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Keith Ellison, Congressman For Terror
By Beila Rabinowitz
 November 28, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On November 18th the North American Imam Federation held their "Fourth Annual Body Meeting" with the theme, "Towards Improving Imams Professionalism and Community Outreach."
The optimistically titled conference belied its true intent, which was to help Imams further insinuate themselves into the political and social life of the United States, with the goal of eventually abolishing the U.S. Constitution and implementing shari'a - Islamic law.
On hand to help the Imams with advice was Muslim convert Keith Ellison, the newly elected Congressman from Minnesota [who first official action was to snub President Bush's invitation to attend a dinner dedicated to getting acquainted with new congressmen] who spoke on the subject of "Imams and Politics."
The conference contained a dominating presence of hard-core Islamist radicals with Siraj Wahhaj - unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 plot to bomb New York Landmarks and "character witness" for the first WTC convicted bomber, the Blind Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman - and Ashrafuzman Khan who is alleged to have run death squads in the Bangladesh war, in attendance.
Of particular note and also present at this event was Imam Dr. Omar Shahin - who has been linked to fund raising activities for al-Qaeda and Hamas but is best known as the ringleader of a group of six Imams who were forcibly removed recently from a U.S. Airways flight at the St. Paul International Airport in Minnesota for creating a disturbance which involved making anti-American statements, loud praying and shouting "Allah" while boarding the plane.
Once on board they refused to take their assigned seats and in general acted as if they were casing the airliner for security breaches.
As was noted in today's Washington Times:
"That would alarm me," said a federal air marshal who asked to remain anonymous. "They now control all of the entry and exit routes to the plane." A pilot from another airline said: "That behavior has been identified as a terrorist probe in the airline industry."
Ellison's presence at this conclave of Islamists proves the thesis that we advanced on November 5 in Keith Ellison, The Wahhabist Choice For Congress, that he is an unrepentant radical Muslim, who will use his Congressional position to advance the goals of America's enemies.
MSM Caught Once Again Lying About Events In Iraq - Sunnis Not Burned To Death
November 27, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The anti-war media continues to simply make up news to fit their obvious bias.
The latest instance came during the media orgy that accompanied the recent discord in the North Baghdad slum of Sadr City, headquarters for Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army.
Quick to create the impression that Iraqi civil strife had spun totally out of control, AP and their cohorts claimed that innocent civilians were being burned to death in the sectarian warfare that has plagued Baghdad and that the city's mosques were exploding in flames.
In fact one mosque was apparently incinerated however the sensational claim made by the Associated Press, of Sunnis being burned to death was fabricated and it seems likely that AP's "police" source is fictitious, another case of forged but true.
Will AP issue a retraction? We are not holding our breath
High Schooler's Head Tap Leads To Court Imposed Muslim Sensitivity Training By Hamas Front Group - CAIR [Council on American Islamic Relations]
By Beila Rabinowitz & William A. Mayer
November 27, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - 18 year old David Huffman's prankish tap on a Muslimah's hijab recently led to his conviction on battery charges and a sentence of 40 hours of community work to be performed at the Chicago, Illinois office of the Saudi financed, Islamist pressure group CAIR.
With or without her knowledge, Cook County 5th Circuit Court judge Colleen McSweeney Moore's actions in this case neatly worked into the grand plan being advanced by CAIR and other radical Muslim groups who seek to Islamize the United States, force submission to Islam by non-Muslims and ultimately impose Sharia law.
A little checking by Judge Moore would have revealed that the Council on American Islamic Relations is not the civil rights group it masquerades as but is rather a Saudi funded front group for Hamas.
The group is a named defendant in a 9/11 terrorism lawsuit and has seen its members jailed on terror related charges, including CAIR?s former civil rights advisor and communications specialist, a convert named Randall Ismail Royer who is presently serving a 20 year sentence for weapons and explosives charges, [MilitantIslamMonitor.org]
Of further note, Ahmed Rehab, the executive director of the Chicago CAIR office which oversaw Huffman's "sensitivity training" has publicly supported local Hamas operative Muhammed Salah, a Bridgeview Muslim who has been charged in the drive-by shooting of 17 year old David Boim in Israel. Both Rehab and CAIR have been in the forefront of campaigning for Salah's release, claiming that he will not get a fair trial because of "anti-Muslim" bias.
Huffman's case sends a terrifying message and will assuredly be exploited by CAIR and others of its ilk as a template for action against any non-Muslims it may choose to target for this particular form of jihad.
It is even more outrageous that Judge Moore selected the Chicago CAIR office for Huffman's "re-education" as director Rehab was identified as having verbally abused a homeless woman while standing on line at a local Walgreen's, until she fled the store, and then calling out to her, "Good riddance you bitch," [source link - http://arehab.blogspot.com].
The Usual Suspects Leak Another Secret National Security Document, Justice Department Nowhere To Be Seen
November 26, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - At some point the Bush team is going to have to stop blaming the leakers and the publishers of the leaked documents and take responsibility for having such a criminally inept Department of Justice.
Fact, Alberto Gonzalez and George W. Bush are either unable or unwilling to stop the never ending flow of secret reports, studies and other documents that are being used to destroy American national security, as they have already largely scuttled this administration.
The outward migration of state secrets continues without any sense that these folks are seriously interested in having it stopped.
Today's document outing describes the terror financing mechanisms of the Iraq insurgency and was provided by another nameless, faceless member of the embedded foreign policy bureaucracy, a quisling offering as justification that "the findings could improve understanding of the challenges the United States faces in Iraq."
Of course claims of such lofty intent are immediately contradicted a few lines later in the article - "U.S. Finds Iraq Insurgency Has Funds to Sustain Itself" - when the real motive is revealed, promotion of a sense of dread and gloom regarding the war in Iraq:
"The report offers little hope that much can be done? it paints an almost despairing picture of the Iraqi government's ability, or willingness, to take steps to tamp down the insurgency's financing."
This most recent disclosure is part of a torrent that continues with no end in sight, the leak of the National Intelligence Estimate right before the election, the leak of the NSA's al-Qaeda phone intercept program, the leak of the Treasury Department's SWIFT database investigation of bank involvement with terror funding and money laundering, the leak of the CIA's "black site" centers used to interrogate al-Qaeda and other terrorist kingpins.
The True Story of the First Thanksgiving, from William Bradford's "History of Plymouth Plantation," 1650
November 22, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Much in the way of leftist twaddle has clouded the events of the first Thanksgiving, twisting what is a profound and seminal event in the creation of the United States into something coarse and ugly.
Below is what actually happened, in the words of the Plymouth Plantation's governor, William Bradford, beginning with the Mayflower Compact of 1620.
Note that the long and difficult voyage and the establishment of the Plymouth Colony were undertaken for the expressed [and now politically inexpedient] purpose of bringing, "Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith" and that the plantation's Indian intermediary, Squanto lived the remainder of his life with the colonists and was considered by them to be not only an equal, but a "special instrument sent of God."
Holland Nears Vote On Burqa Ban
By Beila Rabinowitz, Director - MiltantIslamMonitor.org
November 21, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Last week Melanie Philips the author of "Londinistan, How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within" told an audience at the Middle East Forum that "wearing the niqab and burka was a political act used by Muslims to show that they did not want to integrate or intend to observe our laws by sending a message that their loyalty is only to Allah."
In the United States, Newsweek reported that the wearing of a hijab [the headscarf] was on the increase among American born Muslima university students. Observant of the high regard the media has for multiculturalism, the magazine then went on to claim that the reason for the donning of Islamic religious garb was "spurred by a desire to express solidarity in the face of 9/11 discrimination" offering the dubious statistics of the Saudi financed Wahhabist mouthpiece CAIR [Council on American Islamic Relations] whose legal advisor, Arsalan Ifhtikar declared that "The hijab is the walking symbol of Islam."
In Holland, Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders' bill banning the burqa is nearing a vote in the legislature and has led to considerable political fallout among the citizens of Europe's most liberal country.
If passed this legislation would be the first of its kind in Europe and Wilders has been careful to expand the justification for the ban to include terror and security issues saying that "people should be identifiable when they walk on the street or go into a pub or a restaurant or whatsoever."
Though Muslim groups and their lefty allies are opposing the ban, claiming that it is antithetical to longstanding Dutch notions of tolerance, the reality is that wearing the burqa has become a symbol of Muslim intolerance, an aggressive manifestation of Islamist intent to resist acculturation.
Why Can't We Save Our Own Country?
By Bernard Chapin
November 21, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - I can think of few topics which bring about more despair and exasperation than our country's docile acceptance of unfettered immigration. What makes the subject all the more perplexing and disturbing is that the solution to the conundrum is blatantly obvious. We now have more people arriving than we possibly need or are able to support?given the benefits upon which they are bestowed upon entry?and enacting serious restrictions or even a fairly liberal annual quota figure could make the problem go away within a generation or two. Yet, regardless of the ease with which it could be solved, our politicians are steadfast in their refusal to help the people; the same people who were duped into electing them in the first place.
