Hiding America’s Crime: Mogadishu Empty and in Ruins

Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, has ceased to exist as a city. Inhabited by nearly three million people less than two years ago, and still home to more than a million nine months ago, Mogadishu has been virtually emptied of civilians. Whole sections have been leveled, according to the BBC, in what Human Rights Watch calls “the most ignored tragedy in the world” today. Ignored, that is, by the American and most of the world’s media.   >>>>>

Shock and Awe: Bipartisan Beltway Terrorists Launch Economic 9/11 on the American People

You’ve seen the news. You know the score. The House of Representatives has now completed the economic terrorist attack inflicted on the American people by the nation’s elite

The bailout bill — or as Arthur Silber more rightly terms it, the “Extortion Bill” — is already law, thanks to the Democrats in Congress, and to Barack Obama, who spent the day working the phones and twisting arms to make sure the $700 billion bonanza for the filthy rich passed without any more of the hiccups that held it up earlier this week.  >>>>>

Is front group for Israeli organization trying to influence November election?

Millions of DVD copies of the film “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against The West” were delivered recently to the doorsteps of potential voters in November’s upcoming presidential election between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, via their Sunday newspapers through an advertising purchase by a shadowy group called the Clarion Fund. The Clarion Fund is secretive about its funding, but is staffed, the Detroit Free Press reports, by former employees of Aish HaTorah International, a Jewish educational organization based in Jerusalem. The Clarion Fund denies an official, direct connection to Aish HaTorah.  >>>>>

The Mischief-Makers – The real troublemakers in the Middle East

The Iraq war’s consequences are still rippling outward, and the destabilization of Syria is perhaps the most perilous, as far as U.S. interests are concerned. If and when whomever is trying to upset the Syrian apple cart succeeds, it is Americans – after, of course, the poor Syrians – who will be paying the price. The only solution: diplomatic engagement and the dropping of economic sanctions, followed by a policy that encourages the opening up of Syria to Western influence. This has been the dearest wish of the Syrian government, which has been earnestly, if ineffectively, trying to repair relations with the West. Yet the Israel lobby has such a powerful stranglehold on policymaking, including Congress and the White House, that this has proved impossible. Whether or not the election of Barack Obama – who supposedly will talk to anyone – will mean a fundamental break with the failed policies of the past remains to be seen. For the moment, however, we can only hope that Washington will rein in the Israelis before they do irreparable damage and Syria comes unraveled.  >>>>>

American Muslims want seat at political table

“If Barack said there’s nothing wrong with being a Muslim this needs to get out to the Muslim community. It alienates them to not have this information. The organizers here said that Barack Obama went to a mosque. Who knows this? We have to send this message to the Muslim community,” said Abdul Akbar Muhammad, who writes the syndicated Africa and the World column and hosts a radio program,” he said. “This is an important first step. Muslims have been marginalized. It’s partly our fault for not being active in politics.”

Muslim delegates came to Denver to make their voices heard and heed Sen. Obama’s call for inclusion in his presidential campaign.  >>>>>

Ministers to bring politics to pulpits

That would allow their patron, the conservative legal group Alliance Defense Fund, to challenge the IRS rules, a risky strategy that one defense fund attorney acknowledged could cost the churches their tax-exempt status. Congress made it illegal in 1954 for tax-exempt groups to support or oppose political candidates publicly.

“I’m going to talk about the un-biblical stands that Barack Obama takes. Nobody who follows the Bible can vote for him,” said the Rev. Wiley S. Drake of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, Calif. “We may not be politically correct, but we are going to be biblically correct. We are going to vote for those who follow the Bible.”  >>>>>

Who is it that wants to attack the secular notion of democracy and bring about a theocracy to this nation?

Oops! Obama says ‘my Muslim faith’

Obama was — ironically — addressing the false rumors that he is Muslim. He suggested that Republican rival John McCain was behind them, according to ABC News.  >>>>>

I don’t see an ‘Oops!’ about any of it.  If he gains, or re-gains faith as a Muslim, God bless him!  If he becomes a better Christian — God bless him.  If he becomes closer to God, God bless him.  I’d rather have a president who’s heart is yearning to follow the God of the People of the Book, than to have one that is sure “God told me,” and felt justified in genocide of Muslims and Christians–worse yet, to help a people that don’t even believe in his God.

Is outreach possible?

But by doing so, you give veto power to that same Lobby, including some very nasty neocons who are experts in using guilt by association to promote religious bigotry. That makes finding a Muslim to do national outreach in the Muslim community very, very difficult.  >>>>>

Obama Rails Against Attacks From Palin, GOP

“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,” Obama told O’Reilly of President Bush’s decision last year to increase troop levels, a move that McCain urged relentlessly. “It’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”

But, he added, “the Iraqis still haven’t taken responsibility. And we still don’t have that kind of political reconciliation.”

