I was invited to speak to the Gotham Tea party on their first anniversary celebration. It was total crunch time, but before I appeared on Dr. Drew's show last night, I spoke to a packed house of patriots, freedom lovers, decent and good people on the one-year anniversary of the fantastic Gotham Tea Party. It was standing room only in NYC. Spectacular. Gotham Tea is growing by leaps and bounds. Much thanks to Lawrence Winberry, Paul Daniels, Wolfie, Eric and the rest of the mighty NY army.

The intrepid and wonderful Pamela Hall recorded my remarks. She is all that.

That's #myjihad, what's yours?

Prosecutors say he wants to carry out the atack and "if he is released from custody, he will."
Investigators also found bomb-making and related components at the Qazi family home in Oakland Park, as well as explosives research evidence on a computer used by Qazi. He was charged along with his brother.

Ah, a devout family.

"Prosecutors: Fla. man planned NY terror bombing" Miami Herald December 18, 2012 (thanks to Ken)

ORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A Pakistani-born man wanted to avenge the deaths of U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan by blowing up a New York City landmark but lacked the money and materials to carry out the plan, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Gilbert said at a bail hearing that Raees Alam Qazi, 20, researched bomb-making techniques on Internet sites affiliated with al-Qaida, including one using Christmas tree lights, and the FBI recorded phone calls and conversations linking Qazi to a purported "lone wolf" plot.

"He fully intended to do this, and thankfully he didn't have enough money," Gilbert said. Referring to casualties in U.S. drone attacks, she added: "He wants to avenge those deaths and kill people."

Qazi traveled to New York last month in hopes of getting a job to fund his terrorist plans, Gilbert said, but wound up sleeping in public transportation, a mosque and in restaurants, and riding a bicycle around the city looking for potential targets. He then decided to return home on a Greyhound bus and was arrested after arriving back in South Florida, she said.

Qazi, a naturalized U.S. citizen who attended local Florida public schools, confirmed many elements of the plot in a statement to FBI agents after his arrest in late November, Gilbert said. Investigators also found bomb-making and related components at the Qazi family home in Oakland Park, as well as explosives research evidence on a computer used by Qazi.

Qazi is charged along with his brother, 30-year-old taxi driver Sheheryar Alam Qazi, with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the U.S. Both have pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry a potential life sentence if the men are convicted of both counts.

U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman ordered Raees Qazi held without bail until trial, finding that he is a danger to the community and a flight risk. His older brother has already agreed to pretrial detention, but may seek bail later. A trial is likely many months away.

Gilbert said Raees Qazi was the intended operative, using either a suicide attack or a remote-control device to kill people in a crowded place such as New York's Times Square, a Broadway theater or perhaps on Wall Street. The elder Qazi supported his brother financially and logistically with the knowledge that Raees was planning a terror attack, the prosecutor said.

In one conversation recorded by the FBI, Sheheryar Qazi compared his brother to a "lone wolf, like the Times Square bomber." Gilbert said Sheheryar Qazi was referring to Faisal Shahzad, who unsuccessfully attempted to detonate a bomb at the New York landmark in May 2010. In another recorded conversation, Sheheryar Qazi says that his brother "wasn't going to be in this world long."

Raees Qazi's attorney, Daniel Ecarius, tried to persuade the judge to allow his release on bail, noting that Qazi had made money by selling bicycles on the Internet, had no criminal past and had already relinquished his passport. Ecarius suggested Qazi could be released on house arrest with electronic monitoring, but Gilbert urged the judge to keep him locked up.

"He wanted to carry out an attack. If he is released from custody, he will," she said.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/18/3147552/prosecutors-fla-man-planned-ny.html#storylink=cpy

In case you missed my appearance last night on Dr. Drew .... here's my take:

This is the poison fruit of the left's decades long war on American values and morality. The problem is not guns. The problem is our societal glorification of violence and death. We need to recover love of life and respect for human beings in the society, and teach such things in schools.

Our societal nihilism is what leads to these attacks.

