Saturday, June 11, 2011

The Show Trial of Geert Wilders – Part 1

The following was written by Babs Barron:

Definition - show trial - a trial held for show; the guilt of the accused person has been decided in advance.
Some background:
Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician who is outspoken about the influence of Islam in Dutch society, a point of view which has attracted much support there as well as opprobrium.

Wilders has campaigned to stop the "Islamisation" of Holland. He compares the Qu'ran with Mein Kampf in terms of the violence it advocates against Jews and other non-Muslims who refuse to convert to Islam, and has campaigned to have the book banned in Holland. Even more contentiously, he advocates ending immigration from Muslim countries, and supports banning the construction of new mosques. He was a speaker at the "Facing Jihad" Conference, in Jerusalem in 2008, which discussed the dangers of jihad, and has called for a hard line against what he called the "street terror" exerted by minorities in Dutch cities. His controversial 2008 film about his views on Islam, Fitna, received international attention and placed his life in danger from Islamists.
read more: http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2011/06/show-trial-of-geert-wilders-part-1.html

China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self-Sustaining City South Of Boise, Idaho

Thanks to the trillions of dollars that the Chinese have made flooding our shores with cheap products, China is now in a position of tremendous economic power. So what is China going to do with all of that money? One thing that they have decided to do is to buy up pieces of the United States and set up "special economic zones" inside our country from which they can continue to extend their economic domination. One of these "special economic zones" would be just south of Boise, Idaho and the Idaho government is eager to give it to them. China National Machinery Industry Corporation (Sinomach for short) plans to construct a "technology zone" south of Boise Airport which would ultimately be up to 50 square miles in size. The Chinese Communist Party is the majority owner of Sinomach, so the 10,000 to 30,000 acre "self-sustaining city" that is being planned would essentially belong to the Chinese government. The planned "self-sustaining city" in Idaho would include manufacturing facilities, warehouses, retail centers and large numbers of homes for Chinese workers. Basically it would be a slice of communist China dropped right into the middle of the United States.

read more: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/china-wants-to-construct-a-50-square-mile-self-sustaining-city-south-of-boise-idaho

Dr. David Mandy: Special Needs Son Harassed by TSA at Detroit Metropolitan Airport

By TARYN ASHER

WJBK | myFOXDetroit.com

ROMULUS, Mich. (WJBK) - The Mandy family says they were on their way to the happiest place on earth (Disney), but had to go through hell to get there.

"I realize they're trying to keep people safe, but come on, does he look like a terrorist?" said Dr. David Mandy.

The family was going through security when two TSA agents singled Drew Mandy out for a special pat down. Drew is severely mentally disabled. He's 29, but his parents said he has the mental capacity of a two-year-old, which made the experience that followed at metro Detroit's McNamera Terminal that much harder to deal with.

read more: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/taryn_asher/dad-special-needs-son-harassed-by-tsa-at-detroit-metropolitan-airport-20110608-wpms

Islam: Beating the Child Bride

Santa Cruz seeks Supreme Court's guidance over Nazi salute

J.M. Brown

jbrown@santacruzsentinel.com

SANTA CRUZ - In an effort to give government leaders greater authority to control public meetings, the city of Santa Cruz has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a free speech case brought by a persistent City Council critic who was arrested after making a Nazi salute and refusing to leave.

Lawyers for the city argue in a petition filed with the nation's highest court this week that officials nationwide need better guidance on limitations for maintaining order during public proceedings. The city notes that courts do not tolerate "hate gestures" similar to the one made by Robert Norse - who claims his ejection from a March 2002 council meeting violated the First Amendment - and therefore cities shouldn't have to, either.
"Petitioners have litigated this case for almost 10 years in the hope of securing judicial recognition that the broad protections of the First Amendment do not extend to hate gestures made during a city council meeting," the filing says.

