Monday, April 30, 2007



Save The World
Cancel The Concerts

Sheryl Crow's behavior leads to the covert consumption of tremendous amounts of Kleenex

The Anchoress has some great ideas on how to solve the Global Warming Crisis. I don't know if Sheryl Crow is gonna like these ideas though:





Sheryl Crow’s plea for all of us to save the toilet paper, save the world has been walked back as a “joke” (Ms. Crow, go join John Kerry over in that corner, please). Crow is just glad that her nonsense has people “talking about global warming,” because heaven knowns, no one was talking about it before she opened her yap.

Look, if we’re going to be urged - relentlessly - to accept that global warming is “the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced”, the unrelenting “crisis” of our time, if it’s as urgent a matter as these preening moralists insist it is, then we need to explore concrete, measurable means of conservation that - unlike “sparing the square” - may actually matter. Let’s start with Sheryl Crow’s medium, the rock concert, shall we?

I recall U2’s fun, splendidly ironic “Zoo TV” Tour of the early 1990’s. The band spent over 18 months traveling the globe in support of their fantastic album, “Achtung, Baby”, hitting all the stadiums and large venues on every continent. 157 shows. The tour boasted:

The stage…featured vidi walls, 36 video monitors, numerous television cameras, two separate mix positions, 26 on stage microphones, 176 speakers, and 11 elaborately painted Trabants, several of which were suspended over the stage with spotlights inserted into headlights, which all required 1 million watts of power to operate: enough to run 2,000 homes.

A total of 52 trucks were required to transport the 1,200 tons of equipment, 3 miles of cabling, 200 labourers, 12 forklifts and one 40-ton crane, required to construct the stage. And that was for every show.

That’s a pretty impressive bit of consumption, but let’s add into it the luxury jets (and non-luxurious staff planes) that carted U2 and their handlers, techies, roadies, belly-dancers, make-up, costumers, etc all around. Add to it the air-conditioning at the indoor venues. Add into it the trains, planes and automobiles used to transport hundreds of thousands of people to the shows. Add to it the klieg lights used for every televised interview, the trees killed to print every magazine promo and to print the $30.00 posters sold at all 157 shows. And consider if you will the souvenir teeshirts - probably stitched together in some hellish Indonesian sweatshop - that weren’t even made out of bamboo fiber!

Good heavens, if only U2 had not run the ZooTV tour, the planet may not be in its death throes, today! If only, when Al Gore was writing Earth in the Balance he had alerted us to this sort of hoggish consumption (by these supporters of the Clinton/Gore campaign) and what it could mean for the planet, the icecaps wouldn’t be melting in 2007!




Read the whole thing.

Anarchy
In
The UK


There's no future for you as Sharia law is gaining a foothold in Britain:


NOW MUSLIMS GET THEIR OWN LAWS IN BRITAIN

MUSLIM radicals have established their own draconian court systems in Britain.

Controversial Sharia courts have been set up in major towns and cities to impose Islamic law and enable Muslims to shun the legitimate British legal system.Last night religious leaders and politicians expressed outrage that Sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in our society.

Sheikh Yaqub admitted that in­troducing Sharia law into the UK has been his goal since moving to Britain from Paki­stan in the 1960s.

But he insisted its main aim is to help repressed women who are trapped in bad or violent marriages and who dare not use British law.

(Pastorius note: That's a good one.)

The article goes on to say:

Sheikh Yaqub admitted that in­troducing Sharia law into the UK has been his goal since moving to Britain from Paki­stan in the 1960s.

He said: "Ever since I arrived here in the 1960s there has been a case of women being forced to get married, others forced to get married, but unhappy afterwards. Until now there was no organization which could Islamically solve their problems."

Philip Davies, the Tory MP for Shipley, said:

"I am ab­solutely appalled and find the prospect of such courts totally terrifying. Places like this should be closed down or else everybody will want to establish their own courts.

"How many more places like this are there in the UK? Who knows where it could all end? It simply cannot be tolerated."

AP:
Syria Has
Underground
Missile
City


And, you know, not that we should worry too much, but apparently, they also have chemical weapons. Ho hum. From Pamela at Atlas Shrugs:


Syria has underground 'missile city': Israeli report

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Syria has built a fortified complex buried deep underground and cloaked in secrecy to manufacture and store ballistic missiles capable of striking Israel, an Israeli newspaper said on Monday.

The complex includes 30 reinforced concrete bunkers, production facilities, development laboratories and command posts, the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot quoted "foreign experts" as saying, without specifying its location.

Note the quotes around foreign experts - there goes that jihad loving AP editorializing in their news articles again.

The "missile city" houses mainly Scud missiles capable of reaching anywhere in Israel. Given its weak air power, Damascus is boosting its arsenal of surface-to-surface missiles and protecting them in the complex, Yediot said.

According to the paper, Syria has 200 Scud-B missiles, 60 Scud-C and a certain number of North Korean Scud-D missiles with a range of 700 kilometres (434 miles), and has developed chemical warheads for all its Scuds.

The chemical warfare agents are stored in a separate facility, Yediot quoted the foreign experts as saying.

It also said that Iran recently supplied Syria with around 100 Chinese shore-to-sea C-802 missiles -- the same missile that Hezbollah used to hit an Israeli warship during last year's Lebanon war.

As Pamela says: People of Israel, snap out of it. The two state solution is a final solution.


Obama
Throwing His
"Spiritual
Mentor"
Overboard?


Yesterday, the New York Times had an article up about how Barack Obama became a Christian. I should have known something was awry. Since when do either the Times, or Obama use such phraseology.


Hmm:


The New York Times reports on its front page today about Obama's strained relationship with his pastor, also known as his "spiritual mentor." The Times does tend to downplay some of the harsher statements that Pastor Wright has made about Israel, Wright's support for Louis Farrakhan; trips to Libya and more. A I wrote over a month ago:

Pastor Wright is also a supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and in 1984 traveled with him to visit Col. Muammar al-Gadaffi, an archenemy of Israel's and America and a firm supporter of terror groups.

Wright has also been a severe critic of Israel. In his own words,

The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for almost 40 years now. It took a divestment campaign to wake the business community up concerning the South Africa issue. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community up and to wake Americans up concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.

The Divestment issue will hit the floor during this month's General Synod. Divesting dollars from businesses and banks that do business with Israel is the new strategy being proposed to wake the world up concerning the racism of Zionism.

That Divestment issue won't make the press either, however. Once this history came to light, Obama started publicly distancing himself from his spiritual mentor, disinviting Wright from various Obama campaign events. Wright rationalized his current persona non grata status by stating that otherwise

"a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell"


Well, there you go. Mystery solved.


Obama
Throwing His
"Spiritual
Mentor"
Overboard?


Yesterday, the New York Times had an article up about how Barack Obama became a Christian. I should have known something was awry. Since when do either the Times, or Obama use such phraseology.


Hmm:


The New York Times reports on its front page today about Obama's strained relationship with his pastor, also known as his "spiritual mentor." The Times does tend to downplay some of the harsher statements that Pastor Wright has made about Israel, Wright's support for Louis Farrakhan; trips to Libya and more. A I wrote over a month ago:

Pastor Wright is also a supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and in 1984 traveled with him to visit Col. Muammar al-Gadaffi, an archenemy of Israel's and America and a firm supporter of terror groups.

Wright has also been a severe critic of Israel. In his own words,

The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for almost 40 years now. It took a divestment campaign to wake the business community up concerning the South Africa issue. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community up and to wake Americans up concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.

The Divestment issue will hit the floor during this month's General Synod. Divesting dollars from businesses and banks that do business with Israel is the new strategy being proposed to wake the world up concerning the racism of Zionism.

That Divestment issue won't make the press either, however. Once this history came to light, Obama started publicly distancing himself from his spiritual mentor, disinviting Wright from various Obama campaign events. Wright rationalized his current persona non grata status by stating that otherwise

"a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell"


Well, there you go. Mystery solved.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Story
Saying Olmert
Threatened
10-Day Attack
On Iran
Bogus?


Yesterday, I put up this post on an article quoting Israeli President Ehud Olmert with having said that a 10-Day attack on Iran could delay their nuclear capability by years.

Today that story is being retracted by the German periodical which originally published it:


Focus reporter apologizes to PM's Office
Gil Yaron

Reporter Amir Taheri told the prime minister's spokeswoman that an interview with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert published under his name on German magazine Focus' website Saturday had not been written by him.


Taheri said that the material published was not what he had passed to the magazine, and that he had asked the editors to remove the story from the site. "I apologize to you," he told the spokeswoman, Miri Eisin.

Earlier, the magazine quoted Olmert as saying that Iran's disputed nuclear program could be severely hit by firing 1,000 cruise missiles in a 10-day attack. The magazine later changed the story's aggressive headline, "Israel threaten Iran," to "Israel toughens its tone against Iran."

Focus officials have also admitted that "the impression that was created as if Olmert said that there was an operative plan to strike was exaggerated, and it is now clear that Olmert's statements were not aimed as a threat on Iran."

However, in a conversation with Ynet the editors stood by their initial reports and insisted that the text of the interview circulated in the media was correct and will be published tomorrow.


Taken out of context
An examination of the transcript of Olmert's conversation with the reporter revealed that the PM's perceived aggressiveness in the interview resulted from the fact that fine nuances of his English statements were "lost in translation."

In the original version of the interview in English, Olmert did mention – albeit in passing - the option of striking Iran, claiming that "no one has ever ruled it out." However, he stressed that the international community should focus on sanctions and diplomatic pressure on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The prime minister also referred to the dangers of an attack on Iran, and stated that he would not want to turn the whole Iranian people into Israel's enemy.
"Such an operation would turn other Muslim countries against us and cause even bigger problems," Olmert added and explained that Israel had no plans to attack.


The Prime Minister's Office said Saturday that the interview with Focus never took place. "The statements published are an utter lie and were never said… This cynical abuse of an invitation for a background conversation, which led to the publication of a false report," the office stated.

However, sources at the magazine insisted that their reporter had met with Olmert for an hour and-a-half last Wednesday.



Who to believe, huh? I mean, you know, Germany has such a good track record when it comes to the Jews.

Oh wait, is that unfair of me? Am I being unfair?

Turks Protest
Islamic-Rooted
Government


Good news from Turkey, where a crowd 300,000 strong marched in the street protesting the Islamic-rooted government:


ISTANBUL, Turkey - At least 300,000 Turks waving the red national flag flooded central Istanbul on Sunday to demand the resignation of the government, saying the Islamic roots of Turkey's leaders threatened to destroy the country's modern foundations.

Like the protesters — who gathered for the second large anti-government demonstration in two weeks — Turkey's powerful secular military has accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of tolerating radical Islamic circles.

"They want to drag Turkey to the dark ages," said 63-year-old Ahmet Yurdakul, a retired government employee who attended the protest.

More than 300,000 people took part in a similar rally in Ankara two weeks ago.

Sunday's demonstration was organized more than a week ago, but it came a day after Erdogan's government rejected the military's warning about the disputed presidential election and called it interference that is unacceptable in a democracy.

The ruling party candidate, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, failed to win a first-round victory Friday in a parliamentary presidential vote marked by tensions between secularists and the pro-Islamic government. Most opposition legislators boycotted the vote and challenged its validity in the Constitutional Court.
The military said Friday night that it was gravely concerned and indicated it was willing to become more openly involved in the process — a statement some interpreted as an ultimatum to the government to rein in officials who promote Islamic initiatives.

Sunday's crowd chanted that the presidential palace was "closed to imams."


Let's hope this is the start of something new in the Middle East.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Olmert:
A 10-Day Attack
Could Delay
Iran's Nuclear Race
By Years


Now, that's what I'm talking about:


"Iran's nuclear program can be thrown back by years in a ten day attack using thousands of Tomahawk cruise missiles," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying in an interview published online by the German magazine Focus on Saturday.

Olmert had reportedly said that it would not be possible to completely halt Iran's race to attain nuclear capability, but that a brisk attack that would delay it significantly was "technically feasible." While saying that Israel does not seek military confrontation, Olmert added that "nobody excludes it."

Only a few hours after the publication of the Focus article in Israeli media outlets, the Prime Minister's Office issued a statement denying the report.

The PMO said Olmert was giving a Focus reporter only general information and that he was speaking off the record.

According to Focus, Olmert said military measures would be considered only if existing UN sanctions, and "other sanctions" would fail to bring success.

Weighing the consequences of such a scenario, Olmert said that "we must also ask ourselves whether after a military procedure, the Iranian people as a whole would not become our enemy. And would not such an action pit other Muslim nations against us, thus creating even more problems?"

Friday, April 27, 2007

First Light


Music by Brian Eno and Harold Budd - Video by Raphael DuBois


Among Fields Of Crystal


Music by Brian Eno and Harold Budd


Music From Giacomo Puccini's Opera
Madame Butterfly



Because They Hate



Brigitte Gabriel is a woman who grew up in Lebanon. Here, in a quote from her book Because They Hate, she tells of the extent of Muslim hatred of Jews (with thanks to the fine blog Living Creatures):


... speaking about when her mother was cared for in an Israeli hospital during the Lebanese civil war:


"I also learned about hatred, intolerance, and bigotry. The Muslim woman who was in the room with my mother and had stayed in the hospital for about twelve days. And even after ten days, when the doctors left the room after changing her bandages and checking on her in their morning tour, she said, with an evil, hate-filled look on her face, "I hate you all. I wish you were all dead." And for the first time in my life I saw evil. I realized that this Muslim couldn't love the Jews even after they had saved her life. And when you are unable to be grateful to the people who saved your life, you have no soul. When humans become devoid of compassion, a sense of forgiveness, and open-mindedness, when they surrender their humanity to hate, they become an evil force of darkness that is irreconcilable with hope, love and peace."


Muslim Children
Destroy Classroom
Over Pigs


From Atlas Shrugs:



Muslim Children Destroy Class Over Pigs in AmsterdamIRIS Blog


Nine year-old Muslim children destroy a Dutch classroom because of a discussion of a pig on a farm and the only response is to expunge pigs from the curriculum:


A school in Amsterdam has halted lessons on rural life because the Islamic children refused to talk about pigs. Reporting this, Alderman Lodewijk Asscher said he wants to take "tough measures." Subsidies for all kinds of dubious groups must stop and parents of unruly children penalised financially.


Asscher told newspaper De Volkskrant: "A primary school in Amsterdam-Noord has decided no longer to teach about living on a farm. Various pupils began to demolish the classroom when the pig came up for discussion. Apparently it has gone that far. These children, 9, 10 years old, have not been given even the most elementary rules at home about why they must go to school."



Thursday, April 26, 2007



I'll
Have A
Camel





I'd do her.



From Little Green Footballs:



In the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia, women are forced into shapeless black sacks, forbidden to drive, and beaten by the religious police if they accidentally expose an ankle, but camels have

GUWEI’IYYA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - The legs are long, the eyes are big, the bodies curvaceous.

Contestants in this Saudi-style beauty pageant have all the features you might expect anywhere else in the world, but with one crucial difference — the competitors are camels.

This week, the Qahtani tribe of western Saudi Arabia has been welcoming entrants to its Mazayen al-Ibl competition, a parade of the “most beautiful camels” in the desolate desert region of Guwei’iyya, 120 km (75 miles) west of Riyadh.

“In Lebanon they have Miss Lebanon,” jokes Walid, moderator of the competition’s Web site. “Here we have Miss Camel.” ...

“Beautiful, beautiful!” the judge mutters quietly to himself, inspecting the group. Finalists have been decorated with silver bands and body covers.

“The nose should be long and droop down, that’s more beautiful,” explains Sultan al-Qahtani, one of the organisers. “The ears should stand back, and the neck should be long. The hump should be high, but slightly to the back.”

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

PBS' Homage To Islamofascists


From Investors Business Daily:


PBS just aired a “documentary” intended to chronicle “the diversity of Muslim life in America.” So why does it give so much face time to anti-American Islamists?

Secular Muslims who want to reform Islam are nowhere to be found in producer Robert MacNeil’s film, “The Muslim Americans,” part of a PBS series called “America at a Crossroads.” Instead, extremists masquerading as moderates are lionized.

Take Sheik Hamza Yusuf, who has a starring role. According to MacNeil, the California imam preaches “tolerance” and “peace,” and even hiply incorporates the “Super Bowl” into his sermons. This, we are told, is the progressive face of Islam in America.

To prove Yusuf’s bona fides as a moderate and a patriot, MacNeil notes that he was one of the Muslim clerics invited to the White House after 9/11. But he leaves out the fact that just two days before the attacks, the same imam suggested in a speech to Muslims that America deserved severe punishment.

“This country is facing a terrible fate,” Yusuf said in California on Sept. 9, 2001. “The reason for that is that this country stands condemned like Europe stood condemned because of what it did. And lest people forget that Europe suffered two world wars after conquering the Muslim lands, Europe’s countries were devastated, they were completely destroyed. Their young people killed.”

