This is cross-posted from Aunty Brat's Assoluta Tranquillita blog. She does an awesome job, so go check her site out. Also, if you don't do anything else, please watch the video as we must NEVER FORGET what happened on that day, September 11, 2001.

Pastor Ed

 

Against GITMO trial in New York

 

Have YOU signed the Petition2Congress yet?

I have previously written about AG Holder and the BHO administration decision to take KSM to trial in a civilian court in New York, mere blocks from ground zero. You can read the background here, here, or here (just for starters.) Many Americans have rallied, raised their voices against such a travesty, but still the BHO mob persists in according terrorists all the rights of American citizens.

So much is wrong with this, and your voice needs to be added to those already on the record demanding that KSM - and all war criminals, self-proclaimed enemies of America - be tried by military commission.

PLEASE sign the petition to Congress here. 

Do it for these heroes:

 

September 11, 2001 WAS a national tragedy that gave us many heroes. Let's not add to that tragedy by allowing terrorists another platform from which to attack all who we hold dear.

PLEASE - sign the petition to Congress, for the families.

Petition here.

Cross-Posted from The Snooper Report from Pat Dollard and Bev Perlson

While Eric Holder Sets Voter-Beating Black Panthers Free: Lt Behenna Clemency Hearing Location And Time

Napolitano Claims Airline
Security System Worked!!

Dear Ed, 

On Christmas Day, we were reminded once again that there is Islamist evil in the world intent on destroying America and killing Americans. 

A Nigerian Islamist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight during its approach to Detroit. He was subdued by passengers and the flight crew. 

In spite of the fact he was able to smuggle an explosive onto the plane, and in spite of the fact that his father had warned U.S. officials about his son’s “extreme religious views” (translation: jihadism), Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Sunday the airline security system ultimately worked! 

Once again we see a politically correct-driven disconnect among government leaders between the ideology of jihad and the acts of jihad. What has been the consistent thread among every publicized Islamist terror attack in America this year? 

Jihad. 

We will continue to be vulnerable so long as too many government officials are more concerned about giving “offense” to Islam than in really protecting us from acts of jihad motivated by the ideology of jihad.

Jihad 101

Center for Security Policy | Dec 28, 2009
By Frank Gaffney, Jr. 

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano came in for some well-deserved criticism for declaring over the weekend that "the system worked" with respect to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's effort to blow up the plane he was flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. By Monday, she was backpedalling, acknowledging that "our system did not work in this instance." 

In truth, for a lot of Americans, Ms. Napolitano has not had much credibility since she tried to ban "terrorism" from the official lexicon of her department. But arguably the most serious indication that she is wholly ill-equipped to carry out her present responsibilities can be found in another - as yet uncorrected - statement she made on Sunday. She told CNN's "State of the Union" that, "Right now, we have no indication [that Abdulmutallab's actions were] part of anything larger." 

Not "part of anything larger"? Is she serious? Does she take us for fools? 

Read my lips, Secretary Napolitano: Abdulmutallab's actions were absolutely, positively part of something larger. What they were part of is the comprehensive theo-political-legal program that authoritative Islam calls Shariah. 

This supremacist program requires its adherents to engage in jihad, or holy war, to bring about the triumph of Islam under a global theocracy, one that will impose Shariah on Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Pursuant to Shariah, jihad should - wherever practicable - be pursued through the terrifying use of violence. Where violent jihad is impractical or would be counterproductive, Shariah directs faithful Muslims to use other means to advance the same goal. Koran expert Robert Spencer calls the latter "stealth jihad." 

The question must be asked: Are we seeing a dramatic increase in violent jihadism in America - National Public Radio reported on Saturday that there had been fourteen attempts in 2009 (compared to two or three in recent years) and that they had been increasingly "operational" in character, not just "aspirational" - because violence is now seen to be practicable here? 

Specifically, could it be that jihadists have been emboldened by what they see as weakness and/or fecklessness on the part of the U.S. administration? Could steps Team Obama has taken - such as the closure of Guantanamo Bay, the release of some hardened terrorists held there to Yemen (where Abdulmuttalab claims he got his plastic explosive device), granting others access to civilian courts and constitutional rights, etc. - actually be emboldening them to believe that murder and mayhem will accelerate the defeat and conquest of the infidel West? 

