because of its own corrupt system. It is beginning to come under assault from Islamic fundamentalists for its hedonistic life style. Instead of kowtowing to the Saudis, we should be shining a bright light on the rampant hypocrisy.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What do we do then to confront Jihad effectively?</p>
<p><strong>Kumar:</strong> To reach a lasting solution to Universal Jihad, and to all the violence and terror and misery it causes throughout the world, the goal of the Western world should be to demilitarize, secularize, and democratize the Axis of Jihad. Anything short of that goal is like putting a band-aid on leprosy. For starters, we should do the following things:</p>
<p>1. Stop all immigration from the Axis of Jihad nations.</p>
<p>2. Stop paying Islamic tribute&#8211;so-called &#8220;aid&#8221;&#8211;to Pakistan, Egypt and the Palestinians.</p>
<p>3. Support those moderate, secular, Muslims&#8211;there are many—against theological fundamentalists.</p>
<p>4. Build a United Front of Victims of Jihad. That is where Jew and Gentile, Saxon and Slav, Hindu and Buddhist, Norwegian and Nigerian, Catholic and Protestant, Evangelical and Orthodox, have common ground. All can unite to contain the extremist ideology, because all historically have been victims of Universal Jihad.</p>
<p>The United   States and Israel have many allies and friends in this cause. All we have to do is look around.</p>
<p>Together, there are many ways we can fight the ideological war and win it with reason, and with appeal to the human quest for freedom. That is our strongest ally.</p>
<p>The first ideological hurdle to overcome is a clear recognition by our own leaders that the only real enemy is Universal Jihad and the three seats of its power: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. It is an existential crisis for all non-Muslim nations, and for all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world. This transcends all ethnic, cultural, religious, and political boundaries. Islamic imperialism draws no distinctions between &#8220;infidels.&#8221; Until we win this war, we are all targets for takeover.<br />
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FP: </strong>You mention immigration. Expand on your<strong> </strong>thoughts on demographics when it comes to Islam.<strong><br />
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<strong>Kumar:</strong> Demographic conquest is the most permanent form of Islamic conquest. Before the expansionism of Islam, by force and infusion, Egypt, North Africa, and the southern coast of the Mediterranean were Christian. There was a Buddhist monastery in Alexandria, Egypt. Turkey was Buddhist and Christian. Persia&#8211;now Iran&#8211;was Zoroastrian. The Hindu culture covered an area of the world twice as large as it is now.</p>
<p>The fatal flaw of every one of these nations that has fallen before Islamic invasion has been to open its arms to Islam, only to be stabbed in the back.</p>
<p>Islam primarily is a political and military doctrine, dedicated to world conquest, that wears the cloak of religion. The religious cloak is the Trojan Horse it uses to infiltrate the cultures and nations and civilizations it seeks to destroy and replace with Islamic totalitarianism.</p>
<p>Liberals and progressives in those target nation-states become the water-carriers for Islam&#8217;s demographic tactics, demanding that immigrant Muslims be granted all the &#8220;rights&#8221; they need to kill off the host country and take over. The irony is that the liberals who tout the Islamic cause are the first victims when Sharia takes its grip around the throat of a nation. But this appeal to liberals for sympathy and support is a key part of Islam&#8217;s ideological war.</p>
<p>Unrestrained legal and illegal immigration is tearing apart the very fabric of Europe and the United States and Canada. To survive, the West must ban immigration from all Muslim nations where Sharia is the law of the land. The only exceptions should be apostates and refugees from Islam. We must pass laws to denaturalize and deport all those advocates of Sharia from the West. Europe is already becoming Eurabia, and in Europe multiculturalism means submitting to Islamic supremacy.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Your perspective on Islam&#8217;s dualistic ethics?</p>
<p><strong>Kumar:</strong> The Quran, the Islamic holy book, has two sets of ethics. One set of ethics is for believers, the other set of ethics for the Kaffirs&#8211;their name for infidels, non-Muslims. The Quran has no good news for the infidel.</p>
<p>In Islam ethics are based upon a simple formula: &#8220;good&#8221; is whatever advances the cause of Islam, and &#8220;evil&#8221; is whatever resists the cause of Islam.</p>
<p>In Islam, all Muslims are brothers who should be kind and honest to each other. But Allah hates the infidel; Allah plots against the infidel, so Muslims should, too. Over 60% of the Quran is devoted to the Kaffir, and every mention is negative, demeaning, insulting, or hateful. It teaches war in the name of peace, hate in the name of love.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ethics&#8221; in Islam is an ideology of double standards, internally warring dichotomies, and endless contradictions. Even its own Imams war among themselves on what is correct &#8220;interpretation.&#8221; That is why it can be fought with reason and overcome.<br />
