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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on Islam and the West&#8217;s Paralysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow discusses Islamic aggression and what the West must do about it. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/140625-iraq-isis-mosul-street-445a_82f23afee3a82a104ef51a50474e30c6.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247983" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/140625-iraq-isis-mosul-street-445a_82f23afee3a82a104ef51a50474e30c6-450x334.jpg" alt="140625-iraq-isis-mosul-street-445a_82f23afee3a82a104ef51a50474e30c6" width="350" height="260" /></a>Last week, Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim was interviewed on “Steel on Steel” by John Loeffler.  Topics include Russian moves to combat Islamism, Western projections on Islam, and the ongoing Christian genocide.  </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.jcis.net/~bgwireless/SOSPreview/so2014-1220.mp3" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.jcis.net/~bgwireless/SOSPreview/so2014-1220.mp3" data-type="1"><span class="zw-portion link">Click here to listen to the 20-minute interview</span></a><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
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		<title>Western Indifference to the Palestinian Culture of Hate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 05:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Aqsa Mosque-goers, including children, break out in spontaneous prayer to slaughter Jews. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/palestinian.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247450" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/palestinian-450x331.png" alt="palestinian" width="381" height="280" /></a>A shockingly, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/al-aqsa-speaker-the-slaughter-of-the-jews-is-near/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">disturbing video</span></a> has recently surfaced exposing the true and pernicious face of Palestinian extremism and xenophobia. The video, made available by Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows a bearded sheikh giving what appears to be an impromptu sermon on the Jews. (After all, what else is there to talk about?) The venue is the Al-Aqsa Mosque, considered by those who practice the “religion of peace” to be their third holiest site after Mecca and Medina.</p>
<p>The speech itself is filled with gut-wrenching anti-Semitism, the kind that would even make the editors of the <i>New York Times</i> blush. The sheikh describes how the Jews possess the vilest of traits, how they were responsible for killing the “prophets,” how they attempted to assassinate Muhammad, how their time for “slaughter is near,” how they will be slaughtered “without mercy,” and of course there’s the perfunctory, “Jews are apes and pigs” thing.</p>
<p>Interestingly, the speaker doesn’t mention the longing for Palestinian statehood or independence. Instead, he talks of the establishment of the “Islamic Caliphate.” “Oh Allah’” he states, “Hasten the establishment of the State of the Islamic Caliphate,” and further rants, “Oh Allah hasten the pledge of allegiance to the Muslim Caliph.” He spews forth the latter statement three times to chants of “Amen!” from the large, approving crowd congregating around him.</p>
<p>These comments, which would register horror and revulsion in the West (at least in some quarters) are almost banal among Palestinians. In fact, a <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/preacher-at-al-aqsa-hails-islamic-state-mujahideen/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">similar video</span></a> featuring a different speaker some days earlier at the same venue, conveyed identical sentiment, expressing admiration for the Islamic State and calling for murder of Jews and annihilation of America.</p>
<p>Guttural anti-Semitism is <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=ctdnu84bc2fbc4e114ef4ae2dabe819a7afe1#bookmark=http://global100.adl.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">ingrained and interwoven</span></a> in the fabric of Palestinian society. Despite their minuscule numbers, 78% of Palestinians believe that Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars while a whopping 88% believe that Jews control the global media and still more believe that Jews wield too much power in the business world.</p>
<p>Much of the blame for this can be placed squarely on the doorstep of Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, which subjects the Palestinian population to a <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/jihad-in-jerusalem-1416356018"><span style="color: #0433ff;">steady diet of hate-filled, Judeophobic rhetoric</span></a> through state-controlled media and educational institutions. It is so well entrenched that the process of deprogramming, if it were ever attempted, would take generations to reverse.</p>
<p>Some of the blame however, rests with the Obama administration and the European Union, which continues to fund the Palestinian Authority with an endless supply of taxpayer money without demanding any form of accountability. Western money is openly used to fund the Palestinian Authority’s hate apparatus with money flowing into institutions that propagate anti-Semitism and <a href="http://palwatch.org/STORAGE/special%20reports/4_reports_PA_salaries_to_terrorists_Feb_13_2013.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">encourage terrorism</span></a>.</p>
<p>Some Western media outlets are also culpable in perpetuating the Palestinian culture of hate. The <i>New York Times </i>for example has frequently and diligently covered so-called “price tag” vandalism attacks; a practice universally condemned by nearly all Israelis and vigorously prosecuted by Israeli authorities but rarely, if ever, covers the type of venomous hate speech witnessed in the above-noted videos.</p>
<p>Hate crimes inspired by this type of pernicious speech are also routinely ignored. Highlighting this point is the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/10/the_new_york_times_hear_no_evil_see_no_evil_speak_no_evil.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">disturbing case of Asher Palmer</span></a>, an American citizen who, along with his infant son was murdered when a rock thrown by a Palestinian crashed through the windshield of the car he was driving, hitting him flush in the face. The <i>New York Times</i> ignored the gruesome murders and only mentioned the incident in passing a few days later in the context of a reprisal “price tag” attack against a mosque. Under the unbelievably skewed editorial policies of the <i>New York Times</i>, it took an act of vandalism, ostensibly committed by Jews, to highlight the horrific murder of Asher Palmer and his infant son at the hands of Arabs.</p>
<p>The practice of ignoring such malevolence partly stems from the fact that the <i>New York Times</i> wishes to present a certain narrative at the expense of the facts and partly stems from a systematic inability of some Western media outlets to hold Arabs to a Western standard of decency and morality. Thus, Arab anti-Semitism, the same kind of anti-Semitism practiced in Europe some 75 years ago, is either ignored or attributed to mere cultural differences.</p>
<p>Indeed, the <i>New York Times</i> no longer even bothers to hide the fact that it engages in duplicitous double standards when it comes to reporting Palestinian-Arab racism and hate speech as evidenced from a <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/02/did-a-new-york-times-editor-admit-to-holding-palestinians-to-a-lower-standard-than-israelis/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">telling exchange</span></a> between New York Times’ opinion page staff editor, Matt Seaton and Tamar Sternthal, a director at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).</p>
<p>Rarely is the sort of vitriol witnessed in the videos expressed in English to Western audiences. Only the crassest among them publicly share their feelings about Jews, and the West for that matter. But behind closed doors it’s an entirely different story. Groups like MEMRI, CAMERA, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) and many others do an excellent job in exposing the malevolence hiding just beneath the surface. The problem is no one seems to care. No one cared 75 years ago either.</p>
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		<title>Christian Extermination in the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuches and communities are being terrorized into oblivion. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ISIS-Burns-Down-Church.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244875" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ISIS-Burns-Down-Church.jpg" alt="ISIS-Burns-Down-Church" width="321" height="272" /></a>The purge of ancient Christian communities throughout Iraq that started in June culminated in a show of great intolerance in July.</p>
<p>Among other things, a Christian church that had stood on the ground of Iraq for 1,800 years—a church that was erected less than 200 year after Christ—was reportedly torched by the Islamic State, according to numerous news agencies, including <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/07/20/ISIS-burns-1-800-year-old-church-in-Mosul.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Al Arabiya</span></a>.</p>
<p>Islamic State jihadis also stormed and took over an ancient monastery in northern Iraq and <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/jihadists-seize-iraq-monastery-005850871.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">expelled its few monks</span></a>, telling them “You have no place here anymore, you have to leave immediately.”  The monks plead to be allowed to save some of the monastery’s ancient relics but the jihadis refused and ordered them to walk many miles along a deserted road with nothing but their clothes.  (St. Behnam monastery had stood since the fourth century and was one of Iraq’s best-known Christian landmarks.  It was built by an Assyrian king as a penance for executing his children Behnam and Sarah for converting to Christianity.)</p>
<p>The Islamic State issued a July 19 deadline for Mosul’s remaining <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/iraqi-christians-mosul-isis-convert-islam-or-be-executed"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Christians either to convert to Islam or face execution</span></a>.  Islamic State members also singled out Christian homes by placing the Arabic letter for “N”—based on the Arabic word <i>Nasara</i>, or “Nazarenes,” the Koran’s pejorative for Christians—on the sides of their homes.   The result, in the words of Patriarch Louis Sako, is that “For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians.”</p>
<p>In response to the Islamic State’s latest atrocities against Iraq’s Christian minorities, the Syriac Orthodox bishop of Mount Lebanon and Tripoli,<span style="color: #0433ff;"> George Saliba</span>, <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=fs79p4de3b9a0916c47bc898fe0713d6d0e07#bookmark=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Jul-30/265488-syriac-orthodox-bishop-muslims-enemies-of-christ.ashx"><span style="color: #0433ff;">denounced</span></a> not just the Islamic State but Muslims in general for their long “history of violence and oppression against Christians”:</p>
<blockquote><p>What is happening in<span style="color: #0433ff;"> Iraq</span> is a strange thing, but it is normal for Muslims, because they have never treated Christians well, and they have always held an offensive and defaming stand against Christians….  We used to live and coexist with Muslims, but then they revealed their canines [teeth]….  [They don’t] have the right to storm houses, steal and attack the honor of Christians.  Most Muslims do this, the Ottomans killed us and after that the ruling nation-states understood the circumstances but always gave advantage to the Muslims.  Islam has never changed&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Islamic organizations responded by denouncing the Syriac bishop’s words as “hateful” and Islamophobic, demanding an apology.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also made some telling remarks concerning the plight of Christians, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/presbyterian-church-usa-criticizes-israel-ignores-christian-persecution/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">especially in those Mideast countries the U.S. is involved in</span></a>.  When asked if he was “troubled” by the Presbyterian Church USA’s decision to withdraw $21 million worth in investments from Israel on behalf of the Palestinian people, the prime minister said:</p>
<blockquote><p>You know I would suggest to these Presbyterian organizations to fly to the Middle East, come and see Israel for the embattled democracy that it is, and then take a bus tour, go to Libya, go to Syria, go to Iraq, and see the difference. And I would give them two pieces of advice, one is, make sure it’s an armor plated bus, and second, don’t say that you’re Christians.<i> </i></p></blockquote>
<p>The rest of July’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.</p>
<p><b>Muslim Attacks on Churches and Carnage</b></p>
<p><b>Afghanistan</b>: according to BosNewsLife, the central Asian nation’s “tiny Christian community was left in shock Friday,  July 25, after <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/33389-news-alert-finish-christian-workers-killed-in-afghanistan"><span style="color: #0433ff;">two Finnish Christian aid workers were shot dead</span></a>.”  The attack “underscored the dangers faced by Christian aid workers.”  The two women were slain by motorcycle riding gunmen in the western city of Herat, “the latest in a series of attacks targeting Westerners, including Christian believers.  The Christians, who represented International Assistance Mission (IAM), had been working in Afghanistan since the 1990s…  They both spoke Dari well and knew and respected the culture of Afghanistan.”  Among those the aid workers were helping were people with mental disabilities and illiterate women.</p>
<p><b>Central African Republic</b>:  At least <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Help-Christians-affected-by-CAR-violence-27-killed-in-church-attack.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">27 Christians were slaughtered</span></a> during a July 7 attack on the St. Joseph’s Cathedral compound in Bambari, where thousands of people, mostly Christian, were receiving sanctuary.  The attackers were fighters from the Islamic Seleka rebel movement and Muslim civilians. The armed attackers entered the grounds at around 3pm and began shooting indiscriminately. Women and children were among those killed; over 20 people were injured.  The Islamic attackers burnt down 20 <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/Our-work/Our-current-projects/BF-Project-Categories/Buildings.html?"><span style="color: #0433ff;">buildings</span></a> within the church compound, set fire to three cars, and stole two others as well as a number of motorbikes.  Weeks earlier, on May 28, another attack on a church compound in Bangui, the capital, left around 20 people dead.</p>
<p><b>Kenya</b>: On July 5, Muslims attacked the Covenant Church, three kilometers north of Hindi, just as Bible study was closing.  As the Bible study participants fled, two men opted to hide inside the church building—and were <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/07/christians-killed-in-attacks-in-coastal-region-of-kenya/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">burned alive after the Islamic attackers set the building on fire</span></a>.  On the same night, a Catholic church building in the village of Gamba, in neighboring Tana River County, was also destroyed by attackers.   Two days earlier, 15-20 assailants armed with guns and knives attacked Gamba and the village of Hindi, killing at least 13 people, including a 12-year-old student and a 30-year-old man “who was found in a pool of blood with a Bible on his back,” reports Morning Star News. One survivor of the attacks said the invaders were heard “saying non-Muslims should get out, and if not they should convert to Islam.”  Another survivor said, “I was removed with my daughter from the house while the attackers tied my husband to the bedside before setting the house on fire.  The attackers, who spoke mainly in Somali, targeted non-Muslims, whom they tied with ropes before slitting their throats.” (Gamba is about 28 miles from Mpeketoni, another Christian town where gunmen killed at least 57 people in a <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/06/christians-targeted-in-massacre-by-al-shabaab-in-kenya/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">June 15 attack</span></a>.)</p>
<p><b>Lebanon</b>: A shadowy group known as the Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade, which had only recently pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State, announced on its twitter account that a “specialized group of free jihadists were tasked with cleansing the Islamic state of Bekaa in particular and in Lebanon in general <a href="http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/137260-free-sunnis-of-baalbek-brigade-vows-to-silence-church-bells-in-bekaa"><span style="color: #0433ff;">from the churches</span></a>.  We will target crusaders in the state and in Lebanon to silence the ringing of the bells.”  (According to Islamic Sharia, churches under Islamic authority are <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">forbidden from ringing their bells</span></a>.)  The Brigade has claimed responsibility for several rocket and bomb attacks inside Lebanon, the last of which were the suicide blasts in Dahr al-Baydar and Raouche’s Duroy Hotel.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: A <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=fs79p4de3b9a0916c47bc898fe0713d6d0e07#bookmark=http://www.smh.com.au/world/five-killed-in-bomb-attack-on-nigerian-church-20140728-zxhss.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">bomb blast inside the Saint Charles Catholic Church</span></a> left five people dead and eight injured.  The attack came shortly after Sunday mass ended, when an improvised explosive device was thrown inside the city of Kano, which has a strong presence of Boko Haram, the local Islamic terrorist organization.  On the same Sunday and also in Kano, a woman suicide bomber blew herself up outside a university after police prevented her from carrying out an attack.  Five officers were injured.  According to a police spokesman, “A female suicide bomber was isolated (by police) as she was walking towards the gate of the university.”  She had hidden the bomb under her “long black hijab” and was singled out for behaving strangely, said the spokesman.  Police were about to ask a female colleague to frisk the woman when she detonated the bomb, killing herself and injuring the police officers.  Also in July,<b> </b>Nicholas Okoh, primate of the Church of Nigeria, said in an interview that, despite Boko Haram’s nonstop attacks on Christians and their churches, for long “the United States did not come out to say anything about Boko Haram.  They kept talking about economic problems, [saying] that Boko Haram is fighting because of economic problems. That is not true &#8230; <a href="http://www.brnow.org/News/July-2014/Boko-Haram-s-Islamic-motives-ignored"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The United States deliberately ignored the fundamental issues of religious ideology</span></a>.”</p>
<p><b>Sudan</b>:  In adherence to Islamic law, the east African nation formally announced a <a href="http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/72207.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">ban on the construction of any new Christian churches</span></a> in the country.  This move came after several churches, some of which have been in existence for decades, were bulldozed to the ground by authorities, the most recent one, the Sudanese Christ Church at El Izba residential area in Khartoum North, on July 1. According to Pravoslavie, “The Sudanese Minister of Guidance and Religious Endowments Shalil Abdullah announced that the government will henceforth not issue permits for the building of churches in the country.  Minister Shalil Abdullah told the press on Saturday [July 12] that the existing churches are enough for the Christian population remaining in Sudan after the secession of South Sudan in 2011.”  Since 1989, Sudan has been governed by a Sharia enforcing Islamic regime. Reverend Kori El Ramli, the Secretary-General of Sudan Council of Churches, criticized this move as contradicting the nation’s Constitution, adding “Yes, we are a minority, but we have freedom of worship and belief just like the rest of the Sudanese as long as we are Sudanese nationals like them.”</p>
<p><b>Turkey</b>:  A band of <a href="http://www.catholic.org/news/international/europe/story.php?id=56220"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muslims attacked the Saint Stephanos Church</span></a> in Istanbul during a baptismal service held on July 15. Among other things, the Muslim intruders pushed their way into the baptismal service, yelling obscenities, with one waving a knife and threatening to stab a parishioner.  The attack occurred during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/ramadan-islams-holy-month-of-christian-oppression/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">often sees a concomitant rise of intolerance</span></a> in Muslim majority areas.   Speaking about the attack, one parishioner said on condition of anonymity that “It’s not the first, and it won’t be the last.”  In fact, two months earlier, men in their late teens and 20s entered the church building at night, ripped out most of its audio equipment and destroyed what they couldn’t carry away. They also took some of the ceremonial candles, lit them and started setting items in the rear of the building on fire. They stacked all remaining candles into a pile, lit them and left.</p>
<p><b>Uganda</b>: A gang of Muslims brandishing machetes stormed a church during service, <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christian-teenager-killed-by-machete-in-attack-on-church-in-Uganda.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hacking one 18-year-old woman to death</span></a> and leaving three others, including a one-year-old baby, injured.  A group of around 20 Christians had gathered at Chali Born Victory Church in Kyegegwa district for their regular Friday night prayer session when armed Muslims burst into the building around 2 am.  Pastor Jackson Turyamureba was preaching when he saw somebody peeping through a window.  According to the pastor, “I thought he was a drunkard and told him to either enter or go away. Shortly after that I heard doors being banged and men shouting ‘Allahu Akhbar’ (Allah is great) as they stormed the church brandishing pangas (machetes) and beating worshippers….  One of the attackers followed me and threw a panga which went over my head. I ran through a garden and the man who was pursuing me fell down and gave up the chase.”  The Muslim attackers then fled to a nearby mosque; police surrounded the mosque and one officer was killed when attackers opened fire.  Two suspects were arrested.   According to the pastor<i>, </i>the church has had problems with a group of Muslims in the area who had unsuccessfully tried to convert them to Islam. Church member Polly Tashobya added that the group said they wanted to transform Uganda into an Islamic nation and would kill anyone who refused to convert.</p>
<p><b>Muslim Attacks on Christian Freedom and ‘Dhimmitude’</b></p>
<p><b>Iran</b>: <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/33301-iran-detains-evangelical-christians-bible-confiscated"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Authorities detained a pastor and two other members of the Church of Iran</span></a>, one of the country’s largest house church movements.  Pastor Matthias Haghnejad, Mohammad Roghangir, and Suroush Saraie were arrested July 5 by security forces at the pastor’s home in the city of Bandar-Anzali.  According to BosNewsLife, “Their detention comes amid an ongoing government campaign to halt the spread of Christianity in the Islamic country. Especially converts from Islam, many of whom visit the Church of Iran, have been targeted.”  Security forces reportedly confiscated the pastor’s belongings, including his Bible, and several other books.  This would be the latest setback for Pastor Matthias, who was jailed for his faith on three other occasions between 2006 and 2011.  Separately, <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=fs79p4de3b9a0916c47bc898fe0713d6d0e07#bookmark=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2702774/Christian-sentenced-Iranian-judge-lips-burnt-cigarette-eating-Ramadan.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a judge sentenced a Christian man to have his lips burnt with a cigarette</span></a> for eating during the day in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims are required to abstain from food and drink during daylight.  The punishment was carried out in public in a square in the city of Kermanshah.  Five other Muslim men were also flogged in public with 70 lashes for not fasting during Ramadan.  A spokesperson from The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political coalition which opposes the government, denounced the treatment as ‘savage’ and called on Western countries to respond:  “The silence of the world community, especially of western countries, vis-à-vis these medieval punishments under the excuse of having nuclear talks with Iran has intensified the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran.”</p>
<p><b>Somalia</b>: Muslim converts to Christianity who fled Somalia and reside in Kenyan refugee camps remain in mortal danger.  One convert, known only as “Abubakr,” and his wife reportedly held each other under their bed in their refugee camp as suspected gunmen from the Islamic terrorist organization Al Shabaab pounded on their door. They ordered the man to come out and called him an “infidel” (in both the Arabic and Somali languages), saying, “<a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/07/stay-or-leave-somali-christians-in-kenyan-refugee-camps-face-danger/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">We need your head</span></a>.”  When the apostate refused, they opened fire through the spaces of the poles of the couple’s hut, striking their legs.  Then they heard the attackers say, “We have killed the infidels” as they shot into the air while leaving.  The Christian couple was found two days later lying in their own pool of blood.   According to Abubakr, far from providing security for the hiding apostates, Muslim guards at the refugee camp actually help Al Shabaab militants locate them.  Another Somali convert from Islam, Abdikadir, saw Muslim relatives and other Somalis burn down his home in one of the undisclosed Dadaab refugee camps in April. They took away his wife and four children in the course of destroying his home.  He fled the camp and is now living elsewhere.</p>
