All hail the Chosen One.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/14461/?ck=1

Where in the World is Barack Obama?

Like the infamous Carmen Sandiego, Barack Obama is nowhere to be found.
Anyone watching the DNC coverage, notice how frequently Barack Obama’s name
is mentioned, but instead of the network panning to Barack Obama, they
always pan to his wife!  Is Barack unfit to have his image televised?

Who the hell is running for president?  Isn’t Barack Obama?  Didn’t he win
the Democratic Party nomination?  Then again, if I go by the speeches
broadcast during the DNC, Michelle actually exceeded any by her husband.
Did the Democrats take notice and decide to nominate Michelle instead of
Barack?

Enquiring minds want to know!

Where in the World is Barack Hussein Obama?

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 The Neocons Do Georgia: Humanity’s Greatest Enemy?
Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08152008.html

The success of the Bush Regime’s propaganda, lies, and deception with
gullible and inattentive Americans since 9/11 has made it difficult
for intelligent, aware people to be optimistic about the future of the
United States. For almost eight years the US media has served as
Ministry of Propaganda for a war criminal regime. Americans incapable
of thinking for themselves, reading between the lines, or accessing
foreign media on the Internet have been brainwashed … The
neoconservatives represent the greatest danger ever faced by the
United States and the world. Humanity has no greater enemy.

http://www.ihr.org/      http://www.natvan.com

http://www.thebirdman.org     http://www.nsm88.org

http://wsi.matriots.com/jews.html    

Coming soon to a town near you…
http://www.balaams-ass.com/alhaj/calltoprayer.htm

Search Amazon.com for:
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, by Mark Steyn
or browse my list at:
http://www.hiddenpolitics.com/books.htm
(I will be expanding this list rapidly now that I have the basic page layout
established, beginning today.)

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Exploring Concepts of Liberty in Islam
By Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D., 8/27/2008 8:27:40 AM

We have, at The Heritage Foundation, established a long-term project to examine the question of
whether Islam is compatible with Western notions of liberty. It is exploratory in nature. We
hope that through events like this we can increase the understanding of Ameri­cans on this
issue and better inform the making of U.S. policy toward Islamic countries and regarding the
conduct of the fight against Islamist extremists and terrorists. By the question of Islam and
liberty I mean the relationship between ideas of freedom—such as individual liberty, religious
liberty and tolerance, and minority rights—and the ideas and practice of Islam.

Let me first offer some caveats and preliminary words of caution.

The first is that I am not a scholar of Islam. My observations are therefore those of an
outsider in the field. Sometimes an outsider’s view can introduce some candor into a
discussion, and I would hope to do that.

Second, what do I mean by liberty? Liberty is a complicated idea. It is a way of organizing
every aspect of human life that recognizes human potential and respects human dignity. It is
not, as some might say, a license to do whatever one pleases. It is a set of ideas regarding
the rights of individuals (freedom to life, individual liberty, and property) as natural rights
and the kind of government that is needed to protect those rights.

Earlier today, I looked at what the dictionary says about liberty and, in particular, political
liberty. All the definitions did not quite capture the nuances that are understood in the
classical liberal tradition. So I have decided to use, as the basis of my remarks, not just the
term "liberty" or even "freedom," but instead the "constitution of liberty." By that I mean the
sum total of the rights and obligations of a free people to self government.

The third caveat is that I fully admit there is no such thing, in practice or even in theory,
as a mono­lithic religion or political movement called "Islam." We should keep that in mind
from the outset. There are, of course, different schools of Islamic thought, two major sects,
and varying practices ranging from the mystical traditions of the Sufis to the fundamen­talist
traditions of the Wahhabis.

I am mindful of all that. But I also believe there are common threads of opinion and practices
in Muslim societies and states—and it is on these that I would like to focus my remarks.

Framing the Discussion

So what I’d like to do is to frame the discussion more than to give any answers, because I am
not really as qualified to do that as our colleagues on the panel are. To do this, I’d like to
pose a number of key questions that can act, perhaps, as benchmarks for people living in Muslim
societies and states for how they would relate to the issue of liberty and freedom. The
questions are keys in the sense that how they are answered will determine, at least in my view,
whether Muslim states and societies can evolve in a peaceful and civil way in the future, much
as Christian societies did in Europe after decades and even centuries of religious conflict.

Question #1: How will Muslim states and societies treat religious minorities?

This is the key question in my mind. Will they be treated as full and equal citizens, or will
they be sec­ond-class citizens as in the millet system in the Otto­man Empire? Or worse, will
religious minorities be discriminated against or even forbidden outright?

In the West, it took a while to develop the stan­dard of full and equal citizenship for
religious minorities. Even John Locke’s original idea of toler­ance did not mean full
acceptance of other religious views, but simply a lack of persecution. And it really was not
until Thomas Jefferson’s and James Madi­son’s development of full citizenship for religious
minorities in both the Virginia and U.S. Consti­tutions (I believe Jefferson’s views were
mainly informed by Madison’s experience of defending Baptists against the Anglican established
church in colonial Virginia), that we really get, in my estima­tion, the full concept of
religious liberty as we know it today in the West.

