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ostile, America-hating jihadists captured in battles in Afghanistan were shown U.S. hospitality in Guantanamo – given Qur’ans and a proper Muslim diet, offered exercise and prayer time.  Each individual’s case was carefully researched and heard, a lawyer by the jihadist’s side to represent his interests.  Many were simply freed after this process, others ascertained judiciously to be too dangerous and returned to their cells.

And for this process, Leftists in America and anti-Americans around the world howled and spat and said vile things about our country and our president.  Even our new president joined in the condemning chorus, staking out the most left-wing of all candidates’ position on the matter.

Now, with the capture of a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, we have a sad and tragic opportunity to measure the behavior of America against the behavior of those who fight us on the battlefield, betray us on our shores, and denigrate us from the comfort of their protected European easy chairs.

We certainly can’t expect anything approaching equal treatment and respect from those jihadist thugs who captured the soldier. Here’s what WaPo reports on them:

“Our leaders have not decided on the fate of this soldier.” the AFP quoted the Haqqani commander, identified only as Bahram, as saying. “They will decide on his fate and soon we will present video tapes of the coalition soldier and our demand to media.”

So Haqqani leaders, not a tribunal, will decide his fate.  And he will be videotaped and used as a propaganda tool, a violation of the Geneva accords.  And they will use the soldier to make demands of us, rather than treat him as a prisoner of war.  Anyone who has followed these sorts of cases has to fear for the life of this soldier; I hope that is not the case, but he has suffered the great misfortune of being captured by people who are not Americans.

Check out the several stories posted on Memeorandum about this breaking event, and you will find no Leftist outlets or blogs listed; you will not be able to link over to any stories or posts from the Left, calling for justice and demanding compliance with Geneva. They are uninterested, just as they are suddenly uninterested in civilian deaths in Iraq or military operations in Afghanistan.  Hypocrites.

Don’t count on this story even breaking through the Michael Jackson storm in the European press, obsessed as it is with deviant behaviors – especially by Americans.

Those who demanded full rights don’t even much care about this soldier’s right to life.  Guantanamo was all about serving a purpose other than protecting jihadists; it was about destroying a presidency and denigrating America, nothing more – and the Left’s disinterest in the fate of this soldier is all the proof we need.

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he prophet Muhammed would be tickled piggy-pink with this, as will the millions of subhuman terrorist swine who proudly carry his name, although the rest of the world will recoil in horror:

A Pakistani Federal Minister Monday said that militants were using kidnapped children as suicide bombers across the country.

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik talking to newsmen here said that the militants were buying innocent children for few hundred thousand rupees and using them to carry out suicide attacks. (Kuwait News via ROP)

By way of contrast, the Son of God taught us:

Then he put a little child among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, “Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes my Father who sent me.” (Mark 9:36-37)

I’ve read that scripture a whole bunch of times, and I just can’t find anything there about blowing the child up.

Hat-tip: Infidels Are Cool

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Let’s hear it for objectivity! AP’s big story on “lone wolf” terrorists dutifully lists all three recent lone wolf killings: The jew-hating white supremacist in DC, the anti-abortion murderer in Kansas and even the “militant Muslim” in Arkansas.

Hooray. Here’s today’s lesson in objectivity: It is not comparable to fairness or balance. Let me illustrate.

The number of words in the story related to Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad total 16: “A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside a military recruiting office” and ”one a militant Muslim.”  Muhammed is never even named in the story.

Let’s contrast that with the number of words the article heaps upon racist angry white men.  It begins similarly with 19 words, “An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting,” and “One gunman was a white supremacist.”  After a couple general paragraphs about the “lone wolf” phenomenon, the writers, Devlin Barrett and Eileen Sullivan, dedicate most of the remainder of the article – 17 paragraphs! – to James Von Brunn and other angry white men. Excerpts:

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks white supremacists, says the number of hate groups in the United States has risen 54 percent since 2000, fueled by opposition to Hispanic immigration and, more recently, by the election of the nation’s first black president and the economic downturn.

“Today the vast majority of domestic terrorist attacks are in fact lone wolf or so-called leaderless resistance attacks,” said the center’s Mark Potok. “There are very few ways to prevent them … short of assigning a police officer to every person in America.”

The number of angry white men in America is getting larger, said Chip Berlet, senior analyst with Political Research Associates in Somerville, Mass., a think tank that studies right-wing extremists.

