Brian Williams recently interviewed Obama and left alot of questions unanswered. The fact that Obama has mentioned another 'right wing conspiracy' in regard to his being a muslim is not too shocking to me. It has comes up in other sites and commentary. Palin is correct to jump all over Williams for not following up as is mentioned below.
Here is what was written at the Western Center For Journalism:
Sarah Palin blasts Brian Williams
By Caleb
Sarah Palin’s comments on last night’s Sean Hannity Show were dominated by critiques of the media, and one member of the media in particular.
She slammed Brian Williams’s interview of President Obama on Sunday, in which the president responded to recent polls showing a significant segment of the population believes he’s a Muslim.
After quipping, “I can’t spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,” Obama responded to Williams’s question about whether the doubt about his religion reflected his inability to communicate with voters with an answer that had echoes of Hillary Clinton’s “vast right-wing conspiracy” comment.
“The facts are the facts,” Obama told Williams. “We went through some of this during the campaign — there is a mechanism, a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly.”
Palin thought Williams should have pressed him on what he was implying with these comments.
“My first reaction was listening to Brian Williams and wondering, ‘Brian, that’s some stealth reporting. You’re not even going to follow up and ask him what in the heck is Barack Obama talking about. What is he insinuating’?
I was pretty appalled at that notion that Brian Williams was just letting him get away with that kind of false accusation that there is some kind of suggested right-wing conspiracy again, especially knowing that the media still — the mainstream, lame-stream media — they’re in his back pocket, still.”
Original article at WCJ is here.
Peace TV in the Muslim world: Promoting Jihad and converting non-Muslims into Islam
This is from Shoaib Choudhury's Weekly Blitz. What a great job this individual does, and he does this from an islamic country. The founder of Peace TV is a rather nasty muslim, Dr. Zakir Naik. This radical muslim has blamed 9/11 on George Bush, the Jews and Israel. He is supported by many rich muslims and monthly donations of Zakaat, the islamic charity that is collected in the mosques. He thinks that islam is true freedom for women and prevents them from getting raped. Sure, if that is true then the pig and pork products are beloved by all muslims and others who have been brainwashed by islam.
"Despite all such controversies Dr. Zakir Naik's mission of spreading hate speech is continuing in full swing. He not only runs a huge Jihadist television network, but also is gradually penetrating into non-Muslim societies through his charitable organizations, Islamic schools etc. No one is daring to investigate the sources of hundreds of millions of dollars of funds; he is receiving from various unknown people and institutions. And, it is giving him the opportunity of further expanding his Jihadist conquest in the world."
Continuous conquest of Jihadist media
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
Infamous and notorious Dr. Zakir Naik's media vehicle of spreading hate speech has stepped into further expansion with the establishment of a Urdu channel named Peace TV – Urdu under the network of Peace TV, now targeting additional audience of at least 90 million, though the Peace TV has around 60 million audience in twenty countries in the world at this moment.
Peace TV was launched on Arabsat on satellite BADR-3 in October 2006. In November, it was available on BADR-3 and BADR-C. In 2007, Peace TV returned to BADR-4, and became available on PanAmSat PAS-10. It became the first and only Islamic channel of the world. As of September 2007, Peace TV is available in the United States and Canada on World TV channel 65, and in the UK Broadcaster Kamran Khan and Europe on Sky platform, channel 820. It is also freely available from the LiveStation satellite television computer application which can be downloaded from the internet, free of charge.
This television channel, promoting Jihad and converting non-Muslims into Islam either through alluring promises made secretly by Dr. Zakir Naik and his gang, receives monthly donation of US$ 20-25 million from various individuals and institutions in the world. Major segment of such donations come from Zakaat [Islamic Charity] fund. In addition, Dr. Zakir Naik receives roughly US$ 3-4 million every month from various wealthy Muslim individuals and rulers in the world, for holding seminars in promoting Islam in various Muslim and non-Muslim countries. Each of the seminars, organized by Dr. Zakir Naik's organization named Islamic Research Foundation [IRF] costs approximately US$ 2-3 hundred thousand. IRF is registered as a non-profit organization in Mumbai, India.
Dr. Zakir Naik has also established another organization named United Islamic Aid, with the goal of collecting at least US$ 25 million per year from Muslims with 'revolutionary vision'. To become a member of this group, any individual is asked to contribute US$ 250 per year, which Dr. Zakir Naik wishes to use as per Sharia concept of 'Baitul Maal' [Islamic Treasury].
Following the tremendous growth of Islamic Research Foundation, United Islamic Aid and Peace TV network, Dr. Zakir Naik now has launched his next program named 'Islamic International School' with its first outlet in Mumbai, India. This is a modern-form project of kindergarten madrassa in reality, which targets students from affluent classes, with the goal of poisoning the minds of kids with extreme Jihadist indoctrination and motivation. This Islamic school will soon be affiliated to ICGSE Board, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Female students of this school will have to wear Islamic Hijab according to the website of this institution. Careful visit to the website of this institution will give very clear idea as to how Dr. Zakir Naik is now playing important role in breeding Jihadists in India as well in other countries in the world, through his newest venture named Islamic International School.
Let me once again mention the identity of this Dr. Zakir Naik. In a lecture delivered on 31 July 2008 on Peace TV, Naik argued that 9/11 "it is a blatant, open secret that this attack on the Twin Towers was done by George Bush himself", to give Bush reason to attack and control oil-rich countries.
In a YouTube video recorded in Singapore in 1996 Naik said: "If Osama Bin Laden is fighting the enemies of Islam, I am for him. If he is terrorizing the terrorists, the biggest terrorist, I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist."
Dr. Zakir Naik considers United States a terrorist, because he holds America responsible for the deaths of thousands of people living in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
Zakir Naik continues to make anti-Semitic statements in his 'lectures' on Peace TV and other platforms; on record, he says, "Jews are our staunchest enemy."
Naik has been denied entry into United Kingdom and Canada since June 2010. In June 2010 Zakir Naik was banned from entering the United Kingdom by the Home Secretary Theresa May. He had arranged to give talks in London and Sheffield. May said of the exclusion order regarding Naik, "Numerous comments made by Dr Naik are evidence to me of his unacceptable behavior, she noted statements from Naik such as, "every Muslim should be a terrorist".
In the lecture at Melbourne University, Naik argued that only Islam gave women true equality. He stressed the importance of the headscarf by arguing that the more "revealing Western dress" makes women more susceptible to rape.
Naik and his teachings have been associated with terrorists including Najibullah Zazi, Rahil Sheikh and Kafeel Ahmed.
Dr. Zakir has stated that any Muslim is free to convert out of Islam if the person so chooses, but added that if a Muslim converts then speaks against Islam then that is considered as treason. Naik stated that under Islamic law this is punishable by death.
During a question-and-answer session at one of Zakir's lectures May 29 on the Maldives, a 37-year old Maldivian citizen named Mohamed Nazim stood up and announced that he was struggling to believe in any religion and did not consider himself to be a Muslim; Nazim further asked what his verdict would be under Islam and in the Maldives. Zaik responded that he considers the punishment for apostasy not necessarily to mean death since Muhammed was reported in the Hadith scriptures to on some occasion to have shown clemency towards apostates, but added that if a Muslim apostate speaks and propagates against Islam under Islamic Sharia rule then the apostate should be put to death. Mohamed Nazim was reported to have been arrested and put in 'protective custody' by the Maldivian Police. He later publicly reverted back to Islam in custody after series of threats by the administration.
In 2004, Naik visited New Zealand and then the Australian capital at the invitation of Islamic Information and Services Network of Australasia. At his conference in Melbourne, senior writer and columnist Sushi Das commented that "Naik extolled the moral and spiritual superiority of Islam and lampooned other faiths and the West in general", further criticizing that Naik's words "fostered a spirit of separateness and reinforced prejudice".
Khushwant Singh, a prominent Indian journalist, politician and author argues that Naik's pronouncements are "juvenile" and said that "they seldom rise above the level of undergraduate college debates, where contestants vie with each other to score brownie points".
Singh replied to Zakir Naik's statement that "Western society claims to have uplifted women. On the contrary, it has actually degraded them to the status of concubines, mistresses, and society butterflies who are mere tools in the hands of pleasure seekers and sex marketers…." by saying "Dr. Naik, you know next to nothing about the Western society and are talking through your skull cap. People like you are making the Muslims lag behind other communities." Singh also noted that Naik's audiences "... listen to him with rapt attention and often explode in enthusiastic applause when he rubbishes other religious texts ..."
Lucknow based cleric Kalbe Jawad argued that "Naik is bringing a bad name to Muslims. Such people should be condemned and socially boycotted" and claimed that Naik was being financed by the Wahabi sect that supposedly perpetrates violence in the name of Islam and expressed the need for an inquiry into, how Naik was running a TV channel on his own and where he received the funds from. Another Lucknow cleric Naib Imam Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali claimed that Naik has "mugged up some verses from the Koran and pretends to be an Islamic scholar".
Despite all such controversies Dr. Zakir Naik's mission of spreading hate speech is continuing in full swing. He not only runs a huge Jihadist television network, but also is gradually penetrating into non-Muslim societies through his charitable organizations, Islamic schools etc. No one is daring to investigate the sources of hundreds of millions of dollars of funds; he is receiving from various unknown people and institutions. And, it is giving him the opportunity of further expanding his Jihadist conquest in the world.
Original article at the Weekly Blitz is here.
"Despite all such controversies Dr. Zakir Naik's mission of spreading hate speech is continuing in full swing. He not only runs a huge Jihadist television network, but also is gradually penetrating into non-Muslim societies through his charitable organizations, Islamic schools etc. No one is daring to investigate the sources of hundreds of millions of dollars of funds; he is receiving from various unknown people and institutions. And, it is giving him the opportunity of further expanding his Jihadist conquest in the world."
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
Infamous and notorious Dr. Zakir Naik's media vehicle of spreading hate speech has stepped into further expansion with the establishment of a Urdu channel named Peace TV – Urdu under the network of Peace TV, now targeting additional audience of at least 90 million, though the Peace TV has around 60 million audience in twenty countries in the world at this moment.
Peace TV was launched on Arabsat on satellite BADR-3 in October 2006. In November, it was available on BADR-3 and BADR-C. In 2007, Peace TV returned to BADR-4, and became available on PanAmSat PAS-10. It became the first and only Islamic channel of the world. As of September 2007, Peace TV is available in the United States and Canada on World TV channel 65, and in the UK Broadcaster Kamran Khan and Europe on Sky platform, channel 820. It is also freely available from the LiveStation satellite television computer application which can be downloaded from the internet, free of charge.
