Canary In The Coal Mine

White Racists

by Daniel Greenfield  |  FrontPageMag.com  |  November 9, 2011

 

Flash back twenty years to the Clarence Thomas hearings and every attack on him then and since has wound around two common points: He’s dumb and he’s oversexed. Now, twenty years later, the front-runner for the Republican nomination is being hit again by his leftist haters with those same two charges.

It’s possible to believe that the fact that the two accusations leveled against Justice Thomas just happened to play into traditional racist stereotypes was a coincidence, but that the same stereotypes are being used again against the second most prominent black conservative after Thomas on the national stage is more than just coincidence.

Once is a shot in the dark, twice is a pattern, and it’s an ugly pattern. Leftists eagerly tear apart women who accuse Democratic politicians of improper behavior and then suddenly become born-again feminists when there’s a black Republican to be taken down.

Anita Hill was treated as a hero, not because of anything that happened to her, but because she was useful to the Left’s cause. Seven years later, the women who stepped forward to accuse Bill Clinton of wrongdoing were jeered and demeaned for opening their mouths by the same politicians and activists who had presented Hill as a role model for women. Meanwhile, Kathleen Wiley, who accused Clinton of attacking her and was libeled for it by the Left, has expressed her support for Cain.

The unwinding is obvious at the fringes. Janeane Garofalo has accused the Republican Party of being the last bastion of white supremacy in the country. When Cain began to achieve prominence, she tried to deal with the contradiction by claiming that he was there just to cover up all the white supremacy. Now that he’s the front runner, and there are sexual allegations against him, she can resolve the contradiction by attacking Cain on the allegations and then pointing to the remaining white candidates as proof that the Republican Party is racist.

This is something that the Left does over and over again, turning black conservatives into a special target, and when it succeeds in hounding them out, then it has “proof” that the Republican Party is racist: “Where are all the minorities?”

Janeane Garafalo, who has a framed picture of herself with Bill Clinton, is the perfect poster child for leftist hypocrisy. She defended supporters of Hollywood pedophile Roman Polanski and claimed that Weinergate wasn’t Weiner’s fault but a distraction created by the media and Republicans; but now she suddenly has a “truly important” case to focus on.

The issue isn’t Cain’s guilt or innocence, which can only be determined by the evidence, not by pundits and commentators — the issue is the Left’s contemptible double standard on racism and sexism, which it exploits for its own benefit. The Left plays the race card against conservative women and the sexism card against conservative black men, not because it believes that racism and sexism are wrong, but because it’s a party built on the art of dividing and conquering along the lines of group identity.

If Cain, like Mel Reynolds, a former black congressman convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault, happened to be a Democrat, then the media would have been telling a completely different story. Reynolds, who was also convicted of bank fraud, received a special commutation of his sentence from Bill Clinton –  without even actually applying for it.

This is how Reynolds, a key figure in the rise of Obama, was greeted on his release by one Chicago newspaper. “Welcome back to `the world’, Mel Reynolds.”

“Following a too-long incarceration for his foolish transgressions, personal and financial, former Second District Congressman Mel Reynolds is back on the street again — thanks to a special dispensation from President Clinton, hours before he left the presidency Saturday night that released Reynolds from prison. Reynolds — who now seeks to make amends to his family, as well as his former constituents — should be welcomed back into the community.”

Those are the rules of the game, and they have nothing to do with right or wrong, black or white. The same people who will ride their high horses all over Cain have framed photos of Bill Clinton hanging on their walls. They speak at women’s rights seminars and then turn on conservative women like Palin or Bachmann using the very tools of sexism which they condemn. They denounce racism and then exploit racial stereotypes to bring down black conservatives.

The Democratic Party’s history of suppressing black Republicans goes back to the Reconstruction period after the Civil War.

Joseph Rainey, the first black congressman, and a Republican from South Carolina, was forced out of office by Democrats through voter fraud. (John Menard, the first black Republican to win a congressional election was not even seated.) Senator Hiram Revels, the first black senator and a Republican from Mississippi, was nearly kept out of office by Democrats who claimed that even a free black man could not have been considered an American citizen.

Over a century later they are still at it. The words have changed, but the tactics haven’t and neither has the goal: to keep minorities as a plantation vote and to create the perception that this plantation vote proves that their opponents are racist. The Democratic Party’s old racism didn’t die, it was reborn in a more cynical and manipulative form. The old stereotypes are there waiting to be called on when the time is right.

The media has turned the accusations against Cain into a three-ring circus, not because it believes that sexual harassment is wrong, but because it believes that being a conservative is wrong. And being a black conservative, a runaway slave, is the gravest wrong of all. The dusty closet of their party is still stocked with the old posters warning that Republicans will loose sex-crazed slaves on the population and promote miscegenation. And when they’re done lynching another runaway slave, it will be time to run a piece accusing anyone who opposes Obama of being a racist.

Source: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/09/white-racists/

An Ominous Reckoning

by Robert S Wistrich  |  JPost.com  |  November 7, 2011

 

The anniversary of Kristallnacht should serve as an opportunity for the West to wake up to the rampant anti-Semitism engulfing the Arab world.

Seventy-three years ago, on November 9, 1938, the murderous Nazi onslaught against the German Jews began with a nation-wide pogrom that smashed the fabric of their existence. Known euphemistically as Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night”), this state-organized orgy of violence happened in peacetime. It involved the systematic burning of hundreds of synagogues, the destruction of approximately 7,500 Jewish businesses, the murder of nearly 100 Jews, and the deportation of another 30,000 male Jews to German concentration camps.

It was a crucial turning-point in Hitler’s “war against the Jews,” a major signpost on the road leading to World War II, which Nazi Germany would initiate less than a year later.

Nazi propaganda, already then, openly warned about the imminent annihilation of Jewry through “fire and sword,” though few in the West took these threats too seriously.

