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		<title>Russian Nativity Play: A Tale of Two Josephs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Oleg Atbashian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens to a Christmas play when Joseph Stalin is more known than the biblical Joseph.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Joseph.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248319" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Joseph-293x350.jpg" alt="Joseph" width="221" height="264" /></a>This &#8220;life imitates the People&#8217;s Cube&#8221; moment comes from St. Petersburg, Russia. What seems to be a spoof is a legitimate story via <a href="http://ria.ru/society/20141225/1040186712.html">RIA Novosti</a>, a Russian news agency. As a historical footnote, Nativity plays are a new concept in Russia, where Joseph Stalin is more known than the biblical Joseph, which occasionally causes Freudian slips like this one.</p>
<p>A St. Petersburg student mistakenly showed up dressed as Joseph Stalin to the Christmas play where he was supposed to play the biblical character of Joseph.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yesterday, my 12-year-old son participated in a school play. He told us ahead of time that he got the role of Joseph Stalin who is talking to some woman. It wasn&#8217;t a big surprise to us, as he has played parts in school plays before, and once he was even a watermelon,&#8221; wrote the student&#8217;s father Fyodor Gavrichenko on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205116943470500&amp;set=a.1318879219340.47466.1451565715&amp;type=1&amp;fref=nf">Facebook page</a>.</p>
<p>Gavrichenko said the whole family worked on making the costume &#8211; especially the grandmother, who sewed trouser stripes to the pants, found some old army boots, made a generalissimo mustache and a red folder with a big star.</p>
<p>They didn&#8217;t realize the mistake until the last moment because the play was in German as part of the boy&#8217;s foreign language class, and no one understood what the son&#8217;s lines meant. Apparently, the boy hadn&#8217;t been paying attention in class either. Instead of bringing the costume to school before the play, he showed the teacher its picture on his cell phone. The teacher thought it was a joke and said that the costume &#8220;rocks.&#8221;</p>
<p>The family sensed trouble when they saw their son&#8217;s classmate dressed as Magi. &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; asked the Magi. &#8220;I&#8217;m Mary&#8217;s husband… Joseph Stalin,&#8221; said the boy. His confidence shaken, the classmate went to the teacher: &#8220;Our Joseph turns out to be Stalin… Is that a good thing?&#8221; &#8220;What?&#8221; asked the teacher, as he pulled the curtain revealing the Nativity scene with Joseph and Mary. It was too late to change.</p>
<p>The plot thickened before the drama began. According to the father, Stalin&#8217;s outfit was a smash. The boy&#8217;s lines were accompanied by fits of hysterical laughter through the tears from other parents, some of whom reportedly fell off their chairs.</p>
<p>Those who can read the original Facebook post in Russian will notice that the father knows as little about the Nativity story as his son, confusing characters and their roles in the story. This is rather a norm in Russia, where erstwhile official atheism is only now being replaced by the official Orthodox Church. This St. Petersburg father couldn&#8217;t tell the shepherds from angels even if his son&#8217;s play weren&#8217;t in German. But at least he&#8217;s trying.</p>
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		<title>The Great October: A Revolution Financed By an Enemy Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Oleg Atbashian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The example Lenin set for American communists to follow.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Lenin.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244755" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Lenin.jpg" alt="Lenin" width="283" height="164" /></a>Can it be true that Vladimir Lenin, the alleged &#8220;leader of the world Proletariat,&#8221; whose monuments adorned central squares in every Soviet town and who inspired generations of Soviet citizens, had been a mere agent provocateur working for the German government?</p>
<p>In <em>The World Crisis, Volume 5,</em> Winston Churchill writes this about war-time Germany in 1917:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;They turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The rest is history: Lenin staged a coup and withdrew Russia from World War One, conceding large swaths of land to Germany. In the process, he consolidated his power, initiated the policy of Red Terror, brutally exterminated all opposition, and founded the world&#8217;s first totalitarian socialist state.</p>
<p>Many contemporary politicians had made claims that Lenin was a long-time agent of the Imperial German Secret Service. A warrant for his arrest was issued after the Russian government had learned that the Bolsheviks were financed by the Germans, with whom Russia was at war. However, with time these claims dwindled as no documentary proof could be found.</p>
<p>Why did Lenin&#8217;s culpability, which his contemporaries considered evident, stop being so evident to the following generations? What did the contemporaries know that we don&#8217;t?</p>
<p>It would be safe to assume that Soviet agents, who had penetrated all levels of Western societies early on, had successfully removed and destroyed all proof, along with all the witnesses. They apparently did it so well that even the Nazis, who inherited the German intelligence service about a decade later, couldn&#8217;t find any related documents, otherwise they would have certainly demonstrated them to the world in order to prove the illegitimacy of the rival dictatorship. Let&#8217;s leave further speculations to the authors of period spy thrillers.</p>
<p>The fact is, Lenin&#8217;s case wouldn&#8217;t be all that unique. At the time, the Imperial German Secret Service seemed to have a policy of recruiting agents among exiled Russian communists and financing their subversive activities and propaganda aimed to plunge Russia into turmoil. Some of them, like Fuerstenberg and Kozlovsky, were prominent Bolsheviks with close ties to Lenin.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=38cce5bb-1ef7-439d-a351-607e76877d1f">This author</a> provides a number of other examples of such recruitment and money trails, concluding his research by saying, &#8220;we know that the Bolsheviks conducted public relations that seemed to be beyond their means. We know that German agents &#8211; some with considerable funds at their disposal &#8211; were closely entwined with the Bolsheviks. And we know that Lenin lied when confronted about that situation.&#8221;</p>
<p>The truth was unearthed only in the late 1980s, with the opening of Soviet archives to the public. The newly declassified documents revealed the dates, the banks, and the substantial amounts of money provided to the communists by Kaiser&#8217;s Germany, which financed Lenin&#8217;s subversive, seditious activities. According to historian <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=BIQuNweyC4kC&amp;pg=PA39#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">Albert L. Weeks</a>, the German authorities cynically referred to Lenin as a &#8220;bacillus&#8221; who would &#8220;infect&#8221; Russia and thus incapacitate a major military adversary.</p>
<p>But do even the large money transfers and the intriguing return from exile in a sealed one-car train make Lenin a spy? Only in the most general sense of the word; strictly speaking, he was rather a sociopathic traitor and a criminally-minded, community-organizing opportunist, driven by the principle of &#8220;the enemy of my enemy is my friend.&#8221; In the words of Weeks,  Lenin &#8220;merely took advantage of the Kaiser&#8217;s &#8216;generosity&#8217; and exploited the subsidies for his own purposes in seizing and holding power in Russia.&#8221;</p>
<p>And yet, while the Bolshevik revolution could not have been engineered by the Western bankers as some modern conspiracy theories claim, there is enough evidence to suggest that Lenin could not have pulled it off without Germany&#8217;s financial and logistical help. And even if he had, the &#8220;leader of the workers and peasants&#8221; would surely have used less radical strategies had he not had a second career on which to fall back.</p>
