The Arabist » Muslim Brothers: so hot right now
As they face one of the biggest crackdowns in decades and the military trial of some of their top funders begins, the Egyptian Muslim Brothers are attracting ever more attention. There is a long piece in the NY Times Magazine — a pretty decent and sympathetic portrait of the group and some of its personalities, even if it is generally inconclusive — that looks at their recent pro-reform parliamentary record and what various members of the group say about issues such as alcohol, Copts, and so on. James Traub, the author of the piece, is working on a book on democracy promotion and it shows: there are references to the Bush administration’s stance towards the MB, which Traub posits as being at odds with the Forward Agenda for Freedom (Bushspeak for democracy promotion.) To me it seems the democracy promotion angle (a US policy issue) is a bit awkwardly tackled to the more general look at the Brothers’ democratic credentials, but of course it’s an interesting issue.

The Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it includes within it a substantial body of people—many times more numerous than the agents of Osama bin Ladin—who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the United States and the desire, ultimately, to transform it into a nation living under the strictures of militant Islam. Although not responsible for the atrocities in September, they harbor designs for this country that warrant urgent and serious attention.

In June 1991, Siraj Wahaj, a black convert to Islam and the recipient of some of the American Muslim community’s highest honors, had the privilege of becoming the first Muslim to deliver the daily prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives. On that occasion he recited from the Qur’an and appealed to the Almighty to guide American leaders “and grant them righteousness and wisdom.”

A little over a year later, addressing an audience of New Jersey Muslims, the same Wahaj articulated a rather different vision from his mild and moderate invocation in the House. If only Muslims were more clever politically, he told his New Jersey listeners, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. “If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him. . . . [T]ake my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.” In 1995, Wahaj served as a character witness for Omar Abdel Rahman in the trial that found that blind sheikh guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States. More alarming still, the U.S. attorney for New York listed Wahaj as one of the “unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators” in the sheikh’s case.
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FrontPage magazine.com :: Hometown Jihad: The School Gym that Terror Built by Patrick Poole
Siraj Wahhaj, a Brooklyn, NY imam, says that he isn’t convinced Osama bin Laden was behind 9/11. He was named by US Attorney Mary Jo White as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993
World Trade Center bombing. He served as a defense character witness for blind hate sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman in the trial for that act of terrorism that anticipated the horror of 9/11. He says that Muslims should appoint their own emir (leader) and take over America and install the Islamic caliphate. And he serves on the advisory board for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), both of which were just named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirators in a current HAMAS terrorism financing trial in Texas (see my article, “CAIR Fingered by Feds”).

And when Sunrise Academy (the only full-time Islamic school in Central Ohio), located in my hometown of Hilliard, Ohio, needed to raise money in March 2006 to build a sports complex for their school, they turned to Wahhaj for help. His financial appeal was so successful they invited him back in February of this year for yet another school fundraiser.

Regular FrontPage readers might remember Sunrise Academy as the operational hub for Muslim Brotherhood political analyst, international HAMAS promoter, notorious anti-Jewish ideologue, 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and protégé of “Theologian of Terror” Youssef al-Qaradawi, my Hilliard neighbor Dr. Salah Sultan, who has been the subject of five previous articles in my “Hometown Jihad” series here at FrontPage:

Melanie Phillips’s Diary » Beyond belief
True to its ever-more astounding and sickening form, (including this grovelling apology for calling Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, its capital) the BBC has been blaming the carnage in Gaza upon…Israel. According to its ineffable Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, the barbarism meted out by the Palestinians of Gaza upon each other is All Israel’s Fault:

The institutions, and the hopes behind them, have already taken a severe battering from Israel’s military actions over the last seven years and, more recently, by the punishing financial sanctions imposed by Israel and other countries after Hamas won a free election at the beginning of last year… What has happened also shows the failure of the decision of the world’s big powers to isolate Hamas. The financial sanctions they imposed, which caused severe hardship and helped fuel the violence in Gaza by making people even more desperate, were designed to either force Hamas to recognise Israel or to push it out of power. The policy has achieved neither objective.

No mention that aid to Gaza has at the very least doubled since these ‘punishing financial sanctions’ were imposed. No acknowledgement that it was Hamas’s genocidal attacks on Israel that caused these sanctions to be imposed. No awareness of the absurdity of blaming the violence on the ‘desperation’ caused by sanctions when a) it is plainly a power struggle between Hamas and Fatah, b) the Palestinians were given the opportunity to turn Gaza into a flourishing society two years ago, but within hours showed how ‘desperate’ they were not to achieve this by destroying millions of dollars’ worth of greenhouses that the Israelis had left for them to make money from, and c) Hamas is demonstrably not despairing at all but exultant that it can now tyrannise the inhabitants of Gaza all the way back to the 7th century.

Melanie Phillips’s Diary » The Hamas, MI6, BBC axis
n the past few days, the BBC appears to have turned itself into a mouthpiece for Hamas. From a steady procession of talking heads has issued a stream of Arab propaganda, along the lines that what has happened in Gaza is an inevitable outcome of the Israeli/western collective punishment of Palestinian voters for democratically choosing a party of which the west disapproves, along with the Israeli/western refusal to ‘engage’ with Hamas, a situation which must now be remedied forthwith. If we look a little more closely at these interviewees, however, it seems that such a consistent line may not be altogether coincidental. The casual listener and viewer has been led to assume that all these ‘experts’ are random, if well-informed, observers of the Middle East scene. But a rather different picture emerges if one joins up some of the dots.

