The Council Has Spoken! This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results

The Council Has Spoken! The votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

Even taking into consideration the normal high level of quality in both the Council and Non-Council entries, this was a tough call with some exceptional pieces to choose from, and the close vote tallies reflect it.

This week’s winner, The Noisy Room’s Infiltration, Treason, Jihad – Welcome to The Project is a great examination of something most Americans are unaware of..the Muslim Brotherhood’s detailed and covert plan to subvert the west and put it under sharia and Muslim rule. Here’s a slice:

The Blaze aired a special last week in two parts called The Project. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here.

As I have contended from the very beginning, Obama and his minions are corrupt beyond belief. It is my belief that Obama is actively facilitating the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islam in an effort to bring America to her knees and usher in not only Sharia law, but a worldwide caliphate. This week, I am going to summarize for you the content of The Project and what it means to Americans. Time is growing short, we are entering the third and final phase of a very, very evil plan.

In 2001, an Islamic manifesto called The Project was discovered in Switzerland. This document is a plan to carry out a quiet coup within the United States through indoctrination, subversion and infiltration at all levels of our government and through key positions in education and other influential positions such as the media. Fast forward to 2008 and the Holyland Foundation Trial. This showcased the largest terror financing trial in US history. There are 80 boxes of evidence, including The Project, that have been made available by our government to the accused enemies of America, but which, to this day, are being withheld from our leaders and the American people. Barack Obama, Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano cite national security, but have given the terrorists a free pass to review the documents. I contend, that if they haven’t already done so, that Obama and his colleagues will destroy those documents because they implicate Obama and his administration in outright treason by aiding and abetting the Muslim Brotherhood. If Obama loses this election, he will most likely do two things: 1) He will release the Blind Sheik and 2) he will have those 80 boxes of documents destroyed if he hasn’t done so already. Obama will remain faithful to his Muslim roots and his anti-colonialist leanings. Remember Obama’s words:

”The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”

In our non-Council category, the winner was Ace of Spades with The Normative Power of Law and the Emotional Power of Drama submitted by Joshuapundit. It’s a fascinating look at exactly how laws and rules work, the message they send, and how it applies to our tacit acceptance of Islamist violence. Do read it.

OK, here are this week’s full results:

Council Winners

• *First place with 2 2/3 votes! The Noisy Room – Infiltration, Treason, Jihad – Welcome to The Project
• Second place with 2 1/3 votes – The Right Planet – Fundamental Transformation: Dhimmitude for America
• Third place with 2 votes – The Political Commentator-“Main Street” pain belies Bernanke rhetoric!
• Fourth place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Joshuapundit - Obama Monopoly: Burn An American Embassy, Collect $450 Million!
• Fourth place *t* with 1 2/3 vote – Gay Patriot - Legacy media downplay (or downright ignore) Obama’s September of Incompetence
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey - Just like they did with color-blindness, “progressives” re-examining First Amendment
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – The Independent Sentinel - U.N. Ambassador John Bolton Addressing Upcoming Assault on the Second Amendment
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Bookworm Room – Radiolab, a Progressive public radio station, errs by showing its audience how the meat gets into the sausage.
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Razor – An Obama Victory May Be Good for the War on Terror
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Suriya al Kubra’s WMD War
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Mellow Jihadi – William Donohue and His Jar of Brown Play-Doh
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Simply Jews – How did Bibi’s UN speech bomb so badly?

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 3 votes! – Ace of Spades -The Normative Power of Law and the Emotional Power of Drama submitted by Joshuapundit
• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes – Michael Yon – America’s Dumbest War, Ever submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes – Doug Ross – MEXICAN STREETS RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF CHILDREN: Holder Lies to Congress; Obama Covers Up; U.S. Media Ignores the Slaughter submitted by VA Right!
• Third place with 1 2/3 votes -American Thinker - Obama’s Biblical Rewrite submitted by The Right Planet
• Fourth place with 1 vote – Sultan Knish - Muslim Violence is Our New Law submitted by The Noisy Room
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes - The Compass – Mitt Romney’s Mideast Vision submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - The Sad Red Earth – Amnesty’s Arrogance submitted by Simply Jews
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Doug Ross – The Most Brutal Jobs Graph of the Year submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - PJ Media – Ambassador Chris Stevens Is Dead; Al-Qaeda Is Alive submitted by The Political Commentator
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - The Blaze – Open Letter:Beck Responds To Criticism From Muse Band Leader Matthew Bellamy submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - PJ Lifestyle – Why Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote All Failed to Write the Great American Novel submitted by Gay Patriot
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - Open Markets.Org – Fifty Years Later: Rachel Carson Is Still Wrong submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote - FOX News – Interview: Dr. Henry Kissinger On The State of Foreign Policy submitted by The Watcher

