To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (19575 ) 10/17/2004 3:19:17 PM From: lorne Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 27181 Ann . You said...." Why should Europe & No America become Muslim influenced, when that community has the entire MidEast as there homeland? ME natives would contribute more to the greater good, if they stayed home and worked to improve their own region, instead of running away from difficulties."..... IMo islam has no intention of staying home in their own countries, their goal is for islam to be in control of the entire world...islam means submit and that to muslims means ALL of us. The expansion of islam was stopped once before with the crusades and islam is again in expansion mode and as we all can see they will do it in whatever manner suits a particular country or situation. IMO Europe is in serious trouble, they are in a position now to either appease or fight back and at this time it appears they will choose appeasement. Yesterday I posted an article showing that muslums in America are uniting to vote for kerry....why. Here is another article about muslums in America, these are the same muslums that are uniting to vote for kerry. IMO kerry and his supporters are not likely to see anything sinister with moslums uniting to vote for him. But if a person pays attention you would notice that muslums from foreign lands are ALWAYS testing western laws ....even drivers licences.... if some are accused of crimes they cry the big discrimination word or the stupid politically correct racial profile defense. I wonder if freedom of religion could some day be the West's downfall. Feds raid Islam 'relief agency' Missouri-based organization tied to terror – including bin Laden October 17, 2004 The Missouri-based Islamic America Relief Agency, raided this week by federal, state and local law enforcement, is being tied to terror groups internationally, including Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. Thirteen police agencies, including Columbia, Mo., police, the U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Joint Terrorism Task Force, joined in the raid. While the IARA maintains it was founded in 1985 to provide health-care services and emergency relief to refugees and orphaned children, the Treasury Department said the group has been tied to some 40 terror organizations worldwide, including al-Qaida and the Taliban. SPONSORED LINKS Distance Learning Directory - Online Degrees Bachelor, Master and Post-Grad degrees online from accredited colleges and universities. Business, Education, IT, Healthcare, more. Browse by degree or program. Request info and get started today. www.classesusa.com Trade Shares and Currencies Commission-Free GCI offers commission-free online trading in shares, indices and major currencies. Register today for a free demo account - including charts, quotes and internet trading software. www.gcitrading.com FBI agents removed computers, file cabinets, a fax machine and several boxes of files and documents. They also seized cars, but no arrests were made. Agents said the raid was part of a long-running, ongoing investigation of the agency. Last week, the Justice Department blocked "all accounts, funds and assets" of the IARA and its affiliates in the United States. U.S. law enforcement officials say overseas branches of the group provided "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to Bin Laden in 1999. The Treasury Department also maintains the group was responsible for laundering money for the Palestinian territories to support terrorist activities. Sources say the group has been used by terror-supporting states, including Sudan, to spread radical Islam. The search extended to two homes, one in Columbia and the other in Connecticut, according to law enforcement officials. The charity found itself under scrutiny in 2001 when federal prosecutors, during a trial in New York, alleged that Ziyad Khalil, a former Columbia College student with connections to the agency, bought a $7,500 satellite telephone later used by bin Laden to organize the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Newsweek reported in February 2000 that Khalil had been detained in Jordan and provided FBI agents with critical information about bin Laden’s U.S. operations. worldnetdaily.com