Read the information HERE at Brigitte Gabriel’s Act! For America.

Right here in America, Dr. Sultan and her family have had to go into hiding!

A little less than two years ago, Time Magazine published the following about Dr. Wafa Sultan, outspoken critic of Islam: Also in 2006, Time Magazine recognized Wafa Sultan as one in "The Time 100: The People Who Shape Our World."

Whatever happened to supporting Dr. Sultan, an American citizen, in her exercise of freedom of speech here in America? A bunch of Mo cartoons got in the way?

By so sharply voicing her beliefs, Sultan crystallizes the mission for the rest of us who want to take the slam out of Islam.

Moonbats can prance around wearing kafiyyehs and carrying the flags of our enemies.  The moonbats get protection.  But Wafa Sultan doesn’t?

What is happening to America?

Now here is a leftist politician that gets it. Villy Søvndal, leader of the Socialist People’s Party tells it like it is, responding to a demonstration held by the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir in Denmark last Friday, the socialist leader stated on his blog that:

“the group was to ’seek other pastures’ and that their ‘undertakings had no perspective, nor future, in Denmark’.”

Now if only other European socialists and politicians across the political spectrum, were to get on board and confront the Islamists with the same line of reasoning, we would see a dramatic shift away from the moronic political correctness that currently blankets the political atmosphere in Europe. Søvndal also adds:

“‘If they want to live in a religious dictatorship so badly, they can go to those countries in the Middle East where such dictatorships exist.”

Right again, and how refreshing! About a proposed banning of the group:

‘Instead of turning them into martyrs with a ban, they must be put in the spotlight. It would expose their completely ridiculous views”

Instead of practicing selfcensorship and fawning gross tolerance towards the intolerant, we should be actively engaging these religious fascists in open, public debate. The more we dare to draw the public’s attention to the lunacy of Islamism, and unfettered immigration for people who come from a part of the world that traditionally resists modern thinking and modern living,…the better.

Villy Søvndal then levels his disgust at Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Denmark’s integration minister, for meeting with Kassem Ahmad, [spokesperson for the Islamic Society in Denmark] behind closed doors. Ahmad had participated in the march, being seen walking alongside Fadi Abdullatif, leader of the Hizb ut-Tahrir in Denmark:

‘It is strange that religious representatives should be given preferential treatment in a secular democracy. If the minister wanted to speak with ethnic minorities, she could have spoken with members of city council who were democratically elected.’

This shows that some Leftists actually do understand what’s at stake, and that Islamism has no place within the democracies of Europe. Only when the Left becomes more engaged with the dangers Islamism poses for western societies, can any headway be made. This is all very good news. Once again Denmark shows the rest of Europe the mess it has gotten itself into, and most importantly…the way out. More here.

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Friday, February 15 (90-minute show): This week’s guest for the entire show will be Cassandra, author of the book Escape! From an Arab Marriage: Horror Stories of Women Who Fled from Abusive Muslim Husbands and of the blog site No Slaves of Allah in America. We’ll be discussing with Cassandra America Truth Forum’s recent symposium (video here) and the genital mutilation of children.

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UPCOMING SHOWS
February 22: Mustang, Allan Goldstein, and Saleem Siddiqui
February 29: Jason Bootie
March 7: Janet Levy and GM Roper
March 14: Walid Shoebat
March 21: Elisabeth of Austria
March 28: Robert Spencer

On February 5 and 6, Patrick Sookhdeo of the Barnabus Fund will be interviewed on Focus on the Family - a must-hear interview:

Radical Islam’s Threat to the Western World (Part 1 of 2)

Patrick Sookhdeo, a renowned authority on radical Islam, discusses the threat jihadist ideology poses to Christianity and western society. (Part 1 of 2)……[………]

Guest Biography

Patrick Sookhdeo is an international authority on Islamic jihadist ideology, serving as a consultant for the British and NATO militaries. He is also an author, a lecturer and the International Director of the Barnabas Fund, a relief and development agency supporting persecuted Christian minorities around the world. Sookhdeo holds a Ph.D. from London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies and two Doctor of Divinity degrees from other institutions. His books include Global Jihad, A Christian’s Pocketguide to Islam, and Islam: The Challenge to the Church.

