LCCC ENGLISH DAILY NEWS BULLETIN
ِJune 07/2010

Bible Of the Day
The Good News According to Matthew 24/3-24
24:3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?” 24:4 Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray. 24:5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray. 24:6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. 24:8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. 24:9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. 24:10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another. 24:11 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray. 24:12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved. 24:14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. 24:15 “When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation,* which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 24:16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 24:17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house. 24:18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes. 24:19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days! 24:20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath, 24:21 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. 24:22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened. 24:23 “Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it. 24:24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

Free Opinions, Releases, letters, Interviews & Special Reports
How We Became the Proxies of Islam/By Daniel Greenfield/CFP/June 06/10
Redefining our Muslim enemies/By Douglas J. Hagmann/NIN/ June 06/10

Latest News Reports From Miscellaneous Sources for June 06/10
Pope Urges End to Mideast Bloodshed, Prays for Success of Synod/Naharnet
Pope in Cyprus calls for dialogue between faiths/AP
Opposition's Abu Sharaf Wins Beirut Doctors Syndicate Elections, Mustaqbal's Al-Baba Comes First in Tripoli/Naharnet
Qassem: Resistance Achieved Balance of Deterrence that Prevents Israel from Waging War Anytime It Wants/Naharnet
Netanyahu Hails Peaceful End to Irish Aid Ship, Israel Accused of 'Hijacking/Naharnet
Mousavi: Iranian Regime Playing into Hands of U.S., Israel/Naharnet
Qaouq: Israel Pressuring Syria to 'Besiege' Hizbullah/Naharnet
Left-Wingers Burn Israeli Flags Near U.S. Embassy /Naharnet
Thousands of Israelis Protest against Occupation of Palestinian Lands/Naharnet
Israel's morally inferior critics/National Post
Israel official ties president's adviser to controversial 'Free Gaza Movement'/WND.com
Nasrallah: Excellent opportunity to end Gaza siege/Ynetnews
Activists in Lebanon plan to sail new aid boat to Gaza/iloubnan.info
Sayegh: Reservations on Hezbollah arms/iloubnan.info
Another aid vessel to arrive from Lebanon/Ynetnews
An-Nahar: The national dialogue will be held without Geagea and Saniora/iloubnan.info
Zoghbi: Municipal elections had a political character/Future News
Adwan: Geagea and Siniora’s absence from June 17 dialogue session, technical/Future News
Suleiman Speeds up Budget Adoption/Naharnet
National Dialogue on Time Despite Saniora, Geagea Absence/Naharnet
March 14 MPs Remind Berri he was a Ruling Partner during 'Violations'/Naharnet
Abu Jamra Holds Aoun Responsible for 'Loss of FPM Popularity' Due to 'Clan-like' Rule/Naharnet
Ship with Activists to Sail from Beirut to Gaza/Naharnet
US Congressman in Lebanon: We Need to Try to Lift Gaza Siege/Naharnet
Jumblat for Good Relation with Hariri Just Like the One he Had with his Late Father/Naharnet
Accident Kills French Peacekeeper, Injures Two/Naharnet
Murr: We Agreed with Russia over the Delivery of Helicopters and Training of Officers/Naharnet