<p><b>United Kingdom</b>: According to the Telegraph, “<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10977187/Christians-lie-and-wives-must-have-sex-or-go-to-hell-Trojan-Horse-pupils-told.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Children were taught that all Christians are liars</span></a> and attempts were made to introduce Sharia law in classrooms as part of an alleged ‘Trojan Horse’ takeover plot of Birmingham schools, an inquiry has found.”  Commissioned by Birmingham City Council, the inquiry found “evidence of religious extremism in 13 schools as school governors and teachers tried to promote and enforce radical Islamic values.”  Among other things, schools canceled Christmas, put up posters warning children that they would “go to hell” if they did not pray, and girls were taught that women who refused to have sex with their husbands would be “punished” by angels “from dusk to dawn.”  The report found that the extremism went unchecked because the council “disastrously” prioritized community cohesion over “doing what is right.”</p>
<p><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:</p>
<p>1) To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>2) To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Islamic Sharia.</p>
<p>Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; apostasy, blasphemy, and proselytism laws that criminalize and sometimes punish with death those who “offend” Islam; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam;  theft and plunder in lieu of <i>jizya</i> (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed <i>dhimmis</i>, or third-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination thereof.</p>
<p>Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to Indonesia in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.</p>
<p><b>Previous Reports</b>:</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/isis-snuffs-out-ancient-christianity-muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2014/">June, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2014/">May, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/raped-and-slaughtered-muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2014/">April, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/obama-administration-suppresses-talk-of-muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2014/">March, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/christians-most-persecuted-group-in-world-muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2014/">February, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/becomes-chief-enabler-of-christian-persecution-muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2014/">January, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/they-are-slaughtering-us-like-chickens-muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2013/">December, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/u-s-chose-to-stay-silent-on-muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2013/">November, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/">October, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/">September, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2013/">August, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2013/">July, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2013/">June, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2013/">May, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2013/">April, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013/">March, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013/">February, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013/">January, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012/">December, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012/">November, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/">October, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2012/">September, 2012 </a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012/">August, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12215/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12045/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11930/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11713/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11604/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11373/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11152/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10989/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10922/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10724/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10504/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2011">September, 2011</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10247/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2011/">July, 2011</a></p>
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		<title>You Can’t Stop Genocide Without Killing Civilians</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning the lesson of Afghanistan.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ISIS-Mass-Killing.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242900" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ISIS-Mass-Killing-450x286.jpg" alt="ISIS-Mass-Killing" width="321" height="204" /></a>By the time World War II was over entire cities had been devastated and hundreds of thousands of civilians had been killed by the Allies in one of the last wars whose virtue we were all able to agree on. The civilians were not limited to enemy German and Japanese civilians, but included French civilians in occupied territory, Jewish prisoners and numerous others who were caught in the war zone.</p>
<p>To the professional pacifist these numbers appear to disprove the morality of war, any war, but they were the blood price that had to be paid to stop two war machines once they had been allowed to seize the strategic high ground. There was no other way to stop the genocide that Germany and Japan had been inflicting on Europe and Asia except through a way of war that would kill countless civilians.</p>
<p>A refusal to fight that war would not have been the moral course. It would have meant that the Allies would have continued to serve as the silent partners in genocide. The same thing is true today.</p>
<p>War is ugly. It is made moral by why it is fought, not by how it is fought.  If we are fighting a war to prevent mass murder, our moral obligation is to win it as quickly as possible. Not as cleanly.</p>
<p>Our attempt to streamline the ugly parts into a drone taking out a terrorist target with no collateral damage is a moral fiction. Civilians die in drone strikes as in any other form of attack and believing that we can have our moral cake and eat it too has convinced some that any other kind of war is immoral.</p>
<p>If we had set out to win World War II as cleanly as possible the price for our morality would have been paid by our own soldiers as well as by the countless victims of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.</p>
<p>As we can see the way that American soldiers and Afghan civilians paid the price for Obama’s morality.</p>
<p>As I <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/the-great-betrayal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">wrote in The Great Betrayal</span></a>, “the number of Afghan civilian casualties caused by American forces had dropped between 2009 and 2011, but civilian casualties caused by the Taliban steadily increased&#8230; 2009 proved to be the deadliest year for Afghan civilians with over 2,400 killed… with the Taliban accounting for two-thirds of the total. While the percentage of casualties caused by US forces fell 28 percent, the percentage caused by the Taliban increased by 40 percent making up for American restraint.  This fell into line with the increase in NATO combat deaths which rose from 295 to 520.”</p>
<p>“By 2011, the ISAF forces were responsible for only 14.2 percent of Afghan civilian deaths, while the Taliban were responsible for 79.8 percent of them.”</p>
<p>American soldiers were killing fewer Afghan civilians, but more Afghan civilians were dying. The rules of engagement allowed the Taliban to win which meant that they would be able to kill more civilians. Instead of helping Afghan civilians, we were causing more of them and more of us to be killed.</p>
<p>Obama’s moral approach to war was what the Jewish sages had called the “righteousness of fools.”</p>
<p>This issue takes on a renewed urgency as the United States confronts ISIS genocide in Iraq and Syria. To stop ISIS, we will have to do what we were unwilling to do when it came to fighting the Taliban. We will have to hit them and hit them hard.</p>
<p>There was a time when we could have dealt a setback to ISIS with drone strikes. Obama golfed that golden time away. Pinpoint strikes will no longer stop the Islamic State. Only decisive force will.</p>
<p>The White House was panicked enough to relax the rules on “near certainty” allowing more freedom of action against ISIS, but it’s also not nearly enough. ISIS is not a group of terrorists hiding in caves. It operates like an army. It sustains its forces by maintaining a constant forward momentum. This is something that it has in common with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, both of whom were running fragile military and economic enterprises that depended on a steady stream of new conquests.</p>
<p>Stopping ISIS will require a willingness to either put boots on the ground or accept heavy civilian casualties. We once again have a choice between “Shock and Awe” or years of occupation.</p>
<p>We made the wrong choice in the past. We have to be willing to make the right one now.</p>
<p>We can break ISIS if we are willing to clear away the obstacles in the kill-chain by moving as quickly as the enemy does. Instead what we have is the worst of both worlds, a process of approving strikes that treats ISIS as if it were a ponderous conventional foe combined with minimal strikes better suited to the kinds of terrorist enemies we were fighting a decade ago.</p>
<p>Our enemy is mobile and resourceful. It knows our tactics and our limitations. Our people need to be free to take immediate and responsive action on the spot instead of relying on a process that has become too slow and inflexible under the bureaucratic pace of drone warfare.</p>
<p>Obama’s delays closed the door on our opportunity to rescue American hostages being held by ISIS. The dithering which has accompanied all of his military decisions is completely unworkable when confronting groups that have learned to quickly adapt and respond. If the war against ISIS continues to be run through the White House, filtered through its advisers and polls, then the war will be lost.</p>
<p>On the battlefield we have to be willing to accept that if we use large scale bombing to go after a military group that uses civilians as human shields, there will be large numbers of civilian casualties. But that number will be far less than what it would be if ISIS gets to carry out its genocides and continues to drag out the war across the region.</p>
<p>The lesson that we should take away from Afghanistan is that finicky attitudes about civilian casualties only end up costing more civilian lives.</p>
<p>Ending a war requires the use of decisive force. The alternative is the miserable situation in Israel in which it hurts Hamas enough to buy some time, but not enough to stop another war two years later.</p>
<p>Sparing terrorists to save civilians is morally and practically backward. Terrorists kill civilians. Sparing terrorists means that more civilians will die.</p>
<p>On September 10, 2001, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/31/clinton-on-sept-10-2001-could-have-killed-bin-laden-but-didnt/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Bill Clinton said that</span></a> he could have had Bin Laden taken out if not for the collateral damage in Kandahar. As a result of his inaction, 3,000 people in the United States and countless civilians in Afghanistan died. By trying to prevent 300 civilian casualties, he actually caused ten times and then a hundred times that many civilian casualties.</p>
<p>We can’t afford any more Clinton moralizing that sacrifices the World Trade Center to spare Kandahar and then has to bomb Kandahar anyway. We can either learn the lessons of Afghanistan or continue losing thousands of Americans to wars that never end.</p>
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		<title>Fidel Castro Denounces Palestinian &#8216;Holocaust&#8217;</title>
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<p>“I think that a new, repugnant form of fascism is emerging with notable strength…The Nazi genocide of Jews outraged all the earth’s peoples. Why does this (Israeli) government believe that the world will be insensitive to the macabre genocide which today is being perpetuated against the Palestinian people?” <a href="http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/ingles/cuba-i/5agosto-fidelgaza.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">(Fidel Castro, August, 5, 2014)</span></a></p>
<p>“Who <i>cares</i>, what that senile ZOMBIE Castro says!” strikes me as a reasonable retort from many readers.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately,” I’m forced to answer. “Many otherwise reasonable care <i>very much</i> what Fidel Castro says.” Take Israeli Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu:</p>
<p>“The remarks attributed to Castro demonstrate his deep understanding of the history of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.” <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/A-late-blooming-romance-between-Castro-and-Israel"><span style="color: #0433ff;">(Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu, Sept. 24, 2010.)</span></a></p>
<p>Take former Israeli President Shimon Peres: “I thank you (Fidel Castro) from the bottom of my heart. I must confess that your remarks were, in my opinion, unexpected and rife with unique intellectual depth. Your words presented a surprising bridge between a harsh reality and a new horizon. You tried to sail to bigger seas, to show that a small geographical size doesn’t have to reflect human smallness.” (Israeli President Shimon Peres, Sept. 24, 2010.)</p>
<p>At the time Fidel Castro had granted The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg an exclusive interview and the smitten Israeli leaders were reacting to the following remarks by the Stalinist dictator:</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews….I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything….The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust….Yes, without a doubt (Israel has a right to exist as modern state.)&#8221;</p>
<p>Cuba-watchers rolled their eyes and groaned at that latest of Castro’s frequent scams, but the media (naturally) ate it up, savoring every syllable. Astoundingly so did normally shrewd Israeli leaders. Wishful thinking often fogs the brain. And who can blame friendless Israel for wishing she had a new friend –and and one carrying enormous cachet among her traditional enemies?</p>
<p>So why did Castro—who sent troops to fight try an “erase” Israel during the Yom Kippur war, and who co-sponsored the infamous 1975 UN resolution branding “Zionism as Racism”&#8211; suddenly go Likudnik?</p>
<p>&#8220;For now we use a lot of sleight of hand and smiles with everybody. There will be plenty of time later to crush all the cockroaches together.&#8221; This admonition from Fidel Castro to a revolutionary colleague in 1954 gives a clue to his diplomacy. Cuba-watchers also know that Castro plumbs the workings of the U.S. legislature better than most home-grown lobbyists and well knows the main power brokers. Indeed Cuban intelligence defectors report that promptly upon publication in 1979, David Halberstam&#8217;s book <i>&#8220;The Powers That Be,&#8221; </i>detailing the inner workings and identities of Washington D.C’s power brokers, became Castro’s favorite book.</p>
<p>In September 2010 it was time to use that sleight-of-hand on Israel-backers. Jeffrey Goldberg’s visit with Castro, you see, <i>just happened</i> to coincide with a pending vote by the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations (HCFR) on further opening U.S. travel to Cuba. Goldberg’s visit to Cuba, <i>just happened</i> to be arranged by The Council on Foreign Relations Julia Sweig, identified as a “Cuban agent of influence” by America’s top Cuban spycatcher Lieut. Col. Chris Simmons, recently retired <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">from the Defense Intelligence Agency.</span></a></p>
<p>Cuba’s tourist industry is majority-owned by Castro’s military and secret police. As used to be common knowledge during the Cold War, secret police and military (the only outfits with guns in such nations) maintain Communist regimes in power.</p>
<p>So the HCFR vote could open the floodgates of American tourist dollars to the Stalinist regime’s most zealous (and heavily armed) guardians&#8211;and at a time when the financial lifeline to Cuba from Hugo Chavez’ looked shaky. Most importantly, steadfast Israel-backer Howard Berman chaired this House Committee at the time, and steadfast Israel-backer and committee member Senator Gary Ackerman seemed to hold the vital deciding vote. Do you see where I’m going with this, amigos?</p>
<p>Alas, even with Rep. Ackerman taking Castro’s bait, at the last minute Chairman Rep. Berman took a rough count and recognized that the bill would not squeak by. So he postponed it. Short weeks later Castro’s roaming ambassador, Aleida Guevara (Che’s daughter), was in Lebanon posing next to Hezbollah missiles <a href="http://babalublog.com/2010/10/che-guevaras-daughter-chumming-it-up-with-hezbollah/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">aimed at Israel.</span></a></p>
<p>The Cuban-born (and steadfast Israel-backer) Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was among those bemused with Netanyahu and Peres at the time. “Look, this guy has been an enemy of Israel,” wrote Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen to Netanyahu. “Just because he said something that a normal person would say — after 50 years of anti-Israel incitement, its one phrase from an old guy who doesn’t even know where he’s standing.”</p>
<p>“When countries such as Cuba, Venezuela and the like, who do not know the concept of human rights, point an accusing finger towards us, it is a sign that we are doing the right things.&#8221; Here Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman was reacting to Cuba sponsorship of the United Nations Human Rights Commission resolution to investigate Israeli “War Crimes,” upon last month’s launch of Operation Protective Edge.</p>
<p>Well that’s more like it, Israeli leaders. Hopefully you learned your lesson regarding Fidel Castro’s public pronouncements. This lesson came at catastrophic cost to U.S. policymakers and millions of Cuba over half a century ago. Among the Castro pronouncements these now older and <i>much</i> wiser people took at face value:</p>
<p>&#8220;You can be sure we have no animosity toward the United States and the American people….we are fighting for a democratic Cuba and an end to the dictatorship.” (New York Times Feb. 24, 1957.)</p>
<p>“We are not communists. And communists will never have influence in my country… Political power does interest me in the least. I will never assume such power.<i>” </i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">(Fidel Castro, April 1959.)</span></a></p>
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		<title>Hamas: The Terror Elite</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-11-at-4.14.32-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238372" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-11-at-4.14.32-PM-273x350.png" alt="hamas" width="202" height="259" /></a></b><em>To order the following Freedom Center pamphlet written by Steven Plaut, &#8220;Hamas: The Terror Elite,&#8221; click <a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/pamplets/products/hamas-the-terror-elite">here</a>.</em></p>
<p><b>“We will not rest until we destroy the Zionist entity”</b></p>
<p>&#8212; Hamas leader Fathi Hammad in Gaza, January 2, 2009</p>
<p><b>“The annihilation of the Jews here in Palestine is one of the most splendid blessings for Palestine.”</b></p>
<p>&#8212; Hamas cleric Muhsen Abu ‘Ita in a televised interview, cited in <i>TheWall Street Journal</i>, Dec 30, 08</p>
<p>A new fever has seized the media and the governments of some Western democratic countries— a belief that the world must now hold “talks” with Hamas and seek to reach an “accommodation” with this terrorist group.</p>
<p>Hamas itself has been campaigning1 to be recognized as a legitimate governing body and removed from Western blacklists of terrorist movements. A number of European countries have already responded enthusiastically, thus becoming ventriloquist dummies for the far left, which long ago replaced PLO with the Hamas as the group it considers to be the “legitimate” representative of the Palestinian “people.”</p>
<p>Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Portuguese Jose Saramago (already on record as having compared Israel to Nazi Germany), recently led a petition of hundreds of European and other “intellectuals” demanding that Hamas be delisted as a terrorist organization. 2 Some Eurocrats, while acknowledging that Hamas is indeed involved in terrorism, have still insisted3 that it be “recognized” as a legitimate player and removed from terrorism lists so that it can be “engaged.” Edward McMillan-Scott, a Conservative Member of British Parliament, recently said: “The European Union is right to demand the renunciation by Hamas of violence, and to demand that Hamas recognize Israel. But Europe also has to note that Hamas has stuck to a ceasefire since February 2005.” Eight thousand rockets aimed at Jewish civilians do not count as violating any ceasefire in McMillan-Scott’s opinion. The conservative (and anti-Semitic) BBSNEWS service has editorialized that the continuing regard of the Hamas as a terrorist organization “is probably THE most serious obstacle to peace [emphasis in original].”</p>
<p>France has already conducted “talks” with Hamas,4 in which the terror group has been required to repudiate and concede nothing at all. American officials responded, “We don’t believe it is helpful to the process of bringing peace to the region.” Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi called for negotiating with Hamas5 to help the movement “develop politically.” Some British politicians chimed in with a solemn amen, including Tony Blair.6 A House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report recommended that lawmakers “urgently consider ways of engaging politically with moderate elements within Hamas.” This of course makes exactly as much sense as seeking an accommodation with the moderate elements within al-Qaeda. Some have argued that EU dealings with Hamas themselves constitute a war crime.7 Ironically, members of the PLO have strongly denounced those Europeans calling for dialogue with its rival, which has now replaced Fatah in their affections.</p>
<p>Nor is the EU content with merely talking. As journalist Caroline Glick writes,8 “&#8230; During the period when they were deployed at the [Rafah] terminal, the EU monitors turned a blind eye to the very terror traffic they were supposed to be preventing. At the same time, they condemned Israel for taking any action to defend itself and downplayed the threat Hamas constitutes for Israel. In short, the EU monitors sided with Hamas against Israel at every turn. The situation is much the same with UNIFIL forces in Lebanon.”</p>
<p>The tenured left in the United States has followed its European allies into embracing Hamas. Ostensibly devoted to secularist socialism, the left cheers the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in Hamas as the “genuine” and “authentic” representative of Palestinian opinion. Hamas banners now appear everywhere in “peace” demonstrations in Europe and North America. Leftists openly endorse the Hamas charter, whose central premise is that Israel must be annihilated.</p>
<p>Hamas has become the epitome of radical chic on U.S. campuses. Noam Chomsky has been insisting that Hamas is more seriously interested in peace than is Israel.9 Former president of the Middle East Studies Association, Stanford’s Joel Beinin, has criticized the Ford Foundation for <i>not </i>financing Hamas NGOs.10 Hamas, for its part, refuses to recognize or conduct any talks at all with Jews, even with the leftists in Israeli universities who ape the positions taken by Chomsky, Howard Zinn and other radical American academics.</p>
<p>The attitude of the new American administration appears ambiguous. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently ruled out any American negotiations with the Hamas, but then added an ominous afterthought: “unless it meets certain conditions.”11 Thus she took the first step towards joining the long list of Western diplomats who have backtracked and birdwalked over the past decade. These have methodically dumbed down the changes that Palestinian terrorists must make and the demands they must meet before being proclaimed “statesmen.” Nor is Clinton alone in her incipient revisionism about Hamas. John Kerry, who now heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently paid a high profile visit to the Gaza’s Hamastan, and reportedly carried back a note from the terror organization for President Obama’s eyes only.12</p>
<p>Other Americans have been far less cautious about courting Hamas. Ex-President Jimmy Carter has been one of the leading public figures promoting official recognition of the group. He traveled to Damascus to meet with terrorist chiefs, including Khaled Meshaal, the exiled Hamas leader. The Bush administration repudiated his efforts,13 as did U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Hillary Clinton’s top Jewish advisor:</p>
