I don’t know. I can’t find any verification that *that* alleged statement by Al Qaeda is any more real than the one that got circulated by the MSM as if it were dictated straight from God. The journalist lapse alone is just staggering.

However, I don’t think it matters what Al Qaeda says or doesn’t say in the final analysis, because Al Qaeda — like the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah, which have issued verifiable communiques … as well as the EXTENSIVE Iranian media blitz proclaiming Obama to be the one predicted in the Madhi legends to take over the West and turn it to Islam … — wants Obama to win. I think they want it for the obvious reasons that McCain won’t leave a gaping hold in Iraq’s defenses that will allow Al Qaeda to fill the void.

And, the tricky thing here is that although Obama is DEFINITELY NOT A MUSLIM, he’s pandering and faltering so badly now on this issue, that it’s blood to a shark. They know now that they can get to him. And it’s a shame. And unfortunately, Obama’s character is too weak to stand up to them.

The thing really unfair to Obama is that because he has Muslim forbears, most of the illiterate (the majority) of the Muslims in the world will believe he is Muslim, and then when he doesn’t call for the imposition shari’a law and hoist nice green flag over the White House — an image that has appeared on the websites of every major Islamist group in the country at one time or another — they’re going to be very angry.

What he does with that pressure is of the greatest importance. And I’m not sure he has the spine for it. In fact, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t.

In the minds of many Americans, it’s just not conceivable that America could actually lose, so they feel they have the luxury of engaging in what I call The Neurosis of the Children of the Empire.

The Children of the Empire are the Americans too young to remember a real war that involved the whole of the country … or they are too under-read in history to realize that the war that Christians stopped fighting at the Gates of Vienna is a war that was only put on hold in the conservative Muslim culture, in which Muslims are taught from the cradle that they are the world’s superior “religious race” (notice they complain about racism, even though Islam is not a race and the majority American Muslims aren’t Arabs) and that they should and eventually will rule the world. The concept of Dar al-Islam vs. Dar al-Harb is perhaps the one, most important issue to understand: It says that, once Islam has rule a piece of earth, it always belongs to Muslims. Nobody else gets a vote. That’s why Al Zawahiri is always telling Muslims that despite elections, Spain, Gilbraltar, everything in North Africa and the Middle East, including Turkey, MUST BE RECLAIMED FOR ISLAM. Nobody gets to vote about that.

Now the American Neurosis presents in two ways.

(1) Leftist Americans think everything is their fault, and that if they just change, everybody else will just come around.

(2) Rights Americans think everything is somebody else’s fault and that they’re damned perfect and should have their way about everything, a kind of divine right.

BOTH POSITIONS ARE SOLIPSISTIC AND NARCISSISTIC AND NOT GROUNDED IN ANY KIND OF REALITY.

All the other peoples in the world are not just sitting there doing nothing. They have their own power, ideology, culture, religion, and utopian fantasies. They are not just living their lives by our leave.

Ed Husain, in a book called The Islamist, points out that radical members of Al-Mujahiroon used to sit in front of the television set and listen to liberals whine in abject guilt about how they must extend “outreach” to the British Muslim community. They would LAUGH at that, knowing that the radical terrorists in the country were NOT about righting some fictional injustice. They were about establishing the caliphate. But the British just can’t get over themselves and think that if somebody actually wants to tank the country and turn it into a 7th-century model of Arabia, but with a couple of convenience rivers around, it MUST BE SOMETHING THEY DID. No, it’s ideology.

