Not all Muslims are Terrorists, but 90% of all Terrorists are Muslims.  

A CHICAGO businessman was has been charged with helping an old friend from military school in Pakistan plot the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people in Mumbai last year.

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a 49-year-old born in Pakistan, has been held in jail since his October arrest on charges of helping plot an attack on the Danish newspaper that published incendiary cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in 2005.

Prosecutors allege that Rana, a Canadian citizen, helped his friend David Coleman Headley, a key suspect in the Mumbai attacks, by allowing him to use his immigration company as a cover for surveillance trips to India and Denmark.

Rana has been charged with three separate counts of providing material support: for the Mumbai attacks; for the Denmark terror plot; and for the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Also indicted on conspiracy charges related to the Denmark plot were Ilyas Kashmiri, an alleged terror kingpin in Pakistan who prosecutors accuse of being in regular contact with Al-Qaeda leaders, and Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, a retired major in the Pakistani military. Neither man is in US custody.

Headley, 49, has pleaded not guilty to 12 terrorism related charges and remains in custody where he is cooperating with prosecutors.

The Washington-born son of a former Pakistani diplomat and American mother, Headley reportedly befriended Bollywood stars and even dated an actress during his lengthy surveillance trips to Mumbai.

Nearly a year after the bloody 60-hour siege which began November 26, 2008, Headley was allegedly recorded discussing five future targets.

Prosecutors said the targets included: Bollywood; the Indian temple Somnath; the National Defense College in Delhi; Shiv Sena, a political party in India with roots in Hindu nationalism; and the Danish newspaper.

Headley and Rana were arrested in October on terror charges related to the plot to attack Denmark's highest circulating daily, Jyllands-Posten, and kill an editor and the cartoonist.

Headley was charged last month with spending two years casing out Mumbai, even taking boat tours around the city's harbor to scope out landing sites for the attackers.

Rana, who owns the Chicago-based First World Immigration Services that Headley allegedly used as a cover, insists that he is a pacifist who was "duped" by his friend. A date has not yet been set for Rana's arraignment.

AFP

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of DG Counter-terrorism Publishing. He is currently conducting a 50 State Counter-terrorism Research Tour (CTRT). He is the co-author (with Paul Sperry) of the new book, Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America. He can be contacted at davegaubatz@gmail.com.

FP: David Gaubatz, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Congrats on your book, Muslim Mafia.

I would like to talk to you today about how CAIR and other Islamic organizations deceive the public.

But first, give us some updates on your work and what is going on.

Gaubatz: Thank you Jamie. I owe thanks to the WND staff at all levels, to Paul Sperry (co-author), and to all of the researchers who worked on this CAIR project.  Without them, the book would not exist.

On Dec. 1, 2009, I was asked to speak at the National Security Roundtable, hosted by Ronni Shalit, in NY.  The trip to NY was a pleasure and it was an honor to speak to such a well informed group of people.  The group consisted of people from many professions, including law enforcement, attorneys, bankers, and many more.  What I am beginning to see is that Americans are becoming more informed of national security issues and they are no longer simply sitting back and expecting our elected officials to insure our nation is secured.  Americans are beginning to insist that our nation be secured.

We have a very, very valuable commodity in our country, as does every country: our children.  It is apparent Americans are no longer going to rely on elected officials (many who wittingly and some unwittingly) who support the interests of Islamic based terrorist organizations more than they do our troops and our country.  The message to politicians who support terrorist groups either from being uninformed, naïve, incompetent, or intentionally (like Congressman Keith Ellison (MN) and Senator Larry Shaw (NC) is either do your job (protect our children from Islamic based terrorism) or leave office.  You are no longer wanted.

FP: What do you think, is the state of New York better protected than before Sept. 11, 2001?

Gaubatz: For a few months after the murder of thousands of people by Islamic terrorists, the people of NY came together. Unfortunately it did not take long before many forgot what happened in their city, what is happening to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and what has been happening (terrorist attacks) to the people of Israel for many years.  Many have again fallen into the trap of a false sense of security.  Anytime a city or state allows people to openly declare they are seeking the destruction of our country and are calling for violence against innocent Christians and Jews in their theological texts, no location is safe.

I am not an attorney, but as an American I do not believe our U.S. Constitution was designed for allowing treason, sedition, and calling for killing our citizens.  Our Constitution was designed to protect our country.

FP: How can our law enforcement effectively and timely protect our country from future attacks?

Gaubatz: We have a long educational process of our law enforcement and politicians ahead of us. This has to happen before we can truly realize any steps forward in protecting our country.  Few understand Sharia law (Islamic law) and they can’t rely on organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, MSA, and the host of other terror supporters to explain to them what Sharia law actually means in regards to the protection of our country.

FP: So tell us a bit about Sharia law.

Gaubatz: Sharia law covers every minute of every day of a person’s life in Islam.  Of course there are many peaceful aspects of Sharia, but as the 17 year old Rifqa Bary and many others have tried to inform people, Sharia law also has many violent aspects which can no longer be ignored.  Sharia law is an all or nothing. A Muslim can’t decide (and be in conformance with Islamic law) that they want to abide by some aspects and ignore other aspects such as death for apostasy or calling for hatred and violence against Christians and Jews.

Islamic scholars and many Imams will be the first to tell you (and they do so in their materials/lectures) that even if one does not have the ability to perform an aspect of Sharia; they must at least have it in their heart and a desire to comply with mandatory Sharia obligations. Of course there are millions of Muslims who do not want violence or hatred, but according to such Islamic leaders as Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Zaid Shakir, Ahmad Sakr, and many more operating in the U.S., these Muslims are ‘non-practicing’ Muslims.  CAIR and ISNA executives endorse these scholars as well.  Many people do not realize that numerous Islamic centers and mosques in America will not allow CAIR to advocate its ideology at their centers.

People should begin to understand that CAIR has approximately 5100 members out of 1.5 to 8 million Muslims in America.  CAIR is strong because it utilizes its manpower of foreign funding wisely.  CAIR does not truly help the Muslim people who actually need its assistance, CAIR represents the Muslim Brotherhood and therefore utilize their resources to intimidate, threaten, extort, and blackmail U.S. corporations and people to conform to their ideology. CAIR further spends hundreds of thousands operating a media PR machine to influence our law enforcement and politicians.

FP: Ok, let’s focus in on some specifics of how the Muslim Brotherhood (CAIR, ISNA, MANA, etc,) intentionally deceives law enforcement and public officials.

