Muslim who killed 14 Americans at Fort Hood paid $278,000 awaiting trial

via Accused Fort Hood Shooter Paid $278,000 While Awaiting Trial | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth.

The Department of Defense confirms to NBC 5 Investigates that accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan has now been paid more than $278,000 since the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting that left 13 dead and 32 injured. The Army said under the Military Code of Justice, Hasan’s salary cannot be suspended unless he is proven guilty.

If Hasan had been a civilian defense department employee, NBC 5 Investigates has learned, the Army could have suspended his pay after just seven days.

Personnel rules for most civilian government workers allow for “indefinite suspensions” in cases “when the agency has reasonable cause to believe that the employee has committed a crime for which a sentence of imprisonment may be imposed.”

Meanwhile, more than three years later soldiers wounded in the mass shooting are fighting to receive the same pay and medical benefits given to those wounded in combat.

Retired Army Spc. Logan Burnett, a reservist who, in 2009, was soon to be deployed to Iraq, was shot three times when a gunman opened fire inside the Army Deployment Center.

As that fight continues, Burnett was stunned to see a letter detailing the more $278,000 Hasan has been paid since his arrest. NBC 5 Investigates received the letter from the Department of Defense in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

“There have been times when my wife and I cannot afford groceries. We cannot afford gas in our car,” Burnett said. “Literally, times where we ate Ramen noodles for weeks on end. This [that Hasan is still earning a paycheck] makes me sick to my stomach,” said Burnett.

Burnett isn’t alone in his outrage.

“We’re giving the defendant in this case every benefit of the doubt. But yet we’re not giving the benefits to the victims,” said Rep. Thomas Rooney (R) Florida

Rooney, a former prosecutor at Fort Hood, recently signed a bi-partisan letter urging defense secretary Chuck Hagel to “…reclassify the victims’ deaths and injuries as ‘combat related’…”

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“What happened here is not a case of workplace violence. What happened here was an attack on our military by a terrorist element specifically targeting our military, which just so happened to be in the United States of America,” said Rooney.

Reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation showed Hasan was communicating with a member of Al Qaida prior to the shooting. Additionally, the government’s National Counterterrorism Center lists the shooting at Fort Hood as a “high fatality terrorist attack.”

Rooney said he’s also willing to consider whether Congress should change the rules, so the Army could suspend the pay of soldiers arrested for crimes against fellow soldiers.

NBC 5 Investigates wanted to ask Pentagon officials about Hasan’s pay and the decision to classify the shooting as workplace violence, but the Army turned down requests for an interview. However, the Army’s Chief of Media Relations told NBC 5 Investigates: “The Department of Defense is committed to the integrity of the ongoing court martial proceedings of Major Nidal Hasan and for that reason will not further characterize, at this time, the incident that occurred at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009.”

Burnett, who recently retired from the Army and moved to Arkansas to live with family and save some money, has joined dozens of other Fort Hood victims in a lawsuit against the Army demanding the benefits they believe they’ve been unfairly denied.

“I refuse to continue letting Nidal Hasan win. And I leave the “Major” part out, because even though, unfortunately, he’s still being paid better than I am, he doesn’t deserve that rank,” said Burnett.

A lawyer who once represented Hasan previously claimed his client couldn’t find a bank that would deposit his Army paychecks, but a spokesman at Fort Hood told NBC 5 Investigates that that issue has since been resolved; meaning Hasan or his family can access the money.

The Army could get some money back from Hasan by demanding re-payment for the cost of treating the wounds he sustained when a police officer shot him during the incident. However, military officials would not tell NBC 5 Investigates if they plan to do that.

The Dallas Morning News reported on the pay issue back in 2010, Fort Hood jihadist still gets Army paycheck but has nowhere to put it.

It was also reported that Soldier Ordered to Delete Fort Hood Video Evidence.

And pandering to Islam is deadly serious, Senate report: Army, FBI should have prevented Fort Hood jihad. Of course they didn’t use the word jihad.

Outright betrayal. Video: Obama, Military Break Promises to Soldiers in Fort Hood Attack

Texas: Pro-sharia, anti-American curriculum dropped after complaints from lawmakers

via Texas curriculum dropped after complaints from lawmakers – Houston Chronicle.

The state’s regional Education Service Centers no will longer issue lesson plans – and will forbid their use after Aug. 31 – for a popular online curriculum system that became a lightning rod for conservatives who criticized it as anti-American, legislators announced Monday.

