Letter to Rasmussen included a threat of "reactions" back at October 12

“We strongly feel that casting aspersions on Islam as a religion and publishing demeaning caricatures of the Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) goes against the spirit of Danish values of tolerance and civil society. This is on the whole a very discriminatory tendency and does not bode well with [sic] the high human rights standards of Denmark. We may underline that it can also cause reactions in Muslim countries and among Muslim communities in Europe“.

 

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The Bin Laden Bunch

It must have been tough for young Osama when the hormones started kicking in and telling him, "It's time to change."

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Three terrorists caught in Ohio

FOX News reports on three terrorists arrested in Ohio who were planning to attack US and Allied troops overseas:

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted three Ohio men for their role in assisting terrorism on U.S. targets overseas, specifically American military personnel and their allies in Iraq.

The indictment said the men plotted to kill U.S. and coalition military personnel in Iraq and other countries. On at least two separate occasions, among other charges, at least one of the men verbally threatened to kill or inflict bodily harm on President Bush, the indictment says.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced the five-count indictment during a press conference Tuesday.

"These defendants have been living in the United States, where they have been engaging in weapons training and seeking help in order to kill people abroad, including our troops," Gonzales said.

"Individuals who aid terrorists within our borders threaten the safety of all Americans," he continued. "We are committed to protecting Americans, here and overseas, particularly the brave men and women of the U.S. armed forces who are serving our country and striving valiantly to preserve democracy and the rule of law in Iraq."

The men named in the indictment are: Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 26, who was a citizen of Jordan and the United States who lived in Toledo until August 2005; Marwan Othman El-Hindi, a 42-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen born in Amman, Jordan who lives in Toledo; and Wassim Mazloum, a 24-year-old legal U.S. resident who operated a car business with his brother in Toledo after entering the United States from Lebanon.

While it's good that the terrorists three were captured before they could do any harm overseas, it's also fortunate that they were captured before they could do harm within even the United States. An important point to make here that the media may have obscured: there is every possibility that they could have tried to attack US army personnel even within the United States, at military bases in Ohio or other parts of the US.

And that's another reason why it's very fortunate that they were arrested before they could carry out their sadistic plots and commit violent crimes.

Thanks to the time zones involved, I woke up a little late to breaking news, but I still thought it might be of some use to recall three things I learned this morning:

1) Bush has apparently claimed that he "didn't know" at the time of the secret agreement that Dubai Ports World was owned by Muslims;

2) Part of the agreement was that there would be "no investigation" of the deal once it was concluded.

3) Senator Robert Menendez has been telling the news that "additional security concessions" have been made to Dubai Ports World as part of the agreement.

In view of the above, I should like to post a few relevant quotes from http://thetruthproject.blogspot.com for your consideration:

Quotations :

"Thus the jihad may be regarded as Islam’s instrument for carrying out its ultimate objective by turning all people into believers, if not in the prophethood of Muhammad (as in the case of the dhimmis), at least in the belief of God. The Prophet Muhammad is reported to have declared “some of my people will continue to fight victoriously for the sake of the truth until the last one of them will combat the anti-Christ.” Until that moment is reached the jihad, in one form or another will remain as a permanent obligation upon the entire Muslim community. It follows that the existence of a dar al-harb is ultimately outlawed under the Islamic jural order; that the dar al-Islam permanently under jihad obligation until the dar al-harb is reduced to non-existence; and that any community accepting certain disabilities- must submit to Islamic rule and reside in the dar al-Islam or be bound as clients to the Muslim community. The universality of Islam, in its all embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political if not strictly military."
-Majid Khadurri, Muslim scholar, in War and Peace in the Law of Islam, 1955

"Acquiring nuclear weapons for the defense of Moslems is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank Allah for enabling me to do so."
-Osama bin Laden, in an 1998 interview with Time magazine

"We have the right to kill 4 million Americans, two million of them children."
-Abu Gheith, Al-Qaeda spokesman

"If a bomb was dropped on them that would annihilate 10 million and burn their lands…this is permissible."
-Sheikh Nasir bin Hamid al-Fahd, prominent Saudi cleric close to Al-Qaeda

"The real matter is the extinction of America. And, Allah willing, it will fall to the ground…keep in mind this prediction."
-Mullah Omar, Taliban leader and ally of Osama bin Laden

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
-Omar Ahmad, Co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

