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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Maine</title>
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		<title>Liberal Activist Collecting Signatures for Obamacare Steals $37 from Purse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community organizers are all about the wealth redistribution]]></description>
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<p>They say it&#8217;s so cold in Maine now that liberals have their hands in their own pockets. But don&#8217;t believe them. Liberals always find other people&#8217;s pockets and purses warmer than their own.</p>
<p>Brianna Stein went collecting signatures for the Maine People&#8217;s Alliance petition to expand Medicaid for ObamaCare. And then she decided to <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2014/01/13/news/hancock/maine-peoples-alliance-staffer-charged-after-allegedly-stealing-37-while-going-door-to-door-in-ellsworth/">do a little wealth redistribution</a> on her own<a href="http://www.themainewire.com/2014/01/liberal-activist-charged-allegedly-stealing-elderly-woman/"> like the good little community organizer</a> that she was.</p>
<blockquote><p>A paid activist working on behalf of the liberal Maine People’s Alliance has been charged after she allegedly stole money from a woman’s purse while collecting signatures.</p>
<p>Stein was at the woman’s Water Street apartment on Friday evening when the alleged theft occurred. She is accused of taking $37 from the woman’s purse while the woman’s attention was directed elsewhere, Ellsworth police Lt. Harold Page said Monday.</p>
<p>In September 2012, Stein was arrested on a charge of receiving stolen property after her husband, Maxwell Stein, allegedly stole more than $50,000 worth of merchandise from his Holden landlord. The following month, she was arrested in connection with an incident in Bangor in which she and her husband were accused of making off with pills that another man had in his possession.</p>
<p>Stein, who has previously been implicated in property theft crimes, somehow managed to retain employment with the MPA, which subsequently sent her to homes across the Bangor area without conducting a criminal background check.</p>
<p>The Maine People’s Alliance is a well-known liberal influence group. Although it is aligned with Maine’s labor unions and Democratic politicians, including U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, it is funded by anonymous donors. S. Donald Sussman, majority owner of the Portland Press Herald, is known to financially support the dark money group.</p>
<p>This is not the first time an activist’s behavior has reflected poorly on the organization. In September, The Maine Wire uncovered video of a <a href="http://www.themainewire.com/2013/09/maine-peoples-alliance-worker-photobombed-lepage-event-history-ridiculing-threatening-workers/">high-profile MPA activist ridiculing</a> and threatening a Grey Hound bus employee.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Maine&#8217;s People Alliance has since let Brianna go because they prefer to do their purse snatchings through the system like good liberals.</p>
<p>But as her boss Barry used to say, &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with a little wealth redistribution anyway?&#8221; Brianna was just demonstrating to the privileged entitled woman that she didn&#8217;t build that.</p>
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		<title>Welfare Recipients Take EBT to Disney World and Vegas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You're on welfare, what do you want to do now? ]]></description>
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<p>You just got on welfare, what do you want to do now? <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/sarahjeanseman/2014/01/07/maine-welfare-cash-being-spent-in-disney-world-and-hawaii-n1773200?utm_source=thdailypm&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl_pm">Go to Disney World</a>. It&#8217;s cold out in Maine, but it&#8217;s really warm in Florida, just like back home in Somalia. Leave the polar vortex behind and catch some rays, <a href="http://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/welfare-as-transitional-living-at-disney-world/">withdraw some cash and enjoy the good life</a>.</p>
<p>Working people are paying for it.</p>
<blockquote><p>According to Department of Health and Human Service records, cash welfare users from Maine have spent $2.8 million outside of the state over the last three years – and not just in neighboring New Hampshire.</p>
<p>According to HHS records, the top recipients of Maine’s welfare cash are: New Hampshire: $1.4 million; Massachusetts: $360,000; Florida: $206,000; and New York: $100,000.</p></blockquote>
<p>New York&#8217;s tourism board really needs to do more outreach to Maine welfare recipients. We&#8217;ve got to pay for all the people Bill de Blasio is going to put on welfare. Maybe he can innovate welfare tourism.</p>
<blockquote><p>On Aug. 1, 2011, one or more EBT cards were used within a three-minute time frame to access nearly $500 in welfare cash at an ATM in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. That particular ATM happens to be located almost on top of the campus of Disney World Resorts.</p>
<p>On March 1, 2011, at 3:20AM, a Maine EBT cardholder accessed an ATM in Cape Canaveral, Florida, twice, withdrawing $400. The address of the ATM corresponds with Ron Jon Cape Caribe Resort.</p>
<p>Additional Sunshine State transactions occur at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, the Family Fun Center of Lakeland, and at North Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Vero Beach, Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach – all hotspots for Mainers on vacation.</p>
<p>The list goes on to include Las Vegas, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Four Seasons Resort Aviara in California.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Four Seasons Resort Aviara is a five star hotel. I couldn&#8217;t afford it, but I&#8217;m not a welfare recipient in Maine.</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t worry Governor Moonbeam, <a href="http://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/welfare-as-transitional-living-at-disney-world/">California is still number one</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Californians have, of course, been the undisputed 50-state champions of transitional-living-fund spending across state lines.  At a stratospheric <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/04/local/la-me-welfare-20101004">$69 million from 2007 to 2010</a>: well, can’t touch <i>that</i>, transitional-living-fund-wise.  The top out-of-state venue for poverty-stricken, transitional-living-fund-wielding Californians?  Las Vegas.  $11.8 million spent by starving California children, much of it at casinos and co-located ATMs.</p></blockquote>
<p>Remind me, wasn&#8217;t Obama lecturing CEOs about spending money in Vegas? I guess that doesn&#8217;t apply to his voting base.</p>
