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                          Morning Posting.

• Taqiyya: A Concept of Deceit that Security Professionals Must Know.Closely associated with shariah doctrine on lying is the concept of taqiyya, which is generally described as lying for the sake of Islam. National security professionals must understand taqiyya and its use as a major tool by Islamic terrorist organizations and the Muslim Brotherhood.Taqiyya is a concept in Islamic law that translates as “deceit or dissimulation,” particularly towards infidels. Taqiyya is based on Quran 3:28 and 16:106 as well as hadiths, tafsir literature, and judicial commentaries that permit and encourage precautionary dissimulation as a means for hiding true faith in times of persecution or deception when penetrating the enemy camp.Quran 3:28 teaches, “Let not the believers take the disbelievers as friends instead of the believers, and whoever does that, will never be helped by Allah in any way, unless you indeed fear a danger from them.”According to the authoritative Arabic text, Al-Taqiyya fi Al-Islam,“Taqiyya [deception] is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees with it and practices it. We can go so far as to say that the practice of taqiyya is mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream. . . . Taqiyya is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Six arrested in Gateshead over 'Koran burning'.Six people have been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after videos emerged on the internet apparently showing copies of the Koran being burned.Officers detained two men on September 15 and four more yesterday and all six were bailed pending further inquiries, Northumbria Police said.''The arrests followed the burning of what are believed to have been two Korans in Gateshead on September 11,'' the spokesman said.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iranian prosecutors demand death penalty for 'blogfather'.Iranian prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for a writer known as the "blogfather" who was put on secret trial earlier this year, according to his family.Hossein Derakhshan, 35, who has both Iranian and Canadian nationality, won his nickname after developing a blog platform for Persian characters that was widely copied by online activists and commentators.While living in Canada and Britain he became known as a defender of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, against attacks from his many critics in the West. But he also went on a one-man peace mission to Israel, trying to show an Israeli perspective on conflicts in the Middle East to Iranians and also to "humanise" Iranians for his hosts. He was arrested within weeks of his voluntary return to Iran in 2008. His alleged offences include working with "hostile" governments, propaganda against the Islamic establishment, propaganda in favour of anti-revolutionary groups, and insulting religious sanctities. Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Arctic summit in Moscow hears rival claims.An international meeting to try to prevent the Arctic becoming the next battleground over mineral wealth is taking place in Moscow.One quarter of the world's resources of oil and gas are believed to lie beneath the Arctic Ocean.Russia, Norway, Canada, Denmark and the United States have already laid claim to territory in the region.Although the summit is promoting dialogue, a Kremlin adviser said Russia would defend its national interests.The battle lines are drawn and a weak US President is not seen or heard off.Read the full story here.Click here for comments

• Consolidation of power in the President is not Change we believe in or want.The Obama Administration is doing it! The President promised us “change” in Washington. It is happening with frightening changes to the structure of our government.Recall grade school civics lessons. Our government is a system of “checks and balances”. Our founding fathers created a system where Congress passes laws, the Executive Branch enforces them and creates policy, and the Supreme Court interprets them. All within the framework of the Constitution, which is the rule book in this system.So, here is a summary of the changes of the past two years, and the migration of power which is occurring.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:BigPeace.Russia Sells Syria High Tech Missiles.In yet another sign that the Russians are looking to stir the pot in the Middle East, they’ve decided to sell P-800 Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria. The sale is worth at least $300 million and will have the Russians delivering around 72 cruise missiles to the Syrians.The Yakhont is an advanced supersonic, long range, anti-ship missile that features its own high tech inertial navigation system to reach the target area. The Yakhont can be used at extremely low altitudes and is able to fly between 5 and 15 meters like a sea-skimming missile. Aside from reducing its radar footprint, the low altitude mode increases the element of surprise and minimizes reaction time against the incoming missile. Of course, it can also be used against land-based targets.