Please read current events from a
variety of sources.
October
2022
When the
Supreme Court loses Americans’ loyalty, chaos – even
violence – can follow
Published: October 31, 2022 8.34am EDT The Conversation Joseph Daniel Ura, Professor of Political
Science, Texas A&M University Matthew Hall, University of Notre Dame
The Supreme Court’s historically low public standing
has prompted a national conversation about the court’s
legitimacy. It’s even drawn rare public comment from
three sitting Supreme Court justices. What’s referred
to by experts as the problem of “judicial legitimacy”
may seem abstract, but the court’s faltering public
support is about more than popularity.
Eroding legitimacy means that government officials and
ordinary people become increasingly unlikely to accept
public policies with which they disagree. And
Americans need only look to the relatively recent past
to understand the stakes of the court’s growing
legitimacy problem.
Cost ‘paid in blood’
The Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board
of Education shined a light on many white Americans’
tenuous loyalty to the authority of the federal
judiciary.
In Brown, the court unanimously held that racial
segregation in public education violates the equal
protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The justices
were abundantly aware that their decision would evoke
strong emotions. So Chief Justice Earl Warren worked
tirelessly to ensure that the court issued a
unanimous, short and readable opinion designed to calm
the anticipated popular opposition.
Warren’s efforts were in vain. Rather than recognizing
the court’s authoritative interpretation of the
Constitution, many white Americans participated in an
extended, violent campaign of resistance to the
desegregation ruling.
The Supreme Court had backed a lower federal court
that ordered the university to admit James Meredith, a
Black Air Force veteran. But Mississippi Gov. Ross
Barnett led a wide-ranging effort to stop Meredith
from enrolling at Ole Miss, including deploying state
and local police to prevent Meredith from entering
campus.
On Sunday, Sept. 30, 1962, Meredith nevertheless
arrived on the university’s campus, guarded by dozens
of federal marshals, to register and begin classes the
next day. A crowd of 2,000 to 3,000 people gathered on
campus and broke into a riot. Meredith and the
marshals were attacked with Molotov cocktails and
gunfire. The marshals fired tear gas in return.
In response, President John F. Kennedy invoked the
Insurrection Act of 1807 and ordered the U.S. Army
onto campus to restore order and protect Meredith.
Overnight, thousands of troops arrived, battling
rioters.
The violence finally ended after 15 hours, leaving two
civilians dead – both killed by rioters – and dozens
of wounded marshals and soldiers in addition to
hundreds of injuries among the insurgent mob.
The next day, Oct. 1, Meredith enrolled in the
university and attended his first class, but thousands
of troops remained in Mississippi for months afterward
to preserve order.
What some call “the Battle of Oxford” was fueled by
white racism and segregation, but it played out
against the backdrop of weak judicial legitimacy.
Federal courts did not command enough respect among
state officials or ordinary white Mississippians to
protect the constitutional rights of Black
Mississippians. Neither Gov. Barnett nor the thousands
of Oxford rioters were willing to follow the court
order for Meredith to enroll at the university.
In the end, the Constitution and the federal courts
prevailed only because Kennedy backed them with the
Army. But the cost of weak judicial legitimacy was
paid in blood.
Legitimacy leads to acceptance
In contrast, when people believe in the legitimacy of
their governing institutions, they are more likely to
accept, respect and abide by the rules the government
– including the courts – ask them to live under, even
when the stakes are high and the consequences are
far-reaching.
For example, two decades ago, the Supreme Court
resolved a disputed presidential election in Bush v.
Gore, centered on the counting of ballots in Florida.
This time, the court was deeply divided along
ideological lines, and its long, complicated and
fragmented opinion was based on questionable legal
reasoning.
But in 2000, the court enjoyed more robust legitimacy
among the public than it does today. As a consequence,
Florida officials ceased recounting disputed ballots.
Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas
Gov. George W. Bush, specifically accepting the
Supreme Court’s pivotal ruling.
No Democratic senator challenged the validity of
Florida’s disputed Electoral College votes for Bush.
Congress certified the Electoral College’s vote, and
Bush was inaugurated.
Democrats were surely disappointed, and some
protested. But the court was viewed as sufficiently
legitimate to produce enough acceptance by enough
people to ensure a peaceful transition of power. There
was no violent riot; there was no open resistance.
Indeed, on the very night that Gore conceded, the
chants of his supporters gathered outside tacitly
accepted the outcome: “Gore in four!” – as if to say,
“We’ll get you next time, because we believe there
will be a next time.”
Risks ahead
But what happens when institutions fail to retain
citizens’ loyalty?
The Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection showcased the
consequences of broken legitimacy. The rioters who
stormed the Capitol had lost faith in systems that
undergird American democracy: counting presidential
votes in the states, tallying Electoral College
ballots and settling disputes over election law in the
courts.
The rioters may well have believed their country was
being stolen, even if such beliefs were baseless. So,
they rebelled in the face of a result they didn’t
like.
This threat is far from gone. In addition to numerous
important questions about individual rights and the
scope of government power, the Supreme Court may soon
be asked to resolve disputes over the administration
of elections and the power to certify election winners
– particularly the authority to designate a slate of
presidential electors.
Nothing is certain in politics, but the specter of
constitutional crisis looms over the United States.
It’s dangerously unclear whether the Supreme Court
retains enough legitimacy to authoritatively resolve
such disputes. If it doesn’t, the court’s abstract
legitimacy problem could once again end with blood in
the streets.
PS. Where is mention of the mob harassment at the
homes of justices of the Supreme Court regarding the
Roe vs Wade leak? Where is the mention of the
violence in Washington DC at the 2016 inauguration
of President Trump? bc
Arson,
Vandalism at 3 D.C. Churches; Pastor Points to
Pro-Abortion Movement
cbnnew.com
Brody Carter
7-11-2022
Two churches
in the Washington D.C. area were set on fire, and
another was heavily vandalized over the weekend.
Police say the neighboring churches targeted by
vandals are connected to one another but they're
unwilling to draw any conclusions.
Faith leaders, though, say they're "very disturbed"
and worry expressions of hate could linger alongside
the national abortion debate.
"There were small attempts to burn some of the pews,"
said Patricia Zapor, director of Media Relations for
the Archdiocese of Washington. "Some books were
shredded, and the stations of the cross were removed
from the wall."
Investigators say the work of arsonists at North
Bethesda United Methodist Church and St. Jane Frances
De Chantal Parish forced Sunday worshippers to attend
mass at an alternate location.
Rev. Samuel Giese with St. Jane Frances drew a direct
correlation to what caused the situation.
"We believe this is because of the church's stance on
the issue of life, when it begins and when it should
be protected," said Giese. "And this is one of the
manifestations of the deep divisions now in our
country."
Just down the road, headstones and broken wood were
found scattered outside the historic cemetery at
Wildwood Baptist Church.
All three crimes happened along Old Georgetown Road in
the early hours of Sunday morning.
"We are a community of faith," said Zapor. "And we are
deeply committed to resilience and recovery. This is a
classic example of being tested by fire. And the St.
Jane Parish community will rise and will come through
this in fine form."
The violent acts were carried out after President
Biden issued an executive order on Friday safeguarding
access to the abortion pill and protecting women who
travel to other states for abortions.
There's also a social media group called, "ShutDownDC"
willing to pay a bounty to followers for a "confirmed
sighting" of conservative Supreme Court Justices.
While the White House condemns violence and
threatening protests, they're encouraging pro-abortion
activists to get loud.
"Yes, keep protesting," declared Biden. "Keep making
your point, it's critically important."
UN Agency
Suspends Six Employees Accused of Calling for
Slaughter of Jews
cbnnew.com
Emily Jones
6-30-2022
JERUSALEM,
Israel – The United Nations agency dedicated to
serving Palestinian refugees announced it suspended
six of its staffers following a report from a
pro-Israel group showing they had written messages on
social media in support of the Hamas terror
organization in Gaza.
The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) provides aid
and other resources to 1.5 million Palestinian
refugees. Israel advocacy groups have long accused the
agency of inciting Palestinian children to violence in
UNRWA textbooks and curricula.
The report, released by UN Watch, included images of
social media posts praising Hamas’ rocket attacks on
Israeli civilians, advocating for the slaughter of
Israelis and promoting anti-Semitism. The screenshots
were taken from the social media pages of people who
publicly identified themselves as UNRWA employees.
'Good Shepherd' Ring Discovered Off
Coast of Caesarea Is One of the Earliest Images
Used in Christianity
cbnnew.com
Chris Mitchell
6-20-2022
A fascinating discovery off the coast of Israel is
yielding spectacular treasures.
Two shipwrecks were found on the same site, leaving
Roman and Jewish artifacts scattered across the ocean
floor. These ancient discoveries are giving us a
glimpse into the world of the early church.
The Marine Archaeology Unit of the Israel Antiquities
Authority discovered ancient treasures from the two
shipwrecks off the coast of Caesarea in Israel.
According to Jacob Sharvit and Dror Planer of the
Israel Antiquities Authority’s Marine Archaeology
Unit, “The ships were probably anchored nearby and
were wrecked by a storm.”
The artifacts included a special gold ring engraved
with the figure of the Good Shepherd. The theme of the
Good Shepherd is throughout the Bible, in the Old
Testament, Isaiah 40:11 says “He tends his flock like
a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and
carries them close to his heart.”
The image is also one of the earliest images used in
Christianity for symbolizing Jesus as humanity’s
compassionate shepherd. Jesus even called himself a
shepherd, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd
lays down his life for the sheep.” John 10:11.
I
ran across this article which is four years old,
while attempting to find what money is financing all
the LGBTXYZ (sorry, it’s too hard and really
meaningless to keep up with the current acronyms
anymore). It is not easy to “follow the money”. . I
wondered how and how many of these corporations or
foundations benefited from taxpayer money. Also,
what kind of people are responsible for pushing this
agenda. (short answer is look at drug companies and
big medicine). Anywho, you may find
interesting in light of the morality of Western Civ,
and current history.
Shocking
Report Shows Who Is Pushing Transgender Agenda
March
16, 2018
American
Patriot Daily
Author
not given but highlights this 2018 report of
Jennifer Bilek:
A
new report shows that activists, billionaires, drug
companies, and big medicine have generated a
$400 million dollar network to push the transgender
agenda on America.
Funding for this
agenda has increased nearly eight times over the
last decade.
However,
very little of this money seems to be going to those
who are part of the LGTB community, with most of the
funds used solely for political advocacy and
public relations work.
It’s
apparent that this group is working actively to fund
a movement that will create a fundamental and
conceptual change in culture. In other words,
normalize transgenderism.
Feminist
Jennifer Bilek writes a report exposing that a
majority of this funding comes from rich, white men,
who carry powerful influence in the transgender
movement.
In
her report, she builds her case as to why she finds
this so upsetting:
“I have watched as all-women’s safe
spaces, universities, and sports opened their
doors to any man who chose to identify as a woman.
Whereas men who identify as
transwomen are at the forefront of this project,
women who identify as transmen seem silent and
invisible.
I was astonished that such a huge
cultural change as the opening of sex-protected
spaces was happening at such a meteoric pace and
without consideration for women and girls’ safety,
deliberation, or public debate.”
But,
she does an excellent job of tracking the money:
“I found exceedingly rich, white men
with enormous cultural influence are funding the
transgender lobby and various transgender
organizations.
These include but are not limited
to Jennifer Pritzker (a male who
identifies as transgender); George
Soros; Martine Rothblatt (a male who
identifies as transgender and
transhumanist); Tim Gill(a gay
man); Drummond Pike; Warren and Peter
Buffett; Jon Stryker (a gay man); Mark
Bonham (a gay man); and Ric
Weiland (a deceased gay man whose
philanthropy is still LGBT-oriented).
Most of these billionaires fund the
transgender lobby and organizations through their
own organizations, including corporations.”
Her
angst seems not towards the ideology of the LGTB
community, but instead that it’s most powerful
lobbying and financial influence comes from the
hands of men.
Breitbart reports:
The transgender ideology is being
covertly funded by a network of wealthy
transgender donors and a variety of investors in
the drug, surgery and healthcare industries, says
Jenifer Bilek, a New York-based feminist.
Bilek tracked the flow of
pro-transgender funding via donors and business
groups, and she argues more than $400 million has
been spent to promote the claim that men can
switch their “gender” to become legal women
whenever they want to do so.
That
gender-trumps-biology demand requires
government to silence women when men who claim
they are women parade into women’s’ bathrooms and
showers, sports contests and civic groups, or into
fashion and status displays or into feminist
advocacy groups.
Bilek
makes it clear her concerns are mostly about
feminist transgender ideology. She ignores the side
effects of men who undergo a sex change, both
physically and psychologically.
She
is upset that men can claim to identify as women and
compete in female sports, providing an undeniable
advantage, as was seen by Mack Beggs who just won
the “girls” 6A wrestling title for the second-time
last week.
The New York Post reported:
“CYPRESS, Texas — For the second year
in a row, a transgender wrestler has won the Texas
girls’ Class 6A 110-pound division.
Mack Beggs, an 18-year-old senior
from Euless Trinity High School near Dallas,
entered the tournament in Cypress outside Houston
with an undefeated record. He beat
Beggs is in the process of
transitioning from female to male and taking a low
dose of testosterone.”
Bilek
does go on to highlight the bigger dangers the
transgender agenda poses to children and society as
a whole.
Breitbart continues:
“The ideology also requires that men
keep quiet when women claim they are men, and
demands
that parents and doctors, reporters,
researchers and surgeons all stay silent in face
of growing evidence that the ideology and
associated medical treatments are hazardous to
the subjects’ lifetime physical health and to
personal stability.
Overall reported global spending
on LGBT is now estimated at $424 million. From
2003-2013, reported funding for transgender issues
increased more than eightfold, growing at
threefold the increase of LGBTQ funding overall,
which quadrupled from 2003 to 2012.
This huge spike in funding happened
at the same time transgenderism began gaining
traction in American culture …
Much more important than funds going
directly to the LGBT lobby and organizations, only
a fraction of which trickles down to assist people
who identify as transgender, is the money invested
by the men mentioned above, governments, and
technology and pharmaceutical corporations to
institutionalize and normalize transgenderism as a
lifestyle choice.
They are shaping the narrative about
transgenderism and normalizing it within the
culture using their funding methods …
[Promoting] Bodily diversity
appears to be the core issue, not [treating]
gender dysphoria; that and unmooring people from
their biology via language distortions, to
normalize altering human biology.
Institutionalizing transgender
ideology does just this. This ideology is being
promoted as a civil rights issue by wealthy,
white, men with enormous influence who stand to
personally benefit from their political
activities.
The transgender ideology demands that
the federal government force Americans to accept
the “gender identity” sex-switching claims
made by each person, regardless of scientific
data about genetics, biology, and the variety of
normal behavior and appearances shown by normal,
equal, different, and complementary women and men,
boys and girls.
The progressive push to bend
Americans’ attitudes and their male-and-female
civic society around the idea of “gender” has
already attacked and cracked popular social rules
for how Americans handle the many useful, charming
or fairness-related differences between
complementary women and men.
These pro-gender claims have an
impact on different-sex bathrooms, K-12
curricula, university speech
codes, religious freedoms, free speech,
civic ceremonies, school rules, law
enforcement, and children’s sexual privacy.
While
Ms. Bilek’s report sheds a great deal of light as to
the funding of the transgender movement, and points
out the inherent unfairness of males who are
“transitioning” competing in female sport, she
misses the profound moral problems with the
transgender movement.
Along the Road to One World Governance
Biden Seeks New Unilateral Powers for WHO Chief to
Declare Public Health Emergencies
By Mark Tapscott (Correspondent for Epoch Times)
May 18, 2022
President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing
amendments to the World Health Organization’s (WHO)
governing regulations to give Director-General Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus unilateral authority to declare a
public health emergency in any nation based on whatever
evidence he chooses.
The proposed U.S. amendments were forwarded to the WHO
in January for consideration next week by the UN’s 75th
World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
In a January 26 letter to a virtual meeting of WHO’s
executive board, Loyce Pace, Assistant Secretary for
Global Affairs of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) described “the importance of equity
and equitable access to medical countermeasures and the
negative impacts of misinformation and disinformation
related to the pandemic. We agree that we must all do
better.
“The United States led an inclusive and transparent
process to develop this decision, as we are mindful that
updating and modernizing the [International Health
Regulations] IHR are critical to ensuring the world is
better prepared for and can respond to, the next
pandemic.”
Among the proposed U.S. amendments, one removes an
existing requirement in Section 9 that WHO “consult with
and seek to obtain verification” from officials in a
nation in which a health crisis is suspected before
making any public declarations. The same amendment
provides that “WHO may take into account reports from
sources other than notifications or consultations” from
the nation with the suspected problem.
A proposed change to Section 5 would direct WHO to
establish “early warning criteria for assessing and
progressively updating the national, regional, or global
risk posed by an event of unknown causes or sources …”
A proposed amendment to Section 10 requires WHO, in the
event the nation with the suspected problem does not
cooperate within 48 hours, shall “when justified by the
magnitude of the public health risk, immediately share
with other [nations] the information available to it.”
Nowhere do the amendments or accompanying documents
explain how or why U.S. public health officials believe
the equity issue in health care would be addressed by
giving Tedros the authority to declare a public health
emergency on the basis of information provided by a
source other than the affected nation.
A search of the White House Press Office web site found
only one veiled reference to the WHO amendments. That
reference was in a February 2 Fact Sheet issued by the
White House saying the U.S. “will continue to advance
health security and pandemic preparedness abroad,
including through strengthening WHO, working with
partners towards targeted IHR amendments …”
The proposed amendment Section 5 of the WHO regulations
also appears to parallel the Biden administration’s
reference in a Fact Sheet on its proposed 2023 federal
budget that was issued in April.
That reference commits the Biden administration to
support “global threat detection innovations through a
globally connected network of public health surveillance
systems that optimizes disease prevention and health
promotion as we strengthen surveillance initiatives to
provide necessary actionable data before, during, and
after a pandemic.
“The budget includes $2.47 billion in mandatory funding
for CDC to include enhancements to domestic sentinel
surveillance programs, expansion of domestic and global
wastewater surveillance, and investments in global
genomic surveillance* approaches, as well as global
respiratory disease surveillance platforms.”
Respiratory surveillance platforms include video cameras
and recorders that alert authorities when members of the
public are seen coughing or otherwise acting in a manner
that could indicate the presence of an infectious
disease or help spread one already present in a
population. Such equipment is widely used in China.
The Biden WHO amendments are the latest step in the
current president’s efforts to reintegrate the U.S. with
WHO after his predecessor in the Oval Office, Donald
Trump, slashed U.S. funding to the international health
organization and then gave notice of U.S. withdrawal.
One of Biden’s first acts as president was to withdraw
Trump’s withdrawal notice and to restore U.S. funding,
which accounts for half of WHO’s budget. Trump’s
dissatisfaction with WHO stemmed from what he saw as the
international health organization’s excessive deference
to China regarding the origin of the CCP Virus that is
also known as the Coronavirus Novel, or COVID-19.
A White House spokesman did not respond to The Epoch
Times’ request for information on the amendments and the
administration’s rationale for the proposals. An HHS
spokesman also did not respond to The Epoch Times’
request for comment. This
article was posted at:
https://yournews.com/2022/05/18/2345022/biden-seeks-new-unilateral-powers-for-who-chief-to-declare/
Have you ever heard of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
(MTD)? You are probably familiar with it whether or not
the phrase is familiar to you.
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD) according to the
Arizona Christian University's Cultural Research
Center's (CRC) "American Worldview Inventory 2021" was
first defined by sociologists Christian Smith and
Melinda Lundquist Denton in their 2005 book, "Soul
Searching: The Religions and Spiritual Lives of American
Teenagers," and requires few commitments from adherents,
including:
"Belief in a God who remains distant
from people's lives"
"People are supposed to be good to
each other (i.e., moral)"
"The universal purpose of life of
being happy and feeling good about oneself"
"There are no absolute moral truths"
"God allows "good people" into
Heaven"
"God places very limited demands on
people"
This form of Deism is not limited to teenagers by any
means. Furthermore, many adherents of MTD consider
themselves as Christians.
Read this interesting article as you consider the
Christian Church in America. Barna himself states
"Simply and objectively stated, Christianity in this
nation is rotting from the inside out."
Click
here for link to aricle on the Christian Daily website
in a May 2021 article.
What do you think? Living in the information age, we
have not only the Bible itself, and accompanied by
printed and digital study guides, but Bible studies, and
messages (sermons) in the form of audio, and video
readily available on the TV, Internet, and radio.
How many minutes of Bible study have you devoted
your time to this week?
Here it is March 2022 already. The Evil Magician is
diverting our attention from COVID and none too soon.
Foremost, we cannot forget the scars that illness and
death of our loved ones leave in our heart. That is not
the whole story thoug- it seems that a growing
percentage of us were figuring out that large and
lasting effects of that "crisis" (as in "Never let a
good crisis go to waste") was the fear that has pervaded
some people and the overreach of the talons of
governments into our lives. The good news is that time
and light is clarifying the Truth and allowing us to
evaluate what people and departments were the source of
this ugly hit on the American people. (As an American,
there's no focus on the governments of Canada,
Australia, Sweden and other western countries at this
time, however the virus of tyranny is also threatening
them as well as so many countries.
The idea was to post several informational COVID links.
There are many webpages and podcasts from knowledgeable
medical people and scientists who are not afraid to
speak out. One of the main websites for updates on
vaccine casualties, dating back many decades was the
federal government's own Virus Adverse Reaction
Database https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html
There is a link on the right side of the page to a 13
minute presentation to teach you how to navigate the
website and access the data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOH7cFWS7o4
There are hundreds of thousands of adverse
reactions, so take the time to learn how to display
them, for the various symptoms, or ages or you will find
there are too many results for the database to present
to you. The VAERS site is updated weekly.
Here was an interesting article from February 18, 2022
published in the Childrens Health Defense Organization: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-deaths-injuries-covid-vaccines-data/
The above links should get you started on information
you should be aware of and put to good use. Shine the
Light!
Federalize the Vote?
Many of us are aware that the current occupants of
the Executive branch of the federal government have
been scrambling over the last year (not to mention
previous decades of usurpation of your rights) to take
more control of your rights and person. We know they
like to tell you how to cover up your face, what
needles to jab into your body, and can now sic more of
their IRS attack dogs on you.
That sounds a little rough so that it's time to turn
the spotlight elsewhere, with the help of their
propagandist toadies. Enter Big Brother's attempts to
protect your voting rights. And if that cannot be done
since there is not a majority of representatives to
vote for this latest DC swamp power grab, then it's
time to slap the hands of the 49% of Americans who
would like to see the Constitution honored by allowing
each state to conduct it's own elections. But let's
leave the threatened filibuster rules change
aside and consider the process of our elections which
is the duty of states and their counties, and towns to
conduct and oversee.
The Constitution- ah. that contract that we wrote and
signed to constrain the greedy power elites from
becoming kings, dictators, and tyrants. That document
that limits the power of those who would rather hold
and office over serfs, than citizens. That piece of
paper that is supposed to guide our republic through
the rough waters.
What does your Constitution have to say about voting
(hint: there's not much of anything at all in the
Constitution or your bill or rights- since voting is
mostly a state and local process. But here is what the
US Constitution states: https://www.votefortheconstitution.com/voting---what-does-the-constitution-say.html
Way back when, Elizabeth Powel asked Mr Franklin if we
were going to end up with a republic or a monarchy.
Benjamin wisely replied that we would have "a
republic, if you can keep it." America will
eventually soar or sink as a republic, on the basis of
a free electorate that knows their rights and
responsibilities, and protects their liberty.
What Does the U.S.
Withdrawal from Afghanistan Mean for Israel and the
Middle East?
09-02-2021
CBN News
The consequences of a hasty withdrawal. Now that U.S.
troops are out of Afghanistan, what does the future hold
for Israel and the Middle East?
In this week's episode of The Global Lane, Israel's
representative to the United Nations Ambassador Danny
Danon says Israel is strong when the United States is
strong.
"When the perception is the U.S. is getting weaker, we
are weaker," he said. "Those pictures that we saw coming
from Kabul is actually giving more strength to the
radicals in Lebanon, to the radicals in Gaza, and to the
radicals in Tehran. "And I think the question is whether
the new administration will now continue to negotiate
with Tehran and will try to reenter the agreement with
Iran all over again." Please
click here to read the article in its entirety on the
Christian Broadcasting Network
Several links that may save the
life of your loved ones
It's my prayer that the following links may save the
lives of your loved one, now and in the future. The
presentations deal with true effective common sense
and inexpensive ways to prevent the disease. Also,
you will find effective, inexpensive and available
(mostly over the counter) drugs which will prevent
the virus from over-taking your natural immune
system. Also you will find links to obtain
Ivermectin or HCQ- old known drugs that have been
taken satisfactorily for years. Please study and
share these links.
Do not ever forget 2 Timothy 1:7
7 For
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but
of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
The UK's Guardian is known to print
news that the mainstream US media will not touch.
The following link to article is from 2011. It is
posted here to remind you and illustrate that the
FBI's involvement and incitement of unrest is
nothing new under the sun.
There are indications that FBI
informants were at the head of the pack of people
who were at the US Capitol on January 6th.There were
no weapons of "insurrectionists" found there.The only
homicide was that of an unarmed woman by a Capitol
police officer named Mike Byrd. This is not the
first time he has been fast and loose with a
dangerous weapon.
Here are several links from more
recent months, some of which refer to "unidentified
people" within the largely peaceful gathering of
January 6th which was concerned about the integrity
of the November election.
We'll stop at that, in the interest of
time. That is not a full list. The primary question
to leave with you is this-What can
YOU do to rein in this unelected KGB type bureau
that is symptomatic of our bloated and dangerous
federal government? Have you shared this threat to
our liberty with your pastor? your neighbor? your
Senator? Your Congressman? Perhaps your Governor can
do something to prevent the new Gest apo the Capitol
police from coming to YOUR state.
