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Muslim activist group CAIR is unusually quiet about longtime board member’s deportation

24 February 2010

Dallas Morning-News, 23 Feb 10: The Council on American-Islamic Relations is a high-profile national organization that speaks out frequently when it believes Muslims are being mistreated. Recently, for example, it denounced the introduction of full-body scanners in airports as a violation of Islamic rules about modesty. Its Web site carries many press releases on a [...]

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More Than a Hero

24 February 2010

FrontPage/Robert Spencer, 24 Feb 10: I said it at the Geert Wilders event at CPAC 2009, and it is still an accurate observation: we live in such a cheap and tawdry age that all one needs to do to be a hero is tell the truth — and yet there are so few heroes.
That is [...]

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Britain Is New Hamas Hub

24 February 2010

Arutz Sheva, 23 Feb 10: In the last 10 years, London has become the primary worldwide bastion of Hamas, according to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, a non-governmental organization dedicated to the memory of fallen Israeli Intelligence Community agents. . . . The findings say London has become the epicenter of Hamas’ political, legal, [...]

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IPT Investigates the Muslim Public Affairs Council

15 February 2010

Investigative Project on Terrorism:
MPAC Pursues Islamist Ideology in Guise of Civil Rights Defender
Far from being the zealous champion of civil rights that it presents itself to be, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has followed a consistent pattern of defending designated terrorist organizations and their supporters, opposing U.S. counterterrorism efforts and spouting anti-Semitic rhetoric. That [...]

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U.S. torn over whether some Muslims pose threat or offer insight

8 February 2010

Dalls Morning News, 7 Feb 10: After the worst military base massacre in U.S. history, officials acknowledged that they failed to “connect the dots” – the shooter had been corresponding with an imam tied to al-Qaeda and had condemned the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a war against Islam.
But Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal [...]

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Burqa becomes focus of tense debate in Europe

5 February 2010

CNN, 4 Feb 10: As France moves closer to a partial ban on the burqa, a leading European lawmaker declared Wednesday that the full Muslim veil is a symbol of political Islam and has no place in Europe.
“The majority (of Europeans) don’t want the political Islam and the symbols of political Islam. And the burqa [...]

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The FBI’s Meeting of the (Closed) Minds?

27 January 2010

Investigative Project on Terrorism: Justice Department prosecutors consider it to be an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror-financing trial in U.S. history. The FBI has refused to meet with its officials for the past 18 months due to concerns over its ties to Hamas. Its Detroit chapter director has spent more than three months sowing [...]

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The Pentagon’s Willful Blindness

26 January 2010

American Thinker/Andrew Bostom, 26 Jan 10,  Bostom is the author of recommended The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims:
The Pentagon’s bowdlerized “analysis” of the jihad-inspired mass murder committed by a pious Muslim officer at Fort Hood is a disgrace. The willful blindness toward the essence of jihad will harm our troops.
I [...]

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Islamists Press Jordan to Stop Aiding U.S. Forces in Afghanistan

14 January 2010

New York Times, 14 Jan 10: Jordan, one of the United States’ closest allies in the Arab world, came under pressure on Wednesday from Islamists to stop cooperating with American forces in Afghanistan. Two weeks after a Jordanian suicide bomber blew himself up at a Central Intelligence Agency base in Khost Province, Afghanistan, the [...]

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Political Correctness Claims 13 Lives at Fort Hood

14 January 2010

Human Events/Robert Spencer, 14 Jan 10: It’s official: political correctness prevented Fort Hood assassin Nidal Hasan’s Army superiors from acting upon signs of his incipient jihadist tendencies. AP reported Monday that “a Defense Department review of the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has found the doctors overseeing Maj. Nidal Hasan’s medical training repeatedly voiced [...]

