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Article: New Islamic Caliphate Rises PDF Print E-mail
Check out this article entitled "New Islamic Caliphate Challenges Western Crusaders" written by Chriss Street. The article examines the focus of Islamic fundamentalists in the future.   The Islamists are unliked their secular predecessors in the PLO and other organizations.  They disdain the Western imposed boundaries between the many countries of North Africa and the Mideast.  With the flick of a pen, Winston Churchill created the country of Transjordan, ultimately called Jordan.  The Hashemite King of Jordan was actually from the Saudi Arabian peninsula, counting Mecca and Medina within his traditional territory.  But no more.
Look at a map of Africa and the Mideast.  The strong straight lines were imposed on these vast territories in the days long before satellites and Google Maps.  But they also threw national boundaries over traditional migration patterns and tribal areas - easier for imperial powers to divide and conquer when national boundaries have set the stage.
But the Radical Islamists, the Salafists, the Islamic Magreb (the North African Al Qaeda) now want to constitute a vast Umma across the national boundaries toward a rising Islamic Caliphate.   One may consider it fantasy in a 'modern world', but there is nothing but disdain for Western values and secularism with its pornographic centric and violent media.  Western Democracy is not the goal.   In the Salafists world, Spain is still 'Andalusia', its ancient Berber Muslim name.  Spain's birthrate for its native Spaniards is 1.11, well below the generally excepted replacement rate of 2.1.  The Muslim birthrate (not all of whom are Radical Islamists) was at point 5.68.  In two generations, Spain will once again be a Muslim country.
War rises over the last month in Algeria with its major hostage crisis.  The Algerian Radical Islamic war cost 200,000 lives in a country with a low population.  Mali, in central Africa, is now fighting Radical Islamist uprisings.  If you think that Mali has nothing to do with your world, I read (somewhere; can't find it!) that Mali has the world's 3rd largest reserves of uranimium, supplying French nuclear reactors.  Hence, one reason that the French are really against this Islamic uprising.  France is the world's (and certainly Europes) largest exporter of electricity with its major nuclear plants.  Globalization connected once again.
 
China's Leadership Crisis Stirs the Economic Crisis PDF Print E-mail
An excellent article by Ambrose Evans-Pirtichard which discusses the percolating problems within the Communist Chinese Party.    I have added my own bold italics for emphasis. 

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has covered world politics and economics for 30 years, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, serving as Washington correspondent and later Europe correspondent in Brussels. He is now International Business Editor in London.



China's Revolution Risk

By Ambrose Evans-PritchardEconomicsLast updated: September 10th, 2012

China's Communist Party is facing internal problems

We all know by now about the simmering leadership crisis in China. The Bo Xilai affair has lifted the lid on a hornet's nest. I had not realised quite how serious the situation has become until listening to China expert Cheng Li here at the Ambrosetti forum of the world policy elites on Lake Como. (My hardship assignment each year.) Nor had anybody else in the room at Villa d'Este. There were audible gasps.

The rifts within the upper echelons of Chinese Communist Party are worse than they were during the build-up to Tiananmen Square, he said, and risks spiralling into "revolution". Dr Cheng — a Shanghai native — is research director of the Brookings Institution in Washington and a director of the National Committee on US-China Relations. He argues that China's economic hard-landing is intertwined with a leadership crisis as the ten-year power approaches this autumn. The two are feeding on each other. "You cannot forecast the Chinese economy unless you have a sophisticated view of the political landscape and the current succession crisis," he said.

There has of course been a basic policy error. The government thought it could cool of the property boom with surgical tightening, leaving productive industry intact. That was an illusion. "They didn't expect the market reaction to be so strong and bring down the whole economy," he said.

It remains to be seen whether this is a variant of errors made by the Fed in 1928 and the Bank of Japan in 1990 when they tried to calibrate a soft-landing after an asset bubble had already run out of control. Charlene Chu from Fitch Ratings issued a note last week warning that China's banking sector assets are near $21 trillion, up from $9 trillion in late 2008. This is extraordinary rate of banking growth. Even a modest shock could "wipe out the sector's entire earnings," she said.

Be that as it may, Dr Cheng said fears of a disintegrating political model are now eating in economic confidence. "This legitimacy crisis is worse than in 1989, and may be the worst in the history of the Communist Party. People are afraid that it could lead to revolution if it is not handled well."