The move is expected to leave school districts across the state, including some in the greater Houston area, scrambling to replace CSCOPE, as the program is called, before the start of next school year. Districts that lack the staff or budget to design their own curriculum tend to rely on it.

The CSCOPE plans are in use at 877 districts, or 78 percent of school districts in Texas, said Kyle Wargo, the executive director of Regional Service Center 17 in Lubbock.

All 20 board members signed a letter to Patrick and Sen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, outlining their intent and asking them to help pass House Bill 1675, which would keep the regional Educational Service Centers open until 2019.

Why not close them completely?

Patrick said he saw no reason to object to the request. In the future, he said he would like to see school districts partner on curriculum development. He and other lawmakers said they got complaints from parents about CSCOPE, including a lesson on the Boston Tea Party that invited students to include the perspective of Britons who might have considered it an “act of terrorism,” and other allegations that CSCOPE promotes Islam over Christianity.

 Related:

• Texas: CSCOPE tests students on Islamic sharia
• CSCOPE teaches America to blame for terrorism; food & medicine in Bill of Rights
• Students made to wear burqas … in Texas
• Obama interested in ‘Allah-is-God’ school curriculum
• Texas teaching ‘Allah is the Almighty God’ & how to convert to Islam
• Why did Texas school district remove Rick Perry’s Islamic curriculum?

Video: Obama, Military Break Promises to Soldiers in Fort Hood Attack

FortHoodHeroes first video, He Said Allahu Akbar, Obama Called it Workplace Violence

The victims of the jihad attack at Fort Hood:

1. Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, Havre de Grace, Md.
2. Maj. Libardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, Va.
3. Cpt. John P. Gaffaney, 54, San Diego, Calif.
4. Cpt. Russell Seager, 41, Racine, Wis.
5. Staff Sgt. Justin Decrow, 32, Plymouth, Ind.
6. Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, Kiel, Wis.
7. Spc. Jason Hunt, 22, Tillman, Okla.
8. Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, Mountain City, Tenn.
9. PFC Aaron Nemelka, 19, West Jordan, Utah
10. PFC Michael Pearson, 22, Bolingbrook, Ill.
11. PFC Kham Xiong, 23, St. Paul, Minn.
12. Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, Chicago, Ill. and
13. Pvt. Francheska Velez’s unborn baby
14. Michael G. Cahill, Cameron, Texas [civilian]

*If anyone has a list of the injured we’ll post that too.

Dallas: Man breaches airport security, yells “jihad” multiple times

via Man breaches Dallas Love Field security, yells “Jihad” – Dallas News | myFOXdfw.com.

A man was arrested Sunday night for breaching security at Dallas Love Field and yelling “Jihad” when he was arrested.

Around 6 p.m. on Sunday, 36-year-old Ruben Jimenez of Garland gained access to an area reserved for planes and fuel at Love Field.

The breach occurred on the general aviation side of the airport, away from the public terminals. Dallas police say no passenger aircraft were threatened.

Jimenez drove to one of the buildings and approached a gate. The gate operator lifted the gate to see what Jimenez needed – but he drove past the employee and onto the taxiway.

Jimenez was found inside one of the hangars, sitting against a wall.

Dallas police say he ignored officer demands to stand, instead sitting with his arms outstretched and staring into space.

When police insisted he stand, he reportedly pushed them away and took an aggressive stance with officers, yelling “Jihad.”

The FBI and US Air Marshal Service were notified of the breach.

Jimenez was arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge and is being held on a $250,000 bail.

Based on this report he sounds potentially unstable shall we say. Why do so many crazy people turn to Islam and know about jihad?

Of course, if he were a Saudi, he’d get a visit from Michelle Obama. Oh wait, if he were a Saudi, Fox News would have removed this story.

Texas luncheon on Sharia Law and the Islamization of America

Meetings like this should be taking place in every city. Unfortunately the meetings are usually between Muslim Brotherhood linked Muslims and U.S politicians. via Salado GOP women plan Islam lecture – The Killeen Daily Herald: Briefs.

Sharia Law and the Islamization of America will be presented at the Salado Area Republican Women’s luncheon meeting at 11:30 a.m. April 25. The guest speaker is Janet Levy.

For food and seating, reservations are due April 22.

Union State Bank – ROS – April 2013 – 80816482-9

The public is invited to attend the luncheon meeting at Tenroc Ranch in Salado.

RSVP to Bobi Anderson at (254) 847-3315 or mail reservation with $10 check to SARW, P.O. Box 373, Salado, TX 76571.