Get Sookhdeo’s best-selling book Global Jihad here:

The liberation of Auschwitz:

Soon after liberation, surviving children of the Auschwitz camp walk out of the children’s barracks. Poland, after January 27, 1945.

From the web site of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
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Muslims hate pigs–real ones, digital images, statues, etc.

Once again in the UK, "The Three Little Pigs" (an award-winning version!) has been deemed offensive, as has the statue of a boar.

Read the details at Always On Watch.

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Friday, January 4: This week’s guest for the entire hour will be John Kenneth Press, author of the book Culturism: A Word, A Value, Our Future, available for purchase at Amazon.com. You can read about culturism at the web site Culturism, including taking a short test to determine if you are a culturist. Mr. Press’s blog site is HERE.

You don’t want to miss this show as WC and I welcome in the New Year with this important discussion!

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The story of the murders of Amina and Sarah Said in the greater Dallas-Texas area is still developing. Are the murders of these girls “honor killings”? Early reports seem to indicate so. From the Chesler Chronicles, on January 3, 2007:

Just yesterday, an Egyptian Arab Muslim father in Dallas, Texas allegedly shot his two beautiful teenage daughters to death because he disapproved of their American-style ways. Their names were Amina and Sarah Said and their father’s name was Abdul Said. The girls looked sassy and full of life; they looked like Dallas teenagers. They were 17 and 18 years old and their friends considered them “geniuses.” Abdul was a taxi driver. (In parts of Europe, taxi drivers are known to aid and abet honor murders).

Perhaps how Amina and Sarah dressed, and how they thought, shamed their father Abdul. He was no longer in control of his women—a mark of shame which provoked his need to kill them. Perhaps their flowering sexuality enraged him because it made him desire them—and from this he concluded that other men might desire them too and if he could not have them, no man could.

The blogs and the local Texas media (the Dallas Morning News) were all over this. Hot Air, Atlas Shrugs, Jihad Watch, were too. The only national coverage of this story was contained in the Washington Times. SEE HERE Why did the national and international media so far shy clear of this story? Perhaps they chose to dig deeper first or maybe they were waiting for an arrest to be made. But one also wonders: Were they afraid of being accused of “Islamophobia” if they reported the truth? Did they not want to use the word “Arab” or “Muslim” lest they be attacked as “racists”?

But these beautiful and now murdered sisters feared for their lives. They told people that their father was threatening them. Their own mother has now led police to the father as the probable murderer.

They could have been saved if a school or police official had been trained to pre-emptively recognize and rescue all such girls and women in danger of being killed by their families in honor killings.…

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Mark Steyn, author of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, and a Canadian magazine have caught the attention of the Canadian Islamic Congress, Canada’s largest non-profit Islamic organization, which is now seeking to silence Maclean’s Magazine for publishing an excerpt from Steyn’s book. The opening portion of Maclean’s Magazine’s introduction to the excerpt from Steyn’s book:

The Muslim world has youth, numbers and global ambitions. The West is growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to rebuff those who would supplant it.…

The following is the work of Mark Steyn and a short portion of the book excerpt entitled “The Future Belongs to Islam,” published by Maclean’s Magazine on October 20, 2006:

Sept. 11, 2001, was not “the day everything changed,” but the day that revealed how much had already changed. On Sept. 10, how many journalists had the Council of American-Islamic Relations or the Canadian Islamic Congress or the Muslim Council of Britain in their Rolodexes? If you’d said that whether something does or does not cause offence to Muslims would be the early 21st century’s principal political dynamic in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, most folks would have thought you were crazy. Yet on that Tuesday morning the top of the iceberg bobbed up and toppled the Twin Towers.

This is about the seven-eighths below the surface — the larger forces at play in the developed world that have left Europe too enfeebled to resist its remorseless transformation into Eurabia and that call into question the future of much of the rest of the world. The key factors are: demographic decline; the unsustainability of the social democratic state; and civilizational exhaustion.

Let’s start with demography, because everything does….

Europe, like Japan, has catastrophic birth rates and a swollen pampered elderly class determined to live in defiance of economic reality. But the difference is that on the Continent the successor population is already in place and the only question is how bloody the transfer of real estate will be.

