Saturday, April 19, 2008

U.S. MARINES IN AFGHANISTAN (Continued)

Followup on the preceding post :

"Ongoing lethargy of the campaign due to NATO incompetence and inability to formulate a coherent and sensible strategy"

2 Marines killed in Afghanistan

"The two were the first casualties in Afghanistan for the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which arrived here last month to take up combat operations against the Taliban and other insurgents in the southern part of the country."

While the American flag flies over their camp at half staff, the Marines have returned to business, going on fitness runs in full combat gear and rehearsing IED reaction drills.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/world/bal-afghanistan0417,0,7797666.story

[NATO incompetence keeps them from doing what they are trained for: finding and eradicating the enemy.]

Also see:
Military Watch: Two Marines dead

Keeping in touch with the thinking of our military personnel in the field: http://mudvillegazette.com/milblogs/

Thursday, April 17, 2008

How Effective is NATO in Afghanistan?

from The Captain's Journal

"There is no reason that the troops who wish to focus more on civic involvement (e.g., the European and British troops) cannot do so while the Marines hunt the Taliban. We have already noted that along much of the terrain outside of the cities, the Taliban control the high ground and it has been recommended by knowledgeable locals that if we wish to counter the efforts of the enemy, we will focus efforts on chasing them and gaining control of the more mountainous areas."
--The Captain's Journal

Ongoing lethargy of the campaign due to NATO incompetence and inability to formulate a coherent and sensible strategy

[the Captain's Journal] published NATO Intransigence in Afghanistan and The Marines, Afghanistan and Strategic Malaise. We[The Captain's Journal] have also pointed out that however bad a shadow NATO casts over the campaign in Afghanistan, the Taliban and al Qaeda have no such incoherence, and have settled on a comprehensive approach to both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now from the Baltimore Sun, we [The Captain's Journal] learn just how bad the strategic malaise is and how prescient were our warnings.

From the Baltimore Sun as reproduced in The Captain's Journal:

Disagreements and coordination problems high within the international military command are delaying combat operations for 2,500 Marines who arrived here last month to help root out Taliban forces, according to military officers here.

For weeks the Marines — with their light armor, infantry, artillery and a squadron of transport and attack helicopters and Harrier strike fighters — have been virtually quarantined at the international air base here, unable to operate beyond the base perimeter. . . .

Read on at http://www.captainsjournal.com/2008/04/13/marines-mired-in-nato-red-tape-in-afghanistan/

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

FROM THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA . . .

to Betrayal at Haditha

Semper Fi? The Marines to the country, YES! The nation to its Marines? NOT ALWAYS and apparently not at Haditha, Iraq.

THE COURTS-MARTIAL OF MARINES

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/24/164012.shtml

Click Haditha Marines to learn more about this outrage. Why "outrage?" Because in bending over backwards to show that we (not I but those in our government and industry with an agenda) are unbiased and "fair" in this war, there exists this agenda to sell out Marines to "show the world"--especially the Islamic world--that this is so.


HADITHA - WorldNetDaily

Previous commentaries:
'Cut and Run' Murtha goes off half-cocked
Muttering madman Murtha
What Haditha portends

Previous stories:
Haditha charges against another Marine reduced
Arraignment set for Marine condemned by Murtha
Trial set for Haditha vet targeted by Murtha
Murtha cornered over Haditha charges
Haditha Marine's hearing called 'sham'
Court-martial recommended for Haditha Marine officer
Marine officer under fire gets support on 2 fronts
Marine hopes hearing will remove 'Murtha taint'
Testimony leaves Murtha allegations wilting
Case against Marine blamed on Murtha politics
Arab newssite had false 'Haditha massacre' photo
Mom describes nightmare of Marine's incarceration

Saturday, April 12, 2008

HOW 'BOUT THEM "U.S. ARMY MUSLIM ARABIC TRANSLATORS?"

