Chanuka

Third of Israeli Youth Fears Second Holocaust

by Tzvi Singer ynetnews.com

On the eve of 2007's Holocaust Memorial Day, a poll showed that 37 percent of Israel's youth feel another Holocaust is possible.

The poll on anti-Semitism was conducted among Israeli youth by the Anti-Defamation League.

While about a third of the respondents said they felt another Holocaust was a possibility, six percent said there was a significant chance that this may occur.

Sixty-two percent of the youth said there was no way another Holocaust would take place and one percent said they were not sure.

The survey was conducted among a representative sample of 500 teens aged 15-18.

ADL Director Abraham Foxman said that the Israeli youth is well aware of the existence of anti-Semitism even if they don't experience it first hand.

Foxman stressed that anti-Semitism is not just a history lesson, but a contemporary phenomenon.

A Note From the Editor: I've been very fortunate during my lifetime to have gotten to know, both in real life and over the internet, several American Jews and/or Israeli's. Among those I have met are some Israeli youth's, one of who writes for this blog. When I was learning of the holocaust I thought for sure that humanity had gotten past this sort of thing. I do think that in my part of the world, it has. But the internet brings thoughts and ideas from all over and I have witnessed antisemitism that I never could have imagined. I can only hope that one day humanity will evolve to the point where there is no longer hatred due to ethnicity, color of skin, homosexuality or other factors in which a person is born into and has no control over. I not only stand for the fight against Islam, but for the fight against all similar organizations which promote hatred based on "race".. this is only one race.. that is the human one.

Majadla against the Anthem, Lieberman against Majadla

by www.walla.co.il
translated by TomSalts, IFP - Israel



The manager of the political party “Israel our Home” noticed that Galeb Majadla refused to sing the Israeli National Anthem. In his opinion, if Majadla won’t agree to sing, it will be necessary to fire him.

The Israeli Minister for Strategic Threatening, Avigdor Lieberman calls for the firing of the Israeli Minister of Sciences, Culture and Sports immediately after Majadala refused to sing the Israeli National Anthem – "Hatikvah".

“I would be firing him in the same moment”, said Lieberman in an interview with “Galey Tsahal” (an Israeli radio station), “There is no such thing that a minister in the Israeli Government refuses to sing the national anthem”.

Lieberman was responding to the interviews of Majadla in the media where he showcased his refusal to sing the national anthem. Majadla at radio station “Kola Israel” asked why “An Arab has to sing such a thing”. He went on to add, “A man that became a minister in the Israeli Government does not have to stop being an Arab and move to other religion and nationality”. He also said, that he is an Israeli civilian, respects the law and the national order and sees himself as a civilian in the state. In his words “I’m not a part of the anthem and it does not speak to me. I’m neither a Jew nor Zionist”.

Lieberman said that Majadlas statements show dangerous radicalism between the Arabs of Israel.

A Note From TomSalts: Majadla, the first Arab minister in the Israeli parliament , declares that he’s neither a Zionist nor Jew. The Jewish part I accept. But not a Zionist? So why are you here? The answer is that Arabs wants to destroy us from the inside. As Lieberman said, one is more radical than the other, the taking over of Israel has begun.

Stuck in the Middle with You..

Op-Ed by Michael Ghostwolf, IFP - United States

This morning I noticed that slate.com had a reference to something I mentioned about Ken Starr a few days ago. I noticed that blogs do not seem to want to link to me because I could say something that upsets their agenda. My views on social issues are very libertarian/hands off. If you ask me, Conservatives and Liberals are basically the same. They both want to control some part of your life. The Conservatives don't want women to have abortions or want people to use drugs. The liberals don't want you to offend Muslims and they'd like to stop you from smoking in public. Of course there are many more demands on your life that each side would list, but you get the idea. But Islam is neither a legitimate "religion" or social cause. Just as none of us stood up to protect the Nazi's during WWII, none of us should now be pampering the terrorists who hang out in your local mosques.

Most anti-jihadists tend to identify with the Right. They demonize "liberals" and follow the Bush Administration like lemmings, although its obvious that Bush has done more to advance the threat of terror to the US than any other president in history.

Then there is the left.. look at what is happening with the "flying imam" case. We have a LOT of politically correct members of congress who just voted to allow people to be sued for being vigilant against terrorism. After 9/11 we were told to be vigilant. We were told to report suspicious activity. Some airline passengers did just that and now CAIR wants to sue them. The muslims are great at playing the victim and using our laws against us. They know how to get the PC juices flowing don't they?

Check out this Video posted on the Jawa Report that sums up the Flying Imam Case PERFECTLY.

I saw this picture posted on The Southerner Journal.


This picture pretty much sums up todays topic. Just like we all (Liberals and Conservatives) use energy from the middle east, we are also all at risk from terror. Its in our common interest to put politics aside and focus on defeating Islam. Whether you are on the right or on the left, I am stuck in the middle with you.

