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From Atlas Shrugs

First there was this jaw dropper earlier this week: Al Qaeda in New Jersey. Secondly we know schools are a target and this after New Jersey schools districts closed in deference to Ramadan. Now this.

Three suspicious backpacks blown up by police in Union City TheStar Presshat tip Wolf

Despite a bomb threat at Union City Community School the same day suspicious backpacks were found blocks away, police say the incidents are likely not related.

UNION CITY — Local schools, a senior housing facility and a church day care were evacuated at separate times Monday after a morning bomb threat at the high school and the apparent unrelated discovery of three suspicious backpacks later in the day.

The backpacks, found about four blocks away from the school, were detonated in two blasts by the Delaware County Sheriff Department’s bomb squad, Delaware County Sheriff George Sheridan said.

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From Michelle Malkin:

 From the photograher, Dean Shaddock:

This was captured as I collected my things from airport security (Detroit Metro Concourse A). I think of it as something like a Rorschach test. Is an elderly Catholic nun being frisked by a Muslim security agent the celebration of blind justice? Or is it simply an admission of absurdity?

Robert Spencer weighs in: “Of course there should be random searches, and no one should be exempt — if any group is exempt, its dress will soon be adopted by the terrorists. But there is an absurdity to this photo. And a hint that maybe we would do better devoting our resources to searching those who are more likely to be threats — were that not so politically incorrect.”

Groups: Bin Laden Plans Video on 9/11

I’m sorry people, but I’m sick of hearing about Benny Laddy, as far as I’m concerned he can go fuck himself.
Dude is dead anyway, even if he is not, he is either on a beach somewhere smoking some mean green or in Vegas harassing waitresses, picking up tricks or in a karaoke bar singing John Denver tunes.

You Tube Video - Hitch Part 2 Dennis Prager Islamophobia, - 08:00

Why ‘Islamophobia’ is a brilliant term - By Dennis Prager

What do anti-Semitism, racism and Islamophobia have in common?

In fact, nothing.

But according to Islamist groups, Western media and the United Nations, they have everything in common. Anti-Semites hate all Jews, racists hate all members of another race, and Islamophobes hate all Muslims.

Whoever coined the term “Islamophobia” was quite shrewd. Notice the intellectual sleight of hand here. The term is not “Muslim-phobia” or “anti-Muslimist,” it is Islam-ophobia – fear of Islam – yet fear of Islam is in no way the same as hatred of all Muslims. One can rightly or wrongly fear Islam, or more usually, aspects of Islam, and have absolutely no bias against all Muslims, let alone be a racist.

The equation of Islamophobia with racism is particularly dishonest. Muslims come in every racial group, and Islam has nothing to do with race. Nevertheless, mainstream Western media, Islamist groups calling themselves Muslim civil liberties groups and various Western organizations repeatedly declare that Islamophobia is racism.

Read full article from World Net Daily

Hot Air audio: How one wealthy jihad supporter is using UK courts to kill American free speech

It’s difficult to overstate the importance of this story. The Chronicle of Higher Education (sub. required) on Wednesday published an article about Khalid bin Mafouz, a wealthy Saudi banker, and his successful effort to persuade the Cambridge University Press to halt the publication of four books that detail how Saudi citizens use their wealth to finance global terrorism. One of those books, Alms for Jihad, was once on sale at Amazon and elsewhere, but it has been pulled from sale and copies of it are now being pulped. Cambridge has even sent out letters to libraries that stock it and the other three books, asking for their return so that they too can be pulped, meaning they will soon disappear, burying the details they contain on how terrorism finance works and who is behind it.

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld of the American Center for Democracy is one of the authors whose books have been subject to judicial attack by Khalid bin Mafouz. I interviewed her about the case of the censorious jihad financier, and Cambridge Press’ cowardly capitulation to him. She is the author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It. She is the only author to date who is fighting back.