Monday, April 23, 2007

Guinnevere


David Crosby and Graham Nash in concert, circa 1970.


Ain't Talkin'


An extraordinary song by Bob Dylan accompanied by a video produced by a fan.


Those Nutty
Muslims -
Now My Will
But Thine Be Done -
Kill Her


The other day I put up a post about how a prominent Imam in Pittsburgh had called for the death of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Check out the Imam's justification for his fatwa:


I called the number and someone picked up and said hello. I said I was calling with regard to Imam Fouad ElBayly. The person on the other end said, “Speaking.” (!!!!)

Me: Is this Imam Fouad ElBayly?

ElBayly: Speaking.

Me: I understand that you called for the murder of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

ElBayly: Oh no no, that was not correct.

Me: I have the quote right here. You said, “She has been identified as one who has defamed the faith. If you come into the faith, you must abide by the laws, and when you decide to defame it deliberately, the sentence is death.”

ElBayly: Yes, but that is not my word. That is the call of God.

Me: So you said that.

ElBayly: Before anybody gets into the relations with Islam [I couldn’t type fast enough to type everything he said] ... you don’t get into the relationship with Islam [...] what Ali did is called corruption on earth. It is worse than murder. She was disturbing the peace. That is not a peaceful life.


How can we live with such a "faith"?

The answer is, we can't. People like El-Bayly need to be removed from Western Civilization entirely.

Power,
Faith and Fantasy:
America In
The Middle East
1776 to the Present



From Front Page Magazine (with thanks to Olivia):


Among the more successful—and illogical—propaganda efforts of the Democrat Party is the widely accepted notion that conservative Christianity is a natural hotbed of anti-Semitism and Political Enemy Number One for American Jews. As someone who grew up in churches that were to the right of Jerry Falwell, I always found this notion to be mysterious at best. The fact is that the more literally an evangelical Christian takes the Bible, the more of a “Zionist” he is likely to be.

Theology aside, it’s only natural-- nearly all of best stories he grows up with in Sunday School feature Jewish heroes fighting for their homeland.
If I had a nickel for every time I heard a preacher refer to the modern state of Israel—or its wartime successes—as a “miracle” and a result of divine intervention, I’d be posting this from a lot bigger house in a lot warmer climate. My experience is corroborated by historian Michael Oren’s fascinating new book, Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present, which shows that there is a direct correlation between the political relevance of Evangelical Christians in the United States and strong support by the American government for a State of Israel.

Astonishingly, Oren is the first historian to attempt a single volume history of America’s involvement in the Middle East. As his extensive bibliography suggests, a lot has been written on various parts of this history; but Oren says that his research did not turn up one overview of the subject. He fills that gap.

When Americans think about our involvement in the Middle East, they generally assume it to be a fairly modern phenomenon, centered around the State of Israel or the need for gasoline-- both big issues in the Post-WWII era. Politicians on both extremes feed this misperception.
Democrats daily proclaim that if we just had more windmills or wind-up rubber band powered cars, we could ignore the region because all we get out of it is oil. The Buchanan Brigades promote the idea that anything we do to promote civilization in the region is probably at the behest of Israel—or at least AIPAC.

Support for Israel is also a key element of the media’s new all-purpose pejorative, “neoconservative.” But unless you think “neo” should be used to describe a movement that became prominent in the 1820s, that’s a misnomer. In fact, support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine predates any paleoconservative” isolationist movement in the United States by at least a hundred years.

Critics might argue that wild-eyed Evangelicals of the 19th Century who followed the religious revival known as the Second Awakening wanted to restore Israel to Palestine to hasten the Kingdom of God; but it is only recently that a policy of bringing freedom to the Muslim world and a pro-Jewish policy in the Middle East had any political punch. Wrong again. As Oren illustrates, the Middle East has been important to Americans since before the Founding. Even Pilgrim governor William Bradford and Puritan preacher Cotton Mather expressed hope for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. In fact, he asserts, the reality of
Muslim aggression against Mediterranean trade was a major impetus in both the forming of the United States Navy, and a Constitution with a strong enough central government to build it into a major force.

Most history texts, if they even deal with the subject, treat the Barbary corsairs as mainly a piracy issue. But the Founders, Oren writes, were shocked to confront the ideology of jihad. It led them to believe that diplomacy with—and
ransom payments to-- the “Musselmen” would not be a long-term solution. Even George Washington, no fan of needless “foreign entanglements,” proposed that “such banditti for half the sum that is paid them be exterminated from the earth.”

Once the Barbary Pirates were dealt with, most history books record that Mediterranean trade opened up for Americans, and leave it at that. But as Oren records, Americans became a dominant commercial presence in the region—and a not insignificant military and cultural presence as well.

The most fascinating section of Power, Faith and Fantasy is Oren’s account of the vast collection of Americans-- missionaries, adventurers, pilgrims and military people-- who flocked to the Middle East throughout the 1800s. This is a largely untold story in modern history texts—though many famous Americans made the trip, and wrote enormously popular accounts of their journeys.

Perhaps that’s because the most influential Americans in the Middle East of the 19th Century were missionaries, a verbotten subject in modern American education. But in the 1800s, they had the ear of Presidents and Secretaries of State, the attention and support of the public, and the protection of American gunboats.

The “Restoration Movement” officially began with a sermon in Boston’s famed Old South Church by Levi Parsons to kick off what would be a century of missionary efforts in Palestine.

Interestingly, the movement’s most famous treatise was The Valley of Vision, or the Dry Bones of Israel Revisited by George Bush—yes, the forebear of two presidents.

Samuel Clemens’ first book as Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad, was a debunking of American fantasies about the exotic Middle East and a huge bestseller that made his career. Herman Melville took the tour, hoping to relieve his writer’s block by getting on the Mideast travel book bandwagon, but was soured by the squalor of a place he’d had exotic fantasies about. U.S. Grant and Secretary of State William Seward also made pilgrimages, and one of Abraham Lincoln’s last words was to suggest to his wife that they should tour the Middle East after the war was over.

Some of the most fascinating chapters are those dealing with America and Egypt. Egypt became important during the Civil War as competition for Confederate cotton, and took a huge economic hit when it became the American interest to once again promote the crop in the South. Among the more ill-fated expeditions recounted in the book—and there are many—was that of prominent Civil War veterans helping to establish a professional army in Egypt. They began their stay as honored guests, but those who survived were treated as scapegoats for Egyptian shortcomings on the battlefield. Their story encompasses each of Oren’s themes: Power, faith and fantasy.

Most missionaries had a goal of establishing a homeland in Palestine for their “theological cousins,” the Jews, Oren writes. However, they were about as successful at that as they were in converting very many Muslims. Probably the most enduring legacy of those missionaries—many of whom died from disease or terrorists—was the establishing of modern hospitals and schools in the region.

It was missionaries who called world attention to the genocide of Armenians by the Turks and tried to provide relief, making this event a cause celebre in the United States. In a similar manner to modern relations with China, the United States juggled keeping good trade agreements going with the Ottoman Empire with condemnation of the plight of the Armenians.

While Oren explains the revivalist beginnings of the Restoration movement that spawned the missionary expansion in Palestine, he is a little more vague about the theological leanings of the missionaries at the later half of the century and early 20th Century who cooled on the Zionist movement. He does give a clue, however, by mentioning that many of them were Ivy League grads and from “mainstream” denominations. The fact that this cooling of enthusiasm happened around the time that Progressivism was infecting the prestigious American seminaries is probably a major factor.

Ironically, it was about the same time that secularism was dampening enthusiasm for Zionism in the missionary community that American Jews finally took up the cause in the post-WWI years. It was largely led by secular and socialist Jewish groups. For decades religious American Jews had shied away from Zionism and even spoken out against it, fearing it would make them look less American.


Go read the whole thing.

Move Over, Keith Jarrett


It's Nora, the piano-playing cat.


Sunday, April 22, 2007

How To Disappear Completely


A live performance by Radiohead. (Thanks to Pim's Ghost for sending this to me.)



Pittsburgh

Islamic

Leader:

Fatwa Of Death

On Hirsi Ali



Hirsi Ali was chased from her native country of Somalia by the oppressiveness of Islam. She fled to the Netherlands. There, she rose in Dutch society eventually becoming a Member of Parliament.


But, the Islamofascists are relentless in their pursuit and attempted destruction of the decent. And, so Hirsi Ali found that she had a fatwa on her head in Europe. When the Lefties in the Dutch government started making noise about taking away her 24-hour armed guard, she fled the Netherlands to live here in the United States.


Now, Muslims here are beginning to threaten to kill her. From Little Green Footballs:



When ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali appeared at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Muslim groups tried to have her speech shut down. And they made it clear that if they had the power, and US law were written according to shari’a, Hirsi Ali would not simply be prohibited from speaking.


According to the president of the Johnstown Islamic Center, Imam Fouad ElBayly, she’d be dead.


And in a perfect example of the bizarre disconnect between reality and the shiny happy multicultural world of the media, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review calls this a “debate on religious freedom."


This isn’t in Afghanistan. It’s in Pittsburgh.


And, check out this quote from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:



“It’s a very merciful religion if you try to understand it.”

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Jesus Is Waiting


Al Green


On And On


Erykah Badu


Friday, April 20, 2007

Was The Virginia Tech Killer A Jihadi?


I think it is very likely he believed himself to be doing the work of a Jihadi (from Atlas Shrugs):


I know everyone is dismissing the glaring Ismail Ax angle of the massacre and calling the depraved murderer Cho, but it seems to me that if this savage wrote (or tattooed, still unclear) Ismail Ax on his arm, signed his suicide note Ismail Ax , sent an overnight package from A Ishmail, made sure he had no other ID on his person after he martyred himself , you can be damn sure he wanted to be remembered as Ismail Ax. Shaving his head and from what I can see in his pictures and martyr video- his body, must have added to law enforcement's suspicions which is why it so curious that they would say so early on that horrible day that "it was not tied to terrorism."

It also seems pretty obvious that law enforcement delayed releasing his name because they did not want to release "Ismail" even though that was all they had for the better part of the day and that was their very first clue . But they wouldn't release it. They waited a full day, an entire day, to release his name.

Everyone is quick to jump on the link to James Fenimore Cooper's novel "The Prairie " meme where Ishmael Bush is known as an outcast and outlawed warrior. It's the drug of choice and most everyone is comfortable with that link. Moby Dick has been bantered about y as well. But mentioning the thirde rail, the Quran or Islam, and they'll cut your throat (metaphorically.) If you saw the level of vitriol and hate directed at me when I merely asked what Ismail Ax meant, it would stun you - hence the comment moderation.

It reminds me of CAIR's lawsuit against the Jane and John Does in the Flying Imam debacle. It's not the lawsuit. The objective is to shut people up. CAIR has been noticeably quiet in the Ismail Ax affair.

There is much we don't know and won't know. I would love to hear what Ismail Cho was about to say when he declared "brothers and sisters!" before NBC edited that tape ................ and while I don't think he had serious affiliations, there is clearly a sort of punk jihad thing happening. The title of his file were telling;


Now, check this out, here are the titles he chose for his various video files:


Their titles are varied and hard to match with their content: “all of You”, “am al qaeda”, “anti terror”, “as time appr”, “blood of inno”, “congrad”, “could b victim”. The rambling comments are those of an angry young man who felt persecuted, who felt that the world is against him, who felt he was a victim of personal terrorism.

More here.

The Islamists are already claiming him as one of their own.

James Lewis has an excellent source of Ismail angst over at The American Thinker: "Was Cho taught to hate?"

And Charles had this;

VT Killer: A Neo-Nazi Connection

One of the pictures received by NBC News from the Virginia Tech mass murderer suggests a neo-Nazi connection; with the heading, “The number of the Anti-Terrorist,” Cho drew the number “88”—a well-known neo-Nazi reference to the phrase “Heil Hitler.” (H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.)

Cho also used the number 88 as .
Cho also used the number 88 as
the return address for the package he sent to NBC News.


Debatin' Dylan



Bob Dylan is an unparalelled genius. In recent years, he has produced three brilliant albums which are among the best in his catalogue.


Here's how I would rate his top ten albums:



1) Desire

2) Bringin' It All Back Home

3) Slow Train Comin'

4) Modern Times

5) Blood On The Tracks

6) Time Out Of Mind

7) Highway 61 Revisited

8) Blonde On Blonde

9) Nashville Skyline

10) Infidels



Know that the only reason I'm doing this is to start an bitter argument between all you Dylan fans.


Watch, I'll find out there aren't any Dylan fans among those who read my blog.


:)

I Believe In You


A confession by Bob Dylan.





They ask me how I feel
And if my love is real
And how I know I'll make it through.

And they, they look at me and frown,
They'd like to drive me from this town,
They don't want me around'
Cause I believe in you.

They show me to the door,
They say don't come back no more'
Cause I don't be like they'd like me to,
And I walk out on my own
A thousand miles from home
But I don't feel alone'
Cause I believe in you.

I believe in you even through the tears and the laughter,
I believe in you even though we be apart.
I believe in you even on the morning after.
Oh, when the dawn is nearing
Oh, when the night is disappearing
Oh, this feeling is still here in my heart.

Don't let me drift too far,
Keep me where you are
Where I will always be renewed.

And that which you've given me today
Is worth more than I could pay
And no matter what they say
I believe in you.

I believe in you when winter turn to summer,
I believe in you when white turn to black,
I believe in you even though I be outnumbered.
Oh, though the earth may shake me
Oh, though my friends forsake me
Oh, even that couldn't make me go back.

Don't let me change my heart,
Keep me set apart
From all the plans they do pursue.

And I, I don't mind the pain
Don't mind the driving rain
I know I will sustain'
Cause I believe in you.

When He Returns


Bob Dylan


Thursday, April 19, 2007

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran


One of the reasons I have not been writing so much lately is because I find our apparent lack of resolve so depressing.

Well, when I see evidence that the United States and the Western World may be ready to do what needs to be done, then I wake up a bit.

John McCain seems to indicate here that the United States will indeed bomb Iran. The other night Pamela from Atlas Shrugs interviewed Hugh Hewitt, and he said he thinks an attack on Iran is imminent.

When even men who love to portray themselves as moderates begin to talk of doing what should have seemed inevitable and right from the very beginning, then we see that, perhaps the United States does indeed have what it takes to make it into the future:


MCCAIN SINGS: 'BOMB BOMB BOMB, BOMB BOMB IRAN'
Thu Apr 19 2007 10:13:53 ET

Sen. John McCain brought his "Straight Talk" tour to South Carolina Wednesday morning.

The presidential hopeful spent 90 minutes talking to nearly 500 people who crammed into the Murrells Inlet VFW Hall.

At the campaign rally, McCain was asked if an attack on Iran is in the works, the GEORGETOWN TIMES reports.

McCain began his answer by changing the words to a popular BEACH BOYS song.

“Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,” he sang to the tune of Barbara Ann.

[VIDEO]

One McCain aide who attended the event said McCain was adding a little levity to the discussion and the crowd reacted with laughter.

McCain went on to discuss the seriousness of the issue, saying he supports the President, and he will not allow Iran to destroy Israel.

Developing...

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Please Forgive Me


The artist is David Gray.

Wanna tell you just how good it feels when you look at me that way ...


It's Time For Europe To Grow Up


From J.R. at the Astute Bloggers:


Europe gets forty percent of its oil through the Persian Gulf. But by an accident of history (and civilized policy -- ours, that is) it is the United States that guards the Gulf from madmen like Ahmadinejad. Well, so be it. We gain from world peace and free trade, and it is better to keep the maniacs far away from our shores. But it is now way past time for Europe to step up to the plate again. They have the economic might, the population, the brains -- but not the guts -- to behave as a decent actor on the world stage.

And the British "hostage crisis" -- which was not a crisis at all, but a staged provocation, an invitation for the Brits to kowtow, which they did -- should spell the end of our patience. Europe's response to Ahaminejad's game tells us all we need to know. Tony Blair tossed the hot potato to the UN, which tossed it right back again. Then he tried his good friends in the EU, and they ducked it altogether. Then, secretly, he got George W. to trade Iran's Quds thugs, who were imprisoned in Iraq for directing IED attacks on Americans, in trade for those 15 clueless Brits. Result: The West looked helpless against the ruthless blackmailers of Qom.

So in the end, Europe got away again with letting Uncle Sam do it. We can shrug off the screaming anti-American hate mongering of the media in Germany, France and (on the Left) in Britain.

We can ignore the fact that Britain is selling its sovereignty to the EU, about as feckless a bunch of political con artists as ever exploited a badly indoctrinated population. What we cannot allow, over the long term, is to get stuck with all the adult work of maintaining the peace around the world, while the Europeans exploit our generosity and we pay the price in blood and treasure. It's past time for Europe to grow up.

