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		<title>Saul Alinsky Lives in Ferguson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Obama has implemented Alinsky's tactics of social revolution to tear a city – and a nation – apart. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Saul_Alinsky_271.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246727" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Saul_Alinsky_271-450x341.jpg" alt="Saul_Alinsky_27" width="355" height="269" /></a>If the late Saul Alinsky—the America-hating godfather of community organizing—had fathered a black son, he&#8217;d look like Barack Obama.[1]  Obama has embraced, revered, and employed Alinsky&#8217;s philosophy and tactics of social revolution <i>for decades</i>. Indeed, he even <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/behind-a-class-warfare-charge-the-shadow-of-saul-alinsky/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">taught</span></a> Alinsky&#8217;s <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/study-saul-alinsky-to-understand-barack-obama/article/243226"><span style="color: #0433ff;">methods</span></a> in community-organizing workshops and seminars in Chicago, when he was a much younger Marxist. As we witness the continuing racial unrest sparked by the shooting of Michael Brown and the Ferguson grand jury&#8217;s subsequent decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, it is vital to understand that <i>everything </i>the protesters/rioters are doing—in Ferguson and elsewhere—is straight out of Alinsky&#8217;s most famous publications, <i>Rules For Radicals</i> and <i>Reveille For Radicals</i>. And Obama has encouraged them, every step of the way.</p>
<p>Obama and Alinsky never actually met in person, as Alinsky died when Obama was just 11 years old. Happily for the future president, by that time he had already been introduced to the man who would mentor him throughout his adolescent years—the America-hating, pro-Soviet, pro-Stalin, Communist writer Frank Marshall Davis. Thus, when Obama eventually encountered Alinsky through the latter&#8217;s writings, the young community organizer was well prepared ideologically to soak up Alinsky&#8217;s message.</p>
<p>In his quest to cultivate the type of chaos that would spark social revolution against America&#8217;s capitalist system, Alinsky exhorted activists to constantly “rub raw the resentments of the people” and “fan the latent hostilities to the point of overt expression”—but to do this in measured tones, so as not to “scare off” middle-class Americans.</p>
<p>Thus did Obama dutifully and blandly call for “unity” and calm in the immediate aftermath of Michael Brown&#8217;s “heartbreaking and tragic” death, even as he repeatedly reminded us that: “police should not be bullying or arresting” anyone without cause; “in too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and left as objects to fear”; “there is no excuse for excessive force by police”; “the justice gap” between whites and nonwhites is unacceptable; “the criminal-justice system doesn&#8217;t treat people of all races equally”; and “too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement, guilty of walking while black, or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness.” And when the grand jury in Ferguson subsequently chose not to indict Darren Wilson because the officer obviously had shot Michael Brown in self-defense, Obama pronounced the black community&#8217;s indignation to be “an understandable reaction.”</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s carefully chosen words—all delivered in the type of nonthreatening tenor advocated by Saul Alinsky—clearly communicated a single, foundational theme to African Americans: <i>In the racist cesspool known as the United States, black people are routinely treated like second-class citizens, if not subhumans. Oh, and by the way, please remain calm. Wink, wink.</i></p>
<p>Alinsky also taught that in some cases activists must be completely willing—for the sake of the moral principles in whose name they profess to act—to turn up the proverbial heat and watch society descend into chaos and anarchy; to “go into a state of complete confusion and draw [their] opponent into the vortex of the same confusion.”<span style="color: #680900;"> </span>“Wherever possible,” Alinsky counseled, “go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.”</p>
<p>Mobs of shouting protesters can accomplish that objective quite effectively—even if, as in the present case, they are oblivious to the irony that the poster-child of their crusade is a multiple felon who tried unsuccessfully to murder a police officer. Such demonstrations tend to give onlookers the impression that a mass movement is not only well underway, but may actually be preparing to shift into an even higher gear at any moment. A “mass impression,” said Alinsky, can be lasting and intimidating. Thus did President Obama recently meet at the White House with Al Sharpton, his leading advisor on race-related matters, and other protest <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/17/obama-told-civil-rights-activists-keep-ferguson-staying-on-course/"><span style="color: #680900;">leaders</span></a> from Ferguson, urging them to “<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/obama-meets-with-ferguson-activists-says-hes-concerned-they-stay-on-course/"><span style="color: #680900;">stay on course</span></a>” with their activism.</p>
<p>Yet another highly noteworthy observation by Alinsky was this: “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.” “The threat,” he explained, “is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Thus, “if your organization is small in numbers,… raise a din and clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more than it does.”</p>
<p>This can be well achieved by orchestrating a host of simultaneous demonstrations in multiple cities or venues, exactly as the highly organized Gentle Giant crusade has been doing. The stature of these rallies is magnified by the fact that they receive lots of media attention, while scores of millions of ordinary Americans who view them with contempt and dread are busy quietly going about their lives, caring for their families, working at their jobs, and pursuing their personal aspirations as they see fit. Such people are many thousands of times more numerous than the perpetually aggrieved rabble-rousers of the Left, but Alinsky understood—as Obama understands today—that a spraying skunk inevitably gets all the attention when it intrudes unexpectedly upon a picnic.</p>
<p>The America-hating Alinsky also taught that activists, in order to cast themselves as defenders of high-minded principles, must theatrically convey “shock, horror, and moral outrage” whenever any of their demands—however inconsequential—are not met. And no one conveys such emotions more convincingly than Obama&#8217;s aforementioned racial “advisor,” Al Sharpton, who vows to continue the Michael Brown/anti-police brutality crusade until the end of time if necessary. Alinsky understood quite well that even <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a pathetic moral degenerate</span></a> like Sharpton can be an effective revolutionary if he is skilled in the otherwise worthless arts of bluster and righteous indignation.</p>
<p>Lest anyone think there might be a way to bridge the gap between civil society and the revolutionaries in the vanguard of the current Gentle Giant Brigades, a dose of reality is in order: Alinsky emphasized that the overarching objective of any crusade is <i>never</i> to promote peace or reconciliation, but rather to be unwaveringly “dedicated to an eternal war” in which “there are no rules of fair play” and “no compromise” whatsoever; to mercilessly “pulverize” people with “fear”; and ultimately to “force their capitulation.”</p>
<p>We got a glimpse of this mindset recently when we <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/393380/get-ready-super-bowl-outrage-ferguson-deroy-murdock"><span style="color: #680900;">learned</span></a> that two New Black Panther Party members were plotting not only to blow up St. Louis&#8217;s famed Gateway Arch, but also to <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/ferguson-murder-plot-black-panthers-planned-killing-police-chief-prosecutor"><span style="color: #680900;">assassinate</span></a> Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson and the city&#8217;s prosecuting attorney Bob McCulloch. And a shrieking Louis Farrakhan, for his part, has been busy <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/29/farrakhan-on-ferguson-well-tear-this-gdamn-country-up-video/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">urging</span></a> black Americans to throw Molotov cocktails at white people in order to fulfill a scriptural “law of retaliation”; condemning whites for allegedly “killing us” in large numbers; and warning that “we’ll tear this goddamn country up!”</p>
<p>Like all Marxists, Obama, Sharpton, Farrakhan, and the rest of their fellow revolutionaries seek to tear society apart by pitting the “races,” the “classes,” and the “genders” against one another—“rubbing raw” their respective “resentments” until hatred abounds in every person&#8217;s heart and mayhem fills the streets. Michael Brown&#8217;s corpse is merely a building block for these rabble rousers. They know that someday another African American will be killed by a white police officer and thus be anointed as their movement&#8217;s next martyred saint. Bit by bit, the inconvenient fact that Brown was a violent, abusive criminal whose death was brought about entirely by his own actions will be airbrushed out of public memory. And the grievance mongers of the “civil rights” movement will wistfully remember him as just another innocent black victim whose life was tragically cut short by white depravity.</p>
<p>Saul Alinsky would be proud.</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong><br />
[1] In March 2012, not long after the death of Trayvon Martin in Florida, President Obama famously <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/03/obama-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon-118439.html">said</a>: &#8220;If I had a son, he&#8217;d look like Trayvon.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Egypt Declares Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 05:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Muslim-Brotherhood-Egypt-450x344.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213908" alt="Muslim-Brotherhood-Egypt-450x344" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Muslim-Brotherhood-Egypt-450x344.jpg" width="270" height="206" /></a>The Egyptian government formally labeled the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group on Christmas, banning all of its activities including protests. The Obama Administration, advised by Brotherhood-friendly groups in the U.S., is unlikely to follow in Egypt’s footsteps in calling a spade a spade.</p>
<p>The announcement came after the government blamed the Brotherhood for the suicide bombing of a police station in Mansoura. No proof was offered of Brotherhood involvement. A pro-Al-Qaeda group named Ansar Jerusalem, based in the Sinai Peninsula, <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/12/ansar_jerusalem_clai_4.php">took credit</a>.</p>
<p>That didn’t stop local protestors from immediately rallying against the Brotherhood, <a href="https://twitter.com/egyptianstreets/status/415504523986100224">s effigies</a> of the group’s leaders and <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/89974.aspx">attacking</a> property owned by a Brotherhood member. The Egyptian public as a whole remains <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/using-and-abusing-polls_b_4363918.html">hostile</a> to the Brotherhood and loyal to the military, with about half the population wanting the group outlawed. Another <a href="http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/poll-69-egyptians-reject-brotherhood-s-engagement-politics">poll</a> taken in August showed that almost 70% want it banned from politics.</p>
<p>The Brotherhood may or may not be involved in that specific bombing in Mansoura, but that doesn’t mean it is peaceful. It has <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/report-muslim-brotherhood-form-rebel-egyptian-army">threatened</a> to form a rebel armed force. After the Egyptian military’s crackdown on the Brotherhood began, Egyptians outraged by the response of the U.S. government and media <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/ten-videos-media-isn%E2%80%99t-showing-you-about-egypt">posted eye-opening videos</a> showing Brotherhood members threatening violence, attacking Egyptian security forces and churches, and putting children at risk for the sake of propaganda.</p>
<p>In addition, Brotherhood preachers continue to instigate violence in Egypt and abroad. The organization knows what it’s doing. Why officially engage in violence when individual members and Salafist allies will do so on their own accord, leaving room for deniability?</p>