Pat Buchanan's new book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, does a better job than any other of illustrating the futility of the current situation. It is a foregone conclusion that no welfare state can embrace open borders for very long and continue to survive. It is only human nature for us to want something for nothing, and any nation dumb enough to make publicly known its "take all comers" masochistic proclivities will quickly become saturated with immigrants?which is exactly what happened to the United States since the 1960s. By winking at illegals and having no real policy with which to separate those we want from those we do not, indigenous labor and earnings are transferred to outsiders as payment for medical bills, education, and welfare. The exponentially rising numbers of new arrivals then provide government with a ready excuse to expand itself and enable it to steal yet more of our earnings in the name of social [in]justice.
In light of the public's growing resentment why do our elites permit this madness continue? Generally, a politician's avoidance of key issues lasts right up until the time they sense they may get thrown out of office, but Buchanan does a masterful job of outlining the way in which political correctness, along with its necessary precondition of white guilt, is the major factor behind our elites' willing complicity in our man-made cultural and economic implosion. White guilt can be defined as the fantastic phenomenon whereby Caucasian Americans, as a result of their being indoctrinated to view slavery and wars of conquest as being unique to western man, are psychological debilitated from taking up their own defense. Of course, feeling guilty about things you haven't personally done is ludicrous, particularly in this case. Foul acts like murder, slavery, and wanton destruction are ubiquitous to humanity, and were committed by peoples all over the world since the beginning of time. That our youth actually buy into this non-sense is a stunning example of just how politicized the field of education has become. Our history has been altered to include a "somebody to blame" link at the bottom of every page, and, due to the despicable machinations of racist radicals, that someone always has a pale face and urinates from the standing position. When these lies about history are combined with the Big Education's reflexive habit of boosting self-esteem for no discernible reason, a lethal combination is derived. Today's Caucasians leave school regarding minorities as pawns for the saving rather than as independently functioning men and women with the same desires as everybody else.
Pelosi & Murtha Crushed By Dem Moderates In First Test Of Power
 November 16, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Newly elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't wait long to establish a working image as a bumbling backroom fixer with zero regard for ethics - one of the key the issues that supposedly brought the Democrats to power.
On a lopsided vote of 149-86, Steny Hoyer defeated Pelosi's hand-picked lieutenant and close personal friend [Abscam unindicted co-conspirator] Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania for the position of Majority Leader.
Just 24 hrs previous to the vote, Murtha told MSNBC's Chris Matthews that he had the necessary votes to prevail over Hoyer but as we have come to expect from Mr. Murtha, today's vote revealed the cut and run Democrat's prognostication to be somewhat deficient in the veracity department.
Today's vote must be seen as a multifaceted defeat; rejecting Pelosi's judgment and her authority as party leader. It was also a tacit admission of the damaged goods nature of Murtha's candidacy because of his long association with questionable ethics as well as a bitter personal defeat for him on the issue for which he is most highly regarded among the nut-roots left, advocacy of immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
Hernando County Commission Issues Resolution Praising Saudi Funded Muslim Group [CAIR] And Terror Linked Mosque
By Beila Rabinowitz, Director - MiltantIslamMonitor.org
November 13, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On November 14, 2006 the Hernando Board of County Commissioners plans to issue a resolution to recognize the "caring spirit" of the Islamic community and the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR] for distributing "Ramadan/Thanksgiving" baskets to the needy. http://www.hernandotoday.com/MGBL059J0UE.html
This program by the Hernando Muslim community is da'wa, plain and simple, an attempt at creating the impression that the radical Muslim group - CAIR - and a masjid with ties to terrorism - Hernando's Barclay Street mosque - are benevolent organizations. This event is an exercise in Islamic proselytizing - "jihad of the tongue" - and therefore constitutes Islamism not altruism. [source - http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/212
It is also an effort to co-opt a uniquely American holiday, linking it with a Muslim holiday to which Thanksgiving bears no relationship.
Of greater concern however, is that the Hernando Board of County Commissioners' resolution will bestow undeserved legitimacy upon a sector of the Muslim community which has funded terrorism.
Illinois' [tax] records show Brooksville orthopedic surgeon Imad "Ed" Tarabishy [a founder of the Hernando mosque, who also teaches there] has been the most generous Florida benefactor of Global Relief and Benevolence International Foundation [BIF], in the past five years giving at least $786,000 dollars.
Claimed Terror Links Support Hogan In Florida Free Speech Controversy
November 10, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - MilitantIslamMonitor.org, an important counter-terrorism resource has through its director Beila Rabinowitz, issued the following press release, "The Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR [a Saudi funded front group for Hamas, and a defendant in a 9/11 terrorism lawsuit [source, http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/394] has demanded that Florida governor Jeb Bush force Hernando City Commissioner Tom Hogan to resign, after Hogan's wife wrote a letter to a local newspaper protesting the use of taxpayer funding and resources to help with Ramadan celebration at a mosque on Barclay Avenue in Hernando.
The manufactured outrage over the Hogan's critique of Islam is reminiscent of the Koran flush hoax and the orgy of "infidel bashing" which followed.
Eclipsed in this matter is the fact that the group which called for Mr. Hogan to resign, as well as the local mosque at the center of this controversy are both tied to terrorism [source, http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2518]
The facts of this case are:
1. The Mosque at 6307 Barclay Avenue in Hernando is owned by the North American Islamic Trust, a Wahhabist institution which advocates the implementation of Shari 'a law in the United States. Another local NAIT employee, who ran a mosque and the Islamic Academy elementary school in Tampa was Sami Al Arian, who is in jail awaiting deportation on terrorism charges,
2. One of the founders and prayer leaders of the Barclay mosque is Imad Tarabishy, who is also a board member and trustee of NAIT.
3. Imad Tarabishy is listed as a director of the Islamic Foundation of the Tampa Area, along with two other directors, both based in Saudi Arabia.
4. According to testimony presented by The Investigative Project at a government hearing, Imad Tarabishy has given $76,000 to Benevolence International Foundation [BIF] a group directly tied to bin-Laden and the Global Relief Foundation a subsidiary of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
5. Imad Tarabishy is also the registered agent in Florida for Bright International Ltd. a "foreign non profit." BIL's director Assadullah Farahmand, heads The Afghanistan Information and Rehabilitation Bureau (Masjid) in Don Mills Ontario, Canada which is connected to Benevolence International and al-Qaeda.
Iraq's Al-Qaeda Leader, Al-Masri Mocks Bush And Republican Defeat While Singling Out Donald Rumsfeld
 November 11, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri has injected himself - after the fact - into Tuesday's decisive electoral victory by the Democrat party.
In a just released audio recording the terrorist leader called Mr. Bush the stupidest president in history, congratulated the American people on electing the cut and run Democrats and specifically addressed Wednesday's departure of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld:
"I tell the lame duck (U.S. administration) do not rush to escape as did your defense minister; stay on the battleground."
Masri also apparently declared his "allegiance" to Iraqi "believers" within the current Baghdad government, stating:
"I put under your command 12,000 fighters who are the army of the al Qaeda," adding, "I say to ... the ruler of believers (Baghdadi) I vow allegiance to you."
Culture War Looms Supreme In Election Outcome
November 8, 2006 -San Francisco, CA -PipeLineNews.org - Just a few days ago, on November 1, Roland Weisselberg a 73 year old retired German priest burned himself to death, dousing himself with gasoline and then striking a match.
Weisselberg committed the gruesome suicide as a protest against Germany's increasing submission to the demands of Europe's radical Islamists and the Church's unwillingness to confront the Muslim cultural jihad.
The elder priest's death took place in the historically significant Augustinian monastery in Erfurt Germany where Martin Luther was educated and later ordained and so it seems fitting that Weisselberg's dramatic statement made at the locus of the Reformation should also function as a point of departure in understanding the forces behind yesterday's electoral results.
Taken as a whole yesterday's election was the result of forces which have been shaping Western thought beginning with the post modernist movement and which now seems to have congealed into the unholy trinity of multiculturalism, diversity and moral equivalency.
The confusion resulting from this dance with nihilism has severed ties to tradition and therefore Weisselberg's gesture though fanatical seems almost a reasonable, if not metaphorically rich, response.
The fact is that because of the failure of a substantial number of citizens to understand the dimensions of the clash of civilizations they are taking actions that are making all of us unwilling signatories to a suicide pact.
As we noted in our piece Thoughts On the Fifth Anniversary Of 9/11:
"?in a war of cultures, belief can not be overcome with simple unbelief - that fanaticism can't be defeated by simply believing in nothing."
The prospect of living in a society lacking the tools to defend itself and the moral clarity and will to act is daunting
University Of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann Has Got To Go
How a pretend suicide bomber unmasked the true face of moral relativism on campus
By Beila Rabinowitz, Director - MilitantIslamMonitor.org
 November 7, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The uproar caused by University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann allowing herself to be photographed next to a mock suicide bomber at a Halloween party, may serve to slam the door shut on a career which has just barely begun.
