A human rights organization claimed on Tuesday that an
Iranian-American man had been hanged by the Islamic regime for
committing murder in California.
...
“According to confirmed sources, Iranian authorities carried out the
death sentence for Hamid Samiee and another prisoner at Karaj’s Rajai
Shahr Prison on Wednesday November 4,” Iran Human Rights, a nonprofit
organization that claims to have sources within Iran, disclosed on Tuesday.
“Samiee, reportedly accused of committing an act of murder in
California, was arrested by Iranian authorities upon his return to
Iran,” according to the organization’s report. “He was sentenced to
death by Branch 71 of Tehran’s Criminal Court for the murder of an
Iranian man identified as Behrouz Janmohammadi.”
“Confirmed sources say Samiee was arrested in 2008 after the murder
victim’s family had reported him to Iranian authorities,” according to
Iran Human Rights.
Samiee and Janmohammadi were reportedly friends living in Californian
until an altercation took place between them, according sources who
spoke to the human rights organization.
...
A State Department official told the Free BeaconTuesday afternoon that Samiei is a dual citizen and that it is looking into the reports on his hanging.
“We are aware of reports of the execution in Iran of a dual citizen,
Mr. Hamid Samiei,” said the State Department official, who was not
authorized to speak on record. “We do not yet have official confirmation
of his death and are seeking more information.”
The State Department has been aware of Samei’s plight since late October, the source said.
“This case was brought to our attention on October 28,
immediately after the Foreign Interests Section at the Swiss Embassy in
Tehran was notified of Mr. Samiei’s impending execution,” the official
said. “We are not aware of any notification to the Department of State
or the Swiss Foreign Interests Section of Mr. Samiei’s arrest,
sentencing, or imprisonment prior toOctober 28. Iran does not recognize dual nationality.”
The Iranians often leave the State Department in the dark when it detains dual nations, the source said.
“The Iranian government does not notify the Department of State when
it detains dual nationals,” according to the official. “We generally
learn about these cases through the detainees’ family or friends. Once
we learned about this case, through the Swiss we asked for a stay of
execution and expressed our deep concerns about the apparent lack of due
process in this case.”
And we're going to trust this 'justice' system with nukes?
Muslims threaten to murder Pam Geller, media silent or cheering
I find the lack of a harsh reaction in the US media to threats against the life of Pamela Geller - the prominent blogger and organizer of last weekend's Mohammed cartoon drawing contest - incredible. Her life was threatened by the monsters from Islamic State earlier this week, but perhaps even more incredible is this clip from Fox News that went up a short time ago.
Radical Imam Anjem Choudary told Pamela Geller tonight on Hannity that
she should be tried in Shariah Court and slaughtered... for speaking out
against radical Islam.
Let's go to the videotape.
But it's not just the media. The United States government is ignoring its most basic task: To protect its citizens. Pamela Geller told Sean Hannity tonight that she reached out to the FBI
but has not heard back from them after ISIS issued a death threat
against her on Tuesday. Homeland Security has also not contacted her.
Let's go to the videotape.
This is the United States of America in 2015. Stay safe Pam....
A
Florida Family Association supporter happened to look up at the wall
behind the checkout line at the Sam’s Club located at 2021 Brandon
Boulevard in Brandon, Florida. He saw a large photograph of a check
made out from Sam’s Club in the amount of $2,500 payable to the Islamic
Community of Tampa located in the top left prominent position on the
wall. Florida Family Association snapped a cellphone photograph. Photographs indicated that no other non-profit organization received more than $500.
...
The Islamic Community of Tampa is also known as the Al-Qassam mosque. The Military Wing of the Palestinian Hamas is called the Al-Qassam Brigade. InvestigativeProject.org reports“The
mosque, according to Sami Al-Arian, was named after Izzedin al-Qassam.
