Radical Islam At War With America

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Radical Islam At War With America

Wednesday, September 19, 2001

By Fred Siegel

The issue is not Israel. Usama bin Laden blew up a U.S. embassy when the 
Oslo "peace process" was at the height of its "success." The issue is the 
inability of Islamic regimes around the globe to come to grips with the 
modern world.

What did Israel have to do with the recent Islamic jihad murders in 
Nigeria? While Islamic terrorists were hitting New York, Muslim militants 
in northern Nigeria were killing Christians. The violence occurred in the 
majority Christian city of Jos, where the Nigerian government has imposed 
the Sharia (Islamic law) on the largely Christian population. The violence 
began when a Christian woman was attacked after she had the temerity to 
cross the street in front of a group of Muslim men who had gathered near a 
Mosque. What followed was three days of killing and burning churches.
Around the world Islamic militants are engaging in a holy war against the 
infidels - from Coptic Christians in Egypt and the Dinkas in the Sudan, to 
Hindus in Kashmir, Bahais in Iran, Catholics in the southern Philippines 
and Christians in East Timor.

In Sudan, the Islamic militants impose slavery on captured Dinkas - but 
wherever radical Islam is in power, it subjugates people it regards as 
infidels. The Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, an organization 
supporting those persecuted by militant Islam, argues that "radical 
Islamism is a world ideology, fielding a world terror-army, which oppresses 
millions with a racist ideology" that deems non-Muslims less than fully human.
Here in New York, it was easy to get angry listening to Egyptians, 
Palestinians and the Arabs of nearby Paterson, N.J., celebrate as they 
received word of the murderous attacks in New York and Washington. But 
Mayor Giuliani (who has been tireless and magnificent in this crisis) 
rightly warned New York- ers that it would be wrong to take their anger out 
on the city's Arab and Muslim residents. Attacks on Arab-Americans in 
Paterson or elsewhere are utterly indefensible.

Omar, a Muslim New Yorker and former student of mine at Cooper Union, 
e-mailed me to say he was "sickened to watch Middle Easterners celebrate 
our sorrow." He is an American who has imbibed our values while maintaining 
his Muslim faith. He wants no truck with those who kill in the name of Islam.
But it's fair to ask this of those non-Muslims at the BBC, the Nation, the 
New York Review of Books and other rationalizers of Palestinian and Islamic 
terror: Why is it that everywhere in the world where Muslims are in the 
majority, their minorities are persecuted?

And where were these publications, not to mention respectable European 
leaders, when Yasser Arafat, ranting in front of a world conference at 
Davos, insisted that Israel was using depleted uranium and nerve gas 
against Palestinian civilians?

And where were the Europeans at the U.N. "hate" conference in Durban, when 
Islamophobia was denounced, while Muslim discrimination against non-Muslims 
was passed over in silence?

It's also time to ask Arab-American spokesmen like James Zogby, who rightly 
criticizes anti-Arab bigotry, why he's silent about the hate that spews 
daily from the Egyptian and Palestinian media, as with the current hit song

"I Hate Israel."

In Commentary, Fiamma Nirenstein asks if the silence from the West isn't 
what Bush, in another context, called "the soft bigotry of low 
expectations." No doubt our multiculturalists will explain that, while even 
mild anger at Arabs by Americans is sign of deep-seated racism, venomous 
hatred in the Arab world is merely a part of a different culture that can't 
be judged by our standards.

For all their grievances against America, there have been no Cuban, 
Vietnamese or Serbian suicide bombers bringing death to our shores, and 
their people haven't been celebrating in the streets at the sight of 
American blood.

America, not Israel, is The Great Satan. It was hard to acknowledge before 
the World trade Center attacks, but radical Islam has been at war with us 
for a long time.

Fred Siegel teaches history at the Cooper Union in New York City.

