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Accused men crossed border 47 times. CANADA/USA
NPost… Two Canadians facing extradition to the United States for their alleged involvement in a radical Islamic group crossed the Windsor-Detroit border a total of 47 times this year, and both have been stopped by U.S. officials at the border in the past, according to a newly released federal document obtained by the National Post.
The Attorney-General’s application record for provisional arrest, which includes an affidavit by an RCMP Immigration Task Force officer as well as U.S. Department of Justice documents, provides insight into the alleged activities of Yassir Ali Kahn, 30, and Mohammad Al-Sahli, 33, who face U.S. charges of conspiracy to commit federal crimes in connection with a Detroitbased radical Sunni group.
Mr. Al-Sahli of Lebanon and Mr. Kahn of Pakistan last crossed the border on Oct. 14 and Oct. 19 respectively, roughly two weeks prior to their arrests in Windsor on Oct. 31, according to U. S Department of Justice documents in the file.
One U.S. document says that in 2004 Mr. Kahn, who reportedly crossed the border 30 times this year, was “interviewed at the port for having suspicious literature in his conveyance.” A similar document for Mr. Al-Sahli says he was issued a “penalty for undervaluation of electronic appliance” on June 6, 2006.
Mr. Al-Sahli, who the record says “was charged with or convicted of driving a commercial vehicle with a defect” in January 2009, and Mr. Kahn are accused of selling goods stolen from interstate shipments, including 82 laptops since 2007.
According to the record, U.S. authorities believe that “many of the individuals involved in this stolen property conspiracy were convicted felons who were armed and engaged in acts of violence including the beating of children, assaulting police officers, advocating the murder of U.S. government officials, threatening to detonate bombs, and training in martial arts, use of firearms and sword fighting.” Continue Reading →
Gates of Vienna: Legal conference report, Washington Oct 09
Legal Conference on Freedom of Speech and Religion: Part 2
by Baron Bodissey
Creeping Sharia Within the Western Democracies
A prominent thread was woven throughout last week’s legal conference: the increasing pressure exerted on Western nations by Islamic law, or sharia. Wherever free speech is under threat, much of the impetus for censorship and repression comes from Muslims who wish to restrict the words and actions of others based on the tenets of Islamic law.
It’s true that even if there had been no mass immigration of Muslims into Europe, Canada, and the United States, our governments would still exhibit a tendency to silence dissent. Any truly open discussion about the European Union threatens its very existence, so a push to restrict speech in Europe is inevitable. Similarly, the growing preference among the American intelligentsia for “international law” and other Progressive fads can find little traction as long as public discussion remains frank and open. Pressure will always be brought to bear to mute such discussion, if possible.
However, radical Islam supplies most of the financial backing, street protests, violent intimidation, political initiatives, and legal action aimed at limiting free speech. The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has mounted a major effort against free speech, either directly or through its compliant surrogates in the UN and the EU. Whether the issue is defamation of Islam, blasphemy towards the Koran, insulting the prophet Mohammed, or other offenses against Muslim customs and doctrine, the attempted piecemeal implementation of sharia lies at the root of the problem. Continue Reading →
Raw video of a Muslim who ran over his own daughter to preserve his honour.
From Ocala.com video of the arraignment of the Muslim who drove over his daughter for being too western, while in fact living nearly as far west as one can without being in Alaska. So much to be furious about it really should be alphabetized. However the idea that you can move your family somewhere and then murder them if they adapt, well its beyond and beneath contempt.
Raw Video: Ariz. ‘honor-killing’ Dad in Court Continue Reading →
Video of the author of the Danish cartoon book, which Yale censored.
Canadian’s bid to sue US rejected. Mahar Arar told no by NYC court
Arar has his what was it? Ten Million Dollars without the bother of a trial from the Canadian government already.
It pays to be a terror suspect these days.
From the BBC News:
The Canadian government formally apologised to Mr Arar in 2007
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A New York court has ruled against allowing a Syrian-born Canadian to sue US authorities over his mistaken 2002 arrest for alleged terrorism links.
Maher Arar was held at New York’s John F Kennedy airport following erroneous advice from Canadian officials that he had links to Islamic militants.
Mr Arar was then flown to Syria where he claims he was tortured, something which Syrian authorities deny.
In a statement, Mr Arar described the US ruling as a loss to the rule of law.
