Mavis Leno misunderstands Islam, poor dear

Wife of Jay Leno, Mavis seems to believe what she has been told about Islam, and regurgitates it for all to hear, while being interviewed by a Muslim, Maria Ibrahimji. I am disappointed in that Leno has done no research on her own, or if she has it is taken as false with no need to verify if the truth is being told to her. I hope it is the former, as ignorance can be cured with knowledge.

From the Dallas Examiner October 24 by Dina Malki

Women's activist Mavis Leno and CNN Muslim producer dialogue in Dallas

At the 26th annual Dallas Women’s Foundation’s luncheon, Mavis Leno, wife of talk show's comedian Jay Leno, shared with the audience accounts about her journey into activism to help empower Afghani women and girls under the Taliban regime.

“Global Women’s Voices: A Dialogue” was carried on by CNN Muslim journalist, Maria Ibrahimji, who together with Leno discussed how local voices can make positive change globally. The voices of local Dallas/Fort Worth Muslim women were heard during the event, when Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation was acknowledged for its local efforts in building bridges among communities.

Leno’s story started in the late nineties when she joined Feminist Majority Foundation, an organization for women’s equality, non-violence, economic development and empowerment of women and girls in all sectors of society. Leno was shocked to learn about the deteriorating status of Afghani women, who prior to the Taliban included women as elected officials in Kabul.

(...)When asked about the role of Islam in the status of women in Afghanistan, Leno confirmed that “the Quran is more liberal with women than the Bible.” She added that Prophet Mohammad was married to a wealthy and powerful woman, implying that Islam has nothing against empowering women; on the contrary it is a religion that supports women’s rights. Culture, on the other hand, affects the interpretation of religious texts which results in assaulting women’s rights.

The culture of Islam is not open to interpretation, Leno. Islam is a culture unto itself, and that culture treats women as second-class citizens. Islam empowers women to reproduce more male offspring, that's about it.

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Ready, Aim...Insult!

A child's toy that makes anti-Aisha sounds.

I cannot make this crap up, seriously.

Somehow, those sneaky Chinese have managed to make a kids toy gun that, when fired makes a sound which is evidentally an insult about Muhammads 9-year old wife, Aisha. 1,500 have been confiscated so far, I wonder how many rats, snakes, sharks and fenugreek seeds they rounded up as well.

From Emirates 24/7 October 26

Anti-Islam toy guns found in the UAE

An Emirati social expert and activist shopping in a local market stumbled across Chinese-made toy guns that issue sounds mocking Islam and called on authorities to take action against such products.

The discovery came a few days after Saudi authorities said they seized nearly 1,500 Chinese-made toy guns issuing sounds that mock and insult Aisha, the wife of the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him).

Mariam Al Ahmadi, a well-known social activist in Abu Dhabi, said she found the toy guns at some shops in Bani Yas, just outside Abu Dhabi city.

Quoted by the Dubai-based 'Emarat Al Youm' Arabic language daily, Mariam said she had reported the guns to the police and called for immediate measures.“I call upon the police and other competent authorities to investigate how these anti-Islam guns found their way into the UAE market and to take action against all those who had brought them in,” she said.

In Saudi Arabia, police said on Sunday they had seized nearly 1,500 Chinese-made toy guns at a local market found to be issuing sounds that abuse Aisha, one of the most venerated women in Islam.Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most influential law enforcement authority in the country, seized the toys...

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"There is probably no worse nightmare..in the 21st Century than if Pakistan gets out of control under the influence of extremist Islamic forces..."

It will probably end up a race between Iran and Pakistan as to who the first is to use a nuclear weapon. Until that time we deal with Pakistan and ignore many transgressions, in the name of the "War on Terrorism" whatever the hell that means nowadays.

Let me ask once again; how many more examples do we need to convince us that Pakistan is not our friend?

From the BBC October 26 by Sam Collyns

Afghanistan: Pakistan accused of backing Taliban

Klingon among the Taliban..who knew?

Pakistan has been accused of playing a double game, acting as America's ally in public while secretly training and arming its enemy in Afghanistan according to US intelligence.

In a prison cell on the outskirts of Kabul, the Afghan Intelligence Service is holding a young man who alleges he was recruited earlier this year by Pakistan's powerful military intelligence agency, the ISI.