Today, there is no immediate danger of a new Kristallnacht in the Western world, although levels of anti-Semitism (hiding under the more acceptable mask of hostility towards Israel) have reached levels unprecedented since 1945. But in the Middle East, the hatred of Jews burns much more fiercely – both in Iran and in the Arab world.

Islamist anti-Semitism, in particular, is soaked in some of the most inflammatory motifs that made the Kristallnacht atrocities possible in Nazi Germany and only three years later provided the rationale for the mass murder of European Jewry.

For example, there is the pervasive exploitation in Arabic of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, with its insistence on the reality of the “Jewish conspiracy for world domination”; there is a revival of the medieval Christian blood-libel against Jews, transplanted from Europe to the contemporary Arab-Muslim Middle East; and the mass diffusion of stereotypes about the Jews as cruel, treacherous and bloodthirsty colonialists seeking to destroy the identity and beliefs of the Muslim peoples.

To this, one must add the slanderous but widely popular identification of Zionism with Nazism and apartheid and the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians – a Goebbels-like propaganda lie that has also found a growing audience in the West.

However contradictory it may appear to some, the Zionismis- Nazism fabrication co-exists in the Middle East today with Holocaust denial on a broad scale. Indeed, in Ahmadinejad’s Iran, Holocaust denial has become a state-sponsored weapon in the regime’s efforts to win over the Arab street and indoctrinate its own people with anti-Jewish toxins.

THE INCREASINGLY entrenched anti-Semitism in the Arab world has not, unfortunately, been diminished by the “Arab Spring.” Earlier this year, Sheikh Yusuf al- Qaradawi, one of the most authoritative religious leaders of the Sunni Arab world (and especially esteemed by the Muslim Brotherhood), told a million Egyptians assembled in Tahrir Square that he hoped their mission would be to complete Hitler’s work. Al- Qaradawi, an immensely popular cleric, publicly insisted that the esteemed German Führer had been sent by Allah as a “divine punishment for the Jews.” Not long before, CBS’s foreign correspondent Lara Logan had been sexually assaulted and brutalized in the heart of Cairo by a mob of Egyptian men screaming “Jew, Jew, Jew.” Logan is not, in fact, Jewish. But this aspect of her ordeal was, typically enough, very much downplayed by both the American and European media.

There has indeed been very little appetite in the West for reporting on the Jew-hatred that saturates the Arab world. Arab nations (not least, the Palestinians) are never held to the standard expected of the rest of the world when it comes to racism, sexism or Judeophobia.

Hence, precious little reference is made to the genocidal anti-Semitism that runs through the “Sacred Covenant” of the Palestinian Hamas, any more than the West was unduly concerned with Haj Amin al-Husseini’s role in the Holocaust of European Jewry. Haj Amin, a Hitlerian anti-Semite if ever there was one, dominated the Palestinian Arab national movement for nearly forty years, leaving a legacy of hatred that would poison the Middle East for decades.

The Arab demonization and delegitimization of the Jewish state has continued uninterruptedly since 1948. It has yet to be challenged by the Arab revolutions of 2011. The leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, did nothing to improve the atmosphere by his recent denial at the UN that the Jews are a people with a profound historic connection to the land of Israel. His negation of Israel’s most basic rights and Jewish identity is of a piece with his brazenly racist insistence that the new PalestinianState should be “Jew-free.”

Nothing that has happened thus far in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia – where the Islamic movements have emerged greatly strengthened – leads me to believe that Arab anti- Semitism has been significantly weakened. The bogeyman of the “world Zionist conspiracy” is, unfortunately, still with us. Arab tyrants (as in Syria) continue to use it as an “opium for the masses,” but it also has powerful roots in popular Arab culture as well as in political Islam.

Even more sobering is the fact that the sickening anti- Jewish racism in Iran and the Arab world is nourished by so many Arab theologians, intellectuals, journalists, artists (See Image), deans of university faculties and so-called academic “experts.” In other words, the raw, primitive, street-hatred of the Jews has cultural and intellectual legitimacy among the educated elites, as it once did in Nazi Germany.

Over seven decades ago, Kristallnacht was an unmistakable warning to the rest of Europe as to where “eliminationist anti-Semitism” would lead. It went largely unheeded. Millions of non-Jews as well as twothirds of European Jewry would pay the ultimate price for this blindness. As Iran moves towards acquiring nuclear weapons and vows to annihilate Israel, will history repeat itself? Will the West remain silent? For Israel, the moment of reckoning comes closer by the day.

The writer is the director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (Random House, 2010).

 

Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=244737

J Post Exclusive: US Media Moguls Fight Boycott of Israel

by David Brinn  |  JPost.com |  October 28, 2011

 

Creative Community For Peace to use personal touch to counteract campaigns that pressure artists to cancel appearances here.

Their aim, as an old Elvis Costello song professes, is true.

An influential group of US entertainment industry executives has for the first time launched an organization to counter cultural boycott efforts against Israel, the likes of which contributed to Costello’s canceling of scheduled shows here last year.

Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) pledges to use a wide range of measures to bolster the resolve of artists who sign contracts to perform in or travel to Israel and then face calls from various “boycott groups” to cancel their trips, according one of its founders, Steve Schnur.

Schnur is a worldwide executive of music and marketing for Electronic Arts and president of Artwerk Music Group, and is responsible for licensing music for some of the most popular computer video games.

“We felt that if we could create a place where artists can get information from other artists and from people they know who understand what Israel is really about – the freedom, the democracy and equal rights – and not rely on the disinformation they’re given about ‘apartheid’ Israel, then maybe we could change things,” Schnur said in a phone call this week from Los Angeles.

“Our aim isn’t to applaud the fact that artists have come to Israel, but to enable others to continue to go there.”

The boycott issue has always been present with regard to international artists and Israel, but in the past few years, pro-Palestinian organizations abroad have stepped up efforts to bombard scheduled acts with e-mails, letters and Facebook campaigns urging them to cancel.

