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Al-Qaeda in Iran has a new Leader
0While it’s worth noting that Al-Qaeda has a new leader in Iran, it’s more noteworthy that the Sunni, Al-Qaeda is embraced by the Shiite Iranian government. The unlikelihood of such a reality is what caused the United States government to dismiss Iranian involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
Anyway, here’s a report on the leadership change via the Long War Journal (take note of what I have in bold):
A notorious Kuwaiti terrorist named Muhsin al Fadhli has reportedly taken over leadership of al Qaeda’s network inside Iran. Sky News reports that al Fadhli assumed the top post in al Qaeda’s Iran franchise after Yasin al Suri, who has headed the network for years, was placed under “protective custody” following his exposure by US authorities.
In July 2011, the US Treasury Department designated al Suri and several other al Qaeda operatives who use Iranian soil to move funds and recruits from Gulf countries to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. The Treasury Department said that this network operates as part of a “secret deal” between al Qaeda and the Iranian government. In December 2011, US authorities announced that they were offering a $10 million reward for information leading to al Suri’s capture.
Al-Qaeda and Iran sittin’ in a tree….
Yet again, another in a long line of examples that point to a United States federal district judge’s ruling being spot-on. That ruling determined that Iran worked closely with al-Qaeda to perpetrate the 9/11 attacks.
There’s more:
Al Fadhli has long been an elite member of al Qaeda. In early September 2001, Treasury explained, he “possibly received forewarning that US interests would be struck.” The Sept. 11 operation was compartmentalized and only select members of the network received advance notice.
U.S.S. Cole bombing? Check:
In a separate case, according to a leaked State Department cable written in June 2005, al Fadhli was charged with involvement in al Qaeda’s October 2000 USS Cole bombing.
There appears to be quite a bit of chatter regarding collaboration between Iran and al-Qaeda about an upcoming attack as well:
Sky News cited anonymous intelligence officials who believe a terrorist plot involving al Fadhli and al Qaeda’s network in Iran may be afoot. Al Qaeda’s emir, Ayman al Zawahiri, is reportedly interested in launching a mass casualty attack as retaliation for the killing of Osama bin Laden. However, the details of this putative plot are sketchy.
“We do know that an operation is under way. We assess that the most likely target is to be European. And the most obvious target in Europe for an attack that would attract a lot of attention would be the Olympic Games,” a source told Sky News. Iran is reportedly providing training in explosives, safe haven, and funding for the operatives involved.
A secret intelligence memo shown to Sky News reads: “Against the background of intensive co-operation over recent months between Iran and al Qaeda – with a view to conducting a joint attack against Western targets overseas… Iran has significantly stepped up its investment, maintenance and improvement of operational and intelligence ties with the al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan in recent months.”
The evidence that Iran worked closely with al-Qaeda in the September 11th attacks is overwhelming and indications are that an encore performance may be underway.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
h/t Jawa Report
Colorado High School student rejects Dhimmitude, Quits Choir
0Imagine the uproar if a public high school choir attempted to sing a song about Jesus that included the lyrics, “He is the way, the truth, and the life.” The left wing atheists and secularists would scream bloody murder while insisting that the separation of church and state is at grave risk. Would such objections be labeled racist?
Enter James Harper, a high school senior who had a problem with singing a song which heaped similar praise on Islam’s Allah.
Via Fox News:
A Colorado high school student says he quit the school choir after an Islamic song containing the lyric “there is no truth except Allah” made it into the repertoire.
James Harper, a senior at Grand Junction High School in Grand Junction, put his objection to singing “Zikr,” a song written by Indian composer A.R. Rahman, in an email to Mesa County School District 51 officials. When the school stood by choir director Marcia Wieland’s selection, Harper said, he quit.
“I don’t want to come across as a bigot or a racist, but I really don’t feel it is appropriate for students in a public high school to be singing an Islamic worship song,” Harper told KREX-TV. “This is worshipping another God, and even worshipping another prophet … I think there would be a lot of outrage if we made a Muslim choir say Jesus Christ is the only truth.”
In one of the most blatant displays of dhimmitude, the spokesman for the district doubled down in the face of Harper’s courage:
But district spokesman Jeff Kirtland defended the decision to include the song.
