Posts Tagged ‘Islam’

FoxNews.com is reporting that a Senate panel investing the increasing threat of domestic terrorism, not from “ring-wing extremists,” but from homegrown jihadists, warned of a Fort Hood type scenario years ago.

More than a year before the massacre at Fort Hood, a Senate panel conducting an extensive investigation into the threat of homegrown terrorism warned that “radicalization” had spread beyond Afghanistan training camps to the United States and that lone wolves fueled by Internet propaganda would present a growing threat.The Senate committee report warned that the Internet was serving as a “virtual terrorist training camp,” and cited that as a contributing factor in the United States becoming more and more susceptible to homegrown extremists.

Though the report said that the lack of a “sympathetic audience” and presence of an integrated Muslim community historically has made homegrown terrorism less likely in the United States, it cited recent homegrown plots — like a foiled plot against Fort Dix, N.J. — as an “early warning” that the trend is reversing.

The “sympathetic audience” is now the political establishment and the mainstream media. More and more information is being released about the events leading up to the Fort Hood shootings, and the some of the media is suggesting the Major Hasan just snapped, still asking if this was preplanned, still trading carefully on the “terror” word.

“Radicalization is no longer confined to training camps in Afghanistan or other locations far from our shores; it is also occurring right here in the United States,” the report stated.

Mike Baker, a former CIA covert operations officer, said Hasan — particularly as a member of the U.S. military — would have made an “attractive candidate” for radicals overseas. If he was influenced by such elements, Baker said, Hasan would be more than just an “unhinged fellow” accused of going on a shooting rampage.

If so, the attack certainly did not follow the Sept. 11 model, where hijackers were recruited from overseas in the Middle East. As the 2008 report detailed, “the violent Islamist threat to the homeland has evolved and expanded.”

Imagine that, the enemy is changing tactics, and somehow we can’t. Jihadists can apparently only be Middle Easterners who hijack planes or blow up things in the war zone; they can’t be American, they can’t act alone, they have to fit the mold, otherwise we’re just stereotyping. Here’s a thought, read the evidence!

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, told Fox News that it appears the “red flags” surrounding Hasan should have prompted an investigation.

“Certainly it’s worrisome if red flags were ignored, if behavior issues were not targeted for further review,” Collins said Tuesday. “This is something we have to have a no-holds-barred investigation of.”

Pamela Gellar, like many others, says “political correctness is going to rout this country,” and she’s right, but that’s not the worst part.  We can’t say the crazed lunatic who shot up Fort Hood yesterday was a jihadist, that’s being stereotypical, that’s profiling, that’s not being tolerant, it’s true, but it’s giving way to hate speech.

According to NPR, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was put on probation while at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues. Apparently, the authorities knew he was an extremist six months ago, but didn’t act on the information in fear of religious and community repercussions – political correctness.

Director Roland Emmerich of Independence Day and Day After Tomorrow fame, elected to not destroy an Islamic icon is his new movie 2012. “I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.” We are remember the last fatwa that was issued by Osama bin Laden in 1998 and called for Muslims to execute Americans and their allies. Emmerich went on to say, “We have to all in the Western world think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is.” We don’t care about the Christians, but we has be careful of the mullahs.

And yet another example of the dangerous political correctness is the UN resolution on hates crimes that the US cosponsored with Egypt. I can only imagine how those highly respected countries on the Human Rights Council will reprimand Iran and Syria when they again call for Israeli elimination or Zionist destruction.

There is no need for Al Quaeda to fund another mass hijacking or risk sneaking in a dirty bomb, political correctness is the new 9-11. When a killer like Major Hasan can historically make extremist remarks glorifying other attackers, empty out his apartment, and execute 13 soldiers at a military installation in Texas while shouting “Allah Akbar,” and the President and FBI say it’s not terrorist related, then the enemy just needs to sit back and watch the absurdity.

Religious authority for physical violence against women, legal mutilation, execution for homosexuality, death to critics of the state religion, forced marriages at age nine, outlaw of drinking and gambling, exact legal revenge for the injured, execution for sex before marriage…

While appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group, President Barack Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, explained how the United States and other western countries have an “oversimplified” view of Sharia Law, and how most women “around the world associate it with ‘gender justice.’ The show, which aired this week on London based Islam Channel, was hosted by representatives of Hizb ut Tahrir, an extremist group that promotes the destruction of western capitalism and the introduction of Sharia Law worldwide.

During the discussion Mogahed listened to 45 minutes of the panel dumping on the US and western liberty. And, while the group called for Sharia Law to be the “source of [all] legislation,” and the removal of women from positions of leadership, she did not challenge the rhetoric, but instead, in Obama-like fashioned apologized for the misconception of Sharia in the western media, added that “promiscuity and the breakdown of traditional values” were sources of the Islamic disapproval. Mogahed did suggest that “many Muslims associated Sharia with ‘maximum criminal punishments’ and ‘laws that… to many people seem unequal to women,’ but added, ‘part of the reason that there is this perception of Sharia is because Sharia is not well understood and Islam as a faith is not well understood.”

James Arlandson of American Thinker wrote an article two months ago about what westerners believe are the problems with Sharia law. He cited ten examples, each with references to the Quran or hadith; here are a few:

10. Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped.

The Prophet felt it hard (was angry) and ordered all those who were present in the house, to beat him [the drinker dragged into Muhammad's presence]. (Bukhari, Punishments, nos. 6774—6775)

9. Islam allows husbands to hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives.

4:34 . . . If you fear highhandedness from your wives, remind them [of the teaching of God], then ignore them when you go to bed, then hit them. If they obey you, you have no right to act against them. God is most high and great. (MAS Abdel Haleem, the Qur’an, Oxford UP, 2004)

Back in February, Muzzammil Hassan, a Buffalo, NY man was charged with beheading his wife after she filed for divorce. Ironically, he was the founder of  a cabletelevision channel created counter anti-Muslim stereotypes.

8. Islam allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge—physical eye for physical eye.

5:45 And We ordained therein for them: Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth and wounds equal for equal. But if anyone remits the retaliation by way of charity, it shall be for him an expiation. And whosoever does not judge by that which Allah has revealed, such are the Zalimun (polytheists and  wrongdoers . . .). (Hilali and Khan, The Noble Qur’an, Riyadh: Darussalam, 1996)

4. Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death.

24:2 The fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them with a hundred stripes. Let not pity withhold you in their case, in a punishment prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of the believers witness their punishment. [This punishment is for unmarried persons guilty of the above crime (illegal sex), but if married persons commit it (illegal sex), the punishment is to stone them to death, according to Allah's law]. (Hilali and Khan).

3. Islam orders death for Muslim and possible death for non—Muslim critics of Muhammad and the Quran and even sharia itself.

(1) Reviling Allah or his Messenger; (2) being sarcastic about ‘Allah’s name, His command, His interdiction, His promise, or His threat’; (3) denying any verse of the Quran or ‘anything which by scholarly consensus belongs to it, or to add a verse that does not belong to it’; (4) holding that ‘any of Allah’s messengers or prophets are liars, or to deny their being sent’; (5) reviling the religion of Islam; (6) being sarcastic about any ruling of the Sacred Law; (7) denying that Allah intended ‘the Prophet’s message . . . to be the religion followed by the entire world.’

Here’s what I understand, Sharia Law is an ancient oppressive legal system that degrades and dehumanizes woman, promotes violence, hatred, and intolerance, limits or eliminates personal freedoms. What is “misunderstood” about that?

from the Telegraph