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		<title>To Kill a Kafir &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 05:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Edward L. Dalcour takes us into the heart of Qur'anic darkness. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> and joined by author and lecturer <strong>Dr. Edward L. Dalcour.</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Dalcour came on the show to discuss <strong>To Kill a Kafir, </strong>explaining Islam&#8217;s true teachings on &#8220;freedom&#8221; of religion. The discussion occurred within the context of <strong>Sharia Law: Draconian Legal System</strong>, in which Dr. Dalcour unveiled the nightmare spawned by Islamic &#8220;theocracy.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>You Can Kill, But Not Murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why there's no biblical basis for pacifism. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Keith-Breeze-Ten-Commandments.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246498" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Keith-Breeze-Ten-Commandments-421x350.jpg" alt="Keith Breeze Ten Commandments" width="303" height="252" /></a>That is the King James translation of the sixth commandment. It is a magnificent translation. But this one has led to much moral confusion.</p>
<p>Yesterday, PragerUniversity.com, which has had more than 20 million views this year, released 11 courses (each five-minutes long) — the Ten Commandments and an introduction.</p>
<p>The reason we made these video courses is that I believe that everything we need to make a good world and rid ourselves of evil is contained in the Ten Commandments.</p>
<p>For the next few weeks, my column will be selected transcripts of the courses, all of which I present.</p>
<p>Whatever your faith, or if you have no faith, I invite you to watch the videos at www.prageru.com — from the introduction through the tenth, or any of the Ten. They are cleverly animated with text and graphics.</p>
<p>Here is the text of commandment six — explaining why the King James translation is wrong:</p>
<p>You would think that of all the Ten Commandments the one that needs the least explaining is the sixth, because it seems so clear. It is the one that the King James Bible, the most widely used English translation of the Bible, translates as, &#8220;Thou shall not kill.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet, the truth is the quite the opposite. This is probably the least well understood of the Ten Commandments. The reason is that the Hebrew original does not say, &#8220;Do not kill.&#8221; It says, &#8220;Do not murder.&#8221; Both Hebrew and English have two words for taking a life — one is &#8220;kill&#8221; (harag, in Hebrew) and the other is &#8220;murder&#8221; (ratzach in Hebrew).</p>
<p>The difference between the two is enormous. Kill means:</p>
<p>1) Taking any life — whether of a human being or an animal.</p>
<p>2) Taking a human life deliberately or by accident.</p>
<p>3) Taking a human life legally or illegally, morally or immorally.</p>
<p>On the other hand, murder can only mean one thing: The illegal or immoral taking of a human life. That&#8217;s why we say, &#8220;I killed a mosquito,&#8221; not, &#8220;I murdered a mosquito.&#8221; And that&#8217;s why we would say that &#8220;the worker was accidentally killed,&#8221; not that &#8220;the worker was accidentally murdered.&#8221;</p>
<p>So why did the King James translation of the Bible use the word &#8220;kill&#8221; rather than &#8220;murder&#8221;? Because 400 years ago, when the translation was made, &#8220;kill&#8221; was synonymous with &#8220;murder.&#8221; As a result, some people don&#8217;t realize that English has changed since 1610 and therefore think that the Ten Commandments prohibits all killing.</p>
<p>But, of course, it doesn&#8217;t. If the Ten Commandments forbade killing, we would all have to be vegetarians, as killing animals would be prohibited. And we would all have to be pacifists — since we could not kill even in self-defense.</p>
<p>However, you don&#8217;t have to know how the English language has evolved to understand that the Ten Commandments could not have prohibited all killing.</p>
<p>The very same part of the Bible that contains the Ten Commandments — the Five Books of Moses, the Torah as it is known by Jews — commands the death penalty for murder, allows killing in war, prescribes animal sacrifice and allows eating meat.</p>
<p>A correct understanding of the commandment against murder is crucial because, while virtually every modern translation correctly translates the commandment as &#8220;Do not murder,&#8221; many people cite the King James translation to justify two positions that have no biblical basis: opposition to capital punishment and pacifism.</p>
<p>Regarding capital punishment and the Bible, as I note in my Prager University course on capital punishment, the only law that appears in each one of the Five Books of Moses is that murderers be put to death. Opponents of the death penalty are free to hold the view that all murderers should be allowed to live. But they are not free to cite the Bible to support their view.</p>
<p>Yet, many do. And they always cite the Commandment, &#8220;Do not kill.&#8221; But that, as should now be abundantly clear, is not what the commandment says, and it is therefore an invalid argument.</p>
<p>As regards pacifism, the belief that it is always wrong to kill a human being, again, anyone is free to hold this position, as immoral as it may be. And what other word than &#8220;immoral&#8221; can one use to describe forbidding the killing of someone who is in the process of murdering innocent men, women and children, in, let&#8217;s say, a movie theater or a school?</p>
<p>But it is dishonest to cite the commandment against murder to justify pacifism.</p>
<p>There is moral killing — most obviously when done in self-defense against an aggressor — and there is immoral killing. And the word for that is &#8220;murder.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Ten Commandments are portrayed on two tablets. The five commandments on the second tablet all concern our treatment of fellow human beings.</p>
<p>The first one on that list is &#8220;Do not murder.&#8221; Why? Because murder is the worst act a person can commit. The other four commandments — prohibiting stealing, adultery, giving false testimony and coveting, are all serious offenses.</p>
<p>But murder leads the list because deliberately taking the life of an innocent person is the most terrible thing we can do. That is why it is so important to understand that the commandment prohibits murder, not all killing. When people liken killing in self-defense to murder — such as when they equate killing the terrorist who is murdering people with the murders that the terrorist is committing — all they are doing is reducing the evil that murder is. And when they use the Ten Commandments to justify that position, all they are doing is making the Ten Commandments, the moral foundation of Western Civilization, morally irrelevant.</p>