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Australia: Sharia - Sanctioned Polygamy and Child Marriage

Posted By Andrew Boston On July 21, 2011

Despite an overall apologetic tone borne of transparent obeisance to cultural relativism, two legal academics, Dr. Ann Black and Dr. Kerrie Sadiq from The University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law are "suggesting [2]" in their research publication, "Good & Bad Sharia: Australia's mixed response to Islamic Law" (due to be published in the University of New South Wales Law Journal on Monday July 25, 2011) that, "Australia is right to act with caution in dealing with Sharia law."

Why are even these obviously [2] devout votaries of the academic social religion of cultural relativism concerned about the practice of Sharia in Australia at all, or what they term, with revealing euphemism, "legal pluralism?"

One reason was extracted from the forthcoming paper of Drs. Black and Sadiq, and cited by The Australian's legal affairs editor, Chris Merrit [3]:

"Valid Muslim polygynist marriages, lawfully entered into overseas, are recognized, with second and third wives and their children able to claim welfare and other benefits."

Merrit's background article on Black and Sadiq's findings also noted [3] how this practice of Muslim polygamy in Australia involved "marriages where one party is under the lawful marriage age." And Merrit provided this additional context [3]:

"The findings come soon after Ikebal Patel, president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, triggered a backlash inside the Islamic community when he called for Australia to compromise with Islam and embrace legal pluralism

"...The latest research has found that while polygamy is unlawful, mainstream law accommodates men who arrive in Australia with multiple wives and gives some legal standing to multiple partnerships that originate in Australia."

More alarming "context" not addressed by the report of Drs. Black and Sadiq, and in fact dismissed by Dr. Black [2] in these words, "The 'foreignness' of Sharia law is increased by media reports which highlight 'differences' and feed into fears about the Muslim presence in Australia," was provided by The Australian Daily Telegraph [4]:

"On Sunday, a recent convert to Islam in Sydney was allegedly lashed 40 times with electrical cable by men from his mosque, in a terrifying home invasion, as punishment for drinking alcohol - forbidden under Shariah law. Two people have been arrested in connection with the attack."

The staid report by two Australian cultural relativist academics should (but won't) make our mainstream media talking heads curious about how mainstream Islamic opinion views polygamy in the United States. For example, what have the esteemed mainstream Islamic clerics of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) opined regarding polygamy? The AMJA [5] mission statement maintains:

"[The AMJA was] founded to provide guidance for Muslims living in North America. ... AMJA is a religious organization that does not exploit religion to achieve any political ends, but instead provides practical solutions within the guidelines of Islam and the nation's laws to the various challenges experienced by Muslim communities."

A report in The Muslim Observer [6] published October 21, 2010, highlighting AMJA's "seventh annual American conference of imams," confirms that the organization is accepted [6] as such by the mainstream American Muslim community. AMJA and its recent "training" conference for American imams were described [6] in these banal terms:

"The organization AMJA (Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America) 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. Its website, amjaonline.com, provides fatawa on many issues and promises 24-hour access to scholars who can give legal opinions on the issues people face. AMJA focuses on providing fatwas to Americans, and believes it is able to provide culturally appropriate fatwas although many of their scholars are not American-because they have some American scholars and because of the technological ties that bind AMJA's American scholars with those abroad. AMJA just had, in Houston, its seventh annual American conference of imams, and two local Michigan imams attended, namely Imam Musa of Bloomfield's Muslim Unity Center, and Imam Ali of MCWS. Mr. Sadiqul Hassan of AMJA explained that 'the event was the 7th annual imam workshop.' Mr. Hassan said that AMJA is 'a fiqh council basically,' with 'scholars who live abroad and inside the U.S.; we have experts in different fields to educate about life in the U.S. -- fatwa are based on life in the U.S.'"

