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Media Darling Celeb Imam's Sermons Yanked Off YouTube

Back in January, I wrote a post entitled Islam: the blurry line between respected authority and inciter of violence. The line itself is not blurry; it's very clear -- right and wrong, good and evil. It is the media elites, the chattering classes, the political elites that blur the lines.

Case in point: Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, the go-to imam that the media went to (the "moderate" imam) for all things Islam right after 911. Apparently, so did the 911 hijackers, for spiritual guidance.

New York Taqiyya Times Gets It Wrong: Al-Awlaki's Jihad

So did the Pentagon. They had the pious Imam to dinner, Devout Muslim al-Awlaki also provided succor and Islamic spiritual guidance to the Fort Hood jihadi, the Christmas balls bomber, and the Times Square deadly car bomber -- and that's what we know of.

Big media, the NY Times, the Washington Post and U.S. Government believe any Muslim who is not actively setting off a bomb is ipso facto a "moderate." But they have no qualms about vicously attacking me or Spencer as the real "extremists."

YouTube yanks cleric's jihad sermon videos: NY Times

 

YouTube has yanked videos featuring calls by Yemen-based radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi for a holy war, The New York Times reported.

The American-born Awlaqi has been cited as a catalyst for terrorist attacks and was charged Tuesday in absentia in Yemen with incitement to kill foreigners under the banner of Al-Qaeda.

The move by Yemeni prosecutors came several days after parcel bombs destined for Chicago were traced to suspected jihadists in Yemen.

Removal of some of Awlaqi's hundreds of videos at YouTube follows complaints from American and British officials, according the Times.[...]

Awlaqi, a citizen of both Yemen and the United States, has appeared in more than 700 YouTube videos that have logged a combined total of 3.5 million views, according to the congressman.

"We're now looking into the new videos that have been raised with us and will remove all those which break our rules," said a spokesperson for YouTube, which received complaints about Awlaqi videos from several members of Congress.

"We will continue to remove all content that incites violence according to our policies. Material of a purely religious nature will remain on the site."

YouTube reviews snippets based on complaints and then removes those violating its terms of service.

Islam's War on Women: Bulletin of the Oppression of Women

 

Bulletin of the Oppression of Women (Thanks to William Warner)

August 12th - November 2, 2010 August 12, 2010 Iran The 'confession' from a woman facing stoning.

August 13, 2010 India A female engineer is facing threats for not wearing a veil.

August 15, 2010 USA A Tulsa shelter helps abused Muslim women.

UK Muslim parents are charged with beating and imprisoning their daughter over a facebook fling.

August 17, 2010 USA Honor killings aren't a new thing in the US.

August 27, 2010 Italy An acid attack on a 19 year old woman.

Italy Islam is denied income tax revenue for various reasons including their failure to uphold women's rights.

August 29, 2010 UK Taxi drivers double as bounty hunters for Muslim women.

August 31, 2010 Afghanistan (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
Blood tests have confirmed that a mysterious series of cases of mass sickness at girls' schools across the country over the last two years were caused by a powerful poison gas. Update on Sharia law and the Taliban treatment of women in Afghanistan HERE.

September 2, 1010 UK Another honor killing in the UK.

September 4, 2010 USA (Hat tip to JihadWatch)
Update on the Muslim man who beheaded his wife.

September 5, 2010 Iran (Hat tip to JihadWatch)
An Iranian woman who's sentenced to stoning is also going to get 99 lashes for having her picture published without her headscarf. Update HERE.

USA A video where Imam Feisal Rauf says in sharia law women are equal with men and calls the US a 'Sharia compliant state'.

France France is to strip citizenship from attackers of police but not polygamists or those that promote female circumcision.

Egypt Egyptian cleric: If women are harassed even when wearing the niqab or hijab, it may be because they should not be outside the house at all.

September 7, 2010 Bangladesh A n 11 year old girl is raped by her teacher.

September 9, 2010 Saudi Arabia A Saudi man divorces his wife over cheese sambosa.

September 13, 2010 USA The problem of honor killings; the number of victims might be four times higher than UN estimates.

USA Forced marriages and conversions of Christian girls in Islamic countries.

September 14, 2010 UK Iranian gang members try to sell girls' virginity to wealthy Arabs.

