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		<title>Leftists Defend Radical Islam &#8212; Conservatives Befriend Secular Muslims</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do "progressives" give anti-Islamist Muslims short shrift?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rtr1j5cw.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-187458" alt="rtr1j5cw" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rtr1j5cw-450x338.jpg" width="270" height="203" /></a>On April 11th, 2013, I participated in a public forum entitled “Islamists Rising in the Middle East: Where Next for America?”</p>
<p>The panel was held at the University of California at Davis, (UCD), as a free event for the community, organized by the student club of the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI).</p>
<p>As an alum of nearby UC Berkeley, I expected some interest in the program, having previously <a href="http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/458/the-rise-of-campus-anti-zionism-in-california">documented</a> campus radicalism in California.</p>
<p>The panel included a leading scholar on the Middle East, Daniel Pipes, known for well-informed and well-traveled insights. His main theme for the evening was that radical Islam is the problem, and moderate Islam is the solution.</p>
<p>Joining Dr. Pipes and myself was Elan Journo, a thoughtful author on international affairs and ARI professional.</p>
<p>Our panel explored fundamentalist Islamic text, law, theory, and practice, the rise of the third Jihad, global Islamic violence and terrorism, the concept of abrogation (later Koranic verses replace earlier, more peaceful ones), martyrdom ideology, UN Bias against Israel, and how the Revolutionary Republic of Iran has long deceived the West about its nuclear proliferation program.</p>
<p>Interestingly, 4 days before the terror attacks in Boston, we also focused on Central Asian radicalism, including Chechen Islamists.</p>
<p>The audience was polite and offered sincere applause at several points. There was a spirit of calm, thoughtful learning, and the organizers and attendees are to be complimented for inviting, allowing, and participating in the event.  We did not hold back from castigating violent Islamist actions and Jihadist ideology.  One self-identified Muslim Student Association leader rose to challenge our views, but he offered not a single rebuttal to our fact-based presentation.</p>
<p>All good, right?  Except for the fact that on the day of the event, the California Aggie, the weekly student newspaper, published a <a href="http://www.theaggie.org/2013/04/11/letter-to-the-editor-regarding-islamists-rising-event/">letter</a> to the UC Davis Chancellor condemning the “hate” speakers as “racist” and “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>This pre-emptive, censorious, and libelous attack, by an organized group of campus students and faculty leftists, failed to prevent the event, but threats of disruption required campus police and security to be present, at taxpayer expense (the student group received no funding from the University for the program).</p>
<p>However, a week later, it was revealed in a <a href="http://www.theaggie.org/2013/04/18/event-sparks-free-speech-debate-among-campus-community/">letter</a> to the editor at the Aggie that the UC Davis administration had been intimidated into responding to the students with its own letter full of careful language opposing “hate speech.”</p>
<p>Campus officials might do well to note and advise in the future that free speech implies no feelings protection for those who assert “offense” at speakers whose views they detest.  The truth may hurt, but that doesn’t make it hateful.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the radical students had another trick up their sleeve. They proposed Senate Resolution 21, asserting concerns about the event and longstanding upset with author David Horowitz, and UC Santa Cruz teacher Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, frequent critics of abusive bullying of Jewish students on UC campuses.</p>
<p>This resolution follows similar student government resolutions passed at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara condemning &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;</p>
<p>The bottom line is that there is a dedicated political strategy within radical Islam to smear critics of Jihadi violence as “discriminatory,” proclaim offense at “hate speech,” and label scholarship and teaching about human rights abuse and mass murder of Christians, for example, throughout Araby and the Middle East, as “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>If I needed a further clarification of just how far left the campus environment has become, this was a fresh reminder.  But, what is interesting in my own case is that I truly do distinguish between radical Islamism and pro-West, peaceful Muslims who specifically and forcefully and repeatedly reject extremist, violent Islamism.</p>
