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		<title>Glazov Gang&#8217;s 2014 Episode of The Year: Geert Wilders</title>
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<p></strong></a>This year’s<strong> Glazov Gang 2014 Episode of the Year Award</strong> goes to two special episodes &#8212; each of them joined by a stellar titan who is on the front-lines of the culture and terror war courageously defending our civilization&#8217;s freedom.</p>
<p>One of the winning episodes was with<strong> Geert Wilders,</strong>  the founder and leader of the “Party for Freedom” — which is currently the fourth-largest party in the Dutch parliament. Mr. Wilders is best known for his brave stance against, and truth-telling about, Islam. He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marked-Death-Islams-Against-West/dp/1596987960" target="_blank"><em>Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me</em></a>.</p>
<p>We are honored to present the episode,<strong> <span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption">“The West’s Battle For Freedom,” </span></span> </strong>below. We will run the other Glazov Gang 2014 episode award winner in our next issue.</p>
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		<title>Christians and Churches Attacked in the West</title>
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<blockquote class="content_preface"><p>&#8220;You have a cross on… Do you know what we do to people like you?&#8221; — Muslim in Denmark.</p>
<p>Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way into the church, cut [the pastor], his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the building on fire&#8230; We only found the charred remains of the three of them in the morning. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any traces of Christianity in the town.&#8221; — Eyewitness account, Nigeria.</p>
<p>Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Muslim persecution of Christians in September started making prominent appearances not just in the Islamic world, but also in the West—in America, Australia and Europe.</p>
<p>In the United States, in Columbus, Indiana, three churches were vandalized on the same night. The words most frequently sprayed were &#8220;Infidels!&#8221; and &#8220;Koran 3:151.&#8221; The verse from the Koran states, &#8220;We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve [or "infidels"] for what they have associated with Allah [reference to Christian Trinity] of which He had not sent down [any] authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Father Doug Marcotte of Saint Bartholomew&#8217;s Catholic Church, one of those vandalized, said, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of bad stuff being done in the name of Allah and so when people see this happening in Columbus, whether that was truly the person&#8217;s intent or there&#8217;s something else going on, it makes people nervous. It makes people upset. It makes them scared.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in Australia, AAP reported that &#8220;Church-goers in Sydney&#8217;s west have been left shaken after a stranger shouted death threats from a car bearing the Islamic State flag. The car drove past Our Lady of Lebanon Church at Harris Park on Tuesday and witnesses claim it had a flag similar to those brandished by Islamic State jihadists hanging out the window.&#8221; A church official said the people in the car threatened to &#8220;<a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/sydney-church-our-lady-of-lebanon-targeted-by-isis-threats/story-fncynjr2-1227062189328">kill the Christians&#8221; and slaughter their children</a>: &#8220;They were strong words and people were scared of what they saw.&#8221; Witnesses saw a flag outside the window with the words, &#8220;There is only one god and Muhammad is the prophet.&#8221; And as happens frequently in Muslim-majority nations, police security was later dispatched to patrol the Harris Park church while hundreds partook of the mass inside.</p>
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<p>In Denmark—2013&#8242;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/denmark-happiest-country_n_4070761.html">happiest country in the world</a>&#8220;—Christians of Middle Eastern backgrounds continued to experience &#8220;harassment, verbal attacks and in some cases direct violence from Muslims,&#8221; reports TV2, especially in Muslim-majority areas, such as Nørrebro. One Christian, &#8220;Jojo,&#8221; born in Denmark of Lebanese parents, shared her experiences. Once when sitting in her parked car, several Muslims surrounded it, harassing her about her Western attire. When one of them noticed she was wearing a cross, he said &#8220;Well, you have a cross on—then <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/denmark-christians-flee-muslim-dominated-areas-they-tell-me-i-ought-to-be-stoned-to-death">you are also a Christian f***ing whore</a>. Do you know what we do to people like you? Do you know what we do to people like you? You get stoned [to death].&#8221;</p>
<p>Another Christian woman of Iranian background recounted how she and her son are harassed on the Muslim-majority block where they live—and where she stands out for not wearing a <i>hijab</i>, the Islamic veil: &#8220;My son is being called everything. I get called all sorts of things. Infidel. Filthy Christians. They tell me I ought to be stoned to death. My son was beaten at the bus stop. He was called pig, dirty potato (Muslim slang for Danes), and that &#8216;you and your mother should die.&#8221;&#8216;</p>
<p>Islamic dreams of conquering Europe were prevalent. A senior analyst in Spain warned that, because Islamists see the Iberian peninsula as being &#8220;under Spanish and Portuguese occupation,&#8221; <a href="http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2014/09/05/jihadists-want-al-andalus-back-spanish-terrorism-analyst_966e7c8a-6480-4a28-b4e1-7a63eabf2d51.html">greater risk of terrorism exists there</a> than in other Western areas. Because Iberia—or, in Arabic, Al-Andalus—was under Islamic domination for centuries, many Muslims consider it part of the Islamic world, or Dar al-Islam, which needs to be reconquered, no less than Israel, also seen as occupied Islamic territory.</p>
<p>More pointedly, in the Islamic State [IS], in a lengthy message partially addressed to the &#8220;crusaders&#8221;—a reference to the West—some members declared, &#8220;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/islamic-state-we-will-conquer-your-rome-break-your-crosses-and-enslave-your-women-by-the-permission-of-allah">We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah</a>.&#8221; Members of the IS also invoked a statement attributed to Muhammad, that Constantinople would be conquered before Rome—and it was, in 1453. The implication was that the Eternal City of Rome would be next.</p>
<p>Around the same time, Rome responded by rejecting a motion to name a street after the late Oriana Fallaci, a veteran journalist who had once written that, &#8220;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/rome-nixes-naming-street-after-oriana-fallaci-because-she-wrote-that-the-muslim-world-is-attempting-to-conquer-the-west">the Muslim world is attempting to conquer the West in the name of Islam</a>.&#8221; In explaining their decision, local politicians described Fallaci&#8217;s writings as containing &#8220;religious hatred,&#8221; or &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Canada, while 80 special Muslims went to the trouble of attending a Muslim rally on behalf of persecuted Christians, sadly, another rally, an extremist Al Quds Day Anti-Israel Hate Fest, drew approximately 6,000 participants.</p>
<p>The rest of September&#8217;s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Muslim Attacks on Churches</b></p>
<p><b>East Jerusalem</b>: <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/attacks-on-church-in-east-jerusalem-grow-more-intense/">A Christian church was attacked numerous times</a>: On September 29, young Muslim men, with ties to a Palestinian militant group, wired shut the door of the Living Bread Church and sprayed a gaseous substance at those inside. An earlier gas attack had already occurred on September 17. Hours before the second attack, someone threw a rock through one of the windows of the church, and the day before that, Sunday, September 28, a Palestinian and others assaulted a church member as he was emptying trash into a dumpster outside the church.</p>
<p>On Sept. 21, a Palestinian militant, without warning, ran up behind a church leader, Karen Dunham, and knocked her to the pavement: &#8220;This guy charged me as fast as he could,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He came up behind me and just slammed into my back, and I fell and I hit the ground. My face is bruised. There&#8217;s bruises on the side of my cheek, on my face, on my head, on my knee, cuts on my head, and my wrist was fractured.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: A Christian priest in Egypt appealed to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to intervene on behalf of yet another church being threatened by &#8220;religious extremists.&#8221; So far, local authorities have done nothing. Four years ago, the Coptic Church of St. Abram in Shubra al-Khaima received a permit to build an additional building. During those same four years, seven &#8220;thugs&#8221;—in the <a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/2910-egypt-muslim-mob-prevents-coptic-church-building">words of the report</a>—have prevented it from being built. The &#8220;thugs&#8221; had mobilized local Muslims to threaten and demonstrate against the church. &#8220;The priest lamented that &#8216;after suffering many long years&#8217; they finally managed to acquire the permit to build, but then the next obstacle presented itself in the person of the aforementioned seven &#8216;thugs&#8217; who constantly harass, and incite Muslim mobs, against the church, whenever it tries to exercise its right to build the services building. Islamic law forbids the building of new churches or the renovation of existing churches.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Iraq</b>: Islamic State militants &#8220;<a href="http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2014/09/25/isis-blow-up-tikrits-green-church_9ac1fb14-0ae6-417d-a4cc-b20cf9eddef2.html">completely destroyed</a>&#8221; the ancient Green Church in Tikrit. They packed the church with explosives and detonated them &#8212; <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20140925012701.htm">completely destroying the ancient church</a>, which belonged to the Assyrian Church of the East. Almost from the time it was built in the seventh century, when Islam overran Iraq, the church had been attacked, ransacked, and destroyed by Muslim rulers and others, but was restored on the orders of Iraq&#8217;s late President Saddam Hussein in the 1990s.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: Many more churches and a Christian university, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/bible-college-churches-shut-down-as-boko-haram-claims-territory-in-ne-nigeria/">Kulp Bible College</a>, were forced to shut down as a result of the advances of the Islamic jihadi group, Boko Haram. In one instance, a pastor reported that &#8220;Boko Haram violence has been getting worse every day, and our members are fleeing the area by the thousands. Recent attacks in Borno and Adamawa states where our churches are located have seen Boko Haram take over the Army base. As a result, about 350 Christians have been killed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Separately, in Kaduna state, where &#8220;Muslim Fulani assailants seem driven to rid the area of Christianity and use the land to graze their cattle,&#8221; according to church leaders, 46 Christians, including two pastors, were slaughtered in raids. According to an eyewitness,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Suddenly we heard sounds of gunshots around our village. The pastor was still in the pastorate when the Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way onto the church premises. They cut him, his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the house on fire. The three of them were burned to ashes in the living room of the pastorate. We only found the charred remains of the three of them the following morning&#8230;. The gunmen then came onto the church premises and began shooting. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any trace of Christianity in the town.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Although Muslim Fulani have historically had property disputes with Christian farmers, Christian leaders say attacks by the herdsmen constitute <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/two-pastors-among-46-christians-killed-in-kaduna-state-nigeria/">a war &#8220;by Islam to eliminate Christianity&#8221; in Nigeria</a>.</p>
<p><b>Sudan</b>: In the latest incident of a nearly two-year wave of church demolitions, closures and confiscations, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/sudan-shutters-500-member-church-in-khartoum/">security agents padlocked a 500-member church building</a>, the Sudan Pentecostal Church [SPC] in Khartoum. The church also houses the Khartoum Christian Center (KCC). &#8220;The church is concerned that the building might be sold by the government, which renders more than 500 worshippers to have no place for worship,&#8221; a source told the <i>Morning Star News</i>. The Islamist government appears to be seeking any pretext for closing churches, sources said. In this instance, the space for the church was originally designated as &#8220;office space.&#8221; But, as one source asked, &#8220;How do you close a church building that has been in operation for 20 years in the name of the church being meant for offices?&#8221; The church has a deed showing that it owns the building and property &#8212; a situation that raises the question of the government&#8217;s right to sell it.</p>
<p>On June 30 bulldozers <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/06/sudanese-authorities-demolish-another-church-building/">demolished</a> the Sudanese Church of Christ in the Thiba Al Hamyida area of North Khartoum as church members watched, while security personnel threatened to arrest them if they tried to block the bulldozers, church members said.</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>: The <a href="http://armenianweekly.com/2014/09/21/der-zor/">Islamic State destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church</a> in Der Zor, seen as the &#8220;Auschwitz&#8221; of the Armenian Genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians perished in Der Zor and the surrounding desert during the genocide. In the summer of 1916 alone, more than 200,000 Armenians, mostly women and children, were massacred by Ottoman Turks. Armenia&#8217;s foreign minister issued a statement calling the church&#8217;s destruction a &#8220;horrible barbarity,&#8221; and referred to the Islamic State as a &#8220;disease&#8221; that &#8220;threatened civilized mankind.&#8221; The church was built in 1989-90 and consecrated a year later. A genocide memorial and a museum housing the remains of the victims of the genocide were also located in the church compound. Thousands of Armenians from Syria and neighboring countries gathered at the memorial every year on April 24 to commemorate the genocide.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Pakistani Rape and Dhimmitude</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36439-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Christian_girl_raped_the_perpetrators_film_the_violence#.VIXqaDHF9qU">Four young Muslims gang raped a 15-year-old Christian girl</a> and filmed it. The girl&#8217;s father, although he was threatened against filing a complaint, went to police, who confirmed the existence of a video that corroborates the violence. The video will apparently be introduced as evidence against the youths. A lawyer, Mushtaq Gill, issued a statement that, &#8220;Many Christian girls continue to be victims of sexual assault by young Muslims, who go unpunished&#8221; and that, &#8220;in this case there is also a video, flaunted as a trophy.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36280-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Two_Christian_women_abducted_forced_to_convert_to_Islam_and_marry_Muslim_men#.VIXv9zHF9qU">Two Christian women were abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men</a>. Lawyer Mushtaq Gill said, &#8220;A Christian girl, Sairish, forced to marry a Muslim in 2009, in her heart never abandoned the faith and continued to pray to Jesus Christ even after her marriage. After a few years she found the courage to rebel against the situation and run away&#8230;. Her life is now in danger because if she declares herself Christian, Muslims may accuse her of apostasy and the punishment would be death.&#8221; Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.</li>
<li>Another Christian family fled their hometown, Lahore, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36318-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Christian_family_flees_to_save_their_daughters_from_forced_conversion_to_Islam#.VIXuVzHF9qU">to save their daughters from forced conversion to Islam</a>. According to the Justice and Peace Commission, the two sisters, aged 12 and 8, were studying in public schools, where learning to recite the Koran is mandatory. Apparently, because the girls recited the <i>shehada</i>, the Islamic declaration of faith, &#8220;an Islamic cleric, the father of a student stated that these girls had become Muslims and thus needed to be taken from their Christian parents and entrusted to adult Muslims.&#8221; The parents pulled their daughters out of school, but then the headmaster and other Muslim teachers &#8220;warned the parents to send them back to school, offering the family financial aid regarding the school fees.&#8221; The parents quit their jobs and fled the region.</li>
<li>Police arrested 15 Christians and booked 45 other members of the minority community under the blasphemy law <a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/world/15-christians-held-in-pakistan-under-blasphemy-law.html">for allegedly desecrating Muslim graves</a> in a village in Punjab province. According to the AP, &#8220;The case was registered after a local cleric filed a complaint alleging that the Christians had desecrated over 400 Muslim graves to occupy the land in Chak village in Faisalabad, about 150 kilometres from Lahore.&#8221; Rights groups said it was a spurious charge meant to prevent the Christians from acquiring the land. In fact, the accusations were <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36294-ASIA_PAKISTAN_False_accusations_of_blasphemy_later_withdrawn_against_31_Christians_in_a_Punjab_village#.VIXvWzHF9qU">later proven false</a>.</li>
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<h3 align="center">Dhimmitude: Islamic Discrimination Against Christianity</h3>
<p><b>Egypt:</b> Iman Sarofim, a 39-year-old Christian mother of five, returned home to her family <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36441-AFRICA_EGYPT_The_Coptic_woman_who_had_disappeared_returns_home_she_did_not_convert_but_had_been_kidnapped#.VIXqsTHF9qU">after being kidnapped</a>. Initially it was believed that she had voluntarily converted to Islam and fled her family to be with a Muslim man. The woman contacted the family from Suez, where she had been brought by the kidnapper. The return of the woman was celebrated by neighbors and relatives in the city of Gabal al-Tir. Her disappearance had been the cause of clashes between Copts and police, who believed the narrative that she had voluntarily left. In retaliation, police officers entered the homes of dozens of Coptic families and violently arrested dozens of Christians. Separately, Ehab Karam, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36416-AFRICA_EGYPT_Kidnappings_continue_to_the_detriment_of_the_Copts_a_dentist_kidnapped_killed#.VIXrhzHF9qU">a Coptic dentist, was killed</a> after he was abducted by unknown persons, most likely for ransom. The kidnapping of Copts for ransom has evidently become a regular part of life in Egypt for Christians, particularly in Upper Egypt. Last February, for instance, police dismantled a crime network that for months had been organizing kidnappings, robberies and extortion against the local Coptic community. &#8220;Unfortunately,&#8221; said the Coptic Catholic Bishop of Assist, Kyrillos William, &#8220;the phenomenon continues and there are no signs of improvement. Police operations are episodic and ineffective, they are unable to solve the problem.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Iraq:</b> The Islamic State decreed that <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36336-ASIA_IRAQ_The_school_year_in_the_Islamic_Caliphate_the_teaching_of_Syriac_and_Christian_names_of_schools_have_been_abolished#.VIXuDTHF9qU">all schools in Mosul and the Nineveh Plain</a> which bore Christian names, some since the 1700s, must be changed. Also, the teaching of the Syriac language and culture and Christian religious education has been abolished. Reports indicate that the Islamic State took these moves &#8220;in order to erase all traces of cultural and religious pluralism in the conquered areas and turn schools into propaganda tools of jihadist ideology among the new generations.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Saudi Arabia</b>: In the Eastern Province city of Khafji, &#8220;religious police,&#8221; or agents from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christians-detained-by-Saudi-religious-police-in-raid-on-private-home.html">raided a house where at least 27 Christians</a>, mostly expatriates from various Asian nationalities, were gathered. The Christians, including children, were accused of practicing Christianity in a house church, and were arrested and detained overnight. Authorities also confiscated musical instruments and copies of the Bible. The house had been placed under surveillance after a citizen reported that his Indian neighbor had converted his home into a Christian church. After witnessing a large number of individuals enter the home, officers raided the house. The only religion allowed to be practiced in public in Saudi Arabia is Islam. In the land of the prophet, no public places of worship for non-Muslims are permitted to exist.</p>