As a result, University of Pennsylvania alumni and outraged members of the community have demanded her ouster.
The images of Gutmann, the Jewish daughter of German Holocaust refugees, masquerading as Glinda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz next to Syrian engineering student Saad Saadi [turned out like a Palestinian "freedom martyr"] are enshrined for posterity in cyberspace, though the pictures and controversy have hit fewer of the nation's news papers than one might reasonably expect.
As disastrous as the photos were, Gutmann did have two strokes of luck - one, so far there has been no video of the party turning up on U Tube which would have shown staged executions at Gutmann's home during the party and two, the calls for her resignation might be muted as the media turns its attention towards the aftermath of the Congressional elections.
The Good Witch and the Suicide Bomber grinning side by her side is a perfect metaphor for the extreme level of moral relativism which infests both liberal Jewish and university intellectuals. If she is not ethically compelled to refuse entry to a suicide bomber [even a representation of one] to her home where she lives with her husband and children, who can legitimately be expected to draw that line in the sand across which evil will not be permitted to tread?
Keith Ellison, The Wahhabist Choice For Congress
By Beila Rabinowitz, Director - MilitantIslamMonitor.org & William A. Mayer, E & P PipeLineNews.org
 November 5, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Keith Ellison [aka Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison and Keith Ellison Muhammad] the DFL candidate for Minnesota's 5th Congressional district, presents a revealing insight on his website.
Under the heading "Crime and Safety" Ellison states that, "I have been to too many funerals of young people to be anything but a strong supporter of law enforcement, but I also believe it must be balanced by other factors."
Perhaps by "balance" Ellison was referring to his call for the release of Sara Jane Olsen aka Sister Soliah, a member of the urban guerrilla Symbionese Liberation Army [the group which kidnapped Patty Hearst] who had pled guilty to placing bombs underneath two LAPD police cars .
Or maybe it's Ellison's support of cop killers Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal?
Is Ellison's committment to "balance" the root of his agreement with Nation of Islam bigot Joanne Jackson's statement that Jews are, "the most racist white people" or his work with gang-leader Sharif Willis who murdered Minneapolis Police Officer Jerry Haaf?
Balance is really at the heart of the "Keith Mohammed X Ellison" candidacy, since the Minneapolis and national press have studiously avoided any semblance of it, refusing to tell people the honest truth about Mr. Ellison.
If they won't, we certainly will, try this on for size Mr. Ellison.
Ellison was not only a member of Louis Farrakhan's rabidly anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, friendly with people who murdered policemen and those who have been engaged in domestic terrorism but he is the choice of the Saudi Wahhabist lobby in his run for Congress and has actively courted groups with Islamist sympathies, with ties to organizations like Hamas and those who believe that the U.S. Constitution should be replaced with Sharia law.
The one word which is glaringly absent from Ellison's campaign website is "terrorism."
This should not be surprising since Keith X is being financed and endorsed by a group which aids and abets it; the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR], a Saudi funded front group for Hamas which Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes has characterized as "'moderate' friends of terror."
IAEA & New York Times Hook Up Again On Pre-Election Caper
November 3, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Like clockwork, the UN's meddlesome International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] led by the blatantly political Egyptian, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei has once again entered the American electoral process working not so covertly behind the scenes to create a non-controversy which nonetheless sounds scary enough to be exploitable by the New York Times.
That the lefty American media is once again working with and at the behest of ElBaradei to effect U.S. elections is nothing new.
Consider mid-October 2004 - two weeks ahead of a presidential election - when the IAEA floated the specious story of Iraqi nuke technology possibly making its way into the hands of terrorists.
One of the hundreds of newspapers to cover the allegation was the Christian Science Monitor whose October 13, 2004 headline read, "Missing Iraq technology raises alarm - The UN's nuclear watchdog says key equipment has disappeared, heightening concern about proliferation."
Called upon in the CS piece to certify the "seriousness" of this supposed security breach was Jon Wolfsthal, a lefty working unsurprisingly as a "proliferation expert" at the lefty Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
"It's very troubling that any of this stuff should be unprotected, let alone go missing," says Mr. Wolfsthal. "If one of these things went missing in the US, there would be a massive criminal investigation ... and people going to jail."
Yes Wolfie, it was very troubling except for the small complication that this incident never happened. There was never a "there" to this story, never the establishment of a manifest of equipment and or materials having been provably present at location "A" then mysteriously disappearing under the watch of the Coalition.
ACORN - The Indictment Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree
November 3, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The acronym ACORN stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It's a hard left remnant of the model developed by the notorious communist "organizer" Saul Alinsky in the stockyards of Chicago in the 1930's.
Acorn is really a consortium or a family of organizations [Acorn Housing Corporation, Living Wage Resource Center, Acorn Law on the Web, two lefty FM radio stations KNON and KABF, Project Vote and Activism is Patriotism] that have ties to the Democrat party, corrupt labor unions and ultra-left groups such as MoveOn.org.
Perhaps that is redundant.
Acorn uses a "social justice" theme as justification for it activism [read race and class based socialism] but it is not overtly faith based such as sister groups like PICO which boldly employs a bogus religiosity to similar effect.
Acorn through its 501c3 Project Voter, has a long history of fraudulent voter registration disguised as activism. Over the years they claim to have registered millions of voters often under questionable circumstances.
Seymour Hersh & John Kerry, Brothers In Slander
November 2, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Just in time to absolutely make sure that no one forgets Kerry's comments about American troops in Iraq being ignorant losers, Seymour Hersh - a raving lunatic when he gets behind the lectern - makes a guest appearance, just days before the election.
Great timing Sy?show up just in time to remind everyone of the murderous glee with which the lefty Democrats have attacked the American military over the last 40 or so years.
Hersh's anti-Americanism was again on display Wednesday at McGill University in Montreal where he was quoted as saying, "There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq."
Hersh, like John Kerry has made a career out of attacking the United States military and in his Montreal speech he stated, "In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation."
This is a standard of treatment that Hersh personally helped to craft, one which he undoubtedly condones and apparently will also work to apply to the veterans of the war in Iraq.
At one point in his presentation Hersh describe "war crimes" committed by American troops in videos he claims to have seen - most likely carefully staged and then provided to him by the terrorists he seeks to enable.
For those too young to remember who exactly Seymour Hersh was, you might start with his ouster from the New York Times [when they at least had pretensions to having some standards] in 1979 because of his history of unfounded accusations, sloppy reporting and a thuggish approach to dealing with sources.
Pakistan Madrassa Fallout - Patience With Musharraf Government Near End
 November 2, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Quickly falling from the headlines but gaining in importance is the real significance of the Coalition's air strike in the Bajur region of Pakistan, made against the Maulvi Liaquat madrassa - a locally well known hub of pro-Taliban activity in Pakistan's tribal region.
Evidence coming to light in the wake of the attack seems to firmly establish the fact that the madrassas - or religious schools - in these areas function as training centers for radical Islamists, sometimes providing suicide bombers and at other times merely foot soldiers for the Taliban.
As Andrew Cochran of the Counterterrorism Blog states:
"the strike on the Chingai, Pakistan madrassa has punctured the "Madrassa Myth," asserting essentially that observers should know better than to believe that the madrassas run by Islamists - especially in the al-Qaeda/Taliban-dominated North West Frontier Province - are run without affiliation to terrorists."
The India Times is reporting that unnamed security officials,
"displayed to media stills and videos of the early morning training sessions at the destroyed seminary with participants from Swat, Dir, Bajaur and even Afghanistan. The photos taken through infrared camera showed people aged between 20 to 30 carrying out exercises with no weapons. No weapon or arms were shown as being used for training, as tactics of terrorists have been changed and they prepare suicide bombers."
Underlining the belief that Pakistan's government has little interest in pursuing the terrorists in their midst, on Saturday, the eve of the air strike the government released al-Qaeda operatives included Gul Mohammed, a relative of Faqir Mohammed, a pro-Taliban militant leader who is being sought by security agencies for allegedly aiding remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaida.
It is believed that both Ayman Zawahiri al-Qaeda's number two leader and Faqir Mohammed the local Taliban strongman, left the compound only 30 minutes prior to the strike showing the porous nature of Pakistani intelligence, apparently having been tipped off.
Fearing Electoral Advantage Slipping To GOP, Media Now All Too Eager To Put Kerry Matter To Bed
 November 1, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLinenews.org - ABC has proclaimed the matter settled "Kerry Apologizes as 'Stuck in Iraq' Firestorm Rages," as if the networks still control the flow and content of news.
But the controversy is far from over, it rages on not only because of the very real harm that Senator Kerry's troop bashing remarks have caused, but because Mr. Kerry has not - despite opinions to the contrary by the MSM who is acting in the capacity of press agent for the beleaguered Senator - apologized.
He has however authorized his stooges to place a classic example of political double-speak on his website, hoping that it might quell the controversy:
"As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop.
I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.
