Islam - Attacking Christianity

The world's media, acting like a pack of sharks, have repeatedly attacked our troops over unsubstantiated allegations of mis-handling the Koran by US troops. Hardly a day has gone by without a headline screaming for the US to apologize and prosecute the guilty ones. Turns out the guilty ones are the world media.

We now have reports that there were only 5 cases of "mis-handling" of the Koran over a 3 year period. In addition, the only allegations of flushing the Koran down the toilet has been retracted.

Now it's time for the world's media to report on real abuses of the Bible. Abuses like using the Bible as toilet paper. Or, like in Saudi Arabia where they burn and shred Bibles.

What is wrong with our media? They rush to accuse the US of crimes against Muslims based on rumors and unsubstantiated claims but say nothing of the real persecution against Christians in places like Saudi Arabia. And it is happening, not just in Saudi Arabia, but around the world Muslims desecrate Christian sites and shrines. Look at the sources for those reports and note none are from main stream media.

I'll tell you what's wrong with our media, they are part of Islam's war plan. Here is what a former Muslim, an insider, says is part of their plan:

American laws will protect us.

Democrats and Leftist will support us.

UNO will legitimize us. (United Nations Organization)

CAIR will incubate us. (Council on American-Islamic Relations)

ACLU will empower us. (American Civil Liberties Union)

Western Universities will educate us.

Mosques will shelter us

OPEC will finance us

Hollywood will love us.

Koffi Annan will pass politically correct sympathetic statement for Jihadists.”

Read each one of those and ask yourself, isn't each and everyone of those tactics being employed by Muslims in the US and around the world today?

Democratic Senator Conyers wants a law making it illegal to criticize Islam, the ACLU is behind the most recent Koran flushing stories, Hollywood's latest crusade movie rewrites history to make the Christians the bad guys, and on it goes.

Whether we like it or not we are at war with Islam, a war we did not start. And just as in wars past it is not enough to sit on the sidelines and watch the war progress in the media. We must get proactive and be involved. Use your vote to oppose those that would enact laws that would outlaw criticizing Muslims. Vote against enacting Sharia law. Write to the media and complain about their biased reporting and lack of reporting on crimes against Christians by Muslims. And by all means stand up to Muslims. As I said before:

Then stop being afraid to offend them. Stoning women, honor killings, attacks on Christians and Jews, and lack of women's rights are all wrong. Say so!

Killing or issuing death threats to those that criticize Islam is wrong and so are laws banning such criticism. Stand up to them.

America was founded on among other things, freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Those liberties are under attack by Muslims as they seek to squelch criticism of Islam and convert the world to an Islamic state. They rely on the fact that most western countries believe in freedom of religion and as such they would not attack Islam even as Islam attacks them. And they will succeed if we do not stop them.

First we have to admit that we are at war and the enemy is Islam, distasteful as that is, it is accurate. Second, stand up to them as I said. Third write to the media and complain. Fourth, use your vote wisely. Fifth, educate yourself about the Koran in regards to the hate and intolerance it preaches.

This is not about the extermination of Islam and Muslims, this is about stopping the spread of this cancer that threatens our freedoms and beliefs. Muslims must come to understand that they can live in Western societies and practice their religion but they must co-exist with other religions and live under the law of the land - not the law of the Koran.
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Guantanamo - Koran Not Flushed: Inmate

Nice to see Reuters running this story.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Guantanamo detainee who told an FBI agent in 2002 that U.S. personnel there had flushed a Koran in a toilet retracted his allegation when questioned this month by military investigators, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

"We've gone back to the detainee who allegedly made the allegation and he has said it didn't happen. So the underlying allegation, the detainee himself, within the last two weeks, said that didn't happen," chief Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita told a briefing.

MSM were in a frenzy to find proof that the story was real, will they be as eager to run the retraction? I doubt it.
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America - Lt. Ilario Pantano Cleared

That's according to this post from the Free Republic quoting the AP wire service.

