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Meet the Rising Star of the Taliban in Afghanistan...Former Gitmo Detainee Is Now In Charge



Cross posted from Holger Awakens

Why doesn't someone ask me again how I feel about the fact that Bush and Obama let Gitmo detainees out? Well, one of the most severe repurcussions of letting the scumbags out of Gitmo has been realized as a former detainee, Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir, is by all accounts running the Taliban show in Afghanistan now for Mullah Omar. From the report at The Christian Science Monitor:



Most of the commanders present there in late January had not met him before. But in southern Afghanistan he needed no introduction. He was Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir, the man who some Western officials and insurgents say is now the day-to-day leader of the Taliban.

"He has tremendous power now," says a tribal elder in the southern province of Helmand, who knows Mr. Zakir and met with him recently. "He can design military strategy and appoint or fire" Taliban shadow governors.

As the United States escalates its troop numbers to try to roll back a raging insurgency, combating the efforts of Taliban leaders like Zakir will be key. Zakir is known for his battlefield abilities as an organizer, motivator, and tactician. He wields tremendous influence in southern Afghanistan, the heartland of the insurgency and the site of another major offensive set for this summer.

A former Guantánamo detainee, he is believed now to be a deputy to reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, a position he assumed upon Pakistan's arrest of the movement's former No. 2, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and a number of other Taliban leaders.
I guess if you really want to get your blood boiling, let's leave the fact that this guy was released from Gitmo and talk about the fact that the Pakistanis arrested him earlier this year....and let him go. No one seems to know what Zakir was released by the Pakistanis but I have my own somber theory: officials in the Obama administration tried to facilitate some goodwill and some peace talks in Afghanistan with the Taliban and thus, they convinced the Pakistanis to let him go.

But with all of that said and done, the Taliban have what appears to be a new leader and it's my guess that his trip to Pakistan wasn't to cower and hide but to get some new orders for the summer from Mullah Omar.

I truly wish we would have hung this bastard at Gitmo.



Qayyum Zakir: the Afghanistan Taliban's rising mastermind

In the days leading up to the launch of a major US military offensive in the Afghan town of Marjah in February, Taliban commanders in the area received a surprise visit.

It was from a charismatic man of medium build, intense eyes, and a knack for fiery oratory. In a brief meeting, he rallied the troops, discussed strategy, and disappeared into the night.

Most of the commanders present there in late January had not met him before. But in southern Afghanistan he needed no introduction. He was Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir, the man who some Western officials and insurgents say is now the day-to-day leader of the Taliban.

"He has tremendous power now," says a tribal elder in the southern province of Helmand, who knows Mr. Zakir and met with him recently. "He can design military strategy and appoint or fire" Taliban shadow governors.

As the United States escalates its troop numbers to try to roll back a raging insurgency, combating the efforts of Taliban leaders like Zakir will be key. Zakir is known for his battlefield abilities as an organizer, motivator, and tactician. He wields tremendous influence in southern Afghanistan, the heartland of the insurgency and the site of another major offensive set for this summer.

A former Guantánamo detainee, he is believed now to be a deputy to reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, a position he assumed upon Pakistan's arrest of the movement's former No. 2, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and a number of other Taliban leaders.

Pakistani intelligence agents arrested Zakir and a close associate earlier this year in early February, according to Western and Afghan government sources, but both were later released without explanation.

Zakir's rise to power was pieced together through more than a dozen interviews in Kabul and Lashkar Gah with his current and former associates, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity.


Raised in prosperity

Hailing from a well-off Pashtun family with roots in southern Helmand Province, Zakir grew up in the northern province of Jowzjan. His associates say he is in his early 40s, making him too young to have joined the anti-Soviet resistance of the 1970s and '80s as his older brother had done.

Instead, like many boys at the time, he was sent to study in madrasas, or religious schools, near the Afghan-Pakistani border that taught an extreme version of Islam. He attended such a school in Quetta, Pakistan, then a hotbed for radicalism. There he met an influential figure who would later become a major Taliban commander and his partner in arms, Mullah Abdul Raouf.

By 1997, the pair had returned to Afghanistan and joined the Taliban, the movement of religious students who had swept into power on a platform of law and order and a puritanical, often violent interpretation of Islam.

Mullah Raouf became the commander for the Taliban's Central Corps, and Zakir was one of his key deputies.

Zakir commanded an important reserve brigade of more than 1,000 soldiers that operated out of the current presidential palace. It was heavily involved in the fight against the opposing Northern Alliance, an assemblage of warlords led by Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated just before the 9/11 attacks.

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Israeli Diplomat Attacked in UK

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk




More barbarism coming out of the UK. Here in the US, we only shout down Israeli diplomats on university campuses. In the UK, they actually attack them. Yesterday, an Israeli diplomat was attacked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of Manchester.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3882700,00.html

None of the reports I have seen mention any arrests!! How long will the UK and its pusillaminous government tolerate this behavior?

Obama Calls Out Riot Squad-For Tea Party

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk


Hat tip to Sharp Elbows.net for video and photos)

This week, the Quincy, llinois police riot squad was called out to protect President Obama from........

Tea Party protesters.



And here are the dangerous radicals.




"Hi Mom."



Thank God no one was hurt.

It is all right to lie and deceive the unbelievers in Islam

Taqiyya has often come up here at the 'Corner and Traveler has put together how, why and where the justification comes from for this in Islam. Islamic organization are old hands at using this method of lying and deception. CAIR is one of the worst offenders. What is even more tagic is how our elected officlials and most of the public in the United States are fooled by this tactic. Taqiyya is used to disarm Islam's enemies. The phrase 'smoke and mirrors' fits quite nicely. I have yet to meet a Muslim I would trust, and yes I have met quite a few. I know there are good, honest ones out there. I just wish they would speak up. We know why they cannot.



HOLY LIES OR TAQIYYA, AS SANCTIONED IN THE KORAN
By Traveler

Most religions respect the truth and forbid lying. However Islam is different.

Allah is 'the best of deceivers' (Qu’ran 3.54), and since the highest goal of Islamic ethics is to spread Islam by any means whatsoever,
it is hardly surprising that lying and deceit should be quite acceptable if carried out for the benefit of Islam.

"War is Deceit", said Muhammad, and Islam is always at war with the infidel until Islam dominates.

This 'Holy Lying' is known as taqiyya (sometimes spelled taqiya or taquiya) - This may take many forms, including outright lies, feigned moderation, and condemnation of terrorist attacks to the Infidel while rejoicing with fellow Muslims.

From the Qur’an:

Qur'an (16:106) - Establishes that there are circumstances that can "compel" a Muslim to tell a lie.

Qur'an (3:28) - This verse tells Muslims not to take those outside the faith as friends, unless it is to "guard themselves."

Qur'an (9:3) - "...Allah and His Messenger are free from liability to the idolaters..." The dissolution of oaths with the pagans who remained at Mecca following its capture. They did nothing wrong, but were evicted anyway.

Qur'an (40:28) - A man is introduced as a believer, but one who must "hide his faith" among those who are not believers.

