Terrorist network al-Qaeda has released an official death list, naming nine people who have mocked the prophet Mohammed - three of whom are Danish. The list was published in Inspire, the organisation's first ever English language magazine.
It is now five years since Jyllands-Posten newspaper published their now notorious cartoons of the prophet, but it would seem the terrorist network has not forgotten the incident, as the three people on the list were all involved in the drawings.They are the newspaper's former editor-in-chief Carsten Juste, its culture editor Flemming Rose, and the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who drew the now infamous picture of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban.
Terrorist experts have confirmed that the magazine and the list has definitely been compiled by al-Qaeda and, according to Swedish terrorist expert Magnus Ranstorp, it should be taken seriously. He said that it is worrying that three Danes appear on the list and that it is somewhat surprising that Juste is named.
A housing association with homes for the elderly in Copenhagen's N�rrebro district is in the process of constructing a barbed wire fence to protect its clients against young people from the adjacent Mj�lnerparken housing estate, reports Berlingske Tidende newspaper.
The Mj�lnerparken youths have for some time been unwelcome visitors to the garden area that belongs to the Lejerbo Association and is exclusively for the residents in the Hothers Plads senior housing complex. In addition, the buildings have been plagued by burglary, vandalism, theft and rock throwing from the nearby housing estate occupants.
Construction of the fence, which will be 2.5 metres high with barbed wire on top, has so far been sabotaged by the youths, and the workers have expressed fears for their safety.
Copenhagen's deputy mayor of social affairs, Mikkel Warming, is now calling on the city's street workers to deal with the unruly young people. The fence, along with a few security cameras that will also be set up, will reportedly cost the housing association and its clients around 1.5 million kroner.
Thats $255,000 or �165,000. A lot of money to deal with the children of this small estate. What the article doesn't say about the Mj�lnerparken housing estate is that it is home to 2,500 people, 98% are immigrants (including second generation) of 38 different nationalities, mostly Arabs and Africans, the majority under 18 years old. The area is known for its high crime rate.
One of the comments suggests it would be preferable to put a lid on the estate to contain the hooligans.
WASHINGTON - Two men on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Amsterdam were questioned by Dutch authorities after U.S. officials found a cell phone taped to a Pepto Bismol bottle and a knife and box cutter in checked luggage connected with the men, a law enforcement official said.
The official identified the men as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi and Hezam al Murisi. Al Soofi had a Michigan address, the official said, but it was not immediately clear where the two men were from.
As of Monday night, FBI agents had visited the southwest Detroit neighborhood where several addresses were found for variations of al Soofi's name, according to neighbors who declined to give their names to The Associated Press.
ABC News, which first reported the incident Monday, said al Soofi was from Detroit and that both he and al Murisi were charged in the Netherlands with "preparation of a terrorist attack," but U.S. officials would not confirm that.
Another law enforcement official said, as of Monday night, the men had not been charged with anything in the U.S.
The law enforcement officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation and sensitive security issues.
Al Soofi was questioned as he went through security in Birmingham, Ala., on his way to Chicago, according to one of the officials. He told the Transportation Security Administration authorities he was carrying a lot of cash. Screeners found $7,000 on him, but he was not breaking any law by carrying that much money. Officials also found multiple cell phones taped together and multiple watches taped together in his checked baggage.
Al Soofi was supposed to fly from Chicago to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia, and then on to Amsterdam, the official said. But when he got to Chicago, he changed his travel plans to take a direct flight from Chicago to Amsterdam. Al Murisi also changed his travel plans in Chicago to take a direct flight to Amsterdam, raising suspicion among U.S. officials. Federal Air marshals were on the flight from Chicago to Amsterdam, a law enforcement official said.
Homeland Security spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said once officials found suspicious items in luggage associated with two passengers on Sunday night's flight, they notified the Dutch authorities.
"The items were not deemed to be dangerous in and of themselves," Kudwa said. She would not identify the two passengers.
It is not illegal to carry knives or taped cell phones and watches in checked baggage.
No, it's not. It's also not illegal to stand up during a flight and start praying loudly in Arabic; to order seatbelt extenders when they are not needed; switch seats back and forth among a group travelling together; pack a brick of cheese with wires stuck in it into checked luggage; make frequent trips back and forth to the washroom; and take pictures of the flight crew with a cellphone after the crew has told passengers to turn off all electronic devices; all of which Muslims have done in the last few years.