Pope Urges End to Mideast Bloodshed, Prays for Success of Synod
Naharnet/Pope Benedict XVI wrapped up a visit to Cyprus on Sunday with his eyes on the troubled Middle East, calling for an end to bloodshed and highlighting the plight of the region's Christians. At a mass in a sports arena near the Cypriot capital, he prayed for the success of a synod of Middle Eastern bishops in October which will grapple with the problems.
He expressed hope that the meeting "will help to focus the attention of the international community on the plight of Christians in the Middle East who suffer for their beliefs, so that just and lasting solutions may be found to the conflicts that cause so much hardship."
"On this grave matter, I reiterate my personal appeal for an urgent and concerted international effort to resolve the ongoing tensions in the Middle East, especially before such conflicts lead to greater bloodshed." The mass was attended by around 10,000 people, including Cypriots and pilgrims from Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, many waving their national flags and those of the Vatican. Their numbers were swelled by many migrant workers from India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines who make up a large part of the Roman Catholic faithful in mainly Orthodox Cyprus. The pontiff's remarks reflected the theme of the working paper for October's synod in Rome that he delivered to assembled bishops from the region after the service.
As he presented the document, the pope expressed hope that Christians in the region might live in "peace and harmony with your Jewish and Muslim neighbors."
Also, stressing the "great trials" endured by Christians and their "priceless role", he said he hoped their "rights would be more and more respected, including the right to freedom of worship and religion." The same themes were reflected in the paper.
"In a region where the followers of the three monotheistic religions have lived together for centuries, Christians must get to know their Jewish and Muslim neighbors well if they are to collaborate with them in the fields of religion, social interaction and culture for the good of society as a whole," it said. The paper also highlighted obstacles to this goal. Referring to radical Islam, it said "these extremist currents, clearly a threat to everyone, Christians, Jews and Muslims, require joint action."
It also singled out the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which flared again just days ago when Israeli commandos raided an aid flotilla trying to break the blockade on the Gaza Strip and killed nine Turkish activists. The working paper said "various tensions in the Middle East are an offshoot of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. "Christians have a special contribution to make in the area of justice and peace by courageously denouncing violence, no matter what its origin, and suggest solutions which can only be achieved through dialogue. "The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is creating difficulties in everyday life, inhibiting freedom of movement, the economy and religious life," with access to holy sites dependent on military permission. Moreover, "certain Christian fundamentalist theologies used sacred scripture to justify Israel's occupation of Palestine, making the position of Christian Arabs an even more sensitive issue."
And it expressed concern about the often difficult social and economic conditions in the region that force many Christians to emigrate.
"Their disappearance would impoverish the pluralism which has always characterized the countries of the Middle East," which "would be at a disadvantage without the Christian voice."
Benedict's visit to Cyprus is the first ever by any pope and his first to an Orthodox country. While he characterized the trip as a pilgrimage focusing on faith, he nonetheless expressed concern for the political problems plaguing Cyprus. The Mediterranean island was invaded by Turkey in 1974 in response to a Greek Cypriot coup seeking unification with Greece, and the northern third has been occupied by Turkish troops ever since. President Demetris Christofias and the head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, urged the pope's prayers for an end to the division. Benedict expressed hope that Cypriots might patiently resolve the "remaining concerns that you share -- with the international community -- for the future of your island."(AFP) Beirut, 06 Jun 10, 12:39

Left-Wingers Burn Israeli Flags Near U.S. Embassy
Naharnet/Several hundred leftist demonstrators held a protest near the U.S. embassy compound in Awkar on Sunday, burning Israeli flags and calling for an end to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. "Free Palestine" and "'No' to an American embassy in Lebanon," the protestors chanted about two kilometers away from the embassy, under the watchful eyes of Lebanese soldiers. The demonstrators, supporters of the Communist Party and the Democratic Youth Movement, carried Lebanese, Palestinian and Turkish flags, and placards denouncing the Jewish state. Protests have erupted worldwide since Israeli naval commandos stormed a Turkish-led multi-national aid flotilla headed for Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade, killing nine activists on board. On Saturday, Israeli forces stopped the Rachel Corrie, another aid ship headed for Gaza from Ireland, but there was no repetition of the earlier violence.
"Born in the USA, murdered for Palestine," said a placard carried by a demonstrator, an apparent reference to Rachel Corrie, an American activist crushed by Israeli bulldozers in 2003 as she tried to stop the destruction of Palestinian homes. Demonstrators also carried the dead activist's photographs, and an Israeli flag symbolically splattered with drops of blood. They set ablaze two Israeli flags and a wooden replica of the Jewish state's emblem, the star of David. Some of the demonstrators removed a line of barbed wire separating them from the soldiers, before being warned to stop and move back. On Saturday, two pro-Palestinian non-governmental organizations in Lebanon launched a campaign for funds to buy a boat to sail for Gaza next week with dozens of Arab and foreign journalists on board.(AFP-Naharnet) Beirut, 06 Jun 10, 14:16

Abu Jamra Holds Aoun Responsible for 'Loss of FPM Popularity' Due to 'Clan-like' Rule
Naharnet/Free Patriotic Movement official Issam Abu Jamra has held FPM leader Michel Aoun responsible for the party's "losses" as a result of his "unilateral decisions."
"The FPM is losing its popularity because of the unilateral decisions taken by Gen. Michel Aoun, the latest of which was his order for (FPM) coordinators to resign," Abu Jamra told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published Sunday. Aoun's "individual decision-making is similar to clans," he said, adding that he is working to fix the "illogical" mistakes.
Accusing the FPM leader of "dishonesty" in taking decisions, Abu Jamra unveiled that he hasn't met with Aoun in six months. However, an FPM official who refused to be identified, told Asharq al-Awsat that Abu Jamra's accusations result from a personal problem with Aoun. The official denied that the resignation orders had created cracks within the movement.
Beirut, 06 Jun 10, 09:15

