Tsk: Poor Jimmah Gets No Respect

(Cartoon by: Michael Ramirez, Townhall)

Jimmy Carter is turning into the Rodney Dangerfield of ex-Presidents.

First the Palestinians said that the Carter/Hamas meeting achieved nothing:

Last week’s meeting between former US president Jimmy Carter and the exiled leader of Hamas militants did not produce any results, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said here Wednesday.

“President Carter came to the region thinking he could achieve something. Unfortunately president Carter left without anything concrete,” he told a conference in the Spanish capital.

“The only thing he achieved was permission on the part of Khaled Meshaal of Hamas to deliver a letter from a detained Israeli soldier to his family. Nothing else,” he said.

“Hamas offered nothing to president Carter. They reiterated the same positions. There was no change on the part of Hamas,” Malki added.

There was one teeny tiny effect, though:

Hamas officials said Wednesday that Jimmy Carter’s meetings with leaders of the Palestinian militant group will boost its legitimacy despite criticism by Israel and the U.S. government of the former president’s personal peace mission.

And now this:

Israel’s UN Ambassador Calls Jimmy Carter A Bigot:

Carter, “went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas,” Ambassador Dan Gillerman told reporters at a luncheon briefing.

The ambassador’s harsh words for Carter came days after the ex-president met with Mashaal for seven hours in Damascus to negotiate a cease-fire with Gaza’s Hamas rulers. Carter then called Mashaal on Monday to try to get him to agree to a one-month truce without conditions, but the Hamas leader rejected the idea.

The ambassador called last weekend’s encounter “a very sad episode in American history.”

He said it was “a shame” to see Carter, who had done “good things” as a former president, “turn into what I believe to be a bigot.”

Meanwhile Sue Myrick is going ahead with her proposal to have Carter’s passport revoked.

He’s getting hammered on all sides. Does anyone like what Carter did?

Oh…maybe one.

Thank God For Sue Myrick

Somebody in Government needs to be looking out for “the folks”. And when I say looking out for the folks, I don’t mean what liberals do when they say that: providing jobs, programs, regulations, or government assistance in any way. I mean keeping us safe:

Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., says the Pentagon has failed to vet properly the Muslim chaplains ministering to U.S forces since it first set up its Muslim chaplain corps 15 years ago.

The military chaplains were approved by a convicted terrorism supporter who at the time headed the American Muslim Council. Abdurahman Alamoudi is now serving a 23-year prison sentence on federal terrorism charges.

The U.S. Department of Treasury in 2005 announced in a statement that “Alamoudi had a close relationship with al-Qaida and had raised money for al-Qaida in the United States.”

According to Myrick, the chaplains he sponsored have not been re-screened since his sentencing.

Alamoudi placed Muslim chaplains throughout the military. He is now in jail on charges of terrorism,” she said. “The chaplains to my knowledge are still in their current positions.”

It’s been three years since this became known about Alamoudi, and nothing has been done about it, yet?

In January 2007, Myrick founded the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus. The bipartisan group, with more than 120 members and headed by Myrick and Reps. Bud Cramer, D-Ala., and Jane Harman, D-Calif., was formed to allow members to meet with terrorism experts and become educated about the dangers radical Islamists pose to America.

Some other projects she’s working on:

*writing letters to the Department of Justice and FBI taking issue with their outreach to radical groups, as well as looking into similar issues at the Pentagon.

*the release of an ambitious 10-point legislative agenda, dubbed “Wake Up America.” She says Washington is not doing enough to protect the nation from the threat from radical Islam, and the public as a consequence has grown complacent.

*the congresswoman will ask the Government Accountability Office to investigate the selection process of Arabic translators hired by the FBI and Department of Defense.Since 9/11, several federal translators have been charged with espionage-related crimes, according to Paul Sperry, author of “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.”

*Myrick also plans to ask the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ non-profit status, which restricts lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

*Myrick says she will also introduce a bill making it an act of sedition or treason to preach or publish materials that call for violent jihad and the death of Americans or the destruction of American property.

About time!

CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper responds:

It sounds like your usual laundry list of talking points you can see on anti-Muslim hate sites on the Internet.”

Yep, objecting to the spread of radical Islam in your own country sure is hateful.

Andrew McCarthy On Islam

He appeared on Hannity and Colmes to promote his book, Willful Blindness, which I need to read because it deals with some important questions that most people are too shy to ask, like this one from Hannity: “What percentage of people (practitioners of Islam) buy into the radical views?”

