MFS - The Other News

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• HT:BigPeace.FBI Has No Problem with Imam?Officials with the FBI’s Chicago field office said they had no problem with Kifah Mustapha, an Illinois imam who was named as an unindicted coconspirator by federal prosecutors in a 2008 terror trial, participating in a Bureau Citizens’ Academy and touring the secret National Counterterrorism Center.FBI spokesman Ross Rice said Mustapha has never been convicted of a crime or charged with a crime. “If we thought he was a security risk, we wouldn’t have included him,” Rice told Bill Gertz of the Washington Times.It seems the Chicago Bureau didn’t look very hard.An Investigative Project on Terrorism investigation has found that Mustapha, an imam at the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Ill., has an extensive history of raising money for groups tied to Hamas, the Islamist terror organization designated by the US government. That particularly includes the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the group for which Mustapha has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. The FBI severed its relationship with CAIR in mid-2008 because of concerns surrounding the group’s connections with Hamas.Other IPT findings include.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Chinese premier says Turkey, China decided to establish strategic partnership and it would be milestone in relationship between the two countries.Wen said he invited Erdoğan to China and the two countries also decided to establish joint mechanisms to fight against terrorism and extremism.Chinese party would exert efforts for development of commercial ties in a sustainable and balanced way and China was also eager to cooperate with Turkey in the areas of transportation and energy, he said.What more does NATO need to kick them out ?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Two tone river: Shocking images reveal the deadly toxic sludge draining into the river Danube.Aerial images over the river Danube reveal the overbearing disaster that pushed Hungary into a state of emergency.The torrent of toxic sludge which tore through three villages 160 km west of Budapest, has killed seven people after an 81-year-old man died today from injuries sustained from the river. Two bodies were also found on the outskirts of Devecser, Hungary.Environmental group WWF circulated images today, suggesting the reservoir may have been leaking as far back as June.The red sludge has devastated creeks and rivers near the spill site after entering the river Danube on Thursday, moving downstream toward Hungary's immediate neighbors, Croatia, Serbia and Romania.However, the sheer volume flowing in Europe's second largest river appeared to be blunting the red sludge's immediate impact.The Hungarian Government has appealed to its citizens not to flee the country as fears grew of a cloud of toxic airborne dust following the massive industrial spillage.As the sludge dries out it is turning to dust and there are fears of widespread breathing problems as a result.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• New Blood Evidence Found in Lake Pirate Attack.Sheriff Reports Blood on Tiffany Hartley's Life Vest Supports Her Account of Attack on Falcon Lake. this evidence is in addition to witness testimony that supports Tiffany Hartley's story that her husband was shot in the head by pirates on Mexico side of Falcon Lake.David Hartley is presumed dead, and officials on both the U.S. and Mexican sides of the lake are searching for his body.Gonzalez told Teague he believes the Hartleys were attacked by enforcers of the Zeta drug cartel. The Hartleys, Gonzalez says, were innocent victims of a bloody drug war. Smith added that while there has been some doubt cast on Tiffany Hartley's story, this is not the only reported incident of violence on this lake.Poe replied, "American fishermen, fishing both on the American side of the lake and on the Mexican side of the lake -- you can get a permit to do that -- have been robbed by pirates on the lake, some of them have been taken to the Mexican side, stripped of all of their clothing and their valuables and their boat and left stranded there. This is the fifth time since May there's been some type of violence -- but the first homicide." Poe said he'd like to see the United States to have more involvement in the search."The United States needs to use our resources, the Coast Guard. That needs to be operating on the lake at all times, not just this time," he said. "We have been very lax, in my opinion, as a nation, of protecting the entire southern border of the United States, including Falcon Lake.We need to cooperate, need better cooperation with the Mexican government, but need to have really the military presence on the southern border, and that includes putting the National Guard throughout the border, including the Air National Guard, if we are serious about protecting Americans and American property, and keeping the drug cartels out of the United States."I think first of all you need a new US president.