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In this clip from a panel discussion of Fox, Brigitte Gabriel, President of ACT For America explains studies that show what percentage of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims are radicalized.
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Video: Sharia No-Go Zones Threaten Free Speech and Breed Jihad
Robert Spencer on Hannity, January 9, 2015 on Sharia No-Go Zones as Incubators of JIhad:
Published on Jan 12, 2015 by JihadWatchVideo
Sharia & No-Go Zones Threaten Free Speech:
- Shariah in American Courts: The Expanding Incursion of Islamic Law in the U.S. Legal System (counterjihadreport.com)
Gabriel: ISIS & al-Qaeda in Terror Competition for Headlines & Support
Published on Jan 10, 2015 by act4america
Obama Administration's Apologies Empowering Our Enemies
Published on Dec 16, 2014 by act4america
Brigitte Gabriel's Speech at Values Voter Summit
Published on Sep 29, 2014 by act4america
Brigitte Gabriel Explains Islamic Jihad
Brigitte Gabriel, founder and CEO of ACT for America, opened their annual conference in Washington, D.C. on September 10, 2014, with a rousing speech and a five minute lesson on Islam.
The ACT for America conference was held around September 11 in order to remind our government that they work for the American people and have a duty to protect them from Islamic terrorism. The conference also educated members of Congress about the threat of Islam and honored chapter leaders from various states for the incredible amount of work that they do as soldiers on the ground.
"ACT for America is non-profit, non-partisan, and the nations' largest grassroots organization devoted to promoting national security and defeating terrorism. ACT for America has 280,000 members organized in more than 890 chapters nationwide and 11 countries worldwide." The goals of ACT for America are confronting terrorism, preserving the U. S. Constitution, securing the border, energy independence, empowering women – protecting children, and supporting Israel.
Brigitte Gabriel spoke at the Global Anti-Semitism Summit at the United Nations in New York City on September 9, 2014. She addressed the 500 people in attendance with passion and conviction, in defense of Jews worldwide and against the evil of anti-Semitism. She proudly wore a Star of David necklace given to her by the husband of a woman who passed away. She considered Brigitte the champion of freedom from terrorism.
Brigitte described the demonization by the MSM that Jews have committed genocide against the Palestinians, yet the Palestinian population has increased more than 600% since 1948. "Israel must be the most incompetent mass murderer in the history of the world," she said.
She spoke about the double standard Israel is subjected to every day. It is held to a standard that no other country in the world is held. Human rights are respected in Israel, yet the Human Rights Commission at the United Nations spends most of its time investigating and condemning Israel while they gloss over and ignore the continued human rights violations in Iran, Cuba, China, North Korea, and many other brutal and repressive regimes.
Why is it that the Jewish people do not have the right to exist as a state? Why are the Jewish people denied their history and connection to their land dating back 5775 years? It is anti-Semitism and morally repugnant, she said. Israel has the fundamental right of self-preservation.
Hamas has been waging war on Israel for decades. It is the same war that ISIS wages now against the world. The difference is focus, Gabriel said. ISIS wants a worldwide Caliphate and "They commit genocide in the name of Allah."
"ISIS is persecuting members of every community they encounter; ISIS is slaughtering Syrians, Lebanese, Christians, Sunnis, Alawites, Kurds, and Yazidis, terrorizing anyone who does not submit to their version of Islam."
Hamas rejoiced at the death of Israeli children while they glorified the death of their own children. They love death more than they love their own children. "They use them as human shields, wrapping them in nails and strapping bombs on them to detonate in crowded Jewish neighborhoods and shopping centers. They used my own family as human shields by firing rocket propelled grenades from above our shelter, leaving the area quickly and abandoning us to the devastation of return fire."
Dr. Michael Savage said in his September 15, 2014 broadcast, "If a religion preaches death, dying, and destruction, it is not a religion, it is a death cult."
Hamas uses schools, mosques, and other civilian locations to fire rockets at Israel. Jews don't hide behind civilians, they defend themselves. They learned from history that if someone wants to kill them, they mean it. They are now armed and ready to fight for western civilization, for all of us. "Those who seek the extermination of the Jews are not going to stop with the Jews. That should have been the lesson of the Holocaust," said Gabriel.
Islamic terrorism has turned the entire world into their target. "Evil dwells where courageous men become bystanders, when the informed become silent. ACT for America stands up and defends the Jewish people. Make sure that people of all faiths can live in peace and harmony and that Jews are never persecuted again."
Gabriel explained that terrorist organizations, whether they call themselves ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Boko Haram, or the Muslim Brotherhood, operate from the same doctrine and ideology. And the beheadings and killings of Christians and journalists do not indicate that they want to "coexist."
Expressing her concern over ISIS finding well trained recruits and suicide bombers with lightning speed, she brought up the very real possibility that these operatives have already arrived in our country through our porous southern border, and could walk into a mall and shut down our economy with a small operation of suicide bombers.
Giving the listeners a five minute history of Islam, she explained why "They are not the extreme version of Islam." They did not change recently from an ideology to a violent ideology, it happened long time ago.
According to Brigitte Gabriel, the Prophet Muhammad tried to preach and recruit followers in his city, Mecca, for 12 years and failed. People did not want to follow him. He then went to Medina, a Jewish hub at the time, to preach his message. If they would accept him, his own people would accept him. In order to preach to the Jews, Muhammad incorporated a lot of the Old Testament into his preaching such as praying two times a day, not eating pork, fasting for Ramadan like the Jews do for Yom Kippur, washing hands before prayers, etc. But the Jews of Medina refused to accept him. That became the turning point into militarism, attacking Jews, killing them, or expelling them from their city. At this point, she said, "Islam changed from a strictly spiritual movement to a military/political movement clothed in religion."
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Brigitte Gabriel Explains How New ISIS Propaganda Video Threatens America "In Near Future"
Published on Sep 20, 2014 by RightSightings2
New ISIS Propaganda Video Appears to Have U.S. Or Canadian Narrator
Changing the world, one step at a time – Q&A with advocate Brigitte Gabriel
by Noga Gur-Arieh:
Brigitte Gabriel (49,) a bestselling author, activist, a leading expert on global Islamic terrorism, and founder and President of ACT! for America, has one fascinating life story. She was born in Lebanon to a Maronite Christian family, and spent her childhood in amid the Lebanese Civil War. When she was 10, Islamic/Palestinian militants launched an assault on a Lebanese military base near her family house, destroying her home leaving her wounded. She then spent seven years living underground in a bomb shelter, with no sanitary systems, electricity or running water.
Her only life line was Israel who provided medical help, and protection during those years in the bomb shelter. Later in 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon her mother was seriously injured by Muslim/Palestinian rocket and was taken to Zefat hospital for treatment. For her mother it was a life saving experience, for Brigitte it was a life changing experience. Gabriel was surprised by the humanity shown by the Israelis to their enemies who were brought there for treatment such as the Palestinian and Muslims terrorists, in contrast to the constant propaganda against the Jews she saw as a child.