More on this here at Hot Air

Robert Spencer fights back - Spokesman for unindicted co-conspirator in terror group funding case defames Spencer on CNN - From Jihad Watch

A portion of Spencer’s comments:

He quoted a genocidal comment that was made on this website yesterday, and made it appear as if I had written it. (Prager would have none of it, and spoke highly of Jihad Watch, for which I thank him, although at the end of the segment, when Hooper attributed something else to me that I have never said, Prager disavowed it and responded, “I will” to Hooper’s “Then tell Mr. Spencer that.” In fact, I do not hold and have never stated anything of what Hooper attributes to me on this show.) In reality, someone kindly alerted me to the existence of the comment shortly after it was posted, and I removed it and banned the poster.

I allow comments here because I believe in free speech and free inquiry. But in reality, I don’t endorse any of them. Some I agree with, some I don’t, some are brilliant, some are not, some apologize for jihad and defend jihadists, and some are extremely angry with jihadists — but no one can legitimately assume that I endorse any of them unless I say so. And certainly if I remove a comment, it is a clear message. Every comments field bears this heading: “Note: Comments on articles are unmoderated, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Jihad Watch or Robert Spencer. Comments that are off-topic, offensive, slanderous, or otherwise annoying may be summarily deleted. However, the fact that particular comments remain on the site IN NO WAY constitutes an endorsement by Robert Spencer of the views expressed therein.”

From the blog GOP Vixen 

So after the Korean missionaries were taken hostage by Taliban in Afghanistan, Koreans hit the streets in protest — against us, of course, demanding that forces withdraw from Afghanistan and holding signs at candlelit vigils that read “End the US-ROK alliance in Afghanistan” and “US Troops Out Now!”But now that time has dragged on, deadlines have passed, and Koreans have learned that the Afghan government can’t kowtow to Taliban demands and — surprise! — that the Taliban isn’t interested in their kaffeklatsch diplomacy or cash for hostages, they suddenly want OUR HELP!

Read the rest here

I found over on Right Wing News. Somewhat shocking but not a surprise anymore in today’s environment. I hope this story gets more coverage to counter the deceitful terrorist loving leftist bastards.

Site Links: MEMRI - Hot Air - Jihad Watch

Hello. Robert Spencer here from Jihad Watch. Several days ago I received this email:

I wanted to drop a line about the inability to access JihadWatch at work. I work for the Fed Gov. Three weeks ago, Memri was blocked. Two weeks ago HotAir, which I used to look at on my lunch break for your updates, was blocked. As of Friday,June 29th, JihadWatch was blocked. I can however, visit CAIR, read anything about Islam, and even get the Arab news. The censors I deal with are from the Dallas area. It is very easy to see that this censor is not operating according to the proper rules of access. They are operating by their political beliefs (or hopes.) It is unfortunate that these people block the very information that we need in these times….

Also, all this week I have gotten emails telling me that Jihad Watch has suddenly been blocked in all sorts of places: Fidelity Investments, JPMorgan Chase, even the City of Chicago. Word is that Jihad Watch and other sites have suddenly been labeled as purveying “hate speech.”

This is a tried and true tactic of the Left: intellectually bankrupt as it is, it silences its critics rather than dealing with them on the level of ideas. They can’t answer us, so they try to shut us up and discredit us. Leftists, as well as apologists for Islamic jihad terrorism, label their opponents “hatemongers” and “bigots,” hoping thereby to make people of good will turn away from their message. And the politicized nature of this Internet censorship will come as a surprise to no one.

In reality, Jihad Watch is dedicated to the defense of human rights for all people against those who would impose Islamic law, with its institutionalized discrimination against women and religious minorities, over both Muslim and non-Muslim societies. There is no “hatred” in this, except when we report the words of hatred and supremacism of the Islamic jihadists. We are trying to raise awareness of the nature, extent, and goals of the global jihad, which threatens everyone who loves and cherishes freedom and the equality of rights of all people before the law.

And so, we are going to fight this, as best we can, and I am sure MEMRI and HotAir are also. Today I am going to contact every organization that, according to emails I have received, has banned Jihad Watch, and urge them to remove the ban. Wherever you are working today, if you get a chance please take a moment to check if you still have access to conservative sites — and if you don’t, lodge a respectful but firm protest. Let us not take lying down being vilified and silenced, when we are telling the truth.

