This is from a tv show that airs on Chicago tv called Underground Railroad. I just posted about this show here. The host of the show is named Clifton Raheem Bradley. He has created at Youtube channel for the show which can be viewed HERE: Below is video of a man named Amir Ali who is the head of Institute of Islamic Information and Education which is based in Chicago. You can visit their website here: http://iiie.net/
Here is the video of him calling for America to become an Islamic country. And stating America WILL become an Islamic country. This video is dated February 24 2009.
Also here is a video of him talking about his organization.
There are entire videos of this man on the Youtube channel. When I get a chance I will watch them and post anything of importance.
UPDATE: Apparently Amir Ali died back in November. More on this here.
I just stumbled upon an interesting Youtube channel Here. Apparently this show is airing in Chicago:
See the talk show named the Underground Railroad with(interviews).The host is (Clifton Raheem Bradley)and the Host is (MR. Terry).Go to my website to see more film .The TV show comes on channel 19 in Chicago(USA) on Saturdays at 10:30pm
There is some very interesting video titles on this Youtube channel like:
The Evil of some White People and Their President
President OBAMA'S NO Punk ! Part 1 White Focks Bring it ON ( The Fight )
Suspected insurgents gunned down two brothers and burned their bodies as they rode a motorcycle to sit an exam in Pattani yesterday. The victims were identified as Hirun Sudmas, 36, an assistant village head and local defence volunteer, and his brother Arun Sudmas, 40, who worked as a janitor at a local school.
They were scheduled to take an exam at the provincial university in the morning.
A five-page leaflet was found at the scene of the killing, warning government officials not to "hurt" the local Muslim population.
Meanwhile, a local academic said statistics showed insurgency-related incidents in the Muslim-majority region were on the rise, with the brutality only getting worse.
Assoc Prof Srisompob, director of Prince of Songkhla University's Deep South Watch Centre, said the insurgency had become worse since January, in terms of both the frequency and the violence of incidents.
He said the attacks were having a psychological impact on residents, many of whom had no hope that the authorities would restore peace in the deep South and were too scared to cooperate with officials.
Just found this great article on child marriage in Saudi Arabia. Read it all. It explains that the concept of child marriage in Saudi Arabia is not just some fringe idea. Yet despite this Saudi Arabia is still considered one of our closest allies. I will never understand this.
In the nation of Saudi Arabia the despotic feudal system remains and the rights of girls, women, non-Muslims, Shia Muslims, and others, are violated by the Sunni Islamic justice system. Despite this, major nations still desire to trade with Saudi Arabia and the oil factor and geopolitical issue, appears to override human rights. So when will Saudi Arabia be challenged by the international community?
Before focusing on deeper political issues it is important to mention that laws in Saudi Arabia are based on Sharia Islamic Law and the Hadiths. Therefore, we are not talking about people on the margins of society who have no power, but who support child marriage; on the contrary, we are talking about major political leaders and Sunni Muslim religious leaders who support child marriage.
Therefore, the kingdom's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, supports child marriage and to him, and other Sunni Islamic leaders, they will site the life of Mohammed, who also married a child. Given this, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh supports young girls as young as ten years of age to get married to elderly men. He stated that "It is incorrect to say that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger."
The Grand Mufti, of course, will look to Islamic scripture and focus on the Hadiths and then regulate this within Islamic Sharia Law. So he further added that "A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she's too young are wrong and they are being unfair to her." While only last month, a Saudi Arabian judge justified the right of an 8-year-old girl to be married to a 47-year-old man. The judge, Sheikh Habib Abdallah al-Habib, refused to annul the marriage after the mother signed a petition against the marriage of her young daughter.
This problem does not only apply to Saudi Arabia because violations like this can be found in many other societies, however, the political ties between major nations and Saudi Arabia is a reality. Also, in other poorer societies the rule of law may either be weak or centralization via the state may not be enforceable. However, in Saudi Arabia, we are talking about the judicial system, leading Sunni Islamic clerics, and of course the government is turning a blind eye to this serious issue.
Today, in Saudi Arabia, and other nations like Yemen, you are seeing grass-roots organizations rising up to challenge the conservative status quo. So some moderate Sunni Muslim clerics are speaking out and the media is also highlighting these cases in order to challenge the system. Therefore, some changes are happening and these brave individuals, organizations, and clerics, need international support.
Wajeha al-Huwaider also spoke out against the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia. Wajeha al-Huwaider stated that it is essential to stand up against people who want to "keep us backward and in the dark ages." This brave individual is the co-founder of the Society of Defending Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia. Organizations like this need greater global media coverage and the same applies to economic and political support.
Change of course must come from within but outside nations, institutions, and individuals, must play their part because issues like this must not be held to ransom by any one nation or religious faith. Issues like slavery, religious persecution, child marriages, and other global issues, must come under a global charter.
Of course, it is clear that nations and societies are at different development stages but issues like child marriage and slavery can not be ignored. So nations have a collective responsibility to defend people who are not protected by national laws. This does not imply that direct confrontation is the way, but economic, political, and other pressures must be enforced and the same applies to isolation within international institutions.
What "moderate" parts? I said it once and I will say it again. Obama is the Chamberlain of our time. Thanks to Gatewaypundit for pointing this out from the New York Times:
President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was not winning the war in Afghanistan and opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out to moderate elements of the Taliban, much as it did with Sunni militias in Iraq.
I have previously wrote about radical Muslims I have found on Myspace here.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is calling upon all supporters of freedom of speech and of Israel to join in its protest against Facebook, the Internet social networking site. Facebook has allowed a group of hackers who openly support the terrorist group Hizballah to take over and destroy what was once the largest pro-Israel site on Facebook. In a blunt act of internet censorship, Facebook added insult to injury by disabling the account of that site’s creator, 14-year-old Todd Snider.
Snider established the Facebook group called “I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Support Israel,” in July 2008. By February 2009 it was Facebook’s largest pro-Israel site, with over 180,000 members.
But on February 15, 2009, Snider’s Facebook group was hacked and destroyed by a pro-Hizballah group calling itself “Lebanese Shee’a Hackers.” The hackers completely erased the original site content and replaced it with threatening, obscenity-laced pro-jihad, anti-Israel propaganda datelined Bint Jbeil, South Lebanon: “DEAR ADMINS, DON’T WASTE MY AND YOUR TIME , LEAVE THIS GROUP ITS BETTER FOR BOTH THIS IS THE LAST TIME ILL EDIT YOU INFO , NEXT TIME…”
Facebook allowed the hackers to destroy Snider’s site, answering his repeated entreaties for help with blandly evasive form letters.
And now, after the appearance on March 6 of an article about the incident in FrontPageMagazine.com (“Facebook Jihad” by Robert Spencer), Facebook has taken the additional step of disabling Snider’s account altogether, capitulating to the jihadi hackers and accusing Snider himself of “misusing” Facebook’s “features.”
Facebook’s outrageous action is not only an assault on free speech and internet freedom and a breach of its own social networking protocols, but also appeasement of a group of hackers who have invaded Facebook’s space and who openly avow their support for the jihad terrorist group Hizballah.
We therefore urge all Facebook members who oppose Islamist terror and internet censorship to contact the site administrators through the Facebook contact form, and all others to join us in protesting against Facebook’s outrageous behavior by writing to abuse@facebook.com.