Ship with Activists to Sail from Beirut to Gaza
Naharnet/A ship carrying journalists and educational materials will sail from Beirut port to Gaza next week. The decision was announced Saturday during a joint press conference between two non-governmental organizations -- the Free Palestine Movement and the Beirut-based Journalists Without Limits. Head of the Free Palestine Movement Yasser Qoshlok called on "all those who consider themselves 'free' to participate in this convoy," dubbed "Naji al-Ali Fleet to break the siege on the children and the people of Gaza."
Qoshlok said the convoy will carry assistance and educational materials for Palestinian children. He said the ship will also carry journalists to focus on Gaza under siege and cover the humanitarian crisis that exists for Gazans under the Israeli blockade. "This campaign is launched after the Freedom Fleet because the media has become the first authority rather than the fourth," Qoshlok said. Thaer Ghandour of the Journalists Without Limits said the ship -- carrying 50 journalists and 25 European activists including European MPs, will leave Beirut port late next week. Ghandour appealed "to all the free people in this world to provide financial contributions to buy a boat." Beirut, 05 Jun 10, 18:01

Thousands of Israelis Protest against Occupation of Palestinian Lands
Naharnet/Thousands of Israelis, both Jewish and Arab protested in Tel Aviv on Saturday against the occupation of Palestinian territories, marking the 43rd anniversary of their conquest in the 1967 Six-Day War. The march, organized by the Peace Now movement and a number of left wing and far-left groups, passed off peacefully. An AFP journalist estimated the number of demonstrators at around 5,000. The protesters denounced what they called "a government that is sinking Israel instead of navigating towards peace," in a reference to Monday's deadly assault on a Gaza Strip aid flotilla in which nine Turkish people were killed. "Israel, Palestine: two states for two peoples" and "We love our country but are ashamed of the government" were among the slogans chanted in the protest.(AFP)

Erdogan Defends Hamas as Angry Turks Bury Activists
Turkey's premier on Friday upped the stakes in a simmering crisis with Israel, defending Hamas as "resistance fighters," as Turks buried their dead from a bloody Israeli raid on Gaza-bound aid ships. Chanting anti-Israeli slogans and waving Palestinian flags, thousands rallied across the country after Friday prayers and at funerals for the nine Turkish men killed when Israeli commandos stormed the flotilla Monday. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan added to the tensions, insisting that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.
"Hamas are resistance fighters who are struggling to defend their land. They have won an election," Erdogan said in the central city of Konya, often interrupted by a cheering crowd of supporters of his Islamist-rooted party. "I have told this to U.S. officials... I do not accept Hamas as a terrorist organization. I think the same today. They are defending their land," he said in the televised speech. Erdogan lashed out at Western powers for denying the radical Islamist group a chance to shift to a democratic platform.
"Let them wage a democratic struggle," he said. In Istanbul, some 10,000 mourners gathered at the historic Beyazit Mosque in Istanbul, where prayers were held for a journalist killed in the storming of the Turkish ferry Mavi Marmara, where Monday's bloodshed occurred. "Murderer Israel, go away from Palestine!", "Long live the global intifada," the crowd chanted, shouting also "Long live Hamas." "Close the Zionist embassy," read one giant banner. The crowd held prayers for Cevdet Kiliclar, the 38-year-old web editor of the Turkish Islamic charity that spearheaded the campaign to break the blockade of Gaza and deliver supplies to its impoverished people.
"He was just taking pictures. He was shot at from no more than a meter," Bulent Yildirim, head of the Foundation of Humanitarian Relief (IHH), said Thursday.
In the central town of Talas, the imam hailed 19-year-old Furkan Dogan as a "martyr" as he led the funeral prayer for the high-school student at his coffin wrapped in Turkish and Palestinian flags, Anatolia news agency reported. "Down with Israel," "Israel will drown in the blood it sheds," shouted hundreds of mourners of the youngest victim of the raid, who held also U.S. citizenship. Other victims were also laid to rest in their home towns, and prayers at each funeral were accompanied by angry protests against Israel.
"Our problem is not with the Israeli or the Jewish people. Our problem is with the oppressive Israeli administration which commits state terror," Erdogan said in Konya.
"If peace is going to come to the world, this world should be built on justice," he said. Ankara has previously insisted that peace cannot be achieved in the Middle East if Hamas was excluded from the process. It has also urged the armed group, which has called for the destruction of Israel, to renounce violence and engage in peaceful politics.
Following Hamas' electoral victory in 2006, Ankara angered Israel when it hosted Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal, in what Turkish officials defended as an effort to press the group to lay down arms. Also Friday, deputy prime minister Bulent Arinc said Turkey would reduce economic and defense cooperation with Israel, but ruled out a total suspension of bilateral relations. Ankara "will reduce relations in these fields to a minimum level, taking into account whether (cooperation) already exists... whether payments have been made or not," he said on NTV television. "But as a state we cannot completely ignore a state whose existence we recognize," he said.
Medical planes meanwhile brought home the last five wounded activists from Israel, completing a large-scale repatriation operation, in which the nine bodies, 19 wounded volunteers and some 450 other activists were flown to Turkey Thursday. Ankara recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv and scrapped plans for three joint military exercises with Israel after Monday's raid.(AFP) 4/06/10

