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		<title>The Arab Spring Killed the Left’s Foreign Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blaming America for the Middle East no longer works.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/fall1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217356" alt="fall" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/fall1.jpg" width="384" height="216" /></a>Three years later, no one talks about the Arab Spring. Its anniversaries pass in rioting and terror; clubs, bombs and juntas mixing together in a bloody cocktail. Protesters die, police die and the liberals who once claimed that the Age of Aquarius had come to the Land of the Nile have turned their faces away.</p>
<p>In the bleak grey skyscraper towering precariously over Eight Avenue, the filing cabinets bulge with back issues of the <i>New York Times</i> full of optimistic speculations about the future. But now the Old Grey Lady hardly mentions the Arab Spring except when she’s talking about insurgencies and riot casualty counts.</p>
<p>Only a few years ago, she fell head over heels for the bad boys of the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, despite the best efforts of her procurers of Islamism like David Kilpatrick and Robert Mackey, she has stopped taking their phone calls and has settled down to placidly chronicling the daily urban disorders of Egypt.</p>
<p>Despite her disregard, the Arab Spring countries are slowly sorting themselves out. Egypt has ratified its constitution and is moving ahead to elections. Amr Moussa, the Secretary General of the Arab League and Chairman of the Committee of 50 that drafted the Constitution is assuring reporters that General al-Sisi “will assume the seat of power in a democratic way, because he will win the majority of the votes.”</p>
<p>“There is nothing else to say,” he added. When it comes to Middle Eastern elections, there usually isn’t.</p>
<p>Tunisia is stumbling in its efforts at both a constitution and a government, but the Islamic parties in Egypt and Tunisia have been forced to retreat. The Arab Spring has receded and the new battle will be between Islamic terrorist groups, including those that temporarily went ‘straight’ to try the democratic path to power, and the authorities. And that will be better than the ‘democratic’ Caliphate alternative.</p>
<p>The Syrian opposition has been forced to the negotiating table because Assad’s Russian backers proved more determined than Obama and the rag-ends of a NATO alliance unwilling to take on Syria without the United States leading the charge. Its politicians are busy with their petty bickering and the fighters are killing each other over the loot of the cities and towns that they expect to lose before too long.</p>
<p>By the fourth anniversary of the Arab Spring, it is entirely possible that most of the countries affected by it will look a lot like they did before it took place with the exception of Libya where NATO intervention has turned the country over to Islamic militias linked to Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>In Cairo, anniversary celebrations cheer the fall of Mubarak and welcome the future presidency of General al-Sisi while the Muslim Brotherhood’s supporters unleash a new wave of terror. In Tunisia, some Islamists denounce the “secular” constitution while others support it. In Egypt and Tunisia, both the Islamic parties and the left have tried to claim the mantle of a revolution that no longer exists.</p>
<p>What the West mistook for a reform movement, the East misread as a revolutionary movement and the end result has been neither revolution nor reform but a slow crawl back to the status quo of the Shaitan that everyone knew, hated and could count on. In Syria, Egypt and Tunisia, people power no longer stands for change, but for the status quo. The weight of democratic opinion is on the side of stability.</p>
<p>Salafist terror might still sweep across the region as parts of Iraq and Syria transform into a new Afghanistan, but it isn’t likely to happen unless the United States gives the Sunni opposition hope that it will intervene. The Libyan uprising would have imploded without NATO intervention and the Syrian civil war has no future as long as Syria’s allies are prepared to continue upping the ante. The infighting between Sunni groups and the futile negotiations suggest a last ditch effort before the end.</p>
<p>The smugglers, kidnappers and drug dealers will go back to their labs, hidden routes and the caves where their victims end up. The Pakistanis and Chechens will return home, the Iraqis will refocus on the Sunni Triangle and the European Muslims and Muslim converts will return with weapons training that they will put to use in London, Paris and New York.</p>
<p>But the fall of the Arab Spring hits liberal critics of American foreign policy even harder than the Syrian Sunnis. The left was convinced that everything wrong with the Middle East had been caused by American foreign policy. But this time the United States backed the Muslim Brotherhood’s takeover of Egypt and the Islamist rise in Tunisia. It bombed Libya and threatened to do the same thing to Syria.</p>
<p>The old argument that the region was unstable and that we were hated because of the dictators no longer holds water. The United States pushed out the dictators; their own people brought them back.</p>
<p>The left will try to use Kerry’s belated attempts at working with the new Egyptian government and Obama’s fumbling in Syria as an indictment, but their worst accusation is that the United States did not do enough for the Arab Spring and that is a long way from the old indictments that we were oppressing the Islamists with puppet regimes and stirring up anger against ourselves by supporting the dictators.</p>
<p>History is as malleable for the left as it is for the protesters booing Mubarak and cheering al-Sisi and it will transform the Cairo speech and the Libyan intervention into a complicated plot to seize someone’s oil. Having learned nothing from history, the left will once again champion “moderate” Islamists as the solution to the turmoil. Meanwhile the left will have to go back to using American support for Israel as the default explanation for the terrorism and for absolutely everything that is wrong with the region.</p>
<p>And that is because beyond Israel, it no longer has American foreign policy to kick around anymore.</p>
<p>The Arab Spring killed the left’s foreign policy. Obama has pivoted away from the Arab Spring and the Middle East because he no longer has a road map; except the familiar one of blaming Israel. The left’s bet on the Islamists crashed and burned. The radical foreign policy experts responsible for the invention of the Arab Spring are tiptoeing away while hoping that nobody notices the mess they left behind.</p>
<p>Above Eight Avenue, the Old Grey Lady, once so optimistic about the Middle East, has grown pessimistic again. <i>New York Times</i> editors peer through the windows to the east through the pelting snow where they once saw the Arab Spring from their offices and then turn away while in Cairo the streets burn and clubs hit flesh and a new democratic dictator rises out of the ashes.</p>
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		<title>What If Islamists Took Control of the White House?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Howard Rotberg]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What agenda would an Islamist U.S. president pursue?  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/wh.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-211564" alt="wh" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/wh.jpg" width="275" height="183" /></a>Dear me, I worry so much about the future of our freedoms in the West, as so many begin to “submit” to the values and demands of radical Islam, or what is called “Islamism.”</p>
<p>The other day, I began to worry what would happen if the Islamists took over the American government and placed one of their own in the White House.</p>
<p>I started to think about the agenda that an Islamist president would fulfill.   Here are some of my thoughts:</p>
<p>[1] He would make it clear that the American Constitution and the history of American freedoms were no more exemplary than the history of Islam.   He would argue that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition.   Instead, he would say, they overlap and share common principles.  He would be clear in his moral equivalence between America and the totalitarian Islamic regimes.   He might go so far as to say the “common principles” were justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.   And if he got away with comparing the American justice system and the tolerance of most Americans with the totalitarian justice systems of the Islamic states and with comparing American tolerance to the intolerance of peoples who riot and kill if they think political cartoons are offensive, then he would go further:  He would assure everyone that it is <i>Islam</i> that has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibility of religious tolerance and racial equality.   If the American people were too stupid to know about the persecution of Christians and Jews in Muslim countries (including the often-ignored fact of nearly a million Jews being expelled from Arab countries in the ‘40s and ‘50s), then that would just make his task all the easier.</p>
<p>[2] He would as quickly as possible give out important awards, like the Medal of Freedom, to those complicit with the goals of radical Islam, who head NGOs and United Nations bodies that support the notion that the Israelis are the new Nazis and the Palestinians are the new Jews.   And he would announce such awards on a date of symbolic significance to the Jews – Tisha B’Av, the historic day of mourning for the loss of the Jewish temples and the occurrence of other national tragedies, so that the Jews knew that he was putting them in their place, for the sooner they got the message, the better.</p>
<p>[3] He would make a quick symbolic snub to Eastern Europe so as to emphasize that the quid pro quo for Russian support of Islamists (outside the former U.S.S.R only, of course) would be the removal of defensive missiles from Poland.   He would drive home the point by not informing the Poles very much ahead of the announcement and would make the announcement on September 17, 2009, which everyone in Central Europe knew was the 60th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, followed by the annexation of eastern Poland to the USSR.   This would be another important symbolic act to show how in the future the world would be divided between radical Islam, Russia and China.</p>
<p>[4] To further the goals of Radical Islam, the U.S. must be dramatically weakened from the inside, including its once strong and proud economy.  He would have to create unheard of budget deficits.  He would make a budget that spends more than any other in history, creates the largest deficits in history and imposes the largest tax increases in history.  He would spend over a trillion dollars more each year than he took in, and would project a cumulative deficit within ten years of $14.29 trillion – more than the country’s GNP.  That way, the U.S. would end up being owned by China and other foreign lenders and the American people would be so preoccupied with their economic woes, and his governments lies about the terms of a socialized medical system, there would be little regard paid to the increasing rate of Islamification of its culture and freedoms.</p>
<p>[5] Any captured terrorists would be given civilian trials, with the same constitutional rights as American citizens, rather than giving them military trials like enemy soldiers receive.   This would show that Islamic terrorists are really the same as American citizens and would make it difficult to secure convictions.  It would also make it difficult to keep anti-terrorist measures secret, because they would be subject to pre-trial discovery of civilian trials.</p>
<p>[6] He would change many of the terms that are meant to suggest American values are superior to Islamic values.  He would downplay any sense that America is at war with radical Islam.  In fact, he would avoid using the term &#8220;Global War on Terror&#8221; [GWOT] and instead use &#8220;Overseas Contingency Operation.”</p>
<p>[7] He would refer to any terrorists that kill dozens of Americans on American soil not as “terrorists” or “murderers” or “agents of Islamism” but as mere “extremists” – making such killers no more evil than, say, right-wing Republicans.   He would not do anything to stop Islamists infiltrating the American military.</p>
<p>[8] He would assure Americans that acts of terrorism that obviously should be caught by American authorities, were in fact business as usual, and if he was on vacation during such incidents, he would not bother to return to work. That would show that not only were the terrorists winning but that was entirely normal.</p>
<p>[9] He would appoint an Iranian-born political associate without any special military, security or nuclear knowledge to be put in charge of secret negotiations with Iran and then pretend to make a deal with Iran to stop its nuclear weapon program (which nuclear weapons Iran has been promising since 1996 would be used against Israel, and even a few days before the deal was made, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who really rules Iran, said that the Jews of Israel “cannot be called humans, they are like animals, some of them” and that Israel was “the rabid dog of the region&#8221;). He would, in an act of appeasement that was Chamberlain-like, make an agreement that allowed Iran to keep all its centrifuges and proceed to make its nukes, with the sanctions that have finally begun to bite being eased in return for nothing at all.    He would allow the Parchin site and other secret military installation to be out of sight of the inspectors, allow for the possibility of “dirty bombs” using nuclear material probably through its terrorist arm, Hezbollah, allow it to keep up its production of centrifuges, and boost its stock of 3.5 percent enriched uranium, thereby accumulating enough material to enhance its capacity for producing enough weapons-grade uranium to break through to a nuclear bomb rapidly enough to defy detection by the IAEA or Western intelligence until it is too late.</p>
<p>[10] He would make it clear that Israel would be on its own (at least up until an Iranian first strike nuclear attack killed an estimated 200,000 Israelis) and he would delay the delivery of “bunker busting” bombs promised to be sold to Israel.  He would also delay delivery of helicopters and other military hardware so as to pressure Israel to do nothing in the face of a threatened nuclear war.</p>
<p>[11] He would have his secretary of state warn Israel that unless it gave into demands from a terrorist entity that teaches its children hatred and violence, Israel would end up with a Third Intifada, which presumably would be Israel’s fault.</p>
<p>[12] He would make Israel the object of his demands, and demand nothing from Arab countries or the Palestinians.  He would try to stop all Israeli settlement even within established cities, if they were on “disputed” lands.    He would thus create a situation where the Palestinians had no interest in compromise, since all demands were only made on the Israelis.</p>
<p>[13] He would befriend radical Islamist professors and Americans with records of terrorist violence against American institutions, so young Americans would know who he deemed worthy of the respect inherent in friendship, and they would understand the way of the future.</p>
<p>[14] He would make it clear that the only “radical” part of Islam is Al Qaeda, and therefore there is no threat to America from any other Muslims, who after all, as pointed out in point one above, are tolerant and followers of justice just like all Americans.</p>
<p>[15] He would court the Muslim Brotherhood, support it in Egypt and elsewhere, and allow its operatives to participate at the highest levels of American government.</p>
<p>Oh, dear.  I think we have a problem.</p>
<p><i>Howard Rotberg is a Canadian writer.  His latest book is TOLERism:  The Ideology Revealed.   He is also President of publisher Mantua Books  (www.mantuabooks.com).</i></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Josh Brewster&#8217;s</strong> video interview with <strong>Jamie Glazov</strong> about why the Obama administration reaches its hand out in solidarity to America&#8217;s adversaries:</p>