After exonerating him in 2007, Canadian authorities paid him 10.5m Canadian dollars (US$8.9m; £4.54m) in compensation.
Mr Arar is now seeking redress from the US, arguing that he was a victim of “extraordinary rendition”, a process in which terrorism suspects are transferred to foreign countries for harsh interrogation.
But the New York court ruled that it was not authorised to intervene in the case.
“If a civil remedy in damages is to be created for harms suffered in the context of extraordinary rendition, it must be created by Congress,” the court said in a written statement.
Mr Arar’s lawyers say they will now take the case to the US Supreme Court.
Woman in suspected ‘honor killing’ dies
The Arizona Republic… A 20-year-old Peoria woman has died of injuries sustained in what prosecutors are calling an “honor killing.”
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, of Glendale, is accused of running over his daughter, Noor Almaleki, and another woman in his Jeep Cherokee because he was infuriated with his daughter for becoming “too Westernized.”
Noor Almaleki died Monday of injuries she received during the Oct. 20 attack.
Peoria police said charges against Almaleki, who is in a Maricopa County jail on two counts of aggravated assault, will be upgraded, though a spokesman wasn’t sure what the exact charges would be.
Social experts say honor killings are an accepted practice in Iraqi tribal society, where family members feel they must kill a woman who shames them by not adhering to traditional Muslim or Iraqi values.
Family members said Almaleki was outraged after his daughter married a man in Iraq but returned to the Valley to live with a boyfriend and his mother in Surprise. The other victim, 43-year-old Amal Edan Khalaf, is apparently the boyfriend’s mother.
Police said Almaleki fled the country after the attack, driving to Mexico and later taking a plane to London. He was detained by British authorities and extradited to Atlanta last week.
Speaking before a Maricopa County judge over the weekend, state prosecutor Stephanie Low said Almaleki has admitted purposefully running down his daughter.
“By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family,” Low said. “This was an attempt at an honor killing.”
Almaleki did not address the accusations and spoke only to ask the judge about getting a court-appointed attorney.
Low said additional family members are suspected of assisting Almaleki in his escape.
“We can’t be naive and ignore that there’s a cultural aspect to this and there may be people who would support him, including his family, but also others who share his beliefs,” she said.
Citing Almaleki’s flight, Low asked the judge to take special precautions to prevent him from running again. Bail was set at $5 million.
Calls to Almaleki’s family members were not returned Monday.
Diana West speaks to IFPS-Canada
The post below ripped word for word from IFPS.org
I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Diana West at a conference on freedom of speech and religion in Washington D.C. last week. To make the conversation short enough for the youtube limit, I removed most of my end of it. I opened by asking Diana about what she thought of the fellow from Harvard un-inviting the founder of the Minute Men to a debate at the last moment. The Fox video interview of that student is here.
Hopefully that makes her answer a tad less cryptic.
The rest of my chat, I replaced with single line questions in text.
Comments welcomed.
James
Canadian men connected to Detroit mosque arrested
From The Ottawa Citizen
Two Canadians tied to controversial U.S. mosque arrested
Canwest News ServiceOctober 31, 2009 12:38 PM
Mujahid Carswell
Photograph by: Handout, Canwest News Service
WINDSOR, Ont. — Two Canadian men wanted by the FBI in connection to a radical mosque in Detroit were arrested by authorities in this country on Saturday.
Yassir Ali Khan, 30, and Mohammad Philistine, 33 – also known as Mohammad Al-Sahli and Mohammad Palestine – were arrested around 8 a.m. Saturday, according to an FBI news release.
Authorities have been searching for the men following the death this past week of the leader of a fundamentalist Islamic group, who was killed in a shootout with FBI agents after a raid on a warehouse in Dearborn, Mich.
The pair were picked up without incident by Windsor police and RCMP’s Immigration Task Force, the release said, adding both men were being held until an immigration and extradition hearing could take place. The FBI said that hearing was scheduled for Monday.
The Windsor police tactical squad surrounded a house in the southern Ontario city earlier this week to arrest 30-year-old Mujahid Carswell, also known as Mujahid Abdullah, a third man wanted in connection to Detroit mosque.
It was Carswell’s father, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was killed in the shootout with FBI agents.
The FBI has charged 11 people with various federal felonies, none of which is tied to terrorism.
