U.S. State Department Issues Travel Warning For Americans Not To Chew Gum During Ramadan…
(Arutz Sheva) — Britain and the United States have issued special travel warnings for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins next Monday, and even chewing gum may be a problem for tourists.
“All Mission employees and family members are advised to exercise extra vigilance and avoid large crowds during the upcoming month of Ramadan,” advised the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem.”
The British Foreign Office told its citizens to be sensitive to Muslim customs during Ramadan and singled out the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a target for terrorists.
“You should be aware that levels of observance of Ramadan will vary in different countries and cultures, but most Muslims will conform to some extent with the requirements of the fast — that they fast between dawn and sunset,” The Foreign Office stated,
“This means they can’t eat, drink, smoke or even chew gum during daylight hours. Muslims use this time of abstention for prayer, contemplation and charitable work.”
However, Ramadan does not stop terrorists — and may even encourage them.
The U.S. State Department said there is a high potential for revenge of the death of al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden in May. It advised to take “extreme caution” when traveling by sea near the Horn of Africa or in the southern Red Sea “as there has been a notable increase in armed attacks, robberies and kidnappings for ransom by pirates.”
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Ok, so they don’t eat, drink, smoke, or chew gum during Ramadan. Fine. But I guess you are telling me they can explode during Ramadan. Somehow, that seems wrong.
Hmmm
Art imitates life:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/07/muhammad-cartoon-comes-to-life-suicide-bomber-hides-bomb-in-turban/
So I guess a Bar-b-que pulled pork sammich is out of the question?
My need to eat large quantities of bacon publicly only grows on Ramadan.
Doesnt say anything about anal sex…..RRRREEEEGGGGGGGGIIIIIEEEEEE!
I’m not a gum chewer but I will make an exception during Ramadan.
You eat gum and I keeeeel you. Nice group you got there MO
How about “I’m not a Muslim. Or are you planning on celebrating Christmas with me this year?”
There is no gum in Islam.
Gee…. aren’t muslims just so tolerant of other people…/s
Tell you what… I’ll start being tolerant when they tolerate me
5 pieces of hubba bubba at a time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U.S. State Department???? What the hell?? Have they NOTHING better to do. If this what they focus on, I think it’s high time we get rid of the whole dept. Prob save us billions if not more.
Is the charitable work making IED’s?
Islam doesn’t fool me. You see, I know that Islam is a Crime Syndicate established for the sole purpose to destroy human beings, all human beings, including the Muslims. About 85% of the people that Muslims destroy are Muslim. So in a way, “infidels” are safer in preserving their lives from Muslim attacks.
Any excuse will do to destroy human beings in Islam. So people chewing gum gives the Muslims another excuse to destroy human beings. And the evil Muslims do a thorough job destroying human beings.
P.S. WE MUST DESTROY THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF ISLAM BEFORE THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF ISLAM DESTROYS US.
How utterly ridiculous these people are!!!
When I fast, which I occassionaly do, one, I keep it to myself, (none of the black sackcloth and ashes for this boyo!) and two, which is much more important, I dont demand anyone observe my beliefs…and would be an absolute hypocrite to do so!
And this is simply just one of the reasons this so called rleigion is imcompatable with anyone elses beliefs….you simply cannot demand I observe anything anthoer individual believes…if I choose to, all well and good…when you tell me to, I generally just come back with the “kiss my fuzzy little scot/ irish ass!!!!!”
Man…I keep saying it…they need to get back to the farm animals and stay away from their sisters who also happen to be their cousins, but do they listen???? Nooooooo……..great site, guys/ gals?
Aspartame in all gum is enough to keep me from chewing it ever.
The government is forcing US citizens to adhere to a religious custom. Isn’t that totally unconstitutional?
Don’t chew gum – dip tobacco instead and would be more than happy to spit a stream in any Muzzie’s eyes (or State Department for that matter).
The State Dept. insists that while in a Muslim country we are to respect (and follow) their religious dictates as well as their laws.
