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Turkey could be America’s most important regional ally, above Iraq, even above Israel, if both sides manage the relationship correctly.

If Turkey Does Not Change Its Syria Policy …

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Ankara Palace in Ankara, March 1, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Jacquelyn Martin)

By: Kadri Gursel for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on May 6.

Let’s begin by reading some paragraphs from a speech that captures Turkey’s new profile in the Middle East, complete with its policy, ideology and, of course, rhetoric. International readers who follow Turkey closely will guess who the speaker was. These quotes are long, but not boring:

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If Turkey doesn’t change its partisan, sectarian approach to Syria, it will provoke further sectarian tensions among armed groups in Turkey and the region, writes Kadri Gursel.

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If Turkey Does Not Change Its Syria Policy…

Author: Kadri Gursel

Translated by: Timur Goksel

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“Today they are saying prayers for us. They are praying for us in Gaza, Beirut and Mecca. This is the massive responsibility we are shouldering. You are not only responsible for Edirne, Hakkari and Van. You are bearing the responsibility for Nicosia, Sarajevo, Baghdad, Gaza, Jerusalem, Erbil and Damascus. There is the responsibility for 250 innocent Syrians who were viciously massacred yesterday [May 4] by having their throats slit at Banias. I am appealing to my organization. Every life lost in Syria is one of ours. … We don’t care who says what. What we care about is the conviction that ‘Believers are brothers.’ …

“We are not like other states. We are not a state that will keep quiet to protect its interests. We want to be able to account for ourselves when the book is placed in front of us. When screams of slaughtered children are resonating, we can’t be mute devils. You, Bashar Assad, you will pay for this. You will pay heavily, very heavily for showing courage you can’t show to others to babies with pacifiers in their mouths. A blessed revenge will smother you. With God’s permission we will see this criminal asked to account and bless his almighty. What is going on has long reached the point of forcing the limits of tolerance. The international community has not yet taken the steps expected from it about Syria. … To the Syrians who ask when is God’s help coming, I say there is no doubt God’s help is near.”

I took these lines from a May 6 news report in the daily Milliyet. When you read it, you’ll see that the speech was on May 5, and that from the references to cities, the speaker was from Turkey.

In its content and style, this text is a perfect specimen of the Islamist, pro-Ottoman political culture that has spread and gained strength in Turkey over recent years. Those who apply the norms of traditional diplomacy and statesmanship that prevail in international institutions to this text might surmise that that the speech was given by a fiery Islamist orator. But these remarks belong to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Turkish Republic — generally assumed to be a secular state.

He was addressing members of the parliament and officials of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The venue was the town of Kizilcahamam, near Ankara. The meeting’s purpose was a discussion of party policies.

The prime minister often gives these kinds of talks. Whenever he does, Turkey’s political culture becomes more closely attuned to the Middle East.

The debate in Turkey drags on: What is the reality of Ankara’s Syria policy? What have we reached with this policy, what results did we obtain and how would it affect Turkey if we persist without making changes?

To answer these questions, a reality check is needed that goes beyond Turkey’s feverish, epic-heavy rhetoric. Objective and cool-headed observations from outside become important at times like this.

An April 30 report by the International Crisis Group, “Blurring the Borders: Syrian Spillover Risks for Turkey,” represents a significant contribution that objectively narrates the results of Turkey’s response to the Syrian crisis — and the risks it poses for the country.

The follow assessments made in the report’s executive summary illustrate the gap between Erdogan’s rhetoric and realities: “Turkey is seen increasingly as a partisan actor. While Turkish leaders claim it has sufficient resources to be the region’s main power, leverage over Syrian events is clearly limited. … Turkey has no capacity to solve intractable problems inside Syria alone, and is not considering significant military intervention. Stepped-up arming of opposition fighters seems unlikely to enable them to topple the regime quickly. And Turkey’s wishful thinking about the Ottoman past and a leading historical and economic role in its Sunni Muslim neighbourhood is at odds with the present reality that it now has an uncontrollable, fractured, radicalised no-man’s-land on its doorstep.”