In particular, the heterosexual, white, Christian men in America feel they’ve been pushed out of the way, Berlet said. Attacking the Holocaust Museum is a no-brainer, he said, because white supremacists blame Jews for the advancement of black people.

“The idea that blacks are put in positions of power by crafty Jews is central to their conspiracy theory,” Berlet said.

We are told that the number of angry white men in America is getting larger, but no studies are cited, no data is provided.  And, of course, the article does not provide any estimate of the number of angry Muslim men in our country. No experts on domestic jihad are cited, nor or any of the numerous recent examples of lone wolf or small group jihad or attempted jihad in America cited.  Certainly they outnumber angry white man violence.

To its credit, the Southern Poverty Law Center has published several articles on the links between radical Islam and white supremacy, but if Mark Potok mentioned this to the AP reporters, they didn’t include it in their article.

We are left with a picture of how white extremists think and enough fear about them to justify, in some “liberal” minds, increased invasions of their privacy of the sort they howled about when applied to domestic friends of Islamic terrorist.  We are not left with any greater understanding of the nature or size of the threat posed by lone wolf jihadists.

But hey, the article passed journalism’s objectivity test with flying colors simply because it clearly identified each of the three recent shooters.  Fairness should be the media’s standard, but reporters and editors conveniently opt for sloppy objectivity so they can justify intolerant, hate-stoking garbage like this.

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s I understand it, here’s the Obama/Clinton State Dept’s take on how they will win what we used to call the war on terror:  The problem between the U.S. and the jihadists is that we just haven’t been likable enough. We’ will win over Islam if we spend less on the military and more on fish sticks for orphans.

That was the gist of Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith A. McHale’s talk to the Center for a New American Security today.  (I thought the old Bush security was just fine, by the way, since no Americans were killed by jihadists on American soil during his watch, post 9/11.)  Here’s some excerpts:

Whether we are strengthening old alliances, forging new partnerships to meet complex global challenges, engaging with citizens and civil society, or charting new strategies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, our national interests depend on effective engagement and innovative public diplomacy. The stakes could not be higher. We must get this right…This is not a propaganda contest — it is a relationship race. And we have got to get back in the game.

Enhanced public diplomacy is a key component of the President’s new strategy in the region…To achieve the President’s aims, we are launching a multi-faceted strategy to provide platforms for local moderate voices, support democratic institutions and civil society, and position the United States as a long-term partner working to create opportunities and enable the people of the region to chart the futures of their own countries.

We are responding to requests from the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan to help meet the needs of their people. Secretary Clinton recently announced more than $100 million in humanitarian support for the people of Pakistan. And Ambassador Holbrooke just announced another $200 million. Since 2002, the United States has provided a total of more than $3.4 billion to alleviate suffering and promote economic growth, education, health, security and good governance in Pakistan. [Oh, wait! You mean Bush tried this to the tun of $3.4 billion and they're still trying to kill us? No matter; just apply the Universal Obama Solution - throw lots of money at it.]

Yet we have a credibility gap with many in the region — some have called it a ‘trust deficit.’ So part of our task is reassuring the people that our aim in the region is to support their own aspirations. We need to do a better job of getting the word out about what we are doing to help Pakistan and Afghanistan become more stable and prosperous, both through the local media and by communicating directly with people.”

It is not about getting the word out, or the trust deficit, but it is most definitely about the aspirations of the people of the region.  A significant percentage of them have a deeply imbedded aspiration to bring pain, suffering and death to the Great Satan, and no amount of communication or prosperity is going to change that.  Only rewriting the Q’ran will change that.

Islam has nurtured radicals since the dawn of the religion, through times of great wealth and times of great poverty alike.  Radical Muslims abound in Lebanon, where Democracy still hangs on. And education? Cairo University, where Obama spoke to the Muslim world last week (except for Iran, of course, where the state didn’t broadcast it), has spawned its share of very well educated Islamo-savages.

McHale concluded her comments with a bizarre historical reference:

A few days after I started at the State Department, I moved into George Marshall’s old office. General Marshall saw a world beyond our shores devastated by war and reeling from economic crisis. He knew that our fates and our fortunes were intertwined and that America had to engage with the world to ensure our future. So he launched one of the most far-reaching engagement efforts in history. And today we are still reaping the rewards of that investment in mutual prosperity and security. From Cairo to Kabul, from quiet villages to crowded cities, America is once again reaching out a hand of friendship and seeking new relationships. We know it is the right thing to do and we know, like General Marshall did, that our future depends on it.

