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India: England's Badminton team threatened by Muslim terror group L-e-T

... and are forced to withdraw from the World Championship. 

From the Daily Mail.

England has withdrawn from the World Badminton Championships in India after a Muslim terrorist threat was made against the competition.

The eight-strong squad, including Olympic silver medallist Nathan Robertson, has pulled out of the Hyderabad tournament, which starts tomorrow, following reports of a threat by extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Badminton England chief executive Adrian Christy said: 'This was an incredibly tough decision and one we didn't take lightly.

Aw crap. Put the party hats away is right.

A fifth of European Union will be Muslim by 2050

Britain, Spain and Holland will have an even higher proportion of Muslims in a shorter amount of time...

Read it and weep, my friends.

NJ: Muslim scholars plan first 4 year accredited Islamic college for the US

A Muslim Georgetown they're calling it.   Their slogan? " Where Islam meets America."   I guess that's better than their secret slogan,  "Where Islam takesdown the Great Satan." 

I call it just another dhimmi brick in the Islamic wall, just one more step forward in the Academic Jihad. 

The founders? 

In earlier years, Shakir and Yusuf had made some anti-American statements, but that rhetoric is not part of their teaching.  (Ed. note:  Kinda like that whole Rev Wright deal, I guess.)

Don't think these two are radicals?  Don't think these two aren't anti Semitic and anti American?   Got a minute?  You might want to see what Pamela Geller has to say about that and then make your decision.

About Terrorist Tech:

A group of American Muslims, led by two prominent scholars, is moving closer to fulfilling a vision of founding the first four-year accredited Islamic college in the United States, what some are calling a "Muslim Georgetown."

Advisers to the project have scheduled a June vote to decide whether the proposed Zaytuna College can open in the fall of next year, a major step toward developing the faith in America.

Imam Zaid Shakir and Sheik Hamza Yusuf of California have spent years planning the school, which will offer a liberal arts education and training in Islamic scholarship. Shakir, a California native, sees the school in the tradition of other religious groups that formed universities to educate leaders and carve a space in the mainstream of American life.

"As a faith community our needs aren't any different than the needs of any other faith community," Shakir told the Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals, as he sought donations at a recent conference near Princeton, N.J. "As Muslims, we need to develop institutions to allow us to perpetuate our values."

Others have tried to start Muslim colleges around New York and Chicago, but those schools remained obscure or quickly folded.

Shakir and Yusuf are believed to have a better chance than most to succeed. 

Stop the presses! A moderate UK Muslim really exists?

And he's willing to speak out publicly?

Counting down to threats of violence and mayhem in 5...4...3...2...

From the Daily Mail

'I will give £5 to anyone in Britain who wants to live under Sharia law,' he declares. 'It will help pay for their ticket to Sudan, Yemen, Pakistan, or wherever it is customary to live under Sharia law.

'Please, please go and leave us alone. This is Britain, not 10th century Arabia!'

We are indeed sitting in a bar, on a busy main road in Oxford.

But the man before me is no stereotypical Islamophobe.

For one, he is sipping a glass of water rather than something more inflammatory.

More importantly, though by no means obviously, Dr Taj Hargey is himself an Islamic cleric; perhaps the most controversial imam in Britain today.

In an age when the highest-profile Muslim preachers are bearded, anti-Western firebrands such as Abu Hamza or Omar Bakri Dr Hargey seems an anomaly.  He does not care much for male facial hair. He believes that women can be both seen and heard, even in a mosque at Friday prayers.

And don't even get him started on the sort of fanatics who blow up London buses, or the poisonous teachings that inspired them.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was NOT waterboarded 183 times...

More liberal lies.

Are you surprised?

From Fox News.

The New York Times reported last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators. The "183 times" was widely circulated by news outlets throughout the world.

It was shocking. And it was highly misleading. The number is a vast inflation, according to information from a U.S. official and the testimony of the terrorists themselves.

A U.S. official with knowledge of the interrogation program told FOX News that the much-cited figure represents the number of times water was poured onto Mohammed's face -- not the number of times the CIA applied the simulated-drowning technique on the terror suspect.  According to a 2007 Red Cross report, he was subjected a total of "five sessions of ill-treatment."  

"The water was poured 183 times -- there were 183 pours," the official explained, adding that "each pour was a matter of seconds."

The Times and dozens of other outlets wrote that the CIA also waterboarded senior Al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah 83 times, but Zubayda himself, a close associate of Usama bin Laden, told the Red Cross he was waterboarded no more than 10 times.

The confusion stems from language in the Justice Department legal memos that President Obama released on April 16. They contain the numbers, but they fail to explain exactly what they represent.

The memos, spanning from 2002-2005, were a legal review by the Bush administration that approved the use of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques." Obama banned the procedure on his second day in office, saying that waterboarding is torture.

Copies of the released memos and more at the link.

The Muslim hits keep on coming - this time from Harvard: Muslim apostates? Kill 'em.

I don't usually travel in Harvard circles, so I haven't heard about this most recent Islamo-contretemps.  Have you?  Here it is,  in case you haven't heard about it either.  It includes the obligatory 'we were taken out of context quote' and the Crimson had to go back and redact the name of one of the students originally identified in the article because he was afraid of harm  when he revealed that his words could bring him into serious conflict with Muslim religious authorities. .