<p><b>Turkey:</b> According to the Armenian magazine,<i> Agos</i>, many of the primary and secondary education books being used for the current school year still <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36339-ASIA_TURKEY_In_school_books_Christian_communities_portrayed_as_tools_of_foreign_powers_against_the_Ottoman_empire">describe the Armenians and other Christian communities as enemy forces</a> at the service of foreign powers, including Russia and England, after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. One eighth-grade history book tries to whitewash the Armenian genocide, which is portrayed as a &#8220;necessary deportation,&#8221; never as a massacre.</p>
<p><b>Uzbekistan</b>: Security forces reportedly raided the home of Pastor Stanislav Kim in Chirchik, 20 miles northeast of Tashkent, the capital. They detained 11 teenagers and three adults, who had gathered there for a volleyball game, and questioned them for more than four hours before releasing them. Officials also searched the pastor&#8217;s home and <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/33773-uzbekistan-prosecuting-pastor-son-for-unregistered-activity">confiscated a New Testament, a Bible, several other Christian books</a>, more than 100 slides of hymns, as well as some computer equipment. Voice of the Martyrs, which says there are at least 65 unregistered congregations scattered throughout Uzbekistan, said in a statement, &#8220;Please pray that this pastor and his son will not face fines, but will soon be acquitted of any perceived wrongdoing. Ask God to strengthen each believer who was present during this unwarranted raid so that they will not give in to governmental intimidation and pressure, but instead be emboldened to serve our Lord faithfully.&#8221;</p>
<p align="center"><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>While not all, or even most, Muslims are involved, persecution of Christians is expanding. &#8220;Muslim Persecution of Christians&#8221; was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month.</p>
<p>It documents what the mainstream media often fails to report.</p>
<p>It posits that such persecution is not random but systematic, and takes place in all languages, ethnicities and locations.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/"><i>Raymond Ibrahim</i></a> <i>is author of</i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20">Crucified Again: Exposing Islam&#8217;s New War in Christians</a> <i>(published by Regnery in cooperation with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).</i></p></blockquote>
<p><b>Previous reports</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4927/raping-beheading-faithful">August, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4846/muslim-persecution-christians-july">July, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4817/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june">June, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4763/muslim-persecution-christians-may-2014">May, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4666/raped-and-slaughtered-muslim-persecution">April, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4400/obama-muslim-persecutions">March, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4365/christians-most-persecuted">February, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4312/muslim-persecution-christians-january">January, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4252/slaughtering-christians">December, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4170/us-silent-muslim-persecution-christians">November, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4093/slaughter-in-muslim-lands">October, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4065/september-horror-christians-islam">September, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4050/christians-middle-east-august">August, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3967/christian-women-degradation-islam">June, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3904/nigeria-christians-murdered">May, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3875/christian-suffering-under-jihadi-extremism">April, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3760/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013">March, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3673/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013">February, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3641/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013">January, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3577/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012">December, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3566/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012">November, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3485/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012">October, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3421/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2012">September, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3318/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">August, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3318/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3203/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3135/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3065/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3033/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2949/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2834/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2733/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2676/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2585/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2491/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september">September, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2401/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011</a></li>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow explains the "Hydra of Jihad" and Western blindness. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hydra.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248028" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hydra.jpg" alt="hydra" width="301" height="226" /></a>Raymond Ibrahim, Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center, was recently interviewed on Reel Talk with Audrey Russo.  Topics ranged from Joe Biden’s ISIS failures to the “Hydra of Jihad,” to Islam’s influences on non-Muslims throughout history.  <a href="http://www.audreyrusso.com/Raymond_Ibrahim_1114_intro.mp3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Click here</span></a> to listen to the 25-minute interview.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Leftist and Islamic supremacist demonization of the police bears bitter fruit.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/627f9eedd0e505e450319c6d9f7554fc.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247986" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/627f9eedd0e505e450319c6d9f7554fc-450x331.jpg" alt="627f9eedd0e505e450319c6d9f7554fc" width="326" height="240" /></a>When Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley murdered NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu as they ate lunch in their patrol car last Saturday, the only people who could possibly have been surprised were those who have not realized how assiduously Leftist and Muslim activists have worked – long before the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner &#8212; to demonize the NYPD and law enforcement in general. The advent of the killer was only a matter of time.</p>
<p>It has been only lightly reported that Brinsley was a Muslim, and generally when it has been mentioned, it has been dismissed as a motive in favor of his statements about wanting to kill police officers to avenge Garner and Brown. But these two motivations – revenge for the perceived racist killings of two black men and Brinsley’s Islamic faith – are not mutually exclusive. Brinsley’s Facebook page featured a photo of the Qur’an open to the eighth chapter, where Allah exhorts the believers to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60).</p>
<p>Brinsley may have thought, what better way to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah than to kill a couple of infidel, racist police officers? Investigative journalist Patrick Poole found an additional sign of Brinsley’s attachment to Islam on his Facebook page, where Brinsley wrote at one point that he was heading to “Al-Farooq Tomorrow inshallah.” <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/12/20/did-cop-killer-ishmael-brinsley-visit-terror-tied-brooklyn-mosque/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Poole notes</span></a>: “If this reference by the cop killer was from Brooklyn (which is hard to discern since his Instagram account has been taken down), it may indicate that he was going to visit Masjid Al-Farooq in Brooklyn.”</p>
<p>Explains Poole:</p>
<blockquote><p>Al-Farooq’s long history of terror support goes back more than 20 years, when the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was hatched by members. One imam from the early 1990s, when Al-Farooq was a hub of the nascent Al-Qaeda and was hosting Al-Qaeda co-founder Abdullah Azzam, was Fawaz Damra, who was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070715000536/http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/061804akron.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">charged, convicted and later deported</span></a> for lying to immigration officials about his terror ties when he applied for U.S. citizenship.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, Muslim activists in New York City – with willing help from their Leftist allies &#8212; have long cultivated a sense of grievance, claiming that they have been unfairly singled out for NYPD surveillance and monitoring. At an October 2011 hearing about the New York Police Department’s counter-terror activities in Muslim areas, New York City Councilman Brad Lander <a href="http://www.onislam.net/english/news/americas/454221-ny-police-grilled-over-muslim-surveillance.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">asserted</span></a>: “It looks like we are targeting Muslim neighborhoods and communities. That’s not good for us. We have people out there who are partners who feel the trust is betrayed.”</p>
<p>New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the NYPD programs, saying, “What we’re doing is following leads.” His critics were not mollified. In February 2012, <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2012/02/hamas-cair-devout-muslims-protest-nypd-homeland-security-self-defense-against-jihad-in-america.html/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muslims in New York held a massive protest</span></a> against the NYPD. Many protesters were holding printed signs with slogans designed to enhance Muslims’ feelings that they had been targets of NYPD prejudice and discrimination: “FIRE Ray Kelly!”; “Stop NYPD Ethnic, Racial and Religious Profiling”; “Stop Entrapment and Surveillance Without Warrants”; “Muslims Demand Equal Rights”; and “NO to a Police State!” A handwritten sign held by a woman in a hijab foreshadowed the charges widely made against the NYPD after the death of Eric Garner: “GOOD BYE RACIST RAY!”</p>
<p>“Racist Ray”’s days were numbered in October 2013, when, according to <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/10/16/de-blasio-tells-muslims-hell-end-broad-nypd-spying-if-elected/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">CBS NewYork</span></a>, “Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio told a group of Muslim supporters Wednesday that they won’t have to live in fear of being under constant surveillance if he’s elected mayor.” Linda Sarsour, head of the Muslim Democratic Club, was pleased: “People are tired of a mayor,” she asserted, “that unequivocally stands behind the (police) commissioner and says that everything we’re doing is right.”</p>
<p>De Blasio warmly embraced Sarsour, which in itself was telling, as Sarsour is a rabidly anti-Semitic Islamic supremacist who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/rabidly-antisemitic-islamic-supremacist-who-said-nothing-is-creepier-than-zionism-is-frequent-white.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">has said that “nothing is creepier than Zionism” and equated it with “racism.”</span></a> She is also a frequent visitor to the Obama White House, and has claimed that the jihad underwear bomber was a <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3791/more-radicalism-from-another-white-house-guest"><span style="color: #0433ff;">CIA agent — part of what she claims is a U.S. war against Islam</span></a>. She is a practiced exploiter of the “hate” smear against foes of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, and has never apologized for <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/oops-islamic-supremacist-activist-whines-about-islamophobia-using-alawadi-case-just-as-it-was-reveal.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">using the Islamic honor murder of Shaima Alawadi to spread lies about the prevalence of hate crimes against Muslims in America</span></a>.</p>
<p>When he became Mayor, de Blasio moved swiftly, <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/nypd-muslim-surveillance-unit-disbanded/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dismantling</span></a> the legal NYPD Muslim surveillance program in April 2014 – thereby validating the Muslim activists’ claims that the program was racist, discriminatory and unjust. But the end of this program did not end the Muslim and Leftist sense of grievance, which was only fueled by the Brown and Garner incidents. Leftist and Muslim groups continued to fuel the perception that police were “racist” and “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/hamas-linked-terror-org-cair-to-muslims-lady-liberty-says-shhhh"><span style="color: #0433ff;">repeatedly</span></a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/hamas-linked-terror-org-cair-discourages-muslims-from-talking-to-fbi"><span style="color: #0433ff;">exhorted</span></a> Muslims to contact a lawyer and the nearest CAIR office if contacted by the FBI, and to “Know Your Rights” and say as little as possible. CAIR would, of course, hotly deny that they have given this advice to Muslims to protect those engaged in terror activity from detection and prosecution, but then the only other alternative is that CAIR wants Muslims to believe that law enforcement officials are engaged in an ongoing campaign to entrap and persecute innocent Muslims.</p>
<p>That message, of course, coincides perfectly with that of race-baiters such as Al Sharpton, who have labored so long to foster among black Americans the same idea. In Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, these dual and interrelated grievances came together, and two policemen are dead. There will be more.</p>
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		<title>How Western Media Enable Islamic Terrorism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same lies and distortions shielding Islam “over there” have come “over here.”]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/la-epa-egypt-unrest2-jpg-20130819.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247776" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/la-epa-egypt-unrest2-jpg-20130819-450x300.jpg" alt="la-epa-egypt-unrest2-jpg-20130819" width="315" height="210" /></a>If the West is experiencing a rise in the sort of terror attacks that are endemic to the Islamic world—<a href="http://www.wthr.com/story/26416131/2014/08/31/3-columbus-churches-vandalized-with-graffiti-overnight"><span style="color: #0433ff;">church attacks</span></a>, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslims-sexually-enslaving-children-a-global-phenomenon/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sex-slavery</span></a> and <a href="http://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/isis-plot-to-behead-people-on-uk-streets-disrupted-after-police-arrest-four-islamic-terrorists-in-london/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">beheadings</span></a>—it was only natural that the same mainstream media that habitually conceals such atrocities, especially against Christians and other minorities under Islam, would also conceal the reality of jihadi aspirations on Western soil.</p>
<p>As The <a href="http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5433/australia_tragicomic_west_stresses_danger_of_islamophobia"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Commentator</span></a> reports:</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he level of the [media] grovelling after the tragic and deadly saga in Sydney Australia over the last 24 hours has been astounding.</p>
<p>At the time of writing, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-30490696"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the lead story on the BBC website</span></a> is of course about that very tragedy, in which an Islamist fanatic took a random group hostage in a cafe, ultimately killing two of them.</p>
<p>He did this in the name of Islam. But you wouldn&#8217;t get that impression if you started to read the BBC&#8217;s lead story, which astoundingly managed to avoid mentioning the words Islam, Islamic, Islamist, Muslim, or any derivations thereof for a full 16 paragraphs. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/world/asia/sydney-australia-hostages.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The New York Times</span></a>, which led by calling the terrorist, Man Haron Monis an &#8220;armed man&#8221;, waited until paragraph 11.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/15/sydney-siege-ends-police-storm-lindt-cafe-hostages-run-out"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Guardian&#8217;s main story</span></a> &#8211; whose lead paragraph simply referred to a &#8220;gunman&#8221; &#8212; you had to wait until paragraph 24.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d have blinked, you&#8217;d have missed it.</p>
<p>….</p>
<p>In the wider media, reports about Muslim fears of a &#8220;backlash&#8221; have been all but ubiquitous.</p></blockquote>
<p>If these are the lengths that Western mainstream media go to dissemble about the Islamic-inspired slaughter of Western peoples, it should now be clear why the ubiquitous Muslim persecution of those unfashionable Christian minorities is also practically unknown by those who follow Western mainstream media.</p>
<p>As with the Sydney attack, media headlines say it all. The 2011 New Year’s Eve Coptic church attack that left 28 dead appeared under vague headlines: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/world/middleeast/04egypt.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“Clashes grow as Egyptians remain angry after attack,”</span></a> was the <i>New York Times</i>’ headline; and “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/01/AR2011010102697.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Christians clash with police in Egypt after attack on churchgoers kills 21</span></a>” was the <i>Washington Post</i>’s—as if frustrated and harried Christians lashing out against their oppressors is the “big news,” not the unprovoked atrocity itself; as if their angry reaction “evens” everything up.</p>
