Govt of Turkey Building Massive $100M Mosque Complex…in Maryland

Was this the real reason Erdogan was in the U.S. last week?

Erdogan was jailed for inciting Muslims when he stated:

“The minarets are our bayonets; the domes are our helmets. Mosques are our barracks, the believers are soldiers. This holy army guards my religion. Almighty, Our journey is our destiny, the end is martyrdom.”

Nothing has changed. via ‘A Symbol of Friendship’ : Turkish PM Lays Stone for $100M Masjid Complex In Maryland.

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan placed a ceremonial stone on a 15-acre construction site in Lanham, Maryland that will likely become the largest and most striking examples of Islamic architecture in the western hemisphere.

The Turkish American Culture and Civilization Center (TACC) is a project of the government of Turkey and is meant to”serve as a social, cultural, and religious  center for all visitors, including activities for the promotion and introduction of the values of the Turkish Civilization” according to an information packet distributed by TACC at the invitation only ground breaking ceremony.

The project is well underway, and two industrial cranes tower over the skyline along Good Luck Road. Concrete and steel pillars are up, and even two small domes are already visible. TACC leaders estimate the complex will be completed by October 2014.

The cost of the 5-buidling complex is estimated to be around $100 million according to sources familiar with the engineering aspects of the project. The entire complex will be serviced by an underground garage.

The Muslim Link covered the ceremony  and presents these images to capture the event as well as the monumental construction project for our readers. — TML

Prime Minister Erdogan talks about what the TACC center means to Turkish Americans as well as to American society at large. He criticized groups promoting Islamophobia and urged the many Turkish graduate students to get involved with the project. He also delighted the crowd of several hundred guests by saying he will come back for the October 2014 opening ceremony “if he is still around”. Photo by Muslim Link.

An April 2013 photo of the 15-acre construction site. TACC says about 30% of the construction is completed. Photo courtesy of TACC.

PrimeMinister9 The TACC Center will consist of five main buildings: a masjid constructed using 16th century classical Ottoman architecture that can hold 760 worshipers; a two-story, 19,990 SF Cultural Center Building including a 220-seating performance hall; a 9,850 SF recreational building with a 180-seat restaurant and traditional coffee shop; a 43,450 SF traditional Turkish bath for up to 22 people at a time and indoor pool and sports center; and 18,500 SF of guest housing including 16 one-bedroom apartment units. The complex will have very limited above ground parking and most cars will park in the 150,700 SF underground parking garage which gives direct access to all the main buildings. A few traditionally designed residential buildings, Turkish gardens and fountains, and outdoor recreational areas will also be a part of the complex. Images courtesy of TACC.

The American and Turkish flags fly high above invited guests like Jameel Alim-Johnson from the Prince George’s Muslim Association (foreground). Most of the invitees were Turkish diplomats, business leaders, and community members, but there were a few dozen non-Turkish representatives of area masajid and Islamic organizations from the DMV area present, including ISNA President Mohammad Magid and ICNA President Naeem Baig. Photo by Muslim Link.

Maryland’s Secretary of State John McDonough delivered greetings from Governor Martin O’Malley and talked about the sister city relationships between Turkey and Maryland. Photo by Muslim Link.

Note the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood was in attendance with dhimmi politicians who bend over backwards for them (follow the money).

Maryland is quickly being overtaken. If this Turkish sharia complex is ” largest and most striking examples of Islamic architecture in the western hemisphere,” it is competing with this Maryland mosque complex dubbed the “Largest Islamic Project in America that could change landscape for years to come” (on the 66-acre former home of the Woodmont Academy, a Catholic school in Cooksville).

Why are we letting the Saudi’s and Turks build huge mosques all over the United States? They will be used against us.

Beck asks: Did the father of a radical Islamist travel to the White House with the Turkish PM?

#RapeJihad in Toronto, three Muslims arrested in gang rape

Like a plague in Europe, #RapeJihad is spreading to North America. via Three charged after alleged gang-sexual assault in downtown Toronto parking garage | Toronto Star.

Three men have been charged after a woman was allegedly subjected to a gang sexual assault in a downtown Toronto parking garage.