Al-Qassam, a Syrian killed fighting the British mandate in 1935, ‘is
the main source of inspiration for the Islamic Jihad movement’
Palestinian scholar Ziad Abu Amr wrote in his book, Islamic
Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza. ‘The Islamic Jihad’s
supporters have elevated him almost to a saintly status.’”
...
Sami Al-Arian was indicted in February 2003 on 17 counts under the Patriot Act for allegedly being the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). In 2006, Al-Arian pleaded guilty
to one count of conspiring to make or receive contributions of funds,
goods or services for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
and was sentenced to 57 months in prison.
Sami Al-Arian refused to testify before a Federal Grand Jury regarding other Jihad activities. U.S. District Judge James Moody
ruled that Al-Arian must testify. A Virginia District Court held that
Sami Al-Arian had no legal basis to refuse to testify. The court held
him in civil contempt, and imprisoned him on November 16, 2006. Sami
Al-Arian was released from prison on June 27, 2014 after the United
States Department of Justice dropped charges.
This is rich... Guess which country is being threatened into complying with Sharia law....
A Muslim terrorist group is threatening a 9/11-type attack in Norway if a section of Oslo isn't turned into Sharia-compliant territory.
The Norwegian news portal VG Nett is reporting that a Muslim terrorist group, Ansar al-Sunna’,
is threatening that if a section of the nation's capitol isn't
transformed into a sharia-complaint Muslim nation, an attack rivaling
9/11 will be launched upon the Scandinavian nation.
VG Nett has stated that the Norwegian Police Security Service (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste - PST) is already familiar with many members of this particular terror group.
As translated by Michael Laudahn,
"If norwegian soldiers can take planes to Afghanistan, then Osama and Mohammed can also take planes to Norway, inshaAllah.
Now, the government must wake up and assume responsibility, before
this war spreads to Norway. Before the counterpart reacts. Before
moslems take the step necessary.
Do not confuse the moslems’ silence with weakness. Do not profit from
the moslems’ patience. Do not force us to do something that can be
avoided. This is not a threat, only the words of truth. The words of
justice.
A warning that the consequences can be fatal. A warning about a 9/11
on norwegian ground, or larger attacks than the one carried out on 22
july. This is for your own good and in your own best interest.’
We do not want to be a part of norwegian society. And we do not
consider it necessary either to move away from Norway, because we were
born and grew up here. And Allah’s earth belongs to everybody.
But let Grønland become ours. Bar this city quarter and let us
control it the way we wish to do it. This is the best for both parts.
We do not wish to live together with dirty beasts like you."
'22 July' is of course a reference to the attacks carried out on that date three years ago by Anders Breivik, a 'normal Norwegian boy,' who set off a bomb in Oslo and then went to a youth camp in Utoya and opened fire with a machine gun on a camp run by the ruling Labor party, murdering approximately 98 people. The Muslim terrorists would like to exceed that total.
And why did I say that this entire story is 'rich'? Because Norway is arguably the most anti-Semitic country in Europe. Here's what was going on in that youth camp the day before Breivik committed his terror attack:
“[I am] not aware that any release is imminent,” Abu Bakr
al-Sideeg, spokesman for the Sudanese foreign ministry, stated Sunday.
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was sentenced to death on May 15, in
accordance with Sharia law. Sharia law outlaws Muslim women marrying
non-Muslim men - and outlaws conversion under pain of death. Ishag, who
has refused to renounce her faith, also gave birth to a baby girl
Tuesday.
Ishag's husband, US citizen Daniel Wani, also denied that her release was imminent.
“No Sudanese or foreign
mediator contacted me. Maybe there are contacts between the Sudanese
government and foreign sides that I’m not aware of,” Wani told BBC. “As far as I’m concerned I will wait for the appeal which my lawyer submitted and I hope that my wife will be released.”
Manar Idriss, Sudan researcher for Amnesty International, reiterated that reports of a release remain unconfirmed.
“We’ve received no
confirmation that Meriam is going to be released and the appeal court
has yet to issue any such ruling confirming a release," she said.