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		<title>The Egyptian Pyramid Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 04:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth about the Arab Spring is that it never existed.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ObamaP.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-204337" alt="ObamaP" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ObamaP-266x350.jpg" width="266" height="350" /></a>Deserts are funny things. A big wide open space in which nothing moves can play tricks on the mind. Spend enough time looking at a desert and you will see things moving in it because your mind needs to believe that there is life in it. Look hard enough and you will see democracy, progress and change.</p>
<p>But when you close your eyes and open them again, you will see that there is only a desert. And that there only ever was a desert.</p>
<p>Everything else was a mirage.</p>
<p>Egypt has gone back to what it was before the Arab Spring. It is now once again a country ruled by the military and bureaucratic institutions that are the legacy of British colonialism. Mubarak will not return to power again, but there are plenty of other military men to squat on top of a bankrupt oligarchy that lives on foreign aid and pride.</p>
<p>The mirage of Tahrir Square, the fireworks, fires and social media protesters brandishing smartphones and throwing down with riot police, is fading away. There will be more riots and fires and rapes. But that false sense of history being made will never return.</p>
<p>The truth about the Arab Spring is that it never existed. The term was coined by Marc Lynch, a George Washington University professor, who had spent years urging engagement with Hamas and championing the role of the Muslim Brotherhood as a “firewall” against Al-Qaeda “radicalism.”</p>
<p>This Arab Spring had nothing to do with democracy or freedom. It was a scheme to split the Islamist ranks by turning over the Middle East to political Islamists. It was Zbigniew Brzezinski&#8217;s Green Belt strategy practiced on a grander scale than Iran. Instead of Jimmy Carter hoping that the Ayatollah Khomeini would checkmate the USSR, there was Barack Obama counting on Muslim Brotherhood election victories to make the practice of international terrorism passé.</p>
<p>The Arab Spring was a cheerful brand, a shiny media package, covering up an ugly truth. The optimistic implications of its name kept many from looking at the list of ingredients and finding out that the only things inside were Islamists and more Islamists.</p>
<p>The pyramid scheme would keep investing in new Islamist governments and they would pay us back by discrediting Al Qaeda’s campaign of terror and that, the liberal foreign policy mavens insisted, would allow us to bring an end to the War on Terror.</p>
<p>Egypt was where it was all supposed to come together. It was the most powerful Arab country standing and its political system was a legacy of European colonialism. The Muslim Brotherhood had been born there and Al Qaeda, in its own way as well, with ambitious Egyptian Brotherhood members like Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s current leader and former grey eminence, using Bin Laden as a hand puppet.</p>
<p>That was why Obama went to Cairo. His new beginning had its biggest implications for Egypt. This was where the Muslim Brotherhood was supposed to turn his Post-American foreign policy into a success.</p>
<p>Not only didn’t the Arab Spring do what it falsely promised; open up closed societies, expand freedom and reform the region; but it didn’t even do what its backers wanted.</p>
<p>The Arab Spring was supposed to bring stability, but it made Egypt more unstable. It was supposed to work economic miracles by fusing devout Islam with free market capitalism. Western useful idiots told Morsi to use Turkey as a model. He did. The real Turkey is a paranoid oligarchy in debt up to its eyeballs.</p>
<p>Finally, it was supposed to neuter Al Qaeda. Instead it only encouraged it. Islamists taking power by winning elections was supposed to convince Al Qaeda members that it was time to trade in the bomb for the ballot box. Instead the Muslim Brotherhood used Al Qaeda to play a game of “Good Terrorist” and “Bad Terrorist” with the United States the way most Muslim countries do.</p>
<p>The traditional Egyptian authorities, the old oligarchy, disliked the Muslim Brotherhood businessmen financed by Qatari cash and propagandized by its Al Jazeera megaphone, even more than Mubarak’s son. They knew that given time, Morsi would take their posts and business monopolies and hand them over to his supporters. The issue for them wasn’t Islam; it was power and money.</p>
<p>They knew that there was no Arab Spring. This was a regime change operation. Washington had decided that its old allies were no longer getting the job done and decided to trade them in for the Brotherhood. And they waited, giving the Brotherhood and Obama enough rope to hang themselves with. The same type of manipulated popular revolt that had brought them down would bring Morsi down too. And did.</p>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood went down, denounced as thieves, murderers, terrorists, Zionists and American puppets. Only 3 out of 5 of those charges are actually true, but the other two are the only ones that matter.</p>
<p>Assassinating Sadat was a minor matter. That sort of thing happens in the Middle East. But becoming a tool of American regime change is treason.</p>
<p>Mubarak had kept the Muslim Brotherhood around to demonstrate to the United States that pushing him to democratize was too dangerous; stepping on it just enough to keep it down, but not wipe it out. It took him too long to realize that Obama not only would not stop pushing for elections out of fear of a Muslim Brotherhood victory, but would actually welcome a Muslim Brotherhood victory.</p>
<p>Egypt, like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and many Muslim countries, had used Islamic terrorism as a counter. Either the United States would support the “moderate” and “responsible” authorities committed to occasionally fighting terrorism or the terrorists would take over. It didn’t expect an America insane enough to believe that the Muslim Brotherhood was the moderate and responsible alternative.</p>
<p>The fury and hate directed at the Muslim Brotherhood comes out that deep sense of betrayal. The Muslim Brotherhood’s political judo trick of flipping its dreaded image as a threat of violence into a gatekeeper of violence should have been anticipated, especially since that is the whole purpose of terrorism, but change comes slowly to the region. And it usually comes from outside.</p>
<p>Egypt’s ruling authorities were shaped by a British colonial patronage whose roots were in a former century. The Muslim Brotherhood was politically influenced by modern transnational movements like Nazism and is far more flexible and light on its feet. And unlike its leftist opposition, which is mainly clever when it comes to making memes, it understands how to seize power.</p>
<p>Obama’s Cairo pivot gave the Muslim Brotherhood its best shot at power in Egypt, but it may have also destroyed it. The Muslim Brotherhood’s continued existence is no longer an asset that keeps American calls for democracy at bay. It has become a Damocles sword of regime change hanging over their necks. And that means it may have to be destroyed. In the peculiar politics of the region, success may be the only thing that can destroy terrorists.</p>
<p>But destroying the Brotherhood is a big job. The authorities would prefer that the Muslim Brotherhood accept its place and return to the way things were.  And that is what everyone really wants. Not hope, change or revolution. Only the past. Even the Islamists only long for a return to an ancient status quo.</p>
<p>The desert is a barren place. It’s not a place of life, growth or change. Western travelers, bored with the lifelessness, squint and think that they can see a revolution coming that will transform the region.</p>
<p>And then they open their eyes and see that there is nothing there.</p>
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		<title>A New Muslim Brotherhood Symbol: R4BIA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>There is a new Islamist symbol appearing in protests, on social networking sites and at demonstrations throughout the Middle East. The symbol allegedly originated as a four-fingered hand sign by pro-Morsi protesters during demonstrations in Egypt’s Rabia al-Adawiya Square. The hand gesture quickly evolved into an image of the hand commonly depicted in black on a bright yellow background. It is called the “R4BIA sign.” In English it is officially spelled in capital letters and the letter &#8220;A&#8221; is replaced with the number 4. It has become the symbol of the massacre of pro-Morsi supporters in Rabia al-Adawiya Square on August 14, 2013. This new sign already has its own history, legend and mysticism and it contains all the attributes that Islamists favor in their symbology, particularly martyrdom.</p>
<p>The design of the symbol has been endowed with characteristics of the sacred in Islam: the color yellow used in the background signifies the golden Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the hand depicted in the color black denotes the black cloth that covers the Kaaba. The official R4BIA website alleges that protesters originated the sign and explained the meaning:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;This is the &#8216;Rabia sign.&#8217; &#8216;Rabia&#8217; means four or fourth in the Arabic language. The name of this square comes from Rabia al-Adawiya, a blessed lady among the pious servants of Allah. She received the name Rabia because she was the fourth child in the family. We use the sign to cherish her legacy.” “The second reason why this sign bears significance is the fact that Mohamed Morsi was the fourth President of Egypt after Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak. We make the sign to remind people of his presidency.” “In addition, those who gather in Tahrir Square to support the military coup prefer the V sign made with the two fingers. We cannot be the same as those people. We use and spread the Rabia sign in order to distinguish ourselves from them.” </i></p></blockquote>
<p>According to the R4BIA website, the protestors who provided the explanation for the symbol were killed with hundreds of other Muslim Brotherhood supporters who had camped out in the tent city for weeks. The violent incident and the symbol that has come to represent it have been endowed with supernatural qualities. The number four has acquired mystical connotations signified by the name of the square, the succession of Egyptian presidents and the birth order of Rabia al-Adawiya.  The slain supporters have been bestowed with heroic status and the Islamist honor of martyrdom and are now referred to as the &#8220;Rabia Martyrs.&#8221;  A new Islamist legend was born out of the blood of Egyptian protesters. It would not be surprising if pilgrimages to Rabia al-Adawiya Mosque to commemorate the new martyrs occur each year on the anniversary of the violence.</p>
<p>The symbol is quickly evolving into a full-fledged R4BIA movement. A mythology surrounding the R4BIA martyrs is emerging. One of the new myths is that the blessings of the new martyrs are responsible for spreading the symbol beyond Egypt’s national borders to become the symbol of awakening to the global Muslim community. Although the new blessed martyrs are getting credit for spreading the message, they are receiving a lot of help from the Muslim Brotherhood propaganda machine and Turkish Islamists. A Turkish website R4BIA.com has been launched in three languages, Arabic, English and Turkish, explaining the origin of the symbol and promoting a R4BIA movement. R4BIA.com contains photos and videos of protesters and includes a R4BIA song whose lyrics are comprised of the writings of Sayyid Qutb, an influential leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and the father of violent Islamism.</p>
<p>The site also contains a video showing family photos and the letter written by senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Beltagy to his 17-year-old daughter Asma, who was shot and killed during the protests. The letter will become a classic in Muslim Brotherhood propaganda, as it includes a heart rending eulogy filled with the symbolism of female martyrs as brides of paradise when her father describes her death in a dream as a wedding.</p>
<p>A section of the website that reveals the true significance of the R4BIA symbol and the fledgling movement posits the question: “What is R4BIA?” The anonymous web master claims the responses were compiled from a selection of interpretations provided by Muslims around the world. They read:</p>
<p><i>R4BIA is a symbol of freedom</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the birth of a new movement for freedom and justice</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the birth of a new world</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the return of Muslims to world stage</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA means justice, freedom and conscience</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the place where the so-called values of the West collapsed</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA means the Egyptian heroes who became free by dying</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the whole geography of Islam</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the name of those who wake all the Islamic world with their death</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the place of people who show the death is a revival</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is our daughter Asma</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the grandchildren of Hasan Al Banna</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the new name of our children who will change the world</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is a new breath to humanity</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is justice for everyone against rotten Western values</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the soul of a free man and a free woman</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the tear, the sadness, the sobbing</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the joy, the happiness, the good news</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the child, the woman, the young, the old</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is a man like a man</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is straight as an Aleef, humble as Waw</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is a pure martyrdom</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is a new world</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is Ummah</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is solidarity, togetherness, brotherhood</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is unification of Islamic World</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the shame of the accomplice of the massacres</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the end of munafiqeen who support the massacres</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the end of oil sheikhs</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the end of capitalists</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the end of Zionists</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the end of immoral press</i></p>
<p><i> RABIA is the arena of martyrdom</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is the mother of martyrs</i></p>
<p><i> R4BIA is a smiling martyrdom</i></p>
<p>Many activists on social media have confirmed that the sign originated in Turkey, which officially opposed the military coup in Egypt. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan was one of the first to promote the R4BIA hand sign during a speech on August 17 when he saluted crowds several times with the four-finger sign. Turkish footballers also began to use the hand sign after scoring goals, soon after the symbol became popular on Turkish social media. It used to take years, sometimes decades, for a symbol to achieve global recognition, however, in the age of technology, with Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the Internet, this new Islamist sign went viral in days. Although the R4BIA symbol may have originally signified solidarity with massacred protesters, the meaning and the imagery has rapidly been radicalized to embody the primary concepts of Islamist propaganda: honor, heroism and martyrdom in the goal of establishing an Islamic caliphate. Images of the R4BIA symbol now include the fingers being depicted as rifles, the hand holding the black flag of jihad and writing on the hand calling for an Islamic Caliphate.</p>
