Terrified Christian Families Flee Iraq's Mosul

BAGHDAD — Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday.

Some 3,000 Christians have fled the city over the past week alone in a "major displacement," said Duraid Mohammed Kashmoula, the governor of northern Iraq's Ninevah province. He said most have left for churches, monasteries and the homes of relatives in nearby Christian villages and towns.

"The Christians were subjected to abduction attempts and paid ransom, but now they are subjected to a killing campaign," Kashmoula said, adding he believed "Al Qaeda" elements were to blame and called for a renewed drive to root them out.

Political and religious leaders interviewed said the change in tactics may reflect a desire on the part of extremists to forcibly evict all Christians from Iraq's third largest city.

Earlier this week, Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako said he was worried about what he termed a "campaign of killings and deportations against the Christian citizens in Mosul." ....

Replace capitalism with Islamic financial system: cleric

Muslims should take advantage of the global financial crisis to build an economic system compatible with Islamic principles, influential Sunni cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi said on Sunday.

"The collapse of the capitalist system based on usury and paper and not on goods traded on the market is proof that it is in crisis and shows that Islamic economic philosophy is holding up," said the Egyptian-born, Qatar-based cleric.

"The Western system has collapsed and we have a complete economic philosophy as well as spiritual strength," he said at Sunday's opening of a conference on Jerusalem.

"All riches are ours... the Islamic nation has all or nearly all the oil and we have an economic philosophy that no one else has," Qaradawi said.

He urged Muslims to "profit from the crisis to bring about the triumph of the (Islamic) nation, which holds the spiritual and material resources for victory." .... Sharia - Economic terrorism

Taliban beheading "tribal elders"

from Jihad Watch

What was that again about the Taliban breaking away from al-Qaeda and seeking peace?

"Taliban militants behead four in Pakistan," from AFP, October 11:

:KHAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Taliban rebels decapitated four pro-government tribal elders in a Pakistan border region where the army is fighting Al-Qaeda and extremist militants, officials said Saturday.

It was the second killing this week in Bajaur of tribal elders, who have established an armed force to support the government's military campaign against Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the area.

"This morning locals reported bodies of four tribal elders were lying on roadside," local administration official Mohammad Jamil told AFP, adding that the bodies showed extensive signs of torture.

A security official who declined to be named said the beheadings had been done by Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants to scare the local population away from supporting the army operations.

Four other pro-government elders were beheaded and their bodies found on Thursday.

ACORN COVER UP: Barack Obama’s Political Family Tree Is Red

by Founding Bloggers

Why would Barack Obama lie about his association with ACORN? Let’s see….Once upon a time there was a group called the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), and they formed Students For A Democratic Society (SDS). CPUSA and SDS spawned the Weather Underground and The Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). That group was later renamed The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

ACORN’s was conceived and devoted to the purpose of applying the Cloward-Piven strategy of collapsing the American system from within.

By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention.

No matter where the strategy is implemented, it shares the following features:

1. The offensive organizes previously unorganized groups eligible for government benefits but not currently receiving all they can.
2. The offensive seeks to identify new beneficiaries and/or create new benefits.
3. The overarching aim is always to impose new stresses on target systems, with the ultimate goal of forcing their collapse. [LINK]

That is all pretty interesting in light of the current ACORN scandals. It leads me to wonder if the pattern of fraud is by design. This is not the first election cycle that ACORN has had this exact same problem. The incentive to commit fraud is built into their compensation model, and they could change it if they wanted to. They choose not to. Are they trying to breed a loss of confidence in our election process? That sounds like an operation out of a CIA or KGB subversion playbook.

Barack not only worked for this CPUSA-SDS-Weather Underground front group, but directed millions of dollars to the entity while serving on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the Woods Foundation with American terrorist William Ayres. Barack’s Campaign has paid ACORN nearly $800,000.00!

Either Barack supported this blatantly socialist/subversive movement for personal/ideological reasons, or he was and continues to be their patsy. Perhaps it is a little from column A and column B.