The U.S. government was warned by Abdulmutallab's father at least two months ago that his son had been "radicalized" - in other words, that he had embraced Shariah. That being the case, he was transformed from being one of the hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world who are not a problem into one of those who are. 

In the wake of the latest, narrowly averted massacre at the hands of jihadists, we are being promised executive branch reviews of the practice that, in the wake of his father's warning, put Abdulmuttalab on the improbably named Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) database - but did not revoke his multiple entry U.S. visa or otherwise keep him from flying. Multiple congressional investigations will be launched, as well. 

Such reviews will, however, amount to little more than a waste of time and taxpayer resources - and possibly a serious distraction - if they do not address, and henceforth require screening for, the motivation for such attacks. It is absurd to think that "the system" is going to do anything other than exponentially increase the amount of discomfort for airline passengers as long as it does not weed out those who embrace as an article of faith their duty to destroy us. 

We need to be equally clear about the menace posed by those who adhere to Shariah but profess to seek to "Islamicize" America through non-violent means. In the wake of the recent actual and averted attacks, the press has, for example, trumpeted the views of parents of five jihadists from Northern Virginia, imams at mosques where they worshipped and prominent fixtures in the various Muslim Brotherhood front organizations. Unsurprisingly, all of them profess shock - shock! - that these young people would want to do as they have been taught to, pursuant to Shariah: namely, follow the way of jihad against the Dar al-Harb (the "House of War" that is the non-Muslim world). 

Nowhere in these disinformation operations is any mention made of the Muslim Brotherhood's self-declared mission in America. According to an internal Brotherhood strategic plan dating from 1991, that mission is: "A kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah's religion is made victorious over all other religions." 

As long as Janet Napolitano, Attorney General Eric Holder, the intelligence community, law enforcement, the military, the media and most especially President Obama refuse to acknowledge what animates our enemies, we will never develop an effective strategy for defeating them, let alone successfully implement it. Part and parcel of achieving such an understanding is to stop allowing the stealth jihadists in our midst to blind us to this reality. 

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is President of the Center for Security Policy, a columnist for the Washington Times and host of the nationally syndicated program, "Secure Freedom Radio."

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Are our airways safe? It's a subject that hits very close to home, as our son, Brock, is a flight attendant. I will post the "insane" comments of Janet Napolitano about how the system worked. Below that will be links to articles at The Snooper Report.

Merry Christmas from Terrorists: NW Airline Terror Attack

Terrorists, Libtards and Obama: All Speak the Same Language

Leftinistra Beclowned On Terrorist Attack In Detroit

More Tax Money Going to Fund the Anti-Jihad That Doesn't Exist

Terror In Detoit! The System Worked! The SECOND Nigerian Strikes TODAY!

Where Have These Turkeys Been? Hoekstra Doubles Down on Criticism of Obama

 

And here are a couple of my comments on one of Snooper's posts.

And what a stupid thing to say, "the system, after the incident occurred, the system worked". What would she have said had he blown the plane out of the air? Maybe it would have sounded like this - once the plane was blown to smithereens the recovery "system" worked - the family notification "system" worked?????? Can anyone explain what system worked when a passenger had to be a hero and the crew had to keep the jihadi scum subdued until the plane landed. Maybe this hits just a little too close to home for me - but I don't see any "system" the feds have or don't have in place that worked here! And knowing some of the "added security measures" that Brock told me about - his job just got more difficult because of the "system" failures!

Dear Ed,

The article below is longer than we typically send out, but it is so important to the understanding of what we are facing that we are making an exception and emailing it to you.

The article exposes the myth of the “tolerance” that Muslims extended to “infidels” during the Islamic occupation of Spain. It also exposes the myth that the Islamic culture in the Middle Ages was superior to that of non-Muslim cultures, by documenting how Islamic imperialism reaped the benefits of cultures such as the Greeks and Byzantine Empire, but offered little in the way of innovation or renaissance.