He says he was trained to be a suicide bomber in the Taliban's intensifying military campaign against the Western coalition forces - and preparations for his mission were overseen by an ISI officer in a camp in Pakistan.

After 15 days training, he was sent into Afghanistan.

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"There were three of us. We were put into a black vehicle with black windows. The police did not stop the car because it was obviously ISI. No-one dares stop their cars. They told me... you will receive your explosive waistcoat, and then go and explode it."

Taliban bases in Pakistan

The man recruited to be a suicide bomber changed his mind at the last minute and was later captured by the Afghan intelligence service.

But his story is consistent with a mass of intelligence which has convinced the Americans that, as they suspected, for the last decade Pakistan has been secretly arming and supporting the Taliban in its attempt to regain control of Afghanistan.

These suspicions started as early as 2002, when the Taliban began launching attacks across the border from their bases in Pakistan, but they became more widely held after 2006 when the Taliban's assault increased in its ferocity, not least against the ill-prepared British forces in Helmand province.

The final turning point in American eyes was the attack on Mumbai when 10 gunmen rampaged through the Indian city, killing 170 people - two weeks after Barack Obama's US presidential election victory in November 2008.

Despite Pakistan claiming it played no part in the attack, the CIA later received intelligence that it said showed the ISI were directly involved in training the Mumbai gunmen.

President Obama ordered a review of all intelligence on the region by a veteran CIA officer, Bruce Riedel.

"Our own intelligence was unequivocal," says Riedel. "In Afghanistan we saw an insurgency that was not only getting passive support from the Pakistani army and the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI, but getting active support."

Training and supplies

Pakistan has repeatedly denied the claims. But the BBC documentary series Secret Pakistan has spoken to a number of middle-ranking - and still active - Taliban commanders who provide detailed evidence of how the Pakistan ISI has rebuilt, trained and supported the Taliban throughout its war on the US in Afghanistan.

"For a fighter there are two important things - supplies and a place to hide," said one Taliban commander, who fights under the name Mullah Qaseem. "Pakistan plays a significant role. First they support us by providing a place to hide which is really important. Secondly, they provide us with weapons."

So what are you really saying?

Another commander, Najib, says: "Because Obama put more troops into Afghanistan and increased operations here, so Pakistan's support for us increased as well."

He says his militia received a supply truck with "500 landmines with remote controls, 20 rocket-propelled grenade launchers with 2000 to 3000 grenades... AK-47s, machine-guns and rockets".

Pakistani military

Evidence of Pakistan's support for the Taliban is also plain to see at the border where insurgents are allowed to cross at will, or even helped to evade US patrols.

And the recent drone attacks in Pakistan have become increasingly effective as intelligence has been withheld from the Pakistanis, claims Mr Riedel.

"At the beginning of the drone operations, we gave Pakistan an advance tip-off of where we were going, and every single time the target wasn't there anymore. You didn't have to be Sherlock Holmes to put the dots together."

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Free speech for all or for none

I despise this professor, the tone of his remarks and wish him to lose his tenure. I also will defend his right to say what he did in all circumstances at all times. This is what free speech and the first amendment mean in their purest definition.

I do hope he is fired, there is no place for that kind of vitriol on campus, and you know his students take his class based, in part on his politics. Anyone can have any opinion they want, they can't have their own facts and pass them off to impressionable minds as the truth. He may hate Israel, he may hate Jews, he may even hate himself but the point is he is allowed to say what he wants, he doesn't have the right to teach that to kids. Not in a public school venue, anyway.

From The Blaze October 26 by Christopher Santarelli

KENT ST. PROF. REPORTEDLY YELLS ‘DEATH TO ISRAEL’ AT EVENT WITH ISRAELI DIPLOMAT

A Kent State history professor, who has allegedly been linked to elements of Muslim extremism, reportedly lashed out at a former Israeli diplomat speaking at the university Tuesday night.

The event was co-sponsored by the undergraduate student government and entitled “An Evening with Ishmael Khaldi.” Khaldi spoke in regards to his book, A Shepherd’s Journey, which details his life journey from a small tent in a Bedouin village to the inner-circles of the Israel Foreign Service. When his speech ended, Khaldi opened the floor to a Q&A, where History Professor Julio Pino rushed to be the first to question Khaldi.