This, from Debbie Schlussel:

A U.S. Army Muslim Arabic translator deliberately hid information about insurgents, their location, and the location of their weaponry. By doing so, he knowingly cost American soldiers their lives. Plainly, this Muslim translator is a mass-murderer of Americans. Even worse, he is believed to have provided classified Coalition Forces intelligence (which he illegally downloaded) to insurgents in the Sunni Triangle. Again, he's a mass-murderer.
more at . . .
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/02/noureddine_malk.html
MOSLEMS MUSCLING IN ON OUR POLITICAL PROCESS

(Main article)from ACT for America http://www.actforamerica.org/

Editorial comment by Leslie White:

The point to consider here is not so much the use of Scouts to "get out the Moslem vote," which this article emphasizes, as it is the the politico-demographic front being opened by the jihadist who are not only attacking us from without but from within. Thanks to an ignorant and treasonous immigration policy* which encourages Moslems to settle in the United States, one of the most violent and jihad-oriented Islamic bodies has gotten its clawed paws involved in internal American politics.

The so innocent-sounding "Muslim American Society," appearing to be just another "American" organization, is really the instrument of--guess whom?

"The Muslim American Society was founded in 1993 by the members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian-rooted organization that aims to reestablish the Caliphate, a global state governed by Islamic law."

[Be sure to read the Appendix of this post: it is all about the Muslim Brotherhood]

So, each time that you read "Muslim American Society (MAS) in the following piece, mentally substitute "Muslim Brotherhood" to get the full impact of what is happening.

Read on, and be concerned!

Muslim Scouts Political Program Raises Eyebrows
by Linda Keay IPT News
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/484

Seeking to flip a Republican Senate seat, the Muslim American Society used Boy and Girl Scout troops last year as part of a massive get-out-the-vote campaign targeting Muslim voters in Virginia and elsewhere.

National leaders at the Boy and Girl Scouts of America say they've never heard of using Scout troops in such political activity and it violates Scout policy. They promised to look into the MAS program.

MAS Executive Director Mahdi Bray isn't keeping the fact that he tapped Scouts to run phone banks a secret. In fact, he's bragging about it. And while he claims the calls were non-partisan, he also is comfortable saying "Democrats would be a better choice" for his constituency.

In Virginia, incumbent George Allen was struggling to hold onto his Senate seat against former Navy Secretary Jim Webb. "We delivered 80 percent of the eligible voting Muslims to the polls," Bray said in July at an Islamic Circle of North America-Muslim American Society convention in Hartford, Conn. "48,000 Muslims voted in Virginia. 93 percent of them voted for Webb, seven percent voted for Allen. Webb won by a slim margin of 9,000 votes. Now I don't care how you slice it, dice it and I don't care whether you are a mathematician or not, you can figure this out, that if 48,000 Muslims voted and 90 percent of them voted for the successful candidate, then certainly, and he only won by a 9,000 vote margin – we made a difference."

Those numbers come from a study by a MAS official. While they were widely reported after Bray touted the study, these numbers have never been independently confirmed. Independent electoral consultants have expressed doubts about their reliability.

The Muslim American Society was founded in 1993 by the members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian-rooted organization that aims to reestablish the Caliphate, a global state governed by Islamic law.

Bray, its leader, has called the war on terror "a war on Islam" and at a 2000 rally, gestured enthusiastically in support of Hizballah and Hamas. In addition, he has defended Hizballah on his Washington, D.C. area radio show.

Bray openly described the scouting program last November in a release posted on the MAS website. "MAS Dialing for Muslim Votes" described how the organization was using a Muslim Voters Database to target calls nationally and encouraged people to vote on November 7, 2006.

"The MAS CEE (MAS Center for Electoral Empowerment) phone banks are being operated by MAS Youth, chapter members and volunteers. Even MAS Boy and Girl Scout Troops are making calls," the release said.

"Through our MAS Youth department, Boys and Girls Scout Troops, we are training an upcoming generation that will be spiritually grounded and political (sic) savvy."

