The Truth About the Boulder Massacre
Will it be buried with the bodies?
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In coverage of the March 22 Boulder, CO. supermarket massacre, The New York Times was true to form (All the News That’s Fit to Spin), reporting that “investigators were trying to determine what motivated a 21-year-old man” charged with 10 murders.
Whenever the establishment media tell you that the authorities are diligently searching for a motive in a mass shooting, it means there’s no shortage of clues that they don’t want to follow, to keep you from jumping to any logical conclusions.
In typical New York Times fashion, the newspaper devoted two paragraphs to the murder weapon (a “Ruger AR-556 semiautomatic pistol”), while avoiding any mention of Islam or jihad.
The story did include one tantalizing detail: that the suspect’s identity was “previously known to the FBI,” because it was “linked to another individual under investigation.” Readers were left to wonder -- linked to an individual being investigated for what? Linked in what way? Were they pen pals, bridge partners?
The media is portraying Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa (say, is that a Scandinavian name?) as a classic nut case. His brother describes him as “mentally ill,” “paranoid” and “anti-social.” He thought he was being followed and was prone to violence – none of which is in any way incompatible with Islamic terrorism. The typical jihadist isn’t warm, outgoing and full of bonhomie.
What they aren’t telling you:
- Alissa is a refugee from Syria, one of the most anti-Semitic countries in a region notorious for Jew-hatred.
- Online, he described himself as a faithful Muslim.
- He believed Islamophobia is ubiquitous.
- He thought America was a racist, Islamophobic country. If only we treated religion-of-peaceniks as well as Christians are treated in Muslim countries. LOL.
- He despised Donald Trump.
- He drove 32 miles from his home in Arvada to a supermarket in Boulder for his shooting spree.
- The market where the murders took place (King Soopers) is part of a chain that advertises a large selection of kosher food.
- This particular market is favored by Boulder’s Jewish community.
- It happened five days before the beginning of Passover.
Be assured that any anti-Semitic rants have been purged from his Face Book and Twitter accounts, which were taken down immediately after the murders.
Still, other than a synagogue (which, in many cases, are well-guarded, given the culture we’re in) what better place to go full-jihad than in a market with a wide array of kosher food, favored by local Jews, less than a week before Passover?
You can see why the MSM is downplaying any jihadist elements.
They were bitterly disappointed that, after the first 24 hours, they didn’t get to blame the horrific crime on an embittered white man with a gun -- probably an evangelical Trump supporter who was on a search and destroy mission for Asian masseuses.
Well before January 6, the left was pushing its white supremacist terrorism narrative. The Capitol riot was a godsend for them.
The hand puppet Biden put in charge of the Department of Homeland Security says white supremacists (bitter-clingers? deplorables?) are “the most significant” threat to internal security – forget Antifa and Black Lives Matter and a hundred and one Muslim terrorist groups with arsenals supplied by the oil wealth of the Middle East. By all means, forget Biden’s open borders.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the “most significant terrorist threat facing the nation comes from lone offenders and small groups of individuals who commit acts of violence motivated by domestic extremist ideological beliefs.” Like believing the election was stolen? Like illegal aliens should not get COVID stimulus money? Like voter-ID laws.
Mayorkas assured us that this year states and localities will get to spend $77 million in DHS grants on “combatting domestic violent extremism.” Perhaps they’ll stake out American Legion posts or gun clubs.
At his confirmation hearing, Attorney General Merrick (thank God he didn’t make it to the Supreme Court) Garland pledged to make prosecuting the Jan. 6 “insurrectionists” his first priority. He warned that the U.S. is “facing a more dangerous period than we faced” after the Oklahoma City bombing, which then President Bill Clinton blamed on conservative talk radio.
This is all very convenient. It takes the heat off Islamism, the no-justice/no-peace crowd and the anarchists who burned down sections of 140 cities last summer.
Here’s a prediction: After a delay of several years, Alissa will be found not guilty by reason of insanity, and be confined to a mental institution for the rest of his life. That way, his real motivation will get buried – along with the Boulder bodies.
India: Muslims Attack Hindu Neighborhoods, Killing Men for Marrying ‘Their’ Women
Muslim women involved with non-Muslim men often leads to gruesome episodes.
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A jewelry brand recently came under fire for an ad featuring a Hindu girl married happily into a Muslim family. The Hindus were vocal in their dissent on social media, and with no intention to offend their biggest customer base further, the jewelry brand chose to take the ad off the air. The Hindus were slandered by secular media for their projected aversion to interfaith marriages.
The Hindus, on the other hand, refusing to kneel in front of the secular forces that are always propagating the idea of “love” between a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy, stood adamant on that one tough question no secular institution finds the courage to answer.
