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		<title>Glazov Gang 2014 Episode of the Year &#8212; Dinesh D&#8217;Souza</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The acclaimed conservative author and filmmaker discussed his stellar new book and motion picture.]]></description>
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<p>This year’s<strong> Glazov Gang 2014 Episode of the Year Award</strong> goes to two special episodes &#8212; each of them joined by a stellar titan who is on the front-lines of the culture and terror war courageously defending our civilization&#8217;s freedom.</p>
<p>One of the winning episodes was with <a href="http://www.americathemovie.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Dinesh D’Souza</strong></a>, acclaimed conservative author and filmmaker who is the author of the book, <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/America-Imagine-World-without-Her/dp/162157203X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1406272202&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=america+dinesh" target="_blank">America: Imagine a World Without Her</a> </strong>– which is also a<a href="http://www.americathemovie.com/" target="_blank"> <strong>major motion picture</strong></a>.</p>
<p>We are honored to present the special episode,<strong> “America: Imagine a World Without Her,”</strong> below.</p>
<p>Our other Glazov Gang 2014 episode award winner was with <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/glazov-gangs-2014-episode-of-the-year-geert-wilders/"><strong>Geert Wilders</strong></a> and ran in <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/glazov-gangs-2014-episode-of-the-year-geert-wilders/">yesterday&#8217;s issue</a>.</p>
<p>The Glazov Gang team extends special thanks to all of our guests, viewers and supporters and wishes all of them a happy, healthy and successful new year.</p>
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		<title>Catholic Praise for Anti-Semitic Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['America' magazine joins ranks with neo-Nazis in support of Blumenthal screed. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/America_Jesuit_magazine.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-247750" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/America_Jesuit_magazine.jpg" alt="America_(Jesuit_magazine)" width="232" height="300" /></a>Among critics of Israel today, there emerges a handful whose opposition to the existence of the Jewish State is so pernicious that their criticism can accurately be described as Jew-hatred. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/the-new-york-times-hits-rock-bottom-with-max-blumenthal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Max Blumenthal</span></a>, a marginal character who is desperately trying to make inroads into the mainstream, stands at the lead of this fringe group of miscreants. Even those on the far left, who are often critical of Israel, find Blumenthal to be a repugnant malcontent. So outrageous is his conduct that his mischief earned him a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/max-blumenthal-banned-from-german-parliament-after-attack-blames-jewish-conspiracy/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">lifetime ban</span></a> from the German parliament.</p>
<p>Blumenthal, the author of “<i>Goliath</i>: <i>Life and Loathing in Greater Israel</i>,” a book widely viewed as an anti-Semitic screed that one prominent leftist critic noted could easily make it to the top of the “<a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hamas book of the month club</span></a>,” has largely been ignored by the mainstream and rightfully so. It represents the modern day equivalent of the notorious <i>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</i> and is filled with invective, conspiracy, distortion, conflation, and outright fabrication designed to malign and disparage the Mideast’s only democracy.</p>
<p>Though most within the mainstream recognize <i>Goliath</i> for what it is, an <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/176691/i-hate-israel-handbook"><span style="color: #0433ff;">unscholarly, error-ridden, heap of rubbish</span></a>, there are still some who flirt with its premise that an “undemocratic,” “racist,” “war-like” Israel is the cause of the Mideast’s ills and the angelic Muslim world remains blameless. Elements within the Catholic Church have unfortunately subscribed to this narrative.</p>
<p>In December, <i>America</i> magazine, a national weekly magazine with Roman Catholic affiliation and published by the Jesuits of the United States, <a href="http://americamagazine.org/issue/culture/majority-rules"><span style="color: #0433ff;">featured</span></a> an extremely positive review of Blumenthal’s version of <i>Mein Kampf </i>that lacked any form of critical analysis. The reviewer swallows Blumenthal’s racist calumny lock, stock and barrel and accepts its vitriolic premise without reservation or equivocation.</p>
<p><i>Goliath</i> engages is some of the most pernicious forms of anti-Semitism. Comparisons of Israel with Nazi Germany – a common tactic of Jew haters – are peppered throughout the book with chapters entitled, “The Concentration Camp” and “The Night of Broken Glass,” the latter, a reference to <i>Kristallnacht </i>when Nazi hooligans went on a rampage executing a pogrom against the Jews of Germany. There’s also a near infantile but equally malevolent chapter entitled “How to Kill Goyim and Influence People,” evoking medieval imagery of scheming Jewish plotting to murder non-Jews.</p>
<p>By subscribing to the odious views espoused by Blumenthal,<i> America</i> magazine now finds itself in the unenviable position of being in the same company of various hate groups.  Extreme neo-Nazi forums have also taken up Blumenthal’s cause, whose opinions have been cited with approval on <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Nazi Internet forums</span></a> like <i>Stormfront</i> as well as by serial murderer, Frazier Glenn Miller, the KKK man who slaughtered three people at two separate Jewish community centers in Overland Park, Kansas.</p>
<p>I considered the possibility that the publication of this review by a prominent Catholic magazine was perhaps a mere oversight and simply reflected a lack of proper editorial review, but a <a href="http://americamagazine.org/issue/current-comment-66"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recent editorial</span></a> by the magazine trashes that possibility.  The one-sided editorial blasts Prime Minister Netanyahu and other “Zionist radicals” for obstructing a “two-state solution” and imposing “collective punishment.”</p>
<p>As is customary with Israel bashers, facts harmful to the pro-Palestinian narrative are <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/western-indifference-to-the-palestinian-culture-of-hate/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">routinely overlooked</span></a> making a mockery of any claim to impartiality and insightful analysis. The editors of <i>America</i> fail to note the <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/jihad-in-jerusalem-1416356018"><span style="color: #0433ff;">endless flow of anti-Semitic vitriol</span></a> and violently hateful rhetoric spewed forth daily from the Palestinian Authority’s propaganda apparatus. It’s an inconvenient truth they prefer to ignore.</p>
<p>They also tend to ignore the heinous acts of murder and butchery leading up to Israel’s imposition of so-called “collective punishment” and shamefully only note these murders within the context of Israeli retaliation. In other words, it takes an act of house demolition to highlight the more egregious act of murder that preceded it. Jewish blood is cheap, but heaven forbid, take down a few cinder blocks, and the self-proclaimed humanitarians of the world scream from the rooftops.</p>
<p>Another salient point brings <i>America </i>magazine’s hypocrisy into sharper focus. While they are indignant over the destruction of less than a half-dozen homes belonging to terrorist-murderers responsible for killing women and children, not a single word is uttered over Egypt’s recent decision to destroy some <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/world/middleeast/egypt-sinai-peninsula-gaza-buffer-zone.html?_r=1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">eight-hundred homes</span></a> bordering Gaza to pave the way for the construction of an anti-tunnel barrier. And while those slated for house demolition in Israel have the right to appeal (and often win), no such appellate process is offered for Egyptians whose recourse is either to comply or face the business end of an AK-47.</p>
<p>Jewish-Catholic rapprochement has come a long way since the Holocaust. Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor Pope John Paul II did much to advance relations between Israel and the Vatican. Sadly, however, old habits die hard and there remain vestiges of those within the Catholic Church who harbor anti-Semitic views and hostile attitudes toward Israel and wish to see the Church regress to positions of darker times past. Judging by its recent editorials blasting Israel exclusively and book reviews extolling the works of a rabid anti-Semite, the publishers of <i>America</i> magazine can include themselves among this ignominious group.</p>
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		<title>Sloppy Thinking About &#8216;Torture&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does the Senate report make America no longer the “city on the hill”?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mccainfein.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247511" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mccainfein-450x282.jpg" alt="John McCain, Dianne Feinstein" width="298" height="187" /></a>Torture is one of those topics that often overwhelm sober reason with lurid emotion. Even people who usually are clear-eyed and rational sink into sloppy thinking and incoherent argument when it comes to torture. Peggy Noonan’s recent <em>Wall Street Journal</em> column about the Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation techniques illustrates this phenomenon perfectly.</p>
<p>Noonan is usually an astute analyst, but her column on the report is riddled with received wisdom and unexamined assumptions. For Noonan, the “important lesson” of the report is <em>not</em> that progressives, as usual, are shameful hypocrites and partisan hacks who will damage their country’s interests for ideological or political advantage. It is not that when fighting a brutal enemy who obeys no laws of war, things are done we’d rather not do in order to save lives. No, her “lesson” is that the enhanced interrogation techniques, “torture” in her view, are “not like us” or “part of the American DNA,” and that, quoting John McCain, such techniques damage “our reputation as a force for good in the world.” These assertions, however, are based on simplistic psychology and flawed reasoning.</p>
<p>First, with very few isolated exceptions, none of the interrogation techniques meets the U.S. Code’s legal definition of torture, which requires the intent to cause severe suffering “other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions,” in the words of the statute. Noonan may think the EITs are “what I believe must honestly be called torture.” But what Noonan, or I, or anyone else “believes” does not trump what the law actually says, and it is the law (<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18">Title 18</a>, <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I">Part I</a>, <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-113C">Chapter 113C</a>, § 2340) that our officials must follow, not subjective perception or even international laws that conflict with our own. As I said before, if people disagree with the law, then there is a political process for changing it.</p>
<p>The begged question that the EITs are torture undermines by itself the rest of Noonan’s argument. But it suffers from other problems as well. She also makes the fuzzy but simplistic statement that it “won’t help us fight it [war against jihadism] to become less like ourselves and more like those we oppose.” This is a version of the progressives’ mantra since 9/11 that the “terrorists win” if we do certain things that the critics believe are immoral or contrary to our “values”––as if our crisis of national identity is more important than destroying the enemy, the only way we “win.”</p>
<p>Noonan’s argument, however, falls to pieces on analysis. First, it ignores critical distinctions, such as intent: the reason why we do what we do, and the moral superiority of our reasons compared to those of the enemy. Again, with a few exceptions, the intent of the interrogators was not to inflict pain just to indulge their sadism, but to extract information to save American lives, which they did. Second, there are critical differences between the techniques used by the CIA––which were vetted by the Department of Justice, usually overseen by physicians, and subject to precise rules governing their application––and the horrific torture going on in countries like Iran. It is childish to fail to recognize that being slammed against a wall or deprived of sleep or confined in a coffin is nothing even close to the genuine torture going on all over the world. I haven’t heard any of the journalists who volunteered to be waterboarded asking to have their fingernails wrenched out with pliers, or electrodes attached to their genitals.</p>
