Progress for America

These people want to kill us. The 'War on Terror' is a war for America's (and the rest of the free world's) FREEDOM, SECURITY, and SURVIVAL. NEVER forget! THE VIDEO: PROGRESS FOR AMERICA

Mark Alexander

How much is that doggie in the window?

THE JERUSALEM POST: Saudi Arabia's religious police, normally tasked with chiding women to cover themselves and ensuring men attend mosque prayers, are turning to a new target: cats and dogs.

The police have issued a decree banning the sale of the pets, seen as a sign of Western influence. Saudi Arabia: Sale of pet cats and dogs banned

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Visa given to radical cleric in the Netherlands

RADIO NETHERLANDS: On Saturday, the radical Pakistani Muslim Mohammed Anas Noorani Siddiqui is fronting an international conference in Amsterdam. In the Dutch parliament, though, eyebrows have been raised about why the man - who is considered a radical - has even been given a visa. Row as radical cleric arrives in the Netherlands

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In 2004, the former Archbishop of Canterbury (Lord Carey of Clifton) gave this controversial speech in Rome on Islam ...
... but ever since, he, and all the rest of the Church leaders, have been remarkably silent. One can therefore but ask oneself one simple question: If the former Archbishop of Canterbury could speak with such clarity and precision in 2004, why is he so silent today? And why are no Church leaders speaking any sense about Islam anymore? Clearly, the voice of sanity in the Church has been silenced. The sad reality is this: Political correctness dominates even in the Church of England today.

Address given by Lord Carey of Clifton at the Gregorian University, Rome, on Thursday, March 25 in which he criticised Islamic culture and regimes: 'Christianity and Islam: Collison [sic] or convergence?'

"However, wherever we look, Islam seems to be embroiled in conflict with other faiths and other cultures. It is in opposition to practically every other world religion- to Judaism in the Middle East; to Christianity in the West, in Nigeria, and in the Middle East; to Hinduism in India; to Buddhism, especially since the destruction of the Temples in Afghanistan.

We are presented therefore with a huge puzzle concerning Islam. Why is it associated with violence throughout the world? Is extremism so ineluctably bound up with its faith that we are at last seeing its true character? Or could it be that a fight for the soul of Islam is going on that requires another great faith, Christianity, to support and encourage the vast majority of Muslims who resist this identification of their faith with terrorism?"

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"Thus, believers are told, because they have come direct from Allah they are not to be questioned or revised. As it happens, in the first few centuries of the Islamic era, Islamic theologians sought to meet the challenge this implied, but during the past five hundred years critical scholarship has declined leading to strong resistance to modernity." ... "Saudi Arabia will not allow Christian worship and Christian priests and ministers are not allowed to function as such in that land. Muslim leaders often tell Christians and Jews that 'there is no compulsion in religion'. This sadly is only half true. If non-Muslims are not compelled to become Muslim, Muslims are not free to choose another faith. There is, we find, some compulsion, after all." Carey speech on Islam in full

Carey's Islam comments condemned

Muslim culture has contributed little for centuries, says Carey by Jonathan Petre

Carey defends 'anti-Islam' speech

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Radical Islam

WARNING: This video is NOT for the faint-hearted!

Video courtesy of YOU TUBE

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New Al-Qaeda video

BBC: Arabic TV channel Al-Jazeera has broadcast what it says is unseen footage of Osama Bin Laden meeting some of the 9/11 hijackers.

The channel said it showed al-Qaeda leaders "preparing for the attacks and practising their execution". Bin Laden '9/11 video' broadcast

You can watch some of the video courtesy of the BBC HERE

AL-JAZEERA: A new videotape aired on Aljazeera television has shown Osama bin Laden and senior Al-Qaeda members meeting with some of the men who carried out the September 11 attacks against the US in 2001.

The 90-minute video apparently shows Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, taking part in the planning and preparation of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. Al-Qaeda video takes credit for 9/11

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This from the BBC: What do you think of it?

BBC: As part of his series on the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks, the BBC's Stephen Evans talks to Muslims in New York to see how they have been affected by the tragedy.

Many Muslims in New York have been through a period of reflection since 11 September 2001, looking out at the wider US and wondering where they fit into it. NY Muslims keep the faith post 9/11

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Turning Christianity into a crime in the UK

DAILY MAIL: How long will it be before Christianity becomes illegal in Britain? This is no longer the utterly absurd and offensive question that on first blush it would appear to be.

An evangelical Christian campaigner, Stephen Green was arrested and charged last weekend with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.

So what was this behaviour? Merely trying peacefully to hand out leaflets at a gay rally in Cardiff. How Britain is turning Christianity into a crime by Melanie Phillips

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25+ years on: 'Death of a Princess'

Antony Thomas is the reporter and director of "Death of a Princess." In this interview, he talks about the reasons he turned his reporting into a docu-drama, the multiple sourcing that he had for it, the film's most controversial scenes and some of the pressures put on him and on others to prevent its broadcast. And, he discusses what he came to learn about the young princess herself and the basic facts behind her execution. This interview was conducted on March 21, 2005.