Qur'an (2:225) - "Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts"

Qur'an (66:2) - "Allah has already ordained for you, (O men), the dissolution of your oaths"

Qur'an (3:54) - "And they (the disbelievers) schemed, and Allah schemed (against them): and Allah is the best of schemers." The Arabic word used here for scheme (or plot) is makara, which literally means deceit. If Allah is deceitful toward unbelievers, then there is little basis for denying that Muslims are allowed to do the same. (See also 8:30 and 10:21)

Taken collectively these verses are interpreted to mean that there are circumstances when a Muslim may be "compelled" to deceive others for a greater purpose.


From the Hadith:

Bukhari (52:269) - "The Prophet said, 'War is deceit.'" The context of this is thought to be the murder of Usayr ibn Zarim and his thirty unarmed men by Muhammad's men after he "guaranteed" them safe passage (see Additional Notes below).

Bukhari (49:857) - "He who makes peace between the people by inventing good information or saying good things, is not a liar." Lying is permitted when the end justifies the means.

Bukhari (84:64-65) - Speaking from a position of power at the time, Ali confirms that lying is permissible in order to deceive an "enemy."

Bukhari (52:271) - Recounts the murder of a poet, Ka'b bin al-Ashraf, at Muhammad's insistence. The men who volunteered for the assassination used dishonesty to gain Ka'b's trust, pretending that they had turned against Muhammad. This drew the victim out of his fortress, whereupon he was brutally slaughtered despite putting up a ferocious struggle for his life.

From Islamic Law:

Reliance of the Traveler (p. 746 - 8.2) - "Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible ( when the purpose of lying is to circumvent someone who is preventing one from doing something permissible), and obligatory to lie if the goal is obligatory... it is religiously precautionary in all cases to employ words that give a misleading impression...

"One should compare the bad consequences entailed by lying to those entailed by telling the truth, and if the consequences of telling the truth are more damaging, one is entitled to lie.

♦Here are some of the ploys, arguments, logical fallacies and diversionary tactics used by taqiyya tacticians:

[1] Taqiyya about taqiyya.

Muslims deny that taqiyya exists, or that it is used to deceive infidels. 'There is no such thing as Taqiya' (or 'Taqiyya is something I never heard of and I had to go and look it up')

[2] Playing the race card and guilt by association.

An accusation of racism is such a trump card that Jihadists will play it whenever they can. Despite Islam not being a race, any criticism of Islam immediately gets the knee-jerk retaliation of 'racism'.

For example; 'You are expressing the same views about Islam as racists, therefore you are a racist.' This is similar logic to to 'Communists believe two and two make four. You believe two and two make four. Therefore you are a Communist'.

[3] Godwin's Law

a special (and inevitable) version of guilt by association with racism used in online discussions, whereby the first person to invoke Hitler or the Nazis wins the argument. The 'logic' is something like: CRITICISM OF ISLAM = RACISM = NAZISM
Therefore, if you criticise Islam you are a Nazi.

[4] Circular reasoning

'The Koran says it is the word of God. So whatever it says must be true. Therefore it is true that the Koran is the word of God because it says so'

[5] The infidels' quotes from the Koran are always taken out of context.

For example 'Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them' is taken out of context, and really means 'Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them setting fire to your house' - or something similar.

[6] Infidels can't understand the original Arabic of the Koran.

So 'Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them' is actually a Medieval Arabic expression meaning 'Help old ladies across busy streets and remember to feed the birds in winter'.

[7] Tu Quoque (you also).

'We blow people up/ behead them but you do the same,' - Normally used in attempts to refute arguments that Islam is intrinsically violent. Often refers back to the Crusades, Inquisition etc. Also 'There are equally nasty bits in the Bible'.

Yes, there are violent episodes in the Bible, but the Bible is descriptive of battles and massacres long ago, whereas the Koran is prescriptive of battles and massacres yet to come.

[8] 'Abrahamic/monotheistic faith' false kin argument.

This scam usually take the form of 'Islam is just a further development of Christianity, a brother Abrahamic/ monotheist faith.'

Of course it isn't. Islam is a travesty and perversion of Christianity in many respects, and Jesus would probably have advised the pedophile Mohammed to tie a millstone round his neck and jump into the sea. (Mark 9:42). In Islam stoning of women is still a major spectator sport, whereas Jesus forbade it (John 8:7). Human sacrifice is an abomination in Judaism and Christianity, but is encouraged in Islam.

[9] Quoting abrogated verses from the Koran in order to appear moderate.

A favorite one is 'Let there be no compulsion in religion'. This verse and many like it are actually null and void and disregarded by all Muslims (though not by gullible infidels). They are peaceful Meccan verses which are competely cancelled by later and much more violent Medinan verses.

[10] 'You owe us a debt of gratitude because Islam is the basis of Western civilisation'.

This sort of statement is usually backed up by revisionist arguments that Muslims invented everything and were responsible for the Renaissance (Sheikh Speare was a Muslim playwright etc).
In some ways this is a rather pathetic quest for significance.

Muslim culture has been moribund for the past 600 years, whereas the West has forged ahead. Muslims now want a stake in the success story by claiming they were somehow responsible for the West's development.

[11] 'A third of the world's population believe in Islam, so it deserves respect.'

- But not so long ago a third of the world's population believed the earth was flat. Numbers don't mean anything, especially when the Islamic population is the most backward and illiterate on earth.

Muslims are very keen on 'respect', but someone should tell them that respect needs to be earned.

[12] 'We are victims of Islamophobia'.

Muslims are always playing the victim, if not of racism then of the even more heinous thought-crime of ISLAMOPHOBIA. Of course there is no such thing as Islamophobia, since a phobia is an irrational fear, whereas fear of Islam as a clear and present danger is a totally rational reaction from any infidel.


From Islam: The Religion of Peace (thats a lie, right there)

Is Army getting ready for Tea party terrorists? Calling this a MUST READ

I hope evyone will read this post from mark Alexander, founder of the Patriot Post. The Post is one of the best sources for news, analysis of what is going on and wrong within the government. That said, this next post is a warning and really put me on edge worse than I already am. Read on and se if you agree. part of the article is here. Find the rest by following the link provided.



Army Preps for Tea Party 'Terrorists'
By Mark Alexander · Thursday, April 29, 2010

The duty imposed upon [the president] to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people." --Justice Joseph Story

The duty imposed upon [the president] to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people." --Justice Joseph Story
A few months back, the commander in chief of our Armed Forces, that erstwhile community organizer Barack Hussein Obama, denigrated a large cross section of Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement -- those who advocate for Essential Liberty and Rule of Law.

Obama identified them as malcontents, "waving their little tea bags."

Since then, the Obama administration and their Leftmedia sycophants have endeavored to characterize Tea Party attendees as rude, radical, racist, redneck, enemies of the state.

In fact, Americans who attend Tea Party rallies are from all walks of life, as noted in the Patriot Declaration, Patriots who are peacefully and constitutionally petitioning their government for redress.