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A Marine Corps general dismissed all charges Thursday against a lieutenant accused of the murder of two Iraqis, the military announced.

The decision of Maj. Gen. Richard Huck, commander of the 2nd Marine Division, ends the prosecution 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano.

Great news! But watch for the media spin on this one.
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America - Oprah: Jihadi Sister

Debbie Schlussel takes Oprah to the wood shed for a well deserved spanking.

To add insult to injury, the latest issue, “O”'s June 2005 edition, demands that we understand the pain and turmoil of Yusra Abdu, a teen-age Palestinian would-be homicide bomber, fiancée of Hani Akad, leader of Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group. Akad’s group, funded by Libya (one of “O” Mag’s “Five Places to See in Your Lifetime”), murdered 27 children and injured 134 when they attacked a Jewish school in Ma’a lot, Israel. Note the map of hate and swastika in the group’s May 22, 2005 Syrian-based newsletter.

But in Oprah’s world, Muslims aren’t terrorists, and terrorists aren’t Muslim (more on that, below). Instead, “O” calls Akad “a charismatic and young rebel.” “O” describes the cold-blooded, hateful Abdu and Akad as “a Shakespearean tragedy.” Yes, in Oprah’s world, Islamic terrorists aren’t terrorists. They’re James Deans, Romeos, and Juliets.

And it’s not their fault that they’re homicide bombers. Or Islam’s fault. “O” quotes Saudi-funded Islam apologist John Esposito blaming not Islam, but the desperate “context” of their lives. Reality: Most Palestinian homicide bombers, like the 9/11 hijackers, come from wealthy families, but they hate Jews, Christians, and Americans. That’s the “context.”

There's plenty more.
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Europe - Islam Silences the Critics

Faith Freedom.org reports "In an act of total insanity, the Council of Europe, decided to ban criticism of Islam equating it to anti-Semitism."

This is the beginning of the fall of Europe. Anti-Islamism is not the same as anti-Semitism. Islam is a belief system, Semites are a race. We canÂ’t equate a race to a doctrine. Racism is sheer evil. Apart from the fact that no race is better or worse than other races, unless one is Michael Jackson, one canÂ’t change his race. Instigating hate against a race is instigating hate against mankind. Doctrines that instigate racial hate must be condemned and those who engage in racial slurs must be brought to justice.

Prohibiting criticism of Islam is like prohibiting criticism of Judaism or Christianity. No one in his right mind would suggest criticism of these religions should be banned. The very fact that these religions have reformed and have adapted to modern times is because they were criticized. Only during the inquisition, criticism of Christianity was against the law. Are we trying to introduce Islamic inquisition to appease Muslims? Are we trying to institute the blasphemy law that is practiced in Saudi Arabia , Pakistan and Iran to make Muslims happy? This is insane!

Yes it is. But it's happening all around the world.Australia passed just such a law and now two Christian pastors are in jail for criticizing Islam. Britain wants to enact such laws. Even in the US the Democrats are trying to enact these barbaric laws.

Why are Muslims so intent on getting these laws on the books? The answer is in this statement:

The very fact that these religions have reformed and have adapted to modern times is because they were criticized.

And reforming Islam is something Muslims refuse to do even though it preaches hate and intolerance.

Be sure to read the rest of the article.
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Guantanamo Bay - Koran Not Flushed

Despite how much,Reuters, The Washington Post, The AP, the ACLU and all the lefties in the world, want the story to be true, it's not and it's old news.

As Just One Minute points out these are unsubstantiated claims by prisoners trained to make such statements.

These repositories of supposedly brilliant minds also want you to overlook the physical impossibility of flushing the Koran down these high tech toilets.

As usual, bloggers are all over MSM's renewed attempt to attack our troops. See Powerline, Just One Minute, and Podhoretz who notes these are the type of things the al Qaeda training manual told them to say.