"We must reject democracy in favor of Islam, which is the unique perfect system worked out by Allah. . .Our march has just begun and Islam will end up conquering Europe and America. . . And let no one think that we are Utopian dreamers."
-Sheikh Saeed Shaaban, quoted in L'Orient le jour, Beirut, 19 October 1983

"The Koran pushes us in the exact opposite direction to the forces at work in the American political spectrum."
-Imam Zaid Shakir, former Muslim chaplain and political science professor, Yale University

"Islam is not Christianity...Islam is the religion of agitation, revolution, blood, liberation and martyrdom."
-Sheikh Morteza Motahari, quoted in "Islamic Movements in the Last One Hundred Years," Tehran, 1979

"Islam has an answer to every imagnable question. All an individual needs to do is to obey the rules without posing questions, without seeking variations."
-Sheikh Ragheb Harb, "Islam is the Strongest Religion," 1983, p.22

"A believer...who takes up a gun, a dagger, a kitchen knife or even a pebble with which to harm and kill the enemies of the Faith has his place assured in Heaven. An Islamic state is the sum total of such individual believers. An Islamic state is a state of war until the whole world sees and accepts the light of the True Faith."
-Ayatollah Fazl-Allah Mahalati, "On the Path of Justice," Tehran, 1980, pp. 70-71

"Deceit, trickery, conspiracy, cheating, stealing and killing are nothing but means."
-Muhammad Navab-Safavi, key figure in the fundamentalist movement, "Islamic Society and Government," Tehran, 1946; second edition, 1985.

"We are not fighting to chase out the occupiers or save national unity and keep the borders defined by the infidels intact, we are fighting because it is a religious duty to do it, just as it is a religious duty to take sharia to the government and create an Islamic state." -spokesman for al-Qaeda, Baghdad, October 18, 2005

"Any land, any piece of land, over which flies the banner of 'There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger,' and which at a certain point belonged to the Muslims – as far as we are concerned, plundering and occupying such land is forbidden, and it is the duty of all Muslims to do what they can to liberate this land, wherever it may be. True, many precious Muslim lands are under occupation today. They have been forgotten, and Andalusia is one example. Nevertheless, it is the duty of the Muslims to liberate them...."
-Sheikh Muhammad Ali, Palestinian Clerics Association Deputy Director, on August 19, 2005.

"The 21st century will be the century of Islam."
-Ayatollah Janati, cleric in Iranian government, quoted many times.

Holy Dhimmitude, Batman!!

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/13891898.htm

Higher Ground Academy grappled with a quandary: How do we teach art to Muslim students who can't create human images? The school found a solution.
BY DOUG BELDEN
Pioneer Press
As violent protests over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad continue around the world, a St. Paul charter school is quietly negotiating the delicate question of how to teach art to Muslims.

Any depiction of God and his prophets is considered offensive under Islam, and disrespectful representations are even worse, as the recent worldwide outrage over the Danish cartoons has shown. But some Muslims also refrain from producing images of ordinary human beings and animals, citing Islamic teaching.

That presented a challenge for Higher Ground Academy, a K-12 school just west of Central High School on Marshall Avenue that has about 450 students. About 70 percent of them are Muslim immigrants from eastern Africa.

Executive Director Bill Wilson said he had concerns for some time about how to reconcile the school's art curriculum with the views of Muslim families, but the departure of the art teacher at the end of last school year gave him a window to act.

This fall, he hired ArtStart, a St. Paul-based nonprofit organization, to offer more options for about 150 kindergartners through second-graders, including visual arts and drumming. But parents were still upset that their children were drawing figures, Wilson said, and some pulled their children out of art class altogether.

Wilson then sat down with teacher and parent liaison Abdirahman Sheikh Omar Ahmad, who also is the imam at an Islamic center in Minneapolis, to work with ArtStart in determining how to meet state standards without running afoul of Muslim doctrine.

"We said, 'Look, we can do better than this,' " Wilson said.

NO HUMAN IMAGES

Out the window right away went masks, puppets and that classic of elementary school art class, the self-portrait, said Sara Langworthy, an artist with ArtStart. Revamping the curriculum "definitely requires stepping outside of the normal instincts that you fall back on," she said.

In their place came nature scenes and geometric forms and patterns, said Carol Sirrine, ArtStart's executive director. This week, the class was cutting out shapes to make into cardboard pouches. Another project involved taking photographs and mapping the neighborhood around the school.

