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Dutch Government Proposes Teaching Islam In Public Schools
By BEILA RABINOWITZ and WILLIAM MAYER
June 26, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Dutch Minister for Integration and Housing, Ella Vogelaar, who sparked controversy last year when she said she wanted to "help Islam take root in Holland," is supporting the efforts of Muslim district Councilman, Ahmed Marcouch, to teach Islam in the country's public schools.
According to Marcouch who heads a district with a large Muslim population, the children are subject to corporal punishment and anti-Western indoctrination in weekend mosque schools. He has called for an investigation and demanded that Islamic lessons be given in public schools under the ruse that there will be more oversight in that setting.
According to the Trouw newspaper:
"...Critics fear that Marcouch really wants to Islamize public education but he gets support from Vogelaar. Formally the possibility exists. The neutral character of the school won't be compromised. If the parents ask for it then the school must accede to the request, just as is the case with Catholic or Protestant parents with children in public school who make a request. In that case the Islamic studies will get a place within the regular school offerings and would be given lessons by teachers who are paid from the school budget. The school inspectors will monitor the quality of the lessons."[source, http://www.trouw.nl/hetnieuws/nederland/article1022842.ece/Onderzoek_naar_lijfstraffen]
Dhimmi Dutch Companies Fall Into Line As Demanded By IslamoFascist Jordanians
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
 June 24, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In what is perhaps a glimpse of things to come in the United States - should domestic "hate crimes" legislation, recognizing the legitimacy of international courts, ever be enacted here - Dutch companies who engage in trade with Jordan [Zwanenberg and Friesland Foods for example] are starting to comply with the dictates of an oxymoronically named organization, "the Messenger of Allah Unites Us," which has used Jordanian courts to secure an international arrest warrant for Dutch MP Geert Wilders, whose short film, "Fitna," has been deemed "insulting," to Islam and is organizing a boycott of non-complying foreign trade.
Led by Zakaria al-Sheikh, who is also chairman of the Jordanian based "news service" Facts International, started this latest effort by Islamists to impose their religious views on the West, as Sheikh's website claims, "Last week, 'The Messenger of Allah Unites Us' group opened a case against Wilders in a Jordanian court, accusing him of racism and incitement to hate Muslims. Wilders said he feared Jordan would issue an international warrant for his arrest."
The Dutch companies are currently sponsoring ads in Jordanian based media which "distance themselves" from Wilder's movie Fitna while voicing support for the Messenger of Allah campaign of intimidation.
Similar strong arm tactics by Sheikh were on prominent display during the Danish cartoon controversy and was he successful in exercising influence over Danish companies which had trade relations with Jordan.
Khalil Gibran International Academy A Failed Institution, In Disarray
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
 June 23, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Judged by any objective standard, after only a year in operation, Brooklyn's Khalil Gibran International Academy [KGIA] has been a disaster. The presence of this institution, designed by its now departed founder Dhabah Almontaser to be a madrassah - an Islamist indoctrination center - has served only to create further division in a community already fractured along religious and ethnic lines.
KGIA is at its base a quota school, a political toy conjured up - underwritten by liberal outside funding sources - to serve a noisy minority demographic, to fill a nonexistent need.
It should not be shocking then, that this type of school would be encumbered by controversy from day one, public recriminations, charges and counter charges, lawsuits, threats and retaliation against critics of the school, have all served to render it a hollow shell of what NY school chief Joel Klein had originally promised.
KGIA operates in a lockdown atmosphere; access is tightly controlled so that the public really has no idea of what goes on throughout the school day.
What little is known, is unsettling.
Geert Wilders Faces Arrest On International Warrant From Jordan
By BEILA RABINOWITZ
June 23, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Dutch parliamentarian and head of the Freedom Party, Geert Wilders has been, "accused of incitement to hatred against Islam and Muslims," by a group which filed a suit to prosecute him for his recent film Fitna.
The group calls itself "The Messenger of Allah Unites Us" and the Jordanian court which accepted the suit is expected to subpoena Mr. Wilders and issue an international arrest warrant. This means that Wilders faces arrest if he leaves Holland.
The Dutch minister of foreign affairs, Maxime Verhagen is taking the matter very seriously. Legally Wilders is in a perilous situation and even countries which have no extradition treaty with Jordan can extradite him in order to preserve their commercial ties.
Saudi Academy Intimately Tied To Extremist Saudi Muslims
By BEILA RABINOWITZ and WILLIAM MAYER
June 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a previous piece Traditional Values Groups Organizes Protest At Virginia's Islamic Saudi Academy we noted the school's bigoted curriculum.
A Fairfax, Virginia school, the Islamic Saudi Academy [ISA] which is operating as a religious indoctrination center - a madrassah - was today the scene of a spirited demonstration by a coalition of traditional values groups.
The protest was held to call attention to the nature of the school's educational methodology, its ties to Saudi Wahhabists and its use of bigoted teaching materials.
A federal commission recently reported the academy uses textbooks which advocate violence against and intolerance of non-Muslims and the U.S. Justice Department has been asked to investigate activities at the academy as well as the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors' role in leasing the county-owned building to the Saudi Embassy in Washington.
To complicate matters further, the school's General Director, Mr. Al-Shabnan was arrested two weeks ago and charged with Obstruction of Justice without Force (VA Code 18.2-460) in connecting with the Academy's failure to deal with child abuse at the institution.
Although the authors also took note of the questionable web links that appear on the academy website [see, http://www.saudiacademy.net/html/Links.html] including one that went to the Wahhabist Saudi religious ministry, since that writing we became aware of another troubling link on that same page, one terminating at a website called al-Islam [the official website of the "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Da'wah and Guidance," see, http://www.al-islam.com/arb/], which emphasizes a hard core fundamentalist interpretation of the Quran, one very much in line with the pronouncements of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, bin-Laden's second in command.
Obama's Statements On Terrorism Betrays A Doctrinally Bound Stupidity
By WILLIAM MAYER
June 18, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In comments made yesterday, the freshman Senator offered another unsettling glimpse into the Democrat narrative vis-à-vis Islamic terrorism.
"Let's think about this: these are the same guys who helped engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9-11...What they're trying to do us what they've done every election cycle, which is to use terrorism as a club to make the American people afraid."
There are two foundational elements on display in this statement regarding Obama's world view on the matter; one, he is inferring that Islamic jihadism doesn't exist since he is proffering al-Qaeda as the sole threat, and two, he believes that al-Qaeda is best dealt with as if this were a police issue [apprehend the bad guys and bring them to trial, with full constitutional rights in American courts] aping the Clinton's failed policy on the issue.
Further demonstrating his fealty to a law enforcement model, Obama applauded the unprecedented 5-4 Supreme Court decision to award al-Qaeda habeas corpus rights in American courts.
"...Today's Supreme Court decision ensures that we can protect our nation and bring terrorists to justice, while also protecting our core values....Our courts have employed habeas corpus with rigor and fairness for more than two centuries, and we must continue to do so as we defend the freedom that violent extremists seek to destroy..."
If that is "change," then language has lost its meaning.
What we wrote in, Clinton Foreign Policy Team Adopts CAIRs Twisted Ideology, applies equally to Mr. Obama:
"...The Congressional Democrat leadership, not to mention the party's hopefuls in the 2008 presidential campaign, are all assiduously avoiding any public mention of what have become the politically loaded terms, radical Islam, jihadism, the Islamist threat or...perish the thought, Islamofascism.
It's not difficult to understand the logic behind that stance.
Since opposition to the war in Iraq is an integral, perhaps central component of their foreign policy, it's necessary to reject and/or ignore the existence of an ideology based upon an interpretation of Islam, which looms as a major challenge to national security, because acceptance thereof would constitute a contradiction of embarrassing proportions.
Traditional Values Groups Organizes Protest At Virginia's Islamic Saudi Academy
June 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A Fairfax, Virginia school, the Islamic Saudi Academy [ISA] which is operating as a religious indoctrination center - a madrassah - was today the scene of a spirited demonstration by a coalition of traditional values groups.
The protest was held to call attention to the nature of the school's educational methodology, its ties to Saudi Wahhabists and its use of bigoted teaching materials.
A federal commission recently reported the academy uses textbooks which advocate violence against and intolerance of non-Muslims and the U.S. Justice Department has been asked to investigate activities at the academy as well as the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors' role in leasing the county-owned building to the Saudi Embassy in Washington.
The ISA has been at the center of controversy for many years. A 2007 United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report recommended to the State Department to call for the closure of the school.
