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		<title>The Diversity of Islam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 04:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Kristof allows his fantasies about the "Religion of Peace" to obscure the grim reality.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/real-time-bill-maher.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242868" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/real-time-bill-maher-351x350.jpg" alt="real-time-bill-maher" width="276" height="275" /></a>Only thirteen years after 9/11, the Bill Maher/Ben Affleck kerfuffle has broken the media logjam preventing open discussion of whether Islam is a uniquely violent religion, and finally brought that question into the mainstream of the public discourse. The mainstream media and Leftist intelligentsia, badly rattled by Maher’s defection, is circling the wagons with a series of articles about how Maher is wrong, ignorant, bigoted, and after all just a comedian anyway – including a <em>New York Times</em> column by Nicholas Kristof (a bit player in the Maher/Affleck brawl), predictably entitled “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/opinion/nicholas-kristof-the-diversity-of-islam.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The Diversity of Islam</span></a>.”</p>
<p>Islam’s glorious diversity, of course, is something that we are all supposed to acknowledge and celebrate, on pain of charges of “Islamophobia” and “bigotry.” For Leftists and Islamic supremacists, it is a cardinal sin to <i>essentialize</i> Islam – that is, to dare to suggest that it actually teaches and stands for anything in particular. It is even worse to say anything that might give anyone the impression that <i>Islam is a monolith.</i> The political and media elites insist that we must see Islam as a marvelously diverse, multifaceted thing – as long as we don’t whisper anything to the effect that its diversity includes mass murderers and rapists acting in accord with mainstream understandings of its texts and teachings.</p>
<p>One irony (among many) of all this is that Islam is, in point of fact, one of the least diverse entities on the planet. A few years I came across a group photo of a summit meeting of Southeast Asian government officials. The Vietnamese, Thai, Laotian, Cambodian, Thai, Burmese and Chinese officials all had names indigenous to their nations; the Malaysian and Indonesian ministers had names like Muhammad and Abdullah – names indigenous to Arabia. Converts to Islam the world over give up a bit of their cultural diversity to take on Arabic names, and in many cases feel compelled to adopt the dress of a seventh-century Arab. This is not diversity, it’s homogeneity.</p>
<p>Nor is there, despite numerous claims to the contrary, significant diversity in the understanding of Islamic law, Sharia. Wherever Sharia is fully implemented around the world today, from Sudan to Saudi Arabia to Iran, it looks largely the same: freedom of speech is restricted, women and non-Muslims are denied basic rights, apostates from Islam are ostracized or even killed, “heretics” and “blasphemers” are hounded by legal authorities and/or lynch mobs. The four major Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree on 75% of all rulings, and those matters upon which they differ are not central to Islamic faith or practice.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, the diversity of Islam is a key number in the liberal hymnbook, and Kristof gives it a game rendition in last Wednesday’s <em>Times</em>. The goal, of course, is to buttress Affleck’s claim that it is “gross” and “racist” to suggest that there is anything particularly violent about Islam – well, there are those jihad terrorists, yes, but the whole thing is so diverse, you see.</p>
<p>Kristof attempts to illustrate this by asserting that “historically, Islam was not particularly intolerant, and it initially elevated the status of women.” This is a common myth; that Kristof would retail it indicates he is unaware of, or unwilling to confront, the unpleasant facts of the institutionalized oppression of dhimmitude that made for the violent oppression of religious minorities in the Islamic world until they were abolished in the mid-nineteenth century.</p>
<p>But what about tolerant, pluralistic al-Andalus? The philosopher Maimonides, a Jew who lived for a time in Muslim Spain and then fled that supposedly tolerant and pluralistic land, remarked,</p>
<blockquote><p>You know, my brethren, that on account of our sins God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael, who persecute us severely, and who devise ways to harm us and to debase us….No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to reduce us as they have….We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, and absurdities, which are beyond human power to bear.</p></blockquote>
<p>Kristof follows up this wishful thinking with a frankly bizarre sentence: “Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter.” “Christian/Nazi/Communist”? “Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist”? These conflations render Kristof’s argument utterly incoherent. Islam is not “the bloodthirsty religion,” but “Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe” is? Is “Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe” a religion? Is it any single thing at all?</p>
<p>The real question is whether Islamic teachings are uniquely “bloodthirsty,” as opposed to “Christian/Nazi/Communist” teachings or anything else. And so Kristof addresses that point: “Likewise, it is true that the Quran has passages hailing violence, but so does the Bible, which recounts God ordering genocides, such as the one against the Amalekites.” Kristof doesn’t mention that this command is not an open-ended one directed to all believers (such as is found in the Qur’an), but is, rather, a specific directive given to Saul regarding one group only, the Amalekites. If you are neither Saul nor an Amalekite, it doesn’t concern you. Nor can Kristof adduce even a single example of a Jew or a Christian committing an act of violence and justifying it by referring to the order given against the Amalekites.</p>
<p>Nor does Kristof mention that neither Judaism nor Christianity, in any of their forms, have now or have ever had any doctrines equivalent to the Islamic doctrine that the Muslim community “makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians …until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax” (<i>‘Umdat al-Salik</i> O9.8). The quotation comes from a manual of Islamic law certified by the most prestigious and influential institution in Sunni Islam, al-Azhar, as conforming “to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community.”</p>
<p>I challenge Nicholas Kristof to provide a quotation from any Jewish or Christian authority comparable to al-Azhar, calling upon believers to make war against and subjugate non-believers. He does not do so in this article; instead, he spends the balance of his article retailing anecdotes about non-Muslims who were scoundrels and Muslims who were wonderful people, which proves exactly nothing about the teachings of Islam and whether they have any unique capacity to incite believers to violence. Human beings all have a variety of influences and priorities; Christian villains and Muslim heroes indicate nothing about Christianity or Islam unless their actions are related to their religion’s teachings; Kristof makes no attempt to do so.</p>
<p>Kristof concludes by asserting that “the great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful believers likewise found in each tradition.” <em>Times</em> readers who read this ringing phrase with satisfaction over their morning lattes doubtless didn’t pause to try to name any Jewish or Christian intolerant zealots who committed mass murder on the scale of 9/11 and justified it by pointing to their scriptures. Mere details. Islam is diverse, Islam is peaceful, and stubborn skeptics can always be silenced with shouts of “Tim McVeigh” and “the Crusades” as the great march of tolerance and diversity moves confidently forward.</p>
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		<title>A Prayer for 5775</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hope for the American Jewish community this Rosh Hashana. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/rosh-hashanah338.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241644" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/rosh-hashanah338-440x350.jpg" alt="rosh-hashanah338" width="299" height="238" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/A-prayer-for-5775-376221">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Despite the dangers mounting all around us, as we approach Rosh Hashana 5775, for Jews in Israel, in many ways things have never been better.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Sunday night, President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke at the 10th-anniversary celebration marking the founding of the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his remarks, Rivlin described the impact of what he referred to as the “revolution” Menachem Begin led in Israeli society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Through his victory in the 1977 Knesset elections, which marked the end of the Labor Party’s monopoly on power, Rivlin explained, Begin began the process of expanding the definition of what it means to be an Israeli. Until Begin rose to the premiership, entire sectors of society, Mizrahim from Arab countries, new olim, religious Zionists and haredim had been shunned by the establishment.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Begin changed that.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Begin opened the doors to everyone, facilitating their entry into society on their own terms, transforming Israel from a melting pot, where everyone was supposed to aspire to become a member of the in-group, into a multicultural society, where all expressions of Israeli-ism were welcome.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of Begin’s revolution was to develop Israel into an open, dynamic and inclusive society. Begin ushered in its first phase – inclusion. He didn’t live to see the next phase, that of integration. In the first phase, the spurned sectors Begin embraced defined themselves more by what distinguished them from other Israelis than by what united them with their fellow Israelis.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today, Rivlin explained, we are in the next phase of Begin’s revolution as we see the integration of more and more Israelis into a new, dynamic, inclusive model of Israeli-ism. This is a model based on what unites us, rather than what drives us apart.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his remarks, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu also highlighted the sense of national unity that increasingly defines the Israeli experience. Netanyahu dwelled on its foundations – the shared Jewish heritage and values that form the basis of Israeli society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Both men marveled at how far Israel has come in this direction over the past decade and a half by recalling the uncertain beginning of the Begin Heritage Center when, during Netanyahu’s first tenure as prime minister, the Knesset passed a law mandating its formation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At the time, Israeli society was suffering from an unprecedented level of polarization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Many Labor members responded to Begin’s rise to power by turning to the radical Left. In 1993, with the inauguration of the so-called peace process with the PLO, the Labor Party transformed itself from the party that encompassed the national ethos into one that undermined it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The ethos that Labor had developed in its years in power was one of collective security and shared fate. The peace process, predicated as it was on Israeli culpability for the Arab world’s rejection of the Jewish state, subverted the national ethos. After all, if Israel itself was responsible for the absence of peace, and until 1993, Israel’s strategic posture was based on activist defense, then Israel’s strategic posture, and the social understandings it was rooted in, were responsible for Arab hatred and aggression, and therefore they had to be rejected.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">After Netanyahu defeated Labor leader Shimon Peres in the 1996 elections, Labor and its partners rooted their strategy for returning to power on exploiting the sectoral identities cultivated by Begin in order to turn Israelis against one another.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The results of the 1999 elections demonstrated the strategy’s success. Likud and Labor – the big tent parties – were vastly weakened as sectoral parties rose in power and influence, reflecting the unraveling of society’s sense of shared destiny.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This disintegration, together with the so-called peace process’s subversion of the national ethos of collective security, brought about a situation where when the PLO rejected statehood and peace at Camp David in 2000 and Yasser Arafat turned to jihad, Israeli society was weaker than it had been since the early 1950s.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It took the efforts of Israelis from all walks of life, and from all sectors of society, who read the writing on the wall, to forge a new national ethos. The new Israeli ethos is built not only on security and shared fate, but on the far firmer foundation of a shared Jewish heritage.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unlike what Israel’s many detractors claim, there is nothing fanatical about Jewish heritage.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To the contrary, being loyal to that heritage means not only that Jews of all walks of life can feel at home in Israel, but that Israel’s non-Jewish citizens can integrate into Israeli society without having to surrender their unique cultural and religious identities.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It is this new sense of national identity and purpose that enabled Israeli society to stand as one through the disasters we absorbed this summer. And as Netanyahu emphasized on Sunday evening, it is this inclusive unity, that Menachem Begin did so much to facilitate, that forms the basis of Israel’s ability to survive in a regional and international environment that grow more dangerous and hostile by the day.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Israelis work to maintain our unity while embracing our diversity, American Jews find themselves divided and increasingly polarized across ideological and social lines. While what unites American Jews is more significant than what divides them, many key groups appear to have lost sight of this basic truth.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Radical groups that reflect the views of almost no significant American Jewish constituency, have jumped in to fill the void. And owing to the absence of a clear, strong message from key components of the community, they are making headway in their goal of unraveling and disempowering the Jewish community of America.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Consider the organized opposition to the Metropolitan Opera of New York’s decision to produce the harshly anti-Semitic opera The Death of Klinghoffer.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Monday some 3,000 people attended the mass rally to protest the prestigious opera house’s decision to produce the opera that demonizes Jews and glorifies Palestinian terrorists. It was an impressive turnout. This is particularly true because very few of the major Jewish organizations agreed to participate in the protest. The American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Federation of New York and the Jewish Council on Public Affairs were particularly conspicuous in their absence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It’s not that all these groups think that the Met’s decision to mainstream hatred of Jews, dehumanization of Jews and delegitimization of the Jewish state is acceptable.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a press release published on September 19, the AJC for instance excoriated the Met’s decision to produce the opera and highlighted the anti-Semitic positions of the opera’s composer and librettist.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">AJC Executive Director David Harris said, “Today, with increasingly virulent anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel terrorism, all reminiscent of the cruelty perpetrated against Leon Klinghoffer, we should not rationalize or humanize acts of terrorism or terrorists.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But then, at the end of the press release, Harris turned his guns on the Jews who organized the protest against the opera, which he refused to join.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Harris said, “We call upon all who are planning to protest the Klinghoffer opera to do so with civility, so that the focus of public criticism may remain, as it should, on the opera’s totally inappropriate and insensitive messages.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Harris’s position regarding the opera is substantively indistinguishable from the positions of the 52 organizations that sponsored and participated in the protest. Those included StandWithUs, the Zionist Organization of America, CAMERA, Americans for a Safe Israel, JCCWatch, Endowment for Middle East Truth, several major synagogues and Jewish day schools, and the Catholic League, among many others. None of these organizations gave anyone the slightest reason to believe that they would do anything but focus on the anti-Semitic, pro-terror message underlying the opera.