<p>It is one thing for soft-hearted, utopian liberals to preach peace and to wax lovingly for all mankind.  They often have no background in military-security affairs, and no standing in the circles of patriotic defense of our country.  Mere sentiments by fools with a poor grasp of reality.</p>
<p>Of course, we know the hate-America crowd cheered the Boston Marathon massacre (that&#8217;s you, UN Rapporteur Richard Falk, and Palestinians on the streets), but they aren&#8217;t liberals; they are enemies of decency.</p>
<p>It is quite another path for conservatives to offer dialogue and connection to Muslim anti-Islamists.  We are rooted in hard-headed knowledge of, and advocacy against, such Islamo-fascist behavior as female genital mutilation and honor killings, and Sharia-based murder, beheadings, fatwas, incitement, and persecutions emanating from Madrassas, mosques, the Arab media, and radical Imams.</p>
<p>It is therefore constructive and credible for severe critics of violent Jihad to note and applaud Muslim critics of anti-Americanism, and of anti-Christianism and anti-Semitism as well.</p>
<p>On April 15th, 2013, the day of the Boston Islamic terrorist attacks, I was on a flight to the Republic of Turkey to participate in a media tour and build relationships with advocates of positive relations between Americans and moderate Muslims.</p>
<p>In a series of televised <a href="http://en.a9.com.tr/watch/161805/World-Leaders-Discuss-Peace-Religion-and-Politics/Larry-Greenfield---Fellow-in-American-Studies-at-the-Claremont-Institude-Executive-Director-of-the-Reagean-Legancy-Foundation">interviews</a> and private meetings with business, political, and cultural leaders, I offered appreciation to Muslims who have repeatedly stood up against radical Islam, violence against the West, terrorism, and the kidnapping of the Koran by extreme voices.</p>
<p>Indeed, there are non-radical Muslim scholars and thinkers who have long <a href="http://www.islamdenouncesterrorism.com/">denounced</a> Jihadi terrorism and reject their violent interpretation of the Koran.</p>
<p>Turkey, a majority-Muslim nation of over 75 million citizens, is an American ally.  A member of NATO, Turkey hosts both Patriot Missile Defense against threats by the Assad regime in Syria, as well as Forward Based X-Band radars that couple with Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries to help protect Europe, Israel, the U.S., and Turkish territory from Iranian ballistic missile threats.</p>
<p>Strategically located between Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, Turkey has its hands full seeking resolution to its own decades-long terror problem in the form of the Marxist-Kurdish PKK, along with regional challenges in Cyprus/Greece, Armenia/Azerbaijan, and the Balkans.</p>
<p>Turkey must also deal with refugees from Syria, fallout from Iraqi sectarian violence, a powerful neighbor in Russia, and the aforementioned Iran.</p>
<p>Turkey is not perfect. The modern Turkish state is less than 100 years old, and has bounced between military rule and democratic progress.</p>
<p>Current Prime Minister Erdogan is credited with economic growth and stable politics, but has been dismissive of concerns about his treatment of his critics. His attitude towards Israel has been unfriendly, though the Turks are now at the table of reconciliation with Israel after a controversial Israeli apology for the Mavi Marmara deaths of a few years ago.</p>
<p>Historically, the Ottoman Empire, which lasted over 600 years, was unlike the bloodthirsty modern Arab wars against Israel and the West. Today, Turkey remains rooted in Kemalist secularism, though it now seeks passive, not aggressive, treatment of religionists (read: more religious schools and dress are allowed).</p>
<p>By most standards, though, Turks model modernity for the entire Muslim world.</p>
<p>Impressive Istanbul offers cultural riches, dynamic economic opportunity, a diverse private sector, and the famous, gracious hospitality of the Turkish people.</p>
<p>The Turks are confident, conspiratorial, and clever.  They are also respectful of religious minorities, and completely opposed to violent Islamists who have declared war against reason and humanity.</p>
<p>Traditions of flexibility and pragmatism, along with growing economic power, political maturity, and diplomatic sophistication have made the Republic of Turkey the key to building bridges between the East and West. Diplomats and investors alike are therefore grabbing onto Turkey’s rising regional star and hanging on for the ride.</p>
<p>This is all lost on un-informed student radicals at UC Davis, who have failed on all fronts.  They failed to take the opportunity to learn from a scholarly panel; they failed to stop the campus community from hearing some truthful free speech about radical Islam; and they are unaware of conservatives with bona fides in confronting the Jihad (Daniel Pearl was my boyhood pal) who engage with and applaud moderate Muslims who regularly speak out against both militant and politically hostile Islamism.</p>