Phony Case Against Haditha Marines In Shambles, Charges Against Lt. Col Jeffrey Chessani Dropped
 June 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The concocted, politically driven case against 8 U.S. Marines charged with atrocities as a result of a November 2005 fire fight in Haditha, Iraq, suffered what is most likely a mortal blow today when charges against Lt. Col Jeffrey Chessani were dropped by Judge Colonel Steven Folsom because the case had been compromised by the appearance of improper influence.
With charges now dropped against 7 of the 8 defendants, the status of the charges against the last of the charged, Sgt. Frank Wuterich seem to rest on extremely shaky turf, though that case is still scheduled to proceed as of this writing.
 A political case from the outset, defense attorneys for the defendants have alleged that prosecutor General James Mattis was acting at the behest of anti-war politicians such as bin-Laden stooge John Murtha [D-PA] who at one point made public accusations that the Marines were guilty of cold-blooded murder, absent fact in a blatant attempt to influence the trial.
"It's much worse than was reported in Time magazine...There was no firefight...they [the Marines] killed innocent civilians in cold blood...they actually went into the houses and killed women and children." [and later to ABC] "I will not excuse murder and that what's happened."
The way this case was handled and dealt with by Democrat politicians and their 5th column allies, the nancy-boys in the media is seminal to understanding the two main causes of America's cultural identity crisis.
The outrageous behavior that the MSM has displayed throughout this case, the sensationalism and gleeful malice towards 7 Marines and the military in general, the gruesome images and screaming 72 point above the fold headlines is emblematic of just how traitorous these two forces have become.
The Growing Problem of Islamist Salafism in Holland: Justifying Polygamy
By Emerson Vermaat
June 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Patrick Pouw is a Dutch journalist who is alarmed about the growing influence of Salafist Islamism in Holland. It is the fastest growing movement and their mosques are always packed with hundreds of worshippers - and not just in Holland. Salafists are ultra-orthodox Muslims who are ideologically close to the allegedly pure "Wahhabi" or Saudi Arabian version of Islam. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is a Salafist Muslim, or a "Salafist Jihadist" rather. Islam experts distinguish between those Salafists who oppose and those who endorse violence. Salafists are also increasingly active in the United States, and what is being said here about Holland may also be applicable to them.
It was in 2007 that Patrick Pouw joined a group of young Salafists in the Dutch city of Utrecht and followed a yearlong Salafist course given by Suhayb Salaam, son of the radical Salafist cleric Ahmed Salaam. Pouw managed to win Suhayb's trust and the trust of his Salafist fellow students, and they usually did not conceil their real views. Pouw recently published a shocking book about what he heard from Suhayb and his students. There is, for example, a wide gap between what they say in public and what they say and believe in private or when they are among themselves. Publicly, Suhayb condemned violence preaching tolerance and "multiculturalism" but when he was lecturing to his pupils in that small classroom in the city of Utrecht he said that those who "betray" Muslims must be beheaded. Such people are "spies" and decapitation is the only proper punishment for them, Pouw heard Salaam say. "I saw how his eyes were cold and full of hatred, just like they were on that other occasion when he called on his students to burn Bibles."
CAIR's Congressman Keith Ellison Gives Aid And Comfort To Iran
 June 14, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Keith Ellison, the country's first Muslim Representative [D-MI] whose motivation became a concern immediately upon him taking office, refusing to take the oath using the traditional Bible, instead opting for a Qur'an, is today quoted in the Iranian press bitterly attacking President Bush's policies vis a vis the Ahmadinejad government and claiming that the Western press presents a negative view of Islam.
"...George W. Bush has adopted wrong policies on Iran--a country that plays an important role in the Middle East and the world, Ellison said...Calling the preconditions for talks with Iran irrational [Ellison said that the] only option is to wait for the next US president...he condemned Bush's policies on Iraq. Ellison emphasized that the only way to resolve the crisis in Iraq is to withdraw US forces from the war-torn country and ask Islamic countries, especially Iran, to help reconstruct the country...Ellison was also critical of the US and Western mass media, which generally offer a prejudgmental image of Iran and a negative view of Islam..." [source, Iran's Press TV, http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=59919§ionid=3510203]
Ellison, a former member of the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, has been on friendly terms with terror friendly groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation Hamas prosecution] since the inception of his campaign, with the controversial organization holding fundraisers for his candidacy.
Split Court Decision Awards Al-Qaeda Protection In U.S. Courts
June 12, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In tersely worded dissents, both the Chief Justice and Justice Scalia assailed today's Supreme Court 5-4 decision, granting habeas corpus rights to irregular enemy combatants being held in federal detention at Guantanamo, Bay.
As Justice Scalia observed:
America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen. See National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 60-61, 70, 190 (2004). On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and 40 in Pennsylvania. See id., at 552, n. 9. It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane anywhere in the country, to know that the threat is a serious one. Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.
The game of bait-and-switch that today's opinion plays upon the Nation's Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. That consequence would be tolerable if necessary to preserve a time-honored legal principle vital to our constitutional Republic. But it is this Court's blatant abandonment of such a principle that produces the decision today."
Autopsy Of An ICE Raid
By TOM FREDRIKSEN
June 12, 2008 - Humboldt County, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Humboldt County, long known for its commercial marijuana growing operations has garnered additional attention recently due to an immigration crackdown on the flower growing industry.
Local NBC affiliate KIEM, reported this week that a large local flower grower, Sun Valley Group, with facilities throughout the state of California, had received a letter from Immigration and Custom Enforcement [ICE] that 283 of approximately 500 of its Arcata employees were using false identification. The notification came as a result of an I-9 audit initiated by The Customs and Immigration Enforcement as a result of a complaint to the agency.
Public Affairs ICE spokesperson Virginia Kice, related to local Eureka newspaper, The Times Standard, that this is commonly only a first step in an investigation into broader illegal activities that can lead to uncovering the harboring and smuggling of workers and possible tax evasion.
When contacted by this writer, Ms. Kice would neither confirm nor deny that such an investigation is taking place.
Eboo Patel, Da'wa's Newest Media Darling
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
 June 11, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Eboo Patel, most recently mentioned in a Time magazine piece on the "Tony Blair Faith Foundation" [see, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1810020-2,00.html], is feverishly working his way toward center-stage in the Muslim interfaith dialogue phenomenon with his, "Interfaith Youth Core."
Though feted in many circles as one of the rising "moderate Muslim" voices, from his pulpit in the Washington Post's blog, "On Faith" [see, http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel] Patel routinely proves himself to be offering nothing of the sort, and examining his methodology and ideas reveals all of the undertones which taken together prove Muslim interfaith dialogue to be a fraudulent endeavor.
Patel's world view is familiar to anyone versed in this game. That flawed and disingenuous vision is unfortunately typical of those involved in promoting these Islamic faith propagation dog and pony shows.
It rests heavily on a thoroughly specious, Western friendly [couched in terms chosen to ingratiate itself into Judeo/Christian traditional thinking] presentation of Islam that is at odds with historical fact and reality.
It posits "Islamophobia" as a root cause of the rift between Islam and the rest of the world.
It attacks well-meaning critics of Islam - suggesting they are racists - merely because they raise troublesome issues.
This outlook is reflected by Patel's choice of allies, heroes and associates, many of whom are Islamists.
A few selected quotes from Patel
"...First of all, articles or authors that use the Nazis as a historical analogy [Islamofascim] should set off conspiracy-theory alarms everywhere. Anytime someone wants to convince you that some new threat is the next Nazism, they're not even pretending to make a reasoned argument. They are relying on your fear to blind you into buying what they are selling. And what they are selling is usually bigotry..."
"...Daniel Pipes, who earns his living by making Americans scared of their Muslim neighbors, has no such decency?When Pipes puts someone on one of his lists, it isn't about what you did, however long ago. It is about who you are - especially if you are an Arab or a Muslim."
Patel is fond of the term pluralism which he spins in a manner befitting a multiculturalist, however his misuse of the term indicates he doesn't really understand what it means. He also fails to grasp intellectually, the key point that in this country, pluralism exists within a grander American context or framework, one concerned not only with accommodating differences but with the maintenance of a distinct societal/cultural identity and cohesion. It stands to reason then that the emphasis that Patel and others of his ilk place, only leads to fractured societies and eventual Balkanization, which in many circumstances is exactly the intent of the multiculturalists.