John Milligan of KentWired, an independent student publication,reports that Pino began to question how Khaldi could justify speaking of foreign aid given from Israel to countries like Turkey, when that aid was financed by “blood money that came from the deaths of Palestinian children and babies.” Milligan, a senior majoring in magazine journalism, then captured the the most shocking part of the exchange:

“The crowd fell into an awkward silence as the two continued to exchange words from across the auditorium.

‘It is not respectful to me here,’ Khaldi said.

Pino responded by saying ‘your government killed people’ and claimed Khaldi was not being respectful to him.

‘I do respect you, but you are wrong,’ Khaldi said. ‘It’s a lie.’

The exchange ended as Pino stormed out of the auditorium shouting ‘Death to Israel!’”

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Creeping dhimmitude in America

Too many times now we have seen capitulation to Islamic threats by hotels and other places of gathering, the backbone of previous generations gone by the wayside. It is fashionable to crumble under the withering words, and possible actions from the "religion of the perpetually insulted" in order to maintain some semblance of....what, exactly I do not know. Peace? Order? Safety? What possibly could cause otherwise clear-thinking men and women to suddenly abandon all critical and ethical thinking skills in the name of preserving the peace? There is only one example that fits, that of fear of offending someone. Free speech is dead when we believe anything we say, or do will offend or insult even one person and we modify our speech to accommodate that perceived incorrect patter.

Islam is very good at intimidation, it happened to me when my class on Islam was cancelled by Lane Community College because of threats from CAIR. The college caved to Muslim muscle, fearful of their students and the possible physical clashes, rather than standing tall for free speech rights and the ability for people to say what they want without being scared of reprisals. Islam wants nothing less than a total ban on talking about Islamic doctrine, sharia, the Qur'an, jihad, polygamy, pedophilia, arranged marriages, sanctioned murder, unending warfare, persecution of non-Muslims, death for apostasy, women worth half that of a man, stonings and amputations, the list is almost endless of the topics within Islam which are taboo. By ignoring and penalizing dialogue which some find objectionable we run the risk of diluting the constitution and making it impossible for basic rights of free association and free inquiry to be upheld. Our civil liberties are being eroded by those who claim to be American and support our inherent rights, their behavior show otherwise.

Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are now seen as pariahs with no redeeming value, and can be dismissed as such with the wave of the hand. Here are two articles with more depth and context than the MSM, which has not picked this story up. Hmmm...

Notice that the executive of the hotel chain finally tells WND that yes, the threats came from Muslims but had previous to that refused to say just who did the threatening. Claiming also that there was no knowledge of the content of the conference, although today most have heard of Spencer and Geller and the head of a major hotel chain should know how they are and what they stand for. Saying he didn't know is just insulting to his customers and the many who would have attended the event. The hotel also stated that they had checked with the ADL and the SPLC and found that Spencer and Geller were "extremists" and that they were part of a cabal who plan and operate "contentious" events. It is telling that the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, both extreme in their own right would call two foremost defenders of freedom and democracy extreme and contentious.

We are at a crossroads, my friends, a crossroad which will determine whether we survive the next decade or two. We cannot allow the erosion of basic liberties at the expense of political correctness. By letting Islam dictate what is said in the public forum we put ourselves at their mercy. Allowing Islam to tell us what we can, and cannot talk about is abdicating our responsibilities to our founding principles. WE must not let the constitution be gutted for the sake of non-offense. Free speech rights and the first amendment are precisely and specifically geared to protect speech that is uncomfortable and against the grain. Speech we all agree with needs no protection, speech only Islam agrees with is a precedent that will destroy us as a society.

Support Spencer, Geller and the little people like myself, for if we are not allowed to say what we think, then next in line for censorship will be you.

From WND October 24 by Art Moore

Again! Americans gagged from talking about this

For the second time in less than a week, a major U.S. hotel has canceled an agreement to host an event on radical Islam's threat to America's freedoms, due to threatening messages to management.

ThePreserving Freedom Conference, scheduled for Nov. 11 at the top-rated Hutton Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., features Robert Spencer, author of 10 books about Islam and director ofJihad Watch, and Pamela Geller,a WND columnist, editor of theblog Atlas Shrugsand author of the book"Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance."WND is a co-sponsor of the conference.

