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RightSideNews Copyright 2009By Kathy Shaidle. She blogs at FiveFeetOfFury.com . Her new book, The Tyranny of Nice : How Canadacrushes freedom in the name of human rights - and why it matters to Americans , features an introductionby Mark Steyn. Shaidle is also an advisor for the International Free Press Society

January 27, 2008Part One : An Overview of American Islam

Imagine a Super Bowl with all male cheerleaders and half-time prayers. In that America, they drink Jihad Cola insteadof Coke and thank Allah when they win an Oscar.Luckily, that America is fictional, one vividly described in Ro-bert Ferrigno's 2006 futuristic novel, Prayers for the Assas-sin , set in 2040. But is it really so hard to imagine, in a worldin which a man named "Barack Hussein Obama" can getelected President just a few years after Muslim hijackers de-stroyed the world's tallest buildings in the heart of New YorkCity?

Today many Americans are either blissfully ignorant of,or simply indifferent to, the slow, incremental growthof radical Islam in their midst.

We sometimes hear about terrorist cells or suspicious Muslim"compounds" on the news. However, these stories representmerely the tip of an Islamic iceberg that could very welldoom America. Not today or tomorrow. But in our lifetimes?That is a real possibility.

And don't shrug off Islam as "just another religion." Muslim sharia law deems women to be inferior tomen, and allows husbands to "lightly" beat their wives. Polygamy and child bride marriage are condoned and

encouraged, due to the example of Mohammed himself, whose many wives included a nine year old. Anti-Semitism and slavery are enshrined in the Koran, as is exploitation of and even violence against all "unbe-lievers."

Radical Muslims have learned they don't require bombs or hijacked airliners to destroy America. They can just use America's own ideological infrastructure against itself.

Using a kind of ingenious political jujitsu, radical Muslims rely upon everything from the rights to freedom of speech and worship enshrined in the U.S. Constitution to the current atmosphere of hypersensitive politicalcorrectness to push their agenda.

For example, the "Islamification" of the educational system is now underway. Textbooks whitewash Islam'sbloody history. Public school children forbidden to pray or recite the Pledge of Allegiance are,however, obliged to play "Muslim for a Day." Meanwhile, universities eagerly introduce footbaths, Mus-

lim prayer rooms and hallal cafeteria food.Increasingly, Muslim employees are suing companies for the "right" to refuse to handle "unclean" porkor alcohol, or the "right" to wear headscarves. It is no coincidence that these companies include householdnames like UPS, Wal-Mart and McDonalds's - radical Muslims are sending a message to smaller firms whowon't have the means to fight similar suits in the future.

These demands for accommodation extend even behind prison walls, where Muslim prisoners (indoctrinatedby Muslim chaplains trained by foreign extremists) insist on getting special treatment as well.


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"Lawfare" is on the rise, too. Muslim groups now file expensive, time-consuming lawsuits against critics of Islam, and while these suits are currently confined mostly to Canada and Europe, they have a "chilling" ef-fect on American publishers, writers, journalists and filmmakers. Last year, it only took a couple of threatening emails to persuade a major U.S. publisher to cancel an upcoming novel about Mo-hammed .

Few Americans realize that their neighborhood mosque was probably built and financed by well-heeled ter-rorist sympathizers abroad. In fact, 80% of American mosques are Saudi-supported , and serve as safegathering places for radical imams and dubious "charities" with anti-American agendas.

Islamic terrorism has also found a home on the internet, where (according to one UK think tank) a "virtualcaliphate" (or Muslim supremacist empire) thrives, beyond the reach of authorities. The web has becomean invaluable arena for radical Muslim recruiting, training, communication and organizing.

Americans looking to the government to protect them from these threats don't realize that federal agen-cies in the thrall of political correctness actually undermine the war of terrorism. Few Muslims currently holdpublic office in the United States, but this may change if Democrats begin to view them as a new source of donations and votes.

Over the next few months, I'll be your guide to the growth of radical Islam, both at home and abroad. You'll

learn about "moderate" Muslim spokesmen who turn out to be anything but , and meet writers andauthors censored by their governments for critiquing the Koran.

I'll be talking to experts in the fields of intelligence, religion, crime and foreign policy and sharingtheir insights with you.

Many Americans have already forgotten what happened on 9/11, or simply don't want to think about it an-ymore. Our fear, disgust or indifference is exactly what radical Muslims are counting on. As exhausting anddemoralizing as it can be to educate ourselves on the facts, we must remember that "the price of freedom iseternal vigilance."


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February 10, 2009Part Two: Islam in American Prisons

"One in 10 inmates behind bars turns to Islam."

It was small story in a local newspaper called the Daily He-rald out of Everett, Washington, but it spread quickly aroundthe internet, thanks to that startling claim.

The paper's February 2009 investigation declared that so-called "prison Islam" was the fastest-growing religious groupin U.S. correctional facilities.

Some of those worshippers claim affiliation with the Nationof Islam (NOR), a black separatist movement that waslaunched and promoted by two convicts, Elijah Mohammedand his protg Malcolm X. Strictly speaking, however, NORhas little in common with orthodox Islam; it is more accu-rately described as a political pseudo-religion, held up toAfrican-Americans as an alternative to "pacifist" "Eurocen-

tric" Christianity.

