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		<title>The NYPD Cop-Killing: The Chickens Come Home to Roost</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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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>New York Times Morally Confused by Synagogue Massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aggressors, victims…what’s the difference?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/29906170001_3898124865001_thumb-645697987bded02d650f6a70670096d7.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245712" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/29906170001_3898124865001_thumb-645697987bded02d650f6a70670096d7.jpg" alt="29906170001_3898124865001_thumb-645697987bded02d650f6a70670096d7" width="328" height="246" /></a>This week’s terror attack in a Jerusalem synagogue evoked <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/opinion/horror-in-israel.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a 300-word unsigned editorial</span></a> from the <i>New York Times</i>.</p>
<p>Seemingly, this was a straightforward case: two terrorists with a gun, axes, and knives entered the synagogue and proceeded to butcher peaceful, unarmed worshippers. But for the <i>Times</i>, nothing involving Israel is straightforward.</p>
<p>Yes, the <i>Times</i> called the attack a “bloody rampage” and said Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas “has a duty to make the moral case that such brutality and inhumanity can only bring shame upon the Palestinian people” (which, by the way, he’s never going to do).</p>
<p>But the <i>Times</i> also called the attack</p>
<blockquote><p><i>a tragedy for all Israelis and Palestinians. The two communities appeared increasingly locked in a cycle of hatred and hopelessness, where chances for stability, much less permanent peace, seem nearly impossible.</i></p>
<p><i>… it also is part of an alarming wave of violence fueled by a dispute over a holy site in the Old City known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The drift of that could not be clearer: both sides are at fault, both evincing “hatred” and “violence” that make peace “nearly impossible.”</p>
<p>But is that really true?</p>
<p>The attack on the synagogue immediately killed four Jews, three of them rabbis; a fifth person—an Israeli Druze policeman who fought the terrorists—died the following day.</p>
<p>In addition to those five, six other people <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/terrorism/palestinian/pages/victims%2520of%2520palestinian%2520violence%2520and%2520terrorism%2520sinc.aspx"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have been killed by Palestinian terror</span></a> since October 22: a three-month-old Israeli girl and an Ecuadorian woman in a car-ramming attack, an Israeli Druze border patrolman and a 17-year-old Israeli youth in another car-ramming attack, an off-duty Israeli soldier in a stabbing attack, and an Israeli woman in a car-ramming/stabbing attack.</p>
<p>Another Israeli, Rabbi Yehuda Glick, survived an attempt to shoot him to death by a Palestinian terrorist. And three other soldiers were injured in another car-ramming incident that now also <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4594352,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">turns out to have been a terror attack</span></a>.</p>
<p>Now, in those five weeks, how many Palestinians have been killed or injured in terror attacks? The answer, of course, is none. The only Palestinians killed in the “conflict” have been those shot by Israeli policemen or soldiers during or after attacks.</p>
<p>By this standard, the United States and ISIS have been “locked in a cycle of hatred” and violence. Innocent Americans have been killed by ISIS; ISIS members have been killed in U.S. air strikes. It’s the same thing, isn’t it?</p>
<p>If you go back to last July 2, you’ll find a brutal murder by three Israelis of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy named Muhammad Abu Khdeir (supposed “revenge” for the earlier killing of three Israeli youths by Hamas members). The Israeli perpetrators of that crime, which shocked and horrified the whole country, are now <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/israeli-killers-of-arab-boy-aberrant-individuals/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">in jail awaiting trial</span></a>. The leader of the three was an individual so aberrant that he had earlier threatened to murder his one-month-old daughter.</p>
<p>Anyone who keeps track at all of this “conflict” knows the situation is very different on the Palestinian side, where murderers of Israelis—any Israelis—are systematically honored, glorified, and if possible, remunerated.</p>
<p>Meanwhile on Wednesday, behind the haze of disinformation and distortions of the <i>New York Times</i> and other big media, a sad but heartwarming event occurred in Israel.</p>
<p>Zidan Sayif, the 30-year-old Druze policeman who along with two other policemen fought the synagogue terrorists on Tuesday, paid for doing so with his life, and is survived by a wife and five-month-old daughter, was buried in the Druze village of Yanuh-Jat in northern Israel. The thousands in attendance included Druze notables and the Israeli president, internal security minister, police commissioner, and other officials.</p>
<p>And they also included hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews. The synagogue attacked on Tuesday was ultra-Orthodox. Although ultra-Orthodox Jews tend to be insular, they came out in appreciation of Zidan Sayif’s heroism as he and his fellow officers prevented what could have been a much larger massacre.</p>
<p>At the funeral, ultra-Orthodox Member of Knesset Eli Yishai <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4593823,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>We all weep alongside the family. We are here to pay our last respects to a great hero who gave his life. . . . Your memory is forever engraved in our hearts.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Risha Segal, an ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem resident, had earlier posted online:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>We are calling for widespread solidarity throughout Israel, with an emphasis on gratitude. We will not be ungrateful and will show our thanks for those who sacrificed their lives for us. This is one of the most important principles in Judaism.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called Sayif’s father on Wednesday and <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=21613"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Your son’s bravery prevented many victims. On behalf of the citizens of Israel I want to offer my condolences for his death while fulfilling his duty. It is precisely at this time that you must raise your heads high with pride and know that the death of your son was not in vain. Thanks to him many citizens can now continue their lives. </i></p></blockquote>
<p>And Sheikh Moafaq Tarif, spiritual leader of the Israeli Druze community, had this to say at the funeral:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The entire Druze community lowers its head together with the families of the victims of the terrible massacre in Jerusalem, and we hope for safer, quieter days ahead. We must take our covenant of blood and turn it into a covenant of life. We are a peace-seeking people, and our sons serve this state and the entire public, and we will continue to do so.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza, too, could live peacefully with the Jews of Israel and other peace-loving peoples of the Middle East. They could work out their differences with Israel without ramming, shooting, hacking, and stabbing men, women, and children. Realizing that, though, seems beyond the ken of the <i>New York Times.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian leaders incite brutal synagogue killings in Jerusalem. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245561" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_-450x314.jpg" alt="ShowImage.ashx" width="358" height="250" /></a>Two Palestinian thugs, armed with cleavers, knives and a gun, invaded an orthodox synagogue in West Jerusalem early Tuesday during morning prayers, and proceeded to murder four Jewish worshippers in cold blood. At least a dozen others were wounded. Three of the murder victims were American citizens. The fourth was a British citizen. Three of the victims were also rabbis. Israeli police, arriving at the scene of the horrific massacre and exchanging gunfire with the Palestinians as they tried to escape, shot the murderers to death. But the horrible images of the slain and wounded worshippers with blood everywhere, drenching holy books, prayer shawls and walls of the synagogue, will live on for a very long time.</p>
<p>“To see Jews wearing tefillin and wrapped in the tallit lying in pools of blood, I wondered if I was imagining scenes from the Holocaust,” said Yehuda Meshi Zahav, the veteran leader of a religious emergency-response team as quoted by the <i>New York Times. </i>“It was a massacre of Jews at prayer.”</p>
<p>At least ten Jews have now been run over by cars and killed, or have been stabbed to death by Palestinians during the last month. Call this latest spate of violence the &#8220;Car Intifada,&#8221; as some Palestinian social media refer to it with a song by that name, or the &#8220;Knife Intifada,&#8221; as other Palestinians have coined it. Either way, Palestinian leaders have Jewish blood on their hands after exhorting their followers to commit such violent acts. The inciters to murder are as guilty as the murderers themselves.</p>
<p>Predictably, Hamas praised the cowardly synagogue attack as a “heroic” act. Hamas&#8217;s leadership claimed that the brutal murders were justified as legitimate responses to Israeli actions. “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time,” a spokesman for Hamas declared. Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Al Jazeera International to expect “more revolution in Jerusalem, and more uprising.&#8221;</p>
<p>A Hamas official posted <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ana.hor.bahaayaseen/photos/a.634911186630127.1073741830.263328473788402/671934452927800/?type=1"><span style="color: #0463c1;">an image of a grotesque poster</span></a> depicting the attack on his Facebook page. It showed Palestinians brandishing guns and a bloodied knife rampaging through a synagogue with bodies of Jews strewn on the floor and other Jews trying to flee the terror. In the evil perverted minds of Hamas jihadists and their ilk, the killing of Jews even while praying in their own synagogue far removed from the Temple Mount is a cause for great celebration.</p>
<p>Palestinian Authority President Abbas, whose talk of a &#8220;religious war&#8221; and other incendiary rhetoric helped to incite the latest in a series of violent attacks against Jewish civilians in Jerusalem and elsewhere, issued a formulaic condemnation of the synagogue killings. At the same time he continued his lie-ridden rant against Israelis:</p>
<blockquote><p>The president always condemns killings of civilians from any party whatsoever, and condemns the killing of worshipers today in one of the houses of worship in West Jerusalem, and also denounces all violent acts no matter what their source is, and demands an end to the ongoing incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocative acts by Israeli settlers as well as incitement by some Israeli ministers.</p>
<p>The presidency also confirms that it is time to end the occupation and end the causes of tension and violence, affirming our commitment to a just-based solution on the basis of a two-state solution, in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy, and maintain an atmosphere of calm and understandings that have been made with King Abdullah II and American Secretary of State John Kerry in Amman.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, official Palestinian Authority television is reported to have broadcast disgusting images of Bethlehem residents handing out candy in the streets, to celebrate the attack. And an official spokesman for Abbas’s Fatah party, Ahmed Assaf, said that “the Jerusalem operation was a natural response to the Israeli violations.”</p>
<p>Secretary of State Kerry, who just a few days ago expressed his belief that tensions in Jerusalem were beginning to de-escalate, issued a strong condemnation of the synagogue murders. “To have this kind of act, which is a pure result of incitement, of calls for ‘days of rage,’ of just irresponsibility, is unacceptable,” Kerry said. “The Palestinian leadership must condemn this and they must begin to take serious steps to restrain any kind of incitement …This simply has no place in human behavior and we need to hear from leaders who are going to lead their people to a different place.”</p>
<p>Clearly, Abbas and his henchmen have not gotten Kerry’s message. And Hamas seeks to characterize the synagogue slaughters as delivering a very different type of message. Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman, wrote in a Facebook post: “We have the full right to revenge for the blood of our martyrs in all possible means.”</p>
<p>For his part, President Obama did personally condemn the bloody slaughters, saying “there is and can be no justification for such attacks against innocent civilians.” But, as usual, Obama tried to link an act of pure evil &#8212; the shedding of innocent blood of worshippers in their holy place of prayer &#8211; to the failed peace negotiations. He said that &#8220;it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence and seek a path forward towards peace.” Obama also continued his false moral equivalency narrative by noting that there has been violence committed on both sides. &#8220;Too many Israelis have died, too many Palestinians have died,” Obama said. That’s true, but it is the Palestinians who are at fault. They have rejected real peace, from the original United Nations two-state partition solution more than six decades ago until now, and have instead conducted a relentless campaign of violence against Jewish civilians.</p>
<p>The failed peace talks, the building of additional Jewish housing in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the lies about purported Israeli plans to interfere with Muslim worship and invade their mosques serve only as pretexts for Palestinians to satiate their never-ending lust for Jewish blood. Obama’s anti-Israel bias blinds him to the incontrovertible fact that Palestinian leaders have refused to work together with Israeli leaders to lower tensions and reject violence as he has suggested. Only Israel is trying in good faith to lower the temperature and prevent a conflagration. Indeed, while Hamas leaders and Abbas have incited violence with blatant lies about alleged Israeli plans to attack the al-Aqsa Mosque, Prime Minister Netanyahu has tried to de-escalate tensions by even continuing to prevent Jews from exercising their fundamental human right to worship freely wherever they wish, including on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.</p>
<p>However, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s patience has just about run out. Now Jews cannot even pray safely in their own synagogues in the uncontested area of West Jerusalem. Such pathological Palestinian behavior must be stopped once and for all.</p>
<p>“This is the direct result of the incitement being led by Hamas and Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority - PA President Mahmoud Abbas], incitement which the international community is irresponsibly ignoring,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said. “We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were met by reprehensible murderers. We will respond harshly,” he added.</p>
<p>The prime minister called for national unity in fighting against &#8220;those human animals who committed this massacre&#8221; and against Hamas, the Islamic movement, the Palestinian Authority and whomever else &#8220;disseminate libels against the state of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Demolition of the Palestinian murderers’ homes and arrests of any and all accomplices are first steps. Security will be beefed up all around Jerusalem. More restrictions may be needed on freedom of movement among at least certain segments of the Palestinian population living in Jerusalem. The two killers were residents of East Jerusalem who carried Israeli identification cards allowing them to travel throughout Israel. They also worked in Jewish neighborhoods. In addition, Israeli officials should bring pressure to bear on social media providers such as Facebook to monitor and immediately remove the kind of hate speech inciting violence against Jews, including babies, on sites that Palestinians are regularly frequenting. If necessary, Israel should use its technological prowess to block access to such sites.</p>
<p>Whatever measures Israel takes to protect its citizens against the Palestinians’ bloodlust should be fully supported by the United States. Anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council should be vetoed. UN Human Rights Council kangaroo investigations of alleged Israeli “crimes” should be met with U.S. withdrawal from this farcical body and de-funding. But that is not likely to happen, since President Obama’s thinking is in synch with the anti-Israel, moral equivalency mindset of the UN. When I asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein for his comment on the Jerusalem synagogue slaughters, he responded in a similar fashion to President Obama’s statement. He condemned any killings of civilians and said he hoped that calm can be restored. He would not criticize the incitements to violence by Hamas and other Palestinian leaders.</p>
