EGYPT'S ARAB SPRING: Out go the bikinis. In come the burqas.

BANNING BIKINIS AND BOOZE: They aren’t even in charge of the government yet, but the Muslim Brotherhood is already putting Egypt on a fast track right back into the 7th Century. Welcome to little Iran.

The Blaze  Remember when Egypt’s revolution was just a display of Democracy? When it was supposed to be a beautiful example of freedom? When the Arab Spring was as fresh-smelling as Irish Spring? Those days seem to be fading as we continue to learn more about the power vacuum created after the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak.

We already know many are displaying anti-Semitism. And we‘ve learned over the summer that the Muslim Brotherhood is vying for a spot in government though it’s Freedom and Justice Party. So what could go wrong? Here’s a taste: according to The Media Line, the Muslim Brotherhood is hoping to ban skimpy bikinis and alcohol in the streets — regulations that resemble Sharia Law.

According to the site, the Brotherhood is looking to specifically target tourists: Egypt’s tourism industry has suffered a severe blow since the outburst of anti-regime demonstrations in January. But that did not stop the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, from demanding stricter regulations over what tourists can do and wear while visiting the country.

The party is urging officials to ban skimpy swimwear and the consumption of alcohol on Egyptian streets. “Beach tourism must take the values and norms of our society into account,” Muhammad Saad Al-Katatny, secretary-general of Freedom and Justice, reportedly told Egyptian tourism officials on Monday. “We must place regulations on tourists wishing to visit Egypt, which we will announce in advance.”

The call for new strictures on tourists comes as Egypt debates the role of Islam in the post-Mubarak era. Freedom and Justice is competing in elections scheduled for this autumn for parliament and opinion polls show a majority of Egyptians favor a greater use of Islamic law and mores. But a vocal minority worries that Egypt risks becoming an Islamic republic.

This worries Hani Henry, a psychology professor at the American University in Cairo. “This is how things began in Iran,” he told The Media Line. “The moderate youth wanted to implement changes, but the mullah’s hijacked the revolution. The same thing is now happening here in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood. It makes me sick to my stomach.”

The move could do more than curb freedom, it could also hurt Egypt’s economy.Hussam A-Shaer, head of the tourist company association, told Al-Masry al-Youm (quoted in the Media Line article) that tourists could be chased away and that would cost about $13 billion a year in revenue.

Still, that could be what the Islamists want, says the Media Line. Islamists have never been enamored of foreign tourism and before they were crushed by the Mubarak regime foreign visitors were often targeted for killings. Close to 60 Western tourists were killed by Islamist terrorists in the southern city of Luxor in 1997. Tourists were also attacked in bombings in the Sinai resorts of Taba, Sharm Al-Sheikh and Dahab in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

This is what Egyptian democracy will soon look like.


Who's kidding whom? Mayor 'Dhimmi' Bloomberg's refusal to include clergy at the 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Ceremony is the same reason he wants to jam the Ground Zero Victory Mosque down our throats

BNI has covered Mayor Dhimmi* Bloomberg’s Shari’a Finance business dealings in the Middle East several times (see links at end) but the depths to which he will sink to appease his Muslim benefactors apparently know no boundaries.

*DHIMMI from the word ‘dhimmitude’ comes from an Arabic word meaning “protected” and is the Islamic system of governing populations conquered by jihad wars, encompassing all of the demographic, ethnic, and religious aspects of the political system. Dhimmi was the name applied by the Arab-Muslim conquerors to indigenous non-Muslim populations who surrendered by a treaty (dhimma) to Muslim domination.

NY POST  At first glance it seems a bit more than odd that the mayor is denying religious leaders a role at the ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. But an aide argues that a speaking role for clergy would raise logistical problems: The ceremony — which already runs a long time — would grow even more drawn out. (NO, the only problem would be whether or not to include a Muslim cleric in the ceremony, which Bloomberg would no doubt endorse but would enrage a  majority of New Yorkers, not to mention most of America)

Bloomberg has always focused the event on the families of those who perished, with the reading of each name predominant. Even brief words from clergy, the aide says, could detract from that. Besides, he wondered, which religion — or religions — would get to be represented? Wouldn’t those denied a spot be offended?
And therein lies the real problem. (No, he is only worried about offending muslims)

Given the circumstances, the presence of clergy of one faith tradition — Islam — almost certainly would spark controversy, which the city would clearly like to avoid. (BINGO!)

It’s an undeniable fact that the 9/11 attacks were planned and carried out by Muslims in service of the many violent teachings of Islam. They were motivated, too, by hatred of those who embrace other religions, or none at all — as Americans are wont to do. So if the attacks weren’t secular events, wouldn’t an official secularization of the 10th anniversary ceremony be a moral victory for the perpetrators?

Just as first responders and the military figured prominently in America’s response, so did clergy. That’s undeniable. It makes scant sense for a 10th-year anniversary ceremony to obscure those facts by excluding them. (How the first responders are offensive to Muslims I haven’t quite wrapped my head around yet, but I’m sure there is a connection)

Some updated information on Mayor Dhimmi Bloomberg’s expanding Muslim/Middle East business ties:

Clarion Advisory – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is on record excoriating opponents of a new Islamic mosque scheduled to begin construction on September 11, 2011 in lower Manhattan.  The proposed mosque’s site is two blocks from the former World Trade Center’s Twin Towers destroyed ten years previously on September 11, 2001 by Islamic jihadists.

Bloomberg’s demands of religious tolerance from his city’s citizens is inconsistent in a city with 100 mosques already in operation but with a school system that will not acknowledge Christianity or Christmas, or even allow the repairs necessary for the Greek Orthodox Church, St. Nicholas, to go forward nearly a decade after it was crushed by falling debris from the Twin Towers themselves.

Paralleling Mayor Bloomberg’s veiled insults towards those acutely aware of the historical Islamic conquest of non-Muslim lands by their building of mosques on top of or dominating a conquered people’s holy sites, is the concurrent Bloomberg LLC’s expansion of its Dubai financial center into a regional hub for the UAE.

Founded in 1981 by Michael Bloomberg, who privately owns 85% of the limited liability corporation Bloomberg LLC is a dominant player in global financial software, data gathering and news, commanding one third of its market niche estimated at $16 billion dollars.

Bloomberg LLC sells its terminals from seven regional hubs: London, Sao Paolo, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney but the Dubai regional center will allow Bloomberg access to Islamic sharia based banking and monetary systems by developing a sharia compliant finance portal.

According to the regional head of Bloomberg LLC’s Middle East and South Asia centers, Max Linnington, “The region for us has seen explosive growth.  For example, last year in the UAE, we grew our core business by 61 per cent. And already this year, we exceeded what we achieved in all of last year in the UAE. So we are selling a lot of Bloomberg terminals, basically.”