WND
Carol Swain: Critical Race Theory
violates 1964 Civil Rights Act
'Demonization of one group of people
because of the color of their skin' is
discriminatory
Published June 23, 2021 at 7:01pm
The Marxist-based Critical Race
Theory, which divides the world between the
oppressors and the oppressed, may infringe on
constitutional rights and even violate civil rights
laws, warned Carol Swain, a former political science
professor and vice chairman for President Trump's
1776 Commission.
The primary tenet of CRT is that "all
white people are considered oppressors who benefit
from undeserved advantages," she told the Epoch
Times in an interview on EpochTV's "Crossroads"
program.
"The demonization of one group of
people because of the color of their skin is
something that is discriminatory," said Swain, who
taught at Princeton and Vanderbilt universities.
She argued that the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 protects everyone, including white people,
from discrimination on the basis of race, color,
national origin, religion and disability.
"We’re not a country where it's
acceptable to bully and shame people because of the
color of their skin," she said.
^ That's a link to Article VI of the
Civil Rights Act. School (represented by their
boards and teachers) as recipients of public funds,
are breaking the law when they impose Critical Race
Theory which divides students according to their
color and does nothing to enhance and empower
individual growth.
I thought Rev. King was correct in
saying "I have a dream that my four little children
will one day live in a nation where they will not be
judged by the color of their skin, but by the
content of their character."
Supremes fire back at Philadelphia's attack on
Christian foster care agencies
Unanimously rule city cannot force them to violate
their biblical standards
WND, Bob Unruh, June 17, 2021
In a unanimous ruling that demolished a move by the city
of Philadelphia to "cancel" Christian foster care
agencies that refused city demands to violate their
biblical standards and refer children to unmarried or
same-sex couples, the Supreme Court on Thursday
confirmed the protections for religion under the First
Amendment.
"The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment,
applicable to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment,
provides that 'Congress shall make no law … prohibiting
the free exercise' of religion," wrote Chief Justice
John Roberts in a dispute that attracted multiple
opinions – all ending with the same result.
'Some people have blinders on':
Franklin Graham warns U.S. 'under attack from
within'
'Godless socialism and communism are
threatening our very way of life'
WND By Bob Unruh
Published June 15, 2021 at 5:07pm
"Samaritan's Purse ministry chief
Franklin Graham on Tuesday issued a warning to the
nation, regarding socialism and communism and
whether there is a future for America.
"America is under attack from within.
Godless socialism and communism are threatening our
very way of life in this country and the inroads
already made are shocking. Even though no one has
fired a shot, the battle is raging and we’d better
wake up before it’s too late," he warned on social
media.
"It’s like some people have blinders
on and don’t see the dangers of what is coming down
the road."
He cited the case of Yeonmi Park, a
defector from North Korea who attended an Ivy League
university and came to the conclusion her own,
repressive home dictatorship wasn't quite as bad.
Explained Graham, "Yeonmi Park sees
the dangers though. She was born in North Korea and
fled the oppression, risking everything to find
freedom. The journey was long and hard, but now in
the United States, Yeonmi was excited to go to an
Ivy League university where she thought free-thought
flourished and she could learn and grow."
But, he said, "that’s not what she
found. Instead, the institution of higher learning
was more concerned with political correctness and
forcing her to think the way they wanted her to. She
has been utterly shocked, saying it reminds her of
the country she fled. They teach anti-Western
sentiment, collective guilt, and suffocating
political correctness. She was condemned for reading
traditional American literature, saying that those
authors were racists and bigots."
Religious liberty hangs in the balance this summer
Will the Supreme Court deliver?
By Josh Hammer Mar 3, 2021, 10:00pm MST
This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide the
most consequential religious freedom case in a
generation. The case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia,
has the potential to gut First Amendment precedent that
has stood for over 30 years. It will also signal how the
new conservative majority will rule on religious freedom
protections.
Last year, the court held in Roman Catholic Diocese of
Brooklyn, New York v. Cuomo that houses of worship were
unjustly placed under stricter COVID-19 orders than,
say, local liquor stores. Some speculated that the
opinion offered a glimpse into the court’s future
philosophy on the First Amendment. But now social
conservatives are eager for Fulton to unveil the full
picture. Click
here to read more.
February 3, 2021
"Persecution for US Christians Could Come Quicker
Than You Think"
Please
listen to this 7 minute you tube video of a
Christian Broadcasting Network interview with Rod
Dreher, who is the author of the book "Live Not By
Lies".
Looking at history, it was pretty clear in Eastern
Europe, that once the Nazi regime cleared out, in the
1940s, that the Communists would march in.
Christians were prepared for that takeover of
Czechoslovakia in advance by creating prayer groups.
Mr Dreher offers some strategies to be strong and
faithful in difficult times ahead.
This is well worth your seven minutes! Please
click here to visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv43lUfgptw&feature=youtu.be January 28, 2021
The State of Washington DC
With the trial balloons floating around (again)
about making Washington DC a state with two senators,
let's pause and think about the legality of that for a
minute or two. Don't forget that thanks to a
constitutional amendment of 1961, citizens living within
that district may already vote in federal elections,
with 3 representatives to the electoral college. Two
amendments would be required to change that, adding the
two senators that the Democrats are so anxious to find.
I'll grant you that with the current diktator writing
laws like he was a legislator, rather than an executor,
and Supreme Court justices who are unwilling to offer an
opinion on State vs State matters, that you may question
whether the Constitution is anything beyond a Con
at this point, designed to keep law abiding citizens
quiet for a little while longer.
But all that aside, here's an article from June of 2020
published by Microsoft News about where the Constitution
stands on this matter. Click
here to read
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/the-constitution-says-no-to-dc-statehood/ar-BB15MkiW
Freedom of Speech is Settling In for a Long, Bleak
Winter
Michael Dorstewitz
NEWSMAX
January 14, 2021
Now that Democrats have secured, by fair means or foul,
the White House and both chambers of Congress, they’re
calling on social media platforms to silence
conservative thought.
The public square is no longer a soap box placed in a
park — it’s gone digital. And for all intents and
purposes, Facebook and Twitter have a monopoly of who
may set their personal soapbox on their platform, as
well as tell them what they may or may not say.
Shortly after the brief takeover and violence on Capitol
Hill Wednesday, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat blocked
the president of the United States — Donald Trump — as
though he were personally responsible for the mayhem.
This wasn’t the first time Trump was silenced by social
media. In August Twitter temporarily blocked his
campaign account for posting a video of the president
stating during an interview that children are "virtually
immune" from getting COVID-19.
Religious persecution increasing, Pew Research
Center report finds
By Christopher Vondracek
The Washington Times
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Governments have been cracking down on religious
expression more than any other time in recent memory,
says a new report on global religious persecution.
The Pew Research Center’s tracking of government
restrictions on religion noted a 50% increase in 2018
since the survey’s inauguration in 2007, according to
the report published Tuesday.
From outright bans on public worship by Christians and
Jews in Qatar to an Australian judge’s refusal to
allow a Muslim defendant’s wife to wear a veil in
court, the survey documents a year of growing
aggression among the world’s governments in disrupting
citizens’ religious practices.
The survey singles out countries in the Asia-Pacific
and North Africa/Middle East, where several nations
receive “high” or “very high” persecution ratings.
Officials in the Philippines forced three United
Methodist Church missionaries to leave the country.
Authorities in Thailand arrested six Buddhist monks.
And Israeli police injured an Ethiopian Christian
while removing him from a church.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian government continues to
restrict access for Shiite Muslims to a tomb of the
Prophet Muhammad’s son, revered by the Sunni majority.
The report also cites Myanmar’s displacement of 14,500
Rohingya Muslims and Tajikistan’s increasing control
over religious education travel and its continued
refusal to recognize Jehovah’s Witnesses. Please
click here to read the article in its entirety.
December 3, 2020
2020 What a year as it has unfolded.... with
more of us recognizing the oppressive attempts
of empty suits and hollow men overstepping their
lawful power over free people, by coercion, restraint,
fraud, and extortion.
Us at year's beginning.... "we see
through a glass, darkly;"
We cry out to the Lord!
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of
fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound
mind.
2 Timothy 1:7
And our prayers are answered by the Lord:
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the
salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be
salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to
be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A
city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and
put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and
it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Matthew 5:13-16
Pray that we humble ourselves and becoming vessels
of God's Light, shine on God's world and our place in
that Glorious Kingdom to come.
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with
God’s people. Amen.
Rev. 22 20b-21
'It's Discrimination': California Churches Ready to
Reopen Their Doors After NY Supreme Court Ruling
by Andrea Morris December 2, 2020
Christian Broadcasting Network
Some California pastors are fed up with California
Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order prohibiting indoor
worship services, a measure that's supposed to slow
the spread of COVID-19.
Newsom enforced harsh restrictions this year,
including banning all in-person worship gatherings,
at-home Bible studies, and singing together.
Many church leaders say Newsom's orders are
unconstitutional and violate their right to religious
freedom.
Pastor Sam Rodriguez with New Season Worship in
Sacramento said, "It's a serious virus taking many
lives. With that being said, you can't discriminate.
You can keep liquor stores, cannabis shops open while
deeming that churches are not essential. Getting high
and getting drunk is essential, but coming together
and worshiping is not essential? Absolutely absurd."
The pastor told KCRA News that his church doors will
remain open while congregants observe safety
procedures such as mask-wearing, temperature checks,
and social distancing.
"I'm not that kind of pastor that's out there going
like, 'Hey, let's go in and gather. No mask. C'mon,
let's do this.' No! I find that to be irresponsible,"
Rodriguez said. "There's a practical, pragmatic,
middle-of-the-road solution, which is let's apply
every CDC recommendation, but don't shut me down if
you're not going to shut other things down. It's just
not right. It's discrimination.
"We get calls about domestic abuse, child abuse,
about addiction now that was not there before in
certain families," he added.
"Churches are essential. Locking them down is
producing so many long-term negative consequences."
But Newsom's order could face legal challenges
following last week's Supreme Court ruling that New
York's tight restrictions on attendance at religious
services "strike at the very heart of the First
Amendment's guarantee of religious liberty."
In a 5-to-4 ruling the justices declared "even in a
pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and
forgotten."
That is evident by November 19, 2020 as the
country is peaceably (except for leftist hoodlums)
awaiting challenges to an election that was riddled
with errors, irregularities, and outright fraud.
What follows are a few links to help you
understand the LAW governing the election of
President and Vice President. It is not a political
party, or a media outlet that determines election
results.
You'll see the procedures have evolved over time
beginning as early as 1800 with the first election that
was settled by Congress. Read and study and be grateful
in this Thanksgiving season, that the United States of
America IS a country of law. Pray and rejoice with every
expectation that Justice will still prevail in America.
Trump announces that Israel
and Sudan have agreed to normalize relations
Jennifer Hansler, CNN Oct 23, 2020
Washington (CNN)President
Donald Trump announced Friday that Sudan and Israel
have agreed to normalize relations -- a foreign policy
achievement for the incumbent president less than two
weeks before the US presidential election.
Trump made the announcement from the Oval Office while
joined on the phone by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, Sudanese Chairman of the Sovereignty
Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Sudanese Prime
Minister Abdalla Hamdok.
According to a joint statement from the three
countries, the leaders of Sudan and Israel "agreed to
the normalization of relations between Sudan and
Israel and to end the state of belligerence between
their nations" and "agreed to begin economic and trade
relations, with an initial focus on agriculture."
Capitol
Hill Baptist Shows How to Fight for Religious Freedom
in a Pandemic
by Joe Carter September 23, 2020 The Gospel Coalition.org
The Story: A prominent evangelical church in
Washington, D.C., provides a model for how churches
should fight for religious liberty during the
pandemic.
UPDATE (Oct. 9, 2020): A federal court ruled the
District of Columbia has likely violated the religious
freedom of Capitol Hill Baptist Church and therefore
cannot prevent the congregation from meeting outdoors
with proper safety measures in place.
Iran
Imprisons Christians, Then Showcases Book on U.S.
'Islamophobia'
By Robert Spencer
Jul 16, 2020 2:49 PM EST found on pjmedia.com
"War is deceit,” according to a
statement attributed to Muhammad, the prophet of
Islam, and the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran
were taking notes. After stepping up the persecution
of Christians and even carrying out raids and arrests
against them, Iranian authorities paused long enough
to unveil, with great fanfare, a “scholarly” book
about “Islamophobia” in the United States. Yes, that’s
the real problem – and the American establishment
media will nod along in agreement.
Evangelical Focus reported
Tuesday that agents of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
Guards Corps (IRGC) “arrested at least twelve
Christians, in a coordinated operation that took place
in three different cities. The first arrest took place
on 30 June, in Tehran, when ten intelligence agents
raided the home of a Christian convert where there
were around 30 Christians gathered.”
The agents recorded that raid, but
at a certain point they turned off their cameras and
began abusing the Christians, who were finally
handcuffed, blindfolded, and taken away in a van with
blacked-out windows. They were taken to their homes,
where the IRGC agents searched for Christian material
and beat some of them, along with some of their family
members, including some who had not converted to
Christianity.
Evangelical Focus noted: “It is
believed that, in both raids, the agents were helped
by an informant, who had infiltrated the group of
Christians within the past few months and gained their
trust.”
All this followed a report in late
June that seven other converts to Christianity had
been sentenced to prison or other punishments,
including exile, fines, and work restrictions, for the
crime of exercising their freedom of conscience.
According to Article18.com “they were each convicted
of the same charge – ‘propaganda against the state’ –
under Article 500 of the Islamic Penal Code, which
provides for up to a year in prison for anyone found
guilty of engaging in ‘any type of propaganda against
the Islamic Republic of Iran or in support of
opposition groups and associations.’”
Mansour Borji of the human rights
advocacy group Article18 stated: “Condemning these
people to prison because of their possession of Bibles
and Christian symbols is a clear demonstration that
Iran’s Foreign Minister and others aren’t telling the
truth when they say that ‘no-one is put in prison in
Iran simply because of their beliefs.’ These people
have done nothing that could be construed as
‘propaganda against the state’ or ‘acting against
national security’, but nevertheless they have been
treated so unjustly.”
Meanwhile, the International Quran News Agency
reported that “a book on political Islamophobia in the
US was unveiled in a ceremony in Tehran on Monday,”
that is, the day before the raids and arrest of twelve
Christians.
The book in question is entitled Political
Islamophobia at American Institutes: Battling the
Power of Islamic Resistance, and is the
masterwork of University of Tehran Professor Hakimeh
Saghaye-Biriya. The Islamic Human Rights Commission
not in Tehran, but in London, has published
the book.
According to the International
Quran News Agency, “it analyses the role of US think
tanks in institutionalizing and fueling Islamophobia
in the US government’s domestic and foreign policies.”
During the ceremony at the International Quran News
Agency in Tehran, Saghaye-Biriya “described
Islamophobia as a branch of racism in the West. She
said at a time when protests against racism have
spread globally, there is a good opportunity to make a
bridge between Islamic resistance and anti-racism
movements in the world.”
During the ceremony, a video
message from Wayne State University’s Saeed Khan was
played; it “hailed the book for providing a good
analysis of the role of political think thanks in US
policy making and understanding the roots of
Islamophobia in the country.”
Back in the real world,
“Islamophobia” is a propaganda neologism designed to
intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose
jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women.
Meanwhile, this book, and the
accompanying ceremony, reveals the insidious nature of
the entire “Islamophobia” enterprise. The Iranian
endorsement and propagation of this term, with the
participation of Wayne State University’s Saeed Khan,
recalls another Iranian initiative in academic
propaganda: Carl Ernst, the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill pseudo-academic whose work on
Islam is so whitewashed, so fawningly apologetic, so
complete in its denial of the jihad doctrine and
Sharia oppression, that he was given an award in 2008
by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the genocide-minded
anti-Semite, who was at that time President of the
Islamic Republic of Iran. Ernst happily flew to Tehran
to accept. The incident was emblematic of how much
American academia has degenerated.
After all, when was the last time
you saw an American academic discuss the Muslim
persecution of Christians, or Iran’s treatment of
religious minorities, or the inconsistency of Iranian
authorities in persecuting Christians while
complaining about “Islamophobia”? That’s right: never.
That’s not what they do in the Antifa indoctrination
factories known as universities these days; they’re
too busy recording video messages applauding Iranian
propaganda.
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Robert Spencer is the
director of Jihad Watch
and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom
Center.
BLM Protesters Assault Pastor and Ferociously Harass
NY Baptist Churchgoers, Including Children
07-07-2020
CBN News
Several videos posted to social media show both black
and white churchgoers being verbally harassed and
assaulted outside of the Grace Baptist Church in Troy,
New York.
The Daily Wire reports the group of protesters
frequently shouted "Black Lives Matter" as they used
several megaphones to scream at families with small
children while going up the church's front steps.
The harassment has continued at the church building
since the end of June, according to reports.
The congregation's leadership has had to ask men from
their church family to help escort members inside
their facility as they have been blocked by BLM
members.
A storm is coming and it has nothing to do with
hurricane season. This is a secular storm of dangerous
ideas threatening our future.
Christianity in America has been declining for
decades, with secularism infiltrating society, even
the Christian church, to some degree.
From threats against religious liberty and redefining
marriage and family, to attacks on the dignity of
human life, today's church is in unprecedented
territory. How should Christians respond to this
challenge?
In a new book, The Gathering Storm, Albert Mohler,
president of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, shares how Christians can meeting that
challenge head-on.
In an interview on Thursday's 700 Club, Mohler said
that a dramatic shift took place over the course of a
decade on the attitudes about same-sex marriage. He
believes the speed at which Americans accepted this
radical shift on a moral issue such as the definition
of marriage is a hinge to the rapid secularization of
the culture.
President Trump calls for support for international
religious freedom in new executive order
The president is calling on administration officials
to tackle religious persecution wherever its found.
Deseret News
By Kelsey Dallas
Jun 2, 2020, 3:10pm MDT
SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump reiterated his
support for international religious freedom Tuesday in
an executive order aimed at increasing the government’s
outreach to persecuted people of faith around the world.
The order calls on the secretary of state and other top
officials to prioritize religious freedom in their work
and requests that at least $50 million in foreign
assistance funds be earmarked each year for programs
that serve and protect faith communities.
It also instructs government leaders to offer trainings
on religion to American diplomats working overseas and
to empower them to bring up international religious
freedom issues when meeting with foreign officials.
“Religious freedom for all people worldwide is a foreign
policy priority of the United States, and the United
States will respect and vigorously promote this
freedom,” Trump wrote.
Battle
of Ramadan’: Jihadis Kill 584, Injure 587 in
Three Weeks of Holy Month
Breitbart
Breaking News
May 21, 2020
by Edwin
Mora
Casualties at the hands of jihadis
during the first three weeks of Ramadan hit a grim
milestone, exceeding 1,000 with 584 fatalities and 587
injuries, data compiled by Breitbart News shows.
This report covers April 24, the first full day of
the holy month, through May 14. On average,
Islamic terrorists killed about 28 people and injured
an estimated 28 others during that three-week period.
There were an estimated 56 casualties, which include
fatalities and injuries, each day.
Islamic terrorist attacks have continued seemingly
undeterred during Ramadan despite the ongoing
Chinese coronavirus
pandemic and the associated lockdowns.
Jihadis from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), the
second deadliest-group during the holiest month for
Muslims, have reportedly dubbed their efforts the “Battle of Ramadan.”
This year, the number of casualties, which includes
deaths and injuries, is on pace to exceed those from
2019.
The 1,171 casualties (584 fatalities, 587 injuries)
during the first three weeks of the holy month have
already surpassed the 1,087 (531
fatalities, 556 injuries) during the
same period last year by about ten percent.
The Afghan Taliban remains the bloodiest and most
prolific group, with 76 attacks (264 deaths, 278
injuries). Taliban narco-jihadis are responsible
for about half all the attacks and casualties,
respectively.
During Ramadan’s ongoing month, there have been 164
attacks in 18 countries, the vast majority in
Afghanistan.
Despite the fall of its so-called caliphate early
last year, ISIS continues to wreak havoc in what some
monitor groups and news outlets have described as a
potential resurgence,
mainly in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.
ISIS is the second-deadliest terrorist group during
Ramadan, responsible for the most bloody single-day
attack (32 fatalities, 133 injuries), which took place
at a funeral in Afghanistan on May 12.
In the last few weeks, the group has carried out some
of the deadliest attacks in months in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
This week’s count covers the heinous attack on a maternity
ward in the Afghan capital of Kabul
that left at least 24 people dead, including mothers
and newborns, and 16 people injured. While the U.S. blames ISIS’s wing in Afghanistan
for the attack, Kabul blames the Taliban. Breitbart
News’ Ramadan count did not assign the responsibility
for the attack to either group, but as both potential
culprits subscribe to jihadist ideology, the attack is
almost certainly jihadist in nature.
Early this year, the United States and the Taliban
signed a preliminary agreement
to pave the way for intra-Afghan negotiations and the
withdrawal of U.S.-led foreign forces.
The vast majority of the victims of the Ramadan
attacks are Muslims.
Breitbart News recorded some attacks by militants
from unknown groups using Improvised Explosive Devices
(IED) in areas within the Sahel
region of Africa, Afghanistan,
Pakistan,
and Syria, known
to
be jihadi hotbeds. IED is a preferred weapon of jihadis,
known to urge their members and
supporters to engage in jihad on Ramadan, believing
that martyrs will get extra rewards in paradise.
Despite these attempts, violence is entirely
dissonant with Ramadan for most Muslims. Most of them
follow the tradition of abstaining from eating,
drinking, smoking, having sex, and other physical
needs each day, starting from before the break of dawn
until sunset during Ramadan.
Breitbart News primarily gleans its tally
from the Religion of Peace website and the Armed
Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)
in coordination with news and government reports.
This report only includes incidents where Breitbart
News has corroborated those reports and online
entities that monitor jihadi activity. It also omits
attacks where the jihadist nature of the perpetrators
is not clear, including attacks where no group has
taken responsibility in an area where terrorists of
non-jihadist ideologies are also present.
The overall number of attacks and the associated
casualties could be higher, given that Breitbart News
is not able to confirm all incidents. Moreover,
monitor groups do not document all terror events
online. Death and injury figures may change as
some victims succumb to their wounds.
For the most part, the tally excludes casualties
suffered by jihadis. Some of the documented incidents
in Syria may inadvertently include deaths and injuries
sustained by rebel groups with Islamic terrorist ties.
All the terrorist attacks so far during Ramadan 2020,
as documented by Breitbart News, include:
Mississippi Church that Refused to Obey Lockdown
Orders Burned Down by Arsonist Who Leaves
Message
Red State
April 21,
2020
by Brandon
Morse
The
burnt ruins of the Greater Union Baptist Church, one
of three that recently burned down in St. Landry
Parish, are seen in Opelousas, La., Wednesday, April
10, 2019. The first fire occurred March 26 at St.
Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre, and the second
happened April 2 at Greater Union Baptist Church in
Opelousas. On April 4, Mount Pleasant caught fire.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
For
some time, a Mississippi church has been defying
government orders to keep lockdown rules in place in
order to hold services as is the American’s
constitutional right to do so. However, one arsonist
took it into his own hands to make churchgoers
suffer for practicing said rights.
According
to Fox News, the
Holly Springs church was burned down on Wednesday,
and while police are investigating it as an arson,
the arsonist left a message for churchgoers with
spraypaint:
The
First Pentecostal Church of Holly Springs in Mississippi burned
down
early Wednesday morning. The congregation had
been in a legal battle to continue holding
services despite the novel coronavirus outbreak
and
subsequent lockdown orders.
The
building went up in flames between 2-4 a.m.
Investigators said the church was spray-painted with
graffiti before an explosion blew out the front of
the building, according to
Fox 13. Maj. Kelly McMillian of
the Marshall Count Sheriff’s Department
confirmed the fire to be a criminal act of arson.
Thomas
More Society senior counsel and lawyer for the
church, Stephen Crampton, spoke with Fox News about
the fire and said the
perpetrators spray-painted a message that read,
“I Bet you stay home now you hypokrits.”
Crampton
noted that churches all over the nation have put
targets on their backs thanks to their firm stance
on practicing their right to freedom of religion.
“We’re
in a time where I don’t think it’s any secret that
there’s a growing hostility toward churches, across
the board,” Crampton said. “And now, here are
churches like First Pentecostal that are sort of
stirring up the waters by being outspoken and
somewhat firm about seeking to protect their
Constitutional rights.”
He
added, “They’ve had bad comments [sent their way] on
social media. … There is just a segment that takes
issue with the church standing up, and the church
just being the church.”
FBI
discussed interviewing Michael Flynn 'to get him
to lie' and 'get him fired,' handwritten notes
show
Gregg Re
Fox News
April 29, 2020
Explosive
new internal FBI documents unsealed Wednesday show
that top bureau officials discussed their
motivations for interviewing then-national security
adviser Michael Flynn in the White
House in January 2017 -- and openly questioned
if their "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we
can prosecute him or get him fired."
The
handwritten notes -- written by the FBI's
former head of counterintelligence Bill
Priestap after a meeting with then-FBI Director
James Comey and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe, Fox News is told -- further
suggested that agents planned in the
alternative to get Flynn "to admit to breaking the
Logan Act" when he spoke to then-Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential
transition period.
The
Logan Act is an obscure statute that has never been
used in a criminal prosecution; enacted in 1799 in
an era before telephones, it was intended to prevent
individuals from falsely claiming to represent the
United States government abroad.
"What
is our goal?" one of the notes read.
"Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can
prosecute him or get him fired?"