<p>“A meeting with the former President of the United States lends credibility to terrorists and Holocaust deniers worldwide. In light of Hamas’ continuing violence and calls for the destruction of the State of Israel, I strongly urge President Carter to reconsider his decision.”</p>
<p>Carter’s pandering to Hamas is not reciprocal. In Hamas leaflets, the organization has expressed its opposition to every possible peace plan that has ever been proposed by anyone.14 In its leaflet #46 (September 1989) it rejected Egypt’s ten-point peace plan and warned Palestinians against any contact at all with the United States. In its leaflet #55 (March 1990) it threatened other Palestinian figures who had met with former U.S. President Carter, and warned threateningly that those trying to revive the Camp David accords do not represent the Palestinian people. A bit more recently, Hamas ruled out any sort of permanent truce with Israel, other than brief ceasefires that can give it time to re- arm.15 “The logic of those who demand that we stop our resistance is absurd,” the terror organization writes in one of its advisories that provide talking points for Western media and politicians. “They absolve the aggressor and occupier &#8211; armed with the deadliest weapons of death and destruction &#8211; of responsibility, while blaming the victim, prisoner and occupied.”16</p>
<p><b>What is Hamas?</b></p>
<p>The word Hamas is an acronym for the Arabic words for “Islamic Resistance Movement.” The organization is an Islamofascist terrorist group, responsible for most of the rocket terrorist attacks on civilians in Israel’s south in recent years. Those attacks triggered Israel’s Operation Cast Lead this past winter. It is estimated that 8000 rockets were fired before Israel at last retaliated.</p>
<p>Hamas is probably the most active Arab terrorist organization in recruiting and dispatching suicide-bombers against Jews. Hamas has converted murder-by-suicide into its highest religious value and goal. The first Hamas suicide bombing took place in Israel in April 1993. Thousands of Hamas terrorists train in Iran.</p>
<p>The Hamas “military” wing calls itself the Izz ad-Din al- Qassam brigades, named after an early Palestinian terrorist, killed by the British Mandatory government troops back when “Palestine” was governed by Britain. The Qassam rocket, the weapon of terror most favored by the Hamas, is also named after that terrorist. Al-Qassam was the sidekick of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, at the time Hitler’s chief agent in the Middle East.17</p>
<p>Hamas is officially funded by Islamic fascist groups, by Arab governments, by Iran and Syria, and by “Islamic charities” fromaroundtheworld.18 (TheBushadministrationfamously cracked down on some of these “charities,” including the so- called “Holy Land Foundation.) Hamas steals considerable portions of the aid provided to the Gaza Strip by the EU, the US, the UN, and by others.19 In some cases it then sells the material back to ordinary Gazans for a profit.</p>
<p>Hamas grew out of the Palestinian wing of the violent fundamentalist Islamist movement calling itself the Muslim Brotherhood.20 The latter operated throughout the Muslim world, but was especially strong in Egypt, where it was launched in the 1920s. The Brotherhood served as an anti- British pro-Nazi terror group in Egypt and elsewhere during World War II. It terrorized the Jewish population of Egypt and in other Arab countries. It assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981 for daring to sign a peace accord with Israel. It had earlier tried to assassinate Gamal Nasser for not being sufficiently anti-West and anti-Israel for their tastes. The Muslim Brotherhood regularly attacks non-Muslim tourists visiting Egypt and justifies any murder of non-Muslims by Muslims anywhere in the name of jihad.</p>
<p>Groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, now outlawed in Egypt, have operated in the United States since 1960.21 Some of these have ties with al-Qaeda. One of the Brotherhood websites blames the 911 attacks in the US on the Jews. 22</p>
<p>Yassir Arafat joined the Brotherhood as a student at an Egyptian university. His Fatah organization, the main group within the PLO, also was built up initially as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and as an Islamist movement. (The word “Fat’h” means holy crusade for Islam.)</p>
<p>In 1973 a Muslim clergyman named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin established <i>al-Mujamma’ al-Islami </i>(the Islamic Center) as the main Muslim Brotherhood movement in Gaza. In December, 1987, the same Yassin, who was later executed by Israel, founded Hamas as the Muslim Brotherhood’s Gazan political arm. A different segment of the Muslim Brotherhood broke away to form the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, an ally of Hamas, in the mid-1980s.23</p>
<p>When Hamas began gathering strength, it was at first misjudged by Israel to be a religious NGO that might develop into a political counterweight to the Palestine Liberation Organization and to its affiliate terrorist groups. Writing in <i>The Wall Street Journal </i>in January 2009, Andrew Higgins notes:</p>
<p>When Israel first encountered Islamists in Gaza in the 1970s and ‘80s, they seemed focused on studying the Quran, not on confrontation with Israel. The Israeli government officially recognized a precursor to Hamas called <i>Mujama Al-Islamiya</i>, registering the group as a charity. It allowed Mujama members to set up an Islamic university and build mosques, clubs and schools. Crucially, Israel often stood aside when the Islamists and their secular left-wing Palestinian rivals battled, sometimes violently, for influence in both Gaza and the West Bank.</p>
<p>It did not take long for Israel to realize that the Hamas was arguably an even worse belligerent than the PLO. When Yassir Arafat and, after his death, Abu Mazen went through the motions of conducting “talks” and negotiations with Israel (as the price for receiving American and European support and financing), Hamas denounced such behavior, even though it was for the most part a diplomatic mime. Unlike the PLO, Hamas always speaks clearly and unambiguously in declaring its aims. Hamas is not even willing to pretend rhetorically that its ambitions can be met without the total annihilation of Israel and of its Jewish population.</p>
<p>Hamas is openly endeavoring to carry out a new genocide of Jews. In one of its earliest proclamations, its Leaflet #65 (October 1990), it called upon Arabs to murder Jews and burn their property: “Every Jew or settler is a target and must be killed. Their blood and their property are forfeit.” Not even the most desperate apologist for the organization can twist such statements to mean anything else. Hamas insists that “the soil of Palestine is sacred,” and that every Muslim must take action to liberate every inch of Palestine from the Jews, by which it means all of Israel. Among the more notorious targets for its bombs have been buses of civilians and the cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.24</p>
<p>The Hamas Charter is a meandering hate document, calling for Israel’s complete annihilation.25 It explicitly cites the czarist forgery, <i>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</i>, about a purported global Jewish conspiracy to control the world, in language resembling that on neo-Nazi websites. Hamas is fond of other nutty conspiracy theories, especially the ones claiming that the freemasons are in cahoots with the Jews in a cabal to control the planet. Among the Charter’s main points are these:</p>
<p>“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”</p>
<p>“The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic <i>Waqf </i>[consecrated land held as an Islamic trust] consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgment Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. “</p>
<p>“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”</p>
<p>“After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the <i>‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’</i>, and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.”26</p>
<p>These are the people to whom the armchair Western peace seekers demand that Israel capitulate.</p>
<p><b>Abuse of Palestinian Arabs by Hamas</b></p>
<p>One of the greatest ironies of the Middle East is that the treatment of Arabs by Arab regimes is so much <b><i>worse </i></b>than the treatment of Arabs by Israel. The only place in the Middle East where the basic human rights of Arabs are respected is, in fact, in Israel. Only there can Arabs vote, freely petition public officials and courts, exercise freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and only there is their property safe and legally protected. (Arabs are starting to enjoy some such freedoms in American-occupied Iraq.)</p>
<p>Moreover, in spite of the faddish mantras about Israeli “apartheid” heard on campuses these days, Israel is in fact the only country in the Middle East that is <b><i>not </i></b>an apartheid regime.</p>
<p>When Syria launched a campaign to wipe out the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1980s, it killed more than 30,000 people, most of them civilians. Jordan may have killed Palestinians in even greater numbers than that in a massacre conducted by King Hussein’s regime in 1970, in what became known as “Black September.”27 (That term of mourning, ironically, was adopted as an identity by the new terrorist group that conducted the Munich massacre and many other atrocities.) Hamas is squarely in this tradition, routinely murdering large numbers of innocent Palestinians it regards as impediments to its plans. 28</p>
<p>No one knows just how many Palestinians the terror organization has killed. But Hamas is so dedicated to the liquidation of internal opposition that it took time out to murder the Fatah sympathizers in Gaza even while it was trying to fight off Israeli troops in Operation “Cast Lead” in 2008. Members of the PLO’s Fatah are routinely accused by the Hamas of collaborating with Israel and tortured. Fatah members may not hold demonstrations in the Gaza Strip, even against Israel, and if they try to do so they are attacked by Hamas thugs. Even Amnesty International, no friend of Israel’s, has spoken out against Hamas use of torture, although not against Hamas rockets fired at Jews.29 Even Arabs in Gaza hospitals have been tortured.30 The Hamas “parliament” has voted in favor of crucifixion of its opponents and rivals.31 Women deemed to be misbehaving in Gaza have been gang-raped by Hamas members.32</p>
<p>Hamas hates Christians, Bahais, and secular Muslims almost as ferociously as it hates Jews. It has brutalized Gaza Christians and ordered them to wear traditional Islamic dress.33 It has attacked churches in Gaza. In one incident its terrorists “attacked Gaza’s Latin Church and adjacent Rosary Sisters School, reportedly destroying crosses, bibles, pictures of Jesus and furniture and equipment. The attackers also stole a number of computers.” 34 Other church leaders have been ordered at gun point to promote Islam.35 Until recently, about 2000 Arab Christians lived in Gaza, but many have fled for their lives, including the son of a Hamas member of parliament who converted to Christianity.36</p>
<p>Hamas also operates numerous “vice squads” that specialize in murdering unmarried people meeting together and in torturing homosexuals.37 Some persecuted Palestinian homosexuals have sought refuge in Israel. These squads, who sometimes knee-cap their victims,38 haunt internet cafes and music stores where Gazans requiring “re-education” hang out. 39</p>
<p><b>Hamas Rule in Gaza</b></p>
<p>A bit like Adolf Hitler in Germany in the 1930s, Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip “legally” and only after winning an “election.” On January 29, 2006, the organization defeated its rivals in a vote to take over the “Palestinian Authority, which had been set up by Israel in the euphoria of the early “peace process” under Yitzhak Rabin and with the expectation that it would be controlled by the PLO. After vote tallies, Hamas gained 74 out of 132 seats. It was not exactly a free election; for example, no party willing to recognize the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state was running, and no freedom of speech or of the press was in effect. Nevertheless, the strong showing of the Hamas effectively removed the PLO, the heirs of Yassir Arafat, from control of the Palestinian Authority.</p>
<p>Whether the PLO and Hamas actually represent conflicting ideologies has long been a matter of dispute. They are both terrorist organizations devoted to Israel’s annihilation. Abu Mazen, the “President” of the Palestinian Authority, wrote his “doctoral thesis” in Russia supporting Holocaust denial. The PLO has conducted suicide bombings and rocket firings, especially via its military “Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.”40 Hamas has done the same through its Izz ad-Din al-Qassam military.41 Theirideologicaldifferencesmatteraboutasmuch as the differences between warring mafia families and have to do with power and money far more than philosophy.</p>
<p>After the 2006 election the initial expectation on the part of many observers was that Hamas would be content to allow Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen to remain in power or at least to serve as a significant figurehead. But after biding their time a bit, Hamas militias launched a putsch to seize all centers of power in the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007.42 The Fatah of the PLO put up a weak resistance and quickly fell apart. Many of its members requested that Israel “rescue them” and move them to safety in the West Bank. The Gaza Strip became popularly known as “Hamastan.”43 The PLO retreated to its control of Palestinian institutions in the West Bank from its offices in Ramallah. There Abu Mazen heads an “alternative” Palestinian Authority, without the participation of Hamas, although the organization’s loyalists control some of universities in the West Bank. It is not inconceivable that Hamas could displace the PLO in the West Bank just as it did in Gaza.</p>
<p>One of the first things Hamas did after taking over Gaza was to launch a campaign of unbridled kleptocracy, stealing funds and commodities shipped to the Gaza Strip as humanitarian aid (including that sent by other Arab countries) sent via the UN institutions operating there. A Qatari newspaper claims the theft amounts to billions of dollars.44 This is all a bit ironic, given that Hamas favors the traditional Muslim punishment for theft of chopping off of hands.45</p>
<p>Aid is the main form of income and consumption in the Gaza Strip, where the terrorists have never had much interest in building factories or creating real jobs, other than employment opportunities in terrorism. (Among the items stolen by Hamas was the actual Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yassir Arafat). Shakedowns by Hamas gunmen have included an attempt to kidnap the parents of Rachel Corrie,46 the undergraduate American cheerleader of terrorism turned martyr for the left, who was crushed in Gaza in 2003 when she refused to get out of the way of an Israeli bulldozer demolishing terrorist hideouts. When the terrorists realized whom they had grabbed off the Gaza street, they released them, as the anti-Israel Corries represented more valuable propaganda assets for terrorism while free.</p>
<p>Imposing totalitarian power over the residents of Gaza by controlling the supply of food and other basic needs is part of Hamas’ strategy. Intentional economic ruination is, in fact, <i>de facto </i>Hamas domestic policy—the creation of a situation in which every Gazan will be dependent upon Hamas handouts and Hamas control of international aid. The response of most of the world to this has been to escalate calls for providing <b><i>even more </i></b>aid to Gaza, channeled through Hamas.</p>
<p>When Israel balked at providing supplies that would be commandeered by Hamas and used for its aims, especially while Hamas was firing thousands of rockets at Israeli children, the entire world wagged its fingers at the Israeli “oppressors denying food” meant for the poor children of the Gaza Strip. Israel was still denounced as an “occupier” of Gaza, even though it had removed all of its soldiers and civilians, because it was closely monitoring imports of supplies—and, often of arms—by Hamas. Meanwhile, Hamas also took control of the myriad smuggling tunnels that come into Gaza from Egypt, extorting “tolls” from other Gazans trying to use them to bring in supplies.</p>
<p>The result of all this has been the emergence of two <i>de facto </i>separate Palestinian mini-states in the making—Hamistan, a Hamas-controlled Islamofascist state in the Gaza Strip; and a PLO-controlled entity in the West Bank some call Fatahstan.47 At this point the starting position of the Palestinians and their apologists in any negotiations is their demand for in effect <b><i>four different </i></b>Palestinian Arab states&#8211;the two mini-states in the making, as noted; plus Jordan, whose citizens are by and large Palestinians; plus the demand that Israel itself be converted into yet another Palestinian Arab state by allowing unlimited Arab migration to it as fulfillment of the supposed Arab “right of return.”</p>
<p>As soon as Hamas had seized power in the Gaza Strip, the world heard shrill declarations that this was an organization with which Israel and the West can “do business”—pragmatic people interested in jobs and budgets. It was claimed that, despite the group’s lurid rhetoric and slogans and its menacing charter, once in office Hamas would devote all of its energies to praying, ecology, and fixing potholes. This assumption was delusional, as events soon demonstrated, but the love affair between the western left and Hamas persists.</p>
<p><b>Rehabitating Hamas as a “Social Organization” and “Charity”</b></p>
<p><i>The New York Times </i>and other liberal media are always at pains to remind everyone that Hamas also conducts non- military activities and provides some “social services.”48 When the organization won the Gaza “elections” in 2006, many Western talking heads attributed the victory to its provision of such services to Gaza residents. (On BBC radio the morning of the Hamas victory, I heard a commentator attributing the victory to the fact that Hamas is better at fixing potholes and sewers than the PLO. He was serious.)</p>
<p>Hamas does indeed operate social services, but mainly as a tool in asserting its power and control, and in order to finance its terrorism.49 The American State Department has traditionally drawn no distinction between Hamas terrorism and its social services: “As long as Hamas continues to rely on terrorism to achieve its political ends, we should not draw a distinction between its military and humanitarian arms, since funds provided to one can be used to support the other.” Even the normally anti-Israel Human Rights Watch has concluded that Hamas social functions are part and parcel of its terrorist activity: “In the case of Hamas, there is abundant evidence that the military wing is accountable to a political steering committee that includes Shaikh Ahmad Yassin, the group’s acknowledged ‘spiritual leader,’ as well as spokesperson such as Ismail Abu Shanab, ‘Abd al-’Aziz al-Rantissi, and Mahmud Zahar. Yassin himself, as well as Salah Shehadah, the late founder and commander of the ‘<i>Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades</i>, have confirmed in public remarks that the military wing implements the policies that are set by the political wing.”50 The Simon Wiesenthal Center has issued a report with the same findings.51</p>
<p><b>Hamas and al-Qaeda</b></p>
<p>Hamas and al-Qaeda are basically two sides of the same jihad.52 They have squabbled rhetorically on occasion, such as over Hamas’ meeting Putin, which bin Laden regarded as “betraying” the Chechins, but that may have been all for show. Hamas “schools” and other institutions routinely distribute the harangues of bin-Laden and other al-Qaeda materials. Hamas rallies feature posters of bin Laden and of Chechen terror leaders.</p>
<p>Hamas terrorists returning from al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan have been apprehended by Israel. Al-Qaeda emissaries have infiltrated Gaza to coordinate action with Hamas. <i>The San Francisco Chronicle </i>reported, “According to a 2004 FBI affidavit, al-Qaeda recruited Hamas members to conduct surveillance against potential targets in the United States.” In 2006, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, better known as Abu Mazen, himself claimed that al-Qaeda was operating in the Gaza Strip and also accused Hamas of providing aid to al-Qaeda.53. A group calling itself the “Al-Qaeda Organization Jihad in Palestine” has operated in Gaza since October 2005 with Hamas blessings.</p>
<p>Hamas has long been unabashedly anti-American.54 The FBI has been warning about possible imminent Hamas attacks on America since at least 2005. Saddam Hussein was one of the main funders of Hamas, making grants to the families of Hamas suicide bombers.55 Hamas strongly denounced the arrest and execution of Saddam by the US, calling it a “political assassination.” A Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhum, said, “Saddam Hussein was a prisoner of war. [The] hanging &#8230; is a political assassination that violates all international laws that are supposed to protect prisoners of war.”56 Several Hamas operatives have been arrested in the U.S.</p>
<p>Hamas is also one of the most openly anti-Semitic organizations on the planet. It repeats every medieval anti- Jewish libel, down to and including the use of the blood of gentile children to make Passover bread. It recently claimed that a Jewish world cabal had engineered the current collapse of financial markets.57 Hamas’ role in spreading anti-Semitism goes well beyond the Middle East. It has distributed anti-Semitic materials in Russia, including, oddly enough, the old czarist forgery, <i>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.</i>58</p>
<p><b>Hamas, Iran, and Holocaust Denial</b></p>
<p>Hamas owes much of its growth to the support it receives from Iran. Israel’s ex-Prime Minister Olmert recently said, “Hamas in Gaza was built by Iran as a foundation for power, and is backed through funding, through training and through the provision of advanced weapons.”59</p>
<p>The moment Hamas won the Gaza “elections” in 2006, Iran rushed in to compensate for the dismay of the rest of the world. Hamas and Iran had already grown very close in the aftermath of the American-led allied invasion of Iraq in 2003.60 That closeness may seem odd, since Iran today leads the world’s Shi’ite Muslims, with their centuries of grievances against Sunni Muslims, while Hamas is clearly a Sunni entity. But the alliance makes sense when the third leg of this triangle of terror, the Shi’ite Hezbollah in Lebanon, which collaborates openly with Hamas, is factored into the equation.61</p>
<p>The Ahmedinijad regime’s partnership with Hamas has also been reflected in its adopting the Holocaust denial so fashionable in Iran. On Hamas television, numerous “experts,” ranging from Iranian leaders to German Neo- Nazis, insist that the very existence of the Holocaust has “yet to be proven historically.” In the official Hamas weekly <i>Al- Risala</i>, Dr. Abd Al-Aziz Al-Rantisi, a senior Hamas leader, wrote on August 21, 2003:</p>
<p>“The Zionists &#8230; have succeeded in misleading the West and making it believe in the false Holocaust &#8230; The Zionists were behind the Nazis’ murder of many Jews, and agreed to it, with the aim of intimidating them [the Jews] and forcing them to immigrate to Palestine. Every time they failed to persuade a group of Jews to immigrate [to Palestine], they unhesitatingly sentenced [them] to death. Afterwards, they would organize great propaganda campaigns, to cash in on their blood. The Nazis received tremendous financial aid from the Zionist banks and monopolies, and this contributed to their rise to power &#8230; The crimes perpetrated by the Nazis against humanity, with all their atrocities, are no more than a tiny particle compared to the Zionists’ terror against the Palestinian people.” (Translation courtesy of MEMRI.)</p>
<p>When the Hamas leaders are not busy denying there ever was a Nazi Holocaust of the Jews, they are insisting that the Jews planned the Holocaust themselves.62 A Hamas film made public by the Palestinian Media Watch organization claims that Jewish leaders themselves orchestrated the European Holocaust of Jews, “so the Jews would seem persecuted and try to benefit from international sympathy.” Amin Dabur, head of the “Center for Strategic Research,” is cited in the film explaining that “the Israeli [sic] Holocaust, the whole thing was a joke and part of the perfect show that Ben Gurion put on&#8230;. They were sent [by the Jews to die] so there would be a Holocaust, so Israel could ‘play’ it for world sympathy.”</p>
<p><b>CAIR and Hamas</b></p>
<p>While Hamas cannot operate legally and openly in the United States, it has front groups that will do its work for it, chief among them being the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR.</p>
<p>CAIR is an anti-Semitic, anti-American lobby group with intimate ties to Hamas, and is sometimes considered to be an outright subsidiary of Hamas. Americans Against Hate, in fact<i>, </i>has called upon the US government to regard CAIR as an official front for Hamas.63</p>
<p>CAIR itself was established in June, 1994 by three leaders of the now-defunct American propaganda wing of Hamas, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP).64 That group was part of the American Palestine Committee, headed by the global leader of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. In March, 1994 CAIR’s co-founder and current Executive Director, Nihad Awad, stated in broken English, “After I researched the situation inside and outside Palestine, I am in support of the Hamas movement&#8230;”65</p>
<p>CAIR disseminates Hamas propaganda, including its calls for genocide against Jews. CAIR members have bragged that they plan to become suicide bombers.66 The FBI recently cut off all contact with CAIR, in part because of its intimate ties with Hamas. CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the plot by Islamists in the US, led by Sami al-Arian (a founder of CAIR), to raise funds for Hamas.67 The CAIR Research Director, Mohammad Nimer has ties with terrorists.68 H<b>e </b>also served as a board director for UASR, the strategic arm for Hamas in the U.S. According to his bio at American University, “Just as CAIR uses the facade of being a civil rights group to conduct terror activities, Nimer used the guise of “conflict resolution” expert to facilitate his movements within the al-Qaeda network.”69</p>