David Horowitz Robert Spencer Marked Manner
I will be asking other prominent bloggers, writers, media figures, lovers of freedom, to join their names to ours in this, and will be adding them. And all bloggers who see this are welcome to post it on your own sites.
Dozens of anti-Israel activists clashed with police Saturday as they tried to storm a closed arena where Sweden and Israel were playing a Davis Cup tennis match.
The activists hurled rocks and firecrackers at police vans as they tried to break through the barricades set up to keep protesters from the arena. Hundreds of riot police pushed them back using truncheons.
There were no immediate reports of injuries. At least five people were detained, police spokesman Lars Hakan Lindholm said.
The clashes erupted after about 7,000 people gathered at a square in downtown Malmo to hear speeches condemning Israel's offensive in Gaza and urging support for Palestinians.
Organizers of the "stop the match" protest had said the demonstration would be peaceful, but extreme-left activists had vowed to disrupt the match, which is being played without fans in Malmo.
No autograph for you. Oh the joys of living under Islamic Law.
(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia's religious police detained two male novelists for questioning last week after they attempted to get the autograph of a female writer at a book fair in Riyadh, according to local media reports.
According to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan, Abdu Khal and Abdullah Thabet approached female writer Halima Muzfar when they were stopped by police.
Both novelists, who were held for questioning but not charged with a crime, are demanding an apology from the conservative Muslim kingdom's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
The commission, feared by many Saudis, is made up of several thousand religious policemen charged with, among other things, enforcement of dress codes, mandatory observance of prayer times and segregation of the sexes.
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism and punishes unrelated men and women who are caught mingling in public.
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz announced in February a major Cabinet reshuffling in which many hardline conservatives, including the head of the commission, were dismissed and replaced with younger, more moderate members.
The new appointments represented the largest shakeup since King Abdullah took power in 2005, and were welcomed in Saudi Arabia as progressive moves on the part of the king, who is seen by many as a reformer.
One of the writers, Khal, told Al-Watan that he doesn't believe the new leadership endorses actions like those of the commission members who detained him.
"It seems that the relationship between the committee and the intellectuals is based on animosity and hostility and perhaps that is shown from the fashion in which they treated us," he said.
The Illinois High School Association is being challenged on a policy that bans Christian schools from offering a prayer or any religious message over their public address systems when they host association events on their own property.
"It is blatantly unconstitutional for public school officials to come into private schools and enforce a policy prohibiting them from expressing what's central to their religious beliefs," said David Cortman, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, or ADF.
The ADF wrote this week to association chief Marty Hickman after several private schools complained about the new restrictions. WND left a message with Hickman seeking comment, but the call was not returned today.
(Story continues below)
"In enacting the policy, the IHSA was purportedly concerned that allowing private host schools to conduct customary pre-game prayers violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause," the letter said.
But the ADF reassured the assocation that the prayers are constitutional.
Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon US President Barack Obama to follow the path to socialism, which he termed as the "only" way out of the global recession. "Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States," Chavez told a group of workers in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar.
The controversial Venezuelan leader, who taunted the United States as a source of capitalistic evil under former president George W Bush, added that the United States needs a leader who can take it to a "higher" destiny and bring it out of "the sad role that it has been given, as a murderous, attacking power that is hated all around the world."
Chavez said that people are calling Obama a "socialist" for the measures of state intervention he is taking to counter the crisis, so it would not be too far-fetched to suggest that he might join the project of "21st century socialism" that the Venezuelan leader is heading.
"Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would disappear? No one," he said.
"That murderous, genocidal empire has to end, and some day there has to come a leader ... who interprets the best of a people who also include human beings who suffer, endure, weep and laugh," the outspoken Chavez said.
Rusty over at the Jawa Report has kindly sent me notice of North Carolina jihadist Samir Khan's reaction to this story:
"Militants bomb ancient shrine in Pakistan," from AP, March 5:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A bomb exploded Thursday at the mausoleum of a 17th century Sufi poet in northwestern Pakistan, underscoring the gulf between hard-line Muslims and those in the region who follow a traditional, mystical brand of Islam.
A letter delivered three days before the attack to the management of the mausoleum of Sufi poet Rehman Baba on the outskirts of Peshawar warned against its promotion of "shrine culture," said Sahibzada Mohammad Anees, a top government official in the city.
The letter also noted that women were coming to pray at the shrine, he said....
(It's hard to tell whether or not this is an account of the same incident.)
Anyway, here is Samir Khan's reaction:
AllahuAkbar, this is great news. The Mujahideen are cleaning up the Shirk in Pakistan.
And of mankind are some who take (for worship) others besides Allah as rivals (to Allah). They love them as they love Allah. But those who believe, love Allah more (than anything else). If only, those who do wrong could see, when they will see the torment, that all power belongs to Allah and that Allah is Severe in punishment. (Al-Baqarah:165)
AllahuAkbar = Allah is greatest. Mujahideen = warriors of jihad. Shirk = associating partners with Allah, i.e., worshiping others besides Allah. Al Baqarah = the second chapter of the Qur'an, so Khan is quoting Qur'an 2:165.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — The ringleader of a radical Islamic group that planned to bomb Israeli assets and US military facilities in California was on Friday jailed for 16 years, justice officials said.
Kevin James, 32, pleaded guilty to conspiring to wage war against the United States through terror for his part in the plot, which involved three co-conspirators currently in custody.
Prosecutors said the plotters were part of Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS), which was founded by James in 1997 while he was in prison.
"Mr James was the architect and mastermind of a very serious, very troubling offense," Judge Cormac Carney said in sentencing.
Two other members of the plot, Gregory Patterson and Levar Washington, were last year sentenced to 12 and 22 years respectively. A fourth man -- Hammad Samana -- was declared unfit to stand trial and is in psychiatric care.
Justice officials said although there was no evidence of links to Al-Qaeda or other foreign Islamic groups, the accused men had adopted their cause.
Prosecutors said James enlisted Washington while in prison in late 2004. Washington then recruited Patterson and Samana upon his release.
While Washington carried out a string of armed robberies on gas stations to raise funds for the group, Samana began choosing targets, including Los Angeles International Airport, the Israeli Consulate and army recruitment centers.
I find it funny in the video how the imam talks about equal rights in Islam. Me mentions that he would tell a Muslim man to marry a Christian woman. He fails to mention that it is forbidden in Islam for a Muslim woman to marry a Christian Man. SEE HERE
The UK continuing down the road of bowing to Shariah.
Colin Perry, who runs Shirley Gymnastics Club, said that "multiculturalism" and pressure from Muslim parents on the school's head has forced him to look for somewhere else to train his 250 young members.
Mr Perry, who has held classes at the Old Palace School – an independent school for girls aged four to 18 years in Croydon – since January last year said he was furious he has to move.
He said: "The school commitment to multiculturalism has been compromised for fear of offending a minority of parents.
"There is a group of Muslim parents with Muslim children at the school and they are the ones putting pressure on the head teacher. It makes me sad to say that."
The club, which caters for young gymnasts aged between five and 21, has until April 3 to find a new home.