Linnington went on to add, “Particularly since the meltdown of the western capitalist system, there has been an increasingly large focus on the virtues of Islamic finance. Today, there is no one single provider of information that caters to the Islamic finance market. So by Bloomberg being here, we are in the process of building out an Islamic finance product. We are very confident that we can build a product that meets the needs of the market right now.”

Bloomberg LLC has news bureaus throughout the Gulf Corporation Counsel (GCC) and is opening offices in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.  Its new Dubai regional hub will cover financial news, analysis and data gathering throughout the Middle East and extend Eastwards across Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Indian subcontinent and Nepal.

Sharia banking does not pay interest but donates a percentage to Islamic interests around the globe, mostly centering on Islamic expansionism through building mosques, madrassas, Western law suits (lawfare) or more violently through Islamic jihadist terrorism.

It should not come as a surprise that a co-founder of the Hamas organization, Mahmoud al-Zahar, came out and said the following about the controversial Cordoba mosque, whose imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, refuses to identify Hamas as a terrorist organization, ”We have to build everywhere.  In every area we have, [as] Muslim[s], we have to pray, and this mosque is the only site of prayer.  We have to build the mosque, as you are allowed to build the church and Israelis are building their holy places.”

Considering that there are so few Muslims in Lower Manhattan and that they already have 100 mosques in New York City from which to choose, Al-Zahar’s reasoning is as specious as Mayor Bloomberg’s especially since the definition of what is considered “holy” needs to be examined.

For Americans in general and New Yorkers in particular, the site of the Twin towers and the memory of the nearly three thousand, who died in the worst domestic attack on US soil, is a holy site.  For Muslims worldwide that attack and destruction represents the triumph of Islam, which makes Ground Zero “holy” in their eyes but a definite historical and psychological assault on US citizens.

By siding with Islamic expansionism through mosque building, New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg’s insulting tirade against the Cordoba mosque’s detractors, calls into question his ethics in catering financially to an avowed enemy of Western civilization and democratic principles.

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CANADA: Muslim religious leader charged with multiple sexual assaults on young boys and girls had used several aliases

Mohammad Masroor

Muslim congregants are shocked and many don’t believe the charges. Awww, he was probably framed. After all, sex with children is  permitted under Islamic law.

National PostAn imam who worked in a Toronto mosque who was arrested last week and is facing 13 charges in relation to sexual offenses allegedly committed globally has used several aliases, the Toronto Police are saying. 

The 13 charges against Mr. Masroor stem from alleged abuses committed against five former students. Because the imam traveled so extensively, Det. Const. Karen Armstrong said she worried there are more victims are out there, if not in Canada. Det. Const. Armstrong said Mr. Masroor was known to his alleged victims.

Mohammad Masroor, 48, worked as a travelling imam and visited numerous countries teaching children and young people Koranic studies. In their investigation, police have found Mr. Masroor to be in possession of three passports than bear names other than his own.

A passport with the name Junaid Salman, with no birth date listed, was allegedly used in the early 1990s in Hungary, Austria and extensively in Italy, as well as other European nations. A passport with the name Abdur Rahim, also with an unknown birth date, was used during the 1980s in India, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Police say Mr. Masroor has also been known as Abdul Karim Abdul Aziz, a Gulf Arabic name.

The imam may have been a member of the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic movement aimed at proselytizing at the grassroots level. The movement is largely based in Bangladesh now.

“Mohammad Masroor was a leader in the community, he was in a position of trust,” she told a press conference last week. “Because he was in a position of power, we believe there are other victims.”

Det. Caroline Glen said Toronto Police are currently working with Interpol and that they are currently conducting investigations in America, searching for other victims of Mr. Masroor. Mr. Masroor arrived in Toronto in 2008; the investigation started shortly after.


We must thank the Left Wing Loons for promoting our Anti-Shari'a/Anti-Islam agenda

Thank you Commies and Lefties for helping us spread the message about the the dangers of creeping Islamization that is threatening our political system, our laws, our schools, and our very way of life.

But you might consider changing the title of your video from ‘The Islamophobic Network’ to ‘The Islamic Threat Prevention Network.’ Oh, and one more thing, Gov. Chris Christie should not be in this video because he is on the side of the enemy.

 


NEVADA Democrat Congressional candidate says it's a good idea for Democrats to pretend to support Israel

Taking a page out of the ‘Obama for President 2008′ playbook, Democrat Congressional candidate Kate Marshall in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District says it would be “useful” to support Israel.

Politico  Nevadans were treated to a look inside the campaign of congressional candidate Kate Marshall on Wednesday when her staff sent out a press release that contained internal notes detailing why it would be “useful” for the Democrat to support Israel.

Marshall, who is running in a special election for the seat in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District, released a campaign statement supporting Israel as violence escalated in the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip. However, her aides accidentally left in a “background” section at the bottom that explained why it would be “useful to express support for Israel.”

The section, which was first reported by the Las Vegas Sun’s Jon Ralston, explains that putting out the statement would “demonstrate some foreign policy prowess” during a time when “Israel has been in the news.”

The notes that were supposed to remain private also went on to say that a statement on Israel would be timely because of Glenn Beck’s recent Rally to Restore Courage event in Jerusalem. The section alludes to the fact that Republicans are generally supporters of Israel, noting that Marshall could gain by siding with Israel “in an R district.”


Terrorist Front Group CAIR has its panties in a wad over new 9/11 coloring book that shows (gasp) Muslims as terrorists!

With the 10th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11th quickly approaching, a new children’s ‘graphic coloring book’ about the events of 9/11 has emerged and the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated CAIR thugs are frothing at the mouth over it.

WHERE TO BUY: Coloring Book

According to the publisher, the book entitled ‘We Shall Never Forget 9/11 — The Kids’ Book of Freedom’ is “designed to be a tool that parents can use to help teach children about the facts surrounding 9/11.” (And we know how much Muslims hate the facts)

The book opens on September 11, 2011 with a picture of Osama Bin Laden as he plots the US attacks. It ends nearly 10 years later with the raid of Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound and his death. Several pages show both American military and Muslims with guns. The final page of the story shows a bullet flying toward Bin Laden before his death.

Publishers say the book ‘demonstrates honesty, reverence, integrity and good character,’ with ‘a historic and educational perspective.’ But the executive director of terrorist front group CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relation), Dawud Walid claims, “This publisher is doing a disservice to innocent young minds by showing this type of nonsense. In every single reference to Muslims, we see  radicals, extremists, and depictions of people being terrorists,” said Walid. (HOORAY for the publishers)

To no one’s surprise, the publisher now is getting death threats.