Another great book (which I’m about to review and will criticize its one flaw while holding it as probably the best piece of ethnography in 50 years) is Carl Philip Salzman’s “Culture and Conflict in the Middle East” which explains the other important concepts everybody needs to know (which Churchill wrote about in 1900!): nested clan loyalty, balanced opposition, and predatory expansion. This is the cultural armiture onto which Islam was overlaid. That is the problem for Muslim women. Their opportunistic Spin Sisters notwithstanding, Muslim women worldwide are mountain a desperate, desperate attempt to free themselves. They are languishing in jails in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Malawi, Kenya, Somalia, Turkey, Egypt, and every other Muslim-majority country. Their attempts to stop FGM (practiced on 80 million Shafi’i Muslim women), their attempts to wrest custody, marriage, and inheritance rights, their attempts to unveil (which makes Ingrid Mattson’s sorry show all the worse), their quest for voting rights and rights to own businesses is the single bravest effort I have seen by any group of people in my lifetime. It is the culture, now FUSED WITH ISLAM, that is the problem. And it is the CULTURE that radical Islamists are really interested in spreading worldwide. They couch in religious terms, but it is the total control of women and non-Muslims that is the goal here.

See also, Dr. James DeMeo’s astonishing “Saharasia” for the source of the desert tribalist clan system, which lies not in religion at all, but in a vast ecological collapse at 4000 BCE that turned the Garden of Eden into the vast Sahara-Arabian-Turkish-Central Asian desert that it is today. That collapse took place in less than 200 years, which is virtually unimaginable, as desertification is the natural disaster that crushes culture most completely.

Anyhow, duty calls, and I have to go …

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

The signers of Iran’s One Million Signatures are not Islamophobes. They are Muslim women who will remain Muslim, but want their freedom.

The several thousand Shi’as who will rally next month in New York to support America and try to counter Wahhabi influence in American mosques are good Muslims who are not Islamophobes.

Nonie Darwish, Walid Shoebat, Farzana Hassan, Tawfik Hamid, Zudhi Jasser, Stephen Suleiman Schwartz, and the students languishing in Egyptian jails, charged with “insulting Islam” are not Islamophobes.

I have had Muslim friends for more than 35 years, the first of them met during work on the ESL program written for ARAMCO, and more of them over the years more by virtue of a lifelong interest in ALL religion and a passion for Middle Eastern religion, philosophy, history and culture.

You know, you need to have some EVIDENCE for what you say, before you say it. You seem to think that it’s OK to call someone else, a person you do not know, a liar just because you feel like.

When you have three and a half decades of standing up for Muslims’ rights within and without their religion, rights usurped by radical Islam, of whom Muslims are always the first victim, then perhaps you and I could have a conversation about your “opinions” versus mine. Even then, however, you will not be able to call me a liar by virtue of your WISH to discount my opinion, even though you give not the slightest evidence that anything I have said is untrue.

What *is* clear is that either you have no Muslim friends at all, or all your friends are Wahhabi- or Salafist sympathizers, because if you had Muslim friends of the other sort, they would be expressing all kinds of panic to you about where ISLAM is going now, as it is becoming more conservative all the time (though there are brilliant points of resistance in the American Shi’a and Sufi community, about which more later), and everywhere in America secular and moderate Muslims are being bullied by imams and radicals imported from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and funded almost exclusively by oil billions from the Peninsula.

More than 80% of mosques in America are Wahhabi-controlled. Before 9/11, most of the imams in America accepted sermons faxed from Saudi Arabia on Thursday night, to be read at Friday prayers.

For two decades, Grand Ayatollah Medhi Haeri, jailed by Khomeini, warned Americans against the military intent of the Islamic Republic of Iran and against the warped version of Islam being touted by the mullahs. Haeri’s family has been one of the most revered theological families in Islamic history, serving in an unbroken line of clerical legitimacy that spans more the 500 years. Medhi spoke to the State Department in 1992, pleading with them to listen to him.

Right with him was Sheikh Hisham Haqqani, head of Naqshbandi Sufism in America, who has waged a 25-year battled to awaken Americans at the behest of Sheikh Nazim, because perhaps only they saw so clearly the growing problem of the expansionism of militant Ikhwan violence and how seriously it was targeting America.

You see, Todd, I have been around for a long time, and I have seen a very great. I have sat at tables where as early as 1993 everyone seated knew America would be attacked and knew where it would come from.

