A look at the influential alliance of leftist bloggers seeking to help Democratic candidates nationwide win political elections. From DiscoverTheNetworks.org: A blend of the words “Internet” and “grassroots,” the term “Netroots” refers to the coordinated activism of the political Left via blogs, podcasts, newsletters, message forums, and other online media. These bloggers, etc. fervently support...
What is Theresienstadt?
Theresienstadt was a nazi holding pen in Czechoslovakia. It served as a transit camp for Czech Jews whom the Germans deported to killing centers, concentration camps, and forced-labor camps in German-occupied Poland, Belorussia, and the Baltic States. It was a ghetto-labor camp to which the SS deported and then incarcerated certain categories of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews, based on their...
What is the Islamic Medical Association of North America?
A look at the goals and affiliations of the Islamic Medical Association of North America via DiscoverTheNetworks: A constituent organization of the Islamic Society of North America Named as one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s likeminded organization of “friends” Calls for the closure of Guantanamo Bay detention center Established by a small number of Muslim physicians in 1967, the...
Six experts discuss the legitimacy of the term “Islamo-fascism”
Christopher Hitchens, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, the author of the new book god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and the editor of the new anthology, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the author of My Year Inside Radical Islam , which...
What is the Muslim World League (MWL) ?
From Discover the Networks: Islamic NGO based in Saudi Arabia that advances Wahhabi extremism Organization’s Pakistan office employed al Qaeda operatives Oversaw Rabita Trust, a charity that knowingly funded terrorist groups Oversees the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, which teaches religious hatred to Islamic children Enjoys observer status in the United Nations Founded in 1962 by Islamic...
What is Muslim land?
The virus calling itself Osama bin Laden emerged once again to vow in a new audiotape Saturday, that he and his followers will expand the Muslim holy war to Israel, threatening “blood for blood, destruction for destruction.” The muslim went on to say “We intend to liberate Palestine, the whole of Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the sea,” he said, threatening...
What is Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)?
Via Discover the Networks: — Anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian activist group founded at University of California’s Berkeley campus in 2001— Has chapters on more than 25 major campuses throughout the U.S.— Advocates economic sanctions against Israel Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) originated on the University of California, Berkeley campus in 2001. Since then, SJP...
The “tiny minority of Moslem extremists” keeps growing
What is Al-Muhajiroun? It’s supposedly a defunct organization which was banned in the UK, but is now opening up a branch in Denmark. Al-Muhajiroun, an extreme radical Islamic movement that openly supports al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden will open an office in Copenhagen in the next few weeks. “We have already been in Denmark for long, but in the coming three weeks we’ll make that...
What led to the founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964?
From Palestine Facts: What led to the founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964? In 1964 the Arab League, a loose confederation of fourteen Arab countries including Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, met in Cairo and established a political body to deal directly with the problem of the Palestinian Arabs. They called it the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The...
What is Fatah?
What is Fatah?- Terrorist group founded by Yasser Arafat in early 1960s– Dedicated to annihilating IsraelFatah, or al-Fatah, was co-founded in about 1959 by Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. The organization’s name is a reverse acronym standing for Harakat Al-Tahrir Al-Watani Al-Filastini (“the Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine”). As a word...