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So why did Harris treat them like irresponsible children who cannot be trusted? And why, given the commonality of views, and his own concerns, did he not ensure that the message would be effectively delivered, by delivering himself, as a participant in the rally?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By standing on the sidelines and drawing distinctions between the supposedly responsible AJC and the supposedly irresponsible organizations that participated, Harris weakened the campaign to fight anti-Semitism. Not only was this an irresponsible thing to do, it was deeply destructive, not least because it expanded the polarization of the Jewish community.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Peter Gelb, the Met’s director, is Jewish. And many defenders of the decision to produce The Death of Klinghoffer have argued that Gelb’s Judaism makes it unacceptable to point out that by producing an anti-Semitic opera, the Met is mainstreaming anti-Jewish bigotry.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the sad fact is that a growing number of radical Jews, who reject the very notion that Jews have rights, including the right to support Israel and defend the Jewish state, are filling the void left by the Jewish leadership establishment that would rather attack activists whose agenda they share than cooperate with them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For instance, next month, Harvard will host the first national meeting of “Open Hillel.” Jewish anti-Zionist luminaries including Haaretz columnist Peter Beinart, BDS champion Judith Butler and Rebecca Vilkomerson, the executive director of the Jewish anti-Zionist group Jewish Voices for Peace, will lead the discussions.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Open Hillel’s goal is to deny Jewish students on US campuses the right to defend Jewish rights.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Open Hillel emerged in recent years in protest against Hillel’s insistence that anti-Israel groups not operate under the umbrella of the national Jewish student organization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Open Hillel claims that Jews, as distinct from every other group, have no right to insist that their rights be defended by a Jewish organization formed to do just that.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">An apt analogy would be an African-American group that supported the restoration of Jim Crow laws demanding to be embraced by the Black Student Organization, and insisting that any claim that they should be denied the legitimacy of the black community is an act of academic and social ostracism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Many Jewish organizations, first and foremost those who participated in the protest against the Met on Monday afternoon, are devoting massive efforts to counter the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda being disseminated on university campuses by groups like these.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the overriding sense, cultivated by the Jewish leadership that treats unapologetic defenders of Jewish rights as suspect and undesirable, is that the Jewish community as a whole is uninterested in confronting and combating the haters.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In Israel, as traditional elites failed in the 1990s, new forces emerged to take up the charge of rebuilding Israeli society. Their success paved the way for the unity of Israeli society that today enables Israel to stand fast against a rising tide of military and diplomatic threats.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It is my fervent prayer for 5775 that the American Jewish community will take a lesson from Israeli society, and unify against the growing forces of anti-Jewish bigotry. May they embrace our shared Jewish heritage and stand with one another to secure the rights and freedom of the Jewish people in the coming year and into the future.</span></p>
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		<title>&#8216;Diversity&#8217; Re-education for Rotherham Whistleblower</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How U.K. authorities abetted the abuse of hundreds of children by Muslim child rape gangs. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/or.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240315" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/or.jpg" alt="or" width="314" height="235" /></a>For the despicable protectors of political correctness and multiculturalism, the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089"><span style="color: #1255cc;">systematic</span></a> sexual abuse of 1,400 girls over the course of a decade and a half &#8212; including some as young as 11 years of age &#8212; was the lesser of two evils that occurred in Rotherham, England. In a stunning testament to the bankruptcy of both ideologies, a researcher who blew the whistle on this appalling scandal more than a decade ago was <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11069178/Rotherham-researcher-sent-on-diversity-course-after-raising-alarm.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">sent</span></a> to an &#8220;ethnic and diversity course&#8221; by child protection authorities after she revealed the ethnic identity of the abusers.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The revelation emerged in a segment of <i>Panorama</i>, a current-affairs program broadcast by the BBC that produced a report on the scandal. The researcher, a person from the United Kingdom’s Home Office who wished to remain anonymous, explained that she began encountering victims while working at Risky Business, a youth outreach organization set up by the Council, aka the local government. &#8220;The workers in that project were the only people that those young people trusted, that they were telling the complete story to,&#8221; the researcher <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-29012571"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> <i>Panorama</i>’s Alison Holt. &#8220;And some of the stories that I heard very early on were just so graphic that I don&#8217;t think I will ever forget them. I was collecting data on who the perpetrators were, what cars they were using, their grooming methods, their offending methods, and what I was also collecting, was information on professional responses.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In 2002, the researcher documented that 270 young girls had been exploited in 2001. In the course of sharing her findings with the Council, she unwittingly violated a PC taboo: she revealed that the chief perpetrators of the abuse were men from the British Pakistani community.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The response of the Council was shocking. &#8220;They said you must never refer to that again, you must never refer to Asian men,&#8221; she revealed. &#8220;And [the] other response was to book me on a two-day ethnicity and diversity course to raise my awareness of ethnic issues.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It gets worse. The researcher says she submitted her report to the Home Office and the Rotherham Council on a Friday. On either Saturday or Sunday, someone entered the offices of Risky Business where the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/02/rotherham-abuse-researcher-diversity-course_n_5750560.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">backup data</span></a> on her report were stored and took it. The researcher believes it was an inside job because there was no evidence of a break-in. &#8220;They&#8217;d gained access to the office and taken my data, so out of the number of filing cabinets there was one drawer emptied and it was emptied of my data. It had to be an employee of the council,&#8221; she contended. Adding insult to injury, the report was never published and according to Holt, &#8220;the council even tried unsuccessfully to get the researcher sacked.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“I was subjected to the most intense personal hostility,” the researcher revealed. “There were threats made from a range of sources. I’ve never seen back-covering like it, and I still feel extremely angry about that.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is likely that certain aspects of her report drove the efforts to suppress it. One chapter noted the &#8220;alleged indifference towards, and ignorance of, child sexual exploitation on the part of senior managers&#8221; along with her contention that responsibility for the exploitation was &#8220;continuously placed on young people&#8217;s shoulders rather than with the suspected abusers.&#8221; &#8220;Had this report been treated with the seriousness it merited at the time by both the police and the council, the children involved then and later would have been better protected and abusers brought to justice,&#8221; the 2002 draft added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Prof. Alexis Jay, who wrote an independent report on the scandal, <a href="http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/1407/independent_inquiry_cse_in_rotherham"><span style="color: #1255cc;">The Independent Inquiry Into Child Exploitation in Rotherham, 1997-2003</span></a>, paints a devastating picture of determined ineptitude, noting that more than a third of the children affected were &#8220;previously known to services because of child protection and neglect.&#8221; He describes the &#8220;appalling nature&#8221; of the abuse these children endured. &#8220;They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated,&#8221; he reveals. &#8220;There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The response by officials was equally appalling. Jay cites their &#8220;collective failures&#8221; despite &#8220;growing evidence&#8221; that child sexual exploitation (CSE) was occurring in Rotherham. He further notes that senior managers &#8220;underplayed&#8221; the problem and Police gave the CSE cases &#8220;no priority,” often treating the victims &#8220;with contempt&#8221; and &#8220;failing to act on their abuse as a crime.&#8221; He goes on to note that three separate reports from 2002, 2003, and 2006, known to both the Police and the Council &#8220;could not have been clearer in their description of the situation in Rotherham,&#8221; further explaining that the 2002 report written by the whistleblower was &#8220;effectively suppressed because some senior officers disbelieved the data it contained.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Martin Kimber, chief executive of Rotherham Borough Council, accepted the findings in Jay&#8217;s report, but claimed to know nothing about the alleged break-in at Risky Business. &#8220;The alleged &#8216;raid&#8217; on the Risky Business office is not something that I am aware of and having made appropriate checks within the council, I am unable to find anyone who recognises this series of events as they have been presented to us,&#8221; he said in a released statement. &#8220;Similarly, I have been unable to find any reference within the Alexis Jay report to the alleged incident and have no other independent means of corroborating the allegations that are being put forward. If further information is made available which enables me to do so, I would be happy to look into it.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">South Yorkshire Police have promised to bring the perpetrators to justice, and have increased the number of investigators on the case from 10 to 45. &#8220;A number of large-scale investigations looking at historical and current sexual offences in Rotherham are ongoing and involve a large number of victims,&#8221; it said in a statement.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">All well and good, but it can&#8217;t make up for the concerted effort to suppress this atrocity and the overriding reason for doing so. &#8220;Several staff 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,&#8221; Jay’s report states.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">British Parliament member Simon Danczuk, who is calling for a mandatory reporting law that would make officials criminally liable for failing to report child abuse, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/31/Lessons-learned-from-Rotherham-Simon-DanczukMP"><span style="color: #1255cc;">confirms</span></a> that assessment, noting that senior managers believed &#8220;political correctness and cultural sensitivity was more important than shocking criminal behavior,&#8221; and thus they were more interested &#8220;in ticking boxes in diversity training than protecting children.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One is left to wonder if there is a lower depth to be plumbed than the suppression of child rape by the adherents of political correctness and multiculturalism. And make no mistake: at the heart of both concepts is the determined suppression and/or vilification of anyone who dares to defy these utterly bankrupt shibboleths. Bankrupt shibboleths that produce real victims. &#8220;I was a child and they should have stepped in,&#8221; a woman called &#8220;Isabel&#8221; to protect her identity, told <i>Panorama</i>. &#8220;No matter what&#8217;s done now&#8230; it&#8217;s not going to change that it was too late, it should have been stopped and prevented.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">*</p>
<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>The Glazov Gang&#8217;s </strong>special 2-part series with <strong>Gavin Boby</strong> of the <a href="http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/">Law and Freedom Foundation</a> about Muslim rape gangs in the UK and how Islamic theology inspires and sanctions their barbaric crimes against helpless young girls:</em></p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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		<title>Why &#8216;Diversity&#8217; Means Quotas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Cohen]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth about racial preferences in higher education. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/diversity.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239669" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/diversity-442x350.jpg" alt="diversity" width="327" height="259" /></a>Earlier this year, Sonia Sotomayor appeared on ABC’s the week to plug her new book, <em>My Beloved World</em>. ABC reporter George Stephanopoulos declared that the Supreme Court Justice “knows that affirmative action made a difference in her life, and believes it’s still necessary.”</p>
<p>Stephanopoulos continued,</p>
<blockquote><p>“There’s been a lot of scholarly work that says it’s not the best way to insure diversity in schools, and maybe if you focus on where people live, and how much money they make, you can get the same results, in a way that is less fractious.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To which the Justice responded,</p>
<blockquote><p>“…the problem with that answer is that it doesn’t work….it’s not that I don’t believe that it doesn’t work, it’s that the statistics show it doesn’t work.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Sotomayor, as you may recall, read a lengthy dissent in Schuette v. Coalition, the case which determined that states may ban racial preferences in higher education – a conclusion Sotomayor vehemently disagreed with.</p>
<p>Unmentioned in this discussion were the words &#8220;quotas&#8221; or &#8220;Bakke.&#8221; After being twice rejected by UC Davis medical school, Allen Bakke sued. His suit alleged that UC Davis’s two tiered admissions process, for whites and non-whites, violated his rights under both the fourteenth amendment and the civil rights act.</p>
<p>UC Davis medical school had two separate admissions programs: a regular program, and a special program intended to help disadvantaged students. Applicants to the special program would compete against each other, and would not be compared to regular applicants.  Importantly, the special program accepted applicants with college GPA’s below 2.5.</p>
<p>Ostensibly intended for the disadvantaged of all races, the special program had never accepted a white applicant, although many had applied. Also, racial minorities composed a majority of the committee members who determined admission to the special program. UC Davis also denied that the special admissions program operated as a quota; the Supreme Court disagreed.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court found UC Davis’s admissions scheme to be unconstitutional, and ordered UC Davis to admit Allen Bakke to medical school. The court’s ruling explicitly stated that both quotas and two-tiered systems were unconstitutional &#8212; something confirmed by future Supreme Court rulings.</p>
<p>The court did allow an exception to this general prohibition on the use of race or ethnicity. Colleges could consider race as a factor, if they used it in the same manner as they did other factors. Colleges could not reserve spots for different ethnic or racial groups, but they could consider the value that a student from an under-represented group would bring. This would be the fig leaf that allowed colleges to pursue their racial and ethnic balancing schemes.</p>
<p>At the 2013 University of Michigan “Future of Campus Diversity Symposium,” the fig leaf came right off. Attorney Mark Rosenbaum – fresh from convincing the Sixth Circuit court of appeals that Michigan’s ban on racial preferences violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment – delivered the <i>second </i>keynote address.<i> </i></p>
<p>After telling his audience that “diversity is about how one lives a life,” and “is about respecting the dignity of every single person,” he got down to brass tacks. Bans on racial and gender preferences in higher education had reduced the enrollment numbers of some ethnic and racial groups. According to Rosenbaum, Michigan’s ban on racial preferences in admissions caused African American freshman enrollment to decline from 8.1% to 5.2% at the University of Michigan. “In a state where the number of African American’s are between fifteen and twenty percent,” Rosenbaum informed his audience.</p>