Pope in Cyprus calls for dialogue between faiths
Date: June 5th, 2010
Source: AFP
Pope Benedict XVI called on Saturday for dialogue between Christians and people of other faiths on the second day of his landmark visit to Cyprus, an island divided between Christian and Muslim communities.
Benedict, who is on his first trip to an Orthodox country, also stressed the need for closer cooperation among other Christian churches, particularly in the Middle East where they are in a minority and struggling to survive.
"Much still needs to be done throughout the world," the 83-year-old pontiff said with regard to inter-religious dialogue.
"Only by patient work can mutual trust be built, the burden of history overcome and the political and cultural differences between peoples become a motive to work for deeper understanding," he said.
Benedict was speaking at a primary school near Nicosia of the Maronites, a worldwide church with roots in Lebanon and Syria that is in communion with Rome and has been present in Cyprus for centuries, mostly in what is now the Turkish-held north.
Four ancient Maronite villages there have virtually died out, mostly the result of displacement after the Turkish invasion and occupation of the north in 1974.
The church's archbishop, Youssef Soueif, pleaded with the pope: "Help us return to our villages."
While the pontiff did not specifically mention Islam in his remarks, he is known to be keen for closer dialogue.
On Friday, on his flight to Cyprus, he told journalists "we must be able to talk to our Muslim brothers and pursue this dialogue toward a more fruitful co-existence."
As for closer ties with the rest of the Christian world, Benedict said the church is "committed to advancing along the path of greater understanding with our fellow Christians with a view to ever stronger ties of love and fellowship among all the baptised."
The pope spoke after meeting Cypriot President Demetris Christofias, who expressed hope for peace and urged the world to press Turkey, a secular Muslim state, over its occupation of the island's north.
Turkey invaded Cyprus after a Greek Cypriot coup seeking unification with Greece and Turkish troops are still stationed in the north.
Their meeting came ahead of talks with the head of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, who has angrily denounced Turkey for "ethnic cleansing" in the north and for seeking to annex the whole country.
Archbishop Chrysostomos II denounced what he said was the relentless plunder of Christian monuments in the Turkish-occupied north "in an attempt to rid the island of every last trace of all that is Greek or Christian."
Christofias, remembering the pope's visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories last year, said: "I recall that you prayed for peace. May this prayer for peace soon be fulfilled in the case of Cyprus as well."
So far, years of on-off negotiations with the breakaway self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus have failed to end the division.
"The international community must exert its influence on Turkey" to facilitate that, Christofias said.
"Otherwise, justice and stability in the whole area of the eastern Mediterranean will be jeopardized."
The pope has not been scheduled to visit the north of the island. However, there have been unconfirmed reports that he would accept a request from the Turkish Cypriot Muslim leader, Mufti Yusuf Suicmez, to meet at a neutral venue, perhaps the papal nunciature.
Benedict later went to Chrysostomos' palace, for private talks before lunch with dignitaries. Influential Bishop Athanasios of Limassol, who has called the pope a "heretic," boycotted the lunch, along with another of Cyprus's 14 bishops, state broadcaster CBC said.
The pope, who had stressed the religious rather than political nature of his visit, evoked the plight of Christians in the Middle East.
Bishops from the region will meet in Rome in October to discuss the issue, and the pope will on Sunday deliver to them a working document for the gathering.
"No one can remain indifferent to the need to support in every way possible the Christians of that troubled region, so that its ancient churches can live in peace and flourish," he said.
At the end of the afternoon, the pope will celebrate mass at Nicosia's Franciscan church of the Holy Cross, located amid barbed wire and shell-pocked buildings in the UN buffer zone between north and south.

