Unreal: Defense Department Brings in Radical Islamist to Lecture Troops on Islam Before They Deploy to Afghanistan....

From Weasel Zippers (click on title above):

And I forgot to mention, this is in Ft. Hood.....

Somebody at Fort Hood Should Be Walking the Plank- National Review

Prepare to be infuriated.

It's been brought to my attention by several reliable sources that the Defense Department has brought Louay Safi to Fort Hood as an instructor, and that he has been lecturing on Islam to our troops in Fort Hood who are about to deploy to Afghanistan. Safi is a top official of the Islamic Society of North America(ISNA), and served as research director at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).

Worse, last evening, Safi was apparently permitted to present a check (evidently on behalf of ISNA) to the families of the victims of last month's Fort Hood massacre. A military source toldthe blogger Barbarossa at the Jawa Report: "This is nothing short of blood money. This is criminal and the Ft. Hood base commander should be fired right now."

ISNA was identified by the Justice Department at the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing conspiracy trial as an unindicted co-conspirator. The defendants at that trial were convicted of funding Hamas to the tune of millions of dollars.

This should have come as no surprise. ISNA is the Muslim Brotherhood's umbrella entity for Islamist organizations in the United States. It was established in 1981 to enable Muslims in North America "to adopt Islam as a complete way of life" — i.e., to further the Brotherhood's strategy of establishing enclaves in the West that are governed by sharia.

As noted in this 2003 Frontpage report, a 2002 search warrant links Safi to an entity called the "Safa Group." The Safa Group has never been charged with a crime, but the affidavit allegest its involvement in moving large sums of money to terrorist fronts. Safi was also caught on an FBI wiretap of Sami al-Arian, a former leader in the murderous Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The year was 1995, and the topic of the discussion between Safi and al-Arian was Safi's concern that President Clinton's executive order prohibiting financial transactions with terrorist organizations would negatively affect al-Arian. More recently, al-Arian has been convicted of conspiring to provide material support to terrorism.

If you want to get a sense of the garbage our troops are being forced to endure in Fort Hood's classrooms, check out Jihad Watch, where my friend Bob Spencer has more on this episode and on his prior jousts with Safi, here, here, and here.

Rifqa Bary: Update

I am still prone to believing what Rifqa is saying but if this report is not challenged then her case is over and done with. The investogators and the mainstream media always preferred and listened to the parents and CAIR. How is that fair and balanced? Its the girl's life on the line for crying out loud!!

Anyway, let me know what you guys think so far and there's more reports you can read if you follow the link below:

The Ohio teen who ran away from her Muslim home after converting to Christianity apparently lied to state investigators.

However, one of the groups that have infused itself into her cause is accusing state agents of not thoroughly doing their jobs.

Tom Trento with the Florida Security Council calls a seven page report of investigative findings from Florida Department of Law Enforcement “complete nonsense” even though agents interviewed Rifqa Bary and then sought out to confirm or deny the allegations she made.In the report, investigators discuss Rifqa’s claims that she was assaulted by her father, threatened with death and was the victim of long-term child abuse.

Investigators found absolutely no credible reports of threats and no “derogatory” information based on the allegations after interviewing her siblings, people at her school and others involved in her life.

But those fighting for Rifqa to stay in Florida said the report is “incomplete,” deficient and they accuse FDLE agents of not grasping the seriousness of her situation.

“The investigators here are going to be very embarrassed when this comes to trial because expert witnesses will be brought in to completely overwhelm these investigators and their methods employed by these FDLE folks,” Trento said.

Rifqa was interviewed by investigators on Aug. 21. She told them she hitchhiked from a neighbor’s house to the Greyhound bus station in Columbus for her trip to Orlando.It turns out a man who baptized her in Ohio is the one who drove her to the bus station.Then, investigators learned her bus ticket was actually bought in Orlando under a fictitious name.

So what’s next in this case?

Lawyers for Rifqa’s parents have filed a motion to dismiss the dependency hearing. It could be heard as early as next week.

If it’s dismissed, this could clear the way for Rifqa to return to Ohio with her family.

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Update on Bacon & Wine Policeman

Further to the previous posting by pastorius there is now more information courtesy of the Daily Mail. It seems that the policeman concerned was not offended and he said this:

"I told her I knew it was meant as a joke and did not want to make a formal complaint. I just took it on the chin. But someone else in the room must have thought it was a racist incident, and reported it."

My point is if the object of a joke or insult chooses not to be offended then should that not be the end of the matter? What right has someone else to be offended when they are not the subject of the joke/insult. If "someone" calls me an "infidel pig" and I am not offended for whatever reason but some body else overhears the insult and reports that "someone", surely there is no case to answer.

It seems to me to be a case of PC well over the top and "out of it's box". Read the whole story here.