Weekly Radio Show: March 28 — Robert Spencer

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Friday, March 28: SPECIAL SHOW!

This week's scheduled guest for the entire hour will be Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch. He is the author of two bestsellers: The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). Others of his books include Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't; Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith; and Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West.

In advance of the show, you can submit questions for Mr. Spencer in the comments section of this post; when the show is on the air, you can submit questions in the chat room at this link.

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NOTE: Our August 31, 2007 interview of Mr. Spencer is HERE.

Weekly Radio Show: March 14

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Friday, March 14 (two hours): Walid Shoebat will be with us for the first hour, Mark Alexander the second hour.

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1. For a full hour, we will discuss with Mr. Shoebat material from his second book Why We Want To Kill You: The Jihadist Mindset and How to Defeat It, including his past life as an Islamic terrorist and his life-change, myth vs. fact about Islam, and how the West should be dealing with Islamism and its various manifestations, particularly those of the present.

Video (about 10 minutes): Walid Shoebat - A Palestinian's Journey

More Shoebat videos HERE.



2. For another full hour, we will discuss with Mr. Alexander material from his book The Dawning of a New Dark Age: A Collection of Essays on Islam and the immiscibility of Islam with democracy. You can read my review of the book HERE Amazon.com. Excerpt from Mr. Alexander's online essay "Islam: The Enemy of Democracy and Freedom": Wake up to the harsh realities of life in the twenty-first century! We've got some collective thinking to do if we wish to save ourselves from darkness. Perhaps we shall, indeed, be forced to think about having to re-classify Islam as a political system first and foremost...[T]o give complete, unhampered freedom to Islam to grow here in the West is tantamount to digging our own graves.

Don't miss this edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, during which we'll be discussing the Islamic threat with two experts on the topic!

UPCOMING SHOWS
March 21: Elisabeth of Austria
March 28: Robert Spencer

Promoting Islam At Georgetown University

(All emphases by Always On Watch)



From The Avid Editor's Insights, on March 10, 2008:

Check out this amazingly illuminating post by konservo

“Researchers” From Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and Georgetown University Publish a “Study”: ”

Georgetown University has been hard at work producing a new ‘study’ to show us infidels how it is really our fault that Islam has been given a bad name.

After all, we are not respecting Islam, and Muslims are a sensitive bunch.

Here are some key points:

• Muslims and Americans are equally likely to reject attacks on civilians as morally unjustifiable.

• Large majorities of Muslims would guarantee free speech if it were up to them to write a new constitution and they say religious leaders should have no direct role in drafting that constitution.

• Muslims around the world say that what they least admire about the West is its perceived moral decay and breakdown of traditional values — the same answers that Americans themselves give when asked this question.

• When asked about their dreams for the future, Muslims say they want better jobs and security, not conflict and violence.

• Muslims say the most important thing Westerners can do to improve relations with their societies is to change their negative views toward Muslims and respect Islam.

Georgetown.edu

You see, according to the ‘research’ gathered for this ‘study,’ it turns out that if we, as Freedom-loving Westerners, had merely turned a blind eye to the atrocious actions and ideological reasoning behind Islamic terrorism around the world along with the concomitant lack of denunciation (which is easily interpreted as quiet approval) from Muslim groups (e.g. MAS and CAIR supporting HAMAS), and rather if we had decided to give up that Freedom which we so cherish and instead submit and give out respect to a religion that has been spread by the sword since its conception, that is what it would take to improve relations between Americans and Muslims, and again, this is according to the ‘research’ found in this ‘study.’

Oh… also,

About Georgetown University:

A $20 million gift from a Saudi Arabian prince to a Georgetown University academic center has not affected its scholarly work, Georgetown’s president said in response to questions from a U.S. congressman

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U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), wrote to DeGioia Feb. 14, saying he was concerned about Prince Alwaleed’s gift to Georgetown’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (which was renamed in the prince’s honor) and the affect it had on research. Has anyone at the Center conducted research critical of Saudi educational or human rights policies? Wolf also asked whether the money fueled any of the school’s training of current and prospective U.S. Foreign Service personnel.

‘[A]ll of us at Georgetown University take very seriously the importance of protecting academic freedom,’ DeGioia wrote. ‘I want to assure you that I am completely confident that the Center’s work, to borrow your words, ‘maintains the impartiality and integrity’ that we expect of all research conducted at Georgetown University.’

