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"Now They Call Me Infidel." Nonie Darwish Speaks Out

Ex-Mulism and author, Nonie Darwish explains how the majority of Muslims are still in denial or vehemently believe that 9/11 and other "terrorism" is a Jewish conspiracy or self-defense against invaders of Muslim lands. (Via: A New Dark Age Dawning)

"Now They Call Me Infidel. During the interview, Nonie mentions the film "Obsession" that she believes all Muslims should see. Here is the intro at YouTube and more information at Front Page.

The principal venue is college campuses and Muslim student associations continue to agitate to prevent viewing.

Not a surprise as Muslims steadfastly refuse to hear criticism from either non-Muslims or Muslims, and label those that do "Infidels" as they have Nonie Darwish, a technique advocated by Mohammed who condemned to death all that opposed him during his lifetime and mandated that his cohorts follow suit, which they have for 1,400 years.

Instead of being tolerant and peaceful, they are Defenders of Intolerance,[and] Enemies of Free Speech, a position which they deny.

How can a Jihadist be able to claim that lopping off the head of "an infidel" is "peaceful"? The answer lies in the dualistic nature of Islam. Both positions are true at the same time because anything that is done to put forward the goals and aspirations of Islam are true and right. Also Mohammed, the "perfect model of behavior," mandated the "right path", part of which is to slay all non-believers, especially apostates.

And "peace" is Islam has an opposite meaning to that which we in the West understand. Instead of meaning the cessation of hostilities and co-existence, Islamic peace can only be achieved through the "abscence of enemies."

How do you make enemies go away? You offer them a chance to join you cause, in this case, to become Muslim, or to make understand that they must submit to the rule of Islam and Muslims. Those that continue in obstinacy must be killed.

We see this being carried out every day: people are overcome by Muslim invaders and sometimes kidnappers. Others are frightened into submission, such as forcing non-Muslim women to be veiled and men to wear beards, the forgoing of the consumption of alcohol, and giving up listening to music.

Finally, those that that refuse to comply, to be driven out, speak out, or fight back are murdered, sometimes in the most gruesome way...as an object lesson to the rest who would dare to not submit to Islamic totalitarianism.

Another Troubling Influence: Pelosi Hires Soros' Right-Hand Man

This is not good! George Soros has finally landed in the catbird seat, at the right hand of the Speaker of the House, the person who peers over the shoulder of the President of the United States at every State of the Union Speech, who also sits to next to the Vice-President.

One can learn a great deal about the values and core beliefs of a political figure by taking note of the people he or she assigns to key government posts. Consider, for instance, what we can learn about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the basis of her February 8th appointment of Joseph Onek to be her Senior Counsel. “This is a critical time for the Congress and the country,” Onek said following his appointment, “and I thank the Speaker for the opportunity to return to government service and work on behalf of the American people.”

But who is Joseph Onek, and how exactly does he define working “on behalf of the American people”? A not insignificant clue is provided by the fact that Onek, a 1967 graduate of Yale Law School, is currently a Senior Policy Analyst for George Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI), one of the world’s major financiers of the political far Left. OSI is a member of the benignly named Peace and Security Funders Group, an association of more than 50 foundations that earmark a sizable portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways:

*by characterizing the United States as an aggressively militaristic nation that exploits vulnerable populations all over the globe

*by accusing the U.S. of having provoked, through its unjust policies and actions, the terror attacks against it, and consequently casting those attacks as self-defensive measures taken in response to American transgressions
by depicting America’s military and legislative actions against terror as unjustified, extreme, and immoral

*by steadfastly defending the civil rights and liberties of terrorists whose ultimate aim is to facilitate the annihilation of not just the United States, but all of Western civilization

*by striving to eradicate America’s national borders and institute a system of mass, unregulated migration into and out of the United States — thereby rendering all distinctions between legal and illegal immigrants anachronistic, and making it much easier for aspiring terrorists to enter the U.S. Toward this end, OSI has poured rivers of money into the coffers of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, theNational Immigration Law Center, the National Immigration Forum, the National Council of La Raza, and the American Immigration Law Foundation.

Read the original with links.

It seems that the Yale connection is doing us in: John Kerry and George W. Bush, both Yale graduates and fellow members of the Skull and Crossbones. I wonder if Onek is also a "Bonesman."

The whole thing is sickening!