The
handwritten notes are devastating evidence of an
effort to disregard all standing protocols and
rules, Sidney Powell said
"If
we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give
facts to DOJ + have them decide," another
note read. Constitutional law professor
Jonathan Turley called the document's implications
"chilling."
The
memo appears to weigh the pros and cons of pursuing
those different paths. "I don't see how getting
someone to admit their wrongdoing is going easy on
him," one note reads. Flynn did not
ultimately admit to wrongdoing in the
interview.
The
document indicates that the agents at least
discussed the merits of a by-the-book approach:
"If we’re seen as playing games, WH [White House]
will be furious."
The
bombshell materials
strongly suggested the agents weren't truly
concerned about Flynn's intercepted contacts with
Kislyak during the presidential transition period,
except as a pretext.
'This is deeper than a cover-up': Rose McGowan
denounces Democratic party, calls the media a cult
McGowan is angry over
the hypocrisy on sexual allegations against Joe
Biden
The Blaze by Carlos Garcia April 29, 2020
Actress Rose McGowan denounced the Democrat party and
the media in an emotional post calling both a "cult"
that only pretended to be "the good guys."
McGowan, who sounded the alarm against sexual predator
Harvey Weinstein but went unheeded, posted her comments
on social media on Wednesday.
"I used to be a proud Democrat. I would have died for
this damned country & its ideals. I was raised to be
a proud Democrat," she said, explaining how much she
supported the party in her youth.
"And I was always told it was the Democratic Party that
were the good guys, that our papers were [the New York
Times] and [the Washington Post] & we as a family
loved listening to [All Things Considered] & we'd
talk about how much we loved [Ira Glass'] voice," she
continued.
"But now i know too much," McGowan said.
"And I feel really quite a sense of loss tonight. I am
not a cynical person, but America goddamn. Republicans
have always been painted as the bad guys, and i've
always seen them more as a cult, but now i realize so
are the democrats and the media. Macro and micro," she
continued.
"This is deeper than a cover-up," McGowan concluded.
"And I'm sad because there's death around all corners
& shadows in the daytime. It hurts."
McGowan did not elaborate on why she was denouncing the
Democrat party, but it was likely because so many on the
left were defending Joe Biden against allegations of
sexual assault. In another tweet from Monday, McGowan
excoriated Biden over the assault claims.
"Answer your taxpayers, answer Tara Reade, stop speaking
through your manager," she said.
"You are a creep. You know it," McGowan added. "We know
it. I know it. Tara definitely knows it."
Click here to read the article on The Blaze
FAUCI AND BIRX BOTH HAVE BIG-MONEY BILL GATES
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Faces of coronavirus pandemic response connected to
globalists
(your)NEWS by Patrick Howley April 4, 2020
President Donald Trump is fighting to find a medical
solution for Coronavirus in the short term, expressing
hope that the anti-malaria drug
Chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine can help patients
suffering from the Chinese virus.
The truth is that President Donald Trump is locked in
an intense power struggle with Bill Gates, who is
pushing his vaccines, which may not be available to
the public until after November’s election. Gates has
a lot of pull in the medical world, he has a
multi-million dollar relationship with Dr. Fauci, and
Fauci originally took the Gates line supporting
vaccines and casting doubt on Chloroquine.
Coronavirus response team member Dr. Deborah Birx,
appointed by former president Obama to serve as United
States Global AIDS Coordinator, also sits on the board
of a group that has received billions from Gates’
foundation, and Birx reportedly used a disputed Bill
Gates-funded model for the White Houses’ Coronavirus
effort. Gates is a big proponent for a population
lockdown scenario for the Coronavirus outbreak.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
(NIAID, a division of National Institutes of Health,
NIH) director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is represented by
the Aurumn Speakers Bureau, initially criticized
Trump’s hopeful assessment of Chloroquine, saying in
an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that “There’s
no magic drug for coronavirus right now,” and
lectured, “Let me put it into perspective for the
viewers .. there has been anecdotal non-proven data
that it [chloroquine] works… but when you have an
uncontrolled trial you can never definitely say that
it works.”
But now Fauci has changed his tune and launched a
public relations campaign huddling closer to Trump.
Fauci said that he would definitely prescribe
Chloroquine for patients. “Yeah, of course,
particularly if people have no other option. These
drugs are approved drugs for other reasons. They’re
anti-malaria drugs, and they’re drugs against certain
autoimmune diseases like lupus. Physicians throughout
the country can prescribe that in an off-label way.
Which means they can write it for something it was not
approved for.”
U.S. government jumps in to protect church rights
amid coronavirus
'There is no pandemic exception to the fundamental
liberties the Constitution safeguards'
World Net Daily By WND staff
April 14, 2020
Joining a lawsuit by a Baptist church, the U.S.
Justice Department is warning officials in Greenville,
Mississippi, they must recognize "there is no pandemic
exception to the fundamental liberties the
Constitution safeguards" in their response to the
coronavirus.
"Individual rights secured by the Constitution do not
disappear during a public health crisis," the DOJ said
in a brief filed in a case brought by Temple Baptist
Church against the city.
"These individual rights, including the protections in
the Bill of Rights made applicable to the states
through the 14th Amendment, are always in force and
restrain government action."
The church sued after the city fined people for
sitting in their cars in the church parking lot to
listen to a sermon by the pastor broadcast through a
radio signal.
The Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Temple
Baptist.
"In Greenville, you can be in your car with the
windows rolled down at a drive-in restaurant, but you
can’t be in your car with the windows rolled up at a
drive-in church service," said ADF spokesman Ryan
Tucker.
"To target churches that way is both nonsensical and
unconstitutional," he said. "This is why we have asked
the court for a temporary restraining order to
immediately halt enforcement of the city’s order while
our lawsuit moves forward, and it’s also why the U.S.
government has filed a statement of interest that
urges the court to rule in the church’s favor."
First Liberty Institute is representing King James
Bible Baptist in Greenville and On Fire Christian
Church in Louisville in similar cases.
"We welcome Attorney General Barr's defense of
religious liberty during this critical time," said
spokesman Kelly Shackelford. "In too many instances,
as religious Americans have sought to abide by
important public health guidelines during this
pandemic they have been singled out for restrictions
that go beyond what the CDC requires. We are grateful
to the attorney general and the Department of Justice
for assisting in the defense of religious liberty for
all Americans."
'Shocking' list of what's killed the most people in
2020
Coronavirus is at bottom of list compared to
everyday killers
World Net Daily By Joe Kovacs Published April 1, 2020 at 5:09pm
With millions of Americans concerned about
coronavirus, radio host Rush Limbaugh is providing
some perspective on the actual number of fatalities
from COVID-19 compared to those from other causes.
On his Wednesday broadcast, Limbaugh cited a list from
worldometers.info that rounded up the worldwide deaths
from Jan. 1 through March 25 of 2020: "Coronavirus: 21,000 deaths. Seasonal flu: 113,000. Malaria: 228,000. Suicide: 249,000. Traffic fatalities, 313, almost 314,000 deaths. HIV/AIDS, 391,000 deaths. Alcohol related deaths, 581,000. Smoking-related deaths, 1,162,000. Cancer deaths, 1,909,000 deaths. Deaths attributed to starvation, 2,382,000
deaths. And death by abortion, 9,900,000."
"I'm not trying to make any correlation," Limbaugh
explained.
"I'm not trying to say, 'Hey, we're overreacting to
coronavirus death.' I'm just giving you the stats
here. You can react to these stats however you wish."
He added: "You still have some really shocking
numbers. Because we don't talk about it. We got
suicide hotlines. We try to teach people to drive
safely. We do whatever we do with HIV/AIDS. We tell
people to drink responsibly, tell people not to smoke,
try to devise cancer treatments, we try to feed
people."
Limbaugh even mentioned efforts by his hometown of
Palm Beach, Florida: "The town website where I live is
chiding people for being on the beach, for standing
too close together while their dogs are pooping. I
mean, you wouldn't believe it. I've seen it all."
March 5, 2020
The RELIGION OF PEACE website should be pinned to
the top of this page for it provides the most recent and
comprehensive accounting of the evils perpetrated by
Islamic terrorists.
A March 2, 2020 article in the British The Guardian
notes the recent casualties in Afghanistan since the end
of the partial "reduction of violence".
A March 5, 2020 article in the Jerusalem Post notes "The
Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Ken
Roth, accepted a major donation from a Saudi real estate
tycoon by promising not to support advocacy of the LGBT
community in the Middle East and North Africa."
An easy name to remember, https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
is your go-to place to keep track of the treacherous
miscreants.
Planned Parenthood alone will murder 345,000
children this year. Some of those children will be
born and butchered alive...and it's legal.
I've been asked a lot lately why we at Liberty Counsel
are pushing so hard to enact the Born-Alive Bill into
law. The most common question we receive is "Why do
we need a new law — aren't babies protected from murder
after birth?"
The sad truth is that there exists a loophole in our
legal system whereby survivors of abortion — fully born,
living, breathing infants — are not treated as actual,
living human beings in the eyes of the law.
Worse yet, as our client Sandra Merritt exposed in her
earth-shattering videos, unscrupulous abortionists are
taking advantage of this loophole in order to deliver
babies alive — then chopping their living bodies up for
sale to the "research" market because organs
harvested from living babies command a higher sale price
than organs harvested from aborted corpses.
The sheer number of such questions we have fielded
lately underscores the ever-present need for what we do
here at Liberty Counsel. The cases we handle — like
Sandra Merritt's — are just as important as the
education we provide to the public, to the members of
Congress and to the Trump administration.
The Lord has called all of us here at Liberty Counsel to
be defenders of truth. But without you, we can neither
defend the legal rights of Christians under attack in
the courtroom, nor can we defend the rights of the
unborn in Washington, DC, by educating elected officials
on the horrors of abortion.
Over 60 million children have been lost to abortion in
America since 1973's unconstitutional Roe V. Wade
ruling. As I mentioned earlier, Planned Parenthood alone
will butcher another 345,000 this year. And some of
those children will continue to be butchered ALIVE.
Please, help fund the fight for their lives today.
Tuesday's cloture vote on the Born-Alive bill, which was
needed to end the Democrat filibuster preventing a full
vote, did not go our way. BUT we made a lot of progress
in pulling reluctant legislators to our side on this
issue, including earning the votes of all six "swing"
votes!
We will continue to fight the Democrat filibuster, even
as we work to change the hearts and minds of every
representative and senator in the United States
Congress. Our fight will not be finished until every
baby enjoys the right to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness!
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Disney Announces First Official LGBTQ Character in
Kid's Movie
February 27, 2020 American Family AFA.net
Let Disney know your family won't see this movie!
Alerting all parents! We need your help to make sure as
many people as possible are aware of Disney pushing the
LGBTQ agenda on families, particularly children, in the
upcoming animated movie Onward, set to hit theaters
Friday, March 6.
The character of Officer Specter, voiced by openly gay
Lena Waithe, is a purple lesbian Cyclops whose dialogue
reveals her sexuality. In one scene, Specter and her
police partner Officer Gore, voiced by Ali Wong, pull
over a driver who claims he was distracted by the bad
behavior of his girlfriend’s sons. Specter empathizes by
saying, "My girlfriend's daughter got me pulling my hair
out."
There have been numerous attempts by Disney to
indoctrinate children with the LGBTQ agenda discretely
and now more overtly. In 2019, Disney proudly admitted
to there being a gay couple in the animated children's
series Star Wars Resistance.
In the past, there were mostly speculations about the
inclusion of LGBTQ characters by Disney. For example,
Disney's Finding Dory (2016) briefly depicts a lesbian
couple in one scene. The live-action remake of Beauty
and the Beast (2017) continued testing the waters with a
brief implication that LeFou was gay. And more recently,
Toy Story 4 (2019) showed two moms in the background
dropping their child off at school then returning to
pick up the child, who hugs them. It is obvious that the
child has two mothers, and they are parenting together.
These scenes are subtle in order to desensitize
children. But now Disney has traded its subtlety for
intentionality. Please
click here to read the article in its entirety.
Shocking Honesty: Virginia Democrats Really Are
Targeting Churches
25 February 2020
The Family Foundation
Gone are the [short-lived] days of “You can have
religious liberty as long as you keep it inside the four
walls of your church.” Even that sentiment has now
become a relic of the past. Now it’s about making sure
that churches, religious schools, and nonprofit
ministries with Biblical and historical viewpoints can
no longer continue to function consistent with their
core faith tenets. As the new Democrat majority has made
crystal clear over and over throughout this process,
they truly do intend to use the coercive power of the
state to purge many religious groups of their basic
religious orientation and identity – all in the name of
elevating the notions of disordered sexual orientation
and identity.
Yesterday, as Democrats passed SB 868 (D-Ebbin) 54-46 on
the House floor, we witnessed yet another revealing
round of “Simon Says.” Delegate Marcus Simon
(D-Fairfax), increasingly acting as spokesperson for his
fellow Democrats, continues to squelch all doubts as to
the intent and the impacts of their SOGI (Sexual
Orientation- Gender Identification) legislation for
faith-based individuals and organizations who maintain
traditional, orthodox and frankly just scientific
positions about the nature of marriage and human
sexuality. Delegate Simon AGAIN made it emphatically
clear that the primary purpose of their main SOGI bill
is to prevent religious groups, including churches,
synagogues, and schools from operating in accordance
with their core faith tenets in the areas of sexual
conduct and identity.
Israel and Palestine have been in conflict
for decades over various political issues such
as borders, refugees and the control of
Jerusalem.
Under Mr Trump's new plan, Jerusalem will
remain as Israel's capital but it has been
rejected by Palestinian leaders.
The conflict between Israel and Palestine has
been going on for more than 100 years, so
there's a lot to try and get your head around,
but we've broken it down for you here.
This youtube video from
a 2010 panel discussion that includes
Franklin Graham, also features Anjem
Choudary a radical Islamist miscreant who
just last year (2019) got out of jail after
three years incarcerated in the U.K. As time
passses a number of his toadies are also
being released.
Ten years have passed,
and God Bless America!, the Islamic flag has
not yet flown over the White House, or the
British Parliament as Choudary predicted.
But we must remain vigilant and know that
this evil enemy does not rest.
Dr. Dobson: we Must Support
Initiatives That Promote Religious Liberty
in US and Around the World
11-10-2019
CBN News
We are facing an epidemic of
religious persecution worldwide, unlike
anything seen in modern history. A recent
report prepared for the British government
found that an estimated 80% of this
persecution is being perpetrated on followers
of Christ. Indeed, this report found that
religious oppression was “arguably coming
close to meeting the international definition
of genocide.”
Every month:
255 Christians are killed 104 are abducted 180 Christian women are raped, sexually
harassed or forced into marriage 66 churches are attacked 160 Christians are detained without
trial and imprisoned
These statistics represent
individual followers of Christ. Have you heard
their stories? Do you pray for the families of
martyrs who die for their faith? Their plight
is desperate!
But there is hope.
In September, President Donald
Trump delivered a historic address at the
United Nations on the issue of religious
freedom. Because his message was largely
ignored by the media, I am posting an excerpt
below. What you will read here is
administration policy.
The United States is founded on
the principle that our rights do not come from
government; they come from God. This immortal
truth is proclaimed in our Declaration of
Independence and enshrined in the First
Amendment to our Constitution’s Bill of
Rights. Our founders understood that no right
is more fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous,
and virtuous society than the right to follow
one’s religious convictions.
Regrettably, the religious
freedom enjoyed by American citizens is rare
in the world. Approximately 80% of the world’s
population lives in countries where religious
liberty is threatened, restricted or even
banned...
Today, with one clear voice, the
United States of America calls upon the
nations of the world to end religious
persecution.
'Uphold Our
Constitution': Trump Marks Major Milestone
with Appointment of 150th Federal Judge
CBNNews.com
11-07-2019
Ben Kennedy
WASHINGTON – President Trump just celebrated
the appointment of his 150th federal judge on
Wednesday – a huge milestone that will have a
lasting impact long after the president leaves
office.
These lifetime appointments will impact the
federal judiciary for decades to come on big
issues like abortion to religious rights.
"A truly momentous achievement," Trump said.
"They will uphold our Constitution as written.
These distinguished men and women are some of
the most gifted scholars, respected jurists,
and finest legal minds ever placed on the
federal bench."
Of the 179 positions on the circuit court, 43
are occupied by President Trump's nominees.
Four seats are currently open with five more
expected to become vacant soon.
In comparison, President Obama nominated 55
circuit judges during his entire 8 years in
office.
"Percentage wise you'll never beat one man and
you know who that is, George Washington,
100%," said Trump. "But in terms of, I would
like to say quality and quantity, we are going
to be just about number one by the time we
finish."
But confirming these nominees hasn't always
been easy.
Democrats and liberal groups have ramped up
their opposition against conservatives, like
Amy Coney Barrett who was criticized for her
Catholic faith.
And most recently, Lawrence VanDyke was
accused by the ABA of bias against LGBTQ
people.
"He's done work for groups like Alliance for
Defending Freedom and that flags him as oh you
must be someone who will be unfair for example
to LGBT litigants before him which he said
they unfairly said that he wouldn't say he
would be fair to all litigants and that's not
true," Judicial Crisis Network Carrie Severino
said. "(VanDyke said), 'I believe everyone is
made in the image and likeness of God and they
need to be treated equally'."
Severino was in the East Room during what she
calls an "exciting milestone for the
president," pointing out that it's not just
the Supreme Court that makes historic rulings.
"People don't realize more than 99% of cases
end at the appellate courts, they don't get to
the Supreme Court," said Severino.
Trump has also placed two of the nine seats on
the US Supreme Court. A move Republican
lawmakers say will define his time in office.
"The defining moment of your presidency for me
was the Kavanaugh hearing," said Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-SC). "This room would be empty if we
had failed Brett Kavanaugh."
Sweden: One in Four Women are
Afraid to Leave Their Homes
Fear being assaulted or threatened.
7 October, 2019
Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
According to a new survey, almost a quarter
of Swedish women are afraid to leave their
homes over fears they will be attacked or
sexually assaulted.
“15.3 percent of people aged 16 or older
stated that they did not want to go out in the
evening out of concern about being assaulted
or threatened. Among women, the proportion was
almost 25 percent,” reports Statistics Sweden.
As we reported back in August, sales of pepper
spray in some areas of Sweden have surged as
much as 90 per cent amidst concerns over the
country’s rape problem.
After a string of four sexual assaults and
rapes in the span of five nights, Swedish
police in numerous cities advised women to not
walk alone at night and to go home early.
Figures released last year found that 58 per
cent of convicted rapists and 85 per cent of
all convicted assault rapists in Sweden were
born outside of Europe.
In cases where the victim did not know the
attacker, the proportion of foreign offenders
was more than 80 per cent. Nearly 40 per cent
of the convicted rapists are from the Middle
East or from Africa, areas of the world from
which Sweden has accepted large numbers of
migrants in recent years.
A study by the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet
found that 88 per cent of gang rapists in the
Scandinavian country over the last six years
have had a migrant background.
Other figures show that migrants from
Muslim-majority nations commit 84 per cent of
“very violent” rapes in Sweden.
A BBC investigation has uncovered a
secret world of sexual exploitation of
children and young women by religious figures.
Clerics are grooming vulnerable girls in Iraq
and offering them for sex, using a
controversial religious practice known as
“pleasure marriage”.
Warning: Some readers may find some of these
details upsetting
Rusul woke to find herself alone. Her new
husband had gone. The marriage had lasted just
three hours.
It wasn't the teenager's first marriage. It
wasn't even her second, third or fourth. In
fact she's been married too many times for her
to count.
Rusul's harrowing way of life was triggered by
an encounter when she was at work... Click
here if you have the stomach for it to
read the report about an ongoing practice
of the religion of peace in its
entirety at the BBC website.
Oct. 3, 2019 A recent CBS poll addressed the most
recent "impeachment" attack on President
Trump by the Washington swamp. The results
of the poll show more about the intent of
the mainstream broadcast network to shape
opinion rather than to enumerate
people's opinions. Sharyl Attkisson took a
close look at this CBS poll. Their own
results indicate that most people
recognize these "impeachment" proceedings
are just another attempt to harrass the
president, and overturn the people's
choice of president in the 2016 election.
CBS Poll Shows
Majority Of Americans Across All Parties
Think Latest Impeachment Talk Just To Hurt
Trump’s Re-Election
"As media outlets rushed to
report recent polls showing Americans favor
an impeachment inquiry into President Donald
Trump, a closer examination of those polls
reveals far more about their bias.
It first should be noted that
it is expected that after weeks of the media
blasting headlines about Trump’s alleged
crimes and violations it comes as no
surprise that polls indicate Americans also
think Trump has committed crimes. Former CBS
reporter Sharyl Attkisson went a step
further, diving into the CBS poll, which
showed a majority of Americans favored the
impeachment of Trump.
Attkisson looked into the poll
for her column at The Hill, and discovered
that while a majority did claim they favored
an impeachment inquiry into Trump (55% to
45%), the poll overly sampled Democrats.
“A check of the poll data
shows it interviewed 124 more Democrats than
Republicans. That’s a statistically
significant difference — 6 percentage points
more Democrats than Republicans,” Attkisson
wrote. “Assuming, for the sake of argument,
that Democrats and Republicans generally
respond along party lines, a sample that
looked at 6 percentage points more
Republicans instead of Democrats would blow
the ‘headline’ that ‘a majority of
Americans’ favors the impeachment inquiry.
It would, theoretically, change the
pro-impeachment inquiry majority to a
minority: 49 percent favoring the
impeachment inquiry, and 51 percent
opposing.”
....
Finally, Attkisson pointed
out, a majority from each party – Democrats,
Republicans, and Independents – said they
believed the “primary goal of the Democrats’
impeachment inquiry is to ‘politically
damage Donald Trump’s presidency and his
reelection.’”
Of course, this doesn’t mean
everything is looking positive for Trump,
but as Attkisson concluded: “we already are
seeing the continuation of a trend that
proved problematic in 2015 and 2016: polls
being used to try to shape public opinion,
rather than to measure it.”
Please
click here to read the article in
its entirety at ConservativeMedia.com
Trump Stands Up for Religious Freedom
He champions the issue at the U.N. more
vigorously than any of his predecessors.
Wall Street Journal Opinion/Commentary By Kelsey Zorzi Sept. 23, 2019 6:55 pm ET
President Trump isn’t known as a champion of
human rights, but on Monday he became the
first American president to convene a meeting
at the United Nations on religious freedom. He
kicked off the U.N. General Assembly’s annual
session with a “Global Call to Protect
Religious Freedom.”
Flanked by Secretary-General António Guterres
and Vice President Mike Pence, the president
declared: “No right is more fundamental to a
peaceful, prosperous, flourishing society than
religious freedom, yet it is rare around the
world. As we speak, many people of faith are
being jailed, murdered, often at the hands of
their own government.” More than 80% of the
world’s population lived in nations that
restrict religious freedom as of 2009, and the
situation hasn’t improved, according to Pew
Research.
Mr. Trump is also scheduled to hold bilateral
meetings with several world leaders, including
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.
Administration officials say he will speak to
them about violations of the human rights of
religious minorities, including Christians.
Topics will likely include Pakistan’s
blasphemy laws and Egypt’s Islamic extremist
groups.
Mr. Trump’s call to action was the culmination
of a series of advances on international
religious freedom over the past two years.
U.S. officials at the U.N. have repeatedly
issued statements indicating that religious
freedom is America’s top human-rights
priority. In July the State Department hosted
its second annual Ministerial to Advance
Religious Freedom in Washington. Officials
from more than 100 countries and more than
1,000 civil-society leaders gathered to
discuss the subject. Mr. Trump played a
pivotal role in several religious-freedom
victories, including the acquittal of Asia
Bibi, a Pakistani Christian accused of
blasphemy, and the freeing of Pastor Andrew
Brunson after two years in Turkish captivity.
Mr. Brunson attended Monday’s event.
At the U.N., Mr. Trump announced that the U.S.
is committing $25 million to religious-freedom
efforts and launching a coalition of
businesses for religious freedom. A few weeks
ago the administration launched the
International Religious Freedom Alliance, the
first international body devoted to advancing
religious freedom. The alliance is intended to
“build on efforts to date and bring
like-minded countries together to confront
challenges of international religious
freedom,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said
in his keynote address at the July
ministerial.
After the U.S. pulled out from the U.N. Human
Rights Council last year, some wondered if the
U.S. would withdraw from the U.N. altogether.
Mr. Trump has now made clear that he intends
to engage the U.N. system where it has
potential to make a positive impact on those
suffering human-rights abuses, particularly
abuses of the right to freedom of religion. As
the president said, it’s an issue of “urgent
moral duty” for all nations.
Linda Sarsour Is Now
Bernie Sander’s Campaign Surrogate
The Clarion Project by Meira Svirsky September 11, 2019
Bernie Sanders has teamed up with Linda
Sarsour, who is now working as Sander’s
campaign surrogate...
Linda Sarsour is an Islamist activist with
ties to Muslim Brotherhood and terror-linked
organizations, sharia-apologist and
self-identified feminist (except, we might
assume, when her feminist stances would
conflict with sharia law – which we can assume
is quite often).
Quite the personality for a candidate for the
American president to be aligned with.
Yet for us, the voters, it’s nice to have such
clarity about a candidate. Click
here to read the article in it's entirety at
the Clarion Project.
Ilhan Omar Challenged in Minnesota by Muslim
Reformers
The Clarion Project September 8, 2019
Muslim reformers are challenging the Islamist
narrative Congresswoman Ilhan Omar represents
— and they’re taking this challenge straight
to her district in Minnesota by holding a
“Muslim town hall.”
The video is a dig at Omar who bashed Ani
Zonneveld, president of Muslims for
Progressive Values, for asking Omar a question
about female genital mutilation (FGM).
Zonneveld asked Omar to make a statement
against FGM, to which Omar launched into a
tirade against Zonneveld, calling her request
an “appalling question.” Please
click here to read the full article
including the video.