The response misses the point, said Martin Kramer, former director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University and a fellow at Harvard and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy…

‘No one at such a center could possibly specialize in contemporary Saudi policy, because to do so objectively would not sit well with the Saudi princes who make the gifts,’ Kramer said in an e-mail exchange. ‘Replicate this a hundred-fold across academe, at universities that would also like $20 million for Islamo-this-or-that, and you have killed off the critical study of Saudi Arabia in the academy. This is no small achievement: the political structure and social norms of the Kingdom are not of the sort that endear themselves to the ‘progressives’ in our universities. But the academics are silent, because they hope and pray that someday, their prince will come.’

Investigative Project on Terrorism

It seems to me that the ‘study’ could very well be the result of Saudi-funded Islamo-this-or-that in an American university. Such a shame.

It's a shame, all right. In fact, it's worse than a shame.

Funded by bucks from Saudi, the home of Wahhabism, we are training the next generation in Islamophilia and continuing the whitewash of Islamism at one of our most respected institutions of higher learning. And we're selling out Western civilization in the process.

It's later than we think, folks.

We in the United States need not look across The Pond and gloat that we are smarter than Europe with regard to the Islamification of the West. We're allowing the camel's nose into the tent right here. Judging from the present fad of Islamophilia we're standing by and letting more than the camel's nose has intruded. It seems to me that the camel will take over the entire tent not too far in the future — oh so quietly.

Weekly Radio Show: March 7

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Friday, March 7 (90 minutes): Janet Levy will be our guest for the first half hour, and GM Roper for the second half hour. At the top of the second hour, Pastorius, one of the founders of Infidel Bloggers Alliance, will be the guest.

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1. Janet Levy is the founder of ESG Consulting, an organization that offers project management, fundraising, promotion, event organizing and planning services for conservative political causes and issues related to terrorism and national security. An index to her articles at Front Page Magazine is HERE and at American Thinker HERE. Excerpt from Janet Levy's most recent article, "The Fallacy of Shared Values," at American Thinker:

...[A]n examination of the intersection of Islam and traditional Western or Judeo-Christian societies reveals very little evidence of any "shared values." Instead, glaring conflicts between the two are evident in the role and practice of religion in society, the concepts of moral behavior, the value of human life, personal responsibility and civil and legal rights....

Read the entire article.

2. GM Roper of the blog site GM's Corner is a licensed professional counselor. He recently had one of his essays published at Pajamas Media. Excerpt from GM Roper's "Will Texas Hispanics Abandon Hillary for Obama":

“Si, se puede,” once again rings out in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. El Valle as it is known to those of us living here, hasn’t heard the phrase since the days of Caesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.

This time, “Si, se puede” or, in the Obama lexicon, “Yes, we can” is the new slogan for Senator Barack Obama (D. Ill.) running for the Democrat nomination for President. And chasing him with blood in her eye is Senator Hillary Clinton (D. N.Y.) who has lost the last 11 races.

Obama is a phenomenon not seen in South Texas for decades....

Read the entire essay.

3. Pastorius is one outspoken infidel! You can read his profile HERE. He is also the host of his own radio show, Where We Rock, Roll, and Celebrate All Things Infidel. Both WC and I are proud to call Pastorius our brother-in-arms and our friend. We will discuss with him the founding and purpose of Infidel Bloggers Alliance and Barack Obama's campaign.

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show this week to hear political and cultural analysis from Janet Levy, GM Roper, and Pastorius.

UPCOMING SHOWS
March 14 (two hours): Walid Shoebat and Mark Alexander
March 21: Elisabeth of Austria
March 28: Robert Spencer

Weekly Radio Show: February 29

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Friday, February 29: Our guest at the bottome of the first half hour of the show is John Bootie. John Bootie is a candidate for President of the United States. You can read brief synopses of his positions on various issues HERE.

At the top of the second hour, Dave Gaubatz and David Yerulshalmi of Mapping Shari'a In America will discuss their stunning investigative findings, recently published in World Net Daily.
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UPCOMING SHOWS
March 7: Janet Levy and GM Roper
March 14: Walid Shoebat and Mark Alexander
March 21: Elisabeth of Austria
March 28: Robert Spencer

Not A Surprise To Those Of Us Who Watch

According to this article in World Net Daily:

Study: 3 in 4 U.S. mosques
preach anti-West extremism
Secret survey exposes widespread radicalism

An undercover survey of more than 100 mosques and Islamic schools in America has exposed widespread radicalism, including the alarming finding that 3 in 4 Islamic centers are hotbeds of anti-Western extremism, WND has learned.

