My name is D'Anne Burley, I am the host of The D'Anne Burley Show on TRUTHRADIO.COM and Backdoor Stuff New on GETV Channel 17 in Glen Ellyn Illinois. Who has programs on WVON 1450 Am in Chicago, Illinois, and produced many programs with Peace and Justice Radio which was a American Friends Broadcast on various radio stations telling stories of human rights violations that had impacted on our world.
But here is what you may not know of why I have many Whistle blowers on my program and why I am attempting to get the public aware of the hidden facts of Sept 11th 2001....
One prior to Sept 11th 2001, I was the Director of Operations for a Gold coast Mortgage Company, which I was in the process of taking over,,,,, from this business I became involved with a Arab Businesses with a man, Steven “Suhail” Al-Masri, with whom was a loan officer within this business prior to my coming on board, and who had numerous businesses, a Newspaper, Chamber of Commerce (Not listed with the Commerce Department here in Illinois), was the CFO of Al-Salaam Mosque Foundation which the press changed the name of in the press I felt because of the ties this man had to many prominent persons including the Governor of Illinois then George Ryan, whose Secretary would call continuously to his office to invite him personally to forms and parties, then there was a Judge and a attorney who was involved in Defense all seemingly ties to links of rings of alleged terror which no one would look into why?.....
The fact was that no government agent would look into him and if you reported him, you became the target of counter-terrorist plots and assaults to your finance and credibility.....
Those involved targeted by children, my home and my health because they were connected to ownerships and or control large dollars going into Hospital, Townships, Policing agencies all I had alleged were under lock and key not to allow any information out on Money laundering, via the Mortgage Industry and banks...........
There was a lot more going on as well, the then Governor was under investigation about the “Drivers License for Hire Scam” which was only bought to light because a area Ministers family was killed by someone who had bought a license and was operating a truck. The Minister loss all his children and his wife and was burned over 40 % or more on his body from the crash.
If it was not for this I allege no one would have seen that this scandal began further back than the Ryan Governor era, it was allow illegal aliens coming into Illinois to get licensed but while I was involved Al-Masri, I saw that they were also using International Drivers Licenses to get other forms of ID’s to use to launch businesses and move into neighbors to set up operations....
All this information I reported as a good citizen and all which looked at and tossed why?
I had alleged later after 9/11 after obtaining copies of international drivers licenses, criminal reports and other documents that Steven and others were involved in a cell, which seem to be a major one because it seemed to link back to “A MAN NAME ATTA” the Terrorist suspect who was killed and pin pointed as a major Terrorist Cell operative, but there was no interest ....
When I spoke to the F.B.I. with a witness present who heard all I was told that Steven was one of the most prominent citizens within the Arab community and that his name meant The Egyptian....
It was at this point I knew that there was something wrong within the Chicago bureau of the F.B.I. but were could you go then where?
The Police, F.B.I, Attorney General Office, Senators, Township Officials, Churches and everyone else here in Illinois looked into nothing and acted as if I was crazy even with evidence in hand.....
And I also had a 52 Million Dollar lawsuit filed against some of these people because $50 Million Dollars came into a business I formed with Al-Masri whereas I was the Vice President and he was the CEO refusing to place his name on the Corporation because as he explained he was told not to do by someone known as the Accountant.... The $50 Million Dollars was on an allege wire transfer coming right from the Saudi Royal House, and this lawsuit was in the Chicago Tribune and also a online newspaper which with worldwide coverage Islamic Q which disappeared in a puff of smoke off the net....
The Law suit was the talk of Islam in the Middle east as well because a Arab concept business sued another one in a American Court system which seemed to be against Islamic law, and because of the impact this case was being evaluated by the Sahar’ia Board the board were the Saudi Royal Family sits as the top religious advisor. My Business was Royal Financial Group Inc., and I sued Baytana Funding a copycat company whose owner came into my business and took our trade secrets and then contacted the Saudi’s who at the time were to invest the money into our business The Riba for No Interest in Purchasing Homes. I was the one who was to make the concept work in the US, it was tried before in NYC and once in Illinois but no one could figure how to make it work because of Tax and Usury laws. But I did....
Because of the hotbed before the middle eastern council which was dealing with an America Lawsuit and at that time I had no idea that the plot indeed was more than the issue of suing but may have included too much news in the press that may cause someone to see something that was not to be seem, a more sinister plot a plot which would later lead up to 9/11....
But no one here cared not the press, not those in government....
I even wrote to the Rev. Minister Louis Farrakhan, to seek a equal meeting ground, but he was out of town in London, he knew my father Dan Burley, who was the managing editor of the Black Nations Founder the Honorable Elijah Mohammad and a very close friend.....writing and placing the nation on the map with the Black and White Press from 1947. But without anyone at my side I went into the Mosque Foundation of Bridgeview and spoke directly to the Sheik Farris, who was there while Sheik Jamal was in the Middle East before council....
Sheik Farris, sat on the Shar’ia Panel before the Saudi Royal House, I spoke to him about Steven who was a member (this was what he told me) and also to talk about the man I sued Abe Karim the then current owner of Baytana funding which stole the No Riba Concept... But it became another interesting fact that it seemed that these very important Arab Businessmen was not known within this Mosque.... why? Who were they and this caused another major concern again all this happened prior to Sept 11th 2001...
They called me to inform me that neither man belonged to their Mosque and for some reason I believed them, it was like there were agents but not of this Mosque and maybe involved more within our own government because they again were the ones who refused to investigate this....
I was told that Karim was hated blacks as many who were involved with them.. And it later came out from one of my many whistle blowers that was a undercover agent with the KKK that the standard US hate groups were getting money from Bin Laden to run acts of terror within the US.