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FP</strong>: Let’s finish up by talking some more about what can be done. Expand on<strong> </strong>the best way that free peoples who want to remain free can defend themselves against Sharia and Islamic Jihad. What is the wrong way to do it? What are the consequences?</p>
<p><strong>Kumar:</strong> The wrong way to do it is for the liberal media and politicians to keep inhaling the opiate of Islamic propaganda about &#8220;peace, peace, peace, peace be upon you,&#8221; and blowing that toxic smoke all over the world. If we don&#8217;t shake them out of their narcoleptic slumber, their own children, or their children&#8217;s children&#8211;and ours as well&#8211;are going to be bowing in submission before the tyranny of Islamic domination and Sharia law on our own soil.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how the liberals and progressives can help: they should start an organization like the Peace Corps, called Free Americans for Islamic Rehabilitation&#8211;F.A.I.R.&#8211;that sends volunteers to all Islamic nations to demand tolerance and equal rights in those nations for all other religions, for women, for minorities, and for homosexuals. Now there would be true liberalism in action. We&#8217;ll see how far they get putting their money where their mouth is in an Islamic nation.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, those of us who are already awake have got to energetically build a coalition of free nations and people around the globe, regardless of race, creed, ethnicity, politics, or religion, and begin an information campaign that is more relentless and eternal than Universal Jihad. That sums up why I am running for Congress. I want to help build that coalition and help raise people&#8217;s awareness.</p>
<p>Our leaders have to come to grips with the fact that the seats of power of Universal Jihad are Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan. These are the command centers. They are openly declared enemies of every principle our nation was founded upon. We must treat them as such, or Universal Jihad will continue unabated around the world, flaring up endlessly as we pour more money and innocent blood down the drain.</p>
<p>We can win this war, and we can win it decisively, but we have got to recognize and name the true enemies of mankind and freedom, and take effective action in combating the ideology that drives them. Right now, our own State Department and government agencies are spending enormous amounts of dollars and energy defending the very ideology that wants to wipe them and our whole form of government from the face of the earth!</p>
<p>This is why I say repeatedly, as a central part of my campaign, and why I fully believe that war against Universal Jihadists can be won globally in less than five years, that it can be won for less than one billion dollars, and that can be won without any more loss of American or Western lives.<em><br />
</em></p>
<p>There are two great forces at work in this war. One is the totalitarian ideology of Islamic theocracy, which permits of no separation of church and state, no true freedom of thought, freedom of speech, or equal rights under the law. The other is our own  Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, which proclaim and guarantee human freedom, sovereignty, dignity, and basic inalienable human rights.</p>
<p>These two ideologies are diametrically and irrevocably and irreconcilably opposed. It is a war of ideas. It is a war of philosophies. They are mutually exclusive. One of them is going to win over the other.</p>
<p>Which will it be?</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Vijay Kumar, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.<strong> </strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don't mistake the Left's very different vision of America. ]]></description>
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<p>As reported by The Washington Post,  &#8220;President Obama&#8217;s proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the  national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday.&#8221;</p>
<p>CNN adds, &#8220;Of that amount, an  estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Post continues: &#8220;The CBO  (Congressional Budget Office) and the White House (are) &#8230; both predicting a  deficit of about $1.5 trillion this year &#8212; a post-World War II record at 10.3  percent of the overall economy. But the CBO is considerably less optimistic  about future years, predicting that deficits would never fall below 4 percent of  the economy under Obama&#8217;s policies and would begin to grow rapidly after  2015.</p>
<p>&#8220;Deficits of that magnitude would  force the Treasury to continue borrowing at prodigious rates, sending the  national debt soaring to 90 percent of the economy by 2020, the CBO  said.&#8221;</p>