From the website: The Religion of Peace

• 7/2/07 ( Yala, Thailand ) - Muslim radicals murder a 47-year-old rubber tapper on his way to work.
• 7/2/07 ( Narathiwat, Thailand ) - A 28-year-old villager is shot to death by Islamists.
• 7/1/07 ( Pattani, Thailand ) - Muslim terrorists fire on a group of young students, killing a 58-year-old teacher and injuring two boys, ages 9 and 11.
• 7/1/07 ( Pattani, Thailand ) - A woman is killed, and two other people injured when Islamic gunmen fire into a Buddhist tea shop.
• 7/1/07 ( Grozny, Chechnya ) - A landmine attack kills two Russians.
• 7/1/07 ( Helmand, Afghanistan ) - A British soldier is killed by a suicide bomber.

Moments after the latest terror attack on Britain, television commentators engaged in the usual rhetorical hara-kiri, blaming everyone but its authors: the two Muslim jihadists jumping out of a burning car at Glasgow’s international airport ululating “Allah! Allah!” — even as one of them was barbecued — and the European Union’s vast Muslim fundamentalist infrastructure, which spawned them.

The initial discussions of the three car bombs — two in central London were defused, unexploded — were déjà vu writ large: Blaming the victims, criticizing British foreign policy offenses that might have “driven” British Muslims to kill their countrymen, highlighting the frustrations of minority communities forced to live in the West, and renewing calls for — yes, indeed — more interreligious dialogue.

It was not much better in America. With live images of the Glasgow International Airport fires blazing away, American networks hosted the so-called experts who, again, explained the “torment” of poor Muslims. Disgracefully, one guest — Michael Scheuer, a former CIA analyst who is a familiar face now whenever instant analysis is needed — droned on about the many reasons Muslims are “so” offended by this or that behavior in the West.

Read the rest of this article entitled: Déjà Vu: Apologists Unfurl Stale Arguments

Oh don’t forget what that idiot Edwards said:

From Demediacratic Nation: 

Interesting reads today from NRO from three very good writers. The overall impression put forward by the media has been that these latest attacks by terrorists are not really al Qaeda linked because the skillset of the “would bes” lacks a certain proficiency or professionalism; this of course is due to the fact the intended outcome failed.

We wouldn’t want to discount their abilities obviously by suggesting they cannot succeed again. Yet when they have not had a successful attack, in the U.S. especially the public and media tends to discount that as though there were no threat. When they fail, the failures are looked upon as lacking that 007 aspect, so of course these cannot be real terrorists, al Qaeda or not.

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But this quote from the post says it all… 

“Did you really expect high-I.Q. martyrs? Maybe clever killers, but somebody should have pointed out — long since — that it isn’t very smart to blow yourself up. And for the most part, the martyrs haven’t come from the best-educated sectors of the population. But so many scribblers have been impressed by the deep faith of the suiciders, that they’ve shied away from this fairly obvious point. And one could go further. Indeed one should go further: All those parents and siblings who speak with reverence of their exploded child or brother or sister or cousin or uncle, they should be ashamed of themselves. Because they’re fools.”

Pretty much sums it up for me…let’s see, things I would rather be doing instead of blowing myself up or being some idiot fuck terrorist.

Enjoying a Crown and Coke on the deck grilling some steaks.
A slab of good ribs.
Enjoying my 49ers beating up on some team on a Sunday afternoon.
A Barron Davis dunk on AK47
KU getting to the Final Four
Listening to BB King live.
Down at the lake home, on the pontoon boat having an adult beverage.
A good movie
Playing with the grandkids
Mrs. Snoop

C’mon you folks I’m sure can think of some more stuff… pass on to your blog hommies!

Maybe because I’m in a cranky mood but I’m so sick of these Muslim terrorist fucks running their mouths about another pending attack, just fucken do it already and stop talking shit.
I’m sick of these America is evil bla bla bla, kill Jews bla bla bla, another 9/11 bla bla bla bitch fests. Just fuck off and die or tell your pending doom stories to John Edwards because he thinks Muslim terrorists are just a figment of our collective imagination anyway.