<p>The labeling of the group as terrorists comes as the government prosecutes former President Morsi and many other Brotherhood operatives. Morsi is <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/12/egypt-morsi-charged-with-terrorist-acts-20131218131959978322.html">accused</a> of involvement in a “terrorist plan” begun in 2005 to send Brotherhood fighters to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip for training by Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration has decided to swim against the regional <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/anti-brotherhood-wave-weeping-middle-east">anti-Brotherhood wave</a>, cutting aid to Egypt’s government and siding with the Brotherhood. The result is a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/egypt-russia-cold-war-alliances-revived/">realignment</a> in alliances that pushes the Arab world into the arms of Russia.</p>
<p>It is extremely unlikely that the U.S. State Department will similarly designate the Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, even though it meets the qualifications. It is more likely that the administration will condemn Egypt’s latest action.</p>
<p>The State Department <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm">says</a> there are three criteria a group must meet to be designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.</p>
<p>First, the group must be foreign. The Brotherhood’s home base is in Egypt. Its International Organization <a href="http://www.globalmbwatch.com/2013/11/21/uae-think-tank-reports-mb-international-organization-moving-hq-from-egypt-to-tunisia/">reportedly</a> moved to Tunisia. Turkey has become its <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/alarabiya-studies/2013/10/14/Turkey-s-relationship-with-the-Muslim-Brotherhood.html">&#8220;regional hub&#8221;</a> and senior leaders are hosted in Qatar. Check.</p>
<p>Second, it must threaten U.S. nationals or national security, including the American economy. Its regional ambitions for a Caliphate undoubtedly threaten U.S. security. As for nationals, the Brotherhood has justified attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also steadfastly supports the terrorism of Hamas and other groups against U.S. allies.</p>
<p>In August 2012, I had an intriguing <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/muslim-brotherhood-to-ryan-mauro-we-support-violence-against-aggressors-and-invaders">exchange</a> with the Brotherhood’s English-language Twitter account. It started off with <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/hitting-too-close-home">insulting</a> me as “delusional” and a “scaremonger.” It later posted an article arguing that it opposes violence. I asked whether there were exceptions, such as for U.S. soldiers.</p>
<p>“Unless if they were aggressors and invaders of our lands no matter what nationality? Of course,” was the response.</p>
<p>I followed up by asking if the staging country of the “aggressors and invaders” would be an acceptable target in that scenario. The answer was, “yes, according to International Law, it’s an act of war.”</p>
<p>Of course, the Brotherhood regularly slams the U.S. and its allies as “aggressors and invaders.” Therefore, as the Brotherhood indirectly admitted, the U.S. can be considered a legitimate target.</p>
<p>Thirdly, to qualify as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, the group must “engage in terrorist activity or retain the capability and intention to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism.”</p>
<p>That’s easy. Hamas is labeled a Foreign Terrorist Organization and Hamas’s charter states that it is the Palestinian “wing” of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4159501,00.html">changed its name</a> in December 2011 to clarify that it is a “branch” of the Brotherhood. There is even <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/video-hamas-pledges-allegiance-muslim-brotherhood">video</a> of Hamas leaders publicly pledging allegiance to the Brotherhood and, specifically, to its jihad.</p>
<p>Brotherhood apologists will argue that the group is not operationally supportive of Hamas terrorism, only ideologically. This is false. For example, the Treasury Department <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/pages/hp1267.aspx">designated</a> the Union of Good as a terrorist entity for financing Hamas. It is led by Yousef al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Israeli aircraft have conducted numerous airstrikes on Iranian rocket shipments to the Gaza Strip through Sudan and Egypt. Hamas does not have an independent structure in Egypt. It is obvious that the Brotherhood networks in Egypt helped manage this route.</p>
<p>It was also proven in court that the Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure in America is guilty of terrorist activity by financing Hamas. The Holy Land Foundation was a key U.S. Muslim Brotherhood component, managed under the Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, until it was shut down in 2001 for financing Hamas.</p>
<p>When the Holy Land Foundation was found guilty in court in 2008, the Muslim Brotherhood was essentially found guilty. The two are one and the same.</p>
<p>Other U.S. Brotherhood components like the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/council-islamic-relations-cair">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a>, the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamic-society-north-america-isna">Islamic Society of North America</a> and the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/north-american-islamic-trust-nait">North American Islamic Trust</a> were labeled <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/List+of+Unindicted+HLF+Co-conspirators.pdf">unindicted co-conspirators</a> in the trial. In 2009, Judge Solis <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/43380629-2009-order-on-Holy-Land-Foundation-unindicted-coconspirator-list.pdf">upheld</a> the labels because of “ample” evidence linking the unindicted co-conspirators to Hamas and the overall terrorism-supporting Brotherhood infrastructure.</p>
<p>Federal prosecutors separately confirmed the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s involvement in terrorism in a <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/542.pdf">2007 court filing</a>. It stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists…the conspirators agreed to use deception to conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood fulfills all three requirements to be labeled a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department.</p>
<p>There are three reasons why this has not happened: The Brotherhood’s lobby, ignorance and fear.</p>
<p>The political influence of the Brotherhood lobby is enormous. President Obama even <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/obama-addresses-american-islamist-convention">addressed</a> the annual convention of a U.S. Brotherhood entity in September. It continues to advise the administration, just as it did the two before it. The impact can even be seen <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/senior-homeland-security-adviser-formerly-cair-official">on the Department of Homeland Security.</a></p>
<p>The lobby’s influence triggers the second factor: Ignorance. Politicians, media figures, even counter-terrorism personnel are left in the dark.</p>
<p>Then, there’s the third factor: Fear. Designating the Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization would be messy.</p>
<p>Dozens of mosques and Islamic centers would be raided and the most powerful Muslim-American organizations would be shut down or, at least, publicly investigated. The outcry of “Islamophobia” would be louder than ever as news cameras repeatedly aired footage of federal agents entering mosques.</p>
<p>The global Brotherhood apparatus would go into anti-American overdrive and some of those refraining from violence would reconsider. It would spark outrage from Muslim governments and organizations around the world, especially from “ally” Qatar and NATO member Turkey.</p>
<p>None of these excuses are acceptable. If a group qualifies as a terrorist organization, it needs to be treated as such, regardless of convenience. The facts speak for themselves: The Muslim Brotherhood is a Foreign Terrorist Organization.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s &#8216;Non-Profit&#8217; Sells Political Access</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/obamas-non-profit-sells-political-access/gty_barack_obama_election_ll_121107_wmain/" rel="attachment wp-att-179211"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-179211" title="gty_barack_obama_election_ll_121107_wmain" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/gty_barack_obama_election_ll_121107_wmain.jpg" alt="" width="248" height="209" /></a>Last weekend, the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/us/politics/obamas-backers-seek-deep-pockets-to-press-agenda.html?pagewanted=1&amp;#59&amp;ref=politics&amp;%2359;_r=0&amp;_r=2&amp;">revealed</a> that President Obama’s campaign apparatus, <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/?source=action-bar">Organizing for Action</a> (OFA), has reinvented itself as a 501c 4 tax-exempt non-profit advocacy group offering access to the president in return for a large donation. &#8220;Giving or raising $500,000 or more puts donors on a national advisory board for Mr. Obama’s group and the privilege of attending quarterly meetings with the president, along with other meetings at the White House,&#8221; reports the <em>Times.</em></p>
<p>Furthermore, the OFA&#8217;s reincarnation as an IRS-identified social welfare group is nothing less than a cynical attempt to violate the spirit of federal election laws. As the <em>Times</em> notes, OFA&#8217;s new status means that &#8220;it is not bound by federal contribution limits, laws that bar White House officials from soliciting contributions, or the stringent reporting requirements for campaigns. In their place, the new group will self-regulate.&#8221; That self-regulation will ostensibly include releasing the names of the group&#8217;s largest donors &#8220;every few months,&#8221; as a well as a promise not to have administration officials involved in fund-raising &#8212; even though those officials may appear at some events.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Obama team&#8217;s brazen attempt to convert the assets of its political campaign into assets to promote the President&#8217;s political agenda and the electoral fortunes of his Democratic allies is unprecedented in American political history,&#8221; writes Breitbart&#8217;s Michael Patrick Leahy. Leahy also contends Obama and OFA are &#8220;betting that they&#8217;ve cleverly discovered a loophole, one that Republicans will fail to challenge legally.&#8221; Robert K. Kelner, a Republican election lawyer agrees, noting that this unprecedented arrangement “presents a rather simple loophole in the otherwise incredibly complex web of government ethics regulations that are intended to insulate government officials from outside influence.”</p>
<p>On Monday, in a rare attempt by the White House press corps to ask challenging questions, Press Secretary Jay Carney was challenged to explain what was going on. As this <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/25/watch-as-obama-press-sec-tries-to-explain-why-group-is-auctioning-access-to-obama-for-500k/">video</a> reveals Carney did nothing more than read talking points from a prepared statement. “Administration officials routinely interact with outside advocacy organizations, and this has been true in prior administrations, and it is true in this one,” Carney insisted. He further insisted the president was prepared to do several things &#8220;to eliminate the corrosive influence of money in Washington.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet Carney was pressed further by Fox News&#8217; Ed Henry. &#8220;You&#8217;re not denying the point that was reported by the <em>New York Times</em>, that even though (Obama) is for all those reforms, that if you give $500,000 or more to this group, you get access to the president,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The president is engaged in an effort to pass items on his agenda, and outside organizations that support that agenda…administration officials can meet with them, including the president,&#8221; Carney responded. &#8220;But the fact of the matter is this is an independent organization supporting an agenda.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, the answer is yes.</p>
<p>As for the agenda itself, OFA&#8217;s executive director, and Jon Carson illuminated the opening salvo of causes to prospective donors in a conference call last Wednesday, according to those involved. “There are wins we can have on guns and immigration,” he contended. “We have to change the conventional wisdom on those issues.”</p>
<p>The effort to change the conventional wisdom is made far easier by a state-of-the-art technological infrastructure with access to the president&#8217;s 2 million volunteers, 17 million e-mail subscribers, 22 million Twitter followers, and virtually every registered voter in the country. That technology allows OFA to deliver millions of messages in several different formats, including Facebook, Twitter, email and texts. It has already been used to pump up support for the president&#8217;s State of the Union speech, and his gun-control agenda.</p>