No, I think it is you who have no Muslim friends, at least not real moderates, note the brave who are scrambling behind the scenes to pull mosques out of the Saudi circle of influence and who listen to death threats on the telephone and have their wives and children threatened. If they do go public, as Zudhi Jasser did, they instantaneously have CAIR with its Saudi funding turning Islamic magazines against them or they are threatened, as was Jamal Miftah, who wrote an essay for Tulsa World, in which he decried violent jihad and terrorism. He was tossed out of his mosques and threatened with a declaration of apostasy against him. That’s a death sentence, as I am hoping you already know.

If you’d like to hear him talk about his, here is a link to his video:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23480_Why_We_Rarely_Hear_from_Moderate_Muslims&only

When you call all exposure of the truly bad side of this issue, the side that oppresses Muslims worldwide, under which they feel threatened and abused, but have fears so great, for their children and their wives, that they will not do what Jamal Miftah, and Nonie Darwish, and Walid Shoebat, and Ibn Warraq and Tashbih Sayyed, and Stephen Suleiman Schwartz, and Zudhi Jasser have done: Those have stood up. And they have had to go to their families to explain that they may not live through the process.

So have some respect for THOSE Muslims … and make that diferentiation. Because without an exposure and demand for change of the radicalized within the Muslim community, the mainstream Muslims have no hope.

Because there are only two countries in the world with a truly Wahhabi-dominated Islamic culture: Saudi Arabia and the United States, the Islamic community of which Saudi Arabia has spent as much as $3 trillion dollars buying through planted imams and endless social coersion and threat.

And Americans who speak out and write and stand with moderate Muslims and the dissidents who take these risks are not the enemies of Islam. They are its friends.

Finally, just one more note:

When CAIR smears the Muslims who speak out, when radical Islam puts a $60 million dollar bounty on the head of Boutros (Coptic Christian patriarch), when Lina Joy is jailed for “Muslim re-education” by the government of Malaysia, and when radical imams put out death fatawa (plural of fatwa) on journalists, writers, women’s rights advocates, the Baha’i, the Ahmadiyyah, and everybody else that dares speak … well, you don’t find them getting death threats, do you?

But just let one of the moderates speak up, and you’ve got the phone ringing off the hook, like it did when Michael Savage decided to sue CAIR for slander (of which they were obviously guilty). The callers threatened Savage with death, but also his family .

The list of people who have had death threats, but have never made any against any Muslim or Muslim group, are:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Nonie Darwish
Zudhi Jasser
Stephen Suleiman Schwartz
Farzana Hassan
Hamid MIftah
Tashbih Sayyed
Medhi Haeri (who was attacked in the dentist chair with an AXE)
Wafa Sultan
Shirin Ebadi (Nobel laureate)
Ali al-Domaini
Hamid al-Hasani
Hassan al-Hamid
Ali Aliyami
Ali Al-Ahmed
… well, I could go own for five or six days with this list.

Death threats have been leveled at every single non-Muslim commentator who DARES to really give radical Islamsists hell, including me. And WE have many, many Muslim friends as a result. Not despite our work, but BECAUSE of it.

So, important to note is that there are no death threats against the leaders or participants of CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MSA, AMPAC, MPAC or anybody else. The MUSLIMS who are radicals do NOT get threatened.

It’s the moderates and their friends who stand up that get death threats and are smeared with accusations of Islamophobia by a brilliant and well-funded propaganda machine that is effective enough that good people like you buy and come on to websites, like good little dhimmid Useful Idiots, and do their work for them.

I’m not angry at you, but I am concerned that as an American and as somebody obviously eager to be fair to Muslims you aren’t reading enough to get this.