<p>The next time you hear someone cite, &#8220;Do not kill&#8221; when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, &#8220;Do not murder.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Clinton Admits He Passed on Killing Bin Laden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2014 04:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[…And the world changed forever.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/clinton.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237766" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/clinton-450x337.jpg" alt="clinton" width="287" height="215" /></a>In a memorably explosive 2006 <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/09/26/transcript-william-jefferson-clinton-on-fox-news-sunday/">interview</a> with Chris Wallace, former President Bill Clinton went off on a finger-wagging “tear,” as Wallace put it, when questioned about whether he had done enough during his terms in office to get Osama bin Laden. “I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since,” growled a furious Clinton. Now a recently-released audiotape confirms that Clinton did indeed have at least one clear opportunity to kill the world’s most wanted man in 1998 – and passed on it, allowing bin Laden to live to mastermind the 9/11 attacks.</p>
<p>Last week Australian Michael Kroger, the former head of the Liberal Party in the state of Victoria, unveiled on Australia’s Sky News <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bill-clinton-sept-10-2001-i-could-have-gotten-bin-laden">a never-before-released audio</a> of Clinton speaking to a group of businessmen in Melbourne on September 10, 2001, recorded a mere ten hours before the first plane hit the World Trade Center. In that recording, made with the former president’s knowledge according to Kroger, Clinton responded thusly in response to a question about international terrorism:</p>
<blockquote><p>And I’m just saying, you know, if I were Osama bin Laden — he’s a very smart guy, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about him — and I nearly got him once. I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him. And so I didn’t do it.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://dailysurge.com/2014/08/fmr-cia-head-bin-laden-unit-calls-clinton-liar-gets-shouting-match-dummy-geraldo/#eygewDMMb3HXeLSs.01">Questioned</a> by Fox News about the Clinton recording, Michael Scheuer, chief of the bin Laden unit from 1995 to 1999, replied that Clinton was a “disgrace” and a “monumental liar” for claiming that he didn’t kill bin Laden because of the collateral damage. He asserted that only Taliban and bin Laden and his crew would’ve died if Clinton had given the go-ahead for a missile strike on the region in December of 1998. But Clinton didn’t act, said Scheuer, because he’s a “coward morally” and because he’s “more concerned, like Obama, with what the world thinks about him.”</p>
<p>In the 2006 Wallace interview, Clinton referenced a wildly controversial ABC miniseries called <em>The Path to 9/11</em>*, which had aired a mere two weeks earlier and which Clinton angrily called part of a right-wing “disinformation” campaign against him. That docudrama, based in part on <em>The 9/11 Commission Report</em>, dramatized the historical thread connecting the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Islamic attacks on American interests throughout the Clinton era, the failure to connect the dots under Bush, and the attacks of that September morning in 2001.</p>
<p>Prior to its premiere, a false accusation of “conservative bias” on the part of the filmmakers quickly spun into <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html">leftist hysteria</a> that the $30+ million miniseries was a “well-honed propaganda operation” on the part of a stealth cabal of conservatives. Clinton and his supporters, fearing the miniseries would tarnish his political legacy, claimed it was full of lies and pulled out all the stops to suppress it, including threats by the Senate Democratic leadership, led by Harry Reid, to pull ABC’s license if the miniseries aired. With a few very minor edits, the miniseries squeaked by and went on to high ratings; but it has not aired since and ABC-Disney refuses to release a DVD [check out John Ziegler’s riveting documentary <a href="http://www.blockingthepath.com/"><em>Blocking the Path to 9/11</em></a> for the whole outrageous story].</p>
<p>The miniseries featured one particular scene vetted, as every scene was, by a battery of ABC lawyers, in which a CIA team and its Afghan allies have bin Laden in its sights, call the White House for approval to make the hit, and are denied the green light. Clinton and his people attacked this scene as an outrageous fabrication.</p>
<p>But in May 2012, CBS’ <em>60 Minutes</em> broadcast <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7408420n">a startling segment</a> featuring former CIA officer Hank Crumpton, Deputy Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, who discussed with interviewer Lara Logan his participation in operations to capture and/or kill bin Laden well before 9/11. Crumpton complained about “the <em>lack </em>of response on the part of the administration” and described one incident in which his team sighted bin Laden. It sounds very similar to the dramatized scene from <em>Path to 9/11</em>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Crumpton: Our human sources took us to a village uh, far, not far from Kandahar –</p>
<p>Logan: And what did you see there?</p>
<p>Crumpton: We saw a security detail, a convoy, and we saw bin Laden exit the vehicle.</p>
<p>Logan: Clearly.</p>
<p>Crumpton: Clearly. And we had – the optics were spot on, beaming back to us, CIA headquarters. We immediately alerted the White House, and the Clinton administration’s response was, “Well, it will take several hours for the TLAMs, the cruise missiles launched from submarines, to reach that objective. So you need to tell us where bin Laden will be five or six hours from now.” The frustration was enormous.</p>
<p>Logan: So at that moment you wanted to kill him.</p>
<p>Crumpton: Yes.</p>
<p>Logan: But you couldn’t get permission.</p>
<p>Crumpton: Correct.</p></blockquote>
<p>Logan then narrates that Crumpton “couldn’t get permission to do <em>anything</em>, including allowing the CIA’s Afghan agents on the ground to attack bin Laden’s compound.”</p>
<p>Now the Clinton admission serves as further vindication for the <em>Path to 9/11</em>’s veracity; in fact, Scheuer also stated, as he has on numerous previous occasions, that the Clinton administration passed on as many as <em>ten</em> opportunities to nail bin Laden.</p>
<p>Imagine how different the world would be if President Clinton had pulled the trigger on bin Laden in 1998. There would have been no 9/11, says Michael Scheuer, and probably no Iraq war. “I worked hard to try to kill him,” Clinton insisted in the Wallace interview. “I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since.” But when he could have, he didn’t. Even if it truly was out of concern for Kandahari civilians, this question posed rhetorically by Scheuer cuts to the heart of the matter: “Who was he elected to protect, Kandaharis or Americans?”</p>
