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		<title>Taliban School Slaughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamic child sacrifice reaches grisly new low in Pakistan. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/635543241836764189-AP-Pakistan-002.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247656" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/635543241836764189-AP-Pakistan-002-450x316.jpg" alt="635543241836764189-AP-Pakistan-002" width="313" height="220" /></a>The mind-numbing savagery of radical Islam plumbed new depths in Pakistan yesterday. Taliban terrorists shouting &#8220;Allahu akbar&#8221; <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/pakistan-school-massacre/pakistan-school-attack-taliban-militants-kill-more-140-peshawar-n269011"><span style="color: #1255cc;">attacked</span></a> the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar, slaughtering 142 people, including 132 children <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/taliban-storms-pakistani-military-school-kills-20-students-article-1.2046714"><span style="color: #1255cc;">between</span></a> the ages of six and 16. Another 10 staff members, including the principal, were also murdered. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t take any hostages initially and started firing in the hall,” said Maj. Gen. Asim Bajwa, a military spokesman.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The details of the slaughter are horrific. “We were in the education hall when militants barged in, shooting,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/world/asia/taliban-attack-pakistani-school.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> Zeeshan, a student, speaking at a hospital. “Our instructor asked us to duck and lay down and then I saw militants walking past rows of students shooting them in the head.” Another student confirmed those shootings. &#8220;The gunmen entered class by class and shot some kids one by one,” he told local media. Jamshed Khan, a school bus driver, also described the scene. &#8220;We were standing outside the school and firing suddenly started and there was chaos everywhere and the screams of children and teachers,” he said.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peshawar-school-attack-taliban-burn-teacher-alive-front-pupils-behead-children-1479767?">According</a></span> to the <i>International Business Times</i>, the Taliban monsters allegedly stooped even lower to satisfy their bloodlust. &#8220;They burnt a teacher in front of the students in a classroom,&#8221; an unnamed military source revealed. &#8220;They literally set the teacher on fire with gasoline and made the kids watch.” Moreover, Pakistani officials revealed that many of the dead children brought to the hospital had their heads chopped off.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The assault began around 11 a.m. local time (1 a.m. EST)  when <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30491435"><span style="color: #1255cc;">seven terrorists</span></a> wearing police uniforms and suicide vests scaled the wall of the school. They immediately began lobbing hand grenades and shooting indiscriminately at a time when approximately 1,000 of the school’s 2,500 male and female students in grades one through 10 were in attendance. The siege lasted more than eight hours, with Pakistani security forces forced to deal with five “heavy” explosions heard around 5 a.m. EST, in a seeming attempt to hinder rescue efforts. All seven attackers were ultimately killed, with the <i>Daily News</i> reporting that once they were finally cornered by Pakistani commandos &#8220;they blew themselves up rather than surrender.&#8221; A sweep of the compound for additional explosives was subsequently undertaken.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">An unnamed security official illuminated the one and only objective of these savage thugs. “These attackers were not in the mood to take hostages,” he said. “They were there to kill and this is what they did.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The killers <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2014/12/126-dead-in-taliban-attack-on-school-hundreds-of-children-held-hostage.html/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">were</span></a> part of the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) group, a Pakistani terrorist organization attempting to over throw the Pakistani government, and the same group to which wannabe 2010 Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad belonged. TTP spokesman Mohammed Khurasani <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/807564/gunmen-target-school-in-peshawar/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> the Karachi-based <i>Express Tribune</i> the attack was an act of revenge. “We selected the army’s school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females,” he said, referring to Pakistan’s ongoing military offensive taking place on the Afghan border. “We want them to feel the pain.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Gen. Bajwa confirmed that almost all of the children killed belonged to members of the Pakistani military. Army chief of staff General Raheel Sharif called the killers “inhuman beasts.” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who arrived in Peshawar where authorities have declared a three-day mourning period, promised certain reprisal. “Those behind the heinous act will not be spared,” he vowed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Sharif also announced a meeting of all government parties scheduled for today. Its comes amidst political turbulence orchestrated by opposition leader Imran Khan whose political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), controls the provincial government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Khan has led a series of protests in a effort to unseat Sharif, because he believes the Prime Minister’s supporters rigged the 2013 election, and because he disagrees with the army’s ongoing effort against terrorists in tribal areas. That effort, known as Operation Zarb-e-Azb, has killed approximately 1,800 terrorists operating in North Waziristan, an epicenter of Taliban terrorist activity. And while public support for that campaign has been described as “lukewarm,” due to what by government policy-makers attribute to &#8220;lack of consensus&#8221; and &#8220;large pockets of sympathy” for terrorists, Khan&#8217;s belief the government should negotiate with the terrorists instead of fighting them has garnered considerable criticism.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unfortunately, he is not alone in that regard. The same day President Obama insisted the Taliban had &#8220;once again shown their depravity,&#8221; Breitbart News <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/12/16/Obama-2012-My-Administration-is-Negotiating-With-The-Taliban"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revealed</span></a> a statement made in 2012 by Obama at Bagram Airfield Base, home of the U.S. Air Forces Central Command in Afghanistan. &#8220;We&#8217;re pursuing a negotiated peace. In coordination with the Afghan government my administration has been in direct discussions with the Taliban &#8230; Many members of the Taliban, from foot soldiers to leaders, have indicated an interest in reconciliation,” he said at the time.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The BBC wonders whether this heinous attack will constitute a “watershed” moment for the Pakistani government. Americans might be forgiven for wondering the same thing with regard to the Obama administration.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Other world leaders issued forceful condemnations of the slaughter. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon referred to it as &#8220;an act of horror and rank cowardice.” British Prime Minister David Cameron characterized it as “deeply shocking,” adding that it was “horrifying that children are being killed simply for going to school.<i>” </i>Indian prime minister Narendra Modi called it “cowardly,” and a &#8220;senseless act of unspeakable brutality that has claimed lives of the most innocent of human beings&#8211;young children in their school.”<i> </i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nobel Prize winner<i> </i><a href="http://www.dailyworth.com/posts/3014-10-fast-facts-about-malala-yousafzai"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Malala Yousafzai</span></a>, the young girl shot in the head by would-be Taliban assassins in 2012 when she was only 15, also added her voice to the mix. “Innocent children in their school have no place in horror such as this,” she said in a statement. “I, along with millions of others around the world, mourn these children, my brothers and sisters — but we will never be defeated.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Pakistan has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/pakistan-taliban-peshawar-massacre-attack"><span style="color: #1255cc;">already responded</span></a> to the tragedy. Gen. Shariff tweeted that “massive air strikes” had been carried out in the Khyber region of the country, and Sharif insisted that Operation Zarb-e-Azb &#8220;will continue until the terrorism is rooted out from our land.” The latest attack is part of a bloody track record in a nation where 50,000 people have been killed by terrorist violence in the past 13 years.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Devastated parent Tahir Ali expressed the grief undoubtedly shared by every parent victimized by this brutality. &#8220;My son was in uniform in the morning, he is in a casket now,” Ali said. “My son was my dream. My dream has been killed.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One would hope the world’s denial about radical Islam, pockmarked by occasional outbursts of horror whenever the next atrocity occurs, will suffer the same fate. We are two days removed from the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lindt-chocolat-cafe-hostage-drama-in-martin-place-sydney-20141215-1278cx.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">attack</span></a> in Sydney, one of many where the mainstream media and feckless politicians seek the false comfort of the “lone wolf” theory that amounts to nothing more than a willful refusal to connect the dots.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">An Obama administration that refers to the war on terror as “an overseas contingency operation” and applauds the conclusions of a one-sided report denigrating the CIA, hardly inspires confidence that the status quo will change. Thus, the only question is when the next horrific atrocity will occur. Should Americans have confidence that it won&#8217;t be in their own shopping malls, train stations, airports and city squares? The answer is a clear &#8220;no.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Islam: Built on the Blood of (Christian Child) Martyrs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISIS's gruesome crimes against Christian children who refuse to renounce Jesus. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/450667614.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246752" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/450667614-450x350.jpg" alt="IRAQ-UNREST-CHRISTIANS" width="359" height="279" /></a>In a recent interview on CBN News, Andrew White, an Anglican priest known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” <a href="http://www.cbn.com/tv/3879370412001"><span style="color: #0433ff;">tried to recount</span></a> the horrific atrocities Christians in Iraq are suffering at the hands of the Islamic State.  After explaining how Christian minorities fled Baghdad to Ninevah when Islamic militants began terrorizing them and bombing their churches, White said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Then one day, ISIS, the Islamic State, the Islamic caliphate came [to Ninevah] and they hounded all of them [Christians] out.   Not some, <i>all</i> of them.  And they killed huge numbers.  They chopped their children in half; they chopped their heads off.</p></blockquote>
<p>It should be noted that the targeting of Christian children in Iraq goes back years before the creation of ISIS.  For example, in June 2008, a Canadian parliamentary committee heard about how “militant Muslims” were <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=e7649576-0ebe-4b4f-b803-9a2c64449c41"><span style="color: #0433ff;">crucifying Christian children</span></a>: “Since the war began in 2003, about 12 children, many as young as 10, have been kidnapped and killed, then nailed to makeshift crosses near their homes to terrify and torment their parents.”</p>
<p>During his interview, White offered the following, likely surreal to Western sensibilities, anecdote:</p>
<blockquote><p>ISIS turned up and they said to the [Christian] children, “You say the words [<i>shehada</i>, convert to Islam], that you will follow Muhammad.”  And the children, all under 15, four of them, they said, “No, we love Jesus [Yesua].  We have always loved Jesus.  We have always followed Jesus.  Jesus has always been with us.”  They [ISIS] said, “Say the words!”  They [children] said, “No, we can’t.”  [White starts sobbing] They chopped all their heads off.  How do you respond to that?  You just cry.  They’re my children.   That is what we have been going through.  That is what we <i>are</i> going through.</p></blockquote>
<p>As callous as it is to say, perhaps these faithful children are better off.  After all, ISIS members have been known to compel Christians to convert to Islam, and <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/muslims-hack-off-christian-mans-head-after-forcing-him-to-deny-jesus-christ-and-salute-mohammed-as-messenger-of-god-124300/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">still cruelly hack their heads off</span></a>—thus damning them twice.</p>
<p>Similarly, in one of his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/apbw2/posts/10152620972646369"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Facebook postings</span></a>, White wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Today’s Pictures are too awful to show.  You know I love to show photos but the photo I was sent today was the most awful I have ever seen.  A family of 8 all shot through the face laying in a pool of blood with their Bible open on the couch. They would not convert it cost them their life.</p></blockquote>
<p>During his CBN interview, White also told of how ISIS members came to a Christian man saying, “Either you convert to Islam or we kill all your children.”  The desperate father declared the words, the <i>shehada</i>, that “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” thus becoming a Muslim.  Contrite at heart, he phoned White crying, “Abouna, abouna [father, father] I said the words! Does that mean Jesus doesn’t love me anymore?  I’ve always loved Jesus but I said those words because I couldn’t see my children being killed!”</p>
<p>White responded: “No Elias, Jesus still loves you—he will always love you.”</p>
<p>The two types of anecdotes offered by White—Christians refusing to embrace Islam and dying for it, and Christians embracing Islam under duress—are an integral part of how the “Islamic world,” the majority of which was almost entirely Christian before <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-historical-reality-of-the-muslim-conquests/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Islamic conquests</span></a>, came into being: a historic fact Western people were once well acquainted with, before the current age of <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/surreal-and-suicidal-modern-western-histories-of-islam/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">political correctness and alternate realities</span></a>.</p>
<p>A <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=8uo0335b22a5238f94f758d049b0b4b588290#bookmark="><span style="color: #0433ff;">historic anecdote</span></a> that combines the twain—forced conversion to Islam followed by Christian remorse—comes from Egypt:</p>
<blockquote><p>In 1389, a great procession of Copts who had accepted Muhammad under fear of death, marched through Cairo.  Repenting of their apostasy, they now wished to atone for it by the inevitable consequence of returning to Christianity. So as they marched, they announced that they believed in Christ and renounced Muhammad. They were seized and all the men were beheaded one after another in an open square before the women. But this did not terrify the women; so they, too, were all martyred. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Crucified Again</i></span></a>, pgs. 113-114)</p></blockquote>
<p>First forced to convert and then forced to remain in Islam—both on pain of death: these are two facts of Islam, past and present; facts that, according to top ranking Islamic cleric Sheikh Qaradawi are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huMu8ihDlVA"><span style="color: #0433ff;">responsible for the existence of Islam today</span></a>.  Just ask  Sudan’s <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islam-appalling-and-abhorrent-in-the-eyes-of-a-blind-world/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Meriam Ibrahim</span></a>, Egypt’s <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/christian-convert-illegally-imprisoned-and-tortured-begins-hunger-strike/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muhammad Hegazy</span></a>, or Iran’s (rather America’s forsaken) Saeed Abedini.</p>
<p>Aside from the numerous historic accounts of Christians slaughtered for refusing Islam—whether <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-importance-of-witnesses-newly-translated-georgian-christian-martyrdoms-expose-islamic-jihad-continuity/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">100,000 Georgian beheaded or burned alive</span></a>, or a <a href="http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/how-the-800-martyrs-of-otranto-saved-rome"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“mere” 813 Italians beheaded</span></a>—Christians are still being forced to convert to Islam, and not just at the hands of ISIS:</p>
<p>•Palestine, July 2012: Christians in Gaza protested over the “<a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=8uo0335b22a5238f94f758d049b0b4b588290#bookmark=http://global.christianpost.com/news/christians-say-forced-conversions-to-islam-happening-in-gaza-79011/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">kidnappings and forced conversions of some former believers to Islam</span></a>.”  The ever-dwindling Christian community banged on a church bell <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=8uo0335b22a5238f94f758d049b0b4b588290#bookmark=http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/07/16/christians-in-gaza-protesting-forced-conversions-to-islam/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">while chanting</span></a>, “With our spirit, with our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Jesus.”</p>
<p>•Pakistan:  In 2004,<a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=8uo0335b22a5238f94f758d049b0b4b588290#bookmark=http://www.fides.org/en/news/35368-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Women_in_Pakistan_Christian_girls_raped_by_Muslims"><span style="color: #0433ff;"> a-two-year old child was raped because her Christian father “refused to convert to Islam</span></a>.”  Another “devoted Christian” was <a href="http://www.persecution.org/2010/03/23/muslims-murder-pakistani-christian-with-axe-blows/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">butchered by Muslim men</span></a> “with multiple axe blows [24 per autopsy] for refusing to convert to Islam.” In April 2014, A Muslim security guard <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/04/family-of-christian-shot-dead-in-pakistan-doubts-suicide-claim/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">murdered a Christian worker who refused to convert to Islam</span></a>.</p>
<p>•Uganda, July 2014: After a gang of Muslims brandishing machetes stormed a church during service, <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christian-teenager-killed-by-machete-in-attack-on-church-in-Uganda.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hacking one 18-year-old woman to death</span></a> and leaving three others, including a one-year-old baby, injured, the pastor explained that the attackers belong to a local “group of Muslims” which seeks “to transform [Christian-majority] Uganda into an Islamic nation and would kill anyone who refused to convert.”</p>
<p>•Nigeria, May 2014: A Christian teenage girl told of how Boko Haram came to her household and slaughtered her father and brother <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/christian-teen-whose-dad-brother-slain-boko-haram-was-denied-us-visa"><span style="color: #0433ff;">because they refused to convert to Islam</span></a>.  After abusing her, they tied her up and left her in a state of shock between the two corpses.</p>
<p>•Bangladesh, October 2013:  After shutting down the construction of a church, a local government official threatened Christians with eviction from their village unless they renounced their faith and <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/41264-bangladeshi-christians-told-to-close-church-convert-to-islam"><span style="color: #0433ff;">embraced Islam</span></a>.  Said one of the Christians: “Their threats chilled me to the bone. That is why I pretended to accept Islam, but faith in Christ is the wellspring of my life.” Another said: “The chairman is clipping the wings of our faith. I do not know how long we can grin and bear it. We want religious freedom. We want to practice our religion freely.”</p>
<p>•Russia, 2013: In Tatarstan, a Muslim-majority republic in Russia, seven churches were burned and “<a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Russia:-seven-churches-burned-in-one-year-in-Tatarstan-29713.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">increased pressure on Christians to convert to Islam</span></a>” was widespread.</p>
<p>•Uzbekistan, August 2012: A 26-year-old Christian woman, partially paralyzed from youth, and her elderly mother were violently attacked by invaders who ransacked their home, confiscating “icons, Bibles, religious calendars, and prayer books.” At the police department, the paralyzed woman was “<a href="http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&amp;cid=3&amp;nid=20659"><span style="color: #0433ff;">offered to convert to Islam</span></a>.” She refused and was accordingly fined almost two years’ worth of her wages.</p>
<p>Pakistan, Uganda, Russia, Nigeria, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh: these are not “ISIS.”  Yet Christians there are experiencing the same intolerance and violence that Christians under ISIS are experiencing.</p>
<p>The lesson?  If all around the Muslim world Christian minorities are being forced to embrace Islam, the very least the non-Muslim world can do is embrace the fact that <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-koran-and-eternal-war/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islam is inherently hostile</span></a>—a costly lesson that countless innocents have been paying for nearly 1,400 years.</p>
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		<title>Britain: Muslim Rape Gangs Run Wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UKMuslimrapegang.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243077" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UKMuslimrapegang-450x281.png" alt="UKMuslimrapegang" width="344" height="215" /></a><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-1400-non-muslim-children-exploited-by-muslim-rape-gangs-authorities-did-nothing-for-fear-of-being-thought-as-racist">1,400 British non-Muslim children were gang-raped</a></span> and brutalized by Muslims in the British city of Rotherham, in accord with the Qur’anic allowance for the sexual enslavement of infidel women that <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/islamic-state-says-sex-slavery-is-justified-under-islamic-law"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Islamic State has pointed to</span></a> in order to justify its exploitation of captive Yazidi and Christian women. But no airstrikes were called in Rotherham; rather, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-1400-non-muslim-children-exploited-by-muslim-rape-gangs-authorities-did-nothing-for-fear-of-being-thought-as-racist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">British officials there</span></a> “described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.” And now four years of key and highly incriminating files have gone missing.</p>
<p>According to the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rotherham-child-sex-abuse-files-4432671"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Mirror</span></a>, “Professor Alexandra Jay, who wrote the bombshell report revealing <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/child-abuse"><span style="color: #0433ff;">1,400 young girls were abused</span></a> in the town over 15 years, said minutes from key meetings have disappeared. Rotherham Council was slammed in her report for ignoring the scandal and its leader and chief executive have both since resigned.”</p>
