In the news - muslims......

[Shammu]

4/17/2008  India    Doda    1    0    A civilian is murdered by Mujahideen gunmen.
4/17/2008  Afghanistan    Zarang    23    31    A Fedayeen suicide bomber strikes a crowd of civilians leaving a mosque, killing two dozen.
4/17/2008  Thailand    Yala    1    0    A 55-year-old man is shot and killed by Muslim radicals while running errands.
4/16/2008  Yemen    Marib    4    3    Four local cops are killed in an al-Qaeda bombing.
4/16/2008  Thailand    Pattani    1    0    The manger of a shrimp farm is kidnapped and beheaded by Muslim extremists.
4/16/2008  Iraq    Muqdadiyah    2    5    Sunni extremists open fire on a minibus, killing two occupants.
4/16/2008  Afghanistan    Zabul    1    0    A local police officer is gunned down in a Taliban ambush.
4/16/2008  Pakistan    Khyber    20    15    Lashkar-e-Islam and fellow Sunnis clash over a religious dispute. Twenty people are killed.
4/15/2008  Iraq    Baghdad    11    19    Jihads rack up eleven civilians, including women, in at least two attacks.
4/15/2008  Iraq    Karbala    5    2    Five people are murdered by Sunni extremists in an armed attack on their village.
4/15/2008  Afghanistan    Spin Boldak    2    3    Two local cops are murdered by Sunni bombers.
4/15/2008  Iraq    Al-Doum    5    6    Shiite radicals kill five Iraqis and kidnap six more.
4/15/2008  Iraq    Mosul    9    20    Six women, including a schoolgirl, are among nine Iraqis murdered by Jihadis.
4/15/2008  Iraq    Baqubah    40    80    At least forty civilians are killed when Sunni extremists plant a bomb near a courthouse.
4/15/2008  Iraq    Ramadi    13    20    Islamic terrorists send a suicide bomber into a restaurant, killing at least thirteen patrons.
4/15/2008  Pakistan    Parachinar    1    6    One person is killed in a Sunni-Shia sectarian clash.
4/15/2008  India    Ramban    1    0    Lashkar-e-Toiba militants kill a local soldier.
4/14/2008  Pakistan    Parachinar    7    68    Seven more people are killed in sectarian violence within the Religion of Peace.
4/14/2008  Iraq    Tal Afar    4    14    A suicide bomber takes out four mourners at a funeral.
4/14/2008  Iraq    Baghdad    7    17    Jihadis kill seven civilians with two bomb blasts.
4/14/2008  Iraq    Sinjar    12    15    A dozen Iraqi soldiers are murdered by a suicide bomber while traveling home from a security posting.
4/14/2008  Somalia    Belet Weyne    4    0    A 70-year-old man is among four teachers shot in the head by Islamists.
4/14/2008  Somalia    Merka    4    12    Fundamentalists toss a grenade into a cinema showing Western films, killing at least four patrons.
4/14/2008  Afghanistan    Arghandab    11    1    Islamic hardliners storm a police checkpoint, killing eleven locals.
4/13/2008   Ingushetia    Karabulak    1    0    A judge is assassinated by suspected Islamic gunmen.
4/13/2008  Iraq    Mosul    3    10    An Islamist bombing and beheading leave three Iraqis dead.
4/13/2008  Afghanistan    Khost    3    4    Three civilians are blown to bits by a bomb planted by Islamic militants.


It's all about Iraq, isn't it?

Yep, it's all about Iraq and..............

India and the Sudan and Algeria and Afghanistan and New York and Pakistan and Israel and Russia and Chechnya and the Philippines and Indonesia and Nigeria and England and Thailand and Spain and Egypt and Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia and Ingushetia and Dagestan and Turkey and Kabardino-Balkaria and Morocco and Yemen and Lebanon and France and Uzbekistan and Gaza and Tunisia and Kosovo and Bosnia and Mauritania and Kenya and Eritrea and Syria and Somalia and California and Argentina and Kuwait and Virginia and Ethiopia and Iran and Jordan and United Arab Emirates and Louisiana and Texas and Tanzania and Germany and Australia and Pennsylvania and Belgium and Denmark and East Timor and Qatar and Maryland and Tajikistan and the Netherlands and Scotland and Chad and Canada and China and Nepal and the Maldives...............and pretty much wherever muslims believe their religion tells them to!!