<p>OFA was <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-campaign-20130119,0,7910410.story">launched</a> on January 18. At the time, the president sent out an email with the subject line &#8220;Say you&#8217;re in,&#8221; to his supporters. He promised them OFA would constitute &#8220;an unparalleled force in American politics&#8230;turn our shared values into legislative action&#8212;and it&#8217;ll empower the next generation of leaders in our movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>OFA&#8217;s roster includes 2012 Obama campaign manager Jim Messina as Chairman of the Board, and Obama advisor David Axelrod as a consultant. Other members of the group, based in Washington and Chicago, include 2008 Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, and other longtime supporters, such as Robert Gibbs, Stephanie Cutter, Jennifer O&#8217;Malley Dillon, Erik Smith, Julianna Smoot, and technology entrepreneur and top campaign fundraiser Frank White.</p>
<p>To reiterate, presidential access requires $500,000 or more, which the group anticipates will fund at least half of its anticipated budget, expected to total $50 million. Yet in March, when OFA holds a “founders summit” at a hotel near the White House, donors willing to pony up $50,000 will be granted access to Jim Messina and Jon Carson.</p>
<p>President Obama’s willingness to make himself accessible to this organization and its high-rolling donors has come under criticism. “It just smells,” said Bob Edgar, the president of <a href="http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&amp;b=4860183">Common Cause</a>, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to holding elected officials accountable to the public. “The president is setting a very bad model setting up this organization.” At MSNBC, even the <a href="http://www.publiusforum.com/2010/07/20/top-ten-most-left-biased-american-journalists-4-chuck-todd-nbc/">reflexively liberal</a> Chuck Todd was <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2013/02/26/chuck-todd-declares-just-looks-bad-obama-nbc-news-skips-access-buying-w">incredulous</a>. &#8220;This just looks bad. It looks like the White House is selling access,&#8221; he contended. &#8220;The definition of how you define selling access. If you believe money has a stranglehold over the entire political system, this is ceding the moral high ground. And the President always has, from the moment he first announced his presidential bid in Springfield, six years ago, he stressed the need to curb the influence of special interests in Washington.&#8221;</p>
<p>One needn&#8217;t go back six years. In 2010, when the Supreme Court <a href="http://cnsnews.com/node/60484">ruled</a> in favor of rescinding government-imposed restrictions on free speech, President Obama railed against the decision. “With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics,” he said. “It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies, and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.”</p>
<p>Thus, the hypocrisy is breathtaking. And it is further amplified by the president&#8217;s effort to <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/barack-obamas-new-grassroots-group-tied-to-big-liberal-donors-corporations-86708.html">characterize</a> OFA as an organization powered by &#8220;grass roots activists.&#8221; Yet according to Politico, OFA has &#8220;closely affiliated itself with insider liberal organizations funded by mega-donors like George Soros and corporations such as Lockheed Martin, Citi and Duke Energy,&#8221; as well as &#8220;the same rich donors who backed Obama’s campaigns, asking for help from Democratic donors and bundlers in town for the Inauguration at a closed-door corporate-sponsored confab that featured Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker.&#8221;</p>
<p>None of this should surprise anyone. Barack Obama has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that he is willing to advance his agenda by any means necessary, even if he is revealed as an overt liar and unbridled hypocrite in the process. During his inaugural address, Obama <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/21/transcript-president-obama-inaugural-address/">claimed</a>, &#8220;We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky or happiness for the few.&#8221; On the other hand, access to the president is reserved for those with $500,000 or more.</p>
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		<title>Big Labor&#8217;s Leninist Founding Father</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Flynn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The man who turned a movement devoted to improving working conditions into the handmaiden of socialism. ]]></description>
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<p><em>[Editor&#8217;s note: Admired by Lenin, Daniel De Leon was a transformative figure in the American labor movement, whose Machiavellian, socialism-first legacy lives on in his modern torchbearers. The most notorious of De Leon&#8217;s predecessors will be profiled in FrontPage&#8217;s new series, &#8220;Union Gangsters.&#8221; Union consigliere <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/23/union-gangsters-craig-becker/">Craig Becker</a> and thug-in-chief R<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/30/union-gangsters-richard-trumka/">ichard Trumka</a> have already been exposed, with many more to come.]</em></p>
<p>When the California Federation of Teachers resolved earlier this year that “the continued unjust incarceration of Mumia Abu-Jamal represents a threat to the civil rights of all people,” many again scratched their heads over another labor union <em>non sequitur</em>. What does a cop killer incarcerated in Pennsylvania have to do with the working conditions of teachers in California? This is in part the legacy of Daniel De Leon, a schismatic socialist who tirelessly pushed the labor movement to labor for <em>his</em> movement.</p>
<p>Organized labor’s fixation with issues ancillary to the interests of their members never ceases to surprise. Perhaps as unsurprising is that the historical figure most associated with redirecting unions away from wages, conditions, and benefits toiled as a lawyer, an activist, an editor, and a professor—but never as a laborer. Like the landlord Friedrich Engels and his subsidized sponge Karl Marx, Daniel De Leon saw workers as means to his ends rather than as actual people with independent interests of their own. People who don’t work often imagine that those who do work for them.</p>
<p>De Leon’s fleeting fanaticisms moved him to name one son after Grover Cleveland, leap into supporting Henry George’s single tax movement, and write for the <em>Looking Backward</em>-inspired Nationalist journal. Before marrying <em>the</em> cause, the crank was characteristically promiscuous in his obsessions. But in 1890, the serial joiner joined the Socialist Labor Party, a bridge between Marx and Lenin that traced circuitous roots to the First International and extended its shadow upon the Soviet Union. He quickly seized control of the party, relinquishing his grasp only in death nearly a quarter century later.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the diminutive, bearded extremist decimated the party he seized, cast influence over an infamous fellow socialist gangster in the Old World, and generated discord in the labor movement the likes of which continues to this day. Daniel De Leon became the marginalized figure in a marginalized movement. His frustration with workers, the redemptive figures in the Marxist narrative, evolving into contempt for workers does much to explain De Leon forever occupying a further fringe. Ultimately, he forbade members of his political party from holding office in the AFL and other traditional labor unions. Hell hath no fury like a socialist scorned.</p>
<p>“No organization of labor can accomplish anything for the workers that does not proceed from the principle that an irrepressible conflict rages between the capitalist and the working class, a conflict that can be settled only by the total overthrow of the former and the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth,” claimed the Curacao-born activist. To this end, he attempted to hijack the flailing Knights of Labor, and then, the fledgling American Federation of Labor (AFL). The tactic was “boring from within,” infiltrating an organization for the purpose of reorienting it. In 1893, De Leon captured a garment workers’ local for the purpose of capturing the Knights of Labor. By 1895, the garment workers decided that wearing garments didn’t establish one’s credibility as a garment worker, and they rid themselves of the interloper. His disciplined followers never succeeded in capturing the AFL, but they did, along with the Western Federation of Miners, manage to depose union honcho Samuel Gompers, if for just one year.</p>
<p>When the AFL persisted in agitating for higher pay or shorter hours, De Leon denounced them as “buffers of capitalism,” “labor lieutenants of the capitalist class,” and “pure and simplers”—a reference to AFL leaders considering their union a “pure and simple” trades union rather than a political organization. Citing “the impossibility of obtaining a decent living while capitalism existed,” De Leon ridiculed immediate demands whose fulfillment would only delay socialism’s arrival. The theorist wanted the conditions of workers to deteriorate to escalate their clamors for socialism. Gompers’ background as a cigarmaker injected a natural partiality toward immediate worker gains, which made him an object of constant attack from his intemperate adversary.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;The First National Jewish Anti-Zionist Gathering&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rich Trzupek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gathering in Detroit organized by leftist Jews plots on how to give aid and comfort to Israel’s enemies.]]></description>
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<p>While the slogan for the “<a href="http://www.jewsconfrontapartheid.org/">The First National Jewish Anti-Zionist Gathering</a>” isn’t actually “anti-Semites of the world unite!” that would have been a fitting choice, combining both of the “gatherings” two underlying themes: hatred of Israel and adoration of communism. The event is scheduled for June 19 through 22 and will be held, fittingly enough, in Detroit. The once proud and now crumbling Motor  City is perhaps the nation’s best example of what happens when leftist dreams come true. Even better, from the organizers point of view, the Detroit metropolitan area is home to a large number of Muslims, so the jihadis living among them can be counted on to make the radical Jews who organized the event feel even better about their self-loathing.</p>
<p>Specifically, the organizers are the <em><a href="http://www.ijsn.net/home/">International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network</a></em> and the <em><a href="http://www.mecaforpeace.org/">Middle East Children’s Alliance</a></em>. Neither organization bothers to hide their radical, leftist world-view, a perspective that dovetails nicely into their sure and certain belief that Palestinians and Israelis could easily live in peace and harmony, if only Israel would grasp the hand that Hamas and Hizbullah have repeatedly extended in friendship and if only Israel would abandon its foolish alliance with those imperialistic Americans. Or, to put those concepts in less-comprehensible terms, here’s the conference’s <a href="http://www.jewsconfrontapartheid.org/about/">official statement of purpose</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“To gather together as anti-Zionist Jewish (AZJ) activists committed to social justice and to challenging racism, colonialism and imperialism – first and foremost by contributing to efforts to overcome Zionism and decolonize Palestine. The Assembly hopes to provide a forum to share political perspectives, campaigns and other activities, culture and ritual, and build relationships toward collective work. Through building assessment of the current moment in the US and international Palestine solidarity movement, larger social justice movements and political context, we hope to build a shared direction for anti-Zionist Jewish organizing in the United   States. This is in the interest of making our work more effective.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To coin a phrase: dhmittude never sounded so good. But, with the <em>International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network</em> leading the way, such sentiments are hardly surprising. The IJAZN was created in 2008 when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_machover">Professor Moshe Machover</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_James">Selma James</a> announced the adoption of the organization’s charter <a href="http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=17963340193070572&amp;ei=XNLwSN7CMpCYrAKhtozrDg&amp;q=ijan&amp;hl=en">at a press conference in London</a>. Machover and James’ extremist, radical views – and both would readily accept, indeed would be proud of, the use of those two adjectives to describe their views – have been well documented. While their organization serves as a lightning rod for anti-Semites of all cultures and faiths, one wouldn’t describe either Machover of James (both of whom are Jewish) as anti-Semites themselves. They are rather utopians of the communist variety, wholly incapable of understanding that the price one pays for pursuing the unachievable leftist nirvana is drenched in blood and soaked in misery.</p>