The Mapping Sharia in America Project, sponsored by the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, has trained former counterintelligence and counterterrorism agents from the FBI, CIA and U.S. military, who are skilled in Arabic and Urdu, to conduct undercover reconnaissance at some 2,300 mosques and Islamic centers and schools across the country.

"So far of 100 mapped, 75 should be on a watchlist," an official familiar with the project said.

Many of the Islamic centers are operating under the auspices of the Saudi Arabian government and U.S. front groups for the radical Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt.

Frank Gaffney, a former Pentagon official who runs the Center for Security Policy, says the results of the survey have not yet been published. But he confirmed that "the vast majority" are inciting insurrection and jihad through sermons by Saudi-trained imams and anti-Western literature, videos and textbooks.

The project, headed by David Yerushalmi, a lawyer and expert on sharia law, has finished collecting data from the first cohort of 102 mosques and schools. Preliminary findings indicate that almost 80 percent of the group exhibit a high level of sharia-compliance and jihadi threat, including:

Ultra-orthodox worship in which women are separated from men in the prayer hall and must enter the mosque from a separate, usually back, entrance; and are required to wear hijabs.

Sermons that preach women are inferior to men and can be beaten for disobedience; that non-Muslims, particularly Jews, are infidels and inferior to Muslims; that jihad or support of jihad is not only a Muslim's duty but the noblest way, and suicide bombers and other so-called "martyrs" are worthy of the highest praise; and that an Islamic caliphate should one day encompass the U.S.

Solicitation of financial support for jihad.

Bookstores that sell books, CDs and DVDs promoting jihad and glorifying martyrdom.

Though not all mosques in America are radicalized, many have tended to serve as safe havens and meeting points for Islamic terrorist groups. Experts say there are at least 40 episodes of extremists and terrorists being connected to mosques in the past decade alone.

Some of the 9/11 hijackers, in fact, received aid and counsel from one of the largest mosques in the Washington, D.C., area. Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center is one of the mosques indentified by undercover investigators as a hive of terrorist activity and other extremism.

It was founded and is currently run by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. Imams there preach what is called "jihad qital," which means physical jihad, and incite violence and hatred against the U.S.

Dar al-Hijrah's ultimate goal, investigators say, is to turn the U.S. into an Islamic state governed by sharia law.

Another D.C.-area mosque, the ADAMS Center, was founded and financed by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and has been one of the top distributors of Wahhabist anti-Semitic and anti-Christian dogma.

Even with such radical mosques operating in its backyard, the U.S. government has not undertaken its own systematic investigation of U.S. mosques.

In contrast, European Union security officials are analyzing member-state mosques, examining the training and funding sources of imams, in a large-scale project.

Some U.S. lawmakers want the U.S. to conduct its own investigation.

"We have too many mosques in this country," said Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y. "There are too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully."

Year ago, Paul Sperry sounded the alarm about the Islamist infiltration of the D.C. Metro area. HERE is the section on the Wahhabi Corridor, and that's just one example from Sperry's materials of several years ago.

The big question: What is our government, which is supposed to protect us, doing about closing down these hubs of jihadist ideology?

Weekly Radio Show: February 22

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SPECIAL SHOW! PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SLAPDOWN!

Friday, February 22: For one hour, Mustang, Allan Goldstein, and Saleem Siddiqui will discuss their views as to who will make the best President to conduct the war on terror and to deal with the threat of Islamism.
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Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show this week, and find out which candidate(s) our slapdown participants think will make the best President.

You don't want to miss this show, which will discuss the upcoming, critical change of leadership in the United States when voters go to the polls on November 4, 2008!

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UPCOMING SHOWS
February 29: Jason Bootie
March 7: Janet Levy and GM Roper
March 14: Walid Shoebat and Mark Alexander
March 21: Elisabeth of Austria
March 28: Robert Spencer

CAIR Loses Status?