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		<title>Somali Muslim Migrants Protest Welfare Reform in Maine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Jihad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[. “The face of Maine is changing," Hussein said.]]></description>
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<p>Maine&#8217;s Somali Muslim settler problem is growing worse with gang violence and welfare abuse threatening the state. Governor LePage&#8217;s efforts to make Maine&#8217;s generous benefits system less attractive to Somali Muslim migrants who have swarmed the state seeking taxpayer handouts <a href="http://www.halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2014/01/somali-women-of-maineleading-opposition.html">has led to protests from those same Somali Muslims</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Immigration advocates and migrants to Maine rallied at the State House Friday against a proposal that would prohibit hundreds of asylum seekers and some other immigrants from receiving General Assistance while waiting for their work permits.</p>
<p>Advocates estimate that as many as 1,000 immigrants who are seeking asylum in Maine would lose access to General Assistance.</p>
<p>In fiscal year 2012, Maine communities provided a total of $17.5 million in General Assistance, $13.2 million of which came from the state budget, according to the DHHS. Portland provided $9.6 million in General Assistance to 4,376 individuals and families in the last fiscal year, with 90 percent of that money spent on food and shelter, according to the city.</p>
<p>Of the total spent, $2.4 million came from property taxpayers and $7.2 million came from the state.</p>
<p>Opponents of the rule change were bused from Portland and Lewiston, cities with significant immigrant populations, for a hearing Friday before DHHS officials in Augusta.</p>
<p>Opponents said the bill would cut off a lifeline for many people who arrive in Maine and apply for asylum.</p>
<p>“This proposed rule will result in increased homelessness and hunger for immigrant women and their children,” said Fatuma Hussein, the director of the Somali Women of Maine.</p>
<p>“It’s a moral and human act to provide assistance and meet the vital needs of this population,” said Hussein. “The face of Maine is changing and so are our communities.”</p>
<p>“There would be hundreds of people unable to pay their rent,” said Merrill. “A lot of general assistance goes in the form of vouchers to landlords. People would be on the streets.”</p>
<p>The rule change is being proposed by Gov. Paul LePage’s administration, which has made welfare reform a priority in his three years as governor. Welfare reform has also emerged as major theme of LePage’s re-election campaign.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m sure the rent will be a lot more affordable back home in Somalia. There&#8217;s no reason why working people in Maine should be forced to subsidize the transformation of their state into another Somalia.</p>
<p>Anyone acquainted with Somali pirates already knows how those generous folks treat visitors.</p>
<p>The pro-welfare pushback is predictably centered around accusations of racism and talk of all the incredible economic benefits that subsidizing welfare for thousands of Somalis from a violent backward Muslim country in the throes of a perpetual civil war will bring.</p>
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		<title>Maine Struggles to Cut Off Welfare for Somali Migrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But no funding is available for 3,100 of our most needy.]]></description>
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<p>Somalis have made Somalia a very pleasant place to live. Between the Muslim militias shooting at each other and the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-hyena-cure/">amateur hyena psychiatry sessions</a>, it&#8217;s  perfect. That&#8217;s why most Somalis are getting the hell out of there and moving to other countries that they can remake into Somalia.</p>
<p>There are Little Mogadishus all across America, but few places have been hit as hard by Somali Muslim migrants as Maine whose generous benefits system <a href="http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/maine-rule-change-could-reduce-welfare-for-some-immigrants/">is struggling to cope with the Somali settlers.</a></p>
<p>Lewiston Mayor <a href="http://www.twincitytimes.com/politics/enough-is-enough-legislators-want-to-expand-welfare-but-ignore-our-most-needy">Robert E. MacDonald has written sharply</a> about the Somali welfare invasion and its impact on Maine natives.</p>
<blockquote><p>Today in Maine our legislators make sure that money is available for those who flock to Maine, many with their GPS programmed for Lewiston, to obtain the generous welfare benefits offered by our caring Legislature. But for 3,100 of our most needy, those who cannot survive without assisted living, the funding for home- or community-based care is not available.</p>
<p>Then we have the asylum seekers. They come from Europe, Asia, Africa, North or South America. They obtain visas to enter our country. They must declare why they are seeking entry (education, seasonal work, etc.), and further declare that they have a place to stay, money to cover their stay and a home to go back to. Once in our country, they suddenly declare that harm will come to them if they return to their country of origin.</p>
<p>An investigation into their claim is initiated by the federal government. This investigation takes many months to complete. In the meantime, housing, clothing, medication, food, utilities, etc. must be paid for, as they have no money. The federal and state government will not pick up their expenses.</p>
<p>How do they survive? On the forced funding by local taxpayers. But no funding is available for 3,100 of our most needy.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now Maine governor <a href="http://halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2013/12/proposal-to-cut-cash-assistance-for.html">Paul LePage is trying to shut down the Somali</a> settlers&#8217; free lunch.</p>
<blockquote><p>Maine Gov. Paul LePage&#8217;s administration has proposed a rule that would prevent asylum seekers from getting cash assistance.</p>
<p>The Republican governor&#8217;s proposal for the General Assistance program would impact new immigrants who aren&#8217;t citizens and aren&#8217;t official refugees. The state says it doesn&#8217;t know how many people would be affected.</p>
<p>Critics say ending funding for the program will force communities to provide basic needs for asylum seekers through soup kitchens and emergency shelters.</p></blockquote>
<p>It might, but if they do a bad enough job of it, the Somalis might get the message and search for their promised welfare land somewhere else.</p>