Mr Perry said the school's head Judy Harris told him that Muslim parents had approached her and asked her why an independent girls schools had boys in the gym while school was still open.
He said: "She said some of the parents have said their children go to an independent all girls school and unfortunately they're concerned because we have got boys in the club. She said to us that the school has got far more Muslim children than last year, so effectively we have to interpret that in our own way."
Dudley Mead, a governor at the school, said he knew about Muslim parents' concerns, adding: "That's the Muslim belief isn't it? They are very protective of their female children."
The school did offer a compromise, that the gym club could stay but start later at 6.30pm, rather than 5pm as at present, by which time pupils will be off the site.
But Mr Perry says this would be impractical as some sessions wouldn't end until 9.30pm, way too late for many of the club's young members.
Mrs Harris released a statement in which she said: "We were unable to accommodate the early starting time of the club as the school was still functioning.
"We had hoped that the club could be held at a later time but this was thought unworkable by the organisers.
"It has not been a decision taken lightly but we have to consider the needs of the school and the security of the site given the very young age of our juniors."
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An Iranian woman who surrendered to U.S. authorities hoping to get probation was instead sentenced Friday to more than five years in federal prison for her role in a scheme to smuggle military night-vision goggles to Iran.
U.S. District Judge James I. Cohn imposed the sentence on 31-year-old Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan, a mother of twin daughters who insisted during her trial in December that she was innocent. She has already spent more than a year behind bars, which will count toward her sentence of five years and three months.
Gholikhan previously said she would appeal.
With an indictment hanging over her head, Gholikhan came to the U.S. voluntarily in late 2007 to plead guilty in a deal she expected would allow her to quickly return home. But her plea deal collapsed because of an error in the estimated sentence — leaving her with a likely two years in prison — so Gholikhan decided to go to trial, choosing to act as her own attorney.
Gholikhan was convicted Dec. 18 of illegally trying to broker a deal involving 3,500 pairs of sophisticated Generation III night goggles — used exclusively by U.S. special forces and the Israeli military — and of attempting to violate the U.S. embargo against Iran. Her ex-husband, Mahmoud Seif, was also charged in the case, but he is a fugitive living in Iran, prosecutors said.
In one of her many handwritten court filings, Gholikhan boasted about the jury's acquittal of her on three conspiracy charges and said she looked forward to eventually leaving "devil-land of America." She also compared herself to a lioness.
"The bottom line is you are playing with ... a real and true she lion, who is the Queen of the Jungle," Gholikhan wrote. "A she lion is much stronger than a he lion."
At first they were going to ban them. Now they have decided to allow them.
Rep. Steve Gottwalt says his new bill is a compromise between public safety and cultural respect.
The Republican introduced a bill in 2007 and again this year that would have banned all headwear in driver's license photos to make them easier for law enforcement to use.
It created an uproar among Muslims who said the restrictions would discriminate against people whose religion requires covering their head.
The new language in the bill would require driver's license photos to present an image of the full head from top of hair to shoulders -- the same requirements as U.S. passports.
Gottwalt says the changes strike a fair balance between ease of identification while allowing religious headwear, including the hijab worn by many Muslim women.
The Chamberlain of our time. Pam Geller has more on this.
BRUSSELS - In a sign of the new emphasis on diplomacy, the Obama administration said Thursday that Iran would be invited to a high-level conference on Afghanistan's future.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed the session, which could be held at the end of this month, at the same time the Obama administration is reformulating its strategy in a stalemated Afghanistan war.
The new approach is expected to emphasize nonmilitary means of blunting the power of the Taliban and other insurgents and to sharpen the focus on the role of next-door Pakistan in lessening the threat of terrorism or extremism in both countries.
"The whole question about Afghanistan and Pakistan is one that we've given a great deal of thought to," Clinton said. "It is clear that the border areas between the two countries are the real locus of a lot of the extremist activity. It's becoming obvious that Pakistan faces very serious internal threats, and that Afghanistan faces continuing external threats that emanate out of Pakistan."
Pakistan would attend the conference of nations with a stake in Afghanistan, Clinton said, and U.S. officials said Iran would be invited as a neighbor. It could be an early opportunity to test President Barack Obama's campaign promise to extend a friendlier hand to the old U.S. adversary when it is in U.S. interests to do so.
Another sad story of a victim of an Honor Killing. The horrible thing is she warned the police that this was going to happen but they did nothing!
A terrified wife who predicted her cheating husband would kill her, was stabbed to death by him just days after he was freed in a legal blunder.
Sabina Akhtar, 26, went to police in fear of her life after Malik Mannan subjected her to a string of vicious beatings.
The taxi driver was jailed for life today at Manchester Crown Court after being convicted of her murder yesterday. He will serve a minimum of 17 years.
Speaking outside court, Ms Akhtar's family accused the Crown Prosecution Service of negligence. Her uncle, Reaz Talukder, said his niece would still be alive if her husband had been charged after being arrested for a second time.
Mannan was held after she gave a heart-breaking statement detailing 25 different assaults but was released when a prosecuting lawyer said there was not enough evidence to charge him.
The 36-year-old then texted his wife to boast: 'I am a free man, since 1.30. Case file closed. Isn't it great.'
Ms Akhtar had a panic alarm fitted to her home and warned friends and police that her life was in danger while he remained free.
But nothing was done and five days later he burst into the marital home in Levenshulme, Greater Manchester, and stabbed the mother-of-one to death.
In her statement two months before the murder, she said: 'I have become extremely concerned about my personal safety.
'My husband is a man of an extreme violent nature. I genuinely believe if he gets the opportunity he will not hesitate to kill me.'
An inquiry is underway into the Crown Prosecution Service's handling of the case and it has said it will offer a face-to-face apology to Ms Akhtar's family.
The matter has also been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
A CPS spokesman said: 'We accept that the wrong decision was made not to charge Mr Mannan at an earlier stage.'
The couple had an arranged marriage in Bangladesh in 2003 following Mannan's divorce from his first wife. They had a son, Tahmid, in 2005.
But that same year Ms Akhtar discovered her husband had two children as a result of an on-going eight-year affair, as well as a secret gambling habit.
Mannan spent the family's benefit money on mistress Suraiya Ali and began beating his wife.
Terrified, and with no relatives in Britain except one aunt, Ms Akhtar kept quiet about the attacks until July last year when over two days of violence Mannan repeatedly lifted her by her throat, threw her to the floor and kicked her in the stomach.
As she fought for breath Mannan would also grab her hair, saying: 'Your opinion does not count here. If you don't listen then one day I will kill you just like this. One day you will die in this way.'
Ms Akhtar went to police on July 10 but no formal complaint was recorded due to her 'confusion' and language difficulties.
In the early hours of the followin morning, Mannan stormed into their home as Sabina and their son were in bed.
As Sabina rang her brother-in-law for help, Mannan jumped on her then sat on her chest. Using both hands to squeeze her windpipe he told her to read her Koran adding: 'Read whatever other stuff you need to read now. This is your final hour.'
Leenah Salem’s husband called her at work to break the bad news. He said the rumors were true. The spiritual leader of their southeast Houston mosque had been detained by immigration authorities and could face deportation.
“It was just devastating,” Salem said. “I broke down and cried.”
