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		<title>Fired For Islamophobia &#8211; on The Jamie Glazov Show</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week&#8217;s guests were: Eric Allen Bell, a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” &#8211; where he was recently banned for the crime of writing three articles that ran afoul of the [...]]]></description>
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<p>Join the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week&#8217;s guests were:</p>
<p><strong>Eric Allen Bell</strong>, a regular blogger for the “Daily Kos” &#8211; where he was recently banned for the crime of writing three articles that ran afoul of the mindset there, specifically naming “Loonwatch.com” as a “terrorist spin control network.” He is currently producing a documentary entitled “Not Welcome” that is about the backlash against construction of a 53,000 square foot mega mosque in America&#8217;s Bible Belt.</p>
<p>and</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Tim Furnish</strong>, an author and Muslim world analyst who holds a PhD in Islamic history from Ohio State and who learned Arabic in the US Army; his areas of expertise are Islamic eschatology, Mahdism, sects and transnational movements. He has lectured at Joint Special Operations University, the Army War College, Ben Gurion University and the annual Mahdism Conference in Iran.</p>
<p>To read Robert Spencer&#8217;s report on the developments surrounding Eric Bell&#8217;s firing at the Daily Kos, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/01/recently-two-extraordinary-articles-have.html">click here</a>.</p>
<p>To listen to the program, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/02/01/the-jamie-glazov-show">click here</a>.</p>
<p>Or go to: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/02/01/the-jamie-glazov-show">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/02/01/the-jamie-glazov-show</a></p>
<p>See you next Tuesday night!</p>
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		<title>Democrat Jim Moran, Violent Racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Spencer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Jim Moran is an old white Democrat from Virginia who thinks he can judge whether we minority conservatives are acting sufficiently non-white enough. Moran&#8217;s an inveterate bully, a brawler, a crook and a bigot. And not one of his civility-preaching liberal colleagues has the courage to call him out. Responding on cable news to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Congressman Jim Moran is an old white Democrat from Virginia who thinks he can judge whether we minority conservatives are acting sufficiently non-white enough. Moran&#8217;s an inveterate bully, a brawler, a crook and a bigot. And not one of his civility-preaching liberal colleagues has the courage to call him out.</p>
<p>Responding on cable news to GOP Rep. Allen West&#8217;s blunt criticisms of President Obama this week, Moran derided the retired U.S. Army colonel, who is black, as “not representative of the African-American community.” Moran then launched into the kind of tired race-traitor tirade I&#8217;ve heard from progressives of pallor for more than 20 years.</p>
<p>How dare we “people of color” stray from the left&#8217;s ideological plantation? If we choose personal responsibility over entitlement, capitalism over statism or self-determination over identity politics, presumptuous white liberals appoint themselves spokespeople for our forefathers and deciders of our true destinies.</p>
<p>To wit: Lt. Col. West “just seems clueless now that he has climbed aboard ship,” Moran fumed. “He&#8217;s climbed this ladder of opportunity that was constructed by so many of his ancestors&#8217; sweat, sacrifice, blood, you know, they did everything they could for his generation to be successful. But now that he&#8217;s climbed on board ship, instead of reaching down and steadying the ladder, he wants to push it off.”</p>
<p>West, his father, his mother and his brother all dedicated their lives to military service; four consecutive generations of his family served in the U.S. armed forces. As a freshman congressman, West&#8217;s message has been a compelling agenda of self-empowerment. For this, he is savaged by a House colleague as a racial saboteur?</p>
<p>But Moran was just warming up. Next, he contrasted conservative West with big-government savior Barack Obama, who he said acted in proper accordance with his ancestors “by reducing college tuition and training our workers, trying to get a decent job for everybody” and leaving a “constructive legacy.”</p>
<p>Er, how&#8217;s the savior&#8217;s near double-digit unemployment, record food stamp enrollment, re-inflation of the housing and higher-education bubbles, and massive redistribution of wealth from the working class to the Wall Street bundler class working out for you?</p>
<p>Moran hailed Obama as “our Lion King” and compared his Republican detractors to the “hyenas in the background trying to cause trouble” for the White House. This bumbling chief of political correctness apparently is unaware that those hyenas in the Disney movie have been criticized for perpetuating negative stereotypes about blacks and Hispanics.</p>