This television channel, promoting Jihad and converting non-Muslims into Islam either through alluring promises made secretly by Dr. Zakir Naik and his gang, receives monthly donation of US$ 20-25 million from various individuals and institutions in the world. Major segment of such donations come from Zakaat [Islamic Charity] fund. In addition, Dr. Zakir Naik receives roughly US$ 3-4 million every month from various wealthy Muslim individuals and rulers in the world, for holding seminars in promoting Islam in various Muslim and non-Muslim countries. Each of the seminars, organized by Dr. Zakir Naik's organization named Islamic Research Foundation [IRF] costs approximately US$ 2-3 hundred thousand. IRF is registered as a non-profit organization in Mumbai, India.
Dr. Zakir Naik has also established another organization named United Islamic Aid, with the goal of collecting at least US$ 25 million per year from Muslims with 'revolutionary vision'. To become a member of this group, any individual is asked to contribute US$ 250 per year, which Dr. Zakir Naik wishes to use as per Sharia concept of 'Baitul Maal' [Islamic Treasury].
Following the tremendous growth of Islamic Research Foundation, United Islamic Aid and Peace TV network, Dr. Zakir Naik now has launched his next program named 'Islamic International School' with its first outlet in Mumbai, India. This is a modern-form project of kindergarten madrassa in reality, which targets students from affluent classes, with the goal of poisoning the minds of kids with extreme Jihadist indoctrination and motivation. This Islamic school will soon be affiliated to ICGSE Board, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Female students of this school will have to wear Islamic Hijab according to the website of this institution. Careful visit to the website of this institution will give very clear idea as to how Dr. Zakir Naik is now playing important role in breeding Jihadists in India as well in other countries in the world, through his newest venture named Islamic International School.
Let me once again mention the identity of this Dr. Zakir Naik. In a lecture delivered on 31 July 2008 on Peace TV, Naik argued that 9/11 "it is a blatant, open secret that this attack on the Twin Towers was done by George Bush himself", to give Bush reason to attack and control oil-rich countries.
In a YouTube video recorded in Singapore in 1996 Naik said: "If Osama Bin Laden is fighting the enemies of Islam, I am for him. If he is terrorizing the terrorists, the biggest terrorist, I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist."
Dr. Zakir Naik considers United States a terrorist, because he holds America responsible for the deaths of thousands of people living in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
Zakir Naik continues to make anti-Semitic statements in his 'lectures' on Peace TV and other platforms; on record, he says, "Jews are our staunchest enemy."
Naik has been denied entry into United Kingdom and Canada since June 2010. In June 2010 Zakir Naik was banned from entering the United Kingdom by the Home Secretary Theresa May. He had arranged to give talks in London and Sheffield. May said of the exclusion order regarding Naik, "Numerous comments made by Dr Naik are evidence to me of his unacceptable behavior, she noted statements from Naik such as, "every Muslim should be a terrorist".
In the lecture at Melbourne University, Naik argued that only Islam gave women true equality. He stressed the importance of the headscarf by arguing that the more "revealing Western dress" makes women more susceptible to rape.
Naik and his teachings have been associated with terrorists including Najibullah Zazi, Rahil Sheikh and Kafeel Ahmed.
Dr. Zakir has stated that any Muslim is free to convert out of Islam if the person so chooses, but added that if a Muslim converts then speaks against Islam then that is considered as treason. Naik stated that under Islamic law this is punishable by death.
During a question-and-answer session at one of Zakir's lectures May 29 on the Maldives, a 37-year old Maldivian citizen named Mohamed Nazim stood up and announced that he was struggling to believe in any religion and did not consider himself to be a Muslim; Nazim further asked what his verdict would be under Islam and in the Maldives. Zaik responded that he considers the punishment for apostasy not necessarily to mean death since Muhammed was reported in the Hadith scriptures to on some occasion to have shown clemency towards apostates, but added that if a Muslim apostate speaks and propagates against Islam under Islamic Sharia rule then the apostate should be put to death. Mohamed Nazim was reported to have been arrested and put in 'protective custody' by the Maldivian Police. He later publicly reverted back to Islam in custody after series of threats by the administration.
In 2004, Naik visited New Zealand and then the Australian capital at the invitation of Islamic Information and Services Network of Australasia. At his conference in Melbourne, senior writer and columnist Sushi Das commented that "Naik extolled the moral and spiritual superiority of Islam and lampooned other faiths and the West in general", further criticizing that Naik's words "fostered a spirit of separateness and reinforced prejudice".
Khushwant Singh, a prominent Indian journalist, politician and author argues that Naik's pronouncements are "juvenile" and said that "they seldom rise above the level of undergraduate college debates, where contestants vie with each other to score brownie points".
Singh replied to Zakir Naik's statement that "Western society claims to have uplifted women. On the contrary, it has actually degraded them to the status of concubines, mistresses, and society butterflies who are mere tools in the hands of pleasure seekers and sex marketers…." by saying "Dr. Naik, you know next to nothing about the Western society and are talking through your skull cap. People like you are making the Muslims lag behind other communities." Singh also noted that Naik's audiences "... listen to him with rapt attention and often explode in enthusiastic applause when he rubbishes other religious texts ..."
Lucknow based cleric Kalbe Jawad argued that "Naik is bringing a bad name to Muslims. Such people should be condemned and socially boycotted" and claimed that Naik was being financed by the Wahabi sect that supposedly perpetrates violence in the name of Islam and expressed the need for an inquiry into, how Naik was running a TV channel on his own and where he received the funds from. Another Lucknow cleric Naib Imam Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali claimed that Naik has "mugged up some verses from the Koran and pretends to be an Islamic scholar".
Despite all such controversies Dr. Zakir Naik's mission of spreading hate speech is continuing in full swing. He not only runs a huge Jihadist television network, but also is gradually penetrating into non-Muslim societies through his charitable organizations, Islamic schools etc. No one is daring to investigate the sources of hundreds of millions of dollars of funds; he is receiving from various unknown people and institutions. And, it is giving him the opportunity of further expanding his Jihadist conquest in the world.
Original article at the Weekly Blitz is here.
Latest ambush took place where Obama demanded the checkpoints be removed
Not that the death of four Israelis will bother the muslim in the White house, the first muslim potus. I doubt anyone in his administration will be bothered at all by this. We will hear the usual lip service comments of regrets but will any demands be forced upon the palestinians, the ones who are squatters on land that belongs to the Jewish people and Israel? No. of course not. The mullah in the Oval Office refuses to make the arabs concede to any demands, nor will he. Israel should cancel the talks at once and refuse to any future talks with the murdering cowards that have to resort to such tactics. New building should be approved right away and new permits issued for many future projects. One of the ambushed dead was a pregnant woman. So this makes it five that were butchered by these cowards. Will these murders change anything? I really hope it does but that remains to be seen. The creation of an terrorist state next to Israel will increase these types of attacks and should not even be a consideration. World opinion can go to hell as far as I am concerned. Israel needs to return to what worked in the past. Taking out the state's enemies FIRST and dealing with the fallout later. This is from WND.
Jews killed where Obama demanded removal of checkpoints
Anti-terror barriers credited with stopping scores of attacks
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Today's deadly terror attack that killed four people took place on a road where the Israeli government removed staffed anti-terror checkpoints in line with requests from the Obama administration, WND has learned.
As President Obama was preparing for a Washington summit with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Palestinian terrorists today carried out a shooting attack, killing two Jewish men and two women, one of whom was pregnant.
The attack took place in the West Bank just south of the entrance to Kiryat Arba, near the historic biblical city of Hebron.
Israeli security officials say the terrorist shooting was a coordinated ambush.
Officially, Hamas took responsibility for the terror attack, in which gunmen opened fire at point-blank range on a car carrying the four Israeli civilians.
Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas, confirmed to WND his group was behind the attack.
Abu-Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, stated today's shooting was "a link in a chain-series of attacks - some have been executed, and others will follow."
The attack took place in the same general area where a gunman opened fire on an Israeli police vehicle just outside Hebron in June. A police officer was killed and two others were wounded in that shooting attack. Israeli security officials say the shooting was a planned ambush similar to today's attack.
Both incidents took place on Route 60, a West Bank road used by Israeli and Palestinian drivers and patrolled by Israel.
In the last year, the Israeli government removed 19 staffed checkpoints in the West Bank. At least 15 of the removed barriers are in the vicinity of Hebron.
A spokeperson for the Israel Defense Forces confirmed to WND that in the last year and a half, all roadblocks have been removed from Route 60.
The checkpoints were dismantled in line with demands from the Palestinian Authority that were passed on to Israel by the Obama administration.
George Mitchell, the White House envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, specifically requested that Israel remove roadblocks and checkpoints as a confidence-building gesture to restart talks with the PA, Israeli officials told WND.
Anti-terror roadblocks and checkpoints impede Palestinian movement, but have been credited with stopping scores of attacks.
Michael Ben-Ari, a Knesset member from Israel's National Union party, slammed the dismantlement of the checkpoints. "The writing was on the wall. Opening roadblocks encourages terror and gives a free hand to terrorists," he said.
Preliminary police reports here show the gunmen today approached the Israeli vehicle and shot the victims multiple times at point-blank range.
The Magen David Adom ambulance authority reported the victims were two men ages 25 and 40 and two women, also ages 25 and 40, one of whom was pregnant.
The victims were all residents of Beit Hagai, a Jewish community in the southern Hebron Hills.
Paramedic Guy Ronen described the shooting scene to the Jerusalem Post: "When we arrived on the scene, all four doors of the car were open and four bodies were strewn on the road. We saw that the vital organs had been struck by a very large number of bullets, and that there was no chance of saving their lives."
"It was a very difficult scene. We had learned to forget scenes like this in recent years," Ronen added.
State Department spokesman Philip Crowley, meanwhile, commented on the terrorist attack, stating: "We are cognizant that there could be external events that can have an impact on the environment. We also are cognizant that there may well be actors in the region who are deliberately making these kinds of attacks in order to try to sabotage the process."
The attack occurred just before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plane landed in Washington, where the Israeli leader is set to begin direct negotiations with PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The negotiations are aimed at creating a Palestinian state.
Members of Netanyahu's entourage said the prime minister was briefed on the events and that he instructed Israel's security agencies to prepare for the possibility of further attacks aimed at disrupting the Washington summit.
Original article at WND is here.
Anti-terror barriers credited with stopping scores of attacks
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Today's deadly terror attack that killed four people took place on a road where the Israeli government removed staffed anti-terror checkpoints in line with requests from the Obama administration, WND has learned.
As President Obama was preparing for a Washington summit with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Palestinian terrorists today carried out a shooting attack, killing two Jewish men and two women, one of whom was pregnant.
The attack took place in the West Bank just south of the entrance to Kiryat Arba, near the historic biblical city of Hebron.
Israeli security officials say the terrorist shooting was a coordinated ambush.
Officially, Hamas took responsibility for the terror attack, in which gunmen opened fire at point-blank range on a car carrying the four Israeli civilians.
Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas, confirmed to WND his group was behind the attack.
Abu-Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, stated today's shooting was "a link in a chain-series of attacks - some have been executed, and others will follow."