Why is this important to us today? It’s well-worth reading the article below to learn the answer.
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The Twin Myths of Eurabia

From the desk of Fjordman on Sun, 2006-07-23 20:27

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1211

Bat Ye’or is the most informed contemporary scholar of the unique Islamic institution of dhimmitude, the repressive and humiliating apartheid system imposed upon those non-Muslims (i.e., dhimmis) subjugated by Jihad. Sir Jadunath Sarkar, the pre-eminent historian of Mughal India, wrote the following in 1920 regarding the impact of centuries of Jihad and dhimmitude on the indigenous Hindus of the Indian subcontinent:

“The conversion of the entire population to Islam and the extinction of every form of dissent is the ideal of the Muslim State. If any infidel is suffered to exist in the community, it is as a necessary evil, and for a transitional period only. Political and social disabilities must be imposed on him, and bribes offered to him from the public funds, to hasten the day of his spiritual enlightenment and the addition of his name to the roll of true believers.” “A non-Muslim therefore cannot be a citizen of the State; he is a member of a depressed class; his status is a modified form of slavery. He lives under a contract (zimma, or ‘dhimma’) with the State: for the life and property grudgingly spared to him by the commander of the faithful he must undergo political and social disabilities, and pay a commutation money. In short, his continued existence in the State after the conquest of his country by the Muslims is conditional upon his person and property made subservient to the cause of Islam.”

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This entire episode just makes me sick. I understand compassion, but the release of the convicted, unrepentant terrorist makes me wonder where the minds of some people have been. Do they not realize that this type of action only emboldens the terrorists of the world and does not give the normal desired affects of compassion.

I chose the following YouTube video to bring out two outrageous points. 1) The terrible scene and heroes welcome this terrorist received, and 2) the fact that the Obama Administration asked for the terrorist to be put on HOUSE ARREST. - you are kidding me, right?

I have to just give the link, as the embedding code was disabled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkYI2yaESBA

Be prepared to be upset if you haven't been following this story.

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Reports: Lockerbie Bomber to Be Released

 

........ can we get a "Just Say NO" to allowing this kind of garbage to happen here on our own soil????

 

Islamic Supremacist Group Holds First U.S. Conference

A group committed to establishing an international Islamic empire and reportedly linked to Al Qaeda is stepping up its Western recruitment efforts by holding its first official conference in the U.S.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Sunni network with reported ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq's onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It has operated discreetly in the U.S. for decades.

Now, it is coming out of the shadows and openly hosting a July 19 conference entitled, "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam," at a posh Hilton hotel in a suburb of Chicago.

Hizb ut-Tahrir insists that it does not engage in terrorism, and it is not recognized by the State Department as a known terror group.

But some terrorism experts say it may be even more dangerous than many groups that are on the terror list.

Click this link to read the rest of this story at Fox News.com.

Detainees Freed in Bermuda Say China Worse Than Gitmo

FOX News spotted the newly freed detainees at a guest cottage complex on the island without security or electronic monitoring, but their attorney said they will have to periodically check in with local police

The four of the Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, released to Bermuda from the Guantanamo Bay prison told FOXNews that they are innocent, glad to be free and hold no grudges against the United States for their captivity.

The men, who range from 31 to 38 years old, also said they think life in China, where they face persecution, is worse than life at Guantanamo.

With the help of a translator, they said they didn't know anything about Al Qaeda or Usama bin Laden, despite past allegations that they had aided the terror mastermind's escape.

"I am not a terrorist. I have never been terrorist," one of the men told FOXNews. "Iwant to live peacefully."

The Uighurs, released this week, are staying at a guest cottage complex on the island without security or electronic monitoring, but their attorney said they will have to periodically check in with local police.

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H/T MDVet at Dollard's.

Yid With Lid:

Too many people on the liberal side of the fence argue that illegal immigration is a racial issue. They believe that those of us who want to secure the US boarders are inspired by racism, trying to keep out Hispanics. Last year’s story of the Hezbollah Mole in the CIA case (Nada Nadim Prouty) and the terrorists targeting Army base after sneaking over the borders, highlight the reasons we want true immigration reform without amnesty, it is why we want the borders secured before anything else is done. It is more difficult to launch an attack when you can’t get in the country.

In the video above al Qaeda recruiter, Abdullah al-Nafisi discusses how easy it would be:

“Four pounds of anthrax — in a suitcase this big -= carried by a fighter through tunnels from Mexico into the U.S. are guaranteed to kill 330,000 Americans within a single hour if it is properly spread in population centers there”

According to the Washington Times, government officials say there is no imminent biological threat—yet:

Article and video here.

UPDATE from a 12iggymom; Al Qaueda eyes bio attack from Mexico, TWT gets it wrong...AGAIN