Posted by Tina
Whether we call it a “war on terror” or “overseas contingency operations” and possibly homeland contingency operations,/em> there is no escaping the fight for life and liberty rages on. Revent developments in the US and by citizens of the US are particularly troubling for those of us who live in the US.
“Dearborn Shoot-Out Opens a Window into Homegrown Terror,” by Robert Knight – TownHall.com
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was the Imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, died in a shoot-out on Wednesday after firing on FBI agents during a raid in Dearborn, Michigan. Another seven Muslims were apprehended and various weapons seized. ** “We’re not any fake terrorists, we’re the real terrorists,” Abdullah (aka Christopher Thomas) once bragged to an undercover informant, according to an FBI affidavit. ** Abdullah, 53, was a disciple of none other than H. Rap Brown. If you ever wondered what had become of the’60s Black Panther leader, well, he converted to Islam while in prison in the 1970s. And he apparently has not changed his mind about what he’d like to do to America. ** Famous for saying, “Violence is necessary. It’s as American as cherry pie,” he goes by the moniker Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, and runs a Sunni group called Ummah (“community”). The Black Muslim organization’s goal is to establish an Islamic regime with Sharia Law within the United States.
If you still believe incidents like this are minor, rather problematic and indicative of greater woes to come, you need to read the entire article to see what has been going on in a Dearborn high school. You might also find the following story of interest:
“Multiculturalists diminish ‘rough beast’ ravaging Islam,” by Rory Leishman, London Freelance Writer – lfpress.com
Among post-modern multiculturalists, it’s commonplace to suppose that all cultures are of equal moral worth. Salim Mansur, professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario, emphatically disagrees. ** In an illuminating collection of essays entitled Islam’s Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim, he maintains Islam is afflicted with “a terrible malady,” which “reflects the irreparable breakdown of the civilization’s centre . . . which at one time in history was co-equal, if not briefly superior, to Christendom.” ** Paraphrasing William Butler Yeats, Mansur contends that Islam is in the grips of a “rough beast” that has let loose anarchy upon the world. He traces the problem back to the earliest days of Islam, when perverse Muslim rulers renounced the peaceful teachings of the Qu’ran by slaughtering each other in a bloody struggle for political power following the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632. ** “The Prophet’s immediate family members were the most conspicuous massacre victims,” writes Mansur. “Ever since those early blood-lettings, Muslims have been the primary victims of Muslim violence.” ** That’s still all too evident in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Within the past week, Islamist suicide bombers have killed more than 240 Muslims in three massive blasts — the first two in Baghdad and the third in Peshawar.
Finally if you are still complaining that those wire tap laws are not vital in the world wide defense of liberty, and that GWB was, shall we say, insincere…consider this:
“Chicago terrorism case inverts a common fear,” by Sebastian Rotella – Los Angeles Times
This time, it’s a U.S. citizen accused of traveling outside the country to plot a terrorist attack. ** Reporting from Washington – It is a worrisome first: an American accused of going to Europe to plot a terrorist attack there. ** Recent arrests in Chicago underscore a growing concern among Western officials about the threat posed by U.S. militants who take advantage of their passports to travel easily around the world on violent missions. ** “We never thought it could be persons from the U.S. coming here to commit attacks,” said Hans Jorgen Bonnichsen, a former chief of Denmark’s police security intelligence service. “This shows a new tendency.” ** The Chicago case centers on David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani American businessman who allegedly traveled to Denmark to plot an attack on a newspaper targeted by Islamic extremists because it published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. ** Headley, 49, becomes the latest of several U.S. citizens recently accused of direct contact with top Al Qaeda figures who enlisted them for terrorist plots. But he also stands out because he is older and more sophisticated than suspects in previous cases and, according to investigators, used his consulting business as a cover for clandestine militant activity overseas.
Must be why President Obama has wisely chosen to keep wiretap and other Bush laws and procedures in his fight against terrorists.