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Obama confession: I didn't run to be popular (but please send me $3 anyway).The Obama political family has never been shy about asking for donations. Remember even after the decisive 2008 election victory they wouldn't stop seeking donations?"I know that sometimes it feels like we've come a long way from the hope and excitement of the inauguration, with its 'Hope' posters and historic crowds on the National Mall."Those were the days, eh, way back -- what was it, gee, just 21 months ago -- when an unemployment rate of 8% seemed outrageously high. In the days of 70% approval ratings, now nearly cut in half because, frankly, Americans have just not been listening well enough to Obama's ongoing political and spending campaigns.Then the pitch: The president would like a measly little $3 donation, more if you prefer. Thanks to an unidentified "fellow grass-roots supporter," the Democrat says, that donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar. That means, in case your calculator has choked on all those digits in the deficit, "your $3 donation will become $6."Please Lord deliver us of ALL evil?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:RedState.How Unions or Their Allies Could be Stealing November’s Election Right Now.Here is a prediction: Across the country, there will be races that some candidates will lose even though poll numbers, right now, indicate otherwise.As you read this, at present, you should know that there are only seemingly disconnected anecdotal dots that are starting to connect. However, if the dots do fully connect, we may not know until well after the November 2nd election if, in fact, America’s democratic election process will have become the victim of the biggest fraud in our nation’s history. What’s worse, with early voting beginning this week in many states, it may already be too late to do anything about it.As a result, if Americans don’t get more people to the polls, it is suspected that candidates will lose races where, right now, the poll numbers appear to have them leading.As we’ve been saying for months, November’s election outcome will be dependent on voter turnout. The unions and their allies have had their plans in place for months.There is less than a month to go.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• N. Korean Official: Kim Jong Un Will Be Next Leader.As North Korea prepares to celebrate the 65th anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party this weekend, a top official has confirmed that Kim Jong Il's youngest son will be the nation's next leader.Yang Hyong Sop, a senior official in the Workers' Party, told The Associated Press in Pyongyang that Kim Jong Un, the leader's youngest son, will succeed his father. It's the first public confirmation about Kim Jong Il's succession plan.He would be the third successive generation of his family to lead the nation of 24 million. His grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founded the nation in 1948 on a policy of self-reliance called "juche" and built a cult of personality around him and his son, Kim Jong Il.Kim Jong Il took over as leader after his father died in 1994 in what was the communist world's first hereditary transfer of power.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Welcome to the anti-stimulus.The good news: The private sector gained 64,000 jobs in September. The bad news? The public sector lost 159,000. And they weren't all census jobs, either. Local governments fired 76,000 workers. In other words, this is the first jobs report in recent months that isn't driven by census layoffs. If there were no census jobs at all, the report would still be negative.In other words, welcome to the anti-stimulus.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Memri:How Iran Portrays the U.S.Since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's return home from his annual appearance at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, his anti-U.S. rhetoric has scaled new heights. Iran's ideological stance towards the U.S., which it calls "the Great Satan," is well known; since Ahmadinejad became president, Iranian spokesmen's anti-U.S. statements have become even more extreme.This paper will examine three aspects of Tehran's current attitude towards the U.S., primarily among circles close to President Ahmadinejad: a) the Iranian regime's depiction of the U.S.; b) the Iranian depiction of U.S. President Barack Obama; and c) the issue of who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Your Intelligence Team at Work.This week in Washington, top officials charged with counter-terrorism duties attended an event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center. Members of the Center for Security Policy’s TEAM B II were there to ask them specific questions. Watch them dance around and obfuscate in response to questions by Diana West, Frank Gaffney and Christine Brim. These men– including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and FBI Director Robert Mueller– are America’s most senior officers in counter-terrorism, and they spend more time and mental energy defending a politically correct vision of the world than defending actual Americans. Does this convey confidence in your national security team?Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:AnsweringInfidels.Islam Beheaded: The Information Superhighway & the Death of Mohammedanism.Muhammad stands as the mediator of Allah's revelation to humans through the angel Gabriel. All Muslims regard Muhammad as a strong moral figure. But was he? What if we were to look at the earliest sources on Muhammad that are highly regarded and written by Muslims?The truth about Muhammad has been one of the world’s best-kept secrets. For centuries, it has been virtually impossible to raise objections about the character of Muhammad in Muslim countries, for anyone who raised such objections would (following the example set by Muhammad himself) immediately be killed. Outside the Muslim world, there has been little interest in Islam, and those who have been interested have typically relied on modern Muslim reports about Muhammad, such as the above passage from Mawdudi. But things have changed. Now the entire world is interested in Islam, and Muslims aren’t able to silence everyone.Moreover, with the advent of the Internet, it is now impossible to keep Muhammad’s life a secret. The facts about the founder of Islam are spreading very rapidly, and Muslims are frantically scurrying to defend their faith. But the information superhighway is paving over the ignorance that has for centuries been the stronghold of Islamic dogma.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• 'Georgia will certainly become NATO member'.Prime Minister of Georgia, stated that Mikheil Saakashvili, the head of stae, received the invitation to the upcoming NATO summit in Lisbon."At NATO summit in Lisbon Georgia will be represented with the president of the country, Mikheil Saakashvili. He was invited by our allies - NATO member countries and personally NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen," Nika Gilauri said.Summit will be held on November 19th-20th.Before his recent visit Rasmussen said neither Georgia nor Ukraine lost chances to join the Alliance.David Bakradze, the speaker of the Parliament, confirmed the desire of the official Tbilisi. "Georgia will certainly become NATO member: considering this condition was officially registered, the fact of joining is a technical issue and a matter of time."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Memri.Fears of a Coup in Iraq; U.S. Advises Politicians To Be Cautious.Iraqi political and security sources in Baghdad and the mid-Euphrates provinces have warned of a real danger of a military coup or of an attempt by Shi'ite military militias, associated with Iran, of taking control of the regime in Iraq.A political source told the daily al-Sharq al-Awsat that Iraqi leaders have resorted to fortifying their offices and homes and to limiting their movements in the capital. Some of these warnings were delivered by the Iraqi security forces or by the U.S. military command in Iraq.The same source told al-Sharq al-Awsat, "We do not completely exclude a military coup, since Iraq's political history is replete with military coups."Nouri al-Maliki, who serves as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, has surrounded the capital with military units [said to be the size of six divisions] that are under his orders. However, in the case of a failure to form a government, military leaders might initiate a coup under the pretext of preserving the security and political situation in the country.Hmmmm..."A New Dawn"indeed,but for whom?Read the full story here and here.Click here for comments.

• HT:RightWingMedia.Is the Department of Homeland Security Targeting "Oath Keepers"?Disturbing news, and questions arise from the news of a newborn baby being seized and taken from the baby's parents, and the affadavit states the affiliation of the father, John Irish to the group "Oath Keepers".Setting a chilling precedent and in a manner befitting the most tyrannical of regimes, the government seized a newborn baby girl today because the father has associated with the lawful, pro-peace, pro-constitution, anti-violence Oath Keepers. What makes this particularly scary is exactly that, that the ‘Oath Keepers’ is a peaceful, pro-rule of law organization which supports serving military, veterans, peace officers, and firefighters and reminds them of their oath to the Constitution of the United States in a direct and open manner.The affidavit said “… the Division became aware and confirmed that Mr. Irish associated with a militia known as the “Oath Keepers”…” It was in forms from the DHHS and DCYF and signed by “Child Protective Service Worker” Dana Bicford on October 7th at 11:57AM.If we in this “Free Country” are not free to associate with lawful and peaceful open organizations, or have to fear what many have termed “abduction” of our newborns if we do, who are we free to associate with or to do?! What government department is going to list the allowed organizations if we are not to have our children taken away from us? Where does it stop; are we free to visit with the Boy Scouts?Or were there other reasons behind this action?Read the full developping story here.Click here for comments.