Asked to list U.S. enemies, Obama responded, “Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam and so we have to go after them.”  >>>>>

Mitt Romney Doesn’t Get Terrorism

Romney uses this “straight talk” to lump Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood into one big scary monster.  But, by confusing these various groups, conservatives make it impossible to pursue effective policies. Their ideological approach has caused the United States to miss numerous opportunities, where it could have played these groups off of each other to America’s benefit. >>>>>

Israel should accept ‘nuclear’ Iran, says Biden

The US Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden has advised senior Israeli officials to come to terms with a ‘nuclear’ Iran.

In a clandestine meeting with unnamed Israeli officials, which was partially covered by the US Jewish Army Radio, Barack Obama’s vice-presidential nominee said, “Israel will have to reconcile itself with the nuclearization of Iran.”  >>>>>

It appears that Biden is the first one to stand up and point out the obvious.  This is a far cry from “bomb, bomb, Iran.”  This statement needs to ring loud, and most people in the U.S. should stop fearing to say so.  Iran seeks nuclear power as an energy source; Israel went behind the world’s back and produced nuclear weapons; have yet to officially acknowledge there existence; nor is a party to nuclear treaties Iran is willing to be party to.  This over-accountablity of Muslim states seeking nuclear power for energy versus a non-accountable, armed and threatening regional power, which states is not a threat to humanity, but has a UN Resolution rap sheet that begs to differ.

American-Muslim Catch-22

American Muslims are learning that in post-9/11 America, they must become more involved at every level of the country’s political process, and not least so that there’s always someone to say “So what if he’s Muslim?” whenever Obama is “smeared.” >>>>>

Unlike the article below about joining the Democrats’ party, this sister seems to have a deeper understanding of the message should carry here.  In the end, as she heads to the polls with her mother, she knows her responsibility is with God first, then civic duty is second. 

Muslims find welcome at Democrats’ party

“The Muslim community in America is a surging political force,” Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., said in an interview here, “people from all various walks of life who are running for office, who are getting engaged, precinct captains, delegates, local public officials.” >>>>>

Now that the party (convention) is over, can Muslims work on finding more welcome with God? Although politics is extremely important; American-Muslims should not place their position of being ‘accepted’ by a political partisanship. It isn’t enough.

We must also be very careful of dividing ourselves into subgroups; i.e. Mr. Wahid stated “…Pakistani Muslims, Indian Muslims, Asian-American Muslims” (somewhat of an overlap and specified to one region of Muslims), one might be able to guess Mr. Wahid’s ethnicity and race with this comment. Representation of Muslims or Americans should transcend these subcultural groups, except in cases where one is trying to stress that particular subculture. That is not the case in this instance.

Obama’s nomination doesn’t end fight for civil rights

…He said Obama’s nomination may mark a fundamental shift away from racial-identity politics to so-called post-racial politics. But, he added, the nomination doesn’t diminish the need for activism on behalf of social justice. >>>>>

Most Americans still don’t realize that tens of millions of African Muslims [who were amongst an even greater number of Africans of other religions, including Christianity], lost their lives and have been enslaved for mere tools in the creation of the United States of America. Muslims have been forced to lose their names, their religious practice and identity; and forced to practice Christianity in one form or another. While it is clearly not a Christian value to practice slavery, it is incomprehensible for most Muslims to grasp onto forefathers of this nation, when we are fully aware of how responsible they were in not practicing values that their own religions taught, their own ethnic and national identity struggled against, and against the values of Islam, where Muslims from Africa to China and all parts in between have been taught, was clearly against for over 1,000 years prior.

These ’great Americans’ were considered terrorists by their governing nation (Great Britain) in their day, yet sought to seek ‘freedom:’ They have:

–disallowed women to vote for well over a century, compared to Muslim women having this right for over 1,400 years

–considered the black man/woman not worth a whole human being - by their own ‘modern and righteous’ laws of their time

–had to have a civil war to finally abolish slavery

Even under present-day laws they supposedly fought so hard for, most Americans would also consider these forefathers as terrorists.

While it is not an intention to cause further divide, the association that is attempted is the U.S. – in and of itself - is really nothing to hate or love; it is a vehicle by which people live. That vehicle has failed most folks than not, even in it’s maturity.

Most people can understand and appreciate failure of a project; but how can they ever expect a country to be ‘truly successful’ when the laws, principles and morality of a nation takes a turn that is not only dangerous to its people — but to the world for generations to come?

Blacks, by there very existence, and like Native Americans, are clear living symbols, whereby those who appreciate the understanding of having been oppressed – are constantly reminding conscientious Americans with inner shame. If there is little to no change, expect a continuation of global downfall, not necessarily by race; but because of one’s conscience.

