TRADING FREEDOM FOR OIL

America is in a highly compromising position of servitude after decades of concessions with the Saudis to obtain oil and preserve invested business interests. Submissiveness to Saudi/Islamic rules has placed America in a state of dhimmitude, which is essentially enforced non-Muslim compliance to Islamic Law, that extends into the arena of energy, security, policy, education, finance, and religion.

Saudi-Islamic interests became synonymous with “American national interest.” when Saudi King Faisel warned the president of ARAMCO in the 1970s that American oil companies must prove their loyalty to his Islamic kingdom or suffer higher oil prices, and perhaps lose all their investments in the region. With bribery an incentive and extortion a consequence of non-compliance, officials engaged in public relations efforts to improve the Arab image in America. The effort involved intense lobbying, public relations events, and massive media propaganda to influence Congress and to change America’s opinion regarding Israeli concerns, and Israel’s right to exist.[1]

 In lieu of paying the Saudis foreign aid, an agreement in 1972 allowed oil-producing countries to receive 25% of each American oil company’s profits, allowing for gradual transfer of ownership that would reach 51% by 1983. The American oil companies did not realize that loopholes in the agreement would eventually allow the Saudis to demand more money per barrel of oil in the future.[2]

 The oil weapon became a reality when the U.S. resupplied Israel militarily during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. The resulting embargo led to oil price hikes and a ban on oil shipments to some countries and a hike in price. Interestingly, the price of oil had risen only one dollar in the twenty years from 1953-1973, but on October 16, 1973 the OPEC cartel increased the price to $5.12 per barrel.[3] Some Arab countries were earning $12.7 million dollars per hour in 1974.[4]

 Petrodollar recycling allowed for oil revenues to be recycled back into the U.S. market in stocks, bonds, financial securities, and bank deposits. Initially investing most of its funds in U.S. government securities, Middle East oil exporters held $39.9 billion in U.S. Government securities by the end of 1983, with Saudi Arabia the largest shareholder. Saudi Arabia became a major investor in American corporations and by 1978, Saudi Arabia was the largest shareholder of FANNIE MAE.[5] Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, Chemical Bank, Citibank, Morgan Guaranty were banks that benefited from the growing Arab oil revenue surplus[6]

 To induce the Saudis to invest in the U.S., the American government agreed to confidentiality regarding Arab investments. The Kuwait portfolio, managed by Citibank included large shares of Mc Donald’s, Ralston Purina, Atlantic Richfield, Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, General Mills, Dow Chemical, Eastman Kodak, J.C. Penny, and Proctor & Gamble. [7]

 In 2008, Citigroup’s largest shareholder was Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Kuwait Investment Authority more recent investors.[8] During the 2008 financial crisis, Citigroup purchased Wachovia for $2.1 billion, and absorbed up to $42 billion of losses from Wachovia’s $312 billion loan portfolio. The sale allowed for keeping the name ‘Wachovia,’ and gave Citigroup over 4,300 U.S. branches with $600 billion in deposits, placing Citigroup among the U.S. banking industry’s “Big Three,” alongside Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

 Unknown to the average American, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) acquired General Electric’s Plastics division for $11.6 billion in cash on May 21, 2007.[9] A financial company with a manufacturing arm, GE is one of the largest lenders in countries other than the United States, and stands to receive Stimulus money.[10]

 The U.S. Treasury Department is aware that, Shari’ah financial products fund terrorism, yet on November 6, 2008. the U.S. Treasury Department and the Islamic Finance Project of the Harvard Law School, hosted a forum entitled “Islamic Finance 101” Just two days after the 2008 Presidential Election, and in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, the forum was an effort to train government employees on Shari’ah-compliant finance (SCF). Its purpose was to introduce and educate the Treasury Department staff, U.S. banking regulatory agencies, Congress, Department of Treasury, and other parts of the Executive Branch on Shari’ah finance. According to a press release, the forum was reportedly “designed to help inform the policy community about Islamic financial services, which are an increasingly important part of the global financial industry.”