How many more people are now going to die because of MSM's unrelenting attack on our troops?
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Iraq - 2 Zarqawi Aides Arrested

That's according to this report.

If true, I find this bit revealing:

A US army announcement confirmed that Mullah Kamel al-Assawadi, who is described as "one of the most wanted people in northern Iraq", was captured while trying to bribe his way past an Iraqi checkpoint in Balad town 70 km outside of Bagdat (Baghdad).

So now even bribes aren't working for the terrorists. Just another sign Iraqis have had enough of these terrorists and hopefully soon we'll get Zarqawi.

UPDATE

And another one. This one on Monday.

"The Iraqi security forces backed by US troops captured on Monday Agha Umar, a top aide for Zarqawi, in Baquba, some 60 km northeast of Baghdad," the official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Closing in?
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America - Targeting Journalist Lie

For years the world's media have been making unsubstantiated claims that US troops deliberately target journalists. Eason Jordan of CNN was one of the latest to make the claim and was forced to resign when he couldn't produce the evidence.

Linda Foley, President of the Newspaper Guild and Communication Workers of America, is the latest to make the claim and it remains to be seen if she has any evidence or will resign.

I recently posted about a new site dedicated to exposing these bogus claims and other biased reporting on our troops. I just emailed one of the founders of the site and pointed out that this targeting nonsense has been around for a very long time and involves big time media organizations, like CNN and the BBC, teaming up to spread the lie. I sent them a link to this site as a good starting place for researching this subject.

Hopefully, someone will do a well researched article and expose the media's attack on our troops.
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Lebanon - resolving the clash of civilizations

Michael J. Totten writes about his recent trip to Lebanon and finds some very encouraging signs. This one stood out for me.

Beirut may be the only place in the world where you can buy a necklace with a Christian cross and a Muslim crescent moon fused together as one. It's an unofficial symbol of Lebanon's nascent national unity. What other country would even think of making something like this? I've never seen one before. But now I own two. After growing up in the 1980s with sectarian Beirut as the poster child for urban disaster zones, it was really something to see.

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America - Foleygate Repeat of Easongate

Main stream media seem unable or unwilling to learn.

Eason Jordan was fired for making unsubstantiated claims that US troops target jounalists. Bloggers challenged Jordan to provide evidence to back up his claim or resign. He resigned.

Last week I posted about Linda Foley's, President of the Newspaper Guild and Communication Workers of America, repeat of that claim. Now from the people who brought you Easongate.com comes MediaSlander.com, whose initial purpose is to have Foley provide evidence for her claim or resign.

Thanks to Steve of www.WordUnheard.com for the tip.

Media Slander's statement of purpose says in part:

The goal of Media Slander is to hold journalists and bloggers to high ethical standards regarding coverage of the War on Terror and other military-related issues. We plan to achieve this by highlighting bias, rumor and falsehoods that have been creeping into military coverage under the guise of objective news.

Be sure to bookmark and blogroll them.
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America - Professor disputes Holocaust

The Rocky Mountain Telegram reports on another dim wit teaching our kids.

Finally, the question was rephrased again — Do you believe that the Germans and their allies engaged in a systematic program to kill Jews during World War II?

"If there was a systematic program to kill Jews, it was done in collaboration with the Zionists," Christensen answered.

Note the "if" qualifier.

Why is she still teaching?
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America - Fabricating News in Detroit

Debbie Schlussel continues exposing news fabrication in Detroit. Ironically, this post deals with a journalism professor at Wayne State University, Jack Lessenberry.

Ismael Ahmed, chief of Islamic welfare agency ACCESS (which has strong terror ties), blames me for losing his bid to become University of Michigan Regent. In his zeal to pander to Ahmed and attack me, Lessenberry described Ahmed's Army "hitch in Vietnam" to show that Ahmed is a "A Real American" and defame me as a "vulgar . . . creature" who tells "lies." Lessenberry again presented Ahmed's lie as fact in another column: "He enlisted and was sent to Vietnam".

