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		<title>Turn Down for What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the freedom from consequences promised by the Left isn't everything it's cracked up to be. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/971827692.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244017" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/971827692.jpg" alt="971827692" width="355" height="267" /></a>On the way to the airport the other day, my Uber driver, an elderly Russian chap, turned on a Top 40 radio station. Not being one to complain, I actually sat and listened to the lyrics. The song blasting through the speakers of the late-model Honda Civic was titled &#8220;Habits.&#8221; The singer, a young, presumably wealthy Swede named Tove Lo (actual name: Tove Nilsson), warbles about her need to visit sex clubs, do drugs, &#8220;binge on all my Twinkies, throw up in the tub.&#8221; She laments that she &#8220;drank up all my money.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why? Well, she explains, &#8220;You&#8217;re gone and I gotta stay high all the time.&#8221;</p>
<p>The next song featured a rapper named Lil Jon screaming loudly at the listener that it is &#8220;Fire up that loud, another round of shots. &#8230; TURN DOWN FOR WHAT!&#8221; Translation: We&#8217;re drunk and crazed, and we won&#8217;t stop being drunk and crazed. The music video, as described by creator Daniel Kwan explores, &#8220;this other universe where dudes are so pumped up on their own d***s — and they&#8217;re so into their testosterone — that the way that the show that is by breaking s*** with their d***s.&#8221; The video, which shows a young man crashing through ceilings and into furniture as his erect penis swivels wildly in his pants, currently has nearly 130 million views on YouTube.</p>
<p>No wonder Tove Lo needs to stay high all the time.</p>
<p>The end of Western civilization, it turns out, comes with both a bang and a whimper. The bang: endless sex, animalistic, primal, without strings. As Adam Levine whines, &#8220;Baby, I&#8217;m preying on you tonight, hunt you down, eat you alive, just like animals, animals, like animals.&#8221; In 1971, according to the National Survey of Young Women, 30.4 percent of young women aged 15-19 living in metropolitan areas reported having premarital sex. By 1979, that number was 49.8 percent. Today, 62 percent of young women overall have had premarital sex according to the Centers for Disease Control.</p>
<p>In 1950, men&#8217;s median age of first marriage stood at 22.8; today, it stands at 28.2. More people having sex younger, and without commitment is not a recipe for societal happiness.</p>
<p>Thus the whimper. In a culture in which emotional connections are degraded to the level of bovine rutting, is it any wonder that 9.2 percent of Americans — some 23.9 million people — have used an illicit drug in the past month, and that nearly a quarter of those aged 18-20 have done so? Or that nearly a third of men over the age of 12 and 16 percent of women have participated in binge drinking in the last month?</p>
<p>From what are these people running? Drugs and alcohol are an escape — but we are the most prosperous society on the planet. We are wealthier and healthier than any nation in history. So why the angst?</p>
<p>That question sticks in the craw of the materialists of the secular left, who insist that endless supplies of Soma and government-sponsored sex, complete with Malthusian belt — to borrow terms from Huxley — should bring happiness. Obviously, it doesn&#8217;t. America&#8217;s suicide rate recently hit a 25-year high. Suicide has surged among the middle-aged, those aged 35-64, jumping 30 percent from 1999 to 2010.</p>
<p>Turn down for what? For survival. Or we could just keep going to sex clubs, throwing up in the bathtub and drinking up all our money. After all, isn&#8217;t that what freedom from consequences — our God-given pursuit of happiness, according to the left — is all about?</p>
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		<title>Poster Project Benefits Returning Vets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honoring real heroes.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gallant-Few.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242627" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gallant-Few.jpg" alt="Gallant Few" width="271" height="271" /></a>“Our culture has descended into one of ignoring the best and celebrating the least,” reads the website for GallantFew, a support network for military veterans. That means that too many of America’s best, home from war, are suffering in silence, with the result that we are losing nearly two dozen a day to suicide. GallantFew is working to change that.</p>
<p>Michael Broderick is a Marine Corps vet and an actor in Los Angeles [and – full disclosure – a friend of mine], with appearances on shows such as <em>Criminal Minds</em>, <em>The Mentalist</em>, <em>The Unit</em>, <em>24</em>, and <em>Justified</em>, among others. He also does voiceover work on national commercials and in video games like <em>Medal of Honor: Warfighter</em>. He and his wife Dana Commandatore are the founders of RethinkingAutism.com, devoted to improving the quality of life of autistic people. Michael is also involved with GallantFew, and I asked him a few questions about that.</p>
<p><strong>Mark Tapson</strong>: <em>Michael, what is Gallant Few and what’s the Poster Project all about?</em></p>
<p><strong>Michael Broderick:</strong> GallantFew is a veteran mentoring organization founded by retired Army Ranger Karl Monger. Their mission is to help reduce veteran unemployment and homelessness and to eliminate veteran suicide. The way they do this is to provide one-on-one peer mentoring to veterans. In other words, GallantFew will match a transitioning veteran (someone recently separated from active duty) with a veteran from their community who has already made the transition to civilian life successfully. The Poster Project is a way to raise awareness and funds for the organization.</p>
<p>The first time I did the Project, I purchased a collectible poster for <em>Band of Brothers</em> [the HBO series about the U.S. Army’s Easy Company] that had the signatures of six WWII veterans of Easy Company. I spent the next 15 months getting the signatures of 30 members of the cast and crew including Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Damien Lewis and many others. I was also able to get the signatures of two more Easy Company veterans. The Poster went to auction in 2013 and raised over $4,600.00 for GallantFew. This year, I am doing it again with a movie poster for<em> Black Hawk Down</em> [based on the true story of U.S. Army Rangers’ fierce 1993 firefight in Mogadishu].</p>
<p><strong>MT</strong>: <em>And how is that going so far?</em></p>
<p><strong>MB</strong>: It’s going well! I’ve got three signatures so far. The first was Matthew Marsden who played “Sizemore” in the film, second was Tom Sizemore who played “McKnight” and the most current signature I got was, for me, the most exciting. First Sergeant Matt Eversmann was in Los Angeles recently and he signed the poster. As you remember, 1SG Eversmann was portrayed by Josh Hartnett and his story was at the center of Black Hawk Down. Matt also recorded <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMVkktV7Pyw">a special message</a> for the actors and members of Task Force Ranger and Delta, encouraging them to get involved in The Poster Project.</p>
<p><strong>MT:</strong> <em>Can you talk about your own military background and how and why you became involved with Gallant Few and the Poster Project?</em></p>
<p><strong>MB:</strong> I served in the Marine Corps with HML/A-167 in a support role completing a four year enlistment and was honorably discharged in 1990. After 9/11 happened and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq got longer, I felt a real desire to do something to support my fellow veterans. I met and befriended Army Ranger Michael Schlitz and, like he does on so many, he had a powerful impact on me. I learned about the work that Mike and Karl Monger were doing with GallantFew and I wanted to support their mission. That brought about the idea for The Poster Project.</p>
<p><strong>MT:</strong> <em>What kinds of issues do returning veterans face when they leave combat duty and come back home, issues that civilians can’t really grasp?</em></p>
<p><strong>MB:</strong> The big three issues are the ones I mentioned before: unemployment, homelessness and suicide. GallantFew attacks these by getting at the root causes. Oftentimes a big factor in these situations is a feeling of “otherness” – veterans in general, and combat veterans in particular, often have difficulty relating to their civilian peers and vice versa. This can cause feelings of separation, which lead to isolation. In speaking to my combat veteran friends, it is this feeling of isolation that can have the most detrimental effects.</p>
<p>Civilians, on the other hand, often buy into the “damaged PTSD veteran” narrative and are uncomfortable engaging with a man or woman who has served in combat. This can unintentionally exacerbate the problem.</p>
<p>Currently, we are losing 22 veterans a day to suicide. That’s simply unacceptable.</p>
<p><strong>MT:</strong> <em>What about the recent VA scandal, the revelations of neglect and backlog?</em></p>
<p><strong>MB:</strong> As more and more things come out about the way the Veterans Administration has handled things, it’s clear to me that there must be major housecleaning there from the bottom to the top. This has been a long time coming. We’ve been at war for a decade and the fact that the VA is so ill-prepared leaves me dumbfounded. Even worse is the apparent dishonesty about what’s been going on there. In my opinion, it’s not simply a funding issue but an absolute systemic failure. A lack of accountability will always lead to disaster.</p>
<p>This is another reason that veterans are stepping up to help other veterans. At this point, there’s no more effective tactic than attacking these issues on a peer-to-peer level.</p>
<p><strong>MT:</strong> <em>What can civilians do to better show our appreciation and understanding for any vets we might know, or even don’t know but might encounter in the course of our day? How can we help Gallant Few?</em></p>
<p><strong>MB:</strong> Anyone can help GallantFew at any time. Whether you&#8217;re a veteran who would like to volunteer as a mentor or you would just like to support the mission with a donation, you can do that at <a href="http://gallantfew.org/">GallantFew.org</a> and their partners <a href="http://raiderproject.org/">RaiderProject.org</a>.</p>
<p>Your readers can support The Poster Project by visiting us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/theposterproject">Facebook</a> or on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/DaPosterProject">Twitter</a> and helping me spread the word. Likes, shares and retweets are always appreciated.</p>
<p>Finally, if you know a veteran, you can simply reach out and check in with them. It really is that simple. Whether it&#8217;s someone you know well, an online acquaintance or someone you don&#8217;t know well at all, you can ask how they&#8217;re doing. Every so often, just ask how they&#8217;re doing. That&#8217;s how anyone in your life knows you care, military or civilian. The key, though, is being ready to listen if and when they are ready to talk. Don&#8217;t worry about having answers or solutions. Just listen. Because that&#8217;s what friends do. Hell, when you&#8217;re done reading this, why not check in with a veteran you know?</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss Shillman Journalism Fellow <strong>Mark Tapson</strong> on this week&#8217;s <strong>Glazov Gang</strong> discussing<strong> Fighting the Culture War</strong>:</em></p>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get Serious About Mental Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An affliction that transcends politics or ideology. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/williams.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238574" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/williams-407x350.jpg" alt="williams" width="235" height="202" /></a>Robin Williams&#8217; suicide this week shook up people across the political spectrum — and for good reason. When a highly successful, incredibly popular figure from our culture decides to take his own life, it feels as though suicide could happen to anyone.</p>
<p>It can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Robin Williams reportedly suffered from mentally illness. He stated during an interview in 2006 that he hadn&#8217;t been formally diagnosed with depression or bipolar disorder, but stated, &#8220;Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I get bummed, like I think a lot of us do at certain times. You look at the world and go, &#8216;Whoa.&#8217; Other moments you look and go, &#8216;Oh, things are OK.&#8217;&#8221; That same year, according to the Huffington Post, he explained the temptation of alcoholism — he had famously admitted to drug and alcohol addiction problems — to Diane Sawyer. &#8220;It&#8217;s the same voice thought that &#8230; you&#8217;re standing at a precipice and you look down, there&#8217;s a voice and it&#8217;s a little quiet voice that goes, &#8216;Jump.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Williams&#8217; death has spurred multiple writers and celebrities to announce their own struggles with such issues; virtually every family has suffered through the horrors of mental illness. My grandfather was diagnosed with bipolar disorder decades ago, and routinely battled suicidality until his introduction to lithium.</p>
<p>Raising awareness is praiseworthy &#8211; the stigma attached to getting help for mental illness should be wiped away as soon as possible.</p>
<p>By the same token, we ought to ensure that normalizing mental illness helps no one, and damages those who truly are mentally ill. The lack of awareness surrounding mental illness comes from two directions: first, those who pretend that mental illness represents a lack of willpower or dedication; second, those who pretend that serious mental illnesses are not mental illnesses at all, but representations of free thought and behavior.</p>
<p>Forty years ago, the first group predominated; today, the second does.</p>
<p>Forty years ago, men and women feared career destruction should rumors spread that they were seeing psychologists or psychiatrists. That fear has largely dissipated. But a new threat to the well-being of those suffering from mental illness has replaced the original threat: the threat of diversity campaigners leaving those with mental illness to suffer in the name of heterogeneity.</p>
<p>This is not to suggest that all of those who are &#8220;different&#8221; are mentally ill, or vice versa. But it is meant to suggest that we ought to consider the mental health of those who are homeless, rather than labeling them, in blanket fashion, advocates for free living spaces. It is meant to suggest that those who suffer from gender dysphoria may not be suffering from societal bigotry, but from something far deeper and more dangerous, and that physical mutilation and stumping for tolerance will not solve their problems.</p>
<p>In other words, if we are to recognize the importance of mental illness as a society, the left must stop papering over mental illness with platitudes about diversity, and the right must stop treating mental illness as a moral problem rather than a medical one. Those racked with mental anguish are crying out for our help. If we don&#8217;t hear them, it may be because too busy pushing political viewpoints rather than listening.</p>
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		<title>How Muslims Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2014 04:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Arieh Eldad]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A true story of gratitude.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237250" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lk.jpg" alt="lk" width="305" height="203" /></a>I was instrumental in establishing the &#8220;Israeli National Skin Bank&#8221;, which is the largest in the world. The National Skin Bank stores skin for every day needs as well as for war time or mass casualty situations.</p>
<p>This skin bank is hosted at the Hadassah Ein Kerem University hospital in Jerusalem where I was the Chairman of plastic surgery.</p>
<p>This is how I was asked to supply skin for an Arab woman from Gaza, who was hospitalized in Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, after her family burned her.  Usually, such atrocities happen among Arab families when the women are suspected of having an affair.</p>
<p>We supplied all the needed Homografts for her treatment.  She was successfully treated by my friend and colleague, Prof. Lior Rosenberg and discharged to return to Gaza.</p>
<p>She was invited for regular follow-up visits to the outpatient clinic in Beersheva.</p>
<p>One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a suicide belt.  She meant to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of the hospital where they saved her life.  It seems that her family promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her.</p>
<p>This is only one example of the war between Jews and Muslims in the Land of Israel.  It is not a territorial conflict.  This is a civilization conflict, or rather a war between civilization &amp; barbarism.</p>
<p>Bibi (Netanyahu) gets it, Obama does not.</p>
<p>As many people as possible must come to an understanding of what radical Islam is &#8212; and what awaits the world if it is not stopped.</p>
<p><strong><em>Dr. Arieh Eldad is an M.D. at Hadassah Hospital in Israel.</em></strong></p>