The conversation about what is appropriate is still open.

In a meeting this week, Langworthy asked Ahmad whether the students can do silhouettes of hands. That's fine, he said.

Ahmad's involvement has put many parents' minds at ease, said Said Jama, father of kindergartner Suhyr Ali Jama. Wilson said Muslim enrollment in art has rebounded since the changes were introduced.

Langworthy said she and fellow teacher Katie Tuma don't police what the students draw, but they do have conversations with students who are drawing figures to make sure it's really OK.

Not that the children are always the most reliable sources. Langworthy said early on a few told her it was all right to draw animals as long as they didn't give them noses.

Second-grader Hawi Muhammed said her parents don't mind if she draws people once in a while, but "God … doesn't like people to draw a lot," she said.

Her parents prefer to see things like "gardens (or) a house," Hawi said. "That's what they like me to do."

Pictures of people and animals aren't banned in the school, and the religious teachings don't strictly prohibit viewing drawings made by someone else. For example, body tracings that students had cut out and decorated under the previous art curriculum still hang in a main hallway.

But projects that would naturally lead to figure drawing are no longer assigned, Langworthy said, which isn't a huge loss when it comes to meeting the state standards.

The relevant state requirement for grades K-3 is that students "understand the elements of visual art, including color, line, shape, form, texture, and space."

Accomplishing those objectives without having students draw people and animals just takes a little extra thought, Langworthy said. "There's a billion ways to solve the problem," she said. "So if you're limited to only 700,000, I can live with that."

As Sirrine put it, "In a sense, it's narrowing. But then within that, you can find the depth."

EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS

Conflicts between religious beliefs and art curriculum aren't unheard of elsewhere in St. Paul or around the state, but they aren't widespread, say education officials.

Abdisalam Adam, an English as a Second Language resource teacher in the St. Paul school district, said issues like the one at Higher Ground have come up a few times, but "it is not very common." (Charter schools are public institutions that operate independently of the districts in which they are located. In Higher Ground's case, St. Paul Public Schools is the sponsoring organization, which means it has some general oversight responsibility.)

Michael Hiatt, director of professional development and research at the Perpich Center for Arts Education — the state agency that offers training and support for arts curriculum — said there was a religious group a few years ago that wanted to modify the dance curriculum offered in one district, but "I don't see it growing. I don't see an increasing number of requests."

At Higher Ground, Wilson said he plans to use ArtStart — which is typically hired for one- or two-week residencies rather than long-term relationships with schools — to expand the art curriculum to grades three through five this fall.

And he said once the program is fine-tuned, "we'd like to be able to export this" to any school that is interested.

Wilson said Higher Ground has experience in mediating cultural conflicts because of tensions that have arisen between its majority African population and the rest of the student body, almost all of whom are African American.

Certain forms of hip-hop dance performed by African-American students at school talent shows are offensive to some Muslim students, for example, but "we've always accommodated that with lots of discussion," Wilson said.

That openness to cultural compromise served the school well in the case of the art classes, he said, laying a foundation of understanding with Muslim parents before the cartoon furor of the past few weeks hit.

"If we pay attention to cultural diversity and cultural competency, those kinds of issues shouldn't emerge," he said. "We got it right before this whole thing busted open in Europe."

Doug Belden can be reached at dbelden@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5136.

Art curriculum: Before and after

Most Islamic scholars say statues and other three-dimensional renderings of human beings and animals are forbidden because they might promote idolatry, said Fedwa Wazwaz of the Islamic Resource Group, a Blaine-based group that educates non-Muslims about Islam.

Some Muslims also would object to drawings and paintings of those figures, she said. The more restrictive view is particularly common among African Muslims, which make up the majority of Higher Ground Academy's student population.

Here are a few ways the art curriculum developed at Higher Ground might look different from a traditional grade-school art class:

Traditional

Children learn proportion, shape and line by drawing people based on photos from a magazine.

Children learn about color by mixing paint for skin tone.

Students learn clay construction by forming animal shapes.

Higher Ground

Same skills taught by having kids draw trees from photographs.

Same thing taught by mixing paint for landscapes.

Children make clay vessels or cups instead.

To learn more

ArtStart: www.artstart.org

Islamic Resource Group: www.islamicresourceonline.org

Higher Ground Academy: www.hgacademy.org

State art standards: http://education.state.mn.us/mde/Academic_Excellence/
Academic_Standards/Standards_in_the_Arts/index.html

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"The school found a solution"?!?!? Why is it that every "solution" that we reach when it comes to muslims is some form of dhimmitude?