Global Warming as European Imperialism ... of America

Didn't you get a warm and fuzzy feeling this week after viewing Al Gore's triumph at the Academy Award Ceremony? After all the poor man suffered due to his loss to George W. Bush in the 2004 election, it was certainly "nice" to see him win something. It appears that Hollywood is setting up Gore, a perhaps Obama, as the next best hope to installing European-style socialism in the U.S. that would be nothing short of European imperialism according to James Lewis at The American Thinker:

From: Global Warming as European Imperialism

The great Global Warming scare is only the latest eructation of European imperialism. Euro-imperialism used to be known as socialism. Before that, it was just called British or French imperialism, because those countries were very proud of it. There was no need to lie. The only reason today's huge European effort to control the world isn't called "imperialism" any more, is that its supporters hate that word. The reality of imperial control is fine with them.

According to one dictionary, imperialism is

"the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies."

That is exactly European policy today with regard to Global Warming.

A Reminder of What's Good About America and the English-Speaking World

With all the disheartening news and rhetoric aimed at America and the UK, it's refreshing to be reminded of the good acts performed by these two nations. Unfortunately forces at home and abroad are determined to cut the legs and heart out of the best thing that has happened to the world.

Here's an interview with author Andrew Robert by Jamie Glaznov at Front Page:

All Muslims are "moderate"

According to former Malaysian primer minister Dr. Mahathir Mohammad quoted at Malaysia Today, Muslims do not need to defend themselves as moderate or liberal Muslims "as this gave a picture that we're only partial followers of Islamic teachings while others (teachings) were deemed extreme.":

"Islam is already a moderate religion...there is no need for us to show that were are more liberal Muslims than others. We are Muslims...period," he said when opening the 45th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Muslim Welfare Organisation of Malaysia (Perkim) here.

Dr Mahathir, who is also Perkim president, said that even if some Muslims were labelled extremists, it was not because of the teachings of Islam but a lack of understanding of them or the religion being manipulated by irresponsible followers.

"There is nothing extreme about Islam if we follow its teachings as contained in the Quran," he said.

Stop This Trend in the USA Now!

Thanks to the American Israeli Patriot blog for this article. 

News of this event is making the blog and website rounds, as it should.  Just feeling angry or sorry for the poor fellow in Egypt by us over here is not enough.  But, first, read the article.

 
Egypt | 22.02.2007

Four-year prison sentence for blogger “Kareem Amer”
 

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemned the four-year prison sentence imposed today by a court in Alexandria on Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman for “inciting hatred of Islam” and insulting President Hosni Mubarak in his blog, for which he used the pseudonym of “Kareem Amer.”

“This sentence is a disgrace,” the press freedom organisation said. “Almost three years ago to the day, President Mubarak promised to abolish prison sentences for press offences. Suleiman’s conviction and sentence is a message of intimidation to the rest of the Egyptian blogosphere, which had emerged in recent years as an effective bulwark against the regime’s authoritarian excesses.”

Why Are Some People Still Confused About How and Why We Can Fight Islam?

On February 16, at a meeting in Wittenberg, Germany, Professor Grace Davie (University of Exeter, Britain) said to leaders of Europe’s main Christian traditions: “The presence of Islam …has reopened issues that Europeans thought were closed.”

What was she talking about?

Here was what she said: “You cannot privatise Islam. We have seen that.” Why is her concern about “privatization” of Islam of such concern to her? Why does she bring it up with other Christian leaders? Why is it important to all of us, believers or not?

It is important because the “privatization” of spiritual choice is a fundamental characteristic of Western civilization, and understanding why that is so is essential to our survival.

Many people in the U.S., religious or not, wonder how to fight Islam, or even if we should fight it, since the freedom to believe is enshrined in our Constitution. Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers, a Framer of the Constitution, and the third President of the United States, said: “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

Islam loudly proclaims itself to be a religion. How, then, without violating the fundamental right to think or believe freely, can we legitimately propose to fight Islam? Wouldn’t any prohibition against any of Islam’s tenets be a violation of the rights of Muslims to believe?

The Center for the Study of Political Islam shines a bright light on this subject by pointing out that Islam is a total fusion of two components, the political and the religious. Unlike the West, there is no separation of the two components. Muslims are not free to think or believe freely.

Anyone in the West is free to think or believe anything he wishes; that is his right. He can believe that the moon is made of green cheese, that the earth is flat, or that human sacrifice is fine and dandy, even though none of these is a valid notion.

However, while he is free to believe whatever he wishes here in the West, he is not free to act however he wishes. His actions are limited to those that do not violate our rights. Thus, he may believe human sacrifice is a good thing; to do so does not violate our rights; but he cannot carry it out, because it violates the sacrificial victim’s right to life.

The separation of the fusion of politics and religion that constitutes Islam is key to winning this battle for our cultural survival. We must allow Muslims to believe whatever they want, but we cannot permit them to carry out their political agenda of compelled belief, the replacement of the Constitution with the Koran and sharia law, or the forced “dhimmification” of our citizens.

The Center for the Study of Political Islam offers a selection of books to help those who are confused by the question “How can we prohibit any action by Islam, (since Islam is a religion), and still respect Muslims’ religious freedom?”