In the same section of the report, Turkey is asked to accept that the Syrian crisis may continue for a long time and to make long-term political modifications accordingly. The Syrian crisis served as a litmus test that exposed the neo-Ottoman tendencies of those running Turkey’s foreign policy. By definition, the pro-Ottoman inclination of the neo-Islamist ruling political class is also pro-Sunni. Turkey’s Syria policy has put Turkey on the Sunni side of the Sunni-Shiite fault line in the Middle East. This gives rise to a perceived geopolitical threat among Shiite actors.

The report warns on this tendency: “Whereas Turkey in 2008 was praised for its ability to speak to all regional players from Israel to Iran, it has now aligned predominantly with conservative Sunni Muslim partners such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia… In order to talk to all parties from a position of greater moral authority, it should avoid projecting the image of being a Sunni Muslim hegemon. It should also re-secure its border and ask Syrian opposition fighters to move to Syria. Publicly adopting a profile of a balanced regional power, rather than a Sunni Muslim one, would likewise do much to reduce any possibility that the sectarian polarization that is crippling Syria will jump the border to Turkey, in particular to Hatay province.”

The International Crisis Group suggests that Turkey not follow a tacitly Islamist foreign policy, but rather a secular one. This is an appropriate recommendation. Of course, to follow a foreign policy not imbued with Islamism, the Islamists have to make extraordinary efforts. But if this Islamist, pro-Sunni and pro-Ottoman Syria policy is maintained in its current form, Turkey will find itself in opposition to alienated Muslim actors who are not conservatively Sunni. This will substantially weaken Turkey’s soft power in the Middle East and the world and will limit its ability to launch initiatives.

A pro-Sunni foreign policy and narrative could also upset the already sensitive sectarian harmony in Turkey.

Turkey decided in August 2011 to topple the Baath regime and open its borders to the armed Syrian opposition, thus making Turkey the rear base of rebel forces. Border security was intentionally neglected to ease the movements of rebel forces. To change this policy now, and to act again as a state of law and order, may lead to a loss of prestige and influence by Ankara over the armed opposition, especially the Free Syrian Army. But if this risk isn’t taken, the consequence will be that Turkey will substantially fall short of having a state of law. The Turkish-Syrian border may pose threats to Turkey’s security, as seen in the Feb. 11 bombing at Cilvegozu border crossing [Bab al-Hawa] that resulted in the deaths of 14 people.

In addition to internal clashes in Syria mutating into a sectarian civil war, the danger for Turkey involves its image as a party to this war — and the possibility that it may be held responsible for its share of the war crimes committed by Sunni groups it has been militarily supporting.

To be sure, there is a political price to be paid by Turkey for changing its Syria policy — but the cost of not changing it will be higher.

Kadri Gürsel is a contributing writer for Al-Monitor’s Turkey Pulse and has written a column for the Turkish daily Milliyet since 2007. He focuses primarily on Turkish foreign policy, international affairs and Turkey’s Kurdish question, as well as Turkey’s evolving political Islam.

Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2013/05/turkey-syria-policy-backfire-sectarian.html#ixzz2Sa5FdwMl

May 7, 2013
Flash News!!!! Boston Bomber Master Mind is Armenian
The hunt for Misha: Bomb investigators search for mysterious ‘bald, red-bearded Armenian man’ accused of radicalizing Tamerlan
- Tamerlan Tsarnaev is thought to have fallen under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert known only as Misha
- He is said to have steered the 26-year-old elder Boston bomber to a radical strain of Islam
- ‘Somehow, he just took his brain,’ said Tamerlan’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, who recalled conversations with Tamerlan’s worried father about Misha’s influence
- Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, mother of the bomber’s said it was ‘nonsense’ that Misha converted her son to terrorism
According to Daily Mail, as the investigation into why and how the Boston bombers unleashed their deadly attacks continues, the focus has centered to an elusive and mysterious Muslim convert known only as Misha.
Family members of Tamerlan Tsarnaev describe Misha as the guiding influence in the elder bomber developing radicalized views – but to date it is believed that law enforcement and the media have failed to find him.
Speculation as to who Misha is wildly varies, with some suggesting he is the mastermind behind the marathon bombings while others think that he could be a Russian spy – sent to identify and keep tabs on young men like Tamerlan who are at risk of turning to militant.
April 27, 2013
Kerry compares Boston and Mavi Marmara victims

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, GIL HOFFMAN

US Secretary of State compares the 2 tragedies saying he has “deep feelings when violence happens”; MK Shaked: Kerry should go to Chechnya.