If America’s “allies” failed to grasp the significance of 9/11, it’s because Europe’s home-grown terrorism problems had all taken place among notably static populations.…

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic. Time for the obligatory “of courses”: of course, not all Muslims are terrorists — though enough are hot for jihad to provide an impressive support network of mosques from Vienna to Stockholm to Toronto to Seattle. Of course, not all Muslims support terrorists — though enough of them share their basic objectives (the wish to live under Islamic law in Europe and North America) to function wittingly or otherwise as the “good cop” end of an Islamic good cop/bad cop routine. But, at the very minimum, this fast-moving demographic transformation provides a huge comfort zone for the jihad to move around in.…

Read the entire article.

Where is Mark Steyn incorrect? And even if he is mistaken, why should not his voice be heard? Wouldn’t reasonable rebuttal be preferable to silencing the voice? (more…)

On the November 9 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, Dan Zaremba of the Australian Islamist Monitor surprised WC and me when Mr. Zaremba spoke of Muslim-only bathrooms at one of the universities in Australia. Having grown up during the 1950s and 1960s in the Washington, D.C., area, I immediately thought of the many signs like the following:

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of things offensive to many devout Muslims, that is:

This list is a work in progress. I welcome suggestions. Anyone who has more items to add to the list, post them in the comments.The intent of the list is to illustrate the futility of the multicultural approach to Islam. Sharia law demands submission not only from Muslims, but from non-Muslims as well. This makes respectful coexistence nearly impossible with Muslims in Infidel lands. The examples below serve as reminder that submitting to one complaint or another only emboldens Muslims to seek to further their ultimate goal of establishing sharia.

The West needs to come to grips with this fact and start standing up for our God-given rights of free speech, free expression and freedom of religion, lest we surrender those rights to a theocratic movement bent on removing our Constitutional freedoms that we hold dear. In this case, our tolerance will lead to intolerance.

Flags

The English Flag being flown in England, as well as St. George Pins, worn by Englishmen in England.
Austrian flag, Soccer Ball with Saudi Flag.

Buildings

The World Trade Center, The Pentagon, The Giant Buddha’s, The new Apple store in Manhattan.
The Beslan Memorial, Pool halls and coffee shops, Kaaba-Shaped Bar in NY.

Christians

The Trinity, Pope Benedict XVI. Pope John Paul II, Australian Prime Minister John Howard , Coptic Pope Shenouda III., Robert Spencer, The name “Crusaders” , The Cross, Christmas presents, Bibles, Lip synching videos, Craig Winn, Prayer, Valentine’s Day, Christians who accidently touch the Koran, Street Evangelists.

Jews

The existence of Israel, The reality of the holocaust, Holocaust Day (UK), Teaching of the Holocaust.

Hindus/Buddhist’s

The Dalai Lama

Cartoons

The Danish Cartoons, Videos of Danes drawing Mohammed. Cartoons about Uday and Qusay’s death. These photoshops, The Buddy Christ, Cambridge University cartoon, Pokemon, Opus.

Movies/TV/Theater/Radio

The Movie “The Passion of the Christ” The Italian Film, ‘Il mercante di pietre’ (The Stone Merchant)
“24″, Disney’s “Aladdin”, Vincent Gogh’s “Submission”, A French play by Voltaire, “Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World” Rubber duck hostage video, Ohio CarAd, The Movie ,”300″ PBS Documentary “Islam v Islamists” Jihad, the Musical.

Food

Burger King ice cream cones, Jewish cookies. pork, even when consumed by non-Muslims. Alcohol, Quebec day-care lunch menu, Hot-Cross Buns, Cola Cola, Easter Eggs, Ham Sandwiches accidentally served to Muslim prisoners .

Music

Music in general, A rap CD with Quranic verses. An award winning Spanish song, A party honoring late rock star Freddy Mercury, Mozart, Gospel music in a church van,

Humor/Satire

Disc jockey humor.

Animals

Piggy banks The Chinese “Year of the Pig” Toy Pigs, Pig-shaped stress relievers, Piglet from Winnie the Pooh, The Three Little Pigs, Dogs, guide dogs.

