Art Imitating Life: Benghazi, Obama, and Kirk Douglas

By Lloyd Marcus

Talk about art imitating life.

I landed upon a classic movie while surfing TV channels.  Kirk Douglas played a down-on-his-luck news reporter.  When I began watching the movie, a man named Leo was trapped in a collapsed cave.  Douglas managed to crawl within a few feet of Leo and was chatting with Leo, assuring the scared man that he would be rescued ASAP.

But secretly, Douglas had other plans.  Keeping Leo trapped for at least seven days could revive Douglas's career.  He had exclusive access to Leo.  Writing daily updates could produce tremendous financial rewards; it could land Douglas a job with a major newspaper and a possible Pulitzer Prize.

Now here is the despicable aspect of the story: the engineer said his crew could get Leo out of the hole in sixteen hours.

Douglas manipulated the corrupt local sheriff, who was seeking re-election, to pressure the engineer to use a slower technique that would take at least five days to remove Leo from the hole.  On the fifth day, when the crew was within a few feet of reaching him, Leo died.

Folks, I was struck by how closely the scenario in the movie paralleled real-life current events.  After the movie, I told my wife, "Oh my gosh, I just watched the Obama administration in Benghazi."

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The Sheiks and WMD

by Ali Salim

Any sheikh, acting as a mouthpiece for a Middle Eastern regime, will be able to provide an Islamic seal of approval for the use of chemical and nuclear weapons. Verse 60 from the Surah Al-Anfal of the Qur'an permits the use of any and every weapon a Muslim can acquire that can frighten and deter an enemy of Islam.

Every side in every conflict in the Middle East has its own mufti who will interpret Islam and hand down fatwas, religious injunctions, favorable to that side's interests. Using one approach or another to exploit Islam's complex, often contradictory, religious laws, every sheikh can find justification for the need and duty to carry out any act.

Any sheikh, acting as the mouthpiece for a Middle Eastern regime, will be able to provide an Islamic seal of approval, according to the whim of the regime's leaders, for the use of chemical and nuclear weapons. The muftis issue these fatwas relying on traditions handed down from the days of the prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w.). Readers of Arabic who follow blogs and Internet sites are aware that for the most part, Islam authorizes the use of WMD against infidels and the Crusaders of the West -- that is, anyone who is not a Muslim.

Selected examples include the following: According to the Algerian sheikh Hir a-Din Mubarak Oueir, the prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w.) was sent armed with a sword to ensure that people would only worship Allah as Muslims; he achieved his aims using his lance, the relevant weapon at the time. The sheikh claims that since the time of the prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w.) and his ancient sword, humanity has made great progress in weaponry, including weapons with long-term destructive effects. Nations have had such military capabilities, the fruit of scientific and technological development, only since the last century. Thus, according to the heritage of the prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w.), if the Islamic nation aspires to control the globe in this world and reach paradise in the next, it has to grasp the fundamentals of modern deterrent force, otherwise it will never restore its lost honor, land and rights.

Gatestone Institute

British soldier ‘beheaded on London street by Muslim terrorists’

The British government has called an emergency meeting of its highest-level anti-terrorism task force after a serving soldier was hacked to death on a busy London street today.

The soldier, said by witnesses to be wearing a t-shirt supporting ‘Help for Heroes' - the charity that raises funds for injured UK service men and women - was attacked by two men near the Woolwich Barracks area of London. British military units are based at the barracks.

Witnesses said attempts were made to behead the soldier.

The attackers were said to have waited for 20 minutes while specially-armed units of the Metropolitan police service arrived. The men then attacked police officers and were shot. Latest reports say both are in local hospitals, at least one of them in a serious condition.

Witnesses said the pair attacked the man viciously, hacking at him with a machete. Some witnesses said they tried to decapitate the victim as he lay in the street.

The calling of a meeting of the UK's Cobra committee is a strong indication that the British government regards the attack as terror-related. Islamic fundamentalists have long threatened to attack British service personnel in a guerilla-style attack. Terrorist videos have also featured British Muslims threatening to behead a UK soldier if they got the chance.

FSM

Ahmadiyah Board Up Their Mosque in East Java

By Camelia Pasandaran

Police and residents in Tulungagung, East Java, allegedly forced a member of an Ahmadiyah community to board up his mosque in order to create the illusion of a voluntary closure, a local religious leader said on Tuesday.

Aminullah, who heads the Ahmadiyah Kediri branch overseeing the beleaguered Baitul Salam mosque in Gempolan village, told the Jakarta Globe on Tuesday that Japar, member of Ahmadiyah community, was pressured to put a sealing board in front of the only Ahmadiyah mosque in Tulungagung district on Monday.

“I told Japar not to agree with the request to shut down the mosque,” Aminullah said. “Japar said that he was forced to seal the mosque himself. The media took his picture when he put the sealing board on, creating a wrong impression that the Ahmadis agreed with it.”

Japar said that hundreds of police officers were waiting in front of his house to intimidate him into closing the mosque, according to Aminullah.

“No one will shut down their own houses of worship without reason. Japar, who lives near the mosque, has to deal with the police officers, his relatives, his neighbors and others who forced him to seal the mosque,” Aminullah said.

The Jakarta Globe

Saudi Arabia: Five Yemenis beheaded, bodies displayed

(ANSAmed) - Dubai, 21 May - Saudi Arabia today executed five Yemenis and publicly displayed their bodies, local media reported. The five men, among them three brothers, were accused of a number of robberies in several different areas of the country and of killing a Saudi.

Their deaths take the number of executions in Saudi Arabia to at least 45 since the beginning of the year with six this week.

On Monday a Syrian was beheaded after being found guilty of drug trafficking.

Saudi Arabia has the third highest execution rate after China and Iran and it is carried out for crimes including murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and apostasy.

The method of execution is usually decapitation with a saber.(ANSAmed).

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