Archive for February, 2006
The cartoon jihad rages on, and now an Iranian cleric is encouraging that jihad be directed at the United States. From a story in Iran Focus:
A senior Iranian cleric called on Muslims on Friday to direct their fury over cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad at the United States, rather than Denmark.
When crowds of worshipers in Tehran chanted “Death to Denmark” during his fiery sermon, Tehran Friday prayers leader Ahmad Khatami told them, “We shouldn’t say ‘Death to Denmark’. Denmark is nothing! We must say, ‘Death to America’. It’s the Americans who set up the likes of the Danes”.
The Muslims are employing a double standard which it is okay for them but not for anyone else to use political and editorial cartoons. The Muslim world is trying to force their ways on the non-Muslim world by attempting to thwart freedom of speech.
From a post on Tell Children The Truth, the path to genocide against the Jews is spelled out in Arab anti-Jewish cartoons. Examples of these cartoons can be viewed at their website.
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The main recurrent motif in Arab cartoons concerning Israel is “the devilish Jew.” This image conveys the idea that Jews behave like Nazis, kill children and love blood. The similarity with themes promulgated by the Nazis is evident. Many Arab cartoons praise suicide bombing or call for murder. The collective image of the Jews thus projected lays the groundwork for a possible genocide.
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A caricature may have as much influence on public opinion as an editorial.
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Palestinian cartoonists often place emphasis on the anti-Semitic accusation of “ritual murder” of children. This is underscored by their claim that Israelis target Palestinian children. To dehumanize Jews, Arab cartoonists often depict them as malevolent creatures: spiders, vampires or octopuses.
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Several Arab hate motifs also have permeated Western society as they resonate with the long-standing anti-Semitic prejudices of the Christian world.
The Muslims will take this cartoon jihad to the fullest extent they can, yet no one in the West is calling them on their rather inappropriate cartoons of the Jews and other non-Muslims.
There is no reason for the violent riots by the Muslim world over the publishing of the Mohammed cartoon caricatures. The Muslims have been producing caricatures of Mohammed for centuries!
In a previous post, Ann Coulter, in a recent column in World Net Daily, has pointed out that the rule forbidding the drawing of Mohammed is only a recent idea.
From DiscoverTheNetwork.org, author Amir Taheri also presents evidence that depicting Mohammed in cartoons calls for jihad:
The Muslim Brotherhood’s position, put by one of its younger militants, Tariq Ramadan–who is, strangely enough, also an adviser to the British home secretary–can be summed up as follows: It is against Islamic principles to represent by imagery not only Muhammad but all the prophets of Islam; and the Muslim world is not used to laughing at religion. Both claims, however, are false.
There is no Quranic injunction against images, whether of Muhammad or anyone else. When it spread into the Levant, Islam came into contact with a version of Christianity that was militantly iconoclastic. As a result some Muslim theologians, at a time when Islam still had an organic theology, issued "fatwas" against any depiction of the Godhead. That position was further buttressed by the fact that Islam acknowledges the Jewish Ten Commandments–which include a ban on depicting God–as part of its heritage. The issue has never been decided one way or another, and the claim that a ban on images is "an absolute principle of Islam" is purely political. Islam has only one absolute principle: the Oneness of God. Trying to invent other absolutes is, from the point of view of Islamic theology, nothing but sherk, i.e., the bestowal on the Many of the attributes of the One.
The claim that the ban on depicting Muhammad and other prophets is an absolute principle of Islam is also refuted by history. Many portraits of Muhammad have been drawn by Muslim artists, often commissioned by Muslim rulers. There is no space here to provide an exhaustive list, but these are some of the most famous:
A miniature by Sultan Muhammad-Nur Bokharai, showing Muhammad riding Buraq, a horse with the face of a beautiful woman, on his way to Jerusalem for his M’eraj or nocturnal journey to Heavens (16th century); a painting showing Archangel Gabriel guiding Muhammad into Medina, the prophet’s capital after he fled from Mecca (16th century); a portrait of Muhammad, his face covered with a mask, on a pulpit in Medina (16th century); an Isfahan miniature depicting the prophet with his favorite kitten, Hurairah (17th century); Kamaleddin Behzad’s miniature showing Muhammad contemplating a rose produced by a drop of sweat that fell from his face (19th century); a painting, "Massacre of the Family of the Prophet," showing Muhammad watching as his grandson Hussain is put to death by the Umayyads in Karbala (19th century); a painting showing Muhammad and seven of his first followers (18th century); and Kamal ul-Mulk’s portrait of Muhammad showing the prophet holding the Quran in one hand while with the index finger of the other hand he points to the Oneness of God (19th century).