<p>And this isn’t just talk. Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radcliffe studied admissions preferences at both public and private institutions. Although they wouldn’t characterize it this way, their data clearly shows that both public and private institutions employ admissions preferences for the purpose of balancing their racial and ethnic demographics.</p>
<p>When comparing similar applicants to highly selective private schools, being black instead of white is worth the equivalent of 310 extra SAT points, being Hispanic instead of “non-Hispanic white” is worth the equivalent of 130 SAT points, and being Asian instead of white costs you the equivalent of 140 SAT points.</p>
<p>At public institutions, being Hispanic instead of non-Hispanic white doesn’t help your odds much, the equivalent of .3 ACT points. But at these same institutions, being black instead of white increases your odds of acceptance by the equivalent 3.8 ACT points, and being Asian instead of white decreases the odds of acceptance by the equivalent of 3.4 ACT points.</p>
<p>These statistics can only be explained as deliberate efforts at demographic balancing.</p>
<p>The numbers become even more disturbing when one considers social class. At public institutions, socio-economic factors play little role in admissions, but the same cannot be said for private ones. Non-white applicants from lower class backgrounds enjoy considerable class-based affirmative action; not so for whites. Whites are the only group where lower class applicants have less chance at being admitted than middle class applicants; in this case, the numbers are 8% and 28% respectively. For comparisons sake, 81% of lower class, and 50% of middle class, black applicants are accepted.</p>
<p>Elite private institutions, all of which receive federal and state money, offer class-based admissions preferences to every group except one: whites. While offering financial aid and admissions preferences to low-income people of other races, these institutions treat poor white kids as an unwanted financial burden. Imagine the outrage if government benefits granted to everyone else were denied to any other group aside for whites. In his Bakke opinion, Justice Powell specifically cited the denial of surplus food stuffs to African Americans as an example of unequal treatment.</p>
<p>When we debate race-conscious admissions, we have to debate such programs as they exist, not as we would like them to be. When a college administrator says that it is unacceptable for the proportion of under-represented groups to fall below a certain threshold, for all intents and purposes, he is calling for a quota. To those who support these programs, do you support quotas?</p>
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		<title>Studies Show Black Officers are Harder on Black Suspects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black officers were more likely to make an arrest when the suspect was black.]]></description>
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<p>This isn&#8217;t surprising to anyone who lives in an actual urban area. Fit<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/john-perazzo/lynch-mob-rage-based-on-a-lie/"> it into John Perrazo noting that</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Most cases where police killed suspects during 1976-98 were same-race incidents: When W&amp;H officers were the killers, the suspects were usually W&amp;H (63%). And when black officers were the killers, the suspects were usually black (81%).</p>
<p>In 1998 specifically, 3.2 out of every 10,000 black officers killed a black suspect sometime that year, whereas only 1.4 out of every 10,000 W&amp;H officers killed a black suspect.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8230; so it&#8217;s not <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/08/22/do-diverse-police-forces-treat-their-communities-more-fairly-than-all-white-ones-like-fergusons/">surprising that diversity isn&#8217;t the answer</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>But do racially-balanced police forces actually treat their communities any more fairly than those as skewed as Ferguson’s?&#8230;</p>
<p>From the studies that have been done, however, there’s no conclusive evidence to show that white and black police officers treat suspects differently — if anything, some of the studies show that black officers can be can be harder on black criminal suspects.</p>
<p>In 2004, for instance, criminologists found in an analysis of observational and survey data from St. Petersburg, Fla., and Indianapolis, Ind., that in resolving conflicts, “black officers are more likely to conduct coercive actions” — which could mean anything from verbal orders to physical confinement — than white officers. A 2006 study of Cincinnati police records concluded that white officers were more likely to arrest suspects than black officers overall — but it also found that black officers were significantly more likely to make an arrest when the suspect was black.</p>
<p>What’s more, polls show that black communities do not necessarily trust police forces more when they are more racially representative. In Washington D.C., according to a 2011 Washington Post poll, the police department got a relatively low 60 percent rating from black residents, despite the fact that the force is highly integrated. The New York Police Department’s demographics are close to those of the rest of the city, but a Quinnipiac poll from 2014 found that only 54 percent of black residents approved of its performance. The Detroit police department is so dominated by African Americans that it’s been sued for discrimination against whites, and yet only 18 percent of black Wayne County residents approved of its work in 2009.</p></blockquote>
<p>The determinant is not how black the police force is&#8230; but how criminal the local residents are. If the locals have a lot of contact with police, they aren&#8217;t going to like them very much.</p>
<blockquote><p>“There is a sense of security in joining the police force, and being on the ‘protected’ side of the line,” says Nguyen. “If you join the police force because you feel like it’s the only way to protect yourself, that is the cycle that is reproducing itself in the name of public safety.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Strip away the community organizer garbage and that&#8217;s semi correct. Professionals are often members of a profession first. Black cops are cops. And cops and civilians are almost races unto themselves.</p>
<p>And if anything they&#8217;re likely to have less patience and more suspicions.</p>
<p>Anecdotally speaking, my own experience has been that black cops are less likely to behave thuggishly than white cops. But of course that&#8217;s anecdotal and based on a rather small range of experience in one place.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Kills Jews in Brussels, Brussels Mayor Says City Needs More Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>If there&#8217;s a problem with diversity, just add more diversity. <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4338/brussels-terrorists-europe">It&#8217;s bound to make things better</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Yesterday, French police arrested the terrorist accused of murdering three Jews in Brussels, Belgium on the eve of the European elections. The killer, 29-year old French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche, a son of Muslim immigrants, had gone to Syria in 2013&#8230;</p>
<p>The way to combat this, Yvan Mayeur, the Socialist Mayor of Brussels, said, was &#8220;to give room to the many cultures and religions in Europe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yvan Mayeur, the Socialist Mayor of Brussels, said that to combat anti-Semitism and racism, his city needed more &#8220;diversity.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Anti-Semitism would be better combated with less diversity. For all the native bigotry, it&#8217;s been a while since the average citizen of Brussels thought that killing Jews was a good way to pass the time.</p>
<p>The same can&#8217;t be said for its Muslim settlers.</p>
<p>But the left can&#8217;t process minority bigotry. Its response to Muslim Supremacist bigotry is to solve it with more diversity. And that&#8217;s how this whole mess got started.</p>
<p>The London Review of Books responded to the killings <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/05/26/glen-newey/in-brussels-2/">with a long snarky piece </a>about Brussels that managed to reference UKIP, Le Pen, Denis Thatcher, PVV, Pierre Poujade, Lega Nord and Breivik&#8211; none of whom had anything to do with the attack.</p>
<p>Missing was the dreaded &#8220;M&#8221; word.</p>
<p>After describing the local scene, the piece abruptly turns to discussing fascism in the EU elections as if one had anything to do with the other. It&#8217;s a curious mechanism of distraction and denial.</p>
<p>European leftists, like American leftists, are incapable of discussing the actual issue.</p>
<p>If a Neo-Nazi had been responsible, then conclusions would have been drawn. When a Muslim is responsible, then it&#8217;s time to mutter something about UKIP and diversity.</p>
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		<title>New York Times Wants Google to Fire Asians for Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google can only accomplish that by firing its Asian employees and replacing them with blacks]]></description>
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<p>Maybe just <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/29/how-the-asians-became-white/">call them White Asians and that will</a> make it okay.</p>
<p>The New York Times and assorted liberal activists are complaining that Google is too white. And by too white, they mean less white than the national average.</p>
<blockquote><p>Non-Hispanic whites are 61 percent of the Google work force, slightly below the national average. (That average, according to 2006-10 numbers, is 67 percent.) Google is thus less white than the typical American company.</p></blockquote>
<p>But the New York Times is unhappy&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Google’s disclosures come amid an escalating debate over the lack of diversity in the tech industry. Although tech is a key driver of the economy and makes products that many Americans use everyday, it does not come close to reflecting the demographics of the country — in terms of sex, age or race.</p></blockquote>
<p>Google needs to fix this by hiring a lot of older black ladies. But how diverse is the New York Times anyway? Not very.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s an easy solution. Google can fix its demographics by firing Asians.</p>
<blockquote><p>Google can only accomplish that by firing well over three-quarters of its Asian employees, and replacing them with blacks and Hispanics (and a few whites, to bring white numbers up from 61 percent to 67 percent).</p></blockquote>
<p>This is what multiculturalism on crack ends up looking like. Diversity quotas kill meritocracy and replace it with diversity hires who are there to represent a racial group, not to do their jobs well. And it hurts minorities because it discourages ambition.</p>
<p>Achieving a proper racial balance at Google would require firing lots of Asians. Is that really empowering diversity?</p>
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		<title>Latino, Female Conservatives Blacklisted from Philly &#8216;Diversity&#8217; Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvaro Watson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the International House Philadelphia treats immigrants and women with dissident views. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/4063053_300.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-223480 alignleft" alt="4063053_300" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/4063053_300.jpg" width="240" height="240" /></a>As an immigrant from El Salvador, I celebrate the inclusiveness implied by the name and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://ihousesworldwide.org/">mission</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of the International House Philadelphia (IHP). I fled a country where progressive societal attitudes and governmental policies opposed racial inclusivity and intellectual diversity. </span></p>
<p>Validating my celebration were IHP President and CEO Tanya Steinberg’s <a href="http://ihousephilly.org/about/from-the-president-ceo">words</a>, which boasted the IHP&#8217;s promotion of “intercultural understanding, and contribut[ion] to &#8230; personal and professional development,” while providing a “forum for dialogue and communication between people of all cultures on topics ranging from art to science&#8230;and a destination for tens of thousands of visitors each year.”</p>
<p>With relief comparable only to the feeling of no longer having to fear the constant political violence, lingering danger and ravenous intimidation of my former country, I rejoiced over Steinberg’s <a href="http://ihousephilly.org/about/from-the-president-ceo">declaration</a> that the IHP “uniquely offers … the opportunity to become engaged in a variety of new experiences&#8230;work in a progressive environment, and truly be a global citizen…all in the context of developing a greater understanding of the American experience.”</p>
<p>The organization seems to afford the option of hope and possibility for coexistence amongst humankind.  However, these pronouncements of inclusive diversity more resemble the desperate cries of Utopianism. Meanwhile, despite their <a href="http://ihousephilly.org/about/from-the-president-ceo">claims</a> of being “a vehicle to facilitate international understanding and dialogue,” some of the leadership’s actions appear to be vehicles of the progressive Left’s intellectual intolerance.</p>
<p>Recently, in hopes of returning as a second-time paying-customer, I sought to rent a venue from the <a href="http://ihousephilly.org/">IHP</a> for our &#8220;Giving Voice&#8221; event, featuring <a href="http://jenniferstefano.wordpress.com/about/">Jennifer Stefano</a>, a conservative feminist and Pennsylvania’s state director for Americans for Prosperity.  My organization &#8211; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/135342259884853/">Students for Intellectual Freedom National (SIFNA)</a> &#8211; intended to feature Stefano to highlight the importance of women’s voices in politics and society.  SIFNA wanted Stefano to represent the point of view of a significant segment of American women before the IHP and greater Philadelphia communities.</p>
<p>A key point of this presentation was to amplify awareness of the tools of suppression the progressive Left uses to stifle and shut down the voice of conservative feminism.  This theme must have stuck in the throats of IHP&#8217;s progressives, given their idea of &#8220;tolerance,&#8221; which is only afforded only to those they consider to be “alternative” voices.  Progressive tolerance does not extend to mainstream “conservative” ideas because the Left judges conservatives as always intolerant.  Therefore, in true cultural Marxist fashion, it is tolerant to be intolerant of those whom one considers “intolerant.”</p>
<p>IHP appears to believe that the only authentic voice representing issues of interest to women, racial, cultural and <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">sexual-gender </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">minorities must fall in line with a Leftist, Marxist-based point of view.  Progressives cannot seem to accept that a black or female conservative position is authentic as well, and they often target such people for exclusion in a way that can only be labeled McCarthyist.  I wanted to imagine that IHP could not possibly be an example of progressive intolerance.  As I learned, that was just wishful thinking.</span></p>
<p>After clearing a date and time for the venue for Stefano&#8217;s talk with a representative from IHP, I set about the process of planning, which included writing up some promotional materials.  The following day, IHP&#8217;s Director &#8212; Mr. Parker &#8212; informed me that my request was canceled because of preliminary communications on my part regarding the event, stating that “You can’t promote the event location if it isn’t confirmed, and certainly can’t imply our participation as a host.” It was unclear how Mr. Parker became aware of any pre-promotional activities.</p>
<p>Striving to fully understand their processes and establish a long-lasting relationship with IHP, I asked to be shown the specific policy that clearly states that pre-promoting an event is grounds for canceling requests for space.</p>
<p>His response: “First of all, the fact that you don’t even have an agreement from us is part of the point. We reserve the right to hold or cancel any request for our venue. I will not respond any further to this. The matter is closed.”</p>
<p>I understand their right to hold or cancel any request for their venue.  However, Mr. Parker did not even consider addressing my proposal to start clean, having the event later.  I have yet to see a policy of pre-promotion as a basis for cancellation in writing as opposed to being based on “common understanding,” in the words of Mr. Parker.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is my opinion that the sudden change cannot be accounted for by the issue of pre-promotion, but that Mr. Parker had gotten cold feet due to the subject matter not falling in line with the ideological monopoly of the progressive Left, dominant at IHP.  It seems that the IHP seeks to establish an intellectual dictatorship over the arena where competing ideas and debate are supposed to freely flow and thrive.</span></p>
<p>Question: If IHP cannot take the time to entertain this foreigner&#8217;s request for information to help me understand their processes so that, moving onward, I can do everything per IHP&#8217;s policies, how audacious is their suggestion to anyone in Philadelphia (or the world) that they are welcoming to others’ “global” and diversely multicultural ideas and opinions?</p>
