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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Charlie Hebdo could easily happen in the USA

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Charlie Hebdo Victim 1/7/15

John R. Houk
© January 8, 2015

Wednesday morning three armed Muslim terrorists forced a person (female cartoonist) to enter a security code went into the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo in Paris entered a Board Meeting and massacred 12 people. I heard on Fox News that there were 11 wounded.

Charlie Hebdo’s chief Editor Stéphane Charbonnier (aka Charb – chief target), cartoonist Jean Cabut (aka Cabu), cartoonist Georges Wolinski and cartoonist Bernard Verlhac (aka Tignous) apparently asked for by name by the murderous Muslim butchers.
Left2Right- Jean Cabut, Bernard Verlhac (aka Tignous), Stéphane Charbonnier, Georges Wolinski
Left2Right- Jean Cabut, Bernard Verlhac (aka Tignous), Stéphane Charbonnier, Georges Wolinski

Vox.com identifies the other eight victims as:


Bernard Maris - French economist and shareholder in Charlie Hebdo

Michel Renaud - visiting the Charlie Hebdo offices for an upcoming project

Ahmed Merabet - 42-year-old police officer, was patrolling the neighborhood when he encountered masked gunmen outside the Charlie Hebdo building

Franck Brinsolaro - 49-year-old police officer and bodyguard for Charbonnier

Four others, including three journalists and a receptionist, are believed to have died.



Said Kouachi, 34

Cherif Kouachi, 32

Hamyd Mourad, 18

Late Wednesday night Hamyd Mourad surrendered to police claiming innocence in the matter of the butchery. Some French High School buddies (I am presuming fellow Muslims) have tried to alibi Mourad by claiming he was in class Wednesday morning. From what I could discern the police believe currently Mourad was the get-away driver. There is a familial connection with one of the Kouachi brothers as a brother-in-law.

Here are a couple of excerpts from French news outlets translated courtesy of Google:

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[Updated January 8, 2015 at 10:44] Seven people were taken into custody in connection with the investigation into the attack occurred yesterday. Manuel Valls confirmed the news Thursday morning on France Inter. Two of them were arrested in Charleville-Mezieres, four were arrested in Reims. Another person was arrested in Genevilliers. All are described by AFP as members of the entourage of the main suspects. 

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>> It's Charleville Mezieres Mourad Hamyd visited before being placed in custody. His family said he was at school in the morning of the attack.
>> According to AFP, the youngest of the suspects, Hamyd Mourad, 18, high school student born in Charleville-Mezieres, is suspected of having acted as a driver of the two assailants Charlie Hebdo. A classmate said Thursday morning that he was in class Wednesday, January 7th.

… (Reims / Charleville-Mezieres Mourad Hamyd went seven individuals in custody; By the Editors; linternaute.com; 1/8/15 10:44 – Text Translation Google)

The youngest of three wanted men after the attack against the newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" presented himself to the police, said the AFP in the Wednesday and Thursday night. …

Hamyd Mourad, one of three suspects in the bloody attack Wednesday morning against "Charlie Hebdo" has "rendered" to the police, said the AFP in the night of Wednesday 7 to Thursday, January 8, citing corroborating sources.

A spokesman for the Paris prosecutor's office, quoted by Reuters, for its part, insisted that the young man, born in 1996, "does not go" but presented himself voluntarily the authorities. She declined to give further details.

The man aged 18, who was the brother-in-law of one of the two other suspects, was presented to police around 23 pm Wednesday at the police station in Charleville-Mezieres (Ardennes) "after seeing that his name was circulating on social networks, "according to a source close to the matter cited by AFP. Its possible role in the attack has not yet been clearly established.

Internet posing as her classmates had previously said on Twitter that Mourad Hamyd was being with them in high school in Charleville-Mezieres, at the time of the attack, using the keyword #MouradHamydInnocent.

"He was arrested and placed in custody," said another source close to the matter told AFP, as saying that "several police custody" were being "in the circle" of the other two suspects still sought Two brothers aged thirty years.

