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Congressmen Accuse CAIR Of Planting Spies On Capitol Hill

The Hill:

Four House Republicans are accusing a Muslim advocacy group of trying to plant spies on Capitol Hill.

Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus said the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have tried to plant “spies” within key national security committees in order to shape legislative policy.

Reps. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.), John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), Paul Broun (R-Ga.) and Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), citing the book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America, called for the House sergeant at arms to investigate whether CAIR had been successful in placing interns on key panels. The lawmakers are specifically focused on the House Homeland Security Committee, Intelligence Committee and Judiciary Committee.

“If an organization is connected to or supports terrorists [and] is running influence operations or planting spies in key national security-related offices I think this needs to be made known,” said Broun, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee. “So I join my colleagues here today in calling for action.”

The book, which was written by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry with a forward by Myrick, is scheduled to be released on Thursday.

A representative of CAIR called the accusations unfounded and worried that they would tarnish the improving relations between Muslim and non-Muslim Americans.

“God forbid American Muslims take part in the political process and exercise their rights,” said Ibrahim Hooper, a CAIR spokesman, in a telephone interview. “I suppose they’re going to investigate the Muslim Staffers Association next.

“If these people weren’t so hate-filled, it would be laughable, but unfortunately they have an audience and given their positions, it’s going to get picked up by the hate blogs.”

While the Republicans said they did not know of specific legislation that CAIR had affected, Franks said he wouldn’t be surprised if they were trying to amend the PATRIOT Act.

“One of the target policies that they might be concerned about is the PATRIOT Act itself — those things that give us the greatest tools to be able to surveil those conversations outside of this country…and I think organizations like CAIR would like to diminish that.”

The Republicans also called on the IRS to launch a full investigation into CAIR’s lobbying activities, “to judge if they are in violation of their federal non-profit status.”

Hooper said that CAIR is in full federal compliance with its status as a 501(c)3 non-profit group, and that the group devotes less resources than the maximum legal limit allowed.

“We’ve always stayed within our legal limits,” he said. “If anything, we don’t have enough staff to lobby as much as we legally can.”

Gaubatz, the co-author of “Muslim Mafia,” could not be reached at press time. On his website, daveg.us, he asks supporters for money to “legally destroy CAIR.”

“CAIR will use their routine and expected ‘smear’ campaign to discredit me,” Gaubatz wrote on Wednesday morning. “It will not work. I have one foot on CAIR. I tell the truth. They simply lie and we have the proof.

“Please support me in these eforts [sic] to help shut this terror supporting organization down. donate all weekend. We need to raise $25,000 to put more research in the field and to bring more intelligence agianst [sic] them…If you want to protect your children and America, then help me now.”

Citing the book, Myrick requested that the Justice Department share with every lawmaker and their chiefs of staff an executive summary of the findings that led the department to name CAIR as a co-conspirator in an anti-terrorism case.

She said the Justice Department identified CAIR as an “un-indicted co-conspirator” in the Holy Land Foundation case in Dallas, which ordered the two founders of the Holy Land Foundation to life in prison for funneling $12 million to Hamas, which the U.S. has labeled a terrorist organization.

“We need to know that information so that we can discern whether we want to take interns associated with that group into our office,” said Myrick.

Earlier this year, the FBI cut off communication with CAIR out of its concern that the group had ties with Hamas.

Hooper said that CAIR welcomed the scrutiny from the Republican lawmakers and said he was disappointed to see them associate with “Muslim Mafia” co-author, Gaubatz, who he called, a “hate mongerer.”

“It’s a shame to see elected officials take part in a smear campaign based on bigotry,” Hooper said.

Catalin Kirk

Costin, la acest citat, doar ca nu-mi dau lacrimile.

Am citit deja toate articolele voastre despre Londonistan. Cred ca inteleg acum entuziasmul manifestat pe Facebook de o colega din Iordania, cand, in aprilie, isi anunta tot grupul ca pleaca in sfarsit in excursie in “Great England”. Eu atunci eram departe de a avea imaginea reala asupra a ce a ajuns Anglia. Cum si colega aceasta inca mai avea putin pana sa-mi arate “the dark side of the moon”.

La suprafata ea arata aproape la fel cu o europeanca stilata – in special la zile mari. Dar cum se face mai racoare, poarta intotdeauna pulovar pe gat (turtleneck). Uneori cu ilic negru deasupra. Niciodata nu am vazut-o cu capul acoperit.

Intotdeauna incearca sa-si mascheze adevaratele credinte religioase, e la fel de darnica in a imparti urari si de Eid si de Craciun, caci are prieteni de ambele mari religii. E fana si a lui Obama, chiar si a lui Che Guevara, dar mai e si o mare monarhista si sustine activ partidul “Jordan First”.

Imi exprimasem eu, tot pe Facebook, intr-un mesaj personal, imposibilitatea de a lua parte vreuneia din tabere in conflictul din Gaza, si ca raspuns ea mi-a trimis o poza cu niste copii vai de ei, alaturi niste soldati si un tanc… stiti si voi cat au circulat asemenea imagini.

Vorbeste engleza in mod curent, si cu greseli minime. Limba ei materna e libaneza. Ii place Rahmaninov. Mai sunt si alte detalii pasionante la ea, cam greu de pus toate cap la cap… Am intrebat-o, tot asa, mai anul trecut, carui cult apartine. Nu mi-a raspuns.

Bine, destul cu ea. Revenind la tara asta, la Londra in special, cred ca numai existenta cenzurii corectitudinii politice a facut ca Lily Allen sa fie doar difuz-melancolica in piesa “LDN” (2006), altfel poate ar fi facut aluzii intr-un fel mai feminin-agresiv, cum stie ea, iar nu “When you look with your eyes/ everything seems nice/ but if you look twice/ you can see it’s all lies.”
Acum insa as asculta-o cu totul altfel.