<p>Dog-whistle politics, anyone?</p>
<p>Do Moran&#8217;s constituents in Virginia&#8217;s 8th district support his incessant race-baiting? Last year, he accused Tea Party activists of racism for sweeping out entrenched Democrats in the November 2010 midterm elections. It “happened for the same reason the Civil War happened in the United States. It happened because the Southern states, the slaveholding states, didn&#8217;t want to see a president who was opposed to slavery,” he ranted to Arabic-language television network Alhurra. “(A) lot of people in the United States don&#8217;t want to be governed by an African-American, particularly one who is liberal, who wants to spend money and who wants to reach out to include everyone in our society.”</p>
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		<title>Peace Process Lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Spencer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of FrontPage Magazine&#8217;s readers already know that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta yelled at the wrong guy in early December, 2011, when he scolded Netanyahu with his misplaced adjuration: “just get to the damn table.”  But it will still be useful to take a quick look at the many times that Israeli leaders have [...]]]></description>
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<p>Most of FrontPage Magazine&#8217;s readers already know that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta yelled at the wrong guy in early December, 2011, when he scolded Netanyahu with his misplaced adjuration: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/02/world/meast/israel-peace-talks/index.html">“just get to the damn table.” </a> But it will still be useful to take a quick look at the many times that Israeli leaders have invited Arab leaders to that “damn table” and have been rebuffed, in word and in deed, by Arab leaders.</p>
<p>For a summary of the 31 times since 1937 that Arab leaders have not only refused Israeli offers of peace, but have responded with war, terrorist attacks, and threats of genocide and annihilation, see two earlier articles by the present writer, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/15/31-opportunities-for-statehood-squandered-in-favor-of-genocide/">here</a> and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/18/31-opportunities-for-statehood-squandered-in-favor-of-genocide-part-ii/">here</a>.</p>
<p>Over the past few years, there has emerged a new and different pattern that, while obvious and transparent, has not made much of an impression on Secretary Panetta or other of the USA&#8217;s or EU&#8217;s spokespersons.</p>
<p>This new pattern is:  PA President Mahmoud Abbas creates pre-conditions for negotiations that he knows Israel cannot accept.  Then he refuses to join in negotiations that are open-ended and without pre-conditions.  Then he blames Israel for its refusal to agree to his unacceptable pre-conditions.  Then Western leaders and journalists blame Israel for the “log jam” in negotiations.</p>
<p>In June 20091, shortly after he formed his coalition government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called publicly for direct negotiations toward a two-state solution.  A PA spokesperson, speaking on behalf of President Abbas, declared the PA&#8217;s refusal to respond to Netanyahu&#8217;s invitation.</p>
<p>In November, 2009, Israel implemented its 10-month “settlement” construction freeze as a compromise response to US President Obama&#8217;s demands and called upon Abbas to join <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Speeches+by+Israeli+leaders/2009/Statement+by+PM_Netanyahu_suspend_new_construction_Judea_Samaria_25-Nov-2009.htm">him “in meaningful peace negotiations…that will finally end the conflict.”</a>  Abbas again rejected Netanyahu&#8217;s invitation, first insisting that he would wait until the construction freeze was over before he would consider joining Netanyahu in negotiations; but then, when the 10-month freeze drew to an end, he threatening that he would not meet with Netanyahu unless the Israeli prime minister continue the freeze and extend it to include East Jerusalem, which had been excluded from the original freeze agreement.</p>
<p>In February 2011, Netanyahu again called for a resumption of negotiations, and made some goodwill gestures to enhance the Palestinian economy.  Not only did Abbas rebuff these gestures, but he announced his intention to side-step negotiations with Israel <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/23/un-194--not/">and take his case for Palestinian statehood to the UN</a> despite President Obama&#8217;s objections.</p>
<p>In May 2011, Netanyahu again offered to restart negotiations for a two-state solution and promised significant territorial concessions.  Abbas ignored Netanyahu, President Obama, and even <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-u-s-blocks-200-million-in-aid-to-palestinian-authority-1.387480">the loss of $200 million</a> in American aid; and instead he wrote his infamous <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/opinion/17abbas.html">op-ed essay in the New York Times</a> in which he promised that even when “Palestine” becomes the 194th state in the UN, the conflict would not be over. The new state of “Palestine,” once it became the 194th member of the UN&#8217;s family of nations, would pursue political avenues of redress against Israel at the UN, the International Court of Justice and other human rights milieus.</p>
