al Jazeera America plans bureaus in 12 U.S. cities

The silent invasion of jihad-supporting Islamists is coming to your state. Aided and abetted by elected officials. via The first 12 Al Jazeera America bureaus – POLITICO.com.

Al Jazeera executives have been touring the country and rolling out announcements of new bureaus ahead of Al Jazeera America’s launch later this year. First it was a bureau in Chicago, today it is a bureau in Detroit. These will join Al Jazeera’s U.S. headquarters in New York and previously announced bureaus in Washington, Miami and Los Angeles, among others.

The network is planning 12 bureaus in all, with plans to add more after the launch. The network has yet to disclose the full list of bureaus — “We don’t comment on rumors. No leases have been signed anywhere,” Stan Collender, an Al Jazeera spokesperson told POLITICO — but a source at the network was kind enough to share it with POLITICO, on background.

The full list (from East to West):

New York

Washington

Miami

Nashville

Chicago

New Orleans

Detroit

Dallas

Denver

Los Angeles

San Francisco

Seattle

Related: Al Jazeera Likely Violating Multiple U.S. Laws

Kincaid and Kenney have documented Al Jazeera’s anti-American propaganda and its many terrorist connections. A few highlights:

• The Emir of Qatar, who owns Aljazeera, recently donated 400 million dollars to Hamas, a State Department designated terrorist group.
• Film footage of captured terrorists in Iraq shows they came to kill Americans because of Al Jazeera.
• NBC News reporter Lisa Myers said: “Why do they go [to fight in Iraq]? Saudis captured in Iraq say it’s because of pictures on Arab television network Al-Jazeera.
• CNN reports that a document found in bin Laden’s compound after his death referred to a meeting with the Al-Jazeera bureau chief in Pakistan.
• The new film, “Zero Dark Thirty,” mentions that the courier who eventually led the CIA to bin Laden was located in Pakistan near an Al Jazeera office in order to get the terrorist leader’s videotapes to the channel for worldwide distribution.
• 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed… was protected by the government of Qatar, which funds Al Jazeera.
• Father of journalist Daniel Pearl, the journalist beheaded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, says, “Al Jazeera is the main propaganda machine of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
• French media openly report that Qatar is supporting the Mali terrorists
• An Al Jazeera story, “Mali: The ‘gentle’ face of al-Qaeda,” reported that the terrorists “are playing the role of humanitarians” by providing food to local people.
• Al Jazeera supports the radical Muslim and far-left campaign to free “Lady al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui, currently serving a life sentence for attempted murder and wife of 9/11 planner Ammar al-Baluchi,.
• In the U.S., the movement to free Siddiqui includes Ramsey Clark, the Workers World Party (WWP) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
• Al Jazeera reporter Tayseer Allouni, was convicted as an agent of al Qaeda.

Are we going to stand for this without a *#+*&@!ing fight? More:

Please call the House Homeland Security Committee and ask that the new chairman, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), open hearings into Al-Jazeera. Call their office at 202-226-8417 and ask Chairman McCaul to investigate Al-Jazeera’s ties to terrorist groups.

http://mccaul.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=133

Colorado: Saudi Muslim’s got university prayer room, now want kuffars out

Mini-mosques for foreign Saudi Muslim students on college campuses across the U.S. via Muslim students seek changes to prayer room – The Scribe – University of Colorado. h/t halal

In order to meet the religious needs and obligations of students, a room in the Kramer Library was converted into an ad hoc prayer space in Spring 2012.

Foreign, Muslim, Saudi students that is.

According to a sign posted outside multipurpose Room 318, located east of the rear staircase on the third floor the library, the space has been converted into “a room for study, meditation, reflection, and prayer.” It is available on a first-come, first-serve basis, and each student is limited to 30 minutes.

Efforts to allocate a prayer space for Muslim students to conduct their five mandatory daily prayers were started by student Zaina Abukhdeir.

Abukhdeir, a mathematics and secondary education major, is the chair of the UCCS branch of the Muslim Student Alliance.