The Coming Armageddon

by Solly Ganor
Five years ago I sent you a letter which I called

"Conversation on the Beach". In my letter I described my
conversation with a young Palestinian student who in short
precise terms explained how Islam will defeat the West. The
conversation opened my eyes to a much larger picture in
which Israel plays only a minor role in the Islamic game of
conquest. Since then I tried to speak to some Arabs who come
to pray at the Mosque, but they were not as outspoken as the
student.


"As a Christian, I would probably name Israel , but as a Christian Arab I would prefer not to answer."


Last week I had another conversation with an Israeli
Arab construction boss by the unlikely name of Francis who
was in charge of building a villa near our house in
Herzelia. He told me that his family was Christian and his
name was given to him in honor of the Franciscan monks. Our
conversation was as interesting as the first conversation I
had with the Arab student five years ago and I would like to
share it with you.

Francis frequently parked his car near our house and
we would exchange polite greetings.

About a week ago the water was shut off for repairs
in the house he was building and Francis asked me if I could
give him some hot water for his coffee.

He was a tall man of about forty, with reddish hair
and blue eyes. He spoke a perfect Hebrew and I, naturally
became curious about him. I felt that he may the right
person to exchange some views with. By his looks I assumed
that he was either a Druze or from the Syrian region. He
looked more like a teacher than a construction worker and as
I later found out, he was actually a teacher by profession.
Since my conversation with the student five years ago I was
always curious to hear their side of the story, therefore I
decided to invite him for a cup of coffee to our house. I
saw him hesitate for a moment then he smiled and thanked me
for my hospitality.

While we drank our coffee he told me that he was
from a small village in the Galilee called Jish, near the
present Kibbutz Sassa. I remembered the village very well
as I was one of the soldiers who captured the village while
serving in the 7th Armored brigade during the war of
Independence in 1948. I decided not to tell him about it
because at the time we encountered some stiff resistance at
that village and quite a few of the inhabitants were killed.

While I was preparing the coffee he told me a little
about himself.

" For a while I was a teacher and I loved teaching,
but I couldn't make a living at it and I decided to join my
father in law who is in the construction business."

Judging by the large Honda he was driving I figured
that he didn't do too badly changing his profession.

Our conversation soon turned to the present
situation in the Middle East , about Hamas winning the
elections, the situation of the Israeli Arabs, and the last
Lebanese war against Hezbolla.

" As Christians we are in a difficult situation here
in Israel . Unfortunately, the Moslems and especially the
extreme Islamist section, are giving the tone here. My
family who lived in Bethlehem probably since the Crusaders,
had to flee for their life. The Moslems have been forcing us
out, by threats and even murder. Bethlehem that was once
predominantly Christian is now predominantly Moslem. Very
little is written about it even in the Israeli press."

He sipped his coffee and gave me a long look. He
seemed like someone who wasn't quite sure whether to say
what he was about to say. I gave him an encouraging nod.

" I have to tell you something which very few of you
seem to comprehend." He continued.

"Your bungling war against a few thousand Hezbolla
fighters which you should have crushed no matter what,
considering the importance of the outcome, has created a
completely new situation, not only for this area, but
globally. Your inept leadership totally misunderstood the
importance of winning this war.

As a matter of fact, the whole Moslem world, not
only the Arabs, simply couldn't believe that the mighty
Israeli Army that defeated the combined Arab forces in six
days in 1967, and almost captured Cairo and Damascus in
1973, couldn't defeat a small army of Hezbolla men. As usual
the Moslems see things the way they want to see things. Most
think that the present generation of Israelis have gone soft
and can be defeated .

The American bungling of the war in Iraq only added
to their conviction that victory not only over Israel but
also over the West in not only possible, but certain.

The ramifications of these two bungling wars may
bring an Islamic bloody Tsunami all over the West, not only
in Israel . The sharks smell blood and this two wars gave
them the green light to attack sooner than they had in mind.

Your problem is that you are on the defensive and
they have the option to choose the time and the places when
and where to attack and there is nothing much you can do
about it.

When will you Westerners realize that half measures
don't work with people who are willing to die by the
thousands for Allah to achieve their goal? In their eyes the
Western World is simply an abomination on earth that has to
be wiped out."

He spoke quietly and I could just picture him in the
school giving his students a lecture.

I poured him another cup of coffee and encouraged
him to continue.

" The Americans, the Europeans, and even you
Israelis really don't really know what it is all about, do
you? During the last generation hundreds of thousands of
children have been taught all over the Moslem world in
Madrass schools to become martyrs for Allah in order to kill
the infidels. These youngsters are not only are ready to do
it, but are actually in the process of doing it. Bombs are
going off all over the world killing and maiming thousands
of people, not only 9/11 in the US, but in London, Madrid, and Bali,
but also Africa , India , Bengla Dash , Egypt , Saudi Arabia
and countless other places.

The first signs of the Islamic Tsunami is already
here, but the West doesn't understand, or doesn't want to
understand what is coming.