According to this February 18, 2008 update from the United American Committee, CAIR, whose shady connections have been well exposed by Andrew Whitehead of the web site Anti-CAIR (among others), CAIR may have come down a peg or two (emphases mine):

A major victory in the fight against Jihad has apparently occurred. Somewhere in the dead of night, without any known announcement from the organization, the highly controversial Washington DC based group CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations has apparently lost the tax status which enabled it to conduct lobbying activities. The organization was registered for many years under the IRS tax code 501c(4) which allowed the organization to conduct lobbying activities, campaign funding, legislation and candidate backing, and many other government and litigation related activities. A 501c(4) tax status is very difficult to maintain, requiring quarterly public filings, and is very regulated under strict lobbying laws, yet is the most powerful tax status for organizations wishing to influence government. CAIR, who was under this status, had numerous members of their leadership indicted on terrorism related charges in the past, and had received large amounts of funding from questionable foreign sources. Many critics of the group often wondered how CAIR was able to hold on to such a highly critiqued tax status such as 501c(4). In contrast there is another tax status which is much weaker, and one that is very easy for most anyone to receive, and that status is 501c(3), a status which U.S. tax laws prohibit such organizations from engaging in large amounts of lobbying and government influence activities, it is a status for educational groups and churches, which is greatly restricted in the ability to influence any kind of legislation. CAIR has recently downgraded the description of their organization on their website to 501c(3). While calls to their office could not confirm the reasons, it appears that CAIR may have lost the status as of the first of this year.

Note, the current organization description on CAIR's website reads:
"CAIR is a not-for-profit organization recognized as tax-exempt under U.S. Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3)."

While internet archives of the site as of June 2007 read as follows:
"The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a nonprofit 501(c)(4), grassroots civil rights and advocacy group."

Chalk one up for the good guys.

Could there be a connection with CAIR's recent tussle with Michael Savage?

Or is CAIR backing off because the organization dare not open financial records to the light of day as was the case in CAIR's law suit against Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR?

Audio, about ten minutes in length and worth your time:




Read more details about CAIR's unsuccessful law suit against Anti-CAIR, a site which contains the same information it has always provided.

Let's see if CAIR publishes any kind of response to the above update from the United American Committee. Of course, CAIR may do what the organization does best — stonewall or spin the story.

Weekly Radio Show: February 15

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Friday, February 15 (90-minute show): This week's guest for the entire show will be Cassandra, author of the book Escape! From an Arab Marriage: Horror Stories of Women Who Fled from Abusive Muslim Husbands and of the blog site No Slaves of Allah in America. We'll be discussing with Cassandra America Truth Forum's recent symposium (video here) and female genital mutilation (shocking, realistic graphics and photos here — RATED "R"!).

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UPCOMING SHOWS
February 22: Mustang, Allan Goldstein, and Saleem Siddiqui
February 29: Jason Bootie
March 7: Janet Levy and GM Roper
March 14: Walid Shoebat
March 21: Elisabeth of Austria
March 28: Robert Spencer

Special Invitation to Muslims

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SPECIAL SHOW! We invite Muslims to call in or send us questions via the radio show's chat room and, in so doing, discuss the information presented. The show's air time will be extended to a full two hours, if needed.

Friday, February 8: Our guest will be Ibn Misr of the web site Sons of Apes and Pigs. He invites Muslims to discuss his comments with him on the air. This is an opportunity for Muslims to present their views about Islam. In other words, The Gathering Storm Radio Show is offering Muslims the opportunity to give the show's audience their views about Islam — directly from Muslims!

According to the information on the site's side bar:

...We will expose Islam from a totally new angle that will be a first for an English audience site and go in depth till we reach the bottom (of Islam). This time it’s not going to be Islam under the veil. We’ll take the veil off to show you not only a topless and bottomless Islam, but we’ll allow you to penetrate it and get the inside out. We will let you see right through Mohamed and Islam’s moral guidelines, which have never before been exposed to a western audience....

You don't want to miss this show!

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UPCOMING SHOWS
February 15: Cassandra of No Slaves of Allah in America
February 22: Mustang, Allan Goldstein, and Saleem Siddiqui
February 29: Jason Bootie
March 7: GM Roper
March 14: Walid Shoebat

Weekly Radio Show: February 1

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Friday, February 1: Our guest at the bottom of the hour is blogger Kevin of The Amboy Times. We'll begin that portion of the show by discussing Kevin's extensive posting "The List of Things That Offend Muslims."

Kevin keeps the list up to date! He also invites commenters to add to the list. Introduction to "The List... ":

This list is a work in progress. I welcome suggestions. Anyone who has more items to add to the list, post them in the comments.