[nChrist]

It's all about Iraq, isn't it?

Yep, it's all about Iraq and..............

India and the Sudan and Algeria and Afghanistan and New York and Pakistan and Israel and Russia and Chechnya and the Philippines and Indonesia and Nigeria and England and Thailand and Spain and Egypt and Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia and Ingushetia and Dagestan and Turkey and Kabardino-Balkaria and Morocco and Yemen and Lebanon and France and Uzbekistan and Gaza and Tunisia and Kosovo and Bosnia and Mauritania and Kenya and Eritrea and Syria and Somalia and California and Argentina and Kuwait and Virginia and Ethiopia and Iran and Jordan and United Arab Emirates and Louisiana and Texas and Tanzania and Germany and Australia and Pennsylvania and Belgium and Denmark and East Timor and Qatar and Maryland and Tajikistan and the Netherlands and Scotland and Chad and Canada and China and Nepal and the Maldives...............and pretty much wherever muslims believe their religion tells them to!!

Brother Bob, thanks for a fact-filled series of posts that will definitely get one thinking. Well, maybe everyone but folks like Al Gore. Al can see global warming that doesn't exist and makes him big money, but Al can't see facts.

[Soldier4Christ]

It's all about Iraq, isn't it?

 pretty much wherever muslims believe their religion tells them to!!

You're totally right, brother. No, It isn't all about Iraq. Most of those listed have nothing to do with the situation in Iraq. It is about who they consider to be infidels and that is anyone that is not islamic and many times even those. It is about enslaving everyone in the world into their complete control. As big as your list is I am positive that it still is not all of the actions that have been taken. The news many times does not cover them all such as the "honor killings" or those that do not "appear" to be for those reasons. There is also those actions that are carried out covertly even here in America where the perpetrators are not known.

[Soldier4Christ]

Plans Exposed for Creation of Islamic State in Scotland...

Two Muslims supporters of "violent jihad" discussed setting up a secret Islamic state in a remote part of Scotland, a court heard today.

Away from the prying eyes of the authorities, it would provide a safe haven for those who felt "oppressed", jurors were told.

It would also be run according to Sharia law and eventually be used as a base to "discreetly train" for attacks against non-believers.
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The only drawback Aabid Khan allegedly identified was the availability of weapons.

London's Blackfriars Crown Court heard the online exchange was part of a "mass" of allegedly incriminating material found by police during a series of swoops in Bradford and London two years ago.

Khan, 23, of Otley Road, Undercliffe, Bradford, West Yorkshire, was the first to be arrested and was detained by police at Manchester airport on his return from Pakistan.

His "close friend" and the man he was talking to about the secret Muslim state, was Sultan Muhammad, also 23, of nearby Hanover Square, Manningham.

Jurors heard he went on the run after learning Khan had been detained, and fled to London where he was caught shortly afterwards.

Also in the dock is Ahmed Sulieman, 30, from Woolwich, south-east London, who he allegedly hoped could provide him a hiding place, and Hammaad Munshi, now 18 but then a 16-year-old schoolboy, from Saville Town, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

They variously deny 13 counts alleging possessing articles for a purpose connected with terrorism and making a record of information likely to be useful in terrorism between November 23 2005, and June 20 the following year.

Addressing the court on the third day of his opening, Simon Denison, prosecuting, said Muhammad's departure was so hasty he left behind a bedroom full of alleged evidence.

Apart from some "dummy ammunition" for an AK47 assault rifle, there was a library of DVDs and CDs packed with jihadist propaganda "clearly" promoting "acts of extreme violence and the inciting of others to commit such acts".

Also recovered was an SAS handbook, maps of London Underground, Jerusalem and Manhattan, a book entitled Suicide Bombings, an encryption code, photographs of a smiling Osama bin Laden, some "extremely graphic" footage of the beheadings of American hostages in Iraq, and instructions on how to make home-made bazookas and explosives.

There were also interviews with several armed and mostly masked Britons - including a Birmingham university student and a south Londoner - extolling the virtues of fighting the Serbs in Bosnia.

Mr Denison said the MSN exchange between Khan and Muhammad about the secret Islamic state in Scotland occurred on November 12 2005.

