Month: September 2005

Katrina and the War on Terrorism

By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 13, 2005

The failure of governments to assist the disenfranchised citizens in Egypt, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories should be a lesson to the U.S. during the fallout from the disastrous hurricane Katrina. The Muslim Brotherhood in

Egypt, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza, succeeded mainly because they provided the social, medical and educational services that the local governments failed to deliver.

In countries where governments do not provide adequate infrastructure or social services, not only Muslim countries, but in nations worldwide—terrorist organizations such as FARC in Columbia, Hamas in the Palestinian territories and al Qaeda in Pakistan take advantage of this void to supply those services to people who could not otherwise access them. In return, the people offer allegiance to those terrorist organizations.

Unfortunately, alongside genuinely worthy causes, such as building hospitals, schools and supplying food, money and medical treatment, these groups also pursue their own agenda. Their dual role serves to legitimize and glorify their activities. In Africa, for example, not only do hospitals supported by Islamist organizations serve the needy population (thus enhancing their image in the eyes of the locals) but they also provide an apparently legitimate way to obtain visas and work permits that make it easier for terrorists to infiltrate other countries.

As mighty as the Democrats try to portray George W. Bush, he is not responsible for natural disasters, including hurricane Katrina. In fact, it was under Jimmy Carter’s administration that the Democrats preempted the construction of stronger levees and dams that would have prevented much of the current disaster. It was the responsibility of the state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans to safeguard their infrastructure, lives and assets. They utterly failed. Continue reading “Katrina and the War on Terrorism” →


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Tax Dollars for Terror

By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 9, 2005

Thanks to U.S. generosity, the Palestinian Authority will now have $50 million with which to ensure that terrorism against Israel continues. According to Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs, Sufayan Abu Zayda, his office receives $4 million a month from the PA to support Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli prisons.

On September 3, Abu Zayda told the Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida that his office deposits salaries of $400 to $500 a month for each prisoner, in addition to a $50 monthly payment each for expenses in the prison canteen. The Palestinian Prison Affairs office also funds the prisoners–legal expenses, medical treatment, etc.

An additional $100,000 is dedicated to tuition for every terrorist prisoner who seeks higher education–without any consideration to his organizational affiliation or crimes. The prisoners include those who murdered Israelis, suicide bomber dispatchers, and suicide bombers caught en route.

According to Abu Zayda, once released from Israeli prisons, each Palestinian terrorist continues to receive a salary for six months, after which they receive an official position with the Palestinian Authority. Those who spend more than five years in prison continue to receive the salary as long as necessary–until they get a job. Continue reading “Tax Dollars for Terror” →


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The Legacy of Jihad

By Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 9, 2005

Review: The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, edited by Dr. Andrew G. Bostom, Prometheus, 759 pp.

It is only fitting that Andrew G. Bostom’s massive collection, The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, appears in time for the fourth anniversary September 11, 2001, for no other collection since then has so well explained the theology and philosophy behind those Islamic attacks on America.
The leaders of the free world have taken pains since late 2001 to explain that Islam is a religion of peace. But in this far-ranging, 759-page collection of Muslim and non-Muslim eyewitness accounts, scholarly Muslim theological treatises and superb historical surveys, it appears that Islam has actually practiced a grisly jihad campaign against non-Muslims from its earliest days, in the hope of satisfying the Prophet Mohammed’s end goal: forcing the “one true faith” upon the entire world.

The somber tone of this monumental work — graced in its midsection by a chronological summary of the first 500 years of Muslim conquests, including color-coded maps and Islamic art — is set by the cover, a 19th century-Islamic painting entitled “The Prophet, Ali and the Companions at the massacre of the prisoners of the Jewish tribe of Beni Kuraizah.” As its name suggests, the art depicts the slaughter of 600 to 900 Jewish men, who were led on Mohammed’s orders to the market of Medina, where they were beheaded and their corpses buried in trenches dug for that purpose. Their wives and children were then enslaved. Continue reading “The Legacy of Jihad” →


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Incitement in the mosques:

Incitement in the Mosques:
Testing the limits of free speech and religious liberty

By Kenneth Lasson*
Whittier Law Review | Fall, 2005

* Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law [with diligent research assistance on this article from Martin Cohen].

Text: 28,778 words

SUMMARY:
… Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country.

… In April of 2004, for example, a Muslim preacher at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem referred to Jews as “sons of monkeys and pigs,” and as “murderers of prophets.”

… In an Al-Aqsa Mosque sermon, the United States-sponsored road map was called by Sheikh Yousef Abu Sneina one of the plots fabricated against the Palestinian people like the Oslo accords and the Camp David summit.

… Some clerics now openly preach incitement, urging fellow Muslims to follow the path of the jihad by destroying Jews, who continue to be vilified as “pigs and monkeys.”

… Official PA television offers a children’s program that glorifies massacres of civilians and suicide bombings, and broadcasts sermons that “continue to encourage terrorist jihad against all Jews.”

… It is not difficult to draw an analogy between the symbolic speech in Virginia v. Black and sermons promoting terror between the recent history of violence in Muslim society and the sermons related to jihad.

… It should go without saying that there are many similarities between the symbolic speech (cross burning) in Black and sermons promoting terror between the recent history of violence in Muslim society and the sermons related to jihad. …

Citation:
n20. See Alyssa A. Lappen, “Ford Has A Better Idea: One Nation Under Allah,” FrontPageMagazine.com (Dec. 30, 2003), http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=11513.


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