<p>If, as expected, the Obama administration continues its campaign to undermine Prime Minister Netanyahu, rather than wholeheartedly support his fight against ISIS look-alikes such as Hamas and other Palestinian murderers of innocent civilians, the prime minister should go over Obama’s head and take his case directly to the American people. His message should be that Israel and America are fighting the same enemy. Israel’s battles against the Palestinian jihadists are inextricably linked with America’s fight against ISIS and other jihadists worldwide who want to destroy the freedoms we take for granted. He can start with a speech to a joint session of Congress, which large bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress would welcome, even if President Obama is displeased.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2014 04:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Journalism Fellow points to the Islamic roots of the Islamic killing fields. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s special guest on <em>The Glazov Gang</em> was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/obamas-brother-muslim-brotherhood-leader/">Raymond Ibrahim</a>, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Middle East and Islam specialist, and the author of <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"><em>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians </em></a>(2013) and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Qaeda-Reader-Essential-Terrorist-Organization/dp/076792262X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381779501&amp;sr=1-2"><em>The Al Qaeda Reader </em></a>(2007).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">He joined the Gang to discuss <em><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations.">ISIS&#8217;s Islamic Inspirations, </span></em><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations.">explaining how the jiha</span><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS's Islamic Inspirations.">dist terror we see in Iraq today, and throughout the world, is founded on Islamic theology. Raymond also discussed </span><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/video-jamie-glazov-discusses-his-battle-on-hannity-against-the-unholy-alliance/">Jamie’s Battle on Hannity against the Unholy Alliance</a>, Jihad Denial, Obama’s Enabling of Jihad, Jihadi Foreign Travelers, and much, much more:</p>
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<p>Daniel discussed <em>The Invasion on Our Southern Border, </em>unveiling the horror of Obama’s border disaster. <span class="userContent">He also discussed Israel vs. Hamas, Obama&#8217;s Iraq Throwaway, Hillary&#8217;s Rape Defense Lies, and much, much more:</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration stirs up anti-Israel hatred in the wake of teen triple murder.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/israel-mourning_2959828b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235525" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/israel-mourning_2959828b-450x280.jpg" alt="israel-mourning_2959828b" width="257" height="160" /></a>On June 12, three unsuspecting Israeli teens, one of whom had U.S. citizenship, were kidnapped and cold-bloodedly murdered minutes later by two Arabs affiliated with the Hamas terrorist organization. Eighteen days later, their lifeless bodies were found partly buried in a field in southern Judea.</p>
<p>Three days after the kidnapping, Secretary of State John Kerry <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Pillar-of-Defense/Kerry-calls-kidnapping-of-Israelis-despicable-terrorist-act-359404"><span style="color: #0433ff;">belatedly condemned</span></a> the criminal action and referred to it as a &#8220;despicable terrorist act.&#8221; The Secretary however, qualified his statement and was careful not to point fingers and lay blame at any specific entity though it was abundantly clear that Hamas was culpable.</p>
<p>The White House’s response to the abduction was even more deplorable. There simply was none. Despite strong bipartisan congressional condemnation of the kidnapping, the President maintained his <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/181898"><span style="color: #0433ff;">cold silence</span></a> on the issue as if to convey his disdain for the Jewish State. The President’s posture stands in marked contrast to his reaction to the abduction of Nigerian school girls by the Boko Haram terrorist group when he expressed instant outrage.</p>
<p>As if to add insult to injury, the White House issued an <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-official-slams-kerry-after-condemnation-of-arab-teens-death/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">immediate condemnation</span></a> of the killing of an Arab youth, 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, in Jerusalem on July 2, calling it “heinous” while Kerry announced that, “There are no words to convey adequately our condolences to the Palestinian people.”</p>
<p>The obvious disparity and manner in which Obama chose to address the two incidents speaks volumes about the visceral dislike this President maintains for Israel. As Israel’s closest ally, one would have expected an immediate condemnation of the snatching of three teens and expression of sympathy and solidarity. Instead, Israel was treated to vacillation from the Secretary of State and stone-cold silence from the White House. It took Obama eighteen long days to break his silence on the matter and even then, the White House statement was accompanied by calls for “restraint” as if the issuance of a condemnation was an afterthought.</p>
<p>What is even more astounding is the fact that the motive for the killing of the Arab teen is uncertain and there is speculation that his murder may have been carried out by his own kinsmen. Israeli police are still investigating but there is some indication that the teen’s alleged <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/02/analysis-arab-sex-and-arab-terror/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sexual orientation</span></a> may have been the motive for his killing by disapproving Muslims. A senior Israeli police official noted that the police are <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182432"><span style="color: #0433ff;">well acquainted</span></a> with the teen’s family and would not discount the possibility that he was kidnapped and murdered by rival Arab clans, an all-too often occurrence in the Arab world.</p>
<p>Both theories – Arab murder where sexuality is the underlying factor or inter-Arab clan killing – are certainly equally if not more plausible than the so-called “revenge killing” theory, which posits that the killing was carried out in retaliation for the abduction and murder of the three Israeli youths. Arab clan killing is an everyday occurrence in the Mideast and there’s perhaps nothing that drives an Islamist crazier than the mere mention of homosexuality, except perhaps for the presence of Jews or “Crusaders” in “Muslim lands.”</p>
<p>“President” Abbas, the unelected Palestinian strongman, wishing to steal the narrative and deflect attention away from the murderous nature of his regime, immediately blamed “Israeli settlers” for the atrocity despite the fact that there is not a shred of evidence to support such a convoluted theory.</p>
<p>But to Abbas and his White House cronies, facts are irrelevant. Evidence is irrelevant. Investigations which point to a motive harmful to the Palestinian narrative are irrelevant.</p>
<p>Abbas’s reaction to the killing of Abu Khdeir is nothing if not predictable. His goal is to lie, cheat and obfuscate in an attempt to stoke the flames of hate and confuse an uninformed and naive Western audience. But the White House’s immediate condemnation, without adequately assessing the facts, represents the epitome of irresponsibility. It bolsters Abbas and leads to excited Arab street violence. A cynic would say that this is precisely what the White House desires. In fact, one need not be a cynic to draw this conclusion.</p>
<p>The administration’s underhanded attempts to foment unrest among West Bank Palestinians are not without precedent. In March 2010, the administration’s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/world/middleeast/17mideast.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">public condemnation and rebuke</span></a> of Prime Minister Netanyahu over land development in consensus areas was the impetus behind scattered protests among Palestinians in East Jerusalem and other areas administered by Israel. Then again in November 2013, Kerry warned of Israel’s impending isolation and the prospect of Arab violence and unrest in Judea and Samaria if the “peace talks” failed and repeated those absurd assertions in the hope that those harmful statements against a loyal ally would materialize into a <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Israeli-protesters-condemn-Kerrys-remarks-over-3rd-intifada-at-US-Consulate-331178"><span style="color: #0433ff;">self-fulfilling prophecy</span></a>. Indeed, following Kerry’s comments, a firebomb was lobbed by Arabs at a car carrying civilian passengers resulting in injury to its occupants.</p>
<p>The Palestinian on the street takes his que from the Palestinian leadership who in turn, take their que from the prevailing winds of Washington, which are invariably hostile to Israel these days. The disparate treatment and manner in which the administration handled – or rather mishandled – the kidnapping-murder of three innocent kids, simply because they were Jews and the alacrity of the administration’s condemnation of an Arab youth killed under mysterious and yet to be determined circumstances, speaks volumes about President Obama’s nefarious agenda when it comes to Israel, the Mideast’s only stable, vibrant and thriving democracy.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 04:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/elliot_rodger_t479.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226393 alignleft" alt="elliot_rodger_t479" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/elliot_rodger_t479-450x329.jpg" width="315" height="230" /></a>First Elliot Rodger murdered his three roommates with a knife, hammer and machete. Then he shot eight people, three of them fatally, and tried to run over several others in his car.</span></p>
<p>After the bodies were taken away, everyone on television agreed that it was the fault of the guns.</p>
<p>Rodger had been in therapy since he was eight and was seeing therapists every day in high school. He had a history of violent threats and psychical assaults and the police had already gotten involved. He was on multiple prescription medications and had therapists whom he alerted to his plans by sending them his manifesto.</p>
<p>A therapist reacted by notifying his mother who drove out personally. By then even more people were dead.</p>
<p>In a country where a little boy with a pop tart chewed in the shape of a gun triggers immediate action, the professionals who cashed in on the killer’s wealthy family were in no hurry to call the police. One even reassured his mother while the shootings were going on that it wasn’t him.</p>
<p>So it was obviously the fault of the guns… which he bought with $5,000 from his family. The BMW he used to commit some of the attacks was given to him by his mother.</p>
<p>Jenni Rodger, his British aunt, blamed America and guns for her nephew&#8217;s massacre. &#8220;What kind of a society allows this? How can this be allowed to happen? I want to appeal to Americans to do something about this horrific problem.&#8221;</p>
<p>Somehow the parenting failure of her brother is now the fault of an entire foreign country.</p>
<p>Rodger&#8217;s father issued a statement through his lawyer in support of gun control and &#8220;staunchly against guns.&#8221; It might have been more useful if instead of opposing a category of manual instruments; Peter Rodger had spent more time dealing with his son&#8217;s problems.</p>
<p>Guns did not kill six people. His son did.</p>
<p>When a teenager stabbed twenty people at a Pittsburgh-area high school there were no easy answers about gun control to take refuge in. If Rodger had stuck to his knife, hammer and machete, relatives who coddled him all these years wouldn&#8217;t be able to shift the blame. They wouldn&#8217;t be able to politicize the crime and snip their own involvement out of the picture.</p>
<p>Elliot Rodger&#8217;s parents, communicating through a lawyer and a talent agent, find it convenient to put up another layer of abstraction between themselves and the actions of their son. And the easiest way to do that is to transform it into a widespread social problem. The more that the smiling people on television talk about gun control, the less likely they are to talk about them.</p>
<p>Expanding an individual act into a social problem manufactures a collective responsibility. The killer&#8217;s family has successfully shifted their responsibility to people who live a thousand miles away. Now the villains are the 5 million members of the NRA who are unwilling to give up their constitutional rights because Elliot Rodger&#8217;s family failed at their single most important job.</p>
<p>Why is a gun owner in North Carolina more responsible for the Isla Vista killings than Peter Rodger? Does Peter Rodger’s staunch opposition to guns free him from responsibility while dumping it on the majority of Americans who believe in the Bill of Rights?</p>
<p>Elliot Rodger was not a social problem. He was not a gun culture. He was not a national anything. He was an individual and individuals bear responsibility for their own actions.</p>
<p>The left is expert at removing responsibility from individuals and assigning it to the culture at large. Every murder is a failure of society. And society fails every murderer, they insist. We are all murderers because we didn&#8217;t vote for the right politicians who would have outlawed guns.</p>
<p>The &#8220;You didn&#8217;t build that&#8221; society is also the &#8220;You didn&#8217;t do that&#8221; society. The flip side of Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama&#8217;s collectivist rhetoric is that just as no one invents the airplane, creates a company or writes the Great American Novel on their own, no one kills six people on their own. If you killed six people, it&#8217;s because of the Second Amendment. If you wanted to kill sorority girls, it&#8217;s because of Seth Rogen movies. If you&#8217;re a half-Asian who beat and stabbed your Asian roommates to death, it&#8217;s because of white (or half-white) supremacism.</p>
<p>Everyone but the killer is responsible for his shooting spree. The problem is tackled with public awareness hashtags and zero tolerance legislation that hurts millions of random people.</p>
<p>America&#8217;s gun owners, like its machete and hammer owners, did not kill anyone. Every day the vast majority of gun owners somehow manage to get through the day without a killing spree. Their tools don&#8217;t have minds of their own. The gun culture that liberals talk about does not sneak in through their windows at night and urge them to shoot up the neighborhood.</p>
<p>And it was the good guys with guns the left sneers at who stopped Elliot Rodger’s killing spree.</p>
<p>We aren&#8217;t rethinking the First Amendment because of Rodger&#8217;s YouTube videos and manifesto. Why are we supposed to rethink the Second Amendment every time some psycho includes guns in his killing spree? The problem was not with Rodger&#8217;s computer, his smartphone, his hammer, his machete or his handguns. They were only the tools that he used. The problem was with him.</p>
<p>Elliot Rodger&#8217;s family doesn&#8217;t want to deal with their own choices. Elliot Rodger certainly did not want to deal with his. However we won&#8217;t achieve a moral society through collective guilt, but through individual responsibility.</p>
<p>A better country doesn&#8217;t begin with banning guns, but with holding accountable those who kill.</p>
<p>Even while liberals were puffing out their chests over gun control, the Supreme Court&#8217;s liberal justices stepped in to save Freddie Hall who kidnapped, raped and murdered a pregnant woman.</p>
<p>That was in 1978. A decade earlier he had gone to jail for raping another woman and gouging out her eyes so that she wouldn&#8217;t be able to identify him.</p>
<p>Like some of the other monsters on death row, Hall decided to plead retarded. His IQ scores dropped. After a long series of appeals, the Supreme Court finally decided that executing him would be unconstitutional.</p>
<p>&#8220;Florida’s law contravenes our Nation’s commitment to dignity and its duty to teach human decency as the mark of a civilized world,&#8221; Justice Kennedy wrote, speaking for the majority.</p>
<p>America was at its best in decency when it held men accountable for their actions. Liberals like Kennedy instead seek every possible pretext for protecting killers from their choices. We can restore decency by rejecting social problems and instead embracing individual responsibility.</p>
<p>Our choice is between a society of individual responsibility where everyone can be trusted to own a gun and a society of collectivist irresponsibles where no one can be trusted to own a gun.</p>
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		<title>Killings of Christians by Islamists Doubled in 2013</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Egyptian-Copts-are-the-la-008.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216639" alt="Egyptian Copts are the largest community of Christians left in the Middle East" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Egyptian-Copts-are-the-la-008.jpg" width="290" height="214" /></a>According to Open Doors, a non-denominational group that supports persecuted Christians worldwide, the official number of Christians killed for their faith around the world doubled in 2013, compared to 2012. According to the annual survey, the number of Christians killed in Syria in 2013 comes to more than the whole global total of 2012. Approximately 13 percent of the Syrian population is made up of Christians.</p>
<p>In the list of nations with the highest number of killings of Christians, Syria was followed by Nigeria, Pakistan, and Egypt. In its 2014 World Watch List, Somalia comes in at the top of the list— moving from fifth to second place— followed by Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, the Maldives, Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Iran and Yemen.</p>
<p>The survey conducted by Open Doors only counts the numbers of Christian who are killed, reported in the media, and confirmed. Some estimates by other surveys indicate the number exceeds 10,000 deaths. Open Doors has reported that it documented 2,123 killings, compared to the 1,201 in 2012. In 2013, 1,213 of these people were killed in Syria alone. &#8220;This is a very minimal count based on what has been reported in the media and we can confirm,&#8221; said Frans Veerman, head of research for Open Doors.</p>
<p>The report revealed that &#8220;Islamist extremism is the worst persecutor of the worldwide church,&#8221; adding that in 36 countries on the report’s list, radical Muslims were the key source behind these persecutions and killings. Michel Varton, head of Open Doors France, told journalists in Strasbourg, &#8220;In Syria, another war is thriving in the shadow of the civil war &#8211; the war against the church.&#8221;</p>
<p>The intriguing issue is that various Islamist rebel groups— including Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham brigade, and other Al-Qaeda-linked groups— are still promising minorities (particularly Christians) that they will have a peaceful life if they support them and if the Islamists come to power. It would be interesting to see an Islamist group provide an example of an Islamist state that has provided full rights for religious and ethnic minorities since the emergence of Islam. Astonishingly, these Islamists groups still emphasize that the rights of religious minorities will be preserved.</p>