<p>But, of course, radical Islamists and their leftist defenders actually have no interest in secularist Muslims, or the honorable goal of befriending and encouraging them in the battle for the future of both Islam and Western peace, freedom, and security.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Mirage in Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A glimpse into the malicious war the president has waged on the Jewish State.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/larry-greenfield/obamas-mirage-in-israel/owi/" rel="attachment wp-att-182095"><img class=" wp-image-182095 alignleft" title="owi" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/owi.png" alt="" width="280" height="210" /></a>Before clicking <em>Like </em>of President Barack Hussein Obama, who seeks a public relations benefit on the eve of Holy Week and Passover, Israel and its supporters might consider how much Obama has <em>UnLiked</em> them to date.</p>
<p>Obama’s background, worldview, and policies make him no friend of the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Obama’s boyhood in Indonesia brought him to Islam, the religion of his controversial father, step-father, and half-brothers in Kenya, and he retains warm feelings toward the Muslim faith.  Obama has fantasized wrongly that the American Founding Fathers read the Koran in sympathy, rather than for clues, during our military wars against the Mohammedian Barbary Pirates, who rejected peace entreaties from the infidel.</p>
<p>Americans proudly affirm religious pluralism, and admire Muslim reformers and moderates, but most insist on truth telling about the third Jihad, violent assaults on Americans at Benghazi, Al Qaeda’s resurgence, and homegrown Islamic terrorism at Fort Hood and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Obama has been in denial about all of this, and about the brutality of Sharia governance, the Islamic culture of oppression of women through honor killings and female genital mutilation, and the continuing Muslim assaults on Christians throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa.</p>
<p>Mr. Obama has not led on human rights, failing to act against Arab torture and slavery, or against the use of child soldiers. Dissidents desperate for moral clarity from the White House, in 2009, chanted in Tehran: “Obama, Obama, are you with us our our dictators?”  Neda died, Obama denied.</p>
<p>So, while most Americans cherish Israel as a free, pluralistic, dynamic, and noble moral and strategic ally, Obama asserts a neutrality between the threatened Jewish state and those who reject the “Judaization” of Israel, and who fight an unrelenting war of terrorism, economic sanctions, and public abuse against the “Zionist”/“Apartheid” state.</p>
<p>From where does this mindset arise?</p>
<p>Obama received ideological training as a youth in Hawaii from radical communist, Frank Marshall Davis, who detested Western colonialism. Obama inhaled a virulent anti-Americanism that led him to attend Socialist conferences as a college student, and to seek out academic mentors like the late Orientalist Edward Said and the radical Rashid Khalidi, two impassioned Middle East specialists hostile to the Jewish state.</p>
<p>As a community organizer, Obama served on the Board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which made large grants to Khalidi’s anti-Israel Arab American Action Network.</p>
<p>Absorbing years of anti-Israel hate speech from his spiritual mentor, Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Obama deepened his family involvement with Wright’s Church, and donated personal financial support. For over 20 years, Obama was close to one of the leading anti-Semites in the United States, naming him to the African American Religious Leadership Committee, before public outcry caused Obama to cut him loose from his Presidential campaign.</p>
<p>Earlier in his political career, Obama was close to another radical friend, Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifidah, with whom Obama castigated Israel’s successful anti-terror security fence as “a wall dividing the peoples.”</p>
<p>Although Palestinian leadership for years encouraged and rewarded terrorists who butchered families, and blew up buses full of old women, discos full of young people, and Passover Seders that included American tourists, candidate for President Barack Obama counseled pro-Palestinian Abunimah that  “I haven’t said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I’m hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.”</p>
<p>During his campaign for President, in 2008, Obama publicly picked a fight with Israel’s center-right Likud political party, then out of power, but known for making past painful territorial compromises such as withdrawal of Israeli authority over the Sinai and Gaza.</p>
<p>Rarely do American politicians pick sides in the internal party politics of allies, but President Obama has been regularly hostile to and dismissive of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, a leader robustly applauded across the American political spectrum by both the U.S. Congress and citizenry.</p>
<p>Agreeing with French President Sarkozy’s nastiness towards the Israeli leader, President Obama famously said: “I have to deal with him every day.”</p>
