Photograph by  astrophotographer Luc Perrot on the French island of Réunion

The Milky Way floats over a serene lake in an image which took two years to get just right. Occasionally an image comes along which is simply breath-taking. This, we humbly submit, is one of them, an image of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, stretching in an immense band across the skies and giving us just the tiniest glimpse of the vastness of our universe around us. The image was taken by astrophotographer Luc Perrot on the French island of Réunion, to the East of Madagascar, who reports that he waited two years to get the perfect light conditions. But it was worth it. (Daily Mail)

Another slaughter by devout Muslims, the Taliban. This is epidemic and Obama's Department of Defense is  not reporting Afghan attacks on American troops unless it results in dead US soldiers.

Obama is a low life. He chases tthe Taliban in abject surrender to our would -be executioners,

"Gunman in Afghan police uniform kills three Nato troops" July 1,  BBC  (thanks to David)

Foreign forces are training their Afghan counterparts ahead of a full handover in 2014

A gunman wearing an Afghan police uniform has killed three Nato staff in the south of the country, the coalition has said.

The gunman was injured and later detained, Nato said.

Officials did not confirm the nationalities of the killed service members, or any other details of the incident.

More than 20 foreign personnel have been killed in so-called rogue shootings this year.

Observers say this has eroded morale among foreign forces.

"An individual wearing an Afghan National Civil Order Police uniform turned his weapon against International Security Assistance Force service members in southern Afghanistan today, killing three service members," Isaf, Nato's force in the country, said in a statement on Sunday.

Members of the Nato-led Isaf force are training their Afghan counterparts in preparation for a full handover of responsibility for security by 2014.

Revelations in February that US troops burned copies of the Koran at a base in Afghanistan - reportedly by accident - as well as the shooting of 16 Afghans by a US soldier in March have inflamed public opinion against the foreign forces.

More of the poisonous fruits of Obama's anti-freedom foreign policy agenda. Dott. Architetto Ashraf Ramelah, President of Voice of the Copts.org, wrote me that the election result was modified half an hour prior to the official announcement, due to US pressures and threats to cut aid. Before the Egyptian election, Obama threatened Egypt's military leaders, telling them to speedily hand over power to the Muslim Brotherhood or he would cut off billions in aid. Can there be any doubt in your mind that our White House has been infiltrated?

This is what Obama wrought. Worse, Dalia Mogahed was appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama to serve on his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Mogahed is an "Islamic ideologue who supports Islamic Sharia and denies any connection between radical Islam and terrorism." Mogahed was also assigned to the Department of Homeland Security's advisory council, serving with other members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The anti-Middle East Christian lobbying in Washington, attributed to Muslim Brotherhood front groups and sympathizers is not limited to the Maronites ...... According to research showing the links between Presidential adviser Dalia Mogahed and the Muslim Brotherhood, and to NGOs representing Middle East Christian groups in the US, blocking Middle East Christian meetings at the White House and the State Department have been associated with the work of the “advisors” and their allies in the Islamist camp in Washington such as CAIR and MPAC.

Egypt: Muslims murder two Christians for not voting for Muslim Brotherhood

Revenge even in victory. "Egypt Christians ‘Killed’ After Election Morsi," from BosNewsLife, June 30 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Native Christian missionaries in Egypt remained concerned Saturday, June 30, saying at least two fellow believers were killed by suspected Islamists since Mohammed Morsi was declared the country's president.

Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood "announced they would destroy the country if Morsi didn't win, but they also said they will take revenge from all those who voted for [his opponent Ahmed] Shafiq, especially the Christians as they are sure we did vote for Shafiq," am Egyptian missionary leader said in a letter distributed by Christian Aid Mission (CAM) group.

"Yesterday they began by killing two believers in [the area of] el Sharqiya because of this," the missionary added, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The names of the two Christians known to the missionaries were not immediately released.

These latest reported killings came just weeks after video footage of a convert from Islam to Christianity being murdered by Muslims was shown on on Egyptian television.

GRAPHIC INCIDENT

That graphic incident, which was reported to have taken place in Tunisia, was aired on the Egypt Today program. That footage showed a young man being held down by masked men with a knife to his throat.

One man was heard chanting a number of Muslim prayers in Arabic, mostly condemning Christianity.

The man holding the knife to the Christian convert’s throat began to cut, slowly severing the head amid cries of “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is great”), according to transcripts.

The Egypt Today presenter was reportedly distressed by the scenes and openly wondered what direction his nation would go under the influential Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis groups.

