This question is becoming almost rhetorical now that Washington has taken all the steps, both from a military and media point of view, to launch an aggression against Iran. Commandos have already infiltrated Iran preparing this war. The president has reclassified nuclear weapons into the conventional arsenal and will be used at free usage just as a conventional bomb would be used. World War III is coming.

Let’s look at the facts.

Bush and his entourage are repeatedly insisting that Teheran suspend its nuclear development program and cease from enriching uranium.

To support this campaign, Western media outlets continually repeat Washington’s demands, while emphasizing Iran’s rejection of them.

Few analytical articles in the corporate media take into consideration Iran’s position, which asserts the principle contained in the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, in terms of the right of every country to develop nuclear programs for peaceful purposes.

Nor do they delve into the fact that Iran, a signatory of that treaty, is also a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose inspectors are supervising the Iranian program on a daily basis, with permanent and modern monitoring equipment.

The most recent experience shows that the United States was perfectly capable of invading and occupying Iraq on a war totally based on lies and manipulation.

Of course, Iran is not Iraq, nor are the circumstances or the political and military setting the same.

However, the Bush Administration has used a UN Security Council with little credibility, and an inconsistent European Union, to approve sanctions against Iran, and even commit to war threats if the government of that nation does not acquiesce to the US demands.

That was the context of the recent infiltration of British marines in Iranian territorial waters, and the detention of Iranian diplomats accredited in Baghdad by US troops.

Another element favoring the thesis of a possible military action is the most recently held US military maneuver in the Persian Gulf and the fact that the powerful hardware deployed in the area will remain there with all their troops, fighter aircraft, sophisticated rockets and other weapons.

A reporter from the Associated Press, who traveled on board the John C Stennis aircraft carrier, described the drill as “an exhibition to Iran of US military might.”

This last deployment added 13,000 fresh troops, 2 aircraft carriers, 125 planes, auxiliary ships and other means in an area where the United States currently has some 40,000 troops, not counting the 150,000 currently occupying Iraq, and the 18,000 stationed in Afghanistan.

The disproportionate military operation seems to be a preview of a possible attack against Iran.

An aggression against Iran would complicate even more the already volatile situation in the region; and neighboring countries have already voiced their disapproval of any military action.

Among the key elements that seem to be deterring a military action at this time is the consistent defense of the Iranian government to carry out its nuclear energy plans, vital for the development of the country.

The Iranian people and its armed forces have repeatedly shown that they will not give up their right to independence and will continue to support their government’s peaceful nuclear program, and reject the threats and conditions being made by the Bush administration.

Another aspect that also leads one to think against an attack against Iran is the fact the US, in its stagnated and lost war in Iraq, has some 200,000 troops involved in the region, a manpower that in the case of an attack against Iran could become the target of a military response from Teheran.

Due to its military capacity, Iran could mobilize an amount of troops and resources to the Iraqi border that would definitely put a stiff resistance to the US rearguard.

Opposing the possibility of a US attack on Iran are neighboring countries in the Persian Gulf, which are not in the least interested in another war in the zone, this time against a country with considerable military might.

The small emirates and other nations of the Gulf or near it, depend on the water that they process out of that sea. If a war takes place there, no one could assure that their water treatment plants would remain exempt from damage, or not be impacted by the pollution caused by depleted uranium munitions or any other weapon used in the conflict.

The region concentrates one of the largest oil and gas reserves in the world. If a war was to be launched, production would be interrupted altogether or partially affected, and the price of crude oil could see an unprecedented hike.

Remember that in the Strait of Hormuz, located in the same Iranian platform, more than 40 percent of the world’s oil circulates and that if this sea corridor were to be closed by an armed conflict, the oil would cease to flow to many countries including the wealthy nations of the West.

The United Arab Emirates has stated that it would not join a military action against its neighbour. Earlier Qatar said it “would not permit an attack on Iran from its territory.”

Qatar is a country where the Pentagon has a huge base at Al-Uleid, the general command headquarters of US air operations in the Middle East.

A similar pronouncement was made by the Gulf Cooperation Council made up by Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrein and the United Arab Emirates.

In weighing both reflections, I’m inclined to believe that the pretension of the Bush administration to attack Iran is not viable, even though I share the same uncertainty felt around the world because nobody can be sure, when dealing with Bush and his team.

By Paul L. Williams Ph.D., (author of THE DAY OF ISLAM)
With the able assistance of Douglas Hagmann, Krayer and Michael Travis

Friday, May 11, 2007 http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/paul-williams051107.htm

Situated within a dense forest at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains on the outskirts of Hancock, New York, Islamberg is not an ideal place for a summer vacation unless, of course, you are an exponent of the Jihad or a fan of Osama bin Laden.