<p>* Full disclosure: <em>The Path to 9/11</em> was written and produced by my friend Cyrus Nowrasteh, whom I assisted on the project.</p>
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		<title>Why Democrats Hate Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explaining the Left's celebration of 2.5 million dropping out of the workforce because of ObamaCare. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/30nap.600.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218627" alt="30nap.600" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/30nap.600-450x336.jpg" width="315" height="235" /></a>Last week, the Congressional Budget Office released a report discussing the ramifications of Obamacare. The report revealed that the work-hour equivalent of approximately 2.5 million jobs would disappear from the workforce, thanks to Obamacare, in a voluntary process in which employees would simply dump out of their jobs, knowing they could get health care through expanded Medicaid and federal subsidies they would lose by working.</p>
<p>Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., an ideological leftist thought leader, spun the report as a massive positive for Obamacare: &#8220;The single mom, who&#8217;s raising three kids (and) has to keep a job because of health care, can now spend some time raising those kids. That&#8217;s a family value.&#8221; And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., celebrated the report as a defeat for the dreaded condition known as &#8220;job lock&#8221; — the situation in which you have to stick at a job you don&#8217;t like for the benefits. &#8220;We have the CBO report,&#8221; Reid stated, &#8220;which rightfully says, that people shouldn&#8217;t have job lock. If they — we live in a country where there should be free agency. People can do what they want.&#8221;</p>
<p>But, of course, people can only do what they want by taxing other Americans, borrowing from foreign creditors, and burdening future generations with unsustainable debt. And unfortunately, Schumer&#8217;s proclamation that the greatest beneficiaries of Obamacare will be single mothers turns out to be false: One of the studies relied upon by the CBO stated that those who benefit from the end of job lock are disproportionately white, single and of work age.</p>
<p>In reality, the Democratic vision of the world centers on the notion that work itself is a great evil to be avoided, and that any program allowing people to free themselves of work — whether to finger-paint or start a garage band — is an unmitigated good.</p>
<p>&#8220;Job lock,&#8221; according to the definition Reid gives, goes by another name, according to those who live in the real world: &#8220;having a job.&#8221; There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences of having these jobs, they&#8217;d drop out of the workforce.</p>
<p>There are only two problems with this strategy: First, someone has to pay for it; second, it is not the recipe for human fulfillment. Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There&#8217;s a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.</p>
<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean every job fulfills us, naturally. But we have all worked rotten jobs in order to get to jobs we like. Capitalism doesn&#8217;t mean, as my grandmother used to say, that you don&#8217;t have to walk through some manure to get to the roses. It just means that if you walk through enough manure, you&#8217;ll likely get to the roses sooner or later. In the leisure-first world of the left, however, wallowing in mire is a preferred road to happiness over the hard work that brings true fulfillment.</p>
<p>The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life. Perhaps we&#8217;d all be happier in the short run were we somehow freed of our job lock. But we certainly would not contribute to the betterment of ourselves or the community around us. We&#8217;d leave the world worse than we found it. The opt-out society opts us out of societal happiness.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/slaughter.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190740" alt="slaughter" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/slaughter-450x322.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>What is common to Daniel Perl, Nick Berg, a British soldier on London street, the Jews of Hebron in 1929 and the Fogel family in Itamar? They all were butchered. They were not simply stabbed to death, but were killed by an act designed to decapitate them or to cause fatal bleeding by severing their carotid artery. Another common denominator: all were slaughtered by Moslems. An endless list of Moslem girls and women can be added to them, those who were similarly slaughtered by their brothers, fathers or other relatives for “violating the family honor”. A question that arises automatically is where does this Moslem tendency to this kind of slaughter come from?</p>
<p>The answer is simple: Slaughter is a routine, widespread practice among many Moslem families. Many children see how their fathers slaughter sheep when celebrating an important event, and the whole family is present at the sacrificial slaughter during Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, when the slaughter is part of the holiday ritual.</p>
<p>In modern societies, the slaughter of animals for meat consumption takes place in slaughterhouses, far from the eyes of the public and children, who generally get their meat free of blood and hair and ready for cooking or eating. This sterile arrangement spares the public the sight of the slaughter, the blood and the accompanying cries. In the West, many of those who witnessed animal slaughter become vegetarian.</p>
<p>In many Islamic societies, slaughter generally occurs at home, in front of the children, and is part of the routine of life. They are immunized against the sight of slaughter, are not moved by the blood dripping from the animal’s neck and are not frightened by its snorts and struggles. In many cases, the children hold the legs of the lamb in order to immobilize it during slaughter; they sense very well its frantic reactions as the knife so painfully slices through its neck. The presence and participation of the children in the act of slaughter immunizes them emotionally against its influence; when they are older they perform the custom of sacrifice with their own hands and knives, and in front of their own children.</p>
<p>The emotional immunity to the act of slaughter allows a Moslem to utilize it whenever he feels he must employ radical methods to rid himself of someone. The slaughter of sheep during the Festival of Sacrifice is accompanied by the recitation of “In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful”, and the butchering of girls who do not behave properly is conducted as a kind of execution ceremony. The slaughterer feels that he is doing something important and worthy, acting in a way to which he is inured since early childhood.</p>