FREEDOM THREAT

Native missionaries and other Christians said the footage of the brutal beheading was the latest indication of what they called "the violent threat to religious freedom" in the post-Arab Spring revolution-era....

However "Liberal Muslims are also afraid," the missionary leader acknowledged in the letter, adding that, "They also do not want the country to be turned from a civil one to a religious one like Iran."...

All that US blood and treasure ..... for this. Horrible.

Sharia in action: Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests Jihadwatch

"If it is proved that the woman was not virgin and sought to get married without telling the man, there is no law that protects her."

Democracy On the March in Brave New Democratic Iraq: "Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests," from AFP, July 1 (thanks to Kenneth):

Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests that often show they were virgins until marriage but shame them nonetheless, doctors at an institute that carries out the tests and a lawyer told AFP.

Remaining a virgin until marriage can be an issue of life or death for women in the Middle East, where those who are seen as having dishonored the family by having premarital sex are sometimes killed by male relatives.

An average of several virginity tests are performed per day at the Medical Legal Institute (MLI) in Baghdad, in a small windowless room with blue-tiled walls and a black table with leg stirrups at one end....

“Most of the cases we received after the first day of marriage,” said Dr. Munjid al-Rezali, the director of the MLI.

“The husband claim that she is not a virgin, and then the family brings her here, through the courts, this all come through the courts, and we examine her,” Rezali said, speaking in English.

“It’s not uncommon, we are seeing a lot,” he added.

The tests include examination of the woman’s hymen, but the man involved may also come under scrutiny.

The man may be tested for impotency, Rezali said, noting that in some cases, a man with erectile dysfunction may pretend the woman was not a virgin to hide his shame.

The results of the tests go directly to the courts, and are not given by the MLI to the parties involved, Rezali said.

“They think that during the marriage, (the) first day of marriage, there should be blood... they think if there is no blood, there is no virginity,” said Dr. Sami Dawood, a forensic doctor at the MLI who has been involved in the tests.

This belief, he said, indicates that sex education and knowledge is “very poor.”

If a man thinks his new wife is not a virgin, he may take the issue to court, leading to the MLI performing a virginity test, said Dawood.

Asked about the results of the tests, Dawood said that “most of them (are) with the woman, not against the woman, but it is by itself... shaming.”

However, he said that while women were killed in the past if blood was not found on the sheets after their wedding night, people now seek recourse through the courts and the virginity tests procedure.

The test, which takes between 15 and 30 minutes, is carried out by three doctors, at least one of them a woman, and the results are certified by two others, said Dawood, adding that the tests are done only when ordered by a court.

“The judge is required to send the woman for the medical test when she is accused by her husband of not being a virgin, and that is only done in this case,” lawyer Ali Awad Kurdi said.

“If it is proved that the woman was not virgin and sought to get married without telling the man, there is no law that protects her,” Kurdi said.

The woman’s family is then required to recompense the man for gifts, money and other expenditures related to the relationship....

There is a large Muslim population in Manchester, just miles from Rochdale, where scores of Muslim men were recently convicted of, among other Islamic supremacist  heinous crimes, child sex trafficking in thousands of school-age non-Muslim girls. No word on whether the teens were .. uh, "Asian." The silence on motive speaks volumes.

"The incident is not being treated as a hate crime or anti-Semitic."

Would the same be said if this had been an Islamic school or mosque?

"Teenagers arrested after gun attack by Manchester Yeshiva" The JC.com, July 1, 2012, (thanks to Armaros)

Two 17 year old boys from Broughton, Manchester, have been arrested  on suspicion of possessing and discharging a firearm after an incident in the early hours of this morning when a gun was fired at the Yeshiva in Upper Park Road, Broughton.

The incident is not being treated as a hate crime or anti-Semitic.

No one was injured in the attack in the area of the Shaarei Torah Yehiva in the mainly Jewish area of Broughton Park at around 2am this morning. Two cars were reportedly driving erratically around the yeshiva, the largest of its kind in Manchester and a large multi-storey building prominent for its Hebrew writing fronting its street entrance. Some of the talmudic college's 170, mainly teenage, students came outside the building to discover the source of the disturbance when a flash was seen and a shot heard coming from the window of one of the cars. At least one bullet casing was discovered by students on road shortly after the cars sped off. Police have been on the scene all day, after having arrived moments after the incident, and cordoned off the road immediately outside the college.

Most of the college's students are residential, and it is understood the scene inside the building is calm.