The 70 acre complex is surrounded with “No trespassing” signs; the rocky terrain is infested with rattlesnakes; and the woods are home to black bears, coyotes, wolves, and a few bobcats.

The entrance to the community is at the bottom of a very steep hill that is difficult to navigate even on a bright sunny day in May. The road, dubbed Muslim Lane, is unpaved and marred by deep crevices that have been created by torrential downpours. On a wintry day, few, save those with all terrain vehicles, could venture forth from the remote encampment.

A sentry post has been established at the base of the hill.

The sentry, at the time of this visit, is an African American dressed in Islamic garb – - a skull cap, a prayer shawl, and a loose fitting shalwat kameez. He instructs us to turn around and leave. “Our community is not open to visitors,” he says.

Behind the sentry and across a small stream stand dozens of inhabitants of the compound – - the men wearing skull caps and loose fitting tunics, the women in full burqa. They appear ready to deal with any unauthorized intruders.

The hillside is blighted by rusty trailers that appear to be without power or running water and a number of outhouses. The scent of raw sewage is in the air.

The place is even off limits to the local undertaker who says that he has delivered bodies to the complex but has never been granted entrance. “They come and take the bodies from my hearse. They won’t allow me to get past the sentry post. They say that they want to prepare the bodies for burial. But I never get the bodies back. I don’t know what’s going on there but I don’t think it’s legal.”

On the other side of the hill where few dare to go is a tiny village replete with a make-shift learning center (dubbed the “International Quranic Open University”); a trailer converted into a Laundromat; a small, green community center; a small and rather squalid grocery store; a newly constructed majid; over forty clapboard homes; and scores of additional trailers.

It is home to hundreds – - all in Islamic attire, and all African-Americans. Most drive late model SUVs with license plates from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The locals say that some work as tollbooth operators for the New York State Thruway, while others are employed at a credit card processing center that maintains confidential financial records.

While buzzing with activity during the week, the place becomes a virtual hive on weekends. The guest includes arrivals from the inner cities of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and, occasionally, white-robed dignitaries in Ray-Bans from the Middle East.

Venturing into the complex last summer, Douglas Hagmann, an intrepid investigator and director of the Northeast Intelligence Service, came upon a military training area at the eastern perimeter of the property. The area was equipped with ropes hanging from tall trees, wooden fences for scaling, a make-shift obstacle course, and a firing range. Hagmann said that the range appeared to have been in regular use.

Islamberg is not as benign as a Buddhist monastery or a Carmelite convent. Nearly every weekend, neighbors hear sounds of gunfire. Some, including a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, have heard the bang of small explosives. None of the neighbors wished to be identified for fear of “retaliation.” “We don’t even dare to slow down when we drive by,” one resident said. “They own the mountain and they know it and there is nothing we can do about it but move, and we can’t even do that. Who wants to buy a property near that?”
Islamberg’s Grocery Store

The complex serves to scare the bejeesus out of the local residents. “If you go there, you better wear body armor,” a customer at the Circle E Diner in Hancock said. “They have armed guards and if they shoot you, nobody will find your body.”

At Cousins, a watering hole in nearby Deposit, a barfly, who didn’t wish to be identified, said: “The place is dangerous. You can hear gunfire up there. I can’t understand why the FBI won’t shut it down.”

Islamberg is a branch of Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who refers to himself as “the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr,” Gilani, has been directly linked by court documents to Jamaat ul-Fuqra or “community of the impoverished,” an organization that seeks to “purify” Islam through violence.

Though primarily based in Lahore, Pakistan, Jamaat ul-Fuqra has operational headquarters in New York and openly recruits through various social service organizations in the U.S., including the prison system. Members live in hamaats or compounds, such as Islamberg, where they agree to abide by the laws of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, which are considered to be above local, state and federal authority. Additional hamaats have been established in Hyattsville, Maryland; Red House, Virginia; Falls Church, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; York, South Carolina; Dover, Tennessee; Buena Vista, Colorado; Talihina, Oklahoma; Tulane Country, California; Commerce, California; and Onalaska, Washington. Others are being built, including an expansive facility in Sherman, Pennsylvania.

Before becoming a citizen of Islamberg or any of the other Fuqra compounds, the recruits – - primarily inner city black men who became converts in prison – - are compelled to sign an oath that reads: “I shall always hear and obey, and whenever given the command, I shall readily fight for Allah’s sake.”

In the past, thousands of members of the U.S. branches of Jamaat ul-Fuqra traveled to Pakistan for paramilitary training, but encampments, such as Islamberg, are now capable of providing book-camp training so raw recruits are no longer required to travel abroad amidst the increased scrutiny of post 9/11.

