Radicalization in the West

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Radicalization in the West

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Initially published on line by the NYPD and then mysteriously yanked after CAIR and other Muslim groups complained that it seemed to focus only on Muslims (and presumably ignored Martian terrorists).

http://www.mappingsharia.us/New-York-Po ... 443-61.htm

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The question might be asked: why would SANE's president David Yerushalmi provide pro bono legal services to give Muslims a voice? The answer lies in the distinction between Islam as a personal religious faith and the religio-political ideology of traditional and authoritative Shari'a which has everything to do with the survival of the West.
http://www.mappingsharia.us/Why-SANEs-P ... 440-61.htm

CAIR Attacks SANE and Mapping Shari'a in America
What follows is a press release issued by the infamous PR Jihad group, CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations. CAIR is upset with the Washington Times for covering the Mapping Shari’a press conference and even more upset with SANE for sponsoring the Mapping Shari’a in America Project.
http://www.mappingsharia.us/CAIR-Attack ... 439-61.htm

You whack loons know nada of what is really a damn CONSPIRACY. Now this is clever, and 90% of the public seems unaware. Why? TOO many bone heads obfuscating the veiw w/ left side propaganda and wailings of injustice. Look closer and you will see the threat that insults western sensibilities... a very real existential threat from Islamic Sharia Law exists -and you putzes ignore it w/ vehemence.

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Robin Williams Peace Plan.....

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You gotta love Robin Williams......

Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.

Robin Williams's plan... (Hard to argue with this logic!)

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace, but I have not heard of a plan for
peace. So, here's one plan:

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic , Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys;' we will never 'interfere' again.

2) "We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) "All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home After 90 days, the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) "All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) "No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a D, and it's back home, baby.

6) "The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy-wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy, but will require temporary drilling for oil in the Alaska wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) "Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8- "If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah, or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement, or whatever they need. Besides, most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) "Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair-weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) "All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE."

"Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?"

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses' She's got a baseball bat, and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "
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ABC....

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Subject: ABC News - Suspicions confirmed!

You may have seen this. If not, pretty interesting and also disgusting!

Just in case you happened to see the ABC News piece (if you watch ABC News)

with interviews of 5 military folks in Iraq - 3 planned to vote for Obama

and 2 for Hillary; no mention of any McCain supporters. Well, here's the

"Rest of the Story."


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This from Major General (ret) Buckman, a close friend of ours.

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My niece, Katelyn, stationed at

Baluud, Iraq was assigned, with others of her detachment, to be

escort/guard/watcher for Martha Raddatz of ABC News as she covered John

McCain's recent trip to Iraq . Katelyn and her Captain stood directly

behind Raddatz as she queried GIs walking past. They kept count of the GIs

and you should remember these numbers. Raddatz asked 60 GIs who they planned

to vote for in November..... 54 said John McCain, 4 for Obama and 2 for Hillary.

Katelyn called home and told her Mom and Dad to watch ABC news the next

night because she was standing directly behind Raddatz and maybe they'd see

her on TV. Mom and Dad of course, called and emailed all the kinfolk to

watch the newscast and maybe see Katelyn. Well, of course, we all watched

and what we saw wasn't a glimpse of Katelyn, but got a heck'uva view of

skewed news. After a dissertation on McCain's trip and speech, ABC showed 5

GIs being asked by Raddatz how they were going to vote in November; 3 for

Obama and 2 for Clinton. No mention of the 54 for McCain.

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Good News From Iraq.....

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Good News From Iraq? More than in the Past

Blogger Arthur Chrenkoff scrutinized the mainstream media's Iraq coverage back in 2005, documenting how disproportionately negative reporting overwhelmed stories of anything positive: 27 bad news stories for each story of progress. He recently revisited the media's Iraq coverage and found some "stunning" changes.


January 28, 2008 - by Arthur Chrenkoff
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How bad was it? When I sat down at my computer on January 21, 2005, and counted all the stories indexed by Google News, I came up with a total just short of 11,000 negative stories to 407 positive stories, with 123 neutral ones.

This was the ratio on an average day of the Iraq war: 27 “bad news” stories about Iraq for every one reporting some positive developments from the Mesopotamian front of the war on terror.

I was neither shocked nor surprised. A few months earlier, in May 2004, I started compiling fortnightly round-ups of good news from Iraq. I was responding in my own way to the barrage of consistently and relentlessly negative mainstream media reporting that seemed to be at odds with the anecdotal on-the-ground experience, as conveyed back home by the military personnel and civilians engaged in rebuilding Iraq.

Surely, I thought, among all the violence, terrorism, corruption, mismanagement and political strife, so promiscuously reported on the pages of our newspapers and nightly news bulletins, there must be something positive going on in Iraq. And indeed, as I started looking around the Internet, there was, though the good news was more often than not under-reported, buried, or simply ignored by the mainstream media outlets.

For the next year and a half, and through its 35 installments, “Good news from Iraq” became somewhat of an institution on the conservative side of the blogosphere, filling a niche largely vacated by the media, and providing readers around the world with a corrective to the prevalent meta-narrative of Iraq as a quagmire and an unmitigated disaster. Some took my good news compilations as the clearest evidence of the pervasive anti-war and anti-Bush Administration bias among newsmakers, others merely as a reaffirmation of what their loved ones and friends stationed and working in Iraq have been telling them all along. For me personally, it was about restoring some balance - of course there was a lot of bad news coming out of Iraq, but to downplay the positive developments was a dereliction of the media’s duty. It was an entirely different question whether these in any way outweighed the negative ones, but that should have been up to well-informed news consumers to answer.