As I noted in my tax-day essay, Tea Parties are "not a call for revolution but for restoration -- a call to undertake whatever measures are dictated by prudence and necessity to restore constitutional Rule of Law."

However, Obama's words do have consequences.

This week, I was contacted by a number of military personnel, enlisted and officer ranks, who expressed concern about a military exercise underway at Ft. Knox, the U.S. Bullion Depository. As with most such exercises, the Ft. Knox alert occurred in stages, as if real time intelligence was being provided at various intervals.

The first intel advisory was issued on Friday, 23 April 2010, and identifies the terrorist threat adversaries as "Local Militia Groups / Anti-Government Protesters / TEA Party."

You read that right: "TEA Party"!

The alert states that plans for the demonstration may have been interrupted by "Federal and local law enforcement" raids on a "White Supremacists Organization," but "TEA Party organizers have stated that they will protest at the Gold Vault at a future date."

Further, the intel advisory states, "Anti-Government - Health Care Protesters have stated that they would join the TEA Party as a sign of solidarity."

In accordance with the exercise, Ft. Knox post security is placed on high alert because, "these groups are armed, have combative training and some are former Military Snipers. Some may have explosives training / experience," and "a rally at their compound / training area is scheduled."

Another intel update was issued on Monday, 26 April 2010, noting that the "rally at the Militia compound occurred," and "Viable threats ... have been made." The intel on the rally notes, "Many members were extremely agitated at what they referred to as Government intervention and over taxation in their lives. Alcohol use 'fanned the flames.' Many military grade firearms were openly carried. An ad hoc 'shoot the government agent' event was held with prizes (alcohol) given for the best shot placement."

The report states further, "Components of bomb making are reported to have been on the site. Some members have criminal records relating to explosive and weapons violations."

In response to the "immediate threat," the exercise stipulates, "local detention centers are being made ready for mass arrests." Both the "QRF I and QRF II" are placed on two hour recall, and the "5-15 CAV" was ordered to "draw weapons from holder and store in most available arms room," and "coordinate with MASA for immediate ammunition draw; have equipment readied for immediate use, i.e. vehicles staged and loaded IAW 5-15 CAV SOP; LMR's charged." Continue reading

Link to original article:

Coffee Party Inflitrated



Hat tip: Patriotic Resistance

21 dead as fighting in Somalia rages

From Allafrica.com. Somalia is nothing but a nest of vipers. The country has not had a functioning governemt in 20 years,it is home to a welle stablished ring of pirates and it is one of the poorest countries in the world.

21 People Killed in Mogadishu Violence

AllAfrica.com; Fighting between African Union troops, Somali government forces, pro-government militiamen on one side and Al-Shabaab and its allies on the other end killed at least 21 people Wednesday and injured over 70 others in the Somali capital within the last 24 hours, said medical workers and witnesses.

Yesterday, at laest 16 people were killed in the continuing violence that has gripped Mogadishu.

Twelve people were killed in the north district of Hamarweyne where several mortars traded between the warring sides landed, according to witnesses.

"It was terrifying and left us with great worries. I have seen several dead bodies and injured ones," said Raho Suleyman, one of the people who were caught in the crossfire.

Several wounded people were admitted at Mogadishu's main Medina hospital, where according to medics, five of them died from their injuries.

The violence concentrated mainly near the main Bakara market in the capital where fighters from pro-government militia Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama faced off with their arch-rivals Al-Shabaab.

On the other hand, a suicide car bomb targeted on AMISOM base in Mogadishu Tuesday triggered another round of violence, claiming the lives of civilians.

Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the suicide attack, saying it was retaliation for the killing of two top al-Qaida leaders in Iraq. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri were killed last week during an Iraqi-U.S. military raid in northern Iraqi city of Tikrit.

However, the Al-Qaeda-inspired group put the blame of civilian casualties on AMISOM.

The claims were immediately refuted by government officials.

Civilians have suffered greatly as a result of clashes between the warring sides fighting for control of bullet-riddled Mogadishu.

The weak Western-backed Somali government is battling a powerful Islamist insurgency that erupted early 2007 and is determined to unseat it. The impoverished Horn of Africa country has not had a functioning government for nearly 20 years.

The clarity of confusion made clear with PowerPoint. You got that?

No wonder Afghanistan is such a mess. It would not mattrer how many thousands of troops we sent in, it would still be a bloody, confusing mess. So how about a little clarity with a Powerpoint presentation and analyis? Sounds great, right? Not even close. Below you wil find a PowerPoint presentation that is suppossed to make the clouded Afghanistan picture crystal clear. Take a look and get back to me or better yet, let the military know what all of it means. "Lieutenant Sam Nuxoll, a platoon leader posted in Iraq, told military website Company Command how he spent most of his time making PowerPoint presentations. 'I have to make a storyboard complete with digital pictures, diagrams and text summaries on just about anything that happens,' he added. 'Conduct a key leader engagement? Make a storyboard. Award a microgrant? Make a storyboard.'Maybe they should just use crayons and plain white paper? Be heck of alot cheaper and easier to understand.


'When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war:'

DailyMail.co.uk;  Its coloured charts, graphs and bullet-points are supposed to make the most incomprehensible data crystal clear.


But even the sharpest military minds in American were left baffled by this PowerPoint slide, a mind-boggling attempt to explain the situation in Afghanistan.

'When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war,' General Stanley McChrystal, the US and NATO force commander, remarked wryly when confronted by the sprawling spaghetti diagram in a briefing.


Brigadier General H.R. McMaster went one step further and banned the presentation package when he led an offensive in Tal Afar, Iraq, in 2005.

'It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,' he told the New York Times. 'Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.'

There is growing concern about the insiduous spread of PowerPoint which has come to dominate the lives of many junior officers.

Dubbed the PowerPoint Rangers, they spend hours slaving away on slides to illustrate every Afghan scenario.

Lieutenant Sam Nuxoll, a platoon leader posted in Iraq, told military website Company Command how he spent most of his time making PowerPoint presentations.

'I have to make a storyboard complete with digital pictures, diagrams and text summaries on just about anything that happens,' he added.

'Conduct a key leader engagement? Make a storyboard. Award a microgrant? Make a storyboard.'

General McChrystal views two PowerPoint presentations a day in Kabul with three more during the course of each week.

PowerPoint was launched in 1987 and bought by Microsoft shortly afterwards.

Hat tip: Atlas Shrugs

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Folding our nuclear umbrella

John Bolton, former ambassador to the U.N. is a very astute person. He sees the threats to this country and the world with a clarity and sense of purpose that others do not or cannot obtain. Obama's policy of apologizing, appeasing, bowing down, groveling and throwing away our defensive, offensive advantages has done nothing but empower our enemies to become bolder in their aggression and hostility towards us and our allies. The road we are pursuing is also weakening our allies and they are worried. The policy of nuclear deterrent worked very well since its inception. Obama has thrown that away by throwing away our right to be the first one to strike with WMD.