The attack took place in the same general area where a gunman opened fire on an Israeli police vehicle just outside Hebron in June. A police officer was killed and two others were wounded in that shooting attack. Israeli security officials say the shooting was a planned ambush similar to today's attack.
Both incidents took place on Route 60, a West Bank road used by Israeli and Palestinian drivers and patrolled by Israel.
In the last year, the Israeli government removed 19 staffed checkpoints in the West Bank. At least 15 of the removed barriers are in the vicinity of Hebron.
A spokeperson for the Israel Defense Forces confirmed to WND that in the last year and a half, all roadblocks have been removed from Route 60.
The checkpoints were dismantled in line with demands from the Palestinian Authority that were passed on to Israel by the Obama administration.
George Mitchell, the White House envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, specifically requested that Israel remove roadblocks and checkpoints as a confidence-building gesture to restart talks with the PA, Israeli officials told WND.
Anti-terror roadblocks and checkpoints impede Palestinian movement, but have been credited with stopping scores of attacks.
Michael Ben-Ari, a Knesset member from Israel's National Union party, slammed the dismantlement of the checkpoints. "The writing was on the wall. Opening roadblocks encourages terror and gives a free hand to terrorists," he said.
Preliminary police reports here show the gunmen today approached the Israeli vehicle and shot the victims multiple times at point-blank range.
The Magen David Adom ambulance authority reported the victims were two men ages 25 and 40 and two women, also ages 25 and 40, one of whom was pregnant.
The victims were all residents of Beit Hagai, a Jewish community in the southern Hebron Hills.
Paramedic Guy Ronen described the shooting scene to the Jerusalem Post: "When we arrived on the scene, all four doors of the car were open and four bodies were strewn on the road. We saw that the vital organs had been struck by a very large number of bullets, and that there was no chance of saving their lives."
"It was a very difficult scene. We had learned to forget scenes like this in recent years," Ronen added.
The attack occurred just before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plane landed in Washington, where the Israeli leader is set to begin direct negotiations with PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The negotiations are aimed at creating a Palestinian state.
Members of Netanyahu's entourage said the prime minister was briefed on the events and that he instructed Israel's security agencies to prepare for the possibility of further attacks aimed at disrupting the Washington summit.
Original article at WND is here.
Guess Who's Meeting Today at the White House
Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
Hat tip to ACT for America
The below article is by Christine Brim of Bigpeace dated August 28th. (Liberal viewer warning- Bigpeace is one of Andrew Breitbart's blogs.)It looks like a lot of questionable folks are meeting with our government leaders today at the White House. Objective? Cash in on stimulus grants.
http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/29/coming-august-31-direct-access-stimulus-grants-for-the-muslim-brotherhood/
For those of you not up to date on the Muslim Brotherhood. They are a movement based in Egypt that, while proclaiming themselves to be moderate, are the parent organization for all the other radical groups that have sprouted up-including al-Qaida. They are also connected to CAIR, ISNA, the Muslim Student Association(s) and any other organization you can name that has come under suspicion in the US. They were founded by a radical Islamist and their chief ideological spokesperson is radical imam Yusuf al Qaradawi, who lives in Qatar.
If any of the individuals or groups meeting in the White House today have any connection to the Brotherhood, they have no business being in the White House, and they have no business cashing in on government (tax-payer) money.
Why can't the White House reach out to true Muslim moderates like Steven Schwartz and Zuhdi Jasser?
fousesquawk
Hat tip to ACT for America
The below article is by Christine Brim of Bigpeace dated August 28th. (Liberal viewer warning- Bigpeace is one of Andrew Breitbart's blogs.)It looks like a lot of questionable folks are meeting with our government leaders today at the White House. Objective? Cash in on stimulus grants.
http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/29/coming-august-31-direct-access-stimulus-grants-for-the-muslim-brotherhood/
For those of you not up to date on the Muslim Brotherhood. They are a movement based in Egypt that, while proclaiming themselves to be moderate, are the parent organization for all the other radical groups that have sprouted up-including al-Qaida. They are also connected to CAIR, ISNA, the Muslim Student Association(s) and any other organization you can name that has come under suspicion in the US. They were founded by a radical Islamist and their chief ideological spokesperson is radical imam Yusuf al Qaradawi, who lives in Qatar.
If any of the individuals or groups meeting in the White House today have any connection to the Brotherhood, they have no business being in the White House, and they have no business cashing in on government (tax-payer) money.
Why can't the White House reach out to true Muslim moderates like Steven Schwartz and Zuhdi Jasser?
Use them, nuke them or lose.
I grew up in the age when nuclear weapons were literally a daily fear for our parents. We were required to hide under our desks at school during air raid drills or get to the nearest bomb shelter if we were out and about. As other countries acquired nukes and threatened to use them, the policy of MAD or Mutually Assured Destructtion came to be part of this country's defense policy. Richard Nixon was probably the most adept at using MAD to drive our enemies to the point of near madness with his use of MAD. Are we willing to use them today, tomorrow when this country becomes involved in a conflict from which there is no return without the use of our nuclear arsenal? That day will be coming as the world now has to deal with a nuclear Iran. The West should be ashamed of itself for not taking out Iran's nuclear facilities when the opportunity was there.
Ron from Totus has a good take on this subject and I agree with him 100%. It is not a matter of never but when. Thanks to Ron for letting me 'steal' this one.
"Nuke em"
By Ron Russell
"Nuke em", I often see this while visiting around the blogosphere and my usual first reaction is to recoil at the mere idea of setting loose those terrible WMD's. Being a child of the 1950's and having seen all the old movies such as "Fail Safe", "Doctor Strangelove" and many more coupled with my real nightmares as a child about those looming mushroom clouds the mere idea of a nuclear explosion scares the hell out of me.
Having gotten that out of the way, I've come to face a new reality and that reality is that one day we will be confronted with the cold hard truth of using the nuke or losing the battle. Tactical nukes are at the ready should they be needed. However, when such things are mentioned the American left recoils for they would not shoot so much as a spitball at the enemy and have shown consistently they will not even hurl insults their way. Although they have no problems with calling those of us on the right every name under the sun. It is becoming increasing obvious to me that the only enemy the American left sees are those fellow Americans on the right, and they feel if they can defeat those all other enemies in the world will miraculously vanish in a cloud of cleaning smoke.
War is not a game and the timid have no place on the battlefield or in the command post. To play at war is to lose and before losing I say those frightening words, "nuke um".
Original article is here.
Ron from Totus has a good take on this subject and I agree with him 100%. It is not a matter of never but when. Thanks to Ron for letting me 'steal' this one.
By Ron Russell
"Nuke em", I often see this while visiting around the blogosphere and my usual first reaction is to recoil at the mere idea of setting loose those terrible WMD's. Being a child of the 1950's and having seen all the old movies such as "Fail Safe", "Doctor Strangelove" and many more coupled with my real nightmares as a child about those looming mushroom clouds the mere idea of a nuclear explosion scares the hell out of me.
Having gotten that out of the way, I've come to face a new reality and that reality is that one day we will be confronted with the cold hard truth of using the nuke or losing the battle. Tactical nukes are at the ready should they be needed. However, when such things are mentioned the American left recoils for they would not shoot so much as a spitball at the enemy and have shown consistently they will not even hurl insults their way. Although they have no problems with calling those of us on the right every name under the sun. It is becoming increasing obvious to me that the only enemy the American left sees are those fellow Americans on the right, and they feel if they can defeat those all other enemies in the world will miraculously vanish in a cloud of cleaning smoke.
War is not a game and the timid have no place on the battlefield or in the command post. To play at war is to lose and before losing I say those frightening words, "nuke um".
Original article is here.
Answering BBC propoganda on islam and the Crusades
Here are two videos that show how the BBC has twisted history about the Crusades and beyond. The BBC is one the worst media sites when it comes to favoring islam in a positive light. This is done even if it has lies, half truths, and deception. The really tragic thing is that the BBC is used as an 'educational tool' and resource for schools in England and many other countries.
Hat tip: Vladtepes
Hat tip: Vladtepes
Islamist George Galloway gets caught red handed at mosque fund raiser
Labels:
George Galloway,
islamist at heart
Stimulus funds to be used with 'direct access' to the muslim brotherhood. Must read!
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Global Islamic Subversion,
Islamization of America,
Jihad and stealth jihad,
Obama's muslim outreach
I really do not need to add much commentary to this excellent post from Big Peace. Suffice it to say that our tax money is being given out to muslim organizations who want only one thing; the complete and total islamization on the United States. "One ring to rule them all." A complete and total islamic state, here in the USA as part of the global islamic caliphate. This about complete and total islamic domination and control. I am only posting part of this so be sure to read the complete article at the link at the end of the post. Your taxes hard at work to subvert our country to an islamic caliphate. I wonder if obama counts this garbage as secured jobs under the stimulus plan, as this where the funds for this event are coming from? This is infiltration and stealth jihad at it's worst.
Coming August 31: ‘Direct Access’ Stimulus Grants for the Muslim Brotherhood
By Christine Brim
Think of it as ACORN reborn, with a slice of Jihad on the side.
On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated “Coordinating Council of Muslim organizations” (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups “funding, government assistance and resources.” The workshop will apparently provide special access for these Muslim Brotherhood organizations: the organizers pledge to provide “direct access” and “cut through red tape.” Government and Muslim groups will hold an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) after the workshop.
The event was announced in an email newsletter sent August 27 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial, long associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamist network (great backgrounder here from Hudson Institute). Here are three key paragraphs from the email (the entire article on the August 31 event from the ISNA email is pasted below this post as reference):
This year, a phenomenal next step has been made where government iftars become coupled with workshops to provide resources and benefit the Muslim community. The US Department of Agriculture (DOA) and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) have paired the first of such events, scheduled for August 31, 2010.
…Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.
According to a representative of CCMO, this workshop is designed to clarify how Muslim nonprofits, mosques, Islamic centers, and social service organizations can strengthen their communities through more direct access to opportunities provided to social service agencies at the Federal level. “It will hopefully help cut through some of the red tape and shine light on the many opportunities for funding, government assistance, and resources that we just don’t know about at the local level,” said Elsanousi.
The Problem: Your Money, redistributed to the Muslim Brotherhood
This workshop constitutes an abdication of their professional responsibility by all government participants – and a taxpayer-funded government stimulus program for the attending Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, is a global Islamist political movement dedicated to imposing Shariah law on all nations and institutions. Their credo is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
Why do we think some of these groups attending, possibly all, may be associated with the Muslim Brotherhood?
Because the sponsoring organization – the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO), co-sponsoring with the Department of Agriculture – has a long history of associations with the Muslim Brotherhood. They also signed a 2009 American Muslim Task Force statement threatening to “suspend” relations with the FBI, because the FBI was investigating possible links to homegrown terrorism in mosques and other Muslim organizations.
