Category Archives: American Civil Wars

Purple Heart for Private Long

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And this excellent post from The Baron at Gates of Vienna:

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Abdulhakim Muhammad: “It Wasn’t Murder, It Was War”

by Baron Bodissey

I asserted last night that Pvt. William Andrew Long should be classified as a battlefield casualty, since he was killed by a self-declared Muslim mujahid in an ongoing war against the United States.

The accused murderer, Abdulhakim Muhammad, continues to make my case for me. By now the Obama administration must fervently wish that this poster boy for Islamic peacefulness and tolerance would shut up.

Notice that Mr. Muhammad’s latest media announcement was made via a collect call to the AP from his jail cell in Arkansas:

Suspect in Soldier Shooting Says He Was Justified

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Muslim convert charged with fatally shooting an American soldier at a military recruiting center said Tuesday that he doesn’t consider the killing a murder because U.S. military action in the Middle East made the killing justified.

“I do feel I’m not guilty,” Abdulhakim Muhammad told The Associated Press in a collect call from the Pulaski County jail. “I don’t think it was murder, because murder is when a person kills another person without justified reason.”

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“Yes, I did tell the police upon my arrest that this was an act of retaliation, and not a reaction on the soldiers personally,” Muhammad said. He called it “a act, for the sake of God, for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the world, and also a retaliation on U.S. military.”

No doubt President Obama, like President Bush before him, would assert that Abdulhakim Muhammad is not a true Muslim, because real Muslims don’t commit such heinous acts. But Mr. Muhammad considers himself an authentic Muslim, and so do many other Muslims who slaughter innocent people in the name of Allah.

Thousands upon thousands of Muslims across the globe do the same thing, and consider themselves good Muslims as a result of their actions. Who are we to dispute their definition of their own religion?

How is it that Presidents Bush and Obama know more about the meaning of Islam than Muslims themselves?

The article continues:

In the interview, Muhammad also disputed his lawyer’s claim that he had been “radicalized” in a Yemeni prison and said fellow prisoners that some call terrorists were actually “very good Muslim brothers.”

And indeed they are, in the eyes of many (possibly a majority) of their fellow Muslims.

This incident seems to be yet another instance of Sudden Jihad Syndrome.

He also said he didn’t specifically plan the shootings that morning.

“It’s been on my mind for awhile. It wasn’t nothing planned really. It was just the heat of the moment, you know,” said Muhammad, who was arrested on a highway shortly after the attack.

Mr. Muhammad’s phone call was in defiance of a gag order designed to protect his right to a fair trial:

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Townhall: Gitmo No problemo. Your local prison? thats a problem for you.

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From Townhall.Com a worthy blog anytime. By Allen Hunt

Guantanamo is no threat; the prison in your own community is. Have I got your attention?

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Four men were arrested this past week for allegedly plotting a terror attack on two Bronx synagogues and an Air National Guard flight. They possessed a car load of explosives and a Stinger missile they believed to be real (fortunately, it was not).

What do the four men have in common? More than you would ever guess.

Laguerre Payen, Onta Williams, David Williams, and James Cromitie all had violent pasts. All had recently served time in an American prison or jail. Most significantly, all four men exited their prison time as Muslims.

None appears to have been born Muslim; however, the time in an American prison resulted in their embracing the supposed religion of peace, Islam.

How can this be? Very simple. For decades, Islamic groups have strategically targeted American prison populations as a fertile field for growth and as a seedbed for homegrown terrorists. What we are seeing now is merely the fruit of that missionary effort by groups like the National Islamic Prison Foundation, formerly run by a top Al-Qaeda fund-raiser who himself is now behind bars, the Islamic Assembly of North America, and the Islamic Society of North America. Much of these groups’ funding comes from Saudi Arabian proponents of Wahhabism, the most violent segment within Islam. A little-noted editorial in Investors’ Business Daily clearly articulated this threat back in 2007. This week’s arrests made that warning all the more real.

These groups’ strategy is brilliant – find the most disenchanted American residents, who already speak English and understand American culture; attract them to Islam and its most violent expressions; and then turn them loose on their own homeland. In other words, target those Americans most likely to be anti-American and then give them the philosophy and tools to live out those hostile convictions.

