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    Things are Getting Even Uglier in the Muslim World




    Muslims killed an American ambassador in Libya on 9/11. They scaled the embassy wall in Cairo, Egypt and replaced the American flag with the black flag of Islam. And Obama declined a visit from Netenyahu because of a scheduling conflict (he just had to go on Letterman again.)… in other words, things are getting downright ugly in the Muslim world.

    Apparently, this president and so many others just don’t get it. They like to say Islam is a religion of peace, but the evidence just doesn’t support this. So they act like the evidence doesn’t exist. A muslim attack…? No, that was “workplace violence.” There may be a number of muslims who do not believe in jihad—they’re called bad muslims.
    Romney blasted Obama’s response as disgraceful:

    It’s disgraceful that the Obama Administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.
    That is disgraceful, but it’s par for the course with this guy. Added to this, the Iran nuclear question is still hot as heavy water. It’s just crazy. I honestly don’t know which direction we should go:
    Part of me says we should just leave them to kill each other like they’ve been doing for thousands of years.
    The other part of me wants to get medieval on the situation. I gotta find my copy of “The Great Siege of Malta: 1565.”

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    House conservatives call for stripping aid to Libya, Egypt from spending bill

    By Russell Berman - 09/12/12 02:20 PM ET

    A group of House conservatives is calling for foreign aid to Libya and Egypt to be stripped from a six-month federal funding bill set for a vote on Thursday.
    A handful of lawmakers voiced outrage Wednesday at the Obama administration’s response to the attacks on the U.S. embassies in those countries and suggested the inclusion of foreign aid could influence their votes.



    “It makes it easier to vote ‘no’” on the spending bill, freshman Rep. Jeff Landry (R-La.) said at a press event with conservative House Republicans at the Capitol.The House on Thursday plans to vote on a continuing resolution that would extend federal funding through March, preventing a government shutdown before the election or during a lame duck session of Congress this fall. While conservatives pushed to avoid a shutdown fight, they have also raised alarms about the inclusion of additional welfare funding in the bill.


    “It would show a tremendous amount of leadership from this administration, in light of the recent developments, if the president were to come back and demand that the amount of money that is in the [continuing resolution] for Libya and Egypt be stripped. That would be tremendous leadership,” Landry said.


    Lawmakers said they planned to bring up the issue at a meeting of the conservative Republican Study Committee on Wednesday, although they acknowledged it would be difficult to strip the foreign aid in so short an amount of time.
    The stopgap spending bill is expected to pass with bipartisan support, including from Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.).


    House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said that defunding Libya and Egypt in the continuing resolution (CR) would not be possible.
    "The CR is closed for changes," he said Wednesday.
    He said the Foreign Affairs Committee should take up the matter and suggested that moving on aid now would be "premature."


    In a separate statement Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said continued aid to Libya should be contingent on its government’s help in finding those responsible for the attack on the U.S. embassy.


    Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) said the administration should be asking several questions in the wake of the attacks, which killed four Americans at the consulate in Benghazi, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
    “Why is it that the United States is bankrolling some of these countries?” he asked. “Why do we continue to bankroll them at the level that we are? We’re waiting for that discussion from the administration.”


    The conservative lawmakers strongly backed Mitt Romney’s criticism of President Obama, repeating the GOP nominee’s charge that the U.S. embassy in Egypt initially apologized for an amateur anti-Islam video by a U.S. filmmaker that sparked the protests at the American compound.


    “It was just one idiot in the United States, and our president continually apologizes for those things,” freshman Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) said. “It has been his policy from the beginning to go around the world apologizing for America. And it’s about time that somebody stood up, and I’m glad that Romney stood up and said that it was wrong for the embassy to send out a statement apologizing for the thing, instead of condemning what the terrorists did at both embassies.”
    Garrett added: “This is the time for our president to show some leadership on foreign policy where he has been AWOL.”


    Landry sharply criticized the administration’s response and questioned whether the Libyan and Egyptian governments sought to repel the attacks.
    Both Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly condemned the attack in Libya Wednesday morning, and Clinton sought to emphasize that it was not executed by the Libyan government.