Not so evident on the current website, of course. This happens all the time with groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood – the current CCMO website has a LOT less information than the older ones preserved at archive.org (aka “The Wayback Machine”). Here are the previous websites for the CCMO from 2004-2008. The pre-whitewashed CCMO websites are highly revealing. They expose the degree to which this Administration intends to direct taxpayer money (and “reduced red tape”) to Muslim Brotherhood-associated organizations in the U.S.
The Administration has not revealed which 20 groups and 25-30 leaders will attend the special workshop, but if they include the 41 CCMO members listed in 2007, the attendees could include the following groups , which I’ve linked to descriptions published by The Investigative Project (please support their work):
The Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Terrorism Finance trial, and the source of Friday’s email promoting this CCMO/Department of Agriculture Event;
The Council on American Islamic Relations, shunned by the FBI, several of its leaders indicted or convicted for terrorism, a possible violator of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, sued for fraud by Muslim, Hispanic and African-American families, named as an unindicted co-conspirator (CAIR fundraiser advertised at the CCMO site);
The International Institute of Islamic Thought , the “think tank” of the Muslim Brotherhood, described at that link by The Grand Jihad author and former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. One of the current and longest serving officers of CCMO is Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, founder of the educational arm of IIIT, the Fairfax Institute and the Director of Outreach Program for Dar-ul Hijrah “Terror” Mosque – more on him below.
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee , exposed in that linked 88-page IPT report particularly for their defense of terrorists and terrorist financers. MPAC advertised here at the CCMO site for an event co-sponsored by Islamic Free Market Institute, the latter described in Paul Sperry’s pathbreaking book Infiltration)
The Dar al Hijrah Mosque (known as the “Terror Mosque” in Northern Virginia for its links to imprisoned, indicted or wanted terrorists as vividly described by Frank Gaffney), advertised here at the CCMO site.
The Muslim American Society “Freedom Foundation” run by three-time felon Mahdi Bray (MASFF Fundraiser advertised at the CCMO site). The Muslim American Society was originally founded as the U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. MAS leader Mahdi Bray was elected on September 7, 2003 to the Executive Committee by over 40 CCMO member organizations.
I suggest that the Administration knows these groups are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. They think that’s a good thing.
This isn’t incompetence; it’s intentional.
The article closes with this invitation that was emailed:
Here’s the email in entirety:
Iftar with Our Government:
Serving up Resources for American Muslim Communities
In celebration of Ramadan, ISNA leadership and staff have been busy attending iftars hosted by the White House, State Department, Federal and State Agencies, Embassies, elected officials and interfaith partners.
These iftars are a place to celebrate the diversity of America with our partners in the government and interfaith communities,” said ISNA Director for the Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances Dr. Sayyid Syeed. He adds, “They are also evidence that Muslims and our traditions are more regularly incorporated into the mosaic of cultures and traditions that form the foundation of American life.”
Although these iftars are important symbols of the transition of Muslims into mainstream American culture, according to ISNA Director of Community Outreach Mohamed Elsanousi, they are also a very important place for brainstorming and the development of practical ideas to help the Muslim community.
“Muslim community members have been asking for more from these iftars for years now. They have contacted ISNA and requested that we work with our partners in government to make the dinners more useful to our communities at the local levels,” said ISNA Director of Community Outreach Mohamed Elsanousi.
This year, a phenomenal next step has been made where government iftars become coupled with workshops to provide resources and benefit the Muslim community. The US Department of Agriculture (DOA) and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) have paired the first of such events, scheduled for August 31, 2010.
“ISNA is happy to join other nation-wide Muslim organizations and participate in this workshop. We absolutely expect that there will be more of these paired iftars and workshops in future Ramadans,” said Elsanousi.
The Workshop: So what exactly is this workshop, you may ask. Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.
According to a representative of CCMO, this workshop is designed to clarify how Muslim nonprofits, mosques, Islamic centers, and social service organizations can strengthen their communities through more direct access to opportunities provided to social service agencies at the Federal level. “It will hopefully help cut through some of the red tape and shine light on the many opportunities for funding, government assistance, and resources that we just don’t know about at the local level,” said Elsanousi.
The Iftar: Following the workshop, the DOA will host an Iftar to acknowledge and thank Muslim employees for their dedication and to the DOA. Keynote speakers will discuss the issues of increasing access to healthy foods for all communities and the powerful communal and sacred aspects of food. In addition to the DOA employees and representatives of various Muslim organizations, the DOA also invited Muslim employees from various other government agencies. The Deputy Secretary of the Department of Agriculture is also scheduled to attend.
Complete article can be found here at Big Peace
By Christine Brim
Think of it as ACORN reborn, with a slice of Jihad on the side.
On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated “Coordinating Council of Muslim organizations” (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups “funding, government assistance and resources.” The workshop will apparently provide special access for these Muslim Brotherhood organizations: the organizers pledge to provide “direct access” and “cut through red tape.” Government and Muslim groups will hold an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) after the workshop.
The event was announced in an email newsletter sent August 27 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial, long associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamist network (great backgrounder here from Hudson Institute). Here are three key paragraphs from the email (the entire article on the August 31 event from the ISNA email is pasted below this post as reference):
This year, a phenomenal next step has been made where government iftars become coupled with workshops to provide resources and benefit the Muslim community. The US Department of Agriculture (DOA) and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) have paired the first of such events, scheduled for August 31, 2010.
…Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.
According to a representative of CCMO, this workshop is designed to clarify how Muslim nonprofits, mosques, Islamic centers, and social service organizations can strengthen their communities through more direct access to opportunities provided to social service agencies at the Federal level. “It will hopefully help cut through some of the red tape and shine light on the many opportunities for funding, government assistance, and resources that we just don’t know about at the local level,” said Elsanousi.
The Problem: Your Money, redistributed to the Muslim Brotherhood
This workshop constitutes an abdication of their professional responsibility by all government participants – and a taxpayer-funded government stimulus program for the attending Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, is a global Islamist political movement dedicated to imposing Shariah law on all nations and institutions. Their credo is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
Why do we think some of these groups attending, possibly all, may be associated with the Muslim Brotherhood?
Because the sponsoring organization – the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO), co-sponsoring with the Department of Agriculture – has a long history of associations with the Muslim Brotherhood. They also signed a 2009 American Muslim Task Force statement threatening to “suspend” relations with the FBI, because the FBI was investigating possible links to homegrown terrorism in mosques and other Muslim organizations.
Not so evident on the current website, of course. This happens all the time with groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood – the current CCMO website has a LOT less information than the older ones preserved at archive.org (aka “The Wayback Machine”). Here are the previous websites for the CCMO from 2004-2008. The pre-whitewashed CCMO websites are highly revealing. They expose the degree to which this Administration intends to direct taxpayer money (and “reduced red tape”) to Muslim Brotherhood-associated organizations in the U.S.
The Administration has not revealed which 20 groups and 25-30 leaders will attend the special workshop, but if they include the 41 CCMO members listed in 2007, the attendees could include the following groups , which I’ve linked to descriptions published by The Investigative Project (please support their work):
The Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Terrorism Finance trial, and the source of Friday’s email promoting this CCMO/Department of Agriculture Event;
The Council on American Islamic Relations, shunned by the FBI, several of its leaders indicted or convicted for terrorism, a possible violator of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, sued for fraud by Muslim, Hispanic and African-American families, named as an unindicted co-conspirator (CAIR fundraiser advertised at the CCMO site);
The International Institute of Islamic Thought , the “think tank” of the Muslim Brotherhood, described at that link by The Grand Jihad author and former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. One of the current and longest serving officers of CCMO is Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, founder of the educational arm of IIIT, the Fairfax Institute and the Director of Outreach Program for Dar-ul Hijrah “Terror” Mosque – more on him below.
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee , exposed in that linked 88-page IPT report particularly for their defense of terrorists and terrorist financers. MPAC advertised here at the CCMO site for an event co-sponsored by Islamic Free Market Institute, the latter described in Paul Sperry’s pathbreaking book Infiltration)
The Dar al Hijrah Mosque (known as the “Terror Mosque” in Northern Virginia for its links to imprisoned, indicted or wanted terrorists as vividly described by Frank Gaffney), advertised here at the CCMO site.
The Muslim American Society “Freedom Foundation” run by three-time felon Mahdi Bray (MASFF Fundraiser advertised at the CCMO site). The Muslim American Society was originally founded as the U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. MAS leader Mahdi Bray was elected on September 7, 2003 to the Executive Committee by over 40 CCMO member organizations.
I suggest that the Administration knows these groups are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. They think that’s a good thing.
This isn’t incompetence; it’s intentional.
The article closes with this invitation that was emailed:
Here’s the email in entirety:
Iftar with Our Government:
Serving up Resources for American Muslim Communities
In celebration of Ramadan, ISNA leadership and staff have been busy attending iftars hosted by the White House, State Department, Federal and State Agencies, Embassies, elected officials and interfaith partners.
These iftars are a place to celebrate the diversity of America with our partners in the government and interfaith communities,” said ISNA Director for the Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances Dr. Sayyid Syeed. He adds, “They are also evidence that Muslims and our traditions are more regularly incorporated into the mosaic of cultures and traditions that form the foundation of American life.”
Although these iftars are important symbols of the transition of Muslims into mainstream American culture, according to ISNA Director of Community Outreach Mohamed Elsanousi, they are also a very important place for brainstorming and the development of practical ideas to help the Muslim community.
“Muslim community members have been asking for more from these iftars for years now. They have contacted ISNA and requested that we work with our partners in government to make the dinners more useful to our communities at the local levels,” said ISNA Director of Community Outreach Mohamed Elsanousi.
This year, a phenomenal next step has been made where government iftars become coupled with workshops to provide resources and benefit the Muslim community. The US Department of Agriculture (DOA) and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) have paired the first of such events, scheduled for August 31, 2010.
“ISNA is happy to join other nation-wide Muslim organizations and participate in this workshop. We absolutely expect that there will be more of these paired iftars and workshops in future Ramadans,” said Elsanousi.
The Workshop: So what exactly is this workshop, you may ask. Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.
According to a representative of CCMO, this workshop is designed to clarify how Muslim nonprofits, mosques, Islamic centers, and social service organizations can strengthen their communities through more direct access to opportunities provided to social service agencies at the Federal level. “It will hopefully help cut through some of the red tape and shine light on the many opportunities for funding, government assistance, and resources that we just don’t know about at the local level,” said Elsanousi.
The Iftar: Following the workshop, the DOA will host an Iftar to acknowledge and thank Muslim employees for their dedication and to the DOA. Keynote speakers will discuss the issues of increasing access to healthy foods for all communities and the powerful communal and sacred aspects of food. In addition to the DOA employees and representatives of various Muslim organizations, the DOA also invited Muslim employees from various other government agencies. The Deputy Secretary of the Department of Agriculture is also scheduled to attend.
Complete article can be found here at Big Peace
Libtarded prize of the day: Turn off Fox News in public places.