It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy. I don't want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues. I will continue to fight for a change of course to provide real security for our country, and a winning strategy for our troops."
Nothing in the way of a real apology has yet passed the Senator's exceedingly thin lips. Kerry's "apology" is his usual nuanced obfuscation mixed with finger pointing and capped by an inability to state the obvious, that he simply loathes the U.S. military and its current mission.
It is clear from the criticism of dozens of Democrats that Kerry's original statement was no slip of the tongue and his internet statement does not address the key matter involved, which he still claims is misinterpretation.
"I apologize to no one "
NY Times' Delusional Take On Kerry Gaffe
November 1, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - John Kerry's ill-considered statement that the 140,000 U.S. troops who are serving in Iraq are there because they are too stupid to have gained admission to Ivy League schools, has become in the fevered prose of NY Times scribblers Adam Nagourney and Jim Rutenberg, a reprehensible attack by President Bush on the left's favorite anti-war warrior whom the authors almost tearfully point out, "is not [sniff...] running for office this year" therefore demonstrating their firm mastery of grade school civics.
"President Bush...attacked Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts over the war in Iraq....But the president seized on what he said were Mr. Kerry's disparaging remarks about the troops - and what Mr. Kerry insisted was a botched joke aimed at Mr. Bush - as he sought to make Mr. Kerry the face of the Democratic Party this fall."
Mr. Kerry has so far not provided illumination as to what the joke might have been, given its leaden punch line but the mere fact that the junior Senator from Massachusetts is hiding behind that explanation is good enough for the Times, whose writers as usual display none of the curiosity or - dare we say - skepticism they might show had the person uttering such prattle been a - gasp - Republican.
It's a better than even money bet that these feckless reporters will not be found in breathless pursuit of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid - or Ted Kennedy's favorite, Osama Obama - asking them to comment on Kerry's statement, his refused apology or if they will distance themselves from such indefensible troop-bashing. Nor is it likely that they will write glowing profile of Democrat candidates who now - McCainlike in their translucence - have banned the scowling and unhinged French Senator from their states or Congressional districts, forbidding him to campaign for them.
This is why it is so appalling unclever that further down in the piece Nagourney and Rutenberg use the occasion of the apparently unprovoked Bush "attack" to weave in the allegation that the GOP is in full revolt over the administration's Iraq policy using as one of their examples Washington State Republican Senate hopeful Mike McGavick - a Rumsfeld basher - who barely commands 30% of the potential vote.
What this is revelatory of is that the MSM has a message, and they will stay on it regardless of where the facts and circumstances might lead anyone less biased.
With the latest circulation figures showing continued hemorrhaging in every major liberal American newspaper one might question the sanity of those who are responsible for the Times' journalistic direction to continue their mad embrace of this flame.
Sleepwalking Dutch Lulled Into Complacency On Terrorism
By Beila Rabinowitz, Director - MilitantIslamMonitor.org
 November 1, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Less than five months before Theo van Gogh's ritual murder at the hands of radical Islamists, he performed at a political event, convincingly dressed as an Imam in Muslim robe. Resplendent in beard he pontificated that his "conversion" to Islam benefited him in two ways, having "finally found clothes that fit as if tailor made" while nodding his approval of "a belief in which a woman knows her place."
His performance concluded with the sagacious observation, "Allah is the scourge which will conquer Amsterdam, sleep well, good Amsterdammers."
Holland's awakening after van Gogh's brutal killing was short lived, the Dutch since having gone back to sleep, a conclusion which is borne out by surveys that suggest - contrary to the evidence of a continuing Islamist juggernaught in that country - that 20% more people in 2006 than the previous year don't regard terrorism as their first concern, and that 13% more have confidence that the government is doing a good job of fighting terrorism.
Such complacency brings to mind Dr. Daniel Pipes' article "My Gloom-Back to September 10th", in which he wrote that the 9/11 attacks "made me feel more secure...finally the country was focused on issues that had long worried me" but pessimistically concluded that "If there ever was a crisis, it is over. Life is good, security appears adequate...sleep beckons."
Is Zawahiri Dead? - Questions Surround Missile Attack On Terrorist Madrassa In Pakistan
JUST BREAKING - ABC News is now reporting that the Bajur raid was carried out by Coalition forces - AS PREDICTED HERE BY PIPELINENEWS - most likely a U.S. Predator drone. Ayman Zawahiri, the Egyptian born al-Qaeda number 2 in command was apparently the target of the strike. Additionally unconfirmed reports have been circulating that Zawahiri was killed in the raid.
 October 31, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Last evening's missile attack on a terrorist training center in Pakistan's tribal area has prompted inexplicable responses among the MSM.
For example, the Christian Science Monitor's David Montero calls the attack, "a setback to border peace" stating that, "the timing of the strike raises questions about Pakistan's commitment to such deals."
Pakistan's wholesale retreat [accompanied by a release of jailed Taliban terrorists along with their weapons] from Waziristan - the "deal" which Mr. Montero refers to - has resulted in a three-fold increase of Taliban attacks upon neighboring Afghanistan, the border shared by the tribal areas and Afghanistan now resembling a sieve through with al-Qaeda passes at will.
That the airstrike in Khar came early in the morning on the day when an agreement was expected to be signed between the local Bajur tribal leaders and the central Pakistani government is odd however.
One plausible explanation might very well be that the attack was not carried out by the Pakistanis, but rather by Coalition forces whose intention was not only to kill the intended al-Qaeda targets but at the same time to emphatically scuttle another disastrous Pakistani withdrawal agreement similar to that reached with Waziristan.
Assyrian Christian Teen Reportedly Beheaded by Muslim Militants
By Dr. Jeremy Reynalds
October 31, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - An Assyrian Christian teenager has reportedly been decapitated while at work.
The Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) reported that according to the Assyrian website www.ankawa.com, a 14-year-old Christian Assyrian boy, Ayad Tariq, from Baqouba, Iraq was beheaded at his work place on Oct. 21.
Ayad Tariq was working his 12-hour shift, maintaining an electric generator, when a group of disguised Muslim insurgents walked in at the beginning of his shift shortly after 6 a.m. and asked him for his ID.
According to another employee who witnessed the events, and who hid when he saw insurgents approach, the insurgents questioned Ayad after seeing that his ID noted he was "Christian." The insurgents asked the boy if he was really a "Christian sinner."
Ayad reportedly replied, "Yes, I am Christian, but I am not a sinner." The insurgents immediately said, "dirty Christian sinner!"
Then they proceeded to each hold one of the boy's limbs, "Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" while beheading him.
Bush's National Security Advisor Steve Hadley Dispatched To Iraq
October 30, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - WH spokeswoman Dana Perino this morning confirmed that National Security advisor Steve Hadley is visiting Iraq.
"Yes, I can confirm that Mr. Hadley did go to Iraq. This is a long-planned trip to the region. With the President out of town this week, it's a good time for him to go, as part of our ongoing assessments and continued cooperation to get Iraq to be a democratically led country that can govern, sustain and defend itself, and become an ally in the war on terror. I'm not going to provide any other information about his movements, for his security, but we'll keep you updated as appropriate and as we're able to provide more information."
All of this takes place against attempts by the media to establish the story--line that the relationship between the Iraqi government and the Bush administration is breaking down.
Giving some substance to that rumor, on Friday, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki held a 50-minute videoconference with President Bush [apparently held at the behest of Maliki] after which a top advisor to Maliki - and Dawa party legislator - Hassan al-Suneid, claimed that the Prime Minister told U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad that though he was "a friend of the United States," he was "not America's man in Iraq."
Reading between the lines however one must be cognizant of the potential for political gamesmanship in this process.
For instance please note that in June of this year Hassan al-Suneid once again made headlines suggesting that the Iraqi leadership was engaged in talks with terrorist groups including, the 1920 Revolution Brigades, the Mohammed Army, Abtal al-Iraq [Heroes of Iraq], the 9th of April Group, al- Fatah Brigades and the Brigades of the General Command of the Armed Forces.
"I expect that those groups are the same ones that have made contacts with President Talabani, and now they are widening the range of their contacts. Now they are more serious after the announcement of the (reconciliation) plan," al-Suneid told the AP.
Al-Suneid's suggestion that the Iraq government was seeking to bring terrorists into the process of governance provoked considerable heat and light at the time.
This may once again be the case with al-Suneid creating an impression that would be of value to a press seeking to create controversy over Iraq a week before a national election.
Blitzer & CNN Using Talking Points Supplied By Dem Senatorial Campaign Committee
October 30, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The American Spectator is reporting - via an inside CNN source - that Wolf Blitzer was using Democrat talking points submitted directly from the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee in his Friday attack interview of the Vice President's wife, Lynn Cheney.
Mrs. Cheney was nominally invited to appear on Blitzer's "Situation Room" to discuss her new children's book, "Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America, co-written by Robin Preiss Glasser, but her near total destruction of Wolf Blitzer's limp attempt to ambush her left the host looking shocked and humiliated.