However, Lawrence Mimiya told the Daily Herald that most Muslims in prison today are Sunni converts. Ma-miya, a professor at Vassar College who studies Muslim prison ministries, says that "just one in fivewho convert to Islam while in prison continue on in that faith once they are released." (Note: the number of Muslims in the U.S. population at large is estimated at one percent, or 8 million individuals.)

Some experts question the importance of such "1 in 10" statistics, however. For example, by their own ad-mission, many inmates convert to Islam merely to receive special perks, like prayer rugs, incenseand superior halal food .

However, that fact should still give readers pause: after all, these endless "religious" demands demonstratesradical Islam's innate sense of superiority, and its demand to be seen as "special." It doesn't help mat-ters that groups like the ACLU file lawsuits to guarantee such special treatment to Muslim in-mates. After a 2008 suit, for example:

"U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer approved an agreement on Wednesday that allows [Wyoming] pris-oners receiving religious meals to keep their meals in their cells until the next meal is served. It also re-quires the prison to install a new microwave for inmates that won't be used for pork, which is forbidden toMuslims and members of some other religions."

In another lawsuit settled in November 2008, a California jail was ordered to allow female Muslim inmates towear "county-issued" headscarves - and to pay $45,000 in "damages" to the aggrieved prisoner.

Robert Spencer of JihadWatch notes the ironic insanity of such lawsuits:

"Once again a Muslim in America demands that non-Muslims accommodate his particular practices and be-liefs, rather than considering that he has to adapt his own behavior to American mores -- especially since he

is in prison!"

Indeed, Islam teaches that "infidels" are obliged to pay the "Jizyah" - an onerous tax/ransom - totheir Muslim superiors. Many radical Muslims view the booty won in such parasitical lawsuits as a variety of "jizyah" - a "ransom" they are forced to extort surreptitiously until they can establish their worldwide "cali-phate."

However, in some ways, ACLU collaboration with our enemies is a laughable sideshow when compared tomore serious implications. A highly regarded 2006 study called "Out of the Shadows " simply states the ob-


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vious: that "tight-knit communities of Muslims in prison are ripe for radicalization, and could easi-ly become terrorist cells."

Stephen Schwarz of the non-profit group Islamic Pluralism explains why:

"Radical Muslim chaplains, trained in a foreign ideology, certified in foreign-financed schools and acting incoordination to impose an extremist agenda have gained a monopoly over Islamic religious activities in

American state, federal, and city prisons and jails."

Richard Reid, the so-called "shoe bomber" and Jose Padilla, the "dirty bomber", are two of the most famousMuslim convert/prisoners turned would be terrorists.

If captured and incarcerated after committing or plotting terrorist acts, Muslim radicals create further prob-lems within the international prison system, according to a 2008 report by the NEFA Foundation.

"While in prison," according to the report, "jihadists have caused officials fits by radicalizing fellow inmates,planning jailbreaks, distributing propaganda to associates, continuing to exercise operational control overtheir organizations, and plotting attacks."

Change has been slow in coming. Only recently has the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) begun conductingmore thorough background checks on religious "service providers" such as Muslim chaplains. According to

the 2007 research paper "Radicalization: Behind Bars and Beyond Borders," the FBOP has relied on "just tenMuslim chaplains for the entire federal prison system. These ten chaplains were responsible for vetting andendorsing contractors and volunteers who enter prisons to provide religious services, a Herculean taskwhen one considers the thousands of contractors and volunteers who enter prisons each month ."

Encyclopedia of Terrorism author Harvey W. Kushner is an internationally recognized authority on the subject. His first hand experience running educational and vocational programs at New York's Rikers Islandprison has given him a unique perspective into the way the system operates.

He explains that, along with political correctness and the constant threat of costly, frivolous lawsuits, theprison system's entrenched bureaucracy and "culture" make reforms difficult. Overstretched ad-ministrators sometimes find it beneficial to permit gang activities - Islamic and otherwise - because that wayinmates will "police" themselves, albeit crudely.

Kushner adds that given the current economic climate, anti-jihadist prison reforms will now be even loweron the list of priorities than ever before.

Clearly, Americans have reason to be concerned. In some respects, the very institutions intended to keepthe public safe are instead serving as accidental breeding grounds for violence and radicalism. Since largebureaucratic institutions like the Federal Bureau of Prisons are notoriously slow to evolve, it would be unrea-listic to expect this situation to change in the immediate future.

Meanwhile, after being released from prison, Muslim felons return to the community and attain employmentin Muslim run businesses. Along with halal food restaurants, these businesses (according to Harvey Kush-ner) include Nation of Islam security outfits, employed by local law enforcement to keep order in largelyAfrican American communities.

Some ex-cons even drift towards so-called Muslim compounds also see todays press release on 35 com-pounds in the US , where they may have access to firearms. This phenomenon will be the subject of the nextinstallment in our series "Muslims in America.


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February 24, 2009Part Three: Islamic Compounds in America

Rumors of Islamic terrorist training camps operating withinthe United States and Canada have been making the roundsever since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. A newfilm is re-focusing attention on the subject, but authoritativeproof of their existence - at least in the numbers beingclaimed - can be difficult to acquire.