Sheikh Zoubir Bouchikhi, a native of Algeria, was arrested at his home shortly after leading morning prayers at the Abu Bakr Siddqui mosque Dec. 17 and has been held without bond at a detention center in north Houston ever since.
The popular imam’s detention has angered Houston-area Muslims, who are rallying to support Bouchikhi with letter-writing campaigns, petitions and Web sites.
Salem started a group dedicated to his plight on the social-networking site Facebook that boasts more than 700 members. She prays every day for his release.
“I can’t move on,” the 23-year-old receptionist said. “If you go to our mosque, it’s just dead. He added life to our community. I honestly don’t know what I will do if he can’t come back.”
Officials with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services declined to comment on Bouchikhi’s case. But his attorney, Brian Bates, believes the imam is caught up in a backlash by USCIS, which recently tightened visa regulations for religious workers because past abuses allowed in many immigrants who didn’t really work for religious organizations.
The jihad against Israel rages not just in Gaza, but worldwide, including on the Internet -- and even on Facebook, as a 14-year-old American Jew named Todd Snider recently discovered. In July 2008, Snider started a Facebook group called “I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Support Israel.” This group quickly grew to become the largest pro-Israel group on Facebook, with over 180,000 members. But then, unexpectedly, this group gave this enterprising and dedicated young man a lesson in jihadist intimidation and thuggery -- including an unpleasant taste of how Western bureaucrats abet that thuggery, whether out of indifference or complicity.
On February 15, 2009, Snider recounts, “my inbox was suddenly flooded with messages.” His pro-Israel Facebook group had been hacked and destroyed by a pro-Hizballah group calling itself “Lebanese Shee’a Hackers.” The hackers completely erased the original site content and replaced it with pro-jihad, anti-Israel propaganda – while Facebook authorities stood by and let it all happen, answering Snider’s repeated entreaties for help with bland form letters.
The hackers gained administrative privileges to the “I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Support Israel” group through the account of a co-administrator who had fallen for an illegal Internet phishing scheme, in which she was prompted to enter her account information and did so. They changed the group picture to one of Hassan Nasrallah and wrote the following obscene message in the Group Description section:
WELCOME TO BINT JBEIL, SOUTH LEBANON!
WELCOME TO BINT JBEIL, SOUTH LEBANON!
WELCOME TO BINT JBEIL, SOUTH LEBANON!
DEAR ADMINS,
DON’T WASTE MY AND YOUR TIME , LEAVE THIS GROUP ITS BETTER FOR BOTH THIS IS THE LAST TIME ILL EDIT YOU INFO , NEXT TIME
AND IN A COUPLE OF HOURS YOU WILL LOOSE EVERYTHING RELATED TO THIS GROUP.
IM TIRED NOW I WANT TO GO TO SLEEP AND ILL PUT THAT BANANA IN YOUR MOTHER’S ASS AND AGAIN I RECOMMEND YOU TO LEAVE THE GROUP TOMORROW I MAY ERASE EVRYTHING .
GOOD NIGHT ASSHOLES
Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah:
(2008)
‘O’ you Zionists!, O’ you murderers!, O’ you rapists!,
By God i swear, in the coming war,
we will confront you in a manner
you have never faced in your entire existence!’ “
(Bint Jbeil is the Lebanese city on the border with Israel that is known as the “Capital of Hizballah.”)
And in a classic example of projection, the hacked group page now claims that the Jewish Internet Defense Force “is attacking our groups and changing the Group Description and Recent News with threatening letters and offensive slurs especially during Ghaza [sic] war when many pro-arab group even the groups which donate help to children of Ghaza disappered [sic]. and now they are closing some nasrallah-hezbollah groups with silly reports.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Wednesday that Khalid Al-Jawary, a dangerous Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist convicted of a 1973 New York City bomb plot and implicated in multiple terrorist attacks spanning two decades, was deported to Sudan. He had served only half of his thirty year sentence. Recently declassified information additionally reveals that Al-Jawary got help from New York's Iraqi diplomatic mission in communicating with his PLO masters.
In March of 1973, Al-Jawary and possible accomplices planted three powerful car bombs: two along 5th Avenue near Israeli-owned banks, and one at Kennedy Airport. Timed to explode upon the arrival in New York of then Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, the bombs fortunately never detonated. Al-Jawary then fled the United States and remained on the run until 1991 when he was nabbed in Italy and turned over to the FBI. While Al-Jawary always maintained his innocence, 60 of his fingerprints were lifted from the bombs and related evidence.
In addition to the 1973 bomb plot, Al-Jawary was suspected in a worldwide mail bombing campaign in the 1970s and the midair bombing of a TWA airliner in 1974 which killed all 88 on board, including 17 Americans. He was arrested and held for a time in Germany in 1979 for another bombing attempt. His bomb-making signature - a certain kind of electronic timing device - also linked him to other fatal bombings throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
"He's a very dangerous man," said Mike Finnegan, the former FBI counterterrorism agent who captured Al-Jawary. "A very bad guy."
At Al-Jawary's April 16, 1993, sentencing, Judge Jack Weinstein stated that his bombs could have: "killed and maimed hundreds, caused large fires and terrorized thousands of people," adding that "It is highly likely that were this defendant released he would continue his dangerous terrorist activities."
Nonetheless, on February 19th, Al-Jawary was released from the Bureau of Prison's Supermax facility in Florence, Colorado, and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation.
How did this happen?
According to the Bureau of Prisons, because Al-Jawary's conviction stemmed from a 1973 incident, he was sentenced under "old law." Under old law, any federal prisoner was eligible for "good time" equal to 10 days per month served as long as he kept his nose clean. He was also eligible for additional good time based on work performance while incarcerated. When added to time served, i.e. the two years he was incarcerated before sentencing, this reduced Al-Jawary's time by a total of 5,168 days (fourteen years and two months).
So Khalid Al-Jawary, a career terrorist who will very likely return right back to his deadly trade, goes free at age 63 after serving only 15 years and ten months of his thirty year sentence. Had he been forced to serve out his full sentence, he might have died in prison, or failing that, would have at least been slowed down by age. And he's deported to Sudan, of all places. I would like to know why Sudan was chosen.
In this video he also discusses the destruction of Israel and that it is coming soon. This is the same Muslim that I posted about here. According to his Youtube profile he is from California. SEE HERE
An education expert is warning that some American textbooks present a biased view of Islam and offer a sugarcoated picture of Islamic extremism, a trend that has parents worried about what's being taught in public schools.
In numerous history textbooks, "key subjects like jihad, Islamic law, the status of women are whitewashed," said Gilbert T. Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council, an independent group that reviews history books and other education materials.
Cindy Ross, the mother of a junior high school student in Marin County, Calif., said she couldn't believe her eyes when she read her son's textbook last school year.
"I was very shocked by what I saw, looking through the book," she said — shocked at how Islam was portrayed in her son's seventh grade history text.
"What did strike me was that all the other religions seemed to be lumped together, where there is an inordinate emphasis on Islam specifically," Ross said.
Sewall claims that publishers have been pressured by Islamic activists to portray the religion in the most favorable light, while Islamic terrorism is downplayed or glossed over.
"The picture is incomplete ... and the reason for this is that publishers are afraid of the Islamist activists. They don't want trouble," he told FOX News.