<p>In western societies, slaughter seems barbaric, while members of Moslem societies view it as proper and commendable when carried out within the proper context. Therefore, slaughtering a Jew, a Christian or anyone seen as an enemy is not considered unusual in traditional Islamic societies. This is what professional jargon calls “a cultural difference.”</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1345584022_5178_cross.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-186585" alt="1345584022_5178_cross" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1345584022_5178_cross.jpg" width="260" height="183" /></a>Reports of Christian persecution by Muslims around the world during the month of February include (but are not limited to) the following accounts.  They are listed by form of persecution, and in country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Church Attacks</b></p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: Once again, soon after Friday prayers, a throng of Muslims in Fayoum province, destroyed a Coptic church. The reason cited this time was that the church is “an unlawful neighbor to the Muslims who live adjacent to it and must therefore be moved.”  According to <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20130215203037.htm">AINA</a>, “The mob climbed to the church dome and started demolishing it and setting it on fire. The dome collapsed into the burning church and caused great damage. Muslims used bricks from the dome and the holy cross and hurled it at the altar inside the church, causing part of it to be demolished; all the icons of saints were destroyed. Muslims tried to assault Father Domadios and threw stones at him, but he was saved by a Muslim family who brought him away from the village in their car.”  Local Christian families were reported as staying indoors for fear of being assaulted by the Muslims. And, once again, although state security was present throughout this entire proceeding, it did nothing to prevent it. None of the perpetrators was arrested.  Two days later, hundreds of Copts demonstrated demanding a halt to the ongoing attacks on their churches.  In response, the <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20130218170645.htm">church was attacked again</a> by Muslims hurling more Molotov cocktails and stones while shouting “We do not want the church.” Some Muslims climbed atop the church again to completely destroy the remains of the wooden dome.</p>
<p><b>Indonesia</b>:  Four churches were firebombed with Molotov cocktails in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.  Two were attacked on a Sunday morning in South Sulawesi.  Another two churches were also attacked a few days later.  All the churches suffered various degrees of fire damage.   According to Barnabas Fund, the same region was earlier “ravaged in a bloody anti-Christian campaign by Islamic extremists between 1997 and 2001. Hundreds of churches and thousands of homes were destroyed; according to some estimates 30,000 Christians were killed and about half a million driven out in what amounted to ethnic cleansing….  The beheading of three girls as they made their way [to] their Christian school in Central Sulawesi in 2005 was among the most egregious.” Elsewhere, in the village of Mekargalih, some 50 members of the Islamic Defenders Front descended upon a Pentecostal church, scaling its gates, vandalizing the building, and assaulting the church’s minister, including by <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Islamic-extremists-attack-church-in-Indonesia-pastor-jailed.html">strangling him with his own necktie</a>.  The reason cited for this particular assault was that the church was operating without a permit.  Two days later, the only person arrested and currently serving a three month prison sentence, was the minister, for defiantly continuing to hold services without a valid permit.  The church, which has been running for 26 years, has made repeated attempts, at significant financial cost, to obtain the required permit but has been obstructed by local authorities. This was the third violent attack against the church by the Islamic party in the last two years. According to the minister’s wife, who has also been threatened and harassed, this latest attack has “traumatized” the 400-strong congregation; many Christians are now too afraid to attend services.</p>
<p><b>Libya</b>: A Coptic Christian church located in Benghazi, Libya, was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/hatred-of-christians-unleashed-in-libya/">attacked by armed Muslim militants</a>.  Initial reports indicate that at least one priest, Fr. Paul Isaac, was injured, as well as his assistant.  This would be the second church to be attacked in two months.  Earlier, on Sunday, December 30, an explosion rocked a Coptic Christian church near the western city of Misrata, where a group of U.S. backed rebels hold a major checkpoint. The explosion killed two people and wounded two others, all Egyptians.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Zanzibar</b>:  <a href="http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/tanzania/2303262/">Arsonists set the Evangelical Church of Siloam aflame</a> on the island 99% populated by Muslims. The church was under construction following a previous attack in January 2012.  This attack follows a string of other  attacks on church leaders and Christian property across the country.  Two days earlier, a Catholic priest was shot dead on his way to church for Sunday worship.  Two Muslim youth at the church entrance shot him in the head.   <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/02/22/zanzibar-bishop-says-his-priests-are-terrified-after-murder/">A message</a> signed by “Muslim Renewal” later appeared saying, “We thank our young men, trained in Somalia, for killing an infidel. Many more will die. We will burn homes and churches. We have not finished: at Easter, be prepared for disaster.”  A few days before the slaying of the Catholic priest an Assemblies of God pastor was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslims-behead-another-christian-pastor/">beheaded</a> by Muslims on the Tanzanian mainland. And on Christmas Day, gunmen shot and seriously wounded another Catholic priest as he was returning home from church.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Apostates, Evangelists, Murder and Slaughter</b></p>
<p><b>Cameroon</b>: Two Muslim converts to Christianity were shot dead and two others wounded, in the Christian-majority African nation where Muslims make approximately 20% of the population.  One of them was previously threatened by the Nigerian Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram (“Western Education is a Sin”) to return to Islam or “<a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Two-Christian-converts-killed-by-Islamists-in-Cameroon.html">face Allah’s wrath</a>.”  The attack occurred when these four Muslim converts to Christianity were travelling together around Lake Chad.  Their vehicle was stopped by armed men who got the four Christians out of the vehicle and opened fire on them.  The slain Christians leave behind wives and several children.</p>