Hat-tip to the mighty Ronin

Islam's success - Spengler

Muslim unhappiness is not "about" the Israeli presence on the West Bank, or even the intrusion of Western secular values. It is about the Muslim perception that Islam's promise of success against its enemies has eluded them. It is a crisis of faith

BINGO!

READ IT ALL

He never says it quick, but he is thought provoking (sometimes wrong) and always stimulating

Toonophobia: Irrational Fear of Blasphemous Line Drawings

Preaching Sharia Is Working To Overthrow The Government

Sharia is a form of government.

Therefore, preaching for Sharia is CLEARLY, an attempt to overthrow the government.

Jihad, burqas and Sharia all go against human rights.

If we really believed in what we say we believe we (the countries of the West) would prosecute anyone who preached the above three for attempting to overthrow our countries.



By the way, to any Muslim who reads this: If your form of Sharia does not include stoning gays and adulterers to death, if your form of Sharia does not include the preaching of violent Jihad against the Infidels and Jews, if your form of Sharia does not make women unequal citizens, then I have no problem with you.

You know what I am talking about. Don't deny it.

The sooner moderate Muslims stand up, the sooner we can fix our problems. If they don't stand up, then our world is in for a very bad war.

Hamas To Israel: We Will Nuke You

Here's a link to Hamas' website, where they are featuring a moving graphic which depicts a nuclear weapon destroying Israel.

The Astute Blogger notes that the leader of Hamas has gone to Iran to meet with the regime there, and has made the following statement:


Hamas' political leader in exile said Tuesday that Iran will have a "major role" in Palestinian affairs. ... "The Ayatollah's regime will have a major role in Palestine," Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said in a meeting in Teheran with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. "We trust Iran to help us deal with the challenges facing us today."

"... when asked if Hamas would recognize the Jewish state's legitimacy, if Israel were to withdraw to the borders before the 1967 war, Mashaal told the gathering of Tehran University students at Shahid Chamran Hall it would not. "We will not recognize Israel at any cost," answered Meshaal, Agence France Presse reported."


Put two and two together, and what do you get?

Courage & Cowardice

Its becoming more and more obvious that many Muslim leaders are playing a "double game"-- constantly trying to portray themselves as victims, when in fact they are so often the victimizers-- in so many situations, they turn out to be the bullies.

Unfortunately, most the time, politicians and other opinion makers take the "easy way out"-- and give in to Muslim bullying.

During the last day or two, however, I've noticed a few individuals who've had the courage to speak the truth-- and to express quite clearly what needs to be said. These include Flemming Rose of Jyllands-Posten, Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, and a leading Catholic Bishop (Rino Fisichella). Entire article: Courage and Cowardice.

Hints to tell you are dead wrong

Carter backs Bush's stand on seaport-operations deal

Former President Jimmy Carter downplayed criticism of White House support of an Arab-owned company's purchase of a major seaport-operations firm.

O'reilly is also backing this, saying we can't spit in the eye of the arabs since we want to encourage noderate muslims, and the UAE is our ally.

Of course, we all know around HERE in the Theban plain, that the problem is not 'arabs'. It's what arabs teach each other. It's the idea that if the govt of the UAE is our ally it means we question how long they will be around and what the people there think and believe. We have already seen in another post that SOME PEOPLE (i.e. imams with enough popularity to get their quttbas on TV) believe that muslims didn't do the bombings in the UK since christians and jews do these types of things. Why wasn't this guy laughed out of town? In a moderate muslim population he'd be history.

Indian islahi Centre, U.A.E. was established in the early 1980s; Dubai as its headquarters. The formation of this organisation helped all Salafi scholars, who were doing their services independently, to come together and work in an organised manner. Later branches were formed in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and various other places in the U.A.E. Now it has branches in all emirates of the U.A.E.

And another seemingly popular imam? Hey, maybe this guy is the David Duke of UAE, and they are all Quakers by comparison ...but WHY TAKE A CHANCE NOW?

Hold an investigation. Air it out.

Georgie, shut up for bit, eh. You are making it worse for yourself.

Here are the most interesting paragraphs from the Los Angeles Times' coverage of the 911 panel:

"Aerial surveillance spotted an official United Arab Emirates jet at the camp, and it became clear that senior UAE officials were there hunting and apparently meeting with Bin Laden. "Policymakers were concerned about the danger that a strike might kill an Emirati prince or other senior officials," the commission's report said.