The documentary, called "Homegrown Jihad: Terrorist CampsAround the U.S," was produced by the Christian Action Net-work (CAN). The filmmakers claim that dozens of radical Mus-lim terrorist compounds currently exist across America, bas-ing that claim upon a mysterious, untitled 2006 Regional Or-ganized Crime Information Center report prepared for theDepartment of Justice marked "Dissemination Restricted toLaw Enforcement."

RightSideNews attempted to acquire a copy of this document,

through both the Department of Justice and the Christian Ac-tion Network, without success (at press time.)

Ryan Mauro, the founder of WorldThreats.com, is also a national security researcher for the Christian ActionNetwork; he explained to RightSideNews that the document "is not publicly available" and that CAN's "copyis kept in a lockbox."

CAN also acquired a copy of a confiscated terrorist training video called "Soldiers of Allah," which featuresprominently in the new documentary. In the training video, Sheik Muburak Gilani, the founder of Jamaat ul-Fuqra (aka Muslims of America) declares, "We are fighting to destroy the enemy. We are dealing with evil atits roots and its roots are America." The video, according to the CAN press release , "teaches American stu-dents how to operate AK-47 rifles, rocket launchers, and machine guns; how to kidnap Americans and thenkill them; how to conduct sabotage and subversive operations; and how to use mortars and explosives."

The office of the Colorado Attorney General has been investigating Jamaat ul-Fuqra since 1989, after disco-vering that members of the community had defrauded the State of Colorado of approximately $350,000in workers compensation and other benefits.

The investigation concluded that, at the time, there were approximately 30 different Jamaat communities inthe United States, mostly in rural areas. Some of these communities have been designated "covert paramili-tary training compounds."

According to the Colorado Attorney General's office:

"FUQRA or its members have been investigated for alleged terrorist acts including murder and arson in NewYork, Detroit, Philadelphia, Toronto, Denver, Los Angeles and Tucson. UL FUQRA is suspected of more thanthirteen fire bombings and, at least, as many murders within the United States."

Ryan Mauro provided RightSideNews with a list of Jamaat ul-Fuqra's criminal activities dating back to 1979,when the group bombed a Hare Krishna temple in San Diego. Many of their crimes have targeted Hindus,and even other Muslims, presumably those not considered "orthodox" enough. In the 1990s, Jamaat ul-Fuqra turned its attention to American law enforcement and infrastructure, plotting to bomb sites such asNew York FBI headquarters, and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels.

Significantly, the Federal Emergency Management Agency even linked Jamaat ul-Fuqra to the 1993World Trade Center bombing.


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Despite this, says Ryan Mauro , Jamaat ul-Fuqra is still not listed as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" by theState Department.

In an interview with RightSideNews, Mauro explained that "the authorities simply do not have the power toshut down the compounds. They are forced to prosecute each individual engaged in criminal and/or terroristactivity separately, rather than tackling the organization as a whole. The individual members living onthese compounds are protected by the Constitution, and the compounds are privately owned, so there is noconsistent police presence."

Mauro says that Christian Action has developed model legislation designed to make it easier for authoritiesto search these compounds, but so far, not a single state legislature has passed such a bill.

"Such legislation wouldn't permit the police to search your home if your neighbor is found guilty of terroristactivity," says Mauro, "because this only applies to closed communities owned by one group. This would notpermit the authorities to search different pieces of private property; just the entire amount of one individualpiece of private property. After all, Sheikh Gilani and his Muslims of America' front own the entire land so itisn't a license to violate the rights of those unconnected."

Yet civil libertarians' concerns about unwarranted searches aren't the biggest problem facing those who aretrying to raise awareness of these compounds. Much of the evidence of their very existence has been dis-

covered by independent investigators , published on websites rather than in the mainstream media, and isshadowed in secrecy. Unfortunately, this leaves the impression that these compounds may be no more realthan Bigfoot, and can be dismissed as just another alarmist conspiracy theory.

Even when the evidence is irrefutable, the media and the American public seem reluctant to respond as onewould expect. In recent years, for example, the " Fort Dix Six " were convicted of conducting paramilitarytraining in the Pennsylvania Pocono Mountains; meanwhile, seven Muslim "extremists" were arrested in2006 for planning attacks on the Sears Tower in Chicago and other targets.

It's regrettable that it may take a successful "homegrown" terrorist attack of catastrophic proportions toforce the authorities, the media and the general public to reveal the truth about these compounds.

Below are various links from Hezbollah cells in NC to Muslim Compounds in the USA

The next installment of this series of articles will explore the phenomenon of 'lawfare', in which radical Mus-lims use lawsuits, frivilous 'human rights' complaints and other tools to undermine America.


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March 10, 2009Part Four: Lawfare

Military strategist Karl von Clausewitz famously said, "War ismerely politics by other means."

It could just as easily be said that "lawfare" is war, poli-

tics and religion by other means.