Doesn’t that mean that out of respect for our culture the Muslims should not wear Burkas in public, while in this country?
Gum-chewing makes one look like a goat chewing its cud.
Arab men find that that sexually attractive.
(? do goats chew cuds ? … oh well)
u.s.gov. would would neva ask americans to be sensitive to christians and there customs…
i will give up gum , if muzzies give up lil boys
F moslims and their satanic culture!
“Muslims use this time of abstention for prayer, contemplation and charitable work.”
And blowing up shit.
Islamo-insanity just keeps on rolling on….
Triangular foods were bad yesterday, as was any fabric lighter than a canvas bag.
Today, gum chewing… tomorrow swallowing saliva will be banned.
The U.S. and Britain should issue warnings to Muslims that they should bathe regularly if they are going to be around decent people.
There is really not much that does not offend these people. The muzzies make liberals look like they never complain.
Is it ok to pick your nose and eat that, because in lots of islamic countries nose picking seems ok, and once on a flight, I asked the stewardess to be moved because the creepy guy beside me didn’t eat his nose pick, just wiped it on his seat, in retrospect, it must have been ram a damed time.
We got briefed by the chaplain about this back in ’03. Told us it was their holiest time, fasting, peace and love blah blah blah. Said it should be quiet and safer. BZZZZZZZZ!! Sorry..wrong answer..thanks for playing. They went crazy blowing crap up!!! Apparently allah likes it that way.
What honest religion picks the shittiest time of the year to tell you not to even drink water during the day? It’s a 120 friggin degrees!!!! No sympathy when detainees fell out. So..in’shalla, eh hadji?
sooo,we are supposed to walk on egg shells?? NOTTTTTTTTT. Bet the illegal muzzie in the white house is gonna have a tough time. Give’m hell everybody. August is pound muzzie month.
“And this is simply just one of the reasons this so called rleigion is imcompatable with anyone elses beliefs….you simply cannot demand I observe anything anthoer individual believes…if I choose to, all well and good…when you tell me to, I generally just come back with the “kiss my fuzzy little scot/ irish ass!!!!!”
Funny, for a minute I thought you were talking about atheists.
@Katherine says:
July 27, 2011 at 11:26 am
The State Dept. insists that while in a Muslim country we are to respect (and follow) their religious dictates as well as their laws.
Doesn’t that mean that out of respect for our culture the Muslims should not wear Burkas in public, while in this country?
I’ll go one further. I’d like you to stop blowing innocent people and shit up.
how’s that ?
Better yet, don’t travel to an islamic country.
Someone please tell me how hell is going to hold all these rabid, hate filled devils??
Please be sensitive to their cultural imperative to kill all infidels during this holy month of Ramadan.
Rep. King’s amazing opening statement at today’s congressional hearing on al Shabaab
King Opens Third Committee on Homeland Security Hearing on Radicalization, Focusing on al Shabaab
Washington, D.C. (Wednesday, July 27, 2011) – This morning, U.S. Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, convenes the hearing entitled “Al Shabaab: Recruitment and Radicalization within the Muslim American Community and the Threat to the Homeland.” The prepared opening statement of Chairman King follows:
“Good morning. Today, we hold the third in a series of hearings on radicalization in the Muslim-American community.
Our focus is the result of a lengthy investigation the Committee has conducted into the threat the U.S. homeland faces from al-Shabaab, the Somalia affiliate of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda and Anwar al-Aulaqi’s al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
The Committee has been briefed by intelligence agencies and we have interviewed dozens of experts on al-Shabaab.
I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. They have some of the most extensive insights into the problems uncovered by our Committee’s investigation and we are grateful they are sharing their knowledge.
You will hear how al-Shabaab, who bin Laden called “One of the most important armies” of Islam, is engaged in an ongoing, successful effort to recruit and radicalize dozens of Muslim-American jihadis, who pose a direct threat to the U.S.
Some argue that al-Shabaab is only a Somali problem, and that the group will never strike outside of the Horn of Africa region.