So why recently, is the Muslim world reacting so violent to cartoons that were published five months ago?
Listed here are the 10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto. As you can see the United States federal government has enacted legislation pushing our country towards Communist ideology and most American citizens may not be aware of this. Communisms unfortunately, is not dead. None of the following planks or the laws enacting them are authorized by the US Constitution.
America, wake up and read your Constitution!
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school and property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management. Various federal housing programs such as Habitat for Humanity, allow homeowners "ownership" of property but not allow equity or rights to true ownership as long as it is subsidized by federal grants. Other federal programs allow ownership of homes on lease land at one dollar for 100 years.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State "income" taxes. We call it "paying your fair share".
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
We call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
What is the real reason for all the recent "Religion of Peace" violence directed to the non-Muslim world over the publication of a few editorial cartoons?
Palestine has been publishing similar anti-Israel cartoons with no world anti-Muslim riots erupting anywhere in the world.
An Egyptian magazine published the same Danish cartoon causing all the uproar, in a Islamic publication last October with no violent reaction from the Muslim world.
Ann Coulter, in a recent column in World Net Daily, has pointed out that the rule forbidding the drawing of Mohammed is only a recent idea.
The rioting Muslims claim they are upset because Islam prohibits any depictions of Muhammad – though the text is ambiguous on beheadings, suicide bombings and flying planes into skyscrapers.
The belief that Islam forbids portrayals of Muhammad is recently acquired. Back when Muslims created things, rather than blowing them up, they made paintings, frescoes, miniatures and prints of Muhammad.
But apparently the Quran is like the Constitution: It’s a "living document," capable of sprouting all-new provisions at will. Muslims ought to start claiming the Quran also prohibits indoor plumbing, to explain their lack of it.
Other interpretations of the Quran forbid images of humans or animals, which makes even a child’s coloring book blasphemous. That’s why the Taliban blew up those priceless Buddhist statues, bless their innocent, peace-loving little hearts.
So why all the fuss? There was no fuss when an Islamic publication in Egypt published the articles four months ago.
Obviously there is a hidden Muslim agenda involved.
Why are Muslims violently rioting against the supposedly publication of the infamous cartoons?
The World Net Daily reports:
Why did they not express outrage and violence when the same cartoons were published in a Muslim publication last October?
While Muslims across the world have rioted in the past week against countries whose newspapers have published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, there was no uproar when the same caricatures were prominently displayed in an Islamic newspaper four months ago.
The images originating in Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten in September were reportedly featured on the cover and inside pages of Egypt’s al-Fagr (the Dawn) in October, during the holy month of Ramadan.
Obviously, these violent outburst and riots are a some type of smoke screen to take the negative attention off the Islamic regimes and to give Al-Qaeda a reason to use Jihad against non-Muslims.
The non-Muslim world is response to the Muslim’s violent reaction to the anti-Muslim cartoons has been somewhat predictable. Some are fearful for displaying the cartoons and others will not bow to the demands and in the name of free speech are continuing to publish and display the cartoons.
In an UPI report:
A Moscow museum has announced it will exhibit the entire series of cartoons of Mohammed that have caused riots throughout the Islamic world.
Yury Samodurov, director of the Sakharov Museum and Public Center, said on Russian television that the center was ready to organize a public exhibition of the cartoons satirizing the founder of Islam that originally were published in a Danish newspaper, Pravda.ru reported Monday.
"We must show the whole world that Russia goes along with Europe, that the freedom of expression is much more important for us than the dogmas of religious fanatics," Samodurov said.
The riots and violence are expected to continue spreading.
World-wide Jihad Called For By Muslims Over Cartoon Protest
The violent protests and civil disturbances throughout the free world by Muslims over the cartoons depicting their prophet and their violent ways, show the intolerance they have towards non-Muslims. Are they afraid of the truth?
Riots and burning of embassies in Damascus are a sick response to these cartoons. The French embassy was attacked but did not burn.
The BBC reports:
On Saturday, hundreds hurled stones and stormed the Danish site, before moving to the Norwegian embassy.
"With our blood and souls we defend you, O Prophet of God," they chanted outside the Danish building, which also houses the Swedish and Chilean missions.
