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Is Obama The Precursor to The Mahdi, According to Shia Tradition?

2013-06-19T04:58:00.000+01:00

Here's something I missed, from Amir Taheri in Forbes Magazine, October, 2008:

Is Barack Obama the “promised warrior” coming to help the Hidden Imam of Shiite Muslims conquer the world?

The question has made the rounds in Iran since last month, when a pro-government Web site published a Hadith (or tradition) from a Shiite text of the 17th century. The tradition comes from Bahar al-Anvar (meaning Oceans of Light) by Mullah Majlisi, a magnum opus in 132 volumes and the basis of modern Shiite Islam.

According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet’s cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a “tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West.” Commanding “the strongest army on earth,” the new ruler in the West will carry “a clear sign” from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: “Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us.”

In a curious coincidence Obama’s first and second names–Barack Hussein–mean “the blessing of Hussein” in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means “he is with us,” the magic formula in Majlisi’s tradition.

2013-06-19T01:00:00.000+01:00

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band

Church

This Old Porch

Cowboy Man

Video: Muhammad The False Prophet

2013-06-18T23:04:00.000+01:00

This Is America Today!

2013-06-18T22:20:00.001+01:00

(with a hat tip to Jammie Wearing Fools)

Pfffft.

2013-06-18T21:25:00.004+01:00

Immigrant Song

Gallows Pole

Going to California

Kashmir

Rock and Roll

2013-06-18T13:34:00.003+01:00

Obama's BFF Erdogan calls Christian Byzantium "a dark chapter" in history

From Will at THE OTHER NEWS:

Obama's BFF Erdogan calls Christian Byzantium "a dark chapter" in history.HT:TundraTabloids.HT: RaymondIbrahim.

The prime minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the time of Christian emperors in Byzantium "a dark chapter" in history. In Erdogan's view, in the fifteenth century, after invasion of Constantinople by Muslims, began "the time of enlightenment," reports Kath.net.

The speech of the conservative Turkish prime minister was made during the laying of the foundation of the new road bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul that took place on May 29--the anniversary of Ottoman invasion of the Byzantine empire 1453.

“We are continuing to write the history today," said Erdogan during the ceremony.

The Turkish authorities have celebrated the anniversary of the victory over Byzantium by a series of festivities.

President Obama would likely be the last to disagree with Erdogan’s declaration (they are great friends and allies, you know), but hardly any of the Western leaders seem to exhibit even the slightest curiosity about the Byzantine Roman Empire, let alone any historical awareness of this vibrant Christian empire which endured for over a thousand years. Nor do they seem inclined to look at Islam in terms of its historical continuity being extended into our own day.

If they did, they might be surprised to learn of the steady march of Christian martyrs under the Ottoman Muslim domination, including numerous Orthodox Christian patriarchs. They might also be surprised to learn how in every territory where Islam has conquered, the result has been consistently the same: institutionalized persecution and subjugation of non-Muslims.

What Erdogan proudly refers to as “the time of enlightenment” was actually a very dark chapter for millions of Christians, persecuted and downtrodden as second-class citizens through the dhimma system. (It was also not-so-enlightened for the Muslims themselves, with the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century earning from its contemporaries the apt title of “Sick Old Man of Europe.”)

In point of historical fact, Byzantium was the “enlightened” state, innovating (to take but a few examples) hospital-based medical care, philanthropic care for the poor, and a Church-inspired and led ethos of charity and social activism. The beloved Orthodox Christian Saint Basil the Great was an instrumental figure in this movement, as was the “golden-tongued” Archbishop John Chrysostom of Constantinople. Both (among many others) incarnated the Christian ideal of care for the sick and the poor, and spread that ideal to the wider Byzantine society.

All this was destroyed and swept away with the Turkish Muslim victory over Byzantium.

In direct contrast, the Turkish Muslims instituted a brutal religious apartheid, imposing tyranny over the conquered Christians, under which all the classic forms of the seventh century Pact of Omar and the Dhimma contract were manifest: Christians had to wear drab, distinctive clothing, give way to Muslims on the street, could not build new churches nor repair existing ones. Crosses were broken off of the remaining churches which were not destroyed or turned into mosques. Their whole way of life was a perpetual state of humiliating decay and enforced subservience. The precept of “collective punishment” meant that if even one Christian disobeyed the terms of the dhimma contract, all would be held responsible, leading to frequent pogroms by the Muslims against the Greeks, often just on the basis of rumors (as seen today in Egypt and other Islamic countries).