<p>But you can&#8217;t just stop feeding stray dogs or racoons. The moment <a href="http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/maine-rule-change-could-reduce-welfare-for-some-immigrants/">you do that, the lawsuits begin</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A legal advocacy group has warned city and state officials that a proposed rule change at the Department of Health and Human Services could cut off benefits to members of Maine’s immigrant population.</p>
<p>Robin Merrill, a senior policy analyst with Maine Equal Justice Partners, met with members of the Portland City Council and the legislative delegation on Monday and talked about a proposed rule change that could cause some members of the immigrant community to lose general assistance.</p>
<p>“This would be devastating for Portland and for Lewiston,” Merrill said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-hyena-cure/">Somali settlements in Maine</a> are devastating for Lewiston and all of Maine.</p>
<blockquote><p>Maine has gone from having no gang members a few years ago to having 4,000 of them. Mainahs have gone from thinking of gang members as something they saw on COPS to something they see when they look out the window.</p>
<p>Vacationland now hosts the True Somali Bloods and the True Sudanese Bloods who spill each other’s blood to find out who has the truest blood of them all. In Lewiston, Somali flash mobs attack natives. In Bangor, a Somali gang is at the heart of local crime.</p></blockquote>
<p>Somalis are slowly turning Maine into Somalia.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left sputters, while the Tea Parties surge. ]]></description>
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<p>As President Obama’s poll ratings tumble and the Democratic majority in Congress continues to post record disapproval numbers, some on the Left have consoled themselves with the thought that the growing grassroots hostility to incumbent candidates transcends party and ideology. In this exegesis, liberal and progressive discontents are just as wound up – and just as influential – as their conservative Tea Party counterparts. If this week’s primary election results proved anything, it’s that this reading of the nation’s political map won’t wash. While the Tea Parties continued to notch victories in pivotal primary races, the Left’s insurgents were rebuffed.</p>
<p>The most prominent example came from Arkansas, where embattled Senator Blanche Lincoln staved off a bruising challenge from her union-backed rival, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Lincoln drew Big Labor’s wrath for heresies like opposing “<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Labor-blows-another-_10-million-on-card-check-95977759.html">card check</a>” legislation, which would have eliminated secret ballots to facilitate union organizing. As payback, unions, aided by a battery of progressive political action groups, put their full political clout into the race, sponsoring Halter to the tune of $10 million. But while the lavishly funded challenge did force Lincoln into a runoff, the unions’ purchasing power came up short. As one agonized Obama White House official told <em>Politico</em>: “Organized labor just flushed $10 million of their members&#8217; money down the toilet on a pointless exercise.” Lincoln remains deeply vulnerable. Polls show she trails her Republican opponent John Boozman by some 25 points. But her defeat, if it comes, will be punishment for being too loyal to the Left’s agenda (Lincoln cast the decisive 60<sup>th</sup> vote to pass ObamaCare) rather than for straying too far from it.</p>
<p>Lest one dismiss Arkansas as a one-off from conservative country, liberal bastions proved no more receptive to left-wing insurgents. In California’s 36<sup>th</sup> district, far-Left candidate Marcy Winograd lost her second successive bid to oust Democratic centrist Jane Harman. Winograd, who styles herself as a “peace” activist, ran a campaign that sounded the full range of the angry Left’s talking points: Harman was variously portrayed as a corporate shill, a warmonger, and a traitor to the Left. An outspoken foe of Israel, Winograd even tried to capitalize on Harman’s pro-Israel record in the context of the recent clash between Israeli commandos and armed Turkish activists attempting to run Israel’s naval blockade. Winograd<a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes/marcy-winograd-for-congress/peace-candidate-winograd-denounces-murders-of-free-gaza-activists/10150196134540206%20"> boasted</a> that as a sign of “solidarity” with the activists, her campaign had sent a Winograd for Congress T-Shirt that had been “worn on the flotilla.” As primary day neared, progressive blogs began <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/linda-milazzo/28963/will-marcy-winograd-pull-a-sestak-and-beat-jane-harman-in-the-june-8th-california-primary">trumpeting</a> Winograd as the new Joe Sestak – a true progressive who would oust the incumbent impostor. The hype proved just that, as Harman won by a comfortable <a href="http://redondobeach.patch.com/articles/election-results-veteran-harman-defeats-winograd">18-point</a> margin.</p>
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		<title>Intellectual Assault</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Academic anti-Americanism and the distortion of 9/11. ]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Joseph Yeager, the author of the new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Assault-Academic-Anti-Americanism-Distortion/dp/1449083226/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1272839993&amp;sr=1-2">Intellectual Assault: Academic Anti-Americanism and the Distortion of 9/11</a>. He holds a Ph.D. in medieval Russian history from the University  of Missouri. He is a member of the National Association of Scholars&#8217; Argus Project, a watchdog group which keeps an eye on excesses and abuses in academia.<br />
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Joseph Yeager, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>What inspired you to write your book?</p>
<p><strong>Yeager:</strong> I was inspired by curiosity, Jamie, and a certain knowing suspicion.</p>
<p>Soon after 9/11 the professors and academic administrators began making their presence felt among the commentariat. Their sudden ubiquity was due partially to the media which understandably solicited opinions from experts about the tragedy, but it was also due to the egomania of a people who believe they are smarter than everybody else and thus deserve to be heard.</p>
<p>And what I heard was frankly quite disgusting. I&#8217;m sure your remember it well: America was to blame for 9/11; the terrorists and the society from which they sprang were actually righteous victims of American aggression; America is actually a terrorist state, so by what right may we punish the Taliban and al-Qaeda, ad nauseum.</p>
<p>These outrageous statements from the academics filled me with a desire to see if such views were outliers which received an airing precisely because they were so odious, or if they were the coin of the academic realm. As I suspected, and as my book makes clear, the academic anti-Americanism we witnessed after 9/11 is closer to being the rule than the exception on America&#8217;s campuses.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So what is the prevalence of anti-Americanism in academia?</p>