    “This was an attack by a small and savage group, not the people or government of Libya,” she said. “The friendship between our countries, borne out of shared struggle, will not be another casualty of this attack. A free and stable Libya is still in America's interest and security, and we will not turn our back on that, nor will we rest until those responsible for these attacks are found and brought to justice.”
    Obama said Libyans joined Americans in fighting back against the attack, and he said the attack "will not break the bonds between the United States and Libya."
    Erik Wasson contributed.
    This story was updated at 3:04 p.m.




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    'Muslim Brotherhood rising': Jihadists coordinating attacks

    'The idea was to create a revolution in front of the embassy'

    Published: 3 hours ago by Michael CarlEmail |

    Terrorism analyst and Act for America President Brigitte Gabriel says the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Libya and the U.S. Embassy in Egypt were coordinated, and more may be coming.

    “Jihadists are organizing together, and they’re communicating with one another through the Internet,” she told WND today following the murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Libya.

    Through their websites and networks, Gabriel said, “we are seeing the Muslim Brotherhood rising all across the Middle East,” where it has had an active presence for the past 30 years.

    The Associated Press reported authorities are investigating the possibility the attack today was coordinated, and they warn that the next target for violent Muslims could be the U.S. embassy in Algeria.
    The AP said various jihadist groups have engaged in online chatter about ongoing protests at U.S. embassies, and an intelligence report said Algerians plan to storm the U.S. Embassy today.

    The statement cited a Facebook page for a German-speaking Muslim cleric based in Tripoli who is promoting violence online.

    Further, WTOP-TV in Washington reported sources saying the attacks did not “appear to be a random mob scene, but rather an opportunity that militants seized.”

    The Islamic attackers used a rocket-propelled grenade, a weapon not traditionally carried by protesters, the report said.

    In Cairo, mobs of angry protesters invaded the U.S. Embassy compound, and at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, attackers killed four Americans, including the ambassador.

    The Cairo mob lowered U.S. flags and hoisted a black Islamic flag instead.

    Reports said the crowds were angry about an anti-Muhammad film that was allegedly produced in the U.S.

    However, Gabriel and former PLO operative Walid Shoebat said the protest was a pretext for an attack and the beginning of a wider political movement.

    Shoebat told WND the notion that the film was the main reason for the attack is “rubbish.”

    “There is nothing about that specific movie in their publicity,” he said. ‘It was about trying to suppress voices and freedom of speech.”
    He said a translated advertisement that ran on Sept. 10 asked people to rally at the U.S. Embassy.

    “The Salafists Nour joined the Voice of Shikma, the Voice of Wisdom. Wisam Abdul Waris called for the whole thing. The idea was to create a revolution in front of the embassy,” Shoebat said.

    Shoebat bases his analysis on a translation of the statement calling for the protest.

    “The Arabic sources show that this was in support of al-Qaida day, posting al-Qaida flags and some of the chanting was about reminding Americans that there are many al-Qaldas (i.e. Nour Party),” Shoebat said in the interview.

    The statement is also posted on his website.

    “They want to … create havoc so that they can enforce the idea to make it illegal to insult Islam and the prophet Muhammad any time,” Shoebat said.

    Gabriel agrees that the joint attacks on the embassy in Cairo and the consulate in Libya are part of a wider agenda.

    “They used the movie as an excuse. Remember the Muslim Brotherhood has organized networks all over the Internet. Jihadists communicate with each other and basically they were looking for an excuse,” Gabriel said.

    “The embassy has been under threat from radicals as was reported by newspapers in Egypt,” Gabriel said. “Islamic Jihad has been expressing in letters to the embassy that they wanted to burn the embassy unless the U.S. releases all of the Islamic prisoners including the Blind Sheikh,” Gabriel said.

    Gabriel noted that the release of Omar Abdel Rahman, the “Blind Sheik” behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is also one of the demands of Egypt’s new president, Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi.

    Morsi asked for the release of Rahman after he was elected in June. When the jihadists saw there was no response, they attacked the embassy, Gabriel explained.

    An Egyptian citizen who lives in Cairo and who asked not to be named for security reasons agrees that the attack was not spontaneous.
    “It was orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and the MB youth and Salafists,” the Cairo resident told WND. “There were about 1,000 protesters during the height of the protest.”

