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Europe
The Dutch Put Their Foot Down Against Islamism
To be specific, here is what’s going down from Ede to Amsterdam legislatively:

The Dutch government is saying geen meer to multiculturalism because it has paved the way for the most amazing belief system ever to spawn parallel enclaves that hate the Dutch. Oops.

On June 16th Dutch Minister of the Interior Piet Hein Donner tabled to parliament the official doc that states that both the government and the people are overwhelmingly sick and tired of the relativistic slop and are gonna shift gears and laud Dutch culture from here on out, and if any immigrant doesn’t like it they can kiss their chocolate sprinkles.

In addition, the Dutch are not only refusing to play the nice game with zealots who loathe them but are also demanding obligatory integration to their norms, or you can say tot ziens to their windmills.

All immigrants will be required to learn Dutch, and the Dutch authorities will not be lax with those who blow off Dutch ways and laws - which entails no more funky, full-face headgear for a certain awesome religion’s ladies, as well as no recognition of said special religion’s courts or laws.

Also, the Dutch will not fund with exclusive monies the immigration of any group, especially those from the Religion of Calmness.

All of the above leads me to ask the following question of my fair readers in both the U.S. and abroad who are also experiencing, let’s say … challenges … with you-know-who: Have the Dutch gone crazy, or are they now where we infidels need to be?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/03/2011 12:54 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Geen meer = no more

Chocolate sprinkles go on buttered bread, as Americans do peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Tot ziens = see ya later, goodbye

Posted by: trailing wife || 07/03/2011 13:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Tot ziens = see ya later, goodbye

BFT = 'bout fuckin' time!

Hello Washington!? Are you receiving this channel?
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 07/03/2011 14:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Let the seething begin! :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 07/03/2011 14:29 Comments || Top||

#4  The Muslims didn't invent seething but they certainly do have an almost monopoly on it. They started seething, what, 1700 years ago?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/03/2011 19:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Muslims have refined seething the closest yet to its pure form. Unfortunately for them, pure seething is like absolute zero. It can be approached but never attained. But it's nice to have a goal.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 07/03/2011 19:46 Comments || Top||

#6  They started seething, what, 1700 years ago?

I think they started seething around 1700 when they were turned away for the last time before Vienna. Up till then, they sort of just conquered places and people with some gains shifting back and forth for a while. After Vienna its been down hill and the seething began in earnest.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/03/2011 21:40 Comments || Top||

#7  They started seething soon after the Profit Mo had his first battle and got his ass kicked.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/03/2011 22:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Outstanding.
I'm going to learn Dutch!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2011 22:35 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
The Dark Muslim Brotherhood World of Huma Abedin
When it is whispered the leadership of America is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood, who would have guessed it was literal.
Frontpage Interview's guest today is Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist and Muslim Brotherhood activist who is the author of the new book For God or For Tyranny.

FP: Walid Shoebat, welcome to Frontpage.

Shoebat: Thanks for having me.

FP: You were the first to break the news on Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner's wife, being linked to her mother Saleha Abedin, who, as you have exposed, has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

First, let me ask you: how credible are your sources?

Shoebat: Al-Liwa Al-Arabi (translated here) leaked an extensive list, which was partially published by Al-Jazeera and several other major Arab newspapers. The detailed list included Huma's mother, Saleha Abedin.

Another piece of the puzzle and what was common knowledge in the Arab world is that Huma Abedin has a brother named Hassan Abedin who sits in on the board of the Oxford Centre For Islamic Studies (OCIS) where Huma's brother is a fellow and partners with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members on the Board, including Al-Qaeda associate, Omar Naseef and the notorious Muslim Brotherhood leader Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi; both have been listed as OCIS Trustees. Naseef continues to serve as Board Chairman.