While most artists have withstood or ignored the pressure, some, like Costello, the Pixies and the late Gil Scott-Heron, have succumbed to the campaigns and scrapped their shows here. According to Schnur, many others likely don’t even bother to consider booking a show in Israel, to avoid the expected brouhaha.

He recalled his “aha” moment while attending the Elton John show in Ramat Gan Stadium last year in the shadow of the controversy over the previously mentioned cancellations.

“I was visiting Israel on behalf of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and giving a master class in Tel Aviv,” said Schnur. “It was shortly after the flotilla incident, and the Costello and Pixies cancellations, which were really exploited in the media as being part of an all-out boycott effort.

“It was really the first time I had heard the word ‘apartheid’ associated with Israel, and it really angered me. So I’m sitting at the Elton John show, and he comes out and makes his statement, saying, ‘Nobody’s gonna stop us from coming here’ and ‘We don’t cherry-pick our conscience,’ and it hit me over the head that I needed to do something.

“I’ve always been involved in Jewish and Zionist activities and I could have written a check, but I wanted to get my hands dirty and make a difference this time. The next day, I saw David Renzer [then-chairman/ CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group] at the master class and told him what I was thinking. Together, we decided that if we could help educate artists by having direct contact with them, we could change the grotesque bombardment of disinformation and threats coming their way so they could make decisions based on critical thinking and accurate information.”

Schnur and Renzer are joined on the CCFP advisory board by a growing list of prominent media execs, artists, attorneys and agents, including Idan Raichel; David Lonner, CEO of Oasis Media Group; Gary Foster, principal of Krasnoff Foster Productions; Doug Frank, former president of music operations for Warner Brothers Pictures; and the organization’s Israel point man, Ran Geffen-Lifshitz, CEO of Media Men Group, the country’s largest music publishing company.

“What we’re doing is to help people make the right decision on the question of boycotting Israel,” Geffen-Lifshitz said this week.

“Music should be separated from politics; this whole boycott issue is a slippery slope.

Once an artist gives in to boycott pressure and cancels an appearance here, his fans begin to think that boycotting Israel is legitimate.

From there, what’s to stop a boycott of Israeli products? We have to say ‘stop’ now.”

The CCFP, which is partially funded by the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and has been informally in operation for a few months, is planning to say “stop” in a carefully orchestrated manner, according to advisory board member Renzer.

“Every month, we receive a report from Ran’s team in Israel on the various artists who have announced they’re coming to Israel,” Renzer said last week during a visit to Israel.

“We then ask our advisory board whether anyone has a special relationship with the artist or his management, and often the answer is yes. So, they’re hearing not from an anonymous fan, but from a high-level person in the entertainment industry.”

The artist receives a phone call or letter congratulating them on his decision to perform in Israel and making him aware of the impending boycott efforts.

The letter, in part, reads: “Millions applaud the recent announcement of your upcoming tour of Israel. However, over the next few weeks and months, you will undoubtedly be hearing from other voices calling for you to cancel your trip in protest of actions in the West Bank and Gaza. Unfortunately, these misguided groups are trying to use the forums of music and culture to make inflammatory and incorrect political points.

“Singling out Israel, the only democracy in the region, as a target of cultural boycotts, while ignoring the now recognized human-rights issues of her neighbors, will not further peace. Ultimately, boycotts are an affront to Palestinian and Israeli moderates alike who are seeking to reach peace through compromise, exchange and mutual recognition.

“We look forward to your joining the ranks of independent-minded artists who have recently performed in Israel, including Elton John, Paul McCartney, Madonna, Rihanna, The Black Eyed Peas, Metallica, Linkin Park, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and many others.

“Music is our shared common language – one that transcends words and hatred.”

The letter is followed up with whatever is necessary to insure that the artists aren’t bushwacked by the boycott efforts, whether it be personal meetings, phone calls, handholding, offers to provide personalized tours in the country and referrals to the CCFP website.

The newly created site (www.creativecommunityforpeace.com) offers an impressive array of video clips of artists performing in Israel, a photo gallery of celebrities who have toured Israel, a “newsstand” with topical articles about artists, celebrity reflections on Israel and educational information on issues of democracy and human rights in the country.

“It’s a grassroots approach, but at a high level,” explained Schnur.

He and Renzer already point to some victories in their battle to fight the boycott, enabling the smooth arrivals and performances last year of Linkin Park and Macy Gray.

“Both Steve and I have a relationship with the band [Linkin Park] and its manager Jordan Berliant. Steve engaged in a dialogue with Jason, first encouraging the group to go to Israel and then working with Jason to arrange special touring for them when they got here. There’s a great photo of the band at the Kotel [the Western Wall], which is wonderful publicity for Israel,” said Renzer.

“For the group, they were going to be in Europe, so they could have come to Israel or not come. Of course, once they – or any other artist – does get here, they have an amazing experience.”

Berliant, in an e-mail, corroborated that sentiment, writing: “The band had a great time; it was one of the best crowds of the entire tour.”

Before the show, the band got a tour of Jerusalem, which they loved.

Berliant added that there had been no efforts to convince the band to cancel their show.

The same can’t be said of Gray’s show last year at Reading 3 in Tel Aviv.

“The Macy Gray experience could be our test example,” said Renzer.

“She was heavily lobbied to cancel. And in what she recognizes now is something she probably shouldn’t have done, she posted a question on her Facebook fan page asking them whether she should come to Israel or not.”

The forum became an open barrage of extreme opinions against Israel, and the singer was on the verge of scuttling her show. Renzer, who represented Gray at Universal, held several conversations with her, as did other CCFP music executives, in an attempt to put things in perspective.

“She was concerned, as an African-American, at hearing the word ‘apartheid’ in connection with Israel. She was genuinely confused and concerned,” said Renzer.