<p>Common sense suggests that if left to their own devices, Lenin and his close comrades would be less likely to take such great risks; it was the helpful network of foreign agents with backup plans, escape routes, and other comforting factors that boosted their confidence and provided the feeling of relative safety. Thus, their motto, &#8220;we have nothing to lose but our chains,&#8221; was a lie. The selfless sacrifice and the blind trust in the Communist Manifesto was good enough for the people but not for the people&#8217;s leaders.</p>
<p>In this, Lenin was not an exception. Being the leader of the semi-legal communist party, he collaborated with his nation&#8217;s enemy in a time of war much like the American communists and other leftist groups, who have throughout history collaborated with enemies of the United States in order to gain more influence at the expense of their own country.</p>
<p>The irrefutable evidence that Lenin and his party conspired with and received funding from an enemy government sheds an unforgiving light on the seditious and treasonous character, methods, and motivations of all international communist and socialist movements, the Communist Party USA, and every communist party around the world, who continue to operate by Lenin&#8217;s methods and who still hold him as a major inspiration.</p>
<p>In the court of law, a verdict based on false or tainted evidence is usually overturned. We have to wonder if in the court of history, the verdict regarding the celebrated &#8220;people&#8217;s revolution&#8221; paid for by an imperial intelligence service will also be altered &#8211; and if our history books will be corrected accordingly.</p>
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		<title>Centers for Islamic Studies: a Cold-War-Style Influence Operation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Oleg Atbashian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new generation of Islamic supremacists employs the KGB's "active measures."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hj.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242457" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hj.jpg" alt="hj" width="298" height="255" /></a>The launch of a new Center for Global Islamic Studies at the extremely leftist University of Florida in Gainesville may have been planned as a purely academic affair, but the announcements in the local and national media, including <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/01/university-florida-to-launch-islamic-study-center/">AP and Fox News</a>, exhibited more than a purely academic interest in this event. To compare, one doesn&#8217;t often see national media announcements about, let&#8217;s say, a local center for the study of viruses &#8212; unless the virus is Ebola. And just like with any news about Ebola studies, any news about studies of Islam attracts attention from the general public, who want to know if there&#8217;s a hope for the cure, containment, and safety from danger.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, these may not be the kind of Islamic Studies that answer those hopes. The Center opened on September 18th with a <a href="http://www.bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu/event/global-islam-and-quest-public-space-john-l-esposito">conference</a> on &#8220;Global Islam and the Quest for Public Space,&#8221; headlined by none other than Georgetown professor John Esposito, a known <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/09/john_esposito_takes_islam_out_of_isis.html">apologist for radical Islam</a> and founding director of the Saudi-sponsored Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.</p>
<p>A small group of protesters picketed the event outside the Pugh Hall on the university campus, with a dozen creative posters and a vinyl banner pointing out that John Esposito and the leader of ISIS both hold PhDs in Islamic Studies: &#8220;Same goal, different tactics.&#8221; The <a href="http://youtu.be/F9YQwTfROW0">video of the protest</a> can be seen online.</p>
<p>The protest organizer, Randy McDaniels of <a href="http://www.actforamerica.org/">ACT for America</a> and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CTAG.USA">Counter-Terrorism Advisory Group</a>, stated that our students certainly need to study Islam, as long as such studies are based on scientific objectivity and critical analysis. But the presence of John Esposito as the keynote speaker indicated that the new Global Islamic Studies Center was likely to <a href="http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/esposito/">go the way of many other universities</a>, opening their doors and exposing our children to political Islam under the guise of education, with programs funded by Saudi Arabia, <a href="http://www.stopqatarnow.com/">Qatar</a>, and other state sponsors of Islamic fundamentalism.</p>
<p>While many among the leftist faculty and the students were visibly upset with the protest, complete with occasional angry obscenities, a few others were interested in the message and asked for a flyer. Some of them asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with having an Islamic Studies Center, even if it&#8217;s financed by foreign money?&#8221;</p>
<p>The short answer would have been to compare such a project to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures"><em>active measures </em></a>undertaken in America by the KGB during the Cold War &#8212; except that, unfortunately, most American students aren&#8217;t familiar with this term. Their knowledge of the Cold War has been thoroughly sanitized by the leftist faculty, especially if the professors are Marxists who used to root for the other side. The resulting perceived absence of the Soviet subversion, propaganda, disinformation, and other influence operations inside the U.S. and around the world creates the impression of an ideologically neutral world, in which America&#8217;s response to protect liberty can very easily be misconstrued as imperialist aggression against the innocent.</p>
<p>Ignorance about the enemy leads to confusion about one&#8217;s own nation&#8217;s role in the world, regardless of the historical era or the current adversary. Whether we admit it or not, we are now in a new global conflict that has many parallels with the Cold War; it is often fought by similar means and sometimes even by the same actors.</p>
<p>Now, just as it was then, we&#8217;re up against a supremacist collectivist ideology whose goal is to establish a totalitarian utopian society on a global scale. The two deadly pipe dreams &#8212; global communism and the global caliphate &#8212; may have their differences, but in practical terms they both view the United States as the main obstacle in their quest of world domination. There is no reason why one can&#8217;t learn from the other&#8217;s vast experience in subverting this country.</p>
<p>Both foes have made claims that they stand for peace. The problem is that Marxists understand peace as the absence of opposition to socialism, just as the Islamist supremacists understand peace as the absence of opposition to Islam. Eventual peace will theoretically ensue once they subjugate the rest of the world to their totalitarian rule.</p>
<p>In both cases, tolerance is a one-way street: everyone must be tolerant of <em>their</em> &#8220;superior&#8221; views, while they retain the right to self-righteous intolerance of the &#8220;inferiors.&#8221; Both ideologies generate a variety of wild-eyed conspiracy theories as a means to retain loyalty, boost morale, recruit new members, and demoralize their opponents.</p>
<p>The Soviets didn&#8217;t necessarily hate Americans or wanted to kill them off; they only wanted to &#8220;convert&#8221; our economic and political system for our own good. Likewise, the Islamists feel morally justified: they don&#8217;t view terrorism as the murder of innocents, but rather as a collective punishment for being foolish in resisting Islam. This makes mass murder a moral virtue, absolving them of all sins and encouraging them to keep punishing us, &#8220;the inferior fools,&#8221; until we see the light and either convert or accept their supremacy. They&#8217;d rather convert than kill, so if we force their hand, it&#8217;s &#8220;our own fault.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now, just as it was then, the U.S. is being drawn into fighting regional proxy wars while maintaining a semblance of dialogue with the main instigator, who remains visibly uninvolved but is pulling the strings of a vast network of loosely affiliated non-governmental groups, from registered non-profits to armed gangs of cutthroats. The seeming lack of affiliations, in both cases, is usually a cover for a centralized, coordinated effort.</p>