He told jurors it began with Royal Mail night sorter Muhammad explaining how he and work colleagues had allegedly been chatting about "hijrah" or emigration for Muslims feeling oppressed in Britain.

He then continued: "So like maybe a remote part of Scotland - people were like 'What the hell?' - at least to a place where there were Muslim communities."

Khan is said to have replied: "A group of Muslims can go to a remote place and set up a mini Sharia state and they can rule according to Sharia law, like this and stay there, building them up and their children up, preparing for fitness, and then launching jihad once they strengthen themselves."

The barrister claimed he then added: "In the UK you can isolate with a group discreetly and train, but better in the US as they have weapons there. Over here weapons is problem."

[Soldier4Christ]

Residents Upset Over Group's Distribution of Qurans

The distribution of Qurans in a southwest Houston neighborhood has some residents worried about the motives of the group who dispersed the Islamic book.

An English translation of the Quran began appearing two weeks ago on the doorsteps of hundred of homes in the BraesTimbers neighborhood. The books came in plastic bags with a note attached from the ‘Book of Signs Foundation’ asking recipients to accept the Quran as a gift from the Muslim community.

But some residents, like Greg and Sue Ann Pieri, said they feared the group is imposing its beliefs on non-Muslims and found the gesture offensive.

“If we went into a Muslim country and left a bible, we would be in prison and then decapitated a few years later,” said Sue Ann Pieri, who chose not to destroy the book like other neighbors did.

However, Houston's Council on American-Islamic Relations President Tarick Hussein said although his organization did not partake in distributing the books, he believes that the Muslims behind the distribution only wanted to educate non-Muslims about the religion.

The Book of Signs Foundation claims to have distributed 30,000 Qurans in Houston, targeting neighborhoods believed to be most receptive of the Quran or in need of a better understanding of Islam.

[Shammu]

Iranians consider mandatory execution for apostasy
Christians being interrogated on suspicion of crime of leaving Islam
Posted: July 10, 2008
12:00 am Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

A plan is being discussed by lawmakers in Iran that would require the death penalty for anyone who leaves Islam for Christianity or someone who promotes such a conversion even on the Internet, according to a new report from Compass Direct News.

Those discussions of a penal code that was drafted earlier this year bring urgency to situations such as the two men arrested recently and under interrogation for that very crime, the report said.

The report said Iranian authorities arrested a number of converts to Christianity in the city of Shiraz about two months ago on suspicion of "apostasy."

Arash Bandari, 44, and Mahmood Matin, 52, were arrested at the time along with 13 other Muslim converts to Christianity. But while the other 13 were told they have a court case pending and then released, Bandari and Matin have been held ever since.

The 13 who have been released have not been told of any specific charges, but they report the nature of their questioning gives them reason to think the allegations may include apostasy and political crimes.

The other two, Bandari and Matin, have been held almost incommunicado. Matin's wife was able to see him for several minutes on June 24, when the prisoner told his wife "there had been a misunderstanding and that he could not teach Christianity any more," Compass reported.

"They are pushing me to tell them that I am connected to a church outside [Iran] and that I am receiving a salary, but I told them that I am doing it on my own," he said, according to a Compass source whose identity was concealed.

Compass noted that under the existing sharia laws in Iran, the death penalty is available for the crime of apostasy, but not required.

The proposal, however, would change that.

"If passed, the penal code drafted last January would require execution of any Muslim who converts to Christianity," Compass said. Such punishments could not be "changed, reduced or annulled."

"Many believe that the government intends to use the proposed penal code to clamp down on the surge in conversions in Iran over the last few years. Commentators have called the surge a 'mass exodus' from Islam, which in its Iranian Shiite version imposes harsh limitations on lifestyle and personal freedoms," Compass reported.

Iran's Members of Parliament voted only a week ago to discuss the plan as a priority, according to Agence France-Press, which described the proposal as to "toughen punishment for harming mental security in society."

Alarmingly, the report also documented that the death penalty would be imposed for "establishing weblogs and sites promotion corruption, prostitution and apostasy."

"Over the last few years, the Internet and media such as television have been conduits of information on Christianity and are feared as sources of 'corruption' of the Iranian people," Compass reported. "The Internet is widely used in Iran despite restricted access for thousands of websites with 'immoral' content or content – including Christian ones – deemed as insulting religion and promoting political dissent."