While Hindu or Sikh women marrying Muslim men and converting into Islam is a common occurrence, a celebrated one at that, Muslim women’s involvement with non-Muslim men have often led to such gruesome episodes that the bravest of media houses have failed to summon up the intestinal fortitude to address them.
Enraged after a Muslim girl of age had married a non-Muslim man from the Dalit community (Hindu by faith) on her own accord, a rioting mob of Muslims armed with swords and sticks descended on a Dalit-dominated residential area in the Indian capital city, Delhi, ransacked houses, and attacked locals. The Muslim woman recorded her statement with the local police and left with her husband after their marriage. The family and relatives of the man have reportedly left the locality. Their departure, however, didn’t spare the locals of the area from the Islamic wrath. As local police failed to contain the rampaging mob, the local administration was compelled to deploy paramilitary forces to restore peace.
Back in 2018, this city witnessed 23-year-old Ankit Saxena being brutally murdered by the family members of his Muslim girlfriend. They abducted him, stabbed him, and slit his throat with a chopping knife. The brother of the girl, who played an active part in the blood-curdling crime, was a minor at the time of the slaughter.
Just six months after the Ankit Saxena murder, 22-year-old Sanjay Jha of Faridabad was killed by his Muslim wife’s family. Sanjay and Rukhsar were neighbours and were of the same age when they eloped. A pregnant Rukhsar and Sanjay returned home eight months after their marriage and had been put up by Sanjay’s family. Rukhsar’s family started to pressure Sanjay to convert to Islam; however, upset with Sanjay’s constant refusal, they forced Rukhsar to abort their baby. The situation turned more tense after Rukhsar conceived a child for a second time; it all ended in Sanjay’s coldblooded murder.
In October 2020, Mohammad Raj, Mohammad Afroz and 3 other assailants hacked 18-year-old Rahul Rajput to death for courting a Muslim girl who was sister to one of the assailants. This has become such a regular scene in India that major media houses, doubling as guardians of secularism, have no patience to telecast these incidents.
The savagery has now extended to slaughtering children of other communities befriending and giving gifts to a child from their household, if that child is a girl. 14-year-old Mahesh Kolli was killed, his genitals and nose chopped off, perhaps while he was still alive. His body was packed into a gunny sack and drowned in a local river, from which the police recovered it. The mother of the Muslim girl Mahesh had befriended and to whom he had allegedly given a phone has been arrested for plotting the gory murder, with the assistance of her friend Mehboobsab.
Brutality from Islamic jihadis is commonplace when non-Muslim men fall in love with Muslim women, and they actively participate in eliminating the men who dare to do this. However, it is partly baffling and partly funny how movies – yes, you read it right, movies — depicting the romantic possibilities of a Muslim girl with a Hindu boy have led to chaos and death threats in this part of the world.
Back in 1995, the maverick filmmaker of the Indian film industry, Mani Ratnam, received threats from Muslims who demanded a total ban of his film Bombay (1995) that depicted a Muslim woman marrying a Hindu man in a riot-torn Bombay. Crude bombs were hurled at his residence; Ratnam had a narrow escape and sustained minor injuries.
“How can they show a Sikh applying sindoor on the forehead of a Muslim girl?,” questioned street vendor Abdul Sattar in Ahmedabad. He was referring to the fictional characters of the 2001 Hindi film Gadar. The movie, set against the backdrop of the Indian partitions, centred on the love story of a Muslim girl and a Sikh man. It was protested vehemently by Muslims claiming “hurt sentiments.” Violence, demonstrations and arson were reported in several cities in India, including Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Bhopal and Lucknow. Groups of Muslims launched petrol pouches at the screen of a well-known cinema hall and set it ablaze. All this for a three-hour-long piece of fiction. Little has changed in the past 20 years. The situation has only grown wilder.
Palestinian Terrorists Issue Death Threat on American Reformer as Biden Admin Seeks Closer Ties
After more than a week of silence in the face of questions, the State Department said it is concerned about the safety of a prominent pro-democracy Palestinian-American who recently received death threats from a terror organization affiliated with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
Fadi Elsalameen, a human-rights and anti-corruption activist who is seen as a leading challenger to Abbas's presidency, is facing death threats over his efforts to reform the Palestinian government and orient it more toward the West. The fledgling government is gearing up for elections next month. The death threats were formally issued earlier this month by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed terrorist group loyal to Abbas's Fatah political party.
Elsalameen, in a March 20 Twitter message disclosing the threat, said he has no security detail and called on the Biden administration to strongly denounce the threats emanating from the Martyrs Brigades. The State Department, which is responsible for protecting Americans abroad, declined to take a stance on the matter as recently as Friday when asked by reporters about Elsalameen's safety during a press briefing. On the same day, the State Department announced $15 million in new aid for the Palestinian government.