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		<title>Al Qaeda in Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Sheikh-Ayman-Al-Zawahiri.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217141" alt="Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Sheikh-Ayman-Al-Zawahiri-450x347.jpg" width="315" height="243" /></a>Israeli security forces have shut down a massive al-Qaeda plot coordinated by terrorist mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri that involved attacking the Jerusalem Convention Center and the American embassy in the diplomatic center of Tel Aviv.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is believed to be </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://app.debka.com/p/article/23617/Zuwahiri-plotted-Palestinian-Caucasian-terrorist-attacks-on-US-embassy-Jerusalem-Convention-Center">the first time</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that al-Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri has gotten personally involved in engineering strikes within Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The foiled plot is a sobering reminder that al-Qaeda has been experiencing a comeback in the Obama era.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Weeks before the November 2012 election Obama bragged, “al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat and Osama bin Laden is dead.” It is true that al-Qaeda is &#8220;on the run,&#8221; but not in the sense that President Obama uses the term. The stock of the international Muslim terrorist network is experiencing a </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">bull run</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in many corners of the world, lifted higher by the profuse pro-Islamist promises of appeasement offered by Secretary of State John Kerry.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) told the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/3-al-Qaida-recruits-arrested-planned-massive-bombings-339002"><i>Jerusalem Post</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Wednesday that it arrested three Palestinians from east Jerusalem recruited online by a Gaza-based al-Qaeda operative. The three men were preparing to launch a wave of terror attacks involving bombs and firearms that would have targeted the Jerusalem Convention Center, a bus route, the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, and the emergency responders who would have attended to the wounded at the attack sites.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A U.S. State Department official suggested that the plot against the diplomatic facility had been a matter of discussion between the American and Israeli governments for some time. “The U.S. embassy was not just the target, but obviously other targets were involved as well in the threat,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Wednesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The U.S. won&#8217;t be evacuating the embassy, Harf said. “We obviously don’t discuss all of our security measures.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Shin Bet said al-Qaeda operative Ariv Al-Sham used the Internet to sign up Iyad Khalil Abu-Sara, Rubin Abu-Nagma, and Ala Anam for the violent campaign. At press time it was unclear if Al-Sham was in Israeli custody. The Shin Bet said he received orders directly from Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden&#8217;s successor as head of al-Qaeda.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Abu-Sara confessed he volunteered to carry out a &#8220;sacrifice attack&#8221; on an Israeli bus traveling between Jerusalem and Ma&#8217;ale Adumim. The plan was to shoot out the vehicle&#8217;s wheels, causing it to turn over, and then to gun down passengers and first responders. The suspect also confessed he planned to participate in simultaneous suicide bombings at the U.S. Embassy and the Jerusalem Convention Center. Abu-Sara would have killed responders at the convention center by detonating a suicide truck bomb at the scene.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;Al-Sham and Abu-Sara plotted to bring a group of foreign terrorists to Israel using fake Russian passports, who would have entered the country by posing as tourists,&#8221; the newspaper reported. &#8220;Abu-Sara was meant to receive the terrorists, and prepare their suicide bomb vests and a truck bomb. Abu-Sara was also supposed to travel to Syria for training in combat and explosives manufacturing, and had purchased a flight ticket to Turkey, a gateway to Syria.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Abu-Nagma admitted he intended to kidnap a soldier and bomb a building housing Israeli Jews in east Jerusalem. Ala Anam admitted planning to establish a Salafi-Jihadi cell in Samaria for the purpose of launching terror attacks.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jerusalem Post</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> quoted an unnamed source saying the new arrests are proof that al-Qaeda-affiliated elements &#8212; as well as operatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad &#8212; are using the Gaza Strip as a terrorism base. &#8220;Hundreds of Salafi-jihadis in Gaza have access to rockets and arms, and travel to Sinai to attack both Egypt and Israel,&#8221; the source said.</span></p>
<p>News of the foiled plot runs counter to the Obama administration&#8217;s fanciful insistence that al-Qaeda no longer matters and its <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all">denial</a>, on display in a recent interview with the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all"><em>New Yorker</em></a>, that al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorism is spreading rapidly around the globe.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After some major setbacks in recent years, al-Qaeda&#8217;s influence is growing as it establishes and fortifies terrorism beachheads throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Al-Qaeda&#8217;s affiliate al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) now controls large chunks of Iraq.</span></p>
<p>The group &#8220;is trying to take over two countries at once; Iraq and Syria,&#8221; as Daniel Greenfield <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-cost-of-obamas-abandonment-of-iraq/">notes</a>. &#8220;It’s a big goal, but it knows that in Syria, Obama will help them and that in Iraq, he won’t do anything to stop them.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">AQI, &#8220;a predominantly Sunni jihadist group, seeks to sow civil unrest in Iraq and the Levant with the aim of establishing a caliphate—a single, transnational Islamic state based on sharia law,&#8221; </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cfr.org/iraq/al-qaeda-iraq-k-islamic-state-iraq-greater-syria/p14811">according to</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the Council on Foreign Relations.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The withdrawal of U.S. forces in 2011 has left a substantial power vacuum in the increasingly fractious country. According to the Council, al-Qaeda &#8220;has increased attacks on mainly Shiite targets in what is seen as an attempt to reignite conflict between Iraq&#8217;s Sunni minority and the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.&#8221; The result has been a vicious resurgence of violence:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Burgeoning violence in 2013 left nearly eight thousand civilians dead, making it Iraq&#8217;s bloodiest year since 2008, according to the United Nations. Meanwhile, in 2012 the group adopted a new moniker, Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS, a.k.a. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL) as an expression of its broadened ambitions as its fighters have crossed into neighboring Syria to challenge both the Assad regime and secular and Islamist opposition groups there.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Al-Qaeda itself &#8220;remains a cohesive organization&#8221; and its core &#8220;leadership continues to be important to the global movement,&#8221; </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/al_qaida.html">according to</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the National Counterterrorism Center. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Despite continued leadership losses, al-Qa‘ida remains committed to conducting attacks in the United States and against American interests abroad. The group has advanced a number of unsuccessful plots in the past several years, including against the United States and Europe. This highlights al-Qa‘ida’s ability to continue some attack preparations while under sustained counterterrorism pressure and suggests it may be plotting additional attacks against the United States at home or overseas.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Islamists are increasingly emboldened by America’s projection of weakness abroad and by the Obama administration&#8217;s dogmatic determination to undermine the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Chances are the terrorist networks will grow even stronger before President Obama leaves office in January 2017.</span></p>
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		<title>Terror Wave in Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 05:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/rtx16x59.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214268" alt="Members of the emergency services work at the site of a bomb blast on a trolleybus in Volgograd" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/rtx16x59-450x345.jpg" width="315" height="241" /></a>There have now been three major jihad terror attacks in Russia in four days. The attacks are a grim reminder of how vulnerable crowded public places are worldwide to jihad mass murder &#8212; and an indication of what the United States could look like sooner or later.</p>
<p>The latest round of jihad mass murder began last Friday, when <a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/30/22103858-rush-hour-blast-kills-14-on-trolley-bus-in-volgograd-russia-3rd-deadly-attack-in-four-days?lite">jihadists murdered three people</a> with a car bomb in Pyatigorsk in southern Russia. Then on Sunday, a jihad/martyrdom suicide bomber <a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/russia-station-blast-at-least-18-dead-head-of-bomber-discovered_900224.html">murdered sixteen people</a> at the train station in Volgograd – the city that, as Stalingrad, was the bloody site of the turning point of World War II. Then on Monday, <a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/another-deadly-blast-rocks-russia-s-volgograd-sochi-olympics-at-risk_900314.html">a jihadist murdered fourteen more people</a> on a trolley bus in the same city.</p>
<p>These were by no means the first jihad strikes in Russia in recent years. In September 2004, Islamic jihadists under the command of Chechen jihad leader Shamil Basayev took 1,300 hostages at a school in Beslan, a town in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia; ultimately <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3665136.stm">the jihadists murdered well over 300 people</a>.</p>
<p>Then <a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/30/22110562-bombings-fuel-fears-about-sochi-threat-by-emir-of-caucasus-doku-umarov">in August 2009</a>, jihadists claimed to have murdered over 24 people with a bomb at Siberia’s Sayno-Shushenskata hydro-electric plant in Siberia, although the Russian government claimed that there was no bomb at all, and that the explosion was an accident. On November 27, 2009, jihadists murdered 27 people with a bomb planted under the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Then in March 2010, Islamic jihad/martyrdom suicide bombers murdered 39 people on the Moscow subway. In February 2011, another jihad/martyrdom suicide bomber murdered 36 people at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow.</p>
<p>Another Chechen jihadist, Doku Umarov, the leader of a group that calls itself the Caucasus Emirate (Umarov styles himself the “Emir of the Caucasus”), told Russians in 2010: “I promise you that war will come to your streets and you will feel it in your lives, feel it on your own skin.” He later threatened that “more special operations” would soon follow, for “among us there are hundreds of brothers who are prepared to sacrifice themselves&#8230;.We can at any time carry out operations where we want.”</p>
<p>He warned the Russians again last July, exhorting Muslims to wage jihad warfare against the Russians for daring to host the Winter Olympics in Sochi on the Black Sea coast. <a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/another-deadly-blast-rocks-russia-s-volgograd-sochi-olympics-at-risk_900314.html">Umarov said</a> that Muslims should “use maximum force on the path of Allah to disrupt this Satanic dancing” – by which Patrick Swayze-evoking locution he referred to the Games. The Russians, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/30/world/europe/russia-terrorist-attacks-explainer/">he said</a>, “plan to hold the Olympics on the bones of our ancestors, on the bones of many, many dead Muslims buried on the territory of our land on the Black Sea, and we Mujahedeen are obliged not to permit that &#8212; using any methods allowed us by the almighty Allah.”</p>
<p>The Caucasus Emirate has not claimed responsibility for the jihad attacks this week, but given the threats Umarov has made against the Games, which are scheduled to begin February 6, it is understandable that suspicion has focused on this group. Vladimir Putin has tightened security, but Russian officials know that there is little he can do to prevent still more jihad terror. Alexei Filatov, whom <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vladimir-putin-orders-tighter-security-after-bombing-1.2478303">Reuters describes</a> as the “deputy head of the veterans’ association of the elite Alfa anti-terrorism unit,” observes: “We can expect more such attacks. The threat is greatest now because it is when terrorists can make the biggest impression. The security measures were beefed up long ago around Sochi, so terrorists will strike instead in these nearby cities like Volgograd.”</p>
<p>There is little doubt that Filatov is right: the area that requires protection is simply too vast, and the possible targets too many, to ensure that there will not be more jihad attacks in Volgograd or elsewhere. The situation is the same in the United States: while law enforcement agents so far have been able to stop most jihad plots from ever coming to murderous fruition, their luck is unlikely to hold – particularly since the Obama Administration has forbidden agencies to study Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism, thereby depriving them of the ability to understand the motives and goals of those who have vowed to destroy Western societies.</p>
<p>It is well within the realm of possibility, then, that sometime in the not-so-distant future, the United States could be the country that is reeling from three jihad attacks in four days, with an untold number of casualties. What is glaringly deficient, if not altogether absent, in both the Russian and American response to this reality is any serious attempt to prevent such attacks from being plotted in the first place. No one is challenging Muslim groups in the U.S. or Russia to reinterpret the Islamic texts and teachings that jihadists use to justify violence and supremacism, and to teach actively against the understanding of Islam that gives rise to such attacks.</p>
<p>To be sure, government and law enforcement officials in the U.S. work with Muslims they deem “moderate” against those they regard as “extremist”; however, since they lack a clear understanding (and are forbidden to gain one – to do so would be “Islamophobic”) of the roots of jihad violence in Islamic teaching, they tend to take disingenuous claims to “moderation” at naïve face value. Their delineation between the “extremist” and “moderate” is often superficial and leads them into self-defeating blind alleys.</p>
<p>One notorious example of this is how government and law-enforcement agencies continued to work with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for several years after the Justice Department designated it an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case, and its Hamas ties were abundantly established. I myself several years ago gave a four-hour-long presentation to a roomful of FBI and intelligence agents that included, among many other things, evidence of CAIR’s ties to Hamas. Yet during the question-and-answer period an agent complained that some of his best contacts in the Muslim community were CAIR officials, and I was wrong to “stigmatize” them.</p>
<p>Of course, it was not I, but the Justice Department, that had done the “stigmatizing,” and one would think that this surpassingly naïve agent would have thought that forewarned was forearmed regarding how much he could trust his friends at CAIR, but he wouldn’t hear it: he knew they were friendly and “moderate,” and that was good enough for him.</p>
<p>This politically correct naïvete practically amounts to an invitation to Islamic jihadists to mount more jihad attacks. And so they will, in the U.S. as well as Russia – but this agent’s friends at CAIR will issue another pro-forma condemnation, and so all will be well.</p>
<p>Three jihad strikes in four days in Russia. They were warned. We have been warned as well. But we aren’t paying attention to those warnings. To heed them would be “Islamophobic.”</p>
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		<title>Islamerica, Eurabia and Eurasia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muslim multicultural roadmaps to national suicide.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/burqa.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-208850" alt="burqa" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/burqa.jpg" width="266" height="190" /></a>Obama has claimed that the United States is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” While the actual number of Muslims is in dispute, Islamerica is no match for Eurabia or Eurasia.</p>
<p>Europe has 44 million Muslims. If Turkey crawls into the European Union, that number will climb to 118 million. That’s more than double the number of Latinos in America.</p>
<p>If Obama decided to take in all of Syria and Somalia, just to be extra generous, his Islamerica still wouldn’t have a hope in hell of catching up to Eurabia or to the Eurasian Union.</p>
<p>The new evil empire in the east isn’t the USSR; it’s Eurasia, a replacement for the Warsaw Pact that turns away from the troubled economies of Eastern Europe toward the population-rich and resource-rich Muslim republics providing a growing share of Russia’s military and labor force.</p>
<p>The Eurasian Union, which is to include Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and possibly Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, is on track for 2015. A Eurasian Union would double Russia’s Muslim population and triple it if Putin is able to bring all the members he wants into his own EU.</p>
<p>These numbers are only placeholders. The real numbers are powered by demographic change. The Muslim birth rate is double that of the Russian birth rate. A similar situation exists in Europe.</p>