Netherlands (Hat tip and translation to Islam in Europe) 
13 Honor murders a year.

UK An African woman was kept as a slave by a Muslim doctor.

September 15, 2010 Saudi Arabia A Saudi Arabian women's rights activist has called for the political leadership in the country to abolish rules granting male authority over women.

Pakistan The latest development in an incident involving policemen refusing to register a case of forced religious conversion of a 13-year-old Hindu girl.

Australia (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
A 14-YEAR-old girl has been banned from leaving Australia and has had to surrender her passport to save her from an arranged marriage, just days before the girl's father planned to whisk her overseas to marry a man she has never met.

September 16, 2010 USA A Philadelphia man admits going to Egypt to impregnate young girls.

USA A man is charged for splashing battery acid in girlfriend's face.

India There is a growing number of honor killings in the Indian Capital Region.

September 17, 2010 India This article examines why Muslim Queens have vanished from history.

September 18, 2010 USA The unremitting degradation of women in most of the Mideast, Africa, and other parts of Asia where Islamic Sharia law plays a huge role is horrifying and appalling. Sharia law endorses slavery, demands executions for apostasy, and condones the repression of women.

India An aeronautical engineer by qualification, a 23-year-old Muslim girl here refuses to wear the burqa and often sports jeans despite constant threats to her life.

September 19, 2010 Pakistan There was a reported 13% increase in violence against women from 2008 to 2009.

September 20, 2010 West Bank (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
Khaled Mahmoud admits beating his sister to death last year in the West Bank and says he'd do it again.

September 23, 2010 Egypt Egyptian cleric states that Islam permits wife beating only when she refuses to have sex with him.

September 24, 2010 Pakistan The Taliban blew up two more girls' schools in the provincial capital of Peshawar.

Pakistan (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
A rare video reportedly smuggled out of northwest Pakistan allegedly shows a woman being stoned to death by Taliban militants in the upper region of Orakzai. WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES.

September 27, 2010 Chechnya (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
Women in Chechnya are under pressure to adopt Islamic dress, according to human rights activists and an Islamic fundamentalist video circulating on the Internet in the latest example of deteriorating women's rights under the president of the restive southern Russian republic.

September 28, 2010 Germany Wafa was only 17 years old when she was murdered by her family about 17 years ago for "honor", said her sister, a Kurd living in Germany, who witnessed the murder of her sister.

September 30, 2010 New Zealand A Turkish immigrant who claimed he was performing a traditional dance with violent-looking moves as he beat his wife has been convicted of assault by a New Zealand judge.

October 1, 2010 Indonesia Two women were publicly caned in Indonesia's staunchly Muslim Aceh province on Friday for selling food during Ramadan.

October 2, 2010 Britain (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
Hundreds of girls are bring forced by British schools to wear the Islamic veil in a move which has been heavily criticised by mainstream Muslims. Update HERE.

October 3, 2010 Egypt Egyptian psychotherapist reports that women in Arab societies are treated as minors.

October 4, 2010 Italy A Pakistani woman has died in Italy after her husband beat her with a brick for opposing the arranged marriage of her daughter.

October 8, 2010 Indonesia (hat tip to JihadWatch) 
In a move criticized as an insult to the dignity of women, an Aceh district speaker has called for the replacement of a female subdistrict head, arguing that women were unfit to lead under Islamic law.

October 9, 2010 Iraq Blame is laid on Islaic clerics for prevalence of honor killing in Iraqi Kurdistan.

October 12, 2010 Australia If you think Islamic women have the right to be uncovered, and want the burqa banned, you're an Islamophobe

October 29, 2010 UN/Iran The United States Government and human rights groups reacted forcefully yesterday to news that Iran is close to gaining a seat on a new UN agency to promote equality for women.

November 2, 2010 Iran (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning after being found guilty of adultery and helping kill her husband, will be executed on Wednesday, November 3, 2010.

Court May Seize Slumlord/Ground Zero Mosque Imam Rauf's Vermin-Infested Slum buildings

The Puff ho and Mayor Gloomberg can't get enough of his funky stuff.

Hudson court still weighing options on building owned by imam proposing to build mosque near Ground Zero NJ.com

UNION CITY -- City officials conducted a final inspection on Oct. 21 of the 16-unit building owned by the imam who intends to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero and say fire violations still exist at the Central Avenue property.