She moved to Israel in 1984 and worked as news anchor for World News, an Arabic-language evening news broadcast of Middle East Television based in Jerusalem. In 1989 she immigrated to the United States. After 911 Brigitte realized that the Islamic radicals she thoughts left behind in the Middle East have now come to America. She launched ACT! for America a non-profit, non partisan organization that educates and empowers citizens to help play a role in enhancing public safety. Today,ACT! has 280,000 members and 875 chapters nationwide including chapters in 11 countries around the world.
You were born in Lebanon, in times of constant war with Israel. What did you feel about Israel and Israelis as a child, and when did your opinion change?
"By the time I was born into Lebanon the population had shifted from majority Christians to majority Muslims because of the Islamic birth rate. That situation was aggravated by the influx of Palestinian refugees who were majority Muslims. That tipped the scale and brought the haters of Israel together hoping to use Lebanon as a launching pad to attack Israel and drive the Jews into the sea. The only thing standing in their way was Lebanese democracy.
As a child I was surrounded by voices on television nightly news and news radio talking about the horrible things the Israelis were doing to the "poor Palestinians". At my home, however, hatred was never taught nor practiced. I lived in the Christian town of Marjayoun on the border with Israel.
In 1975 the combined forces of the PLO and the Muslims bombed my home bringing it down burying me under the rubble wounded. I ended up in a hospital for two and half months and later ended up living in a bomb shelter with my parents for 7 years till 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon.
Since 1975 as we were surrounded and bombed daily and nightly by the PLO/Muslim armies, and Israel was our only life line. Few people from my town went to Israel and begged for help. Israel started coming in the middle of the night bringing food for the children, as well as blankets, bombs shelters and weapons for the Christian military. So since I was a 10 year old child I knew that Israel was our friend and protector from the Islamists and PLO. However in the rest of Lebanon, they looked at Israel as the invader and looked at us as traitors working with the enemy. "
Can you tell a little bit about your childhood in Lebanon? About a leadership that worshiped violence and called for death to the Jews?
"The first 10 years of my life were ideal. I was born into a very civilized country. Beirut was Paris of the Middle East. Lebanon was the Switzerland of the Middle East. Because of the influence of the majority Christians who were good in business, in education, in the arts as well as great hospitable warm people who valued life and family Lebanon prospered. Unfortunately, Lebanon was the only small Christian country in the Middle East and had bought into the whole Arab nationalism thinking if we side with the Arabs we will be protected as "Arabs" as a part of the "Arab Ummah," Arab nation. The Christians in Lebanon learned the hard way that we were all along considered infidels due to our Judeo Christian heritage.
Despite all that, the culture of worship of death is only an Islamic culture and progressively got worse as the Muslims expanded and drove the Christians out of Lebanon, and now we see out of the Middle East whether in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Bethlahem or Egypt. Today's Christians in Lebanon would leave in a heart beat if they were able to. The ones who are still there are stuck."
What brought you to fight against radical Islam and its impacts of Western Civilization?
"I am an eye witness to terror. I am the Anne Frank who lived to tell about it. I know what happens where people turn a blind eye to terror thinking it is not going to happen to me, it is all the way over there. Now that I live in America, I came from "over there". After September 11th I realized that those radicals I left over there have followed me here. On September 11th my two young daughters came home from school as I was glued to the TV screen watching the images fo the attacks of that day, watching the images of the World Trade Center collapse crying. My youngest daughter looked at me and asked "Mommy why did they do this to us?". She reminded me of me as a child her age, laying in a hospital bed in Lebanon, looking up at my father asking him the same question. My father's answer was: "They hate us because we are Christians. The Muslims consider us infidels and they want to kill us."
I learned since I was a 10 year old little girl that I was wanted dead simply because of the faith I was born into. I had to look into my daughter's eyes and repeat to her what my daddy told me: "They hate us because they consider us infidels and they want to kill us." That day was my defining moment. That day I was born as an activist. That day I vowed that I will do everything I can to make sure that my daughter will never have to look into her child's eyes and tell him or her what my daddy told me and what I had to repeat to her. That day I found my purpose!"
What is your final goal? What are you trying to achieve?
"I am trying to wake up Americans to stand up against evil. When evil goes unchecked, Evil grows like a monster and spreads worldwide. When Christian blood was shed on the streets of Beirut and Jewish blood was shed on the streets of Tel Aviv no one cared. Today innocent people's blood is being shed all over the world by the same hatred driven radicals who have no conscious, who are willing to kill their own children in order to kill those of us whom they consider infidels. I want to ignite a fire in the heart of every apathetic person to make them realize their responsibility to the universe and to each other as human beings to stop evil whenever we see it, identify it and fight it.
I do not come to this from a Christian point of view. I come to this as a human being and a citizen of the world who has a moral duty to be kind to others and treat others the way I want to be treated and make sure we leave this world a better place than we found it for our children and their children. As someone who comes from the Middle East I appreciate the freedom that America's constitution gives me to express my views and rally others to stand up and speak up against evil."
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Brigitte Gabriel supports Israel as the vanguard against Islamism:
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GABRIEL: ISIS is a threat beyond Iraq, with Shariah as worldwide aim
Washington Times , Brigitte Gabriel, June 26, 2014:
There is a great deal of confusion and ignorance about the jihadist organization ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) which has been waging a terror campaign in those two nations for some time now, culminating most recently in the seizure of Iraq's second largest city, Mosul.
ISIS isn't acting out of anger over borders or "politics" as the West understands the term. ISIS has a specific goal in mind and that is the formation of an Islamic state ruled by Shariah.
This is very important to understand because this is a common goal of all the major jihadist organizations across the world. It is shared by al Qaeda, Hamas, Lashkar e Taiba, Abu Sayyef, Jemaah Islamiyah, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab and others. The shared goal transcends any disagreements over borders and pure politics.
For instance, Israel could evaporate tomorrow and the overriding goal of the formation of Islamic states ruled by Shariah would not change a bit. It's based in their thousand-year-old doctrine, which is far more fundamental and overarching than mere political ideology.
If we ever hope to win this war against radical Islam we better understand that the goal of establishing an Islamic state ruled by Shariah is based on doctrine and not just ideology.
Islamic doctrine is not derived from the thoughts or ideological vision of a man or woman brought to the fore in recent years. Islamic doctrine is based on the Islamic trilogy, the Koran, the Hadith and the Sira.
The Koran is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a direct revelation from Allah. The Hadith is a series of traditions documenting the teachings, deeds and sayings of the prophet Muhammad. The Sira is the biography of Muhammad, considered to have been the perfect man who set an example for all Muslims to follow always. In order for an individual to be a good Muslim, it is not enough for him to worship Allah, he must worship Allah in the same way that Muhammad did.
