tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31004965704616296482024-02-18T17:59:51.606-08:00Doc Talk in IsraelGS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-22386613646537238542014-06-17T05:27:00.002-07:002014-06-17T05:27:35.841-07:00Mohammed running for GOP state senate seat in Tennesseecreeping
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<em>via <a href="https://tn4politicaljustice.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/newsletter-123-whos-the-bigger-phony/">Newsletter #123 – Tennessee Council 4 political justice</a></em><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>Mwafaq Aljabbary (aka Mwafaq Mohammed)</strong></span>,
identifies himself as a Republican who is running for the District 21
Senate seat vacated by Democrat Douglas Henry who has retired but held
that seat since 1971.<br />
During a May candidate forum, Aljabbary revealed that he is running his campaign under his <em>real </em>name.<br />
Does that mean that he legally changed his name from the one he used to <a href="http://www.padctnwebpro.com/webpronashville/summary.asp?a1=4864125&a2=1">purchase</a> his home which is the <a href="http://www.state.tn.us/sos/election/140321%20state%20and%20federal%20candidates.xlsx">address</a> he used on his qualifying petition?<br />
Which name does he uses for his <a href="https://apps.tn.gov/salary-app/results">job</a> with the TN Department of Transportation?</blockquote>
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Which name did he use to qualify to be a candidate?<br />
Which name does he use on his voter ID? Does he have a voter ID card for each name?<br />
When he runs for a GOP Senate position he says he is Mwafaq Aljabbarry.<br />
<span style="color: red;"><strong> When he criticizes the Speaker
of the Senate, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey for his comments about concerns for
radical Islam, he says he is Mwafaq Mohammed.</strong></span><br />
During the same May candidate forum, Mwafaq Aljabbary said that if
elected, he would vote to repeal Common Core, Haslam’s cornerstone of
education reform.<br />
How will Mwafaq Mohammed vote on a Common Core repeal?<br />
Any chance Gov. Haslam will get around to stumping for incumbent
Republicans who also openly opposed Common Core during the last
legislative session?<br />
<a href="https://tn4politicaljustice.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/newsletter-123-whos-the-bigger-phony/"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" src="https://creepingsharia.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/aljabbary-with-haslam1.jpg?w=468" /></a>left
to right: Rawling (running for District 51 House seat), Aljabbary or
Mohammed (we are not sure which he wants to be in this picture), Gov.
Haslam</blockquote>
GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-33390089102913758112013-11-19T08:49:00.001-08:002013-11-19T08:49:17.756-08:00A Black Reporter Summarizes Barack Obama!<br />
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The below summarization of Barack and Michelle Obama’s 5 year reign in the White House is by far the best I’ve ever read as it squarely hits the nail on the head. And it took a black reporter writing it to make it as effective as it is. A white man’s account would be instantly criticized by the liberal media as pure racism. But, how can anyone scream Racist when an exacting description of the Obamas is penned by a well known journalist of color?</div>
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BEST SUMMATION OF BARACK AND MICHELLE EVER!<br />Mychal Massie is a respected writer and talk show host in Los Angeles.</div>
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The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn’t like the Obama’s? Specifically I was asked: “I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama’s? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed (disrespected) their Christmas family picture.”</div>
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The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation. I’ve made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don’t like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state.</div>
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I don’t hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America. They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama’s raw contempt for white America is transpicuous. I don’t like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress.</div>
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I expect, no I demand respect, for the Office of President and a love of our country and her citizenry from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people.</div>
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The Reagan’s made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. Obama’s arrogance by appointing 32 leftist czars and constantly bypassing congress is impeachable. Eric Holder is probably the MOST incompetent and arrogant DOJ head to ever hold the job. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs?</div>
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Presidents are politicians and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie, but even using that low standard, the Obama’s have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility.</div>
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I do not like them, because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to not being able to be proud of America. I view that statement and that mindset as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world.</div>
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Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do same. I have a saying, that “the only reason a person hides things, is because they have something to hide.” No president in history has spent millions of dollars to keep his records and his past sealed.</div>
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And what the two of them have shared has been proved to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother’s death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father’s military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nausea. He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address. He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today.</div>
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He opposed rulings that protected women and children that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel. His wife treats being the First Lady as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world). I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement – as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare.</div>
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I don’t like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority.</div>
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Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their constantly playing the race card.</div>
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I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them, as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are. There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.</div>
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As I wrote in a syndicated column titled, “Nero In The White House” – “Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequalled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood…</div>
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Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement – while America’s people go homeless, hungry and unemployed.”</div>
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-11668928051798494932013-10-27T07:42:00.002-07:002013-10-27T07:42:47.368-07:00'No a Right-Wing Problem' <div>
This is what Israelis live with; it probably does not even make a 'footline' - certainly not a headline - in the US or elsewhere. </div>
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Israel was pressured to release terrorists held in her prisons - a 'gesture of confidence-building' it is called.</div>
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The only ones to whom it gives confidence is the enemy entity; the freedom of murderers means that they can return to their killing profession. There is never a reciprocal gesture on the other side - not even a phony promise. On the contrary; Arab children are inbued daily with the glory of killing Israelis and their elders 'follow the leader' - Abbas and his henchmen.</div>
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The voices of some of Israel's leaders - MKs - are now being raised in opposition to the imminent release of the second batch of terrorists this coming week. For Israelis it is a matter of survival - of life and death and, should those wise ones prevail and stop the release it is important for those outside of the country to understand the truth. No doubt, it would be reported as 'Israel reneging on an agreement' and 'endangering the peace process'. The criminals at the other end would be seen as 'innocents' who are at the mercy of the Israelis. <a name='more'></a></div>
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The article below offers a taste of how Israel's 'peace partners' offer their 'gesture of confidence building'. Ask yourself if you would like to have this in your neighborhood. It should help you understand us.</div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="0_173244" target="_blank"></a><span style="color: #143c59; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">3. Rock Attacks ‘Not a Right-Wing Problem’</span> <br />by Maayana Miskin <img align="left" alt="Rock Attacks Not a Right-Wing Problem " src="https://bay172.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=X%2faG56JE95QZxlncgVrkMWD0VZvaG1WImf64T%2b45BWw%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fa7.org%2fResizer.ashx%2fnews%2f136%2f106%2f422492.jpg" style="padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px;" /> <span id="ecxrepFullHeadline_ctl02_ltr_content"><br /><br />An Israeli student and his girlfriend were attacked by an Arab gang wielding stones as they drove near Jerusalem’s Hebrew University on Saturday. <br /><br />Yair Nativ, who was driving, wrote about the attack on his Facebook page. “We saw that they had put some big blocks [in the road] to slow us down – just like in Shechem or Hevron,” he recalled. <br /><br />“We saw the ‘youths’ waiting there with stones. They threw a few, and one hit us,” he continued. <br /><br />Police arrived at the scene quickly, he wrote. “But the youths didn’t run away from them, and even tried to throw rocks at them.” <br /><br />“This is in the state of Israel, in the capital of Israel, near the Hebrew University. You won’t read or hear about this anywhere,” he continued. <br /><br />“I asked the police officers who came how many times this happened per week. Dozens of times, nobody (except those who threw rocks or live in the area) really knew. It’s an area with no real rule of law – each man does what is right in his eyes,” he warned. <br /><br />Nativ expressed upset at the lack of coverage in mainstream news sources. <br /><br />“When I searched for ‘rock throwing Jerusalem’ in Google [in Hebrew – ed.], I found something only on a site called, ‘Hakol Hayehudi’ [Jewish Voice], as if this were a problem solely for sites affiliated with the right,” he reported. <br /><br />“This is a national problem,” he declared. “The difference between a rock that only hits the car and a rock that hits a passenger is not very big. The difference between a rock and a firebomb, which of courses causes more serious results, is also not so big.” <br /><br />“But you will not read about this anywhere,” he concluded. <br /><br />Nativ added a final note on the attack. There was one thing that scared the attackers, he wrote, “Lior’s camera. She had the wherewithal to quickly start filming” as they came under attack</span></div>
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-53802594145445149362013-10-07T08:27:00.001-07:002013-10-07T08:27:12.221-07:00The Cold Hard Facts of Obama's Economy<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/chad_stafko/"><strong>Chad Stafko</strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">There's an old adage, "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">That
could be the battle cry within the Obama administration when it comes
to Obama's work on the economy through his five plus years as
president. But a close and objective look at the facts shows that the
Obama-led and Obama-owned economy tells one and only one story --
FAILURE.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's
begin on the labor front, where the numbers are atrocious. While the
monthly unemployment rate is the headline-grabbing number so many flock
to, it is far from the best gauge of labor market strength.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">The unemployment rate </span></span><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">currently</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">
stands at 7.3%. Obama backers will point to the fact... again let's
look at the facts, and rightfully say that the unemployment rate has
steadily fallen from its peak of 10% in October 2009 and has remained
below 8% since August 2012. These are indeed facts, but they mask the
underlying and quite troubling data.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Understand
that the unemployment rate is a rather simplistic calculation. The
numerator is composed of the number of people unemployed and who have
looked for work in the past four weeks. That number is then divided by
the total number of individuals in the labor force.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Simple
math tells us that this figure can decline in a number of ways. The
natural inclination for many is to assume that the unemployment
percentage is dropping because the numerator, again measured by the
total number of unemployed people actively seeking work, is declining
due to these folks having found work. Not so, however.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
reason the number has been declining is that the denominator, which is
composed of the total labor force in America, continues to fall. In
fact, the overall labor force </span></span><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/06/news/economy/august-jobs-report/index.html"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">declined by 312,000 </span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">in
August, which is the most recent data available. That means 312,000
Americans dropped out of the labor force in August. In other words, they
gave up looking for a job.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
far more accurate and factual representation of the labor market is the
labor force participation rate. It paints a far purer picture. This
rate is simply the percent of the population who are either working or
actively looking for work. In other words, these individuals are engaged
in the labor market.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's the cold hard facts in that regard. The labor force participation rate fell to </span></span><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/06/news/economy/august-jobs-report/index.html"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">63.2% in August</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
its lowest level since 1978. Think about that for a moment and let it
sink in. We have the lowest percent of people participating in the labor
market in 35 years. Note also that this rate is has continued to
decline since the recession supposedly ended in June 2009.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">So,
here we are five and a half years into the Obama presidency and we have
the lowest percent of Americans working since 1978. That is an
undeniable fact.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is even more evidence pointing towards the atrocity that is the Obama-led and owned U.S. labor market. According to a </span></span><a href="http://cew.georgetown.edu/failuretolaunch/"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">report</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">
released September 30th by the Georgetown University Center on
Education and the Workforce, only about half of adults in their late 20s
-- let me emphasize late 20s -- were working full-time as of 2012. That
figure was derived from official U.S. census data.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's
put that in perspective. These are adults, if they went in the
military, who would be halfway or more towards the minimum service time
for retirement, yet half of these adults don't even have a full-time
job.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">They could instead be theoretically college-educated with six or seven years of experience, yet half are jobless.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stick
with the young adults for a moment and suppose you're one of them and
fortunate enough to have a full-time job. What about your earnings? Are
you making a good living within the Obama economy?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">The answer, again based upon facts, is an emphatic "No."</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">That
same Georgetown University study showed that young adults working are
now 30 years of age before they earn $42,000 per year. Back in 1980, it
took you only to the age of 26 to earn that much money per year.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stay with me on the earnings front and consider these figures. As of 2012, the median U.S. household </span></span><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/17/news/economy/poverty-income/index.html"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">inflation-adjusted income </span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">was
$51,017. That figure has dropped every year during Obama's tenure as
president... every single year. Also, it is at its lowest level since
1995. What that means is we're earning no more than a typical household
was in 1995, almost 20 years ago. Again, ignore the noise from the Oval
Office, these are the facts.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even
the poorest of the poor have had it worse under Obama. Last year 15% of
Americans were considered to be living in poverty with little sign of
improvement, a theme characterizing the poor throughout the Obama
presidency. That percentage equates to some 46.5 million Americans.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">But what about the business community? How have they fared in the Obama-led and Obama-owned economy? Not well, to say the least.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Through September 2013, corporations </span></span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/03/us-usa-economy-jobs-challenger-idUSBRE9920EP20131003"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">have announced </span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">387,384
job cuts. Over the first nine months of 2012, 386,000 job reductions
were announced by corporations. So, some simple math tells us that
equates to zero improvement in the corporate job market year-over-year.
Again, those are the facts.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">We've seen some of these massive job cut announcements in business headlines throughout the year. For example, </span></span><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/100956090"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cisco Systems </span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">announced it would cut 4,000 employees and IBM laid off an undisclosed number of employees across the company, with some </span></span><a href="http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240156885/ibm-layoffs-said-to-be-widespread-throughout-company.htm"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">estimating</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;"> that figure to be between 6,000-8,000.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not
to be outdone, the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, one of the largest
employers in the state of Ohio, recently stated that it plans to</span></span><a href="http://www.ideastream.org/news/feature/cleveland-clinic-plans-layoffs-buget-cuts"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;"> offer early retirement </span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">to some 3,000 workers. Those reductions appear to have been due to ObamaCare, as Clinic spokesperson Eileen Sheil,</span></span><a href="http://www.ideastream.org/news/feature/cleveland-clinic-plans-layoffs-buget-cuts"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;"> stated </span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">that
the cuts were due to the fact that "Hospital systems have to become
much more efficient to make health care affordable to patients in the
future."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">All
of these negative aspects of the Obama economy, from joblessness to
poor-paying jobs to outright poverty, has resulted in challenging times
for Americans. In fact, according to an Associated Press </span></span><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-depression-80-percent-of-adults-are-financially-struggling"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">report </span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">from
this summer, a whopping four out of five Americans are struggling to
make ends meet financially. For some that may be hard to fathom... 80%
of Americans are having issues meeting their financial obligations.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
can anyone therefore possibly believe that President Obama has been an
economic success with a large majority of the American population
financially struggling?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whether
you think of economic progress by the number of Americans employed, or
their level of earnings, or whether the poor are escaping poverty, the
cold hard facts reveal that the Obama-led and owned economy has been and
remains a disaster.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em>Chad Stafko is a writer and political consultant living in the Midwest. He can be reached at stafko@msn.com</em></strong></span></span><br />
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-8898054217737128812013-10-01T07:27:00.003-07:002013-10-01T07:27:15.809-07:00Why are Christians Silent While So Many are Dying?<span> <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/detail/janet-levy">JANET LEVY</a></span>
<small>October 1, 2013</small>
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<em>"First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people." </em><br />
<em>There's a clear connection between Jews being attacked and driven
out of Muslim countries during the last century to today's increased
persecution of Christians in the Middle East and North Africa. </em><br />
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<em>Sadly, Christians did little to help victimized Jews, ignoring
"the canary in the mine." Some calmed themselves and assuaged their
guilt by tracing the purge to just punishment for Jewish non-acceptance
of Jesus as a messiah. However, time and time again, the maxim, "What
begins with the Jews never ends with the Jews," proves true. </em><br />
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<em>When will Christians, who number 2.1 billion, acknowledge and
stand up to the evil that confronts them and other non-Muslims
worldwide? Where are the voices of Christian leadership as the carnage
of their brethren reaches epidemic proportions? Janet Levy ~ Los
Angeles</em><br />
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Turn the other cheek?<a name='more'></a></h2>
<em>via </em><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/about/" target="_new"> Philly.com</a><br />
A RELIGIOUS minority is being persecuted, driven from their homes, robbed, raped, murdered.<br />
From all the faux Islamophobia hysteria, you'd think it was Muslims.<br />
It's Christians, under a death sentence in parts of the Muslim world. Not in <em>every </em>Muslim country, but in too many.<br />
The world remains remarkably, willfully blind and mute as the
faithful of the world's largest religion are blown apart by followers of
the world's second-largest religion.<br />
Precise Christian persecution "figures are hard to come by," says
Kiri Kankhwende, spokesman for Christian Solidarity Worldwide, in the
United Kingdom. Precise or not, things have rarely been worse. And who
cares?<br />
I am not a Christian, but I belong to a minority with a long history
of persecution. The electrifying experience of the Holocaust, when the
world stood mute, shapes my belief that it should happen "never again"
to <em>anyone</em>. When the world is silent, slaughter follows.<br />
A headline in Monday's <em>Daily News</em> was unusual only in its candor: "Dozens dead in Pakistan; Christians targeted."<br />
It was a murderous attack on a church in which more than 70 died, the
deadliest-ever attack against Pakistani Christians. At the same time,
Islamic jihadists were rolling hand grenades into a Kenyan shopping mall
and mowing down civilians - allowing only Muslims to safely exit.<br />
Across the globe, Muslims are too often in the thick of the hate,
pillage, rape and murder. There is no escaping the transparent fact
jihadists use their religion as a rallying cry to kill Christians (and
others).<br />
Surely the United Nations is on top of this, right?<br />
No. The U.N. avoids the Christian "problem" like leprosy.<br />
FINISH HERE: <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2013-09-27/news/42462162_1_pakistani-christians-coptic-christians-muslim-brotherhood#8g4cFetkPbLq17uI.99">http://articles.philly.com/2013-09-27/news/42462162_1_pakistani-christians-coptic-christians-muslim-brotherhood#8g4cFetkPbLq17uI.99</a><br />
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journalist who has contributed to American Thinker, Pajamas Media, Full
Disclosure Network, FrontPage Magazine, Family Security Matters and
other publications. She blogs at <a href="http://www.womenagainstshariah.com/" title="http://www.womenagainstshariah.com/"><b>www.womenagainstshariah.com</b></a></em><br />
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-60900665812264509482013-09-26T10:57:00.000-07:002013-09-26T10:57:06.188-07:00Obama as Global Social Worker<a class="ecxtrimless-color" href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obama-as-global-social-worker/" target="_blank">http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obama-as-global-social-worker/</a><br />
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No, this is not another Obama-bashing oped — quite the contrary. I count
myself as an admirer of the US leader’s oratory, as well as his
determination to do the right thing. He is not locked into an
ideological straight-jacket, but rather approaches each issue on its
merits, looking for rational answers, confounding his rigid supporters
on the Left, as well as angry opponents on the Right.</div>
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Indeed, Obama’s speech before the General Assembly on Tuesday was
another tour de force. When talking about the need to punish Syria, or
responding to Iran’s charm offensive, the President struggled with the
complexities, seeing the potential costs and benefits of each option.