<p>Question: How dangerous is it for such veto-power to fall unto Mr. Parker, an individual, who evidently believes that if one’s personal understanding of “common understanding” does not fall in line with <i>his</i> personal opinion of what &#8220;common understanding&#8221; is, the matter is closed?</p>
<p>Question: Does Mr. Parker represent the progressive Left’s view of what a climate that values the free-flow of ideas and civil discourse looks like?</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Moreover, the same woman who showed me the available schedule later informed me that no such availability existed. Her manner suggested that she was fearfully carrying out a directive from above.</span></p>
<p>My family sought the United States for its liberty, notions of intellectual freedom and tolerance, life, and the opportunity to contribute to a country that afforded us a second chance, in the absence of progressive suppression.  When I sought Pennsylvania as my home, I never thought I would find little El Salvador deep in the heart of Mr. Parker’s International House Philadelphia.</p>
<p>A close friend asked whether I had already burned my bridges with IHP, for if I had not, writing this article would certainly make impossible any future work with them. “Human nature,” he said, adding, “And they will dig in their heels.  Not a good idea if some of the fault was yours.”</p>
<p>This was tough to respond to because I have admitted that part of the responsibility was mine because I was not aware of Mr. Parker’s “common understanding” of non-pre-promotion.</p>
<p>The damage is done, apparently irreversibly.  I would rather not be welcomed at IHP and let the principle of Giving Voice triumph than choose silence and acquiescence to progressive intolerance.</p>
<p>In light of the recent, blatant intellectual intolerance which Ayaan Hirsi Ali has <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/ayaan_hirsi_ali_responds_to_brandeis_snub.html">experienced</a>, as Brandeis University rescinded an honorary degree in Social Justice (of all things) after “discovering” that this fighter for women’s rights had some enemies on the Left because of her criticism of Islam, we must assert the following: It is more urgent than ever to stand up for the virtue of alternative voices and the keys they afford us to closed, unexplored, unexamined areas and ideas of life.</p>
<p>Voices do not need venues to be heard and celebrated, as Ms. Ali has proven over the last few weeks. Venues like IHP, however, do need to celebrate all voices, to remain in truth the champions of inclusiveness and intellectual diversity they claim to be.</p>
<p>We must vigorously enter the debate on the side of intellectual freedom to foster an open intellectual environment, countering all atmospheres contaminated by intellectual intolerance.</p>
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		<title>Jerry Seinfeld, the Racist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anti-PC thought-criminal is on the loose! ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121003074150-jerry-seinfeld-2011-story-top.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218377" alt="121003074150-jerry-seinfeld-2011-story-top" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121003074150-jerry-seinfeld-2011-story-top-450x336.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>How refreshing the sound of a top-flight celebrity fearlessly shrugging off the idiocy of political correctness! The other day, on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">CBS This Morning, </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">an interviewer</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">pointed out to Jerry Seinfeld that most of the guests he&#8217;s had on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">his online series on which he has automotive tête-à-têtes with fellow practitioners of the stand-up art (and the occasional just-plain-funny person), have been white males. “Oh, this really pisses me off,” replied a bracingly honest Seinfeld, who plainly saw where his fatuous interlocutor was headed. After a bit of back and forth, the comic spelled out just how he feels about the application of this kind of absurd bean-counting to matters of entertainment: “People think it&#8217;s the census or something. Its got to represent the actual pie chart of America. Who cares?&#8230;I have no interest in gender or race&#8230;.It&#8217;s anti-comedy&#8230;It&#8217;s PC nonsense.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The attacks on Seinfeld for these purportedly insensitive remarks began materializing almost at once. A contributor to the Gawker website, who </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://gawker.com/who-cares-about-diversity-in-comedy-says-jerry-seinf-1515412052">sneeringly</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> called Seinfeld a “maker of comedy for and about white people,” represented him as having indicated that he “isn&#8217;t interested in trying to include non-white anything in his work” and that in his view “any comedian who is not a white male is also not funny.” Having read the entire Gawker article, I strongly suspect that this characterization of Seinfeld, far from being deliberately deceitful, was in fact an honest reflection of the author&#8217;s utter inability to grasp the concept of colorblindedness. Charging Seinfeld with “downplaying the work” of all nonwhite comics, the man from Gawker made a point of demonstrating his own PC purity: comedy, he proclaimed, “should represent the entire pie chart of America, and the glorious, multicolored diversity pie should be thrown directly at Jerry Seinfeld&#8217;s face.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The funnyman also came under fire for a Canadian woman named Maya Roy, who, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/maya-roy/seinfeld-diversity-comments_b_4733365.html">writing</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in the Huffington Post under the headline “Seinfeld&#8217;s Racist Comments Make Him the Joke,” accused him of “whitewashing New York” in his 1990s sitcom – only to chide him, in her next breath, for featuring on various episodes of that show “heavily accented Chinese food delivery boys” and an “inept Pakistani entrepreneur, Babu Bhatt,” among others. To nonwhite viewers like herself, railed Roy, these nonwhite characters “only existed to make &#8216;whitey&#8217; feel superior.” She contrasted the nonwhites on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Seinfeld </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">with Indian-Canadian comic Russell Peters and Korean-American comic Margaret Cho, both of whom, exulted Roy, “use humour to mock racists and homophobes, and make life just a little more bearable for the rest of us.” (Yes, indeed, they are moral scolds, which is surely part of the reason why I, for one, find both of them excruciatingly unfunny.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Half a century ago, an America in which people don&#8217;t have an interest in gender or race was Martin Luther King&#8217;s dream – the vision around which Americans of every color, eager to see their country live out the meaning of its creed, rallied enthusiastically. Today that kind of thinking is condemned as bigotry. Today a sitcom that doesn&#8217;t seek to mirror the population pie chart risks being called out for racism or sexism. Today a show that permits itself to include black or Chinese or Pakistani characters who, far from being role models and pillars of virtue prove to be every bit as hapless, goofy, mendacious, and/or self-absorbed as the white characters is by definition guilty of hate speech. Today, according to the PC sentries at the gates of American culture, comedy should exist not to amuse us by (among other things) treating received opinions with indifference and even irreverence but, on the contrary, to promote The Proper Values, as determined by, well, people like Maya Roy and the man from Gawker. Its focus should be on chiding the evil souls who harbor prejudice and providing comfort and affirmation to the virtuous innocents who are the objects of that prejudice. In other words, comedy, in this age of victimhood, of group identity, and of ubiquitous therapy, should succor the victims, go out of its way to affirm the unconditionally positive contribution of minority groups (especially those favored by multicultural dogma) to the wonderful mosaic of American society; it should serve, without exception, a psychically healthful, wholesome, and therapeutic purpose, while of course never doing anything that might stand the remotest chance of hurting or offending those who have already (in the PC view) been hurt or offended too mightily.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Even </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Time Magazine – </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">yes, it still exists – piled onto Seinfeld after his comments on CBS, running a piece in which one Lily Rothman (a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.lilyrothman.com/">self-identified</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> playwright and backpacker who studied at Yale and the Columbia School of Journalism) did her share of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/04/jerry-seinfeld-diversity/">tsk-tsking</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about “the homogeneity of [the] guests” on Jerry&#8217;s webseries – guests, mind you, who have ranged from Jay Leno to Howard Stern, from Carl Reiner to Colin Quinn. Ms. Rothman&#8217;s inability to view these performers as a remarkably diverse crew only serves as a salutary reminder that for some people, melanin would appear to be the only</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">measure of difference. Color, in short, is all. It&#8217;s this kind of illiberal thinking that once was recognized as a genuinely serious threat to true liberal values, and that today, in the corridors of American cultural power – including those at </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Time – </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">is, perversely, the very essence of what goes by the name of liberalism. Ms. Rothman concluded her harangue by expressing the hope that “public pressure” would force Seinfeld to enhance his show&#8217;s “diversity.” Not so many years ago such a sentiment would have been widely recognized as ignoble, despicable – indeed, totalitarian. No more.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If anything is striking about this incident, it&#8217;s not the attacks on Seinfeld – who only a few months ago, by the way, said on </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">that his “Mount Rushmore” of stand-ups would consist of Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, and Don Rickles (two blacks, two whites). No, the attacks are just the usual multicultural claptrap. What was striking – and gratifying, and heartening – were Seinfeld&#8217;s original remarks about “PC nonsense” – which, considering that they came from a man who is still the top-earning comedian in the U.S., raised expectations that the growing impatience of influential cultural figures with the poisonous influence of political correctness may yet help bring an end to the madness.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 21:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I don&#8217;t <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/02/obamacare-state-your-race-and-ethnicity.html">even understand the process tha</a>t could have produced something <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/02/you-cannot-just-say-no-to-the-obamacare-race-questionnaire/">as insane as this race and ethnicity questionnaire</a> which ignores the existence of any and all groups except Latinos and Asians and subdivides them into infinite categories of ethnicity and race.</p>
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<p>The millions of Jews don&#8217;t exist on this list. Neither does the huge Irish-American population. But if you&#8217;re Okinawan or Iwo Jiman, as opposed to just plain vanilla Japanese, the list has you covered.</p>
<p>The questionnaire insanely lists Singaporean as an ethnicity. I shouldn&#8217;t be too surprised considering the law is named after a man who thought that Austrian was a language.</p>
<p>Singapore, as we know it, has existed for less than two centuries and consists of Chinese, with some Malays and Indians.</p>
<p>Strangely enough the questionnaire, which takes the time to break down the Japanese into three groups (but excludes the Ainu who actually are another race) doesn&#8217;t do the same thing for the Chinese, though it does separate out the Taiwanese.</p>
<p>(Get ready for an angry diplomatic protest from the PRC. &#8220;There&#8217;s only one China. We just haven&#8217;t conquered it yet!)</p>
<p>Moving on to south of the border, there are Mexican-Americans, Mexicans and Mexican-American Indians listed under ethnicity. (No Mexican-Indians for some reasons.)</p>
<p>Are Mexican-Americans a different ethnic group than Mexicans?</p>
<p>Virtually every Latin American country is listed as its own ethnicity. For the Supra-Nationalists of the Hispanic Race, La Raza is listed as an ethnicity, even though its literal meaning is race.</p>
<p>Also Latin American is listed separately as an ethnicity.</p>
<p>About the only mention of Europe is Spain, which gets to be subdivided into the Valencian, Spaniard, Castillian and Spanish Basque. Is this really a major issue for the United States?</p>
<p>But the best ethnicity yet, may be the Canal Zone. The Canal Zone? Yes, because Senator McCain needs his own ethnic group.</p>
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		<title>Cornell Diversity Group &#8216;Lost&#8217; $8,000 But Cuts Deemed Discriminatory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 05:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Dogan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Punishment for missing funds may be racially insensitive. ]]></description>
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<p>• Attempts by the student government at Cornell to cut the budget of the African, Latino, Asian, Native American Students Intercultural Programming Board (ALANA) <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15684/">were rejected</a> and characterized as discriminatory despite drastic overspending by the group and the outright loss of $8,000 in unaccounted funds. While the Cornell Student Assembly recommends a funding limit of $10 per attending student at events, ALANA funded some events at a cost of up to $92 per student and wasted student funds on trivialities such as $450 for pins for the group’s executive board. Ultimately, ALANA’s budget was reduced only slightly to $108,000 for the next two years as opposed to $118,000 for the 2012-2014 allocation after attempts to dramatically reign in the budget were characterized by supporters as failing to be “sensitive to the needs of cultural umbrella and programming organizations like ALANA.”</p>
<p>• As part of an art project on racism, a black student at Sacramento State University designed an outdoor exhibit featuring the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/18/black-student-stages-fake-lynching-of-white-people-in-highly-offensive-art-stunt/">apparent lynching of two white people</a>. The white individuals were actors who were displayed dangling from a tree on campus with nooses encircling their necks. Student Christina Edwards who designed the piece stated that it was meant “to bring to light social injustices and the issue of inequality that impacts me and my community as a whole.” Edwards did not seek University approval to set up her display and administrators are looking into whether any campus rules were violated.</p>
<p>• The American Studies Association (ASA) voted in December to support a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/16/u-s-academic-group-votes-to-boycott-israeli-universities/">boycott of all academic institutions in Israel</a>, the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, while taking no action against the numerous tyrannical states and dictatorships across the globe.  The resolution stated that the ASA “endorses and will honor the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. It is also resolved that the ASA supports the protected rights of students and scholars everywhere to engage in research and public speaking about Israel-Palestine and in support of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement.” Dozens of colleges and universities in America, including Harvard and Yale, have spoken out opposing the ASA’s vote as prejudiced and several have withdrawn from ASA membership entirely.  Among the testimony considered by the ASA was that of Communist terrorist Angela Davis who compared the situation of Palestinians to the Jim Crow South and Richard Falk, a 9/11 “truther” and anti-Semite.</p>
<p>• The University of Michigan chapter of Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian campus group, has <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/23/libertarian-students-sue-umich-for-political-discrimination/">filed a lawsuit</a> alleging that the University’s decision to deny them funding constitutes unconstitutional political discrimination. Officials from the university stated that they were ineligible for university funding because their events and activities were “political.”  But other campus groups with a clear left-wing political agenda, including the NAACP and Immigrant Rights Advocacy do receive university funding. The lawsuit against the University was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group, on behalf of Young Americans for Liberty.</p>
<p><strong>Further News from the Campuses:</strong></p>
<p><b>False Threats Graduate to The Ivy League </b>[TheCollegeConservative.com]</p>