The intent of the list is to illustrate the futility of the multicultural approach to Islam. Sharia law demands submission not only from Muslims, but from non-Muslims as well. This makes respectful coexistence nearly impossible with Muslims in Infidel lands. The examples below serve as reminder that submitting to one complaint or another only emboldens Muslims to seek to further their ultimate goal of establishing sharia.

The West needs to come to grips with this fact and start standing up for our God-given rights of free speech, free expression and freedom of religion, lest we surrender those rights to a theocratic movement bent on removing our Constitutional freedoms that we hold dear. In this case, our tolerance will lead to intolerance.

You don't want to miss this show!

Weekly Radio Show: January 25

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Friday, January 25: We have three guests scheduled for this week: Cinnamon Stillwell of Campus Watch, and bloggers Elmer's Brother and Nanc.

1. This week's guest at the top of the hour is Cinnamon Stillwell of Cinnamon Stillwell.com, the Cinnamon Stillwell Blog and Daniel Pipes's Campus Watch: Monitoring Middle East Studies on Campus. Read the mission statement of Campus Watch HERE. From Campus Watch:

CAMPUS WATCH, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students....

Ms. Stillwell is the Northern California representative for Campus Watch and has written articles for the American Thinker, Family Security Matters, Frontpage Magazine, Accuracy In Media, Newsbusters, Israel National News, the Jewish News Weekly of N. CA, the Conservative Voice, and many others.

2. At the bottom of the hour, Elmer's Brother and Nanc will join us for a humorous look at current events and trends. Or they could adopt a serious tone. With EB and Nanc, one never knows how they are going to approach matters!

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Weekly Radio Show: January 18

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Friday, January 18: SPECIAL SHOW — 120 minutes!

This week we have four guests scheduled: Ilana Freedman, Brigitte Gabriel, Blogger Lionheart, and Lee Kaplan.

1. Ilana Freedman of The Gerard Group, which states at the site's header, If you want to ignore the terrorist threat, that's your business. If you want to protect against it, that's ours. See this list for articles by Ms. Freedman.

2. Brigitte Gabriel, author of Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America and founder of the web site ACT For America!, where Ms. Gabriel states I founded ACT! for America because Islamic militants have declared war on America....We are in for the fight of our lives....

3. Blogger Lionheart from the UK. He will be arrested if he returns to the UK for violating Britain's hate crime law. This is a travesty of freedom and a show not to miss because what's happening to Lionheart can and may happen to you.

4. Lee Kaplan: undercover investigative journalist and a contributor to Front Page Magazine. He is also a regular columnist for the Israel National News and Canada Free Press and a senior intelligence analyst and communications director for the Northeast Intelligence Network. He heads the organizations Defending America for Knowledge and Action (DAFKA) and Stop the ISM. Mr. Kaplan hast a weekly radio show entitled "The Islamic Agenda" on Jerusalem Pulse Radio. Additionally he is on the air every Tuesday from 8-10 PM on the Jim Kirkwood Show.

DON'T MISS THIS SHOW!

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Weekly Radio Show: January 11

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Friday, January 11: Our guest for the first half hour will be Eric Martin, narrator of Jerusalem Countdown and What Every American Needs to Know about the Qur'an. He will be speaking first of blogger Lionheart's situation. As time allows, Mr. Martin, an expert on the Middle East, will discuss other topics as well.

Our guest for the second half hour will be Lee Kaplan: undercover investigative journalist and a contributor to Front Page Magazine. He is also a regular columnist for the Israel National News and Canada Free Press and a senior intelligence analyst and communications director for the Northeast Intelligence Network. He heads the organizations Defending America for Knowledge and Action (DAFKA) and Stop the ISM.

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Weekly Radio Show: January 4

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Friday, January 4: This week's guest for the entire hour will be John Kenneth Press, author of the book Culturism: A Word, A Value, Our Future, available for purchase at Amazon.com. You can read about culturism at the web site Culturism, including taking a short test to determine is you are a culturist. Mr. Press's blog site is HERE.

You don't want to miss this show as WC and I welcome in the New Year with this important discussion!

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2007: The West's Year Of Failure

[Cross-posted to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS]

From this December 28, 2007 article in Spiegel Online International:

Ongoing difficulties in Iraq. A Taliban offensive in Afghanistan. And now the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. For the West, 2007 has been a year of failure and missteps.

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There are three lessons to be learned from the strategy followed by the US to this point.