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from cnn.com

Bush to give terrorist what they wanted

U.S. seeks stronger ties in Mideast
October 2, 01 Posted: 1:05 AM EDT (0505 GMT)
By Andrea Koppel and Elise Labott
CNN Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration is considering a series of
high-profile steps related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to
secure much-needed Arab support for the international coalition
against terrorism, State Department and other senior administration
officials told CNN Monday. Officials said drafts of a major policy
speech on the Middle East, to be delivered by U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell, are circulating in the State Department for review.
Officials said the speech will "clarify its [U.S.] views on an end
result" of the peace process, which would lead to the eventual
"creation of a Palestinian state." Powell had expected to deliver the
speech last month on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, but
that plan was put on hold after the September 11 terrorist attacks on
the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Following the attacks, Powell's
aides believed the speech needed some major revisions to reflect the
current situation. "It will go farther than we have ever gone," one
official said. "There is an awful lot more that we view as being the
end result than what we have said so far." One point being hotly
debated is whether to "call for ending all settlement activity,"
including so-called natural growth of existing settlements --
something previous U.S. administrations have come close to doing, but
never done. The official said such a speech would be a "powerful
palliative" to the Arab world. "It eases the pain," the official said.
"It would end the perception we only move against Islam." "We are
getting hammered in the Arab world," this official said. "And it is
not a mystery that one of the ways to diffuse this" is to see some
movement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Administration sources
acknowledged that Arab support on the international coalition is
crucial to winning the U.S.-led war against terrorism to send a signal
the war is not against Islam, but against Osama bin Laden and his
terrorist network. The administration also wants Arab states to cut
the flow of money from wealthy Islamic supporters in their countries
to bin Laden. Officials are also debating whether the administration
should invite Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Washington to meet
with Bush or Powell. Although Arafat has met Powell outside of
Washington, he has yet to meet Bush. Some in the administration
believe inviting the Palestinian leader to Washington could give
Arafat the "empowerment" he needs to deal with extremist factions of
his Palestinian forces. "Arafat needs a visit," one official said,
noting that Arafat has publicly condemned terrorism and called for a
cease-fire.

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from http://www.worldnetdaily.com

Bush favors Palestinian state
But Arafat's mufti says Muslims should not cooperate with U.S.

A9 01 WorldNetDaily.com

President Bush said today that creating a Palestinian state has
"always" been part of the U.S. vision for peace in the Middle East
as long as Israel's right to exist is respected, but Yasser
Arafat's religious leader  say Muslims should not cooperate in the
war on terrorism. Bush said he stood firmly behind a roadmap to peace
crafted by an international panel headed by former U.S. Sen. George
Mitchell and said officials were "working diligently" to end a
year-long cycle of violence. "First things first, when it comes to the
Middle East, we've got to get to  Mitchell," he said, calling
those recommendations "a viable blueprint that  most of the world
agrees with is a necessary path to ultimately solving the 
problems of the Middle East. Officials in Washington said the U.S. had
planned to begin pushing a major  Mideast peace initiative
including a Palestinian state just before the Sept. 11 terror
attacks. The New York Times reported today that the decision to move
ahead with the  new initiative was made in early September at a
meeting of the National Security Council and that Bush, now
preoccupied with forging a global coalition against terrorism, may
still make a forceful declaration on the Middle East crisis. "I
fully understand that progress is made in centimeters in the Middle
East. And we believe we're making some progress," Bush said. On
Friday, during a sermon in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian
Authority mufti, Sheikh Ikrimah Sabri, called upon Muslims to
oppose the U.S. coalition against terrorism and encouraged them not
to fear the U.S. "First, there is a religious legal rule that man is
innocent, namely, in Islam, a human being is innocent until he is
proven guilty," Sabri said. "It is not allowed to blame a human
being and then tell him 'prove you're innocent.' Therefore we tell
America: 'It is forbidden to accuse a person before the beginning
of the investigation.'" Sabri suggested "other elements inside
America" were responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. "'It is
forbidden for a Muslim to go against another Muslim, against his
life, his properties, and his honor (wife),'" the mufti said in
quoting Muhammed. "It is forbidden from the religious legal aspect
that a Muslim would kill another Muslim; this killing is regarded
as a severe sin. There  are tens of verses, and hundreds of
traditions that forbid it. It is far more sinful for a Muslim to
ask for the help of a non-Muslim to kill another Muslim. This is a
grave heresy." Sabri's sermon was translated from Arabic by the Middle
East Media Research  Institute.

