Archive for February 2012

Malcolm X – Democracy is Hypocrisy

A Palestinian female talks in the video. She mentions she saved up her funds to go Hajj until American soldier’s fracture into her apartment and kidnap her four sons and 65 year old husband as well as the money she saved up. This Muslim woman has cancer and it’s been two months since she has been searching for them, Subhnnallah this is so emotional. May Allah support her and keep her family safe Insha’Allah. Put yourself in her shoes. What would you do?

They attack the victim and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses of the victim attacking him. This is American justice, this is American democracy, this is American hypocrisy and those of you who are familiar with it you’ll know that in America democracy is hypocrisy.

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Not seen on TV – “Next time you get called a Terrorist. Hit ‘em with some knowledge”

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Next time you get called a Terrorist. Hit ‘em with some knowledge

By the end you should know about:
- How dangerous white phosphorus & Depleted Uranium dropped on Iraq is.
- The link between BAE systems, Lockhead Martin and Rolls Royce.
- The CIAs involvement on the killing of at least 3 presidents who werent US allies: Mossadegh, Allende and Lumumba.
- Who opposes the US apart from the Muslims?
- Who is Jeremiah Wright and Ali Abunimah
- Who really owns Obama and what is Aipac.

The making of this short video was a very informative experience for me. I learnt about a lot of stuff which i was suprised about. I cant belive more people dont know about this.

-Barclays the largest investor in Global arms has £7.3 billion in shares and is amonsgst the top 10 largest investor in US arms companies.
- HSBC holds shares worth £450 million and has loaned £27 Billion to the industry.
- Lloyds holds shares worth £717 Million and serves as principle banker to BAE Systems.
- Aviva, AXA, Standard life and many other well known companies invest in the arms trade.

Rolls Royce is also the 17th Largest Arms Manufacturer in the world
Rolls Royce is the 2nd Largest Manufacturer of Aerospace Engines powering approximately 25% of the world’s military aircraft and has its equipment installed on over 2,200 warships including all of the UK’s nuclear submarines.

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Shirk of the Syrian Alawi religion/regime: “Assad is our Lord” “We will push Allah into a corner”

A compendium of shocking clips exposing the blatant shirk of the Alawi religion. This is the non-Islamic cult whose Assad family was given patronage and leadership of Syria by the west under the Eisenhower presidency and thereafter. Through the personality-cult built around the Assad family, the Muslims of Syria have been denied self rule.

TRANSCRIPT:

Horns of the Syrian Regime
Encroachment on the Divine

Presenter: Go ahead
Caller: Ask my Sons, Ask my Father, Ask my Grandfather, Ask my In-Laws, Ask Al-Wahid Al-Ahad (Allah SWT), Ask whomever you wish, Bathist is My Deen, and My Rabb (Lord) is Bashar Al-Assad.
Presenter: It is like when someone loves a girl so much, he tells her “I worship you”

And now, while I am On Air, I challenge you and the One who created you (Allah SWT) to prove that the security in Syria is responsible for cutting her (up)

And who is going to push Us (Syria) into a corner? Whoever pushes us into a corner, we will push Allah, the one who created him (i.e. the one who created the one pushing syria into a corner) into a corner

Host: I seek refuge in Allah the Most High The Great.
We can’t, we can’t, Sir , No one can put Syria into a Corner. No one can

For Us, We worship Bashar Al-Assad before we do Allah. And I tell it you like that.

But Allah is Exalted, high above the partners they ascribe to Him.
Allah Is The Greatest, above all of the tyrants.

All ‘ The Shaytaan Series ‘ Combined into ONE video.

I have set all the series from ‘ The Shaytaan Series ‘ into this video. Make sure to watch, it’s astonishing and astounding and Insha’Allah it will influence you to be a better person.

In this video it will show you a preponderance of clips of how the Shaytaan gets you hooked on danger and keep you away from Salaat. Keep in mind to never disobey your mother, or sit in close proximity to a female because Shaytaan will attempt and convince you to commit bad sin.

Remember to constantly keep the words of Allah in your mouth.

Praise be to Allaah.  

Allaah says in Soorat al-Naas (interpretation of the meaning):

“Say: I seek refuge with (Allaah) the Lord of mankind,

The King of mankind —

The Ilaah (God) of mankind,

From the evil of the whisperer (devil who whispers evil in the hearts of men) who withdraws (from his whispering in one’s heart after one remembers Allaah).

Who whispers in the hearts of mankind.