“One of our main messages to her was: ‘Look, Macy, you’re not a politician; you’re an artist. One of the beautiful things about an artist is that when she performs, she spreads the message of love, peace and understanding and an open dialogue. That won’t happen if you cancel.”

Then her manager, who isn’t Jewish, added, “If you cancel, you’ll become a poster child for the boycott movement.”

“On the other hand, her mother was telling her, ‘Be responsible, you have children,’ because some of the messages were threatening physical harm to her, and she was gravely concerned.

“Eventually, she made the decision to come and use the experience to learn more about the region and the conflict.

She donated an ambulatory motorcycle in Israel and met with both Israeli and Palestinian children. She developed a greater appreciation and understanding of the issues and realized that boycotting didn’t really offer any answers.”

In addition to taking the initiative in fighting the boycott effort in the trenches, CCFP has long-range proactive plans to make artists aware that boycotts are the antithesis of freedom of expression.

In the planning stages are a “Concert for Peace” to take place in Israel next year; the launch of Lyrics for Peace, a new clothing line produced in conjunction with CCFP Advisory Board member Hanna Rochelle Schmieder’s Lyric Culture company; and the production of short films about coexistence in the country.

The goal here, Schnur explained, was to encourage more artists to consider performing in Israel.

“A good number of American and European musicians who have never been to Israel are unfortunately still making their decisions based on the 11 p.m. news and what they see there about Israel,” said Schnur.

“There are still people who think that there are camels, sand and guns, and that’s it – they’re shocked to find a country filled with beautiful people enjoying equality.

Once they have that experience, then I don’t have to worry about them again. I know 30 Seconds from Mars and Linkin Park are convinced after having been here,” he said.

“What I need to worry about are the other artists. I found it interesting that even though Elvis Costello canceled, his wife, [Diana Krall], appeared in Israel a couple of months later, so there’s not even agreement in their household on the topic. I hope we get to the day when we [CCFP] don’t need to exist, and it’s not even an issue anymore.”

 

Source:  http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=243467

Real Americans Must Stand Against Muslim Brotherhood, Radical Islam and Sharia Law

by Dr. Laurie Roth  |  CanadaFreePress.com  |  October 26, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The insertion of radical Islam, largely Muslim Brotherhood is happening throughout the Middle East and in parts of Africa.  The latest method of intrusion and radical Islamic take over is with ‘Arab Spring’.  Those Islamics marching for democracy were simply used and muted by the Muslim Brotherhood’s plans for total take over. 

Things are going as planned and Obama and his handlers couldn’t be happier.  Global controls, regulations and rules combined with encroaching Fundamentalist Islam is the double barrel shot gun that threatens to take down America,  Israel and the West.  Right now,  it is attempting to transform the Middle East into an Islamic radical,  Muslim Brotherhood zone. 

I recently interviewed Rev. Lainie Dowell, (voiceink.blogspot.com) an author and political activist who has studied in depth Barack Obama, Islam and the African nations push to create the United States of Africa.  She said from her research that this had been going on since the 1960s and she believed that Barack Obama wanted to be the head of this after he destroyed America.  Kadafi,  who we assassinated recently was the known pick to run this 55-state confederation and emerging super power.

Interestingly,  Sher Zieve, another hard hitting commentator also told me that she had seen an interview on You Tube with Van Jones,  talking to school kids.  When asked by a child what Obama would do after he was done being President,  Van Jones said Obama might rule the world.  This was quickly scrubbed but not before many heard those words from his own lips.  So…..is America simply a stepping stone to worldwide control? 

What have we seen from Obama

It is not a paranoid ‘tin helmet’ or racist moment that I have noticed Obama’s   submission and devotion to Islam.  Almost immediately when getting into office Obama gave Islamic radical and terrorist group Hamas over 900 million dollars.  We saw Obama’s first trip to Saudi Arabia,  where he bowed down low to the Saudi King.  We then saw Obama stand against Israel and for Turkey when Israeli commandos confronted the Turkish armada taking supplies to the Gaza.  Israel had intelligence that the Turkish ships weren’t just delivering food and medicine but also weapons and potential terrorists.  They were right.  Terrorists on their list and weapons were discovered yet the sold out news and Obama looked the other way as they rebuked Israel….again. 

The attacks and insults have continued against Israel as the kiss up to Islam has grown.  We saw Hillary and Biden practically get their knickers in a twist when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to go ahead and build homes on their own sovereign property.  These weren’t remote ‘settlements’  as the media and Obama manipulated,  but 5 minutes from downtown Jerusalem.  There was nothing ridiculous, extreme,  or remote about their building projects.  It was simple anti Semitism and Islamic controls that couldn’t possibly have this.  Obama played it perfectly… for a Muslim that is.

Just when the insults against Israel about blew me down, it got even more arrogant.  Obama started pressuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go back to the 1967 borders.  That was not just absurd of Obama but also would expose Israel to deadly attacks and make them indefensible.  Thankfully,  Israel said no thank you.

Bringing it all the way home with Arab Spring, Libya,  Egypt

What was touted by Obama as an American duty to defend desperate freedom fighters in Libya,  transformed quickly into an illegal war,  breaching the 1973 war powers act.  Obama bypassed our congress,  bowed down to the UN and started spending billions while putting our troops in harms way.  Soon we learned the freedom fighters were linked with al quaeda,  so it was in large part,  bad guys fighting bad guys.  Kadafi had not been attacking America, or our interests.  We didn’t even get oil from him,  so why in God’s green earth did Obama put us there?  I think it was to establish more rigid Muslim controls world wide.  He knew once Kadafi was gone,  rigid sharia would rule and it has.  Oh….but first we had to get rid of Kadafi, so we found him and assassinated him. 

Interestingly,  from Rev. Lainie Dowell’s research on the emerging United States of Africa,  she found that Kadafi was to be the first President of this new super power,  now he is gone.  Gee…..isn’t it convenient that Kadafi is gone.  I wonder who might end up being the President of the United States of Africa now?????