Yeah, but back then Europe was a Christian continent. And the enemy was broken, broke and starving – a point we’ll never get to if the administration can’t even admit that we’re fighting terrorists.  There is a role for public diplomacy – what we used to call foreign aid – but alone, it will have no measurable effect on the level of jihadist violence against us.

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mong the unbounded wealth of things President Bush caught a lot of flak for was his insistence that there is an axis of evil up to nefarious stuff in our world. We haven’t heard the expression much lately, but now it’s back, in a new incarnation … and not out of the mouth of Republicans.

Memri provides this translation of an article by Khaled Imam, the editor of the Egyptian government daily Al-Masaa, in which the “axis” word is invoked again. Imam wrote the piece after Egyptian security forces announced the arrest of seven members of a terror cell that allegedly had carried out a February 22, 2009 terror attack in Egypt.

The capture of the terrorist cell associated with the explosions in a square near the Al-Hussein mosque [in Cairo] last February brought to light two new matters of utmost importance. The first is that this cell was discovered through the Internet; the second is that Al-Qaeda had for the first time carried out an operation inside Egypt. …

The fact that Al-Qaeda has entered the fray indisputably confirms the strong connections between this terrorist organization and Iran, Hizbullah, and extremists within the Palestinian resistance. This is a quadruple axis of evil, whose four components were melded together in a single crucible. It’s impossible now to tell which of them is hoisting the banner of international terrorism, which is bandying the slogans of Islam and instigating hate towards Israel, and which is extolling resistance in Lebanon or Gaza. The four have become one.

The target, too, has become one – namely Egypt, its land, its people, its history, its civilization, its economy, [and] its past, present, and future. Egypt – this gate of steadfastness, this bulwark against Iranian ambitions – is unfortunately the main, if not the only, target, and not Israel, as they claim.

This filthy, stinking, motley crew harbors evil intentions against Egypt, which is protected by the Lord, as well as by our outstanding armed and police forces… whose members are willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of Egypt’s security. We have the right to be proud of them and of our Egyptian identity, and to defend our national security in every way, both traditional and modern.

Two points. First, I’m very glad, after reading that prose, that we don’t have state-owned media in America. And leaving the more important for last, Imam’s piece shows again that there is indeed a global war on terror that must be fought, whether the current administration realizes it or not.

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nlike its earlier report listing returning vets and anti-abortion activists as potential terrorist threats, which circulated to police departments nationally before being withdrawn, the newest act of ridiculousness from the Department of Homeland Security’s Intelligence & Analysis division was withdrawn within hours.

Norse mythology buffs can rest easy; they won’t be harassed by the local PD.

But why the rush with trying to make I&A’s Domestic Extremist Lexicon disappear? Perhaps because it listed some black groups as potential terrorists?

Yes, the black separatist movement was listed in the lexicon, along with the Norse mythology folks, as an extremist threat to be reckoned with.  True that; the separatists are a really big threat, especially now that America has elected a black president. The anger must be reaching a boil-over point among this community, which last did anything significant in the 1970s

Also a big threat, according to the report, white Norse mythology buffs. Give me Thor or give me death! When you see hefty gals with big horns on their helmets, give them plenty of leeway.

DHS couldn’t have pulled back from the document more dramatically.  Here’s the spokesgal:

“The lexicon was not an authorized I&A product, and it was recalled as soon as management discovered it had been released without authorization.  This product is not, nor was it ever, in operational use.”

Yes, but someone authorized it, and someone wrote it, and that someone wasn’t involved in assessing real threats, and we paid for the darn thing.  If this is the I&A work product, I’d rather they count paper clips.  Via WashTimes, here’s the GOP perspective:

Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the report “causes further concern that Congress needs to get to the bottom of exactly how DHS determines what intelligence products to distribute to law enforcement officials around the country.”

“Although we have evidence that some of the groups described in this and other DHS intelligence products are an active terror threat to our nation, I would be interested in knowing why this lexicon mentioning left-wing extremist groups was deemed inappropriate by DHS and recalled, yet a similar report focusing on veterans, antiabortion activists and anti-illegal immigration activists was fit for distribution and sent out by DHS to law enforcement agencies across the country.”