Lesson one: The conflict with radical Islam is not the hobby of a US president gone berserk. This will become all the more clear next November when American voters go to the polls. Bush, who cannot run for re-election due to term limitations, will go, but the conflict with Islam will remain. In fact, it is growing more intense. That, at least, is what the murder of this exceptionally brave woman in Pakistan has given to the West: a high degree of clarity. The radical Islamists will not tolerate any democrats, even if they come from their own countries. They are looking for a showdown, apparently at any price. They will even accept the failure of a country as big and proud as Pakistan.

Lesson two: Bush will not be in a position to do much to end this conflict. He is a war president and an unsuccessful one at that. Even if he talks about diplomacy, it sounds like preparation for war. His partners in Berlin, Paris and London will have to act cleverly in this difficult situation. Any belligerence or crowing must be avoided so as to not damage the Western position as a whole. As strange as it might sound, this beleaguered president must be ushered into retirement with dignity and civility.

Lesson three: The classic military intervention -- Bush's formula against the danger of terrorism -- has not been successful up to now and will not be so in the future. And the situation in nuclear-armed Pakistan is clearly not one where any sort of military operation should be considered....

The article, avoiding insofar as possible any reference to Islam, emphasizes the role of diplomacy (Even with "thugs"!), which has been, for the most part over the past fourteen centuries, an abject failure with any Islamic nation. The Spiegel article, overlooking the religious element and the emphasis which Islamic terrorism places on Islamic jihadi-martyrs' status in eternity, also attempts to draw fallacious comparisons between the present clash of civilizations and the Cold War:

A look back and the Cold War -- an era full of provocations on both sides -- provides a useful model. In 1953, construction workers building the great Stalin Allee in East Berlin, rebelled against their communist government. Many in the Soviet zone hoped that the West would support their fight against the East German communist dictatorship. In West Berlin, the US propaganda station RIAS became shriller -- but nothing more was done.

In Budapest in 1956 there was the same calm discipline. The armed Hungarian students (this writer's father among them) rebelled against the Moscow puppet regime. They were hoping for Western help, but that hope was in vain. The students saw this as a betrayal. For tens of thousands, my father included, there was nothing to do but flee from the Soviet tanks rolling in.

The West's abstention was painful; in fact, it was unbearable -- but it made political sense.

These provocations continued until the dismal high point -- the military putsch by General Wojciech Jaruzelski in Warsaw in 1981. The armies of the West stayed in their barracks. Soviet Communism broke apart all by itself a short time later.

Toward the end, however, the article also states the following, thus ending on a contradictory note:

The West has to protect itself and its people with everything modern technology has placed at its disposal....[T]here is an important role to be played by the military and by secret services -- but primarily in the service of targeted operations against terror camps and cells. While mass invasions have proven useless, pinprick operations continue to have an important place in the West's arsenal.

In my view, the article overlooks a necessary component of victory in this long, long war against Islamic expansionism: Stop whitewashing Islam by calling it "the religion of peace."

[Hat-tip to Mark Alexander, where I found the article from Spiegel Online International]

Fairfax County Police Make Good Use Of Their DHS Grant

From this article in at Examiner.com:

New technology will allow Fairfax County police to identify someone on the street within a matter of seconds with a set of new tools they will share with departments elsewhere in northern Virginia.

A $14 million federal homeland security grant in 2005 allowed Fairfax police to purchase 50 units of a new portable Automated Fingerprint Identification System. The tool can scan two index fingers and search for a match among the approximately 1 million fingerprints on file in northern Virginia and the District of Columbia, Fairfax Lt. John V. Byrd said. A match will come back in about 30 seconds, often with a photograph, if a person's fingerprints are on file.

"This has the possibility to be the most effective tool for police since the two-way radio," Byrd said.

The portable units also can take a photo of a person and search for an image match, but that system is less reliable because there are fewer photographs than fingerprints on file, Byrd said.

Police believe the technology could significantly improve their ability to solve crimes, gather intelligence on gangs and combat terrorism, Byrd said.

"An officer on the street will be able to identify a person that he may or may not have been able to identify through other techniques," he said.

Most of the units will stay in Fairfax County. But the police department will share the technology with Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William counties, as well as with Fairfax City, Vienna, Herndon and Alexandria.

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...Fairfax is the first jurisdiction to use machines that feature both fingerprint and photo recognition technology...

Now, let's hope that efficacious use of this new technology will be made.

This technology should be in use nationwide.

Weekly Radio Show: December 21

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