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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Lisa Richards</title>
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		<title>Whoopie Goldberg&#8217;s Race Card and Ignorance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa Richards]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real story behind Michele Bachmann and The Marriage Vow. ]]></description>
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<p>The Left appoints itself as the moral authority on social issues despite the fact that all the social mores it promotes have undermined the American family, specifically the American black family.</p>
<p>Whenever conservatives dare to discuss solutions for children who grow up in environments where social programs have harmed single black mothers and they provide data disproving left-wing initiatives, leftists always go on the attack and further undermine those they purport to help by using the &#8220;racism&#8221; weapon.</p>
<p>A good example occurred last week when <em>View</em> co-host Whoopie Goldberg flew into a rage against presidential candidate Representative Michele Bachmann for signing a statement supporting traditional marriage and family called &#8220;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/The-Family-Leader-Presidential-Pledge.pdf">The Marriage Vow</a>.&#8221; This occurred against the backdrop of misleading facts hurled against Bachmann by the<em> </em>vitriolic<em> View</em> women, who were angered that the statement asked GOP candidates to support such things as banning same sex marriage and pornography, and preventing Sharia (Islamic) law from becoming part of American law.  However, one section of The Marriage Vow positively drove Whoopie Goldberg over the edge.</p>
<p>The first bullet point, which has since been <a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-07-10/news/29779580_1_slavery-gop-presidential-hopefuls-pledge">removed</a> by the <a href="http://www.ifpcaction.org/">Family Leader</a> due to pressure from groups claiming the act is homophobic and supports slavery, noted the “disastrous impact slavery had on African-America families” during the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries.  Further noted was the damage created by 1960s Democratic policies that destroyed the traditional black family, which had persevered even during slavery.  These assertions in particular, while enraging Goldberg, happen to be true—<a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html">70% of African-American babies are born to single parents</a> today, a drastic departure from historical statistics.</p>
<p>Goldberg’s anger rests on the same unfounded accusations <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/slavery-reference-removed-from-marriage-pledge-as-michele-bachmann-camp-fumbles-response/">coming from the Left against Bachmann</a>, who had no part in drafting the document. In fact, had Goldberg done her homework, she would have learned that Bachmann never signed the version of the document that<em> </em>contained the slavery statement.  Bachmann, who <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/michele-bachmann-addresse_n_896990.html">signed another document</a>, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity: “[U]nder no circumstances would any child be better off growing up under slavery and that isn’t what I signed. That isn’t what I believe.”</p>
<p>Rather than give Bachmann the benefit of the doubt, <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/07/11/view-launches-racial-rant-against-michele-bachmann/">Goldberg instead unleashed</a> her venom against the congresswoman and white Americans, saying, “I’m starting to feel like there’s some kind of racial thing going around” —as if to imply that all white Americans are infected with a race virus. Infuriated over data confirmed by research in the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/The-Family-Leader-Presidential-Pledge.pdf">Marriage Vow</a>, Goldberg yelled:</p>
<blockquote><p>Damn it, I am sick of this crap! Could you [white people] get your act together? You don’t know anything about how slaves raised their kids, or why people worked together. Just don’t add stuff that you don’t know what you’re talking about!</p></blockquote>
<p>Goldberg’s anger worsened as she launched her personal defense of single mothers and their children, declaring that “some of us turned out okay with single parents…so stop pointing your fingers at single parents! I’m sick of people who don’t know what they’re talking about.” But this rant proved Goldberg knows absolutely nothing about Bachmann, who <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/07/14/meanwhile_in_the_presidential_campaign.html">responded in a public e-mail</a> explaining that her parents divorced when she was young and she “was raised by a single mother” and understands “firsthand the difficulties of growing up with one parent.”</p>
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		<title>Saudi Women Risk All for Small Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa Richards]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saudi cleric: women "will die, God willing," for defying the driving fatwa. ]]></description>
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<p>After centuries of methodical Islamic gender apartheid that holds Saudi women in virtual enforced slavery as possessions of men, slight signs of rebellion are being seen, as many women are defying the <em>fatwa</em> against women drivers.</p>
<p>In order to understand why recent driving protests are an enormous step forward for Saudi women, one must comprehend the brutal world in which Saudi women are forced to live.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=182">Freedom House</a>, Saudi women lack all equality, are denied benefits of citizenship, their employment is limited, and laws are designed to discriminate against women. This is because a female is not considered a full person. Thus, a woman can be arrested for eating in public without a male family member, an act considered immoral and punishable in court. If a woman marries a non-Saudi, her children are considered foreigners. In order for Saudi women to receive identity cards, virtue, through state officials, must be proven in court.</p>