<p>Perhaps many of those holding placards, wearing t-shirts and raising the four-finger salute do not understand the radical implications. Similar to movie stars and students who wear keffiyeh scarves, they may just assume it’s a cool, hip solidarity thing to do. However, there is no doubt that the Muslim Brotherhood understands the significance of disguising their true Islamist agenda, which is why they rebranded their name to the Freedom and Justice Party and removed images of the Quran and crossed swords from their logo.</p>
<p>The R4BIA sign is not a benign peace symbol; it is a symbol of resistance, Islamism, martyrdom, and a visual call to arms comparable to the black flag of jihad. The black hand on the bright yellow background is appropriately similar to highway warning signs that caution us against danger and indicate a hazard ahead on the road that may not be readily apparent.</p>
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<p>Days ago, al-Qaeda’s Egyptian leader, Ayman Zawahiri, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv3uFIQ6m5s">portrayed </a> the overthrow of Muhammad Morsi and the Brotherhood as a “Crusader” campaign led by Coptic Pope Tawadros II who, according to Zawahiri and other terrorists, is trying to create a Coptic state in Egypt.</p>
<p>Since then, not only are Egypt’s Christians and churches now being attacked in ways unprecedented in the modern era, but new reports indicate that al-Qaeda’s black flag has been raised on some of them, specifically <a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/media-news-events/news/1740-morsi-supporters-raise-al-qaeda-flag-on-a-church-surround-others-in-sohag-upper-egypt">St. George Church</a> in Sohag.  Considering that it was al-Qaeda linked terrorists who  initiated one of the bloodiest church attacks in recent history, the 2010 Baghdad church attack where nearly 60 Christians were slaughtered (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/in-the-media/graphic-images-of-christian-persecution-under-islam/">click here</a> for graphic images), that al-Qaeda is singling out Egypt’s Christians bodes ill.</p>
<p>The Islamic terrorist organization’s incitements against the Copts are just the latest to emanate from Islamists—from the top of the Brotherhood leadership to the bottom of the “Muslim street”—creating something of an “open season” on Egypt’s Christians.</p>
<p>Days after the overthrow of Morsi, the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Badie, was first to attack by name Coptic Pope Tawadros for supporting the popular June 30 Revolution, which saw tens of millions of Egyptians take to the streets.  After Badie’s demonization of the Copts, assaults on Christians began in earnest.  Many churches were attacked and burned and several Christians were murdered in Upper Egypt; over in the Sinai, a young <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-brotherhood-out-killing-christians-in/">Coptic priest was shot dead</a>, while the body of Magdy Lam‘i Habib, a Christian, was found mutilated and beheaded.  Due to the many death threats to Pope Tawadros, he has left the papal residence at the St. Mark Cathedral—which was earlier <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/scandal-morsi-government-permits-savage-attack-on-st-mark-cathedral/">savagely attacked</a>, when Morsi was <i>still</i> president.</p>
<p>This anti-Christian fury is far from sated and has taken on genocidal proportions.  While Al Jazeera was covering (and distorting) events in Egypt, a Libyan man named Tamar Rashad <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0PKkWUE8C0&amp;desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dq0PKkWUE8C0&amp;nomobile=1">called in</a> and said “I want to offer the good news to [Pope] Tawadros that, Allah willing, the day is coming when no Copt will ever again tread the ground of Egypt—and no churches.  We will no longer allow churches to exist.”  When the TV host appeared to protest, Rashad interrupted him saying, “It’s already decided, take your cameras and go to the churches and you’ll see what’s going to happen soon, Allah willing.”</p>
<p>To make matters worse, Sheikh Yusif al-Qaradawi, one of the Islamic world’s leading preachers and spiritual father of the Muslim Brotherhood, has given his formal stamp of approval to persecute Copts, recently posting a video saying that “Christians” and others “were recruited [by Egypt’s military] to kill innocent Muslims.”</p>
<p>As expected, all these incitements against the Copts issued by several top Islamist leaders have so upped anti-Copt sentiment that it has become difficult in the last few days to keep up with the attacks on them—so many and nonstop are the reports emanating from Egypt.  All throughout Upper Egypt—in Minya, Asyut, Sohag—Christians and their churches are under attack; dozens of Coptic homes and businesses have been set on fire.  Due to the risk to Christian lives, many churches are no longer holding regular worship services.</p>
<p>The situation has gotten so dire that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF369HjUHD8&amp;desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DwF369HjUHD8&amp;nomobile=1">Ibrahim Eissa</a>, a popular Egyptian journalist and TV personality, apparently unable to keep silent over the plight of the Copts, recently said on live TV: “The Christians have suffered in Egypt, over the course of 2 ½ years.  Their churches have been burned, their children killed.  The <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypts-massacre-of-christians/">Maspero Massacre</a> occurred, where several Copts were slain.  Catastrophic fatwas appeared, calling them infidels and inciting against them….  No one has suffered as much as they.  Today, if any Christian attempts to join a protest, he does so at the risk of defying dozens of fatwas calling for his death and decapitation and the burning of churches, especially in Upper Egypt.”</p>
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<p>Beheaded in Sinai for being Christian: remains of Magdy Lam‘i Habib</p>
<p>With the ouster of Muhammad Morsi, Egypt’s Islamists have finally gotten the pretext they need to cleanse the nation of its Christian minority, the Copt’s—ironically, Egypt’s most native sons.</p>
<p>The unprecedented hate currently being visited on them is fueled by Islam’s “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/how-dare-you-the-supremacist-nature-of-muslim-grievances/">How Dare You?</a>” phenomenon: As conquered non-Muslims, Christians must live as <i>dhimmis</i>, that is, according to traditional Islamic teaching, barely tolerated “infidels” who must be humble and submissive—to the point that they are not permitted to raise their hands to Muslims even when attacked.</p>
<p>Far from assuming their “proper place,” Egypt’s Christians supported the June 30 Revolution against the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypt-christians-being-threatened-not-to-join-protests/">will and threats of the Brotherhood</a>.  Thus, to Egypt’s disenfranchised and bitter Brotherhood and its supporters, Egypt’s Christians, beginning with their pope, are all now free game.</p>
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		<title>Brotherhood Torture Chambers (Finally) Exposed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discrepancy between what the West reports and what actually happens in the Muslim world.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/trt.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198653" alt="trt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/trt-450x299.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>Some time ago, Fox News published <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/26/egyptian-mosque-turned-into-house-torture-for-christians-after-muslim/">a report</a> titled “Egyptian mosque turned into house of torture for Christians after Muslim Brotherhood protest.”   The report opens by explaining how</p>
<blockquote><p>Islamic hard-liners stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo, turning it into [a] torture chamber for Christians who had been demonstrating against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in the latest case of violent persecution that experts fear will only get worse.  Such stories have become increasingly common as tensions between Egypt’s Muslims and Copts mount, but in the latest case, mosque officials corroborated much of the account and even filed a police report. Demonstrators, some of whom were Muslim, say they were taken from the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in suburban Cairo to a nearby mosque on Friday and tortured for hours by hard-line militia members.</p></blockquote>
<p>While it is good that Fox News reported on the Brotherhood’s “torture chambers,” its report is also a reminder of how much the American public is often kept in the dark concerning what happens to Christians in Muslim countries—indeed, about what happens in the Muslim world in general.</p>
<p>The fact is, months earlier, numerous reports, not to mention pictures and videos, circulated in the Arabic media about the Muslim Brotherhood’s “torture chambers.”</p>
<p>On January 6—nearly three months before the Fox News report appeared, I wrote the following words in a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/a-sudanese-genocide-in-egypt/">FrontPage Magazine article</a>, concerning how several Muslim Brotherhood affiliated clerics had</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/whoever-fights-us-fights-islam/">issued fatwas</a>, or Islamic decrees, that all such protesters [against Morsi] are to be fought and killed, regardless of whether they are fellow Muslims, leading to the violent attacks and killings during the uprisings against Morsi, including the “<a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/1061-inside-the-muslim-brotherhood-s-torture-rooms">Muslim Brotherhood’s Torture Rooms</a>.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I linked the phrase “Muslim Brotherhood’s Torture Rooms” back to a December report published by the Arabic-language newspaper <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/node/1299396">Al Masry Al Youm</a>, titled (in translation) “Inside the Brotherhood’s Torture Rooms.”  The report explained in detail the “torture strategy” the Brotherhood was using against protesters (scroll down beneath the Arabic text to see graphic images of some of those tortured). <a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/1061-inside-the-muslim-brotherhood-s-torture-rooms">Coptic Solidarity</a> translated and summarized the report as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p>A recent Al Masry Al Youm report, titled &#8220;Inside the Brotherhood Torture Rooms at Itihadiya [one of the presidential palaces]” written during last week’s protests indicates how Egyptian police appear paralyzed before the Muslim Brotherhood’s violence and how the attacks on Mina Philip—who was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypts-christians-caught-in-the-middle/">stripped naked and violently beat</a>—were part of a planned and organized attack by the Brotherhood.  Reporters spent 3 hours inside the Muslim Brotherhood &#8220;torture chambers&#8221; next to the Itihadiya Palace.  “We were able to enter after an introduction was made by a Brotherhood channel.”  According to the report, the main room has about 15 Muslim Brotherhood well-built men, along with policemen and 3 Brotherhood men in suits; the men in suits decide who gets to be in the room at all times. The process starts with the capture of a protestor opposed to President Morsi or one [who] is suspected of being a demonstrator.  The Brotherhood members start beating the person up as a group all over his body then they drag him to a nearby chamber where they take off his shirt and take his wallet, money and phone.  They later start interrogating him while beating him up and accusing him of receiving funds from opposition members.  They sometimes call their channel to film the “capture of thugs.”  Later, he is taken to the main room where he is beaten up again and his clothes are torn.  His ID is given to a Brotherhood lawyer who takes down his information.  Later, the lawyer would give the person&#8217;s ID to the police officer on the scene.</p></blockquote>
<p>Thus, while Fox News should be commended for its report, that these “torture chambers”—reports of which flooded the Egyptian media— were finally exposed to the American mainstream three months later is a reminder of how woefully in the dark most Americans are when it comes to the truth about the Islamic world.</p>
<p>To a large extent, much of this is caused by Western reporters who simply cannot transcend their own epistemology, who find it hard to believe—and thus report on—the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islams-insanities-all-just-a-hoax/">anachronistic absurdities</a> they hear.  Indeed, Fox News seems only to have reported on the Brotherhood’s torture chambers because Muslim mosque leaders—not Egyptian Christians or secularists whose accounts are often dismissed as biased against the Brotherhood—confirmed it, as found in the report’s two opening sentences: “Such stories [of torture chambers] have become increasingly common as tensions between Egypt’s Muslims and Copts mount, <i>but in the latest case, mosque officials corroborated much of the account and even filed a police report</i>”—hence apparently why Fox deemed it legitimate enough to report on.</p>
<p>If Fox News reported on the Brotherhood’s torture chambers only after mosque officials verified it—always a rarity, especially considering that it is mosque leaders who habitually radicalize and incite Muslims against Christians, and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/imam-arrested-planting-evidence-christian-girl-jailed-blasphemy-article-1.1150046">cover it up</a>—one can only imagine the la-la-land of make believe the viewers of CNN, BBC, etc., are repeatedly subjected to.</p>
<p>Update: One need not try to imagine anymore.  The narrative being relayed by Western mainstream media concerning events in Egypt—which is very much based on the pro-Brotherhood Al Jazeera’s distortions and lies, which portray as victim the aggressors—has so little to do with reality, especially in comparison to what is being reported by independent Egyptian reporters.  But it does fit the Obama administration&#8217;s agenda.  More on this later.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 04:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamists’ interfaith allies strike again…]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/images.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-197627" alt="images" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/images.jpg" width="349" height="144" /></a>The U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, apparently aware of the stigma associated with their names, has a new modus operandi: Work through interfaith partners whenever possible. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is using that tactic in its lawsuit against the National Security Agency, letting the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles take the lead.</p>
<p>A coalition about 20 groups, led by the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, are <a href="https://www.eff.org/node/75009">suing</a> the NSA for its <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/nsa-what-explosive-headlines-arent-telling-you">collection of phone records</a> that could help it track Americans in touch with terrorists and foreign intelligence operatives. The coalition also includes the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) National, CAIR-California and CAIR-Ohio.</p>
<p>Other plaintiffs include Human Rights Watch, Greenpeace, the Election Frontier Foundation the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, People for the American Way, Public Knowledge, TechFreedom, Media Alliance, Open Technology Institute, Free Press, Free Software Foundation, the California Association of Federal Firearms Licenses, the Calguns Foundation and the Franklin Armory.</p>