<p><b>The Futility of “Talks” with the Hamas</b></p>
<p>The Western fetish about “talking,” which has been analyzed at length by Joshua Muravchik,70 is based on the belief that all international conflicts and wars resemble marital spats. Thus the trick to settling them is to smooth ruffled egos and get the conflicted parties to sit down face to face, socialize over tea, emote, seek catharsis, and otherwise come to empathize with the “Other.” It is postmodernist gibberish and Habermasian “communicative action” gone berserk. It is based on the naïve belief that everyone in the world is reasonable, and so all conflict must be the result simply of misunderstanding. Proponents insist that there are no <b><i>real </i></b>conflicts of interests, just misinterpretations and hurt feelings. Grievances are mere psychological baggage, always ready to be jettisoned.</p>
<p>This fetish for talking cannot be made to conform to the basic character of Hamas. The idea that gestures of good will and frank discussions can wean this organization from its genocidal agenda is so absurd that it is hard to find words to mock it properly.</p>
<p>There is growing recognition by knowledgeable observers (those who do not secretly seek Israel’s destruction) that there is simply no way that Israel can reach any sort of peace accord or compromise solution with Hamas.71 In a recent column in <i>The New York Times </i>(January 13, 2009), Jeffrey Goldberg wrote;</p>
<p>“As the Gaza war moves to a cease-fire, a crucial question will inevitably arise, as it has before: Should Israel (and by extension, the United States) try to engage Hamas in a substantive and sustained manner? It is a fair question, one worth debating, but it is unmoored from certain political and theological realities&#8230;. Periodically, advocates of negotiation suggest that the hostility toward Jews expressed by Hamas is somehow mutable. But in years of listening, I haven’t heard much to suggest that its anti-Semitism is insincere. Like Hezbollah, Hamas believes that God is opposed to a Jewish state in Palestine. Both groups are rhetorically pitiless, though, again, Hamas sometimes appears to follow the lead of Hezbollah.”</p>
<p>The bottom line is that there is no possibility of reaching any “deals” or even real ceasefires with Hamas, which has violated every single ceasefire agreement it ever signed within minutes. It was the fact that Hamas launched thousands of rockets at Israel in the first place, while a ceasefire agreement was supposed to be in effect, that led to the recent Gaza war.</p>
<p>No deal is possible because there is nothing Hamas seeks other than war. Therefore there can be no possibility for any tradeoffs or compromises that might be proposed to Hamas as compensation for its giving up or forestalling its genocidal ambitions. Since war is its <i>raison d’etre</i>, there is absolutely nothing constructive that can be gained by offering Hamas dialogue and negotiations. The only real effect of such “talks” would be to strengthen Hamas, strengthening its legitimacy among credulous European and American liberals, and so give it added leeway to continue its quest for a second Holocaust of Jews.</p>
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<p><b>Endnotes</b></p>
<p>1 See “Hamas Wants Off Terror List,” http://www.jihadwatch.org/ archives/010261.php</p>
<p>2 See “Appeal for the removal of Hamas from the EU terror list!.” http://www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task= view&amp;id=6060&amp;Itemid=229</p>
<p>3 “EU Urged: Take Hamas Off Blacklist,” http://news.sky.com/skynews/ Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/200806413500083?f=rss</p>
<p>4 “EU Urged: Take Hamas Off Blacklist,” <i>The New York Times</i>, May 20, 2008.</p>
<p>5 “Hamas pleased with European ‘U-turn,’ <i>Jerusalem Post</i>, Aug 15, 2007</p>
<p>6 “At Tufts, Blair says Hamas must be drawn into talks,” <i>Boston Globe</i>, Feb. 3, 2009.</p>
<p>7 “Hamas’ March to Victory ,” by Caroline B. Glick, Jan. 2, 2009, http://townhall.com/columnists/CarolineBGlick/2009/01/02/hamas_ march_to_victory?page=2</p>
<p>8 ibid.</p>
<p>9 “American Linguist Noam Chomsky: Hamas Policies Are More Conducive to a Peaceful Settlement than Those of the U.S. or Israel,” http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/011614.php</p>
<p>10 xi. “Joel Beinin: Apologist for Terrorists,” by David Horowitz, May 19, 2006, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read. aspx?GUID=681F93A4-4EFA-4327-8153-A9961EAB2ACE</p>
<p>11 http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/13/1002220/clinton-no- negotiations-with-hamas</p>
<p>12 CNN, Feb 20, 2009, http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/ meast/02/20/kerry.letter/index.html</p>
<p>13 “Bush, Obama: No to Carter-Hamas chat,” April 11, 2008, http:// www.cjnews.com/index.php?”option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=14 461&amp;Itemid=86</p>
<p>14 Cited in “Hamas&#8211;The Islamic Resistance Movement In The Territories,” by Boaz Ganor, <a href="http://www.jcpa.org/jl/saa27.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">http://www.jcpa.org/jl/saa27.htm</span></a><br />
15 Cited at http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=3368<br />
16 <i>The Guardian</i>, January 6, 2009<br />
17 http://www.zionism-israel.com/dic/Haj_Amin_El_Husseini.htm</p>
<p>18 “Hamas’s Foreign Benefactors,” by Kenneth Katzman, Middle East Quarterly, June 1995; Israeli Ministry of foreign Affairs, The Financial Sources of the Hamas Terror Organization, July 2003, http://www.mfa. gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/7/The+Financial+Sources+ of+the+Hamas+Terror+Organiza;</p>
<p>19 “Report: Hamas stealing aid supplies to sell to residents,” http:// www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3651783,00.html ; “UN, Hamas meet to discuss stolen Gaza aid,” Haaretz, 08/02/2009; see also ;http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32664_Hamas_Steals_Aid_UN_ Actually_Notices</p>
<p>20 Council on Foreign Relations, “Hamas,” January 7, 2009; “ ; Encyclopedia of the Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood,” http://www. mideastweb.org/Middle-East-Encyclopedia/muslim_brotherhood.htm</p>
<p>21 Al Ahram, “Politics in God’s Name,” Nov. 16-22, 1995</p>
<p>22 “Were the 9-11 Hijackers Really Arabs? Maybe Not,” http://www. ummah.com/worldaffairs/viewcafeature1.php?cafid=29&amp;caTopicID=6</p>
<p>23 “Hamas&#8211;The Islamic Resistance Movement In The Territories,” by Boaz Ganor, Survey of Arab Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1992</p>
<p>24 “Hamas terrorist attacks,” and “Terrorist bombing at Hebrew University cafeteria,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs</p>
<p>25 MidEast Web Historical Documents, “Hamas Charter: The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas),” August 18 1988, http:// www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm</p>
<p>26 ibid</p>
<p>27 “The Middle East’s Apartheid Regime,” by Steven Plaut February 19, 2009 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read. aspx?GUID=864E1EC2-1EC3-4343-A1C3-87D04DE7E4E7</p>
<p>28 “Hamas Murder Campaign In Gaza Exposed: Human Rights Group,” Huffington Post, February 13, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost. com/2009/02/13/hamas-murder-campaign-exp_n_166868.html</p>
<p>29 “Amnesty charges Hamas with torture and murder,” http://www. thejc.com/articles/amnesty-charges-hamas-torture-and-murder</p>
<p>30 http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-209234</p>
<p>31 Beliefnet report: http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/12/ hamas-legalizes-crucifixion_comments.html</p>
<p>32 http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2009/01/18/alan-morrison-gang-rape- in-gaza-an-arousing-reverie/</p>
<p>33 “Hamas accused of intimidating Christians,” Nov. 6, 2007, http:// www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58531 ; “Sojourners for Hamas,” July 03, 2007 , http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ Read.aspx?GUID=35537182-EBCE-4CF7-A04D-3795F4857598 ; “Hamas’ Christian convert: I’ve left a society that sanctifies terror,” july</p>
<p>31, 2008, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1007097.html</p>
<p>34 ‘Christians must accept Islamic rule,’ http://www.ynet.co.il/english/ articles/0,7340,L-3414753,00.html</p>
<p>35 ‘Hamas accused of intimidating Christians,’ http://www.wnd.com/ news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58531<br />
36 ibid and ‘Hamas turns on Gaza Christians,’ http://www.israeltoday. co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&amp;nid=13149</p>
<p>37 http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.culture.israel/2006- 06/msg00658.html</p>
<p>38 http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/ Security/?id=3.0.3001523783</p>
<p>39 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=833956</p>
<p>40 “Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade,” by Holly Fletcher, April 2, 2008, Council on Foreign Relations, backgrounder, http://www.cfr.org/ publication/9127</p>
<p>41 “Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam,” Encyclopedia of the Middle East, http://www.mideastweb.org/Middle-East-Encyclopedia/sheikh_izz_ad- din_al-qassam.htm</p>
<p>42 <i>The Guardian</i>, June 15, 2007.<br />
43 “The Specter of ‘Hamastan’: More Must Be Done to Counter Islamist Gains in Gaza,” by Dennis Ross. Washington Post, June 4, 2007</p>
<p>44 http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/commentary/commentaryother.a sp?file=Februarycommentary322006.xml; A sample of other reports: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/160296 ; http:// www.taiwansnews.net/story/462616 ; http://www.jihadwatch.org/ archives/016962.php ; http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/952322. html; http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605920728&amp;pag ename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</p>
<p>45 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,385502,00.html<br />
46 ‘Rachel Corrie’s parents endure brush with Gaza kidnappers,’</p>
<p><i>Jerusalem Post</i>, Jan 5, 2006.<br />
47 “Hamastan vs Fatahstan,” By Christoph Schult, <i>Salon</i>, June 19,</p>
<p>2007,</p>
<p>48 “Hamas,” <i>The New York Times</i>, March 9, 2009 ; see also the review of Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad, by Matthew Levitt, in <i>New York Sun</i>, May 23, 2006</p>
<p>49 ibid, and see also “ Hamas’s use of charitable societies to fund and support terror,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep 2003</p>
<p>50 “Erased In A Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli Civilians,” Human Rights Watch, October, 2002</p>
<p>51 “Unmasking Hamas’ Hydra of Terror,” http://www.wiesenthal.com/ atf/cf/%7bDFD2AAC1-2ADE-428A-9263-35234229D8D8%7d/ hydraofterror.pdf</p>
<p>52 “Ties between al Qaeda and Hamas in Mideast are long and frequent,” <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, March 5, 2006</p>
<p>53 “Abbas Accuses Hamas of Aid to Al Qaeda,” New York Times, July 11, 2007; “Abbas Links Hamas and Al Qaeda,” New York Times, Jul 10, 2007; “The Strip Club: Al Qaeda and Hamas in Gaza,” by James S. Robbins, National Review Online, March 6, 2006</p>
<p>54 Daniel Pipes, “Hamas vs. America,” <i>New York Sun</i>, May 3, 2005</p>
<p>55 “PalestiniansGetSaddamCharityChecks,”CBSNews,March13,2003</p>
<p>56 “Reactions to Saddam Hussein’s execution,” Middle East Online, http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=18985</p>
<p>57 “Hamas: ‘Jewish Lobby’ in U.S. to blame for global financial crisis,” Haaretz, Oct 7, 2008</p>
<p>58 “Hamas distributes Iranian anti-Semitic cartoons to Russia,” http:// www.iranholocaustdenial.com/news/hamas-distributes-iranian- anti-semitic-cartoons-to-russia-3.htm, “Protocols of the Elders of Zion—fuel for bigots,” http://www.iranholocaustdenial.com/education/ protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion-fuel-for-bigots-2.htm; “Protocols of the Elders of Zion &#8211; Favorite Classic,” http://www.zionism-israel.com/log/ archives/00000236.html</p>
<p>59 “The Iran-Hamas Alliance: Threat and Folly,” by Hillel Frisch, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, May 1, 2007; Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2009; “Iran pledges to finance Hamas-led Palestinian government,” Haaretz, February 22, 2006</p>
<p>60 ‘Iran Is Building “Hamastan” in Gaza,’ by Shalom Harari , Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 11, 2007</p>
<p>61 “Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran,” by Martin Kramer, http://www. geocities.com/martinkramerorg/HezbollahHamas.pdf ; “Lebanon: The Israel-Hamas-Hezbolah Conflict,” Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, August 14, 2006; “Palestinians: Hamas, Hezbollah cooperated on Jerusalem terror attack,” Haaretz, March 9, 2008;</p>
<p>62 “ Hamas: Jews planned the Holocaust,” <i>Jerusalem Post</i>, Apr. 30, 2008; “Hamas: Jews planned the Holocaust,” UPI.com, May 1, 2008</p>
<p>63 “CAIR called ‘turnstile’ for terrorist suspects,’ http://www. worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59026 ; “CAIR: Youngest Member of Hamas Family Tree,” http://counterterrorismblog. org/2007/08/cair_youngest_member_of_hamas.php ; http://www. americansagainsthate.org/releases/PR-HamasCAIR.htm</p>
<p>64 “CAIRing for Hamas,” by Joe Kaufman, http://www.frontpagemag. com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7C8D1A60-539A-42A9-AD22- C64E5473CC1</p>
<p>65 “CAIR and Hamas, http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/ misc/113.pdf ;”CAIR director attended Hamas meeting,” http:// www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57003 ; “American-Born Muslims And The Lessons Of The Lackawanna, NY Terrorist Cell,” by Alan Caruba, toogoodreports.com ^ , September 16, 2002 ,</p>
<p>66 “Death of a Hamas Supporter,” by Joe Kaufman http://www. frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=18F94773-705D- 40C5-ACD6-A05D5047B40F ; IPT News, http://www.investigative project.org/985/fbi-cuts-off-cair-over-hamas-questions ; “Hamas and Hizzoner,” by John Perazzo, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ Read.aspx?GUID=5E5F4FCA-2B20-4393-917C-506AC4C756F7</p>
<p>67 “Feds name CAIR in plot to fund Hamas,” http://www.worldnetdaily. com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56009</p>
<p>68 http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2003/06/cairs-legal-tribulations.html 69 http://www.american.edu/manimer/bio/bio.html</p>
<p>70 “Obama’s ‘Talking’ Cure,” September, 2008, http://www. commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/obama-s&#8211;talking&#8211;cure- 12504</p>
<p>71 For example, http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/wm971. cfm</p>
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		<title>If Genocide Won’t Unite Iraq, Nothing Will</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 04:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama’s predictions of a united Iraq have fallen apart.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iraq-isis-yazidi.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238348" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iraq-isis-yazidi-416x350.jpg" alt="iraq-isis-yazidi" width="265" height="223" /></a>The more things change, the more they stay the same.</p>
<p>Obama’s Iraq policy in 2014 is his 2007 policy all over again. The minimal attacks on Al Qaeda are paired with the expectation that Iraqis will unite to achieve a political solution.</p>
<p>But what if they don’t?</p>
<p>In 2007, Obama had claimed that American withdrawals would pressure Iraqis into a political solution. He was wrong. The withdrawals not only failed to move Iraq toward a political solution, but they gave Maliki and his Iranian allies the power they needed to marginalize the Kurds and the Sunnis.</p>
<p>Obama went on insisting that the only solution to Al Qaeda could come from Iraqi unity right up until the threat of Yazidi genocide forced him to commit to air strikes. Denial of aid from the United States even as ISIS forces were closing in on Baghdad and Erbil had still failed to lead to a political solution.</p>
<p>Even now Obama is still reading from the same worn political unity script. But if even the threat of genocide hasn’t brought political unity in Iraq, is there anything that will?</p>
<p>It’s unknown whether Obama ever really believed in some anti-colonialist doctrine that convinced him that Iraqis would unite after an American withdrawal or whether he was using it as a fig leaf for his preemptive withdrawal platform, but time and mass murder have discredited him and it either way.</p>
<p>Middle Eastern countries with mixed ethnic and religious populations tend to be unstable and war-torn. Israel and Lebanon are two of the obvious examples, but Iraq and Syria have long histories of conflict predating the current civil wars. Whatever stability they had came from dictators and bloodshed.</p>
<p>In Israel, Sunni Muslims can’t get along with the native Jewish population they had once conquered, but which had managed to achieve political independence. In Lebanon, Sunni and Shiite Muslims can’t get along with each other or the pre-existing Christian population despite multiple agreements.</p>
<p>Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims can’t get along in Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. And that’s just a partial list.</p>
<p>There’s a pattern here that doesn’t suggest a bright future for a unified Iraq.</p>
<p>In a country where either Sunni or Shiite Muslims are so weak that they pose no threat to the Muslim majority of a different sect, they are persecuted, but the country as a whole can be stable. However where the demographic or political split is less tilted toward one side, then conflict becomes inevitable.</p>
<p>It’s not just a numbers game. It’s often a question of which families or tribes are closest to the centers of power. It’s also a regional conflict much like the Cold War in which Sunni and Shiite countries promote the spread of their brand of Islam through terrorism and armed insurgencies.</p>
<p>Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Kuwait, Qatar and the rest of the boys didn’t want a democratic Iraq in which different religious groups got along with each other. They wanted their religious sect to prevail.</p>
<p>When the United States left Iraq, Iran filled the void in Baghdad while even more Sunni oil money began flowing into Al Qaeda. And it really took off once Obama began favoring Iran’s nuclear program.</p>
<p>ISIS represents a familiar Saudi tactic. It’s the revival of the Ikhwan, the armies of Wahhabi bandit raiders who united Saudi Arabia under the House of Saud by terrorizing Sunni rivals and Shiite Muslims. The ISIS atrocities of today were business as usual for the Ikhwan who referred to other Muslims as infidels, invaded Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan, killed some 400,000 people and created a million refugees.</p>
<p>(Similar events had also taken place earlier such as the <a href="http://www.jcpa.org/art/nypost-dg6apr03.htm">Wahhabi sack of Kerbala</a> in Iraq in 1802. A contemporary description relates, “The elderly, women, and children—everybody died by the barbarians’ sword.”)</p>
<p>The Ikhwan, like Al Qaeda, turned on the Saudis and their attacks on British territory attracted Imperial attention. The Saudis used British air strikes to put down the Ikhwan in the 1920s and transformed what was left of them into the country’s National Guard. This pattern becomes familiar to us if we swap out the Ikhwan for Al Qaeda in its various forms. The difference is that modern technology and oil wealth have given the Wahhabi raiders a truly global reach as we discovered on September 11.</p>
<p>A century later, the United States is stuck playing the British role with the Saudis using Wahhabi insurgencies to crush their rivals before bringing in the United States to clean up the mess.</p>
<p>Maintaining a unified Iraq doesn’t just mean protecting it from Al Qaeda, but protecting it from Iran and the Saudis. And that isn’t something that we can realistically do. Barring an Iraqi Ataturk who can create a secular Iraqi state backed by a powerful army and reformist elite, there is no hope for a unified Iraq.</p>
<p>Iraq’s multiculturalism enabled ISIS. The shifting agendas of Maliki, his Shiite rivals, the Kurds and their various factions destroyed any possibility of resistance to the advancing Al Qaeda army. The Shiites wanted to use ISIS to impose central control on everyone else. The Kurds wanted to use ISIS to achieve their full independence. Despite the threat of genocide, these clashing agendas have not changed.</p>
<p>Right now we have two bad choices in Iraq. We can either ignore everything that happens there or try to micromanage it. Both policies have failed. We tried walking away from Iraq only to discover that it had become even more dangerous. At the same time we failed to create a stable multicultural Iraq.</p>
<p>The neo-conservative idea of stabilizing the Middle East with a democratic Iraq was visionary, but it was also fatally flawed by longstanding religious and ethnic tensions within the country and the region. The very idea of creating an Iraqi Egypt or Turkey to counterbalance explicitly sectarian Islamic powers only ensured that Iran and Saudi Arabia would do everything in their power to destabilize the experiment.</p>
<p>And that is what happened.</p>
<p>The only real hope for stability lies in breaking Iraq up along demographic lines into majority ethnic and religious states. These states will face external threats and they may be drawn into the orbits of Sunni and Shiite powers, but they will be internally stable and therefore less likely to host Al Qaeda. And they may be dependent enough on American weapons and aid to protect non-Muslim minorities.</p>
<p>The solution won’t be neat or easy, the history of Kirkuk testifies to that, but it is likely to be a solution that will leave behind countries that won’t require our constant involvement. To implement it, we don’t have to reject democracy, but we do have to be realistic about the prospects of multicultural states in a region where tribal wars of race and religion are a commonplace reality.</p>
<p>ISIS showed how unreal Iraqi nationalism was, just as the AKP proved that Turkey’s secular nationalism could be undone with Islamist money. Hamas demonstrated that Palestinian nationalism was a phantom and the Muslim Brotherhood showed how fragile Egyptian nationalism was.</p>
<p>In the Middle East, clan trumps nation and only religion occasionally trumps clan.</p>
<p>We can fight against the facts of the Middle East or we can work with them to create an Iraq that we can finally walk away from.</p>
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		<title>The Media&#8217;s Silence to Hamas&#8217; Genocidal Venom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 04:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blaming the victim of the crimes of a death cult. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/F131115EN04.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237924" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/F131115EN04-450x307.jpg" alt="F131115EN04" width="242" height="165" /></a>The Spanish government <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/08/05/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/spain-suspends-arms-sales-to-israel-over-gaza-operation"><span style="color: #0433ff;">on Monday</span></a> announced that it had “provisionally suspended” sales of weapons to Israel because of its supposed targeting of civilians in Gaza. This came a day after the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/us-appalled-disgraceful-israeli-shelling-gaza-un-school"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obama Administration declared</span></a> that it was “appalled” by Israel’s “disgraceful” shelling of a UN school in Gaza. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/08/03/was-a-un-school-in-gaza-really-bombed/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">called the shelling</span></a> a “moral outrage” and a “criminal act.” The only problem with all this moral indignation is that it is wrongly placed on the victim rather than the perpetrator, and bears witness to the success of Hamas’s propaganda barrage.</p>
<p>These are just two of the most recent examples of the success of Hamas’s skillful manipulation of the mainstream media, and the eagerness of the media to be manipulated – an eagerness so great that amid the frenzy to demonize Israel in the court of world opinion, Hamas’s oft-reiterated genocidal bloodlust and brazen breaking of ceasefire agreements goes unreported and ignored.</p>
<p>The U.S. condemnation of the Israeli shelling of the UN school was a particular victory. Jeff Dunetz reported in <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/israel-revolt/hamas-un-us-account-sundays-school-attack-looks-be-pallywood-production"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Truth Revolt</span></a> Monday that “evidence is emerging that the Israeli strike hit outside of the school and the bodies were moved into the courtyard to make it look like Israel hit the school.” This wouldn’t be remotely close to the first time that Palestinian jihadis have been caught faking Israeli “atrocities” – recently they even <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/15/hamas-uses-horror-movie-still-of-headless-girl-in-miniskirt-to-depict-gaza-casualties-on-social-media-warning-graphic-video/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">billed a still from a horror movie</span></a> as a fresh Israeli killing of a Palestinian civilian.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Hamas is cheerfully above-board about how it manipulates the mainstream media. The Middle East Media Research Institute (<a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8076.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">MEMRI</span></a>) reported in July that “in light of the recent round of fighting in Gaza, the Hamas interior ministry has issued guidelines to Gaza Strip social media users for reporting events and discussing them with outsiders.” These guidelines included this unabashedly Orwellian instruction: “Anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza or Palestine, before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank. Don’t forget to always add ‘innocent civilian’ or ‘innocent citizen’ in your description of those killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the international media has been almost unanimously indifferent to how it is being played. Nor does it show much interest in the numerous reports of Hamas launching attacks against Israel from civilian areas, so as to provoke retaliatory strikes that can be used for propaganda purposes. The Indian network <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/ndtv-exclusive-how-hamas-assembles-and-fires-rockets-571033"><span style="color: #0433ff;">NDTV</span></a> reported Tuesday that they had witnessed Hamas constructing a rocket silo “under a tent right next to the hotel where our team was staying. Minutes later, we saw the rocket being fired, just before the 72-hour ceasefire came into effect.” NDTV noted that they were publishing their report “after our team left the Gaza strip – Hamas has not taken very kindly to any reporting of its rockets being fired.” The network, which is no friend of Israel, concluded: “But just as we reported the devastating consequences of Israel’s offensive on Gaza’s civilians, it is equally important to report on how Hamas places those very civilians at risk by firing rockets deep from the heart of civilian zones.”</p>