I do want to emphasize one point: The question about religious minorities is really one of
equal rights before the law and equal citizenship, and not merely one of tolerance or autonomy
(in other words, just the right to practice one’s religion). Reli­gious minorities must have
the right to participate fully in political and social life, and not be relegated to secondary
status to practice their religion in pri­vate or separately.

This question, for Islamic states and societies, is not so much a question of our experience in
the West about the separation of church and state— since there is no church per se—but of the
separa­tion of Islamic or Sharia law from civil law, as we define it. And I daresay this may be
a difficult nut to crack for some Muslims, since for many there is or should be no difference.
But in my opinion, liberty will never be safe so long as it is assumed that the laws that
govern men and women have ultimately an exclusively religious purpose. It’s one thing to say
that natural law can be explained theoretically as having a divine origin. It’s another to
argue that the practices of civil laws are actually an expression of God’s specific will.
Understanding that difference, it seems to me, is crucial for developing a legal and political
understanding of religious freedoms in Muslim societies.

For the West, religious freedom—the right to worship God as your conscience dictates—means laws
and government practices support religious pluralism. That concept, to my understanding, is not
foreign to Islam. The Koran insists that "there shall be no coercion in matters of faith" and
that Muslims respect the beliefs of Jews and Christians, who are called "People of the Book."

However, this tolerant attitude is hardly the uni­versal practice in all Muslim societies. With
the spread of Islamist ideologies and extremism, it is under attack every day. And it is the
influence of these more extreme versions that is reducing the political space for the
examination of more liberal attitudes about religious freedom. So that is the first question,
the first benchmark.

Question #2: How will Muslim societies and states deal with secularism?

Secularism as an ideology, whether it is the laicized version in France or the firm
restrictions on Islam in politics in Turkey, or whether it’s even the kind you find in America,
is not a model or attitude that is comfortable to many Muslims. That is because it is seen,
rightly so in some instances, not as being neutral on religion, but rather as actually hostile
to it.

In some parts of the Muslim world, secularism is often seen as an attack on religion and
religious peo­ple. For example, the Communists in Afghanistan and Ba’athists in Iraq violently
repressed religious leaders. Because of this disparity in experience and understanding, I find
it is rarely helpful to dwell on secularism when we are discussing liberty and free­dom in the
Muslim world. I do not think we should put ourselves in the position—as some American liberals
do—of arguing that our "classic liberal ideas of tolerance and separation of church and state"
are the same things as radical forms of secularism that based on a hostility to religion per se.

Rather, I think we should be arguing that reli­gious freedom is necessary for all people to
practice their religions authentically. And that includes not just Christians, but Muslims as well.

American religious conservatives may have some­thing to offer Muslims in this regard. American
con­servative Christians and Jews are not comfortable with radical forms of secularism
either—whether in the form of attacking religion in the public square, or in cultural matters
where religion is ridiculed or ren­dered irrelevant. American conservatives are perfect­ly
happy with not establishing a state religion, but they also want respect for religion and the
practice of religion. It may be that something useful could come from a dialogue of American
conservative Christians and Jews and Muslims in this regard. This kind of bridge-building
dialogue already is taking place among theologians, clerics, and lay people, but to date it has
not really expanded to the core concepts of liberty as we are speaking of them here today.

For Americans at least, as we do this, we remem­ber that our Founding Fathers did not seek to
divorce religion from public life. Rather, they saw an important role for religion—one that
informed the political sphere and governing structures that were separate from religious
organizations. They came to this understanding after studying history and gov­ernment systems,
and through their experiences— in some cases bitter experiences in the history of England where
the tangling of religion in politics had produced not only violent conflict, but also resulted
in religious repression and the inability for some people to practice their religion freely.

Question #3: How will Muslim societies and states deal with the rights of the individual?

This a complicated question, not only because there is a difference between individual and
group rights, but also because of the unique way that Islam as a religion treats the
individual. As I under­stand it (and I stand to be corrected if I have an erroneous
interpretation of this), the concept of Tawhid, which means "making one" in Arabic, means
integrating state institutions and personal priorities through a recognition of God’s
overarch­ing sovereignty. Therefore, the individual exists not as a separate being endowed by
God or natural law with certain rights, but as a person who has certain obligations to God—and
that the state and its insti­tutions
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The Towelhead Statements

Posted on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 8:07 pm by: Peter Sciretta

When I first screened Alan Ball’s directorial debut at the Tonroto International Film Festival
last year, it was titled Nothing is Private. In my review, I wondered why Ball had decided to
change the title from that of the book it was based on – Towelhead. The obvious answer is
political correctness. And a few months ago when it was announced that the film would be
released under the same title of the book, I commended the Warner Bros for having the guts to
be non-PC. But truth is, the name of the movie (and the book, for that matter) is so tightly
connected to the story, and the struggle of the main character. If the story were to be
released under any other name (Nothing is Private for instance), it just wouldn’t make sense.