The name given to Islamic doctrine is Shariah. Not only does Shariah form the basis of the doctrine to which jihadists, such as those of ISIS, adhere, it is also the common goal of jihadists to establish rule by Shariah in an Islamic state.
All other considerations — economic, political and military — take a back seat to adhering to and establishing Shariah.
It is this doctrinal basis that is the key to understanding the threat from jihad.
Too often the West becomes tied up in contemporary considerations and issues that have nothing to do with doctrine and assign too much significance to them.
Islamic doctrine — Shariah — transcends geography, politics and even different Islamic sects. It is the common thread that ties Boko Haram in Nigeria to ISIS in Iraq and Abu Sayyef in the Philippines to Lashkar e Taiba in Kashmir.
Jihad is not a local phenomenon. When a variety of terrorist groups all wage violence for the same reasons, with the same goals, this should be considered a clue that there is something more at work here than just "local" conflicts.
Make no mistake — ISIS does not just pose a threat to Iraq. History has shown that when an Islamic state ruled by Shariah is established, such as Taliban Afghanistan, that state becomes a launching pad for jihad elsewhere.
Already we have seen reports that American jihadis have joined ISIS to fight alongside jihadists from around the globe. While the conflict in Iraq is portrayed in the Western media as a civil war, the truth is that most of the ISIS fighters are not Iraqi. They are jihadi warriors from around the world, including from the West.
What happens when these jihadists head home? Will they leave the war behind in Iraq and Syria? Or will they bring jihad home?
In warfare, your enemy's reality becomes your reality and you must go to great lengths to understand your enemy. Unfortunately, we have largely failed on that score as a nation.
Our elected and appointed officials must come to terms with the doctrinal basis for jihad so we can properly and effectively defend America, protect American lives and face our enemies.
Brigitte Gabriel is an international terrorism analyst and the president of ACT for America.org.
Terror Expert Accuses CNN of 'Biasly' Editing Her Contentious Segment About Muslim Extremism
By Billy Hallowell:
Author and terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel is accusing CNN of "completely editing" and misrepresenting her views during a prerecorded interview that aired on Sunday's "Reliable Sources."
Gabriel clashed with Linda Sarsour, director of the Arab American Association of New York, during the segment in question, battling over purported "fear-mongering" and Gabriel's views on Islamic extremism.
Waging allegations of selective editing on her Facebook page Sunday, Gabriel said that some of her explanations during the discussion were axed in an effort to fit an agenda.
"It was discouraging that Reliable Sources, a CNN show about media bias, biasly edited this pre-taped interview between me and Linda Sarsour," she wrote. "They edited the discussion down to fit their usual pro Islamist bias."
She continued: "They couldn't publicly let me dominate the debate, therefore the best parts were left on the cutting room floor, including irrelevant and hostile comments by Linda Sarsour — when my logical arguments were going against her."
Gabriel then shared some of the sentiments she claims were cut out of the discussion, noting that she had highlighted there are currently 44 conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims raging across the globe. Sarsour, she said, was so angry that at one point she reportedly called Gabriel a "bigot," forcing host Brian Stelter "to stop her."
While Gabriel claimed CNN filmed for 30 minutes, the appearance ended up being 11 minutes long, though it is not uncommon for media outlets to tape and then pare down segments to fit programmatic needs.
In the final clip that aired Sunday, Gabriel is seen echoing recent comments she's made about Islam, questioning where moderate Muslims are in addressing rampant extremism around the globe. The initial comments came in response to a Muslim student's question at a Heritage Foundation forum about Benghazi.
"The moderate Muslims, they can organize. Where are their collective voices?," she asked. "Where are the voices of the moderate Muslims speaking when girls kidnapped by Boko Haram disappear and we still do not know where they are?"
Sarsour responded that there are many moderate Muslims that speak out, but suggested that they aren't always given media coverage.
"There are people out there that stood up on Boko Haram, on terrorism, on 9/11. There are national Muslim organizations who continue to day in and day out put out statements," Sarsour said. "Is the media covering it? I don't have control over the media to cover these stories."
But she wasn't done there. The activist seemingly took Gabriel's comments personally, adding: "And I don't have to prove to anyone that I am an American, born and praised in Brooklyn, New York, and that my parents chose to come to the United States."
Watch the heated clash below:
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Brigitte Gabriel and Zuhdi Jasser disagree on the idea of instilling Jeffersonian Democratic Ideals in the Middle East
In the first video they seem to agree on the nature of threat from the rise in Islamic terrorism and lack of moderate Muslim condemnation of it. In the second video however a point of contention arises over why moderates are not speaking out. Zuhdi believes it is due to a lack of committed, sustained American leadership to help Muslims "evolve into a Jeffersonian type Democracy" over a period of generations (nation building) "Brigitte is shaking her head "No". She says you must first confront the ideology driving radicalization. Watch…
Washington Post Engages in Propaganda Exercise against Benghazi Conference
Accuracy in Media, June 17, 2014, By James Simpson:
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank wrote a column on Monday titled "Heritage's ugly Benghazi panel," portraying a forum held the same day at the Heritage Foundation, hosted by the newly formedBenghazi Accountability Coalition, as nothing more than an anti-Islamic hate-fest. This was a serious panel with numerous, widelyrecognized experts, a couple of whom were also members of Accuracy in Media's Citizens' Commission on Benghazi. CCB's April report, "How America Switched Sides in the War on Terror," madeinternational headlines.
That report took some serious skin. Diane Sawyer, Bob Woodward, and other stalwarts of the mainstream media, have taken Hillary Clinton to task over Benghazi. With Heritage and others now picking up the baton, something clearly needed to be done. They can't have Hillary's chances in 2016 threatened by that Benghazi "old news." As Hillary herself said, "What difference, at this point, does it make!?"
Enter Dana Milbank, WaPo's hit "journalist," who sees Joseph McCarthy, and racist bigots behind every conservative door. He could not, and did not, dispute the facts raised during this afternoon-long forum. Instead he used a now-standard device of the left when confronted with uncomfortable truths. The discussion and topic was discredited by simply describing what was said in a presumptuous and mocking tone. It is a clever way to discredit facts in the reader's mind without actually disputing the facts. So for example, he wrote:
"The session, as usual, quickly moved beyond the specifics of the assaults that left four Americans dead to accusations about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the Obama administration, President Obama funding jihadists in their quest to destroy the United States, Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton attempting to impose Shariah blasphemy laws on Americans and Al Jazeera America being an organ of 'enemy propaganda.'"