Whoever wrote this article didn’t do their due diligence, is intentionally deceiving readers or was lied to. One look at the UCCS website of religious groups and we find that Zaina Abukhdeir is the contact for the Muslim Student Association or MSA. That’s a Muslim Brotherhood-founded, Saudi-funded group that has hosted the Taliban, have alumni on the FBI Most Wanted List and attempted to assassinate George Bush – to name a few highlights.

She began requesting a room specifically designated for prayer in 2012. Abukhdeir enlisted the help of Anthony Cordova, director of the MOSAIC Office and CU Opportunity Program, as well as members of the Saudi Club.

According to documentation presented by Abukhdeir – including the original proposal for the room and a copy of the petition submitted to university administration – Teri Switzer, dean of the Kramer Family Library, approved Room 318 be used for prayer.

Despite the designation of a room for multi-faith worship, several groups on campus, including the MSA and the Saudi Club, want a change in the accommodations.

As they open their prayers, they want to defeat the kuffar. Out. Just like the kuffar-free Muslim-only prayer room at the Denver airport.

Answering as the spokesperson for the Saudi Club, Abdullah Almurayh, a Saudi exchange student attending UCCS for a Ph.D. in computer science, explained several concerns regarding the room.

According to the club’s mission statement, its primary function is to “work as a tool to help new students communicate with fellow students, so everyone can share their academic, social, and life experiences and all other resources.”

Additionally, Almurayh indicated the organization exists to provide support for transfer students from Saudi Arabia.

Almurayh’s concerns about the room center around creating conflict with students that use the room in a non-religious, studying capacity.

His chief objection was that asking students present to leave so that he could pray would violate their right to use the room.

Another point of contention for Muslim students, according to Almurayh, is the presence of a large table in the center of the room, which does not allow for adequate space in the event that multiple students wish to pray. The room measures 10 feet by 11 feet.

Almurayh said, “The decision makers may not understand what people need to pray.”

He thinks that it would not be appropriate toward other students to simply pray in open spaces around campus. He also expressed personal safety concerns for praying publicly.

Sounds like these supremacists would fare better at Al-Azhar University.

Almurayh believes the lack of a prayer space that meets all the necessary criteria for Muslim students can be a major consideration for Saudi nationals who are considering attending UCCS.

Why do we need Saudi students?

Saudi students, through the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission (SACM), pay significant tuition fees, both on the state and national level, to attend.

Again the writer provides no details. How much in fees on both levels? Why do they pay more? Do they think because they pay more (yet skate through visa requirements that most other foreigners don’t get) they are entitled to mosques on campuses? Inquiring minds want to know.

Carol Pacheco, a library technician who works at the circulation desk, indicated the library staff has not had any issues with groups trying to use the room at the same time or with study groups yielding the room to students with religious considerations.

Pacheco did indicate the door for the room had been taken off previously due to students misusing the room. Neither Almurayh nor Abukhdeir indicated the lack of the door was a major issue.

Abukhdeir stated that the missing door was an important factor in choosing the room, as it results in a more open atmosphere.

Abukhdeir cited the same issues with the room that Almurayh had mentioned. He suggested specific rooms be designated for specific prayer times to provide a confirmed place to pray while at the same time avoid conflicts with other students attempting to use the same room.

She gave few specifications to the nature of the rooms, only that they be reserved daily and that “the best places would be in the library or in the University Center because they are [more] central.”

Cordova indicated that he would be willing to work with student groups to allocate a room in future UCCS building projects, which would be used entirely for prayer.

Taxpayer funded Islamic prayer rooms in future building projects? Saudi-funded perhaps?

Both the Saudi Club and the MSA are registered under UCCS’ list of cultural clubs and not as religious organizations.

Really? The Abukhdeir’s MSA is listed on this UCCS religious clubs page – http://www.uccs.edu/cao/clubs-and-organizations-2013/religious.html.

Other universities in Colorado, including the University of Denver, also have designated spaces for prayer.

 Update: A reader asked to define kuffar. See what Muslims say to that question, ANSWERED: definition of kuffar.