<p>Cold War spy thrillers may show some exciting action, but the fact is that espionage wasn&#8217;t even the main focus of the KGB operations in the U.S. According to retired KGB Maj. Gen. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Kalugin">Oleg Kalugin</a>, the heart and soul of Soviet intelligence was &#8220;not intelligence collection, but subversion: active measures to weaken the West.&#8221;</p>
<p>The KGB maintained an extensive, sophisticated network of agents in the media, academia, government, and the cultural establishment. Acting on strategies designed in Moscow, they led a relentless, coordinated attack on this country&#8217;s institutions, often quite effectively demoralizing the population, undermining people&#8217;s confidence in America&#8217;s political and economic systems, spreading rumors, falsehoods, and conspiracy theories, influencing politicians, swaying public opinion, promoting some public figures and discrediting others, creating a positive image of the USSR, and so on.</p>
<p>Fast forward to the fall of the USSR. What happened to these strategies, this system, its networks, and its methods? Did they just disappear? Not really. The KGB was never dismantled; it was renamed into FSB and one of its former lieutenant colonels, Vladimir Putin, is now running the country, using the old KGB network just as effectively to spread disinformation and to promote his imperial agenda.</p>
<p>Even more disturbingly, this system has now replicated itself, producing an even more dangerous and aggressive clone.</p>
<p>In 1960, the Soviet government had set up the so-called Patrice Lumumba People&#8217;s Friendship University in Moscow, offering free higher education to students from the Third World, many of them from Muslim countries. In addition to regular student curriculum, the goal was to train and recruit agents who would then spread the ideas of Marxism in their home countries, and if possible, conduct <em>active measures</em> designed by their Moscow handlers.</p>
<p>To be exact, the university received its African name in 1961. <a href="http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/lumumba.htm">Patrice Lumumba</a> was a pro-Soviet Congolese prime minister who earlier that year was removed from power in a coup d&#8217;état and shot by a firing squad. The international Left quickly made Lumumba into a martyr of anti-imperialist struggle; what they won&#8217;t mention is that the coup and the execution were a drastic response to Lumumba&#8217;s plans of bringing the Soviet troops to the Congo and potentially staging a major military conflict in Africa, similar to the wars that the USSR fought in Korea, Vietnam, and later in Afghanistan. In this regard, the school&#8217;s name was rather symbolic.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-World-Was-Going-Our/dp/B0017HSXXQ">KGB Major Vasili Mitrokhin</a>, who defected to the West, &#8220;The University&#8217;s first vice-rector and a number of its staff were KGB officers who used the student body as a recruiting ground for Third World agents.&#8221; The students were trained in the art of propaganda, infiltration, and influence operations. More specialized training, such as terrorist activities, was provided at locations in Baku, Odessa, Simferopol, and Tashkent.</p>
<p>Carlos the Jackal, the notorious Marxist terrorist from Venezuela, who joined Palestinian terrorists and later converted to Islam, was one of the graduates, even though the school insists that he was expelled. A BBC News article titled <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/42244.stm">Carlos the Jackal &#8212; three decades of crime</a> puts it this way:</p>
<blockquote><p>He began acting in the name of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine after leaving Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, a notorious hotbed for recruiting foreign communists to the Soviet Union.</p></blockquote>
<p>Grand Ayatollah and the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, is listed among <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples'_Friendship_University_of_Russia#Notable_graduates">notable graduates</a> on the University&#8217;s Wikipedia page, although he <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/cnns-iranian-propaganda-campaign/">vehemently denies it</a>. Another graduate is Timoleón Jiménez, the leader of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC">FARC</a> &#8212; a communist guerrilla army in Colombia, which is funded by drugs, kidnappings and extortion.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples'_Friendship_University_of_Russia#Notable_graduates">Other notables</a> include the President of Honduras, the President of Namibia, the President of the Central African Republic, a former President of Guyana, a former Jamaican MP, a leader of the Sudanese Socialist Democratic Union, and &#8212; of all people &#8212; Anna Chapman, a Russian intelligence officer.</p>
<p>Most importantly, the list of graduates includes today&#8217;s Palestinian leader <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=29207">Mahmoud Abbas</a>, Chairman of the PLO and President of the Palestinian National Authority, who received his Ph.D. in Moscow in 1982 after completing a thesis partly based on Holocaust denial.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=13975">2004 interview with FrontPage Magazine</a>, Ion Mihai Pacepa, former acting chief of Communist Romania&#8217;s espionage service, described the KGB role in setting up terrorist networks around the world and particularly in the Middle East, as well as persuading Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi to join the terrorist war against the US, with the added benefit of using Iraq&#8217;s and Libya&#8217;s huge intelligence services that were being run by the KGB advisers and extended their tentacles to every corner of the earth.</p>
<p>Says Pacepa:</p>
<blockquote><p>The PLO was dreamt up by the KGB, which had a penchant for &#8220;liberation&#8221; organizations. There was the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created by the KGB in 1964 with help from Ernesto &#8220;Che&#8221; Guevara. Then there was the National Liberation Army of Colombia, created by the KGB in 1965 with help from Fidel Castro, which was soon deeply involved in kidnappings, hijackings, bombings and guerrilla warfare. In later years the KGB also created the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which carried out numerous bombing attacks on the &#8220;Palestinian territories&#8221; occupied by Israel.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;In 1964 the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Palestinian National Charter &#8212; a document that had been drafted in Moscow,&#8221; Pacepa continues.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Palestinian National Covenant and the Palestinian Constitution were also born in Moscow, with the help of Ahmed Shuqairy, a KGB influence agent who became the first PLO chairman.</p></blockquote>
<p>The entire story of the Palestinian &#8220;liberation,&#8221; which has provoked a tidal wave of global Islamic extremism, has recognizable marks of a manufactured influence operation. That includes media coverage in the Western press, which regurgitates regularly produced and coordinated disinformation. A lot of this dirty work was done initially by the Middle Eastern graduates of Patrice Lumumba People&#8217;s Friendship University in Moscow, many of whom are still active in the field.</p>
<p>The school still functions today, having dropped Lumumba from its name and calling itself <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples'_Friendship_University_of_Russia#Notable_graduates">The Peoples&#8217; Friendship University of Russia</a>. Its page claims that as of now, more than 97,000 of its graduates work in approximately 170 countries around the world.</p>
<p>Granted, not all of the graduating engineers, doctors, or agricultural experts have become KGB agents or even Marxists, but how many of them have? Even a small percentage of the total 97,000 means that thousands of agents with the knowledge of propaganda, infiltration and influence operations are currently active in the world today, particularly in the Middle East. If in the past some Muslim students may have embraced Marxism, they no longer do now. Even Carlos the Jackal has now <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/26/world/americas/carlos-the-jackal-fast-facts/index.html">converted to Islam</a>. Today&#8217;s Next Big Thing is the Muslim Brotherhood, and that&#8217;s where all the action is.</p>