The State Department's silence quickly stoked concerns that the Biden administration is intentionally refraining from condemning Palestinian leadership amid its effort to resume giving taxpayer aid dollars to the government. That move that has drawn criticism from Republican foreign policy leaders, who maintain that the Palestinian government should not receive aid until it ends its support for terrorism and ongoing incitement against Israel. The Washington Free Beacon first reported last week that the State Department determined the Palestinian government continues to spend international aid dollars caring for imprisoned terrorists and their families as part of a program known as "pay-to-slay."
A State Department official, speaking only on background, told the Free Beacon that the department is aware of the threats on Elsalameen's life and takes them seriously. The official did not single out Abbas or criticize his government's association with the Martyrs Brigades. It remains unclear what exactly the Biden administration is doing to ensure Elsalameen's safety abroad.
"The welfare and safety of U.S. citizens abroad is the State Department's highest priority," the official said. "Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization responsible for numerous terrorist murders in recent decades."
This is not the first time Elsalameen has been threatened as a result of his pro-democracy activism and criticism of Abbas's rule. His home outside Hebron in the West Bank was shot up by unknown gunman in 2016, causing damage but no fatalities.
Elsalameen told the Free Beacon the Biden administration should be taking the matter much more seriously. With the administration restarting aid to the Palestinian government and working to unwind the Trump administration's hardline policies, the United States should tell Abbas and his government that it will not accept death threats against American citizens.
"I am asking President Biden to pressure President Abbas to condemn this death threat and call it off," Elsalameen said. "I am a pro-democracy and anti-corruption activist; my goal is constructive reform for the Palestinian people. There is no reason for anyone to call for my death let alone a faction linked to President Abbas who receives hundreds of millions of dollars in [aid from the American government]."
Human rights groups and American foreign policy leaders have condemned the threats on Elsalameen's life.
The Human Rights Foundation condemned the Martyrs Brigades last week and cited it as "the armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' political party, Fatah."
Morgan Ortagus, the State Department spokeswoman under former president Trump, asked: "Why is #abbas (and his thugs) threatening a fellow presidential candidate with his life? This is not how democracy works. If this is where the [Palestinian Authority] elections are headed, the international community won't be able to view them as legitimate."
Aaron David Miller, a veteran Middle East analyst and peace advocate, said, "The [Palestinian Authority] or whoever is targeting him ought to stand down." The Biden administration, he added, "should intercede with [the Palestinian Authority] to protect a US citizen."
Lebanese Immigrant Pleads Guilty to Sending Classified Info to Hezbollah/Iran
Good thing they wrapped up this case before Biden noticed or all charges would have been dropped and she would have appointed to the NSC.
But this case has wrapped up fairly quickly and is hardly being reported on.
According to court documents, Mariam Taha Thompson, 63, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, worked as a contract linguist at an overseas U.S. military facility where she was entrusted with a top secret government security clearance. Thompson pleaded guilty to transmitting highly sensitive classified national defense information to a foreign national who she believed would provide the information to Lebanese Hizballah, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
“It’s astounding that an American working for the U.S. military overseas would abandon her country in favor of terrorists,” said Assistant Director Alan E. Kohler Jr. for the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. “The FBI and its partners placed a high priority on this case because the defendant provided classified defense information to a foreign terrorist organization, information that put members of the U.S. military in harm’s way.”
Is it really astounding that a Lebanese immigrant picked her country over the United States? Especially when her Hezbollah boyfriend told her to? The only "astounding" part is that the United States government put someone like her in such a sensitive position. No other country would be this stupid.
During today’s plea hearing, Thompson admitted that, beginning in 2017, she started communicating with her unindicted co-conspirator using a video-chat feature on a secure text and voice messaging application. Over time, Thompson developed a romantic interest in her co-conspirator. Thompson learned that the unindicted co-conspirator had a family member who was in the Lebanese Ministry of the Interior, and that the unindicted co-conspirator claimed to have received a ring from Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanese Hizballah.
In December 2019, while Thompson was assigned to a special operations task force facility in Iraq, the United States launched a series of airstrikes in Iraq targeting Kata’ib Hizballah, an Iranian-backed foreign terrorist organization. These airstrikes culminated in a Jan. 3, 2020, strike that resulted in the death of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Qasem Suleimani, as well as the founder of Kata’ib Hizballah, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
Following Suleimani’s death, the unindicted co-conspirator started asking Thompson to provide “them” with information about the human assets who had helped the United States to target Suleimani. Thompson admitted that she understood “them” to be Lebanese Hizballah, including an unnamed high-ranking military commander.