According to Toronto Police, the 22-year old victim was leaving a night club near Richmond St. and Spadina Ave. on Saturday, when she accepted a ride offer from a man she had spoken to earlier that night.

The man, along with two others, allegedly took her to an underground parking garage near Blue Jays Way and Windsor St.

Police allege that the woman was then trapped inside an SUV and two of the men sexually assaulted her.

The woman was rescued when police, who had been called by the victim’s friends who were worried about her safety, found her in the parking lot and arrested three men.

Hewad Ahmadzai, 26, Omeed Ahmadzai, 24, and Nazeef Ahmadzai, 30, have all been charged with forcible confinement and gang sexual assault, while the latter two have also been charged with sexual assault.

Police believe there may have been other victims and are asking anyone with information to call police at 416-808-7474 or leave a tip with Crime Stoppers 416-222-8477.

In England, Muslim Grooming Gang Trial Begins, Victim Aged 11 When Abuse Began

As one Muslim grooming gang trial finishes at the Old Bailey with a sex gang of evil racist Islamic paedophiles found guilty of a catalogue of sex crimes against British schoolgirls. A  few miles up the road a new one is just starting. Ten Muslim males from High Wycombe on trial for subjecting a schoolgirl to five years of sexual abuse and gang rapes. The girl was aged only 11 when her ordeal began.

US Senate panel votes 15-3 to arm brutal Syrian “rebels”

US Army chief slams Russia for arming, emboldening Assad as U.S. Senate panel votes to provide weapons to Syrian rebels battling Assad regime.

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel voted on Tuesday to provide weapons to rebels battling the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the first time lawmakers have endorsed the aggressive U.S. military step of arming the opposition in the 2-year-old civil war.

With a degree of trepidation, the Foreign Relations Committee voted 15-3 for a bill that would provide lethal assistance and military training to vetted rebel groups, and would slap sanctions on anyone who sells oil or transfers arms to the Assad regime such as Iran and Russia. The measure also establishes a $250 million fund to aid in the transition if and when Assad falls.

Opposing the legislation were Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a potential presidential candidate in 2016, and Democratic Sens. Tom Udall of New Mexico and Chris Murphy of Connecticut.

Udall questioned whether the United States would know what rebel groups it was arming as it introduced more lethal weapons into a chaotic situation while Murphy argued that the U.S. hasn’t learned from history.

“We have failed over and over again in our attempts to pull the strings of Middle Eastern politics,” he said.

Paul said the U.S. is war weary and reluctant to get involved in a murky conflict with so many factions. He said there is no assurance that the weapons would end up in the hands of “liberty-loving, Jeffersonian-type of democrats.”

“It’s impossible to know who are friends are,” he said.

His arguments put him at odds with another potential White House candidate — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who backed the legislation and insisted that it was critical to help groups battling the well-armed, pro-Assad forces and radical jihadists.

Elected officials want to waste U.S. taxpayer money funding Islamic terrorists. And don’t forget an initial $250 million of your tax dollars for nation building.

 And from the ‘you can’t make this stuff up’ department:

Obama, according to Suleiman’s office, also renewed his appreciation for the role the Lebanese leader was playing in “preserving stability and the policy Lebanon was adopting in not interfering in the affairs of other countries, particularly Syria…

FT reports Qatar (now establishing a media foothold in the U.S.) has spent more than $3B funding the overthrow of Assad. Why?

Qatar along with the Turks would like to remove Al-Assad and install the Syrian chapter of the Moslem Brotherhood.

Below the fold are a few more examples of the rebels that McCain, Rubio, and despicable Bob Menendez are so desperate to arm.

Florida: FBI agent kills Chechen during Boston bombing interrogation (updated)

via FBI agent shoots Orlando man questioned in Boston bombing probe – FOX 35 News Orlando.

ORLANDO, Fla. – An FBI agent in Orlando shot dead a man questioned in the Boston bombing investigation whom the agency says turned violent during an interview early Wednesday.

The suspect was identified by the FBI as Ibragim Todashev, 27, of Orlando.

FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said the agent involved in the shooting on Peregrine Avenue near Kirkman and Vineland roads, near Universal Orlando, acted on an imminent threat and shot Todashev during an interview. The FBI agent was “conducting official duties” when Todashev initiated a “violent confrontation” and was shot, agent Dave Couvertier said in a statement.

The agent was with two Massachusetts State Police troopers and other law enforcement personnel at the time, Couvertier said.

“I heard a couple loud bangs, I saw a couple cop cars riding by,” said Jared Morse, who lives in the area. “They wouldn’t let anyone out to see anything or anything like that, so they made us go back inside.”

A source told FOX 25 News in Boston that Todashev was being questioned by an FBI agent from Boston about an unsolved triple murder in Waltham, Mass. The source said Todashev became violent during the interview and was shot by the agent.

Khusen Taramov, a man at the scene of the Peregrine Avenue shooting who identified himself as a friend of Todashev’s, said Wednesday that Todashev knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother suspected in the April 15 bombings that killed three and injured more than 260.

Taramov said he and Todashev had no connection with the Boston bombings, but the FBI had been questioning them since then. Taramov said Todashev had lived in Boston at one point, and Todashev and Tsarnaev were not friends, just acquaintances through mixed-martial-arts fighting.

“He used to talk on the phone with him [Tsarnaev],” Taramov said of Todashev. “They talked last time a month ago. After the bombing, I couldn’t believe it,” he said.

Public records indicate that Todashev lived in Watertown, Mass., until just last year.  Taramov said ever since the bombings, he and Todashev had been questioned and followed by the FBI.

“The FBI kept asking, ‘What’s the connection?’ But there is no connection… no connection.”

Even before his encounter with the FBI, Todashev had a recent run-in with law enforcement.

He was arrested earlier this month on a charge of aggravated battery after getting into a fight over a parking spot with a 54-year-old man and his 35-year-old son at Orlando’s Premium Outlets mall. The 35-year-old man was hospitalized with a split upper lip and several teeth knocked out, according to a report from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Taramov said Todashev had planned to return to Chechnya but canceled his tickets.

“Me and him and my friends, we knew this was going to happen. That’s why he wanted to leave the country,” Taramov said. “But he canceled the tickets. The FBI’s been pushing him, ‘Don’t leave, don’t leave.’ So he decided to stay,” he said.

Taramov said the FBI had questioned him earlier Tuesday, but he was allowed to leave. When Taramov returned, he said he found out Todashev had been shot dead, he said.

The FBI agent involved was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The FBI has sent a team from Washington, D.C., to review the incident. The team should arrive in Orlando within 24 hours, it said.

“The FBI knows what happened,” Taramov said.

More via CBS.

A friend of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev implicated himself and Tsarnaev in an unsolved triple homicide before authorities say he instigated a violent confrontation that resulted in his death early Wednesday morning, CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reported.

But sources say during questioning Tuesday night, Todashev implicated himself and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the killings. As investigators pushed at him towards a confession, he snapped, reported Orr.

Law enforcement officials say the 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter made a move that threatened the investigators. The FBI agent, who suffered cuts in the altercation, shot and killed Todashev.

The FBI became interested in him after phone records suggested a connection to Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Over several weeks agents kept tabs on Todashev and questioned him a handful of times. The FBI found nothing connecting Todashev to the Boston attacks.

So multiple FBI agents and Massachusetts state police/martial law officers (in Florida) went to interview this a guy who was friends with two Muslim terrorists who killed four and wounded 200 and eluded an entire police force for a day and they didn’t secure the suspect or the area during the interview? They didn’t video tape the interview? The suspect then implicated himself in a triple murder, wasn’t placed under arrest or secured at that point, made a threatening move and was subsequently shot dead. Case closed?

Color us skeptical. If this was Iraq and it was an Army Ranger acting in self defense, he’d end up in jail serving 25 years.

Update: Officials: it’s no longer clear what happened in the moments before the fatal shooting

Initially, FBI officials said Todashev, 27, became violent and lunged at an agent with a knife while he was being questioned about Tsarnaev and an unsolved 2011 triple murder in the Boston suburb of Waltham. The agent, acting on an “imminent threat,” then shot Todashev, they said.