<p><strong>Yeager:</strong> For my book I did in-depth research on every single college and university website in American academia. I printed literally thousands of documents containing opinions about 9/11 from the faculty and administration. And while I did encounter a handful of academics who expressed sensible views about 9/11, and a fair share of others whose views might be characterized as cautiously critical of the terrorists and the Islamo-Arab world, the undoubted preponderance of opinion was that the United States was at fault and that the people of the Islamo-Arab world were victims meriting sympathy. The contours of this anti-Americanism are far more multifaceted than that statement suggests, but it does get to the heart of the matter. And based upon my research I suspect that perhaps two thirds of the academics, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, are basically anti-American.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Does academic anti-Americanism vary significantly from state to state, region to region?</p>
<p><strong>Yeager:</strong> Very little, Jamie. As I point out in my book, academia should be thought of as an anti-American archipelago. College and university campuses are essentially islands of Leftist radicalism in a great ocean of moderation and common sense. Moreover, these islands are closely linked to one another by a shared culture that is transmitted to future professors and administrators during their undergraduate and especially graduate years. Newly minted Ph.D.s go thither to California and Maine, Florida and Washington, Missouri and Wyoming, and they reinforce and replicate the anti-Americanism and Leftism they&#8217;ve swallowed throughout their years as students. Consequently, a tenured professor at Princeton will have far more in common with an instructor at Northern Arizona than he will with a pizza maker in Trenton; the Vice Provost at South Alabama will share more with the President of Stanford than he will with a physician in Birmingham. The surrounding political culture really has very little effect on the mental world of the university.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> How is 9/11 a lens through which we can understand academic anti-Americanism?</p>
<p><strong>Yeager:</strong> The 9/11 attacks are so important for understanding academia precisely because they put the professors on the defensive for a change. Hence, the terrorists were constituents of academia. They were non-white, they were not Christians or Jews, they were from Third World nations and they were from parts of the globe that are comparatively impoverished, even if the actual terrorists themselves were anything but poor.</p>
<p>And these constituents of academia managed to unite American citizens, at least temporarily, in a conviction that the terrorists were evil and that they and their supporters had to be destroyed by military force. The academics were of course, aghast. How could Americans be so filled with hate? How could they rebel against pet academic nostrums such as &#8220;conflict resolution&#8221; and out-and-out pacifism? Did they not learn anything from the Vietnam War?</p>
<p>But most interestingly I believe the academics felt that the very notion of &#8220;diversity&#8221; was under siege. The terrorists were in no uncertain terms exemplars of diversity. And suddenly Americans were turning a gimlet eye on Islam and the Islamo-Arab world. They were also questioning the wisdom of easily acquired student visas, and open-door immigration policies.</p>
<p>This was too much for academia to stand. Believing their diversity ox was being gored, the professors and administrators sallied forth to defend the bearers of diversity and to attack Americans as rubes and racists. They even constructed a totally fallacious backlash by common Americans against Muslims and Arab-Americans where none existed. Rather than mass pogroms against these minorities, there were very isolated hate crimes which quickly petered out. My book deals with these issues in some depth.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What is the biggest problem in US higher education?</p>
<p><strong>Yeager:</strong> Believe it or not, Leftist propagandizing in the classroom, and even overt discrimination against conservatives on campus are not the biggest problems. Far more significant is the relatively subtle but ceaseless skewing of virtually every field in the social sciences and humanities to the left.</p>
<p>Because these fields are so ideologically unbalanced, so lacking in views emanating from anywhere on the political spectrum other than the far left, there is an inevitable drift of scholarship leftward. Liberal and Leftist assumptions about scholarly issues and problems, liberal and Leftist points of departure and ways of looking at the world are never even questioned. Indeed, the research questions which serve as the basis of scholarly projects almost inevitably stem from a liberal/Left foundation.</p>
<p>And how could they not? There are simply not enough centrists and conservatives in academia to even illuminate the liberal/Left bias, let alone to raise a din that would inspire greater self awareness among the majority scholars.</p>
<p>What results is a lifeless intellectual universe where poor scholarship is produced and indeed, the distinction between scholarship and propaganda is blurred. American students are thus getting a pathetic excuse for an education, and are paying ever more for this woeful product.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So what can be done about all of this?</p>
<p><strong>Yeager:</strong> As long as Americans are essentially apathetic about what goes on in academia the problem will only worsen. American citizens must recognize the seriousness of this situation and they must do something about it. And make no mistake, they have the power to make a difference.</p>
<p>Money, as always and everywhere, is the lifeblood of academia. Cut off the money supply and the academic power brokers will take notice and make changes. Concerned citizens should write their state representatives demanding accountability in academia on pain of voting for challengers should the incumbents not apply the heat. Alumni should cease donating money to their alma maters and make clear why they are no longer giving. Small businesses and corporations could help the cause as well by no longer requiring college degrees for work that can be done by high school graduates. The use of bachelor&#8217;s degrees as a winnowing device simply funnels a steady supply of students (and money) to the very people who would like to see this country crash and burn. The professors and administrators don&#8217;t much care for Americans; why should we continue to provision their sumptuous gravy train, with no strings attached?</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Joseph Yeager, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking the option of personal choice away from individual citizens.]]></description>