Executions in Iran totaled 317 in 2007, up from 177 in 2006, and human rights groups say such punishments are excessive. Tehran insists death is an "effective deterrent," according to AFP.

"Christians in particular have suffered persecution in Iran since the Islamic revolution in 1979. No converts to Christianity have been convicted of 'apostasy' since international pressure forced officials to drop the death sentence of Christian convert Mehdi Dibaj in 1994. But in the years following the convert's release, Dibaj and four other Protestant pastors, including converts and those working with converts, have been brutally murdered," Compass said.

The attackers in those cases never have been brought to justice.

[Soldier4Christ]

New Disclosures Tighten ISNA-Muslim Brotherhood Bonds

The Islamic Society of North America's (ISNA) roots in the Muslim Brotherhood have been strengthened by newly declassified FBI memos and from a second, highly unlikely source.

The records, recently obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism through Freedom of Information Act requests, show that FBI agents investigated a parent organization to ISNA, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), during the mid 1980s.

The FBI investigation concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood members who founded U.S.-based groups had risen to "leadership roles within NAIT and its related organizations," including ISNA, "which means they are in a position to direct the activities and support of Muslims in the U.S. for the Islamic Revolution." The FBI memo also said that:

    Within the organizational structure of NAIT, there have been numerous groups and individuals identified as being a part of a covert network of revolutionaries who have clearly indicated there (sic) support for the Islamic Revolution as advocated by the AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI and his government as well as other fanatical Islamic Shiite fundamentalist leaders in the Middle East. This faction of Muslims have declared war on the United States, Israel and any other country they deem as an enemy of Islam. The common bond between these various organizations is both religious and political with the underlying common goal being to further the holy war (Islamic Jihad).

The FBI memos date back to 1987-88. Dozens of pages of the released files are redacted in their entirety. But others contradict ISNA claims that it "never was, and is not now, affiliated with or influenced by any international organizations including the Muslim Brotherhood." Furthermore, ISNA still considers NAIT an affiliated organization. ISNA's president is an ex-officio NAIT board member and Muzammil Siddiqi, NAIT's chairman, serves on ISNA's governing board.

NAIT holds the deeds to more than a quarter of the mosques in the United States and continuously seeks to build on that volume.

The dispute is important as ISNA officials assert that the organization is a voice of moderation in the American Muslim community, actively courting outreach and dialogue with government officials and leaders of other religions. ISNA President Ingrid Mattson was among the organization's representatives at last week's international interfaith conference in Madrid. As the IPT reported last week, conference organizer Abdullah al-Turki is alleged in civil lawsuits to have ties to a senior Al Qaeda financier and has openly justified Palestinian suicide bombings.

ISNA's denials, however, are challenged by the Chicago Tribune, federal prosecutors in Dallas, internal Muslim Brotherhood documents and the newly declassified FBI memos. ISNA officials have ignored those reports or denied their legitimacy. Their most recent denial came in the wake of a mistrial in the first HLF trial last October. A retrial is scheduled for September.

But in the past month, ISNA co-founder and convicted terrorist Sami Al-Arian acknowledges that he was a Muslim Brotherhood member in 1981 – the year ISNA formed. Click here and read paragraph 6 on page 5, then see Al-Arian's biography to see his claim that he is an ISNA founder.

In his June 24 affidavit, Al-Arian admits for the first time that his former charity, the Islamic Committee for Palestine (ICP) advocated for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a fact he heatedly denied for more than a decade. ICP conferences routinely featured leaders of the PIJ and other terrorist groups.

Similarly, the FBI concluded that ISNA conferences in the 1980s "provided opportunities for the extreme fundamentalist Muslims to meet with their supporters."

Among the recently declassified FBI memos, NAIT activities are described:

    Their support of JIHAD (a holy war) in the U.S. has been evidenced by the financial and organizational support provided through NAIT from Middle East countries to Muslims residing in the U.S. and Canada. The organizational support provided by NAIT includes planning, organizing and funding anti-U.S. and anti-Israel demonstrations, pro-PLO demonstrations and the distribution of political propaganda against U.S. policies in the Middle East and in support of the Islamic Revolution as advocated by the (Government of Iran).