<p>This is just another strategic tactic to take control of the states and then impose Sharia and Islamic laws, discriminate against minorities, jail and imprison non-Muslims, and persecute minorities— particularly Christians and Jews.</p>
<p>The first laws that they will pass when they come to power will include: Islam will be declared the sole religion of the state, the law of the land will come from the Sharia, other religions will not be recognized, Christians and other minorities will not be able to run for office, women will not be full citizens, and more. Some other, more ridiculous, Sharia laws may also be implemented, including how women cannot sit on chairs or drive any kind of transportation.</p>
<p>There are many examples of these types of promises made by Islamist groups before they come to power in the history of Islam. For example, the Islamist party of Iran galvanized the support of women and minorities by promising change, yet later imposed the most brutal and barbaric laws against them. These examples existed for the last 1400 years, since the rise of Islam.</p>
<p>Additionally, how can Christians trust the Islamists when they have been executing their own members for the sake of power and for violating Sharia and Allah’s laws?</p>
<p>This week, according to several national and international news outlets and activists on the ground, the Islamist State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has executed dozens of other Islamist rebels in Syria.  ISIL, an Al-Qaeda-linked group, has regained most of the territory it lost in the northeastern Raqqa province. Accordingly, approximately 100 rebel fighters from the Nusra Front— another Al-Qaeda-linked group and Ahrar al-Sham brigade— were executed after being captured by ISIL. Reuters quoted activists as saying that the rebel fighters were captured in the town of Tel Abiad, on the border with Turkey.</p>
<p>ISIL has launched its campaign to build an Islamist caliphate, combining Syria and Iraq through brutalizing the civilians, government forces, and rebel-held areas, while gaining territories and executing those they say have violated Sharia and Islamic law. An unnamed activist said to Reuters,<i> </i>&#8220;About 70 bodies, most shot in the head, were collected and sent to the Raqqa National hospital,&#8221;<i> </i>adding, &#8220;Many of those executed had been wounded in the fighting. The fact that Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham are ideologically similar to the ISIL did not matter.”</p>
<p>It seems that believing in one God, Muhammad, the Quran, and all Islamic and Sharia laws does not matter for the Islamists when it comes to gaining power.  Although, their major argument is that they respect those who believe in Allah and Muslims, history has shown that during the last thousand years what truly matters for Islamists is power and rule.</p>
<p>Prince Charles has decried the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries. Dr. David Curry, CEO and president of Open Doors USA, told The Blaze, “We’re going to motivate the U.S. to pay attention to this issue as a critical component of creating free societies and to support Christians wherever they may be in the world.” Now is the time to observe whether President Obama is also going to issue any statement supporting the persecuted Christians around the world.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/e40ff790a23a2edfd04f4bb6412cdefb.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-201722 alignleft" alt="e40ff790a23a2edfd04f4bb6412cdefb" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/e40ff790a23a2edfd04f4bb6412cdefb-450x327.jpg" width="270" height="196" /></a>In “Reinforcing the Self-Serving Myth that Blacks Kill Whites Because They’re White,” Earl Ofari Hutchinson—Huffington Post writer, MSNBC contributor, and a co-host for Al Sharpton’s radio show—addresses the cold-blooded murder of white Australian Christopher Lane by black teenagers in Oklahoma.</span></b></p>
<p>Although “there is not a shred of evidence or even the hint that [the] killing of Lane was racially motivated,” Hutchinson asserts, right-wingers imply otherwise.  Theirs is a “false, self-serving,” and “cheap ploy” to marginalize “civil rights leaders” while promoting the “myth” of a national press determined to conceal an “epidemic” of black-on-white killing.</p>
<p>In reality, the “miniscule” number of whites murdered by blacks each year consists of victims of “garden-variety street crime” who are “perceived to have valuables…that poor blacks aren’t likely to have.”</p>
<p>To Hutchinson’s analysis several replies are in order.</p>
<p>First, contrary to his assertion, there most certainly <i>is </i>evidence that the punks that murdered Lane were motivated, at least in part, by animus toward whites.  According to <i>The Daily Caller, </i>one of the suspects, James Edwards, had tweeted the following just a few months ago: “90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.” Shortly after George Zimmerman was acquitted of any wrongdoing in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Edwards tweeted that he had “knocked out 5 woods”—i.e. “peckerwoods,” a derogatory term for whites.</p>
<p>Second, Ilana Mercer, the daughter of a South African rabbi and former anti-apartheid activist, is also a World Net Daily writer who recently established beyond doubt that, sadly, the “epidemic” of black-on-white violence is anything but a myth.</p>
<p>In “Who’s Killing Whom? Speak Up, O’Reilly!” Mercer commends Bill O’Reilly for noting that blacks, at just 13 percent of the population, constitute nearly 40 percent of those convicted of violent crimes and 36 percent of all murderers in America.  However, she is quick to castigate the Fox News star for failing to comment on the color of interracial crime, of “deflect[ing] from the white-hot issue of black-on-white violence.”</p>
<p>“You see,” Mercer remarks, “blacks are also more likely”—far more likely—“to murder whites than the reverse.”  Citing Bureau of Justice Statistics data, she concedes Hutchinson’s point that whites and blacks both are much more likely to be murdered by members of their respective races than by those of another race.  Yet she immediately observes that “a hell of a lot of whites are killed by blacks, while few blacks are offed by whites.”</p>
<p>Regarding “stranger homicide”—you know, the kind of killing to which Chris Lane succumbed—Mercer draws our attention to the fact that “blacks murder whites four times more often than whites murder blacks.” The real white-on-black murder rate is most definitely even lower than statistics suggest, for <i>Hispanics </i>are identified as “white” when they are <i>perpetrators.  </i>However, when they are the <i>victims </i>of interracial violence, Hispanics are treated separately from whites.</p>
<p>The phenomenon of black-on-white murder is no myth. It is a reality as pronounced as it is hideous.  Doubtless, the Hutchinsons of the world identify it as “myth” because it fails to accommodate <i>their</i> self-serving myth, the fiction that always and forever blacks are the prey, not the predators, of whites.</p>
<p>This brings us to the next point.</p>
<p>Even in conceding that blacks do indeed murder whites more often than the reverse, Hutchinson still can’t resist interpreting this fact in the light of his myth of perpetual black suffering: Whites “are perceived to have valuables… that poor blacks aren’t likely to have.”</p>
<p>Notice, Hutchinson is hereby legitimizing what he in other contexts he would surely decry as “racial profiling.” He tells us that black criminals seek out white victims because they “perceive”—they <i>assume—</i>that, because the latter are <i>white</i>, they will also have “valuables.”</p>
<p>So, without realizing it, Hutchinson undermines his own argument and inadvertently acknowledges that, after all, there <i>is </i>a racial angle to black-on-white murder.</p>
<p>Hutchinson’s analysis is also wide of the mark in his predictably leftist compulsion to identify criminality, including the most cold-blooded and horrific of murderous activity, as a function of poverty<i>. </i>But while poverty can account for why a poor man would <i>rob </i>another, it emphatically does <i>not </i>account for why one would <i>murder </i>another.</p>
<p>Nor, for that matter, does it account for other species of black-on-white violence—like rape.</p>
<p>In her World Net Daily article, Mercer reiterates some telling figures that she first visited in her book, <i>Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa.  </i>According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2005, blacks “were responsible for 36 percent of the 111,490 incidents in which whites were raped.” At the same time, “not one black woman or man—0.0 percent—was ravished by a Caucasian.”</p>
<p>If only Mr. Hutchinson was right, if only the black-on-white violence of which the poor, unsuspecting Chris Lane was the most recent victim, was a myth.  It is not. It is an evil of the first order that all decent people, and God-fearing folks especially, must repudiate unequivocally.</p>
<p>And we must be just as resolved to repudiate Hutchinson and his fellow ideologues—people like Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and, yes, Oprah Winfrey<i>—</i>who, in spite of being well positioned to decry this wickedness, have actually sought to fuel the flames.</p>
<p>Dripping from their hands is the blood of many innocents.</p>
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		<title>Al Jazeera Airs Fake Morsi Supporter Killing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 04:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While Al Jazeera’s pro-Islamist lies and propaganda have been exposed numerous times — lies and propaganda being <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war">doctrinally permissible through taqiyya</a> — consider the following video recently aired live by the terrorist supporting TV network.  A near hysterical woman is heard lambasting the Egyptian military for supposedly killing peaceful Brotherhood protesters, while the Al Jazeera crew videotapes a man who appears to be either unconscious or dead — a supposed victim of the military.  His hand rests on his torso; his shirt under his hand is covered with blood, implying there is a bullet wound in that spot. However, when the unsuspecting doctor treating him tries to lift the man’s shirt,  this supposedly unconscious or slain man — with his eyes still shut and his facial expression unmoved — subtly lifts his left leg both to push the doctor’s hand away and block his unharmed and blood-free torso from being taped by Al Jazeera. Of course, the person videotaping instantly stopped — but not before enough of this shameful episode was recorded, proving Al Jazeera’s nonstop pro-Brotherhood propaganda campaign, one naively or intentionally followed by most of the Western media.</p>
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<p>[Note: The scene in question plays from :08-:14, and then is followed by Arabic text from the person who taped and posted it on YouTube, and then replays again several times from :23-36.]</p>
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		<title>Muslim Persecution of Christians: The Spring Offensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is the Obama administration worrying about the "human rights" of jihadis responsible for killing the most Christians?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PA-11805973.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-193190" alt="Mideast Egypt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PA-11805973.jpg" width="290" height="195" /></a>Originally published by the </i><i><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3760/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013">Gatestone Institute</a>.</i></span></b></p>
<p>The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric.  A <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/persecution/2013/05/31/deadliest-place-to-be-a-christian-nigeria#.UaubWUCTioM">new report</a> states that 70% of Christians killed around the world in 2012 were killed in the African nation.  Among some of the atrocities committed in March alone, at least <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Suicide-bombers-target-Christian-neighbourhood-in-Nigeria-at-least-41-dead.html">41 people were killed in a suicide bomb</a> attack at a bus station in a predominantly Christian neighborhood.  According to the Christian Association of <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/Our-work/Our-current-projects/BF-Project-Countries/Nigeria.html?">Nigeria,</a> these attacks “were a signpost of the intended extermination of Christians and Christianity from northern <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/Our-work/Our-current-projects/BF-Project-Countries/Nigeria.html?">Nigeria</a>.”</p>
<p>According to the Rev. Jerome Ituah, “Out of the 52 Catholic churches in Maiduguri diocese, <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/03/18/Priest-Boko-Haram-destroyed-50-churches/UPI-46881363613632/#ixzz2ULwoNk2m">50 of them have been destroyed</a> by Boko Haram.   When two Christian brothers were returning home after Sunday church service, <a href="http://www.spyghana.com/kano-boko-haram-attack-death-toll-climbs-to-5/">jihadis opened fire</a> on them with machine guns, killing the brothers, as well as three others, and injuring several more Christians.</p>
<p>Another 13 Christian factory workers in Kano were “gruesomely” slain. Said the local bishop: “Reports of the attack reaching us disclosed that on that fateful Saturday at about 7 p.m, Muslim faithful were conducting their prayer close to the affected compound occupied by Christian families, when two taxi cabs stopped in front of the compound and the occupants, who all concealed their arms dashed into the complex and demanded to know why the residents were not part of the 7 p.m. Muslim prayer. They responded by telling the visitors they were Christians and so could not be part of the Muslim gathering. At that point, they separated the men from their wives and children and <a href="http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/03/06/nigeria-13-christians-killed-in-kano/">shot them dead on the spot</a> after ordering the women and children into their homes” to be enslaved.</p>
<p>The bishop added that, “government should show more concern, like it has always done when Muslims are affected; I have not seen that in the case of Christians—that 13 Christians were killed in one straight attack and nothing is heard from the government reflects selective justice because we are aware of compensation paid to Muslim families in situations of this nature.”</p>
<p>However, the Nigeria government recently did go on the offensive to try to contain the jihadis in northern Nigeria—only to be <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/obama-administration-calls-for-the-human-rights-of-jihadi-murderers/">chastised by the Obama administration</a>, in the person of John Kerry, who recently warned the Nigerian government not to violate the “human rights” of the jihadi mass murderers.</p>
<p>Categorized by theme, the rest of March’s Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and in country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity:</p>
<p><b>Church Attacks</b></p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: According to <a href="http://www.elwatannews.com/news/details/139922">El Watan News</a>, three Christian brothers were shot dead at their home by automatic weapons a few weeks before two were set to have their weddings. The victims’ family was earlier accused of trying to build a church on land they owned because they purchased building material to build a house on that land. The rumors about the building of a church spread during the Friday sermon at the mosque, following which 2,000 Muslims stormed the land and tried to destroy the house, car and tractor, resulting in the murder of the three Christian brothers.</p>
<p><b>Indonesia</b>: Authorities <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Muslim-protestors-call-Christians-infidels-as-church-demolished-in-Indonesia.html">demolished a church building with a bulldozer</a> in West Java, even as Muslim bystanders cheered and denounced Christians as “infidels.” According to Pastor Leonard Nababan, the government is “criminalising our religion.”  The congregation had gathered around the church in an effort to save it; so did Muslims, shouting, &#8220;They&#8217;re infidels and they&#8217;ve built their church without permission,” “Knock the church down now” and “Allahu Akbar.”</p>
<p><b>Iraq</b>:  According to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/21/catholic-churches-dwindle-in-iraq-since-start-war-10-years-ago/#ixzz2ULvjxNuv">Fox News</a>, before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there were more than 300 Christian churches.  Today, a decade after the jihad was unleashed on Christians and their churches, only 57 Christian churches remain in the nation.  And “The churches that remain are frequent targets of Islamic extremists, who have driven nearly a million Christians out of the land&#8230;”  An Iraqi-based human rights organization said that “The last 10 years have been the worst for Iraqi Christians because they bore witness to <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-mass-exodus-of-christians-from-the-muslim-world/">the biggest exodus</a> and migration in the history of Iraq….  More than two-thirds [of Christians] have emigrated.” One of the most dramatic cases of Christian persecution came in late October of 2010, when Al Qaeda members laid siege to Our Lady of Deliverance Church in Baghdad, killing 58 and wounding 78.  According to an <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/iraqi-catholics-celebrate-easter-075830377.html">AP report</a> “Iraq&#8217;s Catholic Christians flocked to churches to celebrate Easter Sunday [in March], praying, singing and rejoicing in the resurrection of Christ <i>behind high blast walls and tight security cordons</i>… [emphasis added].”</p>
<p><b>Libya</b>:  A Coptic Christian church located in Benghazi was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/libyan-jihadis-shave-beard-of-christian-priest-attack-church-again/">attacked by armed Muslims</a>.  The jihadis severely beat and shaved the beard and mustache of Father Paul, the priest of the church, as a sign of humiliation.  They also beat the deacon and nine attendees.  Meanwhile, because Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-led government had done little regarding the systematic abuse of Egyptian citizens in Libya, including the murder of one under torture, Copts demonstrated in front of the Libyan embassy in Cairo—prompting yet another attack on the Benghazi church, which was set on fire.</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: In response to one Christian man accused of blaspheming Islam’s prophet thousands of Muslims attacked the Christian Joseph Colony of Lahore, burning <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/160-houses-and-2-churches-burnt-in-Lahore:-photos-27383.html">two churches</a>, one Catholic, the other a Seventh Day Adventist, as often happens in Pakistan in the context of collectively punishing Christians.</p>