That last statement appeared to rankle Boy Scout of America Scout Executive Alan Lambert, who said he's never heard of Scouts participating in phone banks before. Although he believes learning civic responsibility is an integral aspect of Scouting, he doesn't like people taking advantage of children.

"We would expect that no organization would use children to play out their political desires," Lambert said. "From my perspective…we would sever our relationship with anyone who uses children to advance political agendas."

"If it's going on and it's inappropriate, we'll stop it tomorrow," he added.
MAS claimed these were national efforts, with MAS Scouts performing similar work in other states, including Tennessee. On Election Day, a MAS release said its troops in Nashville "ran two campaigns of calling on Muslims in Tennessee to go and vote for today's elections."

They even posted pictures of the uniformed kids at work.

"The first campaign was on Sunday Nov. 5th, 2006 and the second was on Monday Nov. 6th, 2006. The Scouts used scripts and phone lists that were provided by MAS National in their call center campaign," the Election Day release said.

Girl Scouts of the USA's national office was in agreement with the Boy Scouts. Spokeswoman Megan Neuffer, said, "They are not allowed to participate directly or indirectly in phone calls or anything like that in any political campaign." That includes generic get-out-the-vote non-partisan calls, said Neuffer.

MAS is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. Girl Scouts from there and in Washington, D.C. are under the purview of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital. That office's Manager for Program Services, Brigid Howe, said any troop activities must follow Scout rules. That includes those splinter groups such as Muslim Scouts, or what Bray calls "MAS Scouts."

"I have not heard about anything like this," she said. Her reaction was similar to the national office's. It is not allowed, she said.

But Mary Layton, public relations director at the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital saw no problem. "Phone activity in and of itself is not off limits as long as it's part of a generic ‘get out the vote' campaign," she said, "and not part of a partisan effort, including the phone bank component would not be off limits."

Layton pointed to things such as handing out League of Women Voter pamphlets and organizing mock elections, activities described by the Patriot's Trail Girl Scout Council (in Massachusetts). But in fact, phone banks aren't part of the ‘I Promised A Girl Scout I'd Vote' patch program.

Michelle Tompkins, a spokeswoman at Girl Scouts of the USA New York headquarters disagreed with Layton's position, saying, "It's likely that it would be against the rules for kids to be involved in any kind of phone bank situation." When in doubt, "it's a pretty good idea" to go with the national office as authority for such a question, Tompkins said.

Scouts have even declined requests to hand out pamphlets, said Jim Waters, Assistant Scout Executive with New York's Hudson Valley Council of Boy Scouts of America. There are events in which Scouts raise the American flag at things like political conventions, but it's performed as a civic duty, not in efforts to elect particular people.

When such requests come in, Lambert said he has to discern between faith groups, "and an organization that may be using kids to advance their political agenda." A good unit leader who doesn't know about these things, he said, would call for clarification.

"We don't publish policies on every particular instance and I'm probably not going to find anything I could give you that says, ‘You cannot participate in making phone calls for organizations like this.' What we do is we encourage leaders and adults to be reasonable and not put kids in situations that could be misconstrued."

Lambert, Neuffer and Howe said no permission or advice was requested from the national scouting organizations before the political activity took place.

After the elections, the MAS Center for Electoral Empowerment publicized the impact the ‘Muslim Voter Mobilization Campaign' had in the Virginia Senate race. A surge in Muslim voters, who traditionally vote for Democrats, swung the race to challenger James Webb, MAS claims.
Mahdi Bray has claimed at times that these efforts are non-partisan, but at other times he's stated political preferences.

"There's nothing wrong with having kids, nine, ten years old on the phones, like we did for our last youth and our last Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts making phone calls and saying, ‘Go to the polls and vote,'" he said at the July convention. "There's nothing wrong with having young people, 13 and 14 years old to go from place to place to pass out canvassing information."

While MAS affiliated Boy and Girl Scout troops nationally worked political phone banks, he emphasized the Virginia effort, where he said scripts read in part, "I can't vote, but my future can be decided by your vote. You vote."

