Syrian Rebels Massacre Entire Christian Village

via Syrian Rebels Massacre Christian Village

According to the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), forces of the Free Syrian Army massacred the village on May 27: “The armed rebels affiliated to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) raided the Christian-populated al-Duvair village in Reef (outskirts of) Homs near the border with Lebanon today and massacred all its civilian residents, including women and children. The Syrian army, however, intervened and killed tens of terrorists during heavy clashes which are still going on in al-Duvair village.”

Although the United States had opposed the involvement of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front in the rebel coalition, it did not express such reservations in December when Obama lavished his praise on the coalition. As the New York Times reported at that time:

But Mr. Obama praised the opposition, known formally as the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, for what he said was its inclusiveness, its openness to various ethnic and religious groups, and its ties to local councils involved in the fighting against Mr. Assad’s security forces.

“At this point we have a well-organized-enough coalition — opposition coalition that is representative — that we can recognize them as the legitimate representative of Syrian people,” he said.…

The United States has played an active role behind the scenes in shaping the opposition, insisting that it be broadened and made more inclusive. But until Mr. Obama’s announcement, the United States had held off on formally recognizing the opposition, asserting that it wanted to use the lure of recognition to encourage the rebel leaders to flesh out their political structure and fill important posts.

Now Obama’s inclusive opposition has allegedly slaughtered the entire population of al-Duvair, which is the type of crime that the U.S. president has previously purported was sufficient reason for the people of Syria to rise up and overthrow their government. And the massacre is hardly an isolated incident; for example, only several weeks ago, rebels attacked the St. Elijah Orthodoxy monastery. As Voice of Russia reported on May 12: “The militants ransacked the cloister, destroyed the sanctuary, blew up the belfry and tore down the statue of St. Prophet Elijah who is equally revered in Syria by both Christians and Muslims, Syria’s SANA news agency reports, quoting the head of the monastery, hegumen Gadir Ibrahim. The hegumen believes the attack to be the work of foreign mercenaries.”

Reports of foreign mercenaries are nothing new in the war against the Assad regime, and the “Syrian” character of the rebellion has been in doubt for some time. As the Independent reported on December 20:

Fighters from as many as 29 countries have filtered into Syria to join a civil war that has split along sectarian lines, increasingly pitting the ruling Alawite community against the majority Sunni Muslims, UN human rights investigators said today.

The deepened sectarian divisions in Syria may diminish prospects for post-conflict reconciliation even if President Bashar al-Assad is toppled. And the influx of foreign fighters raises the risk of the war spilling into neighbouring countries.

NY judge approves sharia bankruptcy scheme

via Arcapita’s novel sharia bankruptcy plan approved | Reuters. – What’s so novel about this? h/t @MoneyJihad

(Reuters) – Bahrain investment firm Arcapita Bank received approval from a U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday for its plan to repay creditors, thought to be the first that is compliant with sharia, Islamic law.

“I’m happy to confirm the plan,” said Judge Sean Lane of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan. “This has been a fascinating case for me.”

Under the plan of reorganization, Arcapita will repay its only secured creditor, Standard Chartered Plc, in full. Arcapita will transfer its assets to a new holding company which will dispose of its investments over time, in an attempt to avoid a firesale liquidation.

The company’s unsecured creditors will receive the equity in the new holding company as well as their pro rata share in a sharia-compliant loan. General unsecured creditors are expected to receive around 7.7 percent of the $1.9 billion they are owed, according to court documents.

The largest unsecured creditor is the Central Bank of Bahrain, which was owed $255.1 million.

Is that the novel part? Suckers. Any American, non-Muslim suckers creditors?

The company provided alternative investment opportunities for rich families, institutions and sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf region, but sought bankruptcy last year as a $1.1 billion loan came due.

The fund’s investment were sharia-compliant, as is the $350 million loan that Arcapita arranged to fund its wind-down operations after its exits bankruptcy.