Over the years, numerous members of Jamaat ul-Fuqra have been convicted in US courts of such crimes as conspiracy to commit murder, firebombing, gun smuggling, and workers’ compensation fraud. Others remain leading suspects in criminal cases throughout the country, including ten unsolved assassinations and seventeen fire-bombings between 1979 and 1990.

The criminal charges against the group and the criminal convictions are not things of the past. In 2001, a resident of a California compound was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of a sheriff’s deputy; another was charged with gun-smuggling’ and twenty-four members of the Red House community were convicted of firearms violations.

By 2004 federal investigators uncovered evidence that linked both the DC “sniper killer” John Allen Muhammed and “Shoe Bomber” Richard Reid to the group and reports surfaced that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded in the process of attempting to obtain an interview with Sheikh Gilani in Pakistan.

JIHAD IN U.S. STREETS

Zealot Muslims now plan to bathe America’s streets with gunfire just as is going on in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Darfur and so forth.
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J. Grant Swank, Jr. (ArriveNet Editorials – May 04, 2007) — “These killers are known as “paintball jihadists” in that they practice in paintball game style what they have planned for America’s streets. They are already training others in “urban combat” using paintball guns. They will engage in paramilitary-style training right under our noses, and lie about it to our faces. They are protected, in some cases, by the religious Imams, some who even encourage or schedule such outings.”

Zealot Muslims now plan to bathe America’s streets with gunfire just as is going on in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Darfur and so forth.

Once these Allah devotees get hold, they don’t stop. Street fighting never ends. Further, these fighters are more than willing to sacrifice their own bodies and those of their families and neighbors in order to see through Islam World Rule.

Douglas J. Hagmann, Director, Northeast Intelligence Network, reports that American officials already know of the process. However, both government and media are muffling detail.

Jihad will come to the United States due to “Muslim men inside the U.S., (the latter) adhering to the Islamist ideology of jihad, preparing for war on the streets of America.

“The ‘insider’ reports are very troubling and are purposely being downplayed by official sources and go largely unreported in the media.

“One case, however, can serve as an example of what is taking place all across the U.S. involving the procurement and disbursement of weapons to Muslim ‘jihadists.’ On Tuesday, May 2, 2007, a federal indictment was unsealed in the U.S. federal court in St. Louis naming eight Islamic men as defendants in a case involving the buying, selling or hiding of automatic weapons, an anti-personnel mine and other explosives.

“The case originated with the arrest of Mousa M. ABUELAWI, 22, of Creve Coeur, MO on December 29, 2006. He was charged with three counts of illegal possession or distribution of a machine gun and conspiracy to violate machine gun statutes. A superseding indictment unsealed yesterday, charges ABUELAWI and seven others with machine gun charges and charges of conspiracy, lying to the FBI and other firearms violations.

“The other seven defendants identified in the indictment are identified as: Thaer Abde SUMAD, 23, of Florissant, MO, Abdikarin WARSAME, 28, Charley M. HUNT Jr., 45, Darnell T. THORNTON, 25, and Hussein Ali NURE, 29, all from Jennings, MO, Mohamed JUDEH, 20, of Maryland Heights and Otha L. BAKER, 20, of St. Louis. If found guilty of the charges, the men face 5-10 years in prison.”

Jihadists are stockpiling weaponry and explosives via secret cells. Mosque leaders are cooperating with them.

“In the case of ABUELAWI and the other seven defendants, the men met at gas stations located in north St. Louis between August 2006 and January 2007 to buy or transfer automatic weapons and explosives. In the original documents charging Abuelawi, Sumad is quoted in a meeting with ABUELAWI and a government informer as saying that ‘he wants to buy as many explosives as possible because, “we’re going to war.”‘”

Visit http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/ Northeast Intelligence Network

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016297.php
Of course, we already have thought crime in America. When public figures and media talking heads (you know who I’m talking about — almost everybody, Left and Right) relentlessly purvey polite fictions about Islam as a religion of peace instead of having the courage to challenge the American Muslim community, we have thoughtcrime. Challenge the American Muslim community? Yes — to confront the elements of Islam that the jihadists are using to justify violence and formulate positive ways to neutralize their capacity to be used in such a way. In other words, to institute large-scale programs — transparent, sincere, and verifiable ones — to teach against the jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism in American schools and mosques. This would actually empower the reformers these people claim to support, since no reform can begin until one is ready to admit that something needs reforming.

