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		<title>The War Comes to Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Sydney café jihadist was no lone wolf. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/EPA_man_haron_monis_jtm_141215_16x9_992.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247519" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/EPA_man_haron_monis_jtm_141215_16x9_992-450x318.jpg" alt="EPA_man_haron_monis_jtm_141215_16x9_992" width="344" height="243" /></a>The hostage saga in Sydney ended in <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/second-group-of-five-hostages-emerges-from-sydney-cafe/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dramatic fashion</span></a> yesterday as Australian police and SWAT teams stormed a downtown café after a 16-hour standoff with armed hostage taker, Man Haron Monis. Monis, identified as a Muslim cleric with a criminal record that included sexual assault and accessory to murder, was killed during the operation as were two hostages, identified as a male and female in their 30s.</p>
<p>Monis, an Iranian national, requested refugee status and asylum in Australia in 1996 and sought to repay Australia’s benevolence by engaging in a vituperative letter-writing campaign directed at the families of fallen Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan. The letters, in which Monis expresses opposition to the war in Afghanistan, refers to the fallen soldiers as “pigs” and compares them to Hitler. Australian authorities <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/547043/Sydney-cafe-gunman-on-bail-alleged-violent-offences"><span style="color: #0433ff;">charged him</span></a> with “using a postal or similar service to menace, harass or cause offense [sic]” for which he received a relatively mild sentence of 300 hours of community service.</p>
<p>Australian police ought to be commended for their efficiency and professionalism in quickly subduing the terrorist and preventing more bloodshed, yet the incident raises more questions than it answers. How was a man with such a shady past, with no viable means of supporting himself, who was charged with such serious crimes, allowed to walk on bail and why was his refugee status not revoked? These are questions that the Australian justice system and immigration authorities will have to grapple with in the coming days.</p>
<p>More problematic is how the Australian government will seek to label this incident. Monis’s former lawyer sought to distance his ex-client from any connection to Islamic terrorism, noting that Monis’s actions reflected those of a “random individual” and were not reflective of a “concerted terrorism event or act.” His lawyer’s comments will surely be echoed by Australia’s Muslim community as well as its multiculturalist amen corner.</p>
<p>But the facts of this case dictate other, more malevolent conclusions that point toward radical Islam. Monis was a radical Islamist who espoused the ideologies of the Islamic State. During the hostage standoff, he issued demands that demonstrated unyielding devotion to Islam. He insisted that authorities provide him with an ISIS flag and that the government officially label the incident an ISIS attack. Monis also forced his terrified victims to display an Islamic <span style="color: #0433ff;">shahada </span>flag in both the window of the café and in the numerous <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2874985/He-says-eye-eye-runs-dies-Hostage-reveals-terrifying-demands-Sheikh-killed-Lindt-Cafe-terror-crisis.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">videos</span></a> released of hostages relaying messages.</p>
<p>Australia has not been immune from the scourge of radical Islam currently sweeping across multicultural Europe. It is a liberal democracy that unwittingly plays host to radical Islamists who have taken advantage of Australia’s liberal democratic character to advance their pernicious schemes.</p>
<p>On September 18, Australian security forces <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/17/world/asia/australia-terror-arrests/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">thwarted</span></a> a plan by Australian Muslims to kidnap and behead Australian citizens in public and drape their bodies in an Islamic State flag. And on December 15, Australian authorities <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/15/two-sydney-men-charged-funding-australians-fighting-isis"><span style="color: #0433ff;">charged</span></a> two Muslim terrorists with providing funding for Australian Muslims seeking to fight with ISIS.</p>
<p>Monis was not a lone wolf as some would have us believe. There comes a point when collectively, so-called lone wolf attacks must be viewed as coordinated strikes, actively encouraged by fundamentalist ideologies. Those who claim otherwise, who refuse to acknowledge the obvious and absurdly label these attacks as acts of “<a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/ted-cruz-video-makes-compelling-case-for-awarding-purple-heart-to-fort-hood-terror-victims/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">work place violence</span></a>” or “random acts of violence,” are being disingenuous and placing politics above the needs of national security.</p>