Most of the above, of course, is true. President Obama did fund the Libyan opposition, which was known to have al Qaeda ties, and those same jihadists turned around and attacked the Benghazi Special Mission Compound, killing Americans. He blatantly supported the Muslim Brotherhood in the misnamed Egyptian "Arab Spring" where one of America's most reliable Muslim allies, Hosni Mubarak, was deposed.
Obama and Clinton are certainly doing nothing to stop the spread of Shariah in America, and the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the Obama administration.Another report out Monday quoted Mohamed Elibiary, an advisor to the Homeland Security Department and Muslim Brotherhood supporter, writing in a tweet, "As I've said b4, inevitable that 'Caliphate' returns…" Finally, anyone even remotely familiar with Al Jazeera knows it is an Islamist propaganda organ. The fact that it occasionally does a better job of reporting news than the American mainstream media is simply a reflection of just how bad the American media have become.
But apparently Milbank's job is not to delve into the facts. Instead, his job is to discredit Obama's detractors. So he used another standard leftist device as well. He found a convenient straight man to play the victim, innocently asking questions and making statements designed to provoke a predictable response, which could then be attacked with the usual leftist rhetoric. In this case, he utilized a Muslim woman named Saba Ahmed. He wrote, "Saba Ahmed, an American University law student, stood in the back of the room and asked a question in a soft voice…" He quoted her as saying:
"We portray Islam and all Muslims as bad, but there's 1.8 billion followers of Islam… We have 8 million-plus Muslim Americans in this country and I don't see them represented here."
So, of course, the fact that the forum was not packed with Muslims implies it had to be biased. Substitute "white privilege," "racism," "McCarthyism," or any of the other familiar leftist shibboleths. If you can't discredit the message, smear the messengers. Ahmed also performed another, perhaps more important service, she changed the subject away from the disaster that was Benghazi and forced the panel to make it all about her bogus concerns.
As described by Milbank, one of the participants, Brigitte Gabriel, immediately "pounced" on Ahmed. Gabriel, who grew up in Lebanon during the civil war and saw first hand what the Islamists did there, founded Act for America to educate Americans on the threat from radical Islam.
Except that Gabriel didn't pounce. She didn't even respond. A partial video of the forum, posted at Media Matters of all places, and reposted at Mediaite.com revealed that instead, Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney gave a very measured, careful and respectful response. Then Gabriel "pounced." But even then she didn't pounce at all. Finally, Milbank selectively edited Ahmed's question as well. He mischaracterized the entire exchange, which was very respectful. Here is the video.
Milbank described Gabriel's response to Ahmed as though it was the height of absurdity. He selectively reported her response that "180 million to 300 million" Muslims are "dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization," that the "peaceful majority were irrelevant in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001… Most Germans were peaceful, yet the Nazis drove the agenda and as a result, 60 million died."
This is all true as well. The peaceful Muslims—and there are no doubt many—are just as passive and impotent as everyday Germans were while the Nazis were killing Jews during WW II, but Milbank made it sound as though she had committed a crime: "she drew a Hitler comparison," he gasped. What is wrong with that? It is a good analogy. He didn't mention all the other analogies she drew, including mass murder committed by Japanese and Soviet communists, where the people were similarly powerless.
But we must ask a larger question. What was Saba Ahmed, the innocent, soft-spoken American University "student," doing there? It turns out Ahmed is more than just a "student." She has a lobbying firm in Washington, DC. She once ran for Congress while living in Oregon, where she went missing for three days over a failed relationship, according to family members.
She came to the aid of a family friend, the Christmas tree bomber, who attempted to set off a vanload of explosives in a downtown Portland park where Christmas revelers were celebrating. The bomb was actually a dummy, part of an FBI sting investigation.
After losing the Democratic primary, she even switched sides, becoming a registered Republican. But she never switched loyalties. She spoke against the war in Iraq at an Occupy rally in Oregon, has worked on the staff of Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy (VT) and has been a Democratic activist for a long time—not exactly the innocent "student" portrayed by Milbank. A 2011 article describing her odd Congressional campaign stated:
Ahmed, who says she's been recently lobbying Congress to end U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, said that 'Obviously I am not a traditional politician.'
Obviously… Gabriel saw right through her act and confronted her. "Are you an American?" she asked, and told her that her "political correctness" belongs "in the garbage."
Milbank characterized it all as a pile-on against this one meek, lone voice of reason. He went on to further ridicule the forum and its participants, observing among other things:
"[Talk show host and panel moderator, Chris] Plante cast doubt on whether Ambassador Chris Stevens really died of smoke inhalation, demanding to see an autopsy report.
(Many claim he was raped and tortured. An autopsy report would settle the issue, but of course the Obama administration won't release it.)
"Gabriel floated the notion that Stevens had been working on a weapons-swap program between Libya and Syria just before he was killed."
(That was apparently the real reason behind the entire fiasco.)
"Panelist Clare Lopez of the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi said the perpetrators of the attack are 'sipping frappes with journalists in juice bars.'"
This last comment was particularly outrageous. Milbank makes Lopez's statement sound absurd, worthy of ridicule, but in fact CNN located the suspected ringleader of the terrorists involved in the Benghazi attack and interviewed him for two hours at a prominent hotel coffee bar in Benghazi. FBI Director James Comey was grilled in a Congressional hearing about it. Congressmen Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) demanded to know how CNN could locate the terrorists so easily while the FBI couldn't. Just today it was reported that that same suspected ringleader of the attack on the compound in Benghazi, Ahmed Abu Khatallah, was captured in Libya and is being brought to the U.S. on a ship.
Lopez is a former career CIA case officer and expert on the Middle East. Yet here is Milbank trying to make her look like some kind of yahoo. But one doesn't have to dig too deep to discover who the real yahoo is.
Milbank's trump card was Ahmed. It was almost certainly a setup. Milbank found an activist he knew could play her part well. She feigned a humble, meek, ignorant college student who made a single observation and became the "victim," whose harsh treatment Milbank could then excoriate, while discrediting a panel of distinguished experts that included Gabriel, Lopez, Andrew McCarthy—who prosecuted the case against the Blind Sheikh, the World Trade Center bombing mastermind—and many others.
Even Politico's Dylan Byers and CNN's Jake Tapper are calling foul:
Meanwhile, the pink elephant in the room was the massive intelligence, military, foreign policy and leadership failure that Benghazi represents for the Obama administration, and by extension, the absolutely inexcusable incompetence—or worse—of Hillary Clinton's State Department.
Like most of the Democrats' media shills, Dana Milbank lies quite well, but they are lies nonetheless. We are well advised to recognize them as such. Hillary Clinton should not be allowed anywhere near the White House. She, along with Obama and many other Democrats, should instead find themselves under the microscope in a serious criminal investigation. I won't hold my breath, however.