Of course this is the San Francisco Examiner. So who is promoting hate and bias here? I will take Fox Nws any day over the lame stream media of kool aid drinkers and liberal regressive thinkers who think they are so damn clever. As we do not get cable anymore I get most of my news from the sites listed on the sidebar and many other sources. Most the places I go always have Fox News on. Why bother with the others? Go to this website and check some of the comments. many of these idiots have NEVER watched Fox News, yet they condemn it as evil and wicked. Not nearly as evil and wicked as the one who is sitting in the White House. This organization wants to control help businesses make "responsible decisions about what is on their televisons." Apparently these folks are too dumb to decide this for themselves. Below you find the article and I have copied the PDF from the site. Make note of the lies and political pandering that is going on in the entire article. Again, who is really spreading hatred and lies here? Fox News is not perfect but what news site is?
Liberals plot to ‘Turn off Fox News’ in public places
Say you are ‘drinking liberally’ in a bar and out of the corner of your eye, an insidious FOX logo keeps floating across the screen.
Yeah, you could ask the bartender to change the channel, but why not convince the manager to ban the Fox News channel altogether?
Now you can join a activist group determined to remove Fox news from ever being broadcast in public. ‘Turn off Fox’
Here is their credo:
Some businesses play Fox without having thought about it at all, and may not know how divisive and dangerous Fox is. Turn Off Fox will help you work with others in your area (and across the country) to identify places that play Fox, ask them to change the channel, and explain why they should.
It’s easy! Arm yourself with a few PDFs and make your case. After that, report back to your leaders, notify them where Fox is playing, and tell them how the business owner responded to you.
For the ‘Turn off Fox’ers,’ Fox News is not just a channel for news, its a channel for evil.
“Fox News isn’t just the home for hate, it’s the home for dangerous and lazy journalism.” says featured member Malkia Cyril, “It’s time for the public to turn off Fox News’ lies.”
Read the PDF below:
Case Against Fox News 2
Here is what is on site:
The Problem with Fox At a time when Americans have legitimate fear and uncertainty about our country's future, we need our media to be honest, insightful, and responsible. Fox News is exactly the opposite. Instead, the channel consistently stokes fear and division using race-baiting, divisive rhetoric, and smear campaigns based in lies and distortions.
Fox has enormous influence on our national debates, so this problem affects all of us --and it's only getting worse. Every day we are seeing grave warning signs that Fox's inflammatory approach can lead to violence, and in some cases it already has.
Part of the way Fox News disseminates its messages is through TV sets in public places. Without thinking about it, many businesses and other public establishments are providing a vehicle for Fox's attempts to divide America. Below is a summary of why we are asking businesses and other public establishments to refuse to play Fox News Channel.
The network divides our country Fox News hosts and guests regularly attempt to pit groups of people against one another – white against black, US-born against immigrant, gay against straight, and men against women.
Some of the network’s most divisive rhetoric is used on the topic of race. In July 2009, Fox host Glenn Beck called President Obama a “racist” who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture” -- a statement that Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch has since said he agrees with. Frequent Fo guest Jesse Lee Peterson has said that most black people lack moral character, and cited “what they did to the dome” after Hurricane Katrina as evidence. Recently, Fox News contributor John Stossel called for the repeal of a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prevents business owners from discriminating based on race.
And Fox News hosts Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity were the first to air maliciously edited video of Shirley Sherrod’s speech to the Georgia NAACP — video that cost Sherrod her job with the USDA. The recent episode involving Sherrod has helped confirm what we have long known — that Fox is a propaganda machine with no regard for the truth.
Glenn Beck calling President Obama a "racist" was the most blatant example of Fox News leading the effort paint the President as someone who harbors and acts upon deeply held prejudice against white people. But the network consistently tries to create the impression that black political and civic leaders want to “get even” with whites by taking their wealth and giving it to blacks.
We’ve seen the hateful atmosphere that has arisen at Tea Parties because of this false narrative. As the House of Representatives deliberated over health care legislation this past spring, some Tea Party members gathered outside the Capitol shouted "Ni**er!" at black congressmen. One of the protesters spat on Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver, while another called openly gay Representative Barney Frank a "faggot" as the laughing crowd imitated his lisp. The Tea Party has been uncritically promoted and embraced by Fox News since its inception.
It’s dangerous We already know that Fox's hateful and inflammatory rhetoric can have tragic real world consequences. Last year, abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down in his church after being demonized for years by Fox's Bill O'Reilly as "Tiller the Baby Killer." O'Reilly had compared Tiller to the Nazis and to Al-Qaeda. He said that Tiller had "blood on his hands" and that he wouldn't want to be Tiller "if there is a Judgement Day."
In July of this year, a man armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun opened fire on California Highway Patrol officers on an Oakland freeway. After he was apprehended, police determined the shooter was on his way to the American Civil Liberties Union and Tides Foundation offices in San Francisco to kill people. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the shooter’s mother said that her son watched a lot of television news and was angry at left-wing politicians and organizations.
While many Americans are aware of the ACLU’s work, the Tides Foundation is a little-known non-profit organization that most people had never heard of -- until Fox's Glenn Beck started demonizing and spreading false information about the organization. Since Beck’s show premiered in January ofinvolving Tides on nearly 30 episodes. During the same time period, Tides was never mentioned on other cable or network news channels, according to a report by the watchdog group Media Matters 2009, he has pushed conspiracy theories involving Tides on nearly 30 episodes. During the same time period, Tides was never mentioned on other cable or network news channels, according to a report by the watchdog group Media Matters.
It’s not really news Fox News insists that they’re a legitimate news network. They engage in divisive rhetoric, race-baiting and attempts at character assassinations, but they do it all under the guise of reporting the news. Often the mainstream media eventually takes the bait and runs with Fox News’ distortions and smear campaigns. When businesses and public places play Fox News, they become a conduit for its stream of misinformation, and it contributes to the misconception that the network is a credible source for news and information.
What the Turn Off Fox campaign is not
• It's not about politics We aren't asking people to turn off Fox because of its political orientation. This is not about Democrats and Republicans, or left vs. right. We are concerned about Fox because of the way it uses lies and half truths to divide this country, and the danger that poses. People on all parts of the political spectrum have spoken out about how dangerous and divisive Fox is.
We believe that everyone who cares about a political culture rooted in factual information and free from violence and racial animosity, should refuse to be a part of what Fox is doing in any way.
• It's not an attempt to censor anyone, or a challenge to freedom of speech There's no question that Fox News has a right to broadcast what they do. The issue is whether businesses and public places want to be a conduit for Fox's consistently divisive rhetoric, race-baiting and distortions of the truth.
The First Amendment protects us from government efforts to suppress individuals' speech. The government can't, and shouldn't censor Fox -- but consumers, businesses, and other establishments can and should decide whether or not they want to be a part of what Fox is doing.
• Turn Off Fox is not an effort to attack business We believe that small businesses are the heart and soul of this country. They anchor our communities and are America's most important engine of job creation. That's why we think it's so important for them to think about what kind of messages they disseminate, even inadvertently. Our desire is to work in partnership with businesses to help them make responsible decisions about what’s on their televisions.
Thanks for taking the time to read this document. My contact information is below. Please call to let me know if you’d like to discuss further, or to let me know that you’ve decided to comply with my request.
FYI: The Tides Foundation is funded by many of the same far left liberal progressives who helped obama get elected. Media Matters is a den of far left liberal trash and a far cry from being an actual watchdog group unless you are a heavy kool aid drinker and addict. Media Matters was actually started up by the Clintons if memory is serving me correctly. If not please let me know. PatriotUSA
Original article in SF Examiner is here
Say you are ‘drinking liberally’ in a bar and out of the corner of your eye, an insidious FOX logo keeps floating across the screen.
Yeah, you could ask the bartender to change the channel, but why not convince the manager to ban the Fox News channel altogether?
Now you can join a activist group determined to remove Fox news from ever being broadcast in public. ‘Turn off Fox’
Here is their credo:
Some businesses play Fox without having thought about it at all, and may not know how divisive and dangerous Fox is. Turn Off Fox will help you work with others in your area (and across the country) to identify places that play Fox, ask them to change the channel, and explain why they should.
It’s easy! Arm yourself with a few PDFs and make your case. After that, report back to your leaders, notify them where Fox is playing, and tell them how the business owner responded to you.
For the ‘Turn off Fox’ers,’ Fox News is not just a channel for news, its a channel for evil.
“Fox News isn’t just the home for hate, it’s the home for dangerous and lazy journalism.” says featured member Malkia Cyril, “It’s time for the public to turn off Fox News’ lies.”
Read the PDF below:
Case Against Fox News 2
Here is what is on site:
The Problem with Fox At a time when Americans have legitimate fear and uncertainty about our country's future, we need our media to be honest, insightful, and responsible. Fox News is exactly the opposite. Instead, the channel consistently stokes fear and division using race-baiting, divisive rhetoric, and smear campaigns based in lies and distortions.
Fox has enormous influence on our national debates, so this problem affects all of us --and it's only getting worse. Every day we are seeing grave warning signs that Fox's inflammatory approach can lead to violence, and in some cases it already has.
Part of the way Fox News disseminates its messages is through TV sets in public places. Without thinking about it, many businesses and other public establishments are providing a vehicle for Fox's attempts to divide America. Below is a summary of why we are asking businesses and other public establishments to refuse to play Fox News Channel.
The network divides our country Fox News hosts and guests regularly attempt to pit groups of people against one another – white against black, US-born against immigrant, gay against straight, and men against women.
Some of the network’s most divisive rhetoric is used on the topic of race. In July 2009, Fox host Glenn Beck called President Obama a “racist” who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture” -- a statement that Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch has since said he agrees with. Frequent Fo guest Jesse Lee Peterson has said that most black people lack moral character, and cited “what they did to the dome” after Hurricane Katrina as evidence. Recently, Fox News contributor John Stossel called for the repeal of a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prevents business owners from discriminating based on race.
And Fox News hosts Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity were the first to air maliciously edited video of Shirley Sherrod’s speech to the Georgia NAACP — video that cost Sherrod her job with the USDA. The recent episode involving Sherrod has helped confirm what we have long known — that Fox is a propaganda machine with no regard for the truth.
Glenn Beck calling President Obama a "racist" was the most blatant example of Fox News leading the effort paint the President as someone who harbors and acts upon deeply held prejudice against white people. But the network consistently tries to create the impression that black political and civic leaders want to “get even” with whites by taking their wealth and giving it to blacks.
We’ve seen the hateful atmosphere that has arisen at Tea Parties because of this false narrative. As the House of Representatives deliberated over health care legislation this past spring, some Tea Party members gathered outside the Capitol shouted "Ni**er!" at black congressmen. One of the protesters spat on Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver, while another called openly gay Representative Barney Frank a "faggot" as the laughing crowd imitated his lisp. The Tea Party has been uncritically promoted and embraced by Fox News since its inception.
