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IMPROVE YOUR LETTERS TO EDITORS

2008-06-14T19:04:00.002-04:00

Are you afraid to write Letters To The Editor?

Do you write Letters, but they're "never" published?

Are you worried that your published Letters just aren't effective in swaying opinions?

CAMERA (Commitee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) has just published an excellent guide for its E-Mail Letter-Writing Teams. I've taken the liberty of making a few changes in their material and posting it for your guidance. While CAMERA writes specifically about Israel, please understand that these guidelines apply to any subject, and most especially to ACT!

Every newspaper that prints Letters To The Editor (and this is one the most frequently-read sections in any paper!) gives its own "how-to" submission information. Most prefer electronic submissions these days.

Letters To The Editor is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. Use it! Our opponents are very good at it!

Once you've written a few - even if they're not published - you'll get in the habit of doing it. And they do have a real effect! Think of the first six that you write as "practice sessions" - but the send them in!

We are all in the habit of "preaching to the choir" too much. Let's make our voices heard to the rest of the country! ( – Allan)
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CAMERA:

I'd like to share with you some thoughts on how to quickly write an effective letter-to-the- that will get published. The most common mistakes I see are that some letters are (1) much too long, (2) hard for non-expert editors to understand, and/or (3) inadvertently reinforce anti-Israel attitudes.

Letters-to-the-editor are a special form of communication. The goal is to educate members of the public who aren't solidly pro- or anti- anything. You are writing to persuade an open mind! What one writes in a hundred word letter for publication is not what one would write in a lengthy op-ed, or in an alert to activists or in a detailed letter meant only to be read by the reporter or editor.

Keep it simple. By limiting each letter to one clear message, it will be more "sticky," that is, it will be more likely to stick in the reader's mind. It will also be more likely to be published, because the letters editor will not need to spend time shortening it. (Help him to do his job; he'll reward you with a published letter! – Allan)

Be Positive. Too often, letter-writers repeat the negative allegation they are writing to refute. This is a frequent mistake. Repeating the allegation, however, only serves to reinforce the association between our objectives and the defamatory allegation. For example, if the public reads a series of letters that include the phrase "Israel does not target civilians," this inadvertently plants in people's minds the erroneous idea that Israel targets civilians. Better to state in the positive that "Hamas terrorists target Israeli civilians, while Israel targets terrorists and does its best to safeguard civilians on both sides." This refutes the allegation without having to actually mention it.

Below are some basic letter-writing tips and Internet resources. Please give them a test-drive and I think you'll find that it's much easier to write a letter, less time-consuming, and more likely that it will get published and remembered by readers.

Reading about writing Letters to the Editor is fine. Nothing, however, is a substitute for actually sitting down and writing them!

Letter-Writing Tips and Strategies For Getting Published

1) Be prompt, persistent, and go on the offensive. Respond to unfair reporting while the issue is still fresh in the minds of the journalists and their audience. It's best to send your letter the same day or within a day or two, but within a week is acceptable. Aside from responding/defending, it's vital that you also regularly send in proactive letters that go on the offensive (e.g. remind public about Palestinian atrocities against Israelis...give examples of Arab leaders denouncing America, committing human rights abuses against their own people...write about the latest Palestinian TV show that teaches kids to hate and kill Americans, Christians, Danes...).

2) Do not restate the inaccuracies of the article in question. Doing so only gives the opponents' propaganda more exposure and makes it more memorable. Refer to them not at all or only vaguely and briefly as a launch for your own points, e.g. "Smith's one-sided article on Jerusalem was long on Palestinian opinions, but short on vital context, such as...."
Remember state your argument in a positive voice. For example, don't write: "Israel is not an apartheid state." Instead, write it this way: "Similar toto America, Israel is a multi-cultural democracy with full rights and freedoms for all its citizens, no matter what their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. Muslim Arabs serve in the Israeli legislature and army, and women and men are free to dress and worship in whatever way they choose."

3) Be concise. Check to see what your paper's word limit is and stick to it. Editors tend publish letters they don't have toto spend time shortening. Think of a one-sentence message and just add one or two more sentences to further explain your point. Short and snappy letters tend to get published! One TV commentator refers to these letters as "pithy."