<p>CNN adds that &#8220;By 2020 the (CBO)  estimates debt held by the public would reach $20.3 trillion, or 90 percent of  GDP. That&#8217;s up from 53 percent of GDP in 2009.&#8221;</p>
<p>I suspect that most Americans, if  asked whether these numbers trouble the Democratic leadership and President  Obama, would answer in the affirmative.</p>
<p>They would be  wrong.</p>
<p>They would be wrong not because the  Democratic Party or the president are economically illiterate or bad  individuals, but because the Democratic Party and the president are leftists.  And most Americans, including most Democrats, do not understand the left. They  may understand liberalism; but President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and  most Democratic representatives and senators are not liberals; they are  leftists. And most Americans do not understand the difference between liberal  and left. They do not realize, for example, that there is no major difference  between the American Democratic Party and the leftist social democratic parties  of Western Europe. They do not know that from  Karl Marx to Obama, the left (as opposed to liberals) has never created wealth  because it has never been interested in creating wealth; it is interested in  redistributing wealth.</p>
<p>Therefore, unprecedented and  unsustainable debt, a debt that will negatively affect most Americans&#8217; quality  of life, renders the dollar increasingly undesirable, and undermines  America&#8217;s prestige and power in the  world &#8212; these developments do not particularly disturb the left. They may  trouble the president, the Democratic Party, and others on the left on some  political level, but that pales in comparison to what the left really wants: a  huge government overseeing a giant welfare state and a country with far fewer  rich Americans.</p>
<p>Achieving those goals is far more  important than preventing a decline in the American quality of life. The further  left one goes, the more contempt one has for the present quality of American  life in any event. The left regularly mocks many of the symbols of that life &#8212;  from the three-bedroom suburban house surrounded by a white picket fence to  owning an SUV (or almost any car) because Americans should be traveling on  public buses, trains and bicycles.</p>
<p>As for the dollar, I can bear  personal testimony to the decline of the dollar&#8217;s prestige. I am writing this  column in Morocco. In Casablanca, my wife and I  and another couple hired a Moroccan driver for the day. And when it came time to  pay, the man refused to accept dollars; he wanted to be paid in either Euros or  Moroccan dirhams. Yes, dirhams rather than dollars. But the demise of the dollar  as the world&#8217;s currency disturbs the left as much as does America&#8217;s not  getting a gold medal in curling at the Winter Olympics.</p>
<p>And as for America wielding  less power in the world, that is a positive development for the American left.  It is the world community as embodied in the United Nations that should wield  power throughout the world, not an &#8220;overstretched,&#8221; &#8220;imperialist&#8221; and  &#8220;militarist&#8221; United  States.</p>
<p>I used to believe that left and  right have similar goals for America, that they just differed in  the means they wanted used to get there. I was mistaken. The left has a very  different vision of America  than those who hold the founding values of America, most  especially individualism and small government. And if the price of a once in a  lifetime possibility of getting to a giant welfare state dominated by the left  is America&#8217;s steep financial decline,  that is a price fully worth paying.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda terrorist Binyam Mohamed walks free while his U.S. interrogators are condemned.]]></description>
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<p>If sensationalist press reports are to be believed, the US and UK governments have just been caught covering up “torture.” Such has been the media’s framing of the British government’s release yesterday of a seven-paragraph intelligence summary compiled by the British High Court and detailing the CIA’s treatment of Ethiopian-born British citizen Binyam Mohamed, an al-Qaeda operative and former Guantanamo Bay detainee.</p>
<p>That the U.S. and U.K. both opposed the release of the seven paragraphs, which was ordered by the British Court of Appeal, has been touted by Mohamed’s lawyers and supporters as evidence of their complicity in torture. Mohamed himself has long made that claim, portraying himself as the victim of a systematic torture policy “orchestrated by the United States government” with the complicity of its British ally. Mohamed’s claim was accepted by the appeals court, which concluded that “UK authorities had been involved in and facilitated the ill-treatment and torture to which [Mohamed] was subjected while under the control of USA authorities.” With yesterday’s release, civil liberties groups on the Left have also claimed vindication. In the triumphant words of a spokesman for Liberty, Britain’s equivalent of the ACLU, the released paragraphs <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jdnH-jOQUqkSLl-bqg7pqF3hDFtA">reveal</a> that the British government “has gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up kidnap and torture.”</p>