Islamic law undergirds Islamic culture, and is thus directly responsible for what is commonly called the Armenian Genocide, which was not merely a single event in 1915 in which 1.5 million Armenian Christians were killed by Turkish Muslims, but which spanned from the anti-Christian pogroms of 1894 to the destruction of the ancient Christian city of Smyrna in 1922, and reverberated up through the anti-Christian riots in Istanbul of 1955.
During this whole period, an estimated 3.5 million Orthodox Christian Greeks, Armenians and Syrians were killed, or died of starvation and sickness during forced marches.

The Christian population of Istanbul was nearly exterminated during the twentieth century, from over 100,000 in 1920 to approximately only 2,000 today.

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, many of whose predecessors were put to death under Ottoman rule, bravely suffers and struggles on, in spite of the deplorable persecution which surrounds him on every side.

To this day, the Turkish government refuses to accept responsibility for its historically documented genocide against the Christians. And, as seen in Erdogan’s chest-thumping remarks, the Turkish Muslims remain obstinately proud of their brutal history, from the centuries of war against Constantinople until its fall in 1453, its centuries of cruel domination of native Christian populations, and its continuation of this supremacist mindset into the present day.

Erdogan and Turkey celebrate the Fall of Constantinople, and the West congratulates them. “We are continuing to write history today,” says Erdogan, and write it — or re-write it — they do, under the somnambulant gaze of craven Western leaders too ignorant, or too fearful, to challenge Islam’s claim to moral superiority, historical righteousness and eventual world domination.

By their policies, posture and pronouncements, Western European nations, and the United States, are conceding the future to a rapidly re-Islamicizing Turkey, and are aiding in Islam’s stated goal of a new, global caliphate determined to conquer us, just as it conquered Constantinople 560 years ago.

Every Turkish celebration of 29 May 1453 is a gauntlet flung down in challenge to the West. Each such event which goes unanswered and unchallenged by the West is another nail in the coffin of Christian culture, human rights, and free people everywhere. There are thus many reasons to repudiate Erdogan’s historical revisionism. But the main reason is simple: it simply isn’t true.

The Telegraph Newspaper of London Correctly Identifies the United Anti-Fascists As a Hate Group

2013-06-18T05:05:00.002+01:00

From Vlad Tepes:

TheTelegraph gets it partially right, which is a part more than usual, when they expose the UAF as a violent thuggish and fascist group. They can’t back up their classic “far right wing” claims about their opponents as usual however.

Anti-fascists fuel the fire of hate

The self-appointed opponents of bigotry can be as ugly as the racist groups they oppose.

In 2010 UAF’s then national officer, Martin Smith, was given a 12-month community order after being convicted of assaulting a police officer on a demonstration. He remained in his post, insisting his conviction was an “outrageous attack on the right to protest against fascists”.

A senior UAF official has recently been accused of rape and sexual assault by two women from the Socialist Workers’ Party, in which he was also an official. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has given up both posts but continues to take part in UAF protests and activities, including as recently as last week.

Prominent campaigners such as the gay rights activist Peter Tatchell accuse UAF of a selective approach to bigotry. “UAF commendably opposes the BNP and EDL but it is silent about Islamist fascists who promote anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism and sectarian attacks on non-extremist Muslims,” said Mr Tatchell. “It is time the UAF campaigned against the Islamist far Right as well as against the EDL and BNP far Right.”

One reason why UAF will not campaign against Islamist extremists is that one of its own vice-chairmen, Azad Ali, is one. As well as his UAF role, which he took up last year, Mr Ali is community affairs coordinator of the Islamic Forum of Europe, a Muslim supremacist group dedicated to changing “the very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed from ignorance to Islam”

Mr Ali has written on his blog of his “love” for Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda cleric closely linked to many terrorist plots, including the September 11 attacks, and used to attend talks by Abu Qatada, the extremist cleric whom Britain is seeking to deport.

He has described al-Qaeda as a “myth” and denied that the Mumbai attacks were terrorism. On his blog, he also advocated the killing of British troops in Iraq. He sued a newspaper for reporting that he had said this, and lost.