Hard to imagine a
woman in the West making this defense, but
then again...
Canadian Muslim Scholar Explains Why
Pedophilia is Ok in Islam
What the Top Democrat 2020 Presidential
Candidates Believe About Israel In Their
Own Words
Christian Broadcasting Network 07-17-2019 Emily Jones
This article lays out the beliefs of the
(currently) to Democrat presidential
candidates- Joe Biden, Corey Booker, Bernie
Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and
Pete Buttigieg regarding their stance of
Israel. Click
here to read the article on the Christian
Broadcasting Network.
Florida- Federal indictment: Suspect sent
bomb threats to judges 'for cause of Islamic
State'
Jeffrey Schweers Tallahassee Democrat Published 11:20 a.m. ET June 20, 2019 |
Updated 12:24 p.m. ET June 20, 2019
A former inmate at Blackwater River Correctional
Institution in Milton claimed he threatened to
blow up the secretary of state and several
judges around Florida "for the cause of the
Islamic State," a federal indictment issued this
week said.
Noah D. Stirn, 24, was indicted on 12 counts
June 18 relating to letters to state and federal
agencies he allegedly sent out while a state
inmate between April and May. The letters
threatened to use "C4" and "car bombs" to do
harm to public officials, Lawrence Keefe, U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Florida,
announced today.
He was originally charged by a criminal
complaint sworn out by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. The FBI affidavit said Stirn
admitted to writing threatening letters to the
Florida Secretary of State, the Social Security
Administration, and several U.S. courts in
Pensacola, Miami, Gainesville, Panama City and
Tallahassee.
“Truth is great and will prevail if left
to herself, that she is the proper and
sufficient antagonist to error, and has
nothing to fear from the conflict, unless
by human interposition disarmed of her
natural weapons, free argument and debate;
errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is
permitted freely to contradict them.”
-Thomas Jefferson
May 30, 2019 United States
It is pretty clear that a group of
Somali teenagers were up to some
intimidating mischief one May 17, 2019,
Friday evening recently at a train station
in Minneapolis. There were probably about
8-10 of them, some were "ring leaders" and
some no doubt hangers-on.Several
were identified and arrested, not much has
been said partially because of their youth.Looking
at the following news and opinion links,
you’ll be able to judge the editorial bias
of the publishers.
Snopes, the long time bastion of
liberal truth and fiction, minimizes
the event because it doesn’t help the
liberal agenda when immigrant youths
misbehave. Snopes was quick to note that
there was no racial motivation- Snopes being
the only source I found that mentioned
“racial” anything.
As the ostrich with its head in the
sand, some reporting veered far around the
fact that young Muslim Somali immigrants
were not assimilating into our peaceful
culture. Other websites did note the facts.
The “progressive” leftists were quick to
note that the physical violence resulting
from their "hammers" or "bars" may not have
been as great as some (evidently
fear-mongering islamaphobic) sources
reported.
The local government and agencies
seemed to minimize the event, the ostrich
posture no doubt beneficial to their tourist
and university treasuries’ interests.
If you have some time on your
hands, visit these websites for a reminder
or lesson in information and
dis-information.
Is "FAKE-NEWS" in the eye of beholder? Pray for
wisdom and discernment, as we are bombarded with
assaults of various kinds including
leftist controlled media.
Clarence Thomas: Abortion for eugenics 'not
hypothetical'
Posted By Bob Unruh
On 05/28/2019 @ 12:48 pm
at World Net Daily
Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday bluntly
warned the other justices on the U.S. Supreme
Court they need to start acting on various
abortion-law cases because of the industry’s
threat “to achieve eugenic goals.”
That, he warned in a concurring opinion, “is not
merely hypothetical.”
The case centered on a law in Indiana that
banned abortions based on sex or disability and
required the state to ensure deceased unborn
infants are provided a “proper burial.”
A lower court blocked the law, and the Supreme
Court on Tuesday allowed the requirement for
“proper burial” but continued a block on the ban
on eugenics in abortions.
One nation faces brand-new terror dilemma in
schools
World Net Daily On 05/27/2019 @ 6:27 pm
The Netherlands now has two Islamic middle
schools, and one has ties to terrorism, reports
the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
Terror expert Jelle van Buuren of Leiden
University told IPT that when “we used to talk
about jihad, we were always fixated on bombs and
Kalashnikovs.”
“Now, we find ourselves looking more at
intolerance, and the spread of ideologies. The
problem is: if you arrest someone with a
Kalashnikov, it’s basic. But what do you do with
clubs that use democratic rights to undermine
democratic values?”
Writing for IPT, Abigail Esman, author of
“Radical State: How Jihad Is Winning Over
Democracy in the West,” said it was Dutch
intelligence and counterterrorism agencies that
determined in March that one of the schools has
a tie to violent jihad.
The “Equality Act” Specifically Targets
Religious Freedom
By Gregory S. Baylor Alliance Defending Freedom May 23, 2019
The badly misnamed “Equality Act” was introduced
in both houses of Congress in March, and it was
passed by the House of Representatives in May.
If passed by the Senate and signed into law, it
would add “sexual orientation” and “gender
identity” as protected classes to existing laws
banning discrimination in places of public
accommodation (like hotels and restaurants),
employment, housing, and by recipients of
federal financial assistance (among other
things).
But what many might not realize is that this
legislation specifically targets our
constitutional right to religious freedom.
Jihad Watch May 21, 2019 1:00 pm By Daniel Greenfield
Imam
Siraj Wahhaj has been in the news lately
because of the family terrorist training
camps. He’s also an unindicted co-onspirator
in the World Trade Center bombing.
So,
of course, the Philly Tribune runs an
uncomplicated photo montage of him encouraging
the “Muslim community” to go out there and
vote.“Imam Siraj Wahhaj encourages members of
the Muslim community to get out and vote.”
But
we know what kind of political system the Imam
is in favor of and it’s not democracy.“Islam
is better than democracy. Allah will cause his
deen [Islam as a complete way of life], Islam,
to prevail over every kind of system, and you
know what? It will happen.
Especially
in America.
“Wherever
you came from, you came to America. And you
came for one reason—for one reason only—to
establish Allah’s deen [Islam as a complete
way of life], as a servant of Allah.”
Wahhaj
has long supported every facet of Sharia Law,
including its call for brutal punishments like
the removal of one’s hands as the penalty for
theft, and death by stoning as the penalty for
adultery. By Wahhaj’s reckoning, such harsh
measures are wholly justified by Islamic
scripture. As he proclaimed in a May 1992
sermon: “I would cut off the hands of my own
daughter [if she stole] because Allah stands
for Justice.” On another occasion, Wahhaj
said: “If Allah says 100 strikes, 100 strikes
it is. If Allah says cut off their hand, you
cut off their hand. If Allah says stone them
to death, through the Prophet Muhammad, then
you stone them to death, because it’s the
obedience of Allah and his messenger—nothing
personal.”
Imagine
if the media actually reporting on Imams the
way it reports on traditional Christian and
Jewish clergy.
Lest anyone think Islam is a “cruel religion,” a
Qatari sociologist has uploaded a video to an
Arabic YouTube channel in which he demonstrates
the proper “Islamic” way to beat one’s wife.
Abd Al-Aziz Al-Khazraj Al-Ansari, who uploaded
the video March 29 to the Al-Mojtama YouTube
channel, explained husbands don’t need to beat
their wives frequently, but occasionally it’s
necessary “out of love” so that “life can move
on,” according to the Middle East Media Research
Institute, which translated the video from
Arabic.
“How does a husband beat his wife? He gives her
a disciplinary beating out of love. He loves
her. The beating should be light, and must make
the wife feel her femininity and her husband’s
masculinity,” Al-Ansari said.
In the video, he demonstrates with a boy, Nayef,
who presumably is his son.
Nigerian
Muslim Militants Kill 120 Christians in
Three Weeks
breitbart.com
Thomas
D Williams
March 16, 2019
The recent death toll of Christians in
Nigeria has reached 120 with this week’s
slaughter of more than 50 by Fulani Muslim
militants in the Kaduna state of Nigeria, the
Christian Post reported.
The Fulani jihadists, who have become a greater
threat to Nigerian Christians than the Islamist
terror group Boko Haram, stormed the villages of
Inkirimi, Dogonnoma, and Ungwan Gora in the
Kajuru Local Government Area last Monday,
destroying 143 homes, killing 52 people, and
wounding dozens more.
The assailants reportedly split into three
groups, the first of which fired upon the
people, the second set fire to buildings, and
the third chased down people fleeing from the
scene. Victims of the assault included women and
children.
Monday’s incident followed an attack the day
before in the Ungwan Barde village in Kajuru,
where 17 Christians were killed and dozens of
homes were burned.
In the first week of March, Muslim extremists
massacred more than 30 Christians in Karamar
village, setting fire to several houses and a
church. The terrorists reportedly shot at
families trying to escape the fire, killing 32.
The spate of recent attacks against communities
has taken place within the predominantly
Christian Adara chiefdom of southern Kaduna.
The governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai,
has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the Kajuru
Local Government Area to try to contain the
violence.
In late February, militants attacked the Maro
village, killing 38 Christians and torching
homes as well as a Christian church.
by FRC Action senior
writers frcaction.org March 14, 2019
The original U.S.
Constitution can survive a bomb, a massive
fire -- even a nuclear blast. But can it
survive the House majority’s agenda? Based on
their latest bill, no one is quite sure.
Some reporters at yesterday’s Equality Act
press conference wondered if they were at a
party. And in retrospect, maybe they were --
the Left’s farewell to the First Amendment.
Religious liberty and free speech have had a
good run, but as far as Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s
(D-Calif.) concerned, they’ve stood in the
Left’s way long enough. It’s time to get back
to the business of controlling how every
American thinks, speaks, and acts on issues of
human sexuality. (How ironic that these same
people accused Republicans of being fixated on
America’s bedrooms!)
Most people were outraged by Barack Obama’s
nationwide bathroom mandate, but that’s a
conservative love pat compared to the boom
Democrats are trying to lower on mainstream
morality. If you can imagine a country without
women’s sports, boys and girls restrooms,
gender-specific pronouns, privacy, parental
rights, workplace dress codes, business
autonomy, Christian wedding vendors, and
conscience protections -- you’ve got the
Equality Act. It’s a world that hunts down and
punishes anyone who thinks differently from
the Left on gender or sexuality. And that
includes schools, businesses, food banks,
adoption agencies, homeless shelters, day
cares, faith-based ministries, and government
offices.
Picture walking into your child’s preschool
for mandatory transgender story hour. Or think
about your teenage daughter finishing gym
class and being forced to shower and change
with biological boys. Imagine being fired for
calling someone “him.” ...
11 Christians Killed Every Day for Their
Decision to Follow Jesus
By Lindy Lowry opendoorusa.org March 13, 2019
The Christian persecution we read about in
Scripture and history books is not a thing of
the past. It still exists. Today, in the 21st
century, we are living in a time when
persecution against Christian believers is the
highest in modern history. According to Open
Doors’ 2019 World Watch List—an in-depth
investigative report focusing on global
Christian persecution—persecution is increasing
at an alarming rate. Research for the List
indicates that each day, a staggering 11
Christians are killed for their faith in the top
50 countries ranked on the World Watch List.
Charges Dropped Against Christian Pastor
Arrested at Mall of America
By Anthony Gockowski The Minnesota Sun March 9, 2019
Ramin Parsa, a Christian pastor who was arrested
at the Mall of America in August and charged
with trespassing, was cleared of all charges
during a court hearing Thursday.
“Praise the Lord! The prosecution is suspended,
no more criminal charges, pleaded not guilty.
Thank you so much for your prayers. We have
resolved the criminal case and the city is not
going to prosecute me further, so the city is
out of it,” Parsa wrote on Facebook.
As The Minnesota Sun reported, Parsa runs
Redemptive Love Ministries in Los Angeles, but
visited Minnesota in August. While in the state,
he took a trip to the Mall of America and ended
up in what he has called a “random” conversation
with two Somali women.
'Bouncers':
CAIR leaders block reporter from Muslim
congresswoman
Hamas-founded group
has new allies on Capitol Hill
March 9, 2019
WND.TV
...I reported on CAIR & Linda Sarsour
anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, lobbying. CAIR reps
& backers acted as bouncers to Rashida
Tlaib’s office, blocking me from entry, then
taunting me. Done, they returned to their base.
— Asra Q. Nomani, PI March 7,
2019
Video is circulating on social media
showing far-left Muslim activist Linda Sarsour,
a co-founder of the Women’s March, ordering
accompanying leaders of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations to block a reporter
from entering the office of freshmen Muslim Rep.
Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported
Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street journal
reporter and a leader in the Muslim Reform
Movement, documented her attempt to enter
Tlaib’s office.
(See video here: https://twitter.com/AsraNomani/status/1103498928488697856/video/1)
On Tuesday, February 19, 2019,
Leah Sharibu was one year in the custody of
Boko Haram’s Islamic State of West Africa
Province (ISWAP) faction. The 16-year-old
student was abducted by the sect from
Government Girls Science and Technical
School in Dapchi, Yobe State along with
about 110 other schoolgirls.
Out of this number, Leah
Sharibu is the only schoolgirl ISWAP has
refused to let go because, according to
reports, she resisted an attempt to forcibly
convert her from Christian to Islamic faith.
In the last one year, the circumstances
surrounding her continued incarceration by
the terrorists have caused her predicament
to standout, in spite of the fact that many
other Chibok girls, women, children and men
are held in the sect’s enclave. Leah
Sharibu’s courage and loyalty to her
religious faith speak louder than other
arguments about the circumstances
surrounding her enslavement by ISWAP.
During the campaigns for the
presidential election, the young girl’s
predicament became an issue. Both President
Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo spoke on government’s resolve to
ensure her release from the dreaded sect….
After Buhari’s victory at the
February 23 polls, Mrs Rebecca Sharibu, the
young lady’s mother, publicly congratulated
the president, ostensibly reminding Buhari
of the need to facilitate her daughter’s
freedom.
In a widely circulated
emotional appeal, the Mum said, “I am
grateful to all Nigerians who participated
in the election… We are also happy that the
President won the election.
On behalf of myself and my
family, we congratulate President Muhammadu
Buhari and pray for God to give him the
desired wisdom to rule the country. I want
to remind the President that, as he
celebrates his victory, he should not forget
that Leah is still in the hands of Boko
Haram.
As for me, my heart is heavy
because I have not seen my daughter for more
than one year now. I am calling on the
President to fulfill his promise of freeing
my daughter from the hands of Boko Haram. My
cry is still the same, today and tomorrow
until I see my daughter.”
We call on government and other security
agencies to do whatever is possible in
ensuring that Leah and many other Nigerians
who are held captive by Boko Haram are set
free. These are Nigerian citizens who do not
deserve to be enslaved in their own country.
There is no compulsion in
religion, therefore, their reasons for
taking Leah Sharibu and others captive are
not tenable in both religious and secular
worlds. We call on Boko Haram to release
these innocent persons unconditionally.
On their grievances with the
Nigerian State, they should find a way of
engaging the authorities to find a peaceful
resolution, instead of abducting and killing
innocent Nigerians. Government has provided
several avenues for the resolution of the
conflict with the sect.
Boko Haram should release Leah
Sharibu and other captives, and take
advantage of amnesty offers made by
government.
'We will wait until it
feels safe for our drivers'
March 3, 2019
World Net Daily
The international delivery
company UPS will no long deliver packages in
a Muslim-majority neighborhood in Malmo,
Sweden, for security reasons.
The Swedish daily
newspaper Sydsvenskan reported a
customer in the Rosengard district of Malmo
received notice from UPS that the company no
longer delivers to private addresses
there because of the risk of being
exposed to robbery or other crimes.
PostNord Sverige, the Swedish
postal company, does not deliver packages to
another area in Malmo, Seved.
“We must think of our staff in
the first place,” said Mathias Krummel of
PostNord.
A UPS employee said home
delivery in Rosengard was stopped two months
ago after drivers were attacked.
Even in some areas in
Stockholm, UPS has stopped the delivery of
parcels, Sydsvenskan reported.
“The stop will not be forever,
but we will wait until it feels safe for our
drivers,” the employee told the newspaper.
Noting the delivery shutdown is
happening in “heavily Muslim Malmo,” Jihad
Watch director pointed out that anyone who
claims “no-go zones” exist is branded as a
racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”
The Rosengard district
of Malmo was one of 14 notorious “no-go
zones” visited
by author Raheem Kassam for
his book “No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is
Coming to a Neighborhood Near You.”
Kassam said daily reports
of attacks, often with knives or vehicles,
have been reported in Germany, France,
Belgium, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United
Kingdom. But such attacks are almost never
seen in Poland, Hungary and the Czech
Republic, which have barred Muslim
immigration.
Omar: Impeachment of 'dictator' Trump
'inevitable'
02/27/2019 @ 7:12 pm
World Net Daily
The freshman Muslim congresswoman who has
been rebuked by her Democratic Party leaders
for anti-Semitic comments said in an interview
published Wednesday that President Trump has
“the markings of a dictator” and his
impeachment is “inevitable.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told Rolling Stone
magazine, however, she was terrified at the
prospect of removing Trump because Vice
President Mike Pence would take his place, the
Washington Free Beacon reported.
“I believe that impeachment is inevitable. It
also is a terrifying notion,” she said. “Pence
is an ideologue, and the ideology he holds is
more terrifying to me and my constituents. And
we have not had a full impeachment that
removes the president from office. Nations
struggle any time [they] overthrow a dictator,
and Trump really has the markings of a
dictator.”
Omar’s Muslim colleague in the House, Rep.
Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said last month vowed
Democrats were going to “impeach the
motherf–er.”
Omar was on the cover of Rolling Stone this
month with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
D-Calif., and fellow freshman Reps. Jahana
Hayes, D-Conn., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
D-N.Y.
After criticism from Pelosi and other
Democratic leaders, Omar issued a qualified
apology for evoking the old trope that
congressional support for Israel is due to
lawmakers being bought off by wealthy Jews.
Two days later, she took a personal swipe at a
Jewish diplomat during a congressional
hearing.
President Trump called on her to resign or be
barred from serving on congressional
committees, saying, “Anti-Semitism has no
place in the United States Congress.”
Since then, it’s been reported she is
scheduled to speak alongside a notorious,
anti-Semitic Muslim leader.
In her apology for the anti-Semitic tweet,
Omar said she was still concerned about “the
problematic role of lobbyists in our
politics.”
“Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for
Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating
me on the painful history of anti-Semitic
tropes,” Omar wrote.
“My intention is never to offend my
constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole.
We have to always be willing to step back and
think through criticism, just as I expect
people to hear me when others attack me for my
identity. This is why I unequivocally
apologize,” she wrote
“At the same time, I reaffirm the problematic
role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it
be AIPAC [the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee], the [National Rifle Association]
or the fossil fuel industry. It’s gone on too
long and we must be willing to address it.”
Life begins at conception as a
single, separate, living cell. Nothing new
is added except oxygen and nutrition.
Fertilization occurs when a sperm and ovum
join to form a single cell, full of life
and bearing the unique genetic imprint of
a person who has never existed before. The
DNA in the 46 chromosomes of that small
cell contain full instructions about that
new individual’s sex, eye color, foot
size, brain capacity, and other physical
traits.
1 WEEK:Implantation
On about the sixth day, the
growing baby attaches to the wall of the
mother’s uterus. That rich nutrient lining
welcomes the tiny tenant, and soon the
child is sending out the chemical signal
that can be detected in a home pregnancy
test. Before the second week is over, the
cells of the child’s body will have
already begun segregating themselves into
the various layers that will give rise to
the brain, nervous system, skin, digestive
system, muscles, bones and circulatory
system.
3-4 Weeks: A
Beating Heart
The Baby’s heart begins it first
beats as early as 18 days after
fertilization, often before the mother
even suspects she is pregnant. Between the
third and fourth weeks, the baby’s head
and spinal column become easily
distinguishable, and arm buds appear. Legs
will begin to appear days later. The
umbilical cord forms, transporting oxygen
and nutrients to the child.
6 WEEK: Brain
Waves
Fingers are
forming and the child’s mouth and lips are
apparent. The child begins his or her
first movements. At six weeks, the baby
has brain waves that can be measured with
and electroencephalogram.
10-11 WEEKS:
Organ Systems in place
The baby has eyelids,
fingernails, and fingerprints, and can
grasp and object. The kidneys begin to
form urine. All body systems are in place
and active: the baby has skeletal
structure, nerves, and circulation.
12 Week:
Movements and Characteristics
Though too
small to be felt by the mother, the baby
reaches peak frequency of movement during
the third month. The baby’s sex can be
visually determined, and the child’s eyes,
ears, and face begin to display
distinctive characteristics.
14 Week: a
Miracle of Development
Eyebrows have
formed, eye movements are seen. For a
couple of weeks now, this baby has had all
the body parts required to experience
pain, including the nerves and spinal
cord.
16 Weeks: Making His or
Her Presence Known
The baby become
large and active enough for the mother to
feel movement of turn, kicks, and
somersaults that at some point even become
visible to the outside.
20 Week:
Hearing Mother’s Voice
In the fifth and sixth months,
the baby responds to music, sudden noises,
and voices, especially that of his or her
mother. Over the coming weeks, the baby
will increase seven times in weight and
nearly double in height
23 Weeks…. Or
Earlier: Viability
Viability is
the time when the baby can survive outside
the mother. Not long ago, viability was at
30 weeks, then 25. Today, babies at 22 or
23 weeks have been saved, and even some
younger babies have survived. What will
viability be tomorrow?*
What you Don’t
know can hurt you
Few women faced
with an unwanted pregnancy are told of the
marvelous development of the life growing
within them. In the absence of
information, abortion seems to be the
right decision at the moment. But they are
not warned of what will really happen to
their baby or of the possible physical and
psychological effects of abortion that may
stay with them the rest of their lives.
And they are rarely told of the
alternatives to save the life of their
child.
Some doctors
say that abortion is a routine operation
to remove “ fetal tissue” But in truth, is
the destruction of a living human being.
One young woman, who later regretted an
abortion stated. “ The doctor said, A
little fluid out and some fluid injected,
severe cramps, and then the fetus is
expelled. That isn’t what it was. I felt
my girl thrash around for an
hour-and-a-half until she died a slow
death.
The mother is
also exposed to long term complications.
Incomplete abortions resulting in blood
clotting, bleeding, hemorrhage, and
infections are not uncommon.
Menstrual
disturbance, miscarriage, tubal
pregnancies, and sterility are always risk
and tend to multiply with successive
abortions. RU-486 and other abortifacients
can cause severe birth defects in any
child that survives this self-induce
abortion, and severe side effects for the
mother. Several maternal deaths have been
reported due to the use of this “miracle
pill”
Long-term
psychological and spiritual effects
include guilt, anxiety, depression, anger,
sense of loss, nightmares, death scenes,
deterioration of self-image, and even
suicide. Cervical lacerations and uterine
perforation can result from suction and
D&C procedures. Convulsions, severe
vomiting, and diarrhea are common with
prostaglandin abortion. Cardiac arrest and
maternal deaths have also been reported.
A Life-Giving
Alternative
But there is hope for both the
mother and the child. If you have a
problem pregnancy, we want you know that
God cares for you and the unborn child
growing within you. He knew about you
before you were even born: “O Lord, you
have searched me and know me…. My frame
was not hidden from you, when I was being
made in secret… the days that were formed
for me, when as yet there were none of
them” (from Psalm 139).
God wants to bring life- not
death- out of your difficult situation.
God has already provided lifelines to help
you.
U.S. Muslim leaders silent about Turkey's threat to
NBA star
World Net Daily January 17, 2019
Major U.S. Islamic groups that condemned Saudi Arabia
for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been
silent about Turkey’s threat to NBA star Enes Kanter.
A native of Turkey, Kanter did not travel with his New
York Knicks teammates to London, where they play the
Washington Wizards on Thursday, fearing he could be
assassinated by Turkish spies, Agence France-Press
reported.
On Tuesday, a prosecutor in Istanbul drafted an
extradition request and an international arrest warrant
for Kanter.
The Knicks center is accused of financially supporting
the global Islamist movement headed by Fethullah Gulen,
who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania. Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed Gulen for the
2016 coup attempt that was thwarted by the Turkish
military.
If you support WND’s fight to expose CAIR and the Muslim
Brotherhood, please consider a donation to the WND Legal
Defense Fund for court fights like this one – which must
be one if America is to remain free – and safe.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism noted Kanter’s
plight has drawn no attention from American Islamic
groups that expressed outrage at Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammed Bin Salman for the murder in the Saudi
consulate in Istanbul of Saudi Washington Post columnist
Jamal Khashogg.
Among the groups that protested Khashoggi’s death were
the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Muslim
American Society and Islamic Circle of North America.
“The best form of jihad is a word of truth against a
tyrant ruler,” former MAS President Esam Omeish, a board
member at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque outside Washington,
D.C., said at last month’s MAS-ICNA Convention in
Chicago.
Omeish said that when Khashoggi “saw the best of Saudi
Arabia and the best of his companions being jailed and
tortured,” he “realized that he can’t live in a society
where he can’t speak.”
Omeish has had nothing to say about Kanter, however,
though he also is a Muslim U.S. resident who has drawn
the ire of authoritarian rulers of Muslim-majority
states because of his beliefs.
IPT noted CAIR touts itself as a Muslim civil rights
organization.
But CAIR was founded by members of the terrorist
organization Hamas in the United States, and Erdogan is
a supporter of Hamas.
Senior Hamas leaders have found safe haven in Turkey,
IPT pointed out. And last year, Israel’s Shin Bet
accused a private military company run by a top Erdogan
military adviser, SADAT International Defense
Consulting, of funding Hamas.
Erdogan also supports the Muslim Brotherhood, which
founded Hamas.