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The brothers are from the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris and the youngest, Cherif Kouachi, was sentenced in 2008 to four years in prison for participating in a send fighters die in Iraq. Investigators recovered to include them after finding the Saïd identity card in a car abandoned by the fugitives in the northeast of Paris.

… (Attack against "Charlie Hebdo" a knowing suspect, two brothers wanted; Text by FRANCE 24; Last modified: 08/01/2015 – Text Translation Google)

As of 8:57 AM Thursday morning the Kouachi brothers were still fugitives.


Cherif Kouachi, 32, (L) and his brother Said Kouachi, 34, (R)

The largest concentration of Muslims in Western Europe is in France. I find this a bit ironic because the French government has had a history of marginalizing Muslim immigrants especially since the nation lost its Algerian colonial possession after a brutal civil war that ended with Algerian independence in 1962.

Islam is the second-most widely practiced religion in France behind Roman Catholicism by number of worshippers. With an estimated total of 5 to 10 percent of the national population, France has the largest number of Muslims in Western Europe …

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According to the French Government, which does not have the right to ask direct questions about religion and uses a criterion of people’s geographic origin as a basis for calculation, there were between 5 to 6 million Muslims in metropolitan France in 2010. The government counted all those people in France who migrated from countries with a dominant Muslim population, or whose parents did. Only 33% of those 5 to 6 million people (2 million) said they were practicing believers. That figure is the same as that obtained by the INED/INSEE study in October 2010.[4]

The United States Department of State placed it at roughly 10%,[5] while two 2007 polls estimated it at about 3% of the total population.[6] The CIA World Factbook places it at 5–10%.[7]

A Pew Forum study, published in January 2011, estimated 4.7 million Muslims in France in 2010 (and forecasted 6.9 million in 2030).[8]

According to Jean-Paul Gourévitch [Blog Editor: This link source in English has no info on the individual] (fr [Blog Editor: “fr” is an abbreviation for French and indication an article on Gourévitch that establishes his bona fides as a source. See **]), there were 7.7 million Muslims (about 11 percent of the population) in metropolitan France in 2011.[9][10]

… (Islam in France; Wikipedia; This page was last modified on 8 January 2015 at 09:15 – Much of the Wikipedia text in bold had links removed I felt were TMI)


[** Google Translation excerpt of Gourévitch originally in French:

Jean-Paul Gourévitch is a writer, essayist, trainer and consultant international French, born in 1941 known for his studies on migration and youth literature

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On Africa and migration.

In 2012 he intervenes on March 10 at the conference "France in danger" 48 , 49 , 50 organized by the association-Nationality Citizenship, Identity, a "false nose" of the Bloc identity 51 ; He has lectured in March for the Association of African Students and Trainees in France (ASEAF) as part of the symposium "African Perspectives" [ref. Kiosk for the Citizen of Rennes in April 52 and was interviewed by Associated Taxpayers on Radio Courtesy November 53 , 54 . He has lectured for the association The African Presence of Friends in December 55 , and the same month for the Freemason movement The Grand Lodge of France [What?] on "African immigration in Europe, especially in France. Analysis and lighting to debunk the misconceptions” [ref. required] . …

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… Following the publication of Migration for Dummies , he was involved in several programs: France Bleu Sud Lorraine on 12 September 73, September 18 Protestant Frequency [ref.required] , Radio Notre Dame 28 September 74, TV Liberties of 3 October 75

Debates about immigration and its cost

Jean-Paul Gourévitch evaluates the foreign population living in France in 2009 to 7.7 million people (3.4 million and 2.4 million North Africans from Sub-Saharan Africa), 12.2 % of the current metropolitan population 76. This figure includes immigrants (foreign-born) over 18 years (5.4 million), and only the children of immigrants (born in France or abroad) under 18 years (2.3 million). The original North African immigrant children under 18 years (1.2 million) account for 8.5% of all young people under 18 years in France and in sub-Saharan origin (0.8 million) 5 6%. A total of 14.1%, or nearly one child under 18 in seven of African metropolis is 77.