<p>Likewise generally unfit to print have been Hamas’s own avowals that it puts civilians in harm’s way because of their value for jihad propaganda. A newly-discovered Hamas manual that, according to the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Will-captured-Hamas-manual-on-using-human-shields-help-Israel-block-war-crimes-trials-370154"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Jerusalem Post</span></a>, has been characterized by the Israeli Defense Force as revealing “that Hamas knows or recognizes the IDF is committed to minimizing harm to civilians,” and explaining “how the civilian population can be used against IDF forces. Based on these two points, the IDF stated that Hamas’ callous and systematic use of the Gazan population as ‘human shields’ was intentional and preplanned.”</p>
<p>But there is no need to take the IDF’s word for it. An interviewer on Hamas’s <a href="http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4340.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Al-Aqsa TV</span></a> asked the jihad terror group’s spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri in July: “Are people still going up to the rooftops?” After a reporter observed that Palestinians were going up onto the roof of a family home “in order to prevent the Zionist occupation’s warplanes from targeting it,” Abu Zuhri answered: “This attests to the character of our noble, Jihad-fighting people, who defend their rights and their homes with their bare chests and their blood. The policy of people confronting the Israeli warplanes with their bare chests in order to protect their homes has proven effective against the occupation. Also, this policy reflects the character of our brave, courageous people. We in Hamas call upon our people to adopt this policy, in order to protect the Palestinian homes.”</p>
<p>And then there are the numerous calls from Hamas leaders and supporters for genocide of the Jews. On <a href="http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4376.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">July 25</span></a>, Al-Aqsa TV, broadcast a Friday sermon in which the imam addressed the Jews: “We will not leave a single one of you alive. Our doctrine in fighting you is that we will totally exterminate you. We will not leave a single one of you alive, because you are alien usurpers of the land and eternal mercenaries.”</p>
<p>Then <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=12237"><span style="color: #0433ff;">in early August</span></a>, Hamas rebroadcast on Al-Aqsa TV a speech by Muslim Brotherhood leader Tareq Al-Suwaidan, in which he said: “Every mother – especially the mothers in Palestine, but every mother in the [Islamic] Nation, not just Palestine – must nurse her children on hatred of the sons of Zion. We hate them and they are our enemies. We will plant this in their [our children’s] souls, so that a new generation will grow among us, which will erase them from the face of the earth.”</p>
<p>In the midst of all this genocidal bloodlust, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/08/04/CNN-Has-Two-Israel-Critics-Debate-Israel"><span style="color: #0433ff;">CNN hosted a debate</span></a> on the Israel-Hamas conflict featuring not a supporter of Israel and a supporter of Hamas, but two venomous foes of Israel, Reza Aslan and Peter Beinart. With the slender space between the positions of Aslan and Beinart being the only spectrum of opinion allowed a mainstream hearing, it is a wonder that Israel enjoys the support that it does. Yet support for Israel among Americans remains high: like blades of grass poking through the concrete, some truths withstand even the most virulent propaganda barrage.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 04:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Downplaying the significance of the Jewish Holocaust. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/907014-holocaust-survivor.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224410" alt="907014-holocaust-survivor" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/907014-holocaust-survivor-450x316.jpg" width="315" height="221" /></a>In recent decades a new trend of Holocaust trivialization has developed.  While not quite as obscene as Holocaust Deniers claiming that the Holocaust was all some sort of hoax, these fabricators are morally the next best thing.  They claim that the Holocaust of Jews by the Nazis may have been quite horrific but it pales in magnitude when compared with the &#8220;other Holocausts&#8221; of even greater dimensions.  And increasingly the &#8220;other Holocaust&#8221; to which they point is the &#8220;genocide&#8221; of Africans in the slave trade. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After all, argue the &#8220;other Holocaust&#8221; propagandists, in World War II there were &#8220;only&#8221; six million Jews murdered, but a far larger number of Africans were murdered as part and parcel of the slave trade.  Such pseudo-historic nonsense has been repeated so often that it is finding its way into mainstream textbooks and media.  Even Israeli leftist columnists are citing the &#8220;African Holocaust,&#8221; illustrated by one column I cited earlier this week by a radical hater of his own country.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The &#8220;African Holocaust Lobby&#8221; likes to toss out numbers purportedly estimating the population killed during the African slave trade, starting at around 10 million and often going as high as 60 million.  This allows the Holocaust trivializers to dismiss demands that the Jewish Shoah be commemorated, since it was &#8220;only one sixth&#8221; the magnitude of the &#8220;African genocide.&#8221;    </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The &#8220;60 million&#8221; number appears to have been originally invented by American Afrofascists, militant black racists and race hucksters.  The number however has been repeated so often that it is showing up in books and media.  Consider </span>&#8220;Critical Pedagogy and Cognition: An Introduction to a Postformal Educational Psychology,&#8221; <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">written by a psychologist</span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Curry Malott, Springer Publishers, 2011.  Malott is no historian and certainly no demographer, yet he speaks about 60 million Africans killed in the &#8220;slave trade genocide.&#8221;  A more widely cited book referring to the &#8220;60 million&#8221; is one by a pseudo-historian at the University of Hawaii, one David Stannard, Professor of American Studies,  in his book </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">American Holocaust</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (published 1992 by Oxford University Press).  He estimates a 75-80% mortality rate in slave trade transit to come up with his number.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So what are we to make of all this?  Let us begin by pointing out how absurd the claims about a 60 million victim African genocide are.  The number not only exceeds the total number of Africans enslaved (not just those sold in the American colonies and then the US) by a factor of six.  Indeed, the 60 million number exceeds the entire population of sub-Sahara Africa in the 18th century, when the slave trade was at its height.  In </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Concise Economic History of the World</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by R. Cameron, it is estimated that the entire population of the African continent in 1800 was about 90 million people, but a large portion of those were non-black people living in the Arab areas of North Africa.  That leaves the entire sub-Saharan population at less than the fictional 60 million &#8220;genocide victims&#8221; supposedly murdered in the slave trade.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So while it is simple poppycock to toss around numbers like 60 million as estimates of the human cost of the slave trade, just how many Africans were </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">really </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">intentionally murdered as part of the slave trade?   The answer is &#8211; almost none.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Now nothing here is meant to diminish the suffering and human tragedy of slavery in the era of slave trading.   I have no desire to excuse or minimize the horrors of trafficking in and ownership of slaves, nor of the commodification of humans as chattel and property.    </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All I am demanding is the use of common sense.  Once a human has been turned into property, then all of the incentives and economic behavior associated with all forms of property ownership kick in.  The simple fact of the matter is that once an African was enslaved, and no doubt some violence was involved in the capture of those slaves in Africa, then that African became property, an asset, something of pecuniary value, something worth preserving.  The owners of that property, and this includes the slave traders and shippers, had enormous motivation to preserve and protect the value of that property!  Ironically, this is what saved the lives of those slaves.  A live slave could be worth a fortune, while a dead slave was worth nothing.  While slave owners hardly had reason to treat their slaves with respect and dignity, neither did they have any reason to see their slaves maimed or killed.  Such injury and death represented a tremendous capital loss!  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Slave ship owners had as much motive to preserve intact their cargoes of human property as they would for any other cargo.  No ship owner would intentionally allow cargoes of gold, silver, whale oil, molasses, or tobacco to be damaged or harmed, and the same selfish property preservation motivation operated for slaves.  Once purchased in slave auctions, the slave represented a capital investment, one whose loss would impose financial losses on its owners. </span></p>
<p>This is not to say that no slaves at all died during the transit from Africa to the Americas.  Cross-oceanic voyages were dangerous during the era of the slave trade, and deaths during those voyages were a clear and present danger for all, and not just the slaves.  Free persons immigrating to the Americans from Europe were also at risk during the voyages.  If anything, ship owners had <i>more</i> motivation to protect the bodies and health of the slave cargo than they did for simple ticket-holding passengers.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The life of a slave was one of misery and suffering.  But once in slavery in the Americas, the property value of the slave continued to protect him from death and serious injury.   In the books by Thomas Sowell, it is described how plantation owners and other owners of slaves would employ Irish day laborers to do the really dangerous tasks, preferring not to risk their &#8220;property&#8221; in the form of African slaves. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">From the perspective of the 21th century, none of this takes away any of our sense of horror at the sufferings of slaves during the era of the slave trade.   Some Africans were no doubt murdered in the process of capturing slaves, controlling slaves, and others died as a result of the hazards of oceanic shipment.  Medical knowledge and technology were of the most primitive form, and on-ship conditions were quite miserable.  Death was common for all aboard ships, and I have seen estimates that in some of the more famous exploration trips, over a third of the crews died of disease and starvation.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But genocide?  An African &#8220;Holocaust&#8221;?   There was no such thing.    </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The fabricators of the fictional &#8220;African slave-trade Holocaust&#8221; may be driven by an urge to exaggerate the sufferings of the slave era in order to make a moral or political point.   A bit like the myriad forms of &#8220;advocacy statistics&#8221; that plague the modern world regarding so many other &#8220;causes&#8221; and issues.  But the truly malignant effect of the fabricators is to serve to trivialize the only real Holocaust.</span></p>
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		<title>Turkey’s New Jihad on Christian Armenians</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Turkeys-Christians-are-a-tiny-minority..jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222005" alt="Turkey's Christians are a tiny minority." src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Turkeys-Christians-are-a-tiny-minority..jpg" width="360" height="237" /></a>Far from being repentant of the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-forgotten-genocide-why-it-matters-today/">Armenian Genocide</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, Turkey, under the leadership of Prime Minister Erdogan, is again targeting Armenians; is again causing their death and dislocation.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the early morning hours of March 21, al-Qaeda linked Islamic jihadis crossed into Syrian territory from the Turkish border and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://asbarez.com/121007/reports-cite-80-dead-in-kessab-churches-desecrated/">launched a jihad</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on the Christian/Armenian town of Kessab. Among other thing, “Snipers targeted the civilian population and launched mortar attacks on the town and the surrounding villages.”  Reportedly eighty people were killed. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The jihadis later made a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB_0HyPI-i4&amp;app=desktop">video</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> touring the devastated town; no translation is needed, as the main phrase shouted throughout is Islam’s triumphant war cry, “Allahu Akbar” (or, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/video-al-qaeda-attacks-two-syrian-churches-to-cries-of-allahu-akbar/">according to Sen. John McCain</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">’s translation, “thank God”).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Eyewitnesses say the jihadis crossed the Turkish border into Syria, “openly passing through Turkish military barracks. According to Turkish media reports, the attackers carried their injured back to Turkey for treatment in the town of Yayladagi.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">About two-thousand Armenians were evacuated to safer areas in neighboring Basit and Latakia. Several of these families are currently living inside the churches of these towns. Ten to fifteen families with relations too elderly to flee remained in Kessab, their fate currently unknown.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Syrian troops did launch a counteroffensive, but al-Qaeda linked jihadis “once again entered the town of Kessab, took the remaining Armenian families hostage, desecrated the town’s three Armenian churches, pillaging local residences and occupying the town and surrounding villages.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Reports further </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.aydinlikdaily.com/Syrian-Army-Sweeps-Latakia-and-Surroundings--2688">indicate</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that “the attacks of the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra organization and the Islamic Front was supported with artillery fire from Turkish artillery units.  A Syrian MIG-23 war plane which attended to the operation towards the terror groups was shot down by Turkish Air Forces on 23 March.”   </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Bashar al-Assad naturally denounced before the United Nations Turkey’s role in supporting terrorists—even as some European leaders, such as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/danish-pm-praises-turkey-for-increased-democracy-and-rights-fully-supports-eu-membership">Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, were busy praising Turkey for its supposedly increased democracy and human rights,  supporting the Islamic nation’s inclusion into the European Union, indifferent to the fact that Erdogan banned Twitter in Turkey after tweets exposed his government’s corruptions. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Nor are Armenians and others missing the significance of Turkey’s role.  In a written statement, the Armenian National Committee-International, condemned Turkey’s active role in aiding and abetting Christian persecuting jihadi groups:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For months, we have warned the international community of the imminent threat posed by extremist foreign fighters against the Christian minority population in Syria.  These vicious and unprompted attacks against the Armenian-populated town and villages of Kessab are the latest examples of this violence, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">actively encouraged by neighboring Turkey</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. We call upon all states with any influence in the Syrian conflict to use all available means to stop these attacks against the peaceful civilian population of Kessab, to allow them to return to their homes in safety and security. </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the last one hundred years, this is the third time that the Armenians are being forced to leave Kessab and in all three cases, Turkey is the aggressor or on the side of the aggressors</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> [emphasis added].</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On March 24,  Samvel Farmanyan, a member of the Armenian National Assembly, traveled to Syria to meet with Kessab’s dislocated Armenians: “I should say </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://asbarez.com/121149/armenian-lawmakers-meet-kessab-armenians-in-latakia/">the impression was shocking</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">,” he said.  “The situation is like the one we have read about in textbooks and literature about the Armenian Genocide, in the memories of Genocide survivors….  These are tragic events, which cannot but bring forth obvious parallels with the events of 100 years ago—the Armenian Genocide.”</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilBWqkC4iNU">Video interviews</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> with the recently dislocated Armenians of Syria certainly further this sentiment.  One elderly man says “We’ve been here 97 years since they slaughtered us in Turkey.  These al-Qaeda ‘rebel’ groups are the grandsons of Abdul Hamid” (the Ottoman sultan who committed the first </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.serfes.org/orthodox/memoryof.htm">systematic genocide of Armenians</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Nor were these early massacres limited to Armenians but rather targeted Christians in general.  As one Syrian-American woman points out in writing to me just now: “The Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896) led to the mass exodus of Christians, from the Levant, to the USA. My grandfather was one of those who fled persecution. His father was shot, by an Ottoman Turk, in front of their ancestral home. Seven children were left fatherless. My grandfather, the eldest son, left Syria, and traveled as an indentured man, through Mexico, to find freedom and safety in the USA. The entire family eventually joined him.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Such is the continuity and interconnectivity of history.  A century ago, Armenians fled to Kessab to avoid being massacred by Turkey. And today, their descendants are fleeing from Kessab—again, to avoid being massacred by terrorists aided by Turkey.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Years, decades, and centuries go by; narratives and rhetoric change; utopian ideals and materialistic rationalizations become ubiquitous.  Yet the same story, the same enmity—Turkish to Armenian, or more distilled yet, Muslim to Christian—lives on, even if in different contexts and formats.</span></p>
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		<title>Empowering Palestinians Who Reject Israel’s Right to Exist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 05:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the prisoner releases reveal about the "peace process." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/pic1.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214296" alt="pic1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/pic1-450x341.png" width="315" height="239" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=336600">Jerusalem Post</a>.</em></p>
<p>US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Israel for his 14th visit this week. And to assure that his stay will be a happy one, Saturday night the government approved the release of 26 more Palestinian mass murderers from prison. This will please Kerry because today a core goal of US Middle East policy is to secure the release of Palestinian mass murderers from Israeli prisons.</p>
<p>That’s right. The same America that until a few years ago led the free world in the global war against terror, now conditions its support for Israel, its chief regional ally in that war, on the Jewish state’s willingness to release unrepentant, mass murdering terrorists back into Palestinian society.</p>
<p>Not to put too fine a point on it, but it ought to go without saying that this policy hinders, rather than advances the cause of peace. It is impossible to rationally claim that by coercing Israel into releasing people like Juma Ibrahim Juma Adam and Mahmoud Salam Saliman Abu Karbish that the US is advancing the cause of peace.</p>
<p>In 1992, the two men firebombed a civilian bus, murdering Rachel Weiss, who was nine months pregnant, and three of her pre-school aged children, as well as IDF soldier David Delarosa, who tried to save them.</p>
<p>They were released on Monday, due to US pressure on Israel and received back home to heroes’ welcomes. Their freedom empowers Palestinians who reject Israel’s right to exist and seek its destruction through acts of genocide against its Jewish citizens.</p>
<p>Indeed, their release all but guarantees that the new round of terror war that Kerry threatened Israelis would break out if we aren’t forthcoming to PLO demands, will take place. In other words, by supporting the release of terrorists from prison, the US government is enabling the next round of the Palestinian terror war against Israel.</p>
<p>Beyond that, both the Palestinian demand for the terrorist releases, and the US support for those releases make a mockery of the whole concept of the two-state solution. A society that insists on the release from prison of its worst, most prolific murderers is not a society with any interest in making peace with the society targeted and victimized by their crimes.</p>
<p>And US support for this Palestinian demand puts paid to Kerry and President Barack Obama’s claims that they seek a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian conflict with Israel.</p>
<p>The Palestinians’ support for terrorists doesn’t merely demonstrate their ill-intentions. It shows that the whole peace process that has become the centerpiece of US Middle East policy is based on a fiction.</p>
<p>When Israel agreed to accept the PLO as its partner in peacemaking two decades ago, that agreement was predicated on the terror group’s pledge to abjure further terrorism and to cooperate with Israel in fighting and defeating terrorists within Palestinian society. Without that pledge Israel would never have agreed to recognize the PLO . And that pledge, as we were reminded yet again on Monday, was a complete lie.</p>
<p>Then there is the international legal aspect to the Palestinian demand for Israel to free terrorists, and to the US support for this demand. Binding UN Security Council resolution 1373 requires all states to “Deny safe haven to those who finance, plan, support, or commit terrorist acts, or provide safe havens.”</p>
<p>So by sheltering terrorists the Palestinian Authority stands in breach of binding international law. And by supporting the PA ’s sheltering of those terrorists, by coercing Israel into releasing them, the US has placed itself in a deeply problematic position in relation to international law. It has also forced Israel into a deeply problematic position by bowing to the US demand to release them.</p>
<p>The Israeli public, rightly, views the release of Palestinian mass murderers as insane, dangerous and immoral. In a bid to placate public opinion, every time his government agrees to free terrorists from prison, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announces that he is approving another stage in a seemingly endless process of permitting Israeli Jews to build homes in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. At this point, few in Israel are won over by Netanyahu’s largely hollow, transparently opportunistic gesture.</p>