Sharia prohibits borrowing money with interest. Instead, the so-called murabahah structure effectively treats the arrangement as a sale, incorporating a profit margin and fees instead of interest.

Arcapita filed for bankruptcy protection in March 2012 with about $7.4 billion in assets under management.

The move was unprecedented in a region where most debt workouts have involved consensual talks that ended in long maturity extensions.

Arcapita was represented by Michael Rosenthal of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

The case is In Re: Arcapita Bank BSC et al, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-11076.

A Jew representing Muslims who want so-called sharia financing. Nothing novel there either.

Given the profit margin and fees and calculating the interest rate is simple mathematics.

Muslim woman, daughter caught smuggling $59K in bras at U.S. border

via Canadian woman charged with smuggling thousands of dollars in bra at U.S. border. h/t @MoneyJihad

A woman believed to be from the Windsor area is in jail in Michigan for allegedly trying to smuggle tens of thousands 0f dollars across the border by padding her bra with cash.

Moura El-Asmar, 51, will have a bail hearing in Detroit today. She was arrested on the American side of the Windsor-Detroit tunnel Sunday after she and her 16-year-old daughter, Jacinta, were patted down during secondary inspection.

Both were found to have cash totaling $59,000 sewn into the linings of their bras.

The mother and daughter had a travel itinerary that showed they were catching a flight to Lebanon later that day to visit relatives.

According to documents filed in U.S. District Court, Moura El-Asma told border officers she was carrying $3,300. When her purse was searched in secondary inspection, officers found more than $15,000.

Moura El-Asmar allegedly told the officers she hadn’t counted the money and didn’t realize she had so much.

The total amount was nearly $73,000.

An officer patted her down and noticed what was described as a “bulky mass” on her bra. She was searched and was found to have four bags sewn into her bra. Three bags contained $10,000 each and the fourth had $9,000.

The daughter was searched and was found to be carrying $20,000 in two bags sewn into her bra.

Moura El-Asmar admitted to officers she had sewn the money into the bras, according to the court document. Her daughter said her mother had asked her to wear the cash-laden bra, but she had no idea how much money was in it.

Moura El-Asmar allegedly told the border officers she didn’t want to declare the money because she didn’t want her driver – her boyfriend Michel Barnaba – to know that she had so much money.

Moura El-Asmar allegedly told the border officers she collects a disability pension and has a paper route. Her daughter babysits and another daughter works at a travel agency.

Smuggling cash to Lebanon on the same day the U.S. Sanctions Four Lebanese Men, Accuses Them of Aiding Hezbollah.

Muslim “Mark Zuckerberg” conned Cali investor out of $1M

via Con man exposed after Justin Bieber ruse – CNN.com.

(CNN) — Waleed Ahmed grins for the camera, a sly smile on his face as he poses in front of a black Porsche parked on the street.

At first glance, he looks like any other young guy hamming it up for an image to share with his buddies on Facebook.

Yet looks can be deceiving.

The Norwegian gained fame and fortune in his 20s — enough to own that shiny, black Porsche in the photo — after supposedly inventing an iPhone cover that uses solar energy to charge the phone.

Norway’s media dubbed him the “Mark Zuckerberg of Norway,” and the government even posted a video on its website of Ahmed and his then-business partner meeting with Norway’s minister of trade and industry to show off the solar iPhone case.

Ahmed’s fame led to numerous encounters with international royalty and well-known diginitaries, including the crown prince and princess of Norway, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and CNN founder Ted Turner.

Ahmed apparently wasn’t just an innovative genius: He said he had been selected to be the chairman of Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign in Norway.

So, when Ahmed approached California investor Todd Weinberg last summer about his latest business proposition — managing Justin Bieber’s 2013 Scandinavian tour — it didn’t seem like a stretch that the young genius could secure the rights to the pop star’s multimillion-dollar tour.

But the business deal between Ahmed and Weinberg would go terribly wrong. In the end, it would uncover a story that reads like the plot of a Hollywood movie.

