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		<title>The Palestinian Hijacking of Rachel&#8217;s Tomb</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Bedein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How UN-funded textbooks are teaching children that the Jewish holy site is a shrine to a Muslim. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/RachelsTomb.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244480" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/RachelsTomb-450x294.jpg" alt="RachelsTomb" width="395" height="258" /></a>On the 11th of Heshvan, which this year falls on November 4, Jews observe the &#8220;yaarzeit&#8221; memorial for Rachel, the Biblical matriarch who bore Joseph and died in child birth as Benjamin was born.</p>
<p>As part of our agency&#8217;s continuing reportage of the PA school books now used in the UNRWA educational facilities, funded by the US, the EU and other western nations, we have come across a newsworthy phenomenon: UNRWA schools now teach that Rachel&#8217;s tomb is a shrine to a Moslem.</p>
<p>This is consistent with PA educational policy, which does not recognize any area in any part of Palestine, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, as Holy to Jews. UNRWA students learn that the Western Wall, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron are exclusively holy and special to Moslems, and devoid of anything Jewish.<br />
However, after the founding of the PA in 1994, the initial Palestinian Authority textbook recognized Rachel&#8217;s tomb, described as &#8220;Qabr Rahil&#8221; in a chapter about Bethlehem (pp. 87-90) in a paragraph titled &#8220;the most important historical and religious sites&#8221; (pp. 88-89), second to the Church of the Nativity. That text, on top of p. 89 is translated as: &#8220;Rachel&#8217;s Tomb: The mother of our lord Joseph and the wife of Jacob, peace be upon them both.&#8221; The textbook in which this sentence appears is titled &#8220;Palestinian National Education” for grade 6 and it was published by the Ministry of Education of the Palestinian National Authority in 1996.</p>
<p>However, The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education has now transformed the “Tomb of Rachel” into “The Mosque of Bilal bin Rabbah&#8221; in the &#8220;National Education&#8221; textbook which is used by the 492,000 students in the UNRWA camps for grade 7.</p>
<div id="attachment_244482" style="width: 263px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rachels-tomb.jpg"><img class="wp-image-244482 size-medium" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rachels-tomb-253x350.jpg" alt="rachel's tomb" width="253" height="350" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">P. 55, &#8220;National Education&#8221; textbook</p></div>
<p>In the chapter titled &#8220;Attempts at Obliterating the Palestinian Heritage&#8221; (pp. 54-57) there are features on p. 54 &#8211; photos of four places of which one is Rachel&#8217;s Tomb which the PA subtitled as &#8220;the Mosque of Bill bin Raba (Bethlehem)&#8221;. On p. 55, in a sub-chapter titled &#8220;The attempts at obliterating the Palestinian heritage include the following manifestations:&#8221; one can find the following: &#8220;The attempt to Judaize [tahwid] some of the Muslim religious places such as the Ibrahimi Mosque [the Cave of the Patriarchs] and the Mosque of Bilal bin Rabbah (near Bethlehem)&#8221;.</p>
<p>On p. 56, there is a tendentious paragraph which declares that: &#8220;Several Palestinian, Arab and Islamic centers and associations were established and they work to revive the Arab-Palestinian heritage in order to keep Palestine, and Jerusalem specifically, Arab”.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Ministry of Education has also issued educational pamphlets about Palestine and its “heritage”, such as: the Al-Buraq Wall – the Western Wall, the Mosque of Bilal bin Rabbah – Rachel&#8217;s Dome [Qubbat Rahil]&#8220;. At the bottom of the same page there are four questions for all students to answer. No. 2 reads: &#8220;Give the names of mosques and [other] Muslim and Christian religious sites of which the features the Israelis have tried to change.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_244485" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rachel-mosque.jpg"><img class="wp-image-244485 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rachel-mosque-306x350.jpg" alt="rachel mosque" width="300" height="343" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo of Rachel&#8217;s Tomb and the inscription &#8220;Mosque of Bilal bin Rabbah (Bethlehem)&#8221;</p></div>
<p>On p. 57 there is an assignment in which the student is requested to write &#8220;Yes&#8221; or &#8220;No&#8221; next to various statements.</p>
<p>No. 3 in this assignment reads: &#8220;The holy site of Bilal bin Rabbah is located near Bethlehem&#8221;.</p>
<p>As for Bilal bin Rabbah, he was an Ethiopian (male, not a female) slave in Mecca who heard Muhammad preaching there and became a Muslim.</p>
<p>He was then severely tortured by his master but stayed a devoted Muslim. One of Muhammad&#8217;s companions, Abu Bakr, bought and freed him and Muhammad made him the first muadhin (caller to prayer).</p>
<p>Some sources say that he accompanied Caliph Omar on the latter&#8217;s trip to Jerusalem following its conquest in 636 and on their way back the time of prayer came and he called to prayer at the place that was always known as Rachel&#8217;s Tomb – until the Palestinian Authority arrived on the scene.</p>
<p>An aside: These new PA textbooks were financed by Ireland, Holland, Belgium and Finland. Italy had initially committed itself to help finance the new PA school books.</p>
<p>However, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, of blessed memory, who served as the Papal Nuncio, the Vatican ambassador in Jerusalem, between 1998 and 2006, reviewed the new Palestinian Authority school books and described them as “anti-Israel war manuals” and asked the Italian government to withdraw support for the new Palestinian school book project. Italy, indeed, cancelled its sponsorship of the publication of the new Palestinian Authority school books, at the request of the Vatican</p>
<p><em>Dr. Arnon Groiss did the research for this article. He holds a PHD in Islamic Studies from Princeton and has worked as senior correspondent for the Arabic language service of the Israel Broadcasting Authority for the past forty years.</em></p>
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		<title>Terrorist Recruiters in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 04:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And how the ACLU abets them. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/amir-meshal-false-imprisonmentjpg-21f37145361bc25f_large.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240641" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/amir-meshal-false-imprisonmentjpg-21f37145361bc25f_large.jpg" alt="amir-meshal-false-imprisonmentjpg-21f37145361bc25f_large" width="297" height="287" /></a>A federal grand jury investigation going on all summer in St. Paul, Minnesota has been focused on a group of 20-30 Somali-Americans allegedly conspiring to join the fight with ISIS in Syria. Most of the youths being investigated have been going to the Al Farooq Youth and Family Center and mosque in Bloomington, where sources <a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/274233901.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> the Star Tribune that 31-year-old Amir Meshal, an American of Egyptian descent, may have influenced them to join the jihadist movement.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been aware of Meshal for quite some time. The native New Jerseyan was detained and interrogated by the agency in 2007 in Kenya, following his escape from Somalia. Meshal admits he attended a terrorist training camp in Somalia, but insists he isn’t a terrorist, claiming he went to that war-torn nation to enrich his study of Islam.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">A 2009 <a href="https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/Meshal_v._Higgenbotham_Complaint_11.10.09_0.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">lawsuit</span></a> filed by the ACLU on his behalf alleged that after being arrested in a joint U.S.-Kenyan-Ethiopian operation along the Somalia-Kenyan border, Meshal was transferred between jails in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia without ever being charged or having access to counsel. During that time he was allegedly interrogated by two Supervising Special Agents of the FBI more than 30 times, during which he said he was repeatedly threatened with “torture, forced disappearance and other serious harm” in order to coerce a confession. He was ultimately brought back to the United States and released without being charged.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Despite the ACLU’s contention that Meshal’s Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights were violated, along with the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, the case was <a href="https://www.aclu.org/national-security/court-dismisses-aclu-suit-behalf-us-citizen-abused-fbi-abroad"><span style="color: #1255cc;">dismissed</span></a> by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on June 13. Despite buying the government’s argument that national security considerations abroad preclude judicial remedies for the mistreatment Meshal allegedly endured, Sullivan, a Clinton appointee, was <a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/06/17/judge-finds-courts-cannot-protect-us-citizens-tortured-by-us-government-officials-abroad/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">distressed</span></a> by the decision. &#8220;The facts alleged in this case and the legal questions presented are deeply troubling,” he contended, before conceding his hands were tied. “Although Congress has legislated with respect to detainee rights, it has provided no civil remedies for US citizens subject to the appalling mistreatment Mr. Meshal has alleged against officials of his own government.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This past summer, Meshal began occasionally <a href="http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/26469968/man-booted-from-minn-mosque-an-isis-recruiter-or-fbi-mole"><span style="color: #1255cc;">showing</span></a> up at the Al Farooq Youth and Family Center, where hundreds of Muslims show up for prayer on Fridays at one of the largest mosques in the Twin Cities. He was known for having lots of money and driving a fancy BMW. In June, a parent at the center complained about Meshal promoting radical Islam. That aroused the suspicion of mosque director Hyder Aziz, who was so concerned about Meshal’s intentions he went to the police that same month and obtained a no-trespass order. “I made a decision that he needs to be removed from the premises,” Aziz said. “I will call police if he ever shows up and they will arrest him.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It may be too late. Federal authorities believe that at least a dozen Somali men and three women have traveled to the Middle East to join in jihad directly, or aid the terrorists in some capacity, including two people who attended Al Farooq and disappeared, presumably to Syria. One is a 19-year-old Somali woman from St. Paul who was not identified. The other is 20-year-old Abdi Mohamed Nur who played basketball at the center and attended the Bloomington mosque. He disappeared around the same time the no trespass order against Meshal was issued.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In June the FBI prevented another teen from boarding a plane at the Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport because they believed his final destination was Syria. He had been dropped off at school by his father, after which he allegedly changed clothes and headed to the airport with a suitcase. When the FBI arrested him they made it clear to his family they were less interested in him than who recruited him.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet as the grand jury investigation has revealed, the level of distrust among members of the community is impeding the investigation. “The relationship between our community and law enforcement has been, at times, very tense and full of suspicion,” said Omar Jamal, director of the St. Paul-based nonprofit American Friends of Somalia. “We’re improving, but we’re not there yet. Both sides are coming to realize that in order to stop these recruitments, we have to work together. One side can’t accomplish the task without the other.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nonetheless, many of those who have been subpoenaed are invoking their Fifth Amendment rights and refusing to answer questions.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hashi Shafi, director of the Somali Action Alliance in Minneapolis, claims many people want to speak, but are “scared.” Yet Shafi and other community leaders are urging families who have lost children to jihad recruitment to speak up. “We are the victims of this violent extremism so we have to stand up and lead these kinds of efforts,” he explained.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the meantime, Meshal himself remains at large. The 18-year-old youth stopped at the airport in June has <a href="http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/26469968/man-booted-from-minn-mosque-an-isis-recruiter-or-fbi-mole"><span style="color: #1255cc;">accused</span></a> him of being his recruiter. The youth’s attorney upped the ante, accusing Meshal of being a double-agent for the FBI and ISIS. The lawsuit filed by the ACLU provides some insight into the accusation: Meshal claimed the FBI tried to turn him into a government informant, taking him off the government’s no-fly list if he cooperated. And while the youth’s lawyer is sticking with that assertion, the teen himself will not testify against Meshal unless he is granted immunity.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Last month two Americans from Minnesota, Douglas McCain and Abdirahmaan Muhumed, aka Abdifatah Ahmed, were killed fighting for ISIS. In a shocking <a href="http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/26441293/details-of-isis-fighters-minneapolis-airport-security-clearance"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revelation</span></a> that underscores America’s continuing vulnerability to terror attacks, the Metropolitan Airports Commission conceded that Ahmed held a Secure Identification Display Area (SIDA) security badge, granting him airport security clearance and unfettered access to the tarmac and planes to perform his job as an aircraft fueler and cleaner. He performed the jobs intermittently between 2001 and 2011.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Shafi and other area leaders are apparently committed to rooting out the extremism afflicting their community. They have begun holding meetings with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department and Department of Homeland Security’s civil liberties division. An additional meeting is being planned with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and airport administrators. U.S. Attorney Andy Luger is also meeting with local imams on a regular basis &#8220;to develop strong personal and professional relationships with leaders in the Somali community,” in an effort to stop those &#8220;who seek to recruit Somali and other youth into a life of crime, violence and terror.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann will <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/02/are-you-kidding-me-michele-bachmann-shares-what-fbi-allegedly-told-her-about-islamic-state-terrorists-returning-to-u-s/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">introduce</span></a> legislation aimed at preventing any citizen who goes overseas to engage in jihad from returning to America. “In my opinion, they should lose their American citizenship,” she explained. “Because at that point, you have turned against the United States. ISIS has declared the United States as their enemy. Once you join an enemy army … you should, by definition, lose your American citizenship, therefore your passport. You should have no ability to get back into the United States.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">All of these efforts are well-intended and may also be effective—up to a point. &#8220;For some, terrifyingly, the jihad has become a badge of radical chic,” <a href="http://www.kentucky.com/2014/08/31/3405047_is-jihad-britians-latest-radical.html?rh=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">writes</span></a> journalist Alex Massie. &#8220;A lifestyle choice like any other.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is doubtful that the Obama administration is up to the task of deterring people from this lifestyle. Obama&#8217;s newfound commitment to take seriously the threat of ISIS has a troubling backdrop &#8212; namely, the administration’s ongoing determination to <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Emerson/Obama-Islamic-Extremism-Jihad/2013/05/14/id/504527/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">avoid</span></a> identifying the threat as Islamic terror, Obama&#8217;s initial dismissal of ISIS as a “javee” organization, and a 2012 <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/04/20/Flashback-FBI-Training-Manual-Purged-References-To-Islamic-Terror"><span style="color: #1255cc;">purge</span></a> of the FBI&#8217;s <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/93235898/FBI-Counterterrorism-Analytical-Lexicon"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Counterterrorism Analytic Lexicon</span></a>, eliminating the words “Muslim,” “Islam,” “Muslim Brotherhood,” “Hamas,” and “sharia” in the process.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Absent a radical change of direction by this president and his administration, America will remain fertile ground for terrorist recruiters and their willing followers. Amir Meshal is ostensibly one of them. It is virtually certain there are many more.</p>