Sewall, who authored a report on how textbooks teach and present Islam, singled out one book that he said failed to explain what the story of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
In a section discussing Islamic fundamentalism, the textbook "World History: The Modern World," published by Prentice Hall, omits direct mention of the 9/11 hijackers' religion, referring to the 19 Islamic fundamentalists as "teams of terrorists."
"On the morning of September 11, 2001," the book reads, "teams of terrorists hijacked four airplanes on the East Coast. Passengers challenged the hijackers on one flight, which they crashed on the way to its target. But one plane plunged in to the Pentagon in Virginia, and two others slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. More than 2,500 people were killed in the attacks."
In his report on the text, Sewall called the passage "dismaying" in its flatness and brevity. "In terms of content, so much is left unanswered. Who were the teams of terrorists and what did they want do to? What were their political ends? Since 'The Modern World' avoids any hint of the connection between this unnamed terrorism and jihad," he wrote, "why September 11 happened is hard to understand."
But Muslim advocacy groups say students need to learn more about Islam to correct misconceptions and help turn away a wrongheaded focus on extremism.
He apparently had a Quran next to him when he did this.
A tractor plowed into a police squad car on Menachem Begin Boulevard in Jerusalem on Thursday. The driver was apparently also trying to hit a nearby bus, but missed.
Two police officers were in the car when it was hit and both sustained mild injuries. Other police officers patrolling nearby shot the terrorist....
"The officers shot the terrorist and neutralized him. Seconds later, a cab driver who pulled over fired as well, as did another police officer who arrived at the scene, and a force volunteer. The driver was critically injured, taken off the tractor and rushed to a nearby hospital, where he later died of his wounds. We found an open Quran book in the driver's compartment."...
Meanwhile, Gaza's Hamas rulers praised Thursday's bulldozer attack in Jerusalem as a "natural response" to Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes in Arab east Jerusalem and to the Jewish state's offensive in the Gaza Strip: "The operation in Jerusalem was a natural response to aggression against our people. The Zionist enemy should realize that they alone bear the responsibility for displacing our people in Jerusalem and for the killings in Gaza and the West Bank," said Mushir al-Masri, a senior Hamas official....
Thursday's tractor attack is the third of its kind in the capital: July of 2008 saw two such attacks – the first resulting in three people dead and 30 injured and the second resulting in 18 people injured. In both cases, the assailant was a resident of east Jerusalem....
Yahoo apparently found it necessary to somehow used a jihadist propaganda tool in a totally unrelated story on asthma. Very weird. Thanks to Zip for pointing this out and for the screenshot:
In case you forgot the mouse here he is directly from Hamas tv:
Nowhere is Michigan's brain drain on greater display than in the Detroit City Council chambers.
My hopes for Detroit's future faded as I watched the tape of last Tuesday's council meeting, the one that considered the Cobo Center expansion deal.
It was a tragic circus, a festival of ignorance that confirmed the No. 1 obstacle to Detroit's progress is the bargain basement leaders that city voters elect. The black nationalism that is now the dominant ideology of the council was on proud display, both at the table and in the audience.
Speakers advocating for the deal were taunted by the crowd and cut short by Council President Monica Conyers, who presided over the hearing like an angry bulldog; whites were advised by the citizens to, "Go home."
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Opponents were allowed to rant and ramble on uninterrupted about "those people" who want to steal Detroit's assets and profit from the city's labors.
A pitiful Teamster official who practically crawled to the table on his knees expressing profuse respect for this disrespectful body was battered by both the crowd and the council.
When he dared suggest that an improved Cobo Center would create more good-paying jobs for union workers, Conyers reminded him, "Those workers look like you; they don't look like me."
Desperate, he invoked President Barack Obama's message of unity and was angrily warned, "Don't yousay his name here."
Juxtapose the place and the faces and imagine a white Livonia City Council treating a black union representative with such overt racial hostility. The Justice Department would swoop down like a hawk, and the Rev. Al Sharpton would clog Five Mile Road with protesters.
But in Detroit, dealing with the council's bigotry is part of the cost of doing business. As is dealing with its incompetence. (I'll pause here and excuse from that indictment Sheila Cockrel and Brenda Jones, who supported the Cobo deal, as did Kwame Kenyatta, who although he's an avowed nationalist, most often votes in the city's best interests.)
Emmet Moten, the developer who just opened the Fort Shelby Hotel downtown, was at the meeting and found it appalling. Moten went to Lansing in 1983 on behalf of Mayor Coleman Young to successfully lobby for a regional tax to support Cobo.
"And now we're saying, 'We don't want your money,'" Moten says. "If Coleman were alive today, he'd be outraged. It hurts, it really hurts."
Now, Moten says, "we Detroiters gotta be outraged."
Outraged enough to go to the polls in November and elect a brighter, more responsible council. Moten and others I talked with this week are encouraged that mayoral primary voters picked Dave Bing and Ken Cockrel Jr., the two most rational candidates on the ballot.
The test now will be whether it's those primary voters or the angry council crowd who represent the real Detroit.
As Moten notes, "You can't fix this for us. We have to fix it ourselves."
Nobody can help Detroit if voters again elect a City Council composed of separatists, clueless dowagers and the apparently insane.
Jews are already forbidden in parts of Jerusalem! Read the rest from World Net Daily:
JERUSALEM – Sections of Jerusalem have essentially been forfeited on the ground to the Palestinian Authority, while Jews, including local landowners, are barred from entering parts of Israel's capital, a WND investigation has found.
The probe further determined the U.S. has been aiding the Palestinians in developing infrastructure in Jerusalem.
Also, it has emerged, the Israeli government has failed to stop Arabs from illegally building thousands of housing projects on Jerusalem land purchased and owned by a U.S. Jewish group for the express purpose of Jewish settlement, culminating in an Arab majority in the neighborhoods.
The situation has been unfolding in the northern Jerusalem neighborhoods of Kfar Akeb, Qalandiya and Samir Amis, which are close to the Jewish neighborhoods of Neve Yaacov and Pisgat Zeev in Israel's capital. Kfar Akeb, Qalandiya and Samir Amis are located entirely within the Jerusalem municipality.
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A tour of the three Jerusalem neighborhoods in question finds some surprising developments. Official PA logos and placards abound, including one glaring red street sign at the entrance to the neighborhoods warning Israelis to keep out.
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Another official sign, this one in Kfar Akeb in Jerusalem, reads in English, "Ramallah-Jerusalem Road. This project is a gift form (sic) the American people to the Palestinian people in cooperation with the Palestinian Authority and PECDAR. 2007." The sign bears the emblems of the American and PA governments and of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. The displays were not present during a previous WND tour of the neighborhoods in 2006.
Some local schools in the Jerusalem neighborhoods are officially run by the PA – some in conjunction with the U.N. – with many teachers drawing PA salaries. Civil disputes are usually settled not in Israeli courts but by the PA judicial system, although at times Israeli courts are used depending on the matter.
Councils governed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization oversee some municipal matters. USAID provides the PA funds for road and infrastructure projects.
Israeli security officials said the local Jerusalem police rarely operate in Kfar Akeb, Qalandiya and Samir Amis; instead security has been turned over to the Israel Defense Forces and Border Police, who work almost daily with PA security forces. The PA police operate in the Jerusalem neighborhoods in coordination with Israel.