<p>According to the <a href="http://www.cdhr.info/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=78&amp;Itemid=66">Center for Democracy and Human Rights</a>, Saudi women are forbidden from studying biology and chemistry, and girls are banned from playing sports in school, something the CDHR reports is creating serious health problems in women. Saudi women are also forbidden from <a href="http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/domestic-violence/saudi-arabia.html?tmpl=component&amp;type=raw">studying abroad</a>.</p>
<p>Amnesty International <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE23/057/2000/en/409b9c37-dea6-11dd-b378-99b26579b978/mde230572000en.html">reports </a>that Saudi laws are purposely intended to discriminate against women for the purpose of subjugation. Conspicuously, for example, unmarried women are forbidden from establishing a business without a male benefactor. Also, women are prohibited from riding in the front of public buses, “even when the buses are empty.”</p>
<p>Women in this brutal regime are forced into arranged marriages—not by mothers, but male family members who have absolute authority over Saudi women’s lives. Women rarely initiate lawsuits, in part because of <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE23/057/2000/en/409b9c37-dea6-11dd-b378-99b26579b978/mde230572000en.html">strict laws</a> stipulating that two male family members must speak on behalf of women as witnesses. Even then, women are at the mercy of men, who provide help depending on whether or not the case brings shame to the family.</p>
<p>While Saudi women, like many women in Muslim countries, live under harsh laws constraining them as prisoners in their very homes, Saudi Arabia’s laws are more brutal than those of other Arab countries. Saudi laws forbid women to go out in public unaccompanied by male family escorts. Any woman caught in public without a male family member is automatically <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34293">accused</a> of prostitution under Saudi law and must be imprisoned. As punishment for such “crimes,” Saudi woman are made to endure physical as well as mental torture before being sentenced to severe lashings or death.</p>
<p>Furthermore, it is illegal for Saudi women to remove the veil in public, or even to appear in public without being accompanied by male relatives. Violations of such strictures can <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7098480.stm">invite rape</a>. When rape occurs, only the female victim bears the sin and shame of the act: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvUfv7nLVcs">rape is declared a crime of the woman.</a> Under Saudi laws, women must have four witnesses to the rape or the court throws the case out.  And women’s <a href="http://www.cdhr.info/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=78&amp;Itemid=66">rights in court</a> are only worth half that of a man. If the shame of rape is exacerbated, it is the victim who may incur the extreme penalty of execution.</p>
<p>Freedom House also reported on the 2002 tragedy involving the Saudi veiling laws and a deadly <a href="http://Global+attention+focused+on+the+actions+of+the+mutawwa'in+in+March+of+2002,+when+they+were+accused+of+interfering+in+rescue+efforts+during+a+fire+in+a+girls'+public+intermediate+school+in+Mecca+in+order+to+enforce+Saudi+Arabia's+obligatory+Islamic+dress+co">girls’ school fire</a>. Rescue attempts were prevented because many girls fleeing the blaze were not wearing their head scarves. Thus, firefighters “intentionally obstructed the efforts to evacuate the girls. This resulted in the increased number of casualties.”</p>
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		<title>If the UN Recognizes a Palestinian State</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa Richards]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why it would be a catastrophic mistake.]]></description>
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<p>If the Arab Spring hasn’t posed enough threats to the Middle East, a new danger looms on the horizon that threatens the safety and existence of Israel: the United Nations is considering a vote on establishing Palestinian statehood by September 2011.</p>
<p>Although the Obama Administration has suggested it would block statehood if it came up for a vote in the Security Council, there is the danger that the issue will be voted on in the U.N. General Assembly, in which Palestinian Arabs have the overwhelming support of the nations of the world and the U.S. does not have a veto. While votes in the General Assembly are only advisory, not binding, success of the Palestinian Arabs there can still be extremely dangerous. While it would be only <a href="http://www.arabnews.com/opinion/editorial/article439719.ece">“a symbolic diplomatic victory,”</a> in practical effect it would mean much more since it would not prevent the international community from demanding that Israel comply with statehood provisions.</p>
<p>Recently, former UN Ambassador John Bolton <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/john-bolton-on-how-to-stop-the-palestine-statehood-ploy.html">explained to the <em>Wall Street Journal </em>why Palestinian <em></em>statehood is dangerous</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Recognizing ‘statehood’ does not mean U.N. membership, but it would nonetheless be a major Palestinian success.  A resolution recognizing a Palestinian ‘state’ could also declare its boundary to be the 1967 borders (in actuality, merely the 1949 armistice lines), with or without President Obama’s caveat about ‘agreed upon swaps’ of land…If President Obama wants to block a General Assembly Palestinian statehood resolution, he should act essentially as President. Bush did — an act which involved a threat that the U.S. would withdraw financial support from the U. N. Yet Mr. Obama is highly unlikely to do anything so decisive, which is why many in America and Israel remain gravely concerned about this latest diplomatic ploy favoring the Palestinian Arabs.”</p></blockquote>