A statement issued this evening by Greater Manchester Police said that  investigations are ongoing and both boys are in police custody for questioning.

Chief Superintendent Kevin Mulligan said: "There are increased police patrols in the area and we are working with the local community, partners and the CST to reassure the community. It is believed at this time, the incident does not relate to terrorism, the ongoing terrorism trial or organised crime activity."

Cultural jihad.

Muslim women are not known for is fashion -- at least outdoors, and hijabbed Muslim women throng to Rodeo Drive to buy the latest fashions, but they only wear them indoors for their husbands and female friends. So fashion among Muslim women is something entirely private and out of sight -- just the opposite of the fashion ethos. Articles like this one are designed to try to make Americans more comfortable with Islam's oppression of women, forcing them to wear cloth coffins in public.

This is a concerted, conscious, planned effort to to normalize and make us comfortable with Islam and its oppression of women.

Who else do they do this for? Hindus? Jews .....?

I mean, really. And it's not just the Dallas Morning News, it's the ABC affilate, all the Sunday papers ... fasc-ion.

Muslim women show flair for their style of fashion Associated [with terrorist]Press

DALLAS (AP) — At a sleek venue in Dallas' Design District, Ndaa Hassan burst through the curtain and rushed backstage. The fashion show was about to start. She was a flurry of nerves, wrapped in light pink from head to toe. "Ladies, it's a full house!" she shouted.

The 30 or so models wore vibrant eye shadow, bejeweled dresses and high heels. But in this case, the stilettos didn't lead up to bare, twiggy legs. In fact, they led no further than the hems of loose-fitting dresses that revealed almost no skin.

This was fashion, all right, but with a Muslim influence.

Hassan and her friend Zeena Alkurdi were presenting their first fashion show to about 150 people, spotlighting stylish but modest clothing — including some of their own designs. As entrepreneurs, Hassan and Alkurdi, both 22, design and sew hijabs whose chic styles range from tie-dye and sequins to cheetah print and vintage floral.

Each has launched an online boutique to bridge the gap between the Middle Eastern traditions of their parents and the American culture they grew up in. A stylish hijab, they say, empowers Muslim girls to feel more confident and find common ground with non-Muslim peers.

[...]

This story resonates with Muslim women. Wearing the hjiab as part of their faith makes them feel empowered, proud and beautiful. Alkurdi says the best compliment she can get is when she's wearing a hijab. For "hijabis," the scarf is not just an item of clothing; it connects them with God and reminds them who they are. They wear the hijab every day. Only other women and male family members can see them without the scarf.

"It might be an accessory and clothing, but it is a way of life," Hassan said. "With the hijab on, we're always representing our religion, and it forces us to be on our best behavior."

Ten years ago, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Alkurdi's father asked her if she wanted to take a break from wearing the hijab. She broke down in tears. "This is a part of me," she said. "I can't take it off."

Eric Allen Bell has been peeling back the layers of the monster mosque in Murfreesboro ..... and, I might add, at great personal risk. He comes to this issue from a unique place. Bell is a documentary filmmaker and had been following the story early on for a pro-mosque film which painted mosque critics as racistislamophobicantimuslimbigots. He was a fixture at court hearings and protests over the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro in 2010. Here some background from Bell:

In the summer of 2010 I was invited to write an article for Michael Moore.  I was in production on a documentary. I was calling “Not Welcome” regarding the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in the middle of the American Bible Belt.  His endorsement gave me a huge boost with the Hollywood crowd.  Having worked in the entertainment industry for years, this was not my first film, but it was to be my first documentary.  So when I went on to write a few more articles for MichaelMoore.com the wheels were greased for me to get into a room with the right people, and secure the finishing funds I needed to complete post production.  And if there is one thing Hollywood loves (almost as much as congratulating itself), it’s the story of an innocent minority group being wrongly persecuted, preferably in the South, especially if the antagonist happens to be the Religious Right.  And as my editor and I assembled the first 25 minutes, of the 300 hours of footage shot, this film promised to deliver just that.  “Wow, I really wasn’t expecting this.  I would like to thank the members of the Academy, Michael Moore and the Prophet Mohammed for making all of this possible…” 

But then the winds changed direction.  It seems that fate had issued a Fatwa against my perfect plan.  The Arab Spring sprang into action and ruined everything, as it degenerated disappointingly into the Islamist Winter.  It was as if I had been slapped upside the head by reality, thus knocking off my blinders and causing me to ask a lot of inconvenient questions.  I was left wondering if there was perhaps more to the story of so-called “revolution” than what had been portrayed on Al Jazeera and “Democracy Now with Amy Goodman”.  You can read more about this in an article I wrote for Front Page Magazine here: “The High Price of Telling the Truth About Islam”.