Of jinn and men.”[al-Naas 114:1-6]

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Lizzie Velasquez 20 year old & weigh’s 28 kg’s. Must Eat Every 15 Minutes – Inspirational Story

Lizzie Velasquez must eat every 15 minutes to stay healthy. Miss Velasquez has a rare condition – there are only three known cases in the world – which prevents her from gaining weight even though she eats up to 60 small meals a day.

Despite consuming between 5,000 and 8,000 calories daily, the communications student, has never tipped over 3 lbs. “I weigh myself regularly and if I gain even one pound I get really excited,” said 5 ft 2 ins Miss Velasquez, who wears size triple zero clothes. “I eat every 15-20 minutes to keep my energy levels up.”

“I eat small portions of crisps, sweets, chocolate, pizza, chicken, cake, doughnuts, ice cream, noodles and pop tarts all day long, so I get pretty upset when people accuse me of being anorexic,” she added.

For many people, the idea of eating whatever you want without gaining weight sounds like a dream. But it’s a life long battle for Lizzie Velasquez, a skeletally thin 21-year-old girl from Austin, Texas who is unable to put on weight even though she consumes 5,000 to 8,000 calories a day!

She was born four weeks prematurely weighing just 2lb 10oz. Doctors found there was minimal amniotic fluid protecting her in the womb.

Despite the grim prognosis Lizzie’s brain, bones and internal organs developed normally but she was always very small. At the age of two she was still only 15lbs – the same as the average five-month-old baby.
“I was normal but really, really tiny,” said Lizzie, who underwent numerous tests at the St David’s Medical Centre in Austin with inconclusive results.

Doctors speculated Lizzie might have the genetic disorder De Barsy syndrome but soon ruled it out as it became clear she did not have learning difficulties.

“They kept on trying to figure out what was wrong with her but we treated her like any other child,” said Mrs Velasquez, who charted her daughter’s health in dozens of notebooks.

Born with two brown eyes, when Lizzie was four the right began to cloud and change hue. Doctors then discovered she had gone blind in that eye.

“They still don’t know why it happened but now I have one blue and one brown eye,” Lizzie said.

Lizzie was taken to see genetic experts but they still could not diagnose her. At the age of six, Lizzie’s doctors began encouraging her to eat plenty of fat, carbohydrates and sugar.

“They told me to ‘just go for it’ with anything I wanted at any time,” said Lizzie, who carries food in her handbag and keeps a big stash under her bed in her flat.

In high school Lizzie made friends and gradually came to accept her appearance. “I started to think: ‘Well this is me, like it or lump it,” said Lizzie. “I was always the one at the top of the pyramid during cheerleading,” she added.

Lizzie has a weak immune system and has been in hospital many times after catching numerous illnesses.

At 16 Lizzie almost died when her appendix ruptured and at 19 she had a massive blood transfusion because her blood cells were not multiplying properly and she was critically anaemic.

“I was so weak I couldn’t get out of bed,” she said. “My doctors had no idea how I was still alive. I only had half the normal amount of blood in my body but after my transfusion I felt like a new person, it was great.”

Miss Velasquez’s case has fascinated doctors all over the world and she is part of a genetic study run by Professor Abhimanyu Garg, MD, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Professor Garg and his team now believe Lizzie may have a form of Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome (NPS) which causes accelerated ageing, fat loss from the face and body, and tissue degeneration. People with PRS often have triangular and prematurely aged faces with a pointy nose.

Prof. Garg said: “I am aware of a small number of people that have similar conditions to Lizzie but each case is slightly different. We cannot predict what will happen to Lizzie in the future as the medical community are yet to document older people with NPS.”

“However Lizzie is lucky to have healthy teeth, organs and bones so the outlook is good. We will continue to study her case and learn from her,” he added. Lizzie doesn’t take medication but she relies on vitamin supplements and iron to stay healthy.

It’s thought she should be able to conceive naturally without passing the condition to her children. She added: “I do all the things my friends do, shopping, movies and parties.”

“But I hate it when people stare, or make comments. When I meet new people I have to say: ‘Hi, I’m Lizzie and I have this rare syndrome, I am NOT anorexic,’” she added.

Currently there is no cure but her doctors predict if Lizzie keeps eating she has a bright future ahead of her.

She insisted: “I’m happy the way I am and this syndrome has made me the person I am. I want to make a positive difference in people’s lives and show them that you can get through most hardships if you are strong, positive and have a sense of humour.”

According to her website, she has written a book about herself that will be released in September and aims to become a motivational speaker.