Public Figures

Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem, and Zachariah Anani, “The 3 Ex-Terrorists.” Daniel Pipes, Ayaan Hirsi-Ali, MP Phil Woolas (UK), Virgil Goode, Jack Straw, Bloggers The US Congress

Women

The passport photo of a 5 year old girl, Women who allow themselves to be raped, The Panty Jihad, Egyptian feminist Nawal al-Saadawi, The clitoris, Hugging a man in public, The breats of female mannequins, female dolls, pin-ups on RAF jets, Unclothed Sex, Breast Feeding, Britney and Madonna.

Books/Publications and writers

Salmon Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses”, Rushdie’s Knighthood, A book by an Egyptian feminist., French and German Newspapers, Canadian Flyers, Nobel Prize winning author, Naguib Mahfouz, Harry Potter.

Art

Tate British Museum, Delta College, Harper College Photo Exhibit

Miscellaneous

Airport security, A Yemini man who refused to wake up for prayers, Mustafa Shag, Prison toilets, Indrek Wichman, Barbers , eyebrow plucking for men, Chess, Staring or looking, Nike “flame” logo, Polio Vaccine, a moment of silence to commemorate 9/11 in Brussels, Colored Underwear, Koran-Themed Toilet Seats.

Contributing Blogs and websites

Go to this post at The Amboy Times for all the details and enabled links.

So, how much of the above are YOU willing to give up?

The ominous clouds over Rufford Primary School in the UK symbolize the gathering storm of the Islamification of the West. I’m seeing a lot of symbolism these days. Part of my ramping-up process, no doubt.

This October 31, 2007 article, “Teachers’ Muslim Dress Order,” in its entirety:

A SCHOOL was yesterday accused of MAKING teachers dress up as Asians for a day – to celebrate a Muslim festival.Kids at the 257-pupil primary have also been told to don ethnic garb even though most are Christians.The morning assembly will be open to all parents – but dads are BARRED from a women-only party in the afternoon because Muslim husbands object to wives mixing with other men.

Just two members of staff – a part-time teacher and a teaching assistant – are Muslim.

Yesterday a relative of one of the 39 others said: “Staff have got to go along with it – or let’s face it, they would be branded racist.

“Who would put their job on the line? They have been told they have to embrace the day to show their diversity. But they are not all happy.”

The day aims to belatedly mark Eid, the end of Ramadan.

Sally Bloomer, head of Rufford primary school in Lye, West Midlands, insisted: “I have not heard of any complaints.

“It’s all part of a diversity project to promote multi-culturalism.”

Don’t you just love the beginning of the article? The teachers had to dress up as “Asians.” And what is this nonsense about a belated celebration? Can the oh-so-multicultural wait until the next Ramadan to push their agenda? I guess not. They are pressing their advantage, and the targets acquiesce and appease.

HERE, from one of my earlier postings, is a reminder as to what Ramadan celebrates — the codification of militant Islam. From this Islamic source, which I cited in my posting about Ramadan:

In the name of Allah, the Beneficient, the Merciful.The battle of Badr was the most important among the Islamic battles of Destiny. For the first time the followers of the new faith were put into a serious test. Had victory been the lot of the pagan army while the Islamic Forces were still at the beginning of their developments, the faith of Islam could have come to an end.No one was aware of the importance of the outcome of the Battle as the Prophet (S.A.W.) himself. We might read the depth of his anxiety in his prayerbefore the beginning of the Battle when he stood up supplicating his Lord:

God this is Quraish. It has come with all its arrogance and boastfulness, trying to discredit Thy Apostle. God, I ask Thee to humiliate them tomorrow. God, if this Muslim band will perish today, Thou shall not be worshipped.[…]This battle laid the foundation of the Islamic State…

The UK is ahead of the United States when it comes to Islamification and dhimmitude. By how many years? After all, last spring “Open Tent Day” was celebrated in Amherst, New Hampshire:

The picture’s caption reads as follows:

Second-grader Lucas Bellipanni tries on the traditional thobe, gutra and igal during the ‘Open Tent’ night at the Amherst Middle School.

Can you see the parallels with what happened at Rufford Primary School?

In public and secluded locations, Western nations are, in effect, being forced to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, but not at the point of the literal sword. Rather, the compulsion is political correctness, multicultural, and the fear of losing one’s job — all of which serve as weapons of the cultural jihad.