<p>Two other comical inclusions are Students for a Sensible Drug Policy and the California chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Apparently, smoking pot makes you an authority on the balance between electronic intelligence-gathering and civil liberties.</p>
<p>The coalition <a href="http://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12011-cair-joining-lawsuit-over-nsa-phone-spying.html">argues</a> that the NSA is violation the right of association derived from the First Amendment that prevents the government from “interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibit the petition for a governmental redress of grievances.”</p>
<p>There is not a single example of someone being unable to “peaceably assemble” as a result of the program. The phrase “peaceably assemble” does not include communication with a terrorist or spy service.</p>
<p>You cannot be prosecuted for solely associating with someone, but that doesn’t mean that the government’s can’t (and shouldn’t) consider your protected, legal actions when conducting an investigation. For example, it is legal for someone to praise Hamas as “martyrs,” but virtually everyone would hope that it’d be taken into account by investigators.</p>
<p>In justifying its lawsuit, the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles used its own version of “Islamophobia” to stir up fears and play the part of the persecuted victim.</p>
<p>“We joined this lawsuit to stop the illegal surveillance of our members and the people we serve. This spying makes people afraid to belong to our church community,” Rev. Rick Hoyt <a href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/unitarian-church-gun-groups-join-eff-sue-nsa-over-illegal-surveillance">said.</a></p>
<p>Move over “Islamophobia.” It’s time to make room for “Unitarianphobia.”</p>
<p>KCET <a href="http://www.kcet.org/news/stories/la-church-sues-national-security-agency-over-surveillance-program.html">points out</a> that the “church has a history of political activism, including a 1950s lawsuit challenging a loyalty oath required by the state for organizations to be recognized as nonprofits.”</p>
<p>Well, <i>that</i> might explain why the First Unitarian Church has no qualms about teaming up with CAIR, a group <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/List+of+Unindicted+HLF+Co-conspirators.pdf">identified</a> by federal prosecutors as an entity of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s secret Palestine Committee that was set up to promote the Hamas agenda.</p>
<p>Zahra Billoo, the executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of CAIR-California, depicts the lawsuit as part of a larger defense against anti-Muslim persecution by the government.</p>
<p>“The American Muslim community has complained of such wholesale surveillance for more than a decade—with FBI visits, mosque surveillance and agent provocateurs at the forefront of those complaints,” she said in a <a href="https://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12011-cair-joining-lawsuit-over-nsa-phone-spying.html">press release</a>.</p>
<p>Billoo is never one to miss an opportunity to paint the FBI as an adversary. In 2011, her CAIR chapter made a poster with a picture of a menacing FBI agent and the words, “Build a Wall of Resistance: Don’t Talk to the FBI.”</p>
<p>Her support for Hamas (and its violence) and the elimination of Israel is <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/cair-gives-award-anti-american-islamist">available for public viewing.</a> After Israel initiated Operation Pillar of Defense, she sent out a series of furious tweets. This included:</p>
<ul>
<li>“Israel ‘defending’ itself is analogous to Nazi Germany defending itself from Jewish uprisings.”</li>
<li>“#LiesImTiredofHearing: Apartheid Israel is only defending itself. That is as true as a rapist who invades your home may defend himself.”</li>
<li>“So Israel has ‘unleashed the gates of hell’ on #Gaza, so let the gates of hell be unleashed on Israel on the Day of Judgment.”</li>
<li>From the river to the sea, Palestine WILL be free.”</li>
</ul>
<p>The relationship between CAIR and Unitarians goes beyond a single issue. The Connecticut chapter of CAIR recently held a workshop on “Islamophobia” at All Souls Unitarian Church in New London. About 75 people attended and likely learned about the supposedly anti-Muslim bigotry of CAIR’s opponents. The event was sponsored by the congregation and the Unitarian Universalist Fund for Social Responsibility.</p>
<p>The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations is a listed <a href="http://www.isna.net/interfaith-partners.html">&#8220;interfaith partner&#8221;</a> of the Islamic Society of North America, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. The Association is also a <a href="http://shouldertoshouldercampaign.org/members/">member</a> of the ISNA-allied Shoulder-to-Shoulder Campaign.</p>
<p>Last week, the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/the-islamist-ties-of-religions-for-peace-usa/">Islamist ties of Religions for Peace USA</a>, “the largest and most broadly-based representative multi-religious forum in the United States,” were detailed.</p>
<p>The alliance includes ISNA and its fellow U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities, the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America. Rev. Eric Cherry of the Unitarian Universalist Association is on the Executive Council and the Association’s Rev. Peter Morales is on the Council of Presidents.</p>
<p>This type of interfaith alliance-building was foretold in the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum">1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo</a> that instructed the network to “master the art of ‘coalitions,’ the art of ‘absorption,’ and the principles of ‘cooperation.’”  The Unitarian leadership should read it.</p>
<p><strong>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Hollywood’s Islam-Free Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 04:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entertainment industry still can’t face the real enemy.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/iron.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-195095" alt="iron" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/iron-450x281.jpg" width="315" height="197" /></a><i>The Los Angeles Times</i> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-terror-plot-movies-20130628,0,7521511,full.story">reported</a> Friday that terrorism is making a comeback in Hollywood films after a dozen post-9/11 years in which they shied away from dealing with a topic that studios deemed too sensitive. The report credits this new trend to filmmakers attempting to bring to their fictional films some “real-world relevance.” There’s just one problem: Hollywood’s terrorism is still devoid of real-world terrorists.</p>
<p>The <i>Times</i> article points out that the filmmakers of several of the summer’s blockbusters feel safe again to depict acts of terrorism: “collapsing skyscrapers, spaceships flying into densely populated cities and bombers run amok… With the terror attacks more than a decade in the past, they say they no longer have to worry about alienating audiences.”</p>
<p>First of all, terror attacks are not “more than a decade in the past.” Sure, they aren’t on the scale of 9/11, but America has <i>continued</i> to endure attempted and successful terror attacks since then, all the way up to the recent Boston bombing. As for alienating audiences, did it ever occur to those filmmakers that movies in which America proudly and unapologetically kicked Islamic terrorist butt might provide audiences with that tremendous collective catharsis that Aristotle noted was the aim of good drama? That movies which affirmed our freedoms and our superior cultural values – that’s right, I said <i>superior</i> –might have united, inspired and empowered those audiences? That such movies might have sent a message to the world that we are unbowed by barbarism?</p>
<p>Instead, when Hollywood did address the clash of civilizations in those post-9/11 years, it pumped out movies disapproving of the CIA and/or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Every one of them reeked with the message of moral equivalence that we’re no better than the terrorists. Every one depicted our soldiers as PTSD-ravaged. Every one condemned our presence in Iraq as a Bush lie. And every one of those films about our clash of civilizations bombed, if you’ll pardon the pun, including <i>Syriana</i>, <i>The Green Zone</i>, <i>Stop-Loss</i>, <i>In the Valley of Elah</i>, <i>Redacted</i>, <i>Brothers</i>, <i>Lions for Lambs</i>, <i>Rendition</i>, <i>The Kingdom</i>, <i>Body of Lies</i>, and more. Why did they bomb? Because Americans don’t want to see movies loaded with those defeatist, self-flagellating messages. So Hollywood ended up alienating those audiences anyway.</p>
<p>“[Y]ou write about the times you live in,” said James Vanderbilt, screenwriter of <i>White House Down</i>, about an aspiring Secret Service agent protecting the president when the White House is taken over by – wait for it – <i>domestic terrorists</i>. “I was always fascinated with the idea of how you could take over the country — who would be able to do that,” said Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>I have a suggestion: if he wants to write about the times we live in, why not address credible, real-world enemies like Iran, Hezbollah, or al Qaeda and “its affiliates” (as President Obama calls them)? If he wants to imagine who could take over the White House, how about the Muslim Brotherhood, who traffic in and out of the White House now like it’s Grand Central Station? But he won’t because the truth is, too many in Hollywood are multiculturalist cowards who have already chosen to submit to Islam.</p>
<p>The latest <i>Star Trek</i> sequel is “about terrorism,” says the actor who plays Capt. Kirk, “about issues we as human beings in 2013 deal with every day, about the exploitation of fear to take advantage of a population, about physical violence and destruction but also psychological manipulation.” And yet the actor doesn’t explicitly make the obvious connection to those threats from Islamic fundamentalists. (In fact, nowhere in the <i>Times</i> article do the words “Islam” and “Muslim” appear in any form.)</p>
<p>Nor does Shane Black, director and co-writer of <i>Iron Man 3</i>, whose “ultimate terrorist” called “The Mandarin” “has this driving hatred for America which fuels his rhetoric with which he recruits these legions of followers.” Sounds like a clear stand-in for bin Laden or any number of Islamic terrorist leaders. And yet Black takes the safe route and makes his ultimate villain a vague fantasy figure.</p>
<p>In the new Superman reboot <i>Man of Steel</i>, director Zack Snyder said he was trying to evoke the 9/11 attacks “in a mythological rather than literal sense, using Superman as something like a therapist,” as the <i>Times</i> reporter puts it. “[Superheroes are] helping us understand the weird psychological and big horrible events that happen all the time,” Snyder said. “These guys deal with them in a dream-like way that makes it OK. A modern problem — a city getting destroyed — a superhero can help you understand that.”</p>
<p>Are we children who need to be coddled, who need help “understanding” “big horrible events”? During World War II Americans didn’t have to wrestle with the concept of Nazism or of Japanese imperialism in metaphorical terms. We didn’t have to undergo therapy to overcome our murky inner fears to confront those ideologies. We simply recognized them as evil and set out to eradicate them by laying waste to our enemies and their war-making capabilities.</p>
<p>As quoted in the <i>Times</i> article, Michael Taylor, chair of film and television production at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, wishes filmmakers would use their platforms to explore “the root causes of terrorism” and its consequences. “Maybe there is a missed opportunity — where they can include an issue of positive social change in the narrative,” said Taylor, who also founded USC’s Media Institute for Social Change. “What can we be doing about terrorism, and how do we feel about it?”</p>
<p>How do we <i>feel</i> about it? This is typical touchy-feely nonsense from the left, whose first response to a terrorist threat is to blame America for it, then to organize a white privilege workshop or a gender-neutral drum circle to work out their deep-seated cultural guilt. Meanwhile <i>Islamic</i> terrorists – not Tea Partiers, not “anti-government types,” not angry vets, not anyone that Homeland Security considers a primary terrorist threat – continue blowing up children on our own soil.</p>
<p>Hollywood movies during WWII reflected an unconflicted confidence in our values and in the rightness of our purpose. Today, thanks in no small part to Hollywood’s deeply subversive cultural influence, it is our Islamic enemies who have that confidence, while America is paralyzed by navel-gazing, hand-wringing, moral confusion – and filmmakers who see their work as collective therapy rather than an inspirational call to arms.</p>
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		<title>The Turkish Summer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/turkey-protests.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192137" alt="turkey-protests" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/turkey-protests-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I’ve referred to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan as the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/crowning-erdogan-new-king-islamists">&#8220;king of the Islamists&#8221;</a> because of his ability to swoon the West, make Israel bend and maintain popularity while implementing Sharia using the doctrine of <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/gradualism-islamist-strategy-victory">&#8220;gradualism.&#8221;</a> He now faces his biggest internal challenge as <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/turkey-explodes-protest-against-erdogan">protests</a> against him enter their fifth day in what one expert <a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/turkey-protest-islam-erdogan-167/">compares</a> to the “eruption of a volcano.”</span></b></p>
<p>The unexpected spark was Erdogan’s plan to redevelop Gezi Park in Taksim Square. <i>Reuters</i> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/02/us-turkey-protests-insight-idUSBRE9510DJ20130602">explains</a> that Taksim honors the secular legacy of Ataturk, while the other squares in the capital reflect upon the days of the Ottoman Empire. When Erdogan planned to transform the park into an Ottoman-theme shopping center with a mosque, apartment complex and model of Ottoman-era barracks, it was seen by secularists as a washing away of Ataturk.</p>
<p>Opponents of Erdogan had been looking for an opportunity, angered over the government’s new restrictions on alcohol sales and advertising, the morning-after pill, the rejection of a gay rights law, and other moves towards Sharia governance. About 100 Turks <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/05/2013525191210116123.html">publicly kissed</a> in a subway station after officials said passengers must “act in accordance with moral rules” regarding public displays of affection.</p>
<p>A recent <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/turkish_opinion_poll_finds_majorities_slam_erdogan_policies_on_alcohol_syri/">poll</a> found that 35% of Turks consume alcohol, an act that is forbidden in Islam. It did not flatly ask respondents whether they oppose the new restrictions, but 61% felt it was an intervention in personal lives. Interestingly, a 2009 <a href="http://www.dici.org/en/news/turkey-one-turk-in-three-would-not-want-a-christian-neighbor/">poll</a> that found high levels of hostility towards Christians, Jews and atheists also <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/turkish-society-intolerant-others-nationalism.html">found</a> that 54% of Turks don’t want “Sharia supporters” for neighbors.</p>
<p>The protest at Gezi Park began as a small sit-in at the park, with participants planting trees and reading books. It quickly grew as the demonstration took on broader meaning. <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/turkey-explodes-protest-against-erdogan">Tens of thousands joined</a> and protests spread to 67 of Turkey’s 81 provinces.</p>