 Saudis also use petrodollars to influence American education from elementary schools to universities. Sarah Stern, who heads the Washington, D.C. based Endowment for Middle East Truth think-tank (EMET) said the Saudis are making use of a clause called “Title VI” to indoctrinate teachers from K-12th grade with anti-American, anti-Israeli standards. Title VI and the loopholes in Bill Clinton’s 1995 Educational Guidelines allow academia to bring in off-campus activists, and pay them lecture fees to propagandize teachers and the general public at taxpayer expense.[11]

 Over the last 30 years, the Saudi royal family has contributed over $70 billion to promote Arab studies that center around Islam and spread anti-American and anti-Israeli propaganda. Some of the Universities that receive endowments include Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia University, USC, Duke University, and even Texas A&M, to name only a few. Politicians welcomed programs and students from the Middle East when Arab leaders began lavishing generous donations to American educational institutions. In return, they demanded special privileges and the right to influence policy favorable to Islam. [12]

 Infiltration of the U.S. military chaplain corps and military ranks allowed Wahhabi-connected clergy to gain access to federal and state prison penal systems when the National Islamic Prison Foundation (NIPF) was founded in 1993 under Bill Clinton. Saudi-trained Islamic clerics began to minister to incarcerated Muslims and convert inmates to Islam. Practitioners of Saudi Arabia’s extreme, fundamentalist form of Islam were certified and trained as prison chaplains by either the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) or the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences. The NIPF receives thousands of books and pamphlets from Arabic nations to distribute to inmates and the Saudi government provides Korans to U.S. jails.

Al Qaeda training manuals found by U.S. troops in Afghanistan revealed that America’s black prisoners are a prime recruitment target for radical Islam. The NIPF clerics claim an average of 135,000 prison conversions each year, and most of them are African Americans, who upon their release could become Jihad soldiers. [13]

 Americans need to wake up from the dream that we are safe from terror. Allowing Islamic teaching in prisons is, in the very least, not beneficial for the American society, as prison reform should be. Rather, it further intensifies racism and hatred, and makes the converts even more radically anti-American and dangerous. Preaching Islam in the military is equally contradictory, as Muslim loyalty is clearly not with the American government nor concerned with the safety of American citizens.

 With a downsizing American military dispersed to Iraq and Afghanistan, it is reasonable to conclude that these hostile to whites Islamic converts will join forces with the known terrorist groups already in the U.S. such as Sheik Gilani’s thirty-five camps of The Soldiers of Allah, [14] to one day be used against non-Muslim Americans in the increasingly likely act of terror or martial law. It is most disturbing to imagine and horrific to acknowledge that this may be the exact scenario if we neglect to produce our own oil and confront the multifaceted Islamist invasion that is occurring in our midst and at our expense.

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[1] Emerson, Steve; The American House of Saud: The Secret Petrodollar Connection, Chapter 2, pp. 28-29, Franklin Watts Publisher, 1985

[2] Ibid; Chapter 2, pp. 26-35 

[3] Ibid; Chapter 4, p. 38 

[4] Ibid; Chapter 4, p. 45

[5] Ibid; Chapter 16, p.330 

[6] Ibid; Chapter 16, p. 315-333 

[7] Ibid; Chapter 16, p. 329-330 

[8]Malik, Tala; “Citi Launches Shari’ah Compliant Products in UAE,” May 13, 2008, http://www.arabianbusiness.com/519157-citi-launches-shariah-compliant-corporate-products-in-uae 

[9] Deutsch, Claudia H.; May 22, 2007, “General Electric to Sell Plastics Division,”  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/business/22plastics.html/?_r=1 

[10] “SABIC,”  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Basic_Industries_Corp 

[11] Fende, Hillel; “Saudi Infiltration into U.S. Education,” Israel National News, September 2008, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127663 

[12] Kaplan, Lee; “The Saudi Fifth Colimn  on Our College Campuses,” April 5, 2004, http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=13551 

[13] “National Islamic Prison Foundation,” http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6387 

[14] “Frightening Film on U.S. Training Camps,” February 17, 2009,  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494424,00.html

Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice Provides a Stealth Step Toward Islamization

The abortion issue is emotional for some and a moral issue for others. Regardless of your view, it is an extremely critical issue. My analysis of a pro-life vs. pro-choice depicts a scenario that illustrates how the issue can ensnare Westerners to unwittingly advance an Islamic government. I believe all Westerners are dangerously unaware of the opportunity for Islamic advancement via the pro-life vs. pro-choice dispute. Please follow me through the article as I present information and examples that may seem irrelevant, but are necessary to understand how and why the pro-life, pro-choice debate provides an excellent opportunity for advancement of the Islamization of America.

Islam has declared war on the West. President Obama’s insistence that America is not in a war with Islam puts us in enormous peril. Knowingly or unknowingly; willingly, or not willingly, our President is part of the Islamic plan to conquer the West, and he will be used to the full extent that his naïveté, ignorance, guilt, or arrogance allows. The same goes for you, my fellow Conservative, Liberal, Christian and Jewish Westerners.

