Major Hasan: an anomaly?

If we are to believe the main stream media, the thirteen soldiers murdered at Fort Hood are not part of a pattern of Islamic terrorism.  According to liberals, Hasan was distressed at the thought of heading into a war zone in which Taliban Muslims were the enemy and he snapped. To liberals, the fact that he had planned the attack and cried Allah Akbar as he opened fire is irrelevant. The U.S. Army Chief of Staff was distressed because the ‘incident’ might damage the Army’s racial diversity program.

Hasan, the Left believes, is not a bad Muslim; he is a Muslim victimized by infidels with Muslim issues.

As for a pattern, we need only examine the past eight years and a pattern becomes abundantly clear – and Major Hasan fits neatly into it.

In the eight years – 98 months – since 9/11, FBI and counter-terrorist agencies in the U.S., along with CSIS and police in Canada, have uncovered and shut down – on average - a terrorist plot  every four months.

In fact, since January 2009, six men, described briefly below, have been indicted or charged.

Sept. 2009: Najibullah Zazi plotted to explode a bomb in a New York subway on the anniversary of 9/11. Photo: NY Daily News

Sept 2009: These four are charged with supporting violent jihad. They were planning to bomb the Marine base in Virginia . Daniel Patrick Boyd,  Hysen Sherifi, Mohammad Aly Hassan, and Ziyad Yaghi Photos: NY Times

Sept 2009: Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, an Arab from Jordan, in the U.S. illegally, was arrested after placing what he thought were explosives near a 60-story office tower in Dallas. In prison

Although the list of Muslims with ‘issues’ is long and getting longer, the Left adamantly refuses to link their horrific activities with Islam. Islam, they insist, is a religion of peace, tranquility and goodwill and those who claim otherwise, are racist. 

But those who have made even a cursory study of Islamic history know that Muslims have been, and remain, obsessed with creating a global caliphate and thousands of them are willing to dedicate their lives to that end.  They are working for their god and their virgins.

Here are some who, over the last 16 years, have made their beliefs and their intentions abundantly clear.  

This crew of seven lovelies tried to bring down the Twin Towers in 1993. All but Abdul Yasin are in prison. Ramzi Yousef was arrested in 1995 after a bungled attempt to blow up a dozen airliners over the Pacific Ocean in 1995.    Photo: fbi.gov/page2/feb08/tradebom_022608.html

 

1995: Ramzi Yousef, one of the planners of the 1993 WTC bomb, plotted to blow up 12 U.S. airliners - along with some four thousand passengers – between Asia and the U.S, and to assassinate Pope John Paul II. In prison.

Aug 1998: Osama Bin Ladin arranged, among other atrocities, the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. 224 people, mostly Muslim but including 12 Americans, died and thousands more were wounded.  At large.

Dec 1999: Ahmed Ressam planned to explode his explosive-laden car during millennium celebrations in the U.S.  He was arrested crossing into the U.S. from Canada. In prison.

 

May 2002: Jose Padilla (Abdullah al-Muhajir) conspired to commit murder and fund and support terrorism abroad. In prison.

July 2002: Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, shot dead after murdering two and wounding four others at the El Al ticket desk at Los Angeles International Airport. Investigators learned he had a long anti-Israeli history and had declared that his objective in the shooting was to influence foreign policy and to die as a martyr. Dead, yes. Martyr? Not bloody likely.

Sept/Oct 2002, John Allen Muhammad murdered ten people in Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Maryland. Muhammad had converted to Islam and joined the Nation of Islam. His accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, said Muhammad planned to extort $10 million from the government to set up a camp in Canada to train homeless children as terrorists. Malvo, who was 17 in 2002, is serving a life sentence without parole for one of the murders. Muhammad was executed by lethal injection on November 10, 2009.