The Americans, instead of realizing that this is as
bad as World War Two, or even worse, are going to pull out
of Iraq , handing it over to Iran on a silver platter. Next
may come the Saudis and the rest of the Gulf states. When
dirty bombs will go off all over the Western towns who is
going to stop the Iranians?

Now is the time to stop them, not only because they
are developing nuclear bombs, but because Iran has become
the base for all Islamic terrorist. They supply, money, men
and weapons to Islamic terrorist around the world, quite
often trough their diplomatic mail. Billions of petro-
dollars that are pouring into Iran are being funneled into
terrorist organizations world-wide. They believe, and
perhaps rightly so, that the West will do nothing to stop
them in achieving their goals. Is history repeating itself?
Are the Iranians making the same mistake that Hitler made
when he attacked Poland ? Is the situation similar?

As a history teacher who studied the subject
thoroughly I can tell you that Western victory in World War
Two was not all certain. Hitler could have won the war if he
would have gone ahead with the atomic bomb development
before the Americans. The Germans began working on it in the
thirties, and it was Hitler's decision to prefer building
more conventional arms, as he considered atomic weapons
sheer fantasy.

Hitler made the wrong decision, but had he made the
right decision the world would have been a different type of
world today, wouldn't it? The West won the war against
Hitler by sheer chance. Very few people seem to realize
that."

I must say that his last words shook me up quite a
bit. Had Hitler made a different decision, I would have died
in Dachau , there wouldn't have been a Jewish state called
Israel , and most likely there wouldn't have been any Jews
left in the world. The idea that the Western democracies in
general and the fate of the Jewish people in particular
could have hinged on Hitler's one decision, is a scenario of
the worst night mare.

He notices that his last words had an effect on me
and he smiled. " I see that my words are not wasted on you,"
He said dryly. I nodded and he continued with his lecture.

"Coming back to our time, the Iranians rely on the
West doing nothing about their development of nuclear bombs.
They also rely on their secret weapon: An inexhaustible
supply of Islamic 'Suicide Bombers', some of them who are
already planted all over the Western World. Besides the
Islamic countries that supply these suicide bombers, a
second front has been opened, and that is the internet with
more than five thousand Islamic web sites, brain washing and
urging young Moslems to become martyrs for Allah. They
especially target young Moslems who live in Europe and the
West in general. The Western intelligence authorities
consider these web sites a bigger threat than the Iranian
atomic bomb. El Kaida recently issued a television broadcast
that promised a devastating attack against its enemies this
spring. As we all know, El Kaida doesn't make empty threats.

"Actually, I don't understand why the Iranians
bother to develop atom bombs and bring the whole world down
on them. Every suicide bomber is a potential atom bomb, or a
biological, chemical or dirty bomb that can be no less
devastating than an atom bomb. The Americans and Europeans
have no defense against this type of war."

"What can we do against this type warfare?" I asked
him. "Well, you Israelis, should better prepare yourself for
another round against Hezbolla. It will be not long in
coming . It depends on the Iranians to give the word. This
time you will have to destroy Hezbolla no matter what the
cost may be.

"Of course, your next round against Hezbolla may
involve the Syrians and the Iranians against you. The
Iranians declared that they will not allow Hezbolla to be
defeated no matter what and may launch their missiles
against you. So will the Syrians. What will Israel do? It is
unlikely that Israel will accept its destruction and may use
their nuclear arsenal if the West will not come to their
help. Perhaps our Book of Revelations is not so wrong in
describing that the end of the world would start at
Armageddon, which we know as Har-Megiddo in Israel . The
Book of Revelations describes the last battle would be
fought at Armageddon between the 'Forces of good and the
forces of evil.'"

"And who would you call the forces of good ' Israel
or Islam?'"I asked, looking him straight in the eyes.

He gave me a startled look. "If I were a Moslem, I
would have no problem to name the forces of good and it
wouldn't be Israel . As a Christian, I would probably name
Israel , but as a Christian Arab I would prefer not to
answer."

We looked at each other. His answer made it clear
where the Israeli Arabs stood, whether they were Moslems or
Christians. And why should I be surprised? After all The
Israeli Arabs call the establishment of the State of Israel
their Nakbah. (Their disaster). (This goes along with what
I've said - - Arab Christians will always line up with the
Arabs, not the Jews)

"Is there a way to avoid the 'Armageddon'?"

"I think there are two ways to avoid it. One can be
a major war which the West can win . As in World War Two,
had the West attacked the Germans in 1936 the war would have
lasted not more than a month with very few casualties. Their
procrastination resulted in World War II with all its
consequences.

Eventually, the West will have to tackle the
Iranians , it is better that they do it now to avert a world
catastrophe later. With Iran defeated the Islamic onslaught
will lose its base, and it may be the turning point in
history to defeat the menace of extreme Islam. The majority
of the Moslems don't want this confrontation anyway."

"You are painting a rather dark picture. When do you
think we will have the next round against Hezzbola?" I
asked.