 Obama’s birth father was descended from Muslims who had adopted the culture of Islamic Arab invaders in Africa. As a result, regardless of what Obama says or thinks, Muslims will consider him a Muslim. In the Muslim world, one is automatically a Muslim if the father was a Muslim. It does not matter if the father was not a practicing Muslim. If a father was Muslim, the child is one too. If one leaves Islam, it is with the knowledge that apostates are subject to the penalty of death in an Islamic dominated country. Neither does it matter if Obama is a good Muslim, or a bad Muslim. He is useful, and that makes him a “good” enough Muslim. He can even claim to be a Christian and he will still be considered a good Muslim–because he is advancing an Islamic agenda. How is that for hypocrisy? Well, here is some more…

Muslims are against abortion (for themselves). No Muslim woman would ever be allowed to have an abortion. However, this is Jihad, and it is the Western babies that are being aborted. In the perverse duality of Islam, abortion is a tool that diminishes the Western population. Abortion availability also serves as a tool to separate the “guilty” from the “not-guilty” and further in the future,  to provide a way to degrade the integrity of those who are “guilty” of having had an abortion.

 In our pro-choice society, Muslims simply choose not to have abortions. Abstinence and fidelity (for women) is mandated under the penalty of death in Islam, and the assumption that Shari’ah Law will soon prevail throughout the world.

 Muslims often tell non-Muslims that Muhammad stopped the pagan Arabs from burying unwanted baby girls in the sand. It has been disputed that this really happened, but the story advances the Islamic agenda by making Muhammad look like the only humanitarian in a world of wicked evildoers. The story serves to contradict Westerners who tell the truth about Muhammed’s murdurous ways. It also makes some Westerners feel guilty about our values, thus helping to promote the supposed virtues of Islam.

 If the story is true about Muhammed “saving” the baby girls from the wicked, pre-Islamic pagan Arabs, the surviving Arab baby girls would have had to live under Islamic rule, marry into polygomous relationships and have more babies as livestock slaves for Allah’s army. The story does not reveal what Muslim armies did to non-Muslim babies in historical slaughters throughout Byzantium and India. Too horrible to describe here, it invalidates the humanitarian approach.

 For the past two decades Muslims have been running for political office and actively endorsing candidates of both the Democrat and the Republican parties. Because Obama is a Democrat, is no reason to believe that all Muslims are Democrats. The truth is that Muslims are for Islam, and they will endorse anyone who promotes issues that will further the world wide Islamic caliphate. So, Muslims claim to be both Conservative and Republican in America nowadays. Abduraham Alamoudi gave millions of dollars to Bill Clinton for giving him influence in promoting Islam in American public schools and in appointing Imams within the penal system.

 Muslims seek ways to hijack the Republican party as well. After 911, Muslims endorsed Bush II in his second term to the extent that he was willing to ease up on the Patriot Act. An example of actively penetrating the Republican party is by simply calling themselves Republican, thereby making use or the party as a hermit crab would use an empty shell.

 An example of the Islamic infiltration into the Republican party is the president of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Islamic Educational Center in Arlington, Texas, Jammal Quadurra. Quadurra is a Muslim who actively disparages Americans who speak out about the dangers of Islamofascism, and expose the motives and methods of the Muslim Brotherhood. Quadurra has spoken harshly about Brigitte Gabriel, founder of ACT! For America, and Dorrie O’Brien, the Grand Prairie, Texas ACT! For America Chapter Leader. Quadurra wrote that “ACT! For America and other hate-mongering organizations are funded by their own victims: poor and ill-informed fellow citizens. Individuals such as Gabriel prey on their fears and manipulate their minds to sell books, make a buck and laugh all the way to the bank.”

 Quadurra visciously attacked Robert Bodisch, deputy director of the Texas Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, and the North Central Texas Fusion System– a data sharing system focused on the prevention of accidental and intentional disasters in North Texas. Quadurra’s objection was centered around justifiable concern of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into the United States, and that Hezbollah and Hamas are training the Mexican drug cartel at the Texas border. Jammal Quadurra is a Republican Party precinct chair in Arlington, Texas, who calls himself a Texan.

 To painstakingly describe an example of how the Islamist proponents manipulate words and information, and then cry foul when information is placed in its correct context, I will use a quote from Quadurra in an article where he attempted to discredit Brigitte Gabriel, Robert Bodisch, and the North Central Texas Fusion System. Quadurra wrote in a Texas publication called Star-Telegram:

 ”Nothing personal, but at the end of the day, it’s all about the money. I urge everyone to check the facts about your safety from the government agencies that are in charge of your safety.”