Publisher of Coloring Book Getting Death Threats This link attributes them to left wing extremists. But we know it must be Muslims who make these kinds of threats all the time.


Heartbroken dog mourns next to casket at funeral of Navy SEAL

Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson lay in a coffin, draped in an American flag, in front of a tearful audience mourning his death in Afghanistan. Soon an old friend appeared, and like a fellow soldier on a battlefield, his loyal dog refused to leave him behind.

MSNBC – Tumilson’s Labrador retriever, Hawkeye, was photographed lying by Tumilson’s casket in a heart-wrenching image taken at the funeral service in Tumilson’s hometown of Rockford, Iowa, earlier this week. Hawkeye walked up to the casket at the beginning of the service and then dropped down with a heaving sigh as about 1,500 mourners witnessed a dog accompanying his master until the end.

The photo was snapped by Tumilson’s cousin, Lisa Pembleton, and posted on her Facebook page in memory of the San Diego resident. Tumilson, 35, was one of 30 American troops, including 22 Navy Seals, who was killed when a Taliban insurgent shot down a Chinook helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade on Aug. 6.

“I felt compelled to take one photo to share with family members that couldn’t make it or couldn’t see what I could from the aisle,” Pembleton wrote on her Facebook page. “To say that he was an amazing man doesn’t do him justice. The loss of Jon to his family, military family and friends is immeasurable.’’

Hawkeye was such a huge part of Tumilson’s life that Tumilson’s family followed the dog down the aisle as they entered the service in front of a capacity crowd in the gymnasium at the Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock Community School. Hawkeye then followed Tumilson’s good friend, Scott Nichols, as Nichols approached the stage to give a speech. As Nichols prepared to memorialize his friend, Hawkeye dutifully laid down near the casket.

The youngest of three children, Tumilson had wanted to be a Navy SEAL since he was a teenager. Friends and his two older sisters remembered a fearless soldier, and a Power Point presentation was shown that illustrated Tumilson’s active life outside of the military, which included scuba diving, martial arts, and triathlons.

“If J.T. had known he was going to be shot down when going to the aid of others, he would have gone anyway,” friend Boe Nankivel said at the service.

“Your dreams were big and seemed impossible to nearly everyone on the outside,” his sister, Kristie Pohlman, said at the service. “I always knew you’d somehow do what you wanted.”

As for Hawkeye, the loyal Labrador will now be owned by Nichols, Tumilson’s friend.


EXCELLENT! New York Civil Liberties Union concerned over rise in anti-Muslim sentiment and anti-mosque activities in NY State

The briefing paper, Religious Freedom Under Attack: the Rise of Anti-Mosque Activities in New York State, explores the legal and cultural background against which mosque controversies have unfolded across the state over the past year.

NYCLU  It calls on public officials to promote intercultural understanding of Muslim New Yorkers while respecting the First Amendment rights of those who oppose mosque projects.

“When we violate one group’s freedom, everybody’s liberty is at stake,” said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman. “While opponents of mosque projects have a constitutional right to express their views, our public officials must work to ensure that New York remains a welcoming place for all who want to live and worship here, and that the rights and freedoms of those who wish to build mosques are also protected.”

The paper provides nine examples of incidents across the state in which Muslim communities were targeted for their beliefs and practices by their neighbors and/or local governments.

It chronicles the fierce opposition to the proposed Park51 Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, and details heated opposition to mosques and proposed mosque projects in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn; Midland beach, Staten Island; and three communities in Long Island. It also covers three incidents in upstate New York in which mosques were subjected to harassment and attacks.

The paper examines the role that federal national security policies, law enforcement agencies and politicians have played in inflaming anti-Muslim sentiment and anti-mosque activities.

“Government policies that cast blanket suspicion on all Muslim residents are misguided and divisive,” said NYCLU Advocacy Director Udi Ofer, an author of the paper. “Religious profiling was unconstitutional before 9/11, and it’s unconstitutional after 9/11. Our elected officials must stand up for religious freedom and ensure that New Yorkers treat each other with respect and understanding.”

The NYCLU offers the following recommendations to federal, state and local public officials to protect religious liberty while also respecting the First Amendment rights of those who oppose mosque projects.

* Elected officials should play an active role in protecting the rights of Muslim New Yorkers and fostering cross-cultural understandings.

* New York should prepare for another backlash against Muslims leading up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, and during next year’s presidential and congressional elections.

* The NYPD should reject trainings based on its flawed radicalization theory, include information about New York’s diverse cultures and religious communities in its training materials and be transparent about how it trains its police officers about Islam and Muslim New Yorkers.

* New York’s schools must take the lead in creating cultural understanding and combating bigotry.

* Government officials must vigorously enforce laws that defend religious worship.


REP. ALLEN WEST (R-FL) to Israel: "You don't owe Turkey an apology over the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident""

West received 'Defender of Israel' award

“Not only that, but I think the fact that [Israeli Defense Minister] Ehud Barak apologized for the [killing of] three Egyptian soldiers before we knew the circumstances of their deaths are the types of things that get played out in the international media that end up making you being castigated as the bad guy,” West said.

J POST  West, 50, a Tea Party-associated freshman congressman from South Florida already being touted as a possible presidential candidate in the future, is in the country with a delegation of 27 Republican congressmen. He spent 22 years in the US military, including fighting in the First Gulf War and in Iraq, and retired with the rank of lieutenant- colonel.

“You have to be very careful with words, and how words are used in the international arena,” he said.


Israel need not issue “any type of apology to Egypt. When these terrorists [who carried out Thursday’s attack] transferred through Egypt, they obviously felt safe and secure doing that. And then they launched a very well-coordinated ambush – this was not just a bunch of guys getting lucky in the middle of the night, this was a well-coordinated event – that meant the routes were wellplanned out as well,” West said.

He said if you take that incident, coupled with Iranian war ships transiting the Suez Canal since the fall of Hosni Mubarak and the repeated attacks on the natural gas pipeline to Israel, “I think Israel has every right to be concerned about what they are seeing in Egypt.”

Regarding Turkey, West said Israel had the “right to uphold that blockade [of Gaza], which is very important, and you shouldn’t have to apologize when your military has been attacked.”

Asked whether it might not be wise for Israel to swallow its “national pride” for the long-term strategic benefit of good ties with Turkey, West said, “It does come back to your national pride and your stature. Because if someone is going to look at you in a negative light anyhow, you don’t need to throw more dirt upon yourself. Turkey knows you had every right to do what you did, and I think you need to be able to express that to Turkey.”

