Bay‘at (A pledge, swearing unconditional subservience to a powerful person), a longstanding practice among the pre-Islamic Arabs, was fully incorporated into Islam by Muhammad and accounts for much of his success in gathering more and more power.
Bay’at is a very effective yet simple practice. A locally powerful tyrant summons less powerful individuals, usually one at a time, and gives them a choice: Become my subservient, loyal follower and recognize me as your superior. If you do so, your life is spared, and I may reward you in other ways. If you fail to do so, I will take your life, assume lordship over your followers, and take possession of everything you have.
In the overwhelming majority of cases, the lesser chiefs and leaders fall into line very quickly, realizing the alternative is complete devastation and death for them, their families, and their followers. So, with one stroke, the more powerful brute subsumes a significant human and material resource under his reign.
Muhammad practiced this art with consummate skill. The highly scattered, chronically at war with one another tribes of Arabia didn’t have much choice when Muhammad and his superior force offered them the bargain. The great majority of these tribal chiefs did take the bargain and saved their own necks and that of their people. Those who resisted lost everything anyway.
And power begets power, up to a point. Islam’s power continued long after Muhammad’s death through the practice of Bay’at on a much larger scale or the use of the sword.
“Broadly speaking, this pledge of allegiance to a person of authority has become the practical meaning of the term “bay‘a” in Islam. It was first and foremost applied to the Prophet. Still, after his death, it was also extended to other Muslim community leaders, primarily the caliph, the successor to the Prophet in political affairs and in upholding Islamic rule. Ideally, this pledge of allegiance to a caliph takes place through his election, but it may also happen through appointment by his predecessor. According to ‘ulama’ (Muslim scholars), the caliph himself must satisfy several conditions, including ruling based on justice (‘adala), possessing knowledge (‘ilm) of Islamic tradition and law, having physical and mental fitness, being courageous and determined, waging jihad, and being a descendant of the Quraysh tribe, to which the Prophet Muhammad himself also belonged. [14]”
When the prophet Muhammad died, infighting started earnestly among the various factions. Each demanded Bay’at with another clan. People began jockeying for power and doing their best to destroy their competition. Ali, Muhammad’s son-in-law, was elbowed out of the way by the more powerful disciples of the prophet, and he had to wait his turn to lead the already fractured and feuding Ummah. Several of the faithful resented the fact that Ali was not allowed to take over. Some felt victimized by Umar and his powerful conspirators and hated Ali for not standing up and fighting like a man. Some real stand-and-fight Muslims decided that Ali should be punished, and he was knifed to death on his way to the mosque.
The death of Ali was the real stirring of the hornet’s nest. All kinds of power struggles, infighting, and bloodletting started among the followers of the religion of peace. Ali’s boys, namely Hassan and Hussein, decided to salvage their dad’s honor by standing and fighting like a good Muslim should and enjoying the perks of being the gang’s leaders. So, a real fight was joined. On one side was Yazid with his mighty army and wealth, and on the other side were Hassan and Hussein with their ragtag band of followers. Hassan was killed unceremoniously in short order, but Hussein was not about to bow out. Hussein started a dialogue with his adversary, Yazid.
Hussein: I am the rightful inheritor of the house of Muhammad. I demand that all believers, including you Yazid, accept me (bay‘at) as the head of the Ummah.
Yazid: Nothing doing, man. Muhammad’s Ummah is not a family business. It is the faith of Allah that must follow His laws. The people select the most righteous man as the head of the faith, just as the Caliphs did. The faith of Allah is based on meritocracy and not heredity.
Hussein: You are wrong, Yazid. My granddaddy started the business, my daddy gave his life for it, my brother was murdered to claim it, and I intend to take what is rightfully mine.
Yazid: Hussein, you seem just as stubborn as Hassan. You are not amenable to reason, so let the sword of justice settle our dispute. You know the rest of the story. Hussein stubbornly refused to relinquish his claim to power over Yazid. Shimr cut off his head, impaled it on a spear, and presented it to Yazid as a trophy.
The followers of the house of Ali and his lineage, a minority of about 10 percent of Muslims, felt victimized by the evil Yazid. Since there was very little that these lovers of Ali’s house could do to change things materially, they assumed the role of victims.
Let’s be clear: a Muslim’s loyalty or Bay‘at is to the Islamic Ummah that recognizes nothing other than one worldwide Ummah of Islam with no allowance for independent nationalities. A Muslim is required to abide by and live under the laws of Sharia and not the Constitution of the United States of America or any other laws. Because a Muslim must adhere to Islamic laws and not to a man-made law like the US Constitution, a Muslim can never be both a Muslim and an American at the same time.
The Pledge of Allegiance says, “one nation under God,” while a Muslim is required to be part of the Ummah under Allah. It is critically important to realize that Allah is not the same as the Judeo-Christian God. The two are vastly different beings.
In short, Muslims, those who consider themselves good and peaceful, as well as those who want us to accept their ideology of barbarism at the point of the sword, take the fateful step of joining the free and emancipated family of humanity and pledging (Bay’at) allegiance to the US Constitution, or they can move back to the country of their origin.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Amil Imanihttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngAmil Imani2024-10-27 19:32:142024-10-27 19:32:37The Practice of Bay’at
My breach with Islam started as far back as I could discern things. More to the point, I never embraced Islam in the first place, although I was born and raised in a Muslim family.
For one thing, I had a tough time following a so-called religion whose founder and followers had butchered my ancestors, raped and sold our women, burned our libraries, and destroyed our magnificent culture. Islam was forced down the throats of Iranians with the sword of Allah. In my heart, I never considered myself a Muslim.