He claimed the effort was non-partisan and said Muslims need to be flexible. But: "What I'm saying is that we realize, based on the analysis that the Muslims, the taskforce had come up with, that indeed that it would be better in terms of civil rights – who will be chairing certain important committees that raises civil liberties and like that, that in this case – the Democrats would be a better choice."

There doesn't seem to be any legal issue involved. But Rosanna Bencoach, Policy Manager for the Virginia State Board of Elections, said it amounts to "using them. He [Bray] was using the children."

Bencoach says she volunteered in politics when she was young, but it was as an individual, not through a group, although she's also a former Girl Scout. She said, "Girl Scouting and the political volunteerism were totally separate."

"I wish you didn't have to find these things. I wish these things weren't happening," Bencoach said. "But I guess I'm too much of an idealist."

In getting young people to become politically active, Bray added, "In the years to come, you ain't seen nothing yet."

"I'm a strong advocate for young people being groomed to be civically involved so that they can run the office. They have a legacy and they have the right to lead America. But they have to be groomed for it. And you prepare them for the political process."

Lambert, on the other hand, says the Scout troops aren't the place for such grooming. "I'm more concerned about the judgment of the adults that are serving as the leaders and role models of these kids. Whether or not they understand, we're not going to be placed in a position to advance any particular political agenda – we won't allow them to place us in that position."

[emphasis in red, mine. lw]

*http://islamicdangerfu.blogspot.com/2008/04/muslim-immigration-americas-biggest.html
AND from Debbie Schlussel:
. . . your "counterterrorism" Prez, George W. Bush, has decided to DOUBLE the number of Saudi student visas to America. 15,000 students who do dry runs for terrorist attacks on children's school buses in Tampa, keep, rape, and torture slaves in Colorado, and other assorted lovely forms of behavior on our soil, is simply not enough. We must have more of them . . . 30,000. More who can skip out of school and disappear into the great American abyss, never to be pursued or found by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcment).
Oh, and we have to make it easier for Saudi businessmen to get here, too. No prob that 15 Saudi "businessmen" had some interesting biz here in September of 2001 and easily got here on the same types of visas that now need "simplifying":
US Ambassador Ford Fraker said in Sakaka that his country aims to double the number of student visas issued to Saudis.
from . . . the Student Visa Overstay Problem Has Been Solved [ed note: yeah, sure, and there are no Moslems in Mecca]
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/04/because_the_stu.html

ACT for America P.O. Box 6884 Virginia Beach, VA 23456 http://www.actforamerica.org/

APPENDIX

When Anwar-as-Sadat signed the peace agreement with Israel in 1979; four assassins from the Muslim Brotherhood assassinated him in September, 1981.

"Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."—Muslim Brotherhood

“During the Muslim Brothers' seventy-plus years of existence, there have been cycles of growth, followed by divisions into factions, including clandestine financial networks, and violent jihad groups, such as al-Jihad and al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya in Egypt, HAMAS in Palestine and mujahideen and Al-Qaida groups in Afghanistan.”

The mainstream American media continues to indulge in the fantasy that “radical Islam” can be reformed by everybody realizing that we are at war with this minority of devils. They are Islam revisionists because they think all the “bad stuff” in the Quran was inserted there after Muhammad’s death. Naturally, they are vague on this point, as to precisely which suras were ex-post.

Presently, fanatical Islam is lashing out with mad fury before its own final demise. The “infidel” world has been complicit in the surge of Islamism through its mistakes, complacency, and greed.

http://www.islam-watch.org/AmilImani/America-Bigger-Threat-Moderate-Muslims-Honest-Jihadists.htm


What the Muslim Brotherhood means for the U.S

"The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a 'Civilization-Jihadist' process with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack."
--the North American operation of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/rdreher/stories/DN-dreher_09edi.ART.State.Edition1.4235f88.html

from
http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-muslim-brotherhood-means-for-u.html

Theocracy on the 100 Year Plan-
America has its own "Islamic fascists" right here at home.

FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23858
http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com/2006/09/theocracy-on-100-year-plan-america-has.html

Salafism and Qutbism

Hassan al-Banna, the Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, is said to have been influenced by the Wahhabis, but was a known Sufi. The Muslim Brotherhood also claimed to be purifying and restoring original Islam, but its goal wasn't to call to Tawheed (Islamic Monotheism), but rather to amass Muslims of different beliefs into its group. When the Muslim Brotherhood was banned in various Middle Eastern countries, Saudi Arabia gave refuge to Brotherhood exiles, who in turn influenced modern-day holy warriors such as Osama bin Laden. This proved to be a horrible mistake later on, though, and Salafis in Saudi Arabia now reject the Muslim Brotherhood. Most Wahhabis, or Salafis, rejected what they call Qutbism, as a deviation from true Salafism.
http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com/2007/03/salafism-and-wahhabism-whats-difference.html

CAIR and the other stalking horses for the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Salafists want to create an Islamic nation here. There is no middle ground.
http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com/2007/03/cairs-goal-make-u.html

Friday, April 11, 2008

ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Well, You should Be!

Look and Listen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZiw3qVdFzw

Monday, April 7, 2008

Militant Islam at UC Irvine‏

With respect to the advance of militant Islam, we are often asked “what can be done?” The first thing we in the West must do is to make a decision that “tolerance” does not mean we are obligated to be tolerant of Islamist intolerance. As Lee Harris notes in The Suicide of Reason, if we continue to be tolerant of such intolerance we are on a slow path to cultural suicide. We must decide to stand up and resist the militant intolerance of Islamofascism – through educating others and, more importantly, through organized grassroots civic and political action. Western Europe and Great Britain are learning the hard way what the tolerance of Islamist intolerance leads to.

Militant Muslims regularly, repeatedly, and falsely, attempt to portray themselves as the victims and “infidels” as the aggressors. We are not the aggressors; militant Muslims are the aggressors. We in the West are castigated as bigoted, narrow-minded, intolerant and Islamophobic. But it is the militant Muslims who are bigoted and intolerant. Only in an Alice in Wonderland world could people who call Jews apes and pigs be viewed as the tolerant ones in our midst.

The article below provides just one more chilling example of how “peaceful” and “tolerant” militant Muslims are. Towards the end of the article you can read how these “tolerant” Muslims used intimidation to shut down a blog written by a Muslim who had left the faith. Small wonder so few moderate Muslims speak out against this militancy. You will also read how the Muslim student newspaper extolled terrorist attacks against civilians. All in the name of tolerance, of course.

The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine
By FrontPageMagazine.com 4/3/2008
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=71E533E2-AE2F-487B-9B41-3A36FF1C5308

ACT for America P.O. Box 6884 Virginia Beach, VA 23456
http://www.actforamerica.org/

Sunday, April 6, 2008

ANOTHER SNAKE-IN-THE-GRASS U.S. CONGRESSMAN!

Rep. Keith Ellison, the koran-toting Moslem Congressman from Minnesota is not the only enemy of American freedoms and its Constitution in the House.

Yes, there is that interim person that replaced his mother or aunt or whatever, but unless that one becomes permanent--elected--we will ignore it for now.

HISS WHEN YOU PRONOUNCE HIS NAME!

What we're talking about here is Darrell Issa. Yes, say it, repeat it, and be sure to hiss the Ss.

As the indomitable Debbie Schlussel has it, "[he] might be the contemporary, real-life version of Frank Sinatra's "Manchurian Candidate." Instead of communists, Issa's allies are radical Islamists and supporters of terrorism against Americans, Israelis, Christians and Jews."
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/003617print.html

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2003/08/darrell_issa_te.html

"WILL appeasing terrorists be the new House Republican strategy?" Debbie asks in her NY Post article TERROR-FRIENDLY GOP LEADER?