People comfort each other after deadly twin blasts at the Boston Marathon, April 15, 2013. Photo: Reuters

US Secretary of State John Kerry compared the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing to the nine Turkish activists killed by the IDF as they tried to break Gaza’s naval blockade, at a press conference in Istanbul on Sunday.

“I know it’s an emotional issue with some people,” Kerry said of the Mavi Marmara deaths. “I particularly say to the families of people who were lost in the incident: We understand these tragedies completely and we sympathize with them.”

He then added, “And nobody – I mean, I have just been through the week of Boston and I have deep feelings for what happens when you have violence and something happens and you lose people that are near and dear to you. It affects a community, it affects a country,” Kerry said. “We’re very sensitive to that.”

Senior Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom, Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett, and Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin all made a point of not responding to Kerry’s comparison on Monday.

High-ranking diplomatic officials in Jerusalem said they believed Kerry was misunderstood and he was really only trying to show empathy with the people of Turkey on a national level. The officials accused the press of deliberately trying to twist what Kerry had said.

But Knesset members from across the political spectrum condemned Kerry’s comparison and said they found it extremely offensive.

Since the 2010 raid, Israel has released video footage showing activists beating the soldiers with metal sticks and chairs as they descended onto the boat. The IDF said that metal rods, improvised sharp metal objects, sticks and clubs, 5 kg. hammers, firebombs and gas masks were found on board the boat.

It said that these weapons were used against the naval soldiers and that seven soldiers were injured. It added that activists had also taken two pistols from the soldiers.

The relatives of the nine Turkish activists, including one dual American citizen, have argued that their loved ones were killed in cold blood as they sailed to offer humanitarian assistance to the people in Gaza.

The three victims of the bombing in Boston were killed last week after two brothers with ties to Chechnya exploded two bombs at the finish line of the America’s oldest marathon. The victims had gone to watch a race that attracts athletes from across the United States and around the globe. Among the 176 people injured were runners who used the marathon to raise money for humanitarian causes.

“He completely distorted reality and turned white into black and black into white,” said Labor MK Nachman Shai. “How can he make such a comparison? In Boston, terrorists killed civilians. On the Mavi Marmara ship, terrorists were killed.”

Bayit Yehudi faction chairwoman Ayelet Shaked went further, saying that Kerry mixed up the assailants and the victims.

“According to what Kerry said, he should fly now to Chechnya to pay a condolence call to the parents of the poor terrorists in Boston,” Shaked said.

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, who in the past would have been the first to slam the Obama administration, continued his trend of more measured responses since he was appointed to his new post.

“It is never helpful when a moral equivalency is made confusing terrorists with their victims,” Danon said.

“As our American friends were made all too aware once again last week, the only way to deal with the evils of terrorism it to wage an unrelenting war against its perpetrators wherever they may be.”

April 24, 2013
A threatening silence

Guest Column | A threatening silence

By NICOLE SADANIANTZ · April 22, 2013, 9:26 pm

I am half-Armenian by heritage. My father emigrated from Istanbul to the United States at the age of 17. But I was on the fence about writing this letter. I don’t like to disturb the peace. Politics overwhelms me. Then I searched through The Daily Pennsylvanian’s online archives for “Armenian genocide.” The most recent article related to the subject was from February 15, 2001. Apparently it’s been 12 years since this issue was covered by our newspaper. I decided it was due time to put it back on the table.

April 24 commemorates the day in 1915 when over 200 Armenian intellectuals and leaders were arrested, imprisoned and promptly executed. This was the culminating and revealing moment of the discrimination that had built through the latter part of the 19th century into the 20th century. But it would be only the beginning for the 1.5 million Armenians who would die over the next eight years. Mass deportations, forced marches through the desert, starvation, torture and the conscription of young boys into the army … The Ottoman government, namely the Young Turks, concealed the horrors under the chaos of World War I.