However, I didn’t reveal this until later in life for fear of retribution by radical Muslims.
Sharia law stipulates that any Muslim who turns his back on Islam should be given a chance to revert to the faith. For an unrepentant male apostate, death is the prescribed punishment, and life imprisonment for the female apostate.
“Kill whoever changes his religion.” __Sahih al-Bukhari 9:84:57
Islam considers an apostate as a person who unilaterally breaks the covenant he has made with the faith. An apostate is condemned as guilty of turning his back on Allah’s immutable, eternal religion.
I realized that the root cause of my people’s degradation and suffering was Islam. It was a creed imposed on an enlightened, tolerant, and free people at the point of the sword by savages hailing from the Arabian Peninsula during the seventh century with promises of booty and women in this world and glorious eternal sensual rewards in the promised paradise of Allah in the next. With each passing day, I rejoice more and more in my good fortune, in my ability to avoid the yoke of Islamic slavery and its blinders that imprison a billion and a half people by walls of superstition, hatred of others, and a celebration of death.
Things Islamic not only did not resonate with me, but they often clashed head-on with what I valued and loved. What appealed to me and even enchanted me were, more often than not, taboo in Islam or anathema to the creed. I loved life, beauty in all its forms, poetry, ancient Iranian culture, and traditions.
I loved laughter and celebrations of joy, such as birthdays and my favorite yearly festivities, Nowruz, for the last thirteen days. This ancient festival has been celebrated for thousands of years by my people; it ushers in the spring, welcomes the renewal of life, and expresses optimism for the year ahead, blessing us with good health, abundant food, family, and friends in the land of a civilized and free people.
I have always believed one cannot possibly be a Persian, hold to the lofty tenets of the ancient Iranian Zoroastrian triad of good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, and remain a Muslim.
In the same fashion, one cannot cherish American values, the Bill of Rights, and the United States Constitution and be a true Muslim. They are inherently and comprehensively incompatible with Sharia Law.
Iranian Muslims are victims of the Islamic virus that has destroyed their traditional respect for diversity. It is the Iranian ancient fundamental belief in the validity and value of diversity that is enshrined in the Cyrus the Great Cylinder, the unconditional respect for the complete rights of all the people of the world (an anathema to the Islamists’ credo) that has held the nation together over the millennia.
Although Islam was imposed on Iran some 1,400 years ago, Iranians deeply value their own ancient non-Arab identity and have never fully surrendered to the Arab culture.
Currently, a large number of Iranians are entirely fed up with Islam, and they want to leave this dogma of hate and violence. Many already have, but they aren’t able to come forward and announce it for obvious reasons.
Such duplicity exists within the Iranian culture. Initially, Iranians were forced to accept Islam to save their lives from Arab invaders, but deep within the heart of every single Iranian alive today exists a burning resentment of the Arab-Islamic invasion of their homeland and culture. Ironically, many Iranians may confess to being Muslims, yet an overwhelming number of Iranians have never read the Quran or understood its language. The events in history have toughened present-day Iranians. They have become great pretenders. But the totality of 1400 years of Islamic barbarity and savagery must end. We no longer need to pretend that we are practicing Muslims when, in fact, we are not.
Realistically speaking, perhaps 10-15 percent of the population supports the clerical system in varying degrees. Many in this group are government employees, Mullahs, and hired thugs such as the Basiji. Also, the regime has some backers among the poor, the less educated, and the deeply religious. Yet, the alienation from the government and Islam spans the entire spectrum of Iranian society, with the intelligentsia and the university students leading the determined opposition to end Islamic rule.
Masses of Iranians are irreparably alienated from a corrupt and oppressive Islamic rule. The rule of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is crumbling. The previously solid tower, or at least its appurtenance, is finally showing many cracks that continue to grow. There are just too many fault lines to list here.
My fellow Iranians and I have indeed done, and continue to do, what we can to help our compatriots in Iran, who are on the front line fighting Islam and the Islamic Regime.
The 2009 protests were just as much against the Islamic Republic as they were about Shi’a Islam. Much of it was against Islam itself. People have experienced what a primitive and defective system of belief Islam is and aim to abandon it for good. Many will still hang on to it to some extent for some time. Yet, a great many would leave Islam and even actively oppose it.
There are still those who foolishly claim that Muhammad was a messenger from God and that the Quran is a divinely revealed book. I suggest that they use their intellect and read the Quran fully for themselves without assuming that the book is the literal word of God and that Muhammad was their messenger. Without this assumption as their starting point, they will find better than 90% of the book is about violence, threats of hell, exclusion of people, and the like. What kind of God would dictate things like what you find in the Quran? It took Muhammad 20 years to reveal this hodge-podge book that reads more like expressions of a delusional individual with dissociative identity disorder.
Hatred, not love, drives Islam.
I lament the plight of my native land and the people who have suffered and continue to suffer under Islam. Without Islam, there wouldn’t be any Muslims to hoist the banner of hate and violence against non-Muslims. A few claim that Islam has done some good in the past. Well, that’s debatable. Some are equally convinced that Islam has inflicted a great deal of suffering on others from its inception to the present. What we all must agree on is that Islam and its Sharia laws, at the very least, do not fit in today’s world.
Islam is a creed of an ignorant people in a primitive and barbaric age. It is fixated on time and place; it harbors the ambition of taking the 21st-century world back 14 centuries and ruling it by its dogma of violence, intolerance, injustice, and death. Yet, Islam is not only an obsolete vestige of a defunct era but is an infinitely fractured belief that can hardly put its own home in order. The numerous Islamic sects are at each other’s throats; sub-sects and schools despise one another as much as they hate non-Muslims. Hatred, not love, drives Islam.