Link from Brietbart.com

An American member of Al-Qaeda warned in an Internet video that US President George W. Bush should withdraw all his troops from Muslim land or face attacks worse than September 11. Adam Gadahn, a convert to Islam who has been indicted for treason by a US jury, issued a list of demands and warned they were not up for negotiation.“Your failure to heed our demands means that you and your people… will experience things that will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Virginia Tech,” he said in the video posted on Tuesday.

“You’re losing on all fronts and losing big time,” said Gadahn, who is the English-language spokesman for Osama bin Laden’s terror network.

The tape entitled “Legitimate Demands” was produced by As-Sahab, a media outfit that specialises in Al-Qaeda online material.

Gadahn — sporting a headress, glasses and long beard — said Bush had “embroiled his nation in a series of unwinable and bloody conflicts in the Islamic world.”

He also called on the United States to cease support for the “bastard state of Israel” and the “56-plus apostate regimes of the Muslim world” and to free all Muslims from its prisons.

“We don’t negotiate with war criminals and baby killers like you. No, these are legitimate demands which must be met,” he said.

Born in 1978, Gadahn — also known Azzam al-Amriki and Azzam the American — is a native of southern California and has appeared in several videotapes for Al-Qaeda since 2004.

His conversion to Islam came after he began attending the Islamic Centre of Orange County in California, where he is believed to have come under the influence of two foreign-born Islamic radicals.

Gadahn’s reference to Virginia Tech was to the shooting of 32 people at the university by Korean-born gunman Cho Seung-hui who then turned the gun on himself.

From the site Jihad Watch 

“Tatar may have also wanted to join the Army … A second suspect in the case told the informant that Tatar wanted to join the Army so he could kill soldiers from the ‘inside’.” Fort Dix Jihad Update. By Geoff Mulvihill for the Associated Press:

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - One of the men accused of plotting to attack soldiers at Fort Dix had recently applied to be a police officer in two big cities — a move some authorities believe may have been an effort to infiltrate law enforcement agencies.

How many more Serdar Tatars might there be across America? Infiltrators among first responders to an attack would increase casualties, delay the work of other responders, and would significantly augment the psychological impact of the attack.

Serdar Tatar, 23, applied for a job in Philadelphia last month, police spokesman Sgt. D.F. Pace said Wednesday.

“Based on what we know now, I don’t think his intentions were good,” Pace said.

Tatar also applied for a job in the Oakland, Calif., Police Department, according to a law enforcement official speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

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If you have not seen, check this out from Glenn Beck, The Perfect Storm:

Here is the intro text of the site (Thanks Trinity for the 411)

We are at a crucial time in not only our nation’s history, but also in the history of the entire Western world. There are powerful forces at work that, when looked at individually, are still quite serious but each seems somewhat manageable. However, when we examine these events and the possibility that they could happen collectively, well–then my friend, we’re facing something I like to call The Perfect Storm. Remember that George Clooney movie where the fishing boat gets caught in not just one storm, but many storms…coming at it from all angles simultaneously? Could it have braved one storm…maybe even two? Heck yeah, especially with Captain Clooney behind the wheel. But unfortunately, it wasn’t just one or two storms. The end result was that the collective power of a number of combined storms sank the fishing boat and killed her entire crew. And keep in mind—this wasn’t just a Hollywood movie, it actually happened. While they are rare, Perfect Storms do exist.

So with that thinking in mind, let me say that I firmly believe in what I’m about to lay before you, that if a number of the following events take place concurrently or in close succession, it will mean nothing less than the end of the West as we know it. Not just increased gas prices, not just our troops being overseas for the holidays, but a wholesale change in our country and the way we live our daily lives.

I’m not trying to scare you, but simply lay out some information so you can draw your own conclusions. I know these issues can seem daunting, and people often ask me, “What can I do?” The answer is easier than you might think: educate yourself–pass on what you learn to someone else, encourage them to pass it along, and so on. Getting informed, staying informed, and using that knowledge to help us act accordingly is our only chance. We need to realize that these problems aren’t about politics or party lines—at the end of the day, we’re not Democrats or Republicans, but Americans, and this problem applies equally to us all.