<p>President Obama does appear to share some of the same understanding as Ambassador Bolton of the dangers of U.N. action on statehood:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I strongly believe that for Palestinians to take the United Nations route [for establishing Palestinian Arab statehood] rather than the path of sitting down and talking with the Israelis is a mistake.  The United Nations can achieve a lot of important work; what it is not going to be able to do is deliver a Palestinian state.  The only way to see a Palestinian state is if Palestinians and Israelis agree on a just peace.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But there are other problems concerning the very idea of establishing a new Arab state on territories now held by Israel.  One of these is that peace agreements that have been made by the Palestinian Arabs have never been complied with. <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=224394">According to chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat</a>, Palestinians reject peace negotiations, let alone the demand by Prime Minister Netanyahu that Arabs recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Nor are Arabs willing to relinquish their demands for the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/A%20Strategic%20PLO%20Hamas%20Alliance%20for.html">“right of return”</a> of millions of Arabs, so-called refugees, to mainline Israel. This action, if carried out, would end the existence of Israel as a Jewish state, changing in borders beyond what Israel held in 1948, including that of Israeli control of Jerusalem. All are major stumbling blocks to agreements and reflect a basic reality: Palestinian Arabs fundamentally refuse lasting solutions for peace with Israel since their ambition has always been to push Jews into the sea.</p>
<p>Ambassador Bolton is correct. President Obama must act swiftly to prevent U.N. action on a Palestinian statehood resolution, lest the forces of chaos between Israel and the Arab Middle East become uncontrollable.</p>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 04:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa Richards]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean that Benjamin Netanyahu is a better friend to America than Obama is to Israel?]]></description>
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<p>Listening to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak to the House of Congress on May 24<sup>th</sup> made me wish we could share him with Israel—as our U.S. president—and  leave Obama in Europe where his leftist/socialist internationalist  thinking belongs. Netanyahu is a far better friend to America than our  president is to Israel.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Netanyahu gets it.  He wants peace for all, not the select radical few Obama is enabling. America cannot abandon Israel or make the insane demands Obama is forcing on Israel with his <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/borders.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800080;">pre-1967 Israeli borderline</span></a> slap-in-the-face.  That  stipulation is no different than telling black Americans to return to  the pre-Civil Rights Act era, or Ireland to its British Landlord era.  Imagine the uproar if Obama were to make those insidious orders.  Envision  the pandemonium if Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Americans ought to  return itself to Great Britain and forgo the Constitution and  Amendments?  That condition is no different than Obama’s appalling declaration against Israel.</p>
<p>Now who’s the better friend and leader to the free world?</p>
<p>Netanyahu comprehends Israel’s best ally cannot reject the only stable democracy in the Middle East. Don’t assume Obama is oblivious to such facts.  He gets it.  But, like all <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1217" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800080;">leftists</span></a>,  his socialist philosophy rejects Israel’s existence on the grounds that  government knows what’s best for all human beings—statist control  without Jews having a nation.  To push that belief, Obama declared the Arab Spring violence is “<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/19/moment-opportunity-president-obama-middle-east-north-africa" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800080;">an extraordinary thing,</span></a> ” saying “The people [of these Arab nations] have risen up to demand their basic human rights.”</p>
<p>That’s quite an odd statement to make when <a href="../2011/05/09/how%E2%80%99s-that-%E2%80%9Carab-spring%E2%80%9D-in-egypt-going-these-days/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800080;">Arab Spring is not about basic human rights</span></a>.  Israel is the only nation in the Middle East that promotes liberty and human rights.  Israel seeks peace with Arab nations, but those nations do not attempt peace accords with Israel.  What is sought is the extermination of Israel and Jews.  Thus, when Obama praises Arab Spring as an “extraordinary thing,” he is demonstrating admiration for <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800080;">Muslim Brotherhood</span></a> supporters and <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800080;">other groups who supported Hitler</span></a>.  Those are not the friendships America wants.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israeli-prime-minister-binyamin-netanyahus-address-to-congress/2011/05/24/AFWY5bAH_story.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800080;">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accurately pointed this out by stating:</span></a></p>