My friend Mustang of Social Sense has written what I consider an excellent and important essay. Excerpt from the end of the essay:

…It is amazing to me that President Bush and other leaders in the Western World refuse to acknowledge the truth of what is happening. Indeed, Mr. Bush is prancing around the Saudis like a little girl in a tutu — and the greatest evidence of this is our government’s refusal to demand closure of Wahhabist madrassahs in Northern Virginia and other locations from one end of this country to the other. I can assure you that if anyone opened a Christian academy that taught students to hate and seek out Muslims and mutilate them, the entire weight of the U. S. government would descend upon them in short order….

Read Mustang’s entire essay. Worth your time and consideration.

We lack effective political leadership, leaders who are not dhimmis, leaders with guts enough to get past political correctness.  Where are those leaders?

And what is it going to take for the West to wake up–to really wake up?  Thinking about that something casts a pall across my life every day.

This coming weekend on October 12-14, for the first time ever the Empire State Building in New York City will be bathed with green lights, the color closely associated with Islam, so as to commemorate Eid ul-Fitr, the end of Ramadan. Exactly what is being celebrated just blocks from the World Trade Center, the site of the horrific 9/11 terrorist attack on America’s shores? To understand why such a commemoration of Eid ul-Fitr should be unacceptable to all those who love America, a short history lesson is in order.

Despite the feel-good recent kumbaya honorings on the part of Congress, the Pentagon (led by Chaplain Saifulislam, whose name, by the way, translates as “sword of Islam”), and President Bush, Ramadan involves more than prayers, fasting, and the giving of alms — all of which are part of the month long observance but which are also the outward signs of another message. By literal definition, of course, Ramadan commemorates Allah’s “revealing” the Qur’an to Muhammad. But history clearly indicates that the “revelations” from Allah to Muhammad began around 610, some fourteen years earlier than 624.

Those earlier passages, sometimes referred to as the Meccan verses, are the oft-quoted peaceful verses in the Koran. Contrary to what one might expect, however, the last day of Ramadan does not celebrate the actual date of the earliest revelations of Allah to Muhammad but rather the Battle of Badr, the first significant military victory by the forces of Muhammad.

The Battle of Badr of March 17, 624, is one of the few military conflicts specifically mentioned in the Qur’an and holds a great deal of significance in Islam. Eid ul-Fitr, the final portion of Ramadan and which the lighting of the Empire State Building will recognize this weekend, has as its origin the aforementioned battle. Furthermore and most importantly, this battle marked the turning point for Islam, both politically and ideologically.

Having earlier fled to Medina along with followers who accepted him as their prophet whereas most of the tribes of Mecca did not, early on that morning in 624 Muhammad got word that a rich Quraish caravan from Syria was returning to Mecca. He therefore assembled the largest army he had ever been able to muster, some 300 men, with the original intent of raiding the caravan. After his men successfully overtook the caravan and brought back the booty, Muhammad then conveniently received a new “revelation” from Allah — a “revelation” which not only included rejoicing in having captured an enemy’s caravan but which also called “proved” that Muhammad had been preaching the true way all along. Fulfilling Destiny, Muhammad and his forces proceeded to trounce the Quraish as punishment for having earlier rejected the prophet’s teachings. From this source:

In the name of Allah, the Beneficient, the Merciful.The battle of Badr was the most important among the Islamic battles of Destiny. For the first time the followers of the new faith were put into a serious test. Had victory been the lot of the pagan army while the Islamic Forces were still at the beginning of their developments, the faith of Islam could have come to an end.No one was aware of the importance of the outcome of the Battle as the Prophet (S.A.W.) himself. We might read the depth of his anxiety in his prayerbefore the beginning of the Battle when he stood up supplicating his Lord:  

 

God this is Quraish. It has come with all its arrogance and boastfulness, trying to discredit Thy Apostle. God, I ask Thee to humiliate them tomorrow. God, if this Muslim band will perish today, Thou shall not be worshipped.