I am not against Muslims. I condemn Islam with all its derivatives and those who support and promote it.
Muslims are patients, and Islam is a disease. You want to help the patients to rid themselves of the affliction. You want to eradicate a horrifically communicable disease. Although many prefer to tackle the militant version of Islam, “Islamism,” for all intents and purposes, there is no sharp boundary between Islamists, Jihadists, and Islamists. One and all are the progeny of Islam itself. Any differences among the three are of degree and not kind. When one addresses Islamism and jihadism, their source is also addressed.
Regrettably, Islam cannot be reformed. Remember that Islam claims to be the perfect eternal faith for humanity. Splits have occurred and will continue to appear in Islam. Reformation has yet to happen in nearly 1400 years and will not occur. Islam is carved in granite, just the way it is. There will be no change. Allah’s book is sealed.
In dealing with Islam and its variations, every individual, group, and government must combine their resources and energies to prevail. We must urge all people to resist Islam’s encroachment and not be deceived by its sanitized version presented in non-Islamic lands.
The destiny of civilized life hangs in the balance. Shirking of this responsibility would be an unpardonable act of every enlightened human being in an organization that values human liberty and dignity.
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“We will tear down the border and we will tear out their hearts from their bodies [and]…eat the livers” — Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, April 6, 2018.
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
Today’s grotesque endeavors to justify Hamas’s bestial barbarism should be repudiated and ridiculed.
Ever since the appalling atrocities perpetrated last October by the Islamo-fascist terror organization, Hamas, it seems that all criteria of decency, and rationality along with accepted standards of good and evil, have been turned on their head. Political activism, generally geared toward promoting gender equality and socio-cultural tolerance, has been thrown jarringly into reverse gear.
Inconceivable
Given the barbaric acts of brutality committed by Hamas—to the undisguised glee, and often enthusiastic complicity of the general population of the Strip—it is inconceivable that any person, professing to subscribe to even a semblance of a humanitarian credo would consider paying any heed to the claims of the villainous savages, who violated even the most fundamental norms of civilized behavior.
Accordingly, no weight ought to be accorded the demands of Hamas. Indeed, it is unthinkable that the organization or its adherents should be afforded even an iota of consideration.
Hamas has raped and ravaged; murdered and mutilated, tortured and tormented infants and invalids, toddlers and teens with a ferocity and malevolence unfathomable to civilized minds. Accordingly, why would Hamas’s demands be accorded any weight in securing the release of the Israeli hostages? After all, the entire existence of Hamas is nothing but a litany of gruesome war crimes. Indeed. every projectile fired indiscriminately at Israeli targets, purposely aimed at killing Israeli civilians, both before and after October 7th, every Israeli civilian forcibly abducted from their homes and incarcerated for months in Gaza, every Israeli tortured and executed in captivity in Gaza since October the 7th, all these comprise a cruel cavalcade of Hamas’s incontestable war crimes.
Perverse & perverted
Accordingly, it would be reasonable to assume that Hamas’s position on how Israel should respond to the pernicious procession of war crimes perpetrated against it—and how to redress them—would be totally irrelevant, especially for those who profess to subscribe to a credo of sanctifying “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
Yet, astonishingly, what we are seeing is just the reverse: A perverse concern for Hamas’s demands—and the welfare of their malign adherents—is now not only dominating the debate on the fighting in Gaza, but also largely determining attitudes toward the negotiations on the release of the abductees held in captivity by the Islamist thugs,
The treatment of the illegally kidnapped Israelis has been bestial and the conditions they are being held in, below sub-human. They are denied even the most minimal levels of sanitation nutrition, and medical treatment, any access to, or care by, international humanitarian organizations such as the (hopelessly biased and inept) Red Cross. They are being incarcerated incommunicado deep in dank, damp dungeons cut off from all and any contact with the outside world, certainly from family and friends.
Given the heinous nature of Hamas, its utter disregard, not only for international law, and for elementary norms of human decency but any semblance of accepted behavior in civilized circles, no merit can, or should be, be ascribed to their demands.
Grotesque endeavors
The organization and its aberrant adherents must be hounded mercilessly; hellfire and brimstone relentlessly rained down on them. The grotesque endeavors to justify its barbarism should be repudiated and ridiculed.
Any sign that its inhumanity could be accorded any gains will only induce further inhumanity.
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Friends, this is one of the rare times I’m sharing the full version of a story to convey the true danger of a Kamala-Walz administration, which already surrounds itself with dangerous, radicalized Islamic leaders that defy belief.
Kamala’s Islamists
Daniel Greenfield | Frontpage Mag | 9-10-2024 | Condensed
“During the blessed last ten days of Ramadan, we celebrate our Administration’s incredible Muslim team,” Vice President Kamala Harris announced, posing on the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with some of the most controversial figures in the administration.
There right behind Kamala was Nasrina Bargzie, her deputy counsel and future Muslim liaison, who had been interviewed by the FBI after 9/11, wore orange for the Islamic terrorists at Gitmo and had fought a lawsuit Jewish students over harassment by pro-terrorist activists at Berkeley.
Second from Kamala’s right was Mazen Basrawi, Biden’s current Muslim liaison, who had attended a conference honoring one of the unindicted co-conspirators of the World Trade Center bombing, and whose appointment was hailed by Muslim Brotherhood groups.