<p>This past Monday morning, students at Harvard University had more than just the stress of finals to deal with.</p>
<p>Harvard University Police were given an <a href="http://www.harvard.edu/emergency">unconfirmed tip that explosives</a> were placed in four academic buildings on campus.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecollegeconservative.com/2013/12/20/false-threats-graduate-to-the-ivy-league/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University of Colorado May Cut Hours on Student Jobs Due to New Obamacare Regs</b> [CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>Officials at the University of Colorado (CU) are scrambling to figure how new regulations stemming from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may negatively affect student employees, top administrators told <i>The Scribe</i> this month.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5310">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>California College Suspends Speech Restrictions Amidst Settlement Talks </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>FRESNO, Calif., Dec. 18, 2013—Modesto Junior College (MJC) has agreed to suspend enforcement of its “free speech zone” as it negotiates an end to a federal <a href="http://thefire.org/article/16327.html"><b>lawsuit</b></a> filed by a student prevented from handing out copies of the Constitution on campus on Constitution Day.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16588.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Black student Stages Fake Lynching of White People in Highly Offensive Art Stunt </b>[DailyCaller.com]</p>
<p>A black student at Sacramento State University staged a fake lynching of two white people as part of an art project exploring racism.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, students at the public university campus saw two white people hanging from a tree with nooses around their necks. They were actors who had been hired by Christina Edwards, an artist and senior at the college.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/18/black-student-stages-fake-lynching-of-white-people-in-highly-offensive-art-stunt/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Were Vassar Hoax Bias Perps Also Involved in a False Rape Prosecution? </b>[Daily Caller]</p>
<p>The two former Vassar College students who were expelled for creating hoax bias incidents and then filing false reports about them were also actively involved with the college’s Sexual Assault and Violence Prevention committee, which currently faces a lawsuit for prosecuting a wrongful rape conviction.<br />
<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/11/were-vassar-hoax-bias-perps-also-involved-in-a-false-rape-prosecution/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Speech Codes of the Year: 2013</b> [TheFire.org]</p>
<p>While all of 2013’s Speech Codes of the Month flagrantly violated students’ or faculty members’ right to free expression, two of them were so egregious that they deserve special mention as 2013’s Speech Codes of the Year.<br />
<a href="http://thefire.org/torch/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>ACLU: College Cancelled Concert Because Band Members were &#8216;Not Black Enough&#8217; </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>Administrators at Hampshire College (Hampshire) cancelled a Halloween concert last month because the lead singer of the band scheduled to perform was &#8220;not black enough,&#8221; the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged in a letter to the school&#8217;s president.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5291">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Notre Dame Renews Litigation Against HHS Mandate </b>[The Irish Rover]</p>
<p>On December 3, Notre Dame announced that it has refiled its lawsuit to seek judicial protection relief from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) insurance mandate that would require Notre Dame to provide, either through its insurance plans or a third party administrator, various drugs and products which the government describes as “contraceptive,” but which include abortifacients (such as Ella and the IUD).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.irishrover.net/?p=4573">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University of Michigan Student Group Files Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Funding Decisions </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>Last Friday, a student group at the University of Michigan (UM) filed a <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/files/YALcomplaint.pdf">federal lawsuit</a> (PDF) against the university, claiming that UM violated the First Amendment when it refused to grant the group student fee funding for one of its activities on the basis that it was a “political activity.” The suit is being brought by Alliance Defending Freedom.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16603.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Kenyon College Withdraws from ASA, Citing Call to Boycott Israel </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Kenyon College is <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15732/">the latest institution</a> to reject the American Studies Association’s call for an academic boycott of Israel. But Kenyon has taken its response a step further and is actually withdrawing from the ASA.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15741/">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Enforced Diversity in New York Fire Department Leads to Disastrous Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first court-ordered class of FDNY trainees — the oldest and most diverse — is flaming out.]]></description>
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<p>Liberalism works as well as Communism. Not that it will stop the coming of De Blasio <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/10/13/fdnys-court-mandated-class-flaming-out/">and the repetition of these same experiment</a>s <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/10/26/fdny-academys-diversity-sparked-high-dropout-rate/">with the same disastrous results</a>.</p>
<p>Because the left never learns.</p>
<blockquote><p>The first court-ordered class of FDNY trainees — the oldest and most diverse in history — is flaming out.</p>
<p>Halfway through the 18-week Fire Academy course, the dropout rate has hit a sky-high 15 percent and could climb to a third of the 318 who started on July 29, according to insiders.</p>
<p>So far, 48 have dropped out. They include 23 of 123 court-ordered “priority hires,” mainly blacks and Latinos in their 30s and early 40s who took the FDNY entrance exam in 1999 or 2000 but were passed over.</p>
<p>Four of eight women have also bailed. The eight were hailed as the most in an academy class since 1982, when a lawsuit forced the FDNY to bring on the first female firefighters.</p>
<p>In addition, an alarming number of “probies” have been injured — suffering sprains, fractures and other ailments — and put on medical leave, insiders say. Others teeter on the cusp of flunking out because they can’t handle the physical or academic demands.</p>
<p>An FDNY insider called the 15 percent attrition at the halfway point “huge, an amazing difference from a normal probie class.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Shockingly enough, the kind of men who could climb to the top of the World Trade Center while it was burning in full gear are an elite. You can&#8217;t make them happen just because a liberal judge gives an order.</p>
<p>The capper to the insanity wasn&#8217;t just the diversity, it was bringing in failed examinees from 1999, 14 years ago. But Clinton judge, Nicholas Garaufis, a guy who probably hasn&#8217;t exercised since 1999, decided he knew better. So he issued an order.</p>
<p>But of course the real fault lies with all the racism. It&#8217;s racism that&#8217;s causing the drop outs.</p>
<blockquote><p>Vulcan Society president John Coombs questioned the FDNY’s commitment to helping minorities succeed.</p>
<p>“Some of those instructors are out to break them,” Coombs said. “It’s psychological warfare.”</p>
<p>He said physical demands, such as running a mile and a half in 12 minutes, are too strictly enforced. “We’ve never had so many injuries at the academy,” he said. “Are they overtraining the candidates?”</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Overtraining&#8221; is the new racism. Unqualified candidates got rammed through and they turn out to be unqualified. But if they&#8217;re getting injured, it&#8217;s the fault of&#8230; racism.</p>
<p>So the FDNY is predictably coddling them.</p>
<blockquote><p>The FDNY also launched a program to prevent these new probies from failing, assigning lieutenants to each mentor trainees, giving them pep talks and tips on getting through the course.</p>
<p>Rank-and-file members call it coddling. “Do we have to wipe their noses too?” a veteran grumbled.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Islamic History Month Comes to Manitoba, Canada</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janice Fiamengo]]></dc:creator>
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<p>A few weeks ago, in an extraordinary act of dhimmitude, Manitoba became the first Canadian province to proclaim October as Islamic History Month, a month designed to recognize the province’s “<a href="http://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=19253">flourishing</a> Muslim community.” Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Christine Melnick <a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Manitoba-proclaims-October-as-Islamic-History-Month-228100031.html">gushed</a> that “In Manitoba we value and cherish our ethnic diversity, to which the Muslim community contributes so richly.”</p>
<p>Also present at the announcement was Shahina Siddiqui, the chairwoman of <a href="http://www.islamichistorymonth.com/ihmc2010/">Islamic History Month Canada</a> (IHMC), founded in 2007 by the notorious Canadian Islamic Congress, whose former President Mohamed <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=12573ab0-13ce-48c4-9e8e-5765b1a654d9">Elmasry</a> once refused to retract on public television his <a href="http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/transcript.htm">statement</a> that all Israelis over age 18 were legitimate targets for terrorist attacks, and who wasted hundreds of thousands of public dollars pursuing a human rights complaint against <i>Maclean</i>’s magazine for publishing articles critical of Islam. None of that aggressive Islamic supremacism was evident in the feel-good tropes trotted out by Siddiqui, who stated in the news release that she and her community “are pleased to celebrate, inform, educate, and share with fellow Canadians the Muslim cultural heritage” in order to build “a more inclusive, compassionate, and multicultural Canada.”</p>
<p>Anyone who has been paying attention to the news over the past few years may well question whether Muslim presence tends to contribute to “compassion” and “inclusivity.” Tell that to the <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3318/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">Christians being massacred</a> in Muslim lands across the Middle East or to the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/davidhornik/the-bleak-prospects-for-europes-jews/">European Jews</a> who find themselves, yet again, the target of slurs, vandalism, beatings, and murder because they are unfortunate enough to be living in areas with concentrations of Muslim immigrants. Islam just doesn’t seem to be a religion that produces a lot of compassion.</p>
<p>For those with negative perceptions of Islam, the Manitoba announcement will, if not lay our fears to rest, certainly indicate decisively that Manitoba has now ruled them out of bounds. The Manitoba provincial <a href="http://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=19253">website</a> proclaims that Islamic History Month is intended to “recognize and celebrate the history and heritage of Muslims.”</p>
<p>One might be forgiven for not realizing that Muslims have made a significant enough contribution to Manitoba to deserve an entire month of celebration. Manitoba’s Muslims number around 9,000, less than 1% of Manitoba’s total population of just over 1.2 million people.</p>
<p>Like most parts of Canada, Manitoba has a relatively multicultural demographic, with many diverse groups who have made substantial contributions to the province’s history. Ukrainians, for example, first arrived in Manitoba in 1891 and constitute, according to the 2006 census, nearly 13% (167,175 people) of the present-day population. This Slavic group forms the backbone of modern Manitoba, having played a significant role in agricultural development as well as in the spheres of business, manufacturing, the trades and professions. As an <a href="http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/transactions/3/firstukrainians.shtml">item</a> on Manitoba history notes, “there are six members of Ukrainian origin sitting in the legislative assembly, one of whom is the speaker of the house, and [Ukrainian-Canadians] have been elected reeves, mayors, councillors, and aldermen in eighteen municipalities.”</p>
<p>Another distinct and vital part of the province are Manitoban Jews, who arrived even earlier than Ukrainians, in 1874. Although their numbers have never been large (they are now, at 16,500, only about 1.3% of the provincial population), and although anti-Semitism created many barriers during their first century in the province, Jews made enormous <a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/ourcityourworld/the-jews-of-manitoba-or-the-centre-of-its-own-diaspora-154385665.html">contributions</a> as farmers, laborers, storekeepers, lawyers, judges, political leaders, teachers, and philanthropists. Neither of these groups is publicly recognized with its own Manitoban month. The fact is that there aren’t enough months in the year to properly acknowledge all the peoples who have made Manitoba what it is, and such attempts at recognition are bound to create bad blood.</p>
<p>In the case of Manitoba’s 9,000 Muslims, it isn’t clear why they deserve special acknowledgement; the announcement does not get past bromides about diversity. A few years ago, a dozen Muslim families in Winnipeg made <a href="http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/02/05/muslim-families-in-winnipeg-want-children-excused-from-certain-classes/">national headlines</a> for demanding that their children be excused from participating in two mandatory primary-level school programs: music (not part of their culture, they claimed) and physical co-education (not morally acceptable). The same Chair of IHMC, Shahina Siddiqui, then executive director of Islamic Social Services in Winnipeg, was quick to point out in interview that these are a minority of Manitoba’s Muslims. Some Muslims do have a problem with co-education at the higher school levels, she confirmed, and accommodation has been made for them. But there should be no problem with co-education “under the age of puberty.”</p>
<p>Come again? Why should accommodation be made at any time?</p>
<p>And here we get to the heart of the matter: the demand that Muslim cultural traditions and doctrines—even those that run directly counter to Canadian values such as gender equality—take precedence over Canadian laws. Rather than accepting and seeking to become a part of the society to which they have chosen to immigrate, Muslims such as these demand special accommodations and rights—for halal food, single-sex swimming times, special worship spaces, and so on.</p>
<p>And now their own month too.</p>
<p>Hovering behind the Immigration Minister’s embrace of Islamic History Month, of course, is the Muslim claim to special victim status. In an <a href="http://www.torontomuslims.com/NewsInfo/Articles/tabid/97/Article/137/let-me-tell-you-a-story-how-islamic-history-month-canada-came-to-be-and-what-it.aspx">article</a> entitled “How Islamic History Month Canada Came to Be and What It Means to You,” the President of the Canadian Islamic Congress, Wahida Valiante, complained in her first sentence that “Over the past decade, Muslims in Western societies have been pushed into the harsh spotlight of negative discourse. This trend has been particularly evident in academia, among mainstream media, and in prevailing political rhetoric; but has not escaped other segments of Canadian society, including the general public.”</p>
<p>Even if this assertion of negative coverage were true, <i>which it most definitively is not</i>, its sleight of hand is astounding—as if some dastardly external agent has brought Muslims unfairly into the spotlight. There is no hint that the repeated, horrific acts of violence committed by Muslims in the name of Islam might have played some role in tarnishing the Islamic brand. In fact, it is the very silence of large segments of the mainstream media about Muslim violence that allows Valiante to make such ridiculous claims, not only that her people have received unjustified negative press but also that special compensation is now necessary to make amends for Islam’s bloody image.</p>
<p>What will Islamic History Month have to say about the Muslim heritage of child-rape, polygamy, honor killing, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, wife abuse, and anti-Semitism that Muslims seem to bring with them wherever their numbers reach sufficient levels (see Raymond Ibrahim’s analysis of the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islams-rule-of-numbers-and-the-london-beheading/">Rule of Numbers</a>). These matters, presumably, will not figure at all.</p>
<p>In fact, if dealt with honestly, it might take an entire month to highlight Muslim atrocities on the world stage—they are so numerous and so bloody. Perhaps Muslim immigrants worldwide could aim for one month in which they left their non-Muslim neighbors in peace? And maybe on even one day of that month, they might practice a little healthy self-criticism, asking themselves why Muslims so frequently commit violence in the name of their religion, perhaps even for that one day extend apologies to the host cultures that have taken them in, supported them financially, given them shelter and educational opportunities, and provided refuge from the dysfunctional and violent places they have left.</p>