CAIR Joins Lefty Appeasement Group, "Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran"
 June 10, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR] named an unindicted co-conspirator in America's largest anti-terror prosecution, has joined a hard left coalition of nearly 40 organizations which bills itself as the, "Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran" [CNAPI] whose mission statement in part reads:
"Supporters of CNAPI believe sustained, direct, unconditional, bilateral, and comprehensive talks between the governments of the United States and Iran represent a realistic way to resolve long-standing conflicts that destabilize the Middle East and by extension, threaten the global economy." [source, http://www.newiranpolicy.org/452/473.html]
Along with an assortment of peace at any price/socialist leaning church groups [Pax Christi, American Friend Service Committee, NETWORK, Mennonite Women's Central Committee, etc.] partners of CNAPI include the Open Society Policy Center, founded and funded by convicted inside stock trader George Soros as well as "American Cause," headed by Nazi apologist Patrick J. Buchanan.
CNAPI's "experts" include Carah Ong, Iran Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, who feels that the West is the party primarily at fault in not coming to terms with Iran.
Muslim World League Behind Saudi "Interfaith" Da'wa Conference
By BEILA RABINOWITZ and WILLIAM MAYER
June 8, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On Wednesday June 4th King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia opened the bi-annual conference of the Muslim World League. The three day meeting was attended by around 600 Islamic clerics and scholars and held in Mecca, a city where entry is forbidden to non-Muslims.
Abdullah was attempting to reconcile the two branches of Islam in order to facilitate Islamic propagation efforts. His special guest was Shiite Iranian politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who bashed America and who accused the U.S. of trying to control the region's oil, urging Muslims to "resist it."
One major topic at the conference was the establishment of a "global Islamic charter" regarding interfaith dialogue between Christians and Jews. As these writers have noted in previous articles, see The Saudis Deceptive Religious Reform Proposal regarding a plan to teach clerics about interfaith dialogue:
"At best this move by the Saudis represents an effort to present Wahhabism as a reasonable religious sect making it more da'wa friendly playing on our societal preoccupation with interfaith sharing, which in relation to Islam is a fraudulent concept because it's a one-way conversation.
U.S. Conference Of Catholic Bishops Continue To Legitimize Terror Friendly Groups In Muslim Dialogue Hoax
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
June 2, 2008 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As announced in a PR release by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, "A new round of the Mid-Atlantic Muslim Catholic Dialogue, April 23-24, in Washington, looked at interreligious education in the United States. The meeting, which was convened by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Catholic representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, explored teaching about different religions in private and public institutions." [source, http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2008/08-070.shtml]
As the press release makes clear this event also included a high ranking member of the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR] "The discussion follows upon a meeting in 2007 where Safaa Zarzour described the development of a Muslim-Catholic educational exchange by the Council of Islamic Societies of Greater Chicago and the Archdiocese of Chicago. Zarzour chaired a panel of Muslim representatives at the April 23-24 meeting."
CAIR is widely understood to be a supporter of the Palestinian terrorist organization HAMAS as well as having been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing U.S. vs. Holy Land Foundation, et. al., case the country's largest terror funding prosecution. Additionally, numerous CAIR officials have been convicted of terror related offenses, the most recently being Ghassan Elashi, founder of the Texas chapter of CAIR.
ICNA, the Islamic Circle of North America was founded in the early seventies as a da'wa propagation organization, its mission statement clearly identifies ICNA's purpose as one of establishing Islamic supremacy, "The goal of ICNA shall be to seek the pleasure of Allah (SWT) through the struggle of Iqamat-ud-Deen (establishment of the Islamic system of life) as spelled out in the Qur'an and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad. [and to] invite mankind to submit to the Creator by using all means of communications..." [source, http://www.icnasc.org/about.shtml]
Why Are The FBI And National Guard Working With Wahhabists?
By - BEILA RABINOWITZ and WILLIAM MAYER
June 2, 2008 - SAN FRANCISCO - PipeLineNews.org - On April 23 the Arab American Institute [AAI] headed by James Zogby, held an event titled "The 2008 Khalil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards." The evening was intended to honor, "individuals for their service and efforts to address problems that too often go overlooked." Among the speakers at the event was Mahmoud Abbas [aka Abu Mazen] who heads the Palestinian Authority as well as Fatah ["Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine"], the terrorist organization created by Yasir Arafat in the 50s, whose spin-off "Black September" was responsible for the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
An awardee [in recognition for his leadership of Refugees International] at the gala was Farouq Kathwari the CEO of Ethan Allen furniture [also the director of the U.S. based Kashmir Study Group] an outspoken Kashmiri activist.
Kathwari's son, Irfan apparently in reaction to the Gulf War, left his medical studies at Harvard and traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan. In short order he became radicalized and found himself waging jihad as a mujahideen in Afghanistan, where in 1992, at the age of 19 he was killed in an engagement with Indian military personnel [see, Militant Islam Monitor, http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/597]
Sponsors for the event included the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, the UAE Embassy and the Kingdom Holding Company which is run by Saudi billionaire and da'wa propagator, Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal.
Of major concern, both the FBI and the National Guard are listed as sponsors of the event.
Release Of Child Murderer Samir Kuntar By Israelis Would Be An Insane Appeasement
 June 1, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - If reports in the Israeli press are accurate the Israeli government might be on the verge of releasing Samir Kuntar in exchange for military hostages or their remains, taken in the last round of the Lebanese conflict.
"According to the reported proposal that Ofer Dekel, the official charged by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with the issue of kidnapped soldiers, presented to German mediator Gerhard Konrad, Israel will be willing to release Samir Kuntar, four Hizbullah fighters captured during the Second Lebanon War and the bodies of 10 Hizbullah gunmen in exchange for Goldwasser and Regev.
Kuntar has been in prison since 1979, when he led a terrorist attack in Nahariya that resulted in the deaths of policeman Eliyahu Shahar, and Danny Haran and his two young daughters." [source, Jerusalem Post, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212041438313&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull]
The operative phrase from the JPost's article is, "...the deaths of policeman Eliyahu Shahar, and Danny Haran and his two young daughters," and as seems to be the custom even in liberal Jewish newspapers, the text has been sanitized and made devoid of meaning.
Eliyahu and his two daughters were indeed killed by Kuntar; allow us to place the events into context, as we wrote in 2006 [see, http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=rabinowitz72006.htm]
Robert Wexler, Code Pink's Congressman
May 28, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - "Today Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) called for former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to appear before the House Judiciary Committee," to explore "charges" made by the Quisling, ex-Bush spokesman in a recently published poison pen book.
Congressman we will let your associations speak for your integrity in this matter. By the way how is your effort to impeach Mr. Cheney coming along?
While you are at it, mind explaining why saying the following recently on television adds to your credentials and stature?
"I enjoy cocaine because it's a fun thing to do...I enjoy the company of prostitutes for the following reasons: it's a fun thing to do. ... If you combine the two together it's probably even more fun." - Colbert Report
Shari'a Alert - Terror Linked CAIR Pressures Employer To Accommodate Muslim Women Who Refuse To Conform To Safety Regulations
May 28, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Council on American Islamic Relations, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the nation's largest Hamas terror funding prosecution, is attempting to force Shari'a born Islamic dress codes down the throat of a Minnesota employer.
The case, on the surface at least, is simple; six Muslim women workers at the Mission Food plant located in St. Paul, Minnesota decided not to comply with Mission's uniform policy and as a result are not now working at the plant.
Mission has not taken disciplinary action against the six nor have the workers been fired, but as company spokesmen make clear, "Should these employees choose to adhere to the current Mission Foods uniform policy, they may return to their positions with the company. However, these positions will need to be filled as soon as possible and cannot be held indefinitely."
Mission's uniform policy was devised in order to comply with federal [OSHA] and state [MNOSHA] regulations governing worker safety.
CAIR's action in this matter reveals a methodology consistent not with assisting the rights of workers but instead of using faux labor actions to incrementally advance Shari'a into the workplace, via deception, intimidation and threat of legal action.
Why Are Prominent Jewish Groups Represented On Bernardin Center's Board Alongside Notorious Islamists?
By BEILA RABINOWITZ and WILLIAM MAYER
May 27, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Why are two officials of the American Jewish Committee and the Vice President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago sitting on the National Advisory Board of the Catholic Theological Union's Bernardin Center, together with prominent Islamists?