Gaubatz: Two quick examples. Both pertain to prayers. One was the ‘Flying Imam case’ in which several Imams began praying loudly at an airport and then caused disruptions on a plane.  This was merely a ‘hoax’ in order for the Imams to instill fear into the public, and by later suing the airlines and threatening the innocent people who reported their suspicious activities. This tactic by Islamic leaders and CAIR (Muslim Brotherhood) in regards to terrorism is called a ‘conditioning process’. One is simply ‘softening’ their enemy to conform to later demands.

CAIR officials know that within Islam there is no requirement for a loud prayer which causes disturbances when in the ‘mode’ of traveling.  Performing prayers while traveling is mentioned numerous times in Islamic articles, manuals, and essentially means when a Muslim is in the mode of traveling they can shorten their prayers, conduct them in silence, and/or perform them later (more convenient time). http://www.islamonline.com/ , Fiqh Us Sunnah, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, and numerous other references are available to provide more clarification.

FP: Do you believe the ‘Flying Imam Suit’ crossed any boundaries into criminal activity?

Gaubatz: Of course. These Imams were well trained. They all knew they had no obligation to pray in the airport or on the aircraft. They were in the mode of travel.  The imams and CAIR should be prosecuted for their actions. This is another form of setting up and again conditioning not only the public, but aircrew personnel, and even law enforcement to ignore such obvious disruptions in the future. Again CAIR, the Imams, and anyone who provided support during this conspiracy to disrupt airline travel (safety) should be prosecuted.

FP: Give us some more examples of “conditioning” tactics used by CAIR and other Islamic leaders to deceive the public.

Gaubatz: Well, there’s the current CAIR hoax being played in Maine pertaining to a young girl in school who CAIR and others say must be given a separate room to pray.

First, there are no obligations for a female or male child to perform anything other than a silent prayer while away from their home or mosque.  There are numerous clear discussions by Islamic scholars on this issue and from ones endorsed by CAIR and the ISNA.

CAIR knows that there is no expectation of an employer or public school administrator to set aside space or time for prayer.  The prayers, if conducted, can be combined with an earlier or later prayer after school/work, or if they are considered to be in travel mode they are authorized to shorten the prayer or not conduct one at all.  CAIR has intimidated many employers to allow time for worshippers during Friday’s Jummah prayer, but there are no requirements on children to even attend the mosque (specifically females).

FP: Could you provide us with some evidence of how CAIR officials are intentionally deceiving school administrators and even law enforcement in these areas?

Gaubatz: Yes. CAIR’s Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece Ibrahim Hooper explained this to our researchers on more than one occasion during the research project.  Hooper himself often used the ‘traveling’ rule to ignore conducting prayers when he was with my researchers.  Islamic terrorists and their supporters do not recognize weakness. Now is a prime opportunity for law enforcement and prosecutors to charge the Imams, CAIR, and others who have conspired to disrupt air travel (federal) and the safety of innocent people.  In addition, school administrators should refuse to comply with CAIR in regards to prayers (other than silent) at public schools, and in no case authorize separate praying rooms.  The old saying ‘give an inch and they will take a mile’ is applicable here.  We have to deny terrorists more opportunities to later attack innocent people.  We need to stop their actions now or we will suffer later.

During my research of many Islamic Centers, the Imams and others would often refer me to one of their 3500 plus websites (many designed and ran by a respected Islamic Scholar Yusef Estes and his assistants). IslamOnline.com is one such site he and other Islamic readers refer Muslims to for guidance on Islamic rulings.  A Muslim student asked a question about prayer at school and this is what the scholar and ISNA advised: One will notice only adult males are required to even attend Jummah prayer:

“Dear questioner, thank you very much for having confidence in us, and we hope our efforts, which are purely for Allah’s Sake, meet your expectations.

Friday prayer is mandatory on every Muslim male who is adult, healthy and free. Every Muslim should strive hard to perform it on time unless something beyond his capacity disrupts that. Muslim students in the West can modulate their schedule in order to be able to perform Friday prayer in its appointed time. They can gather together, even in the campus and perform the Friday prayer, which demonstrate unity and co-operation.”

In his response to the question, Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, former president of the Islamic Society of North America, states the following:

“Friday prayer is obligatory on every Muslim man who is adult, healthy and free. It should not be missed unless there is a real excuse. Allah Almighty says in the Qur’an: “O you who believe when the call for Friday prayer is given then hurry to the remembrance of Allah and leave all business. This is better for you, if you know. (Al-Jumu’ah: 9)

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, ‘Those who neglect three Friday prayers without any excuse may have their hearts sealed with hypocrisy.’”

The time for Friday prayer is the same as the time for Dhur prayer, that is from noon until the mid-afternoon (i.e. the time for ‘Asr prayer).

According to Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, Friday prayer can also be prayed before noon. The minimum of worshippers required to hold Friday prayer is only three. So if there are three Muslims at some place and they find it difficult to join a larger Jama’ah for Friday they can have their own prayer. I have mentioned these points to emphasize the importance of Friday prayer and the flexibility in performing it.

Muslim students in high schools, colleges and universities can organize their own prayers according to the convenience of their class schedule. Also, if your school does not have three or more Muslim students to hold your own Friday prayer at your school, then try to change your class schedule from the beginning of the school year. I have seen some students take early classes in one period in order to be able to attend Friday prayer at the Masjid. Make an effort to perform this prayer. There is a great reward and blessings from Allah in this prayer, you will feel the blessings throughout your week.

If for some reasons you are unable to perform Friday prayer, then pray Dhur instead. But this should not be done on a regular basis. It is an option for necessity only. May Allah bless you and help you to remember Him and make your prayers on time.”

FP: David Gaubatz, thank you for taking the time out to speak with us.

Gaubatz: Thanks Jamie.

SOME of Britain’s most dangerous Al-Qaeda leaders are promoting jihad from inside high-security prisons by smuggling out propaganda for the internet and finding recruits. In an authoritative report, Quilliam, a think tank funded by the Home Office, claims “mismanagement” by the Prison Service is helping AlQaeda gain recruits and risks “strengthening jihadist movements”.

Abu Qatada, described by MI5 as “Osama Bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, has published fatwas — religious rulings — on the internet from Long Lartin prison, in Worcestershire, calling for holy war and the murder of moderate Muslims, it reveals. Abu Doha — said to be Al-Qaeda’s main recruiter in Europe — has taken courses in Belmarsh prison, south London, enabling him to mentor other inmates.