James Simpson is an economist, businessman and investigative journalist. His articles have been published at American Thinker, Accuracy in Media,Breitbart, PJ Media, Washington Times, WorldNetDaily and others. His regular column is DC Independent Examiner. Follow Jim on Twitter & Facebook
Benghazi Panelist's Fiery Response to a Muslim Student's Question That Made the Audience Erupt in Cheers
The Blaze, By Erica Ritz:
Author and terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel, the CEO of ACT! for America, spoke heatedly at the Heritage Foundation's Benghazi panel on Monday after being asked a question by a Muslim law student from American University. Gabriel's response made the audience erupt in cheers, with some even jumping to their feet. But that's not the end of it: the student herself even elicited applause at the end.
"I know that we portray Islam and all Muslims as bad, but there are 1.8 billion [followers] of Islam," the law student, who identified herself as Saba Ahmed, began. "We have 8 million plus Muslim Americans in this country, and I don't see them represented here. But my question is: how can we fight an ideological war with weapons? How can we ever end this war? The jihadist ideology that you talk about, it's an ideology. How can you ever win this thing if you don't address it ideologically?"
After a response from Frank Gaffney, Gabriel began by thanking Ahmed for the question. Then she launched into a heated explanation of why radical Islam matters, even if the majority of Muslims are peaceful.
"There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world today – of course not all of them are radicals!" Gabriel said. "The majority of them are peaceful people. The radicals are estimated to be between 15 to 25 percent. … But when you look at 15 to 25 percent of the world Muslim population, you're looking at 180 million to 300 million people dedicated to the destruction of western civilization. That is as big as the United States. So why should we worry about the radical 15 to 25 percent? Because it is the radicals that kill. Because it is the radicals that behead and massacre."
Gabriel continued to note that the majority of Germans, Russians, Chinese, and Japanese in the 20th century were peaceful people, but the radicals in charge massacred tens of millions of people.
"The peaceful majority were irrelevant," Gabriel said repeatedly.
"I'm glad you're here, but where are the others speaking out?" Gabriel asked, before being drowned out by a round of applause. "As an American citizen, you sat in this room and instead of standing up and [asking] something about our four Americans that died [in Benghazi] and what our government is doing to correct the problem, you stood there to make a point about peaceful, moderate Muslims."
Ahmed did not seem defensive or angry over Gabriel's response, kindly responding that "as a peaceful American Muslim," she would like to think that she is not "irrelevant."
"I'm just as much an American, and I'm very deeply saddened about the lives that were lost in Libya, and I hope that we will find justice for their families," Ahmed continued. "But I don't think that this war can ever be won by just the military. You have to bring Muslims to the table to address this."
The panelists all agreed that the dilemma cannot be solved by the military alone, before one asked Ahmed: "Can you tell me who the head of the Muslim peace movement is?"
The law student laughed and said: "I guess it's me right now. Thank you."
That's when the panel and the audience cheered her.
The exchange has caused some controversy on the web, with Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank describing it as "ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering." Media Matters also picked up the story, and posted video of Gabriel's response via the Heritage Foundation's livestream.
Watch the video below to make your own decision about whether it was an "ugly" exchange (relevant comments start around 4:15):
On Hannity Show Brigitte Gabriel and Ali Sina Agree that ISLAM is the problem
A discussion of Boko Haram led to an examination of the ideology that motivates them. Ali Sina explained that he left Islam when he read the Quran and realized how evil it was. He went on to say that most Muslims have not read the Quran and moderate Muslims such as Zuhdi Jasser are not telling the truth about Islam.
Brigitte Gabriel explained that it is Islamic ideology which subjugates women and persecutes Christians that is motivating Boko Haram. She said she goes into Arabic chat rooms online and sees them laughing at us and our twitter hashtag campaign, #BringBackOurGirls.
Ali Sina asserted that political correctness is what prevents us from admitting that the problem is Islam…not radical Islam or Wahhabi Islam or extreme islam…just ISLAM and the example of Mohammed.
When asked if she agreed, Brigitte cited a 2006 Pentagon study that came to the conclusion that Islam was the problem but the media avoided it as if it was" nuclear and harmful to your health" She then asserted that it is the ideology "coming straight from the mouth of Mohammed" that is driving Boko Haram and radicals always win in debates with moderates because they quote doctrine supporting their case. She went on to say that In the Arabic world it is an insult to say "moderate Islam" or "radical Islam"…there is only one Islam. "Moderate Islam is an American verbiage" that we came up because we could not believe that this was coming out of a religion.
This is a departure from Brigitte's long time use of the term 'Radical Islam" in her writings and lectures.
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Zuhdi Jasser, seems to negate as historically unreliable anything negative about Mohammed and still professes him to be "the best example for man". Is this a heartfelt conviction or a political calculation? If you want to know more about Zuhdi Jasser, a very insightful article was written by Andrew Harrod when he reviewed Jasser's book, "A Battle for the Soul of Islam".
Watch this 2011 debate between Spencer and Jasser moderated by Andrew McCarthy:
Ali Sina actually had an interesting twitter conversation with Zuhdi Jasser recently which he wrote about. Jasser defends his version of Islam with whether it is politically expedient not whether it is true. He seems to be promoting "Jeffersonian Liberty" not Islam.
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser: The Deception of Moderate Islam by Ali Sina May 9, 2014
These days the discussion everywhere is about the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria and offered for sale by the Muslim terrorist group Boko Haram. And guess who the media is turning to for answers! The self-proclaimed "moderate Muslim" Dr. Zuhdi Jasser! He will tell the Americans that slavery has nothing to do with Islam and terrorism is un-Islamic.
He sent a tweet announcing that he had been invited by Fox News for an interview. I sent him a tweet, congratulating him for having another chance to bamboozle the American public. Here is our mini debate on twitter.
[Media Alert] I will join @oreillyfactor @FoxNews tonight 8-9 pm EST to discuss#RadicalIslamism #NigerianSchoolgirls and #Brunei Tune in.
— M. Zuhdi Jasser (@DrZuhdiJasser) May 7, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor @FoxNews You'll continue lying 2 the public claiming slavery is not Islamic when it was a practice of Muhammad
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@AliSina_FFI @oreillyfactor @FoxNews look who decided to pick a fight
— M. Zuhdi Jasser (@DrZuhdiJasser) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor @FoxNews I am always for truth. Nothing but truth can save mankind and even Muslims.
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@AliSina_FFI your "truth" is to convert 1.5B people or 23% of the planet out of Islam? Good luck with that deadend strategy @oreillyfactor
— M. Zuhdi Jasser (@DrZuhdiJasser) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor It's a working strategy. I hv helped 1000s out of Islam, radicals too. How many hv you "moderated" with lies?
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor Muslims can read. They follow the vile Quran b4 your sane advises cuz they blv it's the perfect word of God.
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor They'll stop terrorism when they are shown Mu was no prophet of God but a charlatan. Truth will set ye free.