<p><b>Sudan</b>:  According to <a href="http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2013/s13030133.htm">Morning Star News</a>, Khartoum’s jihad continues to “rid the area of non-Arabs and Christianity”: the Evangelical Church in the Nuba was “reduced … to ashes” after an aerial bombardment.  Days later, another bombing campaign left two dead and twelve injured, in the Christian-majority region. “These bombardments are major sources of fear among the people in South Kordofan,” said a church leader.</p>
<p><b>Turkey</b>: The 5<sup>th</sup> century Studios Monastery, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is set to go from being a branch of the Hagia Sophia—Christianity’s grandest cathedral, which was <a href="http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/03/studios-monastery-will-be-turned-into.html">transformed into a mosque</a>, after the Islamic conquest and is currently a museum—to being an active mosque.  Many Turkish Muslims continue <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/greatest-church-soon-to-be-mega-mosque/">calling for the return of the Hagia Sophia itself to a mosque</a>.</p>
<p><b>Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism</b></p>
<p><b>Holland</b>: A 43-year-old Iranian <a href="http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2013/s13030029.htm">Muslim convert to Christianity was found murdered</a>.    According to the Farsi Christian News Network, the victim went to church the afternoon he was killed: “The shocking news of this senseless murder has brought grief and sorrow to the local Christians, Iranian-Christian community, and asylum seekers across the country.” Christians constitute a large percentage of the Iranians seeking asylum in Holland.  (Islamic Sharia law calls for the killing of apostates, and converts to Christianity are regularly targeted in the Islamic world.)</p>
<p><b>Iran</b>:  During a major conference, a Shi’ite leader claimed that <a href="http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2013/s13030119.htm">Islam was under attack by Christianity in Iran</a>: “Christian booklets and brochures are being sent to people&#8217;s doors for free in many areas… Christianity is being preached in many shops in the Islamic city of Mashhad. Also Christian booklets are sent to people&#8217;s addresses without restrictions.”  But a Mohabat News spokesperson said “Of course, the Islamic cleric did not provide any supporting evidence for his claim. However, it seems their sole purpose in bringing up and repeating these claims is to provoke security authorities against, and provide the means for increased pressure on Iranian Christians converts.”</p>
<p><b>Kazakhstan</b>: Vyacheslav Cherkasov , a Christian street evangelist, was detained for offering Christian literature to passersby and fined the equivalent of one month’s wages on charges of “violating the rules” regarding “importing, publishing and distribution of religious literature” which came into force in 2011.  The court ordered the <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/27274-kazakhstan-destroys-bibles-uzbekistan-attacks-convert">destruction of his 121 pieces of Christian literature</a>, including Bibles and children’s Bibles, in the first such ruling since the nation gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Local Council of Churches Baptists said in published remarks: “We were shocked—this is sacrilege and illegality.”</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: The blasphemy case against Rimsha Masih, the 14-year-old Christian girl who was earlier arrested for “blasphemy” when a Muslim cleric falsely claimed that she burned a Koran, has been reopened.  According to a <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/27330-breaking-news-pakistan-blasphemy-girl-facing-prison-mother-death-sentence">BosNewsLife report</a>, “A police investigator asked the Supreme Court in Islamabad to reopen the case” against the Christian girl, “saying he was pressured by the government to drop charges against her <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/the-tip-of-the-iceberg-of-christian-persecution/">after an international outcry</a>.” She and her family are currently in hiding. A court is also considering a death sentence against 47-year-old Martha Bibi, a Christian and mother, due to alleged “derogatory remarks” about Muslim prophet Muhammad.  Another Christian man was arrested after a Muslim accused him of blasphemy.  But his arrest was not enough to appease the 3000 strong mob that went on to collectively punish the nation’s Christians, burning two churches, some 200 Christian homes, and stealing their property.</p>
<p><b>Somalia</b>:  Muslim militants <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/02/christian-shot-dead-near-kismayo-somalia/">murdered yet another Christian</a>.  Ahmed Ali Jimale, 42, was killed by two men as he stood outside his house, near a police station.  Among other things, the man was accused of apostasy—on the widespread assumption that all Somalis are born Muslims—and, because he worked as a teacher, of “introducing the children to foreign Christian religion”; Muslim militants had warned him that “we shall come for your head.” A friend of the slain said “Jimale was a good man who helped our community.  His widow is very scared and afraid, not knowing what will happen.”  He also leaves behind four children, ages 10, 8, 6, and 4.</p>
<p><b>Dhimmitude</b></p>
<p>[General Abuse and Suppression of Non-Muslims as "Tolerated" Citizens]</p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/christian-muslim-tension-flares-southern-egypt-115003235.html">Muslim rioters</a> in town of Kom Ombo threw firebombs and rocks at police after Friday mosque prayers in an effort to storm a church where they claimed a Muslim woman who converted to Christianity was hiding.  Violence began when a 36 year-old Muslim woman, who had been missing for five days, was allegedly seen outside the church with a female Christian friend. Days later, hundreds of Muslims marched in the town of al-Wasta, to protest the disappearance of another young Muslim girl and accuse the priest of St. George&#8217;s Church of using “<a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20130321192023.htm">black magic</a>” to lure her to Christianity.  They hurled stones at the church; Coptic shops were forced to close down; Salfis threatened to kidnap a Christian girl if their Muslim girl did not return.  However, Watani newspaper had already reported that the Muslim girl sent an open letter to her family, posted on the Internet, saying that she ran away because she was sexually abused by her uncles, was forced to marry a man she did not want, and that she had left Egypt and was married to a Muslim man.  Unrelatedly a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/26/egyptian-mosque-turned-into-house-torture-for-christians-after-muslim/#ixzz2V0HZ8NFm">Fox News</a> report states that “Islamic hard-liners stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo, turning it into [a] torture chamber for Christians who had been demonstrating against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in the latest case of violent persecution that experts fear will only get worse.”  And according to a <a href="http://ruvr.co.uk/2013_03_05/Thousands-Christians-flee-religious-persecution-Egypt/">Voice of Russia report</a>, “up to 100,000 Christians have left Egypt since the Muslim Brotherhood came to power. Some of those have arrived in Moscow.”</p>
<p><b>Iran</b>:  According to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/22/nursing-mothers-imprisoned-un-report-details-iranian-persecution-non-muslims/#ixzz2ULtzRTwf">Fox News</a>, a UN report indicates that “Iran’s hard-line regime has intensified its violent crackdown on Christians and other religious minorities, even imprisoning nursing mothers for practicing their faith…”  The March report provides a “rare, detailed view into the shocking treatment of Christians in Iran, where American Pastor Saeed Abedini is serving an eight-year sentence for his alleged work with Christians.”  According to a UN expert on human rights in Iran, “The persecution of Christians has increased.  It seems to target new converts and those who run house churches…. more than 300 Christians have been arrested since June 2010, according to the report.”  Most recently, <a href="http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2013/s13030058.htm">Five members of the Church of Iran</a> denomination appeared before a judge and “charged with disturbing public order, evangelizing, action against national security and an internet activity against the system.”</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: After 3,000 Muslims attacked a Christian village—burning two churches and some 200 homes—the government punished Christians for protesting.  According to the <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C03%5C16%5Cstory_16-3-2013_pg7_15">Daily Times</a>, “Christians around the country are incensed by the recurring theme of blasphemy allegation followed by attacks and burning down of their vulnerable communities. They have held protests across the country in a concerted effort to vent their disgust at the recent incident and to show solidarity with the victims…  Lahore police used the opportunity to beat the innocent Christian protesters. They shot tear gas shells at them and beat them with sticks. Yet when the Muslim attack took place they stood back and watched till the town had been razed to the ground…Muslims of Jhelum city have threatened to burn Christians home in response to the protests. Now the community is living in fear of reprisals for their simple act of condemning violence and the blasphemy laws of Pakistan.”</p>
<p><b>Sweden</b>: According to <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/38808-sweden-denies-asylum-to-christians-facing-persecution">Charisma News</a>, “Christians in Iran face arrest, torture, even death. But that doesn’t seem to matter to Swedish immigration officials.  Sweden wants to send Iranian Christian asylum seekers, who left Islam, back to Iran where they could be killed. Iran is one of the most dangerous places in the world for Christians. As apostates from Islam, they face grave danger in this country. But their requests for asylum status that could save their lives have been denied.”</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>:  According to a Catholic leader, up to <a href="https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nowsyrialatestnews/syrian-bishop-says-30000-christians-have-fled-aleppo">30,000 Christians have fled the city of Aleppo</a>, and two priests were abducted and held for a ransom of 15 million Syrian pounds each.  Christians are regularly kidnapped and beheaded by jihadi rebels.  Also, a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=i6Ft9WSbBpg">short English-language video</a> appeared where Fr. Fadi al-Hamzi told of how his uncle was recently murdered: “They killed him because he is Christian, they refuse to have any Christians in Syria. … I’m not afraid; my uncle died, he’s immortal now.  I can be like him.” When asked if he was worried if Christians would be massacred if the U.S.-supported jihadis overthrew the government, the priest said , “Yes, yes, this will be… they don’t want us here.”  Christians were in Syria 600 years before Islam conquered the nation.</p>
<p><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>Previous Reports: <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013/">February, 2013</a> &#8211; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013/">January, 2013</a> &#8211; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012/">December, 2012</a> &#8211; <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012/">November, 2012</a> - <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/">October, 2012</a> - <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/">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> &#8211; <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> &#8211; <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> -</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="LTR"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HUg_1455171i.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192616" alt="HUg_1455171i" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HUg_1455171i-450x318.jpg" width="270" height="191" /></a>It is now almost exactly four years since <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8180069.stm">the murderous attack on the homosexual</a> recreational center in Tel Aviv.   In August of 2009, a man with a gun entered the &#8220;Bar Ha-Noar&#8221; (the &#8220;Youth Bar&#8221;), a Tel Aviv gay lounge, murdered two and wounded others.  Then he escaped.</p>
<p dir="LTR">The reaction of the media and the chattering classes at the time is of interest.  The world media suddenly filled with self-righteous condemnations of Israel&#8217;s supposed violent intolerance towards homosexuals.  Never mind that the treatment of gays in Israel is at least a billion times better than in any Arab or Moslem country, and never mind the &#8220;gay pride&#8221; marches held in Israel all the time.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Israel has a long history of experiencing the adage that no good deed ever goes unpunished.  The world is full of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/15/zionism-meet-feminism.html">anti-Semitic radical feminist organizations</a> calling for the destruction of the Middle East country that has had a woman Prime Minister, a woman Chief Justice, women university presidents, and countless women-owned and -managed businesses large and small.  In Arab countries rape victims may be executed for immodesty, women slaves may be sold in slave markets, and women may be prohibited from driving, but feminists just need to understand that this is their culture.  The only really intolerable oppression of women in the Middle East is in the territories that Israel &#8220;occupies.&#8221;</p>
<p dir="LTR">A similar trend has been growing among radical homosexual groups.  Homosexuals may be &#8220;kneecapped,&#8221; tortured and murdered by the &#8220;vice squads&#8221; of the Hamas and the PLO, but groups like &#8220;<a href="http://queersagainstapartheid.org/">Queers against Israel Apartheid</a>&#8221; serve as cheerleaders for the jihad.  <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/06/13/adl-lgbt-group-slam-cuny-for-sponsorship-of-anti-israel-pinkwashing-conference/">&#8220;Lesbian and Gay Studies&#8221; departments</a> at universities hold Bash-the-Jews conferences.   They are cheered on by the <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4208">tenured pogromchiki</a>, including <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/steven-plaut/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-judith-butler/">Judith Butler</a>.  Anti-Semitic homosexual groups operating under various names cropped up all over the world to denounce Israel and Zionism in general, and to back anti-Israel terrorism.  Some leftist academics in Israel invented the nonsense word &#8220;<a href="http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/TAU%20-%20Aeyal%20Gross%20-%20pinkwashing%20claims%20basis%20for%20NYT%20Israel-bashing.htm">pinkwashing</a>&#8221; to refer to the fact that supporters of Israel like to mention the tolerance towards homosexuals in Israel as a point in Israel&#8217;s favor.   The militant anti-Israel homosexuals and their academic supporters, invariably far Left, insist that mentioning such tolerance is merely a conspiratorial cover-up to divert attention away from Israel&#8217;s crimes against Arabs.</p>
<p dir="LTR">The Israeli local media at the time, along with just about any public figure having an opinion or a bully pulpit, presumed the attack on the bar/lounge was perpetrated by anti-homosexual religious right-wingers.  Their entire set of evidence for this was that the targets were homosexual and it all took place in a gay center.  Later Jack Teitel, the deranged ex-American who was jailed for acts of violence against Arabs, missionaries, and an anti-Israel leftist professor, tried to take &#8220;credit&#8221; for the attack, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/world/middleeast/02israel.html?_r=0">fueling the media feeding frenzy</a> against the religious Right.  All until the police proved he was grandstanding and had had nothing to do with the attack on the gay bar.  It appears that all his violent attacks were actually against heterosexuals.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Back in 2009, there were hints in the small print of the back pages, and these were mentioned in these cyber-incitements I post, that it just might be that the attack was not a hate crime at all but rather the act of one of the gay people who frequented the Tel Aviv center and who had some sort of personal non-political grudge.</p>
<p dir="LTR">This past week the police in Israel arrested four people whom the police are convinced were involved in that attack, including the shooter himself.  One of the arrested was a senior activist in the gay center.  The police are being uncharacteristically boisterous about their certainty that they caught the correct perps.  The media are still under a gag order about the details and the names.</p>