Ishag was born to a Muslim father, but has insisted that she herself is not guilty of "apostasy," as she is not Muslim.
According to the British Telegraph,
she even produced a marriage certificate as evidence that she had not
committed adultery, and called three witnesses from her home town to
testify of her lifelong adherence to Christianity.
Sharia court
ultimately disagreed, and sentenced her to death and 100 lashes for
"adultery." The death sentence is not due to be carried out until 2016.
How 'humane' of them. They're going to let her nurse her newborn child for two years before they murder her.
Christian woman sentenced to hang in Sudan to be freed
A rare win for the good guys.
A Sudanese foreign ministry official has told AFP that a Christian Sudanese woman who was sentenced to hang for apostacy will be released.
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was condemned to death on May 15 under the
Islamic Sharia law that has been in place in Sudan since 1983 and which
outlaws conversions under pain of death.
"The lady will be freed within days in line with legal procedure that
will be taken by the judiciary and the ministry of justice," Abdullah
al-Azraq, a foreign ministry undersecretary, told AFP.
Azraq, who spoke via telephone from London, did not elaborate.
The 27-year-old gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday in a women's prison in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman.
Her husband, U.S. citizen Daniel Wani, visited Ishag and the baby on
Thursday, after being denied access earlier in the week, and told AFP both were in "good health."
Ishag was born to a Muslim father but told the court during her trial that she had never been a Muslim herself.
The court gave her three days to "recant" her faith and when she
refused, Ishag was handed the death penalty and sentenced to 100 lashes
for "adultery".
Under Sudan's interpretation of Sharia, a Muslim woman cannot marry a
non-Muslim man, so any such relationship is regarded as adulterous.
Especially given that her husband is a US citizen, she should leave Sudan and move to the US. You have to wonder how many more cases there are like this that we never hear about because there are no westerners involved.
On the London-Tel Aviv leg of my flight on Tuesday, I was sitting next to a Leftist, professor-looking type (so I conclude from the facts that he spoke unaccented Hebrew, read English and had a very different meal than mine) who was reading an article in the Financial Times about Britain's intent to become the largest Islamic banking center in the world outside the Middle East.
The latest pro-City move will be unveiled on Tuesday at the ninth World Islamic Economic Forum, known as the “Islamic Davos”. The Treasury hopes to launch a bond-like sukuk worth about £200m next year.
The plan – which has been worked on for many years – will be announced by David Cameron and is endorsed by Mr Osborne in the Financial Times as a means of stimulating Islamic investment in London and Britain.
“While others in the western world resist change, this government is
embracing it: banging the drum for British businesses, seeking out new
markets, welcoming overseas investment with open arms,” the chancellor
writes.
Mr Osborne hopes that corporate institutions will follow suit and issue sukuk bonds, promoting Islamic investment and generating more cash to fund British infrastructure.
Mr Cameron will also tell the London conference of plans for a new
Islamic index at the London Stock Exchange as a means of identifying
Islamic-compliant business activities.
However the Treasury is conscious of the possible political
ramifications of the plan, notably any suggestion that the issuance of a
sukuk bond might require the British government to restrict its dealings with Israeli-owned businesses.
But what does it mean when the British government is creating a huge bond issue that's designed for Muslim investors? Soeren Kern believes that the British government is on a path to establish two parallel financial systems - one like every other western economy and one that is Islamic. and this quote from British Prime Minister David Cameron sounds downright ominous.
Cameron said the new Islamic bond index on the London Stock Exchange
(LSE) would help stimulate fixed-income investments from Muslim
investors -- especially investors from oil-rich Persian Gulf countries
-- by helping them identify which listed companies adhere to Islamic
principles.
Investors who practice Islamic finance -- which is said to be
structured to conform to a strict code of ethics based on the Koran and
Sharia law -- refuse to invest in companies that are linked to alcohol,
gambling, pornography, tobacco, weapons or pork. Islamic finance also
forbids collecting or paying interest and requires that deals be based
on tangible assets.