Eric Allen Bell came to see the mega-mosque in Murfreesboro for what it is, a rabat, and he has set about to warn us of its dangers. Bell has since exposed the criminal background of former Islamic Center spokeswoman Camie Ayash, a convicted felon who served prison time in Florida. Bell demonstrates that the mosque got special accommodation and consideration from county officials.

The Islamic supremacists would stop at nothing. Lema Sbenaty, a college student who works at a local pharmacy, may well have leaked confidential medical information about mosque opponents.

Bell was banned from blogging at the “Daily Kos” because he wrote three articles that no longer supported the Islamic supremacist mosque. Despite alienation and the obvious difficulties one encounters when taking on the leftist/Islamic alliance, Eric Allen Bell continues to fight.

Despite a court ruling to stop work, Islamic supremacists behind the Murfreesboro mega-mosque are defying American law and continue to build at a more furious pace, once again demonstrating their contempt for American jurisprudence and adherence to the sharia. This is an Islamic pattern. We saw this same contempt for American law when Islamic supremacists behind the Muslim Brotherhood rabat in Sheepshead Bay violated court orders to halt construction of the mega mosque on quiet, residential Voorhies Street. And just as in Brooklyn, Murfreesboro's dhimmi city officials refuse to enforce the law.

Former FBI agent John Guandolo provides this information about the Murfreesboro mosque:

Bell files this latest report exclusive to Atlas. Every parent with a child in the public school system in America needs to read this article and pass it on.

Murfreesboro Mega Mosque Creeping into the Curriculum? By Eric Allen Bell 

In response to my recent article for Atlas Shrugs, which exposed the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro for making demands on the School Board to have “Muslim Authorities” review all text books, I received a lot of emails.  One of them was from a spokesman for Middle Tennesseans For Religious Freedom and peace activist, Jase Short.  He said, “You are the definition of human waste. Have a good, sad, and lonely life you fucking creep.”

I also heard from Saleh Sbenaty, the spokesperson for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, and member of the Religion of Peace.  He had this to say, “The lies you are spreading is a characteristic of a scumbag”.

But the quote that really sticks out in my mind is one I first heard from Pamela Geller, and that one is that “Truth is the new hate speech”.

Just to review, through my new site: www.MosqueConfidential.com I have been able to obtain numerous tips, stories and actual documents concerning suspicious and subversive behavior on the part of mosques. 

Pictured Above: Phase 1 of the 53,000 square foot mega mosque in Murfreesboro, TN

Recently, I released a document wherein I leaked a “Teacher’s Guide” which was put out by the Islamic Center of Murfreesbro, TN.  You can read and download the entire guide by clicking here, but here were a few of the finer points which I found particularly disconcerting:

Abdou Kattih of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro is ordering the taxpayer funded school conform to Islamic Law in the following ways:

- Men and boys are always to be covered from the navel to the knee in public.

- Muslim females are required to wear loose-fitting and non-revealing clothing which includes a head covering.

- Some of the five prayers may fall within regular school hours. It takes less than 15 minutes to accomplish the prayer. It includes:

• Washing: Before the prayer, Muslims perform a simple wash with clean water. This is normally performed in the restroom sink.
• Prayer space and Time: During the prayer, the Muslim will stand, bow, and touch the forehead to the ground. This may be performed in any quite, clean room. Total privacy is not required.
• Attention: During the prayer, Muslims are fully engaged and they may not respond to a conversation. Students and teachers should not take offense of the worshiper not answering their call. However, in case of an emergency, the Muslim will respond to an announcement by stopping the prayer immediately.

 - Fasting students may ask to use the library instead of the cafeteria during lunch. Also they may ask to be excused from strenuous physical activities during fasting.

- Muslim boys and girls may not take same-sex communal after-sports showers without wearing appropriate covering on their bodies.

- Close contact with local Islamic centers is essential to encourage input from the Muslim community.

- In Islam, Friday is the day for the congregational worship, called Jumaha. It is an obligation that must be fulfilled, and it lasts about one hour.

- Textbooks that contribute to religious prejudice are not suitable.

- Qualified Muslim educators should participate in the textbook selection process, particularly for history, social studies and geography texts.