<p>The astounding sophistication and effectiveness of the Muslim Brotherhood in setting up networks of various front groups, infiltrating the Western establishment, spreading disinformation, swaying public opinion, promoting some public figures and discrediting others, creating a positive image of their ideology, and other influence operations are the evidence that the thousands of trained experts in these fields didn&#8217;t just disappear. Even if they aren&#8217;t being run from Moscow today (some may still be), they are still using their knowledge and skills, as well as teaching a new generation of Islamic supremacists the intricacies of <em>active measures</em>. If the methods and techniques are effective, they don&#8217;t get abandoned.</p>
<p>Given the history, what are the chances that the new Center for Global Islamic Studies at the Florida University, &#8220;christened&#8221; by a Saudi-financed, PLO-loving Georgetown professor, won&#8217;t be turned into yet another center for the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s influence operations on American soil?</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cia.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-194516" alt="cia" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cia-450x299.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>President Obama, already known to his staff as a &#8220;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/10/Firestorm-Obama-Misses-Over-Half-His-Intelligence-Briefings-WH-Calls-Report-Hilarious" target="_blank">sophisticated&#8221; and &#8220;voracious&#8221; consumer of intelligence reports</a>, has just found a way to enhance his intelligence briefing experience even further, by choosing <a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/news/avril-danica-haines" target="_blank">Avril Danica Haines</a>, whose resume includes <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/13/new-cia-2-pick-used-to-read-anne-rice-aloud-at-her-bookstore-s-erotica-night.html" target="_blank">reading erotic fiction out loud</a> to paying customers, as a new deputy CIA director.</p>
<p>Twenty years ago, after dropping out of a graduate program in physics, Haines co-owned a Baltimore book store, which featured regular &#8220;Erotica Nights&#8221; with readings of erotic prose over dinner (couples $30, singles $17). Apparently, the expertise she obtained in the process later qualified her to perform as a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s office in charge of the CIA&#8217;s undercover actions, now followed by the number-two position at the top spy agency, where she will be composing and reading provocative stories of crime and passion to the president directly.</p>
<p>This job was previously performed by <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/12/cia-deputy-director-morell-resigns/" target="_blank">Michael &#8220;Benghazi&#8221; Morell</a>, who resigned in disgrace after he was outed as the author of the scandalously indecent talking points on the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.</p>
<p>Avril Haines is likely to be a more competent replacement, given her know-how in motivating dirty old men <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/10/executive-branch-porn-problem/" target="_blank">working in the Pentagon, ICE, Missile Defense Agency, TSA, Secret Service, and State Department</a>, to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-federal-agency/" target="_blank">take their minds off internet porn</a> and actually interact with a live woman who has intimate knowledge of undercover operations, probing deeply together into the matter at hand. As an added bonus, President Obama is expected never again to miss <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-leadership/post/is-it-okay-for-president-obama-to-skip-some-daily-intelligence-briefings-share-your-thoughts/2012/09/11/4474e59c-fc26-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_blog.html" target="_blank">66 percent of daily intelligence meetings</a>.</p>
<p>Liberal policies have always been based on raw, knee-jerk emotions, best summed up in the title of a 1968 tune, &#8220;If it feels good, you know it can&#8217;t be wrong.&#8221; Taking the feel-good principle to a whole new level, this administration&#8217;s behavior has long resembled adventures of a sexually liberated woman in touch with her inner flower child; it stands to reason that they would eventually hire one. Expect more exciting foreign policy adventures driven by erotic sensations in response to international crises.</p>
<p>If the <a href="http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/06/18/syria-and-egypt-cant-be-fixed/" target="_blank">aftermath of the Arab Spring</a> is generating butterflies in the stomach, you know it can&#8217;t be wrong. In contrast, supporting the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/07/mass-exodus-christians-from-muslim-world/" target="_blank">persecuted Christians in Egypt and elsewhere in the Muslim world</a> is a proven turnoff. But let&#8217;s try <a href="http://sago.com/2013/06/21/obama-to-send-u-s-troops-to-egypt-to-suppress-riots-against-muslim-brotherhood-regime/" target="_blank">sending U.S. troops to help suppress the opposition to Egypt&#8217;s Islamists regime</a> and see if causes a salacious tingling sensation. It does &#8211; let&#8217;s send even more troops! Let&#8217;s <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130622-us-military-presence-jordan-expands-1000-troops" target="_blank">send troops to Jordan</a> too. And let&#8217;s <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/13/us-confirms-chemical-weapons-syria/2420763/" target="_blank">give arms to Islamic fundamentalists in Syria</a>. Yes! It feels so good, it hurts!                        <wbr /></p>
<p>Political scientists may actually have an opportunity here to build an objective geopolitical scale by quantifying amorous body responses to international stimuli, ranging from Palestine&#8217;s aphrodisiac to Israel&#8217;s buzzkill. All other international entities, organizations, and movements can be arranged between these two extremes in the order of titillating magnitude: the ultimate liberal method of determining foreign policy, building alliances, and making permanent decisions based on fleeting emotions.</p>
<p>At a time when America is being screwed by just about every tyrannical, fundamentalist, and plutocratic international gangbanger, from China to Russia to the Middle East to Latin America, the appointment of an erotic aficionado to lead the nation&#8217;s top intelligence agency is quite symptomatic: if we can&#8217;t fight back, the next best thing is to get professional advice on how to lie back and enjoy the experience. Soft music and candlelight are optional.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bosch.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190453" alt="bosch" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bosch.jpg" width="307" height="433" /></a><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: The essay below won one of two runner-up $500 prizes for our <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/1000-essay-and-video-contest-inside-every-liberal-is-a-totalitarian-screaming-to-get-out/">essay contest</a> launched on April 5, 2013: &#8220;Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.&#8221; The winner of the $1,000 first-place prize was N. A. Halkides (see his <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/inside-every-liberal-is-a-totalitarian-screaming-to-get-out-2/">essay here</a>). We will run the other runner-up essay, written by Daniel Greenfield, in tomorrow&#8217;s edition.</strong></p>
<p>There is a reason why snobby elites on the Upper West Side of Manhattan generously donate to leftist causes and support leftist politicians. Snobs and radicals often act in accord because they are not opposites, as some believe, but rather spiritual cousins &#8211; equally despising &#8220;the bourgeois,&#8221; sharing a low view of humanity as herd animals, and sorting people not on their individual merits but by color, income, occupation, ethnicity, gender, and any other characteristic except the content of their minds.</p>
<p>Elitists share the presumption that people of the world cannot think for themselves and have no room in their souls for individual ambitions and achievements outside of what the government is giving them. Short of stating it explicitly, elitism implies that &#8220;the masses&#8221; are mindless, spiritless creatures without free will, always in need of the largesse of the state, and for their own good the state ought to nationalize the country&#8217;s resources in order to feed its subjects.</p>