After receiving this request for information in early January 2020, Thompson began accessing dozens of files concerning human intelligence sources, including true names, personal identification data, background information and photographs of the human assets, as well as operational cables detailing information the assets provided to the U.S. government. Thompson used several techniques to pass this information on to the unindicted co-conspirator, who told her that his contacts were pleased with the information, and that the Lebanese Hizballah military commander wanted to meet Thompson when she came to Lebanon.
When she was arrested by the FBI on Feb. 27, 2020, Thompson had used her access to classified national defense information to provide her co-conspirator with the identities of at least 10 clandestine human assets; at least 20 U.S. targets; and multiple tactics, techniques and procedures. Thompson intended and had reason to believe that this classified national defense information would be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of Lebanese Hizballah.
When it says Hezbollah, that obviously means Iran. Tehran is the command hub for Shiite terrorist groups. That's why Hezbollah was interested in what was going on in the battlespace with Iran.
In 2017, a family member introduced THOMPSON to a Lebanese national (hereinafter “the unindicted coconspirator”). This introduction was made through social media. THOMPSON believed that the unindicted coconspirator was a wealthy and well-connected Lebanese national.
Thompson also learned that the unindicted coconspirator was a Shia Muslim and that he claimed to have contact with members of Lebanese Hizballah. During one conversation, the unindicted coconspirator told THOMPSON that he had received a ring from Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanese Hizballah.
Will any lessons be learned from this? Don't count on it.
The Biden Administration is Determined to Undo Trump’s Most Important Achievement
A disturbing glance at Biden's boosting of Palestinian oppressive, jihadist institutions.
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The Biden Administration is determined to undo the most important achievement of the Trump administration, that is, its support for Israel’s rights under the Palestine Mandate and U.N. Resolution 242, and for the Abraham Accords, and its refusal to any longer tolerate the PPalestinian Authority’s Pay-For-Slay Program, or the antisemitism in its schoolbooks. “Internal Biden memo said to back 2-state solution along 1967 lines,” by Jacob Magid, Times of Israel, March 17, 2021:
…The US paid hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the PA’s creditors, such as the Israeli state utility companies from which the Palestinians purchase water and electricity. They paid for training for the PA’s security forces and numerous infrastructure projects.
What did the U.S. get for its hundreds of millions of dollars in annual aid to the PA? Did the PA agree to negotiate with Israel? No, it hasn’t done so for years. Did it cease its support for terrorism? Not at all. The PA continues to spend about $350 million each year for its “Pay-For-Slay” program. The Taylor Force Act prohibits any American aid from going to the PA as long as it continues to support the Pay-For-Slay program. How does the Biden Administration plan, in its insensate desire to again shell out hundreds of millions of dollars to the PA, to get around the Taylor Force Act?
Washington also gave hundreds of millions a year in funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency — known as UNRWA — which is in charge of administering the daily needs of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and their descendants across the Middle East.
The memo, which was passed along to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, highlights UNRWA in particular as one of the organizations the Biden administration plans to back in order to aid the Palestinians….
UNRWA has been wracked with scandals – financial and sexual — at the very top, leading to its entire echelon of senior executives, including its director, Pierre Krähenbühl, having to resign in 2019. UNRWA continues, after many years of claiming it will “fix” the problem, to use schoolbooks that are full of antisemitic passages.
UNRWA is also responsible for the policy of treating the descendants of Palestinian refugees as refugees themselves. Thus, the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and others in the same line of descent from real refugees, are all considered to be “Palestinian refugees” themselves, and entitled to all the generous benefits – housing, health care, education – that UNRWA provides. Among the many tens of millions of refugees created since World War II, the Palestinians are the only ones to be allowed to hand on their refugee status. No one has explained why, uniquely among refugee populations, they deserve this special status. UNRWA claims there are more than five million Palestinian refugees, but the “real” refugees – those who left Mandatory Palestine and Israel between 1947 and 1949 – now number only about 30,000.
The Trump Administration was determined to stop funding this ever-enlarging farce. Nor was it going to tolerate any longer UNRWA’s antisemitic schoolbooks. Now the Biden Administration, ready to turn on the spigot of American aid, is preparing to undo the Trump administration’s financial pressure on UNRWA to reform both its absurdly expansive definition of a “Palestinian refugee” and its antisemitic schoolbooks.
Noting major economic disparities between Israelis and Palestinians, the memo states that the Biden administration is “planning a full range of economic, security and humanitarian assistance programs [for Palestinians], including through UN Relief and World Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).”
“State and USAID are working towards a restart of US assistance to the Palestinians in late March or early April,” the memo says, adding that the COVID-related humanitarian relief package will be announced beforehand.