Related: Muslim arrested in plot to blow up NY-Canada train complained there was no prayer room!

Colorado theater killer converted to Islam to justify murder spree

via Dark Knight killer James Holmes ‘is now a Muslim who prays five times a day’ | Mail Online. h/t GroundZeroMosque

James Holmes, the gunman behind the Dark Knight massacre in Colorado last July, has reportedly turned Muslim and prays five times a day.

The killer showed off a lengthy, thick beard during a court appearance earlier this month, and a prison source has claimed it is a symbol of his new-found faith.

The source said Holmes has turned to Islam as a way of justifying his horrific murder spree in an Aurora, Colorado cinema on July 20 which left 12 people dead and 58 people wounded.

‘He has brainwashed himself into believing he was on his own personal jihad and that his victims were infidels,’ a prison source told the National Enquirer.

He now prays five times a day, sticks to a strict Muslim diet and spends hours each day studying the Qur’an, the source said. But his new routine has upset Muslim inmates.

‘None of them condone forms of terrorism or extremism,’ the source added. ‘And they don’t want their religion to be connected to that awful shooting.’

But they do condone jihad against infidels.

Colorado: Feds may allow Saudi convicted of enslaving, sexually assaulting housekeeper to leave U.S.

via Saudi man convicted of sex assault in ’06 may be allowed to leave U.S. – The Denver Post. h/t Jihad Watch

A Saudi linguist convicted of sexually assaulting a housekeeper and keeping her a virtual slave for four years in Colorado has cleared initial administrative hurdles to be transferred to Saudi Arabia under a U.S. treaty, angering prosecutors who put him in prison.

Homaidan al-Turki’s application to serve the remainder of his sentence in Saudi Arabia cleared reviews by prison officials and is awaiting final approval by Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements, department spokeswoman Katherine Sanguinetti said Friday. The foreign-national offender-transfer application would then undergo a federal review, and if approved, al-Turki would be sent to Saudi Arabia.

Al-Turki was convicted in 2006 of unlawful sexual contact by use of force, theft and extortion — all felonies — as well as misdemeanor counts of false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment. He was sentenced to 28 years to life in prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office dropped similar federal charges.

A judge in 2011 reduced al-Turki’s minimum sentence by 20 years, based on a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that now makes al-Turki eligible for parole. Sex offenders in Colorado, however, typically must participate in rehabilitation programs while incarcerated before being considered for release.

18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler, who took office last month, opposes the transfer, saying there are no assurances that al-Turki will serve the remainder of his sentence once he’s out of the United States.

“It is completely unacceptable that a sex offender of any nationality be released before completing his sentence,” Brauchler said in a statement. “Mr. al-Turki has never accepted responsibility for his crimes nor undergone any rehabilitation as a sex offender. I am hopeful that the Department of Corrections will put the interests of justice and the protection of women above the interests of the Saudi government.”

Prosecutors said the Indonesian housekeeper, who was in her early 20s, has since returned to her home country.

Federal prosecutors had no immediate comment.

Holder essentially pardoning another terrorist as the war on women under Obama continues.

According to court documents, al-Turki first came under investigation when authorities examined whether his operation of a business violated terms of his student visa. Al-Turki owned Al-Basheer Publications & Translations, which distributed Islamic works in English and holds the copyright to recordings by U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen.

Begs the question what will happen to the Saudi who raped a young boy in Vegas last month?

 Previously:

• Colorado: Saudi Muslim who enslaved housekeeper for 4 years has sentence reduced

• SCOTUS declines case of Saudi Muslim who enslaved maid in Colorado

Obama judge: First Amendment for Muslim convict, not for Christian business owner

via Hobby Lobby Losing First Amendment Battle Once Won by a Muslim Prisoner | Independent Sentinel.

On December 21st, a federal appeals court stuck down Hobby Lobby’s request for an exemption from providing the morning-after and week-after pill in their health insurance plan as mandated by Obamacare (ACA).

A Court of Appeals in Denver, CO ruled against the arts-and-crafts store chain’s belief that the Christian fundamentalist beliefs of its owners should exempt them from that provision.