"I think they will attack again as soon as they are
fully re-equipped and I think it will be during the summer,
while Israel is still in a military and political turmoil."

For a while we sat in silence. He finished his
second cup of coffee and got up. "I know what I am going to
do. I am going to Canada to join my brother. This country is
becoming much too dangerous for Christians as well." he
said. He thanked me for the coffee and we shook hands.

"You said there are two ways to avoid 'Armageddon,'"
I remembered to ask him.

"Sure, all the West has to do is follow Putin's
ways. He assassinates his enemies without blinking an eye.
Assassinate the four or five Mullahs who run the show,
Achmenijad, and a few more Iranian fanatics, and the War can
be avoided. It may be difficult to do, but not impossible.
With today's hi- tech technology I am sure that new weapons
against individuals are being prepared right now. I think it
would be a better way of handling the matter than an all out
war against Islam."

The conversation with Francis was not more
encouraging than the one I had with the Palestinian student
five years ago. It was becoming clear that Israel may be on
the forefront for the coming war of the West against Islam,
unless we follow Francis' suggestion to assassinate the
heads of the snake, rather than going to war with Islam.

Note From The Editor: This letter was sent to me by The Daniel Wultz Foundation. It answers questions about the huge differences between American Christians and "Palestinian Christians". Seems that the Arab Christians are always on the loosing end of everything (Lebanon, West Bank, Gaza), maybe because they always follow Islam/Muslims instead of joining the 21st Century.

Bong Hits 4 Jesus

Op-Ed by Michael Ghostwolf, IFP-United States



I learned one thing during the Clinton administration.. whatever side Ken Starr is on, I'm going to be safe and do the exact opposite. Even with the Republicans plotting and scheming against the Clinton's for 8 years, Clinton came out as a great president. Imagine what could have been accomplished had Ken Starr and Co. not been persecuting the president over White Water and Monica Lewinsky? Compared to Halliburton, the Alberto Gonzalez scandal, the mistake that is the war in Iraq, and the fiscal irresponsibly of President Bush, Bill Clinton looks pretty darn good right now.

Here is a good story on Morse v. Frederick in case you are not aware of this free speech case.

"Frederick's case presents unusual facts for the justices to consider. For one thing, he was 18 at the time of the event, and he was careful not to display his protest message on school grounds. At least one non-student was among the group holding the banner, and his attorneys contend that even if his message was considered pro-marijuana, debates about legalizing the drug are a legitimate topic of political discussion in Alaska, where the state high court has ruled that adults have the legal right to possess small amounts of the drug."

TRUMP: On Bush and Saddam

The Drudge Report, Fri Mar 16 2007 16:12:53 ET


TRUMP: BUSH 'PROBABLY THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES'

Donald Trump goes off on President Bush in a scathing attack during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on the Friday edition of CNN's 'Situation Room.

"Well, I think Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States. And I just don't understand how [the Democrats] could have lost that election."

MORE...

"Everything in Washington has been a lie. Weapons of mass destruction, it was a total lie. It was a way of attacking Iraq, which he thought was going to be easy and it turned out to be the exact opposite of easy. He reads 60 books a year. He reads a book a week. Do you think the president reads a book a week? I don't think so. He doesn't watch television. Now, one thing I know is when I'm on television, I watch, or I try. You do. Your own ego says, let's watch. Whether good or bad, you want to watch. He doesn't watch television. He's on television being interviewed by you or someone else, he doesn't watch. Does anyone really believe that?"

On Saddam Hussein:

"Whether they like him or didn't like him, he hated terrorists. He would shoot and kill terrorists. When terrorists came into this country, which he did control and he did dominate, he would kill terrorists. Now it is a breeding ground for terrorists."

DEVELOPING...

CITGO - Avoid Mid-East Oil and Bush

Op-Ed by Michael Ghostwolf, IFP-United States

If you didn't see 20/20 last night, a short recap at the link below.

Chavez likes the people of the United States and has a problem with George W. Bush (and his administration only). A couple of winters ago when the Northeast was hit with hard winter and people could not afford heating oil, Chavez made sure poor people got their heating oil at a reduced cost. In fact, he hopes to be one of the U.S.'s closest allies... AFTER the 2008 elections.

After his attempt to have Chavez overthrown and killed who can really blame the guy for bashing Bush, who is arguably the worst president in U.S. History?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4639154.html

Drought Blamed on Lack of Faith

by Liam Houlihan, Herald Sun


A leading Muslim cleric has blamed the devastating drought, climate change and pollution on Australians' lack of faith in Allah.

Radical sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Brunswick mosque that out-of-control secular scientific values had caused environmental disaster.

"The fear of Allah is not there. So we have now a polluted earth, a polluted water, a wasteland," he told a meeting this year.

"What are the people now crying for? The prophet told you hundreds of years ago, 'Look after the water'."

A Sunday Herald Sun investigation also found clerics railing against "evil" democracy, vilifying Jews and Christians and encouraging jihad and polygamy.