<p>These files almost certainly contain damning material about how British officials wouldn’t move against the rape gangs for fear of being stigmatized as “racists” and “Islamophobes.” But those officials are still in positions of power and influence in Britain, and so these missing files are unlikely ever to be recovered.</p>
<p>If anyone in Britain has the courage actually to search for them, has he or she checked <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/who-is-response-for-muslim-rape-gang-scandal-nick-lowles-fiyaz-mughal-co"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Nick Lowles</span></a>’s office? The people who have the most to lose here are people like Lowles, the leader of the far-Left group with the Orwellian name “Hope Not Hate,” who for years smeared anyone and everyone who spoke out against these Muslim rape gangs as “racist,” “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.” The Muslim rape gangs went unreported, unprosecuted, and in general unstopped because of organizations like Hope Not Hate, and others such as Faith Matters and Tell Mama, that waged relentless war against anyone and everyone who spoke out about these issue.</p>
<p>(Incidentally, when these groups led the campaign to ban Pamela Geller and me from entering Britain, one of the events we had discussed going to was a rally against the rape gangs. And despite smearing us as hatemongering equivalents of British jihadist Anjem Choudary, Lowles, when <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/audio-robert-spencer-on-the-bbc-takes-on-left-fascist-nick-lowles-and-discusses-the-quran-with-an-im"><span style="color: #0433ff;">challenged on the BBC</span></a>, could not come up with a single “hateful” statement I have ever made in 13 books, hundreds of articles, and over 40,000 blog posts.)</p>
<p>Meanwhile, search for “<a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/?page=search&amp;q=grooming"><span style="color: #0433ff;">grooming</span></a>” (these gangs are usually called “grooming gangs” in the British media) at Hope Not Hate’s site, and you will see that a significant percentage of the articles mentioning this practice are attacking those who are calling attention to it and protesting against it.</p>
<p>Who, then, is responsible for the religion-based mass gang-rape of British girls? The British Left — in particular the “anti-hate” crusaders Lowles and Matthew Collins of Hope Not Hate, Fiyaz Mughal of Faith Matters and Tell Mama, and their friends, supporters, and allies.</p>
<p>The lives of 1,400 girls are ruined today because of these men. If Britain were even close to being a sane society today, these people would be being subjected to scorching criticism, and there would be a thorough public reevaluation of how much the Left’s alliance with Islamic supremacism and smear campaign against foes of jihad terror has harmed the nation and its people.</p>
<p>But Britain is not a sane society today, and these sinister individuals — Lowles, Mughal, and the rest of them — will continue to wield their considerable power and influence there. Or at least they will until they have outlived their usefulness to those whom they have aided, like the Communists in Iran who helped the Ayatollah Khomeini come to power, only to discover that what the “Islamophobes” had been saying about the pious cleric was all true.</p>
<p>And so when British society dissolves into daily bloodshed and civil war, as it almost certainly will when British officials finally say no to any further appeasement and accommodation of Islamic supremacists, and those supremacists take umbrage, the thieves of these Rotherham files (as well as Lowles, Collins, Mughal and all their accomplices) can congratulate themselves that they were never, not even for a second, “racist.”</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss<strong> The Glazov Gang&#8217;s </strong>special 2-part series on<strong> Muslim Rape Gangs in the UK</strong>:</em></p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 04:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">More and more these days, people who call themselves &#8220;liberals&#8221; have bumper-sticker philosophies that are liberal &#8212; they&#8217;re not even leftist. They&#8217;re infantile. In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle dissects one of these childish, undeservedly self-righteous positions and compares the modern &#8220;liberal&#8221; to the real deal. See the video and transcript below. </span></strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">Hi Everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">You know how it is on Facebook. Every now and then a friend pops up who you haven’t seen in a long, long time. I had one of those fiend pops just the other day, and so I went to her page to see how she’s doing.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Just fine, and nothing new.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">She did have one of those interminable political pictures though, and while I have seen a few that were really dumb, this one was in line for the prize. And I about let it go – cause otherwise you’ll go mad – when I realized it was a share from a Facebook page called BEING LIBERAL, which has over a million followers.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So here’s what Being Liberal proudly posted as a nugget of political wisdom:</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It says: “When all the trees are cut down…when all the animals are dead…when all the waters are poisoned… when all the air is unsafe to breathe… only then will you discover: you cannot eat money.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">You know, I’m sorry – I have to take a swing at this. First the jab, then the uppercut…</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Let’s start with the point of the poster.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I hate to break this to you, you blindingly stupid young thing, but even before I saw this picture I already knew that you can’t eat money. I learned this not through a program of nonviolent resistance to the corporate death machine, but rather through trial and error, at age two. By the time I was two I had experimentally determined that you cannot, in fact, eat money, and thus was prepared to delve deeper into economics. But I am glad to see that you have achieved mastery of the fundamental concept. If you keep at it, you may discover – at this rate, somewhere around age 85 or so – that while you cannot eat money, you can use money to buy food. That money could be pretty seashells, shiny pebbles, gold, paper, binary digits or cigarettes, but as long as there is money it is useful in order to buy food in a way that not having money is not useful.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’ll note in passing that not only are the trees not being cut down, but that there is far more forest in the United States today than there was a hundred years ago; in fact, there may be more today than before the Europeans arrived in the first place.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The animals are not all dead. I saw an animal on the way to work today. Like the forests – where they live! &#8212; there have never been more deer in America, and the buffalo – nearly wiped out a century ago – are back in numbers that make buffalo burgers routinely available.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The waters are not poisoned. They used to be. The Cuyahoga river caught fire at least 13 times between 1868 and 1969. The last time was 45 years ago – it, and the rest of the nation’s waterways, are far, far cleaner now. You’d have a point if you were your grandmother.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Likewise for the air. That’s all very 20th century. The air is much cleaner than it used to be – in places where we value money. Capitalist countries. Leftist countries – you know, leftists like you guys – are indeed filthy. China’s air pollution is so bad it makes up a third of the air pollution in San Francisco! But that because the left values the state over the individual, and the Chinese state wants the money from a manufacturing economy and the Chinese individual, as usual, can go pound sand.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Now to the bigger point: namely, YOU ARE NOT LIBERALS. This isn’t liberalism: this isn’t even leftism &#8212; it’s infantilism. It’s the philosophy of children, because that’s what you are. I know you feel brave, holding up that sign, speaking truth to power. You have no right to feel brave, because the risk of anything happening to you with that sign in America is Zero.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">((CHINESE STUDENT AND TANKS))</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">See this guy? That’s an individual, risking his life to fight the armies of socialism. He’s a hero, you’re not. That took courage. What you’re doing doesn’t. Like everyone else on the left, you want something – in this case moral superiority – but you don’t want to pay for it. So you just take it. See how easy it is?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">You’re not liberals – none of you are. You know who is a liberal?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">((JEFFERSON))</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This guy. We’ll use the image of this dead white male to represent the other dead white males who were, in fact liberals. They were called liberals because they believed in liberty – which meant, and still means, simply the freedom to be left alone.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">((JEFFERSON / PROTESTOR SPLIT))</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The man on the right wanted people to be left alone. He believed in private property, strict limits on the power of government, freedom of speech, private ownership of weapons and was the founder of the Democratic party.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The woman on the left wants to government to take care of her health care, birth control, housing, food and transportation. She’s a collectivist who hates private property, wants to expand the government into every aspect of not just her life but yours as well, believes in speech codes and political correctness, wants guns banned and is the inheritor of the democratic party.</p>
<p>The man on the right spent a lifetime of study, debate and reflection trying to determine the nature of man, his history of rare success and frequent failures and with his fellows spent a lifetime trying to devise a realistic formula for the pursuit of happiness.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The woman on the left likely doesn’t know who the man on the right is.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iranian-women-dk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239600" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iranian-women-dk.jpg" alt="IRAN-WOMEN-DEMO" width="317" height="234" /></a>Recently, Majlis (Iranian parliament), which is dominated by hardliners<span style="color: #0433ff;">, has voted</span> to ban vasectomies, permanent kinds of contraception, and impose restriction on women&#8217;s fertility. In addition, the bill bans advertisements aimed at promoting birth control. Any doctor, or woman, who violates the ban will be punished and prosecuted according to the new Islamist bill.</p>
<p>Since its establishment, the Islamic Republic has significantly exercised “biopower” (a term coined by the historian Michel Foucault) in order to control the population and particularly subjugate women to achieve the regime&#8217;s Islamist, religious, ideological, political, and economic objectives. According to <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CCwQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2F78.158.56.101%2Farchive%2Flaw%2Ffiles%2Fdownloads%2F325%2F2088.126d6dc4.Paliwala.doc&amp;ei=mkn6U9jdPKmBiwL00oCACw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHWIwknXVcMp1VNXxjjcj1rTg3_QQ&amp;sig2=1hxq_883R0sReEaMcq1MEA&amp;bvm=bv.73612305,d.cGE"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Foucault</span></a>, biopower is defined in <i>The History of Sexuality as</i> &#8220;an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Under the new Islamist state, the Ayatollahs and ruling clerics utilized methods in order to control and exercise power over women to gradually take away their capacity to act in social affairs particularly by regulating their day to day activities, monitoring all their actions, as well as by having authority over their bodies.</p>
<p>For example, dress codes including (scarves, chador, etc) were imposed on women. Women could not wear what they desired out of the home. Women were encouraged to cover their bodies and dress more conservatively. And those who did not comply were laid off from work, fined, lashed, arrested, imprisoned, and attacked.</p>
<p>In addition, women’s bodies were predominantly defined by the Islamic Republic as a platform for satisfying their spouses. Women were banned from playing several sports.  Instead, being a housewife and submissive was encouraged. The control of women’s bodies and their day-to-day activities were used as a formidable venue to subjugate, dehumanize, and sway women’s capacity in life.</p>
<p>On the other hand, what are the underlying reasons for the new restriction on women’s fertility under the Islamic law of Iran?</p>
<p>The fundamental reasons are political, ideological and religion-driven. The whole process of passing a bill to impose restriction on women&#8217;s fertility began by one man’s plan: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  The Supreme Leader has the final say as well as the power to delineate general policies for the entire country after consultation with the Nation&#8217;s Exigency Council, according to <a href="http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/government/constitution-8.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">article 110</span></a> of the Islamic Republic.</p>
<p>The Supreme Leader decided that he wanted the population of his country to increase from 75 million people to 150 million. Khamenei’s new doctrine was read out to the nationwide conference in the city of Qum, <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iran-supreme-leader-ayatollah-khamenei-population-family-519685"><span style="color: #0433ff;">pointing out</span></a> that “I believe that our country is not a country of 75 million people, our country [could be] a country of 150 million people&#8230; and even more… a young image is an essential and important issue for the country, and the countries which have faced aging population have overcome the issue in a difficult way. &#8221;</p>
<p>The message added, “We always wonder how life is going to be if we have four or five children; we should also think that if we have four or five children and if they are able to find jobs they will contribute to the development of the country.”  In addition, the Supreme Leader introduced a <a href="http://farsi.khamenei.ir/news-content?id=26440"><span style="color: #0433ff;">14-point plan</span></a> to increase the population.</p>
<p>The Iranian regime carried out the same policy in the 1980s, encouraging larger families and more children during the Iran-Iraq war. Iran’s population reached its peak during that time.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the new Islamist bill is aimed at pushing women in the Islamic Republic to be housewives and take traditional roles as mothers rather than participate in public political and social affairs. Currently, large numbers of Iranian women are highly educated and seeking more public functions in the society.</p>
<p>Across the country, billboards that promote less children have been replaced by <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/08/11/3469707/iran-birth-control-policy/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">mottos</span></a> such as “A single blossom is not spring” and “More children, better lives.” The Supreme Leader states rhetorically that doubling the number of the population will &#8220;<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/iranian-parliament-bans-vasectomies-bid-boost-birth-rate-124757397.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">strengthen national identity</span></a>&#8221; as well as counter &#8220;undesirable aspects of Western lifestyles.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nevertheless, politically speaking, the population of a country can be regarded as a defining character for the political strength of that government. The new bill will purportedly double the population of Shia Muslims, providing further manpower for the Islamic Republic and strengthening its political influence, national security.  The Iranian regime will be able to have mandatory military service and hire a considerable amount of young people in its army and militia groups such as Basij by offering them incentives such as educational fellowships, loans, etc.  From the Ayatollahs and ruling political figures in the Islamic Republic, this move will ensure their hold on power in the future.</p>
<p>However, many policies have unintended consequences as well.  This restriction on women might have a backlash. It is questionable whether educated Iranian women will accept going back and being confined in homes as mothers and housewives. Secondly, the increase in population might lead to a larger discontent and disaffected population, which would pose greater risks in the future in case protests against the Iranian regime erupt, as they did in 2009. Controlling a larger dissatisfied population poses more challenges.</p>
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		<title>The Forgotten Child Victims of Hamas and ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are all dead children created equal?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Hadeel-Al-Haddad.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238033" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Hadeel-Al-Haddad.png" alt="Hadeel Al-Haddad" width="281" height="232" /></a>While furious mobs of leftists draped in Keffiyahs and corn syrup were shrieking about Gaza in the public squares of every major city, ISIS was continuing its genocidal advance on Baghdad. In the last 24 hours, the Yazidis, a non-Muslim minority, fled ISIS to a mountaintop <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/non-muslim-minority-facing-isis-genocide-in-iraq-beg-obama-for-water/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">where their children are dying of</span></a> thirst.</p>
<p>The stark reality of their plight, caught between thirst and a genocidal army, is in sharp contrast to the phony claims made about Gaza where <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183689"><span style="color: #0433ff;">truckloads of goods continue passing</span></a> from Israel during wartime, where <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/starving-gazans-snap-up-iphone-5/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the malls have iPhones</span></a> and the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/steve-feldman/gaza-prison-or-paradise/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">five star hotels</span></a> offer <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/new-york-times-reporters-covering-the-hamas-war-stay-at-the-luxurious-gaza-grand-palace-hotel/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">cakes so</span></a> <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/new-york-times-reporters-covering-the-hamas-war-stay-at-the-luxurious-gaza-grand-palace-hotel/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">tall they can only be cut</span></a> from a crane.</p>
<p>The dead Yazidi children won’t inspire any protests or much in the way of outrage. The hysterical rallies for Gaza won’t suddenly turn into anti-ISIS rallies. If any of the angry white hipsters with dead baby posters are asked about it, they will offer some variation on, “It’s Bush’s fault” or “It’s Tony Blair’s fault.”</p>
<p>And they had been out there in the early part of the century denouncing any move to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The <a href="http://hnn.us/article/862"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dead children gassed by Saddam</span></a>, along with the children in his prisons, were unfortunately created less equal than the photogenic, oddly blonde children of Gaza’s Hamaswood.</p>
<p>Anna, a two-year-old girl <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/2058253.stm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">whose feet were crushed by</span></a> Saddam’s torturers, never mattered to them.  It isn’t the children that they care about, not the dying Yazidi children in Iraq, the tortured children in <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/888342/posts"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Saddam Hussein’s</span></a> prisons, or even the dead children of Gaza, used as human shields by Hamas in life and then brandished at rallies after their deaths as cardboard propaganda shields by furious Marxists.</p>
<p>When they thought that Israel had bombed a <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183509"><span style="color: #0433ff;">playground near the al-Shati refugee camp</span></a> killing nine children, they went into murderous paroxysm of outrage. When it turned out that a misfired Hamas rocket was responsible, they fell silent.</p>
<p>They have equally little interest in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/world/middleeast/errant-rocket-in-gaza-is-said-to-kill-girl-3.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">3-year-old Gazan girl killed </span></a>by a Hamas rocket in the early days of the war.</p>
<p>The same thing had happened in 2012 when a dead 11-month old baby, formerly an iconic front page photo, vanished into obscurity once the death turned out to have <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/11/u-n-finally-confirms-hamas-not-israeli-rocket-killed-gaza-baby/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">been caused by a Hamas rocket</span></a>. The same thing happened to Hadil al-Haddad, a 2-year-old girl in Gaza, who went <a href="http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2012/06/hadeed-al-haddad-from-shaheed-to-just.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">from iconic photo to yesterday’s news</span></a> once it turned out that <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4755"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a Hamas rocket had been</span></a> responsible <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/06/gaza-rocket-misfires-kills-2-year-old.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">for her death</span></a>.</p>
<p>However the photos of those dead and wounded children, along with the dead children of Syria and perhaps soon the dead children of the Yazidi, will go on showing up at spitefully angry anti-Israel rallies.</p>
<p>If they genuinely cared about children, they would be at least as outraged, moved and pained by the death of a child at the hands of Saddam Hussein, as they were by ISIS terrorists dying at the hands of American and British soldiers. Instead dead Iraqi children inspired apathy and dead Al Qaeda outrage.</p>
<p>If it was the children that they cared about, then the death of an Israeli child or a Muslim child at the hands of Hamas would matter as much to them as the ones on the bloody placards they now brandish.</p>
<p>But they don’t and they never did.</p>
<p>They don’t love children or anyone else for that matter. They only hate. The dead children are only pieces of photographic paper to them which they use to shamelessly assault their ideological enemies.</p>
<p>Once Israel pulled out of Gaza, a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs found a striking increase in <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/02/26/2003350110"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the amount of internal violence</span></a> as the majority of deaths <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-real-killers-of-muslim-children-in-gaza/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">were now being caused by clan feuds</span></a>.</p>
<p>During 2007’s battles between Israel and Hamas, as many Palestinian Arab children died in clan feuds as they did in Israeli air strikes. And unlike air strikes, children killed in clan feuds aren’t accidents.</p>
<p>The dirty little secret is that while Palestinian identity is as phony as a three dollar bill, clan identity is a powerful and defining force. Furthermore it is often hard to tell whether Hamas and Fatah terrorists are aligned with a movement because of personal belief or because their clan is aligned with a movement.</p>
<p>Hamas and Fatah aren’t just ideologies. They are also large extended clan families which fight over land, honor and economic control.</p>