Using the cadences and rational arguments of an inspirational professor,
he forcefully denounced the immorality of tyrants, and demanded
principled as well as effective responses from the United Nations and
its member states (specifically Russia).</div>
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As a professor, I can identify with these struggles and complexities.
But, despite these positive dimensions, I am unconvinced by Obama’s
arguments and job performance in dealing with the real world. The
speeches not withstanding, international relations and issues of war and
peace are not his forte, and even in his fifth year as president, Obama
makes the mistake of extending his previous experience to problems that
are far outside this limited scope. This is a common problem, including
for brilliant academics who assume that their expertise is unbounded
and can be applied to every issue.</div>
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Before entering American politics, Obama’s world was rooted in
constitutional law and social work. As both Senator and President, his
policies and speeches have continued to invoke the vocabularies,
perspectives and tools from these professions. He shows no sign of
differentiating between communities in conflict and domestic American
agendas, on the one hand, and the power-based laws of gravity that
govern relations between states, on the other hand. Thus, in his UN
speech, he again spoke about the importance of engagement and dialogue
with opponents. And, re-enacting the part of a constitutional law
professor, Obama emphasized international agreements, enforcement
mechanisms, and the duties of “the international community”.</div>
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In contrast, international political realities, as exemplified by the
behavior of Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and many others are far from
reflecting a community united by common goals and norms. Obama’s
academic and political references omit basic texts in international
politics, including the core observations of British political
philosopher Thomas Hobbes (16<sup class="ecxtrimless-color" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</sup> century).
Hobbes wrote extensively on the “state of nature”, in which every group
seeks power and must defend its own vital interests, or risk
annihilation by others doing the same. In this anarchy, weak states are
swept away by stronger ones, often accompanied by mass killing and
genocide. International institutions function only to the degree that
they serve the interests of their powerful members, and international
law is merely another arena for political conflict, lacking a duly
constituted court system to ensure justice, or a consistent police force
for enforcement. Unlike neighborhoods or even cities sharing a
democratic framework, and can solve problems together, Obama’s reliance
on an ”international community” is a dangerous illusion.</div>
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As a result, Obama’s attempts at deterrence and his threats of
punishment have failed. While he has repeatedly condemned the atrocities
of the Syrian regime – particularly the August 21 chemical weapons
attack that killed “more than 1,000 people, including hundreds of
children” — his threats lack credibility. And although his appeal to
Russian President Putin was eminently logical in a social-psychology
framework — “let us remember that this is not a zero-sum endeavor. We
are no longer in a Cold War”, this is not in Moscow’s Hobbesian
vocabulary. From Obama’s perspective, as he said in the UN, “There’s no
Great Game to be won, nor does America have any interest in Syria beyond
the well-being of its people…” But Putin, as well as every Middle
Eastern leader, speak an entirely different political language.</div>
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Similarly, while Obama repeated his insistence “that the Iranian
government meet its responsibilities under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty and UN Security Council resolutions”, and offered a number of
carrots, the stick that might lead to a last-minute policy change was
largely hidden. Iran’s new President is a master of charm and
time-consuming diplomacy, as he proved ten years ago as Iran’s chief
nuclear negotiator, when he ran circles around the Europeans. As a
result, Obama hedged his bets, warning that “conciliatory words will
have to be matched by actions that are transparent and verifiable”, but
these words are not matched by actions – a fatal flaw in a Hobbesian
world.</div>
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In his UN speech, Obama also restated his faith in Israeli-Palestinian
peace, declaring that “All of us must recognize that peace will be a
powerful tool to defeat extremists, and embolden those who are prepared
to build a better future.” This is another eminently logical conclusion,
but it is not backed by the day to day realities of Palestinian terror,
incitement and wider Jihadist threats. In today’s Middle East, a
Palestinian state could quickly become a failed state and yet another
base for the “extremists” whom Obama imagines as defeated.</div>
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It is in a spirit of constructive criticism that I offer these
observations. By now, Obama has probably realized that words, regardless
of their eloquence and inspirational impact, are not the same as
decisions on the most difficult issues of war and peace. With over three
years remaining in his second term, each of the global threats
addressed in the President’s latest speech will require decisions
involving major risks, including the risk of doing nothing. To avoid
failure and a legacy of disaster, the myths of an “international
community” and self-enforcing international rules must be replaced by
the recognition of global realities.</div>
GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-62110092261816094452013-09-03T22:54:00.003-07:002013-09-03T22:54:21.289-07:00Educating John McCain on the Meaning of ‘Allahu-Akbar’<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> <u>Andrew G. Bostom</u> On September 3, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">During a Tuesday (9/3/13) morning <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi6rIaVBacQ" target="_blank">appearance</a></span></u>
on Fox News Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) took umbrage at Fox News host Brian
Kilmeade’s disgust with Syrian anti-Assad opposition groups shouting
“Allahu Akhbar! Allahu Akhbar!” when their rockets apparently shot down a
Syrian jet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">To Kilmeade, appropriately, such outcries illustrated the <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/why-is-america-midwiving-a-muslim-brotherhood-ruled-syria/" target="_blank">predominant jihadist</a></span></u> influence within the coalition of groups opposing the Assad regime. Kilmeade <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi6rIaVBacQ" target="_blank">stated</a></span></u>,</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I have a problem helping those people screaming that [Allahu-Akbar!] after a hit.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A perturbed, if typically feckless McCain <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi6rIaVBacQ" target="_blank">replied</a></span></u>,
without any basic linguistic understanding, or supportive evidence of
the rocket launchers’ alleged “moderation,” by making an immoral
equivalence to Christianity:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Would
you have a problem with an American or Christians saying “thank God?
Thank God?” That’s what they’re saying. Come on! Of course they’re
Muslims, <b>but they’re moderates and I guarantee you they are moderates</b>. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">One of the English translators of the great 14<sup>th</sup> century Muslim jurist (d. 1350) <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Qayyim" target="_blank">Ibn Qayyim</a></span></u>’s “<u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.khilafahbooks.com/wp-content/ebooks/english/tazkiyyah/The_Way_To_Patience_And_Gratitude_khilafahbooks_com.pdf" target="_blank">The Way to Patience and Gratitude</a></span></u>” opts for “Allah is Greater” as the specific translation of Allahu Akbar. On page 463, the following explanation is provided:</span><br />
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<strong><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">…I
preferred using “the Greater” to “the Greatest”… Allahu Akbar literally
means, “Allah is Greater” with the comparative mode. Yet, this does not
mean that He (Glory be to Him) is not the Greatest, nor does it mean
that there is anything that is put in comparison with Him. This is
because when the Muslim says it, he means He is “Greater” than anything
else, which, consequently, means He is the Greatest. This use gives more
influence. This may be why it is used in Arabic this way, otherwise it
should have been used as “Allahu al-Akbar,” in the superlative mode.
Surely, Allah Knows best.</span></i></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">E. W. Lane’s classical 19<sup>th</sup> century <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://archive.org/details/ArabicEnglishLexicon.CopiousEasternSources.EnlargedSuppl.Kamoos.Lane.Poole.1863" target="_blank"><i>Arabic English Lexicon</i></a></span></u>, (p. 2587) elaborates on the preferred “elliptical” meaning:</span><br />
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<strong><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">[Allah] is the greatest great [being] or [Allah] is greater than every other great [being]</span></i></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">“Allahu
Akbar” has been employed by Muslims as a jihadist war cry dating from
its declaration by Islam’s prophet Muhammad when he made an <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Jihad-Andrew-Bostom-M-D/dp/1591026024" target="_blank">aggressive proto-jihadist foray</a></span></u>
on the Jews of the Khaybar oasis. Here is how the phrase has been
rendered into English by pious Muslims from the canonical hadith
collection (<u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Compendium_of_Muslim_Texts" target="_blank">Sahih Bukhari</a></span></u> <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/052-sbt.php#004.052.195" target="_blank">4:52:195</a></span></u>):</span><br />
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<strong><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Narrated
Anas: The Prophet set out for Khaibar and reached it at night. He used
not to attack if he reached the people at night, till the day broke. So,
when the day dawned, the Jews came out with their bags and spades. When
they saw the Prophet; they said, “Muhammad and his army!” The Prophet
said, “Allahu-Akbar! (Allah is Greater) and Khaybar is ruined, for
whenever we approach a nation (i.e. enemy to fight) then it will be a
miserable morning for those who have been warned.”</span></i></strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The willful intellectual and moral blindness of U.S. political and military leaders to the <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Jihad-Andrew-Bostom-M-D/dp/1591026024" target="_blank">doctrine of jihad</a></span></u>—epitomized
by John McCain—continues to engender self-destructive “solutions” to
global jihad depredations, in Syria, and across the globe.</span><br />
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<strong><i><u><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Allahu Akbar</span></u></i></strong><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"> <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">does NOT mean "God is great</span></strong></span></u><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">" as often translated by those who either know no Arabic, or those who would willfully deceive.</span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It means </span></strong></span></b><strong><u><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt;">"Allah is greater</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">" - a comparative phrase with the compared noun missing. Originally, Allah was the <span style="background: #99CCFF;">name</span>
of one of some 360 stone gods in Mecca, and Muhammad determined that
this particular "god" was more significant than all the other pagan
stone deities. </span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In other words, </span></strong><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Allahu akbar</span></em><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> -- "Allah is greater than the other 359 stone gods!"</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Allahu akbar may also be colloquially interpreted to mean </span></strong></span></b><strong><u><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt;">"Allah is the greatest,"</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> a meaning not inconsistent with the original usage.</span></strong><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The
phrase also played a role in Muhammad's piratical attack on the Jews of
the Kaybar oasis, a treacherous aggression still celebrated in the
"holy scripts" of Islam, and still commented on when Arab-Muslims attack
Jews.</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span></strong></b><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"><br /><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">-- Eliyahu</span></strong><br /><em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">LAN ASTASLEM</span></em><br /><strong><span style="background: lime; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I WILL NOT SUBMIT TO ISLAM!</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Thanks to "Director"</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"><br /> </span></div>
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-72160681806310486532013-08-19T22:52:00.000-07:002013-08-19T22:52:10.564-07:00Boaz Albert, one other shame on Israel! <div class="ecxMsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Binyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Moshe Ya'alon, Minister of Defense</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Yitzhak Aharonovitch, Minister of Internal Security</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Gentlemen,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">As a Jew, I am deeply disturbed by the way the government
of Israel, that claims to be a democracy, treats its citizens, mainly the
Jewish ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">That the laws of Israel are antiquated, unJewish, backward
and stupid is one thing. But they also endanger its democracy and human
and civil rights of its citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">I am demanding an answer to the way the brown-shirts
Jewish police treated the grapevines farmer Boaz Albert. Has he gone through due
process, as a democracy offers? Has he been charged with something specific and
been given a chance to defend himself as in democracy? Or Israel has turned
into Iran, and North Korea?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">I do not think Israel is a democracy and what is worse, it
is fast sinking beyond the lines of democracy. It crosses the red lines of
democracy daily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">The world is watching you; I am watching you all the way
from the USA. <span> </span>And there must be answers
with regard to how Boaz Albert has been treated. <span> </span>It is SHOCKING!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">I have alarming concerns about Israeli democracy and how she
appears to the world. It is essential that Israel's leaders ensure that all
processes are sensitive to issues of democracy. If not, Israel's light, as a
beacon to the Western world, is fast dimming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Nurit Greenger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15pt;">Los Angeles, California</span></div>
GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-6401611539882826852013-08-13T00:46:00.002-07:002013-08-13T00:46:58.388-07:00Why Kerry’s Mideast Peace Is Doomed <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-puder/why-kerrys-mideast-peace-is-doomed/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e73d51d249-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-e73d51d249-156429893"><u>Joseph Puder</u></a> On August 13, 2013<br />
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Secretary
of State John Kerry is on a quest to bring “peace” to the intractable
Arab-Israeli conflict, and specifically between Arab Palestinians and
Israel. It is rather puzzling however, in the midst of the current
Middle East turmoil, especially in Egypt, Iraq and Syria, that this
should be Kerry’s obsession. Is it Kerry’s ego that propels him to seek a
Nobel Prize for achieving a hitherto impossible peace, one which has
eluded all previous US presidents and secretaries of state? President
Bill Clinton’s Oslo Accords are in tatters. Yasser Arafat used the Oslo
Accords to gain a foothold in Palestine, as a base to terrorize Israel, a
strategy that many Israelis recognized as such. The naïve American
policy makers and their leftist Israeli colleagues have consistently
failed to understand the Arab-Islamic culture, and how the Arab-Muslim
worldview differs from that of westerners, especially their outlook on
the meaning of peace. As a result, the upcoming Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations promise to be the same as in previous rounds.<br />
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<i>The New York Times</i> (July 29, 2013) put this in perspective. “It took Secretary of State John Kerry countless phone calls and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/middleeast/kerry-appoints-veteran-diplomat-to-manage-mideast-talks.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">six trips</a>
to the Middle East just to get Israeli and Palestinian officials to the
negotiation table, and how will it be possible to achieve a
comprehensive peace agreement? And what will happen if this herculean
negotiating effort falls short?”<br />
For starters, Kerry and the Obama administration need to understand
that Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority President, has failed to
prepare his people for the possibility of peace with Israel. And, while
conducting peace talks with Israel, Abbas has been initiating campaigns
that promote boycotts of Israel and hatred of its people. Diplomatic
formulas cannot substitute for educating the Palestinian public about
peace and humanizing Israelis, something neither Arafat nor Abbas have
done since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993. On the contrary, both
the deceased Arafat and his successor, Abbas, have created an
educational system that teaches hatred of Israelis, Jews, Christians and
Americans to young children. The next generation of Palestinians has
already been infected with the hatred and intolerance virus and
overcoming it will take more than a peace conference.<br />
For Arab-Muslim Palestinians and Egyptians, the concept of peace is
much different than that of Israelis or Americans, especially since they
see the “partner” as an infidel enemy. Two examples illustrate this
point: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s statement at the 1974 Rabat Arab
Summit when he said, “If the Israelis withdraw, I shall be prepared to
sign a <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=4kRCAAAIAAJ&pg=PA728&lpg=PA728&dg:">peace agreement</a>,
but not a peace treaty. These are two totally different things…I am
ready to sign a peace agreement, but normal relations, diplomatic
relations and trade relations are out of the question. Only the coming
generation can decide upon this. You cannot expect me, following 26
years of violence, hatred, bitterness, wars and slaughters, to set up
normal relations with Israel. The only thing I am ready for is a peace
agreement that would end the state of belligerency that has prevailed
for the past 26 years.” Sadat would repeat the same statement during the
signing of the Camp David Accords in 1979, stressing again that full
peace will have to be decided upon by the future generations.<br />
And, in December 2000, Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami met
with his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Hamad Ben Jassem al-Thani in Paris.