Whoever Steven was, he knew I was in the media before, and had many ties here in the government and friends who if I could get them involved may look into this operation so I was run out the business with the intent to remove me from seeing a plot unfold, but like John O’Neill, who was a F.B.I. Agent of over 30 years in the agency who was FIRED because of investigating what was alleged was a major cell moving drugs and laundering money out of the Veterinarian Clinic’s it was reported he alleged out of Boston Airport which was tied again to Bin Laden whose family was located within this area.... He followed this crime ring even after being Fired up until his died in the WTC on 9/11.... He was hired by the security company to head-up this security, hired just two days before he died receiving a salary of $300k a year much more than what he would had gotten if he was a FBI agent. The question is was he killed in the building or was he murdered and placed in the building? But the dots connect to Bin Laden’s family involved in money drugs and laundering lots of money which was being used to finance cells in America which were within hate groups and other terrorist organization to launch the takeover of the US and it’s government. The other interesting fact was why did our President allow Bin Laden’s brother to be moved to safety into the hands of the Saudi Royal Family though he claimed that it was intelligence Agencies who told him that Bin Laden was involved in the Terrorist Strike Against America...Why? And why is it that America can not see the connection of treason...
Bridgeview Mosque Foundation/ Hamas member Mohamed Saleh arrested with Howard U prof Abdelhaleem Ashqar on terrorism charges
August 21, 2004
The article Read:
After years of being under law enforcement scrutiny more proof of the obvious emerges revealing the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation's direct ties to Hamas . The BMF spokesman is Rafiq Jaber, the head of the Islamic Association of Palestine, which is the American wing of Hamas....
Please Note that Rafiq Jaber, has been on my programs many times to speak about the issue of Palestine.........
The article continues....
Which begs the question of how such a hub of terrorist activity in the Hamas stronghold of Bridgeview Illinois, is still conducting 'business as usual' and why Muhammed Hamid Khalil Salah is the only BMF associate who was arrested this week. . Imam Jamil Said of The Bridgeview Mosque Foundation is a known Hamas leader. The BMF president Oussama Jamal, , is a darling of the Chicago interfaith circuit, who apparently have no problems with his and Jamal's declarations at a post 9/11 community memorial service where he stated that he did not think Muslims were behind the 9/11 attacks, and that terrorism was a direct result of US support of Israel. Jamal used the event to bash Israel and cry to the media about how Muslims are suffering in the US.
As for Osama bin Laden, the general consensus in Chicago's Arab and Muslim community seems to be that it would have taken more than the resources available to the "Nomad of Afghanistan" to carry out operations of the sophistication and magnitude of the Sept. 11 terror. "How certain are we that it was Arabs who were behind it?" asked Jammal.
Suggesting that Americans look at the causes, he argued that despair and fear are at the roots of terrorism. His remedy: "Go after what makes people hopeless."
Do Americans have the patience for that? Jammal sounded doubtful. "We, as Arabs, are no strangers to suffering," he noted. "Americans are saying now that they are willing to give up some luxuries to get through the next phase. But how long will they hold out?"
My Story......
I also did a lot of Activism in the Chicago area, and worked to expose fraud against the public, I would investigate fraud and sought to get evidence on corruption so that the their would be accountability within government and other agencies which included corporations....
They also knew I was friends of Sherman Skolnick and others in the media, over the years I had closed down businesses by exposing them to the public underground but in this case there was nothing I could do and it seemed that the Courts were involved as well.....
Other government agencies refused to look into this and or were all told to “Stand Down” and because I reported this harm came to me and my family... and even poisoning...
Another parallel to this was James Bath and his business relationship with a Mr. White, who was a Real Estate Agent, and by whom Bath was using his business to laundry money it was alleged in many articles and also within the story that was within the movie Fahrenheit 9/11, in f act a attempt to contact Mr. Moore which was impossible even though I had interviewed him back while on Peace and Justice Radio, all those in the media and those who sought to investigate the truth were not interested in the fact that there was a dormant Terrorist Cell right in good old Illinois which had a flight school attached connected to many here, many who had power. The media did nothing and all was as if I was in a dream, a never ending nightmare whereas the public was without a clue to the fact that Terrorist were alive and well living within their communities .... why?
The Hot Bed was Palos Hills, Illinois, Bridgeview with a flight school operating in a Chicago Suburb...
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And why was it a hands off in Al-Masri’s case, a case that if you report him you became the target for crimes against YOU to discredit the reporter, but protect the criminal why?....
I loss job, someone deposited $4k of counterfeit money orders into my bank account which ordinated out of Citibank, which had a known problem of receiving counterfeit transactions, I also located a secondary federal Reserve which seemed to have a float of money orders and checks with the same numbers and same routing information (duplicate transactions and maybe washed) whereby these funding transactions were going through and being allowed and paid while the real transaction would go in at the same time within the normal government based reserved again no one was interested in this and it seemed that this was again a hands off operation all and all there was cover up on cover up the same way the cover happened within the Savings and Loan Scandal in which Neil Bush was alleged involved and coverup with gulf war and the so call war of drugs which went no where, it was just a measure to get the public off the real stories....
The government agencies never investigated nor had interest in any of this unless in could be proven that it was me who they could connect to some crime so that they could get off the hook for criminal activities which were going investigated the crimes were more vest and more of a nightmare than anyone would believe... Then they have intercepted by telephone calls which is a common occurrence with whistle blowers a game within the intelligence community...
I was being discredited, denied to government investigation and protection, denied reward and anything and everything else... It was I that became the VICTIM. For speaking out!
The other trick of the trade is make sure that the those who speak out have no money, my child support was Stop with no reason, and because I was a former Court Clerk I had people I could contact and if they refused to help I would report on the air because I am in the media, the one thing they did not want is to awaken the people of the THEFT AGAINST AMERICA....