<p>Third, ignoring the different purposes of what a country does in war leads to the facile moral equivalence of the naïve pacifist or the anti-American critic. During World War II the Allies’ strategic bombing campaigns destroyed almost all of Germany’s major cities and killed up to half a million people. Some historians today call the strategic bombing campaigns war crimes. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which probably saved a million American and Japanese lives that would have been lost with an invasion of Japan, remain popular bywords for American brutality.</p>
<p>But the noble purpose of all that destruction was to hasten the defeat of two of history’s most brutal regimes, whose triumph would have created a world deprived of freedom and human rights, a world of oppression and misery. Achieving that purpose required the “awful arithmetic,” as Lincoln called it, the tragic but necessary calculus that some must die now so that more don’t die later. Noonan needs to explain why incinerating and blowing up hundreds of thousands of people––including women, children, and the old––during the “good war” is “like ourselves,” while the CIA’s interrogation program––in which a grand total of two terrorists died––isn’t.</p>
<p>Finally, there is the obsession with our country’s “reputation,” and the implication that we should concern ourselves with “the world’s regard.” Just which country in the world has the moral authority and clean enough hands to sit in judgment on what our country does? Russia? Iran? China? The British, who in India strapped rebellious sepoys to cannon and blew them to pieces? The French, who killed a million and a half people during the Algerian War, and used torture to dismantle the National Liberation Front’s terrorist cells? And does Noonan really care what the thug regimes sitting on the U.N. Human Rights Council think? Or even our so-called allies in Europe, who carp and criticize our behavior even as they enjoy the free security ride we provide because we are willing to spend the money and do the dirty work they get to avoid?</p>
<p>As for the brutal men who run most of the world, our concern for their opinion is a sign not of strength, but of weakness. It is a marker of our cultural failure of nerve, and our doubt about the rightness of our motives and purposes, the reasons why we have to do what we’d rather not do. But the fact is, our rivals and enemies don’t hate us or oppose us because of what we do. That canard is psychologically reductive, as if other nations and peoples don’t have their own interests and beliefs and aims that they actively pursue, but just passively sit around until we provoke them to react to our bad behavior.</p>
<p>Of course, our enemies will use our actions as the camouflaging pretext for their own behavior, since they understand that too many Americans are predisposed to believe the worst of their own country and thus will counsel retreat and appeasement, or even damage their own country’s interests and security, as the release of the Senate report has done. Bin Laden was the master of such propaganda, employing a whole specious catalogue of American offenses against Islam as the pretext for terrorist attacks based on his religious beliefs about the divine right of Muslims to dominate the world. But in reality, as the world’s greatest military, economic, and cultural power, we will be envied, resented, and hated no matter what we do or how much we anxiously seek the rest of the world’s high “regard.” Rescuing millions of Muslims from violent oppression in Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan has not cut any ice with the scores of jihadist gangs actively trying to kill us.</p>
<p>Contrary to Noonan and McCain, and despite the dishonest rhetoric from our resentful allies, rivals, and enemies, the Senate report does not diminish America as a “force for good in the world,” a beacon of freedom, tolerance, and opportunity. That is why the U.S. is the emigrant’s favorite destination, why the U.S. is the go-to power for those countries in need when stricken by natural disasters or violent aggressors, and why the basic attitude of most of the world’s peoples is “Yankee go home, and take me with you.” The United States is in fact the “city on the hill,” the only world power in history that has used its power more for good than for ill. To think that reports of interrogation techniques used to save lives challenge the reality of American exceptionalism bespeaks a lack of confidence and faith not in our perfection, but in the fundamental goodness of America and its aims despite our occasional imperfections.</p>
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		<title>Jihad Crow in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Jim Crow with an Arab accent and no foreseeable expiration date.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bm.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243232" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bm-450x251.jpg" alt="bm" width="308" height="172" /></a>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Nadra Enzi (aka Cap Black), an anti-crime activist, <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21Index.html">Project 21</a> member and founder of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmericanBrothersAgainstCrime/">American Brothers Against Crime</a><em>. </em>He writes for <em>Change The Game</em> at <a href="http://www.ctghq.org/">ctghq.org.</a></p>
<p><strong> FP:</strong> Nadra Enzi, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I would like to speak to you today about “Jihad Crow” in America, a phenomenon in this nation that involves Arab hatred of and discrimination against American blacks (and American black Muslims) in America.</p>
<p>But before we get to that I would like to talk to you about your background and some of the things you are doing today.</p>
<p>You were once a Muslim, correct? Let’s start with your story.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/nadra2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-243244 size-medium" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/nadra2-319x350.jpg" alt="nadra" width="319" height="350" /></a><strong>Nadra Enzi </strong></p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>I grew up in a United Methodist household, the child of school teachers. Unfortunately, the church in my hometown was still as divided as the public sphere. The black Church I saw was a passive participant in ongoing bias, so Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali spoke to me as representatives of vocal opposition to bias <em>and</em> crime within the black community.</p>
<p>By this time, crack was hitting the inner city and black Muslims were very visible in the war against drug dealers who were making various areas free firing zones during disputes &#8212; killing infants, little old ladies and many other innocent lives.</p>
<p>Again, the black Church, liberalized to become an apologist for thugs and little more than a Democrat GOTV (<em>Get Out the Vote</em>) platform, was still largely MIA or worse: making excuses for those I&#8217;d call, &#8220;chocolate Klansmen&#8221; years later. I launched my citizen on patrol and private security activities anxious to ally myself with uncompromised black opponents of inner city crime.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Who are you describing exactly as &#8220;chocolate Klansmen&#8221; and why?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi:</strong> Chocolate Klansmen are the post-crack predators and gangs who kill black (and other) victims with a brutality once considered the province of the classic, violent white supremacist Klan. It&#8217;s a way of shocking liberal enablers out of their defense of thugs who&#8217;ve destroyed everything that giants like Medgar Evers or Dr. King died to establish. They&#8217;re the center piece of my &#8220;remote control theory&#8221; argument, which states that the inner city is freely chosen, not directed by invisible white villains hiding behind a tree.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Were you ever a member of the Nation of Islam or some other black Muslim group?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi:</strong> I was never a Nation of Islam member. I was considered &#8220;too independent&#8221; in my thinking by the local minister. Translation: I didn&#8217;t think all whites were devils and I didn&#8217;t consider Farrakhan as black America&#8217;s divine leader.<strong><br />
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<p><strong>FP: </strong>Share with us some of your narrative about being a Muslim and how and why you finally left Islam.</p>
<p><strong>Enzi:</strong> For me, being a Muslim was separating myself from passive participants in hometown racism and a rejection of how liberal the black church and mainstream had become. I&#8217;ve always been an Old Testament type and saw (and still see) too much buck passing regarding personal responsibility and inner city crime, single motherhood households and the urban death culture which is now hip-hop.</p>
<p>I left Islam a while ago, because I found folks and movements who opposed the liberalized church as much as I do. Until we recognize that secular-socialism simply infiltrated the American Judeo-Christian continuum, we&#8217;ll continue see many traditional men, black and otherwise, opt out.</p>
<p>Also, as a lifelong anti-crime person, I didn&#8217;t endorse the silence of many American black Muslims on Islamic-themed inner city/prison gangs and terrorism.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Tell us about <em>Project 21</em> and <em>American Brothers Against Crime</em> and what these groups are about.</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>Project 21 is a group of American black spokespersons for the conservative national <em>Center for Public Policy Analysis</em>. It offers challenging alternative views on current events and policies from black voices outside the DNC and even Republican establishment echo chambers.<em> </em></p>
<p><em>American Brothers Against Crime</em> (ABC) is my collective of anti-crime and security enthusiasts who unapologetically reject the notion that <em>any</em> zip code, from the Hood to the Heartland, should be held hostage to violent criminals. We promote ending the Cold War between black men and police via &#8220;Brothers and Badges Together,&#8221; where we work to change anti-cop culture in the inner city by teaming black male civilians and police officers. ABC stands apart from typical, &#8220;pro-crime&#8221; groups that blame others for violent crime in the black community. Not all of the &#8220;brothers&#8221; are black, or even men.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What do you think made you a black American who doesn’t instinctively jump to “hating whitey” or blaming racism, society etc. for problems in the black community? What influenced you in your youth/life to emerge as a person not vulnerable to progressive myths?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>As an Old Testament person, I believe in governing myself in accordance with the law, thus negating a need for others &#8212; law enforcement, corrections, prosecution, etc. &#8212; to govern me instead. Since I believe fully in my God-given moral and intellectual ability, I&#8217;m not going to sink to becoming a felon and then beg white leftists to &#8220;save&#8221; me with programs which only benefit them, not their black client base.  That&#8217;s acting like a slave, doing wrong and then crying about it. The black Left is beneath me, quite frankly. In 2014, I can&#8217;t embrace their doctrine of mediocrity on hand while ritually blaming others.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>So let’s get to “Jihad Crow.”</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>&#8220;Jihad Crow&#8221; is my term for Arab racism against black people here and abroad. Some Arabs don&#8217;t even consider American black Muslims to be Muslims and refuse to even return the traditional Muslim greeting of &#8220;Asalaam Alakum&#8221; (God&#8217;s peace be upon you). They open stores in the inner city and sell Islamically-prohibited goods like pork products, alcohol, lottery tickets and even use the stores as centers for illegal activity like EBT fraud; fencing stolen merchandise and drug dealing.</p>