<p>In September 2011, at his speech before the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu renewed his invitation to Abbas.  Abbas refused the offer and instead pressed on with his ultimately unsuccessful attempt at UN recognition of a Palestinian state.</p>
<p>Even Netanyahu&#8217;s “economic peace” plan of September 2009, that would have helped return the West Bank to the <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28080">economic prosperity that it enjoyed during most of the pre-Oslo era from 1967 to 2004</a>, was <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/palestinians-reject-netanyahu-s-economic-peace-plan-1.279616">summarily dismissed by Abbas</a> because it demanded that the PA put a stop to terror attacks emanating from the West Bank.  Abbas rejected it, saying that: “We refuse to be security agents for Israel.”  In other words, the PA prefers to tolerate, and therefore encourage, terror attacks against Israel rather than engage in cooperation with Israel that will economically benefit the Arabs of the West Bank.</p>
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		<title>Democratic Tax Hypocrisy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Spencer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forgive Republican candidate Mitt Romney for his alleged failure to adequately explain why he paid “only” 14 percent of his income in taxes. The honest answer &#8211; “Well, because my accountants couldn&#8217;t figure out how to get them any lower” &#8211; does not work in this or very many other election years. Romney seemed flat-footed [...]]]></description>
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<p>Forgive Republican candidate Mitt Romney for his alleged failure to adequately explain why he paid “only” 14 percent of his income in taxes.</p>
<p>The honest answer &#8211; “Well, because my accountants couldn&#8217;t figure out how to get them any lower” &#8211; does not work in this or very many other election years. Romney seemed flat-footed because, like most business people, he seeks to minimize costs and expenses.</p>
<p>This includes taxes.</p>
<p>A normal wealthy-and-proud-of-it guy would have said: “Let me get this straight, pal. I&#8217;m not supposed to take every legal advantage provided me by the tax laws to reduce my taxes?” For what it&#8217;s worth, about 15 percent of Romney&#8217;s last two years of income went to charity &#8211; substantially higher than the percentage given by the Obamas or Joe Biden&#8217;s $380 (not a typo) of his quarter-million dollar income in 2006.</p>
<p>“Tax savings” allows people more money to save, spend, invest, bequeath and donate. On some level, even Democrats understand this.</p>
<p>Democrat Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., is one of them. In 2001, Massachusetts lowered it state income tax rate. But the legislature showed mercy for the Bay State&#8217;s guilt-ridden, tax-hike-supporting liberals. The tax form allowed the filer to check a special box &#8211; and pay the old, higher rate. Out of more than 3 million tax filers in 2004, a tiny fraction of 1 percent &#8211; 930 taxpayers &#8211; volunteered to pay the higher rate. Among those who declined the opportunity was Mr. Frank. Frank explained, “I don&#8217;t trust the legislative leadership and Gov. (Mitt) Romney to make the right decisions.” Instead, Frank said, “I&#8217;ll donate the money myself.” What?! Charity might better spend money than can government, which, by its nature, operates less efficiently and more expensively than can private welfare?</p>
<p>Democrat Sen. Howard Metzenbaum from Ohio (served 1974, 1976-1995) was another tax-supporting Democrat not too keen on paying more in taxes than he needed to. But after retirement, the wealthy Metzenbaum moved to Florida, which, unlike Ohio, is a state with no estate or personal income taxes. This saved him millions.</p>
<p>Democrat John Edwards&#8217; wife Elizabeth, during the 2004 campaign, said rich politicians like her husband reveal “character” when they vote against financial “interest” by supporting higher taxes.</p>
<p>This is the same John Edwards who, as a trial lawyer winning big jury awards, established a separate sub-corporation to accept the money, paying him through dividends rather than income. Perfectly legal. But this allowed Edwards to avoid some $600K in Medicare payroll taxes.</p>
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		<title>Egyptian Military Scapegoats US for Its Own Crimes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Spencer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many are the lies that Egypt&#8217;s military regime has forwarded concerning its role in attacking and killing Egyptian demonstrators since it usurped power a year ago? Video of Egyptian soldiers beating, kicking, and stripping female &#8220;entirely fake&#8221;? There were, for instance, the lies concerning the Maspero massacre, where the military slaughtered Christian Copts who were [...]]]></description>