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		<title>California Mosque with Collapsing Ceilings, Raw Sewage, Claims Freedom of Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Freedom of religion is guaranteed by our constitution," said Saadi Nasim.]]></description>
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<p>I don&#8217;t really understand how living in an Islamic center that has collapsing ceilings and raw sewage is a part of the Islamic religion. Even the most far out Hadiths and Fatwas (and there are some really far out ones) don&#8217;t cover this.</p>
<p>But <a href="http://www.halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2014/01/muslims-vow-to-fight-back-proposed.html">political correctness usually trumps the law</a> when it comes to mosques.</p>
<blockquote><p>Masjid Noor has &#8220;serious structural integrity problems and potentially dangerous conditions&#8221; that were revealed during a late-December inspection by fire officials, said city prosecutor Trisha Aljoe.</p>
<p>&#8220;Floors and ceilings are collapsing in there, and extensive work is being done that needs a structural engineer.&#8221;</p>
<p>Aljoe added that raw sewage was present outside, along with mattresses and other evidence that people may be living in the structure.</p>
<p>The move to force the mosque out of the building has drawn criticism from at least one Bay Area Islamic leader who claims religious freedoms are being imperiled.</p>
<p>&#8220;I recently heard that the city of Richmond might be having talks to shut down the Islamic Center,&#8221; said Saadi Nasim, a community outreach coordinator at Al Sabeel mosque in San Francisco, in a Tuesday email to the City Council and Mayor Gayle McLaughlin. &#8220;First and foremost, freedom of religion is guaranteed by our constitution. I am confused how and why a religious (center) could be shut down.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Freedom of Religion means that if Islam believed that its worshipers had to pray in mosques with collapsing ceilings and raw sewage, they might have a case. But even Islam doesn&#8217;t require that.</p>
<blockquote><p>Council members Nat Bates and Corky Boozé have expressed concern with the way the city has handled the situation.</p>
<p>&#8220;Being punitive toward a religious group without just cause is asking for nothing but problems with perhaps national negative publicity,&#8221; Bates said in an email this week to his council colleagues, adding that he is not abreast of all the facts of the case. &#8220;This mosque has been in operation for years without controversy, and there better be some strong reasons in suggesting the city shut them down.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Collapsing ceilings. Raw sewage.</p>
<blockquote><p>Boozé, who has been the subject of numerous investigations by city Code Enforcement officials over his own allegedly substandard properties, said the matter was evidence that the Code Enforcement Department and Aljoe are &#8220;out of control.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I visited the building this week, and to say it&#8217;s dangerous is a bunch of hogwash,&#8221; Boozé said. &#8220;The roof was leaking, there is some rot on the floors, but that is a huge building and the part they pray in has no problems.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The honorable city council member apparently doesn&#8217;t understand how buildings work, despite owning a few. If the ceiling collapses on the top floor, the effect is going to trickle down to you even if you&#8217;re on a lower floor.</p>
<p>The Islamic center should not have bought a huge building if it doesn&#8217;t want to maintain it. But despite its huge size, <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/masjid-noor-richmond#hrid:2nxwz7Z3r_ADhVWxCuFxwA">there&#8217;s no room</a> for women.</p>
<blockquote><p>Alicia A. &#8211; I rarely give one star.  The reason for this masjid getting only one star is because this masjid.. as I found out upon asking only serves men.  Why you may be wondering?  According to the individuals I talked to because their isn&#8217;t enough space and no separate wudu area for the women.</p>
<p>This is a violation of the women&#8217;s right to attend the masjid for prayer- thus earning this masjid- one star.  I am severely disappointed in this masjid- as I was looking forward to attending Jummah and having another masjid I could access within a 10 minute drive of my house.</p></blockquote>
<p>On the bright side, Alicia avoided all the raw sewage.</p>
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		<title>Arab Judge Bans Israeli Mosque Ad that Offends Muslims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Instead of silencing the mosque in in Yafo, the committee has decided to silence the voice of Yafo residents."]]></description>
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<p>The last time Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran made the news was when he refused to sing the Israeli National Anthem. Then he was appointed to <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-arab-judge-to-chair-elections-committee/">chair the Central Elections Committee </a>which gave him quite a bit of power&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran will head the body that reviews election broadcasts, decides what is or isn’t acceptable propaganda, and can fine parties that break the rules.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8230;<a href="http://www.halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2013/10/election-committee-bans-political-ad.html">which he used in an</a> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/172959?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=judge-bans-likud-ad-for-offending-muslims#.UmQNghDbUoN">entirely predictable way</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Likud ad promising to end loud Muslim prayers in the early morning hours has been nixed by Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran, who heads the Central Elections Committee, Maariv/nrg reports.</p>
<p>The ad reads, “Silencing the muezzin in Yafo? Only the Likud can.” The muezzin is the prayer leader who broadcast the Muslim call to prayer over a loudspeaker five times a day.</p>
<p>Joubran decided to ban the ad despite an opinion from Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein stating that Joubran only had the authority to ban advertisements publicized in media outlets, but not on billboards or online. Weinstein also argued, “It’s doubtful that the content [of the ad in question] justifies restricting the freedom of political expression.”</p>
<p>Joubran disagreed. “This campaign will almost certainly be highly offensive to the Arab-Muslim population of the state of Israel,” he determined.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well that&#8217;s that then. Israel&#8217;s left-wing justices have a long history of seizing power Obama-style and then daring anyone to do something about it.</p>
<blockquote><p>Joubran’s decision set a new precedent of allowing the Elections Committee head to ban ads that he or she decides are racist in any media, including online.</p>
<p>Sources in the Likud Beyteinu faction in Tel Aviv told Maariv that they regret Joubran’s decision, and plan to appeal.</p>
<p>“Instead of silencing the muezzin in Yafo, the committee has decided to silence the voice of Yafo residents. Whoever has not been woken up in the middle of the night because of the noise pollution created by the muezzin cannot ban a legitimate political campaign, which is within the boundaries of free speech, regarding a hot issue on the public agenda,” a statement from the party said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, aka the Islamic Movement in 48 Palestine had a helpful response.</p>
<blockquote><p> The head of the Islamic Movement in Tayibe suggested, “If they cannot stand to hear the voice of the muezzin, they can get out of here.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The ads for Likud Tel-Aviv however still appear to be up online.</p>
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		<title>Bill de Blasio’s Open Door for Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leftist running for mayor of New York wants to shut down NYPD counterterrorism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/larger.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207784" alt="larger" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/larger.jpg" width="258" height="199" /></a>“I want at least 1,000 to 2,000 to die in one day,”  Shahawar Siraj told an NYPD informant.</p>
<p>The Pakistani illegal alien and Muslim bookstore employee was discussing his plans to kill as many New Yorkers as possible. “I’m going to f___ this country very bad.”</p>
<p>But before Siraj and his collaborator could bomb the 34<sup>th</sup> Street subway station, they were arrested. Their plans to bomb the subway and Macy’s came to nothing. But under Bill de Blasio, the New York Police Department would never have been allowed to lay a finger on them.</p>
<p>Some years later, Ahmed Ferhani was telling an NYPD undercover detective about his plan to bomb churches and synagogues.   He talked of blowing up “the biggest synagogue” in Manhattan, dressing up as a Jewish worshiper, planting a bomb and walking away.</p>
<p>What both cases had in common was a lack of external leads. They weren’t Al Qaeda members. Their attacks would have been as much of a shock as the Boston Marathon bombings or the Fort Hood shootings. They were the “lone wolf” Jihadists who have become today’s terrorist threat.</p>
<p>Under Bill de Blasio, the investigations that prevented the mass murder of New Yorkers would never have been allowed. Bill de Blasio, the left-wing candidate for Mayor of New York City, has once again reiterated that he will not allow proactive surveillance of Muslim terror suspects and terror mosques.</p>
<p>“The efforts of surveillance have to be based on <b>specifically specific information</b>,” Bill de Blasio said. The standard of “specifically specific information” would have led to the deaths of countless New Yorkers.</p>
<p>During the primary, Bill de Blasio tried to hide his radical pro-terrorist views by claiming that he wouldn’t interfere with the NYPD’s counter-terrorism efforts. Now that he’s the nominee and ahead in the polls, he feels comfortable enough to tell New Yorkers that he will not allow the NYPD to protect them from Muslim terrorists.</p>
<p>A terrorist attack has to be stopped in one of two ways. Law enforcement can hope that the terrorist will screw up his plot the way that Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, did. Or they can proactively carry out surveillance and use informants to &#8220;trip&#8221; the next lone wolf attacker into revealing himself before he kills a dozen, a hundred or a thousand New Yorkers.</p>
<p>If the Boston cops had followed the NYPD’s lead and maintained a steady surveillance of the terror-linked Islamic Society of Boston attended by Tamerlan Tsarnaev and then sent in an informant to probe him after some of his outbursts, the Boston Marathon bombings would never have happened.</p>
<p>New York City didn’t get lucky after September 11. Muslim terrorists haven’t spent the last twelve years sleeping on their prayer rugs.</p>
<p>The only reason a Boston Marathon bombing or London’s 7/7 attacks didn’t happen here was because the New York Police Department kept a constant vigil using informants and proactive surveillance. These are the very measures that the radical Bill de Blasio has promised his Muslim allies he will destroy.</p>
<p>In 2011, Muhammad Yusuf began assembling a bomb based on instructions from Al Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine. Similar instructions were used by the Tsarnaevs in their bombing of the Boston Marathon. If not for an NYPD informant, Yusuf’s bomb would have gone off killing New Yorkers.</p>
<p>A year later, Quazi Mohammad Nafis&#8217; plot to detonate a 1,000 pound car bomb outside the Federal Reserve Bank was shut down by an informant working with the NYPD and the FBI.</p>
<p>Muslim political activists and their media allies, now cheering for Bill de Blasio, responded to every terrorist plot shut down by the NYPD by ignoring the number of New Yorkers who would have died, dismissing the terrorists as mentally ill or incompetent, accusing the NYPD of entrapping them and perversely calling for an end to the surveillance of Muslim terrorists and terror mosques.</p>
<p>And they would have said the same thing if the Tsarnaevs had blabbed to a police informant and been nabbed on the way to the marathon with dummy bombs in their backpacks.</p>
<p>Now if Bill de Blasio wins, the pro-terrorist lobby will finally get its way.</p>
<p>There was only a thin blue line preventing the Boston Marathon bombings from happening in New York. That thin blue line is now one election away from being cut to pieces.</p>
<p>Bill de Blasio vowed to shut down the NYPD’s counter-terrorism efforts while standing side by side with Linda Sarsour.</p>
<p>Sarsour had said that the NYPD had invented most of the terrorist plots, that Malcolm X had been assassinated by the NYPD, that the underwear bomber had been a CIA agent and that New Yorkers who celebrated Bin Laden’s death are now “no better than the slimes that Gaddafi and Osama were.”</p>
<p>It isn’t the first time that Bill de Blasio made a deal with the devil. Before he began his career in New York politics, he supported the Marxist FSLN terrorists of Nicaragua who had attacked a synagogue, burnt Miskito Indians alive in a church and whose leader recently hosted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.</p>
<p>Bill de Blasio has refused to apologize for supporting a terrorist organization that murdered Indians and Jews; instead defending his allegiance to the Sandinista killers as “progressive.”</p>
<p>According to the New York Times, Bill de Blasio told other members of the pro-FSLN Nicaragua Solidarity Network “of a need to understand and build alliances with Islam, predicting it would soon be a dominant force in politics.”</p>
<p>That much he has done.</p>
<p>Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers urged Bill de Blasio to “be very proud of the fact that he supported the Sandinistas.”</p>
<p>Ayers had participated in the 1970 bombing of the NYPD headquarters that wounded seven police officers.</p>
<p>In his memoir “Fugitive Days,” he writes, “We threatened to bomb a major symbol of American injustice, and when a little more than two weeks later the promised bomb exploded in the New York City Police Headquarters on Centre Street, the Weathermyth was fully launched.”</p>
<p>De Blasio has revealed himself to be a man who sympathizes with terrorists and who is supported by terrorists. It&#8217;s no surprise we&#8217;ve now learned he wants the NYPD to turn a blind eye to terrorism.</p>