<p>But whereas few Israelis are convinced Netanyahu is sincere, internationally his action has the egregious effect of reinforcing the deeply hostile and widely held perception that there is moral equivalence between murdering Jews and permitting Jews to live near Arabs. Netanyahu’s political pandering is counterproductive.</p>
<p>But on Sunday the government took what may be the first productive action that Israel has taken toward the Palestinians since the onset of the phony peace process 20 years ago.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a bill sponsored by Likud MK Miri Regev to apply Israeli law over the Jordan Valley.</p>
<p>The Jordan Valley protects Israel from invasion and other acts of aggression from the east. And since 1967, there has been a consensus among Israelis that the area must remain under Israel’s sovereign control in perpetuity. This position remains inarguable today in light of the PLO ’s refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist.</p>
<p>Were Israel to transfer control over the Jordan Valley to the PLO , it would enable the Palestinians to collaborate with outside actors in the planning and execution of major acts of aggression against Israel. Safeguarding against such an eventuality by asserting Israel’s international legal right to sovereignty over the area is an eminently reasonable, and indeed required means of ensuring Israel’s long-term survivability.</p>
<p>On the face of it, it is the champions of Palestinian statehood, led by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who should be most in favor of applying Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley. Only by doing so does the two-state solution Livni has staked her career on have a chance of producing peace.</p>
<p>But of course, Livni and her colleagues on the far Left don’t see things this way. She and her comrades responded with apoplectic fits of rage at the cabinet committee’s vote, saying that Israel would be to blame for destroying the peace process.</p>
<p>Livni and her friends, of course, had not a word of criticism for Abbas and his followers for their unlawful championing of terrorist mass murderers.</p>
<p>She gave no indication that she views their continued support for Israel’s destruction as an obstacle to peace. Her wrath and that of her colleagues is reserved for Israeli elected officials who seek to safeguard Israel’s survival.</p>
<p>The media assures us that Netanyahu will bury the bill in governmental bureaucracy and proceed on course with further negotiations with the PLO , and further terrorist releases, in order to keep Kerry and Obama happy.</p>
<p>We must encourage the government to surprise the media.</p>
<p>Twenty years ago Israel crossed the Rubicon from strategic rationality into irrationality when we embraced the PLO and the chimerical twostate solution. This week’s cabinet decision was the first step in crossing back to the other side.</p>
<p>And we must work with our elected representatives to ensure that it is not an isolated event.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013-07-17T153245Z_01_WASC206_RTRIDSP_3_USA-CONGRESS-POWER.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-208272" alt="2013-07-17T153245Z_01_WASC206_RTRIDSP_3_USA-CONGRESS-POWER" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013-07-17T153245Z_01_WASC206_RTRIDSP_3_USA-CONGRESS-POWER-450x329.jpg" width="315" height="230" /></a>Following their visit earlier this month to Africa’s Great Lakes region, which includes the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda, members of the United Nations Security Council met to consider what they learned during their visit. They also heard reports from two high level appointees of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who urged more progress in regional peace efforts in the wake of an apparent deadlock on certain key issues in the so-called Kampala talks between the DRC government and the armed M23 rebel group fighting against the government.</span></b></p>
<p>One of the Security Council members reporting on the Africa visit was the United States. The U.S. report focused on the Rwanda portion of the trip, a country whose suffering during the 1994 genocide helped inspire U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power to write movingly about the horrors of that colossal crime against humanity and to speak out against the indifference of the United States and the international community as the genocide unfolded. Among her accomplishments before assuming her current position in the Obama administration, she was the author of A Problem from Hell, a book on America&#8217;s responses to the major genocides of the 20th century, including the Rwandan genocide, for which Power won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. During an interview in December of 2003, she said that even the mildest of measures to help stop the genocide “would have required high-level ownership of the genocide and of the U.S. response. It would have required somebody above a kind of State Department assistant secretary level, preferably somebody of a Cabinet-level post, who simply made it their business to put the issue in front of the president, to put the issue and even the moral stakes in front of his or her colleagues in Cabinet-level meetings, in principals&#8217; committee meetings.”</p>
<p>A decade later, Samantha Power became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, now with a Cabinet-level post and a global platform to make sure that we do not let the people of Rwanda down again. What has she done to take “high-level ownership” of this moral imperative in the face of a decision by the Obama administration to cut off military aid to Rwanda that increases its risks of instability?</p>
<p>After Ambassador Power and the other Security Council delegates toured the children’s wing of the Gisozi Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, the site where some 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide lie buried, she could barely hold back her tears. Here is what she said in front of the Security Council’s Rwandan hosts:</p>
<blockquote><p>“We just want to express our thanks to the people of Rwanda for opening their hearts, sharing their photos, their stories of their family members. Nobody who comes to this memorial site is ever the same when they leave. People who come through this site dedicate themselves with new passion and new commitment to the Rwandan people, to the cause of reconciliation and peace in the region, and to the broader cause of preventing genocide forevermore.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>One would think that Ambassador Power would have wanted to address the Security Council herself about her personal experience amongst the Rwandan people whom she had felt were abandoned nearly twenty years ago by the U.S. government and the UN system. But she left that awkward task up to her deputy Jeffrey De Laurentis. She entered the Security Council chamber well after De Laurentis had concluded his remarks. Hours later she tweeted tidbits from his speech and a link to a video of her own remarks at the genocide memorial site.</p>
<p>Ambassador Power’s deputy mentioned the Security Council’s tour of the children’s wing of the Gisozi Genocide Memorial at which Ambassador Power had spoken. He described the memorial as “a permanent warning for the world community.” He said that the “warning has special meaning for our Council, which failed dismally in responding to the slaughter of nineteen years ago.”</p>
<p>De Laurentis praised the “relatively calm and stable environment in Rwanda” today, but said that “the waves created by the genocide continue to disrupt and claim lives.” In addition to the M23 rebel group, he mentioned the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which is a dangerous Hutu rebel group infiltrating Rwanda from bases in the east of the of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FDLR includes among its number the original members of the Interahamwe that carried out the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He noted that during the Security Council members’ visit to Rwanda, they met with former FDLR combatants who have voluntarily returned and, with the help of the UN peacekeeping force in the DRC (MONUSCO) and the Rwandan government, were trying to reintegrate into society.</p>
<p>“In many cases, the FDLR has threatened to retaliate against them and members of their families,” De Laurentis added. “We were pleased to hear of the key role that MONUSCO continues to play in collaboration with Rwandan authorities to ensure that these former fighters can successfully resume their lives.”</p>
<p>In short, Ambassador Power promised a “new commitment to the Rwandan people” on the very site where 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide were buried, while her deputy told the Security Council that the United States was pleased with the support that Rwandan authorities were giving to help former fighters against the current regime “successfully resume their lives.” And he pointed to the “relatively calm and stable environment” that exists in Rwanda today.</p>
<p>Reconciliation and stability should be held up as model behavior for all of Africa to emulate. But not in Obama Land. Instead of rewarding the Rwandans for trying to move on with their lives past the devastation wrought by the 1994 genocide and build a more peaceful, stable society, the Obama administration has done the opposite. It decided to punish Rwanda for allegedly providing help to the M23 rebels fighting in the DRC who, among other things, are using child soldiers. Earlier this month, the Obama administration announced that the United States intended to cut off International Military Education and Training funds for Rwanda, which supports the training of foreign militaries. Rwanda will also not receive U.S. Foreign Military Financing, which provides money for U.S. army services and arms.</p>
<p>When I asked Rwanda’s UN Ambassador Eugène-Richard Gasana to comment on the aid cut-off by the U.S. government, he diplomatically replied that “It’s their money. They can use their money as they want.” However, he noted that nobody ever bothered to discuss the Obama administration’s allegations directly with Rwandan authorities to learn if they were true.</p>
<p>The fact is that a United Nations report issued last June concluded that any continuing Rwandan assistance to M23 was “limited,” and noted Rwanda’s cooperation in helping to accomplish the smooth surrender of a key M23 leader to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to answer charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.</p>
<p>The Obama administration has a habit of making bad foreign policy decisions based on incomplete facts and fallacious assumptions. Throwing allies under the bus, such as the Obama administration has done in Egypt, has become its modus operandi. Its destructive decision to apply punitive measures against its African ally Rwanda simply continues this counter-productive pattern.</p>
<p>In cutting off military assistance to Rwanda, the Obama administration is weakening Rwanda’s ability to repel FDLR assaults on targets inside Rwanda launched from nearby bases in the DRC, with some assistance from the DRC army whose troops the United States has helped to train. The UN report described previous attacks by FDLR rebels who managed to infiltrate inside Rwanda. There have also reportedly been over 34 bomb attacks resulting in shells landing on Rwandan soil since November 2012. Just like nineteen years ago, the United States government and the international community has neglected this situation and kept a blind eye, while focusing virtually all of its attention on the M23 rebel forces.</p>
<p>Rwanda remains vulnerable to the same murderers who participated in the 1994 genocide and their successors. The United States owes Rwanda the benefit of the doubt and must remain a reliable ally, not a fair weather friend who is willing to cut off vital assistance on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations.</p>
<p>Samantha Power has the opportunity to make the Obama administration’s wrong-headed decision an issue of conscience for her to directly address with her superiors, including the president himself if necessary. Her talk at the Rwandan genocide memorial of a “new commitment to the Rwandan people” will just be empty rhetoric if this decision is not reversed. Does Ambassador Power agree with the decision, or is she too afraid to voice her concerns? Is she trying to push for a change of policy in private? If so, is she willing to resign her post if she is not successful and go public?</p>
<p>In her 2003 interview, Samantha Power said that standing up for what was right in Rwanda “would have required personal risk, putting your career on the line.” Is Ambassador Power willing to put her own career on the line for the sake of the Rwandan people today?</p>
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		<title>The New York Times: America Sucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 04:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ny-times-building.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207572" alt="ny-times-building" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ny-times-building-450x299.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>This past Saturday, the New York Times published an article, &#8220;Behind Flurry of Killing, Potency of Hate,&#8221; on the roots of monstrous evil. The article largely concerned a former paramilitary member of the Irish Republican Army, and as such was informative.</p>
<p>But when it ventured into a larger discussion of evil, the moral confusion and contempt for America that characterize leftism were on display.</p>
<p>The article contains a breathtaking paragraph that exemplifies both qualities. After noting that atrocities against groups of people are often the result of the dehumanization of the victimized group, the writer gives four such examples:</p>
<p>&#8220;The Hutus in Rwanda called the Tutsis cockroaches, the Nazis depicted the Jews as rats. Japanese invaders referred to their Chinese victims during the Nanjing massacre as &#8216;chancorro,&#8217; or &#8216;subhuman.&#8217; American soldiers fought barbarian &#8216;Huns&#8217; in World War I and godless &#8216;gooks&#8217; in Vietnam.&#8221;</p>
<p>This paragraph is noteworthy for its use of false moral equivalence to justify its anti-Americanism.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s begin with the moral equivalence — equating how the Hutus viewed and treated the Tutsis, how the Nazis viewed and treated the Jews, and how the Japanese viewed and treated the Chinese with the Americans&#8217; views and treatment of the Germans in World War I and Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.</p>
<p>In 1994, over the course of about 100 days, Hutus slaughtered between half a million and a million Tutsis. This was not a war between armies, but against a civilian population marked for extinction.</p>
<p>The Nazis murdered about six million Jews, all of whom were civilians. Indeed more than a million were children. The Nazis had targeted the Jews for extinction.</p>
<p>The Japanese likewise slaughtered Chinese civilians en masse and regarded the Chinese as so subhuman as to be worthy of being systematically experimented upon in ghoulish medical experiments that paralleled those of the Nazis.</p>
<p>What do any of those examples have to do with Americans fighting in World War I or in Vietnam?</p>
<p>Nothing.</p>
<p>Absolutely nothing about these other three examples applied to America in World War I or in Vietnam.</p>
<p>Nicknames — even derogatory ones — for enemies have probably been used in every war by every nation&#8217;s soldiers. That is not at all the same as a serious view of another racial or national group as unworthy of life, as subhuman.</p>
<p>Unlike any of the other examples, Americans did not have a term that — by definition — meant that Germans or Vietnamese were not members of the human race, as are &#8220;cockroaches,&#8221; &#8220;rats&#8221; and &#8220;subhumans.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unlike any of the other examples, the killing by Americans in World War I and Vietnam was confined to war. No war, no killing. The Nazi and Hutu examples had nothing to do with waging war. The Tutsis and Jews were targeted for annihilation, period. And the Japanese committing of hundreds of thousands rapes, tortures, and medical experiments on Chinese civilians — such as cutting them open without anesthetic or freezing people&#8217;s limbs and then cutting them off, also without an anesthetic — had nothing to do with war aims.</p>
<p>Moreover, what does &#8220;godless&#8221; have to do with subhuman categories? Again, nothing. Why, then, was it included in this article — &#8220;godless &#8216;gooks&#8217;&#8221;? Because the Times writer wanted to render the term &#8220;godless&#8221; as offensive as the term &#8220;subhuman.&#8221; Being largely godless itself, and aiming for a godless West, the left detested the right&#8217;s calling Communism &#8220;godless&#8221; — even though Communists were vocal and proud of their godlessness.</p>
<p>Lumping America&#8217;s actions in those two wars with the other three examples is typical of the left&#8217;s defamation of America and of its facile use of false moral equivalence.</p>
<p>But that is how a generation of Americans who have attended college — including most likely the Times author herself — have been taught to think. And that is what is taught to your child today at the left&#8217;s seminaries, our universities:</p>
<p>Nazis, Hutu murderers, Japanese rapists, Americans at war: All pretty much the same.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Persecution of Christians: Summer of Horror for Women</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam's bloody jihad against infidels continues. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/28dea650a02f487789f60559da5e1bb7-01.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203884" alt="APTOPIX Pakistan" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/28dea650a02f487789f60559da5e1bb7-01-450x325.jpg" width="270" height="195" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3967/christian-women-degradation-islam">Gatestone Institute</a>.</span></em></p>
<p>The degradation of Christian women living in the Islamic world continued in the month of June.  In Syria, after the al-Qaeda linked rebel group conquered Qusair, a city of the governate of Homs, 15-year-old Mariam was kidnapped, repeatedly gang raped according to <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/">a fatwa legitimizing the rape of non-Sunni women</a> by any Muslim waging jihad against Syria’s government, and then executed.</p>
<p>According to Agenzia Fides, “The commander of the battalion ‘Jabhat al-Nusra’ in Qusair took Mariam, married and raped her. Then he repudiated her. The next day the young woman was forced to marry another Islamic militant. He also raped her and then repudiated her. The same trend was repeated for 15 days, and Mariam was raped by 15 different men. This psychologically destabilized her and made her insane. Mariam became mentally unstable and was eventually killed.”</p>
<p>In Pakistan, Muslim men stormed the home of three Christian women, <a href="http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=4338">beat them, stripped them naked and tortured them, and then paraded them in the nude</a> in a village in the Kasur district.  Days earlier, it seems the goats of the Christian family had accidentally trespassed onto Muslim land; Muslims sought to make an example of the Christian family, who, as third-class citizens, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/how-dare-you-the-supremacist-nature-of-muslim-grievances/">must know their place at all times</a>.</p>
<p>The rest of June’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country in alphabetical order, not according to severity:</p>
<p><b>Attacks on Christian Worship: Churches and Monasteries</b></p>
<p><b>Iraq</b>: During the middle of the night, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/06/two-christians-wounded-in-church-attack-in-iraq-another-killed-in-store-bombing/">armed gunmen attacked St. Mary’s Assyrian Catholic Church</a> in Baghdad; they wounded two Christian guards, one seriously.  Later the same day, bombs were set off at two Christian-owned businesses, both near the church; they killed one Christian shop owner who was a parishioner at St. Mary’s.  Since the U.S. “liberation” of Iraq in 2003, 73 churches have been attacked or bombed, and more than half of the country’s Christian population has either fled or been killed.</p>
<p><b>Kenya</b>: Motorbike assailants hurled an explosive device into the Earthquake Miracle Ministries Church in Mrima village church compound during the Sunday of June 9, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/06/explosion-in-attack-on-church-in-kenya-injures-15/">injuring 15 people</a>, including one pastor who had both his legs broken, another pastor who sustained serious injuries, and a 10-year-old child.  Said another church leader, “The Christians living around the scene of the incident are still in shock and are wondering as to the mission behind the attack, while several pastors looked demoralized.  But others said prayers will help them stand strong in sharing the Christian faith.” Islamic extremists from Somalia’s jihadi organization Al Shabaab are suspected of this and other attacks on Christians in the coastal areas of Kenya.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/33828-AFRICA_NIGERIA_Four_churches_burned_by_Boko_Haram_Mgr_Kaigama_regional_approach_to_defeat_them#.UhNXVpK1FqW">Four churches were burned</a> in an attack committed by members of the jihadi group Boko Haram in Borno State in the Muslim-majority north of the country. According to Agenzia Fides, “A group of armed men with improvised explosive devices and petrol bombs attacked the Hwa&#8217;a, Kunde, Gathahure and Gjigga communities on Gwoza Hills, burning the 4 churches, raiding and looting cattle and grain reserves belonging to the population.”  Discussing the ongoing terrorism Christians in the north are exposed to, one pastor lamented, “There are Christian villages that have been completely wiped out by these Muslim terrorists… Christian fellowship activities and evangelism outreaches are no longer possible….  For a number of years, the attacks on Christians in these three local government areas have caused the displacement of thousands of Christians there.  There is a very lamentable problem, as <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/06/islamic-extremists-kill-two-christians-in-nigeria/">we are no longer able to worship God as Christians in this part of Nigeria</a>.”</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>: An Islamic jihadi rebel wearing a suicide belt reportedly <a href="http://www.persecution.org/2013/06/28/suicide-blast-in-christian-neighborhood-of-damascus-claims-four-lives/">detonated himself outside the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church</a> in an old Christian quarter in Damascus; the attack left four people dead and several injured.  Rebel sources confirmed the attack but said it was caused by a mortar bomb.  Around the same time, jihadi rebels <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/obama-backed-syrian-jihadists-massacre-christian-village-population.html">massacred the Christian village of al-Duwair near Homs, while destroying its churches</a>.  Also, according to<b> </b>Agenzia Fides, a Belgian Catholic priest, Fr. Daniel Maes, 74, of the religious Order of Canons Regular Premonstratensian, was last reported as being “in the sights of <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/33923-ASIA_SYRIA_A_Catholic_Belgian_priest_and_a_monastery_are_in_the_sights_of_the_jihadists#.UiFuxhuTioM">jihadi groups who intend to eliminate him and invade the monastery</a> of San James mutilated in Qara,” which dates back to the fifth century. Earlier the priest had denounced the &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; carried out on Christians in Qusair, after the town was taken by the rebels and jihadi groups: &#8220;The surrounding Christian villages were destroyed and all the faithful who were caught were killed, according to a logic of sectarian hatred… For decades, Christians and Muslims lived in peace in Syria. If criminal gangs can roam and terrorize civilians, is this not against international laws? Who will protect the innocent and ensure the future of this country? … Young people are disappointed, because foreign powers dictate their agenda. Moderate Muslims are worried, because Salafists and fundamentalists want to impose a totalitarian dictatorship of religious nature. The citizens are terrified because they are innocent victims of armed gangs.”</p>
<p><b>Attacks on Christian Freedom: Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism</b></p>
<p><b>Indonesia</b>: The Indonesian Ulema Council in Tegal issued <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Central-Java:-fatwa-against-Catholic-schools,-forbidden-to-Muslims-28200.html">a fatwa against Catholic schools, saying they are “forbidden” and “morally unsound”</a> for young Muslim students, despite its pupils, both Muslim and Christian, routinely scoring higher than in other schools.  “For the schools,” reported Asia News, “the fatwa is a great blow, coming in the wake of attacks from Muslim extremists and local governments that included <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Catholic-schools-in-Central-Java-threatened-with-closure-for-not-teaching-Islam-25867.html">threats of closure </a>that were however eventually <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Authorities-back-away-from-compulsory-Islam-teaching-in-East-Java-Catholic-schools-26939.html">dropped</a>…  [M]any Muslim families have come to the defence of the two schools, claiming their right to a quality education. In fact, many schools run by nuns, priests and lay Catholics offer such excellence in education that they are sought after by non-Christians.”  Earlier the influential Indonesian Ulema Council lashed out during flag-raising “because Mohammed never did it;” before that announcement, the Islamic clerics “launched anathemas against Facebook for its ‘amoral’ nature, as well as yoga, smoking and voting rights, in particular for women.”</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: A 16-year-old boy who converted to Christianity from Islam a year ago, and began attending Bible lessons in a Protestant community, was abducted in Peshawar.  Local sources said he was kidnapped by Taliban-linked Islamic militants “and his fate may already be marked, as he is considered ‘<a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/33854-ASIA_PAKISTAN_A_young_Christian_boy_converted_from_Islam_reported_missing#.UiFypxuTioM">guilty of apostasy</a>,’” the penalty of which is death.  As one Pakistani pastor explained: “If a young Muslim converts to Christianity in Pakistan, he is forced to live in hiding. Every Muslim might feel compelled to kill him. The change of religion is not punished by the civil law, it is punishable by Islamic law. For this reason cases of Muslim conversion to Christianity are very rare and some convert in secret.”</p>