And in a popular DVD selling locally, a foreign sheik exhorts Muslims to take control of Australia by out-breeding non-believers.

British-based Sheik Abdul Raheem Green forbade Muslims from having fewer than four children so Australia would become an Islamic state.

Behind the closed doors of some Melbourne mosques and bookshops, sheiks push for Sharia law, declare Islam at war with the "sick" West and gloat that September 11 boosted Muslim numbers.

At a Muslim information centre in Coburg, extreme literature shares shelves with DVDs by firebrand sheiks from around the globe.

The centre, run by Abu Hamza, serves Muslims in the northern suburbs.

Many CDs and DVDs there feature London sheik Abdul Raheem Green, who is on an Australian Government watchlist.

On one he tells his audience to Islamise Australia through a Muslim baby boom.

"The birth rate in the Western countries is going down. People are more interested in their careers . . . they don't want to have babies," Sheik Green says in one DVD.

"So don't you think, Muslim brothers and sisters, we've got a bit of an opportunity here? They're not having babies any more. So what if, instead, we have the babies?

"In Canada one in three or one in four children being born is a Muslim. What does that do to the demographic shift of a Muslim population in 20 years' time?

Islamic Council of Victoria spokesman Waleed Aly said he was disappointed though not surprised by the Sunday Herald Sun's discoveries.

But he said extremist speech and literature was confined to only a couple of Melbourne groups.

"If I walked into (Omran's group) or (Hamza's centre) it wouldn't surprise me," he said.

Mr Aly said he believed Muslims were radicalised by "cult-like peer groups", not hate literature.

School Linked to Hamas Gets U.S. Cash

by Joel Mowbray, Washington Times


Millions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid have been given in the past several years to two Palestinian universities -- one of them controlled by Hamas -- that have participated in the advocacy, support or glorification of terrorism.

The funding -- principally in scholarships to individual students -- is being eyed by several members of Congress and their aides, who say it may violate U.S. law.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided more than $140,000 in assistance to the Hamas-controlled Islamic University in Gaza -- including scholarships to 49 of its students -- since Congress changed the law in 2004 to restrict aid to entities or individuals "involved in or advocating terrorist activity."

No U.S. assistance was directed to Islamic University last year, but USAID continues to fund multimillion-dollar programs through American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), which is building a high-tech facility for the school. U.S. law requires that any recipient of U.S. aid have no association with terrorists.

USAID also gave $2.3 million in aid last year to Al-Quds University, which has student groups affiliated with designated terrorist organizations on campus and last month held a weeklong celebration of the man credited with designing and building the first suicide belts more than a decade ago.

"It is outrageous that U.S. taxpayer dollars are going toward institutions that support terrorists," said Rep. Gary L. Ackerman, New York Democrat and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia.

"These loopholes must be closed so that taxpayer funds are used for their intended purpose and not to subsidize terrorism and the promotion of hatred toward Israel and the United States."
Rep. Nita M. Lowey, New York Democrat and chairwoman of the committee responsible for USAID funding, said, "It goes without saying that U.S. taxpayer dollars should absolutely never be used for advocating or honoring terrorist activity. Support for terrorists and terrorism in any shape or form is unacceptable."

USAID adamantly denies that it has violated any laws.

"Every grant we give, every bit of assistance we provide, we do in a way that is fully compliant with the law," said a USAID official, who agreed to talk only on the condition of anonymity.
In the case of Islamic University, the official said, USAID vetted the school president, the vice president of academic affairs and the dean of the library. It provided $12,000 worth of computers and materials to the school's library.

Students are vetted for connections to terrorism before being granted scholarships, the official added, but, "We don't follow every student and track every meeting they go to." Unlike other U.S. aid recipients, the scholarship students have not been required to sign pledges not to participate in terrorism.

The latest congressional interest in USAID's funding in the West Bank and Gaza was triggered by a report from Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), a pro-Israel group that monitors the Palestinian press.

Included in the report were translations of several Palestinian newspaper articles that discuss the activities of student chapters of Hamas and Islamic Jihad at Al-Quds University and other Palestinian schools assisted by USAID since 2005. Hamas and Islamic Jihad are on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.

The USAID official did not deny that student groups affiliated with terrorist organizations were on campuses of schools assisted by the agency, but stressed that such organizations receive minimal support from the schools and are not part of "the official administrative structure."
Aides to several congressmen said they were most troubled by USAID assistance to Islamic University in Gaza City, which is openly controlled by Hamas leaders.

The organization held a two-day conference in 2005 on the "martyrdom" of former Hamas spiritual leader and founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in 2004. Sheik Yassin founded the school in 1978.

Sheik Yassin and former Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi used Islamic University as a base, as has Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister in the Hamas-led Palestinian government and a member of the school's board of trustees.

Sixteen Islamic University lecturers and teachers are elected Hamas members of the Palestinian legislature. In 2005, 78 percent of the student council vote went to Hamas, according to a Palestinian newspaper article provided by Palestinian Media Watch.