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<p>Despite the successful (kind of, sort of) passage of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi  health care bill, the debate is far from over, it seems, and the underlying  issues will only become more incendiary: the health care fight has served as a  proxy for a deeper debate over the ongoing transformation of the United States  into a European-style “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_despotism" target="_blank">soft despotism</a>,” to use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville" target="_blank">Tocqueville</a>’s astute description.</p>
<p>Quoted in <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/428833/paul-ryan-is-not-ready-to-give-up-on-health-care/robert-costa" target="_blank">an article in National Review Online</a> this morning, Rep. Paul  Ryan (R-WI) of Wisconsin identified very well the way the health-care debate has  exemplified the vast difference between two cultures in the United States  today:</p>
<blockquote><p>Health care is really the issue that speaks to the relationship between the  citizen and the government in America. It shapes the fiscal trajectory and the  economic trajectory. This whole debate has been a proxy fight about what kind of  country America will be—whether we’ll become a cradle-to-grave welfare state or  stay a free-market democracy. The Democrats who are being told that the wors[t]  is over should know that the battle has not even begun. It’s up to us to now  bring the case to the American people—a real moral, philosophical, and economic  case— asking about our values, our founding principles, and if we really want to  move toward a Western European–style system. . . .</p>
<p>What’s really happening here is the president is saying to the American  people that you’re stuck in your current station in life, you’re frozen, and the  government is here to help you cope with it. But that’s not who we are. We are a  dynamic society where people have the will and incentive to make the most of  their lives, to reach their potential. With this bill, that whole mindset, the  American idea is upended.</p></blockquote>
<p>Matt Peterson put it succinctly in <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/where_were_you_when_the_republ.html" target="_blank">an essay in The American Thinker</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>In November 2008, Americans elected a socialist as their president. In March  2010, they woke up stunned to find themselves living in a socialist  country.</p></blockquote>
<p>He goes on to explain the enormity of this power-grab:</p>
<blockquote><p>Health insurers–once private companies–are now organs of the federal  government. Every citizen is a ward of the state, which can now compel you to  have insurance, punish you if you don’t; determine if your insurance is  acceptable, punish you if it isn’t. Thousands of new federal bureaucrats will  soon spill from the D.C. Beltway and flood the country, scrutinizing our  finances to verify compliance with this new law.</p>
<p>A government that grants itself this kind of power over us can conceivably do  anything to us.  For our own good, of course. Such a country is in no meaningful  sense “free.”. . .</p>
<p>There’s a reason why Democrats were desperate to ram this through at any  cost–once enacted, such things are all but perpetual. Former freedom-loving  peoples begin to tell themselves that it’s really not so bad. Sure, government  is forcing you to eat state-approved gruel, but hey, at least they hold the  spoon, and they even pour a little sugar on top when you’re  good.</p></blockquote>
<p>Tarren Bragdon, president of the Maine Heritage Policy Center, notes that the  health care overhaul legislation has energized the opposition to a degree that  hasn’t been manifested by non-progressives in many years—perhaps more than a  century:</p>
<blockquote><p>Last night’s vote was an assault on the fundamental American values of  freedom, individualism and limited government, but this fight isn’t over.  The  unprecedented level of activism and engagement among Americans to oppose the  president’s health care takeover will carry through to the November elections  and beyond.  We will not be silenced.  We will continue to fight to protect  Maine families from an intrusive, unaccountable, and now, greatly expanded  federal government.</p></blockquote>
<p>This issue indeed lays bare the great divide between two cultures in the  contemporary United States: a European-style, “progressive” rule by elites,  versus a consumer-oriented, reformist coalition based on the premise of natural  rights embedded in the Declaration of Independence. Like the Tea Party movement,  the “unprecedented level of activism and engagement among Americans” in  opposition to Obamacare is evidence of a long-delayed recognition by much of the  public that what’s wrong with progressivism is not the particular policies it  espouses but its assumption that rule by elites is better than freedom of  choice.</p>
<p>The passage of this health care bill is a great triumph of progressivism.  Under the spell of progressive ideology, for the last few decades public schools  across the country have increasingly refused to educate children in the founding  values of the nation and in fact have often openly taught contempt for them. In  turn, a public without a strong understanding of what individual freedom really  means and the reasons why it is precious has little defense against the  ever-increasing encroachments of government—until something as obviously  grotesque, wrongheaded, and overweening as this health care bill comes  along.</p>
<p>That’s what makes this fundamentally an issue of culture, and it’s why those  stubborn souls who persist in believing in individual rights must engage the  culture, especially by wresting control of the public schools from the hands of  the progressive myrmidons who have debauched it.</p>
<p>Certainly the particulars of the health care bill energized many people, both  for and against, insofar as they actually were spelled out and became known to  the public. Nonetheless, it’s clear that the real concern was that the option of  personal choice was being taken away from individual citizens in this vital area  of life. The power to control people’s health care, in addition to the hegemony  over the one-sixth of the economy which it represents, conveys to the government  an enormous amount of control over individual lives, a level of control surely  unprecedented in this nation.</p>
<p>This is not regulation; it is rule. And the public finally realized that the  current government does not intend to be gentle in its rule.</p>
<p>The revolt against the Tyranny of the Majority has begun. Whether it will  succeed over the long term will be decided in and through the culture.</p>
<p><em>S. T. Karnick edits </em><a href="http://culture.stkarnick.com/"><em>the  American Culture</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://culture.stkarnick.com/"><em>http://culture.stkarnick.com</em></a><em>,  where this article first appeared.</em></p>