Zoghbi: Municipal elections had a political character
Future News?Date: June 6th, 2010/Member of the General Secretariat of the March 14 alliance Elias Zoghbi said Sunday, although municipal elections usually have a developmental character; the ones held in Lebanon and concluded last week were tinted with a political nature. In an interview with the Free Lebanon radio, Zoghbi said: “The municipal elections were tinted with a political nature and we must not fear that. “Forces that have traditional and historic ties with Syria preserved their magnitude during the elections. The more stable parties represented by the Almustaqbal movement, Lebanese Forces, Kataeb party and National Liberals maintained their political stability and have shown some progress.”On the Syrian-Lebanese relations, Zoghbi voiced hopes for equal ties and “that is what President of the Council of Minister Saad Hariri is doing.” On the Resistance’s arms, he said: “the army and people are of different sects while the Resistance is unilateral and represents Wilayat al Fakih (as a religious model of guardianship),” Zoghbi said criticizing the presence of two weapons in the country. On Turkey’s stance regarding Israel’s attack at the Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Zoghbi hailed Turkey’s diplomatic and political confrontation, he said: “Turkey is working for the benefit of the Arab Peace Initiative and to push the Palestinian cause forward without implicating it in the game of blood shedding and arms.” He assured that the Almustaqbal movement does not hold its Sunni supporters with an “iron fist” because it is a liberal party unlike Hizbullah party.

Adwan: Geagea and Siniora’s absence from June 17 dialogue session, technical
Date: June 6th, 2010/Future News/Lebanese Forces Parliamentary Bloc MP George Adwan said LF leader Samir Geagea and former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora’s absence from the June 17 dialogue session is technical and goes back to previous engagements abroad. In an interview to the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBCI) on Sunday, Adwan said the Lebanese Forces stance regarding Hizbullah arms hasn’t changed. There is not state in the world that can join between the State’s weapon and the resistance weapon which gets established once the State falls apart, said Adwan. He considered such arms should be used within the State’s context/ Adwan said that the incident of Dahr al-Ain, which took place n the eve of municipal elections and led to the murder of two Marada supporters, was an individual one; however, some parties have tried to give it a political aspect.
Our contacts with the president have never been cut. We were keen on handing out the shooter on the victims who died, he added.

A dozen states will vote for draft sanctions on Iran, Al-Hayat reports
June 6, 2010 Now Lebanon/At least 12 states will vote for a UN draft resolution to impose tough sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Al-Hayat newspaper reported on Sunday, quoting a UN source. The paper quoted the unnamed source as saying that Lebanon, the only Arab member of Demonstrators burn Israeli flags near US Embassy
June 6, 2010 Several hundred protesters demonstrated near the US Embassy in Lebanon on Sunday, burning Israeli flags and calling for an end to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
"Free Palestine" and "'No' to an American embassy in Lebanon," the demonstrators chanted about two kilometers from the US embassy in Awkar, north of Beirut, under the watchful eyes of Lebanese soldiers.The demonstrators, supporters of the Communist Party and the Democratic Youth Movement, carried Lebanese, Palestinian and Turkish flags.
Protests have erupted worldwide since Israeli naval commandos stormed a Turkish-led multi-national aid flotilla headed for Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade, killing nine activists on board.On Saturday, Israeli forces stopped the Rachel Corrie, another aid ship headed for Gaza from Ireland, but there was no repetition of the earlier violence.
Some of the demonstrators removed a line of barbed wire separating them from the soldiers, before being warned to stop and move back. On Saturday, two pro-Palestinian non-governmental organizations in Lebanon launched a campaign for funds to buy a boat to sail for Gaza next week with dozens of Arab and foreign journalists on board. On Friday, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called for a second "Freedom Flotilla" for Gaza.Israel has blockaded the impoverished and overcrowded territory since militants captured a soldier in a deadly cross-border raid in 2006. -AFP/NOW Lebanon