<p>These are substantial charges. They are also demonstrably untrue. As even a cursory reading of the High Court’s summary shows, the <a href="http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=News&amp;id=21722320">paragraphs in question</a> reveal nothing about torture. Here is what the paragraphs actually say:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>It was reported that a new series of interviews was conducted by the United States authorities prior to 17 May 2001 as part of a new strategy designed by an expert interviewer.</em></p>
<p><em>v)  It was reported that at some stage during that further interview process by the United States authorities, BM had been intentionally subjected to continuous sleep deprivation.  The effects of the sleep deprivation were carefully observed. </em></p>
<p><em>vi) It was reported that combined with the sleep deprivation, threats and inducements were made to him.  His fears of being removed from United States custody and “disappearing” were played upon.</em></p>
<p><em>vii) It was reported that the stress brought about by these deliberate tactics was increased by him being shackled in his interviews </em></p>
<p><em>viii) It was clear not only from the reports of the content of the interviews but also from the report that he was being kept under self-harm observation, that the inter views were having a marked effect upon him and causing him significant mental stress and suffering.</em></p>
<p><em>ix) We regret to have to conclude that the reports provide to the SyS made clear to anyone reading them that BM was being subjected to the treatment that we have described and the effect upon him of that intentional treatment.</em></p>
<p><em>x) The treatment reported, if had been administered on behalf of the United Kingdom, would clearly have been in breach of the undertakings given by the United Kingdom in 1972.  Although it is not necessary for us to categorise the treatment reported, it could readily be contended to be at the very least cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the United States authorities]&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>As evidence of torture, this is far from compelling. Leaving aside the question of whether coercive interrogation techniques like waterboarding constitute “torture,” they were never used on Mohamed. The furthest that U.S. interrogators were willing to go was to deprive Mohammed of sleep – always under closely supervised conditions – and threaten – <em>only </em>threaten – him with the possibility of rendition – that is, that he could be sent somewhere where he really could be tortured.</p>
<p>Nor does the disclosure that Mohamed was shackled amount to torture. That is standard procedure for detainees interrogated at Guantanamo Bay, and it imposes no physical stress. In one section of Guantanamo Bay, for instance, detainees can sit for interrogations on a plush couch, even as they have to wear leg shackles. The latter does not significantly detract from their comfort.</p>
<p>It’s true that measures like sleep deprivation, even if carefully monitored, are by design unpleasant. But to conclude, as the High Court did, that this treatment qualifies as “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the United States authorities” is to expand the definition of torture beyond all reasonable boundaries. And while it’s possible that Mohammed did suffer from “mental stress” due to his confinement, it’s equally clear that nothing he experienced at the hands of U.S. authorities can be construed as torture. (To be sure, Mohamed has also alleged that he was tortured with a scalpel during a rendition to Morocco. That is a serious allegation. Yet the intelligence summary released this week provides no evidence for this abuse, let alone that either the British or U.S. authorities knowingly approved of it.)</p>
<p>Lack of evidence aside, another problem with the torture charges is that they obscure the reason that Mohamed was detained in the first place: As terrorism expert Thomas Joscelyn <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/02/11/is-binyam-mohamed-a-martyr/">explains</a> elsewhere in these pages, Mohamed was an al-Qaeda operative who trained to kill Americans in a series of attacks in the aftermath of 9/11.</p>
<p>By his own admission, as given to U.S. interrogators, Mohamed first fell under the sway of extremist Muslim clerics in London in the late 90s. It was their influence – and not, as he would improbably claim later, hopes of abandoning a drug habit – that would lead him to Afghanistan prior to the 9/11 attacks. Beginning in June 2001, he received paramilitary training at al Farouq, an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan whose graduates included some of the 9/11 hijackers. In the 40 days he spent at the camp, Mohamed received a crash course in terrorism for new recruits, training in everything from the use of light arms to homemade explosives and detonators.  </p>