<p>Some demographers are forecasting a Muslim majority in Russia by 2050. Europe’s Muslim population is projected to hit 58 million by 2030. By 2050, the United Kingdom and France could have majority Muslim populations if current birth rates as well as immigration and welfare policies continue.</p>
<p>A Muslim population race might seem irrational, but consider that those same numbers also forecast that a Muslim Great Britain will be the biggest country in Europe by 2050. Going from the UK to the UC, from a United Kingdom to a United Caliphate, would seem like a poor tradeoff just for sheer size, but with low birth rates, weak economies and a lack of local energy, there is no shortage of experts who think that bringing in immigrants with high birth rates and lots of youthful energy is the answer.</p>
<p>If Americans find that attitude baffling, they might want to consider how much bipartisan support there is for amnesty and open borders among their political and expert classes. The men at the top have done the math, or at least some of the math, and determined that current birth rates mean an impossible tilt in entitlements spending as too many younger workers collapse under the burden of an aging population that failed to have enough children because it put its faith in government instead of family.</p>
<p>The two EUs, the European Union and the Eurasian Union, are trying to solve the problems of low birth rates and decadent societies the same way that we are. The difference is that their favorite brand of immigrant is even more destructive and dangerous.</p>
<p>European and Russian leaders are thinking in terms of quantity rather than quality. That’s the same mistake our leaders have made. Everyone is looking forward to competing with China by having 500 million people, without really thinking about who those people will be or noticing that there are shrinking numbers of workers and entrepreneurs off the dole who are doing any actual competing.</p>
<p>Chinese leaders know that a large population is a weakness that invites disharmony. The People’s Republic of China, like its ancestor regimes, seeks to balance growth with stability. It would never occur to it to import millions of hostile strangers. It has a Great Wall and an ample historical memory to remind it of all the times it fell apart from internal tensions and barbarian invasions.</p>
<p>Russia’s Eurasian Union is less foolish than the European Union because it is a tyranny and exercises close control over its Muslim (and non-Muslims) population. There is little tolerance in Russia for the likes of an Anjem Choudary who would sooner or later be the victim of a “mugging” by an assailant in a black leather coat with a silenced pistol. But a vehement critic of Islam might meet the same fate.</p>
<p>The Eurasian Union is a less dishonest version of the European Union, dispensing with the nonsense and getting right to the point. It recognizes that Muslim demographics are inevitable and wants to harness them for regional power while having little interest in the first EU’s obsessions with Green Energy or human rights. It won’t even bother with the fake elections whose results the first EU ignores.</p>
<p>Both EUs are leagues ahead of Islamerica when it comes to sheer self-destructiveness, but Islamerica is still in the race. The 2.6 million Muslims of 2010 America will hit 6.2 million by 2030. Those numbers aren’t as catastrophic as anything coming out of London or Moscow, but numbers can be tricky things. Population growth has a way of sneaking up on you even with a perfectly predictable growth trend.</p>
<p>Europe did not pay very much attention to the Muslim demographic bomb because the numbers were at first too slight and the only places to notice their effects were in the streets of working class towns. And then the numbers seemed too inevitable to do anything about except mumble reassuring things about integration.</p>
<p>America is still at that opening stage where the numbers seem to be too slight to be worth worrying about. Even 6.2 million doesn’t seem worrisome in a country as large as the United States of America. And that is a dangerous oversight. Demographic bombs don’t go off overnight. They tick away as they double and double again until, like interest rates and the march of time, they explode in your face.</p>
<p>The European and Eurasian Unions confuse large Muslim populations with international influence. Obama made that same mistake when he asserted proudly that the United States was one of the world’s biggest Muslim countries. Having a large Muslim minority is a source of conflict, not power.</p>
<p>Advanced countries with large Muslim minority populations include the United States, France, Thailand and Israel. In all of these countries, the Muslim minority has been an explosive element spurring conflict, terrorism and cycles of violence that are never broken.</p>
<p>China understands that stability is more important than size. The younger world powers trying to compete with it would do well to learn that simple lesson.</p>
<p>Eurabia, Eurasia and Islamerica aren’t the future. They’re multicultural roadmaps to national suicide.</p>
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		<title>Female Suicide Bombers: &#8216;Palestine&#8217;s Illustrious Women&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 04:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telling posts from the "moderate" Palestinians' Facebook page. ]]></description>
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<p>Reprinted from <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=9838">Palestinian Media Watch</a>.</p>
<p>Two female suicide bombers who together killed 3 and wounded more than 130 are being presented by Fatah as great role models worthy of admiration.</p>
<p>Recently, the administrator of one of Fatah&#8217;s official Facebook pages posted a picture of terrorist Wafa Idris with the words, &#8220;Palestine&#8217;s illustrious women.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/zainab_abu_salem_FB.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-206729" alt="zainab_abu_salem_FB" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/zainab_abu_salem_FB.jpg" width="302" height="250" /></a>A few days later, the same Fatah page glorified female suicide bomber Zainab Abu Salem as &#8220;the 18 year-old heroic female Martyrdom-seeker.&#8221;</p>
<p>Following <a href="http://palwatch.org/"><b>Palestinian Media Watch</b></a>&#8216;s exposure last week that Fatah used this Facebook page to glorify the <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=9827"><b>terrorist shooter of a 9 year-old</b></a> girl, the post was removed from Fatah&#8217;s official Facebook page. However, the posts praising the two female suicide bombers still remain.</p>
<p>The text honoring terrorist Zainab Abu Salem describes her terror attack and how she &#8220;immediately blew herself up&#8221; when an Israeli Border Policeman wanted to check her bag. And as if assigning a pious and holy quality to her terror attack, the administrator also notes how she &#8220;wore a hijab (religious headscarf) and when she blew herself up, the hijab didn&#8217;t leave her head.&#8221;</p>
<p>Zainab Abu Salem carried out a suicide attack at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem (Sept. 22, 2004). Two Israeli Border Policemen were killed and 30 people were wounded.</p>
<p>Wafa Idris was the first Palestinian female suicide bomber. She killed one and injured over 100 in her attack in central Jerusalem in 2002. As a volunteer for the Palestinian Red Crescent, she was able to bypass Israeli security and enter Jerusalem in a Palestinian ambulance.</p>
<p>PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is also Chairman of Fatah.</p>
<p>PMW has documented that Fatah <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=8319"><b>repeatedly uses</b></a> its official Facebook page to glorify <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=8762"><b>suicide terrorists</b></a> and other terrorists who have <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=9435"><b>killed Israeli civilians</b></a>.</p>
<p><b><i>The following are the posts from Fatah&#8217;s official Facebook page glorifying the suicide bombers:</i></b></p>
<p><b><i>Fatah glorification of terrorist Zainab Abu Salem:</i></b></p>
<blockquote><p><b>Text:</b></p>
<p>&#8220;The eighth anniversary of [the death] of the female Martyrdom-seeker Zainab Abu Salem. Today, Sunday, Sept. 22, is the anniversary of the [death] of 18 year-old heroic female Martyrdom-seeker Zainab Abu Salem.</p>
<p>The female Martyrdom-seeker lived in the Askar refugee camp in the city of Nablus and belonged to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs&#8217; Brigades, Fatah&#8217;s military wing. When she died a Martyr she was determined to do a deed only a few knew about in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs&#8217; Brigades. When she arrived at the bus stop in the French Hill settlement neighborhood in East Jerusalem, an [Israeli] Border Police soldier approached her to inspect her bag and she immediately blew herself up. She wore a <i>hijab</i> (religious headscarf) and when she blew herself up, the <i>hijab</i> didn&#8217;t leave her head. She killed two soldiers and wounded 17, three of them seriously.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Text in photo:</b></p>
<p>&#8220;And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision.&#8221; (Quran, Sura 3:169, translation Sahih International)</p>
<p>By the Palestinian National Movement, Fatah &#8211; the Mobilization and Organization Commission</p>
<p>The eighth anniversary of the Martyrdom death of the heroic female Martyrdom-seeker Zainab Abu Salem&#8221;</p>
<p>[Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page," accessed Oct. 8, 2013, posted Sept. 22, 2013]</p></blockquote>
<p>Note: Zainab Abu Salem &#8211; carried out a suicide attack at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem (Sept. 22, 2004). Two Israeli Border Policemen were killed and approximately 30 people were wounded.</p>
<p><b><i>Fatah glorification of terrorist Wafa Idris:</i></b></p>
<blockquote><p><b>Text:</b> &#8220;Palestine&#8217;s illustrious women&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Text in photo:</b><br />
&#8220;The first female Martyrdom-seeker in the Al-Aqsa Intifada (PA terror campaign 2000-2005).<br />
Female Martyr (<i>Shahida</i>) Wafa Idris.<br />
Jan. 28, 2002&#8243;</p>
<p>[Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page,"accessed Oct. 8, 2013, posted Sept. 18, 2013]</p></blockquote>
<p>Note: Wafa Idris, was the first Palestinian female suicide bomber. She killed one and injured over 100 in her attack in central Jerusalem in 2002. As a volunteer for the Palestinian Red Crescent, she was able to bypass Israeli security and enter Jerusalem in a Palestinian ambulance.</p>
<p>Note: The Facebook page where this item was posted, called &#8220;Fatah &#8211; The Main Page,&#8221; is an official Fatah Facebook page. The page defines itself as belonging to the Fatah Mobilization and Organization Commission. Each Fatah commission has an official website. The official website of Fatah&#8217;s Mobilization and Organization Commission links to this Facebook page.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Pipes]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lurid tale of Riad Elsolh Hamad.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/daniel-pipes/a-palestinian-in-texas/pols_feature18/" rel="attachment wp-att-163664"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-163664" title="pols_feature18" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pols_feature18-410x350.gif" alt="" width="287" height="245" /></a>Originally published by <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/12062/riad-elsolh-hamad">The American Spectator</a>.</em></p>
<p>On April 14, 2008, Riad Elsolh Hamad, 55, left his family&#8217;s apartment in Austin, Texas, to get some prescription drugs. The immigrant from Lebanon and middle school computer teacher never returned home. Three days later, the <a href="http://home.kxan.com/news_PDFs/4.17.08APD-hammad.pdf">police</a> found his body, bound with tape, floating in nearby Lady Bird Lake, and concluded that &#8220;all signs indicate this may have been a suicide.&#8221;</p>
<p>His family indicated that he had been under stress lately and even <a href="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2008/04/17/authorities_identify_man_found.html">suicidal</a>. And with good reason: the <a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/04/18/0418body.html">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> along with the Internal Revenue Service had searched his house on February 27, 2008, when the FBI declared him a &#8220;person of interest&#8221; in a criminal investigation.</p>
<p>Despite this cloud around the dead man, local news outlets reported nothing but kind words and high praise for him. After Hamad&#8217;s <a href="http://www.kvue.com/news/mmcguire/stories/041708kvueAISDteacher-cb.7215ba7a.html">family</a> issued a statement describing Riad as a &#8220;peace activist who worked tirelessly on behalf of those less fortunate than him and was loved and admired by many members of the local, as well as international community,&#8221; the press duly picked up on this moniker and regularly called him a &#8220;<a href="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2008/04/17/authorities_identify_man_found.html">peace</a> <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2008-05-09/621848/">activist</a>&#8221;</p>
<p>Television station KVUE quoted <a href="http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/041708kvuebody2-bkm.745e13f5.html">Joshua Howell</a>, assistant manager at the office where Hamad had a postal box, recalling him as &#8220;always in a good mood. Never upset. Never even heard him say a harsh word about anybody.&#8221; The principal at the school where he taught sent a letter to students&#8217; parents calling Hamad &#8220;a longtime and valued&#8221; member of the faculty whose &#8220;love and passion for education touched us all.&#8221; At Hamad&#8217;s memorial service, retired Episcopal Priest <a href="http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=1238">Edward M Hartwell</a> praised &#8220;his humanitarian work to help the children of Palestine [as] some of the most creative and effective work that I know of.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hamad himself boasted of his <a href="http://www.newsradioklbj.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=89252">peaceable approach to politics</a>: &#8220;All of our work is very transparent. We don&#8217;t work with any militant group or violent group, or anybody with a militant affiliation.&#8221;</p>
<p>That was the Riad Hamad praised by family, friends, admirers, and even himself. But Hamad had another side, the one that brought the FBI to search his house, that got him fired from <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=17684">Austin Community College</a> for &#8220;making racist slurs and sexist jokes in the classroom,&#8221; and that made him a foul and unwelcome presence in my life. Thanks to the recent testimony by a former ally of Hamad who has turned against him, several years later, we now know something approaching his full story.</p>
<p><strong>The Summons</strong></p>
<p>Hamad brought himself to my attention in early June 2006 by sending me, via certified mail, a<a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/rr/hamad-summons.pdf"> summons</a> to appear in court in Austin. The document bore a scrawled, unkempt handwriting on a form issued by the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, informing me that Hamad was suing me and Campus Watch for libel. (Campus Watch being a project of the Middle East Forum, he was effectively suing the Forum.)</p>
<p>This turned out to be the second amended complaint; I found myself in good company, as the summons also listed the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (now known as the David Horowitz Freedom Center), David Horowitz personally, the Center for Jewish Community Studies, the State of Texas, Joe Kaufman, Americans Against Hate, MilitantIslamMonitor.org, and an internet provider called CB Accounts. Hamad proceeded to file another three amended complaints and in them he tacked on yet more defendants (Freerepublic LLC, Jim Robinson, Laurence Simon, and Dotster Inc.)</p>
<p>His was a <em>pro se</em> summons, meaning that Hamad, a non-lawyer, had filled it out by himself and was representing himself – i.e., it cost him next to nothing to sue one and all.</p>
<p>Hamad charged each of us with 21 offences: libel and slander, malicious libel, malicious slander, defamation of character, defamation of character with intent to cause mental anguish, libeling and slandering a business name, defamation through fraud of a business name, interference with a business contract, tortious interference with a business contract, conspiracy to interfere with a business contract, interference with interstate commerce, interference with Internet commerce, conspiracy to interfere with Internet commerce, intentional infliction of mental anguish with the intent to injure, invasion of privacy, fraud, negligence, gross negligence, disparagement of a business name, disparagement of business products, and dilution of a business name.</p>
<p>In compensation for this long list of alleged abuses, Hamad demanded from his many defendants US$5 million in compensatory damages, $10 million for his loss of income, and $50 million in exemplary and punitive damages. Nor was that all: he sought a permanent injunction against our calling his business an &#8220;Islamic charity&#8221; or he personally a &#8220;Muslim fundamentalist.&#8221; He wanted a Department of Justice investigation into us for &#8220;criminal and racketeering work as lobbyists for a foreign country [i.e., Israel] without the proper permits and licenses.&#8221; He also insisted on public apologies by us in ten media outlets chosen by him, as well as payment for his court costs and &#8220;any and all other relief that Plaintiff might show that he is entitled to in a jury trial.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hamad gave insight into his mentality and his motives in the course of his lawsuit. His <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/rr/hamad-horowitz.pdf">discovery requests of David Horowitz</a> are particularly colorful, including:</p>
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<li>Document the &#8220;Religious affiliation of members of the board of CSPC, its affiliates and editors of Frontpagemag.org.&#8221;</li>