<p>“We are Mustafa Kemal’s soldiers,” <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/03/turkey-protests-coalition-anger-erdogan">chanted</a> some protesters, referring to Ataturk.</p>
<p>The police’s reaction, by Erdogan’s own admission, was excessive. At least two have died, one at the hands of an unidentified gunman, perhaps a police officer. About 1,700 have been arrested and thousands more injured, <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/young-boy-lost-eye-due-to-plastic-bullet-in-istanbul-academic-claims.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=48159&amp;NewsCatID=341">including</a> a young boy who lost an eye because of a plastic bullet. The Turkish opposition <a href="http://rt.com/news/istanbul-park-protests-police-095/">claims</a> that detainees have been forced into signing testimonies and are being refused access to lawyers.</p>
<p>The protests are bound to get larger in the coming days as they garner international attention. One of the country’s four major unions, the 240,000-strong Public Workers Unions Confederation, is launching a two-day “warning” <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/03/us-turkey-protests-strike-idUSBRE9520J020130603">strike</a> on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Erdogan reacted as Islamists usually do. He claimed that the protestors are extremists allied with terrorists and are part of a foreign conspiracy. He <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/03/turkey-erdogan-violence-protest/2385153/">said</a>, “The thing that is called social media is the biggest trouble for society now,” setting the stage for restrictions on the Internet.</p>
<p>Contrary to Erdogan’s insistence that the protesters are part of a fringe group, <i>The Atlantic</i> <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/how-the-protests-will-impact-turkey-at-home-and-abroad/276456/">observes</a> that “all of Turkey was represented: the young and the old, the secular and the religious, the soccer hooligans and the blind, anarchists, communists, nationalists, Kurds, gays, feminists and students.”</p>
<p>Erdogan’s Islamist agenda has become more aggressive as he’s tallied up political victories since coming to power in 2002.</p>
<p>Recently, the Turkish government <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/turkey-sentences-another-artist-blasphemy-charges">sentenced writer Sevan Nisanyan to one year in prison</a> for allegedly “denigrating the religious values.” This comes shortly after the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/turkish-pianist-convicted-blasphemy">conviction of pianist Faisal Say</a> for his exercising of free speech. In July, the government <a href="http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2012/07/13/Turkey-Erdogan-party-wants-limit-press-freedom_7181707.html">suggested</a> limits on free speech for the sake of “public morality,” “public order” and to “prevent pro-war propaganda, discrimination and hate.”</p>
<p>Under Erdogan, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism has skyrocketed. The government is said to have bought 40% of the media and has more <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-criticized-for-lack-of-press-freedom.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nid=39793">imprisoned</a> journalists than any other country. It also has the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/islamist-takeover-turkeys-honor-killing-rate-highest-world">highest rate of honor killings</a> and <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/content/turkeys-erdogan-builds-17000-new-mosques-no-new-schools-during-last-10-years">17,000 new mosques have been built.</a> Erdogan has overseen the largest crackdown on the military in the country’s history, protecting himself from being the next example of a Turkish leader overthrown in a coup.</p>
<p>Turkey’s move into the Islamist camp does not only have strategic implications for the West. It has direct affects for America. The Turkish Fehtullah Gulen network is <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/us-islamist-charter-school-under-investigation-part-ii">under FBI investigation.</a> The Turkish government is <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/turkey-courting-native-americans-trojan-horse-bid">building ties with Native American tribes</a>. And, most recently, Erdogan spoke at an event celebrating his government’s construction of a <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/turkey-stakes-claim-america-100-million-mega-mosque">$100 million Ottoman-themed mega-mosque</a> in Maryland.</p>
<p>Yet, President Obama calls Erdogan a “friend.” If you go to the websites of the major Muslim-American organizations, not a word is said; a sharp contrast to their rapid responses to the “offenses” of “Islamophobes” and Western governments, especially Israel.</p>
<p>Just as they were when Muslims challenged the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, these groups are absent. Turkish activists even had to <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/full-page-ad-for-turkish-democracy-in-action-occupygezi-for-the-world--39">fundraise online</a> to take out a full-page advertisement for their cause in the <i>New York Times</i>. A group like the Council on American-Islamic Relations or the Islamic Society of North America could cut a check for it without skipping a breath.</p>
<p>Dr. Daniel Pipes reacted to the landslide victory of Erdogan’s Islamist party in 2011 with a <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/06/turkey-last-free-election">dire warning:</a> “Elections taking place today are likely to be the last fair and free ones in Turkey. With Turkey’s leading Islamist party controlling all three branches of the government and the military sidelined, little will stop it from changing the rules to keep power into the indefinite future.”</p>
<p>We shouldn’t be surprised when an Islamist acts like an Islamist.</p>
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		<title>Presbyterian Church Uses Islamists for Interfaith Study</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/presbyterian-church-uses-islamists-for-interfaith-study/pres-4/" rel="attachment wp-att-185141"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-185141" title="pres" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/pres.gif" alt="" width="280" height="280" /></a>The Presbyterian Church (USA) is updating its 2010 study, “<a href="http://www.pcusa.org/media/uploads/interfaithrelations/pdf/toward_an_understanding_of_christian-muslim_relations.pdf">&#8220;Toward an Understanding of Christian-Muslim Relations,&#8221;</a> which was prompted by “alarming anti-Muslim statements and actions.” The 2-million member church partnered with Islamist groups for the project and its website promotes U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities as interfaith partners.</p>
<p>The listed advisors for the study include Naeem Baig, president of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Farhanahz Eliz of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center, a mosque led by the president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). A <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum">1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo</a> lists ISNA and ICNA among “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.” ISNA was labeled by the government as an <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/List+of+Unindicted+HLF+Co-conspirators.pdf">unindicted co-conspirator</a> in the Holy Land Foundation trial and U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity.</p>
<p>Another advisor was Ghulam Haider Aasi of American Islamic College. The chairman of the <a href="http://www.aicusa.edu/about/board-of-trustees/#sthash.OVBjpGbs.dpbs">board of trustees</a> is Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the <a href="http://www.oicun.org/4/29/">Secretary-General</a> of the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/defamation-religion-rule-applies-islam-only#frm">Organization of Islamic Cooperation.</a> Its <a href="http://www.aicusa.edu/about/board-of-advisers/#sthash.eq3bRZbo.dpbs">advisory board</a> includes Ahmed Rehab of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Kifah Mustapha of the <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/391">Mosque Foundation</a>. CAIR and Mustapha are also unindicted co-conspirators that were listed as part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee. The president of the Mosque Foundation, Oussama Jamal, is also on the advisory board.</p>
<p>The study’s bibliography cites Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood’s creator; Dr. John Esposito, one of the top allies of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network and Ingrid Mattson, former ISNA president, described by the authors as an “excellent and readable scholar.” She is also on the International Institute of Islamic Thought’s <a href="http://www.iiit.org/AboutUs/CouncilofScholars/tabid/228/Default.aspx">Council of Scholars</a>, another group mentioned in the 1991 memo.</p>
<p>The Presbyterian Mission Agency’s <a href="http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/interfaith/interfaith-links/">&#8220;interfaith links of interest&#8221;</a> include CAIR, ICNA, ISNA and the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/muslim-public-affairs-council-debates-radicalislamorg#frm">Muslim Public Affairs Council</a> (MPAC), a group founded by Muslim Brotherhood ideologues that has opposed the designations of Hamas and Hezbollah as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.</p>
<p>An e-mail sent to an address on the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s website was not returned.</p>
<p>The Presbyterian Church (USA) also <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&amp;x_outlet=118&amp;x_article=2433">whitewashed</a> Imam Zaid Shakir and Zaytuna College in a book it published titled, <a href="http://www.wjkbooks.com/Products/0664237053/the-search-for-truth-about-islam.aspx"><em>&#8220;The Search for Truth About Islam: A Christian Pastor Separates Fact from Fiction</em></a>” by Reverend Ben Daniel. The book “explores what he calls ‘the American cult of fear,’ particularly as it relates to the rise of Islamophobia in the United States.”</p>
<p>The book says that Zaytuna College, which Shakir is a founder and co-chairman of, is “filling an important niche in American higher education.” The reader is not told about his <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/american-imam-compares-school-shooting-us-israeli-military-operations#frm">history</a> of <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/imam-zaid-shakir-marine-barracks-bombing-not-terrorism#frm">extremism</a>, which includes preaching that a <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/top-american-imam-called-resurrected-caliphate-wage-jihad#frm">new Caliphate</a> is needed to wage jihad with “weaponry against the enemies of Islam.” Instead, readers are left with the impression that Shakir is a living rebuttal to all the negative stereotypes that moderate Muslims must contend with.</p>
<p>What begins as an interfaith partnership often becomes a political partnership. In July 2012, the Presbyterian Church Office of Public Witness and other Christian groups <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/american-christians-shocking-support-islamists">came to the defense</a> of ISNA, MPAC and Huma Abedin, the State Department appointee with <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/huma-abedin-associate-editor-islamist-journal#frm">Islamist links.</a> The Presbyterian Church was offended that Rep. Michele Bachmann and four other congressmen had raised concerns about the Brotherhood links of these organizations and individuals.</p>
<p>The Presbyterian Church (USA) and its Islamic interfaith partners have also made common cause when it comes to Israel. The Church <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/divestment-fails-now_648498.html">almost voted in favor of divestment</a> from Israel last summer, winning praise from the director of ISNA’s Office of Interfaith Relations, Sayyid Syeed. He was previously <a href="http://www.thegranddeception.com">recorded</a> in 2006 saying, “Our job is to change the constitution of America.”</p>
<p>Its Israel-Palestine Mission Network endorsed the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/no-blank-check-for-israel-march-coming-to-dc-on-january-19/">&#8220;No Blank Check for Israel&#8221; rally</a> on January 19. It is a member of the <a href="http://www.israelpalestinemissionnetwork.org/main/component/content/article/245-sodastream-boycott">Interfaith Boycott Coalition</a>, the faith-based wing of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. The Interfaith Boycott Coalition <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/interfaith-financial-war-on-israel/">supported the boycott</a> of SodaStream because it is based in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.</p>
<p>The revised study is scheduled to be presented during the 221<sup>st</sup> General Assembly in 2014. The current version states that Presbyterians are called to “identify and speak out against bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, and violence against Islam and Muslim peoples of all cultures, especially in the United States.”</p>
<p>This may be a laudable goal, but we’ve seen how these groups use “Islamophobia” as a weapon against their critics. When Rep. Bachmann and her colleagues confronted these groups, they responded by deploying the Presbyterian Church and their other interfaith partners. They were criticized as paranoid and bigoted.</p>
<p>The Islamists want to make the church their “Islamophobia” police and undermine American-Christian support for Israel. And they are making progress.</p>
<p><strong>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a> </strong></p>
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		<title>Will Pope Francis Become a Dupe of the Islamists?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/will-pope-francis-become-a-dupe-of-the-islamists/pope-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-183156"><img class=" wp-image-183156 alignleft" title="pope" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pope-450x299.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="209" /></a>The Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Azhar University want to shake hands with the new Pope Francis. One of the first pledges he has made is to embrace interfaith dialogue with the Muslim world. Will he become the latest dupe of the “moderate” Islamists?</p>
<p>Pope Francis is a critic of Pope Benedict’s 2006 <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1534640,00.html">speech</a> in Germany where he quoted a Byzantine Emperor that said “show me just what Mohammed brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”</p>
<p>It caused a rupture in relations between Muslim authorities and the Vatican, with almost 40 Muslim scholars <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1019/p01s03-wome.html">signing</a> a letter of protest. Five churches were attacked in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, reinforcing the negative depiction of their religion that they were so offended by.</p>
<p>Pope Benedict <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14871562/#.UVEW8BzCZ8E">said</a> he was “deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims” and “These were in fact a quotation from a Medieval text which do not in any way express my personal thought.” It fell short of the direct apology that was demanded.</p>
<p>He tried to make amends by praying inside Turkey’s Blue Mosque and visiting Jordan in 2009, where he reflected upon the “common history” of the Abrahamic religions. He visited more mosques than any other pope, entering <a href="http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/benedict-xvi-sets-new-papal-record-mosque-visits">twice as many</a> as his predecessor.</p>
<p>Pope Benedict’s reaction to the killing of 23 Egyptian Coptic Christians in a church bombing in 2011 was the last straw for Al-Azhar University. His offense was demanding that Muslim countries do more to protect non-Muslim minorities. Al-Azhar University suspended its dialogue with the Vatican because of his “repeated treatment of Islam in a negative way.”</p>
<p>Now, Al-Azhar University and the Muslim Brotherhood are reaching out to Pope Francis for a fresh start. The International Union of Muslim Scholars, a body led by Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi, said it is ready to engage the Vatican.</p>