The film is being released in September, and the Council on American-Islam Relations (CAIR) has
asked that Warner Bros. and Warner Independent Pictures to change the name of the film. Warner
Bros is not backing down, and has announced that they have no plans to change the title. The
studio has asked that Alicia Erian (author, Towelhead) and Alan Ball (writer/director,
Towelhead) explain the reasoning behind their decisions to give the novel and film its name.
You can find these statements below.

ALICIA ERIAN – Author of Towelhead

As an Arab-American woman, I am of course aware that the title of my book is an ethnic slur.
Indeed, I selected the title to highlight one of the novel’s major themes: racism. In the
tradition of Dick Gregory’s autobiography Nigger, the Jewish magazine Heeb, or the feminist
magazine Bitch, the title is rude and shocking, but it is not gratuitous. Besides the fact that
the main character must endure taunting about her ethnicity (including being called a
towelhead), so much of the novel’s plot is fueled by the characters’ attitudes toward race.

I was not contacted by any organization or group when my novel was released in 2005. I don’t
know if this was because no one had heard about my book, or because they didn’t feel it would
have as much of an impact as a film. Having lived in a world in which my book has existed
without protest for the past three years, however, I feel I have at least some view onto what
to expect from the public in terms of a response. The bottom line is, never once have I
encountered anyone who didn’t understand the seriousness of the word “towelhead” and all its
implications.

This is not to say that I don’t find these concerns legitimate — I absolutely do. We live in a
racist society, one in which people continue to use ethnic slurs to delineate those who are
different than they are. Realistically speaking, though, these people are neither the audience
for my book, nor for the film. They will continue to use whatever language they wish whether or
not a movie called “Towelhead” is released. For this reason, I am pleased that Warner Bros. is
standing by the title.

Towelhead, like its many cousins — nigger, spic, gook, etc. — is an ugly word. The job of the
artist, however, has been, and always will be, to highlight that which is ugly in the hopes of
finding something beautiful. This charge, by necessity, will at times put the artist at odds
with admirable groups such as CAIR. The solution, it seems to me, is not to force the artist to
alter his or her work, but instead to use the occasion of that work as an entry point for
meaningful debate and discussion

ALAN BALL – “Towelhead” is written for the screen and directed by Alan Ball, Academy
Award-winning writer of “American Beauty, ” and creator of “Six Feet Under” and “True Blood.”

As a gay man, I know how it feels to be called hateful names simply because of who I am.
Therefore, I felt it was important to retain the title of Alicia Erian’s novel, in which she so
effectively dramatizes the pain inflicted by such language, something many people of
non-minority descent never have to face. I believe one of the unintended consequences of
forbidding such words to be spoken is imbuing those words with more power than they should ever
have, and helping create the illusion that the bigotry and racism expressed by such cruel
epithets is less prevalent than it actually is, which we all know is sadly not the case.

WARNER INDEPENDENT PICTURES

One of the ideas conveyed in the film is that we all make assumptions about each other, without
knowing, based on racial stereotypes. It was our goal in releasing “Towelhead” to help make
this point.

Some of our past releases, like “Paradise Now, ” were extremely controversial and elicited
demands that the film not be released; “Good Night, and Good Luck.” drew criticism from some as
well. Warner Bros. supported the release of these films then, as they do now of “Towelhead,” as
a medium to create dialogue and support the expression of ideas, as controversial or as
unpopular as they may be. We apologize for any offense that is caused by this title but support
Alan Ball and Alicia Erian in this effort.

Dr. William Blizek, Founding Editor, Journal of Religion and Film; Professor of Philosophy and
Religion, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Dr. Amir Hussain, Associate Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los
Angeles; Author of Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God (2006)
Dr. John Lyden, Professor and Chair of Religion, Dana College; Chair of the Religion, Film, and
Visual Culture Group of the American Academy of Religion; Author of Film as Religion: Myth,
Morals, Rituals (2003)
Dr. Rubina Ramji, Film Editor, Journal of Religion and Film; Professor of Religious Studies
(Islam and media), Cape Breton University
Rev. Danny Fisher, Doctoral Candidate, University of the West

The concept of cinema can be described as ‘the cultural transmission of symbolic forms’ which
include actions, utterances, images and texts and are embedded in structured social contexts
which involve relations of power. These forms are produced by subjects and are recognized as
meaningful constructs. As a form of entertainment, it also plays ‘a leading role in shaping
attitudes and ideas, including political ideas’. In-depth studies of Arabs and Muslims in
Hollywood films over the past eighty years have found that out of the nine hundred films
examined, only five percent of all the movies (approximately fifty movies) debunked the
barbaric image of Islam.

There are very few films that show Islam in a positive light. Dr. Rubina Ramji, Film Editor for
the Journal of Religion and Film, is one the scholars who has researched the images of Islam in
Hollywood films. Dr. Ramji screened Towelhead at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and found that
this film is indeed one of those few that promote different faiths and the challenges faced by
these groups in America, while offering a much more balanced representation. Using the
derogatory term “towelhead” as the film’s title, in the context of this film, provides a
different meaning to the term, one that encourages viewers to observe these challenges
first-hand and to better understand how Muslim characters have been stereotypically displayed
in previous films.