<p>If Bill de Blasio wins, when the next Muslim terrorist says, “I want at least 1,000 to 2,000 to die in one day”; there will be no NYPD informant to hear him and no NYPD detectives to stop him.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Inside the Turkish Protests</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 04:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael van der Galien]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom fighters dare to battle for the separation of mosque and state.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/alsancak.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-193874" alt="alsancak" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/alsancak-450x337.jpg" width="252" height="189" /></a>The battle taking place in Turkey touches the very core of the Turkish Republic and its future. The country’s secularists who were in power for decades, but who have for the last ten years taken a backseat, have taken to the streets demanding the separation of mosque and state, while the Islamists led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan aim to Islamize the country faster and more thoroughly than ever before, while cracking down on all possible dissent.</p>
<p>I was able to speak to protesters in two different cities (Izmir and Istanbul) about their aims and the reasons for their sudden protests. At first, international media reported that the protests had started purely because inhabitants of Istanbul wanted to save a park (Gezi Parki). Although that certainly played a role, it was made clear to me from the get-go that the park was simply the last straw: their anger with Erdogan had increased year after year, and lately month after month. Finally, they said, they were fed up. They drew a line in the sand and said, &#8220;No more&#8221; to Erdogan’s authoritarianism and Islamism.<a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/karsiyaka-22.jpg"><img class="alignright  wp-image-193875" alt="karsiyaka 22" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/karsiyaka-22-262x350.jpg" width="168" height="224" /></a></p>
<p>Some of the protesters I spoke to had voted for Erdogan’s AK Parti in 2003. At that moment the country was hit hard by an economic crisis (which eerily reminds me of some other authoritarians who came to power in such difficult times, and who gradually increased their hold on their populace). He pretended to be a liberal democrat, a man who could unite the Turkish people, both conservative Muslims and secularists, and who would take the desperately needed measures the economy required to spring back to life. With him, he said &#8212; and voters believed &#8212; that a new era of universal freedom and economic prosperity was to arrive.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Sadly, things turned out slightly different than these voters had expected, they said. In the last ten years, they told me, Erdogan first strenghtened his hold on the government and all its institutions (including the judicial power and the military), after which he &#8211; at first slowly, later much faster &#8211; started to Islamize the country. In the last few months especially that Islamization had speeded up, with the prime minister saying women should have three children, a ban on the sale of alcohol between 10PM and 6AM, and an attempt to greatly reduce the right of abortion. When the opposition voiced their criticism they were at best ignored and at worst imprisoned (as has happened to hundreds of journalists).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/women.png"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-193876" alt="women" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/women.png" width="342" height="197" /></a></p>
<p>“Erdogan is a fascist, it’s that simple,” one of the protesters in Izmir told me. “He has to step down!” Another passionate youth said that “Erdogan has gone too far. Did you know that there’s no image of [Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - the founder of the modern and secular Turkish Republic] in schoolbooks anymore? He wants to remove all traces of Atatürk, who represents Turkish secularism. He wants to replace our laws with the Sharia!”</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/alsancak-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-193877" alt="alsancak 2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/alsancak-2-262x350.jpg" width="183" height="245" /></a>One of the reasons that I understood the significance and true meaning of these protests early on is that many of the protesters are women. One of them told me that they all fear for their future role in a Turkey governed by the AK Parti. “Do I have to stay at home and raise three children or more? Will he decide that for me? Will I not be able to decide what I want to do and how I want to live my life? Do I need a headscarf eventually?”</p>
<p>Erdogan’s response to these questions and concerns has been brutal. Lawyers, doctors, protesters, Twitter users, Facebook users, journalists (both foreign and domestic) have been arrested this month. By behaving in that manner, the prime minister has, protesters justifiably say, confirmed their suspicions: he is out to Islamize the country and he will not stop until he has achieved that overarching goal.</p>
<p>Much has been written the last few years about a so-called &#8220;Arab Spring.&#8221; Arab peoples were ridding themselves of their dictators to finally embrace democracy. Yes, it was the start of a new Middle Eastern Golden Age. Sadly, that scenario was, as we now know, not to be. The secular dictators of the region have not been replaced by democrats, but by Islamofascists. Egypt, Tunisia, Libya are all lost to the West. They have been taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic radicals who not only wish to destroy Israel, but also to enslave and oppress their own people.</p>
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<p>In Turkey, however, there <i>is</i> a real Spring taking place. The protesters who have taken to the streets for weeks now, and who are attacked, tear gassed and arrested by the police are freedom-loving secularists, who defend their right to live as they see fit, and who demand answers from a prime minister who is increasingly showing his true &#8211; authoritarian and Islamist &#8211; colors.</p>
<p><strong>More photos of the protest in Turkey:</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/karsiyaka.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-193881" alt="karsiyaka" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/karsiyaka-450x184.png" width="450" height="184" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/akp-office-izmir.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-193883" alt="akp office izmir" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/akp-office-izmir-450x184.png" width="450" height="184" /></a></p>
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		<title>The Turkish Summer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Islamist Prime Minister faces a volcano of protests in the streets. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/turkey-protests.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192137" alt="turkey-protests" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/turkey-protests-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I’ve referred to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan as the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/crowning-erdogan-new-king-islamists">&#8220;king of the Islamists&#8221;</a> because of his ability to swoon the West, make Israel bend and maintain popularity while implementing Sharia using the doctrine of <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/gradualism-islamist-strategy-victory">&#8220;gradualism.&#8221;</a> He now faces his biggest internal challenge as <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/turkey-explodes-protest-against-erdogan">protests</a> against him enter their fifth day in what one expert <a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/turkey-protest-islam-erdogan-167/">compares</a> to the “eruption of a volcano.”</span></b></p>
<p>The unexpected spark was Erdogan’s plan to redevelop Gezi Park in Taksim Square. <i>Reuters</i> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/02/us-turkey-protests-insight-idUSBRE9510DJ20130602">explains</a> that Taksim honors the secular legacy of Ataturk, while the other squares in the capital reflect upon the days of the Ottoman Empire. When Erdogan planned to transform the park into an Ottoman-theme shopping center with a mosque, apartment complex and model of Ottoman-era barracks, it was seen by secularists as a washing away of Ataturk.</p>
<p>Opponents of Erdogan had been looking for an opportunity, angered over the government’s new restrictions on alcohol sales and advertising, the morning-after pill, the rejection of a gay rights law, and other moves towards Sharia governance. About 100 Turks <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/05/2013525191210116123.html">publicly kissed</a> in a subway station after officials said passengers must “act in accordance with moral rules” regarding public displays of affection.</p>
<p>A recent <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/turkish_opinion_poll_finds_majorities_slam_erdogan_policies_on_alcohol_syri/">poll</a> found that 35% of Turks consume alcohol, an act that is forbidden in Islam. It did not flatly ask respondents whether they oppose the new restrictions, but 61% felt it was an intervention in personal lives. Interestingly, a 2009 <a href="http://www.dici.org/en/news/turkey-one-turk-in-three-would-not-want-a-christian-neighbor/">poll</a> that found high levels of hostility towards Christians, Jews and atheists also <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/turkish-society-intolerant-others-nationalism.html">found</a> that 54% of Turks don’t want “Sharia supporters” for neighbors.</p>
<p>The protest at Gezi Park began as a small sit-in at the park, with participants planting trees and reading books. It quickly grew as the demonstration took on broader meaning. <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/turkey-explodes-protest-against-erdogan">Tens of thousands joined</a> and protests spread to 67 of Turkey’s 81 provinces.</p>
<p>“We are Mustafa Kemal’s soldiers,” <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/03/turkey-protests-coalition-anger-erdogan">chanted</a> some protesters, referring to Ataturk.</p>
<p>The police’s reaction, by Erdogan’s own admission, was excessive. At least two have died, one at the hands of an unidentified gunman, perhaps a police officer. About 1,700 have been arrested and thousands more injured, <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/young-boy-lost-eye-due-to-plastic-bullet-in-istanbul-academic-claims.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=48159&amp;NewsCatID=341">including</a> a young boy who lost an eye because of a plastic bullet. The Turkish opposition <a href="http://rt.com/news/istanbul-park-protests-police-095/">claims</a> that detainees have been forced into signing testimonies and are being refused access to lawyers.</p>
<p>The protests are bound to get larger in the coming days as they garner international attention. One of the country’s four major unions, the 240,000-strong Public Workers Unions Confederation, is launching a two-day “warning” <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/03/us-turkey-protests-strike-idUSBRE9520J020130603">strike</a> on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Erdogan reacted as Islamists usually do. He claimed that the protestors are extremists allied with terrorists and are part of a foreign conspiracy. He <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/03/turkey-erdogan-violence-protest/2385153/">said</a>, “The thing that is called social media is the biggest trouble for society now,” setting the stage for restrictions on the Internet.</p>
<p>Contrary to Erdogan’s insistence that the protesters are part of a fringe group, <i>The Atlantic</i> <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/how-the-protests-will-impact-turkey-at-home-and-abroad/276456/">observes</a> that “all of Turkey was represented: the young and the old, the secular and the religious, the soccer hooligans and the blind, anarchists, communists, nationalists, Kurds, gays, feminists and students.”</p>
<p>Erdogan’s Islamist agenda has become more aggressive as he’s tallied up political victories since coming to power in 2002.</p>
<p>Recently, the Turkish government <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/turkey-sentences-another-artist-blasphemy-charges">sentenced writer Sevan Nisanyan to one year in prison</a> for allegedly “denigrating the religious values.” This comes shortly after the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/turkish-pianist-convicted-blasphemy">conviction of pianist Faisal Say</a> for his exercising of free speech. In July, the government <a href="http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2012/07/13/Turkey-Erdogan-party-wants-limit-press-freedom_7181707.html">suggested</a> limits on free speech for the sake of “public morality,” “public order” and to “prevent pro-war propaganda, discrimination and hate.”</p>
<p>Under Erdogan, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism has skyrocketed. The government is said to have bought 40% of the media and has more <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-criticized-for-lack-of-press-freedom.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nid=39793">imprisoned</a> journalists than any other country. It also has the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/islamist-takeover-turkeys-honor-killing-rate-highest-world">highest rate of honor killings</a> and <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/content/turkeys-erdogan-builds-17000-new-mosques-no-new-schools-during-last-10-years">17,000 new mosques have been built.</a> Erdogan has overseen the largest crackdown on the military in the country’s history, protecting himself from being the next example of a Turkish leader overthrown in a coup.</p>
<p>Turkey’s move into the Islamist camp does not only have strategic implications for the West. It has direct affects for America. The Turkish Fehtullah Gulen network is <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/us-islamist-charter-school-under-investigation-part-ii">under FBI investigation.</a> The Turkish government is <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/turkey-courting-native-americans-trojan-horse-bid">building ties with Native American tribes</a>. And, most recently, Erdogan spoke at an event celebrating his government’s construction of a <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/turkey-stakes-claim-america-100-million-mega-mosque">$100 million Ottoman-themed mega-mosque</a> in Maryland.</p>
<p>Yet, President Obama calls Erdogan a “friend.” If you go to the websites of the major Muslim-American organizations, not a word is said; a sharp contrast to their rapid responses to the “offenses” of “Islamophobes” and Western governments, especially Israel.</p>
<p>Just as they were when Muslims challenged the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, these groups are absent. Turkish activists even had to <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/full-page-ad-for-turkish-democracy-in-action-occupygezi-for-the-world--39">fundraise online</a> to take out a full-page advertisement for their cause in the <i>New York Times</i>. A group like the Council on American-Islamic Relations or the Islamic Society of North America could cut a check for it without skipping a breath.</p>
<p>Dr. Daniel Pipes reacted to the landslide victory of Erdogan’s Islamist party in 2011 with a <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/06/turkey-last-free-election">dire warning:</a> “Elections taking place today are likely to be the last fair and free ones in Turkey. With Turkey’s leading Islamist party controlling all three branches of the government and the military sidelined, little will stop it from changing the rules to keep power into the indefinite future.”</p>
<p>We shouldn’t be surprised when an Islamist acts like an Islamist.</p>
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		<title>Mother of London Beheader Tricked into Converting Him to Islam Under the Guise of Deradicalization</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 02:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When he returned, however, he was even more "radicalised" and his mother could no longer "get through to him"]]></description>