In an audit entitled "The cost of migration policy of France" (2010), it encrypts the cost of immigration to 30.4 billion euros annually "to the taxpayers," after estimating revenue and expenditures for the state, local government and social security (the government). The cost of illegal immigration alone represent nearly 4.6 billion euros annually 78. In 2012, a new edition assesses this time to 17.5 billion (of which 8.76 for the balance expenditure / revenue and 8.652 for the balance investment / return} the cost of immigration.

… (Jean-Paul Gourévitch; Wikipedia [Fr]; This page was last modified 6 December 2014 at 18:38 – Text Translation Google)]

In case you were not aware the closest thing to a good Muslim is one that adheres to Islamic holy writ especially the Quran which is considered the express very words of Allah delivered through the lips of that religion’s psycho-prophet Mohammed. Unlike the Jewish and Christian God of the HOLY Bible the Allah of the Quran expects his followers to avenge insults in the here and now as much the old moon-god will do so in Islam’s description of the Last Days. Hence the massacre at Charlie Hebdo was in line with the actions expected of a good Muslim. Those Muslims that tell you different are purposely deceiving the kafir, personally unknowing of their own theology, nominal Muslims that either have become secularized or are wise enough to toss out the unwholesome text of the Quran and Hadith (Thank God for the latter).

In the USA among the most deceiving Muslim groups in the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad is quoted on the Anti-CAIR website founded by Andrew Whitehead:

“…The proper response to such attacks on the freedoms we hold dear is not to vilify any faith, but instead to marginalize extremists of all backgrounds who seek to stifle freedom and to create or widen societal divisions.”

Andrew Whitehead is the first person that I became aware of that CAIR exercised Legal Jihad (aka Lawfare See also HERE) against (I say “aware” because there may have been earlier CAIR Legal Jihad). Whitehead accused CAIR of being a front group for the Islamic terrorists Hamas before the HLF trial and the book The Muslim Mafia gave smoking gun proof of such linkage.

Here is Whitehead’s answer to Nihad Awad:

Vive La France!  Today, We Are All French

We’ve now learned that Islamic-Jihad-Terrorists have attacked and murdered 12 staff and others at the headquarters of the French satire magazine, “Charlie Hebdo”. 

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Anti-CAIR founder Andrew Whitehead has issued the following response:
Once again, CAIR calls for the stifling of free speech in the name of supporting free speech. CAIR's top Apologist for radical Islam, Nihad Awad, often attempts to paint CAIR as somehow representing American Muslims.  We note that CAIR’s membership represents far less than 1% of American Muslims and that CAIR’s support has come from Islamic terrorists and foreign governments that support Islamic terrorism. 

We note that the United Arabic Emirates (UAE) has designated CAIR a Terrorist Organization, explaining, “We cannot accept incitement or funding” of terrorism. CAIR has requested the U.S. government help with CAIR being taken off the UAE’s terrorist sponsoring list, but given CAIR’s problematic relationship with government at all levels and direct ties to terrorist groups, Anti-CAIR believes that the U.S. government should not intervene on behalf of CAIR.

Peoples of the world are entitled to examine, complement, exalt, condemn, vilify, and hate Islam as they chose.  Permission of CAIR, or any other Islamist-terrorist supporting group is not required.  Nihad Awad’s weak yet typical statement is an insult to free peoples everywhere.

We ask all press to not use CAIR in any stories.  CAIR does not speak for American/Canadian Muslims and to give CAIR a public voice is to hurt the memory of all victims of Islamism, worldwide. CAIR should be roundly marginalized because CAIR’s hateful speech, lies, vilification, fraud, and proven ties to terrorists should not have a place in the free American and Canadian press. CAIR will shrivel and die on the vine once it is cut off from the press; let us join to make it so.

Andrew Whitehead
Director
Anti-CAIR

ajwhitehead@anti-cair-net.orgwww.anti-cair-net.org

Links:

… (Vive La France!  Today, We Are All French; By Andrew Whitehead; Anti-Cair; 1/7/15)

Nihad Awad’s response to the Charlie Hebdo massacre is typical Muslims who pretend to be the erstwhile moderate Muslim but uses word games to deflect rather than to denounce an attack in the name of Islam perpetrated according to Islamic holy writ.