<p>Mohammed would later claim that he was only training to join the jihad against Russia in Chechnya, and that he had no intention of attacking the United States. Declassified U.S. intelligence suggests otherwise. According to the military’s <a href="http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/1458-binyam-mohamed">Combatant Status Review Board</a> memo, Mohammed personally urged senior al-Qaeda leaders to attack subway trains in the U.S. Later, Mohammed would travel to Pakistan, where he would receive instructions on making a “dirty bomb” to be detonated in the U.S. as part of a “second wave” of al-Qaeda attacks. Mohamed’s accomplice on the trip, so-called “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla, would be convicted on related charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism in 2007. During their time in Pakistan, Mohamed and Padilla were coached on several possible terrorist plots to be carried out in the US. One involved setting fire to a hotel or gas station; a more ambitious plan sought to simultaneously blow up 20 buildings in the central US.</p>
<p>Mohammed never got the chance to carry out the attacks. In April 2002, he was arrested in Pakistan for having a falsified passport. From there, he would be transported to Morocco, Afghanistan, and ultimately Guantánamo Bay. All evidence suggests that he deserved to be there. Not only did US interrogators identify him as a committed jihadist, but Mohammed admitted as much himself. On one occasion, he told interrogators that, even if released, he still <a href="http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/1458-binyam-mohamed#7">considered America the enemy</a> and would seek revenge against America and Britain.</p>
<p>Considering his deep involvement in jihadist terrorism, the most troubling aspect of Mohamed’s case is not how he was treated by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay – the released memos confirm that his treatment in US custody was extremely lenient – but that he is no longer a resident of the facility. Last February, his four-year detention in Guantanamo ended abruptly, when the Obama administration ordered his release and allowed him to return to the UK.</p>
<p>That may be the most perverse part of Binyam Mohamed’s story. A confessed al-Qaeda terrorist who plotted to kill thousands of Americans walks free, while U.S. interrogators and their British counterparts stand accused sanctioning human rights abuses. It’s not the kind of revenge that Mohamed promised at Guantanamo. But it is a victory for Islamic terrorism all the same.</p>
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		<title>Tolerance for Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Obama administration resists the appropriate response to the threats to our freedoms and lives.]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Howard Rotberg, an author of several books who has just released his latest book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tolerism-Ideology-Revealed-Howard-Rotberg/dp/0973406526">Tolerism: The Ideology Revealed</a></em> (Mantua Books). He blogs at <a href="http://secondgenerationradical.blogmatrix.com/" target="_blank">secondgenerationradical.blogmatrix.com</a>. He has previously been interviewed by Frontpage (<a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30923" target="_blank">Fatwa on a Book</a>) about the fate of his 2003 novel about a Jewish professor’s worry about Iran developing nuclear weapons and the professor’s problems with political correctness.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Howard Rotberg, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p><strong>Rotberg:</strong> Thank you for having me</p>
<p>What inspired you to write this book?</p>
<p><strong>Rotberg:</strong> Basically, I began to understand that, in a world that was treating Islamist terrorism with tolerance and submission, as opposed to a due recognition of the war declared upon us, much of our “intelligentsia” was prisoner of a certain ideology that inhibited an appropriate response to the threats to our freedoms and lives.</p>
<p>As a result of my novel, <em>The Second Catastrophe,</em> being, essentially, banned in Canada because of the objections of some 18 year old Islamists, I was becoming aware that the very people who proclaimed their tolerance were in fact the least tolerant of all when it came to listening to, and debating, contrary opinions. In other words, political correctness, moral and cultural relativism and moral equivalency were combining to create a certain ideology in the West. I decided it was high time to write about the values and ideologies that have handcuffed much of our media and academic elites from critiquing the fascistic aspects of Radical Islam, and elevating the alleged “right’ not to be offended over the human rights of all victims of Islamist rage, including their own people.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Tell us a bit about your background that has influenced you in your thoughts and outlooks.</p>
