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		<title>Living in a Sharia Enclave in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 04:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Y. Kerry Sara]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lessons I learned from my personal nightmarish experience. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sharia-Law-in-America.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240752" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sharia-Law-in-America-450x337.png" alt="Sharia-Law-in-America" width="268" height="201" /></a>The United States and Western Europe are confronting the increasing threat of their citizens traveling to the Middle East to join the worldwide Islamic jihad. Over the past few months, numerous news reports have shed light on disaffected citizens from America and Britain joining the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or other terrorists groups and leaving to train and fight in the Middle East. ISIS is adept at using social media to correspond with Western nationals from Europe and North America predisposed to radicalization.</p>
<p>Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, the ISIS militant filmed beheading American journalists Steven Sotloff last week and James Foley three weeks ago, is a former British citizen.  Abdel Bary is one of up to 500 Britons believed to have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight with Islamist groups.</p>
<p>Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha &#8212; a man born and raised in Florida &#8212; carried out a suicide bomb attack in Syria in May of this year.  Before he completed his terror strike, Abu-Salha came back to America on his United States passport.  Later, he appeared in a video released by Al Qaeda showing him destroying his passport and leaving a disturbing message for America: &#8220;We are coming for you.&#8221;</p>
<p>In late August, two men from the Minneapolis, Minnesota region &#8212; Abdirahmaan Muhumed and Douglas McAuthur McCain &#8212; were killed fighting with ISIS in Syria.  Before Muhumed left America to join ISIS, he was employed at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport refueling commercial airliners.  He also had a security clearance, giving him access to sensitive areas of the airport.  Douglas McAuthur McCain was a high-school classmate of Troy Kastigar, a Muslim convert, who was killed fighting with Islamic militants in Somalia in 2009.</p>
<p>The latest report of a person to leave the U.S. and travel to Syria to fight for ISIS is of a 19-year-old Somali woman from St. Paul, Minnesota.</p>
<p>Many Americans believe that the effort by Islamic militants to recruit young men and women from the United States and Western Europe to fight on behalf of fundamentalist Islam is a recent phenomenon.  However, I have personally watched many troubled people be targeted by Islamic radicals since I was a child.  My experience has given me an up-close and personal look at Americans who, whether they realize it or not, are offering aid and comfort to the enemy in cities and towns all across our country.</p>
<p>When I was a child, my mother rejected traditional values and morality to join the counter-cultural movement of the 1970’s. Soon after I was born, my mother changed her name from Annette to a completely Islamicized name.  I was unlucky when it came to fathers and father figures.  My biological father abandoned my mother right after I was born.  Like many poor inner-city African Americans, I know very little about my father.</p>
<p>After revolving around the fringes of the radical left in Buffalo, New York – my mother converted to Islam and joined an Islamic cult.</p>
<p>The leader of the cult established a polygamous “family” of 5 women and all of their children by means of an evil blend of Islam, left-wing ideology and street-level pimp philosophy.  He formed this “family” to satisfy his lust and greed.  In his position as head of the household, he used Islam&#8217;s advocacy of polygamy to convince my mother and four other women to live with him in one two-story home together.</p>
<p>The cult leader, my mother, and the other women in the house manipulated Islamic principles to allow for physical and sexual abuse of the women and children.  All of the adults were physically, verbally and emotionally abusive toward the children.  The leader physically and sexually exploited everyone.</p>
<p>After my mother left the cult she met and subsequently married another Muslim man.  He was a street hustling ex-con.  My mother allowed him to be physically violent towards me and my siblings.  I distinctly remember that he, my mother and the Muslims in Buffalo at the time praised the efforts of the Iranian terrorists who took fifty-two American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days during President Jimmy Carter&#8217;s term in office.</p>
<p>After President Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the members of the Islamic community that we belonged to turned to extremism.  They supported the political power of the Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as well as those who resisted the economic sanctions against Iran and any normalization of relations with the West.</p>
<p>My mother divorced her husband in the early 1990s. She eventually married the leader of a Muslim Mosque in Buffalo, New York. He was also an ex-con and parlayed his criminal past into a job as a prison imam. As a leader in the Islamic community, he would engage in public speeches and publish many writings on religion, politics and society.</p>
<p>All of this Muslim man&#8217;s speeches and writings were highly critical of American society, culture, our system of law and the United States government. Philosophically, this mosque leader would promote Sharia law and the commandments mandated by Islam over the United States Constitution and any oaths of allegiances that would require Muslims to support or defend the country.  This theoretical outlook is consistent with all of the imams and Muslim leaders that I have been exposed to.</p>
<p>I remember that I would wonder how the various Islamic leaders really felt about their U.S. citizenship.  Because many members of the American Islamic community view Western society and culture the same way as Muslims in the Middle-East &#8212; as heretical and idolatrous &#8212; Muslim leaders in America often go to great lengths to criticize the United States.  I observed this same attitude among the Muslims that I encountered while I was a member of the United States Army.  I would question how all of the Muslim military members truly viewed their oath to protect the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.</p>
<p>Given what I have observed of those fascinated by the message of radical Islam in the black community and the military, I can only conclude that many Muslims have the same goals as Nidal Malik Hasan: they want to expand the Islamic caliphate to Western Europe and the United States.  Hasan is, of course, the former United States Army officer who fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5, 2009.</p>
<p>All of the Muslims that were around me when I was young &#8212; including members of my own family &#8212; supported the hard-line viewpoints and medieval thinking of the most extreme elements of the worldwide Islamic movement.  When I was a child I remember that I was constantly confused by the support that I witnessed for the forced veiling of women and the willingness to treat females and children as property to be used and abused at the whim of the men that surrounded us.</p>
<p>Why are so many citizens in the United States and Western Europe so willing to convert to Islam and adopt its religious values of violence and repression?  Many of the people around me when I was a child looked to radicalism out of social frustration.  They thought that they could find the solution to their failed lives through common cause and contact with international terrorists and tyrants.</p>
<p>However, the main driving forces pushing so many Westerners to jihad are the toxic ideologies of Islam and social radicalism.  Many jihad converts lead lives of social prestige and privilege.  They come from families that give them every financial advantage for success. But still they turn to fanaticism.</p>
<p>Prospective jihadists from Western European countries see joining the worldwide Islamist movement as an ideological response to America and its international allies.  It is an extension of the logic that my mother and other social radicals had in the 1960s, &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s. They have hatred for<span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span class="zw-portion">the </span><span class="zw-portion">Western system, </span><span class="zw-portion">so they turn to communalism, decadence and support for terrorism.</span></p>
<p class="spacer-para" style="color: #000000;">However, the only thing that the jihadist traitors from the West are achieving is personal exploitation in one form or another by the leaders of the worldwide jihad.  They also generate death, spread emotional pain to their families and shame the communities that they originate from.</p>
<p>The Muslim community in America has been devoting significant resources to the media in an effort to convince the public that there is a strong moderate social influence in Islam that is opposed to the threat that radical jihadists present to Western civilization. But my experience living under a nightmare version of Sharia law in America and the contemporary threat of large numbers of young Americans trained by Muslim extremists to return home and commit acts of terror blows a serious hole into the logic of that line of thinking.</p>
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		<title>A Former Community Organizer&#8217;s View of Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Obama's destructive legacy is reflected in the Missouri lynch mob. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferguson-masked-protesters-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239249" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferguson-masked-protesters-AP-450x337.jpg" alt="ferguson-masked-protesters-AP" width="320" height="240" /></a>For the past several days I have been watching news reports on the mayhem that is happening in Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>Personally, I have tried to ignore the events going on there since 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson.  Michael Brown was shot after he robbed a convenience store on August 9<sup>th </sup>2014.  Officer Wilson shot Brown after Brown assaulted Wilson subsequent to the officer approaching the suspect while responding to the robbery call via emergency communication.</p>
<p>The reason I attempted to ignore the situation is that it reminds me of my days when I was working as a community organizer for the ACLU in Buffalo, New York.  It is a period in my life that I would rather forget.</p>
<p>I had the task of working on cases of police brutality.  When an incident would happen between the police and a suspect or group of suspects, protests would invariably begin.  The protesters would allege police brutality or misconduct.  The media would get involved and many “leaders” and “activists” would make wild and irresponsible charges against anyone who did not fall in line with the radical ideology of the organizers of the protests.</p>
<p>Does any of this sound familiar?</p>
<p>However, I did not expect the situation in Ferguson to spiral out of control like it has.</p>
<p>Why are black Americans reacting to this incident with so much anger and violence?  Michael Brown was obviously a dangerous young criminal who assaulted both a store clerk and a police officer.</p>