By bringing forth the racist attitudes which have arisen about Muslims living in America,
Towelhead openly reveals projected fears about difference and offers a constructive, yet
difficult, approach to bring forth understanding. We, the undersigned scholars, have spent
years researching and understanding the impact that cinema has had and continues to have on
various religious groups in American culture. We hope that the true intentions of the
semi-autobiographical novel, written by Alicia Erian, who has encountered such racism as an
Arab-American, will continue to be accurately reflected in the film Towelhead, by leaving the
title as is – a thought-provoking and difficult term that needs to be deconstructed.

*** The above statements represent the personal views of the signatories and are not
attributable to any particular organization.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/08/27/the-towelhead-statements/

TRANSITIONS ONLINE: Islam: Divide and Conquer
by Geraldine Fagan
28 August 2008  

A religious dispute fuels oppression in Russia’s Kabardino-Balkaria region. From Forum 18.

Ignorance about religion is at the root of the conflict between Muslims in Kabardino-Balkaria,
representatives of both sides say. But they disagree sharply over whose interpretation of Islam
is correct.

The authorities in the North Caucasus republic have backed Kabardino-Balkaria’s Muslim
Spiritual Directorate in the dispute. From 2003 to 2005, they instigated a brutal crackdown on
young Muslims forming an independent jamaat (an assembly or congregation). Organized Islamic
activity outside the Spiritual Directorate is now prohibited.

"Revival [of Islam] should be healthy and pure, without bidah [innovation]," local Muslim Ali
Pshigotyzhev told Forum 18 in Kabardino-Balkaria’s capital, Nalchik. In the culture of the
Adyghe, an ethnic group including Kabardin, however, deviations from Islamic precepts persist,
he explained. "We never have an event – weddings, birthdays – without alcohol. People say, ‘How
can you raise a toast without a glass of alcohol?’ But Islam rejects that. And if there is
something sinful – forbidden in Islam – in Adyghe culture, then we won’t do it."

A practicing Muslim, local lawyer Larisa Dorogova pointed to similar discrepancies. "An imam
might attend a wedding where there’ll be alcohol on the table, although he won’t drink. Some of
the older imams drink a lot, even," she said. "Weddings and funerals are also very elaborate,
although this has no place in Islam." Muslims at odds with Kabardino-Balkaria’s Muslim
Spiritual Directorate resolutely oppose such practices, she told Forum 18.

The division affects the republic’s law enforcement agencies – staffed by Kabardin and Balkars
rather than Russians – local lawyer Magomed Abubakarov, an ethnic Chechen, said. "Police might
sit and drink vodka, turning into I-don’t-know-what while insisting they’re believers," he
explained. "They say they have a positive attitude toward Islam, but they divide it into
‘traditional’ and ‘untraditional,’ which they call ‘Wahhabism.’ ‘Traditional’ speaks for itself
– Islam plus national traditions, as in Chechnya, where we have many ancestral customs that
aren’t part of Islam."

"Wahhabism" is a loose term for Islamic extremism commonly used in Russia and Central Asia.

Contempt for stricter Islam, Abubakarov added, lies partly behind the brutal treatment of those
accused of the failed 2005 Nalchik uprising by people from almost identical backgrounds.
"They’re some kind of different caste. There were even police who were silent when their
relatives were detained. They didn’t help their own relatives, who were being tortured in the
next office."

Arsen Mokayev, the brother of one of the accused and himself detained many times, described how
a police officer might laugh that Allah was "probably on his way but run out of petrol" if a
detainee cried out for divine aid while being beaten in custody. "But in an accident, he’ll be
the first to cry out, ‘Help me, Allah!’ "

Local officials dealing with religious affairs and a senior detention center administrator have
denied reports of abuse to Forum 18.

While Kabardino-Balkaria is viewed as a traditionally Muslim republic – Islam had gained a
foothold there by at least the 16th century – the population has never been deeply observant.
Even by the 1830s, when British traveler Edmund Spencer spent several months living incognito
among Adyghe tribes, he noted that they drank alcohol and venerated gods of the wind,
livestock, and bees while adorning their homes with wooden tablets bearing Koranic verses.

THEN CAME STALIN

The Stalinist purges of a century later only increased such practices, according to
Pshigotyzhev. "Muslims here were completely destroyed. There was no one left to teach people –
no one who had studied in Turkey or Egypt. The older people just did what they knew."

By the 1990s, "we didn’t know what Islam was," according to Boris Pashtov, who heads
Kabardino-Balkaria’s Committee for Youth Affairs and Social Organizations, responsible for
religious affairs. Not understanding their content, some village elders even used to read
journals in Arabic in place of prayers, he said.

As younger Muslims began to challenge accepted practice in the post-Soviet period, a conflict
broke out, Pshigotyzhev said. In the Adyghe culture, for example, a man always wears a hat,
"but the young people got to know that you could pray without a hat, and some did." Older
Muslims then began to insist that no one should enter a mosque without a hat. "In some villages
you would be chased out of mosques for that." While this might sound trivial, "you only need to
strike a match to light a fire," Pshigotyzhev said.