<li>Provide a &#8220;Blood and urine sample of David Horowitz &#8230; to identify his ethnicity and religious affiliations.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Identify any and all staff of the Israeli embassy that David Horowitz and CSPC are associated with, amounts of money paid for their services by the Israeli embassy.&#8221;</li>
<li>Answer whether &#8220;David Horowitz is a devout Jews [sic] and observes the Sabbath.&#8221;</li>
<li>Answer whether &#8220;David Horowitz eats pork and violates Jewish traditions.&#8221;</li>
<li>Answer whether &#8220;David Horowitz is not a Semite and pretends to be Jewish to gain sympathy for his views and make money.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>This summons came as a total surprise, as a I had previously never heard of or mentioned Riad Hamad. Sleuthing revealed only the slightest and most indirect connection between us: Hamad had created and headed an organization called the Palestine Children&#8217;s Welfare Fund (PCWF) and in a January 18, 2004, weblog entry, &#8220;<a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/187">Lamyaa Hashim, Supporting Burqas and Suicide Bombers</a>,&#8221; I had quoted Joe Kaufman who alluded to PCWF as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p>The site belongs to the medical director for the Palestine Children&#8217;s Welfare Fund, Rosemary Davis</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s it. I quoted 15 words from someone who mentioned someone who worked for Hamad&#8217;s organization. For this glancing reference, my pro-rated share of payments to Hamad would come to my share of at least $65 million, or about a million dollars per word.</p>
<p>What is the PCWF? NGO Monitor <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/palestine_children_s_welfare_fund_pcwf_0">analyzed the organization in 2003</a> and found its primary mission to be &#8220;propagating the delegitimization of Israel.&#8221; As a <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/_court_dismisses_frivolous_case_against_ngo_monitor_">2007 summary</a> by NGO Monitor put it, &#8220;Gaza-based PCWF openly exploits children&#8217;s issues for radical politicized agendas that promote the conflict. These activities are entirely inconsistent with its claims to be a humanitarian organization.&#8221; By way of example, NGO Monitor tells about PCWF&#8217;s children&#8217;s drawing contest in which</p>
<blockquote><p>The judges rewarded, almost without exception, entries that featured fierce and violent hatred of Israel. The winning picture features a fire, in the shape of a map of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, consuming the Star of David with the word &#8220;Israel&#8221; written inside the flag. Another entry depicted a Palestinian flag dropping flames on an Israeli flag and burning Israelis standing next to it. Such activities serve only to advance a culture of violence and hatred.</p></blockquote>
<p>In brief, PCWF is as crude and hate-mongering as its leader.</p>
<p><strong>The Lawsuit</strong></p>
<p>Hamad might have been a <em>pro se</em> plaintiff but I could not take the chance of being a <em>pro se</em> defendant and so turned for representation to the law office of Levine Sullivan Koch &amp; Schulz, L.L.P., which specializes in defamation issues. We responded to Hamad with a motion to dismiss on June 29, 2006, citing three grounds:</p>
<blockquote><p>First, this Court lacks personal jurisdiction over Pipes and MEF. Neither Pennsylvania defendant has had any contact with Texas that would establish either general or specific jurisdiction.</p>
<p>Second, even if the Court had jurisdiction, plaintiff himself admits that his defamation claim is barred by the one-year statute of limitations because any alleged publication occurred &#8220;as late as July 2004.&#8221;</p>
<p>Third, plaintiff has not pled facts sufficient to allege that Pipes and MEF published any defamatory statements about him. Indeed, he cannot do so: Neither defendant has ever written a word about him or engaged in any action that would justify plaintiff&#8217;s hauling them into a Texas court.</p></blockquote>
<p>My motion also noted that Hamad is a <em>pro se</em> plaintiff with a history of filing what one judgment against him (<em>Hamad v. Austin Community College</em>) called &#8220;patently frivolous&#8221; litigation efforts that &#8220;repeatedly abuse the legal system.&#8221;</p>
<p>Three days before this motion to dismiss, Judge Sam Sparks of the Western District of Texas had already dismissed with prejudice Hamad&#8217;s case against David Horowitz. On July 25, he dismissed the case against me and later awarded me court costs. For good measure, Sparks called Hamad a litigant with &#8220;a history in this Court of filing lawsuits without merit for the purpose of harassment and making outrageous allegations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Undaunted by his failure to gain any legal traction, Hamad appealed. This prompted Judge Sparks to issue an even more vehement order on September 6 in which he characterized Hamad&#8217;s complaints as espousing &#8220;no legal theory for which recovery can be made against any of the multitude of defendants sued in this case&#8221; and dismissed his pleadings on the grounds that they were &#8220;not filed for any purpose and simply harass and cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation.&#8221; Sparks again granted my motion to dismiss, agreeing with all three of my claims, ruling that the court cannot exercise jurisdiction over the Middle East Forum or myself (because of our lack of connections to Texas); that Hamad filed after the statute of limitations had expired; and that I never made defamatory statements concerning Riad Hamad. He also ordered Hamad to pay me a $1,000 penalty.</p>
<p>For a second time, Hamad responded belligerently, this time going public with his claims against us defendants. Talk about libel! He announced to the world on Sept. 14 (including a comment sent to the Campus Watch website) that we</p>
<blockquote><p>are engaged in criminal activities and fraud upon the public by collecting donations amounting to tens of millions of dollars. The donations are being used to fund illegal activities in the United States and Israel and with the knowledge of the government of the United States and the judicial branch.</p></blockquote>
<p>Four days later, Hamad sent out an appeal to his mailing list, stating that &#8220;closely linked&#8221; websites &#8220;are using false information and collection donations … to attack and discredit Arabs, Muslims&#8221; and asking for at least one thousand people to call the office for internet crimes belonging to the attorney general of Illinois.</p>
<p>Encouraged by the court&#8217;s attitude toward Hamad, I requested on Oct. 6 that he be compelled to pay my court costs. On January 17, 2007, Judge Sparks delivered his final judgment and granted my request for fees totaling $12,915. Sparks made clear his intense irritation with Hamad:</p>
<blockquote><p>Plaintiff Riad Elsolh Hamad first filed this wholly frivolous claim on April 13, 2006. Since that time, his &#8220;Petition&#8221; has gone through five revisions. None of the five Amended Petitions was authorized by the Federal Rules or leave of this Court, and not one version of Hamad&#8217;s complaint states any claim for which relief can be granted under any law of the United States or the State of Texas against any defendant. The Court dismissed Hamad&#8217;s complaint with prejudice in its second incarnation in an Order dated June 26, 2006. Nevertheless, Hamad has continued to file Amended Petitions presenting claims for relief identical to the ones dismissed in the Second Amended Petition. Each Amended Petition merely drags yet another group of defendants into the same unintelligible morass of vitriolic accusations for which no basis in law has ever been established. Moreover, Hamad continues to name dismissed parties as defendants in his repetitive pleadings.</p></blockquote>
<p>The next fourteen months saw several more rounds of the same: Hamad appealing and all the judges turning down every aspect of every effort of his, culminating with a March 12, 2008, judgment by the 5<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals slamming Hamad for his &#8220;ten year history of filing frivolous suits in this court.&#8221; The appeals court upped the award to me to $32,944.50 in attorney&#8217;s fees.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/_court_dismisses_frivolous_case_against_ngo_monitor_">Gerald Steinberg</a> of NGO Monitor noted, Hamad&#8217;s lawsuit &#8220;was a clear attempt to use the courts and intimidation to prevent independent analysis and exposure of the incitement by anti-Israel NGOs.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>The Search</strong></p>
<p>By early 2008, however, Hamad had other and larger concerns on his mind. Two weeks before, on February 27, 2008, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service had jointly raided his house. <a href="http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2010/04/13/exclusive-radical-awakening-from-america-hater-to-hero/">Brandon Darby</a>, a former leftist, anti-Zionist, and longtime friend of Hamad who now works for <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/05/29/brandon-darby-moves-from-radical-leftist-to-conservative-activist/">conservative causes</a> and on behalf of Israel, has <a href="http://biggovernment.com/bdarby/2012/01/12/thoughts-from-a-former-leftist-revolutionary-a-day-at-the-national-holocaust-museum-and-memorial/">explained</a> how this raid came to pass:</p>
<p>Darby, who had helped Hamad raise money and recruit &#8220;human shields&#8221; against the Israel Defense Forces and himself almost went to the Palestinian territories for that purpose, wanted to create a group, to be called Critical Response, to send medics into war zones such as Lebanon and Darfur to help civilians. Hamad liked this idea, regaling Darby with plans to use the cover of medics to place explosives on motorcycles and booby-trap ambulances in Israel to kill Jews. Hamad also devised a plan using the PCWF to send money to Hamas and Hezbollah. Darby recounted at Breitbart.com:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hamad had approached me and shared that he had been able to skim off money [from PCWF] that he intended sneak to Palestinian comrades in Israel. I asked him why he needed to sneak anything when he was able to send funds legally. He responded with a detailed analysis of all the ways suicide bombers could get through checkpoints and achieve their goals. I declined and he told me that I had fallen back into my white privilege, but would come back to the revolution soon.</p></blockquote>
<p>This talk of violence, Darby reports, caused him to rethink his relationship with Hamad. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t sleep and I debated within myself if I should go to the FBI.&#8221; Learning from another left-wing activist about Hamad&#8217;s plans to set up &#8220;a fake business to help Hamad funnel money for Palestinians&#8221; then nudged Darby to confront Hamad. The two met for coffee. On hearing of Darby&#8217;s disapproval, &#8220;Hamad responded by saying it would be good for white people to get caught in the war on terror and that people would limit what the government could do if the war on terror had whites in Guantanamo instead of just Arabs.&#8221;</p>
<p>This settled matters. Darby agonizing over his past actions – &#8220;wondering if my previous support and efforts for the Palestinian Children&#8217;s Welfare Fund meant I had blood on my hands&#8221; – and resolved to stop Hamad. &#8220;I ended up meeting with the FBI. They were kind and gracious. Hamad and the Palestinian Children&#8217;s Welfare Fund were raided.&#8221;</p>
<p>The search warrant focused on fraud, not terrorism, as indicated by the supporting financial affidavit:</p>
<blockquote><p>RIAD ELSOLH HAMAD failed to file his federal income tax returns for the years 1999 through 2003 and 2005, evaded payment of his federal income taxes for the years 1999 through 2006, and is engaged in preparing false documents used to obtain federally subsidized loan from various University of Texas campuses. The affidavit will show that HAMAD earned taxable income from the Austin Independent School District (AISD). HAMAD also runs/operates the Palestinian Children&#8217;s Welfare Fund (PCWF) which he claims raises money for the children of Palestine. HAMAD sends large amounts of money to the Middle East and/or to charities that forward the funds to the Middle East. The disposition of these funds is unknown at this time, A large amount of these &#8220;donated&#8221; funds have also been traced into various stock accounts controlled by Riad Hamad and/or his son Abdullah Hamad.</p></blockquote>
<p>An investigator with the <a href="http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=print&amp;sid=1222">Internal Revenue Service</a> put the last part more bluntly: &#8220;Riad Hamad, with the assistance of his son, Abdullah Hamad, his ex-wife, Diana Hamad, and his daughter, Rita Hamad, are using the &#8216;donated funds&#8217; for personal use and not paying federal income taxes on these funds.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lacking a news account, here is <a href="http://progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&amp;forum=222&amp;topic_id=1438">how Hamad himself reported</a> the raid on his house: a dozen federal agents, armed with a search warrant based on probable cause to investigate wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering, &#8220;searched every nook and cranny&#8221; of his apartment and took away &#8220;more than forty boxes of papers, files, computers and CDs.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>The Suicide</strong></p>
<p>After the raid, Darby recounts,</p>
<blockquote><p>I heard from Hamad one last time. He called me and said it was &#8220;just a matter of time.&#8221; I asked what he meant. He told me of the raids and said they had taken all of his documents, and that I would know soon. He said he had to go and he did. His body was found in Austin, TX in Lady Bird Lake a few days later. He apparently chose not to face the consequences of his actions.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even in death, Hamad perpetuated a fraud. First, he <a href="http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/04/18/a_friend_brother_comrade_has_either_comm">wrote a letter</a> to his circle, creating the premise for violence against him (all spellings and ellipses exactly as in the original):</p>
<blockquote><p>besides the government harassment, the hateful environment from some students at school because I am an Arab and a Muslim&#8230;and their racist comments, I have been getting phone calls around midnight by some one saying &#8220;where is your camel..&#8221; and last&#8230;a car was vandalized about two years ago&#8230;.last night around 1 30 in the morning..someone rang the bell and ran away&#8230;.and you could hear all the dogs in the neighborhood barking when the person who rang the bell ran away&#8230;A real loving environment towards Arabs and Muslims&#8230;.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Reflecting back on his lawsuit, one sees the source of his fantasies about harassment, hateful environment, and racism.)</p>
<p>Second, evidence suggests that Hamad staged his death to make it appear that he wanted the honor of being murdered when in fact he checked out on his own. Based in part on the <a>autopsy</a>, a <a href="http://home.kxan.com/news_PDFs/4.17.08APD-hammad.pdf">police statement</a> asserted:</p>
<blockquote><p>When the body was removed from the lake, tape was found around the eyes, and the hands and legs were loosely bound. The bindings of his hands and legs and placement of the tape were consistent with Hamad having done this to himself. Detectives know that Hamad walked from his vehicle to the water on his own based on evidence retrieved from the scene.</p>
<p>At this time, the Austin Police Department does not suspect foul play was involved. Witnesses and family members have confirmed with police that Hamad had extreme stressors in his life. This incident is still an ongoing investigation, but all signs indicate this may have been a suicide. According to the preliminary results from the Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office there were no signs of trauma to the body or signs of a struggle.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even <a>Paul Larudee</a>, Hamad&#8217;s colleague and the last known person to speak to Hamad before his death, says that Hamad &#8220;did take his own life but he took it with a view of fueling the speculation that has in fact accompanied his death.&#8221; Translation: He wanted it to appear like a hit job. Despite his skepticism about Hamad&#8217;s demise, <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2008-05-09/621848/">Larudee insists</a> &#8220;I still think he was a hero.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>The Conspiracy Theory</strong></p>
<p>Palestinian extremists, Islamists, leftists, and assorted conspiracy theorists accepted Hamad&#8217;s fakery. According to <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7989635686215905989">Ibrahim Dremali</a> of the Islamic Center of Greater Austin, who says after an autopsy he washed Hamad&#8217;s body, which was &#8220;cut all from the right shoulder all the way to the stomach, and from the left shoulder all the way to the stomach again, and from the stomach all the way to the bladder, … from all the back of his skull is completely cut, is empty completely, empty. … His wrists were all slit open and cut. … His eyes actually dropped all the way down. … It is a barbaric act. … Like somebody is eating the body. … This is a message for all Muslims.&#8221; Dremali said it appeared as &#8220;something in the jungle, an animal attacking another animal.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infowars.com/?p=1582&amp;cp=2">Kurt Nimmo</a>, a prominent conspiracy theorist, asked &#8220;Is it possible a neocon hit team or as likely a Mossad &#8216;bayonet&#8217; team took out the school teacher Riad Hamad?&#8221; Radio host Alex Jones and others spoke ominously of Israeli hit teams surveilling Hamad&#8217;s house. <a href="http://pastebin.com/EF4UFMMh">Some</a> even accused &#8220;sociopathic FBI informant Brandon Darby&#8221; of killing Hamad. A Twitter site (riad_hamad) keeps these theories alive almost five years later.</p>