Shortly after the events of September 11, in the Wall Street Journal, Charles Colson noted the danger when he wrote, “Two million people occupy America’s prisons and jails today–two-thirds of whom are nonwhite. Many feel oppressed by the white power structure and sentencing disparities, which too often fall most harshly on minorities.”

So what do you get when you have terrorist groups targeting the most angry, resentful, and angry members of American society? Homegrown terrorists like Jose Padilla, the four men suspected in the Bronx plot, not to mention prison convert Richard Reid in Great Britain. The chickens have come home to roost. Continue Reading →

Muslims in NYC calling for jihad in US etc. blah blah yada yada wuzza wuzza

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My favorite part is where he calls for stopping the attacks in Swat and Pakistan against Muslims who “just want to pray and worship” etc. when in fact they want to commit genocide against non Muslims in the area and enforce sharia law on all Muslims and non Muslims alike. Hell the vast majority of the refugees from the Taliban and Al Queda ARE Muslims who want nothing to do with them.

Founder of prison terrorist group planned major US attacks, sentanced to 16 years aditional prison

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DOJ Seal United States Attorney’s Office
Central District of California

Thom Mrozek
Public Affairs Officer

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Return to the 2009 Press Release Index
Release No. 09-024

March 6, 2009

MAN WHO FORMED TERRORIST GROUP THAT PLOTTED ATTACKS ON MILITARY AND JEWISH FACILITIES SENTENCED TO 16 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former inmate in a California state prison who formed a
domestic terrorist group that planned to attack United States military operations,
“infidels,” and Israeli and Jewish facilities in the Los Angeles area was sentenced this
morning to 16 years in federal prison.

Kevin James, 32, who formed the terrorist group he dubbed Jam’iyyat Ul-Islam
Is-Saheeh, or JIS, while in a California state prison, was sentenced by United States
District Judge Cormac J. Carney.
In sentencing James, Judge Carney said, “Mr. James was the architect and
mastermind of a very serious, very troubling offense.”

“The JIS terrorist group reminds us of the dangers that continue to confront our
nation,” said United States Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien. “Both foreign enemies and so called
homegrown terrorists have the desire to stage potentially deadly attacks on
American soil. As a result of the outstanding work of the FBI and the Joint Terrorism
Task Force, one imminent threat was identified and disabled.”

Last year, Judge Carney sentenced Levar Washington, who was recruited into
JIS while in state prison and subsequently recruited others into the plot, to 22 years in
prison. A third man involved in JIS, Gregory Patterson, was sentenced last year to 151
months in prison.

James, Washington and Patterson admitted in court that they conspired “to levy
war against the government of the United States through terrorism, and to oppose by
force the authority of the United States government.”
The fourth member of JIS accused in an indictment – Hammad Samana – is
scheduled to go on trial on July 14 before Judge Carney.

“Kevin James, the founder of the JIS homegrown terror cell, recruited his
co-conspirators from behind prison walls to target Los Angeles for terrorism,” said
Salvador Hernandez, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles. “This case
reminds us of the evolving terror threat we face, and continues to serve as one of the
finest examples of line police officers uncovering a terrorist plot and setting aside
jurisdictional boundaries to work with the JTTF.”

Torrance Police Chief John J. Neu said: “This case is a prime example of
front-line police officers as front-line prevention of domestic terrorism. This dangerous
group was discovered by alert police officers and the teamwork between our regional
law enforcement partners met this danger head-on. It is important to understand that
there was nothing artificial about this group’s ability to carry-out a mass casualty attack.
This case represents the effective collaboration of local, state and federal resources in
the region which thwarted a tremendous threat to our citizens. We are very pleased to
with today’s sentencing of Kevin James.”

After forming JIS in 1997 while in state prison, James recruited Washington into
the organization in late 2004 while both were prisoners at New Folsom Prison. James
required Washington swear an oath of loyalty and obedience to James and to JIS. After
his release from prison several weeks after taking the JIS oath, Washington recruited
Patterson and Samana into JIS and had them swear oaths of allegiance and obedience
to JIS. After forming this cell, Washington and Patterson conducted about a dozen
armed robberies of gas stations to obtain money for the group’s planned attacks in the
Los Angeles area.