Regarding the Mavi Marmara incident, West said that the fact that the IDF commandos landed on the ship carrying paint guns showed that the country did everything necessary to try and have “less of a confrontation, but yet you were attacked. What I told people in America is that they should think about what if America was participating in a sanction-led blockade, and all of a sudden we boarded a ship, and our Navy SEALs were attacked. What would you expect our Navy SEALs to do? We should allow Israel to do the exact same thing.”

The congressman also said that “for us to believe that there can be a return to pre-’67 lines is not a viable alternative for the security of Israel.”

One of West’s speeches about Israel:

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Faced with constant threats of war and extermination, ONLY ISRAEL…


SELF-HATING JEW BASTARDS AGAINST ISRAEL

Schmucks like these are the reason the rest of us need the Second Amendment.


LIBYAN LIBERATION: Islamic extremists,' Barack Obama's, and left wing Western journalists' wet dream

As Tripoli fell to anti-Gaddafi rebel forces, the euphoria that erupted in some parts of the city was matched only by that which broke out among Middle East pundits in the West. The fall of the Libyan capital represents a clear victory for freedom over tyranny, they tell us, and a new country — defined by an enthusiastic embrace of democracy, pluralism and representative government — will emerge.

UK DAILY MAIL  However, we have been here twice before in the Middle East in recent months. First, when Tunisia’s strongman, Zine El-Abidene Ben Ali, fled Tunis, and then when Egypt’s dictator Hosni Mubarak vacated the presidential palace in Cairo.

Seven months on, both countries are as authoritarian as ever. The Islamists have hijacked the popular uprisings there. And little evidence of a popular thirst for democracy can be found. If the Arab Spring has so miserably failed to blossom into an enthusiasm for democracy in these two relatively modern and unified Arab states, what chance is there of it doing so in a desert backwater such as Libya?

Other events in the Middle East also bode ill for Libya’s future. A decade after the American-led invasions, Afghanistan and Iraq — also deeply tribal countries — are, despite regular elections, just as far in social terms from Western notions of liberalism and pluralism. Instead, their populations are busy tearing each other apart along tribal and sectarian lines, and the liberals are so marginalised they barely manage to get a word in.

Now, more suddenly than any of us imagined, we are confronted with the same question that has caused us so many problems in those countries: what happens next? Several months ago, as the West became ever more deeply embroiled in its Libyan misadventure, it became increasingly clear that it did not have the faintest idea who the ‘Eastern Rebels’ they were defending and arming actually were.

Yet the coalition forces have gone to dramatic lengths to assist this ragtag army in its attempt to unseat Gaddafi, with Nato flying 2,000 sorties, which (to put it charitably) pushed to the limit its UN mandate giving authorisation only to protect civilians.

Only in the weeks and months to come will we discover if the West has repeated the deadly mistake it made in Afghanistan and Iraq: arming fanatical jihadists and tribesmen who will, sooner or later, turn against their paymaster.

For not all the rebels are chaotic. One of their commanders, Abdel-Hakim Al-Hasidi, has been a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) since the Nineties. This is a violent jihadist outfit that, for decades, had been waging a holy war against the Gaddafi regime with an aim of creating an Islamic state. It was banned worldwide after the 9/11 attacks, when Al-Hasidi fled to Afghanistan.

Now he admits he recruited dozens of Al Qaeda members to the insurgent cause in Iraq, where the LIFG made up the second largest group of foreign fighters; and, worse, that many of his jihadists have joined the rebellion in Libya. Al-Hasidi said his fighters in Libya ‘are patriots and good Muslims’, but added that Al Qaeda men ‘are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader’ in Iraq.

Even as the rebels continue to pour into Tripoli, the numerous Islamist militias, who have been fighting independently, are still refusing officially to join their ranks.

Rebel leader Abdul Jalil says his opposition forces had chosen to start their first attack on Tripoli on the 20th day of Ramadan, which marks the ancient Islamic Battle of Badr, when Muslims fought for the holy city of Mecca in AD 624. That hardly inspires confidence in a secular, liberal future for Libya.

The fiercely independent Islamists, moreover, will not relent on their demands for an Islamist state. In the transitional council’s draft constitution it is clearly stated that Islamic law will be ‘the principal source of legislation’.

Nato, then, can at best achieve replacing the Gaddafi regime with an Islamist-infiltrated tribal council. And that means Libya is as far as ever from being a Western-style democracy. Indeed, it is more likely to turn into the West’s worst nightmare.

Euphoric British journalist in Libya (sounding like Anderson Cooper in Egypt)

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Muslims demand shari'a student loans because paying interest goes against Islamic law

ALL TOGETHER NOW: “Pay cash or get the Hell out of Britain, you ungrateful muslim freeloaders.”

UK DAILY MAIL  Muslim groups are calling for a separate student loan system because the interest due to be charged will conflict with rules of Sharia law. (England is ruled by British law, NOT Shari’a law. Yet)

The changes to tuition fees, which come into force next year, will see students charged higher rates of interest on the loans they take out to pay for university. Until now they have paid the market rate of inflation but the reforms mean students who go on to earn more than £21,000 will have to pay interest of up to 3 per cent.

But in some interpretations of Sharia law, which is Islam’s legal system and governs every aspect of Muslim life, loans are forbidden. (Who cares? Go study in Pakistan)

The National Union of Students has said it could be two years before an alternative system is worked out, leaving some Muslims fearing they cannot go on to further education.

The Federation of Student Islamic Societies told The Independent that the rate increase was a ‘pressing issue’. A spokesman said: ‘Because the rate of interest is above the rate of inflation, it is quite blatant usury.’ Usury means the practice of lending money and charging the borrower interest, possibly at a very high rate.

Mohammed Ahmed-Sheikh, 17, says the changes will discourage him from applying to university next year. (Good!) ‘The fees are the reason I’m having doubts. I’m Muslim and loans are against my religion,’ he told The Independent. (Then go live in a muslim hellhole, there are 57 of them)
Ahmad Mitoubsi, 21, who graduated this year, added: ‘We’ve just had to adapt to the British system or else I couldn’t have gone to uni.’ (Well, DUH!)

The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills says discussions are ongoing with student groups about a solution. But it is thought an alternative, such as already happens with mortgages in which education could be ‘rented’ instead, may not be agreed until the 2013/14 academic year.

Sharia law is Islam’s legal system. It was derived from the Koran, as the word of God, the example of the life of the prophet Muhammad and fatwas – the rulings of Islamic scholars. (You are in England, not yet a muslim country…but close)

It is different to the legal traditions of the Western world because it governs – or informs – everything about how a Muslim lives. (Again, WHO cares?)

How British Muslim students see things:



77% of Democrats and one Republican voted AGAINST Rules Of Engagement that would protect our troops

No surprise, Ron Paul voted AGAINST this amendment that would save lives.