“God made me the way I am for a reason and I would never change that,” she writes. “I lead a normal life as much as possible and deal with the bumps in the road as they come along with my head held high and a smile on my face!”

Indonesia jails cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir for 15 years

Indonesia has jailed radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir for 15 years for backing an Islamist militant training camp.

Hundreds of Ba’asyir’s supporters had gathered outside court in Jakarta, and some wept when they heard the verdict.

The preacher was convicted of giving support to militants in Aceh province who were plotting to impose Sharia law in Indonesia through a campaign of violence and murder.

Ba’asyir, 72, has been involved in radical groups for decades.

Over the years, he has been repeatedly arrested, jailed and then released.

He spent more than two years in jail for helping to inspire the bombers who killed more than 200 people in Bali – but he was later cleared on appeal.

Peter Hughes, an Australian who survived the Bali bombing, told ABC News that Thursday’s verdict was a “fantastic result”.

“The guilty verdict sort of says it all. This guy was the mastermind behind the Bali bombing… he can rot in jail as far as I’m concerned,” he said.

The BBC’s Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta says it is debatable whether the verdict will have much impact on the fight against terrorism in Indonesia.

Ba’asyir can continue to preach his message even from his prison cell, our correspondent says.

He was arrested by anti-terror police last August, months after the Aceh training camp was raided.

The discovery of the camp has so far led to the arrests of more than 120 terrorism suspects over several months.

The Aceh camp drew together militants from several different jihadi groups.

Experts believe they were planning to form a militia to kill government officials, moderate Muslims and influential non-Muslims.

Ba’asyir has repeatedly said the allegations against him were “engineered by America”, and his lawyer promised to appeal against the conviction.

Most analysts agree that he has been the spiritual leader of the military jihadi network Jemaah Islamiah for a number of years.

But he was cleared of involvement with the group after a trial in 2003.

Indonesia terrorism expert Sidney Jones said his influence had waned in recent years, and his supporters now numbered in the hundreds rather than the thousands.

“It’s important that he’s been put away but it doesn’t mean that there’s a major change in the level of the security threat in Indonesia. It’s not strengthened. It’s not diminished,” she told the BBC.

At the court : Karishma Vaswani 

Supporters of Abu Bakar Ba’asyir arrived at the courthouse in south Jakarta hours before the judges began reading out the verdict on the 72-year-old preacher.

He needs no introduction to Indonesians – he is a familiar face here. He is believed to be the spiritual influence behind radical Islamic groups in the country.

He has faced terrorism charges before. In fact, this is the third time he has been on trial for his alleged participation in extremist activities.

The police weren’t taking any chances and deployed 3,000 officers at the court, as well as stepping up security around police headquarters.

White House helps pay for NYPD Muslim surveillance

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of dollars in White House money has helped pay for New York Police Department programs that put entire American Muslim neighborhoods under surveillance.

The money is part of a little-known grant intended to help law enforcement fight drug crimes. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush and Obama administrations have provided $135 million to the New York and New Jersey region through the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, known as HIDTA.

Some of that money — it’s unclear exactly how much because the program has little oversight — has paid for the cars that plainclothes NYPD officers used to conduct surveillance on Muslim neighborhoods. It also paid for computers that store even innocuous information about Muslim college students, mosque sermons and social events.

When NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly was filled in on these efforts, his briefings were prepared on HIDTA computers.

The AP confirmed the use of White House money through secret police documents and interviews with current and former city and federal officials. The AP also obtained electronic documents with digital signatures indicating they were created and saved on HIDTA computers. The HIDTA grant program is overseen by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

The disclosure that the White House is at least partially paying for the NYPD’s wholesale surveillance of places where Muslims eat, shop, work and pray complicates efforts by the Obama administration to stay out of the fray over New York’s controversial counterterrorism programs. The administration has championed outreach to American Muslims and has said law enforcement should not put entire communities under suspicion.

The Obama administration, however, has pointedly refused to endorse or repudiate the NYPD programs it helps pay for. The White House last week declined to comment on its grant payments.

John Brennan, Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, last year called the NYPD’s efforts “heroic” but would not elaborate. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, whose department also gives grant money to the NYPD and is one of the lead federal agencies helping police build relationships with Muslims, has refused in recent months to discuss the police tactics. Tom Perez, the Justice Department’s top civil rights lawyer, has repeatedly refused to answer questions about the NYPD.