<p>The distress of so many black people goes beyond who Michael Brown was or what he was doing at the time of his death.</p>
<p>What everyone seems to be missing is that after 6 years of the historic election of the first African-American to the office of the President of the United States, many young black people still have a highly adversarial relationship with sources of civil authority and American society.</p>
<p>I vividly remember the emotional feeling that was present in the atmosphere right after President Obama won the election in November of 2008.  I was one of the few people in my community who did not support Barack Obama when he was running for President.  Furthermore, I was the <i>only</i> black person that I knew who favored Senator McCain over Senator Obama.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, when I stepped out of the door of my apartment building on the morning of November 5, 2008 I immediately sensed that the world was somehow different.  I could <i>literally see</i> the pride and happiness in the faces of other black people that I came across that day.</p>
<p>When I visited a coffee shop that morning for my daily caffeine fix, there was a white woman who was sitting at one of the café tables talking to another white woman about the historic significance of what happened the night before.  One of the women was <i>crying tears of joy</i>.</p>
<p>President-elect Barack Obama had so enthralled a segment of citizens with his message of hope and change that many people actually believed in the prospective future of our country and anticipated that many positive changes were soon to come.</p>
<p>I remember thinking to myself: <i>“Maybe I am wrong about Barack Obama and what I think he represents.”</i></p>
<p>Fast forward 6 years to August 2014.</p>
<p>The almost universal African-American support for Senator Barack Obama in 2008 has dissipated to a degree. It is important to note this phenomenon because the black leadership class of the country from <i>both sides</i> of the political spectrum &#8212; not just the right wing &#8212; are questioning the impact and legacy of Barack Obama’s presidency.</p>
<p>Many black citizens think that the President is indifferent to the plight of poor people in the United States. President Obama is silent on the breakdown of family values and civil society in the black community until an incident like the shooting death of Michael Brown forces him to focus on the decline of community standards and moral behavior.</p>
<p>It is under the tenure of the first black President that poor black families are seeing their chances of moving up the income ladder into the middle class disappear before their eyes.  Black parents are observing that their children are being born into poverty and realizing that they are likely to die in poverty.  African-American families are not living the American Dream.  Generation after generation are stuck in a practical social nightmare.</p>
<p>This is the political and social environment that manifests itself in our country after six years of President Obama’s administration.  It is this environment that creates fertile ground for race-baiting organizations like the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam to plant seeds of hate among the other rabble rousers showing up in Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>In light of what is happening on the ground in Missouri we have to wonder how many of the people who are causing the problems in the region bought into the President’s message of hope and change back in 2008.</p>
<p>Now some of those self-same individuals are fueling what investigative reporter Matthew Vadum called “a vicious war against civil society in Ferguson.”</p>
<p>It is without doubt that many of the troublemakers in Ferguson today supported Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, and not only because he was black.  They also genuinely believed that he would develop legislative policies and social programs that would help African-American communities and the poor people of this nation.</p>
<p>Now, that hope and belief has transformed into racially motivated violence and anger.</p>
<p>The President has not only failed the black community.  He has unwittingly pitted black and Hispanic poor and disenfranchised communities against one another through his inaction on the illegal immigration issue.  He has attempted to out-flank congressional Republicans in the realm of public opinion by using the Hispanic community as a political wedge.</p>
<p>There is something about the philosophical makeup and social structure of American black communities that makes young black men like Michael Brown choose the route of criminal activity and social exclusion over integration into the mainstream of our society.</p>
<p>There is no one in the urban communities to warn young people like Mr. Brown of the consequences of behaving like a felon.  Someone should have told him that the gangster rap music that he loved so much is full of messages that either has no basis in objective reality or will bring direct problems to the individuals who choose to believe in those ideas.</p>
<p>If you choose to behave like a criminal you are subject to being detained, arrested, assailed or killed by members of the police department.</p>
<p>This is a most basic fact of living in a civil society that anyone with a head on his shoulders should be able to understand.  Yet many African-American men make the choice to believe that the rules of society do not apply to them.</p>
<p>If there is any group of people that the President should have been desperately trying to reach with his message of hope and change it is young men like Michael Brown.</p>
<p>Instead, many of them are currently in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri engaging in violence and causing mischief and mayhem.</p>
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