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<p>We&#8217;re still filling in some of the blanks on the backstory of Mujahid, aka Michael Adebowale, the son of Christian Nigerian parents who became a Muslim terrorist, but <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/uk-jihad-murder-given-weeks-of-islamic-training-by-woolwich-mosque.html">it would appear that his mother fell victim</a> to a de-radicalization scheme.</p>
<p>Politicians insist that there is an &#8220;extremist Islam&#8221; and that the best way to counter it is with &#8220;moderate&#8221; mainstream Islam. This lie was put out there by the Saudis who claim that Muslim terrorists are ignorant of Islam and need to be cleared of their misunderstanding by legitimate Muslim authorities. The problem with that is the Saudis and the mosques around the world that they and the Muslim Brotherhood are the farthest possible thing from moderate.</p>
<p>Their de-radicalization programs are a case of going from the frying pan into the fire.</p>
<blockquote><p>His mother Juliet Obasuyi, a 43-year-old probation officer, went to her friend and neighbour, a 62-year-old security officer, for help about nine months ago after her son dropped out of university.</p>
<p>She told him: “Michael is not listening any more. His older sister is a good Christian with a degree but Michael is rebelling as he has no father figure, dropping out of university and handing out leaflets in Woolwich town centre.</p>
<p>“He is from a strong Christian family but he is turning to Islam and turning against the family. He is preaching in the streets. He needs spiritual guidance before he radicalises himself.”</p>
<p>Another friend, Steve Adebiyi, who started a company with Mrs Obasuyi, said she was often left in tears after speaking to him on the phone. “The boy was giving the mother problems,” he said. “She said he was in with some bad group and causing a lot of trouble. They brainwashed him.”</p>
<p>He and Michael Adebolajo, the other suspected terrorist, are thought to have met at Greenwich University.</p>
<p>His mother was advised by a neighbour to take him to the head of the Woolwich mosque for spiritual guidance. He was converted to Islam by the head Imam, and taken for weeks of &#8220;further training&#8221; at a centre near Cambridge.</p>
<p>When he returned, however, he was even more &#8220;radicalised&#8221; and his mother could no longer &#8220;get through to him&#8221;. A spokesman for the mosque said they did not know if he attended or been converted there.</p></blockquote>
<p>We&#8217;ve gone through this plenty of times before. The moment he&#8217;s caught, the mosque disavows responsibility, Mission Impossible style. That&#8217;s what happened with the Boston bomber. Suddenly they&#8217;re just crazy people who wandered in and had nothing to do with the mosque at all and never understood the real true Islam.</p>
<p>And politicians fall for it again and again. Rinse and repeat.</p>
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		<title>Saving the Neighborhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Solway]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-solway/saving-the-neighborhood/shariahzone3-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-177760"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-177760" title="shariahzone3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/shariahzone3.png" alt="" width="276" height="219" /></a>Recently, British lawyer and “mosque-buster” Gavin Boby visited Canada to deliver a series of lectures on the problem of Muslim infiltration and occupation of municipal neighborhoods. The strategy of <em>de facto</em> Muslim annexation of city districts has worked brilliantly on the European continent and in England, a harbinger of what may well be in store for cities and towns in Canada and the U.S.—see for example <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/26/Islamic-Leaders-in-Dearborn-Mich-Plan-Rally-In-Support-Of-Laws-Against-Islamophobia">Dearborn</a>, Michigan and now <a href="http://www.icmtn.org/">Murfreesboro</a>, Tennessee, where the Koran and the Sunnah form <em>the basis of religious education</em> being offered at the new mosque there. The process generally begins, Boby says, with the construction of a mosque or community center, followed by the gradual transformation of the area into an Islamic enclave in which the original inhabitants find themselves increasingly harassed and intimidated, unable to live their everyday lives and, in many cases, ultimately forced to leave their homes.</p>
<p>In London (and other English cities), these districts will often morph into no-go zones, mini Islamic republics governed by Sharia law, where even the police enter only at their peril. The <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/muslim-patrols-sharia-enforcers-hit-britains-streets/">streets are patrolled</a> by gangs of vigilantes, burning posters they find offensive, threatening passers-by for being inappropriately dressed, attacking gay men, and abusing, raping and “grooming” young non-Muslim girls. On the mainland the problem is far worse, with entire self-ghettoized neighborhoods, like the quasi-<em>arrondissements</em> ringing Paris, that resemble military garrisons and that frequently erupt into frenzies of uncontrolled violence.</p>
<p>Boby’s message is simple and straightforward. As a lawyer who works in the field of zoning by-laws, he believes neighborhoods have the right to maintain existing zoning legislation and to resist city-council changes to the law which would facilitate the building of mosques. Boby does not believe in banning all mosques wholesale, but in looking at proposals to build mosques on a case by case basis. There are just too many violent, Sharia-ruled, Muslim palatinates spreading throughout Europe, from Malmo to Paris and Marseilles to Amsterdam to Luton and Manchester and so on and on.</p>
<p>The mosques in these areas serve as jihadi conscription stations and schools of radical education. Moreover the vast majority of these mosques go up not in the tonier neighborhoods but generally in less affluent districts where residents have little legal and financial clout. In far too many cases, as we’ve noted, these neighborhoods are effectively ruined, with private driveways blocked by worshipers’ cars, dog walkers molested, infrastructure sabotaged, young girls sexually exploited, Jews and other minorities assaulted, the police rarely if ever intervening. This is what Boby wishes to prevent by legal means. A mosque is not like a church or a synagogue; it can just as easily turn into a command center and a source of civic violence as furnish a space for harmless worship, and it is exactly this that needs to be taken into consideration. Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was not far wrong when, citing a 1912 poem by nationalist poet Ziya Gokalp, he described mosques as “our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the faithful our soldiers.”</p>
<p>Boby, it is fair to say, was not here on a vigilante mission of his own but merely to warn that a genuine menace exists. His purpose was to point out that there are accessible legal means to avert the despoliation of ordinary blue-collar neighborhoods whose residents, as Janice Fiamengo <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/janice-fiamengo/fact-busters-and-the-mosque-buster/">writes</a> in an important <em>FrontPage</em> article, often “lack the financial resources or cultural confidence to protest” and who know “that their concern will be dismissed by local councillors as racist.” Boby, who works pro bono, is merely helping these people “to use the legal channels created precisely to foster citizen involvement in town planning.”</p>
<p>Nevertheless, Boby has come in for blistering and defamatory attacks, not only from the usual dubious suspects like CAIR-Canada and a pusillanimous fellow-traveling media consortium, but also from social and political conservatives who shrink from negative publicity and insist on a hard-and-fast distinction between Islamism and Islam. The unacknowledged motive for such tame insipidness is most likely fear—fear of savage reprisal but also fear of derision from our politically correct and craven contemporaries. For these people, a mosque is merely a house of worship serving a demographic composed largely of “moderate Muslims.” <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2931/american-mosques">Polls and surveys</a> revealing that a majority of mosques tend to operate as recruitment centers for aspiring jihadists are either ignored or discounted. The evidence is overwhelming, and anyone who disregards it is living not in this world but in some imaginary construct.</p>
<p>From their bully pulpits in the mosque, or in the migrating televangelical version of it, Muslim flamens <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/9859804/Preachers-of-hate-who-spread-their-violent-word-on-British-TV-channels.html">promulgate</a> with impunity various forms of hate speech and even incitements to violence. But many anti-Islamists draw back from facing the issue squarely. To bring such unpalatable facts to the light of print will do nothing, a conservative correspondent writes me, “to ingratiate us with Muslims who have no quarrel with democracy, just want to get on with their lives…” It is not to our advantage to be “adversarial.” Besides, “the problem in Europe is worse by magnitudes,” there is “a qualitative difference in the types of immigrants you get there,” and broad-brush condemnation “drives open-minded Muslims into the hands of the bad guys.”</p>
<p>Each of these arguments can be readily parried. Why “ingratiate” ourselves with immigrants who are coming to the West to enjoy the prerogatives and benefits of our way of life? Is that what we’ve come to? Should it not be the other way around? Is the host beholden to the guest or the guest beholden to the host? The European experience is not so remote as we may think; it is now becoming the Canadian and American experience as well. Are Muslim immigrants to Europe really so “qualitatively different” from ours, whatever that might mean? In Boby’s England, there was initially very little civil disturbance as the first generation strove to integrate into the heritage culture. In flocked the radical imams, who infected the second and third-generation immigrants with their extremist agenda. This is not an issue we can pussy-foot around. When neighborhoods are being blighted from one end of Europe to another and the same is beginning to happen here and in the U.S., perhaps this is precisely the time to become “adversarial.” It is no accident that CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) has become materially involved in monitoring terrorist plots and has succeeded in preventing local jihadists from attacking public institutions and high-profile public officials, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13150516/">including the prime minister</a>. CSIS is worried about radicalization, not because of people like Gavin Boby—who are only a reaction to what is already taking place—but because of those firebrand preachers who alight upon the mosques and proceed to convert their parishioners to the species of violence urged by the Koran and the Hadith. This is an issue of growing concern in Canada (as elsewhere)—“a problem,” according to the <a href="http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspx"><em>National Post</em></a>, “that is putting Canadians at risk” as young men, native Muslims and converts, are indoctrinated by radical imams.</p>
<p>My correspondent’s concluding charge, that vigorous analytical criticism of Islam and its social influence will only harden moderates and drive them into the arms of the fundamentalists, seems wholly counter-intuitive. Why should it not have the opposite effect: to alert the moderates to what is amiss in the sacred texts and practices of their faith so that they can oppose these blemishes? Why should pointing out that a religion behaves like a bully turn those who dislike bullying into bullies themselves? This is the same backwards logic unjustly hurled against Boby’s presence among us by two well-known, ostensibly conservative figures, Fred Litwin who runs the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa and Muslim author Salim Mansur, in an editorial for the <em>Ottawa Citizen</em>, titled “<a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/Mistaking+Islamism+Islam/7884240/story.html">Mistaking Islamism for Islam</a>.”</p>
<p>We must, these luminaries inform us, under no circumstances offend the community of “moderate Muslims” who represent the last best hope for both Islam and for us. And yet, after the atrocity of 9/11, the more than 20,000 terrorist attacks since then, the continued spilling of blood, the travesty of the Arab Spring and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, the virulent, Muslim-spawned Jew hatred on campuses across the nation, the civil wars, the bloated casualty counts, the barbarism of resurgent Sharia and more, where, we are entitled to ask, are the vast multitudes of moderate Muslims marching in our streets under banners proclaiming “Not In Our Name”?  Quite the contrary. Democracy advocate Zuhdi Jasser’s recently convened American Islamic Forum for Democracy attracted only a handful of supporters during a demonstration in New York. Meanwhile, <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/12/11166773-us-rights-appointee-zuhdi-jasser-hits-raw-nerve-for-american-muslims?lite">according to NBC News</a>, “a coalition of 64 groups representing Muslim lawyers, students, Arab Americans and mosques and an array of advocacy organizations” protested his Senate appointment to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Jasser’s intentions are noble and Litwin and Mansur would surely approve of this standard bearer for moderation. The problem is that it won’t work—the majority of his fellow Muslims won’t permit it.</p>
<p>Like many of their brethren, Litwin acts as amanuensis to the propagators of a despairing conciliation while Mansur is desperate to redeem the unredeemable. It is thus no surprise that they have been profoundly influenced by Bassam Tibi’s 2012 book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Islamism-Islam-Bassam-Tibi/dp/0300159986/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1360433959&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=bassam+tibi"><em>Islamism and Islam</em></a>. What they don’t mention is that the reputable German scholar Clemens Heni, in his more recent <em>Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon</em>, points out that that Tibi lauds German-Muslim scholars “who are at the forefront to denounce criticism of the Iranian threat, Islamism, and anti-Semitism”; Heni singles out a certain Naika Foroutan whose thesis advisor Tibi is. Foroutan praises Shia theolgian Mohammad Khatami (who on October 28, 2008, in an <a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=121417">address</a> to the University of Freiburg in Germany, referred to Zionism as a “continuation of fascism” and portrayed Israel as “an incurable wound on the body of Islam…that really possesses demonic, stinking, contagious blood”), argues that the West has been looking for a new enemy and found one in Islam, and blames the “state terrorism” of Ariel Sharon for 9/11. Tibi “even wrote a foreword to this highly problematic study.” Heni goes on to say that “The shocking thing is that a scholar like Bassam Tibi supports this kind of counter-productive scholarship” which rejects “any substantial analysis and criticism of Islamism, Islamic anti-Semitism, Sharia Law and Islamic jihad.” This is the sort of bilge that Tibi condones and oversees. It is to the detriment of their argument that Litwin and Mansur have so naively and conveniently allowed their thinking to be shaped by this man.</p>
<p>The late comedian Lenny Bruce used to tell the joke about a convicted murderer who, when queried about what launched him on his nefarious career, replied: It started with bingo in the Catholic Church. Just a joke, of course, but one with a modern application. It starts with a mosque or community center, advertised as appealing to multiple ethnicities, to advance the presumably benign aims of the “religion of peace.” In far too many cases, it does not end there. For when taken seriously, the religion of peace is anything but.</p>