Filmed by an undercover reporter for The Sunday Telegraph and Channel 4’s Dispatches, he said: “Democracy, if it means at the expense of not implementing the sharia, of course no one agrees with that.” Mr Bennett defended Mr Ali, saying: “He’s done valuable work for us. I’ve heard him speak on many occasions and he’s never said any of the things he’s been accused of.”

One of the alleged killers of Drummer Rigby, Michael Adebolajo, also spoke on the margins of a UAF rally in Harrow in 2009. Video footage shows him addressing a crowd at the event. Mr Bennett said that he was not on the platform, nor was he an official speaker.

Del Ray Beach, Florida: Word "Jihad" Spray-Painted On Wall, Fight Ensues, CBS Catches It On Video

2013-06-18T04:54:00.000+01:00

From CBS 12 News:
Delray Beach, Fla –It was hard to miss on Saturday, laced in bold black lettering, nearly twenty feet high a piece of graffiti work reads “jihad”.

In Arabic that term is used to describe a holy war.

Thousands of drivers saw the large message clearly when traveling northbound on I-95 in Delray Beach near the Atlantic exit. That spray painted word jihad created a fight that only CBS 12 caught on tape.

With our microphone flipped on and our camera rolling our news crew was quickly caught in the middle of this war of words. CBS 12’s Karl Man was interviewing Damon Rosen about the jihad spray painted message, something that disgusted him, that’s when an unidentified man left his car and just like that it was on.

Things quickly escalated, the unknown man who did not oppose the jihad message shifted his shouting to a crowd of bystanders.

“You’re all brainwashed!”

The group of on-lookers hurling profanity back at the man.

“You’re going to lose your job bit--!”

Rosen then jumping in with his own choice language...

“Take that shi-- back to the Muslim land”, screamed Rosen.

Things then getting very heated as the unknown man left his family in the car to get face to face.
The finger pointing and yelling all caught on tape.

The man who did not see the big deal about the jihad message made one last statement to those nearby before he sped off.

“Just for the record there are no fu--ing terrorists”, he screamed.

Rosen came back to where we were before to finish the interview; he laid out why the spray paint sign irked him so much and why he stopped to get a closer look.

He said that it had nothing to do with race, rather the ideology behind the jihad meaning saying it is something that has caused terror in our country time and time again. Promoting the meaning in such a public way like this message along I-95 according to Rosen is the last thing we should be doing with our time.

Police found spray paint cans on the scene and are still looking into who wrote this large graffiti message.
They couldn't tell us if they thought this was some kids pulling a prank or a legit threat of terrorism. FDOT was on scene this evening painting over the jihad sign, they say it will be gone by Saturday night.

CBS News Reporter Sharyl Attkisson: I Think I Know Who Hacked Into My Computers

2013-06-18T02:44:00.002+01:00

The last time this lady said, "I think I know", was when she said she thought she knew her computer had been hacked.

A couple weeks later, it is revealed, she was right; SHE HAD BEEN HACKED.

Now she is telling us she thinks she knows who hacked her.

Someone's in big fucking trouble.

Remember, with Nixon, it wasn't the crime. It was the coverup.

“I think I know. But I’m just not prepared to go into that. We’re continuing our investigations. There are multifaceted looks at what to do next… Let me just say, whoever did it, to come into a private citizen’s home, whether I’m a journalist or not, and look in my family’s computer and look into my work computer… Well, it’s outrageous.”

2013-06-18T01:00:00.000+01:00

John Prine

w/ Vince Gill and Marty Stuart

Paradise

w/ Nanci Griffith

The Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness

DOCUMENTS SHOW FBI SCRUBBED MATERIAL DEEMED "OFFENSIVE" TO MUSLIMS

2013-06-18T00:44:00.001+01:00

Artwork from CAIR's Website

CAIR and the ISNA were the primary critics of the FBI's training on Islamic Terrorism previous to the purge.

From Avi Green:

Tom Fitton at Big Peace wrote about the FBI's dhimmitude in the past few years:

Judicial Watch recently released hundreds of pages of FBI memos and other documents revealing that, in 2012, the agency purged its anti-terrorism training curricula of material determined by an undisclosed group of “Subject Matter Experts” (SME) to be “offensive” to Muslims. The excised material included references linking the Muslim Brotherhood to terrorism, tying al Qaeda to the 1993 World Trade Center and Khobar Towers bombings, and suggesting that “young male immigrants of Middle Eastern appearance … may fit the terrorist profile best.”