IPT said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad enjoys close
relations with Erdogan’s regime. Days after the coup
attempt, Awad offered prayers and thanksgiving for the
soldiers and civilians who sacrificed their lives to
defeat it at a rally outside the White House.
Kanter, meanwhile, posted in 2017 a video comparing
Erdogan with Adolf Hitler.
Kanter’s father was purged from a university in Istanbul
last summer and faces up to 10 years in prison for
belonging to the Gulenist movement. Kanter faced a
domestic arrest warrant last year. Turkey also canceled
his passport in 2017.
Kanter grew up in the Gulen movement, attending its
schools since the second grade.
Nebraska principal who banned all things Christmas
resigns
By Samuel Smith Christian Post Reporter January 16, 2019
A Nebraska elementary school principal who sent an
internal memo to teachers warning them not to use any
Christmas-related messaging and activities in the
classroom in December has resigned.
Jennifer Sinclair, the principal at Manchester
Elementary School in Elkhorn, has agreed to step down as
school principal following her placement on
administrative leave last month after she issued the
guidance to teachers.
The internal memo outlined several holiday-related
displays, objects, and activities that teachers were
banned from using, handing out or assigning during the
Christmas season.
Sinclair’s memo, which she signed as the “the
(Unintentional) Grinch who stole Christmas,” listed many
things that teachers should stay away from including the
use of Christmas-related clip art on worksheets, placing
Christmas trees in the classrooms, using
Christmas-related books and singing Christmas carols
with students.
The memo also warned teachers not to give candy canes to
students. Sinclair claimed in the document that candy
canes are shaped in a “J for Jesus” and that the red is
for the “blood of Christ” and “white is a symbol of his
resurrection.”
On Monday, the Elkhorn Public School Board unanimously
accepted Sinclair’s resignation letter, according to an
international social conservative legal group that
opposed Sinclair’s memo.
“Due to the level of attention that Sinclair’s memo
received, Sinclair and the district stand united that it
is in the best interest of Manchester Elementary that
she not resume the principal position,” Elkhorn Public
Schools Superintendent Bary Habrock wrote in the email
that was sent to parents and staff.
According to The Omaha World-Herald, Habrock said that
Sinclair stepped down with a “heavy heart and sadness.”
“The district ... would like to thank her for the high
level of professionalism during this publicly difficult
time,” Habrock wrote in the letter. “We support Sinclair
as a leader and educator.”
Sinclair has agreed to stay on with the school district
and assume a curriculum position there, news station
KMTV reports.
Sinclair’s internal memo drew the ire of the
Florida-based conservative Christian legal group,
Liberty Counsel, which sent a demand letter to Habrock
calling for him to overrule Sinclair’s guidance.
The organization argued that Sinclair’s memo violated
the academic rights of teachers as well as the First
Amendment rights of students.
“The First Amendment simply does not require the
elimination of all Christmas symbols — religious and
secular — in a misguided attempt to be ‘inclusive’ by
eliminating all traditional elements of a federally and
state-recognized holiday,” the Liberty Counsel letter
sent by attorney Richard Mast reads. “The effort to
comprehensively eliminate Christmas symbols is
Orwellian.”
Mast’s demand letter states that Liberty Counsel did not
desire to see Sinclair’s removal as school principal but
only wanted her “compliance with the law.”
Following the demand letter, a lawyer for Elkhorn Public
Schools wrote a response letter explaining that
Sinclair’s memo to teachers did not comply with school
board policy and that the school district would “work
with staff to correct any erroneous communications and
clarify any misunderstandings.”
December 13, 2018 MUSLIM
VOICES
Here are two links to several different Muslim
voices. Hear and contemplate the Religion of Peace,
operating in regards to our nation that is based
upon individual freedom, and tolerance.
How do you respond to these attacks on your
God-given freedoms, and your way of life and
worship? How is your Christian voice heard? If you
are silent, do your actions speaking loud and clear?
Muslims reveal their plan for the United States:
Convert their kids, and their families will follow.
"We can demonstrate it here, and then scale it up to
the rest of the country."
Caldron Pool
December 7, 2018
Muslims in Belle Glade, Florida say they’re planning on
acquiring a public school in order to “educate” children
as young as six weeks old in the Quran.
“From six weeks old we will have them,” the men said.
“From six weeks old, nap time, listening to the Quran.
Sisters’ uniform, hijab… You start with the babies and
then all the way up to high school. This is the
intention for this facility here.”
“Bring your kids to Islamic schools,” they went on to
say. “Their kids will convert, and the entire family
will convert to Islam… We can demonstrate it here, and
then scale it up to the rest of the country.”
Not sure if the following should be posted under
"Mental Illness" or "the 1st Amendment protects
Stupidity" but here goes:
THE STAR TREATMENT
Sinead
O'Connor: White people are 'disgusting'
'Interesting to see if Twitter
bans this'
Published: 11/07/2018 at 3:16 PM
(DAILY
MAIL) — Sinead O’Connor has sparked outrage on Twitter
by claiming she no longer wants to spend time with
‘disgusting white people’ after converting to Islam.
The
Irish singer, who now refers to herself as Shuhada’
Davitt, apologised for her ‘racist’ tweet, but said
said ‘I never wanna spend time with white people
again.’
She
branded ‘white people’ or ‘non-Muslims’ disgusting,
before adding: ‘interesting to see if Twitter bans
this.’
'Imagine what they're going to be like when they
grow up'
World Net Daily
Robert Spencer at
Jihad
Watch, who monitors Islamic violence around the
world, describes the troop of children as “cute little
tykes.”
And he speculates about “what they’re going to be like
when they grow up.”
That’s because, in a video posted on Twitter, the
children are seen hanging by the neck a doll
representing a Christian woman who was cleared by the
Pakistani Supreme Court of “blasphemy” against Muhammad,
a capital offense there.
The Twitter posting:
Shocking
video: Pakistani kids hang #AsiaBibi
doll for blasphemy.
Radical Muslims teach their children hatred against
other believers and non-believers from early on.
Despite the acquittal, extreme Muslims demand the
death penalty for the Christian #AsiaBibi
.#Islamism#Shariapic.twitter.com/NgcIsqtUtZ
Commented Spencer: “The cute little tykes. Imagine
what they’re going to be like when they grow up, and
what will happen when they meet the children who have
been trained to run to safe spaces at the sight of any
‘microaggression.'”
WND reported that after her acquittal by the nation’s
highest court, Asia Bibi was not allowed to leave
Pakistan because of a deal struck between Islamic
extremists and the Pakistani government.
As WND reported that after nine years of
incarceration, she had her conviction and death
sentence for allegedly blaspheming the Islamic prophet
Muhammad overturned. The ruling provoked violent
protests led by the radical Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan
party, whose leaders called for the judges responsible
for the verdict to be killed along with Bibi.
On Friday, TLP leaders agreed to stop the protests in
exchange for putting Bibi on an “exit control list,”
which normally is used to prevent flight by wanted
terrorists and criminals, CNS News reported. The
government also agreed not to oppose efforts to appeal
the Supreme Court’s verdict.
The TLP leaders called the prime minister and head of
the military enemies of Islam.
TLP was founded from a movement supporting a
bodyguard who assassinated a provincial government for
advocating for Bibi in 2011. A federal official also
was killed after calling for the Christian woman’s
release.
While no one has been executed by the government for
blasphemy, at least 65 people accused of the “crime”
have been murdered by Muslim vigilantes since 1990.
Bibi’s problems began when Muslim co-workers refused
to drink water from a cup from which she had taken a
sip and demanded she convert to Islam. Her refusal
prompted a mob to later allege she had insulted
Muhammad. She was convicted in 2010 under section
295-C of Pakistan’s penal code that punishes blasphemy
against Islam’s prophet with the death penalty. She
was sentenced to execution by hanging.
The Supreme Court ruled, however, that the basis of
the blasphemy charge was a “concocted” story.
Appeal to the West
The government’s agreement was a retreat from the
prime minister’s televised statement warning the
protesters “the state will fulfill its duty [to]
protect people’s property and lives.”
Bibi is still in prison in Punjab province, even
though the Supreme Court ordered she be “released from
the jail forthwith if not required to be detained in
connection with any other case.”
Bibi’s lawyer Saif Mulook told Reuters he has left
the country, fearing for his life. He said he would
return to help Bibi if the state provided him
protection.
CNS News reported Bibi’s husband, Ashiq Masih, is in
Britain with their daughters.
He posted a video appealing to the leaders of
Britain, the United States and Canada to help his wife
and other family members to leave Pakistan safely.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad said
Monday, according to the U.S. that the mission
“continues to follow the case closely.”
Supreme Court
to Rule on 40-Foot War Memorial Cross at Center of
Church-State Debate
A 2014 lawsuit said that the Peace
Cross, which sits on state land in Bladensburg,
Md., was an endorsement of Christianity.
By Adam Liptak November 2, 2018 New York Times
·WASHINGTON
— The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide
whether a 40-foot cross on state property in
suburban Maryland violates the First Amendment’s ban
on government establishment of religion.
The
case will give the court an opportunity to clarify
its famously confused jurisprudence on government
entanglement with religion. It will also allow the
justices to continue a discussion about the meaning
of crosses used in war memorials.
The
cross at issue sits at a busy intersection in
Bladensburg, Md., and commemorates 49 soldiers from
Prince George’s County who died in World War I. It
was built in 1925 using contributions from local
families and the American Legion.
The
state took over the monument and the land under it
in 1961. Since then, the state has spent more than
$117,000 to maintain and repair the memorial.
Several
area
residents and the American Humanist Association sued
to remove the cross in 2014, saying they were
offended by what they said was its endorsement of
Christianity.
Last
year, a divided three-judge panel of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in
Richmond, Va., ruled that the cross sent an
unconstitutional message of government approval of a
particular religion, breaching the wall between
church and state. The full Fourth Circuit declined
to rehear the case by an 8-to-6 vote.
In
urging the Supreme Court to hear the case, the
American Legion and other supporters of the cross
said the logic of the Fourth Circuit’s decision
could imperil hundreds of war memorials that use
crosses to honor the fallen, including the 24-foot
Canadian Cross of Sacrifice and the 13-foot Argonne
Cross, both in Arlington National Cemetery.
“No
other court,” their petition seeking review said,
“has gone so far as to hold that a longstanding,
historical war memorial that was built to be a war
memorial and has only ever been a war memorial was
unconstitutional merely because its private builders
chose to use a cross to honor their fallen loved
ones.”
Posted By Bill Federer
10/01/2018
In American Minute
Historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee, who died in 1975,
provided foreign intelligence for the British during
World Wars I and II, and served as a delegate to the
Paris Peace Conferences following both wars. He was
educated at Oxford “almost entirely in the Greek and
Latin Classics.” Toynbee taught at King’s College of
London, the London School of Economics, and the Royal
Institute of International Affairs. Toynbee authored
many history books, including “Greek Policy Since
1882” (1914), and “The Murderous Tyranny Of The Turks”
(London, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917), in
which he wrote: “Turks … from Central Asia, ruled
during the first two centuries of their conquests by …
unscrupulous Sultans, who subjugated the Christian
populations of Asia Minor and South-Eastern Europe,
compelling part of these populations to embrace
Mohammedanism, and supporting their own power by
seizing the children of the rest, forcibly converting
them to Islam, and making out of them an efficient
standing army, the Janizaries, by whose valour and
discipline the Turkish wars of conquest were carried
on from early in the 15th down into the 19th century.
…”
George Soros and his 'rented evangelicals' outed by
Christian leaders
By Cheryl K. Chumley The Washington Times Monday, October 22, 2018
A new video from the American Association of
Evangelicals reveals how George Soros, through his many
funding ventures, has been busily infiltrating the
Christian base in America to divide, and ultimately
conquer, the religious minded within the Republican
Party.
Truly, with the left, political wars know no bounds.
Nothing’s sacred- not when it comes to the leftists’
drive to succeed.
Here’s what AAE put out in a press release: “Democrat
ministers Rev. Jim Wallis and allies are now touring
many states on ‘Vote Common Good’ buses to … split the
evangelical vote before the mid-term elections. The AAE
video features the newly released voice recording of
[Jim] Wallis of Sojourners as he publicly denied that he
was a recipient of Soros funding.”
But guess what?
His denial’s proven a bit — um, wrong. Please
click here to read more of this article.
Islamist extremism caused 84,000 deaths worldwide in
2017, new report says
By Olivia Gazis
September 13, 2018 / 6:24 PM
CBS News
A new report tracking the roots, spread and effects of
violent Islamist extremism found that 121 groups that
share elements from a common ideology are now operating
worldwide. Their activities resulted in the deaths of
84,000 people – nearly 22,000 of them civilians – in 66
countries in 2017, the report found.
In remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations in
Washington, DC, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
said on Thursday that Islamist extremism is "global and
growing."
"It didn't begin with al Qaeda; nor will it end with the
defeat of ISIS," Blair said.
The "Global Extremist Monitor," which was produced by
Blair's eponymous non-profit, the Tony Blair Institute
for Global Change, drew on hundreds of English-language
news sources that reported on incidents of violent
extremism in 2017. There were a total of 7,841 attacks –
an average of 21 per day –in 48 countries, it said, with
war-torn Syria topping the list of countries most
affected by violent extremism. Overall, Muslims were the
most frequent victims of deadly attacks.
Twenty-nine violent Islamist groups were actively
engaged in conflict in Syria in 2017, the report said,
with ISIS responsible for 44 percent of all attacks.
Half of all civilian fatalities recorded globally were
documented in Syria.
A separate, recent UN report said there are between
20,000 and 30,000 ISIS fighters still operating across
Iraq and Syria, though its self-proclaimed physical
caliphate has been all but eliminated.
Douglas' Office
Defends Creationist on Panel: Christianity Not a
'Fringe View'
Joseph
Flaherty
September 18, 2018
Phoenix New Times (Arizona)
Diane Douglas' office is defending her
decision to appoint a young-earth creationist to
help review and change state education standards on
evolution.
As Phoenix New Times reported last
week, Douglas, the Arizona superintendent, tapped
Arizona Origin Science Association President Joseph
Kezele, who believes in a literal interpretation of
the Bible's Genesis narrative, for an August 30
working group that finalized the evolution science
standards.
In interviews following the article's
publication, the superintendent's chief of staff,
Michael Bradley, said, "We wanted to include a wide
variety of views so that we’d get the best product
possible."
This video is based on on an article Mr Prager wrote
about a year ago if you prefer to read more than
watch. Here it is:
Published
September 12, 2017
in
National Review
by Dennis Prager
The
two have almost nothing in common.
What
is the difference between a leftist and a liberal?
Answering
this question is vital to understanding the crisis
facing America and the West today. Yet few seem able
to do it. I offer the following as a guide.
Here’s
the first thing to know: The two have almost nothing
in common.
On
the contrary, liberalism has far more in common with
conservatism than it does with leftism. The Left has
appropriated the word “liberal” so effectively that
almost everyone — liberals, leftists, and
conservatives — thinks they are synonymous.
But
they aren’t. Let’s look at some important examples.
Race:
This is perhaps the most obvious of the many moral
differences between liberalism and leftism. The
essence of the liberal position on race was that the
color of one’s skin is insignificant. To liberals of
a generation ago, only racists believed that race is
intrinsically significant. However, to the Left, the
notion that race is insignificant is itself racist.
Thus, the University of California officially
regards the statement “There is only one race, the
human race” as racist. For that reason, liberals
were passionately committed to racial integration.
Liberals should be sickened by the existence of
black dormitories and separate black graduations on
university campuses.
Capitalism:
Liberals have always been pro-capitalism,
recognizing it for what it is: the only economic
means of lifting great numbers out of poverty.
Liberals did often view government as able to play a
bigger role in lifting people out of poverty than
conservatives did, but they were never opposed to
capitalism, and they were never for socialism.
Opposition to capitalism and advocacy of socialism
are leftist values.
Nationalism:
Liberals deeply believed in the nation-state,
whether their nation was the United States, Great
Britain, or France. The Left has always opposed
nationalism because leftism is rooted in class
solidarity, not national solidarity. The Left has
contempt for nationalism, seeing in it intellectual
and moral primitivism at best, and the road to
fascism at worst. Liberals always wanted to protect
American sovereignty and borders. The notion of open
borders would have struck a liberal as just as
objectionable as it does a conservative. It is
emblematic of our time that the left-wing writers of
Superman comics had Superman announce a few years
ago, “I intend to speak before the United Nations
tomorrow and inform them that I am renouncing my
American citizenship.” When the writers of Superman
were liberal, Superman was not only an American but
one who fought for “Truth, justice, and the American
way.” But in his announcement, he explained that
motto is “not enough anymore.”
View
of America: Liberals venerated America. Watch
American films from the 1930s through the 1950s and
you will be watching overtly patriotic,
America-celebrating films — virtually all produced,
directed, and acted in by liberals. Liberals well
understand that America is imperfect, but they agree
with a liberal icon named Abraham Lincoln that
America is “the last best hope of earth.”
To
the Left, America is essentially a racist, sexist,
violent, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic
country. The Left around the world loathe America,
and it is hard to imagine why the American Left
would differ in this one way from fellow leftists
around the world. Leftists often take offense at
having their love of America doubted. But those
left-wing descriptions of America are not the only
reason to assume that the Left has more contempt
than love for America. The Left’s view of America
was encapsulated in then–presidential candidate
Barack Obama’s statement in 2008. “We are five days
away from fundamentally transforming the United
States of America,” he said.
Now,
if you were to meet a man who said he wanted to
fundamentally transform his wife, or a woman who
said that about her husband, would you assume that
either loved their spouse? Of course not.
Free
speech: The difference between the Left and liberals
regarding free speech is as dramatic as the
difference regarding race. No one was more committed
than American liberals to the famous statement “I
disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the
death your right to say it.”
Liberals
still are. But the Left is leading the first
nationwide suppression of free speech in American
history — from the universities to Google to almost
every other institution and place of work. It claims
to oppose only hate speech. But protecting the right
of person A to say what person B deems objectionable
is the entire point of free speech.
If
the Left is not defeated, American and Western
civilization will not survive.
Western
civilization: Liberals have a deep love of Western
civilization. They taught it at virtually every
university and celebrated its unique moral, ethical,
philosophical, artistic, musical, and literary
achievements. No liberal would have joined the
leftist Reverend Jesse Jackson in chanting at
Stanford University: “Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Western civ
has got to go.” The most revered liberal in American
history is probably former President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, who frequently cited the need to protect
not just Western civilization but Christian
civilization. Yet leftists unanimously denounced
President Donald Trump for his speech in Warsaw,
Poland, in which he spoke of protecting Western
civilization. They argued not only that Western
civilization is not superior to any other
civilization but also that it is no more than a
euphemism for white supremacy.
Judaism
and Christianity: Liberals knew and appreciated the
Judeo-Christian roots of American civilization. They
themselves went to church or synagogue, or at the
very least appreciated that most of their fellow
Americans did. The contempt that the Left has — and
has always had — for religion (except for Islam
today) is not something with which a liberal would
ever have identified.
If
the Left is not defeated, American and Western
civilization will not survive. But the Left will not
be defeated until good liberals understand this and
join the fight. Dear liberals: Conservatives are not
your enemy. The Left is.
The bottom line: The events of the past few
months serve as a sharp reminder that the Islamic
State still poses a significant danger, that the
conditions that fueled its rise have not been
adequately addressed, and that in the absence of a
sustained, multi-pronged strategy to confront this
threat, the Islamic State will almost certainly regain
its footing and force its way back to the top of
America’s crowded security agenda. Please
click here to read the article in its entirety
at cfr.org
Revolt
grows over Islamization of U.S. schools
Group already in court over San
Diego decision to let activists define curriculum
Published:
July 11, 2018
Bob
Unrah
World
Net Daily
An
organization fighting Islamic indoctrination in the
San Diego Public schools – it’s already in court
over the issue – is now insisting on access to
communications between Seattle school officials and
the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
U.S.
District Court Judge Cynthia A. Bashant issued an
order setting July 17 as the hearing date regarding
a motion for a preliminary injunction in that
dispute. The organization alleges that school
officials improperly are giving CAIR, and its
“anti-Islamophobia” initiative, undue control over
school curriculum.
The
case was brought by parents in the district who are
suing over the pro-Islam instructional materials
sold by CAIR to the district.
Ocala will move to vacate First Amendment violation
ruling
By Katie Pohlman Posted June 20, 2018 Ocala Star Banner
U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan ruled in May
that the city of Ocala and Police Chief Greg Graham
violated the clause by organizing, promoting and holding
a prayer vigil in September 2014.
The Ocala City Council has voted to file a motion to
vacate judgement in a federal case in which a judge
ruled the city and its police chief violated the
Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
In a May decision, U.S. District Judge Timothy J.
Corrigan ruled that the city of Ocala and Ocala Police
Chief Greg Graham violated the clause by organizing,
promoting and holding a prayer vigil in September 2014
after a drive-by shooting in which several children were
injured. The chief and city were ordered to pay $3 each
in damages ($1 to each plaintiff) plus attorney fees and
costs.
City Attorney Pat Gilligan said during an Ocala City
Council meeting on Tuesday that the motion to vacate is
based on other federal case law.
The city had the opportunity to appeal Corrigan’s
ruling, but decided against that.
Attorneys who represent the city and Graham in the
lawsuit did not immediately respond to an email request
for comment.
A group of four Marion County residents originally filed
the suit, claiming the prayer vigil violated the
constitution by having uniformed police officers
participate, having government officials plan the event
and having the event promoted on OPD letterhead.
“Not only did they violate well-settled constitutional
rights ... but they did so in the face of repeated
actual warnings from counsel that their conduct was
violating the Establishment Clause,” the plaintiff’s
motion for summary judgement read.
The Establishment Clause refers to the first 10 words of
the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion.”
STOP RIGHT HERE.
What does a community's decision have to host a prayer
vigil have to do with the fact that Congress is banned
from making laws regarding established religions???!!
Does it bother you, too, that a Judge who is supposed to
uphold the Constitution which is written to protect WE
THE PEOPLE from an ever encroaching government,
encroaches on a community's natural right to gather in a
peaceful manner, whether they pray, or sing songs, or
eat ice cream??? Isn't this judge overstepping??!!
Read
the articles in its entirety here, and share it
with organizations that are concerned with our
preserving our Constitution and basic civil freedoms
that it was meant to protect. June 1,
2018
There has been a fair amount of buzz recently about
the "morally straight" organization of the Boy Scouts
and the attempt to move gender identity into the
psychological realm, away from the realm of the
physical way that God created people- man, and woman.
God loves all his children and wants us to carry
out loving-kindness for one another, and God is full
of forgiveness for all of us; and who among us doesn't
error in some behaviors and omissions? When we ask,
God is ready to forgive us and point us to a healthier
and happy direction, for that is what God wants all us
children. Wondering what the Scripture plainly
says about sexual behavior and morality, a particular
website came to notice. It's worth your time to read
and ponder. In case you need to save it to
visit later, the website is: http://www.livingout.org/the-bible-and-ssa
Trump’s latest appeal to evangelicals: a new office
to protect religious liberty
Trump will sign an executive order launching the new
White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative today.
Published: May 3, 2018 Author: Tara Isabella Burton Vox.com
...The institution of faith-based initiatives is not
uncommon in the White House — Barack Obama launched the
Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and
George W. Bush instituted an Office of Faith-Based and
Community Initiatives. Both programs were designed to
provide faith-based charity organizations with a clear
avenue to get federal funding for their work.
That said, Trump’s initiative seems to expand previous
offices’ remit in a number of ways. For starters, the
office isn’t just focusing on community-based or
charitable initiatives. According to the Religion News
Service, it’s also charged with informing the
administration of “any failures of the executive branch
to comply with religious liberty protections under law.”
The Trump administration has consistently been a
champion of religious liberty, particularly insofar as
it pertains to evangelical Christian causes. ... Please
click here to read the entire article at Vox.com.
England Moves Submarines Armed With Cruise
Missiles Within Striking Range Of Syria Theresa May
Convenes ‘War Cabinet’
Geoffrey Grider Apr. 11, 2018 Nowthenedbegins.com
Theresa May was poised last night to defy calls
for a Commons vote on military action in Syria. The
Prime Minister summoned ministers back
to London to seek their support for joining an
American-led attack on the Assad regime within days.
EDITOR’S NOTE: British Prime
Minister Theresa May is prepared to act with or
without the consent of Parliament, sources are now
saying. UK submarines armed with Tomahawk cruise
missiles have already been positioned off the coast
of Syria to support the United States just as soon
as President Trump gives the go ahead to launch the
missile strike. Kinda funny to think that a
potential war of such Biblical proportions could be
waged largely on Twitter and social media, yet it
is. The end times clock is ticking, the only
question is will it blink or go boom?
Clearing the way for action, she
declared the use of chemical weapons could not go
unchallenged and said ‘all the indications’ suggested
that Bashar Assad’s forces were responsible for
Saturday’s atrocity near Damascus.
"Colonel Bohannon had the right to exercise his
sincerely held religious beliefs and did not unlawfully
discriminate." Please
click here to read the article in The Patriot Post
in its entirety.
Islamic intimidation of the secular British school
system
Click
here to read an interesting article from
the Gatestone Institute about intimidation of
the secular British school system.
Islamist threats that would be unacceptable coming
from other groups, are not prosecuted by law
enforcement policies in Britain. Policies do not
defend school administrators, or the general
public. But Brits do have a choice- they can be
engulfed by the misogenist totalitarian rule of
Sharia, or die.
What will be the tipping point in America?
The First Amendment Is In Far Greater Danger Than
The Second
Frank Cannon
Town Hall
March 1, 2018
Our
nation’s elites are waging war on the American
people, wielding the institutions they’ve spent
several decades capturing to punish those who
disagree with their preferred positions and to deny
them the ability to speak publicly, all in an effort
to stifle free and open debate. And no, this isn’t a
George Orwell novel — this is the United States of
America.