<p>Here is a short <a href="http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2013/02/09/another-busy-busy-week-for-jihadists-4/">account</a> of typical events for February 7 and 8, 2013, on which I write. In Kalaya, Pakistan, Muslim fundamentalists bombed a marketplace selling videos and CD’s, killing at least sixteen. In Shomali, Iraq, fourteen Iraqis at a bus stop were targeted by Islamic State of Iraq bombers, and in Baghdad, “holy warriors” detonated two car bombs at an animal market popular with Shias, slaughtering at least seventeen. In Kano, Nigeria, Islamists gunned down nine female polio vaccination workers in two attacks after clerics accused the program of being a conspiracy against Muslim children, similar to what occurred a few weeks earlier in Afghanistan. In Garissa, Kenya, Islamists shot two Christian pastors, killing one. In Kishindih, Afghanistan, the Taliban took out four locals with a roadside bomb. A few days before, the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273171/Fayhan-al-Ghamdi-raped-tortured-daughter-5-death-escapes-light-sentence.html#axzz2JyLsKo7j">news broke</a> of a popular Saudi preacher and televangelist who raped, tortured and murdered his five year old daughter. Meanwhile a Sri Lankan guest worker was <a href="http://www.israpundit.com/archives/52769">beheaded</a> in the public square in Riyadh. And a few days before that in London, a young black woman had <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6uGNiGJ6LI">acid thrown in her face</a> by a figure clad in a burka. Around the same time, Danish journalist Lars Hedegaard, who has repeatedly warned that press freedom is under threat from Islam, narrowly escaped an <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/06/the-bullet-flew-past-my-right-ear-danish-islam-critic-narrowly-escapes-assassination-attempt/">assassination attempt</a> by an assailant whom Danish police drolly described as “foreign.” The Jewish inhabitants of Malmo are leaving in droves and highly respected <em>Jerusalem Post</em> columnist Caroline Glick has <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/caroline-glick/britain-is-no-place-for-jews/">advised</a> Jews to emigrate from an increasingly anti-Semitic Britain, owing to an alliance between the intellectual elite and rabid anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist Muslim advocacy. France is not much better. Boby, who is also a passionate friend of the Jewish people, quotes a French correspondent of his who writes that “young French Jews are deciding to get educated, get ready, and get out” (personal communication).</p>
<p>But it is not only Jews who are at risk from the invasive forces of Islam—although, as Boby affirms, the fate of Jews is a “touchstone issue.” It is also the unsuspecting, vulnerable, generally working class householders and pensioners who eventually find themselves no longer welcome in their own neighborhoods and who are often forced to sell their homes at a fraction of their original value. The more privileged may succeed in preserving their neighborhoods, their lives and their livelihoods, but it is their successors who will bear the brunt of their wavering, their condemnation of the messengers who have come to warn us, and their penchant for refined nuances and textured distinctions, such as Islam/Islamism, when we are under subversive and sustained attack, physically, politically and demographically. It is our progeny who will pay for our failure to make a stand, not only at the gates of Vienna, but at the gates of Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, New York, London, Oslo, Paris, Malmo, Marseilles, Brussels…</p>
<p>When terrorist attacks occur, the immediate response is to rename them as something else: instances of “workplace violence,”  well-deserved retaliations for our multifarious sins, or the work of a pathological fringe. In the aftermath of such enormities, the next impulse of the media and officialdom is to caution citizens to avoid a “backlash” against the innocent and suffering Muslim community—which, be it said, almost never happens. When journalist and film director Theo van Gogh was slaughtered in the streets of Amsterdam by a second-generation Moroccan immigrant, Queen Beatrix’s reflex was to visit a Moroccan community center with pledges of sympathy and support, “a gesture of mind-boggling dhimmitude,” as Bruce Bawer puts it in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Surrender-Appeasing-Islam-Sacrificing-Freedom/dp/0767928377/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1360778742&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=bruce+bawer+surrender"><em>Surrender</em></a>. Nor did the Queen see fit to attend van Gogh’s funeral. And naturally, the buzzword of ”Islamophobia” is duly trotted out in such cases, suggesting a sentiment and expression regarded as reprehensible—a misnomer if ever there was one since a phobia is an irrational fear, but there is nothing irrational about it. Such attitudes have become ecumenical.</p>
<p>In the midst of all this programmatic obfuscation, an even more insidious threat unfolds, weakening the fibres of the social and cultural fabric. Terrorism is an effective Islamic tactic, but “entryism”—the penetrating of academia, the media, government, labor unions, protest groups and the very social climate—is even more so. What we are observing is the practice of subversion which, in the words of Derek Nelson and John Thompson of the Mackenzie Institute in their 2013 <a href="http://www.mackenzieinstitute.com/2013/CM1301%20A%20Primer%20on%20Subversion.html"><em>Primer on Subversion</em></a>, “seeks to supplant or distort the normal political process” and to transform our culture and law “in areas such as free speech, open courts, family values, and religious freedoms to make them compatible with Sharia law, itself incompatible with liberal democracy.” The neighborhood mosque, as we have seen, is only the beginning of our troubles. If its pacific nature cannot be guaranteed and its respect for local statutes and civic life assured, its effects will spread outward in waves of destabilization, one of the chief aims of the Muslim Brotherhood, as per its 1987 <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1235"><em>Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America</em></a>,</p>
<p>Cultural authorities and commentators like Gavin Boby, Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer, Bat Ye’or, Andrew Bostom, Philippe Karsenty, Diana West, Jamie Glazov, Pam Geller and Bruce Bawer, among a small platoon of truth-tellers and prophetic voices, speak and write to alert us to the imminent danger that confronts us. Unlike our cultural elect, they refuse to pay Dane geld to a supple and formidable adversary. But it’s an uphill battle, for they are opposed and disparaged by an army of intellectuals, politicians, media quislings and liberal appeasers who serve as the Praetorian auxiliaries for a newly hegemonic Islam. Nonetheless, despite the odds, Boby for one is optimistic. “We will win,” he asserted at the conclusion of his Ottawa lecture. May the future bear him out.</p>
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		<title>74-Year-Old Woman Collecting Petitions Against Mosque Sentenced to Pay 1000 Euros to Amnesty International</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria Frank was given a warning  and ordered to pay 1000 euros to Amnesty International.  She said she doesn’t like this organization and asked to be allowed to pay the money to a charity for persecuted Christians instead. The judge said no, it had to go to Amnesty International!]]></description>
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<p>Freedom isn&#8217;t free. And when you&#8217;re being sentenced to pay 1000 Euros to a human rights organization for speaking out, then you know that your freedom is gone and <a href="http://sheikyermami.com/2013/02/10/munich-state-sanctioned-terror-against-74-year-old-pensioner-who-collects-signatures-against-mosque/">your human rights have gone with it</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Maria Frank, a 74-year-old woman, who leads an organisation called “Association for the Future of Germany” peacefully gathers signatures calling for a referendum on whether an “Islam in Europe” centre should be built in Munich. She is constantly mobbed by antifa, green and trade union activists, so her placards are hardly visible. Despite that, she is prosecuted for incitement to hatred.</p>
<p>In Rotkreuzplatz the 74-year-old pensioner exhibited a placard on this day, which among other thing said that after the siege of Vienna by the Ottoman empire in 1683 now “the arrogant Turks and Muslims … [are threatening] Europe again”. The accused thus established and suggested the reference to a war of aggression, at least “implicitly accepting” that fear of Islam and Turks would be generated, argued the state prosecutor. She thus disturbed the public peace.</p>
<p>Maria Frank was given a warning  and ordered to pay 1000 euros to Amnesty International.  She said she doesn’t like this organization and asked to be allowed to pay the money to a charity for persecuted Christians instead. The judge said no, it had to go to Amnesty International!</p>
<p>In addition the judge warned Frank, who has made numerous negative statements about Turks and Muslims on the internet, sometimes in a much more drastic way than on the placard.</p>
<p>“You need to stop that and become aware of what is acceptable and what isn’t.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Not a major surprise in Red Munich, but this is coming to America.</p>
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		<title>Muslims Claim Jabba the Hutt&#8217;s Palace is a Mosque</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A statement posted on the organisation's website refers to Jabba the Hutt as a 'terrorist' and says that he 'likes to smoke hookah and have his victims killed'.]]></description>
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<p>Muslims get upset a lot. Sometimes they are offended by cartoons. Other times they claim that the <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/106592/Allah-ice-creams-banned.html">Burger King snow cones </a>look like Allah. And they claim that a lot of places are mosques, even when they aren&#8217;t. Usually those places however are real.</p>
<p>The case of Jabba the Hutt&#8217;s palace <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267062/Lego-accused-racism-Turkish-community-say-toy-offensive-based-mosque.html">may be the first time that Muslims claimed a fictional place as a mosque</a>. Jabba is a fictional character from the Star Wars movies. His <a href="http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jabba's_Palace">palace was constructed in 700 BY</a> (whatever that is)  and appeared in a movie in 1983. For 30 years it was left alone, until a Lego set of it came out leading Muslims to shriek that it&#8217;s really a mosque. And not just any mosque, but the Hagia Sophia mosque which used to be a church until Muslims stole it and turned it into a mosque.</p>
<p>A comparison of both places shows that they don&#8217;t have much in common beyond both having lots of domes, a staple of the architecture of the region. If Muslims start claiming every large domed building as a mosque, well&#8230; they kind of already do.</p>
<div id="attachment_174665" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/muslims-claim-jabba-the-hutts-palace-is-a-mosque/mcq-jabbaspalace2/" rel="attachment wp-att-174665"><img class="size-medium wp-image-174665" title="MCQ-jabbaspalace2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/MCQ-jabbaspalace2-450x201.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="201" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jabba&#8217;s Palace</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_174663" style="width: 410px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/muslims-claim-jabba-the-hutts-palace-is-a-mosque/207_254_hagia_sophia/" rel="attachment wp-att-174663"><img class="size-full wp-image-174663" title="207_254_hagia_sophia" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/207_254_hagia_sophia.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="278" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hagia Sophia</p></div>
<p>This is the Lego set which infuriated Muslims so badly.</p>
<div id="attachment_174664" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/muslims-claim-jabba-the-hutts-palace-is-a-mosque/lego-jabbas-palace-1/" rel="attachment wp-att-174664"><img class="size-medium wp-image-174664" title="LEGO-Jabbas-Palace-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/LEGO-Jabbas-Palace-1-450x243.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="243" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Still not a mosque.</p></div>
<p>Anyway common sense never stopped Muslims from going on a tear about being offended by racism, islamophobia and children&#8217;s toys.</p>
<blockquote><p>Lego has been accused of racism by the Turkish community over a Star Wars toy allegedly depicting  a mosque.</p>
<p>The critics claim that the Jabba&#8217;s Palace model, part of Lego&#8217;s Star Wars range, offends Muslims as it resembles the Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul &#8211; one of the world&#8217;s most renowned mosques.</p>
<p>Members of the Turkish Cultural Community of Austria group also accused the toy manufacturer of depicting Asians as having &#8216;deceitful and criminal personalities&#8217;.</p>
<p>The group has released a statement calling for an apology from Lego for its cultural insensitivity.</p></blockquote>
<p>But wait, this story gets even dumber as the Turkish Community of Austria works itself up into a demented lather of fake outrage.</p>
<blockquote><p>A statement posted on the organisation&#8217;s website refers to Jabba the Hutt as a &#8216;terrorist&#8217; and says that he &#8216;likes to smoke hookah and have his victims killed&#8217;.</p>
<p>It adds: &#8216;It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.&#8217;</p>
<p>The statement says that the figures in the set are made to resemble &#8216;terrorists, criminals and murderers&#8217;.</p></blockquote>
<p>Just like a real mosque.</p>
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		<title>New Islamist Mosque Opens in Virginia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Circle of North America receives a helping hand from local churches.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/new-islamist-mosque-opens-in-virginia/picture-9-25/" rel="attachment wp-att-174342"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-174342" title="Picture 9" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Picture-9-363x350.png" alt="" width="218" height="210" /></a>Last month, a new mosque called the ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America) Islamic Center <a href="http://www.icna.org/icna-inaugurates-new-mosque/#more-12840">opened</a> in Alexandria, Virginia. ICNA, an Islamist group with origins in the Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan, framed its inauguration as an interfaith victory, giving thanks to the three churches that let them worship on their premises as the mosque project was completed.</p>
<p>The two-story mosque replaced a house that was bought by ICNA in 2000. It says the facility cost $850,000 to build and can accommodate about 150 people. Good Shepherd Catholic Church, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and Aldersgate United Methodist Church allowed ICNA’s Northern Virginia chapter to worship as the mosque was being built</p>
<p>ICNA’s use of Aldersgate United Methodist Church led to a favorable <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-may-5-2011/big-mohammed-s-house">segment</a> on <em>The Daily Show with Jon Stewart</em>, which praised its pastor and mocked an evangelical critic. In one scene, the critic is seen saying mosques wouldn’t allow their premises to be used for Christian prayers. The correspondent joked about how embarrassing it’d be for him if the show cut to a clip of Christians being invited to a mosque.</p>
<p>Ironically, the clip the <em>Daily Show</em> showed was of Mohammed El-Filali of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, a mosque with <a href="http://www.radicalislam.org/analysis/four-islamists-gov-christies-muslim-outreach-committee">extensive ties</a> to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. El-Filali <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/the-friends-of-bill-pascrell-2.php">led a chant</a> comparing Israeli Prime Minister Sharon to Hitler at a rally in 2002. He also refused to condemn Palestinian suicide bombers in an interview with the <em>Associated Press.</em></p>