The Biden people can make all the plans they want for renewing aid to the Palestinians, but the Taylor Force Act will, or should, prevent them from doing so as long as the PA’s “Pay-For-Slay” program remains in place. They have yet to explain how they hope to evade that act’s prohibition on such aid.
The memo reveals the administration’s plans to “take a two-fold approach of maintaining and ideally improving the US relationship with Israel by deepening its integration into the region while resetting the US relationship with the Palestinian people and leadership.”
This reference to “deepening [Israel’s} integration into the region” clearly means the Abraham Accords which the Biden Administration has the good sense – for once — to want to further expand. But why should the US “reset” its relationship with the Palestinians? Why should it attempt to renew its aid when the PA has refused to halt its support for terrorists and their families, or its inculcation, in schoolbooks and on children’s television shows, of murderous antisemitism? Shouldn’t Washington wait for a change in the PA’s unacceptable behavior before turning the aid spigot back on?
One section of the memo likely to please both sides of the political spectrum in Israel is its support for expanding the normalization agreements brokered by the Trump administration between Israel and its Arab and Muslim neighbors.
However, Amr also writes of using such agreements “to support Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and improve the quality of life for the Palestinian people.” Netanyahu has sought to divorce the normalization deals from the Palestinian issue, arguing that the peace deals prove that Israel can expand its diplomatic ties in the region without making concessions to the Palestinians.
As previously pledged by Biden officials, the memo floats the idea of reopening an independent consulate akin to the one that served as the de facto mission to the Palestinians and operated out of the western part of Jerusalem until 2019. Doing so would signal US recommitment to a two-state solution, the document says. However, no final decisions have been made yet on the matter.
Re-opening a US consulate in Jerusalem as a “de facto” mission to the Palestinians undermines Israel’s claim to an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, and bolsters the Palestinian claim on having the “capital” of its future state somewhere in Jerusalem. Why is the Biden Administration so intent on taking the Palestinian side in this quarrel? Hasn’t it said it wants the Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate directly? Yet Washington is now putting its hands on the scales, favoring the Palestinians.
The memo notes the Biden administration’s commitment to engaging the international community via the UN and the Middle East Quartet, which consists of the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia.
The Biden Administration should not be involving either the “international community” or the “Middle East Quartet” in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. That stacks the deck against Israel. The “international community” at the U.N. is irredeemably hostile to the Jewish state. The U.N. General Assembly votes overwhelmingly in support of the many anti-Israel resolutions that are proposed at each session. The anti-Israel bias is even more pronounced at the U.N. Human Rights Council, which has a permanent item on its agenda (Item #7), devoted solely to Israel and its putative mistreatment of the Palestinians. In recent years 160 resolutions were passed by the UNHRC; 90 of them were about Israel, and the other 70 were about the misdeeds of the 192 other countries. The UN remains a kangaroo court, with tiny Israel always in the dock. As for the Middle East Quartet, three-quarters of that “quartet” – the United Nations, the European Union, and Russia – are in the camp of the Palestinians; only the U.S. can be considered to be on Israel’s side, and even that has become less certain in light of the Biden Administration’s desire to “reset” relations with the Palestinians.
The document notes the upcoming Palestinian legislative elections in May and presidential elections in July, adding that it has been 15 years since Palestinians have been able to elect their representatives.
But the implications of an election remain uncertain: the collapse of a power-sharing agreement after the prior elections led to the Hamas takeover of Gaza [in 2007],” the memo says, noting the PA request that the US push Jerusalem to allow elections to take place in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, but not stating Washington’s position on the matter.
“We are analyzing the evolving situation and will propose a US posture together with the inter-agency,” the memo reads.
The lack of position on elections is likely to disappoint Ramallah as Palestinian officials have been lobbying Washington in recent weeks to come out in support of the democratic process, sources familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.
The Biden Administration now appears to have lost its enthusiasm for the Palestinian elections, because it now believes that Hamas will emerge with the most members in the Parliament, and might even win the Presidency if it decides to field a candidate. As of mid-March, Washington was trying to persuade Abbas to cancel the elections, in order to head off a Hamas victory. Thus an election Abbas called in order to win points with the Biden people has now become, for them, a cause for alarm. Should Hamas take over the PA, Israel will understandably not negotiate with the terror group, thus spoiling the Biden administration’s plans to pressure the Jewish state into negotiations with the Palestinians “based on the 1967 lines.”
Amr recommends the Biden administration push the PA to clamp down on incitement while also calling out Israeli settlement expansion on land that Palestinians hope will be part of their future state.