<p>In contrast to these lurid accounts, the Travis Country medical examiner, David Dolinak, who inspected Hamad&#8217;s body on the morning of April 17, found nothing alarming. Quite contrary to Dremali&#8217;s description of the body being variously cut up, the <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/rr/hamad-autopsy.pdf">medical examiner</a> reporter found little to report:</p>
<blockquote><p>IDENTIFYING MARKS AND SCARS:</p>
<p>A 10 inch vertical scar is in the lateral aspect of the right thigh. There are no tattoos.</p>
<p>EVIDENCE OF THERAPY [meaning needle puncture marks, surgical stitches, etc.]</p>
<p>None.</p>
<p>EVIDENCE OF INJURY:</p>
<p>None. …</p>
<p>BODY CAVITIES:</p>
<p>The organs are normally developed and are in their normal locations. The diaphragms are intact. There is no fluid accumulation in the pleural cavities or the pericardial sac. There is no fluid accumulation in the peritoneal cavity. There are no pleural adhesions or abdominal adhesions.</p>
<p>HEAD:</p>
<p>There is no subscalp blood extravasation. The calvarium is intact. The dura is intact. There is no epidural or subdural blood. …</p>
<p>MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM:</p>
<p>No fractures of the clavicles, sternum, ribs, vertebrae, pelvis or extremities are detected.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dolinak concluded that he saw &#8220;No evidence of traumatic injury,&#8221; that Hamad &#8220;died as the result of drowning.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>Hamad died as he lived, in a miasma of hate and duplicity. Darby informs me that &#8220;Riad publicly claimed to be a Christian but when he died it became evident that he had been lying and was actually a Muslim.&#8221; We, the victims of his lurid and manic lawsuits never saw a dime of the money he owed us. His embezzlement and skipping on taxes having caught up with him, he perpetrated his final and grandest fraud – a pretend-murder. Not surprisingly, his venomous Palestine Children&#8217;s Welfare Fund is now defunct, reduced to a homepage plaintively stating that &#8220;PCWF website coming again soon to carry on some of the great work of Riad Hamad.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_163663" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/daniel-pipes/a-palestinian-in-texas/attachment/1946/" rel="attachment wp-att-163663"><img class="size-medium wp-image-163663" title="1946" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1946-450x71.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="71" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Palestine Children&#8217;s Welfare Fund&#8217;s defunct website.</p></div>
<p>Some observations about Hamad: First, the lofty praise for this wretch would make one think him a decent man, pointing to how political sympathy creates blinders. Second, even as he lived in the civilized quiet of Austin, Texas, Hamad contaminated his adopted home by importing political nihilism from the Middle East. Third, I may be out nearly $33,000 in court costs, but it was not all lost; Hamad&#8217;s legal assault inspired me to expose this malign excrescence of anti-Zionism. Finally, if one truly is judged by the quality of one&#8217;s opponents, we who defend Israel are thriving.</p>
<p>Most Muslim immigrants are law-abiding and constructive citizens in the West. But Hamad&#8217;s case fits into a persistent pattern of immigrants who bring with them the bad habits imbued by the tyrannical politics and radical ideologies. Combining Islamic supremacism with nihilist disdain, they despise all that is non-Muslim, import a mélange of extremist ideas, and feel free of moral constraints. Consequently, they engage disproportionately in antisocial behavior, criminal activities, and terrorism. Reluctantly, I concluded <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/1009/the-enemy-within-and-the-need-for-profiling">almost a decade ago</a> that &#8220;Muslim visitors and immigrants must undergo additional background checks.&#8221; I reiterate this now, lest more Riad Hamads be allowed in.</p>
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		<title>Fight the Terrorists, Not the Bombs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obsessing over al-Qaeda's inventive new bombs gets us no closer to winning the War on Terror]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/baj10107140919_ms.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-132108" title="baj10107140919_ms" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/baj10107140919_ms.gif" alt="" width="375" height="251" /></a>Good news for those of you who enjoy taking your shoes off in airports. Al-Qaeda&#8217;s chief bombmaker, a cheerful fellow named Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who sent his younger brother off on a suicide bombing mission with a bomb up his rectum, has been working on turning everything into a bomb. Cameras, printer cartridges and even pets.</p>
<p>The good news is that al-Asiri isn&#8217;t very good at it. His bomb did a good job of killing his brother, but not much else. The original underwear bomb worn by the Christmas bomber didn&#8217;t work out. The bad news is that with enough cannon fodder and enough attempts, sooner or later al-Asri or another college dropout will get it right. But even if he doesn&#8217;t, the force multiplier of the threat alone will do the job.</p>
<p>All it took was one shoe bomber to get us to take off our shoes. A failed plan to blow up airliners with liquid explosives led to the liquid ban. In the age of underwear bombs we have naked scanners. What is going to happen when the next plot involves explosives surgically implanted in the human body or in a pet?</p>
<p>A bomb anywhere is a bomb everywhere. When the bombs are everywhere, then so are the security measures taken against them until life is one big bomb and one giant security measure.</p>
<p>We may sooner or later hunt down al-Asiri and blow him away, but taking out a twenty-something graduate of a Saudi university after a long manhunt at a cost of countless millions of dollars will not be some grand achievement. There are plenty of Saudi, Kuwaiti and Pakistani chemistry students who can step into his exploding shoes.</p>
<p>We are not fighting a war against toothpaste, shoes or underwear. Nor against bombs. Bombs after all don&#8217;t make themselves or detonate themselves. That&#8217;s what people are for and until we come to grips with the people making and detonating the bombs, then we will go on living in a world of bombs, where every item, no matter how innocuous, is treated as a potential explosive device, and every person in line as a potential explosive weapon.</p>
<p>The formula for fighting a War on Terror without defining a vector for that terror has led to a state of terror, in which everyone is either terrified or terrorized. The official word is that anyone and everyone can be a terrorist, and even though they all seem to be Muslim, the official position is that this is a complete coincidence, a misunderstanding of the religion of peace or a result of our foreign policy.</p>
<p>To believe any of these things is to also believe that history is bunk. Al-Asiri&#8217;s last name indicates that he comes from the Asir province, the heartland of fanaticism in Saudi Arabia. Asir means &#8220;difficult&#8221; in Arabic. Six of the 9/11 hijackers came from Asir and Bin Laden praised its tribes as &#8220;forming the lion&#8217;s share.&#8221; Asir had been a source of violence and Islamic fanaticism long before American foreign policy mattered to anyone outside the hemisphere. The Asiri Wahhabis had fought the Ottoman Empire in Asir going back to the early 1800s and then they fought the House of Saud. With global access, Asiris are able to extend their wars deep into our territory. To launch attacks well beyond their desert home.</p>
<p>The sword has given way to the bomb, though it is still used occasionally on hostages, and by importing Islam we have imported the way of the sword and the rule of the bomb. When the followers of the sword take the plane, then sooner or later they will bomb the plane or use the plane as a guided missile. There is no avoiding that.</p>
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		<title>Forcing Women to Marry Their Rapists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young Moroccan girl left with no alternative but to take her own life to avoid this fate. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/99461_620.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-126084" title="99461_620" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/99461_620.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>While American progressives remain in high dudgeon over a woman&#8217;s &#8220;right&#8221; to &#8220;free&#8221; government-provided contraception, a genuine woman&#8217;s rights issue has been unfolding in Morocco. In Larache, near the city of Tangiers, 16-year-old Amina Filali <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/15/suicide-moroccan-girl-16-forced-to-marry-rapist-sparks-outrage/">committed suicide</a> after she was forced by a judge to marry. Whom did the judge force her to marry? Her <em>rapist.</em> &#8220;The prosecutor advised my daughter to marry, he said &#8216;go and make the marriage contract,&#8217;&#8221; said Lahcen Filali, the girl&#8217;s father. Thus, once again the wonders of Sharia-based jurisprudence are revealed.</p>
<p>This outrage is actually codified. Article 475 of the Moroccan penal code <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/morocco/9146082/Moroccan-teenagers-suicide-after-she-was-forced-to-marry-her-rapist.html">states</a> that a rapist may be exonerated of his crime if he marries his victim. In Morocco, rape is punishable by five to ten years in prison, but the sentence doubles to ten to twenty years if the victim is a minor. The law is designed to protect the honor of the family, which is considered stained when a woman loses her virginity prior to getting married. Marrying one&#8217;s rapist simultaneously &#8220;restores&#8221; that honor and exonerates the rapist of his crime.</p>
<p>Incredibly, the 26-year-old attacker initially refused to marry his victim, and only relented when faced with prosecution. Perhaps his reluctance was bolstered by the reality that, in many cases of reported sexual misconduct, Moroccan law puts the burden of proof on the victim. If a woman can&#8217;t prove she was attacked, she risks being prosecuted for debauchery.</p>
<p>Apparently Amina Filali, raped a year earlier at the age of 15, couldn&#8217;t cope with such &#8220;reasonableness.&#8221; On March 10th, she swallowed rat poison to escape her court-mandated fate. According to local media reports, the girl had complained to her mother that her husband/rapist &#8220;beat her repeatedly&#8221; during the five months they were married. It was further reported that her own family disowned her as a result of those complaints. As for the girl&#8217;s husband, witnesses told the media he became so outraged upon discovering she drank poison, that he dragged her down the street by her hair. She died shortly afterward.</p>
<p>Thankfully, this travesty has sparked outrage. Activists in Morocco have set up a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/188082354639954/">Facebook</a> group called &#8220;We are all Amina Filali.&#8221; It has almost 2,200 members. A <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/urge-morocco-to-create-amina-s-law-and-get-rid-of-article-475-that-protects-rapists">petition</a> has garnered more than 1,000 signatures, and a Twitter account was established using the hashtag #RIPAmina. Twitter contributer and women&#8217;s rights activist Abadila Maaelaynine encapsulated the essence of the protest. &#8220;Amina, 16, was triply violated, by her rapist, by tradition, and by Article 475 of the Moroccan law,&#8221; she wrote.</p>
<p>Abdelaziz Nouaydi, who runs the Adala Assocation for legal reform, explained that a judge can recommend marriage only in the case of agreement by the victim and both families. &#8220;It is not something that happens a great deal&#8211;it is very rare,&#8221; he said. But he also offered a cultural reality check, noting that the victim and/or her family will acquiesce to such an arrangement out of fear a woman will never be able to find a husband if it becomes known that she was raped.</p>
<p>Fouzia Assouli, president of Democratic League for Women&#8217;s Rights, countered that such arrangements are &#8220;a recurring phenomenon,&#8221; which is why activists have demanded a repeal of Article 475, a law that &#8220;allows the rapist to escape justice.&#8221; She further notes the peculiar aspects of such laws. &#8220;In Morocco, the law protects public morality but not the individual,&#8221; she contended, adding that legislation outlawing all forms of violence against women, including rape within marriage, has been stuck in legal limbo since 2006.</p>
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		<title>Jihad’s Child Suicide Bombers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 04:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frank Crimi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Taliban’s spring offensive begins with the suicide bombing of a 12-year-old boy. ]]></description>
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<p>Despite the Taliban’s denial that it uses children as human explosives, its spring offensive began with a suicide bombing by a 12-year-old boy. The attack is just one more sign that the militant group and its terrorist allies are increasing their efforts to recruit, train and utilize child suicide bombers.</p>
<p>The young terrorist’s suicide <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110501/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan">blast</a>, which killed four Afghan civilians and wounded twelve in the Afghan province of Paktika, was roundly <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110501/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan">condemned</a> by Afghan President Hamid Karzai as “inhumane and against all Islamic principles.”</p>
<p>Yet, it was one of two such suicide <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-05/07/c_13863924.htm">attacks</a> carried out by child bombers in eastern Afghanistan over the past several weeks, attacks that killed over 15 people. Soon after those assaults, Afghan authorities showed off five captured would-be suicide bombers &#8211;all under the age of 13 &#8212; trained by Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan.</p>
<p>As one Afghan intelligence official <a href="http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE7461A420110507">said</a>, “They have been told that infidels are in Afghanistan … and they have been encouraged to go for Jihad.” In a disturbing <a href="http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE7461A420110507">twist</a>, one of the captured bombers thought he would survive the attack when he was told by his instructors that “the (infidels) will be killed and you will live.”</p>
<p>For its part, the Taliban <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/08/us-afghanistan-taliban-beards-idUSTRE7470R820110508">denied</a> using children as human explosives, saying they do not use “beardless” or underage boys in their militant operations. According to a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/08/us-afghanistan-taliban-beards-idUSTRE7470R820110508">statement</a> released by the terror group, “Those who haven&#8217;t grown a beard due to being underage are prohibited to spend time with the mujahedeen in residential and military centers.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately for the Taliban, that statement contradicts its past <a href="http;/centralasiaonline.com/cocoon/caii/xhtml/en_GB/features/caii/features/pakistan/main/2011/04/11/feature-02">claims</a> to have trained anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand juveniles as suicide bombers. In fact, the Afghan government places the figure of trained child suicide terrorists closer to 5,000.</p>
<p>While the number of suicide bombers can range from as little as age seven to over forty, most suicide bombers are under the age of 18. Sadly, the recruitment and training of these children is not only extensive and well organized, but <a href="http://jafrianews.com/2011/02/09/us-strategy-to-fuel-the-taliban-with-suicide-bombers/">growing</a>.</p>
<p>To that end, suicide training factories have sprouted up all over the Afghan-Pakistan border, with most located in the Pakistani province of Waziristan. There, it’s been <a href="http://www.indiandefencereview.com/geopolitics/Waziristan-Fedayeen-e-Islam-Training-1000-suicide-bombers.html">estimated</a> that the Fedayeen-e-Islam have trained over 1,000 suicide bombers at three facilities. More disturbingly, many suicide training centers have been designated into junior and senior camps.</p>
<p>The Pakistani army <a href="http://al-shorfa.com/cocoon/meii/xhtml/en_GB/features/meii/features/main/2011/04/23/feature-01">found</a> one such junior camp, equipped with computers, video equipment and literature, where children as young as age 10, according to one army officer, “knew about the planting of explosives, making and wearing and detonating suicide jackets.”</p>
<p>The increased demand for child bombers comes as the Taliban have focused its efforts on attacking an expanding list of civilian targets, sites which include schools, mosques, markets, government offices and other public places.</p>
<p>Tragically, the <a href="http://outernationalist.net/?p=2157">results</a> have been all too effective. In the month of February alone, Afghanistan saw suicide bombings in the capital of Kabul that killed 10 civilians; an attack in Khost that killed nine; an attack in Kandahar that killed 18; an attack in Jalalabad that killed 40; and an attack in Kunduz that killed 28.</p>
<p>To some, the emphasis on suicide bombings is seen as a sign of the terror group’s desperation. <a href="http://surgar.net/english/-news-pg-Special-reports-From-Surgar-Inn-651.html">According</a> to one Afghan army commander, the Taliban and its terrorist allies have “no ability to conduct large scale operations anywhere, so he has switched tactics.” As district leader Hamdullah Nazak, a reported survivor of 11 attempts on his life <a href="http://surgar.net/english/-news-pg-Special-reports-From-Surgar-Inn-651.html">said</a>, “Of course. It’s the only way for the Taliban now.”</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sinking of a South Korean ship is just the latest of North Korea's provocations.