About Steven Suhail Al-Masri - Mortgage Loan Officer, CFO of Al-Salaam Mosque Foundation, Editor and Owner of Al-Salaam Newspaper Written in English and Arabic which was Nation and International circulation, Owner of America Financial Group Inc, owner of a used Car business, Grocery Store which was near White Sox Park before being shut down for missing lottery money, was a board member of SKM a real firm investigated and forced out of California and Florida for property scams, who later sued him.... Owner of the Jordanian Chamber of Commerce, Owner of the Jordanian Flight School, and other businesses within a very small two office location within the suburb of Palos Hills Illinois. Which had no staff when I arrived to develop the No RIba Program.... In fact he was getting calls as if he was a member of the Jordanian Embassy. On the wall of the business was a picture of the King and Queen of Jordan and on the other wall was a picture of a 747 cockpit he said was used in training..
Steven was arrested under Operation Mountain Express II, which was available online and which is now missing information on the internet to further coverup more and more information on the fact that there was a major movement of Meth a date rape drug into the US which was being used as a measure to rape children and teen-ager to turn them into prostitutes and as a means to late move them into white slavery for businessmen and those in other European Nations....... if you attempt to click on the DEA site and those about Steven and other facts on the net it seems that those in the government have removed them to further coverup these crimes the crimes against are nations.......
The rapes and all the missing children I got information on this sometime ago from someone out of Texas who was involved in looking into a major child kidnaping scandal which also got no press... again more to harm America and to robe us blind....
The thing that John O’NEILL was looking into, the man who knew too much and was killed in the WTC buildings......
Our first meeting .....
Elite Funding International Ltd, Chicago Illinois now closed mortgage company...
In the Summer of 2000, I was involved in cleaning up a Gold Coast Chicago Illinois located Mortgage Ltd., “Elite Funding International”, which was seeking someone to come in to create a revenue for a then failing business, upon entering as their Director of Operations I notice that there were many issues, many - and I began to clean this business of many of it’s woes.... with plans to take-over the business from it’s owner who was at that time talking of retiring so that we, me and my friend and partner for 6 years could open up our Secured Homes of America Inc., speciality program from, it was a major concern on mine of the housing trends in America and I felt that if people were given a second chance at homeowner because we were going into a time of very high rates of foreclosures.....
On my first day in the business I met with all the Loan Officers, but the one who stood out the most was a loan officer who was listed as the businesses V.P.(but whereby the owner and this man claimed it was just something to make his business look good only) This man was Steven (Suhail) Al Masri, a man, who was very well dressed, intelligent, and a man who had a newspaper "Al Salaam News" which was syndicate throughout the US and the Middle east.
He knew the then Governor of Illinois George Ryan, and was involved with Judges and had ties to many within the Islamic Community via his businesses he owned, and his ownership of the newspaper which was written in both English and Arabic.
Steven was also the CFO of The Al Salaam Mosque Foundation, which many of the papers have covered up and renamed as Mosque Foundation, in a measure which seems to protect those involved.....
Steven came to me one day within the office and asked me to help him develop a Business Plan for a product called No Riba, this is a term used by Moslems whereby there is no implied interest and purchasing goods and services therefore Steven was attempted to make this concept work in the US for Moslems.
At the time I felt it would work well with all Americans - But the game and plot was to get two individuals without knowledge of a major fraud to become involved in a business which they were intending to use to move money and who knows what else through....
It was not to do the Program, the concept was to create a dummy shell business to move money through, and use American’s to uncover-up a spy business and intent.....
My Story turned to ashes when I came into Steven’s Office, after leaving Elite Funding International,...
I had ended up in Steven’s South Suburban Office and this was where the nightmare began,
From getting death threats over the phone about the newspaper from the Middle East and those within the area, to answering the phone for over 26 lines of business within this tiny office, where he had no help prior to me coming into the business,
The most interesting fact which I had reporting thousands of times was the fact he had and was operating a flight school which I felt was tied to the Sept 11th schools. In all the authorities had no interest none...
The Al-Salaam Mosque was in the press a lot then because it was involved in a heated fight with Palos Hills Illinois residence who did not want it within their town, there were a number of lawsuits filed, one was a Civil Right claim against the City for racism by the Moslem community whereby the Government Officials made a offer of $200k for it not to be built within the town, but there was more to this issue... .The President of the Foundation Ghassan Bullut, who along with Steven Al-Masri ended up arrested after Sept 11th 2001 .... years later whereby Steven was arrested for Operation Mountain Express II which the DEA netted over 52 mega tons of meth which is to make Ecstasy the “DATE RAPE DRUG”, which millions in cash and other drug making equipment.
Ghassan Bullut, who I was tracking because of what I found during my time with being a partner with AL-MAsri in a business whereby I was the Vice President of Royal Financial Group Inc.,
And he had a Jordanian Chamber of Commerce, and a Illinois based flight school was the F.B.I. and other agencies refused to admit existed in the Chicago land area.
The Flight school was not out of Chicago Lake Front Airport as the Mayor was alleging but instead out of a suburban based location, - No One was Interested in it not even after 9/11 why?
The other fact was there was a sum of money which was earmarked for our Corporation which I was force to flee from because of individuals who wanted me out because I was seeing to much and looking into too much as well. But my name remained on the Corporation.....
After leaving for less than one month 52 Million dollars was to be transferred from the Saudi Royal family business to get this business the seed money it needed. Because I was the one who developed the secret to make it work within the US they did not know how to get the money out of the program “No Riba” so I was called back to help but I did nothing to help them remaining how I was being used, but coming back just to watch and get more information.