Outside Washington, the NYPD’s efforts drew increased criticism last week. College administrators at Yale, Columbia and elsewhere issued harsh rebukes for NYPD’s infiltration of Muslim student groups and its monitoring of school websites. New Jersey’s governor and the mayor of its largest city have complained about the NYPD’s widespread surveillance there, outside New York’s police jurisdiction.

The White House HIDTA grant program was established at the height of the drug war to help police fight drug gangs and unravel supply routes. It has provided about $2.3 billion to local authorities in the past decade.

After the terror attacks, law enforcement was allowed to use some of that money to fight terrorism. It’s unclear how much HIDTA money has been used to pay for the intelligence division, in part because NYPD intelligence operations receive scant oversight in New York.

Congress, which approves the money for the program, is not provided with a detailed breakdown of activities. None of the NYPD’s clandestine programs is cited in the New York-New Jersey region’s annual reports to Congress between 2006 and 2010.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne did not respond to questions the AP sent to him in two emails about the White House money and the department’s intelligence division.

Most of the money from the White House grants in New York and New Jersey has been spent fighting drugs, said Chauncey Parker, director of the program there. He said less than $1.3 million was spent on vehicles used by the NYPD intelligence unit.

“Those cars are used to collect and analyze counterterrorism information with the goal of preventing a terrorist attack in New York City or anywhere else,” Parker said. “If it’s been used for specific counterterrorism effort, then it’s been used to pay for those cars.”

Former police officials told the AP those vehicles have been used to photograph mosques and record the license plates of worshippers.

In addition to paying for the cars, the White House money pays for part of the office space the intelligence division shares with other agencies in Manhattan.

When police compiled lists of Muslims who took new, Americanized names, they kept those records on HIDTA computer servers. That was ongoing as recently as October, city officials said.

Many NYPD intelligence officers, including those that conducted surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods, had HIDTA email addresses. Briefing documents for Kelly, the police commissioner, were compiled on HIDTA computers. Those documents described what police informants were hearing inside mosques and which academic conferences Muslim scholars attended.

When police wanted to pay a confidential informant, they were told to sign onto the HIDTA website to file the paperwork, according to a 2007 internal document obtained by the AP.

Parker said the White House grant money was never used to pay any of the NYPD intelligence division’s confidential informants. The HIDTA computer systems, he said, are platforms that allow different law enforcement agencies to share information and work.

“I am shocked to hear that federal dollars may have helped finance the NYPD’s misguided efforts to spy on Muslims in America,” said Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., one of 34 members of Congress who have asked the Justice Department and House Judiciary Committee to investigate the NYPD.

The connection between NYPD and the White House anti-drug grant program surfaced years ago, during a long-running civil rights lawsuit against police. Civil rights attorneys asked in court about a “demonstration debriefing form” that police used whenever they arrested people for civil disobedience. The form carried the seal of both the NYPD Intelligence Division and HIDTA.

A city lawyer downplayed any connection. She said the NYPD and HIDTA not only shared office space, they also shared office supplies like paper. The NYPD form with the seal of a White House anti-drug program was “a recycled piece of paper that got picked up and modified,” attorney Gail Donoghue told a federal judge in 2003.

The issue died in court and was never pursued further.

Last week, the controversy over NYPD’s programs drew one former Obama administration official into the discussion.

After the AP revealed an extensive program to monitor Muslims in Newark, N.J., police there denied knowing anything about it. The Newark police director at the time, Garry McCarthy, has since moved on to lead Chicago’s police department where President Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is now the mayor.

“We don’t do that in Chicago and we’re not going to do that,” Emanuel said last week.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said the NYPD surveillance in his state was “disturbing” and has asked the attorney general to investigate. Christie was New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor and sat on the HIDTA executive board during 2006 and 2007 when the NYPD was conducting surveillance in New Jersey cities. Christie said he didn’t know that, in 2007, the NYPD catalogued every mosque and Muslim business in Newark, the state’s largest city.

“I kind of think I would have remembered that,” he said on Fox Business News last week.

Why Muslim Student Group Concerned the NYPD

The Muslim community expressed its outrage this week over a New York Police Department surveillance report from 2006 that theAssociated Press reported on Monday. The report disclosed that the NYPD monitored Muslim Students Association (MSA) chapters in the Northeast. The outrage, centered on the perceived violation of privacy, is based on an incorrect presumption that law enforcement had no cause for concern with the MSA.

The organization’s history with radical dogma, convicted terrorists and radicalized alumni tell a different story.