Weinberg said he paid $860,000 to Ahmed to secure the concert venues and $140,000 to Karmic Management to get a website created and for other parts of the deal.

“After I invested the money, there was a lot of friendly collaborations happening,” Weinberg said. “A lot of e-mails coming back and forth. Waleed was very involved and we started talking about who our ticketing agency was going to be, which was an organization that everyone has heard of. … We hired a company to start developing a website for the Scandinavian leg of the tour.”

But it wasn’t long before, as Weinberg put it, “a couple of things went off track.”

First, Weinberg said he started getting nervous when Ahmed “went off the radar” for 10 days.

“Well, you can imagine after 10 days, we are freaking out,” Weinberg said. “Something is not right. Well, he surfaces and tells us, ‘I’m sorry, you know, I was basically out for a Muslim holiday. I was out for Ramadan, and I’m sorry, but I am back. Let’s go.’ “

U.S. govt has given Afghan National Army more than $1 billion in ammo

Afghans are killing U.S. soldiers with our own ammo. Bring them home, alive. They can protect our borders. via U.S. government has given Afghan National Army more than $1 billion in ammo | Washington Free Beacon.

The U.S. government has given the embattled Afghan National Army (ANA) more than $1 billion in taxpayer-funded ammunition, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s (SIGAR) latest oversight report.

This is in addition to $288 million that has been spent on ammunition for the troubled Afghan National Police (ANP), which has been cited by SIGAR for its widespread corruption.

The United States has spent more than $54 billion in total to arm, train, and sustain Afghanistan’s security forces, which continue to underperform and suffer low enlistment rates, according to SIGAR’s quarterly progress reports.

It is unclear just how much ammunition the $1.03 billion translates to and just how much of this ammo has been used.

In addition to the billion-dollar ammo purchase, the United States has spent more than $878 million on weapons for the ANA and another $5.6 billion on military vehicles.

However, a large amount of this money has been wasted on vehicles that either do not work or that have been destroyed beyond repair, according to SIGAR.

The issue of arming Afghan security forces continues to cause controversy, as Afghan security personnel engage in so-called “insider attacks” on the remaining U.S. forces in the country.

A man wearing an ANA uniform murdered three Americans over the weekend, according to NBC News.

The purported ANA soldier “turned his weapon against” U.S. forces, killing two soldiers and a civilian, the International Security Assistance Force was quoted as saying in a statement.

“Insider attacks accounted for one in every five combat deaths suffered by NATO-led forces in Afghanistan and 16 percent of all American combat casualties according to 2012 data,” NBC said in its report.

“We are very concerned because the ANSF were supposed to achieve an end-strength of 352 thousand troops by last October,” SIGAR lead inspector John Sopko said in May.

“The ANSF has fallen short of its staffing goals by 20,000 troops,” Sopko said. “The number of troops ready for duty is even lower when you consider AWOL employees, desertions, and ghost employees.”

Sopko also said the White House has tried to silence him due to his oversight work, which has detailed massive waste and abuse of U.S. taxpayer dollars in Afghanistan.

“Over the last 10 months, I have been criticized by some bureaucrats for not pre-clearing my press releases with them, for not letting them edit the titles of my audits, for talking too much to Congress, for talking too much to the press, and, basically, for not being a ‘team player’ and undermining ‘our country’s mission in Afghanistan,’” Sopko said in his speech.

Ground Zero Mosque Fraudsters Settle With Each Other

The whole thing was a fraud including both parties noted below. via Ex-Leader of Planned Mosque Near Ground Zero Settles Suit With Donor – NYTimes.com

The former leader of a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero in Lower Manhattan has settled a lawsuit in which a donor accused him of spending charitable contributions on himself, both sides confirmed on Friday.