 Quadurra wants us to believe that Brigitte Gabriel, Robert Bodisch, and the North Central Texas Fusion System are manipulating the naive American citizenry for money. However, putting the quote in another context means that Islamists are bribing and extorting our leaders into endorsing Islam.

It also raises the question of how much money Quadurra receives from Arab and Islamic sources for holding his position as the president of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Islamic Educational Center in Arlington, Texas.

It is very important to remember that a Muslim’s guiding principle is that– both short and long term  means justify the ends–that everything is relative to achieving Islamic goals. In reality, Muslims are contemptuous of our Democratic two party “man-made government.” Their true loyalties lie with Islamic parties such as Hamas, Fatah,  or Hezbollah, and they ultimitely endorse a one-world ”Islamic Nation,” also called a “Caliphate.” It is entirely possible that Bush’s open immigration policy was fully endorsed by Muslims in order to get more Muslims into the country. Persuading a candidate to promote the Islamic agenda is entirely possible with sufficient financial contributions, or shall we say, “bribery.” 

Getting a President to effect policy that promotes an Islamic agenda may be easier that convincing the American public of the same policy. One way is to infiltrate the Republican and Democratic parties, and promote issues that appeal to either or both parties. For example, Muslims believe they will teach us morality, family values, which are issues that appeals to Conservatives. Within the Democrat party, Muslims will tend to endorse multi-culturalism and diversity because it divides and weakens traditional American values; humanitarianism–insinuating we are a cruel society; immigration and more government spending because it takes away from the taxpayer and bleeds our economy.  

The above examples describe how in the future, it will be easy for a Muslim to win an election as a candidate of either party while admitting he/she is a Muslim. With Christianity, Judaism, and ”aging white politicians” demonized, a Muslim candidate could run on a platform of multiculturalism, humanitarianism, lowering taxes, and family values. If they make it known that they are personally against abortion, they will have a winning ticket with no further commitment or elaboration required. Liberal voters would vote for them regardless because they do not perceive them as traditional coservatives, and Conservatives would hasten to vote for the pro-life issue. 

If a muslim candidate were a man, he could easily win an election in our diverse, multi-cultural, “tolerant” society. If the candidate were a woman it would be even better. A female candidate could get the votes of non-Muslim liberals as well as the votes of women. Christian and Jewish pro-lifers of both sexes would jump from the frying pan into the fire to vote for a person they believe has the same values as themselves regarding abortion, while simultaneously believing they are keeping religion separate from politics.

 Of course, in an Islamic dominated country, women do not usually hold public office, (that is unless it advances Islam). But in our current phase of progressive Islamization in America, a Muslim woman could get the camel’s body in the tent (the nose is already in). A woman would also be used as an example to deny all our accused “misconceptions” about women’s rights in Islam. A few terms later, or after the camel has succeeded in getting all the way into the tent (so to speak) , a man would inevitably take over, to the triumph of fundamental Islam. Such is the value of women in Islam!

 Jews and Christians should remember that humans are made in God’s image, God gave us free will, and he is forgiving. These concepts are all tenents that Islam denies. The cornerstone of Western society, these concepts are what Islam seeks to eradicate. Therefore, we cannot fall for the imposed “White-guilt” syndrome, which is as much a farce as the derogatory term “Islamophobe.” Both terms represent imposed methods of intimidation, and should be exposed as such.

 All free people should remember that removal of free will and a lack of forgiveness are analogous to being a slave for Allah. Forgetting so provides Islamists a golden opportunity to stealthily use deceptive dualism to advance Islam. 

France to Study Burka-Gear

France wants to study the burka,  and it may lead to a ban on wearing the intimidating gear in public. I think this is a great humanitarian move.  If you can see past the “modesty” excuse,  burkas put women on the “front-line” of Jihad, they are an excellent way to cover bruises, and they ensure prolonged physical abuse. ~MCL

From the Huffington Post:

PARIS — France wants to study the small but growing trend of burqa wear, with an eye to possibly banning the Islamic garment from being worn in public, the government’s spokesman said Friday.

Luc Chatel told France-2 television that the government would seek to set up a parliamentary commission that could propose legislation aimed at barring Muslim women from wearing the burqa and other fully covering gowns outside the home.

“If we find that use of the burqa was very clearly imposed (on women) … we would draw the appropriate conclusions,” Chatel said. Asked whether that could mean legislation banning the burqa in France, he responded “why not?”

In France, the terms “burqa” and “niqab” often are used interchangeably. The former refers to a full-body covering worn largely in Afghanistan with only a mesh screen over the eyes, whereas the latter is a full-body veil, often in black.