<p>That’s probably too much to ask.</p>
<p>One can’t blame Muslims in Manitoba or elsewhere for pushing for an Islamic History Month: who doesn’t want one’s culture and religion officially sanctioned, even if the praise comes long before it can, by any reasonable measure, have been earned?</p>
<p>But what do non-Muslims get out of Islamic History Month? Do the members of Manitoba’s provincial legislature really believe Muslim contributions to the province so outstanding? I doubt most could name one not spoon-fed them by Ms. Siddiqui’s organization. Many provincial politicians probably believe they are doing a great thing in affirming Muslim culture, thus showcasing their own credentials as fighters against Islamophobia, that Muslim Brotherhood-manufactured thought crime applied to anyone who recoils at the record of the religion of peace.</p>
<p>And for any amongst the Manitoba ruling elite who might secretly feel uneasy about this record, Islamic History Month is surely a self-protective gesture, a special tribute by non-Muslims in the hope that they may be spared the Muslim “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/muslim-days-of-rage/">days of rage</a>” that are fast destroying many European cities. Will it work? Ask the Christians in Egypt, in Syria, in Gaza, in Pakistan, in Iraq—tiny oppressed minorities who constitute no numerical or political threat to the Islamic dominance of their societies. No mercy has been extended to them. Why should Islamic History Month guarantee inter-ethnic harmony? One thing is for sure: other Canadian provincial assemblies will be receiving visits from delegations eager to see Islamic History Month declared in their provinces too.</p>
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		<title>Unintended Consequences</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 04:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can politicians really "fix" community diversity? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/eric-holder-hated-by-gop-4x3.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203263" alt="eric-holder-hated-by-gop-4x3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/eric-holder-hated-by-gop-4x3.gif" width="262" height="204" /></a>One of the many unintended consequences of the political crusade for increased homeownership among minorities, and low-income people in general, has been a housing boom and bust that left many foreclosed homes that had to be rented, because there were no longer enough qualified buyers.</p>
<p>The repercussions did not stop there. Many homeowners have discovered that when renters replace homeowners as their neighbors, the neighborhood as a whole can suffer.</p>
<p>The physical upkeep of the neighborhood, on which everyone&#8217;s home values depend, tends to decline. &#8220;Who&#8217;s going to paint the outside of a rented house?&#8221; one resident was quoted as saying in a recent New York Times story.</p>
<p>Renters also tend to be of a lower socioeconomic level than homeowners. They are also less likely to join neighborhood groups, including neighborhood watches to keep an eye out for crime. In some cases, renters have introduced unsavory or illegal activities into family-oriented communities of homeowners that had not had such activities before.</p>
<p>None of this should be surprising. Individuals and groups of all sorts have always differed from one another in many ways, throughout centuries of history and in countries around the world. Left to themselves, people tend to sort themselves out into communities of like-minded neighbors.</p>
<p>This has been so obvious that only the intelligentsia could misconstrue it — and only ideologues could devote themselves to crusading against people&#8217;s efforts to live and associate with other people who share their values and habits.</p>
<p>Quite aside from the question of whose values and habits may be better is the question of the effects of people living cheek by jowl with other people who put very different values on noise, politeness, education and other things that make for good or bad relations between neighbors. People with children to protect are especially concerned about who lives next door or down the street.</p>
<p>But such mundane matters often get brushed aside by ideological crusaders out to change the world to fit their own vision.</p>
<p>When the world fails to conform to their vision, then it seems obvious to the ideologues that it is the world that is wrong, not that their vision is uninformed or unrealistic.</p>
<p>One of the political consequences of such attitudes is the current crusade of Attorney General Eric Holder to force various communities to become more &#8220;inclusive&#8221; in terms of which races and classes of people they contain.</p>
<p>Undaunted by a long history of disasters when third parties try to mix and match people, or prescribe what kind of housing is best, they act as if this time it has to work.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter how many government housing projects that began with lofty rhetoric and heady visions have ended with these expensive projects being demolished with explosives, in the wake of social catastrophes that made these places unlivable.</p>
<p>To those with the crusading mentality, failure only means that they should try, try again — at other people&#8217;s expense, including not only the taxpayers but also those who lives have been disrupted, or even made miserable and dangerous, by previous bright ideas of third parties who pay no price for being wrong.</p>
<p>This headstrong dogmatism and grab for power is not confined to housing. Attorney General Holder is also taking legal action against the state of Louisiana for having so many charter schools, on grounds that these schools do not mix and match the races the way that public schools are supposed to.</p>
<p>The fact that those charter schools which are successful in educating low-income and minority students that the public schools fail to educate are giving these youngsters a shot at a decent life that they are not likely to get elsewhere does not deter the ideological crusaders.</p>
<p>Nor does it deter the politicians who are serving the interests of the teachers&#8217; unions, who see public schools as places to provide jobs for their members, even if that means a poor education and poor prospects in life for generations of minority students.</p>
<p>All this ideological self-indulgence and cynical political activity is washed down with lofty rhetoric about &#8220;compassion,&#8221; &#8220;inclusion&#8221; and the like.</p>
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		<title>How Multiculturalism Transformed My College</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Gottfried]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A case study in the destruction of American higher education. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Students-on-Campus-6.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-200148" alt="Students on Campus 6" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Students-on-Campus-6-450x330.jpg" width="270" height="198" /></a>Reprinted from the <a href="http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2885">John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The historian Polybius famously observed that empires deteriorate either internally or from without.  In some cases, however, they fall apart in both ways. This latter situation applies to American higher education, which has succumbed to numerous corrupting influences all at the same time.</p>
<p>To make my point, I’ll discuss the transformation that befell the college where I was employed between 1989 and 2011. Elizabethtown College, located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was for most of its history a sleepy Anabaptist college, affiliated with the Church of the Brethren. When the college offered me a position as a full professor, I accepted, welcoming the opportunity to live in a charming setting and to teach at a socially traditional college.</p>
<p>I also imagined that I would be able to converse with a scholarly community, but my teaching experience at Elizabethtown, with a few notable exceptions, was far from stimulating. Most of the students didn’t seem eager to learn and when given the chance, were happy to disparage me and other equally demanding professors on the compulsory “evals.” Worse than the hostility of the disengaged students was the reaction of antiwar faculty colleagues who disliked my philosophy, despite my own reservations about a militantly interventionist foreign policy. Attempts at civil debate with them proved futile.</p>
<p>A new administration took over in 1996. It was headed by<strong> </strong>a sociologist of religion with Lutheran theological training. He pushed the college in an unmistakably ideological direction from which it would never turn back.</p>
<p>The new president enjoyed going to conferences with other college presidents and schmoozing with the Middle States accreditation agency that the college uses to validate its degrees.  Each time he attended such meetings, he would come back with a new diversity program to implement, or he would decide to increase the responsibilities of the college’s diversity dean in fighting for “tolerance.”</p>
<p>This typically took the form of being more “welcoming” to our modest number of non-Christian, non-white students. For awhile, any mention of Christmas by the faculty and staff was frowned on; and even a “Yule Bowl” celebration was awkwardly renamed Holiday Bowl at the last moment, in case a non-Christian student might take offense at a gathering associated with a Christian holiday.</p>
<p>My wife, who was a bookstore employee, brought up certain facts in a letter to the college newspaper: Yule festivals were a pre-Christian Germanic thing and it was ridiculous for a Protestant college to try to obliterate its specifically Christian roots.</p>
<p>My black student assistant (one of the few non-whites on campus) found it strange that the entire school was celebrating Kwanzaa as a “black religious festival,” when his Baptist family in New Jersey cared only about Christmas. I explained to him that his parents were not politically correct blacks, unlike the white administration at the college.</p>
<p>From my conversations with the president, I found nothing to suggest that he believed any of the multicultural doctrines he so energetically pushed. He was just taking his lead from the presidents of other colleges, and undoubtedly trying to make the increasingly leftist faculty like him.</p>
<p>And the faculty seemed delighted with his initiatives. When the administration came forth with an extensive program to integrate multiculturalism into the curriculum, there was enthusiastic faculty approval.</p>
<p>The multicultural pedagogy would furnish the principles for the orientation of new students, inspire the list of guest speakers who would be invited to campus to edify us, and justify the stress on diversity and social justice that went into the college’s new mission statement.  Even without injecting the righteous odor of PC into every core course, the entire college would emit its fragrance.</p>
<p>In its effort to get the faculty to vote to make diversity the overriding goal of the institution, the administration, aided by the social work and religion faculties, relied upon the supposed need to fight “hate crime.”<strong>  </strong>We were confronted by events that never occurred, but which were said to throw a pall over the college. The administration spoke as if there were torrential outbursts of hate against Hindu, Muslim and Jewish students, based solely on the assertion by one Catholic faculty member who had converted to Hinduism that some students looked at him in a “bigoted way.” (Those looks were better explained by the fact that he wore a pony tail.)</p>
<p>And though the president proposed a solution (recruiting more minorities from inner cities) that had nothing to do with the alleged offenses, that didn’t matter. One after the other, faculty members stood up to proclaim, “It’s time we make a statement.”</p>
<p>To make matters worse, there was a low endowment at Elizabethtown, and the tuition-driven college became heavily dependent on certain cash cows. These were primary education, communications, and social work, which all served as vehicles of leftist indoctrination.</p>
<p>The students and faculty who were associated with those majors hardly distinguished between leftwing activism and traditional college study. They were expected to assume certain political attitudes and to act on the basis of them as part of their college education. Students in certain majors were expected to hear all of the politically correct speakers (such as education radical Jonathan Kozol) who were brought to campus and to write papers on what they learned from the speeches.</p>
<p>Even staying in the dorms required getting along with a dean of students, who imposed her political values on recalcitrant residents. Students of mine were dressed down by this dean and the provost for not being sufficiently sensitive to uncorroborated “hate crimes.” In more than one case, honor students (from the political science department) were threatened with expulsion for disputing the diversity dogma that had been proclaimed for the “college community.”</p>
<p>Note that there was an aspect of the college’s Brethren heritage that worked against maintaining college standards. The school claims to “be educating for service,” and one frequently heard students emphasize the joys of being “hands on.” In primary education, one could be “hands on” by joining the National Education Association and by demonstrating with its members. One had an especially good opportunity to be “hands on” by attending the speech by black communist activist Angela Davis last fall, which was sponsored by the college.</p>
<p>Equally significant were the multiple “hires” that took place during this time. Most of the younger people who came on board have better credentials than the older generation of faculty. Unfortunately, they are not much interested in serious scholarship, but delight in complaining about any hints of sexism and racism they claim to have spotted on campus. The primary effect of the younger faculty has been to radicalize the institution beyond recognition.</p>
<p>Elizabethtown’s pitiable transformation corresponds to a widespread degradation of learning. What bothers me about such glib generalizing, however, is the unwillingness of those of my generation to acknowledge that what they are deploring <em>happened on their watch.</em></p>
<p>This process of change took place in different places and varied contexts, and so when I hear from those who lament what has befallen our college that “it’s really the same all over” I get intensely annoyed. I have no doubt that at Elizabethtown something could have been done to make things less crazy if fewer professors had hidden their heads in the sand. There was rarely a vote on any issue that radicalized the school in which the “nays” could not have won or at least held their own. The critics were just too cowardly or self-centered to let their opposition be known at the appropriate time.</p>
<p>Although this passage from Burke may now be overworked, it seems particularly apt looking back at my college experience: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”</p>
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		<title>What Happens When Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Mandatory National Diversity&#8221; Hits Alaska?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Alaska going to have to start recruiting black people from Florida? ]]></description>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/uncle-barack-to-punish-white-neighborhoods-for-lack-of-minority-families-video/">latest Big Brothersque announcement f</a>rom Obama Inc. is that national housing policy is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/23/team-obama-steps-up-racial-standards-for-neighborhoods/#ixzz2ZtOIwiQO">about to be retooled around mandatory diversity</a>. What this will mean is that state housing agencies will have their grants dependent on forcing mandatory diversity on developments, likely through some quota system, even if those developments don&#8217;t require federal funding.</p>
<blockquote><p>The federal government is getting serious about pushing racial and ethnic diversity into America’s neighborhoods&#8211;and is using big data and big money to achieve its aims.</p>
<p>A new interactive database will help regulators, local housing officials and individuals take action on a newly proposed regulation that would require agencies to “affirmatively further” the inclusion of minority residents in white neighborhoods.</p>
<p>The problem now, Donovan said, is that prospective minority buyers are not being encouraged to move into predominantly white neighborhoods with top-notch schools, government services and amenities like grocery stories, etc.</p>
<p>The old way was to punish exclusion. The new way is to punish lack of inclusion.</p></blockquote>
<p>The new way isn&#8217;t so new. Areas have already been punished for a lack of diversity. This just means the creepy policy is going nationwide in a big way.</p>
<blockquote><p>The punishment is also different. Rather than fines and prosecutions for those who sought to keep minorities out, the new penalty would be a withholding of federal funds from local and state government agencies dependent on HUD grants if they fail to push greater diversity. The way those agencies interact with developers, realtors, homeowners associations and others would need to reflect the federal push for diversity.</p>
<p>Check out the Atlanta suburbs. South of Dekalb Avenue, the dots are mostly green – black residents – and north of Dekalb Avenue, the dots are mostly blue – white residents.</p>