In 2005 PipelineNews published an article Jews for Jihad? exposing the AJC's misguided interfaith outreach efforts which extended to working with CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror prosecution. [see, below link to "List of Unindicted Co-conspirators and/or Joint Venturers" US v. Holy Land Foundation, et al.]
This relationship was forged despite the head of the AJC's Middle East and Counter Terrorism division, Yehudit Barsky, having labeled CAIR an "extremist" group and placing them among faux mainstream Muslim organizations in America, many of which are "pro-Saudi and pro-Muslim Brotherhood..."
"...the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), "founded in the 1980s by pro-Hamas activists." [source, Expert: Saudis have radicalized 80% of US mosques, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475689987&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull]
Ms. Barsky additionally makes the point that interfaith activity is fraught with problematic considerations and is often put forth disingenuously. In a cautionary note she advises, "to proceed with caution, [since] some of the [extremist] organizations have concluded that interfaith dialogue is a good way to spread the ideology." Proceeding thoughtfully seems only prudent since as Barsky makes clear, "the people now in control of teaching religion [to American Muslims] are extremists...Eighty percent of the infrastructure [American mosques] is controlled by these extremists."
Bassem Youssef - A Disgruntled Arab Employee's War Of Subversion Against The FBI
By WILLIAM MAYER & BEILA RABINOWITZ
 May 26, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - For five years now, Bassem Youssef - a Coptic Christian - chief of the agency's Communications Analysis Unit [CAU] and its highest ranking level 4 Arab speaker, has been carrying on a harmful, so far legally fruitless, public war of attrition against his employer, intent upon proving he is the victim of discrimination and related fallout, solely based upon his Egyptian ethnicity.
In the days after September 11, Youssef became convinced that he had been denied promotion to a position within the Bureau's International Terrorism Operations Section [ITOS] for which he thought he was uniquely qualified because of his Arab language skills. This led to his filing of an Equal Employment Opportunity lawsuit and in 2003 another, under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act alleging discrimination and job retaliation.
Working hand-in-hand with an ideologically friendly media, Youssef and his agents - primarily his attorney Stephen M. Kohn - Director of the lefty Whistleblowers.org - has wrapped himself into the relentless political attack on the Bush Administration's war on Islamic terror, especially regarding the Patriot Act and its surveillance provisions.
In his public and written pronouncements Youssef has imputed sinister motives to the FBI's efforts to deal with the international and domestic jihad carried out by radical Muslims.
While engaged in this campaign, Mr. Youssef has spent an inordinate amount of time away from his job - an important analytical position - which when combined with his increasingly hostile attitude, raises serious questions regarding his stated devotion to the FBI and in a larger sense, its law enforcement responsibility of defending the United States in a post 9/11 world.
Though somewhat limited by order of the FBI as to what he can say publicly, Youssef is out on the hustings; at an appearance earlier this year at the American Library Association - a group noted for its hostility to the Patriot Act - and just last week, in testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, he continues to air his version of the FBI's dirty laundry.
Shell Oil President Hits Home Run In Senate Testimony
By WILLIAM MAYER
 May 21, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In just concluded testimony before the Senate's Judiciary Committee, outgoing Shell Oil Company President John Hofmeister delivered a withering indictment against onerous government regulation - inspired by a radical green agenda - of domestic and offshore oil exploration.
Hofmeister placed the blame for high energy prices and dependence on foreign imports squarely where it belongs, on the backs of legislators stating, "U.S. production has fallen steadily for the last 35 years. Oil production in this country peaked in the 1970s. As U.S. consumption of oil has doubled, domestic oil production has fallen off nearly 40 percent. Why? In large part, this is the result of government policies that placed important oil and gas resources off limits..."
Hofmeister's testimony is a breath of fresh air, in an election year when all the major candidates have cozied up to the radical environmentalists whose feigned conservation masks an anti-progress, anti-capitalist agenda.
Palestinian Journalists Correctly Blame "Refugee Problem" On Arabs
May 20, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In an investigative piece recently written by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook for Palestinian Media Watch, the writers reveal that despite heavily politicized claims to the contrary, the "Palestinian Refugee Problem" was wholly created by the Arabs, as part of a plan of jihad against the young Israeli state in 1948.
In coming to this conclusion the author's rely not upon their own research, but on the writings of Palestinian journalists, stating:
"The Arabs who became refugees in 1948 were not expelled by Israel but left on their own to facilitate the destruction of Israel, according to a senior Palestinian journalist writing in a Palestinian daily. This plan to leave Israel was initiated by the Arab states fighting Israel, who promised the people they would be able to return to their homes in a few days once Israel was defeated."
Jawad Al Bashiti, the above referenced Palestinian journalist wrote in Al-Ayyam just a few days ago:
"...The reasons for the Palestinian Catastrophe are the same reasons that have produced and are still producing our Catastrophes today. During the Little Catastrophe, meaning the Palestinian Catastrophe the following happened: the first war between Arabs and Israel had started and the "Arab Salvation Army" came and told the Palestinians: 'We have come to you in order to liquidate the Zionists and their state. Leave your houses and villages, you will return to them in a few days safely. Leave them so we can fulfill our mission (destroy Israel) in the best way and so you won't be hurt.' It became clear already then, when it was too late, that the support of the Arab states (against Israel) was a big illusion. Arabs fought as if intending to cause the "Palestinian Catastrophe". [source, Al-Ayyam, May 13 2008]
Culture War Shocker -
Mall Shame, As Spencer Gifts Markets Sexually Charged Material To California Pre-Teens
By TOM FREDRIKSEN, special to PipeLineNews.org
May 18, 2008 - Eureka, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Hot on the heels of the CA Supreme Court's sanctioning of gay marriage, Spencer Gifts, a nationwide mall retailer, is blatantly marketing sexually provocative material to pre-teens in full public view in at least one Northern California town.
The item?
A black and white T-shirt emblazoned with, "Overworked and Underfucked." The shirt was positioned on a clothing rack placed in front of the entrance of Spencer's store in the Bayshore Mall located in Eureka, California. The complex is owned by General Growth Properties.
Though this reporter brought the existence of the item to the attention of one of the firm's employees, she refused to remove it, though the item was in full view of children. The size of the shirt was listed as "small," and one would have a difficult time believing that it was not being marketed to the numerous 10-12 year olds who were in the area at the time of this writing.
Approximately three hours later, two females under direction of Old Glory Radio were sent into the store as a follow up to this story. The shirt was still available and purchased. During the purchase the clerk was cheerful, offering to enroll the purchaser in the Spencer's, "Underground Program."
It is unknown how many similar items are being made available in this program.
Dutch Artist Nekschot's Muslim Cartoons Deemed "Possible Incitement To Violence"
WARNING - THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONTAINS DISTURBING IMAGES
By BEILA RABINOWITZ & WILLIAM MAYER
May 17, 2008 - SanFrancisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Gregorius Nekschot the Dutch cartoonist who was arrested for his work last Tuesday now faces a jail sentence. The public prosecutor has decided that eight of his cartoons "are beyond the pale" and that Nekschot is guilty of "discrimination and possible incitement to violence."
The Dutch government has reportedly been attempting to pull cartoons from the internet, while the Department of Justice has judged scores of Nekschot's cartoons and decided that most fell within the scope of freedom of expression in Holland.
The arrest of Nekschot has struck fear into journalists, artists and Members of Parliament over the government's repression directed at freedom of expression.
Unbelievably, according to Justice Minister Hirsch Ballin, the investigation into Nekschot does not mean that freedom of expression is being limited. [source, translated from the Dutch, http://www.trouw.nl/hetnieuws/nederland/article989834.ece/Minister_ontkent_inperking_vrije_meningsuiting]
The public prosecutor has so far refused to say which cartoons will be subject to legal action. The arrest of Nekschot was the result of a long investigation. The complaint goes back to 2005 and was sent to the Reporting Point For Discrimination Internet (Meldpunt Discriminatie Internet) who forwarded it the public prosecutor.
Further displaying the twisted logic involved in this matter, the complaint against Nekschot was made by imam Abdul Jabber Van de Ven a radical Islamist who lauded the murder of Theo van Gogh and said he hoped politician Geert Wilders will be also be killed by a Muslim.
Dutch Cartoonist Who Mocked Muslims Jailed For "Discrimination"
By BEILA RABINOWITZ & WILLIAM MAYER
May 16, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In another blow to free speech due to the country's descent into multicultural confusion, a Dutch satirical cartoonist, who writes under the pseudonym of Gregorius Nekschot was arrested this week for discrimination on a warrant ensuing from a 2005 complaint lodged by a Muslim convert, imam Abdul Jabbar Van de Ven.