As Americans who benefit from the Rights and Liberties our U.S. Constitution affords us we must never allow any kind multicultural acceptance of this purest Islam and especially not from Muslims pretending to be moderate yet truthfully support the full agenda of the Quran, Hadith and Sira.

Typically I am not a huge fan of the way the modern French have treated Americans, but I gotta to tell ya – This must be a wakeup call not only to France but to all the nations of the EU that multicultural diversity as an internal policy pertaining to Islam is a failed policy.

JRH 1/8/15

Saturday, March 2, 2013

AQAP Inspire Mag – Kill these 10 Infidel ‘Wanted Poster’


al Qaeda Inspire Mag poster hit list

John R. Houk
© March 2, 2013

Don’t listen to a Leftie when he/she tells you there is no Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). There definitely is one. Check out this information passed on to me by the Infidel Task Force about al Qaeda Arab Peninsula (AQAP – Slide Show Info) publishing a hit list poster in their magazine Inspire.

The AQAP English magazine Inspire has published a wanted poster to kill Counterjihadists deemed insulters of Islam. Here is the list on the wanted posted:

1. Carsten Luste (should be Juste), Danish journalist, former editor of Jyllands-Posten

2. Terry Jones, President of Stand Up America Now

3. Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist

4. Geert Wilders, Dutch politician

5. Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist

6. Stephane Charbonnier, French editor of Charlie Hebdo

7. Flemming Rose, Danish journalist

8. Morris Sadek, Copt Christian who promoted Innocence of Muslims

9. Salman Rushdie, author

10. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author (not pictured - she does not wear a veil)

Carsten Luste (Juste)
Carsten Juste

The newspaper published the cartoons when a Danish author complained that he could find no-one to illustrate his book about Muhammad. Jyllands-Posten wondered whether there were more cases of self-censorship regarding Islam in Denmark and asked twelve illustrators to draw the prophet for them. Carsten Juste, the paper’s editor, said the cartoons were a test of whether the threat of Islamic terrorism had limited the freedom of expression in Denmark.

The publication led to outrage among the Muslim immigrants living in Denmark. 5,000 of them took to the streets to protest. Muslim organisations have demanded an apology, but Juste rejects this idea: “We live in a democracy. That’s why we can use all the journalistic methods we want to. Satire is accepted in this country, and you can make caricatures,” he said. The Danish imam Raed Hlayhel reacted with the statement: “This type of democracy is worthless for Muslims. Muslims will never accept this kind of humiliation. The article has insulted every Muslim in the world.” (Jihad Against Danish Newspaper; by Paul Belien; Brussels Journal; 10/22/05)

Terry Jones

Terry Jones
Jones is the most prominent picture in the wanted poster. One of many reasons is his campaigns of Burn the Quran Day and more recently “International Judge the Koran Day … and the execution: burn it!” Here is a photo of burning the Quran.
 Terry Jones Burning Quran
Terry Jones (born October 1951) is the pastor of Dove World Outreach Center, a small nondenominational Christian church in Gainesville, Florida.[1] He first gained national and international attention in 2010 for his plan to burn Qur'ans, the scripture of the Islamic religion, on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. He was a self-declared independent presidential candidate in the 2012 U.S. Presidential election. (Wikipedia READ THE REST)

Kurt Westergaard

Kurt Westergaard
Westergaard is the guy famed for drawing caricatures of Mohammed in a humorous light. Muslims view this kind satire as a reason to kill.

The Danish cartoonist whose caricature of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed sparked global Muslim riots seven years ago says he has no regrets, and wants no censors.

Speaking in an interview this week with the Austrian magazine “News,” Kurt Westergaard said that freedom of speech is too precious to relinquish. ”Should we in future let ourselves be censored by Islamic authorities in deeply undemocratic countries?” he asked.

