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Written by Michael Mandaville
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The New York Times has made a very bizarre comparison between the Tea Party Movement and the Weather Underground. They seek to compare the anger of the Weather Underground - which was a Left-wing terrorist group - with the Tea Party Movement. The NYT doesn't, apparently, have any reporters or editors that either know, read or can research History.
Check out the photos and commentary on American Power.
Wikipedia says this about the Weather Underground:
Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization (abbreviated WUO), was an American radical left organization. It originated in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)[2] composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government and the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat.[3]
Weather Underground was a communist, left-wing organization which "the group conducted a campaign of bombings through the mid-1970s, including aiding the jailbreak and escape of Timothy Leary. The "Days of Rage," their first public demonstration on October 8, 1969, was a riot in Chicago timed to coincide with the trial of the Chicago Seven. In 1970 the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government..."
A prominent member of the Weather Underground was Bill Ayers, an Obama adviser and unrepentant bomber.
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Written by Michael Mandaville
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Professor Peter Mandaville (no relation) speaks about the nature of Radical Islam.
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Written by Michael Mandaville
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A brave Saudi housewife has reached the final of the Arabic version of the X Factor after lashing out at hardline Muslim clerics on live TV.
Wearing a black burkha, mother-of-four Hissa Hilal delivered a blistering poem against Muslim preachers 'who sit in the position of power' but are 'frightening' people with their fatwas, or religious edicts, and 'preying like a wolf' on those seeking peace.
Her poem got loud cheers from the audience last week and won her a place in the competition's final on April 7.
It also brought her death threats, posted on several Islamic militant websites.
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Written by Michael Mandaville
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A typical day for the mostly Pashtun "fidai" - suicide bombers, who call other jihadis "common mujahids" - begins before dawn in camps numbering no more than 35 "students."
The black-turbaned recruits - typically 12 or 13 years old, with some as young as 7 - recite Koran verses until morning prayers.
They eat together, and then "driver's ed" takes on a sinister new meaning, according to writer S.H. Tajik, a United Nations law enforcement official, in the latest "CTC Sentinel."
Tajik drew his information from Pakistani government interrogations of nabbed jihadis.
"After breakfast, most trainees receive driver's education and practice vehicle maneuvers ... in preparation for vehicle-borne suicide attacks," he explained.
At one school, "six station wagons were available for this," Tajik wrote, citing detainees grilled by officials in Islamabad. The kids clean camp until lunch, take a nap, then take more "outdoor driving lessons after having tea with cookies."
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Written by Michael Mandaville
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Newsbusters explains the difference between Dozens and Hundreds versus Thousands to CNN.
CNN Lowballs Nevada Tea Party Event: 'Hundreds of People, at Least Dozens of People'; Politico Reports 20,000
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Written by Michael Mandaville
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SUICIDE BOMBERS STRIKE MOSCOW'S SUBWAY
•Two Female Suicide Bombers
•Metro Line Lubyanka Station Under the FSB Intelligence service HQ - 25 dead.
•Metro Station Park Kultury - 14 dead
•Suspected terrorists from the Caucasus area which incluces separatists in Chechnya, Ingeshetia, Ossetia, etc., North Caucasus At a Glance
•Photos of the Subway Bombings (Warning: Graphic)
•Profile of Chechen leader Umarov
•The security services said the bomb that went off at Lubyanka station had an equivalent force of up to 4kg of TNT, while the bomb at Park Kultury was equivalent to 1.5-2kg of TNT.
•Moscow's Metro is one of the most-used underground railways in the world, carrying about 5.5 million passengers a day.
PREVIOUS MOSCOW BOMBINGS:
    
March 2010: Two suicide bombers blow themselves up at Lubyanka station and Park Kultury station, killing 35 people
August 2004: Suicide bomber blows herself up outside Rizhskaya station, killing 10
February 2004: Suicide bombing on Zamoskvoretskaya line, linking main airports, kills 40
August 2000: Bomb in pedestrian tunnel leading to Tverskaya station kills 13
February 2000: Blast injures 20 inside Belorusskaya station
January 1998: Three injured by blast at Tretyakovskaya station
June 1996: Bomb on the Serpukhovskaya line kills four
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Written by Michael Mandaville
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LOS ANGELES – Sunday, internationally acclaimed actor Andy Garcia will join hundreds across the country in a symbolic march in solidarity with victims of repression in Cuba. In Los Angeles, the march will take place in Echo Park at 2:00pm following the culmination of a 12-hour fast in honor of the late Orlando Tamayo Zapata. Tamayo was an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience who died earlier this month after an 85-day hunger strike protesting the deplorable conditions in Cuban prisons.
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Written by Michael Mandaville
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Written by Michael Mandaville
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A Courageous man, Zakaria Botros, is changing the course of Middle East politics, history and religion -by examining the Bible and the Koran at the same time.
The result? Mass conversions to Christianity — if clandestine ones. The very public conversion of high-profile Italian journalist Magdi Allam — who was baptized by Pope Benedict in Rome on Saturday — is only the tip of the iceberg. Indeed, Islamic cleric Ahmad al-Qatani stated on al-Jazeera TV a while back that some six million Muslims convert to Christianity annually, many of them persuaded by Botros’s public ministry. More recently, al-Jazeera noted Life TV’s “unprecedented evangelical raid” on the Muslim world. Several factors account for the Botros phenomenon.
How is he doing this?
1. First, the new media — particularly satellite TV and the Internet (the main conduits for Life TV) — have made it possible for questions about Islam to be made public without fear of reprisal.
2. Secondly, Botros’s broadcasts are in Arabic — the language of some 200 million people, most of them Muslim.
3. third reason for Botros’s success is that his polemical technique has proven irrefutable. Each of his episodes has a theme — from the pressing to the esoteric — often expressed as a question (e.g., “Is jihad an obligation for all Muslims?”; “Are women inferior to men in Islam?”; “Did Mohammed say that adulterous female monkeys should be stoned?” |
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Written by Michael Mandaville
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- With so many terrorism cases emerging in the U.S. in the past nine months, experts are trying to understand why so much is happening now. One explanation has less to do with religion than with adventure. The latest wave of jihadists traveling to Pakistan and elsewhere for training may have been motivated by a sense of jihadi cool. The recent Jihad Jane case may be the latest example of this trend.
- Recruitment More MTV Than Mosque That's a far cry from what is seen as the traditional route to jihad. It used to be that jihadi recruitment videos opened with the call to prayer and readings from the Quran. These days, many of them are decidedly less religious. They look more like something that would appear on MTV.
- 'A New Generation Of Lazy Muslims' Intelligence officials say there is a wave of young people who are attracted to the adventure of jihad but would like to skip all the rigors of Islam, such as reading the Quran and fasting. "I think what we are seeing is sort of what I like to term a new generation of lazy Muslims," says Arsalan Iftikhar, a human rights lawyer and the former national legal director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "These are people who might not be theologically devout or even have a sound religious foundation, but they are using this new jihadi cool to justify criminal acts of terrorism," Iftikhar says.
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