<p><b>Iran</b>: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/22/imprisoned-american-says-iranian-captors-waiting-for-me-to-deny-christ/print#ixzz2Og95oWVK">Fox News</a> reported that American pastor Saeed Abedini, who is jailed in the notoriously brutal Evin prison for his Christian faith, was “facing physical and psychological torture at the hands of captors demanding he renounce his beliefs.” The 32-year-old married father of two, who left his home in Boise, Idaho, to help start an orphanage in his latest country, detailed “horrific pressures” and “death threats,” in a letter to family members: “My eyes get blurry, my body does not have the strength to walk, and my steps become very weak and shaky…  They are only waiting for one thing…for me to deny Christ. But they will never get this from me.”  Similarly, according to <a href="http://www.mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=6339:christian-prisoners-in-shiraz-still-held-after-more-than-a-year&amp;catid=36:iranian-christians&amp;Itemid=279">Mohabet News</a>, since four Muslim converts to Christianity were arrested soon after Christmas, “they have been taken to the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz several times in a pitiful condition with their hands and feet chained, where their charges were officially announced as participating in house-church services, evangelizing and promoting Christianity, having contact with foreign Christian ministries, distributing propaganda against the regime and disturbing national security.  These four Christian converts were arrested as they gathered for worship in a house church on February 8, 2012.”  The report goes on to explain the “obvious mental and physical torture” Iran’s converts to Christianity are routinely subjected to in prison.</p>
<p><b>Kenya</b>: One <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Somali-Christian-minister-shot-dead-in-Kenya-al-Shabaab-suspected.html">church leader was killed another wounded</a> during an ambush by the Somali-based Islamic terrorist group, Al Shabaab (“The Youth”).  Abdi Welli, a Muslim who converted to Christianity in 1990, becoming a minister, died at the scene.  His colleague and former mentor, Pastor Ibrahim Makunyi , another convert to Christianity, survived after sustaining gunshot wounds.  Abdi’s last words were, “It’s good to be in the hands of Al Shaddai,” an ancient name for the Judeo-Christian God.  He leaves behind a wife and three children.  In response to these latest Muslim murders of Christians, Somalia’s much oppressed underground church defiantly declared “<em>The Somali Church is the Lord’s and he will protect it from the evil one. No degree of Muslim persecution will destroy the Somali Church.”</em><em></em></p>
<p><b>Libya</b>: Christians from all walks of life were arrested, some tortured, on the accusation that they were trying to evangelize Muslims.  On February 10, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/death-for-preaching-christ-in-liberated-libya/">four foreign Christians</a> were arrested in Benghazi, including one with American citizenship, on the claim that they were “missionaries.”  Three days later, two more Christians from Egypt were arrested. Three days after that, a seventh Christian, also from Egypt, was arrested. Then, on February 27, Benghazi forces raided another Coptic church, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/mass-arrest-and-torture-of-christians-in-libya/">rounding up some 100 Coptic Christians</a> and accusing them of being missionaries—simply because they had Bibles and other Christian “paraphernalia” such as icons of Jesus.  Many of these Christians were detained and tortured, including by having their heads shaved and cross tattoos removed with acid.  Under such torture, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/obamas-new-libya/">one Copt died</a>.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>:  In yet another barbarous attack in the Plateau State, Muslim herdsmen used machetes and guns to murder 10 members of the same Christian family; half of the victims were under the age of six, as confirmed by the military and government. According to one official, “<a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/26669-nigeria-christians-mourn-their-dead-after-massacre-attackshttp:/www.bosnewslife.com/26669-nigeria-christians-mourn-their-dead-after-massacre-attacks">Five little children including a two-month-old child were slaughtered</a>.”  As happens <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/scandal-morsi-government-permits-savage-attack-on-st-mark-cathedral/">all throughout the Islamic world</a>, the area’s Christians accused the military of involvement in violence on behalf of the Muslim tribesmen—some of the attackers were apparently dressed in military uniform—though a military spokesman denied it, saying, “Somehow, some hoodlums and criminals gained access to our old uniforms.”</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: Younas Masih, a 55-year-old Christian, died shortly after being <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christian-man-killed-in-Pakistan-after-refusing-to-convert-to-Islam.html">shot five times</a> in an attack that involved his resistance to convert to Islam. According to sources, “Younas’ Muslim colleagues had been pressuring him to convert to Islam. Repeated threats and blackmail attempts had been made against him but he had remained firm in his faith. On the day of the shooting, Younas’ co-workers made another attempt to persuade him to convert. A heated discussion ensued, with insults and threats issued.”  This is not the first time <a href="http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/16665/">a Christian is slaughtered</a> in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam.  Younas’ son tried to register the attack on his father with the police, but, as usual, they refused to launch a criminal investigation.  Also, after local Muslims accused a 19-year-old Christian of being in relationship with a Muslim girl (Islamic Sharia law bans Christian men from marrying Muslim women), he was “barbarically assassinated”: three Muslim men broke into his home in the early hours while the family was asleep, and <a href="http://www.worldvisioninprogress.com/blog/2013/02/26/christian-boy-killed-due-to-having-affair-with-muslim-girl/">smote the teenager on the head with an axe</a> while stabbing him with a dagger.  When his father awoke from the screaming, the Muslim assassins fled the scene.  And Roshan Masih, a 45-year-old Christian, was shot dead after an argument over religion in Lahore. According to <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/33255?idnews=33255&amp;lan=eng#.UWbpDpOTioM">Agenzia Fides</a>, “it was an act of murder in cold blood: Roshan&#8217;s defence of his Christian beliefs compared to Muslim beliefs, may have been considered ‘blasphemous’…  Days before the murder he had a heated argument over religion with a local Muslim, Sohail Akhtar. The latter waited for his opportunity, and, on 16 February, seeing Roshan sitting outside a shop run by Sadiq Masih, another Christian, Sohail Akhtar, armed with a rifle, shot him dead there and then.”</p>