Second from Kamala’s left was Brenda Abdelall, who had taken part in anti-Israel protests in college, and had falsely accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” as part of a “brutal occupation”. Abdelall became the “assistant secretary for partnership and engagement” at the Department of Homeland Security in the Biden-Harris administration and then appeared at a convention where speakers had called for a caliphate ruled by Islamic law and freeing Islamic terrorists.
Abdelall was recently chosen to head Kamala’s Arab-American outreach. And the campaign refused to part ways with her over past comments accusing Jews of controlling America.
Also allegedly present was Yousra Fazili, who had studied Islamic religious law or sharia at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, notorious for its terrorist teachings, and represented the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations co-founded by figures tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden, before becoming the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs and now serves as the Chief of Staff to the Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer of the Pentagon.
Yousra’s sister, Sameera Fazili had served as the deputy director of the National Economic Council despite being a member of Stand With Kashmir (SWK) “which was founded by her cousin, Hafsa Kanjwal” and which had “praised and defended the actions of a number of violent Islamists” including one who had “met with Al Qaeda figures” and praised Osama bin Laden.
Other members of Kamala’s “incredible Muslim team” included Maher Bitar, a former executive board member of Students for Justice in Palestine, a campus hate group which has since endorsed Hamas and the atrocities of Oct 7, and an organizer of a conference by the Palestine Solidarity Movement, which worked with Hamas, and whose previous event had reportedly included chants of “Kill the Jews”.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, Bitar became the Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council and then the chief coordinator for intelligence and defense policy making him, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, “the senior-most official responsible for coordinating U.S. Government intelligence and defense policy.” Reporting tips Bitar as a likely Director of National Intelligence or “some kind of senior role” in a Kamala administration.
Reema Dodin, who had described suicide bombings against Jews by Muslim terrorists as “the last resort of a desperate people”, was brought on as the deputy director for the Office of Legislative Affairs.
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http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Jihad Watchhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJihad Watch2024-09-08 04:52:072024-09-08 04:55:02VIDEO: Robert Spencer on the Leftist/Islamic Alliance, U.S. Errors in Countering Jihad Violence and More…
The people of Palestine are caught in the crosshairs of the only significant religious system in the history of the human race with a sociopolitical structure of laws that mandate violence against the infidel. While much has been made about the state of Israel and the several shades of Zionism that play a role in its complicated history, it is impossible to accurately assess the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without understanding the most important factor of them all—Islam.
While there are people of other faiths (such as Christians) that live in the land called Palestine—I have close, personal friends among them—the majority of the people occupying this territory are Muslims and all of the citizens are led by Hamas, a militant Islamic organization with connections throughout the Islamic world that undoubtedly and unabashedly desire the destruction of all Jews along with the death of America and ultimately the West. This cannot be overstated and any intentions of a peaceful resolution to this conflict are in direct contradiction with the ideology of Islam—most notably Jihad against the infidel.
Make no mistake—in a time of civilizational crisis—Islam is at the heart of this clash of civilizations. In times like these, where honest information is in short supply, it is imperative that lean on the counsel of experts in our pursuit of discernment, which is precisely why Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯 broadcast and the 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘜𝘯𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥 podcast, is joined by Robert Spencer one of the, one of the world’s leading experts on Islam, on this episode of the 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘜𝘯𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥 podcast to discuss what he deems “The Palestinian Delusion.”
Topics discussed include:
Why is it so difficult to discuss Islam without being labeled hateful, bigoted or Islamophobic? (12:22); how and when did Islam begin to call for religiously mandated warfare? (14:56);
What is meant by the protest chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”? (19:38);
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Jihad Watchhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJihad Watch2024-08-31 14:33:152024-08-31 14:41:08Video: Robert Spencer and Hank Hanegraaff discuss The Palestinian Delusion
Well… Let’s start with what was known hours and hours before this report:
The attacker yelled “Allah hu ackbar” -not mentioned by Global ‘News although they surely knew it
The Islamic State issued a letter of responsibility for the attack immediately after it happened. -Global ‘News’ also likely knew this because we all did.
UPDATE: Somebody has leaked an internal police report to Welt am Sonntag. The report contains this statement: “A witness who was injured in the attack stated that the unknown suspect was ‘familiar from Solingen’ and that he was also a visitor at a local mosque. One witness reported that the suspect shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack.”
UPDATE 2: The Amaq News Agency of the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Solingen stabbings. They say they their “soldier” conducted the attack on a “gathering of Christians” in Solingen as revenge for Muslim victims in Palestine. Anything is possible but I would be sceptical of this report; IS can claim responsibility for anything that’s in the news, and it’s somewhat amusing that their press office thinks the Solingen Diversity Festival was a Christian event.
Global News, probably along with the Leni Riefenstahl Award winning CBC, are complicit. When news agencies fail to inform you of a persistent threat and you get killed by it, they are accomplices. It is worse because these agencies also tend to constantly warn you of things which are not threats. And worse because they go to pains to make sure you do not know who or why did these attacks. And perhaps worse again becuase they will report faitfully on anyone arrested or convicted for telling the truth about these attacks. Which should make people realize which side of the line the deterrence is on.
(For anyone planning and writing me up for this, I know the CBC has not won the LR award for Excellence In Public Programming because the society that presents the award has not been asked yet to go down and tape it to their doors.)
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Vlad Tepes Bloghttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngVlad Tepes Blog2024-08-25 04:55:152024-08-25 05:22:49Islam’s Jihad Against the West and Western Media’s Complicity With It
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ⁄ Orlando, Florida — Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, 43, a Jordanian citizen residing in Orlando, Florida, is charged with four counts of threatening to use explosives and one count of destruction of an energy facility. At his detention hearing yesterday, Hnaihen was ordered detained pending trial.
