Monday, August 16, 2010

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Pat Condell on Ground Zero mosque: "Is it possible to be astonished , but not surprised?"
Post American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on
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Friday, July 9, 2010

NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World


Space, the Final Frontier... for Muslim Relations?
By Bobby Eberle July 6, 2010 7:13 AM

From the time I was a child, few things held my interest more than rockets and space flight. My family took me on tours of NASA, and I collected all the brochures. Even, now I have a box of newspaper clippings from the first space shuttle launch in 1981, and on my office wall is the op-ed page from the Houston Chronicle in 2003, where Buzz Aldrin and I shared our thoughts on the Columbia accident. Now, after so many years of school and work, it pains me to see what is happening to the agency that once took Americans to the moon. When Barack Obama's hand-picked head of NASA says that his foremost duty is for better relations with the Muslim world, then something is seriously wrong. Build rockets. Explore the heavens. And leave the Obama politics where it belongs!

As reported on FoxNews.com, NASA Administrator Charles Boldin told Al Jazeera news service that when Obama appointed him to the job, Boldin was tasked with three tasks:

"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.

Ok, let's look at these points. First, of all what is the point of inspiring children to want to "get into" science and math if the end result is working at an organization as messed up as NASA is. When I was a kid, I was steered toward math and science, and I was excited about it because Americans had landed on the moon and now there was this cool, new space shuttle heading into orbit. My mind wandered at the possibilities... imaginiing all the places we'd explore over the next 30 years. Ha! What a bad joke.

Next we have the comments about international relationships. It's all well and good to build partnerships, but America could have a million partners, and it won't matter at all if there is not a clear vision. We can't accomplish anything unless we have targets to shoot for.

And, of course, we have Boldin's comment that his "foremost" task is to "reach out to the Muslim world." Whatever! NASA is about aerodynamic research, space exploration, science, and technology. It is about the people I went to school with who have devoted their entire careers to be part of the generation that does the "next big thing" after putting Americans on the moon. And now, the NASA administrator's top job is building Muslim relations?

Simply put, Boldin should be fired, and Obama should appoint someone who knows what's going on. Of course, that would mean Obama would need to know what's going on as well, and clearly he doesn't. The once mighty NASA is crippled and weak and has no vision. The only thing that has inspired engineers in the space program recently is the Constellation program which would ultimately return Americans to the moon and then to Mars. But, under Boldin's watch and Obama's direction, that program has been cancelled.

It's so sad to see how the agency has fallen. Of course, part of that is due to the fact that even though it is focused on math and science, it is still a government bureaucracy. I have seen engineers piddle for close to 20 years on the same hardware tests without achieving any real results except to piddle some more. Tasks move at a snail's pace, and there is no real motivation to get things done as there would be in a private corporation. However, there are still good, smart, talented people there who want to move the space program ahead.

NASA is not about "feeling good about past achievements." NASA is about exploring the stars. That's how children become inspired... by results, not rhetoric.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

The Other Influence Operation


The Other Influence Operation
Posted By Frank Gaffney On July 5, 2010 (8:15 am) In Espionage, History, Islamic extremism

The revelation that eleven individuals allegedly were insinuated under deep and illegal cover into various communities around America by Russian intelligence for the purpose of influencing U.S. policy has been met here as much b y puzzlement as outrage. For most of our countrymen, the fact that these folks were apparently tasked, not so much with collecting secret information, but with exercising influence deemed helpful to the Kremlin is confounding. According to some press accounts, in one targeted community, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the operation was even seen by some as flattering.

Unfortunately, however much our widespread ignorance of the tradecraft of determined and long-running influence operations (IO) Рwith their covert agents, femmes fatales, invisible ink, dead letter drops and other traditional espionage techniques Рcauses us to discount such activities as irrelevant or perhaps charmingly pass̩, the just-exposed Russian program should serve as an object lesson. Specifically, it should arouse us to an appreciation of a similar but far more comprehensive, insidious and deadly IO to which America is being subjected at the moment.