Obama has quickly supported the Muslim Brotherhood,  why?

Just as soon as Egypt and President Hosni Mubarak’s rule was being challenged by protestors as Arab Spring unfolded,  Obama immediately backed the Muslim Brotherhood which had been circling their radical wagons to control what was moderate Egypt.  Now the Muslim Brotherhood has taken over,  dozens of Coptic Christians are being threatened and murdered,  Christian churches are being burned to the ground and Sharia controls are growing.  Oh yes,  threats to Israel.

Through out the Middle East,  the financed and organized Muslim Brotherhood is taking over,  using the planned ‘Arab Spring’  to push their dominating Islamic force forward.  This whole thing was long ago planned.

According to Jihad Watch, President Obama’s own father,  Barack Obama senior was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood for 30 years.  Bringing it home even further,  Obama has at least 3 high level Muslim Brotherhood members working for him.  One is a key speech writer for Obama and another,  Azizah al-Hibri heads the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

With all this emphasis on come together,  Muslim brotherhood,  Arab spring democracy values,  I just had to review what Muslim Brotherhood stood for and their beliefs.

Muslim Brotherhood in a snapshot

They were started by Hassan al – Banna in 1928 after the collapse of the Ottman Empire.  They oppose secular behaviors in Islamic nations,  huge supporters of strict Sharia law.  Their motto: “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.”

They sanction, even demand jihad from their followers.  In 2004 a fatwa was put forth by Sheikh Yousef Al-Quradhawi saying it was the obligation of all Muslims to abduct and kill U.S. citizens in Iraq.

They are known to work in all schools,  colleges,  run for office and infiltrate themselves into Government.  Well,  they are certainly doing well aren’t they?  They are working for our President in influential positions.

Counter-Intelligence expert, Prof. Clare Lopez stated that Islamist allied operatives appointed by Obama are undermining U.S. security policy.  This is aimed at co-opting America’s foreign policy in the Middle East.

From 1928 on the Muslim Brotherhood has formed and financed many Islamic terror groups including al Qaeda.  Their dream is a world wide caliphate. 

Obama is a useful pawn playing right into their hands.  Our Republic is in danger.  There should be zero Islamics working in high level positions anywhere near the President and authority because if they are traditionally Islamic they must submit first to Sharia law and the Qur’an,  not the constitution.  That isn’t Islamaphobia or persecution.  That is a fact. It should even be more of a no brainer for a U.S. President to not even consider hiring someone who is a member of an Islamic terrorist group like Muslim Brother.  Apparently,  like Father like son.

 

Source:  http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/41714

New Novel - The Tehran Initiative: Destroying the 'Great Satan' (America)

by Erick Stakelbeck, CBN News Terrorism Analyst  |  CBN.com  |  October 19, 2011

 

For the past 32 years, the Iranian regime has pledged to destroy the United States, or the "Great Satan" as Iran's leaders call it.

Now that Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons, the country appears closer than ever to accomplishing that goal.

The Iranians --took out apostrophe -- believe America is a declining power and they're bringing the fight to U.S. soil.

Joel Rosenberg talked about some hypothetical situations involving Iran and the U.S. and his new book 'The Tehran Initiative'  on "The 700 Club," Oct. 18.  

Recent examples of the Islamic regime's threat to the U.S. include:

• U.S. investigators recently foiled a plot to assassinate Saudi and Israeli diplomats inside Washington, D.C.
• An Iranian commander has warned that the country's submarines may soon patrol waters off the U.S. coastline.
• Iran continues building long-range missiles that could reach the continental United States.

Those missiles could very soon be nuclear-tipped, according to U.S. and Israeli estimates on Iran's nuclear weapons program.

"Israel has warned that the military option is on the table when it comes to Iran's nuclear weapons program," investigative reporter Ken Timmerman told CBN News.

But as the threat rises, the Obama administration has cautioned against military action - despite polls saying most Americans would support such a move.

In his new book, The Tehran Initiative, best-selling author Joel Rosenberg envisions an Israeli government restrained by Washington as the Iranian nuclear issue spirals out of control.

He considers a series of worst-case scenarios involving Iran, the U.S. and Israel, even concluding that the "world is on the brink of disaster" if no action is taken.

 

Source:  http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2011/October/The-Tehran-Initiative-Destroying-the-Great-Satan/

Muslim Comic Series Aims to Break Through in US

by *Jeff Karoub, Associated Press  |  WashingtonExaminer.com  |  October 12, 2011

 

Comic book fans might call it a great origin story: In the aftermath of 9/11, a Muslim man creates a comic book series, "The 99," inspired by the principles of his faith. It builds a global audience and investors contribute millions for it to continue and expand.

In two vastly different cultures, Naif Al-Mutawa's (Pictured) tale hits a few roadblocks — "villains" if you will: Censorship from Saudi Arabia, home to the main Muslim holy sites; in the United States, a struggle to build an audience where free expression has been hampered by a post-9/11 rise in suspicion and scrutiny of all things Islamic.

For Al-Mutawa, it's evidence that tales like his are needed to counter hardline, intolerant ideologies of all stripes.

"That's one of the things that was most disappointing to me in the beginning," Al-Mutawa said on a recent visit to Detroit. "You have two birthplaces: You have the birthplace of Islam, which initially rejected it (and) the birthplace of democracy and tolerance, this country, that I'm now facing resistance in — the two natural places for this product."

Al-Mutawa's reputation in the Middle East and elsewhere has grown since the 2006 debut of "The 99," as well as its rollout into animation. The series is named for the 99 qualities the Quran attributes to God: strength, courage, wisdom and mercy among them.

The comic book spawned a TV series and 26 half-hour episodes of the 3-D animated version of the "The 99" have been sold to broadcasters. They are expected to be released early next year in more than 50 countries, and a second season is in production.