 I sent the leaked documents to Nashville AM radio morning talk show host, Michael DelGiorno of WTN, who felt rather strongly that this would be of interest to the parents of the 40,000 children who attend Rutherford County schools.  And to his credit, he read the entire “Teacher’s Guide” live, on the air and talked about it detail, with Bill Warner, author of “Sharia Law for Non-Muslims”.

Well as you might imagine this created quite a stir and the Rutherford County School Board was bombarded with calls and emails from some very pissed of parents who wanted answers.  And the answer they got?  The School Board denied knowing anything about it.

It’s worth mentioning that I was once a strong vocal advocate for, what I thought were simply the “religious freedoms” of the Islamic Center.  You can read more about that in, “The High Price of Telling the Truth about Islam”.  Back then, when I reached out to the media with tales of how “Southern Evangelicals” were trying to stop a mosque, the media and I had something special. They all returned my calls and emails and one of them would just write what I told him to.  Such is not the case these days.

But when it was time to leak the next document, everyone got the same package – the Daily News Journal, the Tennessean Newspaper, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, local Channel 5, Michael Moore, all of my other former contacts.  I saw “former” because now that I speak the inconvenient truth about Islam, I have become too radioactive for any of them to touch.  Must be all that “hate speech”.

So everyone got the same package with my second document - that being the actual leaked email itself – from the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.  The email was sent to School Board attorney Angel McCloud.  Notice that in the “Teacher’s Guide” the persistent Abdou Kattih references legal code, to get his point across that the School Board must conform to Islamic Law.  And of all the officials in the School Board, he sent it to legal. So, of all the officials he could have sent this to, he chose legal to impress upon them that he intended to enforce this legally if necessary.

Only 2 in the local media had the courage to expose this email, seen below.  Pete Doughtie, Publisher of the Rutherford Reader (the most read newspaper in the area of the 53,000 square foot mega mosque construction site) and once again the brave Michael DelGiorno, a Nashville talk radio host on WTN.  Here is that memo:

And here is how the James Evans, spokesperson for Rutherford County Schools, attempted to downplay and put a spin on this most recent development:

From the Rutherford County Schools Website:

 “Statement concerning student religious activities”

Update June 28, 2012

“Eric Allen Bell has responded with an email he says was sent to staff attorney Angel McCloud … from the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. The email contained an educational flyer about Muslim beliefs and practices as they pertain to Muslim students. However, the email does not contain a list of demands or mandates, which has been alleged.”

Meanwhile, back in reality…

In order to get a better understanding of the “Teacher’s Guide” sent out by the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, I reached out to an established authority.  I contacted an expert in Islam who advises the US Government and the US Military, as I believe this expert is well qualified to explain to what it is that we are looking at, with this document.  You the reader can decide – who is more qualified to evaluate the meaning, threat and intention of this mosque sponsored “Teacher’s Guide” – a School Board spokesperson, or this man…

Timothy R. Furnish holds a PhD in Islamic, African and World history, which he obtained after serving in the US Army as an Arabic linguist.  He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on Islamic history, Islamic sects and transnational Islamic movements.  Dr. Furnish works as a lecturer, analyst and consultant to the US government and military on those very topics.  He is the author of one book “Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama bin Laden” as well as numerous articles in both popular and scholarly venues.   Briefly, here is Dr. Furnish’s expert analysis of the ICM “Teacher’s Guide”

I think that what we have here, with Abdou Kattih's attempt to get the Rutherford County school system to, in essence, Islamize itself, is not jihad per se but the "soft" power version of Islamization--known as da`wah.

Da`wah literally means "call," "invitation" or "summons" to Islam (or to a particular sectarian version thereof--most prominently, in Islamic history, to the Sevener Shi`i version of that faith known as Isma'ilism).  As the august Encyclopedia of Islam  notes, da`wah "can often be translated as mission or propaganda" but also "has the sense of doctrine, religion, community, sect...."  As such, it is perhaps best viewed as a "kinder, gentler"--that is, non-"kinetic"/non-violent--version of Jihad.  

But it aims for the same goal: an Islamized society and system where, in the final analysis, Islamic norms and, eventually, rule of law (shari`ah) predominate. 

Take a look at this chart, p. 36, from a Dutch study, From Dawa to Jihad: The Various Threats from Radical Islam to the Democratic Legal Order (2004); it shows the relationship of jihad to da`wah quite well.