Read this story by Sherman Skolnick....
Sherman H. Skolnick Email: skolnick@ameritech.net
"REPORTEDLY LINKED TO 'TERRORISTS', CHICAGO JUDGE THREATENS TV REPORTER",by Sherman H. Skolnick 11/8/01
Is a long-time court-reformer/TV reporter supposed to know about EVERY judge he comes across? I have been a court-reformer since 1958 and part of a weekly non-commercial TV program since 1991. Since 1995, I have been the moderator/producer of the program called "Broadsides", a public access Cable TV show. I cannot be expected to know every judge. After all, in the Chicago-area, for example, there are hundreds of judges.
I came to court on October 29, 2001, in litigation involving an associate of mine, Joseph Andreuccetti who assists with the production of our show in Chicago. I was there as his paralegal, to take notes, and also as an alternative media reporter.
Maybe I should have been immediately suspicious when the Judge, Samuel Betar III [(312) 603-4371], threatened me, apparently to jail me, if I didn't stop taking notes. He shouted and hollared at me, demanding I go to the rear of the courtroom. I was alarmed when the judge threatened to also jail Joe and he had a heart attack.
What was going on here? Understand something. I am a paraplegic in a wheelchair and Joe and his wife Noemi often drive me where I have to go and assist me at my residence. I tried in court to wheel over to where Joe took ill, and the Judge hollared at me and threatened me again. I told the Judge to stop falsely threatening to jail Joe, since I depend on him. The Judge would not permit me to go over to see what happened to Joe.
Paramedics along with about six armed guards arrived and took Joe away on a stretcher. I was not allowed to accompany him or to find out rightaway what was going on.
My subsequent investigations uncovered plenty about Judge Samuel Betar III. Later was filed a Motion to try to force the removal of Judge Betar from the case, to stop him from falsely threatening to jail me and Joe. Filed in support of that motion are my signed statements of what I uncovered. From the court record are verbatim what is stated, numbered as they are there
1. I understand this this instrument under [citing Illinois law], has the same force and effect as if it were an Affidavit sworn to before a notary public.
2. I am a traditional Jew, of the Jewish race and religion. My associates Joseph Andreuccetti and Noemi Andreuccetti are perceived by their opponents and enemies as being partly Jewish.
3. Judge Samuel Betar III is closely aligned, including financial, with Suhail "Steven" Al-Masri who is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the Al-Salam Newspaper, which has been circulated in the Chicago area and elsewhere."
4. Said Newspaper was operated at 8150 W. 111th Street, Suite 11, Palos Hills, Illinois, which was the offices of "Steven".
5. Said newspaper has published what those of the Jewish race and religion perceive as vicious anti-Jewish and anti-Israel propaganda, calculated to slander and defame those of the Jewish race and religion.
6. "Steven" has been the purported owner of an airplane pilots training school which has likewise been headquartered at 8150 W. 111th Street, Suite 11, Palos Hills, Illinois. Law enforcement personnel have been surveilling "Steven" because, they contend, his school has been used by purported "terrorists" who apparently had and have been planning to seize U.S. commercial airplanes for the purpose of sabotage and violence to be inflicted on U.S. persons and properties."
7. Part of law enforcement and other government surveillance of "Steven" has also included Judge Samuel Betar III, who is financially and otherwise closely aligned with "Steven" according to such government personnel.
8. According to covert surveillance, "Steven" received numerous calls from topmost officials in the Springfield office of Ilinois Governor George H. Ryan. Because of the close relationship of "Steven" with Judge Samuel Betar III and they, in turn, with Governor Ryan, law enforcement personnel contend they are precluded from taking any action against either "Steven" or Judge Betar, or both, jointly. Further, "Steven" has been photographed with Illinois Governor George H. Ryan."
9. "Steven" has been the owner of Royal Financial Group, Inc., headquartered at 8150 W. 111th Street, Suite 11, Palos Hills, Illinois. Law enforcement personnel contend that said business is, in part, an apparent front for clandestine dealings with a Foundation in Bridgeview, Illinois[a Chicago suburb], identified by the U.S. Attorney General and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as being a purported "terrorist" linked organization and enterprise, funneling funds in the U.S. and to the Mid-East and elsewhere for purported "terrorist" activities directed against U.S. citizens and properties."
[Clarification Although "Steven" claims to have been the owner of Royal Financial Group, Inc., the apparent clandestine dealings were reportedly done through other of his companies with other different names, as a front.]
10. As part of activities to promote their front enterprises, as aforementioned, "Steven" and Judge Samuel Betar III have two slide photographs posted on his and/or their, website, http//www.noribahomes.com. Said photographs appear to have been taken inside the judicial offices of Judge Samuel Betar III for the purpose of promoting their joint businesses and financial activities. Copies of said photographs, reproduced from said website, are attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit One." [The said website-reproduced photographs are in the court record attached to my signed statement and show "Steven" and Judge Betar.]
11. Law enforcement personnel assert they are precluded from taking action against Judge Samuel Betar III and Suhail "Steven" Al-Masri, despite law enforcement contentions that "Steven" and Judge Betar appear to be Chicago-area links to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network.
12. According to those who know him well, "Steven" went low-profile, if not totally disappearing, prior to the purported "terrorist" violence on September 11, 2001, directed against lower Manhattan and the Pentagon. Law enforcement personnel contend they would want to interview him as to his activities including with Judge Betar and the airplane pilots training school, as aforementioned. "Steven's" apparent dropping out of sight tends to support law enforcement contentions that "Steven" with his aforementioned activities has something to conceal, along with Judge Betar."