The essential question facing the court is whether the Nazi salute is protected speech if it disrupts a public proceeding.

read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/central-coast/ci_18243103?nclick_check=1

Prominent Muslim “American” Businesses Celebrate “Legacy” of Khomeini

By Debbie Schlussel

On Monday, I told you about the large group of “moderate,” “American” Muslims who celebrated, honored, and memorialized the late Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Hezbollah and the man who sent his Iranian henchmen to take over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and hold Americans hostage for 444 days. I showed you the video on which these Muslims praised Khomeini for, among other things, “bringing America to its knees.” Yup, as I’ve been saying repeatedly for more than a decade, this is how the so-called “moderate,” “loyal,” “American” Muslims really feel, and now they are feeling brave enough to say it openly–that they hate this country and praise those who would destroy it. But this isn’t just in Washington, DC, at the Iranian Interests Section of the Pakistani Embassy, where the ceremony took place over the weekend.

read more: http://www.debbieschlussel.com/38330/prominent-muslim-american-businesses-celebrate-legacy-of-khomeini/

Zionism does not need propaganda

Because the Palestinians have shown no willingness to deal with their historical responsibility for what ensued, there is a grave moral defect in the Nakba discourse.

By Shlomo Avineri

I agree with Ronen Shoval ("Peace and the lies of the Nakba," Haaretz, May 16 ) that what happened to the Palestinians in 1948 was the result of their rejecting the UN partition plan and beginning a war meant to destroy the State of Israel. Because the Palestinians have shown no willingness to deal with their historical responsibility for what ensued, there is a grave moral defect in the Nakba discourse.

But Shoval bases his case on heaps of unfounded arguments. This provides a good opportunity to set the record straight, especially given the disgraceful article published last week by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in The New York Times, which makes no mention of the fact that the Arabs rejected the partition plan and declared war on Israel.

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/zionism-does-not-need-propaganda-1.363443

Chicago Man Convicted in Danish Terror Plot

By JOE BARRETT

CHICAGO—A federal jury found a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman guilty of two terror-related counts, including an aborted plot to attack a Danish newspaper, but found him not guilty of helping to plan the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

Associated Press

Tahawwur Rana in a December 2009 courtroom sketch.

After deliberating for two days, the jury late Thursday found Tahawwur Hussain Rana guilty of providing material support to the plot to attack a Copenhagen newspaper that had printed cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. The plot was never carried out. Mr. Rana, 50 years old, also was found guilty of supporting the terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Charles Swift, an attorney for Mr. Rana, said his client was "in shock." Mr. Rana, a Canadian citizen, faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison on the combined counts. He remained in federal custody without bond.

read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304259304576376060655801924.html?mod=rss_US_News

Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques

Posted by Jamie Glazov

Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Russian, U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling, United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror. His new book is Showdown With Evil. He can be reached at jamieglazov11@gmail.com.

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is David Yerushalmi, General Counsel to the Center for Security Policy, a Washington, D.C.-based national security think tank founded and headed by former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney. He is considered an expert on Islamic law and its intersection with Islamic terrorism and national security. In this capacity, he has published widely on the subject, including the principle critical scholarship on sharia-compliant finance published in the Utah Law Review (2008, Issue 3). He has also designed and co-authored (with Mordechai Kedar) a ground-breaking peer reviewed empirical investigation on sharia-adherence and the promotion of violent, jihadist literature in U.S. mosques published in the Middle East Quarterly (Summer 2011).

FP: David Yerushalmi, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

I would like to talk to you today about your Mapping Sharia project. Now that it is published as a fully peer-reviewed study in the Middle East Quarterly, what can you tell us about the findings?

read more: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/10/sharia-and-violence-in-american-mosques/

Nagorno-Karabakh War: Muslims Ethnically Cleansing Christians

Posted by Walter L. Brown Jr.

Nagorno-Karabakh War: One More Case of Muslims Ethnically Cleansing Christians

It's the same old conflict, just dressed-up with different names. The Armenians are Christians (same people that the Turkish Muslims slaughtered during WWI), the Azerbijanis are Shia Muslims and the Kurds are Sunni Muslims. Roughly 35% of the population of Iran is Azeri and Iran is the real Islamo-militant force in the region..

On February 22, 1988, the first direct confrontation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict occurred as a large group of Muslims marched from Agdam against the Christian populated town of Askeran, "wreaking destruction en route." The confrontation between the Muslims and the police near Askeran degenerated into the Askeran clash, which left two Muslims dead, one of them reportedly killed by an Muslim police officer, as well as 50 Christian villagers, and an unknown number of Muslims and police, injured.

