The highly publicized terrorism funding trial of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation has recently netted a combined 80 years worth of jail time for two of HLF’s founding members.

Of the five HLF members to be sentenced, Shukri Abu Baker got 65 years for his part in the funneling of $12.4 million dollars in charitable contributions to the terrorist group Hamas.

In addition, Mohammad El-Mezain was sentenced to 15 years for one count of conspiracy to support a terrorist organization.

Meanwhile, Ghassan Elashi - the founder of the Texas chapter of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, is one of three defendants that have been convicted of conspiracy, but have yet to be sentenced.

Despite the heavy sentences, the defendants and their supporters are still in denial, playing the victim card.

Read more here.

Taha Abdul-Basser, an Islamic Harvard chaplain and a Harvard grad (’96), just made a big stir on the blogosphere with comments about capital punishment for Islamic apostates.

Reading some of the press, you might be left with the impression that Mr. Abdul-Basser was espousing vigilante justice and random killings.

It’s not true.  If you read his full statement, he was discussing capital punishment only in the context of state authority.  His words were:

“This [capital punishment] can only occur in the domain and under supervision of Muslim governmental authority and can not be performed by non-state, private actors.”

Listen, Texas and Louisiana are governmental authorities, and they impose capital punishment.  There isn’t a Muslim government at Harvard, for the time being.

The problem, however, is two-fold.

First, these states mete out this punishment for murdering people, not for free thinking.

Second is that a popular belief in the Muslim world today is that a worldwide Caliphate should be established.  That translates as a Muslim governmental authority throughout the world – including the United States.  Popular US Islamic personalities such as Abdul Alim Musa and Imam Johari Abdul Malik – the first Islamic chaplain at Howard University, espouse this belief loudly and clearly.

That makes Mr. Abdul-Basser’s comments much more relevant.

So, does Mr. Abdul-Basser pray for a worldwide Caliphate - the rule of Islamic law over the United States?

If so, that is tantamount to advocating the execution of thousands of US Muslims for the heinous crime of free thinking!

If so, the Harvard chaplain would be advocating the state-sponsored, Sharia-justified slaughter of thousands of Americans for exercising a right and privilege that we now take for granted in the US - freedom of religion.

This clip is an example of women speaking out. Although the designer accepts rules relating to modest dress, she has found a unique way to take fashion into her own hands.

Now that the terror plot to bomb two NY synagogues and a shoot down a plane at Stewart Air Force Base in Newburgh has been foiled, family members are running to the defense of the suspects.

The party line amongst those close to the terrorists is that they are not terrorists at all.  Rather, they are career criminals that were enticed with cash and other amenities by an FBI informant trying to egg on the group to commit a terrorist act.  According to the wife of one of the suspects, the entire plot was conceived by the FBI, and those trying to commit the vicious acts were just pawns in a game. Read more…

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Early this morning, newspapers across the country and the world featured articles on the latest installment of homegrown terrorism. Four terrorists were arrested for plotting to blow up synagogues in the Bronx and to shoot down military planes at the Newburgh, NY airport.

This story is the definition of homegrown jihad. Three of the four terrorists were American born. Much of the coverage has failed to mention that they are in fact Muslims. Some detail that three of the four converted after recent stints in prison. All mention that they are from Newburgh.

The four terrorists met up with FBI informant at the Masjid al-Ikhlas mosque. (the Islamic Learning Center of Orange County).

This mosque was previously named “Al Jihad Al Akbar”.

The mosque also has links to the Muslim Brotherhood and the ISNA which is an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation trial. Only one week ago, head of ISNA, Ingrid Mattson was said to speak at the Newburgh mosque. The ISNA is also listed as an organization in the FBI Manifesto exposed in The Third Jihad.

The head of the mosque is Imam Salahuddin Muhammad. He is also an Imam in the New York Prison System.

He was hired to be an Imam in the New York Prison System by Warith Deen Uman, who is quoted in The Third Jihad as saying:

“Brothers, be prepared to fight, be prepared to die, be prepared to kill.  It’s a part of the being, and this ain’t a brother just saying this, this is history, this is the Koran, nobody can deny it.

“You think that there’s no terror in Koran, it’s called irhab.  Read it in the 56th (sic) of the Koran.  There’s no lack of translation, there’s no mistranslation, there’s no one sheikh says one thing, no, it’s very clear.  When you fight, you strike terror into the, into the heart of the disbeliever.”