 What is going on in Murfreesboro is, I think, clearly an example of "Covert Dawa," #3 in that chart: "These organizations often operate 'with a hidden agenda and under false pretences', with a focus on secretly propagating and financing exclusivism and parallelism. To the outside world, these...present

themselves as legitimate humanitarian organizations and discussion partners for the government, but in fact they advocate and propagate a highly intolerant exclusivism and parallelism (hidden from the government's and the public's view). The realization of this pursuit can be characterized as a threat, all the more so because the methods to achieve it are characterized by secrecy" (p. 39). Indeed, the Murfreesboro mosque and its propagandists may already be shading into the next level, #4, which is just one stop removed from "covert jihad:" "These forms of radical Islam try to undermine the structures of the democratic legal order via covert Dawa. At an international level there have been indications that in particular the radical branches of the Muslim Brotherhood employ covert Dawa strategies. Rather than confronting the state power with direct violence, this strategy seeks to gradually undermine it by infiltrating and eventually taking over the civil service, the judicature, schools, local administrations, et cetera" (p. 40)

It's certainly exclusivistic and undermining of the public school system, to insist that Muslims be allowed to pray during school (as well as do their rather high-profile ablutions), to be excused from PT during Ramadan fasting, to be allowed out of school on Fridays for Muslim services.  And it's moving beyond mere equal treatment under the law for Muslims to demand that they be allowed to vet history, social studies and geography textbooks (are maps somehow different in the Islamic view?!) and to be allowed to determine, subjectively, what defines "religious prejudice."  One can safely assume that any historical discussion of, say, jihad - a staple of Islamic history and expansion, going back to Islam's founder Muhammad, for 1433 years - would be deemed "prejudicial" by Abdou Kattih.  I seriously doubt that Hindus or Sikhs, much less Christians, are allowed to vet textbooks thusly.  Why should Muslims be given special treatment in this regard?

Whether Kattih and his supporters in (and outside) Murfreesboro are consciously engaged as an outpost of the Muslim Brotherhood's "Civilization Jihadist" [sic] (Muslim Brotherhood's "Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America," May 22, 1991, p. 5 of the English version) is almost beside the point--for they are certainly de facto operating as such.  

And this is what the current administration (including the intelligence and law enforcement agencies), American media and far too many in our society as a whole fail to grasp (whether intentionally or not) that the Islamic imperative to engage in da`wah, ingrained into every Muslim who seriously practices that faith, is almost reflexively acted upon UNLESS it is made abundantly clear that it will not be tolerated.  That is not to say that Muslims cannot practice their religion - of course they can. They can even try to convert folks.  BUT unless Muslims are convinced that they will not be granted a special status in non-Muslim lands, they will continue to insist on being given a mile whenever they are granted an inch.  

 Da`wah is slow-motion jihad, if you will; and the longer it is allowed to gain momentum, it will only gather more and more steam and speed--until it becomes, if not unstoppable, certainly very problematic for non-Muslims and very hard to derail.

  Catholics, the largest single religious body (almost 70 million of the US' 220+ million Christians), have never demanded that schools or employers adhere to canon law.  On the other end of the demographic spectrum, Hindus (0.4% of the population) are not coming to the US and demanding the practice of Dharma in American public schools and workplaces.  Muslims, while perhaps the fastest-growing religion in the US, still comprise no more than 1% of Americans - and while they may have been inculcated with the idea that Islamizing the West's major nation is their duty as Muslims (see Shavit, "Should Muslims Integrate into the West?," MEQ, Fall 2007), and reinforced in that belief by the American liberal tendency to treat them as "victims" (especially, paradoxically, post-9/11), our secular republic does not have to sacrifice its hallowed traditions and practices on an altar of political correctness and misguided Islamophilia.

 There it is, from the perspective of a highly sought after expert in this field.  If you have children in the Rutherford County School system, the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro is making their move on the educational system, and making their move on your children’s minds.

But what’s so bad about that anyway?  Maybe the youngsters will learn a little culture?  Perhaps they will be taught about the loving side of the Prophet Mohammed, how he waited until his 6 year old bride Aisha was 9 years old before he had intercourse with her.  Or, the touching story of how he courted his Jewish wife, Safia.  The Prophet Mohammed executed Safia’s husband, her father, her brother and well, basically all of the men in her tribe.  And as his Islamic soldiers were rounding up all of the women as sex slaves (still allowed in Islam), he spotted her and wanted her for himself.  It was love at first sight, and the rest is (dark, hidden, suppressed and denied) history.