What is lawfare? Lawfare is sometimes known as "stealth ji-had," "soft jihad," "legal jihad" or "creeping sharia." In thesame way that Muslim terrorists hijacked American planesand flew them into American buildings on 9/11, some Mus-lims are hijacking the West's freedoms and legal system toundermine civilization itself. The strategy might even becalled "jihadist jujitsu." ( also see parts 1-3 )

As expert Brooke Goldstein of the Legal Project of the MiddleEast Forum) explains in a new report in The Counter Terror-ist (Feb/March 2009), in the last decade, lawfare involves

Islamist activists,"Filing a series of malicious lawsuits in American courts and abroad, designed to punish and silence thosewho engage in public discourse about radical Islam. (...) The lawsuits are often predatory, filed without aserious expectation of winning, and undertaken as a means to intimidate, demoralize, and bankrupt defen-dants.

"Claims are often based on frivolous charges ranging from defamation to workplace harassment, from hatespeech' to Islamophobia,' and have resulted in books being banned and pulped, thousands of dollarsworth of fines, and publishing houses and newspapers rejecting important works on counter-terrorism out of fear of being the next target."

Twenty years ago, the West was shocked when Muslim leaders issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie. To-day, the West itself permits Muslims to issue virtual fatwas of their own, in the form of lawfare suits that

chill freedom of speech just as effectively.Islamists have had mixed results with the lawfare strategy. Sometimes they drop their suits when they real-ize the discovery process will expose their ulterior motives and troubling financial ties to the world.

In other cases, their targets are so intimidated that they capitulate without a fight. Saudi businessman andterror financer Khalid bin Mahfouz boasts on his website that he has "coerced more than forty retractions or

judgments against those who linked him to terrorism." In 2007, Mahfouz merely had to threaten to sue aprestigious British book publisher to get his way. At Mahfouz's insistence, the four-hundred year old Cam-bridge University Press took their new book Alms for Jihad out of print, pulped all unsold copies and evenordered libraries to remove the book from their shelves.

Mahfouz also went after author Rachel Ehrenfeld , after she wrote a book which, like Alms for Jihad , detailedhis financial links to Al-Qaeda and Hamas. Using a strategy known as "libel tourism," he sued her in the UK,

even though neither he nor Ehrenfeld lived there. The UK's plaintiff-friendly libel laws helped Mahfouz winthe suit against Ehrenfeld in 2004, and she was ordered to pay a large fine and apologize.

Rather than do either, she countersued Mahfouz in a New York court. She lost, but shortly thereafter, thestate legislature unanimously passed the Libel Terrorism Protection Act to help protect American authorsfrom enduring a similar legal ordeal. This in turn spurred Rep. Peter King (R-NY) to introduce the FreeSpeech Protection Act in the House of Representatives earlier this week, to make "Rachel's Law" truly na-tional.


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Phyllis Chesler has been writing about the subject of Islamist lawfare for years. She explains the thinkingbehind the strategy:

"We have been protecting intolerant hate speech and Big Lies as free speech under First Amendment guide-lines. Simultaneously, Islamic jihadists and Muslim-American religious separatists have been adopting andaggrieved ethnic' point of view to press for separatist rights under American civil rights law and under theFirst Amendment.

"At the same time, any critique of their doing so is quickly labeled racist' and marginalized by the main-stream media and by politically correct progressives -- as well as by Muslim-Americans. Similar, such trendsare even more advanced in Europe which

has led Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders to call for a First Amendment for all of Europe. However, suchan amendment would have to be enforced and in the current climate, this is doubtful."

In other words, lawfare could never have succeeded without the pressure of political correctness, which hasbeen established and enforced throughout the West by atheist, secular, "free-thinking" liberals - the verypeople one would expect to rise up against stealth jihad.

Someone who knows about this firsthand is Canadian Ezra Levant. He is the only person in the world to faceprosecution for publishing the so-called "Danish Mohammed cartoons." After a three year fight, he won - inthe sense that he was found "not guilty" of "Islamophobia" by a Human Rights Tribunal -- but the battle costhim his magazine, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

Levant , who has written about his experiences in a new book, aptly titled Shakedown , explains:

"Lawfare doesn't work without collusion of what Vladimir Lenin called the useful idiots of the West.' In Le-nin's day, those were Western intellectuals' who willingly, even eagerly, engaged in anti-Western propagan-da, espionage and sabotage for the Soviet Union, usually without compensation except for their own mis-guided feelings of moral righteousness. In today's lawfare, the foreign-born jihadis are aided by domesticleftist busybodies, usually in the human rights' industry."

Daniel Pipes has established The Legal Project to raise awareness about, and fight against, the Muslim law-fare phenomenon.

The Legal Project "works in four distinct ways to counter the Islamist threat:"

1) Fundraising for an Escrow account to supplement the court costs and litigation fees for victims of Islamist lawfare - all funds raised go directly to lawfare victims,

2) Arranging for pro bono and reduced rate counsel for victims of Islamist lawfare,

3) Maintaining an international network of attorneys dedicated to working pro bono in the defense of freespeech and,

4) Raising awareness about the issue. Efforts include briefings by legal experts on how to avoid libelousstatements, and consultations with libel lawyers before publishing on certain topics

Along with brave politicians like Rep. Peter King, The Legal Project is leading the counterattack against Mus-lim lawfare.

However, this fight is an uphill battle, because the West's enemies are using its cherished freedoms againstit. Do we have to abandon our liberties and legal system to fight our enemies, and if so, some critics ask,what would that make us ?

While attempting to silence others, radical Muslims use the internet to recruit members and spread propa-ganda. That's the subject of the next installment in this series.