• Iran :'Genius' Blogger Sentenced To 15 Years.Iranian blogger Hossein Maleki Ronaghi has been reportedly sentenced to 15 years in prison.Ronaghi’s mother, Zoleikha Mousavi, told the BBC's Persian service that authorities informed him about the heavy prison sentence verbally.She said that Ronaghi has been on a hunger strike since October 3 to protest his mistreatment in prison. He’s reportedly being held in an Evin prison ward that is controlled by the Revolutionary Guard Corps.His prison sentence comes only days after another blogger, Hossein Derakhshan -- who is known as Iran’s Blog father -- was given 19 1/2 years in prison, the longest sentence ever issued for blogging in the Islamic republic.Several free speech groups, including Article 19 and the Committee to Protect Journalists, have called on Iran to release him.Evin prison where the inmates are considered smarter then the guardians?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Bigotry against gun owners on display at street fair.“Now we are not here to debate their second amendment rights,” Thin Ice lead singer Russ Lesser announced to his Manhattan Beach Hometown Fair audience. “However, we are here to exercise our first amendment rights of free speech to ridicule this group for incredible bad taste and stupidity.”Ridicule who?They were not there "to debate." They were there to insult, to resort to the childish tactic of questioning the manhood of the open carriers, and to chastise them to "get a life" in a song written especially to attack the gun rights advocates. In other words, these "community leaders" were there to stir up crowd ugliness against a minority they disapprove of.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Settler leader drives into two Palestinian kids as they hurl rocks at him.David Be'eri, known right-wing activist and director of City of David, says he accidentally hit the children with his car after they hurled rocks at his vehicle.Hmmm.....Good thing there was a photographer present for the set up  Accident?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:PajamasMedia.More Disgrace: The Obama-Holder Justice Department Is Failing Our Military Voters.The latest: DOJ's complete failure to ensure that military voters get their 2010 ballots on time.The crack Department of Justice unit set up to protect military voters is beginning to resemble the Keystone Kops operation of 2008. It turns out that after they concluded that all the military ballots in Illinois went out on time, they were wrong.In fact, ballots in one of the largest counties in the state, St. Clair County, did not go out early enough to comply with federal law. In fact, it is unclear whether or not they have gone out at all.Yet inside the DOJ, the crack unit made inquiries in Illinois and went away satisfied that all was well, nothing to worry about.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Video: Obama's under water fantasy and the media celebrate ten years of Jihad . the weekly LATMA update. You'll especially enjoy seeing President Obama singing "Under the Sea.".See the whole thing here.Click here for comments.

• Nancy Pelosi says food stamps and unemployment insurance will grow US economy.Nancy Pelosi says that food stamps and unemployment insurance will grow the US economy and lift it from the recession that Barack Obama has helped to worsen. Pelosi, that genius and all-around brilliant analyst of the US economy and everything financial, spoke Wednesday in an overly defensive response to Newt Gingrich’s right-on-the-mark salvo against Pelosi and her Democrat Party. In recent comments, Gingrich correctly advised Republicans to make a contrast between Democrats who promote food stamps as their economic policy, and Republicans who actually promote the useful concept called paychecks to grow the prosperity of Americans. Confusingly, Pelosi reacted to Gingrich’s assertion by actually admitting that, yes, Democrats are indeed the party of food stamps (okay, and unemployment for everyone, too)!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Pregnant Muslim ordered to remove her veil in court because magistrates can't see her face.A pregnant Muslim woman was ordered by magistrates to remove her veil while she gave evidence against her violent ex-partner yesterday.Georgina Richards, 36, initially refused for religious reasons but reluctantly agreed when magistrates said they might not accept her evidence if they could not see her 'facial expressions'.The case at Leicester Magistrates Court was held up for over an hour while magistrates agreed to hear her evidence from behind a screen.She said: 'I was a bit unhappy that he told me to take my veil off.'They put screens up next to me but I didn’t really want to do it.'But I thought the case would be dropped if I didn’t take it off.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• You too can have a dream body – in your movies.If you dislike the way you look on video, a new kind of image-manipulation software could make you feel better about yourself.Developed by Christian Theobalt of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, and colleagues, it allows professional and amateur movie-makers to dramatically alter how muscular, leggy or heavy people appear on film. Until now this could only be done by laborious frame-by-frame retouching.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:PajamasMedia.Marxism, Socialism, Communism, and Obama.Tracing the president's behavior and opinions back to the source.“I don’t get it,” my friend said, shaking his head. “Obama is supposed to be so smart and such a brilliant politician … ”“Right,” I said. “So?”“So everything he has done or wants to do is a disaster! It’s all opposed by the majority of the American people. Even Democrats are running away from him as fast as they can. If he’s such a great politician, why does he keep doing things most people hate? And that’s not the worst part. When people complain, he calls them too dumb to appreciate what he’s doing for them!”Why indeed. The answer is deceptively simple: Barack Obama, the president of the United States, is a committed, doctrinaire socialist, and because Marxist philosophy is the foundation of socialism and communism, a Marxist. Many Americans are reluctant to accept this idea, despite overwhelming evidence, for two primary reasons: they don’t want to accept that they helped to elect him, and they’re not really sure what socialism and communism are, or what all the fuss about communism was about. After all, the Swedes are socialists — aren’t they all blondes in bikinis with charming accents?Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, European nations diligently labor to flee the worker’s paradises that are falling to ruin all around them. They can see a center where Mr. Obama cannot.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

MFS - The Other News

                          Morning Posting.