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@AliSina_FFI and Muslims will drop their "insanity" in exchange for ur crusades rather than for Jeffersonian liberty? @oreillyfactor
— M. Zuhdi Jasser (@DrZuhdiJasser) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor Yes they will drop their insanity when they realize Islam is a deception and not the highway to heaven.
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
Dr. Jasser is under the delusion that if he shows Muslims the superiority of American constitution they will abandon the Quran. Nothing can be further from the truth. Muslims follow the Quran not because it is good, ethical or even logical, but because they think it is the unaltered word of God. That is the end of discussion. If Dr. Jasser really knows Islam and Muslim he should know that for them the Quran is the ultimate authority. It is ridiculous to expect them to turn their back to Allah and his messenger and follow a non-Muslim American president. Is he really this deluded or is he deceiving his audience? But let us see the rest of our tweets.
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor The difference between you and I is that you want to keep Muslims sedated, I want to wake them up.
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@AliSina_FFI if ur trying to convert Muslims away from Islam, telling us our Prophet is evil will not endear conversions lol @oreillyfactor
— M. Zuhdi Jasser (@DrZuhdiJasser) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor I blv Muslims are smart & capable of recognizing the truth, if they hear it. Give the truth a chance.
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@AliSina_FFI good luck with that. For every one u convert u radicalize hundreds in your embodiment of the AQ narrative @oreillyfactor
— M. Zuhdi Jasser (@DrZuhdiJasser) May 8, 2014
Dr. Jasser's says by highlighting the evil teaching of the Quran I am radicalizing Muslims. So for 1400 years Muslims lived peacefully, like angels, until I began pointing out the hate and the violence in the Quran. It is then that they became radicalized.
This is really what he thinks. I heard this argument numerous times. This is the typical Muslim thinking. They blame their victim for their violence. By virtue of following a narcissist, Muslims share his psychosis and reason like their prophet.
I tried to show the fallacy of his argument with the following question.
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor How can I radicalize them by showing Mu was a liar & they should not kill cuz there are no hoories waiting?
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@AliSina_FFI u clearly don't get the Islamist AQ narrative. Ur anti-Muhammad conversion mantra is perfect 4their propaganda @oreillyfactor
— M. Zuhdi Jasser (@DrZuhdiJasser) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor What you think the majority Muslims who detest AQ will do if they see AQ has the correct reading of Islam?
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor Do you think they'll all join AQ or they'll leave Islam? Please answer.
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@AliSina_FFI U just proved my original pt u ignored. As to ur question. It's called Wahhabism. KSA spends $Bs spreading. Bye @oreillyfactor
— M. Zuhdi Jasser (@DrZuhdiJasser) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor You evaided my q. Will moderate Muslims join AQ if they learn Mu was a terrorist or will they leave Islam?
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor You say Mu was not a terrorist. Fine, answer the question hypothetically.
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@AliSina_FFI that is a patently absurd question ala "when did u stop beating ur wife"@oreillyfactor
— M. Zuhdi Jasser (@DrZuhdiJasser) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser @oreillyfactor Your example is a loaded q. Mine is not. You can answer any hypothetical question even if it is not true.
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
@AliSina_FFI no more time —go pick a fight with another Muslim.
— M. Zuhdi Jasser (@DrZuhdiJasser) May 8, 2014
@DrZuhdiJasser Throw the towel? You can only win where ur audience is ignorant of Islam. Go go ahead and tell your lies to @oreillyfactor
— Ali Sina (@AliSina_FFI) May 8, 2014
There you have it. One he saw he can't defend his absurd argument he ended the discussion. Of course Islam is violent. Of course the Boko Haram is not doing anything that Muhammad did not do. Muhammad made immense fortunes by enslaving women and children and selling them or ransoming them in exchange with money.
The truth is that Zuhdi Jasser and his Canadian counterpart, Tarek Fatah, a closet Ahamdi not even recognized as a Muslim, have no effect on Muslims. Not only are they not converting the radicals to moderates, they will most likely be killed just like any apostate, if they go to a real Islamic country.
Muslims don't care how others interpret the Quran. They are not illiterate. They can read for themselves. Those who read the Quran and Tafseer know that the so called radicals have the correct understanding of the Quran. The solution to end the Islamic violence is not to lie more and claim Muhammad was a man of peace. The solution is to tell them the truth and show them that the Al Qaida, the Wahhabis and the mullahs of Iran are the real Muslims. The differences between them are superficial. They perfectly understand the spirit and the essence of Islam and follow the examples of Muhammad. It is my belief as well as experience that most Muslims, once see the ugly truth, will leave Islam.
That is how we can put an end to Islamic violence, with truth, not with more lies. But truth is ugly, so most people prefer lies. But lies are only a mask covering the truth. That is why Zuhdi Jasser and Tark Fatah get invited by the Media and ex-Muslims are ignored.
This reminds me of a joke. A man lost his keys in the dark, unable to see anything, he went farther away searching they under the light. When his friend said, but you lost them over there, he replied, "here I can see better". Our politicians and the media love to interview the "moderate Muslims" even though they have no answers because those who have the answer say things that are not pleasant to hear.
Needless to say that Dr. Jasser's reasoning that Muslims can't handle the truth and will become radicalized if they hear is is an insult to Muslims. He basically saying Muslims are stupid, incapable of accepting the truth. Muslims become offended and throw tantrum when their religion is slighted. The solution is not to lie more. They don't need anyone to patronize them.
Many Muslims are leaving Islam silently. I have received thousands of emails personally. We need to intensify our efforts and spread the truth to everyone. A well written, well documented and well produced movie can bring that change.
Truth is often bitter, that is why people resort to sweet lies. But lies kill us, and truth will set us free
Attempting to Rewrite the History of September 11th
ACT! for America, By Brigitte Gabriel:
On May 21st, more than 13 years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, the National September 11 Memorial Museum will open its doors to the public to make certain that Americans will never forget what happened that day.
Unfortunately, some are working to ensure that future generations of Americans never fully understand the attacks, which were the most deadly terrorist attacks in the history of the United States.
One of the exhibits in the museum will feature a 7-minute film called "The Rise of Al Qaeda."
In that film, the Al Qaeda terrorists are referred to as "Islamists" who were waging "jihad" with the attacks upon America.
Those two words, "Islamists" and "Jihad" have caused a controversy, with a variety of critics calling for whitewashing the description of Al Qaeda and the attacks by sanitizing the museum commentary by removing those two words.
This would be a tragic mistake.
Despite the complaints, the use of the terms "Islamist" and "jihad" in no way suggest that all Muslims are terrorists or support violence. No serious analyst in his or her right mind would make such an assertion.
Nevertheless, in warfare the enemy's reality becomes your reality, so it makes perfect sense to call Islamists "Islamists" and to call Jihad "Jihad." After all, in World War II, Nazis were referred to as Nazis, because they themselves referred to themselves as such.