Notice how indignant Colmes gets at McCartnety’s answer to Hannity’s question. Notice the strawman that pops up (”So everyone who’s a practicing Muslim wants to kill us?)”. And note the extreme condescension in Colmes’s voice as he patiently informs McCartney that there are millions and millions of Muslims living in the United States, (as if that’s some kind of revelation).

Colmes can’t match the faux outrage theatrics of fellow libtard, Keith Olbermann, but he manages to be just as annoying in my book.

Hat tip: Hyscience

RELATED:

Mosquewatch has come up with 7 questions to ask of Muslims who profess to oppose terrorism. An answer of yes to any of these questions puts the lie to their claims of moderation.

Via: Infidels Are Cool

ISNA: Not Supporting McCain

Well, that’s just a hunch.

The Islamic Society of North America, (recently named an “Unindicted Co-conspirator” for a the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas) is in a snit over McCain’s use of the word, “Islamic” when describing Islamic terrorists.

I don’t get it. Do they prefer “islamofascist”?

The Washington Times reports:

A coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that Sen. John McCain stop using the adjective “Islamic” to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States.

Muneer Fareed, who heads the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), told The Washington Times that his group is beginning a campaign to persuade Mr. McCain to rephrase his descriptions of the enemy.

“We’ve tried to contact his office, contact his spokesperson to have them rethink word usage that is more acceptable to the Muslim community,” Mr. Fareed said. “If it’s not our intent to paint everyone with the same brush, then certainly we should think seriously about just characterizing them as criminals, because that is what they are.”

So….every time there’s a terrorist act in the name of Islam, we’re supposed to just say, “Criminals did it?”

Excuse my French, but are they shitting me?

An aide to Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who is counting on his pro-Iraq war stance to attract conservative voters, said the senator from Arizona will not drop the word.

Thank you, Maverick.

The two remaining Democrats in the presidential field, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, generally shun such word usage.

No surprise there; what do you expect from Dhimmicrats?

I honestly don’t understand the line of thinking, here:

Mr. Fareed, who is ISNA’s secretary-general, said such usages are wrong.

“I think this is just criminality, fair and square. We should just call them criminals. You want to call them terrorist criminals, fine,” he said. “But adding the word ‘Muslim’ or ‘Islamic’ certainly doesn’t help our cause as Americans. It’s counterproductive. It paints an entire community of believers, 1.2 billion in total, in a very negative way. And certainly that’s not something that we want to do.”

Well, I’m sorry, the truth hurts. How about reforming your religion so it stops inspiring so many of its adherents into killing infidels. That would do more to improve people’s perception of Islam, then these campaigns of intimidation designed to chill free speech.

Steven Emerson, who directs the Investigative Project on Terrorism, recently wrote that the silence of ISNA and other Muslim groups after Hamas killed eight Israeli students “shows their unwillingness to condemn the terrorist act and its glorification.”

Michael Ledeen, a terrorism analyst at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, backed Mr. McCain’s definition of the enemy. “Islamic terrorism is purely descriptive,” he said. “It doesn’t group the enemy under the Islamic brush stroke because there are plenty of terrorists and extremists who are not Islamic. So it’s just a way of specifying who they are.”

Of ISNA’s criticism, Mr. Ledeen said, “They’re just silly. What a silly thing to say. I talk of Marxist extremists and nationalist extremists. They just don’t want people to say there are Islamic terrorists, which there are. Too bad.”

Some info on the ISNA from Discover The Networks:

According to terrorism expert Steven Emerson, ISNA “is a radical group hiding under a false veneer of moderation”; “convenes annual conferences where Islamist militants have been given a platform to incite violence and promote hatred” (for instance, al Qaeda supporter and PLO official Yusuf Al-Qaradhawi was invited to speak at an ISNA conference); has held fundraisers for terrorists (after Hamas leader Mousa Marzook was arrested and eventually deported in 1997, ISNA raised money for his defense); has condemned the U.S. government’s post-9/11 seizure of Hamas’ and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s financial assets; and publishes a bi-monthly magazine, Islamic Horizons, that “often champions militant Islamist doctrine.”

Sooo, if the ISNA isn’t supporting McCain, I wonder who they do support?

Hint.

Hat tip: The Astute Bloggers

Londonistan: Muslim Only Swim Sessions At Public Pool

Can you believe this?