Problem is, Lessenberry and Ahmed made it up. (It’s a lie Ahmed’s lawyer, Shereef Akeel, repeated in a threatening letter, trying to silence me.)

If Ismael Ahmed ever went to Vietnam, it was as a tourist. His military record shows his service was mostly spent at Fort Knox—perhaps bravely guarding the gold. At least Dan Rather “tried” to verify the details of Bush's military service (and HE was forced to resign).

The maxim used to be "trust but verify". Now it's "verify first then trust".
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Iraq - Insurgency Infiltrated?

Winds of Change has the story.

Winds of Change thinks this could help us in the bigger war on terror.

Iraq is yielding another asset crucial to winning the War on Terror: a friendly Arab intelligence service that is highly motivated to destroy al Qaeda. Iraqi agents, trained in the culture and languages of the Middle East, have a much better chance than Americans at infiltrating al Qaeda's network and providing valuable intelligence on its membership, communications and operations.

Let's hope so.
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Iraq - Zarqawi wounded or smokescreen?

There are reports all over the internet by al Qaeda that their leader in Iraq is wounded. Why would they do that?

Could they be setting us up for an announcement that he is dead, all the while he makes his escape to Syria? Is it a coincidence that the Syrian government "has halted all cooperation with the United States in sharing information about the war on terror"?
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Iraq - U.S. military targets journalists

MSM finally report on what bloggers reported on five days ago! Namely, Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley's, unsubstantiated charges that the US military targets journalists. I say "US military" and not troops because Foley somehow thinks there is a distinction.

In an interview with Editor & Publisher magazine, Foley offered a clarification: "I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military."

Thanks, that's much clearer now. ??

I agree with Retired Air Force General Thomas McInerney when he says:

It may be legitimate to investigate whether there may or may not have been an incident in which U.S. troops have targeted journalists, but there is no question at this point that major media figures are targeting the men and women of the United States military in Iraq, repeatedly and with no evidence,"

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Iraq - Oil For News Program

Town Hall reports on how Saddam bought Al Jazeera's news coverage.

Town Hall notes there is a video tape of "former managing director of the influential Qatar-based, government-subsidized satellite network Al Jazeera, Mohammed Jassem al-Ali", indicating "that Al Jazeera had put into effect the directives that Uday had proffered in those previous meetings."

Ali was subsequently fired over allegations that al Jazeera had been infiltrated by Iraqi intelligence. The BBC saw things differently. BBC's Arabic station was the forerunner of Al Jazeera. But documents uncovered after the fall of Baghdad confirm the allegations.

Further, their best-known Arab correspondent, Tayssir Alouni, was arrested in Spain for ties to Al Qaeda.

Interestingly, six months after Ali was fired, al-Jazeera's editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Helal, resigned and joined the BBC.

And the circle was complete.
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Islam - What to do about it

This blog thinks they have the answer. But just like ALI AL-AHMED he misses the fundemental point that will doom all such notions. In order to change Islam you have to change the Koran and since Muslims believe the Koran is the very word of God they will never change it.

Here is what the blog says.

But all this is only a means to confuse the real and pressing issue facing the media, government and military. This issue is not who is most honest and who has what agenda, but what is to be done about Islam. No one from any institution of American life has as yet enunciated the dangers of failing to demand that Muslims the world over take control of their religion and either reform or eliminate those that would destroy a centuries-old spiritual path that boasts peaceful adherents in every country on earth, a tradition of scientific and cultural innovation and at least, a history of tolerance and peaceful respect of other religious practices.

When the president tosses yet another off-handed "Islam is Peace" remark he does no service to the thousands who have been slaughtered and oppressed so "peacefully." When the media refuses to use certain words (e.g. "terrorist") for fear of insulting Muslims and seeming to be on the side of the US government, thus inciting yet another Islamist riot, it hardly demonstrates an understanding of the stakes in this fight. Neither the government nor the media wish to call out the foe, no matter that that very same foe yells in our face each and every day what its intentions are.