Abu Hamza, jailed in 2006 for inciting murder, has preached radical sermons to followers using water pipes in his Belmarsh cell, and Rachid Ramda, the Algerian leader of the Paris Métro bomb plot, led Friday prayers in the same jail. Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, shadow security minister, said prisons risked becoming “incubators of extremism”.

Qatada, a radical Islamist cleric who is wanted on terrorism charges in Jordan, is held in the the “supermax” segregation wing of Long Lartin. Built at the height of the IRA’s bombing campaign and designed to house dangerous inmates, it should be one of the most secure buildings in the country. Like other jailed terrorist leaders, Qatada is meant to be cut off from his supporters outside. Yet it is said that last year, under the noses of warders, Qatada and Adel Abdel Bary, leader of the UK branch of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, were able to smuggle out a series of fatwas legitimising attacks by AlQaeda and endorsing the murder of moderate Muslims.

Qatada and Bary are two of about 100 Islamist terrorists in UK prisons. Many are held in supposedly top-security jails such as Belmarsh, Frankland in Co Durham and Woodhill in Milton Keynes, for inciting or plotting attacks in which hundreds of people could have died.

According to the report published this weekend by Quilliam, they seem at liberty to preach to and even recruit from their fellow inmates. MI5 said earlier this year that the threat from groups such as Al-Qaeda had declined. Quilliam, however, says most extremists who were initially radicalised in prison take five to seven years to become fully violent. The path from prison radicalisation to full-scale terror plotting is well trodden. One petty criminal who turned to Islam while a teenage inmate was Muktar Said Ibrahim. He served time for indecent assault on a 15-year-old girl and mugging a 77-year-old woman at a Tube station. He graduated to terrorism via various radical London mosques and camps in Afghanistan and went on to lead the failed London bombings of July 21, 2005.

Today those already convicted or suspected of terrorist offences have a different — and equally dangerous — role in prison. They are the recruiters, seeking out a new generation of converts who will become the terrorist leaders of tomorrow. Using eye-witness accounts from inside jail and official prison inspection reports, Quilliam says some leading Islamist figures are given mentoring courses to teach them how to counsel fellow inmates and are allowed to lead Friday prayers. Others are “empowered” by the prison staff, who treat them as leaders or representatives of Muslim inmates. Some manage to give television interviews or are able to inflame their followers through internet discussions. Others lead Muslim gangs who bully fellow inmates into conversion.

This weekend opposition MPs and security experts are challenging ministers to explain how this has been allowed to take place. At Belmarsh, Ramda was allowed to lead Friday prayers after the Muslim chaplain left the prison. Doha, who is wanted in America for his alleged role in the plot to blow up Los Angeles airport in 2000, was given courses while in Belmarsh that enabled him to become a “listener”, a prisoner who mentors and gives advice to other inmates.

The notorious “preacher of hate” Hamza, who was convicted in 2006 of inciting murder and racial hatred during his time as imam of Finsbury Park mosque, north London, has been able to give sermons to other Muslims through the water pipes that link the prison cells at Belmarsh. A charismatic figure who has led hunger strikes at the jail, he is thought to use the plughole in the sink in his cell to shout passages from the Koran. The ease with which those suspected or convicted of terrorist crimes can communicate their propaganda to the outside world is also alarming.

In October 2006, a Libyan detainee wanted in Italy on terrorism charges used telephone boxes in Long Lartin to speak live on an Islamic television channel. He compared British prisons with Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, where the American military abused Iraqi inmates.

In a rant designed to inflame followers into a hatred of Britain, he described the special immigration court that in effect sent him to jail without a jury trial as a “fascist court martial”. Qatada, a fellow inmate, went further. In a series of fatwas released in June 2008, he reflected on theological arguments legitimising the murder of Muslims who were opposed to Al-Qaeda.

The Quilliam report states: “He additionally described the police and army of Muslimmajority countries opposed to Al-Qaeda as ‘kafirs and apostates’ — thereby also justifying jihadist attacks against them.”  Last March, in An Address to the Muslims, apparently smuggled out of his cell, Qatada equated the British government to pagans whom the prophet Muhammad fought and defeated. Qatada said he hoped his writings would “fuel” the global holy war of Al-Qaeda and added he was confident that stories about Muslims in prison had succeeded in radicalising British Muslims and had made more Muslims start to “hate” British values.

Contrary to the tabloid perception that terrorist leaders are “fanatics”, the unpalatable truth is that many are intelligent, charismatic and capable of drawing not only their fellow inmates but also their captors into their circle of influence. A prison inspectorate report at Long Lartin in 2007 warned that “support for staff was necessary to prevent their conditioning by a strong and united detainee group” — an apparent reference to Qatada and his cohorts.

Inspectors have separately warned of the rise of Muslim gangs whose leaders engage in violence and intimidation, sometimes forcing others to convert. In Frankland prison in 2007 and 2008, Dhiren Barot, leader of the so-called “dirty bomb” plot against London, and Omar Khyam, who planned to attack London nightclubs and shopping centres with a fertiliser bomb, have been involved in a series of tit-for-tat attacks on other prisoners. Violence partly fomented by the two extremists led to boiling water being thrown over prisoners, stabbings, arson attacks and attempts to wreck prison facilities.

Many potential recruits are young men, typically petty criminals serving two-year or three-year sentences for crimes such as burglary, theft, drug dealing or fraud. Although the Prison Service disputes the evidence that Qatada has been able to communicate with supporters outside the prison, senior law enforcement officials privately admit that Al-Qaeda is exploiting the prison system to further its campaign. The Ministry of Justice, which runs the Prison Service, has set up a programme to persuade convicted terrorists to give up their cause. It is also trying to protect vulnerable Muslim inmates from violent extremists.

Phil Wheatley, directorgeneral of the Prison Service, set up an extremism unit two years ago. But it is small and led by a junior official. It is also overwhelmed. The justice ministry says there are about 10,000 Muslim inmates in prisons in England and Wales — 12% of the jail population.

The Quilliam report was written by James Brandon, who was kidnapped and held hostage in Iraq in 2004. “The Prison Service has taken some steps towards tackling extremism but these are not enough,” he said.

“Islamist extremists are running rings around a Prison Service which often seems clueless about the nature of the extremist threat. If this situation is not tackled, British prisons risk becoming universities of terror.”