<p dir="LTR">But even with all the coyness, from remarks by the police it is now entirely clear that the attack on the Tel Aviv gay lounge 2009 was not a &#8220;hate crime&#8221; at all and was not carried out by anyone with an anti-gay political or religious agenda.  In fact it was <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/activist-in-israel-s-gay-community-arrested-over-deadly-2009-attack-on-tel-aviv-youth-center.premium-1.528090">carried out by other homosexuals</a>.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Without being too candid and clear (yet), the police are saying the perps had themselves been members or participants in the &#8220;bar&#8221; and had acted out of &#8220;personal revenge&#8221; motives.  They are not openly saying what personal revenge means, allowing people to imagine unpaid loans or sales of defective merchandise as the motive.  But if we cut to the chase, it is almost certain that the murderer was a jilted lover of someone in the club and went on a rampage.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Now no one thinks that heterosexuals are incapable of going on jealous rampages or committing multiple murders, and no one thinks that the massacres in Newton or Norway involved homosexuals, to name but two.  But at the same time let us keep in mind the kneejerk reaction of the entire world media and of the radical homosexual organizations in particular in blaming anti-gay hatred, religion, and Zionism as responsible for the violence.  It will be interesting to see how many of these homosexual organizations now step forward and apologize, or whether they prefer to maintain their posture as anti-Semitic cowardly pansies even after the truth has come out.  The refusal of the gay militants and of the media in 2009 to consider jilted gay love as the possible motive behind the Tel Aviv attack may be the worst form of homophobia around these days.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The anti-Muslim "backlash" isn't quite what the Left would have us believe it is. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Soldier-Killed-in-London-624x3511.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191468" alt="Soldier-Killed-in-London-624x351" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Soldier-Killed-in-London-624x3511-424x350.jpg" width="254" height="210" /></a>Ever since 9/11, every time some place or another on the planet has been struck by a major jihadist act, the mainstream media have reliably come out with stories about “backlash” against Muslims. Not accounts of actual backlash, mind you, but pieces in which various academics, public officials, Muslim leaders, and other sensitive souls have been described as wringing their hands over the dreaded possibility that some of us boorish infidels might respond to this latest action by going on the warpath against innocent Muslims. If these “backlash” articles have been such a staple of post-9/11 journalism, it&#8217;s obviously because they&#8217;ve offered the media an opportunity to focus not on the innumerable Muslim-on-infidel atrocities that have actually taken place but, rather, on hypothetical, and violent, infidel-on-Muslim responses – and thus to persist in casting Muslims in the role of victim, even while the bodies of those they have slaughtered in Islam&#8217;s name have yet to go cold.</p>
<p>Yet the fabled “backlash” has never really materialized –  not, at least, on anything remotely resembling the scale that the media have repeatedly predicted. On the contrary, with a very small number of minor, isolated exceptions, people in the non-Muslim world have routinely responded to Muslim violence with civilized restraint. Indeed, it&#8217;s hard to think of anything that more dramatically reflects the difference between the Islamic and Western cultures than the contrast between the brutality and scale of the jihadist attacks on the West in recent years and the extraordinarily low level and modest scale of actions taken against Muslim targets in revenge. This refusal of non-Muslims to take an eye-for-an-eye approach in response to jihadist acts is a remarkable testament to the native tolerance of Christians, Jews, and other non-Muslims – and, indeed, to the black-and-white distinction between pretty much every other religion in the world and Islam, which, alone among major faiths, instructs its adherents to see offense everywhere and to respond even to the merest cartoon with murderous violence on a global scale.</p>
<p>Yet now, it seems, things have changed. In the aftermath of the the brutal slaughter of Drummer Lee Rigby on a London street, the British media have finally had a few cases of real “backlash” to report on. Or so, at least, that country&#8217;s newspapers would have us believe. “Woolwich attack provokes anti-Muslim backlash across UK,” blared a <i>Telegraph </i><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10080300/Woolwich-attack-provokes-anti-Muslim-backlash-across-UK.html">headline</a>. “The murder of soldier Lee Rigby has provoked a backlash of anger across the UK,” the <i>Daily</i> <i>Mail</i> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330809/Lee-Rigby-death-11-people-UK-arrested-making-racist-anti-religious-comments-online-British-soldiers-death.html">reported</a>. “Woolwich murder sparks anti-Muslim backlash,” a headline at the BBC website <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22664835">proclaimed</a>.</p>
<p>For all these references to a nationwide “backlash,” however, details were scarce. Newspapers provided particulars on only one genuinely serious-sounding offense. On Sunday, two men “<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/woolwich-backlash-two-arrested-after-grimsby-mosque-attack-8633335.html%20%20">hurled petrol bombs</a>” at a mosque in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. (The police, taking the crime seriously, apprehended the perpetrators without delay.) Although the <i>Independent</i> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/woolwich-backlash-ten-attacks-on-mosques-since-murder-of-drummer-lee-rigby-8633594.html">maintained</a> on Tuesday that there had been no fewer than ten “Islamophobic attacks” on mosques since the Rigby killing, one searched in vain for specifics – which led one to wonder just what “attacks” meant in this context. (Bombs? Or slices of bacon tossed on the sidewalk?) “Fears that Muslim communities across the country are facing a sustained wave of attacks and intimidation,” began a <i>Guardian</i> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/28/woolwich-murder-200-islamophobic-incidences">article</a>, “have intensified after it emerged that almost 200 Islamophobic incidents had been reported since the murder of British soldier Drummer Lee Rigby.” What were all these “incidents”? The article didn&#8217;t say.</p>
<p>The <i>Mail </i>mentioned another “incident,” one in which two men had been charged with “religiously aggravated threatening behaviour” at a London fast-food joint. But, again, no details. (Had they pulled a knife on somebody? Or gotten a drop of mustard on a Koran?)</p>
<p>Stateside, the <i>New York Times, </i>which gave the Stockholm riots short shrift, found <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/world/europe/anti-muslim-threats-rise-in-britain-after-soldiers-killing.html?_r=0">space</a> to report the claim by Fiyaz Mughal, head of a group called Faith Matters, “that graffiti had been scrawled on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses and that women’s head scarves had been yanked off.” Assuming these charges were true (and there&#8217;s good reason not to immediately accept their veracity, given the inflationary accusations leveled on such occasions by the likes of CAIR), the conduct in question is most assuredly inappropriate – but, needless to say, hardly in a league with decapitation. (Curiously, while the <i>Times </i>article was headlined “Call for Calm after 3 New Arrests in British Soldier&#8217;s Death,” and was devoted mostly to those arrests, its <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/world/europe/anti-muslim-threats-rise-in-britain-after-soldiers-killing.html?_r=0">URL</a>, as if to reflect the <i>Times</i>&#8216;s real preoccupations, was about “anti-muslim-threats.”)</p>
<p>As it turned out, when the <i>Telegraph, Mail, </i>and innumerable smaller papers referred to a nationwide “backlash,” what they meant was not a wave of beatings, bombings, or anything like that. What they were talking about was, mostly, this: people around the United Kingdom had been exercising what they thought was their right to free speech by posting on Facebook and other social media comments that were critical of Islam. Period. And the British government – this is by far the most important part – was treating these speech acts as crimes<i>.</i> Why wasn&#8217;t <i>that</i> the headline – that British authorities were using the Rigby murder as an excuse not to finally take action against the countless Muslim “refugees,” “asylum seekers,” and so forth within its borders whom it has long known to be threats to public safety, but, rather, to clamp down on those few solid citizens who, in the wake of the murder, had dared to tweet the truth about the Religion of Peace?</p>
<p>But no: the British media were going along with the whole chilling business – reporting on criticism of Islam as if it was indeed a high crime, and reporting on the arrests of those who had engaged in such criticism as if arresting people for such acts were perfectly justifiable.</p>
<p>As of last Friday, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330809/Lee-Rigby-death-11-people-UK-arrested-making-racist-anti-religious-comments-online-British-soldiers-death.html">according</a> to the <i>Mail, </i>eleven persons had been picked up for anti-Muslim speech crimes. Among them were two Bristol men, aged 22 and 23, who had posted tweets “of an allegedly racist or anti-religious nature” and who had been taken into custody “under the Public Order Act on suspicion of inciting racial or religious hatred.” The <i>Mail </i>quoted a detective inspector as saying that the men&#8217;s tweets, which had been “directed against a section of our community,” were “completely unacceptable,” as they “cause&#8230;harm to our community.” The cop warned: “People should stop and think about what they say on social media before making statements as the consequences could be serious.”</p>
<p>He wasn&#8217;t alone in issuing such warnings. In connection with a similar arrest in Surrey, a police superintendent said: “Surrey Police will not tolerate language used in a public place, including on social media websites, which causes harassment, alarm or distress.” Another arrest, for posting an “offensive, indecent or menacing message” on Facebook, took place in Sussex. And another in Hampshire. And in what seemed to be related developments, the websites of several British newspapers, departing from their usual practice, blocked comments on articles related to the Rigby murder. Meanwhile, the English Defence League held a big march in London to protest both the murder and the Islamization of Britain that had made it possible. But where was the huge London rally of “moderate Muslims” condemning the murder? (Isn&#8217;t it interesting that almost nobody even bothers to ask that question anymore?)</p>
<p>On Monday, as if to remind everybody of the difference between “offensive”  statements and actual physical violence, three Muslim inmates in Full Sutton Prison <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/403128/Terror-unit-steps-in-as-Islamic-convicts-break-guard-s-jaw-after-pray-for-Lee-Rigby-plea?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+daily-express-uk-news+(Daily+Express+::+UK+Feed)%20">responded</a> to an ill-advised suggestion that they pray for Rigby by beating a guard within an inch of his life. The beating lasted five hours. One of the attackers called for his fellow inmates to join in a holy war. On the same day <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10082647/War-memorials-vandalised.html">came</a> the news that two war memorials in London had been defaced by unidentified vandals. And on Saturday, a Muslim convert, apparently inspired by the Rigby murder, stabbed a French soldier on the street of a Paris suburb.</p>
<p>It also emerged that at least one of the perpetrators of the Rigby killing, Michael Adebolajo, had been known to the British police for years – had, in fact, been arrested in Kenya in 2010 for joining a terrorist group, only to be <a href="http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/1537820/kenya-freed-adebolajo-on-uk-advice-lawyer/?cs=12">freed</a> on the recommendation of the British High Commissioner. Although that intervention by the Brits was not surprising, given the disinclination of U.K. authorities to round up even its most egregious Muslim enemies, it was hard not to notice the stark contrast between those authorities&#8217; tolerance of bloodthirsty Islamic rhetoric within their borders (or sphere of influence) and the alacrity with which they&#8217;ve apprehended apparently peaceable citizens simply for telling the truth about Islam on Facebook or Twitter.</p>
<p>As the days went by, and the stories in the British papers about the Rigby murder and its aftermath gradually diminished in number and prominence, one thing lingered: the sad, newly intensified awareness that dhimmitude in Britain is growing apace and has become well-nigh reflexive. In other words, jihad (both hard and soft) is working like a charm. Are you old enough to remember the world before, say, the <i>Satanic Verses </i>fatwa? If so, can you imagine British police officials, way back then, ever making statements of the kind made in the past few days by those cops in Bristol and Surrey – statements warning that individuals making comments that cause “harm” or “distress” to Muslims will be subject to arrest and punishment? Such a thing would have been inconceivable in Churchill&#8217;s Britain, or Thatcher&#8217;s. The grim fact, alas, is that if the Rigby murder and its aftermath demonstrate anything, it&#8217;s that Islam is still very much on the march in Britain – and free speech increasingly in retreat.</p>
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		<title>Afghanistan Comes to London</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 04:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jihadist slaughterers wanted the world to know: we killed in the name of Islam. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Soldier-Killed-in-London-624x351.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190529" alt="Soldier-Killed-in-London-624x351" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Soldier-Killed-in-London-624x351-450x335.jpg" width="270" height="201" /></a>After telling the story of Mohammed’s boast that he would make the mountain come to him, only to be forced to go to it, Francis Bacon observed, “If the mountains will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain.”</p>
<p>Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen and countless others went to the Muslim world hoping to turn it into another Boston, another London and another Paris. Instead, Boston, London and Paris are turning into another Kabul, another Islamabad and another Mogadishu. Mohammed has come to the mountain.</p>
<p>Five years ago, the sight of Muslim terrorists beheading British soldiers was a horror that could happen in Afghanistan or Iraq. Now it has happened in broad daylight in the capital of the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>In a decade, 600,000 white Londoners have fled the city. Those are the sorts of numbers you would expect from the Syrian civil war. Their place has been taken by the million Muslims occupying the city.</p>
<p><a href="http://crimeinlondon.com/greenwich/woolwich-common/profile/">Woolwich Common, adjacent to the area where the attack took place, is</a> described as an “inner-city multicultural neighborhood” which is to say that it is more ethnically diverse than the London average; it has more violent crimes than average and is among the 5% of poorest neighborhoods. Only 58% of its population was born in England and a quarter of its residents immigrated in that same dreadful decade.</p>
<p>Multiculturalism has enriched the area with the Woolwich Manz, a Somali Muslim gang whose antics have led residents to fear walking the streets at night. The Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Social Inclusion and Justice Division informs us that there are thousands of Somalis in the borough, most of whom live in Woolwich Common and Woolwich Riverside.</p>
<p>Gang wars over the lucrative drug business have broken out between the Woolwich Manz and other African gangs. Already in 2007, <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/shot-teenager-a-victim-of-gang-war-6644332.html">the London Evening Standard</a> said that area residents were describing the Woolwich Common Estate as a “war zone” with stabbings and shootings and a new generation of child soldiers being recruited into the war. It was a little piece of Somalia in the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>The two men who butchered a British soldier are believed to be Somalis. Last year it was reported that dozens of Muslims in the UK were being trained to fight for Al Qaeda in Somalia. There were concerns over what those men would do once they returned to the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab, the local Al Qaeda franchise, subsists on tens of thousands of pounds from the hundreds of thousands of Somali settlers living in the United Kingdom. In 2012, Al-Shabaab terrorists had threatened a terrorist attack against the UK, saying, “The nightmare that surreptitiously looms on British shores is bound to eclipse the horrors of 7/7 and 21/7 combined.”</p>
<p>That nightmare still looms. It is the nightmare of the savage wars of the Muslim world being exported to the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Last year, Shabaaz Hussain was sentenced to five years in jail in Woolwich Crown Court for his fundraising activities on behalf of Al-Shabaab. Five years earlier, Osama bin London and his followers had been sentenced at that same court for the 21/7 plot which attempted to set off bombs in a number of London Underground stations.  The majority of Bin London’s followers were African immigrants.</p>
<p>Ramzi Mohammed, a Somali, turned to face a young mother with a baby in her stroller before trying to detonate his bomb.</p>
<p>Muslim fighters have torn Somalia apart. And importing 200,000 of them into the United Kingdom is beginning to have the same effect. There are an estimated 70,000 Somalis in Greater London. That makes London the 12<sup>th</sup> largest city in Somalia. Nearly 2 percent of Somalia now lives in the UK.</p>
<p>80 percent of Somalis in the UK live in public housing. They have the lowest employment rate of every immigrant group in the country. And within four years, they had managed to rack up over ten thousand arrests. Every effort to integrate them has failed. Rather than the Somalis becoming British, shards of Britain have become little Mogadishus.</p>
<p>The Somalis are not alone in this regard. Muslim immigration to the UK has brought the norms of Somalia, Afghanistan and Egypt to the streets of London. Individual acts of violence can be overlooked. But there is nothing individual about all these cases. This is a culture of violence.</p>
<p>Islam sanctifies that culture of violence. It takes tribal killings and endows them with the status of a religious duty. Jihad is simply gang warfare, no different than the kind practiced by the Woolwich Manz, given theological meaning. Men have been butchering other men with machetes throughout Africa. But when a Muslim mutilates a British soldier with a machete, then he is engaging in a religious ritual.</p>