American children are fed a daily diet of violence from early childhood on. A non-stop feed of gratuitous, mindless violence on television, in movies, on the internet, and particularly video games, dehumanizes and desensitizes. How many open chest cavities do we need to see on CSI or Law and Order? When I was a kid, Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchock could scare the living daylights out of you without so much as a knife or gun drawn. Add to that the porn culture .......

Hollywood, the music industry, the lack of morality and virture, the breakdown of the family and a reckless abandonment of the mentally ill. In the late 20th century, psychiatric hospitals got a very bad name; the left decided the mental institutions were wrong, cruel. Institutionalizing someone became "the bogey man."  These hospitals were closed, and we basically tossed our mentally ill onto the street. We medicated them and then threw them to the wolves. Now we’re raising a generation of mentally ill children, with limited mental health resources and a system whose hands are tied until AFTER the tragedy happens.

Outlawing guns will not deter criminals, who will not hesitate to obtain illegal guns. It will just render the populace more defenseless.

I will be appearing on the Janet Mefferd show today. Want to listen online? Go here. I'll be on at 3pm. You can call in - 800.343.9282

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Tomorrow morning: Check out my weekly appearance on Jamie Allman In the Morning on 97.1 FM Talk.

Our new #myjihad campaign was submitted to Chicago Transit yesterday, and Chicago media is scrambling to obfuscate the message.

This obviously clueless talking head refers to the actual quotes we use in our new #myjihad campaign from Osama Bin Laden, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, Fort Hood Major Hasan et al as "mock testimony."All of the quotes we used were actual quotes. Nothing is mock or parody.

Did she just call Turkish Prime Minster Erdogan a high profile extremist?

UPDATE: It's not just CBS; other news reports in and around Chicago are using that same dishonest description of these actual quotes as "mock testimony" -- listen to this 'news' report on WGN-AM (Radio) - Chicago, IL here.

UPDATE: The mothership of the mock testimony talking point is none other than the drooling, slobbering Manya Brachear of the Chicago Tribune - that's not reportage, Tokyo Rose Manya, that's propaganda. I posted on her propaganda here.

Enemedia, clueless or complicit?

These are all actual quotes:

This is who our commander-in-chief has this once great nation supporting. These are the savages that Obama has recognised as the legitimate leaders of the Syrian people.

This is the side he can most relate to.

Horrific footage shows 'Syrian rebels' forcing boy to behead captive with sword

• WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT
• Disturbing video is purportedly the work of the Free Syrian Army
• Boy is egged on by older men chanting Allahu Akbar', or 'God is great'
• Rebels said to have taken control of a military base close to Damascus

By Daniel Miller, 11 December 2012

•  It is perhaps the most disturbing piece of video footage to emerge out of the Syrian crisis to date.

  A young boy is egged on by a group of older men, believed to be rebel fighters, and filmed hacking the head off a man who is lying on the ground.

  An older man is then seen picking up the head before placing it on top of the body like a macabre trophy.

  

  Video nasty: A young boy, apparently being egged on by Syrian rebel fighters, uses a sword to cut the head off man in this disturbing clip that has been uploaded onto the internet

  

  A message at the start of the video claims the beheading was the work of the Free Syrian Army

  In the background militants can be heard chanting 'Allahu Akbar', or 'God is great'.

  The victim appears to be dead before the gruesome act begins as he is lying flat and unmoving with his head resting on a cinderblock.

  The clip is one of thousands of graphic videos that have been uploaded onto the internet purporting to show the horrors of the ongoing conflict in Syria.

Disturbing: The beheaded man can be seen lying in the background while chants of Allahu Akbar', or 'God is great' can be heard

Trophy: At the end of the video a man scoops the head up from the ground and places on the dead body

Several videos allegedly to show Syrian rebel fighters carrying out summary executions on captured government soldiers or suspected informants have attracted strong criticism.

Others show the dead bodies of dozens of civilians said to have been killed in Government attacks. It is impossible to verify if the footage is real.

The emergence of this latest clip comes just as Washington is said to have begun a secret operation to arm the Syrian rebel fighters following reports of movements at Syria’s chemical weapons sites.