That kind of thinking is a glaring example of what the 9/11 Commission called a failure of imagination.
With al-Shabaab’s large cadre of American jihadis and unquestionable ties to al-Qaeda, particularly its alliance with AQAP, we must face the reality that al-Shabaab is a growing threat to our homeland.
Our investigation into this threat has led to alarming findings: Notably, that al-Shabaab has successfully recruited and radicalized more than 40 Muslim-Americans and 20 Canadians, who have joined the terror group inside Somalia.
Of those, at least 15 Americans and 3 Canadians are believed to have been killed fighting with al-Shabaab, the Committee has learned.
Not al-Qaeda, nor any of its other affiliates, have come close to drawing so many Muslim-Americans and Westerners to jihad.
Three Muslim-Americans became suicide bombers, such as Shirwa Ahmed from Minneapolis — the first confirmed American suicide bomber in our history.
There also are radicalized converts like al-Shabaab commander Omar Hammami who was raised a Baptist in Alabama, and who has repeatedly threatened the U.S. homeland.
Three American al-Shabaab fighters have been arrested after returning home and one was collared in the Netherlands.
Other radicalized Muslims have been arrested in the U.S. and Canada before they reached Somalia, which is now much easier to get to for jihad than Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan or Yemen.
But as many as two-dozen Muslim-Americans with al-Shabaab — who in many cases were trained by top al-Qaeda leaders — remain unaccounted for.
The Committee found that al-Shabaab-related federal prosecutions for funding, recruiting and attempting to join al-Shabaab are the largest number and most significant upward trend in homegrown terror cases filed by the Justice Department over the past two years.
At least 38 cases have been unsealed since 2009 in Minnesota, Ohio, California, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Virginia and Texas.
Al-Shabaab is recruiting inside American mosques in Somali communities like Minneapolis and San Diego, according to the Justice Department.
This month, an al-Shabaab recruiter pleaded guilty to recruiting a large group of Muslims in Minneapolis, “At mosques,” and without any known protest by mosque leaders. A top al-Shabaab leader in Somalia supervised this recruiting.
One Minnesotan recruited was suicide bomber Shirwa Ahmed whose 2008 attack in northern Somalia sent a shockwave of alarm through U.S. homeland security agencies, because of its implications.
Another would-be bomber from Minneapolis was shot and killed in Mogadishu by peacekeeping troops on May 30, moments before detonating his suicide vest.
When one cleric spoke out against al-Shabaab inside the Minneapolis mosque where many of the missing young Somali-American men had once worshipped, he was physically assaulted, according to police.
For those still skeptical that there are still jihadi sympathizers inside that community, it’s worth mentioning that the Committee learned of the mosque assault when an audiotape of the incident was posted on overseas jihadi Internet forums before authorities in Minneapolis even knew about the incident.
There is an enormous amount of travel by Somali-Americans between U.S. cities and East Africa. While most of this travel is legitimate senior U.S. counterterror officials have told the Committee they are very concerned about individuals they have not identified who have fallen in with al-Shabaab during trips to Somalia, who could return to the U.S. undetected.
They fear an al-Shabaab fighter operating under law enforcement’s radar – someone like a Zazi, a Shahzad, an Abdulmutallab – may attempt an attack here.
It is deeply troubling that from the very beginning, the Muslim-Americans in Somalia were trained by top al-Qaeda operatives, including several who were tied to Yemen’s al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which is now generally considered our biggest homeland threat.
Al-Shabaab operative Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was charged this month for doing weapons deals and explosives training with AQAP in Yemen, and to, “Provide AQAP with material support including… personnel.”
Al-Shabaab has long harbored top al-Qaeda leaders, such as the mastermind of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, who was gunned down this month in Somalia after a 13-year manhunt.
Al-Shabaab has paraded in Somalia in support of AQAP and sent fighters to battle the weakened Yemeni government this year — as well as flying the battle flag of al-Qaeda-in-IRAQ.
