US Postal Service won't send "any matter containing religious materials contrary to Islamic faith" to overseas military post offices

Want to send your brother-in-law in Iraq a Bible? An ikon? A kippah? Some joss sticks? Forget it. All that is "contrary to Islamic faith." Qur'ans and other Islamic articles only, please.

Sharia Alert from...the United States Postal Service: "Overseas Military Mail," from the U.S. Postal Service:

Mail addressed to military post offices overseas is subject to certain conditions or restrictions of mailing regarding content, preparation, and handling. The APO/FPO table below outlines these conditions by APO/FPO ZIP Codes through the use of footnoted mailing restrictions codes (see the Restrictions page following the table). [...]

RESTRICTIONS

[...]

C. Cigarettes and other tobacco products are prohibited.

C1. Obscene articles, prints, paintings, cards, films, videotapes, etc., and horror comics and matrices are prohibited.

D. Coffee is prohibited.

E1. Medicines or vaccines not conforming to French laws are prohibited.

E2. Any matter containing religious materials contrary to Islamic faith or depicting nude or semi-nude persons, pornographic or sexual items, or nonauthorized political materials is prohibited. [...]

SOURCE: http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/024002.php

Anti-Israel 'celebration' at the U.N.

The United Nations is currently marking the international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people, on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the UN's decision to approve the partition plan. For two days, the UN will hold blatantly anti-Israel events, including movies comparing Israel to the Nazis, and exhibits on the Israeli occupation and Palestinian suffering.

The climax will come in the form of a marathon of discussions, which got underway Monday and will culminate with six anti-Israel resolutions. These include ones calling for the Golan's return to Syria and for the division of Jerusalem. Israel normally ignores the annual solidarity day, yet this time officials decided to issue a harsh condemnation in light of the large volume of events and the fact that they are taking place while Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in negotiations. In a speech to be delivered Tuesday evening by Ambassador Gabriella Shalev, she is expected to condemn the UN's one-sided attitude. In the speech, Shalev will be pointing out that the UN does not have a day of solidarity with the rights of Israelis.

as reported by Dateline Israel

CNSNews.com Al-Qaida Insults Obama in New Audio Message

Cairo, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect -- along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice -- "house negroes."

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Actor Jon Voight speaks out on behalf of Israel: “We’re overwhelmed by propaganda!”

In an rare interview, posted on YouTube, Academy Award winner - actor Jon Voight, father of actress Angelina Jolie, speaks out on behalf of Israel, the issues related to Sderot and the conflict in the Middle East.

Jon Voight is passionate about supporting Israel for “many reasons”. While not disclosing these reasons in specific terms, Mr. Voight gives us enough material to come to the conclusion that he is indeed for real when it comes to supporting Israel.

When asked by the interviewing journalist what is the reason he switched from being a “lefty to righty”, Voight explains that already after the Vietnam war, he realized the roots of the so called “anti-war” movement are Communist. The actor reiterates that Communists are good at propaganda and “that’s the real danger even today”. Again, Voight emphasizes his firml support for the success of the US-led military operation in Iraq and shares his concern that a premature pull out of the troops may lead to a civil war and a massacre of unheard proportions.

Direct link to the YouTube video: http://tinyurl.com/4fr73c

Islamic wahhabi radicals continue to peneterate the territory of Bulgaria

SOFIA, Bulgaria - May 22, 2008 - The Bulgarian State Agency on National Security (DANS) has announced that the Islamic organization "Faith" is preaching Wahhabism in Bulgaria. Bulgarian information sources report that the organization is not officially registered, but in fact it this is a conflicts with another report that says that the organization was indeed found in the registers of Sofia City Court. It was registered in 2002 as a foundation under the name "Faith". The agents working on the case discovered that activities of the foundation do not correspond with the purposes laid out in the registration with the court. The founders of the foundation are three Bulgarian citizens who have graduated Islamic theological education in Saudi Arabia. 

The activists of the organization were mostly targeting areas around Smolyan, a key city in the southern part of Bulgaria, traditionally populated with "pomaks" - ethnic Bulgarians who had been converted to Islam since the time of the Ottoman Empire controlled Bulgaria's territory between the 14th and the 19th centuries. 

Bulgarian information outlets who report the news also mention the fact that Wahhabism is the most radical form of militant Islam and its agenda is the islamization of the world. 

The Bulgarian Agency for National Security has also made a statement that the spread of this Islamic ideology among Bulgarian muslims has led to inner conflicts and it could also lead to radical conversions and social unrest, threatening the ethnic-religious peace in this small Balkan nation. 

On February 20th last year the Bulgarian authorities arrested in Sofia another cell related to Al-Qaeda and led by a Bulgarian mufti. The activity of the cell was mainly in recruiting muslims to go and fight in Chechnya. When asked by the media, Ahmed Hussein, member of Turkish party DPS in the Bulgarian parliament, dismissed the information as a rumor and played down the threat of radical islamist organizations advancing their agenda in Bulgaria. 

It's not a secret that the Bulgarian society in general has watched the conflict in the Middle East as a passive observer, while powerful political lobbies associated with the former Communist party and members of drug dealing criminal groups have taken part in arming radical groups such as the Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.