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: "It is unfortunate that the Quilliam Foundation has not seen fit to share their report with us, and that they did not apply to visit any prisons or speak to those who run them, in doing their research. However, we remain willing to consider practical ideas for dealing with the issues faced by the prison service.

"We are extremely skilled in managing all challenging and dangerous criminals, and adapting to evolving risks and dangers. We run a dedicated, expert unit which leads work to tackle the risk of extremism and radicalisation in prison. All our High Security prisons operate enhanced monitoring and intelligence-gathering on those convicted or suspected of involvement in terrorism or extremism. We work with closely with the Home Office, police and partner agencies.”

Virginia Democratic Sen. James Webb has just released a statement disagreeing with the president's decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorists in civilian courts in the United States:

I have never disputed the constitutional authority of the President to convene Article III courts in cases of international terrorism. However, I remain very concerned about the wisdom of doing so. Those who have committed acts of international terrorism are enemy combatants, just as certainly as the Japanese pilots who killed thousands of Americans at Pearl Harbor. It will be disruptive, costly, and potentially counterproductive to try them as criminals in our civilian courts.

The precedent set by this decision deserves careful scrutiny as we consider proper venues for trying those now held at Guantanamo who were apprehended outside of this country for acts that occurred outside of the country. And we must be especially careful with any decisions to bring onto American soil any of those prisoners who remain a threat to our country but whose cases have been adjudged as inappropriate for trial at all. They do not belong in our country, they do not belong in our courts, and they do not belong in our prisons. I have consistently argued that military commissions, with the additional procedural rules added by Congress and enacted by President Obama, are the most appropriate venue for trying individuals adjudged to be enemy combatants.

American Official Says Accused Shooter Asked Radical Cleric When Is Jihad Appropriate?

United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told a radical cleric considered by authorities to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, "I can't wait to join you" in the afterlife, according to an American official with top secret access to 18 e-mails exchanged between Hasan and the cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, over a six month period between Dec. 2008 and June 2009. "It sounds like code words," said Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, a military analyst at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. "That he's actually either offering himself up or that he's already crossed that line in his own mind."

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Other messages include questions, the official with access to the e-mails said, that include when is jihad appropriate, and whether it is permissible if there are innocents killed in a suicide attack. "Hasan told Awlaki he couldn't wait to join him in the discussions they would having over non-alcoholic wine in the afterlife," the official said.

Major Hasan also wrote, "My strength is my financial capabilities."

Federal investigators have found that Hasan donated $20,000 to $30,000 a year to overseas Islamic "charities." As an Army major, his yearly salary, including housing and food allowances, was approximately $92,000. A number of Islamic charities have been identified by U.S. authorities as conduits to terror groups.

Two FBI task forces, in Washington and San Diego, received the intercepted messages, but deemed them innocent. On Capitol Hill today, Senators questioned how that could be. "The choice of this recipient of emails says a lot about what Hasan was looking for," said Senator Joseph Lieberman, chair of the Senate's Homeland Security committee. Lieberman's committee held a hearing on the Fort Hood shootings, and announced that it was launching an investigation.

"What I'm getting at," said Lieberman, "Is he may have been looking for spiritual sanctions for what he's accused of ultimately doing." The American-born Awlaki is considered a recruiter for al-Qaeda. He has been in hiding since the shooting, but a Yemeni journalist told ABC News today that the e-mails show Hasan was "almost a member of al-Qaeda."

The FBI might have known nearly a year ago that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was in contact with a known advocate of violent jihad against the West, but the intelligence community is rallying to defend the bureau from any suggestion that it could have prevented the massacre at Fort Hood.

Last December, the surveillance of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Yemeni-American cleric accused by the U.S. of having ties to al-Qaeda, revealed that he had received between 10 and 20 e-mails from Hasan. But the fact that a U.S. military officer was communicating with a Yemen-based cleric who openly supports jihadist causes did not prompt the bureau to open an investigation into Hasan's activities. (See pictures of the Fort Hood memorial service.)

Peter Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, warned on Monday of "the possibility that serious issues exist with respect to the performance of U.S. intelligence agencies" in the Fort Hood case. The FBI will likely come under special scrutiny when the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, briefs the Senate and House committees next week. "There are a lot of questions of what the FBI did and did not do," says an official familiar with the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity. "There were red flags, and there were signs that should have raised alarms. The [intel] community did have information on this guy ... could they have acted?"

But the bureau has hit back, arguing that since the Hasan-al-Awlaki exchanges were "explainable by [Hasan's] research and nothing else derogatory was found, [investigators] concluded that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning." (Hasan had been conducting research into the attitudes of Muslim soldiers at war with other Muslims.) (See pictures of the Fort Hood shootings.)

Whether or not the FBI might have intervened depends on what, exactly, was in the e-mails between Hasan and al-Awlaki. The FBI has not released any transcripts, but officials say the exchanges were innocuous, and in no way suggested that Hasan was seeking guidance or help in planning for a terrorist attack. Says one counterterrorism official who spoke on condition of anonymity, "This wasn't Hasan saying, 'Preacher, bless me because I'm about to martyr myself.' Hasan's questions were more generic, and consistent with his stated aim, to research the attitudes of Muslim soldiers at war with fellow believers."

Besides, some officials point out, there's nothing illegal about writing to al-Awlaki: the Yemeni American is not under any kind of indictment in the U.S. But even if the exchanges were innocuous, should the fact that Hasan was a serving military officer not have set off some trip wires?

The FBI's defenders say investigators would, at any one time, have been monitoring hundreds, possibly thousands of exchanges between al-Awlaki and interlocutors in the U.S. Many of them would be disaffected young men, expressing rage against the West and support for the activities of jihadis everywhere. Then along comes this communication from a senior military officer. It's innocuous, and well within the scope of the officer's legitimate area of interest and research. Rather than raise any alarm, say intelligence officials, the communications from Hasan would have seemed "safe" and been put aside, while FBI monitors to focused on al-Awlaki's other, potentially more worrisome correspondents on these shores.

Says Juan Carlos Zarate, who was President George W. Bush's Deputy National Security Adviser for combating terrorism: "Given the cover [Hasan] used, as someone researching the effects on Muslim soldiers of operating in Muslim countries [his approaching al-Awlaki] was not wholly illegitimate. It doesn't raise the specter of dangerous or criminal activity." In those circumstances, the officials monitoring the communications between the psychiatrist and the imam might reasonably assume that Hasan was doing "legitimate research, on behalf of the U.S. military," he adds.