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<p>How many are the lies that Egypt&#8217;s military regime has forwarded concerning its role in attacking and killing Egyptian demonstrators since it usurped power a year ago?</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Video of Egyptian soldiers beating, kicking, and stripping female &#8220;entirely fake&#8221;?</p>
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<p>There were, for instance, the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10616/egypt-massacre-christians" target="_blank">lies concerning the Maspero massacre</a>, where the military slaughtered Christian Copts who were protesting the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10492/egypt-destroying-churches" target="_blank">constant attacks on their churches</a>.</p>
<p>Despite all the <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/rare-video-of-egyptian-tank-mowing-down-christian-civilians.html" target="_blank">video evidence</a> that the military ran armored-vehicles over Copts (apparently now removed by YouTube), the military regime <a href="http://www.copts.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=3358&#038;Itemid=1" target="_blank">insisted</a> that it would “never, never” run over civilians; that the very idea was “impossible, impossible!” It even showed a video of a military-vehicle running amok, claiming it was hijacked by Coptic protesters (it was <a href="http://islamexplained.com/UVG/UVG_video_player/TabId/89/VideoId/800/038----.aspx" target="_blank">later revealed</a> that an Egyptian soldier was, in fact, inside driving).</p>
<p>More recently, Mohamad Tantawi, the head of the military-and de facto head of Egypt-said that the widely circulated video of soldiers beating, stripping, and kicking a female protester is “<a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/egypts-top-general-told-carter-video-of-soldiers-stomping-on-woman-was-fake/" target="_blank">entirely fake</a>“-a ludicrous assertion, even if <a href="http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/egypt-011712.html" target="_blank">Jimmy Carter</a> supports it.</p>
<p>Who is the latest victim to be scapegoated for the military&#8217;s crimes against its own citizenry? None other than the U.S.A.</p>
<p>Ongoing accusations that American officials were involved in killing Egyptian civilians have prompted the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to deny it through a January 27 <a href="http://egypt.usembassy.gov/pr012712.html" target="_blank">press release</a>:</p>
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<p>As we have stated in previous press releases, there is absolutely no truth to reports that U.S. embassy employees or diplomats were involved in hit-and-run incidents using U.S. diplomatic vehicles, injuring or killing protestors in January 2011 in Cairo. There is also no truth to statements alleging that the keys inside U.S. diplomatic vehicles are coded and can only be used by U.S. Embassy employees. On January 28, 2011, however, a number of our U.S. Embassy vehicles were stolen. After these vehicles were stolen, we heard reports of their use in violent and criminal acts. If true, we deplore these acts and the perpetrators. Egyptian authorities have conducted an investigation that has led to the recovery of some of these stolen vehicles.</p>
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<p>Who is behind these accusations? The military? As mentioned, it did make similar accusations against Coptic protesters, saying they hijacked and manned the military-vehicles that ran over fellow Copts at Maspero-only to be exposed as lying by <a href="http://islamexplained.com/UVG/UVG_video_player/TabId/89/VideoId/800/038----.aspx" target="_blank">Al Dalil</a>.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Image of U.S. embassy vehicle running over Egyptian protesters, Jan. 2011.</p>
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<p>While it is not altogether clear who is behind these accusations-<a href="http://www.moheet.com/2012/01/26/%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9/" target="_blank">this report</a> indicates a lawyer of a former Egyptian official being tried, while <a href="http://www.alwafd.org/%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AB-%D9%88%D9%82%D8%B6%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7/90373-%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%BA-%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AF" target="_blank">older reports</a> mention “communiqués”-it is, of course, the military regime that stands to gain by this latest case of blaming the other.</p>
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		<title>Media Swoon Over ‘Techie&#8217; Obama</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Spencer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s pals in the media are at it again, this time cheering Team Obama&#8217;s command of the latest technology. One outlet is entranced by the Obama campaign&#8217;s use of Google+ to conduct “the first completely digital interview from the White House.” A mobile technology news site declares that “President Obama&#8217;s decision to use Google+” [...]]]></description>