 

May 2003: The Lackawanna Six, Mukhtar Al-Bakri, Sahim Alwan, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, Yaseinn Taher, and Yahya Goba plotted terrorist attacks against the U.S. They are all in prison. Another member of the group, Jaber Elbaneh, was arrested later and imprisoned.  In Nov ‘02, the eighth member, Ahmed Hijazi, was incinerated in Yemen by a Hellfire missile.

 

March 2006: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, ran down nine students at the University of North Carolina. Officers said he told them afterward he wanted to avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide. In prison.

June 2006: The Toronto 18 were arrested for plotting to blow up the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Toronto offices of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and a military base. Seven of the 18 have been released. The following six have been found guilty.

Zakaria Amara, the group's ringleader, He was described by a police informant as being a "time bomb waiting to go off" and having a "total indifference to innocent life."

 

Saad Gaya, a McMaster University student, pleaded guilty on Sep. 28. Gaya had been selected by the group’s ringleaders to drive one of the bomb-laden trucks to its target. He will be sentenced Jan. 6, 2010.

 

Ali Mohamed Dirie, Somalian, smuggled guns for the terrorist group. While in prison, Dirie "took an active role in recruiting other inmates to adopt extreme jihadi beliefs," the Crown prosecutor said during his trial.(sketch by Alex Tavshunsky)

Saad Khalid, Arabian, was sentenced to 14 years but could be released on parole in just over two years because of seven years credit given for time served.

Nishanthan Yogakrishnan, a Sri Lankan convert to Islam. He was convicted and sentenced to 30 months, but credited for time served and released on parole.

 

Shareef Abdelhaleem, charged with conspiring to bomb the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Toronto offices of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and an undisclosed military base.

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July 2006: Naveed Afzal Haq, for murdering one woman and wounding five at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building. Haq stated his attack was a "personal statement against Jews." In prison.

Aug 2006: Omeed Aziz Popal, for running down 18 pedestrians with his car near a Jewish center in San Francisco. Said he said at the scene, "I am a terrorist." In prison.

Now it’s reasonable to assume there are a host of ‘experts’ around who could list extenuating personal circumstances – maybe mental incapacitation or severe stress - that drove these men to plan this mayhem. But there is no doubt that they had every intention of expressing their hatred of us and our way of life by killing as many innocents as possible and causing as much damage as possible. 

That they are killers is not in doubt; when you plan to murder, whether you are successful or not, you are a murderer. And if you are a Muslim intent on murder, you are a Muslim murderer. And lest we forget, Muslims follow the Islamic faith which makes Islam an accomplice. 

Had these men been caught trying to blow up American cities, they would have been imprisoned for most of the rest of their lives – without parole. In our excessively ‘civilized’ nice Canadian justice system, these men are treated as if they were merely hyped up for a high school prank and given minimum sentences.

Canada was lucky this time, but there will come a time when we are less so and Canadians will die.  --JGP

A Letter from a New Brunswick Housewife

This letter was written by a New Brunswick housewife from and printed in  her local newspaper in September 2008.  Over a year later, her sentiments remain valid and deserve to be circulated. 

I would like to include her photo here but I’ve been unable to track one down. –JGP

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Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001 and have continually threatened to do so since?

Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, across the Potomac from the nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania? 

Did nearly three thousand men, women, and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?

And I'm supposed to care that a few Taliban were claiming to be tortured by a justice system of the nation they come from and are fighting against in a brutal insurgency.

I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.

I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere belief of which is a crime punishable by beheading in Afghanistan.

I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.

I'll care when the cowardly so-called 'insurgents' in Afghanistan come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques and behind women and children.  I'll care when the mindless zealots who blows themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent  children within range of their suicide bombs.

I'll care when the Canadian media stops pretending that their freedom of speech on stories is more important than the lives of the soldiers on the ground or their families waiting at home to hear about them when something happens.

In the meantime, when I hear a story about a CANADIAN soldier roughing up an Insurgent terrorist to obtain information, know this:

I don't care.

When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank:

I don't care.

When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and 'fed special' food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being 'mishandled,' you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts:

I don't care.