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March 23, 2009Part Five: Internet Jihad

During the Islamic terror attack in Mumbai, India last year,tech-savvy terrorists used BlackBerries and Google Earthsatellite-imaging to plan and carry out their atrocities.

Once again, the West's enemies were employing 21st cen-tury technology to spread its dangerous 8th century ideolo-gy. Since September 11, 2001, experts have been increa-singly concerned about the rapid growth of the "internet ji-had." ( also see the homepage for the Islam in America Se-ries )

The SITE Intelligence Group monitors YouTube, which hasbecome a favorite platform for the disseminate Islamistpropaganda and terrorist how-to videos.

For example, a password-protected forum run by FursanGhazawat Alnusra ("Knights in Support of the Invasion")offered step-by-step instructions to radical Muslim sympathizers on how to post videos to YouTube. Thesame radical group has called for an "invasion of Facebook", the hugely popular social networking site.

Facebook and YouTube have strict terms of use allowing them to remove videos and sites that advocate vi-olence, racism and the like. However, given that Facebook's membership is over 175 million and rising, con-stant monitoring is simply impossible. Banned users can set up replacement websites under false names. Bystripping out trigger words like "terrorism" that will get their sites banned, they can outrun the YouTube andFacebook monitors a little longer.

The web's international reach means that online jihad has no boundaries, making it even harder to police. Arecent study by the UK's Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC), called "Virtual Caliphate," revealed that BritishMuslim radicals are using Internet tools for recruitment, training and propaganda.

Particularly revealing was the revelation that well-known spokesman Asghar Bukhari of the Muslim PublicAffairs Committee, a regular media guest and "moderate" Muslim, was using Facebook to "openly glorifyterrorism" and post anti-semitic screeds.

Other experts warn of Hezbollah's use of Israeli soldiers' Facebook account information as a source of intelli-gence, and a possible way to trick soldier's into meeting a Facebook "friend" in person who turns out to be aHezbollah terrorist.

Meanwhile, a pro-Israel Facebook group page called "I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 PeopleWho Support Israel," was hacked and defaced by a pro-Hizballah group calling itself "Lebanese Shee'a Hack-ers."

Because Facebook is so ubiquitous, it has actually been used by investigators to track down jihadists. Earlierthis month, the FBI looking for a group of Somali immigrants to who left Minneapolis to join an overseasterrorist group were tracked down through their Facebook pages.

As one expert told FoxNews.com , sites like Facebook can help spread radicalism, but that shouldn't "over-shadow all the ways it has helped to stop radicalism. The benefits far outweigh the risks, and we are doingall we can to [mitigate] the risks."

Marc Lynch agrees. The author of Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East PoliticsToday ) blogs at Foreign Policy Magazine online, and is an expert on the use of moderninformation technolo-gy by Islamic terrorists.


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He believes that the same information technology trends that enable terrorists to carry out attacks - as oc-curred in Mumbai - can also diminish their ability to spread their propaganda, because the technology isavailable to its enemies: that is, us.

Lynch also points out that debates between radical Muslim members on online forums and chat rooms canactually "undermine moral or turn into open dissent, to the dismay of movement leaders." ("Plus," Lynchadds, video download sites "often feature ads for pornography (...) while you're waiting... I'll leave it to youto decide whether that's a glitch or a feature for the jihadists downloading their bin Laden videos.")

Perhaps to get around these and other drawbacks, Hamas actually tried to start their own version of You-Tube.com last fall.

The site, called AqsaTube , came complete with a ripped off version of the American site's famous red logo.But instead of the cute cat clips and stealth campaign videos you'll f ind on YouTube, however, AqsaTube was"devoted entirely to propaganda and incitement," according to the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Infor-mation Center (IITIC).

As the IITIC report explained, "the new AqsaTube website is another example of how Hamas, like other ter-rorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda, have learned to exploit the information revolution towage the battle for hearts and minds."

Israeli journalist Amir Mizroch noticed the troubling fact that AqsaTube was generating revenue byselling adspace through Google's ubiquitous AdSense program - including ads for Israeli companies. He confrontedGoogle via email and a few days later, Google removed its ads from the Hamas site.

Then, after Mizroch's story eventually appeared in the Jerusalem Post and was picked up by other news out-lets, AqsaTube website, then reappeared online looking very different indeed, its violent videos (and its sto-len YouTube logo) nowhere to be seen.

Yet for every site that is pulled down by its service provider, many other Muslim terrorist websites remainonline. In fact, those same websites and chatrooms were rife with speculation that the FBI had been behindthe AqsaWeb takedown, when the real culprit was one curious Israeli blogger and his subsequent newspaperstory.

Terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere "don't exist without the Web and the Net," explained Naval PostgraduateSchool professor John Arquilla in Technology Review . "A networked insurgency doesn't have anything like atraditional leadership. Most of the leadership they get is by going onwebsites, where they share informationvery quickly" - especially, it should be emphasized, among populations in which illiteracy is rampant.

Similarly, the Virtual Caliphate report also maintains that "extremists are shifting their operations away fromhigh-profile mosques" and placing "increasingly emphasis on attending private study circles" and holdingmeetings in private homes, restaurants and community centers. "This development," says the report, "maymake it increasingly difficult for [British] security services to monitor extremist networks and teachings."