What follows hasn’t been run through any “spin” cycle so I can prove my point. I’ve simply done my homework and offer the cold hard facts. Do with them what you will, but think of these in the context of another Hollywood blockbuster—“A  Beautiful Mind.” Remember that scene where Russell Crowe has pasted up a number of newspaper stories and is making associations and drawing connections between them by running strings from one story to the next, and then that story to another, and so on? You could easily do the same with the stories here. It’s not a great leap to see a certain synchronicity between them. But it’s best if you decide for yourself. I’ll do my part by keeping this page updated and making sure you have access to the most current information. Then it’s up to you to inform yourself and share that information with those you care about.

Robert Spencer interviews from Hot Air. Click on Photo to view programs 

Jihad Watch
The Truth About Muhammad

 

 

 

 

 

Tucker Carlson on the flying imams
Jihad Watch
The Truth About Muhammad

 

 

 

 

 

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 This dude is really getting on my last nerve

 
By ANGELA CHARLTON
Associated Press Writer

Iran’s president warned Washington’s European allies on Tuesday that Iran would reconsider its relations with them if they insist on punishing Tehran for its nuclear program, saying that would amount to an act of “hostility.”  MORE

 

Well, duh who else would pray before they blow up planes? DUH!?  

 By Ann Coulter via Human Events 

The six imams removed from a US Airways flight last week have apparently adopted my suggestion that if they really want to protest the airline, instead of boycotting US Airways, they should start flying it frequently.

The spokesman for the imams — or as I believe it’s phrased in their culture, “designated liar” — Omar Shahin, staged a protest at Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday, after which, according to the Associated Press, “he and other religious leaders boarded a US Airways flight to demonstrate their determination to continue praying and flying.”

The original six imams removed from the flight last week first attracted attention when they said prayers to Allah on traditional Muslim prayer rugs in the boarding area. After boarding, they changed seats, spreading themselves throughout the plane. They were also overheard spouting anti-American rhetoric. Witnesses said the six men appeared to be either Islamic fanatics or U.S. Army chaplains on leave from Guantanamo.

Following the lead of FEMA in keeping Americans safe, the Homeland Security Department’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is investigating the removal of the imams from the US Airways flight. (Talk about coincidences — I’m currently investigating the removal of the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties from the Department of Homeland Security!)

Imam spokesman Shahin is a great example of why airport security ought to be profiling Arabs. Shahin’s predecessor at the Islamic Center in Tucson was Osama bin Laden’s financier and head of logistics — until he was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2002.

Instead of aggressively distinguishing himself from his terrorist predecessor, judging by news reports, Shahin spent the five years after 9/11 denying that Muslims were behind the attacks and complaining of phony anti-Islamic “hate crimes” — as opposed to the pro-Islamic hate crimes he presumably endorses.

In 2003, for example, Shahin alleged that a woman in Arizona had thrown shoes at children at the mosque.

This is the most transparent hoax I’ve heard since, “If I did it, here’s how I would have done it.” This is like the joke about a speaker at an American communist rally opening with: “Workers and peasants of Brooklyn!” Shahin has so little insight into this country, he can’t even invent a believable hate crime.

It’s Arabs who have a thing about shoes being a sign of disrespect, not Americans. When Iraqis toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein, the crowd immediately pelted it with shoes. Saddam installed a mosaic of the first president Bush’s face on the ground floor of his palace so that visitors would be forced to disrespect Bush by walking on his visage in their shoes.

Shahin himself couldn’t get away from this pan-Arabic shoe fetish, adding: “The incidents of Muslims being attacked kind of shocked me in my shoes.” Note to imams trying to fabricate hate crimes against Muslims: Americans don’t share your shoe neurosis.

At Reagan National this week, Rabbis joined the Muslims at the prayer protest — though one imagines they did not share this prayer from the Hadith: “And the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: ‘O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!’” In fairness, they usually save that one for the high holidays, like the “Festival of the Six Dead Jews” or “Honor Killing Week.”