<blockquote><p>“Israel  has no better friend than America, and America has no better friend  than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to  advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism…In an unstable  Middle East, Israel is the one anchor of stability. In a region of  shifting alliances, Israel is America’s unwavering ally. Israel has  always been pro-American.  Israel will always be  pro-American. My friends, you don’t have to—you don’t need to do  nation-building in Israel. We’re already built. You don’t need to export  democracy to Israel. We’ve already got it. And you don’t need to send  American troops to Israel. We defend ourselves.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>What  more can this nation ask for than an ally who proudly declares America  as their friend and says they will always support us  “unwaveringly,’ because, they are “pro-American.”  When was the last time you heard Europe say that?  Better yet, can you name a time when Arab nations referred to America in such a way?  The reference to America from the Middle East is “Death to America.”  You’ll never hear that from Israel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/transcript/cable-exclusive-israeli-pm-netanyahu-talks-candidly-about-mideast-conflict-relationship-u" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800080;">Netanyahu’s loyalty and patriotism to America</span></a> is extraordinary. His country does not inhabit violent protesters committing rape and murder.  Our  nation has no better friend than this man, who stood on our  Congressional House Floor recently and swore unconditional friendship  to America.  Yet, Obama wants this Netanyahu and Israel to  go back to a vulnerable borderline that would cause insurmountable  bloodshed of Jews. But this coincides with Obama’s leftist beliefs of course.  And his convictions grinds against the existence of Israel.</p>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Pro-Burqa Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it really racist to insist that Islamic women should be seen and heard? ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individual.asp">Left-wing</a> lock-steppers believe it&#8217;s racist to demand Islamic women <em>not</em> be covered from head-to-toe in burqas.  Banning the subjective Islamic garb that covers women completely, so they&#8217;re never seen nor heard, is abject discrimination.  If you think Islamic women have the right to be uncovered, and want the burqa banned, you’re an <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39172">Islamophobe</a>.</p>
<p>The left-wing rag <a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45667"><em>Green Left</em></a> defends the Islamic shrouding of women as beautifully liberating.  Their latest column titled “<a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45667">The Burqa: Reject the Fake ‘Feminism’ of the Right</a>,” calls those saying no to the burqa a bunch of “right-wing” “fake feminists.”</p>
<p>Pro-burqa protests began when Australian artist <a href="http://sheikyermami.com/2010/09/25/sergio-redegallis-mural-revisited/">Sergio Redegalli</a> painted a giant mural in Sidney with the words <a href="http://sheikyermami.com/2010/09/25/sergio-redegallis-mural-revisited/">“Say no to burqas.”</a> Redegalli’s mural sparked outrage, activists deemed him racist for suggesting Islamic women should never be covered, rather free of clothing shrouding women, preventing them from being liberated human beings.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.resistance.org.au/kiraz">Kiraz Janicke</a>, a left-wing activist for <a href="http://www.socialist-alliance.org/sydney/">Sidney Socialist Alliance</a>, Redegalli’s artwork “has no other value than to promote racism.”  To counter Redegalli’s liberation of Islamic women from oppression artwork, Janicke painted a <a href="http://liveredartawards.net/">Live Red Art</a> pro-burqa mural titled “Burqa Revolution.”  Janicke argues that removing burqas and uncovering Islamic women hinders their liberation.</p>
<p>This is how <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catId=111&amp;type=group">leftist feminists</a> champion women’s rights—deny them liberation.  Beating, <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37910">stoning</a>, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/12/terrorizing-muslim-women/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>murdering <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Muslim women</span></a></span> who attempt to remove their burqas is more an emancipation hindrance.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45667">According to </a><em><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45667">Green Left</a>:</em></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Burqa revolution&#8221; is a contribution to the current debate about the burqa and the disturbing rise of anti-Muslim extremism…in Europe…around the world…[and in] …Australia…In the New South Wales Legislative Council, arch-fundamentalist Christian MLC Fred Nile has introduced a private member’s bill seeking to ban the wearing of the burqa.  This anti-Muslim extremism is a product of a sustained ideological campaign of Islamophobia by the media and mainstream politicians —not only to bolster support for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but…to scapegoat a sector of the population for the growing social problems stemming from the crisis of capitalism itself…A recurring theme of this ideological campaign to convince us that Muslims are ‘alien’ to the ‘Western way of life’ is that Islam oppresses women.  Thus we have ‘feminist’ arguments being used to justify the bloody war in Afghanistan, which has killed thousands of innocent women and children, as a mission to ‘liberate’ women, and hypocritical rhetoric about ‘defending women’s rights’ from politicians who at the same time are attacking women&#8217;s rights and services here in Australia.</p></blockquote>
<p>1,400 years of Islamic murderous brutality is proof Islam is oppressive and deadly, not the War on Terror, which resulted from Islamic violence against the West. </p>
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