While
many still mistakenly view our political arena as a
skirmish between “liberals” and “conservatives”, it
would be more accurate to describe it as an all-out
war between “elitists” and “populists”. As my late
friend Jeff Bell argued in his 1992 book, “Populism
and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality”,
elitists believe in a top-down approach where a
cadre of experts rule the country and determine what
is acceptable discourse and what is not, while
populists believe the people should ultimately
determine the course of our politics and culture.
Traditionally,
the “elitists” have always had the upper hand in
this battle by controlling many of our cultural
institutions, but the respect for the will of the
people — exercised by the ability to elect our
political leaders — remained in place. Over time,
however, that respect eroded, and today, it is
completely gone. Now the “elitists” find the
“populists” to be repugnant, backward, and bigoted,
and they believe the only way to defeat the people
is to use elite institutional power in academia,
corporate America, the administrative state, and the
mainstream media to stifle debate, force-feed elite
opinions masquerading as facts, and stamp out
dissent.
For
example, consider these three widely held views by
the American people:
Young children should
not be taught about transgenderism or changing
their gender.
Abortion is wrong,
especially after the first trimester.
The right to bear
arms shall not be infringed.
Despite
their relative popularity, these views are repulsive
to our elites, and in recent years, they have sought
to shut down debate on all three topics by calling
anti-gender ideology activists “transphobic”,
anti-abortion activists “anti-women”, and defenders
of the Constitution “gun nuts” who have “blood on
their hands”. On the gender ideology issue, elites
have been wildly successful in completely removing
debate over transgenderism from the public square
and even politics. On abortion, they have largely
failed as pro-life sentiment among the people has
proven too strong for elites to overcome. And on
guns, the jury is still out, but elites are engaging
in perhaps their most brazenly outrageous effort to
silence opposing views to date.
It’s About Tactics, Not Issues
The
battle between elite opinion and popular opinion is
as old as time, but the recent tactical change among
elites seeking to stifle dissenting speech is a new,
and frightening, development. In a departure from
the normal give-and-take of American democracy, the
elites have begun using their clout within every
major institution of civil society to demonize and
punish their opposition — through public shaming in
the media, economic extortion and retaliation by big
businesses, and even criminalization of certain
protest activities. And given their entrenchment
within these institutions, the elites face little or
no consequences for their blatant illiberality.
A
case in point of this change has been the aftermath
of the Parkland school shooting. Despite the
complexity of the issues involved and the diversity
of views held by Americans as to the proper
response, the elites have pursued a scorched earth
campaign against those who do not hold their
black-and-white views on guns. In the news media, a
narrative emphasizing the immediate necessity of
national gun control legislation has become a
24-hour rallying cry, with victims of the tragedy
exploited to advance this narrative and brand those
who disagree as somehow complicit in the violence.
Meanwhile, corporations have begun to sever ties
with the NRA, sending a message that only one side
of the debate is socially acceptable while the other
is deserving of punishment.
A
similar strategy has been playing out with the
movement to normalize the Left’s gender ideology.
Despite a lack of scientific evidence — and
widespread parental skepticism — regarding the
soundness of treating young, gender dysphoric
children with highly experimental puberty blockers
and hormonal treatments, elites have slowly co-opted
influential medical associations in order to ensure
that these treatments are not only widely adopted
but also that alternative approaches to gender
dysphoria are marginalized and even criminalized.
Moreover, opponents of this takeover, no matter how
well-grounded their opposition, are branded by the
media and its self-appointed experts as
“transphobes” and “bigots” while being denied any
opportunity to make their arguments in a respected
forum.
Most Americans Already Understand
What’s Happening
Make
no mistake: an America with total elite control over
the population and where dissent from their views is
vilified is not an America at all. The gun debate is
simply another battle in the all-out war elites are
waging on the American people’s right to even have
an opinion, let alone speak out about it and not be
punished for it.
Fortunately,
the American people are fully cognizant of what is
taking place, which is why they voted for Donald
Trump in 2016. Instead of looking at Trump and
Clinton through the two lenses voters typically use,
moral character and issue positions, voters applied
a third lens: would their views be allowed to be
articulated at all without dire consequences under a
Clinton administration?
We
cannot keep pretending, like so many Never Trumpers
do, that we are operating in an environment of
normal political give-and-take on issues. That time
has passed. We are instead operating in a country
now where elites demonize the populist position with
such ferocity that many are afraid to voice their
opinion at all, which is, of course, the entire
point of their strategy. Our fight is no longer just
over political issues — it is a battle against the
very tactics being used by elites to stifle debate
and destroy the essence of what makes America
great.
Frank Cannon is the president at
American Principles Project.
Islamists seem to be influencing the
British school system with ease: there is simply
no solid opposition to them. The government even
stays silent about the harassment and
intimidation.
Islamists in Britain seem to be
intent on establishing regressive requirements,
such as the hijab for young girls, wife beating,
making homosexuality illegal, death for apostates,
halala rituals in divorce, and exploitation
of women and children through Sharia courts as
part and parcel of British culture.
That St. Stephen's School allowed
itself to be blackmailed in this way bodes ill for
both Britain and its education system.
St. Stephen's School in East London recently imposed
a ban on hijabs (Islamic headscarves), but reversed
its decision after administrators received hundreds
of threats from enraged Muslims.
"This
is an important step in promoting religious
extremism, mob rule and refusing to give #Muslim
young girls equal gender equality rights.... So much
for choice and individual liberty. Terribly sad day
for a secular democracy."
While
secular British values need to be upheld to provide
equal opportunities to everyone, regardless of
caste, creed, gender or color, Islamists seem to be
influencing the British school system with ease:
there is simply no solid opposition to them. The
government even stays silent about the harassment
and intimidation.
Was
St. Stephen's forced to succumb to the pressure of
ignorant zealots, who either do not know or choose
to ignore that under Islamic law (Sharia), girls are
not required to cover their heads until they reach
puberty? Ignorance also seems not to have prevented
them from accusing anyone who says or acts otherwise
of "Islamophobia." It is a form of political
blackmail used by Muslim extremists against the
Western institutions, the values of which they
abhor.
Parliamentary
Under
Secretary of State for the School System, Lord Agnew
of Oulton, pledged to support the schools that are
trying to ban hijabs as well as obligatory fasting:
in Islam, young children are not subject to either.
Lord
Agnew said that the government should support head
teachers in making difficult and "sensitive"
decisions in the face of vitriolic opposition. We
have yet to see the effects of his statement.
Supporting head teachers is one thing, but there is
also a dire need to confront these extremists on all
levels, including law enforcement, if they try to
harass or intimidate anyone.
Someone
please
needs to back up Lord Agnew: there are only a few
such policy-makers left willing to offer rational
help during such crises.
Islamists
in
Britain seem to be intent on establishing regressive
requirements, such as the hijab for young girls,
wife-beating, halala rituals in divorce,
making homosexuality illegal, death for apostates, and the exploitation
of women and children through Sharia courts
as part and parcel with British culture.
Instead
of making statements, the British government needs
to take concrete steps to stop the further
infiltration of these practices into Britain's
social fabric, the warping of children's minds, and
the harassment of whoever disagrees with those
plans.
That
St. Stephen's allowed itself to be blackmailed in
this way bodes ill for both Britain and its
education system.
Khadija Khan is a Pakistani
journalist and commentator, currently based in
Germany.
Under Islamic repression, 'Christianity has ignited
like a flame'
By Bob Unrah 19 February 2018 World Net Daily
Hopeful news out of Iran....
Has Iran taken on a fight that it can never win?
Evidence suggests that might be the case, as the
internationally renowned American Center for Law and
Justice points out that the Islamic regime now is
becoming desperate to extinguish a surging population
of Christians inside its borders.
Iran, after all, is a nation that has exported
terrorism for decades. It has the free world worried
about its nuclear-weapons program. It routinely
threatens to destroy Israel. It interferes with Middle
East conflicts and engages in cyberwar against the
West.
But the American Center for Law and Justice reports
Christianity “has ignited like a flame across the
country of Iran, making the Iranian government so
nervous they’re desperate to extinguish it quickly.”
Iranians are converting to Christianity at a
record-setting pace, with an estimated 360,000 to
800,000 Christians in the country.
There were fewer than 500 back in the 1980s.
“It’s difficult to take an accurate census because
fears of retribution, arrest, and violence keep many
Christian converts from self-identifying. Iranian
authorities have been raiding the homes of suspected
Christians, confiscating their books, computers, and
other media and arresting the men,” ACLJ said.
The government has spent millions of dollars to fight
the growing interest in Christianity, the mission
group Elam Ministries told Mohabat News, a website
that reports on Christians in Iran.
The money has gone toward Islamic propaganda, jailing
church members, confiscation of Christian materials
and more, the report said.
Ayatollah Alavi Boroujerdi, an official at an Islamic
seminary, has confirmed that “youth are becoming
Christians in Qom and attending house churches.”
Christians are being forced to hide their faith to
protect themselves and their families, because
worshipping Jesus “will get you arrested, and very
possibly get you killed,” a critic reported.
“This is something we at the ACLJ have witnessed first
hand, advocating for a number of imprisoned Christians
pastors in Iran – including Youcef Nadarkhani, who we
successfully fought to free from multiple false
imprisonments for his faith. In each of these cases,
Iran has targeted pastors in an attempt to squelch the
Christian church. It has failed each and every time.
In fact, the attempts to silence the church has only
made it louder as Christianity grows in Iran,” ACLJ
said.
What
'peace' means to Muslims; just ask Jefferson By Bill Federer
16 February 2018
World Net Daily
Bill Federer recounts brief history of American
conflicts with brutality of Islam
“The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco,”
stated President Obama in Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.
Morocco began recognizing American colonists in 1625.
Governor William Bradford described the incident in the
History of the Plymouth Settlement. In 1625, the
Pilgrims sent two ships back to England carrying dried
fish and 800 lbs of beaver skins to trade for much
needed supplies.
What happened next?
Bradford related the fate of one ship: “They … were well
within the England channel, almost in sight of Plymouth.
But … there she was unhapply taken by a Turkish
man-of-war and carried off to Morocco where the captain
and crew were made slaves. … Now by the ship taken by
the Turks … all trade was dead.”
...
When America became independent, it was no longer
covered by the British extortion tribute payment to the
Muslim pirates. Morocco “recognized” the United States
in 1785 by capturing two American ships and holding the
sailors for ransom. Thomas Jefferson worked to free
them, writing to John Jay, 1787: “There is an order of
priests called the Mathurins, the object of whose
institution is to beg alms for the redemption of
captives. They keep members always in Barbary, searching
out the captives of their country, and redeem, I
believe, on better terms than any other body, public or
private. It occurred to me, that their agency might be
obtained for the redemption of our prisoners at
Algiers.”
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Carmichael
regarding Tripoli’s demand for extortion tribute
payment, 1786: “Mr. Adams and I had conferences with a
Tripoline ambassador, named Abdrahaman. He asked us
thirty thousand guineas for a peace with his court.”
When Jefferson asked the Muslim Ambassador what the new
country of America had done to offend them, he reported
to John Jay, March 28, 1786: “The ambassador answered us
that it was founded on the laws of the prophet, it was
written in their Qur’an, that all nations which had not
acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the
right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave;
and that every mussulman (Muslim) who was slain in this
warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that
the man who was the first to board a vessel had one
slave over and above his share, and that when they
sprang to the deck of an enemy’s ship, every sailor held
a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which
usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried
out for quarter at once.”
Jefferson read the Qur’an, not out of admiration but to
understand why Muslims were attacking Americans
unprovoked.
Crisis Magazine
William Kilpatrick
January 2, 2018
Secularists like to advise Christians
that, for the sake of social harmony, they ought to
keep their religion to themselves. Religion, they
argue, is a private affair between an individual and
his designated deity, and ought not to be dragged into
the public square. Moreover, they helpfully add, it’s
an imposition on others to confront them with beliefs
that they may find offensive.
As for themselves, secularists have no
qualms about imposing their own values on everyone
within reach. They are convinced of the rightness of
their beliefs, and consequently they don’t think twice
about forcing Christian bakers, florists, and
photographers to endorse gay weddings. They are also
convinced that they know what’s best for your
children. And what’s best for them, they are quite
certain, is that they learn all the latest fashions in
gender identity and marriage equality. In his groundbreaking 1984 book, The
Naked Public Square, Richard John Neuhaus argued that
the public square can never be naked for long. In
other words, it cannot be neutral about values: “If it
is not clothed with the ‘meanings’ borne by religion,
new ‘meanings’ will be imposed by virtue of the
ambitions of the modern state.” In short, the committed secularist won’t
be satisfied with the removal of the crèche from the
town square. He’ll insist that it be replaced with
something that more accurately reflects American
diversity—say, a monument to Margaret Sanger or a
statue of James Obergefell. Of course, secular
society’s reach extends well beyond the town green.
The religion of secularism is constantly being
advanced in a variety of venues—in courtrooms, school
rooms, and in the newly remodeled bathrooms that
accommodate the newly invented genders. Fr. Neuhaus was right in predicting that
“a perverse notion of the disestablishment of religion
leads to the establishment of the state as Church.”
The secular state quickly moves to enshrine whatever
values it currently smiles upon. And it defends them
as though they were divinely revealed dogma. But,
despite his prescience, Neuhaus did fail to anticipate
another development—namely, that the Judeo-Christian
tradition might be displaced from the public square
not only by the state, but also by another religion.
The possibility that Islam would one day
be a contender for control of the public square
probably didn’t enter his mind. That’s no surprise.
Except for the blip caused by the Iranian Revolution,
Islam wasn’t on anyone’s radar in the early eighties.
Yet Islam is now well on its way to controlling the
public square in parts of Europe. And, were it not for
the election of Donald Trump and the defeat of the
Muslim Brotherhood-friendly Clinton machine, the U.S.
would now be playing catch-up. As has often been observed, Islam is a
political religion. Some, like Dutch MP Geert Wilders,
contend that it is almost totally political with only
a thin and deceptive veneer of religiosity. Whatever
the exact proportion of politics to religion, it’s
hard to deny that the political dimension looms large
in Islam. Muhammad, after all, was a warlord. He
conquered all of Arabia, and within a relatively short
time after his death, his followers conquered an area
larger than the Roman Empire. Sayyid Abul A’la
Maududi, one of the most important twentieth-century
Islamic theorists, wrote that “Islam requires the
earth—not just a portion, but the whole planet.”
ISIS Kills Scores of Christians in Retaken Syrian
Town: Report
By Conor Gaffey Newsweek.com 4/11/16
The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) killed scores of
Christians when they captured a Syrian town recently
liberated by the government, a Syrian Christian leader
has said.
ISIS swept into the town of Al-Qaryatain in August 2015,
kidnapping at least 230 civilians including dozens of
Christians in the central Syrian town, which lies 104
kilometers (65 miles) southwest of Palmyra. The town had
a population of some 2,000 Syriac Catholics and Orthodox
Christians prior to the outbreak of civil war in Syria
in 2011, but this had dropped to just 300 before ISIS
took control.
Al-Qaryatain was retaken by Syrian government forces
with the backing of Russian airstrikes earlier in April
and reports are just beginning to emerge of life under
the extremist group for civilians in the town. Patriarch
Ignatius Aphrem II, the head of the Syrian Orthodox
Church, told the BBC on Sunday that 21 Christians were
murdered when ISIS first captured the city.
Some died trying to escape while others were killed for
violating the terms of contracts they had signed
requiring them to submit to the extremists’
interpretation of Islamic law. Hundreds of Christians in
Al-Qaryatain were reportedly forced to sign so-called
dhimmi contracts, which enabled them to live under ISIS
rule in the town. The patriarch added that five other
Christians are missing and presumed dead, while ransoms
had been paid to ISIS to secure the release of the rest
of the Christians.
The civil war in Syria has had a devastating impact on
the country’s Christian contingent, which made up
approximately 10 percent of Syria’s population before
the outbreak of the conflict. The European Parliament
stated in October 2015 that about 40 percent of Syria’s
Christian population—or 700,000 people—had fled the
country.
NOTE: Jesus Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, was dead
for three days, and rose from the dead, and walked among
us for forty days until his Ascension. After the
Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came to the Apostles,
they spread out to different areas of the land to spread
the good news, of our salvation. One of the first places
they went to was what is now Syria, which was the home
of Simon Peter. Not only does ISIS eradicate people who
do not bow down to their cult they attempt to erase the
ancient traces of preceding times like in Palmyra which
was a Roman outpost in Syria, from the first or second
century after the year of our Lord. Click
here to view more about that.
R.I.P. Justice Scalia
Feb. 18, 2016
It is hard to imagine a greater
loss to Liberty in America than has occurred in the
passing of Justice Antonin Scalia. His understanding
of the Constitution as a pact between free people
and government, and our protection from oppressive
government, was unparalleled.
The fact that 30% of Americans do not know who he
was, speaks volumes about the state of our Union and
our education system.
My words and thoughts are totally inadequate but you
can easily find more about the great man's life and
legacy. Click
here for a link to wikipedia. Or click
here to read the thoughts of the other
Justices on the Supreme Court about him.
R.I.P. Justice Scalia.
Shariah Law at work in the Obama Administration
Obama DHS scrubs records of hundreds of Muslim
terrorists
Published: 7 Feb 2016 World Net Daily Pamela Geller
Not only did the Obama
administration scrub counter-terror programs of jihad
and Islam, now we find out that his administration
scrubbed the records of Muslim terrorists. If the
enemedia were not aligned with the jihad force, this
would be front-page news across the nation.
An agent of the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS,
for 15 years, Philip Haney, reported Friday that after
the Christmas Day underwear bomber, Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, tried to blow up a crowded passenger jet
over Detroit, “President Obama threw the intelligence
community under the bus for its failure to ‘connect the
dots.’ He said, ‘This was not a failure to collect
intelligence; it was a failure to integrate and
understand the intelligence that we already had.'”
Haney revealed: “Most Americans were unaware of the
enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland
Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused. His
words infuriated many of us because we knew his
administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort
to destroy the raw material – the actual intelligence we
had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots
constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans
safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be
wiped away.”
What Haney discloses is truly shocking: “Just before
that Christmas Day attack, in early November 2009, I was
ordered by my superiors at the Department of Homeland
Security to delete or modify several hundred records of
individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups
like Hamas from the important federal database, the
Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). These
types of records are the basis for any ability to
‘connect dots.’ Every day, DHS Customs and Border
Protection officers watch entering and exiting many
individuals associated with known terrorist
affiliations, then look for patterns. Enforcing a
political scrubbing of records of Muslims greatly
affected our ability to do that. Even worse, going
forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from
entering pertinent information into the database.”
Who gave the order to scrub the records of Muslims with
ties to terror groups?
These new shocking revelations come fresh on the heels
of whistleblower testimony in the wake of the San
Bernardino jihad slaughter, revealing that the Obama
administration shut down investigations into jihadists
in America (and quite possible the San Bernardino
shooters) at the request of the Department of State and
the DHS’ own Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Division.
Haney noted: “They claimed that since the Islamist
groups in question were not Specially Designated
Terrorist Organizations (SDTOs) tracking individuals
related to these groups was a violation of the
travelers’ civil liberties. These were almost
exclusively foreign nationals: When were they granted
the civil rights and liberties of American citizens?”
How is this not impeachable? When did foreign terrorists
get civil rights?
Haney described how he began investigating scores of
individuals with links to the traditionalist Islamic
Indo-Pakistani Deobandi movement, and its related
offshoots, prominently, Tablighi Jamaat.
I have reported on this infiltration for years. I
reported on it extensively in my book, “Stop the
Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the
Resistance.” Obama has partnered with terror-tied groups
such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the
Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim American
Society and others. The stealth jihad in the information
battle-space has led to the vigorous enforcement of
blasphemy laws under the Shariah, as Obama ordered that
counter-terror training materials must avoid all
reference to Islam and jihad. Under Islamic law, it is
prohibited to criticize Islam.
The Obama administration is Shariah-compliant at all
costs. Its number one priority is to protect Islam, even
when it puts American lives at risk. The cold-blooded
slaughter of Americans in the homeland by Muslims has
not tempered Obama’s Shariah enthusiasm. On the
contrary, Garland, Fort Hood, Chattanooga, UCMED, San
Bernardino, etc., have accelerated it.
My civil liberties and your civil liberties are being
abridged in accordance with the blasphemy laws under
Shariah. My organization is engaged in 15 different
free-speech lawsuits against various cities. Our
free-speech lawsuit against Boston is heading to the
Supreme Court, because even though truthful, our ads
violate the laws of Shariah (“do not criticize Islam”).
We are being forced to adhere to Shariah mores, but
jihad murderers are given sanctuary and protection – to
slaughter Americans.
The moral, or in this case the immoral, of the story is
this: Jihad terror works.
Pamela Geller is the publisher of AtlasShrugs.com and
the author of the WND Books title "Stop the
Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the
Resistance."
Wisconsin firm fires Muslims in prayer dispute
Religious breaks disrupted production at lawn mower,
snowblower manufacturer
Published: 02/04/2016 (ABC News) A civil liberties group said
Wednesday that it plans to file federal discrimination
and harassment complaints after a Wisconsin manufacturer
fired seven Muslim employees for violating a company
break policy that doesn’t provide extra time for prayer.
Ariens Co. terminated the workers in a dispute that
began last month when it moved to enforce an existing
rule of two 10-minute breaks per work shift and dozens
of Muslim staffers of Somali descent walked off the job
in protest.
Of the 53 employees involved, 32 have abided with the
policy, 14 resigned and seven were terminated Tuesday,
according to Ariens spokeswoman Ann Stilp. The news of
the terminations was first reported by WLUK-TV in Green
Bay.
If shouting 'No!' doesn't work, then swat attacker
with purse
World Net Daily Published: 02/03/2016 by Leo Hohmann
A public-service advertisement running on Finland TV
instructs women in the Scandinavian country on how to
fend off a rapist.
But rather than pull out a handgun or even pepper
spray, the women of Finland are taught to confront
their attackers with bare hands and a purse.
Rape epidemics have engulfed Finland, Sweden and
Germany in a sea of fear since the mass influx of
migrants from the Middle East and North Africa began
two years ago.
Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president and
founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said he
found the video laughable.
Anti-Shariah activist and author Pamela Geller posted
the video on her website earlier this week under the
title "It just gets more absurd."
Netanyahu: Islamic terrorism is flooding the
world from Jakarta to California
The prime minister says the struggle against
terrorism will take time but that Israel is fighting
hard.
Jerusalem Post by JPOST.COM STAFF BEN HARTMAN 02/04/2016
Islamic terrorism is flooding the world and inciting
millions from Jakarta to Africa and all the way to
California, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
during a trip on Thursday to the Jerusalem hospital
treating a Border Police officer who was injured in
yesterday's attack at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's
Old City.
Netanyahu praised the courage of the security forces
and the courage and strength the Border Police officer
shown during Wednesday's attack. He also expressed his
condolences to the family of Border Police officer
Hadar Cohen who was killed in the combined shooting
and stabbing attack.
Three Arab terrorists wielding machine guns, pipe
bombs and knives carried out the attack on Wednesday
killing Cohen, 19, who died of her wounds shortly
after being rushed to the capital's Hadassa University
Medical Center at Mt. Scopus. Her partner, Ravit, was
seriously wounded and underwent emergency surgery at
the hospital. As of Thursday morning she was
considered to be in moderate condition.
"We are all saddened by the death of Hadar Cohen, a
real hero. We all embrace the family," Netanyahu said.
The prime minister emphasized that a great effort is
being put into the fight against terrorism, during the
lengthy effort to defeat it.
"It will take time, it is a long struggle," Netanyahu
said. "We are in this fight, it is not passing us by,
but we are fighting it with great force and will
continue to do so."
"Kabatiya has been closed off while the IDF and the
Shin bet make widespread arrests of wanted suspects,
we have cancelled many work permits and the
attorney-general informed me yesterday that he has
added a number of houses belonging to terrorists to be
slated for demolition," Netanyahu said of the West
Bank village, from where Wednesday's terrorists
hailed.
Police Commissioner Inspector General Roni Alsheich
paid a visit to the wounded Border Police officer on
Wednesday night.
During his visit, Alsheich praised the two teenager
Border Police officers who had recently drafted into
the force for preventing a major terror attack.
Alsheich said “I have no doubt that a terror cell that
comes with an arsenal like this has every intention of
carrying out a massive attack.”
Ravit and Cohen were part of a three-man patrol along
with their commander. They had only been drafted a
couple months before and their deployment at Damascus
Gate in East Jerusalem was part of their training.
Since the attack yesterday, police and the Border
Police have drawn criticism for the fact that the two
women were posted at one of the most dangerous
flashpoints in the country so soon after they were
drafted.
The three terrorists were responsible for the attack
were identified as Ahmed Rajeh Zakarneh, Muhammad
Ahmed Kmail, and Ahmed Najeh Abu al-Rub. All three
were shot dead at the scene. Their explosives did not
detonate and were later neutralized by a police bomb
disposal team.
No holds barred: Torrent of anti-Israel advice found
in Hillary’s emails
Jerusalem Post - Opinion By Shmuley Boteach 02/01/2016
Clandestinely stirring up potentially violent protests
in an attempt to try and force Israel to go against its
best interests? Advice like this was par for the course
with Clinton’s advisers.
It’s already been established that one of Hillary
Clinton’s most trusted advisers, Sid
Blumenthal, sent her anti-Israel articles, ideas
and advice during her time as secretary of state. But
the stream of anti-Israel advice received by Clinton was
much more comprehensive.
In the entire forced dump of Clinton’s emails, you will
be hard pressed to find a single one sympathetic toward
the Jewish state from any of the people she relied on.