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:AmericanThinker.The Islamintern Is Coming to (Chi-) Town.President Obama's adopted home town will host an event next week that epitomizes Sharia encroachment: the global Islamintern is coming to Chi-town.John Laffin, the late (d. 2000) military historian, and prolific writer on Islam, warned already in 1988 that the Jedda-based OIC, under Saudi Arabia's patronage, was persuading Muslim nations to jettison even their inchoate adoption of "Western models and codes," and revert to pre-colonial era (pre-Western) retrograde systems of Sharia, or Islamic Law.The Saudis proffered sizable loans and grants from their institutions in return for the more extensive application of Sharia in these targeted OIC countries. Laffin also noted the unprecedented Saudi distribution of media and print materials which extended to non-Muslim countries, including tens of millions of Korans, translated into many languages for the hundreds of millions of Muslims (and non-Muslims) who did not read Arabic. He concluded at that time.Propaganda is carried on from Riyadh on a scale comparable to Moscow's effort to spread Communism.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• President Barack Obama is to make a plea at the United Nations on Thursday for international support for the Middle East peace process, urging world leaders to make sure "this time is different" from previous failed efforts.In excerpts of his address to the U.N. General Assembly released by the White House, Obama will specifically urge nations that have pledged support for the Palestinians to meet their obligations for both political and financial support and "must stop trying to tear Israel down.""Many in this hall count themselves as friends of the Palestinians. But these pledges must now be supported by deeds," he will say, according to excerpts of the speech. Obama is scheduled to speak at 10 a.m. EDT/1400 GMT.How about Many call themselves friends of Israel MR President?Or is it an Muslim only gathering?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:NewsrealBlog.Islam Meets Catholicism as Muslim Protesters Call for Death of Pope Benedict.Hmmmm...."Interfaith dialog?"Though the Crusades were fought centuries ago and are rarely, if ever, mentioned in Catholic classrooms, Muslims today who want Jihad continue to flaunt them in vengeful tones and wallow in hatred for Catholicism. So it was when Pope Benedict XVI visited the United Kingdom and was met on his itinerary by a group of angry Islamists urging for his death and calling him “responsible” for the Crusades.Muslim demonstrators shouted “Pope Benedict, you will pay, Islam is on its way”, “Sharia is on its way”, “Justice is on its way” (a lot is coming our way, it seems) and threatened that Sharia would be “declared” against all who insult Muhammad. They shouted to the Pope, “Watch your back,” swore that he will “burn in hell” and claimed that he “deserves the death penalty.”Read and see the full story hereand more here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Rightwingnews.Shorter Bob Woodward: Obama Is Guided By Politics In Afghanistan, Doesn’t Listen To Generals, & Doesn’t Care About Winning.Libs should be flattered that conservatives are so ferocious these days. After all, we're just imitating what they did in the Bush years.When it came out that Bob Woodward was doing an Obama book, there was one thing people wondered about: Would he let people know what was really going on or sugarcoat everything to protect Obama? Judging by the Woodward story that's circulating today, it looks like Woodward decided it would be more fun to show the world the messiah's feet of clay than to build yet another statue in his honor.Here's the Obama quote from the story that seems to be catching everyone's eye:We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever we absorbed it and we are stronger.But there's much more,the one quote that caught my attention is this one:"Even David Petraeus is quoted in the article as saying, "You have to recognize also that I don't think you win this war. I think you keep fighting."I believe this is the bottomline and the truth!If Obama isn't giving our troops what they need to win and neither he nor the general in charge of the war thinks it's winnable, then why are we there? There are soldiers fighting and dying to win a war in Afghanistan and the war is apparently being run by people with the same mopey, half-@ssed mentality that created such a disaster in Vietnam. Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:TundraTabloids.Video:FORCED MARRIAGES IN GERMANY.