But maybe this little personal letter will help …

Sincerely,
Morgaan Sinclair

P.S. Until this flap with the Obama’s Muslim advisors having such clear radical Islamist ties, I was going to vote for him. Palin is beyond the pale for me. Basically, I think the American people got screwed by the Democratic Party who basically annointed Obama by ripping off half the delegate votes that would have gone to Hillary from Michigan and Florida. So they stole it from her, fearing, I think, that if Obama weren’t the candidate, blacks would simply not vote, and then McCain would win. Now it turns out that Obama very likely was born in Mombassa, Kenya and that his candidacy will revoked by the Supremes before he can take office. The “birth certificate” he posted online is a total joke. It’s also a lie. He also has blocked all access to his Columbia University and Harvard records, and now Kenya has blocked access to all his records there. On top of that, he did something really awful at a Muslim rally, so bad the LA Times won’t let us see the video. But details are leaking out anyhow, as is the entire web of Obama’s Islamist connections, which are NOT all the product of the tremendous pressure that Ellison, CAIR and the Saudis (who run MSA, ICNA, ISNA, etc., 100%) put on Obama after they set him up with the headscarf flap photo shoot. It’s a huge problem, and I am devastated, because I really hoped he was the man I fantasized him to be. Now I just grieve over the loss of Hillary Clinton, whom I never really liked, but who, of all the candidates, had the best head on her shoulders and struck the best balance between the rabid paranoia of the Right and the Sleep-walking-to-the-end-of-the-world blind denial and opportunism on the Left.

You guessed it: I’m an independent. [s]

Author: SACRIFICE: Women as Target of Radicals and Currency for Appeasement in the War on Terror (forthcoming). Sinclair’s articles have been in The Weekly Standard and the New York Post. She is a senior fellow of Gracen Intelligence.

The Muslims I hang out all feel like I do. You’re so funny. You follow the Islamofascist playbook and claim that I have a problem with Islam. I have a problem with radical Islam, AND SO SHOULD YOU, AND SO SHOULD ALL MUSLIMS WHO ARE OPERATING FAIRLY.

I will continued to have a problem with Islamofascism so long as it employs extrajudicial punishment and invokes nonelected law to control the masses — and certainly as long as FGM is mandatory in Shafi’i Islam — and so long as the Iranian mullahs torture and incarcerate their women — and as long as the Saudis continue to treat their women like animals.

Yeah, I have a problem with THAT Islam, and I have a problem with the fact that you just slandered me on the bases of YOUR prejudices, not mine.

Meanwhile, the vast number … in the hundreds … of Muslim dissidents, feminists, and humanitarians with whom I work agree with me, so I think I can do without your approval.

Also, blogs such as this are of great assistance to al-Qaeda. The Republican Party is seen as so anti-Muslim that its electoral success will be a huge boon to al-Qaeda.

Bin Ladin wants Muslims living in America to feel like 2nd class citizens. Blogs like yours assists bin Ladin in his cause.

In short, bin Ladin not only supports McCain. Bin Ladin also supports you. This is because you are helping bin Ladin’s cause.

Congratulations. You have joined bin Ladin’s forces. I’m sure you will be pleased.

For anyone who knows a little bit about islam in its different trips, will simply recognize that the author is totally ignorant in islamic issues, specially in women issues, if it is not a clear attempt from the author to destort islam and mislead the readers.

The hate of islam is the main concern of the author and it is obvious from the author’s statements as: “I can’t tell you how infuriated I am at this accusation and how sick I am of hearing it”

Maybe the author enjoys that America has the highest rates of sexual abuse, and the highest rates of those who are infected with (Aids) as a result of the opened sexual culture over there! while it is in its lowest among muslim people. so enjoy it Sinclair.

The author also ignored the fact that tens of American women, converted to islam daily, and they accept the headscarf which makes the author infuriated , and sick !

Look arround you Sinclair so you can see the truth, if you can’t , so don’t mislead the people . Or at least stop being sick, anti-islam is over smelled in your article.

For Muslim they know, weather Obama wins the election or anybody else this will not benefit them in anything, not stopping the war in Iraq , nor killing the children in Palestine, as long as there are Zionist , and anti-islamic -like the author- who controlled America.