This meeting followed Arafat’s bolting of the Camp David Summit in July,
2000, and the intifada he subsequently instigated in September of that
year. After Ben Ami described all the concessions Israel offered,
al-Thani asked what Israel wanted in return, and the reply was “the end
of the conflict.” Hearing this, Al-Thani said, “this is something I
cannot give you, no one can.” He suggested that Israel should sign a
peace agreement with the Palestinians, and added that “you will have
quiet for a while and perhaps in 50-years from now, when the
Arab-Israeli conflict is forgotten, you may have real peace.”<br />
For Americans and Israelis, a peace treaty conveys the ability to
have “peace now” with all that flows from it, something akin to the
French-German amity after WWII that spawned the Common Market. Israelis
and Americans are impatient and believe that “problems” can be solved
with the right attitude. And when Israel makes unilateral and painful
concessions to reach an agreement, the Arabs simply demand more while
providing vague promises in return.<br />
In an interview with Ha’aretz’s Ari Shavit, published on September
14, 2001 and titled “The Day the Peace Died,” Shlomo Ben Ami (a
left-winger former Labor Party Foreign Minister) provided insights into
what it was like to negotiate with the Palestinians. “We operated under <a href="http://sarahhonig.com/2013/05/17/another-tack-while-we-keep-kvetching/">misguided conceptions</a>
about the other side’s intentions. For Arafat, Oslo constituted a
mega-camouflage behind which he exerted political pressure and employed
varying measures of terror to undermine the very notion of a two-state
solution.”<br />
Ben Ami revealed that Israel kept <a href="http://sarahhonig.com/2013/05/17/another-tack-while-we-keep-kvetching/">retreatin</a>g
from one “red line” to another, eventually agreeing to handover almost
anything the Palestinians insisted upon, including much of Jerusalem and
its holiest of Holies. But never at any point “did the Palestinians so
much as draft any counter-proposals.” The Palestinians, Ben Ami said,
“were not ready for as much as allowing a face-saving formulation for
Israel.”<br />
The painful July, 2000 negotiations with Arafat at Camp David with
President Clinton doing his best to salvage the summit in the face of
Arafat’s spiteful behavior changed the worldview of a leftist like Ben
Ami. He cautioned against “ignoring what was revealed to us –
Palestinian and Islamic positions which defy our right to exist.” Ben
Ami then added, “we mustn’t continue the culture of kvetch (concessions)
which might lead us to suicide…We must no longer relinquish Jewish and
Israeli patriotism…We must understand that we aren’t always guilty, and
we must learn to say ‘Till here and no farther.’ If the other side aims
to destroy even this nucleus, we must steadfastly defend it.”<br />
For Israelis and Americans peace equals normalization of relations.
For Palestinians and Egyptians in particular, it means an extra bonus
that is not part of the peace deal. As Arafat demonstrated in July,
2000, the Palestinians are simply “unwilling to end the conflict” and
refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.<br />
In order to induce Abbas to return to the negotiating table, Israel
was obliged to make concessions such as releasing terrorists with the
blood of innocent Jews on their hands. No demands however, were made of
the Palestinian Authority to end its vicious anti-Israel incitement.
Moreover, Kerry brought along several inducements for the Palestinians,
including the promise of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/world/middleeast/peres-says-israel-must-overcome-skepticism-about-peace.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">$4 billion</a> in private sector investments into the Palestinian economy.<br />
Elliott Abrams, former senior National Security advisor to President
Bush said, “The existence of the talks can have a calming effect while
they continue, and if they continue for several months can get us
through the U.N. General Assembly without bitter Israeli-Palestinian
confrontation.” He added however, “I see no <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/middleeast/kerry-appoints-veteran-diplomat-to-manage-mideast-talks.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">realistic possibility</a> that a final status agreement can be reached now.”<br />
Secretary of State John Kerry is hoping that his efforts will result
in being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Such a prize can only come at
the expense of critical Israeli concessions. That in of itself will not
bring peace between Palestinians and Israelis. Patience and time, in
concert with a proud Israel that remains steadfast and strong and
doesn’t plead for peace, will ultimately win the day. Kerry’s financial
inducement may bring Abbas to the negotiating table, but it will not be
enough to build a comprehensive peace that ends the conflict. It is for
this reason that Kerry’s Mideast peace initiative is doomed.<br />
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URL to article: <strong dir="ltr">http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-puder/why-kerrys-mideast-peace-is-doomed/</strong>GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-4578197394016047082013-06-03T07:03:00.002-07:002013-06-03T07:03:53.040-07:00A Green Light for Iran's New Terrorist War<span><a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/detail/reza-kahlili">REZA KAHLILI</a></span> <small>June 1, 2013</small> <br />
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Iranian leaders have given the go-ahead to a coalition of terrorists to attack American soil, in effect all but declaring war on the United States.<br />
As I reported recently and according to a source in the Islamic regime's intelligence apparatus, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/"><b>Iran</b></a> created the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/coalition-of-muslim-soldiers/"><b>Coalition of Muslim Soldiers</b></a> to wreak havoc on the United States and its allies. The goal is to change the field of battle from the Middle East to the American homeland, and the opening salvos - if indeed the Boston bombing wasn't the first - are due imminently unless U.S. authorities can short-circuit Tehran's plans.<a name='more'></a><br />
The source said the regime views the Boston bombing as a successful terrorist attack in which fear was created, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/us-intelligence/"><b>U.S. intelligence</b></a> was questioned and a sense of security was diminished. No link has been established yet to any group or nation for the Boston tragedy, which is the aim of this coalition of terrorists, formed by units of <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lebanon/"><b>Lebanon</b></a>'s <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/hezbollah/"><b>Hezbollah</b></a>, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/al-qaeda/"><b>al Qaeda</b></a> and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/"><b>Iran</b></a>'s Quds Forces.<br />
In a 2010 meeting, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/qassem-suleimani/"><b>Qasem Soleimani</b></a>, the head of the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/quds-forces/"><b>Quds Forces</b></a>; <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/seif-adel/"><b>Seif Adel</b></a>, the operational head of <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/al-qaeda/"><b>al Qaeda</b></a>; and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/mustafa-badr-al-din/"><b>Mustafa Badr al-Din</b></a>, the operational head of <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/hezbollah/"><b>Hezbollah</b></a>, devised a plan for continued terrorist operations against America under a new coalition, dubbed the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/coalition-of-muslim-soldiers/"><b>Coalition of Muslim Soldiers</b></a>. It includes al-Shabab, an <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/al-qaeda/"><b>al Qaeda</b></a> offshoot based in <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/somalia/"><b>Somalia</b></a>, and has its central command in the Iranian city of Kerman.<br />
After the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists in recent years and again with the increase in sanctions, the Islamic regime's supreme leader warned that the country's strategy had changed to face "threats with threats," a subliminal message that the regime will go on the offensive with terrorist covert operations. More recently, a senior commander of the Islamic regime had warned that terrorism was coming to America.<br />
"If the people of America and Europe do not confront the aggressive policies of their governments, they cannot then remain far from the possible future [terrorist attacks]," <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/masoud-jazayeri/"><b>Brig. Gen. Masoud Jazayeri</b></a>, the regime's armed forces deputy chief of staff, said in a Feb. 23 interview with <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/fars-news-agency/"><b>Fars News Agency</b></a>. <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/masoud-jazayeri/"><b>Gen. Jazayeri</b></a>, objecting to U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war, warned that explosions similar to those in <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/syria/"><b>Syria</b></a> would take place in other countries.<br />
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With the sanctions increasing the danger of an uprising against the regime, the possibility of an Israeli attack on <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/"><b>Iran</b></a>'s nuclear facilities and the fight to overthrow <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/bashar-al-assad/"><b>Bashar Assad</b></a> in <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/syria/"><b>Syria</b></a>, which <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/"><b>Iran</b></a> calls its red line, the regime gave the go-ahead to unleash its proxy terrorists on America and its economy and change the focus from the Middle East to America itself.<br />
Targets have been chosen within America, and the terrorist teams have now cut communications with the operational center in <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/"><b>Iran</b></a>, a sign they are moving ahead with the attacks, according to a high-level intelligence officer within the regime.<br />
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/"><b>Iran</b></a> thinks that if even one of the attacks occurs, the operation would be a success and that it won't be traced back to <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/"><b>Iran</b></a> because of the nationalities of the operatives, the source said.<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="pagebreak"></a>Intelligence and infiltration by Western intelligence agencies into institutions, operations and cultural centers of radical Arab Islamists after Sept. 11, 2001, have discovered that the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/coalition-of-muslim-soldiers/"><b>coalition</b></a> is recruiting non-Arab Islamists from other nationalities and Arabs from countries not on the hot list of American agencies. Just look at the terrorist brothers who attacked the Boston Marathon.<br />
Iranian leaders think the perception of security in America that has helped empower its actions in the Middle East must be turned 180 degrees, not only to derail all U.S. calculations, but to destabilize the political, economic and social conditions in America, the source said.<br />
Since 2001, more than $270 million has been invested in mosques and Islamic centers in America by institutions in the Iranian city of Qom. As part of the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/coalition-of-muslim-soldiers/"><b>coalition</b></a>'s plan, 27 mosques and Islamic centers in America are its source for collaboration, infiltration and recruitment of sympathizers for various missions, including reconnaissance and terrorist acts.<br />
I reported in April that the Quds Forces have done extensive planning on gatherings, events and high-value targets in the United States and run an extensive network of terrorists out of South Asia.<br />
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/"><b>Iran</b></a> is playing a dangerous game, one outside the scope of civilized nations. The Obama administration cannot afford to wait until another tragedy like the one in Boston happens.<br />
At the very least, the regime should be put on notice that any terrorist attack on U.S. soil or interests around the world will have severe consequences. If the Iranian regime doesn't end its pursuit of nuclear weapons and shut down its terrorist operations, the United States must isolate it economically so that its already-battered economy cries uncle - or so its already-fed-up population rises up against the tyranny of the clerics. If and when that happens, the United States must provide the people of <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/"><b>Iran</b></a> the support they need to bring down these international criminals.<br />
If there is another attack on American soil, President Obama must use all the resources at his disposal to ascertain where the order to attack came from. When he does, he must go beyond sanctions and strike at the root of this evil.<br />
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<em><b><a href="http://atimetobetray.com/" target="_blank" title="http://atimetobetray.com/"><b>Reza Kahlili</b></a></b></em><em> is a pseudonym for an ex-CIA spy who requires anonymity for safety reasons. He is a senior fellow with </em><em><b><a href="http://empactamerica.org/" target="_blank"><b>EMPact America</b></a></b></em><b><em> and the author of </em></b><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Time-Betray-Astonishing-Double-Revolutionary/dp/143918903X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267629519&sr=1-1" target="_blank" title="http://www.amazon.com/Time-Betray-Astonishing-Double-Revolutionary/dp/143918903X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267629519&sr=1-1"><b>A Time to Betray</b></a></b><b><em>, a book about his double-life as a CIA agent in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, published by Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster, April 2010. </em></b><b>A Time to Betray<em> was the winner of the </em></b><em><b><a href="http://www.usabooknews.com/bestbooks2010.html" target="_blank"><b>2010 National Best Book Award</b></a></b></em><b><em> and the </em></b><em><b><a href="http://www.internationalbookawards.com/2011pressrelease.html" target="_blank"><b>2011 International Best Book Award</b></a></b></em><b><em>.</em></b></div>
<br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/a-green-light-for-irans-new-terrorist-war?f=must_reads#ixzz2VA65nX7f" style="color: #003399;">Family Security Matters</a> <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/a-green-light-for-irans-new-terrorist-war?f=must_reads#ixzz2VA65nX7f" style="color: #003399;">http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/a-green-light-for-irans-new-terrorist-war?f=must_reads#ixzz2VA65nX7f</a> <br />Under Creative Commons License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" style="color: #003399;">Attribution</a>GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-39048185430903697762013-05-02T10:11:00.002-07:002013-05-02T10:11:31.250-07:00A Warm Embrace: A Lone Soldier’s First Memorial Day Experience in IsraelAs a new immigrant from the States, and a new resident of Tel Aviv, I
was prepped for months before my arrival about this vibrant city, its
exuberance so present that it often won’t let me sleep. Yes, this city
is full of excitement, more than I could have ever prepared for. Yet, as
a lone soldier, I found myself counting the days until I would get to
witness this city not on the loudest of nights but on the quietest of
days: Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day.<br />
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On the eve of Memorial Day, I walked around the center of Tel Aviv,
watching with astoundment as the last of the stores were closing up, as
music was dimming down and as noise was coming to a discreet halt. Sure,
this country may be small, but in a time when it seems the whole world
has surrendered to non-stop distractions, lack of awareness, and this
innate inability to stand still, I can’t help but feel amazed that an
entire country can step away from this eternal rush we’re in to shut
down for one day and mourn together.<br />
As Memorial Day was about to begin, I was making my way to a ceremony
in Rabin Square in the center of Tel Aviv. The walk from my apartment
to Rabin Square was not a lonely walk, as the streets were filled with
people heading to the ceremony. I realized then and there that, today,
no one in Israel will feel alone. On a day like this, a sense of
responsibility grabs hold of Israel’s citizens and we become bound to
one another by the common presence of pain for the 23,085 soldiers
fallen in defense of Israel.<br />
As I approached Rabin Square, I was stopped by the siren wailing at 8
P.M. The silence seemed unreal for the number of people who were
present, and the shift in atmosphere became palpable. For one minute, I
stood silently and watched as thousands of people gathered together,
mourning the fallen soldiers. They were not planning for tomorrow or
excited for the following day’s festivities (the day after Memorial Day
is Israel’s Independence Day, a day of celebration for Israel), but very
much in the moment. All too aware that, if it weren’t for the fallen
soldiers we remember today, we would have no reason to celebrate
tomorrow – or any other day.<br />
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Songs were sung. Poems were read. Stories were shared. Between songs
and poems of mourning, clips were shown of personal stories. I learned
of Yoav – and of his son, Arnon, who fought in combat to honor his
fallen father and who, too, fell while serving in the IDF. I learned of
Tamir, a Druze soldier who fell in the Second Lebanon War, and of
Daniel, an American lone soldier who fell in 2008. It is a special thing
when, even among IDF’s fallen soldiers, Israel’s diversity is still
visible.<br />
Unfortunately in Israel, nearly everyone knows someone who has fallen
while serving in the IDF. It is not a commonality we appreciate, but it
is certainly one we embrace together as a country. And tomorrow, when
it comes time to look up and to remove ourselves from the period of
mourning, the entire country is once again there to pull us up. Of all
the loud and memorable nights I have spent in Tel Aviv, it is on this
quiet and solemn night that I understood the beauty of Israel and its
warm embrace.GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-30091972144905665802013-03-28T06:12:00.000-07:002013-03-28T06:12:12.742-07:00 Obamacare to Raise Claims Cost 32 Percent<small>March 28, 2013</small>
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Insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32
percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under
President Obama's overhaul, the nation's leading group of financial
risk analysts has estimated.<br />
That's likely to increase premiums for at least some Americans buying individual plans.<br />
The report by the Society of Actuaries could turn into a big
headache for the Obama administration at a time when many parts of the
country remain skeptical about the Affordable Care Act.<br />