• HT:TheDailyBeast.My Dinner With Ahmadinejad.Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad played the host at an exclusive dinner in New York that left some of his guests frustrated. Stephen Kinzer got the invitation, and reports.America's favorite villain, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, turned a New York hotel into an annex of his dream palace last night. And by the time the party broke up, he seemed almost as deeply lost in surreal fantasies as his would-be destroyers in the White House.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Unrest plagues Indian-administered Kashmir.United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate end to violence in Indian-administered Kashmir.More than 100 people have died in a summer of unrest.The region has been divided and disputed between India and Pakistan for more than 60 years.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Two of Obama's closest advisers among those likely to leave in White House shuffle.In his nearly two years in office, President Obama has relied on a very small clique of advisers that serves as his most trusted sounding board on politics and policy.Members of his staff describe Obama as wary of outsiders and reluctant to widen his inner circle. As one of his advisers bluntly put it, the president "doesn't like new people."Like it or not, he will soon be surrounded by them as an expected staff shuffle will deprive Obama of two of his closest aides and an influx of replacements will take their places within the West Wing.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Daniel Pipes.Istinja' with the Torah and New Testament.My reference in a column today, "'Rushdie Rules' Reach Florida," included this sentence: "A 2003 decree ruled the Bible suitable for use by Muslims when cleaning after defecation." That allusion deserves further explanation.The link goes to Fatwa #40378 of The Encyclopedia of Fatwas (Arabic: Mawsu'at al-Fatawi) on www.islamweb.net. Issued on November 23, 2003, it contains the standard question-and-answer format of a fatwa and reads thus in English translation:Judgment: Despising the Torah or the New Testament.Question: "Does someone who insults the Torah or the New Testament engage in apostasy, given that these include some words of God?"Answer: "It would be impermissible to disdain the Torah and New Testament if they contained the truth and the name of the exalted, such as the name of God the Most High. Whoever does this [i.e., disrespect the books] knowingly and by choice would be considered an apostate and would be despised by God. But [in fact] the Torah and New Testament do not have anything exalted in them. They are known to have been corrupted, so there is no problem disdaining them.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• SEIU Union Hack Admits that Local TV Stations Help ‘Get Our Message Across’.Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has a gem of a report wherein a union operative admits on tape that he and his union pals intend to launch a big campaign against Wisconsin’s GOP Gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker. That news isn’t much of a surprise, of course, but what is a surprise is that this union hack admitted on tape that Milwaukee’s local TV stations and local politicians are both sympathetic to and assisting in the union’s getting its message out.The union hack admitted on tape that he is working with County Board members — such as Supervisor John Weishan — to get the goods on Walker. “I’ve got county supervisors to do this stuff so, you know, it’s not just the labor union,” Morgan said.That is bad enough but what union hitman Morgan said of the local media is the most interesting.Read the full scam story here and more here.Click here for comments.

• P5+1 Says Door Still Open For Talks With Iran.The six world powers looking to curb Iran's controversial nuclear program say they remain "determined and united" to seek a diplomatic resolution to the standoff.In a statement that Ashton read to reporters, the countries expressed their readiness for engagement with Iran. "Our objective continues to be a comprehensive long-term negotiated solution which restores international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program," she said.Although Russia does have business ties to Tehran, Rojansky said a more significant reason for Moscow's opposition is the possibility that Iran could insert itself in Russia's regional unrest."The issue is that Iran has a sort of Sword of Damocles (eds: threat) hanging over Russia in the Caucasus," Rojansky said. "Iran could begin to much more substantially fund and arm Islamist insurgents operating either in the Caucasus or even potentially in Russia itself and threaten Russian more than it does today. The other side of that coin is Russia really doesn't currently feel threatened by Iran and so it's looking to keep that status quo exactly the way it is."Late today, Iran's English-language state Press TV reported that an Iranian delegation headed by the country's Atomic Energy Organization chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, had met with IAEA chief Yukiya Amano in Vienna "to discuss providing fuel for the Tehran research reactor."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Outrage--Obama claims citizens have no privacy.In a direct Nazi-and-Communist styled attack on a time-honored American value, the Obama Administration claims that citizens have no privacy.The privacy issue in this case involves GPS tracking devices. The Administration is urging a federal appeals court to allow the government to attach the tracking devices to vehicles sitting in private driveways, monitoring their every move, without a Court warrant.The administration, in urging the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reverse a three-judge panel’s August ruling from the same court, said Monday that Americans should expect no privacy while in public.Although the case in question refers specifically to criminals, the key to understanding the outrage and the threat to the privacy of ALL citizens is in the phrase, '...Americans should expect no privacy while in public.'Two key problems rest with this unconscionable theory.First, the government's argument maintains that 'public' refers to a vehicle sitting in a driveway on private property. The Feds want to be able to trespass on private property in order to attach a GPS tracking device on private vehicles. It is quite a stretch to consider private property to be 'in public.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:TheJawaReport.AP Stringer Arrested for Working for .... the Taliban.Two journalists were actually detained. One was a stringer for the AP named Rahmatullah Nekzad who also did freelance work for al Jazeera. The other guy is named Mohammed Nader and worked for al Jazeera.How were they linked to the Taliban?"Afghan and coalition forces had intelligence information linking the men to Taliban propaganda networks." The Committee to Protect Journalists is up in arms because, um, journalists can't be terrorists. I think by definition, right?Where have we heard Rahmatullah Nekzad's name before? He stood by and took pictures and a video as the Taliban murdered two women in 2008. He actually knew the women were going to be executed and went to document the Taliban's meting out of "punishment" anyway after he had notified the AP of his intention.... and no one at the AP thought the imminent murder of two women was noteworthy enough to notify US, ISAF, or Afghan authorities.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.