<p>The origins of Israel’s struggle with terrorism go back to the roots of the al-Husayni clan which arrived in Jerusalem after the Crusades and has been trying to control the city and everything else ever since.</p>
<p>Prominent members and associates of the clan include Hitler’s Mufti, <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007668"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hajj Amin al-Husayni</span></a>, and Y<a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/122645"><span style="color: #0433ff;">asser Arafat</span></a>. (Arafat however was more directly associated with the Al-Qudwas, a clan which extends from Iraq to Egypt. Both clans considered themselves to be a sort of titled aristocracy, yet another fact which makes their post-colonial posturing as oppressed peoples ridiculously hypocritical and laughable.)</p>
<p>Muslim children being killed in clan feuds between huge families whose local branches claim to be the leaders of the Palestinian people even as they fight with equal ferocity for control over Syria and Iraq is not a subject that any of the placard wavers are interested in. Open that door a crack and their whole self-righteous campaign collapses into incoherent bleating as they struggle to justify the primacy of one terrorist group over another based on the claims of descent from Mohammed by its leading clans.</p>
<p>There are stories that are simply not told.</p>
<p>When UN inspector and anti-war activist Scott Ritter visited Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, <a href="http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,351165,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">he encountered a prison which</span></a>, in his own words, “appeared to be a prison for children — toddlers up to pre-adolescents — whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was a horrific scene.”</p>
<p>Ritter refused to discuss it any further, “because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I&#8217;m waging peace.”</p>
<p>Scott Ritter, who was later arrested for soliciting underage girls on the internet, wasn’t waging peace. No more than the placard wavers in London, Sydney and Montreal are waging peace. He was fighting to keep Saddam Hussein power. And he was willing to sacrifice a prison full of children to do that.</p>
<p>He was willing to sacrifice little girls like Anna, who had her feet crushed in a torture chamber, to keep Saddam Hussein in power. Ritter was willing to do it because he had the same morals as Saddam.</p>
<p>That is the same attitude that the placard wavers have toward the children of Gaza, of Iraq and of countless other places. They use them to wage war in the name of peace when they come in handy.</p>
<p>And when they die of Hamas rockets and clan feuds, when they are killed by ISIS and the entire murderous alphabet soup of Islamic terrorism, they drop them like yesterday’s garbage.</p>
<p>For Hamas and its supporters screaming “Free Gaza” at the top of their lungs, children, dead or alive, are just another propaganda weapon in the arsenal of terrorist theocracy.</p>
<p>They are eager and willing to let Hamas go on killing Jewish and Muslim children in the name of its war.</p>
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		<title>The Loophole Is Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/the-border-crisis-is-hurting-obama-now-but-it-will-hurt-republicans-later.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237472" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/the-border-crisis-is-hurting-obama-now-but-it-will-hurt-republicans-later-450x337.jpg" alt="the-border-crisis-is-hurting-obama-now-but-it-will-hurt-republicans-later" width="258" height="193" /></a>It&#8217;s been reported everywhere &#8212; The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fox News &#8212; that the William Wilberforce Sex Trafficking Act requires that any non-Mexican children who show up on our border be admitted and given a hearing. (New York Times, July 7, 2014: &#8220;Immigrant Surge Rooted in Law to Curb Child Trafficking.&#8221;)</p>
<p>The problem, we&#8217;ve been told, is that a loophole in the sex trafficking law mandates these hearings &#8212; or &#8220;removal proceedings.&#8221;</p>
<p>But there is no such loophole.</p>
<p>The fact that people on both sides of the aisle are telling the same lie about this law is worrisome. Are Republicans being tricked into thinking we need an emergency bill, so that, two weeks later, we&#8217;ll see them emerging from a conference, saying:</p>
<p>We fixed the loophole! We didn&#8217;t get everything we wanted, but you can hear about that later.</p>
<p>No, tell me now.</p>
<p>Well, remember amnesty? It&#8217;s kind of in this bill. But the headline is: We closed the loophole! So no more worries about that loophole. But yeah, amnesty passed.</p>
<p>Why else would everyone be carrying on about a non-existent loophole? I know they&#8217;re mistaken because I read the law.</p>
<p>The Wilberforce law states, in relevant part:</p>
<p>&#8220;Any unaccompanied alien child sought to be removed by the Department of Homeland Security, except for an unaccompanied alien child from a contiguous country (i.e. Mexico &#8212; or Canada, so as not to sound discriminatory) &#8230; shall be &#8212; placed in removal proceedings &#8230; eligible for relief &#8230; at no cost to the child and provided access to counsel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obviously, that&#8217;s the whole ball of wax. Once a kid is in, given La Raza attorneys and a hearing date, he&#8217;s never going home. No immigration judge is going to listen to a lawyer-manufactured sob story and say, &#8220;No, I&#8217;m sorry, that didn&#8217;t touch my heart. You have to go back to Huehuetenango.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the law&#8217;s definition of &#8220;unaccompanied alien child&#8221; limits the hearings to kids who have no relatives in the United States. If your relatives live here, the law assumes you&#8217;re not being sex-trafficked &#8212; you&#8217;re trying to join them.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the definition &#8212; note subsection (C):</p>
<p>&#8220;(g) Definitions</p>
<p>&#8220;(2) the term &#8216;unaccompanied alien child&#8217; means a child who &#8211;</p>
<p>(A) has no lawful immigration status in the United States;</p>
<p>(B) has not attained 18 years of age; and</p>
<p>(C) with respect to whom &#8211;</p>
<p>(i) there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States; or (ii) no parent or legal guardian in the United States is available to provide care and physical custody.&#8221;</p>
<p>The law is not &#8212; as George Will suggested on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; &#8212; a general humanitarian mandate allowing all 2 billion poor children of the world to show up at our border and be told, &#8220;Welcome to America!&#8221; It&#8217;s a law to combat sex trafficking.</p>
<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Vice President Joe Biden wrote the law &#8212; and Feinstein isn&#8217;t stupid. She&#8217;s well aware of illegal immigration. That&#8217;s why the law specifically excludes two huge categories of illegal aliens from getting hearings: (1) Mexicans; and (2) children who have relatives in the U.S.</p>
<p>Those cases look more like illegal immigration than sex trafficking. (Didn&#8217;t anyone wonder why Mexican kids are excluded?)</p>
<p>Mexicans make up the lion&#8217;s share of illegal immigrants in the U.S., and children with relatives already living in the U.S. are probably just trying to rejoin family &#8212; not trying to escape a fiendish kidnapper about to sell them into sex slavery.</p>
<p>According to last Friday&#8217;s New York Times, almost 90 percent of the 53,000 illegal alien kids given refugee status since October have already been transferred to parents or relatives living in the U.S. By the law&#8217;s clear terms, those 47,000 kids should have been summarily turned away at the border &#8212; just as Mexican children are.</p>
<p>(Democrats wailing about a &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; crisis &#8212; after calculating the precise number of voters they need &#8212; evidently don&#8217;t care about the Mexican kids.)</p>
<p>No law needs to be fixed. The only thing that needs to be fixed is the president.</p>
<p>Obama has gone mad and is defying the law in order to &#8220;fundamentally transform America&#8221; &#8212; as he pledged to do during the 2008 campaign &#8212; into Latin America. (Luckily for George Will, he won&#8217;t be around by the time Latin America gets to his neighborhood.)</p>
<p>Any Republicans pushing for an immigration bill to seal an imaginary loophole aren&#8217;t fighting Obama; they&#8217;re helping him.</p>
<p>Constitutionally, the remedy for a president defying the law so he can assist an alien invasion is impeachment. But the media won&#8217;t let us impeach Obama &#8212; and Republicans don&#8217;t have the votes, anyway. The only way for Americans to fight back is to put large Republican majorities in the House and Senate this November.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Geifman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hamas11.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236527" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hamas11-450x298.jpg" alt="hamas11" width="320" height="212" /></a>Political differences aside, few will disagree that Palestinian children are innocent victims of the on-going hostilities in Gaza. Israel’s air strikes, aimed to defend its citizens from Hamas’ terrorization, resulted in civilian casualties, which included child victims. Yet, none other than Hamas, the rulers of Gaza, are responsible for the general humanitarian crisis there and for scores of killed, wounded, and traumatized children.</p>
<p>Civilian fatalities are inevitable in any war, and thus far there are 230 in Gaza, despite a painstaking—and largely successful&#8211;effort of the Israelis to minimize collateral casualties. There is sufficient documentary evidence to show that Israeli pilots have cancelled scheduled air strikes after having spotted children and other innocents close to sites designated for destruction.[i] On the other hand, since the outbreak of the war, the Hamas government repeatedly ordered citizens to ignore Israel’s warnings to evacuate before the strikes: residents were to remain inside their houses and not to “collaborate with the enemy.”[ii] Hamas punishment for collaborators has always been death,[iii] and many Gazans might have chosen to take a chance with their lives and those of their families rather than to defy terrorists in power.</p>
<p>Palestinians are the prime victims of their oppressive, brutal, criminal, semi-totalitarian administration. They are as afraid of their Hamas leaders as Russians were terrified of the Bolsheviks in their day. To expect to hear a sincere opinion of a Gaza citizen about any current political issue is like waiting for a terrorized captive of Stalin’s regime to express his independent view on Soviet foreign policy. The Israeli soldiers understand that they are forced to fight Hamas among the population which is “held hostage.”[iv]</p>
<p>The analogy holds, except for one central point: whereas the Bolsheviks in 1917 usurped power by force, Hamas won a significant majority in the 2006 elections in the Palestinian Parliament, and since 2007 maintained unilateral control of Gaza. A closer resemblance may therefore be to the Nazis, who had taken over German politics in 1933 as a result of the democratically-held parliamentary elections. Like the Germans, the Palestinians elected their Hamas leaders by a popular vote. Like the Germans in the 1930s and 1940s, they bare responsibility for their government’s aggression and brutality. And, like the Germans at the end of WWII, they suffer—and suffer indeed!&#8211;the consequences of the failed democratic process and its abuse by the extremists. “We are not leading our people to execution,” declared the Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri on Al-Aqsa TV on July 14, 2014, “We are leading them to death… I mean, to confrontation,” he corrected his slip of the tongue.[v] To say that to be led to death the adult Gazans chose is not to blame the victim; tragically, they made this choice also for their children.</p>
<p>Would it be a stretch of the comparison to say that Palestinian children today are like the 12-year-old members of the Hitlerjugend, whom in 1945 the Nazis equipped with hand grenades to blow up Soviet tanks? Time and again Hamas employs minors for suicide acts and other form of terrorist activity, sometimes giving them money or promising to pay their families.[vi] The Hamas uses Gaza schools and kindergartens as missile storages and launching sites; child facilities, as well as hospitals and mosques, protect Hamas fighters from the Israeli fire.[vii] A vivid fifteen-second video depicts the terrorists forcing small boys to serve adults as shields against the Israeli snipers.[viii] Even some Arab sources reveal that the Islamists use “human shields and hide behind them, without mercy for their children . . . in order to tell the public opinion that the Jews intended to kill them.”[ix]</p>
<p>An entire communication network exists in the Hamas-controlled Gaza for the purpose of producing “tragic news events.” Raw footage produces “Pallywood”&#8211;media manufacturing of bloody incidents, testifying of Israel’s intentional targeting of civilians and other “crimes against humanity.”[x] The Zionist agents are accused of spreading food that contains cancer-causing ingredients and of deliberately poisoning air and water. The Israelis are blamed for selling sports shoes that “cause the wearer to become paralyzed” and perfumes that lead to drug addiction, as well as of distributing AIDS, “sexually stimulating drops and chewing gum,” so as to &#8220;weaken and destroy&#8221; Palestinian youth.</p>
<p>Film clips of official TV have been fabricated to show the alleged victims of depleted uranium and nerve gas attacks quivering by convulsions and vomiting. Israelis are said to have performed Nazi-like experiments on Palestinian prisoners: &#8220;Many of the male and female inmates received injections from needles . . . which caused their hair and facial hair to fall out permanently. . . others lost their sanity, or their mental condition is constantly deteriorating. . . and some are suffering from infertility.” Reenacted for the cameras are also scenes of rape by Israeli soldiers.[xi] “We don’t encourage our children to hate the Jews. We just tell them . . . that the Jews killed their families, and they reach the conclusion to hate the Jews on their own,” explains an unsuccessful suicide terrorist, who, although imprisoned, dreams of having children some day—to bring them up as Shahids.[xii]</p>
<p>“What is your most lofty aspiration?” six-year-olds in Hamas attire are asked during a kindergarten graduation ceremony; they are trained to scream in unison: “Death for the sake of Allah!”[xiii] Some kindergarteners are primed enough to envisage their future in detail: “When I will grow up, I want to blow myself up with the Zionists and to kill them in a suicide act on a bus.” [xiv] Preachers tell the youngsters that those who die as martyrs feel no pain and receive rewards in the afterlife; even when a Shahid “turns into torn organs that spread all over, in order to meet Allah, Muhammad, and his friends, it would not be a loss.”[xv]</p>
<p>Privately, Palestinians admit: “We live in a culture of death;”[xvi] indeed, “for the Palestinian people death has become an industry,” boast its official engineers,[xvii] whose special focus is on the very young. Official Hamas eulogies, television broadcasts, naming athletic tournaments after suicide terrorists, monument inaugurations, writing essays and poems in class, as well as religious sermons, have the common denominator of depicting the suicide mission as an act of ultimate virtue.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re happy that our school is named after a very well-known Martyr,” who died when a bomb she was preparing to be detonated in a building in Tel Aviv exploded in her hands, students in the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh High School for Girls explain: &#8220;She was a model of the wonderful female Palestinian fighter. We follow her path in this school . . . With her blood she delineated a path for all of Palestine&#8217;s women.&#8221;[xviii] Instruction in terrorism is a segment of a regular military summer camp curriculum, in which professional combatants coach boys and girls and indoctrinate them in hatred and murder.[xix]</p>
<p>Posters in kindergartens scream: “The children are holy martyrs of tomorrow.”[xx] Hamas-run TV produces and broadcasts programs similar to that about Farfur, a Mickey Mouse look-alike, who is beaten to death by an Israeli and becomes a Shahid, joining other glorious martyrs.[xxi] Assaud the Rabbit takes his place on the Al-Aqsa TV in Gaza and promises children to “eat the Jews.” [xxii] In July 2009 the Hamas TV children’s program “Tomorrow Pioneers” aired a special broadcast in which the children of Reem Riyashi were invited to the studio to watch and comment on a video re-enactment of their mother&#8217;s 2004 suicide bombing.[xxiii]</p>
<p>“We have the right to congratulate the Shahids’ families, not to extend condolences and sorrow . . . . “Shame and remorse on whoever refrained from raising his children on Jihad;” [xxiv] this is the official party-line in Gaza. It is highly doubtful that the majority of parents are so brainwashed as to rejoice about their children’s death. Some are openly infuriated that the Jihadist recruiters exploited their children. [xxv] The bereaved father of a young suicide bomber complained in a newspaper interview that ideologists of terror never dispatch their own sons and daughters to death: “Who gave them religious justification to send our children to blow themselves up?” he cried and called the terrorist leaders “snakes.”[xxvi]</p>
<p>However passionately some express in public the officially-required ecstasy on their son’s “wedding day” (euphemism for death mission) privately they mourn the loss and try to keep their other teenagers from engagement in violence.[xxvii] Still, “over time a cult of martyrdom that generated posters, videos, songs, and societal glorification grew up in Palestinian society,” in which children play with toy and real weapons[xxviii] &#8212; a sociocultural context of obligatory veneration of suicide terrorism. “I always longed to be the mother of a Shahid,” declared in an interview Umm Nidal Farhat, a Palestinian woman who had lost two sons to Jihad; “As far as I am concerned, let all my sons be Shahids,” she said; it “is the best thing in this world.” [xxix]</p>
<p>Within the “culture of martyrdom,”[xxx] which Hamas has been constructing, polls show that between 72 and 80 per cent of Palestinian children yearn to die as martyrs; independent psychology research confirms these numbers.[xxxi] “We don’t want this world,” affirms Yussra, an 11-year-old victim of indoctrination-in-death: “We benefit not from this life, but from the Afterlife. . . . Every Palestinian child . . . says, O Lord, I would like to become a <em>shahid</em>.”[xxxii]</p>
<p>“Let’s play the Shahid Game!” Nada, a 7-year-old girl, says to her friends. The children bring an old sheet, spread it on the ground, and then begin to argue who will be the Shahid. Six-year old Fa’iz says: “You were the Shahid yesterday, today it’s my turn! . . . I will be the one to die!”[xxxiii]</p>
<p>Thousands of images inundate the world’s printed media and the Internet to illustrate the devastating results of every Israeli operation in Gaza. It is difficult to find a photograph in which small children would not be the visual centerpiece—striking millions of viewers right in their hearts. When children’s task is to illicit sympathy, they are persecuted, covered with dust and blood, scared, agonizing, and sad. But why is there no image of the “Palestinian resistance” without 14-year-olds throwing stones; or 12-year-olds hanging out among the heavily-armed Hamas fighters; or 10-year-olds watching the Israeli soldiers carry out their mission? Is this a case of terrible neglect or parental inability to prevent their children from going to a very dangerous place, where they are likely to get hurt? Are these children being war-initiated and taking part in an on-site Hamas military training? It could be both, or yet another manifestation of a constructed a murderous culture, in which terrorists refashion children into instruments of death.</p>
<p>On July 16, 2014 Al Jazeera website published an article, “Gaza Child: Three Wars Old.”[xxxiv] Gazan children above the age of six already witnessed three wars with Israel, and they are the lucky survivors, explains the writer, Yasmeen El Khoudary. Along from the Israeli offensive, she outlines a list of circumstances allegedly responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza: “a seemingly everlasting siege,” dire political and economic situation, new Egyptian regime&#8217;s complicity, Arab negativity, and “the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s total detachment and pathetic stance against Israel.”</p>
<p>There is a gaping fallacy in this inventory of fault-finding: it is Hamas which is the prime user of “collective punishment” in Gaza; it is Hamas, which abuses and exploits its own people for the sake of maintaining power; like any and all other dictatorial regimes, it is the real cause of suffering of its people. Truly innocent sacrifices among the Hamas victims are Palestinian children.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<p>[i] See, for example, <a href="http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/idf-exposes-hamass-use-of-human-shields">http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/idf-exposes-hamass-use-of-human-shields</a></p>
<p>[ii] See, for example, <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=1046&amp;fld_id=1046&amp;doc_id=12022">http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=1046&amp;fld_id=1046&amp;doc_id=12022</a>; חמאס לתושבים: לא לשתף פעולה עם &#8220;הקש בגג&#8221; ולהישאר בבתים, <a href="http://m.ynet.co.il/Article.aspx?id=4541047">http://m.ynet.co.il/Article.aspx?id=4541047</a>; Palestinian Media Watch, <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=12063">http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=12063</a></p>
<p>[iii] For some among numerous examples see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/world/middleeast/suspected-collaborator-with-israel-executed-in-gaza.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/world/middleeast/suspected-collaborator-with-israel-executed-in-gaza.html</a>, and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/hamas-kills-suspected-collaborators-israel-gaza-article-1.1205010">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/hamas-kills-suspected-collaborators-israel-gaza-article-1.1205010</a></p>
<p>[iv] Yoav Zitun, “צה&#8221;ל על הרג הילדים: באזור התבצעה פעילות טרור. אם נפגעו אזרחים מדובר באירוע טרגי”, July 16, 2014, <a href="http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0%2c7340%2cL-4544917%2c00.html">http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0%2c7340%2cL-4544917%2c00.html</a>”</p>
<p>[v] Palestinian Media Watch, <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=12063">http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=12063</a></p>
<p>[vi] For an example of a 14-year old unsuccessful suicide bomber, see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPU4UN03t7E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPU4UN03t7E</a>; see also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Oqo_wmuGo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Oqo_wmuGo</a></p>
<p>[vii] For latest evidence see “UNRWA condemns discovery of rockets in Gaza school,” July 17, 2014, <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/07/17/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/unrwa-condemns-discovery-of-rockets-in-gaza-school">http://www.jta.org/2014/07/17/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/unrwa-condemns-discovery-of-rockets-in-gaza-school</a>; האו&#8221;ם מודה: מצאנו 20 רקטות בבי&#8221;ס בעזה, <a href="http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0%2c7340%2cL-4545333%2c00.html">http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0%2c7340%2cL-4545333%2c00.html</a></p>
<p>[viii]   <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejVJWSTTpY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejVJWSTTpY</a>; see also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQQFJXMrg4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQQFJXMrg4</a></p>
<p>[ix] Sheikh Ahmad Adwan: “Allah Gave the Land of Israel to the Jews,” <a href="http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/middle-east/israel-and-the-middle-east/sheikh-ahmad-adwan-allah-gave-the-land-of-israel-to-the-jews-3516">http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/middle-east/israel-and-the-middle-east/sheikh-ahmad-adwan-allah-gave-the-land-of-israel-to-the-jews-3516</a></p>