As well, sites like Islambase emphasize the need to "pass on extremist interpretations of Islam to" children,through "home schooling and after school classes, and training them to love martyrdom and to hate non-Muslims."

So what, if anything, can be done to counteract online jihad?

Robert Spencer of JihadWatch.com told RightSideNews that counterjihadists, including bloggers and main-stream journalists, need to keep "shedding light on what [the online jihad] is, so as to try to alert people tothe reality and magnitude of what is going on."

John Arquilla has a particularly interesting suggestion. He told Technology Today that since the UnitedStates is,

"...spending so much on military affairs, maybe some of that should be directed towards technologies thatwill break our opponents' communications. In World War II, there was aninvestment in creating the first


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high-performance computers, for that very purpose. Today, it may be an investment in creating the mosteffective quantum computing or figuring out how to structure the vast ocean of data that masks the move-ments of al-Qaeda on the Net and the Web. We need a new Bletchley Park [the country house where theGerman WWII codes were broken], if we're going to win this war."


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April 7, 2009Part Six: Education

Did you know that Muslims discovered America? Or that "an-cient Jewish civilization contributed very little to the arts andsciences"?

According to a recent study by Institute for Jewish and Com-munity Research , millions of American public school studentsin all 50 states use textbooks that contain such erroneous"facts." Of the 500 historical errors uncovered by the study,hundreds of them tout a blatant agenda of Islamic superiori-ty.

Even more shockingly, U.S. taxpayers are the ones footingthe bill. It's all part of a worrisome trend within the Americaneducational system: the apparent spread of radical Muslimpropaganda under the guise of "education."

Pamela Geller has reported on the story for years. She says

that the influence of radical Islam spreads beyond K-12 into colleges and universities.

"No one knows how extensive Saudi funding of U.S. schools is," Geller told RightSideNews, "but since Saudiscontrol 80% of US mosques financially, it's very likely that they control the same percentage of schools."

She cites "$20 million dollar gifts from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, to top U.S. universities like Harvardand Georgetown," adding that the impact of such gifts flows all the way "down to the kindergarten level."

Under Title VI of the 1965 Higher Education Act, Harvard and seventeen other universities only qualify forspecial funding provided they conduct "outreach" to K-12 teachers, helping them shape lesson plans. Andnaturally, those lesson plans include laudatory information about Islam and the Middle East...

In one notorious instance, outraged parents protested in 2002 when they discovered that their children werelearning about Islam in a California public school by praying "in the name of Allah."

As one parent, who also happened to be a teacher in the same Byron Union District, was quoted as saying ,"Can you imagine the barrage of lawsuits and problems we would have from the ACLU if Christianity weretaught in the public schools? But when it comes to furthering the Islamic religion in the public schools, thereis not one word from the ACLU, People for the American Way or anybody else. This is hypocrisy."

Similar "acting Muslim" projects and programs have been reported in public schools in Texas, Florida andNew Hampshire .

Daniel Pipes has been following this development for some time, looking at instances in which adding Arabiclanguage instruction to public school curriculula has raised concerns about a hidden agenda of covert "Isla-mization".

Not surprisingly, some charter schools Pipes investigated have ties to dubious groups and individuals. Forexample, the International Academy in Columbus, Ohio had connections to radical CAIR activists. (Reportingon that same school, Patrick Poole observed that most of the students were Somali refugees - who werenow, tragically, being instructed by the same variety of radical Muslims their parents had come to Americato escape.)

Another Islamic school in Ohio, the Sunrise Academy , boasts an unindicted co-conspiracist in the first WorldTrade Center bombing as one of its star fundraisers.

Asked about the current state of affairs, Daniel Pipes told RightSidenews:


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"Without having done an exhaustive study, I would say that the high-profile controversies over schoolsin New York and Minnesota have somewhat set back the hitherto steady growth of Islamist influence in USpublic schools. But I expect this to be only temporary; given the resources and passions that the Islamistsbring to this cause, their influence will grow over the longer term."

Speaking of "high profile controversies," the Islamic Saudi Academy in Fairfax, Virginia has been in the newsrecently, due to their plans to expand their campus.

Pamela Geller says the Saudi-funded Academy, "has been investigated for teaching hate [against Christiansand Jews]. They promised they would revise their [text]books. They used white-out and called it revision."

In fact, Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) just asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to re-investigate the school,after one media report claimed their new textbooks "still contained questionable material."

Even more troubling is that fact that one of the Academy's graduates was convicted in 2005 of plotting withal-Qaida to assassinate President George W. Bush.

Pamela Geller live-blogged the March 2009 hearings regarding the school's proposed expansion, which in-cludes a new 100,000 square foot building.

"Concerned parents came out and fought on an unlevel playing field. The Saudis jammed the hearing with

600 Muslim supporters.' Parents that spoke were heckled and jeered."

Geller says the proposed expansion will proceed as planned. This, in spite of outspoken opposition from eve-ryone from local taxpayers to columnist Cal Thomas , who wrote boldly: "One would be hard-pressed to finda greater threat to public health, safety and welfare than this training ground for a new generation of jihad-ists."