The negative, poisonous approach to Israel throughout
this email expose shows the atmosphere that she had
established around herself. These emails seem to
demonstrate that a huge segment of her close advisers
and confidantes were attacking Israel, condemning Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and strategizing how to
force Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria at all
costs.
This was occurring against the backdrop of Israel’s
recent Gaza withdrawal, which led to the takeover of
Gaza by Hamas. There is almost zero mention of the huge
risks to Israel’s security in withdrawing as Clinton and
the Obama administration did everything they could to
pressure Israel to capitulate to their demands.
Take a look at a sampling of the advice being sent to
Clinton from her many advisers that we have now become
privy to.
Sandy
Berger was Clinton’s foreign policy adviser during
her 2008 presidential campaign. In September of 2010 he
sent her ideas on how to pressure Israel to make
concessions for peace. Berger acknowledged “how fragile
is Abbas’s political position,” and how “Palestinians
are in disarray,” and that “failure is a real
possibility.” Berger was well aware of, and informed
Hillary of, the very real possibility that Israel would
be placing its national security at grave risk in a deal
that would very likely fail and lead to a Hamas
takeover.
But Berger felt the risks to Israeli lives were worth
it.
He advised the need to make Netanyahu feel “uneasy about
incurring our displeasure....”
Berger emphasizes the need “to convince the prime
minister – through various forms of overt persuasion and
implicit pressure – to make the necessary compromises”
and talks of the “possibility – to turn his position
against him.”
Astoundingly, Berger seems to accuse the Jews in America
of racism toward Obama. He writes, “At a political
level, the past year has clearly demonstrated the degree
to which the U.S. has been hamstrung by its low ratings
in Israel and among important segments of the domestic
Jewish constituency....” He then adds, “Domestically, he
faces a reservoir of skepticism on this issue which
reflects many factors, including inexcusable prejudice.”
Anne Marie Slaughter was Clinton’s director of policy
planning from 2009-2011. She wrote to Clinton in
September of 2010 and devised a scheme to encourage
wealthy philanthropists to pledge millions to the
Palestinians (which no doubt would have been embezzled
by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his
cronies as were other funds).
She wrote: “This may be a crazy idea.... Suppose we
launched a “Pledge for Palestine” campaign... Such a
campaign among billionaires/multi-millionaires around
the world would reflect a strong vote of confidence in
the building of a Palestinian state....”
She adds: “There would also be a certain shaming effect
re Israelis who, would be building settlements in the
face of a pledge for peace.”
Clinton’s response to this email: “I am very interested-
pls flesh out. Thx.”
Robert
Russo, one of Clinton’s aides and currently her
campaign’s “director of correspondence and briefings”
sent an email in April of 2012 informing her of
Netanyahu’s father’s death and advising her to give him
a condolence call. Included with Russo’s
email is an extremely biased article attacking both
Netanyahu and his father, describing them as virulently
racist warmongers and calling the elder Netanyahu “a
behindthe- scenes adviser to his son, the most powerful
person in Israel.”
The article noted that “Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu repeatedly denied that his father was a
one-dimensional ideologue. He further emphasized that he
himself was a different person from his father.”
But then it goes on to say, without providing any proof
whatsoever, “Israelis seemed in the dark about the
extent of paternal influence on their leader,” and “To
understand Bibi, you have to understand the father.”
One might be forgiven for questioning Clinton’s sympathy
and sincerity when she later placed the call and gave
Netanyahu her condolences.
Thomas
Pickering, former US ambassador to Israel, wrote
to Clinton on December 18, 2011, and suggested a secret
plan to stir up major Palestinian protests in an attempt
to force the Israeli government into peace negotiations.
He stated that the protests “must be all and only women.
Why? On the Palestinian side the male culture is to use
force.”
Pickering’s goal was to ignite protests that would
engulf the West Bank, “just like Tahrir square.” He adds
that the Palestinian “leadership has shied away from
this idea because they can’t control it,” and they are
“afraid of being replaced.”
This idiotic reasoning that somehow only women would
participate and things would stay peaceful is obviously
absurd. As Pickering himself notes, “Palestinian men
will not for long patiently demonstrate – they will be
inclined over time and much too soon to be frustrated
and use force. Their male culture comes close to
requiring it.”
Regardless, Pickering writes that the protests could be
used against Israel “to influence the political
leadership.”
The idea was as dangerous for the Palestinians as it was
for Israel. As Pickering himself admits, widespread
protests could overthrow Abbas’ government, and if
Palestinian men joined in, widespread violence would
inevitably break out. It would obviously be impossible
to prevent men from participating in these
demonstrations.
Yet Pickering felt this extreme risk was worth taking,
even if it meant the replacement of Abbas with another
Hamas-led government. And even if meant violence
breaking out across the West Bank leading to a third
intifada and the murder of countless Jews. He also
emphasizes the need to hide all US involvement in this
plot. Clinton forwarded this email to Monica Hanley and
asked her to “pls print.”
Clandestinely stirring up potentially violent protests
in an attempt to try and force Israel to go against its
best interests? Advice like this was par for the course
when it came to Clinton’s advisers.
In a follow-up column we’ll illuminate even more
anti-Israel advice that was given the then-secretary of
state. Sadly, there was just so much of it.
The author, “America’s Rabbi,” is the international
bestselling author of 30 books including his upcoming
The Israel Warrior’s Handbook. Follow him on Twitter @
RabbiShmuley.
In Colo.,
a look at life after marijuana legalization
Boston Globe
Joshua
Miller
Feb 22, 2016
DENVER —
Nestled between a 7-Eleven and a store selling
Broncos jerseys, the door to the generic-looking
retail establishment is easy to miss. But once
inside, the smell is unmistakable.
At Euflora, tables are filled
with glass containers of marijuana next to
interactive tablets describing each strain (“sweet
floral aroma,” “intoxicatingly potent”). An array
of marijuana-infused products beckon behind locked
cases: from energy shots to sour gummies, brownies
to bacon brittle. And if you’re 21 or older, it’s
all legal to buy.
This is Colorado,
where a billion-dollar-a-year legal marijuana
industry has emerged since January 2014. It offers
an early look at what Massachusetts
could face should voters greenlight an expected
ballot question and legalize the drug this fall.
So has legalization been a plus
or a minus?
“Yes,” Colorado Senate
President Bill Cadman replied with a laugh.
The consensus among several top
state officials — who emphasize that their job is
to carry out the will of the voters rather than
mull whether their constituents made the right
choice — is that there have been no widely felt
negative effects on the state since marijuana
became legal, and a crop of retail stores,
cultivation facilities, and manufacturers sprung
up from Aurora to Telluride.
Legalization has ushered in
thousands of new jobs in the burgeoning industry,
brought $135 million into state coffers last year,
and ended the prohibition of a widely used
substance.
But police say they struggle to
enforce a patchwork of laws covering marijuana,
including drugged driving. Officials fret about
the industry becoming like big tobacco, dodging
regulation and luring users with slick
advertising. And this state, long a leader in
cannabis use, has the highest
youth rate of marijuana use in the nation,
according to the most recent data available from a
federal drug-use survey.
Colorado
voters approved a constitutional amendment in
November 2012 legalizing the sale of recreational
marijuana, which began in 2014.
The drug is heavily regulated.
Each plant for sale must be tagged with a radio
frequency identification chip, from an early stage
of its life to sale, to help the state track it.
Marijuana, both in plant form and infused in
products, is required to be tested for potency and
contaminants, and sold in child-resistant
containers.
Tourists and locals alike can
buy recreational marijuana as long as they are at
least 21 and can possess up to 1 ounce. Only those
with a medical marijuana “red card,” issued by the
state on the recommendation of a physician, can
possess more at one time.
While the popular image of
marijuana use remains joints and vaporizers, a
significant percentage of marijuana sales in
Colorado — nearly half according to some estimates
— take the form of infused products, such as
edible treats, pills, drops, bath soak, and even
“sensual enhancement oil.”
More than two years into the
still-rapidly growing industry, how do top
officials and their constituents see legalization?
“There are a certain number of
folks, like myself, who were pretty reticent about
it to begin with,” said House Speaker Dickey Lee
Hullinghorst, a Democrat. But “the sky didn’t
fall. Everything seems to be working pretty well.”
That’s in line with the view of
Colorado
voters, according to a November 2015 survey. The
poll found 53 percent believe legalizing marijuana
has been good for the state, while 39 percent
believe it has been bad.
And Dr. Larry Wolk, the top
medical official in Colorado’s
public health department, said that since
legalization no large troubling public health
trends have cropped up yet. But he noted
sporadic reports of impaired driving and people
getting violently ill from ingesting too much
marijuana in edibles, such as candy bars.
He said this month new data
indicate that the biggest
increases in marijuana hospitalizations have
been seen among out-of-staters, who might be
naive about the drug’s effects.
All marijuana, including
medical, is subject to standard state and local
sales tax in Colorado.
But recreational marijuana is also subject to an
additional 10 percent special state tax, along
with additional local marijuana taxes. And there’s
also a 15 percent excise tax on wholesale
transfers of recreational marijuana, that ends up
raising retail prices.
For producers, the tax picture
is among the many complexities of running a
marijuana business.
Sally Vander Veer, president of
one of the state’s largest dispensaries and
cultivation operations, which has 70 employees and
a payroll of about $3.8 million a year, is bullish
on her rapidly expanding business. Medicine Man
has a 40 percent profit margin, she said. But her
company struggles with what she estimates to be an
effective tax rate of nearly 50 percent, as well
as having to deal almost exclusively in cash.
Because marijuana remains illegal under federal
law, access to banking services is severely
restricted.
The state saw $135 million in
tax and fee revenue last year from the
recreational and medical marijuana industry, money
that has gone to, among other efforts, education
for youth and law enforcement on the drug.
State Representative Jonathan
Singer, a leader on marijuana issues in the House,
said what legalization has done is “allowed
marijuana to pay its own way,” with the cost of
regulation paid for by dispensaries and consumers.
Yet law
enforcement officials offer a more negative,
chaotic view. They paint a picture of a quickly
evolving array of laws, regulations, and
ordinances that outpace their enforcement tools
for related issues, such as drugged driving.
For one, they say, there’s no
quick, reliable check to see whether drivers are
too high to operate a vehicle safely, as
there is for blood-alcohol level. And there’s no
easy way to determine whether food products in a
vehicle are infused with pot.
“You have no ability to test
the gummy bear laying there on the dashboard,”
said Chief John Jackson of the Greenwood Village,
Colo., Police Department said.
“Edibles pose a problem because
there is no way to tell the potency of it, there
is no way to test it in the field. And no law
enforcement officer is going to lick it and say,
‘Well, there’s marijuana, THC in that.’ ” (THC is
the primary psychoactive compound in marijuana.)
Jackson, former president of
the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police, and
other police officials said legalization simply
moved much faster than law enforcement officers’
ability to keep up with it.
Jackson, who sounded
beleaguered in an interview, said a fallacy of
legalization is that it would give law enforcement
time back to focus on more serious, complicated
criminal issues and bigger drug problems.
Two years and two months into
full legalization, he said, “we’re not seeing
that.”
Another problem with edible
marijuana products, said Dr. Michael DiStefano,
who directs emergency medicine clinical operations
at Colorado’s
only top-level pediatric trauma center: the
inability of kids to distinguish between normal
products and those infused with THC.
When marijuana is “handled
responsibly, it’s not an issue for children’s
health. The problem is a lot of these edibles,” he
said. “They look like regular candy. . . . There’s
no way to discern what is an edible gummy bear
that has THC in it, versus a regular gummy bear.
In fact, you cannot distinguish them unless
they’re in the package.”
He said he’s seen an uptick in
kids admitted to the ER at Children’s Hospital Colorado
— to about 15 last year — ill from accidentally
ingesting edible marijuana-infused foods since the
drug became legal for recreational use in January
2014.
Indeed, the most grinding
concerns and the biggest question marks focus on
kids and young adults. But the effects of
legalization on children remain effectively
unknown with about two years of experience and
lagging statistics.
Opponents of legalization point
to a federal drug survey that estimates Colorado
had the highest level of any state of 12- to
17-year-olds reporting marijuana use in the last
30 days for 2013-2014. But the change in
Colorado’s youth use rate from 2012-2013 — before
full legalization— to 2013-2014 — partly after —
was not statistically significant. And federal
statisticians say the findings are not sufficient
to draw conclusions about changes in youth
marijuana use patterns as a result of
legalization.
Wolk, the top doctor at the
state’s public health department, said Colorado
marijuana use has always been high compared with
the rest of the country.
“No pun intended,” he said, “we
started high and stayed high — use hasn’t
increased in a statistically significant way since
legalization. Those that were using before are
still using now, among youths and adults.”
For some opponents, a big
concern isn’t just what has happened so far, but
what’s yet to come. They worry that the burgeoning
marijuana industry, like alcohol and tobacco
before it, could eventually use its profits to
gain clout and subvert attempts at regulation.
Jeffrey Zinsmeister, executive
vice president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a
national nonprofit group cofounded by former US
representative Patrick Kennedy that opposes
legalization and commercialization of marijuana,
said there have been several red flags.
“You’re seeing this headlong
rush into another addictive industry without
knowing what widespread marijuana use is going to
do to society,” he warned. “And the signs from Colorado
are not good.”
Officials say their primary
concerns include: adults being
able to legally consume the drug normalizes it
for kids; Joe
Camel-like ads that make pot smoking seem
appealing to kids; and legalization
increasing availability, thus making the barrier
to getting marijuana lower.
“I worry about normalization, I
worry about commercialization, and I worry about
availability,” said Andrew Freedman, who directs
Governor John Hickenlooper’s Office of Marijuana
Coordination.
“What happens to people over
the long term, especially kids over the long term,
as they see marijuana normalized, as they see
people advertising for marijuana, and as
accessibility becomes greater and greater?” he
asked. “Kids who are, right now, saying, ‘No
thanks,’ will that change over time?”
Freedman and other people
deeply involved in the day-to-day oversight of the
new market say it functions pretty smoothly. But they
emphasize the broader question of whether or not
legalization ends up a success will probably
take five or 10 years to answer fully.
Joshua Miller
can be reached at joshua.miller@globe.com.
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politics.
File this Under U S Constitution or Religious
Freedom??
September 22, 2016
A 300 page report
issued by the United States Council on Civil Rights
(USCCR) on 7 September of 2016, has caused a righteous
outcry from many religious and other liberty loving
institutions. You may rightly question the authority
of a commission that blindly ignores the
fundamental liberty of individuals alluded to in the
first amendment of the Bill of Rights of the U.S.
Constitution. The commission, headed by chairman
Martin R Castro, appointed by President Obama in 2011,
suffers a serious blind spot of vision.
The USCCR recommends particular protections for people
who fall within a variety of groups designated by
particular labels adopted over the years, offering these
groups special privileges beyond that of
"regular" Americans, those generic citizens, whose basic
liberties were noted and codified in the founding
documents of our country to be protected from the
encroachment of the rules and restrictions and
regulations of an ever-growing totalitarian government which
has usurped some non-existent power to brand my conscience
and beliefs as "intolerant" or
discriminatory.
There is a blind spot on the part of the commission that
does not recognize the freedom of faith-abiding people
of conscience to live by the tenets of their respective
religions, that do not infringe upon health and welfare
of others.
There are a number of links to explore- first of all a
link to the report itself, followed by reactions and
comments of a variety of faith-based organizations, as
well as the watchdog groups that recognize the freedoms
that our Constitution attempted to protect.
U.S. Slams Israel for New West Bank Settlement
Expansion
Marcy Oster
September 1, 2016
(JTA) — The U.S. State Department condemned the
announcement that an Israeli planning committee
approved the construction of hundreds of housing units
in four West Bank settlements.
“We’re deeply concerned by the government’s
announcement to advance plans for these settlement
units in the West Bank,” State Department Spokesman
John Kirby said Wednesday, in answer to a reporter’s
question during a briefing, hours after reports of the
approval. “Since the Quartet report came out, we have
seen a very significant acceleration of Israeli
settlement activity that runs directly counter to the
conclusions of the report. So far this year, Israel
has promoted plans for over 2,500 units, including
over 700 units retroactively approved in the West
Bank.”
Kirby said that the State Department is “particularly
troubled by the policy of retroactively approving
unauthorized settlement units and outposts that are
themselves illegal under Israeli law. These policies
have effectively given the Israeli Government a green
light for the pervasive advancement of settlement
activity in a new and potentially unlimited way. This
significant expansion of the settlement enterprise
poses a very serious and growing threat to the
viability of the two-state solution.”
“Potentially unlimited” is a recent term used by the
State Department, and seems to indicate that State
believes Israel wants to annex the West Bank.
The Civil Administration’s High Planning Committee on
Wednesday approved construction of 234 living units in
Elkana in the northern West Bank, designated to be a
nursing home; 30 homes in Beit Arye in the northern
West Bank; and 20 homes in the Jerusalem ring
neighborhood of Givat Zeev.
The committee also retroactively legalized 179 housing
units built in the 1980s in Ofarim, part of the Beit
Arye municipality.
The approval comes less than a week after Nickolay
Mladenov, the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle
East peace process, criticized Israel for continuing
to build in West Bank settlements and neighborhoods in
eastern Jerusalem, going against the recommendations
issued in June by the Mideast Quartet. The Quartet,
made up of the United States, Russia, the European
Union and the U.N., called on Israel in June to stop
building in the settlements and on the Palestinians to
halt incitement.
In Saudi Arabia, signs of an effort to break the
Israel taboo
By Michael Wilner, Herb Keinon 08/30/2016 21:30
Saudi state-run media appears to be softening its
reporting on Israel, running unprecedented columns
floating the prospect of direct relations, quoting
Israeli officials and filling its news holes with fewer
negative stories on Israel’s relationship with the
Palestinians.
The public shift – from outlets such as al-Arabiya and
Riyadh newspaper, among other local or state-owned
outlets – reflects secret, under-the-table contact
between the Arab kingdom and the Jewish state that has
been a work in progress for years.
But media movement marks a new phase in that diplomatic
process, according to some experts on the kingdom, who
see signs of a monarchy effort to prepare Saudi society
for debate that had previously been off limits.
“The key here is that everybody understands this is not
going to turn around overnight, and its probably not
going to convince a lot of people. But that’s not really
the point,” said David Pollock, an expert on the region
at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “The
point is to establish this as a debatable proposition,
and to break the taboo of even debating about it – about
the prospect of normalizing relations.”
“Once you’ve done that, you’ve made it legitimate,”
Pollock added. “There are suddenly two sides.”
One column called for Saudis to “leave behind” their
“hatred of Jews,” and another said that talks between
the two nations should be direct, without
intermediaries, based on Saudi national interests.
Those national interests appear to align with Israel’s,
primarily on the issue of Iran, which has dominated the
Saudi news cycle in recent months– from Islamic Republic
activities in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
Saudi conservative Islamists view Iran, the Shi’ite and
Hezbollah as “much worse than the Jews,” Pollock
commented. “So that kind of takes the edge off – and
actually pushes them in the same direction.”
An official in the Foreign Ministry said there have been
some positive signals from Riyadh – such as an interview
that ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer gave recently
to the Saudi media, and one that Foreign Ministry
Director-General Dore Gold had last year with a Saudi
website – but that there is no sense this is part of an
organized campaign to prepare the ground for better
ties.
“These are positive signs, but I would not say they are
game changers,” the official said. “Good things are
happening.
But rather than seeing this as trying to prepare the
ground for something, I’d say it is a sign that there is
less enmity.”
A source in the Prime Minister’s Office concurred. He
acknowledged a few articles of late from “some pretty
big journalists” against hating Jews, but said that he
knows nothing about it coming from the top as part of an
organized campaign.
Quiet talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia began
leaking into public view in June, when a handshake
between Gold and former Saudi government adviser Anwar
Eshki raised eyebrows. Putting to rest any doubt that
the handshake was an isolated affair, Eshki led a Saudi
delegation to Jerusalem the following month that was
publicly acknowledged.
Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud also shared a
stage with Israel’s former military intelligence chief,
Amos Yadlin, in 2014.
A similar effort is under way in Egypt, Pollock said.
“I gather from talking to some of the people who are
directly involved with it that there are different camps
– different schools of thought in these countries,” said
Pollock. “There is definitely internal opposition, and
it’s very delicate, and fragile. But in both countries,
the government and the establishment media – and their
spin-offs and allies – are pursuing a deliberate
strategy to do this.”
International org calls for federalization of U.S.
law enforcement to be 'beefed up,' cover all of
America
by Robert Romano | Updated 04 Aug 2016 at 10:04 AM
“The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
has provided oversight and recommendations for
improvement of police services in a number of cities
with consent decrees. This is one of the most effective
ways to reduce discrimination in law enforcement and it
needs to be beefed up and increased to cover as many of
the 18,000-plus local law enforcement jurisdictions.”
That was United Nations Rapporteur Maina Kai on July 27,
a representative of the U.N. Human Rights Council, who
on the tail-end of touring the U.S., endorsed a
little-known and yet highly controversial practice by
the Justice Department to effect a federal takeover of
local police and corrections departments.
The Obama administration has been
pursuing the federal takeover of local police right
under Congress' nose — and Republicans in Congress were
apparently unaware it was happening.
The consent decrees are already being implemented in
Newark, New Jersey; Miami, Florida; Los Angeles,
California; Ferguson, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois; and
other municipalities.
Here's how it works: the Civil Rights Division at the
Department of Justice files a lawsuit in federal court
against a city, county, or state, alleging
constitutional and civil rights violations by the police
or at a corrections facility. It is done under 42 U.S.C.
§ 14141, a section of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and
Law Enforcement Act, granting the attorney general the
power to prosecute law enforcement misconduct. The
municipality then simply agrees to the judicial finding
— without contest — and the result is a wide-reaching
federal court order that imposes onerous regulations on
local police.
The federal court orders are designed to undo Rudy
Giuliani-style policing tactics that were effective at
reducing crime in big cities in the 1990s and 2000s.
In short, the much-feared nationalization of local
police departments is already being initiated by the
Obama administration's Justice Department. And somehow
nobody noticed.
Federal requirements include how searches are conducted,
what constitutes legitimate use of force, the mandatory
use of on-body cameras by the police, and so forth. The
agreements impose years-long compliance review regimes,
implementation deadlines, and regular reviews by federal
bureaucrats. This makes local police directly answerable
to the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ.
One example includes a 77-page March 30 consent decree
between the department and the City of Newark, New
Jersey, that resulted from a 2011 investigation, a 2014
series of findings by the Civil Rights Division, and
then finally a federal lawsuit alleging police
misconduct in the U.S. District Court in the District of
New Jersey.
The original complaint alleged that the Newark Police
Department (NPD) "has engaged in a pattern or practice
of constitutional violations in its stop and arrest
practices, responses to individuals' exercise of their
rights under the First Amendment, uses of force, and
theft by officers. The investigation also revealed that
the pattern or practice of constitutional violations
stems in part from deficiencies in NPD's systems that
are designed to prevent and detect misconduct, including
its systems for reviewing force and investigating
complaints regarding officer conduct."
The city of Newark, via the consent decree, agreed to
the allegations and to implement a "comprehensive and
agency-wide policies and procedures that are consistent
with and incorporate all substantive requirements of
this agreement," including rules on stops, searches, use
of force, etc. The city has two years to implement, with
the full agreement lasting five years. Meaning — even if
the political parties change power in the city of
Newark, the new mayor and city council would still be
required to implement the court order.
U.S. Cities with Active DOJ Consent Decrees
City State Police
Force
Chicago IL 11944
Los Angeles CA 10000
Miami FL 1259
Ferguson MO 54
Source: Americans for Limited Government
These consent decrees are in essence regulations. That,
is, without the niceties of administrative procedures
requirements, public comments, or even any congressional
oversight.
Remarkably, congressional offices contacted by this
author were generally unaware of the regulation of local
policing via DOJ consent decrees with cities — even
though the agreements have been implemented for years.
Not a single hearing or word of protest has occurred on
this topic.
The lack of oversight is pathetic enough — but to make
matters even worse, this could actually be the first
step in a new wide-ranging body of federal rules on
local police.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development
regulation "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing"
(AFFH) actually originated as a consent decree in 2009
against Westchester County, New York, requiring
affordable housing units to be built in the county.
Afterward, Republican Robert Astorino was elected county
executive and yet was still required to implement the
court order.
Westchester became the basis for AFFH, where every city
and county in the country that accepts any part of $3
billion of annual community development block grants to
1,200 recipient cities and counties now has to comply
with HUD's dictates on zoning along racial and income
guidelines.
DOJ may very well end up doing the same thing with the
local police — that is, if Congress does not wise up to
what's really happening and defund implementation of 42
U.S.C. § 14141. This is dangerous. What is most chilling
is how far along the Obama Justice Department is in this
process. The breadth of regulation here shatters any
notion of local governance or federalism. The Obama
administration has been pursuing the federal takeover of
local police right under Congress' nose — and
Republicans in Congress were apparently unaware it
was happening.
No doubt the practice would continue under a Hillary
Clinton administration too. Do you want a Clinton
Justice Department running your local police force? That
is how important the election in November suddenly
becomes — with law and order already hanging in the
balance and police being targeted by domestic terrorists
in the slayings in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
As Americans for Limited Government President Rick
Manning noted in a statement calling attention to the
U.N.'s interest in the DOJ program and urging Congress
to act, "The fact that the U.N. Human Rights Council —
which includes some of the worst abusers of human rights
in the world that hate the U.S. — is cheering for this
DOJ national takeover of the police should tell members
everything they need to know. It's time to support local
police, not render them impotent via federal
restrictions against maintaining law and order. No less
than the very existence of local government is at
stake."
Robert Romano is the senior editor of Americans for
Limited Government.