Some removed the Danish flag and replaced it with another reading: "There is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God."
Many countries are reprinting the cartoons in response to the right of free speech. The one cartoon of Mohammed wearing h a bomb for a turban with a short burning fuse certainly illustrates the foolish and irrational reactions by many Muslims.
Some countries are not publishing the cartoons showing the true picture of Muslim violence in fear of receiving threatening violence from the same.
Many former Muslims see Islam as a killing cult. And they see Mohammed was a cultist leader like Jim Jones or David Koresh. In the words of Ali Sina, ex-Muslim, webmaster of http://www.FaithFreedom.org, Mohammed was “a psychopath (with) Allah (as) nothing but his own alter ego."
Members of a violent international gang working for drug cartels in Central and South America are planning coordinated attacks along the U.S. border with Mexico, according to a Department of Homeland Security document obtained by the Daily Bulletin. Detailed inside a Jan. 20 officer safety alert, the plot’s ultimate goal is to "begin gaining control of areas, cities and regions within the U.S."
The information comes from the interrogation of a captured member of Mara Savatrucha, or MS-13, a transnational criminal syndicate born from displaced El Salvadoran death squads from the 1980s. The MS-13 member, who claimed to have smuggled cocaine for the Gulf Cartel, explained a plan to amass MS-13 members in Mexican border towns such as Nuevo Laredo, Acuna, Ojinaga and Juarez. The Gulf Cartel runs its drug smuggling operations from Del Rio, Texas, to south of Matamoros, Mexico. "After enough members have been pre-positioned along the border, a coordinated attack using firearms was to commence against all law enforcement, to include Border Patrol," the alert states.
Source: DailyBulletin.com
Cross-posted from: Northeast Intelligence Network
Three separate raids were conducted on three residences in Laredo, Texas were conducted on January 12, 27 and February 2, 2006, netting two-(2) ready-made improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and enough materials to make an estimated 43 more. To date, six people have been arrested, although their identities have not been publicly released pending additional and related investigations.
Julie Myers, the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, described the stacks of weapons seized in the three raids as “very impressive,” including six kits to assemble machine guns, at least twenty assembled firearms, magazines, silencers, thousands of rounds of ammunition, as well as quantities of cocaine, marijuana, and the fast growing drug methamphetamine.
According to Myers, there is no connection between the devices and weapons found and Middle Eastern terrorists. According to Myers, the advanced weapons appear to be related to two Mexican gangs fighting for control of what’s called ‘The Plaza,’ the lucrative drug and immigrant smuggling routes into the southwestern United States.
The Northeast Intelligence Network is continuing to follow this investigation closely.
In response to the left-biased media, I am posting this press release from The New Media Alliance.
Shelton, CT., Jan. 19/06 – In a growing trend of increasing organization and consolidation within the new-media, a new company has been formed which brings together grass roots writers, journalists and media outlets into a single organization.
The “new media”, a term typically used to refer to the unorganized collection of blogs, on-line magazines and talk radio shows, has had some impact in on public awareness of issues that have affected public perceptions and even influenced politics such as the Lewinsky “scandal” and “Rathergate”. However, What is different about the New Media Alliance is that it represents a more formal coming together of these new-media players.
According to a company spokesperson, the New Media Alliance (http://www.thenma.org/ – NMA) has developed a growing network of “some of the most talented grass-roots” writers, media outlets and organizations who have all agreed to partner together in the origination and national distribution of daily news, commentary, research and analysis covering current political and cultural issues.
Gary Schneider, Founder and President of the New Media Alliance, Inc., says that: “…Americans are increasingly seeking out alternatives to the traditional sources of news and perspective on today’s issues for a number of reasons, and we are well positioned to satisfy that growing demand.” Schneider further states that "…through our vast and growing network of contracted writers and media partners, we plan on supplying information and context on today’s important issues that would probably not otherwise have a chance to be heard.”
The NMA is owned and operated by Heritage New Media Partners, Inc. which also publishes the conservative on-line magazine “TheRealityCheck.org” (http://www.therealitycheck.org/) and directs the up-start campus watchdog and student empowerment group dubbed "The Reality Check On Campus" (www.oncampus.therealitycheck.org).
ABOUT THE NEW MEDIA ALLIANCE, INC.
The New Media Alliance (http://www.thenma.org/) is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets .