Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network

November 25, 2011 By 23 Comments

FrontPage’s Interview’s guest today is Deborah Weiss, an attorney, freelance writer and public speaker.  A 9/11 survivor of WTC attacks in NYC, she formerly worked for the Committee on House Oversight in Congress and the Office of the Corporation Counsel under Giuliani.  She is currently President of Vigilance, Inc., and is an expert in OIC UN resolutions.  She has written a chapter in the  new book, Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network: America and the West’s Fatal Embrace. She can be reached at [email protected]

FP: Welcome Deborah.  Glad you could join FPM today.

Weiss: Thank you for inviting me.

FP: Let’s begin with you telling us a about Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network.

Weiss: Thanks, Jamie.

As you know, Western petro-dollars have made Saudi Arabia a rich country. The Saudis use the money in part to export a radical Islamist ideology into the West. The ideology is antithetical to the Western values of freedom, equality and human rights.

The book was put together and edited by Sarah Stern, President of Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET).  It has chapters by various experts and well-known authors, including James Woolsey, Steve Emerson, Daniel Pipes, Rachel Ehrenfeld and others.  Your readers are probably familiar with many of the authors.

For decades now, the West and America in particular, has been pretending that Saudi Arabia is our ally. This book lifts the veil off that myth by demonstrating the various ways that Saudi ideology has infiltrated America and the West, posing a threat to our freedom and way of life. It includes chapters on Saudi penetration into American NGO’s, American so-called “mainstream Muslim” organizations, the American school curriculum, finances, and more. The point is to illustrate the negative impact our addiction to oil will ultimately have on our society. It’s really about the stealth jihad.

FP: How did you got involved in the book?

Weiss: I am a 9/11 survivor from NYC, and have been working on the issues of non-violent radical Islam for years, as you know, Jamie.  Every year, there is an event on Capitol Hill, timed to coincide around the time of 9/11, that showcases speakers and experts on the topic of Saudi infiltration.  I was one of the speakers the last two years.  So when Sarah asked me if I’d be willing to contribute a chapter on the same subject, of course I said yes.

FP: What is your chapter about?

Weiss: My chapter is titled, “The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Defamation of Religions, and Islamophobia.”  The OIC is the largest Islamic organization in the world, comprised of 56 member states plus the Palestinian authority.  Its members tend to vote together as a bloc in the UN, so they hold quite a lot of power and sway.  Yet, most people have never heard of them.

They are an Islamist organization, which seeks to make Islam a victorious political power and to deny freedom to anyone who doesn’t want to live under Sharia law, including Muslims who don’t want to live under Sharia law.  One of its main goals is to eventually internationally criminalize free speech on any Islam-related topic, including Islamic theocracies, Muslims, Islamic terrorism, Islamic human rights violations, and Sharia law.  I know it sounds crazy, but partly because the public is not paying attention to this issue, and partly because the OIC’s strategy is to achieve its goal in small increments, it is actually making significant inroads.  The OIC has successfully targeted various UN bodies with resolutions on this issue, called “Defamation of Religions” and it has targeted several EU Parliaments as well.  The language is presented in a watered down form, so instead of asking for speech to be criminalized, the OIC will ask for states “to take effective action” or “condemn” the speech or discourage the speech.  It has also presented Muslims as the victims of so-called “Islamophobia” in order to win more support for their cause.

FP: What exactly is the Defamation of Religions?

Weiss: Well, in America we have the concept of defamation of individuals or groups.  Generally, defamation in the U.S. has to be a false statement and with negligent or reckless disregard of the truth, depending on whether you’re defaming a public figure or a private citizen.  And it has to be a statement that is likely to result in either a pecuniary harm or harm to that person’s reputation.  In America, truth is a complete defense.  And I might add that in our system, defamation only applies to statements of fact.  The First Amendment gives us protection to express any opinion we desire, no matter how negative it might be.

Defamation of Religions by contrast, gives protection to an idea, in this case a religion, as opposed to protecting a person or group.  Also, it constitutes protection from criticism, even if the statement is true.  And to boot, the way it is applied in countries that implement it, and the way the OIC interprets it, it is really only applied to Islam.  In fact, the original title was called Defamation of Islam, but in order to get more support for it, the OIC changed the title.  Still, Islam is the only religion mentioned in the text, and in practice it is only Islam that is afforded protection from criticism.  Believe me, the OIC is totally fine with Defamation of Judaism and Defamation of Christianity.  Additionally, the Muslim countries that have these types of laws usually impose a harsh criminal penalty for its violation, rather than a civil penalty.  People who “defame Islam” are often jailed, flogged, sometimes even executed.

FP: Implementing Defamation of Religions laws obviously harms people.

Weiss: Yes, Jamie, it does.  What’s ironic about it is that the OIC wants to make “Defamation of Religions” a human right.  But in reality, it constitutes the very opposite of a human right.  In countries that have this law, there are gross human rights violations.  Not only are the penalties very harsh, but it also has the effect of oppressing those with minority religions.  For example, if you are Christian and you say, “I believe Jesus is the Son of G-d”, that is not only blasphemy, but could be considered Defamation of Religions.  Saying this could have dire consequences.  This law even hurts Muslims who have a minority interpretation of Islam that differs from the official interpretation of the government.  For example, in Pakistan it is illegal to be an Ahmadiyya Muslim.  Ahamadiyyas are peaceful, loving, egalitarian-minded Muslims.  But because they believe in a Prophet after Mohammad (named Ahmad), the Pakistani government considers them heretics and openly practicing their faith is a crime.

FP: Defamation of Religions is clearly harmful to religious freedom and human rights.  What are some other negative implications?

Weiss: The ramifications also include the hampering of national security and terrorism prevention efforts.  If you know anything about war, the threat doctrine dictates that the first rule of war is that you must know your enemy and be able to name it by name.  Unfortunately, to the degree that the West censors discussion of Islam and Islamic terrorism, it hamstrings the ability of intelligence professionals to come up with strategies to defeat the problem.

FP: Here in America, we are still allowed to discuss these things, right?

Weiss: So far, America is the last bastion of freedom in terms of free speech. Unlike Europe, we do not have hate speech laws – yet.  However, we have moved from self-censorship to having our government and other institutions issue restrictive guidelines on speech.  For example, DHS, the State Department and the NCTC have all issued memos to their professional employees discouraging them from using words such as Islamic terrorism.  The National Security Strategy Memo, which guides our whole US national security policy, also has had all references to Islamic terrorism deleted.  There have been various other measures taken, especially in this administration, to cleanse all official and unofficial policy from discussion, mention, or even acknowledgement of Islamic terrorism.

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Deborah Weiss, Esq. is a regular contributor to FrontPage Magazine and the Washington Times.  She is a contributing author of "Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011).  A partial listing of her work can be found at www.vigilancenow.org    

  • MikeWood

    This is such a hugely important struggle. I wish you every success and I thank you for your efforts.

    • LindaRivera

      Mike,

      Our very survival depends on winning this battle. Every one of us must do whatever we can. Speak out. Make comments on articles. Attend protest demonstrations, etc. The hour is late.

      Meanwhile, the world's innocent non-Muslims are sleeping, unaware of the terrible dangers. Lulled into complacency; put to sleep by mainstream media, government and religious leaders who declare that Islam is a religion of peace. And ruthlessly demonize and persecute those who warn about the dangers of Islam.

  • http://www.resonoelusono.com/NaturalBornCitizen.htm Alexander Gofen

    Thank you Deborah for you fight. Just a few comments.

    It is much worse than "Western petro-dollars have made Saudi Arabia a rich country".

    The trillions of the oil trade reinvigorated islam so much, that turned it from the rag trade backdrop into the global threat to the civilization, as I outlined in 2009:

    http://www.resonoelusono.com/Imminent.htm

    You wrote:

    "We are in a war against – not all Islam – but certainly radical Islam, and nobody wants to acknowledge that."

    which is inaccurate at least for two reasons.

    1) We (the US government) alas claim as though we are in NO war at all against any islam.

    2) There is no such thing as "radical Islam" vs. the mythical "moderate".

    Entire islam is a problem, the moderate islam is an invention.

    Yes, "we do have freedom of religion in America", meaning that a citizen may wish to convert even into islam. Yet it is a common confusion as though this freedom means freedom to proselytize islam in America in attempt to make America an islamic nation even in part.

    America has the right and obligation to preserve her as an exclusively Judeo-Christian nation. So we must remind and repeat this statement until it becomes formulated explicitly into a law.

    • WilliamJamesWard

      It was Saudi Islamists that hijacked the planes and killed so many Americans
      in the name of Allah, what part of Islam is a murderous cult did George Bush
      miss? The culture of death, slavery and destruction is all that Islam is about
      but with gold to blind the leaders of the World who can not see past it's gleam.
      How could such blindness be on our Nation without the fact we are sold
      into slavery and have just not been bent over our government issued prayer
      rugs to be whipped like dogs, the rich elites in America being immune for
      awhile and then down the road they are in for it also, Clinton and Bush in
      turbans, If I live to see it Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi in fashionable death
      sheets, what a future. Deportation and permanent expulsion is what is needed
      to save America, our politicians will not do it……………………..William

  • LindaRivera

    It is treasonous to prevent oil drilling in America. We have a lot of oil in America. But ruling elites prefer that we finance global jihad by buying oil from the Muslim Middle East instead of drilling for our own oil. It is UNFORGIVABLE.

  • LindaRivera

    The United Nations has been hijacked by totalitarian Islam. It is despicable that non-Muslim nations at the UN aid and abet the OIC whose goal is global Islamic conquest and subjugation of despised and intensely hated non-Muslims under excessively cruel Islamic sharia law where females are treated as inferior and defenseless non-Muslims have no human rights.

    Through the Defamation of Religion (Islam), "People who “defame Islam” are often jailed, flogged, sometimes even executed.", the OIC are waging a vicious jihad at the UN against the freedom and human rights of the world's non-Muslims whose taxes support the UN. If the leaders of America and other non-Muslim nations really believe in freedom and human rights, they have a moral obligation to immediately stop funding the UN.

    We are in grave danger of losing our freedom and the annihilation of our human rights, not because of infidel-hater OIC, but because the leaders of non-Muslim nations aid and abet the OIC in their wicked goal. We are horribly betrayed by our own leaders.

  • myohmy

    Weiss is critical of the west's political correctness in not saying things like "islamic terrorist" and then shows PC herself by saying we're not at war with islam but just radical islam. Or something like that. The face it that any muslim who is not radical is not a good muslim. The quran doesn't promise paradise to moderate muslims. It promisses paradise to jihadis and martyrs. Our stupid leaders don't have the backbone to admit that islam does pose a threat to us. Understand it, accept it and stop pretending muslims don't want to bring America down. Muslims don't respect and abide by our Constitution, they place the islamic laws above our Constitution. Of course we are at war with Islam, And Islam is at war with us whether we admit it or not.

  • John_Kelly

    The only country that officially practices beheading for apostasy is Saudi Arabia, which brands it the most Islamic country in the world. The western world is stunned when Muslim terrorists behead their victims, yet is unmoved when the Saudi government practices the same thing. The simple fact is that both practices are in obedience to the teachings of Islam and the example set by Muhammad.

    Just as Muhammad decreed, and still upheld in Islamic law, no Jew may enter Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government has achieved what Hitler only dreamed of. A Jew free society, carrying on what Muhammad created thirteen centuries earlier. Is this Nazism revived? No, this is Islam as it was long before Hitler.

    We would do well to remember Muhammad pronounced that all the Jews in the entire world must be killed before any Muslims who have died can be resurrected and before anyone except Jihad martyrs can enter Paradise.

    Appropriately there is a sword on the Saudi Arabia’s flag. The most sacred mosque for Sunni Muslims is the Grand Mosque in Mecca. It’s Imam, appointed by the Saudi government, is “the closest thing in Islam to the Pope.” His sermons “call for Jews to be ‘annihilated’ and urge for the overthrow of Western civilization.” The home page of the Islamic Affairs Department of Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Washington D.C. unabashedly declares, “The Muslims are required to raise the banner of Jihad in order to make the Word of Allah supreme in the world.”

    Yet Saudi Arabia poses as our partner in the fight against terrorism!

  • John_Kelly

    After a yearlong study of more than two hundred original documents published in Saudi Arabia and distributed through mosques in the United States, the human rights group, Freedom House, in an eighty-nine page report declared that Saudi Arabia is spreading “hate propaganda.” The literature incites ordinary Muslims attending mosques “to hate Christians and Jews and to kill any Muslim who converts to another religion….to behave [in the United States] as if on a mission behind enemy lines.”

    In a classic case of speaking out of both sides of its mouth, Saudi Arabia through Abdulmohshen Alyas, spokesperson for the Saudi embassy in Washington D.C. declared, “Saudi Arabia condemns extremism or hateful expression among people anywhere in the world.” Apparently hating and killing Christians and Jews in the name of Allah is not viewed as extremism or hateful. In fact it is the obligation Islam lays upon every true Muslim.

    This time the invasion is not with armies but with immigrants. As avowed Muslims, building their mosques and keeping themselves aloof from neighbors through Arabic/Islamic customs and religion that date back to the days of Muhammad. This new breed of Islamic “invaders” knows in their hearts that Islam must inevitably conquer the world. If they fail in this quest, Muhammad was a false prophet and Allah was a false deity –which no Muslim can admit without being marked for the death penalty prescribed for apostasy.

    This new invasion army will use democratic process to gain control in communities where immigration creates Muslim majorities. And when they are strong enough, inevitably sharia must follow. The very human rights that are denied in Muslim countries are being used to destroy the Western world that grants them.

  • John_Kelly

    Beware America. Saudi Arabia – Is the hidden enemy!!

    In July 2002, “a RAND Corporation analyst told the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board that Saudi Arabia was an enemy of the United States [that]…Saudi’s were ‘active at every level of the terror chain.’ It is clear that Saudi Arabia now “exports two products around the globe –oil and religious fanaticism.” Dore Gold former Israeli ambassador to the UN documents the uncomfortable truth about Saudi Arabia in his excellent book (Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism) that everyone in the West ought to read –especially our leaders.

    There is no way to explain away today’s suicide bombers and other Muslim terrorists as a handful of “extremists.” In Muslim countries, terrorists are treated with the same hero worship that matadors receive in Spain and that NFL and NBA stars receive in America. Their faces appear on posters everywhere, with slogans of praise and admiration.

    Saudi Arabia’s King Ibn Saud said “for a Muslim to kill a Jew…ensures him an immediate entry into Heaven.” ……..This is the TRUE FACE OF ISLAM!

  • John_Kelly

    In July 1977, an Englishman with a miniature camera was able to take photographs that shocked the world…the public execution in Jeddah of Princess Mishael bint Fahd bin Mohammed…and her boyfriend, Khalid Muhallah.

    She was shot six times in the head. He was beheaded. The photographs became part of Anthony Thomas’ TV documentary, “Death of a Princess.”

    This news threw the Saudi’s into a fit of rage, and Western governments hurried to suppress the showing of the film. In 1980 the Carter Administration strenuously opposed the program being shown on PBS television.

    If Jimmy "The Wimp" Carter was an embarrassment to America, how much worse is President Obama who bows in submission to Islam at every opportunity.

  • davarino

    We ought to have an Occupy islam protest before its to late.

    alloha snackbar (I added my own version but I love this poke in the eye)

    • John_Kelly

      Great quip davarino. ………"alloha snackbar" ….. I love it…..hope you don't mind if I plagiarize this very quotable quote.

      Even humor is a powerful weapon in the battle against Islam as they have proven for 1300 years that Mohammad and his followers were blessed with the humor of a Grizzly Bear with an ingrown toenail or a Great White Shark with a toothache.

      Just look at any photograph of the Ayatollah Khomenei and you can see the "happiness" exuding from his loving countenance !!!!!! LOL.

  • SAUDIMEDIC

    A great book that has been largely overlooked is “Paramedic to the Prince” It was written by an American paramedic who spent ten years working in Saudi Arabia, and was on the private medical staff of King Abdullah. This book is took me inside Saudi like no other book I have yet read. Most books about the Middle East are a analytical view from the outside looking in. No other western writer has been this close to the “House of Saud”, and written the tale. I am sure this is the best insider look into this strange country that has dared to be written. Bought it on my Kindle and really could not put it down

  • ObamaYoMoma

    For decades now, the West and America in particular, has been pretending that Saudi Arabia is our ally.

    No…really? You think?
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    I am a 9/11 survivor from NYC, and have been working on the issues of non-violent radical Islam for years, as you know, Jamie

    I wish you guys could learn to stop calling it radical Islam in strict adherence to the unwritten rules of PC multiculturalism because it implies that there is a version of Islam that is not radical and that is moderate in stark contrast. It also reinforces the false PC multicultural myth that Islam is a so-called “Religion of Peace™” being hijacked by a tiny minority of extremist and radical Islamists, as all three latter terms are also PC multicultural loaded terms as well that should also be avoided like the plague, by the way.

    The truth is per the sixth and most important pillar of Islam, it is an obligatory duty in Islam for EVERY MUSLIM to fight jihad in the cause of Allah against non-Muslim unbelievers to make Islam supreme. Indeed, the sixth and most important pillar of Islam doesn't make it an obligatory duty for only EXTREMIST MUSLIMS to fight jihad in the cause of Allah, and the sixth and most important pillar of Islam doesn't make it an obligatory duty for only RADICAL MUSLIMS to fight jihad in the cause of Allah, and the sixth and most important pillar of Islam doesn't make it an obligatory duty for only ISLAMISTS to fight jihad in the cause of Allah, while at the same time giving an exemption and free pass to so-called MODERATE MUSLIMS to fight jihad in the cause of Allah. Instead, the sixth and most important pillar of Islam make is an obligatory duty in Islam for ALL MUSLIMS to fight jihad in the cause of Allah against non-Muslim unbelievers to make Islam supreme. NO EXCEPTI0NS.

    Thus, ALL MAINSTREAM ORTHODOX MUSLIMS are jihadists. A few of them are violent jihadists, while most of them are non-violent stealth and deceptive jihadists, and the few that are not jihadists are not Muslims at all, but instead blasphemous apostates that per the dictates of Islam should be executed.

    Indeed, jihad and terrorism are mutually exclusive and two entirely different thing altogether. However, because of PC multiculturalism that pervades our society thanks to the prevalent dominance of Leftism, which controls the discourse in our society today, jihad in our society is always conflated and morally equated as being terrorism. However, jihad, which is holy fighting in the cause of Allah against non-Muslim unbelievers to make Islam supreme in stark contrast to terrorism can be both violent and non-violent and is also a product of Islamic civilization only, while terrorism, on the other hand, which as it names implies is always only violent is a product of Western civilization only. Thus, this tendency to always conflate and morally equate jihad with terrorism, which again is always violent, causes the many varieties of non-violent stealth and deceptive jihad to be able to operate within our society completely unopposed, undetected, and unacknowledged.

    Indeed, the most prevalent form of non-violent stealth and deceptive jihad taking place today in the world completely unopposed, undetected, and unacknowledged is mass Muslim immigration to the West for the purpose of demographic conquest. In fact, in country after country and anywhere and everywhere mass Muslim immigration is occurring in the world today, just like clockwork the vast overwhelming majority of Muslim immigrants flat out refuse to assimilate and integrate and instead form segregated Muslim only enclaves that in time inevitably morph into Muslim no-go zones ruled by Sharia as fifth columns and in direct contravention to the laws of the states in which they reside.

    Furthermore, Muslims never ever migrate to the West or anywhere else for that matter to assimilate and integrate but instead to eventually subjugate and dominate for the purpose of demographic conquest to make Islam supreme. Nevertheless, thanks to PC multiculturalism that again pervades our society, this extremely obvious phenomenon that just like clockwork happens everywhere mass Muslim immigration is taking place in the world today, is always avoided like the plague and never ever discussed.

    As a matter of fact, everyone is concerned today about the recent inevitable failure of the super committee to cut $1.2 trillion dollars from future federal budgets, especially in regard to our national defense budget, which would result in the hollowing out of our military and also swing the door wide open for the forces of totalitarianism to dominate the world at the same time.

    –continued below

  • ObamaYoMoma

    However, what no one is mentioning deliberately is the cause of this impasse, which is mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage. Indeed, if the USA simply outlawed Islam and banned and reversed mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage ASAP, it would overnight virtually eliminate the possibility of jihad attacks on the homeland. Therefore, we could easily roll back the Patriot Act, the humongous Department of Homeland Security, the extremely intrusive TSA, and the gargantuan National Intelligence Directorate in one fell swoop and at the same time easily get our financial house back in order.

    Yet again because of PC multiculturalism that pervades our society and dominates the discourse today, such an easy solution remains off the table. Indeed, it is insane how damaging PC multiculturalism has become.

    We are not really in a War on Terror; terrorism is a tactic.  We are in a war against – not all Islam – but certainly radical Islam, and nobody wants to acknowledge that.

    Indeed, the misguided War on Terror is utterly absurd and provides a very vivid example of how so incredibly incompetent the Bush administration actually was. As terrorism, which is always violent as its name implies, is a product of Western civilization only, while jihad, on the other hand, which is holy fighting in the cause of Allah against non-Muslim unbelievers to make Islam supreme and in stark contrast to terrorism can be both violent and non-violent is a product of Islamic civilization only. Hence, the Bush administration was so misguided and inept that it declared war on what is a Western manifestation only.

    In addition, I hate to rain on Ms Weiss's PC multicultural parade, but since the divine texts and tenets of Islam are immutable, there can be only one true version of Islam and the main goal of that one true version of Islam is irrefutably to make Islam supreme in the world via the imposition of Sharia. Hence, the presence of a so-called Radical Islam which is supposedly diametrically opposed to so-called Moderate Islam is a false fantasy based PC multicultural myth. The truth is there is only one version of Islam because there can only be one version of Islam and that one version of Islam fully intends to make Islam supreme.

    Thus, since Bush like an idiot declared war on a manifestation that is a product of Western civilization only and also because Islam's main goal is to make Islam supreme via the imposition of Sharia, we must drop the completely misguided War on Terror ASAP before we go bankrupt, and transition to a new saner strategy of containing the growth and expansion of Islam instead.

    Additionally, those who adhere to this radical ideology are not always terrorists.  Many have a non-violent strategy to undermine our freedoms from within.  As I said, it’s a stealth jihad and it’s not being adequately addressed.

    Okay, let's drop the religion nonsense, because Islam is not a religion at all. Instead, it is a supremacist theo-political totalitarian ideology that seeks to subjugate the world into a very draconian form of Islamic totalitarianism via the imposition of Sharia to make Islam supreme. Islam only masquerades as being a religion to dupe the societies it fully intends to eventually subjugate.

    In that regard, Islam is far closer to Communism than it is to being a religion, as exactly like Communism, Islam seeks world domination, and the end result of Islam, exactly like Communism, is totalitarianism and lots and lots of misery.

    Thus, allowing millions of Muslim jihadists to immigrate to the West to form Muslim no-go zones ruled by Sharia as fifth columns, is analogous to the West allowing millions of Communists to migrate to the West to infiltrate our countries and form fifth columns during the height of the Cold War, and ignoring the many forms of covert non-violent stealth and deceptive jihad is analogous to the West ignoring the covert war waged by the Soviet KGB during the height of the Cold War, when the Cold War was a war that was primarily fought behind the scenes covertly.

    Indeed, non-violent jihad relative to violent jihad actually takes place astronomically far more prevalently. Hence, continuing to allow the many non-violent varieties of stealth and deceptive jihad to take place under the radar completely unopposed, undetected, and unacknowledged like it is today, will inevitably result in the destruction of the West.

    • scum

      Can you smell the rat? According to the vast majority of Muslims (Sunni), there is no 'sixth pillar of Islam'? That concept is held by a small minority. Furthermore, the concept of 'jihad' encompasses a wide range of actions (jihad = struggle) that account for various behaviors. In addition to the famous, and fateful, 'jihad of the sword,' there's the 'jihad of the heart,' the 'jihad of the tongue,' and the 'jihad of the hand.' No let's move on to more important matters: 1) you won't be able to 'contain' Islam. 2) in terms of the KGB fighting a covert war – the U.S. did plenty of the same. Perhaps you've never heard of the CIA?? Is it actually covert warfare and spying that you disapprove of, or just someone else doing it??

      • ObamaYoMoma

        Can you smell the rat? According to the vast majority of Muslims (Sunni), there is no 'sixth pillar of Islam'? That concept is held by a small minority.

        Congratulations! You are exactly 100 percent correct, of course, if you are gullible and stupid enough to swallow the garbage spewed by professional paid apologists of Islam and non-violent stealth and deceptive jihadists. Fortunately, most people aren't quite so gullible and easily duped as you.

        As a matter of fact, the Noble Koran that is published in Saudi Arabia by the “King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur’an, Madinah, K.S.A.” on page 39 says the following about the Sixth and most important pillar of Islam: “Al-Jihad (holy fighting) in Allah’s Cause (with full force of numbers and weaponry) is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars (on which it stands). Allah’s Word is made superior, (His Word being Lailaha illallah which means none has the right to be worshipped but Allah), and His Religion (Islam) is propagated. By abandoning Jihad (may Allah protect us from that) Islam is destroyed and the Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honour is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish.Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim, and he who tries to escape from this duty, or does not in his innermost heart wish to fulfil this duty, dies with one of the qualities of a hypocrite.

        Notice the sixth and most important pillar of Islam doesn't make jihad of the heart or jihad of the tongue or jihad of the hand an obligatory duty. Instead, it explicitly makes jihad “with full force of numbers and weaponry” in the cause of Allah against non-Muslim unbelievers to make Islam supreme an obligatory duty FOR EVERY MUSLIM ON EARTH! No exceptions.

        By the way, the “King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur’an, Madinah, K.S.A.” just happens to be the biggest supplier of Korans in the USA and indeed around the world as well. As a matter of fact, approximately 80 recent of the mosques in the USA are owned and operated by the Saudis, and worldwide no other entity comes close to building, owning, and operating as many mosques around the world as the Saudis.

        In addition, to believe your absurd garbage, one would also have to completely ignore the fact that the doctrine of abrogation, which is universally accepted by all schools of Islamic jurisprudence in Sunni and Shi'a Islam, and which holds that when verses of the Koran conflict and contradict each other, the latter issued verses of the Koran abrogate, i.e., supersede and replace, the earlier issued verses of the Koran.

        Thus, since the sword verses of the Koran which collectively command ALL MUSLIMS ON EARTH to fight jihad in the cause of Allah against non-Muslim unbelievers to make Islam supreme were issued shortly before the death of Muhammad, those latter issued sword verses of the Koran abrogate, supersede, and replace all earlier issued verses of the Koran that they conflict with and contradict.

        Indeed, one of the oldest tricks in the world that non-violent stealth and deceptive jihadists and paid professional apologists of Islam deceptively use to dupe gullible useful idiots is to quote peaceful verses of the Koran that have been abrogated to insist that Islam is a Religion of Peace™.

        No let's move on to more important matters: 1) you won't be able to 'contain' Islam. 2) in terms of the KGB fighting a covert war – the U.S. did plenty of the same. Perhaps you've never heard of the CIA?? Is it actually covert warfare and spying that you disapprove of, or just someone else doing it??

        With respect to the rest of your ludicrous garbage, it is obvious that you are addicted to moral relativism and as a result also addicted to drawing insane moral equivalences, which has literally destroyed your mind and at the same time turned you into an insane self-hating moonbat.

  • scum

    The phrase "the West's fatal embrace" masks the simple fact that the hugging going on is by the Bushies and other neo-cons who have armed the Saudis and the mujahideen to the teeth . . . the same way they armed Saddam. Rummie was hanging out with 'Our Man in Baghdad' yuckin' it up when Saddam was well-known to be gassing the Kurds. Perhaps the chicken hawk defense of all this could be summed up with the phrase: "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." Either that or their just stupid. You choose.

  • LindaRivera

    Muslims in Sweden have not yet reached 20%. Imagine the horror when 20% is reached. European governments must stop their wicked demonizing and persecution of courageous non-Muslims who warn of the terrible dangers of Islam. European and UK governments have a MORAL RESPONSIBILITY to protect their nations' peoples.

    Centuries ago, Europeans fought desperate and bloody battles against barbaric Muslim invaders. Those Europeans would be shocked and horrified if they knew that today's European rulers have invited in the same Muslims whose Koran commands them to CONQUER all nations. In Britain, although polygamy is against the law, the UK government gives free welfare benefits and housing for the harems of Muslim males with their multiple wives and large numbers of children.

    In Israel, India, Europe and the UK, there are many no-go Muslim areas where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter. What terrors will happen to Europeans once Muslims have multiplied to the point where all of Europe and the UK become no-go Muslim areas? And as goes Europe, so goes America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and all of the other non-Muslim countries being rapidly colonized by Muslims.

    Sweden is being destroyed. A low intensity civil war has already started. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILt8mnZnMs

    When you click on the above link, the following is from the heartbreaking caption underneath:

    Sweden has imploded and there is nothing we can do about it until the next election. The crime and violence is out of control braking European records and the police resources are being cut back.

    There is a low level civil war ongoing that is affecting hundreds of communities. All of them have a large number of recent immigrants that came from north africa, arab and muslim countries. Most of them them have no understanding or tolerance for western cultures.

    Most of them have no basic understanding of local rules, traditions or culture cannot read or write, have never seen or used a bicycle, elevator, or thrashshute. In addition to this they have paid a large sum of money to be smuggled into sweden and be able to live on the social welfare system.

    The social system is collapsing under the pressures from the hundreds of thousands of immigrants that like a tsunami flooded our country in only 20 years. The effect is noticed in every part of the country, crime and the fear of violent crime is present everywhere. Social services are reduced and slipping away as asylumseekers get the best service before the swedes. The welfare offices are delaying all payments for weeks and months since they run out of cash.

    Swedes are no longer tolerating the disaster that our politicians have forced upon us. The fastest growing political parties are those who want to end the insane policies of radical extremist massimmigration that ultimately in the very near future will result in swedes becoming a minority.

    An example of the disaster is Trollhättan, Kronogården. Klockaregården is a carehome for elderly. Its surrounded by armed violent immigrant gangs, they shoot at the home, caregivers and elderly fear for their life but nobody will help them.

    Read political bloggers writing about the crisis:

    • John_Kelly

      Brilliant Post and this is information that EVERYONE needs to be aware of AND ACT UPON !!!

      Keep up the good fight.

  • voted against carter

    ' TAQIYYA '
    Do your own research about it if you don't know what this means.

    i s l a m IS EVIL. PERIOD.

    i s l a m strives for world domination.

    The q u r a n commands m u s l i m s to exercise jihad.

    The q u e r n commands muslims to establish s h a r i a h law.

    The q u e r n commands m u s l i m s to impose i s l a m on the entire world.

    i s l a m is NOT a religion, it IS a totalitarian ideology.

    i s l a m IS and has remained a death cult from its beginnings.

    i s l a m wants to dominate all aspects of life, from the cradle to the grave.

    s h a r i a h law is a law that controls every detail of life in a i s l a m i c society.

    From civic- and family law to criminal law.

    It determines how one should eat, dress and even use the toilet.

    Oppression of women is good, drinking alcohol is bad.

    The core of the q u r a n is the call to j i h a d.

    J i h a d means a lot of things and is a r a b i c for battle.

    i s l a m means submission, there cannot be any mistake about its goal.

    i s l a m and freedom, i s l a m and democracy are not compatible.

    They are opposite values.

    m o h a m e d 's "wife" was six years old.

    That makes m o h a m e d a P E D O P H I L E!!!

    And you want to base a "R e l i g i o n" on this a z s -holes rantings?

    Are you INSANE?

    I STAND with Israel

  • LindaRivera

    “One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”
    —Former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne’s prophetic warning to Europe in a speech at the U.N. In 1974.

    In Sweden, many Muslim youth wear a t-shirt proclaiming: "2030-then we take over"