“Choral music is often devoted to religious themes. … This is not a case where the school is endorsing or promoting any particular religion or other non-educational agenda. The song was chosen because its rhythms and other qualities would provide an opportunity to exhibit the musical talent and skills of the group in competition, not because of its religious message or lyrics,” Kirtland told FoxNews.com in an email while noting that the choir “is a voluntary, after-school activity.”
For the record, the song “Prayer of the Children” was written by a Mormon missionary and doesn’t include nearly the same reference to Jesus that the Islamic song, Zikr does to Allah.
Here are the lyrics to Prayer of the Children:
Can you hear the prayer of the children?
On bended knee, in the shadow of an unknown room
Empty eyes with no more tears to cry
Turning heavenward toward the lightCrying jesus, help me
To see the morning light-of one more day
But if i should die before i wake,
I pray my soul to takeCan you feel the hearts of the children?
Aching for home, for something of their very own
Reaching hands, with nothing to hold on to,
But hope for a better day a better dayCrying jesus, help me
To feel the love again in my own land
But if unknown roads lead away from home,
Give me loving arms, away from harmCan you hear the voice of the children?
Softly pleading for silence in a shattered world?
Angry guns preach a gospel full of hate,
Blood of the innocent on their handsCrying jesus, help me
To feel the sun again upon my face,
For when darkness clears i know you’re near,
Bringing peace againDali cujete sve djecje molitive?
(croatian translation:
‘can you hear all the children’s prayers?’)
Can you hear the prayer of the children?
In the name of fairness, the school is attempting to equate asking Jesus for help with praising Allah as the only god? That’s a difference without a distinction. Still no word on when Kirtland will be approving a song written around John 14:6.
h/t Jihad Watch
Video hypocrisy: Muslim Congressman plays the Race Card
0There’s irony and then there’s hypocrisy that will make you choke so bad that you’ll need someone to perform the heimlich maneuver on you. This clip from Rep. Keith Ellison may just block your air pathway. He actually accuses white people of being racist for calling Obama the “food stamp president.”
Someone should bring Mr. Ellison up to speed on how his friends at CAIR view the Jews. Then again, they probably don’t have to.
He knows, which is what makes this clip so ridiculously absurd.
h/t Breitbart
New Jersey Sheriff hires openly Anti-Sharia man to train Deputies
0Stories like these are always welcome sights because they’re so few and far between in today’s world. A New Jersey county sheriff has decided to hire none other than former FBI agent and outspoken critic of Islam and Sharia Law, John Guandolo to train his deputies.
Via the Tennessean, h/t to Bare Naked Islam:
A former FBI agent who claims Nashville’s mosques have no legal right to exist is training the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office about Islam and the threats of terrorism.
John Guandolo, vice president of the Arlington, Va.-based Strategic Engagement Group, is leading training being held at World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro. He spoke at an anti-Shariah law event at Cornerstone Church in Madison on Nov. 11, calling local mosques front organizations for the Muslim Brotherhood with no right to exist.
“They do not have a First Amendment right to do anything,” Guandolo said then.
Rutherford Sheriff Robert Arnold said his department simply wants to learn about Muslim culture.
“There are not many classes out there for anything when it comes to Muslims … but this training isn’t just about that, it has many other components to it,” he said. “My stance is and my office’s stance is, we are not here to pick sides. I am here to protect the people of this county, and I am never going to waiver from that.”
Here is a video of Guandolo explaining perfectly the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the complete ineptitude of political leaders:
The decision to hire Guandolo, a man who understands not only the threat but the inability of the federal government to either understand the real threat or deal with it appears to be a strategic coup. Since the dawn of the Tea Party in 2009, a continuing theme has been a return to the Tenth Amendment and states rights.
Enter the notion of things changing at the county level. In the case of Rutherford country Sheriff Robert Arnold, he isn’t waiting for his state government or the federal government. He was elected to protect and defend his county and if he sees an Islamic threat, he should defend against it.
Interestingly, a group known as the County Sheriff Project seems to be calling for Arnold’s colleagues everywhere to defend against government overreach.
We will stay on top of this story as we expect that CAIR will object rather vociferously.