<p><strong>Rotberg:</strong> My paternal grandparents and aunt were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and my father barely survived as a slave laborer there. As a member of the “Second Generation,” I was becoming alarmed at how “tolerance” was being called the most important value in the West. My background as a lawyer and as an observant Jew taught me that the most important value is justice, not tolerance. I knew that had the West “tolerated” Hitler, I would not be here. And I wondered why the West was so intent on tolerating Radical Islam and submitting to values inimical to liberal freedoms, feminism, separation of church and state, human rights and all the other great values that so many Americans and Canadians had struggled so hard to attain. As I looked out on political culture in the age of Obama, I sensed a very serious ideological problem.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What is the difference between tolerance and Tolerism?</p>
<p><strong>Rotberg:</strong> Over the years, such philosophers as Karl Popper and John Rawls had struggled with the idea of toleration and what limits must be placed on the tolerance of the <em>intolerant</em>, who, without such limitations could destroy the tolerant and the ways of tolerance. As the Second World War becomes a distant memory, we have noticed an alarming development: Instead of warnings about appeasement of Evil, we are told by the post-religious that there is no good and evil, only “competing narratives” which in a world of cultural relativism, means that western distinguished historians are given no more respect than mere polemicists, and that liberalism in Israel is given no higher respect than the totalitarian propaganda machines of its neighbours. The causes of Tolerism, then, are political correctness, cultural and moral relativism and moral equivalency.</p>
<p>Tolerism, the ideology, involves not just a tolerance of what should be <em>intolerable</em>, and the failure to set reasonable limits on tolerance, but an <em>in</em>tolerance of opposing viewpoints within liberal democracies, and an element of self-hatred, cultural masochism, and delusions about the difference between social tolerance and political tolerance. Those who seek justice are mocked with the allegation that we are seeking “vengeance,” as Spielberg did with his dastardly re-writing of history in the movie <em>Munich</em><em> </em>to show that Israel, and, impliedly, the Bush administration, were all about retribution and vengeance instead of the supposedly enlightened trait of tolerance. Tolerism, then, is the ideology of those who have attempted to cast off the Judeo-Christian ethics of justice and morality, and the sanctity of human life and fundamental liberties, and instead seek to undermine the great liberal democracies by their unwillingness to accept that tolerance has limits and that justice is far more important.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>How do Tolerists view the United   States and its place in the world?  Is Obama a Tolerist?</p>
<p><strong>Rotberg:</strong> Obama gave the highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, to the horrible Mary Robinson, who presided over the U.N. Durban conference where the illiberals brought into the mainstream the absurd view that the Israelis are the new Nazis and the Palestinians are the new Jews. Obama’s equivalency of American tolerance and justice with that of Muslim countries in his first major foreign policy speech at Cairo was so absurd that it showed that he is not just “tolerant” but a proponent of the new ideology of “Tolerism” – which implies not just a sympathy for opposing views but an “indulgence,” that is a treatment of those views with <em>excessive</em> <em>leniency</em>. The idea that America is comparable to Saudi Arabia is surely laughable, except that if the American President believes that, the Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves. And therefore one can see the relevance of Obama’s past associations with Reverend Wright, William Ayers, <a title="Bernadine Dohrn" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadine_Dohrn" target="_blank">Bernadine Dohrn</a>, and Rashid Khalidi.</p>
<p>There is no better proof that Obama is a Tolerist than examining his responses to the Fort Hood Massacre. By continuously referring to the Islamist Major Hasan (whose emails, statements and entire life-view was that of a terrorist Islamist) as an “extremist,” Obama creates a vile moral equivalency. For example, I might be regarded by some an “extremist” because some of my views are extreme relative to the mainstream, but I would not care to share that terminological status with the likes of Hasan. America must wake up; its soldiers must carry guns, and its President must understand who is the enemy, before America descends into a British-like fantasy world of submission and tolerance of a parallel Sharia universe, where universities actively promote radicalization of Muslim students.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What is the connection between Tolerism and anti-Semitism?</p>