However, later in the day, some of those officials had backed off that preliminary account, and it’s no longer clear what happened in the moments before the fatal shooting, The Associated Press reported.

Update 2: Unrelated, or not? Can things get any more surreal in this administration? FBI: Agents died in fall from helicopter off Va. coast

Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement.

Last month, the team was involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Sweden: Immigration + Islam = Riots (video)

Religion of disturbing the peace. via Sweden’s socialist paradise under threat by multicultural failure | Ottawa Citizen.

Sweden is paying a stiff price for its past generosity to immigrants and its attempts at multicultural accommodation.

As many as 100 “angry masked youths” in a suburb of Stockholm on Monday. The “trouble,” as it’s been politely described, took place in the suburb of Husby, which, as one newspaper coyly put it, is “a neighborhood in the western part of the city occupied mainly by immigrants, they were met by masked youths hurling rocks at them.”

As another equally coy news outlet reports, “A round 80 percent of the roughly 11,000 people living in Husby – a drab, low-income neighborhood of apartment blocks west of Stockholm – are first or second generation immigrants.”

Naturally, there are “root causes” that excuse the rioters’ violence.

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h/t Europe News who also has this 45% of Belgian Prison Inmates Are Muslim

And just yesterday in the UK: Muslims hacked a British soldier to death in street in broad daylight while screaming to Allah.

 

UK: Muslims hack Brit soldier to death in street, scream to Allah (updated)

The face of Islam.

via Machete killer screamed: ‘We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you‘ | Daily Express.

ONE of the men who beheaded a serving British soldier in a terror attack in London screamed ‘We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you‘ just seconds after killing him.

The shocking footage, which was captured by an ITV camera crew, shows a man wielding a bloodied meat cleaver in the street and shouting as stunned eye-witnesses looked on.Screaming direct at the camera, the man – who had a thick London accent – was heard to say: “I apologise that women had to witness this today, but in our lands our women have to see the same.”You people will never be safe, remove your governments they don’t care about you.”

A second attacker was heard to shout ‘Allah Akbar’ during the assault itself in Woolwich, south east London.Other eyewitnesses claimed the killers even stopped to film their victim dying in the street before being shot by police.The brutal attack – which police are treating as a terrorist incident - happened in broad daylight just yards from the Royal Artillery Barracks, one of Britain’s biggest military bases.

The second alleged attacker talks to a woman whilst holding a bloody knife (@dannymckiernan)

 The UK will do nothing. They will crack down on the English Defense League. Muslim groups will claim this has nothing to do with Islam to the cameras. Behind the scenes they will defend the killers in some form or fashion.

Already many media accounts are obfuscating. They are referring to it as just a terrorist attack. No mention of the comments made by killers about Allah.

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‘Soldier beheaded’ in Woolwich machete attack: latest – Follow live coverage

23:33 There are reports that one of the attackers was last year stopped or arrested on his way to join al-Shabaab in Somalia, according to Newsnight.

‘We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you’

full text of the rant by one of the Islamist terrorists

Video footage

EDL: Woolwich: We Are At War

Witness: Woolwich terrorists who told her: ‘We want to start a war in London tonight’

Mrs Loyau-Kennett, 48, from Cornwall, was one of the first people on the scene after the two Islamic extremists butchered a soldier in Woolwich, south east London.

“So I thought ‘OK, I don’t know what is going on here’ and he was covered with blood. I thought I had better start talking to him before he starts attacking somebody else. I thought these people usually have a message so I said ‘what do you want?’

“I asked him if he did it and he said yes and I said why? And he said because he has killed Muslim people in Muslim countries, he said he was a British soldier and I said really and he said ‘I killed him because he killed Muslims and I am fed up with people killing Muslims in Afghanistan they have nothing to do there.”

Moments earlier, the killers had hacked at the soldier “like a piece of meat”, and when Mrs Loyau-Kennett arrived on the scene they were roaming John Wilson Street waiting for police to arrive so they could stage a final confrontation with them.