<p>While the road to tyranny is paved with elitist beliefs, it still takes a nation to take this road, and a self-appointed vanguard to convince, organize, and lead them.</p>
<p>The term &#8220;elites&#8221; doesn&#8217;t do justice to such a vanguard, which in addition to powerful snobs has its share of drug addicts, bohemians, housewives, union workers, and students, drawing its members from all classes, ethnicities, and professional backgrounds.</p>
<p>The trait that unites this diverse demographic is their smug and prejudiced belief in the superiority of their own ideology, often accompanied by malice and hatred towards those they deem inferior. Perhaps, it&#8217;s time to introduce a new term to the national discourse: <i>Progressive Chauvinism</i>.</p>
<p>My empirical observations have led me to conclude that Progressive Chauvinists are almost completely devoid of self-awareness, assuming the right to control the lives of others out of confidence in their higher mission to help the welfare of less fortunate, &#8220;backward&#8221; people who have miraculously been left without any ability to govern themselves.</p>
<p>In this sense, the United States has for some time consisted of two parallel nations: those who think of themselves as &#8220;progressives&#8221; and those who don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Progressive Chauvinism is marked by a strong belief in the divine right of their kind to hold all key positions in society for society&#8217;s own sake, forcing the &#8220;lessers&#8221; to comply with superior progressive ways. Believing that their condescension and pity towards the lower beings are a sign of benevolence and compassion, they ignite with righteous anger whenever those ingrates dare be displeased with their enlightened dominion.</p>
<p>An example of such a malicious lack of gratitude is the existence of non-progressive blogs, talk radio, and Fox News &#8211; a threat to the progressive hegemony in the media, which is an inalienable part of the Progressive Chauvinist cosmology.</p>
<p>Remember Barack Obama&#8217;s secretly recorded <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/04/obama-allies-av/">&#8220;bitter clinger&#8221; remarks</a> at an exclusive San Francisco fundraiser in 2008? The controversy that followed was mostly focused on his &#8220;guns and religion&#8221; comment, even though a much more disturbing glimpse into our future president&#8217;s mind was Obama&#8217;s condescending assessment of the source of the bitterness itself: government neglect.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>In other words, the silly little people need enlightened benevolent masters to lead them to happiness. Without a powerful central government plugging every proverbial crack in every wretched small town, no one can ever be happy or achieve self-fulfillment. Rejoice, for if I&#8217;m elected, everyone will be issued approved guidelines, complete with permitted activities and instructions of what to do with their worthless lives in their degenerate little towns. But don&#8217;t you grow bitter: the federal government can make you happy, or it can make you unhappy. What&#8217;s it gonna be?</p>
<p>Progressive Chauvinists say the damndest things when they think they are among their own. The private fundraiser included the richest and most powerful people in San Francisco, all very different from Obama and complete strangers to him. How had he quickly become so intimate, saying things he&#8217;d never have said in public? Apparently, there was something in the air &#8211; the aura, vibrations, ambience &#8211; that screamed, &#8220;We&#8217;re Progressive Chauvinists just like you!&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the rest of us can&#8217;t help but bitterly cling to our guns and religion in bewilderment: how can these people possibly function, let alone win elections, with minds so devoid of logic and jam-packed with inconsistencies, contradictions, and straight out absurdities?</p>
<p>How is it possible to hold so many mutually exclusive beliefs? To preach tolerance and be so intolerant? To grieve for terror victims and justify terrorism? To stand up for workers and destroy their jobs? To march for peace and defend the militants? To denounce corruption and vote for the corrupt? To espouse non-violence and commit violent acts? To speak of liberties and promote government dictate? To bolster feminism and deride successful women? To cheer gays and aid the gay-bashers in the Middle East? To champion minorities as a group and hold them down as individuals? To care about the children and condemn them to intellectual mutilation? To denounce guns and hire armed bodyguards? To support the troops and side with their murderers? To demand love and be full of hate?</p>
<p>The bad news is that these are not contradictions. Worse yet, sensible people will keep losing ground to those whom they shrug off as bumbling sacks of absurdities, for as long as they don&#8217;t understand that the above paradoxical statements aren&#8217;t, in fact, oxymorons, but contain a very consistent logic.</p>
<p>In this sense, the best key to unlocking the mystery of the Progressive Chauvinist mind, breaking the leftist code, and discerning their collectivist morality is a statement attributed to Karl Marx, which, regardless of whether he wrote it or not, is perfectly aligned with the moral philosophy of Progressive Chauvinism:</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with the last item on our list: <i>How is it possible to demand love and be full of hate?</i></p>
<p>Love and hate are merely two sides of the same coin: one can&#8217;t love something without hating that which threatens to destroy the object of affection. Just as there can&#8217;t be a coin with one side bigger than the other, the amounts of love and hate in any given person are always equal &#8211; because these two are, in fact, not separate but one and the same natural human emotion, only with different integers. Thus, the bigger the love, the bigger the hate. Conversely, the smaller the hate, the smaller the love. A complete absence of hate would also mean a complete absence of love: the apathetic indifference of a vegetable.</p>
<p>The typical leftist appeals for greater love and the elimination of hate are easy to dismiss as well-intentioned naïveté  and politically innocent melodrama. They wouldn&#8217;t seem so benign, however, once we realize that such demands originate in the leftist concept of the human mind as a pliable social construct, resulting in a compulsive obsession to improve human nature by criminalizing normal human behaviors.</p>
<p>Although such pleas for obligatory love may seem broad and generic, they have very specific targets. It&#8217;s always about the reduction of hate and the opening of the hearts towards people and notions that are by and large found within the socialist frame of reference. I have yet to hear a plea to stop hating and start loving enemies of socialism.</p>
<p>At the same time, the &#8220;love crowd&#8221; shows no restraint in hating anyone and anything they perceive as a threat to their mythical notion of &#8220;progress,&#8221; wielding conveniently subjective terms like &#8220;hate speech&#8221; and &#8220;hate groups,&#8221; and coordinating their efforts to demonize and dehumanize their opponents.</p>
<p>Given that the difference between love and hate is the matter of a subjective integer, it may as well be argued that one man&#8217;s &#8220;hate group&#8221; is another man&#8217;s &#8220;love group,&#8221; one man&#8217;s &#8220;hate speech&#8221; is another man&#8217;s &#8220;love speech,&#8221; one man&#8217;s &#8220;hate fest&#8221; is another man&#8217;s &#8220;love fest,&#8221; and so on.</p>
<p>This may seem like an exercise in moral relativism, but it&#8217;s not. While moral standards exist on both sides, they are direct opposites of each other. That doesn&#8217;t mean that one side&#8217;s &#8220;hate crime&#8221; is another side&#8217;s &#8220;love crime.&#8221; According to the objective moral standards on the conservative right, a crime is always a crime, regardless of the motive. In contrast, the subjective moral standards on the left, make a distinction: if there are &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; that require additional punishment, that means there can also be &#8220;love crimes&#8221; that call for a lighter punishment, or can be excused altogether &#8211; for example, Bill Ayers&#8217; youthful terrorism in the 1960s.</p>