It’s dangerous We already know that Fox's hateful and inflammatory rhetoric can have tragic real world consequences. Last year, abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down in his church after being demonized for years by Fox's Bill O'Reilly as "Tiller the Baby Killer." O'Reilly had compared Tiller to the Nazis and to Al-Qaeda. He said that Tiller had "blood on his hands" and that he wouldn't want to be Tiller "if there is a Judgement Day."
In July of this year, a man armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun opened fire on California Highway Patrol officers on an Oakland freeway. After he was apprehended, police determined the shooter was on his way to the American Civil Liberties Union and Tides Foundation offices in San Francisco to kill people. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the shooter’s mother said that her son watched a lot of television news and was angry at left-wing politicians and organizations.
While many Americans are aware of the ACLU’s work, the Tides Foundation is a little-known non-profit organization that most people had never heard of -- until Fox's Glenn Beck started demonizing and spreading false information about the organization. Since Beck’s show premiered in January ofinvolving Tides on nearly 30 episodes. During the same time period, Tides was never mentioned on other cable or network news channels, according to a report by the watchdog group Media Matters 2009, he has pushed conspiracy theories involving Tides on nearly 30 episodes. During the same time period, Tides was never mentioned on other cable or network news channels, according to a report by the watchdog group Media Matters.
It’s not really news Fox News insists that they’re a legitimate news network. They engage in divisive rhetoric, race-baiting and attempts at character assassinations, but they do it all under the guise of reporting the news. Often the mainstream media eventually takes the bait and runs with Fox News’ distortions and smear campaigns. When businesses and public places play Fox News, they become a conduit for its stream of misinformation, and it contributes to the misconception that the network is a credible source for news and information.
What the Turn Off Fox campaign is not
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FYI: The Tides Foundation is funded by many of the same far left liberal progressives who helped obama get elected. Media Matters is a den of far left liberal trash and a far cry from being an actual watchdog group unless you are a heavy kool aid drinker and addict. Media Matters was actually started up by the Clintons if memory is serving me correctly. If not please let me know. PatriotUSA
Original article in SF Examiner is here
Last one standing: Stern Pinball Mfg.
I read this in Parade Magazine. Taking a break from the craziness of the world and times we live in. It happens every now and then here. It really hit home with me as I grew up playing pinball machines, bowling, shooting pool and fishing, lots of fishing. Pinball, I remember when when you got 3 games for twenty five cents. My friends and myself for $5.00, could bowl a few games, shoot some stick and play pinball. Yeah, that was quite a few years in the past. Do you recall the main players in this industry? Gottlieb, Bally, Williams and many others. Now there is just one left, the last one standing. Stern Pinball is it. They sell for around 10,000 pinball machines a year.
We have two children who grew up with all the latest technology. The video games we managed to keep out of home for many, many years. I just did not get it nor did my wife. How could they sit there for hours on end, playing a stinking video game? The same way my generation played pinball, shot pool and bowled. There is a big difference between video games and pinball machines. With pinball, you either had it or you didn't. The touch, the feel, the sense of knowing the difference in the company machines, the individual untis, the games that were great and the ones that really sucked. No two machines were alike even if they were the same game, same manufacturer. The sounds the games made were simple and not violent in any way. Can you say that about video games? I do not see how? Sure, there is a controller and the graphics are incredible and getting better all the time. It is not the same. RPG games are quite the ticket now and the sounds can shake an entire home if one has the sound system to go with the game. Pinball actually took some skill and finesse. You can't tilt a video gamelike a pinball machine.
This is an American company, the last one standing in an industry that time has passed by but is not dead yet. If I had the space and the money I would have several pinball machines in the house. I would set them up to play for a nickel a game. The story is all too familiar in this country. From 150 companies down to one. 100,000 machines sold a year back in 1993, down to 10,000 this year. Hats off to Stern Pinball Company. I hope they do not get 'tilted' out of business. Pinball, or whatever product is being manufactured, if it is an American company, we need each and every one.
Keeping a Pinball Wizard's Dream Alive
by Mitch Albom
At Stern Pinball, employees must play the machines 15 minutes each day.
Ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball. But I'm no longer a young boy. And the silver balls are disappearing.
Pinball is hanging by a thread. Once you couldn’t go to a bowling alley or an arcade without hearing the ching-ching-ching of those pleasure machines. The Who wrote a rock opera about a pinball player. Fonzie banged the flippers on Happy Days.
In the 1930s, there were around 150 small companies making some sort of pinball. As late as 1993, there were 100,000 machines sold in a year.
But this year, pinball production may be 10,000 machines total -- all of them by one company. Famous names like Bally, Gottlieb, and Williams are gone. There is only one soldier left in the bells-and-bumpers army.
Stern Pinball. If it goes, pinball goes.
"Don't say we're the last -- say we're the only," president Gary Stern jokes. "'Last' sounds like we're dying."
Happily, The Only Pinball Maker on Earth is not dying. At 65, Stern remains an optimistic, wisecracking guru. He answers his own phone; no secretaries shield him. At his factory in Melrose Park, Ill., even high-level employees "must play 15 minutes a day of pinball." They make notes. Discuss how a ball played. Stern's father, Samuel, began as a game operator in the 1930s. The son carries on -- despite obstacles.
"The economics of starting a pinball company today wouldn't make sense," Stern says.
He points to the half mile of wire in a typical machine, the thousands of components, the intricate design, and the price tag -- around $5,000 -- for a new machine. And where do you put it?
"Years ago, when a kid went to pick up a pizza, he'd play a game of pinball while he waited," Stern says. "Today he's texting on his phone.
"Our competition now comes from video games, Xboxes, computer apps, even Internet gambling."
The game world has gone wireless and portable. A machine that stands more than 6 feet tall and weighs nearly 300 pounds seems like a cruise ship.
But that's the uniqueness of pinball. You can't just do it while you're bored at work. It's a game of touch, action, movement, and unpredictability.
"The ball is wild," Stern says. "That's the magic."
So Stern and company soldier on, producing a few new models each year. Movie and TV themes are the most popular (Batman, Shrek, Spider-Man), and in many cases, Stern licenses the real actors' voices. ("Arnold Schwarzenegger did the lines for our Terminator machine.")
Stern's newest model is based on Avatar and will feature 3-D elements. It's a long way from pinball's roots, which stretch back to the French Bagatelle machines of the late 1700s. The coil-and-spring plunger was invented in 1871. Flippers came during the 1940s.
It would be a shame to lose something so steeped in the history of leisure time. "Certainly the world would exist without pinball," Stern says, "but a little of the fabric of life would be gone."
So The Only Pinball Maker on Earth keeps shipping his machines -- to arcades, to overseas clients, to people's homes. Maybe you played pinball as a kid. Maybe you had a favorite that you knew so well you could keep a ball alive for four or five minutes -- until you heard that free-game knock. If so, you know the spark Gary Stern and his employees feel every day.
"In business school, they teach you to be in love with business, but not your business," Stern says, chuckling. "We break that rule. We're in love with our business. It's pinball."
The flippers are in good hands.
Original article is here
We have two children who grew up with all the latest technology. The video games we managed to keep out of home for many, many years. I just did not get it nor did my wife. How could they sit there for hours on end, playing a stinking video game? The same way my generation played pinball, shot pool and bowled. There is a big difference between video games and pinball machines. With pinball, you either had it or you didn't. The touch, the feel, the sense of knowing the difference in the company machines, the individual untis, the games that were great and the ones that really sucked. No two machines were alike even if they were the same game, same manufacturer. The sounds the games made were simple and not violent in any way. Can you say that about video games? I do not see how? Sure, there is a controller and the graphics are incredible and getting better all the time. It is not the same. RPG games are quite the ticket now and the sounds can shake an entire home if one has the sound system to go with the game. Pinball actually took some skill and finesse. You can't tilt a video gamelike a pinball machine.
This is an American company, the last one standing in an industry that time has passed by but is not dead yet. If I had the space and the money I would have several pinball machines in the house. I would set them up to play for a nickel a game. The story is all too familiar in this country. From 150 companies down to one. 100,000 machines sold a year back in 1993, down to 10,000 this year. Hats off to Stern Pinball Company. I hope they do not get 'tilted' out of business. Pinball, or whatever product is being manufactured, if it is an American company, we need each and every one.
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| Big Indian(Gottlieb,1974) |
by Mitch Albom
At Stern Pinball, employees must play the machines 15 minutes each day.
Ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball. But I'm no longer a young boy. And the silver balls are disappearing.
Pinball is hanging by a thread. Once you couldn’t go to a bowling alley or an arcade without hearing the ching-ching-ching of those pleasure machines. The Who wrote a rock opera about a pinball player. Fonzie banged the flippers on Happy Days.
In the 1930s, there were around 150 small companies making some sort of pinball. As late as 1993, there were 100,000 machines sold in a year.
But this year, pinball production may be 10,000 machines total -- all of them by one company. Famous names like Bally, Gottlieb, and Williams are gone. There is only one soldier left in the bells-and-bumpers army.
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| Galaxy, (Stern 1981) |
"Don't say we're the last -- say we're the only," president Gary Stern jokes. "'Last' sounds like we're dying."
Happily, The Only Pinball Maker on Earth is not dying. At 65, Stern remains an optimistic, wisecracking guru. He answers his own phone; no secretaries shield him. At his factory in Melrose Park, Ill., even high-level employees "must play 15 minutes a day of pinball." They make notes. Discuss how a ball played. Stern's father, Samuel, began as a game operator in the 1930s. The son carries on -- despite obstacles.
"The economics of starting a pinball company today wouldn't make sense," Stern says.
He points to the half mile of wire in a typical machine, the thousands of components, the intricate design, and the price tag -- around $5,000 -- for a new machine. And where do you put it?
"Years ago, when a kid went to pick up a pizza, he'd play a game of pinball while he waited," Stern says. "Today he's texting on his phone.
"Our competition now comes from video games, Xboxes, computer apps, even Internet gambling."
The game world has gone wireless and portable. A machine that stands more than 6 feet tall and weighs nearly 300 pounds seems like a cruise ship.
But that's the uniqueness of pinball. You can't just do it while you're bored at work. It's a game of touch, action, movement, and unpredictability.
"The ball is wild," Stern says. "That's the magic."
So Stern and company soldier on, producing a few new models each year. Movie and TV themes are the most popular (Batman, Shrek, Spider-Man), and in many cases, Stern licenses the real actors' voices. ("Arnold Schwarzenegger did the lines for our Terminator machine.")
Stern's newest model is based on Avatar and will feature 3-D elements. It's a long way from pinball's roots, which stretch back to the French Bagatelle machines of the late 1700s. The coil-and-spring plunger was invented in 1871. Flippers came during the 1940s.
It would be a shame to lose something so steeped in the history of leisure time. "Certainly the world would exist without pinball," Stern says, "but a little of the fabric of life would be gone."
So The Only Pinball Maker on Earth keeps shipping his machines -- to arcades, to overseas clients, to people's homes. Maybe you played pinball as a kid. Maybe you had a favorite that you knew so well you could keep a ball alive for four or five minutes -- until you heard that free-game knock. If so, you know the spark Gary Stern and his employees feel every day.