<p>This is no clash of civilizations because there is hardly anything resembling civilization on the other side. Islam began with a gang raiding caravans. It now persists in gangs raiding across Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.</p>
<p>What happened near Woolwich Commons would not have been considered extraordinary in Afghanistan, Somalia or Syria. It is only extraordinary because it has been a long time since rampaging Vikings were disemboweling the locals. It is only extraordinary because the nation is hobbled by the assumptions of civilization. And one of those basic assumptions is that murderers with red hands will not carry out beheadings in your streets.</p>
<p>The United Kingdom has become a civilized place. Unfortunately its practice of importing savages makes that civilization of climbing roses and social progress unsustainable. If you import millions of people who follow a religion that sanctifies tribal violence, then you must expect tribal violence to tear apart what you have built. And if you do not wish that to happen, then you must close the gates on the barbarians.</p>
<p>There is no need to go fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. Not when they are already living in London in public housing and screeching diatribes about the coming conquest while treating themselves to all the luxuries of the welfare state. And as their numbers grow, ignoring them will become impossible.</p>
<p>The butchers who perpetrated this latest atrocity wanted to be seen. They wanted to break through the media boycott to tell the peoples of the United Kingdom that they were being murdered in the name of Islam. The story is already being met with the usual cognitive dissonance and being swept under the rug, but that just means that the next bunch will try even harder to convey the message that the war is here.</p>
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<p>How did scholars of the Middle East and those engaged in <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/docs/type/moonlighting" target="_blank">moonlighting</a> (non-specialists who write about the region) react to the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013? Before the smoke cleared, some were predicting that the perpetrators would be “right-wingers” who sought to “disrupt tax day,” “neo-Nazis,” or “lone wolves.” Given that Muslims <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/04/lessons-from-the-fbi-most-wanted-terrorist-list" target="_blank">constitute</a> 30 of 32 of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/@@wanted-group-listing" target="_blank">list</a> of most wanted terrorists, this represents either wishful thinking or willful blindness.</p>
<p>Accordingly, after brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were identified as the perpetrators, scholars resorted to <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12637">apologetics</a> and <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6708">obfuscation</a> to explain away Islam’s role: the Tsarnaevs aren’t “real” Muslims; Islam and terrorism are incompatible; Islamic terrorism is no more significant than any other societal ill; “Islamophobia” and a wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes (that has yet to arrive) will ensue; and the attack was an example not of ideologically-rooted violence, but of logical “blowback” against American foreign policy.</p>
<p>What follows is a sampling of such inanity.</p>
<p><b>Early speculation on the identity of the perpetrators:</b></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/IngridMattson/status/324008088862609408">Ingrid Mattson</a>, London &amp; Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies, Huron University College:</p>
<blockquote><p>Just paid my U.S. taxes which are due today. Almost forgot because of the attacks on Boston. Did the bombers intend to disrupt tax day?</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/IngridMattson/status/325101034454253569">And</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>If we wake up to the news that the bombers were white men, who should issue press releases condemning the actions?</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2013/04/17/msnbc-brings-harvard-professor-suspect-far-right-may-be-responsible-b">Jessica Stern</a>, Task Force on National Security and Law, Hoover Institution, Stanford University:</p>
<blockquote><p>[A] recipe for creating this kind of bomb was actually published in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s online magazine known as ‘Inspire.’ And a couple of terrorist wannabes were inspired by that&#8211;al-Qaeda’s call for individuals to carry out their own jihad in America and try to detonate these bombs. . . . But it’s also important to recognize that the recipe was shared and lauded by Stormfront, which is a neo-Nazi website. And the whole idea of leaderless resistance, which comes out of the far right, neo-Nazi, patriot movement, also spread over to al-Qaeda-related groups. . . . So my guess is that this probably is a do-it-yourselfer kind of individual or individuals, or perhaps a small group. Either one that was inspired by al-Qaeda or perhaps neo-Nazis or anti-government patriot groups who have been known to act on Patriot’s Day. So the date of the attack suggests that we not overlook the possibility that this could be an American anti-government group.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/national/terror-expert-examines-marathon-attack1366079075911">Mark Ensalaco</a>, associate professor of political science, University of Dayton:</p>
<blockquote><p>My immediate reaction is this is something similar to Oklahoma City and the Olympics in Atlanta. Because it’s tax day and a holiday in Boston honoring revolutionaries who fought for America freedom, and many people from foreign nations were in attendance, I worry a right-wing extremist used a highly visible event such as the Boston Marathon to make a highly visible statement. It would be tragic if some mad man took a peaceful movement such as the tea party and acted in this way.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.lajollalight.com/2013/04/21/ucsd-professor-says-boston-marathon-was-lone-wolf-terrorism/">Eli Berman</a>, Research Director, International Security Studies, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, San Diego:</p>
<blockquote><p>This looks like an aberration. It’s called ‘lone wolf’ terrorism—it’s not attached to any organization.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2013/04/buffoons-of-muslim-american.html">As’ad AbuKhalil</a>, professor of political science, California State University, Stanislaus:</p>
<blockquote><p>The buffoons of Muslim-American organizations are holding a press conference in Washington, D.C. today. Why? Why are you so eager to speak on the matter when the manhunt is not even over? And what will you say? Condemn? Why not reinforce the view, by not speaking, that condemnation is to be assumed by all American about all Americans?  Do you see Jewish-American organizations rushing to hold press conferences every time a Jewish person commits an act of murder or terrorism? Why do you act suspicious when you are innocent? Why do you remind American bigots that they are not wrong in their suspicions of you? Why not issue a statement saying once and for all that you condemn all acts of terrorism like all other Americans and that for that, you will shut up if some Muslim kook or terrorist commits an act of murder or terrorism in the future?</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2013/04/islamic-forbids-terrorism.html">Juan Cole</a>, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan:</p>
<blockquote><p>We don’t yet know who carried out the attack, but we know they either aren’t Muslims at all or they aren’t real Muslims, in the nature of the case.</p></blockquote>
<p><b>Why the Tsarnaev brothers aren’t “real” Muslims:</b></p>
<p><a href="http://omidsafi.religionnews.com/2013/04/20/10-essential-points/">Omid Safi</a>, professor of Islamic studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:</p>
<blockquote><p>We don’t know much about the two brothers . . . The few pieces we have do not exactly add up to a life of pious observance of Islam. Their high school friends talk about the two brothers getting together, drinking, and smoking pot. . . . We have seen this before, in the case of the 9/11 hijackers who visited strip clubs and got loaded up on alcohol and porn before committing their atrocities—again, not the actions of Muslim role models.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-glyn-williams/thoughts-on-the-jihadific_b_3156888.html">Brian Glyn Williams</a>, professor of Islamic history, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth:</p>
<blockquote><p>While he [Tamerlan Tsarnaev] was previously known to smoke marijuana and box, he ultimately found himself in a radical strain of Islam. But it was not the Islam most Muslims would recognize, it was almost a separate cult known as jihadism which seeks to construct what has been called the ‘Sixth Pillar of Islam’ i.e the <i>fard</i> (obligation) of jihad (there are actually only five pillars in Islam).</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2013/04/partying-tsarnaev-brothers.html">Juan Cole</a>, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan:</p>
<blockquote><p>Being a fanatic is, contrary to the impression both of Fox Cable News and some Muslim radicals, not actually the same as being a good Muslim; in fact, the Qur’an urges the use of reason and moderation. . . . All this shows that they were on an adolescent homocidal [sic] power trip, dressed up like al-Qaeda, the way the Aurora shooter was wearing an arsenal and dressed up like Batman. In any case, here are the signs that Dzhokhar in particular wasn’t ever observant, and Tamerlan’s later fanaticism led him and his brother to disregard Islamic ethics and laws.</p></blockquote>
<p><b>Claims that Islam and terrorism are incompatible:</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/bay-area-muslims-edge-after-boston-bombings/nXRhk/">Hatem Bazian</a>, senior lecturer in Near Eastern, University of California, Berkeley:</p>
<blockquote><p>These acts of violence and terror have no place in Islam, which condemns such acts—in strongest possible terms—that takes lives of innocent people or causes pain and suffering.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://omidsafi.religionnews.com/2013/04/20/10-essential-points/">Omid Safi</a>, professor of Islamic studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:</p>
<blockquote><p>No matter what the experts on TV say, and for that matter what the two brothers might have said, here is one simple fact. Islamic law does not permit the random, indiscriminate killing of civilians. It is categorically forbidden. The Prophet Muhammad himself forbade the killing of women, elderly, civilians, and religious leaders.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2013/04/islamic-forbids-terrorism.html">Juan Cole</a>, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan:</p>
<blockquote><p>If the motive for terrorism is religious, it is impermissible in Islamic law. It is forbidden to attempt to impose Islam on other people. . . . Islamic law forbids aggressive warfare. . . . The killing of innocent non-combatants is forbidden. . . . Terrorism or <i>hirabah</i> is forbidden in Islamic law. . . . Sneak attacks are forbidden. Muslim commanders must give the enemy fair warning that war is imminent.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/muqtedar-khan/justice-is-not-enough_b_3129892.html">Muqtedar Khan</a>, associate professor of political science and director of the Islamic Studies Program, University of Delaware:</p>
<blockquote><p>To act in anger, even in the pursuit of justice is Un-Islamic. How do we teach our child that how one responds to injustice is the true measure of one’s values and a true reflection of who we are? How do we teach them that our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) taught us—la darar wa la dirar—do no harm and do not reciprocate harm. Yes, Muhammad taught Muslims neither to initiate harm nor to reciprocate harm. This tradition is very widely known, at least to Muslims who know their religion.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-glyn-williams/thoughts-on-the-jihadific_b_3156888.html">Brian Glyn Williams</a>, professor of Islamic history, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth:</p>
<blockquote><p>Dzhokar and Tamerlan are . . . two names with some heavy significance and import for jihadified Muslims of Chechen ancestry who may have found themselves drawn to the cult of Muslim holy war at the expense of other less radical aspects of the faith . . . most notably the passage in the Koran that states ‘killing one innocent person is like killing all humanity.’</p></blockquote>
<p><b>Downplaying the significance of Islamic terrorism:</b></p>
<p><a href="http://omidsafi.religionnews.com/2013/04/20/10-essential-points/">Omid Safi</a>, professor of Islamic studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:</p>
<blockquote><p>As everyone is of course fully aware, there are some Muslims who engage in terrorist activities. There are also some Jews, some Christians, some atheists, some Hindus, etc. No religion has a monopoly on hatred and idiocy, and no religion has a monopoly on love, compassion, and beauty.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://m.npr.org/news/U.S./178805805">Dalia Mogahed</a>, executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, co-author, with Georgetown University’s John Esposito, of <i>Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think,</i> and nonresident senior public policy scholar at the American University of Beirut:</p>
<blockquote><p>I think that all terrorists are motivated by an ideology and some perceived grievances, but they all belong to some group and it’s important that we not conflate extremists with the entire group, because if we do that, we actually hand the extremists the legitimacy that they desire, to represent the entire community, which they do not.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/2013429162833962451.html">Mark LeVine</a>, professor of history, University of California, Irvine:</p>
<blockquote><p>Why do we assume that if a young man is obsessed with extremely violent videos, websites and extreme music that he is psychologically disturbed, but if he’s obsessed with religion—not any religion, Islam only it appears—and begins following extremists online and viewing violent videos or reading violent literature that he&#8217;s become merely a ‘radical’—that is, he’s made a conscious and ‘sane’ political decision to attack and murder people in the name of an ideology, and isn&#8217;t suffering from some kind of mental illness?</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2013/04/terrorism-or-explosion.html">As’ad AbuKhalil</a>, professor of political science, California State University, Stanislaus:</p>
<blockquote><p>If an Arab is behind it is terrorism and if an American is behind it is an explosion.</p></blockquote>
<p><b>Predicting hate crimes and “Islamophobia”:</b></p>
<p><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130422-boston-marathon-bombings-terrorism-islam-muslims-chechnya-opinion/">Akbar Ahmed</a>, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University:</p>
<blockquote><p>Americans, particularly the media, also need to recognize the damage that Islamophobia can cause in alienating these young Muslims away from the mainstream religious and civic community. Already there are stories circulating of a backlash against Muslims in the wake of the events in Boston.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/muqtedar-khan/justice-is-not-enough_b_3129892.html">Muqtedar Khan</a>, associate professor of political science and director of the Islamic Studies Program, University of Delaware:</p>
<blockquote><p>The bombing of the Boston marathon and the subsequent man-hunt for the young Dzhokar Tsarnaev, has once again focused everyone’s attention on the so-called threat of Islamic radicalism and on Muslims living in the West. It has also given anti-Muslim extremists all the ammunition they need to put Islamophobia and anti-Muslim campaigns on steroids.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2013/04/bmbpanel/">Aziza Ahmed</a>, assistant professor of law, Northeastern University:</p>
<blockquote><p>TV shows like 24 portray Muslims as secret radicals, which gets reproduced as facts by news agencies. . . . After an act of violence, we often desire to assign blame and ask for vigilance for the sake of justice.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://omidsafi.religionnews.com/2013/04/20/10-essential-points/">Omid Safi</a>, professor of Islamic studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:</p>
<blockquote><p>How we as a nation move forward is critical. . . . Do we turn into an angry mob accusing all Muslims of a crime that two men committed? Do we turn this into an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant hysteria? Or, do we insist that we as a people are better than what we have been through? Do we want to be heroes, like the ones that put their own lives on the line on Monday, and again in apprehending the suspects? Or do we give in to unjustified bloodlust?</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2013/04/arab-americans-at-time-of-fear.html">As’ad AbuKhalil</a>, professor of political science, California State University, Stanislaus:</p>
<blockquote><p>I feel bad for Arab-Americans. At a time like this, when people speculate about the culpability of Arabs, I watch and read Arab-Americans striving to prove that they too are human beings, and that they too are Americans. Not that this works with bigots.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://m.npr.org/news/U.S./178805805">Dalia Mogahed</a>, executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, co-author, with Georgetown University’s John Esposito, of <i>Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think,</i> and nonresident senior public policy scholar at the American University of Beirut:</p>
<blockquote><p>I pray for the day . . . when these things happen that we look at each other as Americans and assume that we are all as disgusted by these horrific acts as anyone else. I don’t want to prove that I am against the killing of an eight-year-old. That to me is outrageous.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/04/20/178090673/muslims-fear-backlash-after-suspects-faith-revealed">Khaled Abou El Fadl</a>, Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law and chair of the Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles:</p>
<blockquote><p>I have not seen a significant decrease [in anti-Muslim hate crimes since 9/11]. In fact, although I have had high hopes of [sic] our 2005-2006 that things would get better, there was an increasingly widening sort of cultural gap of misunderstanding.<br />