Stephen Eckley, senior vice president of hotels for Amerimar Enterprises in Denver – the Hutton Hotel's managing corporation, told WND it was his decision to cancel the event.

Eckley said he "wasn't exactly sure what the content of the program was," but he explained that he canceled it because of the threat of physical harm to people at the hotel.

"They were veiled threats that there were going to be protests that could easily erupt into violence," he told WND in a telephone interview.

Sessions planned for the conference include "The European Experience" with Shariah, "Religious Persecution Under Shariah," "The Dehumanization and Diminishment of Women in the West Under Shariah," "The Muslim Brotherhood In America" and "Fighting Islamist Propaganda in the Media."

Spencer and Geller are co-founders of the activist groupStop Islamization of America, which helped lead opposition to the so-called Ground Zero mosque in New York City.

AsWND reported last week, the Hyatt Place Hotel in Sugar Land, Texas, near Houston, canceled a tea party event featuring Geller after complaints reportedly by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.The D.C.-based Islamic group has sued the co-authorof a WND Books expose,"Muslim Mafia,"which documents CAIR's founding as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood, the parent of terrorist groups such as al-Qaida and Hamas.

Commenting on the Nashville cancellation on her Atlas Shrugs blog, Geller said Eckley "has caved to Islamic supremacist demands."

She warned that free speech, "the cornerstone of our constitutional republic, is in serious jeopardy."

Under the strict interpretations of Islamic law, or Shariah, practiced in many Muslim countries, she noted, criticism of Islam is punishable by death.

Geller said it's becoming increasingly apparent in the U.S. that "opposing the most radical and extreme ideology on the face of the earth is now forbidden in the war of ideas."

Spencer told WND the conference will go on.

"We will find a new venue," he said, "but the Hutton Hotel's capitulation to Islamic supremacist threats and intimidation is a disgrace and a disquieting reminder of just how much the freedom of speech is threatened in America today."

And this from The Republic October 24

Nashville Hotel cancels conference over speakers deemed anti-Muslim 'extremists'

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Nashville hotel has canceled a conference by the Sharia Awareness Action Network, saying it was concerned the speakers include "extremists" with a history of contentious events.

The "Preserving Freedom Conference" had been scheduled for Nov. 11 at the Hutton Hotel near downtown. The hotel in a statement Monday said it has to be "mindful of the safety, security and peace of mind of its guests."

The hotel cited reports by the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center about speakers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer of the group Stop Islamization of America, adding that they have "a history of controversy and contention surrounding their appearances."

A post on Geller's website said the hotel had "caved to Islamic supremacist demands" and urged supporters to call the hotel's management to complain.

Read them both, and see the contact information for the hotel here.

Another grenade, another death in Kenya

Al-Shabaab from Somalia threatened Kenya after that nation sent troops into Somalia to quell cross-border raids by jihadists. The carnage has begun, and this is the latest, but certainly not the last message from the religion of peace.

From the BBC October 25

Kenya: Second explosion in Nairobi

A blast has gone off at a bus stop in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, killing at least one person, police say.

An earlier grenade attack on a bar in the city wounded 12 people.

The attacks happened two days after the US embassy in Kenya warned that an attack by Islamist militants from neighbouring Somalia was imminent.

But Kenyan Police Commissioner Matthew Iteere said there was no evidence linking the nightclub attack to the militants from the al-Shabab group.

The Kenyan government sent troops to Somalia more than a week ago to pursue the militants after accusing them of being behind a spate of abductions on its territory.

Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda and controls much of southern and central Somalia, denies involvement in the kidnappings but has warned of reprisals if Kenyan troops do not withdraw from Somalia.

We are not involved....until we are.

Grenade

Police said the explosion on Monday evening occurred at the OTC bus terminal in downtown Nairobi, which is usually a busy part of the city.

Kenya's Red Cross said on its Twitter feed that eight casualties had been rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital.

The BBC's Odhiambho Joseph in Nairobi says 18 people were wounded in total.

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Libyan women and sharia; like oil and water

The soon-to-be sharia state of Libya is taking it's toll on women there, they are very concerned about their rights under a sharia-compliant society and are beginning to express that discontentment. Even as the interim government claims that they are moderate, the undercurrent of fright among the population is palatable and could be a roadblock to the implementation of the "New Libya" eagerly anticipated by our administration.