Samana researched targets and prepared a document called “Modes of Attack.”
The document listed “LAX and Consulate of Zion,” “Military Targets,” “Army Recruiting
centers throughout the county,” “Military base in Manhattan Beach” and “Campsite of
Zion.”

After Torrance Police investigators linked Washington and Patterson to a gas
station robbery, various Jihadist documents were found at a South Los Angeles
apartment where they lived. In addition to the “Modes of Attack” document,
investigators discovered a document titled “Notoriety Moves,” which contained a James authored
statement to be given to the media after a deadly attack. The proposed press
statement reads, in part, “This incident is the first in a series of incidents to come in a
plight to defend and propagate traditional Islam in its purity.” The document also warns
“sincere Muslims” to avoid a series of targets, including “Those Jewish and non-Jewish
supporters of an Israeli state.”

The investigation into the terrorist conspiracy was led by the FBI’s Long Beach
Joint Terrorism Task Force, whose participating agencies include the Los Angeles
Police Department; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the Torrance Police
Department; the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department; the Long Beach Police
Department; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the Los Angeles Port Police; U.S. Customs
and Border Protection; the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service; the Defense
Criminal Investigative Service; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and the
Redondo Beach Police Department.

Substantial assistance during the investigation was provided by the Los Angeles
County District Attorney’s Office, Bureau of Investigations; the California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation; the California Department of Justice; the Drug
Enforcement Administration; the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations; and the
Department of Defense.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office worked collaboratively with the
United States Attorney’s Office during the investigation.

Homegrown Jihad trailer.

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Here is the trailer for a new documentary film by the Christian Action Network. Go to gates of Vienna to get some background on this film. You will have to scroll up a bit from this link. This really is something everyone needs to know. Not just Americans although these terrorist training camps are in the US, but everyone as I doubt there are many nations that do not have these. Canada is a vast space. Surely something like this exists here as well. Probably inadvertently government funded for that matter. I wonder how similar these camps are to the ones we bomb in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Maybe the air-force needs to work closer to home for a while. Visit their home page as well. The full documentary appears to be available for the moment for a scant $10.00. This strikes me as the cheapest security investment one can make.

Predictably, the Gaza war is over but violent demonstrations continue

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From last night in New York City, a demonstration is held for Hamas and Palestine. The police continue to side against anyone chosen to be harassed by the demonstrators. This video is about 4 minutes or so but worth watching right to the end. The NYCPD seems to have decided like police around the world to protect the enemies of freedom and the advocates of Islam and terrorism as the path of least resistance if not actual agreement with the goals, which I doubt at this point.
The main issue I believe though here, is that the Hamas supporters and leftists have realized they can act with impunity during the protests while operation cast lead was in progress. Now that the war is over, they will not stop pushing the agenda. Ezra Levant has written eloquently and prophetically on this matter as have many others. This is the new normal and which way it will progress should be obvious. But no action will be taken. A few bloggers and some mass media will point it out. But officialdom will change nothing. Huge thanks to the Gates of Vienna. One of the more prescient places on the net. We all should read it every day before its removed from the web.

Interview with David Harris former Chief of Strategic Planning for CSIS and current Director of INSIGNIS

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Here is an interview with a man in a position to know what is going on with respect to Islamic terrorism in the world. He speaks of Iran, Hamas Spain and the soft Jihad. Sadly this is only about thirty percent of the total interview he gave as the sound quality was simply too poor on the first two thirds to be able to make one’s way through. In this last third he does make some very strong points about the truly grave dangers facing the western world, Canada and the USA in particular and the danger of unchecked immigration.

An article by David Harris is available here about the infiltration of Islam to the Canadian political mainstream.

David B. Harris is a Canadian lawyer, Director of INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc’s International and Terrorist Intelligence Program, and former Chief of Strategic Planning of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

(Note from James Cohen)

“This show created some difficulty for me, not the least of which is the horrific nature of the information Mr. Harris gave and the severity and immediacy of the threat facing the western world and classical civilization itself, but because I never before have had to edit any show other than making the transitions from speech to music a little smoother but never for content. In this case as we had massive sound issues due to a number of new variables we introduced in this particular show, the first 2/3rds of the program are simply unlistenable and I felt that it would be better removed. However for those who would like to hear the entire file I will make it available as a download by request through email. You can understand the first part but it takes some focus. Anyone wishing to hear the entire show may email me at ja***@***************io.com and I would be happy to send you the entire thing. I wish to stress that no editing was done in order to change the context or nature of any information Dave Harris gave but because of the technical issues with the first parts of the show. Also, after we say good bye to Mr. Harris he brings up a rather excellent point at the end about how people who are preventing any real threat mitigation by demanding no loss of civil rights are very likely facing a situation where any civil rights are a distant memory for all of us and likely for a very long time.”