<i>[Ed. note: Click </i><a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr-publications#Hate"><i>here</i></a><i> to access FBI hate crimes statistics for 1996-2011.]</i></p></blockquote>
<p><b>Blaming the attack on “blowback”:</b></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/SZunes/status/324178104119599105">Stephen Zunes,</a> professor of politics and international studies and director of the Middle East studies program, University of San Francisco:</p>
<blockquote><p>As we offer our thoughts/prayers to Boston bombing victims, let’s also remember the many equally innocent victims of U.S.-made bombs overseas.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://politicaljones.com/the-politicaljones-show-talking-about-bostonmarathonbombings-with-szunes-chechnya-and-bcook1906-media/">And</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>When people have been oppressed or dispossessed, whether it be Palestine or Kashmir or Chechnya, some people will take to desperate acts. . . . We need to keep into account that history instead of falling into ugly stereotypes about Muslims or immigrants or anything like that.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://richardfalk.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/a-commentary-on-the-marathon-murders/">Richard Falk</a>, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice and Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University:</p>
<blockquote><p>The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world. In some respects the United States has been fortunate not to experience worse blowbacks, and these may yet happen, especially if there is no disposition to rethink U.S. relations to others in the world, starting with the Middle East. . . .<b> </b>America’s military prowess and the abiding confidence of its leaders in hard power diplomacy makes the United States a menace to the world and to itself. . . . We should be asking ourselves at this moment, ‘how many canaries will have to die before we awaken from our geopolitical fantasy of global domination?’</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/omid-safi/huffpost-jummah-the-light-and-the-wound-america-and-the-global-community_b_3162597.html">Omid Safi</a>, professor of Islamic studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:</p>
<blockquote><p>There is a difference between justifying terrorist attacks, and understanding the role that our own government has played in causing grievances that lead to these attacks. There is a difference between explaining terrorist attacks away, and understanding that we as a country have committed actions that create resentment among millions of people in this world. We have become, and have been for a while, not a Republic but an Empire. . . . The United States’ actions abroad are a root cause of radicalization.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/2013429162833962451.html">Mark LeVine</a>, professor of history, University of California, Irvine:</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he Tsarnaev brothers can be seen as just one element of a global blowback against a world system that for centuries has produced war and violence on a massive scale. This is a system in which all of us are implicated—the bystanders at the marathon as much as the average citizen in Russia. . . . Do Americans want to admit that as a society they produce an incredible amount of violence, and that sometimes the structure of the society helps produce people like the Columbine, Newtown or Boston murderers? Do they have the time and willingness to consider the incredibly twisted path leading back to the 1940s Soviet Union and ending, at least on this occasion, at the Boston Marathon finish line?</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130422-boston-marathon-bombings-terrorism-islam-muslims-chechnya-opinion/">Akbar Ahmed</a>, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University:</p>
<blockquote><p>Upon their arrival in the United States, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar joined a Muslim community that bore the scarlet letter of terrorism. Expecting hospitality, they felt alienated and disillusioned, even with all of the opportunities and privileges available to them as citizens of this country. They opted for an act of violent nihilism, of devastation and death. It was a mutation of their religious and tribal codes. Under no circumstances is there any justification for their actions.</p></blockquote>
<p>Clearly, the specialists cited above are using their knowledge not to clarify, but to conceal; not to explain, but to apologize. When they serve as a source of propaganda rather than elucidation, the professoriate becomes a barrier to understanding. Moreover, the insistence that bigotry is endemic to the American character only promotes the very hysteria and division they decry. In turning to such “experts” in times of crisis, the media and the public at large are ill-served and often misled.</p>
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		<title>Lessons from Boston and Chechnya</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/boston-marathon-bombing-injuries-hard-to-treat-shrapnel_66357_600x450.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-186754" alt="boston-marathon-bombing-injuries-hard-to-treat-shrapnel_66357_600x450" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/boston-marathon-bombing-injuries-hard-to-treat-shrapnel_66357_600x450-450x328.jpg" width="270" height="197" /></a>We cannot bring back the stolen lives. We cannot bring back the lost limbs or the lost hearing. And we cannot mitigate the infinite grief of the victims&#8217; loved ones.</p>
<p>But there is something we can and must do: We must learn all the lessons we can.</p>
<p>Here are some:</p>
<p>1. The gulf between the decent and the indecent</p>
<p>Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother, once told an interviewer before a Golden Gloves boxing competition: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a single American friend. I don&#8217;t understand them.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reason Tsarnaev didn&#8217;t understand Americans was not primarily cultural. Tsarnaev came to America when he was 14 or 15, an age when the vast majority of immigrants to America have assimilated quite successfully</p>
<p>Rather, the reason was that the indecent don&#8217;t understand the decent, just as the decent don&#8217;t understand the indecent.</p>
<p>One of the greatest insights I learned as a young man came from reading Viktor Frankl&#8217;s seminal work, &#8220;Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning.&#8221; Frankl was a Jewish psychoanalyst who survived Auschwitz, where nearly every member of his family, including his wife, was murdered. His conclusion: &#8220;There are two races of men in this world but only these two. The race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.&#8221;</p>
<p>Those &#8220;races&#8221; do not understand one another. But more important than understanding the indecent is overpowering and, when necessary, destroying the indecent.</p>
<p>2. Any religion or ideology that is above good and evil produces enormous evil.</p>
<p>For tens of millions of Muslims today, Islam is beyond good and evil: The infidel may be decent, but that is of no importance to the radical Islamist. For example, to become a &#8220;more religious&#8221; Muslim, Tamerlan Tsarnaev gave up boxing, marijuana, tobacco and even not wearing a shirt in the presence of females. Tsarnaev believed Islam forbade those things — none of which is an evil. But when it came to the greatest evil — murder (of non-Muslims) — his religion was not only silent, it was enthusiastically supportive.</p>
<p>Likewise, communists in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere — and their many supporters in the West — raised the creation of egalitarian society and industrialization above good and evil. And Nazism elevated race above good and evil. The environmentalists who oppose vitamin A-injected rice in the Third World place their agenda above good and evil.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, most religious and secular ideologues find preoccupation with human decency boring. The greatest moral idea in history, ethical monotheism, doesn&#8217;t excite most people.</p>
<p>3. A victimhood identity produces cruelty.</p>
<p>The Tsarnaev brothers&#8217; primary self-perception was that of being Chechen victims, and that plus their religious convictions allowed them to blow up men, women and children with a perfectly clear conscience.</p>
<p>Even when victimhood status is objectively true — which it was not for these brothers, who were among the spectacularly fortunate few to be able to live in freedom and with unlimited opportunities — nothing provides people with as good a reason to commit atrocities as does a victim mentality.</p>
<p>4. Happiness is a moral issue.</p>
<p>Happiness is not an emotional state so much as it is a moral imperative. In general, those who act happy make the world better and those who act unhappy make it worse. This is equally true in the micro and macro realms. It is not surprising, therefore, that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was described by a cousin, Zaur Tsarnaev, in this way: &#8220;He was never happy, never cheering, never smiling.&#8221;</p>
<p>5. Boys will be bad men if they had no good men.</p>
<p>It is apparent that the younger brother Dzhokhar was deeply influenced by his brother, Tamerlan, who was seven years older. All of us who have an older brother, especially with a large age gap, know that he has a god-like status in the eyes of a young boy.</p>
<p>If good men do not inspire boys, bad men will. Without good older men in boys&#8217; lives, those boys are likely to grow up and do bad things. See our inner cities for further confirmation.</p>
<p>6. Universities and the left generally continue to deny any link between Muslim terrorists and their Muslim beliefs.</p>
<p>Just as in previous acts of Islamist terror, the left in general, and university professors in particular, continue to argue that it is wrong — actually bigoted — to associate these terrorists&#8217; religious beliefs with their terrorism.</p>
<p>Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown professor of sociology: &#8220;So you take one part of the element, that he&#8217;s Muslim. But he also might have listened to classical music. He might have had some Lil Wayne.&#8221;</p>
<p>MSNBC host Melissa Harris- Perry: &#8220;I keep wondering is it possible that there would ever be a discussion like, &#8216;This is because of Ben Affleck and the connection between Boston and movies about violence?&#8217; And of course, the answer is no. &#8230; Our very sense of connection to them is this framed-up notion of, like, Islam making them something that is non-normal.&#8221;</p>
<p>Zaheer Ali — Harvard graduate, recipient of Columbia University&#8217;s Merit Scholars Graduate Fellowship, recipient of the Social Science Research Council&#8217;s Mellon Mays Pre-Doctoral Research Grant — on MSNBC: &#8220;It isn&#8217;t Muslim that is a common thing here, it&#8217;s people who are alienated.&#8221;</p>
<p>Professor Brian Levin — director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino (formerly associate director of the Southern Poverty Law Center) — to Bill Maher:</p>
<p>&#8220;Look, it&#8217;s not like people who are Muslim who do wacky things have a monopoly on it. We have hypocrites across faiths, Jewish, Christian who say they&#8217;re out for God and end up doing not so nice things.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bill Maher&#8217;s response: &#8220;That&#8217;s liberal bullshit.&#8221;</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s what our children are routinely taught.</p>
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		<title>Support for Dorner Is Troubling</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proof that nothing leads to murder and other evils more than a sense of victimization.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dennis-prager/support-for-dorner-is-troubling/dornergun/" rel="attachment wp-att-177402"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-177402" title="dornergun" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/dornergun.jpg" alt="" width="232" height="179" /></a>Just when you thought you&#8217;ve seen it all with the Sandy Hook murders of a classroom full of children, America experiences another new low: A man named Christopher Dorner murders (as of this writing) three innocent people in order to air personal grievances. And his grievances are given serious attention by the national media, not to mention left-wing websites.</p>
<p>To better understand this, imagine the outcry if, let us say, a white student who was certain that he was denied admission to a prestigious university because of affirmative action, murdered a university official and the daughter of the dean of admissions and her fiance.</p>
<p>Imagine further that this man had posted a lengthy manifesto delineating how unfairly he had been treated by that university, and that he would continue to murder admissions department officials until the university admitted he was wrongfully rejected.</p>
<p>And imagine if the murderer had listed Fox News and conservative talk show hosts as media personalities he admired, as Dorner listed Chris Matthews, Tavis Smiley and Soledad O&#8217;Brien, among others, nearly all on the left.</p>
<p>Finally, imagine how the media, and perhaps the president himself, would have reacted.</p>
<p>A tsunami of vilification of conservatives and of conservative media would have ensued. We would be told 24/7 that talk radio is hate radio and that Fox News should be ostracized from civilized company. We would be told how right-wing hate had produced such a murderous man.</p>
<p>Moreover the murderer would be labeled exactly what he was, a murderer, and would not be regarded by any conservatives as in any way heroic. Conservative commentators would, rightly, outdo one another in condemnation of the murderer.</p>
<p>This has not been the case with Christopher Dorner. He is widely depicted as a man with legitimate grievances that caused him to &#8220;snap.&#8221; His &#8220;manifesto&#8221; is widely read and often praised, a Facebook page has been set up to defend him, and thousands of commentators on left-wing sites concentrate their fury on the Los Angeles Police Department, while portraying Dorner sympathetically.</p>
<p>It is important to remember that Dorner murdered a young woman and her fiance simply because she was the daughter of a cop — the man who acted as Dorner&#8217;s defense advocate in the LAPD proceedings against him.</p>
<p>But as one comment on a left-wing site noted, that was a good idea because if the cop had been murdered, he wouldn&#8217;t have suffered, but if his daughter and her fiance‚ are murdered, then the cop would experience real pain until he died.</p>
<p>Any public figure, especially any member of the clergy, who does not unambiguously condemn Dorner as a psychopathic murderer, is failing in his or her duty. This is not the time to discuss allegations of racism in the Los Angeles Police Department. For one thing, being wrongfully dismissed from a job — if, indeed, that is what happened to Dorner — inhabits a different moral universe than murder. For another, the more the public pays attention to this murderer&#8217;s &#8220;manifesto,&#8221; the more murders-for-attention will take place.</p>
<p>How could any number of self-pitying angry individuals who see themselves as victims not get the idea that murdering people is a great way to get people to take you and your grievances seriously?</p>
<p>Constance Rice, a prominent Los Angeles civil rights attorney, a black woman called by NPR last year the &#8220;Conscience Of The City [Los Angeles],&#8221; wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed column about &#8220;the disturbing support for Dorner&#8217;s manifesto from the black community on the Internet and on black radio.&#8221;</p>
<p>And Rice, who has said that she woke up every day for years wondering how she could sue the Los Angeles Police Department for alleged abuses, went on to write, &#8220;Dorner is absolutely wrong when he states in the manifesto that &#8216;the department has not changed since the Rampart and Rodney King days&#8217;. &#8230; The good guys are now in charge of LAPD culture.&#8221;</p>
<p>But that apparently does not matter to the many black Americans who have so much anger and so clearly define themselves as victims that they will, in too many cases, support black murderers — from OJ Simpson to Christopher Dorner.</p>
<p>What we have here is another proof that nothing leads to murder and other evils more than a sense of victimization. This is true for nations, just as it is for individuals. The German sense of victimization led to World War II. Dorner believes himself to be a victim and consequently feels entitled to murder.</p>
<p>But the real victims are decomposing in their graves.</p>
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		<title>Chris Dorner: A Mass Shooter Leftists Can Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Progressives reveal their soft spot for cop killers. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-blumer/chris-dorner-a-mass-shooter-leftists-can-love/chris-dorner-crop-598x350/" rel="attachment wp-att-177214"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-177214" title="chris-dorner-crop-598x350" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chris-dorner-crop-598x350.jpg" alt="" width="263" height="206" /></a>In the past several days, we&#8217;ve learned about how you too can gain a degree of public sympathy if you plan to embark on a killing spree and then go into hiding as you bide your time waiting to kill again: Write a &#8220;manifesto&#8221; dominated by anti-police rants, a &#8220;progressive&#8221; outlook towards Second Amendment freedoms and support for leftist politicians.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what former Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner, <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/08/16899029-police-search-mountains-for-lapd-murder-suspect-christopher-dorner-release-new-image">who is accused</a> of killing Monica Quan, Keith Lawrence, and an as yet unnamed LAPD officer while wounding two others, has done. His sympathy-by-manifesto strategy has been alarmingly successful.</p>
<p>Dorner&#8217;s <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/feature?section=news/local/orange_county&amp;id=8983607">11,000-word tome</a>, addressed to &#8220;America,&#8221; was reportedly delivered to CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Southern_California_shootings#February_1.2C_2013">on February 1</a>. Much of its second half directs praise and scorn at a variety of politicians, celebrities and athletes while also, of all things, politicking for gun control and praising two of its proponents (spelling and grammar errors were not fixed in this and the following manifesto excerpt):</p>