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This battle laid the foundation of the Islamic State…  

In other words, victory at the Battle of Badr proved to Muhammad and his adherents that Islam should from that time forth take on a militant aspect because such is the will of Allah. From the day of the Battle of Badr on, the tone of the verses in the Qur’an changed. These more recent revelations, sometimes referred to as the Medinan verses, abrogated the earlier and peaceful Meccan ones. Because preaching and tolerance had not brought Muhammad the following which he needed in order to establish himself and Islam as political forces to be reckoned with, Allah, via a military victory, showed the prophet a more effective way to spread Islam. Therefore, Muhammad’s victory at the Battle of Badr symbolizes, for at least some Muslims, both the way to bring about the will of Allah and the will of Allah itself. 

The underlying meaning of those green lights casting their glow on the Empire State Building this coming weekend is all about submission to Islam and to the will of Allah. Ah, the dhimmitude!

I hate posting just a link without much of my own commentary here at the Center for Vigilant Freedom, but I have to dash off to work.

Before I head out the door, I want to call your attention to something which Mark Alexander posted this morning.  Please go to the following link, where I left a comment:

http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2007/10/us-ambassador-to-saudi-arabia.html

Some days, my day is spoiled before it really begins!

According to an article in the September 26, 2007 edition of Telegraph.co.uk, other races and cultures should be included in historical accounts, starting with the role played by the Turks in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Read the article.

Did Allah send the storm, too, in answer to pleas from the Turks, thus making Great Britain a land rightfully belonging to Muslims?

…The Armada was blown north up the east coast of England and attempted a return to Spain by sailing around Scotland and out into the Atlantic, past Ireland. But very severe weather destroyed a portion of the fleet, and more than 24 vessels were wrecked on the north and western coasts of Ireland…

Will the next call be for a change to the British flag, which prominently features a cross at its center? After all, according to Trevor Philips, chairman of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, the Turks played an important role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Perhaps a crescent and star should be added so that Muslims feel more included. Or perhaps replacing the cross on the flag will make them feel even better. Sure, let’s take that step in the name of inclusionism — never mind historical realities.

Multiculturalists desire to rewrite history so that the new account subverts and denies Western culture. What I don’t understand is why it’s just fine for any culture other than our Western one something to be proud of. For example, speaking of the realities of Islamic history elicits cries of “Racist!” and “Islamophobe!” Perhaps a commenter can explain that conundrum to me?

From Society of Americans for National Existence:

Slide show at THIS LINK. Speakers recommended.

Recently Cal Thomas wrote the following essay about 9/11 (emphases mine):

Forget 9/11 at Our Peril

Throughout our young history, Americans have been admonished to “Remember the Alamo,” “Remember the Maine” and “Remember Pearl Harbor.” These remembrances — and others — were for the purpose of motivating the public to fight on until an enemy was vanquished. When victory was assured, the memory faded into history. Now, as we approach the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, there are suggestions that we should begin to forget the worst terrorist incident in America’s history. Recently, a front-page story in The New York Times suggested it is becoming too much of a burden to remember the attack, that nothing new can be said about it and that, perhaps, Sept. 11 “fatigue” may be setting in. 

 

Charlene Correia, a nursing supervisor from Acushnet, Mass., is quoted as saying, “I may sound callous, but doesn’t grieving have a shelf life? We’re very sorry and mournful that people died, but there are living people. Let’s wind it down.”Yes, 9/11 forces us to be serious, not only about those who died and why they died at the hands of religious fanatics, but also so that we won’t forget that it could very well happen again and many of today’s living might end up as yesterday’s dead. That is the purpose of remembering 9/11, not to engage in perpetual mourning. The war goes on and to be reminded of 9/11 serves as the ultimate protection against forgetfulness. Terrorists have not forgotten 9/11. Tape of the Twin Towers is used on jihadist Websites for the purpose of recruiting new “martyrs.”What’s the matter with some people? Does remembering not only 9/11 but the stakes in this world war interfere too much with our pursuit of money, things and pleasure? Serious times require serious thought and serious action. In our frivolous times, full of trivialities and irrelevancies, to be serious is to abandon self-indulgence for survival, entertainment for the stiffened spine.“Few Americans give much thought anymore on Dec. 7 that Pearl Harbor was attacked,” says the Times writer, who goes on to mention Nov. 22, 1963 (the date of JFK’s assassination), the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 and the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The difference between those tragic events and 9/11 is that Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is dead, as is Timothy McVeigh, and the Vietnam War ended long ago. While all of the 9/11 hijackers died, their ideological and religious colleagues are plotting new attacks in a war that is far from over.