<p>[x] “Palliwood staging area? You decide for yourself,” <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7332726655958371305">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7332726655958371305</a> See also “Pallywood Introduction,” <a href="http://seconddraft.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=59&amp;Itemid=199">http://seconddraft.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=59&amp;Itemid=199</a></p>
<p>[xi] Robert S. Wistrich, Muslim Anti-Semitism. A Clear and Present Danger (The American Jewish Committee, 2002), 34, <a href="http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/WistrichAntisemitism.pdf">http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/WistrichAntisemitism.pdf</a>; Palestinian news agency FPNP cited in Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, “Hamas police official:Israel smuggles ‘sexual stimulants’to destroy Palestinian youth” (Bulletin July 17, 2009)<strong>, </strong>PMW, <a href="http://co117w.col117.mail.live.com/default.aspx?n=1309909505">http://co117w.col117.mail.live.com/default.aspx?n=1309909505</a>; and Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 4, 2008, “Canada and the Palestinian Authority (Special Report, March 25, 2009), PMW, <a href="http://pmw.org.il/Bulletins_Apr2009.htm#b050409">http://pmw.org.il/Bulletins_Apr2009.htm#b050409</a></p>
<p>[xii] Cited in Anat Berko, <em>The Path to Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and Their Dispatchers</em> (Praeger Security International: Westport, Connecticut-London, 2007), 110-112.</p>
<p>[xiii] “Muslim Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony,” Al-Aqsa TV, 31 May 2007, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WHdWgES-Uw&amp;NR=1&amp;feature=fvwp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WHdWgES-Uw&amp;NR=1&amp;feature=fvwp</a></p>
<p>[xiv] אליאור לוי</p>
<p>&#8220;מסיבת סיום בגן בעזה: אתפוצץ באוטובוס&#8221;</p>
<p>12.06.2012 &#8212; <a href="http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4241559,00.html">http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4241559,00.html</a></p>
<p>[xv] 17 August 2001 sermon broadcast live on Palestinian TV from the Sheik &#8216;Ijlin mosque in Gaza, “PA TV Friday Sermon Calls for Jihad and Martyrdom, MEMRI, 24 August 2001, <a href="http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&amp;Area=conflict&amp;ID=SP26101">http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&amp;Area=conflict&amp;ID=SP26101</a></p>
<p>[xvi] Christoph Reuter, <em>My Life Is a Weapon. A Modern History of Suicide Bombing</em> (Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2002), 93.</p>
<p>[xvii] Public speech of Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council member Fathi Hamad, Al-Aqsa TV, 29 February 2008, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs</a></p>
<p>[xviii] Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, PMW Bulletins. PA Schools Named After Terrorists Raise Terror-Admiring Youth,” February 3, 2014, <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=10603">http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=10603</a></p>
<p>[xix] See, for example, “Pictures from the Children of Jihad (holy war) Summer Camp,” <a href="http://www.israel-wat.com/q6_eng.htm#a1">http://www.israel-wat.com/q6_eng.htm#a1</a>; <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/8/Answers+to+Frequently+Asked+Questions-+Palestinian.htm">http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/8/Answers+to+Frequently+Asked+Questions-+Palestinian.htm</a>; “Participation of Children and Teenagers in Terrorist Activity during the Al-Aqsa Intifada,” 30 January 2003, <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/1/Participation+of+Children+and+Teenagers+in+Terrori.htm">http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/1/Participation+of+Children+and+Teenagers+in+Terrori.htm</a>; and “Hitlerjugend,” <a href="http://somebodyhelpme.info/palikids/palikids.html">http://somebodyhelpme.info/palikids/palikids.html</a> (graphic images; discretion required)</p>
<p>[xx] Paul Berman, <em>Terror and Liberalism </em>(W. W. Norton &amp; Co Inc: New York, 2003), 112.</p>
<p>[xxi] “Behind the Headlines: Hamas’ Mickey Mouse teaches children to hate and kill,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Behind+the+Headlines/Hamas+Mickey+Mouse+teaches+children+to+hate+and+kill+10-May-2007.htm">http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Behind+the+Headlines/Hamas+Mickey+Mouse+teaches+children+to+hate+and+kill+10-May-2007.htm</a></p>
<p>[xxii] Hamas children’s TV: “Rabbit puppet vows to eat the Jews” (8 February 2009) and “Rabbit puppet vows to kill and eat the Danes” (22 February 2008), Palestinian Media Watch, <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=455#470">http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=455#470</a></p>
<p>[xxiii] Hamas TV: Kids shown video of their mother’s suicide bombing death [Al Aqsa TV, 3 July 2009], Palestinian Media Watch, <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=1001">http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=1001</a></p>
<p>[xxiv] Steven Stalinsky, “Palestinian Authority Sermons 2000-2003,” MEMRI, 26 December 2003, <a href="http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sr&amp;ID=SR2403">http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sr&amp;ID=SR2403</a>; cited in &#8220;Blessings for whoever has saved a bullet in order to stick it in a Jew&#8217;s head,&#8221; 27 December 2003, Jihad Watch, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/000501.php">http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/000501.php</a></p>
<p>[xxv] “Palestinians exploit children for terror—background,” Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, March 10, 2004, <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terror+Groups/Palestinians%20exploit%20children%20for%20terror%20-%20March%202004">http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terror+Groups/Palestinians%20exploit%20children%20for%20terror%20-%20March%202004</a></p>
<p>[xxvi] Cited in Berko, <em>The Path to Paradise</em>, 97.</p>
<p>[xxvii] Valid Shebat, “Iz Palestinskogo terrorista v plamennogo sionista,” speech 7 March 2004, <em>Spektr</em>, 7 (073), <a href="http://www.spectr.org/2004/069/shebat.htm">http://www.spectr.org/2004/073/shebat.htm</a></p>
<p>[xxviii] Anne Speckhard and Khapta Akhmedova, “Black Widows: The Chechen Female Suicide Terrorists” in Yoram Schweitzer, ed.<strong>, </strong><em>Female Suicide Bombers: Dying for Equality? </em>(The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (JCSS), Tel Aviv University: Tel Aviv, 2006), 75;   “Teaching Hatred to Palestinian Children,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M529qurtDY0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M529qurtDY0</a>; Brainwashing Palestinian Children, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT6iKFQDEP4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT6iKFQDEP4</a></p>
<p>[xxix] Cited in “Umm Nidal: Mother of The Murderers,” 3 March 2004, Jihad Watch, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/001047.php">http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/001047.php</a></p>
<p>[xxx] Shaul Kimhi and Shemuel Even, “Who Are the Palestinian Suicide Bombers?,” <em>Terrorism and Political Violence</em>, Vol.16, No.4 (Winter 2004): 828.</p>
<p>[xxxi] U.S. Senate Committee Hearing on Palestinian Education (2003), <a href="http://www.teachkidspeace.org/doc105.php">http://www.teachkidspeace.org/doc105.php</a>; Islam: Brainwashing Palestinian Children, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT6iKFQDEP4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT6iKFQDEP4</a></p>
<p>[xxxii] Cited in “Young Children Convinced of Death as a <em>Shahid</em> as Ideal,” [PA TV June 2002], TV Archives &#8211; Video Library, <a href="http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part1.html">http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part1.html</a></p>
<p>[xxxiii] Reported in the PA official daily Al-<em>Hayat Al-Jadida</em> on 26 December 2001, cited in Arab Indoctrination for Suicide, <a href="http://www.freeman.org/m_online/nov03/indoctrination.htm">http://www.freeman.org/m_online/nov03/indoctrination.htm</a></p>
<p>[xxxiv] <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/07/gaza-child-three-wars-old-2014716505446437.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/07/gaza-child-three-wars-old-2014716505446437.html</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140706-immigration-rally-sl-1826_4555d0a6fd32061f04a5480101fa44bd.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235893" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140706-immigration-rally-sl-1826_4555d0a6fd32061f04a5480101fa44bd-450x300.jpg" alt="20140706-immigration-rally-sl-1826_4555d0a6fd32061f04a5480101fa44bd" width="279" height="186" /></a>&#8220;You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,&#8221; President Barack Obama&#8217;s former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, once infamously stated. He never bothered to spell out the unspoken corollary to that appalling statement: And if there is no serious crisis available, manufacture one.</p>
<p>The American left has followed that pattern for generations. The left destroyed the nuclear family by incentivizing women to give birth out of wedlock. When out-of-wedlock births exploded, they used that as an excuse to elevate federal spending, elevate taxes and disestablish marriage between a man and a woman as a moral standard. The left crafted a health care crisis by instituting price and wage controls that led to employer-sponsored insurance, and then undercut that insurance with excessive regulation and easy lawsuits. They used elevating costs as an excuse to push Obamacare and elevate taxes.</p>
<p>Now, the left, under Obama, has crafted the mother of all crises: an influx of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing America&#8217;s southern border. Some of these minors carry disease. Virtually all carry wounds, either physical or psychological, from their criminal coyote guides. That crisis is not Obama&#8217;s Hurricane Katrina, as some have speculated. Katrina was an act of God, and its botched handling the act of men. This entire situation is an act of Obama. And he couldn&#8217;t be happier as he watches frustrated Americans take to the streets in Murrieta, California, to protest his lawlessness.</p>
<p>Obama created this situation, and he certainly knows how to exploit it. Obama wants to campaign based on the suffering of these children. He wants to push for higher taxes based on their unequal economic status. He wants their eventual votes for the left. He wants the federal government to punish American citizens tired of watching their government abandon them.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all part of the agenda.</p>
<p>Obama and the media maintain the absurd fiction that Obama was thunderstruck by this crisis.</p>
<p>Obama himself has assured the public that he wants all of the new arrivals sent home forthwith and that they were foolish to believe they could stay.<br />
Foolish?</p>
<p>Four years ago, the Obama Justice Department sued the state of Arizona for daring to enforce federal immigration law, and sanctuary cities across the country remained unscathed. Two years ago, Obama declared that all illegal immigrants between the ages of 16 and 30 who had not committed criminal felonies — the so-called Dreamers — would remain in the country. This week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Arizona would have to hand out driver&#8217;s licenses to the Dreamers, and the city of Los Angeles announced it would no longer cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in holding requested illegals for 48 hours after their jail terms expired.</p>
<p>Those desperate to come to America would be fools not to jump at the chance. And their dangerous decisions to send their own children across thousands of miles of desert in the company of likely drug cartel associates underscores their certainty: They&#8217;re willing to risk the lives of their children, knowing that so long as the children get to the border, Obama will legitimize them, and then, by extension, their entire families.</p>
<p>This, of course, is precisely what Obama wanted them to think. Now he has his crisis. And he&#8217;ll exploit it for everything it&#8217;s worth, no matter how much blood is spilled in the deserts of Mexico or the streets of Murrieta.</p>
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		<title>Obama Fundraises as the Border Disintegrates</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president's two-faced game of decrying the border crisis while making it worse. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pic_giant_061014_SM_Border-Crisis-in-Texas.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235931" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pic_giant_061014_SM_Border-Crisis-in-Texas.jpg" alt="pic_giant_061014_SM_Border-Crisis-in-Texas" width="242" height="206" /></a>As the orchestrated chaos at America’s southern border remains unrelenting, President Obama is doing what he does best: ignoring another crisis in favor of fundraising. And despite that fundraising taking place in Texas, the state hardest hit by the onslaught of illegal alien children, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/08/white-house-funding-border-policy-changes/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insisted</span></a> Monday that Obama had no intention of visiting the border. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was incensed. &#8220;President Obama needs a wakeup call &#8212; and visiting the border and seeing firsthand the severity of this ongoing crisis is that wakeup call,” he said in remarks prepared for airing on Senate floor.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It’s not going to happen, and even Democrats are beginning to get exasperated. On Sunday, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), whose congressional district sits on the U.S.-Mexican border, <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/06/border-state-democrat-obama-one-step-behind-on-immigration/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">accused</span></a> the White House of being late to the game. &#8220;With all due respect to the administration, they&#8217;re one step behind. They should have seen this coming a long time ago,” Cuellar told CNN&#8217;s Candy Crowley on &#8220;State of the Union.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Actually they did, and not just recently. On January 29, 2014 an <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/190573-government-advertised-in-january-for-escorts-for-65000-illegal-alien-children-to-be-resettled/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ad</span></a> placed at the <a href="http://fedbizopps.gov/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">FedBizOpps.Gov</span></a> website was looking to procure escort services for <i>65,000 </i>Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs). Contained in the same ad was a far greater indicator of the Obama administration’s ultimate intentions once that crisis developed. Whoever provided the escort services was also expected to transport &#8220;these juveniles to Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters located throughout the continental United States.” That would be the ORR whose mission is to &#8220;provide people in need with critical resources to assist them in becoming integrated members of American society.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In other the words, the administration was not only anticipating a crisis before one developed, it had seemingly decided that the massive influx of illegals would be categorized as “refugees.” Yesterday the United Nations got into the act, <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/07/08/un-urges-us-to-designate-immigrants-as-refugees/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">urging</span></a> the administration to embrace that definition as a means of making thousands of illegals eligible for asylum, rather than sending them home. When asked whether the administration considered the current border assault a refugee crisis, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said it was “a humanitarian situation that requires urgent attention.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet urgent attention is exactly what is lacking, and the administration is citing the <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/tip/laws/113178.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008</span></a> as the reason. Enacted by a Democratically-controlled Congress and signed by President Bush, the law offers additional protections to UACs who are not from Canada or Mexico. Those protections include an opportunity to appear at an immigration hearing, consult with an advocate, possibly retain counsel, and receive placement by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is tasked with placing the child “in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unfortunately for Obama, another Democrat has challenged his interpretation of the statute. &#8220;That law already provides the administration with flexibility to accelerate the judicial process in times of crisis,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) who helped craft the Act. “The administration should use that flexibility to speed up the system while still treating these children humanely, with compassion and respect.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Again, it’s not going to happen, and Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse website <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/07/04/ice-demands-unaccompanied-alien-children-uac-identifier-drop-use-of-the-word-alien-the-mass-disbursement-of-bus-loads-of-illegal-aliens-continue/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">nails down</span></a> exactly why. He explains that the Obama administration’s strategy of telling the public one thing, and doing exactly the opposite behind the scenes, is in full swing. &#8220;In the foreground we will continue to see President Obama and fellow travelers say they are opposed to the influx and committed to stopping it,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;However, in the background they are giving specific instructions to the federal agencies to continue promoting the process and affirming the intent.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus, as Fox News reports, Obama is &#8220;holding off on seeking legal changes to speed up the deportation process for illegal immigrant children.” Instead, the president is seeking a whopping $3.7 billion for housing, immigration judges, detention facilities, and legal aid, associated with latest influx of illegals. The AP <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ap-sources-obama-backs-off-border-policy-24459521?singlePage=true"><span style="color: #1255cc;">lays out</span></a> the details—and plays a devious game in the process. They note the largest allocations include $1.1 billion &#8220;for the Department of Homeland Security to help deter border-crossers and increase enforcement,” $433 million &#8220;for Customs and Border Protection to cover overtime costs and for additional facilities to detain unaccompanied children while they are in Border Patrol custody,” and $1.8 billion &#8220;to the Department of Health and Human Services for the care of unaccompanied children, including shelter and medical care.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Note that the overwhelming amount of this spending is directed at maintaining a status quo that does <i>nothing</i> to address the ongoing assault on our borders. As for the level of seriousness, there is another $600 million dollar request in the package—for fighting wildfires in Western states. In the meantime, there is no timetable for speeding up the deportation process.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet note something far more important: last weekend, Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/03/ICE-to-No-Longer-Refer-to-Unaccompanied-Minors-as-UACs"><span style="color: #1255cc;">issued</span></a> a calculating directive to its personnel. According to an internal ICE email obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies and shared with Breitbart News, usage of the term “UAC” is to be discontinued and replaced with “unaccompanied children.” The email goes even further. “The appropriate messaging on documents should be using the term : unaccompanied children all lower case. (Unless capitalizing would be grammatically correct),” the email states.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Less than a week later, the Associated Press has taken its cues, as the leftist impulse to control the narrative takes hold. That impulse was <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/04/opinion/kohn-immigration-words/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">abetted</span></a> to the point of absurdity by radical leftist Sally Kohn who contends the words “illegal immigrants,” or “illegals” are the equivalent of calling black Americans the n-word, and gay americans the f-word. &#8220;Today, most people find the n-word and the f-word incredibly offensive,” she explains. &#8220;Let&#8217;s hope that most if not all people will feel the same way about the words ‘illegals&#8217; and &#8216;illegal immigrants&#8217; in the not too distant future.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As for the reality of speeding up the deportation process, Obama claims he will get to it, and the Republican House is reportedly working on an effort to change the 2008 law. But the president knows for certain the Democratically-controlled Senate that passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill last summer isn’t about to alienate its pro-amnesty constituency. A senior Democratic staffer in the Senate <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-deport-children-20140706-story.html#page=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">illuminated</span></a> pre-ordained reality regarding Obama’s ostensible effort. &#8220;He can&#8217;t get it passed,” the staffer insisted.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And because Obama can’t get anything resembling an enforcement bill passed, the spending package is in jeopardy as well—which may be exactly what the president wants. That reality was inadvertently revealed by the <i>Washington Post:</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Republicans argue that Obama must stop the flow of illegal immigrants to the border and ensure that the entire border is secure before focusing on the tens of thousands who are already in detention facilities there&#8230;Democrats, meanwhile, say that the first step must be to provide more funding to pay for new detention facilities and legal services to work through the debilitating backlog of children who are already at the border. Providing an influx of money for detention centers and to pay for additional judges, several Democrats have argued, is more urgent than altering the 2008 law in terms of addressing the current crisis.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Such a stalemate aligns perfectly with a president far more interested in paying lip service to the nation’s problems than dealing with them, even as it allows him to once again paint Republicans as the obstructionist party for failing to embrace the “bigger picture” of comprehensive immigration reform.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As an added bonus, the president can get back to his fundraising. Fundraising that includes <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/211488-white-house-talks-tough-on-immigration-ahead-of-texas-trip"><span style="color: #1255cc;">visits</span></a> to Dallas and Austin, where he will be <a href="http://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/07-06-14-president-obama-austin-fundraising-trip-traffic-robert-rodriguez-events/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">rubbing elbows</span></a> with pro-amnesty Hollywood stars at events where ticket prices range from $5,000 to $32,400. One of those fundraisers will be at the Austin home of Mexican director Robert Rodriguez, whose movie “Machete” <a href="http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/07/obama_heads_to_texas.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">depicts</span></a> the murders of people opposed to illegal immigration. Obama has even <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/08/obama-offers-to-meet-with-perry-in-texas-on-border-crisis-after-criticism/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">agreed</span></a> to meet with Texas Governor Rick Perry on Wednesday in Dallas to discuss the current crisis.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Dallas is more than <a href="http://www.travelmath.com/drive-distance/from/Dallas,+TX/to/Nuevo+Laredo,+Mexico"><span style="color: #1255cc;">400 miles</span></a> from the Mexican border.