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<p>South Korea has <a href="http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20100425/808/tnl-close-range-external-explosion-cause.html">concluded</a> that a close-range external explosion, most likely from a torpedo, is responsible for the sinking of its ship on March 26, killing at least 40 of their sailors. North   Korea has denied responsibility, but it is just another provocation by the Kim Jong-Il regime that is focused on starting a major crisis.</p>
<p>South Korean military-intelligence has written a <a href="http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2919620">report</a> that says it is “certain” that the North Koreans were involved in the attack. In a sign that better intelligence is being collected on the North than is often assumed, the Defense Intelligence Command sent a report to the navy in the weeks prior to the attack warning that the North was going to use small suicide submarines in an attack.</p>
<p>In this scenario, a midget submarine would have gotten close to the target and launched the torpedo, destroying itself and the <em>Cheonan</em>, or the submarine would destroy itself after the initial attack in order to kill the ship’s crew as they tried to escape. The latter scenario is less likely because there are no reports of two explosions. It is also possible that the attacking submarine did not destroy itself. Further excavation to try to find remnants of a suicide submarine could shed light on what exactly happened.</p>
<p>The South believes that North Korea launched the attack in retaliation for its defeat in a naval clash back in November. Defectors <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/7619087/South-Korean-ship-sunk-by-crack-squad-of-human-torpedoes.html">claim</a> that Kim Jong-Il hatched the plot himself and 13 commandos were involved. One says he was told by a North Korean military officer that Kim Jong-Il personally visited a naval base in February where he called for an act of retaliation.</p>
<p>The exact submarine involved may have already been pinpointed. The chairman of the National Assembly’s Defense Committee <a href="http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/04/06/2010040600350.html">says</a> that the location of one of North Korea’s Shark-class submarines on the day of the attack remains a mystery. Originally, the U.S. and South Korea downplayed suggestions of the North’s involvement, pointing to the fact that the <em>Cheonan</em> did not detect a torpedo, but North Korea does have acoustic torpedoes that can defeat a ship’s radar.</p>
<p>The reasoning behind the attack is greater than revenge. North   Korea periodically provokes crises as part of its attempts to hold the regime together and gain international attention and concessions. Kim Jong-Il’s declining health and the <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-kim-jong-il-fearful-of-an-uprising/">decreasing grip</a> on the population makes the creation of a crisis all the more vital for the regime, but it has a few cards left to play.</p>
<p>Jon Herskovitz of <em>Reuters</em> <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/TOE62E044.htm">predicted</a> this upping of the ante on March 17, writing that “he [Kim Jong-Il] lacks a game-changing ace to play that would seriously rattle the international community or spook markets long used to his grandstanding. Unless he is prepared to sail dangerously close to provoking a suicidal war.” Attacking a South Korean warship as an act of retaliation for recent “aggression” fits perfectly in this scenario as it is a tactic not previously used but is unlikely to provoke a war that would threaten the regime.</p>
<p>Other actions taken recently by North Korea clearly show that the attack on the <em>Cheonan</em> is part of a systematic attempt to raise tension and take center stage. On April 4, the regime claimed that South Korean soldiers had crossed the border and opened fire. Last week, two North Korean agents were <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/22/AR2010042203090.html">arrested</a> in South   Korea before they could murder a high-level defector living there.</p>
<p>On April 23, North Korea <a href="http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2919620">announced</a> that it was going to seize five properties owned by South Korea at the Mt. Kumgang resort jointly operated by the two countries. The dispute over the resort began in 2008 when the South stopped offering tours after a tourist was killed by one of the North’s soldiers. At the same time, it’s being <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iURO8fOyWVOA0ytFlaAGuC9F7R9wD9F7KLI01">reported</a> that North   Korea is preparing to carry out its third test of a nuclear weapon in the next two months, just in time for the South’s regional elections in June. The South claims there is no intelligence to verify the report, however.</p>
<p>South Korea and the U.S. are now in a tricky spot. The U.S. can and should place North   Korea back on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. The training and deployment of suicide bombers and assassins clearly is an act of terrorism, even if North   Korea isn’t Islamic. North Korea’s support for Hezbollah also makes it a state sponsor.</p>
<p>South Korea has said they will retaliate by acting through the international community, presumably by going to the United Nations. Further sanctions are unlikely. A U.N. demand that the North pay a certain amount of money is possible, but is hardly the type of punishment that will satisfy the South Koreans’ demand for retribution.</p>
<p>Aggressive action will be demanded by the voters who go to the ballot boxes in June, but such limited action seems to be what Kim Jong-Il wants. A response that escalates the situation but doesn’t really hurt the regime will only encourage North Korea to continue to use this tactic, yet ignoring them will only make them try even harder to create a crisis. It seems that, no matter what the West does, North Korea will inevitably keep trying to one-up its previous provocation. As long as Kim Jong-Il or one of his sons rule, this will be the pattern of behavior.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Nancy Kobrin explains how a culture that forces males to be terrified of females leads them to murder and suicide.]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dr. Nancy Kobrin, a psychoanalyst with a Ph.D. in romance and semitic languages, specializing in Aljamía and Old Spanish in Arabic script. She is an expert on the Minnesota Somali diaspora and a graduate of the Human Terrain System program at Leavenworth  Kansas. Her new book is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Banality-Suicide-Terrorism-Psychology-Islamic/dp/1597975044" target="_blank"><em>The Banality of Suicide Terrorism: The Naked Truth About the Psychology of Islamic Suicide Bombing.</em></a></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Nancy Kobrin, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Congratulations on your book. Tell us about its significance and what makes it different from all other books on suicide terrorism to date.</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin: </strong>Thank you so much Jamie. I must say how indebted I am to you and the entire staff at Frongpagemag.com because you provided the opportunity and invaluable space to discuss and debate my theory for the suicide attack with other colleagues. If it hadn’t been here at Frontpage, I wonder if this book would have ever been written. My thanks and gratitude to you all.</p>
<p>This is a psychological study and its significance is that it is the first to address early childhood development and its crucial role that it plays in suicide terrorism with regard to the psychology of extremism and gender – specifically with the emphasis on the devalued female in Arab Muslim shame honor cultures which have developed suicide terrorism. This is not to blame the female or the mother but to understand the power and control of her and its devastating consequences.</p>
<p>To the best of my knowledge and to date, I know of no other book or theory, which has made the link between the horrific abuse of the female and its ramifications with regard to murder-suicide, her split-off body parts and the alleged honor killing. I hasten to add that we are only at the beginning of understanding the phenomenon and we are in the model T stage of integrating a more in-depth or shall we say psychodynamic approach to the knowledge that we have about terrorism.</p>
<p>Because I understand non-verbal communication and ninety-five percent of what we communicate is nonverbal, the focus of the book is primarily on the nonverbal predatory behavior of these terrorists by looking at the imagery.</p>
<p>It is understandable that we tend to stress the terrible nature of the incitement of the ideologies of Jihad and violence, which are indeed extremely important. However, by over focusing on its “verbiage”, this tends to obscure an already confusing and terrorizing picture. The ideologies act like a girdle, which harnesses the pre-existing rage of a fragile abused child grown into a “time-bomb” of a personality. I’ll give an example later in the interview when I address the issue of the female suicide bomber, how we can easily miss a “hidden communication” in this terrorism, precisely because it is so deeply terrorizing.</p>
<p>This is why people are always mystified by the “nice guy or gal jihadi next door.” The mask of “peace” is so well developed, giving perfect cover for a rageful personality. It hides the embroiled rage and it is so terrorizing that “We just don’t want to go there. . .” This is also why Islam can present itself as a religion of peace when it is a religion of <em>two pieces</em> – Jihad and Peace – two sides of a coin. If we are going to be effective in filleting the phenomenon of Islamic suicide terrorism, it is imperative that the imagery be taken into consideration and factored in with the ideologies. When read together, then other questions can be raised concerning the psychological function of religious and cultural practices.</p>
<p>How did I come to this realization? I recall the first psychiatric child patient that I ever had to interview. It was on a locked ward and I was tasked to establish a rapport with a five year old boy who was hospitalized for setting fires &#8212; immolation.  I was told to talk with him and engage him through a game of checkers. No sooner did we sit down that he had his foot on top of mine under the table. I said to myself – OMG, alpha male dominance. I realized that he was absolutely terrified of me.</p>
<p>Terror is not to be equated with fear. It is nameless dread, non-verbal which encapsulates a complete sense of utter vulnerability, tantamount to death<em>. </em></p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> It took very long to get the book into print. How come?</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin:</strong> You know, I didn&#8217;t quite understand it at first myself but it turned out to be a valuable experience and it taught me a lot about terror. It was a humbling experience.</p>
<p>In January of 2002 I took a month sabbatical in Jerusalem. Suicide bombings became an every day occurrence. Lots of suicide bombings were going on. It was there when I came across the image of Shakespeare’s Othello who commits murder-suicide that I grasped the violent simplicity of Islamic suicide terrorism. Let us recall that Othello was a North African, a Moor and military man who married Desdemona the daughter of an Italian senator. He murders her and then commits suicide. Islamic suicide terrorism grounds itself in this kind of death though it is a hybrid of murder-suicide, serial killing by the suicide bomber proxy and a jihadi honor killing. But this is territory that few want to explore.</p>
<p>The book was sketched out in 2002. Bottom line – it was at two different publishing houses before it wound up at Potomac. I believe the two other presses were too “freaked out” to publish it because of the function of terror, especially the terror of retaliation, being targeted. Again, people have a very poor understanding of terror. The terrors run so deep that we tend to be dissociated from them. Most of us live in denial, busy with our daily lives. It is too terrifying to recognize the impending death threat of power and control, so we disengage. It is also too terrifying to tap into this primitive unexplored territory (i.e., the unconscious motivations behind terrorism).</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What is your background? What influenced you to come up with your ideas about suicide terrorism?</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin: </strong> I have always followed my passion and my studies evolved. I did a doctorate in comparative literature, romance and semitic languages. I am dyslexic so I came to be fascinated with verbal and nonverbal language very early.</p>
<p>While writing my dissertation, I wound up on a training analyst’s couch; this is when it all came to life. I discovered a new world in depth but fascinating in its valuing the simplicity of explanation. I found the analytic experience extremely helpful and interesting.  I became very interested in trauma.</p>
<p>I was following all the research coming out of Israel concerning the victims of terrorism and it dawned on me that I needed to understand the mind of the perpetrator. So I started studying this on my own after the truck bombs went off in Lebanon in the early 1980s. I then realized that it had to be looked at functionally &#8211; victim-perpetrator together as a kind of unhealthy bonding. The terrorists do not have a sense of intimacy &#8212; they bond by maintaining a connection to those they murder and over whom they take control.</p>
<p>The summer before 9/11 Dr. Joan Lachkar invited me to participate in a seminar on suicide terrorism in Los Angeles. She wrote a very important dissertation on the narratives/fantasies in the Bible and the Quran. I also had some questions, which I sent to the Interdisciplinary  Center in Counter Terrorism in Tel Aviv and the Israeli who identified Osama Bin Laden wrote me back. This fellow informally mentored me and inspired me to study the history of terrorism. He does not necessarily agree with my theory but I remain deeply indebted to him. He has practical knowledge of the “Matzav” = the situation that is unparalleled and unequalled.</p>
<p>While I was schlepping back and forth to Israel, I realized that the jihad was going on in Minnesota. We have the largest population outside of Mogadishu of Somalis in the world. I familiarized myself well with the peoples, the cultures and af-Somali, the language. I am a very practical person. I went into the community as well as the county jail and did prison interviews. So I have hands on experience right in my own back yard. I want to stress that the major of Somalis are law abiding good people who want to put food on the table, clothe their children and send them to school. However, there is an element that seeks jihad.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Talk some more about Arab culture and its views of mothers.</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin: </strong>In Arab Muslim culture you are never ever permitted to separate from your mother, ever. This means that you are glued to her and she is more important than your wife. It means that you are not permitted to establish your own sense of self, i.e. separate from her. Your wife is ultimately devalued and the upshot is that you harbor unbelievable, disavowed rage toward your mother, in essence one has no real effective father – the father is too busy with his other wives and women.</p>
<p>This creates tremendous ambivalence, on the one hand to want to bond with mother (ummi) and on the other hand at the same time remaining terrified of her, resulting in a confusing sense of identity. Perhaps this is why Muslims struggle so and are always fighting to prove their identity.  Proving their existence becomes a more pervasive force than life itself. “I’d rather die by blowing myself up than looe my identity as a Muslim brother.”</p>
<p>Counter terrorist experts are often taught that Arabs need very strong fathers because the father is absent and that is what they respond to. However, this is <em>merely the symptom of the problem</em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>– that the devalued female has been internalized by them and they can not relate to the female. They, the males, are terrorized by her and her body. The mother is larger than life, almost in a category un-to-herself. This is where the bitter paradox comes in as much as males can idealize the female, they can also feel enormously terrorized by the female body.</p>
<p>The end result of these tragic forces leave these males very confused. If we could put them on the couch we might suggest they are in desperate need of sex education. The males are not only confused, they suffer from severe deprivation ending up depriving themselves of very basic human needs. The irony is that they shame/blame everyone for depriving them but ultimately they are the real “deprivers.” So instead of love for the mother/female, the replacement becomes the destruction of her. In psychodynamic terms this is known as primitive envy. In essence the very love that is required to maintain healthy love bonds, is the very thing that makes them feel powerless and impotent so they must defend against this by becoming killers and murderers. We however pay the price. Sometimes I think of myself as the Dr. Ruth of counter-terrorism. I kid you not.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Your position on Islam?</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin: </strong>I take the same position as my colleague Ibn Warraq – I believe that there are millions upon millions of moderate Muslims but Islam itself is not moderate, especially those who identify with Sharia law.</p>