Chicken Grease


D'Angelo. Friggin' amazing.


D'Angelo and Tony Rich Do Stevie


Check this out.


Love's In Need Of Love Today


The great Stevie Wonder


Thursday, April 12, 2007

Helpless


Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.

This is a beautiful praise song.


Wednesday, April 11, 2007

River Man


Nick Drake.


Knockin' On Heaven's Door


Bob Dylan.


Sunday, April 08, 2007

The BibleSearchers Reflections

Reflections on the Time of the End
By Robert Mock MD
http://us.f821.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=robertmock@biblesearchers.com
http://www.biblesearchers.com/


"The Mufti of Jerusalem" and "The Muslim Brotherhood" –
The Fight to Own Jerusalem and the Land of Israel

In the Subterranean Vaults of the CIA
Hassan al-Banna, Global Nazism and The Muslim Brotherhood
Common Origins of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Nazis began in the 1830s
The Four Righteous Islamic Caliphates
Haj Amin al-Husseini the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (1895-1974)
Haj Amin al-Husseini the Grand Mufti in Nazi Germany
The "Butcher of Croatia", the Frankist-Jesuit Ante Pavelic
Haj Amin al-Husseini the Grand Mufti and Hassan al-Banna in post-Nazi Egypt
Egyptian President Gamal Abd'el Nasser and The Muslim Brotherhood
Sayyid Qutb, the Ideological Successor of Hassan al-Banna
Egyptian President Mohammed Ahmed Anwar al-Sadat and The Muslim Brotherhood
The Descendants and Legacy of "The Muslim Brotherhood" and the "Mufti of Jerusalem"

In the Subterranean Vaults of the CIA

The land of Israel called "God's Holy Land" is up for sale. This fact is usually lost in our misty eyed religious emotionalism about the land of Zion, the God of Israel calls His own. For those willing to read the Biblical testimony, the impression is stark and clear. The Land of Zion belongs to the Lord of Israel and He only will direct ownership over this land.

Jerusalem can be called the capital of the Lord of hosts . It is a physical place that anchors the Sefirot of the World of the Divine into the literal time-space continuum or the three dimensional world in which we live. If the visions of the prophet of Revelation are to be believed, the city of Jerusalem is the solar rex capital of this solar system, the capital of the Lord of hosts. It is shared in the spiritual dimensions by the city of the New Jerusalem . Together they are twins, one capital in the spiritual realm mirrored by the one capital in the physical realm .

The city of Jerusalem will be the last battleground (the "last stand") for the total possession of last piece of property on this planet by the Almighty One of Israel and His arch rival, the former crowning cherub, Lucifer, that stood by the very throne of God. The testimony of the Hebrews in both the Old Testament (TaNaKh) and the New Testament (Brit Hadassah) is that the forces of the rebellious spiritual forces under the "dark" leadership of Lucifer is contending to not only take full control of this planet earth but to wrestle the possession of the city of Jerusalem totally from the control of the Lord of hosts. It is in this context that we will begin this study, "The Fight to Own Jerusalem and the Land of Israel." We shall first begin to understand and comprehend who are the players and warriors in this battle between Islam and Judaism for the possession and control of the land of Israel.
John Loftus, former assistant to the US Attorney General

It was over thirty years ago that a young United States Army officer, John Loftus was sent to help train Israelis for covert operations that helped to achieve victory for Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. During the Carter and the Reagan Administration up to the year of 1982, he worked as an assistant Justice Department prosecutor investigating for the Attorney General of the United States on the CIA cases relating to the Nazi War Criminals. This allowed him top secret security clearances to access high security files in such secret intelligence areas as NATO Cosmic, CIA codeword and other top secret nuclear files . In his research he uncovered what eventually was exposed in an Emmy Award for outstanding investigative journalism, a 1982 expose for "60 Minutes" of the Nazis who remained on the US government payroll.

In an article titled "The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazi and Al-Qaeda", John Loftus outlined his quest to understand the origins of The Muslim Brotherhood in a talk printed in the Jewish Community News on October 4, 2004. He was on assignment to research the Nazi that he was assigned to prosecute for the US Attorney General. To access this information he went to the twenty one-acre underground vaults in Suitland, Maryland situated east of the Washington National Cemetery outside of Washington, D.C. Here is where the top secret files of the U.S. government are buried in the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) and the Washington National Record Center (WNRC). Like the vault in the movie, "Raiders of the Lost Ark", here is where our story begins.

National Archives and Vaults at Suitland, Maryland

His first revelation was that the Nazis that Loftus was "assigned to prosecute were on the CIA payroll, but the CIA didn't know they were Nazis because the British Intelligence Service had lied to them. This was not an agency wide deception but came from a double agent, Kim Philby, who was servicing both the Russians and the British in espionage secrets. This Cold War scandal now between the British and the American CIA was hidden until John Loftus came along with the revelation that America's State Department hid this 'dirty little secret" that we allowed the Nazis to stay in America.

Out of this revelation opened a new door of investigation into the strange bed-fellows and alliances that went on during World War II and the Holocaust of the Jews. What he found were the secrets of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hitler's Nazis. In case you think that this revelation is new, all you have to do is go to your computer in the search engines, type in "Banna Nazi." A new chapter in the sordid details of fundamental Islam's undying hatred towards Israel will be revealed.

"The Nazis that Loftus was "assigned to prosecute were on the CIA payroll, but the CIA didn't know they were Nazis because the British Intelligence Service had lied to them."

The Common Origins of the Muslim Brotherhood and
the Nazis began in the 1830s

During the 1830s, major social forces were re-aligning themselves around the world. This was the era in which for the first time the Divine proclamation of the God of Israel in Revelation was proclaimed.
Revelation 14:7 – "Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth – to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people – saying with a loud voice, "Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of God's judgment is come."


In the land of Palestine and Syria, the Damascus Affair of 1840 forever burned in the hearts of Jews around the world. It was a pivotal day in Jewish history for after that day, the call of the God of Israel to return to the land of their forefathers became louder and louder. At the same time, the western nations that were steeped in replacement theology and felt that they were God's "Spiritual Israelites" were also on a great migration to the Middle East, not as pilgrims, émigrés or geo-politicians but as archeologists seeking to confirm the literal roots of the Hebrews and the ancient empires that surrounded Israel.

In America, the Great Awakening was in full bloom as the wall of the Apostolic Succession to the great church of the Christian faith came tumbling down. Only then would Roman Christians and her children, the Protest-ants would have to face the reality, Jesus Christ (Christos = Messiah) will literally return to this planet as the Yahshua haMaschiach of Yisra'el (Jesus the Messiah of Israel). It was at this time that proclamation, "Fear God,…for the hour of God's judgment is come" was heralded around the world.

Kaiser Wilhelm II and the German General Staff

The common origins of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Nazi began in the 1830s. It was September 1835 and the Prussian captain, Count Helmuth Karl Bernard von Moltke (1800-1891) was sent to the service of the court of the Ottoman Empire as an advisor to the Turkish army. Along with his entourage of German intellectuals, the German oriental scholars began pouring the lands of the Middle East searching for the great empires of the ancient world. Count Helmuth von Moltke later became the military architect of the German unification wars and served as chief of the Prussian general staff from 1857 to 1888. His observations of the Middle East soon caught the eye of Kaiser Wilhelm II who coveted the imperial power of the British and sought to gain influence in the Middle East in the 1890s. As he pushed for hegemony against the power influence of the British, the acceleration for the outbreak of World War I began. At this time the Kaiser ordered;
Kaiser Wilhelm II – ""Our [German] consuls and agents must inflame the entire Muslim world against this hateful, lying, and unscrupulous nation [England]." (Peter Hopkirk, "Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire" Kodansha International 1994 p. 1 quoted in "Global Nazism and the Muslim Brotherhood Indicators of Connections" By Christopher Brown)

On the heels of the humiliation of defeat of Kaiser Wilhelm's Second Reich there arose a new determination of the National Socialist German Workers Party with their new leader, Adolf Hitler. He would resurrect the Germans to the glory of a new Germany in the "Third German Reich." It was their goal to conquer Europe and Great Britain and take control of the mysterious land of the Ottomans for the great and noble Aryan race of Germany. In this military ferment came the union of the Nazis of Germany and the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. The central core of this brotherly bond was the intense hatred for the Jewish people.

With a little spiritual insight we can see the finger of the Divine as He resurrects the parties that will play out the chess game for the future control of the world. There will be one goal, to control of the one piece of property that the God of Israel calls His own, Zion and the land of Israel. They will have another goal: to destroy all who oppose a one world government. The empire of Nebuchadnezzar the Great will be replayed again at the time of the end.

The alliance between the Germans and the Brotherhood all began back in the 1920s when America was coasting through the "Roaring Twenty's." The word "Depression" was not in the political-social vocabulary of America. Yet it was here that the roots of Yassir Arafat, Osama bin Laden and the entire hierarchy of fundamentalist terrorists organization began that have every Muslim country today in their grip.

With the assistance of the carefully documented four part series printed on November 5, 2002, in the Asian Times Online by the IBM's OTI marketing lead Marc Erikson, titled "Islamism, fascism and terrorism" , we begin our research.

The Four Righteous Islamic Caliphates

It was in the era of the late 20s when the two forces of Islamism and fascism began to reshape international politics. It was their goal to seize state power as totalitarian governments and begin a reform of social reforms according the ideals that they espoused. It was on the idealism of the golden years of the four "righteous Islamic caliphs" (632-662) with special emphasis on the rule of Umar ben al-Khattab (634-44) that they synthesized the union of religion and state called the "din wa dawla". These four "Righteous Caliphs" were the four successors to Muhammad, whose rule after his death in 632 CE extended the Islamic rule to North Africa, Persia (Iran), Jerusalem, Damascus and in Central Asia.

Upon the death of the "Prophet", Abu Bakr, the friend of Muhammad became the first caliph. Under the second, Umar, who ruled for over a decade, Islam spread east and west to Persia, Syria and Egypt. He marched to Jerusalem and there ordered the protection of the Christian holy sites. It was the third caliph, Uthman (644-656), the first Umayyad caliph, who for the next twelve years had the Quran copied and sent them throughout the world. The Uthmanic rescension or version of the Quran has remained the central holy version of Islam to this day. On 656, Uthman was assassinated and Ali ibn Abu Talib, the cousin and son-in-law to Muhammad was chosen caliph after being passed over three prior nominations. The last of the "righteous four" was Ali 656-661), was noted for his eloquent letters and sermons. The bravery of Ali is part of the lore of Islamic traditions when Aisha, Muhammad's wife and her brothers-in-law, Talha and Zubayr, tried to overthrow Ali with a rebel army at the Battle of Camel.

With a blend of utopianism, radical fundamentalism and a goal of totalitarianism in their political sights, the Muslim Brotherhood found a ready made Christian sponsor. This was Adolph Hitler in his obscure and mysterious Aryan "Volksgemeinschaft".

Out of the social reaction to the fallout of World War I when Kaiser Wilhelm's "Second Reich" was destroyed, the Versailles Treaty imposed an "unequal and treasonous" oppression on the masses of the German people. This left a massive dislocation in the social culture in Germany. During this time, Hitler wrote his Mein Kamph (My Struggle).

Out of a similar social reaction or consequence of World War I, the powerful Ottoman Empire and the caliphate of the Turkish reformer Kemal Ataturk was absolved in 1924. As the Turkish Ottoman Empire was toppled so also toppled was the widespread prophetic interpretation that Turkey was the "king of the North" who would usher in the coming of the Messiah. The spiritual descendants of the Great Awakening Movement of 1844 have been looking to this day for another "king of the North." This prophecy appears to be resurrecting itself again seventy five years later.

In the post war era of World War I there arose in Egypt in 1928 the Muslim Brotherhood. There arose in Germany, Adolf Hitler in 1933 as the Chancellor of Germany and in 1934 the dictator of the German Socialist Party and the Nazis of Germany . The common ground between the two was the fertile grounds of the Russian Tsarist propaganda called the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion " that were written between 1895 and 1899 in Paris by Pytor Ivanovich Rachovsky, an agent of the Russian secret police. This document was central to the core ideology of Nazi party and their eventual "Final Solution" to eradicate the perceived Jewish bid to control this earth. It was around the Protocols that the two movements converged, the Nazis and the Brotherhood.

The Protocols were first commercially published in 1918, the same year that the Thule Society in Germany was formed. The goal of the Thules was to distribute literature that blamed the Jewish people for the defeat of the Germans in World War I. In 1919, the Thule Party formed the "German Workers Party" which was later renamed by Adolf Hitler as the "National Socialist German Workers Part", known as the Nazis. Blending a political intrigue and anti-Semitism from the Mein Kampt and the Protocols, Hitler's fiery speeches inflamed the indignation of the Lutheran Christian nation of Germany, the home of Protestant reformer, Martin Luther, the anti-Semite father of Christian Protestantism.

Hassan al-Banna, Global Nazism and The Muslim Brotherhood

While the Germans were railing against the economic oppression of the post-World War I and the consequences of the Great Depression in the United States, the Muslims were furious over the deposing of their esteemed Muslim Turkish caliphate Kemal Ataturk. In reaction, the Nazi "National Socialist" movement was formed in Germany by Adolph Hitler in 1933. The Muslim Brotherhood (Al Ikhwan Al Muslimun or ÇáÅÎæÇä ÇáãÓáãæä), also known as the "Society of Muslim Brothers", was formed in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna.

Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Hassan al-Banna, a Muslim school teacher in Cairo dedicated his new organization to the revival of puritanical Islam and the re-establishment of the ancient and revered Caliphate governments in which the Sharia law of Islam was the governing law over all the people. To develop such a network, a vast grassroots system was developed. This community based system centered on the physical fitness centers of the Young Men's Muslim Association (YMMA) which served as a front to acquaint the youth in the region, associated Welfare Service Centers to assist the poor and dispossessed and the Community Centers where training for covert campaigns of violence against the British and the Jews were conducted. ("Historical Development of the Methodologies of al-Ikhwaan al-Muslimeen And Their Effects and Influence Upon Contemporary Saladfee Dawah" Salafi Publications March 2003 p. 7 cited by Christopher Brown, Global Nazism and the Muslim Brotherhood)

Hassan al-Banna's first organization started with five motivated followers, all in their twenties. It was their aim to produce justice to the injustice that was forced upon their own people. Out of the synergy of these two peoples, the Christian Lutheran/Catholic Germans and the Turkish Muslims would erupt the greatest holocaust in the history of the world and the seeds religious genocide. Out of these same two peoples was the same synergy that produced Sabbatai Zevi, the Jewish messiah of the 17th century and his second generation followers of Jacob Frank that are known today as the Sabbatean Jews.

The Muslim Brotherhood Movement of Al-Banna in the 30s and early 40s focused their attention on spiritual and moral reform. When World War II was over, they had over a half a million members in the country of Egypt alone. Their organizational ability was superb. With their organizational groundwork secure, they soon embraced a wider social-political goal, to rid the Middle East of the British and French colonial overlords. The "Ikhwan" (ÇáÅÎæÇä) called "The Brothers" was ready. Their persuasively religious slogans were the rallying call to the Muslim people; "Free the Islamic homeland from foreign, infidel (kafir) control; establish a unified Islamic state." That undying slogan is present today, except the infidel is the United States, the Great Satan and Israel is the Little Satan. The unifying force is the Sharia, the governance of their entire land by the theocratic principles of the Quran.

Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

According to Mark Erickson, in his four part series of articles, "Islamism, fascism and terrorism, al-Banna was an organizational genius. His organization of the Ikhwan;
Mark Erickson - "featured sophisticated governance structures, sections in charge of different segments of society (peasants, workers, professionals), units entrusted with key functions (propaganda, press relations, translation, liaison with the Islamic world), and specialized committees for finances and legal affairs - all built on existing social networks, in particular those around mosques and Islamic welfare associations. Allying himself along with the overtly fascist "Young Egypt" (Misr al-Fatah) that was founded on October 1933 by the Egyptian lawyer, Ahmed Hussein, the Brotherhood became the most potent force in the land of Egypt and the Middle East. Weaving of traditional ties into a distinctly modern political structure was at the root of al-Banna's success."
As Adolf Hitler rose in power so rose the power and influence of Hassan al-Banna in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood early were active in the anti-Jewish riots that were provoked by the Mufti al-Husseini under the supervision of the German intel operators that were housed in Jerusalem in 1936. (Anti-Defamation League, "Hamas, Islamic Jihad and The Muslim Brotherhood: Islamic Extremists and the Terrorist Threat to America," 1993, ADL New York cited by Christopher Brown, Global Nazism and the Muslim Brotherhood). Al-Banna along with Youssef Nada and other members of the Brotherhood in the armed revolutionary wing, called the al-jihaz al-sirri, allied themselves with the Nazi SS and intelligence organization to funnel information on the British and try to dilute their control in the region. Martin A. Lee "The Swastika & the Crescent" Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report Spring 2002 Issue 105 cited by Christopher Brown, Global Nazism and the Muslim Brotherhood). This coordination included secret treaties that "called for a general uprising lead by the Brotherhood in the streets of Cairo at a time most advantageous to the Nazis, in exchange for German recognition of Egypt. (Marc Erikson, " Islamism, fascism and terrorism - Part 3)" Asia Times, December 2, 2002)

As Adolf Hitler rose in power so rose the power and influence of Hassan el-Banna in Egypt.