But there are reports and photographs from British and American ambassadors testifying to the truth of the experience. There are government documents suggesting that the massacres were systematically planned. And there are the words of Hitler that have, paradoxically, come to serve as evidence of the genocide: “After all,” he asked, “who remembers the Armenians?”

His question begs the question, “Why should we remember the Armenians?” Why do we need to talk about events that occurred now nearly 100 years ago? What would the purpose be? I’ll admit it’s a question I have frequently asked myself. I have no interest in casting a shadow upon the Turkish people of today. I have no interest in vengeance. So why bother?

Because Hitler did follow through with his plans for genocide. Because my father and his family emigrated to escape the oppressive environment in Turkey. Because contemporary Turkish writers including Hrant Dink and Orhan Pamuk have been persecuted for attempting to raise awareness of the genocide. Because innocent souls have been dying in Darfur since 2003. Because our nation has witnessed brutal acts of violence over the past year, from Aurora to Newtown to Boston.

Because no death is trivial. No death should be invisible.

I can understand the Turkish desire to deny or justify the annihilation in order to protect the honor of great-grandfathers. No one wants to admit that his or her family was involved in controversial acts. No one wants to feel guilt and shame running through his or her own veins. And I can understand our president’s desire to not explicitly name these acts “genocide.” He fears the decay of crucial alliances in precarious times.

But what about the honor of Armenian great-grandfathers? What about the memory of Armenian great-grandmothers? The children who should have become great-grandparents. The great minds. The great artists. We are still in mourning. We hear their cries and feel their thirst. And our grief cannot find closure until these traumas and deaths are recognized for what they were.

There is a way forward, a way that will prevent genocide from occurring again. This I believe. I believe that I do not want Turks, 19-year-olds like myself, to feel guilt and shame running through their veins. What happened 98 years ago is not their fault, and it should not be their burden. I believe that we should gather. I believe that we should lay out the cards for all to see. I believe that we should talk. I believe that we should work together to find peace, person-to-person. Then, perhaps, our governments will follow suit.

It’s an unfortunate legacy we’ve inherited. But no good can come of it so long as we continue to hide, continue to push this conversation aside. So as we meet each other today, I ask that we do so in peace and in earnest. I ask that we consider the tragedies that surround us and vow to not condone them with silence … To not condemn them to silence.

Nicole Sadaniantz is a College sophomore. Her email address is [email protected].

via The Daily Pennsylvanian :: Guest Column | A threatening silence.

April 24, 2013
No links seen between Boston suspects and foreign terrorist groups, officials say
Video: The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority SWAT team – the four men who took the Boston Marathon bombing suspect into custody – detail the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. VIDEO ADRESS
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By Scott Wilson and Greg Miller, Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 8:09 PM

The injured suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that he and his brother were driven by hard-line Islamist views and anger over the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but had no ties to foreign militant groups, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

The statements made by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, from his hospital bed provide what authorities described as the clearest indication yet of the brothers’ apparent motivation in carrying out an attack that killed three people and wounded more than 250 others on April 15.

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The information gleaned by a special team of FBI interrogators before charges were filed against Tsarnaev on Monday appears to be consistent with the direction of a broader investigation that has not uncovered any links to terrorist networks abroad, officials said.

“These are persons operating inside the United States without a nexus” to an overseas group, a U.S. intelligence official said. Instead, officials said, the evidence suggests that Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who was killed during a confrontation with police, were “self-radicalized.”

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the preliminary findings of an investigation in which information about key aspects of the plot is still being assembled.

U.S. officials briefed on the interrogation of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said he has specifically cited the U.S. war in Iraq and the campaign in Afghanistan as factors motivating him and his brother in the alleged plot.

Neighbors have also described comments by the Tsarnaevs about the U.S. wars. Albrecht Ammon, 21, of Cambridge said in an interview last week that he had recently argued with the older Tsarnaev about U.S. foreign policy.