Read these pieces and be aware that being a GOP member does not make one above being a supporter of Islamic terrorists.


Jihad Darrell's Crying Game:
Pro-Hezbollah
Rep. Darrell Issa Cries for Terrorists;
Their American Victims? Fuhgedaboutit
--Debbie Schlussel

Saturday, April 5, 2008

MAKING OUR MILITARY MORE SUBMISSIVE TO ISLAM

DA'AWA* IN ACTION

A disturbing segment today at Fox News Channel shows West Point (United States Military Academy at West Point) cadets sitting cross-legged, shoeless (sock-feet) listening earnestly to cap-and-beard imams spouting about Islam. Most probably how like Christianity and Judaism it is, an Abrahamic religion, and of course "The Religion of Peace."

What is disturbing about this indoctrination into "multiculturalism" of our future military leaders is that they are not told the truth about Islam. They will go to reconstruct and reconstruct Iraq again and again (while shi'ite and sunnis blow up infrastructure and oil pipelines) in the (Saudi-guided-Bush-doctrine of "spreading democracy" amongst the "'freedom-loving peoples' of the Middle East"

Earnestly a cadet declares afterwards that he will understand the people of the Middle East (Islamics of course) better for having listened to the deceit and lies of the Moslem clerics in Jersey City, New Jersey, where this outrage took place.

Making our military leaders unaware of the danger posed by Islam to the United States is another way of subjugating the United States to the ideology that is Islam , with the goal of eventually replacing our Constitution with sharia--that is Islamic law**.

A disgrace.
______________________________
*Da'wa: In Islam, da'wa means a "call" or "invitation," and has been used to refer to a person being "called" to follow Islam. However, it has developed into the idea of a "mission" or "propaganda," either in a political or religious sense
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/islam/blfaq_islam_dawa.htm

Dawah (دعوة, literally: summons or call, also da'wa) is an Arabic term meaning "invite" or "invitation".

Dawah is considered to be the Muslim responsibility to invite others to Islam. Dawah is often referred to as the act of preaching Islam. It can apply to Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da

Da'awa definition from
**One Type of Propaganda to Make Us Submit
http://islamicdanger2u.blogspot.com/2008/04/one-type-of-propaganda-to-make-us.html

Da'awa definition first published at Islamic Danger blog http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-type-of-propaganda-to-make-us.html

Friday, April 4, 2008

Gates of Vienna: Fjordman Reviews “Fitna”

Gates of Vienna: Fjordman Reviews “Fitna”
Muslim Immigration: America’s Biggest National Security Problem
Debbie Schlussel

While Presidential candidates debate which is best for our national security—staying in Iraq or leaving, beefing up troops in other spots of the world or bringing them home—the biggest national security threat is already inside our borders: Muslim immigrants.

The problem is that America not only sets no real limits on the number of Muslims allowed into our country, but also does a poor job—if any—of screening these individuals for terrorist background. Even when such screening is done, there is no real way to verify that the applicant is who he/she says he is. There have been many instances of terrorist suspects (and some who’ve been convicted) whose identities aren’t certain. They’ve given several different names in order to enter and stay in the U.S. And we don’t really know who they are.

Last year, a man who was given U.S. citizenship was convicted of spying on our troops on behalf of Al-Qaeda. A contractor, he served as a translator for our military in the Middle East, and passed on classified information about their movements in Iraq to Al-Qaeda insurgents. It led to ambushes and murders of our troops. I call the man Mr. Al-X because we’re not sure what this man’s name really is. He used the following names in gaining entry, citizenship, and access to classified information in his job with our armed forces: Noureddine Malki, Almaliki Nour, Abu Hakim, and Abdulhakeem Nour. One wonders which of these names will be on Mr. Al-X’s prison ID and which one or more of these aliases he will use after he serves his sentence in Federal Prison.

So, how does a man like Mr. Al-X, who professed support for Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks, get to stay in the U.S., become a citizen and get access to U.S. Army classified info?