Blitzer challenged Mrs. Cheney on a wide variety of issues including Virginia's U.S. Senate race, interrogation of terror suspects and the war in Iraq.
Cheney deftly answered the questions that were provided the host by the Democrat party and then mounted a spirited offense challenging the networks airing of al-Qaeda snuff films, asking Blitzer, "Why are you running terrorist propaganda? What is CNN doing running terrorist tape of terrorist shooting Americans?"
Aside from the now in full display lefty bias which is a central controlling factor at CNN, the purpose of Blitzer's ham fisted tactic was to stoke interest in the cable network's pro-Democrat hit-piece, "Where the Right Went Wrong" which is going to be aired just prior to the election.
As the Spectator describes it:
"The series uses original reporting, as well as materials, including statistics and research developed by the DNC, MoveOn.org and the labor-funded 527, Americans Coming Together, though the those sources are never mentioned in the segments."
MSM's Complete Descent Into Lunacy - U.S. Should Partner With Muslim Brotherhood?
October 30, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - CBS seems to be intent upon pushing the Bush administration into partnering with the fanatical Islamist organization the Muslim Brotherhood, while specifically protesting Kamal Helbawy's [the UK's leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and the founder of the Muslim Association of Britain] having recently been denied entrance into the United States.
This all takes place in an op-ed on the CBS website authored by Stephen Glain originally writing for the notoriously lefty "The Nation" magazine.
As CBS sees it [The] WH [Is] On [The] Wrong Side Of [The] Muslim Brotherhood.
In this piece, going so far as to claim that the:
"Brotherhood leaders have been at the vanguard of Egypt's grassroots push for political reform, consistent with the Bush Administration's policy of democratizing the Middle East.
CBS seems calculatedly oblivious to the history of the Brotherhood, overlooking the fact that its early champion - Sayyid Qutb - established [from the inside of an Egyptian jail] the intellectual positions which today fuel the modern radical Islamist movement including al-Qaeda.
While making the lunatic assertion that:
"...the Brotherhood is the closest thing to an established, centrist party in an Arab world that over the years."
One might ask CBS under what definition of centrism was the assassination of Anwar Sadat by the Brotherhood justified?
They might also want to explain why they are advocating entry into the United States by the representative of a group which inspired bin-Laden and hatched both Ayman al-Zawahiri - chief theorist of al-Qaeda - as well as the "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman - the key figure [and currently serving a life term, thank you very much] in the first World Trade Center bombing.
Looking Like A Civil War, Muslim Riots Continue Throughout France
October 30, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - 46 were arrested in the Southern French port city of Marseille on Saturday evening as what are euphemistically described as "immigrant youth" gangs roamed the streets virtually uncontested while tossing Molotov cocktails, looting and torching cars.
In this weekend's flare up nearly 300 vehicles were incinerated and a young woman suffered life threatening burns as the bus she was riding on was fire bombed.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered riot police into the city to protect against further lawlessness, though Marseilles' bus drivers are expressing skepticism at the limited nature of the government's response, refusing to return to work believing conditions are still too unsafe.
Similar violence has flared in other Paris suburbs all of which lends itself to a feeling of dread that last year's street warfare [starting in Clichy-sous-Bois on Oct. 27, 2005 with the accidental electrocution death of two Muslim youths] might well be revisited.
What has largely gone unreported however is that the African & Arab Muslim immigrant neighborhoods in which the violence is originating are considered "no-go" areas by the police and that even under the best of circumstances nearly 100 cars are torched in cities like Marseilles every single night indicating an intractable problem for the society in general.
Dept. Of Defense Chides Media For Misrepresenting Rumsfeld's Comments
October 30, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In an unusual October 27 letter to the editor of the Washington Post, Dorrance Smith, Asst. Secty. Of Defense for Public Affairs charged the newspaper with misrepresentation of Mr. Rumsfelds widely quoted reply to reporters to "back-off" on suggestions that the Iraqi and American governments are in serious conflict over policy issues.
"Your article and the accompanying headline ("Rumsfeld Tells Iraq Critics to "Back Off," - October 26, 2006) said incorrectly that the Secretary's comments in his Thursday press conference were aimed at "detractors" and "critics." In fact, the Secretary was referring specifically to journalists seeking to create a perception of major divisions between the positions of the U.S. and Iraqi governments. Secretary Rumsfeld was not referring to critics of the administration's Iraq policy."
A Muslim Manifesto for America?
By Alan Caruba
October 30, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - It's always hard to pinpoint when a historic shift takes place. It is rarely as easy as Martin Luther's posting of his 95 thesis that launched the Reformation and loosed the grip of the Catholic Church on the governance of Europe or when Henry VIII pushed Rome out of England to create the Anglican Church.
When, however, did the tiny Muslim community in America, estimated to be between two and three million - by contrast there are some six million Jews in America - begin to assert its takeover? I am going to mark it from October 19, 2006 when the Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest circulation daily, ran an article, "She's got it covered: Designer seeks to dress the style-conscious Muslim woman" in its feature news section.
"Many Muslim women wear hijab as an expression of the Islamic tradition of modesty," noted the article about a 27-year old American Muslim fashion designer. Born to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, she had converted to Islam as a student at New York University after she married her husband, a Muslim.
When the media begin to find ways to offer up a positive image of Islam, you know they have probably decided that the game is over and we in the West have lost. The American media is expert at showing the white flag of surrender. They have been trumpeting the end of the world for decades now.
Jihad Merit Badges For Boca Boy Scouts?
By Beila Rabinowitz, Director MilitantIslammonitor.org
 October 27, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a recent series of articles [UK In Mortal Danger As Al-Qaeda Sleeper Cells Proliferate and World Assembly of Muslim Youth - WAMY - Operation Fits New UK Terror Model] PipeLineNews called attention to the radical European Muslim community's newfound interest in youth scouting and how some of these recruits found themselves being used as instruments of terrorism in the 7/7 London bombings.
It is therefore with a certain sense of alarm that we note this same phenomenon taking place in the United States...
When the Islamic Center of Boca Raton applied to the Gulfstream Council http://www.gulfstreamcouncil.org/0support.html for a charter to incorporate a Boy Scouts of America troop, they joined the approximately 95 Muslim troops nationwide.
The BSA's national spokesman Gregg Shields told the Sun Sentinel that:
"Boy Scout troops do not require that members adhere to a particular religious faith, as long as they profess belief in a higher power. We make so attempt to interpret God or the practice of religion. Really it's the role of the scout's family and his religious leaders?" - Link, http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/afa/242006f.asp
But what if the scout's family and religious leaders preach and practice jihad?
Alberto Fernandez, Another State Department Disaster In The Karen Hughes Mold
By Beila Rabinowitz, Director MilitantIslammonitor.org & William A. Mayer E&P PipeLineNews.org
October 23, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The State Department's handling of Middle Eastern affairs and lack of judgment when dealing with radical Islam was only too recently demonstrated when Alberto Fernandez [an Arabic speaker whose title is Director of Public Diplomacy, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. State Department] made the very undiplomatic assertion to the Islamist Al-Jazeera network that "there was much arrogance and stupidity by the United States in Iraq," adding that the US would have to talk with everyone involved except for Al Qaeda, claiming "at the end of the day, sooner or later, we and all those who are concerned with Iraq must sit together in that room or at that table and must discuss and establish some dialogue. This is the only way forward, and, thanks be to God, the Iraqi government is convinced of that."
That a U.S. state department official would use the Muslim religious phrase "praise be to God" [Alhamdulilah] is indicative of the degree to which Gonzalez has gone above and beyond the strict needs of diplomacy, treading very near a self-imposed attitude of dhimmitude especially considering he was speaking to the official mouthpiece of those who seek our defeat in Iraq.
Not surprisingly, Fernandez is a favorite with Al Jazeera whose deputy editor Aderrahim Foukara, gushed, "As far as I am aware, he is the only Arabic speaker from the US government who appears on Al-Jazeera "Sometimes we'll even have him on three or four days in a row."
Another troubling aspect of Fernandez' official conduct is his membership in Middle East Studies Association [MESA] whose anti-Americanism ironically extended to advising their members not to cooperate with the State Department and U.S. government, though it funds the organization.
In 2003 Dr. Daniel Pipes concluded that MESA is:
"Adversarial: Many American scholars are hostile to U.S. national interests. Thus, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) board has recommended that its members "not seek or accept" U.S. government funded scholarships. That three specialists were recently indicted on terrorism charges caused no alarm among their colleagues. Link - http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1251
In 2006 Fernandez was a speaker at the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy Conference:
"The CSID is "a U.S.-based group that was created by board members and former staff of the American Muslim Council [AMC] a radical pro-Saudi group that largely ceased operations after its former chairman, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, was jailed last October on terrorist-related charges." Link - http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1650
In his apparent zeal to develop empathy and kinship among the Islamists he must sometimes deal with, Gonzalez has repeatedly made the mistake of not considering how his associations might be interpreted by them or by others who may well feel that his mere presence might well constitute an official seal of approval.