• HT:YidWithLid.Muslim Brotherhood Declares War on America; Will America Notice?This is one of those obscure Middle East events of the utmost significance that is ignored by the Western mass media, especially because they happen in Arabic, not English; by Western governments, because they don't fit their policies; and by experts, because they don't mesh with their preconceptions.Does that mean the Egyptian, Jordanian, and all the camouflaged Muslim Brotherhood fronts in Europe and North America are going to launch terrorism as one of their affiliates, Hamas, has long done? No.But it does mean that something awaited for decades has happened: the Muslim Brotherhood is ready to move from the era of propaganda and base-building to one of revolutionary action. At least, its hundreds of thousands of followers are being given that signal. Some of them will engage in terrorist violence as individuals or forming splinter groups; others will redouble their efforts to seize control of their countries and turn them into safe areas for terrorists and instruments for war on the West.Yet now here is the Brotherhood’s new supreme guide, Muhammad Badi giving a sermon entitled, “How Islam Confronts the Oppression and Tyranny,” translated by MEMRI. Incidentally, everything Badi says is in tune with the stances and holy books of normative Islam. It is not the only possible interpretation but it is a completely legitimate interpretation. Every Muslim knows, even if he disagrees with the Brotherhood’s position, that this isn’t heresy or hijacking or misunderstanding.In August 1996, al-Qaida declared war on America, the West, Christians and Jews. Nobody important paid much attention to this. Almost exactly five years later, September 11 forced them to notice. Let it be said that in September 2010 the Muslim Brotherhood, a group with one hundred times more activists than al-Qaida, issued its declaration of war. What remains is the history of the future.Hmmm....the enemy within did his job?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:ForeignPolicy.U.S. policy on Pakistan: heading for a major but unannounced change?My gut feeling is that U.S. officials are beginning to give up on getting serious anti-Taliban help from the government of Pakistan. My guess is that there won't be any official change stated, but more actions that Pakistani officials haven't been consulted about.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Obama Administration Pressures ISPs To Censor Websites.Department of Justice would have power to shut down “unlawful content,” which according to their own definition includes political free speech.The Obama Administration IP Czar Victoria Espinel has been holding meetings with ISPs, registrars, payment processors and others in a bid to get them to block access to websites “dedicated to infringing activities”. However, as we have documented, the government deems such infringement to include political opinions which are antagonistic toward the state, leaving the door open for state censorship of free speech on the world wide web.However, as we have documented, material that the DoJ considers “unlawful” and even a potential red flag for terrorism includes Tea Party literature posted on public bulletin boards, as well as copies of the “Obama Joker” poster.According to a recent memo released by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, a component of the DoJ, “extremist literature” includes “political or religious displays,” or anything related to “abortion”. The memo also warns against “radical bookstores”.We got a taste of which websites might be targeted under such a system back in March when, coinciding with the Obama administration’s release of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a government plan to “secure” (or control) the nation’s public and private sector computer networks, Democrats attempted to claim that the independent news website The Drudge Report was serving malware, an incident Senator Jim Inhofe described as a deliberate ploy “to discourage people from using Drudge”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Federal Reserve Chief Warns US Is On The Brink Of Financial Disaster, Media Censors.Bernanke Tells the Truth: The United States is on the Brink of Financial Disaster.Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a speech before the the Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council in Providence, Rhode Island. In the speech, he warned about the current state of the government finances. His conclusion, the situation is dire and "unsustainable".It is remarkable that mainstream media has given this speech no coverage. I repeat, the central banker of the United States says in his own words.