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the meantime, the crisis continues unabated. Illegal immigrant children afflicted with tuberculosis, scabies, chickenpox and lice <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/todd-starnes-illegal-immigrant-children-have-lice-so-severe-they-can-be-seen-crawling-down-their-faces-video/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">remain</span></a> at Lackland Air Force base in Oklahoma, illegal alien criminals are being released in <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/todd-starnes-illegal-immigrant-children-have-lice-so-severe-they-can-be-seen-crawling-down-their-faces-video/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Virginia</span></a> and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/07/08/Sheriff-Feds-Releasing-Criminals-Deported-10-15-Times-into-Arizona"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Arizona</span></a>, the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-protesters-no-buses-murrieta-20140707-story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ongoing protests</span></a> in Murrieta, CA threaten to escalate, and a leaked DHS internal report from ICE <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/07/07/Leaked-Internal-DHS-Report-Admits-Lack-of-Deportation-Significant-Factor-in-Border-Crisis"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveal</span></a>s that only 0.1 percent of the Central American minors illegally entering the U.S. were deported in FY2013.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And amidst it all, the restrictions the Obama administration are attempting to impose on members of Congress and the media are astounding. The HHS is telling <i>members of Congress</i> visiting the immigration detention center at Lackland that they cannot take pictures, use recording devices, or interact with staff or children. On Thursday when the media’s tour begins, they will be subjected to the same restrictions.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2014/07/08/mrcs-bozell-denounces-media-rolling-over-accepting-stringent-restrictions-"><span style="color: #1255cc;">offers</span></a> the proper perspective on this administration’s efforts. &#8220;Imagine after Katrina that reporters are getting ready to go to New Orleans, and the Bush administration says to reporters, now one thing: no recording devices, no questions, no interacting with staff or children, no photos, and no interviews, but other than that you can cover Katrina,” he said yesterday on Fox&#8217;s “Your World with Neil Cavuto.” “The response would be that this is the statement of a dictatorship,” Bozell added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This is indeed Obama’s Katrina moment with one giant difference: the same mainstream media that completely excoriated George W. Bush as indifferent at best, and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/race-an-issue-in-katrina-response/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">racist</span></a> at worst for flying above the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina remain appalling passive in the face of transparent insensitivity borne of nothing more than crass political calculation. &#8220;We&#8217;re not worried about those optics,” <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/white-house-not-worried-about-optics-obama-bypassing-texas-border"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> White House spokesman Josh Earnest responding to a reporter who asked him if the Obama administration should be worried about how it will look for the president to be in Texas and avoid the border. Americans might ask themselves what kind of leader sees thousands of Third World children as “optics.” Or perhaps more accurately, political props for advancing a pro-amnesty agenda.</p>
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		<title>Why Terrorism Strikes at Children</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In blessed memory of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel, z’’l.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nm.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235444" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nm-450x270.jpg" alt="nm" width="303" height="182" /></a>Acts of terror against the young are the unadvertised “latest trend” in global political violence. For the first time since the Holocaust, slaying children has turned into a modus operandi. Since 9/11, they are terrorists’ preferred targets.</p>
<p>The Targets:</p>
<p>Episodes of child-directed violence occurred as early as May 1970 in Israel, when thirty-four children were killed and wounded in the Avivim school bus massacre. In May 1974 hostage-takers in Ma’alot detonated hand grenades and sprayed high school students with machine-gun fire. In April 1980, terrorists took hold of the nursery in kibbutz Misgav Am, killed an infant and injured four children. In July of that year, in Antwerp, Belgium, a Fatah member cast hand grenades into a group of Jewish schoolchildren at a bus stop.</p>
<p>After the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000, casualties among the Israeli young multiplied. In a single episode in June 2001, twenty-one teenagers lost their lives in the “Delphinarium” discotheque in Tel Aviv. By mid-2002, child-targeting become systematic: bomb explosion in Jerusalem next to a group of women with baby carriages (March 2); bombing of a discotheque in Tel Aviv (May 24); children killed in a Petah Tikva ice cream parlor (May 27).</p>
<p>When zoomed-in on selected Israeli localities, the picture becomes grim indeed. In Itamar, a gunman shot to death two students playing basketball outside the Hitzim school and then killed three more teenagers inside in May 2002. About a month later, two militants broke into the home of the Shabo family, killed the mother and her children, ages fifteen, twelve, and five, and severely wounded a ten-year-old and a thirteen-year-old. In another month, a terrorist broke into another private home, stabbed the husband and wife and them ran his knife through the empty beds of their eight children, away with grandparents. In March 2011 the Fogel family was slaughtered: along with their parents, stabbed to death was a boy of eleven, his four-year-old brother, and their three-month old sister; at the trial, terrorists regretted not to have noticed two other sleeping children</p>
<p>Itamar is a settlement where “Jewish fanatics” are said to “provoke victimized Arabs” to kill children as the only response against occupation. But Sderot is not a disputed terroritory. &#8220;A present for the start of the new school year,&#8221; the Islamic Jihad website flaunted first of their September 2007 missile strikes, which sent twelve Sderot kindergarteners to the hospital to be treated for shock.[i] Terrorists send 3,200 Qassam rockets against this Israeli town in 2008.[ii] Residents reported that the shelling intensified when children were on their way to and from classes.</p>
<p>Attacks on schools and yeshivas in Israel reached their peak with the massacre at Merkaz HaRav in Jerusalem in March 2008. All but one of the children had just gotten off a yellow school bus in Sa&#8217;ad on April 7, 2011 when a targeted missile hit, mortally wounding the remaining boy. On March 19 the following year, a self-styled Al-Qaeda operative opened fire in a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.</p>
<p>&#8220;If the Jews left Palestine to us, would we start loving them? Of course not. . . . They are enemies not because they occupied Palestine,” some Islamist clerics admit openly and urge: we will &#8220;annihilate them, until not a single Jew remains on the face of the Earth.&#8221;[iii] It is as if the Biblical Amalek has finally broken portentous silence to speak his mind about the annihilation of Israel&#8211;his raison d’être. According to the tradition, Amalek attacks from the rear, slaying the least protected, especially children. Yet, while Amalek’s hate is for Israel alone, his accomplices today do not discriminate any kids.</p>
<p>Muslim children are among their first victims. In Iraq they are assaulted in school buildings and on playgrounds—in Baghdad, Ramadi, Tuz Khurmato, and Ba&#8217;qubah (July 13, 2005, December 3, 2006; January 28, 2007, October 12, 2007, January 22, 2008, and December 7, 2009), to list a few cases. On May 6, 2007 the Islamists bombed a UN-run elementary school in the Gaza refugee camp of Rafah during a sports festival, which the extremists had declared un-Islamic. A suicide car school bombing on December 28, 2008 in Khost, Afghanistan, was one of 1,153 Taliban acts against young students in two preceding years—via shootings, torture, acid, arson, grenades, mines, and rockets.[iv] Boko Haram of Nigeria has been targeting schools since 2010. Thousands of children have been unable to attend classes as a result; hundreds have been killed to confirm the Jihadists’ stand against Westernized education. More than 200 girls kidnapped on the night of 14-15 April, 2014 are still missing: Boko Haram terrorists oppose female education; in the past, they have used abducted schoolgirls as sex slaves.[v]</p>
<p>When Thailand militants assailed a school bus in Ratchaburi province in June 2002, no one saw the atrocity as a sign of a new trend. Yet, in the decade that followed targeting children turned into a tactic that crossed all geographical and ideological lines. On July 2011 a self-styled “crusader” against European leftists and Muslims killed 69 people in a shooting spree in the Norwegian youth summer camp on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ut%C3%B8ya">Utøya</a> island; 50 victims were 18-years old and younger.</p>
<p>Why the young?</p>
<p>Terror stipulates unceasing acceleration. When successful, perpetrators seek to take advantage of intensifying anxiety and strive to build up momentum. Random, <em>en masse </em>brutality against civilians—emblematic for the 20<sup>th</sup>-century terror&#8211;culminated in a spectacular act of apocalyptic destruction on 9/11. It made conspicuous that real targets are not those who die. The violent act is a ghastly message whose purpose is to intimidate the broader public, physically unaffected by bloodshed. The next round of sustained terrorization required increasingly severe psychological and emotional impact, not necessarily measured by casualty count.</p>
<p>Terrorists are nihilists<em> par excellence</em>: they strike at the essence of the mainstream culture, seeking to wipe out its pivotal symbols and meanings. In the new millennia, amid a raging sea of conflicting concepts, pluralistic connotations, confusing priorities, habitual skepticism, intellectual and ethical relativism, perhaps the only enduring value are children. The essentiality of their welfare, health, and security remain implicit and unconditional; no sane person will claim that while it is not nice to hurt children, there is another side to the argument. Today, children are the last consecrated absolute. For its part, militant nihilism strives to ruin first and foremost what their contemporaries hold sacred.</p>
<p>On September 1, 2004, amid the festivities on the “Day of Knowledge,” 32 terrorists held hostage 1,200 children, parents, and teachers inside School No. 1 in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia. The hostage-takers declared their unattainable demand for Russia’s evacuation of Chechnya and their real intention: “We are the terrorists, we’re here to slay.”[vi] What followed “probably was the single most horrific act since the downfall of National Socialism.”[vii] Indeed, the terrorists have turned the school into a mini-replica of a death camp, denying children food, water, and medications for three days. Dozens of little hostages perished in flames when a bomb detonated inside the building; dozens were shot in the back as they jumped out of windows and ran for their lives after the security forces attacked. Among at least 334 fatalities, 186 were Christian and Muslim children; over 700 were wounded in this “carefully planned mass murder operation.”[viii]</p>
<p>“Nothing horrifies more than the murder of children” because it “is the ultimate rejection of life.” Among the suicide terrorists there are those “who not only wish to destroy their own life, but life in general. These are the candidates for mass killings,” particularly child killings because children are the quintessence of vitality, of sparkling aliveness, the most vibrant and spontaneous of the living, emblematic of life itself. They are also our connection to the future, a link to immortality; by attacking children, terrorists seek to destroy life-as-is and life-to-be.[ix]</p>
<p>Death Worship:</p>
<p>Terrorists have repeatedly declared that they “desire Death” and love it as much as others love life.[x]Beneath a thin veneer baring attributes of various ideological trends, they are engaged in a form of politicized idolatry. They slaughter children as the designated, most pure, and perfect sacrifice to death, which they worship: “Eyal, Gilad and Naftali were killed by people who believed in death”.[xi]</p>
<p>Modern death-worship is part of a long tradition. “Even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods” (Deuteronomy 12:31). Throughout the past century, this prophecy has been repeatedly fulfilled: be it the Nazi Hitlerjugen or the Iranian <em>Basij</em> project—various ideologies have validated child-sacrifices. The Jihadists offer Muslim children to Moloch as suicide bombers and human shields. Under Jihadist couching, between 72 and 80 per cent of children living in the Palestinian Authority yearn to die as martyrs.[xii] When in power, as in Gaza, terrorists construct for children under their control an official, prescribed culture in which death is preferred to life.</p>
<p>The Biblical commandment to “choose life” entails a possibility to opt for death. Militant nihilists do so, and the roots of their destructiveness are infinitely deeper than any political dispute. “That is the difference between a culture of life and one of death, and this has become the battle of our time, not only in Israel but in Syria, in Iraq, in Nigeria and elsewhere.” This battle, in fact, has been waged for thousands of years, and—invariably—“cultures that worship death, die, while those that sanctify life, live on. . . . May the God of life, in whose image we are, teach all humanity to serve Him by sanctifying life.”[xiii]</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<p>[i] Cited in Anav Silverman, “<a href="http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/rocketlife">Living with Rockets:</a> Sderot students ready for school bells &#8211; and rocket sirens,” <em>Jerusalem Post</em>, 3 September 2009, <a href="http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/rocketlife/entry/sderot_students_ready_for_school">http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/rocketlife/entry/sderot_students_ready_for_school</a></p>
<p>[ii] “Follow up to Operation Cast Lead: A Summary of Statistics,” Sderot Media Center, <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=309&amp;q=6&amp;s=16">http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=309&amp;q=6&amp;s=16</a></p>
<p>[iii] Al-Rahma TV (Egypt), Jan. 17, 2009 cited in Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, “When Hatemongering is Common Currency,” <em>Ottawa Citizen</em>, April 24, 2009 (online edition), <a href="http://pmw.org.il/Bulletins_Apr2009.htm#b050409">http://pmw.org.il/Bulletins_Apr2009.htm#b050409</a></p>
<p>[iv] “Education under Attack 2010 – Afghanistan,” UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency), 10 February 2010, <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9e6c.html">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9e6c.html</a></p>
<p>[v] <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/Damien_McElroy/">Damien McElroy</a>, “Extremist attack in Nigeria kills 42 at boarding school,” <em>The Telegraph</em>, July 6, 2013, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10163942/Extremist-attack-in-Nigeria-kills-42-at-boarding-school.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10163942/Extremist-attack-in-Nigeria-kills-42-at-boarding-school.html</a> Oren Dorell, “Terrorists kidnap more than 200 Nigerian girls, “ <em>USA Today</em>, April 21, 2014, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/04/21/parents-234-girls-kidnapped-from-nigeria-school/7958307/</p>
<p>[vi] Anna Geifman, <em>Death Orders: the Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia</em> (Praeger, 2010), 4.</p>
<p>[vii]   Spengler, “Terror and School Shootings,” <a href="http://www.newageislam.com/current-affairs/terror-and-school-shootings-sides-of-same-coin/d/9764">http://www.newageislam.com/current-affairs/terror-and-school-shootings-sides-of-same-coin/d/9764</a></p>
<p>[viii] David Brooks, “Cult of Death,” <em>New York Times</em>, September 7, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/opinion/07brooks.html</p>
<p>[ix] Spengler (David P. Goldman), “Terror and School Shootings Sides of Same Coin,” Current Affairs (21 December 2012 NewAgeIslam.Com), <a href="http://www.newageislam.com/current-affairs/terror-and-school-shootings-sides-of-same-coin/d/9764">http://www.newageislam.com/current-affairs/terror-and-school-shootings-sides-of-same-coin/d/9764</a></p>
<p>[x] See, for example, Fathi Hamad, Al-Aqsa TV, 29 February 2008, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs</a>; John Dawson, “The Bali Bombers: What Motivates Death Worship?,” <em>Capitalism Magazine </em>(October 19, 2003), <a href="http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3000">http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3000</a>; Geifman, Death Orders, 100, 151-52.</p>
<p>[xi] Former Chief Rabbi of the UK, Lord Sacks, “Op-Ed: In Memoriam: Eyal, Gilad and Naftali, June 30, 2014, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15259">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15259</a></p>
<p>[xii] U.S. Senate Committee Hearing on Palestinian Education (2003), http://www.teachkidspeace.org/doc105.php</p>
<p>[xiii] Former Chief Rabbi of the UK, Lord Sacks, “Op-Ed: In Memoriam: Eyal, Gilad and Naftali, June 30, 2014, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15259">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15259</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Illegals-AZ-board-Bus-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233831" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Illegals-AZ-board-Bus-AP-450x337.jpg" alt="Illegals-AZ-board-Bus-AP" width="287" height="215" /></a>Last week, the lawlessness of Obama’s non-deportation policy came home to roost when Homeland Security (DHS) estimated 60,000 “unaccompanied alien children” were expected to enter the country illegally this year. The figures have since gone up to <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/9/critics-obama-spar-as-child-border-crossings-spike/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">90,000</span></a>, which is more than a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/28/us-usa-immigration-children-idUSKBN0E814T20140528"><span style="color: #0463c1;">ten-fold increase</span></a> from 2011. Unsurprisingly, according to <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/9/critics-obama-spar-as-child-border-crossings-spike/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">interviews</span></a> with those caught, the news waves are directly related to Obama’s rolling orders to DHS to ramp up amnesty efforts wherever possible.  Yesterday, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/10/inside-the-beltway-mitt-romney-enters-kingmaker-mo/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Senator Cornyn</span></a> of Texas called Obama’s continued amnesty push an “extremely dangerous incentive for children” and “a painful example of the law of unintended consequences.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Stories have been <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/08/us/arizona-dhs-undocumented-children-moved/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">ongoing</span></a> of illegal alien children, teens and adults being flown around the Border States in search of any government facility that may have available space. After it was reported last week that Greyhound stations in Phoenix were becoming drop-off points for detained-illegals flown in from border-checkpoints in Texas, Arizona’s Governor Brewer fired off a <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/02/brewer-asks-obama-details-release-migrants/9884377/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">letter</span></a> to the President asking him to end his “unconscionable policy.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Considering the depth and scale of Obama’s subversion of our immigration laws, the prospect of thousands more children and teens illegally entering the country won’t likely change his approach to border security any time soon. After all, as it was revealed last December, DHS has actually been directly and proactively facilitating human-trafficking for quite some time.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the case of <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/366830/federal-judge-obama-administration-aids-and-abets-human-trafficking-hans-von-spakovsky"><span style="color: #0463c1;"><i>U.S. v. Nava-Martinez</i></span></a>, border agents busted a repeat-felon attempting to smuggle a 10-year old El Salvadorian girl across a checkpoint in Texas later discovering that the operation was organized by the girl’s mother, an illegal alien living in Virginia. But when the agents contacted DHS officials they refused to arrange for her arrest. Instead, according to Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District Court of Texas, DHS “successfully complet(ed) the mission of the criminal conspiracy” by flying the child to her mother in Virginia at taxpayer expense.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The order issued by Judge Hanen is a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2013/12/19/judge-hanen-order-on-child-smuggling/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">crushing rebuke</span></a> of Obama’s DHS. In it he warns that such immoral and illegal policies would <i>dramatically increase the number of minors</i> attempting to make the dangerous trip across the border. With DHS’s new estimates and the huge problems hitting the Border States, we can now see how right the good judge was.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In just the previous month alone, Judge Hanen had seen four cases of “DHS completing [a] criminal conspiracy… by delivering [minors caught at the border] to the custody of parents illegally living in the United States.” In none of the cases were the children detained or the illegal alien parent deported.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Besides the concerns that DHS’s facilitation of illegal activities works to decrease border agents’ morale and helps fund drug cartels (the chief operators of human smuggling rings), the remarkably prescient judge had noted that such a policy “undermines the deterrent effect the laws may have and inspires others to commit further violations.” The consequences of this undermining effect we’re now seeing and hopefully it’s becoming clear to the elite and media classes just how dangerous it is to play politics with immigration enforcement.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Since the first amnesty in 1986, the illegal alien population has ballooned from <a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33874.pdf"><span style="color: #0463c1;">3 million to 12 million</span></a> with most of that increase coming in the last decade. Obama’s first administrative amnesty in 2012, the &#8220;Deferred Action for Children Arrivals&#8221; program, applied specifically to children and young adults, which, along with further mini-amnesties since, has acted as an announcement to the people of Mexico and Central America that the US is not at all serious about its border security.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Who knows what the next round of figures from DHS will be, but it’s possible they’ll be double or even triple the recent estimates. The same goes for <a href="http://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/U.S.%20Border%20Patrol%20Fiscal%20Year%20Statistics%20SWB%20Sector%20Deaths%20FY1998%20-%20FY2013.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">deaths at the border</span></a>, which have already been on the increase since Obama started his amnesty-push. As Judge Hanen devastatingly wrote at the close of his order, if DHS persists with such a policy, “more children are going to be harmed, and DHS will be partly responsible because it encourages this kind of Russian roulette.” It’s now time for Obama and Democrats to finally consider the consequences of their policies, which harm citizens on both sides of the border, and turn off the amnesty magnet.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Illegal-Immigration.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233720" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Illegal-Immigration-450x300.png" alt="Illegal-Immigration" width="263" height="175" /></a>On March 20, 2013, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic of &#8220;<a href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/building-an-immigration-system-worthy-of-american-values">Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values</a><span style="color: #232323;">.&#8221; </span><span style="color: #000000;">I concluded my <a href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/3-20-13CutlerTestimony.pdf">prepared testimony</a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">for that hearing by saying,</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i>Law enforcement is at its best when it creates a climate of deterrence to convince those who might be contemplating violating the law that such an effort is likely to be discovered and that if discovered, adverse consequences will result for the law violators. Current policies and statements by the administration, in my view, encourages aspiring illegal aliens around the world to head for the United States. In effect the starter&#8217;s pistol has been fired and for these folks, the finish line to this race is the border of the United States.</i></p>