4) Go on the offensive but also express compassion for both sides and a desire for peace. It's important to write frequent letters about Palestinian extremism, rejectionism and violence. But end such a letter on a note of compassion and a desire for peace for both sides, e.g. "If Palestinian society reformed itself and chose to share at least some of Israel's and America's basic values of freedom, pluralism and respect for life, there would be a more hopeful and peaceful future for Palestinian and Israeli children ." You are more persuasive when you are perceived as the voice of reason, not animosity. Sometimes it's hard, but it works!

5) Limit your topic. While an article or broadcast may contain numerous instances of bias, focus on just one. It's better to fully explain one point than to inadequately cover five.

6) WRITE FOR YOUR AUDIENCE. Keep in mind who your audience is. Write in a way that will resonate with them. For example, if writing to a college newspaper, write about those progressive issues (e.g. Hamas is anti-gay, anti-women's rights) that students care about.

7) Do not use jargon or historical terms that many will be unfamiliar with, such as Judenrein, PA or madrassah. If you use such words, explain what they are, e.g. "Palestinians demand that any territory they rule be Judenrein (ethnically cleansed of Jews)."

8) Hostile or ad hominem rants are counterproductive. And while it's good to aim for an emotional response from the reader, don't go overboard. For example, if talking about the impact of terror, tell the personal story of a terror victim, but don't get too graphic about the gore.

9) If you need factual information, get it from reliable sources. Search Google or CAMERA's Web site (www.camera.org ) using key words. Go to ACTForAmerica.Org. If you cannot find the info there, call the CAMERA office, consult AIPAC ( www.aipac.org ), your chappter leaders, or the nearest Israeli Consulate. For other historical info, go to the Zionism and Israel Info Center Web site: http://www.zionism-israel.com/site_map.htm ) or the Jewish Virtual Library's Israel section: (www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/israel.html.)

(The very worst thing you can do is give inaccurate information! Double check every fact or statement. When appropriate, mention your authoritative source: "As revealed in yesterday's State Department Memo...." Don't, however, give footnotes. This isn't a formal report. – Allan)

10) Write as a concerned individual. Mentioning that you are responding to an organized request for Letters may lessen the impact of your letter.

11) Maximize the impact. Send a copy of your letter not just to the editor, but also to the reporter, foreign editor, publisher...to advertisers/sponsors of the broadcast...to congressional reps if the report was on public radio or television. When writing to a syndicated columnist, be sure to send a copy to the paper the columnist works for, as well as to your local paper if the column appears there. (You've already done the hard work of researching and composing your letter. Now get the maximum value from your work.)

12) Follow-up! [This is a rarely-used but very valuable technique!] If your letter is not published the next day, call the editor of the Letters-to-the-Editor page to ask if your will be published. If the answer is no, tell him "as a learning exercise letterto improve my writing skills for future letters, can you please tell me why this letter was likely not chosen? What could I have done to make it more publishable?" If the editor doesn't remember your letter, offer to read it over the phone and/or re-email it. If your letter is published, make your name more memorable by writing a note to the editor thanking him/her for allowing your concerns to be shared with the public.

13) Include your daytime phone number. Before publishing a letter, most papers will call verify that you wrote it. They don't care if you are paraphrasing someone else's work or if someone ghostwrote the letter for you. Due to past lawsuits, they just want to make sure that someone hasn't played a prank on you by putting your name on a letter you disagree with. Remember, particularly if you're using e-mail, to include your full name, address and daytime phone number. (If writing on behalf of ACT!, mention your title or position, as appropriate! – Allan)

ACT! Members: Improve The Impact! Send copies of your published letters to all other chapters and ACT! National leadership. Publish it on your chapter blog. Print it in your chapter hand-outs. Multiply its value.