Well, there isn’t much of a check of backgrounds of any applicants for green cards and citizenship, also known as “immigration benefits.” Michael Maxwell, the former Director of Security for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said that his former department spends, on average, less than six minutes looking into the background of every applicant. That doesn’t account for bathroom, smoking, and lunch breaks, which cut down on that time.

And until recently, during those less than six minutes USCIS employees were not allowed access to FBI terrorism databases against which to check to see if green card and citizenship applicants were on those lists. That wasn’t because the FBI didn’t grant access. It was because USCIS didn’t want employees who serve as immigration benefits adjudicators to spend time looking on these lists. Instead, the department gave monetary bonuses to employees to rubberstamp applications forward toward citizenship and discouraged any careful examinations or any significant number of rejections of applicants. Worse, even in those cases where immigration fraud was suspected or some other red flag was raised, about 80% of the cases referred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) by USCIS are turned down by ICE. Because those cases are not investigated, that means that 4 out of every 5 applicants for which immigration officials believe there are serious fraud or national security issues are approved for green cards and citizenship.

And even in cases where a thorough check of applicants was scheduled, those applicants are now being rushed through for citizenship. In February of this year, pursuant to a lawsuit brought by activists in the pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the U.S. government announced that 47,000 immigration applications will skip the FBI background check against terrorist and other criminal databases. That’s because the government wants to “eliminate the backlog.” But the fact that most of these 47,000 individuals have been living here before they got such a background check is also frightening. We don’t know if these people are dangerous, but they’re in our midst.

Then, there is the other neglected issue of visa violators. While President Bush made a deal with Saudi King Abdullah to bring thousands of Saudi students per year to American colleges and universities, one of the biggest problems in the illegal alien population are those who’ve violated their visas by not leaving when their visa expired, or not abiding by the terms of the visa—such as working in an agricultural or high-tech capacity.

The San Jose Mercury News recently reported that 400,000 Indian nationals are here illegally and in violation of their H-1B visas because they are no longer working for high tech companies that brought them here. There is speculation that many of these 400,000 are Muslim Indians or other Muslims who are really from Bangladesh. Mahmud Abuhalima, one of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, was here on an agricultural worker visa. But he was, instead, driving a taxi on the streets of New York, where not much crop-picking happens. But at that time the INS (like ICE now) did not put a priority on locating and deporting such visa violators who do not show up for work or school. Instead, the focus at ICE is on raiding meat-packing plants and employers where the illegal alien employees are mostly far less harmful Hispanic Catholics. So Muslim students and workers who disappear into our midst remain there, largely off the radar screen. Even when they are located and deported, if they had children, those kids have birthright citizenship and can remain here.

Finally, it’s important to come full circle to the issue of Muslim immigrants who’ve cleared every background check and are here legitimately. They bring with them their culture, mores, and intolerance (including a virulent anti-Semitism), but unlike other alien populations, most do not bring with them the desire to absorb into American culture. Instead, they want America to absorb into them and their ways. That’s why honor killings of Muslim American women are occurring with some frequency, as are female genital mutilations, violence, and food stamp and Medicaid fraud scams.

While all of these aspects of lax immigration are frightening, what’s even more frightening is that not a single person in contention for the White House has announced any intention to ever address them. And that’s why we may, in future generations, not have to worry about fighting Islamic terrorists. They will reach critical mass through their high birthrate and legal and illegal immigration. Then they can take over democratically.

Debbie Schlussel is a political commentator, radio talk show host, columnist, and attorney.

Posted by Ruth at 05:19 PM OUTPOST

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Obama's Dimestore 'Mein Kampf'
by Ann Coulter

If characters from "The Hills" were to emote about race, I imagine it would sound like B. Hussein Obama's autobiography, "Dreams From My Father."

Has anybody read this book? Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic, I gather the answer is no. Obama is about to be our next president: You might want to take a peek. If only people had read "Mein Kampf" ...

read the article at
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25831