From AFP/Yahoo October 24 by Simon Martelli

Sharia law declaration raises concerns in new Libya

The announcement that Islamic sharia law will be the basis of legislation in newly liberated Libya has raised concerns, especially among women, despite Islamists insisting moderation will prevail.

Interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Sunday, during his speech to the nation in Benghazi to formally declare the country's liberation from the ousted regime of Moammer Kadhafi, that sharia would be Libya's principal law.

"Any law that violates sharia is null and void legally," he said, citing as an example the law on marriage passed during the slain dictator's 42-year tenure that imposed restrictions on polygamy, which is permitted in Islam.

"The law of divorce and marriage... This law is contrary to sharia and it is stopped," Abdel Jalil said.

His comments have provoked criticism and calls for restraint both in Libya and in Europe, amid fears that the Arab Spring may give rise to a potentially intolerant Islamist resurgence.

Many Libyans awaiting Sunday's historic speech expressed surprise at the decision by the National Transitional Council leader to mention the role of sharia law in the new country before addressing such important issues as security and education.

"It's shocking and insulting to state, after thousands of Libyans have paid for freedom with their lives, that the priority of the new leadership is to allow men to marry in secret," said Rim, 40, a Libyan feminist who requested anonymity.

(...)He(Abdel Jalil)has already said that the new Libya would not adopt any extremist ideology, and sought to reassure the international community by stating on Monday that Libyans were moderate Muslims.

In what way and by who's standards?

"We did not slay Goliath so that we now live under the Inquisition," she told AFP.

Excellent mixed metaphors.

(...)"The rules and laws (in new Libya) should take Islam as a basic reference," Islamist leader Sheikh Ali Sallabi, a supporter of Belhaj, told AFP.

He insisted that freedom, justice, equality and respect for human dignity should be enshrined in the new constitution, along with the peaceful rotation of power.

They will be, operating within, and by the rules of sharia

"We believe in the rights of others to show their programmes to the people, and to let the people decide," said Sallabi, who was jailed for eight years during the 1980s in Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim prison.

"We also believe in the freedom of the press and the right to self expression. We believe that our religion accommodates these rights," he added.

Within, and by the rules of sharia.

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More contextual confusion

Did he, or didn't he, that is the question.

Here is the original statement from Karzai of Afghanistan on Saturday, October 22;

"God forbid, If any time war erupts between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with Pakistan"

Supposedly the statement was in reference to refugees from Pakistan which, in the event of war would be welcome in Afghanistan. If that is the case, why did Karzai not use the word refugees?

Either way, Karzai has shown himself to be less the friend of the US and more an ally of Islamists and jihadists. This is another attempt at spinning the truth to say what we want to hear.

From AFP/Yahoo October 24

Karzai backtracks on controversial Pakistan remarks

President Hamid Karzai sought to distance himself Monday from controversial remarks made in an interview in which he saidAfghanistan would back Pakistan against the US if the two ever came to blows.

The presidential palace said Karzai's comments, made in an interview with private Pakistani television station Geo at the weekend, were "misinterpreted".

Karzai has said that his country would support Pakistan if it was attacked by either the United States or India.

"God forbid, If any time war erupts between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with Pakistan," Karzai said in an interview aired late Saturday.

The prospect of all-out conflict between the US and Pakistan remains remote, despite strained relations in recent months, following the killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos in a secret raid in a Pakistani garrison town.

Nevertheless the comments raised eyebrows among Western officials in Kabul allied to the 10-year campaign to keep the Taliban from returning to power.

Christopher Chambers, a NATO spokesman, told reporters in Kabul that "we all need to focus on much wider dialogue that's required for peace... and which the people of both countries mostly certainly want and certainly deserve."

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nulandwould not comment directly on Karzai's remarks.

"It's not an issue because it's not going to happen," she said of the hypothetical war, quoting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Karzai's office insisted the remarks were broadcast out of context.

Of course they were, it is us who misunderstand the obvious.