<p>So then, is moral relativism a substitute for the leftist moral and ethical standards? Not at all.</p>
<p>Moral relativism is more of a logical trick the leftists are using to a great advantage in any discussion on culture, education, or foreign policy to undercut and discredit the other side&#8217;s moral standards while covering up their own, as well as to confuse and demoralize the unprepared.</p>
<p>As soon as the tables are turned and the left gains political power, all moral relativism ends &#8211; as it happened in the USSR and all other Marxist dictatorships. The trick they used to subvert the existing authority quickly becomes a liability, since it can be just as effectively used against their own power. The Soviet propagandists, who furthered the idea of moral relativism in the West, stamped it out at home. Collectivists have always been thorough in protecting their cultural hegemony, which cannot be said about their carefree individualistic opponents.</p>
<p>The left&#8217;s actual moral standards, whether or not their bearers realize it or are prepared to admit it, are consistent with the logic and ethics of class struggle as outlined in Marxist moral philosophy: anything is good and moral that benefits the revolutionary cause, while anything that hinders it is evil.</p>
<p>There are no moral absolutes except this revolutionary cause, which can be summarized as the historically inevitable transition of humanity from the unfair, individualistic capitalist system to the collectivist bliss of socialism, eventually evolving into the altruistic paradise of communism. This process, which leftists also call &#8220;progress&#8221; or &#8220;history,&#8221; is the only standard against which all things are tested and all values are judged. Thus, nothing that furthers &#8220;progress&#8221; can be evil, and nothing that stands in the way of &#8220;history&#8221; can be good.</p>
<p>That means that if, in the course of events, a certain idea, activity, person, or a group of persons stop being beneficial to the cause of &#8220;progress&#8221; and become a hindrance, they stop being good and become evil &#8211; and vice versa. With the rise of Progressive Chauvinism in the 20th century, that notion had been extended to entire classes of people, ethnic groups, and even nations, whose elimination was deemed beneficial for &#8220;human progress&#8221; and &#8220;the greater historical good.&#8221; The end always justifies the means.</p>
<p>Granted, not everyone on the left is a communist. Many of them would love to settle for a democratic socialist system with elements of private economy (they would just as much hate you explaining to them why such a system is yet another unsustainable utopia). In the meantime, they always end up siding with Marxist fanatics, whom they see as a powerful engine pulling in the same direction and capable of taking them to their destination sooner.</p>
<p>Such fellow travelers suit communist goals just fine. According to Marx, true communism cannot be built while the world is still polluted by capitalist exploitation, inequality, greed, and need. There has to be a transitional period of socialism &#8211; and it has to win globally, with all countries having more or less homogenized and equal economies, peacefully sharing the same ideas, and coordinated by one global governing body &#8211; an ideal construction site for the builders of communism. (The troubled European Union is a living proof of why this is a terrible idea, but don&#8217;t tell that to a Progressive Chauvinist).</p>
<p>Accepting the Marxist concept of &#8220;historical progress,&#8221; Progressive Chauvinists inevitably share the militant morality that comes with it &#8211; starting with Karl Marx himself, who once answered someone&#8217;s question, &#8220;What is your idea of happiness?&#8221; with one word: &#8220;Struggle.&#8221;</p>
<p>A grand utopian fallacy that inspires with a high moral purpose while absolving of the responsibility for one&#8217;s actions is a deadly mix. In the days of the Cold War, the notion of &#8220;historical progress&#8221; as a moral obligation of everyone in the global community enabled the Soviet Union to engage in exporting the revolution &#8211; with all the accompanying gore, violence, and depravity, in violation of international norms and agreements &#8211; enjoying the support of the advocates of &#8220;international peace,&#8221; which in the book of Progressive Chauvinism is defined as uncompromising attacks and subversion until any opposition to socialism is vanquished.</p>
<p>Reimagining Marxism in the 1960s, American radicals coined the phrase, &#8220;The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.&#8221; The militant message remained the same: the revolution is the only absolute moral value, with all other issues relative and subordinate to it.</p>
<p>A typical war cry at any American &#8220;anti-war&#8221; rally starting with the 1960s has been &#8220;No justice, no peace!&#8221; This isn&#8217;t a contradiction: war is only to be opposed if waged by the enemies of socialism. The vision of peace in this case only includes the defeat and surrender of the United States, while the other side is free to invade and murder without a peep from the &#8220;world community.&#8221;</p>
<p>The brainchild of Joseph Stalin, the Western &#8220;peace&#8221; movement of the Cold War era was organized, trained, coordinated, and financed by Soviet intelligence with the purpose of weakening the worldwide resistance by the U.S. and its allies to the Soviet interference in world affairs. Every time a Soviet-backed Marxist group staged a coup, a terror act, or a guerilla attack against a legitimate government anywhere in the world, the &#8220;peace&#8221; movement would spring into action, denouncing the U.S. or NATO efforts to defend their allies. On command, the streets around the world would erupt with self-righteous &#8220;anti-imperialist&#8221; protests and the demands of &#8220;peace&#8221; &#8211; or, more precisely, the end of the opposition to Progressive Chauvinism.</p>
<p>The plan succeeded, most famously, with the U.S. abandoning South Vietnam. America was defeated, not on the battlefield, but in its own streets filled with leftist protesters, with the help from Progressive Chauvinists in the media who willingly promoted made-in-the-USSR propagandistic narrative. Soon afterwards, the Communist North, backed and financed by the USSR, invaded South Vietnam, slaughtering, jailing, and sending to re-education camps millions of formerly free people who opposed their brutal dictatorship. That, in the language of the leftist &#8220;pacifists,&#8221; was peace &#8211; something they celebrated by &#8220;making love, not war.&#8221; One of them was John Kerry, the former &#8220;peace&#8221; activist who is now in charge of America&#8217;s foreign affairs. Hopefully, this clarifies his idea of peace and, for that matter, of war.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s Democrat Party seems to be re-enacting the old Soviet playbook, practicing the tactics and strategies developed by the Soviet Communists during the Cold War. This includes proactive, relentless, and simultaneous attacks on the opposition in multiple areas; preemptive demonization of the resistance; advancing the notions of &#8220;change&#8221; and &#8220;historical progress&#8221; as a moral obligation of every well-meaning citizen; spreading the perception that the opposition is standing in the way of history; using the media to disseminate prepared supportive narrative; planting disinformation; rewriting history; acting through allegedly neutral proxy organizations; discrediting &#8220;enemy&#8221; media sources; promoting class warfare; stirring strife and division among citizens; provoking conflict while blaming the opposition for a hostile reaction, and so on.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the Republicans are forced to play the role of the anti-communist Western governments: they are constantly caught unawares, ducking the accusations, hectically putting out fires, rushing around and trampling their own, trying to avoid taking the blame but taking it anyway.</p>
<p>On top of it all, the White House, State Department, and DOJ overtly and covertly export revolutions and arm insurgents in world&#8217;s hottest conflict zones, with John Kerry playing the role of U.S. Secretary of State.</p>
<p>The Democrats may as well change their name into a Progressive Chauvinist Party.</p>