Nor this one, also from the Hadith: “The Prophet said: ‘The Hour will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them. The Muslims will kill the Jews. Rejoice! Rejoice in Allah’s victory!’” (Is it just me, or might some fanatic twist those words into an excuse to kill Jews?)

Also strange was that the NAACP has piped in to complain about racial profiling of Muslims. The only reason Americans feel guilty about “racial profiling” against blacks is because of the history of discrimination against blacks in this country.

What did we do to the Arabs? I believe Americans are the victims in that relationship. After the attacks of 9/11, profiling Muslims is more like profiling the Klan.

 

By Mona Charen - Townhall.com 

Six imams got on a plane in Minneapolis. Accounts vary, but it seems that they were speaking in Arabic before boarding of their disgust with the U.S. war in Iraq and with American policy in general. One was heard to declare that he would do whatever was necessary to fulfill his obligations under the Koran. Another repeated, “Allah, Allah.” Once aboard, they aroused suspicion by requesting seat-belt extenders that they did not appear to require and took seats not together but scattered throughout the plane.

Several people contacted the flight attendants, and the men were asked to leave.

Now comes the nonsense. The Associated Press declares that this is a case of “flying while Muslim,” and a TV anchor compares the imams to Rosa Parks. Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations denounced the incident as an example of “Islamophobia,” adding, “We are concerned that crew members, passengers and security personnel may have succumbed to fear and prejudice based on stereotyping of Muslims and Islam.”

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that its Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is opening an inquiry into the incident. And talk radio is abuzz. “Would they have done the same to a group of priests?” asked one talk radio host. “Or rabbis?”

Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that the person who was overheard chanting “Allah, Allah” was actually saying something else. Let’s go ahead and allow that there was nothing suspicious about the request for seat-belt extenders, as several of the imams were a bit rotund. Let’s even agree that the six imams were “victims” of discrimination.

It’s a shame. But it’s absolutely necessary. It cannot have been pleasant to be denied the opportunity to fly, to be singled out, to be embarrassed in front of a plane full of strangers. But this knee-jerk reaction to the word “discrimination” is completely out of place in this discussion.

When passengers see six Arab men praying, talking animatedly in Arabic (a fellow passenger understood Arabic and was one of those who contacted a flight attendant), and then boarding an airplane and sitting in different places, I wonder what goes through their minds? Is it: “I sure don’t like Muslims. Think I’ll just harass and annoy them”? Or could it possibly be: “Oh dear God, this is what the 9/11 hijackers must have looked like”?

Is it discrimination? Well, of course it is. But that cannot be the end of the discussion. We are so robotic in America whenever the word “discrimination” is used that we shut down thought and all genuflect in the direction of whoever is complaining. But the proper question is not whether it is discrimination but whether it is justified.

Of course passengers would not be nervous in the presence of six priests or six rabbis. Neither of these groups has any history of blowing up innocent people. Nor do Americans despise those who pray. In fact, uniquely among Western democracies, we are great fans of religion.

But Islam is problematic. While we would love to think that Islam is as pacific as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or Hinduism, the facts suggest otherwise. Time and again, terrorists who have committed or attempted to commit murder on a large scale have done so after becoming serious Muslims.

This is a hijacking of a great faith you say? Maybe so. I’m inclined to believe it since I do not think that a billion people would be drawn to a religion of hate. But that much having been said, the haters within Islam are certainly having a heck of a run at the moment. Maybe they are only 10 percent of the worldwide total of the umma, but that still leaves us with 100 million very religious fellows who believe they have divine sanction to blow us up.

One final note, if Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, is correct, one of the imams ejected from that plane, Omar Shahin, was involved with the Islamic charity Kind Hearts, which has had its assets frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department because of its connections to the terrorist group Hamas.

For any Muslim looking folks who happen to peep PPP and in case ole Snoop has not said this before, if you are a towel head looking dude and you get on a plane chanting some crazy shit I can’t understand and especially if there are a group of you people, I’m calling security and if your ass don’t get escorted off the plane then I’m getting the fuck off. I don’t trust you, none of you I don’t give a shit if you do call me a racist, prejudice whatever.
When you lose the persona of blowing shit up I may change my mind.
If you have a problem with that you can kiss my black ass.
I’m all for racial profiling.