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Saudi cleric offers 100 large for another Israeli soldier

Our friends in the land of the two holy places (which are off-limits to non-believers) belie their friendship to us, on a regular basis, by tacitly approving statements like these, especially when they come from a recognized and followed Islamic cleric. Dr. Awad al-Qarni makes no bones about his feelings towards Israel and urges his synchophants to kidnap, and keep kidnapping Israeli soldiers in order to use them as a bargaining chip to get jihadist out of Israeli prisons. It has worked in the past and it will work in the future as Israel sees fit, time and again to bend over backwards to appease the alligator.

From YNet October 25 by Roee Nahmias

Saudi cleric: Kidnap soldier - get $100,000

A week after the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, top Saudi cleric Dr. Awad al-Qarni is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who kidnaps Israeli soldiers.

"The press reported that the Zionist settlers will pay huge amounts of money to whoever kills the freed Palestinian prisoners," al-Qarni said. "In response to these criminals I declare to the world that any Palestinian who will jail an Israeli soldier and exchange him for prisoners will be rewarded with a $100,000 prize," he wrote on his Facebook page.

He is responding to an ad published by the Libman family offering a similar reward for anyone who catches the person who murdered their relative Shlomo Libman. Libman was killed by terrorists near the settlement of Yitzhar in 1998.

Al-Qarni's post has already received more than 1,000 likes and extensive coverage in Hamas-affiliated newspapers in Gaza.

Al-Qarni is a famous Muslim cleric who often guests on TV shows and operates his own website where he discusses various religious law issues. The Palestine-Islam issue is particularly close to his heart.

Wait, Palestine has nothing to do with Islam, it is a nationalistic movement, isn't it? I thought the Palestinians were secular and democratic, wasn't Hamas "democratically elected" or am I wrong?

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Bodies pile up in Southern Thailand

The jihad continues in the "restive" south with three dead and many wounded after more than a dozen bombs were planned across the town of Yala. A few were found and diffused, the others went off with predictable results. Over 4,700 people have been murdered by the religion of peace in the last seven years or so, continuing the tradition of jihad by the sword (47-4) and the expansion of the will of Allah.

From AP/Yahoo October 25

Bombings in Thai south kill 3, wound dozens

PATTANI, Thailand (AP) — Thailand's military said more than a dozen coordinated bomb attacks in the country's insurgency-plagued south Tuesday killed at least three people and injured dozens.

The military's Internal Security Operations Command said suspected Muslim insurgents put bombs at 16 locations across the southern town of Yala, including a school, shops and hotels. Authorities defused five of the bombs.

Jihad and poverty go hand in hand.

The agency said three people were killed, 14 severely injured and 31 slightly injured. The explosions also caused power outages.

More than 4,700 people have been killed in Thailand's southernmost Muslim-dominated provinces since an Islamic insurgency flared in 2004.

Qur'an burner acquitted in France

And surprisingly there have been no riots or outbursts of outrage from the growing Muslim population....yet.

From The Local October 25

No reprisals for Frenchman who burned Koran

An appeals court on Tuesday confirmed the acquittal of a Frenchman accused of inciting racial hatred after posting an internet video of himself burning a Koran and then urinating on it.

Ernesto Rojas Abbate was arrested in October 2010 after posting footage of himself wearing a devil mask and tearing pages from the Islamic holy book before setting it on fire and later urinating on it to extinguish the flames.

Prosecutors, who had been seeking a three-month suspended sentence and €1,000 ($1,400) fine, appealed after a court acquitted him in May on charges of inciting racial hatred.

In the footage Rojas Abbate, a 31-year-old resident of a suburb of the eastern city of Strasbourg, used pages of the Koran as a prop in a simulation of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York.

He made paper airplanes from pages of the Koran, threw them at glasses meant to represent the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, then burned the pages and the book before urinating on them.

The appeals court ruled that, while the video was "wilfully outrageous and deliberately provocative", there was no evidence Rojas Abbate had intended "to arouse feelings of hostility... aimed at provoking discrimination, hate, or violence towards Muslims."

Even with no intention, Islam demands that any speech be considered insulting, from their perspective if it serves the agenda. Muslims will feel insulted, hated, discriminated against and marginalized no matter what non-Muslims say, the victimization they have created for themselves precludes any discussion other than "I am insulted, arrest him." We are losing our ability to identify the enemy, soon any speech on Islam will get us arrested and prosecuted. Welcome to the new Islamic America, infidel.

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Will the real Qur'an please stand up?