The donor, Robert Leslie Deak, had accused the former leader, Feisal Abdul Rauf, of diverting millions of dollars in charitable donations – meant for the Cordoba Initiative, founded by the imam, as well as the American Society for Muslim Advancement, which is led by the imam’s wife, Daisy Khan – to buy real estate, luxury vacations and a fancy car. It also accused Mr. Abdul Rauf of failing to report approximately $3 million in donations from the Malaysian government.

The parties also settled a previous lawsuit that accused Mr. Deak of inflating the price of a Washington condominium he sold to the institute and of failing to transfer the title. Mr. Deak and his wife, Moshira Soliman, returned $1.35 million to Cordoba as part of the settlement.

Looks like State Dept.-employed Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan had a profitable scheme going at the Ground Zero mosque.

San Fran airport’s garage now a mosque complete w Islamic foot bath

Praying for our demise. via Airport’s garage now Muslim house of worship | Matier And Ross | an SFGate.com blog. h/t

Here’s a sign of the changing times — Muslim cabbies now have their very own place at San Francisco International Airport to wash their hands and feet before they pray.

Under Islamic law, Muslims are required to pray five times a day — a ritual that also calls for a ceremonial cleansing.

For many cab drivers, that’s meant either lugging bottled water around or using one of the bathrooms inside the terminal to wash — a practice not always welcomed by airport passengers.

So Royal Cab driver Hasan Khan, 52, a Pakistani immigrant, collected some 300 signatures from fellow cabbies, urging the airport to give them their own cleansing station.

Airport brass obliged — and the wash equipment was installed on the ground floor of the main garage, right next to where the drivers congregate for their breaks.

“The way we look at it…this was in the interest of maintaining a good relationship with ground transportation providers,’’ says airport spokesman Doug Yakel.

As for using public resources?

Yes, your taxpayer dollars are being used. But as usual, for Muslims, it’s ok.

Yakel says the costs were nominal, with the work done by in-house plumbers.

As for Khan, he recognizes not everyone might appreciate the religious accommodation. But then he points out that Christians generally pray at church on Sundays — while for him and his fellow working Muslims, the ritual is woven into their daily routine.

And from the looks of things, they’re grateful.

“We are very happy,’’ said Ahmed Algazali, 49, a fellow driver from Yemen as he prepared to join Khan for a late-afternoon garage prayer.

Kerry Secretly Sends Muslim Brotherhood-Controlled Egypt $1.3 Billion Military Aid

The move was never released to the public (like the 1,000 Marines sent to Jordan and anti-missile batteries and fighter jets to Jordan at the kingdom’s request this week) and possibly not even to an inept Congress. The corruption continues at a record pace.

via Kerry Quietly Skirts Law Put in Place by Congress, Sends Muslim Brotherhood-Controlled Egypt $1.3 Billion Gift | TheBlaze.com. h/t Daniel Greenfield

Secretary of State John Kerry last month secretly sent $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid to Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Egypt, waiving the restrictions put in place by Congress to withhold such aid unless the country could meet certain democracy standards.

“Under U.S. law, for the $1.3 billion to flow the secretary of state must certify that the Egyptian government ‘is supporting the transition to civilian government, including holding free and fair elections, implementing policies to protect freedom of expression, association and religion, and due process of law’,” Reuters reports.

Kerry’s quiet decision came before an Egyptian court this week sentenced 43 democracy workers, including 16 Americans, to up to five years in jail for working in NGOs not registered with the government. Critics of the restrictive government see the action as a crackdown on pro-democracy, non-governmental organizations.

In a May 9 memo, Kerry said that “we are not satisfied with the extent of Egypt’s progress and are pressing for a more inclusive democratic process and strengthening of key democratic institutions.” Yet the new secretary of state still decided to push the aid through.

Reuters was able to obtain a copy of the State Department’s notification of Kerry’s sneaky move, which was never released to the public.

“A strong U.S. security partnership with Egypt, underpinned by FMF (Foreign Military Financing), maintains a channel to Egyptian military leadership, who are key opinion makers in the country,” Kerry wrote in the memo.