<p>The game of &#8220;War and Peace&#8221; however, is only the most immediate, literal implication of their chauvinist moral principle. Tolerance is similarly a one-way street. Progressive Chauvinism assumes that everyone must be tolerant of their opinions and actions, while they retain the right to self-righteous intolerance. Even questioning such a right in polite company is inadvisable lest one be treated as a lower being.</p>
<p>Progressive Chauvinists have thus been able to establish their dominion over all aspects of civil society &#8211; from forcing unionization on individuals and private companies like Wal-Mart to intimidating the banks into issuing subprime mortgages to boycotting Fox News channel to humiliating donors so they would stop supporting non-progressive politicians and organizations &#8211; all without any significant pushback. I have yet to hear of an angry mob picketing the front lawn of a Chicago community organizer.</p>
<p>The chauvinist attitude, of course, is not limited to the left, but it is characteristic of any expansionist totalitarian ideology throughout history. A force that rivals Progressive Chauvinism in today&#8217;s world is <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/oleg-atbashian/this-is-what-islamic-supremacism-looks-like/">Islamic Supremacism</a> &#8211; also known to its victims as the &#8220;religion of peace.&#8221; The attitude is almost identical: in the book of Islamic Supremacism the meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to Islam.</p>
<p>Islamic Supremacists similarly dream of an ideal, egalitarian society of the future &#8211; a global caliphate that will govern over a peaceful world populated by a Muslim majority, while the remaining non-believers would be too intimidated to oppose their Muslim superiors and prefer to pay the jizya &#8211; a special Muslim tax on non-believers, or &#8220;protection money&#8221;- as a condition that they be left in peace.</p>
<p>This allows the Islamic Supremacists to claim with truthful self-righteousness that they stand for peace. An appropriate modifier &#8211; &#8220;eventual peace&#8221; &#8211; would give a more complete picture, however, of what they hope to achieve after the holy jihad wipes out all opposition to Islam.</p>
<p>The worst murderers in recent history didn&#8217;t think of themselves as evil men; they were devoted to their mission and believed that violence was justified by the common good. The real question, after all, is not as much the amount of love as the object of affection.</p>
<p>The National Socialists of the Third Reich were driven, not just by their hatred of Jews and other &#8220;Untermenschen,&#8221; but by an equally strong love of the fairy-tale narrative of the Aryan Supremacy, which inspired them to a higher mission of ruling over the &#8220;inferior nations&#8221; for their own good. The eventual plans to exterminate some of the Slavs and drive the rest of them out of Europe were caused &#8220;only&#8221; by their &#8220;ungrateful&#8221; resistance to the benevolent gift of Germanization.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s Islamic Supremacists are motivated, not only by hatred of the nonbelievers in general and Israel in particular. They have just as powerful love of their religion, which inspires them with a higher mission of bringing peace to humanity by subjugating it to Islam and ruling over the less fortunate, backward people, who can&#8217;t correctly govern themselves since the only correct form of government is by Sharia law. The terrorist acts and violent jihad are merely an indignant reaction of the righteous and a punishment  to those inferior ingrates who have rejected the light of Islam and no longer deserve to live.</p>
<p>Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Che Guevara, and other notorious communist mass murderers all believed in historically inevitable progress; it justified their right to control the lives of others and sent them on a higher mission to help the welfare of less fortunate by means of dictatorship. Millions of their victims were merely human obstacles on the way to a beloved utopian world of historical progress that sparkled just beyond the mountains of dead bodies. It was the victims&#8217; own fault; no one can stand in the way of history and live.</p>
<p>Different stories, one common denominator: a fairy-tale collectivist narrative that inspires its adepts with a higher mission, relieves of personal responsibility, and brings forth a messianic superiority complex complete with narcissistic, chauvinist attitudes. The stronger ones love this mythical vision, the stronger ones hate the real world with its lowly material concerns that threaten to deflate and discredit the dream.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the chauvinists&#8217; world, we just live in it.</p>
<p><i>Oleg Atbashian, a writer and graphic artist from the former USSR, is the author of <a href="http://www.shakedownsocialism.com/" target="_blank">Shakedown Socialism</a>, of which David Horowitz said, &#8220;I hope everyone reads this book.&#8221; In 1994 he moved to the U.S. with the hope of living in a country ruled by reason and common sense, but he discovered a nation deeply infected by the leftist disease of &#8220;progressivism.&#8221; His writings and illustrations regularly appear in <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/" target="_blank">American Thinker</a>, <a href="http://pjmedia.com/" target="_blank">PJ Media</a>, and other popular conservative websites. He is also the creator of a satirical news forum <a href="http://www.thepeoplescube.com/" target="_blank">ThePeoplesCube.com</a>. </i></p>
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		<title>Preserve Your Dictator! (An Infomercial)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The loss of a tyrant leaves a tremendous hole in our lives -- DictatorSaver is here to help. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/oleg-atbashian/preserve-your-dictator-an-infomercial/dictator_saver_fist/" rel="attachment wp-att-182141"><img class=" wp-image-182141 alignleft" title="Dictator_Saver_Fist" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Dictator_Saver_Fist.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="279" /></a>Dictators &#8211; be they of the left, center-left, or centrist variety &#8211; are <a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/atlas-obscura-s-guide-to-communist-mummies" target="_blank">a very important part of everyone&#8217;s lives</a>. They unconditionally share with us other people&#8217;s wealth even when we don&#8217;t ask for it &#8211; and all they want in return is our approval and total compliance. Whether we are at home, at work, or relaxing with friends, our beloved dictator is always kindly watching our every step, protecting us from our own bad choices and unhealthy urges.</p>
<p>But there inevitably comes a time to say &#8220;good-bye.&#8221; The loss of a tyrant leaves a tremendous hole in our lives and the grief can be overwhelming. After the shock wears off, we are faced with the dilemma of what to do with the remains. Many heart-broken subjects can&#8217;t stand the thought of having dear leader cremated or buried like a mere human.</p>
<p>Thankfully, today&#8217;s technology gives us several comforting alternatives, ranging from vacuum sealing to freeze-dry preservation. Although they are no longer living, despots can perpetually remain in our presence, and can even be displayed to groups of awestruck school children or added to the bus tour circuit for hard-currency foreign visitors.</p>
<p>If your favorite dictator has passed on to the &#8220;Rainbow Bridge to Utopia,&#8221; or you are preparing for his untimely death in advance, you may want to consider these options.</p>
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<p>Vacuum sealing is relatively inexpensive and can be performed in any presidential palace setting. Modern wonders, such as the DictatorSaver 2000 Vacuum Sealer, which can preserve up to twelve dear leaders in rapid succession in case of multiple consecutive coups d&#8217;etat, has the speed, affordability, and ease of operation that makes it a favorite for many developing countries.</p>
<p>However, if your leader had been trying to save your struggling economy for over a decade and is worth over a billion dollars as a result, you may want to go with a more expensive freeze-drying option. The most reliable freeze-drying dictator-preserving provider is Perpetual Dictator Inc., a socially conscious company with branches in many humanitarian disaster areas designated for Western aid by the United Nations.</p>