Yet the struggle for power and control and the political apparatus that would make victory of their politics, Hassan al-Banna and the Muslim Brotherhood modeled their para-military forces after Adolf Hitler's Nazi "Brown Shirts" in Germany and the "Black Shirts" of Mussolini Fascist State in Italy. The Muslim Brotherhood and the al-Fatah became the "Green Shirts". To Hassan al-Banna, Mussolini was his admired "II Duce" and his soul brother was the "Fuehrer Adolf Hitler." Their paramilitary wing slogan was "action, obedience, silence" which was even more potent than Mussolini's "believe, obey, fight". All it took was for them to learn the dirty work of the intelligence organizations and their operational arm took over the use of terrorist attacks and assassinations of their enemy. The "fear factor" became imbedded within the Muslim Order. Among its members, "Young Egypt" courted two promising youth who later became the presidents of Egypt; Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar El-Sadat.

The Muslim Brotherhood set up cells or chapter in many countries around the world. Yet the most prominent Muslim Brotherhood leader would become Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Here was one of the most violent anti-Semite and devoted follower of Adolf Hitler in the Middle East.
Haj Amin al-Husseini the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (1895-1974)

In Palestine the first translation of the Protocols into Arabic was in 1921 by Palestinian Christians from copies given to them from European forces in World War I. Musa Kasim Pasha al-Husseini, the mayor of Jerusalem was given a copy of the Protocols by a British officer in 1918 after the British Mandate was established in 1917. (Kenneth Timmerman, "Preachers of Hate" Crown Forum 2003 p. 101 quoted in "Global Nazism and the Muslim Brotherhood Indicators of Connections" By Christopher Brown)
Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

In the library of Musa Kasim Pasha al-Husseini, his nephew, Haj Amin al-Husseini imbedded the Protocols in his fertile mind. In the ferment that arose there, one of the most outspoken anti-Semitic leaders in the Middle East came to international prominence. Haj Amin developed an intense hatred for the British and the Jewish people who he felt were the pawns of the British Empire. In the wake of the Balfour Declaration which gave the Jewish people a homeland in Palestine of all the land west of the Jordan River and the League of Nations giving the British Empire the Mandate to rule over the Middle East, the fiery resentment and hatred towards both the British and the Jews arose.

Haj al-Husseini organized thousands of Arabs to attack the Jews at the Western Wall on April 4, 1920. Five days later, 5 dead Jews, 211 injured and at least 2 Jewish girls raped, the forces of Ze-ev Jabotinsky's Jewish militia quelled the riot. Haj Amin immediately fled to Transjordan (modern day Jordan) seeking asylum while the British courts in Jerusalem sentenced him to 10 years in prison. Then a strange act of the British High Commissioner of Palestine occurred. Herbert Samuel, a British Jew pardoned him. So reminiscent of the Israeli government of Sharon today, Haj al-Husseini, now with Jewish blood on his hands, returned to the land of Palestine a free man.

The first translation of the Protocols of Zion into Arabic was in 1921 written by Palestinian Christians…Musa Kasim Pasha al-Husseini, the mayor of Jerusalem was given a copy of the Protocols by a British officer in 1918…In the library of Musa Kasim Pasha al-Husseini, his nephew, (the later Grand Mufti) Haj Amin al-Husseini imbedded the Protocols in his fertile mind.

Besides the British pardon, it is now known that the British administration was collaborating with the young Haj al-Husseini with inside intelligence and advice on how to sabotage the Jews. According to Joan Peters, former White House consultant to the Middle East, in her massive investigative book, "From Time Immemorial" wrote,
Joan Peters - "British Officer Meinertzhagen reported later that Haj Amin had been informed by British Colonel Waters-Taylor four days before the Easter pogrom in Jerusalem that 'he had a great opportunity at Easter to show the world that the Arab of Palestine would not tolerate Jewish domination in Palestine; that Palestine was unpopular not only with the Palestine Administration but in Whitehall; and if disturbances of sufficient violence occurred in Jerusalem at Easter, both General Bols and General Allenby would advocate the abandonment of the Jewish Home.'" (Joan Peters, "From Time Immemorial" JKAP Publication, Chicago, 1984 quoting Colonel R. Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 1917-1956 (London, 1959, pg 81-82)

While the Zionists clashed with the Communists on their May Day parade in 1921, Husseini, in this moment of opportunity that was prepared in advance organized his forces which left another 13 Jews were murdered. This time al-Husseini escaped the courts, claiming that even thought the Arabs provoked the incident, the Zionists wanting an Israeli state provoked al-Husseini and his people. (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 28-29 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)

What is interesting within one year, this 26 year old Palestinian Arab, with his heart burning with the images of global domination by the Jews in the fabricated "Protocols of Zion" was not just an isolated Palestinian terrorist but already the Mufti of Jerusalem. When Jerusalem was conquered by the British in 1917 and General Allenby entered the city of Jerusalem, the mayor of the city of Jerusalem was Musa Kasim Pasha al-Husseini, the uncle to Haj Amin al-Husseini.

The al-Husseinis and the Nashashibis clans were the ruling families in Jerusalem at that time. Musi al-Husseini was removed from office, dying in 1921, and a member of the Nashashibis family was appointed to be the new mayor of Jerusalem. Since the mayor of the city was of the Nashashibis clan, the British desired to appoint an al-Husseini family member to be the Mufti of Jerusalem.

Haj Amin al-Husseini was the preferred candidate. The only problem was that he placed fourth with only 7% of the vote in the electoral college. To his Arab leaders and mentors they felt that he was too young and lacked any religious training to prepare him to be the religious leader, the Mufti of the Arabs of Palestine.

The top three candidates were from the Nashashibis family. Once again, the British an outside power, forced the leading Nashashibis candidate, Sheikh Husam al-Din to resign with al-Husseini now in third place. When the vote was retaken, al-Husseini suddenly became the most powerful Iman and cleric in the city of Jerusalem.

It was December, 1921, the administration of the British Mandate established a Supreme Muslim Council. The purpose of the Council was to have full control of the Waqf, the Muslim trusts and to administer the Shariah, the Muslim religious courts. Haj Amin al-Husseini, within seven months of becoming the Grand Mufti, incited a second massacre of Jewish people and was soon after appointed the President of the Supreme Muslim Council. As a Sunni, Haj Amin al-Husseini now had complete control of: the religious life of the Arab (Mufti), the legal administration of the Arab (Shariah) and the financial administration of the Arab (Waqf). According to the 1937 Royal Commission, Husseini had "no legal limitation of his power."

Haj Amin al-Husseini, within seven months of becoming the Grand Mufti, incited a second massacre of Jewish people and was soon after appointed the President of the Supreme Muslim Council. As a Sunni, Haj Amin al-Husseini now had complete control of: the religious life of the Arab (Mufti), the legal administration of the Arab (Shariah) and the financial administration of the Arab (Waqf).

With control of the entire way of life in Arab Palestine, al-Husseini became a powerful "political entrepreneur." The religious fervent and fanaticism rose to peaks as the Muslim clerics under him urged their flock "go out and murder the Jewish infidel in the name of the holy Koran," constantly declaring that "he who kills a Jew is assured of a place in the next world." (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 26 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)

Palestine of the British Mandate

Then the year 1922 came and the news was devastating to al-Husseini and the Palestinians. The League of Nations recognized that all the land west of the Jordan River as to be for a "Jewish National Home." As written by David Storobin in the "Nazi Influence on the Middle East during WWII ";

David Storobin - "The British White Paper of 1922, divided Palestine with 77% to the east of the Jordan river given to Arabs, while the 23% to the west was left for the Jewish people. Shortly thereafter, the League of Nations confirmed the division in its mandate system, urging Great Britain, as the Mandatory power, to "facilitate Jewish immigration," as well as "close settlement of Jews on the land." The League of Nations even mandated that no "territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of, the Government of any foreign Power," thus rejecting any Arab claims to what has since become known as Israel, West Bank and Gaza. Indeed, the Arab people are never even mentioned in the Mandate. (United Nations Web Site. League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. Cited online on July 14, 2004 at: http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/ngo/history.html)
Analyze this very carefully, eighty three years ago (1922), the predecessor of the United Nations called the League of Nations mandated that the Jewish people would have as their homeland the land of Israel between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. They also mandated that "no territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of, the Government of any foreign Power."

Suddenly the powerbase for al-Husseini was gone. The Mufti, who was an avid supporter of a Greater Syria which would include the land Israel, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza was now without a people to govern. His Arab political rival and enemy, Sherif Hussein and the Hashemi clan had recently lost control of the Arab holy city of Mecca. The "colonial powers" of Britain and France offered the Hashemi clan rulers a political power base to replace their religious power base in Mecca. Faisal Hussein became the King Fiasal Hussein of Iraq and his brother Abdullah Hussein became the King Abdullah Hussein of Transjordan. (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. Cited online on July 2, 2004 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherif_Hussein_bin_Ali)

In 1922, the predecessor of the United Nations called the League of Nations mandated that the Jewish people would have as their homeland the land of Israel between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. They also mandated that "no territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of, the Government of any foreign Power."

Many years later, Colonial Secretary Ormsby-Gore reported to the House of Lords and made this following statement:
British Colonial Secretary Ormsby-Gore - "The Mufti . . . is playing his own dynastic game, and that game undoubtedly is to become not merely the sovereign of Palestine, not merely to be crowned or uncrowned King of Palestine, but first head of Palestine, then Palestine and Transjordan combined, and then the whole of Syria, and, of course, in that position to be regarded as the leader of the Sunni world . . . . He is a man of quite unlimited political ambition. He was a Turkish Staff Officer (during World War I) – and incidentally a Turk who knew him thought he was the blackest-hearted man in the Middle East." (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 70 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)

Haj Amin al-Hasseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Still empowered as the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini began to focus on Nazi support and moving the Arab mind towards support by and collaboration with the Hitler. In Europe the airwaves were aflame with the rise of the Third Reich in the early 30s. The Jewish people around the world were massively trying to establish an international boycott against the German in order to destroy the military establishment of the Nazi regimen. The Zionists were trying to establish a Jewish homeland for the Jewish people trying to escape from the looming Holocaust in collaboration with the Nazi with a document called the "Transfer Agreement."

The year of 1936 the Mufti began what was to be a three year campaign of riots and massacres. It started in April when a group of Arab killed some Jews in the city of Haifa. The violence continued to spread as the Arab Higher Committee openly approved of the violence of the local Arab and began a systematic campaign to encourage more. After several riots and localized pogroms, by October 1936 over 300 people had been killed and 1,100 wounded. (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 44-46 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)

While the Arab were continuing their violence, Haj al-Husseini the Mufti continued to remain immune to British action. He in fact convinced them that he was working for them. As the New York Times reported on June 14, 1936:
"(Mufti) al-Husseni had succeeded ' in convincing experienced high British civil servants that he is working for the government's interests [and that] it was in the interest of the government that he should also be president of the new Arab High Committee," so that "Haj Amin el-Husseini enjoys the government's complete confidence as its unofficial adviser on the Arab side of the situation . . . . The government believes that he and only he is in a position to appease the Moslem masses; therefore it gives him every support while at the same time playing into his hands." (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 44-46 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)

When the British began to arrest Arabs for causing the massacres, they began to arrest members of the Defense Party which were predominately part of the Nashashibi clan. Over 90% arrest were from the rival clan of the al-Husseini clan that were sent to a concentration camp in the Sinai. None of the family clan members of the al-Husseini were arrested. (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 46 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)

As the rise of the Nazi state began in earnest with the appointment of Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany, al-Husseini began to make bid for an alliance with the Nazi State. He sought to represent the Muslim Brotherhood as a liaison with the Nazis. Between 1936 – 1939, the Mufti worked an arrangement with Adolf Eichmann to funnel money from the SS (German Secret Service) to the Muslim Brotherhood to foment a revolt in the Middle East. By 1939, the Mufti fled when he open the doors for direct aid from the Nazi command to the Arab military forces. (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 44-46 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)

Mufti al-Husseini fled to Syria and while living there in exile between 1939 and April 1941, he collaborated Khairallah Tulah and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (Syrian Nazi Party) in a revolt in Iraq. Together this group formed the Baath Parties of Syria and Iraq. (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 44-46 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)

The Mufti Amin al-Husseini of the Muslim Brotherhood and Khairallah Tulah of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (Syrian Nazi Party) formed the Baath Parties of Iraq and Syria, the parties of Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad.

With the Mufti exiled, with relief the British sought how to continue to appease the Arabs as the American administration of Bush, the "Quartet" and the British administration of Blair still did at the beginning of the 21st century. The British Peel Commission (1937) offered in violation of the League of Nations Mandate (1922) to divide up the land that was given to the Jewish people for their "National Home." This Mandate contained the specific proviso that such a division was prohibited. Again in 1939, the British again issued a White Paper that rejected the idea of a Jewish National Home and began to restrict Jewish immigration.

The British Peel Commission (1937) offered in violation of the League of Nations Mandate (1922) to divide up the land for the Muslim Brotherhood that was given to the Jewish people for their "National Home."

Haj Amin al-Husseini the Grand Mufti in Nazi Germany


Leaving for Germany on April 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini immediately was brought before the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler. According to Storobin;
"He (Mufti al-Husseini) reportedly sought to discourage the further deportation of Jews from Europe and instead encouraged Germany to seek alternate approaches. Some have even suggested that he had a direct hand in the creation of the Concentration Camps. While in Berlin, al-Husseini served as a Nazi propaganda and rallying point for Muslims both in Europe and in the Middle East including regular radio broadcasts urging armed revolts and attacks on Allied and Jewish interests. In addition, al-Husseini served symbolically as the commander of the notorious all Muslim Balkan Hanjar Waffen SS division. (David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)


Hajj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, allied himself with Nazi Germany. While exiled in Berlin and sponsored by Nazi agencies, he brought to the creation of Moslem battalions within the German Waffen-SS.

By 1940, Hitler's German Blitzkreig into Europe appeared unstoppable. On the continent of Europe, Poland, France, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg fell beneath their forces. Mussolini's Italy plus Spain made the Fuehrer look invincible. The rest of the world was also under assault. The Japanese in a massive invasion across Asia saw China, the Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines topple under her mighty power. With the United States immobilized in radical isolationism, only Winston Churchill and the British stood alone on the European War. The British still had power on the western front of Continental Europe and in the Middle East.

This fact alone, with Hitler's fantasies of a mystical power with global domination and his lust to find the Ark of the Covenant gave Hassan al-Banna and Haj Amin al-Husseini the capacity to become the perfect "key" to bring the Muslim world and the Middle East under the Nazi domination. They all wanted to get rid of the Jews and the British, plus the Hashemite kingdom that was the "nation-state" Britain had built in the midst of the Middle East.

On this same year, the British puppet king, King Ghazi, the son of King Faisal I of Iraq died and left to the monarch his only son, four years old. Emir Abdul-Illah was proclaimed regent for the young Hussein monarchial heir. One of his first moves was to offer the Prime Minister to Rashid Ali al-Kaylani. The problem was that Kaylani had strong links to Nazi Germany and Mufti Haj al-Husseini in Jerusalem. The country quickly shifted into the political influence of Nazism. Along with this influence the Mufti of Jerusalem and his emissaries became the intermediary between the Nazis and the Iraqi monarchy. The winds of influence swung back and forth between Germany and Britain but with the defeat of Rommel in Egypt the major thrust of the Nazis was over.

