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The effects of a nuclear Iran are huge

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:11:01 AM
"Prevention of a nuclear Iran has implications in the overall war against radical Islamist terrorism. And, because Iran has shown that it has the ability to provide support and sanctuary for both Shiite and Sunni groups, the effects of a nuclear Iran are huge."
 


The Marriage of Terrorism and Nuclear Capability
By C. Hart
 
When you think of a nuclear Iran, you probably think of atomic bombs or nuclear-tipped missiles. But few people think about the implications of an Iranian nuclear umbrella providing a cover for terrorism and subversion. Continued...
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Reluctance to treat terrorists like enemies

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:50:41 AM

"...if the Obama administration's reluctance to treat terrorists like enemies is derived entirely from deep-seated ideological principle, then it should stick to its guns."



It's Time for Obama to Look At Terrorism Differently

by Jonah Goldberg

It is always dangerous to mistake your ideological preferences for shrewd political strategy, but that is precisely what President Obama and his advisors have done with the war on terror. Continued...
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Attack the factory that produces terrorists

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:10:30 AM
"In my analysis, it has to do with the refusal by decision makers -- based on the opinion of their own experts -- to attack the factory that produces terrorists and instead to wait until the jihadists show up at our country's ports of entries."
 
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Al Qaeda has the initiative in attacking US national security
By Walid Phares
 
In 2001, one would-be shoe bomber forced millions of travelers to take off their shoes. In 2006, terrorists planned to bring down aircraft on transatlantic flights by smuggling liquid explosives onto planes. They were thwarted but they succeeded in preventing passengers from bringing liquids into airline terminals. Continued...
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A man stood for ideals and values higher than himself

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:58:04 AM

"The traditional understanding was that a man is he who takes responsibility for others — for his family, his community and his country — and, of course, for himself. A man stood for ideals and values higher than himself."


 
Is America Still Making Men?
by Dennis Prager  

Every society has to answer a few basic questions in order to succeed and even in order to survive. One of them is, “How do we make good men?” Continued...
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The unquestioned authority

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, February 28, 2010 5:24:51 AM
"This total surrender and submission to the will and decree of Allah also absolves the individual from taking full responsibility for his conduct or honoring commitments he may make. For it is Allah who has the unquestioned authority to consummate or contravene any action or promise made by a faithful."


Allah the Almighty

The Anachronism of Apostasy
by Amil Imani  
Whereas the practice of slavery enslaves the body, the dogma of apostasy ensnares the mind. Whereas slavery is a shameful practice of the past, some shameless religionists still use the doctrine of apostasy to intimidate and severely punish people who elect to choose their own belief. Continued...
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Movement that seeks to destroy the non-Muslim world

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, February 27, 2010 5:16:10 AM
"One cannot say every attack is an isolated incident. Each one, whether directly connected to other actors or not on the surface is a part of a much larger and coherent movement that seeks, ultimately, to destroy the non-Muslim world, including any Muslims who don't agree with their fundamentalist theology."



The "Acting Alone" Myth
by Douglas Farah
 
Perhaps none of the generally-accepted conventional wisdom items on the recent jihadist attacks is as dangerous as the constantly-repeated refrain that the individuals "acted alone." While the acts may have been carried out by individuals, they are all part and parcel of the broader Islamist movement to recreate the caliphate as Allah's kingdom on earth. There are push and pull factors and actors that part of a coherent whole that work with these individuals to make their actions possible. Continued...
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Dr. Aafia Siddiqui learned to hate America

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:17:16 AM

"She studied at MIT and at Brandeis where she received a Ph.D in Neuroscience. Thus, she was both an educated and in some sense, a westernized woman. Both her Pakistani-born father and Pakistani husband are physicians who trained in the West, in England and America, respectively; her brother and sister are also highly trained professionals. Nevertheless, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui learned to hate America, hate Jews, and hate Israel right here in liberal America."



