Another Islamic Charity in Trouble with Feds.

First the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development which was charged with funneling money to the Muslim Brotherhood. Now another Islamic charity in trouble with the Feds.

The Alavi Foundation,  a foundation that provides Koran to prison inmates seems to have a sideline  business as a property manager may funded monies to Iran via a front company Assa Corporation. Assa has funneled money through the Bank of Iran Melli.

Assa Corporation owns mosques in New York City, Houston, Sacramento, Suburban Maryland near Washington D.C.; 100 acres of land in Northern Virginia also  near Washington,D.C. and piece De Resistance 36 story office tower on Manhattan’s tony 5th Avenue.

Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court against the Alavi Foundation, seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets.

The assets include bank accounts; Islamic centers consisting of schools and mosques in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston; more than 100 acres in Virginia; and a 36-story glass office tower in New York.

Confiscating the properties would be a sharp blow against Iran, which has been accused by the U.S. government of bankrolling terrorism and trying to build a nuclear bomb.

A telephone call and e-mail to Iran’s U.N. Mission seeking comment were not immediately answered. Nor was a call to the Alavi Foundation.

It is extremely rare for U.S. law enforcement authorities to seize a house of worship, a step fraught with questions about the First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

The action against the Shiite Muslim mosques is sure to inflame relations between the U.S. government and American Muslims, many of whom are fearful of a backlash after last week’s Fort Hood shooting rampage, blamed on a Muslim American major.

AP via Yahoo News

H/T: Hot Air and Michelle Malkin

President Obama a Review of All Intellegence InvolvingHasan

On Thursday, President Barack Obama  has order all intelligence information regarding Major Nidal Hasan and whether government agencies got appropriate.

The review will be handled by John Brennan the president special assistant in Homeland Security and counter-terrorism. Preliminary report are due by November  30th.

Breitbart.com

Fort Hood Shooting Round Up

Here is a round up on the latest stories on Major Nidal Hasan the Fort Hood shooter.

Washington Post via FOX News learns that Hasan was to give a presentation at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington,D.C. on why Muslim military personnel should be conscientious objectors in fighting wars in avoiding “adverse events”

Hasan went on talk about homicide bombing and threats for the armed services could encounter from Muslims conflicted fighting other Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Meanwhile the Houston Chronicle is reporting the that FBI has investigated Major Hasan and his former Imam in Northern Virginia now in Yemen.

The  FBI dropped the case saying that Hasan did not pose a threat.

The New York Times points out the FBI and the Pentagon intercepted the messages  between  Anwar al-Awlaki and Major Hasan  anywhere from 10 to 20 times. The first time was in December of 2008 as part of a different investigation. The communique   between  Al Awlaki and Hasan were not violent.

“There was no indication that Major Hasan was planning an imminent attack at all, or that he was directed to do anything,” one senior investigator said. He and the other officials spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying the case was under investigation.

The AP reports that the Pentagon and Army are playing the blame game .

The department of defense had an investigator was into Major Hasan contacts with his former Imam. But another military official denied knowing of Hasan contacting the Imam.

The Wall Street Journal says the Army did not know about the e-mails between Major Nidal Hasan and his former Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki until after the Ft. Hood massacre.

ABC News is investigating other contacts that Major Hasan may have got in touched with. These people who the FBI is looking into more unexplained connections to Hasan.

Sources in Congress told ABC News the name and country will be revealed in the days, week and months ahead.

Washington Post via FOX News

Houston Chronicle

New York Times

AP via Yahoo News

Wall Street Journal

ABC News

Israel to Make Concessions on Settlements says Clinton.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Israel is willing to make concessions involving the building settlements in areas of the West Bank.

Clinton announcement comes as the Palestinians are demanding that Israel gives up building settlement in the West Bank, Gaza and other disputed lands that Palestinian claim as their own.

Speaking at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

What the prime minister has offered in specifics on restraints on a policy of settlements … is unprecedented,” she said.

The settlements has been the sticking point between The Palestinians and Israelis.

“There are always demands made in any negotiation that are not going to be fully realized,” she said.

Previous engagements by Secretary Clinton was more demanding to Israel. Demanding a complete halt to settlement construction. Israel was not willing to capitulate to Palestinian demands.

While Israel has made this concessions. This did not move the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas want the complete withdraw of Israel out of the region with removal of Israelis settlements.

Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh, responding to Clinton’s comments, said, “There can be no excuse for the continuation of settlements, which is really the main obstacle in the way of any credible peace process.

“Israel is not interested in stopping its settlement activities and the American administration didn’t succeed in convincing the Israeli government to stop these activities,” he said. “There should be a real change in the Israeli position toward this issue in order for the peace process to be restarted.”