If the Spiritual Directorate had chosen "a course toward pure Islam from the beginning, the
young people would have supported it," Pshigotyzhev, who is 56, said. "But they sided with the
old people."

The Spiritual Directorate, state media, and local officials maintain that there is no
contradiction between Adyghe culture and Islam, he said.

While there are local customs incompatible with Islam, "these are of secondary importance, and
it takes time to root them out." Mufti Anas Pshikhachev of the Spiritual Directorate said.
Agreeing that consumption of alcohol was one such discrepancy, he said, "We explain that
everywhere in lectures and sermons."

Pshikhachev noted, however, that the Koran was revealed to Mohammed over 23 years at a time
when alcohol consumption was also widespread: "It wasn’t banned all at once – three ayat
[Koranic verses] were needed. It should happen gradually. One of the mistakes of the extremists
is to demand that everything must end straightaway – but they don’t know Islam."

Members of Kabardino-Balkaria’s jamaat, in turn, did not recognize or trust the Spiritual
Directorate, local Muslims told Forum 18. Not believing the business funds that supported its
construction to be halal [permissible in Islam], for example, they refused to attend Nalchik’s
central mosque – opened in 2004 and also home to the Spiritual Directorate – the mother of two
young Muslims killed in the failed 2005 uprising said.

Pshikhachev said Kabardino-Balkaria’s president, Arsen Kanokov, had supported construction of
the central mosque as a "rich businessman."

FEAR OF EXTREMISM

Young Muslims at odds with the Spiritual Directorate chose to study abroad and, later, with the
unregistered Islamic Research Institute in Nalchik. Their zeal baffled Kabardino-Balkaria’s
late president, Valeri Kokov, Pshigotyzhev said. "He didn’t understand why young people went to
mosque and not the disco. He thought they were paid to go from abroad, that they were preparing
a second Chechnya in Kabardino-Balkaria."

The republic’s religious affairs officials view study by up to 200 local young Muslims in
Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Egypt in the late 1990s as the source of extremism. "Very
often, unfortunately, they received a radical interpretation of Islam," Pashtov said.

In a typical scenario, according to Pashtov’s colleague Dzhambulat Gergokov, "Four might go to
Syria or Saudi Arabia, say. One gets into a normal, classical Muslim university, but the others
don’t and look elsewhere. Then a group of people go up to them and say, ‘Come with us, we’ll
teach you.’ " A young Muslim who traveled from Kabardino-Balkaria in this way would know
nothing about Islam due to the absence of religion in the Soviet period, he pointed out. "But
he’s told he’s chosen, on a mission, and, after a certain processing, he returns.”

Pashtov said, "I heard one of those who went say he came back to do jihad. That’s exactly the
word he used."

Pshikhachev, who himself studied in Libya and Syria during the 1990s, saw a further problem in
what his young rivals encountered abroad. While most Muslims in Russia, including those in
Kabardino-Balkaria, are traditionally of the Hanafi madhhab, or school, of Sunni Islam, those
in Saudi Arabia follow the Hanbali school. While the differences are slight and most scholars
agree that it is irrelevant which madhhab is followed, he said, "Literature coming from Saudi
Arabia – including in Russian – doesn’t say it is Hanbali; it just says it’s the Koran and
Sunnah." As younger Muslims were unaware of this, he explained, "They accused the older people
of not praying right."

Pshikhachev likened what he saw as their extremist stance to the seventh-century Kharijite sect
of Islam: "Their mindset is, ‘Whoever isn’t with us is against us.’ They believe that if people
aren’t Muslim, it is all right to oppress and kill them."

Pshigotyzhev, however, insisted that the Kabardino-Balkaria authorities’ opposition to those
branded extremist is in fact directed against nonviolent Islam. "Obviously you can’t struggle
against Islam openly, but if you call Muslims ‘Wahhabis,’ you can conduct searches, arrest, and
even destroy them physically."

Young mosque-goers in Kabardino-Balkaria reported being blacklisted as "Wahhabis" by police and
subjected to beatings and more severe torture.

Pshigotyzhev thought the crackdown inevitable. "If the state produces alcohol, takes bribes,
encourages fornication — everything forbidden by Allah — and people who live in accordance
with Islam tell politicians they can’t do that, they see a threat to their positions," he said.
"Their predisposition is not to allow the spread of Islam – because how they live is the
complete opposite."

Geraldine Fagan writes for Forum 18 News Service in Oslo. A partner post from Forum 18.

http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&N…

    SCARY FACTS About ISLAM
    -Dr. Peter Hammond.

    Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it
is a
    complete, total, 100% system of life.

    Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and
military
    components. The religious component is a beard for all of the
other
    components.

    Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country
    to agitate for their religious privileges.

    When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse
societies
    agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of
the
    other components tend to creep in as well.

    Here’s how it works.