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<p>WASHINGTON —  The Nigerian man accused of trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas has been cooperating with investigators since last week and has provided fresh intelligence in multiple terrorism investigations, officials said Tuesday.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab&#8217;s cooperation could prove to be a national security victory and a political vindication for President Obama, who has been under fire from lawmakers who contend the administration botched the case by giving Abdulmutallab the right to remain silent, rather than interrogating him as a military prisoner.In the days following the failed bombing, a pair of FBI agents flew to Nigeria and persuaded Abdulmutallab&#8217;s family to help them. When the agents returned to the U.S., Abdulmutallab&#8217;s family came, too, according to a senior administration official briefed on the case. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.FBI officials continue to question Abdulmutallab, working in collaboration with CIA and other intelligence authorities, the official said. Obama has received regular updates on the interrogation, according to the official.While the interrogation continued, White House and intelligence officials quietly seethed as political rivals accused them of putting lives at risk. That criticism peaked last weekend when Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, in the weekly Republican address, accused the administration of having &#8220;a blind spot when it comes to the war on terrorism.&#8221;</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584655,00.html">Airline Terror Suspect Provides Key Intelligence &#8211; Local News | News Articles | National News | US News &#8211; FOXNews.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Suicide Bombing Puts a Rare Face on C.I.A.’s Work &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the fall of 2001, as an anguished nation came to grips with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a slender, soft-spoken economics major named Elizabeth Hanson set out to write her senior thesis at Colby College in Maine. Her question was a timely one: How do the world’s three major faith traditions apply economic principles?</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07intel.html?hp">Suicide Bombing Puts a Rare Face on C.I.A.’s Work &#8211; NYTimes.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Harry Reid, Uncensored &#8211; by Michael Reagan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The apologies the Senator owes.]]></description>
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<p><span><span>On the Senate floor this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid abused the dignity of his position with yet another desperate attack on Republicans and other Americans who understand the dangers of President Obama’s flawed health care proposal.</span></span></p>
<p>Rather than debating the unremarkable “merits” of the Democratic plan, Sen. Reid arrogantly and prematurely declared that he was on the “right side of history” and that the Republicans were on the wrong side. More than that, he insisted these Republicans were the same types of people who opposed ending slavery and giving women the right to vote.</p>
<p>I suppose no one in Sen. Reid’s office could be bothered to learn that it was a Republican president under whom the slaves were freed and that it was Republican President Teddy Roosevelt’s third-party movement which was the first to support women’s suffrage. Who needs facts when you can make wild allegations?</p>
<p>More than that, though, Sen. Reid’s comments display the Democrat’s fundamental inability to sell their health care proposal with real arguments and facts.</p>
<p>Harry Reid would have you believe that Republicans should lose this debate because they are inconsiderate and blind, morally culpable for the failings of our health care system, and as guilty of pushing down their fellow Americans as those who oppressed women and enslaved an entire race. If he’d had more room in his speech, perhaps Republican actions would also have been likened to those which drove American Indians from their homes and interred Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.</p>
<p>Harry Reid would have you believe this, because it’s much easier for him to face than the reality that he’s peddling a flawed version of “reform” which the American people just won’t buy.</p>
<p>The Democratic party controls the White House. They have a considerable majority in the House of Representatives and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.</p>
<p>Let’s go through that again. The Democratic Party could, without a single Republican, pass any health care bill they wanted through both houses of Congress and get it signed by a Democratic President. If they cared to, Democrats could cobble together a socialized, single-payer system which covered our insurance bills by selling Maine to Canada, and there’s not a single thing Republican Congressmen, voting completely in unison, could do to stop them.</p>
<p>It is not simply the Republican Party &#8212; much less some mythical monster of slavery-loving Republican terror &#8212; which is stopping Harry Reid and his posse from passing his beloved monstrosity of a bill. No, the people in his way are ordinary Americans, the same ones who rallied at town hall meetings, who are fighting to preserve their independence in their health decisions and to keep our country from piling on even more debt.</p>
<p>The Republicans are not arguing, as Reid seems to suggest, that our health insurance system is above reform, or &#8212; heaven help us &#8212; that we are better off with several million people with limited access to health care. No, the Republicans, in concert with the American people, are arguing that this proposed reform is no reform at all, and it will only serve to make our country, and our health care system, worse off than it is now.</p>
<p>Many have asked Sen. Reid to apologize for his crass remarks, something he has adamantly refused to do. Me? His comments were undeniably arrogant, foolish, and undeserved. But if we’re going to push for an apology, let’s push for the ones we really need to hear.</p>
<p>Let’s ask Sen. Reid to apologize for ramming an unwieldy, bureaucratic nightmare of a “reform” bill down the throats of the American people without taking the time to look beyond his liberal talking points for a real solution to the problems.</p>
<p>Let’s ask Sen. Reid to apologize for spending more time behind closed doors playing political games than transparently addressing and debating different aspects of this proposal with the American public.</p>
<p>And then let’s ask Sen. Reid to work with us to find an alternative solution which won’t ration our medical care, weaken our economy, and remove our choices. This country deserves better than what Sen. Reid and the Democratic Party have been offering.</p>