Al-Mutawa, a U.S.-educated psychologist from Kuwait, has been promoting "Wham! Bam! Islam!" a PBS documentary that tells the story of "The 99" from an idea hatched during a cab ride to its raising of $40 million in three calls for investors. The promotional push is supporting the animated series, the vehicle by which his company hopes to turn a profit.

"The 99" grew out of his childhood love of Batman, Superman and their superhero brethren, along with a desire to provide role models for his five young sons.

"Basically, 'The 99' is based on Quranic archetypes, the same way that Batman and Superman are based on Judeo-Christian and Biblical archetypes. And just like Batman and Superman are secular story lines, so too are 'The 99,'" he said.

"It seemed to me that the only people using mass media when it came to things to do with religion — at least my religion — were people who were doing very destructive things. So the question was how do I challenge that in a way that's secular yet cannot be dismissed as Western?"

Critics on both sides of the religious and cultural divide see subversion in Al-Mutawa's superheroes. Some hardline Muslims say the series subverts their faith by embodying the attributes in human characters, while a few non-Muslim American critics have labeled it sneaky Islamic indoctrination.

Al-Mutawa said it took investment by an Islamic investment bank to make his series "halal," or acceptable to Saudi officials. The nation's government-run broadcaster has since bought the rights to the animated series. So has The Hub cable network in the U.S. — though the latter has indefinitely postponed airing it after some critical columns and blog posts.

"One of the comments on the blogs that ended up delaying us was someone who warned that we can't let the Muslims brainwash our children like the Mexicans did with 'Dora the Explorer,'" Al-Mutawa said.

Still, he's measuring broader acceptance in other ways. Al-Mutawa worked with DC Comics last year on a six-issue crossover that teamed "The 99" with The Justice League of America.

"They start out with distrust between the two teams of superheroes — Superman punches one of my guys early on," Al-Mutawa said. "And then they figure out during the arc that it's the bad guys causing the distrust."

Robin Wright, author of "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World," said Al-Mutawa has "been way ahead of the curve in figuring out how you challenge extremism and how you create alternative role models to Osama bin Laden or Hassan Nasrallah (Hezbollah's leader) for kids and adults."

Muslim characters are rare in U.S. comic books but there have been some inroads.

Marvel Comics has Dust, a young Afghan woman whose mutant ability to manipulate sand and dust has been part of the popular X-Men books.

"I don't view a Muslim superhero as avant garde," Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso said. "Muslims comprise approximately 23 percent of the world's population, and we like our comics to reflect the world in its diversity."

Dust wears a robe and veil to observe Muslim hijab, or modest dress. Another character, M, is a woman of Algerian descent who only recently revealed her faith in the pages of "X-Factor." Like millions of other Muslim women in the real world, she "does not observe hijab, and often dresses quite provocatively," Alonso said.

Other characters have not been so accepted. In late 2010, DC Comics introduced Nightrunner, a young Muslim hero of Algerian descent raised in Paris. He's part of the global network of crime fighters set up by Batman alter-ego Bruce Wayne. Conservative bloggers decried the move, noting that instead of tapping a native French person, they opted for a minority.

Frank Miller, whose dark and moody take on Batman in "The Dark Knight Returns" in 1986 energized the character, has taken a different tack in his latest work, "Holy Terror," which tells the story of The Fixer and his efforts to stamp out Islamic terrorists.

The graphic novel initially took root as a look at Batman's efforts to fight terrorism, something that grew out of Miller's experiences of being in New York during 9/11. As he worked on it, it became apparent that it wasn't suitable for the DC character.

"As I developed it and worked on it, the subject was too serious and the character's actions were not Batman," he said.

The book has been criticized as anti-Islamic propaganda, but Miller says that's not his notion.

"I lived through a time when 3,000 of my neighbors were incinerated for no apparent reason. I lived through the chalky, smoky weeks that followed and through the warplanes flying overhead and realized that, much like my character, The Fixer, I found a mission," he said.

As for "The 99," he said has not seen it but welcomes Al-Mutawa's efforts.

"I come in with my own very pro-Western-they-attacked-my-city-point of view," Miller said. "If other people have other points of view to bring in, I just welcome it."

Al-Mutawa called "Holy Terror" par for the historical course for Islam.

"There's no denying that terrible things have happened in the name of my religion — as they have in the names of most religions, if not all religions," he said. "As human beings, we're a little bit lazy. We don't like to change the schemas in our minds. We like to fit new information into existing schemas. That's why to some people anything to do with Islam is going to be bad."

*Matt Moore contributed to this report from Philadelphia.

Source:  http://washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/music/2011/10/muslim-comic-series-aims-break-through-us

Polish Play About Anti-Semitism Debuts in America

by *Lisa Traiger  |  Forward.com  |  October 13, 2011

 

A Class Comes To Learn: Poles learn that Polish-Jewish relations were not always sweetness and light. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

A passing nod. A borrowed cup of sugar. A shared fence. A watchful eye on the house. That’s what neighbors are for. But what happens when neighbors turn and become enemies? That’s the question that consumed Warsaw-based playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek on learning that the black-and-white Polish Holocaust history he had learned at school was actually blood red. After discovering the truth about Poles who perpetrated acts of violence against Jews, Slobodzianek penned the play “Our Class” in 2009. It takes a hard look at how neighbor can turn against neighbor: On July 10, 1941, in the small town of Jedwabne, Poles murdered 1,600 of their Jewish neighbors. This massacre is the centerpiece of “Our Class” which, since its Warsaw premiere in October 2010, has become among the most controversial of contemporary plays in Poland.

Before its American debut, scheduled October 12 at Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater, Wilma’s artistic director, Blanka Zizka — also the play’s director — said, “I felt that it is worthwhile to look at the history and see… how memory and what is being remembered and what is being committed to history creates national identity and defines who we are.”

This reassessment of history, more than two generations after the Holocaust, ignited a national argument about the actions of Polish citizens toward their Jewish neighbors during World War II, according to the author of “Our Class,” a Catholic-born Pole of the postwar generation.

