Weekly Radio Show: May 30 — John Press and Radio Free Dar Al Harb

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which WC and I cohost. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Friday, May 30 (60 minutes): Our guest for the first half hour is John Kenneth Press. For the second half hour, our guest is John Doe of Radio Free Dar Al Harb.
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1. John Kenneth Press is the author of the book Culturism: A Word, A Value, Our Future. Read several pages of Mr. Press's book by CLICKING HERE and using the arrows along the page borders to navigate the material.

2. John of Radio Free Dar Al Harb, hosted on Blog Talk Radio on Saturdays at noon, Eastern Daylight Time, is husband to a 9-11 survivor, son to a Khobar Towers survivor, and a determined patriot. We will discuss with John current events in the Washington, D.C., area — including recent displays of dhimmitude on the part of local governments, particularly in Fairfax County. Radio Free Dar Al Harb broadcasts from the Washington, D.C., area.

If you are unable to listen live to this week's edition of the radio show, you can listen later by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
June 6: Gary Swenchonis and Vadim
June 13: Ted Shoebat
June 20: Bill Warner and Ellen R. Sheeley
June 27: Bosch Fawstin and Steven Bradley

Islamic Saudi Academy's Lease Renewed

(Previous postings about the Islamic Saudi Academy here at Northern Virginiastan)

According to this comprehensive posting at Blue Ridge Forum, the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia recently had its Islamic Saudi Academy lease renewed with Fairfax County, without a written report ever having been submitted with regard to the textbooks used at ISA. The vote by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to renew the least for another year was unanimous.

A video of the hearing at the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is HERE. Select "public hearings" on May 19, 2008 to access the video (about 45 minutes).

A written report from the Traditional Values Coalition is HERE.

On May 30, 2008, at noon Eastern Standard Time, Radio Free Dar Al Harb will further discuss the Islamic Saudi Academy. The radio show is available later via podcast.

Weekly Radio Show: May 23 — Cassandra USA

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which WC and I cohost. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

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Friday, May 23 (60 minutes): Our guest for the entire hour is Cassandra USA.

Cassandra USA is the author of Escape from an Arab Marriage: Horror Stories of Women Who Fled From Abusive Muslim Husbands and Thirty-Three Secrets Arab Men Never Tell American Women: A Dissection of How Muslims Treat Women and Infidels. Her topic for this week's discussion: Freedoms Americans (Especially Women) Will Lose If Muslim Terrorist Groups Succeed In Taking Control of the United States.

If you are unable to listen live to this week's edition of the radio show, you can listen later by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
May 30: John Kenneth Press and Radio Free Dar Al Harb
June 6: Gary Swenchonis and Vadim
June 13: Ted Shoebat
June 20: Bill Warner and Ellen R. Sheeley
June 27: Bosch Fawstin and Steven Bradley

Weekly Radio Show: May 16 - Ibn Misr and Chaim

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which WC and I cohost. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Friday, May 16 (90 minutes): Our guests this week are Ibn Misr of Sons of Apes and Pigs and Chaim of Freedom's Cost.

Ibn Misr, who will be with us for the first hour, is a Coptic and a real firebrand who knows Islam inside out. According to information at his web site, his blog was launched in an effort to blow away the barrier of the Arabic language for Westerners, and give the proofs, from none other than Mohammad himself in his Koran and Hadiths.

Chaim will be with us at the top of the second hour for thirty minutes. According to information at his web site, his blog counters the revisionism, the lies and the ignorance (whether real or purposeful) of what is written about world events.

If you are unable to listen live to this week's edition of the radio show, you can listen later by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
May 23: Cassandra USA
May 30: John Kenneth Press and Radio Free Dar Al Harb
June 6: Gary Swenchonis and Vadim

Legal Jihad

My, my, how little things change. I've been absent from blogging on Northern Virginiastan for a long time, and we're still hearing about Ali Asad Chandia, the third-grade teacher at Al Huda School in College Park who was part of the Virginia jihad "paintball" gang.

As reported by the redoubtable Robert Spencer:

Courtroom Jihad: he is tying up time, personnel, and resources by continuing to appeal this sentence. He got fifteen years the first time, now he has gotten fifteen years again, and probably he will get fifteen years the next time also. But the kuffar system will be that much more overburdened. "Man gets same prison term for role in 'jihad network,'" from the Associated Press (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):

...Ali Asad Chandia is one of a dozen men convicted in a network the government said used paintball games to train for holy war around the globe.

A federal appeals court earlier this year ordered a new sentencing hearing for Chandia, saying the judge needed to explain why he applied a so-called terrorism enhancement that more than doubled Chandia's prison time.

At a sentencing hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Judge Claude Hilton explained that the enhancement was appropriate because Chandia was aware of the violent actions of the group he was helping. Chandia's lawyer said he will again appeal Hilton's sentence.

Jihad is not necessarily waged by bombs and weapons; it's also done by subverting public institutions such as the courts.

Weekly Radio Show: May 9 - Mohammed Abdul

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, which WC and I cohost. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is (646) 915-9870.

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Friday, May 9: Our guest for the full hour is "Mohammed Abdul."