While some states will see medical claims costs per person decline,
the report concluded the overwhelming majority will see double-digit
increases in their individual health insurance markets, where people
purchase coverage directly from insurers.<br />
The disparities are striking. By 2017, the estimated increase would
be 62 percent for California, about 80 percent for Ohio, more than
20 percent for Florida and 67 percent for Maryland. Much of the
reason for the higher claims costs is that sicker people are expected
to join the pool, the report said.<br />
The report did not make similar estimates for employer plans, the
mainstay for workers and their families. That's because the primary
impact of Obama's law is on people who don't have coverage through
their jobs.<br />
Read more: <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/26/study-obamacare-raise-claims-cost-32-percent/#ixzz2OpCLnq2N" target="_blank">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/26/study-obamacare-raise-claims-cost-32-percent/#ixzz2OpCLnq2N</a><br />
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-66206188477931389432013-02-26T10:41:00.001-08:002013-02-26T10:41:53.916-08:00Mark Steyn’s Antidote to Burqa-Mandating Texas Teachers (Allah-la-la-la-la…)<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">February 26th, 2013 (1 hour ago) by Andrew Bostom Todd Starnes of Fox News radio </span><a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/state-investigation-launched-after-students-dress-in-burqas.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">reports</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> that Texas State Sen. Dan Patrick, chairman of the senate education committee, is launching an investigation, after <span style="background-color: #ffff66;">outraged
parents provided photographic evidence that their Lumberton (Texas)
High School children were required to don burqas (and other Muslim
garb), as part of an ostensible “geography lesson” on Islam.</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: medium;">Moreover, students, as part of this unabashed
Islamophilic indoctrination process at Lumberton High School, were told
by their teacher, “we’re going to change the way we perceive Islam,” who
then also proceeded to instruct them to compose an essay, according to
the </span><a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/state-investigation-launched-after-students-dress-in-burqas.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">report</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">, “based on a Washington Post story that blamed Egypt’s troubles on democracy – instead of the Muslim Brotherhood.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Such involuntary Islamic dawa in school must be thoroughly investigated, condemned, and permanently disallowed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">I suggest as an adjunct “corrective,” that it also be <b><i>required </i></b>of the Lumberton High School teacher of this geography class, and recommended for the students, to read Mark Steyn’s </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3584668/My-Sharia-Amour.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">caustic analysis</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">
of the murderous Muslim rioting in Nigeria during November, 2002, in
advance of the Miss World beauty pageant (prompted by an article in the
Lagos newspaper “This Day,” which suggested Islam’s prophet Muhammad
would have been happy to marry one of the contestants). The teacher
should be further <b>required</b>, and the students encouraged (with parental accompaniment, given the R-rated language) to watch this </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmhAel-hGf8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">video</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> of Steyn’s hilarious performance of “<b><i>My Sharia Amour</i></b>” (London, Ontario, November 1, 2010).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Below are samples of Steyn’s original 2002 lyrics,
which he expanded and updated circa November of 2010. And of course
watch the video!</span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;">(</span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3584668/My-Sharia-Amour.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">2002</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">)</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;">My Sharia Amour, good enough for some emir.<br />My Sharia Amour, I’m the guy you like to fear.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;">My Sharia Amour, pretty little girl in your chador.<br />One of only four that I beat sore.<br />
How I wish that I had five.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;">(</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmhAel-hGf8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">2010</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">)</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;">My Sharia Amour, I got her from an imam in Lahore One of only four wives…</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;">How I wish that I had five</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;"> In her burqa, this chick could take away your breath</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;">But don’t even glance, or I’ll have to have her stoned to death</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;"> Allah-la-la-la-la, Allah-la-la-la-la</span></i><br />
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The left has never adapted to the transition from nationalistic wars to
ideological wars. It took the left a while to grasp that the Nazis were a
fundamentally different foe than the Kaiser and that pretending that
World War 2 was another war for the benefit of colonialists and arms
dealers was the behavior of deluded lunatics. And yet much of the left
insisted on approaching the war in just that fashion, and had Hitler not
attacked Stalin, it might have remained stuck there.<br />
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The Cold War was even worse. The moderate left never came to terms with
Communism. From the Moscow Trials to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the
left slowly disavowed the USSR, but refused to see it as anything more
than a clumsy dictatorship. The only way that the left could reject the
USSR was by overlooking its ideology and treating it as another backward
Russian tyranny being needlessly provoked and pushed around by Western
Europe and the United States.<br />
<br />
Having failed the test twice, it is no wonder that the left has been
unable to come to terms with Islam, or that it has resorted to insisting
that, like Germany and Russia, the Muslim world is just another victim
of imperialism and western warmongering in need of support and
encouragement from the progressive camp.<a name='more'></a><br />
<br />
The anti-war worldview is generations out of date. It is mired in an
outdated analysis of imperial conflicts that ceased being relevant with
the downfall of the nation-state and its replacement by international
organizations and causes based around ideologies. Nazism could still
loosely fit into the jackboots of the nation state. Communism was
another creature entirely, a red virus floating around the world,
embedding its ideas into organizations and using those organizations to
take over nations. <br />
<br />
Islamism is even more untethered than Communism, loosely originating
from powerful oil nations, but able to spring up anywhere in the Muslim
world. Its proponents have even less use for the nation state than the
Communists. What they want is a Caliphate ruled under Islamic law; a
single unit of human organization extending across nations, regions and
eventually the world.<br />
<br />
The left is incapable of engaging with Islamism as an ideology, instead
it reduces the conflict to a struggle between colonial and anti-colonial
forces, showing once again that the left's worldview is usually at
least fifty years out of date. Mapping colonial and anti-colonial
conflicts over a map of Mali, where the anti-colonial forces are
represented by the slave-owning Tuaregs and the Arab and Pakistani
Jihadis invading an African country, makes very little sense, but that
is all that the left knows how to do.<br />
<br />
The anti-war movement does not deal with wars as they are, but with a
revisionist history of war. The continuum from Oliver Stone to Ron Paul
resolves all questions through a historical revisionism that locates the
source of every conflict in American foreign policy. By blaming America
for it all, they are freed of the need to examine who the other side is
and what it wants.<br />
<br />
During WW2, Trotskyist unions in the UK claimed that American troops
weren't coming to help fight Hitler, but to break up labor protests.
That same obtuse obliviousness, the insistence that a conflict spanning
centuries, religions and continents is all about their pet cause, is how
the left has responded to every conflict since.<br />
<br />
Their response to the Clash of Civilizations has been to include
Islamists in the global rainbow coalition of minorities, gays and gender
theorists, indigent third world farmers, transsexuals, artists and
poets, sex workers and terrorists; without considering what the
Islamists were or how they would fit into this charmed circle.<br />
<br />
The left views the Islamists as just another front group to be used. The
Islamists see the left the same way and in Iran, Egypt and Tunisia, the
Islamists have a better track record of getting the better of the left.
But the left never learns from history. It never questions its outdated
Marxist fisheye view of events or realizes that the Industrial
Revolution, feudal peasants and the banks are not a metaphor for
absolutely every struggle that takes place anywhere in the world. And so
the left dooms itself to repeat again and again the history that it
refuses to learn.<br />
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The left only recognizes one ideological war. Its own. Through its
narrow garret window, it sees only the dead hand of the capitalist
establishment and the fossilized nation-state bound together by a
devilish compact of greed blocking its way. It cannot recognize that
there are other historical forces at work and other fanatics who dream
of exploiting the collapse of the western nation-state for their own
purposes.<br />
<br />
Progressives see history moving forward in their direction and ignore
the Islamists who see everything coming up Jihad. There are two
ideologies who both see themselves as the culmination of human history
going down the same track and only one of them can make it to the final
destination. The Islamists understand that, but the left does not.<br />
<br />
Rather than deal with Islamism, the left persists in fighting phantom
wars against nationalism, capitalism, militarism, colonialism and
imperialism; all things that are approaching extinction in its sphere of
influence, while thriving outside its sphere of influence. The left is
too busy fighting a civil war to see that if it wants to survive, it
will have to fight a global war. True to its nature, it is determined to
finish digesting the West before it is ready to defend it, and by the
time that the left digests the West, with the help of its Islamist
allies, the war will be over and the left will have lost.<br />
<br />
The left is undone by its own conception of history as a treadmill
moving forward through historical stages, rather than a chaotic morass
of forces colliding together. In the progressive understanding of
history, progressive forces defeat reactionary forces and humanity
advances to the next stage. There is no room in that neat orderly
evolution for the violent chaos of Islamism and its resurrection of
tribal forces, ethnic grievances and religious intolerance into a
worldwide movement that is every bit as fanatical and determined to
forcibly carve out its own vision of a new world order.<br />
<br />
From the progressive perspective of history as an evolutionary process,
Islamist tribal fanaticism is from too early a stage to threaten the
left. Socialism must battle against the industrialism of the previous
stage, with each generation advancing the future by destroying the
achievements of the previous generation in a species of grim historical
cannibalism. The left fears being held back by capitalism, not by
Islamism. It does not believe that the values of the 6th century can
compete with it, only that the values of the 19th century can.<br />
<br />
The left's rigid view of history has caused it problems before. It
rejected Zionism as a historical aberration, and spent over a century
fighting against the idea with spiteful hate, propaganda, terrorism and
tanks. In the left's view of history, a Jewish State is an attempt to
turn back time by building a state whose roots are in religious
scripture. Israel is ahistorical and must therefore be destroyed. <br />
<br />
What it rejected as ahistorical for the Western Jew, who was expected to
assimilate into the Socialist society, rather than building a nation
state of his own, it accepted from the Muslim world, which it deemed
more backward and in need of passing through all the historical stages
to get to the red finish line. The left has been willing to tentatively
accept Islamism, even when it is destroying Arab Socialism, because it
assumes that Muslims are backward enough to need an Islamic simulation
of Socialism.<br />
<br />
While the left sees itself as progressive and Islamism as reactionary,
it is the left that has trouble adapting to new developments, while the
Islamists have successfully glommed onto everything from the Cold War to
the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of international organizations
and even the War on Terror, and exploited events for their ends. In the
new century, the Islamists have been riding the left over the finish
line, without the left realizing that it was being ridden.<br />
<br />
The Islamists are intellectually and morally backward, but unlike their
collaborators on the left they are not bounded by an inflexible vision
of history. Their strategy is flexible and they are willing to do
anything that works. They are utterly unconcerned with the tactics they
use or with the historical implications of movements and events so long
as they lead to them toward a Caliphate.<br />
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Islamists do not need to understand the left. All they need to do is go
on using it. The left does need to understand Islamists, but generally
chooses not to. When some among the left, like Christopher Hitchens,
take a long look at the Islamists, they have the same reaction that the
USSR did when the Nazi tank began rolling across the Russian border, and
realize that it's come down to fight or die.<br />
<br />
The left dwells in an intellectual bubble of its own making. It
transforms that bubble into an elaborate place, furnishing the space
until it resembles a miniature world, but a bubble is not a world, it
can only ever be a bubble. Ideology is the left's bubble. It is the lens
that the left sees through, the air that it breathes and the clamor
that fills its ears. Ideology conditions the left to view history as an
orderly progression. An arrangement of chess pieces moving forward in a
complex strategy to cripple their opponents.<br />
<br />
The left is often vicious, hysterical and irrational, but underneath
that is the vision of an orderly historical progression toward a great
society. Trapped inside the bubble, it cannot realize that the world is
going backward, not forward, that the 21st century is really the 7th
century and that the future is the past. The Islamists understand this
quite well. The left cannot.
GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-80077255765889776542013-01-25T22:53:00.000-08:002013-01-25T22:53:03.625-08:00A Brief History of Environmental Science’s Doomsday Predictions <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/a-brief-history-of-environmental-sciences-doomsday-predictions/print/"><u>Daniel Greenfield</u> </a>
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Proof. Scientific proof that the world ended about 30 years ago. <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/19/great-moments-in-failed-predictions/">Compiled by the great Anthony Watts</a>.<br />
<blockquote>
In 1968, Paul R. Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb and
declared that the battle to feed humanity had been lost and that there
would be a major food shortage in the US. “In the 1970s … hundreds of
millions are going to starve to death,” and by the 1980s most of the
world’s important resources would be depleted.<br />
He forecast that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between
1980-1989 and that by 1999, the US population would decline to 22.6
million. The problems in the US would be relatively minor compared to
those in the rest of the world.<br />
(Ehrlich, Paul R. The Population Bomb. New York, Ballantine Books, 1968.)<br />
New Scientist magazine underscored his speech in an editorial titled “In Praise of Prophets.”</blockquote>
I wasn’t around for much of the 70s, but could anyone who was around
then let me know whether hundreds of millions of Americans starved to
death during that period? I haven’t heard anything about it, but maybe
it’s another of those Phantom Time coverups by the military-industrial
complex.<br />
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“By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a
small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry
people … If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will
not exist in the year 2000.” Paul Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute
For Biology, September 1971.</blockquote>
Now we know why he’s not a gambler.<br />
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In 1974, the US Geological Survey announced “at 1974 technology and 1974 price” the US had only a 10-year supply of natural gas.</blockquote>
So that means we ran out in 1985. That’s too bad.<br />
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In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be
extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of
the stench of dead fish.” Paul Ehrlich, speech during Earth Day, 1970.</blockquote>
There are some whales in the Atlantic Ocean who would disagree with him.<br />
<blockquote>
“Artic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming
trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce
an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000.” Christian Science Monitor,
June 8, 1972.</blockquote>
And that’s exactly what happened.<br />
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According to Dr. David Viner, a senior research scientist
at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,
within a few years “children just aren’t going to know what snow is” and
winter snowfall will be “a very rare and exciting event.” Interviewed
by the UK Independent, March 20, 2000.</blockquote>
Hello? Is anyone in the UK still aware of what snow is? We have pictures we can show you.<br />
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“[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the
heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing
crop failures and food riots … [By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska
would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil
will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down
computers.” Michel Oppenheimer and Robert H. Boyle, Dead Heat, St.