<p>The pro-ICNA churches and the <em>Daily Show</em> apparently didn’t take the time to pop ICNA’s name into a search engine. If they did, it wouldn’t have taken long to find documentation of the group’s Islamist history.</p>
<p>Its origins lie with a Pakistani Islamist group called Jamaat-e-Islami. ICNA’s own publication <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Beyond_Malcolm.html">said</a> in 1996 that it was founded with the “organizational development methodology” of Jamaat-e-Islami’s founder. A former ICNA president and secretary-general, Ashrafuzzaman Khan, was <a href="http://www.radicalislam.org/analysis/former-leader-icna-be-charged-war-crimes">indicted</a> by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal in October for his role as “chief executioner” in at least 18 political assassinations in 1971. Khan belonged to the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami.</p>
<p>A 1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/Muslim+Brotherhood+General+Strategic+Goal+for+North+America.pdf">strategic memorandum</a>, which says its “work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within,” lists ICNA as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.” The memo refers to productive meetings between ICNA and the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood “in an attempt to reach a unity of merger.” ICNA has long held its annual conferences in conjunction with the Muslim American Society, <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3486/under-oath-alamoudi-ties-mas-to-brotherhood">an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood</a>, in apparent fulfillment of this objective.</p>
<p>ICNA has not abandoned its Islamist ideology since then. Its 2010 <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/2373/hand-book-shows-icna-true-goals">handbook</a> laid out a five-level strategy towards achieving a “united Islamic state, governed by an elected khalifah in accordance with the laws of shari’ah (Islamic law),” right in line with the Muslim Brotherhood <a href="http://www.radicalislam.org/analysis/gradualism-islamist-strategy-victory">doctrine of gradualism</a>. Its last conference in December featured <a href="http://www.radicalislam.org/analysis/another-american-islamist-conference-comes-chicago">at least a dozen Islamist speakers</a>, including ones that have supported Hamas and have ties to the Brotherhood. Among the <a href="http://www.radicalislam.org/analysis/dish-network-turkish-airlines-support-islamist-conference-us">event&#8217;s sponsors</a> were Turkish Airlines and the DISH Network.</p>
<p>ICNA and its Islamist allies understand the power of the interfaith message. Interfaith relations have become a more prominent feature on their websites and their conferences. For example, American Muslims for Palestine had Reverend Donald Wagner of Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ryan-mauro/destroy-israel-conference-comes-to-illinois/%20">speak at its conference.</a> Major campaigns of activism are done with interfaith coalitions.</p>
<p>Another interfaith campaign ICNA is involved in is the <a href="http://www.icna.org/billboards-stress-commonality-of-religions/%20">placement</a> of billboards in the Orlando and Daytona Beach areas that say, “Same Family, Same Message.” It directs readers to ICNA’s website, WhyIslam.org. These billboards aren’t just about making Jews, Christians and Muslims feel like they can relate to each other. It’s about dawah. The basis of Islam is that Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed are part of the same family with the same message from Allah. Islam is, in this view, the way all three faiths are hemmed together.</p>
<p>The destruction of churches by Islamist terrorists leaves little room to misunderstand their intentions. The embrace of churches by non-violent Islamists runs contrary to the bloody images we judge our enemies by. When these scenes are put side-by-side, groups like ICNA appear to be the alternative Muslim voice we seek. To be “moderate” is as simple as condemning terrorism and shaking hands with a pastor.</p>
<p>If you oppose this type of interfaith engagement and say something, then the uninformed see you as intolerant, paranoid and bigoted. For most Americans, it is easier to believe that critics of ICNA are fear-mongers than to believe that these groups can simultaneously be likeable, charitable, non-violent, deceptive and Islamist.</p>
<p><em>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></em></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/fbi-to-honor-cair-linked-group/fbi2/" rel="attachment wp-att-165697"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-165697" title="fbi2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/fbi2-450x328.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="230" /></a>Next April in Washington, FBI director Robert Mueller will give the agency’s <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2012/11/16/4990315/capital-mosque-receives-fbi-leadership.html">community service award to Farrukh Saeed, chairman of SALAM</a>, the Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims. “SALAM’s openness and commitment to the community as a whole, regardless of faith, makes them a shining example of community leadership,” said FBI special agent Herb Brown at the local ceremony.</p>
<p>“I think if anyone at SALAM knew anything about (potential) terrorism,” Brown added, “they would come to us at the FBI.” That certainty is not shared by locals familiar with SALAM, which openly <a href="http://ca.cair.com/sacval/event/SALAM">hosts events with the Council on American-Islamic Relations</a>. Local <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/california-cair-bring-blasphemy-laws-to-the-u-s/">CAIR boss Rashid Ahmad</a> recently downplayed the Benghazi attacks and wants to deprive American filmmakers of their freedom of speech.</p>
<p>The CAIR connection did not emerge in news reports about the FBI award, though Steve Magagnini of the <em>Sacramento Bee</em> brought in the case of Hamid Hayat, noting that it had made the SALAM people uncomfortable. “There was no evidence other than his own words that Hayat actually underwent terrorist training,” Magagnini added, implying that Hayat, now serving a 24-year sentence, could be innocent.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.onislam.net/english/news/americas/460038-fbi-honors-shining-california-mosque.html">Onislam.net, in a story out of Cairo</a>, said the FBI award was “a change of tactics towards the US Muslim community. . . after complains (sic) of secret surveillance and trapping Muslim worshippers.” In reality, the award was business as usual. In 2009 the FBI gave its community award to <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2009/lloyd-billingsley/the-fbi-awards-by-lloyd-billingsley/">SALAM’s imam, Mohamed Abdul-Azeez,</a> “for his efforts to teach both Muslims and non-Muslims about the Islamic faith.”</p>
<p>Drew Parenti, FBI special agent in Sacramento at the time, said that “Sacramento is truly blessed to have a leader with the vision, energy and compassion demonstrated by Mr. Azeez.”  For the overwhelming majority of Muslims, Parenti said, “there’s the same exact sense of shared American values that everybody else has.”</p>
<p>Abdul-Azeez was once the subject of a <a href="http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/american-face-of-islam/content?oid=335761">lengthy profile</a> in the <em>Sacramento News and Review</em>, a supposedly tough-minded “alternative” weekly. “He doesn’t have those crazy eyes like Arabs do in Western political cartoons,” said writer Bob Schmidt. “His hair is close-cropped, his mustache and goatee are neatly shaved and his build is burly, thanks to regular free-weight training. No, this ain’t your father’s &#8216;Death to America&#8217;-spewing jihadist—in more ways than simply his age, appearance and body type.” Abdul-Azeez took full advantage of the puff-piece approach.</p>
<p>“I’m very much not hostile to the United States,” he said. “I’m here because I chose to be here. I’m staying here because I choose to stay here. This is my country now.” But America has a “stereotyping” problem.</p>
<p>“The depiction of Islam as a rigid religion which permits no adjustments in interpretation of social issues as times change is incorrect,” the imam said.</p>
<p>“Without question there were Muslims among the slaves brought here from Africa, so there has been a Muslim presence in America for centuries. As a result, American culture is not only Judeo-Christian, but also Muslim.”</p>
<p>Further, “Jihad is the struggle to achieve perfection as a human being,” he told the students. There is a “jihad of the sword,” which does allow Muslims to kill in specific situations. But “Islam has clear rules of engagement. The killing of women and children, and of non-combatants, is expressly prohibited, as is the killing of feed animals and the destruction of crops.” The imam also said that Islam rejects suicide bombers.</p>
<p>And so on, all without challenge. No questions about sharia law, dhimmitude, the treatment of Coptic Christians in Abdul Azeez’s native Egypt, or the imam’s views on the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>FBI special agent Herb Brown, meanwhile, thinks that if anyone at SALAM knew about impending terrorism, they would readily come to the FBI. But nothing has emerged about Mohamed Abdul-Azeez, Farukh Saeed, or anyone else at SALAM actually aiding the FBI regarding any terrorist threat.</p>
<p>Rather, the FBI seems to be handing out awards because the <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=5317">successful Hayat investigation</a> at a mosque in nearby Lodi, California, made some SALAM members uncomfortable. Other awards have been for more substantial actions.</p>
<p>For example, police officers <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/11/06/fort_hood_victims_honored/">Kimberly Munley and Mark Todd received the Secretary of the Army Award for Valor</a> for preventing Major Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, from killing more than 13 American soldiers at Ford Hood. The FBI’s Robert Mueller, who will give the community service award to SALAM’s Farrukh Saeed, conducted an investigation into the 2009 Fort Hood massacre. FBI special agents are not on record whether Hasan, an American-born Muslim, shares the same American values as everybody else.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/kelly-williams/open-mosque-day/omd3/" rel="attachment wp-att-148877"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-148877" title="omd3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/omd3.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="210" /></a>On October 7, mosques in Southern California scheduled an Open Mosque Day where non-Muslims could tour the mosques and talk with Muslims who attended the mosque.  We assembled a team (that will remain anonymous for obvious reasons) to obtain first-hand reports at four mosques.  One of the objectives of the mosque visits was to confirm the conclusions of <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2931/american-mosques">a 2011 survey</a> of 100 mosques published in the Middle East Quarterly that 81 percent of U.S. mosques display moderately violent to highly violent literature and that their practices showed strong compliance with Sharia Law. The reports below, therefore, address the evidence of rigorous enforcement of Sharia Law as well as other observations of interest to those who have wondered what actually goes on inside the mosques.   What stands out is the stark contrast between the “look and feel” of a mosque as compared with an American church or synagogue.</p>
<p><strong>Mosque: King Fahd Mosque, Culver City.</strong><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Sharia-compliant behavior</strong>:</p>
<p>* Segregation of women in prayer.<br />
* Some men with beards.<br />
* Most women in hijabs/scarves.<br />
* Markers in carpet for prayer lines.<br />
* Some attendees bearded with head covering and wearing traditional garb.</p>
<p><strong>Militant literature on sale or in library</strong>:</p>
<p>* Arabic books outnumbered English books about 4 to 1.<br />
* Authors included Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ibn Taymiyah, Martin Lings, and Karen Armstrong.<br />
* Most of English Qurans were post-1970 translations.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Foreign influence in the Mosque</strong>:</p>
<p>*Could not identify mosque leader. Guides said the mosque was run by a rotating committee and numerous prayer leaders.<br />
* All inscriptions were in Arabic.<br />
*Mosque funded by Saudi Arabia, and past imams have been on the payroll of the Saudi Arabian Consulate of Los Angeles.</p>
<p><strong></strong><strong>Visitor Pamphlets:</strong></p>
<p>*Free Qurans available, but no visitor pamphlets were on display.</p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>Gender Discrimination:</strong></p>
<p>*Women separated from men for tours of mosque.<br />
*Women prayed in separate balcony area.<br />
*Most women wore hijabs or scarves.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Racial Discrimination:</strong></p>
<p>*Worshipers were of all races and nationalities – no one race was predominant.</p>
<p><strong>Sectarian Discrimination:</strong></p>
<p>*Mosque website says it is a Sunni (traditional) mosque.</p>
<p><strong>Observations:  </strong></p>
<p><strong>Male Team Member 1:</strong> The man who guided me around was from Afghanistan and had been in the U.S. for about 20 years.  He denied any knowledge of former terrorists attending the mosque, and said they don’t keep membership rolls. He was very congenial, and I was convinced that he was not involved in the Islamist agenda. <em>He did not read Arabic,</em> however, and when I asked tough questions about Islam, he handed me off to Shakeel Syed, Executive Director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California.</p>
<p>One issue discussed was the condemnation of Christians and Jews in Surah 1 of the Quran. Mr. Syed was clearly very proficient in <em>takiyya</em>, using the reference books in the mosque’s own library, and then he quickly cut off the conversation and said he would continue the conversation via email.</p>
<p><strong>Female Team Member 2:</strong> We ladies were first warmly greeted by Najat, a Moroccan woman, and Billie, a Burmese woman whose brother was also heavily involved in the mosque. I decided to get right to the point and challenged Billie (by now it seemed too intense for Najat, so she left) on Surah 4:34 (commanding men to beat their women). She was quick to defend that domestic violence occurs in all religions, and that she runs a shelter for abused Muslim women.  I also challenged the segregated prayer areas and she pointed out that women prefer to pray their own way, and do not want to prostrate in front of men with their butts up.  We also got into a bit of the life of Mohammad, who she said was the perfect man to emulate, and I pointed out that I was not convinced of that, since he married his daughter-in-law, and a 6-year-old (Aisha). She dismissed that, as the son was adopted and Aisha was betrothed. She seemed uncomfortable and kept telling me that I should speak with her brother as he has good explanations about these issues.  I told her that it was obvious to me that she hadn&#8217;t read the Koran, and <em>she said she can recite in Arabic, but doesn&#8217;t know the meaning.</em>  I told her it was important to know the meaning, as she may find that her prophet may not be as pure as she was lead to believe.  We parted on friendly terms with her giving me her contact information.</p>
<p><strong>Female Team Member 3:</strong> Welcoming atmosphere?<strong> </strong>Well, not really. We turned into the parking lot and waited while a young man took his time and strolled in front of the car with his face directed away from us. Forget about asking him where we should park. We were not worthy of his attention. No signage saying “visitors park here” or “stairway this way” or “welcome visitors. Please leave your shoes here.” We actually violated protocol accidentally by walking up the “no shoes” stairwell, not knowing any other way to get into the mosque.</p>
