The late Tashbih Sayyed rails against media's unwillingness to comprehend the Islamist threat

A DemoCast.TV exclusive video: The publisher of "Muslim World Today" newspaper, the late Mr. Tashbih Sayyed, speaks-out here, accompanied by Muslim reformist-leader Dr. Wafa Sultan - when both received Profile in Courage Award from American Jewish Congress in 2007.

Mr. Sayyed contends that Muslim PR agents, e.g., CAIR, MPAC, and Muslim-American Society mask a pro-Islamist, political agenda seeking to replace democracy with totalitarian Sharia. He challenges lazy news-directors to research and see-through these self-appointed "spokespeople" for the Muslim-American community- and promote true, reformist voices.

Hollywood rabbi blares clarion-call to awaken Hollywood Dems against enabling Obama's deleterious policies

Lone Rabbi warns Hollywood illusion-makers against being seduced by Obama's spell and their mutual narcissism.



Pres. Barack Obama was greeted upon arrival in L.A. with a shofar (ram's horn) blare from Orthodox Rabbi Moshe Parry of L.A. The chilling blare was intended to be a Jewish alarm-clock awakening for the President, his gathering donors (many of whom are Jewish in the entertainment-industry) who gather to fete and fund him, and for you, the viewer - as to the misguidedness of Obama's Adminstration's pandering to Islamism - especially at the peril of the safety of America's Mid-East ally, Israel, against a pan-Islamic enemy, and the threats which a state of Palestine would pose to Israel, its pilgrim Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and emboldening the global Jihad against the West.

Journalist, Alan Caruba, expounds on the question of "Why are Liberals Blind to the Evil in the World?" in today's Canada Free Press:

Why do so many Jews, located primarily in New York City, Los Angeles, and in Florida, mindlessly vote the Democrat Party line and thus support the Democrat destruction of the nation remains a mystery to me, but the same can be also said of Afro-Americans. Perhaps it is because both share a history of persecution and both are drawn to any message of hope and change.

Politically, however, too many Jews who are seen as shapers of public opinion often appear to be blind to evil in the world. They cannot seem to recognize those who would kill them and their fellow countrymen. Unfairly, we expect Jews to be more moral, more just, more resistant to evil, but they are just like the rest of us, easily seduced by power, fearful of rejection.

It is a familiar liberal failing to refuse to recognize evil, to name it, and to denounce it.

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Minority-rights leaders call for universal condemnation of Islamic-sanctioned hatred, violence, and sedition

On the very same day as the Mumbai terror attacks (Nov 26 / 25th Pacific Time), San Franciscan  Jewish-physician, Dr. Dan Kliman fell into the Pacific Arabic Resources School's elevator shaft. The cause of the death of the advocate for vegetarian/ homosexual/ Israeli rights is under investigation. A memorial service  was be held on Sunday, Dec 14, 7:30 pm at the Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland. He was also remembered in a moment of silence at L.A.'s StandWithUs dinner.

The pious Jewish victims of Kashmiri 'unholy' warriors, Lashkar-e-Taiba, were memorialized at a Chabad-organized ceremony by Los Angeles civic dignitaries and leaders from Sikh and Arab cultures. They called to rally all good people (especially Muslims) to rout-out supremacism and hate from modern Islamic practices.

Nirinjan Singh Khalsa, Executive Director of the California Sikh Council, says, "Any community of good and light has to stand together against this darkness and evil (Jihad). Evil flourishes when good people do nothing. It's important that all communities together join to stop this insanity of terrorism." Kashmir's population which is 97% Muslim is less than 1% Sikh.

Nonie Darwish, founder of Arabs for Israel states her mission is to "promote reconciliation, acceptance and understanding" between Israelis and Arabs. In this original video interview, she calls, "It's high time for good and peace-loving Muslims, who are the majority, it's up to Muslims to stand up (against Muslim-supremacism) and say, "Not in the name of my religion!' But I'm not seeing that," she bemoans.



Mrs. Darwish, founder of Arabs for Israel, explains in this video interview that Islamic fundamentalism seeks to spread Islamic dominance over all cultures and lands.

She cautions people of  the need to defend their societies from the Islamic revolutionary movement - which has radicalized Muslim communities towards revolutionary terrorism and hatred of and violence against non-Muslim civilians.

Mrs. Darwish says, "A Muslim group should meet in front of a mosque and say, "Not in the name of Islam - don't do terrorism in the name of Islam." But they're not. Because there isn't enough teaching of peace with the Jewish people - there's too much (unfortunately) teaching of hate and killing inside the Arab world and the Muslim world. Arab kids are inundated with demands to do Jihad and to kill and murder Jewish people - and this has to stop."

Mrs. Darwish first book, "Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror," was released two years ago. Paul Vallely, major general, U.S. Army (Ret.), coauthor of Endgame, writes of her Infidel:

"We should all be thankful to Nonie Darwish for writing this insightful book on jihad and the global war on terror. As Darwish states in this great expose, nothing will change in the Islamic world until the voices in the mosques preach love and peace."