Pamela Geller recently debated Muslim activist Michael Ghouse about Libya, but what was, to me the most important aspect was the Qur'an Ghouse gave to Geller. It is the same on I use, available from CAIR through their website. One can get it for free, just pay shipping and it's yours. It is a very large, beautifully bound book, and one thing I noticed right away is that it is virtually identical, in interpretation to the others I read buy Dawood, Muhammad and Pickthall. Geller is correct remarking that, after reading the big Qur'an there is nothing different or more friendly in this one than there is in any other.

It doesn't matter which Qur'an you read, the words are all the same, the meaning the same and the hatred the same. If you have not read the Qur'an, please do. The best way to understand any religion is to read it's holy book and the best way to understand the complete doctrine of Islam is to read the Qur'an.

Order yours today!

From the American Thinker October 25 by Pamela Geller

Reading the Real Qur'an

Last Friday I was on the Sean Hannity Show, debating Muslim activist Michael Ghouse on the future of Libya.

Debating Michael Ghouse is like shooting kuffar in a barrel. But Friday night, Ghouse presented me with an enormous Qur'an, courtesy of the Muslim Brotherhood-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR):The Message of the Qur'an, Translated and Explained by Muhammad Asad. Giving out these giant door-stoppers is further proof of Hamas-linked CAIR's limitless resources.

Inside, Ghouse had written this inscription: "Quran has 25 translations. 2 are bad -- One by Christian Kings other by Muslims -- both to generate hate for the other. Quran is a book of Justice." On the show, Ghouse gave Hannity a copy of the same edition, repeating his claim about the two "wrong translations" and saying, "This is the right translation."

So this must be the book of peace from the religion of peace. Because Ghouse is all about peace. At his website, he says: "Welcome to my world, the world of Pluralism. If we can learn to accept the otherness of other and respect the God given uniqueness of each one of the seven billion of us, then conflicts fade and solutions emerge."

The only problem that Ghouse fails to address is there is no respect or acceptance of "the other" in Islam. "The others" are despised, denigrated, and dawah-ed to death. Under the sharia, nonbelievers are forced live under dhimmitude, a subjugated class status denied basic human rights.

According to Ghouse, it would seem that the things in the "bad" translations that are designed to "generate hate" must not be in this Qur'an. The one he gifted to Hannity and me promotes "the world of Pluralism." So I started reading. The first thing I noticed was that this translation uses "God" for Allah throughout, even as it shows on every page that the Allah of the Qur'an is not the G-d of the Jews or of the Christians. Hmmmm.

I found plenty of pluralism. I found Allah saying to the Jews, who "profaned the Sabbath," "Be as apes despicable!" (2:65). And saying to the Muslims that they should "fight in God's cause against those who wage war against you, and do not commit aggression, for, verily, God does not love aggressors. And slay them wherever you find them" (2:190-191). Don't commit aggression, but slay them wherever you find them. Right.

I kept reading. "And as for those women whose ill-will you have reason to fear, admonish them [first]; then leave them alone in bed; then beat them" (4:34; the bracketed word is in the book in this and all other quotes). I sure am glad I am finally reading the right translation.

The pluralism and peace don't end there. I learned that God has "disowned" the "hypocrites" -- that is, people who pretend to be Muslim but aren't really, or who were once Muslim but leave the religion. It says that if they "revert to [open] enmity," the Muslims should "seize them and slay them wherever you may find them" (4:89). So now Muslims are supposed to beat "women whose ill-will" they "have reason to fear," and kill those who wage war against them, and hypocrites who are in open enmity against them, wherever they find them. And we're only on page 139 (out of 1,164 pages). They're not told to try to talk things out, or turn the other cheek, or work to make peace even while defending themselves. Muslims are supposed to fight against those who have "denied the truth" until "there is no more oppression and all worship is devoted to God alone" (8:39). So now Muslims have to fight unbelievers until everyone worships only Allah.

But still I kept on reading, looking for that pluralism....

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Capitulation to Muslim threats=the end of America

The following article is so important it should be required reading for anyone who believes there is no threat from Islam. When Islam threatens violence, and the response is to bow to that threat of violence instead of standing tall and defending the freedom of speech, assembly and pursuit of happiness we say we cherish, we stand at the edge of our very existence. Do we fight for the society we have created and maintained through the blood of patriots, or do we just lay down and die, preferring to give up for the sake of a false security?

