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		<title>Where Has All the English Gone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susanne M. Reyto]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are we afraid to tell the truth?]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: More information on the unholy alliance&#8217;s campaign to silence critics of the jihadi threat can be found in David Horowitz and Robert Spencer&#8217;s pamphlet, &#8220;Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future,&#8221; available in our <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=OGTAUUU8UWRC">bookstore</a>.</strong></p>
<p>For a person like me who learned English as a second language, the current trend of inventing new meanings for words is a disturbing phenomenon. Our vocabulary is transforming, particularly in politics, where the new interpretation of news and events is distorted to adversely affect reality.</p>
<p>It started with our government demanding that we stop using certain words and specifying alternates. &#8220;Overseas contingency operation.” “Man-caused disaster.” “Anti-Islamic activity.”  These are the terms currently required by our administration for the “global war on terror,” “terrorism,” and “Islamic terrorism.” At times, &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; has been used for &#8220;terrorists.&#8221; The new expressions are vague to the point of meaninglessness and don’t convey the facts.</p>
<p>These phrases appear in internal government memos, as well as media articles, preventing the public from being properly informed. A new edition of the lexicon might also include euphemisms for serial killers and serial rapists as &#8220;man-caused afflictions&#8221; or &#8220;uninvited shoppers&#8221; for shoplifters.</p>
<p>An official memo from the National Counterterrorism Communication Center directs the replacement of &#8220;terrorists&#8221; with vague words like “extremists&#8221; or &#8220;totalitarians.” Officials are to “refrain from using so-called harsh words or Arabic words with Islamic consequence.” Instead they are to use generic terms without specific emphasis. Why? Terrorists attack us and we should not use harsh words? The word “jihad” is used by the radicals themselves, why can’t we use it? Going one step further, the government has drafted official guidelines in the publication “Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims, a guide for U.S. Government Officials.”</p>
<p>In addition, the government has required corporations, state, federal and various other agencies to hold &#8220;sensitivity training&#8221; for dealing with the Muslim community. We have never had such requirements. We seemed to get along with people of other faiths. Any opposition expressed to the Muslim community is considered an attack. What happened to free speech?</p>
<p>Is there a problem with truth and facts and, most importantly, with the appropriate use of the English language?  The government instructed us to use &#8220;undocumented immigrant&#8221; instead of &#8220;illegal alien.&#8221; They are not synonymous. The word &#8220;illegal&#8221; means against the law and punishable by law. Our obligation is to follow the law and promote lawful behavior. Using the new expressions confuses the facts. Why are we afraid to tell the truth? How can we correct something if we cannot describe it properly? Does &#8220;uninvited shopper&#8221; mean the same as &#8220;shoplifter&#8221;? Hardly.</p>
<p>Now we learn that the Defense Department has reclassified the Fort Hood massacre as “workplace  violence.&#8221;<strong>  </strong>The incident had nothing to do with Major Hasan&#8217;s work or the workplace. This mass murderer was shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; as he fired and killed thirteen innocent people. On his private business cards under his name was printed, &#8220;Soldier of Allah.&#8221;</p>
<p>Radical Islamists use our constitutional freedoms to sabotage our system of government from the inside. Sen. Susan Collins suggested on December 7, 2011 that the Defense Department classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence seems to place political correctness above the security of the nation&#8217;s armed forces at home.</p>
<p>On 9/11 we were attacked, yet people who are critical about Islam are called &#8220;Islamophobes.&#8221; <strong></strong>The truth must be known &#8212; there is no such thing as Islamophobia. The definition of &#8220;phobia&#8221; is an irrational fear. However, our fear of Islam is very real as a result of 9/11, coupled with the constant barrage of anti-Western sentiments expressed by Muslim leaders. It is imperative that we listen to them and not ignore them.</p>
<p>Ever wonder where the term &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; came from?</p>
<p>According to a<strong> </strong>FrontPage Magazine column<strong> </strong>posted by <a title="Posts by Robert Spencer" href="../author/robert-spencer/">Robert Spencer</a> on Dec. 30, 2011, it was deliberately invented by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), based in Northern Virginia.</p>
<p>Abhdur-Rahman Muhammad, a former member of the IIIT describes the strategy behind the word&#8217;s invention:</p>