But the Matthews and Dobbses and Hannitys and Becks of the world would rather play pretend. They’d rather tell their viewers fantasies and fictions rather than deal with harsh realities, because to do otherwise would be to commit thoughtcrime. CAIR and its ilk have already been quite successful in casting any honest discussion of the elements of Islam that are being used today by the jihadists to justify their actions as “anti-Muslim,” “Islamophobic,” “bigoted,” “hateful,” etc. And the fearless free media cowers in terror.

In reality, however, it is not anti-Muslim, “Islamophobic,” bigoted or hateful simply to point out what Muhammad taught, according to the earliest Islamic sources, and what the Qur’an says, as interpreted by the mainstream Sunni schools of jurisprudence, and what Islamic law says, and what the record of Islamic history is. How could such a thing be hateful, or loving, for that matter? It is what it is. The fact that almost no major media types will dare to look at this material squarely shows how effective the Orwellian mau-mauing has been. Thoughtcrime is real, and few are willing to commit it.

And now the House of Representatives of the United States of America has joined the cowering crowd, passing a bill that, if it becomes law (as it likely will once a Democratic president is in office in 2009), will make it illegal to discuss the root causes of the problem that threatens to destroy Europe within our lifetimes, forces every Israeli to leave his home every day not knowing if he will return, and was responsible for the largest mass murder ever on American soil (no, the perp wasn’t Cho Seung Hui). That CAIR loves this bill and has worked for it is no surprise — it is the same sort of thing as their Flying Imams lawsuit. That one would make Americans too afraid to report a Muslim acting suspiciously in an airport or on a plane, effectively giving jihad terrorists a free hand. This one could make quoting bin Laden and asking peaceful Muslims to stand up against jihad terrorism more effectively in both words and deeds into a crime — that of “Islamophobia,” as the mau-mauers have dubbed it. It’s funny how the noble and glorious words of the Qur’an become “hate speech” when I simply quote them — it reminds me of a wonderful short story by Jorge Luis Borges about which I’ll be writing more soon — but that is what I do, and that is an accusation I have often received.

Here is a WND story shedding some light on how this bill criminalizes thoughts. The article deals mostly with Christians and moral issues, but obviously since CAIR is on board so energetically they clearly see its usefulness to stifle free inquiry into the elements of Islam that need reforming.

The ever-vigilant Pamela over at Atlas Shrugs (thanks to News4U) has the details:

I warned against the thought crimes bill here. I even said “I can just see CAIR scampering to get this passed.” They will wield this legislation like a club. Well it passed the House and CAIR is ecstatic. Here is the CAIR alert;
CAIR PRAISES HOUSE PASSAGE OF ANTI-HATE CRIMES BILL
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/3/2007) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today congratulated the US House of Representatives on its passage of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

To see how your U.S. representative voted, go here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll299.xml

CAIR has supported the act since 2005 and last week renewed its call for the community to urge elected officials to pass the measure.

SEE: Support the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007
http://capwiz.com/cair/home/

The Senate now must consider its version of the bill, known as S. 1105.

If passed, the law would allow the Attorney General to provide federal assistance to local law enforcement to aid investigations of crimes motivated by “…prejudice based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin…” of the victim.

The White House has indicated that it will most likely veto the measure if it reaches the President.

According to former Detroit Public Schools Superintendent Eddie Green, Kifah Jayyousi is “a great guy, one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.” While Green was superintendent, Jayyousi oversaw the Detroit school district’s capital improvement program, which had a $1.5 billion budget.

Jayyousi is now charged, according to the Detroit Free Press , with “conspiring to kidnap, maim and murder by providing money, recruits and equipment for Islamic struggles in Bosnia , Kosovo and Chechnya from 1993 to 2001.” He could get life in prison.

Christopher Paul, a martial arts instructor at a mosque in Columbus , Ohio , is also a terrific guy. Ahmad Al-Akhras, vice chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter in Columbus , said: “From the things I know, he is a loving husband and he has a wife and parents in town. They are a good family together.”

Yet now Paul, a Muslim, has been charged, according to Associated Press, with “providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide support to terrorists and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.” He is accused of training with Al-Qaeda in the early 1990s, training people for violent jihad attacks on targets in Europe and the United States , and more.

But another one of Paul’s friends, Hisham Jenhawi, was skeptical: “I don’t think it’s even close to his personality to act upon something like that. He’s a very kind person. You would meet him on the street and he would want to hug you with the heart that he has.” One of his neighbors, Mike James, added: “He seemed like a nice guy, always waving…”

This kind of thing is nothing new. A friend remembered Gokhan Elaltuntas, a Muslim who carried out a suicide bombing on a synagogue in Istanbul in 2003: “We went partridge hunting together. I still cannot believe how such a quiet person could have been involved in an incident like this.” A friend of Naveed Haq, the jihadist killer who murdered one and wounded five at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in July 2006, described him as “pretty much just a normal guy….He was the kind of guy when you talked to him he was always laughing.”