And unlike the Financial Times, Kern believes that Israeli companies that hope to list in London might be hurt by this as well.
The Treasury also said some sukuk bond issues may require the
British government to restrict its dealings with Israeli-owned companies
in order to attract Muslim money.
Oh, and by the way, Islamic money is already a powerful force in London.
Britain is already the leading Western center for Islamic financial
and related professional services. It is a leading provider of
Sharia-compliant finance, with reported assets of $19 billion, according
to Islamic Finance 2013, a new report published by The City UK, a financial sector lobby group.
Britain is home to 22 Islamic banks, of which six are fully
Sharia-compliant. This is substantially more than in any other Western
country or offshore center and is more than double the number in the
United States.
In addition, 25 law firms are now supplying services in Islamic
finance, which is increasingly being used for major infrastructure
projects in London.
Islamic investment has financed London's Shard skyscraper -- the tallest building in the European Union -- and the 2012 Olympic Village. Middle Eastern investors own Harrods, London's most famous luxury department store, and the Manchester City football team.
Qualifications in Islamic finance are being offered by four
professional institutes and at least 16 universities and business
schools.
London is also a leader in Islamic retail banking services, with
institutions offering a range of Islamic banking products, such as
mortgages and car loans.
The growing demand for Islamic retail banking services is being
propelled by the demographic transformation taking place in Britain. The
Muslim population of Britain will top 3.3 million sometime before the
end of 2013 to reach around 5.2% of the overall population of 63
million, according to figures extrapolated from a recent study on the growth of the Muslim population in Europe.
This demographic earthquake -- which is being attributed to
large-scale immigration, coupled with high Muslim birth rates and
growing numbers of British converts -- is transforming the country's
business landscape.
The Guardian notes that the British government has already had to step in once to ensure there was no discrimination against Israel.
The government moved on Monday night to offer assurances that the
Islamic bond, or Sukuk, and the Islamic index would not encourage
investments that discriminate against Israel. Boris Johnson was forced
to order Transport for London to rewrite the contract for the Emirates
Thames cable car in the summer amid fears that Israeli companies could
have been blocked from involvement in the project. The United Arab
Emirates does not recognise the state of Israel.
The Emirates Thames cable car is a cable car that crosses the Thames River near Greenwich, and is included in the Oyster card, the London public transport card.
But if you're a Brit, here's what ought to sound most ominous.
Speaking on a stage that included Jordanian King Abdullah and the Sultan
of Brunei, Cameron dismissed criticism of increasing foreign ownership
in Britain: "I know some people look at foreign companies investing in
our businesses, financing our infrastructure or taking over our football
clubs and ask, shouldn't we do something to stop it? Well, let me tell
you, the answer is no."
I guess Cameron thinks he won't be around by the time they say 'convert or die.' What could go wrong?
Two Kuwaiti MP's have gone on television in recent weeks to defend their government's purchase of equipment for their security forces from the State of Israel. These kinds of deals were always made in the background, but for them to be acknowledged openly by the legislators of a Muslim country on television is really quite shocking.
Notice the dig at how little the Arab world to defend Kuwait against Iraq during the lead-up to and during the First Gulf War.
Mother of 14-year old executed by Islamists speaks
I am sure that many of you remember the story of Muhammad Qatta, who was murdered two weeks ago by Islamist Syrian rebels for 'cursing the prophet.'
The London Telegraph's Richard Spencer spoke with Nadia Umm Fuad, Muhammad's mother. Her story makes Muhammad's murder sound even more outrageous (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).
Mohammed was 14 when he was killed, earlier this month, prompting
international condemnation. He has become a symbol of the fears many Syrians
have for the future of a country where jihadists are vying with the regime
for control.