Here is the link to the interview

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Al Queda truly an inch deep and a mile wide

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This video of a training camp in Pennsylvania shows what is clearly an Islamic training camp for weapons and probably future terror actions. It also shows that Al Queda prime is likely pretty much neutered while it has ‘inspired’ and spawned hundreds of such camps around the world. Central Europe has a problem orders of magnitude more serious exporting Jihadis to all trouble spots on earth.

Pay Attention to the Somalis. Townhall.com

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It’s a good thing the US doesn’t adhere to Canadian logic or worse, Toronto. None of this could be known or told in Canada and none of the tests to determine legitimacy of the claims could legally be done I would guess. The Somali experiment has failed in Canada with police forces using strategies such as FIDO (Fuck it and drive on) when they see crimes in progress by Somalians as they know the perpetrators will claim racism and the officer will be in more trouble for enforcing the law than the criminal will be for breaking it.

I know this to be true from what media does manage to get written about it of course but also from having witnessed a small riot myself where police acted against those who attempted to defend their own property and the media was prevented from writing or communicating about it even though some was present at the event.

Eeyore for Vlad.

Diana West :: Townhall.com Columnist

by Diana West

President Bush has been “briefed,” as they say, about the extraordinary spate of Somali piracy that culminated this week in the seizure of the Sirius Star. Incredibly, this Saudi supertanker loaded with crude oil destined for the United States now joins a commandeered fleet of about a dozen ships and 200 crew being held by Somali pirates who, according to Jane’s Terrorism and Security Monitor, may well have links to jihadists.

I’m wondering whether President Bush, at any point in his briefing, ever thought to ask his experts: “What is up with Somalia?”

I say this given the disjointed but unmistakable prominence of Somalis in recent news. Or, rather, in what would have been recent news, maybe, if the media weren’t preoccupied with more weighty stories such as which Washington private school the Obama girls will attend next semester.

Within the last week, for example, the State Department confirmed that massive immigration fraud has been perpetrated overwhelmingly by Africans claimed as close kin (parent, spouse, minor child) by legal residents in the United States. (According to a report in the City Pages in Minneapolis, this scam has been netting some unknowns along the food chain up to $10,000 per head.) Given that Somalis form the largest bloc of African immigrants to the United States, this becomes another story with Somalis playing a starring role.

Evidence of “family” fakery came out in a very quietly released State Department fact sheet titled “Fraud in the Africa Priority Three (P-3) Program.” This release surely would have dropped into the post-Election, pre-Inauguration void of bliss enveloping official Washington were it not for the invaluable blog Refugee Resettlement Watch, which broke the story online.

In the form of a Q&A, the State Department declared that, due to evidence of massive fraud, the government was suspending the family reunification program in Africa, a decision it has since, also very quietly and without explanation, expanded to include the whole world.

How massive was this fraud? After initiating a DNA testing program among “family” members claiming P-3 status in Africa — where 95 percent of the P-3 applications originate primarily among Somalis, Ethiopians and Liberians — the State Department learned that out of 3,500 refugees tested it could only confirm family matches “in fewer than 20 percent of cases.” No wonder the secretary of State didn’t call a giant press conference to trumpet her department’s findings.

The P-3 program has brought upward of 36,000 Africans into the United States just since 2003 (with another 400 arriving from the rest of the world), so what now? Or, in Fact Sheet-speak:

“Q: What measures will be taken against the thousands of refugees who have come into the United States through the P-3 program in the last 20 years?

“A: That is a question for the Department of Homeland Security.”

Punt.

Even as the State Department sends responsibility for this demoralizing incompetence into the ozone, the apparent consequences stay fixed on the ground — whether in the meatpacking plants of small-town America, where this year’s Ramadan was the occasion for workplace strife with mainly Somali Muslims striking over demands for Islamic prayer breaks, or in big-time politics.