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<p>President Obama&#8217;s pals in the media are at it again, this time cheering Team Obama&#8217;s command of the latest technology. One outlet is entranced by the Obama campaign&#8217;s use of Google+ to conduct “the first completely digital interview from the White House.” A mobile technology news site declares that “President Obama&#8217;s decision to use Google+” and “embrace of social media…enhances his reputation as a tech-savvy commander-in-chief.” Another media outlet gushes that the Obama campaign represents “the first national political adoption” of mobile credit card readers. Yet another <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/24/MN331L8P8G.DTL">marvels</a> at how “President Obama has Twittered, Googled and Facebooked millions of American voters.” Fast Company <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1757055/tech-pioneer-becomes-obama-campaign-cto">expects</a> Team Obama “to storm into new digital territory in the upcoming race,” thanks to the Obama campaign&#8217;s hiring of “uber-hipster and tech rebel Harper Reed as the organization&#8217;s chief technology officer.” Calling Obama “the Google-style candidate,” The Financial Times <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b2e7043c-2284-11e1-923d-00144feabdc0.html">adds</a>, with a sense of fait accompli, “Mr. Obama&#8217;s campaign Facebook page already has 24m friends.” Translation: Why even bother trying to challenge our tech-savvy, with-it, and above-all, hip commander-in-chief?</p>
<p>This all calls to mind some of the nonsense said early in the Age of Obama.</p>
<p>A Computer Weekly column, for instance, praised “Obama&#8217;s technology presidency,” declared the new president a “technology-savvy leader” and applauded Obama for “leadership by example” in the area of information technology.</p>
<p>Perhaps worst of all was a <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/148980">piece </a>penned by Anna Quindlen mocking John McCain because he “doesn&#8217;t text-message or have a BlackBerry or use e-mail.” The next president of the United States needs to be a “techie,” she declared, because “Americans cannot afford” a president who is “out of it”-and because America&#8217;s national security depends on it. “If Osama bin Laden beat us with a laptop,” Quindlen queried, “shouldn&#8217;t we at least have a president who is reasonably conversant with one?”</p>
<p>The short answer was then-and remains today: “Not necessarily.” Being a “techie” is not a prerequisite for being president.</p>
<p>By Quindlen&#8217;s logic-and the logic of her media brethren who confuse technological acumen with governing competence-presidents should have a working knowledge of everything that the U.S. government and its enemies use to pursue their respective objectives, as well as everything average Americans use in their daily lives. Of course, we know that&#8217;s not possible or necessary.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Spencer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House so delicately catered to the religious sensitivities of Osama bin Laden&#8217;s sympathizers that the administration ordered his corpse washed, wrapped it in a white sheet, and made it the subject of Islamic prayers. American Catholics, 54 percent of whom supported Barack Obama in 2008, have no such luck winning the administration&#8217;s religious [...]]]></description>
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<p>The White House so delicately catered to the religious sensitivities of Osama bin Laden&#8217;s sympathizers that the administration ordered his corpse washed, wrapped it in a white sheet, and made it the subject of Islamic prayers. American Catholics, 54 percent of whom supported Barack Obama in 2008, have no such luck winning the administration&#8217;s religious toleration.</p>
<p>At issue is Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius&#8217;s bureaucratic mandate that all employers-including Catholic schools, hospitals, and charities-pay for contraceptives, sterilization, and morning-after pill abortifacients through their health insurance plans. The administration recently revealed that the only relief Catholic conscientious objectors will receive is a reprieve until August 2013.</p>
<p>“The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, ‘To Hell with you!&#8217; There is no other way to put it,” Bishop David Zubik explained to his Pittsburgh diocese last week. “‘To Hell with your religious beliefs. To Hell with your religious liberty. To Hell with your freedom of conscience.&#8217;” Zubik&#8217;s fellow bishops were somewhat more diplomatic in the language they used last Sunday.</p>