Mrs. Darwish's publisher has just released her second book "Cruel and Usual Punishment: The terrifying global effects of Sharia law." Amazon's product description of it states:

Nonie Darwish presents an insider's look at Sharia and examines how radical Muslim laws are destroying the Western world from within. Cruel and Usual Punishment is an insider's look at how Muslims sacrifice their basic human rights to obey the archaic and brutal laws handed down to their prophet centuries ago. Heed this warning: Sharia Law is attempting to infiltrate Western culture and destroy democracy.

Former-radicals turned-reformists toasted by high society, donors; but how exactly will they stop the Islamist/liberal-alliance juggernaut?

A variety of news perspectives on the whirlwind romance between the Quilliam Foundation and British policymakers.

Muslim plan to tackle extremists Guardian UK

Potential terrorists should be sent to rehabilitation centres and deradicalised by exposure to intense and substantial periods of genuine piety, Britain's first counter-extremism thinktank said yesterday. The recommendation came from the Quilliam Foundation, established by former activists of radical Islamist groups to challenge their ideology.

At its launch at the British Museum in London, the deputy director and author, Ed Husain, who used to be in the radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir, said there was a sense of Muslim unity in the fight "to rescue our faith from those who have hijacked it".

British ex-jihadis form ranks for tolerance Christian Science Monitor by Mark Rice-Oxley

Aside from think-tank work of getting their ideas into the public domain, the foundation also plans to set up a task force of ex-radicals who can "go to the hot spots and work on the grass roots to deradicalize people and the contacts that we have known in these movements for a long time," Mr. Nawaz says.

Yet in the complex constellation of ever-changing British Muslim movements, it is too early to say whether the Quilliam Foundation will prove to be an effective and exemplary voice that resonates with the wider community.

Some critics have warned that it is just another stripe in the colorful and contrasting rainbow of Muslim opinion in Britain. Others say that they are "defectors" who have moved to the mainstream where they will have little chance of appealing to young radicals.

"They will have a hard time reaching out to people who are actively involved in extremist organizations," says Peter Neumann, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence in London. "But they probably do have the capacity to go into schools and certain other environments and have some leverage there because they are Muslims who were involved in radical activities."

The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, signaled last week that Britain could not arrest its way out of the terrorism threat. "We need to prevent people from becoming terrorists and supporting terrorists in the first place," she said. "That means challenging the sort of ideology that supports terrorism."

Mr. Neumann says the government is disillusioned with established groups like the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) for failing to combat extremism – both vocally and effectively.

Ex-extremists call for 'Western Islam' BBC News

The British Museum is the surprising venue for theologians, thinkers and socialite Jemima Khan, all coming together to support the launch of a new think tank to counter Al Qaeda's world-view.

And this seemingly bizarre gathering exposes the question at the heart of the whirlwind romance between the Quilliam Foundation and policymakers

Is the launch of this campaigning organisation a step forward in the battle of ideas - or just another group with some kind of official pat on the head - but no credibility on the street?

Since the London bombings of July 2005 a whole string of Muslim organisations have come forward, claiming to have the answers to violent extremism.

The Muslim Council of Britain, the main umbrella body, has been marginalised in an ongoing political row - but two others touted as significant players have had little impact.

Vast sums of money are being spent on research into violent extremism, and entire government teams have sprung from nowhere to try to find answers.

Then into this mix came Ed Husain. Last year he published The Islamist, his story of a life in hardline community politics.

He was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), a global body calling for a single Islamic state across

the Middle East. Now Ed Husain and another, less well-known, man, Maajid Nawaz, are launching Quilliam (named after a 19th century British convert) as the counter-argument to extremism.

They say Islam in its purest universal form, as the last message of God to mankind, sits perfectly well in modern multicultural societies - providing that Muslims find the right way to express their faith.

And if British Muslims rediscover the purity of the faith, they argue, they can cast off the political and cultural baggage that would see Islam as the enemy of the West.

Ex-radicals challenge Muslims to shun extremism - Reuters UK

"All mod cons" Guardian's Comment is Free by Seumas Milne

Vaunted new Muslim organisations exonerate government of its responsibilities and sideline credible voices: they're anything but moderate

The Quilliam Foundation's leading lights could not be less representative of mainstream Muslim opinion in Britain. But the signs are that the government is nevertheless throwing its weight behind the organisation - after the failure of earlier efforts to build up the Sufi Muslim Council and British Muslim Forum as an alternative to the umbrella Muslim Council of Britain. Officials from Hazel Blears' communities department recently made clear to a Muslim organisation involved in youth work that it would need to line up with the Quilliam Foundation if it wanted government funding.

The Quilliam Foundation itself is being funded by Kuwaiti businessmen, Husain told me yesterday, but could not reveal their identities. He added that he would be happy to take government funds if there were no strings attached.

This is a perilous game. Those like Quilliam and its friends who claim that terror attacks are all about a rejection of our way of life rather than western war-making and support for dictatorships in the Muslim world may help get the government off the hook of its own responsibility.

But if we want to stop such attacks in Britain, rather than indulge in shadow boxing with an elastically-defined extremism, there needs to be engagement with - not ostracism of - credible Islamist groups, as the former head of Scotland Yard Special Branch's Muslim contact unit has argued.