When challenged by Congress last year on its assistance to the school, USAID noted that the funding was not renewed last year. Nonetheless, the agency is providing millions in grants to ANERA, which is building a high-tech facility in Gaza City for the university. California-based Intel Corp. is underwriting the project.

In a document USAID sent to Congress last year, USAID wrote that ANERA "is required to ensure that no assistance is provided to terrorist organizations or individuals associated with terrorist activities, regardless of whether or not the activity involves [U.S. government] funding."

Also causing congressional concern is a PMW's report that Al-Quds University last month held a weeklong celebration honoring Yahya Ayyash, the Hamas leader known as "the shahid [martyr] engineer." He is credited with creating the first suicide belts in the mid-1990s and training the next generation of suicide bomb makers.

The opening event, as reported by a Palestinian newspaper and found in the PMW report, included a speech by university administrator Yusuf Dhiyab, "who discussed shahids and the mark that the shahids left on the history of the Palestinian nation and how they succeeded in uniting the nation."
In September, USAID announced an "extraordinary one-time" issuance of 2,000 scholarships for Palestinian students attending Al-Quds University at a total cost of $2.2 million, according to USAID. Simultaneously, USAID provided $100,000 in "in-kind assistance" to Al-Quds University.

In a written statement, USAID said Al-Quds University requested emergency assistance last summer, and the $2.3 million was offered because "strong U.S. support existed for assistance to moderate Palestinian leaders."

The statement singled out Al-Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh as "one such prominent and respected figure."

But Mr. Nusseibeh appeared on the Al-Jazeera satellite channel in 2002 with Hamas political bureau chief Khalid Mashaal and the mother of a suicide bomber, according to a transcript provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

"When I hear the words of Umm Nidal, I recall the [Koranic] verse stating that 'Paradise lies under the feet of mothers,' " he said, according to MEMRI. "All respect is due to this mother; it is due to every Palestinian mother and every female Palestinian who is a Jihad fighter on this land."

Students Facing Charges of 'Desecration of Allah'

WorldNetDaily.com



Hamas, Hezbollah flags used in college Republicans protest

College Republicans at San Francisco State University desecrated the name of Allah by stepping on makeshift Hezbollah and Hamas flags, charged school officials who brought the students before a hearing yesterday.

The trouble began at an Oct. 17 anti-terrorism rally in which the students stepped on butcher paper painted to resemble the flags of the Middle East terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah. The College Republicans say they simply copied the script from an image on the Internet and didn't know it bore the name of Allah in Arabic script.

University spokeswoman Ellen Griffin, however, told San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders the university "stands behind this process" of investigating the students for possible punishment.

"I don't believe the complaint is about the desecration of the flag," Griffin said. "I believe that the complaint is the desecration of Allah."

The university has 10 days from the time of the hearing to decide whether to sanction the students.

Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, which represents the students, insisted the school has no basis for punishing them.

"The College Republicans engaged in unequivocally protected political expression, and it strains all credibility to think the SFSU administration does not know this," he said. "There is nothing to try or investigate here other than protected expression."

Ten days after the incident, a student filed a formal complaint with the university against the campus group, alleging "attempts to incite violence and create a hostile environment" and "actions of incivility."

FIRE argues the university's Office of Student Programs and Leadership Development could have settled the matter informally or dismissed the charges instead of pressing forward today with a hearing.

The legal advocacy group sent a letter to SFSU President Robert A. Corrigan Jan. 23 arguing no American public institution can lawfully prosecute students for engaging in political protest or for desecrating religious symbols.

FIRE asserted "incitement" and creating a "hostile environment" are legal terms not applicable to the College Republicans' actions of stepping on flags.

"SFSU has a duty to uphold the First Amendment rights of all of its students, even if their expressive activity offends the religious sensibilities of some," the letter stated.

University officials wrote back Jan. 29, saying the school would continue to investigate the complaint "to give all parties the confidence that they will be heard and fairly treated by a panel that includes representatives of all the university's key constituencies."

A follow-up letter by FIRE urged Corrigan to call off the hearing, warning "if you continue to ignore your constitutional obligations, you risk personal liability for depriving your students of their rights."

"This is not even a close call, legally speaking," FIRE Vice President Robert L. Shibley contended. "The First Amendment protects using or destroying flags in political protest, and even SFSU administrators must realize that they cannot prosecute students for failing to respect a religious symbol."

The Salt Lake Shooter: A Jihadist Martyr

by David Huntwork

If you only read the news as reported by the Main Stream Media, you would never know that we had just recently experienced another Jihad style attack by a Muslim on American soil.

On Monday, Feb. 12th, one time Bosnian refugee Sulejmen Talovic (age 18) walked into the Trolley Valley shopping mall in Salt Lake City and in a six minute rampage killed five people and severely wounded several more. The dead were identified as Jeffrey Walker, 52, Vanessa Quinn, 29, Kirsten Hinkley, 15, Teresa Ellis, 29, and Brad Frantz, 24.