Westergaard’s question carried particular relevance in his own personal life: in 2010, he nearly died in an assassination attempt by a Muslim extremist wielding an axe. The would-be murderer, 29-year-old Mohamed Geele, was convicted of attempted terrorism and attempted murder and sentenced to a nine-year prison term in Denmark. He will be deported after serving his time in prison.

Muslims around the world said the image of the Prophet Mohammed drawn by Westergaard, which they believed mocked Islam, had offended them. In response, there were worldwide riots and violence that resulted in a number of deaths. (READ THE REST: Danish ‘Mohammed’ cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has no regrets, opposes censorship; By Chana Ya’ar; Reposted on 1389 Blog - Counterjihad! – 9/21/13)

Geert Wilders

Geert Wilders
Here is the Google Search page abbreviated version of a Wikipedia entry:

Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician and the founder and leader of the Party for Freedom, the fourth-largest political party in the Netherlands. Wilders is the Parliamentary group leader of his party in the Dutch House of Representatives.

Wilders is notable because he is the head of a political party that has come close to being a mainstream political force in Netherlands even while the Dutch judiciary tried to convict him for hate crimes related to exposing the dark side of Islam beginning with the movie short Fitna.


Lars Vilks

Lars Vilks - Mo Cartoonist

























Lars Vilks, Swedish artist/Cartoonist spoke on September 11, 2012 at the Stop Islamization of Nations' International Freedom Defense Council held at the UN Plaza Millennium Hotel.

Here is some recent info on Lars Vilks from Before It’s News:

Swedish artist and sculptor Lars Vilk- who gained international notoriety for  pushing the limits of freedom of expression by drawing  the head of the Prophet Mohammed on the body of a dog in 2007 and was subsequently targeted for death by offended Muslims, and was then attacked at a lecture on freedom of speech in 2010- has some new paintings of Mohammad ready to exhibit.  The exhibition is set for July this year, in Malmö, Sweden- a city that is heavily populated by Muslims. Vilks believes:

"It's important to continue because if you yield to the threats and back away, you have abandoned the democratic principle."

His Mohammed dog drawing was published in 2007 along with an editorial on freedom of expression in the Swedish paper Nerikes Allehanda after several gallery exhibits pulled the Mohammed drawings because of security concerns.

 but this time: (READ THE REST: Lars Vilks Has More Mohammed Drawings To Exhibit, In Spite Of Death Threats
; Before It’s News; 2/21/13 13:40)

Stephane Charbonnier

Stephane Charbonnier
The offices of the French 'Private Eye' style satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed in a petrol bomb attack in Paris.

It came after the publication named the Prophet Mohammad as its editor-in-chief for its latest issue. The cover of the magazine carried a picture of Muhammad making a joke.

The real editor of Charlie Hebdo, Stephanie Charbonnier, said Islam could not be excluded from freedom of the press. He said: "If we can poke fun at everything in France, if we can talk about anything in France apart from Islam or the consequences of Islamism, that is annoying."

The editor said the magazine had received several threats prior to the attack.

He continued: "This is the first time we have been physically attacked but we won't let it get to us." (READ THE REST: French 'Private Eye' attacked in Paris over Mohammad joke; By “Civil Liberty Correspondent;” Civil Liberty; 11/6/11)

Flemming Rose

Flemming Rose - published Mo cartoons
Childish. Irresponsible. Hate speech. A provocation just for the sake of provocation. A PR stunt. Critics of 12 cartoons of the prophet Muhammad published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten have not minced their words. They say that freedom of expression does not imply an endorsement of insulting people's religious feelings, and besides, they add, the media censor themselves every day. So, please do not teach us a lesson about limitless freedom of speech.

I agree that the freedom to publish things doesn't mean you publish everything. Jyllands-Posten would not publish pornographic images or graphic details of dead bodies; swear words rarely make it into our pages. So we are not fundamentalists in our support for freedom of expression.

But the cartoon story is different.