America's enemies in the war on terror do NOT refer to themselves as "extremists," "militants," or "radicals."
They refer to themselves as Jihadists and Jihadis.
Interestingly, critics on both sides of the issue seem to dislike the term "Islamist." Apologists for organizations such as Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood claim that the term too closely identifies Islam with "extremism." Many in the countershariah and counterjihad movement say that the term "Islamist" is a term concocted in the West that has no meaning in the Islamic world.
Both are wrong.
The first known use of the term "Islamist" came from the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late dictator of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism.
Khomeini said: "We are neither capitalists nor communists. We are Islamists."
There are many different definitions listed for the term "Islamist," but that is not the point. The point is that one of the world's most prominent Muslim leaders coined the term to describe the revolution he led. It is entirely proper for the 9/11 museum to use the term "Islamists" to describe Al Qaeda.
The same is true for the term "jihad." There has long been a debate about the use of the term jihad, with Muslim Brotherhood organizations such as CAIR particularly objecting to its use to describe violent warfare or terrorism.
The Muslim Brotherhood in America aims to convince Americans that Jihad only means "to struggle" or, more specifically, an internal, personal struggle.
This is only partially correct and any campaign that claims that the term Jihad only means an internal, personal struggle amounts to disinformation. The dualistic nature of Islam, in this case as it applies to the meaning of "Jihad," is well documented both in historical Islamic doctrine and in contemporary use of the term.
And Jihad definitely does not only mean an internal, personal struggle. In fact, the most widespread meaning of the term that is of particular interest to Westerners who are threatened by Jihad does in fact entail violence.
A false and misleading statement has been attributed to the San Francisco chapter head of CAIR, Zahra Billoo:
"A common misconception of the word jihad is that it means armed struggle or holy war, and that is something that has been perpetrated by many who've made careers out of pushing anti-Muslim sentiment."
Such a meaning for Jihad has nothing to do with anyone with an "anti-Muslim sentiment." It has everything to do with Islam itself.
Let us examine definitions of Jihad from two authoritative sources.
Jihad According to the Quran
The first is the Quran itself. In this case, specifically The Noble Qu'ran, translated into English by two scholars: Dr. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali, PhD, professor of Islamic Faith and Teachings at the Islamic University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia and Dr. Muhammad Mushin Khan of the same institution. The Noble Qu'ran was published by Darussalam Publishers and Distributors, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It has been catalogued by King Fahad National Library. On page 818, in a glossary accompanying the text of the Quran, The Noble Qu'ran provides the following definition of Jihad:
"Jihad: Holy fighting in the Cause of Allah or any other kind of effort to make Allah's Word superior. Jihad is regarded as one of the fundamentals of Islam." |
Can the Quran itself be promoting "anti-Muslim sentiment" as CAIR's Zahra Billoo asserts?
Jihad According to Shariah
Our second source is Reliance of the Traveler: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law.
Reliance of the Traveler is one of the world's most widely read manuals of Shariah law. It has been endorsed by a variety of Islamic authorities, including Al Azhar University in Cairo, IIIT (International Institute of Islamic Thought) in Herndon, Virginia, the Fiqh Council of North America, the Islamic Fiqh Academy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Mufti of the Jordanian Armed Forces and the Imam of the Mosque of Darwish Pasha in Damascus, Syria.
These can hardly be termed as those pushing "anti-Muslim sentiment" as Billoo claims.
On page 599 of Reliance of the Traveler, readers can find the following passage:
o9.0 JIHAD
(O: Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada, signifying warfare to establish the religion… The scriptural basis for jihad, prior to scholarly consensus is such Koranic verses as: (1) "Fighting is prescribed for you" (Koran 2:216); and such hadiths as the one related by Bukhari and Muslim that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: "I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and perform the prayer, and pay zakat. If they say it, they have saved their blood and possessions from me, except for the rights of Islam over them. And their final reckoning is with Allah"; and the hadith reported by Muslim, "To go forth in the morning or evening to fight in the path of Allah is better than the whole world and everything in it." |
Jihad According to Terrorists
If Jihad truly means to "struggle" and not warfare to establish the religion, how does CAIR explain the names of all these terrorist organizations?
Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Pakistan, Bangladesh, India)
Islamic Front for Armed Jihad (Algeria)
Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine (Lebanon)
Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (Israel)
Islamic Jihad Organization (Lebanon)
Islamic Jihad Union (Uzbekistan)
Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Russia)
Laskar Jihad (Indonesia)
United Jihad Council (India)
So, it is completely appropriate for the 9/11 museum to use the term "jihadist" and "jihad" to describe Al Qaeda terrorists and their activity.
We suspect that the sensitivity expressed with regard to the 9/11 museum goes way beyond the use of the terms "Islamist" and "jihad."
The fact is, our country has never truly come to terms with the role that Islam plays in Jihadist terrorism.
It would be great if there was truly no connection whatsoever between Islam and Jihad. But the reality is Jihad is a tenet of Islam.
As previously stated, in warfare the enemy's reality becomes your reality. It makes no difference what Americans think about the stated motivations and doctrine behind the actions of Al Qaeda. The only thing that truly matters is what the leaders and members of Al Qaeda think about why they wage warfare.
The fact of the matter is, Al Qaeda justify their actions by invoking Islam and Allah:
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate,
The General Command of the al-Qaeda Organization Statement on the Succession of Sheikh Osama Bin Laden in the al-Qaeda Organization's Command With hearts that are satisfied with Allah's ordainment, and assured of Almighty Allah's promise and His good reward, the Islamic umma, the mujahideen in the al-Qaeda Organization, and in other groups received the news of the martyrdom of the reviver imam, the jihadist immigrant Sheikh Osama Bin-Muhammad Bin Laden, may Allah rest his soul in peace. We pray to the Almighty Allah to raise his rank and to reward him, on behalf of us and the Muslim umma, with the best of rewards. Since jihad is continuing until the Day of Resurrection … the General Command of the al-Qaeda Organization announces, after completion of consultations, that Sheikh Dr Abu-Muhammad Ayman al-Zawahiri, may Allah guide him to success, has taken over command of the group…
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies – civilians and military – is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in every country in which it is possible to do it… We, with Allah's help, call on every Muslim who believes in Allah and wishes to be rewarded to comply with Allah's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it.
It would be a tragic mistake if the 9/11 museum was to erase the role that their Islamic faith played in the leadership and membership of Al Qaeda's horrific actions on September 11th, 2001.


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The Italian-born Fr. Martino Corazzin told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that young people are leaving the Catholic Church to join various sects that have rapidly grown in the last 25 years. In that time the number of Ghanaians belonging to independent Pentecostal churches, which combine traditional magical beliefs with Christianity, has risen by 400 percent.