<p>&#8220;At Perpetual Dictator, we know that the loss of a dearly loved national leader can be a difficult experience,&#8221; says CEO Vladlen Marlenov. &#8220;Through the use of new techniques in freeze-dry technology, we can offer a &#8216;Loving and Lasting&#8217; alternative to vacuum sealing or traditional taxidermy and mummification. It allows us to preserve any deceased leader, regardless of the cause of death, without any alteration in appearance and in any position &#8211; from a peaceful repose to giving a passionate speech to waving a saber on top of a freeze-dried stallion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Experienced professionals at Perpetual Dictator can create a durable memorial that preserves your favorite authoritarian in a natural state for generations to come, allowing the forlorn subjects to see, touch, and cuddle their tyrants &#8211; and, in a sense, &#8220;never have to let go.&#8221; Best of all, your dictator gets to keep his or her actual, physical body. This is in sharp contrast to the conventional method of taxidermy, in which only the outer hide of the dictator typically remains, attached to a plastic form or other type of artificial mounting.</p>
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<p>Growing up in a totalitarian dictatorship in one of the former provinces of the Soviet Union, Vladlen Marlenov learned early on not to get too attached to the country&#8217;s elderly leaders, who were prone to dying with predictable regularity.</p>
<p>His devoted customers are a different story. Autocracy lovers the world over count on Perpetual Dictator to faithfully preserve Kim, Hugo, and other beloved leaders for posterity, even if it means taking millions of dollars out of their depleted budgets.</p>
<p>This is where generous humanitarian aid comes in, provided by Western democracies out of sentimental nostalgia for a caring philosopher-king who can legislate the common good by executive order and redistribute national wealth to the masses despite the opposition from the obstructionist, filibustering reactionaries.</p>
<p>&#8220;Money is not an issue when so many poor people are devastated by the death of their dictator,&#8221; says Marlenov. &#8220;For most of them, tyranny is a way of life. This may seem a little eccentric, but preserving a dictator&#8217;s body helps them to feel better about living in squalor and misery.&#8221;</p>
<p>Marlenov&#8217;s studio is a testament to the devotion of the struggling masses to their leaders. Lifelike dictators of all sizes and colors are scattered throughout his showroom: a brooding South American general with a stuffed parrot nailed to his shoulder; a spirited African prince with a big frozen smile, a snarling Asian nationalist, and a smattering of heads of state from the former Soviet republics. Departed dictators of all persuasions spend up to one year in freeze-dry metal drums before they are painstakingly preserved and returned to their doting subjects.</p>
<p>The company also builds supersized mausoleums to customer specifications. The adjacent showroom contains a display of hand-painted papier-mâché models, from the historic Lenin Mausoleum and Chairman Mao Memorial Hall to more affordable Third-World resting places.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Lenin Mausoleum is a classic prototype and an all-time favorite,&#8221; admits Marlenov. &#8220;If you&#8217;ve got enough Western aid and want to go crazy, we can even build Red Square around it, complete with the State GUM and cobblestone pavement. And if you also order the Kremlin wall with the towers, we&#8217;ll throw in free decorative snowdrifts made of durable Styrofoam for those in tropical climates.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If you think freeze-dry preservation of your dictator is for you, please give us a call. You&#8217;ll be treated with respect and dignity you deserve.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>This Is What Islamic Supremacism Looks Like</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An investigation into Wikipedia's claim that Islamic supremacism is an illusion. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/islam3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-145876" title="islam3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/islam3.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="222" /></a>President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is in New York. According to the regime&#8217;s official <a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9106240890">FARS News Agency</a>, he is &#8220;set to meet American university students, artists, intellectuals and elites, including Occupy Wall Street anti-capitalist protestors, despite the ongoing efforts made by the pro-Zionist lobbies to prevent direct link between American people and the Iranian president.&#8221;</p>
<p>The irony of this announcement must be lost on all of the above, including the Occupy Wall Street anti-capitalist fighters against all things supremacist: they are about to offer a propagandistic platform to a leading figure of Islamic supremacism, whose &#8220;news&#8221; agency can&#8217;t even file a short report without an anti-Semitic jab.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacism">Wikipedia</a> defines supremacism as &#8220;the belief that a particular race, species, ethnic group, religion, gender, sexual orientation, class, belief system or culture is superior to others and entitles those who identify with it to dominate, control or rule those who do not.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whoa! Wait one oppression-fighting minute! Species? Sexual orientation? Is there an article in Wikipedia where the sneaky &#8220;progressives&#8221; haven&#8217;t laid their silly post-modernist eggs? But let&#8217;s play &#8220;which word doesn&#8217;t belong&#8221; some other time. A more pressing issue here is that the above definition perfectly describes Islam, states its goals and motivations, and explains the origins and purpose of the segregationist Sharia legal system that purports to be superior to individual equality and liberty.</p>
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<p>Counter-terror experts describe Islamic supremacism as an activist, transnational ideology that seeks the transformation or assimilation of every human being, with the ultimate goal to establish a global Islamic caliphate to govern Earth. Islamic supremacism may provide the ideological basis for Jihadist terrorism, but its adherents seek to attack and undermine equality and liberty using many other tactics.</p>
<p>Not only is Islam today&#8217;s most potent, long-lasting, and threatening form of supremacism &#8211; it is also the one that is being willfully overlooked by its potential victims, who are all too busy welcoming it in New York: the aforementioned &#8220;American university students, artists, intellectuals and elites, including Occupy Wall Street anti-capitalist protestors.&#8221; Might I add that deemed inferior are also those who plant words like &#8220;species&#8221; and &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; into the Wikipedia definition of supremacism.</p>
<p>The latter themselves represent a loosely organized &#8220;religion of peace,&#8221; united by their faith that word manipulation can somehow alter reality. They may even feel superior to others due to their skills in &#8220;framing the debate.&#8221; And yet, despite their ritualistic lying to themselves and others, there is no such thing as &#8220;moderate supremacism&#8221; or &#8220;the supremacism of peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>An example of their intellectual and moral contortionism is found in the same Wikipedia article, which laughably claims that Islamic supremacism is an illusion caused by &#8220;misinterpreting&#8221; Islam&#8217;s history of invasions, massacres, oppression, and slave trade.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Some academics and writers have alleged Muslim or Islamic supremacism. The Qur&#8217;an and other Islamic documents always speak of tolerant and protective beliefs which have been misused, misquoted and misinterpreted by supremacists and anti-Islamic elements. Specific examples of how supremacists have exploited the name of Islam includes Muslim participation in the African slave trade, the early 20th century pan-Islamism promoted by Abdul Hamid II, the jizya and rules of marriage in Muslim countries being imposed on non-Muslims, the majority Muslim interpretations of the rules of pluralism in Malaysia, and &#8220;defensive&#8221; supremacism practised [sic] by some Muslim immigrants in Europe.</em></p></blockquote>
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