<p>Machover, born in Tel Aviv in 1936, is an unrepentant admirer of all things Marxist. He scorns representative democracy, because in his view our system of government doesn’t give appropriate weight to radical ideas. Oddly enough though, the one representative democracy that comes closest to getting it right in Machover’s world is the nation he hates most of all: Israel. <a href="http://mkcommunists.wordpress.com/tag/moshe-machover/">In April 2010 he wrote</a>: “But here is a rare, perhaps unique, exception: Israel has just about the most democratic electoral system possible in a bourgeois state: a consistent form of proportional representation… Minority voices, including that of the Arab national minority, have regularly been heard on the floor of that house.” Not that providing Arabs living in Israel with the very things that Arabs deny non-Muslims in every nation they control – a voice in government and freedom of worship – excuses Israel’s many sins in Machover’s world. Of course not.</p>
<p>Machover has also rewritten history in order to defame the father of modern Israel, saying: “Ben-Gurion preferred to invade Egypt, alongside France and Britain, rather than to make peace with Egypt&#8221;.  And, for Machover, the reason for ongoing conflict in the Middle East has nothing to do with Israel’s enemies. He has said: “…it became clear to us that the roots of the Israeli-Arab conflict lay, not in the conflict between Israel and the Arab states, but rather in the conflict between Zionist colonialism and the Palestinians over the land of Palestine and its independence.”</p>
<p>For her part, Selma James founded the “International Wages for Housework Campaign” in 1972. Under this scheme, governments would have had to compensate stay-at-home moms for their efforts. She’s also a buddy of Venezuelan tyrant Hugo Chavez and has been a member of Chavez’s socialist “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_Revolution">Venezuelan Revolution</a>” movement since 2002.</p>
<p>The <em>Middle East Children’s Alliance</em> is just as radical. Founder and Executive Director Barbara Lubin, a Norm Chomsky disciple, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1600">was abducted by Hizbullah in 1991</a>. Recognizing that their captive was coming down with a bad case of Stockholm syndrome, the terrorist organization released her, prompting Lubin to observe that: “They’re just ordinary schleps like the rest of us.” Ordinary schleps armed with missiles and RPGs perhaps, but why quibble with a humanitarian like Lubin? She’s obviously a high-minded pacifist, is she not? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8wyA7t_gdk">Take a look for yourself</a>.</p>
<p>Given the alternate universe in which the organizers flourish, it’s not at all difficult to predict the themes of The First National Jewish Anti-Zionist Gathering. According to their world view, the aggressors in the Middle East are nobly defending their rights and their land, while a nation under siege has somehow become an agent of American imperialism. What’s truly troubling is that, based on their words and deeds, there’s little doubt that the organizers actually believe that represents an accurate portrayal of the on-going struggle in the Middle East and that Machover, James and Lubin don’t know how they are being used – and will continue to be used – by terrorists bent on the destruction of Israel.</p>
<p>Seventy years ago an obscure, extremist, anti-Semetic Norwegian politician by the name of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling">Vidkun Quisling</a> helped undermine his nation and welcomed Nazi invaders with open arms. On June 19 another generation of Quislings will do their best to undermine the security of their people’s ancient homeland, not because they actively wish to see Israel destroyed and its people enslaved, but because their minds are so clouded by idyllic, extremist dreams of a leftist-utopia they are unable to comprehend that is exactly the kind of end result that they are in fact supporting.</p>
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		<title>The Revolution Within</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Iranian Freedom Institute and the Green Youth can topple the Iranian regime  ]]></description>
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<p>Amir Abbas Fakhravar, 35, is a “graduate” of the infamous Evin prison in Tehran.  His friendly and youthful exterior hides a painful period of torture and isolation for five years &#8211; including 8 months in solitary confinement. When you ask Amir about his state of mind following his harrowing experience, he shrugs his shoulders saying “they broke my wrist, my knee, and few bones, but never broke my spirit.”</p>
<p>Fakhravar arrived in the U.S. four years ago and found no coherent voices speaking for the Iranian opposition movement.  “I thought that the Iranian opposition had an organization here, but nothing existed in 2006.” And when he gathered some of the opposition figures, he quickly learned that they had little information about the real situation in Iran.  Even more dismaying, according to Fakhravar, was the ignorance of U.S. policy makers regarding Iran.</p>
<p>With mentoring from Richard Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration (1981-1987), and currently a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and critical help from Philadelphia’s Craig Snider, who has dedicated himself to fight for freedom and democracy for the Iranian people, Fakhravar established the Iranian Freedom Institute (IFI).</p>
<p>The Iranian Freedom Institute &#8211; a Washington DC based think tank, has set its goal to inform and educate American policy-makers, and the public in general, on the real state-of-affairs inside Iran.  Utilizing the latest technology, the IFI hopes to influence U.S. policy towards Iran, and simultaneously, educate the freedom-loving people of Iran who are living under a brutal dictatorship.</p>
<p>Affiliated with the IFI is the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS) – created by Fakhravar and Arzhang Davoodi, a teacher, writer and the co- founder of Confederation of Iranian Students (who also spent six years in Islamic Republic jails and still has nine more years to serve).  Earlier in 1994 while he was in medical school (he subsequently graduated from law school), Fakhravar helped in establishing the Independent Student movement in Tehran.  Fakhravar and Davoodi proceeded to form the nucleus of an independent worldwide student organization.  In 2002 they organized a student conference and three-years later, they launched <a href="http://www.cistudents.com/">CIS</a>, which today has a membership of 6200 students.</p>
<p>The Confederation of Iranian Students should not be confused with the Islamic Republic’s student organization cautions Fakhravar, which was created by the mullah regime, paid for by them, and run by them, according to Fakhravar.</p>
<p>One of the CIS’s goals is to bring down the Islamic Republic dictatorship according to Fakhravar.  “We have a three step plan,” he says.  1. Show the Iranian people and the world that the ruling Iranian regime is not democratic but rather a brutal dictatorship.  “We have already succeeded on that part of the plan,” Fakhravar added.</p>
<p>The second goal is to “cut the lifeline of the mullahs in power” by pushing for a worldwide embargo on Iranian oil.  The $83 billion Iran earns from its oil sales is the only revenue that enables the Islamic Republic of Iran to pay for the nuclear program and provide the Revolutionary guards (RG) – the regime’s praetorian guards- with high incomes, which in turn insures their loyalty to the regime.</p>
<p>According to Fakhravar “if the regime fails to pay the RG salaries – which are three times the average, the RG, who have long lost their revolutionary fervor and have gotten used to the ‘good life,’ are more than likely to abandon the regime.”</p>
<p>Oil revenue is also used by the Islamic Republic to fund Hezbollah and Hamas operations against Israel, to subvert the Sunni-Arab Gulf regimes and, to build cells in Latin America. “Our aim is to request that the governments of the U.S. and Canada impose sanctions on North American and European companies who buy oil from the Iranian regime,” Fakhravar stated.  He added, “We also plan to present such proposals to the G-8 and the G-20 to place sanctions on their respective companies.”</p>
<p>The third part of the plan, as Fakhravar sees it, is to build a free, democratic, and secular Iran.  “We need in addition to our existing website to set up Internet, satellite TV, and radio stations in order to educate the Iranian people inside of Iran, and the opposition parties outside of Iran. “</p>
<p>According to Fakhravar, the Iranian opposition groups “are confused and they don’t know what they want.”  He quickly added, “We wrote a manifesto or call it a constitution for a new Iran.”  Fakhravar recruited lawyers from the Green movement as well as a number of judges to draft a new constitution for Iran.</p>
<p>The Green Movement in Iran brought 4.5 million demonstrators into the streets of Tehran last June and Fakhravar is confident that the people of Iran, especially the younger generation, want a change. He reminds those he speaks with that, “The Iranian people have been repressed for over 30 years, and they want freedom.”  Many of the young people in Iran are turned off by Islam as a result of the corruption and abuses by the Islamic regime.  In Iranian schools, Shiite-Islam is presented as superior to all other religions and they are taught that killing Jews, who are presented as sub-humans, is permitted.  Fakhravar has no doubt that the Khamenei/Ahmadinejad regime would test a nuclear bomb on Israel.</p>
<p>Iran is, however, a nation of young people.  70% of Iranians are under the age of 35 and these young people respect Israel and love America.   In recent demonstrations the young protesters used posters with a modification of the regime’s slogans – instead of “Down with Israel,” they crossed out the word Israel and replaced it with Russia.</p>
<p>During last year’s demonstrations in Tehran following the sham elections which gave Ahmadinejad a second term as President of Iran, the Green Youth shouted “Obama, are you with them (the regime) or with us.”  Obama’s decision to continue to negotiate with the Khamenei/Ahmadinejad Islamic regime gave this evil regime legitimacy, according to Fakhravar.</p>
<p>Asked about where he sees Iran in five years, Fakhravar replied, “We will have a free, democratic and secular Iran.  It will be a friend of Israel and an ally of the U.S. ”</p>
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		<title>The “Humanitarian Relief” Wing of Hamas and Al-Qaeda</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Perazzo]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The longstanding terror ties of the Turkish group that organized the Gaza-bound flotilla.]]></description>
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<p>The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief (better known by its Turkish acronym, IHH) is the group that organized the six-ship flotilla which recently tried, without success, to sail all the way to Gaza. <a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010060110406/global-terrorism/ihhinsani-yardim-vakfi.html">Established</a> in Turkey in 1992, the Foundation sends <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">aid</a> to distressed areas throughout the Middle East – in the form of food, medicine, vocational education, and building supplies. A prime destination for this aid is Gaza, where – according to IHH – Palestinians are being oppressed by an unjustified Israeli naval blockade. (For the record, that blockade was put in place to prevent <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6204">Hamas</a>, which controls Gaza politically and has fired thousands of rockets into southern Israeli towns in recent years, from importing additional weaponry from Iran and other allies abroad.)</p>
<p>For several days last week, as the flotilla approached Gaza, Israel issued warnings that the ships would not be permitted to reach their destination without first submitting to an inspection of their cargoes – to ensure that no weaponry was being transported. But when the respective crews of the vessels refused to comply, Israeli commandos took action and intercepted the flotilla in the early morning hours of May 31. The IHH-affiliated activists responded with violence, instantly attacking the commandos with knives and clubs, and throwing one of them overboard. In the melee that ensued, ten activists were killed and seven Israeli soldiers were wounded. How could this be? How can we be expected to believe that a well-meaning “humanitarian relief” group would ever behave in a manner that might provoke violent reprisals from Israeli troops? A more thorough examination of IHH&#8217;s history and affiliations explains everything.</p>