But don’t worry.  That’s not really what Murfreesboro kids are being taught.  In an upcoming article, I might detail exactly how and when the students of Murfreesboro were to be taught the “Five Pillars of Islam” by visiting Islamic Scholars, with the help of one Ms. Paula Barnes, of Rutherford County Schools.  But that’s another story, for another time ;)

As the construction of this 53,000 square foot mega mosque continues to expand, so too does our knowledge of the subversive activities, of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, thanks to all of you who have sent in tips and documents through www.MosqueConfidential.com .  Remember - information is the enemy of Islamic conquest.  Let us continue to spread it!

Finally, what is a mosque really? 

 A mosque is place where the Sharia is taught. Sharia is brutal and sadistic and runs counter to human rights. A mosque is a place where sedition and treason are taught, and this runs counter to the preservation of American values and ideals. A mosque is a place where superstition is taught, and this runs counter to reason and rational thinking. A mosque is a place where Islam, meaning "submission" is taught. And submission runs counter to Liberty. Liberty means that you own you. Liberty is one of the founding principles upon which America stands. Islam and Liberty cannot coexist.

 Islam is anti-human rights, anti-reason, anti-liberty and anti-American. Islam is the most intolerant belief system in the world! Nothing is more xenophobic than Islam. And we will stop its conquest of America, using our laws, our culture, our media and our extraordinary American innovation.

 The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee may have some of the people here fooled for now, but it won't last. With so many red flags popping up, it's just a matter of time. Without the use of violence, hate speech, or violating anyone's civil rights – I and so many others are committed to exposing the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, in their attempt to destroy our civilization from within.  We will not fail.

 I recently had the pleasure of meeting Bill Warner for the first time.  He is a lecturer and author of several books, including “Sharia Law for Non-Muslims”.  And Bill told me about a quote I had never heard before.  It goes something like this, “You can wake a person who is sleeping, but you cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep”.

 Eric Allen Bell

EricAllenBell@gmail.com

Eric Allen Bell is the author of “The High Price of Telling the Truth about Islam”. He is also the Director of Global Infidel TV and Mosque Confidential – a whistle blowing site for former and existing Muslims, as well as concerned citizens, to come forward with material that will expose the Muslim Brotherhood in America or other subversive Islamic activity.

What's it going to take to address the ideology of the jihadist threat doctrine? How many have to die?

Obama say "respect it!"

Al Qaeda 'plot to blow up passenger jet' in run up to Olympics uncovered by security forces Mail Online (hat tip David)

Terrorist group recruited a western Islamic radical in an attempt to evade security procedures

A terrorist plot to blow up a U.S. passenger jet timed to coincide with the Olympics has been uncovered by security agencies, according to intelligence sources.

Al Qaeda intended to use a radicalised Norwegian Islamic convert to attack U.S. planes in the build-up to the London Games - which start in 26 days on July 27 - it is understood.

The plan centred on using the so-called ‘clean skin’ – a terrorist with no previous criminal record and are unlikely to raise suspicions among the security services – in order to evade airport security.

The al Qaeda plot to blow up a U.S. passenger jet discovered by intelligence services involved using a radicalised Norwegian Islamic convert to evade airport security measures. File picture

‘If you are blowing up aeroplanes you are likely to be killing Brits or having a big impact on the European or British economy. [So it] would in effect be an attack against Britain,’ a Whitehall official told the Sunday Times.

t is believed the suspect tasked with the attack uses the Islamic name Muslim Abu Abdurrahman, >had converted to Islam in 2008, and was recruited in a terrorist training camp in Yemen, sources told the Sunday Times.

It is not thought to have been aimed specifically at the Olympics in London, but security forces protecting the Games said intelligence on any possible threat was constantly reviewed.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'We have planned against the four main areas of threat: terrorism, serious and organised crime, public disorder and natural hazards.

'We are working closely with Games organisers to deliver an end to end operation to ensure everyone is safe and secure. Alongside LOCOG’s in venue security operation, police will be present for the detection and prevention of crime.

'Our intelligence is kept under constant review. For operational reasons we do not discuss the exact detail of how we monitor any individual or group.'

The same group were revealed to have been behind at least four other attempted attacks in the last four year.

'Unrepentant': Prosecutors at his trial said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would try to kill again

Nigerian-born British student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was ordered to carryout a suicide mission for AQAP when he attempted to detonate a bomb in his underpants as the plane, en route from Amsterdam, approached Detroit.

It failed to fully detonate aboard the flight, which was carrying nearly 300 people, but caused a brief fire that badly burned his groin.