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The Islamic Infiltration of the US Government

14 January 2010

PJTV: Bill Whittle goes to Washington, DC to investigate radical Islam’s influence over our government and access to our national security secrets. Two whistleblowers, formerly with the DOD and FBI, have the chilling details. Watch videos:
The Islamic Infiltration, Part 1: Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets (PJTV)
The Islamic Infiltration, Part 2: From Influence to [...]

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Muslim summit to counter radicalization among youths a sham

12 January 2010

Washington Times, 12 Jan 10: A major Jewish organization accused several Muslim groups on Monday of using an Islamic summit in Chicago as a platform for extremist and anti-Semitic invective instead of its stated purpose to combat the increasing radicalization of Muslim-American youths.
Based on transcripts or tapes obtained from a Dec. 23-27 convocation of [...]

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“Cultural Jihad” Exploits American Freedoms, Documentary Shows

11 January 2010

American Spectator, 10 Jan 10: Americans who remain blithely unaware of the subtle, sophisticated techniques radical Islamists have used to successfully penetrate U.S. institutions should be introduced to a new documentary that explores the historical development of Jihad.
The film calls attention to a 15 page document FBI agents uncovered back in 2003 authored by the [...]

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US Consulate in Jerusalem penetrated by Hamas

11 January 2010

Jerusalem Post, 9 Jan 10: Alleged terror ties are at the heart of a lawsuit the US Consulate in Jerusalem is fighting; it is being sued for NIS 250,000 by a former employee who the consulate discovered had ties with Hamas. The plaintiff is Azam Qiq, who worked at the US diplomatic mission until 2006 [...]

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Clare Lopez: Jihadis Inside the Gate

6 January 2010

Clare Lopez, a retired CIA operations officer, is an instructor with the CI Centre and the Vice President of the Intelligence Summit.
As the new decade opens, the country is reeling: the year just past saw more attacks by Islamic jihadis directed against Americans than in any other year since 9/11. Several were discovered and stopped [...]

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Radical Islam’s Defiling of Christmas

29 December 2009

FrontPage, 25 Dec 09: Today, while Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas, radical Muslims will be gathering in Atlanta, Georgia for the beginning of their annual hatefest. The irony of this cannot be overstated, as the group sponsoring the event, ICNA, and its followers openly denounce Christians and propagate material cursing and calling for [...]

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Much Ado About CAIR

29 December 2009

FrontPage, book review, 24 Dec 09: Is it a mainstream Muslim civil rights organization, an illegal lobbying firm, a terrorist front group or all of the above?
In the eye-opening new book titled Muslim Mafia, former federal investigator Dave Gaubatz and Paul Sperry (author of Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington) provide an [...]

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Egypt’s Niqab War: The Regime and Islamic Establishment versus Extremist Islam

23 December 2009

MEMRI, 22 Dec 09: The Al-Azhar Supreme Council, headed by Al-Azhar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, recently passed a resolution banning the wearing of the niqab (which covers the entire body and face, with a slit for the eyes) in classrooms for girls at all Al-Azhar education facilities – from elementary schools to high schools to [...]

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Sayyid Qutb and the Virginia Five

18 December 2009

FrontPage/Robert Spencer, 18 Dec 09: . . . . . These are the Muslim Brotherhood’s two great theorists, its founder Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb, “the father of modern [Islamic] fundamentalism.”
Of these, Qutb is the more influential today. His writings can be found easily in Islamic bookstores in the U.S. And Americans, particularly law enforcement [...]

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Penetration Even At The Pentagon: Muslim Spies Setting Muslim Policy

18 December 2009

Investor’s Business Daily/Paul Sperry, 17 Dec 09: The internal threat from Muslim extremists in the military extends to high-level Defense Department aides who have undermined military policy. In fact, one top Muslim adviser pushed out an intelligence analyst who warned of the sudden jihad syndrome that led to the Fort Hood terrorist attack.
An honored guest [...]

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Homegrown Insurgency

17 December 2009

FrontPage/Paul Sperry, 17 Dec 09:
Paul Sperry, a Hoover Institution media fellow, is the author of Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington.
You’ve heard the narrative from the Beltway punditry: Our Muslims are better assimilated than Muslims in Europe. Our Muslims are more Westernized, less radicalized. Well, it’s a false narrative. We are seeing the [...]