H.Amdt. 318: An amendment numbered 38 printed in House… to H.R. 1540: National Defense Authorization Act… (Vote On Amendment)

Amendment requires that the rules of engagement [ROE] allow any military service personnel assigned to duty in a designated hostile fire area to have rules of engagement that fully protect their right to proactively defend themselves from hostile actions.

The results? (tallied here):

143 out of 185 Democrats present — 77% — voted against this amendment; 217 out of 235 Republicans present — 92% — voted for it. As for the two Republicans in Congress running who are Presidential candidates, Michele Bachmann voted for the amendment; Ron Paul against it. How did your representative vote?

American Thinker  H/T Sheik Yermani

Vote Overview

Totals Democrats Republicans Independents All Votes
Needed To Win
Aye: 260 (60%)
43 217 0
No: 160 (37%) 142 18 0
Present: 0 (0%) 0 0 0
Not Voting: 11 (3%) 7 4 0
Required: Simple Majority of 420 votes (=211 votes)

(Vacancies in Congress will affect vote totals.)

More information: Aye versus Yea Explained

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Alabama
Aye AL-1 Bonner, Jo [R]
Aye AL-2 Roby, Martha [R]
Aye AL-3 Rogers, Michael [R]
Aye AL-4 Aderholt, Robert [R]
Aye AL-5 Brooks, Mo [R]
Aye AL-6 Bachus, Spencer [R]
No AL-7 Sewell, Terri [D]
Alaska
Aye AK-0 Young, Donald [R]
Arizona
Aye AZ-1 Gosar, Paul [R]
Aye AZ-2 Franks, Trent [R]
Aye AZ-3 Quayle, Ben [R]
No AZ-4 Pastor, Edward [D]
Aye AZ-5 Schweikert, David [R]
Not Voting AZ-6 Flake, Jeff [R]
No AZ-7 Grijalva, Raul [D]
Not Voting AZ-8 Giffords, Gabrielle [D]
Arkansas
Aye AR-1 Crawford, Rick [R]
Aye AR-2 Griffin, Tim [R]
Aye AR-3 Womack, Steve [R]
Aye AR-4 Ross, Mike [D]
California
No CA-1 Thompson, C. [D]
Aye CA-2 Herger, Walter [R]
Aye CA-3 Lungren, Daniel [R]
Aye CA-4 McClintock, Tom [R]
No CA-5 Matsui, Doris [D]
No CA-6 Woolsey, Lynn [D]
No CA-7 Miller, George [D]
No CA-8 Pelosi, Nancy [D]
No CA-9 Lee, Barbara [D]
No CA-10 Garamendi, John [D]
No CA-11 McNerney, Jerry [D]
No CA-12 Speier, Jackie [D]
No CA-13 Stark, Fortney [D]
No CA-14 Eshoo, Anna [D]
No CA-15 Honda, Michael [D]
No CA-16 Lofgren, Zoe [D]
No CA-17 Farr, Sam [D]
No CA-18 Cardoza, Dennis [D]
Aye CA-19 Denham, Jeff [R]
Aye CA-20 Costa, Jim [D]
Aye CA-21 Nunes, Devin [R]
Aye CA-22 McCarthy, Kevin [R]
No CA-23 Capps, Lois [D]
Aye CA-24 Gallegly, Elton [R]
No CA-25 McKeon, Howard [R]
Aye CA-26 Dreier, David [R]
No CA-27 Sherman, Brad [D]
No CA-28 Berman, Howard [D]
No CA-29 Schiff, Adam [D]
No CA-30 Waxman, Henry [D]
No CA-31 Becerra, Xavier [D]
No CA-32 Chu, Judy [D]
No CA-33 Bass, Karen [D]
No CA-34 Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D]
No CA-35 Waters, Maxine [D]
No CA-37 Richardson, Laura [D]
No CA-38 Napolitano, Grace [D]
No CA-39 Sanchez, Linda [D]
Aye CA-40 Royce, Edward [R]
Aye CA-41 Lewis, Jerry [R]
Aye CA-42 Miller, Gary [R]
No CA-43 Baca, Joe [D]
Aye CA-44 Calvert, Ken [R]
Aye CA-45 Bono Mack, Mary [R]
Aye CA-46 Rohrabacher, Dana [R]
No CA-47 Sanchez, Loretta [D]
Aye CA-48 Campbell, John [R]
Aye CA-49 Issa, Darrell [R]
Aye CA-50 Bilbray, Brian [R]
Not Voting CA-51 Filner, Bob [D]
Aye CA-52 Hunter, Duncan [R]
No CA-53 Davis, Susan [D]
Colorado
No CO-1 DeGette, Diana [D]
No CO-2 Polis, Jared [D]
Aye CO-3 Tipton, Scott [R]
Aye CO-4 Gardner, Cory [R]
Aye CO-5 Lamborn, Doug [R]
Aye CO-6 Coffman, Mike [R]
No CO-7 Perlmutter, Ed [D]
Connecticut
No CT-1 Larson, John [D]
No CT-2 Courtney, Joe [D]
No CT-3 DeLauro, Rosa [D]
No CT-4 Himes, James [D]
No CT-5 Murphy, Christopher [D]
Delaware
No DE-0 Carney, John [D]
Florida
Aye FL-1 Miller, Jeff [R]
Aye FL-2 Southerland, Steve [R]
No FL-3 Brown, Corrine [D]
No FL-4 Crenshaw, Ander [R]
Aye FL-5 Nugent, Richard [R]
Aye FL-6 Stearns, Clifford [R]
Aye FL-7 Mica, John [R]
No FL-8 Webster, Daniel [R]
Aye FL-9 Bilirakis, Gus [R]
Aye FL-10 Young, C. W. [R]
No FL-11 Castor, Kathy [D]
Aye FL-12 Ross, Dennis [R]
Aye FL-13 Buchanan, Vern [R]
Aye FL-14 Mack, Connie [R]
Aye FL-15 Posey, Bill [R]
Aye FL-16 Rooney, Thomas [R]
No FL-17 Wilson, Frederica [D]
Aye FL-18 Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R]
No FL-19 Deutch, Ted [D]
No FL-20 Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D]
Aye FL-21 Diaz-Balart, Mario [R]
Aye FL-22 West, Allen [R]
No FL-23 Hastings, Alcee [D]
Aye FL-24 Adams, Sandy [R]
Aye FL-25 Rivera, David [R]
Georgia
Aye GA-1 Kingston, Jack [R]
Aye GA-2 Bishop, Sanford [D]
Aye GA-3 Westmoreland, Lynn [R]
No GA-4 Johnson, Henry [D]
No GA-5 Lewis, John [D]
Aye GA-6 Price, Tom [R]
Aye GA-7 Woodall, Rob [R]
Aye GA-8 Scott, Austin [R]
Aye GA-9 Graves, Tom [R]