Intel experts say if, in fact, there's any blame to be assigned for missing danger signs, it should be focused on the military. They say that some of Hasan's flaky behavior at Walter Reed should have alerted his superior officers — especially his fellow psychiatrists — that something was amiss.

The FBI on Monday issued a statement, saying "there is no information to indicate [Hasan] had any co-conspirators or was part of a broader terrorist plot. The investigation to date has not identified a motive, and a number of possibilities remain under consideration."

In the statement, the bureau acknowledged that Hasan "came to the attention of the FBI in December 2008 as part of an unrelated investigation being conducted by one of our joint terrorism task forces (JTTFs). Investigators reviewed certain communications between Major Hasan and the subject of that investigation and assessed that the content of those communications was consistent with research being conducted by Major Hasan in his position as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Medical Center."

FBI Director Robert Mueller has ordered a review of the bureau's knowledge of Hasan, to determine if "any policies or practices should change based on what we learn," the statement says. But intel officials don't believe that what the bureau knew gave them sufficient reason to raise the alarm.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan called himself a "soldier of Allah" on business cards found in his apartment after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood in which he is accused of murdering 13 people. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, reportedly obtained the business cards over the Internet. In addition to listing his profession and contact information, the cards contain a discrete reference to his religion: "SoA(SWT)." Watchdogs say the first letters are shorthand among militant Muslims to "soldier of Allah." The last letters refer to "Subhanahu Wa Ta'all," which means "glory to God."

The business cards were among numerous discoveries in Hasan's apartment of interest to investigators, who also are looking into whether Hasan wired money to Pakistan before last week's massacre. Reporters including Fox News camera crews were shown inside Hasan's sparse one-bedroom apartment. Hasan, 39, who was wounded in the Nov. 5 massacre and has been talking to investigators since he regained consciousness in the hospital, was charged Thursday with 13 counts of premeditated murder.

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Among the items reportedly found in his upstairs apartment: bottles of vitamins and medications stuffed in a shoebox for which Hasan had obtained prescriptions or, in some cases, that he had prescribed for himself. Combivir, a drug used to treat HIV, was in the stash with about a dozen pills left in the bottle, the Dallas Morning News reported. It had been given to Hasan in 2001 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, the newspaper said. It wasn't known why Hasan had the HIV medication or whether he was taking it. Combivir also has been prescribed to medical workers to prevent exposure to HIV in needles. Prescription cough suppressants were among the other bottles reporters said they saw. A closed closet with a "Do Not Open" sign taped to it was photographed in Hasan's unit at the Casa Del Norte apartments. A manager there taped the closet door shut after inspecting it and letting the media in, according to the Morning News. Israeli and Jordanian coins, a prayer rug, a psychiatric medicine manual, a green lockbox left in the kitchen sink, an empty paper shredder and a DVD burner also were seen in the apartment. Officials investigating the murders confiscated other possessions.

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Meanwhile, authorities say they're looking at whether Hasan was sending money to Pakistan --and if so, why. The Virginia-born soldier is the son of Palestinian immigrants, was raised in the United States and has some relatives still living in the West Bank. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., told the Morning News that sources "outside of the [intelligence] community" have information about Hasan's possible ties to Pakistan, which is battling a large Islamist insurgency movement. Hoekstra, the House Intelligence Committee's ranking Republican, declined to identify the sources. "They are trying to follow up on it because they recognize that if there are communications — phone or money transfers with somebody in Pakistan — it just raises a whole other level of questions," he told the paper. Hasan's family has said he doesn't have ties to Islamic extremists.

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In another development, the military psychiatrists who supervised Hasan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center reportedly tried to re-channel his growing focus on American-fought wars in Muslim countries. A Walter Reed staff member familiar with his medical training told The Washington Post that Hasan was ordered to attend university lectures on terrorism, Islam and the Middle East in the hopes of redirecting his increasing preoccupation with the conflicts felt by Muslim American soldiers on the front lines. U.S. military doctors overseeing Hasan's medical training reportedly had been worried he was "psychotic" and possibly capable of killing other American soldiers. Medical officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center held a series of meetings beginning in the Spring of 2008 to discuss serious concerns about Hasan's work and behavior, National Public Radio reported.

"Put it this way," one official told NPR. "Everybody felt that if you were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, you would not want Nidal Hasan in your foxhole." An official who participated in the discussions reportedly told others he was worried that if Hasan was deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, he might leak covert military information to Islamic extremists, NPR reported. Another official "wondered aloud" to colleagues whether Hasan might be capable of killing fellow soldiers in the same way a Muslim sergeant in 2003 had set off grenades at a base in Kuwait, killing two and wounding 14, the radio network reported. The officials who discussed Hasan's status were unaware — as some top Walter Reed hospital officials were — that intelligence agencies had been tracking Hasan's e-mails to a radical imam since December 2008, NPR said. Officials considered kicking Hasan out of the program but chose not to partly because firing a doctor is a "cumbersome and lengthy" process that involves hearings and potential legal conflict, sources told NPR. Officials also believed they lacked solid evidence that Hasan was unstable and were concerned they could be accused of discriminating against him because of his Islamic identity or views. Hasan is accused of spraying a Fort Hood soldier processing center with more than 100 bullets last Thursday before civilian police shot him. He is recovering, under guard, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.

A man accused of having an affair with a Muslim woman, was blinded and his tongue destroyed with sulfuric acid. 07/09 Sky News

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2009.08.27 (Tokham, Pakistan) - A teenage suicide bomber pretending to be for food blows up twenty-two Pakistani soldiers gathered to break their Ramadan fast.

2009.08.26 (Kabylie, Algeria) - Islamic fundamentalists murder a 37-year-old civilian.

2009.08.26 (Yala, Thailand) - A female plantation worker is blown to bits by Mujahideen bombers.

2009.08.26 (Yala, Thailand) - Two men are gunned down in separate Muslim drive-by attacks.

2009.08.26 (Baghlan, Afghanistan) - A Pakistani engineer is shot to death by suspected extremists.

2009.08.26 (Kunduz, Afghanistan) - A government official is taken out in a Taliban roadside bombing.