    As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in
    any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a
    peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This
is
    the case in:

    United States — Muslim 0.6%
    Australia — Muslim 1.5%
    Canada — Muslim 1.9%
    China — Muslim 1.8%
    Italy — Muslim 1.5%
    Norway — Muslim 1.8%

    At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic
minorities
    and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails
    and among street gangs. This is happening in:

    Denmark — Muslim 2%
    Germany — Muslim 3.7%
    United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%
    Spain — Muslim 4%
    Thailand — Muslim 4.6%

    From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to
    their percentage of the population. For example, they will push
for
    the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food,
thereby
    securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase
    pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves
—
    along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:

    France — Muslim 8%
    Philippines — Muslim 5%
    Sweden — Muslim 5%
    Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
    The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
    Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%

    At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to
allow
    them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the
    Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia
    law over the entire world.

    When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to
    increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their
    conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any
    non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and
    threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed
    cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily,
    particularly in Muslim sections, in:

    Guyana — Muslim 10%
    India — Muslim 13.4%
    Israel — Muslim 16%
    Kenya — Muslim 10%
    Russia — Muslim 15%

    After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad
    militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of
Christian
    churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

    Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%

    At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror
    attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

    Bosnia — Muslim 40%
    Chad — Muslim 53.1%
    Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%

    From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of
    non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming
    Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law
    as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

    Albania — Muslim 70%
    Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
    Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
    Sudan — Muslim 70%

    After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some
    State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these
    nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such
    as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

    Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
    Egypt — Muslim 90%
    Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
    Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
    Iran — Muslim 98%
    Iraq — Muslim 97%
    Jordan — Muslim 92%
    Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
    Pakistan — Muslim 97%
    Palestine — Muslim 99%
    Syria — Muslim 90%
    Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
    Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
    United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%

    100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic
    House of Peace. Here there’s supposed to be peace, because
    everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and
    the Koran is the only word, such as in:

    Afghanistan — Muslim 100%
    Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%
    Somalia — Muslim 100%
    Yemen — Muslim 100%

    Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states
    the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy
    their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of
reasons.

    ‘Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It
was
    me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my
    family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the
tribe;
    the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel. —
Leon
    Uris, ‘The Haj’

    It is important to understand that in some countries, with well
    under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority
    Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100%
    Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia Law. The national
    police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national
    courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such
    situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large.
    The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To
    even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death.
    Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and
    extremists exercise more power than the national average would
indicate.

    Today’s 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world’s population.
    But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus,
    Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Some say Muslims will
    exceed 50% of the world’s population by the end of this century.

    ~Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book – "Slavery, Terrorism
    and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat"

RUSSIANS!!

Look:

NATO must prepare for nuclear first strike, report urges
???wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/nato-j24.shtml

/ / top military commanders from the US and its NATO
allies declares that \ \

Neocon bushite are enemies to Life. They do not support defending
America, but destroying Humanity to escape their rightful arrests
for the crimes of 911, among other things. Please speak for
Russians, in lawful action to demand the arrests of those
responsible for 911. General Ahmad funded 911′s Atta.

American Women Raped in Iraq by "Lawless" Bushite Grunters

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/20080826_us_military_keeping_sec…

/ / Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by seven fellow KBR
employees at Camp Hope in Baghdad. Jones’ rape occurred
nine days after Lavena Johnson was found dead in a KBR
tent at Balad Air Base. Jones was drugged, raped and beaten \ \

See? As King I would call for the immediate execution of ANY
grunter who stood in our way to seek Justice against these
‘lawless’ bushite enemy forces of the demonic antichrist.
I don’t know if there’s anything I hate more than a
genuine thieving bushite rapist, a godless enemy of American
virtue who supports zionist McCain for a hundred more years
of lawlessness through warfare further against US Innocent,
as the yet to be even fairly represented minimally by honest
paper balloting.

/ / Remarkably, a rape test was not performed on the body
of Lavena Johnson although bruising and lacerations in her
genital area indicated assault. \ \

/ / the autopsy report—written after the July 22, 2005,
autopsy at Dover Air Force Base and signed on Aug. 9,
2005 by associate medical examiner Lt. Cmdr. Edward Reedy
and by chief deputy medical examiner Cmdr. James Caruso \ \

Cmdr. James Caruso, and Lt. Cmdr. Edward Reed need to be
formally arrested and held in a brig for minimally,
dereliction of duty, perhaps accessories to murder. Remember
though, everyone in America’s Military Intelligence is
TRUE dumfuk. They, are as always, deeply evil as cowardly
ignorant chauvinists, who hate the schooled in America Justice,
for that is why they sadistically advocate indiscriminate
bombings to pay off instead as murderous rapists and thieves.
They can’t compete in a free market place of ideas that rule
our universes for a better future. For, that would require
a respect for the wise, for the Constitution, and to do so,
would reveal them as the sold out losers of Life they
are to Women, and our fellow brothers. (Never mind getting
the Son to God involved to complicate matters.) Torture
is ILLEGAL and warrants an immediate death sentence under
American Law. Bushite don’t like that TRUTH because THEY are
OUR enemies. Enemies of Freedom for America, enemies of
the mysteries of Life given gloriously through Our
grantings of wisdom most fly. The bushite survive barely
thieving from our better Natures censored, swimming in
the sewers of Manhattan as crap most sickening. WE NEED to
demand the enemies of Liberty on the Coast to Coast radio
program except our challenge to explain their betrayal.
George Norry wants YOU to fear the uncertainties of life,
escaping evil doers from the power that Justice brings in
defense of the only understood as innocent. Now, who’s
with ourselves to demand open communication? Not YOU?
Can’t raise objections to dying for evil doing? So be it.