Beginning January 1, the Green Family, who own the chain, face $1.3 million a day in fines if they do not violate their core religious beliefs and provide the abortifacients.

Hobby Lobby immediately asked the SCOTUS for an emergency injunction. A Supreme Court injunction would have prevented the company from being forced into implementing the mandate temporarily while it appeals the most recent decision to a lower court.

Justice Sotomayor handles issues arising from the 10th circuit and received the case.

Justice Sotomayor denied the request, ruling that the store owner does not meet the extremely high standards required for a preliminary injunction. She said it is not clear that they need the injunction though the court doesn’t have much experience with similar religious-based claims [Politico]

Justice Sotomayor, however, did have a similar First Amendment experience prior to becoming a Supreme Court Justice in which she showed unusual deference to Muslim inmates when she found in favor of the Ramadan Ruling of 2003 [Laura Ingraham]

In that case, she found that a MUSLIM PRISONER, who was denied Ramadan meals, must be provided with the meals on a feast day even though it was not a religious requirement.

Sotomayor ruled that the inmate’s First Amendment rights were violated because the feast was subjectively important to the inmate’s practice of Islam. [Ford v. McGinnis]

Lawyers will say the cases are entirely different but they are entirely not.

Fundamental Christians apparently cannot rely on the First Amendment protections but Muslims can.

Hobby Lobby will appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. Hobby Lobby is a faith-based business, represented by the Beckett Fund. A SCOTUS decision in favor of Hobby Lobby is looking bleak.

The government is at war with some religions.

Kyle Duncan, who is representing Hobby Lobby on behalf of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said in a statement posted on the group’s website Thursday that Hobby Lobby doesn’t intend to offer its employees insurance that would cover the drug while its lawsuit is pending. “The company will continue to provide health insurance to all qualified employees,” Duncan said. “To remain true to their faith, it is not their intention, as a company, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs.”

Contact them here.

Colorado: Muslims fool Jewish, Christian leaders in “love neighbor” campaign

via Colorado Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders launch love campaign – The Denver Post.

Colorado Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders stood together in Denver’s main mosque Monday and launched a “Love Thy Neighbor” campaign — starting with ads on RTD buses.

They said the ad they unveiled — at a time on the calendar devoted to love and understanding — is meant to respond to recent national tragedies and to replace anti-Muslim ads placed on buses last month.

“Our country is in the midst of a lot of divisions,” Temple Emanuel Senior Rabbi Joe Black said. “Hatred is only going to further violence and the breakdown of society.”

“Love Thy Neighbor” ads, purchased for $5,000, are expected to appear on 10 buses by the end of this week and stay on each bus for a month.

The “Love Thy Neighbor” message conveys “a shared concept in the three religions,” Colorado Muslim Society Imam Karim Abuzaid said. “In Islam, we are commanded to love our neighbor, or at least act in love.”

The Muslim part of the ad, not shown by the Denver Post – likely for the obvious reason that the chosen verse has nothing to do with the concept of loving thy neighbor. In fact, it doesn’t even mention neighbor:

Muslims in Colorado love their neighbors so much that they refuse to share worship space with them in the Denver airport as we reported here, Muslim prayer room at Denver Airport separate from Christians and Jews. Muslim love.

More to the point, the Koran explicitly states Muslims should not take Christians and Jews for friends:

O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends… ~ Koran 5:052

More h/t Iron Burka

And for inquiring minds, the http://www.unitingcolorado.com website consists of one page. Anyone know who they are? Here’s the same ad on their site.

Notice it doesn’t list any of the partners they are supposed to be loving. Here’s the image the Denver Post ran:

The Prophet said, “War is deceit.”

Sharia compliant meals now served at Colorado State Univ…for 26 Muslims

via Colorado State dining halls now serve Halal meat | Rocky Mountain Collegian.

Jasir Mayat was excited to move to Colorado from Pakistan a few months ago to attend CSU as a freshman in the College of Business.