<p>HUD wants a more even distribution of blue and green dots in the city and if you are planning a new subdivision or a realtor looking to sign potential buyers up for FHA loans, the dot distribution is something the Obama administration wants you to be mindful of. And your local zoning board, county commission or state real estate licensing bureau ought to be mindful too, since their funding could depend on it.</p>
<p>As for what happens if you live in a place like Brooke County, W.Va. where every dot is blue? Would the local housing authority have to recruit non-blue dots to the county in order to not risk federal funds?  What if no holders of green dots want to come to live on Apple Pie Ridge Rd.?</p></blockquote>
<p>Then it will have to offer better incentives to Democratic voters to enhance the &#8220;diversity&#8221; of the place. The setup is one way to destroy the suburbs, as <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/312807/burn-down-suburbs-stanley-kurtz">Stanley Kurtz has been writing about for a while. </a></p>
<p>That may help keep residents from fleeing to another neighborhood, but can it keep them from moving to another state?</p>
<p>The penalties and intimidation become ridiculous when dealing with states like Alaska or North Dakota. It&#8217;s going to get rather hard to spread 20,000 black people across all of Alaska for maximum diversity.  Or the 6,000 black people of North Dakota.</p>
<p>Is Alaska going to have to start recruiting black people from Florida with incentives? I imagine Obama Inc. would love that scenario.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Williams]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explaining the Left's penchant for racism and tyranny.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/affirmative-action-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-193713" alt="affirmative-action-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/affirmative-action-1-450x337.jpg" width="288" height="216" /></a>Grutter v. Bollinger was the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the University of Michigan Law School&#8217;s racial admissions policy. Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor, writing for the majority, said the U.S. Constitution &#8220;does not prohibit the Law School&#8217;s narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body.&#8221; But what are the educational benefits of a diverse student body?</p>
<p>Intellectuals argue that diversity is necessary for academic excellence, but what&#8217;s the evidence? For example, Japan is a nation bereft of diversity in any activity. Close to 99 percent of its population is of one race. Whose students do you think have higher academic achievement — theirs or ours? According to the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, the academic performance of U.S. high-school students in reading, math and science pales in comparison with their diversity-starved counterparts in Japan.</p>
<p>Should companies be treated equally? According to a Wall Street Journal op-ed (9/7/2009) by Manhattan Institute&#8217;s energy expert Robert Bryce, Exxon Mobil pleaded guilty in federal court to killing 85 birds that had come into contact with its pollutants. The company paid $600,000 in fines and fees. A recent Associated Press story (5/14/2013) reported that &#8220;more than 573,000 birds are killed by the country&#8217;s wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the peer-reviewed Wildlife Society Bulletin.&#8221; The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted windmill farms, sometimes called bird Cuisinarts, for killing eagles and other protected bird species. In fact, AP reports that the Obama administration has shielded the industry from liability and has helped keep the scope of the deaths secret. It&#8217;s interesting that The Associated Press chose to report the story only after the news about its reporters being secretly investigated. That caused the Obama administration to fall a bit out of favor with them.</p>
<p>But what the heck, the 14th Amendment&#8217;s requirement of &#8220;equal protection&#8221; before the law for everybody can be cast aside in the name of diversity, so why can&#8217;t it be cast aside in the name of saving the planet? There are politically favored industries just as there are politically favored groups.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the difference between a progressive, a liberal and a racist? In some cases, not much. President Woodrow Wilson was a leading progressive who believed in notions of racial superiority and inferiority. He was so enthralled with D.W. Griffith&#8217;s &#8220;Birth of a Nation&#8221; movie, glorifying the Ku Klux Klan, that he invited various dignitaries to the White House to view it with him. During one private screening, President Wilson exclaimed: &#8220;It&#8217;s like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.&#8221; When President Wilson introduced racial segregation to the civil service, the NAACP and the National Independent Political League protested. Wilson vigorously defended it, arguing that segregation was in the interest of Negroes.</p>
<p>Dr. Thomas Sowell, in &#8220;Intellectuals and Race,&#8221; documents other progressives who were advocates of theories of racial inferiority. They included former presidents of Stanford University and MIT, among others. Eventually, the views of progressives fell out of favor. They changed their name to liberals, but in the latter part of the 20th century, the name liberals fell into disrepute. Now they are back to calling themselves progressives.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not arguing that today&#8217;s progressives are racists like their predecessors, but they share a contempt for liberty, just as President Wilson did. According to Hillsdale College history professor Paul A. Rahe — author of &#8220;Soft Despotism, Democracy&#8217;s Drift&#8221; — in his National Review Online (4/11/13) article &#8220;Progressive Racism,&#8221; Wilson wanted to persuade his compatriots to get &#8220;beyond the Declaration of Independence.&#8221; President Wilson said the document &#8220;did not mention the questions&#8221; of his day, adding, &#8220;It is of no consequence to us.&#8221; My question is: Why haven&#8217;t today&#8217;s progressives disavowed their racist predecessors?</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/young-voters-poll-0614-art.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190464" alt="young-voters-poll-0614-art" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/young-voters-poll-0614-art.jpg" width="256" height="182" /></a>Getting an early start on primary season, Rand Paul stopped by New Hampshire and, <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/rand-paul-diversity-IRS/2013/05/21/id/505631?promo_code=F470-1&amp;utm_source=Fox_Politics&amp;utm_medium=nmwidget&amp;utm_campaign=widgetphase2">according to an article</a>, &#8220;urged New Hampshire Republicans to become more diversified.&#8221;</p>
<p>New Hampshire is 94.6% white, 2.9% Latino and 1.3% Black. I don&#8217;t know the exact diversity statistics for New Hampshire Republicans, but if they get a half-black and half-Latino guy in a wheelchair to run for something, they will have covered all the statistical bases.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to grow bigger,&#8221; Rand Paul said. &#8220;If you want to be the party of white people, we&#8217;re winning all the white votes. We&#8217;re a diverse nation. We&#8217;re going to win when we look like America.&#8221;</p>
<p>Looking like America is common advice these days. What does America look like? For now it still looks more like New Hampshire than like California. And despite that, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/09/new-hampshires-democratic-wave-explained/">Democrats scored some big wins in New Hampshire</a> in the last election.</p>
<p>Obama won New Hampshire 52 to 46 and it probably wasn&#8217;t the black vote that put him over the top. He picked up over 100,000 votes in Hillsborough County, which is 90 percent white. Clearly Republicans aren&#8217;t winning all the white votes in New Hampshire. Or in Kentucky.</p>
<p>Rand Paul&#8217;s Kentucky looks a lot like New Hampshire. It&#8217;s 88.9% white. In his 2010 Senate election, Paul won 59% of the white vote and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/election2010/exit.shtml?state=KY&amp;jurisdiction=0&amp;race=S">his opponent won 86%</a> of the black vote. Two years later, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-exit-poll/US/President">Romney won 59% of the white vote</a> and his opponent won 93% of the black vote. Both men scored the exact same percentage of the white vote.</p>
<p>Some might try to find a silver lining in that Rand Paul won 13 percent of the black vote, but he wasn&#8217;t running against a black candidate. In 2004, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5297164/">Bush won 12 percent</a> of the Kentucky black vote. Nearly the same amount as Rand Paul. More importantly, he won 64 percent of the white vote and 58 percent of the female vote to Rand Paul&#8217;s 51 percent. The female vote is far more important than picking up minority votes in New Hampshire or Kentucky.</p>
<p>Romney did not lose because he lost the Latino vote. That&#8217;s a myth which has been discredited, but is still being used to push for an illegal alien amnesty. Instead of trying to be diverse for the sake of diversity, the GOP might try doing what the other side did, increasing the turnout for its base by actually appealing to them.</p>
<p>The Republican National Convention in 2012 was a study in diversity. It was possibly even more diverse than the Democratic National Convention. It also didn&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>Diversity is familiar enough to be met with casual contempt. Every company trots out stock photos overflowing with stock minorities so that they can look like America or some part of America. It impresses absolutely no one. &#8220;Looking like America&#8221; is slang for racial tokenism which is both patronizing and insulting.</p>
<p>Common skin color alone does not win elections. If it did, the Republican Party could just push out countless white Democrats in precarious districts by running black candidates against them. The idea that skin color alone is representation is still the law and its emotional resonance is sometimes undeniable, but emotional identification is also based on more than just race. And representation cannot be reduced to racial diversity as a winning strategy.</p>
<p>The Republican Party has two Latino senators and one Black senator. That tops the Democratic Party in the &#8220;Looking like California&#8221; metrics but doesn&#8217;t move the political numbers forward.</p>
<p>“We need to have black people, brown people, white people, we need to have people with tattoos, without tattoos, with long hair, with short hair, with beards, without beards,” Rand Paul  said. “We need to look more like America. We need to appeal to the working class; we need to appeal to all segments of the country.”</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s assume that the Republican Party gets people with hair of all sizes, what then? Talking about appealing to the working class is nice, but Rand Paul lost the under $30,000 vote. He tied for the $30,000 to $49,000 vote. He<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/election2010/exit.shtml?state=KY&amp;jurisdiction=0&amp;race=S"> only broke out with</a> the above $50,000 voters. That was the same thing that happened to Romney. And unlike Romney, race couldn&#8217;t be blamed for those results. Not when <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5297164/">Bush decisively won those same voters</a> in Kentucky in 2004.</p>
<p>In 2004, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html">Bush tied Kerry</a> among the $30,000 to $49,000 voters. In 2012, Romney lost them by 8 percent. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008-exit-poll">McCain had lost them</a> by 7 percent in 2008. Grafton County, the site of Obama&#8217;s biggest margin of victory in New Hampshire, is 95% white and its median household income is $41,962. That&#8217;s well below the median household income in the country, but that only hovers a little above $50,000.</p>
<p>In 2000, Bush nearly tied Kerry in Grafton County. In 2008, Obama won it by 63 percent. Instead of looking to see why Republicans can&#8217;t win the Latino vote, it might be a good idea to see why Republicans have begun losing Grafton County; which looks a whole lot like America.</p>
<p>Amnesty for illegal aliens will hit low-income voters hardest. It will punish the very voters that Republicans need in order to win and build up demographics of voters who are not going to vote Republican anyway.</p>
<p>Republicans would be foolish to give up on minority voters, but even more foolish to give up on low-income white voters. <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2011/07/22/gop-makes-big-gains-among-white-voters/">In 2011, Republicans</a> had pulled ahead among $30,000 voters, going from 37 to 47 percent since the 2008 election. The real question worth asking about the 2012 election is what happened to those numbers?</p>
<p>The Republican Party does not need to &#8220;look like America.&#8221; It needs to actually look at America. And if it can do that, if it can find common ground with low-income voters, then it will find that it has increased its share among minority voters as well. It worked for Reagan. It might just work in 2016.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>No 1984 to see here. This is the &#8220;new era of civil rights&#8221;. It&#8217;s a wonderful phenomenon best illustrated <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/jw-releases-confidential-usda-videos-revealing-cultural-sensitivity-training-program/">by this new cultural sensitivity training </a>program at the USDA which has become a huge wealth redistribution operation.</p>
<blockquote><p>Judicial Watch today released previously unseen USDA videos revealing a compulsory “Cultural Sensitivity Training” program requiring USDA employees to bang on tables, chanting in unison “The pilgrims were illegal aliens” while being instructed to no longer use the word “minorities,” but to replace it with “emerging majorities.</p>
<p>The sensitivity training sessions, described as “a huge expense” by diversity awareness trainer and self-described “citizen of the world” Samuel Betances, were held on USDA premises. The diversity event is apparently part of what USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack described in a memo sent to all agency employees as a “new era of Civil Rights” and “a broader effort towards cultural transformation at USDA.”  In 2011 and 2012, the USDA paid Betances and his firm nearly $200,000 for their part in the “cultural transformation” program.</p></blockquote>
<p>Who exactly is Samuel Betances?</p>
<p>His bio mentions that he&#8217;s been everywhere and done everything, but fails to give specifics as to his background. He operates out of Chicago, which probably tells us all we need to know.</p>
<p>Betances is apparently a Puerto Rican from Harlem and who was a Sociology professor at Northeastern Illinois University. He&#8217;s backing away from those specific credentials to describe himself as a multiracial citizen of the world. Because you can never be too diverse.</p>
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		<title>Seven Reasons Why Women-in-Combat Diversity Will Degrade Tough Training Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/center-for-military-readiness/seven-reasons-why-women-in-combat-diversity-will-degrade-tough-training-standards/women_armor_group/" rel="attachment wp-att-176063"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-176063" title="women_armor_group" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/women_armor_group.jpg" alt="" width="299" height="237" /></a></em><em>Reprinted with permission from the <a href="http://www.cmrlink.org/content/home/36488/seven_reasons_why_women_in_combat_diversity_will_degrade_tough_training_standards">Center for Military Readiness</a>.</em></p>
<p><em>To read David Horowitz&#8217;s article, &#8220;The Feminist Assault on the Military,&#8221; <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/the-feminist-assault-on-the-military/">click here</a>.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Gen. Dempsey Says He Will Question Standards That Are &#8220;Too High&#8221; </em></strong></p>
<p>The Department of Defense is protesting (too much) that when military women are allowed (actually, ordered) into direct ground combat battalions, they will be held to the same standards men must meet today.  This claim is not compatible with another major social goal of the Defense Department, what former Joint Chiefs Chairman <strong>Adm. Mike Mullen</strong> used to call <a href="http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=24463"><strong>&#8220;diversity as a strategic imperative.&#8221;</strong></a></p>
<p>There are seven major reasons why the <strong>Obama Administration</strong>, including compliant members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are being less than candid about the consequences of policies that lame-duck Defense Secretary <strong>Leon Panetta</strong> ordered on January 24.</p>
<p><strong>1.<em>  Pentagon Feminists Will Not Accept Men&#8217;s High Standards</em></strong></p>
<p>The tipoff came during the January 24 Pentagon news conference conducted by Panetta and<strong> Army</strong> <strong>Gen. Martin Dempsey, </strong>Chairman of<strong> </strong>the<strong> </strong>Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Gen. Dempsey said that if <em>&#8220;a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn&#8217;t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain&#8230;why is it that high?  Does it really have to be that high?&#8221;  </em>Since the stated goal is &#8220;set women up for success,&#8221; the answer will be &#8220;No.&#8221;</p>