<p>“We will work together for an integrated system of moral values and we will remain united to fight injustice, corruption and violations of human dignity in the world,” the Islamist group <a href="http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2013/03/20/Pope-Muslim-Union-resume-dialogue-the-Vatican_8434274.html">said.</a></p>
<p>As is often the case with Islamist interfaith outreach, there is a political objective. The Union emphasized, “We will remain united in defending the legitimate rights of the Palestinian and Syrian populations.” Qaradawi has previously shown his commitment to genuine dialogue by refusing to participate in interfaith events that include Israelis.</p>
<p>Pope Francis needs to know who is trying to become his interfaith liaisons. Qaradawi has also <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=1692">said</a> that meetings with Christians are a “waste of time” because “they do not recognize Muslims and say that Muhammad…is dishonest and that he created [the] Koran and attributed it to himself.” On the other hand, Qaradawi views Islam as tolerant because “Muslims recognize Christianity, Jesus Christ, and his book and religion.” He also demands an apology for the Crusades, as if Islam’s history is absent of blemishes.</p>
<p>In other words, Christians are unreasonable because they don’t worship Mohammed. Islam is tolerant because it includes Jesus, even though it denies the central tenets of what Christians believe about him. What Qaradawi is advocating isn’t true interfaith dialogue. It is <em>dawaa</em> and a form of <em>jihad</em>.</p>
<p>Qaradawi’s <em>dawaa</em>-disguised-as-interfaith was on display in a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/02/266385/%20">speech</a> he gave in Egypt in February 2011. He assured the Coptic Christians that the Brotherhood wishes them no harm. Then, he tried to lead everyone in Islamic prayer—including the Christian attendees.</p>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood condemns anti-Christian violence by more hardline Salafists and points to it as proof of its “moderate” credentials. Every time the Islamists offer to protect Christians, they are actually advocating for an Islamic State. In such a state, Christians are protected if they pay the <em>jizya</em> tax. Egyptian President Morsi <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3083/egypt-christians-convert-pay-tribute-leave">reportedly</a> said that once Egypt becomes a Sharia state, Christians will have three choices: Convert to Islam, leave or pay the <em>jizya</em>.</p>
<p>A professor at Al-Azhar University, Dr. Mahmoud Shu’ban, said the same thing. He <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/al-azhar-scholar-christian-copts-will-pay-jizya/%20">stated</a>, “If non-Muslims were to learn the meaning of ‘<em>jizya</em>,’ they would ask for it to be applied—and we will apply it, just like Islam commands us to.”</p>
<p>Pope Francis should also be aware of how the Islamists plan to restrain Christianity. The Sharia-instituting Egyptian constitution <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20555478">says</a> that “insulting prophets and messengers is forbidden.” This prevents non-Muslims from criticizing Islam when discussing their beliefs.</p>
<p>With Sharia as the law of the land, Christians can even be prosecuted for “blasphemy” for simply proclaiming their faith. Islamist judges can cite <a href="http://www.muslimaccess.com/quraan/arabic/005.asp">Sura 5:72</a> that says, “They do blaspheme who say: (Allah) is Christ the son of Mary” or Sura 5:73 that says, “They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah.”</p>
<p>These same Islamists who talk of friendship between Christians and Muslims want to kill any Muslim who leaves the faith. Recently, Qaradawi frankly <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/12/gore-current-silent-as-cleric-affirms-apostacy-death-penalty-on-al-jazeera/%20">admitted</a>, “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn’t exist today.”</p>
<p>Christians are also threatened by Islamists for standing against the creation of a Sharia state. The previously-mentioned Dr. Mahmoud Shu’ban of Al-Azhar University approves of the murder of Egyptian opposition figures (Muslim and non-Muslim) that dare to oppose the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Brotherhood cleric Wagdy Ghoneim, who preached at rallies for Morsi during the presidential campaign, sounds like a pleasant interfaith partner when he <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3518/egypt-cleric-threatens-copts-genocide">says</a> to Coptic Christians, “Respect yourselves and live with us and we will protect you…when you live in my country, it is forbidden for me to be unjust to you…” Then, he finishes with “but that doesn’t mean we are equal. No, no, no.”</p>
<p>He also <a href="http://www.radicalislam.org/news/muslim-brotherhood-threatens-egypts-christians-over-vote">warns</a> Christians that their protection comes with conditions. He warned, “if you conspire and unite with the remnants [opposition] to bring Morsi down, that will be another matter…our red line is the legitimacy of Dr. Muhammad Morsi. Whoever splashes water on it, we will splash blood on him.”</p>
<p>The Pope and other Christian leaders must not be lulled into a false sense of security by the smooth semantics of the Islamists.</p>
<p><em>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></em></p>
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		<title>Rise of the Militias in the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kyle Shideler]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/kyle-shideler/rise-of-the-militias-in-the-middle-east/militia/" rel="attachment wp-att-178579"><img class=" wp-image-178579 alignleft" title="militia" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/militia-450x252.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="176" /></a><em>“Hey! think the time is right for a palace revolution, but where I live the game to play is compromise solution…</em>”</p>
<p>–The Rolling Stones, “Street-Fighting Man”</p>
<p>Quite a bit of the recent news flowing out of the Middle East has an interesting common thread. Whether it&#8217;s Syria, Iraq, Egypt, or Tunisia, all states once known for their strong military leadership, the new power players may not be wearing the uniforms, but they’ve still got the guns.</p>
<p>On the Syrian front it was recently reported that <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/iran-hezbollah-build-militia-networks-in-syria-in-event-that-assad-falls-officials-say/2013/02/10/257a41c8-720a-11e2-ac36-3d8d9dcaa2e2_story.html">Iran and Hezbollah</a> are preparing a militia, <del cite="mailto:od" datetime="2013-02-18T17:37"></del>with as many as 50,000 fighters<ins cite="mailto:od" datetime="2013-02-18T17:40">,</ins> according to the Iranians, to deal with the potential post-Assad era.  If Assad does fall, the goal would be to use these militiamen to secure key Syrian territory, enabling Iran to continue to control supply lines to Hezbollah in Lebanon and maintain its influence. Despite suffering from financial sanctions, Iran is reportedly funneling millions of dollars in cash and equipment to their newest proxies.</p>
<p>This is an Iranian specialty. Even if you lose the war, you can still win the post-war chaos. They have played a <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/11/world/la-fg-iraq-panetta-20110711">similar game</a> in Iraq with great success. So pervasive is the Iranian presence in Iraq that the Sunni opposition there has accused Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki of <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/165057#.URipqk7naM">granting Iran permission</a> to bring in 50,000 Iranian Basij militiamen to crack down on protestors and target foreign embassies, including that of the U.S. While the Middle East has always been fertile soil for rumors and conspiracy theories, there’s likely a sliver of truth in the claim, with Iranian agents active on the ground in Iraq. Iran’s Basij militia is often credited with the regime’s success at putting down opposition after the fraudulent election in 2009.</p>
<p>That proven capability to suppress protests has been central to Iranian discussions with the new Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government of Egypt’s President Mohammad Morsi as well. Rumors have continued to swirl that Iran may provide advice and assistance to establish a <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=302723">Muslim Brotherhood militia</a> to help defeat street protests there. Other reports indicate that the Muslim Brotherhood may be able to rely on the Iranian-armed Muslim Brotherhood-offshoot Hamas<a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3580/hamas-egypt-alliance"> to provide 7,000 fighters</a> to secure Morsi’s rule.</p>
<p>In Tunisia, a vocal anti-Islamist politician, Chokri Belaid, was recently assassinated, leading to street clashes between secularists and the leading Islamist Ennahda party. While the secular left in Tunisia still controls major labor unions, and so maintains a base of power, protestors suffer from <a href="http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&amp;id=32876">continued violence</a> from the pro-Ennahada militia.</p>
<p>The power of sectarian, ethnic, tribal or party militias are greatest in regions where national identity has never really taken root, and the Middle East is one such region. For most of the Middle East, local loyalties have been either sectarian or tribal, while the ideologies that have held sway are supra-national in origin, with either Islam or Pan-Arab nationalism as the guiding belief system.</p>
<p>Thus it is no surprise that, as Daniel Pipes pointed out in a recent article, the United State’s continued focus on <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/02/innocents-abroad-build-foreign-armies">creating national armed forces</a> and other national institutions in these states has historically failed, and continues to fail. There is little use <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/164869#.UR0L6KVwqh0">in bringing an F-16</a> to a street fight. Yes, Morsi’s Egypt will gladly take delivery of modern military technology, but his regime’s security is better served by thugs on motorbikes with guns and leather jackets than by fighter jocks in F-16 fighters. And he knows it.</p>
<p>There are forces in the region deserving of American support. Secular activists in Egypt and Tunisia, although small and routinely disorganized, are worthy of recognition. And ethnic and religious minorities including Christians, Kurds and Druze in Syria are sympathetic to our democratic values and all likely to be on the receiving end of violence from both Iran’s new militia and the majority Sunni-rebels if Assad should fall. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that the U.S. will play a role in safe guarding these communities or giving them the ability to safeguard themselves.</p>
<p>The Obama administration has shown it is far more comfortable negotiating across the table from the Islamists, whether from Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood, than it is reaching out to secular and minority groups. And while U.S. officials at the CIA and the Pentagon expressed confidence that they could <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324906004578290060794022912.html">vet recipients of U.S. arms</a> in Syria, the administration’s track record in this area is not good.  Where the administration has played the militia game, they generally have failed.  For example, they selected the February 17<sup>th</sup> Martyrs’ Brigade <a href="http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2264/Benghazis-Real-Scandal-Uncle-Sam-Joined-the-Jihad.aspx">to help guard</a> the Benghazi Consulate. They ended up selecting a Muslim Brotherhood-linked militia that <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/121624110/JW-Benghazi-Report">conveniently</a> “failed to respond to repeated calls for assistance” when the Consulate came under attack.  Not encouraging.</p>
<p>So U.S.-manufactured weapons of war serve no good purpose (nor does the American influence they allegedly purchased), while the Islamist rulers establish and maintain their territories using the truncheons and bicycle chains of their militias against the remaining secularists and minorities. While the current administration continues to believe that the time is right for a compromise solution, it seems that in the Middle East “the time is right for fighting in the streets.”</p>
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		<title>Egyptian Islamist Imam Says Tahrir Female Protesters are &#8220;Crusaders&#8221; Who &#8220;Want to be Raped&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmad Mahmoud Abdullah, known as “Abu Islam” and owner of the private television channel of “al-Ummah,” said these women activists are going to Tahrir Square not to protest but to be sexually abused because they had wanted to be raped. ]]></description>
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<p>Obama needs to ship Abu Islam some F-16s and a bunch of tanks stat, <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/02/egyptian-preacher-says-women-in-tahrir.html">so he can join Morsi in turning Egypt into another Iran</a>. Morsi can&#8217;t be expected to win the War on Women Crusaders on his own and he seems to be falling behind in the rape count.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/muslim-cleric-shows-respect-for-religion-by-burning-christian-bible/">last time we heard from Abu Islam</a>, he tore up a Christian Bible outside the US Embassy, called Coptic Christians &#8220;dogs&#8221; and vowed to urinate on it the next time around. This time he&#8217;s spreading the traditional Islamic message of tolerance to women.</p>
<blockquote><p>An Egyptian Salafi preacher said raping and sexually harassing women protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square is justified, calling them “crusaders” who “have no shame, no fear and not even feminism.”</p>
<p>In an online video posted Wednesday, Ahmad Mahmoud Abdullah, known as “Abu Islam” and owner of the private television channel of “al-Ummah,” said these women activists are going to Tahrir Square not to protest but to be sexually abused because they had wanted to be raped.</p>
<p>“And by the way, 90 percent of them are crusaders and the remaining 10 percent are widows who have no one to control them. You see women talking like monsters,” he added.</p>
<p>Abu Islam further described these female political activists as “devils.”  “You see a woman with this fuzzy hair! A devil! Devils called women. Learn from Muslim women, learn and be Muslims.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I think it&#8217;s non-Muslims who need to learn from Abu Islam just what Islam represents and why Islamism cannot be enabled and must be kept out of the West.</p>
<p>Abu Islam is a cheerful fellow who graduated from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ain Shams and has a Masters Degree in Education. He also founded the House of Wisdom Center for Media and Publishing and the Islamic Enlightenment Center. His channel boasts of leading the fight against Christianity and Freemasonry. And apparently women, because why just limit yourself to hating 60 percent of the human race when you can go for 80 percent.</p>
<p>If Obama really opposes the war on women, then he should stop waging it by sending weapons to the leaders of Islamist rape regimes.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Reelection Simply Means More Power To Islamists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore Shoebat]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamist domino effect in the Middle East is transpiring right before our eyes. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/theodore-shoebat/obamas-reelection-simply-means-more-power-to-islamists/mideast-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-174395"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-174395" title="Mideast" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mideast-450x252.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="151" /></a>With Obama’s inauguration for his reelection, many people are exalting him as another Martin Luther King Jr., and a voice for social equality. But is this event really worth celebration? No. Obama’s policies has only made the West lose control of the Middle East, and this will only lead to the formation of an Islamic state.</p>
