He Wasn't On Public Assistance

Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta's resident barking moonbat columnist and race card player extraordinaire pulled this quote from a Time magazine article on the Oregon jihadist.

“This a good family. The father is an engineer at Intel. This is not somebody who is on public assistance. He is a family man, a businessman, a religious man, a soccer player.”

The thrust of her column was that the FBI received help from the Muslim community in discovering the wannabee Christmas tree bomber in Portland. I seemed to recall a similar storyline around another wannabee member of the Red Spray Brigade nicknamed the "Crotch Bomber."

Sources tell CBS News "The Nigerian" has now turned out to be Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. But that connection was not made when Abudulmutallab's father went to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria three months later, on November 19, 2009. It was then he expressed deep concerns to a CIA officer about his son's ties to extremists in Yemen, a hotbed of al Qaeda activity.

So far what we do know is that neither of these jihadists came from poor or underprivileged backgrounds, the Portland bombers dad was an engineer at Intel and the Crotch Bomber's dad was the head of several banks in Africa. The Christmas tree bomber was attending college in Oregon and the Crotch Bomber was studying mechanical engineering in England while living in an upscale apartment, so we can throw out all of the crushing poverty and living under oppression cliches and stereotypes that leftists love to use to justify these types of acts.

So what appears to be developing is a common thread of a generational gap within the Muslim community. It seems to be some sort generation hopping going on. The old hardliners trying to hold on to the glory days of the caliphate seem to have an appeal to the younger generation while a middle generation seems to have been largely unaffected by this fascination with jihad, but even that characterization is too simplistic in light of the group of 9/11 terrorists. I however am not ready to jump on the love for all things Muslim because of a couple of cases where family members alerted authorities about the possible radicalization of their offspring. For each case like this there are literally hundreds of cases of where the Muslim community closes ranks and harbors those among them who wish to pursue their dreams of jihad.

Oh and to show just how rambling I can be, what sparked my interest in this column was the statement from the article in which the person quoted, to try and show what a good family the jihadist came from, had to mention that he was not on public assistance. Not sure what that has to do with anything but if I was Ms Tucker she might want to see what the Muslim community has against folks on public assistance since a large part of the audience that she aims her columns at do receive public assistance. One of the largest talking points of the radical Hezbollah party is all of the great and wonderful public service projects they do in an attempt to divert attention from their stated goal of wiping Israel off the map. Half of the Muslim world subsists on some sort of government assistance, whether supplied by the UN, gullible western countries or their own installed royalty.

Sorry Cynthia, I will remain in the camp that believes the only Muslim I am going to hug is the one I am trying to give the TSA treatment to.

Terrorist Front Group CAIR Threatens YAF, Robert Spencer

These thugs are getting daring.



The appropriate response:

“CAIR can go to Hell and they can take their 72 virgins with them.”

Finally, someone tells them where to go.

Did You Hear The One About ...

This will most likely be dismissed by the Koslings as propaganda dictated by Karl Rove for the sole purpose of moving the weekend newscycle away from Scooter Libby.

The Telegraph, a British newspaper, is defying intrepid prime minister Gordon Brown's plea not to use language that would suggest a link between terrorism and Muslims/Islam.

45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids
A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site.
Police found details of the discussions on a site run by one of a three-strong "cyber-terrorist" gang.

They were discovered at the home of Younis Tsouli, 23, Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London heard.

One message read: "We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America.

"The first target which will be penetrated by nine brothers is the naval base which gives shelter to the ship Kennedy." This is thought to have been a reference to the USS John F Kennedy, which is often at Mayport Naval Base in Jacksonville, Florida.

The message discussed targets at the base, adding: "These are clubs for naked women which are opposite the First and Third units."

Ahh, yes! The naked women excuse to become a murderous psychopath. If they'd only adhere to the teachings of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

It also referred to using six Chevrolet GT vehicles and three fishing boats and blowing up petrol tanks with rocket propelled grenades.

Investigators have found no link between the Tsouli chat room and the group of doctors and medics currently in custody over attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.

However, sources said it was "definitely spooky" that the use of doctors for terrorist purposes was being discussed in jihadi terrorist circles up to three years ago.

Part of the inquiry into the London and Glasgow incidents will focus on whether al-Qa'eda has recruited doctors or other medical professionals because they are less likely to attract suspicion and can move easily around the western world.

The three "cyber terrorists" - a British national and two who had been given the right to live in Britain - are facing lengthy jail sentences after admitting using the internet to spread al-Qa'eda propaganda inciting Muslims to a violent holy war and to murder non-believers.

They had close links with al-Qa'eda in Iraq and believed they had to fight jihad against a global conspiracy by kuffars, or non-believers, to wipe out Islam.