Fr. Corazzin, who has worked in Ghana since 1991, said an ACN-sponsored Ghanaian edition of the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church will help stop the exodus by allowing youth to know their faith more deeply.
"At a catechists' meeting I was told, 'Many of the youth you baptized two years ago – they don't come anymore they attend other churches,'" he said. "Many sects are mushrooming – and they're a threat to the faithful who are Catholic."
Reportedly, 8,000 copies of the Compendium have already been distributed, with another 25,000 due to go out over the next month.
Fr. Corazzin said youth go to the sects' churches because they want entertainment.
"It is merely superficial," he said. "That is why the Compendium will be a great help to answer the questions and doubts they have."
The Compendium, a summary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, uses a simple question and answer format to explain the Faith. Pope Benedict XVI promulgated the Compendium in 2005.
According to ACN, in many cases those who leave the Catholic Church either return or move to another sect.
Rev. Dr. Andrew Halemba, ACN's Africa expert, commented on the subject, saying: "The faith has been weakened terribly so they need a clear foundation and explanation of the basics facts of our faith."
"After Vatican II there was a tendency to move away from catechisms based on 'questions and answers' as too formal and somehow primitive," he explained.
"Nowadays, they have discovered that there is need for such a book and that it could play a very important role in the process of evangelization."
Fr. Corazzin said that he expects the Compendium will help people answer questions sects raise about Catholic belief and practice.
"They are asking about Mary, about the saints, all these things," he said, expressing appreciation for the ACN benefactors helping the effort.
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Zara's December Is All We Want to Wear For the Holidays — and More
All year it's turned out collections that hone in on our favorite trends (at our favorite price points) — and Zara's last looks of 2012 are just as awesome. Perfectly on-point for the holiday season — without any festive dressing clichés here — the December lineup is a mix of black and white stripes, sophisticated houndstooth blazers, sequined minis, a touch of plaid, and a hearty helping of leather. It may not be rife with the most obvious choices for party dressing, but a printed t-shirt, statement jewels, and a blazer might just be a cooler alternative to your average Christmas dress anyway, as evidenced by lookbook muse Kasia Struss. They're also the kind of pieces you'll keep in rotation long after your holiday party and NYE obligations. Read on for our takeaways — then click through for a look at the whole collection.
- If you're not the party-dress type, this jumpsuit makes a pretty sexy alternative.
- Style up a sequined skirt just like this for the coolest kind of New Year's dress code.
- This sequined jacket is one of those awesome pieces, with just the right amount of party glitz and sophistication, that last you long after the ball drops.
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- Fast fashion vs investment pieces: this infographic breaks it down — Racked
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- Pregnant ladies, rejoice: Rachel Zoe has a maternity line — SheFinds
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The quartet, Alt-J, first entered our consciousness with their debut release of 'Bloodflood' / 'Tessellate' in October 2011. Released on 7" via Loud & Quiet, it sparked a wave of interest in their brilliantly unique and compelling sound.
Radio support came through almost instantly from Radio 1's Huw Stephens, Zane Lowe and Nick Grimshaw while the BBC Introducing team didn't hesitate to get them booked in for a live session, which was broadcast on both Huw Stephens' and Steve Lamaq's shows. More recently they were selected to perform as part of Radio 1's Festive Festival to showcase new, exciting acts for 2012 alongside Emeli Sande, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosuars, Jakwob, Dot Rotten and others. Previous artists to be given the same accolade have included Katy B, The Vaccines, Wretch 32, Plan B, Mumford & Sons, The xx, Florence & The Machine and Chase & Status.
Now signed to Infectious Music for their debut album (due May), next up for Alt-J is the release of two tracks that are sure to cement the early love shown to boys whilst also drawing in a wealth of new fans and supporters for 2012. 'Matilda' is a beautifully penned ode that gets under your skin and refuses to leave while 'Fitz Pleasure' brings out the raw, inspiringly inventive side of the bands music. Two impactful pieces that illustrate the spectrum of their influences and forward thinking approach to music for the year ahead, both polished off with Joe's brilliantly distinctive vocals.
Lord Huron is a musical and visual project created by Ben Schneider. Originally a solo project, collaborators now include Mark Barry (percussion, vocals), Miguel Briseno (bass, percussion) and Tom Renaud (guitar, vocals). Ben Schneider was born in Michigan and started playing music as a child, on his father's acoustic guitar. The senior Schneider wasn't a musician by trade, but he had learned a bit during his downtime on ships in the Navy. Schneider's father would bring the instrument out from time to time most often on summer nights around the campfire up on Lake Huron to strum and hum the songs he knew. After learning the basics, Schneider began his formal training in the school orchestra. He played upright bass and fiddled with many other instruments, both acoustic and electric, and began recording original music on a four-track cassette machine.
Schneider studied art in college and lived in France and New York before moving to Los Angeles in 2005 to pursue a career in the visual arts. Music was an everpresent pastime, whether through bands or personal projects. Passions often intertwined, and Schneider composed music for various visual art projects over the years. His work was continually inspired by his outdoor explorations, landscape, and water in particular.
In May 2010, Schneider traveled home to Michigan and spent a week on the shores of Lake Huron. For several months he had been writing songs and designing artwork in Los Angeles, though he wasn't sure exactly where his ideas were headed. There at the lake, where many of his formative experiences had come to pass, Schneider recorded the three songs that would comprise the Into the Sun EP. Like most of his work up to that point, the Into the Sun tracks were heavily influenced by places. Schneider had recently taken trips to Indonesia and Mexico, and the sights and sounds of those places had lingered with him. His return to Lake Huron helped these influences to coalesce. He released the EP online in June and dispersed a small number of CDs complete with the artwork he had been working on. With help from a post by San Francisco bloggers, Yours Truly, the songs quickly gained traction online and Schneider set to work recruiting musicians to help him translate the recordings into a performance. Lord Huron's first live show was in August 2010.
On November 4th, 2010, Schneider released his second EP, Mighty. The four-song recording received immediate attention from critics and fans, bolstered by an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork. Lord Huron's first official music video, for the single "The Stranger," was released in January 2011. The wintery video was conceived by the band and shot by Jacob Mendel in the same location where Schneider recorded Into the Sun.
The band toured heavily in 2011, continuing to develop the live show. They played across the country, including performances at South by Southwest, Outside Lands and Lollapalooza. Mark Barry and Tom Renaud, childhood friends of Schneider, moved to Los Angeles to join Lord Huron, while Miguel Briseno also originally hails from Michigan. The band has worked hard to recreate the densely layered recordings in the live setting. Barry was principal in this effort, particularly early on as the band was still forming. He plays several instruments during the course of a performance (often at the same time) and is a guiding force in the arrangement of the show.
In January 2012, Lord Huron signed with independent label, IAMSOUND Records. The first full-length album from Lord Huron, Lonesome Dreams was released in September 2012.
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