He is a counterweight – the comparison was Nadia Umm Fuad's – to Hamza
al-Khatib, the 13-year-old from Deraa in southern Syria returned by regime
troops to his parents battered, genitals removed, kneecaps smashed, burned
and with three gunshot wounds, early in the uprising.
Mohammed was working at the family's coffee stall in the Shaar district of
Aleppo when he made a fatal mistake. Pressured by a customer to hand over a
coffee on promise of payment, he shouted good-humouredly: "I wouldn't
give the Prophet Mohammed credit if he came here today." He was
overheard by two men on the opposite corner. Marching over, they whisked him
away in a car, ignoring his protestations of his love for the Prophet and
the objections of a militiaman from the Free Syrian Army nearby. Half an
hour later, they returned. According to Mohammed's younger brother and the
neighbours, he was staggering and fell to his knees, and had clearly been
beaten. A bag had been placed over his head.
"I heard them say, 'People of Aleppo and people of Shaar! Anyone who
curses God is given three days to repent. Anyone who curses the Prophet is
killed immediately'," Nadia Umm Fuad said.
The murder of Mohammed, a drummer boy in the revolution's early protest
marches, has shocked even the battle-hardened people of Aleppo. It is easy
for some to blame, as they do, the regime for inserting spies behind rebel
lines to carry out atrocities to discredit the rebels.
But the killing, to many, only confirms what they already know: that a wild
and untamed version of the most militant Islamist credos has entered the
conflict. Jabhat al-Nusra, the local affiliate of al-Qaeda, has issued a
statement condemning the death and denying responsibility.
Jabhat al-Nusra, though, is no longer the most militant group operating in
Aleppo, strange though that sounds.
The group has split between a largely local faction, which believes its
mission is simply to rid the country of President Bashar al-Assad and
implement Islamic rule, and a group swearing loyalty to the region's most
brutal al-Qaeda version, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, whose leader
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has tried to merge both countries' branches.
Many foreign jihadists are loyal to the latter. Others have formed their own
battalions, such as Jaish Muhajireen wa Ansar, led by a Chechen. Nadia Umm
Fuad thinks it was foreign fighters who killed her son, as they spoke
classical Arabic rather than the local dialect.
Anyone who can should get out of Syria as soon as possible. Unfortunately, this doesn't sound like it's going to be 'fixed' in any of our lifetimes. Isn't it great when the 'world's only superpower' decides to take a back seat?
Saudi textbooks teach how to chop hands and feet, how to exterminate Jews
Textbooks paid for by the Saudi government teach high school students how to cut off thieves' hands and feet in compliance with Islamic Sharia law. They also teach the students that Jews should be exterminated and that homosexuals should be put to death.
Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian schools teach children how to cut off a thief's hands and feet under Sharia law, it has emerged.
The shocking books, paid for and printed by the Saudi government, also tell teenagers that Jews need to be exterminated and homosexuals should be 'put to death'.
Recent editions were obtained by the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington, D.C.....
The books were published and handed out to 9th and 10th-graders despite Saudi Arabia's promises to clean up textbooks in the kingdom.
...
The textbooks were printed for the 2010-2011 academic year and translated from Arabic by the institute.
In one, for ninth-graders, students are taught the annihilation of the Jewish people is imperative.
One text reads in part: 'The hour (of judgment) will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. There is a Jew behind me come and kill him.'
I don't know why anyone should be shocked. I'd bet that the same textbooks are used throughout the Arab world, including among the 'Palestinians.' We already know that they're used in Britain (see also here)and the United States. Then again, the 'Palestinians' have their own textbooks....
If Bashar al-Assad is toppled, his replacement is likely to be an Islamist regime that implements Muslim Sharia law.
Let's go to the videotape. More after the video.
The embedded video, from Saraqeb in the Idlib province of northwestern
Syria, shows the carrying out of sentences handed down by a rebel sharia
field court.
Hundreds of local residents gathered to hear the sentence being
pronounced by a rebel. Two residents were found guilty of offenses
against sharia and sentenced to 40-50 lashes each.