And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled 'Koran' and other times 'Quran.' Well, Jimmy Crack Corn, you guessed it,

I don't care!!

If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your E-mail friends. Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!

If you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you choose the latter, then please don't complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great Country!

And may I add: 'Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Soldiers don't have that problem'.

I have another quote that I would like to add, AND........I hope you forward all this.
One last thought for the day:

Only five defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
        1. Jesus Christ
        2. The British Soldier.
        3. The Canadian Soldier.
        4. The US Soldier, and
        5. The Australian Soldier
One died for your soul, the other four for your freedom. 

Tragedy at Ft Hood

by Lieutenant Colonel Allen B. West (US Army, Ret.) http://foxienews.com/blog/?p=543

This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. As I watched in horror and then anger, I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.

My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.

A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.

A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.

On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.

There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.

We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.

This is not a “man-caused disaster”. It is what it is; an Islamic jihadist attack.

We have seen this before, in 2003, when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait. We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ.

Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.
What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.

What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America, and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.

Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.

However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.

We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.

No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”.

The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan, Boston Massachusetts, Dallas Texas, and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America. And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded.

We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States, one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach. Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca?

So much for peaceful coexistence.
Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.

We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic……that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason.

There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.

When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide.

We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.

Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point.

The reality of your enemy must become your own.

Steadfast and Loyal,
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B. West (US Army, Ret)

Hasan’s Motives

By Denis Prager, Frontpage Magazine

http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/10/hasans-motives-by-dennis-prager/

One reads and hears with increasing disbelief and anger that we don’t know the motive or motives of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major who fired over 100 shots at his fellow American soldiers in order to murder and maim as many as possible. Hasan ended up allegedly murdering 13 people, but government and Army spokesmen and the mainstream media claim they just can’t figure out why he did this. They are, however, certain that it was not an act of terrorism.

Sunday’s New York Times “Week in Review” article about Nidal Hasan was titled “When Soldiers Snap.” The gist of the article was that Maj. Hasan had snapped — even though he had never been in combat. He snapped in advance. Just two sentences in the article were devoted to the possibility that his motives were in any way relatable to his Muslim faith.

As Chris Matthews put it, “it’s unclear if religion was a factor in this shooting.” To Matthews, not only was it unclear if Hasan’s Islamic faith was “the” factor, it was unclear if it was even “a” factor.

Likewise, on NPR, Tom Gjelten offered the novel explanation that Hasan, who has never been in combat, may have suffered from “pre-traumatic stress disorder” because he anticipated having traumatic distress. “Was he an example,” Gjelten seriously asked, “of these soldiers who are literally freaked out by what they are likely to face when they are deployed?”

And on Fox News, Geraldo Rivera, said, “I don’t know what motivates him … as far as I know … he’s a sociopath; he’s a criminal. He could have had a toothache and gone off because of that.”

The deaths and maiming at Fort Hood are heartbreaking and angering. But ultimately far more injurious to America than the act of evil that caused those deaths and injuries is the massive self-deception American society engages in out of fear of being called bigoted, racist or “Islamaphobic.”

Any American who is not prepared to lie to himself has reason to believe that Hasan’s religious views were prominent, if not exclusive, factors for why he slaughtered fellow American soldiers. The motives appear as clear as any could be.

Chuck Medley, Fort Hood’s director of Emergency Services, told Reuters that Hasan yelled “Allahu Akbar” — the Arabic incantation of “Allah is the greatest” yelled by Islamic terrorists before they slaughter people — just before the shooting,

Dr. Val Finnell told The Associated Press that he and other classmates participating in a 2007-2008 master’s program with Hasan at the Uniformed Services University had complained about his comments, including that the war on terror was “a war against Islam.”

Another classmate told the AP that he complained to five officers and two civilian faculty members at the university. He also wrote to Pentagon officials that fear in the military of being seen as politically incorrect prevented an “intellectually honest discussion of Islamic ideology” in the ranks.