13. Both Judge Samuel Betar III and "Steven" have been in a position to note that Sherman H. Skolnick has a popular website where he often comments on activities in the U.S. for and on behalf of Osama bin Laden, the bin Laden group, and similar persons and groups linked to them. Skolnick's website is http//www.skolnicksreport.com."
This is the beginning and I will be adding more here but it’s you the public that needs to do something about this because I have done all I can as have all the others......
We are being killed off, without means of support and nothing... No one is aiding me, but god who has granted me the ability to do the things I am doing now and it takes all of us to commit to our Country and the People within America where are you on this.....
Peace!
D’Anne Burley
The D’Anne Burley Show Truthradio.com
Change ID by Using the International Drivers Licenses which were for saled and used for those coming into the US
No One will check..... I complained about this and got no where they were no checks and balances for this nothing....
April 16, 2004
FBI Warns of Stolen French Passports
False French passport: Brahim Benmerzouga used it to rent an apartment and open a bank account in England. He was recently got an 11-year sentence for terrorist fundraising.
Where were these passports — and driver's licenses, etc. etc. — being kept? Why is France still part of the Visa Waiver Program? Shouldn't this incident be enough to get that changed? From FoxNews, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
WASHINGTON — Nearly 10,000 blank French passports were stolen in February, leading the FBI to warn U.S. law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout. "These stolen passports are of particular concern because France participates in the Visa Waiver Program that allows visitors from 27 nations to enter the United States for pleasure for 90 days without a visa," the FBI said in the warning issued Wednesday.
"Fraudulent or illicitly acquired travel documents, such as passports and visas, compromise the security of U.S. borders by providing means to gain unlawful entry into the country. Fraudulently issued or altered passports can be used by criminals, including terrorists, to adopt false identities, impersonate other citizens or conceal suspicious travel."
French officials notified the U.S. Embassy in Paris that 6,300 blank passports were stolen on Feb. 3 and another 3,000 disappeared on Feb. 10, the bulletin said.
The FBI said that other French passports were stolen in July and September.
French passport numbers, the FBI said, are composed of two digits, followed by two letters and five digits. For example, some of the stolen passports were designated 04 CF 64301 through 04 CF67300.
The Feb. 3 incident, the FBI said, also included the theft of 5,000 blank French driver's licenses, 10,000 blank car ownership certificates, 25 titres de voyages (Geneva Convention travel documents) and 1,000 international driver's licenses without any identification numbers.
"The FBI possesses no information that these stolen identification documents are being used in terrorist activities. However, law enforcement agencies that encounter these documents should immediately advise" the Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement Law Enforcement Support Center, which operates round-the-clock.
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This is the French contribution to trouble in the Middle East - French Passports.
Posted by: Ezekiel at April 16, 2004 08:08 AM
As the Muslim population of France (and of other countries of Western Europe) becomes even more significant, as Muslims rise through the ranks of the Defense du Territoire, and the Quai d'Orsay, and Agence France-Presse (where they already choose, frame, shoot, and provide captions to almost every photograph taken in "Palestine" and Iraq -- and thus help to mold the deepening anti-Israel, and anti-American, sentiments in Israel), as they become ever more important in the making of both foreign and domestic policy (just how strict or effective mmay be the measures of self-defense employed by the indigenous Infidels?), and, of course, rise in the ranks of the armed services, and some Muslims, though no doubt carefully vetted, get closer to control of French weaponry (and have opportunities to work on, and to convert, their fellow officers), many French will grow increasingly nervous, as they should have long ago.
There are generals in France deeply alarmed at this situation; they, however, must contend with Chirac, and Dominique de Villepin, and others who refuse to see the problem. At some point, military coups are not out of the question -- to save the country. The idea that France, that survived two world wars, should jettison its culture and its civilisation, because of some inhibitions and embarrasments and sentimental pieties about "all people" more or less wanting the same thing, to "live in peace" (etc.), which, combined with the seemingly impervious-to-reality Sartre-Paul Nizan-Francois Maspero tiersmondiste attitude that naturally favors, and protects Islam, and Muslims, from scrutiny (as do all the corruptions of French political leaders, some of whom, like Chirac, would if not in office be in jail) and disfavors the hapless and inarticulate, but far more sensible Americans, so easy for Europeans to dislike, apparently, and of course there remains the eternal target of the "Jews," now safely to be attacked "only" as Israelis or supporters of Israel, that to many Europeans, subject to the endless media stillicde of anti-Israel propaganda, as a pesky, and quite unnecessary country, ready to be thrown as a sacrificial lamb (at Eid al-Fitr, perhaps?) to the ravenous wolves of Arab Islam.
It will take not just a midnight ride by Revere and Dawes, but much more, to awaken the Western peoples. Every mite and soundbite helps. How easy it is, apparently, to shut people up, or even better cause them to shut themselves up, by insisting that noticing the basic tenets of Islam, and calling them to the attention of others, is somehow "racist." No one can quite explain how it is "racist" to note the content of a belief-system, to explain the origins and central tenets of that system, and the effect Islamic rule has had on non-Muslims,during the 1350 years of Muslim rule. Nor is it "racist" to note the impossibility of "reformation" within Islam, and the need to severely constrain its practice, which was the essence of the program put in place by Ataturk, and known as Kemalism. It is not "racist" (by now an utterly silly word, embarrassing to use in order to rebut the charge) to note that an ideology that is aggressive and hostile to all who do not subscribe to that ideology, and that insists on world domination, must be taken seriously, and its adherents regarded --as they would be if there only ten million of them and not a billion -- as members of a cult who must be permanently prevented from obtaining positions where they can inflict harm -- as military men, as pilots, as makers of policy -- on the non-Muslims among whom they now live.