Hady Amr continues to ignore – has he ever read it? – the Mandate for Palestine, that calls for the Mandatory Authority (Great Britain) to “facilitate Jewish immigration” and “close settlement by Jews on the land.” (Article 6). What “land”? The land shown on the Mandate maps as belonging to a future Jewish state. This land extends from the Golan in the north to the Red Sea in the south, and from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean in the west. Clearly Israel is within its rights to have its people settle anywhere in the West Bank. While Israelis have a “right” to settle anywhere in the West Bank, they may choose not to exercise that right in areas they do not deem critical to their defense. The Biden Administration should not, despite Hady Amr’s recommendation,”call out Israeli settlement expansion”; in so doing, the Biden people ignore both the Palestine Mandate and U.N. Resolution 242. Biden’s men can take another approach, if they wish. Washington could recognize Israel’s right to create new or expand existing settlements in the West Bank, but suggest that the wisdom of some of this settlement building or expansion can be challenged. That’s a much more acceptable approach than telling the Israelis they “have no right” to expand or build settlements when they know full well that they do.
As for the Biden Administration pressuring the PA to clamp down on incitement, how does it propose to do this? Will it insist that the PA give up its Pay-For-Slay program that rewards terrorist murderers, and incentivizes others to go and do likewise? The signs are not good. It talks of renewing aid to the Palestinians, but never mentions the Taylor Force Act. Will It demand that the PA end its practice of honoring terrorists by naming streets and squares after them? Will the Biden people convince the PA to stop using schoolbooks full of antisemitic and anti-Israel passages? Will it demand that the Palestinian children’s shows stop showing little children holding pretend knives and stabbing “Jews” while lisping their determination to “kill Jews”?
The memo reveals that talks are underway with the PA leadership aimed at altering Ramallah’s controversial payment of stipends to Palestinian security prisoners, including those convicted of terror attacks against Israeli civilians.
The altered policy currently being discussed in Ramallah would base the stipends on prisoners’ financial need rather than the length of their sentence, senior Palestinian officials told The Times of Israel in January.
No amount of subterfuge will work. Either terrorists and their families are being supported by stipends from the PA, or they are not. It hardly matters whether “financial need” is invoked to justify such support; what matters is the identity of the recipients. No terrorist, if alive and imprisoned, and no family of a dead terrorist, deserves financial support from the PA, support which is made possible, ultimately, by the aid the PA receives. America should not be helping pay for support for terrorism.
The Biden administration will also seek to boost Palestinian institutions. “This includes strengthening civil society, media watchdogs and other elements of the fourth estate, such as emphasizing to the [Palestinian Authority] the need to protect civil society through the reductions of arrests of bloggers and dissidents,” the memo reads.
Both Hamas in Gaza and the P.A. in the West Bank deal harshly with their critics, whether they are ordinary citizens or journalists. People protesting corruption and mismanagement have their street protests shut down, often with violence; persistent critics and dissidents are thrown into jail. If those dissidents are journalists, they can be censored, lose their jobs, even be imprisoned or expelled; some choose to live, and work as journalists for Western outlets, in Israel. There is no freedom of speech or assembly for the Palestinians in either Gaza or the West Bank. How does the Biden Administration hope to overcome this culture of repression and violence? Just how will it discourage the arrests of bloggers and dissidents? How will it protect Palestinian journalists from being fired for reporting truthfully on the regimes that oppress their people? What threatened consequences would be severe enough to get the PA and Hamas to respect freedom of speech and of assembly? If past is prologue, it’s a forlorn hope.
Biden Sends $15 Million in COVID Aid to "Palestinians" Who Have Half Of US Fatality Rate
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Last spring, Senate Democrats were obsessed with saving Hamas from the coronavirus.
Eight Senate Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, dispatched a four-page letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, demanding to know what America was doing about the coronavirus.
Not in America. In Gaza.
According to the Senate letter, “as of March 24, the first two cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the Gaza Strip.”
That’s two cases. Two. The United States has over 200,000 as of now.
The letter quotes an article claiming that in Gaza, “health ministry officials” whined “that just one person infected with the deadly virus would end in ‘complete disaster’"
Fast forward to this year and some 500 Gazan residents in Hamas territory have died of the virus. That's not exactly a major crisis.
The CFR or case fatality rate in those parts of Israel under the control of Hamas and the PLO is below 1%. Ours is around 1.8% and has been as high as 6.2%.
So the Biden administration is directing $15 million in aid to PLO and Hamas areas.
The United States said Thursday it is giving $15 million to vulnerable Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, a sharp reversal from the Trump administration which cut off almost all aid to the Palestinians.
Thomas-Greenfield said the $15 million in aid is “consistent with our interests and our values, and it aligns with our efforts to stamp our the pandemic and food insecurity worldwide.”
Food insecurity? Because we're also funding food aid programs. Food isn't a bomb, but as a practical matter foreign aid is fungible and non-profits on the ground in areas controlled by terrorists tend to either use local contractors associated with the terrorist leadership or make payoffs to them.