How We Became the Proxies of Islam
By Daniel Greenfield
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Canada Free Press
The Romans started out using barbarians in their armies, until eventually the barbarians became their emperors. So too the Ottoman Empire began by using non-Muslims as Janissaries in their armies, only to have them nearly take over. Similarly there was a time when we tried to use Muslim countries as proxies in our wars. Today Muslims use us as proxies in their wars.
There was a time when things seemed very clear and simple. Nuclear weapons and the memory of the devastation that WW2 had brought, made a direct war between the US and the USSR too prohibitive to be seriously considered. So instead we used proxies to fight our wars for us. We needed to protect our oil supply, which meant that both the US and the USSR tried to form alliances with Muslim countries in the Middle East. But then the Soviet Union fell, and in that same year, US forces found themselves engaged as proxies in a war between Saddam Hussein and the Saudi Royal Family.
Of course we were protecting our oil supply, but who were we protecting it from? Russia was backing our actions. China was not involved. Instead we were fighting for one Muslim power against another. And what we were actually doing was the same thing that Westerners had been doing for a while. Serving as Janissaries, non-Muslim troops for the Saudi Royal Family. To provide some perspective on this, in 1979 when Islamists connected to Bin Laden seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the Saudi Royal Family imported French Commandos, had them convert to Islam, and then storm the mosque. In the last two decades, Bin Laden didn’t try a doomed mosque takeover, instead he carried on a war against America and Europe. And once again we found ourselves fighting a proxy war for the Saudi Royal Family.
Muslim terrorists attacking Westerners in order to force them to do their dirty work for them
This was hardly the first time that Muslim terrorists had attacked Westerners in order to force them to do their dirty work for them. The PLO had made that the linchpin of their strategy, hijacking airplanes and setting off bombs, in order to force Europe and America to pressure Israel into giving them a state. And what’s more is that the strategy worked. By now, it has become routine for Islamist groups to target foreigners, whether it is Australians in Bali or Israeli tourists in Egypt or American tourists in Israel or French tourists in Mauritania. The pattern is the same. The wannabe Bin Ladens murder Westerners, knowing that their governments will eventually get around to helping them achieve their goals either through diplomatic pressure, or another proxy war that will rally other Muslims to their side.
And how it got this way is very simple. The balance of power shifted, just as it did in the Roman Empire, and the rulers became the ruled. It didn’t happen through overwhelming force. It happened because we let it. It happened because our politicians were too cowardly to stand up to medieval tribal leaders in burnooses, until a generation later, those same tribal leaders now controlled their entire economy. And immigration plus demographics adds the second potent threat of a voting base that doesn’t mind torching cars when they don’t get their way, or even when they do. This is the game we’ve been playing, or rather the game that’s been playing us.
After Israel stopped a Gaza bound ship funded by an Islamist group, Labor’s Harriet Harman demanded of UK PM David Cameron, what he intended to do about the British detainees. Cameron of course took the Londonistan line, as has every British PM in quite some time now. Now mind you, the British citizens imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and Dubai had not occasioned that kind of firm response. Rachel Thaler, a British subject who was murdered in Israel, did not receive it. But then she was a Jew murdered by Muslims, which just made her hopelessly inconvenient. No questions were put to Brown over the arrest of a British citizen in Dubai for reporting her own rape. No high profile condemnations or concern for the British couple sentenced to jail in Dubai for reportedly kissing in public. And there were no angry denunciations of Sudan after it arrested a British schoolteacher for naming a teddy bear Mohammed. Which only stands to reason, no dog will bite his master’s hand.
The latest round of European denunciations of Israel are nothing more than Western governments acting like proxies of Islam
The latest round of European denunciations of Israel are nothing more than Western governments acting like proxies of Islam. Which is exactly what they are. And when Muslim immigrants treat European countries as their new colonies, those same governments react by treating them as their new masters, and like good native rulers, they silence all domestic dissent. After all who knows what the masters might do to them, if they spoke up. Who knows. Certainly not them.
The left enjoys accusing America and Europe of colonialism in regard to the Muslim world, but the reality is of course completely backward. How many Westerners are moving to Muslim countries, vs how many Muslims are moving to Western countries. And while Westerners in the Muslim world are expected to abide by the most repressive and sexist laws of the region, Muslims who come to the West bring their own laws with them, and expect us to abide by them. Which means that not only had you better not liquor up in Riyadh, but you had better not do it in parts of Minnesota either. Or anywhere in New York where Muslims decide to open up their mosques.
When the Saudi Royal Family decided to seize the assets of the US oil company that had made them wealthy, the United States Government did not send over a small fleet to explain to the burnoosed thugs living under US protection, just what belongs to whom. Instead the US government nodded its head, and repaid the shareholders using taxpayer money. And since then, that same oil company has gone on to become the invisible Saudi lobby with a number of Secretaries of State coming from its board. Ask yourself if this is how a colonizer or a colony does business?
The homelands of civilization have become colonies of the Muslim world, accepting and caring for their surplus populations. Our businesses and our economy depend on them. And we go off every now and then to die for them. And at their hands. Of New York City’s three tallest skyscrapers, two, the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, are partially owned by Muslims. The third no longer exists. It was known as the World Trade Center. I ask you again, is this how colonizers or colonists live?
Every major war we have fought since Vietnam has been a proxy war for Muslims
Every major war we have fought since Vietnam has been a proxy war for Muslims. Whether we were bombing Saddam on behalf of the royals of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, or bombing our former allies in Yugoslavia on behalf of Muslim Albanians, or dying in order to provide electrical generators to downtown Baghdad and ferry schoolteachers into Kabul. We have not fought a single significant war since Vietnam that was not on behalf of, or intended to benefit Muslims. Not a single one. The Ottoman Empire had a name for this. It was Janissary.
It is only common sense to say that people who act like slaves, are slaves. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, eventually it’s going to end up on the menu of a Chinese restaurant. Or in this case a Kebab House. Those who have the power give the orders, and those who follow the orders are not the ones with the power.
By giving up our power, we became the proxies of Islam. We allowed ourselves to be subjugated politically, economically and culturally. The kids wearing their keffiyahs on the street are just acknowledging the new reality. The mosque loudspeakers calling the faithful to prayer, where they will thank Allah that they are not Jews or Christians. The mosque going up near Ground Zero. The European leaders outraged that a few of their own Dhimmis might spend an extra hour in Israeli custody. The shrugged shoulders as the Muslim world develops nuclear weapons that will make all of 9/11 seem merciful by comparison. All of these are symbols of our colonization.