<p>Similarly, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> partially told the story of an Egyptian off-duty police officer who, after <a href="http://www1.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Egypt-Christian-shot-dead-and-several-others-injured-in-train-attack_311526616347.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">identifying Copts by their crosses</span></a> on a train, opened fire on them, killing one, while screaming “Allahu Akbar”—but to exonerate the persecution, as caught by the report’s headline: <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/01/egypt-eyewitness-claims-train-attacker-did-not-target-copts-state-media-say.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“Eyewitness claims train attacker did not target Copts, state media say.”</span></a></p>
<p>A February 2012 NPR report titled “<a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/02/25/147370689/in-egypt-christian-muslim-tension-is-on-the-rise"><span style="color: #0433ff;">In Egypt, Christian-Muslim Tension is on the Rise</span></a>,” while meant to familiarize readers with the situation of Egypt’s Christians, prompts more questions than answers them: “In Egypt, growing tensions between Muslims and Christians have led to sporadic violence [initiated by whom?]. Many Egyptians blame the interreligious strife on hooligans [who?] taking advantage of absent or weak security forces. Others believe it’s because of a deep-seated mistrust between Muslims and the minority Christian community [what are the sources of this “mistrust”?].”</p>
<p>The photo accompanying the story is of angry Christians holding a cross aloft—not Muslims destroying crosses, which is what prompted the former to this display of Christian solidarity.</p>
<p>Blurring the line between victim and oppressor—recall the fear of “<a href="http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2014/12/new-fbi-hate-crime-stats-another-blow-to-islamist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">anti-Muslim backlashes</span></a>” whenever a Muslim terrorizes “infidels” in the West—also applies to the media’s reporting on Muslim persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>A February 2012 <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-17169935"><span style="color: #0433ff;">BBC report</span></a> on a church attack in Nigeria that left three Christians dead, including a toddler, objectively states the bare bone facts in one sentence.  Then it jumps to apparently the <i>really</i> big news: that “the bombing sparked a riot by Christian youths, with reports that at least two Muslims were killed in the violence. The two men were dragged off their bikes after being stopped at a roadblock set up by the rioters, police said. A row of Muslim-owned shops was also burned…”</p>
<p>The report goes on and on, with an entire section about “very angry” Christians till one confuses victims with persecutors, forgetting what the Christians are “very angry” about in the first place: nonstop terror attacks on their churches and the slaughter of their women and children.</p>
<p>A <i>New York Times</i> report that appeared on December 25, 2011—the day after Boko Haram bombed several churches during Christmas Eve services, leaving some 40 dead—said that such church bombings threaten “to exploit the already frayed relations between Nigeria’s nearly evenly split populations of Christians and Muslims…”  Such an assertion suggests that both Christians and Muslims are equally motivated by religious hostility—even as one seeks in vain for Christian terror organizations that bomb mosques in Nigeria to screams of “Christ is Great!”</p>
<p>Indeed, Boko Haram has <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nigeria-boko-haram-torch-185-churches-captured-towns-borno-adamawa-1468763"><span style="color: #0433ff;">torched 185 churches</span></a>—to say nothing of the countless Christians beheaded—in just the last few months alone.</p>
<p>Continuing to grasp for straws, the same NYT report suggests that the Nigerian government’s “heavy-handed” response to Boko Haram is responsible for its terror, and even manages to invoke another mainstream media favorite: the poverty-causes-terrorism myth.</p>
<p>Whether Muslim mayhem is taking place in the Islamic or Western worlds, the mainstream media shows remarkable consistency in employing an arsenal of semantic games, key phrases, convenient omissions, and moral relativism to portray such violence as a product of anything and everything—political and historical grievances, “Islamophobia,” individual insanity, poverty and ignorance, territorial disputes—not Islam.</p>
<p>As such, Western mainstream media keep Western majorities in the dark about the Islamic threat, here and abroad.  Thus the “MSM” protects and enables the Islamic agenda—irrespective of whether its distortions are a product of intent, political correctness, or sheer stupidity.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Edward L. Dalcour unveils the nightmare spawned by Islamic "theocracy."]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Spencer Announces Candidacy for President</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to Robert Spencer’s keynote speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event took place Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Robert Spencer: </strong>This a momentous occasion actually, because I&#8217;ve decided to take this opportunity as I stand before so many patriots and lovers of freedom to announce my candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. Now, you might think this is a joke and of course it is. I have no political experience, I&#8217;ve never held elected office, never even run for office. I have no organization, no staff and no money. I am not now and have never been a member of the Washington establishment. In other words, I&#8217;m just the man for the job.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a serious point that I&#8217;m making here. The point is that the problem is not Barack Obama. The problem is not the Democrats. Barack Obama and the Democrats are just symptoms of the problem. The problem is an entrenched Washington establishment that keeps failing again and again and yet it keeps on applying the same failed solutions to problems. Presidents come and presidents go, but this establishment is forever and no matter how many times its remedies fail, it keeps on applying them without an ounce of self-reflection.</p>
<p>What we need is a massive housecleaning. What we need is a genuine outsider elected with a mandate to do this housecleaning, to really open up the windows in the State Department and let in the sunlight and clear out all these failed ideas that are doing nothing less than leading this nation into disaster.</p>
<p>The entrenched establishment is operating, of course in all areas but I&#8217;m going to concentrate on foreign policy because if we don&#8217;t stop making some of the major foreign policy mistakes that we are making, then we won&#8217;t have to worry about domestic policy before too long.</p>
<p>Chief among these is the millions that we are showering upon the Palestinians and the so-called peace process. Obama of course blames Israel for failing to make peace and blames the failure of peace talks on the so-called settlements in the West Bank and gives the impression that he believes or wants us to believe that if this settlement construction is stopped then peace will ensue and everything will be okay.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s just one word to show that that is obviously howlingly false and that one word is Gaza. We heard this song before. In 2005, we were told that the occupation was the problem and if Israel withdrew from Gaza the Gazans would pursue peace. Mortimer Zuckerman spent $14,000,000 to buy the greenhouses that the Israelis had constructed in Gaza in order to give them to the Palestinians so they would have gainful employ. The Palestinians gratefully received the greenhouses and immediately gutted them and converted them into weapon smuggling tunnels between Sinai and Gaza to get weapons to Hamas.</p>
<p>Obama and John Kerry want us to withdraw, want Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria, that is the West Bank, and they say the same things that we heard about Gaza. This will bring peace. This time, this withdrawal from this occupation, this is the one that&#8217;s going to do it and everything that will happen after that will be the result of the good benefits that come from this occupation. In other words, it will take the wind out of the Jihadi sails all together.</p>
<p>We saw that this didn&#8217;t work and yet keep trying it again. Why would the establishment of a Palestinian state now after the Muslims rejected it in 1948, rejected it in 2000, rejected many other times, why is it going to bring peace now? How could it when the goal of Israel&#8217;s total destruction which Hamas has repeatedly and recently reiterated still remains? Why would another Israeli withdrawal accomplish what the others never have?</p>
<p>And of course, Israel is not the only victim of our fantasy-based policy making. Another one is us, the American taxpayer. Another false assumption that is the basis of policy after policy is that poverty causes terrorism. Late in 2013 the U.S. and Turkey announced what they call the global fund for community engagement and resilience and John Kerry said that this will provide more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment into Jihad groups.</p>
<p>Now look, we just saw on the news this morning another beheading of the U.S. hostage, Peter Kassig, Abdul-Rahman Kassig, whose conversion to Islam did not save him because he was still considered as a military veteran to be an American Crusader. The people who beheaded him, the people who were standing there in that video and issuing warnings to the United States and the free world, they were considering themselves to be the warriors of the law. They were considering that they were at the vanguard of a global revolution that will bring the law of God to the world and defeat the enemy infidel powers. Do you really think that if we gave them an opportunity to say, “Welcome to McDonald&#8217;s, may I take your order please,” that they would give it all up? That they would turn away from what they think is a glorious struggle in which they are the soldiers of God for a job at Walmart? It&#8217;s not going to happen. This is just going to be more hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain.</p>
<p>Not only that, but study after study has shown that terrorists are actually better educated and wealthier than their peers. Just yesterday the news came that another doctor from the UK fled the country and has joined the Taliban. He&#8217;s a doctor. He was well off, even with the socialized healthcare system in Britain. But nonetheless he went to Jihad.</p>
<p>Beyond the waste of money, our foreign policy is characterized these days by an appalling incoherence. Take Obama on Syria. The president of course has long wanted to take out Bashar Assad, but he&#8217;s been stymied by the fact that the only significant opposition to the Assad regime are, of course, Islamic Jihadis. The so-called vetted moderates. Some of the vetted moderates last year ransacked churches and drove Christians out of their homes in three Syrian towns. But now Obama is actually pursuing the strategy of removing Assad because he thinks that Assad is causing the Jihadi recruitment. So if we take out Assad then the Islamic State will melt away. We won&#8217;t even have to fight it. The raison d&#8217;être for the terrorists will be gone. Now he actually thinks this despite the fact that the Islamic State has made it clear that they don&#8217;t intend to stop with toppling Assad but they want to control not only all of Syria, but all of Iraq as well as Kuwait, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan and continue on after that. And so, the main problem with this idea is this. If he removes Assad he creates a power vacuum. What is the force that is the only one in position to take advantage of that power vacuum? The Islamic State. And so what he&#8217;s saying is in order to defeat the Islamic State we have to give the Islamic State what it wants and let it win. This is insane. And this is the policy of the United States government.</p>
<p>Now, this is all part of the idea that if we bring democracy to the Middle East, then peace will once again ensue, and so the United States decided to pursue a policy of toppling the dictators that we had previously supported in the Middle East. Saddam Hussein of course was first to go, and then Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, Gaddafi in Libya. Of course, he was never a friend of the United States, but the idea was the same. That if these people were gone and the people in those countries had self-determination, then they would establish Western-style secular republics and once again there would be peace. Instead, of course there&#8217;s been chaos. The people that Barack Obama turned out to be supporting in Egypt and Libya were Muslim Brotherhood. They are in Syria as well. They did not want to establish western style secular republics but Sharia regimes. They did do so in Egypt for a year and they so alienated their own people that 30 million took to the streets and toppled them at that point. And yet, this policy is still in place and we are still pursuing it.</p>
<p>So, when I get to the Oval Office on January 20, 2017, and I promise never to put my feet on the desk, I will begin to sweep away all this and implement new policies.</p>
<p>First of all, no more aid, no more U.S. aid, not a penny to countries that engage in Sharia oppression. Just recently a Muslim mob murdered a Christian couple accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. And a Pakistani Christian leader called on Obama to make U.S.A. to Pakistan contingent upon the repeal of Pakistan&#8217;s blasphemy laws by which so many innocent people have been victimized, brutalized, murdered. Of course Obama ignored it but he should not have ignored it. He should have implemented it immediately and gone farther than that. There should be no more aid to any country or group that allows for or advocates the Sharia oppression of women and non-Muslims and that curtails the freedom of speech in accord with Islam&#8217;s prohibition on criticism of Islam.</p>
<p>And as for the Palestinians, they should get nothing at all, nothing, until they stop the genocidal incitement on Palestinian TV, teach their children that Israel must exist, that they have a right to that land, that it&#8217;s their land and that they must live peacefully with the Israelis. There is appalling genocidal incitement on Palestinian TV on a regular basis and it&#8217;s funded by us. This has to stop.</p>
<p>My second executive order will be to require that government intelligence and law enforcement agencies speak honestly and tell the truth about the threat we face. Of course, we know, as Geert Wilders reminded us yesterday, that immediately after a Jihad plot or a Jihad attack these days, Barrack Obama, John Kerry, David Cameron in the UK, a host of other leaders rush to the airwaves to tell us this has nothing to do with Islam. Well, they have nothing to do with rationality and common sense. And the problem is that this fantasy kills people. In Fort Hood the superiors of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Ford Hood Jihad murderer. They knew that he was in touch with Anwar al-Awlaki, the Jihad leader in Yemen. They knew that he himself was preaching Jihad and frightening his coworkers by preaching it. What did they do? Did they reprimand him? Did they fire him? Did they demote him? Did they prosecute him? No, they promoted him and praised him and said U.S. troops can learn a lot from him about Islam. And you know what? They did. But the lesson has still not been learned and the unreality still prevails.</p>
<p>Also, the Boston Marathon. The FBI disregarded, as Michele Bachmann told us yesterday, disregarded intelligence it received from the Russians about the bombers. The Russians said they were Jihadis. Right around this time, the FBI on orders from the Obama administration was removing all mention of Islam and Jihad from counter-terror training materials and had fired people who trained FBI members, including me, about the motives and goals of the Jihadis. And so they were being taught that Jihad is a benign spiritual struggle that ought to be encouraged. The Russians said this guy, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is a Jihadi and they probably thought, oh how nice, and didn&#8217;t do a thing. And so more people were killed and some people were maimed for life and it is the result of this unreality.</p>
<p>We also have to end the exaggerated deference being paid toward mosques and the fact that the Islamic Society of Boston, which was not only where the Tsarnaev brothers went, but where you saw the Jihad video yesterday that Michele had, and that video was produced by a member of the Islamic society of Boston. Aafia Siddiqui went there. She&#8217;s serving 86 years for plotting to murder American soldiers in the name of Islam and Jihad. Tarek Mehanna went there. He&#8217;s doing 17 years for aiding al Qaeda, and the mosque itself was founded by Abdurrahman Alamoudi who is now in prison for funding al Qaeda. And yet the only time the FBI had been there was for outreach. Outreach. In other words, reassuring Muslims that the U.S. government is not Islamophobic. People are dying because of these things.</p>
<p>I will likewise as president call upon Muslim groups to renounce the aspects of Sharia that contradict constitutional freedoms. The U.S. government should call upon advocacy groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations to renounce in a sincere and genuine manner any intention at any point in the future to replace the U.S. Constitution with Sharia. And to implement in American mosques and Islamic schools, in a transparent and open way that is easily able to be inspected, programs to teach against this understanding of Islam that these groups ostensibly reject but have done nothing to counter. Did you know that the United Arab Emirates is more realistic about this threat right now than the United States? The UAE is cracking down on Muslim Brotherhood groups, and yesterday it listed as terrorist organizations a number of Brotherhood-linked groups around the world, including the Council on American Islamic Relations. Meanwhile, CAIR is meeting with FBI agents and with administration officials and is the go-to group for the mainstream media about Islamic issues. The UAE knows better.</p>
<p>Coming to an abrupt end on January 20, 2017 will also be all U.S. government cooperation with such groups and with any groups linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. As Wilders said yesterday, we also have to end immigration from Muslim countries into the United States. This is a simple matter of national security. It will of course be condemned as racism, but the harsh reality is that you cannot tell peaceful Muslims from Jihadis in any discernible manner. And so it is simply ridiculous and suicidal to continue to import whole communities of Muslims from hot Jihad areas like Somalia and Syria and Pakistan into the United States and drop them down into American communities. The strife has already begun in those communities and it&#8217;s going to get worse.</p>
<p>We need to reconfigure our internal alliances, which are based on old and outmoded cold war models. I mean, for example, we&#8217;re depending on Turkey to do so much to aid in the fight against the Islamic State, and yet the Turkish government has actually refused when John Kerry asked them to stop the oil sales by the Islamic State, which is financing their Jihad, the Turks said no. And the Turks are allowing ready passage of Jihadis through Turkey into the Islamic State and from the Islamic State through Turkey into Europe. And ultimately, no doubt into the United States.<br />
And finally, we must begin a Manhattan Project to find new sources of oil and viable and new energy sources so that we end our foreign policy dependence upon states that aid and support Jihad. And of course, this means all of the options that are available. Offshore drilling, pipelines from Alaska and Canada, fracking, concerted research to find alternatives to petroleum. This should have been done on September 12, 2001, and every day we don&#8217;t do it is another day we lose that we could have started to turn this thing around.</p>