My initial (blogged) reaction was:

Any guesses as to whether he's a Muslim or not? I may be going out on a limb here, but I sense another follower of Allah and the Religion of Peace.... And might I add that this is a great example of how having a large section of the population allowed to conceal carry is a good idea.

Sure enough it turns out Sulejmen Talovic was indeed a Muslim and that little nugget of information has fueled a firestorm of speculation among bloggers and unleashed accusations of "cover-up" directed towards the Main Stream Media and law enforcement investigators. The media showed an interesting and obvious reluctance to initially disclose, let alone discuss, eighteen year old Talovic's religious persuasion.

A nearby wedding videographer was able to videotape the initial police response and capture audio of some of the shootings as well as the shouts of the shooter before police gunned him down. The chilling tape can be viewed here.

On the video, the Islamic battle cry of "Allah-hu Akbar" (God is great) is heard two times at 1:38-1:40 as the officer identifies himself. There appears to be a third one at 1:47.

So it appears that a Bosnian Muslim shooting his way through a mall killing Americans and shouting Allah-hu Akbar in the post 9-11 era is apparently not newsworthy. Am I missing something here?

According to the Associated Press, FBI agent Patrick Kiernan has reassured us that the bureau has no reason to believe Talovic "was motivated by religious extremism" or intended "an act of terrorism."

Thank goodness. I know I feel better.

Instead, investigators insist "Mr. Talovic's motive remains a mystery."

We can only assume that the politically correct, multiculturalist dogma has struck again. The shouts of Allah-hu Akbar do kind of give it away, but the mainstream media has pretty much balked at saying the "M" word. When it comes to this attack, the news is something to be spun, not necessarily reported. They also went out of their way to assure us (incorrectly) that the latest Islamic martyr did not attend any mosques in the area. This was quickly refuted:

Although he quit school at 16, Sulejman Talovic often attended Friday prayers at the Al-Noor mosque on 700 East in Salt Lake City" - Salih Omerovic (a relative). The mosque is two blocks from the mall where the shooting took place.

Charles Johnson over at LittleGreenFootballs.com put it this way after coming under fire by Utah's Deseret News for daring to mention the fact that the killer happened to be a Muslim.

"And we're supposed to believe, apparently, that there is absolutely no connection between Islam and terrorism, and anybody who suspects one is either a racist or an ultraconservative."

Bloggers have adopted the term 'Sudden Jihad Syndrome' (coined by Daniel Pipes) to describe this type of incident where otherwise normal appearing Muslims abruptly become violent. Leaderless resistance and lone wolf martyrdom operations are both preached and praised by the global jihadists.

There have been several such incidents in the last few years.

FrontpageMag.com published a column entitled Salt Lake Jihad?:

In October 2006, a pro-jihad internet site published a "Guide for Individual Jihad," explaining to jihadists "how to fight alone." It recommended, among other things, assassination with guns and running people over. Is it possible that Sulejmen Talovic and some of these others were waging this jihad of one?

An editorial entitled Sudden Jihad Syndrome at Investors Business Daily lists eight other recent examples of young Muslim men launching individual attacks in the United States.

The shooters family is extremely shocked by their sons act of terror and suspect the possible encouragement and involvement of others.

From KLS.com:

The father of Trolley Square shooter Sulejmen Talovic apologizes over and over for the ordeal. Suljo Talovic says no one who knew his son saw this coming and he believes someone pushed him to do it.

Suljo Talovic doesn't know where his son got the guns or how he learned how to use them.

Suljo Talovic, Father of Shooter: "Somebody got (the guns) and maybe (they were) training him and tell(ing) him (to), go shoot somebody.'"

Question: So you think that somebody influenced him maybe to do this?

Suljo Talovic: "Yeah. I think somebody."

Talovic says the tragedy is taking a toll on his family.

Repeatedly, in a lengthy interview with KSL Newsradio, Talovic expressed the sentiment that someone trained and pushed his son to kill. He apologizes for the ordeal, saying it makes him feel horrible, like killing himself.

The fact the father suspects someone recruited and trained his son is significant. We need answers as to who supplied the guns and the ammunition and who instructed him in their use. We can only hope that law enforcement has cast aside the chains of political correctness and is vigorously investigating and interrogating all those who interacted, and attended mosque, with young Talovic.

Once again it has been left to the blogosphere and Internet outlets to lead the investigation and uncover the motives of this latest terrorist attack on the Homeland.

David Huntwork is a conservative activist and freelance columnist in Norther Colorado where he lives with his wife and three young daughters. You may view his bio, blog and past columns at DavidHuntwork.tripod.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions at DaveHuntwork@juno.com.

Wacki Iraqi

Reuters

LOS ANGELES - An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.

The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early on Tuesday morning.

A police bomb squad was called to examine what was deemed a suspicious item found during a body cavity search of the man. Local media reports said a magnet was found in his rectum.

"He was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity," Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, told reporters.