Study Suggests Intricate Relationship Between Iranian And Iraqi Key Players Complicates War On Terror Calculations
October 23, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A little noted State Dept. Report Iran's Influence in Iraq, by Kenneth Katzman, updated just a few days ago on September 29, 2006 clearly delineates one of the main challenges in building a stable Iraq - the strong affinity that exists between key Iraqi Shiite political parties, personages, their various militias and one third of the "axis of evil," Iran.
Examination of this document offers much to explain the complexity of the Iraq challenge. It also underlines the paucity in the American press of literate coverage of what is arguably the issue of our times.
The first realization is that the United States' policy up to this point, removal of Saddam accompanied by the process of democratization - empowering of the Shiite majority - is not at all distasteful to Iran.
"Iran's strategy bore fruit with victory by a Shiite Islamist bloc ("United Iraqi Alliance") in the two National Assembly elections in 2005. The UIA bloc, won 128 of the 275 Assembly seats in the December 15, 2005, election. The UIA
includes Iran's primary Shiite Islamist protégés in Iraq ? the Supreme Council for the
Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the most pro-Iranian of the groups, and the Da'wa
(Islamic Call) party. Also in the UIA bloc is the faction of Moqtada Al Sadr, whose ties
to Iran are nascent. Like his predecessor as Prime Minister, Ibrahim al-Jafari, Nuri al-
Maliki is from the Da'wa Party, although Maliki spent most of his exile in Syria, not Iran.
Most SCIRI leaders spent their years of exile in Iran."
The second realization is that Sadr, though his "Mahdi Army" militia is now running 20,000 strong with approximately 7,000 in Baghdad, and despite his not long ago direct clashes with the Coalition might represent less of a threat long term vis a vis Iran than the powerful Supreme Council for Revolution in Iraq [SICRI] since Sadr is interested in maintaining his power broker role.
Muslim Rioting Again Hits France
 October 23, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - French police found themselves once again under attack by firebomb wielding North African Muslim immigrants on Sunday.
The Paris suburb of Grigny was the scene of the pitched battle which featured 50 Islamic youths rampaging through the streets taunting police, pelting them with rocks and torching passenger vehicles including a bus.
Fearing a repeat of last November's riots, the hard-line Action Police CFTC union urged interior minister Sarkozy - the leader of the right of center Gaullist Party - to make a show of force to head off any possible duplication of last year's street warfare which at the time the CFTC called an "insurrection" that resulted in 10 deaths, hundreds of serious injuries and millions of dollars in property damage.
Congressional Concern Expressed Over U.S. Cable TV Use Of Al-Qaeda Snuff Video
October 23, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Duncan Hunter [R-CA] the Chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee, along with Darryll Issa [R-CA] and Steve Bilbray [R-CA] have demanded that the Pentagon pull the press credentials of CNN reporters and not permit them to imbed in the future with Coalition forces.
Hunter's actions stem from the Wednesday airing by CNN of what has been called an "al-Qaeda snuff film" that depicts a U.S. marine being shot by an insurgent sniper.
Of the incident Hunter says, "CNN has now served as the publicist for an enemy propaganda film featuring the killing of an American soldier."
David Doss producer of the segment that broadcast the controversial footage claims that the cable network's intent was to present the "unvarnished truth" about the war.
In response to Hunter's letter, DOD spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler stated, "The department takes this very seriously and will look into the matter and respond accordingly to the member in due course."
Liberal Washington State Papers Endorse GOP Candidate McGavick in U.S. Senate Race - Huh?
By Thomas Frederiksen
October 23, 2006 - Seattle, WA - PipeLineNews.org - Following in the footprints of the Bellingham Herald, the Yakima Herald-Republic and other Washington State newspapers, the Seattle Times has formally endorsed conservative Republican Mike McGavick for Senate.
Reversing its endorsement six years ago of Maria Cantwell [D-WA] the Times explained their choice to unseat Cantwell as a decision that was best for the state, citing McGavick's past business experience and his split with President Bush on several aspects of the Iraq war.
This seemingly stunning about-turn, supporting a Republican candidate over a liberal has activists scratching their heads on both sides of the political tracks.
Making Sense of US Population Growth
By Alan Caruba
October 23, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - It's not very often you will find me agreeing with an avowed environmentalist, but facts are facts and, when it comes to population growth, they are ignored at our peril if America is to avoid sliding rapidly into a Third World status.
"The American people, especially our leaders, must bring themselves to face the reality that our population cannot be allowed to continue to grow without disastrous consequences," said Donald Mann, president of Negative Population Growth, Inc. in response to the news that on October 17, 2006 our population passed the three hundred million mark.
Of that number, the estimate of illegal immigrants ranges from twelve to twenty million. In his bestselling book, "State of Emergency", Patrick J. Buchanan noted that "Rarely have immigrants constituted 10 percent of our number," adding that "We have almost as many foreigners here today as came in the first 350 years of our history?(and) most of those coming are breaking in." The U.S. Census bureau calculates that an immigrant sets foot in America, legally and illegally, every 31 seconds.
The Ideal Feminist: An Interview with Carrie Lukas
By Bernard Chapin
October 23, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Carrie Lukas is the author of an outstanding book called The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism and it was released earlier this year. I found the work to be clever, concise, and authoritative. Mrs. Lukas also has a multitude of other publications to her credit such as Dependency Divas: How the Feminist Big Government Agenda Betrays Women and Recess from Reality: The Feminist Failure to Embrace School Choice which were authored in her role as Vice President of Policy at the Independent Woman's Forum. Mrs. Lukas is an increasingly well-known personality who expresses her views on media outlets like National Public Radio, Janet Parshall's America, the Glenn Sacks Show, CNBC's The Dennis Miller Show, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and MSNBC's Scarborough Country. The interviewer knows her best from the pieces she posts at the National Review website. She is a holder of degrees from both Princeton and Harvard.
BC: Mrs. Lukas, let me express my gratitude up front for writing this invaluable book. For readers who aren't familiar with the series, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism is a volume within Regnery's Politically Incorrect Guide collection. Other editions include works by Dr. Thomas Woods on American history and Tom Bethell on science. First off, let me ask what you would say to those who dispute that such a thing as political correctness even exists?
George Romances the Nanny State: An Interview with Bruce Bartlett
By Bernard Chapin
October 23, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Bruce Bartlett is a conservative economist who took degrees from Rutgers and Georgetown before serving in both the Reagan and (original) Bush administrations. Mr. Bartlett has always been associated with supply-side economics. Earlier this year he released Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy which vigorously refutes the notion that our president is a conservative in any meaningful way. Mr. Bartlett has published voluminously and has penned over 900 articles. I usually access his columns by going to townhall.com where there is a permalink to his weekly efforts.
BC: Mr. Bartlett, for those who may not be familiar with your excellent book, could you provide a quick outline of what you have to say and what its central theme is?
Mr. Bartlett: I argue that Bush is not a true conservative, by which I mean a traditional or movement conservative. He is more of a reactionary who opposes liberalism, but without a coherent philosophy to replace it. Consequently, as president he has done many things that are inconsistent with a conservative governing philosophy, such as expanding government spending, imposing steel tariffs, increasing government regulation and other things I discuss in the book.
UK Media Biased? - Amazing!
October 22, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - London's Daily Mail is today reporting the results of a leaked "impartiality" study, commissioned by Michael Grad, chairman at BBC.
The investigation reveals the not altogether shocking finding that the British Broadcasting Company's attitude - which colors all of its productions and reporting - is anti-White, stridently pro-gay, promotive of multiculturalism and is anti-Christian, pro-Muslim and anti-American.
In typical British understatement a BBC top exec was quoted as saying, "There was widespread acknowledgement that we may have gone too far."
The study also reveals that such attitudes are present in the organization, from top to bottom, 'Unfortunately, much of it is so deeply embedded in the BBC's culture, that it is very hard to change it.'
The series of meetings during which these matters were discussed were held in September and found a bias so deeply ingrained that the BBC's DC reporter actually had to ask to be helped to identify and then correct the anti-American bias evident in his reporting.
Jane Harman Aide - Larry Hanauer - Identified As NIE Leaking Suspect
October 21, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Karen Kwiatkowski a former military functionary, who describes her last job in DC as "a cushy job in the Pentagon as Pentagon's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, International Security Affairs, Sub-Saharan Africa" - In Rumsfeld's Shop, AmCon Magazine, December 1, 2003 - still seems in denial of the reason why she was forced out of Rumsfeld's Dept. of Defense.
Kwiatkowski's general unsuitability might best be understood in a mindset which caused her to refer to the country in which she resides as, "the Empire of the United States of America" intent on pushing little countries around, and her characterization of the current occupants of the White House as, "the potential war criminals in the Bush administration." - Attention Foreign Countries! How To Make the US Go Away!, Lew Rockwell, June 14, 2003.