Mohammed Abdul is a pseudonym for this week's interviewee, who is an expert on the Middle East and on some of the lesser-known tenets of Islam.

If you are unable to listen live to this week's edition of the radio show, you can listen later by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
May 16: Ibn Misr and Chaim
May 23: Cassandra USA
May 30: John Kenneth Press and Radio Free Dar Al Harb
June 6: Gary Swenchonis and Vadim

Islamic Divorce Denied In Maryland

The information below is an encouraging development that provides some anti-dhimmitudinal satisfaction. Nevertheless, the case may not have larger significance in the greater counter-jihad.

Excerpt from the May 7, 2008 edition of the Baltimore Sun:

Saying "I divorce thee" three times, as men in Muslim countries have been able to do for centuries when leaving their wives, is not enough if you're a resident of Maryland, the state's highest court ruled yesterday.

Yesterday, the Court of Appeals rejected a Pakistani man's argument that his invocation of the Islamic 'talaq', under which a marriage is dissolved simply by the husband's say-so, allowed him to part with his wife of more than 20 years and deny her a share of his $2 million estate.

The justices affirmed a lower court's decision overturning a divorce decree obtained in Pakistan by Irfan Aleem, a World Bank economist who moved from London to Maryland with his wife, Farah Aleem, in 1985. ...

Irfan Aleem had lived for nearly twenty years at the top echelons of the bankings in the West. But when his wife filed for divorce in Montgomery County, Maryland, in 2003, Mr. Aleem decided to pursue a shari'a avenue to limit the cost of the settlement terms:

But before the legal process could be completed - and without telling his wife - Aleem went to the Pakistani Embassy in Washington and invoked the 'talaq', in effect attempting to turn jurisdiction of the case over to a Pakistani court that later granted him a divorce.

The Maryland Court of Appeals nullified his Aleem's plan, although

Muneer Fareed, secretary-general of the Islamic Society of North America, said that if Aleem had traveled to Pakistan and invoked his talaq there, it might have been recognized in a U.S. court under the concept of comity, under which nations accept the premise of a law in another country "whether or not we agree with the law or its spirit."

Read the entire article. Additional information about the case is here and here.

The above small victory for anti-dhimmitude, apparently achieved because Irfan Aleem didn't physically travel to Pakistan to invoke 'talaq', is encouraging. But, at the same time, another form of shari'a law — shari'a banking — continues to gain ground within Western nations.

From this source, an article entitled "The Silent Jihad Against the West" (Hat-tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance):

Islamic Sharia banking is coming to the United States and other western nations, thanks to global banks such as Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Great Britain is now pledging to become the Islamic banking center of the world. Clearly the headlong rush by all global banks to enter the world of Islamic banking is well underway. Why do western banks seek to participate in Sharia banking; because it gives them a chance to enter the Islamic banking industry which has over $1.5 trillion available today and is growing at a steady and explosive rate of over 15% per year.

The implications for the west, and especially for the United States, are staggeringly destructive. Islamic banking working through global banks is doing for Islam what it could never do on its own: giving legitimacy to Sharia law and infiltrating it into the fabric of western society.

For those not familiar with Sharia Banking; it is a system which creates and sells services and products that are in strict accordance with Sharia law. Sometimes it is referred to in the Islamic culture as "Sharia finance". It dictates how the practices of banking, investment, bonds, loans, brokerage, etc, are to be conducted.
To insure compliance and to become "Sharia banking" compliant, banks must hire Sharia experts to review and approve each product and practice of the bank....There is a shortage of such Sharia experts so there is competition among banks to find such experts to sit on their boards of directors. By having an "expert" involved in banking decisions, this provides the legitimacy to each banking decision because it is made at the director rather management level. However, most of these Sharia experts" are from the radical Wahhabi school of Islam in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, and they hold views diametrically opposed to the basic values of Western civilization.

Read the entire article.

For current developments in shari'a banking, please visit Shariah Finance Watch.

[Cross-posted to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and at Always On Watch]

Jihad Watch: Virginia Muslim police sergeant who tipped off jihadist gets probation

It's been a long time since I've blogged on Northern Virginiastan, but it would be remiss of me not to discuss this article from Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch: Virginia Muslim police sergeant who tipped off jihadist gets probation.

This article is about Sgt. Weiss Rasool of the Farifax County police, who tipped off a suspected jihadist that law enforcement vehicles might be tailing him. According to the Washington Post article:

The target was arrested in November 2005, then convicted and deported, according to court filings in Rasool's case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanine Linehan said that the target and his family were already dressed and destroying evidence at 6 a.m. when agents arrived to make the arrest, indicating that they had been tipped off.

All Rasool got for sabotaging a terrorist investigation was two years of supervised probation and a $1,000 fine. At the time of this article (April 23), he was put on administrative leave with pay. WaPo readers who commented on this article were indignant. This sergeant should be fired.

eve_anne_gelical, who commented on the Jihad Watch article, recommended the following:

To contact the Fairfax County Police with a complaint or comment:

Internal affairs commander: IACMDR@co.fairfax.va.us

The Chief of Police: chief@co.fairfax.va.us

webpage for complaints:
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/police/ia_complaint.htm

Let 'em know that Sgt. Rasool should be fired.