According to a Southern California friend of Raed Albanna, who killed 132 people in a suicide attack outside a medical clinic in Iraq in 2005, “He was into partying. We hit some pretty wild clubs in Hollywood .” Frank Lindh, the father of John Walker Lindh, a.k.a. Suleyman Al-Faris, the convert to Islam from Marin County who joined the Taliban and was captured in Afghanistan fighting against American troops, has said: “In simple terms, this is the story of a decent and honorable young man embarked on a spiritual quest.”

Great guys all. Some partied and some embarked on a spiritual search, but they all ended up in the same place, committing acts dedicated to furthering the cause of jihad, or facing charges of having done so.

One clue to this phenomenon may come from jazz musician Tarek Shah, who recently pled guilty to providing martial arts and hand-to-hand combat with weapons training to Al-Qaeda operatives. In 2004 Shah told a man he thought was a fellow jihadist but who turned out to be an undercover agent, “I could be joking and smiling and then cutting their throats in the next second.”

Or they may be genuinely decent fellows. It was the Nazi genocide mastermind Heinrich Himmler who told a group of SS leaders : “Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have gone through this and yet — apart from a few exceptions, examples of human weakness — to have remained decent fellows, this is what has made us hard. This is a glorious page in our history that has never been written and shall never be written…”

Were these SS mass murderers really decent fellows? To their friends and family, they probably were. After all, they weren’t interested in undifferentiated mayhem. They were adherents of a totalitarian, genocidal ideology that convinced them that the murders they were committing were for a good purpose. As far as they were concerned, their goals were rational and good, and the murders were a means to that goal. It was not just a noteworthy achievement, but a necessity, for them to remain “decent fellows,” for they were busy trying to build what they saw as a decent society. That their vision of a decent society included genocide and torture did not trouble them, for it was all for – in their view – a goal that remained good.

Today’s jihad terrorists are likewise the adherents of a totalitarian, genocidal ideology that teaches them that murders committed under certain circumstances are a good thing. And those murders, here again, are not committed for their own sake, but for the sake of a societal vision hardly less draconian and evil than that of Hitler, but one also that portrays itself as the exponent of all that is good – as the Taliban showed us. But the continued reference to such people as “terrorists” pure and simple, and the refusal of the media and most law enforcement officials to examine their ideology at all, only reinforces the idea that these people are raving maniacs, interested solely in chaos for its own sake. The society they want to build, and the means besides guns and bombs that they are using to build it, so far remain below the radar screen of most analysts. These people are just “terrorists,” interested only in “terror.” And so we’re continually surprised when they turn out to be nice guys after all. Decent fellows. Like the SS.

Somali Center Grant Fraud and al Qaeda investigations in Nashville

By Jerry Gordon and Lyn Andrea Andersen [i]

Update

This is an update of a scoop by American Congress for Truth (ACT), posted on our website in early April following an investigation and interview with Steve Gill, moderator of Tennessee talk radio powerhouse Gill Report. What started the ball rolling was a tip by one of our ACT member who wrote us to the website asking for help. This is what your vigilance as members can do in helping us protect our country. Credit must also go to the Channel 4 News I-team at NBC affiliate in Nashville, WSMV, in their on-going investigative reporting on this story with segments that will run this week and next. Watch the first segment here. This is a cautionary tale that goes far beyond Nashville. It questions how far Islamist infiltration has gone in the heartland of the US with abuses of federal programs and taxpayer funding. It needs Congressional scrutiny. Witness this comment from Nashville U.S. Representative Jim Cooper:

“I think it is a very upsetting story. I get mad every time I see even a dollar of taxpayer money misspent. It looks like in this case hundreds of thousands of dollars were wasted or misspent. I think we welcome the diversity in our community but it also worries me that there may be a safety issue here. This is an amazing and troublesome story. We need to make sure that this is solved and solved quickly.”

Nashville- Number one refugee per capita town in America

Nashville is an exemplar of the ‘global interior’ – the phenomenon of refugee immigration to cities in the U.S. heartland – in a recent Carnegie Reporter article entitled “New Immigrants in New Places.” Tennessee’s capitol has been called a “blue city in a red state.” Between 1990 and 1999 the foreign born population grew by over 203% from less than 13,000 to more than 40,000 out of the consolidated Nashville-Davidson population of over 607,000. Foreign born residents in Nashville now account for one in seven residents.