“A decision to waive restrictions on FMF to Egypt is necessary to uphold these interests as we encourage Egypt to continue its transition to democracy,” he continued.

The unpopular memo was reportedly sent to congressional appropriations committees while some aides didn’t even know about its existence.

The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin has more details:

The law that allows the State Department to give Egypt $1.3 billion each year in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) specifies that to get the money, the secretary of State must certify that Egypt is honoring its peace treaty with Israel as well as “supporting the transition to civilian government including holding free and fair elections; implementing policies to protect freedom of expression, association, and religion, and due process of law.”

Several members of Congress said this week that Egypt’s sentencing of American NGO workers, who were there to help Egypt build up its civil society and to promote democracy, flew in the face of that very law, meaning that Egypt should not get the money.

Donating taxpayer money to any nation, particularly ones that hate us flies in the face of politicians oath to protect and defend Americans and the Constitution. Not the people of any other country.

World War III is pending, funded with your stolen tax dollars.

Dearborn Arab Fest canceled after (jihad) insurance cost skyrockets

First they tried to move it to a new location to keep non-Muslims out. But like the blowback from suing McDonald’s, enforcing sharia in Dearbornistan has consequences. via The Arab American News – After 18 years, what’s next for the Arab International Festival?

Last month, following Dearborn’s $300,000 legal settlement with the Acts 17 Apologetics, the City recommended that the festival be moved from Warren Avenue to Ford Woods Park.

“That recommendation was made in order to have a more controlled environment. The rules are different when a festival has specific entrance points. There is more flexibility for how behavior can be monitored, if there are specific entrances into an event,” Mary Laundroche, Director of Public Information, stated.

Following the City’s “recommendation” to move the festival to Ford Woods, the Chamber announced that it would “postpone” the festival until next year.

Read Dearborn moves Arab fest to keep non-Muslims out.

Fay Beydoun said that the purpose of the festival was to promote economic development in Dearborn and the surrounding areas and share the Arab cultural heritage. It was postponed because these objectives could not be met if the festival was to be held at the park on such short notice.

“Moving the festival to the park within the amount of time we had was just not feasible,” she said. “We needed more time to better plan and provide the quality event that we had been providing in the past.”

While she did not confirm that the City forced the Chamber to move the festival, it was apparent that the City would not grant a permit for the event to be held on Warren Avenue.

Beydoun refused to elaborate on questions relating to the City, saying that such questions should be asked to City officials.

After the controversy and numerous lawsuits that were filed by evangelist groups, insurance on the festival for its three-day span increased by 37 times, rising from $1,500 to $56,000.

Fay Beydoun said that the increase in cost of the insurance was one of the factors that led to the postponement of the festival, but not the deciding factor.

Defending little jihadists ain’t cheap.

Michigan: Muslims halal legal jihad against McDonald’s results in…removal of all halal food

Biting the hand that feeds them halal (see links below).  via The Arab American News – Local McDonald’s stops serving halal meat.

DEARBORN — Just one month after the McDonald’s Corporation and the Finley Management Company settled a non-halal class action lawsuit for $700,000, the owners of the Dearborn McDonald’s, located at 13158 Ford Road, have decided to no longer include halal items on their menu.

The Ford Road McDonald’s isn’t the only location to pull halal items from its menu. The McDonald’s, located at 14860 Michigan Avenue in Dearborn, has also stopped serving halal items, even though that location was not listed as a defendant in the lawsuit that was filed by the Dearborn law firm, Jaafar & Mahdi Law Group, P.C.

Both locations had served halal McChicken® and halal McNuggets® to their Muslim customers since 2005. Over the years, some confusion has existed over what items were halal, and whether, or not customers had to request the halal meat. In addition, multiple reports have surfaced of several employees, at both locations, who didn’t seem properly trained in the handling of halal meat.