Encouraged that a radical imam’s proposal to close NYC school’s on two Muslim holidays may become reality now that Bloomberg has hired an Arabic speaking ‘immigrant affairs commissioner’ whose father is ‘Palestinian’.

by Julianne Welby at WNYC.com

NEW YORK, NY August 12, 2009 —Members of the city’s Muslim community are expressing optimism about Mayor Bloomberg’s choice for a new immigrant affairs commissioner. He appointed an education adviser from his administration named Fatima Shama, who speaks five languages – including Arabic – and whose father is Palestinian. Linda Sarsour, with the Arab American Association of New York, expects Shama to push for Muslim holidays in public schools.

SARSOUR: Being a commissioner might give her more power in that area and I think she can be a stronger advocate.

The mayor has opposed adding Muslim holidays to the school calendar.

Shama replaces previous immigrant affairs commissioner, Guillermo Linares, who now works for Bloomberg’s re-election campaign.

Linares also dropped out of a run for an open City Council seat in Northern Manhattan.

FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- Like many young boys, Khidir loves playing with toy cars and wants to be a policeman like his father when he grows up. But it was his father's very job that caused the tiny child to suffer the unimaginable.

Khidir was just 6 years old when he was savagely ripped away from his family, kidnapped by al Qaeda operatives in Iraq. "They beat me with a shovel, they pulled my teeth out with pliers, they would go like this and pull it," said Khidir, now 8, demonstrating with his hands. "And they would make me work on the farm gathering carrots." What followed was even more horrific, an ordeal that would last for two years in captivity. Khidir and his father spoke to CNN recently, more than half a year after his rescue by Iraqi police. Watch boy describe torture »

"This is where they hammered a nail into my leg and then they pulled it out," he says, lifting up his pant leg to show a tiny wound. He says his captors also pulled out each of his tiny fingernails, broke both his arms, and beat him repeatedly on the side of the head with a shovel. He still suffers chronic headaches. He remembers them laughing as they inflicted the pain. "I would think about my mommy and daddy," he replies, when asked how he managed to get through the agony. His father, Abdul Qader, struggles for words. "When he tells me about how they would torture him, I can't tolerate it. I start crying," he says. "What hurts me the most is when they hammered a nail into his leg."

The father, a police officer, was sleeping at the police station in Falluja when his son was kidnapped. It was too dangerous to go home regularly. Although Falluja was no longer controlled by insurgents, assassinations against police were common. "I woke up to the sound of a huge explosion ... and then I heard my name on the radio. I ran outside and they came to me saying your house was blown up," he says. When the police patrol came back, they all started kissing and comforting me," he continues. "I was asking, 'What's going on? Where is my family?' They told me that they took my son. This was a disaster. I went mad that day, I wasn't normal, I was hysterical." Khidir's grandmother was at home with the family at the time.

"The kidnappers climbed the fence and kicked in the door," she says."They were screaming for Abdul Qader. I told them he's not here. They called me a liar and said we want his son. His son was hiding behind me, clutching my clothes. I said this is not his son. They hit me on the back with a rifle and ripped him out of my arms." The last thing she remembers were his screams of "Granny, Granny!" The attackers rigged the house with explosives and demolished it before taking off with the 6-year-old. The boy's grandmother and seven other family members rushed out of the home before it exploded.

"The kidnappers called me on the phone and demanded that some prisoners that we had be released or they would slit his throat," Khidir's father says. "But I said no to the release. I would not put killers back out on the street that would hurt other Muslims. So I thought to myself, 'Let my son be a martyr.' " He even held a secret funeral for his little boy. He didn't want to tell the rest of the family that he had refused the kidnappers' ultimatum, allowing them to hope that he was still alive.

Last December, nearly two years later, police in Taji, about 45 miles (70 kilometers) away, received a tip that terrorists were holding kidnapped children. "We thought that it was just a tip to ambush us, but we considered the mission as a sacrifice," said Iraqi police Capt. Khalib Ali. "Either we find the children and free them or face the danger and take the risk." The tip led the Iraqi police to a rundown farm and a series of mud huts. Khidir's tiny body was twisted abnormally. And in another hut, they found another child. Two children are still believed to be with the kidnappers. Al Qaeda in Iraq has historically kidnapped children for money, to pressure officials, and even to use in terrorist attacks.

For Khidir's father, it was as if his son had come back from the dead. "He didn't recognize his mother or his grandmother," Abdul Qader says. "But then he saw me in uniform and ran to me. I went flying toward him to hug him. People said be careful; both his arms are broken. So I held him from his waist, and he hugged me, kissed me, smelled me, and then broke into a smile." The father flips through old family photos -- all they were able to salvage from their destroyed home -- and notes some of the kidnappers are still at large. He still fears for his son's safety, but says he won't quit the police force. "Never, never," he says. "If I leave the police force, if others leave the force, who will protect us from the terrorists? We are the only ones."

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They...cut their heads one after the other and thereafter, shouted allah akbar in wild celebration accompanied with several gun shots" Nigerian Christian pastors beheaded by Boko Haram -- "Education Is Sin" -- Islamic jihad group for refusing to convert to Islam. No Compulsion In Religion and Education Is Sin Updates: "Boko Haram: How 3 pastors were beheaded eyewitness," by Timothy Ol More..a in the Daily Sun of Lagos, Nigeria (thanks to Skydeexie):

One of the victims of last week’s attack by the Yusufiya sect in Borno State has given a shocking account of how the Islamic extremists killed three pastors who were captured along with other victims on the second day of the insurgence. The victim was among those held hostage in Yusuf’s enclave. Speaking exclusively to Daily Sun in Maiduguri, the eye witness who preferred anonymity disclosed that the three pastors were beheaded on the instruction of the sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf shortly after bringing them out of his inner chamber.

“The pastors alongside one Ibo man were asked to change their faith to Islam like they did to other people taken as hostages. I think there was an argument by one of the pastors which gave the others some level of confidence to also resist accepting Islam.

“The Yusufiya men who were armed on that Tuesday afternoon were not comfortable with the pastors and they took one of them to the sect leader in his inner chamber. They came out later to the courtyard within the compound and cut their heads one after the other and thereafter, shouted allah akbar in wild celebration accompanied with several gun shots,” the eye witness disclosed.

He said the hostages numbering about 50 within the area of the execution of the pastors and another fair complexioned man which he could not identify, were gripped with fear as non could foretell the outcome of their stay at the enclave of the fundamentalists. He was however lucky to escape as he was freed in the night with others with a warning not to mix with kafrici (infidels).