<p><b>Somalia</b>:  Islamic terrorists from Al Shabaab (“The Youth”) <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/06/islamic-extremists-in-somalia-kill-christian/">publicly executed a 28-year-old man after determining that he had in fact become a Christian</a>.   Aiming at his head, he was shot “to death.”  As Morning Star News explains, “Somalis are considered Muslim by birth, and apostasy, or leaving Islam, is punishable by death.” After the execution, the man’s parents, widow and son fled the region.  The Al-Qaeda linked Al Shabaab has vowed to cleanse Somalia of all Christian presence, and its members have murdered dozens of Muslim converts to Christianity.</p>
<p><b>Uzbekistan:  </b>Four police officers raided the home of a 76-year-old Christian woman, ill with Parkinson’s disease.   After removing her from her bed and without producing a search warrant, they “turned everything in the home upside down,” and confiscated her Bible and other Christian materials.  Since then, the woman has been subjected to innumerable legal proceedings.  Most recently, she was convicted of “Illegal production, storage, or import into Uzbekistan with a purpose to distribute or distribution of religious materials by physical persons.” The judge ordered that her Bible, 14 Christian books, six DVDs and a video be destroyed. She was told by court officials, “<a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Anti-terror-raid-on-home-of-elderly-Christian-woman-in-Uzbekistan.html">This is a Muslim country and all of your Christian books including the Bible are outlawed</a>.”   Because these proceedings have caused her extreme anxiety, after one hearing an ambulance was called for her.</p>
<p><b>Dhimmitude: A Climate of Hate and Contempt</b></p>
<p><b>Bangladesh:  </b>A mob of some <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christian-property-and-church-leaders-attacked-in-Bangladesh.html">“60 extremists” raided a predominantly Christian village</a>.  According to the group, Barnabas Aid, “they plundered the residents’ livestock and other possessions and threatened to return to burn down homes. The attackers then moved on to nearby Bolakipur and targeted a Christian seminary. Battering down the doors, they forced their way into the building and severely beat the rector and a number of students.  The previous day, two church leaders from Tumilia were beaten and robbed.”</p>
<p><b>Egypt: </b>“Unknown persons” <a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/1562-seven-year-old-coptic-girl-kidnapped-held-for-ransom">kidnapped a 7-year-old Christian girl</a> in Dakhaleya Province in northern Egypt. The girl, Jessica Nadi Gabriel, was attending a wedding ceremony with her family when she was seized and torn away. Her father later revealed that the 7-year-old girl’s abductors called him demanding a ransom of 650,000 Egyptian Pounds (nearly $100,000 USD).  Two weeks earlier, a 6-year-old Coptic boy who was kidnapped and held for ransom, was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/jihad-on-egypts-christian-children/">still killed and discarded in the sewer</a>—even after his family paid the Muslim kidnapper the demanded ransom.   Also, a Coptic Christian man named Milad, living in Tanta, said that “unknown persons” invited him and his family to renounce Christianity and submit to Islam and convert.  According to widely-read Egyptian newspaper Youm7, “They also <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/coptic-christians-threatened-to-convert-to-islam/">snatched at the crucifix he was wearing around his neck</a>, and threatened to kidnap his children and wife if he refused to convert to Islam.”  As they wore the trademark white robes and long beards, the man identified them as members of the Salafi movement in Egypt.  Meanwhile, U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/obama-to-egyptian-christians-dont-protest-the-brotherhood/">urging the Coptic pope to forbid the Copts from protesting</a> against Muslim Brotherhood rule—even though they, as Christians, were to suffer under it the most — while Al Azhar, the world’s oldest Islamic University, and based in Cairo, called on new Catholic Pope, Francis I, to declare that “<a href="http://www.arabnews.com/news/454370">Islam is a peaceful religion</a>.”</p>
<p><b>Iran</b>:  According to a June 19 Morning Star News report, “<a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/06/christians-sentenced-to-prison-as-moderate-comes-to-power-in-iran/">Six more Christians were sentenced for practicing their faith</a> last week, while Iran’s presidential election of a moderate politician was not expected to soften the regime’s persecution of religious minorities.” The same six Christians had been arrested earlier in February 2012, when police raided their house-church meeting. Officials rejected their appeal for release on bail; they are being held in Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, which houses hardened criminals and often lacks heating or health facilities, and where officials routinely deny medical treatment to prisoners.</p>
<p><b>Pakistan:</b>  Three months after a mob of <a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=18092">3,000 Muslims attacked a Christian neighborhood in Lahore</a>, burning down <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/160-houses-and-2-churches-burnt-in-Lahore:-photos-27383.html">two churches and 160 Christian homes</a>, few of the perpetrators are in prison.  Hundreds of those detained immediately after the incident were released; of the 83 who were arrested, 31 have been released on bail.  “Most of the people who were stopped after the attack were declared innocent by the police and immediately released, for corruption or political pressure,” said a Christian lawyer.  Meanwhile, the Christian whose arrest on blasphemy charges was the occasion for the rampage has gone on trial, even as he insists he never insulted Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.</p>
<p><b>Palestinian Authority</b>:  Five schools in Gaza—two Catholic and three Christian—face closure if the <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/06/04/five-church-schools-in-gaza-face-closure-after-hamas-order/#.Ua3PqEFhZzA.email">Hamas government follows through on an order forbidding co-educational institutions</a>.  According to Fr. Faysal Hijazin: “This will be a big problem. We hope they will not go through with it, but if they do, we will be in big trouble. We don’t have the space and we don’t have the money to divide our schools.”  In addition to finding additional space, he said, the schools face having to hire more teachers. Under Islamic law, men and women teachers would not be allowed to teach classes to members of the opposite sex older than the age of 10.  “It is a concern that in education things are getting more conservative,” said the priest. “It reflects the whole society. This is of concern to both Christians and moderate Muslims. It is not easy to be there.”</p>
<p><b>Tanzania</b>: Two Christian pastors were attacked by Muslims.  On the night of Sunday, June 2, a Muslim mob broke into the home of Robert Ngai, the pastor of the Evangelical Assemblies of God Church in northeastern Tanzania, and <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/39891-persecuted-pastors-attacked-stabbed-in-tanzania">attacked him with machetes</a>.  The pastor received serious cuts on his hands and arms when he raised them to protect his head from the blows; when last heard of, he was in the intensive care unit.  Two nights earlier, the home of  Daudi Nzumbi, Pastor of the Free Pentecostal Church of Tanzania congregation in Geita, also came under attack. However, the attackers fled after they were confronted by Pastor Nzumbi’s large, barking dogs. When Nzumbi called police, the officer in charge told him, “I cannot protect every pastor!”</p>
<p><strong>About this Series:</strong></p>
<p>Because the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its way to reaching pandemic proportions, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:</p>
<p>1) To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, Muslim persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>2) To show that such persecution is not “random,”  but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Sharia.</p>
<p>Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam; apostasy and blasphemy laws that criminalize and punish with death those who “offend” Islam; theft and plunder in lieu of jizya (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like dhimmis, or second-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination.</p>
<p>Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to India in the East, and throughout the West wherever there are Muslims—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.</p>
<p><strong>Previous Reports:</strong></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2013/">May, 2013</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2013/">April, 2013 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013/">March, 2013 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013/">February, 2013 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013/">January, 2013 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012/">December, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012/">November, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/">October, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2012/">September, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012/">August, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12215/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12045/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11930/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11713/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11604/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11373/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11152/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10989/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10922/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10724/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10504/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2011">September, 2011 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10247/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011 </a></p>
<p>• <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2011/">July, 2011</a></p>
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		<title>9/11: The End of Illusions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 04:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Faith J. H. McDonnell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day the atrocities of Sudan were brought to America.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sudan-Vigil-2002-650.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203774" alt="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sudan-Vigil-2002-650-447x350.jpg" width="313" height="245" /></a>Five days before the jihadists we came to call “9/11 terrorists” commandeered American airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field, it was the same kind of beautiful, sunny day in Washington, DC that it was on that horrible day. On that sunny September 6, 2001, former U.S. Senator John Danforth became the first-ever U.S. Sudan Special Envoy, with the mandate of trying to bring peace to that war-torn region. For decades, the Islamist government of Sudan had been attempting forcibly to Islamize and Arabize all of Sudan, and waging genocidal jihad against those African Christians, Muslims, and followers of traditional religions from the South, the Nuba Mountains, and elsewhere that resisted. Sudan’s so-called civil war had already resulted in the death of over 2.5 million people, mostly civilians, and the displacement of over 5 million.</span></b></p>
<p>Danforth was sworn in by President George W. Bush in a White House Rose Garden ceremony to which dozens of Diaspora Sudanese and their American activist friends were invited. Excitement was palpable that day. Since taking office, President Bush had made Sudan a priority. He spoke out against what he called one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, acknowledged the complicity of the Sudanese government, attempted to circumvent the orchestrated starvation of their own people by changing USAID’s methods of food distribution, and agreed to appoint a special envoy that would be his personal representative on U.S. Sudan policy.</p>
<p>We were full of hope that the appointment of Jack Danforth could eventually lead to a peace agreement that would bring about an end to the bombing, starvation, slavery, and other methods of jihad being used by the Government of Sudan against its own citizens. There were no illusions that this would be easy or quick in coming. The real work was just beginning, as we tried to see a piece of legislation, the Sudan Peace Act, passed in Congress. But although everyone was united that day in the appointment of the Sudan Special Envoy, the State Department was opposed to the stringent measures in the legislation. They particularly disliked an amendment sponsored by U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) that had already been passed by the House of Representatives, to invoke <a href="http://bachus.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=559&amp;Itemid=116">capital market sanctions </a>against companies doing business with the Government of Sudan.</p>
<p>And so, in the days following the swearing in, as Special Envoy Danforth reviewed his portfolio and familiarized himself with the situation in Sudan, we worked in a <a href="http://www.jewishpost.com/archives/news/stop-genocide-support-the-sudan-peace-act.html">coalition </a>to strengthen <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/sjir/3.2.10_doane.html%20">U.S. Sudan policy </a>and pass the Sudan Peace Act with the sanctions intact. As Congressman Bachus himself told the late heroic journalist <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2001/jul/30/20010730-024518-5400r/">A. M. Rosenthal</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>Expanding U.S. sanctions in the area of capital markets access specifically targets what is the most significant revenue the Sudanese government has to prosecute the war. Obviously, the United States must send a new message and we must make that message stick. Stop the killing, stop the murder and torture, end the terror, or we end the investment. Can’t have it both ways. It is immoral to finance a war machine you know is wrong. America has to walk the walk.</p></blockquote>
<p>In addition to opposing the immoral financing of a regime committing terrorism against its own people, we were convinced that the Sudanese regime was complicit in <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2002/06/14328/">global terrorism and jihad</a>. While some members of Congress also believed this and said so at House hearings, successive Administrations (Clinton, Bush, Obama) continued to prefer the fantasy that the Sudan regime was a “good faith” partner both in cooperating in the War on Terrorism, and in dialoguing with their own victims in South Sudan. Intelligence received from sources on the ground in Sudan pointing to the regime’s connections to terrorists around the world was constantly downplayed or denied. So our Sudan coalition planned to publicly endorse at a press conference the House version of the Sudan Peace Act over the more watered-down Senate version. We were convinced that it was needed to stop genocide in Sudan and to help stop global Islamic terrorism. The event was to be in the Rayburn House Office Building at 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.</p>
<p>In a cab, almost at the Rayburn Building, I heard on the radio that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. In those days, before we could conceive of the evil of which the Islamist agenda was capable, even I, familiar as I was with the atrocities taking place in South Sudan and with persecution of Christians in the Islamic world, assumed it was some horrible accident. Up in the Rayburn Building International Relations Committee hearing room, though, things became clear. All the other speakers and Sudan coalition members’ eyes were riveted on the television screen when I got there. News came that a second plane had crashed in New York. We, who so often reported on Russian Antonov cargo planes dropping bombs on starving South Sudanese civilians waiting for their food distribution, and women and children abducted and branded like cattle, had seen this level of monstrousness in Sudan, but never before in our own country.</p>
<p>Not long after that we heard that a plane was headed towards Washington, DC – probably targeting the White House or the U.S. Capitol. We were ushered quickly out of the room by Capitol Hill police. The congressional offices were all being evacuated and closed. No one knew what was happening. We surely couldn’t conceive that two more planes full of our fellow citizens would be used against us as weapons by the terrorists, or that the Americans on one of those planes, forcing a crash in a Shanksville, Pennsylvania field, would precede our valiant military troops in doing battle against Islamic jihad. In the midst of shock, my only continual thought was how clear it all was now – that <i>now </i>they would “get it.” Now they would understand what was really happening in Sudan.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I even knew what I meant by them “getting” it. I had not yet begun to articulate even to myself the problem that I saw with U.S. Sudan policy beyond the fact that it needed to be “strengthened.” It took 9/11 to make it clear that what was taking place in Sudan was being treated as a humanitarian issue by the U.S. government and that the root cause was never addressed. It was the same root cause that we saw in the suffocating smoke, burned flesh, incinerated body parts, collapsed towers, and obscene yawning chasms that indicated that we had crossed a line in history from which we could never return.</p>
<p>I think I hoped that the policymakers would now somehow understand that to deal with Sudan’s genocide as a humanitarian crisis was as absurd as to deal with 9/11 as merely a random criminal action. Even before we learned the magnitude of 9/11, we understood that this was a deliberate attack on us for who we were and what we represented. No less was this then, and still is, true in Sudan where the regime was attempting to eradicate the culture, identity, and very lives of all those who resisted the imposition of a pure Arabist Islamist identity. But U.S. Sudan policy did not reflect that reality.</p>
<p>It still doesn’t. Every success in U.S. Sudan policy &#8212; the passage of the Sudan Peace Act, the North/South peace process, the North/South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), and finally South Sudan’s referendum on secession leading to an independent nation of South Sudan &#8212; has happened in spite of the absurdity of negotiating in good faith with a regime that operates through denials and deception. Failure – to stop the still ongoing genocide in Darfur, to fully implement the CPA, to speak out for Sudan’s other marginalized African ethnic groups like the Beja of Eastern Sudan and the Nubian civilization in the far north, and particularly now to protect the people of the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State once again under active genocidal war – have occurred because the regime has never been held accountable for violating and dishonoring decades of agreements.</p>
<p>That September morning people flooded out of the city and then remained for hours without moving on every street and highway. I spent most of the day lying in the hatchback of a two-seater sports car, as four of us who had been at the press conference attempted to travel back to Virginia. Soon we had news of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. When we heard of the plane, headed for DC that went down in Pennsylvania, we knew that those brave passengers well may have saved our lives.</p>
<p>I will never forget September 11, 2001. It is with me always. Remembrances of more innocent times are marred by the knowledge that they were “before.”  I wish we could go back to a time when we were naïve. I wish we had not been rudely awakened to the kind of world that the people of South Sudan knew as reality, that the people of the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State are experiencing right now. But on 9/11 I understood the irrevocable nature of what had taken place, and even before U.S. troops set off for battle in Afghanistan and Iraq, I knew that nothing would ever be the same.</p>
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		<title>Al-Qaeda Vows to Slaughter Christians After U.S. ‘Liberates’ Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 04:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S.-assisted genocide that awaits. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sy_2157428b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203256" alt="sy_2157428b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sy_2157428b.jpg" width="250" height="203" /></a>While U.S. leaders continue pushing for war against the Syrian government, today “Al-Qaeda-linked rebels,”<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=218786386">reports AP</a>, “launched an assault on a regime-held Christian mountain village in the densely populated west of Syria and new clashes erupted near the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday…  In the attack on the village of Maaloula, rebels commandeered a mountaintop hotel and nearby caves and shelled the community below, said a nun, speaking by phone from a convent in the village. She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.”</p>
<p>Arabic news agency <a href="http://www.alhadathnews.net/archives/97233">Al Hadath</a> gives more information concerning this latest terror attack on Syria’s Christians, specifically how the al-Qaeda linked rebels “terrorized the Christians, <em>threatening to be avenged on them after the triumph of the revolution</em>.”</p>
<p>Thus al-Qaeda terrorists eagerly await U.S. assistance against the Syrian government, so they can subjugate if not slaughter Syria’s Christians, secularists, and non-Muslims — even as the Obama administration tries to justify war on Syria by <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/other-matters/u-s-hypocrisy-for-syrian-human-rights/" target="_blank">absurdly evoking the “human rights” of Syrians</a> on the one hand, and <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/09/04/vlad-impales-kerry-on-syria/">lying about al-Qaeda’s presence in Syria</a> on the other.</p>
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		<title>Palestinian Moderates Are Still Genocidal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Itamar Marcus]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Official Palestinian Authority radio expressed hope and certainty that Israel, which was referred to as &#8220;occupied Palestine,&#8221; will cease to exist. The Voice of Palestine radio announcer directed her comments to Israel&#8217;s Arabs in its holiday broadcast last week:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our people in occupied Palestine&#8230; our people in <b>Acre</b>, <b>Nazareth</b>, <b>Tiberias</b>, <b>Haifa</b> and <b>Jaffa</b>&#8230; one day Palestine will be Palestine again!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=450&amp;fld_id=450&amp;doc_id=9568"><b>Click to hear</b></a></p>
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<p>Acre, Nazareth, Tiberias, Haifa and Jaffa are all cities in Israel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.palwatch.org/"><b>Palestinian Media Watch</b></a> has reported that despite the PA&#8217;s commitments and claims to the international community that it recognizes Israel, official PA media regularly denies Israel&#8217;s <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=433"><b>right to exist</b></a> and very often <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=466"><b>denies Israel&#8217;s very existence</b></a>. By calling Israel &#8220;occupied Palestine,&#8221; PA radio implicitly recognizes Israel&#8217;s existence, while explicitly denying Israel&#8217;s right to exist.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/crosswords-Jaffa-is-a-Palestinian-city-HJ-140813-p.-19.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-202026" alt="crosswords - Jaffa is a Palestinian city - HJ - 140813 p. 19" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/crosswords-Jaffa-is-a-Palestinian-city-HJ-140813-p.-19-230x350.jpg" width="230" height="350" /></a>Also denying Israel&#8217;s existence, a PA daily crossword puzzle from a few days ago defined Jaffa as &#8220;a Palestinian city&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>Clue: &#8220;A Palestinian city&#8221;</p>
<p>Solution: &#8220;Jaffa&#8221;</p>
<p>[<i>Al-Hayat Al-Jadida</i>, Aug. 14, 2013]</p></blockquote>
<p>Earlier this month, <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=9482"><b>PMW reported</b></a> on official PA TV quiz questions that encouraged Palestinians to deny Israel&#8217;s existence. The quizzes defined the following cities and sites in Israel as Palestinian or located in &#8220;Palestine&#8221;: Jaffa, the Sea of Galilee, the Hula Lake, Ashdod, Mt Meron and Safed.</p>
<p>The statement on official PA radio that &#8220;one day Palestine will be Palestine again&#8221; expresses hope and anticipation that the State of Israel will be replaced by &#8220;Palestine.&#8221;</p>
<p><b><i>The following is a longer excerpt of the radio broadcast:</i></b></p>
<blockquote><p><i>Voice of Palestine, official PA radio:</i></p>
<p>&#8220;Greetings to all our listeners and happy holiday to you, our people in occupied Palestine (i.e., Israel), 1948 Palestine, the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel, created in 1948)&#8230; Greetings to our people in Acre, Nazareth, Tiberias, Haifa and Jaffa (all Israeli cities)&#8230; May your Palestinian identity be rooted in your hearts and minds. Allah willing, one day Palestine will be Palestine again!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>[Voice of Palestine (official PA radio), Aug. 8, 2013]</p>