Watch it, Pete. You’re beginning to sound like some kind of rightwing extremist.

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btaining intelligence from jihadist operatives is not about getting revenge for 9/11, it’s about wanting to protect the next one.  But still, when you listen to this tape, you may well find that the desire for revenge is just as high as the desire to keep the jihadists from our door.

A horror beyond the ability of mere words to capture, isn’t it?  Those the Rahmbamites would prosecute for trying to stop the next attack were all well aware that avoiding this sort of abomination was at the heart of their mission.  That their methods were so comparatively mild is a testament to the honor and goodness of America.

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ven though I’ve taken a leave of absence from the Watcher’s Council so I can have more time to work on my geopolitical thriller, I still make it over to Watch of Weasels for the Weekend Weasel post.  Bookmark it if you haven’t already, because the Watcher always does an outstanding job with it.

This week’s post, Weekend Weasel: Sharia Apologists, is a great read, setting up a conversation with Mrs. Weasels and a relative with the quaint name of Muttonhead as a tutorial on the differences between Sharia and Jewish law and the Christian and Catholic provisions that followed.

Having been through many of these conversations with Muttonhead I already knew where the argument was going before she got there. The myth that there is some sort of equivalence between Jewish law or even Catholic ecclesiastical doctrine is a common myth perpetuated by the left; a seed planted by pro-Sharia advocates as a part of the psychological war on all things not Islamic.

The term “useful idiot” was commonly used to refer to soviet sympathizers during the cold war (even though it originated much earlier). Today’s Sharia apologists are an extension of that sentiment although more dangerous in my estimation because the spread of Sharia is a worldwide phenomenon as is liberalism through ignorance.

The post has some terrific quotes on the subject, and when you see the differences laid out, it gives you a chill.  The conflict between Sharia and Judeo-Christian based law is stark, cold and frightening, and the Sharia apologists are a subtext in what reads like a cosmological thriller of good vs. evil on a grand scale. Particularly salient are the quotes by David Yerushalmi, General Counsel to Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, who concludes:

Because Jihad necessarily advocates violence and the destruction of our representative, constitution-based government, the advocacy of Jihad by a Shariah authority presents a real and present danger. This is sedition when advocated from within our borders; an act of war when directed at us from foreign soil.

Extremist? Not necessarily – and definitely the safer, more rational position for Americans to take.

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o the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis (DHS/I&A) has looked at the right wing and assessed that it poses the most imminent terror threat to the U.S.  How then does it assess the radical left?

In short, they’re just a  bunch of cyber-pantywaists.

In a report titled very much like the controversial report on right-wing extremists, DHS looks at “the more prominent leftwing groups within the animal rights, environmental, and anarchist extremist movements” and finds that America is at risk … of cyber attacks.

DHS/I&A assesses that cyber attacks are attractive options to leftwing extremists who view attacks on economic targets as aligning with their nonviolent, “no-harm” doctrine and tactic of “direct action.” (emphasis added)

The companion report on the rightwing went back nearly 20 years to cite examples of real action by the militias, but this report does not mention any leftists with “violent, harm doctrines.”  Ted Kaczynski isn’t mentioned, nor is the Weather Underground, which would be pretty hard to overlook given Bill Ayres’ prominence in the presidential campaign.  Also not mentioned are the violent leftists from Puerto Rico’s liberation movement, which got a pretty pointed message in FBI Director Louis Freeh’s 2001 testimony to Congress on domestic terror:

Acts of terrorism continue to be perpetrated, however, by violent separatists in Puerto Rico. Three acts of terrorism and one suspected act of terrorism have taken place in various Puerto Rican locales during the past three years. These acts, including the March 1998 bombing of a super-aqueduct project in Arecibo, the bombings of bank offices in Rio Piedras and Santa Isabel in June 1998, and the bombing of a highway in Hato Rey, remain under investigation. The extremist Puerto Rican separatist group Los Macheteros is suspected in each of these attacks.

Instead, the report mentions three incidents between 2005 and 2007 when leftwing animal rights whackos hacked into computers, launched email attacks or overwhelmed servers, targeting companies that were related in one way or another to animal testing.  And we are duly cautioned:

DHS/I&A judges that the cyber attack option will become increasingly attractive to leftwing extremists as companies’ reliance on cyber technologies grows.  DHS/I&A also assesses that these extremists will improve their cyber attack capabilities by keeping pace with emerging technologies and overcoming countermesasures that develop over the period of this assessment.