ISNA and NAIT are fighting their continued inclusion as unindicted co-conspirators in the Hamas-support trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and five former officials. In a recent rebuttal, prosecutors listed a series of checks routed by ISNA to HLF, often dedicated for "Palestinian Mujahideen" in the memo line. The military wing of Hamas initially was referred to as the Palestinian Mujahideen, prosecutors said.

Internal documents released at the trial show ISNA's founders had been leaders of the Muslim Students Association, which also was founded by Muslim Brotherhood members who came to the U.S. for college. In addition to introducing all the financial transactions between ISNA/NAIT and HLF, prosecutors introduced a Muslim Brotherhood "Explanatory Memorandum" on the group's goals, as the document explains:

    The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.

ISNA is the first U.S.-based organization listed under a section titled "A list of our organizations and the organizations of our friends."

In their brief, prosecutors continue in describing the Explanatory Memorandum:

    At the end of the document, the memorandum lists those Muslim Brotherhood organizations that – if they all worked together – could help accomplish this grand objective. These organizations include ISNA, NAIT, the Occupied Land Fund (OLF)(the former name of the Holy Land Foundation), the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), and others.

The documented links between ISNA and the Muslim Brotherhood have reached critical mass. While it is not illegal to be a part of the Brotherhood, ISNA knows its credibility is at stake here. It appears to have dug in its heels too deeply.

[Soldier4Christ]

1 in 3 Muslim students approve killing for Islam
'Stop talking about celebrating diversity and focus on integration and assimilation'

If ignorance and poverty are responsible for the growth of extremist views in the Islamic world, someone needs ask Muslim students, privileged enough and bright enough to attend some of the United Kingdom's best universities, why one-in-three of them endorses killing in the name of Islam.

The report of this finding, based on a poll of 600 Muslim and 800 non-Muslim students at 12 universities in the UK, and conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Center for Social Cohesion, will be released tomorrow as "Islam on Campus."

Among its findings of Muslim beliefs:

    * 40 per cent support introduction of sharia into British law for Muslims
    * One-third back the idea of a worldwide Islamic caliphate based on sharia law
    * 40 per believe it is unacceptable for Muslim men and women to associate freely
    * 24 per cent do not think men and women are equal in the eyes of Allah
    * 25 percent have little or no respect for homosexuals.
    * 53 per cent believe killing in the name of religion is never justified (compared with 94 per cent of non-Muslims), while 32 per cent say it is
    * 57 percent believe Muslim soldiers serving in the UK military should be able to refuse duty in Muslim countries
    * More than half favor an Islamic political party to support their views in parliament
    * One-third don't think or don't know if Islam is compatible with Western views of democracy

"Significant numbers appear to hold beliefs which contravene democratic values," Hannah Stuart, one of the report's authors, told the London Times. "These results are deeply embarrassing for those who have said there is no extremism in British universities."

The report echoes one released last year by the Policy Exchange which found 37% of all Muslims aged 16-24 would prefer to live under a sharia system.

In addition to polling of 1,400 students, the researchers visited more than 20 universities to interview students and listen to guest speakers brought on campus. The report notes radical Islamic preachers regularly deliver inflammatory speeches that target homosexuals and border on anti-Semitism.

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"Our researchers found a ghettoized mentality among Muslim students at Queen Mary (college)," said James Brandon, deputy director at CSC. "Also, we found the segregation between Muslim men and women at events more visible at Queen Mary."

A spokesman for Queen Mary told the Times the university knew Islamic preachers had spoken on campus but was unaware of what they had said.

"Clearly, we in no way associate ourselves with these views. However, also integral to the spirit of university life is free speech and debate, and on occasion speakers will make statements that are deemed offensive," he said.

Wes Streeting, president of the National Union of Students, condemned the study: "This disgusting report is a reflection of the biases and prejudices of a right-wing think tank – not the views of Muslim students across Britain. Only 632 Muslim students were asked vague and misleading questions, and their answers were willfully misinterpreted."

The report was criticized by the country's largest Muslim student body, the Federation of Student Islamic Societies. Most of the Islamic societies on campuses operate under the FOSIS umbrella.

The authors of the report note that campus Islamic societies have, in the past, been where some UK terrorists became radicalized. They cite Kafeel Ahmed, who drove a jeep engulfed in flames into a building at the Glasgow airport last year and died of his burns. Investigators believe he adopted jihadist beliefs while studying at Anglia Ruskin university, Cambridge.