Shmulik Ben Ruby, spokesman for the Jerusalem police, confirmed the arrangement.
"If there are fights between some local families, sometimes we involve the PA police to make peace between the families," he told WND. "Yes, the PA police can operate in these neighborhoods in coordination with the IDF and Border Police."
Jews barred from sections of Jerusalem
In another recent development, Israeli Jews, including local property owners, have been almost entirely barred from entering Kfar Akeb, Qalandiya and Samir Amis, while Israeli Arabs can freely enter.
Aryeh King, a nationalist activist who holds the power of attorney to some Kfar Akeb land owned by an Israeli Jew, told WND he was barred several times during the past few months from entering the neighborhood to administer to the land, upon which local Arabs illegally constructed apartments.
Police spokesman Ben Ruby explained this new arrangement is due to security concerns.
"It's quite dangerous to be there alone, so if they don't have to be there it's not allowed, because they might find themselves in danger if they go in," said Ben Ruby.
In 2002, in response to the outbreak one year earlier of the Palestinian intifada, or terrorist war against the Jewish state, the Israeli government constructed its security barrier blocking off the West Bank from Jewish population zones. The route of the fence also cut into northern and eastern Jerusalem, incorporating Kfar Akeb, Qalandiya and Samir Amis on the so-called Palestinian side.
Considering the government has just gave them another 30 billion I think they should shut up. This is so absurd.
In the midst of its negotiation with the federal government over revised terms of its bailout, American International Group Inc. sued the U.S. on Friday over a disputed $306 million in taxes, interest and penalties.
The suit steps up a battle with the Internal Revenue Service largely over AIG's use of a controversial type of "tax arbitrage" transaction that authorities are challenging across the world.
With the company essentially suing its owner, the suit ...
1. Since launching Jihad Watch, what has been your biggest accomplishment?
I see elements of my analysis entering into the public discourse. For example, a major international publication recently recommended that the War on Terror be recast as a war against “Islamic supremacy.” Now, I do not claim to have originated the term, but I’ve been discussing this conflict in terms of “Islamic supremacism” for years, and I don’t know of anyone else who has been doing so with the same consistency or detail.
2. What’s it like to be, as former Nixon advisor Robert Crane called you, the “principal leader … in the academic field of Islam-bashing”?
It is a great honor! Crane is a convert to Islam who consistently resorts to hysterical, hateful rhetoric. He has called me “diabolical” and accused me of “demonizing Islam.” And all I have done to deserve these accolades has been to report accurately on the contents of Islamic texts and teachings and show how jihadists today are acting upon those texts and teachings. If Islam has a doctrine of warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers, it is not “Islam-bashing” or “demonizing Islam” to say so. It is just a fact, an inconvenient truth. I’m honored that Crane sees me as the leader among those who expose truths he would apparently prefer to conceal.
3. What’s the biggest jihadist threat America faces, and what will it take to beat it?
The threat of a catastrophic terror attack is still with us, but perhaps even more potentially damaging is the stealth jihad threat: the Muslim Brotherhood initiative of, in their words, “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.” This initiative is advancing on many fronts in America today: In business, finance, education, public institutions and more, there are ongoing attempts to assert elements of Islamic law and to reinforce the principle that where Islamic law and American law conflict, it is American law that must give way. Yet most Americans remain completely unaware that this is happening.
4. How do you expect the new Obama administration will treat our radical Islamic enemies?
Obama has repeated twice now that he wants to restore an atmosphere of “mutual respect” with the Islamic world, thereby implying that the conflict has arisen because the U.S. has not been behaving respectably toward Muslims, not because of anything Muslims themselves may have done. Like most of the Washington establishment, he has not considered the existence, nature, and implications of the doctrines of jihad and Islamic supremacism -- which indicate that ultimately there is nothing America can do to win the approval of large sections of the Islamic world short of converting to Islam or submitting completely to the demands of political Islam.
5. You can tell a lot about a man by his enemies. Which groups or individuals have been most vocal in their anti-Spencer rhetoric, and how do you deal with it?
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been the worst: Once on CNN Ibrahim Hooper demanded that Dennis Prager denounce me on the basis of something that I had not actually said and do not believe. In response to attacks like these, and there are many, I stick to the facts: Neither CAIR nor anyone else has ever been able to show that anything I have written about Islam or jihad is false. Truth is my best and only defense.
BONUS QUESTION: Is it true that you, Salman Rushdie, Fox News and John Bolton are part of a secret cabal to smear all Muslims?
Why, of course! The cabal meets every Wednesday morning, when we pick up our Zionist checks.
Change we can believe in! Right.. Another one of the wonderful results of the Obama economic plan.
NEW YORK (AP) — Investors' despair about financial companies and the recession has brought the Dow Jones industrial average to another unwanted milestone: its first drop below 7,000 in more than 11 years. The market's slide Monday, which took the Dow down 300 points, was nowhere near the largest it has seen since last fall, but the tumble below 7,000 was nonetheless painful.
The credit crisis and recession have slashed more than half the average's value since it hit a record high over 14,000 in October 2007. And now many investors fear the market could take a long time to regain the lost 7,000.
"As bad as things are, they can still get worse, and get a lot worse," said Bill Strazzullo, chief market strategist for Bell Curve Trading. Strazzullo said he believes there's a significant chance the S&P 500 and the Dow will fall back to their 1995 levels of 500 and 5,000, respectively.
The "game-changer," he said, will be the housing market and whether it can stabilize.
A recovery will also require signs of health among financial companies, but so far in 2009, it is clear that banks and insurance companies' losses are multiplying despite hundreds of billions of dollars in government help. The market fell Monday after insurer American International Group Inc. posted a staggering $61.7 billion in quarterly losses and as the government agreed to inject more money into the company. AIG will get another $30 billion in loans, on top of the $150 billion the government has already invested.
And it's not just U.S. companies that have Wall Street frightened. HSBC PLC, Europe's largest bank by market value, said Monday it needs to raise $17.7 billion. The company reported a 70 percent drop in 2008 earnings and said it would cut 6,100 jobs.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Another Obama administration nominee has tax troubles. This time, it's Ron Kirk, the president's choice to be U.S. trade representative.
Kirk owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to pay them, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday. The committee said the taxes arise from Kirk's handling of speaking fees he donated to a scholarship fund that he set up at his alma mater, and for his deduction of the full cost of season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team.
Kirk also agreed to make changes in his accounting of charitable deductions, including reducing the claimed value of a donated television from $3,000 to $1,500.
The former Dallas mayor is the fourth nominee by President Barack Obama to run into tax problems.
A third of the Senate voted against Tim Geithner's confirmation as treasury secretary after it was disclosed that he had to pay more than $34,000 in back taxes and interest on income he made while working for the International Monetary Fund.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle then withdrew as a nominee to become Health and Human Services after it was disclosed that he failed to pay $128,000 in taxes. Nancy Killefer, Obama's pick for chief performance officer, also bowed out amid tax problems.
White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said Kirk was working to clear up "a few minor issues" uncovered by the Senate committee. LaBolt expressed confidence that Kirk would be confirmed by the Senate.
Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., called Kirk "the right person for this job" and said in a statement he will try to have the nomination move through his panel quickly.