When 10,000 passports are stolen in France, that is not a headache for France alone, but for all the members of the Western alliance, and even for non-Western countries (the Philippines, for example). At the moment that Western Alliance must worry most about the nuclear weapons (is it now 42?) of A. Q. Khan's Pakistan, a country whose people have only their Islamic identity to cling to, which is why they are as fervent as the Arabs in their Muslim identity--which is not as true of other non-Arab Muslims, such as Persians, Turks, Berbers, Kurds). They must also worry about, and plan to prevent, even by bombing on the model of the Israeli raid on Iraq's nuclear reactor, the acquisition by Iran of nuclear weapons. This cannot wait upon a change in the Iranian regime, and would have to take place whatever regime were to come to power, for Iran cannot be counted on to permanently turn away from militant Islam, much less from Islam itself, and hence remains a permanent danger.
Now the arsenals of the non-Muslim coutnries of Europe can fall, into the hands of jihadis. They might be officers, enlisted men, pilots, security guards, drivers -- for though some Muslims, especially Berbers, have been useful inthe counter-terrorism efforts, neither the French nor anyone else can rely on their ability to permanently "turn" every Muslim. It has shown itself to be a belief-system far more comprehensive, and resistent, and resilient, than either Communism, the failures of which are evident in the economic conditions it creates, or Nazism, which is self-limited to "Aryans" and "honorary Aryans."
This is all by way of a warning, to all those commissions that will have to be formed, in not-so-distant decades, to examine what the makers of policy in these years knew (Dominique de Villepin, do not count on America to provide refuge for your children and grandchildren) or should have known. As of right now, whoever you are -- you should have known.
Who knows what may happen in the advanced and well-armed nations of Western Europe? Are there Muslim pilots in the French air force? Will there be? And in the British air force? What security level will Muslim officers be granted? Will there be a policy in place, or simply nudge-nudge-wink-wink designed to accomplish the same thing? Are these things to be discussed, in a sober manner, with attention to the doctrines of Islam, as explained not by apologists but by serious scholars -- Anne-Marie Delcambre comes to mind in France -- including "defectors" such as ex-Muslims (who deserve much more attention) -- or will something involving the greatest threat to the survival of Infidels, and their cilivization, go undiscussed, because it would be too impolite, too unpleasant, too awkward to do so?
It is not hard to imagine, at some point, the quiet and secret conversion of certain Infidels, whose mental and emotional weaknesses and need for the complete guide or grid to existence, a Total Explanation and Regulation of Everything, that Islam provides, who might form part of a conspiracy that would go unremarked by others, until too late. The psychically marginal, such as John Walker Lindh, or Richard Reid, or the socially or economically marginal (all those prison inmates) who convert to Islam, are transparent. But what of those who do not seem to fit that category, but are rendered suddenly vulnerable by a death in the family, divorce, a drop in the serotonin level, infidelity, any number of things that can upset the balance of one's mind, and that might make one heed the siren-song of da'wa, the Call to Islam. People can be willing to hide their true feelings and hatreds for decades (one Al Qaeda operative had no problem working at, and fitting in to, Mount Sinai Hospital, in Baltimore). One can smile, and have murder in one's heart. And how amusing to know that all these intolerable Infidels will some day pay for their many slights and sins, in a way that I (and here the Believer is filled with silent exultation at the thought of what terrible damage he, struggling on the path of Allah, may be able to finally inflict on these Infidels). People can wait, and wait, for many years, until the right moment comes.
We are all familiar, from gangster movies of the 1930s, to interviews in the newspapers this morning, with the surprise that does not surprise us: "but my boy was a good boy" and "he seemed like such a nice fella, always kept his yard clean, never had a harsh word, helpin' everyone out." All very amusing. But apply that to the situation of those who would attain to the Muslim Paradise (with its promised 72 virgins, or raisins, depending on your philological analysis). "Mo was a great guy, always a team-player, and a real family man. Just can't believe it." (Sentiments to that effect). Those who seem to have become completely integrated, as "moderate" Muslims, into society, who are cleanshaven, who may risk the sweet-and-sour pork or at least make fun of those strict Muslims who won't, who seem to have embraced the West entirely, who may be deeply involved in their work or their career, who seem the furthest thing from the "kind of Muslims" one must worry about.
This is what may be called the "Mike Hawash" problem, after the Intel computer engineeer in Portland, Oregon, the co-author of a standard computer text,earning $360,000 a year, happily married to his American wife, a pillar of his community, stoutly defended right up until his guilty plea by one of his bosses, an important Intel executive, who helped raise his bail, and noisily insisted with every fiber of his being that "Mike is innocent" of the charges. For reasons that need to be examined, at some point "Mike" Hawash, who had never given up on Islam entirely, returned to the faith with real passion. He grew a beard. He took to reading the Qur'an more frequently. And then, after September 11, he did not recoil in horror from Islam. No, instead he carefully made over the deed to his house to his wife. He made out a will. And then he set out, with others, intending to reach Afgfhanistan, hoping to fight alongside members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban and to kill his fellow Americans. He is not alone. There are many such "surprises" to come. Statecraft involves the avoidance of such surprises; there should be no surprises. Hitler's behavior was no surprise to Churchill. It was Chamberlain, and the great mass of the British public, imperfectly instructed, and willingly deluded, who were so surprised. It was a very dear lesson, and not only the British, alas, had to pay for it.
What was it that happened to change Mike Hawash? Boredom at work? Disgust at the way his friends' children were behaving? Renewed filial piety after the death of a parent? Fury at what he perceived as "slights" to Islam or the thwarting of Muslim demands on Infidels on this or that corner of the globe? A sudden drop in his serotonin level? Depression? And for all of these, he had, in his background, the remedy, the consolation, the explanation that Islam provides its adherents.