A father and his five-year-old son were turned away from their local swimming pool because they were the wrong religion.

David Toube, 39, and his son Harry were told that the Sunday morning session was reserved for Muslim men only.

Hackney Council, which runs the Clissold Leisure Centre in Stoke Newington, north London, claimed staff there had made a mistake.

However, the Muslim-only session was advertised on its website.

Mr Toube, a corporate lawyer, described his experiences on a blog.

“I arrived at the pool to discover that they were holding what staff described to me as “Muslim men only swimming”,” he wrote.

“I asked whether my son and I could go as we were both male. I was told that the session was for Muslims only and that we could not be admitted.

Now…I can understand: Adults Only Swim, Family Swim, Senior Swim at pool centers, but Muslim only?

Or should we say, “NO Christians, NO Jews, NO Dogs Allowed.

The manager explained that it was “a requirement of the Muslim religion that Muslims could not swim with non-Muslims.” That assertion seems to be in dispute:

Dr Taj Hargey, chair of the Muslim Education Centre of Oxford, said it was not true that Muslims could not swim with non-Muslims.

“There is no Koranic verse or any statement from the sources of Islam that says different religions should be segregated,” he said.

“The only requirement is that when women swim they should be modestly clad.”

The Prophet Mohammed is recorded as saying that it is a Muslim’s duty to learn to swim as it could save his or her life.

The swimming sessions for male Muslims were advertised as taking place every Sunday from 8am to 9.30am.

Leaflets stipulated: “It is compulsory for the body to be covered between the navel and the knees.

“Anyone not adhering to the dress code or rules within the pool will not be allowed to swim. All brothers welcome.’

It sounds like the management at the center is now backing away from the ‘Muslims only’ position:

A leisure centre spokesman said staff were wrong to refuse entry to Mr Toube.

He added: “The member of staff the user spoke with at the time was mistaken when referring to the session as Muslim-only.

“The men’s modesty session is not a private hire and is, therefore, open to the public.

“Staff cannot ask your religion on entrance and you won’t be refused entry if you don’t appear to be Muslim.”

Luckily for the folks in this North London neighborhood, the victim of this bias happened to be a lawyer, and it looks like the problem is being nipped in the bud.

Related:

UK Bishop Criticized For Ordering Crucifixes In Catholic Classrooms

UK School Kids Told To Write There Is No God But Allah

UK Hospital Bans Hot Crossed Buns

UK Health Workers Told Not To Eat At Their Desk During Ramadan

UK Church School Renames Three Little Pigs To Avoid Offending Muslims

Hat tip: Atlas Shrugs

Thanks, Jimmah!: Hamas Now Feels “Legitimate”

Sue Myrick, who is calling to have Carter’s passport revoked, says, “The international community has been trying to isolate Hamas…so they would get a message, and you know, he’s just undermining all that”.

Hamas officials agree:

Hamas officials said Wednesday that Jimmy Carter’s meetings with leaders of the Palestinian militant group will boost its legitimacy despite criticism by Israel and the U.S. government of the former president’s personal peace mission.

Carter arrived in Egypt from Israel and the Palestinian territories, where he raised Israeli anger Tuesday by embracing a Hamas official in the West Bank.

Isn’t that special?

UPDATE: (April 18):

Via Gateway Pundit:

The US House is introducing a resolution to condemn Hamas and Jimmy Carter’s undermining of US policy.

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) sponsored the bill.

“We ought to be screaming from the rafters about the lack of judgment in the former president going to see a known terrorist,” U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), one of the bill’s original co-sponsors, told JTA. “Khaled Mashaal is the worst of the worst.”

Radicals, Terrorists And Tyrants Of The World Root For Obama

The latest terror group to weigh in was of course:

Hamas:

Cameron’s Corner, Fox News reports:

During an interview on WABC radio Sunday, top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the terrorist group supports Obama’s foreign policy vision.

“We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance,” Yousef said in response to a question about the group’s willingness to meet with either of the Democratic presidential candidates.

Cameron wonders if this endorsement will be a problem for Obama. It probably wouldn’t be if it were just one example, all by itself. But let’s pause, and take a look at all the endorsements he’s gotten so far from the world’s radicals, terrorists, tyrants, and their supporters. They’re starting to stack up:

Hatem El-Hady:

Central Ohioans Against Terrorism is all over this one:

Two years ago, Hatem El-Hady was the chairman of the Toledo, Ohio-based Islamic charity, Kindhearts, which was closed by the US government in February 2006 for terrorist fundraising and all its assets frozen. Today, El-Hady has redirected his fundraising efforts for his newest cause - Barack Obama for President.