We may be winning or losing this war; it's getting harder each day to tell. But if we lose, it will not be because the enemy is superior in strength, morality or guile. It will be because we have failed to take the threat with the seriousness and dead calm that an existential crisis demands. We have failed to identify the enemy and in doing so have turned the fight in on ourselves. The current spat between the government and the media would make for lively entertainment in another time. As we grow towards what is likely to be a showdown with thousands, maybe millions, of radicalized religious fanatics it might be a good idea for us to come to some agreement on whom we fight before it is too late.

Don't count on Muslims for help. The recent march against terrorism, organized by Muslims, in Washington attracted 50 people. Notice I said people. I would imagine that not all 50 were Muslims.

Look what happens when a Muslim tries to reform Islam.

A planned lecture by Islamic dissident Irshad Manji at the UK's University of Leicester has been cancelled for fear of Muslim-sponsored violent reactions.

And don't count on the press for help. Newsweek's bogus Koran desecration story should tell you that. If not, look at the way everyone involved in the Azza Basarudin Koran desecration story acted. The press were all over it, Amazon issued an apology and banned the used bookseller who sold the book. All on her word alone - just because she is a Muslim. A quick search of her reveals she is an Islamic activist opposed to the US liberation of Iraq.

So, the question becomes not only what to do about Islam, but what to do about the blinkered press.
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Muslims - Where's the Outrage?

Armstrong Williams wants to know.

Throughout Europe, people are standing idly by as Muslim women are being murdered for having the audacity to date, or to not wear their head scarves outside, or to yearn for a life outside of the home. The problem is most pronounced in Germany. Last month six German women were murdered by their Muslim families for flirting with Western culture. Most recently, Hatin Surucu, a twenty-three-year-old Turkish woman who had been forced into marrying her cousin at age 16, was gunned down at a German bus stop. The attack had been planned. The motive-- Surucu had divorced her husband, discarded her religious head scarf, and had begun dating German men. This was too much for her family to bear. So her three brothers killed her, and orphaned her five year old son.

Armstrong has a point when he says we should stop calling these murders "honor killings". There is no honor attached to these murders and that is just what they are. By using "honor killings" we are playing into the Muslim murder's hand that they are somehow the aggrieved party.

And he agrees with me that we need to stand up to Muslims.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman! "Honor killings" are subhuman! And human rights activists need to address the situation in no uncertain terms. The practice of killing women for wanting to have lives of their own needs to be held up to public scrutiny. At the same time, the German government needs to engage in outreach programs to Muslim youths. They need to make sure that Muslim kids are not so alienated from mainstream society that they can simply be programmed by Mosques to hate and degrade women. Most of all the government needs to provide sanctuary to oppressed women and girls, instead of allowing Muslim extremists to hide their abuses behind a disingenuous veil of cultural relativity. Democratic societies like Germany can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. In a democracy, we simply cannot allow the word “honor” to be attached to such brutal and archaic religious practices.

The world's media goes on a feeding frenzy over bogus allegations that US troops desecrated the Koran but say nothing of innocent women being murdered around the world. Where's the outrage? Such hypocrisy.
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Giggling in Baghdad 

Iraq - Muslims Outraged While Baghdad Giggles

Tim Blair points us to this article and picture (I'll post it next) of an Iraqi family giggling at the site of Saddam in his underpants.

Hamza Adnan, 8, Jinan Jassim, Ayah Faiz, 5, and Duha Munaf, 16, from left, watch Dubai-based satellite television station al-Arabiya in a house in the Karada area of Baghdad, Friday May 20, 2005, as it broadcasts Friday’s front page of Britain’s mass circulation tabloid newspaper, the Sun, showing Saddam Hussein standing in his white underwear while folding what appears to be a brown pair of trousers.

At least the media would have us believe Muslims are outraged. I suspect the majority giggled as well.
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