Other classmates who participated in a 2007-2008 master’s program at a military college said they, too, had complained to superiors about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s anti-American views, which included his giving a presentation that  justified suicide bombing and telling classmates that Islamic law trumped the U.S. Constitution.

And ABC News now reports that Hasan had attempted to contact al-Qaida.

It is a given that the vast majority of American Muslims are loyal Americans. But that’s not the only given.

It is equally a given that a certain percentage of Muslims in and outside of the military are Islamists who want Americans dead and America Muslim.

It does the majority of Muslims no favor to deny the existence of the minority. And Muslim Americans do themselves no favor by denying it. Unfortunately, Muslims are theoretically represented by groups like CAIR whose values are correctly seen by most Americans as suspect.

Americans are worried by the fact that there are Muslim Americans whose beliefs compel them to murder non-Muslim Americans. But what is even more worrisome is that American Muslim groups (and their supporters on the left) deny this.

Adrian Rogers: 1931 - 2005

"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.  When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

Adrian Rogers was a Baptist minister from Memphis Tennessee.

Obama’s “Bush Did It” Narrative

by Jamie Glazov

November 4, 2009

FrontPage Magazine - http://frontpagemag.com

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

FP: Victor Davis Hanson, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

I’d like to talk to you today about radical Islam and the Obama administration’s ability and inclination, or lack thereof, to confront it.

What’s the best way to begin this discussion?

Hanson: Thanks Jamie.

The paradigm of discussing radical Islam is entirely different after January 20. Jihad has been institutionalized now as a benign personal odyssey rather than explicatory of the sort of murderous attacks we have seen since 1979 directed at the West, most recently with the four Islamic plots to kill Americans by radical Islamists since Obama has taken office.

Obama’s interview with al Arabiya and his Cairo speech had two clear themes: his own personal heritage makes him uniquely qualified to undo the Bush damage; and we in the West have been equally culpable for the strained relations.

This sort of moral equivalence is little concerned with any redress of pathologies that in fact led to 9/11: Western appeasement of, or indifference to, radical Islam, whose extremism was the natural dividend of a region torn by enormous oil wealth, and age old statism, tribalism, gender intolerance, and dictatorship. In the era of Obama, radical Islam and the West merely have different narratives, rather than a fascistic creed trying to destroy the notion of Western freedom and tolerance.

Abroad as both sides refocus on the Afghanistan theater, somehow Obama is more demoralized by our victory in Iraq than the Islamists are by their defeat; and we have forgotten in the Bush ‘reset’ button rhetoric that support for bin Laden and suicide bombing–given the terrible dividends they earned–had plummeted in polls in the Middle East. In addition, in the “Bush did it” Obama narrative there was no mention of the arrest of Dr. Khan, the Syrian exit from Lebanon,  the surrender of the Libyan WMD stockpiles, or the absence of another 9/11.

The result is that many in the radical Islamic world–especially after Obama’s serial trashing of the Bush-era security protocols like retaps, intercepts, and Guantanamo– may well be emboldened to think that either America questions its successful efforts at thwarting another attack since 9/11, or in some strange way sympathizes with some of the writs against itself.

FP: What explains the Obama administration’s behaviour and viewpoint in this context?

Hanson: a) Obama is a product of his education and early life, in which America being culpable for  a variety of sins was the gospel , as we see from his associates like Ayers, to his minister like Wright, to the general force of his community organizing in Chicago, to his most partisan voting record in the Senate;

b) Obama, like many elites on the left who thrived in the academic and organizing/grant-giving world, understood that his exotic name, his mixed heritage, his father’s Muslim roots could all be combined to present some sort of revolutionary aura within the confines of the university that would pay career dividends, and then among the general public, if packaged with a charismatic and conciliatory persona, could make one feel comfortable and good about one’s supposed liberality; he thrived on being a ‘revolutionary’ lite figure in a non-threatening manner, and it’s hard to give up a winning hand at this late stage;

c) Obama has almost no real experience with an America outside the victim politics of Chicago and the melodramas of the university. He has never run a business, never worked hard with his hands, never had to meet a budget, never understood how money is made, but instead essentially pleaded his cause to win fellowships and grants, dispensed someone else’s money as a board member, made claims against government (”organizing”), and written his autobiographies at a young age.