According to a report in the Sunday Times, the US will send mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft missiles to Syria through Middle Eastern countries.

An estimated 40,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Assad began in March 2011.

Today rebels reportedly took control of a military base after a two-day battle that left at least 35 government troops dead.

On the march: Free Syrian Army fighters take their positions, close to a military base, near Azaz

Assault: A Free Syrian Army fighter takes position close to a military base, near Azaz, which is now believed to have fallen to rebel hands

It was the second major base captured in the country's north by the rebels, who have been racking up victories in the area in recent weeks and making inroads further south toward Damascus, seat of the government they are fighting to overthrow.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the battle for the sprawling Sheik Suleiman military base, near the northern city of Aleppo, ended when the rebels took over the site's main compound and warehouses that housed a military research center.

They had first breached the base perimeter on Sunday afternoon, after weeks of fighting with soldiers loyal to President Bashar Assad.

The Observatory relies on a network of activists inside Syria. It did not give figures on rebel casualties from the battle.

Also Tuesday in Aleppo - the country's largest city and commercial center - four mortar rounds hit the predominantly Kurdish neighborhood of Sheik Maksoud, killing 11 and wounding a dozen. The dead included three children and two women, the Observatory said.

A young Free Syrian Army fighter holds an RPG as he prepares himself for the attack on the military base

A pair of Free Syrian Army fighters aim their AK47s over a field as they prepare for the attack on the military base

The conflict started nearly 21 months ago as an uprising against Assad, whose family has ruled the country for four decades. It quickly morphed into a civil war, with rebels taking up arms to fight back against a bloody crackdown by the government. According to activists, more than 40,000 people have been killed since March 2011.

The Observatory said fighters from the jihadi groups, including Jabhat al-Nusra, Mujahedeen Shura Council and The Muhajireen, took part in the battle for the base.

Jabhat al-Nusra, which counts both Syrians and foreigners in its ranks, is one of the most effective fighting units on the rebel side. But the West is wary that such jihadi groups could hijack the uprising.

On Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton designated Jabhat al-Nusra a foreign terrorist organization.

The move freezes any assets its members may have in U.S. jurisdictions and bars Americans from providing the group with material support.

The designation is largely symbolic because the group is not thought to have holdings or support in the United States, but officials hope the penalties will encourage others to take similar action and discourage Syrians from joining.

Jihad with a Human Face
By Robert Spencer

Pamela Geller has described the new #MyJihad ad campaign from by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an “insult to our intelligence,” and that it certainly is. In one of the CAIR ads, a hijabbed woman lifts a barbell while explaining, “My Jihad is to stay fit despite my busy schedule.”

The whole endeavor is reminiscent of Alexander Dubček’s “Socialism with a human face.” In Communist Czechoslavakia in 1968, Dubček limited the power of the secret police and relaxed restrictions on speech; but when the Czechs got too much of a taste for freedom, the Soviet tanks rolled in to remind them of just how human the face of socialism really was.

And now Hamas-linked CAIR is trying to paint a human face on the Islamic doctrine that has caused untold suffering for human beings worldwide for fourteen centuries, and continues to do so today. The leading Islamic supremacist advocacy group in the U.S., treated as a reputable authority by the mainstream media, as well as politicians and law enforcement officials around the country, is trying to manipulate Americans into thinking that because some Muslims think of jihad in benign, peaceful ways, therefore the ones who think of it in its traditional Islamic sense, as a divine command to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers, somehow don’t matter and are unworthy of attention.

But just as sure as the tanks rolled into Prague, no matter how many Muslims think that jihad involves patting puppies on the head and giving dollar bills to noble, grateful homeless people, sooner or later the bombs go off and the heads roll anyway. It’s like trying to convince people that because Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty and legions of earnest high school counselors have waged war on drugs, that therefore it’s “bigoted” to point out that the word war usually involves shooting and killing people.