<p>No plates of cut up fruit or carafes of juice. There was some bottles of water, some coffee from Starbucks in cardboard dispensers, one meager plate of cookies or pastries. I didn’t want to eat from it in case that was all they had and the kids might go hungry. This was in complete contrast to church and synagogue open houses/hospitality hours and other events where if there isn’t homemade food, there is bakery food, and plenty of drinks on ice.</p>
<p>The ladies who greeted us were gracious and friendly. It was prayer time so we were hustled out to go upstairs with the women because the men had to begin their prayers. Upstairs in the women’s balcony it was hot and stuffy. The windows opening to the men’s main prayer room were mostly closed, but you could look down and observe. The windows toward the outside were frosted glass and were closed. The men got a fresh cool breeze from outside, upstairs we were sweltering. Not that anybody would pay attention to my opinion, but why not give the ladies the most appealing and comfortable spot and go upstairs like gentlemen?</p>
<p>I did notice while observing my team members challenge the hosts and hostess, that when they quoted passages from the Quran the immediate response was that it wasn’t true; that the interpretation was incorrect. The yellow-shirted man in the library (Shakeel Syed) wanted to stop team member 1 from talking then and there and put him off until a later time. Young boys were watching avidly as team member 1 pressed his points. It was a case of <em>we want to educate and indoctrinate you, but you may not ask any questions because we don’t have the answers</em> or <em>we don’t like the answers and we don’t want to admit it in any case</em>. Their host’s and hostess’s voices raised, all the while addressing us as “Brother” and “Sister” and being very sincere, in the case of the woman, offering to bring in her brother-in-law the imam to explain because she really didn’t know the Koran very well and the man because he would explain later. She really was sweating it. His voice got very tight.  Both team members were asking pointed questions. My rabbi could have handled such challenges so much better than the Imam and the Muslima lady. In fact, so could his 14-year-old daughter.</p>
<p>Shakeel Syed assumed that I was team member 1’s wife. How odd, that there can be no single woman not connected to a male owner. Like, who is controlling the woman who is in the same room with you?</p>
<p>THE LIBRARY: Where are the tables and chairs for students to sit and read the books? A Muslima carried in some chairs for a group of elderly white ladies she was escorting around and lecturing to, and there were a few chairs and two desks in the back where a pair of bored teenage boys sat minding a couple of computer screens.</p>
<p>One of the male guides tried to distract me from recording the names and authors of the books by talking about the library. He pointed to all the collections on the opposite wall, how they were so beautiful. I had seen them earlier, of course. There was shelf after shelf of antiquated sets of volumes with matching bindings and gold script on the spines, but since all of them were in Arabic, I hadn’t explored them further. They were of all colors, which reminded me of encyclopedia sets. He told me that they got all their books from donors. What did it matter the beauty of the collections, if none of it compelled anyone to pick them up and enjoy them? And how could one read if there were no chairs to sit in and read?  How many members of the mosque actually read Arabic?</p>
<p>SECURITY SYSTEM AND CAMERAS: I looked around the garage for security cameras when we parked and also looked around the ceilings while we walked around  the mosque. I didn’t notice any. But later I spotted a big screen TV divided into about 20 squares showing all kinds of angles viewing inside the mosque. Such a lot of money on security for a building that is unlikely to be breached or damaged or vandalized, yet nothing in the library to encourage reading or study the way most libraries are outfitted.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Important Fact:</strong> Two of the 9/11 hijackers (Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar) and the soldier who killed fellow soldiers in Kuwait with hand grenades in March 2003 (Sgt. Hasan Karim Akbar) attended the King Fahd Mosque before their acts of terrorism.  The mosque’s Imam Fahad al Thumairy, an employee of the Saudi Arabian Consulate, was deported in May 2003, for supporting terrorism.  The mosque is supported by The Islamic Foundation of Shaikh ibn Taymiyyah (who died in prison in 1328), whose book “Answering Those Who Altered the Religion of Jesus Christ” is considered one of the most important Islamic books published in the United States.</p>
<p><strong>Mosque: Islamic Center of Southern California, 434 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Observations from Team Member 4:</strong></p>
<p><strong> Sharia-compliant behavior</strong>:</p>
<p>A majority of the women I saw were wearing colorful hijabs.  The men were in regular “American” street wear.  I did not see any “shaggy beard” types.  The men I saw were “clean cut.”</p>
<p><strong>Militant literature on sale or in library</strong>:</p>
<p>The bookstore was closed but, when I asked what books I should read they did bring me in.  There were so many books and they did not leave me to browse on my own.  It is open during the week and I will try to get by there again and see specifics.  I did notice some by Hathout. There were many Korans with translation (he showed me them specifically).</p>
<p><strong>Foreign influence in the Mosque</strong>:</p>
<p>I was introduced to Dr. Maher Hathout.  He was giving the “Sunday School” talk at the Institute for Islamic Knowledge which is in the building (same room as the woman’s prayers.  I asked if these talks were open to the public and he said they were for registered members, but guests were welcome.  He was from Egypt, but has been in the U.S. for a long time.  He is a retired physician.</p>
<p><strong>Visitor Pamphlets:</strong></p>
<p>The typed handout was very basic.  It explained “what is a mosque,” who is welcome, about the prayer area, prayers and rules.  I did note that it used the term “In North America” many times.  On my personal tour, the tour guide mentioned many times about their good works in the community (only specific was a food bank). He also talked over and over about how they work with other faiths in the area.  Also he runs a young professionals group and they have things at temples and other churches.</p>
<p><strong>Gender Discrimination:</strong></p>
<p>The guide brought me into the prayer room.  The carpet did have the outlines to pray.  He said the women pray off to the side, but not because they have to pray separately, but because they don’t want distractions.  He also said that since it is so crowded on Friday the women pray in a separate room (behind glass on the other side of the hall from the regular praying room).</p>
<p><strong>Racial Discrimination: </strong></p>
<p>I did not see any African-Americans there.  They seemed to be mostly Middle Eastern men and Middle Eastern and “white” converted woman.  When I asked this question, my tour guide told me that had a wide range of nationalities that worshiped there.  He said it was not as busy as usual for a Sunday possibly due to the road closure situation.</p>
<p><strong>Other Observations:  </strong></p>
<p>My guide asked me what I knew about Islam and if I had a faith.  I told him and he assured me that Islam was just like mine, an Abrahamic faith. All the “normal” dawa.  After the tour I asked for suggestions of what I should read to learn more.  He brought Noor-Malika to meet me.  She was a former Methodist; now convert who told me to read Martin Lings’ “Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources.”  Also anything by Karen Armstrong (she told me what a great scholar she was and a little about her life and conversion).  She also recommended “The Road to Mecca.”  She took my email address as well, as she is very involved with interfaith here in LA.  She said she moved from Ojai to LA just so she could attend the ICSC because their interfaith program was so strong.  She is also involved with the Guibord Center. She said she would send me information.</p>
<p>My tour guide introduced me to Maher Hathout.  After all that I was back with the tour guide.  He suggested that I come back on Fridays and listen to the sermons.  (Editor’s note:  Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad was written for children and is not a scholarly work.  Many of the darker aspects of Muhammad’s life are omitted from the narrative.)</p>
<p><strong>Mosque:</strong>  <strong>Islamic Society of Orange County, Garden Grove, CA.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Observations by Team Member 5:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Sharia-compliant behavior</strong>:</p>
<p>* Segregation of women in prayer.<br />
* Men with beards and neatly-trimmed mustaches.<br />
* Markers in carpet for prayer lines.<br />
*Prayer leader bearded with head covering and wearing traditional garb.</p>
<p><strong>Militant literature on sale or in library</strong>:</p>
<p>*Books available by Yousef Al-Qaradawi and Dr. Jamal Badawi.<strong></strong></p>
<p>*One book by Yusuf al Qaradawi was &#8220;The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam.&#8221; Qaradawi is the spiritual mentor of the Muslim Brotherhood. He is known for his virulent anti-Semitic statements and his expressed desire to die in battle against &#8220;the Infidels.&#8221; Qaradawi is not the only hateful Islamic writer whose works were seen in the book store.</p>
<p><strong>Visitor Pamphlets:</strong></p>
<p>*There were many different pamphlets available for free or for purchase. They also gave away free Qurans.  One pamphlet was titled “Submission Faith and Beauty – The Religion of Islam,” by Joseph Lumbard.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>*An English-language translation of the Koran was available to visitors for free. The translation was by Syed Vickar Ahamed.  [Editor’s note:  This 1999 translation is described as a “simplified translation for young people” and it is distributed in mosques and hotels. It is a complete white-wash of the Arabic text of the Quran.  In Surah 4:34, “beat your women” is translated “percuss them.”  Surah 9:29 is a complete distortion: “Fight (O Prophet) those (in the vicinity of Makkah) who do not believe in Allah . . .even if they are of the People of the Book, until they pay <em>jizya </em>(security tax) by hand in humble expression.”  Likewise, Surah 9:123 about fighting unbelievers is limited to only those who broke treaties. Surah 47:4 about beheading captives says, “Therefore, when you meet the believers (in battle), strike hard at their necks.”]</p>
<p><strong>Gender Discrimination:</strong></p>
<p>*Women separated from men in prayers.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Sectarian Discrimination:</strong></p>
<p>*One of the tour group leaders said that it was a predominantly Sunni mosque.</p>
<p>*We were told that most Muslims give up their association with particular sects when they come to the U.S.  But at the same time, we were told that it is a primarily Sunni mosque with the majority of worshipers coming from Pakistan.</p>
<p><strong>Other Observations:  </strong></p>
<p>Visitors were broken up into groups of 15 and then given a tour of the campus.  This Islamic center has a mosque, a meeting hall, a mortuary, a food pantry for the hungry,  and a school for K-8. The cost of attending the school is $5,000 per year.  There are between 300 and 600 students enrolled.  The enrollment is all Muslim, but in the past they have had non-Muslim students.</p>
<p>Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi was out of town, so Imam Suhail Mulla briefly answered questions in the mosque.  When he told everyone that Muslims over history have co-existed with every other religion, I asked: &#8220;Then why are the Coptic Christians in Egypt being murdered and their churches being burned now that the Muslim Brotherhood has taken power?&#8221; His response was that I had my facts wrong, that is not happening there.  He then went onto someone else instead of engaging with me about that.  When I asked him about the opening statement read, Shura 1, he said there is nothing there about nonbelievers or the unbeliever, and asked for the next question.</p>
<p>So overall, there were many lies and most people were not knowledgeable enough to question them.</p>
<p>Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi’s son is the president of the mosque now.  His name is Hasan Saddiqi.  And he is married to Amana Siddiqi who works for CAIR.</p>
<p>After initial greetings, visitors were broken up into groups and taken around the mosque compound by assigned tour guides. We eventually were taken into the mosque itself, where prayers and sermons are held. We listened to the call to prayer, followed by a recitation in English of Surah 1 of the Koran, after which, our guide and Imam Suhail Mulla, took some questions.  [Editor’s note: Surah 1 is a supplication to Allah to keep Muslims from the paths of either Jews (“those who have incurred Your wrath”) or Christians (“those who have gone astray”).]</p>
<p>I asked about the recent unrest in the Middle East and the controversy over the now-infamous video (&#8220;The Innocence of Muslims&#8221;). I referred to Imam Siddiqi&#8217;s sermon of September 14, when he advised his congregation to exercise patience and not resort to violence. I mentioned that Siddiqi had used the words, &#8220;mockery&#8221; and ridicule&#8221; to describe the nature of the video. My question was whether they considered the video to be blasphemous, and if so, how that would be punished in a country such as Egypt (since the producer of the video was a Coptic Christian  immigrant from Egypt.)</p>
<p>Imam Suhail answered that he didn&#8217;t care to get engaged in terms like &#8220;ridicule,&#8221; &#8220;mockery&#8221; or such, but that the video was offensive to what Muslims hold dear, and that he was against anything that attacked any religion. As for punishment, it was up to individual nations to decide that issue.</p>
<p>Another questioner asked about persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt. Imam Suhail responded that he had spent several years in Egypt and studied there. In his experience, Christians and Muslims lived together very well, and that throughout history, Muslims had lived in peace with non-Muslims. He brought up the example of Muslim Spain, where Muslims, Christians and Jews had lived together in peace and harmony. Suhail told the questioner that he (Suhail) didn&#8217;t know where he (questioner) got his information about Copts in Egypt being murdered or their churches burned. Not true. (Really?  New Year&#8217;s Eve 2010-2011, Alexandria, Egypt, 21 dead.)</p>
<p>A few minutes later, I privately asked our tour guide, a young man who is an American-born son of Pakistani immigrants, about how Islam views apostates-especially those who publicly criticize Islam. He said that different people around the world had different opinions about this question, but that at this mosque, they didn&#8217;t get involved in those issues.</p>
<p>What we got was a happy face presentation on Islam accompanied by statements that defy reality as noted above.</p>
<p><strong>Mosque: Chino Valley Islamic Center,</strong> <strong>5565 Daniels St., Chino.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Observations of Team Member 6:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Sharia-compliant behavior</strong>:</p>
<p>*Most women, even young girls were in hijab.<br />
*Men wore Western dress, except for some boys in brown Middle Eastern grab.<br />
*Men were in prayer when I arrived.<br />
*Women were not praying with the men.</p>
<p><strong>Visitor Pamphlets:</strong></p>
<p>*Lots of pamphlets, free Qurans, plus the glossy 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World, Foundation for Science Technology and Civilization.  They were giving away a book that must cost $100.</p>
<p><strong>Racial Discrimination: </strong></p>
<p>*A very eclectic crowd.</p>
<p>*Palestinian Imam, Pakistanis, Indians, African-Americans.</p>
<p><strong>Other Observations:  </strong></p>