The growth in Nashville’s immigrant population was a product of a Clinton Administration initiative in the 1990’s by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to vector refugees away from the traditional gateway cities to the nation’s interior. It was also part of a conscious plan by Nashville and Tennessee business leaders led by former Mayor now Governor Phil Bredersen to attract new industries to the region. Employers like Nissan, the Saturn division of GM, Dell Computers, Hospital Corporation of America and the Opryland resort and hotel complex created over 260,000 new jobs in the Metro region in the decade of the 1990’s. Unemployment remains dramatically low in the Nashville metro area. Many immigrants filled low end manual jobs. However, about one fifth of these immigrants still live below the national poverty levels.

Nashville is ranked 1st among major American cities in terms of the per capita proportion of foreign born residents.

In Nashville, the influx of immigrants brought Kurds from Iraq, Iranians, Iraqi Christians and Muslims, Egyptians, Ethiopians, South Sudanese Christians, and Somalis. There are also significant Mexican, Lao, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Korean, and other South East Asian communities. The Nashville based Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition led the charge for securing state legislation providing driver license tests in multiple languages and, later, driving certificates for undocumented immigrants.

Somali Islamists in Nashville.

All is not sweetness and light in Nashville Рthe home of the Opryland and Rhinestone cowboys Рbetween the Muslim and general communities. Among the Nashville Muslim immigrant community there is evidence of infiltration by Islamist elements and leaders, including an active Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) chapter. In sharp contrast, the local Kurdish community of over 9,000, the Sudanese Christian one that numbers 8,000, and large Iraqi and Iranian ̩migr̩ communities are overwhelming committed to core American values.

In late February, 2007 , a Somali Muslim immigrant cabdriver ran down two fares – a Vanderbilt college student and his visitor from Ohio- after a heated argument about Hitler and the Holocaust.

In June, 2005 , the Somali Muslim émigré community via CAIR demanded and got an audience with Mayor Bill Purcell, Metro Police, and 30 other agency heads after an alleged desecration of a Quran.

In March, 2005 , 30 Somali Muslim workers demanded prayer time while on the job at Dell facilities in the Capitol city. They were let go only to be reinstated after CAIR and the Metro Human Relations Commission intervened.

Nashville now boasts six Mosques for the growing Muslim community. Last year when the Danish Cartoons controversy erupted around the world , a special forum was convened in Nashville to discuss it. The gathering included revered former editor and publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, John Siegenthaler, representatives of the ACLU and was moderated by the Dean of the VanderbiltDivinitySchool. The panel included a leader in the local Muslim community, Dr. Awad Benhazim. Dr. Binhazim is a member of the board of the Islamic Center of Nashville. The Imam of the Islamic Center of Nashville is Abdulhakim Ali Mohamed. Binhazin was reported to have said at the meeting that “We are blessed to have someone of his caliber.” Ali Mohamed has a bachelor’s degree in Sharia (Islamic law) from the Islamic University of Medina and, before coming to Nashville in 1998, he was Imam at the notorious al-Qaeda connected al-Farouq Masjid mosque in Brooklyn.

Another Imam in Nashville at the Al-Farooq Mosque, Abdishakur Ibrahim, was at the center of several controversies including the alleged Quran desecration, the Dell prayer time kerfuffle, and shutdown of a Halal food supermarket owned by him because the USDA found suspicious financial activities.

Abdishakur Ibrahim left Nashville under mysterious circumstances via Canada to Kenya in early July 2005. The timing and circumstances of his sudden departure became subject to counter terrorism inquiries.

Nashville Somali Center Grant Fraud and Mismanagement

The Somali Muslim immigrant community has been manipulated by the Islamists in Nashville. This has led to a serious matter of possible fraud in an important federal grant from the Office of Minority Health (OMH) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for alleviation of mental health problems including abuse and violence against women. A recent U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) grant to aid African Refugee Victims of Crime may also be at risk. This alleged fraud was perpetrated by the head of the Somali Community Center of Nashville (SCCN) Abdirizak Musse Hassan. Hassan was convicted in a plea bargain in Federal court in 2006 of a misdemeanor for ‘false statements’ in a five year long probe of the Somali dominated Al-Barakaat Hawala Islamic money transfer network by the U.S. Treasury – IRS and the Counter Terrorism Task Force of the FBI.

The Al-Barakaat money transfer investigations were prompted by allegations that funds repatriated to Somalia by the system – some $40 million annually- were diverted to al Qaeda. Hassan’s indictment was one of four brought by federal prosecutors in the U.S. The Al-Barakaat money transfer system was closed.

Amazingly Hassan throughout this federal investigation, while under indictment, became the Executive Director of the SCCN and the grants director on numerous federal grants from the ORR, OMH and DOJ.