CSPI states that it “has developed a method that will allow anyone to learn the doctrine of Islam and gain clarity about the most pressing political issue of the 21st century.”

The “CSPI Method” consists of three parts:

1) “Islam is a religion and a political system. Only the political system is of interest to non-Muslims, since it determines how Islam treats you. Study the religion of Islam if you want to become a Muslim.”

2) “All of Islam is based upon the Koran, the Sira (life of Mohammed), and Hadith (Traditions of Mohammed) – the Islamic Trilogy.”

3) “The entire political doctrine is found in the Trilogy. By reading the Trilogy, you will understand Islam’s actions and words.”

The “Primary Doctrine” books are: 1) “Mohammed and the Unbelievers,” 2) “The Political Traditions of Mohammed,” 3) “A Simple Koran,” and 4) “An Abridged Koran.”

“Special Interest” books are: 1) “Mohammed, Allah and the Christians,” 2) “Mohammed, Allah and the Jews,” 3) “Mohammed, Allah and the Hindus,” 4) “Mohammed, Allah, and the Intellectuals,” and 5) “Mohammed, Allah, and the ‘Mind of War.’”

CSPI says that “you can understand Islam by seeing through the eyes of Mohammed and thinking like Mohammed. The very words that you use to discuss Islam will change. Media accounts of Islam will be seen in a new light. The history of Islam will make sense. In short, you will…find that you can discuss political Islam with anyone and prevail against those who differ.”

Argentina's Kirchner Backs Chavez

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EL TIGRE, Venezuela (AP) - Argentina's president pledged on Wednesday to deepen ties with Venezuela, snubbing a U.S. diplomatic effort to counter the influence of leftist President Hugo Chavez in South America.

President Nestor Kirchner offered wholehearted support to Chavez less than two weeks after meeting with top U.S. State Department officials who expressed concern that the Venezuelan leader was steering his country toward authoritarianism.

"It cannot be that it bothers anyone that our nations become integrated," Kirchner said during a one-day visit to Venezuela in which the two countries signed a series of economic cooperation agreements.
In a visit partly seen as an attempt to counter Chavez, President Bush plans to travel to several Latin American countries next month, including Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.

Salafists, China and West Africa's Growing Anarachy

From: Salafists, China and West Africa's Growing Anarchy by Douglas Farah at International Assessment and Strategy Center:

The most visible armed Islamic threat emerged in the form the small Salfist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), Led by Amar Saifi, known as Al Para because he was a French-trained paratrooper in the Algerian military, the GSPC declared his loyalty to al Qaeda. The group gained a small degree of international notoriety last year [2003] after kidnapping a group of 32 "extreme tourists" in the Sahara. Most of the tourists were German, and the German government paid a reported $8 million ransom to free its citizens.

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U.S. to exempt kids from passport rules

Yahoo News
"Beginnng last January 23, nearly all air travelers entering the U.S. who are citizens of Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, or the Caribbean - as well as returning American citizens - have been required to display passports." There are new rules for children:

Children will be exempt from new rules that will require travelers to show passports when entering the U.S. at land or sea borders, the Bush administration announced on Thursday.

The new passport requirements will take effect as soon as January 2008. In a change from earlier plans, children aged 15 or younger with parental consent will be allowed to cross the borders at land and sea entry points with certified copies of their birth certificates rather than passports.

Children aged 16 through 18 traveling with school, religious, cultural or athletic groups and under adult supervision will also be allowed to travel with only their birth certificates.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was expected to discuss the relaxation in rules at a speech in Detroit on Thursday afternoon. The department described the details in a written statement.

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Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said the easing of rules for children entering by land or sea was in part the result of talks between the department and Canadians and interested state officials. Canada and U.S. border states have been concerned that the passport requirements would hurt legitimate travel and commerce.

When the new requirements for travelers crossing land and sea borders take effect, it will bring residents of Western Hemisphere nations under the same rules as travelers from the rest of the world.

The rules were mandated by Congress in 2004 as a response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the recommendations by the Sept. 11 commission that border security be tightened.

Last October, Congress passed an amendment sponsored by Sens. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), D-Vt., and Ted Stevens (news, bio, voting record), R-Alaska, that would postpone the day the land and sea rules take effect for as long as 17 months, till June 2009, if certain conditions have not been met.

One of those conditions was to develop an alternative procedure for groups of children traveling across the border under adult supervision and with parental consent.

Chertoff will meet with local officials in Detroit before traveling to Ottawa, Canada, for meetings Friday with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts.

There we go again: worrying about commerce and "ease of passage." What about safety, or prevention of kidnapping or of violation parental custody? How do the new rules protect?