No Charges Over ‘Obama Death Plot’ – Didn’t pass the Muslim litmus test

Police in the US say there is “insufficient evidence” to charge three men who were allegedly planning to assassinate Barack Obama.  >>>>>

It’s not Obama that could have been the only target.  What about any other life in the convention?  Are they worth less than he? 

“high-powered rifles, two wigs, camouflage clothing, a bulletproof vest and two walkie-talkies,” “not a true threat” and “insufficient evidence.” 

Muslims scrambling around in their home country trying to defend themselves from a foreign power, a “true threat” and “a mountain of evidence.”

Captured, unarmed and detained Muslims wearing orange jumpsuits and placed in cages that look like dog pens, in a foreign country (Gitmo)– a continued threat — gotta break out the handcuffs, leg shackles, facial masks and are escorted by multiple military armed guards at a time for each prisoner. 

One of the things we would want to rule out here is – were these guys set up as patsies for those who don’t want Obama in power?  These guys were definitely up to something unlawfully serious.

Joe Biden’s the Man on Guantanamo, Iraq and the “War on Terror”

…Sen. Biden has also repeatedly cast doubt on the very notion of a “War on Terror,” declaring, in a speech in April 2008, in which he lambasted the Bush administration for making “fear the main driver of our foreign policy,” “Terrorism is a means, not an end, and very different groups and countries are using it toward very different goals. If we can’t even identify the enemy or describe the war we’re fighting, it’s difficult to see how we will win.”

Reassuringly, for those who care about the Bush administration’s assault on fundamental human rights, holding prisoners neither as Prisoners of War protected by the Geneva Conventions nor as criminal suspects to be tried in US courts, Sen. Biden has been unstinting in his opposition to the prison at Guantánamo Bay. In June 2005, he called for Guantánamo to be closed, telling ABC News that it had “become the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world.”  >>>>>

Obama has been questionable on his Muslim stance.  He seemed to have been flip-flopping on critical issues relating to Muslims here and abroad and caving in early to AIPAC’s expectations.  Let’s hope that Biden can fill in the gaps where Obama is weak in.  Hopefully, together, they can bring about a more just U.S.  While I remain skeptical; it’s solely based on the good-will towards humanity that all presidents espouse, yet later falter due to somehow getting snagged into the web of politics.

So What If He Were Muslim?

Once Barack Obama emerged as the Democratic candidate, it was clear the presidential contest would become a referendum on race. It was not, however, supposed to be a journey into the terrain of religious fears and prejudice. But because many Americans think Obama is not what he actually is, it has become that. Beneath the candidate’s Christian exterior, they suspect, beats the heart of a Muslim.  >>>>>

The problem is not with the Muslims, but the hatred of those who use religion, or lack thereof, as an excuse for their hatred.  While there should be a difference placed on the value of one’s convictions – there shouldn’t be an issue, as long as one doesn’t hijack the Constitution based on his religious beliefs.  No matter what is said about Muslims, the are the only major group from the People of the Book who has not hijacked U.S. Constitution to date.  

Local Muslims to vote at Democratic convention

OLYMPIA – Nearly 100 delegates will represent Washington state in Denver next week when the Democratic National Convention kicks off.  One of those delegates is former Army Chaplain James Yee, one of a handful of local Muslims making a mark on this presidential election.  Yee was arrested and accused of espionage five years ago in a high-profile case that was later dismissed. Now he is gearing up for history, with Barack Obama’s photo pinned to his clothes and his name printed on T-shirts.  “This is a turning point for Muslims with regard to our participation in the political process,” he says.  >>>>>

The voice of Muslims need to continue to be heard.  Most of the voices against Muslims come from either those perpetrating the fraud to keep the war on terror alive in order to exploit other nations and control the American populace; or sheep.

Prominent Muslim activist jailed in LA for four years

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A prominent Los Angeles-based Muslim activist has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to attempting to bribe a witness, prosecutors said Tuesday.  Najee Ali, who heads the community group Project Islamic HOPE (Helping Oppressed People Everywhere), was sentenced on Monday after he admitted an attempt to interfere with a witness in a court case involving his daughter.  >>>>>

Obama Fanatics Slam Author For Questioning 9/11

An army of frenzied Barack Obama acolytes have been busy attempting to smear writer Jerome Corsi, author of Obama Nation, by citing his skepticism towards the official 9/11 story, seemingly ignorant of the fact that such doubts are shared by the majority of Americans.  >>>>>

And in a democracy, whereby these “doubts are shared by the majority of Americans,” what should take place to bring justice to the genocide and imprisonment, amongst other crimes, against Muslims worldwide?