Foreign Law Ban Advances in Texas Senate

Why are Muslims and the dhimmis who support so vehemently opposed to banning foreign laws, particularly sharia law? This diatribe is from a left wing website of the Orwellian name “Texas Freedom Network.” The religious freedom they are fighting for now appears to be Islamic sharia law.

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via Sharia Ban Advances in Texas Senate | TFN Insider.

In an impromptu meeting called at the close of the Senate’s regular business on Wednesday, the Business and Commerce Committee quietly — and narrowly — voted to pass Senate Bill 1639 by a vote of 5-4. Based on our quick review of the audio file of the meeting, the vote count was as follows:

Yes: Carona (R), Taylor (R), Eltife (R),  Hancock (R), Lucio (D)

 No: Estes (R), Van de Putte (D), Watson (D), Whitmire (D)

It’s not exactly surprising to see a measure targeting the mythical threat of Sharia law advance in Texas — it’s certainly not the first time. But given the overwhelming chorus of voices that unequivocally demonstrated that there is no problem with Sharia law in Texas courts, it is  a little disconcerting.

And yet, some on the committee were clearly listening to that testimony. Sen. Craig Estes, R-Wichita Falls, explained why he joined with three Democrats on the committee to vote against the measure:

Senator Carona, I want to first start by saying that I believe this bill was filed with the best of intentions. I think it was filed to protect the weakest among us from systems of law which are fundamentally unjust, and I applaud that intent. Mr. Chairman, I do not agree with those who have attempted to malign your attempts to pass this bill as a form of religious bigotry. I vote against it, not because I disagree with its intent, but I think it is not needed and I fear that there are possible unintended consequences.

First of all, the drafting of this bill is very broad; it makes sweeping prohibitive statements about all foreign law. We heard testimony that it could invalidate divorces and maybe even marriages in countries without separation of church and state. The supporters of the bill want to stop oppressive — and I do say oppressive — systems like Sharia, but that would also pick up benign systems of Jews, Catholics and immigrants from countries without separation of church and state. The supporters of the bill could not guarantee that unintended consequences like this would not follow.

So I return to my original point: why should we risk these unintended consequences? … I would urge my members, the members, fellow members to be very careful with this, and, respectfully, I’ll be voting no.

The bill now awaits a vote of the full Senate… unless the clear logic Sen. Estes lays out can persuade his colleagues to keep off the Senate floor what could turn into an ugly debate. (Due to the Senate’s operating rules, it takes only 11 Senators to block consideration of a bill.)

Stay tuned.

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Of course TFN won’t tell readers that there has been an Islamic sharia court in Texas for several years already and an appellate court referred a case to it. They just presume the sheeple will be blinded by the unscrupulous use of the word “freedom” in their name. They are also pro-CSCOPE and their mission is to counter the religious right. What could be more right on the religious scale than Islam and sharia law which they claim this bill is targeting. Of course, the only thing that will truly stop the rapid Islamization and calls for sharia are banning those who want it and continue to fight for it in place of the Constitution.

Stay tuned indeed and click the Texas link below to read more about how sharia and jihad are creeping in Texas.

Army rejects Purple Hearts for Fort Hood jihad victims

via Army formally declines Purple Hearts for Fort Hood shooting victims | Reuters.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Army on Friday formally declined to award Purple Heart medals to the victims of Major Nidal Hasan’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, saying the move would damage his ability to receive a fair trial.

Young Americans and those considering re-enlistment should take note of what is happening to the U.S. military.

The Army in a position paper said that awarding the medal to those wounded and posthumously to those killed in the November 2009 attack would ‘set the stage for a formal declaration that Major Hasan is a terrorist’ because the medal is presented to military members who are ‘wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States.’

Hasan, 42, an Army psychiatrist, opened fire on a group of soldiers who were preparing for deployment to Afghanistan, killing 13 and wounding 32 before he was shot and permanently paralyzed by two civilian Fort Hood police officers.

He faces the death penalty if he convicted by a military jury on 13 specifications of premeditated murder. His court martial is set to begin in July.

Hasan also killed an unborn child.

The Army formalized its ongoing opposition to awarding the Purple Hearts in a position paper responding to language inserted in the Defense Authorization Bill, which would require the Secretary of the Army to award the medal.

Some of Hasan’s wounded victims and families of the deceased have filed a federal lawsuit and among the demands is that each of the victims be awarded financial compensation and a Purple Heart.