<p><i>Back when I was an INS special agent I recall that Doris Meissner who was, at the time, the commissioner of the INS, said that the agency needed to be &#8220;customer oriented.&#8221; Unfortunately, while I agree about the need to be customer oriented what Ms. Meissner and too many politicians today seem to have forgotten is that the &#8220;customers&#8221; of the INS and of our government in general, are the citizens of the United States of America.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">As bad as things were 15 months ago when I testified before that Senate hearing, things have gotten far worse. A human tidal wave of young illegal aliens is now crashing on America&#8217;s southern border each and every day. They have been spurred on by the clear messages being sent to aspiring illegal aliens from around the world that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency that is charged with protecting our homeland, has been reduced to providing concierge service for aliens who violate our borders and violate our immigration laws.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It has been said that we only get one opportunity to make a first impression. Generally speaking, the first laws foreign nationals encounter when they deal with the United States are our immigration laws. The statements of the president and high-ranking members of his administration could not provide more encouragement to people from around the world that our borders and our laws do not matter.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When Congress repeatedly refused to go along with the DREAM Act, the president acted unilaterally invoking what he deemed “prosecutorial discretion” to provide hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who may be as old as 31 years of age with temporary lawful status, including employment authorization, if they <i>claim</i> to have entered the United States before their 16th birthday. I purposely used the term “if they claim” because these hundreds of thousands of un-inspected aliens will most likely not be interviewed nor will agents be made available to conduct investigations into the applications that they file. This is a virtual open invitation to fraud.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On June 17, 2012 Fox News Latino published my op-ed &#8220;<span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/06/17/obama-invokes-prosecutorial-discretion-to-circumvent-constitution-and-congress/">Obama Invokes Prosecutorial Discretion to Circumvent Constitution and Congress</a>,&#8221;</span> in which I raised my concerns about this ill-conceived program initiated by the president to do an end-run around Congress, the legislative process and, indeed, the Constitution.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is vital to note that the 9/11 Commission identified immigration fraud as a key tool used by terrorists to enter the United States and embed themselves in the country, yet the issue of the 9/11 Commission, its report or the companion report issued by the 9/11 Commission staff known as <span style="color: #386eff;"><i><a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel</a></i></span>, are almost never raised by politicians from either side of the political aisle.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is the way that the preface of the staff report on terrorist travel begins:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>This paragraph is found on page 98 under the title “Immigration Benefits”:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">While advocates for comprehensive immigration reform refer to aliens who evade the inspections process as simply being “undocumented” in an obvious attempt to minimize the true significance of how they violated our laws, the hard truth is that they are un-inspected. The term my colleagues and I used at the former INS to describe this method of entering the United States is EWI (Entry Without Inspection).</p>
<p>On June 3rd I was <a href="http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=33401397&amp;topic_id=38204812"><span style="color: #386eff;">interviewed</span></a> by Andrew Wilkow on his program on the Blaze TV Network about the crisis on our border created by our own government.</p>
<p>As I noted during my interview, no rational person would get on board an airliner if he (she) saw fellow passengers get onto that airplane after sneaking past the TSA personnel at an airport. Today, however, Americans in every town and city across this vast nation are being forced to live among unknown millions of foreign nationals who evaded a similar inspection process conducted at ports of entry.</p>
<p>One of the sections of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182">Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182</a> </span>which enumerates the categories of aliens who are to be excluded. Among these classes are aliens who suffer from dangerous communicable diseases or extreme mental illness. Additionally, convicted felons, human rights violators, war criminals, terrorists and spies are excluded as well as aliens who would seek unlawful employment or become public charges.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">While many Republican politicians may publicly decry the failures of the administration to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws, in point of fact they take no meaningful action because they also want to see a massive influx of aliens into the United States to satisfy the demands of their wealthy campaign contributors. They see the current disaster on our border as a win/win. They can make all of the statements that they want criticizing the president and yet, without lifting a finger, their contributors get what they want. Meanwhile the Republicans don&#8217;t leave any fingerprints at the “scene of the crime.”</p>
<p><span style="color: #232323;">Indeed, what is taking place is a crime, apparently violating the provisions of <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324"><span style="color: #386eff;">Title 8 USC § 1324 &#8211; Bringing in and harboring certain aliens</span></a></span>, a section of law that is comprehended within the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The law states that it is a felony to aid, abet, encourage or induce aliens to enter our country illegally or remain in our country illegally.</p>
<p>Here is an excerpt from that section of law:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3).</i></p>
<p><i>Harboring &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) makes it an offense for any person who &#8212; knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals harbors, shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation.</i></p>
<p><i>Encouraging/Inducing &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) makes it an offense for any person who &#8212; encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law.</i></p>
<p><i>Conspiracy/Aiding or Abetting &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(v) expressly makes it an offense to engage in a conspiracy to commit or aid or abet the commission of the foregoing offenses.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Time and again we hear how our educational system needs to be improved. Now the administration, aided and abetted by politicians from both sides of the political aisle, is encouraging hundreds of thousands of young illegal aliens to run our borders. They are not being deported but being re-united with their illegal alien relatives in the United States and will, undoubtedly be enrolled in schools across the United States, flooding classrooms that are already overcrowded.</p>
<p>Furthermore, studies conducted by the Congressional Office of Management and Budget have shown that it costs 20% to 40% more to educate students who lack English proficiency.</p>
<p>Senator Jeff Sessions, one of the few “good guys” in the United States Senate, wrote an opinion piece for Breitbart that was published on June 9, 2014, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/09/Exclusive-Jeff-Sessions-Obama-Escalating-Lawlessness-at-Border"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>&#8220;Exclusive–Sen. Jeff Sessions: Obama &#8216;Committed to Escalating&#8217; Lawlessness at Border.&#8221;</i></span></a></p>
<p>Here is how his article began:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>There is now an unprecedented crisis unfolding at the border. The flow of illegal immigrant youth across the southern border is on track reach 130,000 next year—a projected increase of more than 2,000% from 2011. The White House estimates the cost of “resettling” these illegal immigrants in the United States will reach $2.3 billion in a single year.</i></p>
<p><i>This crisis is a direct and predictable result of the President’s sustained and deliberate campaign to dismantle immigration enforcement. His administration has announced to the world that our nation’s immigration laws will not be enforced and that, in particular, they will not be applied to foreign youth.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The world has heard and heeded the president’s message. A wave of illegal immigration has overwhelmed authorities, producing a completely preventable humanitarian crisis—and further diminishing the integrity of our national borders. And there is but one way for the crisis to end: for the president of the United States to declare to the world: &#8220;Do not attempt to come here illegally. Our border is no longer open. Our laws will be enforced.&#8221;</p>
<p>Overwhelming our resources impacts America and Americans across the country and undermines national security, public safety, public health, education, healthcare and a host of other issues. It also leads more desperate people from around the world to head for the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Rahm Emanuel, a close political ally of President Obama and currently the mayor of Chicago, Illinois has been <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rahmemanue409199.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">quoted</span></a> as saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<i>You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it&#8217;s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The current crisis found along our southwest border was carefully manufactured by the administration and the president must be made to answer one key question, “Why?”</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-06-at-4.56.08-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222849" alt="Screen Shot 2014-04-06 at 4.56.08 PM" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-06-at-4.56.08-PM-450x335.png" width="315" height="234" /></a>Following our center’s March 13 presentation at the British Parliament concerning the indiscretions of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) education, Sir Peter Luff, MP for Mid Worcestershire, requested concrete evidence that would support the findings of the center that UNRWA is preparing its students for war.</p>
<p>In response to MP Luff’s request, the Center for Near East Policy Research commissioned Dr. Arnon Groiss, who holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Princeton University and who has worked with the Arabic Language Service of the Voice of Israel Radio for the past 40 years, to prepare documentation as to how the values of armed struggle, jihad and martyrdom are taught in schools operated by UNRWA in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza.</p>
<p>Below are the findings from Dr. Groiss’s report:</p>
<p>Palestinian Authority (PA) schoolbooks used by UNRWA in its schools in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip promote the goal of a violent struggle for the liberation of Palestine. That struggle, which is never restricted to the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip alone, is made more compelling in the books with the help of the traditional Islamic ideals of jihad and martyrdom (Shahadah), aided by the description of the violent return of the refugees. Thus, the Palestinian child in UNRWA schools is exposed to an atmosphere of violence and is mentally prepared for his or her actual participation in that armed struggle in the future.</p>
<p>The following examples taken from recently published PA schoolbooks that have been in use in UNRWA schools during the current school year (2013/14) clearly attest to this phenomenon. One can find the spiritual foundation of the behavior expected from prospective martyrs in the following text, which appeared in an Islamic Education textbook for grade 6:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jihad in the cause of God for raising the flag of Islam and preventing oppression and corruption on earth: … When a Muslim man believes that God is the one who gives life and death, gain and loss, and that victory and power are in His hand, he then liberates himself from others&#8217; control, and bravery and a desire to seek martyrdom in God&#8217;s cause are enlivened within his soul.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Islamic Education, Grade 6, Part 1 (2012) p. 22)</p></blockquote>
<p>A comment in another Islamic Education textbook gives this general notion a dimension of certain urgency:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We, Muslims, dearly need these days to approach Sublime God so that He would grant us power and victory!&#8221;</p>
<p>(Islamic Education, Grade 7, Part 2 (2013) p. 82)</p></blockquote>
<p>However, most pieces glorifying jihad and martyrdom in the context of the conflict appear in language and literature textbooks, rather than in Islamic Education ones, mainly in poems and language exercises. Examples:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Palestine [By] Ali Mahmud Taha [Excerpts]</p>
<p>O brother, the oppressors have exceededed all bounds and Jihad and sacrifice are necessary</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Would we let them rob Arabdom of the ancestors&#8217; glory and power?</span><br />
…</p>
<p>So, draw your sword from its sheath, for it should be sheathed no more</p>
<p>O brother, O proud Arab, I see that our date is today, not tomorrow</p>
<p>O brother, we have a sister in Jerusalem to whom the slaughterers have prepared the knives</p>
<p>O brother, rise towards the prayer-direction [Qiblah] of East and West and let us defend the Church [of the Holy Sepulcher] and the [Al-Aqsa] Mosque</p>
<p>O brother, if on her soil my blood flows and the hand closes on its pebbles</p>
<p>And death calls and the sword turns mad and the fire burns there…</p>
<p>[Then] kiss the martyr on her ground who called to God in her name and fell as a martyr</p>
<p>O Palestine, the youth will redeem your sanctuary; may both the sacrificing person [fidai] and the redeemed one be exalted!</p>
<p>O Palestine, our chests will defend you; [It is] either life or destruction!</p>
<p>(Reading and Texts, Grade 8, Part 1 (2013) p. 44)</p></blockquote>
<p>Verses taken from this poem serve in language exercises:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;O brother, the oppressors have exceeded all bounds and Jihad and sacrifice are necessary</p>
<p>O brother, we have a sister in Jerusalem to whom the slaughterers have prepared the knives.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Linguistic Studies, Grade 8, Part 2 (2012) p. 14)</p></blockquote>
<p>In the following poem one can find an explicit call for martyrdom: &#8220;By your life, this is men&#8217;s death and whoever wishes a noble death – here it is.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>The Martyr [By] Abd al-Rahim Mahmud [Excerpts]</p>
<p>&#8220;I will carry my soul on my palm and toss it into the abyss of destruction</p>
<p>For [I will have] either a life that gladdens [my] friends or a death that irritates [my] enemies<br />
…<br />
By your life! I see my death but I hasten [my] steps toward it</p>
<p>I regard my death for my stolen right and for my country as a desired one</p>
<p>Hearing [weapon's] clink is pleasant to my ear and the flow of blood gladdens my soul</p>
<p>As well as a body thrown upon the ground and skirmished over by the desert predators<br />
…</p>
<p>By your life! This is men&#8217;s death and whoever wishes a noble death – here it is!&#8221;</p>
<p>(Our Beautiful Language, Grade 7, Part 1 (2013) p. 75)</p></blockquote>
<p>A language exercise featuring a verse from this poem:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;By your life! I see my death but I hasten [my] steps toward it</p>
<p>I regard my death for my stolen right and for my country as a desired one.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Linguistic Studies, Grade 9, Part 1 (2013) p. 41)</p></blockquote>
<p>Other examples:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When, among the rest of this world&#8217;s mothers, Palestinian mothers alone continue for the sixth decade in a row to bury their children with trilling cries of joy!</p>
<p>When Palestinian fathers continue to commit their sons to the earth calmly and promise to keep doing so with the rest [of their sons]!</p>
<p>When the Palestinian [person] of whatever age, religion, gender and affiliation becomes a martyr project!&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>(Our Beautiful Language, Grade 7, Part 2 (2013) p. 58)</p>
<p>&#8220;Good Morning, O My Homeland [By] Lutfi Zaghlul [Excerpts]<br />
…<br />
Good morning, O my Homeland<br />
…<br />
A morning of glory and red liberty watered by the martyrs&#8217; blood&#8221;</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>(Reading and Texts, Grade 9, Part 1 (2013) pp. 9-10)</p></blockquote>
<p>An exercise related to this poem is the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I will connect the poetic verses with the feelings they express in the following [cases]:<br />
…<br />
A morning of glory and red liberty watered by the martyrs&#8217; blood… –<br />
The hope for the liberation of Palestine.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Reading and Texts, Grade 9, Part 1 (2013) p. 12)</p></blockquote>
<p>The issue of the claimed &#8220;Right of Return&#8221; of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to their previous homes inside today&#8217;s Israel is also described as part of the violent struggle for liberation. Examples:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We Shall Return [By] Abu Salma [Excerpts]</p>
<p>Beloved Palestine, how could I live far away from your plains and heights<br />
…</p>
<p>Tomorrow we shall return and the generations will listen to the footfalls during the return</p>
<p>We shall return with the thundering storms, with the sacred lightening and the shooting star</p>
<p>With the winged hope and the songs, with the soaring vulture and the eagle</p>
<p>Yes! Thousands of victims shall return; victims of oppression shall open every door&#8221;</p>
<p>(Our Beautiful Language, Grade 7, Part 1 (2013) p. 28)</p>
<p>&#8220;We Are Returning [By] Harun Hashem Rashid</p>
<p>Returning, Returning; we are returning</p>
<p>Borders shall not exist, nor citadels and fortresses</p>
<p>Cry out, O those who have left:</p>
<p>&#8216;We are returning&#8217;</p>
<p>Returning to the homes, to the plains, to the mountains</p>
<p>Under the flags of glory, Jihad and struggle</p>
<p>In blood, sacrifice, fraternity and loyalty</p>
<p>We are returning</p>
<p>Returning, O hills; returning, O heights</p>
<p>Returning to childhood; returning to youth</p>
<p>To Jihad on the highlands, to the harvest in the land</p>
<p>We are returning&#8221;</p>
<p>(Our Beautiful Language, Grade 5, Part 1 (2013) p. 50)</p></blockquote>
<p>A language exercise featuring a verse taken from this poem:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Returning, Returning; we are returning</p>
<p>Borders shall not exist, nor citadels and fortresses</p>
<p>Cry out, O those who have left: We are returning.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Linguistic Studies, Grade 8, Part 2 (2012) p. 19)</p></blockquote>
<p>There are other examples repeating the same motifs. The following one likens martyrdom to a wedding party:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;O my homeland,</p>
<p>I shall not cry in this wedding party</p>
<p>For our Arabness refuses that we cry over the martyrs&#8221;</p>
<p>(Linguistic Studies, Grade 8, Part 2 (2012) p. 60)</p>
<p>&#8220;The martyr&#8217;s blood [watered] the ground.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Our Beautiful Language, Grade 6, Part 2 (2012) p. 8)</p>
<p>&#8220;If I fall take my place, O my comrade-in-arms</p>
<p>Carry your [my?] weapon and do not let my blood that flows from the weapon frighten you…&#8221;</p>
<p>(Linguistic Studies, Grade 9, Part 1 (2012) p. 14)</p></blockquote>
<p>The following is an assignment for seventh graders:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I will write up to ten lines about one of the martyrs whom I know, being assisted by the following elements: his name and place of birth, his life and achievements, the circumstances of his martyrdom, society&#8217;s attitude to his family after his martyrdom, the martyr&#8217;s rank in Islam.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Our Beautiful Language, Grade 7, Part 2 (2013) p. 49)</p></blockquote>
<p>In addition, the PA schoolbooks used in UNRWA schools feature language exercises with the following warlike messages:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The army wins.</p>
<p>The enemy is defeated.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Our Beautiful Language, Grade 4, Part 1 (2013) p. 65)</p>
<p>&#8220;The army defeated the enemy.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Our Beautiful Language, Grade 4, Part 2 (2012) p. 45)</p></blockquote>
<p>A story titled &#8220;An Evening Visitor&#8221; tells of a Palestinian father who lost his son in the 1967 war and later joined one of the Palestinian armed organizations and became a Fidai – a title given to members of such organizations. The story presents their raids against Israel from southern Lebanon in a favorable light and thus makes of them role models for the young children. Excerpts:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Everyone knows that I have been in the South [authors' note: South: South Lebanon] for ten years. I have left the city [Amman] and the family to join the fighters…</p>
<p>We in the South face death any minute… Youths like Saleh [his killed son] fall every day on the South&#8217;s land. We bury them and bury our grief with them…&#8221;</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>(Reading and Texts, Grade 8, Part 1 (2013) pp. 30, 33)</p></blockquote>
<p>The foregoing does not cover the whole picture of preparing Palestinian schoolchildren for jihad and martyrdom. One could add the Palestinian national anthem itself, here cited to first graders, including the following verse: &#8220;…I shall live as a Fidai and continue as a Fidai and die as a Fidai…&#8221;</p>
<p>See the whole page in full, with an illustration of a teacher saying: &#8220;let us repeat the national anthem:&#8221; (the extracted verse is the fourth one).</p>
<div id="attachment_222848" style="width: 266px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-06-at-4.42.46-PM.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-222848 " alt="Screen Shot 2014-04-06 at 4.42.46 PM" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-06-at-4.42.46-PM-256x350.png" width="256" height="350" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(National Education, Grade 1, Part 2 (2012) p. 58)</p></div>
<p>A language exercise demonizing Israel, in which the Palestinian child is likened to a soldier, could be added as well to this literary genre:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Palestinian child stood facing the enemy&#8217;s bullets like a brave soldier.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Reading and Texts, Grade 8, Part 2 (2013) p. 28)</p></blockquote>
