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• "You have begun eating your young, again :" the case of local hero Moishe Klessner, teenage IDF soldier Yesterday in Jerusalem, a teen age IDF soldier and hero snatched a pistol from the same incompetent police who beat him unconscious at a Gush Katif protest in 2005 to kill the tractor terrorist!!.As long as we have even a small minority of kids like M, I am optimistic about our future. These kids don't know it yet but they will carry the whole of the Jewish people forward on their broad shoulders. May God keep them focused and strong we need them.
• Gerry Connolly: Candidate in Virginia US House seat race questioned on source of contribution by CAIR leader According to Lafferty, Connolly sees Muslims as a major voting bloc in northern Virginia. "Here where we live in northern Virginia, it's called the 'Wahabbi corridor,' and there is a growing number of radical Islam organizations here. [T]he Muslim community in general is growing, and he's pandering to the most violent people among the Muslims who live here. I don't believe all the Muslims who live here are as extreme as the people that Mr. Connolly works with, but I guess he thinks they are," Lafferty explains. He believes Connolly "needs to come clean and scrub his campaign of all terrorist influence and sympathizers." Lafferty says Connolly also needs to be asked whether the contribution from the CAIR founder affected his "vigilance" in protecting the people of Fairfax County from the "cell of terrorists operating within it."
• White House Affirms Lieberman's Attack Warning Perino says Lieberman's warning that terrorists could test the new president with an attack next year might just hold true. The spokeswoman for the Bush Administration agrees with Lieberman's assessment that extremists determined to attack the U.S. will likely exploit the situation of a newly elected president assuming office. "The only reason I say that is because we know that there are people who are very dangerous who are trying to attack us every day," Perino says in an official White House press briefing transcript provided Monday and released through Associated Press.
• The Erosion of Free Speech: the Global Islamist Attack Another instance of DHS curtailment and accommodation of Muslims, occurred when Muhammad Rana, a Pakistani Muslim and new DHS hire was being trained as an adjudication officer at the agency's Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Rana participated in a seven week training course in which he claimed to have faced discrimination based on his religion and national origin. In a March 2005 complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Rana said the instructional content of his classes contained "disparaging and factually inaccurate information about the Islamic faith and the Arabic people." His in-class protests apparently prompted an instructor to recommend that Rana be investigated for possible terrorist ties. An administrative law judge ruling found that Rana had been subject to a hostile work environment and ordered $50,000 in compensatory damages, $6,195 in missed overtime, reimbursement for medical and prescription medication costs incurred as a result of the hostile work environment and, most significantly, the removal and destruction of and DHS memoranda regarding Rana's potential ties to terrorist organizations. Ultimately, the course in question was discontinued by the DHS.
• "A McCain Effect In Colombia Rescue?" Just an 'exquisitely executed' mission There was one phone call I heard during a CNN Anderson 360 breaking news segment on the Colombian rescue between Anderson and New Mexico Governor, Bill Richardson. Richardson talked about how the families of the hostages urged him to become involved and use his best efforts to get Venezuelan Socialist dictator and FARC backer, Hugo Chavez to get the hostages released. He admitted his efforts with Chavez on behalf of the hostage families came to naught. Richardson, expressed amazement, that the Colombian military pulled off this rescue. The bottom line of this success in the fight against terrorism in our hemisphere is that you don't 'engage' in discussions with terrorists. You cajole them to surrender, kill their leaders, pursue and crush them relentlessly. That is a credit to Colombian President Uribe, his military and our US military and counterterrorism intelligence assets in the region.