"Bad as Obama policies are for America, they are equally dangerous for friends who have relied for decades on the U.S. nuclear umbrella as a foundation of their own national security strategies. As Washington's capabilities decline and as it narrows the circumstances when it will use nuclear weapons, allies are asking hard questions about whether the U.S. nuclear umbrella will continue to provide the protection it has previously."



BOLTON: Folding our nuclear umbrella
By John Bolton

Although media coverage of President Obama's unfold- ing nuclear policy has fo- cused on its implications for the United States, it is no less important to understand its effects on America's friends and allies. The New START arms control treaty with Russia, the administration's nuclear posture review, the recent Washington nuclear security summit, and the uncertainty surrounding May's Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference are all reverberating in capitals worldwide.

Bad as Obama policies are for America, they are equally dangerous for friends who have relied for decades on the U.S. nuclear umbrella as a foundation of their own national security strategies. As Washington's capabilities decline and as it narrows the circumstances when it will use nuclear weapons, allies are asking hard questions about whether the U.S. nuclear umbrella will continue to provide the protection it has previously.

Many allies see clearly that our mutual global adversaries have no intention of reducing their own nuclear programs in imitation of Mr. Obama. Our friends accordingly feel increasingly insecure. If Washington will not continue to hold the nuclear umbrella that has provided strategic stability for so long, other countries will begin making divergent decisions about how to protect themselves, including, for some, the possibility of seeking their own nuclear weapons.

Within the administration, there are strong advocates for America pledging "no first use" of nuclear weapons. Although the nuclear posture review "only" expanded "negative security assurances" somewhat, there is little doubt that "no first use" is alive and well in internal administration councils. These self-imposed constraints on the use of nuclear weapons reinforce the allies' concern that Mr. Obama has forgotten the central Cold War lesson about the U.S. nuclear deterrent. There was never any doubt that a Soviet attack through the Fulda Gap into Western Europe would have swept through NATO forces, possibly all the way to the English Channel. Thus, the threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation against such an attack - an unambiguous case of a U.S. first use of nuclear weapons - was precisely what was needed to keep Soviet forces on their side of the Iron Curtain.

The risks come not only from the Obama administration's nuclear policies. By canceling the Polish and Czech missile defense sites, the president signaled that he has less than full faith in the concept of a U.S. national missile defense capability. Moreover, and equally important, Russia and others quickly interpreted the decision not to construct the Eastern European facilities as Washington backing down in response to Russian threats. At a minimum, Mr. Obama showed that he was prepared to use U.S. missile defense as a bargaining chip, exactly the misguided policy option President Reagan consistently and emphatically rejected. If America's homeland remains vulnerable, its willingness to risk confrontation with an opponent will be substantially reduced. In such circumstances, U.S. allies could not count on the threat of nuclear retaliation by Washington in the event of aggression, as they could in the Cold War.

Accordingly, Europeans should be very worried that they are increasingly on their own to face the re-emerging threat of Russian belligerence. Because the New START treaty does not limit tactical nuclear weapons, Europe, simply because of geographic proximity, is most vulnerable to Russia's advantage in that category. It is thus highly ironic that some NATO countries have recently called for removing the last U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from Europe, which will simply enhance Russia's existing lead. Moreover, because the conflict in Afghanistan has opened new fissures in NATO, Europe must ponder whether the aging alliance can renew its original focus on defending against Moscow.

In the Pacific, concerns are equally acute, especially in Japan. Faced with the unambiguous reality of China expanding and modernizing its nuclear and conventional military capabilities, and with North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, Japan inevitably faces the question of whether it needs its own nuclear deterrent. U.S. ambivalence on missile defense only heightens Tokyo's concerns, given its proximity to ballistic missile threats from the East Asian mainland. South Korea, Taiwan and Australia, among others, also share Japan's concern, each according to its own circumstances.

Thus, while there unquestionably are variations among America's allies about the precise implications of Mr. Obama's global withdrawal from U.S. strategic nuclear dominance, the overall direction is not in doubt. U.S. decline leaves the allies feeling increasingly on their own, uncertain about Washington's commitment and steadfastness and facing difficult decisions about how to guarantee their own security. Ironically, therefore, it is America's friends that might increase nuclear proliferation, not just their mortal foes. This is the reality created by the retreat of nuclear America, the exact opposite of the Obama administration's benign optimism, namely that reducing U.S. capability would encourage others to do the same.

Original article is here

Black on White violence: It is a problem

I am posting this from Totus. I was going to edit it down but I decided against it. If a reader at PC gets bored that fast or cannot finish an article of this size, i do not know what to say or tell you. Maybe this; it is time to slow down and read some real news, not the MSM glop that is 'reported' on a daily basis. NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, even Fox at times falls into the trap. I source from over sixty(the number is growing) sites and try to keep it up to date and a bit of the quirky tossed in.


There can be no denying this type of crime has gown since the elction of the gGand Puhbah, the one and only first Muslim POTUS, the mullah obamaham. What wasn't this covered and aired all across the country by the MSM. It is controlled by the gov't, comrade!



Black on White violence in Mississippi and across the Nation
Rom Russell

Totus, Yesterday I reported on a recent shooting in Brookhaven, Mississippi of an elderly white woman by two young black men. This is just one example of black on white crime sweeping the state and the nation as well. Something that is seldom, if ever pointed out in the MSM or even in various local publications. They avoid this issue like the plague, unless the victim is black and the perpetrators are white. Then the news is quickly flashed coast to coast and invariably national black leaders such as Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson will be leading marches in some small community shouting racism as they lock arms and parade down main street USA.

The figures on "white on black violence" and "black on white violence" are not available, but one need only look at the various news accounts coming from communities across the nation to see that "black on white violence" is far more common and widespread than the reverse. When confronted about this fact, leaders in the black community will quickly side step the issue by saying that "black on black" crime and "white on white" crime is far more common. That is a given and easily understood. This post however is about the steadily increasing violence against whites committed by young black gangsters. The reverse is rare, and you can rest assured that such incidents will be thoroughly reported by those in the MSM and their allies.

We have hate crimes laws on the books and I would suggest that crimes such as the recent shooting of Eva Pullen in Brookhaven, MS may very fall under such statutes. I have never supported such laws knowing that they would seldom be used in cases involving "black on white" violence, but would almost always be applied only when a black was the victim.

Many have noticed this disturbing trend in recent years and its time for some in the media to speak out and forget political correctness and just let the facts speak for themselves. Media such as local newspapers are for the most part bound by facts and I contend the facts are there if only one chooses to look for them. And most papers do have editorial sections where the various writers can express their opinions based on the facts at hand. It's time to step forward and confront that which is staring us in the face. Broad daylight shootings on the main street of small town USA cannot and must not be tolerated.

Stand With Whom?

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk


The below link is an article dated April 12, 2010 in the Orange County Jewish Experience, the blog of the Orange County Jewish Federation. The actual text follows.

http://ocjewishexperience.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/orange-county-jewish-organizations-urge-uc-irvine-to-act/
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"There is an old saying that begins something like this. “There were three Jews the room and there were five different opinions……” At times, it is hard for Jews to agree on something, anything. This is not one of those times. Four different groups, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Hillel Foundation of Orange County, Jewish Federation Orange County and the American Jewish Committee issued a joint statement today regarding the latest news from an anonymous source regarding the Muslim students arrested in February.