The worry is that the transition could go badly awry as 70pc of top cadres and the military are replaced, the biggest changeover since the party came to power in the late 1940s. "That is what is causing capital flight. All the top officials are trying to get their money out of the country," he said.

Dr Cheng grew up during the Cultural Revolution. That makes one very sensitive to the risks of sudden lurches in the Chinese ruling system, not always for the better. He said the scandal around Bo Xilai and the party machine in Chongqing – and the fight-back by Mao nostalgics – is a symptom of a much broader crisis. The word in Beijing is that Bo Xilai alone has squirreled away $1.3 billion, but there are other even worse cases. Mr Cheng said a former railway minister – known as Mr 4pc — had ammassed $2.8 billion. "This level of corruption is unprecedented in the history of China and unparalled in the world," he said. (I would have thought Russia's oligarchs are right up there, but never mind).

Frankly, I don't know what to make of this. I pass it on to readers for your own judgement. Like everybody else with an interest in world affairs, I have been watching the escalating disputes in the South China Sea and the East China Sea with astonishment. We had a fresh clash this morning after Japan vowed to press ahead with the purchase of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Chinese president Hu Jintao, no less, rattled a sharp sabre. "It is illegal and invalid for Japan to buy the islands via any means. China firmly opposes it. China will unswervingly safeguard its sovereignty. Japan must realize the severity of the situation and not make a wrong decision," he said at the APEC summit.

Personally, I rather admire the team of Hu Jintao (without wishing to get into the Tibet issue) and premier Wen Jiabao. They fully recognize that China's investment-led (50 per cent of GDP) development model is well past its sell-by date. They have been trying to rein in the hotheads and militarist adventurers. It is the possibility of what comes next that keeps one awake at night. As Dr Cheng said: "We shouldn't be afraid of China's success. We should be much more worried about China's failure."
 
Mark Tapson "Subverting the Legal System" PDF Print E-mail
My friend, journalist extraordinaire, Mark Tapson, discusses the subversion of America's Legal system through Sharia law put in place by - American Muslim Jurists!  They can - under Sharia law - use Radical Islam to subvert the American legal system which is supposed to work without any inherent religious bias.

 

"Subverting America's Legal System"

by Mark Tapson


Scholar of Islam Andrew Bostom, interviewed recently about Islamic anti-Semitism here and here at FrontPage, has brought to our attention a revealing, 47-page Arabic-language document discovered by the Center for Security Policy and translated into English by his colleague at Translating Jihad. The paper was published by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) in 2007, and presented at their 2008 careers conference in Houston . The document makes it clear that AMJA’s ultimate goal, as Bostom puts it, “is nothing less than the eventual subversion of the American legal system” to sharia law.


AMJA’s website explains that the group’s purpose is to service the growing Muslim population living in the non-Muslim Americas, giving them authoritative guidance as to what is allowable under the manmade laws of “infidel lands.” The organization also offers itself as “an authentic source of Islamic learning and thought for all peoples of the Americas.”


All peoples who understand Arabic, that is. For those who do and who care to investigate, the organization reveals its subversive agents. As Translating Jihad notes about the newly discovered document from AMJA, the papaper makes clear that according to Islam, the only legitimate law is that which comes from Allah, and in fact authority to make laws rests with Allah alone. This renders every other legal system — including the American system — illegitimate.


Naturally, in the United States everyone is expected to abide by the law, under which all are equal, Muslims included. But AMJA’s authoritative rulings require all Muslims to defer to the law of infidels only according to darura , the doctrine of necessity, for “it is required for a Muslim to be hostile to courts which rule by man-made law.” As Translating Jihad states in his assessment,

Throughout the paper it is made abundantly clear that Muslims should view the American and other non-Muslim legal systems as infidel systems, and that they are only to participate in them in specific circumstances in order to benefit Islam and Muslims generally. They are specifically instructed to feel hatred in their hearts toward such infidel legal systems, and to do everything within their power to make the Islamic Shari’a supreme, even if that means engaging in deception in certain cases.