NYPD officials visited websites and forums of different MSAs and noted the posted information, all of which was in the public domain. No one hacked into any email accounts or sites as part of the surveillance. A separate story reports that an undercover officer attended a rafting trip with more than a dozen MSA members.

But NYPD officials say critics are off base when they claim the department did something wrong.

“There is no constitutional prohibition against a police department collecting information,” city senior counsel Peter Farrell told reporters Thursday.

“What’s unconstitutional is if they then use that information to chill someone’s First Amendment rights or to impose harm on them.”

The AP report chronicles different events that some MSAs held and speakers that chapters hosted on campus and provides some lists of event attendees. The surveillance was intended to track any potential radical speakers or behaviors of the different chapters or individual members.

The report lists six different incidents of monitoring in 2006 at the University of Buffalo, New York University, and Rutgers University. It also lists 12 other MSAs that were tracked, but did not provide “significant information posted to their web sites, forums, blogs and groups.”

“Some of the most dangerous Western Al Qaeda-linked/inspired terrorists since 9/11 were radicalized and/or recruited at universities in MSAs,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said as an explanation for the surveillance. “We were focused on radicalization and/or recruitment, specifically by groups like Al Muhajiroun, Islamic Thinkers Society, Revolution Muslim and others.”

Criticism of the NYPD surveillance has been swift.

“We believe that the NYPD clearly overstepped its boundaries when it began spying on average American Muslim college students who were simply taking whitewater rafting trips or innocently participating in school activities at their college or university campus,” said MSA National President Zahir Latheef.

“University officials may be the last line of defense for Muslim students whose rights were apparently violated by the clearly unconstitutional — and possibly illegal — tactics used by the NYPD,” Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said. “The NYPD continues to act as if it is somehow above the law that governs all other individuals and institutions.”

Cyrus McGoldrick of CAIR- NY said, “It’s very clear that this is not about police work this is about monitoring people based on ideology.”

“They’re just going out and casting a wide net around a whole community, so they’re criminalizing in a way a whole community based on their religion,” said CAIR-Connecticut Director Mongi Dhaouadi.

The Rutgers MSA called on the community to “openly condemn the clear violations of the NYPD, who conducted illegitimate profiling outside of their jurisdiction and breached the constitutional rights of an individual.”

Leaders Found Trouble

The NYPD has a duty to protect New York City from terrorist attacks. And MSA leaders and members have been convicted of terrorist activities and plots.

The list is extensive, but among the MSA alumni who went on to terrorist involvement are:

• Anwar al-Awlaki, an influential American-born al-Qaida cleric who recruited a series of homegrown jihadists before being killed by a U.S. drone strike;
• Aafia Siddiqui, convicted of attempted murder and assault on U.S. officers and employees in Afghanistan;
• Zachary Chesser, convicted of attempting to provide material support to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab and soliciting attacks on “South Park” producers for an episode in which the prophet Muhammad was shown in a bear suit;
• Jesse Morton, convicted with Chesser of threatening the South Park producers with murder;
• Adam Gadahn, an al-Qaida spokesman who is on the FBI’s Most Wanted Listfor treason and material support to al-Qaida;
• Waheed Zaman, who was convicted of plotting to blow up transatlantic flights;
• Adis Medunjanin, who is awaiting trial for plotting to bomb New York subways;
• Ramy Zamzam, who was convicted in Pakistan of conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks;
• Omar Hammami, who was indicted on charges of providing material support to al-Shabbab and is designated by the U.S. Treasury Department for his terrorist connections;
• Muhammad Junaid Babar, who pled guilty to his support to al-Qaida; and
• Syed Hashmi, who pled guilty to providing material support to al-Qaida.

MSA was founded in the United States in 1963 by members of the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood seeks a global Islamic state and has spawned leaders of a series of Sunni terrorist groups, including al-Qaida, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The Muslim Brotherhood motto established by founder Hassan al-Banna is, “God is our objective, the Quran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations.”

MSA members remain faithful to Brotherhood ideology. At the closing session of the MSA West conference in January 2011 at UCLA, attendees recited a pledge, “Allah is my lord, Islam is my life, the Quran is my guide, the Sunna is my practice, Jihad is my spirit, righteousness is my character, paradise is my goal. I enjoin what is right, I forbid what is wrong, I will fight against oppression, and I will die to establish Islam.”

One student attracted NYPD scrutiny in 2006, the AP report said, after forwarding a promotional posting about a conference in Toronto featuring “highly respected scholars.”