In a brutal display of intimidation, ten police officers apprehended him while confiscating his computer, backup disks and mobile telephone, without which he can't work. He spent Tuesday night in jail and was released on Wednesday after a lengthy series of interrogations.
 Van de Ven gained notoriety when he lauded the 2004 murder of Theo Van Gogh by Mohammed Bouyeri and said that he hoped to see Dutch MP Geert Wilders meet a similar fate. [source, translated from the Dutch, http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/328]
Van de Ven's complaint was channeled through the "Reporting Point for Discrimination Internet" [Meldpunt Discriminatie Internet, MDI] which is partially funded by the government and whose mission is to investigate and prosecute complaints of discrimination. Van de Ven coordinated an effort primarily via internet forums to write to the MDI to protest Nekschot's caricatures of Muslim extremists, which resulted in an avalanche of emails. The complaint was then passed on to the public prosecutor.
Nekschot is being charged with, "discriminating against Muslims and people with a dark skin color."
Though he publishes mainly on the internet, his book "Nekschot Sick Jokes" has also come under police scrutiny. The artist is well known for his hard hitting cartoons in which he makes fun of various ideologies and religions.
Cartoon title: "Only progressive Dutch are still open to other cultures"
Caption, man on knees: "This Islamic butcher shop is extremely interesting"
Fifth Column Muslim Police Officer Remains On Payroll After Disrupting Terror Investigation
May 14, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Fairfax, VA police officer Sgt. Weiss Rasool - who was sentenced to 2 years probation in federal court on April 22, having plead guilty to unauthorized access to the Violent Crime and Terrorist Offender File, maintained as part of the National Crime Information Center system - unbelievably continues to work for the department, pending an internal review of his case.
Rasool checked the databases to help the target of a federal terror investigation - who knew him, belonging to the same mosque as Rasool - and left a voice mail message tipping the suspect off that he was under surveillance by the FBI and being followed by undercover vehicles. [source, Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042201994_pf.html]
The target was apprehended in November 2005 and deported, his identity and the charges involved have so far not been disclosed. At the time of his arrest, he and his family were fully dressed and busily engaged in destruction of evidence at 6 in the morning, suggesting that they had been tipped off.
During the investigation, Rasool was given a lie-detector test with which it was determined that he "was not fully compliant" because of his evasiveness. As a result, law enforcement does "not believe that he has been truthful."
Dutch Rewrite History To Show Moroccan's As Liberators Of Europe
By BEILA RABINOWITZ
May 14, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org -
Instead of trying to reinforce Dutch historical identity, one of the country's politicians is trying to rewrite it in the name of diversity. On the eve of "Liberation Days," Minister Jet Bussenmaker [Labour party] decided to include Moroccans, Surinamers and Antillians as liberators of Europe, despite their insignificant contribution.
Bussenmaker also concluded that this "history" must be taught to public school teachers and be included as part of the standard curriculum. According to one commentator the Dutch May 4th and 5th celebrations are "too white."
Concern about the feelings of the non-native Dutch population feeling left out of the World War II commemorations was raised several years ago when Moroccan youths were seen playing football with memorial wreaths which had been laid at a monument for the war dead.
Censorious MN State Rep Mindy Greiling, Lauded By Terror Friendly Group CAIR
 May 13, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Branding Minneapolis Star writer Katherine Kersten an "Islamophobic Columnist" in its May 12 newsletter, the Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR - a Saudi funded unindicted co-conspirator in the nation's largest terror prosecution - is championing a campaign to censor a critic of Islamic radicalism in Minnesota, led by State Representative, Mindy Greiling [DFL].
The controversy stems from a series of reports made by Ms. Kersten, critical of the operating practices at Minnesota's Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy [TIZA], a taxpayer-funded charter school for kindergarten through eighth grade pupils.
As Kersten wrote in a April 9, 2008 column:
"...TIZA has many characteristics that suggest a religious school. It shares the headquarters building of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whose mission is 'establishing Islam in Minnesota '. The building also houses a mosque. TIZA's executive director, Asad Zaman, is a Muslim imam, or religious leader, and its sponsor is an organization called Islamic Relief. Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food - permissible under Islamic law -- and 'Islamic Studies' is offered at the end of the school day..."
Ms. Greiling, quick to defend the Islamizing of a public school, wrote a letter to the Minneapolis Star in which she claimed to have personally visited TIZA. Greiling's conclusions after being led around by the nose by TIZA's Executive Director, Asad Zaman, who just happens to be an imam, are unfortunately predictable:
"...What I learned during a tour late last month is that none of Kersten's concerns that the charter school is promoting religion in violation of a state law that prohibits public schools from doing so is valid. What I did see was excellent teachers hard at work in the classroom focused on improving student achievement..."
Based upon this staged visit Greiling then went on to demand Ms. Kersten's head, charging her with "reckless journalistic standards" and a "gross distortion of facts."
Report By Watchdog Group States Palestinian Fatah Government, "Allied With...Enemies Of The US"
May 13, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As noted previously State Department Pushes Israelis Towards "Peace Process" While The PA Glorifies Terror Bomber Who Murdered 8 Students the Palestinian Fatah government, led by Mahmoud Abbas, is engaged in a policy perfected by Fatah's previous leader, the terrorist Yasser Arafat, who made nice with the Western press in English, but gave all manner of support to the intifada and jihad in Arabic, when the cameras had been cased up and put away.
A new report, by Palestinian Media Watch makes it clear that not only is the Abbas government supportive of terror, but that it has increasingly allied itself with enemies of the United States including Iran, Syria, North Korea and Hugo Chavez' Venezuela, stating:
"There is ample evidence that the contacts between the Palestinian Authority and the enemies of the United States have the characteristics of relations between allies who share a common ideological bond...Hatred of the United States and disdain for its role of world leadership are the essence of this bond...Palestinian state were to be established before a qualitative shift in ideology, it is inevitable that the proposed state would join the alliance of enemies of the US and would strengthen those countries in undermining American goals for world peace."
Anti-Hate Group Decries Ex-Florida Governor Graham Speaking At Event With CAIR's Altaf Ali
May 10, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Americans Against Hate, a Florida based civil rights and terrorism watchdog group, is protesting an "interfaith" event to be held today at the Miami Lakes Congregational Church.
Scheduled speakers include Altaf Ali, the Executive Director of the Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] and former U.S. Senator and Florida Governor Bob Graham.
According to Americans Against Hate Chairman, Joe Kaufman, Ali was recently disinvited from a similar prayer breakfast after the organization's ties to Hamas were revealed.
In an interview with PipeLineNews, Mr. Kaufman stated:
"CAIR recently was named a co-conspirator by the U.S. government for its role in the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. And CAIR-Florida recently stated its support for Hamas.
In May of 2007, CAIR was labeled as a co-conspirator for a Hamas financing trial that named leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), an Islamic charity that was shut down by the U.S. government in December of 2001, as defendants. During the trial, evidence was presented proving CAIR's involvement in Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook's Palestine Committee, a group whose goal was to raise money for Hamas from American shores...."
CAIR Showboats At Manzanar
May 8, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR, the Saudi funded Hamas mouthpiece, designated as a co-conspirator in America's largest terror prosecution, US v Holy Land Foundation (HLF)] "...continues down the path of stealth jihad, following a plan devised by the Muslim Brotherhood - in this instance marching with Japanese American's to the Southern California internment camp created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Manzanar to suggest that Islamophobia is rampant and that American Muslims face discrimination on a daily basis, we must consider how such stunts impact the groups credibility as a self-proclaimed civil rights organization.
First as an aside, considering that fewer people were killed at Pearl Harbor [the event that set the internment process into motion] than during the 9/11 attacks by Muslim fanatics, the fact that there has been nothing comparable to Roosevelt's actions stands as conclusive evidence of the lack of exactly what CAIR sought to infer from their meaningless participation in the Manzanar event.
In a larger sense, however, it might prove instructive to review a little sourced document presented into evidence at the HLF trial on September 4, 2007 by U.S.prosecutor James T. Jacks. Specifically the governments filing regarded CAIR's unsuccessful effort to remove its name from the co-conspirator list, as a means of assessing the group's agendized posturing and overall veracity.