Corroborating the account of the killing, a Senior pastor with Good News Church, Wulari Maiduguri Rev. Baba Gata Ibrahim told Daily Sun in an interview that a pastor in his church, Pastor George Orjih was beheaded on the instruction of the Boko Haram leader because the clergy man refused to accept Islam.

“An eye witness who was also captured by the Islamic militants gave us details of how the pastor was killed. He told us they were persuading him to accept Islam and he said over his dead body. He was even said to have preached Christ to Mohammed Yusuf and that reportedly angered the sect leader who then as he ordered that the pastor and others be killed immediately,” he disclosed....

Six Christians, including four women, were burnt alive in clashes with majority Muslims in a town in central Pakistan, officials said. The four women, a man and a child died as Muslim militants set fire to Christian houses in the town of Gojra, officials said.  Tension has been running high between the two communities in Gojra town in central Punjab province over allegations that Christians More..had desecrated a Koran. Clashes erupted early on Saturday (local time), with an exchange of fire from the members of the two communities.

Television footage showed burning houses and streets strewn with blackened furniture and people firing at each other from their rooftops. Shahbaz Bhatti, minister for minorities, said a mob "misled by religious extremists" attacked a Christian neighbourhood and torched dozens of houses. "We have received six bodies of people who died of burn injuries. They included four women, one man and one child," said Abdul Hamid, a Health Ministry official in the town. Rana Sanaullah, provincial minister for law, who is also responsible for security matters of Punjab, condemned the attack and said an inquiry had been ordered. However he said a preliminary investigation showed there was no desecration of the Koran.

In ABC News Exclusive, Attorney General Eric Holder Says 'American People Would be Surprised by the Depth of the Threat (No we're not. We know for a fact that these people are a grave threat. But this administration is hell bento on being friends with them)

Attorney General Eric Holder told ABC News in an exclusive interview today that he is increasingly concerned about Americans becoming radicalized and turning to terrorism. "I mean, that's one of the things that's particularly troubling: This whole notion of radicalization of Americans," Holder told ABC News during an interview in his SUV as his motorcade brought him from home to work. "Leaving this country and going to different parts of the world and then coming back, all, again, in aim of doing harm to the American people, is a great concern."

Holder said the ever-changing threat of terror and the pressure to keep up with it weighs heavily on his mind as he tries to ensure that the government has done all it can to anticipate the moves of an unpredictable enemy. "In some ways it's the most sobering part of the day," Holder said of his morning intelligence briefing, in which he gets the latest report on the landscape of "the organizations, the people who are bound and determined to do harm to our nation."

"These people were slagging off Britain and trying to convert people to Islam. They were quite confrontational." They were "aiming to give them a taste of a Britain under Shari'ah Islamic law" -- including Islam's little-noted appropriation of other religious traditions and claim to represent their true embodiment. "Police called to religion row," from the Hornsey and Crouch End Journal, July 24 (thanks to Civilus Defendus):

RELIGIOUS tensions were raised in the centre of Wood Green at the weekend as Islamic activists set about trying to convince shoppers that "Jesus was a Muslim". Police stepped in to calm the situation as bystanders were confronted with up to 70 activists aiming to give them a taste of a Britain under Shari'ah Islamic law. The activists, who have held similar "roadshows" in south, east and west London, set up outside fashion chain H&M in Wood Green High Road on Saturday afternoon, but tensions were soon strained. One onlooker said: "They unfurled this huge banner proclaiming that Jesus was a Muslim, which understandably raised some people's heckles [sic]. "These people were slagging off Britain and trying to convert people to Islam. They were quite confrontational. "The police moved in twice while I was there. They didn't take people away but they stepped in to calm them down."...The activists intended to show how Shari'ah law would combat "gang crime, poverty and promiscuity" in the borough....Inspector Eric Monk, of Haringey's Community Engagement Team, said: "This is a diverse borough and I doubt that this activity will have any significant impact on the strong, positive inter-faith relationships that exist in Haringey.

Imam Promises to Fight "Until Islam Becomes Victorious or We Die in the Attempt"

Oak Lawn, Illinois - Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), the international movement to re-establish an international Islamic state ­ or Caliphate - kicked off a new campaign to win American recruits Sunday afternoon in this Chicago suburb. Nearly 300 people packed the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel for its Khalifah Conference on "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam" to listen to HT ideologues blame capitalism for World War I and World War II; the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown; the current violence in Iraq and Afghanistan; world poverty and malnutrition and inner-city drug use.

A speaker identified as Abu Atallah even blamed capitalism for the late singer Michael Jackson's decision "to shed his black skin."

Hizb ut-Tahrir aims to restore the Caliphate that existed during the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk abolished it in 1924 in an effort to create a secular, Europeanized state.

Security at the conference was very tight. Oak Lawn police maintained a checkpoint outside the Hilton, and local police and HT's own security people had a substantial presence inside the hotel. In the ballroom where the conference took place, men and women were largely segregated, with men in the front and women in the back. This became a significant point of contention between HT supporters and several members of the audience who objected to this arrangement. At one point, an unidentified Hizb ut-Tahrir speaker became flustered over this line of questioning.

"Men and women," he blurted out, must be kept separate "to prevent people from behaving like animals."

A woman in the audience responded: "How does intermingling between men and women make you animals?" HT panelists didn't have a persuasive answer, and soon adjourned that session.

The conference was sometimes poorly organized. There was no list of speakers, forcing reporters to sometimes guess at the spelling of speakers' names. But HT certainly appeared to be serious about working for the larger goals of the conference: abolishing capitalism and imposing Caliphate rule over the world.

According to Hizb ut-Tahrir, the world's social and economic problems will not be fixed until the world is governed by Shariah and the government controls all major industries. Lenders would no longer be able to charge interest, which one speaker decried as a "poisonous concept." Charity, or zakat, was advertised as the way to alleviate "economic inequality."

"Secular capitalism has made me devalue my skin" and "has kept my family in ghettos," said one speaker, an African-American who went on to blame it for the fact that he smoked marijuana and his grandmother played the lottery. Capitalism, he added, is a form of economic "terrorism" and "causes us to be sent to mental hospitals." Barack Obama's presidency, he said, "is only a scheme or con" to trick people into thinking that things will get better under capitalism.