On September 2, 2011, Ahmed Ahmed, a Dearborn Heights resident, purchased a McChicken® sandwich from the Ford Road McDonald’s and discovered that the sandwich was not halal. Ahmed and his attorneys have not disclosed how this discovery was made. In the lawsuit, he alleged that, on numerous occasions, the Ford Road location had sold non-halal McChicken® and McNuggets®, while presenting the items as halal to their customers.

The Ford Road McDonald’s would not comment on why they have pulled their halal items. However, the Michigan Avenue McDonald’s did tell The Arab American News that they were “just trying to simplify the menu.”

Muslim customers can still take advantage of the Dearborn locations with a special “buy one, get one free” offer on their Filet-O-Fish sandwiches. According to managers at both locations, there is no limit on the amount of fish that you can purchase with any order. They will match a free sandwich for each one purchased. This offer is only available for a limited time.

Was this a special perk for Muslims in lieu of halal food? Let’s hope not.

The Arab American News was able to contact McDonald’s Corp. for a statement about the two Dearborn locations pulling their halal products.

“McDonald’s is a system comprised of independent small business owners, who look to connect with and serve their local communities.There were two restaurants in Dearborn Michigan that served two Halal menu items for the past several years, and those items have now been discontinued, as a result of our continued efforts to focus on our national core menu. Our franchisees continue to be proud supporters of the Dearborn community,” McDonald’s Corp. told The Arab American News.

All non-Muslim eateries should follow suit and simplify their menus as well. The risk of frivolous, multi-million dollar lawsuits for trying to accommodate sharia law isn’t worth it and supporting sharia law is simply bad policy. Period. Corporate America should follow suit.

Well played McDonalds.

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Related and not so well-played:

• McDonald’s Pays $700,000 to Dearborn Muslims for Allegedly Serving non-Halal Chicken

• UK: McDonald’s secretly sold sharia compliant chicken

• McDonald’s pulls toy after Muslims rage, demand punishment

• Halal the rage in Australia – Hospitals, McDonald’s and at school BBQ’s

• Terror-linked CAIR to shake down McDonald’s over headscarf

• CAIR seeking shake down of McDonald’s and WalMart

Video: IRS Accessory to Obama’s Terror-Funding Brother Malik

via Walid Shoebat | Lois Lerner: Accessory to Terror Funding

The video also exposes President Obama’s half-brother – Malik H. Obama – as a senior leader in terror organizations that supply funding and comfort to Al Qaeda. Malik Obama is also a close associate of Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. After watching the short video below, you may wish to review this comprehensive article which also includes a link to a comprehensive 22-page report that provides substantial evidence to support these alarming allegations.

The document includes photographs form Malik’s own web site.

Much more at shoebat.com.

Mark Steyn writes:

…a gentleman by the name of Malik Obama received impeccable, express service when he took the precaution of mailing in his non-profit application from N’giya, Kenya, rather than notoriously slower mail processing centers such as Phoenix and Dallas. Malik, the brother of President Obama, runs the Barack H. Obama Foundation, named for the president’s father.

On May 30, 2011, they applied for tax-exempt status, and had their approval signed less than a month later by Lois Lerner herself, and conveniently backdated by Lois to cover the two-and-a-half years the enterprising Malik had already been raking in “tax-deductible” donations from Americans.

The Washington address of the Barack H. Obama Foundation appears to be bogus, and it’s not clear whether the funds are being used back in Kenya for anything other than supporting the famously lavish lifestyle of Malik and his twelve wives.

Given that the IRS is not shy about asking American conservatives for Facebook posts and lists of who attends their meetings, Ms. Lerner surely would have been within her rights to ask Malik Obama about the “exclusive” photographs currently displayed on the Barack H. Obama Foundation website of a recent meeting in Sudan, one of only four countries the U.S. government designates as a “terrorist state,” and the Foundation’s apparently extensive association with the Sudanese president and blood-soaked genocidal war criminal Omar al-Bashir.