<p>Having said that – I endorse Tawfik Hamid’s position that the ummah, the world-wide Muslim community unwittingly <span style="text-decoration: underline;">and</span> wittingly engages in passive terrorism. All too often they can too easily hide behind the mask of peace and let the jihadis do the dirty work.</p>
<p>This is <em>not</em> acceptable and they need to be called on it.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Revenge and deprivation in and of themselves clearly does not explain female suicide bombers as in the recent bombings in Moscow. Tell us your views on why.</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin: </strong>Actually it is quite simple and bizarrely clever – this kind of terrorism and rage is about the prenatal mother. The male terrorists make a concrete image of the prenatal mother &#8212; the female suicide bomber who is repeatedly described by the media as if she were pregnant, symbolized by hiding the bombs under her clothing. This is a good example of a not so hidden communication per se but one that is readily missed if a person does not know well his or her own terrors from our first years of life. In some instances the female suicide bomber has actually been pregnant and in other instances, faux pregnant bellies have been made for the female suicide bomber to hide the bombs. It is a “two-fer” for the male terrorists – they get to kill off their own females while at the same time murdering us.</p>
<p>The prenatal mother is the essence of dependency needs. It is the time in life when everything is taken care of for us. While it might not be perfect, nonetheless it is a time of encapsulation where the majority of one’s needs and vulnerabilities are taken care of. Yet after the female being devalued for centuries, the female suicide bomber can find honor and respect within the twisted psychology of the male dominated terrorist group.</p>
<p>Yes, it can be reported by the media and the foiled female suicide bombers can say that they were “seeking revenge” but the complexity of the early life history of these devalued and abused females make them ripe to be brain washed which harnesses their own unconscious rage about having been manipulated and abused to turn this outward by murdering others. It is uncontrollable unleashed rage, which exceeds murder itself because body parts are created in the process as in serial killing. Simply stated it is a way of maintaining a bond with the mother of pain – a part objection connection – her dismembered body parts which are now the body parts of the targeted innocent victims.</p>
<p>The female suicide bomber merely internalizes the male rage of the female as self-hatred. She becomes victim-victimizer as my colleague Dr. Anat Berko has named her. The female suicide bomber is the most expandable of the terrorist chain. The Islamic female suicide bomber image is in stark contrast to Christianity where the prenatal mother, Mary and her post-partem motherhood with Jesus, are sacred images, venerated and cherished.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What can we do to fight to this pathology and enemy we face?</p>
<p><strong>Kobrin:</strong> We must invest in the little Muslim girl. We must help all those who live under a death threat. For brevity here I refer your readers to the last chapter of my book where I make a series of suggestions.</p>
<p>In addition to this I have recently also started to work on a conceptual dictionary of this peculiar language of the terrorists, which I call Desperanto. I hope to map out images, use of objects by terrorists and their tough talk, using open sources from journalism, etc. to show other primitive  nonverbal and verbal communications in this vein, in order to help counter terrorist experts expand their understanding should they so desire. I believe that these communications can be extracted from what we know about terrorism and from it, a language can be built which in turn can be hooked up with the ideologies. I parallel this understanding of communication to an abused child in play therapy. If a child took a car and rammed it repeatedly into the back of a truck, we would wonder if he or she had been anally raped. While it is not exactly the same and we do not have terrorists in therapy nor am I advocating that, we should still try to map out the nonverbal communications in a more systematic manner. My hunch is too that the people who work in biometrics have a good sense of this body language but alas, I have not had the opportunity to work with them. This would help us make better interventions, earlier as well as better profiling. The reason why it is so difficult to profile is that the psychopathology is very early developmentally and it takes us outside our comfort zone.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Nancy Kobrin, thank you for joining us. This is all fascinating, original and frightening stuff. Hope to talk to you again soon.</p>
<p>I encourage all our readers to order Dr. Kobrin&#8217;s new book:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Banality-Suicide-Terrorism-Psychology-Islamic/dp/1597975044" target="_blank"><em> The Banality of Suicide Terrorism: The Naked Truth About the Psychology of Islamic Suicide Bombing.</em></a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[An aerial drone's success provokes a failed suicide attack against American consulate in Pakistan. ]]></description>
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<p>If a  counter-terrorism strategy can be measured by the enemy’s reaction, then the  American military’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQ-1_Predator" target="_blank">predator drone</a> campaign can be judged an overwhelming success.</p>
<p>This was  proven this week when the Taliban staged a desperate and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/asia/06pstan.html?ref=world" target="_blank">unsuccessful suicide attack</a> against the American consulate in  Peshawar in  Pakistan’s North-West Frontier  Province.  Seeking to retaliate for losses from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire" target="_blank">Hellfire missile</a> strikes, the Taliban sent a half dozen heavily-armed fighters, disguised as  paramilitary soldiers, on a one-way mission to attack the consulate, using two  explosives-packed vehicles in a well-planned assault.</p>
<p>“Our  security forces and rapid reaction force sealed the area within five minutes and  the attackers were forced to off load and blow up their explosives 25-30 meters  from their target,” said Pakistani police chief Malim Naveed.</p>
<p>The  terrorists failed however to breach the perimeter and succeed in their goal of  killing Americans. Pakistani security personnel prevented the attackers from  entering the building, killing all six while losing three of their own number.  Two civilians also died.</p>
<p>“We  did not let them enter the consulate building and that was the biggest  achievement of the security forces,” said  Naveed.</p>
<p>Later,  the Pakistani Taliban officially claimed responsibility for the attack, saying  it was to avenge the losses they have suffered in the  US drone campaign. In another  drone-provoked revenge attack last December, a Taliban suicide bomber <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8436796.stm" target="_blank">murdered six CIA agents</a> and  injured another six inside a CIA post near Khost, Afghanistan. After this week’s assault, Taliban  spokesman Azam Tariq promised more are to  come.</p>
<p>“We  will carry out more such attacks. We will target any place there are Americans,”  said Azam.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/world/asia/05drones.html?ref=world" target="_blank">Life under the Hellfire  missile</a> has not  been a pleasant one for the Taliban and al Qaeda. A <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">New York Times journalist</a>, held prisoner for several months by the  Taliban, reported that even in the remotest areas of Pakistan’s wild tribal  regions, the terrorists constantly scan the sky where drones can often be heard  flying overhead, searching out their targets.</p>
<p>The  substantial losses they have suffered at the hands of the Hellfire missile have  angered the Taliban, provoking desperate attacks like the one this week.  Starting in 2008 with the accession of Asif Zardari to the Pakistani presidency,  about 700 al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists have been killed in drone attacks. A  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/world/asia/05drones.html?ref=world" target="_blank">New York Times</a> report states that Hellfire missiles have accounted for  90 Islamists in Pakistan’s tribal areas in the first six weeks of this year  alone.</p>
<p>Particularly painful for the two terrorist organizations,  according to military analysts, is the fact that among the dead are about two  dozen top-level leaders and 100 mid-level ones. This quantity and quality of  expertise and experience are not easily replaceable, especially the mid-level  battlefield commanders. According to one estimate, half of the senior al Qaeda  leadership has been killed or seriously wounded in the past two years.</p>
<p>This highly  successful “decapitation” campaign, as it has been called, even came close to  killing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyas_Kashmiri_%28militant%29" target="_blank">Ilyas Kashmiri</a>, the dangerous and elusive commander of al  Qaeda’s foreign terrorist operations. Kashmiri, who told a Pakistani reporter he  barely escaped a Hellfire strike, was behind <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks" target="_blank">the Mumbai atrocity</a> and is currently wanted in the  United  States for helping to plan a terrorist attack on a  Danish newspaper, in which two Chicago men were also implicated.</p>
<p>While  angry about their losses, what infuriates al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban the  most is the informants who are selling the terrorists’ whereabouts to their  American enemy. Over the years, American intelligence has succeeded in setting  up an informant network in the tribal territories. Al Qaeda and the Taliban know  that without these informers a lot of their people would still be alive and  hence have taken bloody reprisals against those they believe have sold them out.</p>
<p>But  the terrorists’ efforts to stop the drone operations with suicide attacks  against American installations and executions in the tribal areas have been in  vain. To his credit, President Obama has increased the number of Predator  strikes, realizing their effectiveness, while the Taliban suicide attacks  against Americans only seem to strengthen his resolve.</p>
<p>In  Pakistan’s tribal areas, there are tribes  and individuals hostile to al Qaeda and the Taliban. The terrorists’ brutal  treatment and killing of tribal elders and others who opposed them doubtlessly  has also created a pool of willing informers. But even minus a grudge, al Qaeda  and the Taliban would still be faced with informers, since most everything in  the murky world of terrorism is for sale.</p>
<p>The  only drawback to the drone campaign’s success is the number of civilian  casualties incurred. They are often people who were just in the wrong place at  the wrong time. But, as one observer stated, the consolation is that the drones  are eliminating terrorists who are responsible for a far greater number of  civilian deaths.</p>
<p>Two  residents of North Waziristan, a tribal area, also hold the  opinion that the drones’ elimination of the Taliban and al Qaeda, “in particular  the Arabs”, compensate for the accidental civilian deaths. They told <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/world/asia/05drones.html?ref=world" target="_blank">The  New York Times</a>: “If you look at the other guys, the Arabs and the  kidnappings and the targeted killings, I would go for the  drones.”</p>
<p>The suicide  attack on the American consulate is not an indication of Taliban resiliency,  <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7088254.ece" target="_blank">as some claim</a>, but rather a sign of the terrorist organization’s  weakness and desperation to stop the drone attacks. This small assault by six  men should be viewed as a pathetic response to a military campaign that has  killed nearly half their leadership.</p>
<p>By  selecting a high profile target like the consulate, the Taliban strategy was to  grab world headlines, if only temporarily, hoping to demonstrate it is still a  powerful force. In reality, there has been a “significant decline” in terrorist  bombings in Pakistan this year, which a Pakistani  newspaper attributes to “the US drone war and Pakistani military  operations.” This, in turn, is the best proof of the drone campaign’s worth and  success.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He was Israel&amp;apos;s most valuable spy inside Hamas &#8211; and certainly the most unlikely.</p>
<p>For more than a decade, Mosab Hassan Yousef disrupted dozens of suicide bombings and assassination attempts by the militant group, saving hundreds of lives.</p>
<p>Infiltrating the upper echelons of Hamas came relatively easy for Yousef: He is the son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef.</p>
<p>&#8220;So many people owe him their life and don&amp;apos;t even know it,&#8221; an Israeli security agent told the Israeli daily Haaretz on Wednesday.</p>
<p>&#8220;People who did a lot less were awarded the Israel Security Prize. He certainly deserves it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yousef&amp;apos;s astonishing career as a spy is chronicled in his soon-to-be released memoir, &#8220;Son of Hamas.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yousef, 32, was recruited by the Shin Bet, Israel&amp;apos;s internal security agency, in 1996 after he was arrested.</p>
<p>Inside Israel&amp;apos;s intelligence community, he became known as the Green Prince &#8211; a nod to the color of Hamas&amp;apos; flag and his pedigree as the son of one of its founders.</p>
<p>Yousef&amp;apos;s exploits are the stuff of legend.</p>
<p>He once picked out a suicide bomber in a crowded square after the Shin Bet received a vague tip.</p>
<p>About 10 years ago, in the Palestinian uprising known as the Second Intifadeh, Yousef supplied intelligence that led to the arrests of several key Palestinian leaders.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/02/25/2010-02-25_hamas_prince_who_was_spy_for_israel.html">Mosab Hassan Yousef: The Hamas prince who was spy for Israel</a>.</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All the Tea Party&#8217;s Fault</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left's haters continue their smear campaign. ]]></description>
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<p>Remember &#8220;Not Me&#8221;? He was the famous invisible cartoon gremlin in the newspaper comic strip &#8220;The Family Circus.&#8221; Whenever toys were left on the floor or other school-age disasters struck, the kids in the comic pointed their fingers at &#8220;Not Me.&#8221; Today, &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; is the juvenile left&#8217;s new &#8220;Not Me&#8221; — an all-purpose scapegoat for every crime and disaster.</p>
<p>Last Thursday, a disturbed pilot flew a small plane into an Austin, Texas, office complex that contained an Internal Revenue Service office. Several workers in the building were injured, and Joseph Andrew Stack, the pilot, was killed in the crash. Local authorities suspect he set his house on fire — from which his wife and daughter escaped — before taking off on his deadly journey. Investigators found a Web posting, identified as Stack&#8217;s &#8220;suicide manifesto,&#8221; in which he railed against tax laws, inequity, government and crony capitalism. He also targeted &#8220;puppet&#8221; George W. Bush, murderous health care insurers and the pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<p>The &#8220;manifesto&#8221; ended:</p>
<p><em> The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.</em></p>
<p><em>The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. </em></p>
<p>This nutball had deadly grudges that transcended partisan lines. But within minutes of the story breaking, a furious left-wing blogger at the popular Daily Kos website — where countless Democratic leaders have guest-posted — fumed: &#8220;Teabagger terrorist attack on IRS building.&#8221; The article immediately cast blame on the anti-tax Tea Party movement: &#8220;After months of threats on the United States government, and government institutions, the Anti-Government forces known as the teabaggers have struck with their first 911 (sic) inspired terrorist attack.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the eponymous mega-website of Arianna Huffington, a 2,000-plus comment thread was filled with allusions to &#8220;teabaggers&#8221;:</p>
<p><em> I would bet he has a membership card to teabag nation and the Glenn Beck fan club!</em></p>
<p><em>Tea bag bomb.</em></p>
<p><em>Good to see natural selection still works! Tea party Unite!</em></p>
<p><em>This guy sounds just like a teabagger.</em></p>
<p><em>Oh please. This has tea bags dripping all over it.</em></p>
<p><em>I hope teabaggers are proud!! &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>Great opening day for CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) isn&#8217;t it?? </em></p>
<p><em>This guy sounds like a Tea Partier first class! Maybe that movement is more DANGEROUS to our freedoms than they let on! Be afraid America, BE VERY AFRAID!</em></p>
<p><em>He was a Tea Party Terrorist. </em></p>