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The Newest American Export: Jihad

17 December 2009

Human Events/Robert Spencer, 17 Dec 09: . . . . . Among the many lingering questions about this case is that of how these five young men fell in with jihad groups in the first place. The local Muslim community professed anguish and puzzlement about how it could have happened. Ashraf Nubani, an attorney for [...]

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Islamists in the UK Government

16 December 2009

Islamist Watch/David Rusin, 16 Dec 09: Is there any degree of radicalism that disqualifies someone from holding a sensitive government post in the UK? Probably. But it would be difficult to tell based on two recent stories.
First, Treasury official Azad Ali has begun advising the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on combating Islamic extremism. Apparently his suspension [...]

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Muslim Brotherhood in North America

15 December 2009

Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan): “Allah is our goal; the Messenger is our model; the Koran is our constitution; jihad is our means; and martyrdom in the way of Allah is our aspiration.” . . . . “The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying [...]

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Arrests Raise Fears of American Jihad

14 December 2009

Wall Street Journal, 12 Dec 09: U.S. counterterrorism officials say 2009 has turned into the year of homegrown jihad, with the unmasking of the most serious suspected terror plots involving Americans in about five years. . . .
. . . . A common thread in these and other cases, terrorism officials say, is that they [...]

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U.S. Muslims pen strategy to wrest ‘narrative’ from militants

11 December 2009

CNN, 11 Dec 09: A leading Muslim-American civil rights group is advocating intense grassroots engagement among police and U.S. Muslim neighborhood leaders to thwart the emergence of homegrown Islamic terrorists.
A report, issued Friday by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, reflects the shock among American Muslims over the Fort Hood massacre, the arrests of five American [...]

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CAIR Finally Under Investigation

11 December 2009

Human Events/Robert Spencer, 11 Dec 09: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a longtime partner of the FBI in its efforts to reach out to American Muslims, now appears to be under criminal investigation by that same FBI. It’s a refreshing breakthrough of sanity in the FBI’s dealing with the domestic terror threat — and [...]

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Controversial Islamic Speaker Welcomed at Ft. Hood

9 December 2009

CBN, 8 Dec 09: The U.S. military is facing criticism for bringing a controversial Islamic speaker to Fort Hood. The criticism comes just one month after a radical Muslim’s shooting spree at the fort that killed 13 soldiers.
Dr. Louay Safi lectured on Islam last week to U.S. troops about to deploy to Afghanistan. He is [...]

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Andrew McCarthy: Somebody at Fort Hood Should Be Walking the Plank

4 December 2009

National Review/The Corner, 3 Dec 09:
Andrew McCarthy is a is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was most notable for leading the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. He is the author of the recommended book, Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad.
Prepare [...]

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Terror-tied ISNA official teaching troops at Ft Hood

3 December 2009

Jawa Report, 3 Dec 09: I was contacted today by an official in the military anti-terrorism community who was extremely upset that a top official for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) was conducting classes at Ft. Hood on Islam to troops about to deploy to Afghanistan.
The individual in question, Louay Safi, actively promotes the [...]

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The Threat of Shariah-Compliant Finance

2 December 2009

National Review, 2 Dec 09:. . . . . Another phenomenon that followed the great Oil Rush of the post-9/11 era was the promotion and aggressive exportation of a Muslim Brotherhood doctrine called Shariah-compliant finance (SCF). SCF or “Islamic finance” was first articulated in the mid-20th century by men like Sayyid Qutb of Egypt and [...]

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Islamism 2.0

2 December 2009

By Daniel Pipes
Mr. Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
To borrow a computer term, if Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, and Nidal Hasan represent Islamism 1.0, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (the prime minister of Turkey), Tariq Ramadan (a Swiss intellectual), and Keith Ellison [...]

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