Large numbers of Christian and Muslim refugees left as violence began against the minority populations of the respective countries.

Somalis facing terror charges now number 20

Article by: JAMES WALSH , Star Tribune

A former Eden Prairie resident is arrested for allegedly supplying money and personnel to terror group Al-Shabab.

A former Eden Prairie resident became the 20th person of Somali descent charged in Minnesota with supporting terrorism.

Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, 26, was arrested in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday morning and made his first appearance in federal court for the Southern District of Ohio. By Thursday afternoon, he was on his way back to Minnesota to face charges that he provided money and personnel to Al-Shabab, a group defined as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

A grand jury indictment, filed Tuesday but sealed until Mahamud's arrest, offers little detail. It alleges that he "unlawfully and knowingly" conspired with others to provide support to Al-Shabab and its efforts to "murder, kidnap, maim or injure persons in a foreign country."

read more: http://www.startribune.com/local/west/123568399.html

Low-profile, influential Hamas founder Shama dies

By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A founder of Hamas in the Gaza Strip died Friday of a stroke after decades as an influential yet little-known figure at the helm of the Palestinian militant organization. He was 76.
Muhammad Hassan Shama, revered by Hamas loyalists but nearly anonymous outside Gaza, was one of the eight founders of the Islamist group in the 1980s. After his death, Hamas publicly announced Friday for the first time that Shama had been the leader of the secretive Shura Council, its top governing body.

read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_palestinians_obit_shama

Evil Zionists pretending Psalms were written by Jews!

From Palestinian Media Watch:

As part of the continuing Palestinian denial of Jewish history in Jerusalem, a Palestinian researcher and specialist on Jerusalem has claimed that the well-known verse of the Hebrew psalm, "If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill," is not a Jewish source at all. He said that the words were uttered by a Christian Crusader, and have only recently been "borrowed" by Jews and "falsified in the name of Zionism."

The verse is in fact from Psalm 137 of the Hebrew Bible, which opens with the words: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." The psalm mourns the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian army in 586 BCE, is part of Jewish tradition and liturgy and has appeared in Jewish sources for thousands of years.

Palestinian Media Watch has documented the Palestinian Authority policy of denying Israel's history as the basis for its denial of Israel's right to exist. The PA often denies the existence of the Temple in Jerusalem, calling it "the alleged Temple."

The following are the words of Palestinian researcher Dr. Hayel Sanduqa on PA TV, claiming that the Hebrew Bible's psalm was actually first said by a Crusader:

"[The Israelis] have acted to change Jerusalem's character. Even the expression (Psalm 137:5) 'If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee.'

This statement, said by the Frankish [Crusader] ruler of Acre shortly before he left, was borrowed by the Zionist movement, which falsified it in the name of Zionism."

Haniyya: “No Negotiations With the Enemy, No Concessions On National Rights”

Palestinian Prime Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyya, stated on Friday that his movement is united and strong, and that the only language of negotiations with the occupation understands is the language of resistance.

Speaking to worshippers during the Friday noon prayers at the Al Omary Mosque in Gaza, Haniyya stated that Hamas is united and strong, and denied any internal conflicts among its leaders.

He stated that his government and the Hamas movement are committed to unity, to the Palestinian national interests, and that there will be no negotiations with the occupation.

Judge Somers plans to challenge lawsuit ruling

By J. Patrick Pepper

Press & Guide Newspapers

DEARBORN — A motion challenging a jury verdict against the city’s top judge could be filed next week.

19th District Chief Judge Mark Somers said Friday that his attorney from the state Attorney General’s Office is working on a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. A Wayne County jury last week found Somers fired former court probation officer Simone Calvas without just cause and awarded Calvas approximately $464,000 in past and future damages.

A judgment notwithstanding the verdict is an oft-requested but infrequently granted motion where a trial judge can exercise discretion to avoid extreme or unreasonable jury decisions. Literally, it allows the judge to enter a verdict notwithstanding a jury’s findings.

read more: http://www.pressandguide.com/articles/2011/06/10/news/doc4df2620a9030f795596158.txt