<blockquote><p>The time is now to reinstitute a ban (on assault weapons) that will save lives. Why does any sportsman need a 30 round magazine for hunting? Why does anyone need a suppressor? Why does anyone need a AR15 rifle?</p>
<p>&#8230; Mia Farrow said it best. &#8220;Gun control is no longer debatable, it&#8217;s not a conversation, its a moral mandate.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sen. Feinstein, you are doing the right thing in leading the re-institution of a national AWB.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dorner also effusively praises President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, while showing contempt and disdain for &#8220;America,&#8221; the screed&#8217;s addressee, for not wholeheartedly supporting Dear Leader (paragraph breaks added by me):</p>
<blockquote><p>You disrespect the office of the POTUS/Presidency and Commander in Chief. You call him Kenyan, mongroid, halfrican, muslim, and FBHO when in essence you are to address him as simply, President. The same as you did to President George W. Bush and all those in the highest ranking position of our land before him. Just as I always have.</p>
<p>You question his birth certificate, his educational and professional accomplishments, and his judeo-christian beliefs. You make disparaging remarks about his dead parents.</p>
<p>… You call his wife a Wookie. Off the record, I love your new bangs, Mrs. Obama. A woman whose professional and educational accomplishments are second to none when compared to recent First wives.</p>
<p>You call his supporters, whether black, brown, yellow, or white, leeches, FSA, welfare recipients, and ni$&amp;er lovers. You say this openly without any discretion. Before you start with your argument that you believe I would vote for Obama because he has the same skin color as me, (expletive) you.</p>
<p>&#8230; Mr. President, I haven&#8217;t agreed with all of your decisions but of course I haven&#8217;t agreed with all of your predecessors decisions. I think you&#8217;ve done a hell of a job with what you have been dealt and how you have managed it. I shed a tear the night you were initially elected President in 2008.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dorner also allocated space to praising the following broadcast media members, in order of appearance: Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Pat Harvey, Brian Williams, Soledad O&#8217;Brien, Wolf Blitzer, Meredith Viera, Tavis Smiley, Cooper, the late Walter Crokite, Tom Brokaw, the late Peter Jennings, Willie Geist, and Piers Morgan.</p>
<p>While Dorner&#8217;s alleged acts and plans have properly appalled the vast majority of America, a distressingly large contingent of our fellow citizens considers him a hero.</p>
<p>As of 10 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, I located two newly-minted Dorner-friendly Facebook pages: &#8220;I Support Christopher Jordan Dorner&#8221; (over 7,700 &#8220;likes&#8221;), and &#8220;LAPD Cop Killer Christopher Dorner is A HERO&#8221; (over 300 &#8220;likes&#8221;). <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/02/09/Facebook-fan-pages-Chris-Dorner">On Saturday</a>, Breitbart.com&#8217;s Ben Shapiro identified several others. This is clear evidence that there is a dangerous strand of thought on the left which is perfectly fine with the commission of violent, murderous acts &#8212; as long as their perpetrators hold anti-establishment, anti-authority views.</p>
<p>By contrast, the pro-life community always roundly denounces the very few acts of violence visited upon abortion clinics and abortion doctors &#8212; of course other than those which clinic employees themselves commit by killing pre-born babies. Criminals who have bombed clinics and harmed or murdered their employees have never garnered any meaningful level of sympathy beyond a truly tiny and obviously unrepresentative fringe.</p>
<p>Public figures who should know better have either gone into a sympathy routine or chosen a strange form of neutrality towards Dorner. <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/02/08/jesse-jackson-tweets-plea-to-chris-dorner-i-understand-your-feelings-of-hurt-and-pain/">Jesse Jackson tweeted</a>: &#8220;I understand your feelings of hurt and pain.&#8221; Noticeably absent was any recognition of the &#8220;hurt and pain&#8221; Dorner has inflicted on the families of Quan, Lawrence, and the unnamed slain police officer&#8217;s families. <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/02/08/bill-maher-calls-christopher-dorner-a-nut-followers-disagree/">Bitter Bill Maher</a> attempted to draw an equivalence between cold-blooded killing and a &#8220;headline&#8221; at FoxNews.com, which, from what I can tell, was really either <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013">never there</a> or was planted by a commenter at a blog post. The aforementioned <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/02/08/mia-farrow-tweets-about-murderer-cop-doesnt-mention-he-quotes-her-in-manifesto/">Ms. Farrow tweeted</a> about &#8220;a murderer cop,&#8221; but &#8220;somehow&#8221; didn&#8217;t mention that Dorner views her favorably.</p>
<p>Print and web reports from the nation&#8217;s establishment press are following Farrow&#8217;s example. From reading their output, you wouldn&#8217;t even know that Dorner even mentioned President Obama, Mrs. Obama, or Vice President Joe Biden, let alone spent hundreds of words praising them. An unbylined Friday report <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_LA_POLICE_SHOOTING_MANIFESTO_EXCERPTS?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">at the Associated Press</a> containing &#8220;some samples&#8221; from the manifesto which one would have hoped would be representative <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2013/02/08/aps-used-excerpts-dorners-manifesto-various-pols-omits-effusive-praise-o">managed to suppress everything</a> relating to our sitting president, his wife, and vice president, but managed to quote relatively brief mentions of George H.W. Bush, Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton, and Colin Powell, while also ignoring Dorner&#8217;s anti-gun stance. There isn&#8217;t a chance in Hades that the self-described &#8220;essential global news network&#8221; would have been so kind to a sitting Republican or conservative president, first lady, or veep.</p>
<p>Also recall that ABC&#8217;s Brian Ross initially attempted to pin the blame for the Aurora, Colorado theater murders on a Tea Party activist <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/07/20/It-Begins-ABC-Ross-Stephanolpoulos-Point-to-Tea-Party-for-Dark-Knight-Shooting">based only on his name</a>, while his network and other <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/christopher-dorner-manhunt-cops-manifesto-posted-online-18438426">have reported nothing</a> about Dorner&#8217;s sympathy for Obama.</p>
<p>Just to be clear, no one Dorner named shares any blame for his actions. He bears that responsibility alone.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not what the left or their media sympathizers would be saying if Dorner had invoked the views of conservative talk radio hosts, pundits, or politicians in a vain attempt to justify themselves.</p>
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		<title>A Morally-Confused Marine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Prager]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A perfect example of the ethical degradation leftism has wrought over the last half century.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dennis-prager/a-morally-confused-marine/kudo3/" rel="attachment wp-att-176533"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-176533" title="Kudo3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Kudo3.jpg" alt="" width="272" height="221" /></a>Last week, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by a Marine captain titled, &#8220;I Killed People in Afghanistan. Was I Right or Wrong?&#8221;</p>
<p>The column by Timothy Kudo, who is now a graduate student at New York University, is a fine example of the moral confusion leftism has wrought over the last half century. Captain Kudo&#8217;s moral confusion may predate his graduate studies, but if so, it has surely been reinforced and strengthened at NYU.</p>
<p>The essence of Mr. Kudo&#8217;s piece is that before he served in Afghanistan he was ethically unprepared for killing, that killing is always wrong, and that war is therefore always wrong.</p>
<p>&#8211;&#8221;I held two seemingly contradictory beliefs: Killing is always wrong, but in war, it is necessary. How could something be both immoral and necessary?&#8221;</p>
<p>The statement, &#8220;killing is always wrong,&#8221; is the core of the captain&#8217;s moral confusion.</p>
<p>Where did he learn such nonsense?  He had to learn it because it is not intuitive. Every child instinctively understands that it is right to kill in self-defense; every decent human being knows it was right to kill Nazis during World War II; and just about everyone understands that if Hitler, Stalin and Mao had been killed early enough, about one hundred million innocent lives would have been saved.</p>
<p>How is it possible that a Marine captain and graduate student does not know these things? How can he make a statement that is not only morally foolish but actually immoral?</p>
<p>The overwhelmingly likely answer is that Captain Kudo is a product of the dominant religion of our time, leftism. And one important feature of the left&#8217;s moral relativism and moral confusion is a strong pacifistic strain.</p>
<p>&#8211;&#8221;Many veterans are unable to reconcile such actions in war with the biblical commandment &#8216;Thou shalt not kill.&#8217; When they come home from an environment where killing is not only accepted but is a metric of success, the transition to one where killing is wrong can be incomprehensible.&#8221;</p>
<p>I give Captain Kudo the benefit of the doubt that he does not know that the commandment in its original Hebrew reads, &#8220;Thou shalt not murder,&#8221; not &#8220;Thou shalt not kill.&#8221; The King James translators did an awe inspiring job in translating the Bible. To this day, no other English translation comes close to conveying the majesty of the biblical prose. But the Hebrew is clear: &#8220;Lo tirtzach&#8221; means &#8220;Do not murder.&#8221; Hebrew, like English, has two primary words for homicide &#8212; &#8220;murder&#8221; and &#8220;kill.&#8221;</p>
<p>Murder is immoral or illegal killing.</p>
<p>Killing, on the other hand, can be, and often is, both moral and legal.</p>
<p>In order to ensure that no more Marines share the captain&#8217;s moral confusion, the Marine Corps should explain to all those who enlist that the Bible only prohibits murder, not killing. It should further explain that killing murderers &#8212; such as the Nazis and Japanese fascists in World War II and the Taliban today &#8212; is not only not morally problematic, it is the apotheosis of a moral good. Refusing to kill them means allowing them to murder.</p>
<p>&#8211;&#8221;This incongruity can have devastating effects. After more than 10 years of war, the military lost more active-duty members last year to suicide than to enemy fire.&#8221;</p>
<p>As we have seen, there is no &#8220;incongruity&#8221; here. And if so many members of the American military believe that it is so &#8220;incongruous&#8221; to kill the moral monsters of the Taliban &#8212; the people who throw lye in the faces of girls who attend school (and shoot them in the head if they&#8217;re outspoken about the right of girls to an education), who murder medical volunteers who give polio shots to Afghan children and who stone women charged with &#8220;dishonoring&#8221; their families &#8212; that they are committing suicide in unprecedented numbers, we have a real moral crisis in our military.</p>
<p>&#8211;&#8221;To properly wage war, you have to recalibrate your moral compass. Once you return from the battlefield, it is difficult or impossible to repair it.&#8221;</p>
<p>You only &#8220;have to recalibrate your moral compass&#8221; if you enter the military with a broken moral compass &#8212; one that neither understands the difference between murder and killing, nor how evil the Taliban is.</p>
<p>&#8211;&#8221;War makes us killers. We must confront this horror directly if we&#8217;re to be honest about the true costs of war.&#8221;</p>
<p>Other than the author, are there many Americans who enter the military in time of war without confronting the fact that they are likely to kill? Furthermore, it is not &#8220;war&#8221; that makes us killers; it is the Taliban. We kill them in order to protect Afghans from Taliban atrocities, and to protect America from another 9/11.</p>
<p>&#8211;&#8221;I want to believe that killing, even in war, is wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why would anyone want to believe that? Were the soldiers who liberated Nazi death camps &#8220;wrong?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The immorality of war is not a wound we can ignore.&#8221;</p>
<p>With all respect, I would rewrite this sentence to read: &#8220;The moral confusion of a Marine captain is not a wound we can ignore.&#8221;</p>
<p>Every American is deeply grateful to Captain Kudo for his service on behalf of his country, and on behalf of elementary human rights in Afghanistan. I have to wonder, however, why, given his belief that killing is always wrong, Timothy Kudo ever enlisted in the Marines.</p>
<p>On the other hand, he will fit in perfectly at NYU.</p>
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		<title>Operation Fast and Furious and the Massacre of Mexican Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Mailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontPage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Terry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug cartels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Holder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast and Furious]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[killing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Univision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Too many dead bodies for the administration to cover-up. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eric-holder.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-146457" title="eric-holder" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eric-holder.gif" alt="" width="375" height="256" /></a>As <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/who-should-really-be-held-accountable-for-the-benghazi-cover-up/">Benghazigate</a> continues to heat up, so too does the Operation Fast and Furious scandal. The gun-running operation was previously connected to the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry after weapons found at the crime scene were traced back to a gun-walking scheme overseen by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Now a <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/video/excerpt-univisions-fast-furious-special-17352864">bombshell report</a> that the Spanish language television news network Univision aired on Sunday evening has linked more of the program&#8217;s guns to the massacre of at least fourteen Mexican youths and to other horrific crimes committed by Mexican drug rings against innocent Mexican citizens.</p>
<p>ATF is a division of Attorney General Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department. This agency, for which Holder is ultimately responsible, decided to use unsavory gun smugglers as intermediaries in the movement of guns the smugglers purchased from federally licensed firearms dealers in Arizona and sold to Mexican drug cartels. The idea was allegedly to follow the trail of the guns to locate the drug lords and put them out of business. Instead, the drug lords used the guns provided to them courtesy of ATF to continue their rampage of killings.</p>
<p>In April 2009, Holder delivered a speech at the Mexico/United States Arms Trafficking Conference held in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He said that he was &#8220;committed to putting the resources in place to increase our attack on arms trafficking into Mexico&#8221; and promised that the United States &#8220;will take responsibility by joining our Mexican counterparts in every step of this fight&#8221; against the Mexican drug cartels.</p>
<p>What happened instead?  The ATF launched Operation Fast and Furious in the fall of 2009 without informing the Mexican government.</p>
<p>On January 30, 2010, according to the Univision report, hired hit men working for the Mexican cartel La Linea invaded a house and opened fire on nearly 60 teenagers who had gathered there for a birthday party. More shootings occurred outside against neighbors and fleeing students. Univision reported that three of the high-caliber weapons used by the hit men were linked to Operation Fast and Furious.</p>
<p>This massacre does not appear to be an isolated incident. There is a disturbing pattern in which the ATF lost track of weapons provided to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers, some of which later ended up at crime scenes in Mexico. In other words, it allowed suspects to walk away with illegally purchased guns in order to try and catch bigger fish. But the big fish got away as well after using the guns to kill their prey.</p>
<p>&#8220;Many weapons cross the border and enter Mexico, but that [Fast and Furious] number, quantity and type of weapons had quite an impact in the war in this area&#8221; Jose Wall, an ATF agent stationed in Tijuana from 2009 to 2011, told Univision News.</p>
<p>Univision News reported that it had &#8220;identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre.”</p>
<p>Displaying the best of journalistic investigative reporting, Univision compared two lists and found some significant overlaps that had eluded congressional investigators &#8211; the list of serial numbers for weapons used in Fast and Furious and the list of guns seized in Mexico.</p>
<p>Mexican government officials claim that at least three hundred people in Mexico were killed with Fast and Furious weapons.</p>
<p>At least as far back as March 2010, some ATF agents were raising alarm bells about the operation, but were ignored by their superiors. ATF agents stationed in Mexico also expressed concern as they were aware that a large number of weapons being recovered at bloody crime scenes in Mexico were traced back to the beginning of the Operation Fast and Furious pipeline in Arizona. Still the operation continued.</p>
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