Tsarnaev said U.S. wars were based on the Bible, “a cheap copy of the Koran,” Ammon said. Tsarnaev also said that “in Afghanistan, most casualties are innocent bystanders killed by American soldiers,” according to Ammon.

President Obama has made repairing U.S. relations with the Islamic world a foreign policy priority, even as he has expanded drone operations in Pakistan and other countries, inflaming anti-U.S. sentiment among many Muslims.

After attending a classified briefing on the case, senior Republican lawmakers voiced concern that U.S. agencies had failed to share information leading up to the attacks.

“I think there’s been some stovepipes reconstructed,” said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, using a term that refers to bureaucratic barriers. Chambliss did not provide details.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairman of the committee, disputed that characterization and praised the work of investigators, saying she had “complete confidence” the case would be solved.

U.S. officials on Tuesday described several other developments in the investigation into the Tsarnaev brothers’ actions, saying that the suspects may have killed a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in an effort to steal his gun and arm themselves after they became the targets of a massive manhunt.

The officials said the officer, Sean Collier, appears not to have attempted to defend himself when he was shot in the head Thursday night. The older Tsarnaev brother already had a handgun, and officials said the two may have been seeking to obtain one for Dzhokhar. The attempt failed, officials said, because the brothers were not able to remove the officer’s weapon from a holster that was protected by a locking mechanism.

A video surveillance camera shows the shooting and the failed effort to pull the officer’s gun, officials said. A short time later, the two suspects allegedly carjacked a Mercedes sport-utility vehicle that they then loaded with explosives and took cover behind when they engaged in a shootout with police.

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The criminal complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts mentions a single firearm, recovered from the scene of that shootout in Watertown, but lists at least a half-dozen explosives and homemade bombs.

Images from that firefight captured by a nearby resident and posted online appear to show the suspects exchanging fire with police down the street before detonating an explosive and then charging in the direction of police.

The older Tsarnaev, who remained on foot, was shot and later died from injuries sustained during that fight. The younger sibling climbed into the Mercedes, according to the images, then turned the vehicle around and drove in the direction of police as well as the position where his brother lay in the street.

Dzhokhar subsequently abandoned the vehicle and was later captured hiding under a tarp in a boat in the back yard of a home a short distance away. He has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in the bombing deaths, as well as malicious destruction of property, counts that could carry the death penalty.

Massachusetts prosecutors are expected to file separate charges against him in the killing of the MIT police officer.

It is unclear whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose ability to speak is impaired by a bullet wound to the neck, continued to answer questions after he was given his Miranda rights in a hospital bedside appearance by a judge. On Tuesday, his condition was described as “fair,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston.

The brothers’ backgrounds — including family ties to Chechnya, a region where Muslim groups have fought a bloody separatist campaign against Moscow for decades — raised suspicions that the two may have been in contact with militant groups.

On a YouTube page, Tamerlan Tsarnaev posted a series of videos that appeared to demonstrate his interest in radical Islamist ideology. But officials said they have not seen any connection between the brothers and terrorist networks overseas.

Previous plots, including a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Tex., and a 2010 attempted bombing in Times Square, were carried out by U.S. citizens with links to al-Qaeda operatives abroad.

“You will not see that [kind of relationship] here, to my knowledge,” a U.S. intelligence official said of the marathon case. The official, and others, stressed that investigators are still working to assemble a more detailed account of a six-month trip Tamerlan Tsarnaev took to Russia in 2012.

The FBI questioned the older Tsarnaev beforehand at the behest of Russian authorities who had become concerned that he was becoming radicalized, a request conveyed to officials at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

U.S. officials said the FBI ended the inquiry months later after seeing no reason to continue. Officials said they relayed that outcome to Russia, and asked for follow-up information from Russia, but that Moscow failed to respond. A spokesman for the Moscow Embassy in Washington declined to comment.

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U.S. officials said there is no evidence so far that Tsarnaev made contact with Chechen extremists or otherwise attracted the attention of Russian authorities during his trip.

“The evidence points to the fact that they let him into the country and let him out,” the U.S. intelligence official said. “They didn’t take any legal action, which they could have while he was there.”