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Hezbollah militants training in Syria missile base, satellite images show.Google Earth photos reveal Scuds at base near Damascus.The Syrian army has a Scud missile base near Damascus, according to recent satellite photos. The photos also suggest that Hezbollah activists are being trained in the Scuds' use at the base.Reports that Syria may have given Hezbollah Scuds ratcheted up tensions between Jerusalem and Damascus about six months ago, according to foreign media.In late May, the Sunday Times of London reported that shipments of weapons from the Adra base were going to Hezbollah, and that according to anonymous security sources, Iran was sending missiles and other weapons to that base via the nearby Damascus airport. It also said Hezbollah had been given a section of the base for barracks, warehouses and a fleet of trucks to transport weapons to the Lebanese border, 40 kilometers away. Due to the rising tensions at the time, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi King Abdullah invited Assad to an urgent summit at Sharm al-Sheikh. Assad, however, canceled at the last minute. A senior analyst told Haaretz at the time that while Assad was presenting himself to Europe as a peace-seeker, he continued to maintain his strategic alliance with Iran and Hezbollah.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Khamenei Fatwa Plays to Sunni Sensibilities.Ayatollah ‘Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a new fatwa on October 2 forbidding the denigration of the Prophet Muhammad’s wife, ‘Aisha, or any other historic figurehead revered by Sunni Muslims. “It is forbidden to insult the wives of the prophets and the wives of the greatest messenger, Muhammad, peace be upon him,” read Khameini’s decree. The religious opinion was given following an appeal sent to Khamenei by a group of Sunni scholars.Public denouncement of Prophet Muhammad’s wife ‘Aisha and his close circle of companions is commonly practiced in Shiite mosques, as they are viewed by Shiites as hostile to ‘Ali, Islam’s fourth Caliph. Shiites consider ‘Ali and his close family to be the sole legitimate heirs to the Prophet Muhammad.“Khamenei’s fatwa stems from true knowledge and a deep appreciation for the danger posed by the advocators of divisiveness to the unity of Muslims,” stated Egypt’s highest ranking religious scholar, Dr. Ahmad A-Tayyeb, Sheik of the Al-Azhar mosque. “The fact that the edict was issued by a leading Muslim scholar and a Shiite figurehead serving as Iran’s supreme leader, only adds to its importance.”Dr. Mehrdad Khonsari, a former Iranian diplomat, said that Iran was not interested in appeasing the Sunni Islamic world at large, but rather wished to maintain working relationships with Sunni organizations that cooperate with Iran, such as Hamas and the Taliban. "This is merely lip service on the part of Khamenei," he told The Media Line, "not much more than that." "By issuing such a decree, Iran is seeking to position itself better with elements they rely upon within the Sunni world to exert pressure on the West," he added. "The goal is to defuse tension and create a better atmosphere." Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:SheikYermami.Belgium: Filip Dewinter could face massive fine for Mecca slur.A far-right Belgian leader who posted names and addresses of 770 residents on the web in a bid to prove “Islamisation” was at work in the city of Antwerp could face a 500,000-euro fine for racism.Filip Dewinter, leader of Vlaams Belang (which means Flemish Interest), said on his website that the official registry of residents of an Antwerp suburb “includes only 21 Flemish names”.“All the other names are African or North African. This mind-boggling list symbolises the Islamisation of entire districts of Antwerp and elsewhere,” he said.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back.A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigation and what the authorities would do.It took just 48 hours to find out: The device was real, the student was being secretly tracked and the FBI wanted their expensive device back, the student told Wired.com in an interview Wednesday.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Report: Humanitarian Response In Haiti 'Paralyzed'.A refugee-advocacy group said Thursday that more than 70 percent of camps in Haiti, home to an estimated 1.3 million earthquake victims, lack proper international management nearly nine months after the disaster, leaving them at increased risk of sexual and gang violence, hunger and forced eviction.As of Sept. 15, Nesirky said, 559 U.N. police officers were permanently present in six of the largest camps along with 640 U.N. military personnel. In addition, there are five mobile police units and another 704 military personnel carrying out mobile patrols at all times, he said.Refugees International said "effective camp management and security patrols would also reduce risks of violence against women."It said some local women who established groups in the camps to carry out their own patrols and teach self-defense have received death threats.It said local agencies working on gender-based violence in the camps reported that they had received three times the number of reports of sexual violence than pre-quake. The teenage pregnancy