We find of particularly noteworthiness the manner in which the Department of Justice clearly links CAIR to both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Transfer Of Kifah Jayyousi, Dirty Bomber Padilla Accomplice, Halted
 May 8, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - U.S. federal district judge Marcia Cooke has temporarily halted the transfer of Kifah Wael Jayyousi, a convicted terrorist [serving a 12 year sentence] and associate of "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla based on a motion filed by Jayyousi's attorney claiming his client is being subjected to racial profiling and discrimination.
Jayyousi's attorney is attempting to permanently halt moving him to the Communications Management Unit in the Federal Correctional Complex located in Terre Haute, Ind., which houses over two hundred inmates, many of them high profile jihadists.
The unit was created in response to criticism leveled at DOJ that convicted terrorists were not being adequately monitored, especially regarding their ability to communicate with outside sympathizers.
The most prominent example of which is the case of Omar Abdel Rahman's [convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspirator] attorney Lynne Stewart, who conspired to smuggle messages from the "Blind Sheikh" to al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, an Egyptian terrorist group, designated by the U.S. State Dept. as a Foreign Terrorist Organization [FTO].
Stewart was subsequently convicted of providing material support to a terrorist organization.
The Muslim Interfaith Charade
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
 May 6, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Despite the outward appearance of infirmity, Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "Blind Sheikh" is a central figure in the Islamic global jihad. He was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to bomb the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, which killed 6 and injured over 1,000.
Rahman is now serving a life sentence for that crime.
A precocious child, he started studying the Qur'an at an early age, committing much of it to memory. After graduating with a PhD in Qur'anic studies from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Rahman took leadership roles in a number of jihadist groups including Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, both offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Based upon his stature as a recognized Islamic scholar, he has the authority to declare religious findings or "fatwas," one of which countenanced the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981, a crime for which he was prosecuted but later acquitted and then finally expelled from Egypt.
About Sadat, Rahman has been quoted as saying, "...Sadat was not a Muslim. He made a mockery of Islam and its principles."
Finally outside the reach of Egyptian authorities, Rahman made his way to Afghanistan in the mid-1980s where he contacted an influential former professor, Abdullah Azzam. Azzam co-founder of the terrorist group, Maktab al-Khadamat [MAK, also known as the Afghan Services Bureau] along with Osama bin Laden. Maktab al-Khadamat was supplanted after the Soviet route in Afghanistan by a new organization, al-Qaeda, "the base," in Arabic.
llinois Law Enforcement Should Be Commended For "Mosque Storming" Exercise
 May 6, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR, the Saudi funded Hamas mouthpiece and unindicted co-conspirator in the nation's largest terror prosecution] has predictably taken exception to a realistic security exercise in which officers from the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System [ILEAS] stormed the Continuing Recovery Center in Irving which had been transformed into the "Irving Mosque" for purposes of the event.
The security drill was based on a not at all unreasonable scenario in which a heavily armed terrorist group takes over a mosque and then holds hostages. The exercise took place on the evening of April 24 and involved nearly 30 different local law enforcement agencies.
While CAIR objected to the event, with Ahmed Rehab, the organization's Chicago executive director stating, "The use of a fake 'mosque' in this type of drill sends the wrong message to law enforcement officials who may now view mainstream institutions, such as Islamic houses of worship, as potential security threats," the exercise was realistic and the scenario all too believable given the prevalence of Islamic terrorism.
Claiming that the drill "Sends the wrong message," is a tragi-comical statement for anyone connected with CAIR - which has steadfastly refused to specifically and by name condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization - to make [see, CAIR Refuses To Condemn Hamas While Attempting To Censor Michael Savage] as is having Islamist Ahmed Rehab, acting as its spokesperson in this matter.
Bomb Rocks San Diego Federal Court Building
 May 4, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force [JTTF] has responded to an explosion at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Courthouse located at 940 Front Street, San Diego, California.
The blast described as "powerful" by FBI spokesmen, took place at approximately 1:40 am Sunday morning. The court house is near San Diego's busy nightclub district.
 The explosive device, possibly a pipe bomb or a series of pipe bombs, damaged the court house entrance and lobby area. No one is believed to have been injured as a result of the bombing, though two members of the Federal Protective Services were in the building at the time of the attack.
JTTF is working the case in conjunction with the San Diego Fire Department Metro Arson Strike Team, the San Diego Police Department, the ATF, and Federal Protective Services.
It is hoped that surveillance cameras may provide additional evidence in the case, though they were not oriented towards the front of the building.
As we go to press no arrests have been made and no individual or group has come forward to claim responsibility.
Taliban Power Continues Unabated In Pakistan's Tribal Areas
April 30, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLinenews.org - Showcasing Pakistan's continuing shaky status as an ally in the war on Islamic terrorism, ill conceived "peace" talks initiated by the government with the Taliban have come to an end less than a week after their commencement.
On April 29 Baitullah Mehsud the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban [a consortium of groups loyal to the Taliban] declared that the only recently commenced talks with the central government were dead in the water. At the same time Mehsud indicated that a temporary cease-fire was expected to continue, at least for the time being.
The talks came as a result of dangling a conditional promise by the government to withdraw forces from Waziristan and the tribal areas which border Afghanistan, an area which is believed to be harboring Ayman al Zawahiri, bin-Laden's second in command and other terrorist leaders possibly even including bin-Laden himself.
Is Denver Burning? - Hillary Must Stay In Race To Ensure Destruction Of Obama
By WILLIAM MAYER
 April 26, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - No one with the combined political acumen of the Clintons could possibly believe at this point that Hillary has any chance of capturing the Democrat nomination. There is no way of that happening, even assuming that the Clinton's intend to pull out the long knives at the nominating convention.
In politics inertia is key and the one verifiable, Newtonian certainty about the Obama campaign is that it's all going his way. That ship is not going to be turned around.
In order for Obama to lose the nomination it would have to be taken from him, stolen not won and given the drift recently indicating that Reid, Pelosi and Howard Dean will take even more of a role to "resolve" the Obama/Clinton deadlock, Obama is inevitable.
Since the start of the primaries, political power has shifted away from the Clintons who can talk a reasonably good centrist game when need be and towards Obama who is internally and externally proscribed from doing that. As a result Hillary, despite her own leftist record, is entirely too moderate for the MoveOn types to accept, ditto the entire 527 oriented consortium of groups, primarily funded by George Soros, which had been originally created for the expressed purpose of aiding a Clinton candidacy; they have simply jumped ship to a candidate they feel is more authentically anti-American and authoritarian.
The Democrat party of 2008 is arguably the most collectivist in history, the soft leftism of George McGovern notwithstanding.
Terms "Jihadist" And "Islamo-Fascist" Booted By Feds For Fear Of Antagonizing Jihadists and Islamo-Fascists
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
April 25, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Employing the twisted logic of not wishing to further stoke whatever additional enmity might exist in those already sworn to destroying the United States and West, the federal government has issued directives to stop the use of some of the most appropriate phrases and terms now being used to identify and describe the forces seeking to Islamize the Western world through force.
In order to accomplish that goal, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center have issued directives to impose a program of censorship rooted in moral equivalency.
According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, those responsible for this move base their decision upon a belief that terms such as jihadist cause otherwise normal and moderate Muslims to take up the sword of Allah and become mujahideen...strike that, since that word is now also verboten.
State Department Funding ISNA's Propagation Of Islam
By BEILA RABINOWITZ and WILLIAM MAYER
April 25, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A grant made by the U.S. Dept. of State to the Islamic Society of North America [ISNA, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation terror funding prosecution, whose mission statement is "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope"] and the left wing National Peace Foundation is being used to fund Islamic da'wa via a spurious "citizen exchange" program.
As the ISNA press release states:
"...This program brings young professionals from the Middle East, specifically from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, to the United States...The goal of this project is to explore Islam, the functions of Islamic institutions in the United States, and the activities of interfaith work."
As we have noted in previous pieces, for example Bush Administration Moves To Legitimize The Muslim Brotherhood?, there has been a move afoot, primarily originating within the State Dept., to recognize the Muslim Brotherhood as a moderate organization, an idea so spectacularly stupid it could only originate in Foggy Bottom.
It follows then that if the reputation of the Muslim Brotherhood, which created Hamas and is a constant specter in terror prosecutions, is on the verge of being whitewashed, then making nice with ISNA seems equally reasonable.
Stop Bitching, Start Drilling - North Dakota Oil Find Double The Size Of Saudi Reserves
By Dennis T. Avery, special to PipeLineNews
April 24, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - One of the most extensive oil deposits in the world - the huge Bakken Formation - underlies North Dakota and Saskatchewan. The Bakken holds up to 500 billion barrels of oil, double the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia. But it lies in thin, shallow shale formations that are hard to drill and don't flow readily. Is the Bakken America's energy independence; a dire threat of global overheating; or just expensive holes in the ground?