<p>Recently introduced National Education textbooks for grades 8 and 9 in Hamas-controlled Gaza feature far more explicit pieces encouraging children to engage in acts of war. One example out of several:</p>
<div id="attachment_222850" style="width: 340px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/resistance.png"><img class=" wp-image-222850 " alt="resistance" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/resistance.png" width="330" height="235" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;By resistance we shall win&#8221;<br />(National Education, Grade 8 (Gaza, 2013) p. 65)</p></div>
<p>From the above-given quotations taken from PA schoolbooks in current use by UNRWA, one could easily have a solid idea about the war education hundreds of thousands of Palestinian schoolchildren get, apart from other alarming aspects of anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish indoctrination that is antithetical to any chance of peace in the Middle East. That kind of &#8220;education&#8221; should cease immediately and it is the responsibility of UNRWA&#8217;s democratic donor states to guarantee that.</p>
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<p><em>Dr. Arnon Groiss is an Arabic-language journalist who has been working for the Voice of Israel Arabic Radio since 1973. He is also an expert on Middle Eastern affairs having earned his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University&#8217;s Department of Near Eastern Studies, as well as an MPA degree from Harvard University&#8217;s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Groiss taught for several years at the Hebrew University in the 1990s and 2000s. Between the years 2000-2010 Dr. Groiss served as chief researcher and, later, as Director of Research at the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE, formerly known as the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace – CMIP), a non-political NGO committed to studying the attitude to the &#8220;other&#8221; and to peace in the Israeli and in other Middle Eastern curricula. During his work there Dr. Groiss studied hundreds of textbooks of various school subjects and authored over ten reports on Palestinian, Egyptian, Syrian, Saudi Arabian, Iranian and Tunisian schoolbooks. The reports are available on the Institute&#8217;s Web site http://www.impact-se.org. A summary of his ten-year research of this subject is to be found in &#8220;De-legitimization of Israel in Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks&#8221;, published in Israeli Affairs, Vol. 18 (2012), Issue 3, pp. 455-484, where he compares the PA schoolbooks with other Arab and Middle Eastern ones, including their Israeli counterparts. </em></p>
<p><em>Dr. Groiss has presented his findings since 2000 to both policy makers and people of the press on numerous occasions in various places, including the US Congress, the European Parliament, the UK House of Commons, the Israeli Knesset, the Canadian Parliament, the French Assemblée nationale and elsewhere. On the basis of his experience in this field, Dr. Groiss was appointed as a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) of the Palestinian-Israeli Schoolbook Research Project commissioned by the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land (CRIHL). The project was funded by the US State Department and ended in February 2013. Dr. Groiss&#8217; evaluation paper of this research project is to be found <a href="http://israelbehindthenews.com/library/pdfs/EVALUATION-1.pdf">here</a>. </em></p>
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		<title>Coptic Christian Children Kidnapped and Killed for Cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 05:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deadly price of living as a Christian in the Middle East. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/PALMSU_2_large.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216538" alt="PALMSU_2_large" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/PALMSU_2_large-450x338.jpg" width="315" height="237" /></a>Yet another Coptic Christian child was recently kidnapped in Egypt.  Thirteen-year-old Cyril Rif‘at Fayiz was <a href="http://www.christian-dogma.com/vb/showthread.php?p=3386564">abducted</a> in the Minya district by “unknown persons” who later called the child’s parents demanding one million Egyptian pounds, nearly the equivalent of $150,000 USD.</p>
<p>This phenomenon—kidnapping and holding Coptic children captive for large ransoms—has become a regular feature of the Egyptian landscape, particularly in Minya, Upper Egypt.  A few examples follow:</p>
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<li>August 2013: Copts held a funeral for <a href="http://www.ahram-canada.com/15950/%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B9-%D8%A3%D8%AD%D8%AF-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%87">Wahid Jacob</a>, formerly a young church deacon.  He too was kidnapped by “unknown persons” who demanded an exorbitant ransom from his family—1,200,000 Egyptian pounds (equivalent to $171,000 USD).  Because his family could not raise the sum, he was executed—his body dumped in a field where it was later found.  The priest who conducted his funeral service said that the youth’s body bore signs of severe torture.</li>
<li>May 2013: After 6-year-old Cyril Joseph was kidnapped and the family paid ransom, he was still killed.  In the words of the <a href="http://copts-united.com/Article.php?I=1549&amp;A=96530">Arabic report</a>, the boy’s “family is in tatters after paying 30,000 pounds to the abductor, who still killed the innocent child and threw his body in his sewer system, where the body, swollen and moldy, was exhumed.”</li>
<li>April 2013: <a href="http://www.light-dark.net/vb/showthread.php?p=1040325928">Ten-year-old Sameh George,</a> another church deacon in Minya, was likewise abducted by “unknown persons” while on his way to church to participate in Holy Pascha prayers leading up to Orthodox Easter. His parents said that it was his custom to go to church and worship in the evening, but he failed to return and they received an anonymous phone call from his kidnappers informing them that they had the Christian child in their possession and would execute him unless they received 250,000 Egyptian pounds in ransom money.</li>
<li>April, 2013: <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/coptic-boy-kidnapped-at-knifepoint-abductors-open-fire-on-church/">Another Coptic Christian boy</a>, 12-year-old Abanoub Ashraf, was also kidnapped right in front of his church in Shubra al-Khayma district. His abductors, four men, put a knife to his throat, dragged him to their car, opened fire on the church, and then sped away. Later they called the boy’s family demanding a large amount of money to ransom child’s life.</li>
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<p>As for Coptic girls, they are even more vulnerable than Coptic boys and disappear with greater frequency.  As an <a href="http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2012/s12050044.htm">International Christian Concern</a> report puts it, “hundreds of Christian girls … have been abducted, forced to convert to Islam, and forced into marriage in Egypt. These incidents are often accompanied by acts of violence, including rape, beatings, and other forms of physical and mental abuse.”</p>
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		<title>Palestinian Terror Education: Funded by U.S. Taxpayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 05:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Bedein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for Americans to demand a stop to aid sent to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Hamas_Children_1594729i.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214655" alt="Hamas_Children_1594729i" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Hamas_Children_1594729i.jpg" width="279" height="211" /></a>UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, shapes the mindset of a new generation of Palestinian youth, educating 492,000 students in 699 schools.</p>
<p>The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 3.1 of the Convention, requires that &#8220;in all actions concerning children&#8230; the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.&#8221;</p>
<p>Article 6 requires UN agencies to recognize &#8220;that every child has the inherent right to life,&#8221; and, further, that UN agencies &#8220;shall ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child.&#8221;</p>
<p>Article 29 requires that such education be directed to the &#8220;preparation of the child for responsible life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of the sexes, and friendship among all peoples&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p>In direct contradiction to the mandate of UN education, UNRWA uses new school books from the Palestinian Authority, which violate sacred UN principles of peace.</p>
<p>A depicted in the film &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iURo_lsdXvA">Camp Jihad</a>,&#8221; produced by the Center for Near East Policy Research this past summer, UNRWA instructors openly incorporate virulent anti-Semitic teachings into the classroom, demonizing Jews as part of their UNRWA summer camp program, telling child campers that Jews are nothing but &#8220;wolves&#8221; who chased their grandparents from their homes.</p>
<p>UNRWA educational facilities are sites of indoctrination, exploiting the malleability of children&#8217;s minds to breed hostility toward Israel and the West and to encourage violent homicide-suicide attacks, effectively grooming pupils for recruitment by terrorist groups like Hamas, which controls the teacher&#8217;s union in Gaza.</p>
<p>Where is the accountability? With Islamic states that remain at war with Israel?</p>
<p>The United States, the largest donor nation to UNRWA, contributed more than $275 million to the agency in 2013 alone, while the rest of the donors are spread among 38 democratic nations. The US continues unbridled funding of UNRWA, which results in the<br />
use of US taxpayer dollars for teaching Palestinian children to revere suicide-homicide bombings. Letters to US AID to condition funds to UNRWA on the cessation of such indoctrination have gone unanswered.</p>
<p>At the same time, UNRWA openly hires teachers with ties to designated terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, ignoring US law that forbids aid to agencies hat hire terrorists. While UNRWA has agreements with Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon for the verification of criminal records by potential agency employees, no such agreement exists between UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority, where 19 UNRWA camps function under Palestinian jurisdiction.</p>
<p>Terror education abounds in the UNRWA schools. A fifth grade textbook taught in UNRWA schools known as Our Beautiful Language reads, &#8220;We shall return to the homes, to the valleys, to the mountains/Under the flag of glory, Jihad and struggle/With blood, sacrifice [fida’], fraternity and loyalty/We shall return.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another PA school book goes even further: &#8220;O brother, the oppressors have exceeded all bounds and Jihad and sacrifice [fida’] are imperative&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p>A ninth-grade PA textbook indoctrinates students into martyrdom. In an exercise where students are asked to connect two sentence, a correct answer links the phrase &#8220;Morning of glory and red redemption, nourished by the blood of Martyrs&#8221; with the concept of &#8220;hope for the liberation of Palestine.&#8221;</p>
<p>When UNRWA promotes such sentiments, UNRWA schools violate children&#8217;s basic right to protection from harmful influence. The question remains: Will US citizens file complaints against UNRWA with Congress and with the courts, or will US citizens let this kind of US-funded education for terror continue unabated?</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 05:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horrific truth about the U.S.-backed Syrian rebels. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1789.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213489" alt="1789" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1789-450x322.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>Originally published by the <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4093/slaughter-in-muslim-lands">Gatestone Institute</a>.<br />
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<p>Two of the most tragic Islamic attacks on Christians, killing several women and children, took place in the month of October, one in Syria another in Egypt.</p>
<p>On October 21 in Syria, the U.S.-supported Islamic rebels invaded and occupied the ancient Christian settlement of Sadad for over a week, till ousted by the military.  During that week, “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/largest-massacre-of-christians-in-syria-ignored/">the largest massacre of Christians in Syria</a>,” in the words of Orthodox Archbishop Alnemeh, took place.  Among other things, 45 Christians—including women and children—were killed, several tortured to death; mass graves were discovered; all of Sadad’s 14 churches, some ancient, were ransacked and destroyed; the bodies of six people from one family, ranging from ages 16 to 90, were found buried at the bottom of a well (an <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/jihad-on-egypts-christian-children/">increasingly common</a> fate for <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-racism-muslim-blood-superior-to-infidel-blood/">“subhuman” Christians</a>).</p>
<p>The jihadis even made a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxT6C6rJLSw">graphic video</a> (with English subtitles) of those whom they massacred, while shouting Islam’s victory-cry, “Allahu Akbar” (or “Allah is greater,” which John McCain <a href="http://facingislam.blogspot.com/2013/09/mccain-equates-syrian-jihadists.html">equated</a> to a Christian saying “thank God”).  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzuK7pJxbjo">Another video</a>, made after Sadad was liberated, shows more graphic atrocities.</p>
<p>The day before rebels invaded Sadad, on Sunday, October 20, the Church of the Virgin Mary in Warraq near Cairo, Egypt, was attacked during a wedding ceremony, leaving four dead and nearly two dozen wounded.  According to <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/node/2226311">a report</a> issued by forensics, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/murdered-christian-children-the-price-of-obamas-pro-brotherhood-jihad/">two of those murdered were young girls, each named Mary</a>:  12-year-old Mary Nabil Fahmy, who took five shots in the chest, and 8-year-old Mary Ashraf Masih (“Masih” meaning “Christ”), who took a bullet in the back which burst from the front.</p>
<p>As happens frequently in Egypt and other Islamic nations, the security forces charged with protecting the church were seen leaving their posts immediately before the massacre began.  Similarly, in the words of <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Cairo,-police-fled-before-the-attack-on-the-church-of-the-Virgin-Mary-29353.html">Asia News</a>, “Eye-witnesses of the al-Warraq attack confirm that despite numerous distress calls, police and ambulances only arrived on the scene two hours after the shooting.”</p>
<p>Both the massacres in Syria and Egypt received scant attention and even less condemnation by Western media and government.  Instead, people like Mohamed Elibiary, <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-advisory-council-members">an Obama administration Homeland Security adviser</a>, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/09/muslim-brotherhood-supporting-dhs-adviser-blames-copts-for-promoting-islamophobia.html">condemned</a> Copts who raise awareness of anti-Christian violence in Egypt as promoting “Islamophobic” bigotry.</p>
<p>Similarly, although Christians are habitually killed in Muslim countries—as this monthly series attests—with little condemnation or even acknowledgment by the U.S. government, when five Muslims were killed in western Burma,  the United States, according to <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/us-burma-must-do-more-to-stop-antimuslim-violence/1761203.html">Voice of America</a>, formally condemned it, “urging authorities to do more to address the long-standing sectarian tension there.”</p>
<p>The rest of October’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country in alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity:</p>
<p><b>Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism</b></p>
<p><b>Bangladesh</b>:  “A local government official in central Bangladesh has halted the construction of a church, forced Christians to worship at a mosque and threatened them with eviction from their village unless they renounce their faith,” said <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/41264-bangladeshi-christians-told-to-close-church-convert-to-islam">Morning Star News</a>: “The Tangail Evangelical Holiness Church in Bilbathuagani village… was created Sept. 8 by a group of about 25 Christians who had been meeting secretly for three years.  However, local council chairman Rafiqul Islam Faruk joined around 200 demonstrators Sept. 13 to protest against the start of the building of the church.  The following day, the Christians were summoned to his office. More than 1,000 Muslims waited outside, following an announcement at all local mosques to gather at the chairman’s office.”  There they were ordered to embrace Islam or suffer the dire consequences.  Said one of the Christians: “Their threats chilled me to the bone. That is why I pretended to accept Islam, but faith in Christ is the wellspring of my life.” Another said: “The chairman is clipping the wings of our faith. I do not know how long we can grin and bear it. We want religious freedom. We want to practice our religion freely.”  Eight Christians agreed to return to Islam since Sept. 14, under the chairman’s orders. The chairman and his associates had already beaten some of those Christians three years ago for accepting Christianity.</p>
<p><b>Iran</b>: Mariam Naqqash, a female convert to Christianity, was <a href="http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Religion/Iran-Woman-who-converted-to-Christianity-jailed_32721259388.html">sentenced to four years in prison</a> by a court in Tehran.  The Christian convert was found guilty of “endangering national security by spreading religious propaganda in the country,” including by being a spy for Britain and Israel.  According to Adnkronos News, “renouncing the Muslim faith is punishable with the death penalty [in Iran]. Over 300 Iranian converts to Christianity have been arrested over the past two years, according to opposition websites.”</p>
<p><b>Kazakhstan</b>: After <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Detained-Kazakh-pastor-launches-hunger-strike-appeals-to-UN-for-help.html">Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev</a>, a 67-year-old pastor, was released from five months’ detention, on charges his family and others insist are spurious, and after being reunited with his family, he was re-arrested again within minutes, <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Kazakh-pastor-re-arrested-within-minutes-of-being-freed-from-custody.html">now accused</a> of “propaganda of terrorism or extremism, or public calls to commit an act of terrorism or extremism, as well as the distribution of material of the content indicated.”  His son, Askar, told Forum 18 News Service, “These new accusations are complete rubbish. They’re trying to turn my father into a terrorist.”   Grace Church in Astana, where Kashkumbayev served, has, according to the report, long been subject to state harassment, including accusations of being involved in espionage, fraud, money laundering, distributing extremist texts and using hallucinogenic communion drinks.</p>
<p><b>Kenya</b>: Charles Matole, pastor of the Redeemed Gospel Church, was found <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/murdered-christian-pastor-in-kenya-found-with-bible-on-lap-preparing-sunday-service-107142/">shot dead while still sitting with a Bible on his lap</a>:  “We found him with blood oozing from the head,” said a choir member.  The pastor was receiving threatening messages by text previously. Similarly, Pastor Ebrahim Kidata of the East African Pentecostal Churches was found murdered by strangulation in a patch of bushes.</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>:</p>
<p>• After a Muslim man slaughtered a Christian—in broad daylight and in front of police—accusing him of being “<a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/09/pakistani-muslim-cites-blasphemy-in-slaughter-of-christian-rival-in-business/">an infidel who blasphemed against Muhammad</a>” (see <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4065/september-horror-christians-islam">September report</a>), a group of armed men broke into the dead man’s family home, threatening to kill its members if they did not withdraw their police complaint against the murderer, and <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Karachi:-Christian-family-faced-with-blasphemy-and-forced-conversion-threats-29407.html">convert to Islam</a>.  Fr. Arshad Gill, a priest in Karachi, told Asia News “about this ‘sad story’ in which the victim is ‘an innocent man’ and his family is told to convert to Islam or die. For him, the case epitomises the situation of Pakistan’s minorities, forced to live ‘in conditions of profound insecurity’ in which events such as this one tend to exacerbate the situation….  Found in Article 295, B and C of the Pakistan Penal Code, the [blasphemy] ‘law’ punishes with death or life in prison anyone who desecrates the Qur’an or defames the name of the Prophet Muhammad.”  Those few political activists who have tried to repeal the law—such as Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, a Muslim, and Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian—have been murdered.</p>
<p>• Three other Pakistani Christians face a <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/30926-pakistan-christians-facing-death-penalty">possible death sentence</a> on what lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill says are “trumped up charges” of “blasphemy.”  One of the Christians, Asif Pervaiz, is accused of sending phone text messages with “abusive language against Muslims, Islam, Prophet Mohammed and the Koran.”  Two other Christians, Pastor Adnan and Mushtaq Masih, were also arrested for allegedly writing “derogatory remarks” about Islam.  Possibly in reference to the aforementioned report concerning the family of the butchered Christian, otherwise a separate incident, Gill also said that “Days back we received some heart breaking information that there is one group who forced Christians to accept Islam at gun point.”</p>
<p>• Another Christian man also accused of blasphemy, 26-year-old Adnan Masih, trained as a pastor at a United Pentecostal seminary, is being hunted by police; the banned Islamic extremist group, Jamaat ud Dawa in Lahore, further issued a fatwa, or Islamic decree, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/10/police-islamic-extremists-in-pakistan-hunt-for-christian-accused-of-blasphemy/">calling for his death</a>—because he sought to correct misconceptions about Christianity in a Muslim book, specifically by writing biblical verses refuting Islamic characterizations of Christianity.  A source said the hunted man had no idea that “pointing out false references in a book would land him in such big trouble.”  In the words of a representative of Jamaat ud Dawa: “The police better arrest the blasphemer and hand him over to us on Saturday [Oct. 19].  We will not be responsible for any law-and-order situation in the city if the police fails to keep its assurance. How dare someone use derogatory language against our beloved prophet … Don’t they know that the Koran orders us to slit the throat of whoever is disrespectful to Allah’s beloved prophet.”</p>
<p>• Rana Tanveer, a Muslim, and chief reporter of <i>The Express Tribune</i>, received a one-page letter in Urdu threatening him to stop covering the plight of minorities.  He was further accused of being an “<a href="http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/sid/217509906/scat/303b19022816233b/ht/Pak-reporter-gets-threatening-letter-for-covering-minorities">apostate</a>” for allegedly sympathizing with Christians and Ahmadis, instead of their Sunni Muslim oppressors, and threatened with death, “from where you cannot even imagine.”  Tanveer, a Muslim, insists that all his reports are objective and based on facts.</p>