It is indeed an insult to our intelligence – and it is part of a larger initiative. Pro-Hamas Islamic supremacists such as Zahra Billoo of CAIR and Linda Sarsour of the Arab American Association of New York tweet about their love of chocolate and children and their pious good wishes for the people of Newtown, Connecticut, while simultaneously expressing their support for the genocidal Palestinian jihad against Israel, even to the point of retailing fabrications of the Palestinian propaganda machine. Qasim Rashid, an Ahmadi apologist for the Islamic jihadis who are massacring his own people in Pakistan and Indonesia, likewise made a great show of his grief over the Newtown massacre, but couldn’t resist using it to retail Palestinian jihad propaganda, tweeting: “As u pray for the #Newtown children, pray for Palestinian children dying of poverty.” 

Zahra Billoo and Linda Sarsour crave chocolate! How bad could they be? Plenty bad: Billoo has advised Muslims to shun law enforcement and called U.S. troops “terrorists.” Sarsour has claimed that the jihad underwear bomber was a CIA agent – part of what she claims is a U.S. war against Islam. They are part of the Islamic supremacist establishment that is attempting to lull Americans into complacency about the nature and source of the jihad threat, and their just-us-girls tweets about chocolate and cute kids are all part of that, after the manner of the See How Hitler Loves His Dogs photo spreads that Nazi authorities published long ago to humanize der Führer. It’s a sweet jihad, a chummy jihad, a chocolatey jihad – but a jihad just the same.

One clue to this phenomenon comes from jazz musician Tarek Shah, who pled guilty to providing martial arts and hand-to-hand combat with weapons training to Al-Qaeda operatives. In 2004 Shah told a man he thought was a fellow jihadist but who turned out to be an undercover agent, “I could be joking and smiling and then cutting their throats in the next second.”

Of course, Zahra Billoo and Linda Sarsour will never slit our throats. They will just kill us with kindness, insistently and self-consciously trying to show the world that they’re cute and cuddly just like the girl next door while fronting for an inhuman, oppressive ideology that, not coincidentally, has one of the most sophisticated propaganda machines ever seen on the planet.

Today’s jihad terrorists are adherents of a totalitarian, genocidal ideology that teaches them that murders committed under certain circumstances are a good thing. Those murders are committed for the sake of a societal vision that portrays itself as the exponent of all that is good, even while committing unimaginable atrocities to secure and retain power. But it is not good, and anyone who still retains even rudimentary clarity of vision in this increasingly befogged age can see that. 

That’s where Hamas-linked CAIR’s #MyJihad campaign and the sweet-tooth tweets of Zahra Billoo and Linda Sarsour come in: to lull those few who may still be awake into thinking that it won’t be so bad to accept the special accommodations for Muslims upon which CAIR insists, and the continued enabling of Islamic supremacism in U.S. foreign policy. After all, there will still be time to stay fit on a busy schedule, and the need to do so after indulging one’s chocolate craving. Coming from two hijabbed Muslim women, enslaved to the will of men and subject to their every whim, this is abundantly reassuring – isn’t it? There’s chocolate! How bad could slavery be?

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Did Muhammad Exist?.

"Christians must choose 'Islam or death,' while their women and daughters may legitimately be regarded as wives of Muslims"

The enemedia's criminal silence on the relentless and bloody march of Islamic supremacists on the backs and the bodies of non-Muslims is a war crime, too. And worse, the media is complicit in helping to destroy those who dare to speak out against ethnic cleansing, persecution of religious minorities, the bloody punishments of the sharia.

Obama is backing these savages. That gives you a window into his soul. 

Jihadi leader to Christians: Convert to Islam or die YNET

VIDEO - Jihadi leader Ahmad Al Baghdadi Al Hassani referred to Christians as polytheists and "friends of the Zionists."

In a recent Egyptian TV address, the extremist leader stressed that Christians must choose "Islam or death," while their women and daughters may legitimately be regarded as wives of Muslims.

Al Hassani resides in Syria and supports the armed opposition.

 Video courtesy of jn1.tv

 

Syria resident Ahmad Al Baghdadi Al Hassani's comments seem to indicate growing anti-Christian sentiment in Muslim world