Here is their joint statement.

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Orange County Jewish Organizations Urge UC Irvine to Act


(Irvine) — "A number of organizations and individuals have received information from an anonymous source regarding the disruption of Israeli Ambassador Michel Oren’s February 8, 2010 speech at the University of California, Irvine.

The evidence and allegations in the packet, if accurate and authentic, are deeply disturbing. They point to a well-planned, highly organized, premeditated effort to disrupt Ambassador Oren’s speech. The shocking details contained in these materials would clearly establish that MSU leadership and members deliberately deceived University officials about their planned protest and expressly instructed participants to deny that the MSU was involved.

The contents of the packet, if true, constitute disturbing evidence that members of the Muslim Student Union at UCI were willing to engage in egregious and intimidating behavior in an effort to deprive Ambassador Oren of the opportunity speak freely and openly in a forum provided by the university. The packet’s contents also suggest this disturbing tactic may be part of a larger national effort to engage in similar disruptive acts.

We urge the University to investigate the contents of the packet thoroughly and expeditiously. If the information is genuine, it points to serious violations by individual students as well as the Muslim Student Union of acceptable standards of public discourse and UCI’s own student code of conduct.

Because we cannot verify the source or authenticity of the material in the packet, we have turned it over to law enforcement for their investigation."

Rabbi Marc S. Dworkin

Executive Director

American Jewish Committee, Orange County


Shalom C. Elcott

President & CEO

Jewish Federation Orange County


Jordan L. Fruchtman

Executive Director

Hillel Foundation of Orange County


Dr. Kevin O’Grady, Ed.D.

Regional Director

Anti-Defamation League, Orange County/Long Beach Regional Office


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"Stand With the Four". Amazing.

All I can say to the above four individuals is: Welcome to the war. Where have you been?"

First of all, the Jewish Federation has for years denied there were any problems at UCI and maintained that the university was doing a great job. Now that all that blew up at the disruption of the Israeli ambassador's speech at UCI on February 8th, the Federation is apparently feeling the heat from its constituents like the dozens of elderly Jewish folks the Federation bussed in to hear the ambassador's speech and enjoy a lovely evening. Now everybody knows that there IS a problem at UCI. Now the Federaton is trying to convince the community that THEY are leading the charge, "laying down the gauntlet" to UCI to quote one news report.

"Laying down the gauntlet"


I don't know much about the American Jewish Committee except that they invited the UCI chancellor to give a keynote address a couple of years back while the controversy was raging.

I don't know much about the Anti-Defamation League's activities in this area either, but that itself makes me wonder. That leads to a very important point.

In the past 3-4 years, I have been going to as many of these MSU and Israel-bashing events as I can. I listen and during the Q&A, I try to ask hardball questions to the speakers or panelists. Many times, I am virtually alone, a fact which led me to write a posting asking where was the Jewish community? I know that these gentlemen have attended many of the same events because I have seen them there. Where were they when I was challenging MSU-sponsored speakers? Have they ever challenged the speakers and told them they were engaging in hateful speech and filling the audience with lies?

Not to my knowledge. I do every time, and frankly, I could use a little support (On occasion, the Jewish student group "Anteaters for Israel" has turned out with Israeli flags and posters to protest the hate speech going on. They are students, however. Where are the big boys?)

Do the above-signed gentlemen go to these fraudulent academic "seminars" like the "Whither the Levant" event of January 2009 at UCI, and challenge the so-called panelists for their one-sided indoctrination-as I have done?

Not to my knowledge. I was at the entire Whither the Levant event and was the only one who spoke up in opposition. This lonely gentile could have used a little support.

Did they support the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) when they were complaining to the university about the on-going hate at UCI(i.e. the Galloway fund raising event for Hamas on May 21, 2009 and the Oren event)?

No. They opposed the ZOA, which in my mind is the ONLY national Jewish organization that has stepped up to the plate.

Another question: Which of the above organizations lent support to the Orange County Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism when the OCITF was investigating complaints of harassment of Jewish students on the UCI campus?

None.

Hillel is a national Jewish organization that has to work within the university infrastructure. They have never been known for making waves. Yes, they provide many services to Jewish students on campus, but their thrust is having a pro-Israel fest (I-Fest) once a year with bake sales, games and posters telling passers-by that Israel invented the i-pod or something like that. Fine. I appreciate the positivity of the I-Fest message as compared to the negativity of the MSU's events, but there is a more pressing issue going on here that must be confronted. Has Hillel ever confronted these speakers?

Not to my knowledge.

Of course, I am fully cognizant that they probably consider me a loose cannon. That's fine. I answer to no one and don't have to worry about who might be upset about what I have to say. I don't care about the politics of who knows whom or who does business with whom. I just care about the situation at UCI very deeply. Unfortunately, the response of the Jewish community is fragmented because the Jewish community itself is fragmented.

So now comes this letter and a plea to "Stand With the Four". A better phrase would be for the "four" to stand with the rest of us.

Oh well. Better late than never-if it lasts.

New rules and changes for classic board games,

Gotta love Sammy over at 'Yid with Lid.' I just had to steal this one and I also am asking any of you who can, to help Sammy out. He has some of the best writing and wit out here in the old blog world. I consider him a true patriot and honest to the core. Yeah, this is a pitch to for a donation of sorts. Any of you familiar with YWL already knows what a jewel Sammy's site is. Now back to the next post...



New Rules For Old American Games
Sammy Benoit

YidwithLid, Yesterday as I was pouring over some background on the Dodd bill when my wife came into the room and said, "Your son has a birthday party to go to this weekend, I want you to go to Wal-Mart and get a board game for him to give as a gift." Right in the middle of a pile of research material, there was no way I could take a break and leave right then. So summoning up a dose of testosterone, I stood up and said, to my wife "OK."

Within fifteen minutes I found myself in the board game aisle of Wal-Mart and I was getting very confused. They had the evergreen games that I grew up with but they were different, they have all become, well...lets just say they have changed with the times. Allow me to explain.

The first game I came across was Operation. You may remember that one, you had to use tweezers to extract plastic "internal" organs from a patient and if you hit the sides the patient buzzed and the light in his nose began to glow.

Operation has really changed to become more realistic. When I was a kid we got to choose which organ to remove. The new version included URL for a website. In each round before you extract a body part, you have to go to the website where a central moderator tells you whether you can remove that body part. Also I think there is a mistake on the box, it says in bold letters, this game is cheaper than before, but in actuality it was much more expensive. I decided Operation was not the game for me.


Right next to Operation was Lincoln Logs, but it didn't look anything like the old toy where you built log cabins out of little sticks of wood. This was very different, the New Lincoln Logs removed all of the wood, the box said something about Greenpeace and deforestation of the rain forests. The "logs" are made out of recycled paper (they look kind of flimsy) and includes a pre-printed letter, that you can address to you congressman asking them to pass Cap and Trade.