<p>At the behest of Catholic bishops, parish priests across America read a rebuke to the Obama administration from the pulpit at mass. “The federal government, which claims to be ‘of, by, and for the people,&#8217; has just dealt a heavy blow to almost a quarter of those people-the Catholic population-and to the millions more who are served by the Catholic faithful,” one variant of the letter explained. “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that almost all employers, including Catholic employers, will be forced to offer their employees health coverage that includes sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, and contraception. Almost all health insurers will be forced to include those ‘services&#8217; in the health policies they write. And almost all individuals will be forced to buy that coverage as a part of their policies. In so ruling, the Obama Administration has cast aside the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, denying to Catholics our Nation&#8217;s first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty.”</p>
<p>The provision is certainly an assault on liberty. But why did it take an assault on the Church&#8217;s liberty for the bishops to recognize this?</p>
<p>The state forcing private employers to buy employees health insurance, let alone the more intrusive dictate of what specifically such coverage must provide, usurps liberty. That an unelected bureaucrat, rather than an elected legislature, would issue an order not promulgated in the alleged enabling legislation assaults democracy. The one-size-fits-all order that men, post-menopausal women, and homosexuals purchase health insurance that pays for birth-control pills, RU-486 abortion pills, and other services that they cannot possibly use imposes a choice that none would freely make.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Firsters and Israel Firsters</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Spencer</dc:creator>
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<p>If you were to suggest in a public forum that just possibly Israel&#8217;s failure to reach a peace agreement with a terrorist organization run by kleptomaniacs and homicidal maniacs, which still continues to applaud <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/01/pa-tv-praises-murderers-of-fogels-as.html">the murder of Israeli children</a>, might possibly be due to the terrorists and not because of Israel, then according to the consensus of the left, you are an Israel Firster.</p>
<p>The paradigm of the Israel Firster only works if you assume that the America First position is to support Islamic terrorists. Even if we were to dismiss the threat of Islamic terrorism to the United States then a position sympathetic to the territorial claims of Islamic terrorists in Israel would still not be the America First position. It would be the Muslims First position.</p>
<p>The left, which deploys names like Israel Firsters, is certainly not calling for neutrality in the conflict, rather it would like us to side with the Muslim Brotherhood and the assorted Islamic terrorists scattered throughout the region. Arguably the United States has been doing this for some time already.</p>
<p>Obama stuck his finger in Prime Minister Netanyahu&#8217;s chest, but bowed to the Saudi King. When he visited Turkey, he made no mention of the Turkish settlements in occupied Cyprus, but when Biden visited Israel, he threw a fit over a partial approval for a few houses in Jerusalem. The United States doesn&#8217;t fund many terrorist groups, but the bulk of the funding that it allots to terrorists goes to terrorists operating in Israel and killing Israelis.</p>
<p>Last week the State Department put out a list of designated terrorist organization. That list includes the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. The Brigade has not only committed numerous atrocities against Israelis, it at one point <a href="http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/11/fatah_alaqsa_martyrs_brigade_t.php">threatened to launch</a> terrorist attacks against America. The Brigade is the military arm of the Fatah group which controls the Palestinian Authority. The Authority is the beneficiary of an average of 600 million dollars a year in direct assistance, and indirectly through the UNRWA which has already received an initial 55 million dollars from the United States in 2012.</p>
<p>Terrorists who murder Israelis don&#8217;t just indirectly benefit from American aid; that money is going to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/04/palestinian-authority-pays-millions-in-salaries-to-jailed-terrorists-with-help/">pay the salaries</a> of convicted terrorists in Israeli prisons. Some of those terrorists received training and weapons from the United States. I would like to be able to say that this sort of thing is one of the innovations of the Hussein administration, but it&#8217;s an an artifact of two previous administrations.</p>
<p>This is usually how countries treat other countries that they are at war with. In this case it is an artifact, not of an Israel Firster policy, but of a Muslim Firster policy. There is no interpretation of Israel Firster that accommodates the United States arming and funding terrorists. But there is an extensive global policy of rewarding and appeasing Muslims.</p>