Chatel’s comments have helped revive debate about whether wear of Islamic garments is appropriate in France, a country with a long and proud secular tradition.

In 2004, a law banning the Islamic headscarf and other highly visible religious symbols from French public schools sparked a heated debate on the issue. Proponents insisted such a ban was necessary to ensure France’s schools remain strictly secular, while some Muslims countered the law specifically targeted them and unduly punished Muslim girls.

French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Friday that having a parliamentary commission study the issue would be a “good way” to find out how extensively burqas and niqabs are worn in France _ and what response might be adequate.

She conceded that legislating on what people can and cannot wear in public was a spiny matter, and also acknowledged it would be difficult to determine whether women wore the full-body veils because they were forced to or because they wanted to, Alliot-Marie said.

“It’s a relatively complex problem,” she told reporters.

The head of France’s opposition Socialist party dismissed the issue, saying that in the middle of the global financial crisis, the country’s legislators have more pressing matters to deal with.

France, which once held colonies throughout North Africa, has Western Europe’s largest Muslim population. Muslims represent an estimated 5 million of the nation’s 63 million people.

Associated Press writer Laurence Joan-Grange in Paris contributed to this report.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/19/french-wants-to-study-bur_n_218132.html

Mock-Democracy in Iran–An Example for Americans

I want to express my thoughts on what is happening in Iran regarding the demonstrations for a fair democracy and election process.

My regrets for those who have lost their lives and their loved ones in the past week, as well as those who have been incarcerated. I hope that the issue will be resolved without further trouble, but that does not look like the case.
 
This is happenning at a very bad time for Obama, and for those who would like to further Islamization and fascism in America. In a way it puts the Obama Administration severely on the spot…Because Obama is so enamoured by the “Muslim world”…It re-awakens, and informs the American public that Islam does not make for a desirable form of government…even if it is under the guise of a Democracy. It exposes that it is really a  “Mock-Democracy” that enlightened people are trying to get away from. It forces Obama to take a stand after he has agreed to talks without pre-conditions, and his playing up to Ahmadenjad (or shall I say Achmaed-done-a-job!) at NouRouz.  So it makes Americans wonder why does Obama play up to Ahmadenijad? And even at that, Ahmadenijad is blaming America! (Probaby for the Internet this time–and because America is supposed to be an example of a Democracy!)
 
It is important for Americans to see that even the Iranian people do not want the religious regime,  and that we should not kow-tow and accept bribes from Islamic regimes. It shows Americans the value of our Democracy, and could help us save what is left of ours!
 
It also shows my own children…because their Dad had previously convinced them that the Democracy in Iran was “the greatest Democracy in the world,” and that Ahmadenijad was well liked, and “dissenters” were a mislead few.
 
I am praying for the Freedom Fighters!

~MCL

Florida Counter Terrorism Group to Sue Delray Beach Marriot

http://www.floridasecuritycouncil.org/
Florida Security Council will file suit on Delray Beach Marriot on June 17, 2009.
Tom Trento, Florida Security Council Director, said that a breach of contract and cancellation of a well-planned  Free Speech Summit on April 27, 2009, where the FSC was to honor the controversial Dutch Parliamentarian Mr. Geert Wilders, came as a complete surprise. ... “The fact that the Marriott sent me an email, at 7pm on a Friday night, cancelling our well-planned event, made it very plain to me that something was up. I suspected there was more here than a breach of contract.”

An investigation by the FSC began to unravel the possibility that ”outside agents” may have had a role in persuading the Marriott to cancel the Summit, most likely because some feared the message of the event would provide a critical analysis of Isalm. This is a civil rights violation as well as a 1st amendment issue.~MCL

Craig Winn on Biblical Prophesies of Islam

Listen to Craig Winn Speak on Biblical Prophesies of Islam:

Wake Up Private–They’re Here for US!

This is an email I received today. Happy Memorial Day!~MCL 

 

Wake up, Private, they will be here soon.

Colonel, wake up, it’s Memorial Day.

Somebody poke the Lieutenant over there and make sure he’s awake, too. They’re celebrating Memorial Day, and they will be here soon.

They will be here with small American flags pushed through the grass and earth on top of us.

They bring the fragrance of newly blossomed flowers, the stems still moist from the fresh cuts.

They will be here soon with trumpets to remember us and what we did in Arlington and Richmond, Leesburg, Gettysburg and Normandy.

They will come to read our names, touch our headstones.

They will think about you, over there, at Bunker Hill, and you, beyond, and the rest of the men from Fort McHenry.

There will be a salute with rifles, and it will be for you who came here from Guadalcanal and Pork Chop Hill, and you, beyond, from the jungles of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Grenada.