Along side the Logs was a game that looked as if it was a modernization of the game "Whac a Mole." The original game had little plastic moles, that would pop out of hole that you would smack on top of the head with a hammer to drive back into the hole. The new game is called Dangerous Americans, this version has ordinary looking Americans holding tea bags or protest signs inscribed with comments such as " Jefferson Was Right" and "I believe in the US Constitution," popping out of holes. Instead of a hammer to beat down the ordinary Americans, you get a gavel inscribed with the words, "Speaker of the House of Representatives.


To be honest this was making me a bit nuts. Granted I don't deal well with change, but this was going too far. I headed right to the one game I knew they couldn't change, Monopoly. There is nothing they could do to Monopoly with the possible exception of changing the street names. What could they do to this Classic?

OH MY! You wouldn't believe what they could do. They changed the entire thing. First of all remember that you had little metal thimbles, cars, etc.as game pieces? No longer, now they were all cars, they all looked the same (ugly if you ask me) and worse the were engraved with the words "Made by The US Govt.," and that is the least of it. Those little green houses, replaced by foreclosure notices. You can no longer put a hotel on Boardwalk, you put up a shell of a building, and the "deed" from the game says "Construction delayed, cost overruns because we are being forced to use Union construction shops."

That corner box that used to say, "Go Directly to Jail, Do Not Pass Go Do Not Collect $200," now says, "Go Directly to the Attorney General, If you are a progressive he will let you go, Otherwise you will be allowed to Lawyer-up and go to a civilian court. Collect the $200 dollars more than the regular player because the ACLU won a lawsuit." And the "Free Parking" is now a "Car Pool Meet Up"

Those chance cards? There is now one that says, "Barney Frank needs someone to blame or people will look to him, your banker has gone to Washington DC to get yelled at. Game delayed for a half hour"

The Railroads have been replaced with a Rickshaw, Electric Car, "PETA Approved" Horseback Ride, and Bicycle Company. The Utilities are now "Electric is Now 10x the Cost", and "Windmill Company"

That wasn't even the worst part, here was the straw that broke my back. One of the Community Chest cards says, " you have gotten too rich divide 75% of your money with the rest of the players." Gee whiz if you do that how do you win? If you have no chance of winning, it isn't even worth playing the game.

I had it, I left Wal-Mart and went out for a few slices of Pizza. Lets face it, what kid would play any of those games? In the era of realistic video games, kids are interested in activity that imitates real life, these have no connection to the real world, nothing like these revised game scenarios could ever happen in the US.

Thanks to Yid With Lid

Gov. Perry snuffs "Wiley coyote"

Here is one more case for concealed carry guns. I had to to do the same thing over 20 years ago.

Politics Daily: Watch out, cowboy -- the governor of Texas packs heat when he takes his morning jog (just in case he has to plug a coyote or two).

Gov. Rick Perry told The Associated Press he gunned down one of those varmints in February when the coyote interrupted his morning run in the wide open spaces outside of Austin and threatened the family dog, which was with him on the jog. "I holler and the coyote stopped. I holler again. By this time I had taken my weapon out and charged it," Perry told the AP, referring to his .380 Ruger handgun. "It is now staring dead at me. Either me or the dog are in imminent danger. I did the appropriate thing and sent it to where coyotes go."

The governor downed the animal with the laser-sighted pistol, loaded with hollow-point bullets, leaving the critter in the dust where it fell. "He became mulch," Perry said.

A Republican running for his third term, Perry said he carries a handgun on some of his jogs because he fears snakes. The encounter brought to mind President Jimmy Carter's account of fending off a large, aggressive rabbit that threatened his rowboat in 1979. Carter, unarmed, used a paddle to fight off the attack bunny. Amused reporters dubbed it the "Banzai Bunny" and folk artist Tom Paxton wrote a satirical song about it called "I Don't Want a Bunny Wunny."

Illegals threaten Americans with shovels and axes in an armed rebellion

We will answer with guns and more if necessary.



"We will not stop! We will take up our shovels and pickaxes and we...we will use them against you! Believe that!" screams an opponent of Arizona's tough new bill addressing illegal immigration.


Several organizers supporting the opponents of the bill can be seen trying to stop illegal alien supporters from accosting American citizens who support SB 1070.

Despite intense efforts by illegal alien organizers and police to keep the angry crowd back, a large Hispanic male in a red sport jersey that reads "Warner 13" tries to push past handlers and another voice screams (garbled) "you can't argue with a puto!"

The Urban Dictionary defines a puto as a "Spanish word for a male prostitute. sometimes it's offensive for homosexuals. In Mexico it is used for cowards and traitors."

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is circulating this video to the nation via national press release today. The video is also being sent to ALIPAC's 30,000 national supporters for comment and circulation, with encouragements for activists to send copies to state and federal lawmakers.


ALIPAC is also issuing an advisory to law enforcement agencies across America in anticipation of the May 1st illegal alien protests scheduled nationally by Congressman Luis Gutierrez and the National Council of La Raza (The Race).

"We just want to make sure that our police agencies in these towns and cities where similar groups of angry illegal alien supporters plan to gather on May 1, are fully and properly informed," said William Gheen of ALIPAC. "We are asking our supporters to make sure their local police are aware of the riots, assaults on police, assaults on Americans, and murderous slogans advocating armed rebellion documented in this video, as well as others coming out of Arizona."

Hat tip: ALIPAC
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Urgent: Selling out to Muslims and Islam in the State Department!!!! Urgent

Secretary Clinton and Former Secretary Madeleine Albright to Announce a New Partnership Between The Department of State and Partners for a New Beginning on April 27

Tuesday morning, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will announce a new partnership between the Department of State and Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a new group of eminent Americans who will reach out to the private sector and work in close coordination with the Department of State to advance programs between the United States and Muslim communities.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will attend the announcement and serve as the Chairwoman of Partners for a New Beginning. PNB will be an independent, self-administered group, with the Aspen Institute serving as its Secretariat. Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson and Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company Muhtar Kent will serve as Vice-Chairs.

The announcement will take place on April 27 at 10:45 a.m.

The announcement will be open to credentialed members of the media in the Treaty Room at the Department of State.

Pre-set time for cameras: 10:00 a.m. at the 23rd Street Entrance.
Final access time for journalists and still cameras: 10:30 a.m. at the 23rd Street Entrance.

PRESS CONTACTS:

Department of State
Office of Press Relations
(202) 647-2492


This is a sellout and will cripple our country in ways we cannot imagine unless you have studied Islam, Shariah law and Islamic history. This is Stealth Jihad. It is an inside attack on our country by Islam and Muslim's who want to see this country ruled by Islam, under shariah law.

Original link:http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/04/140869.htm

The problems of being a Christian in Egypt.