When Mayat, a student in the INTO program for international students, read a statement on the CSU INTO website that said a dietitian would be there to work with students who follow a halal diet, he interpreted this to mean halal meat was served at dining halls on campus.

However, Mayat arrived at CSU and found that halal meat was not yet offered, despite other halal options such as vegetarian and seafood dishes. He sprung into action and approached CSU Housing and Dining Services about introducing halal meat to CSU dining halls.

Halal meat will now be served at the Parmelee dining hall starting Monday.

“We knew this was coming, given the INTO program,” said Peter Testory, senior executive chef for CSU Housing and Dining Services. “Jasir was the first student (to approach us), but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t already on our program.”

Mayat explained that Halal is an Arabic word meaning “permitted” or “lawful.” Halal meat is the only meat Muslims are allowed to eat, based on their Islam religion. It refers to beef and chicken mainly, as pork is forbidden in Islam. Seafood is considered Halal, with some restrictions.

Having four wives is halal in Islam. So is beating those wives and marrying them when they are under age. Six years old if a good Muslim follows Mohammed’s example. Sex at nine years old. But that wouldn’t fit into Emily Smith’s story.

According to Mayat, an animal used for Halal meat must be killed by a Muslim, who is required to say an Arabic phrase that means “in the name of Allah” while slaughtering the animal.

The animal must be killed by severing the jugular vein so it becomes numb and doesn’t feel much pain.

“Because we go for the jugular vein it’s considered one of the most humane ways of slaughtering an animal,” Mayat said. “In Islam we have a very high regard for animals and we don’t like inflicting pain on them.”

Ironic. Slicing the throat so as not to inflict pain. Emily Smith and her Muslim interlocutor fail to mention the most important of Islamic slaughter – praising Allah while cutting the animals throat.

For the meat to be Halal it also must be free from contamination from alcohol or pork when being cooked and all the blood must be drained completely from the animal before it is consumed.

“After I came here and found out there was no such thing (as Halal meat in dining halls) I was pretty worried about it,” Mayat said. “Especially considering there’s a lot of Muslims on campus, from all over the world.”

According to fall 2012 data from the Institutional Research Factbook, out of 1,133 total international students at CSU, there are 39 students from Kuwait, 165 from Saudi Arabia and 6 from Pakistan, all of which are primarily Islamic countries.

“I wanted to introduce Halal meat so other incoming Muslim students and Muslim students already here on campus would have easier access to food,” Mayat said. “I wanted to do something good for my community, for the Muslim community in general.”

To get Halal meat introduced on campus, Mayat was hired by CSU Housing and Dining Services to survey about 100 Muslim students to find out if there was enough demand.

“This student approached us and we reacted immediately by hiring him to work for us and help us find the need for it,” Testory said.

Getting paid to implement sharia on a state university in the U.S. It doesn’t get any better for Muslim immigrants.

Mayat’s surveys found that 26 Muslim students on campus practice a halal diet. Many of the students responded that they eat haram (unlawful) meat currently because of the lack of protein options and that they would eat halal meat if it was available.

Housing and Dining Services felt this was adequate demand. Halal meat will be substituted into the regular Parmelee menu on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunch and dinner, according to Testory. These days were chosen because they are the weekdays when there are no Halal seafood items already available on the menu.

Halal meals to be offered upon request in Parmelee include barbeque grilled chicken breast, cheeseburgers, buffalo wings, chipotle chicken sandwiches, sweet chili Asian chicken wings and more. The same outside vendors that provide dining hall meat also provide halal meat.

The Corbett dining hall also features halal options which currently do not include beef or chicken. Some of these options are mozzarella cheese sticks, red beans and rice, baked cod with lemon, grilled Portobello mushrooms and more.

“We’re pleased that this particular INTO CSU student was among those who made their dietary requirements known,” said Avery Waxman, senior director of marketing communications and recruitment strategy at INTO, in an email to the Collegian.

“And that CSU Dining Services has been able to respond in a way that not only meets their needs but also gives other students and staff even more options from which to choose,” Waxman said.

