Tim Sumner

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Fitna … Update: LiveLeak restores video link despite new threats

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Updated, 12:28 PM EDT, March 31, 2008: LiveLeak restores Fitna link despite new threats (see video in original post below). HotAir.com has the details.

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Updated, 5:09 PM EDT, March 28, 2008: LiveLeak has removed Fitna due to threats. Michelle Malkin has the details (plus a working copy of the film) and you can click on the screen below to read Live Leak’s statement.

Original post, March 28, 2008:

WARNING: Fitna contains strong content.

My conflict with posting Fitna was twofold. I am no expert on Islam yet it has been widely said that the depiction of God and the prophets is offensive to Muslims. That is contrary to my beliefs but I am not a Muslim; I believe that religion is a personal relationship with God. Why offend, just for the sake of doing so? I am no holier than thou are. Secondly, I cannot possibly know what is in Wilders’ heart. Perhaps he is a profiteer, solely out for political gain or seeks only to incite. If so, then posting Fitna supports the indefensible.

A good friend of mine feels that Islam is a third world religion, one where there can be no secular government, anywhere in the world, and no laws of humankind on earth the equal or placed above Islam. That perception seems borne out by what we see today, radicalization versus modernity, with the latter appearing to lose ground these last four decades.

Even at the risk of offending those who live and let live or appearing to agree with something that I do not agree with, that all of Islam is an evil belief, I could not remain silent.

Risking all in defense of unalienable, God given rights, even those of someone with whom you disagree, is really a selfish venture. Someone far wiser than me once said, “I cannot be free unless you are.” The reverse is also true and that is why I posted Fitna here on this web site for to defend the rights of others is a defense of my own.

al Qaeda, War on Terror

Al-Qaeda training western looking terrorists in Pakistan

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The AFP reports:

CIA director Michael Hayden warned Sunday that Al-Qaeda was training operatives who “look western” and could enter the United States undetected to conduct terrorist attacks.
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“They are bringing operatives into that region for training — operatives that, a phrase I would use, wouldn’t attract your attention if they were going through the customs line at Dulles (airport near Washington DC) with you,” Hayden told NBC television.

The new recruits “look western” and “would be able to come into this country … without attracting the kind of attention that others might,” he said.

Perhaps the strangest assertion that I have ever heard is those who say “the Bush administration is only trying to scare people” whenever a report similar to this comes out. Most of them also screamed that the administration did not do enough to prevent 9/11. The not funny thing is none of them seem to be demanding that House Speaker Pelosi bring the Senate’s version of the update to the FISA law to the floor for a vote.