Aye GA-10 Broun, Paul [R]
Aye GA-11 Gingrey, John [R]
Aye GA-12 Barrow, John [D]
No GA-13 Scott, David [D]
Hawaii
No HI-1 Hanabusa, Colleen [D]
No HI-2 Hirono, Mazie [D]
Idaho
Aye ID-1 Labrador, Raúl [R]
Aye ID-2 Simpson, Michael [R]
Illinois
No IL-1 Rush, Bobby [D]
Not Voting IL-2 Jackson, Jesse [D]
Aye IL-3 Lipinski, Daniel [D]
No IL-4 Gutierrez, Luis [D]
No IL-5 Quigley, Mike [D]
Aye IL-6 Roskam, Peter [R]
No IL-7 Davis, Danny [D]
Aye IL-8 Walsh, Joe [R]
No IL-9 Schakowsky, Janice [D]
No IL-10 Dold, Bob [R]
No IL-11 Kinzinger, Adam [R]
Aye IL-12 Costello, Jerry [D]
Aye IL-13 Biggert, Judy [R]
Aye IL-14 Hultgren, Randy [R]
Aye IL-15 Johnson, Timothy [R]
Aye IL-16 Manzullo, Donald [R]
Aye IL-17 Schilling, Robert [R]
Aye IL-18 Schock, Aaron [R]
Aye IL-19 Shimkus, John [R]
Indiana
No IN-1 Visclosky, Peter [D]
Aye IN-2 Donnelly, Joe [D]
Aye IN-3 Stutzman, Marlin [R]
Aye IN-4 Rokita, Todd [R]
Aye IN-5 Burton, Dan [R]
Aye IN-6 Pence, Mike [R]
No IN-7 Carson, André [D]
Aye IN-8 Bucshon, Larry [R]
Aye IN-9 Young, Todd [R]
Iowa
No IA-1 Braley, Bruce [D]
Aye IA-2 Loebsack, David [D]
Aye IA-3 Boswell, Leonard [D]
Aye IA-4 Latham, Thomas [R]
Aye IA-5 King, Steve [R]
Kansas
Aye KS-1 Huelskamp, Tim [R]
Aye KS-2 Jenkins, Lynn [R]
Aye KS-3 Yoder, Kevin [R]
Aye KS-4 Pompeo, Mike [R]
Kentucky
Aye KY-1 Whitfield, Edward [R]
Aye KY-2 Guthrie, Brett [R]
No KY-3 Yarmuth, John [D]
Aye KY-4 Davis, Geoff [R]
Aye KY-5 Rogers, Harold [R]
Aye KY-6 Chandler, Ben [D]
Louisiana
Aye LA-1 Scalise, Steve [R]
No LA-2 Richmond, Cedric [D]
Aye LA-3 Landry, Jeff [R]
No LA-4 Fleming, John [R]
Aye LA-5 Alexander, Rodney [R]
Aye LA-6 Cassidy, Bill [R]
Not Voting LA-7 Boustany, Charles [R]
Maine
No ME-1 Pingree, Chellie [D]
Aye ME-2 Michaud, Michael [D]
Maryland
Aye MD-1 Harris, Andy [R]
Aye MD-2 Ruppersberger, C.A. [D]
No MD-3 Sarbanes, John [D]
No MD-4 Edwards, Donna [D]
No MD-5 Hoyer, Steny [D]
Aye MD-6 Bartlett, Roscoe [R]
No MD-7 Cummings, Elijah [D]
No MD-8 Van Hollen, Christopher [D]
Massachusetts
Not Voting MA-1 Olver, John [D]
Aye MA-2 Neal, Richard [D]
No MA-3 McGovern, James [D]
No MA-4 Frank, Barney [D]
No MA-5 Tsongas, Niki [D]
Aye MA-6 Tierney, John [D]
No MA-7 Markey, Edward [D]
No MA-8 Capuano, Michael [D]
Aye MA-9 Lynch, Stephen [D]
Aye MA-10 Keating, William [D]
Michigan
Aye MI-1 Benishek, Dan [R]
Aye MI-2 Huizenga, Bill [R]
Aye MI-3 Amash, Justin [R]
Aye MI-4 Camp, David [R]
No MI-5 Kildee, Dale [D]
Aye MI-6 Upton, Frederick [R]
Aye MI-7 Walberg, Timothy [R]
Aye MI-8 Rogers, Michael [R]
No MI-9 Peters, Gary [D]
Aye MI-10 Miller, Candice [R]
Aye MI-11 McCotter, Thaddeus [R]
No MI-12 Levin, Sander [D]
No MI-13 Clarke, Hansen [D]
No MI-14 Conyers, John [D]
Not Voting MI-15 Dingell, John [D]
Minnesota
No MN-1 Walz, Timothy [D]
Aye MN-2 Kline, John [R]
Aye MN-3 Paulsen, Erik [R]
No MN-4 McCollum, Betty [D]
No MN-5 Ellison, Keith [D]
Aye MN-6 Bachmann, Michele [R]
Aye MN-7 Peterson, Collin [D]
Aye MN-8 Cravaack, Chip [R]
Mississippi
Aye MS-1 Nunnelee, Alan [R]
No MS-2 Thompson, Bennie [D]
Aye MS-3 Harper, Gregg [R]
Aye MS-4 Palazzo, Steven [R]
Missouri
No MO-1 Clay, William [D]
Aye MO-2 Akin, W. [R]
No MO-3 Carnahan, Russ [D]
Aye MO-4 Hartzler, Vicky [R]
No MO-5 Cleaver, Emanuel [D]
Aye MO-6 Graves, Samuel [R]
Not Voting MO-7 Long, Billy [R]
Aye MO-8 Emerson, Jo Ann [R]
Aye MO-9 Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R]
Montana
Aye MT-0 Rehberg, Dennis [R]
Nebraska
Aye NE-1 Fortenberry, Jeffrey [R]
Aye NE-2 Terry, Lee [R]
Aye NE-3 Smith, Adrian [R]
Nevada
Aye NV-1 Berkley, Shelley [D]
No NV-3 Heck, Joe [R]
New Hampshire
Aye NH-1 Guinta, Frank [R]
Aye NH-2 Bass, Charles [R]
New Jersey
No NJ-1 Andrews, Robert [D]
Aye NJ-2 LoBiondo, Frank [R]
Aye NJ-3 Runyan, Jon [R]
Aye NJ-4 Smith, Christopher [R]
Aye NJ-5 Garrett, Scott [R]
No NJ-6 Pallone, Frank [D]
Aye NJ-7 Lance, Leonard [R]
No NJ-8 Pascrell, William [D]
No NJ-9 Rothman, Steven [D]
Not Voting NJ-10 Payne, Donald [D]
No NJ-11 Frelinghuysen, Rodney [R]
No NJ-12 Holt, Rush [D]
No NJ-13 Sires, Albio [D]
New Mexico
Aye NM-1 Heinrich, Martin [D]
Aye NM-2 Pearce, Steven [R]
No NM-3 Lujan, Ben [D]
New York
No NY-1 Bishop, Timothy [D]
No NY-2 Israel, Steve [D]
Aye NY-3 King, Peter [R]
Not Voting NY-4 McCarthy, Carolyn [D]
No NY-5 Ackerman, Gary [D]
No NY-6 Meeks, Gregory [D]
Aye NY-7 Crowley, Joseph [D]
No NY-8 Nadler, Jerrold [D]
No NY-9 Weiner, Anthony [D]
No NY-10 Towns, Edolphus [D]
No NY-11 Clarke, Yvette [D]
No NY-12 Velazquez, Nydia [D]
Aye NY-13 Grimm, Michael [R]
No NY-14 Maloney, Carolyn [D]
No NY-15 Rangel, Charles [D]
No NY-16 Serrano, José [D]
Aye NY-17 Engel, Eliot [D]