The elder man was convicted of having his daughter, who had divorced
her first husband, married to a second man during the "cooling off"
period of three months required by sharia law. He did this ten days
before the 3-month period had ended and was sentenced to 50 lashes.
Like the sequester molesters, “Arab Spring” devotees have their own
fantasy vocabulary. The whoppers are “freedom” and “democracy,” the
ideals, we’re told, that have swept the Middle East, even as it sinks
into repression, social unrest, and the persecution of religious
minorities.
Islam and the West use the same words, but we are not
conveying the same concepts — just as a “cut” in your budget means
something very different from a “cut” in Washington’s.
Freedom? “Let it be known to you that the real meaning of
freedom lies in the perfection of slavery,” explained al-Qushayri, a
celebrated eleventh-century scholar of Islam.
I offer this bit of Islamist wisdom as an explanation, not a put-down. Not that the distinction matters much. As Spring Fever
makes clear, the culture of Middle Eastern Islam is convinced of
nothing so much as its own superiority. It does not judge itself by
non-Islamic standards, particularly the standards of Western
civilization, with which it sees itself in a conflict that will end only
when one side prevails.
The dynamic, classical, supremacist Islam of the Middle East teaches
that Allah has given mankind, His creation, the gift of sharia: the
“path,” the all-purpose societal framework — covering all aspects of
life, not just spirituality — for living in dignity through obedience.
“Freedom,” in this context, is to make the “free” choice to surrender
oneself entirely to this path.
That is the antithesis of a freedom to chart one’s own course, the
freedom of the West. Here, Allah is not the sovereign. Our faiths may
guide us, but the people are sovereign, with a right to govern civil
society as they see fit — including in contradiction of sharia’s
provisions, which deny what the West sees as basic civil rights.
One of Iran’s official press agencies
published photos showing the public amputation of a thief's fingers on
Wednesday. These show a man getting his finger chopped off with a
machine resembling a rotary saw.
WARNING: These images may shock viewers.
We contacted many of our Observers in Iran to ask them about this
machine. Some of them had heard about it before, but many discovered its
existence through these morbid photographs, which were reportedly taken
on Thursday. According to the INSA press agency, the man shown getting
his finger cut off was charged with robbery and adultery by a court in
the southwestern city of Shiraz. He was also accused of being at the
head of a criminal organisation. On top of losing one of his fingers, he
was sentenced to three years in prison and 99 whip lashes.
No independent witnesses were able to recount the circumstances
under which this amputation took place. Four photos of the scene
published by the press agency were widely relayed on social media
networks. Strangely enough, the man’s face did not betray any signs of
suffering in the photos, though it is possible that he might have been
drugged.
How humane! I'm sure Iran will be praised by the United Nations 'human rights council' when this topic comes up at their universal periodic review. What could go wrong?
What do Caribou Coffee, Church’s Chicken, J. Jill, and PODS Moving and Storage have in common?
They are all owned by Muslim Brotherhood-linked Arcapita Bank (formerly known as First Islamic Investment Bank).
Unlike most banks, Arcapita boasts a “spiritual advisor”–none other than Hamas-linked terrorist Youssef al-Qaradawi.
Qaradawi, you’ll remember, is the current spiritual leader of the
Muslim Brotherhood. He was exiled from Egypt under Mubarak, but now he’s b-a-a-ack, thanks to U.S. support of the “Arab Spring”.
...
Arcapita, presumably short for “Arab Capital”, buys and sells
businesses at a profit. The current list of their holdings is available
in their 2011 annual statement (pages 12-13). (If there’s no “exit date” listed, they still own that company.)
Arcapita is based in Bahrain, but it’s U.S. HQ is in Atlanta. First
Islamic Investment Bank changed its name to Arcapita in 2005, after the
Qaradawi connection went public. They had tried “Crescent Capital” for
their American branch, but apparently decided the Islamic link was still too obvious with that moniker.