U.S. authorities allege Abdullah and his followers were part of a Sunni Muslim group with the mission of establishing a separate Islamic nation within the United States.
“The 11 defendants are members of a group that is alleged to have engaged in violent activity over a period of many years, and known to be armed,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in an earlier news release.
On Friday, the lawyer for the two newly arrested men, Pat Ducharme, said his clients were not fleeing authorities and were in the city.
“They’re not on the run; they’re not hiding,” Ducharme said.
“They live here in this community. They are citizens of Canada, and I expect them to be treated within the parameters of the law, no matter what anybody thinks they’ve done.”
© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service
Accused wife killer gets more time to pay for psychiatric expert
Muzzammil S. "Mo" Hassan
The Buffalo News… Over the objections of the prosecutor, Muzzammil S. “Mo” Hassan today was given additional time to secure the money needed to pay for the mental health experts he hopes will help him prove he was emotionally out of control when he decapitated his estranged wife last February.
Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk decried the “glacial pace” of the defense effort, but gave defense attorney James P. Harrington until Dec. 7 to report on the progress of the defense tactics.
The judge warned Harrington that he can still preclude this line of defense if further delays are unacceptable.
Prosecutor Colleen Curtin Gable complained of deliberate foot-dragging by the defense.
But Harrington insisted that, until an Oct. 13 settlement was reached in the Hassan family estate case, there was a problem with ensuring enough money to pay for the criminal defense.
Though the estate case is several weeks away from a formal settlement, Harrington told the judge that Hassan is now assured he will have enough money to finance his defense, including pay for his psychiatric experts.
The the bulk of the estate will go to his four children. Hassan, 44, did not speak during the brief court session that ended about 10:15 a.m. Hassan, who has been jailed since he surrendered to police about an hour after the Feb. 12 killing, did not speak at court. Harrington declined comment as he left court.
Muslim father accused of running down ‘westernized’ daughter nabbed
From The Arizona Republic
Glendale man accused of running over daughter found
Faleh Almaleki
by JJ Hensley – Oct. 30, 2009 08:55 AM
The Arizona Republic
The Glendale man accused of running down his daughter for being too “westernized” was taken into custody Thursday night, police confirmed.
Faleh Almaleki, 48, was in custody in Georgia, Peoria police spokesman
Mike Tellef said late Thursday.
Jim Joyner, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service in Atlanta, said Almaleki was arrested Thursday when he arrived at Atlanta’s airport
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Police believe Almaleki ran over his daughter, Noor Almaleki, 20, and Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, in a Peoria parking lot on Oct. 20 because he felt his daughter had disrespected the family.
Khalaf is reportedly the mother of Noor’s boyfriend.
The two women were still in the hospital, with Noor Almaleki in “life-threatening” condition and Khalaf’s condition improving, when police updated their status earlier this week.
Faleh Almaleki had evaded police for more than a week since running over the two women.
Noor’s brother, Peter-Ali Almaleki, said their father called home late last week to check on his daughter’s condition but his wife hung up on him.
Includes information from The Associated Press
Muslims Threaten Breslin Owner After He Laughs Off Bar Demand
The lovely-looking restaurant and bar The Breslin begins lunch service tomorrow, and co-owner Ken Friedman (The Spotted Pig) is planning on serving alcohol despite objections from the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street. Earlier this month the mosque’s leaders called a meeting with Friedman at The Ace Hotel, where The Breslin is located, and asked, “Can you move the bar?” Friedman’s response makes us want to hurry over to The Breslin right now for a dram of Laphroaig to show our support (and drown out the voices):
I laughed. And the guy said, “Oh, you think that’s funny?” And I said, “Yeah, that is funny, that is really funny, because we’re not going to move the bar just because you discovered we’re serving booze.” Can you name one restaurant in New York that doesn’t serve booze? I said, “This is the United States of America and we’ll do whatever the fuck we want.” He said the mosque had suggested it couldn’t control the behavior of “a few bad eggs”; i.e., we could get a brick through our window.
Friedman notified police of the threat, but just to show he’s not a hard-hearted man, that it’s not all dollars and cents, he agreed to put a curtain over the windows so devout Muslims wouldn’t be corrupted by the sight of infidel inebriation. But the curtain hasn’t arrived yet, so over the weekend he actually taped paper over the windows to hide a gay wedding. A volunteer at the mosque says city law forbids serving liquor within 200 feet of a place of worship and that “not more than 200 feet is between the mosque and the bar.”