El-Hady has his own dedicated page on Barack Obama’s official website, chronicling his fundraising on behalf of the Democratic Party presidential candidate (his Obama profile established on February 19, 2008 - two years to the day after Kindhearts was raided by the feds). Not only that, but he has none other than Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama, listed as one of his friends, one of her 224 listed friends.

Screenshot!:

But his leadership of Kindhearts is not the only thing that has brought him scrutiny by federal law enforcement officials. Last summer, El-Hady was questioned by the FBI concerning his knowledge of possible conspirators in a UK-based terror plot.

Much more at Central Ohioans Against Terrorism.

The New Black Panthers:

The racist NBPP is led by notorious extremist, Malik Zulu Shabazz, and (was) a registered team member and blogger on Obama’s campaign website. His page has been scrubbed twice at last count.

Screenshot!:

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Shabazz defended Osama bin Laden and blamed President Bush for the horrors of that day.

He has this to say about Obama:

“I have nothing but respect for Obama and for his pastor,” said Shabazz, referring to Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor of nearly 20 years.

Shabazz referred to Obama as a man with a “Muslim background, a man of color.”

William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn:

This association got some attention, tonight because George Stephanopoulos had the temerity to ask Obama about him at the Democrat debate. Bill Ayers and fellow Weatherman, Bernadine Dohrn have been supporters of Obama’s Senatorial campaigns in Chicago. In 2001, Ayers gave $200 to Obama’s state Senate reelection campaign.

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Dr. Young and another guest, Maria Warren, described it similarly: as an introduction to Hyde Park liberals of the handpicked successor to Palmer, a well-regarded figure on the left.

“When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,” Warren wrote on her blog in 2005. “They were launching him — introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.”

Obama characterized his relationship with Ayers as the same thing as being friendly with fellow Senator, Tom Coburn who favors *GASP* the death penalty for abortionists who perform abortions (except in rare cases to save the life of the mother). An extreme position to be sure, but does it make him a terrorist? Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists, no if, ands, or buts. Does Tom Coburn support Obama? Donate to his campaigns?

(Added April 23): There are some new revelations concerning more recent activities of Ayers and Dohrn at Powerline.

Still more at Michelle Malkin’s.

FARC:

From the two lap top computers obtained during an ambush back in early March:

According to information obtained, FARC Terrorists were hoping and expecting that Barack Obama would win the US elections in November because he was most aligned with the Colombian Marxist group.

The gringos will ask for an appointment with the minister to solicit him to communicate to us his interest in discussing these topics. They say that the new president of their country will be Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support “Plan Colombia” nor will he sign the TLC (Colombian Free Trade agreement).

‘Nuff said.

Fidel Castro:

He likes Hillary too. Last summer he was urging Clinton and Obama to team up:

“The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate,” he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba’s Communist Party newspaper, Granma.

Daniel Ortega:

From A Columbo-Americana’s Perspective:

“Estamos frente a un fenómeno revolucionario”, aseguró el mandatario después de recibir el Doctorado Honoris Causa de la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI). Muestra de ese “fenómeno revolucionario” del que habla el gobernante, es la “fuerza que ha tomado en la juventud anglosajona la batalla a favor de Obama”. ["We are facing a revolutionary phenomenon," assured the president after receiving an honorary Doctorate from the National Engineering University. The showing of this "revolutionary phenomenon" of which Ortega speaks is the "strength that has been taken up among the English-speaking youth in favor of Obama."]

Según Ortega, con la ayuda de Dios algún día habrá una revolución en Estados Unidos y sus gobernantes lograrán “actuar diferente, con sentido de respeto, paz, justicia y equidad”. El cambio, a juicio del Presidente, también dependerá de la juventud, esa “juventud que ha trascendido la discriminación racial”.
[According to Ortega, with the help of God, there will one day be a revolution in the United States, and its leaders will "act differently, with a sense of respect, peace, justice, and equality." The change, according to Ortega, will also depend on the youth, "who have transcended racial discrimination."]

Hugo Chavez:

Chavez has been coy. He stopped short of endorsing a particular (Democrat) candidate, but did say recently that McCain seemed “warlike”:

“Sometimes one says, ‘worse than Bush is impossible,’ but we don’t know,” Chavez told foreign correspondents. “McCain also seems to be a man of war.”