These discoveries all stem from our investigation of a February 8, 2012, meeting between FBI Director Robert Mueller and various Islamic organizations. During the meeting, Mueller reportedly assured the Islamic groups in attendance that the agency had ordered the removal of presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices around the country that were deemed “offensive.”

Fitton says that as the jihad in Boston shows, the country is less safe if Muslim sensibilities are going to be put ahead of public safety.

CBS News Reporter Sharyl Atkisson: My Computer Woke Itself Up in the Middle of the Night for Unknown Reasons; The Only Thing I Was Working on Was... Benghazi and Fast & Furious

2013-06-18T00:35:00.001+01:00

From Ace:

“Whoever was in my work computer, the only thing I was working on were work-related things with CBS were big stories I guess during the time period in questions were I guess Benghazi and ‘Fast and Furious.’ The intruders did have access to personal information including passwords to my financial accounts and so on, but didn’t tamper with those, so they weren’t interested in stealing my identity or doing things to my finances. So people can decide on their own what they might have been trying to do in there.”

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO OVER AT ACE OF SPADES.

2013-06-18T00:00:00.002+01:00

Charlie Musselwhite

She May Be your Woman

41st Wedding Anniversary

2013-06-17T18:49:00.001+01:00

Mr. AOW and I are going out to one of our favorite restaurants.

No big splurge on this day, the actual date of our anniversary, because in August we'll be going on a week's vacation at a classy resort — our first vacation since 2007. Best end-of-year teacher present ever!

It’s good to know the govt knows who the real terrorists are

2013-06-17T15:54:00.001+01:00

NRO:

The IRS vs. Pro-Israel Groups
Their applications for tax-exempt status are routed to an antiterrorism unit.

Applications of pro-Israel groups for tax-exempt status are routinely routed to an antiterrorism unit within the Internal Revenue Service for additional screening, according to the testimony of a Cincinnati-based IRS agent.

Asked whether Jewish or pro-Israel applications are treated differently from other applications, Gary Muthert told House Oversight Committee investigators that they are considered “specialty cases” and that “probably” all are sent to an IRS unit that examines groups for potential terrorist ties.

Muthert, who served as an application screener before transferring to the agency’s antiterrorism unit, was interviewed in connection with the committee’s investigation into the IRS’s discrimination against conservative groups. As a screener, Muthert flagged tea-party applications and passed them along to specialists for further scrutiny.

Is our govt actually acting to preserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

They SAY they are to justify vacuuming every electronic content we create, but when information is not in keeping with their ideas….

BTW if anyone believes the NSA is not collecting phone call content you are moronic. Can you think of a better way to scan for voice-print data for ‘anti-terrorist’ purposes?

Besides, what if one day they need to search that content, you know, just in case.

Just in case you want to run for office and they don’t want you to. Just in case you want to campaign actively for someone they don’t approve of.

Neither R or D is exempt.

POWER CORRUPTS.

IPSO FACTO

Immigration Reform: Who Will Secure The Border?

2013-06-17T11:08:00.004+01:00

(hat tip to Randy's Roundtable):

Pertinent quotation from the video:

...“The question of border security is now tangled up with the IRS and the Justice Department and the general, pervasive distrust of the executive branch,” he explained. “Because what the bill says is, ‘The executive branch will certify if the border is secure.’ I don’t believe that the Republicans in Congress are going to take that.”

“They’re going to vote for a bill — or against a bill — whether or not it has ‘Congress shall certify,’ not the executive branch, because no one trusts the executive branch anymore.”

What is the Obama administration's record on filling positions to oversee programs?

In my view, immigration reform is a MUST. But how will any program of immigration reform be managed by an administration that is negligent about managing ANYTHING other than putting America on the road to serfdom?

River Man

2013-06-17T03:55:00.000+01:00

Nick Drake

Fotheringay

2013-06-17T02:52:00.000+01:00

The sublime voice of Sandy Denny singing with Fairport Convention.

Diamonds and Rust

2013-06-17T02:48:00.001+01:00

Joan Baez

Senior Washington IRS Official & Obama Donor Admits to Targeting Tea Party Groups

2013-06-17T02:33:00.003+01:00

From FOX News:

An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action.

Holly Paz, who until recently was a top deputy in the division that handles applications for tax-exempt status, told congressional investigators she reviewed 20 to 30 applications. Her assertion contradicts initial claims by the agency that a small group of agents working in an office in Cincinnati were solely responsible for mishandling the applications.