But Ace Hotel developer Andrew Zobler tells The Observer, “The law is clear that in order for that to apply it has to be an exclusively dedicated house of worship, and at their space they have both residences and a restaurant, so basically, because of those uses the law allowed there to be a bar within 200 feet. Everyone was aware of that when the liquor license was granted.” And Friedman adds, “They can threaten, but they can’t really stop us.” Yeah, heh, what are these devout, pissed-off Muslims gonna do?
Another article on the same story below the fold. I believe this is a much more important story than perhaps even terrorism as we are more familiar with it, as this type of extortion and intimidation wide spread can collapse a culture and civilization such as ours much much faster than occasional attack.
Eeyore for Vlad
Mosque ‘unhappy’ with booze served at New York resto-bar, threatened brick toss
Spotted Piglet Hiccups: Boozy Breslin Clashes With Mosque
October 27, 2009 | 8:00 p.m
Ken Friedman.
The much-hyped, soon-to-open Breslin restaurant, situated in the 12-story Ace Hotel on Broadway and 29th, is giving members of the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street some agita. “Five times a day, there’s a hundred cabs on the street—the good news is you can always get a cab,” co-owner Ken Friedman told the Transom the other evening. He said some mosque visitors “object to seeing people drink alcohol.” Continue Reading →
Islamists tell government to ‘keep Mum’ on Detroit Imam’s faith
From IPT: The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Islamists Urge Government to Keep Imam’s Faith Out of Detroit Case
IPT News
October 29, 2009
The imam had driven from Detroit to northern Virginia to raise money for a jailed friend, a convicted cop killer.
“If you study the case you’ll see that it’s a conspiracy,” the imam said. “If you study what went on with him, you’ll say, ‘How in the world is he in jail?'”
But it was what Luqman Abdullah said on the way to that March 2008 fundraiser that helped bring the FBI to his door on Wednesday in what proved to be a fatal confrontation. In the car with his son and two followers, one of whom turned out to be an FBI informant, Abdullah repeated his long-standing concern that law enforcement was after him. According to a criminal complaint:
“Abdullah stated that the FBI is the enemy of Islam. Abdullah stated something to the effect, ‘If they are coming to get me I’ll just strap a bomb on and blow up everybody.’ Abdullah gave S-3 the impression that he has access to an explosive device.” [Emphasis original]
According to the FBI, Abdullah led a separatist movement which wanted “a separate, sovereign Islamic state (‘The Ummah’) within the borders of the United States, governed by Shariah law. The Ummah is to be ruled over by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown.”
Al-Amin is the convicted killer Abdullah was working to free. He’s a political prisoner, Abdullah told his audience at the fundraiser, held at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, or ADAMS Center, in 2008. Then he challenged the audience on its commitment to free Al-Amin:
“How much can we sacrifice in order to see Imam Jamil released? If we could sacrifice our lives, would we?”
Abdullah also was a founder and board member of the Muslim Alliance of North America (MANA). The group issued a statement Thursday expressing “deep concern” over the case. The concern was not why Abdullah refused to lower his weapon and fired at agents, but at why he was shot:
“This tragic shooting raises deep concerns regarding the use of lethal force by law enforcement agents.”
An FBI statement said agents considered the suspects to be armed and dangerous, and “special safeguards” were employed to try to make the arrests peacefully. The complaint contains repeated references to Abdullah’s instructions that his followers stay armed and his vow not to be taken by law enforcement. An FBI dog was killed in the shootout that resulted.
The MANA statement said allegations in the complaint were “shocking and inconsistent” with what they knew about Abdullah. It also stressed that the charges involved regular criminal activity and should not be used “in order demonize American Muslims.” Continue Reading →
IFPS and Lord Malcolm Pearson
Here is a chilling interview with the man who invited Geert Wilders to speak at the British House of Lords. ‘This is not a right wing nut’ nor a racist but in fact a liberal in every sense of the word and most importantly, in the true ‘Jeffersonian’ sense of it. Once men of this caliber begin to risk their public profile with opinions which are unfashionable, it is safe to say we have a very real crisis on our collective hands.
Lord Pearson Oct 28 Washington DC from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
Reporter attacked by Islamic extremists. AMERICA
Video police entering mosque after assault