<p>And for the truth to prevail, there&#8217;s one more thing above all that we have to fight against. It&#8217;s a stronger enemy than the Islamic Jihadis, and stronger than Russia and China. And that is, of course, the entrenched culture that comes from the left, the culture of self-hatred that denigrates everything American and exalts the most inveterate America haters as heroic and underdogs striving valiantly against brutal behemoths like Israel. That entrenched culture is the foremost obstacle to our defense against Jihad terror, and it&#8217;s a never-ending tale of obfuscation about a genuine threat and slander of those who call attention to it. And we need to call upon the educational establishment to reject the revisionism and self-hatred that dominates textbooks today and more and more comes out every day about this. And to teach that Western civilization and culture are seriously threatened and worth defending. Islamic Jihadis are counting upon and calculatingly employing the rhetoric of inclusion and multiculturalism to gain for themselves <span style="color: #404040;">entrée</span> into highest levels of influence in the United States government, in the media, as well as the final edit of discussion on these issues in American textbooks. We have to demand a stop to this, relearn our own history, value it and teach it to our own children, teaching them to revere and not find new ways to deride those who built the political and legal institutions of this country.</p>
<p>Since I&#8217;ll never get a chance actually to deliver an Inaugural Address, I&#8217;ll end with an excerpt from the one I had prepared: We do not seek war with Muslim nations. If war is brought to us however, we will defend our nation, our allies, our freedom and our families. We will not be subjugated. We will never be subjugated. This is a different kind of war from the wars we&#8217;ve fought in the past. It is an ideological war and a war fought by believers in certain ideas rather than by soldiers from particular nations. And so we will, therefore, fight this new kind of war in a new kind of way. No nation of the world will be a friend to the United States if it holds the beliefs that led to the heinous attack on this nation on 9/11 and others after it. I invite and call upon the Muslims of the world to choose a society based on the principles of the freedom of speech and the equality of rights before the law of which the United States has been the foremost exponent. And make no mistake, we will defend those principles and we will prevail. Thank you.</p>
<p>Question over here? Richard?</p>
<p><strong>Questioner: </strong>First of all, I want to let you know that you have five pledged delegates from the new Red State of Illinois.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> The bandwagon is moving!</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Okay. The description before by Mike Finch of what groups are comfortable and where our people might be comfortable, there is a group within the Republican Party that wouldn&#8217;t be comfortable here. That&#8217;s the Grover Norquist wing which accomplished some serious infiltration during the Bush administration and David, really, and his organization, were the first to point that out and make that an issue. I would make a serious suggestion which is you draft what you have, put it in the form of a statement and provide that to all the potential Republican candidates for president and let&#8217;s see who&#8217;s serious about this issue.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Thank you, Richard. You know, that&#8217;s actually the idea of my framing it in this way. I&#8217;m hoping that these things, it seems to me this is just common sense matters of policy that should have been implemented right after 9/11 and I would hope that some candidates will have the courage to take them on. Yes, sir.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Good morning, Robert.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Good morning, Mr. Cutler.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Thank you so much, sir. I just want your forbearance instead of asking a question, just a fast comment. You were talking about the Tsarnaev brothers. And you know, yesterday I spoke about immigration. What most people don&#8217;t know &#8212; and this is why I&#8217;m so concerned about the single-minded focus on the Southwest border &#8212; the Tsarnaev brothers apparently committed fraud when they applied for political asylum. Yet their sister was first arrested about one month ago for threatening, it seems to be a family pattern, of blowing up her ex-boyfriend. Now, this isn&#8217;t lowhanging fruit. This is fruit in the basket. Why in the world were these folks still out and among us when they could have all been rolled up for having committed apparent fraud.</p>
<p>What I want people to understand is that if we don&#8217;t go after the integrity of the immigration system, not only admitting them, but providing political asylum and other abilities to embed themselves, we&#8217;re in deep trouble.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Absolutely.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> So what I suggest is don&#8217;t limit it to the Southwest border, folks. Think of immigration as a system and that&#8217;s where we&#8217;ve got to hammer the politicians. Don&#8217;t let them give you the copout of just looking at the border. They need to address the entire system. And thank you for indulging my comment.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Thank you. I couldn&#8217;t agree more. That&#8217;s extraordinarily important. The refugee resettlement program, which heavily favors Muslim communities and brings, as I said, whole communities and puts them in the middle of American towns and cities. That has nothing to do with the Southern border at all. It&#8217;s a matter of people flying in to the country by the sanction and invitation of the immigration service and the State Department and so on. And this has to be addressed.</p>
<p>Yes sir.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Ken Abramowitz. Thank you for your comments. You didn&#8217;t mention anything about Iran. Iran has promised to kill everyone in America. Death to America. Death to America. Do you see any non-military solution to the Iranian situation?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> A military solution to the Iranian situation would be very difficult.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Do you see a non-military solution?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Oh, a non-military solution. No. I think that the strategy that the Israelis are apparently pursuing of strange accidents happening to Iranian nuclear scientists and strange technical failures at Iranian nuclear plants is very good and I hope that it continues on a larger scale. Militarily it would be very difficult to go into Iran. It&#8217;s a lot more formidable than Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan. And of course, now, with the impossible rules of engagement that the military is saddled with and the weakness of the military as has been explained here at this point after 13 years of war, it would be very difficult to get involved in Iran at this point. But I do think that there are other ways and ultimately will probably need to bomb some of the nuclear facilities as well.</p>
<p>Yes ma&#8217;am.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> So much of what&#8217;s happening with the Jihadis is related to social media and my question is does anybody have the authority to require this social media to shut down and is that a good idea in your opinion?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Does any &#8212; I didn&#8217;t hear.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Does anybody have the authority to request that the social media shut this down and in your opinion is that a good idea?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a good idea. I know that they are recruiting in social media and in Facebook and Twitter you can see Islamic State supporters and, of course, I was just this morning working on Jihad Watch and saw the video of the beheading readily there. You Tube took it right down, but it was up at another site and I&#8217;m not sure that this should be stopped. Because I&#8217;m a strong advocate of freedom of speech in general but, this is not really a matter of freedom of speech, it is propaganda from an enemy during wartime. The problem is that I&#8217;m afraid that if you say to Facebook and Twitter that you need to stop the accounts of extremists, that they&#8217;ll stop mine. And those of people like us, rather than those of the Islamic State and other Jihadis. If we had a sane society and a sane group of people at the head of those organizations then it might be different, but not in the present climate.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Does Islam exist without Jihad and Sharia?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Islam does not exist without Jihad and Sharia. There has never been a form of Islam that did not include the teaching that Muslims must fight against non-Muslims and impose Islamic law upon them and Islamic law denies them basic rights. There is no sect, no school of law, no understanding of Islam that has ever been in history that did not teach that. And so the idea that this is a tiny minority of extremists who have twisted and hijacked the teachings of the religion is absolutely false on the face of it.</p>
<p>Yes sir.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> As we have a head of the CIA who is a self-admitted Muslim, do we have a Muslim in the White House?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Well, you know, the head of the CIA is not actually a self-admitted Muslim. He is apparently a Muslim. John Guandolo, who was an FBI agent for many years, he says that when he was in the Bureau it was an open secret and it was well known that Brennan had converted while he served in Saudi Arabia. But Brennan has never actually publically addressed this either to confirm or deny it. And there was a story in, I believe, the <em>New Yorker</em>, a lengthy story about our counter terror apparatus a few years ago that identified a high level counter terror official as a convert to Islam, and that&#8217;s probably Brennan, but he has not openly admitted this. In any case, is Barack Obama a Muslim? I don&#8217;t know. He doesn&#8217;t answer my emails or return my calls. But I can tell you that, of course, in terms of Islamic law he is a Muslim because his father was a Muslim and his stepfather was a Muslim. He himself says that he got in trouble for making faces during Quran class. In one of his autobiographies he says this. In Quran class. In Indonesia you only went to Quran class if you were a Muslim. The Christians didn&#8217;t go to Quran class. Later on, of course he joined Reverend Wright&#8217;s church and during the 2008 campaign somebody called Reverend Wright&#8217;s church and said I&#8217;m a Muslim but I&#8217;d like to join your church. Is it okay? Can Muslims be members of your church? And they said, oh yes, absolutely.</p>
<p>And so, the thing is, ultimately though we do not know what Barack Obama&#8217;s personal beliefs are and I&#8217;m not sure he has any except for certainly Marxism and socialism. But there&#8217;s no doubt that everything about his foreign policy has been in line with the Muslim Brotherhood agenda, every aspect of it. And you can say, well no, he killed Bin Laden and al-Awlaki. Well sure. The Muslim Brotherhood has a different strategy.   They do not generally pursue violence. They won the election in Egypt and took power. They didn&#8217;t bomb everything in Egypt and take power. It was a difference of strategy however, not of goal. And everything about the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s goal to bring Islamic law to various countries, Barack Obama has aided. So, whether he&#8217;s doing that because he is himself a Muslim or just because he thinks that Islamic law is a good thing for societies and that seems to be clear. I don&#8217;t think it makes really a difference in terms of his policies.</p>
<p>Yes ma&#8217;am.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> When Hillary runs do you think it&#8217;s a good idea that our side would introduce her connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, Huma Abedin, that whole section and would that be a beneficial route to take against her?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Well, the first way I&#8217;ll answer that is to say that if the Republicans bring up Hillary&#8217;s connections to the Brotherhood and Huma Abedin&#8217;s connections to the Brotherhood during the campaign, it will backfire on them and they will be denounced as racists and bigots and hate-mongers  and so on. And so that is never going to happen. But what does need to happen in a larger sense is that there needs to be a general challenge to the idea that any talk about this is racism and bigotry and hatred and we have to stop tolerating it on the right. And all too often we do and people in the Republican establishment, they&#8217;re either with Grover Norquist as has been said and Grover Norquist is tied to the Brotherhood, or they are too afraid because they don&#8217;t want this controversy and they don&#8217;t want these charges of racism and bigotry so they&#8217;re too afraid to touch this issue. But that comes with a high price. As I said before, people are being killed because of our refusal to confront this issue honestly and so if we do not take it on, then it is only going to make things worse in the long run. It has to be confronted sooner or later.</p>
<p>Yes sir</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Good morning. Thank you very much for that very informative presentation.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> I come here to learn a lot more than what I get from other places, but as I listen to your presentation, why isn&#8217;t this the same as what happened to our country regarding communism which started slowly and Congress finally had open hearings to bring it the forefront of the American people? Why don&#8217;t we have something like that now? Because it seems to me the only way to get the Americans on board is to get Congress to have open hearings. Now certainly there are going to be those on the left that disagree and those on the right that are going to be different, but this is not different to me than communism but for one thing. These are groups that are not attached to countries. Communism was. So why not have open hearings in Congress to bring it to the American people?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Well, the answer is because it actually is a lot like the communist threat in the sense that the left was in terms of the communist threat and is in terms of the Jihad tied in with the enemy. And you know, you say there were congressional hearings and of course there were. But then, after that came the demonization of every opposition to communism as McCarthyism. And that persisted until the Berlin wall fell. And I remember all the time I was growing up and until I was 27 when it fell, knowing that fierce opponents of communism were stigmatized in the American mainstream and demonized and David Horowitz knows that very well from his own experience.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> But that&#8217;s the boldness of leadership. That&#8217;s the boldness of a Michele Bachmann. People like her that can do that.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Yeah. Well, we don&#8217;t bold have leaders now.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> And once you have a people that take [inaudible] of the world who give this after and don&#8217;t hear the demonization and characterization.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> I couldn&#8217;t agree more. We need them. We do not have them. I hope that such leaders will emerge. But the sophistication of the propaganda apparatus to demonize and stigmatize anyone who speaks out about this threat and to marginalize them in the mainstream, it is much more sophisticated now than it was even during the Cold War. And so, I think that&#8217;s one of the reasons why these leaders have not emerged. That it is just political suicide to take on this problem. Pamela Geller and I had a conference at CPAC a few years ago that we called Jihad: The Political Third Rail. You know, the third rail in the New York subway is the one if you touch it you die. And that&#8217;s how most of our politicians regard this. But I do believe that&#8217;s wrong. They should not be playing this game and letting these people get away with this. We need a Reagan. I hope he emerges.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> We have time to make one more question? How about Sandy Usher up front.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> There it is.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Oh. Thank you. Robert, I liked the idea over here of you putting it in a bulletin point. So in putting it on your web site so that I can download it and pass it around.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> I will.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> And I also want to tell everybody let&#8217;s pass it around. We&#8217;ve heard it. Let&#8217;s get it out there. We don&#8217;t have those bold leaders. And I send loads of Christmas cards every Christmas. I never send one without some bullet point information. There&#8217;s too much ignorance going on out there. That stamp costs a lot of money. I want to make it worthwhile. And, Robert, even you dear Robert, use the word mistake. This is no mistake, it&#8217;s design.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Oh yes. Absolutely.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Yes. Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> It&#8217;s a mistake in application but I have no doubt that it is on purpose. And actually Thomas Patrick brought this up a couple days ago in the same connection. I don&#8217;t know if he&#8217;s here now, but in any case, the fact is that during the 2008 campaign Barack Obama was seen reading The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria, and he was very much engrossed in the book. He was carrying it to one airplane to wherever else he was going with his finger in his place. He wasn&#8217;t going to miss a minute in reading this book. Now, I don&#8217;t know if you know the book, but The Post-American World is about how if we want world peace, we have to weaken America, militarily, politically and economically and bring it down to the level of all the other countries and not have any super powers in the world and then there will be peace.</p>
<p>When Pamela Geller and I wrote the book The Post-American Presidency about Obama in 2010, we were arguing that that was the strategy he was pursuing, the Post-American World strategy to weaken America in order to bring about this chimera of world peace. And I think we&#8217;ve been abundantly proven correct in the four years since then.</p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sydney-hostage-crisis-in-photos-05.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247688" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sydney-hostage-crisis-in-photos-05-450x337.jpg" alt="CAFE SIEGE SITUATION" width="300" height="225" /></a>When it became too obvious to deny that the hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia was an act of Islamic terrorism, Prime Minister Tony Abbott asked Aussie citizens for calm, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/12/15/hostage-situation-reportedly-unfolding-in-sydney-chocolate-shop/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">saying</span></a>, “The whole point of politically motivated violence is to scare people out of being themselves. Australia is a peaceful, open and generous society – nothing should ever change that. And that’s why I would urge all Australians today to go about their business as usual.” That’s what a politician is expected to say. But what he should have said is that the time for business-as-usual is over.</p>
<p>Recently my friend Doris Wise Montrose – founder of <a href="http://cjhsla.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors</span></a> and its related site for self-defense instruction, <a href="http://cjhsla.org/jewscanshoot/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Jews Can Shoot</span></a> – brought to my attention something she found disconcerting. It was a Facebook post by a very popular Israeli news blogger, a brief update on the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/video-cctv-footage-released-of-stabbing-in-israeli-supermarket-9905059.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">knife attack</span></a> perpetrated by a young Arab on shoppers in a Jerusalem supermarket. This update was accompanied by mention of the blogger’s own mundane shopping trip to a different supermarket, and a photo of the contents of his cart.</p>