“U.S. military personnel are organized, trained and equipped to combat foreign, not domestic, forces or threats,” the Army wrote. “To expand the Purple Heart award criteria to include domestic criminal acts or domestic terror attacks would be a dramatic departure from the traditional Purple Heart award criteria.”

The enlistment oath states “against all enemies, foreign and domestic…” 

A spokesman for the Secretary of the Army did not return a phone call seeking further comment.

Neal Sher, the New York-based lawyer for the Fort Hood victims, called the Army’s claims ‘rubbish.’

“This is a cynical travesty,” Sher said. “The only thing the government has done is guarantee that anything done to help the victims will effectively impair and prevent Hasan’s prosecution. These victims have been given the back of the hand by their government.”

The Army says it has the interest of the victims in mind, saying any government declaration that Hasan is a terrorist could mean a delay of another ‘year or more’ in a trial which has already been pushed back several times by lengthy debates over Hasan’s beard and other side issues.

“Such an unprecedented action would thwart the real and lasting measure that will bring closure to the grieving and harmed victims, the trial itself,” the Army concluded.

So after Hasan is found guilty and put to death they will award Purple Hearts?

Related:

Victims of jihad attack at Fort Hood sue U.S. government

Fort Hood Hero Says Obama ‘Betrayed’ Her, Other Victims of Jihad Attack

Video: He Said Allahu Akbar, Obama Called it Workplace Violence

Texas: CSCOPE tests students on Islamic sharia

via Cscope Students Tested On Sharia Law » RED HOT CONSERVATIVE.

State Cscope Director Wade Laby and Texas Education Service Center Directors will continue to LIE and tell legislators, parents and communities that Cscope is not Pro Islamic but the mounting evidence proves otherwise. Below is a History Cscope Assessment question testing students on Sharia Law. SERIOUSLY!! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!

Cscope aligns with the TEKS? Where in the Texas Teks is Sharia Law listed? It isn’t! If you have questions as to why Cscope is testing your child or grandchildren on Islamic Sharia Law email the State Cscope Director Wade Labay at Wade.Labay@esc13.txed.net and ask him why?

The first option above should read “requiring a tax on non-Muslims to live safely in Muslim countries” – it’s called the poll tax or jizya.

I have research Cscope for over a year. My first findings was this Islamic Powerpoint. Notice the Power point is dated 2008 on the bottom left of the top page. The following powerpoint accompanies this lesson titled The Islamic World which calls for the teacher to hand out verses of the Quran to the students.

Please get involved and contact your superintendents and those in your communities and inform them about Cscope. Hold town hall meetings to inform your community. Our children deserve better.

Related posts:

1. TX Cscope students chart “PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA”
2. Cscope, Pro Islam?
3. Cscope Directors on the Defensive
4. More Texas Students Adorn Islam Attire
5. IS CSCOPE PRO ISLAMIC? ABSOLUTELY!

CSCOPE teaches America to blame for terrorism; food & medicine in Bill of Rights

via Flour Bluff Parent Upset Over Lesson on Terrorism & Government | Corpus Christi, TX | KRISTV.com |.

CORPUS CHRISTI — Many parents check their children’s school work to make sure they’re getting good grades, but how often to you check the content of those lessons? One mother of a child in Flour Bluff ISD says when she did, she was shocked that lesson taught her son to blame the United States for the 9/11 attacks.

Kara Sands posted the test on her facebook page and it began to spread like wildfire. The test covers content watched on a video in class. What bothered her most is question #3 on the test. It asks why the U.S. may be a target for terrorism. Her son chose the correct answer – ‘decisions we made in the United States that negatively impact people elsewhere.’

If true for 9/11, then prepare for many more terror attacks for what Obama is doing around the world.

“I’m not going to justify radical terrorists by saying we did anything to deserve that, over 3,000 people died,” Sands said. She contacted her son’s principal and teacher, both met with her and contacted the video’s distributor, Safari Montage.

Representatives say they stand behind the video, but have already changed the corresponding quiz that may have caused confusion.

Sands tells us the quiz opened her eyes to the content in lessons taught at the school. Her biggest concern is curriculum called CSCOPE.

Click here to read Flour Bluff ISD’s response to the parent’s concerns: 9/11 Curriculum, CSCOPE Curriculum

One worksheet on the Bill of Rights names food and medicine as rights, not personal responsibility. “He got marked wrong, because it is, it is our responsibility for shelter, its our responsibility for food for medicine, its not the government’s responsibility,” Sand said.