King Johnny America – President and CEO of Shareware Earth Co.

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Truth Movement takes over Chris Matthews at DNC.flv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZBz1riFOxg

Nazi America murders 60 children by calling ourselves Taliban

WAKE UP AMERICA – murdering the civilian populace

What the hell is wrong with all you?

/ / The White House says the U.S. will use its veto power to on
the U.N. Security Council to ensure that the two separatist
provinces remain part of Georgia in the eyes of the world. \ \

Biden "I am a Zionist."
[I wanna murder innocent Christians for money, and give
Saakashvili billions to kill more Georgians too - ELECT ME!]

Saakashvili is a war criminal who ordered the indiscriminate
murder of our civilian populace, a crime warranting death
anywhere, just ask ourselves.  It’s called mass murder.
wadahfuk

Another US War Resister From Canada Court-Martialed

/ / Also, the Harper administration is using the politically
tainted FBI’s National Crime Information Center data base to
deny entry to US citizens who have been arrested in the United
States for misdemeanor violations while protesting the war on
Iraq and torture. \ \

You can not hand over a prisoner for the crime of refusing to
commit a war crime.  Otherwise, YOU’D be a war criminal like
now Harper is.  A nazi appeaser.  The government of Canada
already decided on this issue, and the vote was 137 Patriot to
110 neoconned bushite dumfuk. The Iraq War is a war crime.
These be demons that steal our democratic voices, by denying
freedom from a man who’s capital offense, is that he tried to
be fair for all parties.  See?  Now Harper is a war criminal,
for the Iraq War is officially declared a crime against Christ
and Kofi.  They, nazi forces have indiscriminately murdered
more than ONE MILLION INNOCENT PERSONS.  Your Spouse, your
child, your family.  All to thieve for multi national oil
companies, who’s bosses, live anywhere far from war torn in
America. They, the bushite nazis, kidnap innocent males to be
tortured to death by the criminally sexually deviant faggots
of CACI. I ask all lovers to hunt CACI supporters down in our
streets for questioning. Remember, CACI employees KNOW they
commit these crimes against GOD as enemies of both YOU and me.
THEY DECIDE as private employees of CACI, they will stay to
torture ourselves as the godly innocent for our stolen values.

          McCain on VIDEO Fire Bombing Children

The Hidden Massacre
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8905191678365185391&
hl=en-CA

America’s  "Hero" McCain on VIDEO fire bombing children as the
intro!   McCain is one evil nazi son-of-a-bitch eh?  The demon
fuck  is  aware  that  Americans were conned to die as the bad
guys,  by  his  kissing  cousin,  and  he  speaks  nothing but
contempt  for  our  forsaken  lives.  Just as he did regarding
Nazi Saakashvili, for ordering the crimes of first degree mass
murder  against  the  civilian  populace of South Ossetia.  He
immediately  wanted  to  FALSELY  blame  Russia for the con of
first  degree  mass  murders  gone  unreported  in America.  A
murderer  committed  to  the  crimes  with  his thieving money
briber, yet another, neoconner of ungodly origin. Obamma’s not
much better.   Obamma  claims  killing more women and children  
in Afghanistan as NATO for heroin pushers,  is what the grunts
should  be  ordered  to do in mindless defense of the escaping
neocon traitors to Life.  Not  to  war  for Justice by hunting
the mass murdering torturers, rapists, and thieves.