In April, WND reported that the director-general of MI5 had warned the government that donations of hundreds of millions of pounds from Saudi Arabia and powerful Muslim organizations in Pakistan, Indonesia and the Gulf Straits had led to a "dangerous increase in the spread of extremism in leading university campuses."

"The finding that a large number of students think it is okay to kill in the name of religion is alarming," said Anthony Glees, professor of security and intelligence studies at Buckingham University.

"There is a wide cultural divide between Muslim and non-Muslim students. The solution is to stop talking about celebrating diversity and focus on integration and assimilation."

This finding is taken in the UK but it is no different here in the U.S.

[Soldier4Christ]

You must be nicer to Muslims, Britain is told by UN human rights chiefs

Britain was told yesterday by a United Nations committee to take firm action to combat 'negative public attitudes' towards Muslims.

The nine-member human rights committee also criticised some of the UK's antiterror measures.

The body, which is composed of legal experts, said it was concerned ' negative public attitudes towards Muslim members of society' continued to develop in Britain.

The Government 'should take energetic measures to eliminate this phenomenon and ensure that authors of such acts of discrimination on the basis of religion are adequately deterred and sanctioned'.

The committee expressed concern over the Government's plans to extend pre-trial detention of terrorist suspects from 28 to 42 days. Suspects should be brought to court 'within a reasonable period of time, or released'.

Those suspected of being involved in terrorism and subject to control orders and curfews limiting their movements should be 'promptly charged with a criminal offence' and their lawyers given access to the evidence against them, it added.

The committee also called on the Irish Republic to open up its largely Roman Catholic primary school system to secular-education. It said Dublin 'should take measures to help women avoid unwanted pregnancies so that they do not have to resort to illegal or unsafe abortions'.

The committee made its comments in response to reports from the UK and Ireland on how they were carrying out their obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

The committee has members from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Benin, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Mauritius and Sweden. They are expected to be independent of their governments.

[HisDaughter]

I remember when the fear was of Russia or China attacking us.  Boy were we wrong.  This amazing how we are being taken in and taken over from the inside out.  From our own governments being so afraid of being politically incorrect, that they are frozen in place.  etc, etc, etc.

[Soldier4Christ]

Actually the probability of an attack from Russia or China is still very real. It was just announced that Russia is again setting up a site on Cuba from which they can launch missiles or jets at us. Even though many claimed the Cold War was over I personally think it was just shoved to behind the curtains temporarily. So not only do we have the external threats we also have them from inside.

[HisDaughter]

Actually the probability of an attack from Russia or China is still very real. It was just announced that Russia is again setting up a site on Cuba from which they can launch missiles or jets at us. Even though many claimed the Cold War was over I personally think it was just shoved to behind the curtains temporarily. So not only do we have the external threats we also have them from inside.

Yes, I read that right after I posted here.  If you think about it; in order for the new world order to take over they really are going have to take us out and take us over.  Something the bad guys have always wanted to do.  That's why I keep say that we are not going to be what we once were in more way than one.  We already are not the great country that we were once were.  I'm too tired tonight to keep on with this reply.  Sorry PR.  But I do think we are all on the same page.
It's been a really long shift.  Saturdays always are, but the good news is, it's almost over!!

[Soldier4Christ]

the good news is, it's almost over!!

That's always the best part of any shift. Yes, we have been on the same page. Do get some good rest, sister.

[nChrist]

Brothers and Sisters,

I think it is extremely important for all of us to remember our roots and what we have paid in almost every generation to preserve our freedoms and way of life. Bluntly, our way of life is Christian, and that WILL NOT be taken away. That is our foundation, and it's recorded in warehouses full of historical documents. Others can practice their religion here, BUT THEY CAN'T TAKE AWAY OR RESTRICT OUR RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS. We already have guarantees of this, and we've fought to keep them. We'll continue to fight and keep them. I'll side with Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty or give me death." Disabled or not, I will not lay down and let anyone take my liberty away. It will have to be done by force if anyone wants to try it, and the vast majority are just like me. This is the LAW - OUR LAW - and it can only be changed by a vote of the people. Our system also remains the same:  the people are the MASTER, and the government is the SERVANT. This also can't be changed without a vote of the people. In other words:  WE HAVE BEEN, ARE, AND WILL BE RIGHT IN PRESERVING OUR LAWS AND CONSTITUTIONS! ANYONE WHO TRIES TO REMOVE THEM WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF THE PEOPLE WILL BE COMMITTING CRIMINAL ACTS!