Not only does AMJA extol polygamy in accordance with the Sharia, AMJA endorses its extra-legal (i.e, vis a vis US law) application here in America, as can be readily gleaned from these two "fatwas" or Islamic legal rulings:

Fatwa 2134 [7] Dr. Main Khalid Al-Qudah Date 2006-10-27

Polygamy in Islam is permissible for different reasons, like:

1- The sexual energy of men is more than that of women in general. So, in some cases, one wife is not enough to fulfill the conjugal desire of her husband

2- Pregnancy and delivery negatively affect the shape and physical attraction that women have.

3- World wide, the percentage of females is always more than that of males, eventually, there must be a solution, either to permit adultery and prostitution, or to allow polygamy

4- One husband could take care of more than one wife at the same time; socially, financially, and even sexually as I mentioned above. However, the opposite is not right because of the physical and psychological capability that Allah the all mighty gave men.

Fatwa 3370 [8] Scholar Dr. Hatem al-Haj Date 2007-08-08

Comment from Muslim questioner: We know that polygamy is against USA law. But I heard from my friend that as long as you don`t register your marriage to the registrar, it is okay to have more than one wife here in the states, i.e., all the wives are living here. The argument that he made was that the law that prohibits marrying more than one is against the shaariah so, it is okay for us to break it...There are some scholars in the USA are practicing polygamy without the knowledge of the authorities using that argument....

Dr. Hatem al-Haj's response: Polygamy is halal in Islam and may be highly recommended when the number of females is bigger than that of males to afford all females a decent life that suffices their physiologic, emotional and other needs. The US law about polygamy is against the Islamic law, for no one can make prohibited that which Allah specifically made allowable.

Wake-up America!!  In order for Utah to become a state, the majority population there had to give up Polygamy, a part of their religion.  This is no different.  If immigrants wan to come here or people want to practice a religion that goes against the law of our land, they have to change their practices or choose not to come here.  Americans have been so brainwashed to politically correct that we’ve lost all our common sense!

The column below by Andrew Bostom zeroes in on one aspect of the threat of sharia to the West: Islamic polygamy. An NPR article in 2008 cited sources estimating that as many as 100,000 Muslims live in polygamous families in the U.S. Click here to read the article: http://tool.donation-net.net/Act4America/Polygamy20110722.cfm?dn=1097&commID=67068112&ID=274727

Note that the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America has issued fatwas sanctioning polygamy, in keeping with sharia law. One ruling declares American law prohibiting polygamy "against Islamic law."

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Obama's Words on Arabic Network Gave the Wrong Message to our Enemies!

...says Brigitte Gabriel of Obama's first interview on Arabic Network: "His move would have been great if we are dealing with people who share our values and our outlook on life." While it is noble to talk about listening to others address their concerns and willing to hear what they are saying, when it comes to the Middle East he just enforced with his rhetoric "all too often the United States starts by dictating" the attitude of the Muslim Street against America.

President Obama discounted the fact that the United States has been listening to leaders in the Middle East for three decades and brokered a peace treaty between the Palestinians and Israel in 2003. While he wants to send a message of a change of policies in America under his administration to the Muslim Street, he is sending the wrong message with his words to our enemies.

The message was: "We are begging for you to have mercy on us because we are so weak and we do not want to fight you." The radicals are delighted with his action because now they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that America is going to be a pushover for the next four years trying to beg forgiveness and appease.

We have to think like our enemies and not like what we would do if this was us. America is the enemy of the radical Islamists in the Middle East from Iran to Syria to Hizbollah to Hamas to the Muslims Brotherhood.

America is not the enemy of the moderates in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Kuwait and the moderate regimes. These radicals are blinded by religious radicalism and believe they are on a mission to fight "the infidels" headed by the United States. That is not going to change unless you change the words of the Koran written by the Prophet Mohammed.

Obama's reference about Israel having to make tough choices and about the Israelis willing to give up territories for peace emboldens Hamas as well as Syria who wants to get back the Golan Heights - a very strategic point in northern Israel. What is his saying that Israel needs to withdraw from the West Bank like they did from Gaza in 2005 because that will give them peace? We saw what this type of appeasement earned Israel from Hamas.

Brigette Gabriel is author of:  They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It

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