“I am from the northeast of Poland,” Slobodzianek told the Forward in an e-mail, “and to me the prewar co-existence of many nations in that territory appeared to be a multicultural idyll. In Poland, since about the middle of the 1980s, prevalent was a vision of the Second World War in which the good Poles were hiding Jews from the Nazis and when some traitor came about, then the underground army took care of him. We were raised believing such things.”

That ideal was shattered in the past two decades with the release in Poland of a rare few history-changing articles and movies, among them film director Agnieszka Arnold’s documentary on the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom and historian Jan T. Gross’s 2001 book, both called “Neighbors.” They detail the events leading up to and following the horrific action in which one half of the town massacred the other. Most Jewish residents were burned alive in a wooden barn, leaving just a handful of survivors.

While the play fictionalizes the events to follow five young Poles and five young Jews from 1925 through the late 1980s, Slobodzianek drew on Gross’s detailed study and on other source material, and also met with a small number of the surviving Jedwabne residents. He tells of classmates who grew up side by side as they teased and laughed together and shared their lives, until first the Soviet and then the German army invaded. Slobodzianek was fascinated by how some classmates betrayed and murdered their peers while others risked their lives to hide or help them, and still others stood by and did nothing. Those same issues fueled a national debate in Poland following the initial 2001 televised airing of Arnold’s documentary and last year’s Polish production of “Our Class.”

“Our Class,” though, is not history. It’s something greater, the playwright insists: “The historic background plays a secondary role: The main theme is the hatred that people who were friends at one time started to feel towards one another…. I am trying to find out more about the mechanism that affected people in such a tragic way — people who found themselves in a certain place at a certain time in a weave of various social and psychological relations, of history, ideology and religion.”

Zizka, who was born and raised in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), added, “I’m interested in plays dealing with changes in the world, how those changes impact individuals and moral questions, how do we act in those situations?” Yet she has also found deep personal connections to the work: One grandfather, a partisan during World War II, died in a Nazi concentration camp, while her grandmother on her mother’s side was sent to a concentration camp by the Soviets after the war.

The insidious pact between Hitler and Stalin that divided Poland played a central role in the conflict, but Slobodzianek is unforgiving about those exterior forces: “Polish anti-Semitism prepared the ground for a massacre before the Nazis arrived.” He added, “Polish anti-Semitism is immanently connected with the Christianity,” asserting that to be able to sanction its status as the state religion of the Roman Empire, the church had fabricated, and is still fabricating, myths “about the bad Jews crucifying Jesus and the noble Romans trying with all means to save him.”

To prepare for the staging, Zizka met Slobodzianek and traveled with him to Jedwabne this past summer. Her impressions — particularly the feeling that more than 70 years later, the town remains haunted by ghosts — shape the production. “There’s a sense that the people are basically specters lingering around because they were erased out of memory and their history was not listened to,” she said. “They cannot find ears; they cannot find anybody to listen to their story. The audience in our theater will become the first witnesses to these specters.”

On its Warsaw premiere, the play was met with both admiration and condemnation — which surprised neither Slobodzianek nor Zizka. “On one hand, I received a medal from the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, for whom the staging of “Our Class” was an act of courage and opposition against the people who are trying to bury the truth,” the playwright said. “On the other hand, others demanded my deportation.”

A monument at Jedwabne, marking the destruction of the town’s Jews, was vandalized in August. Does it mark a resurgence of anti-Semitism in a town made barren of Jews by its own population? Slobodzianek is withholding judgment, for now. “First of all, we don’t know who did it,” he said. “The fact is that after 10 years, the monument that has awakened the strongest emotions in Poland was profaned. But I feel that we will have to wait awhile to find out who was pulling the strings.”

Zizka is blunter: “It says that anti-Semitism is very alive there. There is a difference from bigger cities, where it is less obvious, and the smaller towns, where it’s still very much alive.” She hopes the production will spark renewed interest in American audiences who were insulated from direct effects of war and occupation at home. “It’s terrible enough when a country is occupied and coming to terms with what has happened under the occupation,” she said, “but to come from one occupation to the next one… how do you survive the second one with that moral anarchy it creates? I don’t think [Americans] can understand that. Our country hasn’t been under occupation.”

“Our Class,” runs at The Wilma Theater from October 12 until November 13.

*Lisa Traiger writes about the performing arts for The Washington Post and Dance Magazine, among other publications.

 

Source:  http://www.forward.com/articles/144293/

Zombie Muhammad? Atheist Attacked by Muslim During Halloween Parade

by Michael Stone  |  Examiner.com  |  October 12, 2011

 

Tuesday, an Atheist wearing a “Zombie Muhammad” costume while marching in a local Pennsylvania Halloween parade was attacked by a Muslim.

According to reports, the Parading Atheists of Central Pennsylvania (PACP) were marching in a Halloween parade in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania,when a Muslim stormed out of the hometown crowd to assault one of the marching atheists who happened to be wearing a Zombie Muhammad costume.  

The atheist in the Zombie Muhammad costume was proclaiming that he was the Prophet Muhammad, risen from the dead. Apparently the words and costume offended a Muslim man, who came out of the audience and began to follow and harass the atheist dressed as Zombie Muhammad before actually choking the atheist.

 

Subsequently, a police report was filed, and charges in the matter are pending.

The victim posted a video of the incident to YouTube. In the video description the victim writes:

Oct 11 2011 in the Machanicsburg City Parade I was attacked by a violent muslim IN AMERICA! This is proof that muslims want Shria Law in America. He attacks me to pull my beard off so he could identify me and chokes me.
I understand many will say I deserved it, but no one has the right to abridge my freedom of speech and violence is never the answer to freedom of speech. Islam is a religion of Peace? not the case here.