Panic Mode: Khizr Khan Deletes Law Firm
Website that Specialized in Muslim Immigration
by Matthew Boyle Breitbart August 2, 2016
Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father that
Democrats and their allies media wide have been using
to hammer GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump,
has deleted his law firm’s website from the Internet.
This development is significant, as his website
proved—as Breitbart News and others have reported—that
he financially benefits from unfettered pay-to-play
Muslim migration into America.
A snapshot of his now deleted
website, as captured by the Wayback Machine which
takes snapshots archiving various websites on the
Internet, shows that as a lawyer he engages in
procurement of EB5 immigration visas and other
“Related Immigration Services.”
The website is completely removed
from the Internet, and instead directs visitors to the
URL at which it once was to a page parking the URL run
by GoDaddy.
The EB5 program, which helps
wealthy foreigners usually from the Middle East
essentially buy their way into America, is fraught
with corruption. U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has detailed such
corruption over the past several months, and in
February issued a blistering statement about it.
Islamic State Answers Pope Francis: Ours Is a
Religious War, and We Hate You
breitbart.com Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. 2 Aug 2016
The Islamic State terror group
has come out publicly to reject Pope Francis’ claims
that the war being waged by Islamic terrorists is not
religious in nature, assuring the pontiff that their
sole motivation is religious and sanctioned by Allah
in the Qur’an.
In the most recent issue of Dabiq, the propaganda
magazine of the Islamic State, ISIS criticizes Pope
Francis for his naïveté in clinging to the conviction
that Muslims want peace and that acts of Islamic terror
are economically motivated.
“This is a divinely-warranted war between the Muslim
nation and the nations of disbelief,” the authors state
in an article titled “By the Sword.”
The Islamic State directly attacks Francis for claiming
that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the
Quran are opposed to every form of violence,” saying
that by doing this, “Francis continues to hide behind a
deceptive veil of ‘good will,’ covering his actual
intentions of pacifying the Muslim nation.”
Pope Francis “has struggled against reality” in his
efforts to portray Islam as a religion of peace, the
article insists, before going on to urge all Muslims to
take up the sword of jihad, the “greatest obligation” of
a true Muslim.
Despite the obviously religious nature of their attacks,
the article states, “many people in Crusader countries
express shock and even disgust that Islamic State
leadership ‘uses religion to justify violence.’”
“Indeed, waging jihad – spreading the rule of Allah by
the sword – is an obligation found in the Quran, the
word of our Lord,” it reads.
“The blood of the disbelievers is obligatory to spill by
default. The command is clear. Kill the disbelievers, as
Allah said, ‘Then kill the polytheists wherever you find
them.’”
The Islamic State also reacted to Pope Francis’s
description of recent acts of Islamic terror as
“senseless violence,” insisting that there is nothing
senseless about it.
“The gist of the matter is that there is indeed a rhyme
to our terrorism, warfare, ruthlessness, and brutality,”
they declare, adding that their hatred for the Christian
West is absolute and implacable.
The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us,
imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping
our lands, we would continue to hate you because our
primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist
until you embrace Islam. Even if you were to pay jizyah
[tax for infidels] and live under the authority of Islam
in humiliation, we would continue to hate you.
In a recent press conference, Pope Francis told
journalists that the world is at war. “But it’s a
real war, not a religious war,” he said.
“It’s a war of interests, a war for money. A war for
natural resources and for the dominion of the peoples.”
PM draws parallel to attacks
in Israel and across Middle East, says Islamic
terror driven by ‘fanatical hatred’
from Times of Israel by Raoul Wootliff June 16, 2016,
12:29 am
In an English language video
posted to Facebook on Wednesday, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu said the casualties in Sunday’s
deadly nightclub shooting in Orlando were victims of
homophobia and intolerance and called on people not to
give in to “hate and fear.”
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Here is the complete text of his statement:
"In Orlando, a terrorist walks
into a nightclub and murders nearly 50 human beings.
Sons and daughters, brothers and sisters cut down in
cold blood.
They did nothing wrong. They
were dancing with friends, they were enjoying music
with loved ones.
Why did the terrorist murder
them?
Because he was driven by a fanatical hatred.
He targeted the LGBT community
because he believed they were evil.
Now, the murderer wasn't
alone.
Regimes and terrorist
organizations around the world ruthlessly persecute
the LGBT community.
In Syria, ISIS throws gays off
rooftops.
In Iran, the regime hangs gays from cranes.
Too many people have remained
silent in the face of this awful persecution.
This week's shooting wasn't
merely an attack on the LGBT community. It was an
attack on all of us, on our common values of freedom
and diversity and choice.
Radical Islamist terror makes
no distinction between shades of infidel.
This week it was gays in
Orlando. A few days before that it was Jews in Tel
Aviv. Before that it was music fans in Paris;
Travelers in Brussels; Yazidis in Iraq; Community
workers in San Bernardino; Christians and
journalists in Syria.
All of us are targets.
We believe that all people are
created in the image of God.
ISIS, by contrast, believes
that all people who aren't just like them deserve to
die.
We will not be terrified into
submission. We will fight back. And we will triumph.
Today I ask you to reach out
to friends in the LGBT community. Comfort them. Tell
them you stand together, we stand together as one.
And that you will always remember the victims. Tell
them they will never be alone, that we are all one
family deserving of dignity, deserving of life.
I have no doubt that those who
seek to spread hate and fear will be defeated.
Working together we will
defeat them even faster.
We need to stand united,
resolute in the belief that all people regardless of
their sexual orientation, regardless of their race,
regardless of their ethnicity, all people deserve
respect, deserve dignity."
Continental
Chutzpah: EU Building on Israeli Land, Warning
Against Demolitions
the JewishPress.com by David Israel Published June 1, 2016
The European Union over the past few years has been
erecting illegal structures in Area C, which according
to the Oslo agreement is under Israeli control. After
several rightwing NGOs have complained, the IDF set out
to demolish some of those structures. By rights, they
should have taken all of them down, what with their
being built without a permit. Israeli media publicized
the demolition of those structures, some of which
actually flew the EU flag — like those mythical cat
burglars who leave their personal business card in the
open safe. But last week the EU chutzpah has reached
unprecedented highs when Lars Faaborg-Andersen, the
Danish diplomat who since 2013 has been the ambassador
of the European Union to Jerusalem, met with Coordinator
of Government Activities in the Territories Gen. Yoav
Mordechai, to warn him that if Israel keeps demolishing
those “Palestinian homes” it would damage relations with
Brussels.
According to a senior Israeli official who spoke to
Ha’aretz, the meeting was tense and loaded. The
ambassador accused Israel of hurting the “weakest
Palestinian populations.” What the senior official did
not share was that those structures are a means by which
the EU has been challenging Israel’s claim to
sovereignty in Area C (the PA is currently in charge in
Areas A and B). It has to do with the diametrically
opposed views of Israel and the EU of what constitutes
the “two-state solution.”
Essentially, the Israeli politicians who are now in
government, as well as more than a few in the
opposition, envision a future peace deal that turns
Areas A and B into an independent Palestinian entity,
either as a state or an autonomy. The same Israeli
leaders envision some permanent legal solution for the
upwards of 400 thousand Jews living in Judea and
Samaria, all of them in Area C, most likely with Israel
annexing the large settlement clusters and giving away
the rest of the land.
Virtually no one outside Israel supports this idea at
the moment. Even Israel’s best friends in the world
envision the ousting of the Jews from Area C, possibly
while allowing Israel to retain eastern Jerusalem. How
would that actually be done—no one cares to say, nor
where would Israel gather the tens of billions of
dollars required for such a move, never mind whether the
settler population would acquiesce or opt instead for
resistance that would make the traumatic evacuation of
8,000 Jews from Gaza’s Gush Katif look like a picnic.
Meanwhile, while Area C in Israel’s view is eventually
going to be annexed as part of a peace deal — to the
Europeans Area C is Palestinian land ready to be
redeemed.
Which is why the EU has been relentless at challenging
Israel’s claim to Area C. And it’s why they’ve come up
with the delusional notion that taking down 531 illegal
Arab structures in 2015, 75 of which had been built by
the EU, was damaging the two-state solution. Because the
two-state solution the Europeans envision is without any
Jews in Area C.
For the same reason, Ambassador Faaborg-Andersen was
complaining that Israel is quick to condemn and demolish
those illegal structures, but at the same time refuses
to give Arabs permits to build legally in Area C.
Because while the Arabs view Area C as soon to be part
of free Palestine, Israelis plan to keep most of it,
thank you very much.
There’s going to be another meeting with the EU envoy,
on June 15, this time at the Israeli foreign ministry.
The Europeans are going to demand a freeze on
demolishing Arab structures in Area C, while at the same
time also demanding a freeze on Jewish construction in
the same Area C. And at some point something will have
to give.
About the Author: David writes news at
JewishPress.com.
ISIS Kills Scores of Christians in Retaken Syrian
Town: Report
By Conor Gaffey Newsweek.com 4/11/16
The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) killed scores of
Christians when they captured a Syrian town recently
liberated by the government, a Syrian Christian leader
has said.
ISIS swept into the town of Al-Qaryatain in August 2015,
kidnapping at least 230 civilians including dozens of
Christians in the central Syrian town, which lies 104
kilometers (65 miles) southwest of Palmyra. The town had
a population of some 2,000 Syriac Catholics and Orthodox
Christians prior to the outbreak of civil war in Syria
in 2011, but this had dropped to just 300 before ISIS
took control.
Al-Qaryatain was retaken by Syrian government forces
with the backing of Russian airstrikes earlier in April
and reports are just beginning to emerge of life under
the extremist group for civilians in the town. Patriarch
Ignatius Aphrem II, the head of the Syrian Orthodox
Church, told the BBC on Sunday that 21 Christians were
murdered when ISIS first captured the city.
Some died trying to escape while others were killed for
violating the terms of contracts they had signed
requiring them to submit to the extremists’
interpretation of Islamic law. Hundreds of Christians in
Al-Qaryatain were reportedly forced to sign so-called
dhimmi contracts, which enabled them to live under ISIS
rule in the town. The patriarch added that five other
Christians are missing and presumed dead, while ransoms
had been paid to ISIS to secure the release of the rest
of the Christians.
The civil war in Syria has had a devastating impact on
the country’s Christian contingent, which made up
approximately 10 percent of Syria’s population before
the outbreak of the conflict. The European Parliament
stated in October 2015 that about 40 percent of Syria’s
Christian population—or 700,000 people—had fled the
country.
NOTE: Jesus Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, was dead
for three days, and rose from the dead, and walked among
us for forty days until his Ascension. After the
Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came to the Apostles,
they spread out to different areas of the land to spread
the good news, of our salvation. One of the first places
they went to was what is now Syria, which was the home
of Simon Peter. Not only does ISIS eradicate people who
do not bow down to their cult they attempt to erase the
ancient traces of preceding times like in Palmyra which
was a Roman outpost in Syria, from the first or second
century after the year of our Lord. Click
here to view more about that.
R.I.P. Justice Scalia
Feb. 18, 2016
It is hard to imagine a greater
loss to Liberty in America than has occurred in the
passing of Justice Antonin Scalia. His understanding
of the Constitution as a pact between free people
and government, and our protection from oppressive
government, was unparalleled.
The fact that 30% of Americans do not know who he
was, speaks volumes about the state of our Union and
our education system.
My words and thoughts are totally inadequate but you
can easily find more about the great man's life and
legacy. Click
here for a link to wikipedia. Or click
here to read the thoughts of the other
Justices on the Supreme Court about him.
R.I.P. Justice Scalia.
Shariah Law at work in the Obama Administration
Obama DHS scrubs records of hundreds of Muslim
terrorists
Published: 7 Feb 2016 World Net Daily Pamela Geller
Not only did the Obama
administration scrub counter-terror programs of jihad
and Islam, now we find out that his administration
scrubbed the records of Muslim terrorists. If the
enemedia were not aligned with the jihad force, this
would be front-page news across the nation.
An agent of the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS,
for 15 years, Philip Haney, reported Friday that after
the Christmas Day underwear bomber, Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, tried to blow up a crowded passenger jet
over Detroit, “President Obama threw the intelligence
community under the bus for its failure to ‘connect the
dots.’ He said, ‘This was not a failure to collect
intelligence; it was a failure to integrate and
understand the intelligence that we already had.'”
Haney revealed: “Most Americans were unaware of the
enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland
Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused. His
words infuriated many of us because we knew his
administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort
to destroy the raw material – the actual intelligence we
had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots
constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans
safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be
wiped away.”
What Haney discloses is truly shocking: “Just before
that Christmas Day attack, in early November 2009, I was
ordered by my superiors at the Department of Homeland
Security to delete or modify several hundred records of
individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups
like Hamas from the important federal database, the
Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). These
types of records are the basis for any ability to
‘connect dots.’ Every day, DHS Customs and Border
Protection officers watch entering and exiting many
individuals associated with known terrorist
affiliations, then look for patterns. Enforcing a
political scrubbing of records of Muslims greatly
affected our ability to do that. Even worse, going
forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from
entering pertinent information into the database.”
Who gave the order to scrub the records of Muslims with
ties to terror groups?
These new shocking revelations come fresh on the heels
of whistleblower testimony in the wake of the San
Bernardino jihad slaughter, revealing that the Obama
administration shut down investigations into jihadists
in America (and quite possible the San Bernardino
shooters) at the request of the Department of State and
the DHS’ own Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Division.
Haney noted: “They claimed that since the Islamist
groups in question were not Specially Designated
Terrorist Organizations (SDTOs) tracking individuals
related to these groups was a violation of the
travelers’ civil liberties. These were almost
exclusively foreign nationals: When were they granted
the civil rights and liberties of American citizens?”
How is this not impeachable? When did foreign terrorists
get civil rights?
Haney described how he began investigating scores of
individuals with links to the traditionalist Islamic
Indo-Pakistani Deobandi movement, and its related
offshoots, prominently, Tablighi Jamaat.
I have reported on this infiltration for years. I
reported on it extensively in my book, “Stop the
Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the
Resistance.” Obama has partnered with terror-tied groups
such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the
Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim American
Society and others. The stealth jihad in the information
battle-space has led to the vigorous enforcement of
blasphemy laws under the Shariah, as Obama ordered that
counter-terror training materials must avoid all
reference to Islam and jihad. Under Islamic law, it is
prohibited to criticize Islam.
The Obama administration is Shariah-compliant at all
costs. Its number one priority is to protect Islam, even
when it puts American lives at risk. The cold-blooded
slaughter of Americans in the homeland by Muslims has
not tempered Obama’s Shariah enthusiasm. On the
contrary, Garland, Fort Hood, Chattanooga, UCMED, San
Bernardino, etc., have accelerated it.
My civil liberties and your civil liberties are being
abridged in accordance with the blasphemy laws under
Shariah. My organization is engaged in 15 different
free-speech lawsuits against various cities. Our
free-speech lawsuit against Boston is heading to the
Supreme Court, because even though truthful, our ads
violate the laws of Shariah (“do not criticize Islam”).
We are being forced to adhere to Shariah mores, but
jihad murderers are given sanctuary and protection – to
slaughter Americans.
The moral, or in this case the immoral, of the story is
this: Jihad terror works.
Pamela Geller is the publisher of AtlasShrugs.com and
the author of the WND Books title "Stop the
Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the
Resistance."
Wisconsin firm fires Muslims in prayer dispute
Religious breaks disrupted production at lawn mower,
snowblower manufacturer
Published: 02/04/2016 (ABC News) A civil liberties group said
Wednesday that it plans to file federal discrimination
and harassment complaints after a Wisconsin manufacturer
fired seven Muslim employees for violating a company
break policy that doesn’t provide extra time for prayer.
Ariens Co. terminated the workers in a dispute that
began last month when it moved to enforce an existing
rule of two 10-minute breaks per work shift and dozens
of Muslim staffers of Somali descent walked off the job
in protest.
Of the 53 employees involved, 32 have abided with the
policy, 14 resigned and seven were terminated Tuesday,
according to Ariens spokeswoman Ann Stilp. The news of
the terminations was first reported by WLUK-TV in Green
Bay.
If shouting 'No!' doesn't work, then swat attacker
with purse
World Net Daily Published: 02/03/2016 by Leo Hohmann
A public-service advertisement running on Finland TV
instructs women in the Scandinavian country on how to
fend off a rapist.
But rather than pull out a handgun or even pepper
spray, the women of Finland are taught to confront
their attackers with bare hands and a purse.
Rape epidemics have engulfed Finland, Sweden and
Germany in a sea of fear since the mass influx of
migrants from the Middle East and North Africa began
two years ago.
Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president and
founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said he
found the video laughable.
Anti-Shariah activist and author Pamela Geller posted
the video on her website earlier this week under the
title "It just gets more absurd."
Netanyahu: Islamic terrorism is flooding the
world from Jakarta to California
The prime minister says the struggle against
terrorism will take time but that Israel is fighting
hard.
Jerusalem Post by JPOST.COM STAFF BEN HARTMAN 02/04/2016
Islamic terrorism is flooding the world and inciting
millions from Jakarta to Africa and all the way to
California, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
during a trip on Thursday to the Jerusalem hospital
treating a Border Police officer who was injured in
yesterday's attack at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's
Old City.
Netanyahu praised the courage of the security forces
and the courage and strength the Border Police officer
shown during Wednesday's attack. He also expressed his
condolences to the family of Border Police officer
Hadar Cohen who was killed in the combined shooting
and stabbing attack.
Three Arab terrorists wielding machine guns, pipe
bombs and knives carried out the attack on Wednesday
killing Cohen, 19, who died of her wounds shortly
after being rushed to the capital's Hadassa University
Medical Center at Mt. Scopus. Her partner, Ravit, was
seriously wounded and underwent emergency surgery at
the hospital. As of Thursday morning she was
considered to be in moderate condition.
"We are all saddened by the death of Hadar Cohen, a
real hero. We all embrace the family," Netanyahu said.
The prime minister emphasized that a great effort is
being put into the fight against terrorism, during the
lengthy effort to defeat it.
"It will take time, it is a long struggle," Netanyahu
said. "We are in this fight, it is not passing us by,
but we are fighting it with great force and will
continue to do so."
"Kabatiya has been closed off while the IDF and the
Shin bet make widespread arrests of wanted suspects,
we have cancelled many work permits and the
attorney-general informed me yesterday that he has
added a number of houses belonging to terrorists to be
slated for demolition," Netanyahu said of the West
Bank village, from where Wednesday's terrorists
hailed.
Police Commissioner Inspector General Roni Alsheich
paid a visit to the wounded Border Police officer on
Wednesday night.
During his visit, Alsheich praised the two teenager
Border Police officers who had recently drafted into
the force for preventing a major terror attack.
Alsheich said “I have no doubt that a terror cell that
comes with an arsenal like this has every intention of
carrying out a massive attack.”
Ravit and Cohen were part of a three-man patrol along
with their commander. They had only been drafted a
couple months before and their deployment at Damascus
Gate in East Jerusalem was part of their training.
Since the attack yesterday, police and the Border
Police have drawn criticism for the fact that the two
women were posted at one of the most dangerous
flashpoints in the country so soon after they were
drafted.
The three terrorists were responsible for the attack
were identified as Ahmed Rajeh Zakarneh, Muhammad
Ahmed Kmail, and Ahmed Najeh Abu al-Rub. All three
were shot dead at the scene. Their explosives did not
detonate and were later neutralized by a police bomb
disposal team.
No holds barred: Torrent of anti-Israel advice found
in Hillary’s emails
Jerusalem Post - Opinion By Shmuley Boteach 02/01/2016
Clandestinely stirring up potentially violent protests
in an attempt to try and force Israel to go against its
best interests? Advice like this was par for the course
with Clinton’s advisers.
It’s already been established that one of Hillary
Clinton’s most trusted advisers, Sid
Blumenthal, sent her anti-Israel articles, ideas
and advice during her time as secretary of state. But
the stream of anti-Israel advice received by Clinton was
much more comprehensive.
In the entire forced dump of Clinton’s emails, you will
be hard pressed to find a single one sympathetic toward
the Jewish state from any of the people she relied on.
The negative, poisonous approach to Israel throughout
this email expose shows the atmosphere that she had
established around herself. These emails seem to
demonstrate that a huge segment of her close advisers
and confidantes were attacking Israel, condemning Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and strategizing how to
force Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria at all
costs.
This was occurring against the backdrop of Israel’s
recent Gaza withdrawal, which led to the takeover of
Gaza by Hamas. There is almost zero mention of the huge
risks to Israel’s security in withdrawing as Clinton and
the Obama administration did everything they could to
pressure Israel to capitulate to their demands.
Take a look at a sampling of the advice being sent to
Clinton from her many advisers that we have now become
privy to.
Sandy
Berger was Clinton’s foreign policy adviser during
her 2008 presidential campaign. In September of 2010 he
sent her ideas on how to pressure Israel to make
concessions for peace. Berger acknowledged “how fragile
is Abbas’s political position,” and how “Palestinians
are in disarray,” and that “failure is a real
possibility.” Berger was well aware of, and informed
Hillary of, the very real possibility that Israel would
be placing its national security at grave risk in a deal
that would very likely fail and lead to a Hamas
takeover.
But Berger felt the risks to Israeli lives were worth
it.
He advised the need to make Netanyahu feel “uneasy about
incurring our displeasure....”
Berger emphasizes the need “to convince the prime
minister – through various forms of overt persuasion and
implicit pressure – to make the necessary compromises”
and talks of the “possibility – to turn his position
against him.”
Astoundingly, Berger seems to accuse the Jews in America
of racism toward Obama. He writes, “At a political
level, the past year has clearly demonstrated the degree
to which the U.S. has been hamstrung by its low ratings
in Israel and among important segments of the domestic
Jewish constituency....” He then adds, “Domestically, he
faces a reservoir of skepticism on this issue which
reflects many factors, including inexcusable prejudice.”
Anne Marie Slaughter was Clinton’s director of policy
planning from 2009-2011. She wrote to Clinton in
September of 2010 and devised a scheme to encourage
wealthy philanthropists to pledge millions to the
Palestinians (which no doubt would have been embezzled
by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his
cronies as were other funds).
She wrote: “This may be a crazy idea.... Suppose we
launched a “Pledge for Palestine” campaign... Such a
campaign among billionaires/multi-millionaires around
the world would reflect a strong vote of confidence in
the building of a Palestinian state....”
She adds: “There would also be a certain shaming effect
re Israelis who, would be building settlements in the
face of a pledge for peace.”
Clinton’s response to this email: “I am very interested-
pls flesh out. Thx.”
Robert
Russo, one of Clinton’s aides and currently her
campaign’s “director of correspondence and briefings”
sent an email in April of 2012 informing her of
Netanyahu’s father’s death and advising her to give him
a condolence call. Included with Russo’s
email is an extremely biased article attacking both
Netanyahu and his father, describing them as virulently
racist warmongers and calling the elder Netanyahu “a
behindthe- scenes adviser to his son, the most powerful
person in Israel.”
The article noted that “Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu repeatedly denied that his father was a
one-dimensional ideologue. He further emphasized that he
himself was a different person from his father.”
But then it goes on to say, without providing any proof
whatsoever, “Israelis seemed in the dark about the
extent of paternal influence on their leader,” and “To
understand Bibi, you have to understand the father.”
One might be forgiven for questioning Clinton’s sympathy
and sincerity when she later placed the call and gave
Netanyahu her condolences.
Thomas
Pickering, former US ambassador to Israel, wrote
to Clinton on December 18, 2011, and suggested a secret
plan to stir up major Palestinian protests in an attempt
to force the Israeli government into peace negotiations.
He stated that the protests “must be all and only women.
Why? On the Palestinian side the male culture is to use
force.”
Pickering’s goal was to ignite protests that would
engulf the West Bank, “just like Tahrir square.” He adds
that the Palestinian “leadership has shied away from
this idea because they can’t control it,” and they are
“afraid of being replaced.”
This idiotic reasoning that somehow only women would
participate and things would stay peaceful is obviously
absurd. As Pickering himself notes, “Palestinian men
will not for long patiently demonstrate – they will be
inclined over time and much too soon to be frustrated
and use force. Their male culture comes close to
requiring it.”
Regardless, Pickering writes that the protests could be
used against Israel “to influence the political
leadership.”
The idea was as dangerous for the Palestinians as it was
for Israel. As Pickering himself admits, widespread
protests could overthrow Abbas’ government, and if
Palestinian men joined in, widespread violence would
inevitably break out. It would obviously be impossible
to prevent men from participating in these
demonstrations.
Yet Pickering felt this extreme risk was worth taking,
even if it meant the replacement of Abbas with another
Hamas-led government. And even if meant violence
breaking out across the West Bank leading to a third
intifada and the murder of countless Jews. He also
emphasizes the need to hide all US involvement in this
plot. Clinton forwarded this email to Monica Hanley and
asked her to “pls print.”
Clandestinely stirring up potentially violent protests
in an attempt to try and force Israel to go against its
best interests? Advice like this was par for the course
when it came to Clinton’s advisers.
In a follow-up column we’ll illuminate even more
anti-Israel advice that was given the then-secretary of
state. Sadly, there was just so much of it.
The author, “America’s Rabbi,” is the international
bestselling author of 30 books including his upcoming
The Israel Warrior’s Handbook. Follow him on Twitter @
RabbiShmuley.
Senate resolution calls for a US constitutional
convention
Posted: February 3, 2016 at 10:37 am
KFQD Radio Anchorage, Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – An Alaska Senate committee is
set to consider a resolution calling for a convention
of the states to propose a countermand, or veto,
amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The measure calls on legislators in the other 49
states to apply for a convention as well.
In his sponsor statement, Chugiak Republican Senator
Bill Stoltze says the resolution is meant to restore
the balance of power between the states and the
federal government.
The resolution calls for a convention of states to
amend the U.S. Constitution and provide states with
the power to vote on nullifying federal laws.