It's also not illegal to start screaming in mock terror in the darkness of an overnight overseas flight; to shine a flashlight into the eyes of your sleeping neighbor on a flight; to urinate into a jar in the restroom and then pour it on the floor and seats of the plane; to scream at the top of your lungs that the elderly woman sitting next to you is a disgusting pig; play electric guitar at full volume; or any of a million other annoying and disturbing things one COULD do that are not technically illegal.
It's not illegal, but we shouldn't do them. We should act with respect towards our fellow passengers, and in cooperation with airline and security personnel who are tasked with ensuring the safety of all passengers. We should loudly and clearly criticize those who intentionally disrupt flights, and take actions to ensure that they cannot disrupt future flights.
You know and I know these are not just rowdy passengers. These are "dry runs", intended to test the boundaries of our security systems, to probe for weaknesses that can be exploited. These are intended to habitualize airline crews to their bizarre behavior, and to cow airline crews into submission with threats of discrimination lawsuits. They are meant to divert attention and resources to monitoring airline flights, while other methods and routes are being used to prepare for future jihad attacks.
Their behavior may not be illegal, but it is unacceptable, and it must stop.
The Guardia Civil have arrested a man for his alleged relationship with groups associated with Islamic terrorism. The arrest took place at midday on Friday in Poble Nou de Benitachell (Alicante) as part of an operation run by Criminal Investigation Court Number 2 of the Spanish Central Criminal Court.
The individual arrested, Faical Errai, is a 26-year-old Moroccan citizen resident in Spain who is accused of using the Internet to undertake activities in support of Jihadist terrorism.
According to investigations carried out by the Guardia Civil [Spanish Civil Guard], Faical Errai is allegedly the person who registered and paid for the hosting of an Internet website with explicitly Jihadist content which, besides being set up as a platform for the spread of propaganda material, is aimed at attracting, indoctrinating and recruiting sympathisers in order to ultimately promote the most extreme and violent interpretation of the Jihad.
Furthermore, the man in question could have acted as the facilitator on transit routes for possible Jihadists to areas of conflict (Waziristan, Afghanistan, Chechnya, etc.), and as a coordinator for the dispatch of volunteers to those same areas. Similarly, Faical Errai would have performed a supporting role in the collection of funds to help both the volunteers travel and finance the propaganda activity itself, all in favour of the "Global Jihad Movement".
Following the arrest, the Guardia Civil carried out a search of two homes and one rural property, during which several computers and electromagnetic data storage devices were seized. The material seized is now being examined by the officers in charge of the investigation, so the possibility of further action has not been discarded.
The investigative video produced by Jerry Gordon in conjuction with Tom Trento at the Florida Security Council, ACT! for America in Florida, and the superb videographer J. Mark Campbell is rapidly climbing the viral video chart. It came in at number 16 and has climbed to number 9 already this morning. The video will grace our front page later today, but if you haven't seen it, watch it now:
A key Muslim ally of Florida Governor and US Senate candidate Charlie Crist, Imam Muhammad Musri, hosted a fundraiser in Orlando for the terrorist group Hamas in June 2009, and a camera crew from ACT for America infiltrated the event held at Masjid Al-Rahman, Musri's mosque, to record the proceedings. Imam Musri, head of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, serves on Crist's Faith-Based and Community Advisory Council and was appointed by Crist to his 2010 Sunshine Census Committee.
The Orlando Hamas fundraiser featured as its keynote speakers former UK parliamentarian George Galloway and Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Society-Freedom, and was intended to raise money for Galloway's Viva Palestina organization.
That Galloway and Viva Palestina have provided material support for Hamas through the funds they have raised across the U.S. and elsewhere is hardly a secret. In March 2009, Galloway was videotaped by Al-Jazeera giving a duffel bag full of cash to Hamas social minister Ahmad Kurd, who called Galloway "a hero." Kurd was designated a global terrorist by the U.S. government in August 2007.
In presenting Kurd with the cash, Galloway flaunted his violations of US and UK sanctions:
We are giving you now 100 vehicles and all of the contents, and we make no apology for what I am about to say: We are giving them to the elected government of Palestine. Just in case the British government or the European Union want to face me in any court, let me tell them live on television: I personally am about to break the sanctions on the elected government of Palestine... But I, now, here, on behalf of myself, my sister Yvonne Ridley, and the two Respect councilors - Muhammad Ishtiaq and Naim Khan - are giving three cars and 25,000 pounds in cash to Prime Minister Ismail Haniya. Here is the money. This is not charity. This is politics.
As a result of Galloway's open funding of the terrorist group, he was banned from entering Canada later that month. So Galloway turned to his Florida friend Muhammad Musri to help take up the fundraising slack.