One assumes Chavez would be happy with either Hillary of Obama, although Obama has said he would meet with Chavez, something no other candidate has said.

Jodie Evans:

The head of a radical group that funds and supports Islamic terrorists as well as an America-bashing South American socialist leader has bundled more than $50,000 for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

Jodie Evans, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, is a huge Obama supporter who has personally given his campaign the federal limit ($2,300) and continues to collect big bucks—$50,000 and counting—from friends and associates in an effort to help the Illinois senator, a favorite among Latin American socialist leaders, move into the White House.

Code Pink also gave $600,000 to the families of Iraqi terrorists in Fallujah, whom they claimed were fighting for their homes.

And who can forget our Che Guevara fan:

Maria Isabel:

The (Obama) campaign volunteer who hung the Che poster is named Maria Isabel (second photo above) and according to the Lone Star Times, she hung similar banners from her balcony at home. Apparently she’s no “low-level” volunteer either. She serves as a campaign ‘precinct captain” and the co-chair of the Houston Obama Leadership Team.

She’s still is an active member of the team.

This is no doubt only a partial list.

Is it unfair to ask why so many of our country’s sworn enemies, and their supporters endorse a man who’s running for the President of the United States?

Hello Ace, DPUD, and Cold Fury Readers! Welcome. If anyone can think of any more embarrassing endorsements to add to the list, please let me know. (John f’in’ Kerry and Teddy Kennedy don’t count).

UPDATE:

Conservative Belle reminded me of Hanoi Jane. Yep, she fits right in here.

And I forgot about this guy, who I just spotted at Infidels are Cool:

Ali Abunimah:

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama is currently hiding his anti-Israel views in order to get elected, according to a well-known anti-Israel activist. The activist, Ali Abunimah, claimed to know Obama well and to have met him on numerous occasions at pro-Palestinian events in Chicago.

“The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him trailing.

“As he came in from the cold and took off his coat, I went up to greet him. He responded warmly, and volunteered, ‘Hey, I’m sorry I haven’t said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race.

I’m hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.’ He referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the The Chicago Tribune critical of Israeli and US policy [and said:] ‘Keep up the good work!’”

UPDATE:

OH for crying out loud!!!! How did I miss this one? Why didn’t somebody remind me?!

Louis Farrakhan:

Speaking to thousands of members of the Nation of Islam at their annual convention Sunday in Chicago, Minister Louis Farrakhan praised presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama as the only hope for healing the nation’s racial divisions.

Of course.

UPDATE: (April 22):

I guess we can add the Iranians to the litany of shame.

Oooh!

A second wave of links! Welcome Michelle Malkin, Stop The ACLU, and Stingray readers.

UPDATE: (April 23):

We’re still waiting for Charles Manson to weigh in, but we have our suspicions.

Van Helsing of Moonbattery thinks he has the signature “Obama Nation” stare.

UPDATE: (April 29):

ACORN:

The “largest radical group in America”, ACORN has also endorsed Obama, for obvious reasons.

Okay…this guy is not a terrorist or anything, but heyyy.

This one here not only endorses Obama, he’s the webmaster for Progressives For Obama:

Carl Davidson:

He didn’t bomb the Capitol or rob banks like his contemporaries in the Weather Underground.

But Carl Davidson, a former vice president of the Students for a Democratic Society who traveled to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro and still praises the dictator today, is another proud radical for Barack Obama, serving faithfully as webmaster for “Progressives for Obama.”

Discover the Networks on The SDS:

Forming the core of the 1960s counter-cultural movement known collectively as the New Left, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical organization that aspired to overthrow America’s democratic institutions, remake its government in a Marxist image, and help America’s enemies defeat her sons on the battlefield in Vietnam. The group developed from the Student League for Industrial Democracy, the youth branch of the socialist League for Industrial Democracy.

While I’m at it I may as well add Obama’s official blogger:

Sam Graham-Felsen:

Former writer for The Nation and The Socialist Viewpoint.

Newt On Carter And Obama

Jimmy Carter: 0 common sense:

Barack says it’s not his place to discuss who Carter should or shouldn’t meet with. Yet he has no problem telling Bush he should boycott the China Olympics.

What a tooooool.

But at least we no longer need to question his patriotism.