<p>In the early aftermath of the suicidal pilot&#8217;s attack, there was no evidence that Stack belonged to a Tea Party organization. In any case, no law-abiding Tea Party group would ever condone what he did. But it didn&#8217;t stop the haters from immediately smearing advocates of limited government. And it&#8217;s just the latest in a long line of calculated attempts to paint the vast majority of peaceful Tea Party activists as terrorist threats to civil society.</p>
<p>This week, absurd liberal pundits and bloggers also tried to connect the tragic University of Alabama-Huntsville murders to the Tea Party movement. No matter that the alleged killer, Amy Bishop, was an Obama-worshiping academic who repeatedly got a soft-on-crime pass. Or that Democratic Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts was the former prosecutor involved in dropping charges against Bishop in the deadly shooting of her teenage brother. Or that liberal-dominated campus officials apparently looked the other way in response to Bishop&#8217;s several red-flag flashes of violence leading up to the U of A shootings.</p>
<p>Tea Party-bashers claimed that the murders were a manifestation of racist conservative influence on the American landscape. Reuters Foundation Fellow Jonathan Curiel picked up the theme: &#8220;The &#8216;results&#8217; that the Tea Party movement envisions include less government — and less of Obama.&#8221;</p>
<p>Curiel bemoaned the rejection of a post-racial society by tying together the Alabama massacre and the rise of the Tea Party movement more explicitly. Proof of anti-Obama bigotry, he wrote, could be found in &#8220;last week&#8217;s shooting in Alabama, where a disgruntled white professor murdered three minority professors; and the growing success of the Tea Party movement, which is overwhelmingly white and increasing (sic) vocal in its violent dislike of the nation&#8217;s first black president.&#8221;</p>
<p>The same warped worldview blamed Tea Party conservatives for Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman&#8217;s insurance-scam-inspired suicide and for Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn&#8217;s rampage (despite his published rants against Fox News).</p>
<p>The smear merchants, of course, are simply following Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s advice to exploit every crisis. Pointing fingers at the Tea Party gremlin demonizes the left&#8217;s most potent political opponents. This is the blame-gamers&#8217; ultimate agenda: criminalizing dissent.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phyllis Chesler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Aafia Siddiqui learned to hate America, hate Jews, and hate Israel right here in liberal America.]]></description>
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<p>She studied at MIT and at Brandeis where she received a Ph.D in Neuroscience. Thus, she was both an educated and in some sense, a westernized woman. Both her Pakistani-born father and Pakistani husband are physicians who trained in the West, in England and America, respectively; her brother and sister are also highly trained professionals. Nevertheless, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui learned to hate America, hate Jews, and hate Israel right here in liberal America.</p>
<p>Like a small but increasing number of “westernized” Muslim women, Aafia Siddiqui joined her local mosque (in her case, the <a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/whos_afraid_of_aafia_siddiqui/">Roxbury, MA mosque</a>) and started to veil, and as she did, her ambitions became aggressively jihadic. This is not a contradiction. Obediently veiled Muslim women can be very aggressive, murderously so. They certainly police other women in savage and self-righteous ways in Iran and Indonesia. In Iraq, veiled Muslim women have <a href="http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/female-suicide-bombers-kill-47-in-iraq-fourth-lead_10077011.html">blown up other Muslim female religious pilgrims</a>. And, Muslim women who were normatively spurned by their mothers were manipulated by Samira Jassim, an attentive, “loving” Iraqi mother-figure, who carefully <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/female_suicide_bombe_1.php">turned them into suicide killers</a>.</p>
<p>Women are very aggressive—but usually towards other women. I have written about this in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1556529465/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=1560253517&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=0YH8ZZFRJ6ES9NP6JBDX">Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman</a></em>. Traditionally, women do not go up against men whom they view as their potential protectors and as more powerful than they are. Ironically, Islamic jihad wishes to reverse, upend, both Nature and human evolutionary history. Just as normatively degraded mothers are “turned” into hero-mothers who publicly praise their suicide killer sons—just so, are normatively self-hating women “turned” into Al-Qaeda heroines who not only directly attack men, but who directly attack infidel male <em>soldiers</em>.</p>
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		<title>Sexual Starvation and Jihad Fantasies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jamie Glazov provides the best psychological explanation for what drives Islamist suicide bombers like Abdulmutallab.]]></description>
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<p><strong>[This article is reprinted from <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/">The Sydney Morning Herald</a>.]</strong></p>
<p>The 23-year-old Nigerian charged with trying to detonate a bomb on a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit on Christmas Day was<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/11/why-the-rich-muslim-boy-became-a-terrorist-by-jamie-glazov/"> lonely and sexually repressed</a>, according to messages left on an Islamic website.</p>
<p>As a US Senate Homeland Security committee continued to argue this week about how to handle Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the emotional anguish in his web posts provides an insight into fanatical Islam and what drives often hapless young men to become suicide bombers. Much as we would like them to be, they are not monsters.</p>
<p>Being the son of a wealthy banker, and living in London, Abdulmutallab had no real beef with Western life, did not complain about racism or express concern for downtrodden Muslim brothers.</p>
<p>But, like the September 11 bombers, who visited strip clubs before their date with destiny, when his devout religious beliefs conflicted with his corporeal desires, he found that blowing himself up along with a whole lot of infidels was preferable to being sexually frustrated.</p>
<p>As the <em>New York Post</em> put it: &#8220;The bomb wasn&#8217;t the only thing burning in his pants.&#8221;</p>
<p>On the Islamic Forum of the Gawaher website in 2005 and 2006 were more than 300 posts by Farouk1986 &#8211; Abdulmutallab&#8217;s middle name and birth year.</p>
<p>Under the heading: &#8220;I think I feel lonely,&#8221; Farouk1986 complains he has never found &#8220;a true Muslim friend&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;As I get lonely, the natural sexual drive awakens and I struggle to control it, sometimes leading to minor sinful activities like not lowering the gaze.</p>
<p>&#8220;And this problem makes me want to get married to avoid getting aroused … but I am only 18.&#8221; In another post, he writes &#8221;the hair of a woman can easily arouse a man&#8221;.</p>
<p>He also writes of &#8220;my dilemma between liberalism and extremism … how should one put the balance right?&#8221;</p>
<p>He talks at one point about his fantasies: &#8221;The bad part of it is sometimes the fantasies are a bit worldly rather than concentrating in the hereafter.&#8221;</p>
<p>He tries instead to focus on more acceptable &#8220;jihad fantasies&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8221;I imagine how the great jihad will take place, how the Muslims will win Insha&#8217;Allah and rule the whole world, and establish the greatest empire once again!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>As the youngest of 16 children and the son of his father&#8217;s No. 2 wife, he reportedly spent most of his childhood at an English boarding school in West Africa. The trajectory to extreme violence of this gentle, pious young man who wanted so much to be good and consequential, and yet was consumed with guilt about sex, fits with much of what is known about other Islamist suicide bombers.</p>
<p>Perhaps the best psychological explanation comes from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1264299706&amp;sr=8-1-catcorr"><em>United in Hate: The Left&#8217;s Romance with Tyranny and Terror</em></a>, the recent book by Jamie Glazov, the managing editor of <em>FrontPage Magazine</em>.</p>
<p>In a chapter entitled &#8220;To Hate a Woman&#8221;, he describes in chilling detail the oppression of women in parts of the Muslim world and the &#8220;theological justification&#8221; for violence against females &#8220;from the very moment of their birth&#8221;.</p>
<p>Islamist hatred of women has &#8220;fertilised the soil in which … terrorism and the new death cult have grown&#8221;.</p>
<p>He claims there is an &#8220;Islamist war on private love [which] derives most of its energy from a deep-seated misogyny. Women&#8217;s empowerment, independence and self-determination, especially the sexual variety, pose a threat to Islamism&#8217;s very existence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Islamist misogyny, he claims, comes from Islam itself. &#8220;The notion that women are by their very nature inferior to men is the underpinning of the entire structure and derives its legitimacy from numerous traditional teachings.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is no coincidence that the Arabic word &#8220;fitna&#8221; has two meanings &#8211; beautiful woman and social chaos.</p>
<p>Glazov writes that in many Islamic societies, &#8220;women are supposed to dehumanise themselves in order to be tolerated … Women are considered to be the incarnation of shahwa [desire] which comes from the devil. In this environment the pathological notion arises that a man and a woman cannot be alone without the ominous threat of evil in their midst.</p>
<p>&#8220;The men denigrate the object of their lust so as to diminish their own shame. In this dynamic of sexual repression and misogyny, love is reduced to violent domination which becomes directly intertwined with terrorism against societies that allow women freedom, especially sexual freedom.&#8221;</p>
<p>Practices such as polygamy and repudiation &#8211; in which a man can divorce his wife by pronouncing certain words &#8211; conspire to &#8220;minimise the possibility of private love even among married couples&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Islam teaches that the sexual act is dirty and consequently surrounds it with rituals. The objective is to build a wall between the lovers themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>Polygamy, Glazov writes, has a disastrous effect on Muslim boys who grow up with &#8220;all kinds of siblings born of different women which gives them the idea that none of these women, including their own mother, was good enough to be cherished alone. The boys internalise this misogyny which leads in turn to self hate.&#8221;</p>
<p>Their psychological abandonment of their mothers is &#8220;directly connected to their urge for terror and suicide&#8221;.</p>
<p>Female genital mutilation, in which a woman&#8217;s clitoris &#8211; or entire external genital organs &#8211; is removed is an attempt to &#8220;deny women even the possibility of personal happiness and sexual satisfaction&#8221;.</p>
<p>Glazov writes of Saudi instructional TV programs about wife-beating and cites a report from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences which estimated 90 per cent of Pakistani wives had been beaten or sexually abused for offences such as cooking an unsatisfactory meal.</p>
<p>These stories are not remote from Australian concerns. The Islamic Women&#8217;s Welfare Council of Victoria, in a 2008 report, since removed from its website, concluded that some Australian Muslim religious leaders condoned rape within marriage, polygamy and domestic violence.</p>
<p>In gang rape trials, Muslim men have mounted the defence that their strict religious upbringing made them believe they could rape Australian non-Muslim girls.</p>
<p>This week, in Melbourne, an Afghan refugee is being tried for allegedly strangling his wife with her veil after complaining she was &#8220;becoming Australian&#8221;. The jury was told the victim had claimed her husband punched her and told her her only purpose was to have babies.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jew-haters condemn Israel for giving aid to Haiti.]]></description>
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<p>As most objective observers throughout the world marvel at <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2010/01/18/dnt.cohen.haiti.patients.dying.cnn.html">Israel ’s efficiency and generosity</a> in leading the medical aid efforts in Haiti , some bigots insist on using these efforts as an occasion to continue their attack on the Jewish state.  Both the neo-Nazi hard right and the neo-Stalinist hard left cannot help but to demonize Israel, regardless of what Israel does.</p>
<p>The neo-Nazi website ReportersNotebook.com features a blog entitled <em>The Zionization of Disaster Relief.</em> It accuses Israel of “exploiting the suffering of poor, defenseless Haitians on behalf of Israeli Triumphalism.”  It complains that Israel is rendering medical aid to Haiti only to deflect attention from its crimes against the Palestinians.</p>
<p>The hard left, even in a Israel , complains that Israel should not be sending medical assistance to such a faraway place.  Instead it should be sending it to nearby Gaza .</p>
<p>Even the New York Times, in an otherwise thoughtful analysis of the controversiality of the aid among some Israelis, failed to note the difference between Israel sending its limited resources to faraway Haiti and to nearby Gaza.   Haiti is not at war with Israel .   Haiti has not pledged itself to Israel ’s destruction.   Haiti has not fired 8,000 rockets at Israeli civilians.   Gaza , on the other hand, has a popularly elected government that has done and continues to do all of the above.  Moreover, there is no comparison between the tens of thousands of Haitians who have died from a natural disaster, and the people of Gaza who suffer far less from what is, essentially, a self-inflicted wound.</p>
<p>Nor do the perennial enemies of Israel emphasize the comparison between tiny and resource-poor Israel , on the one hand, and the enormous and resource-rich Arab and Muslim nations, on the other hand.  While Israel digs deeply into its treasury and manpower to send medical assistance a quarter of the way around the world, Arab and Muslim nations are generally missing in action when it comes to relief efforts.  This is true not only in Haiti , which is a Catholic nation, but it was equally true when tsunamis and other natural disasters have devastated Muslim nations.</p>
<p>For those who argue that Israel is sending this aid to Haiti for its own selfish reasons, there are two answers.  First the realpolitik answer:  All nations have interests; and all act, at least in part, out of self interest.  When the United States government is asked by Americans to justify its multibillion dollar foreign aid grants, it generally responds by arguing that these grants are serving the interests of the United States .  When it comes to Israel , however, a double standard is always applied.   Israel must act <span style="text-decoration: underline;">only</span> out of altruistic motives, while all other countries are entitled to leven altruism with self interest.  The second answer is that Israel is doing far more in Haiti than would be required to satisfy its self interests.  It is sending more aid per capita than any country in the world.  It is doing it with extraordinary efficiency and real impact.  Isn’t it at least possible that the millennia-long Jewish tradition of tzadakah—that is charity based on justice—is at least part of the explanation for Israel ’s generosity?</p>
<p>The fact that so many Israelis are advocating medical and other assistance to Gaza , certainly supports this latter theory.  Has any other country in the history of the world ever provided medical and other assistance to a people with whom it is at war—to people who continue to support rocket attacks and other forms of terrorism against its own civilians?  Again, a double standard.  The reality is that Israel will be extremely generous to the people of Gaza if and when they stop supporting attacks on Israeli civilians, stop making martyrs of their suicide murders, and stop encouraging their children to don suicide vests.  Contrast Gaza with the West Bank , which today has an improving economy, better travel conditions and among the best health care available in any Arab or Muslim country in the area.  The peace dividend the Palestinian people will reap from making peace with Israel is incalculable.</p>
<p>So continue to criticize Israel when it fails to live up to generally applicable international standards, but praise it when it exceeds those standards in rendering aid that has saved and will continue to save many lives.   Israel will continue to send disaster relief regardless of how the world reacts to it because Israelis understand how it feels to be subject to disasters.  But fairness requires that Israel not be condemned for its humanitarian efforts, and that its rendering of aid to Haiti not be used as yet another occasion for applying a double standard to its actions.</p>
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