“Why didn’t we see 9/11 coming?” was a question frequently asked in the aftermath of that terrorist attack. And the answer should be, because we forgot the attacks preceding that one, or brushed them off as inconsequential aberrations so we could get back to watching the stock market go up and obsess about Bill Clinton’s pants coming down. By not remembering those earlier attacks, the reasons behind them and the intentions of the terrorists and those who trained and incited them, we put ourselves in further jeopardy.

Sept. 11 should not be remembered for maudlin, ghoulish and certainly not for nostalgic reasons. Unlike those other mostly forgotten or no longer observed dates, this one is key to defending ourselves from a future attack and further disasters. Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about. That can lead to a lowering of our guard and a false sense of security, the conditions that existed immediately prior to that awful day six years ago.

Indiana University history professor John Bodnar is asked in the Times story what might happen on Sept. 11 100 years from now. He replies, “It’s conceivable that it could be virtually forgotten.”

It might be forgotten — or relegated to a “Jeopardy” answer — but only if we win the war against Islamofascism. If we don’t, 9/11 will stand as a day of infamy with consequences to humanity far worse than Dec. 7, 1941.

 

 

9/11 isn’t over and done with for the families who lost loved ones on that terrible day:

VIDEO HERE

Our State Department is playing the dhimmi and endangering all of us. Requirements for visas have been relaxed so as to allow Wahhabist-trained imams to come into the United States.

From the August 14-20, 2007 edition of Insight Magazine (subscription required):

Hundreds of Islamic fundamentalist clerics have been allowed to enter the United States to take over mosques in major cities. The clerics come from countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan and have been influenced by al Qaeda. Many are fresh graduates from Saudi-financed Wahhabi seminaries….

According to the article, hundreds of these imams with radical training are already here and teaching in mosques in our major cities, including locations in New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and the Washington, D.C. area. Several of these imams are graduates of Cairo’s Al Azhar University, which has ties to Al Qaeda, and of various seminaries in Pakistan. Furthermore, despite warnings from various law-enforcement officials and the National Intelligence Estimate, our State Department continues to pursue this import-the-imams agenda.

Even our FBI is supportive of bringing in these imams:

At this point, the FBI, which has played down links between Muslim extremists and white supremacists, has not tried to stop the influx of the imams. Instead, the agency has sought to expand its public relations campaign to change Muslim perceptions of U.S. law enforcement and recruit Muslims to the FBI.

“We, within the FBI, are trying to break down a lot of barriers and create a different brand about the FBI within the Arab-American and Muslim American community,” said Gwen Hubbard, chief of the FBI’s National Recruitment and Marketing unit.

For at least the past three decades, Wahhabism has been funding the building and renovation of mosques throughout the West. Mosques established well before the Wahhabist push have undergone change in their direction and their leadership. A possible tip-of-the-iceberg example, buried in the local secion of the August 16, 2007 edition of the Washington Post:

For over 25 years Farzad Darui [former manager at the Islamic Center of Washington, the city’s oldest mosque]…has been dedicated to preventing radical fundamentalists from taking over Washington D.C.’s Islamic Center,” one of the briefs begins.[…]According to Darui’s filings, the Saudi government was funneling money secretly to Khouj. The filings don’t explicitly give a reason but assert a Saudi desire to control the influential mosque.

Photo from WhiteHouse.gov

In his June 2007 speech at the D.C. Islamic Center, President Bush took off his shoes and stated the following, which gives credence to some of the content in the Insight article:

…Today I am announcing a new initiative that will improve mutual understanding and cooperation between America and people in predominately Muslim countries.I will appoint a special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. This is the first time a President has made such an appointment to the OIC. (Applause.) Our special envoy will listen to and learn from representatives from Muslim states and will share with them America’s views and values. This is an opportunity for Americans to demonstrate to Muslim communities our interest in respectful dialogue and continued friendship….

In my own experience, when I drive around the D.C. area and travel to other areas of the United States I have noticed the proliferation and renovation of mosques and hal-al markets sprouting up all over the place. I suspect that you’ve noticed the same in your area and in your travels.