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		<title>CAIR’s Strategy of Deception &#8211; by Jamie Glazov</title>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of <a href="http://www.daveg.us./">DG Counter-terrorism Publishing</a>. He is currently conducting a 50 State Counter-terrorism Research Tour (CTRT). He is the co-author (with Paul Sperry) of the new book, <a href="http://www.muslimmafia.com/">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America.</a> He can be contacted at <a href="mailto:davegaubatz@gmail.com">davegaubatz@gmail.com</a>.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> David Gaubatz, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Congrats on your book, <em>Muslim Mafia</em>.</p>
<p>I would like to talk to you today about how CAIR and other Islamic organizations deceive the public.</p>
<p>But first, give us some updates on your work and what is going on.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Thank you Jamie. I owe thanks to the WND staff at all levels, to Paul Sperry (co-author), and to all of the researchers who worked on this CAIR project.  Without them, the book would not exist.</p>
<p>On Dec. 1, 2009, I was asked to speak at the National Security Roundtable, hosted by Ronni Shalit, in NY.  The trip to NY was a pleasure and it was an honor to speak to such a well informed group of people.  The group consisted of people from many professions, including law enforcement, attorneys, bankers, and many more.  What I am beginning to see is that Americans are becoming more informed of national security issues and they are no longer simply sitting back and expecting our elected officials to insure our nation is secured.  Americans are beginning to insist that our nation be secured.</p>
<p>We have a very, very valuable commodity in our country, as does every country: our children.  It is apparent Americans are no longer going to rely on elected officials (many who wittingly and some unwittingly) who support the interests of Islamic based terrorist organizations more than they do our troops and our country.  The message to politicians who support terrorist groups either from being uninformed, naïve, incompetent, or intentionally (like Congressman Keith Ellison (MN) and Senator Larry Shaw (NC) is either do your job (protect our children from Islamic based terrorism) or leave office.  You are no longer wanted.</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> What do you think, is the state of New York better protected than before Sept. 11,  2001?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> For a few months after the murder of thousands of people by Islamic terrorists, the people of NY came together. Unfortunately it did not take long before many forgot what happened in their city, what is happening to our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and what has been happening (terrorist attacks) to the people of Israel for many years.  Many have again fallen into the trap of a false sense of security.  Anytime a city or state allows people to openly declare they are seeking the destruction of our country and are calling for violence against innocent Christians and Jews in their theological texts, no location is safe.</p>
<p>I am not an attorney, but as an American I do not believe our U.S. Constitution was designed for allowing treason, sedition, and calling for killing our citizens.  Our Constitution was designed to protect our country.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> How can our law enforcement effectively and timely protect our country from future attacks?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> We have a long educational process of our law enforcement and politicians ahead of us. This has to happen before we can truly realize any steps forward in protecting our country.  Few understand Sharia law (Islamic law) and they can’t rely on organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, MSA, and the host of other terror supporters to explain to them what Sharia law actually means in regards to the protection of our country.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So tell us a bit about Sharia law.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Sharia law covers every minute of every day of a person’s life in Islam.  Of course there are many peaceful aspects of Sharia, but as the 17 year old Rifqa Bary and many others have tried to inform people, Sharia law also has many violent aspects which can no longer be ignored.  Sharia law is an all or nothing. A Muslim can’t decide (and be in conformance with Islamic law) that they want to abide by some aspects and ignore other aspects such as death for apostasy or calling for hatred and violence against Christians and Jews.</p>
<p>Islamic scholars and many Imams will be the first to tell you (and they do so in their materials/lectures) that even if one does not have the ability to perform an aspect of Sharia; they must at least have it in their heart and a desire to comply with mandatory Sharia obligations. Of course there are millions of Muslims who do not want violence or hatred, but according to such Islamic leaders as Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Zaid Shakir, Ahmad Sakr, and many more operating in the U.S., these Muslims are ‘non-practicing’ Muslims.  CAIR and ISNA executives endorse these scholars as well.  Many people do not realize that numerous Islamic centers and mosques in America will not allow CAIR to advocate its ideology at their centers.</p>
<p>People should begin to understand that CAIR has approximately 5100 members out of 1.5 to 8 million Muslims in America.  CAIR is strong because it utilizes its manpower of foreign funding wisely.  CAIR does not truly help the Muslim people who actually need its assistance, CAIR represents the Muslim Brotherhood and therefore utilize their resources to intimidate, threaten, extort, and blackmail U.S. corporations and people to conform to their ideology. CAIR further spends hundreds of thousands operating a media PR machine to influence our law enforcement and politicians.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Ok, let&#8217;s focus in on some specifics of how the Muslim Brotherhood (CAIR, ISNA, MANA, etc,) intentionally deceives law enforcement and public officials.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Two quick examples. Both pertain to prayers. One was the ‘Flying Imam case’ in which several Imams began praying loudly at an airport and then caused disruptions on a plane.  This was merely a ‘hoax’ in order for the Imams to instill fear into the public, and by later suing the airlines and threatening the innocent people who reported their suspicious activities. This tactic by Islamic leaders and CAIR (Muslim Brotherhood) in regards to terrorism is called a ‘conditioning process’. One is simply ‘softening’ their enemy to conform to later demands.</p>