<p>Whether it is a shooting spree at Fort Hood, a beheading in Woolwich, a bloodbath at a Jerusalem synagogue or, as in this case, a hostage standoff and murder, these incidents and countless others too numerous to mention, represent nothing short of an attack on Western civilization. The attackers may not have known each other but were nevertheless inspired and guided by the same radical Islamist ideology, an ideology that seeks to dominate, subjugate and restore Islam to the same standing it experienced some 1,000 years ago.</p>
<p>This radical ideology easily spreads like a virus through 21<sup>st</sup> century mediums like Facebook and Twitter but also finds home in the mosques and madrassas of the Middle East and the West where Muslim clerics routinely call for the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/western-indifference-to-the-palestinian-culture-of-hate/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">murder of Jews</span></a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GadPZpP-DdI"><span style="color: #0433ff;">annihilation of Western civilization</span></a>. Unfortunately, many in the West, in the name of multiculturalism and tolerance, have preferred to ignore this malevolence and have allowed it to metastasize like a malignant cancer.</p>
<p>So long as Western governments continue to bury their collective heads in the sand, fail to draw the necessary conclusions and take decisive action, we can unfortunately expect more future tragedies like that which just occurred in Sydney.</p>
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		<title>The Auto Industry Talks Some Sense into the Obama Administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tait Trussell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An agreement on car mileage rules can save money and jobs—thanks to industry. ]]></description>
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<p>The automotive industry managed to talk a bit of sense into the Obama administration and thereby save thousands of jobs and probably billions of dollars.</p>
<p>The administration in 2009 had brazenly announced it would change the law for fuel standards, raising the future Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standard by four years. Then, earlier this year, the administration laid out four mileage levels—as if to see what it could get away with.</p>
<p>It had called for future (CAFÉ) standards with the highest being 62 miles per gallon by 2025. Then it dropped the requirement to 56.2 mpg in 2025. Still too much to expect, said the industry.</p>
<p>The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers launched a barrage of radio ads in key battleground states charging that the 56.2 mpg fuel economy rules would mean <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/07/automakers-will-air-ads-attacking-obamas-562-mpg-rule/1">job losses</a> and higher car prices just when the industry is making a comeback.</p>
<p>The industry, which has fought mandatory CAFÉ since it was first enacted in 1975, is now, however, more willing to go along with the final standard of 54.5 mpg by 2025 (an increase of 5 percent a year in mpg starting in 2017). The industry agreed partly because of the reduction, plus consumers’ renewed interest in better mileage because of high gas prices, and because of more industry innovations.</p>
<p>The industry’s position of resistance to any higher standard was aided by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), which spent 11 months of <a href="http://www.cargroup.org/pdfs/ami.pdf">extensive research</a> with help of the National Research Council and other sources to examine the effects on mileage, car sales, prices, and other factors. It found the higher standards the administration first called for could raise the average price of a car by $10,000, cut auto sales by a third, and cost hundreds of thousands of car industry jobs in the U.S.</p>
<p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) formally unveiled their joint proposal to set the lower but somewhat <a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/c153bac1a0f4febc8525794a0061da1f!OpenDocument">tougher fuel</a> economy and “greenhouse gas pollution standards” for model year 2017-2025 for passenger cars and light trucks. They began praising it as if it had been their proposal all along.</p>
<p>Cars, SUVs, minivans, and pickup trucks are currently blamed by the petroleum-fearing bureaucrats for 60 percent of U.S. transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions.</p>
<p>Their announcement was termed the latest in a series of executive actions the Obama administration is taking to “strengthen the economy and move the country forward because we can’t wait for Congressional Republicans to act,” as the heads of DOT and EPA phrased it in their totally non-partisan statement.</p>
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