Even if it means engaging in deception . It is disturbing enough that such direction is being given to, say, the average Muslim called in for jury duty, but this is expected to apply to Muslims higher up the legal ladder as well – from legal aide to attorneys all the way up to judges. A Muslim judge too, according to the document, “must in his heart hate the man-made law”:

He must also do everything in his power to enact laws that allow the Muslims to practice their Shari’a. He must keep it in his mind that he was not permitted to take this job except to serve Islam and Muslims. He must also… judge by the rulings of the Shari’a as much as possible, even if by a ruse.

So a Muslim judge is allowed to participate in the infidel system of justice only to serve Islam and fellow Muslims, not everyone who comes before his bench without discrimination, and he must rule as much as possible according to the dictates of sharia without attracting undue attention to his true intentions and loyalty.


AMJA qualifies even something as fundamental as acquiring citizenship in, and swearing allegiance to, the United States. It has issued a fatwa ruling that U.S. citizenship is acceptable for Muslims only “on the condition that they do not accept indefinitely the law and legislation of that country” and maintain their “loyalty to Allah and His Messenger.”


Another fatwa from AMJA explicitly discusses preparing for offensive jihad against America and the West, as soon as Muslims are in a strong enough position to do so. Offensive jihad refers to the Islamic imperative to subjugate the world ; defensive jihad means protecting Islam and Muslims against supposed aggressors. When asked whether the Islamic community in the West is ready to undertake offensive jihad, AMJA ruled :


The Islamic community does not possess the strength to engage in offensive jihad at this time. With our current capabilities, we are aspiring toward defensive jihad, and to improve our position with regards to jurisprudence at this stage.


As Translating Jihad points out, AMJA is not some fringe group. Its scholars are considered authoritative and influential, and it enjoys mainstream acceptance not only in the American Muslim community (including endorsement of the organization’s seventh annual American conference in Houston in late 2010 to train American imams), but internationally. This report from the Muslim Observer asserts that AMJA


has a list of scholars associated with it which stretches from Al-Azhar University to Virginia’s Open University, and back across the ocean to the professors at Saudi universities.


The organization has issued fatwas which sanction the killing of apostates , of blasphemers (including non-Muslims guilty of it), and of adulterers (by stoning, no less), and which condone marital rape. Those, from a mainstream Muslim authority. Somehow such rulings are always swept under the carpet by the chic and slick academic apologists for Islam like John Esposito or Reza Aslan , or President Obama’s Muslim advisor Dalia Mogahed , who offer slippery, whitewashed defenses of sharia.


Based on these rulings, it’s difficult to see that the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America is doing anything but fighting the long war against the infidel, secretly undermining our legal system now as much as possible, in tiny but accumulating increments, with an eye toward the day when fundamentalist Muslims can openly install sharia.


You can see the Original Publication here.

 
Israel Unleashed Virus to Hit Iranian Nuke Plants PDF Print E-mail

Iranian officials admitted Sunday that they had uncovered evidence of the Duqu computer virus -- labeled "Son of Stuxnet" by cyber experts -- at the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites, state-controlled IRNA news agency reported.

"We are in the initial phase of fighting the Duqu virus," Gholamreza Jalali, was quoted as saying. "The final report which says which organizations the virus has spread to and what its impacts are has not been completed yet."

The original Stuxnet malware was the culmination of a vast technical and espionage effort that had only one target in mind: the Iranian nuclear program. And is widely believed to be the work of the United States and Israel. Experts who looked at the program were amazed at its ability to penetrate Iran’s secure, highly protected security system and destroy it without being detected.

 
A Private Spy Network Operating in the Mideast PDF Print E-mail
[Article Above From New York Times so be aware of their agenda when reading]

Duane R. Clarridge no longer works with the CIA but runs his own spy network in San Diego.  With long experience in the shadowy world of espionage, Claridge has undertaken to work with government funding or without government funding to undertake operations against a variety of targets in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

•Charles E. Allen, a former top intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security who worked with Mr. Clarridge at the C.I.A., termed him an “extraordinary” case officer who had operated on “the edge of his skis” in missions abroad years ago.

•Mr. Clarridge declined to be interviewed, but issued a statement that likened his operation, called the Eclipse Group, to the Office of Strategic Services, the C.I.A.’s World War II precursor. “O.S.S. was a success of the past,” he wrote. “Eclipse may possibly be an effective model for the future, providing information to officers and officials of the United States government who have the sole responsibility of acting on it or not.”

 

 

 
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