Wake up, Sergeant; they are coming with a speech for you and your soul mates from Beirut and Desert Storm.

They will be here for you, the men and women from Somalia and Panama and the recent fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Stay awake, now, sailor. They will be here soon with a song for you and your mates from the Iowa and the Arizona, the Pueblo, the USS Liberty, the Stark, and the Cole.

And you who served in time of peace but faced the fire and fever while patrolling freedom’s wall, they are coming because you gave the last full measure of devotion.

They are coming with quiet voices.

The assembled will again resolve that none of us, not one of us here, died in vain.

They will pledge that our rows will not lengthen without just cause or without the prayerful counsel of a united nation.

They will deliver to us the sweet, enduring promise that the United States of America shall not perish from the Earth.

They will be here soon, our sons and daughters, our wives and husbands, our mothers and fathers, our brothers and sisters, and those who never knew us.

They have not forgotten.

 God bless America and those who defend it!

 

 

 

Middle East’s Culture of Cruelty Caught on Tape

Original article by Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com
May 15, 2009

Some of the bravest and most distinguished analysts from the Middle East emphasize that region’s culture of cruelty. Kanan Makiya titled his 1994 book about Arabs Cruelty and Silence. Fouad Ajami writes about Beirut being “lost to a new reign of cruelty,” about Iraq’s “plunder and cruelty and sectarian animus,” and about the region’s “cruelty, waste, and confusion.”

Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Bassam Nabulsi. Issa shooting around Shah Poor. Issa stuffing sand down Shah Poor’s mouth. Issa directing the cameraman. Issa running over Shah Poor.

That cruelty, usually at a remove from outsiders, became cinematically vivid on April 22, 2009, when ABC News aired a tape of a prince from the United Arab Emirates sadistically torturing an Afghan merchant he accused of dishonesty. No less instructive were the passive reactions of his government and of American officials. The story reveals much and is worth pondering:

In Abu Dhabi, the UAE’s largest and most powerful emirate, the Nahyan family has long ruled and dominated. After the 2004 death of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who had ruled the emirate since its independence in 1971, his long-restrained 22 royal sons and grandsons reveled in their new-found freedom of action. One of them in particular, Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a younger brother of Abu Dhabi’s current ruler and president of the seven-member United Arab Emirates federation, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (b. 1948), went crazy. “It’s like you flipped a switch and the man took a wrong turn in his life and started getting violent,” comments Bassam Nabulsi, 50, of Houston, Texas, a native of Lebanon and former business associate of Issa’s.

Issa met Nabulsi in Houston, where Nabulsi provided him with hotel and limousine services. Their relationship developed into a business partnership that lasted over twelve years. But Nabulsi is now suing Issa for breach of contract in a federal court in Houston; to support his accusations, Nabulsi made public a 45-minute tape of Issa torturing an Afghan grain dealer named Mohammed Shah Poor in 2004. Issa accused the dealer of cheating him of a grain delivery to his ranch worth about US$5,000 and assaulted him at night in a remote spot.

ABC News ran an initial television story of the tape (which can be seen here). Its accompanying print story, “Torture Tape Implicates UAE Royal Sheikh,” summarizes the gruesome details:

The Sheikh begins by stuffing sand down the man’s mouth, as the police officers restrain the victim. Then he fires bullets from an automatic rifle around him as the man howls incomprehensibly. At another point on the tape, the Sheikh can be seen telling the cameraman to come closer. “Get closer. Get closer. Get closer. Let his suffering show,” the Sheikh says.

Over the course of the tape, Sheikh Issa acts in an increasingly sadistic manner. He uses an electric cattle prod against the man’s testicles and inserts it in his anus. At another point, as the man wails in pain, the Sheikh pours lighter fluid on the man’s testicles and sets them aflame. Then the tape shows the Sheikh sorting through some wooden planks. “I remember there was one that had a nail in it,” he says on the tape. The Sheikh then pulls down the pants of the victim and repeatedly strikes him with board and its protruding nail.

At one point, he puts the nail next to the man’s buttocks and bangs it through the flesh. “Where’s the salt,” asks the Sheikh as he pours a large container of salt on to the man’s bleeding wounds. The victim pleads for mercy, to no avail. The final scene on the tape shows the Sheikh positioning his victim on the desert sand and then driving over him repeatedly. A sound of breaking bones can be heard on the tape.

Shah Poor survived this sustained assault; Nabulsi says his frantic efforts got Shah Poor to a hospital where he spent months recovering from internal injuries.