<p><strong>Rotberg:</strong> There are several: Firstly, to the extent that Tolerism contains a large dose of self-hatred, or the hatred of America and Israel standing for all that is good – liberal freedoms and human rights- a large number of Tolerists (think Naomi Klein here) begin to hate America and the Jewish state equally. These haters of all that is good relate well to Radical Islam which is the repository of unbridled hate for all things Jewish and American. While historically, up until the 1940s, Islam accepted Jews as dhimmis, Radical Islam has never accepted Jews in the Middle  East, which is, according to them, Dar-Al-Islam, once and forever Muslim territory, notwithstanding the continual presence of Jews for 3500 years.</p>
<p>Secondly, Tolerism posits a type of moral and cultural relativism that resents states like America and Israel striving for the morality and justice advocated in the Bible. As well, if Islamic totalitarian theocracies or Palestinian death cults are as morally valid as any other position, then the Jewish narrative must by its nature be extremist and hence suspect.  This is why there is such little regard paid in the topic of “refugees” for the nearly one million Jews who were expelled from Arab countries in the 1940s, and were taken in and resettled by Israel. The United Nations then can create a separate organization for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and be utterly silent about the Jewish refugees from Iraq, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon.</p>
<p>Thirdly, I referred to Spielberg’s travesty of a movie, Munich, which portrays the Jew-nation of Israel as vengeful and intent on retribution, compared to the supposed Christian virtues of tolerance and mercy. This is a theme that is best explored in Shakespeare’s <em>The Merchant of Venice</em>, where a proper reading of this classic shows a man so marginalized and abused by society that he ends up, <em>as a result of this marginalization,</em> vengefully obsessed with retributive justice, which of course is denied to him, because the very Court proceeding has been corrupted by Portia impersonating the Judge.  An improper reading, such as was done by the Englishman Michael Radford in the most recent movie version of <em>The Merchant of Venice</em>, makes the Jew Shylock the archetype for the supposedly vengeful Jews and Americans exacting a negative form of Justice against the poor, oppressed terrorists or the Iraqi terror state. The fact that the worst terrorists have university educations and come from above average income families is irrelevant to the anti-Semitic fantasy that the intolerant Americans and Israelis are the new Nazis and supposedly deserve the terrorism inflicted on them. It is all anti-Semitic in nature.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>How do we find the limits of tolerance?</p>
<p><strong>Rotberg: </strong>Starting with the great philosophers of Toleration, we would have to accept, like Karl Popper that “if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed and tolerance with them … We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”</p>
<p>But just as important, we have to begin to discuss how Tolerism and its associated ideologies are behind many of the delusions about the nature of the war that has begun against us, and the nature of the enemy.  We must learn that Terrorism is successful precisely because it creates what I call a “Cultural Stockholm Syndrome” or a cultural response similar to the “Patty Hearst Syndrome” where we begin to indentify with our terrorist oppressors and begin to accept small benefits from them as part of a submission to their will and values.  The idea that the West can defeat terrorism by more tolerance of the evil perpetrators of murder directed at civilians, is, quite frankly, preposterous.</p>
<p>In the book, I explore a variety of ways to find a suitable limitation for tolerance, and I refer to writings of such heroic writers as David Solway, David Horowitz, Charles Krauthammer, Daniel Greenfield, Vijay Kumar, and even moderate Muslims like Tarek Fatah (who has called for a clear statement by Islamic theologians that Jihad must henceforth be only construed as an individual inner struggle for spirituality rather than be construed as an outer-directed violent struggle against Jews, Christians and Hindus). I hope that my book induces further discussion of what are the limits of tolerance.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Howard Rotberg, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>To order Howard Rotberg’s new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tolerism-Ideology-Revealed-Howard-Rotberg/dp/0973406526">click here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s New Year Gift to the Saudi King &#8211; by Nonie Darwish</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the KSM trial in New York will boost Muslim clerics’ call for hate and justifications for 9/11.]]></description>