Brotherhood Leader Qaradawi openly rallying support for Syrian opposition
0Well, that didn’t take long. I no sooner finished posting my previous entry when I saw that Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi is in Qatar with other Brotherhood clerics in an attempt to rally support for the Syrian opposition.
Critical thinking DEMANDS this be questioned and not dismissed.
Via the Khaleej Times / AFP:
The International Union of Muslim Scholars headed by influential cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi organised a rally in Qatar on Friday in support of anti-government protesters in Syria.
Members of the opposition Syrian National Council, which has been meeting in the capital Doha, joined the rally by several hundred people after the main weekly Muslim prayers, an AFP correspondent reported.Qaradawi told demonstrators that the rally was aimed at “supporting the people of Syria,” where more than 6,000 people have been killed since pro-democracy protests erupted in March last year, according to activists.
The Sunni cleric called on Syrian troops ordered to take part in the government’s deadly crackdown to “align with the people and let go of the regime.”
Again, remember that Qaradawi’s Brotherhood is winning the propaganda war in the West by portraying itself as ‘moderate’ while exploiting the Assad crackdown to its advantage. A Brotherhood victory in Syria would be a huge victory for Turkey, which has also managed to portray itself as moderate despite being run by a vehemently radical Islamist government.
As bad as Iran’s continued control of Syria is, the Brotherhood’s control of it would be much worse.
h/t GMBDR
Iran Stepping up its support of Bashar al-Assad
0There is an important premise that must be understood when it comes to Syria. That country has become a front in a battle between Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood more than it’s about a dictator putting down a revolt. Notice that the Sunni world, to include the same Muslim Brotherhood that has been benefiting the most from the ‘Arab Spring’ is supporting Assad’s ouster. Iran has, for years, supported Assad and any threat to Assad is a threat to Iran, which is reportedly sending Assad reinforcements in the form of Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guard.
Via Ynet:
Iran has significantly increased its involvement in Syria over the past few days, Ynet learned Monday.
The presence of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah operatives assisting Syrian President Bashar Assad’s in his brutal crackdown of protesters now number in the high hundreds; while the Arab League said that it will not supply the rebels with arms unless the bloodshed comes to a halt.
The majority of Iranian and Hezbollah operatives in Syria supply Assad’s army with intelligence and train the Damascus forces on weapons’ maintenance and reconnaissance. A smaller group of operatives is involved in the actual fighting.
In order for the country of Syria to remain a wedge between Shiite and Sunni dominance, Iran will need to maintain control of that region. The Sunni Muslim Brotherhood has essentially been bagging countries for the last year. Conversely, Iran has for all intents and purposes, annexed Iraq. To use a football allegory, it’d be like one team being up 28-7.
To continue with the metaphor, if Syria is lost to the Sunnis, it’d be like throwing a “pick six” when you’re inside the other team’s five yard-line, about to score. Instead of the game being closer, at 28-14, it’s suddenly 35-7. The western media – as well as the Obama administration – has been painting the Sunni Brotherhood as a ‘moderate’ Islamic movement while allowing the image of Iran to be that of saber-rattling radicals. Though that is an accurate depiction of Iran, it’s an extremely INaccurate depiction of the Brotherhood.
Unlike Iran, the Brotherhood has put down roots within the halls of power in the United States while being able to sufficiently create the perception that its Hamas and CAIR entities are completely unrelated. Iran hasn’t been able to duplicate that model nearly as well. Hezbollah is the Shiite version of Hamas but it doesn’t have a CAIR equivalent, for example. Consequently, the Brotherhood has the advantage when it comes to winning the propaganda war in the west.
A distinct downside to that, other than Syria falling to the Brotherhood (Turkey), is U.S. support for the ouster of Assad. That will not only benefit a continued strengthening of the Muslim Brotherhood but it will also anger Russia and China while provoking Hezbollah to hit the United States asymmetrically, which reports show that Iran has already indicated it will do. Remember, Hezbollah has a very quantifiable presence in both Mexico and Venezuela.
Iran’s financial aid is one of Assad’s lifelines, as it keeps the middle class in Damascus and Halab (Aleppo) from rising against him as well.