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Bin Laden has won

A9 01 WorldNetDaily.com

I didn't think it was possible that U.S. Mideast policy could get any
worse  than it was under former President Clinton. I was wrong. It
just got worse 96 a lot worse. In fact, viewed through the eyes of
the Islamic world, President Bush's announcement that he favors the
creation of a Palestinian state as part of  a comprehensive Middle
East peace initiative can only be seen as a huge strategic victory
for terrorism. I don't know how it can be interpreted any other way.
The message is loud and clear: Keep up the violence, intensify it,
keep raising the stakes, make the U.S. pay a price and your demands
will be met  eventually. I'm sick to my stomach over the U.S.
sellout of Israel. There would never be a good time for this, but
following the dramatic Islamic terror attack on the U.S. makes it
appear the U.S. is caving to pressure. You know why it  looks that
way? Because, like it or not, we are. I know we're all supposed to
rally around our commander in chief right now,  but what Bush has
done is unconscionable. It will not achieve the goals it  is
designed to achieve. We are not dealing with honorable adversaries
in the Middle East. We are dealing with murderers, liars, cheats,
thieves. This is not a conflict between two reasonable sides with
legitimate grievances. It's a conflict between right and wrong,
good and evil. Bush's decision will result in more bloodshed beyond
our imaginations. It will result in more terrorism in the U.S. 96
much more deadly even than wh at we witnessed Sept. 11. This is
worse than negotiating with terrorists. This is unconditional
surrender to them. It no longer matters what the U.S. does to Osama
bin Laden in Afghanistan.  He has already won the war. He has
managed to enshrine himself as the hero  to hundreds of millions
of radical Muslims worldwide whose goal is and  always has
been the destruction of the Jewish state and, ultimately,
Islamic hegemony over the whole world. Alive, he will be a hero. Dead,
he has achieved martyrdom status. The Bush administration has
decided to make its bed with the totalitarians  in the Arab world
at the expense of the one bastion of freedom in the Middle East 96
Israel. What the administration will soon learn is you can never win
by making concessions to these tyrants. No concession is ever
enough. It took many in  Israel a long time to figure this out. We
are rewarding terrorism 96 pure and simple. Remember who will lead
this new Palestinian state for life. His name is Yasser Arafat, the
father of modern-day terrorism a man with lots of American
blood on his hands. For 30 years of hijackings, Olympics murders,
execution of U.S. diplomats,  suicide bombings, torture of
dissident Arabs, the cold-blooded killings of  Israelis and more,
the reward for Arafat is the presidency of his own state . With this
model in mind, isn't it time to consider giving bin Laden a state,
too? But as any astute observer of the Middle East can tell you, a
Palestinian state was never the final goal in the first place. So
this is not the end.  The Palestinian state was, at best, an
interim step toward the annihilation  of the state of Israel. It's
only a strategic step to chip away at the Jewish state's security,
to make it vulnerable, to make an Arab military victory more
achievable. President Bush has also moved the world a step closer to
nuclear war with his incredibly ill-advised decision. Because, as
Israel's conventional security is compromised by land concessions
and co-existence with yet another hostile state, its reliance on
the nuclear option increases. I'm sure they are celebrating in
Arafat's headquarters today. I'm sure they  are shooting guns in
the air in bin Laden's lair. I'm sure the Iranians, the chief
sponsors of international terrorism are grinning broadly in Tehran.
I'm sure there are smiles on the faces of leaders in Damascus and
even Baghdad today. This is a war on terrorism? It seems more like a
victory for terrorism. It seems more like an international celebration
of terrorism. It seems more like surrender to terrorism.