There is documented evidence that Hassan failed to implement the original purposes of the OMH grant – mental health outreach and alleviation of women’s abuse and violence including genital mutilation practices in the Nashville Somali community. He diverted the funds to employ the Imam of the Al-Farooq Mosque, Abdishakur Ibrahim and replaced Abdishakur Ibrahim (following his mysterious departure) with the Treasurer of the Al Farooq Mosque, Salaad Nur.

There were reports that the Al-Farooq Mosque engaged in support of Islamist proselytizing. Competent Somali women were shunted aside from participating in the OMH mental health and violence prevention grant program. This program was originally designed to support both African and Middle Eastern origin Muslim, primarily women, in Nashville. There is some alleged evidence that Somali children have actually been taken on ‘vacations’ to Africa where female genital mutilation procedures were performed.

This alleged fraud was facilitated in part by federal HHS OMH bureaucratic bungling.

The original OMH grant was filed in June of 2004 by a collaborative partnership in the immigrant community composed of Kurds, Somalis, and Iraqis. The award was made in October of that year. However, in February of 2005, the OMH notified the grantees that Kurds and Iraqis were not ‘eligible’ for services because they did not meet the definitions of ‘minorities’ under Federal regulations. Minorities under the Federal code that applies to the OMH program include those of “African descent, Asian, Hispanics, Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.” In effect those of Middle Eastern origin were excluded from both the grant program services and the original sponsoring partnership collaborative. That left the Muslim Somalis who were encouraged to find a new grant partner. One Sudanese Christian outreach specialist was added to the grant in April 2005 and was allocated approximately 10% of the grant budget.

Shortly after receipt of the OMH letter in February 2005, the original grant partners, excepting the Somalis, went to Nashville Democratic Congressman, Jim Cooper to lodge an inquiry into ‘unfair discrimination.’ Cooper’s staff exchanged correspondence with the OMH in Rockville, Maryland, only to be told that the Kurdish and Iraqi collaborative partners ‘didn’t qualify.’

When evidence of the fraudulent diversion of OMH mental health grant funds by Hassan was presented to the Inspector General’s office of HHS it was deemed not a priority in light of the IG’s overwhelming caseload of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. In effect the $450,000 OMH grant to the SCCN was considered the equivalent of ‘small potatoes.’ The evidence was then taken to the Metro Nashville Police Counter Terrorism Division. The latter suggested the evidence be reviewed by the Joint Task Force on Terrorism of the Immigration Custom Enforcement (ICE) office of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A Joint Task Force specialist on Somali Community matters was assigned by the DHS Joint Task Force to investigate. The matter was then transferred to an FBI Special Agent engaged in white collar crime and grant fraud. After a 10 month effort going through channels at local, state and federal levels the comment from an FBI special agent was ‘to destroy the evidence’ because ‘there wasn’t much of a case.’ All this despite evidence that the OMH grant was not implemented as intended. Instead the funds were being used for unlawful purposes including religious indoctrination and possible support of al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

The other OMH grant partners – the Kurds, Iraqis and Sudanese – were fearful that if the fraud disclosures were unveiled there would be a backlash from the general community who may become ‘outraged’ by this unlawful diversion of significant federal support for integration of the new immigrants in Nashville.

The sad part about this is that such a scandal could easily be duplicated in other major cities in the so-called “Global Interior” like Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis even Memphis in Tennessee. All because local and federal counter-terrorism cadres are both feckless and intimidated by the guidelines from superiors in their law enforcement and homeland security agencies to be ‘sensitive’ to Muslim advocacy groups complaints of possible religious profiling. It is also possible that the SCCN and OMH grant program director Hassan, may have cut a deal with the federal prosecutors for a lesser misdemeanor plea bargain, as opposed to a multi count felony, in hopes that the Federal authorities might use him as a hook into “bigger fish up the food chain.” Hassan’s alleged fraud and violation of other federal laws may be viewed by federal counter terrorism specialists as a small price to pay in the quest for information on the al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas cells in America.

After all the federal prosecutors sealed the records in the Hassan Al-Barakaat matter.

Abdirizak Hassan, the SNCC executive director, is currently serving a federal probation sentence. He continues to direct and manage large federal grants. Salaad Nur, the Treasurer of the Al-Farooq Mosque, continues to be the mental health and domestic violence outreach specialist paid out of the OMH federal grant. SCCN is now the dominant refugee-led service agency left in Nashville. Other African and Middle Eastern refugee service agencies were either downsized or closed due to the lack of government support and funding. So why are federal authorities turning a blind eye to apparent fraud and the diversion of funds by leaders in the Nashville Somali refugee community with suspected terrorist connections?

As said in the original ACT report: Stay tuned for further developments in this story. It has legs.

The Nashville Channel 4 WSMV I-Team investigative segments airing this week and next will certainly provide the ‘disinfectant of public exposure’ on this story.