In fact, this particular influence operation is hiding in plain sight: The campaign by adherents to what authoritative Islam calls “Shariah” are hard at work penetrating our society and subverting our Constitution, government and society with a view to compelling our submission to their global, theocratic designs. This stealthy form of jihad is at least as deadly to free peoples as is the violent kind that supports and reinforces the influencers’ efforts to achieve the triumph of Shariah’s Islam.

Thanks to the successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation in 2008, we know that many Muslim organizations in America are a front or an associate of the Muslim Brotherhood – a mafia-like enterprise with chapters all over the world. We also know that the Brotherhood’s mission is “to destroy Western civilization from within… by its own miserable hand.”

This infrastructure for stealthy sedition is aided and abetted by many mosques in this country. By some estimates, roughly 80% of them are controlled– including “control of property, buildings, appointment of imams, training of imams, content of preaching… and of literature distributed in mosques and mosque bookstores, notices on bulletin boards, and organizational solicitation.” The Wahhabi Saudis are the prime funders of jihad of both the violent and “civilizational” kinds around the world.

Evidence of the Shariah adherents’ influence operations in America abounds. They have secured the right to select, train and credential chaplains for U.S. prisons and the military; emplaced operatives throughout the transportation sector, including in the TSA; co-opted and/or installed their own agents in law enforcement, intelligence, military and government circles; and deeply penetrated the capitalist system with a Muslim Brotherhood invention called “Shariah-Compliant Finance.”

These achievements have translated into a plethora of actions that are seen by our enemies as evidence of our submission – the literal meaning of “Islam,” and the goal of jihad. To cite but a few illustrative examples, the U.S. government and media conform to Shariah blasphemy requirements by refusing to name the enemy, or even to describe accurately the ideological wellspring of its efforts to destroy us: Shariah. The American taxpayer owns the largest purveyor of Shariah-compliant financial products in the world: AIG. And senior civilian, military and intelligence officials increasingly insist that the United States must “engage” with (read, legitimate and make concessions to) “moderate” jihadists of such terrorist organizations Taliban, Hamas and Hezbollah.

Interestingly, an individual who has arguably done as much as any other non-Muslim to enable Shariah influence operations in America is Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. As Dean of the Harvard Law School – did I mention that it was located in that favorite target of IO agents, Cambridge, Massachusetts? – Kagan presided over its Islamic Finance Project. (As the website states: “In 1995 the Islamic Finance Project (IFP) was founded by the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). In late 2003, IFP became part of the Islamic Legal Studies Program (ILSP) at Harvard Law School. As the only Ivy League project of its kind, IFP aims to study the field of Islamic finance from legal perspectives by analyzing contemporary scholarship, encouraging collaboration among scholars w ithin and outside of the Muslim world, and increasing the interaction between theory and practice in the Islamic finance industry.”)

The purpose of this project is to recruit some of the nation’s most promising young lawyers to work for and otherwise help promote the financial Trojan Horse some of its practitioners have correctly described as a vehicle for “jihad with money.” On Kagan’s watch, it played a critical role in getting the U.S. government to embrace Shariah-Compliant Finance (including, but not limited to, the AIG take-over).

As an open and free society, the United States is inherently susceptible to toxic influence operations. The blown Russian IO should serve as a reminder of the danger such activities pose. But it pales by comparison with one that masquerades as a religion in a nation constitutionally hard-wired to tolerance of religious practice and the freedom of speech.

It is past time that we focus on a IO threat that is both serious and indisputably present. There are conservatively tens of thousands of people in America – many of whom are not foreign citizens but our own – who are determinedly seeking to insinuate, then impose, Shariah here. As the Kagan example suggests, they are making real progress in doing so. The 4th of July is an appropriate time to declare our determination to halt and reverse the threat to our independence and lives posed by the “other” influence operation. And Big Peace is a powerful new platform for helping do just that.

Article taken from Big Peace - http://bigpeace.com
URL to article: http://bigpeace.com/fgaffney/2010/07/05/the-other-influence-operation/

"Shariah-Jihad-The Problem"

Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wilders.asp




In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: Who lost Europe ?'
Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons, New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .
The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden . In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya , Israel . I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe . San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France . One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .
Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.
Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel . First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines , Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan , Lebanon , and Aceh in Indonesia . Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel . It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel , they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem .Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.
We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.