We have been colonized at the top. Our politicians have bowed to what they consider to be the inevitable. Many of our business leaders have done the same. In a time of crisis, it is usually the appeasers at the helm, because otherwise there would be no crisis. And the helm these days is so full of appeasers that there is no hope of ever seeing daylight in their midst. By comparison to them, Chamberlain was a man of courage and Petain was a roaring lion.
Oh we still have armies. And when the Saudi Royal Family needs us to fight a war for them, or entangles us in one, we’ll be sure to use them. We still elect our own governments, we just don’t have the power to tell them to stop the Muslim immigration flood or to ban a mosque at Ground Zero. We can even buy newspapers, so long as they don’t publish any Mohammed cartoons in them. Why we’re as free as India under the British Raj.
When did all this happen? It happened when we gave up control of our own destiny and our own economy. And then the Muslim countries stopped being our proxies, and we became theirs instead. The tail began to wag the dog, until it eventually it was the dog. Now the tail barks, and our elected officials ask, “How High?” We don’t have a terrorism problem, an immigration problem or an energy independence problem. We have a problem because we’ve become the dog’s tail. We stopped giving orders, and we began taking orders. We act as proxies of our Muslim overlords. We fight their wars. We enforce their policy for them. Our money goes into their hands. Our people go off to do their work for them. Their people come here at our expense.
It is hard for the human mind to spot change because it is trained to look for discontinuities. A radical transformation is hard to see if it happens gradually. So too a power shift can be invisible, until it is simply the way things are. That is what a wake up call is for. It’s the finger that points your attention to how bad things have gotten. It forces you to look at how high the water has risen. And asks you, how much more will you let it rise. 9/11 was a wake up call. Not the first or the last of them. Our leaders have chosen defeat. We must choose resistance.
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Redefining our Muslim enemies
By Douglas J. Hagmann,
Northeast Intelligence Network
5 June 2010: Since taking office, Barack Hussein Obama has done much to change the administration of justice against Islamic terror suspects caught in the United States. First, the word “Islamic” was removed from the phrase “Islamic terrorism.” Now, the word terrorism is also being removed from that descriptor. The former is a consequence of a perverse mix of political correctness, deep pockets of the Saudi-funded lobby, and a presidential administration openly biased in favor of a global Islamic agenda. The latter is an example of the domestic side of that bias at work in the form of a regressive prosecutorial mentality of the Obama justice department, where enemies who are bent on the destruction of the United States are afforded the same rights as car-jacking suspects.
Smoke rising from American barbeques last week effectively covered two news items that at their core provided significant insight into our foreign and domestic approach to fighting Islamic terrorism. First, according to Barack Hussein Obama, the United States’ “war on terror” is officially over. Of course, political progressives will argue that this statement is a misinterpretation of the Obama foreign policy, and that it will actually foster international goodwill through its narrow specificity of enemy identification. Others, especially those in the intelligence world, will applaud the abandonment of a phrase that wages war on a tactic and not a target (and rightfully so).
Indeed, abandoning the phrase “the war on terror” makes sense, but the deliberate mischaracterization of the war waged upon us does not. Obama’s clever verbal shell game is able to withstand all of the scrutiny by the corporate media, but in reality it reveals an insidiously dangerous tactic that will imperil every American. By policy, Obama is redefining our enemies by removing the religious and ideological components as motives behind terrorist attacks against Americans and all Westerners. According to Obama through his senior counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, it would be wrong to “describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists” because that would “play into the false perception” that al-Qaeda and its allies were “religious leaders and defending a holy cause, when in fact, they are nothing more than murderers.”
Murderers indeed, but failing to acknowledge their common Islamic motives, Muslim ideology, their associations and their common agenda is to essentially deny the very existence and nature of our enemies. Such equivocations misrepresent the threat against every American and imperil our national security. It is political pandering at its worst.
The second item that serves as a clear example of the Obama policy in action, to separate Islam’s influence or motive from acts or potential acts of domestic terrorism received scant media attention last week. That is the case of four Muslim men from Newburgh, NY, who were arrested just over one year ago. The four men, James CROMITIE, Onta WILLIAMS, David WILLIAMS and Laguerre PAYEN are accused of plotting to bomb two Bronx Jewish synagogues and planning to use what they thought was a live Stinger missile against an aircraft at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh.
At a pretrial hearing last week, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Raskin announced that the trial is “going to be about whether these guys were going to blow something up,” and not about terrorism or whether the suspects have any connections to terrorist groups. According to published news accounts, the fact that “terrorism” or the suspect’s alleged relationships to terrorist groups “appeared to sit well with the judge, who said she had been referring to the case privately as “the un-terrorist case.”
Just how “un-terrorist,” or disassociated with Islamic terror is the case against the four? Perhaps a few select statements from the indictment might provide some insight (Indictment in PDF format here):
CROMITIE stated… [he] would be interested in joining Jaish-e-Mohammed to “do jihad.” (On December 24, 2001, Jaish-e-Mohammed was designated by the United States Department of State as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. It remains so designated).
CROMITIE expressed interest in returning to Afghanistan and spoke to the CW about how if he, CROMITIE, were to die a martyr, he would go to “paradise.”
CROMITIE also expressed an interest in doing “something to America.”
Regarding the Jews, (enemies of Islam): “I hate those mother*****s, those f***ing Jewish bastards. . . . I would like to get [destroy] a synagogue. “
In a reference to one of the Jewish community centers, located in the Riverdale Section of the Bronx, CROMITIE explained that bombing this community center would be a “piece of cake.” During this pre-operation surveillance, DAVID WILLIAMS suggested that they refer to the synagogues using the codeword “joints,” and CROMITIE and the CW agreed. Also during this surveillance, CROMITIE pointed to people walking on the street in the vicinity of a Jewish Community Center and said that if he had a gun, he would shoot each one in the head.
Obviously, this administration has learned nothing from the last thirty years of terror. We’ve decided to treat Muslim terrorists as criminals and acts of Islamic terrorism as generic criminal acts. Now, we’ve decided to omit the influence of Islamic ideology and Muslim terror organizations as causative factors as well.