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<p>It does not matter what Pentagon officials and women-in-combat activists are promising now.  For the following reasons, incremental pressures to assign women to fighting infantry battalions eventually will drive qualification standards <em>down</em>.</p>
<p><strong>2<em>.  &#8220;Critical Mass&#8221; Means Many Women, not the Exceptional Few</em></strong></p>
<p>Speaking the language of social engineers, not combat veterans, Gen. Dempsey admitted the need to introduce a <strong>&#8220;critical mass&#8221;</strong> or <a href="http://cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/DempseyLetter.pdf">&#8220;significant cadre&#8221;</a> of women into previously-all-male units.  This phrase, usually interpreted to mean a cohort of <strong>10-15 percent</strong>, cannot be met with a few exceptional women who &#8220;only want a chance.&#8221;</p>
<p>To insert into direct ground combat units even <em>half</em> of the women needed to achieve a &#8220;critical mass,&#8221; commanders will have to incrementally modify the male-oriented program of instruction so that female personnel, including unwilling enlisted servicewomen will &#8220;succeed.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>3.<em>  Group Rights, Not Individual Rights</em></strong></p>
<p>High, uncompromised standards simply are not compatible with recommendations of the Pentagon&#8217;s own <a href="http://www.hsdl.org/?view&amp;did=11390"><strong>Military Leadership Diversity Commission (MLDC), </strong></a>a<strong> </strong>mostly-civilian commission set up by feminists in the Congress and the Pentagon.  In 2011, the MLDC called for elimination of women&#8217;s land combat exemptions in order to achieve non-remedial gender-based <strong>&#8220;diversity metrics&#8221; − </strong>read, <strong>&#8220;quotas.&#8221;</strong>  The Defense Department endorsed the MLDC&#8217;s egalitarian report at a Pentagon news conference on February 9, 2012.</p>
<p>The MLDC report admits that the new &#8220;diversity management&#8221; involves fair treatment, but <strong><em>&#8220;it is not</em> <em>about treating everyone the same.</em></strong><em>  This can be a difficult concept to grasp, especially for leaders who grew up with the EO-inspired mandate to be both color and gender blind.&#8221;</em> (p. 18)</p>
<p>This &#8220;new diversity&#8221; concept is a radical departure from the military&#8217;s honorable tradition of recognizing individual merit − the key to successful racial integration long before the civilian world.  The &#8220;new diversity&#8221; is not about individual rights; it&#8217;s about gender-based group rights that will result in discrimination against deserving, well-qualified men.</p>
<p><strong>4.  <em>Diversity Czar,</em> <em>Career Penalties Will Drive Standards Down</em></strong></p>
<p>The MLDC Report that the Department of Defense <a href="http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4974">endorsed last year </a>recommends that a &#8220;<strong>Chief Diversity Officer (CDO),&#8221;</strong> reporting directly to the Secretary of Defense, be established to monitor accountability for <strong>&#8220;diversity management.&#8221;</strong>  (MLDC Executive Summary, p. xvii)  The new <strong>Diversity Czar</strong> will establish a new feminist power base in the Pentagon that will make career promotions at all levels contingent on &#8220;diversity leadership.&#8221;  We know this because the Defense Department-endorsed Military Leadership Diversity Commission says so:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;To ensure that the diversity effort continues, demonstrated diversity leadership </em><strong><em>must be assessed throughout careers and made, in both DoD and the Senate, a criterion for nomination and confirmation to the 3- and 4-star ranks</em></strong><em>&#8230;.Successful implementation of diversity initiatives requires a deliberate strategy that ties the new diversity vision to desired outcomes via policies and metrics&#8230;.</em><strong><em>military leaders at all levels can be held accountable</em></strong><em> for their performance in diversity management and rewarded for their efforts.&#8221; </em>(MLDC Executive Summary, p. xviii, emphasis added)</p>
<p>Male field commanders and combat trainers will know that the opposite, of course, also will be true.  They will be rewarded for declaring &#8220;success&#8221; for the women-in-land-combat social experiment and penalized for not doing so.</p>
<p>There is no incentive for ensuring that elite training standards for fighting battalions remain high and uncompromised.  No one should expect field commanders to do what members of Congress so far have failed to do.</p>
<p><strong>5.  &#8220;Gender-Free&#8221; Training is Not the Same as &#8220;Gender-Fair&#8221; Training</strong></p>
<p>The same advocates who demand &#8220;equal opportunities&#8221; in combat are the first to demand <em>unequal</em>, gender-normed standards to make it &#8220;fair.&#8221;  <strong>General Robert W. Cone</strong>, who heads the Army&#8217;s <strong>Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) </strong>admitted this in <a href="http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=119105">an interview </a>with the Defense Department&#8217;s house-organ <strong>American Forces Press Service</strong>.</p>
<p>Said Gen. Cone, <em>&#8220;Soldiers &#8212; both men and women &#8212; want fair and meaningful standards to be developed for accepting women into previously restricted specialties.  I think that fairness is very important in a values-based organization like our Army.&#8221; </em></p>
<p><em>Really?  </em>Direct ground combat is not &#8220;fair&#8221; or &#8220;equal.&#8221;  It is not even civilized.  Will America&#8217;s potential enemies in <strong>Iran</strong>, <strong>North Korea</strong>, or <strong>North Africa</strong> treat our soldiers with &#8220;fairness?&#8221;  Most people believe that the purpose of the Army is to defend our nation&#8217;s interests by deterring war or fighting to defeat our enemies if deterrence fails.</p>
<p>Then the TRADOC leader&#8217;s statement rose to new heights of absurdity, reflecting group think that should alarm every member of Congress and pro-defense Americans:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;&#8216;Besides physical ability,&#8217;</em> Cone said, &#8216;Army officials will look at <strong>&#8220;traditional impediments&#8221;</strong> − the attitudes regarding the acceptance of women into previously male-only jobs&#8230;.The Army will take <strong>&#8216;proactive measures to mitigate resistance to women going into these specialties,&#8217;</strong>  the general said.  &#8216;We want the right environment for women,&#8217; he said.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to a January 24 memo issued by Army Chief of Staff <strong>Gen. Raymond Odierno</strong>, the <strong>TRADOC Analysis Center</strong> is leading a study that will examine the institutional and cultural barriers related to the process of gender-integration in previously all-male units, <em>&#8220;in order to develop strategies to overcome these barriers.&#8221;</em>  To advance the Pentagon&#8217;s &#8220;diversity&#8221; agenda, TRADOC&#8217;s analysis likely will target tough training standards, and men who support them, as &#8220;barriers&#8221; to progress in the <strong>New Gender Order.</strong></p>
<p>General Cone, who leads TRADOC, is the guy who is supposed to determine whether women can and should be assigned to infantry, armor, artillery, and Special Operations Forces like the ones who fought to the death on battlefields from <strong>Pointe du Hoc</strong> to <strong>Mogadishu</strong> to the liberation of <strong>Baghdad</strong> and <strong>Fallujah</strong>.  His statement assigning priority to gender integration indicates that he is likely to devalue and discriminate against direct ground combat soldiers like those who fought those battles, and who may be harboring attitudes that  might be construed as &#8220;resistance&#8221; to the &#8220;diversity&#8221; agenda.</p>
<p><strong>6.  <em>Unannounced Lowered Standards will Be &#8220;Equal&#8221; But Not the Same</em></strong></p>
<p>The mandate to achieve &#8220;diversity metrics&#8221; and a &#8220;critical mass&#8221; of women in combat <em>guarantees </em>that standards will be changed, modified, or gender-normed, eventually making ground combat training &#8220;equal&#8221; but less demanding for men.  We have already seen how this will work by examining what the Marine Corps did with one of several phases in their research project regarding women in direct ground combat.</p>
<p>As reported in the recently released 42-page <a href="http://cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/CMR%20Special%20Report%20-%20January2013.pdf">CMR Special Report, titled <em>Defense Department &#8220;Diversity&#8221; Push for Women in Land Combat</em></a>,<strong> </strong>requirements in the<strong> Women in Service Restrictions Review (WISRR) </strong>that the<strong> Marine Corps </strong>initiated in April 2012 were quietly changed and made less demanding without notice.  (pp. 15-17)</p>
<p>In <a href="http://dacowits.defense.gov/Reports/2011/Documents/DACOWITS%20September%202011%20Committee%20Meeting/16%20USMC%20WISR%20DACOWITS%20Brief.pdf">a presentation </a>before the <strong>Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) </strong>in September 2011, a representative of the Marine Corps presented slides indicating that as part of the Marines WISRR, male and female volunteers would be asked to perform six &#8220;common tasks&#8221; to test physical strength and stamina.</p>
<p>But when the actual tests got underway in 2012, as part of the &#8220;<strong>USMC Assignment of Women to Ground Combat Research Plan,&#8221;</strong> six tests were reduced to three.  The toughest ones were quietly taken out, and the remaining three were made less demanding.  All male and female volunteers who participated went through the same training exercises − but they were not the same as originally planned.</p>
<p>The original presentation to the DACOWITS in September 2011 promised that &#8220;[r]esearch must be deliberate, <strong>transparent</strong>, and conducted in a manner that will be responsive to senior leadership and <strong><em>external requests for information on short notice</em></strong>.&#8221;  (Slide #9, emphasis added)  The Marines have nevertheless denied formal requests for documents and information related to the &#8220;common tasks&#8221; tests.</p>
<p>The only change that might explain this was the February 9, 2012, Pentagon news conference in which Defense Department officials endorsed recommendations of the Military Leadership Diversity Commission.</p>
<p>In September 2012 the Marines conducted a test of two female officers who volunteered for training on the exceptionally tough 13-week <strong>Infantry Officer Course (IOC)</strong> at <strong>Quantico</strong>, VA.  Standards were maintained and the women washed out, along with 25% of the men.  The experiment did not work out, but the two female officers deserve respect for trying.  More than 90 volunteers are needed to gather sufficient data on the IOC, but none have stepped forward.  [Update: Two more female officers will try the IOC in March.]</p>
<p>The next Commandant will be selected under criteria set by the Diversity Commission and the Obama Administration.  Since that general will be required to support MLDC priorities, it is likely that quiet changes will be made in the IOC program of instruction so that a sufficient number of women can pass the course.</p>
<p>Standards will be &#8220;equal,&#8221; but not the same as they are now.  The same thing will happen in Army <strong>Ranger</strong> training, which Gen. Odierno has said he wants to make co-ed.</p>
<p><strong>7.  <em>Compromised Standards Will Increase Resentment and Harassment Problems</em></strong></p>
<p>When Pentagon officials start competing with each other to please feminists, the media, and diversity fanatics, pure nonsense often is passed off as enlightened wisdom.  Witness General Dempsey&#8217;s <a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jan/26/us-women-in-combat-dempsey/">astonishing claim</a> that women&#8217;s exemptions from direct ground combat, which the majority of women in enlisted ranks want, somehow have contributed to problems of sexual assault in the military.</p>
<p>This is a peculiar throwback to false arguments made in the Navy&#8217;s post-<strong>Tailhook</strong> scandal period, when the remedy for alcohol-fueled misconduct by male and female aviators partying at a Las Vegas convention was thought to be gender-integration in naval aviation.</p>
<p>Twenty-two years later, that theory is being put to the test.  Women are as close to the fight as they can be, but rates of sexual assault and abuse are soaring with no end in sight.  According to a chapter in a recent <a href="http://www.army.mil/article/72086/"><strong>Army &#8220;Gold Book&#8221;</strong></a> report, titled <strong>&#8220;Sex Crime Trends,&#8221;</strong> violent attacks and rapes in the ranks have nearly doubled since 2006, rising from <strong>663</strong> in 2006 to <strong>1,313</strong> in 2011.  Even worse, the Army reported that violent sex crime was growing at an average rate of <strong>14.6 percent</strong> per year, and the rate was accelerating. (p. 122)</p>
<p>Resentment aggravates hostility, which often is expressed with violence that is always wrong and disruptive to everyone serving in close-knit battalions.  The 1992 <strong>Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces</strong>, noting testimony from Air Force <strong>SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape)</strong> trainers charged to prepare potential prisoners of war, expressed concern about the de-sensitizing effect of policies condoning violence against women, as long as it happens at the hands of the enemy.</p>
<p>The commission also received survey results indicating that a significant cohort of men, called &#8220;egalitarian sexists&#8221; or &#8220;hostile proponents,&#8221; were in favor of co-ed combat because it would expose women&#8217;s weaknesses and punish them.  Years later, our military may be experiencing a cultural shift that already has degraded certain standards of civilization, summarized by the commission with a simple statement: <em>&#8220;Good men respect and defend women.&#8221;</em> (Commission Report, p. 61)</p>
<p>In training programs today, men routinely are given permission, and sometimes orders, to treat women with roughness.  Young men taught by their parents to &#8220;never hit a girl&#8221; are disadvantaged by this cultural dissonance, which may be impervious to other programs intended to reduce sexual assaults and abuse of women.</p>
<p>Nothing causes resentment like the awareness of double standards imposed in pursuit of &#8220;equality&#8221; and non-remedial &#8220;diversity&#8221; that overrides respect for individual merit.  At the &#8220;tip of the spear,&#8221; this resentment will vitiate team cohesion, a critically-important cultural factor that depends not on social relationships, but on mutual dependence for <em>survival </em>in the close fight.</p>
<p>As CMR has reported in a Special Report titled <a href="http://cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/CMRPolicyAnalysisApril2012A.pdf"><strong>&#8220;Chilling Trend of Sexual Assaults in the Military,&#8221;</strong></a> human relationship problems ranging across the spectrum from assault to inappropriate romantic affairs are having a destructive effect on morale and readiness.</p>
<p>Given what is known about human relationships in war, it is far more likely that sexual assaults will <em>increase</em> when chronic problems evident in all other communities are extended into direct ground combat battalions.  The cause will not be women &#8212; it will be poor judgment and flawed leadership among White House and Pentagon officials who are putting gender politics above the best interests of national security and the troops they lead.</p>
<p><strong><em>What Is at Stake</em></strong></p>
<p>All &#8220;tip of the spear&#8221; fighting forces − <strong>infantry, armor, Special Operations Forces, artillery, and Navy SEALs </strong>− execute missions that go beyond the experience of being &#8220;in harm&#8217;s way&#8221; in a war zone.  All are trained to close with and attack the enemy with deliberate offensive action under fire.  Given this definition of direct ground combat, it is not accurate to say that women have been &#8220;in combat&#8221; on the same basis as men.</p>
<p>Combat effectiveness in war cannot be taken for granted.  Nor can it withstand relentless pressures to lower standards in order to meet &#8220;diversity metrics.&#8221;  It is not right to impose on elite combat units the weight of social complications that will result in more casualties, more deaths, and even failed missions due to higher injury rates, and issues of non-deployability and  <a href="http://cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/CMR%20Special%20Report%20-%20January2013.pdf">sexual misconduct</a> that have gotten worse in all other military communities.</p>
<p>Most military women do not want this, and they are not to blame for the folly of policy makers such as Secretary Panetta and the Army&#8217;s top leaders.  All are following orders from our irresponsible Commander in Chief, who is trying to cut Congress and the American people out of the decision-making process.</p>
<p>Under <strong>Article 1, Section 8</strong> of the <strong>U.S. Constitution</strong>, members of Congress − not the President, the Defense Secretary or even the Joint Chiefs of Staff − have the responsibility to make policy for the military.  Congress should fulfill this responsibility by exercising diligent oversight, to include a full and public review of all research data gathered in the past year.</p>
<p>It is long-past time for Congress to intervene − the readiness and effectiveness of our fighting forces, and national security, are at great risk.</p>
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