Nabulsi recounts that Issa had tapes made of this and other torture sessions so he could later relish his sadism and writes that he “maintained all important business and personal items for Sheikh Issa,” including the Shah Poor video. In April 2005, Nabulsi explains, due to his criticism of Issa’s torturing, the two business partners fell out. Nabulsi hid the tape as evidence of Issa’s depravity and, in turn, Issa sent the Abu Dhabi police to retrieve it. When Nabulsi stonewalled, they arrested him on trumped-up charges of marijuana possession and held him in Al-Wathba Prison for three months.

Nabulsi says he was subject to many assaults during his incarceration. According to his Houston lawyer, Tony Buzbee, as police officers stuck a finger in his anus. they said, “This is from Sheik Issa. Are you going to give us the tapes?” Buzbee maintains that the guards “would keep him from sleeping, deny him his medications, tell him they were going to rape his wife, kill his child. They made him pose naked while they took pictures.” Allegedly, Issa himself sometimes participated in the torture sessions. A court eventually acquitted Nabulsi and he managed to escape Abu Dhabi.

Almost as revealing as the tape itself was the response to it from the Abu Dhabi and U.S. governments. In an official statement, the former deemed the matter settled privately between Issa and Shah Poor because the two agreed “not to bring formal charges against each other, i.e., theft on the one hand and assault on the other hand.” Prodded by ABC News, Abu Dhabi’s Interior Ministry acknowledged Issa’s role in the tape but claimed that “The incidents depicted in the video tapes were not part of a pattern of behavior.” Its review found “all rules, policies and procedures were followed correctly by the Police Department.” As for Nabulsi’s case, Interior “also confirmed that Mr. Nabulsi was in no way mistreated during his incarceration for drug possession.”

Perhaps it bears mentioning that Abu Dhabi’s minister of the interior is one of Issa’s brothers?

As for officials at the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi, Nabulsi gives them mixed grades. Some knew about the torture tapes but did not protest Issa’s actions. In particular, Bill Wallrap of the Department of Homeland Security saw some of the tape one day before Nabulsi’s arrest; Nabulsi quotes his response as advising him to “gather your family and get out of the country as soon as possible for your own safety.” Other U.S. embassy employees, however, did help and Nabulsi says their visits to him in prison had a critical role in his staying alive and fleeing the country. Hillary Clinton’s State Department has been conspicuously silent on the matter; revealingly, after watching 10 minutes of the film, one U.S. diplomat bloodlessly commented, “It was interesting.”

However, the one-two punch of ABC News playing portions of the torture tape on air and to Rep. James McGovern (Democrat of Massachusetts), chairman of the Human Rights Commission of the U.S. House, did have consequences. Fully five years after the incident took place, Abu Dhabi authorities finally arrested Issa, detained other participants in the torture session, and announced a criminal probe into the torture.

Most inconveniently for the UAE, the torture tape surfaced just as the U.S. government was considering a nuclear cooperation agreement with it, jeopardizing the bill’s passage. Rep. Ed Markey (Democrat of Massachusetts) expressed the view of many: “A country where the laws can be flouted by the rich and powerful is not a country that can safeguard sensitive U.S. nuclear technology.” Despite itself, the State Department is having to take the torture tape into account; the nuclear deal has been delayed and faces uncertain congressional prospects.

Comments:

(1) Issa’s unrestrained rage over a $5,000 delivery perfectly symbolizes the Middle East’s culture of cruelty. Those who have power flaunt and brandish it.

(2) What would befall someone accused of stealing $10,000? What might befall Bernard Madoff in Abu Dhabi?

(3) Issa and his henchmen have a practiced air about their torturing – suggesting they have done it before. Indeed, Nabulsi says he has more such videos in his possession.

(4) Abu Dhabi has a relatively benign government; one shudders to think what sport the grandees of tougher Middle Eastern states indulge in.

(5) As the world gets smaller, how does the West maintain a distance from this ghastly aspect of Middle Eastern life?

Muslim Persecution of Christians has Reached Genocidal Proportions

From the desk of David Horowitz…

Over the past few decades there has been a systematic and brutal campaign being leveled at the world’s Christian community. This has been happening in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. As disparate as these regions are, the common thread in all of these cases of persecution is that the perpetrators are Muslims. The Muslim persecution of Christians has reached Genocidal proportions.

It is an issue that no one wants to discuss. The level of international attention given to this issue is deafeningly quiet. No outcry, marches, protests, no speeches on the floor of Congress, no speeches at the United Nations. There are no major Hollywood productions and no Tibet-like bumper stickers.