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		<title>A Passion for Truth: In Memoriam Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Tismaneanu]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A titan who knew that refusal to act against evil inevitably leads to acquiescence and complicity with it.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/elshtain.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-201004" alt="elshtain" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/elshtain.jpg" width="250" height="350" /></a>The first thing to be said about Jean Bethke Elshtain is that she embodied paradigmatically the idea of a public intellectual, an engaged spectator, to use Raymond Aron&#8217;s famous formulation. For her, the concept of liberty as articulated by the dissidents of Eastern Europe (Sakharov, Havel, but also John Paul II) symbolized an indispensable anchor, a source of hope in our turbulent and dismaying world. Both in her writings (21 books and hundreds of articles) and public interventions, Jean was direct, honest, unabashedly dedicated to defending truth against opportunistic lies and cowardly conformity. She identified herself as a Christian thinker and, at the University of Chicago, held appointments both in political science and in the Divinity School.</p>
<p>I first met her in the spring of 2006, at a dinner organized by our common friend, Martin Palous, former Charter 77 spokesman, philosopher and at that moment the Czech Republic&#8217;s ambassador to Washington. My wife, Mary, and I spent hours in one of the most enriching intellectual conversations of our lives. A few days later, I was approached by Robert Boyers, the editor of &#8220;Salmagundi,&#8221; who invited me to a conference on Jihad, violence, and terrorism. He told me that it was Jean Bethke Elshtain who had recommended me. The proceedings came out as a special issue of the journal.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Boston Globe&#8221; reported on the conference and described my intervention as the most adamant in support of the war. In fact, I was simply voicing there the ideas held by Joan Bethke Elshtain, Vaclav Havel, Andre Glucksmann and many others who saw the value of a just war against a despicable criminal despotism. It was a difficult task taking into account that Christopher Hitchens, who was also listed as a participant, had to cancel his presence at the very last minute. So, there I was, the East European, debating such hyper-controversial issues with famous critics of the war, including Benjamin Barber, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer. &#8220;Public intellectuals, much of the time at least, should be party poopers,&#8221; Jean Bethke Elshtain declared in 2001. On that occasion, I definitely was one.</p>
<p>For Jean, values and principles mattered, truth was not a malleable, fluid, relative entity, and the dignity of the individual needed to be defended against any attempts to diminish it. A professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Chicago, Jean delivered major lectures on various campuses, authored influential books on burning political and ethical issues, including the acclaimed &#8220;Democracy on Trial.&#8221; She was not afraid to defend her views, to offer logical, historical, and ethical arguments for the need to engage in the Iraq war.</p>
<p>A lifelong student of Augustine (a passion she shared with Hannah Arendt), Jean knew that refusal to act against evil inevitably leads to acquiescence and complicity with it:</p>
<blockquote><p>The fight against German fascism and Japanese militarism put us in the world to stay. With our great power comes an even greater responsibility. One of our ongoing responsibilities is to respond to the cries of the aggrieved. Victims of genocide, for example, have a reasonable expectation that powerful nations devoted to human rights will attempt to stay the hand of the murderers.</p></blockquote>
<p>For her, September 11 was a not a &#8220;bad accident,&#8221; but a fundamental change in world affairs. It marked a mutation not only in political strategies, but also in the American way of dealing with the horrors of war:</p>
<blockquote><p>I come from a small people, Volga Germans, who would have been murdered or exiled had they remained in Russia rather than making the wrenching journey to America. &#8230; An image that crowds out many others in my mind is that of tens of thousands fleeing New York City by foot. As I watched and wept, I recalled something I had said many times in my classes on war: &#8220;Americans don’t have living memories of what it means to flee a city in flames. Americans have not been horrified by refugees fleeing burning cities.&#8221; No more. Now we know.</p></blockquote>
<p>At the end of his life, the great sociologist Daniel Bell confessed that he was most worried by the loss of historical sense among America&#8217;s youth. His was also Jean Bethke Elshtain&#8217;s concern. For her, like for Hannah Arendt, Albert Camus, Isaiah Berlin, Leszek Kolakowski, Judith Shklar, and Paul Ricoeur, truth and memory are inseparable. In the preface of her book, &#8220;Sovereignty: God, State, and Self,&#8221; she wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>One of my persistent worries about our own time is that we may be squandering a good bit of rich heritage through processes of organized &#8220;forgetting,&#8221; a climate of opinion that encourages presentism rather than a historical perspective that reminds us that we are always boats moving against the current, &#8220;borne back ceaselessly into the past,&#8221; in F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s memorable words from <i>The Great Gatsby</i>. This historic recognition should not occasion resentment or dour heaviness; rather, it should instill gratitude. As this book drew to a close, I realized that it was no culminating magnum opus &#8212; few books are &#8212; but, rather, a contribution to the shared memory of our time and place. And that is enough.</p></blockquote>
<p>In her endless quest for truth, Jean Bethke Elshtain illustrated in a most inspiring way that quality described by Thomas Mann as <a href="http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/08/jean-bethke-elshtain-on-democracy-and-civil-society/">the nobility of spirit</a>.</p>
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		<title>Sudan &amp; Obama&#8217;s Legacy of Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 04:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Faith J. H. McDonnell]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Darfuri-Children.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-200132" alt="Darfuri-Children" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Darfuri-Children.jpg" width="251" height="191" /></a>Mohamed Suleiman, an America citizen since 1992, is a Zaghawa from the village of Um barrow in the North Darfur region of Sudan. Um barrow, <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-09-27-darfur-cover_x.htm">like so many other places in Darfur</a>, was burned down and destroyed by the Sudanese government-backed Janjaweed, an Arab-Islamist militia. A refugee camp near Um barrow became the home to as many as 13,000 people displaced by the Janjaweed and the Sudan Armed Forces. This is just one of many <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/100413/inside-darfur-refugee-camp">refugee camps</a>, housing millions of displaced Darfurians. Many members of Suleiman’s family have been killed in the Darfur genocide, and his mother and siblings still live in Darfur.</span></b></p>
<p>Recently, Suleiman sent an <a href="http://actforsudan.org/act/mohamed-suleimans-letter-president-obama/">open letter</a> to President Barack Obama. The letter launched an August campaign by <a href="http://actforsudan.org/">Act for Sudan</a>, a coalition of individuals and organizations from across the political spectrum working to stop the genocide and mass atrocities against Sudan’s marginalized and persecuted populations by the government of ICC-indicted war criminal, Omar al Bashir. Conservatives and counter-jihadists, as we know, continually condemn and warn of Obama’s penchant for supporting Islamists and not true freedom-loving resistance movements. But some members of Act for Sudan have willingly put aside their own political preferences in this public call out to President Obama for letting down the Sudanese people, demonstrating that they care more about stopping genocide than they care about their political preferences.</p>
<p>The Act for Sudan <a href="http://actforsudan.org/act/obamas-stained-legacy/">Obama’s Stained Legacy campaign</a> reminds President Obama of the promises he made about Sudan, quoting his own words back at him. “While campaigning for the presidency,” says Act for Sudan, “Mr. Obama said that genocide is ‘a stain on our souls’ and promised that ‘as a president of the United States I don’t intend to abandon people or turn a blind eye to slaughter.’” Act for Sudan expresses disappointment with Obama’s failure to follow through on those promises, his <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/faith-j-h-mcdonnell/a-grim-anniversary-in-sudan/">failure to act on ongoing multiple genocides</a> perpetrated by Sudan’s jihadists against the black, African Sudanese in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains, and Blue Nile regions. Today, “more than four years into his presidency, President Obama continues to oversee a disastrous approach to the ongoing genocide in Sudan,” says Act for Sudan. “This approach has failed to prevent the tragic loss of countless lives and the mass displacement and starvation of countless more innocent people. Unless President Obama ACTS NOW to protect innocent civilians from their genocidal government, he will ultimately be remembered for his stained legacy on genocide,” Act for Sudan warns.</p>
<p>Suleiman’s letter will lead the way in the campaign for a series of letters from Sudanese representing the regions of Sudan that are – and have been for many years – under attack by the Islamist regime in Khartoum. The attacks are part of a repeatedly-declared genocidal jihad that first targeted<a href="https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=1406415b2b26b0ce&amp;attid=0.3&amp;disp=vah&amp;zw&amp;saduie=AG9B_P9TijVFtqY0LhzHew5Cqtih&amp;sadet=1376250587954&amp;sads=2hUG-BOfO_ziGj3P126lVPFC9YM#0.3_footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> South Sudan and the Nuba Mountains/Blue Nile regions, resulting in the death of some 2.5 million people. The purpose of the jihad is, and always has been, to establish an Arab Islamic hegemony by eradicating both the Sudanese Christians and the indigenous black, African Muslims.</p>
<p>In his letter to Obama, Suleiman writes of the great anticipation that Obama’s words once created in the suffering, beleaguered Darfuri:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>When you were a senator and a candidate for president, you spoke often and strongly about America’s responsibility to end genocide in Darfur. Upon your first election in 2008, as the president of the United States of America, many Darfuris named their newly born boys after you – Obama. Darfur people, in their tradition, name their children after the dearest people in their lives or a person that made a significant change in their lives for the better. They were very optimistic that you were the one who would stop the first genocide in the new millennium, the genocide in Darfur.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Then Suleiman describes the current feeling of abandonment and betrayal of the Darfurians:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Today, in the summer of 2013, millions of Darfuris live, or are more accurately simply existing, in wartime conditions you really cannot imagine. They feel abandoned by you and America. One expressed the desperation of the men, women and children there saying, “We have no choice other than to fight to the death.”</i></p>
<p><i>Now, in the second term and fifth year of your presidency, the elders, grandparents, and mothers, in the nights of Darfur, pass on the horrible stories of the genocide to the younger generations. They pass on the fact that the world chose to accept and tolerate those who have committed the crime of genocide. They tell how an American president who pledged to end the Darfur genocide instead stood by when President al-Bashir effectively ended humanitarian aid in Darfur, when civilians were killed by government forces and militias, and when the government re-initiated ethnic cleansing in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile. They cannot understand that you, a two-term president, may leave office with a legacy of failing to stop the Darfur genocide and failing to bring any of the responsible criminals to justice.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Obama’s failure to make good on the promises he made while campaigning for the presidency – and was <a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/obama-and-darfur-the-futility-of-mere-hopefulness">condemning President George W. Bush</a> for “reckless and cynical” negotiating with Khartoum – has deeply disappointed his supporters who also care about Sudan. The President’s lack of action on Sudan became more and more unfathomable to many as the “Arab Spring” took place. Sudan activists observed the Obama Administration taking action, when it came to Egypt and Libya, and not taking action as a literal slaughter took place in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State. Not only not taking action, but censuring the civilians’ only defenders – the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/North.</p>
<p>While the Obama Administration ensured the downfall of Mubarak and Gadhafi, Sudanese in America warned that the United States was helping to replace “tyrants with terrorists” to &#8220;make those countries more like Sudan.” Although some American Sudan activists focus only on the egregious human rights violations perpetrated by Khartoum, the Sudanese connects the dots. Sudan’s Islamist regime, <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/68487/Egypt/Politics-/Sudan-road-link-to-open-soon,-Egypts-Morsi-says.aspx">Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood</a>, and the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/25/us-sudan-libya-weapons-idUSTRE7AO1R020111125">Libyan jihadists</a> are one in the same.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration seems to believe that, at least for its staunch supporters, impassioned speeches about Sudan and the creation of South Sudan (for which all the groundwork was laid during the Bush Administration) is enough to ensure a shining legacy for President Obama. But, writes Suleiman:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>If you do not adopt and promptly implement, together with U.S. allies, a revised comprehensive and coordinated policy toward Sudan, your legacy will forever be tied to failing to stop the genocide in Darfur.</i></p>
<p><i>Twenty years from the day you leave office, any time new mass graves are uncovered in a remote village in Darfur, your legacy will turn, in the books of history, into a legacy of death.</i></p>
<p><i>Fifty years from now, it will be incomprehensible to those who will learn the history of genocides that you sat as an American president for two terms, and allowed al-Bashir, the mastermind and executioner of the Darfur genocide, the first sitting head of state indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, to continue to commit these terrible crimes. History will remember that you failed to stop the killing, displacement, rapes and other destructive consequences called genocide by the U.S. Congress and by you.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>For many people, Obama’s legacy is already a legacy of death – whether from economic policies that are dividing and bankrupting the nation; violations of conscience and religious freedom; ever-increasing restrictions on free speech; continuing erosion of the military; foreign policies that have resulted in Benghazi and Morsi, and opened the hell-gates a little wider en route to the establishment of a global caliphate; or the actual intention behind all of those policies – the fundamental transformation of America. To those people, if they consider it at all, Obama’s failure to keep his promises on Sudan is part of the same pattern. To those who believed in Obama, it may be a game-changer. But to many of the people of Darfur, Nuba Mountains, and Blue Nile State, it is a death sentence.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 04:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.N.'s complicity in re-igniting the flames of genocide.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Hutu-refugees-at-UN-s-Gom-006.jpg"><img class="wp-image-197816 alignleft" alt="Hutu-refugees-at-UN-s-Gom-006" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Hutu-refugees-at-UN-s-Gom-006.jpg" width="287" height="197" /></a>Starting in April 1994, the horror of genocide engulfed the people of Rwanda. The United Nations had peacekeeping forces on the ground there, with a commanding officer who pleaded to New York headquarters for authority to intervene in time to stop the imminent violence before it exploded. The officer was ordered to stand down because intervening would have supposedly breached the UN peacekeeping force’s “monitoring” mandate. Thus, the UN and the international community stood by while mass slaughters of innocent Rwandans, many of them Tutsis, by extremist Hutu militiamen went on. An estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in 100 days.</p>
<p>Here is what the 1999 UN Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations concluded about this horrible tragedy:</p>
<blockquote><p>The systematic slaughter of men, women and children which took place over the course of about 100 days between April and July of 1994 will forever be remembered as one of the most abhorrent events of the twentieth century… The international community did not prevent the genocide, nor did it stop the killing once the genocide had begun. This failure has left deep wounds within Rwandan society, and in the relationship between Rwanda and the international community, in particular the United Nations. These are wounds which need to be healed, for the sake of the people of Rwanda and for the sake of the United Nations.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nearly twenty years after the Rwandan genocide, the United Nations has not only failed to heal the wounds, it is pouring salt into those wounds. Now it is taking sides in supporting the army of the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is collaborating with the remnants of the Rwandan Hutu genocidal militia, known as genocidaires, who escaped from Rwanda into the neighboring Congo after some semblance of order was restored.</p>
<p>The United Nations presently has a large peacekeeping force of approximately 17,000 troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), which is being buttressed even further by a contingent recently authorized by the Security Council known as the Intervention Brigade. MONUSCO is supposed to help support the Congolese national army (FARDC) prevent armed rebel groups from committing acts of violence against civilians and destabilizing the country. The Intervention Brigade of approximately 3000 men is being added to provide the UN peacekeeping force with more offensive capabilities, including drones to be used for surveillance purposes, and a mandate to disarm rebel groups in the eastern portion of the country.</p>
<p>The main rebel group that MONUSCO is helping the Congolese army defeat is known as M23. They are a group of soldiers who broke away from the Congolese army and are made up primarily of Tutsis. The Congolese government has accused Rwanda of backing the M23 rebels, a charge which Rwanda has denied but which has been repeated by UN officials without any concrete evidence to support it.</p>
<p>M23 has committed human rights violations against civilians. But so has the Congolese army. Indeed, army units committed mass rapes and have displayed bodies of dead M23 militia men in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the UN’s own human rights due diligence policies, with little consequence to date.</p>
<p>M23 occupied the city of Goma for ten days last November before at least temporarily withdrawing. While remaining a threat to the internal stability of the Democratic Republic of Congo, however, M23 poses no material threat to any neighboring countries. Yet MONUSCO, working closely with the Congolese army especially in the vicinity of the city of Goma where M23 has shown strength, is treating M23 as enemy #1.</p>
<p>At the same time, the Congolese army has close ties with another rebel group opposed by M23. This rebel group is known as the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) and just happens to consist of the Rwandan genocidaires mentioned above.</p>
<p>A January 2012 report by the UN Secretary General on MONUSCO said: “The majority of acts of sexual violence in eastern DRC are committed by armed groups, notably FDLR [Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda - established by perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.]” Yet, MONUSCO shows malignant neglect towards the resurgence of these rebel forces operating inside of the DRC, which not only commits human rights atrocities at least as serious, if not more serious, than those of M23, but also wants to renew its campaign of genocide across the border in Rwanda.</p>
<p>M23 members are disaffected mutineers from the DRC army who are still nevertheless part of the DRC. FDLR, on the other hand, is part of the genocidal force that escaped Rwanda after perpetrating its crimes against humanity and is now seeking to re-ignite their campaign of genocide from its base inside the DRC. As Rwandan Defense Minister Gen. James Kabarebe put it: “FDLR is lost stuck in its history of genocide! What legitimacy does FDLR have staying in DRC, raping, killing, and looting for 19yrs! … . FDLR has exported genocide to DRC.”</p>
<p>Rwanda’s UN Ambassador H.E. Eugène-Richard Gasana described FDLR as “violent extremists who exist purely to finish the job of genocide.” The Congolese army is “working hand in hand with the FDLR, providing them with arms” and cooperating with them in battle, he told me in an exclusive interview.</p>
<p>The Security Council’s Congo sanctions committee of experts recently released its mid-year report in which it confirmed ties existing between the Congo’s national army (FARDC) and the FDLR rebel group. The committee cited sources in the Congolese army stating that “FARDC and FDLR regularly meet and exchange operational information” and that “FARDC soldiers supplied ammunition to the FDLR.”   Presumably with such assistance, FDLR forces were able to carry out three attacks on Rwandan soil in late 2012 and mid-2013. The FDLR has also allegedly committed a genocide campaign against the Tutsi communities in DR Congo.</p>
<p>“It is totally unacceptable to Rwanda that the FARDC are cooperating with the FDLR in any way, shape or form,” Ambassador Gasana said. “It should be unacceptable to MONUSCO, the Security Council and the international community as well. Sadly, there is much more evidence of such cooperation than what is spelled out in the experts’ report,” he added. “The UN let Rwanda down in 1994 and now is standing by as if FDLR does not exist anymore.”</p>
<p>What’s more, not only the FDLR rebels but also the Congolese army itself, which MONUSCO actively supports, has launched attacks against Rwanda. The Rwandan Ministry of Defense has presented evidence that Rwanda was bombed from Congolese territory controlled by FARDC and MONUSCO on July 15, 2013, which may have occurred as a spill-over from the army’s battles with M23. MONUSCO is denying that it had any involvement in these bombings even though MONUSCO forces are co-located with the Congolese army in the outskirts of Goma where the bombs came from. The bombs landed in two villages inside Rwanda.</p>
<p>The Rwandan government described the bombing as “provocative and deliberate,” which it accused FARDC and MONUSCO of conducting.</p>
<p>Moreover, although deployed as a peacekeeper attached to the MONUSCO Intervention Brigade in the Eastern Congo, a Tanzanian soldier has reportedly been captured on the frontline while commanding a FDLR rebel unit in the attack against an M23 rebel base. Tanzania, a major contributor of troops to MONUSCO, has put public pressure on Rwanda to negotiate with the FDLR genocidaires.</p>
<p>In a letter to U.S. Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo in her capacity as this month&#8217;s president of the UN Security Council, Ambassador Gasana charged that MONUSCO Intervention Brigade commanders have met with FDLR rebels. &#8220;Their actions, implicating senior United Nations commanders picking sides among the very armed groups whose military activities they are meant to deter, are of serious concern,&#8221; Rwanda’s Ambassador Gasana charged in his letter.</p>
<p>The United Nations is in denial mode at its highest levels. “Following initial inquiries within MONUSCO, [Ban] has no reason to believe that senior commanders of the Force Intervention Brigade would meet with the FDLR to discuss matters related to their &#8216;tactical and strategic collaboration&#8217;,&#8221; Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in response to these allegations, according to his spokesperson Martin Nesirky.</p>
<p>The Secretary General has also asked for more specific evidence to support Rwanda’s allegations regarding the involvement of MONUSCO in the bombings. An on-site investigation participated in by observers from several countries is underway, with a report of its results due to be issued soon. Notably, MONUSCO is not participating in this investigation.</p>
<p>The Rwanda government is determined to prevent another genocide from devastating its people. The United Nations owes the Rwandan people its full measure of cooperation. Sadly, however, its peacekeeping mission in the neighboring Congo appears to be engaging in malignant neglect, if not tacit support, of elements of the Congolese army and their FDLR collaborators which threatens to re-ignite the flames of genocide.</p>
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