Why Muslim Soldiers Kill Their Christian Comrades
It doesn’t do to have lowly infidels fighting alongside the practitioners of jihad.
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Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Muslim soldiers are killing their Christian comrades in arms—apparently because the latter, as “infidels,” are already the enemy. Most recently, in Nigeria, a Muslim colonel stole weapons from an armory and then blamed the 12 soldiers on duty for the theft. Six of those 12 soldiers—all Christians—were then executed. According to a lawyer acquainted with the case:
The [Nigerian] government of today detests Christianity... This administration is running on ethnic agenda against the Igbo [Christian] population.... This has never been a practice in the Army. Things got changed the moment this present administration [of Muhammadu Buhari] came to power. Things are happening before that didn't happen. It's not only about these six soldiers.... Even in the security forces, Christians are being targeted.
The Feb. 4 report elaborates:
Many Nigerians now believe the Army fights for Islam, not Nigeria... In the country's predominately Christian south, people call it 'Boko Haram's Army.' Muslims hold all the most important leadership positions. The Army's lack of action to protect Christians comes directly from its leaders in government... When troops go into areas controlled by radical Islamists to defend Nigerian Christians, the government orders them to retreat. Then, Islamist rebels shoot them in the back.
The phenomenon of Muslim military men murdering their Christian counterparts—and getting away with it—is hardly limited to Nigeria. In 2018, for instance, Matthew Samir Habib, a 22-year-old Christian in Egypt’s military was killed simply for being Christian. He was the latest of about 10 Christian soldiers in Egypt to be killed in separate incidents over the years by Muslim soldiers on account of their faith.
In virtually all of these cases, a similar pattern follows: despite all the evidence otherwise (such as physical bruises all over the bodies of the slain), military officials insist that—due to some sudden and inexplicable bout of depression—all these Christians supposedly committed “suicide.” Meanwhile the dead Christian soldiers’ families and those closest to them insist their slain sons and brothers were happy and healthy, that they were observant Christians, and that there was evidence that they were being persecuted by their Muslim “brothers-in-arms” for their evident Christianity.
For example, in the aforementioned case of Matthew Habib, the murdered Christian was shot twice—and still authorities maintain it was suicide. (Click here for several more examples of military authorities offering bizarre reasons for the deaths, all rejected by the victims’ Christian families.)
Why these Christians are being killed is not difficult to comprehend. For many Muslims in Egypt, Nigeria, and elsewhere, war is synonymous with jihad—and it doesn’t do much for morale to have lowly infidels, who are themselves the prime targets of jihad, fighting alongside the practitioners of jihad.
These modern day killings shed further light on a more theoretical—or rather theological—point. One of the staples of the Islamic whitewashing industry is the claim that jizya—the extortion money subjugated Jews and Christians were/are required to pay (Koran 9:29)—actually “entitled them to Muslim protection from outside aggression and exempted them from military service,” to quote Georgetown University’s John Esposito.
By this widely held logic, Muslim invaders did not demand that the conquered non-Muslim populations ransom their lives with money—as virtually all Muslim jurists and historians explain it—but rather were kind enough to offer their infidel subjects “protection” and exemption from military service for a small fee.
However, and as the modern day killings of Christian soldiers makes clear, Christians and Jews were “exempt” from military service not because they paid jizya-tribute, but because, as conquered infidels, they themselves were the enemy and had to remain separate and subjugated—as Christian minorities in Muslim nations tend to till this day. (As one example, requests to open or renovate churches are always met with mass violence and upheavals, often enabled if not instigated by local Muslim authorities: as infidels, Christians are not allowed to build or renovate temples of worship that openly challenge the teachings of Muhammad.)
Apologists like Esposito twist the facts around in another important way: while payment of jizya did indeed purchase “protection” (of a sort) for the conquered infidels, that protection was not against an outside hostile force, but against inside hostile forces—that is, Muslims themselves: sharia manuals make clear that failure to pay jizya made the lives of dhimmis forfeit.
Finally, and as if all the above was not enough, that the Koran itself requires conquered non-Muslims “to give the jizya willingly while they are humbled” (9:29)—or else—puts to rest any claim that payment of jizya was a mere business transaction justifying exemption from military duty but rather a ritual show of Islamic dominance over infidels.
From here one may also begin to understand the roots of a related phenomenon: Muslim soldiers killing non-Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military, as a show of loyalty to Islam.
Muslim Federation Tags Islamist Who Calls Jews ‘Demonic’ on Facebook
Media legitimizes the Federation, while the group surrounds itself with extremists, terror and bigotry.
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Joe Kaufman is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Chairman of the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative. He was the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Republican Nominee for U.S. House of Representatives (Florida-CD23).