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What You Can Do To Counter Unfair Reporting

1. STAY INFORMED

To find in-depth coverage of what's really happening, spend at least 10 minutes a day at one or two of the following Web sites:

Act! For America (www.ActForAmerica.org)
The Daily Alert from the JCPA ( www.dailyalert.org )
Ynet News (www.ynetnews.com )
The Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com )
IMRA ( www.imra.org.il )
CAMERA (www.camera.org )
Jihad Watch (www.JihadWatch.org)
Eye on the UN ( www.eyeontheun.org )
UN Watch (www.unwatch.org )
Stand With Us (www.standwithus.com )
NGO Monitor (www.ngomonitor.org )
MEMRI (www.memri.org )
Palestinian Media Watch ( www.pmw.org.il )
Israel Beyond the Conflict (www.israel21c.org )

Useful sites for historical info:
Zionism and Israel Info Center: http://www.zionism-israel.com/site_map.htm )
Jewish Virtual Library's Israel section:(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/israel.html )
Wikipedia may be used with caution since many articles are filled with propaganda.

2. CONTACT THE MEDIA
As soon as you hear a one-sided, inaccurate report or unfair report, pick up the phone and call the news organization. It only takes a minute! If it was inaccurate, explain the error and ask that it be publicly corrected. If it was one-sided, state that the report was not objective, that it favored the Palestinians or was harshly anti-Israel. If you can, provide some details. Were only pro-Palestinian opinions represented? Were pro-Israeli opinions minimal or nonexistent? Was the report skewed by the use of terms or language associated with only one side's perspective? Was key information missing (lack of context)? Did the reporter editorialize in what was supposed to be an objective news story? If you are unable to make a phone call, write a letter. Let CAMERA know about the issue and your response to it: letters@camera.org

You can find most media organizations' contact information by doing a Google search (www.google.com ) using the news organization's name as keyword, and then, once you get their website, looking for the "contact us" link. Or go toto CAMERA's website, look on the left-side column and click on "Contact the Media." Also, in most of our e-mail alerts, we include a lengthy media contact list.

3. SPREAD THE WORD

Post comments on blogs, Internet discussion boards, and in the "post a comment" section after online news articles. Talk with your family and friends about events in Israel and emphasize that much of the media coverage has been distorted, damaging public understanding of events at this critical time. Give examples to raise their awareness of the disturbing problem of media bias. Forward alerts to them. Educate and organize members of your community (youth groups, synagogue and church social action committees, sisterhood/brotherhood groups, women's organization chapters, patriotic and veterans groups, etc.) to call the media to protest inaccurate and unfair reporting. (Form a local letter-writing committee within your ACT! Chapter. – Allan)

4. SUPPORT CAMERA BY KEEPING YOUR CAMERA MEMBERSHIP CURRENT

Support our ongoing efforts to promote fair and factual coverage of Israel. If you are not already a member, become one. Tell your family and friends about us! All members receive CAMERA Media Reports and CAMERA's Media Directory, which lists the email, address, fax, and phone number for all the major news media. To join or renew your membership, call 617-789-3672 or go to www.camera.org and click on "Join/Contribute" in the menu on the left side.

5. ENCOURAGE GOOD WRITERS TO JOIN E-MAIL TEAM!

If you know someone who cares about Israel or the dangers of islamic expansion within the Western world, and is a good thinker/writer, help us recruit him/her for CAMERA's E-Mail Team and your chapter's letter writing committee. Please send us his/her name, email address, city, state and phone number to letters@camera.org . We will send him/her a letter with information about our E-mail Team, and invite him to join. He/she doesn't need to be a CAMERA member to be on our E-Mail Team, but of course membership is always appreciated.

WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER UNFAIR REPORTING, DON'T JUST GET UPSET. TAKE ACTION!

2008-06-03T08:02:00.007-04:00

Salute To Israel Parade in NYC

June 1st was a beautiful sunny day in Manhattan and for more than five hours marchers interacted with the crowds and dignitaries along Fifth Avenue.
Your New York Metro Chapter was represented among those who cheered the marchers, with members arriving and departing throughout the day at "our corner."
A few blocks away, a group of (mainly) muslim protesters carried their signs of odium and destruction. One man who objected to their presence was beaten by a particularly hate-filled police officer and was apparently arrested on unknown (probably bogus) charges. We will be following up on this incident and hope to terminate his disgraceful police career.
The well-known ACT! sign proclaiming "Lan Astaslem" - I will not submit to Islam - was received by the marchers with cheers and thumbs-up. It was photographed by dozens of passers-by and pros, and is on view at several web sites. Two of our supporters are holding it in the photo, above.
By the way, it was a great occasion to hand out literature and recruit prospective members!