Larry Hanauer the staff aide to House Intelligence Committee member Jane Harman D-CA [who has been identified by Fox News as the suspected source of the National Intelligence Estimate - NIE - leak to the NY Times] had at least one non-ideological motivation for bearing animosity towards the Bush administration. He was swept up in a house cleaning operation that resulted in him losing his DOD position along with Kwiatkowski, who seems to have been aware enough of him to take note.
"Intimidation" Letter And The Nguyen Campaign - Does Loretta Sanchez Really Want To Go There?
October 20, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - It's a casebook example of the reason so many conservatives are disenchanted with the direction the GOP has taken.
Fall 1996...and reconquista type Brown power pressure groups such as Hermandad Mexicana Nacional were registering large numbers of illegal aliens in Bob Dornan's previously secure 46th [since changed to the 47th] Congressional District.
Loretta Sanchez a political neophyte who changed parties [from R to D] and then reverted to her Hispanic maiden name [from her married name Brixey] to court the increasing number of Latino voters - legal and otherwise - managed to defeat Dornan by a margin of less than a thousand votes.
House Intelligence Committee Democrat Nailed As The Source In NIE Leak Case?
October 20, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Pete Hoekstra, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has taken the unprecedented step of suspending a Democrat staffer who is strongly suspected of leaking the contents of the National Intelligence Estimate In National Intelligence Estimate Iraq War Study Leak, MSM Comes Up Empty Handed Again to the New York Times.
Committee member Ray LaHood stated in an internal letter that the staffer had requested the NIE document from John Negroponte, the National Director of Intelligence, only three days before the story was splashed across the front pages of the NY Times.
About the incident, LaHood stated that he had no absolute proof of the link between the staffer and the leak but that if, "any classified information was leaked from the committee's minority staff...the implications of such would be dramatic."
Of the possibility that this is all just another coincidence casting suspicion that Democrats are actively engaged in a conspiracy to leak national security documents for political effect, LaHood added, "...coincidence in this town is rare."
World Assembly of Muslim Youth - WAMY - Operation Fits New UK Terror Model
By Beila Rabinowitz - Director MilitantIslamMonitor.org & William A. Mayer - E&P PipeLineNews.org
 October 20, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Indicating the more serious nature of America's approach to Islamist terror, WAMY's U.S. operations - as opposed to those centered in the UK - have been shut down.
As a result, Britain is now facing the consequences of enabling Islamists.
In 2004 the offices of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth in Virginia were raided by 50 agents from the FBI and affiliated law enforcement agencies. WAMY's Falls Church Virginia offices had been incorporated in 1992 by Osama bin-Laden's nephew Abdullah.
When the branch moved to Alexandria, VA, Abdullah bin-Laden was listed as president and was so through 2002. Bin-Laden's name continued to appear on WAMY's tax forms until 1998.
WAMY publications have singled out for admiration, terrorists who attacked Israelis. One in particular lists a man who drove 14 bus passengers off a cliff as a member of the "Heroes from Palestine."
According to a Washington Post June 2, 2004 article, a federal affidavit alleges that WAMY has ties to Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group.
After the raid WAMY issued a statement cynically comparing themselves to the YMCA saying their focus was on "youth education, youth development and serving the Muslim community."
This is exactly the model that has alarmingly been employed in the UK, as detailed in our piece UK In Mortal Danger As Al-Qaeda Sleeper Cells Proliferate, which finds that al-Qaeda has seized upon a "youth group" model that seeks to identify and inculcate into the terror process impressionable young people.
UK In Mortal Danger As Al-Qaeda Terror Cells Proliferate
October 20, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The British press is reporting that the UK is in mortal danger, targeted by a newly discovered system of terrorist cells organized much like the Boy Scouts.
British security officials counsel that this is not merely idle speculation as some of these underground groups have already been compromised by the UK's counter intelligence services and will soon be facing prosecution.
The cells are typically small and operate autonomously, featuring a leader, a quartermaster - adept at assembling supplies and handling logistics - and a number of volunteers who are pressed into duty as need be.
This type of effort is not unkown within Britain as it closely resembles the successful model once employed by the IRA.
Says BBC correspondent Margaret Gilmore:
"They set up groups a bit like Boy Scouts or Boys' Brigade... totally legitimate. Those who are particularly interested they start giving religious indoctrination. Then those who are very interested they start introducing to political teachings, anti-Western rhetoric. And those who are still interested they then start giving technical training.
"They also start sending them on bonding sessions to things like white-water rafting. You end up with a small team of people - the cell is prepared."
The Guardian UK is reporting:
"Al-Qaida sees the U.K. as a massive opportunity to cause loss of life and embarrassment to the authorities."
In a speech last month to the Labour Party's annual conference, Britain's Home Secretary John Reid called the challenge posed by al-Qaeda terror to be "the now seamless threat," adding "to counter radicalization as a nation, we need not only to tackle the immediate dangers but put in place the concept, doctrine, laws and capabilities for a challenge we expect will last a generation."
Though al-Qaeda's overall effectiveness has been hampered by the Bush administration's vigorous, proactive war against it, Pakistan's recent policy of conceding the tribal areas of the country - namely Waziristan - to al-Qaeda has resulted in bolstering the terror organization in that part of the country who apparently have now turned their attention away from the harder to target United States focusing instead upon developing sympathizers within the UK's huge and increasingly radicalized Pakistani Muslim population, especially that in and around London.
Media Traitor's Profits Hit The Skids
 October 20, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The New York Times reported yesterday that its Q3 profits have fallen 40% over the previous quarter and nearly 50% over the same quarter in 2005.
 The Times has probably been the newspaper which was most closely aligned with - as we reported in an August 24, 2005 piece The Enemy Within - Media Traitors Seek US Defeat In Iraq - Editor & Publisher chief Greg Mitchell's shrill hectoring of the print media to bend news coverage towards facilitating an al-Qaeda victory in Iraq:
"At this critical moment, it's time for newspapers -- many of which helped get us into this war -- to use their editorial pages as platforms to help get us out of it. So far, few have done much more than wring their hands. Now, it's literally do-or-die time"
We therefore feel that both the Times' Publisher, Mr. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. as well as E&P's Mitchell deserve recognition for their wisdom, insight and special brand of business acumen.
Noting as Times Co. President and CEO Janet L. Robinson stated that she is, "strongly encouraged by the discipline our teams have shown." we must simply observe that discipline has been shown to be of high value for those who are walking the plank.
Harry Reid [D-NV] The Most Corrupt Senator In DC
 October 17, 2006 - Washington, DC - PipeLineNews.org - Harry "The Fixer" Reid: "so don't lump me in with Jack Abramoff, this is a Republican scandal. Don't try to give any of it to me." - Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), "Fox News Sunday," December 18, 2005
But a recent press report cited Reid among the "first tier" of lawmakers under investigation by the Justice Department probe of "influence peddling" by lobbyist Jack Abramoff - Jerry Seper and Audrey Hudson, "Abramoff-Linked Probe Focuses On 5 Lawmakers," The Washington Times, January 11, 2006
Fixer Reid: "any money that I received had no fingerprints of Jack Abramoff on it." - Senator Harry Reid, Press Conference With Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) and candidate Jim Pederson (D-AZ), Phoenix, AZ, January 10, 2006
But from1991-2000, Reid received zero contributions from the follwoing non-Nevada Indian tribes, but as soon as the tribes were clients of Abramoff, Reid received over $50,000 from them.
1. Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians (California) contributed $19,500 to Reid between 2001 and 2004
2. Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana (Louisiana) contributed $5,000 to Reid 2001 between 2001 and 2004
3. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (Mississippi) contributed $7,000 to Reid between 2001 and 2004
4. Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan (Michigan) contributed 19,000 to Reid between 2001 and 2004 - Source, Campaign Finance Analysis Project Website, www.campaignfinanceanalysisproject.com, Accessed January 12, 2006
Fixer Reid: "Eddie Ayoob didn't work for Jack Abramoff, he worked for a 1,000 member law firm" - Erica Werner, "Reid Says His "Conscience Is Clear" Despite GOP Abramoff Attacks," The Associated Press, January 18, 2006)
But "Abramoff did hire as one of his lobbyists Edward P. Ayoob, a veteran Reid legislative aide." - Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Derek Willis, "Democrats Also Got Tribal Donations," The Washington Post, June 3, 2005
Ayoob was a member of "Team Abramoff."
"Abramoff assembled a group of lobbyists that some in the media have dubbed "Team Abramoff."...they included Ayoob, a former aide to Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who is now the Senate minority leader." - Paul Barton, "Lincoln Aide, Others Say $2,000 Isn't Abramoff-Linked," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 6, 2006...
LTTE "Tamil Tigers" and its UK-wide network
October 17, 2006 - London, England - PipeLineNews.org - LTTE was banned in the UK February 28th 2001 and the annual publication of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) London 'Military Balance 2005/2006' referred to emerging links between the LTTE and the Al-Qaeda movement. It was later revealed confidentially by the editors to diplomatic sources that these links were in terms of commercial transactions including trafficking for financial gain and acquisition of technology rather than any ideological linkage. Experts are studying with interest links between the LTTE and Al-Qaeda in its financial, commercial and arms dealings. It is also believed that such links also exist in maritime transactions.