<p>Initial Obama foreign policy made the classic mistake of linking the Palestinian-Israeli dispute to larger U.S. foreign policy interests in the Middle East.  By focusing on Israeli “settlements,&#8221; including second story apartment building in areas of Jerusalem that even many Palestinians never claimed as disputed territory, Obama essentially doomed possible peace negotiations. Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton then famously dressed down our ally over its own housing policies.</p>
<p>Once the Palestinians saw the Obama Administration beating up on Israel, they dismissed Netanyahu and re-continued educating their children toward hate, violence and traditional Palestinian irredentism.</p>
<p>Early in his first term, Obama visited Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, offering effusive praise and bows.  The downgrading of U.S. special alliances and friendships with England, Poland, the Czech Republic, and the people of Honduras, who opposed a would be dictator; the clamoring for engagement with U.S. enemies; the unreciprocated re-setting of relations with Russia; all sent signals of an end to the long tradition of American resolve in standing with close allies.</p>
<p>Islamists, authoritarian allies, and friendly monarchies in the Middle East all noticed Obama’s weak foreign policy.  So did revolutionaries plotting their day in an Arab Spring.</p>
<p>In Cairo, Obama went so far as to draw parallels between Palestinian suffering and the genocide of the Jews of Europe. Obama abandoned centuries of American support for a restored Jewish sovereignty in their ancient homeland by adopting the Islamist narrative that the only reason for a modern Jewish state was recompense for the 20th century European Holocaust.</p>
<p>Note to Obama: Arab regimes were complicit in the Holocaust, and some state-run Arab media, madrassas, and mosques continue the Nazi campaign to this day.</p>
<p>Obama’s policy advisers have been a disaster for regional peace, security, and human rights.  They encouraged the overthrow of U.S. ally Muburak, resulting in instability on Israel’s border and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, who have moved Egypt from peace partner to enemy of Israel, destroyed the Egyptian economy, oppressed Coptic Christians, and challenged over 30 years of U.S. &#8211; Egyptian political-military alliance.</p>
<p>Obama officials have argued in favor of the burka, for bringing terrorists to trial in New York, and for a Grand Mosque to be built near Ground Zero, site of the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center.</p>
<p>The recently confirmed CIA director calls Jerusalem, Al Quds.  The new U.S. Defense Secretary opposed naming Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Council as terrorist groups, and claims U.S. foreign policy is dominated by the Jewish lobby. And the new Secretary of State continued a long history of foreign policy blunders by seeking engagement with Syria’s Assad, who has murdered tens of thousands of his own citizens.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration consistently shows respect for the United Nations, dominated by the Arab League and its third world allies, featuring selective demonization of Israel while ignoring human rights abuses by nations such as Sudan, Iran, North Korea, et al.  The Obama Administration pressured Israel to answer to the kangaroo court that is the U.N. Human Rights Council, and did not act to support Israel’s admission to an international conference on counter-terrorism.</p>
<p>All of this only encouraged Palestinian efforts toward seeking unilateral declaration of statehood, violating previous agreements with Israel.</p>
<p>Obama’s Middle East policy has been to lead from behind, or simply watch stability collapse in the region.  And, against Congressional will, to send unconditional monies to the Palestinians, massive amounts of monies and F-16s and Abrams tanks to the anti-American and anti-Israeli Morsi government in Egypt, and to sign off on the largest U.S. weapons sale ever to the Saudis.</p>
<p>The revolutionary Republic of Iran, the sworn enemy of the United States, funder of Hezbollah, and supporter of Hamas, combines eliminationist rhetoric toward Israel with a previously clandestine nuclear weapons programs.  Yet, Mr. Obama has repeatedly sought engagement and negotiation with this regime, and watered down and waived Congressional sanctions.</p>
<p>Responding to Israeli hopes for allied unity, Obama advisers have kept Israel at arms length and leaked Israeli cooperation with Azerbaijan, on Iran’s border.  The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff publicly announced that the U.S. would not be complicit in any Israeli pre-emptive strike on Iranian weapons of mass destruction facilities.</p>
<p>Iran therefore fears neither a credible threat of military force, nor U.S. support for Israeli decision-making, making a military confrontation more likely as red lines are approached.</p>
<p>Israel is a nation surrounded by 1.4 billion Muslims in 57 countries, and some 400 million Arabs in 22 states.  Israel is so small that it comprises half of one percent the land mass of the Middle East, with a mere .1% of global population.</p>