2008-05-14T15:22:00.002-04:00

THERE ARE NO PALESTINIANS!
Palestinian ‘Nation’ Based on a Big Lie
-- Eli E. Hertz

The Palestinians claim that they are an ancient and indigenous people fails to stand up to historic scrutiny. Most Palestinian Arabs were newcomers to British Mandate Palestine. Until the 1967 Six-Day War made it expedient for Arabs to create a Palestinian “nation,” local Arabs simply considered themselves part of the ‘great Arab nation’ or ‘southern Syrians.’

“Repeat a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it.” – Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels

“All [that Palestinians] can agree on as a community is what they want to destroy, not what they want to build.” -- New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.

There is no age-old Palestinian people. Most so-called Palestinians are relative newcomers to the Land of Israel

Like a mantra, Arabs repeatedly claim that the Palestinians are a native people. The concept of a ‘Stateless Palestinian people’ is not based on fact. It is a fabrication.

Palestinian Arabs cast themselves as a native people in “Palestine” -- like the Aborigines in Australia or Native Americans in America. They portray the Jews as European imperialists and colonizers. This is simply untrue.

Until the Jews began returning to the Land of Israel in increasing numbers from the late 19th century to the turn of the 20th, the area called Palestine was a God-forsaken backwash that belonged to the Ottoman Empire, based in Turkey.

The land’s fragile ecology had been laid waste in the wake of the Arabs’ 7th-century conquest. In 1799, the population was at it lowest and estimated to be no more than 250,000 to 300,000 inhabitants in all the land.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Arab population west of the Jordan River (today, Israel, Judea and Samaria) was about half a million inhabitants and east of the Jordan River perhaps 200,000.

The collapse of the agricultural system with the influx of nomadic tribes after the Arab conquest that created malarial swamps and denuded the ancient terrace system eroding the soil, was coupled by a tyrannous regime, a crippling tax system and absentee landowners that further decimated the population. Much of the indigenous population had long since migrated or disappeared. Very few Jews or Arabs lived in the region before the arrival of the first Zionists in the 1880s and most of those that did lived in abject poverty. Many were European Muslims, Balkans who were attracted to the area by the Turkish rulers.

Most Arabs living west of the Jordan River in Israel, Judea, and Samaria (recently propagandized to "the West Bank") and Gaza are newcomers who came from surrounding Arab lands after the turn of the 20th century because they were attracted to the relative economic prosperity brought about by the Zionist Movement and the British in the 1920s and 1930s.

This is substantiated by eyewitness reports of a deserted country -- including 18th-century reports from the British archaeologist Thomas Shaw, French author and historian Count Constantine Volney (Travels through Syria and Egypt, 1798); the mid-19th-century writings of Alphonse de Lamartine (Recollections of the East, 1835); Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad, 1867); and reports from the British Consul in Jerusalem (1857) that were sent back to London.

The Ottoman Turks’ census (1882) recorded only 141,000 Muslims in the Land of Israel. The real number may be closer to 350,000 to 425,000, since many hid to avoid taxes. The British census in 1922 reported 650,000 Muslims.

Aerial photographs taken by German aviators during World War I show an underdeveloped country composed mainly of primitive hamlets. Ashdod, for instance, was a cluster of mud dwellings, Haifa a fishing village. In 1934 alone, 30,000 Syrian Arabs from the Hauran moved across the northern frontier into Mandate Palestine, attracted by work in and around the newly built British port and the construction of other infrastructure projects. They even dubbed Haifa Um el-Amal (‘the city of work’).