<p>Opponents of Israel often complain that they are being “silenced” in some intangible ways, but the United States government has certainly never criminalized criticism of Israel. However, it continues to conduct discussions with the OIC, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/religious-tolerance-resolution-backed-obama-administration-aligns-islamic-bloc-s">on ways to</a> suppress and censor criticism of Islam. Nor has the Secretary of State suggested that critics of Israel should be subject to “peer pressure and shaming,” which she has for <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/state-department-meeting-with-oic-to-discuss-free-speech-restrictions.html">critics of Islam</a>.</p>
<p>American soldiers have been dying incessantly to protect Muslims for decades now. They died in Somalia to protect aid to Somali Muslims. They died in the Gulf War to liberate Kuwait and protect the Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina from Saddam Hussein. They died over Yugoslavia to build a state for the Muslim terrorists of the KLA. Thousands of American soldiers have died to protect Muslims from other Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq.</p>
<p>In the last year alone, the United States has helped overthrow secular governments to make way for Muslim ones. When the Libyan ruler refused to resign, Obama sent in NATO jets to bomb his forces into submission so that the Al Qaeda- and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Libyan Islamic Fighting Group could take power.</p>
<p>While the United States abandoned Iranian students protesting against an Islamist regime, it overthrew governments in Egypt and Tunisia to make way for Islamist takeovers. The Saudis got to use tanks in Bahrain, but Gaddafi was hunted down and killed for a genocide that never happened.</p>
<p>What do you call all that but a Muslim Firster foreign policy?</p>
<p>In “The Audacity of Hope,” a book title taken from a sermon of his vilely anti-Semitic former black Muslim mentor, Obama wrote, “I will stand with the Muslims.” And he has done it.</p>
<p>Obama has stood with the Muslims in Cote d&#8217;Ivorie, where armed force was used to illegally seat a Muslim ruler against the ruling of the country&#8217;s supreme court. He has stood with the Muslims in Kenya, where his cousin and his Muslim backers forcibly wrote <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/08/obama-pushedbankrolledimplements-sharia-law-in-new-constitution-in-kenya-nonmuslim-country.html">Sharia Law into the Constitution</a>. He has stood with the genocidal Muslims in Indonesia, not the Christian Papuans whose land is occupied and whose representatives are persecuted.</p>
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<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: To get David Horowitz&#8217;s perspective on the OWS movement, see his recent lead feature, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/03/2012/01/30/communism-reborn/">Communism Reborn</a>. For the whole story behind Occupy Wall Street and how this movement marks a new phase in the rebirth of the communist Left, read the new broadside by David Horowitz and John Perazzo, <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=SGAO0QDRJJ1J">Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn</a>. This <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=SGAO0QDRJJ1J">essential pamphlet</a> exposes the roots, leaders and hidden agendas of the radical movement and its war on capitalism and free societies.<br /></strong></p>
<p>Having been anointed collectively as “Person of the Year” in 2011 by the desperate and irrelevant Time magazine, the unwashed masses of the Occupy movement seem to have let the dubious honor go to their collective head. Never known for their restrained, orderly behavior, the Occupiers have even begun turning against and repulsing their supporters among the religious left.</p>
<p>Initially, <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/29/local/la-me-occupy-religion-20111029">the Los Angeles Times pronounced</a> the Occupy movement as “a predominantly secular undertaking,” although it did note that “some left-leaning religious groups see a golden opportunity in the Occupy movement, whose central message of greater economic equality resonates deeply among faith-based progressives.”</p>
<p>Sure enough, religious progressives did rush to anoint the movement as it began to swell. <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/03/2011/10/10/occupying-wall-street-for-god/">FrontPage contributor Mark Tooley noted</a> that such religious left icons as Jim Wallis and Shane Claiborne rhapsodized about the Occupiers standing with Jesus in their defense of the poor, even resembling St. Francis of Assisi. “Whether or not the Wall Street Occupiers are ‘ordinary people,&#8217;” Tooley wrote, “much less resemble St. Francis, the Religious Left is bursting with pride over their naughty demands.” <a href="http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/12/12/faith-and-the-occupy-movement-what-would-jesus-do/">Wallis urged</a> his followers to embrace the movement, literally:</p>