As the video taken by ACT for America shows, Galloway and Bray raised $55,000 at Musri's fundraiser. During the event, Bray promised that the cash and materials collected from the Orlando event would be sent straight to Gaza:
Well we've got the equipment. We're going to send it Insha'Allah. We're going to go with your movement Viva Palestina... We'll ship it here from Florida to New York, and from New York to Egypt, and from Egypt we will put it into Gaza.
According to a July 26, 2009 article posted on the Muslim American Society website authored by Aishah Schwartz (now since scrubbed from their site), documents how Bray was true to his word, with the supplies shipped by container from Orlando.
According to press accounts, more than $1 million in aid for Hamas, including the cash and supplies raised in Orlando at Musri's mosque, along with funds raised in Kansas, New York and Illinois, was provided on Galloway's July 2009. There to greet them and take possession of the cash was Hamas economic minister Ziad al-Zaza and Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, another designated global terrorist.
In response to this second Hamas support convoy, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, sent letters to Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, demanding an investigation into Galloway and Viva Palestina's U.S. fundraising for Hamas. Not long afterward, Mahdi Bray scrubbed any mention of the convoy from his personal website.
In December 2007, federal prosecutors identified Bray's Muslim American Society as "the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America," and a 2004 Chicago Tribune expos� details the Society's founding by the Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest and largest Islamist group in the world that has given birth to Al-Qaeda, Hamas and virtually every other Islamic terrorist group in the world today.
With such a tight U.S. Senate race in Florida, it's doubtful that a Hamas fundraiser sponsored by Charlie Crist's good friend Muhammad Musri at Musri's own mosque, and the money and supplies raised in Orlando being given to designated terrorists on international TV, is going to help his election prospects. But Hamas fundraisers being conducted across the U.S. without any action by federal authorities should concern us all.
Tired of the clich� "that's wrong on so many levels," I hoped to explore the meaning of level. Or the level of meaning. Or indeed the meaning of meaning, or of of or of the. These questions, and possibly others, were answered by a Brian Massumi - or possibly the Brian Massumi, for how could there be more than one translator of Deleuze called Brian anything, let alone Brian Massumi? Thanks to reader Ole Sandberg for drawing attention to the New Criterion article in which the following passage is quoted, not, I should add, with approval:
Just as higher functions are fed back - all the way to the subatomic (that is position and momentum) - quantum indeterminacy is fed forward.
It rises through the fractal bifurcations leading to and between each of the superposed levels of reality. On each level, it appears in a unique mode adequate to that level. On the level of physical macrosystems analysed by Simondon, its mode is potential energy and the margin of "play" it introduces into deterministic systems (epitomised by the "three body system" so dear to chaos theory). On the biological level, it is the margin of undecidability accompanying every perception, which is one with a perception's transmissibility from one sense to another. On the human level, it is that same undecidability fed forward into thought, as evidenced in the deconstructability of every structure of ideas (as expressed, for example in G�del's incompleteness theorem and in Derrida's diff�rance). Each individual and collective human level has its own peculiar "quantum" mode; various forms of undecidability in logical and signifying systems are joined by emotion on the psychological level, resistance on the political level, the spectre of crisis haunting capitalist economies. . . . The use of the concept of the quantum outside quantum mechanics, even as applied to human psychology, is not a metaphor.
Oh yes it is.
On a more mundane level, with so many undecidabilities, how do you tell the diff�rance? Answers on descartes postales, s'il vous pla�t.