<p>While IHH is indeed <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7790919/Gaza-flotilla-the-Free-Gaza-Movement-and-the-IHH.html">involved</a> in the aforementioned humanitarian endeavors, its overall objectives are much broader. Belying the <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">dove of peace</a> whose image appears on its logo, IHH overtly supports <a href="http://docs.google.com/groupProfile.asp%3Fgrpid=6204">Hamas</a>, is <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7790919/Gaza-flotilla-the-Free-Gaza-Movement-and-the-IHH.html">sympathetic</a> to <a href="http://docs.google.com/groupProfile.asp%3Fgrpid=6211">al Qaeda</a>, and maintained regular contact with al Qaeda cells and the Sunni insurgency during the bloodiest stretches of the Iraq War. Moreover, IHH has <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">supported jihadist terror networks </a>not only in Iraq, but also in Bosnia, Syria, Afghanistan, and Chechnya. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7790919/Gaza-flotilla-the-Free-Gaza-Movement-and-the-IHH.html">According to</a> Carnegie Endowment analyst Henri Barkey, IHH is “an Islamist organization” that “has been deeply involved with Hamas for some time.” A 2006 <a href="http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/WP2006/DIIS%20WP%202006-7.web.pdf">report</a> by the Danish Institute for International Studies characterized IHH as one of many “charitable front groups that provide support to Al-Qaida” and the global jihad.</p>
<p>Is the IHH beginning to sound less and less like a “humanitarian relief” group? Let&#8217;s look a little deeper still.</p>
<p>According to a French intelligence report, <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">in the mid-1990s</a> IHH leader Bülent Yildirim was directly involved in recruiting “veteran soldiers” to organize jihad activities, and in dispatching IHH operatives to war zones in Islamic countries to gain combat experience. The report also stated that IHH had transferred money as well as “caches of firearms, knives and pre-fabricated explosives” to Muslim fighters in those countries. Given this track record, can Israel&#8217;s concern about the contents of the IHH flotilla cargoes really be considered excessive or unwarranted?</p>
<p>In 1996, IHH continued to burnish its credentials as a “humanitarian relief” organization when an examination of its <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">telephone records</a> showed that repeated calls had been made to an al Qaeda guest house in Milan and to Algerian terrorists operating in Europe. That same year, the U.S. government formally <a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010060110406/global-terrorism/ihhinsani-yardim-vakfi.html">identified</a> IHH as having connections to extremist groups in Iran and Algeria.</p>
<p>In December 1997, Turkish authorities, acting on a tip from sources claiming that IHH leaders had purchased automatic weapons from other regional Islamic militant groups, <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3080">initiated a domestic criminal investigation</a> of IHH. A thorough search of the organization&#8217;s Istanbul bureau uncovered a large assortment of firearms, explosives, bomb-making instructions, and a “jihad flag.” In addition, Turkish authorities seized a host of IHH documents whose contents ultimately led investigators to conclude that the group&#8217;s members “were going to fight in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya.”</p>
<p>Near the end of 2000, IHH <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">organized protests</a> against proposals to overthrow that humanitarian icon, Iraqi President <a href="http://docs.google.com/individualProfile.asp%3Findid=1344">Saddam Hussein</a>; American and Israeli flags were burned at these rallies.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/312.pdf">During the April 2001 trial</a> of would-be “millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam, it was revealed that IHH had played an “important role” in the plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on December 31, 1999. Some reasonable observers might contend that to classify such a pursuit under the heading of “humanitarian relief” would require an unduly broad definition of that term.</p>
<p>In 2002, investigators <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3080">found</a> correspondences from IHH in the offices of the <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hTJnY7GO7_oJ:globalmbreport.com/?p=2634+">Success Foundation</a>, a <a href="http://docs.google.com/groupProfile.asp%3Fgrpid=6386">Muslim Brotherhood</a>-affiliated organization whose Secretary was <a href="http://docs.google.com/individualProfile.asp%3Findid=1311">Abdul Rahman Alamoudi</a>. For the record: The Brotherhood was the ideological forebear of Hamas and al Qaeda; it supports jihad; and it seeks to impose shari&#8217;a law on the entire civilized world.  Mr. Alamoudi, for his part, is currently serving a prison term of nearly a quarter-century for his role as a funder of international terrorism. He is best known for having proudly declared himself to be a passionate supporter of Hamas and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6256">Hezbollah</a>. The connections to “humanitarian relief” seem rather tenuous here.</p>
<p><a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3080">According to</a> a <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hamas_e105.pdf">report</a> issued by a website close to Israeli military intelligence: “[S]ince Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, IHH has supported Hamas’ propaganda campaigns by organizing public support conferences in Turkey.” The report also states that IHH continues to operate widely throughout Gaza and to funnel large sums of money to support the Hamas infrastructure.</p>
<p>In January 2008, an IHH <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">delegation</a> met with Ahmed Bahar, chairman of Hamas’ council in the Gaza Strip. At the meeting, the delegation not only boasted about the large amount of financial support it had given Hamas during the preceding year, but also declared its intent to double that sum in the future. Once again, we are left to wonder how any of this falls under the rubric of “humanitarian relief.”</p>
<p>In 2008 Israel <a href="http://globalmbreport.com/?p=962">banned</a> IHH from the country because of the organization&#8217;s membership in the “Union of Good” (UOG), a Hamas-founded <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/sib/2_05/funds.htm">umbrella coalition</a> comprised of more than 50 Islamic charities (most of which are associated with the global Muslim Brotherhood) that channel money and goods to Hamas-affiliated institutions. In December 2008, the U.S. government <a href="http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/hp1267.htm">designated</a> UOG as a <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3080">terrorist entity</a> that was guilty of “diverting” donations that were intended for “social welfare and other charitable services,” and using those funds “to strengthen Hamas’ political and military position.”</p>
<p>In January 2009, IHH head Bülent Yildirim <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">met</a> with <a href="http://docs.google.com/individualProfile.asp%3Findid=793">Khaled Mash&#8217;al</a>, chairman of Hamas’ political bureau in Damascus, and Mash&#8217;al thanked Yildirim for the support of his organization.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">November 2009</a> IHH activist Izzat Shahin transferred tens of thousands of American dollars from IHH to the Islamic Charitable Society (in Hebron) and Al-Tadhamun (in Nablus), two of Hamas’ most important front groups posing as “charitable societies.”</p>
<p>This, then, is the IHH: a pack of anti-Semitic supporters of terrorism, cloaking themselves in the vestments of victimhood, and bleating to the world about how unfairly they have been treated by the very nation whose extermination they have worked long and hard to bring about. It&#8217;s actually a story that has become quite familiar.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genocide girl, Jumanah Imad Albahri, helps expose the true agenda of anti-Israel activism on campuses.]]></description>
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<p>The world should be thanking Jumanah Imad Albahri, the by now infamous Hezbollah and Hamas supporting <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSvyv0urTE">MSA student</a> at University of California San Diego who, at a recent David Horowitz lecture, publicly demonstrated the true face of anti-Israel activism on campuses.</p>
<p>As universities around the globe wrap up for the summer, many students will leave unaware that the liberalism they claim to stand for is often quite false. Case in point: The Middle East Forum has reported that the Saudi government has spent <a href="http://www.meforum.org/572/turning-off-the-tap-of-terrorist-funding">$87 billion</a> spreading radical Islam in the last decade. As a clear product of this activity, we have seen a frightening increase in campuses around the globe hosting &#8220;Israel Apartheid Week.&#8221; More non-Muslim students have become active in these events in conjunction with the Muslim Student Association (MSA), the Pan-Arab radical Islam organization that is the derivation of these Saudi funds.</p>
<p>When watching the short <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/18/lies-of-a-truthful-girl/">YouTube video</a> of the MSA student at UCSD (that proved to the world how MSA actively supports terrorism) I remembered back a year ago when my Sderot Media Center event at DePaul University was hijacked by MSA and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) along with their following of false liberals. As I described a year ago in the Jerusalem Post article, <a href="http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&amp;cid=1238562905981"><em>Shell-shocked in DePaul</em></a>, what these so-called liberals were preventing was free speech and what they were promoting was everything that liberalism has historically fought against. Due to the radical response of these MSA students and false liberals, this incident made the Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s top four 2009 anti-Semitic campus events of the year.</p>
<p>Even more telling of the true face of this false liberalism is the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oLvwMxwHFs">short video of Cartoonist Lars Vilks</a>, who created the cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed published in a Denmark newspaper, being attacked at Uppsala University in Sweden. Leave aside the multiple death threats Vilks has received and the price Al Qaeda has put on his head, and watch in the video how students physically attack him during a lecture on free speech. As the police try to wrestle down the attacking mob, the students are chanting &#8220;Allah hu Akbar!&#8221; In this type of liberalism, freedom of speech and press are not allowed but the infamous Muslim jihadist mantra, of course, is.</p>
<p>This false liberalism stands beside the sword of Mohammed that has spread across every continent in the form of student organizations like MSA and SJP. This false liberalism clearly supports Islamic terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda. This false liberalism stands against freedom of speech and freedom of the press. This false liberalism supports honor killings such as the Said sisters that were murdered in Texas by their father for dating non-Muslims. This false liberalism supports the lynching of homosexuals. This false liberalism stands against the progression of women and for the oppression seen on the streets of the radical Islamic territories of the Gaza Strip and Iran. This false liberalism that silenced me in Chicago laughed at live footage of Jewish children running from missiles in Sderot. What has been masked on university campuses worldwide as liberalism is only masked radical Islam.</p>
<p>Unlike, as Daniel Pipes proves, the popular avoidance of the usage of the terms &#8220;terrorist&#8221; or &#8220;terrorism&#8221; following the attacks in <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/6055/still-asleep-after-mumbai">Mumbai</a> and <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/7737/sudden-jihad-inordinate-stress-ft-hood">Ft. Hood</a>, when the unpopular pro-Israel opinion is voiced, it is deemed right-wing, extreme, fanatical, conservative, fascist, close-minded, and other exacerbated connotations. I received many responses to an article about removing the terrorist organization of Hamas from Twitter, an apolitical article that readers would undoubtedly agree with.</p>
<p>Some of the responses included:</p>
<p><em> •	You Guy are wrong Hamas is a resistance organization who are defending their small-left land called GAZA</em>… <em>HAMAS has the right to resist until it liberates all Palestine [sic.]</em></p>
<p><em>•	WHO is a terrorist? Yet a Terrorist. Isael has been taught a small lesson by the Hesbollah and Hamas and they will teach again and again untill those settlers Including Jacob Shrybman should go back to America and where they Came from (sic).</em></p>
<p><em>•	Jacob Shrybman is a Settler who came from America and occupied a piece of Palestine (sic).</em></p>
<p><em>•	Jacob, Do you think that trying to silence one of the few voices this imprisoned people have is going to make Israel look less a jailer (sic)?</em></p>
<p><em>•	Hamas was also a response to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the ethnic cleansing that has gone with that occupation. So, I state again that given Israel&#8217;s sixty years of state sponsored and condoned terrorism, attacking Hamas without acknowledging Israeli crimes is hypocritical.</em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-style: normal;">While all five comments vary in their extremity, they all point to the same thing. Each comment in some way excuses or encourages the terrorists&#8217; action using this false liberalism and then bastardizes the democratic state of Israel.</span></em></p>