<p>Black leftist activists ignore how these stores rarely hire black employees, despite complaints about the same directed toward businesses owned by other ethnicities. A YouTube commentator, David Carroll, has a campaign challenging black leftist men to protest how some Arab store owners prostitute neighborhood women in exchange for free food items. Jihad Crow is Jim Crow with an Arab accent and no foreseeable expiration date. Even Louis Farrakhan has commented on the racism in Mecca, the Muslim holy city.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Can you share a story of your own personal experience with Jihad Crow or a friend’s experience?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>I&#8217;ve seen Jihad Crow at work when Arab clerks take pains not to touch my hand when giving change, refuse to donate to worthy community causes while making 100% profit off of black patrons and politically always recruiting us to support their causes while always being MIA in return when solicited to support an issue important to us. A Muslim friend who&#8217;s an American black man tells me the Arabs at his mosque move away from him while kneeling in prayer and won&#8217;t give him a key to open the place of worship, something commonplace among Arab parishioners.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Leftists pretend they are against racism. If they are so much against it, where is their concern about and protests against Jihad Crow?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>They feel that darker skinned people can&#8217;t be bigoted. Plus, so long as conservatives are spun, by Left and even Right sometimes, as enemies of Muslims, terrorists and otherwise, expect the Left not to utter a mumbling word in opposition. Leftists also overlook how heads would roll like bowling balls if their jihadi buddies get their hands on gay rights and other activists considered anathema to extremist Islam.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So then what would you say about the Left in this regard?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>The Left is the last frontier of white supremacy. They&#8217;ve taken traditional values out of the modern black male identity, demonized black, traditional marriage, use our felons as a cash cow and our vote as a foot stool. The only free black person is one who&#8217;s a sock puppet for their ideology.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> You called the Oklahoma beheader Alton Nolen, a “confused Muslim brother” in a recent column of yours. Kindly explain your perspective.</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>Most black Muslims, even apparently “orthodox” ones like Nolen, don&#8217;t run around beheading people. Confused Muslim brothers think they need to act like Arab (or even African) extremists or support the same. Prison inmates are a potential source of confused Muslim brothers, as their alienation from society and felon status make them prime candidates for targeting by extremists. For all his anti-Semitism and anti-white rhetoric, Farrakhan and his followers have yet to engage in or promote any criminal activity. Their apocalyptic vision, while provocative, has yet to cross the line into illegality or terrorism. While some would consider members of the Nation of Islam as confused, the confusion I reference literally costs people their heads or has stupid American blacks falling into terror plots orchestrated by the FBI. The confused category also includes any American black who would go abroad to fight for an Islamist group.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Your thoughts on the behavior of black men who are Muslims who try to imitate radical Muslim Arabs?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>&#8220;Confused Muslim brothers.&#8221; There&#8217;s a very real racial divide between many American black Muslims and Arabs. Black men taking on Arab extremism are as sick as those trying to join the KKK as reserve members.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Where are Black Muslims in America denouncing Nolen? Why the silence?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>Ambivalence and pride. Some despise his action while others feel they shouldn&#8217;t have to explain themselves to white people. But here is my position: the same way black activists demanded decent whites to oppose White Citizens Councils, the Klan and Jim Crow, the same way anti-Islamists have a justifiable right to expect not only black Muslims, but members of our leftist Christian majority, to oppose a confused Muslim brother like Nolen.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What needs to be done to bring more light to the racism and injustice of Jihad Crow?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>Conservative, and unbiased black observers across the political spectrum, need to hold Arab racists accountable the same way we focus on white ones. Sunshine is the best disinfectant, so interviews like this offer insight into a dimension of discrimination few discuss openly.</p>
<p><strong> FP:</strong> Nadra Enzi, thank you so much for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong> Ako Eyong</strong>, a journalist from Cameroon, West Africa, where he became a political dissident and was eventually exiled for critiquing the government. He is the author of the new novel, <a class="profileLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Vision-of-the-Blind-King/388021917887014" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=388021917887014">The Vision of the Blind King</a>.</p>
<p>Ako came on the show to discuss <strong>When a Nation Turns from God</strong>, making the case for faith. The discussion occurred within the context of a focus on <strong>A Cameroon Dissident’s Love Affair With America</strong>, in which Ako talked about his appreciation of living in the U.S., his new novel, man&#8217;s intense quest to avoid death, the conflict between love and fear, and much, much more:</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with Conservative Entrepreneur <strong>Monty Morton</strong>, who came on the show to warn us about <strong>Two Lethal Threats to America:</strong></p>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by Conservative Entrepreneur <strong>Monty Morton</strong>, who came on the show to warn us about <strong>Two Lethal Threats to America:</strong></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with<strong> Ako Eyong</strong>, a journalist from Cameroon, West Africa, where he became a political dissident and was eventually exiled for critiquing the government. He is the author of the new novel, <a class="profileLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Vision-of-the-Blind-King/388021917887014" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=388021917887014">The Vision of the Blind King</a>.</p>
<p>Ako came on the show to discuss &#8220;A Cameroon Dissident’s Love Affair With America,&#8221; discussing his appreciation of living in the U.S., his new novel, the vital importance for a nation not to abandon God, the conflict between love and fear, and much, much more:</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans won’t lie to save our necks.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/US-Armed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240855" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/US-Armed.jpg" alt="US-Armed" width="269" height="218" /></a>Considering the legitimate fear that ISIS has already penetrated our unprotected southern border, it’s reasonable to assume that Americans may soon be facing acts of terrorism against soft targets similar to the massacre in Kenya’s Westgate Mall in 2013. Americans can’t count on law enforcement or mall security alone to deal effectively with highly-trained teams of terrorists like the Westgate or Mumbai killers, so we all need to take measures to defend ourselves. Among those measures, should we consider learning how to fake being Muslim?</p>
<p>Recently <em>The</em> <em>Canadian National Post</em> published an <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/08/29/afsun-qureshi-the-muslim-prayer-that-might-save-your-life/?__federated=1">article</a> by Afsun Qureshi called “The Muslim Prayer That Might Save Your Life.” In it, Qureshi recalls that during the al Qaeda-linked Westgate attack, the killers quizzed terrified customers about their knowledge of Islam, including verses in the Koran or the name of Mohammad’s mother, for example, or demanded that some recite the <em>shahadah</em>, the Muslim declaration of faith. They did this in order to separate fellow Muslims, whom they spared, from infidel shoppers, whom they slaughtered with less concern than if the victims were livestock. (Similar tactics were carried out by the Mumbai terrorists).</p>
<p>“After that,” Qureshi writes, “many, myself included, wondered: Should we — Muslim or not — learn the basics of Islam and have a read through the Koran? If one of us ever finds herself in a situation similar to that of Westgate Mall victims, could even a rudimentary knowledge of Islam save us?”</p>
<p>Qureshi, who takes the view of many Muslims that the fundamentalists have hijacked her religion, believes this rudimentary knowledge is useful even in less threatening circumstances. She claims that “the odds are that if you are assailed by a radical Islamist in the streets of London or Toronto, it will be with words not bullets. For the sake of intellectual self-protection, it is worth getting up to speed on what these fanatics are so fanatical about.”</p>
<p>Actually, the odds are that if you are assailed by a Muslim fanatic, it <em>will</em> be with bullets, shrapnel, or blades. Intellectual protection is of much less value than Kevlar. However, I fully support the concept of understanding the basics (at the very least) of Islam, and I agree that learning a few key points of theology with which to intellectually disarm Muslim ideologues in a debate can be “a handy tool when it comes to confronting radicals in the realm of ideas.”</p>
<p>Referring to the Showtime TV drama about a former American soldier turned sleeper terrorist, Qureshi says “Some might fear that learning a bit of Islam will lead to a <em>Homeland</em> type situation, with folks going all Brody on us. But I doubt that.” She doesn’t sound too confident. In any case, in extreme circumstances, she believes that knowing a prayer or two might help you deceive attackers into sparing you as a fellow Muslim.</p>
<p>But at what cost? In reciting the <em>shahadah</em>, the speaker bears witness that “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.” A person becomes Muslim by reciting the <em>shahadah</em> with a sincere heart in Arabic. Memorizing this and regurgitating it when necessary may or may not be enough to persuade an Islamic butcher to release you, but pretending to be Muslim is a test of <em>your</em> faith as well, because it demands that you <em>deny</em> your true faith, whether it is Christianity or Judaism or Buddhism or even atheism or “other.” It puts you in the same spiritually damning position as the apostle Peter, who denied Christ three times in the hours following his Savior’s arrest.</p>
<p>Of course, with a knife to your throat, under that kind of duress, you certainly wouldn’t be declaring your Muslim “faith” with a sincere heart, so theoretically it’s meaningless. Nonetheless, I don’t think most American non-Muslims are comfortable reciting it knowing that it is the principal requirement for conversion to Islam.</p>
<p>But “paramilitary jihadist groups have been growing,” she points out, and “until this fight is over, a little knowledge could go a long way.” True, and again, I’m all for acquiring as much knowledge about jihad as possible. But Qureshi is suggesting you do so not in order to take the fight to the enemy, but to save your butt if you are ever “assailed” by slaughterers who decide to put your fake faith to the test.</p>
<p>I have a family with small children, and if I could save them from certain death or worse by tricking jihadists with a rote recitation of the <em>shahadah</em>, shouldn’t I do it? Even if I were facing the threat alone, shouldn’t I save myself for my family’s sake, for my own sake? After all, Muslims themselves are given a pass for lying to infidels in order to save themselves. Why should non-believers not be granted the same leeway?</p>
<p>Because Americans believe in standing up for our beliefs, not lying and denouncing our faith to save our necks. Give us liberty or give us death. Thanks for the suggestion, Ms. Qureshi, but Americans refuse to accept living in a country in which we might need to learn how to lie about the god we worship, so that if we take our family to the mall, we will all have a better chance of coming home with our heads on our shoulders. Our administration may be full of cowards, liars and Islamic sympathizers, but ISIS will find that American citizens are not cowards. We are not liars. Our faith and freedoms are stronger than your barbarism. And we will not submit.</p>
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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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				<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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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis-flag-AFP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240309" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis-flag-AFP-450x337.jpg" alt="isis-flag-AFP" width="298" height="223" /></a>Every week brings new reports of Muslims in America flocking to join ISIS. Those who aren’t killed in battle will eventually return to New York, to Los Angeles and to Minneapolis–Saint Paul.</p>
<p>And they will stop being Iraq’s problem and become our problem.</p>
<p>ISIS is more than just another terrorist group. It is now an Islamic State. Its followers and allied militias pledge to obey the Caliph of ISIS and reject all allegiances to other states and entities. Western ISIS recruits burn their passports to show that they are no longer citizens of those countries.</p>
<p>Like most Salafists, ISIS members see our system of law and government as idolatry and heresy. Fort Hood Jihadist Nidal Hasan, who recently applied to join ISIS, had earlier written that he would “renounce any oaths of allegiances that require me to support/defend any man made constitution (like the Constitution of the United States) over the commandments mandated in Islam.”</p>
<p>“I therefore formally renounce my oath of office as well as any other implicit or explicit oaths I have made in the past … This includes my oath of U.S. citizenship,” <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/nidal-hasan-on-anwar-al-awlaki-we-are-muslims-trying-to-establish-the-religion-of-allah-as-supreme-on-the-land/">Hasan declared</a>.</p>
<p>By his own admission, Nidal Hasan is no longer a United States citizen. He should be promptly denaturalized. So should every ISIS member and anyone who supports the Islamic State.</p>
<p>The oath of citizenship that Hasan was retroactively rejecting states, “I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.”</p>
<p>ISIS members have pledged their allegiance to a foreign prince and a foreign state. Denaturalizing them should be a mere formality.</p>
<p>Anwar Al-Awlaki, Hasan’s mentor, whose American citizenship became such an issue for the left when he was killed in a drone strike, was clear in his lectures that he was at war with America, that “Muslims in the West should see their stay there as temporary” before leaving to build an Islamic State in the Middle East and that Muslims shouldn’t even vote in America because they would be participating in “a disbelieving system, in a disbelieving country.”</p>
<p>Like Hasan, he did not consider himself an American in any way, shape or form.</p>
<p>In the past the United States had denaturalized Nazis and Communists and even specifically targeted foreign agitators linked to the Nazis and Communists, denaturalized them and then deported them.</p>
<p>Recently Obama Inc. found the time to have two former Guatemalan soldiers accused of committing atrocities against a village linked to Communist guerrillas in the so-called Dos Erres massacre back in the 1980s stripped of their citizenship.</p>
<p>Other denaturalization targets under his administration included two Serbians, an Ethiopian Marxist who took part in the 70s Red Terror and a woman involved in the Rwandan genocide.</p>
<p>None of the denaturalized were Muslim terrorists posing a current national security threat. And yet if we are to have a strategy against ISIS, denaturalizing its members will accomplish more than air strikes.</p>
<p>The modern Jihadist threat had at its core a group of fighters who trained and fought in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet invasion. These fighters went on to lead terrorist groups and stage attacks. But the battlefields of the Arab Spring will produce a new wave of threats on an unprecedented scale. Muslims in the West, especially converts to Islam, who have gone to join ISIS will return with training, battlefield experience and a plan. It’s far more urgent to keep them out than to deport war criminals.</p>
<p>A serious ISIS strategy has to address not the flow of fighters from the United States, as Obama has proposed to do, but the flow of fighters coming into the United States. If ISIS members want to travel to fight in Iraq and Syria, they should be allowed to do so.</p>
<p>By joining the Islamic State, they have disavowed their allegiance to the United States. Their citizenship is now only a passport of convenience that they will burn as soon as they make their way into Syria.</p>
<p>It’s far more important to keep them from coming back than to keep them from leaving.</p>
<p>If the United States can denaturalize foreign soldiers for being part of units linked to war crimes, as it has under Obama, it has the obligation to pursue the denaturalization of anyone who chooses to affiliate with an organization such as ISIS which has committed undeniable war crimes. While the legal grounds for denaturalization won’t be the same since some of those being denaturalized did not have terrorist histories and may have even been born in the United States, the policy basis is clear.</p>
<p>Despite the various dubious Supreme Court attempts to strike down the denaturalization power of Congress, there are still clear standards for denaturalization. Joseph Lieberman and Scott Brown introduced the Terrorist Expatriation Act back in 2010 which would have added providing material support to terrorists as a basis for denaturalization leading to hysterical reactions on the left and the right. But such an explicit addition isn’t strictly necessary; particularly in the case of the Islamic State.</p>
<p>Under the <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1481">Immigration and Naturalization Act</a> anyone voluntarily “committing any act of treason”, bearing arms against the United States or plotting to conquer it will lose his citizenship. While establishing this has proven tricky in the past due to the preponderance of evidence standard, ISIS represents a clear case because its fighters travel voluntarily from the United States for that purpose and because the Islamic State’s creed explicitly repudiates citizenship in anything but the new Caliphate.</p>
<p>It is clearly apparent that any American citizen joining ISIS intends to abandon his citizenship. He is not only serving in a foreign army, but he is joining an organization whose very reason for existence is precluded on a rejection of states and manmade documents such as the United States Constitution.</p>
<p>Furthermore if Obama were to admit that the United States is at war with ISIS, its fighters would also be guilty of bearing arms against the United States. However even without this admission, ISIS has made sufficient threats and has now murdered two Americans. There is no serious doubt that we are at war.</p>
<p>Unlike the Taliban, some of whose American members argued that they had not originally been in conflict with the United States, ISIS originated in conflict with the United States and its creed explicitly calls for the perpetuation of conflict not only with the United States, but with the rest of the world.</p>
<p>The Islamic State’s <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2014/06/isis_announces_formation_of_ca.php">founding declaration</a> urged all the Muslims of the world to gather to it, “So rush O Muslims and gather around your Caliphate, so that you may return as you once were for ages, kings of the earth and knights of war&#8230; By Allah, if you disbelieve in democracy, secularism, nationalism, as well as all the other garbage and ideas from the west, and rush to your religion and creed, then by Allah, you will own the earth, and the east and west will submit to you.”</p>
<p>The Muslim fighters rushing to join ISIS hoping to be its “kings of the earth” and “knights of war” and to force the east and west to submit to it are at war with the United States. They have given their allegiance to a foreign power that promises them that they will rule over Americans.</p>
<p>Both attacks on the World Trade Center were carried out by terrorists who should not have been allowed into the United States. It’s time we learned the lessons of those attacks.</p>
<p>ISIS members and supporters like Nidal Hasan are eager to abandon their American citizenship. It’s our own government that is standing in the way.</p>
<p>It’s useless to bomb ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria, if we let them march through our airports.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob Lonsberry]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The Democrats are right, there are two Americas.</p>
<p>The America that works, and the America that doesn’t. The America that contributes, and the America that doesn’t.</p>
<p>It’s not the haves and the have nots, it’s the dos and the don’ts. Some people do their duty as Americans, to obey the law and support themselves and contribute to society, and others don’t.</p>
<p>That’s the divide in America.</p>
<p>It’s not about income inequality, it’s about civic irresponsibility. It’s about a political party that preaches hatred, greed and victimization in order to win elective office. It’s about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country.</p>
<p>That’s not invective, that’s truth.</p>
<p>And it’s about time someone said it.</p>
<p>The politics of envy was on proud display last week as the president said he would pledge the rest of his term to fighting “income inequality.” He notes that some people make more than other people, that some people have higher incomes than others, and he says that’s not just.</p>
<p>It was the rationale of thievery.</p>
<p>The other guy has it, you want it, Obama will take it for you.</p>
<p>Vote Democrat.</p>
<p>It is the electoral philosophy that gave us Detroit. It is the electoral philosophy that is destroying America.</p>
<p>And it conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense. It ends up not being a benefit to the people who support it, but a betrayal. The Democrats have not empowered their followers, they have enslaved them – in a culture of dependence and entitlement, of victimhood and anger instead of ability and hope.</p>
<p>The president’s premise – that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful – seeks to ignore and cheat the law of choices and consequences. It seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices.</p>
<p>Because, by and large, the variability in society is a result of different choices leading to different consequences. Those who choose wisely and responsibly have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure.</p>
<p>And success and failure can manifest themselves in personal and family income.</p>
<p>You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college and you are apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education. You have your children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course, you have them in wedlock and life is apt to take another course.</p>
<p>Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take.</p>
<p>My doctor, for example, makes far more than I do. There is significant income inequality between us. Our lives have had an inequality of outcome. But, our lives also have had an inequality of effort. Whereas my doctor went to college and then gave the flower of his young adulthood to medical school and residency, I got a job in a restaurant. He made a choice, I made a choice. And our choices led us to different outcomes.</p>
<p>His outcome pays a lot better than mine.</p>
<p>Does that mean he cheated and Barack Obama needs to take away his wealth?</p>
<p>No, it means we are both free men.</p>
<p>And in a free society, free choices will lead to different outcomes.</p>
<p>It is not inequality Barack Obama will take away, it is freedom.</p>
<p>The freedom to succeed, and the freedom to fail. And there is no true option for success if there is no true option for failure.</p>
<p>The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more happiness than the other guy.</p>
<p>Even if the other guy sat on his arse and did nothing.</p>
<p>Even if the other guy made a lifetime’s worth of asinine and shortsighted decisions.</p>
<p>Barack Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring inequality of effort. The simple Law of the Harvest – as ye sow, so shall ye reap – is sometimes applied as, “The harder you work, the more you get.”</p>
<p>The progressive movement would turn that upside down.</p>
<p>Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society. Entitlement has replaced effort as the key to upward mobility in American society.</p>
<p>Or at least it has if Barack Obama gets his way.</p>
<p>He seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the successful and productive and fosters equality through mediocrity.</p>
<p>He and his party speak of two Americas.</p>
<p>And their grip on power is based on using the votes of one to sap the productivity of the other.</p>
<p>America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts. And by the false philosophy that says one man’s success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man’s victimization.</p>
<p>What the president offered was not a solution, but a separatism. He fomented division and strife, he pitted one set of Americans against another.</p>
<p>For his own political benefit.</p>
<p>That’s what progressives offer. Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow.</p>
<p>Two Americas, coming closer each day to proving the truth to Lincoln’s maxim that a house divided against itself cannot stand.</p>
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		<title>Dinesh D’Souza on “Progressives’ Tactic of Camouflage and Deception” – on The Glazov Gang</title>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang">Glazov Gang</a></strong> was joined by <a href="http://www.americathemovie.com/"><strong>Dinesh D&#8217;Souza</strong></a>, acclaimed conservative author and filmmaker who is the author of the new book, <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/America-Imagine-World-without-Her/dp/162157203X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1406272202&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=america+dinesh">America: Imagine a World Without Her</a> </strong>&#8211; which is also a<a href="http://www.americathemovie.com/"> <strong>major motion picture</strong></a> currently playing in theaters everywhere.</p>
<p>Dinesh discussed “<em>Progressives’ Tactic of Camouflage and Deception,</em>” shedding light on Obama&#8217;s and Hillary&#8217;s strategy of pretending to be like the people they hate and seek to destroy. He also deconstructed the Left&#8217;s flawed &#8220;theft&#8221; accusation, analyzed the significance of Saul Alinsky paying tribute to Lucifer in his manual, &#8220;Rules for Radicals,&#8221; and focused on many more of the themes explored in his new book and film.</p>
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		<title>Dinesh D’Souza on “Alinsky, Satan and the Community Organizer of Resentment&#8221; &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang">Glazov Gang</a></strong> was joined by <a href="http://www.americathemovie.com/"><strong>Dinesh D&#8217;Souza</strong></a>, acclaimed conservative author and filmmaker who is the author of the new book, <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/America-Imagine-World-without-Her/dp/162157203X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1406272202&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=america+dinesh">America: Imagine a World Without Her</a> </strong>&#8211; which is also a<a href="http://www.americathemovie.com/"> <strong>major motion picture</strong></a> currently playing in theaters everywhere.</p>
<p>Dinesh discussed “<em>Alinsky, Satan and the Community Organizer of Resentment</em>,&#8221; analyzing the significance of Saul Alinsky paying tribute to Lucifer in his manual, &#8220;Rules for Radicals&#8221; <strong>(starts at 21:15 mark).</strong> The dialogue occurred within the context of the many themes explored in Dinesh&#8217;s  new book and film.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Hannan recovers the forgotten history of the free world. ]]></description>
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<p><strong>Daniel Hannan, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Freedom-English-Speaking-Peoples-Modern/dp/0062231731">Inventing Freedom. How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World</a>.</i></strong></p>
<p>The fundamental incoherence of multiculturalism comes from its cultural relativism that posits no one way of life is better than another, but then singles out the West as a uniquely oppressive global villain. Even more contradictory, at the same time that multiculturalists slander the West for its alleged crimes, they praise and promote political and social ideals––democracy, freedom, equality, and law-based justice–– that flourish only in the West. This cognitive dissonance is made possible by massive historical ignorance of just where such ideas originated and developed. The great value of Daniel Hannan’s <i>Inventing Freedom</i> lies in its recovery of that history, and the role that the “Anglosphere,” the English-speaking countries, played in recognizing and nurturing those ideals for over 1500 years.</p>
<p>Hannan is a writer, blogger, and currently the Conservative representative of Southeast England in the European Parliament, where he vigorously monitors and battles the dirigiste excesses and autocratic impulses of the European Union functionaries. He is also a stalwart friend of the U.S., a throwback to the days when the “special relationship” between Britain and the U.S. was instrumental in turning back the fascist, Nazi, and communist assault on everything that comprises the liberal democratic ideals universally admired and imitated, even by those illiberal regimes who must pay lip-service to democracy and freedom even as they work to subvert them. Readers will find in <i>Inventing Freedom</i> an immensely readable, clearly argued survey of those ideals, the history in which they struggled to survive, and the great heroes whose sacrifice and commitment to them ensured that we enjoy them today.</p>
<p>First Hannan defines the core political ideals and virtues that create the bonds between England and America, the Anglosphere’s most spectacular success story. “Elected parliaments, habeas corpus, free contract, equality before the law, open markets, an unrestricted press, the right to proselytize for any religion, jury trials” all find their modern origins in England, from where they have spread not just to America, but to the whole world, along with the English language and its rich vocabulary that makes for precise, concrete expression. Protestantism is another inheritance from England that shaped the political order and mores of the United States. The notion that individuals can read scripture unmediated by a hierarchical, centralized authority reinforced the bond between religious and civic freedom, both of which are predicated on individual freedom and equality. “Free speech, free conscience, and free parliaments”––Protestantism, Hannan argues, was the guarantor of all of them. Finally, the principles of the American Revolution codified in the Declaration of Independence were seen by the Colonists as theirs by right as Englishmen, for they were grounded in the common law, Magna Carta, and the English Bill of Rights created by the Glorious Revolution of 1689. Hannan reminds us that the Colonists did not understand “revolution” as the destruction of the old and the creation of the new, as would happen in France and later Russia, but rather as a “turn of the wheel” to restore traditional political rights and institutions that had been violated by a tyrant.</p>
<p>Hannan traces the history of these political ideals and beliefs from their origins in the tribal assemblies of the Germanic tribes that settled in England, to their most dominant expression in the United States. Critical in this development is the notion of “common law,” the idea that laws come not from the needs or caprices of rulers, but exist “as a folkright of inherited freedoms that bound the King just as surely as it bound his meanest subject.” Such laws evolve organically through time and become traditions that reflect generations of human experience and collective wisdom. Trial by a jury of peers, the presumption of innocence, property rights, and free contract also are buttressed by common law, and protect individuals and communities from the depredations of the more powerful.</p>
<p>Next, common law holds that “anything not expressly prohibited is legal,” and so citizens do not have to solicit the permission of government agents or authorities for their actions. These and other developments all reinforce the notions of individual self-reliance, responsibility, and agency over one’s own life that have contributed to the incredible success of the Anglosphere in creating free-market economies and unprecedented prosperity. These ideals also lead to the notion that even a king rules only by the consent of the people, who retain the right to petition or question the king about his behavior, a development codified in 1215 in the Magna Carta. “For the first time,” Hannan writes, “the idea that governments were subject to the law took written, contractual form,” and the Magna Carta became “the foundational charter of Anglosphere liberty.”</p>
<p>The story Hannan tells with wit and verve may look in hindsight as if it was preordained to succeed, as it has so spectacularly. But over the centuries these ideals had to battle alternatives borne by alien invaders like the Normans, or arising internally from the sectarian conflicts that followed the wars of religion or the “cousins’ war” between the Colonies and England sparked by George III’s tyranny. Yet through all this disorder and conflict the core ideals, carried in the hearts and minds of the people and transmitted through their common tongue and traditions, survived. And they created the “shared values” of today’s Anglosphere: “parliamentary supremacy, the rule of law, property rights, free trade, religious toleration, open inquiry, meritocratic appointments, representative government, control of the executive by the legislature, individual liberty.”</p>
<p>Moreover, Hannan stresses that all these boons are not tied to race or ethnicity, but can be embraced by any people. His discussion of India and its evolution into the world’s largest democracy illustrates his point that “Anglosphere values had been developed in a multiethnic context, that they had been transmitted through intellectual exchange rather than gene flow.” Here Hannan challenges one of the great lies of multiculturalism, which traffics in the bankrupt Marxist-Leninist smear-terms “colonialism” and “imperialism” in order to tarnish the Anglospheric legacy as a racist, exploitative imposition of alien values on innocent, dark-skinned “others.” On the contrary, the freest and most prosperous places outside the West are those like India, Singapore, and Hong Kong that have been shaped by the ideals of the Anglosphere.</p>
<p>This legacy of freedom and autonomy, however, has been eroding over the last decades, and the forces of destruction have come mostly from within. As Hannan note, “History has become a hierarchy of victimhood.” National and cultural pride in the achievements of the Anglosphere is considered bad form mainly because of its global dominance and success.  Such pride risks “the appearance of complacency or jingoism,” or evokes “supposed cultural imperialism or colonial arrogance.” Also, virtues like tolerance or seeing other peoples’ point of view have degenerated into “if not exactly self-hatred, certainly a form of cultural relativism in which the unique achievements of Anglosphere civilization are devalued.” Trickling down from the intelligentsia into the curricula of schools, such ideas cultivate guilt rather than pride, and a refusal to judge the dysfunctions of other cultures even as we obsess over the alleged crimes of our own. “As we lose sight of what the Anglosphere has achieved,” Hannan warns, “we risk losing the institutions that have served to make it what it is.”</p>
<p>Indeed, this process is well underway. England’s participation in the European Union has subjected it to the heavily regulated, top-down intrusive management of politics, culture, and the economy precisely the opposite of the ideals of individual autonomy and local government that have shaped the Anglosphere. And here in the U.S., the Obama administration and the progressive Democrats have tried to duplicate the E.U. model in everything from the slow-motion debacle of Obamacare, to the foreign policy of guilt, apology, and retreat masked by the magical thinking of “multilateralism” and “diplomatic engagement.” A federal Leviathan managed by a technocratic elite is a repudiation of everything that defines the Anglosphere and has made it the freest, most prosperous, and greatest force for good in history.</p>
<p>Hannan ends with a quote from a young Bostonian doctor named Joseph Warren as in 1775 he rallied his countrymen to defend the freedoms trampled by George III: “You are to decide the question on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions of unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.” We need to heed this advice, and Daniel Hannan’s rich history of our freedom is a good place to discover the unique worthiness of our civilization.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MV5BMjM0MjgyOTQ4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTQ1NzQ3MTE@._V1_SX214_AL_.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-236413" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MV5BMjM0MjgyOTQ4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTQ1NzQ3MTE@._V1_SX214_AL_.jpg" alt="MV5BMjM0MjgyOTQ4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTQ1NzQ3MTE@._V1_SX214_AL_" width="211" height="252" /></a>Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film, “America, Imagine a World Without Her,” which <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2014/07/america-movie-dinesh-dsouza-exclusive-clip-abraham-lincoln-video/"><span style="color: #042eee;">earned</span></a> a rare A+ rating from CinemaScore, is apparently such a threat to progressive ideology that Costco initially ordered the book on which the movie is based <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/costco-removing-dsouzas-america-from-shelves/"><span style="color: #042eee;">removed</span></a> from its shelves. One can understand why: the film is a devastating takedown of those who see America as the primary source of evil in the world.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The picture opens with a what-if scenario that includes the assassination of George Washington by a British sniper, and the subsequent disintegration of Mount Rushmore, the Lincoln Memorial, the Iwo Jima Memorial, and the Statue of Liberty, as D’Souza asks, “What would the work look like if America did not exist?”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The question is used as a vehicle to set up—and subsequently knock down&#8211;the left’s grievance agenda and its victims. Those grievances include theft of land, labor and the American Dream, as well as genocide, segregation and racism. The victims include Native Americans, black Americans, Hispanics and ultimately all Americans. &#8220;These indictments developed separately, and each has been around for a long time,&#8221; D’Souza explains. “But now they’ve come together in a single narrative of American shame.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The main driver of that narrative is historian Howard Zinn, whose polemic, “A People’s History of the United States,” has been required reading in thousands of American public schools and universities for years. &#8220;When I hear young people on the campus repeat the narrative of American shame, I know they haven’t been told the whole story,” D’Souza notes.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">He proceeds to fill in the gaps, explaining most of the world’s history is driven by the &#8220;conquest ethic,” where those who are conquered have their land taken and are invariably made slaves in the process. For example, while the left singles out the settlers of the New World for “stealing&#8221; Native American territory, D’Souza reveals the same land transfers occurred in precisely the same manner among tribes who successively conquered one another. The charge of genocide is debunked when D’Souza explains that far more Indians died from disease than slaughter, and the same lack of natural defenses that made Native Americans vulnerable to European-borne maladies are the ones that made Europeans susceptible to the Asian-borne diseases that devastated Europe. Tellingly, no one refers to the European tragedy as genocide.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">More historical gaps are filled in with regard to the history of the Mexican War and American slavery. All of Mexico was conquered during a rebellion against the oppression of dictator Santa Ana, but half was returned, and Mexican war debt was retired in the process. And while D’Souza freely admits the legacy of slavery was theft of life and labor, he reminds us that 300,000 Union soldiers gave their lives to free the slaves. “What’s uniquely Western is the abolition of slavery,” D’Souza states. “And what’s uniquely American is the fighting of a great war to end it.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Once again D&#8217;Souza emphasizes that singling out America for the sins of the word is a fool’s errand because slavery existed in every culture in the world from the Egyptians to the Chinese to the African to the American Indians (long before Columbus) and, as we are reminded, slavery exists even today.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">D&#8217;Souza also fills in some important historical gaps with facts that would likely surprise many Americans. These include the existence of free <i>black</i> plantation masters who owned more than ten thousand slaves of their own, and the story of black American Sarah Breedlove, aka Madam C. J. Walker, who became the nation’s first female self-made millionaire marketing a line of beauty and hair products for black women.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">D’Souza employs the same technique in debunking the leftist accusations of American imperialism, and the “theft” of the American Dream that capitalism ostensibly represents. From WWII to the most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, D’Souza reminds Americans that not only have we stolen nothing from these countries, but expended considerable blood and treasure re-building them. And the free-market capitalism that has showered this nation with unprecedented wealth succeeds &#8220;not through coercion or conquest, but through the consent of the consumer.” “The wealth of America isn’t stolen, it’s created,” D’Souza asserts. “The ethic of conquest is universal. What’s uniquely American is the alternative, equal rights, self-determination, and wealth creation. If America did not exist, the conquest ethic would dominate the world.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The movie points out that the American left embraces a conquest ethic all its own. &#8220;The shaming of America is not accidental, it’s part of a strategy,” he warns. It is a strategy formulated by the likes of radical leftist Saul Alinsky who was &#8220;the godfather in the art of using shame for political shakedown.” The cultural revolution of the ‘60s provided Alinsky with his army of shakedown artists who have since infiltrated media, academia and, most importantly, government. Ever-expanding government has given us a nation where agencies like the IRS, the EPA, the DOJ and the NSA “are all collecting information and storing it on every American,” D’Souza warns. He explains that Barack Obama didn’t create this liberty-stifling reality. Rather, it created him.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the closing of the film, he lays out where the nation has been, and where it must go. “The Revolution was a struggle for the creation of America. The Civil War was a struggle for the preservation of America. World War II was a struggle for the protection of America. Our struggle is for the restoration of America.” And while he would like to see the emergence of a leader as forceful and inspiring as Washington, Lincoln, or Reagan, he makes it clear that the ultimate restoration of America must be engendered by the people themselves.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is important to note that D’Souza freely owns up to the many of the nation&#8217;s historical shortcomings. Yet unlike the American left, he offers some much-needed&#8211;and factual—context to the narrative. Because leftists like Zin and others are more than willing to leave out so many uplifting American stories in an effort to realize their agenda of national transformation, D’Souza insists we have a moral obligation to reinstate them and prevent it from happening.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">He also offers fair warning to the historical revisionists. &#8220;We won’t let them shame us. We won’t let them intimidate us. We are going to start telling the true story of America,” he declares.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">D&#8217;Souza has definitely hit a leftist nerve. Their reviews of his picture ooze with <a href="http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-america-imagine-the-world-without-her-1201253480/"><span style="color: #042eee;">condescension</span></a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/america-imagine-the-world-without-her-movie-review/2014/07/01/a420aac6-012e-11e4-8fd0-3a663dfa68ac_story.html"><span style="color: #042eee;">disdain</span></a> for his point of view, with Media Matters <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/07/09/five-media-figures-who-endorse-dinesh-dsouzas-r/200046"><span style="color: #042eee;">referring</span></a> to it as “racially charged agitprop.” Yet the bet here is a lot of Americans would like to see a movie that contains stories about the goodness and greatness of our nation, even as it illuminates the cast of characters and the shame-inducing agenda that forms the heart of their efforts to denigrate American exceptionalism. Costco, whose co-founders Jim Sinegal and Jeffrey Brotman are big Obama supporters, <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0709/Costco-removes-then-puts-back-the-book-America-by-conservative-writer-Dinesh-D-Souza"><span style="color: #042eee;">reinstated</span></a> D’Souza&#8217;s book following an outpouring of protests. It is most definitely in Americans’ best interests to see what they wished to suppress.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/maxresdefault1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235606" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/maxresdefault1-450x328.jpg" alt="maxresdefault" width="270" height="197" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Ari-Shavit-and-American-Jewry-361484">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Go into any Jewish community in the United States these days and spend a few hours talking to people. At a certain point in the conversation, at least one person will bring up Ari Shavit’s bestselling book, </span><em style="color: #000000;">My Promised Land</em><span style="color: #000000;">.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Mention of the book will arouse great enthusiasm.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Invariably, a prominent member of the group will say, with utter conviction, and to the nods of all present, “I think that Shavit’s book should be required reading for all American Jewish students.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most illustrious American Jewish writers and editors today are all but unanimous in their praise for Shavit’s book, which they proclaim is an “epic” account of Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Martin Kramer wrote this week in the online journal </span><em style="color: #000000;">Mosaic</em><span style="color: #000000;">, “the last ‘epic’ account of [Israel’s birth in] 1948 to seize the imagination of its Jewish and non-Jewish readers,” as Shavit’s as done, was Leon Uris’s </span><em style="color: #000000;">Exodus</em><span style="color: #000000;">, published in 1958.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Uris’s book was inspirational, historic fiction that told the story of Israel’s birth. Decades of American Jewish readers were profoundly influenced by the narrative. Ask any American Jew over the age of 35 who made aliya if he read Uris’s Hollywood-style account of the Zionist revolution.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The answer is almost always affirmative.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Like </span><em style="color: #000000;">Exodus</em><span style="color: #000000;">, Shavit’s </span><em style="color: #000000;">My Promised Land</em><span style="color: #000000;"> has been a runaway success. As Kramer noted, Shavit has been embraced by the Jewish establishment’s celebrity intellectuals – sharing stages with New Yorker editor David Remnick, and Bloomberg’s Jeffrey Goldberg. He’s been kvelled over by Tom Friedman and Franklin Foer from </span><em style="color: #000000;">The New Republic</em><span style="color: #000000;">.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Shavit got marquis billing at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington in March, and has been feted by the Jewish Federations and the most affluent synagogues in America.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unlike </span><em style="color: #000000;">Exodus</em><span style="color: #000000;">, which is a fictional account of Israel’s founding, Shavit insists that his narrative is the undisputed truth. As Foer put it in his blurb an on the back cover, Shavit’s book is an “epic history&#8230; full of moral complexity&#8230; [and] mind-blowing, trustworthy insights.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Also, unlike </span><em style="color: #000000;">Exodus</em><span style="color: #000000;">, Shavit’s tale of Israel is not one of heroism, determination, faith and gumption.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather, Israel’s tale is morally ambiguous.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel is a country born in sin, and its subsequent history has been plagued by tribalism, fanaticism, displacement and war crimes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On the other hand, Israel isn’t all bad. Shavit still loves it with all his heart because it is a great country made up of human beings. And you should love it too. At least a little bit.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Shavit’s portrayal of Israel revolves around the continuous clash between the bad and good things that Israel is and does. A primary anchor of the “Bad Israel” narrative is Shavit’s account of the battle of Lydda (Lod) in the 1948 War of Independence. In “What happened at Lydda?” Kramer provides a critical assessment of Shavit’s account of that battle.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Shavit referred to the battle of Lydda as “Israel’s black box.” As Kramer put it, Shavit maintains that, “in its story lies the dark secret not only of the birth of Israel but indeed of the entire Jewish national movement – of Zionism.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to Shavit’s telling, the Israeli forces that conquered Lydda from the Jordanian Arab Legion and the local Arab irregulars in July 1948 massacred civilians who were hiding in a mosque. Shavit alleges that after killing the innocent, Israeli troops forced local Arabs to bury the bodies to hide their crime, and murdered the Arabs who dug the graves.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The purported massacre, according to Shavit, fomented the Arab flight from Lydda. Shavit judges the soldiers and commanders who participated in the operation. But he lays the blame for these alleged events on “Zionism.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“Zionism,” he wrote, “carries out a massacre at Lydda.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Shavit claims his historical narrative is based on interviews he conducted in the 1990s with soldiers who participated in the battle. Shavit has not released the transcripts of those interviews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Yet, as Kramer relates, the same sources to whom Shavit attributes his story gave opposite accounts in on-record, and in many cases, on-camera interviews with other reporters and researchers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Through his point-by-point examination of Shavit’s narrative, Kramer demonstrated that Shavit’s account is arguably no less fictional than Uris’s idealized portrayal of Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Kramer found no clear evidence that a massacre was carried out at Lydda. At best, there is an argument between historians about what happened.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Shavit’s claim that the dead were “civilians” is not supported by historical accounts of the battle. His claim that 250 Arabs were killed in the battle is disputed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, as Kramer demonstrates, contrary to Shavit’s claim that Israeli soldiers allegedly killed Arabs out of rage and not for reason of military necessity, the documentary history of the battle contains no evidence of malice by any of the soldiers or commanders involved in the battle.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A perfectly reasonable explanation of the evidence – and a better one than Shavit’s claim of original sin – is that the Israeli fighters fought a hard battle in an urban area under the accepted rules of war. And people died.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Whereas Shavit wrote that the Israeli forces buried the bodies of the Arab dead to hide evidence of their supposed war crime, according to the participants’ firsthand accounts, the Arab dead were buried because it was hot and the bodies would have rotted if they weren’t interred.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for murdering the Arab burial detail, one of its members – who lived his whole life in Lydda (Lod) after the war – was interviewed on record about the battle several times. He was neither killed at the time, nor did he allege that his colleagues were killed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Kramer ends his article by calling for “the grandees of American Jewish journalism who rushed to praise Shavit’s Lydda treatment” to tell their readers the truth about the at best dubious nature of Shavit’s account of the battle.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Kramer is right to hold Shavit’s enablers to account. But the problem is that promoters like Jeffrey Goldberg (who presented Shavit’s as “a beautiful, mesmerizing, morally serious and vexing book,” for which “I’ve been waiting most of my adult life”) are unlikely to be called to order by their American Jewish audience.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Goldberg, Remnick, Friedman, Foer and David Brooks are not operating in a vacuum. True, they are leading voices in the American Jewish community.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But their stature owes mainly to the American Jewish community’s desire to listen to them. They reflect the values and preferences of the American Jewish community more than they shape them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">AIPAC didn’t give Shavit the center stage at its annual conference because David Remnick featured an abridged version of his tale of the Lydda “massacre,” in The New Yorker. AIPAC gave Shavit center stage because AIPAC leaders like his message of Israel’s moral deficiency just as much as Remnick does.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">How can this be? Shavit’s most enthusiastic readers are not uninvolved Jews. They are not American Jews who have left the community.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Shavit’s biggest admirers are members in good standing of the American Jewish community.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They belong to synagogues. They belong to AIPAC. They give to the Federation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What is it about his dishonest moral indictment of Israel that excites them? For generations of American Jews, Israel was perceived as “poor little Israel.” As they saw things, Israel was economically backward. It was dependent on charity from the American Jewish community. And it needed organizations like AIPAC to protect and promote its interests in Washington.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There was truth behind these perceptions in Israel’s early years in particular. Israel was a weak country and a poor country. American Jewish support was a critical component of Israel’s economic and diplomatic viability. But in recent decades, Israel has become more and more capable of standing on its own.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today Israel is not dependent on the charity of American Jews. It is a prosperous country with a healthy, rapidly growing and diverse economy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With Asia expected to eclipse the US as Israel’s largest trading partner next year, Israel has become less dependent on the US in general than it was in the past.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel’s economic vitality is an unwelcome development for many American Jews who cannot get their arms around Israel not needing them to save it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And as Israel becomes more powerful, American Jews are becoming less willing to defend Israel in any meaningful way.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For the past decade, AIPAC made convincing the White House and Congress to pass sanctions against Iran its primary goal. But when President Barack Obama told AIPAC to stop lobbying for further sanctions after he signed the interim nuclear deal with Iran last November, AIPAC folded like a deck of cards. Israel and the Republicans on Capitol Hill who had pushed the legislation were left high and try.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Defending Israel to an unsympathetic president from the Democratic Party is apparently too much to ask most pro-Israel American Jews to do.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this is where Shavit’s book comes in.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By portraying Israel as a country that is morally deficient, Shavit gave the American Jewish community two gifts. First he gave them a way to feel morally superior, and therefore patronizing toward Israel. Israel, they can say, committed a massacre – and did so because its founding ideology is poisonous. American Jews would never do such a thing. But out of the kindness of their hearts, like Shavit, they will continue to love this unworthy cousin.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The second gift Shavit gave the American Jewish community was the ability to feel comfortable refusing to be inconvenienced for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Clearly – given Israel’s moral failings as portrayed by Shavit – American Jews should have no interest in picking up and making aliya. But beyond that, since Israel is a morally lacking country, there is no reason for them to take a serious stand on its behalf. There is no reason for them to object to the galloping anti-Semitism on college campuses. The BDS people may be over the top, but according to Shavit, they have a point.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is no reason for them to stand up to Obama. He is using “tough love” to make Israel free itself of sin and atone for its past crimes – like the one it committed in Lydda.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The success of Shavit’s book reveals the rupture in the relationship between the American Jewish community and Israel. A generation ago, being pro-Israel meant believing in the justness and morality of Israel and being willing to be inconvenienced a little or even a lot to defend the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today, being pro-Israel means that you support Israel despite its immorality because you are forgiving. And supporting Israel means you’ll help Israel so long as it doesn’t inconvenience you in any way or make you feel uncomfortable about anything at all.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ari Shavit’s libelous account of the birth of Israel is just playing to the crowd. It’s time to start worrying about how to heal a crowd that celebrates being lied to in this way.</span></p>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><strong>Nick Adams</strong>,</span></span> an internationally renowned Australian speaker, lecturer, author, and media commentator. He is best known for his work in the field of American exceptionalism.</p>
<p>He came on the show to discuss his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936488841/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1936488841&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=s0231-20%22%3EThe%20American%20Boomerang:%20How%20the%20World%27s%20Greatest%20%27Turnaround%27%20Nation%20Will%20Do%20It%20Again%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=s0231-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1936488841"><em>The American Boomerang: How the World’s Greatest ‘Turnaround’ Nation Will Do It Again</em></a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with conservative entrepreneur and walking encyclopedia <strong>Monty Morton, </strong>who came on the show to discuss <span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><strong><em>Obama&#8217;s Dependent States of America, </em></strong>analyzing how </span></span></span></span><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Obama&#8217;s domestic and foreign policy have severely weakened the United States:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbvIxIcLOKc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow"><br />
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		<title>The Resilience of America&#8217;s Cowboy Spirit &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2014 04:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian author Nick Adams outlines how the image of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood serve as the hope for the U.S.A.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><strong>Nick Adams</strong>,</span></span> an internationally renowned Australian speaker, lecturer, author, and media commentator. He is best known for his work in the field of American exceptionalism.</p>
<p>He came on the show to discuss his new book, <strong>America&#8217;s Cowboy Spirit</strong>, outlining how the image of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood remains the hope for the U.S.A. The dialogue occurred within a focus on his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936488841/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1936488841&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=s0231-20%22%3EThe%20American%20Boomerang:%20How%20the%20World%27s%20Greatest%20%27Turnaround%27%20Nation%20Will%20Do%20It%20Again%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=s0231-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1936488841"><em>The American Boomerang: How the World’s Greatest ‘Turnaround’ Nation Will Do It Again</em></a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with conservative entrepreneur and walking encyclopedia <strong>Monty Morton, </strong>who came on the show to discuss <span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><strong><em>Obama&#8217;s Dependent States of America, </em></strong>analyzing how </span></span></span></span><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Obama&#8217;s domestic and foreign policy have severely weakened the United States:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbvIxIcLOKc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow"><br />
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		<title>America&#8217;s Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2014 04:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can the American spirit be kept alive?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/america.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-235420" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/america.jpg" alt="Honduras v United States - FIFA 2014 World Cup Qualifier" width="300" height="205" /></a>Birthdays are supposed to be times for celebration and gift-giving. But America&#8217;s upcoming birthday on the Fourth of July is a time when the gift most needed is an urgent warning about the dangers of losing the things that have made this country America — and have long made &#8220;America&#8221; a ringing word of freedom, not only in this country but to people around the world.</p>