Martin’s Press, 1990.</blockquote>
At least they predicted that we would have computers. It’s the only thing they got right.<br />
Now this sort of bad Science Fiction might be amusing, but policy,
and very creepy policy is made based on it. Bad science promotes
alarmism that translates easily into totalitarianism.<br />
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In 1989, when the US Supreme Court was hearing the
Webster case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor brought the idea of
overpopulation into a hypothetical question she asked of Charles Fried,
former solicitor-general, “Do you think that the state has the right to,
if in a future century we had a serious overpopulation problem, has a
right to require women to have abortions after so many children?”</blockquote>
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-92134938954501455492012-12-31T17:44:00.000-08:002012-12-31T17:44:00.660-08:00Saudi Cleric Promises “Paradise” to 14-Year-Old Girls Who Have Sex with Terrorists <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><a class="fn n" href="http://frontpagemag.com/author/dgreenfield/" rel="author" title="Daniel Greenfield">Daniel Greenfield</a></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/saudi-cleric-promises-paradise-to-14-year-old-girls-who-have-sex-with-syrian-sunni-fighters/hamas-muslim-child-brides/" rel="attachment wp-att-171678"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-171678" height="300" src="http://c481901.r1.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Hamas-Muslim-Child-Brides.jpg" title="Hamas Muslim Child Brides" width="400" /></a><br />
According to Sheikh Mohammed al-Arifi, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/12/no-honor-among-thieves-iran-whines-about-saudi-cleric-approving-temporary-marriage-with-syrian-women.html">these “temporary marriages for intercourse”</a>
(an Islamic legalistic way of permitting prostitution or
concubinage) will satisfy the militants’ sexual desires and boost their
determination in killing Syrians.<br />
<br />
I’m not sure I completely follow the logic of that last part, but I
imagine that the Al-Nusra Front, despite its boasts that it is forcing
its fighters to live a clean lifestyle without any smoking or drugs, may
be having trouble keeping homicidal maniacs in the fight without sex
and Islam is a practical enough religion that there’s always a wake to
take the forbidden and make it permitted in the name of Jihad.<br />
The Jihadis get to molest an underage girl and the girl is told by
her family that if she goes through this, she’ll earn paradise and
unlike most women, <a href="http://www.islamreview.com/articles/incredibleteachings.shtml#women">who are hellbound according to Mohammed</a>, will not have to worry about the afterlife.<br />
Islam. It’s really feminist.<br />
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A hard-line Wahhabi cleric in Saudi Arabia has recently
issued a special religious decree that permits the militants in Syria to
engage in short-term marriages with Syrian women.<br />
Sheikh Mohammed al-Arifi said that the marriages between the
foreign-backed militants and Syrian women will satisfy the militants’
sexual desires and boost their determination in killing Syrians.<br />
He added that the marriages, dubbed by him as “intercourse marriages,” can be with Syrian females as young as 14 years old.<br />
He also promised “paradise” for those who marry the militants.</blockquote>
Arabic sites provide more background stating the Sheik was upset that
the Mujahadeen have gone for two years without sex, and that a
temporary marriage of a few hours for girls over 14, divorced women and
widows, will help them attain paradise.<br />
<br />
The source for this story is Press TV, an Iranian propaganda outlet,
so I wouldn’t usually post it, but Sheikh Mohammed al-Arifi has a
history of saying similar enough things so that it’s not completely
implausible, though the Sheik has taken to Twitter to deny it. As <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/12/no-honor-among-thieves-iran-whines-about-saudi-cleric-approving-temporary-marriage-with-syrian-women.html">Robert Spencer further points out,</a>
there’s an irony in Shiite Muslims in Iran who routinely use temporary
marriages for premartial and extramartial sex to complain about the
Saudis.<br />
Sheikh Mohammed al-Arifi <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2746847/posts">has a certain history of liking them young</a>, really young, so I’m surprised that he drew the line at 14.<br />
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Islam Does Not Set a Minimum Age for Marriage<br />
In the days of Prophet Muhammad and his companions, people would get
married at a younger age. For example, how old was ‘Aisha when the
Prophet Muhammad married her? I will give you a hint.<br />
Member of panel of Saudi youth: She was seven years old.<br />
Muhammad Al-’Arifi: And how old was she when he had sex with her?<br />
Member of panel: Fourteen.<br />
Muhammad Al-’Arifi: Fourteen?! No way, she was nine. You are getting married tonight and you still can’t count…<br />
She was nine years old. People might think it is strange that he
married such a young girl. But this was the age at which they used to
get married. The proof is that when the Prophet told Abu Bakr that he
wanted to marry ‘Aisha – what did Abu Bakr say? He said: “You are more
than welcome, oh Messenger of Allah, but my daughter is already
married.” At seven years old she was already married.</blockquote>
And if your 7-year-old wife misbehaves, Sheik Muhammad Al-’Arifi will <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJGjC1rsQXs">tell you the proper Islamic</a> way to beat her.<br />
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-49085295930017468442012-11-26T05:57:00.003-08:002012-11-26T05:57:35.350-08:00Egypt's President Moves Toward Dictatorship<div class="author">
<a href="http://blog.heritage.org/author/jphillips/" title="Posts by James Phillips">James Phillips</a> and <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/author/apayne/" title="Posts by Amy Payne">Am</a>y Payne</div>
November 26, 2012<br />
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Egypt remains in turmoil after its president decreed last
Thursday that he was no longer subject to the laws of his country—giving
himself power over the judiciary and other branches of government.<br />
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi made his lunge for power shortly
after helping to broker a fragile ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and
Hamas, the extremist offshoot of his own Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim
Brotherhood’s <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2012/10/egypts-arab-spring-descends-into-an-islamist-winter">agenda</a>
includes imposing Sharia (Islamic law), curbing the rights of women and
religious minorities, abandoning Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel,
and advancing Islamist causes around the world.<br />
Reuters reports that about <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/26/egypt-idUSL5E8MQ0MF20121126">370 people</a>
have been injured in clashes between protesters and police since Morsi
issued his decree last Thursday. The president is meeting with judges
today, supposedly on an agreement to amend his decree, but protesters
say they want to see it reversed completely.<br />
Morsi has set Egypt on a <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/us-aid-to-egypt-and-libya-tight-strings-needed" target="_blank">troubling new foreign policy course</a>
since coming to power in June. His government has distanced itself from
Washington while cozying up to China, improving relations with Iran,
and violating its peace treaty with Israel.<br />
He has escalated Egypt’s cooperation with Hamas, the Palestinian
branch of the Muslim Brotherhood that controls Gaza and remains
adamantly committed to Israel’s destruction. Morsi’s Islamist-dominated
government has cracked down on Egypt’s media and has announced that
Egyptian journalists will be put on trial for “insults” to the
president. Morsi’s government is systematically clamping down on
Egyptians’ political, social, and cultural freedoms. Yet the Obama
Administration naively continues to court it as a partner.<br />
Morsi may calculate that his help in administering Band-Aids to the
festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict will make the United States and
others who give aid to Egypt think twice before trying to reverse his
power grab.<br />
The Obama Administration was working on an <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/us-aid-to-egypt-and-libya-tight-strings-needed">aid package</a>
to Egypt that includes forgiving approximately $1 billion of Egypt’s
debt to the United States. This is in addition to about $1.5 billion in
annual U.S. foreign aid.<br />
When protesters tore down the American flag at the U.S. embassy in
Cairo on September 11, Morsi’s public reaction was nonchalant. Instead
of immediately denouncing the attack and taking action to upgrade
security around the embassy—as Libyan and Yemeni leaders have done after
similar events—Morsi waited a day before casually issuing a mild rebuke
to the rioters via Facebook.<br />
The Obama Administration should leverage U.S. aid <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/us-aid-to-egypt-and-libya-tight-strings-needed">to pressure</a>
the Egyptian leader to respect the rule of law, abide by the decisions
of Egypt’s courts, and abandon his drive for absolute power. Morsi has
exploited external crises in the past to advance his own ambitions. In
August, he used a Sinai terrorist attack that killed Egyptian soldiers
as <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/14/muslim-brotherhood-consolidates-control-over-egypt/" target="_blank">a pretext</a> to purge the Egyptian army of its top Mubarak-era holdovers. Now he has done the same with the judiciary.<br />
Egypt’s judiciary also has pushed back against Morsi’s power grab.
The Supreme Council of the Judiciary denounced Morsi’s unilateral
assertion of power over the judiciary as “an unprecedented attack on
judicial independence.” The Judges Club, an association of judges made
up of many appointees by the Mubarak regime, called for a strike by
courts across Egypt.<br />
But the judges alone will not be enough to reverse Morsi’s power
grab. The key vote will be wielded by the armed forces. Morsi appears
confident that he can count on support from key military leaders, whom
he hand-picked <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/14/muslim-brotherhood-consolidates-control-over-egypt/">after purging</a> the top ranks of Mubarak loyalists in August.<br />
While the army’s ultimate verdict on Morsi’s power grab is not yet
apparent, Egypt’s investors voted with their wallets and withdrew their
money from Egypt’s <a href="http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2012-11-25-Egypt/id-76868a90e055404c8d4f1d50fcc0a54c">stock market</a>, which plunged almost 10 percent on Sunday.<br />
The big losers here are the Egyptian people. Their aspirations for
freedom and democracy will likely get lost in the shuffle as Egypt’s
“Arab Spring” descends into an Islamist winter. But the United States
and its allies—particularly Israel—will also find their national
interests undermined by the anti-Western drive of Morsi’s Muslim
Brotherhood.<br />
<strong>Quick Hits:</strong><br />
<ul>
<li>Nearly 200 countries start more talks on <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/26/un-to-launch-new-round-of-talks-on-global-warming/">global warming</a> today in Qatar.</li>
<li>This week, the Supreme Court will decide whether to <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-court-gay-marriage-20121125,0,511659.story">rule on same-sex marriage</a>.</li>
<li>The U.S. government spends “an average of $1.5 billion in tax
dollars per year devoted to getting out the message for various
departments and policies,” <a href="http://www.washingtonguardian.com/usa-uncle-sams-advertising">reports</a> the Washington Guardian.</li>
<li>Led by <em>Breaking Dawn Part 2</em>, <em>Skyfall</em>, and <em>Lincoln</em>, the box office had its <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/thanksgiving-holiday-box-office-starts-so-so-rise-of-the-guardians-underperforms-life-of-pi-overperforms-red-dawn-as-expected-breaking-dawn-2-still-1-bond-skyfall-2/">best Thanksgiving</a> ever, reports Deadline Hollywood.</li>
<li>Did you shop on Black Friday? What about today’s Cyber Monday deals? Unfortunately, a lot of these items are still <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/11/23/looking-for-black-friday-deals/" target="_blank">overpriced thanks to tariffs</a>.</li>
</ul>
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-31422124533435092302012-11-05T22:41:00.003-08:002012-11-05T22:41:57.667-08:00Medal of Honor Winner Blasts “Ditherer-in-Chief” Obama over Benghazigate<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/medal-of-honor-winner-blasts-ditherer-in-chief-obama-over-benghazigate/"><u>Daniel Greenfield</u> </a><br />
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Major General Patrick Henry Brady is one of only 81 living Medal of
Honor winners. During the Vietnam War, Brady served with the 57th
Medical Detachment, rescuing over 5,000 wounded, and knows a few things
about dangerous rescues under fire.<br />
His Medal of Honor citation reads, “Maj. Brady distinguished himself
while serving in the Republic of Vietnam commanding a UH-1H ambulance
helicopter, volunteered to rescue wounded men from a site in enemy held
territory which was reported to be heavily defended and to be blanketed
by fog.<br />
“To reach the site he descended through heavy fog and smoke and
hovered slowly along a valley trail, turning his ship sideward to blow
away the fog with the backwash from his rotor blades. Despite the
unchallenged, close-range enemy fire, he found the dangerously small
site, where he successfully landed and evacuated 2 badly wounded South
Vietnamese soldiers.<br />
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“He was then called to another area completely covered by dense fog
where American casualties lay only 50 meters from the enemy. Two
aircraft had previously been shot down and others had made unsuccessful
attempts to reach this site earlier in the day. With unmatched skill and
extraordinary courage, Maj. Brady made 4 flights to this embattled
landing zone and successfully rescued all the wounded.<br />
“On his third mission of the day Maj. Brady once again landed at a
site surrounded by the enemy. The friendly ground force, pinned down by
enemy fire, had been unable to reach and secure the landing zone.
Although his aircraft had been badly damaged and his controls partially
shot away during his initial entry into this area, he returned minutes
later and rescued the remaining injured.<br />
“Shortly thereafter, obtaining a replacement aircraft, Maj. Brady was
requested to land in an enemy minefield where a platoon of American
soldiers was trapped. A mine detonated near his helicopter, wounding 2
crewmembers and damaging his ship. In spite of this, he managed to fly 6
severely injured patients to medical aid.<br />
“Throughout that day Maj. Brady utilized 3 helicopters to evacuate a
total of 51 seriously wounded men, many of whom would have perished
without prompt medical treatment.”<br />
What <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/u-s-general-obama-paralyzed-by-fear/">does Major General Patrick Henry Brady</a> think of Obama’s abandonment of the Navy SEALS in Benghazi under fire?<br />
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The answer is the Obama-Panetta Doctrine. In response to
the horrible abandonment of dying Americans in Benghazi, Defense
Secretary Panetta said: “(The) basic principle is that you don’t deploy
forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having
some real-time information about what’s taking place.”<br />
On its face, that is a remarkable, indeed incomprehensible, change
from America’s doctrine in past wars. By that standard, there would have
been no Normandy or Inchon. In fact, I can’t think of a war we fought
in which we didn’t go into harm’s way without real-time information or
to save lives – something the president refused to do in Benghazi. Dust
Off would never launch in Vietnam under that doctrine.<br />
To fully understand the doctrinal change, one has to understand
President Obama. He has a dearth of understanding of our military and
military matters. We hear he is uncomfortable in the presence of ranking
military and seldom meets with them. He is not a person who can make
decisions, and he takes an extraordinary amount of time to do so,
leading to such unseemly labels for a commander in chief as “ditherer in
chief.”<br />
President Obama may have set records for voting “present” on
important issues. He cowers from crisis decisions. He is a politician
who thinks only in terms of votes and his image.</blockquote>
Strong words from a man who risked his life on over 2,000 missions to save Americans under fire.<br />
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-90409505103459315502012-10-30T06:55:00.002-07:002012-10-30T06:55:41.287-07:00Geert Wilders: “It is our duty to expose Muhammad”<span class="postdate">October 30, 2012</span> by creeping
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Religion of Peace?</div>
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<em>Excerpt from <a href="http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php/in-english-mainmenu-98/in-the-press-mainmenu-101/77-in-the-press/1809-speech-geert-wilders-swedish-free-press-society-malmoe-october-27-2012">Geert Wilders, </a><a href="http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php/in-english-mainmenu-98/in-the-press-mainmenu-101/77-in-the-press/1809-speech-geert-wilders-swedish-free-press-society-malmoe-october-27-2012">Speech to </a><a href="http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php/in-english-mainmenu-98/in-the-press-mainmenu-101/77-in-the-press/1809-speech-geert-wilders-swedish-free-press-society-malmoe-october-27-2012">Swedish Free Press Society, Malmö, October 27, 2012</a>.</em><br />
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Because Sweden has the same problem as the
Netherlands, Denmark and the rest of the Western world. We are all in
the same boat. Our freedoms are in danger. <strong>Our political and
often leftist media establishment turns a blind eye to the largest
threat to liberty in our present age. This threat is called Islam.</strong></div>
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<strong>Islam commands its followers to
establish a worldwide Islamic state, where everyone has to live
according to the Sharia, the barbaric law of Islam</strong>. And where Islam’s opponents are being marked for death.</div>
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn used to say that
the truth is “seldom sweet; it is almost invariably bitter.” But the
truth should be heard. The bitter truth that Islam is the largest threat
to freedom today. And the unpleasant truth that Islam is already all
around us.</div>
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The sign of Islam’s presence is visible in all our European cities.</div>
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Also in Malmö. Especially in Malmö.</div>
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25% of the population here originates from
Islamic countries – the highest rate in the whole of Scandinavia. That
is why it is good to be here. In this great city, which deserves better
than it currently gets.</div>
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Even the international media have written
stories about the outbursts of violence, the gang warfare, the shootings
and bombing of police stations in Malmö. In a city like this our
message needs to be heard: Malmö should not succumb to Islam. Malmö
should remain what it was throughout its history. A decent, peaceful and
safe place for people to live, work and raise a family. A free city.</div>
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In Malmö we must turn the tide. And show
the world that the Islamization process can be stopped. That is why I am
here. It is a coincidence that today marks the final day of this year’s
hadj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. This is a symbolic moment to
tell you that it is time to turn the tide. And to tell you that it can
be done. But in order to turn the tide, we must first stop pretending
that there is no problem as so many journalists and politicians tell
you. We must first face the truth. We must first speak the truth. So
that others will know it too.</div>
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Before I continue, however, let me make
one thing absolutely clear. Whenever I criticize Islam I am falsely
accused by some people with false intentions of hating people. In order
to avoid any misunderstandings, let me state clearly that I criticize an
ideology, not people. I do not hate nor do I want to harm any human
being. I totally reject the use of violence.</div>
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In fact, <strong>the most important reason why I reject Islam is its violent nature</strong>
and the fact that it is harmful to people, including its own adherents,
whom we should pity rather than hate, and whom we should help to
liberate themselves from the evil monster which is Islam.</div>
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I have travelled the Islamic world
extensively. I have visited countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia,
Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia. In my book “Marked for Death”
you can read how I was overwhelmed by the kindness, friendliness and
helpfulness of many people there. They are often good people, but they
are captives of Islam.</div>
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I always make a distinction between
Muslims and Islam. Most Muslims are moderate, most Muslims are
non-violent, but the ideology of Islam is dangerous. The moderates are
the captives of the barbaric system of Islamofascism. There is no
moderate Islam. Islam is only a religion to a very limited extent. It is
predominantly a dangerous ideology. Islam is political rather than
religious: It aims for an Islamic state. Islam is totalitarian. Islam is
not voluntary. It orders that people who leave Islam must be killed.
