Islam has never become rooted in any land until that land had its own Islamic scholars.”

— Imam Zaid Shakir, Berkeley, California

Therefore, by extension, it’s time to create an Islamic university in the United States in order for Islam to become rooted.

From VOANews.com:

Zaytuna College is a new four-year college in Berkeley, California. Zaytuna is seeking to become the first accredited Muslim college in the United States. The name comes from the Arabic word for olives.

The process of full accreditation could take several years. That will make it easier for students to get financial aid, and to have their education recognized by employers and other schools.

Zaytuna held its first classes this summer — intensive study of Arabic to prepare for classes in the fall.

Zaytuna currently offers two majors, a choice of Islamic law and religion or Arabic language.

Imagine that.

Then imagine this.

Imam Zaid Shakir said:

A Council on American-Islamic Relations adviser and regular speaker at its events has suggested Islamic law permits Muslims to attack C-130 military transport planes carrying the 82nd Airborne out of Fort Bragg, N.C., according to a stunning new book exposing Washington-based CAIR’s inner workings.

Radical Islamic cleric Zaid Shakir, a frequent guest speaker at CAIR events, tells his Muslim audiences: “Jihad is physically fighting the enemies of Islam to protect and advance the religion of Islam. This is jihad.”

Acceptable targets of jihad, he says, include U.S. military aircraft.

“Islam doesn’t permit us to hijack airplanes filled with civilian people,” Shakir once told a Muslim audience. However, “If you hijack an airplane filled with the 82nd Airborne, that’s something else.”

Recorded and documented in this book. Further:

Imam Shakir also gives his blessing to the use of bombs as a weapon of jihad, as long as the explosives hit “select” targets and are not indiscriminate in their destruction. Civilians can be a legitimate target, he says, if “there’s a benefit in that,” according to “Muslim Mafia,” co-authored by former federal agent P. David Gaubatz and investigative journalist Paul Sperry, author of “Infiltration.”

Even “old elderly men” and “women who are conscripted” – including Israeli and American women in uniform – are eligible enemy combatants in jihad. “This is Shariah,” Shakir asserts in a CD recording of one of his lectures in 2001, which the authors obtained from a radical mosque bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Shakir, a black convert, has been portrayed as a moderate in the mainstream media, including the New York Times, which recently ran a positive profile of him. His pro-jihad statements revealed in “Muslim Mafia” have not been previously reported. CAIR has sued and obtained a temporary restraining order to censor the book’s documentary evidence detailing CAIR’s support of terrorism and obstruction of FBI investigations.

Yes, that is the co-founder of and professor installed at the new Muslim Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Fornicalia.

Creeping Shariah, anyone? Open wide, we’re going to force it slowly down your throats.

BZ

From Der Spiegel online:

From the New York Times:

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a national advertising campaign that would cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists, people involved in the discussion said.

Sad to say at this point, but admittedly the GOP is not saturated with TEA Party “extremists.” Instead, it is predominantly populated with self-serving, arrogant, full-time politicians who exist to make mouth music and physically accomplish as little as possible, whilst sounding like they’re more to the Right than just Rudder Amidships.

Their main desire: raise money, stash cash, keep themselves elected so they can stay in the job that will sustain them in style, money and power to the end of their days.

Those salient little facts — and many more — are recognized and exposed by the TEA Party, which is why many Republicans are not too terribly enthralled with members of various TEA Party factions, encountered individually or in groups.

That is among a range of options and plans under consideration at the White House for energizing dispirited Democratic voters over the coming six weeks, in hopes of limiting the party’s losses and keeping control of the House and Senate. Democratic strategists are seeing new openings to exploit after a string of Tea Party successes split Republicans and culminated last week with developments that scrambled Senate races in Delaware and Alaska.

Translated: not only are the Demorats running a tad scared, but so are career do-nothing Republicans. To the GOP from Conservatives and TEA Party members: what have you actually done for us lately?

We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party because the people who have taken over the party are radical,” said one Democratic strategist who has spoken with White House advisers but requested anonymity to discuss private strategy talks.

And here is why you, as a Conservative or a TEA Party member, are branded a radical:

– You believe in the US Constitution pretty much as it was written, pretty much word-for-word; you believe it isn’t a Living Document and, instead, it is best left alone.
– You believe in the First Amendment with regard to Freedom of Speech;
– You believe in the Second Amendment with regard to your ability to keep and maintain weapons for personal defense;
– You believe in a SCOTUS that utilizes the Constitution as the foundational document from which your opinions should be based, instead of acting as an adjunct Legislative branch;
– You believe in the strength of the individual, encompassing less government, greater freedom and responsibility;
– You believe in a strong American military, American sovereignty and independence from globalist influences;
– You believe in less spending and the Prime Theory of Economics: never spend more than your revenue allows;

Yes friends, as you can clearly see, each of those bullet points — just a few off the top of my balding, scabby little head — make you a radical. A Radical, I tell you!

To which I submit: then we need more of these radicals.

Perhaps we’ll get them, come November.

Remember: do not fail to vote ALL Demorats and Leftists OUT. Out, I say!

And while we’re at it, let’s clean the Republican house as well, eh?

BZ

Today is national “Talk Like A Pirate” Day!

Annoy friends, irritate neighbors, piss off passers-by. . . !

One example that comes to mind to apply to the younger set:

“Arrrrr, arshole, wearin’ yer jeans just a little low on yer skinny ass, arrrrrrr ya son??”

There’s so much more. Your creativity is the only limit!

And finally:

Q: “You know why pirate jokes are so bad?”
A: “Because they arrrrrrrrrrr. . .”

;^)

BZ

Reality and pressure may be starting to set in with, at least, a handful of Demorats.

From CNN Politics, of all places:

Washington (CNN) – Thirty-one House Democrats, most of whom face tough re-election bids this fall, have signed a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer urging them to extend expiring tax breaks for all income levels, including the wealthy.

And another little salient but ignored tidbit from Politico.com:

Democratic candidates are spending three times more advertising against the health reform law than they are in support of it.

Since the beginning of Congress’s August recess, Democratic candidates have poured $930,000 into ads deriding the health overhaul but just $300,000 in pro-reform spots, according to Evan Tracey at Kantar Media.

Again, pressure and reality starting to get in the way?

Carter, in an announcement made in Nashville on Thursday morning, said he sent a letter to Pelosi requesting her to step aside.

“I think it is incumbent on Speaker Pelosi to step aside,” Carter said.

Citing a report in the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal, where Carter was described to have an albatross around his neck in the form of Pelosi, said the divisiveness she generates hamstrings his and other Democratic candidates’ abilities to focus on the issues.

“I don’t believe my situation is unique,” Carter said.

If elected, Carter said he would not cast his vote for Nancy Pelosi to be speaker.

This is a perfect juxtaposition for Conservatives.

An even bigger opportunity for Republicans.

Will they take advantage of it?

BZ

P.S.
Hey, whilst you’re at it, why not “suggest” a nice caption on the top photograph, eh?