The security risk posed by Muslims, and not only by those who are outwardly and visibly hostile (they are easier to monitor) is what France, and Great Britain, and Italy, and Spain, and of course other members of the Western alliance, aware that each of their countries possess very significant weapons (in some cases, nuclear weapons) cannot afford not to discuss. Such discussions will not take place, in any serious way, as long as those who have pursued three decades of appeasement, three decades of "Euro-Arab Dialogue" in which "North" and "South" (a vocabulary that the French have been assiduous in promoting, for it describes using innocuous points-of-the-compass terms (we are "North" of the Mediterranean, you are "South") to what is in fact an enormous cultural divide, a non-bridgeable abyss, between a hostile and aggrressibve Islam on the southern rim and a largely uncomprehending or passive Christianity, or post-Christianity (the Englightenment, skepticism, Spinoza and Hume), on the northern rim. The E.U. bureaucracy is full of the deluded, who have permitted, and indeed encouraged, for several decades both the unhindered move of millions of Muslims into Western Europe, with untellable consequences, including a permanent security nightmare, making the lives of the non-Muslims far more unpleasant, expensive, and dangerous than they would otherwise be. Those deluded "Euro-Arab Dialogue" leaders, with their criminal negligence -- Villepin, Chirac, many in the EU bureaucracy from Javier Solana to Chris Patten --must be exposed, their policies ridiculed, they themselves professionally marginalised so that the serious matter of protecting the peoples and polities of what is still the non-Muslim West can be undertaken by sober grownups (Donald Rumsfeld comes to mind), of whom this country, the United States, at the moment apparently possesses a greater number than does Europe, which will need help, as it did in the 1940s and 1950s, in coming to its senses. Instead of pretending that there is "no problem" with Islam itself, just with that "handful" of easily identifiable "extremists"(even if they scuttle about underground). There are many more who are not so easily identifiable, whose loyalaties must be permanently in question, given the clear call, in Islam, for loyalty only to one's fellow Muslims. Lives, millions of lives, are at stake; the true state of affairs, the real nature of Islamic doctrine and Muslim practices toward non-Muslims, through time and space, however unpleasant this all may be, and however unconforming or jarring the conclusions that must be reached may prove to be to the sentimental pieties of the age, this cannot be ignored or further delayed. And there is always what great many) -- of Islam.
And there remains, and always will remain, what one might call the "Manchurian Candidate" effect -- for some reason, at some point, a mild-mannered, outwardly amiable and easygoing, even seemingly completely secular Muslim, who has been born into the faith but appears to wear his religion lightly, suddenly -- without warning -- undergoes a deep renewal of the faith (think of Muhammad Atta, once an urban planner, of a middle-class, not particularly pious family, himself for a long time disinterested in religion; or think of Bin Laden, in the fleshpots of Beirut), and becomes eager to act on the most aggrressive and hostile tenets of Islam.
It is instructive for one to consider, for oneself, what professions could, at this point, reasonably remain open to Muslims, without undue worry of their effect on the physical and intellectual well-being of non-Muslims. What professions are these? Airline pilot? Nuclear or chemical engineer? Truck driver of Hazmat materials? Truck driver of anything? FBI Agent? CIA Agent? Army Intelligence? Army officer in charge of procurement, or logistics? Cook in the U.S. Senate? Journalist covering the Middle East? Writer of textbooks? Teacher of American or world history? Keep going, until you find something that would not worry you (I haven't managed to do so). It is no reply at all to say that "many Muslimis" are completely loyal, and that what is being considered here is an outrage. Islam itself stresses, in Qur'an and hadith,that loyalty must be given to, and only to, fellow Muslims. So if we are assured that many Muslims are "loyal to the United States" this must mean that they are violating central tenets, and attitudes, of Islam -- the Manichaean division of the world between Muslim and non-Muslim. And if they are, then they are being "bad" Muslims. Fine, that is all right with me -- but what is not acceptable is to pretend that one can be a good, believing Muslim, and still feel a real (not feigned or fleeting), loyalty to an Infidel nation-state.
The pity is that that some Muslims will in fact be trustworthy, will in fact be "bad" Muslims but not wish to admit it to themselves, much less to others. And we, the Infidels, have no reliable device for distinguishing these Muslims from the others, and they will have no doubt suffer (as "moderate" -- i.e. "unobservant" or "bad" Muslims will always suffer, but unless there is either, on the part of someone born into Islam, of a clear break with Islam, or a candid admission by that Believer of what Islam teaches about Infdidels, and a deliberate, open break with that teaching, not by denying its centrality in Qur'an and hadith but by forthrightly both recognizing the existence of such doctrines, and then rejecting them, which will make one a "bad" Muslim in the eyes of almost all other Muslims. This will leave, as "Islam," only that part which consists of the five rituals (the "Five Pillars") of individual worship; the rest is too hot, too dangerous, for Muslims, or the rest of the world, any longer to handle. If Muslims themselves, including the "moderates," insist on denying or omitting major elements of Islam, in violation of the clear texts, both Qur'an and hadith, and of 1350 years of Muslim history, and in the behavior of Muslims toward non-Muslims everywhere on the globe, from Nigeria to the Sudan to the Philippines, then they will have only themselves to blame for the suspicion in which they will be, and rightly, permanently held by all non-Muslims. And that will be particularly true as non-Muslims learn about the doctrines of taqiyya and kitman, which religiously sanction lying about one's own adherence to Islam, or the content of one's faith, in order to protect both oneself and the faith. In such circumstances, anything but the greatest mistrust, by Infidels, for Muslims, would be folly.