The exercise I undertook on January 21, 2005, was meant to satisfy my own curiosity about just how skewed the reporting was. The results of my snapshot survey have been at that time widely reported around the blogsophere, and subsequently quoted by Norman Podhoretz, among others.

In the meantime, I had to take a break from blogging, and the last, 35th installment of “Good News from Iraq” was published on September 12, 2005. A lot has happened since then, including an almost overwhelming rush to give up on Iraq, followed by the surge, followed by an apparent strong improvement in the security situation and the waning of Iraq as the major political issue (for those more cynical among us, the latter a consequence of the former).

Needless to say, I was curious to find out just how much there really was to everyone’s gut feelings about the change in reporting from and about Iraq.

So a day (and three years) later, on January 22, 2008, I again sat down at my computer and scanned through news from Iraq, as indexed by Google. Here are the results, and they are quite stunning.

Firstly, it is true that Iraq has largely disappeared from the media radar, especially by contrast with three years ago. Whereas that one day in January 2005, some 11,528 stories discussed various aspects of the situation in Iraq and the political response thereto, three years later, only 3,552 did.

Secondly, the balance between the negative and the positive reports has improved dramatically. On January 22, 2008, there have been 1,944 stories published that dwelt largely on bad news from Iraq: 687 about a terrorist attack at a funeral, 713 reporting the clashes with a Shia cult during the Ashura celebrations, 169 stories reporting on recent US military deaths in Iraq, 150 news items about Iraq in Democratic debates, with the remainder made up of other miscellaneous stories.

That was still a significant number, but the tally of positive news now stood at 1,160. Among them, 711 stories commenting on the decline in roadside bomb attacks, 98 reports about the UN envoy acknowledging the improving situation in Iraq, 46 stories about the new IMF report painting a quite positive picture of Iraqi economy, and various other lesser stories. There have also been 448 neutral news stories, largely relating to troop movements, as well as touting General Petraeus as a possible new commander of NATO.

In all, there was one good news story for every 1.67 bad news ones. Certainly makes for an improvement on the one to 27 ratio three years ago.

What does it all tells us? There has clearly been a very significant decline in reporting from Iraq. For some it will be an indication of the news exhaustion: after five years, people are simply tired of Iraq and the decrease in reporting merely reflects that fact that everyone has moved on to other issues. For others, it will be further evidence of the media bias: once the situation in Iraq has shown signs of unequivocal improvement, the media has stopped reporting, because the news simply stopped fitting into their favourite anti-war narrative. As for the changing ration of bad to good news, has the situation improved so drastically, or has the good news finally become too conspicuous to ignore? I will leave that to others to decide.

The future of Iraq is still uncertain, and one has to resist the temptation to claim victory, in contrast to so many others who have been declaring defeat virtually from the start. One thing is almost certain though: however Iraq will turn up, the mainstream media has become one of the casualties of that war. As the recent study by the Sacred Heart University has shown, less than 20% of Americans believe the media all or most of the time. Specifically, the study found that

Nearly three-quarters of all Americans surveyed, 70.7%, indicated they strongly or somewhat agreed that negative media reporting damages troop morale. Over half of all survey respondents, 59.8%, agreed (strongly or somewhat) that negative media coverage damages prospects for success in Iraq because it encourages terrorists, and about half, 49.1%, agreed (strongly or somewhat) that things are likely going better for the U.S. than the U.S. media portrays.

The more reflective among the media professionals might ponder on why they have become as trusted as a profession as used car salesmen, and then they might briefly remember the “one to 27 ratio.”

The “surge” in negative reporting from Iraq might have failed, but we are all poorer for it.
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We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about the USA .

Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title 'C'ntarea Americii, meaning 'Ode To America ') in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei 'The Daily Event' or 'News of the Day'


~An Ode to America ~


Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs.

Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart.
Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the Army, or the Secret Service that they are only a bunch of losers.
Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts.
Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about
Instead the Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.


After the first moments of panic, they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing. On every occasion, they started singing:'God Bless America !'

I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.


How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put into collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy.


What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way?
Their land? Their history? Their economic Power? Money?
I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace, I thought things over, I reached but only one conclusion... Only freedom can work such miracles.

Cornel Nistorescu

(This deserves to be passed around the Internet forever.) It took a person on the outside - looking in - to see what we take for granted ! GOD BLESS AMERICA ! !
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Post by pippinwhitepaws »

not really surprising that you would use a Romanian to support your position...
"Gustav Wegner commanded the 1st regiment of the proposed division. He had formerly commanded the EuA Bataillon of the 18. SS Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Horst Wessel. Before that, he had served at Sachenhausen concentration camp, and had perhaps met Horia Sima there (speculation is that Sima recommended Wegner for his position). The Romanian 4th Infantry Division was captured by the Germans in August 1944 after the cease fire, since it was refitting in German held territory.

Most of the manpower for the Romanian Waffen-SS came from this unit, though Iron Guardists fled to German held territory whenever possible, and much of the Iron Guard leadership had been in German protective custody since 1940 (when their coup attempt against Antonescu had failed) since they would have been imprisoned and/or executed in Romania (the Iron Guard had very good relations with the SS, while Antonescu's military government had good ties with Ribbentrop and the German Foreign Ministry). So the manpower of the Romanian Waffen-SS came from men of the 4th ID, while the leadership was a mixture of Romanian Army (from the 4th ID) and Iron Guard activists
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