“We allege that the defendant threatened to carry out hate-fueled mass violence in our country, motivated in part by a desire to target businesses for their perceived support of Israel,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Such acts and threats of violence, whether they are targeting the places that Americans frequent every day or our country’s critical infrastructure, are extremely dangerous and will not be tolerated by the Justice Department.”
“Under the guise of expressing his beliefs, the defendant allegedly attacked a power facility, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, and threatened local businesses,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “Violence and destruction of property to threaten and intimidate others will never be tolerated. The FBI and our partners will work together to pursue and hold accountable those who resort to violence.”
“Targeting and attacking businesses for perceived beliefs is unacceptable,” said U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg for the Middle District of Florida. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to investigate and federally prosecute those who make violent or hate-based threats and who seek to act on these threats.”
According to court documents, beginning around June 2024, Hnaihen targeted and attacked businesses in the Orlando area for their perceived support for Israel. Wearing a mask, under the cover of night, Hnaihen smashed the glass front doors of businesses and left behind “Warning Letters.”
Hnaihen’s attacks escalated. At the end of June, as law enforcement worked to identify the masked attacker, Hnaihen broke into a solar power generation facility in Wedgefield, Florida, and spent hours systematically destroying solar panel arrays. He smashed panels, cut wires, and targeted critical electronic equipment. Hnaihen left behind two more copies of his threatening demand letter. Hnaihen is believed to have caused more than $700,000 in damage.
Following a multiagency effort, law enforcement identified Hnaihen and arrested him on July 11, shortly after another “Warning Letter” threatening to “destroy or explode everything” was discovered at an industrial propane gas distribution depot in Orlando.
Hnaihen is charged with four counts of threatening to use explosives and one count of destruction of an energy facility. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for each threat offense and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for the destruction of an energy facility offense.
The FBI and Orange County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the case, with valuable assistance by Maitland Police Department, Winter Park Police Department, and Orlando Police Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Varadan for the Middle District of Florida is prosecuting the case, with valuable assistance provided by Trial Attorneys Ryan White and George Kraehe of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.
An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)2024-08-22 12:23:012024-08-22 15:01:23FLORIDA: Jordanian Muslim Terrorist Arrested for Attacks pro-Israel Businesses and an Energy Facility in Orlando
As Kamala Harris curries favor with pro-Hamas Democrats, her administration is euchring Israel to agree to a ceasefire designed to save that terrorist organization from increasingly imminent destruction by the Jewish State.
Should her efforts succeed, the predictable result would be not only the death in captivity of more hostages, but the imperiling of every other Israeli as what would amount to their country’s defeat emboldens Iran and its friends to try to finish her off. They will then turn to us, “the Great Satan.”
Fortunately, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is resisting such extortion, as he must. U.S. polls keep showing eighty percent of Americans stand with Israel, and not Hamas. Especially if our campuses are again besieged by the pro-jihadist “Red-Green axis” this fall, Kamala’s sympathies may become a distinct political liability, as well as a strategic disaster for America.
Frank J. Gaffney is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., a not-for-profit, non-partisan educational corporation established in 1988. Under Mr. Gaffney’s leadership, the Center has been nationally and internationally recognized as a resource for timely, informed and penetrating analyses of foreign and defense policy matters.
Mr. Gaffney is the host of Secure Freedom Radio, a nationally-syndicated radio program heard weeknights throughout the country. He is an associate author of highly acclaimed Shariah: The Threat to America and the publisher of over a dozen other books and monographs from the Center for Security Policy Press.
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Now that the Party of Democracy has done away with all that cumbersome “voting” business and anointed Kamala Harris as its presidential candidate, Harris is busy demonstrating that she holds all of her party’s deeply held principles. This reassures the Democrat base, in case anyone was worried, that she is a bona fide far-left ideologue of the kind they favor these days and can be trusted to implement the party program.
And so Harris has been paying obeisance to all the left’s gods. This has meant a call for a ceasefire in Gaza that would allow Hamas to survive and murder more Israeli civilians in the future, as it has vowed to do. Harris also made an appearance on “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars,” as if to emphasize that she fully intends as president to perpetuate the left’s wholehearted embrace of sexual perversion, gender delusion, and overall insanity. And in a video that surfaced on X Thursday, Harris told an appreciative audience at the Islamic Center of Southern California, “We must have the courage to object when they use that term, ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’”
Courage? That’s like saying that we must have the courage to be a total conformist lemming who says exactly what everyone else is saying. If Kamala Harris really wants to demonstrate her courage, she should try bucking the prevailing winds and stating the readily demonstrable fact that core texts of the religion of Islam teach that Muslims should wage war against and subjugate unbelievers. She will, of course, never do such a thing, primarily because she isn’t aware of that fact, but also because she likely knows that if she said such a thing, she fairly quickly would be the former Democrat candidate for president.
Hillary Clinton summed up the predominant view, at least among leftist politicians, when she declared in Nov. 2015, “Let’s be clear: Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.” Virtually every politician on the left and many on the right have said much the same thing, although usually, they didn’t go as all-out as Hillary did on the sweeping generalizations. In 2011, working from the same set of assumptions, the Obama administration removed all mention of Islam and Muslims from its entire counterterrorism program. The program has not been reformed since then; the same willful ignorance prevails to this day.