This becomes an issue since Huma sits in the U.S. State Department with eyes and ears to classified government secrets. Was Huma unaware of all this as she accompanied Hillary Clinton to the Dar El-Hekma women's college in Jedda-Saudi Arabia? Huma's mother is the co-founder and a Vice Dean at the college and an active missionary on issues regarding Muslim women and is considered by the Egyptian security services as a dangerous member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 07/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


George Soros and the Muslim Brotherhood
In a recent interview with prominent TV journalist Christiane Amanpour, who never misses an opportunity to promote repellent moral relativism about fundamentalist Islam, Middle East analyst Marwan Muasher declared, “The Muslim Brotherhood has been used for a long time as a scare tactic” (emphasis added). This eyebrow-raising dismissal of legitimate concerns about the world’s largest Islamist movement went unchallenged by Amanpour – no surprise there – although Muasher did weakly concede this: “that is not to say they don’t have designs.”

But there may be more in play here than simple fairness and wishful thinking on Muasher’s part. He happens to oversee research for the Middle East at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, funded by leftist multi-billionaire George Soros, one of the world’s most politically influential men. Soros is waging his own personal ideological war against America by shoveling seemingly limitless funds into organizations giving life to his “progressive” vision of social justice.

That vision, like the Muslim Brotherhood’s, identifies America and Israel as the “Great Satan” and “Little Satan” respectively, who must be demolished to pave the way for a purifying, redemptive utopia. These common enemies unite progressives and Islamic fundamentalists in what David Horowitz has coined an “unholy alliance.” As Andrew C. McCarthy writes in The Grand Jihad, “With their collectivist philosophy, transnational outlook, totalitarian demands, and revolutionary designs, Islamists are natural allies of the radical Left.”
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 07/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
This Fourth of July, why I love America, like most Muslim Americans
By Faheem Younus

"That's my home." My heart whispered this thought 15 years ago while looking down at the streets of Pakistan. The plane had just left for New York from Lahore and I was glued to the window, teary eyed. If leaving my country was distressing, not knowing if I would ever return was agonizing. And all the agony was due to one single fact: I was an Ahmadi Muslim and Pakistan's constitution had shunned me as a second-class citizen.

all [Muslim Americans] would agree on one thing: that the United States provides them with more freedom, more security, more opportunity, and more peace than the country from which they emigrated.
Just two weeks later, I dragged my bones to watch the Fourth of July (1996) fireworks at the New Jersey Shore. Back then it was not "my celebration" so all I remember from that evening is loud music, a huge crowd, and a stranger who thanked me for making room so he could watch the fireworks.

On July 4, 2011 though, as an equal citizen of the United States, I am celebrating something I failed to appreciate 15 years ago: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

The language and substance of our constitutions and declarations has a deep impact on our psyche.

To that end, much of Pakistan's tendency toward extremism is traceable to 1974, when an odious constitutional amendment declared millions of Ahmadis (a sect of Islam) as non-Muslims. A decade later, the state passed Ordinance XX to make it punishable by law for an Ahmadi Muslim to discuss his faith in public, identify his place of worship as a mosque, or even convey the Islamic greeting of peace. This constitutional amendment has also inflicted significant injury on Pakistan's Christian and Hindu minorities.

Pakistan's constitutional inequality not only classified millions as second grade citizens but it also poisoned the masses. Today, a ten-minute inflammatory sermon can make many feel obligated to kill a neighbor belonging to a minority group.

So it's natural for me to note how our US Constitution sweetens the American psyche towards the principles of equality, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness championed in the Declaration of Independence. Even though more than 80 percent of Americans attest to an incomplete understanding of our Constitution (according to a 2011 Time Magazine poll), this document and the principles it establishes instill tolerance for "the different" in our minds.

Americans may not be able to name all the articles and clauses of the Constitution, but they've been taught its ethic for most of their lives. It is instilled in them. It allows passionate debates over sensitive issues like whether a woman has a right to abortion or not, whether children born to illegal immigrants are automatically eligible for US citizenship, whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, or whether a mosque should be built near ground zero -- instead of applying duct tape over the lips of a minority position.