In 1995, the U.S. Geological Survey said it expected to recover only 151 million of the Bakken's billions of barrels, using then-available technology. This month, however, USGS announced the Bakken could now yield 28 times that much oil, up to 4.3 billion barrels, thanks to higher oil prices and two new technologies: computer-guided horizontal drilling, and high-pressure rock fracturing. Will another dozen years of high-tech add another 4 billion barrels of recoverable Bakken oil? Will biotech bacteria help us harvest the oil as natural gas?
Meanwhile:
Three oil companies have found 15 billion barrels of oil 28,000 feet under the Gulf of Mexico - boosting U.S. proven reserves 50 percent.
The U.S. could now start harvesting a "super giant" gas field - 500 trillion cubic feet - from the Marcellus Shale under the Appalachian Mountains. Again, it would require the horizontal drilling and rock fracturing.
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Brazil has discovered the third largest oil field in history, the Carioca, 170 miles offshore under 6,000 feet of water. The Carioca ranks behind only the Saudi and Kuwait fields discovered 60 years ago.
The USGS agrees the world has harvested only about one-third of the oil we've discovered, not to mention six trillion barrels of tar sands and huge amounts of oil shale already found but not exploited.
Islamic Marketing 101 - Maha ElGenaidi Takes Da'Wa Act On The Road
By WILLIAM MAYER
 April 22, 2008 - Los Altos, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a previous piece, Islamic Networks Group - Dialogue As Da'wa we wrote:
Islamic speakers bureaus are proliferating in the United States. They represent the vanguard of a new paradigm in jihad being waged by Islamists under the guise of "dialogue."
This emphasis on "legal" Islamism, the stealth jihad has been dictated in part by circumstances on the ground, where many of the most violent Islamists have been either killed, captured or forced to go into hiding, proving that aggression has been counter-productive.
Among the largest Islamic speaker's bureau - with international reach - is the Islamic Networks Group [ING] which claims to promote:
"...religious literacy and mutual respect through on-site presentations and interfaith dialogues to schools, community agencies, and other institutions. With our affiliates, ING's outreach spans the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom...Through the Islamic Speakers Bureau, certified Muslim speakers deliver a variety of presentations to K-12 schools, universities, corporations, health and law enforcement agencies, as well as other organizations..." [source, http://www.ing.org]
On Monday we had the opportunity to attend an interfaith talk given by Maha AlGenaidi, President and CEO of the Islamic Networks Group [ING]. The event was held at the Los Altos, California United Methodist church.
During her 90 minute, Power-Point dog and pony show, she presented Islam in a manner consistent not so much with the idea of religious education but rather with a seeming agenda built around Islamic da'wa, or conversion. Much of the talk was boiler plate, i.e., when Mohammed was born, the five pillars of Islam, "there is no compulsion in religion," and of course numerous references to the questionable proposition that Islam is an "Abrahamic faith," all of which have limited applicability to understanding why the Wahhabist/Salafist brand of Islamic fundamentalism seems so inextricably linked to terrorism.
Nazi and Communist Collaboration In Germany During The Decade Preceding Hitler's "Third Reich" [1923-1933]
By EMERSON VERMAAT
April 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - "The extremes touch" is a well known saying and quite often it is true. Today, leftist Socialists and Marxists join radical Muslims or "Islamists" in what they perceive as the common struggle against the United States and the West. One of the best friends of the extremist Iranian president Ahmadinejad is Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, a radical Socialist who wants to follow the example of Cuba's Fidel Castro. This is the same Ahmadinejad who is a "Holocaust denier" who invites neo-Nazis and other Fascist Holocaust deniers to conferences in Tehran.
Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, two important branches of today's radical Islam, espouse the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the so-called "Protocols of the Wise Men (or Elders) of Zion." Ahmed Sheikh Yassin, the co-founder of Hamas, had an Arab translation of the "Protocols" on his desk when he was writing the Hamas Charter. 1
It is not coincidental, therefore, that the same charter specifically refers to the Protocols. Sheikh Yassin was also a strong admirer of a virulent Jew-hater whose name was Mohammed "Haj" Amin Al-Husseini, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who had been granted asylum by the Nazis in 1941 and who spent the war years in Berlin where he actively promoted the Nazi cause.2
The "Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" were very popular in Hitler's "Third Reich." Nazi Party philosopher Alfred Rosenberg was born in Czarist Russia (actually he was born in Latvia which was then part of Russia) and it was this Baltic German who in 1918 took the text of the Protocols from Russia to Germany introducing it to his extreme rightist friends from the Thule Society in Munich. It was from this obscure group that the Nazi Party would evolve around 1920.
Heinrich Himmler, the notorious SS-Reichsführer, had a strong admiration for Eastern religions and Islam. He often talked to his friend Haj Amin Al-Husseini, and it was during the war that the SS ran several "imam schools" in Nazi Germany. Himmler admired Muslims because they did not mind dying in battle.3
Expelled - Ben Stein's Brilliant And Subversive Documentary
By WILLIAM MAYER
 April 19, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Darwin...Darwin...Darwin...you can almost hear Ben Stein muttering to himself as this subversive little documentary, "Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed," unfolds. Having opened only yesterday it has already left the piggies that feed at the trough of big science foaming at the mouth and staggering about in near apoplexia.
So outraged are the fascisti intelligentsia by Stein's work that as the film's website makes clear, "...the National Center For Science Education has taken the extraordinary and unprecedented step of building a website devoted solely to discrediting the...film..." an overtly political act.
Science subordinating itself to politics?
How can this be and why was it deemed necessary?
Well primarily because Ben has seen fit to present the not-so-pretty face of what the field of evolutionary biology has become and how an obviously left-leaning bunch of fanatical atheists are suppressing - at all levels - inquiry into an interesting if not promising avenue of exploration called intelligent design.
But isn't intelligent design merely a code phrase for creationism?
No, not at all.
Intelligent design [ID] is a hypothesis, a way of attempting a better explanation regarding the origin of the species than Charles Darwin's now 150 year-old theory. ID rests heavily upon an idea called irreducible complexity, a term originated by biochemist Michael Behe and explained in his 1996 book "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution," which posits that biological systems are far too complex to have simply "evolved," from the inanimate components percolating in some primordial pool of mud.
CAIR's Duplicity In Focus - Al Arian Propaganda Film Screening Charade
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
April 18, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The stealth jihad campaign to fund the defense of admitted Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist Sami Al Arian spilled over into Southern California campus politics with the April 17 screening of a propaganda film - USA v Al Arian - at the Woodbridge 5 Theater in Irvine, California.
Sponsors of the event included, "CAIR-LA, Shura Council, MSA West, ICOI and MSU-UCI," with UC Irvine's Muslim Student Association/Muslim Student Union playing a lead role [source, http://www.msu-uci.com].
The film had originally been scheduled to screen at the Starplex Cinemas, but a grassroots coalition alerted the company about the film's content which resulted in cancellation of the contract.
When contacted by PipeLineNews.org, Kristen Wheaton who handles special events for Starplex, explained that the Al Arian film fell under the company's definition of overtly political and controversial films and as a result could not be shown. Ms. Wheaton stated that she felt that she was "intentionally deceived" by the event organizers from the beginning of the process or it would never have gotten this far.
She was first contacted in late March on the phone by two young women one of which was Marya Bangee a former UC Irvine student who is now employed by the Los Angeles chapter of CAIR, who represented the Al Arian film as a "college student film," and asked if they could arrange for it to be shown. Operating upon that misinformation, Wheaton agreed to allow the facility to screen the film.
Pope Benedict XVI Addresses America's Bishops
 April 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Dear Brother Bishops, it gives me great joy to greet you today, at the start of my visit to this country, and I thank Cardinal George for the gracious words he has addressed to me on your behalf. I want to thank all of you, especially the Officers of the Episcopal Conference, for the hard work that has gone into the preparation of this visit. My grateful appreciation goes also to the staff and volunteers of the National Shrine, who have welcomed us here this evening. American Catholics are noted for their loyal devotion to the see of Peter. My pastoral visit here is an opportunity to strengthen further the bonds of communion that unite us. We began by celebrating Evening Prayer in this Basilica dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a shrine of special significance to American Catholics, right in the heart of your capital city. Gathered in prayer with Mary, Mother of Jesus, we lovingly commend to our heavenly Father the people of God in every part of the United States.