Kirk agreed to file an amended tax return this week, according to Baucus' office.
Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the committee, said through an aide that he is reserving judgment until the vetting process on Kirk is complete. Kirk is scheduled to testify at a confirmation hearing next Monday.
Kirk, who was Dallas mayor from 1995 to 2001, is a partner in the Dallas office of the Vinson & Elkins LLP law firm. He received $556,740 from the firm last year and a total of $460,265 from serving on the boards of PetSmart, Dean Foods and Brinker International, a restaurant company, according to financial disclosure reports released by the Obama administration.
His tax problems arise out of speaking fees that he routinely paid directly to Austin College to support a scholarship fund but did not list on his tax returns, according to the Finance Committee report.
The panel said Kirk should have listed the fees as income and claimed them as charitable donations.
Last fall, the Internal Revenue Service notified Kirk that he had failed to report a $5,000 speaking fee, as well as dividend income of $816, from 2006. Kirk paid $2,327 in back taxes and interest in October, the report said.
The disclosure led to questions from the Finance Committee aides, who found that Kirk had also failed to report a total of $37,750 in fees from about 16 speaking engagements from 2004 through 2007.
The estimated effect was to reduce Kirk's tax bill by $5,800, according to the committee report.
The committee said Kirk's paid tax preparer thought the arrangement was proper. Rich Boggs, CEO of Nationwide Tax Relief, said both Kirk and his preparer should have known better.
"People put a lot of faith in their CPA. Sometimes, it's convenient faith," said Boggs, whose firm represents tax delinquents before the IRS.
Kirk also deducted more than $17,000 as entertainment expenses for the cost of Mavericks' tickets. The committee said he substantiated about $9,900 of that amount, and will owe about $2,600 in taxes on the balance.
THOUSANDS of British-born Muslims have joined the Taliban in Afghanistan.
UK troops say they are facing a mini civil war as more Brits head out to fight for the enemy.
Senior officers said British-born Muslims from the West Midlands and Yorkshire have travelled to Helmand province and other parts of southern Afghanistan.
Interception of Taliban communications has revealed the sound of jihadists speaking with West Midlands accents.
One senior military source said: “It is the Punjabi and Kashmiri Urdu speakers who fall back into English in, for example, Brummie accents.
“You get the impression they have been told not to talk in English but sometimes can’t help it.”
Brigadier Ed Butler, the former commander of the British forces in Afghan-istan, said: “There are British passport holders who live in the UK who are being found in places such as Kandahar.”
Robert Emerson, a security analyst, added: “There is ample evidence British Muslims trained in camps in Pakistan.
“What is emerging now is a picture of them being more active in Afghanistan, either providing support and logistics or in active service.”
The US has stepped up surveillance inside Pakistan.
They believe the UK is not doing enough to curb radical Muslims.
Looks like Good Old Julio Pino who I have wrote about in detail HERE and HERE is back. This man Julio Pino is a terrorist sympathizer. And it has now became even more clear from this latest news I stumbled upon. Apparently he has now signed a petition calling for the EU to remove Hamas from their list of terrorist organizations. You can view the entire list people who signed the petition HERE and under the USA is listed: Dr Julio Pino ( professor of history).
UPDATE: Also I just noticed that Pino is also in support of boycotting Israel. His name is on the list HERE
A handful of private banks and lending institutions offer Islamic mortgages in the U.S., but Minnesota Housing is the first state agency to offer such a product. The program is the brainchild of Hussein Samatar, director of the African Development Center in Minneapolis.
"The process is different, but the outcome will look the same," Samatar says. "We wanted to be as conventional as possible, while respecting the tenets of Islam."
Samatar, who used to work for Wells Fargo, tried for years to launch Islamic financing. He says the fact that Minnesota Housing has agreed to participate is a nod to the Muslim community's growing economic power.
Chicago-based Devon Bank is underwriting the loans for the New Markets program. Devon is one of the largest Islamic lenders in the country. Corporate Counsel David Loundy says he expects the demand for Islamic financing to grow as more Muslims make their home in the U.S. Loundy says Muslims tend to be good risks.
"If they worked so hard to get to this country, they don't want to screw it up now that they are here, so they tend to pay their debts pretty promptly," said Loundy. "In addition, you have a population that is religiously and culturally predisposed against having debt, so they want to pay down their debts as quickly as they can."
The numbers back this up. In its five and a half years offering Islamic lending, Loundy says Devon Bank hasn't lost a penny, though he admits the recession could make that record difficult to sustain as more borrowers face job loss.
But the bad economy is also offering opportunity. With housing prices at rock bottom, officials say the timing couldn't be better to match first time Muslim buyers with foreclosures that need new owners.
Nawawi Sheikh's new three-bedroom South Minneapolis home is a former foreclosure. The African Development Center's Hussein Samatar says there are thousands more potential buyers like Sheikh out there. He says the New Markets Mortgage Program will help the Minnesota Muslims community put down strong roots.
"It is great news for the country, and it really sends a great signal that the United States is our country," he said, "and we would love to make it better."
Samatar says he has 10 more qualified buyers already lined up. He plans to close on two or three more homes with Islamic financing over the next few months.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government threw a new $30 billion lifeline to American International Group Inc on Sunday as the embattled insurer prepared to report the biggest quarterly loss in corporate history.
AIG's board approved a new rescue package that also includes more lenient terms on a government investment in its preferred shares and a lower interest rate on a government credit line, two sources familiar with the matter said.
Details will be announced on Monday when AIG is expected to report a fourth-quarter loss of about $60 billion -- some $460,000 per minute.
This would be the third time the government has had to step up to save AIG, once the biggest insurer by market value whose global reach may have made it too big to fail.
Allowing the collapse of AIG, which has struggled to sell assets, would have far-reaching consequences for the global financial system as the company guarantees about $300 billion of asset-backed securities and other debt, analysts have said.
The government has been blamed by many for exacerbating the financial crisis by allowing Lehman Brothers to fail.
"The government really does not have the option of letting AIG totally blow up," said Robert Haines, senior insurance analyst at CreditSights.
"The counterparties on most of the book are (European) banks that would be hammered if the U.S. walked away," he said. "Hopefully, the third bailout will be the charm."
Surprising coming from the Washington Post. I posted about Charles Freeman before here.
Most of President Obama's "missteps" to date have been Washington peccadilloes of the "let's find something to complain about" sort. But Obama has made one major mistake that has attracted little public attention: his appointment of Charles Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council. Freeman was attacked by pro-Israel activists, but the contretemps over Freeman's view of Israel misses the broader problem, which is that he's an ideological fanatic.
That may sound like an odd description for a respectable bureaucrat and impeccable establishmentarian such as Freeman. What's more, he's not an ideologue of the sort who draws most of the attention. When most people think of foreign policy ideology, they mean neoconservatism, which dominated the Bush administration. Broadly speaking, neoconservatism is obsessed with the moral differences between democracies and non-democracies. At its most simplistic (which, alas, it nearly always is) neoconservatism means supporting the "good guys" and fighting the "bad guys." As most of us have seen, neoconservatism has trouble recognizing that the good guys aren't perfectly good and that the bad guys aren't comic book villains. ad_icon
Freeman belongs to the camp that's the mortal enemy of the neoconservatives: the realists. Realist ideology pays no attention to moral differences between states. As far as realists are concerned, there's no way to think about the way governments act except as the pursuit of self-interest. Realism has some useful insights. For instance, realists accurately predicted that Iraqis would respond to a U.S. invasion with less than unadulterated joy.