No NY-18 Lowey, Nita [D]
Aye NY-19 Hayworth, Nan [R]
Aye NY-20 Gibson, Chris [R]
No NY-21 Tonko, Paul [D]
No NY-22 Hinchey, Maurice [D]
No NY-23 Owens, William [D]
Aye NY-24 Hanna, Richard [R]
Aye NY-25 Buerkle, Ann Marie [R]
No NY-27 Higgins, Brian [D]
No NY-28 Slaughter, Louise [D]
Aye NY-29 Reed, Tom [R]
North Carolina
No NC-1 Butterfield, George [D]
Aye NC-2 Ellmers, Renee [R]
Aye NC-3 Jones, Walter [R]
No NC-4 Price, David [D]
Aye NC-5 Foxx, Virginia [R]
Aye NC-6 Coble, Howard [R]
Aye NC-7 McIntyre, Mike [D]
Aye NC-8 Kissell, Larry [D]
Aye NC-9 Myrick, Sue [R]
Aye NC-10 McHenry, Patrick [R]
Aye NC-11 Shuler, Heath [D]
No NC-12 Watt, Melvin [D]
No NC-13 Miller, R. [D]
North Dakota
No ND-0 Berg, Rick [R]
Ohio
Aye OH-1 Chabot, Steven [R]
Aye OH-2 Schmidt, Jean [R]
No OH-3 Turner, Michael [R]
Aye OH-4 Jordan, Jim [R]
Aye OH-5 Latta, Robert [R]
Aye OH-6 Johnson, Bill [R]
Aye OH-7 Austria, Steve [R]
Aye OH-9 Kaptur, Marcy [D]
No OH-10 Kucinich, Dennis [D]
No OH-11 Fudge, Marcia [D]
Aye OH-12 Tiberi, Patrick [R]
No OH-13 Sutton, Betty [D]
Aye OH-14 LaTourette, Steven [R]
Aye OH-15 Stivers, Steve [R]
Aye OH-16 Renacci, Jim [R]
Aye OH-17 Ryan, Timothy [D]
Aye OH-18 Gibbs, Bob [R]
Oklahoma
Aye OK-1 Sullivan, John [R]
Aye OK-2 Boren, Dan [D]
Aye OK-3 Lucas, Frank [R]
Aye OK-4 Cole, Tom [R]
Aye OK-5 Lankford, James [R]
Oregon
Aye OR-1 Wu, David [D]
Aye OR-2 Walden, Greg [R]
No OR-3 Blumenauer, Earl [D]
Aye OR-4 DeFazio, Peter [D]
Aye OR-5 Schrader, Kurt [D]
Pennsylvania
No PA-1 Brady, Robert [D]
No PA-2 Fattah, Chaka [D]
Aye PA-3 Kelly, Mike [R]
Aye PA-4 Altmire, Jason [D]
Aye PA-5 Thompson, Glenn [R]
Aye PA-6 Gerlach, Jim [R]
Aye PA-7 Meehan, Patrick [R]
Aye PA-8 Fitzpatrick, Michael [R]
Aye PA-9 Shuster, William [R]
Aye PA-10 Marino, Thomas [R]
Aye PA-11 Barletta, Lou [R]
Aye PA-12 Critz, Mark [D]
No PA-13 Schwartz, Allyson [D]
No PA-14 Doyle, Michael [D]
Aye PA-15 Dent, Charles [R]
Aye PA-16 Pitts, Joseph [R]
Aye PA-17 Holden, Tim [D]
Aye PA-18 Murphy, Tim [R]
Aye PA-19 Platts, Todd [R]
Rhode Island
No RI-1 Cicilline, David [D]
Aye RI-2 Langevin, James [D]
South Carolina
Aye SC-1 Scott, Tim [R]
Aye SC-2 Wilson, Addison [R]
Aye SC-3 Duncan, Jeff [R]
Aye SC-4 Gowdy, Trey [R]
Aye SC-5 Mulvaney, Mick [R]
No SC-6 Clyburn, James [D]
South Dakota
Aye SD-0 Noem, Kristi [R]
Tennessee
Aye TN-1 Roe, Phil [R]
Aye TN-2 Duncan, John [R]
Aye TN-3 Fleischmann, Chuck [R]
Aye TN-4 DesJarlais, Scott [R]
Aye TN-5 Cooper, Jim [D]
Aye TN-6 Black, Diane [R]
Aye TN-7 Blackburn, Marsha [R]
Aye TN-8 Fincher, Stephen [R]
No TN-9 Cohen, Steve [D]
Texas
Aye TX-1 Gohmert, Louis [R]
Aye TX-2 Poe, Ted [R]
Aye TX-3 Johnson, Samuel [R]
Aye TX-4 Hall, Ralph [R]
Aye TX-5 Hensarling, Jeb [R]
Aye TX-6 Barton, Joe [R]
No TX-7 Culberson, John [R]
Aye TX-8 Brady, Kevin [R]
No TX-9 Green, Al [D]
Aye TX-10 McCaul, Michael [R]
No TX-11 Conaway, K. [R]
Aye TX-12 Granger, Kay [R]
No TX-13 Thornberry, William [R]
No TX-14 Paul, Ronald [R]
No TX-15 Hinojosa, Rubén [D]
No TX-16 Reyes, Silvestre [D]
Aye TX-17 Flores, Bill [R]
No TX-18 Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D]
Aye TX-19 Neugebauer, Randy [R]
No TX-20 Gonzalez, Charles [D]
Aye TX-21 Smith, Lamar [R]
Aye TX-22 Olson, Pete [R]
Aye TX-23 Canseco, Francisco [R]
Aye TX-24 Marchant, Kenny [R]
No TX-25 Doggett, Lloyd [D]
Aye TX-26 Burgess, Michael [R]
Aye TX-27 Farenthold, Blake [R]
Aye TX-28 Cuellar, Henry [D]
Aye TX-29 Green, Raymond [D]
No TX-30 Johnson, Eddie [D]
Aye TX-31 Carter, John [R]
Aye TX-32 Sessions, Peter [R]
Utah
Aye UT-1 Bishop, Rob [R]
Aye UT-2 Matheson, Jim [D]
Aye UT-3 Chaffetz, Jason [R]
Vermont
No VT-0 Welch, Peter [D]
Virginia
Aye VA-1 Wittman, Rob [R]
Aye VA-2 Rigell, E. [R]
No VA-3 Scott, Robert [D]
Aye VA-4 Forbes, J. [R]
Aye VA-5 Hurt, Robert [R]
Aye VA-6 Goodlatte, Robert [R]
Aye VA-7 Cantor, Eric [R]
No VA-8 Moran, James [D]
Aye VA-9 Griffith, H. [R]
Aye VA-10 Wolf, Frank [R]
Aye VA-11 Connolly, Gerald [D]
Washington
Aye WA-1 Inslee, Jay [D]
No WA-2 Larsen, Rick [D]
Aye WA-3 Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R]
Not Voting WA-4 Hastings, Doc [R]
Aye WA-5 McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R]
Aye WA-6 Dicks, Norman [D]
No WA-7 McDermott, James [D]
Aye WA-8 Reichert, Dave [R]
No WA-9 Smith, Adam [D]
West Virginia
Aye WV-1 McKinley, David [R]
Aye WV-2 Capito, Shelley [R]
Aye WV-3 Rahall, Nick [D]
Wisconsin
No WI-1 Ryan, Paul [R]
No WI-2 Baldwin, Tammy [D]
Aye WI-3 Kind, Ronald [D]
No WI-4 Moore, Gwen [D]
No WI-5 Sensenbrenner, F. [R]
No WI-6 Petri, Thomas [R]
No WI-7 Duffy, Sean [R]
Aye WI-8 Ribble, Reid [R]
Wyoming
Aye WY-0 Lummis, Cynthia [R]