No wonder millions flock to the American shores. The United States accepts more legal immigrants every year than all other countries combined. In 2008, over a million people were naturalized as US citizens, mainly emigrating from Mexico, India and China.

Talk to Muslim Americans and you will hear just how valued, how precious, this tolerance is to them. Some would strongly disagree with the American foreign policy, and some would lament about a personal experience of discrimination. But in my experience, all would agree on one thing: that the United States provides them with more freedom, more security, more opportunity, and more peace than the country from which they emigrated.

Since that day on the Jersey shore, I have made it a habit to make room for my fellow citizens wherever I can. It's only my way to reciprocate to you, America, for you have made room for millions of immigrants like me and provided us the opportunity to live with equality, justice, and freedom.

I still get teary eyed thinking about my homeland; particularly with all the mayhem in the name of religion. But, whenever my plane takes off from the Baltimore-Washington Airport, I look down at the rooftops and my heart says, "That's my home, that's my home."

Faheem Younus is an adjunct faculty member for religion and history at the Community Colleges of Baltimore County and a clinical associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
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#1  I was an Ahmadi Non Muslim

Truth in editing.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 07/03/2011 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Orthodox Moslems believe that the Ahmadi Moslems dispute that Mohammed was the last of the Prophets since the Ahmadi claim that their founder in 1889 claimed to be the real Messiah of the "end times" and that Jesus died in Kashmir after waking up from his non death on the Cross and traveling to Kashmir where he died of old age and is buried there under the name Yusuf Asaf.

Ahmadi are about as Moslem as Mormons are Christians.

Ahmadis believe that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was divinely commissioned as a true reflection of Muhammad's prophethood to establish the unity of God, remind mankind of their duties towards God and God's creation, to emphasize both aspects of religion which Ahmadis believe is the need of the present age. As such Ahmadis hold that Ghulam Ahmad was the representative and spiritual readvent of all previous prophets. From the Ahmadiyya perspective, the Christians have erred with regards to the rights of God in that they have attributed divine status to a mortal human, and it is on this account that in Islamic eschatology the promised reformer has been named the Mahdi (the "Guided One"—a title meaning one who is naturally guided and is an heir to all truths and in whom the attribute of "guide" of the Almighty is fully represented). Ahmadis also hold that the Muslims have erred with regard to the rights of creation for they, unjustly raising the sword and calling it Jihad, have misunderstood the concept and purpose of jihad in Islam; it is on this account that he has been called the Isa Messih ("Jesus the Messiah")—a term which relates to his function in re-establishing the rights of people by reforming their distorted, violent notion of "Jihad" just as Jesus Christ came principally to reform the hearts and attitudes of the Jewish nation.
Posted by: de Medici || 07/03/2011 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  all [Muslim Americans] would agree on one thing: that the United States provides them with more freedom, more security, more opportunity, and more peace than the country from which they emigrated.

So then why do some Muslim Americans hate us with such vehemence that they want to kill us?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/03/2011 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  So then why do some Muslim Americans hate us with such vehemence that they want to kill us?

Most Muslims are not Ahmaddis, JohnQC. Why do some Progressives hate us, too?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/03/2011 10:51 Comments || Top||

#5  In all fairness, I think the left can be graded, with their most reasonable members being ignorant or gullible.

Then there are the liberals, who are idealistically stupid: "But I *want* there to be a 1,000/mpg car!"

Next on the scale are the mendacious socialists, who want socialism but have to lie about every aspect and element of achieving it and what it is. They refuse every bit of evidence to the contrary, and have no pattern recognition of its countless failures.

Then there are the haters, who want political power to get even with those they hate, including brutalizing them and killing them.

Only then do you reach the final conglomeration of those that truly want to destroy America, create chaos, destruction and infinite bloodshed, dictatorship of the proletariat, Marat sort of stuff.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/03/2011 13:11 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Islamization A Catch-22 For Pakistani Military
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