Free Speech and Religious Intolerance

 

Some atheists and others are questioning the wisdom of marching in a parade and purposefully offending a religious group. Some question the public relations value of such activity.

 

It does seem fair to say that the intention of the atheists was to poke fun at and offend Muslims. To be fair, there was also a “Zombie Pope” marching in the Halloween parade while claiming to be on the look out for little boys. No doubt, many Catholics found a pedophile Zombie Pope offensive as well.

 

Yet regardless of whether or not one is offensive in speech, there is no justification for violent assault in order to silence that speech. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is there not only to guarantee freedom of speech for those we agree with, but more importantly, it is there to guarantee the freedom of speech for those who we find particularly obnoxious and offensive.

What do you think about Zombie Muhammad marching in a Halloween parade? 

 

Source:  http://www.examiner.com/humanist-in-national/zombie-muhammad-atheist-attacked-by-muslim-during-halloween-parade

Soccer Star Arrested for Publicly Displaying Jesus Tattoo in Saudi Arabia

by Ray Downs  |  Global.ChristianPost.com  |  October 12, 2011

 

A Colombian-born soccer player was allegedly arrested in Saudi Arabia for publicly displaying a tattoo of Jesus on his arm, demonstrating how the Islamic kingdom's strict body Shariah laws can clash with foreign athletes' cultural attitudes.

According to Colombia Reports, Juan Pablo Pino (Pictured), who plays for Saudi Arabia's Al Nasr soccer club, was arrested by Saudi moral police for publicly displaying his tattoo while at a shopping mall with his pregnant wife in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Pino has a large tattoo of Jesus on his forearm.

Shariah law does not allow tattoos to be publicly displayed, no matter what they are, and Pino has since apologized for breaking Saudi law, expressing "deep sorrow" for his actions.

This is not the first time that tattoos got a soccer player in trouble in Saudi Arabia.

Last year, Romanian soccer player Mirel Radoi of the Al Hilal team drew criticism when he kissed the tattoo of a cross he has on his arm after scoring a goal, the Catholic News Agency reported.

According to the Arab News, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Amri, imam of Al-Rajih Mosque in Jeddah, said tattoos are forbidden in Islam and considered sinful because the Prophet Muhammad said that they are an attempt to change Allah's creation.

Although tattoos are illegal in Saudi Arabia, that does not mean the Saudi people are not getting their bodies inked. Like most things that are illegal, a robust underground business for tattoo-seekers exists in the secretive Muslim country.

The Arab News also reported that Filipino tattoo artists are operating illegally in Saudi Arabia, providing Saudis tattoos from makeshift parlors in their homes. Tattoo-seekers pay upwards of 70 percent more than the going rate in other countries because tattoo artists are so difficult to find.

Piercing is also illegal under Shariah law, and many Saudis go to the same Filipino tattoo artists to get their piercings done. However, due to the underground nature of the business, many places are unhygienic and users run the risk of contracting Hepatitis B and C, the Arab News reported.

Source:  http://global.christianpost.com/news/soccer-star-arrested-for-publicly-displaying-jesus-tattoo-in-saudi-arabia-57976/

ACTION NEEDED NOW! Call to Support Israel and a Unified Jerusalem!

Call to Support Israel and a Unified Jerusalem!

BACKGROUND:  Secretary of State Clinton, in a sharp departure from her stance when she was a senator, is currently warning that any American action, even symbolically, toward recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel must be avoided for the reason that it would jeopardize the peace process.  Send this action alert to show support for an undivided Jerusalem!  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama must continue to affirm that Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of the state of Israel as specified in H.R. 1006.

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Dear Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,

This past May, Israel celebrated a historical 43rd anniversary of the reunification of the city of Jerusalem.  This holiday is called Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Day.  It marks the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967 at the end of the six-day war.  Jerusalem and the Jewish people have been entwined for more than three thousand years.  During this entire time, Jerusalem has played a central role culturally, spiritually and politically.  This history is documented in the scriptures.  Jerusalem was the Jewish ancestral home throughout the 2,000 years of the diaspora. 

This central role in Jewish history is currently being challenged with an effort to divide the city prior to restarting Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.  Jerusalem’s accepted centrality to Judaism is being challenged by the Palestinians whose Koran never refers, not even once, to the city of Jerusalem.  In contrast, it is mentioned more than 600 times in the Bible.  Mecca and Medina are cities towards which all Arabs face when praying, while turning their backs on Jerusalem.

Secretary of State Clinton, in a sharp departure from your stance when you were a senator, you are currently warning that any American action, even symbolically, toward recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel must be avoided for the reason that it would jeopardize the peace process.

Your warnings were issued in a brief you just filed with the Supreme Court — in which you are arguing that a law you voted for when you were Senator is unconstitutional because it could require the U.S. government to give to an American citizen born at Jerusalem papers showing the birthplace as Israel.... (Clinton, in a Sharp Turnaround, Warns Against Even Symbolically Recognizing Jerusalem as Capital of Israel, Rick Richman, Special to the Sun, September 27, 2011)

I ASK THAT YOU, INSTEAD, TAKE A POSITION IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL AND H.R. 1006 (SUPPORTED BY 50 SPONSORS).

H.R. 1006 SEC. 2. RECOGNITION OF JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL AND RELOCATION OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM follows:

    (a) Policy- It is the policy of the United States to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel, both de jure and de facto.

    (b) Sense of Congress- It is the sense of Congress that--

        (1) Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected as they have been by Israel since 1967;

        (2) every citizen of Israel should have the right to reside anywhere in the undivided city of Jerusalem;

        (3) the President and the Secretary of State should publicly affirm as a matter of United States policy that Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of the State of Israel;

        (4) the President should immediately implement the provisions of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-5) and begin the process of relocating the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem; and

        (5) United States officials should refrain from any actions that contradict United States law on this subject.

Israel is our one true ally in the volatile Middle East. I implore you to support a united Jerusalem and a secure Israel.

Respectfully,

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