The Islamic Republic’s decision to bolster ties with Syria at a time when Tehran has to deal with growing international sanctions, imposed on it over its refusal to suspend its nuclear program, indicates that the ayatollah’s regime believes Assad and his government can survive the uprising.
The rebels have long claimed that Iran is helping Assad – an assessment backed by Britain and the United States.
Iran is definitely a threat to the region and to the West but the Obama administration’s disturbing tendency to side with the Muslim Brotherhood is dangerous all by itself without backing them in Syria.
That policy is dangerous for a whole host of reasons.
Report: Al-Qaeda and Iran working together to hit the U.S.
0In what should have been bombshell news late last year, a federal U.S. district court judge named George Daniels ruled after eight years that Iran, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda all worked together to perpetrate the 9/11 attacks.
That news fell on relatively deaf ears in western media circles.
Now, Sky News is reporting that Ayman al-Zawahiri is working with Iran to – you guessed it – perpetrate terror attacks against the United States to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden:
Iran and al Qaeda’s core leadership under Ayman al Zawahiri have established an “operational relationship” amid fears the terror group is planning a spectacular attack against the West.
There are concerns such an attack, possibly targeting Europe, would be in revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden by the US last year.
Sky News’ intelligence sources have said Iran has been supplying al Qaeda with training in the use of advanced explosives, “some funding and a safe haven” as part of a deal first worked out in 2009 which has now led to “operational capacity.”
Here is the news report:
Video: When too many Federal Agencies go after Islamic Terrorists
0If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why the West has so much trouble identifying its enemies, this short clip could provide one possible explanation:
h/t Sipsey Street
Radical Islamic group in Pakistan planning march on Jerusalem
0To demonstrate just how twisted the radical Islamic mindset has become, look no further than the recent Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Conference. Attendees collectively concluded that the mosques in Medina and Jerusalem are under great threat from the Jews. Forget for a second that the Islamic holy site in Jerusalem – the Dome of the Rock – sits in what many consider to be Israel’s true Capital. There is no such prominence given to any Jewish synagogue in any Muslim country. Also, forget the fact that Israel is a tiny country surrounded by Islamic ones who wish to see it destroyed.
Such realities should not hold up a good conspiracy theory that is being trumpeted to the masses in order to begin an Islamic march on Jerusalem.
Via MEMRI:
On February 2-3, 2012, delegates from various countries in Asia converged in Karachi to discuss their preparations for a Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ).
The Global March to Jerusalem is an international march led by leftist and Islamic leaders. It aims to coordinate activists from various countries in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, who will form groups of marchers. From Asia, the march will set out from India on March 9 and proceed to Jordan. The GMJ follows the First Asian Convoy to Gaza (December 2010-January 2011).
Once again, leftists and Islamists working together to peacefully protest on what is known as “Land Day,” which leftists can certainly relate to:
According to a report, the delegates told the conference: “We have … decided to march to Jerusalem on the 30th of March 2012 (Palestine Land Day), where we will be assembling in the hundreds of thousands on the borders of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. Within Palestine itself, hundreds of thousands will be marching to Jerusalem, from all across historic occupied Palestine.”
On the day after the delegates reaffirmed their insatiable hatred for the Jews, Jamaat-e-Islami exploited the consensus and declared support for its unified and bold intention to threaten Jewish sovereignty:
On February 4, 2012, the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan held an all parties conference to express support for the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ). At the conference in Karachi, representatives of Pakistani religious and political parties “supported the decision [to organize the Global March to Jerusalem] and believed that the march would be a milestone in the awakening of Muslim world.” Activists from Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Bangladesh, Palestine, India and other countries attended the event.
At the Jamaat-e-Islamic conference, various speakers said that the “Palestine issue is above the discrimination of color, creed, and race” and added that “Masjid-e-Aqsa and Gumbad-e-Khizra … [are] under direct threat of Jewish designs.” Gumbad-e-Khizra (Green Dome) refers to the Holy Mosque in Medina. Speaking on the occasion, Muhammad Hussain Mehnati, the Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami for Karachi, accused the U.S., Britain, and Russia of imposing “Israel’s existence on the Palestinians to suppress them.”
As crazy as this sounds, they actually believe it.
h/t GMBDR
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