"In business school, they teach you to be in love with business, but not your business," Stern says, chuckling. "We break that rule. We're in love with our business. It's pinball."
The flippers are in good hands.
Original article is here
A few questions for those of you with muslim friends
From Bill Warner's Political islam: Muslim Friends. Here are some questions one can ask of your muslim friends or to give to your friends if they have muslim friends.
"Is a Muslim ever really the friend of a Kafir? Any Muslim who fully accepts the doctrine of Islam cannot be the true friend of a Kafir—friendly, yes, but not a true friend. If he is a true friend, then he is not obeying the Koran and not following the Sunna of Mohammed. The difference between friendly and a friend is that a Muslim who is true friend will sometimes choose the Kafir’s side in a dispute about it. A friendly Muslim will be pleasant, but will always choose Islam’s side in any politics or dispute about Islam. A Muslim friend who is a true friend will listen to reasonable criticisms and occasionally tell you that you have a point there. The Muslim Arabic FBI translators who cheered on 9/11 were quite friendly, but chose Islam over the Kafirs on 9/11."
Muslim Friends
Political Islam: When you read the comments section of an article about Islam, you will see the argument: I have some Muslim friends and they are good people. The conclusion: good Muslims mean that Islam is good. If the talk is face-to-face, the person may ask: Do you have any Muslim friends? There is a hidden implication that if you do not, then you don’t really know anything about Islam and you could be a bigot.
What is actually going on? The Kafir (non-Muslim) with Muslim friends does not know any real facts about Islam and wants to move the argument to feelings, not facts. If the Muslim friend is nice, Islam is nice. There is no need to know any facts about Islam. And, if Islam is nice, then speaking against it is bigotry. It is amazing how much people can talk about Islam and never mention a single fact. It is easy to tell if someone is speaking about Islam factually. A fact-based discussion will include the Koran and the Sunna, which means that the words Mohammed and Allah will be heard. If there is no Mohammed or Allah, then the discussion is not about the facts of Islam; it is about opinions that come from the media, authorities and the web.
Here are questions to ask people with Muslim friends.
• Do you have any Muslim apostate friends?
An apostate is one who has left Islam and under Sharia law may be murdered. Who would know more about the true nature of Islam than someone who knows it at the core of their being? The apostate knows both sides of the story.
Here are other questions to ask those with Muslim friends:
• Do you have any Christian friends from the Middle East?
• Do you have any Armenian, Serbian or Coptic friends?
These people have suffered cultural and religious annihilation by Islam over the past 1400 years, shouldn’t you also meet them? About 60 million Christians have been murdered over the last 1400 years, and Armenians, Serbians, Copts (Egyptians) and the rest of the Christians of the Middle East furnished the body count. Doesn’t it make sense to talk to who has personal experience in engaging Islam?
There are other questions to be asked. There are 13 verses in the Koran that say that a Muslim is not the friend of a Kafir. How can this not be talked about? According to Islam, we are Kafirs. Why can’t friends talk about such things?
Koran 4:144 Believers! Do not take kafirs as friends over fellow believers. Would you give Allah a clear reason to punish you?
What this means is that a Muslim may be friendly with a Kafir, but if a Muslim has a choice between favoring a Kafir or a Muslim, he will favor the Muslim. Why can’t this be discussed among friends?
Now to the most critical question: Is a Muslim ever really the friend of a Kafir? Any Muslim who fully accepts the doctrine of Islam cannot be the true friend of a Kafir—friendly, yes, but not a true friend. If he is a true friend, then he is not obeying the Koran and not following the Sunna of Mohammed.
The difference between friendly and a friend is that a Muslim who is true friend will sometimes choose the Kafir’s side in a dispute about it. A friendly Muslim will be pleasant, but will always choose Islam’s side in any politics or dispute about Islam. A Muslim friend who is a true friend will listen to reasonable criticisms and occasionally tell you that you have a point there. The Muslim Arabic FBI translators who cheered on 9/11 were quite friendly, but chose Islam over the Kafirs on 9/11.
This does not mean that a person, who calls himself or herself a Muslim, cannot be a real friend. They may see the Golden Rule as more attractive than Islam’s dualistic ethics. If they can see the other person as not being a Kafir, but a human being, then they can be a true friend.
It is important to see that these ideas concern implications about the practical application of Islamic doctrine. In this case the Islamic doctrine of friends is examined. These ideas are not about any particular person who calls themselves a Muslim. Generally, to be a Muslim, you must act according to Islamic doctrine. However, the term Muslim has come to mean anybody with any degree of adherence to Islamic doctrine, however if such a person adopts the Kafir Golden Rule then they can be a fine person and a fine friend.
This friend business is perhaps one of the worst parts of the Islamic ideology and shows how great the divide is between Islam and all other doctrines.
"Is a Muslim ever really the friend of a Kafir? Any Muslim who fully accepts the doctrine of Islam cannot be the true friend of a Kafir—friendly, yes, but not a true friend. If he is a true friend, then he is not obeying the Koran and not following the Sunna of Mohammed. The difference between friendly and a friend is that a Muslim who is true friend will sometimes choose the Kafir’s side in a dispute about it. A friendly Muslim will be pleasant, but will always choose Islam’s side in any politics or dispute about Islam. A Muslim friend who is a true friend will listen to reasonable criticisms and occasionally tell you that you have a point there. The Muslim Arabic FBI translators who cheered on 9/11 were quite friendly, but chose Islam over the Kafirs on 9/11."
Political Islam: When you read the comments section of an article about Islam, you will see the argument: I have some Muslim friends and they are good people. The conclusion: good Muslims mean that Islam is good. If the talk is face-to-face, the person may ask: Do you have any Muslim friends? There is a hidden implication that if you do not, then you don’t really know anything about Islam and you could be a bigot.
What is actually going on? The Kafir (non-Muslim) with Muslim friends does not know any real facts about Islam and wants to move the argument to feelings, not facts. If the Muslim friend is nice, Islam is nice. There is no need to know any facts about Islam. And, if Islam is nice, then speaking against it is bigotry. It is amazing how much people can talk about Islam and never mention a single fact. It is easy to tell if someone is speaking about Islam factually. A fact-based discussion will include the Koran and the Sunna, which means that the words Mohammed and Allah will be heard. If there is no Mohammed or Allah, then the discussion is not about the facts of Islam; it is about opinions that come from the media, authorities and the web.
Here are questions to ask people with Muslim friends.
• Do you have any Muslim apostate friends?
An apostate is one who has left Islam and under Sharia law may be murdered. Who would know more about the true nature of Islam than someone who knows it at the core of their being? The apostate knows both sides of the story.
Here are other questions to ask those with Muslim friends:
• Do you have any Christian friends from the Middle East?
• Do you have any Armenian, Serbian or Coptic friends?
These people have suffered cultural and religious annihilation by Islam over the past 1400 years, shouldn’t you also meet them? About 60 million Christians have been murdered over the last 1400 years, and Armenians, Serbians, Copts (Egyptians) and the rest of the Christians of the Middle East furnished the body count. Doesn’t it make sense to talk to who has personal experience in engaging Islam?
There are other questions to be asked. There are 13 verses in the Koran that say that a Muslim is not the friend of a Kafir. How can this not be talked about? According to Islam, we are Kafirs. Why can’t friends talk about such things?
Koran 4:144 Believers! Do not take kafirs as friends over fellow believers. Would you give Allah a clear reason to punish you?
What this means is that a Muslim may be friendly with a Kafir, but if a Muslim has a choice between favoring a Kafir or a Muslim, he will favor the Muslim. Why can’t this be discussed among friends?
Now to the most critical question: Is a Muslim ever really the friend of a Kafir? Any Muslim who fully accepts the doctrine of Islam cannot be the true friend of a Kafir—friendly, yes, but not a true friend. If he is a true friend, then he is not obeying the Koran and not following the Sunna of Mohammed.
The difference between friendly and a friend is that a Muslim who is true friend will sometimes choose the Kafir’s side in a dispute about it. A friendly Muslim will be pleasant, but will always choose Islam’s side in any politics or dispute about Islam. A Muslim friend who is a true friend will listen to reasonable criticisms and occasionally tell you that you have a point there. The Muslim Arabic FBI translators who cheered on 9/11 were quite friendly, but chose Islam over the Kafirs on 9/11.
This does not mean that a person, who calls himself or herself a Muslim, cannot be a real friend. They may see the Golden Rule as more attractive than Islam’s dualistic ethics. If they can see the other person as not being a Kafir, but a human being, then they can be a true friend.
It is important to see that these ideas concern implications about the practical application of Islamic doctrine. In this case the Islamic doctrine of friends is examined. These ideas are not about any particular person who calls themselves a Muslim. Generally, to be a Muslim, you must act according to Islamic doctrine. However, the term Muslim has come to mean anybody with any degree of adherence to Islamic doctrine, however if such a person adopts the Kafir Golden Rule then they can be a fine person and a fine friend.
This friend business is perhaps one of the worst parts of the Islamic ideology and shows how great the divide is between Islam and all other doctrines.
The slaughter of the Hindu Men, Women and Children by islam
"The islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging take for its evident moral that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any momnet be over thrown from barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within."
Will Durant, Historian 1885-1981
Will Durant, Historian 1885-1981
Italy: Islam denied income tax revenue
Italy: Islam denied income tax revenue
Rome, 27 August (AKI) - Mosques in Italy will not receive a share of income tax revenue the Italian government allocates to religious faiths each year. Hindu and Buddhist temples, Greek Orthodox churches and Jehovah's Witnesses will be eligible for the funds, according to a bill approved by the Italian cabinet in May and still must be approved by parliament.
Until now, the government had earmarked 8 percent of income tax revenue for Italy's established churches. The great majority of these funds go to the Catholic Church, although if they wish, individual tax payers may elect to give the money to charities and cultural projects instead.
The head of COREIS, one of Italy's largest Muslim groups, Yahya Pallavicini, said he was bitter that Islam had been denied the revenue from Italian income tax.
"Work should be begun on legally recognising those moderate Muslims who have for years shown themselves to be reliable interlocutors who are free of and fundamentalist ideology," he said.
Islam is not an established religion in Italy and there is only one official mosque in the country, Rome's Grand Mosque (photo). Politicians from the ruling coalition cite radical imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women's rights by Muslims immigrants as obstacles to recognising Islam as an official religion in Italy.
Until now, only the Catholic Church, Judaism and other established churches including Lutherans, Evangelists, Waldensians and 7th-day Adventists have received the income tax revenue from the Itallain government.
There are between one million and 1.5 million Muslims in Italy and 130 mosques linked the Muslim umbrella organisation UCOII across the country.
Link to the original article from Adnkronos.
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From Atlas Shrugs
Denied tax status in Italy
Italy has denied religious status to Islam. Politicians cited extremist (fundamentalist) imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women's rights by Muslim immigrants as obstacles to recognizing Islam as an official religion in Italy.