But time and again on Sunday, Hizb ut-Tahrir officials seemed to be playing slippery rhetorical games of their own - particularly when it came to the behavior of despotic Muslim regimes and terrorists. When a few skeptical audience members pressed speakers over the fact that Islamic governments in Iran and Saudi Arabia are despotic, conference speakers claimed those weren't "authentic" Muslim governments and that the CIA (and by implication, the capitalist U.S. government) was to blame for the problems in those countries. In an interview with WBBM-TV in Chicago, HT deputy spokesman Mohammad Malkawi refused to specifically condemn Al Qaida and the Taliban.

Hizb ut-Tahrir has not been designated a terrorist group by the U.S. government and it insists it is only interested in instituting radical change by nonviolent means. But HT's alumni include 9/ll mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the late Iraqi terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi and would-be Hamas suicide bombers, and the group's pro-jihadist rhetoric has led critics to label it a "conveyor belt for terrorists."

One Muslim American group issued a statement in advance of the conference condemning Hizb ut-Tahrir's radical ideology and challenging others to follow suit.

"Hizb ut-Tahrir preaches an ideology that calls for the destruction of the principles that America is founded on," said Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American-Islamic Forum for Democracy. "While their words are protected by our First Amendment, their actions and movement must not be allowed to take hold. The silence of American Islamist organizations like [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] CAIR and [the Islamic Society of North America] ISNA in condemning the ideologies of Hizb ut-Tahrir and their agenda of insurgency in America speaks volumes to their own, albeit, more camouflaged Islamist agenda."

HT's efforts to rehabilitate its image won't be helped by the menacing tone on display Sunday. One late-afternoon panelist suggested that modern industrial powers could fall to Muslims the way Mecca fell to Mohammed nearly 1,400 years ago.

A speaker identified by conference organizers as Imam Jaleel Abdul Adil said that "if they offer us the sun, or the moon, or a nice raise, or a passport, or a house in the suburbs or even a place to pray at the job, on the condition that we stop calling for Islam as a complete way of life - we should never do that, ever do that - unless and until Islam becomes victorious or we die in the attempt." (To see the clip, click here.)

Later, the following dialogue ensued between the imam and a member of the audience over whether Shariah or the Constitution should be the supreme law of the land in the United States (click here to see the clip):

Audience member: "Would you get rid of the Constitution for Shariah, yes or no?"

Imam: "Over the Muslim world? Yes, it would be gone."

Audience Member: And so if the United States was a Muslim world, the Constitution would be gone?"

Imam: "If the United States was in the Muslim world, the Muslims who are here would be calling and happy to see the Shariah applied, yes we would."

Audience Member: "And the Constitution gone. That's all."

Imam: "Yes, as Muslims they would be long gone."

While Hizb ut-Tahrir's controversial message attracted demonstrators and some media attention, the group at least is open about its ambitions. It not only is determined to destroy capitalism -- it would shred the United States Constitution as well in favor of Shariah law.

A group committed to establishing an international Islamic empire and reportedly linked to Al Qaeda is stepping up its Western recruitment efforts by holding its first official conference in the U.S. Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Sunni network with reported ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq's onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It has operated discreetly in the U.S. for decades. Now, it is coming out of the shadows and openly hosting a July 19 conference entitled, "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam," at a posh Hilton hotel in a suburb of Chicago. Hizb ut-Tahrir insists that it does not engage in terrorism, and it is not recognized by the State Department as a known terror group. But some terrorism experts say it may be even more dangerous than many groups that are on the terror list. "Hizb ut-Tahrir is one of the oldest, largest indoctrinating organizations for the ideology known as jihadism," Walid Phares, director of the Future of Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told FOXNews.com. Phares said that Hizb ut-Tahrir, rather than training members to carry out terrorist acts like Al Qaeda, focuses instead on indoctrinating youths between ages of 9 and 18 to absorb the ideology that calls for the formation of an empire — or "khilafah" — that will rule according to Islamic law and condones any means to achieve it, including militant jihad.

Khilafah Conference 2009 Web site

Click here to see the conference video.

Click here to read the full excerpt. 

Click here to read the full ruling (pdf).

Click here to read the leaflet.

They don't recognize countries like Israel, for example; they don’t believe Israel should exist.   

Islamization: A happening - How, Why, When - This Video will scare you and it should scare you.

WASHINGTON — At least half of the 48 Muslim radicals linked to terrorist plots in the USA since 1993 manipulated or violated immigration laws to enter this country and then stay here, an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies says.

The terrorists used tourist, student and business visas, requests for amnesty and asylum, sham marriages and lies to trick Immigration and Naturalization Service officials into allowing them to stay in the USA, according to the report, which the non-partisan center will release today. Even when the terrorists did little to hide violations of visa requirements or other laws, INS officials failed to enforce the laws or to deport the offenders, the report says.

"Every aspect of the U.S. immigration system has been penetrated by terrorists, so our response must be equally broad," says Steven Camarota, director of research for the center. "Clearly our immigration system is critically important to preventing attacks on U.S. soil. But it doesn't have to be foolproof. If you just catch some of the people, you can often cause a large conspiracy to unravel."

The study found that at the time they committed their crimes, 12 of the 48 were illegal immigrants. At least five others had lived in the USA illegally, and four others had committed significant immigration violations. Others were here legally but should have been rejected for visas because they fit U.S. immigration laws' profile of people who are likely to overstay their visas, the report says.

The report's unflattering portrayal of the INS is the latest blow to an agency that Congress has targeted for reorganization, largely because of the agency's failure to enforce immigration laws and keep track of immigrants and visitors. The INS does not have enough people to investigate and arrest all visa violators, agency spokesman Russ Bergeron says. There are 1,950 immigration agents nationwide and an estimated 7 million to 8 million undocumented immigrants — about one agent for every 4,100 immigrants, Bergeron says.

The INS does not have a system to monitor visa expirations and does not track the whereabouts of foreign tourists.

"When you look at the wide range of important tasks, and the number of INS agents is smaller than most metropolitan police departments, it becomes rather obvious that there is a serious lack of resources," Bergeron says.

The analysis of the 48 men linked to terrorist plots here indicates that INS and consular officials do not sufficiently scrutinize visa applicants. It also says U.S. agencies and foreign governments do not communicate about terrorism watch lists and intelligence reports, and adds that the United States lacks immigration enforcement within the nation's borders.

When the INS does arrest suspected immigration violators, it sometimes lacks jail space to hold them, the report says.

It says INS officials should not have issued tourist visas to many of the Sept. 11 hijackers because, as young, unmarried, generally low-income men without significant ties to their home nations, they fit the profile of "intending immigrants." That means they were considered likely to overstay their visas and seek permanent immigration.