If someone wants to practice sharia law, they are welcome to go to their home country and do so. It's really just as simple as that! If they want to live in this part of the world, they WILL live by our laws. Their ONLY other option is to leave and settle in a country practicing sharia law. There is NO OTHER option, and there WON'T BE! I want them to be happy. If they can't be happy here, many would probably help them with expenses to go back where they came from.

[Soldier4Christ]

Web jihadist employed by federal contractor
Communications worker says dead GIs 'bring great happiness to me'

A young American Muslim has been employed by a federal contractor while running a radical website promoting al-Qaida.

Until just last week, 22-year-old Samir Khan worked at the Charlotte, N.C., branch of Convergys Corp., which in March was awarded part of a $2.5 billion federal contract to set up emergency communications centers in the event of terrorist attacks and other national disasters.

The company and Khan parted ways after a local news crew showed up at his office to interview him about his jihadist website, which features graphic photos of dead U.S. soldiers and praise for al-Qaida leaders and terrorists, who he calls "martyrdom bombers."

In one photo posted on his site, American soldiers are shown in a plane heading to Iraq above the caption, "Here they come." A second photo posted below it shows flag-draped coffins aboard a U.S. military plane with the words, "And here they go."

Khan, a Saudi immigrant, says the U.S. is losing the war on terror, while "the Muslims are winning." He says video he posted recently of "the mujahideen" blowing up a U.S. outpost in Iraq "brought great happiness to me."

He shows no remorse even for relatives of dead American troops grieving back home.

"I have no concern," he told the New York Times in a video-streamed interview. "If they moan and groan and cry, it's not going to change a thing."

"They are the people of the Hellfire," he added. "Every disbeliever will go to Hellfire."

Khan claims the 9/11 attacks, which he replays on his website, were justified under Islamic jihad.

"Osama bin Laden did September 11th because it was an act of retaliation," he says on his site, emphasizing the word "retaliation."

A U.S. citizen, Khan says his website is protected free speech. He also says he is not recruiting terrorists or soliciting violence. "I'm not telling people how to build bombs."

Officials, however, say the FBI has been closely monitoring his English-language site, "The Ignored Puzzle Pieces of Knowledge," which is hosted from Amman, Jordan.

Terror experts warn that Khan, who speaks fluent English, is helping al-Qaida in its new push to recruit English-speaking American converts to Islam to carry out attacks on the homeland.

Through watchlists, counter-surveillance and security profiling, the U.S. and European authorities have been able to disrupt al-Qaida plots using Arab and Pakistani Muslims. In response, the terror network is trying to lower its Arab profile.

A recent report by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee states, "Over the last year, al-Qaida also made a tactical decision to increase its production of online propaganda and make more of it accessible to English-speaking audiences,"

The report adds that the group has sought out English translators.

Experts say Khan's site, which includes anti-Semitic rants, is unique because it is written in English and makes al-Qaida propaganda accessible to an American audience. They say the site is popular among young, homegrown jihadists, whose numbers are growing thanks to the virtual training and chat rooms that such Internet sites provide.

The trend worries members of Congress such as N.C. Rep. Sue Myrick, who co-chairs the House Anti-Terrorism Caucus and is aware of Khan's activities in her district.

"They are using the Internet for training, al-Qaida is," she said. "They're telling people how to do everything they want them to do. They're recruting people on the Internet."

Khan's former employer Convergys told WBTV News in Charlotte that Khan did not work on a government program but declined to specify what his job duties were during his employment there.

It's not clear how the Cincinnati-based company overlooked his radical ties in its hiring process. Khan has been in the national news since at least October 2007, when the New York Times first ran a feature on "The Internet Jihadi." Since then, Fox News and other major media have covered the story.

Khan, who was born Samir Ibn Zafar Khan in December 1985 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is short and stocky, with a sparse beard, long hair and glasses. He lives with his parents in an upscale house in Charlotte.

Khan's father, Zafar, is a member of the Islamic Center of Charlotte and gives lectures there. Guest speakers at the mosque have included radical cleric Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.