Despite the endless and seemingly futile battle against these schools, Geller insists that "we must fightback. But non- Muslims are so misinformed, they barely take notice until it hits home. You can talk and youcan talk and you can preach to people, but in the final analysis, people have to feel it on their bodies and intheir daily lives.

"The leftist/Islamic alliance is well organized," adds Geller. Like them, "We need structure. We need organi-zations. We must stand up to this and expose the real objective of Islamic supremacism."

(Next: RightSideNews will explore the radical Muslim infiltration of American universities.)


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April 20, 2009Part Seven: Islamification of our Colleges and Universi-ties

In our last installment, we looked at the spreading influenceof Saudi money and ideas throughout the American K-12 edu-

cational system.The Muslim Students Association (MSA) offers would-be activ-ists free guides on "How to Achieve Muslim Holidays," "Set upPrayer Rooms" and "Achieve Halal Food" on campus. Ameri-can college professors and administrators, who typically chant"separation of church and state" at every opportunity, findthemselves speechless when the petitioning believers areMuslims rather than Christians.

Among the MSA's many victories was the construction of two$25,000 footbaths at the University of Michigan at Dearborn(devout Muslims are required to wash their feet before pray-ing).

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser , chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, told reporters that the footbathsmark the start down "a slippery slope of preferential treatment of one religion over another," which the FirstAmendment was established to prevent.

"These baths exert a monetary cost upon publicly funded institutions which by our Constitution should notappease the financial demands of one faith group over another," he said. "Every other faith group on cam-pus should be demanding that they be provided equal funding and space - which basically demonstrateshow outrageous these accommodations are."

Besides undermining the Establishment Clause, radical Muslim students also pose an uncomfortable chal-lenge to the average liberal university's championship of feminism and racial integration. One area in whichMuslim students have made significant inroads is the seemingly trivial yet highly significant area of "wom-en's only gym times" - which should more accurately described as "Muslim women-only."

Last year, Harvard announced new women-only access times at the student gym, to "accommodate religiouscustoms that make it difficult for some students to work out in the presence of men."

This decision came one month after men were banned from the athletic center during certain times, follow-ing successful petitions from the Harvard Islamic Society as well as the Women's Center.

Needless to say, politicized Muslim students play a major role in annual "Israeli Apartheid Week" events oncollege campuses across the country. Last year, UC Irvine hosted a series of events provocatively titled"Never Again? The Palestinian Holocaust." While videotaping one of the keynote speeches, two stu-dents were approached by the Dean of Student Services, who told them that, "on behalf of the male stu-dents, we would have to stop filming the female [Muslim] activists, or as she called them the sisters.' Awareof our rights, we refused her orders and continued covering the event."

Last month, journalist Khaled Abu Toameh wrote that:

"During a recent visit to several university campuses in the U.S., I discovered that there is more sympathyfor Hamas there than there is in Ramallah.

"Listening to some students and professors on these campuses, for a moment I thought I was sitting oppo-site a Hamas spokesman or a would-be-suicide bomber. (...) These groups of hard-line activists/thugs aretrying to intimidate anyone who dares to say something that they don't like to hear."


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Dirty tricks combine with ignorance to create an atmosphere of intimidation at campuses across the nation.One depressing example comes from Brett Cohen , a campus coordinator with the pro-Israel organizationStandWithUs. When his group organized an event last March to publicize Israeli casualties in Sderot duringthe recent war in Gaza, a rival group called Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) "circulated a letter con-demning the event. It was signed by several campus organizations, including the College Democrats andAmnesty International. Shamefully, several of the signers have admitted that they never read the letter, and

had no idea where Sderot was."Author and expert on radical Islam Robert Spencer has been sounding the alarm about this sort of "shariacreep" for years at his website JihadWatch.com . In an exclusive interview, Spencer reflected on whether ornot his efforts to warn the public were paying off:

"I think we may be getting through to a very small number of people, but Muslim Brotherhood front organi-zations in the U.S. are still making tremendous headway by portraying these Sharia-creep initiatives as sim-ple matters of civil rights, and playing on fears among public officials, and the public at large, of being seenas racist and bigoted.

"It is getting worse, because there is a concerted effort by the MSAs on various campuses and other groupsto push Muslim accommodation issues aggressively, but this effort is relatively new. We didn't see it on thisscale ten or even five years ago. I think it is a natural outgrowth of the post-9/11 anxiety on the part of

government and media not to appear Islamophobic.' As long as that continues to be a matter for concern,there will be continued accommodation of Muslim practices and Islamic distinctiveness, which only aids andabets the Islamic supremacist agenda.

But the "level of awareness right now is so abysmal," continued Robert Spencer, "that I think the main thingpeople can do is try to call attention, via letters to the editor, contacts to their elected officials, the blogso-phere, etc., to the explicit campaign being undertaken here. The idea would be to awaken as many peopleas possible to what is going on here -- who the groups are that are pursuing this agenda, and what theagenda really is, behind all the talk of hate speech' and accommodation of cultural practices in the nameof multiculturalism and diversity."


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May 3, 2009Part Eight: The Workplace

Last month, the longtime owner of a Chicago Dunkin' Donutswas forced to give up his franchise.