The LTTE, better known as the Tamil Tigers, which is engaged in an armed confrontation with the Sri Lankan Government, was the first terrorist organisation to use suicide bombers against civilian and military targets. It has in the last 23 years assassinated the political leadership in Sri Lanka, killed a former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and been involved in the loss of nearly 60,000 lives of mostly innocent civilians.
On August 21, 2006 a British NHS GP at Forest Primary Care Centre, Hertford Road in Edmonton, Dr Murugesu Vineyagamoorthy and his wife Dr Pushpam were arrested in New York by the FBI for attempting to bribe a US Justice Dept official with $1 million to try to get the LTTE off the list of banned terrorist organisations in the USA. He was further charged with facilitating the purchase of American made missiles and British submarine technology for the LTTE. This arrest according to many observers was an eye-opener to the huge volume of money that is raised through extortion and intimidation from the Tamil diaspora in the UK that is either smuggled into Sri Lanka through human carriers or in the form of weapons purchased in third countries.
Fundraising in UK: method case studies
i) Extortion The US based organisation Human Rights Watch earlier this year published a study entitled "Funding the final war - LTTE intimidation and extortion in the Tamil diaspora (a case study of UK and Canada)". According to this study many individual families and businesses have been approached to pay sums of money ranging from £2000 to £100,000. The LTTE's de-facto headquarters in London masquerading under the name 'British Tamil Association' has even arranged direct debit arrangements to its account at the Natwest Bank. They have now progressed to getting members of the Tamil community to fill out a questionnaire detailing family address, income, details of family in Sri Lanka etc. Any refusal to meet with payments would result in one of the following steps...
President Bush Signs Bill Mandating Prosecution Of Terrorists - Dems Oppose It, Calling It "Devastating"
 October 16, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - With national security looming as possibly the most important issue facing voters in the November 7 election, little has been said in the MSM regarding the 162 House Democrats and 32 Senate Democrats who voted against authorizing military tribunals for dangerous terrorists and members of al-Qaeda including Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Leftist, Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) who opposes the Military Commissions Act has called it "devastating," which it certainly will be...for radical Islamist terror kingpins.
This begs the question of why Mr. Dodd so vociferously opposes dealing harshly with the people who killed 3,000 American citizens only 5 years ago?
Does Mr. Dodd consider it "devastating" to bring dangerous terrorist suspects to justice?
Does he find it "devastating" to providing American military and civilian personnel with clear guidelines about how they may extract critical intelligence from terrorist suspects?
Does he find it "devastating" to protect American troops on the battlefield by preventing sensitive classified evidence from falling into the hands of terrorists?
Does he find it "devastating" to provide the President with another common sense tool for waging and winning the war against terrorism?...
Are Minneapolis Taxi Fares Going To Support Al-Qaeda?
By William A. Mayer, Editor & Publisher - PipeLineNews.org, research by Beila Rabinowitz, Director - Militant Islam Monitor
October 16, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a September 19 piece Muslim Taxi Drivers At Minneapolis International Airport Subjecting Fares To Sharia we detailed the controversy surrounding airport taxi drivers who were in growing numbers, refusing to transport passengers whom they suspected of carrying beer, wine or other products containing alcohol, using as their justification that such was contrary to Islamic law.
The program that the Metropolitan Airports Commission had devised to deal with the problem - segregating the taxi fleet into two groups, those willing to take alcohol bearing fares and those who were unwilling and identifying each group by a colored beacon to be placed on the roof of the vehicle - was ultimately rejected under the pressure of a withering outpouring of negative comments from the public and media. This is a positive development, since the airport's "solution" actually represented a capitulation to Muslim strong arm tactics and thus a victory for the radical Islamists whose unstated goal remains the implementation of sharia in America under the guise of multiculturalism.
Largely obscured by the outlandish nature of the cabbie story lies a more sober tale, one that has its origin in a little known and even less discussed aspect of a social experiment being conducted by the U.S. Dept. of State known as the U.S. Refugee Program which found its origin in the Refugee Act of 1980 and the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, both a reflection of sentiments expressed by the United Nation's High Commission for Refugees' "Refugee Convention."
The idea behind this program is a noble one - as is often the case with these things - granting asylum to significant numbers of foreign nationals - refugees - who have been abused in various ways by circumstances including actions taken by their governments.
As defined by the State Dept., a refugee is one who meets one or more of the following criteria:
has a particularly compelling history of persecution;
is a member of an ethnic or religious group that is considered by the United States to be of "special humanitarian concern" (for some groups, only those with relatives in the United States are eligible); or
is the spouse, unmarried child, or parent of a refugee who has been resettled or is a U.S. permanent resident or an asylee in the United States.
Under this program and especially since 2003, tens-of-thousands of Somalis have migrated to the United States via the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, PRM.
"The total number of Somalis living in the United States is estimated at 150,000, of whom about 40,000 are Somali refugees from the dominant clans. With tens of thousands of Somalis, Minneapolis has the largest Somali community in the United States. Other metropolitan areas with large numbers of Somalis include Columbus, Ohio, New York City, Washington, D.C., Boston, San Diego, Atlanta,
and Detroit. (For more information on Somalia in general, please see the Center for Applied Linguistics' Culture Profile on Somali refugees.)" - Link
The breakdown of the number of Somalis recently granted asylum to the United States is as follows:
Various publications have been assembled to explain and implement this program, one of which is available for purchase on the Dept. of State website - Muslim Refugees in the United States A Guide for Service Providers, by Patricia S. Maloof, Ph.D.and Fariyal Ross-Sheriff, Ph.D.
From the preamble of this work:
"For some Muslim refugees, religion is a powerful determining factor in life, while for others it may be less important. This guide presents information on the needs that arise from the practice of Islam, such as the need for an appropriate space for prayer, consideration during the month when fasting is observed (Ramadan), and the need to observe dietary laws. It also outlines behaviors that may arise as responses to the fear that Muslims experience when they encounter anti-Muslim sentiments and actions in the United States."
Such passages though not immediately alarming suggest however a Muslim-centric approach in which accommodation goes but one way and which inculcates in Muslim refugees an expectation of dhimmitude on the part of the host culture.
More to the point, one must wonder what forms of "anti-Muslim sentiments" exist in a nation reaching out to haggard Islamic populations who might reasonably be expected to perish in squalid refugee camps in Somalia absent the intervention of the United States?
Maloof and Shariff's treatise presents a storybook version of Islam in which every potential area of concern is glossed over, such as their handling of jihad, defining it as, "the struggle; refers both to the individual's inner struggle to follow the way of Islam, and the struggle on the side of what is right," and this non-reality based declaration of gender equality, "Islam emphasizes the equality of all people, and, according to the teachings of Islam, men and women are equal in the eyes of God."
Aside from such minor encumbrances, the Somali refugee program is controversial from a number of standpoints...
The Muslim Council Of Britain And The Fall Of Inayat Bunglawala
By Dominic Whiteman
October 16, 2006 - London, England - PipeLineNews.org - In 2002 the forever victimized Inayat Bungawala claimed in Britain's Sunday Observer newspaper "British Muslims have learned to develop a thick skin to get on in this country. In the late eighties and early nineties they were vilified by the liberal press for their unyielding opposition to Salman Rushdie's deeply offensive novel, The Satanic Verses. Their tormentors today hail from the combined ranks of the far right, government officials who should know better and assorted pro-Israeli columnists."
The sort of man who looks like he could be all too easily bullied (even now as an adult) in any British school playground - Inayat Bunglawala is competent at using the victim soundbite, even when he's blatantly one of the aggressors. Bungawala is officially the media spokesperson for the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).
The Muslim Council of Britain is an Islamist political group claiming to represent Britain's Muslim population (in spite of the fact that over eighty percent of the British Muslim community is Sufi, sees the MCB's stance as non-representative, and steadfastly refuses to mix religion with politics). The MCB was set up (as recently as 1997) to promote co-operation, consensus and unity on Muslim affairs in the UK, to encourage and strengthen all existing efforts being made for the benefit of the Muslim community, to work for a more enlightened appreciation of Islam and Muslims in the wider society (therein lies the first giveaway), to establish a position for the Muslim community within British society that is fair and based on due rights and to work for the eradication of disadvantages and forms of discrimination faced by Muslims (therein lies the second giveaway). Also to foster better community relations and work for the good of society as a whole (and therein lies the irony). However, the Muslim Council of Britain has increasingly been seen as the Al Mujahiroun in suits - working with the British system rather than violently and in its face - to establish the British Islamist Supremacist Caliphate, where non-believers are inferiors.
In late 2005, shortly after 7/7, Inayat Bungawala was controversially (absurdly) selected as one of seven "conveners" for a British Government Home Office task force with responsibilities for tackling extremism among young Muslims...
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