<p>CAIR officials know that within Islam there is no requirement for a loud prayer which causes disturbances when in the ‘mode’ of traveling.  Performing prayers while traveling is mentioned numerous times in Islamic articles, manuals, and essentially means when a Muslim is in the mode of traveling they can shorten their prayers, conduct them in silence, and/or perform them later (more convenient time). <a href="http://www.islamonline.com/">www.IslamOnline.com</a> , Fiqh Us Sunnah, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, and numerous other references are available to provide more clarification.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Do you believe the ‘Flying Imam Suit’ crossed any boundaries into criminal activity?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Of course. These Imams were well trained. They all knew they had no obligation to pray in the airport or on the aircraft. They were in the mode of travel.  The imams and CAIR should be prosecuted for their actions. This is another form of setting up and again conditioning not only the public, but aircrew personnel, and even law enforcement to ignore such obvious disruptions in the future. Again CAIR, the Imams, and anyone who provided support during this conspiracy to disrupt airline travel (safety) should be prosecuted.</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Give us some more examples of “conditioning” tactics used by CAIR and other Islamic leaders to deceive the public.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Well, there’s the current CAIR hoax being played in Maine pertaining to a young girl in school who CAIR and others say must be given a separate room to pray.</p>
<p>First, there are no obligations for a female or male child to perform anything other than a silent prayer while away from their home or mosque.  There are numerous clear discussions by Islamic scholars on this issue and from ones endorsed by CAIR and the ISNA.</p>
<p>CAIR knows that there is no expectation of an employer or public school administrator to set aside space or time for prayer.  The prayers, if conducted, can be combined with an earlier or later prayer after school/work, or if they are considered to be in travel mode they are authorized to shorten the prayer or not conduct one at all.  CAIR has intimidated many employers to allow time for worshippers during Friday’s Jummah prayer, but there are no requirements on children to even attend the mosque (specifically females).</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Could you provide us with some evidence of how CAIR officials are intentionally deceiving school administrators and even law enforcement in these areas?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Yes. CAIR’s Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece Ibrahim Hooper explained this to our researchers on more than one occasion during the research project.  Hooper himself often used the ‘traveling’ rule to ignore conducting prayers when he was with my researchers.  Islamic terrorists and their supporters do not recognize weakness. Now is a prime opportunity for law enforcement and prosecutors to charge the Imams, CAIR, and others who have conspired to disrupt air travel (federal) and the safety of innocent people.  In addition, school administrators should refuse to comply with CAIR in regards to prayers (other than silent) at public schools, and in no case authorize separate praying rooms.  The old saying ‘give an inch and they will take a mile’ is applicable here.  We have to deny terrorists more opportunities to later attack innocent people.  We need to stop their actions now or we will suffer later.</p>
<p>During my research of many Islamic Centers, the Imams and others would often refer me to one of their 3500 plus websites (many designed and ran by a respected Islamic Scholar Yusef Estes and his assistants). <a href="http://www.islamonline.com/">IslamOnline.com</a> is one such site he and other Islamic readers refer Muslims to for guidance on Islamic rulings.  A Muslim student asked a question about prayer at school and this is what the scholar and ISNA advised: One will notice only adult males are required to even attend Jummah prayer:</p>
<p><em>“Dear questioner, thank you very much for having confidence in us, and we hope our efforts, which are purely for Allah’s Sake, meet your expectations.</em></p>
<p><em>Friday prayer is mandatory on every Muslim male who is adult, healthy and free. Every Muslim should strive hard to perform it on time unless something beyond his capacity disrupts that. Muslim students in the West can modulate their schedule in order to be able to perform Friday prayer in its appointed time. They can gather together, even in the campus and perform the Friday prayer, which demonstrate unity and co-operation.”</em></p>
<p>In his response to the question, Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, former president of the Islamic Society of North America, states the following:</p>
<p><em>“Friday prayer is obligatory on every Muslim man who is adult, healthy and free. It should not be missed unless there is a real excuse. Allah Almighty says in the Qur&#8217;an: <strong>“</strong>O you who believe when the call for Friday prayer is given then hurry to the remembrance of Allah and leave all business. This is better for you, if you know. (Al-Jumu&#8217;ah: 9)</em></p>
<p><em>The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, <strong>‘</strong>Those who neglect three Friday prayers without any excuse may have their hearts sealed with hypocrisy.’”</em></p>
<p><em>The time for Friday prayer is the same as the time for Dhur prayer, that is from </em><em>noon</em><em> until the mid-afternoon (i.e. the time for &#8216;</em><em>Asr</em><em> prayer)</em><em>.</em></p>
<p><em>According to Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, Friday prayer can also be prayed before </em><em>noon</em><em>. The minimum of worshippers required to hold Friday prayer is only three. So if there are three Muslims at some place and they find it difficult to join a larger Jama&#8217;ah for Friday they can have their own prayer. I have mentioned these points to emphasize the importance of Friday prayer and the flexibility in performing it.</em></p>
<p><em>Muslim students in high schools, colleges and universities can organize their own prayers according to the convenience of their class schedule. Also, if your school does not have three or more Muslim students to hold your own Friday prayer at your school, then try to change your class schedule from the beginning of the school year. I have seen some students take early classes in one period in order to be able to attend Friday prayer at the Masjid. Make an effort to perform this prayer. There is a great reward and blessings from Allah in this prayer, you will feel the blessings throughout your week.</em></p>
<p><em>If for some reasons you are unable to perform Friday prayer, then pray Dhur instead. But this should not be done on a regular basis. It is an option for necessity only. May Allah bless you and help you to remember Him and make your prayers on time.&#8221;</em><em> </em></p>
<p><em> </em><strong>FP:</strong> David Gaubatz, thank you for taking the time out to speak with us.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Thanks Jamie.</p>
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