Muslims know that Islam is not selling well in the West; they are
careful to conceal Islamic ties with name-changes so consumers cannot
connect the dots to brand names or distinguish between products that
fund terrorism and those that do not.
Arcapita’s spiritual advisor serves on the bank’s “Shari’ah Supervisory Board”
(see p. 113) to ensure that all financial transactions are
shari’a-compliant, or SCF. What does SCF include? That varies somewhat
depending on which Islamic legal school one is consulting, but always
bans anything involving “gambling, alcohol, pornography, dealing in pork products, or interest payments.”
To see why I may be able to enjoy Caribou coffee sometime soon, read the whole thing.
Are you concerned about the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsy winning Egypt's elections? Should you be? Well, if you're an Israeli, most of us think the answer is "yes." And if you're not an Israeli? Cal Thomas believes that you should be concerned too.
Morsi, who was educated in America, mouths the words the West wants to hear. He speaks of being president of "all Egyptians," promising to honor all international agreements made by the Hosni Mubarak regime.
A cleric, Safwat Higazi, introduced Morsi at a May 1 campaign rally and stated the Brotherhood's objective: "Our capital shall be Jerusalem, Allah willing." That seems to signal the real direction in which Morsi could take his country. It is certainly in line with Muslim Brotherhood thinking.
After more than three years of pandering and apologizing to the Islamic world, the Obama administration has produced a tree bearing rotten fruit. The White House congratulated Morsi on his victory. What else could it do? It won't admit error or acknowledge that the Arab Spring is starting to resemble a Siberian winter.
Iran continues its nuclear weapons program and threatens to wipe the "Zionist entity" off the map. Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Israel and urges Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to attack Iran, to which Russia has been providing nuclear technology. Should Egypt again become hostile to the Jewish state (the recent terror attacks from the Sinai border area are a sign that 32 years of stability there could unravel), Israel may be in greater peril than at any time in its modern history.
...
The Egyptian parliamentary election confirmed polling that indicates 60 percent of Egyptians favor complete adoption of Shariah law. Shariah does not require that future elections be held. Those polls also show an overwhelming majority of Egyptians want a religious government, stoning as a form of punishment, and limits on women and Christians in office.
...
The Muslim Brotherhood knows how Westerners think. It is playing us for fools. If we believe what has happened in Egypt and the upheavals in the rest of the Mideast will lead to democracy, human rights, equal rights for women and religious minorities, and freedom of speech and press, then we are fools.
And to think that I just picked up a laptop from one of their New Jersey stores for Mrs. Carl last September.... Best Buy - the big discount electronics chain that's very prominent in the New York area - is a platinum sponsor of CAIR - a group that is closely linked to Hamas.
The struggling retail giant recently used profits from American consumers to fund the annual banquet of a group closely linked to Hamas. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently listed Best Buy as a "Platinum Sponsor." Best Buy has refused to rule out future support for CAIR through numerous messages to its public relations department. The big box retailer is already in chaos amid the recent resignation of its CEO for personal misconduct, dwindling sales and bond downgrades.
In an email to me, the article's author, Marc Fink, said that Best Buy did not respond to repeated emails asking for comment. The article includes instructions to whom to write at Best Buy regarding its connection with CAIR and what to do if you get a response. Fink added this in the email:
Our goal is to secure a commitment from Best Buy to never support CAIR in the future.
I just found these internal email addresses: Susan Busch, Director of Public Relations: susan.busch@bestbuy.com, Lisa Hawks, Deputy Director of Public Relations: lisa.hawks@bestbuy.com
Please flood Ms. Bush and Ms. Hawks with emails about this:
Yet another illustration of what's wrong with America's Jewish leadership. The Anti-Defamation League - supported by your charitable contributions - helped to kill a bill banning Sharia law in the Florida State Senate.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Jack W via Bare Naked Islam).
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