Harris’ statement at the Islamic Center of Southern California is just a variant of the same theme, as is her subsequent explanation that to speak of “radical Islamic terrorism” supposedly ignored the fact that Muslims have been “the greatest victims of terror.” Harris apparently assumes that someone who attacks a Muslim could not possibly be a Muslim himself. In making that assumption, however, she is herself ignoring the fact that Islamic law mandates death for heresy and apostasy. Throughout Islamic history, this has led to violence between Islamic sects and factions. If a Muslim kills another Muslim, the killing doesn’t necessarily signify that the killer is violating Islamic principles; abundant justification can be found within Islamic law for such behavior.
If there is any actual problem with the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism,” it is with the word “radical.” Violence against unbelievers is unfortunately mainstream in Islamic theology. Iraqi scholar Majid Khadduri, in his magisterial book “War and Peace in the Law of Islam,” says that the function of the Islamic state in Islamic theology and law is to “establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world… The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.” That’s the ultimate goal of Islamic terrorism: to weaken and ultimately destroy governments that aren’t based on Islamic law so that they can be replaced with Islamic ones.
This has been a consistent imperative throughout Islamic history. A Pakistani professor of Islamic law, Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, quotes the 12th-century Islamic jurist Ibn Rushd: “Muslim jurists agreed that the purpose of fighting with the People of the Book [that is, Jews and Christians]…is one of two things: it is either their conversion to Islam or the payment of jizyah,” a tax on non-Muslims specified in the Qur’an (9:29). Nyazee concludes, “This leaves no doubt that the primary goal of the Muslim community, in the eyes of its jurists, is to spread the word of Allah through jihad, and the option of poll-tax [jizya] is to be exercised only after subjugation” of non-Muslims.
The problem with Harris’ call for “courage” is that it not only ignores the unpleasant reality of Islamic jihad violence, but it also perpetuates the longtime leftist strategy of shaming and silencing those who tell the truth about such violence. The ultimate beneficiaries of this willful ignorance are the Islamic jihadis themselves; if Harris and her ilk have their way and silence all those whom they smear as “racists” and “bigots” for speaking honestly about jihad, the jihadis will be able to go about their work unopposed and unhindered. Is that what she wants? If she doesn’t, what is she doing to stop them?
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The world is rapidly crumbling under the combined political, economic, and religious assaults. Politically, nations are at each other’s jugglers. Economically, there are more people than humanity can adequately feed, house, and care for them. Our numbers keep on exploding while resources of all sorts are depleting, the environment is degrading, and other life forms are being pushed toward extinction.
To exacerbate the problem, humanity’s genius needed for addressing its monumental challenges is severely sapped by the religious menace of Islamism.
Let’s trust the forever distrustful, self-serving politicians to deal with the political conundrum. In their for-sale hands, they are bound to make matters worse politically.
And the effete academes can sit in their ivory tower offices, smoke their pipes, and divine good as gold solutions (read, hallucinations) to the morass of the economy.
On the religious front, we are faced with the corrosive and deadly menace of Islamism. This is the subject of great concern to me, and I have specific suggestions on how to deal with this ever-expanding threat to our collective and personal liberty.
Several million Muslims live in this welcoming land. Muslims are everywhere. How are we to deal with them? Right at the start, let’s abandon some idiotic proposals that occasionally pop up. Deport the Muslims, herd them into concentration camps since they are enemies of the nation, and brand them like the dastardly murderer Nazis did the Jews. And on and on and on.
Those Muslims who are here legally are entitled to live here and enjoy the beneficence of this great country to the fullest of a citizen’s rights.
At the same time, we have every right and even responsibility to be concerned about the danger of Islamism to our way of life. It is a way for free people to live peacefully and respectfully with one another without in any way posing threats to the fundamental ideals that birthed this nation and sustained it to the present.
Moslems are not our enemies. Islamism is. Below are some specific suggestions on how to defeat Islamism at home.
Don’t kill the patient; eradicate the disease.
A Muslim is the patient; Islamism is the disease. The overwhelming majority of Muslims contract the viral virus of Islamism at birth when they are most vulnerable. Once this virus takes hold, it either completely destroys the individual’s cognitive immune system’s ability to reject the disease or makes it most difficult for the person to see the pathology. That’s why the great majority of born Muslims remain Muslim for life. It is a fact that a significant percentage of Muslims contract the virulent form of the belief, Islamism.
Islamism is a jihadist, intolerant of the “other,” and is rooted in most base beliefs and practices.
Defeat the creeping sharia law. I cannot overstate the dangers of Sharia law and its insidious, creeping nature. Regrettably, some provisions of sharia are already on the books in some states.
This Sharia intrusion is a monumental threat to our laws that are grantors of our liberty. No effort should be spared at denying the stone-age misogynistic body of Islamic laws from invading our legal system and purging the ones that have already sneaked in.
In infidel lands, the slow-acting yet deadly cancer of invasive sharia is wedged into our laws by powerful, moneyed Islamic organizations coaxing and greasing the politicians to issue ordinances or legislate seemingly harmless provisions of the sharia. Islamic organizations and vested-interested clerics begin their Sharia campaign by asking for ordinances or legislations for seemingly inconsequential little things, such as requiring stores to clearly designate and completely separate halal food and meat from nonhalal. What is important here is that ordinances and laws like this are the beginning of getting the government into the business of enforcing sharia laws. That’s the way they get a toehold, and the camel’s head pokes into the room, so to speak. Little by little, the rest of the terribly ugly stinking camel gets in the room, and there will be no way to get it out.
Islamism is a hydra, and every head of this deadly creature, no matter how small, must be severed. If not, before long, we end up in the same irreversible horrible mess that countries such as Great Britain find themselves, with full sharia law and sharia courts.