<p>With Egypt and Libya now gone, and the confidence of the jihadists on account of Obama’s support of the Muslim Brotherhood still alive and well, the Islamist plague continues to arise in other countries.</p>
<p>In Jordan right now, we are seeing the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood which is foreshadowing a repeat of what took place in Egypt. The toppling of Mubarak in Egypt and Gaddafi in Libya, and the extremely violent revolution occurring in Syria, is currently empowering the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood to fight to take over Jordan.</p>
<p>Julien Barnes-Dacey of the European Council on Foreign Relations <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/01/16/jordan-is-living-dangerously-as-syria-burns/">said</a> that there is:</p>
<blockquote><p>the risk of spillover jihadist violence from Syria, as well as the rise of Muslim Brotherhood influence in both Egypt and Syria potentially emboldening Jordan’s own Brotherhood to articulate more radical demands, and there is some concern of instability in Jordan.</p></blockquote>
<p>Many Jordanians have joined the Jihadist fight in Syria. The foreign majority of the terrorist organization, Jabhat al-Nusra, which is heavily involved in Syria, <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/01/16/jordan-is-living-dangerously-as-syria-burns/">are Jordanian and Iraqi.</a> Once these battled hardened fighters <a id="_GPLITA_2" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2013/01/21/obamas-reelection-simply-means-more-power-to-islamists/#">return</a> to their homes in Jordan, <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/01/16/jordan-is-living-dangerously-as-syria-burns/">they will begin</a> to partake in Islamist activities, and will demand for a nation controlled under Sharia.</p>
<p>Here is a recent <a id="_GPLITA_1" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2013/01/21/obamas-reelection-simply-means-more-power-to-islamists/#">video</a> that shows just how fundamentalist these rebels really are; the man in the film is armed with a scimitar and proclaiming how he and his fellow jihadist are going to decapitate their enemies:</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IosQRnPtbk0" frameborder="0" width="400" height="300"></iframe></p>
<p>Moreover, Syrian immigration to Jordan will pose a threat to the nation. <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/01/16/jordan-is-living-dangerously-as-syria-burns/">According to U.N. figures</a>, some 183,000 Syrian refugees have already settled in the country. These will be involved in causing a cultural shift, in which a desire for Sharia will be increased, and favor for the Muslim Brotherhood will grow larger.</p>
<p>Also, the fact that Syria is bordered on Jordan means that jihadist fighting for the revolution against Assad <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/01/16/jordan-is-living-dangerously-as-syria-burns/">will happily use Jordan </a>as a base. A jihadi victory in Syria, added to the successful revolutions in Libya and Egypt, would only end up with an emboldened Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. This is why the Jordanian government <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/01/16/jordan-is-living-dangerously-as-syria-burns/">is now wishing</a> for a failed Syrian revolution and for Assad to remain.</p>
<p>According to one <a href="http://m.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2012/12/jordan-inches-away-from-syria-war.html">news source</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>the [Jordanian] kingdom fears the continued rise of Brotherhood groups in the Arab world, and it dreads that once the current regime is overthrown, Syria would <a id="_GPLITA_0" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2013/01/21/obamas-reelection-simply-means-more-power-to-islamists/#">join</a> this new Islamist alliance.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Jordanian government is not only worried about a Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Syria, but also foreign nations intervening in the revolution in favor of a jihadist victory. Top Jordanian officials conducted several meetings in which they <a href="http://m.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2012/12/jordan-inches-away-from-syria-war.html">discussed</a> “some Gulf states’ concern over the level of regional intervention in Syria in favor of its accession to extremist alliances.”</p>
<p>These signifies that the European and American assistance to the Syrian revolution <a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/11/07/the-rise-of-an-islamic-state-under-obama/">is only helping our very enemies. </a></p>
<p>If Syria goes down, Arab nationalism will be weaker than it has ever been, leaving Islamic universalism the dominant force in the Middle East. And if Jordan is taken by this Islamic plague, then there will be nothing left for Arab nationalism to cling to, and the entire <a id="_GPLITA_3" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2013/01/21/obamas-reelection-simply-means-more-power-to-islamists/#">region</a> will be the soon-to-be members of an Islamic confederacy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2012/12/jordan-inches-away-from-syria-war.html">Another source</a> tells us that</p>
<blockquote><p>any prospective influence of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood will have a direct impact on Jordan’s Brotherhood, and thus raise the ceiling of their reform demands, especially their call to undermine the powers of King Abdullah II.</p></blockquote>
<p>We also cannot consider the attack in Algeria with little concern. The death count after the Islamist siege of a natural gas plant in Algeria <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57564909/death-toll-from-algeria-siege-climbs-past-80/">has now exceeded past 23</a>. It was orchestrated by Al-Qaeda operative Mokhtar Belmokhtar in support of jihadists who wish to make the west African country of Mali into a sharia state. Belmokhtar <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/20/us-mali-idUSBRE90J0DG20130120">said</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>We are ready to negotiate with the West and the Algerian government provided they stop their bombing of Mali’s Muslims.</p></blockquote>
<p>The jihadist incursion was then a response to the French, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/20/us-mali-idUSBRE90J0DG20130120">who are now</a> bombing Islamist strongholds in Mali in order to prevent the jihadist from using the African country’s vast desert area to launch attacks into the West. This reveals that there is a coordinated effort by Islamist throughout the Muslim world to establish a caliphate and destroy Western civilization.</p>
<p>We also cannot forget Iraq. Now with Saddam gone, and American presence withdrawn, Iraq is almost in the state of entire anarchy. Here is a recently leaked video showing a jihadist shooting an Iraqi officer with a silenced pistol:</p>
<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/2013/01/21/obamas-reelection-simply-means-more-power-to-islamists/%d8%b5%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%85-3-%d8%a7%d8%ba%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%b6%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%b7-%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a-%d9%88%d8%ac%d9%87%d8%a7-%d9%84/" rel="attachment wp-att-34965">Click here to watch video </a></p>
<p>The coming Islamic state is obvious, and there is no hope of it stopping.</p>
<p><em>Theodore Shoebat is the author of the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Tyranny-When-Nations-Natural/dp/0982567901">For God or For Tyranny</a></em>.</p>
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		<title>The Center for American Progress and Islamist Influences over the White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disturbing ties of yet another group that has led the charge against Michele Bachmann.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-center-for-american-progress-and-islamist-influences-over-the-white-house/cfap/" rel="attachment wp-att-173673"><img class=" wp-image-173673 alignleft" title="cfap" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/cfap-450x243.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="155" /></a><strong>To sign our petition to stop the witch hunt against Rep. Michele Bachmann, <a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt/">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Over the last four years, the United States has suffered a series of comprehensive intelligence failures. These intelligence failures ranged from a lack of preparation for the attacks of September 11, 2012, the misguided assessment that there was a moderate group of Taliban willing to form a government and the refusal to believe that the Arab Spring would lead to Islamist takeovers, rather than liberal open societies.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration’s foreign policy has been one disaster after another and it has been quick to blame intelligence failures for its own mistakes. When accounting for its lies about a YouTube trailer leading to the attack on the Benghazi mission, Obama blamed the intelligence. But it turned out that the intelligence had been edited and censored for political reasons. What appeared to be an intelligence failure in Benghazi was actually political manipulation. And the same may well be true of the entire Arab Spring, of Afghanistan and the entire spectrum of attacks on September 11, 2012.</p>
<p>As a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was proven correct in all the areas where the Obama Administration and its political allies suffered from intelligence failures.</p>
<p>In September 2011, one year before the attacks, Michele Bachmann warned that the Arab Spring was a disaster that would lead to the rise of radical elements across the Middle East. Widely ridiculed for it at the time, she was demonstrating the insight and foresight that a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is supposed to have.</p>
<p>Where Obama was proven wrong; Bachmann was proven right. When Michele Bachmann first warned about the Muslim Brotherhood, it was an obscure organization to most people in Washington D.C. After its successful seizure of power in Egypt however, Bachmann’s critics no longer have any excuse for pretending that condemning the group’s ruthless manipulations is a conspiracy theory. Not when Egyptian liberals are among the loudest voices warning about the Muslim Brotherhood threat; not just to Egypt or the Middle East, but to America as well.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/conspiracy-of-brothers/">recent article in the Egyptian magazine</a>, Rose El-Youssef listed some of the prominent and influential Muslim Brotherhood figures with access to the policymaking apparatus of the Obama Administration. Two of those figures were in the Department of Homeland Security. This article was another piece of evidence in a mountain of evidence, much of it collected by the FBI, about the conspiratorial activities of the Brotherhood and its front groups in the United States.</p>
<p>It wasn’t the intelligence that failed. It was the political operation that allowed Muslim Brotherhood operatives close access to the policymaking apparatus of the United States government that led to the politicized intelligence and the policy failures. Those policy failures led to the ascendance of Al Qaeda in North Africa and the Middle East, the triumph of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the attacks of September 11, 2012.</p>
<p>Nevertheless liberal organizations <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/michele-bachmann-attacked-and-vindicated/">have launched a petition</a> demanding that she be removed from the intelligence committee for spreading “conspiracy theories” and attacking “dedicated public servants”. After the complete implosion of Obama’s foreign policy, such attacks should be seen for what they are; an attempt to silence one of their critics who had been right all along while covering up their own lies.</p>
<p>To understand the source of the politicized environment that led to the foreign policy disasters, we need look no further than the Center for American Progress and its tentacle, Think Progress.</p>
<p>The Center for American Progress is a secretive think tank funded by covert donors which was described by Time Magazine as Obama’s idea factory and the single greatest influence on his administration. For all intents and purposes, CAP was the criminal brain in the Frankenstein of old Clinton staffers that would become the Obama Administration.</p>
<p>Faiz R. Shakir, the Editor of Think Progress and a Vice President at the Center for American Progress, led the charge against Bachmann. And the one issue that Shakir appeared obsessed with was Bachmann’s warnings about Muslim Brotherhood influence in the Obama Administration. One of Shakir’s videos, since taken down, <a href="http://shoebat.com/2012/11/05/video-michele-bachmann-stands-by-questions-about-muslim-brotherhood-in-last-debate-reveals-another-huma-abedin-defender/">had the revealing title</a>, “In final debate, Bachmann stands by her Muslim Brotherhood smears.”</p>
<p>Under Shakir, the Center for American Progress attempted to silence terrorism investigators by issuing a report titled, “Fear Inc.” which claimed that all suspicions about Islamist activities in America were really <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/dgreenfield/the-center-for-american-progress%E2%80%99-jewish-conspiracy-theory/">the bigoted products of a Jewish conspiracy</a>. Besides Shakir, the report’s authors included members of Muslim Brotherhood front groups. During his time at Harvard, Shakir had been a member of the Harvard Islamic Society and served as the co-chair for a week of events <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/nancy-pelosi-hires-former-terrorist-fundraiser/2/">that included an attempt to raise money for a Hamas</a> front group.</p>
<p>Shakir has since gone on to bigger and better things, as a senior adviser to Nancy Pelosi, moving higher in the political echelons of a Democratic Party that has refused to accept any accountability for four years of foreign policy disasters. Accepting responsibility would require accountability. It would force the political leadership to take a close look at the Center for American Progress’ influence over the policymaking apparatus of the White House and at the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence over the White House, the State Department and the Center for American Progress.</p>
<p>Had the Arab Spring really led to liberalization and freedom, had the Taliban proven willing to make a deal and had the accusations of Muslim Brotherhood influence proven unfounded, then the left might have some cause for criticizing Bachmann. But when Bachmann has been proven to be correct, then a petition to remove her is nothing more than a cover up by a leftist club that is desperate to conceal its complicity in the murder of Americans and the chaos and violence spreading across the Middle East.</p>
<p>In the 20<sup>th</sup> Century, Communist infiltrators used their positions to influence American foreign policy in the direction that Moscow wanted it to go, while the left did its best to shout down and ridicule any suggestion of espionage or infiltration.</p>
<p>Now in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century, the century of the Islamist infiltrator, the left is still up to its old tricks, still leading America to disaster abroad while covering up its destructive activities as intelligence failures at home.</p>
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		<title>The Coming Storm of Blood For Egypt’s Copts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theodore Shoebat]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Salafi Muslims show their fangs -- and the Obama administration reveals which side it's on. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/theodore-shoebat/the-coming-storm-of-blood-for-egypts-copts/egypt-copts-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-168703"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-168703" title="Egypt-Copts" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Egypt-Copts1.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a>“It’s as if (they) are challenging the police, the government and the general prosecutor, and that they want to drag the Coptic Christians into sectarian violence, a season of blood.”</p></blockquote>