<p>Doris commented to him that connecting the two experiences in the same breath, in the same tone, seemed oddly cavalier. The blogger replied that it was simply an acknowledgement that this is the way of life in Israel – her citizens refuse to be cowed; they proudly carry on even with terrorism in their midst. Business as usual.</p>
<p>Last month novelist Jack Engelhard, who writes a weekly column for Israel’s <i>Arutz Sheva</i>, wrote an <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16006#.VIAUezHF-Sr"><span style="color: #0433ff;">op-ed</span></a> questioning precisely this attitude of proudly taking terrorism in stride. He noted that in the wake of four rabbis being hacked to death in a Jerusalem synagogue, for example, Israeli life went on as before. Engelhard wrote: “Hurray for Jewish bravado,” but</p>
<blockquote><p>are Israelis getting too used to this? Is this a case of Israelis proving that nothing can stop them, or is this a case of Israelis accepting their fate as sheep doomed to be slaughtered? When will it end… how can it end… when no matter what happens ‘everything is back to normal’?</p></blockquote>
<p>You often hear the cliché that if we let the terrorists change our way of life, change who we are, then they win. But they <i>have</i> changed our way of life and who we are as a culture. Look at what has become of air travel in the wake of 9/11 and the bungling Shoe Bomber: passengers shuffling along like cattle in long security lines, removing our shoes and laptops, submitting to invasive scans by the useless TSA, etc. This is but one example of our “new normal,” and as incidents like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Jerusalem synagogue butchering and the Sydney hostage-taking become more and more common, they too will become our new normal.</p>
<p>The jihadists need not carry out another 9/11 or a nuclear strike in order to ultimately prevail. Terrorism is a war of attrition, a strategy of <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/11/23/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-2/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">death by a thousand cuts</span></a>. That means we live with the subtle but ever-present expectation that a so-called “lone wolf” like the Sydney gunman, or a suicide bomber, or a well-trained team of merciless slaughterers like the Mumbai or Nairobi terrorists could strike anywhere at any time: a mall, a café, a market, a school, a synagogue, a subway, anywhere.</p>
<p>For the victims of terrorism life doesn’t go on at all, and it is forever altered for the surviving family members and friends. The rest of us live with the knowledge that next time, it could be us or our loved ones. The psychic attrition is incalculable, and it sits in our consciousness like a cancer no matter how much we tell each other that we must not live in fear.</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/197232/holocaust-lesson-dont-just-mourn-fight-back/#ixzz3L6nz9euR"><span style="color: #0433ff;">address</span></a> to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust earlier this year, J.J. Goldberg of the <i>Jewish Daily Forward</i> praised those Jews during the Holocaust who “fought back by surviving another day in the face of the inhuman killing machine, and then another day and another. They fought back by maintaining their humanity and dignity in the face of utter depravity.”</p>
<p>But that is not fighting back; it certainly is not victory. It’s simply a dignified surrender. To accept living under the cloud of terrorism while declaring stubbornly that it won’t change us is a terrible self-delusion. It is a fatal misconception to believe that simply denying terrorists the satisfaction of terrorizing us is any kind of a victory at all. Our humanity and dignity mean nothing if depravity wins, if our civilization succumbs to a hungrier, more ruthless one, if the world enters a Dark Age under a totalitarian theocracy. The only victory worth having will come when we bring the terrorism to an <i>end</i>.</p>
<p>The West is in decline for a number of reasons, one of which is its cultural capitulation in the face of an ascendant Islamic fundamentalism. It is as if we, or at least our leaders and elites, have lost the cultural will to live. We need to get in touch with a sort of cultural rage, a fierce determination to crush threats to our culture, our values, and our liberty. We need to demonstrate that our tolerance has reached an end, that there will be no more coexistence with an ideology openly dedicated to our destruction. “Never mind <i>normal</i>,” as Jack Engelhard put it. To paraphrase his wish for Israel, for once let our blood “be exceptional and cause for nausea and trembling” among our enemies. Show the jihadists that there will be no more business-as-usual capitulation, and that they can expect us to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc8fqgbU_SU"><span style="color: #0433ff;">unleash hell</span></a> in retaliation for a single drop of Western blood.</p>
<p>We have a President who actually announced to the world that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” At the rate we’re going, it won’t. One thing is certain: the future will belong to the culture that is not hamstrung by cultural self-doubt, that is not mired in apologetic self-abasement, that is not burdened by historical guilt induced through decades of politically correct indoctrination, and that burns with a will to win, no matter how long it takes or what it costs. The future will belong to the lions, not the lambs.</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss Shillman Journalism Fellow <strong>Mark Tapson</strong> on the <strong>Glazov Gang</strong> discussing<strong> Fighting the Culture War</strong>:</em></p>
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		<title>Jihadist Child-Sacrifice – on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unveiling the mindset of the Islamic terrorists who killed over 130 children in Peshawar. ]]></description>
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<p>In the recent <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/pakistan-school-massacre/pakistan-school-attack-taliban-militants-kill-more-140-peshawar-n269011">Taliban terror attack</a> against a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Islamic terrorists killed more than 130 children. The atrocities include the beheading of children and the Taliban dousing a teacher with gasoline, burning her alive in front of her students who were forced to watch.</p>
<p>The horrifying nature of this latest Taliban atrocity serves as yet another reminder of infanticide and child sacrifice being key ingredients of Islamic terror. The long and grotesque record of Hamas’ and Arafat’s child-killing machines serves as a morbid testament to that phenomenon.</p>
<p>To shed light on why Islamic Jihadists target children, Frontpage is running <em>The Glazov Gang’s </em>special two-part series with<em> <strong>Dr. Anna Geifman</strong>, </em>the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Death-Orders-Terrorism-Revolutionary-International/dp/0275997529">Death Orders</a> and one of the world’s leading experts on child-sacrifice by death cultures.</p>
<p>In this special series, Dr. Geifman delivers a profound analysis on <strong>Hamas and Terrorists’ Child Sacrifice, </strong>explaining why Islamic terrorists — and totalitarians in general — target children. Though her main focus is on Hamas as well as on Soviet terror, her analysis gives us a profound insight into the infrastructure of the Taliban mind and how its savagery against children in a Pakistani school satiates its yearnings.</p>
<p>Dr. Geifman’s research unveils the true nature not only of the Islamic death culture, but of all death cultures, and explains why they sacrifice their enemy’s children — as well as their own.</p>
<p>See both interviews below:</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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		<title>The War Comes to Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Sydney café jihadist was no lone wolf. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/EPA_man_haron_monis_jtm_141215_16x9_992.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247519" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/EPA_man_haron_monis_jtm_141215_16x9_992-450x318.jpg" alt="EPA_man_haron_monis_jtm_141215_16x9_992" width="344" height="243" /></a>The hostage saga in Sydney ended in <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/second-group-of-five-hostages-emerges-from-sydney-cafe/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dramatic fashion</span></a> yesterday as Australian police and SWAT teams stormed a downtown café after a 16-hour standoff with armed hostage taker, Man Haron Monis. Monis, identified as a Muslim cleric with a criminal record that included sexual assault and accessory to murder, was killed during the operation as were two hostages, identified as a male and female in their 30s.</p>
<p>Monis, an Iranian national, requested refugee status and asylum in Australia in 1996 and sought to repay Australia’s benevolence by engaging in a vituperative letter-writing campaign directed at the families of fallen Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan. The letters, in which Monis expresses opposition to the war in Afghanistan, refers to the fallen soldiers as “pigs” and compares them to Hitler. Australian authorities <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/547043/Sydney-cafe-gunman-on-bail-alleged-violent-offences"><span style="color: #0433ff;">charged him</span></a> with “using a postal or similar service to menace, harass or cause offense [sic]” for which he received a relatively mild sentence of 300 hours of community service.</p>
<p>Australian police ought to be commended for their efficiency and professionalism in quickly subduing the terrorist and preventing more bloodshed, yet the incident raises more questions than it answers. How was a man with such a shady past, with no viable means of supporting himself, who was charged with such serious crimes, allowed to walk on bail and why was his refugee status not revoked? These are questions that the Australian justice system and immigration authorities will have to grapple with in the coming days.</p>
<p>More problematic is how the Australian government will seek to label this incident. Monis’s former lawyer sought to distance his ex-client from any connection to Islamic terrorism, noting that Monis’s actions reflected those of a “random individual” and were not reflective of a “concerted terrorism event or act.” His lawyer’s comments will surely be echoed by Australia’s Muslim community as well as its multiculturalist amen corner.</p>
<p>But the facts of this case dictate other, more malevolent conclusions that point toward radical Islam. Monis was a radical Islamist who espoused the ideologies of the Islamic State. During the hostage standoff, he issued demands that demonstrated unyielding devotion to Islam. He insisted that authorities provide him with an ISIS flag and that the government officially label the incident an ISIS attack. Monis also forced his terrified victims to display an Islamic <span style="color: #0433ff;">shahada </span>flag in both the window of the café and in the numerous <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2874985/He-says-eye-eye-runs-dies-Hostage-reveals-terrifying-demands-Sheikh-killed-Lindt-Cafe-terror-crisis.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">videos</span></a> released of hostages relaying messages.</p>
<p>Australia has not been immune from the scourge of radical Islam currently sweeping across multicultural Europe. It is a liberal democracy that unwittingly plays host to radical Islamists who have taken advantage of Australia’s liberal democratic character to advance their pernicious schemes.</p>
<p>On September 18, Australian security forces <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/17/world/asia/australia-terror-arrests/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">thwarted</span></a> a plan by Australian Muslims to kidnap and behead Australian citizens in public and drape their bodies in an Islamic State flag. And on December 15, Australian authorities <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/15/two-sydney-men-charged-funding-australians-fighting-isis"><span style="color: #0433ff;">charged</span></a> two Muslim terrorists with providing funding for Australian Muslims seeking to fight with ISIS.</p>
<p>Monis was not a lone wolf as some would have us believe. There comes a point when collectively, so-called lone wolf attacks must be viewed as coordinated strikes, actively encouraged by fundamentalist ideologies. Those who claim otherwise, who refuse to acknowledge the obvious and absurdly label these attacks as acts of “<a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/ted-cruz-video-makes-compelling-case-for-awarding-purple-heart-to-fort-hood-terror-victims/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">work place violence</span></a>” or “random acts of violence,” are being disingenuous and placing politics above the needs of national security.</p>
<p>Whether it is a shooting spree at Fort Hood, a beheading in Woolwich, a bloodbath at a Jerusalem synagogue or, as in this case, a hostage standoff and murder, these incidents and countless others too numerous to mention, represent nothing short of an attack on Western civilization. The attackers may not have known each other but were nevertheless inspired and guided by the same radical Islamist ideology, an ideology that seeks to dominate, subjugate and restore Islam to the same standing it experienced some 1,000 years ago.</p>
<p>This radical ideology easily spreads like a virus through 21<sup>st</sup> century mediums like Facebook and Twitter but also finds home in the mosques and madrassas of the Middle East and the West where Muslim clerics routinely call for the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/western-indifference-to-the-palestinian-culture-of-hate/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">murder of Jews</span></a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GadPZpP-DdI"><span style="color: #0433ff;">annihilation of Western civilization</span></a>. Unfortunately, many in the West, in the name of multiculturalism and tolerance, have preferred to ignore this malevolence and have allowed it to metastasize like a malignant cancer.</p>
<p>So long as Western governments continue to bury their collective heads in the sand, fail to draw the necessary conclusions and take decisive action, we can unfortunately expect more future tragedies like that which just occurred in Sydney.</p>
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		<title>Jihad in an Australian Chocolate Shop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 05:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jihadist hostage-taking comes to the West.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kj.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247461" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kj-450x253.jpg" alt="kj" width="274" height="154" /></a>The details are still sketchy, but this is what is apparently confirmed as of this writing (8PM EST Sunday night): <a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/a-man-is-holding-several-people-hostage-at-martin-place-cafe/story-fncynjr2-1227156241649">as many as 50 people</a> have been taken hostage in the Lindt Chocolat Café in Sydney, Australia’s central pedestrian mall, Martin Place. Some of the hostages have been forced at gunpoint to hold up the black flag of Islamic jihad against a window of the café.</p>
<p>The flag says in Arabic, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet” – the Islamic confession of faith. It will thus be hard to claim this one was workplace violence, but the mainstream media and Western leaders are no doubt already strategizing on ways to do so. Falling quickly into politically correct lockstep and ignoring the jihad flag in the window, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2014/dec/15/sydney-siege-reports-of-hostage-situation-inside-martin-place-cafe-live">insisted</a> that “we don’t know the motivation” of the gunmen.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, police have evacuated the area, as well as the Sydney Opera House, where apparently a suspicious package has been found. Abbott issued a statement declaring that while “this is obviously a deeply concerning incident but all Australians should be reassured that our law enforcement and security agencies are well trained and equipped and are responding in a thorough and professional manner.”</p>
<p>That is no doubt true, but this is an unprecedented event in the West. There have been jihad attacks, and hostage situations, but this is the first jihadist hostage event in a Western country since the Islamic State issued this threat <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/09/21/isis-audio-threat-canada_n_5859062.html">in a September video</a>: “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah, the Exalted. This is His promise to us; He is glorified and He does not fail in His promise. If we do not reach that time, then our children and grandchildren will reach it, and they will sell your sons as slaves at the slave market.”</p>
<p>In that video, Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani told Muslims:</p>
<blockquote><p>If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.</p>
<p>Do not ask for anyone’s advice and do not seek anyone&#8217;s verdict. Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military, for they have the same ruling. Both of them are disbelievers. Both of them are considered to be waging war [the civilian by belonging to a state waging war against the Muslims]. Both of their blood and wealth is legal for you to destroy, for blood does not become illegal or legal to spill by the clothes being worn.</p></blockquote>
<p>Al-Adnani also made this specific threat: “You will pay the price as you walk on your streets, turning right and left, fearing the Muslims. You will not feel secure even in your bedrooms. You will pay the price when this crusade of yours collapses, and thereafter we will strike you in your homeland, and you will never be able to harm anyone afterwards. You will pay the price, and we have prepared for you what will pain you.”</p>
<p>The chocolate shop siege in Sydney could well be a fulfillment of that threat, and a harbinger of things to come not only in Australia, but in Western Europe, Britain, Canada and the U.S. And for the first time at least in recent memory, we see Islamic jihadists taking hostages in the West, as they have for so long in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.</p>
<p>If the fate of these hostages is determined according to Islamic law, and there is every indication that it will be since the hostage-taker appears to be a devout and observant Muslim, they could be freed outright, ransomed, enslaved or killed:</p>
<blockquote><p>“As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Al-Mawardi, <em>al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah</em> (<em>The Laws of Islamic Governance</em>).</p></blockquote>
<p>Over the last few months, the world has recoiled in horror as the Islamic State released several videos of the execution of their decision to kill numerous hostages. But that was far away, in lands most people have only ever seen on television. Now we may be forced to witness the same scenes unfold on the streets of our own cities and towns – just as the Islamic State has threatened.</p>
<p>Epitomizing the West’s absolute lack of preparedness for this, despite Abbott’s reassuring words, was this from a reporter for the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2014/dec/15/sydney-siege-reports-of-hostage-situation-inside-martin-place-cafe-live">UK’s Guardian</a>: “I am seeing a lot of people tweeting/asking about the supposed police raids taking place in Lakemba at the same time as the siege. <strong>Ray Hadley</strong>, a conservative presenter with 2GB, said raids of homes in Lakemba, which has a large Muslim population, were taking place now.</p>
<p>Sources have told my colleague <strong>Michael Safi</strong> there are no raids underway in that suburb. About 20 police are touring the Lakemba mosque as part of a police induction day, which may have been the source of those reports.”</p>