Maliki, 35, who lives in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was preparing to board a US Airways flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia.

The flight left without Maliki but with his luggage aboard. It made an unscheduled landing in Las Vegas, where the plane was thoroughly searched but nothing was found, officials said.

Passengers were not evacuated and no flights were disrupted by the incident at Terminal One at Los Angeles airport.

"There never was a threat," Fetter said.

He said police and the FBI were called in from "an abundance of caution" because Maliki was "so bizarre in his behavior."

Maliki, who had a U.S. green card, was being questioned by immigration officials about his immigration status.

Kent State Denies Ties to Jihadi Site

by Carol Biliczky
Beacon Journal staff writer


An Internet story on Wednesday identified a Kent State faculty member as the author of a jihadist news service on the Web.

The Drudge Report story accused Julio ``Assad'' Pino of posting ``Global War'' at global-war.bloghi.com.

Pino, 46, a Muslim convert and associate professor of history at KSU, did not return phone calls seeking comment.

His department head, John Jameson, defended him as a good teacher and said the allegations in the story appeared to have been blown out of proportion.

He said Pino told him he provided news stories to the Web site but didn't accept any ownership of it.

The Web site does not name the originator, but a photo of a bearded man there is not of Pino, the description of the originator does not fit Pino and none of the postings on it can be tied to Kent State, Jameson said.

While Pino did operate a pro-Palestinian Web site in the past, he told Jameson he gave it up ``when the hate response got to be too much,'' Jameson said.

The jihadist Web site ``doesn't have any connection to Kent State,'' university spokesman Ron Kirksey said. ``We object to our name being used in connection with it.''

The turmoil began Wednesday when a column by Mike S. Adams on conservative townhall.com, Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, was posted on the Drudge Report, a collection of news stories from throughout the world.

``All we want is to get Allah's pleasure,'' the jihadist Web site reads. ``We will write `Jihad' across our foreheads, and the stars. The angels will carry our message through the world.''

Adams accused Pino of ``drawing a paycheck from the people of the State of Ohio while trying to launch a jihad against people like me.''

One recent posting on the Web site was, Crusaders Can't Take Anymore in Afghanistan, Adams said.

Pino is a specialist in Latin America and has a doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles.

He joined Kent State in 1992 and a few years ago received tenure -- in essence, lifetime employment -- for his research and writings. At Kent, he has taught courses such as The '60s + A Third-World View and Comparative Third-World Revolutions.

He is no stranger to controversy.

Last year he was the target of an Internet petition that labeled him a ``walking, talking time bomb'' and sought to get him fired with comments like, ``Remove this traitor from our educational system'' and ``Get this murderer out of the country!''

In a 2005 letter to the student-run Kent Stater, Pino responded to students who questioned why Muslims were burning American flags.

``You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of drugs, gambling, the sex trade, spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past, such as AIDS, and turns women into commodities for sale,'' he wrote.

``The ill done to the Muslim nations must be requited. The Muslim child does not cry alone; the Muslim woman does not cry alone; and the Muslim man is already at your gates.''

In another letter that year, he called Bush a ``cocaine cowboy''... ``who has added an
extra 100,000 corpses to the pile of brown-colored corpses, collected like Indian heads in the Old West.''

In 2003, Pino was charged with disorderly conduct at an anti-war rally at Kent State. He said the charges were an attempt to harass protesters.

The most controversial incident may have been in 2002, when he wrote a column in the Kent Stater that eulogized an 18-year-old Palestinian suicide bomber. He said he was trying to explain why suicide bombings occurred in Israel.

KSU English professor Lewis Fried took offense and urged then-KSU President Carol Cartwright to fire Pino. She refused, saying the university supported free speech.

``A university stands for the sustaining of life and not of murder,'' Fried said Wednesday. ``I'm not opposing free speech, just murderous free speech.''

Kirksey said the university had received about 100 calls and e-mails, some of them threatening Pino, in the most recent incident. University police had been notified, he said.

YouTube Jihadists

Op-Ed by Michael Ghostwolf, IFP-United States


Not a whole lot has changed since I left my video making days at YouTube. The muslims have killed off a whole bunch of the anti-jihadists due to YouTube's automated flagging policy. You get enough people together and tell them to flag a video or an account and that user is gone.

Once such group is "United Muslims" You can click the link for yourself. They are a self assigned "YouTube Police" who flag and kill accounts that speak poorly of Islam, Allah and/or their Prophet Mohammad.

They kill an account and 3-4 more pop up in its place. The joke really is on them because the only reason this system is in place is because of the Muslim Outrage due to the Danish Cartoons and to the Pope's Comments.. YouTube felt it had to have something in place to let these people get their frustration out. But it does not stop anything does it? The video's are reposted on YouTube, the smart people re-post them at other sites as well. Life goes on.

See: "An Anti-Jihadist Reports Youtube's Militant Muslims to the NSA"
See Also: "Ghostwolf Beheaded by Islamic Extremists"