Terrorism

What goes on behind closed doors? Check out this video!

Now this is a guy you don't want to piss off. Craig Harrison, a British soldier killed 2 Taliban boogies from nearly a mile and a half. For those of you from New York thats the distance from the Statue of Liberty to Battery Island. Craig Harrison I take my hat off to you. You're my hero Check out the full article

Did you know that the Department of Defense is the world's single largest consumer of energy in the world?  According to DESC (Defense Energy Support Center, the guys who buy all of DOD's energy) in 2008 they spent over $17.8 billion to run our military.  The vast majority of that oil (~80%) comes from people who give their tithes to terrorists (typically 2.5%). So just to understand: $17.8 Billion is what our military spends on energy, or $14.4 billion the Middle East. Of that $356,000,000  is going to help the guys who are laying IED's, killing our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and who are hijacking ships off of Africa. Maybe the Department of Defense should consider Alternative energy? What do you think?

President Obama’s advisers will remove religious terminology such as “Islamic extremism” from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy, reported Fox News. The changes to the document reflect a larger push by the Obama administration to dialogue with Muslim nations about everything from start-ups to science, health care to education. The shift away from terrorism has been building since the speech the President gave in Cairo. Muslim inclusion and a policy of openness is not only encouraged but may be the only way to move forward. But it begs the question, just because we remove the words does it mean the threat gets erased as well?

Check out this must see video that focuses on the October arrest of Tarek Mehanna, a Sudbury, Massachusetts resident whom the FBI charged with planning to machine gun shoppers in a New England mall. The video offers a glimpse into a loosely-coordinated web of radical Islamic individuals and organizations based in New England with ties to Islamic terrorist groups overseas. This web is responsible for the radicalization of the next generation of American Muslims. Click here to learn more about homegrown terrorism.

Does this woman represent the future of terrorism? We have heard about suicide bombers that were female, but a homegrown terrorist that is a woman is a rare commodity. If you haven't heard the story, check any website (CNN, LA Times, etc). What do we think? To me this just proves how dangerous and prevalent the threat of homegrown terrorism really is. Or could you just say it is a step forward for women, giving them the same opportunity to terrorize as men? I think the lesson that needs to be learned here is that we have a problem when a random American women decides to join forces with radical Muslims.

The recent case of Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who murdered one soldier and injured another at a Little Rock military recruiting center last year, reflects several trends in the growing danger of extremism on American soil.

The New York Times reports that Mr. Muhammed—née Carlos Bledsoe--was born a Baptist. Shortly after beginning college, he converted to Sunni Islam and dropped out of school. He became increasingly devout, and was active in Nashville’s Somali community where he began wearing Arab-style clothing, gave up alcohol, and changed his name.

He eventually went to Yemen to study Arabic. He overstayed his visa, was deported, and ended up in a U.S. prison.

Mr. Muhammad told his father that while in prison he met Islamic radicals who told him that the American government had forsaken him. “We are your real brothers,” they said…

Yesterday a terminal in Munich, Germany was closed due to a bomb scare. An individual’s laptop tested positive for explosives and he ran away. Today we read in the news that perhaps it was a false alarm, perhaps he was running because he was late… Forgive me for being confused. It is very possible that the laptop did not have explosives and that that information was false, however, how often do innocent people run? As well, aren’t people only checked when they enter the airport, so he left the airport and missed his flight? If we do not take these incidents seriously we have learned nothing from Flight 253 which happened just a month ago! Calling this Munich incident a false alarm without having more details does not help the threat of terrorism disappear. Click here to learn more about the threat that terrorism poses.

A man arrested in Memphis "stated he was a Muslim, and wanted to start jihad here in Memphis."  He will be brought to court on January 7 for allegedly trying to blow up office buildings on Christmas day.  Two days earlier, the same man, Mohammed Ibrahim was arrested for possession of a ten inch butcher knife found in his sleeve. Click here to view the whole report When are we going to realize that theses attacks are all the same?  Whether they come from a wealthy Nigerian, a military psychiatrist or Mohammed in Memphis, they are all united by one goal: to take over the west and spread radical Islam.

The New York Post in an article today entitled Lying to Ourselves speaks about the fact that Umar Abdulmutallab, a wealthy Muslim university graduate, clearly planned to carry out his attacks on Christmas day in the name of religious fanaticism. What he planned was a terror attack on Northwestern flight 253, inspired by the doctrine of radical Islam. His own father, a wealthy reputable banker in Nigeria, called the US embassy to warn them that his son had become radicalized. And yet, not only did the security system fail to catch him, our administration refuses to connect this incident with radical Islamic terror. Much like the initial reactions after Fort Hood, our government rejects the claim that this man acted out of religious zeal. By continuing to ignore this fact and try and interpret every incident as isolated, we are only making it easier for the terrorists to take another shot at us. They have a well financed, global network powered by religious fervor and a penetrating ideology that has its goals set on bringing down the West. Until we stop lying to ourselves and our administration starts to “connect the dots” no number of deodorant cans collected at the airport will put a real end to the terror.