<p>So police were at the mosque for outreach as a jihad hostage situation began to unfold in downtown Sydney. The black flag of jihad that the hostages were forced to hold against the window showed up the bitter irony in this. Instead of challenging Muslim leaders to fight against this Islamic State ideology that they ostensibly reject, police were busy reassuring Muslims that they were not “Islamophobic,” just as jihad came to their very doorstep.</p>
<p>As Australians, and in due course Americans and Britons and Canadians, grow accustomed to the new possibility that a stop for a cup of coffee could result in one’s head being separated from one’s body, the time for this politically correct unreality about the jihad threat is over. Realism about the nature and magnitude of the threat is long overdue. The patrons inside the Lindt Chocolat Café, now hostages, deserve nothing less, as do the rest of the citizens of the embattled and besieged West.</p>
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		<title>“Counter Jihad Coalition” Takes to the Streets to Warn People About Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann-Marie Murrell]]></dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Visit <em>The Counter Jihad Coalition</em> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Counter-Jihad-Coalition/647048938742800">here</a> and contact them at: <span data-reactid=".1.0.0">CounterJihadCoalition@gmail.com. </span></strong></p>
<p>While Islam is waging a bloody battle across the entire world, instead of calling out their atrocities most of the media chooses to punish the people trying to warn the world about Islam. Freedom Fighters like Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Frank Gaffney, and Brigitte Gabriel are continuously denigrated for simply telling the truth.</p>
<p>Regardless of 9/11/01 and 9/11/12, and despite the fact that Americans are being beheaded by ISIS, if you dare suggest that the Islamic State is getting their killing orders directly from the Quran you are called ‘intolerant’ and ‘Islamophobic’. Meanwhile, ISIS is becoming more and more popular on social media and posters saying ‘ISIS is Here’ were seen in the original Ferguson riots.</p>
<p>So if no one is allowed to warn people about the violence of Islam, how will we be prepared when they try to accomplish their goal of taking over America?  You take it to the streets–and that is exactly what a group called the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Counter-Jihad-Coalition/647048938742800" target="_blank">Counter Jihad Coalition</a> is doing, evangelizing at a popular outdoor mall known as the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California.</p>
<p>According to <strong>Samira Tamir</strong> of the LA chapter of <em>ACT for America</em>, the Promenade has become a very popular shopping area for Muslims in the area with bearded men and women wearing full hijabs–so each weekend, the CJC sets up a table with pamphlets and they tell people about Islam using direct quotes from the Quran.</p>
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<p>Of course, their presence isn’t welcome with many 3rd Street Muslims.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jamie.glazov">Dr. Jamie Glazov</a>, who spends many weekends at the Promenade, has been instrumental in bringing attention to the <em>Counter Jihad Coalition</em>’s work. This episode of <a href="http://jamieglazov.com/">The Glazov Gang</a> below features <a href="http://jamieglazov.com/2014/09/29/the-battle-over-islam-on-the-streets-of-l-a-on-the-glazov-gang/" target="_blank">Louis Lionheart</a> of <a href="http://truthdefenders.com/">TruthDefenders.com</a>, who works alongside the CJC on 3rd to tell the truth about Islam. As can be seen in the video, he was physically attacked by a Muslim woman at the Promenade after telling a crowd about the true nature of Mohammed&#8217;s marriage to 9-year-old Aisha:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">In the<em> Glazov Gang</em> episode below, CJC President <strong>Steve Amundson</strong> talks to Jamie about why he began his public outreach teaching people about Sharia and more:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">In this <em>Glazov Gang</em> episode below, guest-host <strong>Nonie Darwish</strong> talks to <strong>Samira Tamer</strong>, L.A. ACT Chapter Leader, about the Islamic Supremacism’s totalitarian presence on the streets of L.A.:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">And in this video, <strong>Dr. Jamie Glazov</strong> is seen quoting directly from the Quran to Muslims who still challenge the “context” of Mohammed’s violent words:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">To learn more about the <em>Counter Jihad Coalition</em>’s work, visit their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Counter-Jihad-Coalition/647048938742800">Facebook Page</a>. And you can watch episodes of the weekly webTV show <em>The Glazov Gang</em> at <a href="http://jamieglazov.com/">JamieGlazov.com. </a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And in case you missed it, here is my interview with <strong>Dr. Glazov </strong>after he appeared on a fiery episode of the <strong>Sean Hannity Show</strong>:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong>See Marc Langsam&#8217;s photo album of the Counter Jihad Coalition in action on 3rd St. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mlangsam/media_set?set=a.944423765573122.1073741848.100000165216463&amp;type=3">here.</a></strong><br />
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch mother daringly rescues her daughter, and jihad-bride-to-be, from the claws of ISIS. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246671" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nk-450x299.jpg" alt="nk" width="286" height="190" /></a>There is nothing stronger than a mother’s love. And Dutch mother Monique Verbert proved this adage recently when she rescued her 19-year-old daughter from the Islamic State (IS) after traveling there disguised in Muslim dress.</p>
<p>Verbert’s daughter, Sterlina Petalo, had previously gone to Syria to marry a Dutch jihadist, a former member of the Dutch military. Verbert’s safe return to Holland with her child, a feat of bravery in and of itself, also represents the first time that a girl who had voluntarily gone to the Islamic State to marry a jihadist has returned home safely to the West.</p>
<p>“She basically saw him as a sort of Robin Hood …that he was a nice man and fought against Assad,” Verbert said in an interview on Dutch television that was reported in <em>Die Welt</em>. “She said again and again: “Mum, look at that guy. Isn’t it good what he does?”</p>
<p>Petalo’s story is not an unusual one for the dozens of girls from Western countries who have travelled the same path to the Islamic State to wed a jihadist. <em>Die Welt</em> relates the Dutch teenager converted to Islam at age 18 during a spiritual quest and soon became radicalised. She started calling herself ‘Aicha’, covered her hair, shunned friends, and read the Koran and Islamic websites, “hardly leaving her room.” Petalo’s mother, who is separated from her father, said her “greatest scare” occurred when her daughter appeared for the first time completely veiled.</p>
<p>“Then I truly asked myself: ‘girl, what are you doing’?”  Verbert said.</p>
<p>But <em>Die Welt</em> reports that the “decisive day” occurred last January when Petalo saw her future ‘husband’ on a television program. She contacted him via the internet and subsequently decided to travel to him in Syria. Warned by a friend of her daughter’s intended departure, Verbert was able to prevent this first attempt to leave the country by contacting the police, who put Petalo’s name on a list of potential terrorists and took her passport away. Petalo, however, successfully left Holland for Syria on a second try, using different identification.</p>
<p>Finding the police and Dutch authorities powerless to help get her daughter back, Verbert took matters into her own hands, appearing on a television show in an effort to contact her. Later, Verbert discovered her child had separated from the Dutch jihadist and was now together with another IS fighter in Raqqa, the IS’s main city. Verbert then travelled to Turkey, but could not get over the border to Syria and returned home.</p>
<p>After receiving a call for help from her daughter, <em>Die Welt</em> reports Verbert decided to return to Turkey to try and reach her again. After locating her child, she crossed into Syria, completely covered in Islamic dress, and successfully brought her out and back to Holland safely. Details concerning how this was accomplished, however, are unknown, since Dutch authorities are remaining silent. Petalo is currently in custody, as she may still pose a security risk and may also face charges for aiding a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>French anthropologist Dounia Bouzar has studied the phenomenon of young people in France who are suspected of wanting to leave, or have already, like Petalo, left their families and country to join the Islamic State. Last spring, Bouzar set up a center to prevent such departures and was also hired by French police, seeking assistance in this area.</p>
<p>From her work with the 130 families that have contacted her, Bouzar published a book last October titled, “<em>Ils cherchent le paradis, ils ont trouve l’enfer” </em>(<em>They Are Searching For Paradise, They Found Hell)</em>. Of the youths at risk, Bouzar told the French newspaper, <em>Le Figaro</em>, that as many as 80 percent were atheists with many coming from atheistic homes, an astonishing 60 percent of their parents were teachers, and 90 percent came from the middle and upper classes. Bouzar estimates about a dozen females have made it to Syria from France, but French authorities are monitoring 90 families of girls in danger of leaving. About half of these girls are converts and even include Jewish girls among their number.</p>
<p>Also in the <em>Le Figaro </em>interview, Bouzar gave a detailed account of the radicalisation process Petalo probably underwent and what she likely experienced in Syria as a jihadist’s bride. Bouzar related the radicalisation of these girls, some as young as 14, is “like lightening hitting the house.” The majority are not of North African origin, France’s main source of Muslim immigration, and “have nothing to do with Islam.” But they are “passionate.”</p>
<p>“These are brilliant girls, who are getting ready to study medicine, political science or altruistic professions…,” Bouzar stated. “They had the misfortune of talking about this on Facebook. It’s as if the terrorists have psychological head-hunters who locate the personality profiles of those who wish to change the world and fight against injustice. One would say that they are specifically looking for the elite.”</p>
<p>The same holds true for girls of all classes. Even among working class or less privileged sectors of French society, the jihadist “head-hunters” search out only “very good students.” As for the boys, it is just the opposite. Bouzar says recruiters look for unemployed males who have adjustment difficulties in society.</p>
<p>After contact, Bouzar states the girls are then methodically manipulated mentally over a period of time by their recruiters to the point where, almost cult-like, they become the only ones, with whom they communicate. First, all confidence in adults, including parents, and society is removed. Then videos are received, telling the girls that they are being deceived and “secret societies are manoeuvering to kill people in order to hold on to their power.” Societies that only Islam can destroy.</p>
<p>“It’s the theory of conspiracy,” said Bouzar. “They ask them ‘Which side are you on? Are you going to let people be massacred? Wake up?’ They make them reject the real world.”</p>
<p>Next, photos are sent of brutally killed babies, claiming they were murdered by Assad, and the girls are told to leave school and come and rescue them. They are also told their parents are not the “elect of God” and not to watch television any more. Eventually, the girls targeted are cut off from all their former bases of reference and come under the control of the recruiters, or “bearded prince charmings,” as Bouzar calls them. The mothers, Bouzar says, describe their daughters as having been “robotised.”</p>
<p>“When one analyses their telephones, one sees they receive 100 messages a day,” Bouzar told <em>Le Figaro.</em> “This starts at five o’clock in the morning. Sometimes, they don’t sleep anymore.”</p>
<p>Like Petalo, the girls eventually don the niqab or jilbab. Bouzar says the girls call it “my security blanket, my best friend, or my comforter and use it like a cocoon, in a form of regression.” She adds that, when deprogramming girls prevented from leaving France, the most difficult part is getting them to shed the Muslim dress.</p>
<p>“I counsel parents to search under the beds, since these clothes are the first signs of danger,” Bouzar warns.</p>
<p>Also included in the radicalisation process, the French anthropologist says, are promises of marriage. And this promise, Bouzar states, is acted on almost as soon as the girls arrive in the Islamic State. With marriage, a girl becomes her husband’s “inheritance,” living with three or four of his other wives in a house, polygamy apparently the norm. Her only job now is to look after the children under the supervision of a “boss” or older woman who monitors her telephone calls home.</p>
<p>“It’s all an organization,” said Bouzar. “When they are not married, they are herded together. One knows of a house where 17 girls are waiting for ‘distribution’. For some time now, it is worse, since they get them pregnant as soon as possible. They say they will be less tempted to flee, if they have a baby”</p>
<p>But, according to Bouzar, this tactic of quickly impregnating the girls in order to ground them in the Islamic State may sometimes backfire. She told <em>Le Figaro</em> that becoming pregnant is one of the three things that sometimes serve to shake girls out of their cult-like mindset.</p>
<p>“One notices that the moment the baby starts to move, they (the girls) once again have a normal voice on the telephone,” Bouzar says.</p>
<p>The parents’ repeated evoking of childhood memories can also lead to their daughters “de-programming themselves,” and to feeling and thinking again. The third factor that can lead to an awakening from the brainwashing, Bouzar says, concerns the girls having personally witnessed, or heard talk of, “the slitting of a Syrian Muslim’s throat.”</p>
<p>“They begin to cry and want to return (home),” Bouzar says. “It is at this moment that they speak of terrorists and realize the difference between the talk and the reality. But here, it is too late. In truth, no girl has yet succeeded in returning.”</p>
<p>Until ‘Aicha’.</p>
<p>It is not yet known what made the Dutch teenager reach out to her mother and call for help. Like Albert Speer, Hitler’s armaments minister and originator of the following quote, Petalo did not recognise “the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.” Hopefully, she will be allowed to tell her story soon. Petalo’s testimony would serve as a valuable aid to parents and a powerful warning to other suggestible and vulnerable young people, opening their eyes to that hand. But if she is ever permitted, and desires, to help prevent such evil from hijacking other innocent lives, Petalo should always emphasize in her story how love saved hers.</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss scholar of Islam <strong>Dr. Mark Christian</strong> discuss <strong>Islam’s Assault on Women’s Sexuality</strong> on <strong>The Glazov Gang:</strong></em></p>
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		<title>Fighting Jihad with Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Shmuel Katz]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/12p_terror600.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246484" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/12p_terror600-450x336.jpg" alt="12p_terror600" width="340" height="254" /></a>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.aish.com/jw/me/Fighting-Jihad-with-Education.html">Aish.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In this time of great danger – with Iran <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/15339/iran_s_top_leader_spells_out_plan_for_the_elimination_of_israel_" target="_blank">threatening</a> Israel with nuclear annihilation, and jihadists on borders north and south – Israel&#8217;s efforts to tell its story to the world are simply not taking hold. The classic approach of explanatory &#8220;hasbara&#8221; has repeatedly failed to break through the clutter of disinformation.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It is time for a new approach – one in which the world understands that they also have “skin in the game.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The Middle East conflict is not simply &#8220;Arab versus Jew.&#8221; Rather this is a &#8220;holy war&#8221; being waged by jihadists against all people of good will – Jews, Christians and moderate Muslims.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The key, I believe, is education. Once good people are informed about the facts, we have a much better chance of standing up to evil and achieving our mission of keeping the world free.</p>
<p><strong>Threat of Jihad to the West</strong></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It is crucial that we clearly understand the goals and ideals of the budding <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/12/the-caliphate" target="_blank">Muslim Caliphate</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Jihad is not merely some force &#8220;across the ocean.&#8221; Muslim leaders have declared their aim of <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmGRshS0PAw" target="_blank">world domination</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Part of the jihadist strategy is to plant cells in every country. Even the United States, with its huge territory and strong military, is part of the <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XUub1no1qw" target="_blank">jihadist plan</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">At particular risk is America&#8217;s long-standing ally, Israel, whose <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFroots.html" target="_blank">historical roots</a> in Israel date 2,000 years before the advent of Islam. The 20th century <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.mythsandfacts.org/conflict/mandate_for_palestine/mandate_for_palestine.htm" target="_blank">Mandate</a>conferred modern legitimacy on the <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/mftoc.html" target="_blank">Jewish state</a>, and Israel&#8217;s <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/dont-confuse-me-with-the-facts-israel-and-international-law/2014/01/05/" target="_blank">legal rights</a> to the land are unassailable.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Yet due to intimidation and threats, many Western leaders support corrupt Arab regimes, thinking that by sacrificing the <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.standwithus.com/booklets/IL101/" target="_blank">State of Israel</a> they will somehow pacify the jihadists and avoid becoming victims themselves.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In fact the opposite is true. The more we placate and cajole these bullies, the more we embolden them. As we saw with <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement" target="_blank">Hitler and Czechoslovakia</a>, giving in to the wicked led to the invasion of Europe. The U.S. woke up quite late, and defeating the Nazis was no simple matter.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In many respects – e.g. nuclear weapons – today&#8217;s threat is much greater.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">If we don&#8217;t deal with the jihadist threat now, we will have to deal with it later when they will likely have more land, more resources, and far more devastating weapons.</p>