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from Jerusalem Post    jpost.com

(11:55) Hamas: We support bin-Laden and Islam

Hamas fully supports Osama bin-Laden and statements he made in a
prerecorded videotape shown last night, official senior Hamas member
Abdel Aziz Rantisi said in an Arabic language interview.

Bin-Laden was shown on international television wearing fatigues and
with a rifle at his side, telling America that it will never "dream of
security" until its armies leave holy Arab lands."

Bin-Laden, who orchestrated the Sept. 11 terror attacks, also heaped
praise on those responsible for the World Trade Center and Pentagon
strikes. However, he did not claim responsibility for the attacks that
killed more than 6,000 people.

"I swear by God ... neither America nor the people who live in it will
dream of security before we live it in Palestine, and not before all
the infidel armies leave the land of Mohammed, peace by upon him,"
bin-Laden said in Sunday's video.

Rantisi said Hamas would ward off any attack against Islam or against
sites holy to Islam, the Itim news agency reports.

"Actually, the Americans are the real terrorists and support terror
worldwide, as expressed in their support of Israeli terror" Rantisi
said.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report)

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From: Barbara Di Gilio 
To:heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org
Subject: Allah is the moon god

Man on the moon

In approx 536 C.E.(A.D.) (1,465 years ago to current). (2,500 years 
after Biblical Judaism, and 500 years after Christianity, a sect
within  Judaism) These people, the Arabs had 360 pagan gods, one for
every day of the  year (lunar calendar). Mohammed came along (536
C.E.) and became these  peoples prophet.

To make a short story, shorter... Mohammed took his/their 360 gods and
decided which of the 3 of the 360 gods were the strongest warrior
gods.

So, the 3 winners were... the sun, the moon and the stars! Mohammed 
went out to proselytize, not having much luck within his own frame
work, (these  pagan people rather enjoyed the so called luxury of 360
gods, (it really  helped their economy at the market places, could
you imagine one for every  ailment and vice)!

Mohammed took his news of his 3 gods to the Jews. Which the Jews 
denounced him and his paganism teachings and was steadfast that God is
One! So Mohammed went to the Christians, which the Christians
denounced him and  his paganism teachings and was steadfast that God
is One!

Mohammed went back to the drawing board... out of the 3 was berthed
one  god. Mohammed determined that the moon god (allah) was the
greatest warrior  of all the gods. (Please take notice above all
their mosques and on their  flags are the symbol of the "crescent
moon", the symbol and very embodiment  of the warrior moon god).
Otherwise known as allah.

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from jpost.com

(16:40) Syria supports Palestinian terrorism

Syria, the newly elected member of the UN Security Council, said today
that the Palestinians have the right to use any means to resist
Israeli occupation, and these actions cannot be referred to as
terrorism.

Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara made this declaration in an
interview with the Italian newspaper, Couriera della Sera, Israel
Radio reported.

Shara said that whoever kills defenseless people is a terrorist, and
whoever fights against the Israeli occupier is an opponent of
occupation.

Last night US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the US
does not rule out military action against countries like Syria, if
they do not fulfill the obligations of the international coalition
against terrorism.

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Friday October 12 10:13 AM ET 
Palestinians Call for U.S. Action, Not Words

By Mohammed Assadi 
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/011012/ts/mideast_dc_1.html