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[i] Mr. Gordon is a Member of the Board of American Congress for Truth and Ms. Andersen is an independent counter-terrorism analyst.

Everyday, American Congress for Truth (ACT) is a 501c3 non profit organization on the front lines fighting for you in meeting with politicians, decision makers, speaking on college campuses and planning events to educate and inform the public about the threat of radical Muslim fundamentalists to world peace. We are committed to combating the global upsurge of hate and intolerance.

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Both the Koranic policy of Jihad and Dhimmitude are both directly genocidal, by this definition:

First, the Koran describing Jihad:

When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds, then set them free, either by grace or ransom, until the war lays down its burdens. – 47:4
(different translation: ) When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield, strike off their heads, and when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly.

Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. – Sura 2:98

On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. – Sura 2:161

Fight unbelievers who are near to you. 9:123 (different translation:
Believers! Make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Let them find harshness in you. (another source: ) Ye who believe! Murder those of the disbelievers….

Muhammad is Allah’s apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another. Through them, Allah seeks to enrage the unbelievers. – 48:29

Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal sternly with them. Hell shall be their home, evil their fate. – 66:9

Allah has cursed the unbelievers and proposed for them a blazing hell. – 33:60

Unbelievers are enemies of Allah and they will roast in hell. – 41:14

O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Those of you who make them his friends is one of them. God does not guide an unjust people. – 5:54

Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah’s religion reigns supreme – 8:39

It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he has made slaughter in the land. – 8:67

Allah will humble the unbelievers. Allah and His apostle are free from obligations to idol-worshipers. Proclaim a woeful punishment to the unbelievers. – 9:2-3

When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. – 9:5

Believers! Know that idolators are unclean. – 9:28

The unbelievers among the People of the Book and the pagans shall burn forever in the fire of hell. They are the vilest of all creatures. – 98:51

Fight them so that Allah may punish them at your hands, and put them to shame. (verse cited in Newsweek 2/11/02)

Second, Dhimmitude, a policy of deliberate Cultural obliteration

For those not killed by the invading Muslims, they might be allowed to live as Dhimmis; their lives are spared if they surrender to a set of humiliating and oppressive laws and regulations that demand subservience and guarantee the eventual extinction of their culture.

The Pact of Umar is a fundamental document in prescribing the condition of tolerated “People of the Book” (Jews and Christians) living within Muslim-controlled states.

Dhimmi are granted the right to practice their own religious rites in privacy. The protection of their persons and property was also part of the pact but the punishment for infringement was less severe than for a Muslim. During aberrant fundamentalist movements, these rights varied or did not apply.

To secure their rights, dhimmi would pledge loyalty to their Muslim rulers, pay a special poll-tax (the jizya) for adult males, and in general show deference and humility to Muslims in social interactions.

While the conditions of the Pact were authoritative, the level of enforcement varied, as shown by the existence of churches constructed long after the Muslim conquests.

ARTICLES OF THE PACT OF UMAR

We Christians:

1 – We shall not build, in our cities or in their neighborhood, new monasteries,

2 – churches,

3 – convents,

4 – or monks’ cells,

5 – nor shall we repair, by day or by night, such of them as fall in ruins

6 – or are situated in the quarters of the Muslims. . . .

7- We shall not give shelter in our churches or in our dwellings to any spy,

8 – nor hide him from the Muslims. We shall not teach the Quran to our children.

9 – We shall not manifest our religion publicly

10 – nor convert anyone to it.

11 – We shall not prevent any of our kin from entering Islam if they wish it.

12 – We shall show respect toward the Muslims, and

13 – we shall rise from our seats if they wish to sit.

14 – We shall not seek to resemble the Muslims by imitating any of their garments, the headgear, the turban, footwear, or the parting of the hair.

15 – We shall not speak as they do,

16 – nor shall we adopt their honorific names.

17 – We shall not mount on saddles,

18- nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our persons.

19 – We shall not engrave Arabic inscriptions on our seals.

20 – We shall not sell fermented drinks. (i.e. Alcohol)

21 – We shall not display our crosses or our books in the roads or markets of the Muslims.

22 – We shall only use clappers in our churches very softly.

23 – We shall not raise our voices in our church services or in the presence of Muslims,

24 – nor shall we raise our voices when following our dead.

25 – We shall not show lights on any of the roads of the Muslims or in their markets.

26 – We shall not bury our dead near the Muslims.

27 – We shall not take slave who have been allotted to the Muslims.

28 – We shall not build houses over-topping the houses of the Muslims.

Once again, the UN Definition of Genocide:

The United Nations defines genocide as “any… acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such…”

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