How a “Nice American Girl” Became a Jihadist:
Dr. Siddiqui Found Guilty

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Disavowing Islam to advance the cause of Islam

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 5:45:50 AM

"For Muslims confronted with a choice between professing Islam and deceptively disavowing Islam to advance the cause of Islam, as well as to avoid religious persecution, taqiyya as set out in Shariah permits a Muslim to lie about his loyalty and to feign apostasy (recanting Islam), if required, to secretly conduct jihad against non-Muslims."



Is It Possible for a Practicing Muslim Soldier to Swear
Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution?
By Thomas Snodgrass

The Islamic jihadi murders of their military brothers in arms by U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood and U.S. Army Sergeant Hasan Akbar in Kuwait raise an uncomfortable question: Is it possible for a practicing Muslim soldier to swear allegiance to the U.S. Constitution? The common circumstance prior to each of these jihadi murders is that both Hasan and Akbar were noted to have expressed "radical emotion" -- that is, angry opposition -- regarding the U.S. invasion of dar al-Islam (land under Muslim control), specifically Iraq and Afghanistan. Continued...
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So, are we at war or not, Mr. Holder?

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, February 22, 2010 9:19:54 PM

"If terrorists are subjects for "federal criminal justice system", they are not enemies combatants. So, are we at war or not, Mr. Holder? You say "we are at war". Is it more politics than about facts?" - Boris Tiraspolsky  


   U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
 

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said: "We are at war against a very dangerous, intelligent and adaptable enemy. We will use all available tools whenever possible against suspected terrorists. ...Our federal civilian criminal justice system... is a powerful tool in our fight against terrorism. It doesn't mean it is the only tool we should use. We have to couple it with what we do on the military side, what we do on the intelligence gathering side. But to take this tool out of our hands, to denigrate the use of this tool, flies in the face of the facts, flies in the face of the history of the use of this tool. It is more politics than about facts."

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:

I agree with Attorney General Eric Holder that we are at war. I just wonder why it took so long for him  and his boss President Obama to recognize that. 

For the entire last year I together with many other people have been constantly asking President Obama: Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war?. That is why I have a reason to doubt how sincere Eric Holder believes in what he is saying. 

I do agree with Attorney General that we must "use all available tools whenever possible against suspected terrorists". What I totally disagree with Mr. Holder is that "federal civilian criminal justice system... is a powerful tool in our fight against terrorism." 

Mr. Eric Holder should know that there are right tools and wrong tools in conducting human affairs. Using wrong tools does not help to do a job right. 

Here is a simple logic. If we are at war, terrorists are enemy combatants. If terrorists are enemies combatants, they cannot be a subject for "federal civilian criminal system". They are subjects for military tribunals. 

If terrorists are subjects for "federal criminal justice system", they are not enemies combatants. So, are we at war or not, Mr. Holder? You say "we are at war". Is it more politics than about facts?   
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The threat of radicalisation on the domestic front

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, February 22, 2010 7:03:45 AM

"...the US seems to be lacking a long-term strategy to confront the threat of radicalisation on the domestic front. The authorities have in fact been unable to conceive a policy that would pre-emptively tackle the issue of radicalisation, preventing young American Muslims from embracing extremist ideas in the first place."



The Homegrown Terrorist Treat to the U.S. Homeland
by Lorenzo Vidino

Theme: Radicalisation into violence affects some small segments of the American Muslim population and recent events show that a threat from homegrown terrorism of jihadist inspiration does exist in the US. Continued...
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Intellectual challengers to American values

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, February 20, 2010 7:22:31 PM
"Daniel Pipes identifying you and Tariq Ramadan as intellectual challengers to American values who are even more significant than the physical attack from terrorists. And I wonder if you have any response to that, or what you thought of that?"

with Barack Obama
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Keith Ellison, Where Are You?
by Daniel Pipes

The leftist magazine Tikkun, in its January–February 2010 issue, carries an "Interview with Keith Ellison" in which the magazine's editor asks the Democratic congressman from Minnesota about my recent article "Islamism 2.0": Continued...
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Our intelligence strategy went off track

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:06:01 AM

"Here is America's strategic intelligence problem, clearly and ably set forth by one of America's leading spymasters. It is a far cry, indeed, from the slop served up in the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America. Dulles died more than four decades ago; but if anyone thinks that the basic strategic challenge of American intelligence is not the same as that described by Dulles, they are seriously mistaken. Sometime in the past we turned from the realities that Dulles outlined, and our intelligence strategy went off track."