"War is deception," said Muhammad. The theft of those 10,000 blank French passports may seem to be an enormous and nightmarish loss. Compared to what is still to come, unless the considerations offered here are taken seriously, in Congress, in the Executive Branch, in the CIA and the FBI and the Pentagon, in all the chanceries and secret services of the West, there will be much worse to come. The demographic conquest of the Infidel lands may not succeed, completely, but there can be sufficient infiltration of its miiltary and security services to enable Muslims to turn, upon Infidels, the very weapons which only the Infidel world, with the mental freedom that permits basic science, was capable of developing, unaided, in the first place.
There remains the American government, which still exhibits a certain sanity, though not everywhere and always (the invasion of Iraq was completely correct, but at present Iraq is, a misallocation of men, materiel, money, and political capital that should be applied elsewhere in the unending counter-Jihad). It can take the lead, by working to demoralize, and unseat, the well-placed promoters of the "Euro-Arab Dialogue" which has done such damage to Europeans. Under its aagis, a vast influx of Muslims, unhindered, has gone from "South" to "North"; Europe has allowed itself to become indignant over Israel's attempts, imperfectly articulated, to defend against the Jihad against it (of course, it is psychologically soothing, given Europe's history, to monstrously exaggerate the "crimes" of a Jewish state, by way of assuaging its own unease and guilt, and furthermore, it is psychologically soothing to believe that "only the matter of Palestine" stands in the way of a completely benign Muslim Arab world, working hand-in-hand with its European neighbors -- rather than face the real problem, which is the permanent and uncompromising state of hostility, required by Islam, between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb). Europe contains many people who are more and more uneasy with their own leaders, with the Muslim popuilations in their midst, and with the direction of the EU's foreign policy. They see clearly that there has been careful exploitation, by the Islamintern (if a word may be minted), of such pre-existing mental conditions as anti-Americanism and antisemitism, to split Europe from America. That repair must be healed, but not on the terms that the Chircs and Solanas and Pattens and Mary Robinsons would wish -- it has to be healed by appealing to the those, within Europe, who are waiting for the intelligent articulation of the Muslim threat, and who otherwise may turn toward fascism, if liberalism cannot protect against Islam (which itself is, in its suppression of the individual and emphasis on the collective, eminently fascistic in its attitudes, atmospherics, and doctrines).
The United States government, foundations, the press, should all give much more attention to the testimonies of ex-Muslims. When will there be a major television program devoted to Ibn Warraq, or to others who can testify as to what led them to leave Islam, and what its tenets really are. Next month? Next year? Never? Who will devote a column, or many columns, to the webfsites of ex-Muslims, to their own stories of what is taught. Who will write a story about the 35,000 Turks who converted to Christianity last year, in the only Muslim country (outside of Central Asia) which permits such apostasy?
The Vatican, which once glorified those who died -- missionaries burned at the stake by the Hurons, for example -- in the work of propaganda fide, propagation of the faith, has done almost nothing, so fearful is it, among the Muslims of Europe. Perhaps they cannot be converted, but perhaps they can, and a massive effort should be made, for if they are not converted, they will remain a great threat to the lives of the non-Muslims among whom they have been permitted to live. And there is much else that can be done, to deal the growing security threat, which a roundup here, or there, of 5 or 10 or 20 "activists" (some of whom may helpfully blow themselves up) does little to diminish.
Lost passports in France are the least of it.
Posted by: Hugh at April 16, 2004 10:39 AM
Hugh, a great piece, as usual. I do believe, however, that the problem is deeper than the failure of the current administration in France to simply understand the problem in the usual sense of the word.
Unfortunately, deep down in their psychoepistemology, they AGREE with far too much of what Islam has to say.
Herein lies the value of knowing a bunch about philosophy. We all, every one of us, have a philosophy, and that means every branch of it: Ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Unfortunately, philosophy can come either by osmosis or through instruction, and it is no easier to study than plasma physics; it must be studied, and the rational separated from the irrational.
The different philosophies held by different peoples are what produce different results in everything from their personal lives to their roles in history.
Philosophy was responsible for the intellectual Golden Age of Greece, which was in turn responsible (it's a long story) for the so-called "Islamic Golden Age" (talk about hijacking!), it was responsible for the Dark Age, it was responsible for Islam, it was responsible for the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, it was responsible for the Nazis and Soviet Russia and North Korea and China, it was responsible for the Constitution of the United States, and it is responsible for what is happening in this country today, and the difficulties we are having in recognizing the true nature of the enemy.
Posted by: cubed at April 16, 2004 11:50 AM
hugh
any chance that you have written a book or are going to in the future
Posted by: jimmytheclaw at April 16, 2004 02:49 PM
Hugh should, he has no problem hammering out 5 pages on a blog comment box. He'd be done in a matter of days on this subject!
Lets not forget the thousands of passports the French "lost" in Iraq as well. They seem to be having great difficulty in keeping these items secure.
I wonder Hugh, if the collapse of Europe might not follow the prophecies, as spelled out in The bible. A remarkable interpretation of this can be read at: The Last Days of Babylon In your post in another string above, you mentioned the flood of Europeans trying to flee to North America, I recalled this on book, which was quite interesting. Islam does represent the "the beast", and it does intend to destroy the vatican, or more accurately, take the throne of Christs church.
Posted by: Nathan at April 17, 2004 12:24 AM
Gee whiz beave, I wonder what it will take for the world to accept the reality that Christianity is under attack. I dunno Wally, maybe a few nuclear blasts will open their eyes - or more murderous acts on the innocent by cowardly vermin terrorists. Hmm. I don't think so beave. Yeah... you're probably right. If what's gone on lately doesn't make them see, what could? Heck, let's just go out and play Wally. Ok beave, there’s nothing we can do huh.
Posted by: s at April 19, 2004 05:28 PM