The fallacy of Arab claims that most Palestinians were indigenous to Palestine - not newcomers - is also bolstered by a 1909 vintage photograph of Nablus, (the biblical city Shechem, containing tomb of Joseph, called Flavia Neopolis by Romans, Arabicized to Nablus) today an Arab city on the West Bank with over 121,000 residents. Based on the number of buildings in the photo taken from the base of Mount Gerizim, the population in 1909 -- Muslim Arabs and Jewish Samaritans -- could not have been greater than 2,000 residents.

Family names of many Palestinians attest to their non-Palestinian origins. Just as Jews bear names like Berliner, Warsaw and Toledano, modern phone books in the Territories are filled with families named Elmisri (Egyptian), Chalabi (Syrian), Mugrabi (North Africa). Even George Habash -- the arch-terrorist and head of Black September -- bears a name with origins in Abyssinia or Ethiopia, Habash in both Arabic and Hebrew.

Palestinian nationality is an entity defined by its opposition to Zionism, and not its national aspirations.

What unites Palestinians has been their opposition to Jewish nationalism and the desire to stamp it out, not aspirations for their own state. Local patriotic feelings are generated only when a non-Islamic entity takes charge -- such as Israel did after the 1967 Six-Day War. It dissipates under Arab rule, no matter how distant or despotic.

A Palestinian identity did not exist until an opposing force created it -- primarily anti-Zionism. Opposition to a non-Muslim nationalism on what local Arabs, and the entire Arab world, view as their own turf, was the only expression of ‘Palestinian peoplehood.’ [Islam requires that every piece of land which they conquered - even Spain, Portugal, and Italy - must remain eternally part of the Islamic world.]

The Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a charismatic religious leader and radical anti-Zionist was the moving force behind opposition to Jewish immigration in the 1920s and 1930s. The two-pronged approach of the “Diplomacy of Rejection” (of Zionism) and the violence the Mufti incited occurred at the same time Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq became countries in the post-Ottoman reshuffling of territories established by the British and the French under the League of Nation’s mandate system.

The tiny educated class among the Arabs of Palestine was more politically aware than the rest of Arab society, with the inklings of a separate national identity. However, for decades, the primary frame of reference for most local Arabs was the clan or tribe, religion and sect, and village of origin. If Arabs in Palestine defined themselves politically, it was as “southern Syrians.” Under Ottoman rule, Syria referred to a region much larger than the Syrian Arab Republic of today, with borders established by France and England in 1920.

In his book "Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition," Daniel Pipes explains:

“Syria was a region that stretched from the borders of Anatolia to those of Egypt, from the edge of Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of today’s states, the Syria of old comprised Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, plus the Gaza Strip and Alexandria.”

Syrian maps in the 21st century still co-opt most of Greater Syria, including Israel.

The Grand Mufti Al-Husseini’s aspirations slowly shifted from pan-Arabism -- the dream of uniting all Arabs into one polity, whereby Arabs in Palestine would unite with their brethren in Syria - to winning a separate Palestinian entity, with himself at the helm. Al-Husseini was the moving force behind the 1929 riots against the Jews and the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt against two non-Muslim entities in Palestine -- the British and the Jews. He gathered a large following by playing on fears that the Jews had come to dispossess, or at least dominate the Arabs.

Much like Yasser Arafat, the Grand Mufti’s ingrained all-or-nothing extremism, fanaticism and even an inability to cooperate with his own compatriots made him totally ineffective. He led the Palestinian Arabs nowhere.

The ‘Palestinian’ cause became a key rallying point for Arab nationalism throughout the Middle East, according to Oxford historian Avi Shlaim. The countries the British and French created in 1918-1922 were based largely on meridians on the map, as is evident in the borders that delineate the Arab states today. Because these states lack ethnic logic or a sense of community, their opposition to the national aspirations of the Jews has come to fuel that fires Arab nationalism as the ‘glue’ of national identity.