During al-Husseini's years in Iraq, John Roy Carlson in his book, "Cairo to Damascus" wrote of the life of Haj Amin in the land that was later controlled by Saddam Hussein:
John Roy Carlson - "Haj Amin lavished huge funds on the men he had placed in office, and gained enormous influence over Iraqi officials, army generals, police chiefs. He controlled major appointments; he whipped up Axis sentiment among the illiterate and fanatical masses for a Jehad against the Allied cause, and otherwise perfected his fifth column machine. Against this background Axis propaganda itself was intensified. Germany was set up as a 'savior to the Moslem world,' and Hitler was touted as 'a descendant of the Prophet, the enemy of the Jews and the British, the Protector of Islam' who was devoting himself to the establishment of an Arab federation free from British control. Serving as virtually the uncrowned king of Iraq, the Mufti was now ready to write Hitler proposing 'collaboration in all spheres.'" (John Roy Carlson; "Cairo to Damascus"; Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; 1951, 415-416)

Mufti Haj al-Husseini landed on the most wanted list of England by declaring a fatwa (Islamic religious ruling) that all Muslims were to support the pro-Axis government in Iraq. Sponsored by Churchill, on May 1941, David Raziel, the right-wing leader of the Jewish Irgun, the predecessor of the Likud Party in Israel, was sent to Iraq to assassinate the Mufti in exile. Raziel was killed by a German plane in route to Iraq, but with the long arm of the British and Jews closing in on his life, al-Husseini fled to Europe dressed like a woman. (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. cited online on June 22, 2004 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_Al-Husseini)

Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini with Fuehrer Adolf Hitler

On November 28, 1941, Mufti Haj al-Husseini met with Adolf Hitler. An Arab propaganda bureau was set up for him. The Mufti's role and responsibility in the Nazi government was to set up espionage cells in Europe and the Middle East, establish Muslim military Nazi SS divisions plus Wehrmacht units in the Balkans, Bosnia, in North Africa and parts of the Soviet Union controlled by the Nazis. Mufti Haj al-Husseini was to be later named the SS Gruppenfuehrer by Heinrich Himmler. Adolf Hitler called him the "Fuhrer of the Arab World." (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. cited online on June 22, 2004 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_Al-Husseini)
An organizational genius he was. Mufti Haj al-Husseini's largest military division that he organized was the Muslim Nazi SS 13th Division called the "Hanjar." Smaller units organized included the "Croatian" 21st Waffen SS Division called the Skanderbeg and the "Albanian Muslim" 21st Waffen SS Division known as the Kama. Out of the 27 Waffen SS Division organized before 1945, "Hitler's Mufti" was the organizational genius for three (3). When one studies the Encyclopedia of Holocaust, it claims that the military divisions that Husseini organized for Hitler were "organized in record time." (Sean Mac Mathuna, Flame Magazine, "The Role of the SS Handschar division in Yugoslavia's Holocaust". Cited online on June 24, 2004 at: http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/yugoslavia_collaboration.htm)
Husseini flew from Berlin to Sarajevo to bless the Moslem army inspect its arms and observe its exercises
Al-Husseini then opened a North African Bureau in Germany. Out of the North African countries of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, he sought to recruit a half a million Arab soldiers for the Nazis. This operation was short lived as the British soon swept across Northern Africa. . (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 131 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)
An Arab Nazi Legion was organized. Initially set to fight in the Middle East, they soon found themselves on the Russian front, where in the Caucasian Mountains they were destroyed. When the British organized a Jewish Brigade of 26,000 Jewish military warriors, the German in response created an Arab Brigade. (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 131 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)
According to Joseph Schechtman in his book "The Mufti and the Fuhrer", the Muslim support of the Nazis was great in the Balkan region in the southern Mediterranean area. It was the Grand Mufti who led the biggest recruiting program not only in the Balkans but in the northern Caucasus of the five indigenous tribes, the Chechens, the Ingushes, the Balkars, the Karachais, and the Kabardines. (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 46 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)

With the support of the Muslim Brotherhood for the Nazis, the Russians response was ruthless. The Muslims in the Caucasian area, predominately the Chechens and the Ingushes were exiled from their homeland and a third of them were dying from the Soviets inhumane treatment towards the Arabs. That memory haunts the Chechnya relationship with Russia today and allows a friendly relationship with the American administration.

A picture taken in 1943 of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini reviewing Bosnian-Muslim troops - a unit of the "Hanjar (Saber) Division" of the Waffen SS which he personally recruited for Hitler.

Yet the troops from the Azerbaijani battalion according to a 1943 broadcast by DNB, "proved their valor, were included in German Storm Troops and decorated by the German Army," Yet a fact of the Holocaust that virtually remained unreported in most historical manuscripts was that many Arab became supporters of the plight of the Jewish people. The Arab support for Nazi fighters was never successful amongst Muslims in Central Asia." (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 30 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005)

Many Arabs of the Central Asia lands became supporters of the plight of the Jewish people during World War II.

According to David Storobin in "Nazi Influence in the Middle East during World War II" he quotes Joseph Schechtman,
Joseph Schechtman - "The Mufti's hatred of the West was matched only by his hate of the Jews. It is not a coincidence that Germany suddenly abandoned the policy of expelling Jews and adopted far harsher methods a short time after the Mufti arrived in Germany. When Haj Amin came to Germany again, the Nazis decided to execute the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem – the Holocaust. "The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry," reported Eichmann's deputy, Dieter Wisliceny…[He had] played a role in the decision to exterminate the European Jews. The importance of this role must not be disregarded …The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry." (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 141-142 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005).

Storobin continues;
David Storobin - "We do not know if al-Husseini played a major role in shaping the Final Solution. 'There is, however, abundant first-hand evidence of the part the Mufti played in making foolproof the ban on emigration (of Jews out of Germany).'" wrote Joseph Schechtman. (Joseph Schechtman, "The Mufti and the Fuehrer" p. 159-160 quoted by David Storobin in ,"Nazi Influence on the Middle East During WWII, Global Politician, January 5, 2005) "

Dieter Wisliceny, Eichmann's deputy - "The Mufti's hatred of the West was matched only by his hate of the Jews. It is not a coincidence that Germany suddenly abandoned the policy of expelling Jews and adopted far harsher methods a short time after the Mufti arrived in Germany. When Haj Amin came to Germany again, the Nazis decided to execute the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem – the Holocaust…The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry

The "Butcher of Croatia", the Frankist-Jesuit Ante Pavelic

Ante Pavelic of Croatia
The atrocities of World War II are legendary and the Mufti was a participant in many. One of the Mufti's closest associates was the infamous "Butcher of The Croatian Skanderbeg Division" that went on to massacre hundred of thousands of Serbian Orthodox Christians. With the assistant of the Mufti, over 200,000 people died in Jacenovac, the third largest death camp in southern Europe which was directed by the Croatian Ante Pavelic. (Sean Mac Mathuna, Flame Magazine, "The Role of the SS Handschar division in Yugoslavia's Holocaust". Cited online on June 24, 2004 at: http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/yugoslavia_collaboration.htm)

It was the pro-Axis government of Ante Pavelic in Croatia along with the fascist Catholic (Jesuit) Croatian Utasche that killed "300,000 to one million , including up to 30,000 Jews, up to 29,000 Gipsies, and between 300,000 and 600,000 Serbs" one third of the population of that country and 75% of the Jews.

Born on July 14, 1889 in a small village of Bradina south of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia Herzegovina, Ante went to the Jesuit seminary in Senj, Croatia, later studied law at the University of Zagreb. It was he set up his law practice.

Bosnia – Herzegovina in the Balkans
As a youth, Ante joined the Croat Party of Rights (Hrvatska Stranka Prava, HSP), recognized as an extremist nationalistic group of Croat separatists. This group was broken up and taken over by a splinter group led by a Josep Frank, who were called the Frankovci (Frankist), recognized as the "pure" Party of Rights. The enemies of the Frankists as history has documented were the Serbian government, the Jews, the international Freemasonry and communists.

With the assistant of the Mufti of Jerusalem, over 200,000 people died in Jacenovac, the third largest death camp in southern Europe which was directed by the Croatian Ante Pavelic.

As World War II came to a close and the ashes of Nazism settled across the Europe and the Middle East, at least 800,000 Yugoslavian citizens were murdered with the assistance of the "Croatian 21st Waffen SS Skanderbeg Division that was organized by Haj al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Palestinian director of the Muslim Brotherhood Palestinian division and confidant of Adolf Hitler. When the "Fuhrer of the Arab World persuaded the Nazi leaders not to trade Jewish people outside the country of Yugoslavia for German POWs held by the Allied Forces, tens of thousands of Jews perished. (Sean Mac Mathuna, Flame Magazine, "The Role of the SS Handschar division in Yugoslavia's Holocaust". Cited online on June 24, 2004 at: http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/yugoslavia_collaboration.htm)
As the Allied forces were mopping up operations across the European continent, Ante Pavelic fled the Balkans through Austria to Italy where he and the high-ranking Catholic Croatian Utasche found a safe haven in the San Girolamo degli Illrici under the protective eye of Father Krunoslav Draganovic, himself a former Utasche. Their movements were tracked by the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corp (CIC).

Jewish investigator Barry Chamish in his article , "Jews do really Murder Jews" documents that just as the Americans were prepared to arrest Ante Pavelic, orders suddenly came from headquarters to "cease and desist". According to the memoirs of the last surviving member of the Rome CIC, William Gowen, the Americans had stumbled upon the Vatican's "Ratline". Draganovic had become a "precious American asset" and the rest of the Utasche made their escape to Spain, South America and in the case of Artukovic, the United States. According to Gowen,
"Pavelic's contacts are so high and his present position is so compromising to the Vatican, that any extradition of Subject would deal a staggering blow to the Roman Catholic Church." (Barry Chamish, "Jews do really murder Jews")

The Catholic Jesuit underground for high-level Nazis, the "Ratline", named for the highest point on the mast of a ship where the sailors could seek refuge in a floundering ship, had been uncovered. Yet it was not in the interest of American to uncover the Vatican-Nazi collaboration. By this time the lines were blurred as to who was an ally and who wasn't.

What was not readily understood was that Pavelic, a Jesuit trained Catholic, became enamored by the political ideology of Josip, the descendant of Jacob Frank , the successor to Sabbatai Zevi, the Jewish messiah in the mid 1600s . Ante Pavelic's wife, Mara Lovrencic came from a Jewish family that had assimilated into Catholic Vienna like John Kerry, the Massachusett's Senator and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate's grandfather, Benekikt Kohn a Jewish brewer and his wife Mathilde Frankel.

The chief aid to Pavelic, Dido Kvaternik, was a Jewish relative to Josip Frank. In all this Croatian movement became violently anti-Semitic as his loyalties shifted from Rome to Berlin's headquarters of Adolf Hitler. (Barry Chamish, "Jews do really murder Jews")

Here was the classic example of the amalgamation of the Jewish Viennese Frankists, who were a weaving tapestry of Jews and Islamic mysticism into what is known today as Turkish Dolmehs . In turn, Jacob Frank returned to Europe as a Sabbatean Jew, converted to Catholicism and established an alliance with Jesuits. When in control of the independent nation of Croatia, they ended up murdering 75% of the Jewish in the country and robbing them of over $100 million in gold, jewels, art and cast.

Today this story has become international headlines when a $100 million lawsuit (Alperin v. Vatican Bank) was filed in the Federal Court of San Francisco on November 1999 for concentration camp survivors of the Serbs, Jews, Romas and Ukrainian background that represent over 300,000 Holocaust victims. According to the suit, the Nazi Croatia Treasury was transferred "illicitly" to the Vatican Bank after World War II. The defendants are the Vatican Bank, Franciscan Order and the Croatian Liberation Movement.

In the suit, the concentration survivors were seeking release of the U.S. Intelligence Agency files on the Vatican "spymaster" Fr. Krunoslav Draganovic. These were files released in 2001. (Vatican Bank Claims by Easton and Levy Victim Asset Litigation website).

When today we look back upon that day when the Jewish orthodox families win an international settlement, we may only have to wonder if the modern Sabbatean Jews in the government of Israel will take it away from them. How?

According again to Barry Chamish, a secular Israeli investigator documents the claim that the Jewish holocaust families will get very little of their compensation because it will go to "agencies and institutions of the organizer's choice, while the survivors receive little or nothing…"
Barry Chamish - "On June 5, 2005, the Knesset committee responsible for compensating Holocaust victims, headed by Reuven Rivlin, was disbanded. A week before, Haaretz estimated the number of Israelis who suffered under Nazi Occupation to be a surprisingly high 435,000. Their government would no longer seek justice for their losses. Incredibly, Rivlin explained the reason for breaking up the committee was because it was complicating negotiations with the Palestinians.

So where is the Jewish money stolen by the Nazis? On April 18, 2005, the National Post of Canada provided a most disturbing explanation. It appeared in a review of the British Channel Four program called The Final Insult, by George Jonas. The contention made is that in 1998-99, Charles Bronfman, on behalf of his World Jewish Congress won $6.25 billion from Swiss banks in a series of legal actions. However: Disbursements are made to agencies and institutions of the organizers' choice, while some survivors receive little or nothing..."

Haj Amin al-Husseini the Grand Mufti and
Hassan al-Banna in post-Nazi Egypt

When the war ended, Mufti Amin al-Husseini returned to the Middle East as a hero. On October 1, 1948, he was proclaimed the President of the government of All-Palestine. The government was, however, fictional because it did not control any land and was recognized by only a handful of Arab nations. In 1959, the "government" was disbanded by its sponsor, Egypt. (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. Cited online on June 22, 2004 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_Al-Husseini )During World War II, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem became one of the greatest propagandists for the Nazi revolution. According to Sami al-Joundi, one of the original founders of the ruling Baath party in Syria, Sami- al-Joundial-Husseni, he wrote;
Sami al-Joundial-Husseni - "We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in reading Nazi literature and books . . . . We were the first who thought of a translation of Mein Kampf. Anyone who lived in Damascus at that time was witness to the Arab inclination toward Nazism," recalled Sami al-Joundi, one of the founders of Syria's ruling Ba'ath Party. (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. Cited online on June 22, 2004 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_Al-Husseini)
The sentiments of Hitler, then and today were dramatized well in a pop folk song in the Middle East during World War II in a song which said: Bissama Allah, oria alard Hitler – in heaven Allah, on earth Hitler. This theme became a cultic slogan as posters were placed in the Arab markets and even a book was printed; "In heaven Allah is thy ruler; on earth Adolph Hitler." It was John Gunther, writing "Inside Asia" who wrote this observation, "The greatest contemporary Arab hero is probably Hitler." (Christian Action for Israel Web Site. "The Arab/Muslim Nazi Connection". Cited online on June 25, 2004)
Together the Muslim and the Nazis bonded as brothers in an ideological world that hated democracy, Western culture and the Jewish people. One was Christian and the other was Islam. They blended together with the same cohesiveness as the Jewish-Islamic followers of the Jewish messiah Sabbatai Zevi. According to Barry Chamish in "Kerry, Gaza and the New Sabbatean Holocaust", he states"
Barry Chamish – "Frankfurt at the time was the headquarters of the Jesuit, Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati, as well as Rothschild Brothers' financial empire. This is worth repeating; Frankfurt was the birthplace of both the Illuminati and the Rothschild Empire. When Jacob Frank entered the city, the alliance between the two had already begun. Weishaupt provided the conspiratorial resources of the Jesuit Order, while the Rothschilds contributed the money. What was missing was a means to spread the agenda of the Illuminati and the Frankists added with their network of agents throughout the Christian and Islamic worlds. (Barry Chamish, Kerry, Gaza and the New Sabbatean Holocaust, pg 2)

The Jewish Frankist Sabbatean Jews later went underground and became Catholics in the 18th century and arose from the ashes as the Turkish Dolmeh in the 19th century. Yes, the fundamentalist Jewish, Islamic, and Jesuit Catholic blended together in the Turkish Dolmeh and have become today becomes one of the most radical anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-God forces of Israel proponents on this planet earth. Yet the problem exists, they act not as destroyers but saviors of Israel.

Also with the Nazis, the Islamic brethren became the "fifth Parliament" whose secret army resided on Egyptian soil. When the forces of General Rommel and his Afrikakorps came within 60 miles of Alexandria, heading to the gates of Cairo, it was the duty of the Muslim Brotherhood to prepare for an anti-British uprising in Cairo. The leaders of this revolt were the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna and the future presidents of Egypt, Gamal Nasser and Anwar Sadat. They were to assure that no American or English would be left alive in either Cairo or Alexandria.

When Rommel's drive into Egypt failed, Sadat, who had drawn up a treaty with Germany with the desire to create a pro-Axis Egypt, was arrested and spend the remainder of the war in prison.

The Pyramids, the symbol of Egypt

It was the Islamic face of Nazism which took on Nazi totalitarianism or Nazi Fascism that would show its resilience after the end of World War II. When fascism died in Europe with the fall of Germany and Italy fascists governments, the heritage of Hitler remained embedded in the matrix and fiber of the Muslim Brotherhood and the al-Fatah and the Hamas.

There was a world of Islam whose believers in the in the 19th century coexisted with the Jewish inhabitance of the land of Israel. With the rise of Islamism or fascism with the face of Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood became a potent force that would break out of its Middle Eastern barriers on September 11, 2001.