<p>These are the <a href="http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/2934595-74/christians-christian-egypt-rushdy-copts-muslims-brother-cairo-coptic-salafis#axzz2EQOWSHzt">words</a> of Emad El Erian, a spokesman for a Coptic rights organization on how the Salafist Muslims are trying to commence a wide scale persecution on Egypt’s Coptic Christian community.</p>
<p>Sherif Rushdy, chief judge of a Cairo appeals court, <a href="http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/2934595-74/christians-christian-egypt-rushdy-copts-muslims-brother-cairo-coptic-salafis#axzz2EQOWSHzt">has described</a> the Copts as “a ship in the middle of a sandy hurricane.” And anyone who is informed on whats going on in Egypt (such as Morsi’s venture to be a dictator), can see a perfect storm brewing for a systematic persecution against Egyptian Christians.</p>
<p>The Salafi Muslims want the government to oppress the Copts, and are making this desire quite clear. On November 10th, it was <a href="http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/2934595-74/christians-christian-egypt-rushdy-copts-muslims-brother-cairo-coptic-salafis#axzz2EQOWSHzt">reported</a> that in the Shubra El Kheima section of Cairo, the building of a Christian community was taken by Salafists who seized the area and declared it a Muslim mosque.</p>
<p>Raymond Ibrahim recently <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3485/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012">wrote</a> on an attack on Christians in which Salafists surrounded the St. George Church in the Beni Suef Governorate armed with batons  and <a id="_GPLITA_0" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2012/12/08/the-coming-storm-of-blood-for-egypts-copts/#">assaulted</a> exiting congregants. The priest was stuck inside for hours with no police arriving. The authorities did not arrive until a prestigious Coptic lawyer made his protest to the Ministry of the Interior:</p>
<blockquote><p>I want the whole world to know, that a priest and his congregation are presently held captive in their church, afraid of the Salafi Muslims surrounding the church.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama pretends he wants &#8220;democracy&#8221; for Egypt, but all that has come from Egypt’s revolution, which he supports, is tyranny by the fundamentalist Muslims. <a href="http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/2934595-74/christians-christian-egypt-rushdy-copts-muslims-brother-cairo-coptic-salafis#axzz2EQOWSHzt">In fact,</a> on Friday, in a crowd of thousands of Egyptian Salfists demanding the “implementation of the Shariah,” and waving Saudi and black Islamic flags, one woman carried a poster of Obama, congratulating him on his re-election. Those who are on the side of Sharia in Egypt are also those who are on the side of Obama.</p>
<p>Another sign to Egypt’s future storm of blood is its constitutional draft. On Friday, thousands of Morsi supporters chanted:</p>
<blockquote><p>Egypt is Islamic, it will not be secular, it will not be liberal.</p></blockquote>
<p>What does this imply? Egypt’s new constitution, which was composed under the eye of Islamists, will be Islamic.</p>
<p>For months, Egypt’s Constituent Assembly <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/7/charter-enshrining-shariah-core-egypt-crisis/">debated</a> the draft of the Constitution, but because of its Islamist dominance, Christian and liberal members left. On the final day of the debate, 80% of those who voted were Muslim Brotherhood members, and the other 5% were Salafist.</p>
<p>Sheik Yasser Borhami, one of Egypt’s most renown sheikhs, is <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/7/charter-enshrining-shariah-core-egypt-crisis/">very optimistic</a> about the constitution:</p>
<blockquote><p>This constitution has <a id="_GPLITA_2" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2012/12/08/the-coming-storm-of-blood-for-egypts-copts/#">more</a> complete restraints on rights than ever existed before in any Egyptian constitution.</p></blockquote>
<p>The constitution<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/7/charter-enshrining-shariah-core-egypt-crisis/"> will give sheikhs</a> the power to enforce Islamic rules of life, and to set up a Saudi-style religious gestapo.</p>
<p>Mohammed Hassanein Abdel-Al, constitutional law professor at the Ain Shams <a id="_GPLITA_1" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://shoebat.com/2012/12/08/the-coming-storm-of-blood-for-egypts-copts/#">University in</a> Cairo, said that with this constitution, “The doors are wide open to restrict individuals’ freedoms”. He also gave an illustrative example of how life will be under the Islamic police:</p>
<blockquote><p>If I’m walking with my wife and her face is not covered or she’s not wearing a headscarf, a man can come up and order me to cover her. I can’t protest or object because the constitution instructs him to do so.</p></blockquote>
<p>In fact, Salafists have already been doing this type of mob enforcement. There have been <a href="http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=article&amp;cat=ArabWorld&amp;article=6157">reports</a> of “bearded zealots” breaking up parties with un-Islamic music, and attacking women who don’t wear the full veil.</p>
<p>Mirette Michail <a href="http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=article&amp;cat=ArabWorld&amp;article=6157">was attacked</a> in Egypt by six veiled women for not wearing the niqab (veil). They beat her, and then attempted to set her hair on fire, but were prevented by two other men.</p>
<p>This sort of persecution will soon be institutionalized by the Egyptian government. What are we to do?</p>
<p>Since we know that the Obama administration will not take any measures to help the Christians, American churches must take a stand and become very vocal on this issue. Churches are still very influential in America, and can thus still make a difference. If Christians and other conservatives rise up in America in protest against this Middle Eastern Hitlers, then I believe the government too will listen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2012/12/07/what-can-christians-in-the-west-do-to-help-those-in-the-east/">In 1876,</a> countless Protestants and Catholics made protests against the Ottoman empire’s persecution of Bulgarian Christians. Because of this, the British statesmen Gladstone used their remonstrances to make numerous speeches denouncing the Ottomans, speeches which shattered any good image which the Turks tried to uphold.</p>
<p>But this would have never happened if Christians at first pushed the government to look into the Islamic massacres.</p>
<p>Christians will soon face the terror of Koranic despotism in Egypt and throughout the Middle East. But we must be on the right side of history, and in doing so, that means making our cries against any evil kingdom.</p>
<p><strong>Theodore Shoebat is the author of the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Tyranny-When-Nations-Natural/dp/0982567901/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1354944128&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=for+god+or+for+tyranny">For God or For Tyranny. </a></strong></p>
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		<title>All Non-Islamists Withdraw from Egypt&#8217;s Constitutional Committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the non-Islamists, not to mention the Christians, have gone, exposing the Islamists for what they are, a supremacist theocratic movement with no wider support. ]]></description>
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<p>At the beginning of the process, the media hailed the incredibly moderate Constituent Assembly that would include Christians and women. Now all the non-Islamists, not to mention the Christians, have gone, <a href="http://dailynewsegypt.com/2012/11/24/all-civilian-parties-withdraw-from-constitutional-assembly/">exposing the Islamists for what they are</a>, a supremacist theocratic movement with no wider support.</p>
<blockquote><p>The withdrawal comes as a reaction to the constitutional declaration issued by President Mohamed Morsy on Thursday, making his decrees above judicial review.</p>
<p>Among those who withdrew are Wafd party leaders Mohamed Kamel and Abdel Aleem Dawoud and Ghad Al-Thawra party. These parties had previously refused to follow other non-Islamists in quitting the assembly.</p>
<p>“The constitutional declaration confirms that there is no such thing as a state for us to draft a constitution for,” Kamel said.</p>
<p>The remaining Constitution Assembly members represent only four parties, three of which are Islamist-oriented: the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), Al-Nour Salafi party, the moderate Islamist Al-Wasat party, and the Civilization party.</p></blockquote>
<p>So now the facade of a democratic structure is done. Morsi has adopted totalitarian powers and the non-Islamists have rejected the legitimacy of the transitional system for a new democratic Egypt. The Islamists will push forward, so the question is whether the West will accept the farce. The non-Islamist parties have rejected the new state. Will Obama accept it?</p>
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		<title>Mali Islamists Using Drugs and Prostitution to Buy Child Soldiers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["They are buying loyalty. They have tremendous resources to buy loyalty because they are now having kickbacks from narco-traffickers in the region,"]]></description>
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<p>Do you know the great thing about Islam? It&#8217;s this ideal system with superior laws and if everyone just lived under it, the world would be just like Mali.</p>
<p>Mali is a wonderful place experiencing a real turnaround under the control of bands of Islamist militias who have figured out how to boost the economy and provide for the youth of tomorrow through prostitution and providing protection for druglords in exchange for kickbacks and <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201210110619.html">then using that money to buy child soldiers</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure how the Islamists could be any worse, but at least they&#8217;re not doing anything really awful, like making movies about Mohammed.</p>
<blockquote><p>Radical Islamists who seized northern Mali earlier this year are maintaining their control through fear and drug money, imposing an extremist version of Muslim Sharia law and restrictions that target women in particular, a top United Nations human rights official said today.</p>
<p>Among a litany of human rights abuses committed by the Islamists, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Šimonovic cited &#8220;very drastic punishments,&#8221; the recruitment of child soldiers, and enforced marriages that are a smokescreen for enforced prostitution, terming the situation as &#8220;very bad.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;They are buying loyalty. They have tremendous resources to buy loyalty because they are now having kickbacks from narco-traffickers in the region,&#8221; he told a news conference at UN Headquarters in New York following a visit to the West African country, where a third of the 1.5 million population of the north, an area the size of France, has been driven from their homes. Mali is a transit corridor for cocaine and other drugs from South America to Europe.</p>
<p>Mr. Šimonovic stressed that children are particularly vulnerable to attempts to enlist them as child soldiers, often to plant improvised explosive devices, with their families being given $600 for enlistment, and then $400 a month in a country where over half the population lives on $1.25 a day.</p></blockquote>
<p>And the man you can thank for all this? His middle name is Hussein, his first name is Barack and his last name is, Implement Regime Change in Libya Without Considering the Consequences. But I&#8217;m sure Michelle Obama will make it up to all those child soldiers by sending them some recipes for low calorie meals that taste like dirt. Then again she probably won&#8217;t, because they might be child soldiers, but at least they&#8217;re not obese.</p>
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		<title>Muslims to Promote Respect for Religion by Hating Jews and Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt's Salafi group declared that it will form a new movement whose sole purpose would be to promote the Prophet Mohammed as a positive religious and social character... by making Anti-Semitic and Anti-Christian movies.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s two things that Muslims do really well. Respect religion and hate everyone else. But they do the second one best of all so they&#8217;re going to <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4282434,00.html">play to their strengths</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Egypt&#8217;s Salafi group al-Gama&#8217;a al-Islamiya declared Tuesday that it will form a new movement – the &#8220;Supporters&#8221; – whose sole purpose would be to promote the Prophet Mohammed as a positive religious and social character.</p>
<p>Al-Gama&#8217;a al-Islamiya held an emergency session in Alexandria over the weekend. Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Youm quoted Shura Council member Assem Abdel Maged as explaining that the new movement will be &#8220;in charge of projects meant to support and promote Islam, Mohammed and the decree of respecting the religions.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And they are going to promote respect for religions by</p>
<p>A. Promoting respect for all religions</p>
<p>B. Attacking Christians</p>
<p>C. Attacking Jews</p>
<p>D. Setting a bunch of things on fire</p>
<p>If you answered B,C and D; you&#8217;re almost correct.</p>
<blockquote><p>Abdel Maged added that the movement will focus on producing films on Christianity in Europe that will delve into the questions of why &#8220;many believers have forsaken it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Films on Judaism throughout the ages are also in the works, he added, as are films about the history of Zionism – &#8220;so to increase global awareness to the movement&#8217;s operations,&#8221; Abdel Maged said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Islamist plan to promote respect for religions by spreading hate toward all non-Muslim religions is a timely reminder that Islam is to religion what Lee Harvey Oswald was to politics.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;re all looking forward to the films that this venture will produce, but I&#8217;m not sure that it can ever top the greatest Islamist film ever made.</p>
<p>International Guerrillas</p>
<p>Enjoy this incredible pivotal scene that will surely convert you to Islam faster than you can say Allahkazaam Allahkazoom.</p>
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		<title>The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration &#8212; on The Josh Brewster Show</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Gaffney discusses his new Freedom Center pamphlet that exposes just how deeply Islamists have infiltrated the White House. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mb-in-wh2.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-144644 alignleft" title="mb-in-wh" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mb-in-wh2.jpeg" alt="" width="288" height="432" /></a>Join <em>The Josh Brewster Show</em> that aired on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio.</p>
<p>This week&#8217;s guest was Frank Gaffney, who discussed his new Freedom Center pamphlet that exposes just how deeply Islamists have infiltrated the White House. To read and order the pamphlet, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frank-gaffney/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-obama-administration/">click here</a>.</p>
<p>To listen to the program,<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/09/19/the-jamie-glazov-show"> click here</a>.</p>
<p>Or go to: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/09/19/the-jamie-glazov-show">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/09/19/the-jamie-glazov-show</a>.</p>
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