At the press conference with Clinton, Netanyahu said Israel is “willing to engage in peace talks immediately without preconditions. Unfortunately the other side is not.”

AP via Yahoo News

Attack on a Los Angeles Synagogue Injured Two Men

Two men were injured today by an gunman during morning prayers at syanagogue in North Hollywood a section of Los Angeles in the city’s San Fernando Valley. The incident placed Southern California Jewish institutions on alert.

A motive was not  given by Los Angeles Police Department.  It is believed the the attack was by a lone shooter.

“We certainly recognize the location and we’re sensitive to that,” Deputy Police Chief Michel Moore said. “But we do not know that this was a hate crime at all.”

The two men in their 40’s  are members of Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Orthodox synagogue. The men were shot both in the legs.  The men had just arrived around 6:30 A.M. for morning prayers when the attack occurred.

The two men are in stable condition in a LA area hospital. They are expected fully recover soon.

The police described the alleged assailant as black male wearing a hooded sweatshirt. LAPD was had detained a person who filled the description he was released later.

The FBI joined in the search.

“We are being vigilant for any follow-ups that may occur,” Moore said.

The police  is being investigated as a hate crime.  However, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa cautioned the public from overreacting.

“Until they have concluded their investigation, none of us, none of us should presume or speculate more about this crime other than it was a random act of violence,” Villaraigosa said.

A student of the  synagogue school 13 year old  Shayan Yaghoubi, was heading to school when he and his parent was turned away for their safety.

“The cops told us we can’t go,” he said. “I feel very bad because this is my favorite school … I have a lot of friends over there. I hope everyone is OK. There’s never been a problem with fighting.”

A local resident Micheal Bloom 30, says the area has a history of Antisemitism.

“This has been going on for years. Everything from “death to Israel” to “dirty Jew,’” he said. “There are gangs in the area. It’s not the safest neighborhood.”

But Sholomo Yaghobi, 18 says the neighborhood is “calm, relatively.”

His brother who attends the schools is concerned.

“I’m upset if something would have happened to my brother, who would answer to that?” he said.

A spokesperson from the Simon Wiesenthal Center a Jewish Civil Rights  organization told FOX 11 News.

“When an attack actually takes place in the perimeter of a house of worship, it’s a source of deep concern,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center told KTTV. “Look, we don’t know whether this is a lone gunman, it could be drugs, who knows. But the fact of the matter is there were no words exchanged, violence was used.”

Rabi Cooper analyzed timing of the attack.

“If it’s someone who had been watching the community they would know that every weekday morning somewhere between 10 and 25 or 30 men are going to be coming to the early morning service.”

This comes 10 years from the attack on the Jewish Community Center by White Supremacist Bufford Furrow in Northridge section of LA.  Furrow shot and wounded 3 kids, a teen and adult.  Furrow then proceeded to kill a Filipino Mail Man.  He is serving life in prison with out the possibility of parole.

Breitbart.com

A Big Victory for “Gay Christians” in The Evangelical Lutheran Church but Could fracture the Denomination

For gay and lesbian members of the Evangelic Lutheran Church in America who interested to join the ministry; can do so after a vote on Friday at national meeting in Minneapolis .

The vote now allow for openly gay and lesbian to become lay leaders and minsters if and its a big if they are in long term relationships. This vote follow another vote that allows non celibate gay and lesbian to  hold ministry and layman posts.

The ELCA will also issue a statement on human sexually that includes marriage is between a man and a woman; which goes counter to the voted actions  of the church leadership.

Previous votes  in these subjects would always go down in defeat in the last 12 years.

Bishop Mark S. Hanson the leader of the nearly 5 million denomination, doubts a schism will develop because of the vote. We had”very thoughtful engagements” between thoses are pro and anti will not leave the church.

The schism had led about 100 churches  to leave The Episcopal Church in the last 5 years; after  the denomination approved and installed V. Gene Robinson as the Bishop of New Hampshire diocese .

Earlier this year the Episcopal Church voted to lifted a ban on gay bishops and create same-sex liturgies.

“I do not believe that human sexuality for us as Lutherans defines the church,” Hanson said.”Therefore, human sexuality should not be the occasion to divide the church.”

Supporters says the policy, is voluntary, believes all Lutherans should be accepting to gays.

We fully believe the church will be a better place and a better student for its mission if it is fully inclusive,” said Phil Soucy, a spokesman for Goodsoil, a coalition of gay rights groups in the church. “Christ did not discriminate.”

Conservatives fear that the vote would drive them away because the church is moving away bibical tennents to a secular  cultural norms.

“A church ought to be focused on Jesus Christ and not voting on whether the Bible applies in terms of how humans are to live in a sexual relationship,” said the Rev. Mark Chavez, director of Lutheran Coalition for Reform.