<p>Looking at examples from just this month of the MSA student in San Diego publicly voicing her support for Hezbollah&#8217;s dream of gathering all the Jews in Israel to kill them all in one place; of a student mob in Sweden attacking a controversial cartoonist at his lecture on free speech while chanting &#8220;Allah hu Akbar,&#8221; and the commonality of the five article comments above, we clearly see this false liberalism as only a mask for collusion with radical Islam.</p>
<p><em>Jacob Shrybman is the Assistant Director of the<a href="www.SderotMedia.org.il"> </a><a href="http://www.SderotMedia.org.il/">Sderot Media Center</a></em><em>. He hosts elected officials from around the world and international media visiting the Sderot/Gaza region. He has been published in The Jerusalem Post, The Huffington Post, YNet News, and has appeared on several international television and radio stations.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newest terrorist recruitment tool. ]]></description>
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<p>When developing this article I really couldn&#8217;t decide if I was going to write it in a satirical manner or in a concerned manner. The concept was just so ridiculous to me, I wasn&#8217;t sure how to convey it to the world.</p>
<p>The military wing of the terrorist organization Hamas, the Al Qassam Brigades &#8211;which murders, pillages, persecutes, fires rockets, stones, lynches, blows themselves up, etc. &#8212; has a Twitter account. No folks, I am not joking. The days when the world is spooked by an unmarked video or cassette tape which arrives at the Al Jazeera offices are over. You can simply &#8220;Follow&#8221; them with your personal Twitter account.</p>
<p>I was stunned to see the user name <a href="http://twitter.com/AlqassamBrigade">@AlqassamBrigade</a> pop up amongst the average 100 tweets an hour mentioning Gaza. I had been to the <a href="http://qassam.ps/">terrorists&#8217; website</a> (which has the fun option to choose your favorite color scheme for the menus) to see their propagandized use of images from Operation Cast Lead, and this was their matching Twitter account.</p>
<p>Sitting at my laptop using our Sderot Media Center Twitter account, <a href="http://twitter.com/SderotMedia">@SderotMedia</a>, most likely only a couple of miles away from the terrorists managing the Hamas Twitter account, I thought to engage them in dialogue on one of the base debates in this conflict:</p>
<p>@AlqassamBrigade As you know, you terrorize thousands just over the border from Gaza here in Sderot. Or do you call it Najd?</p>
<p>Never receiving an answer and following protocol, I filed a complaint with Twitter and this is the automated response I received: Twitter provides a communication service. As a policy, we do not mediate content or intervene in disputes between users. Users are allowed to post content, including potentially inflammatory content, provided that they do not violate the Twitter Terms of Service and Rules (name calling is not a violation.)</p>
<p>Essentially, this gives the terrorist organization the most popular worldwide platform to preach whatever propaganda or hate speech they like because, as you see above, &#8220;name calling is not a violation.&#8221;</p>
<p>The automated Twitter response continues, &#8220;If a violent threat is posted in the future, please let us know, and send the status link.&#8221; So, only if Hamas tweets about the imminent launch of a missile attack will Twitter take action?</p>
<p>In the worldwide blockbuster jaw-dropping movie Bruno, created by comic mastermind Sasha Baron Cohen, the main character Bruno is attempting to make peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict and while hosting a dialogue session he continually misuses the word &#8220;Hamas&#8221; for &#8220;Hummus;&#8221; it exemplifies the great light humor for which Baron Cohen is famous. The mainstream legitimization of the terrorist organization Hamas is so widespread that, these days, it is almost a household term and this is how the caricaturist can comically draw that connection on screen.</p>
<p>However, it is more than a joke when the entire world has turned its back on Hamas&#8217; actions for nearly a decade thereby accepting it into the public domain. Rocket and suicide attacks on Jewish civilians are clearly not enough, but why won&#8217;t the world delegitimize Hamas for human rights abuses such as &#8220;honor killings?&#8221; Instead, the United Nations and <a href="http://www.goldstonereport.org/">Judge Goldstone</a> chose to give Hamas and radical Islam around the world an over <a href="http://www.goldstonereport.org/">500 page report</a> to continue their terrorism.</p>
<p>Let’s be clear: This is not an issue of freedom of speech as Hamas is a terrorist organization even to the United Nations. I encourage everyone with a Twitter account to file a complaint against Hamas&#8217; account <a href="http://twitter.com/AlqassamBrigade">@AlqassamBrigade</a> to get Hamas out of our households and stop the tweeting of terror.</p>
<p><em>Jacob Shrybman is the Assistant Director of the Sderot Media Center, </em><a href="http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/"><em>www.SderotMedia.org.il</em></a><em>. He hosts elected officials from around the world and international media visiting the Sderot/Gaza region. He has been published in The Jerusalem Post, Israel National News, YNet News, and has appeared on several international television and radio stations.</em></p>
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<p>&#8220;Obama &#8211; Stop Pressuring Israel&#8221; was the rallying cry of the day, as over 2000 supporters of Israel gathered in front of the Israeli Consulate in New York City on Sunday afternoon, April 25th to express their views on the current strain in relations between the United States and Israel. Organizers of the rally had expected thousands more to attend but the inclement weather kept many away.</p>
<p>The rally was sponsored and organized by the Jewish Action Alliance, a pro-Israel activist organization that is renowned for championing issues of Jewish security. Beth Gilinsky, the spokesperson and chief strategist of the Jewish Action Alliance said, &#8220;We are outraged that President Obama is scapegoating Israel and wants to expel Jews from their homes in Jerusalem. President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton display more anger about a Jewish family building a home in Jerusalem than Iran building a nuclear bomb.&#8221; Expressing the sentiments of those in attendance at the rally, she said, &#8220;Vast segments of the Jewish community will not tolerate the President&#8217;s continuing attacks on Israel. Grassroots Jewry will not be silent.&#8221;</p>
<p>Noticeably absent from the lengthy roster of organizations endorsing this rally were the major American establishment Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress, the ADL of B&#8217;nai Brith, the American Jewish Congress and the United Jewish Appeal. It has been suggested that these liberal Jewish organizations are supportive of President Obama&#8217;s agenda in the Middle East and don&#8217;t want to damage their relations with the current administration.  Amongst the plethora of organizations endorsing and participating in the rally were Stand With Us, a college campus activist organization that spotlights hate speech against Israel, Christians and Jews United for Israel, Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Artists 4 Israel, Z Street, The Jerusalem Reclamation Project, The Center For Defense of Democracies, the AISH Center, AMCHA &#8212; Coalition for Jewish Concerns, The Jewish Political Education Foundation and the Endowment for Middle East Truth.</p>
<p>Radio talk show host Steve Malzberg and columnist Rabbi Aryeh Spero served as the masters of ceremony as they introduced a litany of speakers representing a broad spectrum of both Jewish and non-Jewish support for Israel.  Rabbi Yaakov Spivak of Monsey, NY, a longtime Jewish activist, radio talk show host and a Daily News columnist intoned, &#8220;President Obama, we&#8217;re here today to tell you something. In Warsaw, they told Jews where we could build, in Lodz they told Jews where we could build, in Paris they told Jews where we could build. You will never tell us where to build in Jerusalem. We are home and Israel is our country. You are not our landlord and we are neither a vassal state nor a banana republic. Our mandate to be here today is none other than our holy Tanach, our bible which says, &#8216;For the sake of Zion I will not be silent and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Jewish people are G-d&#8217;s chosen people&#8221; said Rev. Michael Faulkner, an African American minister representing the New Horizon Church. &#8220;I remind those in the Obama administration that those who bless the Jewish people will be blessed and those who curse the Jewish people will be cursed. Israel is the only stable, democratic ally in the Middle East and this relationship must be preserved and protected. The strength of the land of Israel and the Jewish people lies with their G-d and I call upon all Jews to return to the mandate of the Almighty G-d of Israel and His holy Torah&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Holding aloft signs saying, &#8220;Jerusalem: Israel&#8217;s United and Eternal Capitol,&#8221; &#8220;Hillary Clinton: Pressure Iran, Not Israel,&#8221; &#8220;Obama: Stand Up for America, Stop Bowing to Saudi Kings!&#8221; and &#8220;Obama: Jews Will Not Be Silent,&#8221; the rally participants passionately expressed their anger at the shift in US foreign policy as it pertains to Israel. Jackie Donney, 55, a Christian supporter of Israel who traveled from Newton, Pennsylvania to attend the rally said, &#8220;Look, we all know the background of Barack Obama. He is a disciple of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, one of the greatest haters of Israel and America. I think it is downright sinful that Obama has placed such tremendous pressure on Israel to make major territorial concessions in the name of a false peace. The Palestinian government is an Iranian proxy and such is bent on the destruction of Israel and the Western world. Just look what happened when Israel forcibly evicted Jews from Gush Katif. It didn&#8217;t bring peace and now the US is demanding that Israel relinquish parts of Jerusalem and all of Judea and Samaria. I say, &#8216;Never, Never, Never.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Another rally attendee, Rabbi Joseph Rosenbluh of the Young Israel of Vandeveer Park in Brooklyn said, &#8220;In our Tehillim (the Book of Psalms), we learn that our ultimate salvation lies with our Almighty G-d. It is up to all Jews to ferociously cleave to Hashem (G-d), to walk in His ways and to follow His commandments. In every generation we find that there is no shortage of Jew haters and other miscreants who seek our destruction. There is a new Pharoah in town (Obama) who does not know Joseph (the Jewish people) and we comprehend from our history that G-d will deal with our enemies if only we acknowledge His majesty and glory.&#8221;</p>
<p>A formidable contingent of Hindu and Sikh supporters of Israel was also present at the rally. &#8220;We understand all too well that a policy of appeasement towards Islamic radicalism will never bring peace to Israel or the civilized world,” declared Satya Dosapati of the Hindu Human Rights Watch.&#8221; As Hindus, we have been massacred by Muslims for thousands of years. If President Obama really believes that isolating and demonizing Israel and publicly humiliating Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister is not emboldening our Islamic enemies, then something is really wrong. Israel is a peace seeking nation and we unequivocally support their right to their homeland. The world must realize that if Israel falls then the entire world will come under the domination of a blood thirsty Islamic caliphate,&#8221; he continued.</p>
<p>Meir Rosenblatt, of Passaic, New Jersey said, &#8220;At the most recent AIPAC convention, Secretary Clinton said that Israel must relinquish Judea and Samaria in order to maintain both a democratic and Jewish state. It is clear that Israel is sitting on a demographic time bomb that is all too real. 20 years ago there were only two Arab members of Knesset and now there are 10. The Arab birthrate is skyrocketing while the Jewish birthrate is not. There is no educated Jew that can honestly say we weren&#8217;t warned that this would happen. Rabbi Meir Kahane, of blessed memory spoke of this back in the late 1970s and everyone called him a racist and a fascist because they didn&#8217;t want to hear the painful truth. Now we have boxed ourselves in a corner because we didn&#8217;t listen to his prescient message.&#8221;</p>
<p>Helen Freedman of Americans for a Safe Israel said, &#8220;There is no way to establish peace with those who call for your destruction on a daily basis. That is exactly what the Palestinian propaganda campaign is all about. Lies, half-truths and distortions. AFSI is promoting the idea of &#8220;Shalom&#8221; (peace) through the concept of &#8220;Shalem&#8221; (a whole Israel.) There can only be peace through strength and security. When the Arabs realized that they could not prevail against Israel militarily, they embarked on a course of diplomatic destruction and we are here to speak truth to the canards that they espouse.&#8221;</p>