Passengers pounced on Abdulmutallab and forced him to the front of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 where he was held until the plane landed minutes later.

In 2009, months before the attack, he travelled to Yemen to see Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric and one of the best-known al Qaeda figures, according to the government.

In February, this year, a U.S. court jailed him for life without parole.

AQAP were said to be responsibility for a sophisticated attempt to blow up a cargo plane with bombs hidden in ink cartridges.

At least one of the bombs planted on cargo planes heading for Chicago was primed to explode once the aircraft reached the U.S. mainland.

"Bizarre delusion" --  A delusion that involves a phenomenon that the person's culture would regard as totally implausible.

30% believe US is better off than 4 years ago... Rasmussen

A testament to the enemedia's power over perception and disinformation.

It only took CNN, what? A year and a half to say what I warned of back in January 2011. And continued to warn of in the ensuing months.

Of course, even the author can't go so far as to blame Islam itself, saying instead that the majority of the Muslim world is "wrongly interpreting the religion." Uh, no, it is CNN that is wrongly "interpreting" the religion. Under Islam you cannot interpret. The word of the qu'ran is literal and absolute.

"Egypt's Islamists: Much to prove on women's rights"  (CNN) June 28, 2012 Hat tip Kamala

Regardless of the fact that Muslim Brotherhood declared in 2007 that they may never allow Egyptian "women or Coptic Christians" in decision-making positions, they did not hesitate to exploit women to appear more moderate than other Islamist groups and appeal more to the political scene. In 2005 parliamentary elections, they put three women among the 133 candidates on their parliamentary election campaign platform. These women were the wives of prominent members in the group. They were politically weak and generally unpopular. One of them was Makarem Eldiary, who included many items in her political agenda that were clearly discriminatory towards women.
Her equivalent in the post-revolution parliament is Azza Al-Garf who has been lobbying against the 2003 legislation that criminalizes the savage practice of female genital mutilation.
A few weeks after her statements, the Muslim Brothers' Freedom and Justice Party launched a medical convoy that roamed Upper Egyptian cities looking to circumcize girls.

The Muslim Brotherhood cannot be solely blamed for the marginalization of Egytian  [sic]women, whose rights are almost grinding between two large stones. The first is the patriarchal mind-set that traps women in stereotypical female roles and stigmatizes any woman who tries to break out of this mold. The second is the rise of political Islamists who encourage this patriarchal mentality and are wrongly interpreting religion to justify the social and political marginalization of women in the name of Islam.

America is the largest, or should I say, largess, contributor (16.2%) to the IMF, and we have been bailing out Europe since ... forever, it seems.

Why should the world fund the pan-Islamic supremacist group dedicated to a religious, political, and social movement? Its most famous slogan, used worldwide, is "Islam is the solution." The Brotherhood's stated goal is to install the Qur'an and Sunnah as the "sole reference point for ...ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community ... and state."

In the US, the Muslim Brotherhood's stated goal is as follows: “The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” That's from An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.

Why fund these jihadists?

Lagarde assures Muslim Bros. IMF ready to help Egypt... Reuters, June 30, 2012 (hat tip Van)

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde called Egyptian President-elect Mohamed Mursi to discuss the economic challenges facing Egypt and how the international lender can best help, a spokesperson for the IMF said on Friday.

"The MD reiterated that the IMF stands ready to support Egypt and looks forward to working closely with the authorities," the spokesperson said.

She also congratulated Mursi on his election as president, "which represents an important step forward in Egypt's transition," the spokesperson said.

However, no timetable has been set for an IMF staff visit to Egypt to discuss a $3.2 billion IMF loan. That "will depend on the formation of the government," the spokesperson said.

The Muslim Brotherhood's Mursi is due to be sworn into office on Saturday, making him Egypt's first Islamist president. He and Lagarde spoke on Thursday.

Brotherhood officials have said they plan to resume the previous government's stop-and-start negotiations for a $3.2 billion IMF loan.

A staff visit to meet Mursi and members of his new government would be an essential part of that process.

It is with great sadness that the Sun has received the news of the death of Israel’s seventh prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir. He deserved a great deal more regard than he was accorded in the bien pensant precincts in America and Europe, where he was set down as an extremist and a stubborn … what? simpleton? Yet a decade after he left power it can be said that his policies, had they been pursued, would have put us in a better place than we are in today. His career, his character will repay careful study in a time when friends of both Israel and America are being serenaded by the sirens of appeasement. (NY Sun)