Flour Bluff officials say Sands is the only parent to complain about the test specifically, but her post on facebook now has 1,662 likes.

Several parents plan to meet next week and Sands says school board members Shirley Thornton and Wade Chapman have requested the concerns be brought up in the next school board meeting. The agenda for the March 28th meeting is not yet posted to confirm the item.

Sands says parents need to get involved.

“When I teach my children that you have to work hard and you have to earn a living and they go to school and learn something different I absolutely take issue with that,” Sands said.

Previous posts on the problematic and Islam-favoring SCOPE:

• Students made to wear burqas … in Texas

• Obama interested in ‘Allah-is-God’ school curriculum

• Texas teaching ‘Allah is the Almighty God’ & how to convert to Islam

New leader of Syrian rebels is a Texas Muslim, former CAIR VP (updated)

Obama’s rebels are now led by a Hamas-supporting U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member from Texas. We just told you two days ago about his links to the Texas Islamic Court.

via New Syrian opposition leader educated in Indianapolis | Indianapolis Star | indystar.com.

A Syria-born American who lived, studied and worked in the Indianapolis area was elected today as prime minister of the Syrian opposition.

Ghassan Hitto, 50, was chosen to lead Syria’s main exile groups. He earned degrees in mathematics and computer science from Purdue University in 1989 after attending classes at its IUPUI campus.

Hitto was also a volunteer who helped stage the annual conventions of the Plainfield-based Islamic Society of North America. He worked for the North American Islamic Trust, an organization affiliated with the Islamic Society, said Ahmed El-Hattab, an Islamic Society leader.

Simply put, he is Muslim Brotherhood.

Hitto left the Indianapolis area several years ago and has been living in Texas, but maintains friends here, particularly in the small Muslim community in Plainfield.

As leader of the opposition in Syria, The New York Times reports, Hitto will be funneling aid to rebels inside Syria who stand in opposition to the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

And weapons, paid for from the “aid”…plundered from U.S. taxpayers.

El-Hattab, with the Islamic Society, described Hitto as ideologically moderate.“I think he will do a great job,” El-Hattab said. “I have no doubt about it.”

The LRC blog writes, US ‘Elects’ New Syrian Leader…A Guy From Dallas!

He has not set foot in the country he now “rules” in more than thirty years. Also, he is, like the other US puppets to emerge from the phony “Arab Spring” an Islamist from the Muslim Brotherhood.

That is what the US government calls “democratic legitimacy.”

It would be comical if the US was not on the verge of attacking Syria, perhaps on the false Tonkin pretense that the Syrian government recently used a chemical weapon in Aleppo. And irony is always lost on bulllies: we are just ten years out from the last time the neo-cons neo-conned us into a war based on a lie. Oh…but this time it is different, we are told. This one is really for democracy!

They also link to this telling interview that really deserves its own post:

Is there broad support for the revolt in Aleppo today, or is it localized?

People here don’t like the regime, but they hate the rebels even more. The economic hardships and harsh living conditions brought by the rebel assault on the city [last July] added to their crimes and has significantly eroded their support among the people here.

How divided is the city in terms of opposition to and support for the revolt? Has it changed since the early days?

The city is divided in terms of support, yes. And as I have said earlier, support for the revolt has waned ever since the rebel assault on the city.

In your experience, are all rebel fighters dangerous and careless of civilians’ lives, or just some?

In my experience, the majority of rebels show recklessness toward civilian lives, as of course, so does the regime, but that shouldn’t be an excuse at all. Some rebel groups are no more than organized crime syndicates, opportunistically engaging in kidnapping, extortion and large-scale looting of factories and warehouses. The fact that the ‘good guys’ in the rebels haven’t been able to stop them casts a very dark shadow on all the rebels here.

Obama is funding and arming the rebels who are destroying the lives of Syrians and whom Syrians hate more than Assad. With your tax dollars. Now he’s instituting a Muslim Brotherhood crony to takeover. AP fails to report on his Muslim Brotherhood links but gives us this:

He worked for a number of different technology companies and helped run a Muslim private school called the Brighter Horizons Academy. He is also a founding member of the Muslim Legal Fund of America, which was founded to give legal aid to Muslims following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He is married with four children.

The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report does however clarify for us, via U.S. Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas Support Leader Chosen By Syrian Opposition To Head Interim Government.

