“War is Deception”, said Muhammad, Prophet of Islam

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

It’s a holy war and deceit is justified. Islam permits lying! It's called “Al-taqiyya.” They're lying their way to world domination! 

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"Mohammed said, 'War is deceit,' and they are doing an awfully good job so that very few in America even recognize the risk"
Alyssa A. Lappen is a freelance investigative journalist. She has served as a senior fellow of the American Center for Democracy, a senior editor of Institutional Investor, Working Woman and Corporate Finance, and associate editor of Forbes. She is also a great friend of Jihad Watch, and we've featured her work here on numerous occasions. Today she interviews another great friend of Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, about the premier front on which we have to defend Western civilization against the global jihad today: the freedom of speech.
From "The Evils of Islamic Political Ideology," By Alyssa A. Lappen for Right Side News, February 17:
[...] AAL: Why do you think mainstream newspapers and broadcast media do not cover the influence of the Qur'an, Islamic jurisprudence and theological edicts on Islam's basically totalitarian goals?
Atlas: It is auto censorship and fear. Also, everyone is worried all about insulting Islam. Reporting even the smallest factoid earns an onslaught of charges of bigotry and racism. The net result is that you cannot even call an honor killing an honor killing and not get that kind of charge.
You can have a whole article on how a father, brothers and husband in a Muslim family are going to kill their sister or mother or niece. Yet the reporter will not even call the deed an honor killing. That line [of reporting leads] to the door. [Reporters get fired for it.] That is the problem. We saw that tendency with the [Kurt Westergaard Mohammed] cartoons. And that was [in September 2005] before Muslims were really on the march here. But even back then, in late 2005, I went to a panel discussion about the cartoons at New York University. They were going to show the cartoons so we could talk about them. But then the hosts decided at the last minute not to show the cartoons. I got there and the easels were black. That was March 2006. That is the level that we're at now. At the one college where a school newspaper printed the cartoons, the university fired or suspended the student publisher. A couple of publishers were courageous enough to admit, "Look, we do not want to be targeted." But that is now standard operating procedure.
AAL: A more current example is the failure to report Obama's executive order giving $20 million and refugee status to "resettle" people from Gaza, in other words, Hamas.
Atlas: They haven't reported that, no. The Arab narrative has taken over. The reporting in December and January said that Israel was targeting innocent civilians. But the only evidence was to the contrary. In fact, we have proof that Hamas shoots its own people in their homes. They literally shoot people in the streets, to punish them, or make it look like Israel targeted homes. Israel was hit from inside mosques and by mortars from a UN school and foreign press offices. Hamas hijacks ambulances to transport terrorists.
But U.S. newspapers don't report it. This is auto-censorship. It is enormous. It shows where the sympathy lies. I see it as Islamic apologism. To their [Muslims'] credit, on even the smallest insult, their push-back is huge. They are winning. Mohammed said, "War is deceit," and they are doing an awfully good job so that very few in America even recognize the risk. [...] U.S. newspapers tell people not to believe their eyes. I tell people to believe their eyes and I am excoriated for it. The most highly visible example of that is Geert Wilders, [whom Holland is prosecuting for hate speech, for producing Fitna, and Great Britain denied entry last week to speak in the House of Lords]. Here is a man who cites Qur'anic verse, and they want him in jail.
But meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people can march and call for the death of Jews and it's not hate, from London, to Paris, to Amsterdam, to Fort Lauderdale, and New York. Those death marches should have been on the front page of every newspaper and the lead story of every cable news and net. And it is almost unthinkable that the police would escort the jihadists to the Israeli embassy and at the same time be harassed and have shoes thrown at them. This is the apex of civilization. And where are the Muslims counter protesting not in our name? Where are they? I want them. Where are all those moderate Muslims?...

Muslim Brotherhood says it is only a minor player in Egyptian protests
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/30/AR2...