LA Times

President Obama Plays the God Card

On Wednesday, President Obama called on Liberal religious leader to fight for “public-option” health care. The president couch the need for health insurance reform using religious terms.”We are God’s partners in matters of life and death,” Obama said,quoting from the Rosh Hashanah prayer that says that in the holiday period, it is decided “who shall live and who shall die.”

Poniting out the Jewish High Holiday are just around the corner in early September.

Obama concluded the call with “shanah tovah,” or Happy New Year to the Rabbis he contacted.

The Politico

The Murder of Dr. George Tiller

Two weeks ago the Pro life movement in a Survey found 51% of voters were identified as Pro Life by Gallop Organization. But Sunday that may have been washed away thanks to a mad man who shot and killed the late term abortionist  On Sunday. Tiller was killed while greeting members and visitors as an usher of Resurrection Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas.

The alleged suspect is 51 year old Scott Roeder of Kansas City, Kansas was in custody of Johnson County,Ka police. Police in Kansas City, KA nor Wichita Police give for a motive.

Parishioners were shocked and horrified that a killing took place in a church.  Adam Watkins 20 was sitting in the middle of the church when he heard the gun fire.

“We just thought a child had come in with a balloon and it had popped, had gone up and hit the ceiling and popped,” Watkins said.

15 years ago Dr. Tiller was shot in the arms by an assailant. So Tiller knew that he was a target.

Reaction was swift Pro life groups immediately denounced the murder. Pro Choice activists grieve Tiller and Blamed the movement for Tiller’s death.

“We are shocked at this morning’s disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down,” Troy Newman, Operation Rescue’s president, said in a statement. “Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means, and through the proper channels to see him brought to justice. We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning.”

President Obama expressed shock and anger at the killing of Tiller. “However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence,” Obama said.

Namcy Keenan of NARAL Pro Choice America released a statement Sunday:

“Dr. Tiller’s murder will send a chill down the spines of the brave and courageous providers and other professionals who are part of reproductive-health centers that serve women across this country. We want them to know that they have our support as they move forward in providing these essential services in the aftermath of the shocking news from Wichita,” Keenan said.

AP via Yahoo News

President Obama calls for Dialouge in Abortion Debate

President Barack Obama calls for a dialogue in the abortion debate, while protesters interrupts several times during the graduation ceremony at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

Obama said,”no matter how much we want to fudge it…the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable. The president encouraged both side in the debate  to “reducing those with differing views to caricature. Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words. It’s a way of life that always has been the Notre Dame tradition.”

Earlier Sunday, 27 people were arrested for trespassing on campus , including Norma McCorvey better known then as Jane Roe in landmark 1973 United States Supreme Court case will legalized abortion in the entire nation. McCorvey was one of 300 people protesting at the gates of Notre Dame University.

Some held signs saying ” Shame on Notre Dame” and “Stop Abortion Now”. President Obama was receved with a standing ovation.

One of three  protesters in the arena  shouted,”Stop killing our children.” While the graduating students shouted in repetition “Yes, We can.”

The President speech comes as new survey last week from The Gallop Organization says 51% of the people survey said that they were pro-life and 42% pro-choice.

The protest capped the week long series of Protests including Prayer vigils, and marches in North central Indiana town of South Bend better known of its car manufacturing plants and the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish NCAA division sports programs including basketball, baseball, hockey and especially the College  football team.

AP via My Way News

H/T: Drudge Report

The new Obama art piece and coronation on his 100th day as President

From Word Net Daily: This week the left coronations the president in Union Square Park’s  south Plaza in neighborhood of the same name Lower Manhattan New York City on Wednesday. The piece name “The Truth”will be installed on April 29, the 100 day milepost as president. The portrait which has The president in a suit, arms stretch wide, wearing a crown of thorns on his head placed standing  in front of the presidential seal.

Would someone tell Artist Micheal D’Antuono that President Barack Obama is a mere mortal and not Jesus.  He is the President of the United States. I accepted Jesus as Savior and Lord 24 years ago at a church summer camp in North Fork, CA near Fresno witnessed by My Sunday school teacher Gordon Mitchell and I thank God for him.

The Truth by Michael D'Antuono

While the artwork a Gallery class piece  and the artist is expressing his opinion and be  the piece should be installed in a art gallery and the President should be flattered; but He’s no JESUS.

Obama is a Christian; he should(must) remind the public and the artist that I am not God or Jesus. I am a servant of Jesus and Michelle’s husband, Malia and Sasha’s father; Bo’s owner, my parents child and my grandparent’s grandchild, loyal friend to some and President of the United States of America and don’t worship me.

The bible says “There shall not other god’s before me…”Exodus 20:3″ the very first command of The Ten Commandments.

A little humility will go a long way in his life let alone everyone. And I need this more than the president.

Hat / Tip:Gateway Pundit