<p><b>United States</b>: A Muslim man slaughtered two Coptic Christians in New Jersey.  Although <a href="http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2013/s13020126.htm">authorities believe</a> that “the defendant was ruthless and calculating in the manner in which he carried out the killings and attempted to prevent identification of the victims by cutting off their heads and hands before burying their bodies,” it is significant to note that Koran 8:12 records Allah saying, “I will cast terror into the hearts of infidels, so strike [them] upon the necks [behead them] and strike from them every fingertip.”  Moreover, as <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_jersey&amp;id=8989357">one report</a> puts it, “Privately some wonder if it had something to do with the victims’ [Christian] religion.”</p>
<p align="center"><b>Dhimmitude</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center">[General Abuse and Suppression of Non-Muslims as “Tolerated” Citizens]</p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>:  Fourteen-year-old Sarah Abdelmalek was recently abducted on her way to school.  Unlike the many similar cases, Sarah’s received much media attention in Egypt due to the loud protests from Copts.  In February it was reported that “<a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20130201192615.htm">Sarah was smuggled across the borders to Libya</a> [where Coptic Christians are being brutalized] with the help of the Interior Ministry.”  The new Coptic pope said the kidnapping and forced conversion of Sarah is a “disgrace for the whole of Egypt,” adding “Can any family accept the kidnapping of their daughter and her forced conversion?”  Yet in a statement, the Salafi Front made clear that under no circumstances would they ever hand Sarah back to her grieving family.  More recently, another Christian minor girl, 13-year-old Agape Essam Girgis, went to school accompanied by a Muslim social worker and two teachers, one of whom was a Salafi, and never returned. After protests, she was “handed over to her family and the church priest where she stayed with his family for some time due to the terrible ordeal she experienced during her abduction.”  According to a Coptic bishop involved in the case, what happened to Agape—whose name is based on the biblical word for “brotherly love”—is &#8220;<a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20130202195322.htm">heart-breaking</a>.&#8221; She was drugged and awakened to find herself in a secluded place with an elderly woman and later Salafis who tried to convert her to Islam, forced her to wear the full hijab, and beat her. In the last few years, some 550 cases of abduction, entrapment, rape, and forced conversion of Christian women have been documented in Egypt. Their rate has only increased after the “Arab Spring” and the empowerment of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Ironically, when <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egyptian-president-denies-targeting-of-christian-girls/">President Morsi</a> was in Germany in February, he was asked to address this issue, only to respond by saying the abduction of Christian girls was only a rumor.  Meanwhile, in Safaga, an Egyptian town near the Red Sea, yet another new jihadi group in Egypt calling itself<i> </i><em>jihad al-kufr </em>[“jihad on all that is non-Islamic”] sent “invitations” to local priests to <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypt-christian-priests-threatened-to-convert-to-islam-or-die/">convert to Islam or die</a>.</p>
<p><b>Libya</b>: Islamic rebels<a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Islamists-chase-nuns-from-Libya,-people-pray-for-their-return-27021.html"> threatened Christian nuns</a> into fleeing the nation.  Among those Christian communities to leave are the convent of the Holy Family of Spoleto in Derna, the Franciscan Sisters of the Infant Jesus of Barce and the Ursuline Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Beida.  The presence of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Spoleto in Libya dates back to 1921; under Colonel Gaddafi, all these Christian orders were left in peace.  Until their departure, the mission of the religious and the Church in Libya was focused primarily on health care and care for the elderly.</p>
<p><b>Saudi Arabia</b>:  According to <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130209-christian-hamlet-alls-prey-syrian-looters">Fox News</a>, “Saudi Arabia’s notorious religious police, known as the mutawa, swooped in on a private gathering of at least 53 Ethiopian Christians this month, shutting down their private prayer, and arresting the peaceful group of foreign workers for merely practicing their faith.  Saudi authorities further charged three Christian leaders with ‘seeking to convert Muslims to Christianity.’ The latest crackdown on Christianity in the ultra-fundamental Islamic country comes on the heels of a brutal 2011/2012 incarceration and torture of 36 Ethiopian Christians.”</p>
<p><b>Sudan</b>:  Authorities cracked down on Christian activity with a <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Sudan-cracks-down-on-Christian-activity-with-arrests-and-school-closures.html">renewed upsurge of arrests and closures of Christian-run schools</a>.  One Christian school is to be shut down for not offering Islamic courses—needless to say, Islamic schools never offer courses on any other religions—and because it was not separating male and female students.   Another school was targeted on suspicions that it was evangelizing to Muslims.  Additionally, three Christians of South Sudanese origin—since South Sudan ceded, the Islamic government of Khartoum has been avenging itself on Christians under its authority—were ordered last week to leave the country within 24 hours, following their detention.  Another four members of a non-profit organization that produces Christian songs and films were arrested and interrogated and then released.  A Christian source in Khartoum said that the “atmosphere in Sudan is alarming and frightening.”</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>:  U.S.-supported “freedom fighters” abducted an Armenian priest on Sunday and an Orthodox clergyman.  Both were working in Aleppo. Sources, anonymous for security reasons, told <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/After-Muslim-rebels-seize-two-priests-in-Aleppo,-there-are-fears-for-their-life-27116.html">AsiaNews</a><i> </i>that the city&#8217;s Christian community is very concerned about the attack. “Extremist violence is getting worse day by day. Muslim militias are killing anyone suspected of ties with the regime, including women and children. People in the neighbourhoods are comparing these days to the Ottoman conquest five centuries ago.”  