<p><strong>Extreme Violence</strong></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Wherever radical Islam takes hold – whether via ISIS, Hezbollah, Iran, Hamas or Boko Haram – horrific abuse is directed against Infidels (e.g. <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beheading_in_Islamism" target="_blank">beheadings</a>) and even their own people.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: inherit;">Hamas recently executed</a> 21 suspected informers in an extra-judicial action, while al-Qaeda perpetrated a gruesome <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2009/10/al-qaedas-schoolyard-massacre.html" target="_blank">schoolyard massacre</a> (graphic warning).</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Should the wicked prevail, no Christian, Buddhist or even Moderate Muslim will be spared – neither in the Middle East nor elsewhere in the world. Today, thousands of <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msYGb5k6dkQ" target="_blank">Christians are fleeing</a> under death threats from tyrannical jihadists, and <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/07/antisemitism-rise-europe-worst-since-nazis" target="_blank">anti-Semitism across Europe</a> is at its worse since the Nazi era.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">By supporting the villains who willfully distort facts, they ultimately undermine their own future and that of their children.</p>
<p><strong>Corruption of Jihadist Regimes</strong></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Corrupt leaders across the Muslim world are exploiting their populations, in favor of solidifying their own power and personal financial wealth, leaving their constituency to wallow in despair.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Palestinians have particularly suffered, with their <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-z-chesnoff/gaza-and-palestinian-leadership_b_5589766.html" target="_blank">leadership</a> continuing to <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4022/palestinian-corruption" target="_blank">divert civilian aid</a> to more nefarious ends.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Palestinian refugees have long remained <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/refugees.html" target="_blank">political pawns</a> of Arab regimes. In today&#8217;s terror war, they are even used as <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://christianchat.com/christian-news-forum/97240-hamas-fighters-manual-found-clear-instructions-use-human-shields.html" target="_blank">human shields</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">How can we justify our own indifference to these <a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.aish.com/ci/s/Human-Rights-Human-Shields-Human-Indifference.html">human rights violations</a>?</p>
<p><strong>Armed with Information</strong></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Today, the media is the primary disseminator of information. To regulate this power, monitoring organizations are documenting the facts:</p>
<ul style="color: #000000;">
<li><a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.camera.org/" target="_blank">Camera</a> – monitoring the Western media</li>
<li><a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.honestreporting.com/" target="_blank">HonestReporting</a> – fast-action global media watch</li>
<li><a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.palwatch.org/" target="_blank">Palestinian Media Watch</a> – translations and monitoring of Palestinian sources</li>
<li><a style="color: #551a8b;" href="http://www.memri.org/middle-east-media-research-institute.html" target="_blank">Memri</a> – exposing the messages that jihadists share with their own people</li>
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<p style="color: #000000;">What can you do?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In disseminating information, each of us plays an important role. We never know when we&#8217;ll be called upon to use our knowledge, and we must have the ability to speak with confidence.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The more &#8220;truth ambassadors,&#8221; the better the chance of us all living in a peaceful world.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;The New Anti-Semitism&#8217; Comes of Age a Decade Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The re-release of a prescient book comes at precisely the right time. ]]></description>
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<p>As one holds a copy of Dr. Phyllis Chesler&#8217;s updated book &#8220;The New Anti-Semitism&#8221; in their hands, we can all breathe a collective sigh and exclaim &#8220;this tome hasn&#8217;t come a minute too soon.&#8221;  Thanks to the excellent research and prophetic analysis conducted by this acclaimed author, lecturer and activist, the reader is afforded the necessary context and perspective with which to understand the invidious phenomenon of contemporary Jew hatred.</p>
<p>Written over a decade ago in a compelling, easy to read and free flowing style, Dr. Chesler&#8217;s premise was and still is that classical anti-Semitism as espoused by such nihilists and evil madmen as Hitler and the scores that preceded him has now been deemed to be &#8220;politically correct&#8221; by the trendy denizens of the Western academy and the &#8220;intellectual&#8221; crowds.  Chesler was among the first to have seen and denounced the suicidal alliance between the Western intelligentsia and fundamental Islam. The anti-Semite needed a new and more acceptable veneer and the little place on the globe known as Israel would serve as the perfect subterfuge. Thus, Zionism does not equal racism but anti-Zionism does. In fact, it is part of what makes the new anti-Semitism &#8220;new.&#8221;</p>
<p>There is no doubt that the al Aqsa intifada and the traumatic events of 9/11 served as an impetus for Dr. Chesler to pen this book as she naturally drew a correlation between the kind of terrorism that had become endemic to the state of Israel and the Jihadic terrorism that was let loose upon the world.  &#8220;War and a new kind of anti-Semitism had been declared,&#8221; she writes.</p>
<p>In the decades prior to the 9/11 and the advent of al Qaeda, Chesler is acutely aware of the festering anti-Semitism that appears to be increasingly more ubiquitous with each passing moment.  She details major events  that she personally encountered during her years as part of the vanguard of the second wave feminist movement and the reader can easily connect the proverbial dots to see and feel the palpable resentment of those who championed the politically correct cause against Israel, now known as liberalism.</p>
<p>Always sensing a strong undercurrent of such bigotry in the various human rights movements that came to define her raison d&#8217;etre, Chesler is most disheartened when women&#8217;s conferences and forums such as Copenhagen and a pre-Durban one were hijacked by Jew hating agendas. She justifiably laments the fact that some important conferences are cancelled because of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel bias. &#8220;Women, you see, cannot be accused of racism &#8211; unless, of course, they are Jewish women,&#8221; she sardonically writes.</p>
<p>Because she is keenly aware that anti-Semitism may start with the Jews but never ends with the Jews, she makes the logical connection between the opprobrium that is harbored for both America and Israel by those who assign blame to all forms of human oppression in terms of colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism.  &#8220;The Palestinian uprising has increasingly been seen as the uprising of all oppressed peoples against their colonial oppressors, that is,  Jews, Zionists and Americans,&#8221; she ruefully observes. And, she notes, few understand that Muslim history is one of imperialism, colonialism, conversion by the sword, gender and religious apartheid, and slavery. Only the post enlightenment Judeo-Christian West are seen as mighty sinners.</p>
<p>Unlike other authors who have offered works of this genre, Chesler&#8217;s meticulous research is beyond impeccable as she explores the genesis of post 9/11 Islamic terrorism specifically directed against the West and their global interests. Israel, of course is viewed as the little Satan by the retinue of pro-Palestinian apologists and their Western lackeys and Chesler takes the Big Lies and bold propaganda to task by exposing their motives. Case in point: The unfortunate Muhammed Dura incident and the use of &#8220;fauxtography&#8221; are given more than an ample dose of good old fashioned sunlight as she reveals one of the most egregious anti-Israel hoaxes ever sold to the public; however deceptively.</p>
<p>While reading this book, one is in retrospective mode as we imbibe a seemingly endless litany of horrifying anti-Israel and anti-Jewish events at university campuses that took place in the first decade of the new century and compare them to how much worse they are today.  It should come as no surprise that the BDS movement and physical and verbal violence against pro-Israel Jewish students has gained a dangerous degree of momentum, power and economic viability in institutions of higher learning.</p>
<p>Chesler cites the palpable but surreal bellicosity that has become an endemic part of campus life for Jews who wish to express pro-Israel sentiments. Physical  attacks, heckling of speakers, academic boycotts, incendiary street theater predicated on distortions,  the lies being promulgated at the annual Jew roasting, better known as Israel apartheid week and the infinite amount of Orwellian rhetoric being circulated in every facet of academic life to just name a few. &#8220;The New McCarthyism on campus consists of the anti-Israeli  and pro-Palestinian point of view. No other view will be tolerated,&#8221; she writes.</p>
<p>Chesler is under no illusions and does not even attempt to sugarcoat the obvious. European anti-Semitism is at pre-World War II levels and the flames of destruction are being consistently fanned not only by the &#8220;usual suspects&#8221; but by the formidable fourth estate. The European press she writes &#8220;have continuously held Israel accountable for Palestinian terrorism, and justified human homicide bombing as a function of Palestinian &#8220;despair.&#8221;</p>
<p>This book is easy to read yet it is filled with a voluminous amount of facts and is definitely driven by concrete and verifiable data. What causes the words to leap off the pages, however, and to embed themselves in our collective psyches  are the nuanced and urbane analyses proffered both by Chesler and by an extensive array of  experts. Frightening as it may be, they provide us with the kind of perspective we need to tackle anti-Semitic diatribes.</p>
<p>Yes, Dr. Chesler cautions us to grant this matter the gravitas it deserves and not to dismiss it as mere blather.  In the expanded last chapters of the book she prodigiously confronts the Big Lies and blood libels as she challenges the sheer mendacity of pseudo and rather lethal Palestinian narratives in ways that are both comprehensible and thought provoking. On an uplifting note she provides us with ways in which each of us can support Israel and Judaism, either through economic empowerment against boycotts of Israeli made products and development of community and college based pro-Israel programs connecting with individual Israelis as part of our families.</p>
<p>In one of her final exhortations, Dr. Chesler has stumbled upon what may be the most important component in staying afloat as a people as we navigate the turbulent tide of anti-Semitism. She writes: &#8220;Dare I say it? I must. I implore Jews to stop fighting with each other. Even if we disagree, we must try to do so respectfully, soulfully&#8230;.We are an eternal people engaged in an eternal struggle with evil.&#8221;</p>
<p>Definitely words to heed.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamic supremacist groups co-opt the riots as part of their own Jihad. ]]></description>
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<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <strong><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/islamic-supremacist-groups-connect-their-jihad-to-ferguson-riots">Ferguson and Islamic Holy War Against America</a>, </strong>analyzing how <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/islamic-supremacist-groups-connect-their-jihad-to-ferguson-riots">Islamic supremacist groups are co-opting</a> the strife and riots as part of their own Jihad <strong>[starts at 10 minute mark]</strong>. The guests also focused on <em>Obama and the Ferguson Lynch Mob</em>, <em>Bye Bye Hagel</em>, <em>The Mullahs Inch toward the Bomb</em>, and much, much more.</p>
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		<title>Peace With Islam in Our Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/koran-kalashnikov-500x332.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245976" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/koran-kalashnikov-500x332.jpg" alt="koran-kalashnikov-500x332" width="340" height="263" /></a>Abdallah Bulgasem Zehaf-Bibeau, the crackhead turned Jihadist spawned by the mating of a Canadian immigration official and a Libyan Muslim Jihadist, just wanted peace.</p>
<p>He <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/canada-jihad-murderer-there-cant-be-world-peace-until-theres-only-muslims"><span style="color: #0433ff;">told a co-worker</span></a>, “There can’t be world peace until there’s only Muslims.” Then he tried to usher in peace, the Islamic way, by opening fire near the Canadian parliament.</p>
<p>Meanwhile in Israel a reporter interviewing Arab Muslim settlers in Jerusalem found that they too wanted peace. On their terms.</p>
<p>“Yes we want peace,” one of them said, “but peace means no Jews.”</p>
<p>When negotiating peace with other cultures it’s a good idea to make sure that the words you are using mean the same thing. Most Muslims and Westerners want peace. But to Westerners peace means co-existence. To Muslims, peace means the end of your existence.</p>
<p>Ideas carry heavy cultural baggage. Peace in the West summons up images of Armistice Day, of the Christmas Truce of WW1 in which French, German and English soldiers could share meals and play soccer together. It carries with it the subversive idea that both sides realize the war isn’t worth fighting.</p>
<p>Such a subversive idea has no place in Islam. The Jihad is at the heart of Islam. To question the holy war is to also question the faith. When war is religion then peace through setting aside war is heresy.</p>
<p>The Western idea of peace is a wholly alien one to Islam. In Islam, peace does not come from men transcending their differences, but from destroying men who think and live differently. That is the function of the religious police of our allied “moderate Muslim” countries who seek out the practice of other religions and other ways of living in places like Saudi Arabia and suppress their practitioners.</p>
<p>Islamic peace does not come from diversity, from accepting the existence of other nations, religions and peoples, but from unity through Islam and eliminating as many differences as possible. If Islam is the source of peace, then all that which is “not Islam” is the cause of war.</p>
<p>Kill the Jews. Kill the Christians. Then there will be peace.</p>
<p>The Islamic idea of peace was aptly expressed by Zehaf-Bibeau and our anonymous Jerusalem Jihadist. It is not based on a recognition of the humanity of one’s fellow man, but on a rejection of their humanity.</p>
<p>As Mohammed curtly put it in missives to the leaders of non-Muslim countries in the region, “Aslim, Taslam.” Convert to Islam and you’ll have peace. The same message has been dispatched by Muslim leaders today to popes and presidents. It’s a message of peace on the only terms that Islam allows.</p>
<p>Islam is the religion of peace. For there to be peace, Islam must be supreme. Within the Islamic worldview, conflict is caused by the existence of dissent. The only way to achieve peace is by forcing the submission of every human being to the correct strain of Islam. “Moderates” may agree to let Jews and Christians live as inferior second-class citizens if they submit to Muslims. “Extremists” will skip straight to raping and beheading them. And once that ugly business is done, there will be peace.</p>
<p>Or there will be peace once the “moderates” and “extremists” have finished killing each other, once the Sunnis and Shiites have finished beheading each other, and once every single Muslim has finished slaughtering every other Muslim who in any way dissents from his understanding of Islam.</p>
<p>That’s the brand of peace we’re seeing in Iraq and Syria today. Or the peace process between Israel and the Arab Muslims who were rebranded as “Palestinians” because it made them seem like a local flavor.</p>
<p>Islam rejects the idea that mutual empathy should transcend conflict. Instead it believes that war should transcend humanity. Or as the Koran puts it, “Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not.”</p>
<p>The Western tradition is biased toward the peace of co-existence. It applies the logic of armistice toward all areas of life leading to the championing of multiculturalism and immigration. Its siren song is John Lennon’s<i> Imagine</i> with its call for an end to borders, nations, religions and property. Its ideal of peace comes from the end of structure and separation between people.</p>
<p>The Islamic idea of peace however affirms a structure and separation based on the Koran. It believes that there will be peace when everyone is forced to live within the strictures of Islam. And therefore there can be no genuine peace with non-Muslims who do not submit to Islam.</p>
<p>These two incompatible notions of peace continue to collide. Imagine if French soldiers had clambered out to sing and play soccer only to be gunned down by German soldiers who had a fundamentally different idea of peace. This was actually how WW2 was shaped as the victorious side played by outdated rules while Nazi Germany, Japan and the USSR shifted to a thoroughly totalitarian mentality.</p>
<p>Munich was a disaster because Hitler was not the Kaiser. The other side was no longer willing to play by any rules, even in diplomatic negotiations, or to accept anything short of total victory. The Allies were forced to match their enemies in a ruthless war that saw entire cities destroyed.</p>
<p>The Nazis and Communists were the products of years of indoctrination that taught them to see opponents as less than human and peace as being obtainable only through their destruction. Japan, which had a longer history of dehumanizing outsiders, proved to be an even tougher nut to crack.</p>
<p>Islam has a history of over a thousand years of continuously dehumanizing non-Muslims and identifying peace and their enslavement as one and the same. It is impossible to live in peace with Muslims who think that there can be no peace as long as non-Muslims continue to live independent lives.</p>
<p>In the Muslim worldview, war happens because non-Muslims exist. War is caused by the infidel, the disbeliever and the Muslim hypocrite who does not truly commit to the practice of Islam. The Jihad purifies the world of non-Muslims; it eradicates the “moderate” Muslims who have been compromised by Western culture. It is a war of extermination against the un-Islamic.</p>
<p>When Westerners propose peace, Muslims reject them as hypocrites for speaking of peace, but refusing to accept the only religion that can bring peace. They feel no obligation to honor any peace agreements since peace can only come from Islam and the Western rejection of Islam proves our deceitfulness and bad intentions. This dynamic is inherent in the Koran and the entire history of Islam.</p>
<p>Islam does not obtain peace through peace, but through war. It seeks a world without conflict by killing anyone who might disagree with its totalitarian ideology.</p>
<p>Proposing the peace of co-existence to an ideology to which peace means its own supremacy is a foolish and deranged act.  Our outreach to the Muslim world does not lack for a common language, but for common ideas. Both sides may speak of peace, but for one side peace really means war.</p>
<p>Languages are not only made up of words, but of values. It is not enough to bring a dictionary to a negotiation if the two parties are reading from different moral and ethical traditions. Just because we translate “Salaam” as peace and agree that we both want peace does not mean that we have the same idea of what peace is.</p>
<p>The West sees peace as living side by side with Muslims. Muslims see peace as the end of the West.</p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS&#8217;s Threat to America</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #323333;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/02.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-246100 size-full" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/02.jpg" alt="0" width="317" height="266" /></a>Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim was interviewed last month on &#8220;<a href="http://calltorights.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">A Call to Rights Radio Show</span></a>&#8221; with Steve Kates. Topics ranged from the dangers of the Islamic State, history and the Crusades, Christian persecution, and the Obama administration’s policies.  To listen to the nearly one-hour long interview, <a href="http://calltorights.com/audio/CTR100414Hour1.mp3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">click here</span></a> (interview starts around the 9-minute mark)</p>