Hat tip Atlas Shrugs

Another Terrorist Vindicates Geert Wilders

Yes, another one. The dirty little secret is that terrorists agree with Wilders about the Koran. They quote the Koran all the time to justify their actions. The latest example comes to us from the UK.

A longer version of this martyrdom video, featuring 29-year old Umar Islam, was shown to jurors in the United Kingdom in the conspiracy trial of eight alleged plotters who hoped to use liquid explosives to blow up airplanes in the summer of 2006. This four minute version has been released to the public by British Authorities.

ABC News describes the video as chilling, which it is if you disregard the missing tooth:

“Allah loves us to die and to kill in his path, and anyone who tries to deny this, then read the Koran and you will not be able to deny this, because this is the words in the Koran…”

Is it to late to edit this guy into Fitna?

Related:

Britain is currently monitoring 30 terror plots:

“There are 22,000 individuals who are being monitored. There are 200 networks involved and 30 active plots,” Smith said in an interview with the News of the World.

“We now face a threat level that is severe. It’s actually growing,” said the interior minister.

Smith said the level of threat showed why the British government is seeking legislation to extend the detention of terror suspects to 42 days from the current 28-day limit.

Hat tip: The National Terror Alert

Islamofascism Awareness Week II

Hey wow…it’s already started.

Patriotic students at more than 100 campuses will host Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week II this week, April 7-11, to educate the public about the threat of radical Islam.

Around the country, nationally known speakers will address college students on the topic of political Islam. These include author and lifelong civil rights activist David Horowitz, scholar of Islam Robert Spencer, Middle East expert Daniel Pipes, former Muslim Nonie Darwish, and Congresswoman Sue Myrick.

Let’s hope there are fewer disruptions, this time around.

See FrontPageMagazine for more info.

MOA Parade Update

Al Fuqra Exposed has a good update of the Muslims of America/Jamaat ul Fuqra parade that was held in Binghamton, NY, last Saturday, with some interesting info on one of the speakers at the after the parade ‘festival’, Hussein Adams, deputy director of the International Quranic Open University:

Hussein Adams is a significant member of the JF/MOA/IQOU organization. He holds the rank of Khalifa and is the number two man at the headquarters compound in NY, hence his nickname within the group - “K2″. The number one guy is Khalifa Husain Abdallah. Adams’ father, Barry Adams aka Tyrone Cole, was one of the Jamaat ul-Fuqra operatives convicted in Canada years ago for plotting a horrific and thankfully unsuccessful terror attack on an Indian theater and Hindu temple. He was released from prison last year and is believed to be in the Caribbean, most likely Trinidad.

The organization has been on a PR blitz for a while after suffering quite a bit of negative publicity. They are attempting to remake their image as one of a charity organization, though there is much that lies beneath this facade.

Basically, no one showed up for the parade, or the festival except for some MOA members and a few members of the media.

Islamberg Back In The News

This Saturday, (04/05/0 in downtown Binghamton, NY, some Jamaat ul Fuqra Muslims from nearby Islamberg, will be celebrating the birthday of Mohammad with a parade. If that sounds slightly alarming, calm yourself. It’s an “interfaith” event. There will be some dhimmis involved:

After the parade, activities are scheduled in front of the old Broome County Court-house. The list of guest speakers includes the Rev. Douglas Taylor of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton and Diane O’Heron, a professor at Broome Community College.

If you’re wondering what Islamberg is, it’s the national headquarters of Jamaat ul-Fuqra a suspected terrorist organization that follows the teachings of Sheikh Gilani. This is the group that had me so exercised when I first heard about them last summer.

WND reports:

Muslim leaders at an encampment in the Catskill Mountains called “Islamberg” have been granted a permit by the city of Binghamton, N.Y., to hold a parade Saturday in honor of Muhammad’s birthday.
The holiday, called Milad-un-Nabi, will be celebrated by a group of families who live at the nearby property owned by Muslims of the Americas Inc.

“We’re trying to do an interfaith thing, we’re reach out to the community to do a program based on unity,” Maryam Rahim, a spokeswoman, told the newspaper. “We haven’t been very well known. …We want everyone to come out and celebrate, may ask questions.”

City spokesman Andrew Block said the group secured the appropriate permits to hold the celebration, and the city will close down one lane of the downtown’s main street for the parade.

It sounds innocent enough if you don’t consider the disturbing connections of the group:

Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization, has been directly linked by court documents to Jamaat ul-Fuqra. The organization operates communes of primarily black, American-born Muslims throughout the U.S. The investigation confirmed members commonly use aliases and intentional spelling variations of their names and routinely deny the existence of Jamaat ul-Fuqra.