Islamic rebels also stormed the Christian neighbourhood of Jadida where the city&#8217;s main Evangelical church was destroyed two month earlier. &#8220;These fighters live for killing and violence. They act without pity and make distinctions among people,&#8221; sources said. &#8220;When they kill, they turn to God as if they were making a sacrifice.&#8221;  Similarly, an <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130209-christian-hamlet-alls-prey-syrian-looters">AFP</a> report also tells of the aftermath of the Obama-supported freedom fighters jihad: “The Bibles lie untouched on the carved wooden stands but the chandeliers have been dumped upside down on the altar; the Christian village of Al-Yakubiye may have escaped the full ravages of Syria&#8217;s civil war but it could not avoid the plundering of the fighters. Along the main road of this agricultural village in Syria&#8217;s northwestern province of Idlib, an old cemetery with stone crosses adjoins an Apostolic Orthodox Armenian church whose door lies open, buffeted by the winds. Those who swept through here seized anything of value, plundering even the chancel and the sacristy. Under a portrait of a benevolent Virgin Mary, a thief stole the chalice from the tabernacle.”</p>
<p><b>Turkey</b>:  Parliament is considering <a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=17116">reconverting the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque</a>.  Originally a church that was transformed into a mosque after the Ottoman-led jihad of 1453, Hagia Sophia was Christendom’s grandest cathedral.   It was turned into a museum in 1935, back when the Islamic world was largely Western-looking. “We want Santa Sofia to remain a museum,” said Patriarch Bartholomew. The Orthodox prelate said that if the museum is converted to any religious use, it should become a Christian church, since it was built for that purpose.</p>
<p align="center"><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>Because the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its way to reaching pandemic proportions, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:</p>
<p>1)      Intrinsically, to document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, increasingly chronic, Muslim persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>2)     Instrumentally, to show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Sharia.</p>
<p>Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; apostasy and blasphemy laws; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam; theft and plunder in lieu of jizya (tribute); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed “dhimmis” (barely tolerated citizens); and simple violence and murder. Oftentimes it is a combination thereof.</p>
<p>Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the west, to India in the east, and throughout the West, wherever there are Muslims—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.</p>
<p><strong>Previous Reports</strong>: <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013/">January, 2013</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012/">December, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012/" target="_blank">November, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/" target="_blank">October, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/" target="_blank">September, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012/">August, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12215/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12045/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11930/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11713/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11604/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11373/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11152/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10989/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10922/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10724/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10504/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2011">September, 2011</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10247/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011</a>; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10107/this-month-in-muslim-persecution-of-christians">July, 2011</a>.</p>
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		<title>Without PR Firms, Could Mideast Dictators Remain in Power?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions spent to cover up mass brutality. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Getty_020812_Syria.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-143573" title="Getty_020812_Syria" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Getty_020812_Syria.gif" alt="" width="375" height="259" /></a>Certain Arab rulers of despotic nations are masters of propaganda – spending time on style over substance as working with media and PR agencies allows them the strength (and cover) to remain in power. These brutal dictators kill, oppress and ignore civil rights – but they spend millions charming (and spinning) the media while utilizing many of the world’s leading PR firms to assist them in their despotic ways. The media and public relations communities should examine their roles as accomplices to this wanton violence.</p>
<p>This fall, there are two specific nations who are utilizing significant public relations operations to benefit their dictatorships. At <a href="http://www.bahrainwatch.org/">www.bahrainwatch.org</a> one learns that the government of Bahrain has spent $32 million on US and UK PR agencies since the start of protests in Bahrain in February 2011. During that time period, at least 60 people have been killed by government security forces, and the government is regularly described as one of the world’s most brutal regimes.</p>
<p>Owning <a href="http://ronntorossian.com/tag/5wpr">5WPR</a>, a leading PR firm, I know first-hand that firms like Bell Pottinger, Hill &amp; Knowlton &amp; Qorvis, who are working for Bahrain, have significant impact upon media coverage and are effective. A good <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/practice/crisisprfirm.cfm">crisis PR agency</a> can shape what media reports, and how.  There’s a reason they get the big bucks. This week, CNN is under criticism for refusing to air a documentary, &#8220;iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring,&#8221; which it had commissioned and produced that featured footage of government forces shooting unarmed protesters.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, largely unreported, police brutality continues, as police fired tear gas and stun grenades at dozens of anti-government protesters who defied a ban on unauthorized demonstrations. $32 million spent in the last 18 months on public relations is a huge amount, sure to influence media coverage, and hence world opinion.</p>