    “Planning for this attack has been going on for a while,” Shoebat added.
    He said an attack on an embassy on Sept. 11 was more than a coincidence.

    “They chose 9/11 to basically insult America. ‘We are all al-Qaida,’ is what was chanted. The object is to force the American government to create law to stop anyone who criticizes Islam,” Shoebat said.

    “They know that humiliating Americans works. That’s why they chose 9/11 to carry out this attack,” Shoebat said.

    Shoebat says the Cairo embassy statement was exactly what the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist protesters wanted.

    The embassy statement read:

    The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.

    Shoebat says the impact of the statement is that the United States just promoted further attacks.

    An intelligence analyst and military historian who asked to remain anonymous says that the U.S. Embassy statement had to be approved by a higher authority.

    “For an embassy to release anything to the public, word has to come from high levels at the State Department, often after clearing it with the White House,” the analyst said.

    Aidan Clay, Middle East analyst for the human rights group International Christian Concern, says that the situation is clear: The jihadists are gaining in power and influence.

    “There’s no doubt that Islamists are becoming increasingly bolder throughout the Middle East. The rise of political Islam – the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis in Egypt, the Ennahda party in Tunisia, Islamist opposition groups in Syria – has been a main contributor,” Clay said.
    “It would seem that the only groups benefiting from the newly gained freedoms after the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ have been radical Islamists who are now taking justice into their own hands,” he said.

    “What’s more, these extremist mobs are often times protected by their own governments who either agree with their motives or cower to their growing influence,” Clay said.

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    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly condemned the attack in Libya Wednesday morning, and Clinton sought to emphasize that it was not executed by the Libyan government.
    Horse hockey. It was 9/11 folks. The radical Isalamists were looking for an excuse to perpetrate violence on this day. If there had been no video on You Tube they would have dredged up something said by Michael Savage or Rush Limbaugh, or would have been offended by some sex article in Cosmopolitan......whatever would work. The Libyan government may not have executed the attacks, but that does not mean they did not know or participate in the planning.


    Now explain something to me. I had to go to our local Air Force base with my wife to get her dependent's ID removed. They had 100 per cent ID checks at the gate for all drivers and passengers, and the same at all building entrances because it was 9/11, Where were the precautions for the US embassy? And I thought our embassies all had Marine detachments assigned for security purposes.

    Also note that while our State Department and Administration were falling over backwards to condemn the so-called offensive video, no Muslim nation or Muslim cleric offered anything in the way of apology except Yemen. I have yet to hear any Muslim apology for 9/11 2001. Terrorist attacks on the US, and attacks on Jews and Christians in the middle east and Africa may be perpetrated by Muslim extremists, but they all get silent support from the rest of Islam, therefore undermining the notion that Islam is a religion of peace. It may be in theory, but certainly not in practice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 4thHorseman View Post
    Horse hockey. It was 9/11 folks. The radical Isalamists were looking for an excuse to perpetrate violence on this day. If there had been no video on You Tube they would have dredged up something said by Michael Savage or Rush Limbaugh, or would have been offended by some sex article in Cosmopolitan......whatever would work. The Libyan government may not have executed the attacks, but that does not mean they did not know or participate in the planning.


    Now explain something to me. I had to go to our local Air Force base with my wife to get her dependent's ID removed. They had 100 per cent ID checks at the gate for all drivers and passengers, and the same at all building entrances because it was 9/11, Where were the precautions for the US embassy? And I thought our embassies all had Marine detachments assigned for security purposes.

    Also note that while our State Department and Administration were falling over backwards to condemn the so-called offensive video, no Muslim nation or Muslim cleric offered anything in the way of apology except Yemen. I have yet to hear any Muslim apology for 9/11 2001. Terrorist attacks on the US, and attacks on Jews and Christians in the middle east and Africa may be perpetrated by Muslim extremists, but they all get silent support from the rest of Islam, therefore undermining the notion that Islam is a religion of peace. It may be in theory, but certainly not in practice.
    Well said. To back it up - check this out:
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