Where in hell have have these dunderheads been? There is no al-Qa'eda in Iraq. And this veiled reference to the International Bushchimphitler-Pajamashadeen-Joooish Conspiracy, wazzup with continued use of that old canard?

The three are the first defendants in Britain to be convicted of inciting terrorist murder on the internet. They waged cyber-jihad on websites run from their bedrooms.

That should give the Truthers a good start on the development of Kosling Conspiracy Theory No.___.

Tsouli promoted the ideology of Osama bin Laden via email and radical websites. He said in one message he was "very happy" about the July 7 bombings in London in 2005.

100:1 Tsouli goes into prison a jihad prince but comes out an Islamic queen.

Tsouli, along with Tariq Daour, a biochemistry student, and Waseem Mughal, a law student, were intelligent, computer-literate men who promoted violent propaganda.

They created chat forums to direct willing fighters to Iraq and discuss murderous bomb attacks around the world. Films of hostages and beheadings were found by police.

Daour, 21, of Bayswater, west London, who was born in the United Arab Emirates, yesterday admitted inciting another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly outside Britain. Moroccan-born Tsouli, 23, of Shepherd's Bush, west London, and British-born Mughal, 24, of Chatham, Kent, admitted the same charge on Monday.

They are due to be sentenced today. They also admitted conspiring together and with others to defraud banks, credit card companies and charge card companies. Daour had instructions for making explosives and poisons, the court was told. Police found instructions on causing an explosion with "rocket propellant'' and constructing a car bomb.

In one on-line conversation, Daour, asked what he would do with £1 million, replied: "Sponsor terrorist attacks, become the new Osama."

The three men outwardly appeared to be leading normal lives, studying and living with their parents. Tsouli had come to the UK with his family from Morocco in 2001.

Mughal had a degree in biochemistry from Leicester University and was studying for his masters.

Daour, who was granted British citizenship in May 2005, had applied to start a law degree.

The world has more than enough lawyers. He shan't be missed.

Read it all.

Although Brown's don't call terrorists Muslims is an edict issued to his cabinet ministers, it was also an indirect plea to the media -- don't want to offend anybody, you see.

During his July 3 broadcast, Mark Levin, after careful analysis of the intrepid prime minister's plea, announced the proper way to identify terrorists. It begins at about 26 minutes into the show, after Mark issues a challenge to Bill and Hillary Rodham to back up their words with deeds.

They'll Surely Be 'Angered'

Here's something that's sure to get the mullah's and acolyte's knickers in a knot. All of the whining, protests and fatwa or two that have come about since Salman Rushdie was knighted five days ago, has had a chilling effect: Rushdie's book, The Satanic Verses, published in 1988, has experienced a growth in sales.

Home secretary defends Rushdie knighthood
John Reid today insisted Britain stood by the knighthood awarded to Salman Rushdie and would not apologise for the honour, despite anger in some Muslim countries.

The issue was "sensitive", the home secretary said following a speech in New York, but the protection of people's right to express their opinions in literature, argument and politics was "of overriding value to our society".

The British high commissioner in Islamabad, Robert Brinkley, has expressed concern to Pakistan's government over remarks supposedly made by the minister for religious affairs, Mohammed Ejaz ul-Haq, which appeared to justify suicide bombings as a response to the knighthood.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said Mr Brinkley had expressed "deep concern about what the minister of religious affairs is reported to have said".

Iran has also stepped up protests over the a knighthood for Rushdie, whose 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted a fatwa calling for his assassination.

Iran's state radio reported today that 221 of the country's 290 MPs signed a statement condemning Rushdie's knighthood.

Yesterday Iran's foreign ministry summoned the British ambassador to complain about the award.

An Iranian foreign ministry official, Ebrahim Rahimpour, told the ambassador, Geoffrey Adams, that the decision to award the honour to the author was a "provocative act" that had angered Muslims, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.

Speaking in New York, Mr Reid noted that some Christians were angered by film The Life of Brian, and some Jewish people were upset when Mel Gibson made films, but that this had to be tolerated.

"We have a set of values that accords people honours for their contribution to literature even if we don't agree with their point of view," he said. "That's our way and that's what we stand by."

He added: "We have very strong laws about promoting racial intolerance.

It sure would be nice if these PC nitwits would get it through their heads that Islam, like any other relgion (or anti-religion), is not a race.

It isn't a free-for-all. We've thought very carefully about it.

"But we have a right to express opinions, and a tolerance of other people's point of view, and we don't apologise for that."