Imam Salahuddin Muhammad has been known to circulate radical propaganda produced by Wahhabis within the prison system.

Three out of four of terrorists were converted to Islam during or after prison, according to the New York Post.

New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly was quoted in The Third Jihad:

“About 18 percent at last count of prisoners in the New York State are Islamic.”
This is several times higher than the national percentage of Muslims to the general population.

Newburgh is located in upstate New York. This region is home to well-known Radical Muslim enclaves, such as Islamberg.

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Four terrorists were arrested yesterday attempting to blow up two synagogues in the Bronx, and shoot down a plane.  This is homegrown jihad at its worst, with Radical Muslims seeking to enforce a reign of terror inside America’s borders.

The threats are real.  These terrorists were arrested while actually planting [what they thought to be] explosive material.  They were planning the attack for over a year, and were actually in the act when arrested by police.

Many thanks to our brave Homeland Security team that prevented bloodshed and horror within our borders.  We must ask ourselves if this threat runs deeper than a few crazies from upstate New York. 

Three of the four terrorists converted to Islam during or after stints in US Prison.  The lead terrorist met the informant in a Mosque.  And all live in upstate New York, an area with a growing Muslim population, not far from radical Muslim Enclaves.  When you add these factors together, you find a pretty startling reality:  The threat is growing, and it is sophisticated.  It takes an incident like this to make us aware.

Here is a condensed version of the article in the NY Post, May 20: Read more…

In Saudi Arabia, a man is entitled to slap his wife if he feels that she has spent too much money.

Associated Press reports:

“A Saudi judge told a conference on domestic violence that a man has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully and said women were as much to blame as men for increased spousal abuse, a Saudi newspaper reported. Read more…

Sunday, 800 emergency workers conducted a drill simulating multiple explosions in the PATH train system under the site of World Trade Center.  The drill highlighted the need for large cities to be prepared for terror attacks, particularly on large scale transportation systems.

Reuters and other mainstream media point out that the WTC has been attacked before, and other large scale attacks have taken place in London, Madrid and Mumbai.  However, in articles in the NY Times, AP, and Reuters, there were no references to the connecting theme behind the major attacks:  Radical Islamic Terror Organizations.

REUTERS:
The World Trade Center site has been attacked twice, first by a truck bomb in 1993 and then in the September 11 attacks that destroyed the Twin Towers. Madrid, London and Mumbai have since been hit by transit system attacks.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser speaks his mind freely.  That does not make him a unique America.  Americans speak out regularly against social issues and even against the government.  But Jasser is a devout Muslim.  And all to often within Muslim society, those speaking out against Radical Islamists are silenced.

Living in America gives Jasser the freedom to speak out against Radicals, and to comment harshly on U.S. government policies, particularly toward the Arab world.

In a recent Op-Ed in the Huffington Post, Jasser takes aim with the new term ‘Overseas Contingency Operation,’ created by the Obama Administration to refer to the previously named ‘War on Terror’.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m-zuhdi-jasser/getting-real-on-ishariahi_b_200171.html

Among other great points in the article, Jasser does a good job summarizing the differences between Sharia Law and American society.

The Islamic state is a nation-state based upon the premise that the rule of law of the nation is guided by the legal constructs of Shariah. Shariah is the body of laws of Islamic jurisprudence as interpreted and enacted by clerics and scholars (ulemaa) of Islamic law. To Islamists, societies like ours in the United States based in “one law” derived from reason and a human document are an anathema and represent the ideology of “Godlessness.”

“Mortar by mortar, shell by shell, only going to stop when I send them to hell.” This is the opening line from one of al Qaeda’s newest efforts. The really scary thing is – it is quite catchy.

Al Qaeda is now recruiting people living in Somalia and North America for terrorist training. CNN reports:

“We’re seeing perhaps their most sophisticated attempt so far to really reach an audience of potential recruits in America, and that’s one of the things that made that video very significant,” said Ben Venzke of the IntelCenter, a Washington-based research group that tracks al Qaeda’s development and messages.

“They’re casting it in a way that’s going to speak to the youth of today,” Venzke said. “Most of the time, what we’re seeing in their videos directly parallels what the groups are doing operationally, what they are targeting, where they’re recruiting.”

Al Qaeda refers to this rapper as “The American”. It is clear that the intended audience is Americans right here in our backyard. He has the same accent as all of my neighbors. Are they being recruited too?

To read this whole article, visit: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/04/somali.jihad.video/index.html?eref=rss_topstories