Meanwhile, an executive at a fireworks company, Phantom Fireworks, acknowledged Tuesday that the older Tsarnaev brother had purchased two large pyrotechnic devices from the company’s store in Seabrook, N.H., north of Boston, on Feb. 6. William Weimer, the company’s vice president, said in an interview that company records showed Tamerlan Tsarnaev had made the $199.99 cash purchase. Weimer said the company keeps fastidious records because a previous customer, Faisal Shahzad, had used his fireworks purchase from the company in an attempted attack on Times Square in 2010.

Weimer said he did not believe the brothers used the explosives in the marathon attacks. His company reported the purchase to the FBI after discovering the connection to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, he said.

The Boston Public Health Commission said Tuesday that at least 250 people have sought medical care at area hospitals forinjuries related to the bombings, a number that has grown over the past week as people have sought delayed treatment for minor injuries or hearing problems.

The youngest of those killed in the blasts, 8-year-old Martin Richard, was buried Tuesday morning in a private ceremony, his parents said.

Sari Horwitz, Ed O’Keefe and Julie Tate contributed to this report.
April 24, 2013
White House Receives Petition To Stop All Islamic Immigration Into US

It’s time to expose Islam for what it is to the American public at large and bypass the mainstream media. There is a way to make them talk about the threat of Islam. To do that, I’ve submitted a petition at WhiteHouse.gov in order to bring attention to this issue. If the Obama administration are so hell bent on pushing gun control in the wake of mass shootings like Newtown, then they should be even more vocal on the Islamic threat to America in the wake of more than 20,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since September 11, 2001.

In my petition, I call on the administration to “Stop any and all Islamic immigration Into the US in light of Islamic attacks against The US.” Why? Well in the same fashion that we heard Barack Obama say, “If we can do just one thing” to save a life we should do it, perhaps we should take that attitude when it comes to Islam. Well friends, after yesterday’s post where David Wood so poignantly and brilliantly demonstrated the deceptive practice of Islam, both in its teachers and in politicians like Barack Obama and Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN).

The petition reads as follows:

In the wake of the Newtown shootings, the Obama administration thought they should overstep their Constitutional authority to impose gun control. Now in light of the Boston bombings and the direct ties to Islam, I’m calling on the administration to stop all Islamic immigration into the US.

Mr. Obama and others quote Qur’an 5:32, which is about the people of Israel, but NEVER quote the next verse which is about Muslims and indicates the real threat of Islam.

Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a totalitarian, political death cult and as such is not compatible with American culture.

We cannot sit idly by and allow more people into this country that believe the teachings of a lying, thieving, murderous pedophile and who are commanded to provide:

“The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.”

–Qur’an 5:33

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If someone says that you must be able to read Arabic to understand this or that you must sit under their teachings to understand this, then that is simply illogical in my book. We are an English speaking culture. The Qur’an has been translated into English and as such, this verse is clear and it has no place in a free society. In fact, this isn’t even about their government. This is about the individuals!

This is why individuals like the Ft. Hood shooter can easily kill his fellow soldiers while praising the fictitious Allah. This is why Barack Obama can provide “cover” for Islamists by not calling them out and quoting the previous verse in the Qur’an, which is about the people of Israel, not Muslims.

Additionally, there should be deportation of all those still here with expired visas and also no new visas should be extended. Consideration should also be given to deporting those here on legal visas as well.

My fellow Americans, jihad is not just being waged with bombs. There’s a political jihad taking place as well. They are after our guns and free speech.

If you believe that Islamic immigration must cease and want to help bring it to the forefront of the media’s attention as a viable solution to the Islamic threat in America, I invite you to sign the petition and also to work in your local and state government to remove mosques and end Islamic proselytizing. You can get an understanding of how that works here. Sign the petition here.

UPDATE: The White House is suppressing the petition as it is not showing up in the “Open Petitions” nor can you find it by searching for it. The only way to bring it up is via the direct links in the article.

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/04/white-house-receives-petition-to-stop-all-islamic-immigration-into-us/#ixzz2RJ0v9qAr

April 23, 2013