Dunkin' Donuts had willingly accommodated the owner's faithbased restrictions over the course of their twenty-year part-nership. But in 2002, the chain issued a sudden ultimatum:offer your customers every Dunkin' Donuts product -- or noneat all. Seven years later, the fast food giant won the case, andthe owner lost his store.

Increasingly, large companies like Swift , UPS and McDonald's have been sued by Muslim employees demanding the rightto wear religious garb , pray on company time and refuse tohandle pork. These expensive legal battles do more than

just raise prices for customers and drain company coffers.Employee morale suffers (and with it, productivity)as workers view each other with suspicion and resentment.

The number of such cases accelerated in the 1990s, according to an exhaustive 2007 survey by JefferyBreinholt at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. Historically, he explains, Arabs had beenconsidered "Caucasian", but in 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court "established that Arabs were an ethnic minori-ty for purposes of our federal anti-discrimination laws."

Brienholt notes that Muslim employment discrimination claims increased after the first World Trade Cen-ter attacks in 1993. He proposes two theories to explain why: the "Innocent Bystander" theory (Muslims feltdistrusted and uncomfortable in American workplaces after both WTC attacks); and the "Political Islam"theory (Muslim activists are exploiting U.S. civil rights laws to push an extremist agenda).

He believes the "Political Islam" theory is the correct one, and that many Muslims are engaged in a non-violent campaign to spread extreme Islam through American workplaces as a sort of "stealth jihad" (to usescholar Robert Spencer's expression for the phenomenon.)

In one extraordinary case, the Saudi government tried to force a pilot working for an American companyto convert to Islam if he wanted to keep flying over Saudi airspace!

In an exclusive interview with RightSideNews, Ann Corcoran of Refuge REsettlement Watch shared her in-sights about this phenomenon. Her group has been chronicling the spread of "workplace accommodation" forsome time. Her comments reflect this expertise and are worth quoting at length.

"At some point," says Corcoran, "big businesses like meatpackers discovered they could keep wages low byusing immigrant labor. During the Clinton Presidency, the State Department's Refugee Resettlement Pro-gram brought in over 100,000 Bosnian Muslims" who ended up working in Midwestern meatpacking plants .

"Somalis are the most obvious group demanding workplace accommodation," Corcoran points out. "Wehave brought to the US over 80,000 Somali refugees in the last 25 years. The State Department has cut off

all family reunification because they found through DNA testing that a very high percentage of Somalis liedto get into the US."

Corcoran points to well publicized disputes between Somali Muslim workers and meat packing plantsin Shelbyville , Tennessee, and Greeley , Colorado.

In Grand Island, tensions led to interracial conflict. In 2008, "about 500 Swift workers, all Muslim and mostSomali, walked off the job and marched a mile to Grand Island City Hall to protest for religious freedom,"according to a news report .


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"They wanted prayer time during the holy month of Ramadan.

"The plant's attempt to accommodate the requests led to counter protests staged by Caucasians, Hispanics,Vietnamese and African-Americans."

In St. Cloud, Minnesota , Somali Muslim employees were awarded $1.35-million for "discrimination" when ameat packing plant refused to let them pray during work hours.

Is this sort of civil unrest, resentment and disharmony among neighbors really worth the dubious monetarybenefits of "cheap labor"?

Ann Corcoran wonders who is behind it all.

"Some one or some group is organizing the Somalis," she says. "There is no way on earth, they became thatsavvy in organizing without being taught the fine art of community organizing' using the SaulAlinsky playbook. Is it a coincidence that in Greeley and Grand Island, well-educated, English-speaking So-malis, just happened to arrive in those towns and get hired by Swift & Co. in the weeks prior to the demon-strations and walkouts?"

Echoing observations by others that the late Saul Alinsky's radical theories have shaped the thinking of Pres-ident Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others currently weilding power in the political realm, Corcoran

explains that Alinsky, "taught that you must create chaos to bring about change. A good agitator eventuallywears people down. They don't have to win this year or next, it's the wearing down process that will ulti-mately succeed if we don't counter it.

"And, the Somalis are really good at it because they have an in your face' personality and they are veryvery smart."

Corcoran warns that the Muslim holiday of Ramadan in August may see another upsurge in workplace de-mands and unrest, given the daunting requirements placed upon Muslims during that celebration, such asdawn to dusk fasting. In the U.K, some organizations have tried to impose Ramadan fasting rules on non-Muslim employees.

Lately, Muslim demands for workplace accommodation have met with increasing resistance, such as thatseen in the Dunkin' Donuts case. Last autumn, Somali Muslim cab drivers serving the Minneapolis air-

port lost an appeal in their ongoing campaign for the right to accept passengers who were carrying alcohol.(The city's cab drivers have also caused controversy over refusals to accept blind passengers travelingwith guide dogs.)

Ann Corcoran believes such developments demonstrate what can happen if non-Muslims vocalize their oppo-sition to "stealth jihad" in the workplace.

"As for what people can do," she says, "when Tyson's dumped the Labor Day holiday at the chicken plant inShelbyville in favor of giving the entire plant off for Eid last year, the publicity came out very negative andvery quickly. As a result hundreds of calls of complaint went into Tysons and the plan was modified---negative publicity is very important. These big companies can be swayed by negative publicity."

Related: Islam in America Series by Kathy Shaidle and The Evils of Islamic Political Ideology by Alyssa Lap-pen

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