As a man, of course, I do not gossip: but, now retired, I do sometimes discuss my erstwhile colleagues with others of my erstwhile colleagues, out of purely scientific interest. more>>>
The Good Letters: The Decline of Literary Education and its Consequences
by Mark Anthony Signorelli (September 2010)
In his most recent State of the Union address, our President decried the lagging state of our educational system, warning in particular of the superiority of mathematical and scientific instruction among our international competitors. In his emphasis on the importance of these two subjects, and his implicit assumption of the link between these disciplines and economic prosperity, he certainly displayed no singularity of belief. These are the convictions of the age. more>>>
Anyone who has paid any attention to media coverage regarding the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s General Assembly which took place in Minneapolis in early July has good reason to scratch his head in bewilderment. more>>>
American Jews� Paradoxical Allegiance to the Democratic Party
by Norman Berdichevsky (September 2010)
Time and time again, I read in websites and blogs around the internet the question and puzzling paradox posed by Gentiles who strongly support Israel, how can it be that so many Jews continue to blindly vote for ultra-liberal causes that are inherently ultra-critical of Israel and even subliminally of Jews. more>>>
I lay in my clean, but spartan hospital bed, a legacy of British imperialism, where I suppose comfort in a hospital would have then been considered a luxury by the crisply attired and no nonsense nurses of yesteryear. However, this was the beginning of a new century and the fact that this was still the only fully functional modern hospital in the entire East African region explained a certain accidental, cultural continuity. more>>>
�Sacrificing Survivors� - A New Film about 9/11 and the Ground Zero Mosque
by Jerry Gordon (September 2010)
Nine years ago on a brilliant late summer day on September 11, 2001 I witnessed the murders of 2700 innocent victims of Muslim terrorism and the destruction of an icon on the lower Manhattan skyline, the twin towers of the World Trade center. "This is the Pearl Harbor of the 21st Century," I commented to my son and his partners in a midtown law firm as we witnessed their collapse into plumes and incalculable carnage in lives lost. Not unlike the Japanese Shinto militarist pilots who took the lives of American sailors, marines, soldiers and airmen on December 7, 1941, the shaheeds, martyrs in Arabic were xenophobic Arab Muslim jihadis from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. They were schooled in hate against us as infidels for occupying their holy lands. more>>>
Beneath a gloomy square of the sky
in the shadow of awesome, looming walls,
a crowd of kids met day after day
to test and learn in that well of twilight
which boys in the block were destined to die. more>>>
I passed my driving test in 1978. I was living at the time in Leyton, East London. I took my driving lessons locally and once I bought my own car later that year I regularly drove across and around east London and into the countryside. more>>>
The military wing of Hamas has claimed responsibility for the killing of four Jewish settlers who were shot dead in their car on the eve of direct peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade claimed "full responsibility" for the "heroic operation in Hebron".
The victims were all from the same family and included a pregnant woman aged 25, another woman aged 40, and two men, also aged 25 and 40, all from the settlement of Beit Haggai.
Israeli security forces described the attack as a well-planned ambush and said the gunmen made sure the driver and three passengers were dead before fleeing the scene.
Farzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman earlier described the attack as "a natural response by the Palestinian resistance to the enemy's crimes".
I don't think shooting an unborn baby and its mother is a 'natural' respose to anyone's crimes. Perhaps that's just me.
Kashmir: India resists jihad; 9 jihad raiders, 1 Muslim rioter killed
Like Israel, India is a majority non-Muslim state facing a Jihad waged both from without (cross-border raids launched by jihad terror gangs based in neighbouring Muslim countries) and from within (a large aggressive Muslim minority who refuse to accept the authority of the non-Muslim state within which they live).
This story, via one of AFP's Muslim reporters - Izhar Wani - gives an update on both fronts. Unable to wage all-out conventional war, Pakistan and the Muslims within India wage a war of attrition through acts of low-level aggression: raids and riots.
'Border firefight, violence leaves ten dead in Indian Kashmir'.
Srinagar, India - Indian troops killed nine suspected militants as they tried to cross the de facto border with Pakistan that divides the volatile region of Kashmir, the army said Monday.
('Volatile' is one of AFP's favourite words for jihad-racked Muslim-majority parts of the world - CM).
Elsewhere in Indian-controlled Kashmir fresh violence left a boy dead and 12 injured when police opened fire on anti-India protesters in separate clashes.
"The army has foiled a major infiltration attempt killing nine militants who were trying to infiltrate into (Indian) Kashmir from across the Line of Control (LoC)", army spokesman J S Brar told AFP. He said a gun battle erupted late Sunday in western Uri sector and continued throughout the night after troops noticed a group of militants trying to sneak in under the cover of darkness."...
India has in the past accused the Pakistani army of providing covering fire for infiltrating militants. Islamabad denies the charge.
India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire along the LoC in 2003 and began a peace process in 2004. ('Peace process', eh? Just like that other 'peace process' we hear so much about, in the Middle East, that never goes anywhere, because Muslims can never make a permanent peace with non-Muslims - CM).
'A young Muslim boy was killed and four others injured when police opened fire to disperse stone-throwing protesters during an anti-India demonstration in southern Anantnag town Monday evening, police said. In Srinagar..six people were injured when police opened fire. Police said the incident occurred when a group of protesters (i.e. a Muslim mob - CM) hurled stones at police and shouted slogans...Two more stone-hurling protesters were injured in southern Pulwama district when police opened fire at violent demonstrators, police said. Tensions have been threatening to boil over during 11 weeks of demonstrations.."....
11 weeks of Muslim riots and rock-throwing (punctuated by Muslim terror raids into Indian Kashmir from across the border)? Call it the Kashmir Intifada.
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