From the 1920s, rejection of Jewish nationalism, attempts to prevent the establishment of a Jewish homeland by violence, and rejection of any form of Jewish political power, including any plans to share stewardship with Arabs, crystallized into the expression of Palestinianism. No other positive definition of an Arab-Palestinian people has surfaced. This point is admirably illustrated in the following historic incident:

“In 1926, Lord Plumer was appointed as the second High Commissioner of Palestine. The Arabs within the Mandate were infuriated when Plumer stood up for the Zionists’ national anthem Hatikva during ceremonies held in his honor when Plumer first visited Tel Aviv. When a delegation of Palestinian Arabs protested Plumer’s ‘Zionist bias,’ the High Commissioner asked the Arabs if he remained seated when their national anthem was played, ‘wouldn’t you regard my behavior as most unmannerly?’ Met by silence, Plumer asked: ‘By the way, have you got a national anthem?’ When the delegation replied with chagrin that they did not, he snapped back, “I think you had better get one as soon as possible.”

But it took the Palestinians more than 60 years to heed Plumer’s advice, adopting Anthem of the Intifada two decades after Israel took over the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 -- at the beginning of the 1987 Intifada.

Under the Mandate, local Arabs also refused to establish an ‘Arab Agency’ to develop the Arab sector, parallel to the Jewish Agency that directed development of the Jewish sector.

In fact, the so-called patriotism of indigenous Muslims has flourished only when non-Muslim entities (the Crusaders, the British, the Jews) have taken charge of the Holy Land. When political control returns to Muslim hands, the ardent patriotism of the Arabs of Palestine magically wanes, no matter how distant or how despotic the government. One Turkish pasha who ruled Acco (Acre) between 1775 and 1804 was labeled Al Jazzar, The Butcher, by locals.

Why hasn’t Arab representative government ever been established in Palestine, either in 1948 or during the next 19 years of Arab rule? Because other Arabs co-opted the Palestinian cause as a rallying point that would advance the concept that the territory was up for grabs. “The Arab invasion of Palestine was not a means for achieving an independent Palestine, but rather the result of a lack of consensus on the part of the Arab states regarding such independence,” summed up one historian. Adherents to a separate Palestinian identity were a mute minority on the West Bank and Gaza during the 19 years of Jordanian and Egyptian rule - until Israel took control from the Jordanians and the Egyptians in 1967. Suddenly a separate Palestinian peoplehood appeared and claimed it deserved nationhood - and 21 other Arab states went along with it.

Palestinianism in and of itself lacks any substance of its own. Arab society on the West Bank and Gaza suffers from deep social cleavages created by a host of rivalries based on divergent geographic, historical, geographical, sociological and familial allegiances. What glues Palestinians together is a carefully nurtured hatred of Israel and the rejection of Jewish nationhood.

This article was published March 31, 2008 on the Myths and Facts website and is archived at http://www.mythsandfacts.com/article_view.asp?articleID=53

America, Wake Up! Your House is on Fire!!!

2008-04-07T00:50:00.000-04:00

America, Wake Up! Your House is on Fire!!!
Adapted by Allan from article by M. J. Wilson (MJWilson.Blogspot.Com)

Terrorism in the USA is a real threat!

Cultural jihad is jeopardizing our social structure!

We hear about plots being stopped, Muslims attacking people or demanding that the US citizens give them prayer rooms or publicly-financed foot-wash installations or private athletic facilities at universities; we know that more than 90% of America’s mosques are built and financed by Saudi oil money.

We know that at Friday sermons the imams preach jihad, demand the abolishment of the irreligious US government, and the implementation of shari’a law over American jurisprudence. Every day TV news reports describe more and more al-Wahhabiyya successes in imposing seventh-century tribal customs on 21st century Americans. The problem is that most of us hear these messages and quickly dismiss them after a few minutes.

Every day we hear about all these dangers but then we call people who ask for action “alarmists,” or “racists,” or “prejudiced.” We see our house burning to the ground but we think that the firemen and neighbors trying to extinguish the cause of the blaze are “crazy.” We dismiss them and we go back to sleep.

With this attitude it’s no wonder that jihadists can be, and are, certain of their victory over the US.

Every day celebrities and politicians lie to the world with reports that we are losing the war in Iraq or that our troops have murdered “over a million” civilians. All the while, the American people remain silent. We are told that we have to be tolerant of the jihadi “culture” even though Islam is markedly intolerant of every other culture.