She said: “I started to talk to him and I started to notice more weapons and the guy behind him with more weapons as well. By then, people had started to gather around. So I thought OK, I should keep him talking to me before he noticed everything around him.

“He was not high, he was not on drugs, he was not an alcoholic or drunk, he was just distressed, upset. He was in full control of his decisions and ready to everything he wanted to do.

I said ‘right now it is only you versus many people, you are going to lose, what would you like to do?’ and he said I would like to stay and fight.”

5/23 – Obama Administration Refuses to Label London Attack as Islamic or Terrorism

NYC: 15 ‘Palestinians’ arrested in cigarette-smuggling ring linked to Islamic militants

via New York says breaks cigarette-smuggling ring linked to militants.

(Reuters) – Fifteen men of Palestinian origin have been arrested on charges of running a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling ring in New York, and New York authorities who announced the arrests on Thursday said several of the suspects have ties to Hamas and other Islamist militant groups.

The men are accused of smuggling more than a million cartons of untaxed cigarettes from Virginia to be sold in grocery stores across New York, with $55 million in sales uncovered so far, Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, and Ray Kelly, the New York City police commissioner, said at a press conference.

“We don’t know where all of that money went, but what we do know is deeply troubling,” Schneiderman said. “We know that some members of this group have ties to very dangerous people, we know they were arrested with weapons, we know that they made tens of millions of dollars but so far we have found only a fraction of that.”

Investigators are still tracking where much of the money ended up, but they noted similar rings in the past have funneled money to Hamas, the Islamist government in Gaza, and Hezbollah, the militant Shi’ite group based in Lebanon, both of which are considered to be terrorist organizations by the United States.

All 15 men remained in custody on Thursday and could not be reached for comment. It was not immediately clear if they had retained lawyers.

A 16th man accused of taking part in the ring, Ribhi Awadeh, 39, from Guttenberg, New Jersey, remained at large after flying to Jordan several weeks ago, Schneiderman said.

In a 224-count indictment, the men are charged with enterprise corruption, money laundering and other tax crimes, for which each defendant faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. In addition to costing New York State and New York City an estimated $80 million in lost sales tax revenue, the ring generated at least $10 million in profit, Schneiderman and Kelly said.

None of the men lived extravagantly, Schneiderman said, adding that this supported the idea the money was being funneled elsewhere.

“This is not the lifestyles of the rich and famous,” Schneiderman said. “We are very concerned about where the money went.”

Kelly said that Youssef Odeh, 52, of Staten Island, who is accused of being a distributor for the ring, received an investment for an illegal baby formula distribution business in the 1990s from Omar Abdel Rahman, often dubbed the “blind sheik,” who is imprisoned for helping plot the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Muaffaq Askar, 46, of Brooklyn, who is accused of being one of the ring’s resellers, was a confidant of Rashid Baz, Kelly said. Baz, a Lebanese immigrant, is serving a 141-year prison sentence after being convicted in the 1994 shooting of Ari Halberstam, a 16-year-old yeshiva student in Brooklyn, which Baz said was in retaliation for the killing of Muslim worshippers in the West Bank by a Jewish settler from Brooklyn.

Mohannad Seif, 39, of Brooklyn, another accused reseller, had been under police surveillance in part because he had lived in the same three-story Brooklyn building as a former secretary to Moussa Abu Marzouk, a deputy leader of Hamas.

Authorities said the ring was headed by two brothers, Basel Ramadan, 42, and Samir Ramadan, 40, both of Ocean City, Maryland, who ran a couple of local Subway restaurant franchises. Investigators said they found $1.4 million stashed in Basel Ramadan’s home, some of it stuffed in black plastic trash bags, and three handguns following his arrest on Thursday.

The ring bought cigarettes from a wholesaler in Virginia and kept them in a storage facility in Delaware, Schneiderman said.

A co-conspirator, Adel Abuzahrieh, 42, of Brooklyn, was accused of driving from New York to Delaware several times a week to exchange cash for cigarettes, and then return with the illicit goods for resale.

Two of the accused men are in the United States illegally, according to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Others, including the Ramadan brothers, are naturalized citizens, while the rest are legal permanent residents.