Last week I mentioned about how the New York Times buried the JFK Airport terror plot on Page 37. You’d have been more likely to move on to the sports or movie section before ever finding it.

That turns out to almost be the least of the Times efforts on that day to minimize the significance of the threat that terrorism holds for America, its citizens and economy. The reporters didn’t get around to telling readers of the thousands of lives that could have been lost, or the huge economic hit it would have inflicted, until the 28th paragraph.

They certainly made sure to feature, in the fifth paragraph, the statement from Mayor Bloomberg’s office that there “was never any imminent danger because the attack was only in a preliminary phase.” You can imagine that the 9/11 hijackers would have been written about similarly if they had been foiled before the attacks were “imminent.” (I can almost hear the accusatory pleadings of the ACLU and Muslim advocacy groups that these well-bred, aspiring, young men wanted only a piece of the American dream by becoming airline pilots).

A quick expanse of the hotspots in the Islamic world reveals a very repulsive and distressful drama unf olding very silently and unnoticeably. 6th of June marked the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Six Day War according to the civil calendar. So how did the Palestinians acknowledge this significant date? They tore each other apart this time, unable to penetrate through the thick walls, the desire for blood now turns to their own. Of course, this ongoing conflict provides a ready made excuse for all the problems of Arab societies ranging from the national to the deeply personal. As Egyptian columnist Wael Abdel Fattah wrote in the independent weekly Al-Fagr newspaper that Arabs blame the defeat for “everything” – from “price hikes, dictatorship, religious extremism, sectarian strife, even sexual impotence.” The heavy fighting, pitting forces loyal to Palestinian Presid ent Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, against members of the Islamist Hamas movement, have not only revived fears of an intra-Palestinian civil war, but they have shattered the dream of the Palestinians gaining independence and ruling themselves as a sovereign nation at any time in the foreseeable future.
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MyFox Rev. Sharpton Meets Today with Sheriff on Paris’ Treatment

What the holly hell does this nigger have to do with the dumb slut?

LOS ANGELES — Paris Hilton is safely behind bars, instead of in them, but she continues to make waves — for Sheriff Lee Baca, who reassigned her to home confinement before a judge ordered her back to jail.

Until the so called “religion” of Islam gets its act together and reels in the “ones that hijacked the religion” it needs to be placed on hold from developing any further in this non-Islamic country of the United States.

By Randy Taylor, Independent Analyst

9 June 2007: I remember as a child in school, the discussion of perpetual motion. For this editorial, I’ll stand by my belief that all motion has to have a starting point. True, it applies to objects but it also applies here as once this thing called Jihad was set into motion, it hasn’t stopped. It hasn’t even slowed down. Like unwanted weeds it is choking the lawn of freedom and democracy and squeezing the life out of what is good. But unlike weeds, this is going to be hard if not impossible to do away with.

Why? It’s because we refuse to identify the root cause of this Islamic terrorism problem.

In 2001 most Americans received their first real wake up call to the Jihad, were finally introduced in a most savage manner to al Qaeda and since have been repeatedly attacked by Islam. I mention all three because they are the Trilogy of Terror known as Islam, al Qaeda and the Jihad. One cannot survive without the other two. They are one.

The Jihad has been going on for decades but since September 11, 2001 this Islamic invasion of terrorism has spread like wild fire throughout the world and has become quite obvious, quite apparent. We knew of some regions where there were problems like Sudan, Afghanistan, Kenya, the Philippines and a few other areas such as Somalia and of course Palestine. Since that time it has grown and developed in an organized fashion in almost every country in the world. Growing like weeds, out of control. All of this was carefully orchestrated by the Islamic ideologues long ago. It was decided that Iran would be the base of the Caliphate and the oil rich country would provide the financing for terrorism and weapons development in their quest.

In order to exterminate the weeds of terror one must look very closely at the root system. This is the problem with the way the western world is looking at it. The governments, the people, the ones protecting us haven’t properly identified the roots of Islamic terrorism. Anything can be exterminated if you get to the roots. If you choose to leave it be and only defend against it, you still have to know the root of it, the identifying signs of its presence.

The unknowing, the “ignorant in their bliss” types continue to blame a small element in Islam which they refer to as “militant Islam”, the “few that have hijacked the religion” or al Qaeda. Let’s examine that closely and with a few simple facts, a little math and common sense you will see the “root system” of this Islamic growth. Until you acknowledge and decide to confront the “root system”, you cannot effectively protect yourself from it. Because of this refusal to identify, we are allowing terrorism to manifest, to grow.

There is a misconception that al Qaeda is the root of Islamic evil. Oh, granted, they are quite evil but simply being named al Qaeda or “The Base” doesn’t effectively shed light on the “base” or root system. Al Qaeda is only part of the problem. They didn’t start the fire. They were the accelerant on the fire. Some Islamic pedophile “prophet” named Mohammed started the fire, centuries ago. The rest have capitalized on it.

Fact: If we were to eliminate al Qaeda, Islamic terrorism (the Jihad) would still be present as it is today.

Fact: If we were to kill Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, Islamic terrorism (the Jihad) would still be present as it is today.