Those examples have to do with exercising restraint because of ethical standards and taste; call it editing. By contrast, I commissioned the cartoons in response to several incidents of self-censorship in Europe caused by widening fears and feelings of intimidation in dealing with issues related to Islam. And I still believe that this is a topic that we Europeans must confront, challenging moderate Muslims to speak out. The idea wasn't to provoke gratuitously -- and we certainly didn't intend to trigger violent demonstrations throughout the Muslim world. Our goal was simply to push back self-imposed limits on expression that seemed to be closing in tighter.

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This is the sort of debate that Jyllands-Posten had hoped to generate when it chose to test the limits of self-censorship by calling on cartoonists to challenge a Muslim taboo. Did we achieve our purpose? Yes and no. Some of the spirited defenses of our freedom of expression have been inspiring. But tragic demonstrations throughout the Middle East and Asia were not what we anticipated, much less desired. Moreover, the newspaper has received 104 registered threats, 10 people have been arrested, cartoonists have been forced into hiding because of threats against their lives and Jyllands-Posten's headquarters have been evacuated several times due to bomb threats. This is hardly a climate for easing self-censorship.

… (READ IN ENTIRITY: Why I Published Those Cartoons; By Flemming Rose; Washington Post; 2/19/06)

Morris Sadek

Morris Sadek - Coptic Christian and Mo Movie
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Religion News Service (RNS) is reporting that Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-born Coptic Christian, translated the movie into Arabic and sent it to Egyptian journalists. He also allegedly promoted it on his web site and through social media, the outlet reports. RNS has more about his background:

Morris Sadek describes himself as a human rights attorney and president of a small group called the National American Coptic Assembly, based in Chantilly, Va. Sadek says on his website that he is a member of the Egyptian and District of Columbia bar associations who has “defended major human rights cases” including the late Coptic Pope Shenouda III, who died in March.

But fellow Copts depict Sadek as a fringe figure and publicity hound whose Islamophobic invectives disrupt Copts’ quest for equal rights in Egypt.

Michael Meunier, president of U.S. Copts Association, claims that, by taking these actions, Sadek was likely looking for fame in Egyptian media. Considering that he lost his Egyptian citizenship and was banned from the country back in 2011, it makes sense that he would potentially be looking to raise his profile in the region.

Here’s a video that purportedly shows him screaming “Islam is evil!” outside of the National Press Building in Washington, D.C.:


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On Sept. 6, Mr. Sadek sent an email to journalists around the world promoting a Sept. 11 event held by Rev. Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who previously sparked deadly protests by burning a copy of the Quran. In the email, Mr. Sadek included a link to the 14-minute YouTube clip.

On Sept. 6, Sadek emailed journalists around the world, promoting Jones’ anti-Islamic event and including footage of “Innocence of Muslims,” according to The Wall Street Journal. A conservative TV host in Egypt broadcast the video on Sept. 8, sparking protests at the U.S. embassy in Cairo.

… (READ IN ENTIRITY: This Is the Man Who Reportedly Translated & Sent the Anti-Muhammad Film to Egyptian Journalists; By Billy Hallowell; The Blaze; 9/14/12 1:00pm)

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is a British author who was born in India. In 1988, he wrote the highly acclaimed book, The Satanic Verses. Shortly after that, India banned the book. In the U.S., the publisher received bomb threats. The book was then banned in South Africa. Soon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, Bangladesh, Sudan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Qatar banned the book. There were book burnings in England. In Pakistan, six people died and 100 were injured in demonstrations against the book. Then on Feb. 12, 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran, declared that the book was blasphemous, and called for the death of Rushdie. Rushdie went into hiding, with protection by the British government. An Iranian charity offered a million dollars reward (later raised to 2.5 million) for Rushdie's murder. Two bookstores in Berkeley California were firebombed. Twelve people died during rioting in Bombay. Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Iran. In Belgium, two Muslim leaders who opposed Rushdie's death penalty were shot to death. Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Tanzania, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Venezuela, Bulgaria, Poland and Japan banned the book. The Ayatollah Khomeini died, and the Iranian government reaffirmed Rushdie's death penalty. Five bookstores in England were firebombed. The Japanese translator of the book was stabbed to death. The Italian translator was seriously wounded. The Norwegian publisher was shot and seriously wounded.(READ THE REST: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses; By Jim Loy; JimLoi.com; © 2002)