Please note: "This film cannot be video streamed because Internet rights are not available."

Interview: Antony Thomas
Reflecting on "Princess" 25 Years Later
Interviews
Press Reaction

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The nonsense of 'interfaith dialogue' exposed

ISLAM REVIEW: Islam, in the West, is fighting its battle of acceptance and legitimacy. Muslim activists are working fervently trying to improve Islam's image. Their goal is to create an environment in which Islam can be easily propagated. Their tool is as old as Islam itself, but they have just rediscovered it. This tool is telling Christians that Islam and Christianity have a lot in common. They cite Islam's belief in the Bible, God, Jesus, Mary, the prophets, the day of judgment and Paradise. Nothing In Common by Abdullah Al Araby

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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani quits politics: He "no longer has power to save Iraq from civil war"

ASIA TIMES: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the definitive presence of traditional Shi'ite Islam, has warned that he "no longer has power to save Iraq from civil war", and has withdrawn from politics (see Iraq loses its voice of reason, Asia Times Online, September 6). Ayatollah al-Sistani and the end of Islam by Spengler

ASIA TIMES: DAMASCUS - The saddest news coming from Iraq is the decision of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to cease all political activity and restrict himself to his religious duties in Shi'ite Islam. He said this weekend: "I will not be a political leader anymore. I am only happy to receive questions about religious matters." Iraq loses its voice of reason by Sami Moubayed

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What's this guy, Julian Bond, bin smokin'?

CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER: THE BRITISH media needs to be more balanced in its coverage of Islam, according to members of Christian-Muslim dialogue groups. On the fifth anniversary of the atrocities of 9/11 in New York, suspicion of Islam in the UK is higher than ever, as shown in a recent YouGov poll in which 53 per cent of respondents felt they thought Islam was a threat to Western liberal democracy. Media is warned over its coverage of Islam by Ed Beavan

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Prince Reza Pahlavi's Goal

Video courtesy of YOU TUBE

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Ahmadinejad prepares for the Mahdi

Video courtesy of YOU TUBE

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In Islam, the liberals are always the first to go

FORBES: Iran's hard-line president urged students Tuesday to push for a purge of liberal and secular university teachers, another sign of his determination to strengthen Islamic fundamentalism in the country.

With his call echoing the rhetoric of the nation's 1979 Islamic revolution, Ahmadinejad appears determined to remake Iran by reviving the fundamentalist goals pursued under the republic's late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Iran Head Wants Liberal Teachers Ousted

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"Proportional" warfare and all that

TOWNHALL.COM: The month of September brings not only the fifth anniversary of the horrific terror attacks of 2001, but also marks the passage of 67 years since the beginning of World War II. An accurate, unflinching recollection of that incomparably destructive conflagration remains indispensable in understanding some of the key issues of the bloody conflicts of our own time. In particular, the course of World War II demonstrates the complete folly of the currently trendy notion that a just war somehow must qualify as “proportional.” Why seek "proportional" warfare? by Michael Medved

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Bush warning: Caliphate planned for Iraq

GULF NEWS: Washington: US President George W. Bush vowed on Tuesday to prevent Al Qaida from setting up a violent, radical Islamic empire based in Iraq, which he said was Osama Bin Laden's ultimate goal.

Bush said Al Qaida's vision was to create a "unified totalitarian Islamic state that can confront and eventually destroy the free world."

Bin Laden has declared Iraq "the capital of the caliphate," said Bush, who has often faced criticism for trying to tie Iraq into the broader "war on terrorism. Bush warns of Al Qaida plan for 'Caliphate' based in Iraq

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Islamic schools tearing Britain apart

BARNABUS FUND: Once there were tens. Then there were hundreds. Now Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard’s Anti-Terrorist Branch, speaks of thousands of militant British Muslims, indoctrinated and radicalised in British mosques and madrassas.

This is not, primarily, because of the influence of a handful of a few “preachers of hate”. Islamic extremism has spread in Britain thanks to a particular brand of multiculturalism encouraged by this Government. And until ministers tackle it - especially the influence of Muslim faith schools - all their new efforts to build cohesion will come to very little.

The context goes far beyond Britain. Contemporary Islam has burst out of its colonial restraints. Once colonialism removed power, jihad and territorial control from Islam, it was left a benign force focusing on prayer and good deeds. But contemporary Islam has reverted back to early Islam, with all its theological rage against the non-Muslim world. Issues like Iraq and Afghanistan have become valves for expressing this anger and hatred against Britain and the West. THE SCHOOLS THAT DIVIDE THE NATION by DR PATRICK SOOKHDEO

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Controversial Dutch Report on Islam

NIS NEWS BULLETIN: THE HAGUE, 07/09/06 - The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) will present a controversial report on Islam to European Commission vice president Franco Frattini next week. Released in the Netherlands in April, it was criticised by both the Lower House and Foreign Minister Bot. EU Discusses Controversial Dutch Report On islam

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Sudanese newspaper editor beheaded!

The beheaded body of a Sudanese newspaper editor has been found on the outskirts of the capital, Khartoum. Kidnapped Sudan editor beheaded

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