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To: haqihana who wrote (8286)	11/5/2003 6:57:01 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

Al-Qa'ida Website Issues Ramadan Warning of Imminent Attacks: Calls on Muslims in DC, NY, and LA to Leave Those Cities November 4, 2003 No.12 memri.org A communiqué issued by the previously unknown "Islamic Bayan Movement" warns Muslims that they should leave Washington DC, New York, and Los Angeles. The warning initially appeared on the website of Global Islamic Media, at groups.yahoo.com. The same website has, in recent months, published many communiqués by Jihad groups around the world, as well as Islamic ideological material. The communiqué has since appeared on the Al-Qa'ida affiliated website Al-Faroq. [1] The communiqué was signed on the fifth of Ramadan, but was published on November 3, 2003, under the title "A Warning to the Muslims in America." It opened with a Koranic verse: "All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorifies Allah. He is the Mighty, the Wise. It is He who turned out the disbelievers from among the People of the Book from their homes at the time of the first banishment. You did not think that they would go forth and they thought that their fortresses would protect them against Allah. But Allah came upon them whence they did not expect and cast terror into their hearts, so that they destroyed their homes with their own hands and the hands of the believers. So take warning, O ye who posses understanding." The following are excerpts from the communiqué: "The sufferings of your Muslim brothers and of the Mujahideen around the world is no secret to you, our brothers. [They suffer] oppression, tyranny, imprisonment, murder, and banishment by the masters of oppressions and lies in the world, the American rulers, who think [of] themselves as good-doers. Allah is the witness that they write the end of America by their own hands… "Afghanistan and Iraq are not far away. Their sons there [i.e. U.S. soldiers] are frustrated and defeated and they ask 'why are we here?' Yes, they are the only ones who know the bitter truth. How would they not when they see every day dozens of casualties from among their friends, the soldiers who die and nobody, even not their stupid rulers, is sorry for them. Then they hear the lies and distortion their rulers [tell] their people and the peoples of the world regarding the number of their dead and heavy losses… "Our Muslim brothers in America, we ask you to immediately leave the following cities: Washington, DC, New York, and Los Angeles. We are serious in our warning. The next few days will prove to you the truth of this warning. To the oppressive rulers of America we say: expect our terms following the first strike of Allah's believing soldiers" The communiqué ends with another Koranic verse: "Fight them: Allah will punish them at your hands, and will humiliate them, and will help you to overcome them, and will relieve the minds of the believers."[Koran, Chapter 9, Verse 14] [Signed] The Islamic Bayan Movement 5th of Ramadan, 1424 The Al-Qa'ida affiliated website also posted a photograph of a Chinook helicopter along with the following caption: "We shall bring down and destroy the values of the Hubal [2] of this generation"

To: haqihana who wrote (8286)	11/6/2003 7:44:59 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8683

More news from the front lines of the culture war November 5, 2003 When liberals debate me about my book, "Persecution," they invariably argue that the premise is flawed. Christians, being in the majority in America, can't possibly be the subjects of discrimination here. Oh? It is a clever ploy to argue that a majority can't possibly be discriminated against. It dispenses with the need to deal with the evidence and come up with some rationale for the hundreds and hundreds of cases I chronicle. But what about the idea that a majority, by definition, can't experience discrimination? Isn't that what reverse discrimination is all about? Would the critics truly argue that majorities don't have a deliberate disadvantage in affirmative-action cases, such as in the Michigan Law School admissions case? Besides, if we are such a nation of Christians, can you explain to me how it is that millions of babies are killed in the womb each year in this country with the protection of the state? Even if Christians constitute a nominal majority in America, can it really be credibly argued that Christian morality is in the ascendance in our culture? Put aside for a moment the abortion issue and the case pending before the Supreme Court concerning "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. And let's not dwell right now on the ABC News special "Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci," which reportedly gives credence to the harebrained and scholarly-bankrupt blasphemy – spawned by a popular novel, "The Da Vinci Code" – that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene. And let's not even consider the Supreme Court's recent reaffirmation of moral relativism as our society's guiding light. Rather, let's focus on a recent ruling by a Denver County Circuit Judge in a child custody case. WorldNetDaily.com reports that Judge John W. Coughlin awarded joint custody to adoptive mother Cheryl Clark's former lesbian lover, Elsey McLeod, even though she had no legal relationship to the child. But that's the least troublesome aspect of the ruling. When Clark became a Christian and renounced her homosexual behavior, she reportedly broke off the relationship with McLeod. Judge Coughlin, in the joint custody order, directed Clark "to "make sure that there is nothing in the religious upbringing or teaching that the minor child is exposed to that can be considered homophobic." In other words, Clark is forbidden from deterring her child from homosexual behavior or to speak disapprovingly of the homosexual lifestyle. Presumably she would be in violation if she gave the child a Bible or allowed her to attend a Sunday school class or any other meeting in which homosexuality was unfavorably discussed. This is reminiscent of a bill the California legislature passed last year – AB 2651 (also discussed in my book) – in which foster children could have reported their foster parents for a civil-rights violation if they refused to allow them to dress like a member of the opposite sex. This bill, among other things, would also have established a toll-free telephone number for social workers to provide to foster children to encourage them to report "physical, sexual or emotional abuse," including incidents concerning their "sexual orientation or gender identity." Admittedly, Gov. Gray Davis vetoed the bill, presumably because he was in a tough re-election campaign. But in 2003, a different version of the bill was introduced. The proponents of these measures are not to be denied. These cases reveal the tolerance agenda for the fraud that it is. There is nothing about the California legislation that is tolerant toward Christian foster parents. Indeed, it is demonstrably intolerant toward them. Nor is there anything about Judge Coughlin's order forbidding "homophobic" teaching that is remotely tolerant toward Clark. To the secular elite, tolerance isn't treating other people with civility and decency. It is the compulsory abandonment of certain values that the elite finds unacceptable. It requires you to violate your conscience. Your First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech mean nothing if you run afoul of the dogma. As attorney Mathew D. Staver, of Liberty Counsel noted, courts cannot "give parents a no-win decision of either abandoning their Christian beliefs or abandoning their children. ... It takes no stretch of the imagination to envision a judge finding the mother in contempt of court for merely teaching her daughter the biblical truths on homosexuality." I shudder at the prospect that so many unsuspecting people are buying into the lie that we are not engaged in a culture war, that the forces seeking to undermine Judeo-Christian values are aided by such naivete and that our entire library of liberties ultimately hangs in the balance. worldnetdaily.com