Hudson County Judge Thomas Olivieri will hold a conference call with city officials and attorneys representing Feisal Abdul Rauf on Nov. 9 to decide what should happen with the building, officials said.

As a result of accumulating over 200 fire and health code violations, including problems with bedbugs, mold, and faulty fire alarms, the city had petitioned the court to put 2206 Central Ave. into receivership, meaning a third-party would be responsible for collecting rent and maintaining the property.

City officials said today the bedbug infestation persists in four out of the building's 16 units, some sewer lines have not been capped, and a fire escape ladder is still not working properly.

Read the rest here.

Court May Seize Slumlord/ Ground Zero Mosque Imam Rauf's Vermin Infested Slum buildings

The Puff ho and Mayor Gloomberg can't get enough of his funky stuff.

Hudson court still weighing options on building owned by imam proposing to build mosque near Ground Zero NJ.com

UNION CITY -- City officials conducted a final inspection on Oct. 21 of the 16-unit building owned by the imam who intends to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero and say fire violations still exist at the Central Avenue property.

Hudson County Judge Thomas Olivieri will hold a conference call with city officials and attorneys representing Feisal Abdul Rauf on Nov. 9 to decide what should happen with the building, officials said.

As a result of accumulating over 200 fire and health code violations, including problems with bedbugs, mold, and faulty fire alarms, the city had petitioned the court to put 2206 Central Ave. into receivership, meaning a third-party would be responsible for collecting rent and maintaining the property.

City officials said today the bedbug infestation persists in four out of the building's 16 units, some sewer lines have not been capped, and a fire escape ladder is still not working properly.

Read the rest here.

Birthday Wishes, Execution Dreams -- Iran's Impending Stoning of "Adulteress"

It's the sharia, respect it! After Obama's State Department wished happy birthday wishes to this century's Adolf Hitler........... the emboldened murderers march on.

Demonstrators hold portraits of Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani during a protest in front of the Iran embassy in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP / Gregorio Borgia)

Iranian woman's execution delayed amid backlash

Updated: Wed Nov. 03 2010 4:33:26 PM CTV.ca News Staff

The execution of an Iranian woman who has been sentenced to death has reportedly been stayed for the time being, amid growing criticism of the case from South America to Europe.

The International Committee against Execution said the Iranian government decided to delay the execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, after members of the international community called the sentence troubling and barbaric.

Ashtiani currently faces death by hanging, after Iran changed her charges from adultery to playing a role in the 2005 murder of her husband.

Birthday Wishes, Execution Dreams - Iran's Impending Stoning of "Adulteress"

It's the sharia, respect it! After Obama's State Department wished happy birthday wishes to this century's Adolph Hitler........... the embolden murderers march on.

Demonstrators hold portraits of Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani during a protest in front of the Iran embassy in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP / Gregorio Borgia)

Iranian woman's execution delayed amid backlash

Updated: Wed Nov. 03 2010 4:33:26 PM CTV.ca News Staff

The execution of an Iranian woman who has been sentenced to death has reportedly been stayed for the time being, amid growing criticism of the case from South America to Europe.

The International Committee against Execution said the Iranian government decided to delay the execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, after members of the international community called the sentence troubling and barbaric.

Ashtiani currently faces death by hanging, after Iran changed her charges from adultery to playing a role in the 2005 murder of her husband.

 

Birthday Wishes, Execution Dreams - Iran's Impending Stoning ofr "Adulteress"

It's the sharia, respect it! After Obama's State Department wished happy birthday wishes to this century's Adolph Hitler........... the embolden murderers march on.

Demonstrators hold portraits of Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani during a protest in front of the Iran embassy in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP / Gregorio Borgia)

Iranian woman's execution delayed amid backlash

Updated: Wed Nov. 03 2010 4:33:26 PM CTV.ca News Staff

The execution of an Iranian woman who has been sentenced to death has reportedly been stayed for the time being, amid growing criticism of the case from South America to Europe.

The International Committee against Execution said the Iranian government decided to delay the execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, after members of the international community called the sentence troubling and barbaric.

Ashtiani currently faces death by hanging, after Iran changed her charges from adultery to playing a role in the 2005 murder of her husband.