rate in the camps is also extremely high, Refugees International said, and medical agencies reported receiving large numbers of failed "street abortions," some from girls as young as 10 years old. The organization said is also received reports "of women and girls forced to exchange sex for food, especially since the general food distributions stopped in April."In the absence of camp managers, self-appointed camp committees have sprung up," Melanie Teff, one of the report's co-authors, said in a statement. "In some cases, these are beneficial. But in others, these committees are made up of gang members, presenting themselves to aid workers as camp committees and intimidating camp residents."Now if they were threatening to burn Korans the U.S.President would act quickly?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• UK blast suspect Muslim suspect "Tiger Hanif "'wanted revenge'.A Muslim arrested in the UK carried out bombings in India 17 years ago to "get revenge" on Hindus, his extradition hearing in London has been told.Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel allegedly financed attacks with funds donated to a refugee camp he helped set up, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.India is seeking Mr Patel, known as Tiger Hanif, over two blasts in Surat, Gujarat, which killed a girl of eight.He was traced to a grocery shop in Bolton by UK police.If extradited, Mr Patel will face allegations of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:IsraellyCool.Dancing, Lies and Videotape.Much has been made of the YouTube video showing an IDF soldier belly dancing against a blindfolded palestinian woman, the latest example of some present and former IDF soldiers acting against the moral code of the army. These actions are morally wrong, and have caused great damage to Israel and the IDF, for which they are to be condemned – as they have been by Israelis, including the Israeli government and the IDF.But it is also clear that once again, the palestinians are trying to milk this incident for all its worth, and are resorting to lying and embellishment to do so.Ekhsan Debabseh, the palestinian woman shown in the video, was interviewed by various media outlets, to which she gave varying accounts as to exactly what happened.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Understanding the Islam in Muslim Jew-Hatred.Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders’ brief, powerful documentary film Fitna simply holds up a mirror to Islamic societies by including examples of how various Koranic verses are used by Muslim clerics and political leaders to incite Muslim populations to violence. And Fitna is entirely faithful to classical, mainstream Islamic exegesis (commentary) on the Koranic verses cited in the film, regardless of what cultural jihadists, and their witting or unwitting apologists and abettors, may claim.The Muslim Women’s Magazine program featured an interview of a three-and-a-half-year-old “real Muslim girl” about Jews. When the little girl was asked whether she liked Jews; she replied, “No.” Asked why not, she replied that Jews were “apes and pigs.” The moderator then asked. “Who said this?” And the child answered, “Our God.” “Where did He say this?,” asked the moderator. “In the Koran,” this three-and-a-half-year-old girl replied. At the close of the interview, the moderator stated approvingly: “No [parents] could wish for Allah to give them a more believing girl than she… May Allah bless her and both her father and mother.”The intellectually honest assessment and understanding of Islamic antisemitism, and the anti-Jewish violence it begets must begin with an unapologetic analysis of the motifs of Jew hatred contained in the foundational texts of Islam (i.e., Koran, hadith, and sira), while identifying those.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Obama’s Sunshine Scam.It’s hard to sufficiently mock President Obama’s decision to install solar panels on the White House. But I’ll try.Since the annual savings of the system is estimated to be only $2,300, you could also safely bet that the system will never actually pay for itself—no matter how many decades (centuries?) the system is used.DuPont is expanding its facility in Circleville, Ohio, to manufacture solar energy materials, accepting $56 million in federal stimulus and state aid for the $175 million project. What does the taxpayer get for all that money? Seventy new jobs created, 444 existing jobs retained and 230 construction jobs. Add all the jobs up and divide and you get a per job cost of $235,000, $76,000 of which comes from taxpayers.Taxpayers are on the hook for about $114,000 for each stimulus-funded solar panel job at projects in Longmont, Colo., and Tipton, Ind. Then there is the $592,000-per-solar-job cost at the Emmet J. Bean Federal Center in Indianapolis, Ind.Pardon me, but since the purpose of all this is to force consumers to spend more money buying high-priced energy (but only when the sun shines), as a taxpayer, I vote for unemployment.