Eygpt has a failry large Christian population and of course as in any Islamic country, this can be extremely hazardous to the Christian's health and life. Bishoy Armia Boules, who used to be Mohamed Hegazy is battling to have his national ID card updated and changed to 'Christian.' Boules is not alone in this fight. There is a strong, concerted effort by the government to stone wall this at every step. This statement sums up the popular sentiment in Egypt;  “What they do and especially now with all the tensions between Christians and Muslims across the country is wrong,” said Karim, a young Muslim in Cairo.


“They have a right to believe whatever they want, but to go public and try and get famous for their conversion is wrong and is probably not the best thing for a country struggling with our religious differences.”


Remeber who persecutes who within Islam! It is not the Christians, the Copts burning churches and killing people, it is Islam and Muslims. There has been much publicity of late with Islamic persecution and murdering of Christians, especially in Nigeria. Thanks to Traveler for sending me this
story.



Cairo Christian conversion controversy
Joseph Mayton

bikyamasr.com , CAIRO: On Tuesday, a Cairo court suspended a lawsuit filed by 27-year-old Mohamed Hegazy that he had hoped would give him the right to list “Christian” on his national identification cards. The court said that they could not rule on the case until the country’s Constitutional Court gave a ruling on the constitutionality of a 2009 case on Article 47 of the Civil Code, which is supposed to allow citizens the right to change their name and religion on ID material.


Hegazy’s situation is the most high-profile case of a Muslim man who converted to Christianity. He wants to have this officially documented to the government, but has run against a number of road blocks in his fight for freedom of religion.

His lawyers told local newspapers that the most likely scenario will mean years of litigation as the government continues to push the case aside in favor of “appeasing Islamists” in the country.

Under Article 47 of Egypt’s Civil Code, citizens are allowed to change their religion, however Article 2 states that Islam is the “religion of the state” and “principles of Islamic law represent the principle source of legislation.”

Under a strict viewing of Islamic Sharia law, conversion away from Islam can be punishable by death, although most scholars do not push for this penalty.

Hegazy has changed his name to Bishoy Armia Boules, said he converted to Christianity at 16-years-old and is the first Egyptian in modern times to publicly announce his conversion, which has led to a number of difficulties for the man.

Hegazy is not the only person publicly challenging the government over religious conversion. In 2008, Maher el-Gohary also filed a lawsuit to have his ID’s change to recognize him as a Christian.

“He can believe whatever he wants in his heart, but on paper he can’t convert,” the judge had told the administrative court during the 2008 legal battle.

Gohary, who has already changed his name to Peter, says that he converted to Christianity 34 years ago when he was attending the police academy in Cairo, but later dropped out of the academy because he was scared.

Judges often base their decisions on religious freedoms on Article II of the Egyptian constitution, which states that Islamic law is the source of national laws. The judge in the Hegazy case said that “according to Islamic law, Islam is the final and most complete religion and therefore Muslims already practice full freedom of religion cannot return to an older belief (Christianity or Judaism).”

After the initial hearing, on “The Truth,” a Dream television program the debate heated up between Gohary and his lawyer versus a Coptic lawyer and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Host Wael Ibrashy, a leading editor in the country, called on Gohary to explain his actions and why he chose a time when sectarian tensions were rising.

“Christians have to be quiet because of their faith,” replied Gohary. “Police are at the door of the Cathedral and they won’t let me in, so that is a major reason behind my decision.”

But Mamdouh Nakhla, a leading Coptic lawyer, said last year he believed Gohary was simply attempting to gain notoriety and fame by going public.

“Christianity is all about faith. It is very person,” Nakhla began, “so I don’t know why he is doing this now unless he just wants fame and money and this timing is very bad for the country. If we take the example of Jesus, when we pray we don’t make it public, we go into our room and pray to God in a personal manner.”

Nakhla says that Gohary will have a difficult time proving he honestly and truthfully converted to Christianity. The lawyer said that Gohary must prove that he was baptized and that this is not an attempt to marry a Christian wife.

Gohary, who has been married twice previously, is engaged to a Christian woman. He claims that he left Egypt and traveled to Cyprus in the past, where he was baptized, although there is no documentation of that event.

The cases of Hegazy and Gohary have led to a public outcry in a predominantly Muslim nation. Many Egyptians feel these sort of publicizing of religious conversions are an attempt to attack Islam.

“What they do and especially now with all the tensions between Christians and Muslims across the country is wrong,” said Karim, a young Muslim in Cairo.

“They have a right to believe whatever they want, but to go public and try and get famous for their conversion is wrong and is probably not the best thing for a country struggling with our religious differences.”

Two more Christians butchered in Nigeria.

The genocide and ethnic cleansing of Christians continued in Nigeria yesterday. "Nathan Dabak, deputy editor of the bi-monthly Light Bearer and reporter Sunday Gyang Bwede, were pulled from a motorcycle and killed on Saturday evening as youths rioted in the aftermath of the death of a Muslim teenager."




Two Christian journalists killed in Jos: union

Star Africa; Two journalists working for a Christian magazine were stabbed to death by a mob in a predominantly Muslim suburb in the flashpoint Nigerian city of Jos, a union official said Monday.

Nathan Dabak, deputy editor of the bi-monthly Light Bearer and reporter Sunday Gyang Bwede, were pulled from a motorcycle and killed on Saturday evening as youths rioted in the aftermath of the death of a Muslim teenager.

Jos, capital of the central Plateau State, was the epicentre of inter-religious violence which local rights groups say killed 1,500 people since the beginning of the year.

"They were macheted in an area that is predominantly Muslim and one can deduce that the killers were Muslim," Katdapba Gobum, chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Plateau State, told AFP.

Relatives of one of the men called his cellphone when he failed to turn up for an appointment. The phone was answered by a Hausa-speaking man who claimed to have killed the journalist. The motorcyclist who carried them was also killed.

Police were not immediately available for comment.

Plateau State sits on a line between Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north and the mainly Christian south.

Because of the recent violence in Plateau, journalists cannot freely move around the state to do their work, said Gobum.

"Because of the latest crisis, a number of our colleagues have been careful where to go and where not to go," he said.

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

From the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms July 6, 1775. I hope it does not come to an armed conflict of civil war. If our country does fall into a deeper chaos and decline, then these words will ring stronger than perhaps they did in 1775. We should all be our our faces praying for the salvation and recourse of our country.


Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
July 6, 1775
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. — We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.

Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. — Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. — We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great-Britain, and establishing independent states. We fight not for glory or for conquest. We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offence. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder conditions than servitude or death.

In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.

With an humble confidence in the mercies of the supreme and impartial Judge and Ruler of the Universe, we most devoutly implore his divine goodness to protect us happily through this great conflict, to dispose our adversaries to reconciliation on reasonable terms, and thereby to relieve the empire from the calamities of civil war.

Source: Essential Liberty and Patriot Post, Historic Documnets

Russia Today Cozies Up With Black Communist And Jailed Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal

Leave it to the ruskies to cozy up to this cop killer. Keep in mind this is a total white washing of the facts as most of us know them. Mumia Abu-Jamal should have been put to death for this crime. What he has been allowed to do from prison is disgusting.