<p>Other speakers included Joan Peters, author of the critically acclaimed book, &#8220;Of Time Immemorial,&#8221; Mort Klein of the Zionist Organization of America, Dr. Herbert London of The Hudson Institute, New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind who represents the 48th assembly district in Brooklyn and a stalwart Jewish activist and supporter of Israel, radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa and founder of the Guardian Angels, Faith McDonnell of the Institute for Religion and Democracy, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, Joy Brighton of Stop Shariah Now, Rabbi David Algaze of the World Committee for the Land of Israel, Tamar Edelstein of Crown Heights Women, Bhupinder Bhurji of the Naamdari Sikh Foundation, Lori Lowenthal Marcus of Z Street, State Senator Reuben Diaz, Susan Cohen of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Mallory Danaher of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Narain Katarian of the Hindu Human Rights Watch.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Called the “People’s Pastor” for his long activist career, Herbert Daughtry in 1953 was convicted of armed robbery and assault charges. In prison, he had a religious conversion to Pentecostalism which led him to become a pastor in Brooklyn, New York. In 1980 Daughtry helped establish the National Black United Front, which helped organize the national campaign for reparations and has worked alongside the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Called the “People’s Pastor” for his long activist career, Herbert Daughtry in 1953 was convicted of armed robbery and assault charges. In prison, he had a religious conversion to Pentecostalism which led him to become a pastor in Brooklyn, New York.</p>
<p>In 1980 Daughtry helped establish the National Black United Front, which helped organize the national campaign for reparations and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2008Jul19/0,4675,RELDemocratsaposMinister,00.html" target="_blank">has worked</a> alongside the New Black Panthers. In 1982 he founded the African People’s Organization, which teaches the black origins of Christianity. In 1984 Daughtry became a special assistant to <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/individualProfile.asp?indid=687" target="_blank">Jesse Jackson</a> during the latter&#8217;s presidential campaign. He has also helped organize a number of initiatives with <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527" target="_blank">Al Sharpton</a>, particularly the 2006-2008 <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90280095" target="_blank">demonstrations</a> protesting a police shooting of a young black man in New York City.</p>
<p>A fervent proponent of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/viewSubCategory.asp?id=796" target="_blank">Black Liberation Theology</a>, Daughtry has served in a number of prominent positions with the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/31/world-council-of-churches-the-kgb-connection/" target="_blank">World Council of Churches</a>. He also has been one of the principal leaders of the reparations-for-slavery movement in America. His church in Brooklyn is adorned with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20minister-t.html?_r=1" target="_blank">a banner</a> for slavery reparations, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=72149" target="_blank">proclaiming</a>, “They Owe Us.”</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2448">To view the full Herbert Daughtry profile, click here.</a></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Liberals and the liberal media try <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/10-most-offensive-tea-par_n_187554.html">awfully hard</a> to portray tea-partiers as racist, violent extremists whose ultimate goal is to usurp the lawful authority of the government of the United States. It’s tough to make those charges stick, since tea-party rallies are inevitably peaceful, thoughtful protests that include people of many races. Tea-partiers and their supporters continually denounce racism and violence as well. Still, the Daily Kos crowd and leftist commentators like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjTxdR46-08&amp;feature=player_embedded">Keith Olbermann</a> are sure that bigotry and violence are brewing just beneath the surface of the movement, no matter how much tea-partiers might deny the awful “truth” of the matter.</p>
<p>It’s rather bizarre that members of the tea-party movement and their Republican supporters are called upon to denounce racism and violence, when the foundation of the movement has nothing to do with either. The tea-partiers are campaigning for limited government, fiscal responsibility and the free market. Still, if some unidentified individual supposedly <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/tea-party-protests-nier-f_n_507116.html">hurls a racial slur</a> at a black congressman, or if another unidentified individual hurls a brick through a congressman’s window, the tea-partiers are called upon to denounce those actions, even though there is no credible evidence that the movement, its principles, or even an actual tea-partier, was involved. Not doing so, the liberal critics say, is tantamount to accepting and encouraging such behavior. Such actions must be condemned and the tea-party movement has a responsibility to make it clear that racists and thugs are not welcome. Tea-partiers and Republicans dutifully say all the right things, that racism is bad and that violence is bad, usually with a rather puzzled expressions on their faces, since it’s 2010 and those points seem rather obvious to anyone this side of Chris “<a href="http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/the-obama-administration-matthews-i-forgot-obama-was-black/41face2543f3c15e517241face2543f3c15e5172-1639710458222">I forgot Obama was black for an hour</a>” Matthews.</p>
<p>The left has established a principle here: if anyone promoting evil or performing evil acts tries to attach himself to an organization or movement, then it is incumbent upon that organization or movement to disassociate themselves from such individuals in the strongest possible terms. Might we apply this principle to another organization, one that features a fringe that embraces violence in a way that makes brick-throwing appear as innocuous as a fifth-grader firing a spitball across the class during study hall? Instead of worrying about some shadowy figure who supposedly shouted racial epithets and whom can’t actually be tied to a movement, might we worry instead about a movement that embraces sexism, not merely along its fringes, but in a huge portion of the mainstream? Such an organization seems ready-made to attract the righteous wrath of liberal America. If such a movement involved fundamentalist Christians or ultra-Orthodox Jews, the liberal media would denounce it, condemn it and expect any co-religionist even remotely connected to the offenders to do the same. There is, of course, one notable exception to this rule: Islam.</p>
<p>If called upon to denounce murderous violence that their co-religionists perpetrate in the name of Allah, the Council on American Islamic Relations inevitably follows the party line: they can not be expected to accept responsibility for the deranged actions of few extremists. That answer satisfies the mainstream media, though it’s not nearly an acceptable response when it comes to the tea-party movement, which doesn’t actually have a death toll even remotely associated with it. From whence does such hypocrisy spring? The answer should be obvious: fear.  The liberal media can offend tea-partiers at every opportunity and the worst that will happen is that reporters might get a few angry e-mails, or editors will receive some rude phone calls. Big deal. Were these reporters and editors to offend Islam, the results might very well include a next-of-kin trying to recall where the dear departed stashed a life insurance policy.</p>
<p>Most Muslims are not violent jihadists, but they support – indirectly, albeit vitally – violent jihad through their silence. Perhaps we should look at this differently. To a jihadist like Osama bin Laden, anyone <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6984102.stm">who doesn’t support jihad</a> isn’t following the dictates of the Quran and is therefore not a real Muslim. For bin Laden and his ilk there is no such thing as the Islamic equivalent of a “fallen away Catholic.” If you’re not “all in,” you’re on the other side. In the west, most Muslims aren’t Muslims, as far as the jihadists are concerned. Most Muslim women living in America drive cars, for example. Most Muslims living in America don’t feel it’s their obligation, or a moral imperative, to kill infidels. Their religion is their religion, but it doesn’t get in the way of conscience. That’s great, as far as it goes, but they are actually guilty of the very sin of omission that the mainstream media tries to pin on tea-partiers, in the form of a deafening silence when it comes to their evil, extremist co-religionists constitutes complicity in everything but name.</p>
<p>The non-violent Muslim majority – and I believe that is an accurate description, whether or not they sympathize with the goals of jihad – represents the only real hope the West has of permanently emasculating the violent jihadists. We can not kill every Muslim on the face of the earth, notwithstanding the fact that Judeo-Christian morality prevents us from ever wishing to do so. The only way to negate the jihadist influence it though a “Muslim enlightenment” that would, in theory, find Muslims balancing the secular principles of liberty and conscience against the more morally positive features of their chosen religion. Yet, there is not the slightest possibility of achieving a Muslim enlightenment if we refuse to accept the need to accomplish such a goal and thus deny potential moderates their voices. The mainstream media, it would seem, hasn’t a clue. Their calls for moderation when it comes to the tea-party movement are both shrill and wholly unnecessary. But, when it comes to an actual threat to Western civilization like jihad and Islam, they choose to go mute. That is, after all, the safest course for them, if not for the public they serve.</p>
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<p>Frontpge Interview’s guest today is Asaf Romirowsky, a Senior Fellow at the <a href="http://www.emetonline.org/">Endowment for Middle East Truth</a> and an associate fellow at the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/">Middle East Forum</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>FP: </strong>Asaf Romirowsky, welcome to Frontpage Interview.<strong> </strong></p>
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<p>Canada has become the first country to defund from UNRWA. It is the first Western government to do so. Tell us about UNRWA and this Canadian move.<strong> </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Romirowsky: </strong>Thank you for having me</p>
<p>To an outsider, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East <strong>(</strong>UNRWA<strong>)</strong> seems to be a UN humanitarian group aiding Palestinian refugees. In reality however, it helps destroy the chances of Arab-Israeli peace, promotes terrorism, and holds back Palestinian society from ever achieving statehood.</p>
<p>There has been much evidence to show how UNRWA schools have become hotbeds of anti-Western, anti-American, and anti-Semitic indoctrination, as well as recruiting offices for Islamist terror groups. UNRWA is the largest employer of Palestinians as such the local offices are dominated by radicals who staff and subsidize Islamist groups while potentially intimidating anyone from voicing a different line. UNRWA facilities and vehicles are used to store and transport weapons, and have actually served as military bases.</p>
<p>In this process, UNRWA has broken all the rules that are presumed to govern humanitarian enterprises, encouraging their resettlement, avoiding political stances, and putting refugees in danger. But by design, UNRWA is the exact opposite of other refugee relief operations, such as those orchestrated by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR).</p>
<p>UNRWA defines a “refugee” in the broadest terms by including not only those Arabs who fled from territories held by Israel, but also those who stayed in their homes and lost their source of livelihood as a result of war. Today, this would include all third- and fourth-generation children of refugees, even those of just one Palestinian refugee parent.</p>
<p>UNRWA in its current make up is a liability for many reasons. For one, it affords its employees U.N. diplomatic immunity, it undercuts the organization&#8217;s accountability. UNRWA workers have abused their diplomatic privilege to engage in or encourage terrorism. Television crews have filmed UNRWA employees escorting armed Palestinian fighters in U.N. vehicles. Agency-operated &#8211; and, by extension, America-funded &#8211; schools decorate their classrooms with flags and banners celebrating terrorist groups.</p>