Unless you want yourself or your children to be treated/litigated under Sharia Law, you want to make sure that none of its provisions get on the books and that no mercenary politician does anything as an Islamist enabler. The separation of religion and state is the First Commandment of our Constitution that should not be violated or compromised. And you, the individual, are the best guardian of the Constitution.
Don’t do as Islamists do. Don’t vilify, persecute, or even harass the Muslims. They are entitled to be treated fairly, although they don’t feel they should also treat non-Muslims fairly. Believers in liberty want the God-given gift for all of mankind and not just for themselves. We want Muslims to be free also, without threatening our liberty. First and foremost, we must do what we can to empower them to exercise their gift of reason and free will and cast off the shackles of radical belief. We must remain true to our Pledge of Allegiance: “…justice and liberty for all.”
Don’t lie about Islam. Lying and dissimulation are—taqiyya is ordained by Muhammad for use by Muslims only. Muslims have the patent and copyright on the practice, and the non-Muslims do not need it. You lie when you aim to deceive, are ashamed of something, or wish to distort things. Free people need not resort to any such practice. The contents of the Quran that feed Islamism are the proof you need to present to Muslims.
Muslim women are the second-class victims of the beliefs and practices that date back some fourteen centuries to the primitive practices of the Arabian Peninsula. Beliefs and practices that have formed the foundation of Islam.
Be firm but kind. Do honor your conviction, a conviction worth defending with unshakeable resolve yet with kindness. Avoid belligerence when challenging Muslims. Sincere kindness works much better than hostile confrontation. Attacking a person’s belief can often backfire and serve to further confirm him in the ideology. Challenging individual Muslims with an open mind and heart is much more likely to make them rethink the pathological belief and hopefully abandon it.
Don’t believe the sanitized versions of Islam. Paid mercenaries, Islamic apologists, and many others trip over each other, overwhelming us with distorted and highly sanitized versions of Islam. The distortions and lies are frequently so blatant that we take them as truth, particularly when our own Presidents throw them at us. Islam is a religion of peace, they keep telling us. It is not, and it has never been. Study the facts. Read the Quran, study the Sunna and Hadith from Islam’s own historical documents, and find out for yourself why Islam is not what its apologists claim and, in fact, what a menacing scourge Islamism is. You need nothing more. Their very own sacred book and other records are your best proof to reason with Muslims and help them abandon the fold.
Drain Islam’s source of funds. Money is the lifeblood of every enterprise. It is money, much of it from oil sold to the kafir world by oil-bloated Islamic countries. We, the kafir are literally financing our own destruction by heedlessly continuing our addiction to oil. We are forced to buy oil from our very own enemies because oil is oil. If we boycott the oil from the Persian Gulf area, then we have to buy it elsewhere unless we buckle down and do what we must to become self-sufficient in energy. We indeed have the resources to become self-sufficient in energy but don’t seem to have the will to do it.
Challenge the professors, the preachers, and individual Muslims. Don’t get cowed in by the professor. Challenge him to document his claims and provide him with your own evidence that clearly falsifies his propaganda. Attend mosques and Islamic centers and do the same without being discourteous or belligerent. Do the same with the Muslims you know or meet. Keep in mind that many of these people are very hard nuts to crack. Yet, we must slowly wipe out Islamism from our homeland slowly.
Work with the media. A great majority of the media either sings the praises of Islam or avoids saying or publishing anything that might offend the Muslims. Money and fear are operating here. Threats of boycotting businesses and withholding advertisements are effectively used by Islamic organizations to intimidate the media. Legal actions are also threatened against the media as well as any individual who dares to speak the truth about Islam. These litigations can be immensely costly to individuals and companies, while the flush-with-funds Islamist outfits can boldly carry out their threats without worrying about the costs.
Define and defend freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it grants the diverse people of this nation the right to worship according to their own beliefs. On the other hand, it becomes a license for Islamist clerics to preach hate about non-Muslims and indoctrinate their young in the intolerant, violent, and jihadist doctrine of Islamism. Thousands of mosques, Islamic centers, and university academic departments dot the land with thousands of preachers, politicians, and paid professors pushing Islam. We must make it a criminal offense to preach hate under the rubric of religion, to misrepresent and lie about religion.
Islamic clerics have a great vested interest. They make a very good living with lifetime job security. They do all they can to keep the charade going. So do the others who sing the praises of Islam. We must make sure that they do not practice dispensing misinformation, disinformation, and flaming the fire of hatred for non-Muslims.
Islam is a religion of peace. That’s not the way it is operating in Muslim lands with daily free-for-all mayhem and massacres. If Muslims want to have a place in the home of the free, they absolutely must live by the rules of this welcoming nation and abandon the attempt at subverting our cherished way of life and replacing it with theirs.
Retaining what is human. We believe the Creator has endowed human beings, both men and women equally with the gift of intellect. We are also endowed with a measure of freedom to think, choose, and act. As individuals, we are responsible for how we use these resources, for the good, for the bad, or the indifferent.
Islamic doctrine is diametrically in conflict with the above belief. According to Islam, the individual is a mere choice-less vessel in the hand of all-everything Allah. Islam strips the individual from self-reliance and replaces it with unconditional surrender to Allah. Not a leaf falls without Allah so decreeing, asserts the Quran unequivocally. Inshaallah (Allah decreeing, Allah ordaining, or Allah willing) precedes every commitment of the faithful Muslim. It is all up to Allah, as Muslims are led to believe. No wonder the Islamic world is in such a chronic state of backwardness. Muslims sit around waiting for Allah to decree and even do everything. It is a true belief of nihilism.