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Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom

2009 marks the eighth anniversary of September eleventh. While most Americans can recount where they were when the twin towers in New York went down, the passage of time–and the fact that there have been no terrorist attacks on American soil since 2001—has a tendency to lull many of us into a sense that everything is okay–for now.

The men and women who had to jump from the upper floors of the towers to avoid being burned alive–the falling executives, their neckties whirling in the wind, the dozens of co-workers who jumped holding hands, the constant shocking “thump” sound of bodies hitting the ground so that the news media eventually had to “black out” the audio– did not know what was happening to them. They may have known of a hit by a “random airplane” but they knew nothing of an organized terrorist attack. They went to their deaths unaware that this first major attack on American soil also had a side component: the slow buildup of a radical Islamic powerbase throughout Western Europe.

This buildup began in the 1970s when Europe agreed to trade crude oil with Arab countries in exchange for promises of unchecked immigration (Strasbourg Resolution 492, 1971). As Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci noted in her book, “The Rage and the Pride,” after the agreement the streets of her native Florence were flooded with immigrants selling pencils and chewing gum. Likewise, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and the Netherlands also permitted free-for-all immigration of Muslims from Morocco, North Africa and the Middle East. This was not immigration on a case by case basis, but a careless open door policy that led to the creation of radical Muslim enclaves in what had always been progressive, modern democracies. Unlike other immigrant groups, the new citizens avoided assimilation into the culture of the host country. In time they began to opt for Sharia-style Law within their own communities.

Women who refused to wear the burka, went to the hairdresser’s, or were discovered to be in adulterous relationships were (and are) judged according to Sharia Law, while the secular laws of the host nations are conveniently put aside. Stoning and honor killings are common, as European politicians and government officials often turn a blind eye. Fallaci and author Bruce Bawer both contend that the “blind eye” in question is the result of an undue emphasis on political correctness and multiculturism.

“Do Muslims stone adulteresses?” Bawer asks, playing the part of the multiculturist politician. “Well, we execute murderers. Does Iran imprison, torture, and execute gays? Well, what about Guantanamo? Indeed, in recent years the politically correct response to every criticism of Islam could be summed up in those three words: ‘What about Guantanamo?’—the point being that until the West itself is morally without blemish, no one has any right to criticize even the most heinous crimes against humanity by any non-Western individual, movement, group, or power.”

Once more, Bawer writes that these “PC” progressive governments have turned its major cities into houses divided against themselves.

“In those cities, all you had to do to travel from a modern, post-Enlightenment democracy to a strict patriarchy out of seventh century Arabia was to walk a few blocks,” he states, adding that this transformation “went almost entirely unmentioned in the American and European media.” The change, however, was first spotted in the Netherlands by Pim Fortuyn, author of “Against the Islamization of Our Culture,” and a candidate for the Dutch parliament. Fortuyn’s contention was that fundamentalist Islam was irreconcilable with Western democracy. He warned his countrymen to rethink government subsidization of Muslim schools, mosques and community centers. For this he was called a fascist and compared to Hitler. Fortuyn was later murdered by an extremist who didn’t like his views on immigration.

Left wing progressives and the European media explained that Fortuyn had it coming because he criticized Islam. Similarly, filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who had made a television film which featured a Muslim woman discussing how women were treated under Islam, was shot and killed (his throat slit) while riding a bicycle in downtown Amsterdam. Although van Gogh’s film was just revealing a well known truth, Dutch politicians, in the name of multiculturism, “were inclined to deplore van Gogh’s alleged ‘insensitivity’ to Muslim feelings.”

Van Gogh’s murder, Bawer says, “was proof not that Western Muslims needed to adjust to the realities of free speech but that Westerners needed to assimilate traditional Muslim limitations on speech.”

Bawer, an American who moved to Norway to be with his partner, says that the PC multiculturist mindset has so infected American journalism that “a moderate Muslim now denotes someone who might not stone an adulteress to death himself, but who would defend to the death another Muslim’s right to do so.” He cites several examples of The New York Times refusing to review books that attempt to explain or criticize the slow transformation of Europe into Eurabia. In one instance, he cites a New York Times profile of a famous American Inman that went out of its way to be fluffy and soft. (The Inman, Sheik Reda Shata, believes in suicide bombers if they target Israeli soldiers; he also refuses to shake the hand of any woman and thinks that music should be forbidden if it ‘encourages sexual desire’). “One could not easily imagine the Times running a profile of James Dobson or Pat Robertson that started out in quite this way,” he writes, referring to the Times profile that was more PR fluff piece than objective journalism. “No reporter would try to get away with it; no editor would accept it; readers would flood the Times with outraged e-mails asking why the liberal Times was apparently trying to get them to warm up to a fundamentalist.”

Bawer believes that “The pretentious, abstraction-ridden multicultural rhetoric” in today’s politically correct world of journalism “succeeds in whitewashing the execution of gays, apostates, adulterers, and rape victims, and in entirely removing from the picture of the Islamic world the victims of these abominations.”

He gives examples of how the Egyptian-based organization, The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood, seeks “to conquer the West not through terrorism but ‘through gradual and peaceful Islamization,’” the proof of that being the current state of Western Europe.

Not surprisingly, Bawer’s book has been criticized as “shrill” and “over reactive” by much of PC press, though that seems far from the truth when the author lays out the frightening, verifiable facts.

The Bulletin: Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom

Dinny

Arata ca niste fantome De ce nunta e “la gramada”? Asta e un alt obicei?