But many speakers at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit conference in Toronto had lengthy records of harsh anti-American rhetoric and of trading in conspiracy theories:

• For example, Siraj Wahhaj is a radical imam who was listed as a possible unindicted coconspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing prosecution. During remarks given at his Al-Taqwah mosque in 1995, Wahhaj blasted America as “a garbage can. It’s filthy, filthy and sick. This country is taking our children. We’re trying to raise them up righteous. And you with your sick, low morals grabbing them, trying to teach a man how to be respectful towards his wife. And you got perversity all over. Wicked filth everywhere.”
• Zaid Shakir is lauded by some as a moderate Muslim voice, but his speeches and writing show that he believes America poses “the single greatest threat to world peace.” He has suggested the FBI was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and decried “glaring weaknesses and inconsistencies in the official narrative” about the 9/11 attacks.
• Hamza Yusuf is a founder of the Zaytuna College in California who has called America “one of the most virulent kufars [infidels] that has ever attacked the social body” and says that he believes American culture “revels in” war and violence.
• Another speaker, Tariq Ramadan, is the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna. He was barred from entering the United States at the time of the conference due to concerns he supported a charity tied to Hamas.

The AP report does allude to Wahhaj’s past, noting that he “has attracted the attention of authorities for years.” But it offers no context or background on Shakir and Yusuf, simply telling readers that they are “two of the nation’s most prominent Muslim scholars.”

The Toronto conference previously attracted government concern.

The U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had “reason to believe that certain individuals who were associated with terrorist organizations or activities might pose a danger to the Unites States, or who were associated with organizations that provide financial support to terrorists,would be in attendance at the 2004 RIS conference,” a Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision said. CBP was also concerned that the conference “would serve as a possible meeting point for terrorists.”

More MSA Radicalism

Last May, the MSA chapter at the University of California, Irvine (known there as the Muslim Student Union or MSU), hosted an event with Amir Mertaban who is a former president of MSA West. During a 2007 conference, Mertaban urged students not to “ever compromise on your Muslim brothers and sisters in which you have no evidence. Osama bin Laden- I don’t know this guy. I don’t know what he did. I don’t know what he said. I don’t know what happened. But we defend Muslim brothers and we defend our Muslim sisters to the end. Is that clear?”

That didn’t mean people should support terror, he said, but they should never compromise on their faith “Because Islam is a perfect religion.”

Invited back in 2011, Mertaban admitted to having supported the Taliban in the 1980s, and refused to condemn the terrorist organization Hamas, claiming that it has done a lot of good in terms of social and political programming. In a subsequent interview with the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Mertaban emphasized that he does not know if Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11, refused to recognize Israel as a sovereign nation and said he supports Hamas “freedom fighting missions.”

MSA’s history and various connections are significant in evaluating the NYPD’s surveillance. Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the action as an important countermeasure to terrorist activity. “Of course, we’re going to look at anything that’s publicly available, in the public domain. We have an obligation to do so,” he said.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne added that “[s]tudents who advertised events or sent emails about regular events should not be worried about a terrorism file being kept on them. NYPD only investigated persons who we had reasonable suspicion to believe might be involved in unlawful activities.”

One student who was on the rafting trip understood this. The AP quoted Ali Ahmed saying the NYPD was doing its job. “There’s lots of Muslims doing some bad things and it gives a bad name to all of us,” he said, “so they have to take their due diligence.”

If Ahmed’s views represented the MSA, rather than the radical ideas and actions of past leaders, NYPD would lose interest much faster.

Sacha Cohen’s ‘Dictator’ Banned from Oscars (VIDEO)

“General Aladeen,” the fictional Middle Eastern ruler who Sacha Baron Cohen plays in his upcoming film “The Dictator,”  issued an ultimatum to the Academy of Motion Pictures today after he was banned from attending Sunday’s Oscars award show.

Cohen was originally invited to attend the ceremony as part of the cast of best picture nominee “Hugo,”, but the Academy had warned him against bringing one of his famous ‘stunts’ to the Oscars red carpet.

Speaking as if he were the Middle East despot in his upcoming film “The Dictator,” Cohen delivered on the NBC’s “Today” that “those gangsters at the Academy banned me.”

“Normally I would be impressed by an act of cowardice by a faceless regime. But this is personal… They have until midday Sunday to give me my tickets back. If they do not they will see and face unforeseen and unimaginable consequences,” he added.

Watch Cohen/General Aladeen on The Today Show, below.

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