Haj Amin al-Husseini, like all the other Nazi high ranking officials, made his escape in 1945 as Hitler committed suicide and the last resistance of Nazi soldiers in Berlin was quelled by the Allied Coalition of the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. According to rumors, it was Youssef Nada, who is now current chairman of the Al-Taqwa/Nada Management, who engineered the escape of al-Husseini through the existing SS channels from Europe through Switzerland back to Palestine. (Palestine Facts, "Who was the Grand Mufti, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini?" He then fled to Egypt where he became the deputy to Hassan al-Banna and the official leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. It was here in Egypt that al-Husseini became the mentor of the young Yassir Arafat, a young Arab in his own clan. (Matthias Küntzel "Islamic Terrorism and Anti-Semitism: The Mission against Modernity" Genocide and Terrorism: Probing the Mind of the Perpetrator Yale University Conference Keynote Speech 4/11/2003 cited by Christian Action for Israel Web Site. "The Arab/Muslim Nazi Connection".)

Members on the past Board of Directors of Al Taqwa that have today been targeted by the United States Treasury Department as supporters of al-Qaeda include"
"Included on the list are Yousuf Abdullah Al-Qaradawi, the grand mufti of the United Arab Emirates, and five members of his family; Mariam Al-Sheikh A. Bin Aziz Al-Mubarak of a branch of the Kuwaiti royal family; and members of the prominent Khalifeh family of the United Arab Emirates, Sisters Huta and Iman Bin-laden , who live in Saudi Arabia, and Hassan al-Banna, a leader of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood group, are listed." ("Shareholders in the Bank of Terror?" by Lucy Komisar; Salon; 3/15/2002; p. 2; accessed at www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/15/al_taqwa/print.html .)


It was here in Egypt that (Mufti Amin) al-Husseini became the mentor of his nephew, the young Yassir Arafat (Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al Qudwa Al Husseini), a young Arab in his own family Al-Husseini clan.

Egyptian President Gamal Abd'el Nasser and The Muslim Brotherhood

Gamal Nasser, President of Egypt on the front of Time - 1958

The Egyptian government under the leadership of Gamal Nasser (1918-1970) came to power when he led a coup-d'etat and toppled the British backed King Farouk I on July 23, 1952, brought to the presidency of Egypt General Muhammad Naguib. During this coup, it was Newsweek who wrote:
"The most intriguing aspect [of] the revolt ... was the role played in the coup by the large group of German advisors serving with the Egyptian army ... The young officers who did the actual planning consulted the German advisors as to 'tactics' ... This accounted for the smoothness of the operation."
When the Muslim Brotherhood later tried to assassinate Nasser in 1954, Nasser arrested General Naquib and became the second president of Egypt. An ardent nationalist and founder of Pan-Arabism, it was Nasser who drew Egypt into the alliances with Russia, seized the Suez Canal from Britain and provoked the 1967 Six-day War with Israel.

Yet division became evident between the Muslim Brotherhood who wanted an Islamic state guided by the principles of Saria and Egyptian politicians who came to peddle power and control with the global politicians of Europe, America and Russia. Many other attempts were made to assassinate Nasser.
Back in America, after World War II, many of the Muslim Brotherhood were wanted for war crimes. Yet instead of prosecuting the Muslim Nazi collaborators, the German intelligence officials were captured in Cairo by the British Secret Service and then in the words of Loftus, "a horrible thing happened." The British intelligence services hired the Muslim war criminals, put them into a special mission and used them to try to destroy the infant Nation of Israel in 1948. Even in the Israeli Mossad, John Loftus admits that this fact was not known that the Arab Armies and terrorist organizations that fought to destroy the Nation of Israel before it even had a chance to establish its national identity were funded by the English with former Arab Nazi troops of the Muslim Brotherhood. (John Loftus, The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazi and Al-Qaeda)

"In the words of John Loftus, "a horrible thing happened." The British Intelligence Services hired the Muslim war criminals (Muslim Brotherhood) and put them into a special mission to try to destroy the infant Nation of Israel in 1948."

And then another confounded event happened. Between the years of 1945 to 1948, the British paid for the services of these Arab Nazi mercenaries, who were suppose to have been tried as war criminals, to fight and destroy the Nation of Israel in 1948. When the British lost the war with Israel, they then "sold" these Arab Nazis to the U.S. Intelligence services, the predecessor to the CIA. During this time, in 1949, Hassan al-Banna was assassinated by American government agents. (John Loftus, The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazi and Al-Qaeda)

"When the British lost the war with Israel, they then "sold" these Arab Nazis to the U.S. Intelligence services, the predecessor to the CIA. During this time, in 1949, Hassan al-Banna was assassinated by American government agents."

By the time the Egyptian president Nasser has assumed office, the Muslim Brotherhood had passed from the hands of the English to the American intel services. When the Egyptian president Nasser uncovered the plot to destroy the government of Egypt and sought to deport or imprison the members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s, the CIA intervened and evacuated the Arab Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood to Saudi Arabia. They were to be used in the Middle East against the Arab communists. The Soviets funded the Arab communists and we funded the Arab Nazis against the communists. For many years the Muslim Brotherhood were kept on the payroll of the United States government.

Within short order, things got more tangled still: As Nasser in his brewing fight with Britain and France over control of the Suez Canal turned to the Soviet Union for assistance and arms purchase. The CIA then switched sides and began to collaborate with the Muslim Brotherhood, the former and still ardent Nazi supporters against their ex-ally, the now pro-Soviet Nasser. Such is the world of allies and enemies.
When the Egyptian president Nasser uncovered the plot to destroy the government of Egypt and sought to deport or imprison the members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s, the CIA intervened and evacuated the Arab Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood to Saudi Arabia.

There in Saudi Arabia, the land of the guardian of the sacred cites of Mecca and Medina, the Muslim Brotherhood now had new benefactors, the American CIA and new Islamic roles to assume, as teachers and guardians of the Muslim youth. There in the religious schools called the Madrasas and in the Saudi universities with royal grants and funding, the Muslim Brotherhood found a new home. There in Saudi Arabia, the land of the most radical and fundamental of all Muslim sects, the Wahhabis, the Muslim Brotherhood came in and blended Islamic Nazism, Islamic Wahhabiism with virulent anti-Semitism.

As if the United States was not meddling enough in the politics of Middle East politics, the CIA sent into the political arena the grandson of Teddy Roosevelt. Kermit Roosevelt, who would later in 1953 become instrumental in overthrowing the democratically elected Iranian president Mohammed Mossadegh, helped to install the American supported Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Iran. (John Loftus, The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazi and Al-Qaeda)

Roosevelt began to secretly negotiate with President Nasser in Egypt. He was seeking to enhance the intelligence services of the Egyptian government who were ex-Nazis with "more capable" ex-Nazis. Here the American intelligence community under the leadership of CIA director Allen Dulles was collaborating with the former director of the German military intelligence on the Russian front, Reinhard Gehlen to set up a new anti-Soviet intelligence using former German Nazi intelligence officials.

To head this operation, former SS colonel Otto Skorzeny, the head of the infamous ODESSA network operation that assisted high-level Nazi officials to escape to South America (Argentina) and Egypt was recruited for the job. His command was to create a safe haven for Nazi war criminals and give them a full time intelligence job under the patrimony of the American government for the Egyptians. The CIA office in charge to give American assistance was Miles Copeland. (John Loftus, The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazi and Al-Qaeda)

There in Saudi Arabia, the land of the most radical and fundamental of all Muslim sects, the Wahhabis, the Muslim Brotherhood came in and blended Islamic Nazism, Islamic Wahhabiism with virulent anti-Semitism.


Sayyid Qutb, the Ideological Successor of Hassan al-Banna

It was 1954, and Sayyid Qutb a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was arrested and went to the Jarah prison for ten years. There in prison he wrote 'tracts' that soon become the 'must-read' guides for Islamic comrades around the world. It was the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Rahbar of the Islamic Republic of Iran who translated Qutb's tracts into Farsi or Persian language. Here we forge the link between the modern Islamic state of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood of Arafat and Osama bin Laden.

Sayyid Qutb of the Muslim Brotherhood

Born in 1906 in Upper Egypt, Qutb, a low level graduate of secular Egyptian education became radicalized after two years of graduate studies in the United States (1948-51). He developed a passionate hatred towards American culture. To him, Christian churches were "entertainment centers and sexual playgrounds" was shocked by the freedoms allowed to women. He immediately upon his return to Egypt joined the Muslim Brotherhood and assumed the position of editor-in-chief of the organization's newspaper.

Back in Egypt, Gamal Nasser resisted the order of the Muslim Brotherhood to restore Sharia law and became the first on the hit list by the Islamic Muslim Brotherhood clerics. Only with the assistance of the CIA and the former Nazi mercenaries did Nasser retain his power. The Brotherhood was banned in 1943, four thousand arrested and the rest scattered to Syria, Jordan, Saudi and Lebanon. It was resurrected again by the Egyptian government and legalized in 1948 only as a religious organization. In 1954, Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf, an activist in the Brotherhood tried to assassinate President Gamil Nasser and was executed with four other and again banned in 1954 when the Brotherhood began to insist again that Egypt be governed under the Islamic law called shari'a.

The Egyptian government legalized the Brotherhood again in 1948, but only as a religious organization; it was banned again in 1954 because it insisted that Egypt be governed under shari'a (Islamic law). At this time, Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf, a Brotherhood activist, attempted to assassinate Egyptian President Gamal Abd'el Nasser and was executed, along with five other Brothers. Thousands of the Arab Nazis fled with the assistance of the CIA, according to Loftus documentation to Syria, Saudia Arabia, Jordan, and Lebanon.In 1964, Nasser granted amnesty to the imprisoned Brothers, hoping that their release would weaken interest in the recently formed Arab Socialist Union party. Yet with the release of the imprisoned Brothers, three more assassination attempts were committed by the Muslim Brotherhood on Nasser's life. The top leaders of the Brotherhood were executed in 1966, and many others were imprisoned.
During his time in jail, Qutb became one of the foremost proponents of jihadi Salafi ideology. He became a student of Pakistani Abu'l a'la Maududi (1903-1979), one of the most important mentors of the development of the modern radical Salafi Islamic thought in the 20th century. Here was the link between the vague ideology of Hassan-al-Banna and his Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood) and the radical and more sophisticated ideology of Maududi's student, Sayyid Qutb. (Sayyid Qutb, the Pole Star of Egyptian Salafism)

According to Abu'l Maududi, mainstream Islam has become corrupt and unreliable over the centuries and in essence apostate. The "Jahiliyya" which initially meant ignorance or the pre-Islamic state of pagan ignorance was now viewed as an Islamic state that had usurped divine authority. They were designing their own laws and not implementing the strict Islamic law of Sharia. As such the "true Jihiliyya" or true believer was to wage a holy war (jihad) against any Islamic state not implementing strict Islamic law.

Sayyid Qutb in the prison cell wrote a 30 volume commentary on the Koran called the Fi Zhalil al-Quran (In the Shadow of the Quran), a monumental 30 volume commentary (tafsir) on the Quran. Yet he is most noted for his writing of the Ma'alim fi'l-Tariq called the "Signposts on the Road" (translated as "Milestones"). With Hassan al-Banna dead, he revised his concept of creating an Islamic state in Egypt not by a slow process of creating an Islamized population but by a radical revolutionary Bolshevik-style seizure of state power and enforcing the law of Islam by force. The problem of the Muslim prohibition against overthrowing a Muslim ruler was reversed because now the "true Jihiliyya" must wage a holy war (jihad) against any apostate Islamic state. (Sayyid Qutb, the Pole Star of Egyptian Salafism)

During the Nasser regimen, the Muslim Brotherhood under the leadership of Sayyid Qutb would become one of the most vocal opponents of the socialists state in Egypt. The Ikhwan, or the Muslim Brotherhood during this era split. One part of the Brotherhood went with Qutb and remained in direct confrontation with the Nasser regimen. The other part of the Brotherhood spend it time preaching in the Mosques and in social activism. The militant order under Sayyid Qutb eventually became such a threat to the Egyptian revolutionary state of President Nasser.

On August 25, 1966, Sayyid Qutb was executed by hanging as a ringleader of an alleged Brotherhood conspiracy against the Nasser government. Most of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested and its printing material confiscated. They were banned from any public gathering or political forum. By 1966, the Ikhwan-al-Muslimiin, the Muslim Brotherhood disappeared from the public sight.

In the meantime, Sayyid Qutb's brother Muhammad Qutb and Abdullah al-Azzam, a radical Palestinian preacher called the "Emir of Jihad" has escaped Egypt and with the help of the CIA fled to Saudi Arabia. There they founded the Maktab al-Khidamat (Offices of Services) while teaching at the King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah. The Maktab formed the core organization of the future al-Qaeda network.

Sayyid Qutb's brother Muhammad Qutb and Abdullah al-Azzam, a radical Palestinian preacher called the "Emir of Jihad" founded the Maktab al-Khidamat (Offices of Services) the founding organization of the al-Qaeda.

Here in the King Abdul Aziz University, the son of the wealthiest building contractor in Saudi and friend of King Faisal, Osama bin Laden went to school. There he became a disciple of Sayyid Qutb's brother Muhammad Qutb and Abdullah al-Azzam. The rest of the story of Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda is history. Here in Saudi Arabia Osama was nurtured in Wahhabism with the radical and uncompromising ideal for the restoration of the theocratic Islamic state not only in the Middle East but around the entire world. The restoration of the 'righteous caliphs" was now to begin. Even Muslim leaders must be toppled if they did not restore Shariah (Islamic religious) law.

It was Osama ben Laden, the disciple of Sayyid Qutb's brother Muhammad Qutb and Abdullah al-Azzam, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood professors in exile at the King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi who became heir to their organization, the Maktab that formed the core organization of the future al-Qaeda network.

Egyptian President Mohammed Ahmed Anwar al-Sadat and The Muslim Brotherhood

When the government of Anwar El-Sadat, the former vice-President of Nasser and one of the original "Free Officer's Group" who deposed King Farouk I, came to power in 1971, after the death of Nasser. A new political era came to Egypt yet his legacy would always remain in the shadow of the more popular and more charismatic Gamal Nasser. The Soviets were expelled and moderation to the west came to Egypt. The Muslim prestige was again heightened as Sadat also provoked a war with Israel and made a surprise attack against the Israeli forces in the Sinai on October 6, 1973, during both the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur while the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was being held. The image of the "invincibility of Israel" was shattered but Egypt again lost the war.

The Nobel Peace Prize between Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin - 1978

Anwar Sadat early had a good relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood as noted in a diary entry in the summer of 1940.
"One day I invited Hassan al-Banna, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the army camp where I served, in the Egyptian Communication Corps, so that he might lecture before my soldiers on various religious topics. A few days before his scheduled appearance it was reported to me from army Intelligence that his coming was forbidden and canceled by the order of General Headquarters, and I myself was summoned for interrogation. After a short while I went secretly to El Bana's office and participated in a few seminars he organized. I like the man and admired him."

It would be part of the legacy of Anwar Sadat that while he sat on the military tribunal that condemned and sent the Muslim Brotherhood into exile, he would also be their patron of rehabilitation. And the reformation began. Freed in 1974, the Muslim Brotherhood, though not allowed to be a political party, could sponsor public events and speeches, publish magazines and newspaper, again promote social activism and sponsor financial institutions. Again they began to draw their religious and political force from the low and middle classes. Most important they were able to thrive under the largess of the oil rich countries of Iraq and Kuwait and their patrons in the government of Saudi Arabia.

The political movement in the land of Egypt also underwent a revolution when the one-part state of Egypt in alliance with their Soviet patrons moved towards a multi-party political state more in line with the United States, their new political and economic patron. With the refusal of the Soviet Union to reschedule repayment of Egypt's debt, Sadat renounced the Soviet-Egyptian Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in March 15, 1976 and now became a western and more prominently American ally. The next year, Sadat announced that he was going to establish his own political party, the National Democratic Party (NDP) and effectively absorb the old Arab Socialist Union. At the same time, in order to establish a non-radical and pliant left-wing opposition, his brother, Amal Sadat formed the Socialist Labor Party. (Country Studies on Egypt, Political Development 1971-1978 )

Egyptian President Mohammed Ahmed Anwar al-Sadat

This comparative reign of freedom with the Muslim Brotherhood kept a certain form of stability until 1979. Anwar Sadat had promised the Muslim Brotherhood that he would institute a government around the Islamic code of law called Sharia. Egyptian-Israel Peace Accord was signed between Egypt and Israel, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin went on to claim the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. Though never acclaimed by the Egyptian public as much as his predecessor Gamal Nasser, Sadat came to be one of the most admired leaders by the Western world after the Camp David Accord, where under the leadership of American President Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat and Israeli Menachem Begin signed the historic peace accord. Though gaining the Nobel Peace Prize, Anwar Sadat also went on to sign his death sentence with the Muslim Brotherhood.

On October 6, 1981, President Anwar Sadat was assassinated while watching an aerial display at a Egyptian military parade celebrating the 8th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War with Israel. Among those observing from the reviewing stand was the then future U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the future Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, sitting just to the right of Sadat yet escaped uninjured.