"A commission official said the panel was still investigating why senior officials from the UAE, considered an American ally, were meeting with Bin Laden.

SHUT UP GEORGIE.

(cross posted at Villagers with Torches)

Today's Fascinating Factoid

There are 12 million Jews in the world and yet they have received 169 Nobel Prizes. The Muslims number 1.4 billion or 117 times the number of Jews. Based upon this 117:1 Muslim-to-Jew ratio, one might expect the Muslims to have 22,260 Nobel Laureates.

They have 7.

Oh yeah, and one of the 7 is a dead terrorist named Arafat.

Hate Mail & Death Threats Target T-shirt Seller

From: http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20060221/bs_prweb/prweb348992_1

Tue Feb 21, 7:00 AM ET

(PRWEB) - (PRWEB) February 21, 2006 -- Conservative t-shirt maker MetroSpy set off a firestorm when their newest design depicted a caricature of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb wrapped in his turban. According to Islamic tradition, graphic depictions of the Prophet Mohammed are forbidden. MetroSpy's apparent disregard for this tradition has outraged many in the Muslim world, prompting some to voice their displeasure by sending the company hate-filled email, online viruses and even death threats.

Johnathan Alexander, MetroSpy's production manager, says he's never seen anything like it. “It's a silly little cartoon. We've sold designs far more offensive than this for years”, referring to a t shirt which reads, “My Jesus can beat up your Allah.”

“For people to become so enraged over a drawing that they resort to burning down buildings and threatening to kill people is something I'll never understand,” Alexander said.

In one email the person writes, “We kill you and burn your shop. I am Muslim with forces in the U.S.A.”

Another email claims to be from the terrorist group Al Qaeda. It reads, “You only have 5 days and your company will disappear. I promise!” The email is signed, Saalem Al Qahtani, Al Qaeda.

One of the more disturbing messages simply says, “In two days we kill your family."

Over the past few days, MetroSpy has begun posting some of the emails on their website (http://www.shopmetrospy.com/).

According to Alexander, “Ever since we started posting the messages along with the sender's return address, the volume of hate mail has slowed down and the tone has changed considerably. In fact, some of the more recent comments could be considered polite.”

In an email which was traced to Saudi Arabia, the writer asks, “Could you guys do a favor? Please eliminate this picture from your goods because it's very embarrassing to our religion. If you do that, it would be a greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.”

Another says, “I am sending this e-mail and I hope that you understand that what you are doing is offending more than a billion people in the world. I hope that your sales with other stuff be billions but not for this one offending product.”

Altogether, MetroSpy has received more than five hundred hate emails and attempted virus attacks.

Donia Saber of Elk Grove, California is an Islamic activist who writes, “I am deeply offended at the t-shirt company MetroSpy. Selling shirts with a picture of the Prophet is unacceptable and I assure you the Muslim community will not tolerate this.”

Despite protests over their offending design, MetroSpy plans to continue selling the t-shirts. As a precautionary measure however, MetroSpy has increased its security, sought the advice of a private investigative agency and remain in close contact with federal and local authorities.

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METROSPY
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Muslim Hacker Jihad

From: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/63846.htm

"By NILES LATHEM Post Correspondent
February 20, 2006 -- WASHINGTON — Muslim computer-hacker gangs have launched a massive attack on Danish and Western Web sites as part of the mass protests across the Arab world over the publication of cartoons making fun of the Prophet Mohammed.
The cyber-crime monitoring group Zone-H.org said in a statement that more than 1,000 Danish, Israeli and European sites were defaced or shut down by Islamic hackers in the last week.

And experts fear that's just the beginning of what could be a massive cyber-jihad stretching from the Middle East and Europe to the United States and dominating cyberspace for..."

And from Ali Sina's www.faithfreedom.org:

"It appears we are the victims of another DOS attack. This one appears to be more coordinated than the last one, and it also appears to involve multiple computers.

We are working to resolved the problem. Admittedly DOS attacks are much more preferable than knife attacks, but they show Muslims total defeat in logical arguments. "

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I do believe that Sina's take is quite correct. They cannot argue and would rather not, not with us infidels and apostates (such as on Sina's site), so they instead strike out to silence those they disagree with in their infantile approach.

Who's this man?

More information here.

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