Testory said CSU Housing and Dining Services currently offer other religious food options. For Jewish students they provide apples and honey during Rosh Hashanah and matzah during Passover.

Fish is offered on Fridays during Lent for Catholic students. For the Islamic holiday Ramadan, during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, CSU Housing and Dining Services allows students a takeout container, two meal swipes at breakfast instead of one and late night meal swipes.

For more information on Halal dining options students can contact CSU Housing and Dining Services at 970-491-6511.

 No cost details provided. No mention of MSU either.

Added via GoV:  Conquering the World Via the Halal Movement

As the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Mustafa Ceric) stated in 2010 to the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry: “We shall conquer the world via the Halal movement”.

Muslim prayer room at Denver Airport separate from Christians and Jews

One line buried in an article on an airport prayer room exemplifies what “interfaith” really means to Muslims and how others are readily fooled. via Church and State Battle at Denver Airport – ABC News.

The airport chapel was paid for by DIA Interfaith Chapel Inc., which is composed of Christians, Jews and Muslims. One room is for Muslims and the other for Christians and Jews. The organization leases the space.

The chapel is often used by religious groups passing through or going on pilgrimages, and occasionally for a wedding or memorial service of an airline or airport employee, Kaye said.

It means Muslims get their own room and everyone else can share another room. Koranic interfaith quote below:

O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends… ~ Koran 5:052

5 Iraqi immigrants arrested in Colorado gang-rape

via 5 Iraqis arrested in connection with Springs sexual assault | police, assault, five – Colorado Springs Gazette, CO.

Colorado Springs police arrested five Iraqi men Tuesday in connection with what they called a “rare” and “horrific” sexual assault on a woman early July 22. The arrests included one man who was a central character in an Army’s sergeant’s memoir of an Iraq deployment.

Sarmad Fadhi Mohammed and Jasim Mohammed Hasin Ramadon were taken into custody on suspicion of sexual assault. Mustafa Sataar Al Feraji, Ali Mohammed Hasan Al Juboori and Yasir Jabbar Jasim were arrested on suspicion of accessory to sexual assault. All are in their 20s.

Lt. Howard Black, who heads the Police Department’s special victim’s unit, said the severity of the attack made it rare in the city, adding that the woman’s injuries could have been life-threatening.

“We don’t see these types of assaults typically in Colorado Springs,” he said.

Ramadon was featured in “A Soldier’s Promise,” a combat memoir by Army First Sgt. Daniel Hendrex published in 2009 . Hendrex met the 14-year-old Ramadon while deployed to Husaybah, a town in Al Anbar Province in Iraq , according to book reviews on http://www.amazon.com. According to reviews, Ramadon encountered Hendrex’s soldiers in December 2003, and pleaded with them to arrest him in exchange for key information about local insurgents. The book chronicles Ramadon’s relationship with Hendrex’s unit, of which he became an intricate part, ultimately earning the nickname Steve-O, the review reads. Later, in exchange for his services, Hendrex helped Ramadon immigrate to the United States.

Of the five men arrested, Ramadon has the most extensive court record, including one open and one closed motor vehicle case and two protection orders related to domestic abuse, court records show . Sarmad Mohammed is the only other man with a previous Colorado criminal record, having been convicted of careless driving and driving while ability impaired in May 2011, according to court records.

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The sexual assault investigation began on July 22, when police were called to the Wildridge at Cheyenne Mountain Ranch apartments on Woodside Lane to investigate the assault. After finding blood spattered in an apartment, the officer went to Memorial Hospital to see the victim.

According to police, the victim, a woman who works nights, said she went to check her mail outside the apartment building about 1:30 a.m. and noticed two groups of men about to fight. She tried to intervene and calm the men down.

Afterward, one of the men invited her to his apartment where there were three other men about 20 years old, police said.

The woman told police she talked with the group and drank “what she believed to be lemonade.” She said she didn’t remember anything after that.

Doctors at Memorial examined the woman and found internal injuries that were concluded to have come from blunt force trauma, police said.