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		<title>Profs Blame ISIS on ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘Grievances’</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/reza.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245743" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/reza-450x241.jpg" alt="reza" width="293" height="157" /></a>President Obama’s infamous <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/10/statement-president-isil-1">proclamation</a> that ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) is “not Islamic” was received sympathetically within the ranks of Middle East studies. While many scholars of Islam and the Middle East have condemned ISIS’s heinous actions, a stubborn refusal to acknowledge their theological underpinnings lingers. Those who do concede ISIS’s Islamic supremacism are branded “Islamphobes.” Others attribute ISIS’s rampage of mass murder, beheadings, rape, slavery, and strict Sharia law in pursuit of a <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119259/isis-history-islamic-states-new-caliphate-syria-and-iraq">caliphate</a> to Western-inspired “grievances” or “root causes.”</p>
<p>John Esposito, director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, is at the <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/13958">forefront</a> of such obfuscation. Disregarding ISIS’s <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fathima-imra-nazeer/isis-islam-quran-literalism_b_5737388.html">adherence</a> to Quranic literalism, <a href="http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/174204/interview-with-prof-john-esposito-on-isis-the-middle-east-and-terrorism.html">Esposito</a> declared:</p>
<blockquote><p>I do not think that this is a very Islamic vision at all. . . . Theirs is a kind of religion that is extraordinarily full of violence and abuse that is not in accordance with the Quran, the traditions of the Prophet or even with Islamic Law.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hatem Bazian, director of the Islamophobia Research &amp; Documentation Project at the University of California, Berkeley, lived up to his title by invoking victimhood. <a href="http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/is_isis_a_faith-based_terroris.php">Bazian</a> claimed that:</p>
<blockquote><p>When Islamophobes point to the Koran and Islam as the problem, they are epistemically reinforcing ISIS’s claims and also pushing every Muslim into the same categorization. . . . For me, religion is a rationalization rather than the root cause.</p></blockquote>
<p>Responding to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s public <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/29/cnr.02.html">acknowledgement</a> that British Muslims are joining ISIS, University of Michigan history professor <a href="http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2014/10/juan-cole-condemns-david-cameron-for.html">Juan Cole</a> ranted, “It’s just a way of beating up on the Muslims in the UK. . . . Cameron is grandstanding about this and it’s Islamophobia, it’s just racism.” Perhaps Cole is unaware that Cameron, speaking at a <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/david-cameron-on-eid-al-adha-islamic-state-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-great-religion-of-islam-a-religion-of-peace">reception</a> for British Muslims, kowtowed to political-correctness by declaring that ISIS has “nothing to do with the great religion of Islam, a religion of peace.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/09/04/dont-blame-religion-for-rise-isis/">Sahar F. Aziz</a>, Texas A&amp;M University law professor, condemned those who are “blindly blaming religion . . . rather than root causes,” lamenting that, “Thousands of miles away from the Middle East, it is tempting for Americans to view the atrocities committed by the Islamic State (ISIS) as further evidence that something is wrong with Islam.” Instead, she asserted, “The politics of authoritarianism, rather than religion, explain the rise of ISIS.” Given that ISIS arose in a power vacuum, there is little basis for blaming authoritarianism.</p>
<p>Going to ridiculous lengths, <a href="http://www.onbeing.org/blog/is-all-morality-gone-condemning-isis-and-beyond-in-a-world-of-suffering/6910">Omid Safi</a>, director of Duke University’s Islamic Studies Center, faults humanity itself:</p>
<blockquote><p>I am mindful of the fact that much of the Islamophobic discourse of today holds Muslims in the West accountable for atrocities of ISIS. In that context, it makes a fundamental mistake. . . . All of us, Muslims and Jews and Christians and Hindus and Buddhists and people of no faith and people of occasional faith, we are all responsible.</p></blockquote>
<p>That is, since everyone is responsible for ISIS, no one is responsible.</p>
<p>After conceding that “Muslims have a responsibility to speak out against ISIS,” Safi then entreated,</p>
<blockquote><p>[A]ll of us to speak out with the same vehemence . . . about the victims of the American drones, about the victims of the allies of the United States? Can we mourn Palestinians? Can we mourn Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin? Can we mourn the 2.5 million Americans caught in a penal industrial complex?</p></blockquote>
<p>A better question for Safi would be whether there is any unrelated societal ill that <em>cannot</em> be associated with condemning ISIS?</p>
<p>University of California, Riverside creative writing professor <a href="http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/10/reza-aslan-on-what-the-new-atheists-get-wrong.html">Reza Aslan</a> denied that ISIS has any appeal whatsoever to devout Muslims, marveling over “how little religion plays a role in this group, how little the idea of reading the Koran or praying or those kinds of things play a significant role on the ground among these militants.” Granting that “religion is the sort of underlying, unifying aspect of it,” Aslan then contradicted himself: “But the idea that ISIS is drawing excessively religious people to it is factually incorrect.” <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/reza-aslan-on-the-islamic-state-theres-no-diplomacy-they-have-to-be-destroyed/">Elsewhere</a>, he alluded to the “grievances . . . that a lot of Muslims around the world have” and warned that ISIS’s appeal would remain, “unless those grievances can be addressed.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2014/10/tariq-ramadan-isil-not-islamic-2014101015462542487.html">Tariq Ramadan</a>, professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University, suggested that Muslim scholars respond to ISIS by proclaiming:</p>
<blockquote><p>What you are doing, killing innocent people, implementing so-called “Sharia” or the so-called “Islamic State”, this is against everything that is coming from Islam. . . . It is not a caliphate. It is just people playing with politics referring to religious sources.</p></blockquote>
<p>While it is indeed necessary for Muslim moderates—a group that does <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4852">not include</a> Ramadan—to condemn ISIS, it is self-defeating to deny the Islamic basis for its behavior.</p>
<p>Other academics engage in moral relativism, equating ISIS’s unbridled aggression with the defense of Western democracies. Absurdly, <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/26743-how-much-moral-high-ground-does-the-us-have-over-isis">Musa al-Gharbi</a>, a University of Arizona instructor, described the U.S. as the bigger evil: “It would not be a stretch to say that the United States is actually a greater threat to peace and stability in the region than ISIS.” <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/10/there-are-groups-more-depraved--201410238520512942.html">Al-Gharbi</a> also dubbed Mexican drug cartels <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2014/11/shakir-al-gharbi-downplay-isis-atrocities-with">more destructive</a> than ISIS and maintained that, “What is fueling the disproportionate reaction to ISIL is Islamophobia.”</p>
<p><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/barack-obama-islamicstatestrategyspeech.html">Mark LeVine</a>, a professor of Middle East history at the University of California, Irvine, simultaneously absolved Islam and demonized Zionism by likening ISIS fighters to religious “fanatics” of all types:</p>
<blockquote><p>[The Islamic State] is as real a form of expression of Islam as the violent and chauvinist Israeli settler movement is to Judaism or as extreme Hindu nationalism, Rahkine Buddhism and militant Christianity are to their religions in India, Myanmar and the United States.</p></blockquote>
<p>Georgetown University history professor <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/k-i-l-l-i-n-g/">Abdullah Al-Arian</a> drew a cruder comparison on Twitter:</p>
<blockquote><p>Israel and ISIS sitting in a tree, K-I-L-L-I-N-G, First come the bombs, then come the savages, then come the U.N. to survey the damages.</p></blockquote>
<p>Likewise, <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/israel-revolt/virginia-tech-professor-likens-israel-isis">Steven Salaita</a>, a former Virginia Tech University English professor whose offer of a position at the University of Illinois was withdrawn, tweeted nonsensically, “#Israel and #ISIS are but two prongs of the same violent ethnonationalism.”</p>
<p>Stretching credulity even further, <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=4&amp;x_outlet=28&amp;x_article=2751">Rashid Khalidi</a> of Columbia University, alleged that ISIS “would be positively affected if the United States stopped its biased support of Israel.”</p>
<p>Seemingly bucking these trends is an <a href="http://www.lettertobaghdadi.com/">open letter</a> to ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi signed by over 120 Muslim leaders and scholars, including the aforementioned <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=hatem+bazian&amp;sa=Search">Hatem Bazian</a>, <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8787">Hamza Yusuf</a> of Zaytuna College, and Brandeis University’s Joseph E.B. Lumbard. However, the letter calls its sincerity into question in its calculated <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/10/is-the-muslim-scholars-open-letter-to-isis-really-enough">ambiguity</a>, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/international-group-of-muslim-scholars-refutes-islamic-states-islamic-case-while-endorsing-jihad-sharia-caliphate">endorsement</a> of Sharia law, and the <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/14067">Islamist</a> bent of many of its signatories.</p>
<p>Plainly, these Middle East studies academics are reluctant to admit the existence of Islamic supremacism. The rise of ISIS has challenged their ideology even more than the growth of al-Qaeda. Instead of addressing the monster to which Islam has given birth, as French Muslim philosopher <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8206.htm">Abdennour Bidar</a> recently put it, they blame the non-Muslim world. Quite simply, the “experts” have buried their heads in the sand.</p>
<p><em>Cinnamon Stillwell is the West Coast Representative for </em><a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/"><em>Campus Watch</em></a><em>, a project of the </em><a href="http://www.meforum.org/"><em>Middle East Forum</em></a><em>. She can be reached at </em><a href="http://mailto:stillwell@meforum.org/"><em>stillwell@meforum.org</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/iu.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245896" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/iu-450x336.jpg" alt="iu" width="281" height="210" /></a>The 28 States that make up the European Union (EU) would like to see the Israeli-Palestinian peace process resume. They seek an ultimate solution that will establish a Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital alongside the Jewish state. Both the Swedish and British parliaments (also Spain) have already voted to recognize a Palestinian state and others are sure to follow.</p>
<p>The <em>Associated Press</em> (<em>AP</em>) reported on Tuesday, (November 18, 2014) that “An internal European Union document proposes unspecified “<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/eu-proposal-could-punish-israel-settlements-172954951.html">actions</a>” against Israel for its settlement activities in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, reflecting unhappiness with the lack of progress in Mideast peace efforts.”</p>
<p>According to the <em>AP </em>report, “The document calls for unspecified moves against European companies operating in Israeli settlements. It also proposes actions against settlers themselves, including a “<a href="http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/EU-proposal-could-punish-Israel-for-settlements-5898457.php">no contact</a>” policy toward settler organizations, and a refusal &#8220;to engage with settlers,&#8221; including public figures who oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state.</p>
<p>The Europeans, burdened by a radicalized Muslim constituency, which in some of the EU states account for 10% of the population (France, Belgium), are pandering to their Muslim constituents with domestic and foreign policy concessions. One such concession is to push for a Palestinian state and punish Israel. The Muslim minorities have been co-opted by the socialist and leftist parties as a permanent voting bloc.</p>
<p>European colonial powers, including Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and others are laden with colonial guilt in a time when alleged “victimhood” is celebrated and pandered to, and “Human Rights” has become the Continent’s new religion, replacing Christianity. In today’s EU world, “Better red than dead” has been replaced by “Better <em>green</em> than dead.”</p>
<p>In order to preserve their “Dolce vita” or good life, the Europeans were willing to submit to Communism if they could keep their month-long paid vacations and generous welfare perks. Today, they are willing to submit to Islam in order to preserve their lives and property. After two world wars, the Europeans are tired and unwilling to fight. They resent America even though the U.S. has protected them from the Soviet Union, and is continuing to protect them from Russian, Iranian, and Islamic jihadist threats. They also resent Israel for resisting the jihadists, and for its chosen particularism as a Jewish state. Anti-Semitism of the pre-war years is in decline on the Continent, but Israel has become the “collective Jew,” a subject of derision and hatred.</p>
<p>European life today has little consideration for the future. Birthrates are negative or below replacement. There aren’t enough young people to replace the retirees in most European states. Immigrants include Middle East and North African Muslims who believe that in time they will be able to impose Shariah law, and convert the Continent to Dar el-Islam, or the domain of Islam. The parties that resist Islamic takeover are labeled racist and are ostracized by the European political elites, media and academia.</p>
<p>A European state such as Sweden has conveniently ignored the fact that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas forged an unexpected unity pact with the rival Islamist group Hamas, which is considered by the EU a terrorist organization, and has vowed to destroy the Jewish state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended the talks on April 24, after Fatah-Hamas signed a unity government pact.</p>
<p>It is apparent that the issue of “Jewish settlements,” is a subterfuge for the Europeans, particularly when considering the areas bordering the Green Line, most of which is designated as Area C under the Oslo Accords, that will be annexed to Israel in any future peace settlement. Moreover, Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, which subsequently became “judenrein,” didn’t bring peace; instead, it brought terror and death to Israelis. Hamas jihadists took over Gaza in 2007, and they have no intention of negotiating with Israel, much less recognizing the Jewish State or making peace with Israel.</p>
<p>The peace that the Europeans seek is unlikely to bring security to Israelis. The Europeans want to satisfy their Muslim constituents by supporting a Palestinian state. Many of the Europeans and especially Sweden ignored the basic tenet that a lasting peace settlement must be a result of a negotiated settlement and not unilateral action. Additionally, Palestine doesn’t meet the criteria for recognition as a state, by being unable to exercise effective government control over a defined territory and population.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority (PA) was supposed to curtail anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incitement under the provisions of the Oslo Accords. Instead of preparing its people for peace with Israel and the Jewish people, the PA increased its anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incitement. In fact, the PA has poisoned an entire generation of young Palestinians with anti-Semitic hate befitting the Nazi “<em>Der Sturmer</em>”. The PA media, school curriculum, and official mosque sermons have employed religious overtones similar to Hamas’ in describing the conflict with the Jews. Koranic and Hadith verses are used to portray Jews as “pigs and monkeys” rejected by Allah for their evil. Caricatures showing Jews as vermin that must be destroyed are being taught to five-year old children. They are instructed that Israel itself is “occupied Palestinian territory,” and the official PA maps erase Israel’s existence.</p>
<p>This is ultimately the most critical reason why peace between the Palestinians and Israelis remains elusive. Leaders might sign peace accords, but unless the PA teaches its people to accept their hitherto enemy, peace can never be real. The value of peace has never been advocated to the Palestinian people by their leaders. Even if Israel stopped all settlement activities, it won’t mitigate Palestinian violent hatred, or bring acceptance of Israel’s legitimacy by the Palestinian-Arab people</p>
<p>A few samples from the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) illustrate the point. The official Palestinian daily, <em>Al-Hayat Al-Jadida</em> (August 20, 2014) published an Op Ed piece by Izz Al-Din As’ad that read: “Establishing a Jewish state means the Jewish territory controlled by the Jewish State will be land for Jews only. In the Palestinian case, this is a complex issue, because the state is colonialist, settler and Orientalist state, which <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=1031">fabricated a historical narrative</a> in order to colonize Palestine. It will act forcefully to destroy Arab society in Palestine, which was colonized in 1948. This may amount to the expulsion of the Palestinians living in Jerusalem, in order to cleanse the Jewish state of the ‘gentiles’…”</p>
<p>On October 22, 2014 <em>Al-Hayat Al-Jadida</em> by Dr. Mahmoud Al-Habbash, the Supreme Shariah Judge, and Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs stated, “Selling or handing over lands and real estate in Jerusalem and all of Palestine to the Israeli occupation or settlers constitutes treason and a violation of Islamic law…” Al-Habbash emphasized that “according to Islamic Shariah law, the <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=433">entire land</a> of Palestine is wakf (an inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law) land, and that it is prohibited to sell, bestow ownership or facilitate the occupation of even a millimeter of it.”</p>
<p>Sheikh Taleb Al-Silwadi, in his weekly column/sermon in <em>Al-Hayat Al-Jadida</em> (December 21, 2012) wrote: “We have our Palestinian nation, engaged in Ribat, (religious war defending Islamic land) challenging the tyranny and oppression of the Zionists, those descendants of <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=786">monkeys and pigs</a>…”</p>
<p>It is high time for the Europeans to end their hypocrisy and address the real obstacles to peace negotiations and a peaceful coexistence between Israel and the Palestinians. Providing almost half of its budget, Brussels has a great deal of leverage over the PA. Instead of focusing on extra buildings erected in Jerusalem or Judea and Samaria (West Bank), the EU ought to address PA incitement that ends in terror against the innocents, and kills the prospects of peace.</p>
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