Rushdie went into hiding for a decade after Iran's late spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa in 1989 calling for the author's assassination. The Iranian government distanced itself from the fatwa in 1998, declaring that it would not support the edict, but could not rescind it. He received the knighthood for services to literature in the Queen's birthday honours list published on Saturday.

Ahh, Khomeini, the spiritual leader. Here's a classic example of Khomeini's spiritual leadership.

The row over the honour has done no harm to sales of The Satanic Verses, nearly 20 years after it was first published in 1988.

The book was today ranked 12th in UK book sales by Amazon. It is the only book in the top rankings not published very recently.

On the US version of Amazon the book ranked 73rd.

Religion of Peace™

There's more.

Life Returns To Normal

Some would say that this rather bizarre. Actually, it's not.

Pakistanis burn effigies of Salman Rushdie in protest at knighthood

Salman Rushdie faced fresh threats of suicide attacks this afternoon following his knighthood.

A senior minister in the Pakistani government insisted he be stripped of the honour which was described as an affront to Muslims and a justification to kill the author.

In 1989 Rushdie's book Satanic Verses caused outrage in the Muslim world and led to the issuing of a fatwa calling for his death. Sir Salman went into hiding with round the clock protection but was slowly able to return to public life by 1999.

The inflammatory remarks by religious affairs minister Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq could reignite the threats to his life.

Mr ul-Haq told the Pakistani parliament that the writer's knighthood announced in the Queen's Birthday Honours "was an occasion for the (world's) 1.5billion Muslims to look at the seriousness of this decision".

He added: "The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism. If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so unless the British government apologises and withdraws the 'sir' title."

In the city of Multan, hardline Muslim students burned effigies of the Queen and Rushdie. About 100 students carrying banners condemning the author chanted, "kill him, kill him".

Religion of Peace™.

There's more.

An Interview With Natan Sharansky

During the Democracy and Security Conference, Radio Prague interviewed former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, now a citizen of Israel.

The conference was partly organised by the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center, an Israeli think-tank based in Jerusalem. Among the speakers was the Institute's founding chairman Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet dissident, ardent Zionist and onetime Israeli deputy prime minister. Mr Sharansky's book "The Case for Democracy" is said to have had a major influence on Mr Bush and his foreign policy ideas. He told Radio Prague why the conference was important.

[....]

President Bush has spoken about plans to build a U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic as part of the U.S. missile defence shield. It's aimed at what the U.S. describes as "rogue states" such as Iran. Is Iran really a threat to Europe and the United States?

"As someone who was involved for ten years in the efforts of the Israeli government, to stop the leakage of Russian and western technology to Iran, I can say that as early as 1997 it has been clear that the number one threat to the free world is the development of nuclear weapons and missile systems in Iran. Our intelligence services were warning the free world in 1997 that we have ten years to stop it. It took three or four years for the CIA to agree with our estimations. It took even longer for intelligence services of the rest of the free world to agree. Today everybody knows, everybody who is in this field, knows how dangerous this threat is, and that is one more reason why it is important - urgently - to support the democratic opposition in Iran. Here at this conference we have some leaders of the student democratic movement in Iran and some others who were in prison, who fought for freedom and who know very well that the people of Iran want to live in freedom. Their main appeal to the free world is - understand that your real allies are the democratic opposition in Iran."

Right, but even if Iran does develop the capability to attack Europe or the United States, where's the motive? Why would Iran risk an attack which would mean the country's certain destruction?

"Well, the problem is not only in non-conventional weapons. The problem is in a non-conventional regime. The leaders of Iran today, it's not like communists in the Soviet Union, who wanted paradise in this world. They want paradise in the next world, and they're ready to take everyone with them to the next world - to their paradise."

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The Fat Drunk from Taxachusetts was unavailable for comment.

Interview With Parnaz Azima

Parnaz Azima is a broadcaster with Radio Farda. She's being held captive in the RoP paradise of Iran, charged with "spreading propaganda against the state".

It is an interesting - and gutsy - interview.

Leading presidential candidate Ron Paul was unavailable for comment.

Islamic Studies Breeding Radicals

This should come as a surprise to absolutely nobody who's been paying attention for, oh, the past 25 years or so.

In a major review of the way Islam is taught on campuses, ministers will today call for courses to be improved to stop students being exposed to teaching that condones terrorism.

The report will also suggest that a network of Muslim faith advisers should be created to give impressionable youngsters spiritual guidance - and stop them falling under the influence of radicals. The move comes amid growing fears that universities and colleges are being infiltrated by fanatics recruiting for jihad.

Sheikh Musa Admani, the Muslim chaplain at London Metropolitan University and an adviser to Bill Rammell, the higher education minister, said he was aware of at least four universities in which students had been "groomed" by extremists.