Contrary to real religions, it also lays obligations on non-members.</div>
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Islam is dangerous because it calls on its
followers to imitate Muhammad, the so-called prophet, as closely as
possible. The life and deeds of Muhammad are well known from
contemporary sources.</div>
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Islam’s own sources tell us how evil
Muhammad was. They show us that he was a liar, a rapist, a paedophile, a
torturer, a mass murderer.</div>
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Because Muhammad abused women, some followers of Islam believe they are entitled to treat women in the same way.</div>
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Because Muhammad lied and cheated in order
to advance Islam, some followers feel entitled to do the same. Islam
even has a word for this kind of lying. It is called taqqiya.</div>
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Because Muhammad killed his opponents, some of his followers feel entitled to do the same.</div>
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Because Muhammad robbed non-Muslims, some of his followers feel they have the right to do the same. This is called jihad.</div>
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A few years ago, one of your Swedish
newspapers interviewed the sociologist Petra Akesson after she had
conducted a study of Islamic youths here in Malmö. Akesson pointed out
that these youths have been raised in a culture that extols Islamic
supremacy. As a consequence, a significant number of them regard their
criminal activities against non-Muslim infidels as right, justified and
permitted.</div>
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<strong>It is our duty to expose Muhammad</strong>,
this 7th century barbarian who wrote a book which he said had been
dictated to him by an angel from a book written by Allah in heaven. The
people from his own hometown of Mecca knew Muhammad. They said he was
crazy. An angry Muhammad emigrated to Medina which he conquered through
taqqiya and jihad. Later he returned to Mecca and conquered it with his
troops, eradicating its tradition of openness and religious tolerance.</div>
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<strong>Everywhere where Islam has gained a foothold, it has brought tremendous human suffering.</strong>
Not all Islam’s followers behave like Muhammad would have done. But
some of them do. The more Islam you get into your country, the more
violent and intolerant it becomes, and the less freedom you will get.</div>
<em>Read it all and check out the Jihad in Malmo website that has
been on our international blogroll for several years to see the real
horrors that go on there every day.</em><br />
<em></em>GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-12506509810751278402012-10-26T00:22:00.000-07:002012-10-26T00:22:09.297-07:00There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president. <a href="http://www.afsi.org/">Michael A. Haberman, M.D. </a>
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<strong>Israeli Psychologist, Dr. Sam Vaknin</strong>, has an interesting view on President Obama </div>
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Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism. </div>
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<br />Dr. Vaknin states: "I must confess I
was impressed by Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was
excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well,
appeared to be confident -- a wholesome presidential package. I was put
off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was
an <strong>air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling..</strong>
His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words.
Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in
American history.<strong> Never a politician in this land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many people. </strong></div>
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<br /><strong>The fact that Obama is a total incognito with Zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming.</strong> Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects." </div>
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<br />Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the <em>Malignant Self Love</em>
believes "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world
authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the
inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about
narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture
and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest friends
suggest that the man is either a narcissist or he may have <strong>narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). </strong></div>
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<br />Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. <strong>Jim Jones</strong>,
the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of
his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their
own children was also a narcissist. <strong>David Koresh, Charles
Manson, Fidel Castro, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,
Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our
time.</strong> All these men had a tremendous influence over their
fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with
their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with
enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave
them hope! <strong>They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom.</strong> </div>
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<br />When you are a victim of a cult of
personality, you don't know it until it is too late. One determining
factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse "Obama's early life
was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising
dislocations,"says Vaknin. "Mixed-race marriages were even less common
then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant two years
old. Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car
accident. Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to
Indonesia , a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be
raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live
with his maternal (white) grandparents. He saw his mother only
intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his
life in 1979. "She died of cancer in 1995." </div>
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<br />One must never underestimate the <strong>manipulative genius of pathological narcissists</strong>.
They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those
around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become
like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be
at his service. <strong>The narcissist shapes the world around himself
and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of
personality. His admirers become his co-dependents.</strong> Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are <strong>focused on one thing alone and that is power.</strong>
All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste
their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is
beneath them and does not deserve their attention. </div>
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<br />If an issue raised in the Senate does
not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The
"present" vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go
wrong. Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are
not about him. </div>
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<br />Obama's election as the first black
president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to
write a book about race relations. The University of Chicago Law School
provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved into,
guess what? His own autobiography! <strong>Instead of writing a
scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid,
Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled
the book Dreams from My Father. </strong></div>
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<br />Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still a nobody. So did Stalin.<strong> For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self.</strong>
Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about
insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as
himself? </div>
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<br /><strong>Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless</strong>. <strong>As
the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama's lack of
interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month..</strong>
A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in
Hawaii, and who raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign
(something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of
his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent
to power. A narcissist cares for no one but himself. </div>
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<br />This election was like no other in the history of America . The issues were insignificant compared to what is at stake. <strong>What
can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial
liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the
leader of the free world? </strong></div>
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<br />I hate to sound alarmist, but one is a
fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose
no threat to others. They are simply self serving and selfish. Obama
evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from
the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton for
example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. </div>
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<br /><strong>This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw.</strong> <br />Pathological
narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even
intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous. <strong>Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party.</strong>
The great majority of blacks voted for Obama. Only a fool does not know
that their support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and
simple. </div>
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<br />The downside of this is that if Obama
turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread
resentment among the whites. The blacks are unlikely to give up their
support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting.
They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's
detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites. The
white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will
receive widespread support.<strong> I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960's. </strong></div>
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<br /><strong>Obama will set the clock back
decades. America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world
depends on the strength of America , and its weakness translates into
the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.. It is no wonder
that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas,
the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists, and virtually all sworn
enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the
White House. </strong></div>
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<br /><strong>America is on the verge of destruction. </strong></div>
<strong>There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.</strong><br />-- <br />Michael A. Haberman, M.D.
GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-12448491136785516972012-10-23T00:01:00.003-07:002012-10-23T00:01:37.009-07:00What’s the Harm With a Little Sharia? <a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/whats-the-harm-with-a-little-sharia/">creeping </a>
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<em>via <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/10/a-little-sharia.html">Atlas Shrugs</a>.</em><br />
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Brooke Storrs has traveled to Malaysia
several times since 2001, communicated with minority citizens and expats
living there, and kept a close eye on online news once she returned
home. She wrote an essay about how their dual courts (civil and Sharia)
impact non-Muslims who are given religious freedom in their
constitution. The purpose of the essay below was to show how entangling
Sharia and civil courts in society works itself out in the lives of
non-Muslims and to make the case that allowing Sharia into our court
system most assuredly has a deleterious effect.</div>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<blockquote>
<strong>What’s the Harm With a Little Sharia?</strong> By Brooke Storrs<br />
The Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested that the adoption of
certain aspects of Sharia Law in the UK would help maintain social
cohesion. Minneapolis, Minnesota, has adopted Sharia-friendly loan
programs. Many desire to be tolerant and go along to get along with
Muslims, especially when Muslims insist that Sharia Law will apply only
to Muslims and can co-exist with our Civil system of laws. Is this
true? Instead of arguing abstractly, perhaps some concrete examples of
Sharia Law co-existing with Civil Law will help to point out their
eventual entanglement. To understand how a little Sharia for Muslims
impacts non-Muslims, read on as to what has happened in Malaysia in the
last few years.<br />
Malaysia is considered to be a “moderate” Muslim nation giving
religious freedom to its citizen population of Chinese and Indian
minorities. The country has a dual justice system, civil and Sharia.
Civil laws apply to everyone, whereas Sharia laws apply only to Muslims –
in theory. Sharia Courts in Malaysia have jurisdiction over Muslims in
civil matters of marriage, inheritance, and apostasy. The
complications of Sharia Courts ruling on the law in recent years have
come when someone has converted to Islam, or when someone wishes to
leave Islam.<br />
In the last several years in Malaysia, the following <a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/11/nation/17403972&sec=nation">story</a>
has played out a few times. A man married to a non-Muslim converts to
Islam, then dies. Upon his death, the governing Sharia Court gets into a
tussle with his wife over what will happen with his body, since Muslims
have different burial rites than other faiths.<br />
In a different <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/world/asia/02malay.html">situation</a>
that made international headlines, a man of Indian descent divorced his
wife, later converted to Islam, and then tried to take custody of their
children. Sharia holds that children of Muslims are also Muslims and
must not be left in the custody of a non-Muslim. While the father did
not ultimately win custody of the children, the mother is still fighting
over their officially registered religion. The courts have ruled their
children are Muslims. “Once a Muslim, always a Muslim,” is a tenet
they very rarely overturn.<br />
Arguably one of the most agregious cases involved Siti Fatimah Abdul Karim, or <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6278568.stm">Revathi</a>,
as she wants to be called. She is of Indian descent, born to parents
who converted to Islam, but whose Hindu grandmother raised her. She
practiced Hinduism all her life and married a Hindu. After the birth of
their little girl, Revathi went to the Sharia court to have her name
changed and her official religious status changed from Muslim to Hindu.
The court detained her in a “religious rehabilitation camp” for six
months while at the same time taking custody of her little girl. After
she was released, the court ordered her and her child to live with her
Muslim parents. They would not allow her to leave Islam. Because
Sharia does not allow a Muslim woman to marry outside the faith, she
could not live with her husband.<br />
The <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSP20856820070530">Lina Joy</a> case also made international headlines. Born into a Muslim family, she petitioned the <em>civil </em>court
to have her official religious status changed from Muslim to
Christian. The courts fought her for years, ruling that she must have
her hearing in a Sharia Court. Her reasoning was in effect, “You say I
must have my case heard in a Sharia Court, because I am a Muslim. I’m
telling you, I’m not a Muslim. I’m a Christian. The Civil Court should
hear my case.” The case reached the Civil Supreme Court in 2006 and
the justices agreed to hear her case, but they eventually ruled against
her. Lina Joy’s official religion was recognized as Muslim in Malaysia
which prohibited her from marrying her Christian fiancé or have children
with him. She and her fiancé have since fled the country.<br />
<strong>It is clear that even when Sharia is intended for Muslims
only, it can greatly affect those outside of Islam. So, when the
tolerant among us say, “What’s the harm? Let them govern themselves
with Sharia,” let’s tell them about what has happened in the “moderate”
Muslim nation of Malaysia.</strong></blockquote>
</div>
</div>
GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-48151039571908892532012-10-17T07:17:00.003-07:002012-10-17T07:17:30.133-07:00 The Arab-American network behind Obama <a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/the-arab-american-network-behind-obama/">creeping </a>
<br />
<em>Most of this, particularly the Rezko deals, were <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/teflon-obama-to.html" target="_blank" title="Teflon Obama took Millions from Billionaire Nadhni Auchi">public before the last election</a>. The media ignored it just as they are now. </em><br />
<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/chapter-ix-the-arab-american-network-behind-obama/article/2508425"><img alt="" src="http://creepingsharia.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/watchdog-obama-header.jpg?w=468" /></a><br />
<em>via <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/chapter-ix-the-arab-american-network-behind-obama/article/2508425">Chapter IX: The Arab-American network behind Obama</a></em><br />
<hr />
<span class="BodyCopy">Obama’s controversial relationships with
radical figures like Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi have
been well-publicized in recent years.</span><br />
Prior to his academic career in the United States, Khalidi worked for
Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization when it was
classified by the State Department as a terrorist group.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />
Less well-known is a cluster of Chicago businessmen who formed an
Arab-American network at the heart of Obama’s political apparatus. Ray
Hanania, a Chicago-based Arab-American journalist and activist,
described the network in a 2007 interview with Chicago magazine as “a
small cluster of activists” in the business community who were
politically involved.<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/chapter-ix-the-arab-american-network-behind-obama/article/2508425"><img alt="" class="alignright" height="157" src="http://creepingsharia.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/w200-2af9c87d17f49a423ccbb28fd4463e0b.jpg?w=200&h=157" width="200" /></a><br />
Chief among them was<strong> Obama mentor Tony Rezko. Born in Aleppo, Syria</strong>,
home of strongman Bashar al-Assad, Rezko migrated to the U.S. in the
late 1970s and built a political and financial empire in Chicago and
Springfield, the Illinois capital.<br />
<strong>Rezko is now serving a 10-year federal prison sentence following his convictions on federal fraud and bribery charges</strong> related to disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich and state contracting.<br />
Rezko offered Obama a job at his Rezmar Corp. after he finished at
Harvard Law School, but the new lawyer instead accepted a position at a
Chicago firm with close personal and professional ties to Rezko. Their
relationship steadily deepened in the years thereafter.<br />
For example, <strong>Obama asked Rezko to assess the $1.6 million
Hyde Park/Kenwood home that he and Michelle were considering buying in
2005, a controversial transaction that Rezko’s wife assisted by
purchasing an adjoining lot for $625,000</strong>. (The owner of the home and adjoining lot insisted that they be sold together.)<br />
<strong>Rezko and his Arab-American business associates have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Obama’s political campaigns</strong>.