The South Florida Muslim Federation or SoFlo Muslims is an umbrella organization made up of various Islamic extremist groups found in South Florida. Because of its nature, the individuals the Federation surrounds itself with tend to be just as radical. Last month, the Federation put out a social media post linking to a number of these radicals. One was Abdur Rahman al-Ghani, an individual who has targeted Jews, homosexuals and America with vile bigotry and Islamic supremacist language. The post was about a TV station panel that, regrettably, the Federation was invited to participate in. In truth, no one should have anything to do with this organization.
On February 23rd, the Muslim Federation posted the following, along with a graphic from the event, on its Facebook page: “SFL Muslim Federation Outreach Committee Chair, Maha Elkolalli, represents SoFlo Muslims on WPTV’s Community Diversity Advisory Panel.” Besides Elkolalli, other entities represented on the panel were local officials from the Urban League, the Jewish Federation, United Way, and the Esperanza Community Center, a group that provides assistance to families that are facing eviction from their places of residence. Ironically, at least in the case of the Muslim Federation, the title of the event was ‘Hidden Bias in Good People.’
Maha Elkolalli has devoted her life to seeing that cop killer Jamil al-Amin, a.k.a. H. Rap Brown, is freed from prison, where he is serving a life sentence. In March 2000, al-Amin allegedly opened fire on two officers looking to arrest him for a prior incident, killing one, Deputy Sheriff Ricky Kinchen. Post after post, on Elkolalli’s Facebook page, call for “freedom” for al-Amin. Her Facebook banner shows her holding up a sign next to an image of al-Amin, reading “FREE H RAP BROWN.” Elkolalli, who has also called for the release of cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, has a video on her Facebook madly labeling President Ronald Reagan a “WHITE SUPREMACIST.”
On February 26th, the Muslim Federation posted the same WPTV panel graphic, along with a message that ‘tagged’ different individuals, including Elkolalli. One of them was the former Facebook Manager for the Federation, Abdur Rahman al-Ghani. Al-Ghani, a.k.a. Samuel Pittman, was with the Federation for its first two years, starting in 2017. The Federation removed al-Ghani, after this author exposed al-Ghani’s massive bigotry, he referring to Jews as “demonic,” gays as “stone cold kaffirs outside the fold of Islam,” and America as the “World’s Number One Terrorist Organization.” He, as well, stated that Islam “will over-take the World…”
Also tagged on the Federation post was al-Ghani friend, Azhar Subedar. Subedar, who refers to al-Ghani as “my dear brother,” has spent time at al-Ghani’s home. Subedar has, as well, gone wakeboarding with Federation resident imam Izhar Khan, who was previously charged with financing the Taliban, and has participated in events with Mazen Mokhtar, a former al-Qaeda recruitment website administrator and champion of suicide bombings, and Monzer Taleb, a Hamas singer, who thinks that Israel “should be relocated to Germany.” Subedar, himself, has been a fundraiser for Islamic Relief, a charity that has been banned by a number of nations.
Yet another individual tagged on the Federation post was Nezar Hamze. Hamze was the founding Executive Director of the South Florida Muslim Federation. Today, according to the Federation website, he is a member of the organization’s Outreach Committee and Matrimonial Committee. Prior to his involvement with the Federation, Hamze worked for the Hamas-associated Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as its Florida Chapter Executive Director and Regional Operations Director. While with CAIR, Hamze participated with other terror-related groups, including Islamic Relief and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA).
During the WPTV panel, when asked about solutions for reducing biases against others, the Federation’s Elkolalli stated the following: “Honestly, it’s just going back to the basics of remembering each other’s humanity. There’s this process of dehumanizing groups of people and making them ‘less than,’ and it’s justification of abuses of those groups… [W]hen you see that a group is being abused or there are injustices against groups that are outside your circle, to say ‘Hey, we are here, and we will stand with you, because this is unacceptable.’”
Elkolalli uses as examples of bias-reducing situations: Muslims helping to raise funds to repair the damage of a Jewish cemetery, after the cemetery had been vandalized, and synagogues opening their doors to Muslims to use for prayer, when mosques had been burned down. While these things may appear to WPTV’s audience as righteous deeds, the first example has been challenged as being a publicity stunt and both are ‘red herrings’ – mere distractions – because the organization Elkolalli represents surrounds itself with groups and individuals who perpetuate the same type of dehumanizing bigotry that Elkolalli claims is unacceptable.
Neither WPTV nor any media outlet should allow the South Florida Muslim Federation to have representation on their shows. To do so only legitimizes the organization and makes a mockery of the subject being discussed, in this case, bias against others. Instead, the Muslim Federation should be shunned and exposed for the danger it poses to the community.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
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