With Immigration On Our Minds, Let's Talk About the Inevitablility of Sharia Law In America


Cross posted from Holger Awakens


Okay, this is one awesome article at Eurasia Review written by David Greenfield and in this article, Greenfield lays out some hugely prophetic words as to just how islam's Sharia Law will take hold, not only in the West in general, but in America. Unless it is stopped.

My favorite paragraph from the article is this:


As a country's population rises, it will approach the Sharia tipping point. Sharia law's imposition will be sold as social reforms, just as they are throughout the Muslim world. And since only disruptive forces would be opposed to it, naturally criticizing its implementation would be one of the first bans. There is only one clean way to avoid it. Just as there is only one clean way to avoid a Communist or Nazi takeover. And that is not to have people inside your borders who want to see the country turn into a Nazi, Communist or Islamist state. If you fail to do that, then sooner or later, you will either face a bloody civil war, or/and live under a Communist, Nazi or Islamist state.
You can't make it much more simple than what I just highlighted in the paragraph above. There IS only one way to save our country from the eventual onslaught of islamofascism and the movement towards Sharia law and that is simply to not let the islamists into this country.

I don't have to paint a picture of Europe for any regular readers here - we all know that the Europeans blew it with their unprincipled allowing of hordes of islamists into their countries. The results have been disastrous.

SO I WARN EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU TODAY. I urge you to watch the news carefully today and tonight - I want you to see this "outrage" in America by the Left against the new anti-immigration law in Arizona. I want you to soak up the fact that the Leftist armies are descending on Arizona and the whole time, I want you to realize that this is just an appetizer to the fight they will put up in favor of the islamists. We are watching the "Coming Attractions" folks because when the Left has built up their protective fortress called "islamophobia" sufficiently, there will be nothing we can do to stop the islamist invasion of America. And as you see from this article, once they are here in numbers, Sharia Law is soon behind and after that...well baby, it's submit or die time.



The Inevitability Of Sharia Law In The West


When you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And so liberals believe that the solution to every problem is more socialism. Americans often believe the solution to every problem is more democracy. And Muslims believe that the solution to every problem is Islam. Combine the three, and you arrive at the inevitability of Sharia law in the West. As Muslims harness democratic pluralities in countries that have become socialist and thus less free, they will impose Islamic law.

In the conception of religion held by Western Liberals, religious moderates are people who are willing to allow the separation of religion from civic life, or even its domination by the civic code. Religious extremists they believe are people who want to impose religion on public life. By this standard however, there is virtually no such thing as a Muslim moderate, because Muslims do not recognize the hallowed ideas of Western liberals such as pluralism and the separation of church and state.

Even the few exceptions such as Turkey, did not create separate spheres, so much as they imposed forced secularism in order to modernize the country. And these exceptions are also collapsing, notably in Turkey where the Islamists under Erdogan have come to power. The imposed secularism in countries such as Turkey originated at a time when it was thought that a Muslim country had to forcibly secularize in order to enjoy the benefits of a modern state.

But the willingness of Westerners to accommodate Islam, and the billions in oil money that have flowed into Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have discredited that notion by showing that one can be a fanatical Muslim and still be a doctor in England, or own skyscrapers in Dubai, be a Lord or a Peer, a respected professor in a French university or have a nuclear reactor assembled in your country. Political correctness, appeasement and Dhimmitude have eroded the gains made by secularization, and helped radicalize Islam.

Muslim countries who are socially, morally and politically backward, nevertheless have access to all the modern technology and conveniences of the West. Their backwardness makes it all but impossible for them to actually reform their countries so they provide opportunities for their own people, but makes it all too easy for them to export their surplus populations to the West.

And so a goat herder who still believes that he has the right to kill his daughter if she so much as looks at a boy, can get on a 747 and arrive in London or Paris in a matter of hours. New York or Los Angeles in a matter of a few more. His children will go to Western schools, where they will be implicitly or explicitly taught the superiority of Islam, almost as much as they would be in a Madrassa. They will never be forced to choose between Islam and the benefits of the West-- and so they will inevitably choose both, benefiting from their free educations, their professional careers and the good life, while embracing increasingly fanatical Islamic ideas, in order to balance out their materialistic lives.

This combination of a Western trappings and Islamic interior will doom the West. Because Islam is an ideology that is less about faith, than it is about governance. Unlike their Western liberal patrons, Muslims do not recognize any distinction between church and state. Which means they are bent on imposing their religion on the state. Western liberals believe that most Muslims are moderate. Most Muslims however believe that the remedy for all social, political and moral ills lies in Islam.

A believing Muslim, whether Westerners consider him an extremist or a moderate, will believe that Islam and the Koran have the solution for all of society's ills. Social problems are caused by a lack of Islam. In his worldview, Muslim countries can only repair their problems through Islam. And non-Muslim countries in the Dar al Kufr (Realm of the Infidels), Dar Al Harb (Realm of the Sword) are bound to be even worse off, because they don't follow Islamic law. Which means their only solution is Islam.

In such a scenario, Sharia is inevitable. Because as Western liberals think of social reforms in terms of added government control, Muslims think of reform as added clerical control. This makes Muslims and Socialists seem like natural allies, at least for a time, because both confuse reform with centralization that takes individual liberties. Meanwhile the Western Liberal is deluded enough to think that any application of Sharia law will be moderate, when in fact it will be no such thing. Because the Muslim understanding of the world is radically different than the Western understanding of the world.

For example take the recent statement by a Muslim cleric that blames immodestly dressed women for earthquakes. Such an idea has a basis in Islam. It may seem utterly insane to the Western mind, but it demonstrates a worldview in which every individual action is inherently interconnected with the larger social welfare, (an idea shared by both Muslims and Socialists). And if indeed women not wearing a burka cause earthquakes-- then the greater good demands that they be compelled to wear them. After all what is more important, freedom of dress or people dying in earthquakes?

Variations of that argument will accompany resistance to any Islamic ban. And the only response to it can be that the idea behind it is lunatic and unproven. Yet the former would be construed as denigrating Islam and the latter is a useless point, as there is also no way to disprove that (or any other insane linkage that a cleric might come up with).

If you really doubt that such a thing can happen in the rational West, remember that much of our best and brightest currently believe that cow flatulence and human exhaling is destroying the planet, that gender differences are the product of nurture and that people who share their political views have superior genes. The belief of that Islamic cleric is no more absurd than these, and with enough force and propaganda behind it, is just as likely to be accepted. And much worse things will be as well.

As a country's population rises, it will approach the Sharia tipping point. Sharia law's imposition will be sold as social reforms, just as they are throughout the Muslim world. And since only disruptive forces would be opposed to it, naturally criticizing its implementation would be one of the first bans. There is only one clean way to avoid it. Just as there is only one clean way to avoid a Communist or Nazi takeover. And that is not to have people inside your borders who want to see the country turn into a Nazi, Communist or Islamist state. If you fail to do that, then sooner or later, you will either face a bloody civil war, or/and live under a Communist, Nazi or Islamist state.