Every day we read about more and more financial institutions, drawn by the prospect of trillions (yes, trillions!) of dollars in petroleum money deposits by sheikhs-with-flags, imposing “shari’a-compliant finance” (SCF) on innocent customers and shareholders. This requires that the customers of the financial institutions pay for the “impartial religious oversight” and contribute a portion of these institutions’ profits to approved Islamic “charity.” One problem is that many of these “charities” have known links to world terrorist organizations, and some are being investigated now - or have even been closed down - by our government’s terrorism defense agencies! Have you discussed SCF with your bank or broker? They probably do have some level of compliance - with your money.

Every day we are told that “political correctness” requires that we must be understanding of Islam even though its basic principles demand our death. Yes, political correctness requires national suicide!

Every day we hear one form or another of the propaganda that continually emanates from Islamic sources. But while cultural jihad grows stronger, the silence of the American people grows stagnant.

Europe’s Muslim population will exceed 30% by 2025 - in 17 years! Many European countries have already seen their culture and heritage diluted with only a 10% Muslim population. The reason? They consented to these same Saudi-inspired calls for “concessions” and “acceptance of Islamic practices” that we in our country hear from the jihadi propagandists. The teaching of Christian and Jewish religious observances is constitutionally prohibited at most schools, but Islamic practices are openly taught here in the USA today! And we sheepishly accept it!

NBC News reports that 20,000 Americans convert to Islam every year. How many of them know that Islam is, in fact, a universal political system with a thin veneer of the ancient moon-worship of the Arabian desert? If the reports by the apologist Islamic organizations in this country are correct - that “only” 10-15% of Muslims are inclined to terrorism - that means that we will have 2,000 to 3,000 new terrorists in our country every year. These are mostly American-born, and frequently recruited from the toughest prison populations. Not easy to spot, nor to deter!

We already know that Al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations are openly recruiting here in the US. If you don’t, just read the intelligence reports from such highly respected think-tanks such as RAND Corp [http://rand.org/], AEI [http://www.aei.org/], and others [http://www.siteintelgroup.org/].

We already know that terrorists are targeting our economy and society as part of their published jihad “program.” Again, if you doubt it, please read news reports at the above sites or at: http://talishar.com/Intel/declassified.html.

We know that terrorist are realistically counting on our lack of will and complacency to provide the keys to their success. We must also realize that if we don’t start standing up to their well-planned and well-financed “creeping cultural jihad,” the US will soon face the same fate as Europe – with riots over cartoons and eventually shari’a law replacing our Constitution. It really can happen!

Americans, wake up from your sleep-walk! Your senators and congressional representative know that every e-mail or letter received represents the feelings of thousands of voters. You have the power to wake up our law-makers! Use it!

If Islam doesn’t change, sooner or later we will - in self-defense - ban Islamic immigration, ban hateful books like the Qur’an, and deport those who refuse to renounce the Qur’an. Either that or we will submit to the will of Allah!

Standing up and start yelling for something to be done! ‘Cause soon it will be too late!

FITNA, The Film. English Version

2008-03-29T16:26:00.000-04:00

FITNA! The Dutch lawmaker, Geert Wilders, has finally permitted the world to view his long-awaited film about how the Qur'an promotes terrorism. Yes, this is the film that several dhimmi dummies in the media refuse to show because seeing murder by Muslims will upset the murdering Muslim thugs! Australia has told those who want to live according to shari'a to "go home!" Europe is slowly awakening. Americans are still sleep-walking. Perhaps this film will shake us up and wake us up!

IT HAS AWAKENED THOSE WHO BLINDLY FOLLOW MUHAMMAD!

We had the link to LiveLeak running here for two days but now their management has been forced by the "faithful" to remove FITNA from the Internet! No Freedom of Speech for us dhimmis!

The Removal of “Fitna” -- Official LiveLeak statement

Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed comments from certain members of the British media that could directly affect the safety of some staff members, Liveleak has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.

This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one.

Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one another’s culture.

We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high.

They'll tell us that Geert Wilders is to blame for the danger to the staff at LiveLeak, right?

As of this posting, you can still see FITNA! at Gates Of Vienna blog. CLICK HERE to see the film and more. I wonder how long it will be before some enraged "peace-loving" follower of Allah will take this site out, too! See it while you can! Watch it 'til the end.