 

Epic Fail in Voter Fraud Leads to Investigation in Missouri 3rd Race

St. Louis tea party issued this release:

Epic Fail in Voter Fraud Leads to Investigation in Missouri 3rd Race

(November 2, 2010) Three precincts in the city of St. Louis delivered 3,800 votes for Carnahan in the last hour of counting.  This is Brian Wahby's district.  The same Brian Wahby who admittedly funneled $10,000 back to himself via a Democratic Campaign Committee, as reported by the St Louis Post Dispatch.  Ironically, Wahby's wife also works for Mayor Francis Slay.  They waited until they knew how many votes they needed, then they manufactured them.

How many dead or non-existent people voted in Wahby's precincts? That question remains to be answered.  Secretary of State reacted in a very guarded manner when questioned by the St Louis Tea Party Coalition yesterday on the apparent crash of their Voter Verification System.  More so, Secretary of State, Robin Carnanhan continued to campaign amidst the epic fail, and failed to comply with 115.136. 1. of the Missouri Statute regarding National Voter Registration Act.

We have confirmed voter Fraud in the City of St Louis, the City of Arnold, a downed Voter Verification System, and the St Louis City Board of Elections manning polls with The St. Louis City Board of Elections is using a security service, Special Services, that has a long standing relationship with the Carnahan family. The Ed Martin for Congress campaign was alerted yesterday, from a fellow board member that, despite opposition, Democratic chairwoman, Eileen McCann, hired Special Services.

So, what does this all add up to? A major investigation.  The St Louis Tea Party Coalition, who endorsed Ed Martin, has already begun unraveling the corruption and has pledged to push forward until the truth is revealed.  One spokesperson for the organization stated at a Watch Party last night, "Novemeber 3rd, we begin".  Holding true to this statement, the organization has gone into watchdog mode.

The St Louis Tea Party Coalition   is a loosely assembled group of people and small grassroots organizations focused on clean government, honest elections, and constitutional governance.  Persons interested in volunteering or learning more about the St Louis Tea Party Coalition, please contact Jen Ennenbach 314-200-5860, or contact information@stlouisteaparty.com.  For additional information on the St Louis Tea Party Coalition, visit www.stlouisteaparty.com

Islam Attacks: Booby-Trapping Bodies of Dead U.S. Soldiers

A posting on the jihadi forum Shumukh Al-Islam, by a member calling himself "Al-Raya Al-Sawda" ("Black Flag"), urges booby-trapping the bodies of American soldiers killed in "successful" jihad operations, and then detonating the charges by remote control when other troops come to collect the bodies or when they are on board a plane carrying them back to the U.S.

This is Islam -- where are the Islamic supremacist groups ripping these groups and tactics apart as viciously as they do Spencer and me? Where are the OIC, CAIR, ICNA. NIAT, ISNA et all? Their agenda is clear. Whose side are you on?

Jihadi Forum Member Suggests Booby-Trapping Bodies of Dead U.S. Soldiers MEMRI

A posting on the jihadi forum Shumukh Al-Islam, by a member calling himself "Al-Raya Al-Sawda" ("Black Flag"), suggests booby-trapping the bodies of American soldiers killed in "successful" jihad operations, and then detonating the charges by remote control when other troops come to collect the bodies or when they are on board a plane carrying them back to the U.S.

"Black Flag" wrote: "The crux of the idea is to plant small but deadly bombs within the bodies of the American soldiers after every blessed attack in which the mujahideen gain a victory... The idea may be difficult to realize, and I [personally] do not know how it can be implemented, but Allah knows that if it is done [even] once, it will shock [the Americans], especially if the explosion takes place when the bodies are being flown [to the U.S.]."

The message elicited positive responses from other forum members, who characterized the idea as "excellent" and "very clever." One response pointed out that "someone who doesn't think up [new ideas] never succeeds," and a member called "Abu Hamza" concurred, saying: "The important thing is to bring up ideas, so that they reach the mujahideen, who can develop them... Perhaps the mujahideen have equipment and bombs we don't know about, which can be used for this purpose, inshallah... The idea can also developed further: perhaps the bodies can be saturated with a deadly poison that will kill whoever inhales it..."

Endnote:

This may be a reference to the black banner bearing the legend "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger," which appears on many websites associated with Al-Qaeda and global jihad.

Go West!

West's winning's speech.