Life, in other words, was pretty easy, as the path from Harvard Review to Nobel Prize Winner was characterized by smoothing rhetoric and a host of people who, for a host of psychological reasons of their own, wished to give him something for something he didn’t earn. Now he oddly seems surprised that not all those abroad are as wowed as the 2008 American electorate.

FP: What is at stake if Obama continues along this path?

Hanson: We have an eerie resemblance to Carterism circa 1977: the sermons, the apologies, the trashing of predecessors, the moralizing, the transnational utopianism—all manifested in naiveté about Khomeini, the selling out of the Shah, the downplaying of a communist threat, which, in 1-2 year’s time (it takes a while for others to size up an American president), earned communist expansion in Central America, the Soviets in Afghanistan, the hostage taking in Teheran, uncertainty in Korea, the rise of radical Islam and a weakened US military.

In Obama’s terms that would mean earning a nuclear Iran, a Russia convinced that we will not object to corrections in its regional map, a China eyeing opportunities everywhere, South America reverting back to a sixties credo, Europe oddly remorseful that it got what it wanted (a soft-power, Europeanized America), Israel without an ally, and many in the Mideast convinced that America is now sympathetic to its expansive and non-ending grievances. We may well see a new era of nuclear proliferation as never before.

FP: How would you compare Obama to Clinton and Carter in terms of damaging American and Western security?

Hanson: It is still early, but the two are instructive. Carter’s self-righteousness ended in disaster and was corrected by Reagan. Clinton, for all his appeasement of radical Islam, the defense cuts, Mogadishu, Haiti, and dithering in the Balkans, at the end became finally somewhat Trumanesque: he removed Milosevic without a lot of bipartisan support, he enforced the no-fly-zones and called for regime change in Iraq, and he tried to project a centrist bipartisan foreign policy, albeit replete with the normal apologies and liberal flourishes. But he was not Jimmy Carter.

Obama? He has a choice; he can correct as Clinton did domestically in 1995 and save his presidency, or he can go the finger-wagging, sanctimonious route blaming the public and the “right” for not appreciating his moral genius. That will lead to political oblivion in 2012. It’s his choice at this point, and predicated on how large the midterm correction and what will be his attitude to political rebuke.

FP: And the American people stand where?

Hanson: Us in the meantime? The people will have to go through a period of national uncertainty and hope that the prior strength of the United States still offers a deterrent to would-be aggressors. I omit the foreign policy effects of borrowing $2 trillion per year to dispense on constituents, but when we hit $20 trillion in aggregate debt at a 8-10% service fee, the US then will have very few options at home or abroad. So, let us hope that either Obama or the voters, get wisdom in the meantime.

FP: Victor Davis Hanson, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.

The Joys of Muslim Women

by Nonie Darwish

In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as one year old and have sexual intimacy with this child. Consummating the marriage by nine.

The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.

Even though a woman is abused she can not obtain a divorce.

To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.

Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry.  The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and he does not have to say why he has beaten her.

The husband is permitted to have four wives and a temporary wife for an hour, a prostitute, at his discretion.

The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.

In the West World (America), Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her.  It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.

By passing this on, enlightened American women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law.

Ripping the West in Two

Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.

She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.

Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza  before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel.  He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza .

When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society.

But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her own Muslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.

In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.

For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual.  Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.

Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.

While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.

While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with

God, Sharia advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism.

It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.

While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petrodollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.

In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the  U.S.  to elect the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so... You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA. Dearborn Michigan is one... and there are others.

It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful.. some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam.. the peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion.

While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives of children the Muslims are planning a great jihad on America.

Michael Harrington michael@harrington.com