Duck and cover!  Even the readily prone to violent anarchists don’t get much attention in the report.  In its appendix on leftwing extremists, it says of the groups:

Anarchist groups seek abolition of social, political, and economic hierarchies, incluidng Western’style governments and large business enterprises, and frequently advocate criminal actions of varying scale and scope to accomplish their goals.

That’s it.  You know, if I recall correctly, al-Qaeda frequently advocates criminal actions of varying scale and scope to accomplish theri goals.  But don’t worry about the anarchists; DHS just lumps them in with the animal lovers in a big, happy non-violent movement of cyber losers.

Not mentioned anywhere in the report is the Earth Liberation Front’s attacks on homes, resorts, forestry research centers and construction sites.  The group has burned millions of dollars in property, destroyed the valuable work of forest scientists and continuously put lives at risk.  That the haven’t killed anyone yet is a testament to luck, not a non-violent doctrine.

Contrasting the rightwing and leftwing reports, we see a hyper-awareness of risk from the right and a passive blowing off of risk from the left.  This could be passed off as an accurate assessment of the two movements, but before we make that call, let’s go back to Freeh’s testimony:

Anarchists and extremist socialist groups — many of which, such as the Workers’ World Party, Reclaim the Streets, and Carnival Against Capitalism — have an international presence and, at times, also represent a potential threat in the United States. For example, anarchists, operating individually and in groups, caused much of the damage during the 1999 World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Seattle. …

A distinct but related [to ALF, the Animal Liberation Front] group, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), claimed responsibility for the arson fires set at a Vail, Colorado, ski resort in October 1998 that destroyed eight separate structures and caused $12 million dollars in damages. In a communique issued after the fires, ELF claimed that the fires were in retaliation for the resort’s planned expansion that would destroy the last remaining habitat in Colorado for the lynx. Eight of the terrorist incidents occurring in the United States during 1999 have been attributed to either ALF or ELF. Several additional acts committed during 2000 and 2001 are currently being reviewed for possible designation as terrorist incidents.

I realize that the report I read focuses on the radical left’s cyber capabilities and that there may be another assessment into their more violent efforts. DHS/I&A does’t list its studies on its page of the DHS site.  But this is the document that suddenly became available yesterday as criticism of the DHS/I&S assessment of rightwing extremists took off, so I’m assuming it’s the best they’ve got.

Neither report focuses on a major threat to America.  The rightwing extremist report is just leftist paranoia; it has very little evidence within it.  The leftwing report details a more imminent threat, but says it’s just some corporate computers that are at risk.

I suggest DHS/I&A spend its time and our money on more meaningful research into threats against America.  They could start by reading Violent Islamic Extremism, the Internet, and the Home Grown Terrorist Threat, a report of the Senate’s homeland security committee.  Here’s the very first paragraph of that report:

This is the first in a series of reports by the Majority and Minority staff of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Committee) on the threat of homegrown terrorism inspired by violent Islamist extremism. The Committee initiated an investigation into this threat during the 109th Congress under the leadership of Chairman Susan Collins (R-ME). The first hearing on the homegrown threat considered the potential for radicalization in U.S. prisons, including an examination of the activities of Kevin Lamar James, an American citizen. While in prison, James adopted a variant of violent Islamist ideology, founded an organization known as the Assembly for Authentic Islam (or JIS, the Arabic initials for the group), and began converting fellow prisoners to his cause. Upon release, James recruited members of JIS to commit at least 11 armed robberies, the proceeds from which were to be used to finance attacks against military installations and other targets in southern California. James and another member of the group eventually pled guilty to conspiring to wage war against the United States.

And it just keeps on intensifying from there.  The contrast between what’s in the Senate report and what’s in the DHS/I&A report on rightwing extremism plays up just how bad the latter report was – hysteric, biased and, most frighteningly, indicative that DHS has its priorities all wrong. 

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hat’s right, boys and girls, an AK47 made entirely of bacon, which, as you know, is made entirely of pigs.  And to jihadists it’s tough and know which is worse: pigs or infidels.  So what better way could there be to send a jihadist to an eternity without God or virgins?

Read more about the BA-K-47 at Geekologie.

And for the first time in the history of C-SM, I’ve put “humor” and “jihad” tags together!

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