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:IslaminEurope.Dublin: U.S. Embassy sponsors Irish Muslim business conference.The U.S. Embassy in Dublin has sponsored a seminar on Muslim entrepreneurs and business in Ireland. A main point of the conference was the need for Sharia law compliant financial products to be used.The U.S. Embassy supported the conference as part of President Obama’s outreach to Muslims around the world.At the conference, Thomas Cooney, academic director of the Dublin Institute of Technology, stated that 76 per cent of Muslim business people in Ireland say securing finance is their biggest problem and 90 per cent said there is a need for financial products to be compliant with Islamic law.Meanwhile unemployment in the US just went up again.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Jerusalem Source: 'No Chance' Obama will Agree to End Freeze.A senior diplomatic source in Jerusalem said Thursday that there is “no chance” that US President Barack Obama would consent to renewed settlement construction in two months' time, even if Israel consents to extending the building freeze in Judea and Samaria.The source told Arutz Sheva's Ben Shaul that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been unable to get Obama to promise that if an agreement on borders between Israel and a future PA state is not reached within 60 days, Obama would not request another extension of the anti-Jewish construction moratorium. “There is no chance of getting Obama's agreement for renewing construction in two months, especially when Obama sees the entire settlement project as illegal according to international law,” the source explained. In a column, Diehl asked: “So why has the Obama administration chosen to focus its diplomacy on extracting a purely symbolic but next-to-impossible concession from Netanyahu? That will be the question worth asking if the peace process breaks down this weekend.” A breakdown of the talks could hurt the Democratic party in the November midterm election, and this may be the reason why Obama is so keen on extending the freeze, if only for a short time."They don't trust me because of my middle name"?Read the full  story here.Click here for comments.

• U.S. Department of Justice visitors tell Muslims they have their back in the Murfreesboro mosque dispute.Over the summer months, Muslims in Murfreesboro — for three decades a virtually silent minority and a sliver of the city's population — have endured challenge after challenge to their fundamental right to build a house of worship. The latest comes in the form of a trial that started Sept. 27 in Rutherford County Chancery Court, where three aggrieved citizens and their attorney, Joe Brandon Jr., are fighting the proposed expansion of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro."Basically, what we're being told is that if there's any civil violation of the rights of the Muslim community here, they'll step in," says Abdou Kattih, vice president of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, who also met with government officials.There is much debate in the Muslim world over the implementation of Sharia law and how to balance religion with secular government."Sharia law tells us we obey the law of the land where we live," says Ahmed, of Nashville. "The only difference, I think, in my opinion, between Sharia law and the American law is that Sharia, for us, is divine. The Constitution is human. That's it.""There is no contradiction between Islam and the U.S. Constitution," Kattih says.Noooo...?Perhaps only democracy,freedom ,freedom of religion etc,etc...?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Barack Obama accused of exaggerating terror threat for political gain• Pakistani diplomat launches scathing attack on White House.• European intelligence claims raised terror alerts 'nonsensical'.A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian.Thomas de Maizière, Germany's interior minister, publicly expressed his scepticism about the US terror warning, saying he saw no sign of an imminent attack on Germany. He described the danger to Germany as "hypothetical".The sharp rise in US unmanned drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas, coupled with several cross-border raids by American helicopter gunships that culminated in the killing of two Frontier Corps soldiers last week, was destabilising Pakistan.Hasan said Washington politicians failed to understand how much the US needed Pakistan in the "war on terror". Nor did they realise that public anger over repeated US infringements of Pakistani sovereignty could boil over into attacks on American personnel and interests that the government might not be able to control."The government does not want to go down this road," he said. "But people feel abused. If they [the Americans] kill someone again, they will react. There is a figure that there are 3,000 American personnel in Pakistan. They would be very easy targets."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.