At least half of the Board of Directors of the  Muslim Legal Fund (MFLA) is comprised of individuals who are leaders in U.S. Muslim Brotherhood organizations including the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the  Islamic Association of North Texas (IANT) which operates the Dallas Central Mosque that has been known to be tied to Hamas support. Perhaps the most notable of the MFLA board members is Hatem Bazian,  President of the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and also part of the U.S. Hamas support infrastructure,

Mr. Hitto has also been a leader in several other U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas support organizations:

• According to investigative research posted on the GMBDR, Mr. Hitto was a Secretary-Treasurer of the American Middle Eastern League for Palestine (AMELP), another name by which the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) operated and that shared the same office and officers. The IAP was known to have been part of the Hamas infrastructure in the U.S.

• In 2002, U.S. media also identified Mr. Hitto as a “friend of the Elashi family” and who appeared to be acting as their spokesperson. In 2009, Ghassan Elashi was sentenced to 65 years in prison for his role in financing Hamas as part of the Holy Land Foundation.

• In 2002, U.S. media identified Mr. Hitto as the Vice-President of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dallas Fort-Worth Chapter (see Note 1). A Hudson Institute report identifies CAIR as part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas support infrastructure in the U.S.

• According to the Texas Secretary of State, Mr. Hitto is a director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) Youth Center of Dallas. He has also been listed in the past as the contact person for the Dallas chapter of the MAS. The Hudson Institute report also identifies the MAS as part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and close to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

So far, U.S. media has completely failed to identify any of these positions held by Mr. Hitto who has now become the fourth U.S. Muslim Brotherhood figure to be identified as part of the Syrian National Council. According to an Al-Jazeera report, Hitto founded the Coalition of Free Syria activist group in 2011, and become a national board member of the Syrian American Council the following year. The same report says he is a member of the recently formed National Coalition.

Hitto is also ISNA Member.

A Hudson Institute report identifies ISNA as a part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.

He’s not the only one either, there’s at least one more Hamas-linked CAIR Leader Part Of Syrian Opposition Council. And don’t forget that Obama allowing U.S. Syrian group that includes Hamas-linked CAIR, to arm Syrian rebels that include al Qaeda.

Update, Obama fails again: Free Syrian Army Rejects CAIR Prime Minister

The Free Syrian Army has announced that they reject Hitto and don’t accept him as Prime Minister leaving the SNC once again in the opposition of looking like someone else’s puppet regime.

Hitto and al-Khatib are both Brotherhood men, but the Muslim Brotherhood has its own divisions and there are a lot of players in this game. Turkey and Qatar have pushed the rebellion and tried to take control of it. Selecting Hitto, a Texas Islamist businessman who had spent too long in exile, was a calculated insult to Syrians and a terrible idea. The response was largely predictable.

Don’t think for a minute that CAIR will just walk away.

Update 2 (3/24): Just in time,  reports are circulating that Assad has been assassinated by one of his bodyguards. No confirmation as of yet.

What is the Texas Islamic Court?

Hugh Fitzgerald over at the New English Review came across a Texas sharia court that we identified in one of Creeping Sharia’s very first posts, Sharia Law enforced in Texas!

For the past twelve years Ghassan Hitto has worked in Dallas for a technology company whose chief executive is Arshad Syed. Hitto has been involved with the Brighter Horizons Academy, for Muslim students, which in turn is connected to the Islamic Services Foundation. The Islamic Services Foundation is described at its own website as follows:

Note please not only the Brighter Horizaons Academy, but also the “My Islamic Book Series” — a book series that journalists might want to look into, and the Quranic Institute, but above all, look at the last item on the list — the Texas Islamic Court.

What is the Texas Islamic Court?

I’d like to know because I’d like to know a little bit more about the devout Ghassan Hitto, and his views of the proper place of Muslims in a non-Muslim society, just as I would like to know more about his view of the proper place of non-Muslims — in Syria, for example — in a society where Muslims predominate.

Wouldn’t you?

Read it all at link above and from our 2008 post on the Texas appeals court that ruled that sharia law be applied at said sharia court:

1.  The Parties agree to arbitrate all existing issues among them in the above mentioned Cause Numbers in the appropriate District Court, which includes the Divorce Case, the child custody of the [sic] Noor Qaddura and Farah Qaddura, the determination of each party’s responsibilities and duties according to the Islamic rules of law by Texas Islamic Court.

2.All parties agree to sign the Texas Islamic Court required legal forms, and each party pays his required fees.

3.The panel of arbitrators of Texas Islamic Court will be formed according to the rules and regulations of Texas Islamic Court.