Simply put.. He is going to raise taxes on cellphone companies which of course in turn they will raise your monthly bill.
There's no easy answer to erasing a staggering trillion-plus dollar deficit in a federal budget, but you've got to start somewhere -- and Obama's looking at the nation's wireless carriers as cash cows just waiting to be milked. The President's proposed budget for 2010 calls for an increase in spectrum license user fees from $50 million to $200 million, with further increases to $550 million over the course of the next decade, all of which would be on top of the billions carriers have already shelled out in spectrum auctions. A good way to bring in some extra cash? Yeah, probably, but considering that carriers will be more than happy to pass the increases on to consumers, let's just be straight: it's a tax.
FARGO, N.D. - A U.S. journalist has been arrested in Iran, and her father said Sunday she told him in a brief phone call she was detained after buying a bottle of wine.
Roxana Saberi, 31, has not been heard from since her last call on Feb. 10, her father, Reza, told The Associated Press on Sunday.
"We haven't heard anything," he said. The family decided to go public, he said, "because we wanted to get some information."
Officials in Iran have not publicly confirmed the arrest. A duty officer at the U.S. State Department said Sunday they were looking into an AP request for information on the case.
Human rights groups have repeatedly criticized Iran for arresting journalists and suppressing freedom of speech. The government has arrested several Iranian-Americans in the past few years, citing alleged attempts to overthrow its Islamic regime. The most high-profile case came in 2007, when Iran arrested four Iranian-Americans, including the academic Haleh Esfandiari. The four were imprisoned or had their passports confiscated for several months until they were released and allowed to return to the U.S.
Roxana Saberi is a freelance journalist who has reported for National Public Radio and other media and has lived in Iran for six years.
"She called from an unknown place and said she's been kept in detention," he said of her last phone call. He said she had already been detained 10 days by that point.
"She said that she had bought a bottle of wine and the person that sold it had reported it and then they came and arrested her," he said Sunday.
"We asked others and they said 'there's no detention for that. So that's kind of an excuse," he told the AP.
Buying and selling alcohol is illegal in the Islamic republic.
A few minutes after that call, she phone again and asked "Please don't do anything because they'll release me in two days," Reza Saberi said.
Reza Saberi told reporters he doesn't know where his daughter is or what charges she faces.
The top U.S. military official said Sunday he believes Iran has enough fissile material to build a nuclear weapon, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Islamic Republic is a long way from having a bomb.
Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency revised its assessment of Iran's nuclear capabilitie, saying it was wrong in earlier reports about Iran's ability to enrich enough uranium to make anuclear weapon.
Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, "We think they do, quite frankly," when asked Sunday about Iran's capacity.
"Iran having a nuclear weapon I've believed for a long time is a very, very bad outcome for the region and for the world," Mullen said.
But Gates said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the Iranians are not close to getting a weapon at this time.
"They're not close to a stockpile, they're not close to a weapon at this point and so there is some time," he said when asked whether Tehran could be deterred from pursuing its weapons effort.
Gates said the U.S. will continue to pursue sanctions on Iran while also howing an opportunity to engage with Europe as a means to "walk away from that program."
"Our chances of being successful, it seems to me, are a lot better at $35 or $40 oil than they were at $140 oil because there are economic costs to this program, they do have economic challenges at home," Gates said.
Mullen said he has not been given "any instructions one way or the other" on whether to continue working on an anti-ballistic missile shield that has been in development and was to be deployed in East Europe.
"There are an awful lot of reviews that are ongoing under President Obama, and there's an awful lot on the -- on all of our plates. So that's a review that will, I think, take place. And over time, that's much more a policy area than it is mine, per se," he said.
Mullen said that the U.S. is also watching North Korea closely, but no decisions have been made on whether to rrespond to their preparations for a test missile launch.
"The president's made no decision. Secretary Gates and I have made no recommendations. But it's -- it's an area that we watch with great concern. And I would hope that North Korea would not be provocative," he said.
Mullen spoke on "FOX News Sunday" and CNN's "State of the Union."
I say yes because from what I have seen there was hardly a mention of the stealth jihad being waged in America. CPAC had virtually no Anti-jihad speakers. No Spencer. No Wilders. No Bostom. The best probably had to be John Bolton. Apparently I am not the only one to notice. Patrick Poole over at Pajamas Media took notice as well:
The fact of the matter is that before the 2006 elections, just a little over two years ago, Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. It isn’t entirely clear that the GOP leadership is even aware that the situation has changed, let alone that they are personally responsible for it.
It is interesting that Ronald Reagan’s name was constantly being invoked by CPAC speakers. I’m old enough to remember the 1976 and 1980 elections, and Ronald Reagan was the conservative outsider, not a GOP insider. His strength came from the power of his ideas, which frequently were at odds with the dominant Gerald R. Ford/Nelson Rockefeller wing of the GOP.
That the conservative movement has slid into complete irrelevancy was demonstrated by the absence of any ideas — nay, any discussion whatsoever — of several of the most pressing political issues of our day. As fellow blogger Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugged observed, there was not a single panel on the War on Terror, the growing threats to free speech, or the cultural jihad underway in the West.
What should have been one of the most important events of this year’s CPAC, the appearance by Dutch parliamentarian and anti-jihad activist Geert Wilders, was relegated to the opposite side of the hotel, divorced from all of the other conference proceedings. There were no official announcements that this event would even be taking place (none that I heard at least), and when trying to locate the room in which it would be held, not a single CPAC staffer could tell me where. And this event only happened because David Horowitz, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and Andy Bostom personally shelled out the money to make it happen.
Now CPAC organizers would no doubt respond that they could not fit Wilders into the schedule on such short notice. But I have no doubt that if Bristol Palin had suddenly come available to address CPAC on the virtues of teen pregnancy, David Keene and the American Conservative Union would no doubt have moved heaven and earth to make room in the schedule for her. But they could not accommodate a man who lives under constant death threats by a long list of Islamic terrorist organizations.
Honestly, I don’t know much about Geert Wilders’ politics. I only met the man briefly, and I heard his stump speech twice on Friday. But anyone who has a stack of fatwas calling for his death because of his willingness to speak out against the global jihad is going to receive my support, regardless of any politically incorrect view he may or may not hold.
From my limited perspective, all Geert Wilders has done is hold a mirror up to reflect back the ugly racism and advocacy of violence that are the staple of the most prominent and authoritative officials in Islam. For that he has earned nothing but enmity from the avowed enemies of the West. But it wasn’t enough to earn him a speaking spot on this year’s CPAC schedule.
Meanwhile, GOP operative and Karl Rove confidante Grover Norquist, who is single-handedly responsible for opening the doors of political power for convicted al-Qaeda fundraiser Abdurahman Alamoudi and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian, was given the honor of introducing House Minority Leader John Boehner on Friday morning. The contrast between the cold reception of Wilders and the warm embrace of Norquist by CPAC could not be any starker.