Not so long ago, I met with a Jordanian who told me of a mosque he had visited in our Heartland. The mosque had been built several decades ago and had recently undergone a huge renovation. And guess what was on the materials table? Books and videos of Wahhabist orientation, even though the imam at that particular mosque was clearly not a Wahhabist. Apparently the funders of the renovation attached some strings to the financing of the upgrading of the mosque.

Getting back now to the content of the first link in this posting….If indeed America is importing Wahhabist imams, then radicalization of young Muslims will pick up speed within our borders. We’re already noted the progression of Europe toward Eurabia as homegrown terrorists become a significant threat to national security. Importing Wahhabists to the United States will lead to the same radicalization here.

From http://www.aims.ca/library/Paradoxes.pdf (dated May 4, 2007):

…In Brussels, the capital not only of Belgium but the adminstrative centre of the European Union, policemen have been enjoined by their superiors not to eat or drink anything during the day in the month of Ramadan while patrolling the predominantly Muslim area of the city, for fear of offending the population….But fear of what, exactly?  Social disorder, perhaps, or fear of terrorist attack, or even of merely ideological criticism and the charge of being culturally sensitive and perhaps racist?…

Can’t you just imagine the outcry if a similar enjoining had been propounded for the religious observances of any group other than Muslims?

I don’t recall there ever being a similar push to force the restrictions of Ramadan upon the general population of non-Islamic nations.

Something is being tested right now.  Little by little, the inroads of Islamification are being accomplished throughout the West.

A little update on Muslims in the UK…

First, it’s the fear of pork fumes, now this: “Doctors Give in to Muslims.” Indeed! Full article, from the Daily Express (emphases mine):

DOCTORS and health workers have been banned from eating lunch at their desks - in case it offends their Muslim colleagues.Health chiefs believe the sight of food will upset Muslim workers when they are celebrating the religious festival Ramadan.

The lunch trolley is also to be wheeled out of bounds as the 30-day fast begins next month.

But staff and politicians branded the move political correctness gone mad and warned that it was a step too far.

Bill Aitken, the Scottish Conservative justice spokesman, said: “This advice, well-meaning as it may be, is total nonsense.

“It is the sort of thing that can stir up resentment rather than result in good relations.”

The new guidance comes in the wake of the failed terror attacks on Glasgow and the death of suspect Kafeel Ahmed, 27.

Health chiefs in Lothian and Glasgow will give all employees time off to pray and to celebrate Eid, which marks the end of Ramadan.

But Greater Glasgow and Clyde as well as Lothian NHS boards also issued the advice, warning workers not to take working lunches, and said all vending machines should be removed from areas where Muslims work.

One senior consultant said: “What next? Are we going to have advice on how to deal with Catholics during Lent?

“This kind of thing does more harm than good.”

The guidance, which was sent round many organisations, was produced by Glasgow consultancy Meem, which advises on Muslim issues and counts the Scottish Parliament among its clients.

Na’eem Raza, a senior consultant with the firm, said he was thrilled that the health boards had formally adopted the guidance.He added: “The idea is to get faith in the workplace out in the open.

“In the current climate, people need to understand where communities are coming from and what people are feeling.

“After the Glasgow attack this is very important. This is about educating people and making them more aware and more confident when dealing with issues surrounding the Muslim community.

“People have stopped talking over the garden fence and we need to break down the barriers so that people can talk comfortably to each other.

“It would never stir up resentment. Faith is an important issue. Why not have guidance on all of the issues that affect us, including different faiths?”

Health chiefs defended their use of the guidance and said it was important to promote a positive and tolerant culture at work.

A NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde spokesman said: “As a large organisation we recognise that many of our staff, patients and visitors will be participating in Ramadan.

“We have therefore made information available to our staff to raise awareness of Ramadan and help to answer any questions they may have.”

NHS Lothian said: “We have recently agreed a quality and diversity strategy and as a responsible and pro-active employer we will continue to promote a positive culture which recognises and respects diversity both in our workforce and in the people we serve.”

In the UK today. In America tomorrow?

[Hat-tip to Raven, who alerted me to this article]