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CAIRO - The Muslim Brotherhood found its first martyr in Egypt's popular uprising Friday, when a teenager named Mustafa Sawi was shot dead in front of the Interior Ministry. But the country's oldest and best-organized opposition group had to take a back seat at his public funeral the next day, as the Muslim Brotherhood insists it is little more than a bit player in the outpouring of resistance to the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
"This is on purpose," Mohammed Mahdi Akef, who retired last year as leader of the group at the age of 82, said Sunday. "We want to be part of the fabric of society."
But as Egyptian society begins to weave a whole new cloth, the Muslim Brotherhood, alternately used and demonized by Mubarak over the years, has been slow to contribute. An organization dedicated to the creation of a more thoroughly Islamic Egyptian state, and still technically illegal here, the 83-year-old group has been weakened by a generational divide and overtaken by the protests that broke out with little warning here last week.
The Muslim Brotherhood is still capable of provoking alarm here. Last week, as the protests gathered steam, many of its senior members were rounded up and put in prison.
Individual members have been active in the demonstrations, but like other political groups here the organization has refrained from waving its banners or promoting itself during the protests. At Sawi's funeral procession, which wound through central Tahrir Square on Saturday, there was no visible evidence of his membership.
"The moment is bigger than any individual force or actor," Hossam Bahgat, executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, said Sunday. "The Brothers have been effectively sidelined."
The outpouring of so many different elements of society in the demonstrations has to have taught the Muslim Brotherhood a lesson, he said. "They must realize now that there's no way they represent the majority."
Inspired by the YMCA when it was founded in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has been under a ban since 1948, and its real size is difficult to gauge. The group was brutally repressed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and 1960s. Since then, it has at times been propped up as a foil - especially for Western audiences - with periodic crackdowns that have sent many of its members to prison.
Akef, sentenced to death in 1954, served 20 years in prison before emerging as a leader of the group.
For most of its existence in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has refrained from violence against the state. It is not the organization of radical jihadists that it is sometimes made out to be. But its caution in dealing with Mubarak has made it appear recently that it is more concerned with protecting itself than with improving the nation.
"If we had led, they would have massacred us," Akef said. "All we want is freedom for all the people. Freedom would give us space for movement."
It would, he said, enable the Muslim Brotherhood to push effectively for more proper Islamic education and training, so Egyptians would be able to "stand up to the American-Zionist project."
The Muslim Brotherhood "is an organization that for years has exercised strategic patience," Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Sunday. "There's no special advantage to being visible right now."
But Egypt has been changing, more rapidly perhaps than the organization understands. Mokhtar Nouh, a defense lawyer, was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood - but prison changed him. When he emerged from detention four years ago, he says, he realized with a sudden clarity that the old group had fallen behind the times. "This organization was too slow," he said Sunday while standing with several thousand others in Tahrir Square. "I joined the streets."
In some ways, the Muslim Brotherhood, because of its nationwide reach and reputation, is only the most prominent of an array of political groups that have had to submerge their identities while rushing to catch up with the mostly young protesters on the streets. It will certainly remain a player in Egyptian politics, Bahgat said.
"But suddenly, now, we can think big," Bahgat said. "This is a very plural polity. This is the new reality. And I've never been so exuberant."
The 31-year-old activist said that he understands that politics is politics and that the organization is bound to have a resurgence. The Muslim Brotherhood will be, in his eyes, a potentially potent political force. In the past week, Egypt has at least caught a glimpse of new possibilities.
"I keep trying to savor these moments, because I know they will be the best moments of my life," he said.
The groups running the demonstrations have organized a committee of 10 to deal with the government; the Muslim Brotherhood is included. When its eight regional directors were arrested last week, it chose not to mobilize in their defense so as not to distract from the main goal - the departure of Mubarak.
When Sawi, its martyr, was buried, his funeral came to represent more than the grief of one organization.
"We've been unified under one banner," said Abdel Rahman Fares, an activist and blogger who was at Tahrir Square on Sunday draped in an Egyptian flag. "The funeral became like a funeral march for the regime itself."

 

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]