Following Rezko’s conviction, though, Obama donated to charity at least
$85,000 in Rezko contributions to his 2008 presidential campaign.<br />
The Chicago Sun-Times estimated Obama received at least “$168,308
from Rezko and his circle,” while ABC News put the total to be as much
as $100,000 higher than the amount claimed by Obama.<br />
While he was in the Illinois Senate, Obama helped key Rezko
associates gain appointments to the state board that controlled health
facility contracting for building expansions.<br />
Once his associates were appointed, Rezko sought kickbacks from
contractors favored by his friends in a process that became the heart of
the federal case against him.<br />
When Obama became chairman of the state Senate health committee that
oversaw appointments to the medical board, among his first acts was to
gain fast-track passage of a bill to reduce the board from 15 to nine
members, thus making it somewhat easier to gain the panel’s approval for
contracts.<br />
Rezko then used his connections with Blagojevich to stack the
restructured board with his political cronies. Their appointments were
confirmed by Obama’s committee, then sent to the Senate floor.<br />
Soon thereafter, contributions from Rezko and his health board allies
began pouring into Obama’s campaign coffers, according to federal and
state campaign finance data.<br />
Rezko associate Dr. Michel Malek, for example, donated $15,000 to Obama after gaining appointment to the health board.<br />
Dr. Imad Almanaseer, another Rezko ally appointed to the health
board, initially gave Obama $3,000. Over the next three years, he and
members of his family donated nearly $10,000 more to Obama.<br />
Fortunee Massuda, another Rezko associate, donated $2,000 in January 2004 shortly after winning her assignment to the key panel.<span id="more-49614"></span><br />
Other Rezko allies who were not on the health board also contributed
to Obama. Elie Maloof was granted immunity by federal prosecutors after
he told U.S. attorneys he funneled two $10,000 contributions to Obama
through Rezko. Prosecutors noted Maloof’s assertion in their opening
arguments at Rezko’s trial, but no additional charges were filed.<br />
Rezko business partner Abdelhamid Chaib donated $10,000 to Obama,
then was convicted on federal corruption charges in 2010 after trying to
pressure a Chicago hospital executive to steer contracts to Rezko
companies.<br />
Another Rezko partner, Ali Ata, was a key witness during Rezko’s 2008
federal corruption trial. He donated $5,000 to Obama’s campaign and
claimed to have given an additional $10,000 in “straw donations.”<br />
Ata was a former president of the Chicago Chapter of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee.<br />
Ata also was an investor with Rezko and Nadhmi Auchi, an
Iraqi-British businessman and former Iraqi Baathist who was on a terror
watch list and thus barred from entering the United States.<br />
Rezko asked federal authorities in 2004 to permit Auchi to join him
in Chicago for a business deal, according to the New York Times.<br />
Stuart Levine, Rezko’s former partner and the government’s star
witness in the Rezko trial, testified that Obama met Auchi at a private
Rezko reception held at Chicago’s Four Seasons hotel.<br />
Auchi wired $3.5 million to Rezko during the 2008 trial. Federal
prosecutors asked for Rezko’s bail to be revoked when they discovered
the Auchi wire transfer.<br />
Another Rezko supporter was Mustafa Abdalla, who donated $1,000 to
Obama. Abdalla put up property as collateral for Rezko’s bail.<br />
Rezko was a generous financial supporter of Chicago-based
Arab-American activist groups, including the Arab American Democratic
Club, or AADC, and the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN.<br />
Rezko was involved in the AADC with Khalil Shalabi. Shalabi was fired
from a state government job in 2007 after the Illinois inspector
general reported he had been fundraising at work for Rezko and
Blagojevich.<br />
The Obamas attended several AAAN dinners, including one honoring
Khalidi. More recently, Hatem Abudayyeh, AAAN’s executive director,
attended an April 22, 2010, Obama policy briefing, according to White
House visitor logs.<br />
In September 2010, FBI investigators raided Abudayyeh’s Chicago home
reportedly seeking evidence of AAAN being used as a conduit for funding
to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and other Middle
Eastern terrorist groups.<br />
<em>Read all ten chapters of this expose at <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/chapter-ix-the-arab-american-network-behind-obama/article/2508425">WashingtonExaminer.com</a>.</em>GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-46170911836468096682012-10-13T02:03:00.000-07:002012-10-13T02:03:02.741-07:00Pushback against growing anti-Muslim sentiment in America results in more anti-Muslim sentiment<a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/">http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/</a><br />
<br />
<h2>
<span style="color: #ff3300;">Faced with a rise in anti-Muslim
sentiment and a well-funded campaign to educate people about ‘jihad’ and
its savage proponents around the world,</span><span style="color: #ff3300;"> a
coalition of Left Wing and Muslim faith groups say they will circulate a
new pamphlet on frequently asked questions about Islam and U.S. Muslims
to elected officials across the United States. </span></h2>
<h3>
<span style="color: #0099cc;"><em>(WOW! A pamphlet! Oh, that’ll
erase the images of Muslims burning American flags, killing ambassadors,
and blowing people up around the world)<a name='more'></a></em></span></h3>
<img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="129" src="http://images45.fotki.com/v148/photos/5/1222605/7673626/muslimfaq-vi.jpg" width="600" /><br />
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/10/u-s-pushback-against-growing-islamophobia/">IPS NEWS</a></span> The initiative, (<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://interfaithalliance.org/americanmuslimfaq"><span style="color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;">What is the truth about American Muslims?</span></a></em></span>) which
coincides with the appearance in subway stations in New York City and
Washington of pro-Israel ads equating the Jewish state with “civilised
man” and “Jihad” with “savages”, is designed to rebut the notion that
Muslims pose a threat to U.S. values and way of life.</span> <em><span style="color: crimson;">(Even though they do?)</span></em></h4>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_185889" style="width: 610px;">
<a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/islamafobiyenidegil_jpg3-vi/" rel="attachment wp-att-185889"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-185889" height="450" src="http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/islamafobiyenidegil_jpg3-vi.jpg" title="islamafobiyenidegil_jpg3-vi" width="600" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">
<strong>Several people in New York have been arrested for putting “RACIST” stickers on the these ‘savage’ ads.</strong></div>
</div>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">“Nothing gives weight to bigotry more
than ignorance,” said Rev. Welton Gaddy, a Baptist minister who is
president of the Interfaith Alliance, a grassroots organisation of
leaders representing 75 faith traditions. “The FAQ enables people to be
spared of an agenda-driven fear and to be done with a negative movement
born of misinformation…” <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(Anti-Muslim
bigotry is growing as people become better educated about the real
Muslim agenda, in which the goal is to gradually dominate all non-Muslim
countries and replace man-made laws with sharia law, as they are well
on their way to doing in Europe)</em></span></span></h4>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_185891" style="width: 650px;">
<a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/092612ads/" rel="attachment wp-att-185891"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-185891" height="359" src="http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/092612ads.jpg" title="092612ads" width="640" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">
<strong>Muslim activist vandalizing the subway ad</strong></div>
</div>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">Gaddy was joined by Charles Haynes,
director of the Religious Freedom Project of the Freedom Forum’s First
Amendment Center which co-sponsored the new 13-page pamphlet, entitled
“What is the Truth About American Muslims?”</span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">“In my view,” Haynes said in reference
to the so-called “Stop Islamisation of America” (SIOA) movement that,
among other things, has sponsored the subway ads, “this campaign to
spread hate and fear is the most significant threat to religious freedom
in America today.” <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(Not quite. Islam
is the greatest threat to religious freedom in every country in the
world. Do a quick check on how many countries had their non-Muslim
populations ethnically cleansed by Muslim violence, terrorism, and
forced conversions)</em></span></span></h4>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_185892" style="width: 524px;">
<a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/8adrlicok6utu1mi-rszw514/" rel="attachment wp-att-185892"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-185892" height="345" src="http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/8ADRLICOK6UTU1MI-rszw514.jpeg" title="8ADRLICOK6UTU1MI-rszw514" width="514" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">
<strong>ANTI ANTI-JIHAD ADS</strong></div>
</div>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">“Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11,
the anti-Muslim narrative has migrated from the right-wing fringe into
the mainstream political arena – and is now parroted by a growing number
of political and religious leaders,” he said. <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(It’s about time!)</em></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">Indeed, public opinion polls have shown a gradual rise in <del>Islamophobia</del>
anti-Muslim sentiment here over the past 11 years, most recently in the
wake of last month’s anti-U.S. demonstrations across the Islamic world
that were triggered by a vulgar internet video mocking the Muslim
Prophet Muhammad. <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(Hopefully there will be a lot more) </em></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">While a majority (53 percent) of U.S.
respondents say they believe that it is possible to find “common ground”
between Muslims and the West, that majority has shrunk since 9/11,
according to a <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/oct12/MiddleEast_Oct12_rpt.pdf"><span style="color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;">poll released earlier this week</span></a> </span>by
the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes
(PIPA). Only one year ago, it stood at 59 percent, and in November 2001 –
just two months after 9/11 – it was 68 percent. <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(And it is dropping more every day as Muslims show their true colors)</em></span></span></h4>
<a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/579573_480312728656444_1289046409_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-185896"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-185896" height="403" src="http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/579573_480312728656444_1289046409_n.jpg" title="579573_480312728656444_1289046409_n" width="403" /></a><br />
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">Conversely, the minority that agreed
with the notion that “Islamic religious and social traditions are
intolerant and fundamentally incompatible with Western culture” rose
from 26 percent in 2001, to 37 percent last year, and 42 percent when
the latest PIPA poll was conducted two weeks ago. <em><span style="color: crimson;">(Only 42%?)</span></em></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">In another poll conducted by the Pew
Research Center last year which asked respondents “how much support for
extremism is there among Muslim Americans”, 40 percent said there was
either a “great deal” or a “fair amount”, while only a narrow plurality
(45 percent) disagreed. <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(We’ll have to do more work on that)</em></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/defeathatespeech1-vi/" rel="attachment wp-att-185899"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-185899" height="269" src="http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/defeathatespeech1-vi.jpg" title="defeathatespeech1-vi" width="300" /></a>In
addition to the violent images of conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and
elsewhere in the Islamic world that have been beamed onto U.S.
television screens and home computers since 9/11, popular beliefs that
Muslims are inherently more hostile and dangerous have been propagated
by a small network of funders, bloggers, pundits and groups documented
in a 2011 report, entitled “<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/report/2011/08/26/10165/fear-inc/"><span style="color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;">Fear, Inc</span></a></span>.,” by the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress. <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(Just doing our jobs)</em></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">Among the most prominent are the
Center for Security Policy, the Middle East Forum, the Investigative
Project on Terrorism, the Society of Americans for National Existence,
as well as SIOA, the group, which, along with the American Freedom
Defense Initiative (AFDI), is sponsoring the current subway ad campaign.
<span style="color: crimson;"><em>(DAMN! I didn’t make the list)</em></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/2_10151253356621204_43405942_n-vi/" rel="attachment wp-att-185898"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-185898" height="268" src="http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2_10151253356621204_43405942_n-vi-300x268.jpg" title="2_10151253356621204_43405942_n-vi" width="300" /></a>“Together, this core group of deeply intertwined individuals and organizations <del>manufacture and exaggerate</del> investigate
and publish real threats of ‘creeping Sharia’, Islamic domination of
the West, and purported obligatory calls to violence against all
non-Muslims by the Quran,” according to the CAP report.<span style="color: crimson;"><em>
(Yes, and we have volumes of documented proof, starting with the quran,
as well as activities of subversive groups like CAIR and other Muslim
Brothood-affiliated groups in the US)</em></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">It noted that their message was also
echoed by leaders of the Christian Right and some Republican
politicians, including several who ran for president this year, such as
former speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich. <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(Profiles in courage)</em></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/400838_10151230612810528_87581372_n/" rel="attachment wp-att-185900"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-185900" height="300" src="http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/400838_10151230612810528_87581372_n-300x300.jpg" title="400838_10151230612810528_87581372_n" width="300" /></a>Dhimmi
Leaders of many Left Wing Jewish and Christian denominations have
denounced specific aspects of the network’s initiatives, such as its
efforts to derail the construction of a Muslim community center near the
so-called “Ground Zero” site where Manhattan’s Twin Towers were
destroyed on 9/11; distribute Islamophobic videos, such as ‘Obsession’;
and to lobby state legislatures to ban the application of “Sharia”, or
Islamic law, in their jurisdictions. <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(But we are winning, despite their efforts to stop us)</em></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">The new pamphlet, however, marks the
first effort by faith groups and religious freedom advocates to directly
rebut common misconceptions and claims made against Muslims and their
theology by, among other things, explaining the meaning of “jihad”, and
the sources, practice, and aims of Sharia.<span style="color: crimson;"><em>
(More taqiyya – lies and deceptions – permitted when dealing with
non-Muslims. Only now, they have recruited stupid dhimmi Christians and
Jews to go along with it)</em></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">“In a time when misinformation about
and misunderstandings of Islam and of the American Muslim community are
widespread, our goal is to provide the public with accurate answers to
understandable questions,” said Gaddy, who noted that the authors
consulted closely with well-recognised Muslim scholars in drafting the
document. <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(And we will refute all your lies – in subway ads if necessary)</em></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">Twenty-one religious and secular
organisations, including the Disciples of Christ, the New Evangelical
Partnership for the Common Good, the Presbyterian Church, the United
Church of Christ, the United Methodist Church, and Rabbis for Human
Rights-North America endorsed the pamphlet, as did several major Muslim
and Sikh organisations. <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(If any BNI readers are involved with these groups, I will be happy to help you discredit them)</em></span></span></h4>
<a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/a3uduo_ciaahxma/" rel="attachment wp-att-185902"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-185902" height="345" src="http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/A3uduO_CIAAHXmA.jpg" title="A3uduO_CIAAHXmA" width="600" /></a><br />
<h4>
<span style="color: #333399;">Haynes stressed that the response to the <del>Islamophobia</del>
Islamorealism campaign was late. “We have left the field to the people
who demonised Muslims, and they have won the day,” he said. “We’re
playing catch-up on this nonsense.” <span style="color: crimson;"><em>(You won’t)</em></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #333399;">In bold black-and-white lettering, the
subway ad that first appeared in New York last month and then in
Washington this week states: “In any war between the civilized man and
the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”</span></h4>
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<span style="color: crimson;"><span style="color: #333399;">A
coalition of 157 local religious groups have formally objected to the
transit authority over the ad, and demanded that it issue disclaimers
alongside the ads as the San Francisco transit authority did when the
same groups took out ads on buses this summer.</span> <em>(You can put up all the stupid disclaimers you want, the truth about Islam is reaching the people)</em></span></h4>
<a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/10/12/pushback-against-growing-anti-muslim-sentiment-in-america-results-in-more-anti-muslim-sentiment/gellerbusads_animalny/" rel="attachment wp-att-185901"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-185901" height="334" src="http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gellerbusads_animalny-1024x578.jpg" title="gellerbusads_animalny" width="593" /></a>GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-46386293115306036972012-10-12T04:01:00.001-07:002012-10-12T04:01:05.814-07:00The Islamic Republic of Catalonia<b> <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Soeren+Kern">Soeren Kern</a><br />
October 12, 2012</b><br />
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"We will all vote for the Islamic
parties because we do not believe in left and right. This will make us
win local councils, and as we begin to accumulate power in the Catalan
autonomous region, Islam will begin to be implemented." — <i>Abdelwahab Houzi, Salafist preacher, Lleida.</i></blockquote>
A successful push for independence in the Spanish autonomous region
of Catalonia would lead to the establishment of a country with the
third-largest percentage of Muslims in Western Europe, just behind
France and Belgium, and far ahead of Britain and Germany.<br />
An independent Catalonia, with its capital in Barcelona, would also
be home to the largest concentration of radical Islamists in Europe; it
would emerge as ground-zero for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafist_jihadism">Salafi-Jihadism</a> on the continent and become one of the top incubators for Islamist terrorism in the West.<br />
Catalonia, historically one of the wealthiest and most industrialized
regions of Spain, has harbored a strong streak toward independence
since medieval times, when Barcelona was a Mediterranean trade center
with its own parliament. But the ongoing economic crisis in Spain has
redoubled calls for Catalonian secession from Spain and the
establishment of an independent state.<br />
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Catalonia, the economy of which is larger than Portugal's (it
accounts for one-fifth of Spanish output and generates 30% of its
exports), is struggling to make repayments on its €40 billion ($51.5
billion) debt. On August 31, the credit rating agency Standard &
Poor's slashed Catalonia's debt to junk-bond status.<br />
Catalan politicians are blaming the central government in Madrid for
the region's economic woes. They say the central government collects €16
billion more in taxes from Catalonia each year than it spends in the
region.<br />
On September 20, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy flatly rejected
a demand by Catalan President Artur Mas that Catalonia should be
allowed to <a href="http://www.abc.es/20120920/espana/abci-rajoy-respuesta-201209201456.html">collect and spend its own taxes</a>. This demand for "self-determination" came just days after a <a href="http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/09/11/barcelona/1347377095.html">massive pro-independence rally</a> in Barcelona on September 11, in which up to 1.5 million Catalans called for forming a new European state.<br />
On September 25, <a href="http://www.abc.es/20120925/local-cataluna/abci-elecciones-anticipadas-201209251447.html">Mas announced a snap election</a>
in Catalonia (to be held on November 25), which is being viewed as a
plebiscite to gauge popular support for his pro-independence platform.
The Catalan parliament also approved a resolution to hold a non-binding
referendum on secession once the new legislature is installed.<br />
The ruling parties of Catalonia have also <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9556803/Spain-risks-break-up-as-Mariano-Rajoy-stirs-Catalan-fury.html">sought guidance from Brussels</a>
on the legality of secession from Spain, requesting a "roadmap" for
membership of the European Union, along with the use of the euro, as an
independent state.<br />
Catalonia has 7.5 million inhabitants, including an <a href="http://www.europapress.es/sociedad/noticia-musulmanes-espana-superan-millon-medio-censo-detallado-20121008200246.html">estimated 450,000 Muslims</a>,
who account for 6% of the total Catalan population. In some Catalan
towns and cities, the Muslim population now reaches up to 40% of the
population.<br />
As a result of mass immigration from Muslim countries, which began in the 1980s, Catalonia has emerged as "<a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/1731/barcelona-islamist-stronghold">a major Mediterranean center for radical Islamists</a>,"
and the United States has even proposed setting up an intelligence hub
at the U.S. Consulate in Barcelona to counter the growing threat,
according to American diplomatic cables that were obtained by Wikileaks
and published by the Madrid-based <i>El País</i> newspaper.<br />
A five-page cable, dated <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Cable/creacion/agencia/coordinar/lucha/terrorismo/elpepuesp/20101211elpepuint_7/Tes">October 2, 2007</a>, for example, describes the link between mass immigration to Catalonia and the rise of radical Islamism in the region.<br />
The document, which is classified "secret" and apparently authored by
then-Ambassador Eduardo Aguirre, states: "Heavy immigration -- both
legal and illegal -- from North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria)
and Southeast Asia (Pakistan and Bangladesh) has made Catalonia a magnet
for terrorist recruiters. … The Spanish National Police estimates that
there may be upwards of 60,000 Pakistanis living in Barcelona and the
surrounding area; the vast majority are male, unmarried or
unaccompanied, and without legal documentation. There are even more such
immigrants from North Africa. … They live on the edges of Spanish
society, they do not speak the language, they are often unemployed, and
they have very few places to practice their religion with dignity. …
Individually, these circumstances would provide fertile ground for
terrorist recruitment; taken together, the threat is clear."<br />
The cable also states: "There is little doubt that the autonomous
region of Catalonia has become a prime base of operations for terrorist
activity. Spanish authorities tell us they fear the threat from these
atomized immigrant communities prone to radicalism, but they have very
little intelligence on or ability to penetrate these groups."<br />
According to Spain's <a href="http://www.cni.es/en/welcometocni/">National Intelligence Center</a>
(CNI), Catalonia is home to hundreds and possibly thousands of Salafi
Islamists, who CNI says, pose the greatest threat to Spain's security.<br />
Salafism is a branch of radical Islam that seeks to forcibly
re-establish an Islamic empire (Caliphate) across the Middle East, North
Africa and Spain, which Salafists view as a Muslim state that must be
reconquered for Islam.<br />
Much of Spain was ruled by Muslim conquerors from 711 and 1492, and
Salafists believe that the territories the Muslims lost during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista">Spanish Reconquista</a> still belong to them, and that they have a right to return and establish their rule there.<br />
The historical irony is that unlike the rest of Spain, Catalonia was
only briefly part of al-Andalus, the Arabic name given to the Spanish
territories under Muslim domination. Barcelona, for example, was taken
back from Muslim conquerors in the year 801, only 90 years after the
Umayyad invasion in 711. For many years, Catalonia actually served as a
buffer state (known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marca_Hispanica">Marca Hispanica</a>)
that prevented the northward spread of Islam into southern France. As a
result of its relative freedom from Muslim occupation, Catalonia does
not possess the Islamic cultural heritage (especially in terms of
architecture) common to other parts of Spain.<br />
Today, however, Catalonia not only has the highest Muslim population
in Spain, it is also one of the most Islamized regions of the country.