<p>Chino Valley is a small but growing mosque/Islamic center. I chose Chino Valley because the Imam, Dr. Ahmed Sobah, president of the mosque, was on an interfaith panel at my former church, Eastside Christian Church, about three years ago.  Dr. Sobah was very well received by many in the Eastside community.  When he talked about growing up in Bethlehem and walking in the steps of Jesus, one Eastsider said, “We’ve got to stop all this hate.”  New members were particularly impressed.  At the time, I was speaking to Eastside’s older generation in Bible classes about political Islam.  I was always asked, tensely, what I thought about this interfaith panel.  I tried to be diplomatic, but the information I presented offered a very different picture of Islam.   They saw this.</p>
<p>Today, attendance was light, with only eight outsiders maximum.  Two were candidates for school board and city council who were being courted with lunch invites and precinct walking promises.  (I have their names.)  One was a student collecting info for an assignment.  One was an exercise instructor invited by her students.  One was a prospective convert.  (She became defensive when I asked, privately, why…  I urged her to read the Qur’an.) Finally, there were two of “us.” I identified myself as an Eastside member, so Ahmed called me by my name and spoke of his “beautiful experience” at Eastside, five services with thousands attending.  (Yes, I do remember.)</p>
<p>I always look for new thematic statements to emerge.  I’m eager to see if others heard this theme:  The recent emotional (subtext: violent) reaction by Muslims in the Middle East is an inherent part of Arab culture. Arab Christians react in the SAME WAY when Jesus is attacked.  It’s an inherent part of Arab culture.  This thematic statement was repeated throughout Dr. Sobah’s presentation.</p>
<p>Here are some of Dr. Sobah’s main points:</p>
<ul>
<li>Mistreatment of woman in Islam?  “Simply not true.”  Add that Muhammad came and established greater rights for women than any other culture.  Evidence?  Benazir Butto (Pakistan) and Ingred Mattson, president of ISNA.</li>
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<ul>
<li>Violence in Islam? “A complete misconception.”  Violence is a part of ALL religions.  Every religion has terrorists.  (During Q &amp; A, I spoke to both examples of Christian terrorists:  Timothy McVeigh and Anders Breivik, using the same label, “A complete misconception.”)</li>
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<ul>
<li>The U.S. Constitution is closest to Sharia!  (Sobah dismissed my question,  “Is ‘Reliance of the Traveler’ a codification of Sharia law?”  No, Sharia is everywhere…etc.)</li>
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<li>Laws prohibiting hate speech?  No!  We love America.  But, if speech causes people to die, then we must do something.  So, I said, if the video caused the deaths of people, do we outlaw it?  &#8220;Well, maybe we should discuss this,&#8221; he replied.</li>
<li>Those (like Pamela Geller) who speak out against Islam are just in it for the money. In a private conversation with one of the members of the mosque, a rather articulate attorney, I attempted to posit the idea that if offensive speech was based on fact, it should be protected at all cost.  Our discussion was quite calm.  But, in the end, his position was that all facts could be spun.  I could see where he was going.  Considering the atmosphere of this election season, what could I say?</li>
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		<title>Muslims in Saudi Arabia Call for Monitoring Mosques</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamophobic Muslims or common sense? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mosque-crescent-islam-007.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-142303" title="mosque-crescent-islam-007" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mosque-crescent-islam-007.gif" alt="" width="375" height="252" /></a>It’s happened again: venomous Islamophobes have called for the monitoring of mosques. That’s right: racist bigots, seething with unaccountable hatred for their fellow citizens who happen to be mosque-attending Muslims, are calling for unconscionable restrictions upon Muslims’ religious freedom, and a cloud of suspicion to be cast upon the entire Muslim community, as they have called for law enforcement authorities to step up their monitoring of Muslim houses of worship.</p>
<p><a href="http://arabnews.com/misuse-mosque-manufacturing-explosives-condemned">Here’s</a> the story:</p>
<blockquote><p>JEDDAH: A number of religious scholars and academics have stressed the need for the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowment, Call and Guidance to beef up monitoring of places of worship. It followed the recent report of a Riyadh mosque serving as a facade for manufacturing explosives.</p></blockquote>
<p>That’s right: the call for the monitoring of mosques has gone out not in the United States, and not from “Islamophobes” at all, but from Muslims in Saudi Arabia. The call came after “the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that it discovered explosive substances and devices at a lean-to of a quiet mosque in Riyadh.”</p>
<p>These “religious scholars and academics”  have a valid point. After all, in recent years we have seen mosques used to <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025858.php">preach hatred</a>; to spread <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008925.php">exhortations to terrorist activity</a>; to <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025649.php">house a bomb factory</a>; to <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024408.php">store weapons</a>; to <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/001441.php">disseminate messages from bin Laden</a>; to demand (in the U.S.) <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025401.php">that non-Muslims conform to Islamic dietary restrictions</a>; to <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/012874.php">fire on American troops</a>; to <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019307.php">fire upon Indian troops</a>; to <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017471.php">train jihadists</a>; and more.</p>
<p>American authorities have as much reason as Saudi authorities to be concerned. Four separate studies all found that 80% of U.S. mosques were teaching jihad, Islamic supremacism, and hatred and contempt for Jews and Christians. There are no countervailing studies that challenge these results. In 1998, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi leader, visited 114 mosques in the United States. Then he gave <a href="http://members.fortunecity.com/amirm/Extremism.html">testimony before a State Department Open Forum in January 1999</a>, and asserted that 80% of American mosques taught the &#8220;extremist ideology.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then there was the <a href="http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=383&amp;report=45">Center for Religious Freedom&#8217;s 2005 study</a>, and the <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/02/study-3-in-4-us-mosques-preach-anti-western-jihadist-hate.html">Mapping Sharia Project&#8217;s 2008 study</a>. Each independently showed that upwards of 80% of mosques in America were preaching hatred of Jews and Christians and the necessity ultimately to impose Islamic rule.</p>
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		<title>The Mega Mosques Boom</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A creeping rise around the globe. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/megamosque.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-139171" title="megamosque" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/megamosque.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="181" /></a>Murfreesboro, a city in the heart of Tennessee, and, Marseille, France’s second-largest city and its largest city on the Mediterranean coast, have few things in common. The two cities are separated by nearly 5,000 miles, and by equally wide divisions of language and culture. And yet Murfreesboro and Marseille are connected by a common challenge. Both cities have struggled against the creeping rise of the mega mosques.</p>
<p>The mega mosque in Marseille has been the subject of an extended legal fight going back a decade. The one in Murfreesboro had a briefer history of being on the wrong side of the law. But in both cases elected officials did their best to aid the mega mosques while ignoring local residents and the law.</p>
<p>The mega mosque business is booming around the world. The Marseille mega mosque has a proposed capacity of 7,000 seats which would make it the largest mosque in France, overshadowing the Ervy mosque which has a mere 5,000 seats. Both of these French mega mosques would have been dwarfed by a proposed London mega mosque with 12,000 seats and usability targets as high as 40,000. If the London mosque is ever built, it will dominate the Mosque of Rome, currently the most mega of all the mega mosques of Western Europe.</p>
<p>The Ground Zero Mosque, located near the site of the most brutal Muslim atrocity inflicted on the West in centuries, had a more modest 2,000 seating capacity plan, but would be vertically taller than most of the mega-mosques with a proposed 100,000 square feet of space. This would make it larger than the Marseille mega mosque, the Murfreesboro mega mosque and the London mega mosque. But despite their differences in size, all four mega mosque projects have followed the same pattern of lawsuits, public protests, exposures of shady mosque backers and public officials eager to look the other way.</p>
<p>The Cologne mega mosque in Germany has also followed the same pattern and is set to become the biggest mosque in Germany. But big is never big enough. The Stockholm mega mosque was finished in the year 2000 and has a capacity of 2,000, but a decade later there was already a proposal to replace it with an even larger mega mosque. At its current size the Stockholm mega mosque had already managed to feature sermons in support of Islamic terrorism and serve as a recruitment center for Al-Qaeda. At several times the size the situation could only get worse.</p>
<p>In yet another common pattern of mega mosques, the Stockholm mega mosque was funded primarily by Sheikh Zayed, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates. The Cologne mega mosque was primarily funded by Turkey’s Islamist government.  The Marseille mega mosque is being funded by a number of foreign Muslim governments.</p>
<p>Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has said, &#8220;The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.&#8221; The foreign funding of mega mosques has raised the question of whether Muslim governments aren’t constructing their own barracks and armies in the middle of European cities.</p>
<p>In some cases the militarization of the mega mosque is so overt that it might as well be a bayonet. One of the most blatant examples may be the Copenhagen mega mosque with a capacity of 3,000 which is being financed by Iran. Iran has already constructed another mega mosque in Helsinki and has similar plans all across Europe and the world.</p>
<p>The Copenhagen mega mosque’s Imam is <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3080/finland-iranian-mega-mosque">Mohammed Mahdi Khademi</a> who ran the ideology department of the Revolutionary Guard militia, an arm of the theocratic regime, which was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States.  It would be hard to imagine a more explicit example of mega mosque militarization than a regime that sponsors acts of worldwide terror funding a mega mosque headed by the former Islamist political commissar of its terrorist wing.</p>
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		<title>Inside France’s Future Muslim-Majority City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marseille is at the center of a new revolution. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/islam-france.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-139024" title="islam-france" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/islam-france.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>When foreigners think of the French city of Marseille they think of the national anthem, of Renoir sketching the old port in slashes of yellow and blue, and of castles and cafes overlooking the water. But the old port will now be overshadowed by a Grand Mosque.</p>
<p>The Grand Mosque project has cast a shadow over Marseille since 1989; its location on the site of a former slaughterhouse where pigs were once butchered and the Saudi money going into the project has only given the whole affair a more ominous air. The prolonged legal battle over its construction has gone on through the years even as Islamic terrorism in Marseille has grown to dangerous proportions.</p>
<p>In 1994, Marseille was where the Christmas Hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 came to its bloody end. Muslim terrorists from the Armed Islamic Group had hijacked the plane on Christmas Eve shouting “Allah Akbar” and informing the passengers that this particular deity had chosen them to wage war in his name. The terrorists forced the stewardesses to veil themselves with cabin blankets, recited verses from the Koran and murdered a number of passengers.</p>
<p>But the Armed Islamic Group had bigger plans than a few burkas and a few murders. Their plan was to ram Air France Flight 8969 directly into the Eiffel Tower. Marseille was supposed to be a refueling stopover before a final fatal flight to Paris, but with no sign of the extra fuel that would allow them to inflict maximum damage, the terrorists tried to kill a member of the crew who had told them he was an atheist. Instead French authorities took down the terrorists and prevented an earlier French version of September 11.</p>
<p>Islamic terror however wasn’t done with Marseille or the Eiffel Tower. More recently French authorities broke up another terrorist ring which had targeted the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. The Grand Mosque of Marseille is a more indirect form of architectural attack. Rather than blow up Marseille‘s Notre-Dame de la Garde church, considered by Catholics to be the guardian and protectress of the city, it will overshadow it instead.</p>
<p>Between a quarter and a third of Marseille’s residents are Muslim and demographics suggest that the city may be on its way to becoming the first majority Muslim city in Europe. Marseille’s coat of arms may still bear the azure cross, but not for long. There are already 60 mosques in the city, but many of them are underground. When it is completed, the Grand Mosque will act as a claim of ownership to the city.</p>
<p>Muslims had attacked the port city in the 9<sup>th</sup> century capturing it and enslaving its native inhabitants. That which Muslims once took, their theologians insist is theirs in perpetuity. The Muslim return to Marseille is seen as a reconquista, a return to the land that was once theirs. Building a mega mosque is a way of sealing the deal and making it clear to any infidels that the religion of peace is back with a vengeance.</p>
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		<title>Eric Allen Bell on Fox &amp; Friends, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filmmaker shares how his eyes were opened while making a documentary in support of the Tennessee Mega Mosque.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Yesterday&#8217;s Appearance #1:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Yesterday&#8217;s Appearance #2 is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-friends/index.html#/v/1718380738001/documentary-filmmaker-reveals-truths-of-radical-islam/?playlist_id=86912">here</a>:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Monday&#8217;s segment is <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/07/eric-allen-bell-discusses-murfreesboro-mega-mosque-and-islam-on-fox-and-friends.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>Eric Allen Bell Reveals His Mega-Mosque Mistake &#8212; on Fox &amp; Friends</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filmmaker shares how his eyes were opened while making a documentary in support of the Tennessee Mega Mosque.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/eric_edited-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-136538" title="eric_edited-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/eric_edited-1.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="196" /></a>Eric Allen Bell shares how <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam-1/">his eyes were opened</a> while making a documentary in support of the Tennessee Mega Mosque:</p>
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