Jamaat ul-Fuqra itself openly recruits through various social service organizations in the U.S., including the prison system. Members live in compounds where they agree to abide by the laws of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, which are considered to be above local, state and federal authority.

An investigation of the group by the Colorado Attorney General’s office in the early 1980s found several of the communities operate covert paramilitary training compounds, including one in a mountainous area near Buena Vista, Colo.

Neat, huh?

Here is Islamberg’s promotional video for the parade:

Oh, and here’s another charming favorite at Islamberg’s Youtube site.

Others posting on this:

Gates of Vienna (Had it first).

Weasel Zippers

Hyscience

Jihad Watch

American Congress For Truth

Crazybear

Hat tip: The Jawa Report

UPDATE: (April 5):

I just found out, (through Gates of Vienna) about a website called Al-Fuqra Exposed which is dedicated to monitoring and reporting on the activities of Jamaat ul-Fuqra and the Muslims of America. It’s currently covering the trial of Ramadan Abdur-Rauf Abdullah, a member of Jamaat ul-Fuqra. He’s on trial for the 2001 murder of a sheriff’s deputy.

I’m adding it to my blogroll.

Be sure to visit their Youtube page if this stuff fascinates/horrifies you. Check out this favorited video:

Take note of the nutzoid “illuminati” talk from Gilani in the Islamberg video sent to the news station. That got my attention because one of the favorited videos at the Islamberg Youtube site was this gem:

We are talking weapons grade crazee, here.

UPDATE:

Video of the parade, here.

Al Qaeda In Iraq Not Saving Themselves For The 72 Virgins

This latest Michael Yon dispatch from Iraq has some interesting dirt on the local AQI fighters. Check out what he has to say about this recently cleaned out terrorist cell in Tal Afar:

The few remaining serious troublemakers are being hacked off and mulched in these incessant operations, which gives the enemy no rest (in the old days, when they were murdering Iraqis and Americans by the thousands, AQI used Tal Afar for training and R&R). These types of terrorists used to lay up with prostitutes in downtown Tal Afar, which isn’t so uncommon – for years brothels have been an excellent source of information against al Qaeda from Mosul to Baghdad. The al Qaeda terrorists don’t save themselves for the seventy two virgins promised to suicide bombers. They love drugs, prostitutes, and the power of the gun. The gay al Qaeda informant in Moment of Truth in Iraq is classic. Whenever his al Qaeda lovers abused him, he supplied American forces information to kill them.

Be sure to check out the picture at Michael Yon’s site of the AQI dude and his ho.

Are there any more depraved human beings on the face of the earth? I really don’t think so.

Hat tip: Cao’s Blog

Pat Condell Weighs In On Fitna

Tellin’ it like it is:

Thanks to Nick

UPDATE: 

The Jawas have a good post up on the same theme, including a sweet LOTRs clip towards the end.

Bottom line: If this stuff makes you angry; if you would like to stand up for free speech, you can do it today by signing this petition supporting Geert Wilders.

UK Bus Driver Kicks Passengers Off Bus…

So he can pray!

 The white Islamic convert rolled out his prayer mat in the aisle and knelt on the floor facing Mecca.

Passengers watched in amazement as he held out his palms towards the sky, bowed his head and began to chant.

One guy whipped out his cell phone to videotape the special moment from outside the bus. The video can be viewed at The Sun Online.

“Eventually everyone started complaining. One woman said, ‘What the hell are you doing? I’m going to be late for work’.”

After a few minutes the driver calmly got up, opened the doors and asked everyone back on board.

But when the already unnerved passengers saw the driver’s rucksack on the floor, they refused to get back on.

“One chap said, ‘I’m not getting on there now’.

 

“An elderly couple also looked really confused and worried.

“After seeing that no-one wanted to get on he drove off and we all waited until the next bus came about 20 minutes later. I was left totally stunned. It made me not want to get on a bus again.”

Perhaps they were being paranoid. But as one person said in the comment section:

“you cant fault anyone for not wanting to get back on after the rucksack came out - the London bombings are still very much with the general public and it is a legitimate concern that we all have to live with. The world IS a much different place post 9-11/7-7…”

Also, judging from the comments, people would very much like to see this bus driver “sacked“.

I totally agree.

Hat tip: Lucianne