<blockquote><p>In an effort to silence critics of political Islam, advocates needed to come up with terminology that would enable them to portray themselves as victims. Muhammad said he was present years ago when his then allies, meeting at the offices of the IIIT&#8230; coined the term &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Consider the power of this word, how the media exploits it and how politicians fear it.</p>
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		<title>Will Jewish Community Leaders Stand Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susanne M. Reyto]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are rabbis amongst us supporting the Ground Zero Mosque?]]></description>
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<p><em>“Multiculturalism has utterly failed. . . .For years we&#8217;ve been deceiving ourselves.” </em>Recent pronouncement of German Chancellor Merkel.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Radical Islam is a clear and present danger to America.&#8221;</em><br />
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on July 29, 2010 at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.</p>
<p>These statements by German Chancellor Merkel and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich serve as dire warnings to Westerners about the threat that we face in the terror war, yet many of our national and community leaders and clergy refuse to absorb the message, thereby representing the troubling and pathological phenomenon of denial in our society.</p>
<p>Our leadership fails to understand that our gestures of kindness and accommodation are interpreted as signs of weakness by the Islamic world. Peace cannot be created with forces who do not share our common values. And it is vital to stress: <em>we are not fighting with Muslims</em>; we are fighting with Islamic ideology. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan stated it accurately when he said, &#8220;there is no such thing as moderate Islam vs. radical Islam, there is only Islam.&#8221; If there are moderates, they remain largely irrelevant because they either remain silent or they do not have influential positions in leadership.</p>
<p>When the Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Mosque preached picking up the sword and fighting the infidel to rule our nation, Charles Jacobs, a prominent Jewish community leader, exposed the problems associated with the backers of the Mosque. Several of them have been convicted of fraud. Yet, in support of the Mosque, Rabbi Eric Gurvis and 70 other rabbis from Massachusetts <em>blamed Jacobs</em> for his comments rather than allow the truth to be known.</p>
<p>New York Rabbi Joy Levitt of Manhattan JCC and Rabbi Michael Friedland of South Bend, Indiana are major supporters of the mosque in New York. They ignore the fact that the planned mosque is actually part of Ground Zero. The building was condemned due to major damage caused by the fuselage of one of the terrorist planes. They also ignore that during Islamic domination, mosques were purposely built over the ruins of destroyed churches and Synagogues as a symbol of victory &#8212; like the mosque in Cordoba, Spain, the <em>Hagia Sophia</em> in Istanbul and the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>In the Los Angeles area, home to the second largest Jewish community in the United States, many rabbis including Jonathan Klein, Steven Jacobs and Reuven Firestone support the Ground Zero Mosque. Rabbis Neil Comess-Daniels and Steven Carr Reuben, on the two holiest days in Judaism, chose overtly political sermons in support of the Ground Zero Mosque and the virtues of Islam.</p>
<p>Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple, the spiritual leader of one of the largest Conservative congregations in the United States, has been made aware, most recently by Morton Klein, President of ZOA, the Zionist Organization of America, about problems with Dr. Maher Hathout, a leading spokesperson for the American Muslim community. Hathout is co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and one of the founders of &#8212; and senior advisor to &#8212; the Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC). He supports attacks on Israel by the terrorist group Hezbollah and has called Israel a land of “butchers” and a system of “racist apartheid.”  In January 2008, Hathout gave his Friday sermon on the “Tragedy in Gaza,” and defended Hamas’ rocket attacks on Israel’s civilian communities.</p>
<p>Despite these matters being brought to the attention of Rabbi Wolpe, he has not taken a position of protecting the Jewish Community from such hateful commentary. He even had the Sinai Akiba 7th graders visit the Islamic Center in Los Angeles for a first-hand experience and the youngsters were lectured by no less than Dr. Hathout himself.</p>
<p>This is troublesome, particularly since at this moment in history, fanatics rule Islam. Fanatics wage wars worldwide and systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa. Fanatics bomb, behead, murder and honor-kill. Fanatics zealously insist on stoning and hanging adulterers, rape victims and homosexuals. It is these fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.</p>
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