God Bless Geert Wilders!

Now you can also still see the film at http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/191968.php.
If you know how, you might also want to download it before the guardians of Allah's call for terror force it off the Internet completely!

NYC Muslim Launches Site Of American Hate

2008-03-27T14:56:00.001-04:00

Thanks to Chris in Nevada for this heads up!

NYC Muslim Cabdriver Launches www.revolutionmuslim.com.

Treason is not freedom of speech, I am sure the ACLU would back this creep up 110%.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341811,00.html

NEW YORK, N.Y. — On any given day, log on to RevolutionMuslim.com and a host of startling images appear:

— The Statue of Liberty, with an ax blade cutting through her side;

— Video mocking the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, entitled "Daniel Pearl I am Happy Your Dead ";

— Video of a puppet show lampooning U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq;

— The latest speech from Sheikh Abdullah Faisal, an extremist Muslim cleric convicted in the UK and later deported for soliciting the murder of non-Muslims.

Even more surprising is that www.revolutionmuslim.com isn't being maintained in some remote safe house in Pakistan. Instead, Yousef al-Khattab, the Web site creator, runs it from his home in the New York City Borough of Queens.
• Click here to view photos.http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,3642,00.html
• Click here to view video mocking the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXJxUL67fyE
• Click here to view puppet show lampooning U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.And, because al-Khattab enjoys the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, all the authorities can do is watch...http://yousefal-khattab.blip.tv/#568638READ IT ALL HERE. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341811,00.html

Jihadist Operates Anti-American Website from His Queens Home

2008-03-26T21:03:00.002-04:00

This from our friend Robert Spencer at www.jihadwatch.com

Jihadist operates anti-American website from his Queens home

More on this jihadist*, who openly glories in the deaths of Americans from his home in Queens.
"U.S. Based Revolution Muslim Website Spreading Messages of Hate," from FoxNews (thanks to all who sent this in):

NEW YORK, N.Y. — On any given day, log on to RevolutionMuslim.com and a host of startling images appear:

— The Statue of Liberty, with an ax blade cutting through her side;

— Video mocking the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, entitled "Daniel Pearl I am Happy Your Dead :) ";

— Video of a puppet show lampooning U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq;

— The latest speech from Sheikh Abdullah Faisal, an extremist Muslim cleric convicted in the UK and later deported for soliciting the murder of non-Muslims.

Even more surprising is that RevolutionMuslim.com isn't being maintained in some remote safe house in Pakistan. Instead, Yousef al-Khattab, the Web site creator, runs it from his home in the New York City Borough of Queens.

And, because al-Khattab enjoys the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, all the authorities can do is watch.

Formerly known as Joseph Cohen, al-Khattab is an American-born Jew who converted to Islam after attending an Orthodox Rabbinical school, which he later described as a “racist cult.”

The 39-year-old New York taxi driver launched RevolutionMuslim.com with the mission of “preserving Islamic culture,” “calling people to the oneness of God” and asking them to “support the beloved Sheik Abdullah Faisal, who’s preaching the religion of Islam and serving as a spiritual guide.”

In 2003 Faisal was convicted in the U.K. for spreading messages of racial hatred and urging his followers to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners. In sermon recordings played at his trial, Faisal called on young, impressionable Muslims to use chemical weapons to “exterminate unbelievers” and “cut the throat of the Kaffars [nonbelievers] with [a] machete.”

Authorities believe Faisal’s sermons have influenced 2005 London transport bomber Germaine Lindsay and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, who attended mosques where Faisal preached.
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On his site al-Khattab appears to condemn the very democracy that guarantees him the freedom to express himself — a freedom he cites in a disclaimer on his homepage:

“We hereby declare and make absolute public declaration that revolutionmuslim.com operates under the first amendment right to freedom of religion and expression and that in no way, shape, or form do we call for war against the U.S. government or adhere to the enemies of the United States elsewhere.”...

But that is clearly false. There is no doubt that he adheres to the enemies of the United States.

*This Jihadist: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018868.php