The Assassination of Anwar Sadat on October 8, 1981 .

During the reign of Sadat, though the Muslim Brotherhood were unable to form their own political party yet they eventually claimed 17 seats in the Egyptian Parliament as independents and commanded several important offices in professional organizations. The political and financial network continued to develop into seventy branches of Muslim Brothers worldwide. Among this network would be included various divisions and factions, clandestine financial charities and politically violent Jihaddist groups such as the al-Jihad of Egypt and the al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya in Egypt, the HAMAS (Islamic Resistant Movement) in Palestine and the Mujahidden-e Khalq (MEK or MKO) of Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden fostered his al-Qaeda organization. (Intelligence Resource Program, "Muslim Brotherhood")

The Descendants and Legacy of "The Muslim Brotherhood" and the "Mufti of Jerusalem"

So the heritage of the power players in the Middle East that surround Israel is still with us today. How are students of prophecy to understand the streams of prophecy that are swarming around us today? The players obviously are different. The philosophical thread still exists today in the terrorists that threat the Nation of Israel. The "Thread" is the radical Saladi Jahafi ideology of Sayyid Qutb mixed with the radical Islamic Wahhabiis sect of Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic Nazism all brewed with virulent anti-Semitism.

The young Yassir Arafat

Out of the loins of this fundamental radical Islamic sect, we find today Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, the late President of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yassir Arafat (Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al Qudwa Al Husseini), the nephew of the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini and the all the leaders of the HAMAS terrorist organization in Gaza and the current leadership of the Palestinians.

Can we expect that the "children" of Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini and Hassan al-Hanna will change and learn to worship the God of Israel? Let us listen the voice of the Psalmist:

Psalms 83:1-8 - Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace and do not be still, O God! For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; and those who hate You have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against your sheltered ones.

They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more." For they have consulted together with one consent. They form a confederacy against You; The tents of Edom and the Ismaelites, Moab and the Hagrites; Gebel, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assyria also has joined with them; they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

As a "leopard cannot change its spots", so also the descendants of the ideology of Hassan al-Banna and Haj Amin al-Husseini will not change their hatred for the children of Jacob until the "Omens" of the God of Israel are fulfilled. As the prophet Jeremiah foretold of the descendants of the Philistines (Palestinians):

Zechariah 9:7 - "And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: (a picture of blasphemy and violence being removed) but he who remains alive, even he, shall be for our God, (Hashem) and he shall be as an Aluf (docile or friendly element of the population) in Judah, and Ekron (northernmost of the 5 cities of the Philistines) as a Jebusite (the people who controlled the city site of Salem, when David conquered it, and these people lived in peace with Israel).
Shall we pray for that day?

"Why Do You Look
For The Living
Among The Dead?"


That's a question I ask myself on a constant basis. Our lives are filled with shallow choices and illusions. So much of the time, it seems the easiest, and most alluring choice is the one which takes one down a dead end path, one not his own, one with no real life in it.

Whether it is materialism (which I heartily endorse for the fun of it, but not as a reflection of any real meaning), or lust, or greed for power, all the dead paths have the shine, sparkle, and lure of glamour and status.

But, they lead to destruction.

The path which does not lead to destruction can be summed up in two laws,

1) Love the Lord your God with all you heart, with all your mind, with all your sould, and with all your strength,

and

2) Love your neighbor as yourself.


Luke 24
The Resurrection


1On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

4While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?

6He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' "

8Then they remembered his words.

9When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.

12Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and

he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.


A lesson to be learned from this passage is that those who spent their lives with Jesus, those who knew Him most intimately, those who studied with Him and listened to His teachings on a daily basis, did not hear, did not understand the fullness of His message.

We are fools to think that we, who live at a 2000 year remove from His Presence, can understand clearly and fully the message of the scriptures.

For one thing, almost all of us, who call ourselves followers of Christ, are completely removed from the Jewish tradition from which His teachings, and His truth, sprung forth. Yes, Truth is universal, but it does grow out of a ground, and the root grows from the land of Israel, and all us gentiles are but wild shoots grafted on to the original vine.

If we want to find the living, we must not look among the dead. It will help us all to know that He was born a Jewish boy, named Yeshua, and His mission as the Messiah was to establish God's Kingdom across the face of the Earth by serving as the Branch which would bring the message of the Hebrew scriptures to the whole world.

His mission and His name were prophesied in the book of Zechariah, hundreds of years before He was born:


Then he showed me Joshua (Joshua is an anglicization of the Jewish name Yeshua) the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?"

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel.

He spoke and said to those who were standing before him, saying, "Remove the filthy garments from him " Again he said to him, "See, I have taken your iniquity away from you and will clothe you with festal robes."

Then I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments, while the angel of the LORD was standing by.

And the angel of the LORD admonished Joshua, saying,

"Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here.

The Branch
'Now listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who are sitting in front of you--indeed they are men who are a symbol, for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the Branch.

'For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

'In that day,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'every one of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.'"

...

The Symbolic Crowns
"Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

"Then say to him, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for He will branch out from where He is; and He will build the temple of the LORD.

"Yes, it is He who will build the temple of the LORD, and He who will bear the honor and sit and rule on His throne Thus, He will be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace will be between the two offices."'

"Now the crown will become a reminder in the temple of the LORD to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen the son of Zephaniah.

"Those who are far off will come and build the temple of the LORD " Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you And it will take place if you completely obey the LORD your God.


God separated the priestly tribe from the Kings a long time ago. If you ask me, He did this because He, in His wisdom, knew that no man could be entrusted with both tasks because the breadth of the power would be to enticing.

But Yeshua the Messiah was no mere man, and when He returns, He will sit upon the throne based in Jerusalem, and He will rule the whole world as both priest and King.

The Power of Love,
A Little Girl,
And Osama Bin Laden


Thanks to Michael:


Little Melissa comes from Chance Cove Newfoundlandand attends first grade.After school she tells her father that theylearned about the history of Valentine's Day.

"Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint, I was wondering if Igave a Valentine to someone who was not , will God get mad at me for giving them a valentine?"

Melissa's father thinks a bit, then says "No, I don't think God wouldget mad. Who do you want to give a Valentine to?"

"Osama Bin Laden," she says.

"Why Osama Bin Laden," her father asks in shock.

"Well,"she says, "I thought that if a little Newfoundland Christian girl could have enough love to give Osama a Valentine, he might start to think that maybe we're not all bad, and maybe start loving people alittle bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent Valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot. And then he'd start going all over the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore."

Her father's heart swells and he looks at his daughter with new-foundpride. "Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."

"I know," Melissa says, "and once that gets him out in the open, ourCanadian Soldiers can shoot the fucker."

Saturday, April 07, 2007

"I Would Like To Buy An Argument"


A classic from Monty Python's Flying Circus.


The Hardly Boys


I'm putting this up for no good reason whatsoever. It just makes me laugh.


European Hotel Chain
Removes Bible
From All Rooms
Because Of
One Complaint


Wow! Just wow:


"After a single complaint by a single secular humanist, the Bible will be purged from thousands of hotel rooms in Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands and Norway. The Bible will no longer be available at more than 130 Scandic hotels in ten countries. Scandic has already begun removing the Bible from its rooms.

The whole sad process began with a complaint by a guest who had found a Bible in a drawer in his hotel room. He wrote to Mona Andersson, the head marketing executive at Scandic hotels. She wrote back [my translation]: "Thank you for your e-mail and your views. Yes, we have traditionally had the Bible/New testament available at our hotel rooms. But all religions are welcome at Scandic so as of today we encourage all our hotels to remove the Bible from their rooms"

Source

Friday, April 06, 2007

Will We Get Nuked?





From Crusade Media:


A month after September 11, senior Bush administration officials were told that an al Qaeda terrorist cell had control of a 10-kiloton atomic bomb from Russia and were plotting to detonate it in New York City. CIA director George Tenet told President Bush that the source, code-named "Dragonfire," had said the nuclear device was already on American soil. The briefing sent President Bush “though the roof” causing him to order his national security team to give nuclear terrorism priority over every other threat to America. Six months earlier the CIA’s Counterterrorism Centre had picked up chatter in Al Qaeda channels about an “American Hiroshima”.

Concerned that Al Qaeda could have smuggled a nuclear weapon into Washington as well, the president ordered Vice President Dick Cheney to leave the capital for an “undisclosed location,” where he would remain for many weeks to follow. This was standard procedure to ensure “continuity of government” in case of a decapitation strike against the U.S. political leadership. Several hundred federal employees from more than a dozen government agencies joined the vice president at this secret site. The president also immediately dispatched NEST specialists (Nuclear Emergency Support Teams of scientists and engineers) to New York to search for the weapon.

After anxious weeks of investigation, including surreptitious tests for radioactive material in New York and other major cities, Dragonfire's report was found to be false. New York's mayor and police chief would not learn of the threat for another year. However the incident brought home to the American administration how volatile and potentially destructive this “war on terror” could be.

To date, the only confirmed case of attempted nuclear terrorism occurred in Russia on November 23, 1995, when Chechen separatists put a crude bomb containing 70 pounds of a mixture of cesium-137 and dynamite in Moscow’s Ismailovsky Park. The rebels decided not to detonate this “dirty bomb,” but instead informed a national television station to its location. This demonstration of the Chechen insurgents’ capability to commit ruthless terror underscored their long-standing interest in all things nuclear. As early as 1992, Chechnya’s first rebel president, Dzhokhar Dudayev, began planning for nuclear terrorism, including a specific initiative to hijack a Russian nuclear submarine from the Pacific Fleet in the Far East. The plan called for seven Slavic-looking Chechens to seize a submarine from the naval base near Vladivostok, attach explosive devices to the nuclear reactor section and to one of the nuclear-tipped missiles on board, and then demand withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. After the plot was discovered, Russian authorities disparaged it, and yet it is ominous to note that the former chief of staff of the Chechen rebel army, Islam Khasukhanov, had once served as second-in-command of a Pacific Fleet nuclear submarine.

For Movsar Barayev, the leader of the rebel unit that took 800 hostages only a few blocks from the Kremlin, the Dubrovka Theater was his second-choice target. Initially, Barayev planned to seize the Kurchatov Institute, one of Russia’s leading nuclear design centers, with 26 operating nuclear reactors and enough HEU to make thousands of nuclear weapons. Though far from optimal, the security at Kurchatov proved formidable enough for Barayev to pass up the nuclear facility for a softer target.

Chechen separatists have had a long-standing interest in acquiring nuclear weapons and material to use in their campaign against Russia. In addition to surveying Kurchatov, Chechen militants have conducted surveillance of the railway system and special trains designed for shipping nuclear weapons across Russia. They also succeeded in acquiring radioactive materials from a Grozny nuclear waste plant in January 2000 and stealing radioactive metals – possibly including some plutonium – from the Volgodonskaya nuclear power station the southern region of Rostov between July 2001 and July 2002.

Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist organizations are among Chechen militants’ major sources of financial support. Al Qaeda operatives were alleged to have negotiated with Chechen separatists in Russia to buy a nuclear warhead, which the Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed to have acquired from Russian arsenals. While the Chechens’ target of choice for their first nuclear terrorist attack will surely be Moscow, if the Chechens are successful in acquiring several nuclear bombs, their Al Qaeda brethren would be likely consumers.

The collapse of the Soviet Union presented an enormous threat to nuclear security with the Soviet’s ominous arsenal spread across four separate states. Efforts to transport weapons from Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine to Russia required significant speed and diplomatic muscle during a period of extreme political and economic chaos. The Soviet Ministry of Defense had to move 22,000 tactical nuclear weapons to Russia as the country was coming apart at the seams. Inflation had jumped over 2,000 percent, which fueled corruption and criminality throughout Russian society. In the slogan of that era, “Everything was for sale.” In light of these realities, is it conceivable that all nuclear weapons were recovered without a single loss? In 1991, then U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney observed, “If the Soviets do an excellent job at retaining control over their stockpile of nuclear weapons— let's assume they've got 25,000 to 30,000; that's a ballpark figure—and they are 99 percent successful, that would mean you could still have as many as 250 that they were not able to control.” The bottom line today is summarized best by an American intelligence officer who spent many years tracking this issue. In his words: “We don’t know with any confidence what has gone missing, and neither do they.”

These bombs included suitcase nuclear devices; suitcase backpacks (yadernyi ranets), such as the Army’s RA-155 and Navy’s RA-115-01 (to be used underwater), which weighed as little as 65 pounds and could be detonated by one solider in ten minutes, producing a yield of between 0.5 and 2 kilotons.

Reports of Bin Laden having obtained nuclear suitcases, first surfaced in 1998, in various international papers and magazines. In 1996 members of the Chechen Mafia purportedly sold twenty of these nuclear suitcases in Grozny to representatives of Osama bin Laden and the mujahadeen. For the weapons, bin Laden paid $30 million in cash and two tons of heroin that had been refined in his laboratories in Afghanistan. The street value of the heroin was in excess of $700 million.

In 1997, Boris Yeltsin’s Assistant for National Security Affairs, General Alexander Lebed, acknowledged that 84 of some 132 such weapons were not accounted for in Russia. These weapons are miniature nuclear devices (0.1 to 1kilotons), small enough to fit into a suitcase carried by a single individual. The Russian government reacted to Lebed’s claim in classic Soviet style, combining wholesale denial with efforts to discredit the messenger. U.S. government sources have never succeeded in getting to the bottom of this matter.

It has not only been the various intelligence agencies of America, UK, Israel, Egypt and Pakistan finding this alarming intel, it also has come straight from Al Qaeda:

In an interview with Time magazine in December 1998, Bin Laden asserts that acquiring weapons of any type, including chemical and nuclear, is a Muslim "religious duty.”

However in November 2001, Osama Bin Laden clearly spells it out and states that he is in possession of chemical and nuclear weapons. He states this in a special interview with Hamid Mir, the editor of Dawn newspaper, at an undisclosed location near Kabul. This was the first and up until now the last interview given by Osama to any journalist after the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington. The correspondent was taken blindfolded in a jeep from Kabul on the night of November 7 to a place where it was extremely cold and one could hear the sound of anti aircraft guns firing away. After a wait of some time, Osama arrived with about a dozen bodyguards and his number two, Dr Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

In the interview Bin Laden states “I wish to declare that if America used chemical or nuclear weapons against us, then we may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons. We have the weapons as deterrent”. When Hamid Mir asks him he got the weapons, bin Laden tells him to go to the next question.

Mir recalled telling al-Zawahiri it was difficult to believe that Al Qaeda had nuclear weapons when the terror network didn't have the equipment to maintain or use them.

Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri laughed and he said 'Mr. Mir, if you have $30 million, go to the black market in central Asia, contact any disgruntled Soviet scientist, and a lot of ... smart briefcase bombs are available”. "They have contacted us, we sent our people to Moscow, to Tashkent, to other central Asian states and they negotiated, and we purchased some suitcase bombs," Mir quoted al-Zawahiri as saying.

After the 911 attacks on America some Islamic clerics criticized bin Laden for not issuing a warning to America prior to the attacks and an offer of convert to Islam. However, since then bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri have issued various warnings and offers of truces to both the US and it European allies.

Consider the religious fatwa titled “A Treatise on the Legal Status of Using Weapons of Mass Destruction Against Infidels” that Osama bin Laden secured from Shaykh Nasir bin Hamd al-Fahd, a young and prominent Saudi cleric justifying the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against Americans, in May 2003:

“Anyone who considers America’s aggressions against Muslims and their lands during the past decades will conclude that striking her is permissible on the basis of the rule of treating one as one has been treated. No other argument need be mentioned. Some brothers have totaled the number of Muslims killed directly or indirectly by their weapons and come up with a figure of nearly ten million....If a bomb that killed ten million of them and burned as much of their land as they have burned Muslim land was dropped on them, it would be permissible, with no need to mention any other argument. We might need other arguments if we wanted to annihilate more than this number of them”.

Recently in January 2006 in an audio tape, directed to the American population, bin Laden said “: "The new operations of al-Qaeda has not happened not because we could not penetrate the security measures. It is being prepared and you'll see it in your homeland very soon." But the voice on the tape, also offered a truce: "We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you."

In August 2005 Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri issued a video. In it he stated: "O nations of the crusade alliance, we proposed that you at least stop your aggression against the Muslims. The Lion of Islam, mujahid Sheikh Osama bin Laden, may God preserve him, offered you a truce until you leave the Land of Islam. Has Sheikh Osama bin Laden not informed you that you will not dream of security until we live it in reality in Palestine and before all infidel armies leave the land of Muhammad, may peace be upon him [= Saudi Arabia]? You, however, shed rivers of blood in our land so we exploded volcanoes of anger in your land. Our message to you is crystal clear: Your salvation will only come in your withdrawal from our land, in stopping the robbing of our oil and resources, and in stopping your support for the corrupt and corrupting leaders. Those who collaborated with America in Iraq and Afghanistan will, God willing, bear the consequences of this collaboration soon."Zawahiri put special emphasis on the growing threats to the United States. "What you have seen, O Americans, in New York and Washington and the losses you are having in Afghanistan and Iraq, in spite of all the media blackout, are only the losses of the initial clashes. If you continue the same policy of aggression against Muslims, God willing, you will see the horror what will make you forget what you had seen in Vietnam," he warned.