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<p>Islam is in trouble at the heart of its birthplace, Saudi   Arabia, and consequently in other Muslim countries. Muslim leaders and media are desperately trying to regain control both internally and externally. Muslims are starting to openly and defiantly ask questions about their religion and rulers; while the international image of Islam is being tarnished daily with by every act of Islamic terror, hate speech and calls for jihad from the pulpits of mosques. The traditional Muslim call for violence and jihad that Islam got away with for centuries is now under increasing &#8212; scrutiny especially after 9/11. Islam is now under the microscope. That is the quagmire of Muslims today. How can they continue teaching their basic religious jihad education but still save Islam’s reputation in a culture where image and honor is everything?</p>
<p>The West is not fully aware of what is happening in the Muslim world today, where taboo topics are being discussed by brave Muslim reformists and former Muslims. There are ground-breaking Arabic TV and internet shows aired inside homes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, etc, discussing what ordinary Muslims were never allowed to hear before.</p>
<p>The brilliant Rachid Hmami, a former Muslim-turned-Christian and originally from Morocco, has a show, Suaal Garii ‘Daring Question,’ that is making shock waves across the Middle East. Another equally effective show is that of the brave Coptic priest, Father Zakareya Botros, who was imprisoned in Egypt for proselytizing to Muslims. Father Botros’s show is a huge success in exposing tyranny, contradictions and weaknesses in Islam. Muslims who call in are often shocked by what they hear for the first time about their own religion, yet another proof that the Muslim establishment intentionally spreads misinformation and ignorance about basic Muslim doctrines to Muslims. Many Muslims, even from Saudi Arabia, call in to renounce Islam.</p>
<p>Unprecedented defiance is happening in the heart of the Muslim world. Recently a prominent Egyptian female attorney and human rights advocate, Nagla Al Imam, announced she left Islam and became a Christian and insists that she will remain in Egypt, in defiance of Islamic law condemning her to death. She is now under intense 24-hour security. Islam is in trouble from within.</p>
<p>Both King Abdullah, custodian of the two Holy Mosques of Islam in Mecca and Medina, and the Islamic establishment everywhere, are extremely alarmed by the status of Islam today. Their power to control Muslims, trained for centuries to blind submission, is slipping away. Huge sums of oil money dedicated to rescue Islam’s image, is not enough to do the job.</p>
<p>That is where Obama’s services come to the rescue of King Abdulla. Obama’s bow to the king was no small matter, but of great significance in Muslim culture. It is a Muslim symbol of subjugation and inferiority.</p>
<p>Liberals argue that Obama’s decision to hold a trial in New York of the confessed mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, and the rest of the Guantanamo detainees, is proof of the US’s just legal system. But the Muslim world already knows that. Not one Muslim country demanded such a trial or claimed the KSM was innocent. To the contrary, the Muslim public, in general, think that Americans are stupid for opening their country to such terrorists and giving visas to terrorists while often denying it to legitimate travelers. Recently, my daughter innocently asked: Why is America trying to tame untamable terrorists? It is like “having a pet shark”.</p>
<p>The claims that such a trial will give an opportunity to the terrorists to justify their actions and hate propaganda, is true, but it is much more than that. Such a trial will vindicate and justify mainstream Islamic education of hatred and will help the Muslim establishment tighten their screws. It will greatly boost the status quo in Muslim counties and an opportunity for Arab media and Muslim clerics to justify 9/11, their hate propaganda, incitement to violence and outright lies. This trial will be a setback to Muslim reformers, human rights activists and Arab feminists. It is telling them there is a good reason for Islamic violence dictated by Sharia law.</p>
<p>This trial will create unnecessary sympathy among the many uninformed Western citizens to Islamist fictitious ‘causes’ and finger-pointing Muslims have been taught and believed in since birth.</p>
<p>Knowingly or unknowingly, Obama has given a great gift for the New Year to the custodian of Islam, King Abdullah; a self-imposed trial by the victim nation of 9/11, a free televised propaganda machine from ground zero, to rescue mainstream Islam’s reputation. Protecting the image of Islam is one of the basic duties of Muslim leaders and the utmost obligation of every Muslim who is obliged by Islamic law to lie, cheat and kill for its sake.</p>
<p>By holding such a trial in New York, America, intentionally or unintentionally, will be contributing to reforming Islam’s image, supporting its old ways of doing business and suppressing the brave reformation movements across the Muslim world, a true New Year’s gift to King Abdullah.</p>
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