I experienced this kind of battle when my teaching at Lane Community College clashed with CAIR and Islamic supremacism. No one is allowed to speak critically about Islam, ever, in any venue, anywhere in America, period. Now is the time to stand for our right to express opinions different from the mainstream, ask tough questions and demand tough answers. To ignore it any longer quickens our demise at the hand of Islamic hegemony.

From Jihad Watch October 24 by Robert Spencer

Nashville: Hutton Hotel capitulates to Islamic supremacist threats, cancels Preserving Freedom Conference

Pamela Geller has the story. If you value the freedom of speech, start calling and writing the hotel now.

The Hutton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee is now sharia-compliant.

Steve Eckley, Senior Vice-President of Hutton Hotel, has caved to Islamic supremacist demands and cancelled our entire Preserving Freedom Conference scheduled for November 11th in Nashville.Eckley notified us that they will not honor our contract. Steve said that if we showed up we would not be let in. He said he has been getting threateningletters and calls. We are currently awaiting the written notification of the cancellation.

Steve Eckley's phone number is 720 318 4238. He said he would not let us in the hotel if we showed up. He was so ugly and hostile, it was shocking.

I was a scheduled keynote speaker, along with Robert Spencer, Wafa Sultan, Mark Durie, William Murray, Father Keith Roderick, and a host of voices for freedom.

This is the second time in no less than a week that a major hotel has capitulated to intimidation and demands to enforce the blasphemylaws under the sharia here in America. Opposing the most radical and extreme ideology on the face of the earth is now forbidden in the war of ideas.

Just last week the Hyatt Place in Sugarland canceled a tea party event where I was scheduled to speak. They have since apologized, but that is hardly enough. Free speech, the cornerstone of our constitutional republic, is in serious jeopardy. Under the Shariah, criticism of Islam is blasphemy (punishable by death in Muslim countries living under the Shariah). This is the death of free speech in the continuing Islamization of America. This is yet another shattering demonstration of why I wrote my book Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.

The silencing of free speech is key to the islamization of America.

Americans must boycott these cowardly enterprises and raise their voices in protest.

Hutton Hotel
1808 West End Ave
Nashville, TN 37203

Tel: 615-340-9333, Fax: 615-340-0010

EMAIL form: http://www.huttonhotel.com/contact_form/contact_form.cfm

Here is the email of the current manager of the Hotel, Steven Andre sandre@huttonhotel.com (hat tip Rob)

Oh my, how did that AR-15 firing mechanism get into my medicine bag?

I would blame aliens, it seems the most plausible.

Mouna Diab used to fight against Muslim stereotypes in Quebec, now she is one. How did that happen, I wonder? Must be a case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome (Daniel Pipes) but I think it's a matter of taqiyya; she practiced it until she could fulfill her desire to wage jihad.

She almost succeeded.

From The National Post October 21 by Stewart Bell and Graeme Hamilton

Quebec woman charged with trying to export assault rifle parts to Lebanon

MONTREAL — Young and striking in her black hijab, Mouna Diab was once active in a Quebec youth group that fought discrimination against Muslims by challenging the stereotypes that too often associate them with violence and terror.

But the outspoken 26-year-old activist had little to say this week after appearing in a Montreal courtroom to face a charge alleging she had violated a United Nations Security Council arms embargo that prohibits the export of weapons to Lebanon.

“I really have no comment to make,” she said. At the bungalow where she lives in suburban Laval, friends and family likewise declined to talk about the case. “She’s finding the whole ordeal very difficult,” her lawyer, Richard Prihoda, said.

Police said Ms. Diab was arrested at Montreal’s Trudeau airport on May 19 as she was departing for Beirut. In her luggage, investigators allegedly found parts of AR-15 assault rifles. Other parts were allegedly shipped separately.

Police said the components could have been assembled into working firearms. “If you put all the pieces together you could build or make two weapons with it,” said Cpl. Luc Thibault, a spokesman at the RCMP’s “C” Division in Montreal.

She pleaded not guilty on Thursday and returns to court Nov. 10. She is the only person charged so far in relation to the alleged scheme, which comes as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is struggling to staunch the flow of illicit arms into an unstable Lebanon.

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