The Religion of Peace strikes again.

From the Crimson.

Harvard Islamic chaplain Taha Abdul-Basser ’96 has recently come under fire for controversial statements in which he allegedly endorsed death as a punishment for Islamic apostates.

In a private e-mail to a student last week, Abdul-Basser wrote that there was “great wisdom (hikma) associated with the established and preserved position (capital punishment [for apostates]) and so, even if it makes some uncomfortable in the face of the hegemonic modern human rights discourse, one should not dismiss it out of hand.”

The e-mail was forwarded over Muslim student e-mail lists and later picked up by the blogosphere, sparking debate and, in many cases, criticism of Abdul-Basser from those who have interpreted his statement as supporting the execution of those who leave the Islamic religion.

“I believe he doesn’t belong as the official chaplain,” said one Islamic student, who asked that he not be named to avoid conflicts with Muslim religious authorities. “If the Christian ministers said that people who converted from Christianity should be killed, don’t you think the University should do something?” [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW]

Obama's brother apologizes for tarnishing family name...

Drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

From Metro UK

Barack Obama's half-brother has apologised for tarnishing his family's name in a sex scandal which left him barred from Britain.

Samson Obama accepted a caution after two teenage girls claimed he molested them - but has strongly denied the accusations.  He admitted he was worried he might never be allowed back to Britain to see his mother Kezia - Mr Obama's stepmother.  'I have tarnished their good names and deeply regret my actions,' the 41-year-old said.  'I had too much to drink that night and my behaviour was over the top.'

Samson Obama was cautioned after a drunken row in Bracknell, Berkshire, where his mother lives, in November.

When questioned, he gave police a false name - which led to his visa being rejected by the Home Office. Yesterday, from his home in Nairobi, Kenya, he said: 'I didn't want to involve the Obama name, for obvious reasons.'

Obama: "The US is not and never will be at war at Islam."

 Then he throws the Armenians under the bus... and refuses to say the "G" word.

From Yahoo:

Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States "is not and will never be at war with Islam."

Calling for a greater partnership with the Islamic world in an address to the Turkish parliament, Obama called the country an important U.S. ally in many areas, including the fight against terrorism. He devoted much of his speech to urging a greater bond between Americans and Muslims, portraying terrorist groups such as al Qaida as extremists who did not represent the vast majority of Muslims.

"Let me say this as clearly as I can," Obama said. "The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical ... in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject."

...

Al Jazeera and Al Arabiyia, two of the biggest Arabic satellite channels, carried Obama's speech live.

Obama said the partnership between the U.S. and the Muslim world is critical in rolling back what he called a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject.  "America's relationship with the Muslim world cannot and will not be based on opposition to al Qaida," he said. "We seek broad engagement based upon mutual interests and mutual respect."

"We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better, including my own country," Obama said.

Obama also said, to a round of applause, that the United States supports Turkey becoming a member of the European Union.

And then he threw the Armenians smartly under the bus.

Mr . Obama was asked by a Chicago Tribune reporter about his position, as a senator, that Turkey should recognize the genocide committed against the Armenian people by the Ottoman empire during and after World War I, and whether he'd urged President Gul to acknowledge the genocide. This is an extremely sensitive topic, given Turkey's refusal to use the word "genocide" when discussing its past systematic slaughter of Armenians.

"My views are on the record and I have not changed my views," the president said.

That said, he sidestepped the issue saying that "under President Gul's leadership, a series of negotiations and a process has been put in place between Armenia and Turkey to resolve a whole host of issues including that one." 

Thus, Mr. Obama said, he did not want to focus on his views, allowing the Turkey-Armenia deliberations to continue on their own.

About that G- word:

President Barack Obama, steering a delicate course on an explosive issue here, said today that his views on the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks early in the last century had not changed, but avoided using the word "genocide" in front of his Turkish hosts.

According to Obama administration spokesman all acts of genocide, past and future,  are to be referred to as "unfortunate kitten incidents" going forward.  /do I really need this tag?

Bwa-ha-ha. 200 Mosques in Mecca point the wrong way for prayers.

So much for that old facing the Kaaba, bowing down, and throwing your ass up in the air rule.  According to Saudi government officials,  'it doesn't effect the prayers.'

<- A Mecca arrow at Camp Gitmo.

From the BBC

Some 200 mosques in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers, reports from Saudi Arabia say.

All mosques have a niche showing the direction of the most sacred Islamic site, the Kaaba, an ancient cube-like building in Mecca's Grand Mosque.  But people looking down from recently built high-rises in Mecca found the niches in many older mosques were not pointing directly towards the Kaaba.

Some worshippers are said to be anxious about the validity of their prayers.

There have been suggestions that laser beams could be used to make an exact measurement.

Tawfik al-Sudairy, Islamic affairs ministry deputy secretary, downplayed the problem in remarks quoted by the pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat.

"There are no major errors but corrections have been made for some old mosques, thanks to modern techniques," he said.

"In any case, it does not affect the prayers."

The Religion of Peace - another grim milestone approaches.

There have been two bombs in two days in Pakistan alone, so look for the murderous Muslim rampage of terror to push us through the 13000 level soon.

(Probably by the time I finish this post.)

Thanks to The Religion of Peace (and a big stack of dead bodies) for keeping the stats.