In Minnesota, the largest Somali Muslim community in the United States (numbering tens of thousands of people) now holds a key to state political power. This same Somali community has made news before, for example, with attempts by Somali taxi drivers to enforce aspects of Islamic law (Sharia) in refusing to transport passengers with alcohol or seeing-eye dogs due to Islamic prohibitions against alcohol and dogs. But now, as the U.S. Senate race goes to an automatic recount after Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., defeated Democratic challenger Al Franken by a 215-vote margin, Minnesota’s Somali community is again making a few headlines.

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who famously swore his 2007 oath of office on the Koran as the first Muslim elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, routinely declares that his 7,000-vote margin of victory came from Somali Muslims. Last month, Ellison was campaigning for that same Somali Muslim vote on behalf of Al Franken.

And what’s newsworthy about that? In this case, the point is not that Ellison was campaigning for the Somali vote, but rather with whom he was campaigning.

According to AsianTribune.com, after Ellison made a standard, if Somalii-oriented campaign pitch on behalf of Franken before a gathering of Minnesota Somalis, another speaker appeared before the crowd. Described in the report as a “highly regarded prominent Somali traditional leader” — i.e., a Somali leader from Somalia, not Minnesota — Abdullahi Ugas Farah spoke on behalf of the Ellison-Franken cause. “In order for Keith to be helpful to the situation in Somalia, you must also elect Al Franken to the Senate,” he said.

Now, there’s something new on the American hustings: a “Somali traditional” leader. Curious, I Googled Abdullahi Ugas Farah and came up with one news story, a 2003 brief from the Asia Africa Intelligence Wire headlined, “New Islamic court opens in Mogadishu.” The story reported that Abdullahi Ugas Farah was one of two speakers who presided over the opening ceremony for a new Sharia court in Mogadishu’s Shirkole area.

From Sharia courts in Mogadishu to an Al Franken rally in Minnesota.

Only in … America?

American Congressman creates bill to stop Sharia in USA

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Sept 18 2008

Tancredo Proposes Anti-Sharia Measure in Wake of U.K. Certification of Islamic Courts

“Jihad Prevention Act” would deny U.S. visas to advocates of ‘Sharia’ law, expel Islamists already here

( WASHINGTON, DC ) – Amid disturbing revelations that the verdicts of Islamic Sharia courts are now legally binding in civil cases in the United Kingdom, U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) moved quickly today to introduce legislation designed to protect the United States from a similar fate.

According to recent news reports, a new network of Sharia courts in a half-dozen major cities in the U.K. have been empowered under British law to adjudicate a wide variety of legal cases ranging from divorces and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

“This is a case where truth is truly stranger than fiction,” said Tancredo. “Today the British people are learning a hard lesson about the consequences of massive, unrestricted immigration.”

Sharia law, favored by Muslim extremists around the world, often calls for brutal punishment – such as the stoning of women who are accused of adultery or have children out of wedlock, cutting off the hands of petty thieves and lashings for the casual consumption of alcohol. Under Sharia law, a woman is often required to provide numerous witnesses to prove rape allegations against an assailant – a near impossible task.

“When you have an immigration policy that allows for the importation of millions of radical Muslims, you are also importing their radical ideology – an ideology that is fundamentally hostile to the foundations of western democracy – such as gender equality, pluralism, and individual liberty,” said Tancredo. “The best way to safeguard America against the importation of the destructive effects of this poisonous ideology is to prevent its purveyors from coming here in the first place.”

Tancredo’s bill, dubbed the “Jihad Prevention Act,” would bar the entry of foreign nationals who advocate Sharia law. In addition, the legislation would make the advocacy of Sharia law by radical Muslims already in the United States a deportable offense.

Tancredo pointed to the results of a recent poll conducted by the Centre for Social Cohesion as evidence that the U.S. should act to prevent the situation in Great Britain from replicating itself here in the United States. The poll found that some 40 percent of Muslim students in the United Kingdom support the introduction of Sharia law there, and 33 percent support the imposition of an Islamic Sharia-based government worldwide.“We need to send a clear message that the only law we recognize here in America is the U.S. Constitution and the laws passed by our democratically elected representatives,” concluded Tancredo. “If you aren’t comfortable with that concept, you aren’t welcome in the United States.”