• Glen Beck interview with author Brad Thor on new book, "The Last Patriot" and the Islamic Saudi Academy GLENN: And I had no idea. It didn't even occur to me. I know the story of the pirates that were, you know, marauding and taking control of the seas and Thomas Jefferson had to go after the pirates. And I know the story about Tripoli kind of. I didn't realize, it didn't click to me that it was Islamic extremists that Thomas Jefferson was going after. THOR: And that's exactly it. What's interesting is that our Navy, when we went to war with Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, we were protected by the Brits in the war. We were protected by the French in the war was over. And then once the war was over, the French said, okay, America, glad we could help out, good luck, you need to pay us back for everything we did for you. And we were alone on the high seas. And the Muslims of North Africa were the most horrific Barbarist pirates out there and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with the Muslim ambassador to Tripoli in London to say -- they wanted to know, hey, we're not making war on you; why are you just killing our ships and taking our goods and everything? And the Muslim ambassador -- now, this is back in, like, 1784 -- said, well, it's written in our Qur'an that all nations which don't acknowledge the prophet Mohammed are sinners and we've got the right and it's our duty to plunder and enslave you and that any of our guys who die doing it go to paradise. It's exactly -- and congress said we need to smack these guys down, we cannot show weakness. And congress said, you know what, maybe we just pay them off, let's not go -- let's not cause any trouble, let's just pay them off the way the French and everybody else are doing right now. GLENN: Just, it's amazing that the 1700s were dealing with the same thing and you saw the way Thomas Jefferson dealt with it. Now, listen, I don't want to get off on the standard because this is not what the book is about. THOR: No, that's the historical back drop for the book.GLENN: Yeah, I just wanted to know if they used, because I think this is a -- the way I felt about this book, this is the Da Vinci Code for Islam. As much as the Catholic church didn't want the Da Vinci Code to come out, this is the Da Vinci Code for Islam, except the Da Vinci Code was so much more fiction than this is. This is based on real historical fact, a lot of it, and it is absolutely -- I'm telling you, you're going to have a fatwa on you. THOR: Well, you know, I've already had multiple death threats come in and that's something that we're taking very seriously with the tour coming up and everything, but I think it's important for me to tell your listeners, Glenn, what the story is based on is that the Prophet Muhammad had one final revelation, shared it with his disciples and was assassinated to keep it quiet and keep it off the core and if that revelation can be found today, it will completely reshape Islam and that's what the book I is based on. So you are right, it is not a historical book. This is a contemporary thriller and that's what the basis of the book is.
• The Islamic Saudi Academy: a 'hot potato' Christine Brim of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), noted in an email comment to the author the common thread from the 1990's to today regarding citizen actions against the Saudi-sponsored ISA and the positions of local leaders:
  Over the last twenty years, the boards of supervisors of Poolesville, Loudoun County, Fairfax County, and officials at the State Department all demonstrated the same craven support for the terrorist-financing regime of Saudi Arabia's first radical madrassa in the U.S., the Islamic Saudi Academy. Time after time, elected local officials gave in to the ISA in the face of Saudi petrodollars and intimidation. The good news is that also over the last twenty years, local citizens have organized and won against the ISA in Poolesville, MD and Loudoun County, VA. This year, the residents of Fairfax county have a chance to close down the ISA as recommended by the USCIRF. We have a chance especially in this election year; especially given the ISA Director's refusal to obey Virginia laws to report - not to cover up - the alleged sexual abuse of a five year old student. The scandal is how Gerald Connolly and the rest of the Fairfax board of supervisors may have created a political climate over the last several years making that alleged cover-up a probability. Unlike Connolly, more socially responsible citizens in Poolesville, MD and in Loudoun and Fairfax counties have spoken out against the Saudis and against Saudi lessons in shariah law which requires violent jihad against other religions and against civil liberties.
  1. Al-Arian Trial Set for August ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A trial date has been set for August 13th in the case of Sami Al-Arian, who is charged with criminal contempt in a two count indictment for refusing to testify before grand juries investigating Islamic charities with suspected ties to terrorism. U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema said she expected a "straightforward" trial that would last one day, but Al-Arian's attorney, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, indicated that he would continue to challenge the indictment and suggested the trial may be more complicated.
  2. Chicago Terror Case Judge: Iran Must Identify U.S. Assets The plaintiffs are victims of a 1997 bombing on Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall that killed five people and wounded almost 200. Hamas, which is funded and trained by Iran, claimed responsibility for the attack. In 2003, the victims won a default judgment of $251 million against Iran from a federal judge in Washington, Ricardo Urbina. Judge Manning said Iran could not enter the Chicago case to try to defend the artifacts and then insist on immunity when the plaintiffs sought information about the provenance of the collections or asked even broader questions about everything Iran owns in America. (
  3. The Esposito School: Islamic Apologists in Action, or Who is the "Near Enemy"? John Esposito is one of the foremost apologists of radical Islam in the academia. The term apologist means denying or even justifying events and activities, while blaming others. It is characterized by whitewashing reality and omitting facts unintentionally (selective perception and cognitive biases) or intentionally (for political or economic or other objectives). According to Esposito's own words, The Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding is concerned with Islam and the West and Islam in the West, addressing stereotypes of Islam and Muslims. However, we shall prove to him and his school that, in fact, stereotypes, misconceptions and perhaps deceptions are theirs.