Detectives obtained search and arrest warrants and conducted several interviews before arresting the men. One of the men was arrested soon after the attack and the other four were arrested Monday night, Black said.

Carmen Hamilton, manager of the apartment complex, said Mohammed, Al Feraji and Al Juboori were tenants at Wildridge while the other two were apparently visiting. She said she was shocked when she heard of the incident.

“We do our due diligence when somebody moves in,” Hamilton said, noting that management does a complete check of all tenants’ criminal records. “It’s an A-to-F scale. And these guys were Bs.”

Colorado court records showed that none of the three tenants had prior felony convictions in the state.

The apartment manager stressed that residents tell her that they feel safe living in the southwest Colorado Springs complex. Hamilton said it was “an isolated incident” and called it “bothersome on all levels.”

Police said all five men had established “lawful permanent resident” status within the past five years but could face deportation if convicted of the crimes.

 COLORADO SPRINGS –

Colorado Springs Police think a group of men lied to cover up a vicious crime, delaying justice for a Colorado Springs woman.  The woman says she was drugged and sexually attacked.  The arrest affidavits were released Wednesday afternoon.

Jasim Ramadon is the man investigators believe physically assaulted and abused the 53-year-old woman on Saturday, July 21st at the Wildridge apartments in the 2500 block of Gold Rush Drive.  Sarmad Mohammed allegedly exposed himself to her.

The other three, Ali Al Juboori, Yasir Jasim and Mustafa Sataar are accused of covering up the crimes involving their friends.   It slowed down the investigation for nearly a month until their August 13th arrests.

The victim says it started that Saturday night after she broke up a fight between two groups of men outside her apartment complex. She had just come home after practicing for a singing competition.  The woman then remembers going into an apartment with four men in their 20s. They complained to her about being called terrorists.  She was given a cup of what she was believed was lemonade and doesn’t remember what happened next.  After the alleged attack, Jasim Ramadon left with the woman.  He came back to the apartment without her allegedly saying, “Man she’s going to die and there was blood everywhere.”  The woman called Springs Police the next day.

Officers say there was blood soaked clothes and shoes inside her apartment.  The men are Iraqi Nationals and face being deported if convicted.

Islam And The Need For Western Vigilance

 Full text of Geert Wilders speech in Denver a few weeks ago. via Islam And The Need For Western Vigilance | The Brussels Journal.

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Thank you, dear friends, ladies and gentlemen, for inviting me to the Western Conservative Summit. It is always a pleasure to come to America. I was here a few weeks ago to meet with my dear friend, congresswoman Michele Bachmann, to talk about Islam and the threat to America and Europe.

It is also a pleasure to be in Denver, the gateway to the West. This is America’s conservative heartland where the spirit of the pioneers still lives.

I know that I come at a sad moment. Many of you have been affected by the enormous wildfires raging not far from here. Thousands have been evacuated and some of them are even staying in this hotel. Few things are as terrible as losing your homes. I want to express my deepest sympathy with all the people affected by this disaster. And I want to offer my condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the fires.

I am impressed by the solidarity and the help which the people of Denver extend to the victims. You live in a great and generous city. Denver is also privileged to be the home of Colorado Christian University and the Centennial Institute with its motto “Faith, family and freedom”. Your motto shows that you have your priorities right. Faith, family and freedom are the pillars of our Judeo-Christian civilization and need to be defended.

I feel honored to have been invited to address you today about the situation in Europe and in particular in my own country, the Netherlands. This situation serves as a warning to what might happen in America if you fail to be vigilant. As U.S. President Andrew Jackson said: “Remember, my fellow citizens, that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.”

But first, let me start by introducing myself. I am one of the 150 members of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands, a small country of almost 17 million people in Western Europe. I am the leader of the Party for Freedom. My party is the third largest of eleven parties represented in the Dutch parliament.

Perhaps many of you think that life for this politician in the Netherlands resembles the life of the members of your own Congress. Unfortunately, that is not the case. For the past eight years I have been living under 24 hour police protection. Wherever I go, plainclothes policemen go with me. I live in a government safe house, heavily protected and bulletproof.