(See <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/04/islamization-of-catalonia.html">here</a> for a 45-minute documentary about the Islamization of Catalonia.)<br />
Consider the municipality of Salt, a town near Barcelona where Muslim
immigrants now make up 40% of the population. Salafi Muslims have
turned Salt into what has been dubbed the "<a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2394/salt-spain-radical-islamism">New Mecca of the Most Radical Islamism</a>."
Among other projects, the Salafists are seeking to build a
Saudi-financed mega-mosque in the town, where around 12,000 of Salt's
30,000 inhabitants are Muslim immigrants. The structure, with four
stories comprising 1,000 square meters (11,000 square feet) accompanied
by towering minarets, would be the largest Salafi mosque in Europe.<br />
In addition to Salt, other towns in Catalonia have become centers for
Salafi Islam in Spain. The movement is based in the Catalonian city of
Tarragona, but Salafi Islam also has a major presence in the
municipalities of Badalona, Calafell, Cunit, El Vendrel, Gerona, Lleida,
Mataró, Reus, Roda de Bara, Rubí, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sant Boi,
Torredembarra, Valls, Vic and Vilanova, not to mention Barcelona, which
hosts five Salafi mosques.<br />
Salafi preachers in Catalonia teach that Islamic Sharia law is above
Spanish civil law. They also promote the establishment of a parallel
Muslim society in Catalonia. Salafi imams have set up Sharia tribunals
to judge the conduct of both practicing and non-practicing Muslims in
the region, and to punish those who fail to comply.<br />
In Lleida, where Muslims now make up around 20% of the city's total
population, local residents have accused Muslim immigrants of <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2480/spain-dog-poisoning">poisoning dozens of dogs</a> in the city because according to Islamic teaching dogs are "unclean" animals.<br />
In Reus, <a href="http://www.lavanguardia.com/sucesos/noticias/20091205/53838595600/nueve-detenidos-por-organizar-un-juicio-islamista-y-condenar-a-muerte-a-una-mujer-mossos-el-periodic.html">nine Islamists kidnapped a woman</a>,
tried her for adultery based on Sharia law, and condemned her to death.
The woman, by fleeing to a local police station, just barely managed to
escape being executed.<br />
In Tarragona, an imam forced a 31-year-old Moroccan woman to wear a <a href="http://elpais.com/diario/2011/08/03/catalunya/1312333639_850215.html">hijab Islamic head covering</a>.
The imam also threatened to burn down the woman's house: according to
him, as she works outside of the home, drives an automobile and has
non-Muslim friends, she is an "infidel." The local prosecutor had asked
the judge to jail the imam and three others for five years for
harassment; but the imam was cleared of all charges after the Socialist
mayor of the town said she wanted to prevent "a social conflict."<br />
In Terrassa, an industrial city north of Barcelona, an imam from Morocco who preaches at a large mosque in the city center <a href="http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20120307/54265180441/interior-iman-mujeres-violencia.html">promoted violence against women</a>
by instructing his listeners to "hit women with the use of a stick, the
fist or the hand so that no bones are broken and no blood is drawn."
When questioned by police, he refused to provide evidence; he said he
does not recognize the legitimacy of the Spanish state.<br />
In Gerona, an eight-year-old Moroccan girl was suspended from a public school for <a href="http://elpais.com/diario/2010/04/22/sociedad/1271887206_850215.html">refusing to remove her hijab in class</a>.
The Catalan government intervened by ordering the school to allow the
girl to wear the hijab on grounds that it would be discrimination not to
do so.<br />
In Barcelona, a Moroccan imam said it is absolutely necessary to <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cataluna/Barcelona/promete/ulemas/Marruecos/acoger/gran/mezquita/elpepiespcat/20101227elpcat_7/Tes">accept Islamic values as European values</a>
and that from now on, when describing Western Civilization, Europeans
should replace the term "Judeo-Christian" with term "Islamo-Christian."<br />
Elsewhere in Catalonia, Muslim immigrants are imposing Sharia law in
public schools, where non-Muslim school children are regularly harassed
for bringing ham sandwiches (see <a href="http://www.periodistadigital.com/periodismo/prensa/2012/06/28/victoria-prego-serafin-fanjul-musulmanes-francesc-carreras-pilar-rahola.shtml">video here</a>) to school for lunch.<br />
Many of Catalonia's current problems with Salafi-Jihadism are self-inflicted. In an effort to <a href="http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/politica/camacho-afirma-que-pujol-primo-los-inmigrantes-musulmanes-542894">promote Catalan nationalism and the Catalan language</a>,
Catalonian pro-independence parties have deliberately promoted
immigration from Arabic-speaking Muslim countries for more than three
decades, in the belief that these immigrants (unlike those from Latin
America) would learn the Catalan language rather than speak Spanish.<br />
Although some Catalans are having second thoughts about the wisdom of
promoting Muslim mass immigration as a strategy to achieve Catalan
independence, it is estimated that up to 10,000 Catalans with links to
the separatist movement have actually converted to Islam in recent
years. It is believed, for example, that two out of every ten Catalan
radicals who belong to the far-left political party, the Republican Left
of Catalonia (ERC), are converts to Islam.<br />
According to <a href="http://www.alertadigital.com/2012/07/30/grupos-separatistas-ponen-sus-ojos-en-las-mezquitas-para-captar-adeptos-el-soberanismo-catalan-es-integrador-con-los-musulmanes/">one newspaper account</a>,
"the new converts refuse to observe Christmas, eat sausage, drink
champagne or dance the Sardana [a Catalan circle dance], but prepare
their meals with halal meat, read the Koran in Catalan and engage in
proselytizing, especially among the more radical Catalan nationalists.
One new convert says: 'I'm learning Arabic, but I prefer to read the
Koran in Catalan. I praise God in Catalan. It is the language I feel
in.'"<br />
Catalan multiculturalists are also actively proselytizing Muslim
immigrants, seeking to convert them to the religion of Catalan
nationalism. In July, for instance, Catalan pro-independence activists,
seeking to capture future Muslim voters, posted signs in front of
mosques around Catalonia which stated that "Catalan sovereignty will
help to integrate Muslim immigrants."<br />
Salafi preachers, who do not believe in democracy -- it is a form of
government made by man and not by Allah - -- are now calling on Muslims
who are eligible to vote to support Catalan separatist parties as a
means firmly to establish Islamism in Catalonia.<br />
Abdelwahab Houzi, for example a Salafi jihadist preacher in Lleida who adheres to the radical Wahhabi sect of Islam, <a href="http://www.europapress.es/catalunya/noticia-iman-lleida-extiende-salafismo-anima-musulmanes-aprovecharse-independentistas-20100716121243.html">recently said</a>:
"Muslims should vote for pro-independence parties, as they need our
votes. But what they do not know is that, when they allow us to vote, we
will all vote for Islamic parties because we do not believe in left and
right. This will make us win local councils and as we begin to
accumulate power in the Catalan autonomous region, Islam will begin to
be implemented."<br />
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<a href="http://www.soerenkern.com/"><i>Soeren Kern</i></a><i> is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based</i> <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/"><i>Gatestone Institute</i></a><i>.
He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based
Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on</i> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Soeren.Kern"><i>Facebook</i></a><i>.</i><br />
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GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3100496570461629648.post-53477947923810776602012-09-16T09:28:00.002-07:002012-09-16T09:28:29.735-07:00Disgrace in Benghazi<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; text-decoration: none;">Mark Steyn</span><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/"> www.nationalreview.com </a></span><br />
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<span class="ecxdrop"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">S</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">o,
on a highly symbolic date, mobs storm American diplomatic facilities
and drag the corpse of a U.S. ambassador through the streets. Then the
president flies to Vegas for a fundraiser. No, no, a novelist would say;
that’s too pat, too neat in its symbolic contrast. Make it Cleveland,
or Des Moines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The president
is surrounded by delirious fanbois and fangurls screaming “We love
you,” too drunk on his celebrity to understand this is the first
photo-op in the aftermath of a national humiliation. No, no, a filmmaker
would say; too crass, too blunt. Make them sober, middle-aged
midwesterners, shocked at first, but then quiet and respectful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The
president is too lazy and cocksure to have learned any prepared remarks
or mastered the appropriate tone, notwithstanding that a government
that spends more money than any government in the history of the planet
has ever spent can surely provide him with both a speechwriting team and
a quiet corner on his private wide-bodied jet to consider what might be
fitting for the occasion. So instead he sloughs off the words,
bloodless and unfelt: “And obviously our hearts are broken . . . ” Yeah,
it’s totally obvious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And
he’s even more drunk on his celebrity than the fanbois, so in his
slapdashery he winds up comparing the sacrifice of a diplomat lynched by
a pack of savages with the enthusiasm of his own campaign bobbysoxers.
No, no, says the Broadway director; that’s too crude, too ham-fisted.
How about the crowd is cheering and distracted, but he’s the president,
he understands the gravity of the hour, and he’s the greatest orator of
his generation, so he’s thought about what he’s going to say, and it
takes a few moments but his words are so moving that they still the
cheers of the fanbois, and at the end there’s complete silence and a few
muffled sobs, and even in party-town they understand the sacrifice and
loss of their compatriots on the other side of the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">But
no, that would be an utterly fantastical America. In the real America,
the president is too busy to attend the security briefing on the morning
after a national debacle, but he does have time to do Letterman and
appear on a hip-hop radio show hosted by “The Pimp with a Limp.” In the
real State Department, the U.S. embassy in Cairo is guarded by Marines
with no ammunition, but they do enjoy the soft-power muscle of a Foreign
Service officer, one Lloyd Schwartz, tweeting frenziedly into
cyberspace (including a whole chain directed at my own Twitter handle,
for some reason) about how America deplores insensitive people who are
so insensitively insensitive that they don’t respectfully respect all
religions equally respectfully and sensitively, even as the raging mob
is pouring through the gates.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When
it comes to a flailing, blundering superpower, I am generally wary of
ascribing to malevolence what is more often sheer stupidity and
incompetence. For example, we’re told that, because the consulate in
Benghazi was designated as an “interim facility,” it did not warrant the
level of security and protection that, say, an embassy in Scandinavia
would have. This seems all too plausible — that security decisions are
made not by individual human judgment but according to whichever
rule-book sub-clause at the Federal Agency of Bureaucratic Facilities
Regulation it happens to fall under. However, the very next day the
embassy in Yemen, which <em>is</em> a permanent facility, was also
overrun, as was the embassy in Tunisia the day after. Look, these are
tough crowds, as the president might say at Caesar’s Palace. But we
spend more money on these joints than anybody else, and they’re as easy
to overrun as the Belgian consulate.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As
I say, I’m inclined to be generous, and put some of this down to the
natural torpor and ineptitude of government. But Hillary Clinton and
General Martin Dempsey are guilty of something worse, in the secretary
of state’s weirdly obsessive remarks about an obscure film supposedly
disrespectful of Mohammed and the chairman of the joint chiefs’
telephone call to a private citizen asking him if he could please ease
up on the old Islamophobia.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Forget
the free-speech arguments. In this case, as Secretary Clinton and
General Dempsey well know, the film has even less to do with anything
than did the Danish cartoons or the schoolteacher’s teddy bear or any of
the other innumerable grievances of Islam. The 400-strong assault force
in Benghazi showed up with RPGs and mortars: That’s not a spontaneous
movie protest; that’s an act of war, and better planned and executed
than the dying superpower’s response to it. Secretary Clinton and
General Dempsey are, to put it mildly, misleading the American people
when they suggest otherwise.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">One
can understand why they might do this, given the fiasco in Libya. The
men who organized this attack knew the ambassador would be at the
consulate in Benghazi rather than at the embassy in Tripoli. How did
that happen? They knew when he had been moved from the consulate to a
“safe house,” and switched their attentions accordingly. How did that
happen? The United States government lost track of its ambassador for
ten hours. How did that happen? Perhaps, when they’ve investigated Mitt
Romney’s press release for another three or four weeks, the court
eunuchs of the American media might like to look into some of these
fascinating questions, instead of leaving the only interesting reporting
on an American story to the foreign press.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For
whatever reason, Secretary Clinton chose to double down on misleading
the American people. “Libyans carried Chris’s body to the hospital,”
said Mrs. Clinton. That’s one way of putting it. The photographs at the
Arab TV network al-Mayadeen show Chris Stevens’s body being dragged
through the streets, while the locals take souvenir photographs on their
cell phones. A man in a red striped shirt photographs the dead-eyed
ambassador from above; another immediately behind his head moves the
splayed arm and holds his cell-phone camera an inch from the
ambassador’s nose. Some years ago, I had occasion to assist in moving
the body of a dead man: We did not stop to take photographs en route.
Even allowing for cultural differences, this looks less like “carrying
Chris’s body to the hospital” and more like barbarians gleefully
feasting on the spoils of savagery.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In
a rare appearance on a non-showbiz outlet, President Obama, winging it
on Telemundo, told his host that Egypt was neither an ally nor an enemy.
I can understand why it can be difficult to figure out, but here’s an
easy way to tell: Bernard Lewis, the great scholar of Islam, said some
years ago that America risked being seen as harmless as an enemy and
treacherous as a friend. </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">At the Benghazi consulate, the looters stole “sensitive” papers <u>revealing the names of Libyans who’ve cooperated with the United States.</u> Oh, well. As the president would say, obviously our hearts are with you.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Meanwhile, in Pakistan, <u>the local doctor who fingered bin Laden to the Americans sits in jail.</u><span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span></span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">In
other words, while America’s clod vice president staggers around
pimping limply that only Obama had the guts to take the toughest
decision anyone’s ever had to take, the poor schlub who actually did
have the guts, who actually took the tough decision in a part of the
world where taking tough decisions can get you killed, languishes in a
cell because Washington would not lift a finger to help him.</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Like
I said, no novelist would contrast Chris Stevens on the streets of
Benghazi and Barack Obama on stage in Vegas. Too crude, too telling, too
devastating.</span><br />
<em><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">— </span><a href="http://www.steynonline.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Mark Steyn</span></a></em><em><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">, a </span></em><span class="ecxsmallcaps"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">National Review</span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></strong><em><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">columnist, is the author of </span></em><span class="ecxbioline"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=1596981008" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">After America: Get Ready for Armageddon</span></a></span><em><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. © 2012 Mark Steyn</span></em></div>
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