Finally, an al-Shabaab bombing in neighboring Uganda one year ago that targeted Westerners killed 74 people including one American.
President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has said the Administration remains, quote, “Vigilant that al-Shabaab may expand its focus from fighting to control Somalia to plotting to attack the U.S. homeland.”
That convinced me of the necessity to launch a careful examination of that threat.
Dozens of experts the Committee interviewed agreed this threat is real, and that al-Shabaab leaders’ public calls for attacks against America — including in retaliation for killing bin Laden — must be taken seriously.
With a large group of Muslim-Americans willing to die as “martyrs,” and a strong operational partnership with al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and in Yemen, al-Shabaab now has more capability than ever to strike the U.S. homeland.
We look forwarding to hearing more about the rising al-Shabaab threat from our exceptional witnesses, as well as the Minority’s distinguished witness.
Finally, I note that certain elements of the politically correct media—most egregiously the vacuous ideologues at the New York Times—are shamelessly attempting to exploit the horrific tragedy in Norway to cause me to refocus these hearings away from Muslim-American radicalization.
If they had even a semblance of intellectual honesty the Times and the others would know and admit that there is no equivalency in the threat to our homeland from a deranged gunman and the international terror apparatus of al-Qaeda and its affiliates who are recruiting people in this country and have murdered thousands of Americans in their jihad attacks.
Let me make this clear to the New York Times and their acolytes in the politically correct, moral equivalency media–I will not back down from holding these hearings. I will continue to hold these hearings so long as I am the Chairman of this Committee.
Apart from all the strategic and moral reasons why these hearings are vital to our security, they are liberating and empowering to the many Muslim-Americans who have been intimidated by leaders in their own communities and are now able to come forward.
I also owe it to all the friends, neighbors, and constituents I lost on September 11th. I will not back down.”
We don’t Submit
We don’t Surrender
We don’t Retreat
[SHRUG] If you go to foreign countries, you should try not to piss off the locals. If you travel to barbarian countries, you should doubly try to not piss off the locals, because they may kill you.
The State Department is right (for once) to warn people not to do things that will get them killed.
Meanwhile, I’ll wash down my pulled pork sandwich with a cold beer.
Play a few rounds of ANGRY BIRDS and make sure the sinister pigs are all teleban or al queda and the angry birs are ready to kick their little curly tails
Having lived among Muslims for a long time, I can attest to the fact that this entire paragraph is false:
“This means they can’t eat, drink, smoke or even chew gum during daylight hours. Muslims use this time of abstention for prayer, contemplation and charitable work.”
And I mean the “Entire” paragraph, beginning with the fasting and praying, ending with the so called Charitable work.
True, they don’t eat out in the open, and will probably kill a westerner for doing so, but when no one’s there?
Well, I leave it to you to figure out…
u couldnt pay me enuf to go to that sandbox
You REALLY think I’m gonna spend the time to read “BlueSky’s” soliloquy?????
“However, Ramadan does not stop terrorists — and may even encourage them.”
Because even religious holidays don’t stop the ‘religion of peace’ from being ‘peaceful’.
A friend of mine was in the Sandbox, he told me one day he found a muzzie under a table eating out of a can. It was some kind of canned pork he had scored from a Soldier. When my friend asked him what he was doing, the muzzie replied “I eat under table so Allah cannot see me”.
I know what I would love to do and that is chew a wad of gum and stick it in their nasty ass beard so they have to shave the dang thing off.
I’ve seen muslims dressed in full arab desert gear like they would be carrying an ak47 shopping in walmart in a northern city. It was shocking. It feels like we are being infiltrated, at least by those two, anyway.
Muslimania–
BlueSky didn’t post a soliloquy–that’s Rep. Peter King speaking, at the third round of his congressional hearings on Islam.
http://www.islamicsolutions.com/ramadan-renovates-the-human-spirit-%e2%80%93-and-the-human-body-mind-and-soul-quote-of-the-day-149/