I am driven every day from the safe house to the Dutch parliament in armored police cars with flashing blue lights.

I have not walked the streets on my own in the past eight years. When I occasionally go to a restaurant or a movie theater, the police will have to check everything first. My wife and I have lived in army barracks and prisons cells just to be safe from assassins.

Why do I need this protection? I am not a president or a king; I am a mere parliamentarian.

I have, however, been marked for death for criticizing Islam. I was placed under police protection in early November 2004 when an Islamic fanatic murdered th Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh because he had criticized Islam. Van Gogh was slaughtered in broad daylight in the streets of Amsterdam. A few hours later, the police found a letter written by the assassin threatening to kill me as well.

What have I done, you might ask, to deserve those death threats? I have candidly expressed my views about Islam.

My views, in a nutshell, are that Islam, rather than a religion, is predominantly a totalitarian ideology striving for world dominance. I believe that Islam and freedom are incompatible.

Some people do not want to hear this message. That is why they threaten to murder everyone who states this truth.

Geert Wilders on Islamization Threat at Western Conservative Summit in Denver (video)

The Iconoclast via Wilders and Gaffney Speak on Islamization Threat at Western Conservative Summit in Denver > New English Review.

Last weekend, the Hon. Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) in the Dutch parliament spoke at the Western Conservative Summit (WCS) in Denver. He was foremost among a galaxy of conservative stars who spoke at the WCS.  More than 1000 attended the event, the third such forum sponsored by the Centennial Institute of Colorado Christian University (CCU) headed by former Colorado Senate President John Andrews.

Wilders, author of Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me and Frank Gaffney, Jr., President of the Washington, DC –based Center for Security Policy addressed the Islamization threat here in America. At least one Colorado legislator suggested that perhaps it was time for the state to consider a ban on construction of mosques. This has become a controversial issue, given recent rulings in a Tennessee court that may forestall the opening of the expanded project of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.

Watch this C-SPAN video of both Gaffney and Wilders addressing the WCS.

Not much on the event and the messages of both Wilders and Gaffney filtered through to the mainstream press, engaged as it is in self-censorship of criticism of Islamic doctrine. It was left to the limited circulation The Colorado Statesman and Iran’s Press TV  to report this weekend on the forum and what transpired there.

Andrews of CCU set the stage for Wilders’ talk in his introductory remarks:

Saturday afternoon’s topic, Andrews said, would be “the existential threat to the United States of America posed by Islam.”

Pausing for a moment to let his words sink in, he continued. “I didn’t say ‘radical Islam,’ I didn’t say ‘extremism.’ After you hear from Frank Gaffney and our friend from across the Atlantic, Geert Wilders, you’ll know why I just say ‘the threat of Islam.’”

Wilders in his remarks at the Denver forum conveyed the central concerns in his book and speeches to audiences on both the continent and here in America:

For his part, Wilders emphasized what he described as a distinction between followers of Islam and the religion itself.

“I do not have a problem with Muslims,” Wilders said during his address. “There are many moderate Muslims. I always make a distinction between the people and the ideology. There are indeed many moderate Muslims. But believe me, there is no such thing as a moderate Islam — there is only one Islam, and that is a dangerous, totalitarian ideology that is intolerant, that is violent, that should not be tolerated by us but that should be contained.”

Wilders warned against opening the door to Sharia law — based on traditional Islamic principles — in Western courtrooms but added that it was already too late to keep Islam and its influences out of the country entirely.

“Your country is facing a stealth jihad, an Islamic attempt to introduce Sharia law bit by bit by bit,” he said.
In order to keep the United States from succumbing, Wilders said, politicians have to ignore what he promised would be derision from the liberal media and other quarters and firmly deliver strong medicine. First, he said, Americans have to stop putting up with “multiculturalism,” even as free-speech proponents cry foul. In addition, he said American courtrooms must bar Sharia law and “stop the immigration from Islamic countries.”

Most critically, he said, “We should forbid the construction of new mosques. There is enough Islam in the West already.”

Read it all and watch the video (we’ll post shortly).

More video here.