<p>All is not lost. But all could be lost — especially if too many of us take freedom for granted and focus our attention on other things, like electronic gadgets and the antics of celebrities, while ignoring such dangers as nuclear weapons in the hands of suicidal fanatics, with a track record of savagery, whom we are too squeamish to call anything stronger than &#8220;militants.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nor are all the dangers abroad. Within our own country there are all too many signs of people blithely ready to sacrifice the interests or freedom of Americans for the sake of symbolism or passing fashions.</p>
<p>When a former Speaker of the House of Representatives announces that she is going down to our border to greet and welcome masses of people crossing that border illegally, you know that something is fundamentally wrong.</p>
<p>No one knows, or apparently cares, what diseases these floods of illegals are bringing into the country, including diseases that have been largely stamped out in the United States, and which American doctors have seldom seen enough to know how to spot them or treat them.</p>
<p>No one knows, or apparently cares, how many of these &#8220;children&#8221; include teenage criminal gangs to whom murder is no big deal. Worst of all, no one knows, or apparently cares, that the elected representatives of the American people were cut out of the loop when it came to making these decisions.</p>
<p>All that matters to people like Nancy Pelosi is the symbolism of welcoming the oppressed, especially if they represent more votes for Democrats, who will shower the taxpayers&#8217; money on them.</p>
<p>As if to make clear the elite&#8217;s contempt for ordinary Americans&#8217; intelligence, President Obama tells us that the people crossing the border &#8220;love&#8221; America.</p>
<p>How could he possibly know that, any more than he could know how to &#8220;invest&#8221; the taxpayers&#8217; money in &#8220;the industries of the future,&#8221; which have in fact gone bankrupt?</p>
<p>What is involved are not just bad policy choices. What is involved are policies imposed unilaterally by the president, in defiance of Congress&#8217; authority to legislate and in contempt of the Constitution&#8217;s separation of powers — on which all our freedoms ultimately depend.</p>
<p>The people who wrote the Constitution of the United States understood what dangers there are to the freedom of the people — and that freedom can be quietly eroded by degrees, rather than taken all at once.</p>
<p>Too many people today seem oblivious to such dangers. So what if the government used the muscle of the Internal Revenue Service to keep groups opposed to the Obama administration tied up in red tape or litigation in an election year? Enough games like that can make our elections meaningless.</p>
<p>This arrogant abuse of power does not end with the federal government. In Massachusetts, teenager Justina Pelletier was taken from her parents&#8217; custody and held virtually incommunicado for over a year, because her parents preferred to continue to have her treated as the physicians at a medical facility associated with Tufts University had treated her, even though shrinks at Children&#8217;s Hospital in Boston said her problems were in her head, and took her off some of her medications.</p>
<p>This difference of opinion as to the best medical treatment for Justina Pelletier was enough to get a judge to side with headstrong bureaucrats and override her parents&#8217; rights. So a girl who was ice skating before ended up in a wheelchair under the &#8220;care&#8221; of shrinks.</p>
<p>Fortunately, enough media attention, especially by former governor Mike Huckabee on Fox News Channel, finally got this child freed. Perhaps we can hope that all is not lost — yet. But if this case is a symbol of Americans fighting back, it is also a symbol of why it is desperately important to fight back.</p>
<p>That spirit is the best birthday present for America.</p>
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		<title>Watch Ted Cruz in Dinesh D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s &#8216;America&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 04:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Texas Senator Ted Cruz sat down with Dinesh D&#8217;Souza for the filmmaker&#8217;s new documentary &#8220;<a href="http://www.americathemovie.com">America: Imagine the World Without Her</a>.&#8221; &#8220;America,&#8221; produced by Academy Award-winning producer Gerald R. Molen, offers a look at a world in which America never existed &#8212; and shows the true importance of the United States.</em></p>
<p><em>The film debuts today in select theaters and will be released nationally July 2. Click <a href="http://www.americathemovie.com/showtimes/">here</a> for showtime and theater information.</em></p>
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		<title>Immigration and America’s Failure of Nerve</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How a nation abandoned the principles and habits that made immigration work for it in the past.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/br.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234060" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/br-450x288.jpg" alt="br" width="316" height="202" /></a>The number of unaccompanied children from Central America into the U.S. has reached 47,000 since October, and may hit 90,000 by the end of this year. The official story is that they are fleeing drug-gang mayhem and political violence in their home countries, and so are refugees and asylum-seekers. But the Guatemalan ambassador has said they are seeking economic opportunity and the “American dream.” It’s hard, however, not to see a connection with Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Arrivals Program, which defers deportation for illegal aliens who are minors. Obama enacted by executive fiat––and just recently extended for 2 years––this open invitation to illegal minors when Congress proved unwilling to pass the Dream Act legislation.</p>
<p>This sudden surge of illegal immigrants couldn’t help but remind me of Jean Raspail’s 1973 dystopian novel <em>The Camp of the Saints.</em> In the story millions of impoverished Third World people, starting in India, highjack ships and begin sailing to the south of France. Once they land they swarm the rich Côte d’Azur while the French flee in panic to the north. Most interesting are Raspail’s descriptions of why this mass invasion happened––as the inevitable suicidal response of a people who no longer believe in their own civilization’s ideals or principles. The French consul in India, for example, chastising the Catholic bishop who approves of the mass immigration and says he is proud to be “bearing witness,” retorts, “Bearing witness to what? To your faith? Your religion? To your Christian civilization? Oh no, none of that! Bearing witness against yourselves, like the anti-Western cynics you’ve become. Do you think the poor devils that flock to your side aren’t any the wiser? Nonsense! They see right through you. For them, white skin means weak convictions. They know how weak yours are, they know you’ve given in.”</p>
<p>For nearly 3 decades we have undergone a slow-motion version of Raspail’s parable. In 1969 there were an estimated half a million illegal immigrants in the U.S.; today the low-end estimate is 11,500,000. There are many explanations for this increase. Perverse incentives such as the 1986 amnesty and Obama’s Deferred Action for Arrivals Program, the need for cheap workers for jobs Americans don’t want to do, and the Democrats’ hunger for political clients all explain this increase. But as always, bad policies are created by bad ideas. The problems of immigration, whether legal or illegal, are in part created, and definitely worsened, by the erosion of national and civilizational identity and pride that Raspail dramatizes in his novel.</p>
<p>As with the Europeans in Raspail’s story, these problems reflect a civilizational failure of nerve. We Americans enjoy the material and cultural capital of our ancestors even as we embrace a fashionable self-loathing and guilt over presumed Western crimes like imperialism, colonialism, and racism. No longer believing that our political, social, and cultural orders are better than the alternatives, we too have “given in,” surrendered to the specious cultural relativism that proclaims all cultures equally valuable even as it demonizes our own as the font of all oppression and injustice. As a result, we have abandoned the principles and habits that made immigration work in the past.</p>
<p>Around the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century America was inundated with millions of immigrants from countries that many Americans believed were alien to our cultural and political order, and yet most successfully assimilated and enriched their new homes. Some 30 million immigrants entered the U.S. between 1870 and 1930, most of them Slavs, Italians, and Jews from Eastern Europe. By 1890 15% of Americans were foreign born, compared to 13% today. This admission of what some Americans considered people alien to the Northern European ethnic foundations of the country led to the Emergency Quota Law of 1921. This bill limited the number of immigrants to 350,000 and set nationality quotas, with immigration from a country capped at 3% of the population of that nationality based on the 1910 census. The effect, given the ethnic origins of the majority of Americans in countries like England and Germany, was to reduce immigration from eastern and southern Europe in favor of immigrants from Northern Europe.</p>
<p>This obsession with race and ethnicity, which reflected the Darwinian and Progressive racist “scientific consensus” of the 1920s that also created the eugenics movement, confused and distorted the issue of immigration. For as the descendants of that great wave of immigration of the late 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries show, race or ethnicity was not as important as culture. For just as anybody can learn any language, any human can learn to live by the mores, customs, principles, and laws of any culture. My maternal grandparents were some of those southern Italians that many Americans thought were alien invaders unfit to be Americans. My grandfather came through Ellis Island in 1906, and was officially designated by the U.S. government as an illiterate peasant. Yet all his progeny are unmistakably American, indistinguishable from their compatriots descended from Northern Europe.</p>
<p>The difference between then and now is that we have adopted a variation of 1920s racialist ideology––the multicultural identity politics that demonizes assimilation to American identity while it demands reparations for historical crimes against and public celebrations of immigrant cultures as superior to American. Back in my grandparents’ day things were different. Immigrants were expected to work at becoming Americans, which meant learning English, American political principles and virtues, American history and heroes, and American customs and mores. Whatever their private beliefs and practices, in their role as citizens immigrants had to acknowledge that America was not just different from their homes countries, but in some crucial respects––political freedom and economic opportunity, to name a few–– superior. Otherwise, why did they make the difficult and traumatic journey to America?</p>
<p>To speak this way now, however, is to be called xenophobic, jingoistic, or racist. Being proud of your country is bad form for native-born Americans, so why should immigrants be expected to prefer their new home to their old? As victims of our crimes, they deserve for us to cater to their cultures, instead of them adjusting to America’s. And so we come back to the central pathology underlying not just immigration but much of our foreign policy as well––too many of our elites doubt the goodness of America, sneer at any claims of its superiority, and are guilty over its alleged global crimes and oppression. We have institutionalized in our popular culture, media, and schools a failure of nerve that saps our cultural confidence and leaves us unable to defend our way of life and demand that those who come here legally or otherwise embrace our political ideals and social mores. As a result, we ignore our own immigration laws, and contemplate yet another blanket amnesty that would spur even more illegal immigration.</p>
<p>Any sort of immigration cannot work in these conditions. Indeed, millions of immigrants, including illegal ones, are assimilating and becoming Americans all on their own, without the cultural support our public institutions used to give. The problem is, millions more aren’t, without suffering any consequences, including deportation if they are here illegally. Meanwhile politicians from both parties keep pushing “immigration reform,” i.e. amnesty, without addressing the critical question of how are we going to sort out and help those who have shown they want to become Americans, from those who prefer to keep their old identities no matter how incompatible or with, or even hostile to, America’s political and social order. Until we answer that crucial question, which will require a renewed confidence in what it means to be an American and a restored willingness to enforce that vision, illegal immigration will remain a festering problem.</p>
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