Posted by Noel Sheppard on Newsbusters

First Coast News in Jacksonville, Florida, did a fabulous piece Tuesday on how terrorists are using websites like YouTube and MySpace to recruit, train, and send messages to their cadre (hat tip to our friend Joe Myers). Some of the transcript was posted at FirstCoastNews.com, and the absolutely must-see video is here: 

It’s a video showing a room full of children sharing their dreams. They are not excited about being doctors, lawyers or teachers. Instead, the children shout, “We are the nation of Hezbollah. I shall sacrifice my life for Allah.”

A group of children in training to be a mujahideen, or holy warrior.

Online there are videos of those warriors. One suicide bomber announces he is readying himself to blow up a group of American soldiers.

The video goes on for eight minutes and even shows the explosion. In the background are cheers from those taking the pictures.

The video is just some of the many the First Coast News I-team found on the internet from sites like Youtube and Myspace.

“I think right now we are a ticking time bomb,”
says Tom Hayden, a retired Lt. Col Marine, who is also a counter terrorism expert.

Hayden says some of the videos, while disturbing, are online for a reason.

“Something like myspace, probably the most well known, popular website right now, it’s even being used to transmit messages,” says Hayden.

He says there are messages left on the internet for those recruited to carry out another 9/11 type attack. Hayden says those Jihad soldiers are getting messages in chat rooms and on message boards.

“There is a specific time that a message is coming. Then it’s on there and then it is taken off,” says Hayden.

He says hidden messages are also being sent in pictures and videos and the solider is already equipped with the code to unlock the secret. “It’s being used quite frequently.”

In fact, some of the videos we found and recorded were gone in a matter of days, removed by the user.

There was no trace of what was there or who the page belonged to. The experts will tell you that’s a problem, because there is a new breed of terrorist out there.

“You won’t see anymore like we have Mohammad Atta and that group that came,” says Hayden.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation agrees, saying the Internet has created a series of new problems.

Shocking.

By Alison Espach
CNSNews.com Correspondent
August 11, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - A Muslim group criticized President Bush for saying that America is “at war with Islamic fascists” after U.K. authorities arrested 24 British citizens of Pakistani origin in an attempt to bomb numerous flights to the U.S. Thursday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the president’s “hot button” terminology puts the name of Islam and the Muslim community at risk.

Bush called the attempted terrorist attack “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.”

Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR, believes Bush should not even mention Islam when referring to the would-be terrorists.

“We have to isolate these individuals because there is nothing in the Koran or the Islamic faith that encourages people to be cruel or to be vicious or to be criminal,” Awad said. “Muslims world wide know that for sure.”

Middle East expert and Islamic history expert Daniel Pipes told Cybercast News Service that Awad’s claim is a “debatable proposition.”

“Islam is a political religion in a way that none other is,” said Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and author of “Militant Islam Reaches America.” “There are many elements within the religion and the history of Islam that suggest there is a dynamic of conquest.

“There is something inherently expansionist about Islam,” Pipes continued. “Jihad is expansionist warfare.”

Pipes praised Bush specifically for his use of the phrase “Islamic fascists.”

“For the president to articulate who the enemy is so clearly and unambiguously is a huge step forward,” Pipes said. “You cannot diagnose and treat a disease without first identifying and naming it. So, a strategist cannot defeat an enemy without first identifying it and naming it.”

Muslims should not be disturbed by the term “Islamic fascists,” Pipes argued, because Bush is “identifying not Islam the religion, but a radical form of Islam.”

“Those groups that are protesting tend to support that form of Islam,” Pipes contended. He believes most Muslims have no problem with the phrase because they understand it to refer to an extreme form of Islam separate from their beliefs.

In addition to limiting the president’s comments, CAIR wants the U.S. media to disassociate Islam with terrorists “to make sure we don’t start a religious war against Islam and Muslims.” The group says American reporters should adopt the policies of the British media when identifying suspected terrorists.