<p><b>Dhimmitude</b></p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: After Muslims in al-Minya district accused a young man of having an illicit relationship with a Muslim woman, violence erupted against the village’s Christians (see <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4065/september-horror-christians-islam">September report</a>).  More recently, the father of the Christian man in question insists that there was no relationship between his son and the Muslim woman, whose family, in <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20131006190805.htm">his words</a>, “actually had their daughter undergo a gynecological exam, which proved the woman is ‘untouched’ [a virgin].”  Instead, according to the father and many Copts in the village, “the whole story was fabricated by Muslim hard-liners from neighboring village to cause sectarian strife.” According to a separate Arabic report, in Asyut, “criminal groups and gangs managed to acquire guns and weapons and, as usual, have attacked and abused the Christians … [and] forced Copts to <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/gangs-seize-and-tax-coptic-christian-property-in-egypt/">pay large amounts of money</a> as tax [jizya] in order not to steal and/or plunder their lands.” The report also points out that no one does anything to oppose these gangs: “they simply kill Christians and their families as happened in the village of Shameiya when two Copts refused to pay the tax: the gang killed them and this was repeated in many other villages belonging to the governorate of Asyut. It is <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/the-kidnapping-and-plundering-of-christian-copts/">becoming so normal now</a> to watch as these crimes against Christians occur day by day and nothing is done.”</p>
<p><b>Indonesia</b>:  Still insisting that Susan Jasmine Zulkifli, a Christian woman appointed governor of the sub-district of Lenteng Agung, in West Java, be removed solely because of her faith (see <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4065/september-horror-christians-islam">September report</a>), Muslim protesters stepped up their threats, including by <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/34455-ASIA_INDONESIA_A_coffin_in_procession_Islamist_threats_against_the_Christian_governor">carrying a coffin</a> in a protest march consisting of some 600 Muslims—a clear death threat to the woman—and waving flags symbolic of death. The Christian woman was promoted in June by the Governor of Jakarta, who said in response: “I make my choices based on merits, not looking at religion.”</p>
<p><b>Iran</b>: After being arrested in a house church December 2012 and charged with consuming alcohol in violation of the Islamic theocracy’s laws, four Christians were sentenced to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/10/27/iran-gives-christians-80-lashes-for-communion-wine-as-un-blasts-human-rights/">80 lashes for drinking communion wine</a>.  “The sentences handed down to these members of the Church of Iran effectively criminalize the Christian sacrament of sharing in the Lord’s Supper and constitute an unacceptable infringement on the right to practice faith freely and peaceably,” opined one human rights activist.</p>
<p><b>Iraq</b>: The nation’s Christians, more than half of whom have fled since the U.S.-led invasion a decade ago, are now also being targeted in and fleeing from northern Iraq, which until recently was considered a relatively safe region for Christians fleeing violence in the south.  Recently, for example, <a href="http://christiannews.net/2013/10/23/northern-iraq-no-longer-safe-for-christians/">a suicide bomb</a> went off outside the home of Christian politician Emad Youhanna in Rafigayn, part of the Kirkuk province, injuring 19 people, including three of his children.  Several more bomb attacks have also taken place in the northern city of Erbil, for which al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.  According to Christian News, “In early September, Christians in the village of Deshtakh complained that they were facing harassment from local police.  A group of Christian young people said that policemen told them that they ‘should not be in Iraq because it is Muslim territory.’  Violence in the south of the country is also escalating. Church leaders in Baghdad say that there are attacks on Christians every two or three days.”</p>
<p><b>Lebanon</b>:  Muslims are appropriating Christian land in the historically Christian nation. According to Agenzia Fides: “An urgent reminder to curb the misuse of land belonging to Christians in order to build housing for the Muslims was launched on Monday, October 14 from Talal al- Doueihy, leader of the Movement ‘Lebanese Land, our Land’…. Across the Country there are outbreaks of clashes due to problem regarding land. Last week, in the Christian village of Alma (district of Zghorta) residents had complained that the Muslims of the area of al-Fuar had begun to <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/34495-ASIA_LEBANON_Houses_for_Muslims_built_on_the_lands_belonging_to_Christians_Sectarian_balance_at_risk">build houses without permission</a>. Already at the end of August, the same Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai had called Christians to limit the sale of their property to avoid jeopardizing the demographic-confessional balance.”</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: After the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/bloody-weekend-trend-of-muslim-rage-against-infidels-continues/">bombs in the church of All Saints in Peshawar</a>, where nearly 90 people, including many women and children, died, in the words of an Agenzia Fides report, “the situation remains tense in the Pakistani society: not only tragedy but also horror. The Christians said they were ‘horrified’ by the rumors that link the bombs in Peshawar to the vast problem of organ trafficking: this is what some members of NGOs in civil society in Pakistan told Fides. Some of the ‘jackals,’ presumably local paramedics, seem to have taken advantage of the high number of deaths and injuries in order to steal the bodies of victims and <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/34381-ASIA_PAKISTAN_After_the_bombs_atrocities_against_Christians_organ_trafficking_concerning_victims_of_Peshawar">exploit them for the illegal organ trade</a>. ‘If this were true, it would mean that there are criminals who are taking advantage of the suffering of Christian victims in a truly blasphemous and sacrilegious manner,’ notes Fr. Mario Rodrigues, a priest of Karachi.”  Meanwhile, some of the Christian survivors who mourned the deaths of loved ones too openly, were <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/30875-christians-threatened-after-mourning-suicide-attack-victims-pastor-detained">attacked, beat, and threatened with death</a>. Finally, in a separate story, Harrison Masih, a Christian, working in a medical store who used to debate religion with Maulvi Khalad, a Muslim customer, got into an argument when Khalad <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/616848/death-threats-christian-man-seeks-case-against-maulvi/">tried to get him to convert to Islam</a>, “telling him that he would enter paradise that way.” Because he refused to convert and didn’t want any trouble, in Harrison’s words: “I quit my job at the medical store but Khalid, and three other men, came to my house and threatened me and my family.”</p>
<p><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>While not all, or even most, Muslims are involved, the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its way to reaching pandemic proportions.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:</p>
<p>1. To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>2. To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Sharia.</p>
<p>3.  Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam; apostasy and blasphemy laws that criminalize and punish with death those who “offend” Islam; theft and plunder in lieu of <i>jizya</i> (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed <i>dhimmis</i>, or second-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination.</p>
<p>Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to India in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.</p>
<p><b>Previous Reports</b>:</p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/a-month-of-horror-for-christians-under-islam-september-2013/">September, 2013</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2013/">August, 2013</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2013/">July, 2013</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2013/">June, 2013</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2013/">May, 2013</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2013/">April, 2013</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013/">March, 2013</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013/">February, 2013</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013/">January, 2013</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012/">December, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012/">November, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/">October, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2012/">September, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012/">August, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12215/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12045/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11930/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11713/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11604/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11373/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11152/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10989/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10922/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10724/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10504/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2011">September, 2011</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10247/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2011/">July, 2011</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to make sure the right values endure into adulthood.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Children-reading-001.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210954" alt="Children-reading-001" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Children-reading-001.jpg" width="251" height="218" /></a>In my last column, I proposed some explanations for why many conservative parents have left-wing children.</p>
<p>In a nutshell, American parents who hold traditional American values — such as belief in small government as the basis of liberty, in a God-based moral code, that American military strength is the greatest contributor to world peace and stability, or in American exceptionalism, not to mention in the man-woman definition of marriage or in the worth of a human fetus — are at war with almost every influence on their children&#8217;s lives. This includes, most importantly, the media and the schools.</p>
<p>Here, then are some suggestions for raising a child with American, i.e., conservative, values.</p>
<p>First, parents who are not left-wing need to understand that if they do not articulate their values on a regular basis, there is a good chance that after one year, let alone four, at college, their child will adopt left-wing views and values. Do not think for a moment that values are automatically transmitted. One hundred years ago they may have been — because the outside world overwhelmingly reaffirmed parents&#8217; traditional values — but no longer.</p>
<p>You have to explain to your children — repeatedly — what America and you stand for. (That, if I may note, is why I wrote &#8220;Still the Best Hope&#8221; and why I started PragerUnversity.com.)</p>
<p>Second, they need to know what they will be taught at college — and now in many high schools — and how to respond. When they are told from day one at college that America and its white citizens are inherently racist, they need to know how to counter this libel with these truths: America is the least racist society in the world; more black Africans have immigrated here of their own volition than were came here forcibly to be slaves; and &#8220;racist&#8221; is merely one of many epithets — such as sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, and bigoted — that the left uses instead of arguments.</p>
<p>Third, when possible, it is best that your child not go to college immediately after high school. One reason colleges are able to indoctrinate students is that students enter college young and unworldly. It is very rare that adult students are convinced to abandon their values and become left-wing. Why? Because they have lived life and are much less naive.</p>
<p>For example, someone with life experience is far more likely than a kid just out of high school to understand that the best formula for avoiding poverty is to take personal responsibility — get a job, get married and then have children — not government help.</p>
<p>Teenagers who spend a year before going to college working — in a restaurant, for a moving company, at an office — will mature far more than they would after a year at college. And maturity is an inoculation against leftism.</p>
<p>If your home is Jewish, Catholic, Protestant or Mormon, another option for the year after high school is to have your child devote a year to studying religion in some formal setting. The more your child knows, lives and adheres to the principles of any of these religions, the less likely he or she will convert to Leftism, which has been the most dynamic religion of the last hundred years. For example, it is a fundamental belief of each of these Judeo-Christian religions that the root of evil is within the evildoer. But it is a fundamental belief of leftism that people murder, steal and rape overwhelmingly because of outside influences such as poverty and racism. The moment your child understands that people who commit evil are responsible— not poverty or racism — they cannot be a leftist.</p>
<p>Fourth, don&#8217;t be preoccupied with instilling high self-esteem in your child. It is the left that believes that self-esteem is a child&#8217;s right, something that parents and society owe children. Conservatives believe that everyone, including children, must earn self-esteem. Indeed, the belief in earning — rather than in being given — is conservative.</p>
<p>Fifth, teach character. The left has essentially defined a good person as one who holds progressive social positions — on race, the environment, taxes, health care, etc. That is why the left, including the feminist left, could so adore Bill Clinton who regularly used his positions of power to take advantage of women: He held progressive positions.</p>
<p>If your child recycles or walks five kilometers on behalf of breast cancer, that is lovely. But if your child refuses to cheat on tests or befriends an unpopular kid at school, that is character. And teaching that definition of character is more often done in a conservative (usually a religiously conservative) context.</p>
<p>It is not all that hard to produce a son or daughter able to withstand left-wing indoctrination. You just have to understand that it doesn&#8217;t happen automatically.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photo-0005.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-208265" alt="photo-0005" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photo-0005-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a></span></b>Who is more deserving of punishment by the United States?  Millions of Egyptians, for ousting the Muslim Brotherhood?  Or the Muslim Brotherhood, for habitually terrorizing and murdering Christians, among many other crimes?</p>
<p>According to the unmistakably clear actions of the Obama administration, it is the millions of anti-Brotherhood Egyptians who deserve punishment.</p>
<p>Last Sunday, the Church of the Virgin Mary in Waraq near Cairo was attacked during a wedding ceremony, leaving four dead and many wounded.  According to <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/node/2226311">Dr. Hisham Abdul Hamid of forensics</a>, two of those who were murdered were Christian children—two girls; two Marys:  12-year-old Mary Nabil Fahmy, who took five shots in the chest, and 8-year-old Mary Ashraf Masih (meaning “Christ”), who took a bullet in the back which burst from the front.</p>
<p>It should be noted that this scene—attacked Coptic churches and murdered Christians, especially on holy days and celebrations—has become a normalized aspect of Egypt’s landscape (see <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20">Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians</a>, especially pgs. 42-43 and 56-62).</p>
<p>So too are the murders of Christian children increasingly common in Egypt.  Indeed, along with Sunday’s two murdered Marys, back in July, another Christian girl, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23662698">10-year-old Jessi Boulos</a>, was shot dead while walking home from Bible class.</p>
<p>All of these church attacks and murders are a direct byproduct of the Muslim Brotherhood’s incitements against Egypt’s Christians in retaliation for the June 30 Revolution, which saw the ousting of the Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Needing someone to scapegoat in order to set Egypt ablaze, Brotherhood leadership—including supreme leader Muhammad Badie, Safwat Hegazi, and Al Jazeera’s Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi—repeatedly demonized the nation’s Christian minority, leading to any number of atrocities committed against the Copts.</p>
<p>As today’s headline from one of Egypt’s most read newspapers, <a href="http://tahrirnews.com/news/view.aspx?cdate=21102013&amp;id=9f8b8978-5990-4492-812e-afda66e884cc"><i>Tahrir News</i></a>, put it: “The Brotherhood’s crime in Waraq [location of Sunday’s church attack].  Seventeen murdered Copts and 85 torched churches since ousting of Morsi… Copts pay price of June 30 Revolution.”</p>
<p>Now consider the response of the United States concerning the conflict between Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood in the context of U.S. aid.</p>
<p>For years, human rights activists have been imploring the Obama administration to make aid to Egypt contingent on respect for the human rights of all Egyptians, including Christian minorities.  Such a move would dramatically ameliorate the plight of the Copts, since all potential Egyptian governments, including the ousted Muslim Brotherhood, are more interested in securing money than in killing Christians.</p>
<p>Instead, the Obama administration’s approach has been 1) to ignore the plight of Egypt’s Christians and 2) when attacks are especially egregious (and exposed by the MSM) offer perfunctory condemnation.  (After all, if the administration was able to get away with the lip-service approach among Americans—vocally condemning and promising to get the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/behind-benghazi-muslim-brotherhood-and-obama-administration/">Muslim Brotherhood-linked murderers of Americans in Benghazi </a>but then ignoring it—surely it will not hesitate doing so with a foreign nation.)</p>
<p>As for making U.S. aid to Egypt contingent on respect for human rights, that has been out of the question for the Obama administration.</p>
<p>And yet, when those who are responsible for the destruction of nearly 100 Christian churches (including an <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/an-islamic-declaration-of-war-on-christianity/">unprecedented attack on the holiest Coptic church </a>back when Morsi was <i>still </i>president) and the murders of Copts and their children finally get ousted by the Egyptian people and their military, it is <i>then </i>that the Obama administration <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/10/us-cutting-hundreds-millions-in-aid-to-egypt/">cuts hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Egypt</a>—thereby punishing all of Egypt for ejecting the Muslim Brotherhood from power. (In other nations, like Syria, the administration supports the Christian-slaughtering, al-Qaeda linked terrorists).</p>
<p>What more proof can any sensible American need to know that the Muslim-named president of the United States of America is in league with Muslim terrorists?</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss Jamie Glazov&#8217;s video interview with Raymond Ibrahim about how Obama enables Islam&#8217;s new war on Christians:</em></p>
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		<title>The Next Generation Searches for Answers for 9/11</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Paulin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What one memorial tells us about the children of the fallen.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/111229095637-9-11-memorial-story-top.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203722" alt="111229095637-9-11-memorial-story-top" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/111229095637-9-11-memorial-story-top-450x319.jpg" width="315" height="223" /></a>It&#8217;s been a heartbreaking scene at 9/11 ceremonies in recent years: children honoring mothers or fathers they can&#8217;t remember – yet desperately want to know.</p>
<p>Emma Kathryn Hunt is one of them. On Tuesday, she attended a 9/11 ceremony at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, Connecticut &#8212; near where hundreds of horrified onlookers gathered 12 years ago and watched smoke billow from the Twin Towers, some 50 miles away.</p>
<p>Emma, a middle-school student, joined her mother, grandparents and hundreds of others at the state park, the site of a 9/11 memorial that includes 154 stone plaques on the manicured grounds. Each bears the name of a 9/11 victim who had ties to Connecticut. One is Emma&#8217;s father, <a href="http://www.legacy.com/sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=103350">William Christopher Hunt</a>. Emma was 15 months old when her dad died with nearly 3,000 others at the World Trade Center. A 32-year-old vice president of Eurobrokers, he had worked on 84th floor of the South Tower.</p>
<p>&#8220;What do I remember about my dad? Nothing. Absolutely nothing,&#8221; Emma told a reporter covering the event. Even so, Emma said that when she goes to bed at night, she gazes at a photo of her dad and herself taken on her first birthday. “It&#8217;s on my bedside table. It&#8217;s the last thing I look at night. And I tell him, &#8216;Good night, daddy. I love you. I love you always.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>She explained, &#8220;Everything I know about my dad I know because someone in my family tells me things about him. Mostly, it&#8217;s my grandma. She tells me stories about him when he was a kid. Or how I&#8217;m like him. But I don&#8217;t really know, because I can&#8217;t remember him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Emma remained composed during the first part of Tuesday&#8217;s ceremony, according to Marian Gail Brown&#8217;s <a href="http://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Tears-remembrance-for-state-s-9-11-victims-4803596.php">article</a> in the Westport News. Emma, Brown wrote, “tucked her bright orange-red hair away from her freckled face&#8221; as she listened to each speaker: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, and a local minister and rabbi. But “then came the reading of the names of the 161 victims of 9/11 with Connecticut connections in alphabetical order. &#8216;Laurence Abel&#8217;&#8230; &#8216;Allen Patrick Boyle&#8217;&#8230;&#8217;Sandra Campbell&#8217;&#8230;&#8217;Judith Florence Hofmiller&#8217;&#8230;Emma grabbed her mother by the knee and squeezed. Two more names before the 71st name. Emma leaned into her mom. Her shoulders shook. &#8216;William Christopher Hunt.&#8217; Her body convulsed. And the tears poured out. Her mom rubbed her back and pulled her adolescent half-girl, half-woman body toward her, whispering to Emma.”</p>
<p>As heartbreaking as that moment was, it wasn&#8217;t as heartbreaking as other things that Emma revealed; specifically, that her teachers don&#8217;t talk much about 9/11. Emma, however, said she wishes they did discuss the terror attack &#8211; even though she worries about what might be said about why her father died.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a troubling revelation. Does she perhaps worry she might be taught the version of 9/11 told by the anti-American left by people like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Churchill_September_11_attacks_essay_controversy">Ward Churchill</a>, the former ethnic studies professor who infamously called people like Emma&#8217;s father “little Eichmanns”? That characterization delighted the left, whose members believed that America got what it deserved on 9/11 because of the evils it had visited on foreign lands.</p>
<p>Emma is perhaps too young to learn about the nuances of why they hate us; yet her question goes to the heart of the matter: “I&#8217;d like someone to really, really explain why this happened.”</p>
<p>Why hasn&#8217;t anybody told her?</p>
<p>Connecticut’s 9/11 ceremony was indeed sad &#8212; though not in the way that those who didn&#8217;t talk to Emma might have thought.</p>
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