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<p>Our faith communities and organizations should swing their doors wide and greet the Occupiers with open arms, offering them a feast to say “thank you” for having the courage to raise the very religious and biblical issue of growing inequality in our society.</p>
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<p>By the beginning of December <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/churches-help-occupy-movement_n_1119414.html">The Huffington Post asserted</a> that “more than 1,400 faith leaders from around the country [had] signed a pledge of solidarity with Occupy protesters.” They conducted services and provided counseling, and their churches hosted Occupy meetings. Religious communities of all stripes rushed to offer the Occupiers shelter and solidarity:</p>
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<p>In addition to spiritual ministry and space to assemble and sleep, religious communities have provided the Occupy movement with material support such as food, clothing, tents, blankets and heaters.</p>
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<p>Archbishop of Canterbury <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070448/Jesus-St-Pauls-protestors-Christmas-says-Archbishop-Canterbury.html">Rowan Williams wrote</a> that Jesus would be among the Occupiers of St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, and that the movement had prompted people to examine themselves and ask, “What would Jesus do?”</p>
<p>But the behavior of the Occupiers themselves belied all this spiritual praise. If the Occupiers did ask themselves “What would Jesus do?” then they apparently came to the conclusion that Jesus would expose himself, rape, urinate and defecate in public, endanger children, steal, trespass, trash public and private property, harass and denounce Jews, assault non-protesters and police, block traffic, take drugs, hurl Molotov cocktails and blood and vinegar, and more. Andrew Breitbart&#8217;s Big Government website has posted a jaw-dropping, ongoing “<a href="http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/">rap sheet</a>” of the Occupy movement&#8217;s reprehensible if not actually criminal behavior that numbers well over 400 incidents. But that list hasn&#8217;t been updated for a month. To date, arrests at Occupy events <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/occupyarrests">number over 6,000</a>, including <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/03/2012/01/31/the-true-face-of-occupy-wall-street/">over 400 in Oakland</a> alone last weekend. By contrast, the Tea Party movement doesn&#8217;t even litter.</p>
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		<title>Domestic Jihad Victims Deserve Purple Heart</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Spencer</dc:creator>
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<p>The Purple Heart, a United States military honor awarded for military merit, is specifically to be given, according to U.S. Army regulations, for “wounds received as a result of hostile action,” including fatal wounds. It can be awarded in peacetime “to military personnel wounded by terrorists or while members of a peacekeeping force.” Yet the twelve U.S. military personnel (plus one civilian) murdered by Islamic jihadist Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood in Texas on November 5, 2009 have not been awarded the Purple Heart, and neither has Army Private William Long, who was murdered by Islamic jihadist Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad in Little Rock, Arkansas on June 1, 2009.</p>
<p>The reason for this is obvious: the Obama administration has not recognized either the Fort Hood or the Little Rock jihad attack as an act of terrorism. Thus the military personnel killed at Fort Hood and Private Long were not “wounded by terrorists”; hence no Purple Heart. Thus they become casualties not only of the global and domestic jihad, but of the politically correct refusal of official Washington to call that jihad what it is, and to recognize its full dimensions.</p>
<p>Of the facts of each case there is no question. Obama has ignored the Little Rock shooting, and, in one of the most egregious whitewashings of jihad in a field thick with competition, termed the Fort Hood shooting “workplace violence.” Any objective examination of either, however, leaves no doubt that Nidal Malik Hasan and Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad were Islamic terrorists performing a terrorist action in the name of Islam, and thus their victims were precisely “military personnel wounded by terrorists.”</p>
<p>In April 2011, Muhammad, an American convert to Islam, explained that he had killed Long in a “jihad operation.” He was not a soldier fighting against Americans on a battlefield, or even apparently an al-Qaeda operative acting on behalf of a recognized terror organization. He was a Muslim who was acting in accord with the teachings of his religion as he understood them – that is, as giving him a responsibility before Allah to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers. He was acting in imitation of his prophet, who said: “I have been made victorious through terror.” And in his terror operation, he killed Private Long.</p>
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