<p>Syria is another nation which has spent heavily while killing its citizens – and the story isn’t headline news as it should be daily. As has been previously reported, NY <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/">PR firm</a> Brown Lloyd James has worked with Syria extensively to help Assad get away with murder (as they did with Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi.)</p>
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<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank">Click here</a>.  </strong></p>
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<p>Normally in American politics, when a major foreign policy event occurs – the launch of a war, a terrorist attack, or the killing or capture of a significant enemy – the president receives a bump in the polls.  When Saddam Hussein was captured in Iraq, for example, President Bush’s approval rating jumped from 54 percent to 63 percent, according to CNN.  When Osama Bin Laden was killed this week, by contrast, President Obama received virtually no bounce: according to CNN, 52 percent of people approved of Obama, up from 51 percent.  That lack of bounce was mirrored in several other polls, including the Rasmussen poll, and the Newsweek/Daily Beast poll.</p>
<p>Assuming these polls are accurate, where did Obama’s bounce go?  Some pundits speculate that Obama’s foreign policy bump has been offset by his polling on the handling of the economy, which remains at record lows.  Others believe that the public is simply too polarized to hand Obama credit for the Bin Laden operation.</p>
<p>In reality, Obama’s lack of bounce is a credit to the American people.  Essentially, after watching Obama greenlight the Bin Laden kill mission, the American people had to decide who Obama was.  Was he a new, tough Obama willing to go after terrorists with alacrity and zeal?  Or was he the old, timorous Obama, frightened of his own international shadow after breaking out of his post-American model?</p>
<p>For the most part, we bet on the latter option.  And we were right.</p>
<p>Since taking as much credit as possible for presiding over the Bin Laden kill, Obama has backed off the political ramifications of that kill as fast as humanly possible.  It began with the Administration’s odd insistence that Bin Laden resisted and was therefore shot – as though any American cares whether the SEALs double-tapped Bin Laden in cold blood or because he pulled out a weapon like Billy at the end of <em>The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral</em>.  Realistically speaking, Bin Laden <em>armed </em>against a trained team of SEALs is about as fair a fight as Bin Laden unarmed against a trained team of SEALs.  But Obama doesn’t like the excrescence of a kill-terrorists-on-sight policy, so his Administration created a false narrative in order to avoid it.</p>
<p>And so we were treated to the odd and awkward spectacle of Jay Carney, White House press secretary, telling us that “resistance does not require a firearm,” as though Bin Laden pulled out a pair of shuriken and required two rounds to the head to prevent a kung fu showdown.  Beyond the absurdity of Carney’s bird walking, there is an obvious contradiction here: the rules of engagement for our troops in Afghanistan require that they not fire on anyone not holding a weapon.  “If they use rockets to hit the [forward operating base], we can’t shoot back because they were within 500 meters of the village,” Spc. Charles Brooks of the 1<sup>st</sup> Battalion, 4<sup>th</sup> Infantry Regiment in Zabul province told the <em>Washington Examiner</em>.  “If they shoot at us and drop their weapon in the process we can’t shoot back.”  If Obama is fine with taking out an unarmed Bin Laden, he should be fine with our troops taking out unarmed terrorists around the globe.  He isn’t, so he forces the press secretary to spin wildly.</p>
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		<title>Osama Dead and Targeted Killing Vindicated</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 04:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The decision to target and kill Osama Bin Laden is being applauded by all decent people. Approval to capture or kill this mass-murdering terrorist leader was given by Presidents Obama and Bush. It was the right decision, both morally and legally.</p>
<p>Although Bin Laden wore no military uniform and held no official military rank, he was an appropriate military target. As the titular and spiritual head of Al Qaeda, he was the functional equivalent of a head of state or commander in chief of a terrorist army. From the beginning of recorded history, killing the king was the legitimate object of military action. The very phrase &#8220;check mate&#8221; means &#8220;the king is dead,&#8221; signifying the successful end of the battle.</p>
<p>Yet there are those who claim that all targeted killings are immoral and illegal. These critics characterize such actions as &#8220;extrajudicial executions&#8221; and demand that terrorist leaders and functionaries be treated as common criminals who must be arrested and brought to trial.</p>
<p>The operation that resulted in Bin Laden&#8217;s death was a military action calculated to kill rather than to &#8220;arrest&#8221; him. It is possible, though highly unlikely, that he could have been captured alive and brought to trial. The decision to employ military personnel with guns, rather than a drone firing rockets, was probably made by generals rather than lawyers.</p>
<p>Had it been militarily preferable to fire a rocket, that option would almost certainly have been selected &#8212; as it was by the NATO forces that rocketed Ghadafy&#8217;s compound. A rocket attack would have been a pure targeted killing with no possibility of live capture. The operation directed against Bin Laden may have been designed, in part, to have preserved the theoretical option of &#8220;arrest,&#8221; though the likelihood of a live capture was virtually impossible under the circumstances. Indeed, it is likely that Bin Laden&#8217;s death was deemed preferential to his capture and trial, because the latter would have raised the probability that Al Qaeda would take hostages and try to exchange them for Bin Laden.</p>
<p>Indeed, a US national security official has confirmed to Reuters that &#8220;this was a kill operation&#8221; and there was no desire to capture Bin Laden alive. This was a targeted kill appropriate for a military combatant but not for an ordinary (or even extraordinary) criminal.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, our government felt it necessary to announce that Bin Laden was shot after he allegedly resisted, thus suggesting he was not killed in cold blood. But it is clear that he would have been killed whether or not he resisted, since this was a kill operation from the outset and it is unlikely he was ever given the opportunity to surrender an opportunity not required under the laws of war.</p>
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