Allen Dulles, director of
the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953-61

America's National Intelligence Strategy
by J. R. Nyquist

Last August The National Intelligence Strategy of the United States of America was published with a foreword signed by the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair (formerly an admiral). The report is a typical specimen of its kind: replete with trendy expressions, political correctness, and the dull repetition of commonplace managerial themes. As outlined, the strategy appeals to "community" and "partnership," as well as "sharing" and "streamlining." Here we find those buzz words most guaranteed to glaze the eye and muddle the brain. words like "integrated," "diversity" and "synergies" are given added poignancy by the addition of "new" and "improved." In general, the text is something between a self-help book for spies and a detergent billboard. Continued...
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They want to see Sharia law implemented

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, February 15, 2010 9:57:47 AM
"Coral Ridge Ministries recently sent cameras into Dearborn, capturing footage that’s part of the video Radical Islam on the March. Faisal Malick, an ex-Muslim featured in the documentary, says that militancy is increasing among Muslims who “believe the whole world should submit to Islam. When they come into the United States of America, they want to see Sharia law implemented, they want to dominate every place of influence—in education and technology and law, in government, in finances.”


Deaborn, Michigan 

Dearborn Shoot-Out Opens a Window into Homegrown Terror
by Robert Knight
 
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was the Imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, died in a shoot-out on Wednesday after firing on FBI agents during a raid in Dearborn, Michigan. Another seven Muslims were apprehended and various weapons seized. Continued...
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If the majority of Muslims really do support peace

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, February 14, 2010 4:07:18 AM


"..if Islam is really a Religion of Peace and if the majority of Muslims really do support peace and reject violence, then when are they going to rise up in majority numbers and denounce the teachings within Islam that inspire and sanction the terrorism that Islamic terrorists engage in? When will they renounce the verses and teachings that Islamic terrorists point to and quote in justifying and explaining their violence?"



The Million Muslim March? 
by Jamie Glazov

On yesterday’s O’Reilly Factor, O’Reilly had a profound discussion about the Fort Hood massacre with Bernie Goldberg, author of the new book, A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media. Goldberg is always superb and this time he narrowed in wisely on the pathologies that the Fort Hood massacre has exposed: the political correctness nurtured by the Left in our society and the disinclination of so-called “moderate” Muslims to stand up in mass numbers and denounce the likes of Nidal Malik Hasan. Continued...
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What our political philosophers have missed

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:17:20 PM

"If all men are created equal, they do not remain so; for men vary in their accomplishments and virtues. In other words, all deeds are not created equal. To say otherwise is to say that good and evil are the same. This is what our political philosophers have missed..."



The Executive Branch and the Roots of Order
by J. R. Nyquist


On the Web Site giftedkids.about.com we find an article titled "How (Not) to Argue with Gifted Children," by Carol Bainbridge, who explains that gifted children "are often compared to lawyers." They argue rules and they argue consequences. This raises a smile on those of us whose parents would never entertain arguments of any kind from children, however "gifted." Arguing with those in authority should be an exceptional situation, instead of a commonplace occurrence. The proper response to authority is obedience, not argument. Imagine attempting to argue with your drill instructor during boot camp. Or imagine quarrelling with a judge in the midst of court. Today it is commonplace, however, to learn that parents have lost their authority. As Bainbridge points out, "If children can talk their way out of consequences for bad behavior, they, not their parents, end up being in control." Continued...
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