Millions of Christians have been put to death for the sole reason that they are Christian. All of these deaths have been at the hands of Muslims, who kill the “infidel” in the name of their prophet Muhammad.

The time for silence at this Genocidal persecution of Christians is over. The Freedom Center has written pamphlets and numerous articles on this issue, screened an exceptional movie by Pierre Rehov and brought speakers on the campuses of America to shine a light on these atrocities.

Now, the Center is releasing another in its series of flash videos to show in striking reality, the plight of the world’s Christians and to explain the threat they face. Our flash videos have been viewed by millions, from students to activists, the media and public officials.

This flash video, The Muslim Persecution of Christians is a vital tool that can be used to spread the truth and expose the nature of Islam and the threat it poses to all peoples of the world and in this case specifically, the plight of the Christians. The once vibrant Christian communities of the Middle and North Africa are disappearing before our eyes.

It is vital that not only Americans, but the whole world see what is happening. In order for us to have this flash video reach the millions that is necessary for it to have a full impact, we need to raise $55,000 over the month. Those funds will be used to secure targeted lists, post ads on websites, campus newspaper ads, radio spots and mailings.

We hope you can help us today by following this link to give $25 or more. This donation will go a long way in helping us reach our goal and bringing the plight of millions of Christians into the light. Thank you for your support.

Swine-Flu a Man-Made Hoax?

A couple days ago I received a very long email that gave lots of evidence that this flu could be man-made. I will post it below in the post called “Swine-Flu Bio-Teror?” I thought the explanation was entirely plausible. With that in mind, realize that the swine flu (now called H1N1) is reported to have first infected a village in Mexico. No one in that town died. It is possible that those individuals did not even have the “swine flu”. For one thing… it is utterly impossible that humans would not have developed a resistance to this strain if it is natural. Whether you eat pork or not, pigs have been around for centuries. Noah must have put them on the ark! That means that God told him to! (I wonder what Muhammed would think of that)

It is very likely that humans have naturally developed immunity to influenzas that are common in domesticated animals. Also, in one article, World Net Daily (WND) wrote that this strain is only passed through to three people. In another article, WND noted that it may be a way to persecute Christians.

The Mexican villagers and little boy who first contracted the formerly called “swine-flu” are very likely (in my opinion) being used. They are simple, innocent people who are undoubtedly flattered by the attention. Unfortunately they would never know if or how they could be used. Their village is so far south (even from Texas), that Americans would not know otherwise either. I saw a television report at the onset of the pandemic (NBC I believe)that showed the formerly infected child happily running to the reporter. The American reporter also interviewed a man who lived to tell in Spanish that his joints had ached when he had the dreaded “swine-flu.” Then they showed a woman, but did not give the scene enough frame-time for her to say a complete sentence–she was speaking in Spanish as well. The American reporter said (for her) that (the woman said) that the village pig manuer holding lagoons were filthy (there was not even enough footage to hear the woman say it in Spanish..it that is what the reporter said.

Remember the stimulus money that is going to fund a study on pig odor in Idaho? Pig manure holding lagoons are going to be part of the study because they keep the nasty decomposing pig manure chemicals from getting into the air. They must be large enough for the stock and must be maintained properly of course. It has been reported that molecules of fatty acids from pig manure can attach to dry dust around pig farms, and that people who breathe that dust can get allergies and depression. I read a formerly written article on it in February..when the stimulus study was in the news….The article said nothing about developing illness or flu symptoms…just allergies and depression.

I am a certified aromatherapist and I know that foul smells can cause depression. When I was in the Middle East, I noticed that the stench of the outhouse style bathrooms in houses to be offensive, and I was terribly depressed in the Middle East. I also do not like the smell of body odor–it depresses me and can even make me angry…

We also know that some illnesses are airborne, but this swine flu is not airborne…It is passed by contact…and only throgh three people.

I suspect that the Idaho odor study was probably proposed by Muslims, not Jews–they simply avoid pork and don’t fuss about it. Most likely Muslim individuals will be paid to do the study (ot Jews and Muslims because even though neither eat pork, Muslims still want to kill them)

Directing the outcome of the study to make it look like raising pigs is a health hazard, instead of honestly trying to improve methods will be a priority…. Then with pre-determined results of the study, there can be legislation…and finally an EPA ruling…(like global warming…which compromises American sovereighnty and puts kazillions of dollars into the coffers of the Saudis, who use it to promote Islam…for lobbying…for policy change, the buying of America, and to influence American opinion.)

Of course Muslims will be quick to use this as evidence that the Koran is true and reliable…However there is no evidence that this is not a rigged scam….This is more likely a part of stealth jihad……