In April 2006 bin Laden issued a further audio tape. In it the speaker on the tape said that along with their governments, the people of the West bear responsibility for what he called a "Zionist-crusader war against Islam". He seems to be gearing the West for another attack in which civilians will be as much a target as their governments – more so than the 911 attacks.
Bin Laden is quoted as saying: "The war is a responsibility shared between the people and the governments. The war goes on and the people are renewing their allegiance to its rulers and masters," he said. "They send their sons to armies to fight us and they continue their financial and moral support while our countries are burned and our houses are bombed and our people are killed." He said that the decision by some Western powers to cut funding to the Palestinian government since the militant group Hamas won elections there was further proof of this anti-Islamic campaign.


It has being reported that Mir met with an Egyptian engineer recently, who had lost an eye after one of bin Laden's nuclear tests in Kunar, Afganistan. The Pakistani journalist said that the encounter with the engineer greatly disturbed and depressed him since it provided further assurance that a nuclear nightmare for America is about to dawn.

Mir believes that an "American Hiroshima" will occur as soon as the U.S. launches an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. "Al-Qaeda and Iran," he says, "have a long, secret relationship."

That relationship dates back to June 21, 1996, when bin Laden attended a terror summit in Tehran. The gathering attracted terror leaders from various places throughout the world, including Ramadan Shallah (the Palestinian Islamic Jihad), Ahmad Salah (Egyptian Islamic Jihad), Imad al-Alami and Mustafa al-Liddawi (HAMAS), Ahmad Jibril (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), Abdallah Ocalan (the Kurdish People Party), Muhammad Ali Ahmad (al Qaeda), and Imad Mugniyah (Hezbollah). The summit resulted in the creation of the "Committee of Three" that would meet on a regular basis for the "coordination, planning, and execution of attacks" against the United States and Israel. The committee members were Ahmad Salah, Imad Mugniyah and bin Laden.

Mir's position that al-Qaeda's nuclear weapons may have already been forward deployed to the United States confirms the report of Sharif al-Masri, a key al-Qaida operative who was arrested in Pakistan in November 2000.

Al Masri, an Egyptian national with ties to al-Zawahiri, said that al-Qaeda had made arrangements to smuggle nuclear weapons and supplies to Mexico, From Mexico, he said, the weapons were to be transported across the border and into the United States with the help of a Latino street gang.

Mir also maintains that numerous sleeper agents are in place in major cities throughout the United States to prepare for the nuclear holocaust. Many of these agents, he says, are Algerians and Chechens who obtained European passports and are posing as Christian and Jews.

He further says that many of these agents have been in the United States since bin Laden's issuance of his "Declaration of War on Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Holy Places." That fatwa was issued Aug. 23, 1996.


Thursday, April 05, 2007

"The God Of The Bible Is Also
The God Of The Human Genome"


From Dr. Francis Collins, via Hot Air:


As the director of the Human Genome Project, I have led a consortium of scientists to read out the 3.1 billion letters of the human genome, our own DNA instruction book. As a believer, I see DNA, the information molecule of all living things, as God’s language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God’s plan.

I did not always embrace these perspectives. As a graduate student in physical chemistry in the 1970s, I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked “What do you believe, doctor?”, I began searching for answers.

I had always assumed that faith was based on purely emotional and irrational arguments, and was astounded to discover, initially in the writings of the Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis and subsequently from many other sources, that one could build a very strong case for the plausibility of the existence of God on purely rational grounds. My earlier atheist’s assertion that “I know there is no God” emerged as the least defensible. As the British writer G.K. Chesterton famously remarked, “Atheism is the most daring of all dogmas, for it is the assertion of a universal negative.”



Bryan from Hot Air concurs:


I can relate. Eight years at the Hubble Space Telescope project had a similar effect on me. I was never an atheist as Dr. Collins was, and I didn’t head up anything on the scale of the Human Genome Project, but examining the universe in detail through Hubble’s eye at first challenged, and then strengthened, my faith. For me, it was a supernova — Supernova 1987A, to be exact, and how its position 168,000 light-years from us makes it a TiVO writ large that we can use to figure out how large and old the universe is by yardsticking distances to it and other supernovas, eventually all the way out as far as we can see, and then rewinding back to the Big Bang.

Genesis 1 turned out to be one of the most interesting and profound documents ever written, once you start to get the science of it all. The God of the Bible is the God of the genome is the God of the distant dying star. If you’re interested in the how and why of that, here’s an article I wrote a while back that attempts to explain some of it.


Washington Post:
"Nancy Pelosi's
Foolish Diplomacy"


Nancy Pelosi is such a fool that even the liberal Washington Post is calling her out. From the Washington Post:


HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad. After a meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Ms. Pelosi announced that she had delivered a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that "Israel was ready to engage in peace talks" with Syria. What's more, she added, Mr. Assad was ready to "resume the peace process" as well. Having announced this seeming diplomatic breakthrough, Ms. Pelosi suggested that her Kissingerian shuttle diplomacy was just getting started. "We expressed our interest in using our good offices in promoting peace between Israel and Syria," she said.

Only one problem: The Israeli prime minister entrusted Ms. Pelosi with no such message. "What was communicated to the U.S. House Speaker does not contain any change in the policies of Israel," said a statement quickly issued by the prime minister's office. In fact, Mr. Olmert told Ms. Pelosi that "a number of Senate and House members who recently visited Damascus received the impression that despite the declarations of Bashar Assad, there is no change in the position of his country regarding a possible peace process with Israel." In other words, Ms. Pelosi not only misrepresented Israel's position but was virtually alone in failing to discern that Mr. Assad's words were mere propaganda.

Ms. Pelosi was criticized by President Bush for visiting Damascus at a time when the administration -- rightly or wrongly -- has frozen high-level contacts with Syria. Mr. Bush said that thanks to the speaker's freelancing Mr. Assad was getting mixed messages from the United States. Ms. Pelosi responded by pointing out that Republican congressmen had visited Syria without drawing presidential censure. That's true enough -- but those other congressmen didn't try to introduce a new U.S. diplomatic initiative in the Middle East. "We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace," Ms. Pelosi grandly declared.

Never mind that that statement is ludicrous: As any diplomat with knowledge of the region could have told Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Assad is a corrupt thug whose overriding priority at the moment is not peace with Israel but heading off U.N. charges that he orchestrated the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. The really striking development here is the attempt by a Democratic congressional leader to substitute her own foreign policy for that of a sitting Republican president. Two weeks ago Ms. Pelosi rammed legislation through the House of Representatives that would strip Mr. Bush of his authority as commander in chief to manage troop movements in Iraq. Now she is attempting to introduce a new Middle East policy that directly conflicts with that of the president. We have found much to criticize in Mr. Bush's military strategy and regional diplomacy. But Ms. Pelosi's attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.


But, her "diplomacy" isn't just foolish, it's dangerous, and downright evil. The fact that she word a hijab (Muslim veil) set women's rights back in a region where nearly a half-billion women live a slaves. Check this out from the Reform Party of Syria:


As a Muslim, I fully understand respect of our religion by visiting US officials and I applaud that respect. Had Speaker Pelosi worn the Hijab inside a Mosque, this would have indicated respect but for Pelosi to wear it on the streets of Damascus all the while she is sitting with the self-imposed Baschar al-Assad who has come to symbolize oppression and one of the reasons why women are forced to wear the Hijab as they turn to religion to express their freedom is a statement of submittal not only to oppression but also to lack of women’s rights in the Middle East. Pelosi just reversed the work of the Syrian civil society and those who aspire for women’s freedom in the Muslim countries many years back with her visual statement. Her lack of experience of the Middle East is showing.

NJ School Hostage Drill:
Portrays Killers as Christians

Remember Beslan


A New Jersey High School Superintendent pulled his head out of his ass long enough to recognize that there is actually a terrorist threat here in the United States, and so he decided he'd better get ready for it by staging a drill.

Only guess who the mock terrorist enemy was. Go on, guess. I'll give you five seconds (cue Jeopardy music).

Why, Christians, naturally. (From Atlas Shrugs):


New Jersey School Stages Practice Hostage Drill – Portrays Killers as Fundamentalist Christians
Superintendent says,

“We need to practice under conditions as real as possible”
By Meg Jalsevac

BURLINGTON, NJ, April 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Thursday, March 22, officials at Burlington Township High School enlisted the help of two local policemen to carry out a mock ‘hostage situation’ drill at their school.

The drill invoked disapproval from Christian students as the student body was told that the alleged gunmen were “members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the 'New Crusaders' who don't believe in separation of church and state.”

According to a report in the local paper, The Burlington County Times, the mock gunmen pretended to gun down several students in the hallways before taking 10 students hostage in the school’s media center. Given that the drill was intended to test the disaster response of students, faculty and local emergency personnel, county officers were dispatched during the drill to realistically execute an emergency evacuation of the building.

The drill organizers explained that the supposedly Christian gunmen “went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.”

School Superintendent Chris Manno praised the drill beforehand explaining that “You perform as you practice. We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they're as effective as possible.”

Bob Pawson, National Coordinator of the Scriptures in School Project, denied that the drill portrayed a possible reality and instead asserted that the drill was used as an excuse to denigrate Christians. “So what allegedly real condition was imagineered? A grotesque scenario saturated with Christian-bashing prejudice and bigotry; a scenario which could never possibly occur.”


Christian students have actually been kicked out of school for praying here in America. In fact it has happened within the last year. This has happened more than once. Another girl was suspended for reading the Bible.

Yes, things like this do actually happen. But, to date, no Christian terrorist group has taken over a school and murdered students or faculty as a result.

However, Islamofascists terrorists did take over a school in Beslan, Russia, and they murdered over 300 students and faculty. They forced children to drink urine. They physically and sexually abused little girls.

But, we can't mention that, can we?

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

It's Time For Truth


From author Don Feder, with thanks to Michael Travis:


People keep asking me what we learned from September 11, 2001 and the deaths of 3,000 of our fellow citizens. I'm tempted to say: Absolutely nothing. (Who was it who remarked that the lessons of history are the last things we ever learn?)

Among the many unlearned lessons of Day-Which-Will-Live-In-Infamy-II-- the necessity to control our borders, the need for a patriotic renewal and the importance of combatting multiculturalism-- the most significant is the nature of Islam.

You will note that I do not say militant Islam, or radical Islam, or Islamic extremism or other such weasel words – but Islam, period. Every one of the hijackers who flew airliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon were professing and practicing Moslems, as is Osama bin Laden. The Al Qaeda network is based in Moslem countries and supported financially by pious Moslems in Saudi Arabia. The overwhelming majority of Moslem religious authorities who've spoken out on the subject, including those at the main mosque in Mecca and Egypt's prestigious Al Azar University, either endorse or rationalize acts of terrorism.

On a day when Americans were incinerated or buried under tons of rubble, from Nigeria to Indonesia, Moslems celebrated in the streets. Sept. 11 was one chapter in a 1400-year jihad.

Every day, the World Trade Center massacre is reenacted on a smaller scale somewhere in the Third World – Jewish women and children are burned alive in a bus on the West Bank, a missionary is beheaded in the Philippines, gunmen shoot up a church in Pakistan (deliberately firing into the prostrate bodies of women trying to shield their children), ancient monasteries and convents are destroyed in Kosovo, a woman is sentenced to death for adultery in Nigeria, Hindus are murdered in the Kashmir, a nun is found beheaded in Baghdad -- and the beat goes on.

Genocide in the Sudan, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, religious persecution in Saudi Arabia, calls for another holocaust in mosques from Mecca to Gaza, the imposition of Islamic law in Nigeria, forced conversions in Indonesia, synagogues burned in France, Jews attacked across Europe – these are everyday events, as Third World and much of the First slowly turns Islamic green.

And still our leaders, from President Bush on down, insist on peddling the absurdity that Islam is a religion of peace – a creed of kindness and benevolence tragically and inexplicably corrupted by fanatics.

At a conference, I recently had an exchange with Tom Ridge, the Director of Homeland Security, wherein I questioned the governor on Islam a la Hans Christian Andersen. Ridge replied that Islam was indeed a pacific faith corrupted by a handful of heretics.

I replied that the "handful" is in the hundreds of millions and -- as far as I can see – it's the Moslems who aren't trying to kill us who've misinterpreted their religion.

Why this reluctance to confront manifest reality? The reason lies partly with our absurd foreign policy. We've declared certain Moslem nations to be our loyal allies – including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. We wouldn't want to offend these dear friends by saying something unflattering about their bloody, butcherly, dark ages faith.

Then too, Americans are naturally benevolent. Most of us are taught from childhood that is religion is good (and it doesn't matter which religion). As long as little Johnny believes in God and goodness, it's inconsequential whether he lights candles, wears a skull cap to services or prays in the direction of Mecca.

This works with every religion except Islam.

Consider the following: Of the three major monotheistic religions, one was started by a lawgiver, one by a man of peace (try to imagine Mohammed telling his followers to turn the other cheek) and one by a warrior.

Mohammed led men into battle. The essence of his message is holy war – slaughtering your enemies for the glory of Allah.

He even advised his followers to negotiate a phony truces to lull their enemies.

For almost 1,400 years, that has been the reality of Islam. Within a century after the death of Mohammed, Islam spread throughout the Middle East and across North Africa. It overran the Iberian peninsula and was finally stopped in southern France. It spread eastward as far as the southern Philippines. It was not propagated by fresh-faced young men knocking on doors and announcing: "Hello. I'm from your local mosque. Have you considered the Koran?" It was spread by force – conversion by the sword. To a large extent, it still is.

Some will respond that all religions go through periods of violence, usually in their infancy. Christianity had its crusades and Inquisition, its forced conversions and expulsions. But the evil committed in the name of Christ happened centuries ago. The evil committed in the name of the Prophet is going on now, as you read these words.

Of 22 conflicts in the Third World, 20 involve Moslems versus someone else. Coincidence?

In his brilliant book, "Clash of Cultures and the Remaking of World Order," Samuel Huntington speaks of Islam's "bloody borders." There is no Methodist Jihad, no Hasidic holy warriors, no Southern Baptist suicide bombers, no Mormon elders preaching the annihilation of members of other faiths.

Islam is a warrior religion – the perfect vessel for fanatics, the violence-prone, the envious and haters of all stripes.

Monday, April 02, 2007

British Schools
Drop
Holocaust Education
To Avoid
"Offense"


From the Astute Bloggers:


"Teachers are dropping controversial subjects such as the Holocaust and the Crusades from history lessons because they do not want to cause offence to children from certain races or religions, a report claims. A lack of factual knowledge among some teachers, particularly in primary schools, is also leading to "shallow" lessons on emotive and difficult subjects, according to the study by the Historical Association.

The report, produced with funding from the Department for Education, said that where teachers and staff avoided emotive and controversial history, their motives were generally well intentioned. "Staff may wish to avoid causing offence or appearing insensitive to individuals or groups in their classes. In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship," it concluded. However, it was concerned that this could lead to divisions within school, and that it might also put pupils off history.

Source

Well, let's see, who would be offended by both the Holocaust and the Crusades?

Hmm.

Well, the Muslim Council of Britain has been offended by Holocaust Remembrance in the past.

And, of course, while it is a little known fact in our politically correct times (when we like to blame White Anglo-Saxon Protestant males for everything wrong in the world), the Pope actually initiated the Crusades because of the fact that the Muslims had taken over Jerusalem.

So, do you think the Brits aren't teaching Holocaust in their curriculum anymore because they are afraid of offending Muslims?

Gee, maybe?

Maybe, if Britain just plays dead long enough, the Muslims will leave them alone, huh?

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Josef Zawinul
With Percussionist Trilok Gurtu
Orient Express, Part1


Josef Zawinul
With Percussionist Trilok Gurtu
Orient Express Part 2


Simply Tsfat


... performing Barchi Nafshi at a Wedding in Jerusaelm Israel. (more)Thanks to Michael for sending this to me.



Moloch



The American Thinker makes a connection I've been hammering home for quite awhile now:


Putting two children in a car and blowing them up. Driving a car into a group of boys playing soccer and blowing them up. The sacrifice of children. Who does this sound like? The God of our Fathers? No. A twisted disgusting deformity, reviled in the Bible. Moloch. Moloch., the devourer of children, is lose in Arabia and is being worshipped by the possessed.