Resist multiculturalism. For a variety of reasons, during the past decades, Western societies opened their doors to a flood of Muslims from Islamic lands. They aimed to make the newcomers feel at home, retain their way of life, and live in harmony with the endogenous population. Some call it a practice in Christian charity. But the good-heartedness not only failed, it boomeranged to hurt the welcoming hosts severely. It is wonderful to be charitable. It is great to be good-hearted. But being charitable and accommodating evil can empower evil to tear your good heart out literally. Islamism and jihadism are on the rampage, playing out all over the world and literally tearing out the hearts of innocent people, many of them Muslim. We don’t want to repeat the European mistakes. No multiculturalism fantasy to create a nightmare reality. Muslims who live here must become part and parcel of America just like all the other diverse people who have come to this welcoming land. Muslims must abide by and honor the same values and laws that have made this nation a beneficent refuge for all people. No separate but equal foolishness was the banner cry of the segregationists for Muslims. Together, equal, and under the same law.
Challenge all politicians. The naked truth is that politicians are paid agents. They do and say what gets them elected and keeps them in office. As a voter and fund contributor, you are important. Let them know how you feel and how you are going to treat them if they sell their services and become Islam enablers. Hold them accountable at all levels of government, from the local city council to the occupier of the White House.
In short, we have a great country troubled by numerous challenges. We can ill afford to become complacent or disheartened. If we band together in a common cause with devotion to our nation’s principles and values, we can meet and defeat any threat of any nature or magnitude. Past generations of Americans have always done so, and this generation of Americans should do no less
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Amil Imanihttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngAmil Imani2024-06-20 15:40:342024-06-21 06:12:41Defeating Islam at Home
Six Russian nationals suspected to have terror ties to ISIS have been arrested in a coordinated sting operation spanning Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Two ICE sources confirmed to The Post they arrested the six people, who hail from Tajikistan, over the last week after the FBI contacted the agency to warn it.
Part of the investigation featured a wiretap which revealed one of the now-arrested individuals was talking about bombs, the sources said.
“Remember the Boston marathon [bombing]? I’m afraid something like that might happen again or worse,” one of the sources told The Post.
The target who was subject to the wiretap was previously released by federal authorities at the southern border with a court date next year, but it has since emerged he has potential ties to ISIS, sources said.
Neither ICE nor the FBI immediately responded to The Post’s requests for comment.
The arrests come after warnings from FBI Director Chris Wray about possible ISIS terror plots being staged on US soil and the group’s potential for exploiting the southern border.
In April, Wray warned lawmakers that a possible “coordinated attack” could take place in the US following an ISIS-K attack on a concert hall in Moscow — carried out by citizens of Tajikistan — that killed 145 people and wounded hundreds.
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Mirroring the Jew hating indoctrination of children in Gaza, Portland’s public school is brainwashing American children to hate and kill Jews. Kindergarten through high school. Hitler youth.
I have obtained a collection of publicly accessible documents produced by the Portland Association of Teachers, an affiliate of the state teachers’ union that encourages its more than 4,500 members to “Teach Palestine!” (The union did not respond to a request for comment.)
The lesson plans are steeped in radicalism, and they begin teaching the principles of “decolonization” to students as young as four and five years old. For prekindergarten kids, the union promotes a workbook from the Palestinian Feminist Collective, which tells the story of a fictional Palestinian boy named Handala. “When I was only ten years old, I had to flee my home in Palestine,” the boy tells readers. “A group of bullies called Zionists wanted our land so they stole it by force and hurt many people.” Students are encouraged to come up with a slogan that they can chant at a protest and complete a maze so that Handala can “get back home to Palestine”—represented as a map of Israel.
Other pre-K resources include a video that repeats left-wing mantras, including “I feel safe when there are no police,” and a slideshow that glorifies the Palestinian intifada, or violent resistance against Israel. The recommended resource list also includes a “sensory guide for kids” on attending protests. It teaches children what they might see, hear, taste, touch, and smell at protests, and promotes photographs of slogans such as “Abolish Prisons” and “From the River to the Sea.”
In kindergarten through second grade, the ideologies intensify. The teachers’ union recommends a lesson, “Art and Action for Palestine,” that teaches students that Israel, like America, is an oppressor. The objective is to “connect histories of settler colonialism from Palestine to the United States” and to “celebrate Palestinian culture and resistance throughout history and in the present, with a focus on Palestinian children’s resistance.”
The lesson suggests that teachers should gather the kindergarteners into a circle and teach them a history of Palestine: “75 years ago, a lot of decision makers around the world decided to take away Palestinian land to make a country called Israel. Israel would be a country where rules were mostly fair for Jewish people with White skin,” the lesson reads. “There’s a BIG word for when Indigenous land gets taken away to make a country, that’s called settler colonialism.”
“Basically the terms by which Hamas was prepared to move forward.”
Biden’s Friday afternoon speech laid out a proposal giving Hamas everything it wanted.
That’s not surprising because rather than being the Israeli proposal, it was actually the Hamas proposal.
And if you doubt that, a White House official said it in a follow-up call over and over again.
“It’s nearly identical to Hamas’s own proposals of only a few weeks ago” and that “what is now in front of everybody is basically the terms by which Hamas was prepared to move forward.”
Again, he repeated, “Hamas has said they’d be prepared to do deal X, and what is now on the table is basically that with some very minor adjustments.”
EDITORS NOTE: This column with video by NEWSRAEL Editor is republished with permission. All rights reserved.
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