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?

Jesse Jackson wants amnesty for Muslim terrorists who have killed 10,000 in Nigeria

As we noted in our last post on the deadly jihad in Nigeria, Muslims kill 55 in latest Nigeria attack, the government there thinks amnesty is a solution for Muslims who have killed more than 10,000 since 2001. Their so-called president is even freeing captured Muslim terrorists so they can kill again.

Jesse Jackson thinks rebuilding their mosques is the answer. h/t reader

via Offer of Amnesty for Boko Haram Gets Backing From Jesse Jackson

American civil rights leader and Baptist minister, Rev. Jesse Jackson, has thrown his weight behind the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to offer amnesty to members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

Jackson, a two-time United States of American presidential candidate, also said Nigeria “is divided, not so much by religion, region and tribe but by greed.”

Speaking in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Friday, Jackson, who was a guest speaker at a lecture organised by the state government as part of activities marking the 2013 edition of Isaac Boro memorial anniversary, said if properly handled, the amnesty programme would tackle insecurity in the country.

For the programme to work, he said all its terms and conditions must be honoured.

According to him, the amnesty must involve economic restitution and rebuilding of mosques and churches destroyed by the terrorists. He described such rehabilitation as a goodwill that would sustain coexistence in the country.

He said the state of emergency declared in three northern states should be as temporary as possible, advising Nigerians to abandon the battlefield and return to negotiation.

He said, “The amnesty must involve economic restitution, jobs and training. Within the United States,when there was civil unrest,there was a kind of state of emergency.

“But I hope the country will soon get back away from the battlefield and get to the negotiation table. In the end, it will be the bargaining table, not the battlefield, that wins victory.You cannot battle forever.

Nigerians know better.

Jackson and most so-called civil race baiters sat silently as black Africans were slaughtered and enslaved by the hundreds of thousands by Arab Muslims in Sudan.

Pennsylvania: Muslim inmate threatened to kill witness, government not charging him

Three Muslims in North Carolina were just sentenced for plotting to behead a witness. Why not this one? via Government defends recording Armstrong County man’s jail conversation | TribLIVE.

The government on Monday denied using an inmate to target Muslim inmates and record them speaking with their attorneys.

“There were no recordings made (or any other gathering or reporting) of any attorney-conversations ever,” said U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Tamara Collier.

Assistant U.S. Attorney James Kitchen, one of the attorneys prosecuting Emerson Begolly, 24, of Redbank, Armstrong County, said in a court document filed on Friday in Pittsburgh that the informant began working as a porter in the visiting area of Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown, where attorneys meet with inmates, but only after he recorded Begolly threatening to kill a witness.

Begolly pleaded guilty Aug. 9, 2011, to soliciting terrorist acts on a pro-jihad website and to carrying a firearm during a scuffle with federal agents who arrested him in January 2011.

He was scheduled to be sentenced May 29. Assistant Federal Public Defender Marketa Sims filed a motion May 9 asking for a delay in the hearing, in part so that she could investigate whether the government used the inmate to record privileged conversations.

U.S. District Judge Maurice Cohill on Monday granted Sims’ motion and rescheduled Begolly’s sentencing hearing for July 10.

Bruce Antkowiak, a former federal prosecutor who is a St. Vincent College law professor, said it is unlikely that another inmate would be in a position to overhear or record a conversation between an attorney and inmate.

“That’s a big deal — if you actually were listening in through any devices to attorney-client conversations,” Antkowiak said.

Kitchen said in court documents the government does not object to delaying the hearing but denies any wrongdoing. The informant reached out to prosecutors because he was seeking a deal with the government and offered up several pieces of information that included Begolly’s threats, he said.

Before that Oct. 12 meeting, “neither undersigned counsel nor any member of the prosecution team involved in this case against the defendant Emerson Begolly was aware of the existence of the confidential informant, nor what information he/she might provide,” Kitchen said.

The government does not plan to charge Begolly with making the threat, but it may offer it at his sentencing as evidence that he shows no remorse for what he did, Kitchen said.

 Previous posts on the Penn State jihadist here.