The Public Trial of Treason for Mattis

Death  to  those  who  murder  INNOCENT Americans wantonly, or
don’t  speak,  and  die  by  the words  of Bushite nazi dumfuk
enemies  like  TRAITOR Military "Judge" Mattis, a war criminal
now  promoted  to  General,  who’s into murdering our innocent
women  and children for fun, like those accused he has so far,
acquitted without any legal basis known whatsoever.  Acquitted
of  crimes they formally confess as guilty for.  Stay tuned to
fucktwit  murder  merchant  General  Mattis,  the  demon enemy
traitor  ’hidden  in  the shadows’ as Neoconner, as soon to be
vying  for Supreme Court Judgeship, a naked zionist bush bitch
liar, who didn’t even school it out of elementary.  Look:  the
demons say the accused is innocent until PROVEN guilty, Right?
so,  who  was  guilty  for  ordering  soldiers to murder every
innocent  man,  woman  and child in Fallujah, a city where all
were  forbidden  to  leave,  on  the argument that it would be
easier  to  capture  Zarqawi?  (*of whom Kimmitt, and everyone
else  familiar  with the facts would confess, a total psych-op
run  by  pro-McCain  traitors who kill kids, to stear the deaf
and  dumb  Niggers away from the true Master Cons responsible)
Have  no  fear!  it was trumpeted to the toddlers, and old men
in  wheel  chairs of Fallujah – we come for freedom!. Soldiers
of  then, waited outside the city until the antichrist secured
another  fixed  election (3 months without a shot fired), were
then,  ordered  in  by  billionaire  Sattler  to  murder every
innocent  family  hidden  away  in their quiet homes, deprived
food  and  water, medicine or bandages.  While the (19ish old)
military Chaplin Satanically told the grunts of BRAVO Company,
that  to  murder  every  innocent  women and child, would be a
greater  success  for  fellow  grunters committed to George W.
Bush  in  the eyes of the Lord [as reported in CNN's "Anvil of
God"].   and..   they…  extremely importantly,.  didn’t KILL
THE  CHAPLIN  INSTANTLY as any real, god loving man Serving in
the  Military  would.   Death  to  the  evil  lawless  bushite
traitors  of  Humanity,  who refuse as godless cowards to this
day,  to  defend  America,  and  on  all  of which WE stand as
Justice for all, and instead as the bush bitch enemy willingly
take  war  criminal  commands as traitors to these here lands.
Death  to  the  enemies  of  Freedom  for Christ in America as
Justice Will prevail.

Staff  Sgt.   Frank  D.   Wuterich  was  acquitted  by General
Mattis,  who freely confessed, to murdering countless innocent
peoples,  Peoples  Wuterich granted no provision of the Law to
defend,  nor importantly did Mattis in our fairer judgment for
Justice.   Wuterich  just  shot them in the back at random for
nothing  but the absent excuse that he’s not guilty of what he
freely  confesses.   And  those  of  whom he murdered denied a
defense,  Wuterich claims, as a murderer of We, The People, do
not  deserve  the  protections  God  grants  all free peoples.
Innocent until PROVEN guilty.  Now, he’s
…

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Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUSIsjrCyC0

We’ve previously noted how Al-Jazeera’s treatment of the Tibet issue tends to be somewhat
lopsided, but this latest report on Islam in China which features interviewees from both ends
of the political spectrum does exhibit cognisance of the various sensitivities and the
interplay of a variety of complex factors. The heterogeneity of Muslims in China makes them a
highly fascinating group to study, if we can even consider them as a "group" to begin with. The
longstanding suspicions among Uyghurs of the Hui’s are underscored by activist Rebiya Kadeer’s
assertion that many of the spies employed by Chinese intelligence in Xinjiang are Hui Muslims —
an ethnic group that accounts for about half of China’s 22 million Muslims. The main
distinction that sets the Hui’s apart from the Han’s is derived from their practice of Islam
and in many cases, there is no genetic distinction between the Hui’s and the Han’s due to a
decision by the Communist Party in the 1930s to define Hui’s as an umbrella group for all
Sinophone Muslims.

It is interesting to note that Rebiya Kadeer was once co-opted as a member of the Chinese
People’s Political Consultative Conference. Her rags-to-riches story and successes as a
businesswoman earned her a high standing among the Uyghur community. Unfortunately, her barring
from re-election in 1998 and subsequent imprisonment in 1999 (a missed opportunity by the
Chinese government to address real concerns perhaps?) may have had the effect of radicalising
her views. Since her exile to the United States, she has gained influential friends and
meetings with heads of states and has also been named President of the World Uyghur Congress,
but for all her actions is likely to exert only limited pressure on the Chinese government.

Even as the Chinese government continues to guarantee more space for the expression of
religion, the rise of political Islam will be a real concern. This is because Islam is a set of
beliefs which not only govern how man is to behave before God, but also how states should be
run. As more and more imams (religious leaders) are trained not just in local seminaries but
also in such revered institutions of fundamentalist thought such as the Al-Azhar University in
Egypt, the face of Islam in China will change (note the totally veiled women in the video). As
record numbers of Chinese Muslims go on Haj year-on-year, their spiritual aspirations and views
of their relation to the state will also evolve. Not all of this will be bad though. As we have
previously noted, there is much that Muslim communities elsewhere can glean from the Chinese
Muslim experience, in particular the establishment of nu si (“??") or female mosques (seen in
this video) and the ordination of large numbers of female imams that are unheard of elsewhere.
While female imams and mosques are more peculiar to Hui rather than Uyghur communities, it has
been studied with great interest by anthropologists.

Related links
Shanghaiist: The most unlikely birthplace of progressive Islam?
Shanghaiist: Record number of Chinese Muslims on Haj
Wikipedia: Rebiya Kadeer
Youtube: Cause and Causes [video]
In These Times: Rebiya Kadeer: The Uighur Dalai Lama
Journal3.net: Islam in China: China Nu’s Ahong
Asia Times: Islam with Chinese characteristics

http://shanghaiist.com/2008/08/24/aljazeera_on_islam_in_china.php