Most British media will not identify terrorists as “Muslim,” “Islamic” or “Islamists” even when physical evidence shows they were motivated by beliefs based on Islamic teachings or writings.

Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the CAIR board, also anticipates a negative backlash against the Muslim community.

“We also urge local law enforcement agencies to coordinate with Muslim leaders to deter hate crimes,” Ahmed said. “It is also important that our fellow Americans understand that Muslims are law-abiding citizens who should not be targeted or singled out because of their faith or national origin.”

 
From kennel club to bean fest, Homeland Security list has many questionable locations.
By DAVE HELLING
The Kansas City Star

The Truman Sports Complex and Worlds of Fun are on the list. So is the water plant, the Kansas State Fair and Kansas Speedway.
Bannister Mall was on it once, but came off.
The “list” is a database of more than 77,000 potential terror targets, compiled by the Department of Homeland Security. It includes hospitals, nuclear power plants — and golf courses, petting zoos, and swimming pools.
This week the inspector general of the Homeland Security Department said the list, known as the National Asset database, is seriously flawed. In a 54-page study, Richard Skinner said the list has so many questionable targets it’s hard to sort out actual threats, and to spend money in the right places.
“Every possible target is not going to rise to the level of national significance,” the report says. “Ambiguity … could lead to inefficient use of limited homeland security resources.”

The report included examples of what it calls “curious” places on the target list:

•A check-cashing location

•A bean fest

•A yacht-repair business

•An ice cream parlor

•A casket company

•A flea market

•A “kennel club and poker room”

States submitted the sites to the department beginning in 2003. But, the study found, states used dramatically different standards for submitting potential targets: Indiana claimed 8,591 “critical infrastructure” assets, more than twice as many as California and four times as many as Ohio.
An Indiana official said Wednesday the state would review its list.
Washington state listed more national-monument targets than Washington, D.C. Virginia listed more than 2,000 schools, the report found; eight states listed none.
Critics of the Homeland Security Department, especially lawmakers from New York, said they were worried the list could lead to misspent terror funds.
But the department said Wednesday the database is a raw collection of information sent in by the states, and it is not the only tool it uses to spend money.
“It’s not our list,” said spokesman Jarrod Agen. “We look at it, then pull the information we need from it” for a list of high-profile terror targets.
“Down the line,” he said, “we may need information about theme parks, and zoos, and (the list) is worth keeping as a reference tool.”
The report says Kansas has 983 possible targets; Missouri, 684. It does not specifically mention any sites in either state, although the report says a Nestle Purina pet food plant and a Bass Pro Shop are on the list. Both companies are based in Missouri.
Officials in both states declined a request from The Star to examine the list, claiming the information is secret.
“There’s no way a reporter can see it,” said Terri Durdaller of the Missouri Department of Public Safety.
Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting is the Kansas director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. “I’ve looked over our list item by item, and we don’t have anything in here like that,” he said, referring to food shops and golf courses.
“We’re a state with levees and dams, with bridges and pipelines that crisscross the state,” he said. “I’m comfortable with our list.”
Apparently, it includes no large balls of twine. Other states, however, tossed in a groundhog zoo, a kangaroo conservation center, “a beach at the end of (a) street,” a “Trees of Mystery,” a bourbon fest and a mule day parade.
The Kansas City list is maintained by the Police Department, emergency management officials said. The department declined to release it.
“We don’t think it’s a public record,” said Capt. Rich Lockhart.
Those who have seen the list say it contains obvious infrastructure, like water plants and electricity generating stations, as well as large tourist attractions such as Worlds of Fun and the Truman Sports Complex.
“Anybody with common sense can identify major portions of critical infrastructure for Kansas City,” said D.A. Christian, Kansas City emergency preparedness director.
Bannister Mall was taken off the list after local officials told the government it was not a significant target.
The national study suggests four improvements to the database, including removing “extremely insignificant” assets.
The Homeland Security Department said it would take a look at the recommendations, but said funding shortfalls might make a thorough review difficult.

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Progress in Developing the National Asset Database | Office of Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security