Opposition's Abu Sharaf Wins Beirut Doctors Syndicate Elections, Mustaqbal's Al-Baba Comes First in Tripoli
Naharnet/Fawaz al-Baba, who is backed by the Mustaqbal Movement, on Sunday became the new head of Tripoli's Doctors Syndicate after defeating Omar Abdul Latif Ayyash, who is backed by ex-PM Najib Miqati and the March 8 forces.
The election took place at the headquarters of Tripoli's Doctors Syndicate to choose a successor to Nassim Khiryati whose mandate has expired.
Out of 1,048 doctors eligible to vote after paying their subscriptions, 777 doctors participated in the polls which were attended by Hilmi Darwish, the representative of Health Minister Mohammed Jawad Khalife.
The election witnessed heated competition between the two candidates as the vote count showed that al-Baba received 383 votes and his rival Ayyash received 355. Eight doctors cast blank ballots while 31 ballot papers were annulled.
After the announcement of the result, al-Baba delivered a speech, thanking all the doctors who participated in the election.
"The battle witnessed by the syndicate today was a democratic one, and we promise everyone that we will implement our electoral platform together, with the help and collaboration of everyone. The syndicate is our home that together we will protect and work on enhancing its role," al-Baba said.
He also lauded the efforts of former chairman Khiryati, promising to pursue his predecessor's "achievements".
In Beirut, six candidates from the March 14-backed "Syndical Unity" electoral list and two candidates from the rival March 8-backed "Syndicate for All" list were elected as members of Lebanon's Doctors Syndicate.
Later Sunday, opposition-backed candidate Sharaf Abu Sharaf was elected as the head of Lebanon's Doctors Syndicate after defeating his rivals Najib Jahshan and Ghassan Skaff. Beirut, 06 Jun 10, 16:29