- Palestinian officials called on President Bush on Friday for deeds
instead of words to back U.S. support for the creation of a
Palestinian state. Bush, whose administration is reported to be
putting together a new initiative for Middle East peace with help from
British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued his strongest endorsement so
far of a Palestinian state on Thursday. The United States has been
pressing the two sides to cement a U.S.-brokered cease-fire to clear
the way for its recruitment of Arab states to a global anti-terror
coalition after last month's hijack-suicide attacks against New York
and Washington. But the Palestinian officials cast doubt on the
ability of the United States, now enmeshed in a bombing campaign in
Afghanistan to prod Israel into making concessions when a
U.S.-brokered truce-to-talks plan had not yet taken root. ``We don't
need photo opportunities or declarations that are not implemented,''
Palestinian cabinet minister Yasser Abed Rabbo told Reuters on Friday.
``We need a meeting with Mr. Bush to do business and set a timetable
and mechanisms for implementing U.N resolutions 242 and 338,'' Abed
Rabbo said, referring to resolutions mandating an Israeli withdrawal
to borders in place prior to the 1967 Middle East war. Israeli
newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said on Friday the United States had shown
a new peace initiative -- drafted by the State Department as ``ideas''
-- to moderate Arab states but had not informed Israel of the details
of the proposal. Bush said on Thursday, ``...there ought to be a
Palestinian state, the boundaries of which would be negotiated by the
parties...,'' as long as it recognized Israel's right to exist. He
said his backing depended on the start of a peace process based on the
plan outlined by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell and for a truce
and confidence-building measures. According to Yedioth, the U.S. plan
proposes a permanent deal with East Jerusalem as a capital for a
Palestinian state. But a spokesman for Israel's foreign ministry said
Israel had no knowledge of any new U.S. peace proposals. Moroccan
state-run radio said Bush spoke on Wednesday with King Mohammed and
stressed the need to implement U.N. resolutions 242 and 338 ``related
to finding a just, global and final solution to the Palestinian
issue.'' U.S. INFLUENCE QUESTIONED Abed Rabbo said Palestinians were
aware the U.S. administration was preparing a new peace initiative
before the attacks on the United States on September 11 and believed
it was still working on that proposal. But he questioned whether the
United States would be able to get Israel to budge. Palestinian and
Israeli officials have accused each other of failing to abide by the
fragile truce. Anti-U.S. sentiment in some Arab and Muslim states that
swelled during the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation has
intensified since U.S. bombs have started to fall on Afghanistan. In
the West Bank city of Nablus, some 2,000 Palestinians participated in
a peaceful protest against the U.S. strikes. ''American leaders, no to
bombardments on Afghanistan!'' the crowd chanted at the rally
organized by Palestinian factions. Israel has charged the Palestinians
with failing to carry out pledges to arrest militants planning
attacks. But Palestinian officials counter that arrests have begun.
Palestinian police detained Ala' al-Saftawi, a political leader of the
militant Islamic Jihad group and an editor of weekly al-Esteqlal
newspaper, in Gaza on Friday. Saftawi's wife told Reuters police took
Saftawi with them for questioning about an editorial he wrote
criticizing the Palestinian police. In fresh fighting on Friday,
Israeli troops thrust some 400 yards in the Palestinian-ruled town of
Deir al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip  where they took over a
mosque and planted machine guns on its roof, Palestinian security
sources said. The Israeli army had no immediate comment. Elsewhere, at
least eight Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli
soldiers.

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The secret world
of suicide bombers
Religious devotion, sexual desire drive youths to 'martyrdom'