And here in the US we are paying for extremist imams (like Rauf) and their wives to go on Middle Eastern junkets to raise money for Islamic supremacist Ground Zero mosques. Sick.
Mosques in Italy will not receive a share of income tax revenue the Italian government allocates to religious faiths each year. Hindu and Buddhist temples, Greek Orthodox churches and Jehovah's Witnesses will be eligible for the funds, according to a bill approved by the Italian cabinet in May and still must be approved by parliament.
Until now, the government had earmarked 8 percent of income tax revenue for Italy's established churches. The great majority of these funds go to the Catholic Church, although if they wish, individual tax payers may elect to give the money to charities and cultural projects instead.
The head of COREIS, one of Italy's largest Muslim groups, Yahya Pallavicini, said he was bitter that Islam had been denied the revenue from Italian income tax.
"Work should be begun on legally recognising those moderate Muslims who have for years shown themselves to be reliable interlocutors who are free of and fundamentalist ideology," he said.
Islam is not an established religion in Italy and there is only one official mosque in the country, Rome's Grand Mosque. Politicians from the ruling coalition cite radical imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women's rights by Muslims immigrants as obstacles to recognising Islam as an official religion in Italy.
Until now, only the Catholic Church, Judaism and other established churches including Lutherans, Evangelists, Waldensians and 7th-day Adventists have received the income tax revenue from the Itallain government.
Link to original article at Atlas Shrugs is here
Restoring Honor 08-28-10 Glenn Beck in Washington DC
No need for me to add anything to this. Just watch and listen.
Co-exist courtesy of the 2nd Amendment
Labels:
Fun with Islam,
Liberal magical thinking and stupid liberals,
Three toxic stews of western society
I found this when I visited a very cool, informative Counter-Jihadist site, 1389 blog. This site has been added to the blogroll here so check it out. Now on to this really nice version of the infamous, disgusting co-exist sticker. There are links to follow in case you want to find out more. I wish someone was actually making this sticker as it would be one I would put on my rig. There is no co-existancing with islam and sharia law.
Co-exist courtesy of the 2nd Amendment
Here is the disgusting original sticker:
Now, here is the 2nd Amendment version:
Try enlarging this to get a better look it it.
Here are links to the sites that had more on this great 'sticker.'
Hat tip: 1389 Blog
1389 Blog Antijihadist Tech
Every Day No Days Off
Oklahoma Shooters Association
620WTMJ/CharlieSykes
Co-exist courtesy of the 2nd Amendment
Here is the disgusting original sticker:
This next one is an improvement:
Now, here is the 2nd Amendment version:
Try enlarging this to get a better look it it.
Here are links to the sites that had more on this great 'sticker.'
Hat tip: 1389 Blog
1389 Blog Antijihadist Tech
Every Day No Days Off
Oklahoma Shooters Association
620WTMJ/CharlieSykes
AFP Blogger of the Year 2010 Defending the American Dream: Dr. Bill Smith
Dr. Bill Smith is a one of the contributors here at Patriot's Corner. Bill has been very instrumental to the success of this site in more ways than I can mention here. He works extremely hard at helping get out the message of true American Conservative Values. Way to go, Bill. PatriotUSA
AFP Blogger of the Year 2010 Defending the American Dream
Dr. Bill Smith, editor: Today, officially kicked off the speeches and workshops at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream (DAD) 2010 in Washington, D.C. Over 3200 people attended and that figure did not include people found wondering the hall. Some of these wanderers were people had come to Washington, D.C. for the Honoring America 8/28 rally and were also staying at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.officially kicked off the speeches and workshops at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream (DAD) 2010 in Washington, D.C. Over 3200 people attended and that figure did not include people found wondering the hall. Some of these wanderers were people had come to Washington, D.C. for the Honoring America 8/28 rally and were also staying at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
Today, officially kicked off the speeches and workshops at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream (DAD) 2010 in Washington, D.C. Over 3200 people attended and that figure did not include people found wondering the hall. Some of these wanderers were people had come to Washington, D.C. for the Honoring America 8/28 rally and were also staying at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
The day was a little different than normal for me and so not much is written today. I will post some articles about AFP DAD 2010 over the next few days. When I arrived yesterday around 6 pm, I saw lots of people I knew from other events. Some friendly chat and the getting to my room took another hour. It was great to see people from great groups like Smart Girl Politics and from Arkansas including the Faulkner County Tea Party. After an hour or so, I made it to my room, dropped my stuff and went down to event registration to pick up my media credentials. As I said that I was a blogger, a volunteer sent me down to blogger's row where credentials for new media bloggers and radio media were waiting. But, my credentials were not there. So, back to the event desk. Let me add that the event desk is close to 50 yards in length, so they had lots of volunteers and staff helping.
When I arrived back at the event desk, two of the AFP staff recognized me and said that my credentials were in the VIP section and walked me up to the section. Indeed, my name was on the VIP list. I chucked and said I am not VIP, I am just an old blogger and that there must be a mistake. They said no, you are registered as a VIP. They even had a special information packet for me. They advised me that I would was to attend a breakfast, lunch and a series of presentations in the morning for VIPs and closed reception in the evening before the dinner. They also said that I would be at one of the head tables and gave me my seat assignment.
I showed up at the morning event with my computer and camera. Met some of the officers of AFP, state supporters and heard some interesting insights most of which will not be written about. After lunch, I slipped out a few minutes early because I wanted to visit the Arkansas delegation who were having a working lunch. Last year we had 8 people from Arkansas; but, this year there were over 150 people from Arkansas who attended.
I then went to bloggers row and and found the end of a table and set up operations. Besides meeting other great bloggers and video new media, I talked with some campaign staffers, other activists, and met Michele Bachmann. Also, after speaking at the main even, Herman Cain, a contributing author on the ARRA News Service, stopped by and spent a considerable time with the bloggers. If the photos turn out, I will post them next week. Some others made some video interviews which I hope to also be able to post.
At 5:30 pm, I attend an AFP Chairman's VIP reception before the evening dinner. At the reception, met people from the morning and also other AFP State leaders and friends of AFP. Rep Eric Cantor dropped by for a few minutes and spoke. Surprisingly, a lady who had sat next to me on the flight from Memphis to Washington, D.C. and was meeting her husband in Washington was also at the reception - sometimes it is small world.
As with all prior AFP Defending the American Dream summits, the "Tribute to Ronald Reagan" dinner was a success. Michele Bachmann gave a rousing speech and conservative columnist writer George Will gave an exceptional insightful speech full of wit, sarcasm, and even baseball metaphors. Then at the closing, they awarded a couple of awards. It was then that I learned why I was a VIP on this day. Americans for Prosperity presented the Blogger of the Year 2010 to me "in recognition of leadership in advancing economic freedom and liberty through modern media." I was indeed surprised, humbled and thankful. And, I am especially thankful for Americans for Prosperity.
Tomorrow, everyone is heading to the Honoring America 8/28 rally at the Lincoln Memorial. A crowd of between 500,000 and a million people are expected. Regardless, it should be both fun and educational.
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AFP Blogger of the Year 2010 Defending the American Dream
Dr. Bill Smith, editor: Today, officially kicked off the speeches and workshops at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream (DAD) 2010 in Washington, D.C. Over 3200 people attended and that figure did not include people found wondering the hall. Some of these wanderers were people had come to Washington, D.C. for the Honoring America 8/28 rally and were also staying at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.officially kicked off the speeches and workshops at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream (DAD) 2010 in Washington, D.C. Over 3200 people attended and that figure did not include people found wondering the hall. Some of these wanderers were people had come to Washington, D.C. for the Honoring America 8/28 rally and were also staying at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
Today, officially kicked off the speeches and workshops at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream (DAD) 2010 in Washington, D.C. Over 3200 people attended and that figure did not include people found wondering the hall. Some of these wanderers were people had come to Washington, D.C. for the Honoring America 8/28 rally and were also staying at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
The day was a little different than normal for me and so not much is written today. I will post some articles about AFP DAD 2010 over the next few days. When I arrived yesterday around 6 pm, I saw lots of people I knew from other events. Some friendly chat and the getting to my room took another hour. It was great to see people from great groups like Smart Girl Politics and from Arkansas including the Faulkner County Tea Party. After an hour or so, I made it to my room, dropped my stuff and went down to event registration to pick up my media credentials. As I said that I was a blogger, a volunteer sent me down to blogger's row where credentials for new media bloggers and radio media were waiting. But, my credentials were not there. So, back to the event desk. Let me add that the event desk is close to 50 yards in length, so they had lots of volunteers and staff helping.
When I arrived back at the event desk, two of the AFP staff recognized me and said that my credentials were in the VIP section and walked me up to the section. Indeed, my name was on the VIP list. I chucked and said I am not VIP, I am just an old blogger and that there must be a mistake. They said no, you are registered as a VIP. They even had a special information packet for me. They advised me that I would was to attend a breakfast, lunch and a series of presentations in the morning for VIPs and closed reception in the evening before the dinner. They also said that I would be at one of the head tables and gave me my seat assignment.
I showed up at the morning event with my computer and camera. Met some of the officers of AFP, state supporters and heard some interesting insights most of which will not be written about. After lunch, I slipped out a few minutes early because I wanted to visit the Arkansas delegation who were having a working lunch. Last year we had 8 people from Arkansas; but, this year there were over 150 people from Arkansas who attended.
I then went to bloggers row and and found the end of a table and set up operations. Besides meeting other great bloggers and video new media, I talked with some campaign staffers, other activists, and met Michele Bachmann. Also, after speaking at the main even, Herman Cain, a contributing author on the ARRA News Service, stopped by and spent a considerable time with the bloggers. If the photos turn out, I will post them next week. Some others made some video interviews which I hope to also be able to post.
At 5:30 pm, I attend an AFP Chairman's VIP reception before the evening dinner. At the reception, met people from the morning and also other AFP State leaders and friends of AFP. Rep Eric Cantor dropped by for a few minutes and spoke. Surprisingly, a lady who had sat next to me on the flight from Memphis to Washington, D.C. and was meeting her husband in Washington was also at the reception - sometimes it is small world.
As with all prior AFP Defending the American Dream summits, the "Tribute to Ronald Reagan" dinner was a success. Michele Bachmann gave a rousing speech and conservative columnist writer George Will gave an exceptional insightful speech full of wit, sarcasm, and even baseball metaphors. Then at the closing, they awarded a couple of awards. It was then that I learned why I was a VIP on this day. Americans for Prosperity presented the Blogger of the Year 2010 to me "in recognition of leadership in advancing economic freedom and liberty through modern media." I was indeed surprised, humbled and thankful. And, I am especially thankful for Americans for Prosperity.
Tomorrow, everyone is heading to the Honoring America 8/28 rally at the Lincoln Memorial. A crowd of between 500,000 and a million people are expected. Regardless, it should be both fun and educational.
Link to the original article is here
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