Salman Rushdie’s memoir provides a fascinating insight into the life of a man who, haunted for a decade by the death sentence that hovered over his head, struggled to cobble together something resembling a quotidian existence. The event that was splashed across the pages of the national press is now recounted by the man who lived through it in bare, reflective, thought-provoking prose; Joseph Anton: A Memoir recounts the ten years Rushdie spent living under a fatwa.

The publication of Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses in 1988 enraged Muslims across the world, including the Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who soon publicly demanded his execution. Throughout the decade of the fatwa, pronounced in 1988 and eventually lifted in 1998, Rushdie lived under an assumed identity, adopting the pseudonym Joseph Anton in a personal homage to the writers Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. (READ THE REST: Any Other Name; By Rebecca Loxton; Oxonian Review; 2/17/13)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an outspoken defender of women's rights in Islamic societies, was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. She escaped an arranged marriage by immigrating to the Netherlands in 1992 and served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006. In parliament, she worked on furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society and defending the rights of women in Dutch Muslim society. In 2004, together with director Theo van Gogh, she made Submission, a film about the oppression of women in conservative Islamic cultures. The airing of the film on Dutch television resulted in the assassination of Mr. van Gogh by an Islamic extremist. At AEI, Ms. Hirsi Ali researches the relationship between the West and Islam, women's rights in Islam, violence against women propagated by religious and cultural arguments, and Islam in Europe. (Ayaan Hirsi Ali – AEI Profile Page)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of coming to America to build a new life, an ocean away from the death threats made to her by European Islamists, the strife she witnessed, and the inner conflict she suffered. It is the story of her physical journey to freedom and, more crucially, her emotional journey to freedom – her transition from a tribal mind-set that restricts women’s every thought and action to a life as a free and equal citizen in an open society. Through stories of the challenges she has faced, she shows the difficulty of reconciling the contradictions of Islam with Western values.

In her books Hirsi Ali recounts the many turns her life took after she broke with her family, and how she struggled to throw off restrictive superstitions and misconceptions that initially hobbled her ability to assimilate into Western society. She speaks movingly of her reconciliation, on his deathbed, with her devout father, who had disowned her when she renounced Islam after 9/11, as well as with her mother and cousins in Somalia and in Europe. (From Islam to America; KeenTalks.com)

VIDEO Originally preceding this article – it is nearly an hour long but worth the view:



If you have made this far in the post here is the obligatory reminder that I was notified about the AQAP “Wanted” poster from the Infidel Task Force. And ITF sourced this info from the Weekly Standard.

JRH 3/2/13
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Al Qaeda Mag Publishes 'Wanted: Dead or Alive' List
"Yes We Can: A Bullet A Day Keeps The Infidel Away."

Mar 1, 2013 10:26 AM

al Qaeda Inspire Mag poster hit list

The latest edition of the al Qaeda English-language magazine Inspire is out today. A digital copy of the magazine, provided by MEMRI (the Washington D.C. based Middle East Media Research Institute), shows a "Wanted: Dead or Alive" feature on page 10 of the new issue:

"Wanted: Dead or Alive for Crimes Against Islam," the page reads. The list includes: Molly Norris, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Flemming Rose, Morris Swadiq, Salman Rushdie, Girt Wilders [sic], Lars Vilks, Stephane Charbonnie, Carsten Luste, Terry Jones, and Kurt Westergaard.

No further reason is provided to explain why these folks were singled out for the hit list, though many are notable critics of radical Islam.

"Yes We Can," the image reads. "A Bullet A Day Keeps the Infidel Away."

"Defend Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him," the image reads.
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AQAP Inspire Mag – Kill these 10 Infidel ‘Wanted Poster’
John R. Houk
© March 2, 2013
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Al Qaeda Mag Publishes 'Wanted: Dead or Alive' List

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