A9 01 WorldNetDaily.com

With reports from Israel that the United States, after its current
campaign  against Afthanistan's Taliban is concluded, plans to
target Palestinian terrorist groups including Hamas, Hezbollah and
Islamic Jihad, a wider audience than ever may soon be hearing about
the secret world of suicide bombers. Although Americans find it
difficult to understand what could induce Islamic militants 96
including the 19 hijackers who all willingly died in  the Sept. 11
attacks 96 to so enthusiastically commit suicide while committing
acts of terrorism, some reporters have managed to obtain passage 
into the secretive culture and shed light on how Islamic "martyrs"
are created and nurtured. November's edition of Whistleblower
magazine 96 WorldNetDaily's popular monthly print publication 96
includes a shocking, in-depth story by report er Jack Kelley,
titled "The secret world of suicide bombers." Subtitled, "Religious
devotion and sexual desire drive youths to 'martyrdom,'" it
profiles the Hotari family as they prepare for a party to celebrate
the killing of 21 Israelis earlier in the month by their son, a
suicide bomber. "Neighbors hang pictures on their trees of Saeed
Hotari holding seven sticks of dynamite," writes Kelley, a reporter
for USA Today. "They spray-paint graffiti reading '21 and counting'
on their stone walls. And they arrange flowers in the shapes of a
heart and a bomb to display on their front doors." The boy's
father, 54-year-old Hassan Hotari, reports Kelley, says he is "very
happy and proud of what my son did and, frankly, am a bit jealous."
Hotari's son was responsible for the June 1 terrorist bombing outside
a disco in Tel Aviv 96 the worst such incident in four years. "I
wish I had  done it. My son has fulfilled the Prophet's
(Mohammed's) wishes. He has become a hero! Tell me, what more could
a father ask?" Although Muslim organizations, both in the United
States and internationally, have condemned the Sept. 11 terror
attacks on New York and  Washington, many have continued to
support the terror bombings of civilians  in Israel. In fact,
fund-raising for Hamas 96 the organization claiming responsibility
for most of the suicide terror attacks in Israel 96 is ofte n
carried out in the United States, sometimes with the help of
supposedly "mainstream" Islamic organizations. "The secret world of
suicide bombers" paints a surreal picture of an entire  culture
that revolves around farming and harvesting youthful suicide
terrorists: In Hamas-run kindergartens, signs on the walls read: "The
children of the kindergarten are the shaheeds (holy martyrs) of
tomorrow." The classroom signs at Al-Najah University in the West
Bank and at Gaza's Islamic University say, "Israel has nuclear
bombs, we have human bombs." At an Islamic school in Gaza City run by
Hamas, 11-year-old Palestinian student Ahmed's small frame and
boyish smile are deceiving. They mask a determination to kill at
any cost. "I will make my body a bomb that will blast the flesh of
Zionists, the sons of pigs and monkeys," Ahmed says. "I  will tear
their bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain than they
will ever know." "Allahu Akbar," his classmates shout in response:
"God is great." "May the virgins give you pleasure," his teacher
yells, referring to one of  the rewards awaiting martyrs in
paradise. Even the principal smiles and nods his approval. Virgins?
It's a reference to the ubiquitous promise to "holy martyrs" of
"unlimited sex with 72 virgins in heaven." Explains Kelley: "The
Koran, the  sacred book of Islam, describes the women as
'beautiful like rubies, with complexions like diamonds and pearls.'
In one of the passages of the Koran,  it is said the martyrs and
virgins shall 'delight themselves, lying on green cushions and
beautiful carpets.' Since the time of Mohammed, martyrs  have
always been considered those willing to die defending Islam." It's not
just among Palestinians, but in other Arab nations as well, that
school teachers, textbooks, religious leaders and even television
programming routinely teach that killing the enemies of Islam Jews
in particular will earn the killer a special place in heaven.
One Palestinian "Sesame Street"-style children's program called the
"Children's Club" complete with puppet shows, songs, Mickey Mouse
and other characters focused on inculcating intense hatred of
Jews and a passion for engaging in and celebrating violence against
them in a perpetual "jihad." In one song on the "Children's Club,"
very young children are shown singing  songs about wanting to
become "suicide warriors" and to take up "a machine  gun" to
direct "violence, anger, anger, anger" against Israelis. During the
show, which features children aged 4-10, one young boy sings, "When
I wander into Jerusalem, I will become a suicide bomber." Afterward,
 other children stand to call for "Jihad! Holy war to the end
against the Zionist enemy." In another segment, a boy who appears
to be no more than 8 or 9 years old chants: "My patience has run
out. All Arab existence cries for revenge" against the Jews in
Israel.

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