Through the diplomatic intervention of the U.S. Ambassador to France, Charles Rivkin (Judenrat?), Muslim youth are being recruited by American politicians and business leaders to be groomed for high-ranking positions in France, the U.S., and elsewhere.

Some of the individuals recruited spend time in the United States, learning the American economic system. The ultimate goal of Rivkin and his superiors is to pave the way for Muslims to become political leaders of France, the country they foresee as being one day Islamized, with a mixture of races and ethnicities, and with an entirely new and alien culture, an entirely new cultural and physiological DNA.

GALLIA WATCH (H/T SUSAN K) They perceive entities such as the right wing Front National and the Bloc Identitaire and individuals such as Marine Le Pen as being obstacles that must be carefully watched, lest they become too powerful.

The latest chapter in this strange Franco-American alliance focuses on “culture” or what passes for such in today’s world, and an attempt to change attitudes. From September 7 – 17, the 6th Festival of Cultures of Islam will be held in Paris and New York. The website called Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) has all the details.

Since Ramadan this year takes place in August, the festival called “les veillées du Ramadan” will be transformed into the Festival of Cultures of Islam and will extend, in September, into ten days of concerts, discussions. While the September 11 commemorations are in full swing throughout the world, the Institute of Cultures of Islam proposes, for this festival, to simplify the question of what it means to be Muslim today in the United States. This festival has been organized through a partnership between the City of Paris, the United States Embassy in France and Harvard University.

First, two different festivals this year coincide. Paris has its “veillées du Ramadan” (roughly translated as “Ramadan nights”) which will overlap with this other Festival of Cultures of Islam which in turn will go on for ten extra days. But the main thing is that this festival wants to change the way we perceive 9/11, hence the way we treat Muslims.

In order to examine the image of Muslims in Hollywood, before and after September 11, two evenings are being offered: Yallawood Night, a kitsch-oriental night focussing on disparate images of the Muslim world, with a performance by Selecta Pacha; and Real Bad Arabs (Hollywood and the Arabs) by Jack Shaheen, a shocking documentary that centers on one question: why is the Muslim necessarily the bad guy in American productions?

In partnership with the Théâtre de la Ville (in Paris), a performance of the play 11 septembre 2001, by Michel Vinaver, will be transmitted live from the theater to the courtyard of the ICI. Along with this, the Théâtre de la Ville will host Here is New York, an exposition of snapshots taken by New Yorkers the week following the attacks and showing the continuation of daily life despite the drama.

Muslim sleazoid, Sharif el Gamal, director of Park51 (Ground Zero Victory Mosque), the future Islamic community center near Ground Zero, will also be present for an extraordinary evening of discussions. A book club, a great American tradition of sharing books, will be hosted by Anissa Bouzine, beginning with the works of (Pro-Hamas) Edward Saïd up to the present time, and will center on the image of Muslims in American literature.

The article then moves on to another aspect of the festival: Islam and the City that continues until December. This art and photo exposition will include portraits of Muslims by Andres Serrano of Piss Christ fame, and photos of the five boroughs of New York where there are Muslim communities.

The last paragraph repeats the main goal of the festival: To use the arts as a way of speaking differently of September 11, of speaking differently of Islam, of speaking differently of the United States.

A reminder that this schlock is sponsored by the American Embassy and Harvard University! This means that the American government and its agents such as Harvard are attempting to revise history, re-program mentalities and whitewash the devastating truth about 9/11, all in the name of “anti-racism”. The day is not far off when anyone who speaks harshly of the attacks will be branded a racist, and summarily silenced.


The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is a few days away. In ten years we have wasted incalculable time and energy refusing to acknowledge the real danger of Islam, fighting useless wars in Afghanistan, and indoctrinating the populations of America and Europe. We are not advancing. We are regressing economically, educationally, culturally, psychologically and spiritually. This time lost will never be regained. The sanity lost shows no sign of reviving. Now, we are rushing headlong into the endgame, eager to get it over with, eager to submit wholly and definitively to Islam, its agents and abetters, eager to commit definitively the act of cultural suicide that will put us out of our self-imposed misery. Anything, even death, is better than facing reality.