<p>But Israel has 8 borders to defend: Syria, collapsing into chaos and with potentially loose chemical weapons; Lebanon, home to Hezbollah which has a massive arsenal of delivery systems capable of reaching all of Israel’s homefront;  Jordan, nervously eyeing Arab revolution and Syrian refugees; the West Bank, source of terror; the Gaza strip, source of terror; the Red Sea;  the long Sinai Peninsula border with Egypt; and now Israel’s extended Mediterranean coastal energy assets off shore.</p>
<p>Israel has repeatedly made wildly imbalanced trades of committed terrorists for IDF soldiers, or even the dry bones of its dead warriors.  Yet Obama publicly criticized Israel as not taking bold measures for peace, and insisted that Israel negotiate without any preconditions, such as Palestinian renunciation of terrorism and recognition of Israel’s very right to exist as a Jewish state. The Obama administration has encouraged Palestinian radicalism by advocating that Israel return to indefensible pre-1967 (1949 Armistice) borders.</p>
<p>Insulting American supporters of Israel, Obama declared, &#8220;For eight years [i.e., during the Bush administration], there was no light between the United States and Israel, and nothing got accomplished.&#8221;  Obama suggested Israelis engage in serious self-reflection.</p>
<p>This lecture to a nation which has been repeatedly attacked, by multiple enemies who do not exactly follow humane rules of engagement, from a man with no executive experience, and no military background, and who called U.S. troops CORPSEMEN.  How about some serious humility of your own, Mr. President?</p>
<p>Obama’s political team oversaw a 2012 Democratic Party convention whose platform removed previous language in support of Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital, against Hamas as a terror organization, and against Palestinian refugees right to return to Israel proper.</p>
<p>Obama’s Democratic Party has firmly abandoned the tradition of JFK, “Scoop” Jackson, and former Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman.</p>
<p>In Israel, Obama will not speak at the Knesset (Parliament), for fear of being challenged by articulate Israelis who know their own history, and who seek to defend a population that is stunned and bruised by Obama’s leftism.</p>
<p>Instead, Obama will visit a gathering of university students, and receive an award from his ideological comrade, Israeli President Peres, who is reciprocating his own recent honoring at the White House. This is a cleverly orchestrated dance for those who applaud the Nobel Prizes won, without peace, by Shimon Peres, Barack Obama, and Yasir Arafat.</p>
<p>Obama doesn’t like the real Israel or its real, re-elected leadership.  So he completely avoided visiting Israel during his first term.  His visit now invites honesty about the mirage of friendship he will proclaim.</p>
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		<title>Freedom Fueled the American Moon Shot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 04:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[50 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to win the space race.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com">AmericanThinker.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>50 years ago this Wednesday, on May 25th, 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to win the space race, thus fulfilling one of humanity&#8217;s dearest dreams:</p>
<blockquote><p>I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.</p></blockquote>
<p>Conceived half a century ago, during the Eisenhower Administration, and conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Apollo program responded to the surprise Soviet Sputnik 1 orbital satellite.</p>
<p>America&#8217;s scientific ambitions, human achievements, and exploratory adventures have been unparalleled ever since. Noteworthy, Kennedy&#8217;s moonshot was announced during a speech to Congress that included his articulation of the Freedom Doctrine.﻿</p>
<blockquote><p>Our strength as well as our convictions have imposed upon this nation the role of leader in freedom&#8217;s cause.</p>
<p>No role in history could be more difficult or more important. We stand for freedom.</p>
<p>That is our conviction for ourselves&#8211;that is our only commitment to others. No friend, no neutral and no adversary should think otherwise.</p>
<p>We are not against any man &#8212; or any nation&#8211;or any system &#8212; except as it is hostile to freedom.</p>
<p>Nor am I here to present a new military doctrine, bearing any one name or aimed at any one area. I am here to promote the freedom doctrine.</p></blockquote>
<p>President Kennedy&#8217;s speech is remembered for his Cold War challenge to catch up to and pass the Soviet military space threat.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/freedom_fueled_the_american_mo.html">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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