Paz, however, provided no evidence that senior IRS officials ordered agents to target conservative groups or that anyone in the Obama administration outside the IRS was involved.

Instead, Paz described an agency in which IRS supervisors in Washington worked closely with agents in the field but didn’t fully understand what those agents were doing. Paz said agents in Cincinnati openly talked about handling “tea party” cases, but she thought the term was merely shorthand for all applications from groups that were politically active — conservative and liberal.

Paz said dozens of tea party applications sat untouched for more than a year while field agents waited for guidance from Washington on how to handle them.

At the time, she said, Washington officials thought the agents in Cincinnati were processing the cases.

Paz was among the first IRS employees to be interviewed as part of a joint investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee.

Holly Paz is also a Obama Donor.

2013-06-17T01:00:00.000+01:00

Emmylou Harris

Pancho and Lefty

Till I Gain Control Again

Red Dirt Girl

AIDING AL QAEDA FOR ANY REASON IS CRIMINAL

2013-06-16T23:05:00.001+01:00

There are morphs and there are morphs. This one was obviously inspired by Obama’s decision to aid Al Nusra (and therefore Al Qaeda) against Hizballah and Assad, and Nasrallah, and Khameinei, AND PUTIN (the super bowl ring thief)

While few things would make my day more than the aforementioned slimy snakes lose at anything from checkers on up, helping Al Qaeda is not just stupid, not just irresponsible, not just ridiculous, but given what we know NOW,

AIDING AL QAEDA FOR ANY REASON IS CRIMINAL

Sorry Mr. McCain, but you and those who agree with you and the president are useful idiots on this one

Pakistan: Muslims Bomb Female University Students on Bus, Then Seize Hospital Where Survivors Were Taken, Murdering Twelve

2013-06-16T19:22:00.003+01:00

A woman's rightful place in Islam

From Jihad Watch:

QUETTA, Pakistan -- Militants in western Pakistan bombed a bus carrying women university students on Saturday and then seized part of the hospital where survivors of the attack were taken, killing at least 12 people, officials said.

At least 19 were injured.

The gunmen in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province long plagued by sectarian violence, were holed up in the emergency ward of a hospital, engulfed in a firefight pitting militants against the security forces.

Television footage showed security forces surrounding the Bolan Medical Complex and a helicopter hovering overhead.

The attack in resource-rich Baluchistan was Pakistan's most lethal since the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took office last week.

The initial blast gutted the bus, killing 11 students, and another explosion went off soon after at the hospital, the city's largest. Television footage showed people fleeing the building in panic.

A senior local government official was killed in the hospital attack, the state television network reported.

Earlier, city police chief Mir Zubair Mehmood told Reuters that the students on the bus were from various ethnic groups, including the Hazara minority that has been the target of a series of bombings this year.

Saturday's attack was the biggest since bombings in the city at the start of the year killed almost 200 people, briefly drawing global attention to a growing campaign of victimization of the Hazaras by sectarian militants.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack, or whether it was aimed at the Hazaras.

The 500,000-strong community in Quetta has been subjected to an escalating campaign of shootings and bombings by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ), a militant group dedicated to attacking Pakistan's Shiite Muslim minority, which includes the Hazaras....

Let Allah Sort It Out

2013-06-16T18:58:00.000+01:00

“Militarily, where is our commander in chief? We’re talking now more new interventions. I say, until we know what we’re doing, until we have a commander in chief who knows what he’s doing, well, chief, in these radical Islamic countries who aren’t even respecting basic human rights, where both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line, ‘Allah Akbar,’ I say until we have someone who knows what they’re doing, I say, let Allah sort it out.”

h/t The Blaze

Anonymous Releases Video Targeting Sharia for Belgium

2013-06-16T17:32:00.001+01:00

From the Vlad Tepes Blog:

This is interesting. The vigilante hacker group called, ‘Anonymous’ has made a video threatening one of Anjem Choudary’s affiliates, Shariah for Belgium. It will be interesting to see what they actually do, what the various Muslim brotherhood affiliates will to in response and whether youtube will remove all the Anonymous videos as a breach of the terms of service on threatening or intimidating behaviour.

Vlad also notes he does not support Anonymous.

Nor do we here at IBA.