For the Catholic communities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Louisville, this is a year of particular celebration, as it marks the bicentenary of the establishment of these local Churches as Dioceses. I join you in giving thanks for the many graces granted to the Church there during these two centuries. As this year also marks the bicentenary of the elevation of the founding see of Baltimore to an Archdiocese, it gives me an opportunity to recall with admiration and gratitude the life and ministry of John Carroll, the first Bishop of Baltimore - a worthy leader of the Catholic community in your newly independent nation. His tireless efforts to spread the Gospel in the vast territory under his care laid the foundations for the ecclesial life of your country and enabled the Church in America to grow to maturity. Today the Catholic community you serve is one of the largest in the world, and one of the most influential. How important it is, then, to let your light so shine before your fellow citizens and before the world, "that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven" [Mt 5:16].
CAIR Continues To Call For The Release Of Admitted Terrorist Sami Al Arian
 April 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a joint press release Parvez Ahmad, the Council on American Islamic Relation's board chair and Agha Saeed national chair of the American Muslim Alliance have demanded the release of self-admitted Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist Sami Al Arian, who remains in custody pending deportation.
Ahmad and Saeed have called Al Arian a "political prisoner," stating that he was, "...targeted not for his actions, but for his political views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
However if indeed Al Arian is a political prisoner why did he plead guilty to, "conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad," a direct admission that he was indeed the terrorist which the government had alleged all along?
Further, according to an April 17, 2006 DOJ press release:
"...Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad [PIJ], a specially designated terrorist organization, in violation of U.S. law, the Department of Justice announced today...Al-Arian pleaded guilty to Count Four of the indictment against him - a charge of conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad...Al-Arian's agreement with the government calls for a recommended prison sentence of 46 to 57 months in prison, based on a five-year maximum statutory sentence. Al-Arian, 48, who has been in custody since his arrest on Feb. 20, 2003, has agreed to stipulate to deportation to another country by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement once his prison sentence has ended..."
In a weak effort to muddy the waters, CAIR and AMA state, "The Bush administration's evidence in the six-month trial consisted largely of speeches Al-Arian gave, magazines he edited, lectures he presented, articles he wrote, books he owned, conferences he organized, rallies he attended, and news he heard," which is essentially true but was nonetheless sufficient to demonstrate Al Arian's intent and eventually secure his confession.
Phony Moderate Muslim Muzammil Siddiqi Disrespects Holy Father, "Popes come and go"
 April 15, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, Director of the Islamic Society of Orange County and widely feted within the tainted atmosphere of the "interfaith dialogue" community as a moderate Muslim, once again is betraying his radical roots, attending a today scheduled conference with Pope Benedict XVI under apparent great duress, stating, "our going there is more out of respect for the Catholic Church itself...Popes come and go, but the church is there."
Siddiqi's statement should be especially embarrassing to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, members of which having been prominently engaged in dialogue with him to the degree that he has been appointed co-chair of the West Coast Muslim-Catholic Dialogue.
As we noted in The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and CAIR - Interfaith Outreach Betrayed the U.S. Catholic Church's interfaith outreach to Islam - indeed all such dialogue - must be evaluated against a reality in which many American Islamist organizations seek to misuse that process in furtherance of a long-term goal which is to subvert liberal democracies and substitute in their place, Shar'ia. [see PipeLineNews document, On the General Strategic Goal for the Group [the Muslim Brotherhood] in North America]
It's worth noting that Dr. Siddiqi served two terms as president [1997-2001] of the Islamic Society of America [ISNA]. He is also a member of the Supreme Islamic Council of Egypt and the Supreme Council of Mosques in Makkah, Saudia Arabia.
 ISNA is closely affiliated with the Egyptian terrorist organization the Muslim Brotherhood and was, along with CAIR and similar groups and individuals, named last summer as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest U.S. prosecution in history of terror funding, U.S. v Holy Land Foundation.
Additonally Siddiqi in his capacity at the Islamic Society of Orange County, Dr. Siddiqi is widely believed to the the key figure in the conversion of a 25 year-old American, Adam Gadahn who became radicalized, fled the United States and now serves as an official al-Qaeda spokesman, where he is called Azzam the American.
When evaluated against this considerable baggage, Siddiqi's objection to Pope Benedict is understandable, though indefensible.
This Pope, and just for Dr. Siddiqi's edification, the Pope is doctrinally indistinguishable from the Catholic Church on Earth, has demonstrated an understanding of the virulent aspects of Islam and is not afraid to speak out against them, witness his 2006 address in Regensberg, Germany [see, Mohammed In Hell] where he referred to the writings of Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached," something the emperor was intimately aware of since he recorded this passage during the Muslim siege of Constantinople, sometime between 1394 and 1402.
Islamic Networks Group - Dialogue As Da'wa
By BEILA RABINOWITZ and WILLIAM MAYER
April 10, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Islamic speakers bureaus are proliferating in the United States. They represent the vanguard of a new paradigm in jihad being waged by Islamists under the guise of "dialogue."
This emphasis on "legal" Islamism, the stealth jihad has been dictated in part by circumstances on the ground, where many of the most violent Islamists have been either killed, captured or forced to go into hiding, proving that aggression has been counter-productive.
Among the largest Islamic speaker's bureau - with international reach - is the Islamic Networks Group [ING] which claims to promote:
"...religious literacy and mutual respect through on-site presentations and interfaith dialogues to schools, community agencies, and other institutions. With our affiliates, ING's outreach spans the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom...Through the Islamic Speakers Bureau, certified Muslim speakers deliver a variety of presentations to K-12 schools, universities, corporations, health and law enforcement agencies, as well as other organizations..." [source, http://www.ing.org]
Notwithstanding such high minded claims, in reality ING is nothing more than a da'wa "proselytizing" organization which promotes an Islamist agenda. For example the group was a participant on an "Islamophobia" panel which portrayed Muslims as perpetual victims of religious and ethnic hostility:
"...the so-called, War on Terror has opened the door to the demonization of an entire population, with all too often negative consequences in terms of deteriorating civil rights and other abuses...." [source, http://www.ing.org/media_releases/community.asp?num=110]
These sentiments serve to indict the West and are the staple that binds similar organizations and individuals together. The use of the term "Islamophobia" is a misnomer and bears no relation to the meaning of "phobia," a morbid fear or aversion. Its use is a familiar tactic used by militant Muslims who attempt to silence their critics by branding them bigots.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of these Muslim speaker's bureaus is that the often simplistically biased and historically incorrect representation of Islam they present is done in an environment in which it is unchallenged.
Minnesota Charter School - Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy - Operating As A Madrassah
Watchdog Group Demands Answers
April 10, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A grassroots organization, concerned with halting the incremental Islamization of American education, the Stop the Madrassa Community Coalition - has called for the closing of the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy in Grove Heights, Minnesota, pending an investigation, because it appears to be functioning as a madrassah, a Muslim religious school.
The Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy [TIZA] is a taxpayer-funded charter school for kindergarten through eighth grade pupils. However, Amanda Getz of Bloomington, Minnesota a substitute teacher at the institution has been quoted in recent news reports [see, http://www.startribune.com/local/17406054.html] claiming that TIZA is no simple charter school but is in fact abusing taxpayer funds and violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution because it is operating as an Islamic religious school.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten, who broke the story, wrote in a April 9, 2008 column:
"...TIZA has many characteristics that suggest a religious school. It shares the headquarters building of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whose mission is 'establishing Islam in Minnesota '. The building also houses a mosque. TIZA's executive director, Asad Zaman, is a Muslim imam, or religious leader, and its sponsor is an organization called Islamic Relief. Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food - permissible under Islamic law -- and 'Islamic Studies' is offered at the end of the school day..."
Why Is The Department Of Homeland Security Funding The "Hardening" Of Florida Mosques?
Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout's Big Score
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
 April 9, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Department of Homeland Security - [DHS] a cabinet level department - was created, with legislation signed into law by President Bush on November 25, 2002 as part of a governmental reorganization conducted post 9/11.
As part of this plan seven heretofore independent agencies have been rolled into this new bureaucracy - the Transportation Security Administration [TSA], U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration, U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard.
All of these sub-cabinet level departments report directly to the DHS Secretary, Michael Chertoff, a former circuit judge and federal prosecutor, who also served [1995-1996] as Speci | 