<p>Currently, all UNRWA has to do when it goes to request monies from the United States is to say that they take care of the betterment of the Palestinian refugees without any kind of actual transparency and accountability of what they actual do to further that agenda. The United States which funds a third of UNRWA’s annual budget deserves checks and balances from any agency it finances especially, UNRWA.</p>
<p>As a result of the above, Canada has become the first Western country to demand the type of accountability and responsibility that a donor country deserves by saying NO to UNRWA and only allocating monies to certain Palestinian projects within the Palestinian Authority that can show how they evaluate their work and prove their effectiveness.</p>
<p>Given that one of the chief policy issues for the United   States is how to aid in mobilizing donors, both public and private, for a financial infusion of aid resources to finance refugee compensation (and resettlement, immigration, and rehabilitation) as well as the permanent status agreement in general. It would behoove us to follow the Canadian example which would allow our tax dollars to be spent on promoting independent Palestinian organizations and private-sector growth.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> How did it come to pass that UNRWA became as you describe it and that this was allowed to actually take place?</p>
<p><strong>Romirowsky: </strong>UNRWA was created as a temporary organization that has no end in sight. As such, UNRWA is here 60 plus years later still maintaining and sustaining the Palestinian refugee status.</p>
<p>While the refugees benefit from UNRWA, the organization benefits more from the refugees. These refugees are the organization&#8217;s <em>raison d&#8217;etre</em>. Accordingly, UNRWA has zero incentive to resolve the Palestinian refugee problem; ending the refugee problem would render the agency obsolete.</p>
<p>The interests of the refugees and UNRWA are so intertwined that UNRWA is staffed <em>in situ</em> mainly by local Palestinians—more than 23,000 of them—with only about 100 international United Nations professionals. While the U.N. High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and UNICEF (United Nations International Children&#8217;s Fund) avoid employing locals who are also recipients of agency services, UNRWA does not make this distinction.</p>
<p>Thus, in the interest of self-perpetuation, UNRWA seeks to maintain the violent status quo in the Middle East, even if it means turning a blind eye to terror.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What more can be done about stopping this kind of abuse represented by UNRWA? What form of action do you advocate? What Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has done is clearly a step in the right direction.</p>
<p><strong>Romirowsky:</strong> Indeed – Canada’s actions regarding UNRWA under Stephen Harper’s leadership are without a doubt a step in the right direction and more donor countries should be adopting this very policy. As I see it, there are four basic steps that can be taken which are highly reasonable as it concerns UNRWA.</p>
<p>First, UNRWA should ultimately be dissolved.</p>
<p>Second, all the services UNRWA currently provides should be transferred to other agencies within the UN, notably the UNHCR, which have a long experience in such programs. In addition, these activities must be subject to normal transparency and accountability.</p>
<p>Third, to the greatest possible extent, responsibility for normal social services should be turned over to the Palestinian Authority. A large portion of the UNRWA staff should be transferred to that governmental authority. Donors should use the maximum amount of oversight to ensure this be done effectively.</p>
<p>Fourth, the text books used by UNRWA should be subject to oversight to ensure that the teach co-existence and peace between Arabs and Jews.</p>
<p>People often wonder why it is that violence and instability persists after so many years regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict and especially the Palestinian element therein. Why is this issue so seemingly impossible to resolve?</p>
<p>A part of the answer is that UNRWA does not work towards a resolution of the Palestinian refugee problem. In fact, the opposite is true. UNRWA perpetuates the problem. All those seeking real progress toward peace between Israelis and Palestinians need to take a close look at this unacceptable situation.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Asaf Romirowsky, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Brigitte Gabriel, founder of the nonprofit organization <a title="http://www.actforamerica.org/" href="http://www.actforamerica.org/" target="_blank">ACT! for America</a>, and one of the leading terrorism experts in the world. Her expertise is sought after by world and business leaders. She has addressed the Australian Prime Minister, members of The British Parliament/House of Commons, members of the United States Congress, The Pentagon, The Joint Forces Staff College, The US Special Operations Command, The US Asymmetric Warfare group, the FBI, and many others. She is the New York Times best selling author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Because-They-Hate-Survivor-Islamic/dp/0312358377">Because They Hate </a>and <a title="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0312383630/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0312383630/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books" target="_blank">They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It</a>.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Brigitte Gabriel, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I would like to talk to you today about CAIR’s personal attack on you. Tell us about it.</p>
<p><strong>Gabriel: </strong>CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, sent out a press release on March 17<sup>th</sup>, using its standard propaganda techniques such as name calling, which I won’t dignify by repeating here.  This is not the first time that CAIR has attacked me.  But in this case, CAIR’s attack could best be described as “throwing the kitchen sink” at me.  It was a litany of accusations and references to statements I have allegedly made, or statements that were taken out of context, pieced together to create a distorted caricature of what I believe and how I define the threat of radical Islam.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Why do you think CAIR did this?</p>
<p><strong>Gabriel: </strong>It seems clear to me that CAIR is becoming increasingly desperate in its efforts to try to stop the truth about radical Islam from reaching the American people.  It’s almost like they’re flailing, like a drowning man desperately trying to stay afloat.  They have lost every court battle thus far in their fight against the authors of the blockbuster exposé <em>Muslim Mafia.</em> The Department of Justice has reaffirmed its finding that CAIR is tied to the terrorist organization Hamas, and a grand jury subpoena for CAIR records issued last November indicates a new government investigation of CAIR is ongoing.</p>
<p>Desperate organizations, like desperate people, are prone to do desperate things.  CAIR is desperately trying to divert attention from its own problems, and they are many, by slinging mud at others – and not just me.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> I noticed that one of the sources CAIR quotes is the Australian Jewish News. Could you tell us about that particular interview?</p>
<p><strong>Gabriel: </strong>This is one of the areas CAIR honed in on. Back in 2007 I was in Australia to speak at a major event honoring Prime Minister John Howard. While there I met with a Jewish journalist who brought along a friend, and we had coffee. The “friend” turned out to be an apologist for anything Islamic, including the Palestinians against Israel. He was so ignorant of the issues of terrorism that he didn’t even know what Hamas was. He was so uninformed that the journalist sitting next to me told him, &#8220;You are an embarrassment to journalism.&#8221; The man who invited him apologized to me in the car for his friend’s behavior and told me that he will never invite him again to a press conference. This person was a regular at the Islamic Mosque and was very close friends with the Imam and members of the mosque. He ended up writing a blog that badly distorted things I said in the conversation.</p>
<p>CAIR has since been quoting this blog to falsely allege things that I don’t believe. For instance, I don’t believe that there are no moderate Muslims. Of course there are.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> You have made statements about “practicing Muslims.” Tell us precisely what you mean in these statements.</p>
<p><strong>Gabriel:</strong> When I have made statements about “practicing Muslims,” here is what I’m saying:</p>
<p>In any religious faith, and that includes Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, there are people who are very orthodox and very devout, and then there are others who are less so.  There are Christians who read their Bibles, attend church regularly and pray every day, and there are those who don’t.  The same dynamic is true in Judaism.</p>
<p>And the same is true in Islam. There are many, many Muslims who have never read the Koran in their own language, who don’t even know many of its teachings or closely adhere to its teachings and those of the Hadith, and who don’t pray five times a day.   These are the Muslims who are often described as “moderate,” or less devout, or even “secular.”</p>
<p>Then there are those Muslims who take the Koran and Hadith very seriously.  They follow the Islamic shariah law and they subscribe to the supremacist political ideology embedded within the Islamic holy books.  They aspire to emulate Mohammed, who any honest historian will tell you spread Islam by terror and the sword.  They agree with the doctrine of jihad. They believe that Islamic shariah law should reign supreme over all and that man-made laws are invalid.  They agree with the Islamic command that their allegiance is to the “ummah”, the Islamic nation, rather than to any country.</p>
<p>It is these Muslims, who are typically referred to as practicing “radical Islam,” that I refer to when I say such Muslims cannot be trusted to be a loyal citizen to our country – or any country for that matter – and who do not acknowledge that here in America we recognize the Constitution as the “supreme law of the land.”  It is these Muslims I have referred to as “practicing.”</p>
<p>Just look at what Imam Al-Awlaki, the American Al-Qaida leader in the Arabian Peninsula, said just last week: &#8220;I eventually came to the conclusion that jihad against America is binding upon myself just as it is binding on every other Muslim.&#8221;</p>
<p>As you can see, this explanation does not lend itself well to a 20 second sound bite.  So it’s easy for Islamists and their apologists to lift one sentence out of context to lead people to conclude something that I’m not saying. And they don’t do it just to me – they do it to anyone who they perceive as a threat to their ideological agenda.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> For real.</p>
<p>Even more interesting: isn’t it true that CAIR leaders have made public statements that actually confirm what it is you’re saying?</p>
<p><strong>Gabriel: </strong>That’s the delicious irony of all of this.  CAIR’s press release criticized me for my statements about how radical Muslims cannot be trusted to be loyal citizens.  Yet public statements by some of their own leaders confirm what I’m saying.</p>
<p>For instance, Omar Ahmad, the founder of CAIR, made this statement in 1998: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur’an should be the highest authority in America.”  This was reported in the San Ramon Valley Herald on July 4, 1998.  Look what Ahmad is saying – he wants an Islamic theocracy in America. How is this any different from my position that says there are those Muslims who believe that Islamic shariah law should reign supreme and that man-made laws are invalid?</p>
<p>Then there’s Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s Communications Director, who said in a 1993 Minneapolis Star Tribune interview, “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future…”</p>
<p>If that sounds to you like he wants an Islamic theocracy in America where Islamic shariah law reigns supreme, you’re right.</p>
<p>Which begs this question: Can Omar Ahmad and Ibrahim Hooper be counted on to be loyal citizens of the United States and to the Constitution, our law of the land?</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> This is the question that many people are afraid to answer.</p>
<p>So what do we conclude from all of this?</p>
<p><strong>Gabriel: </strong>Everywhere I go I make the point of saying just what I said earlier, that there are many, many Muslims worldwide who either don’t know, don’t understand, or don’t subscribe to the ideology of political Islam, the doctrine of jihad, and the supremacy of Islamic shariah law.  Of course, we have no idea how many people make up this group.</p>
<p>But ultimately, that’s not the issue.  The issue is the radical, passionate Islamists worldwide who are driving the militant Islamic agenda in the world.  Read the words of the revered and respected Muslim clerics worldwide.  They are committed to supremacy, jihad, and Islamic shariah law.  This is what drives the terrorists and those devoted to “stealth jihad.”  It doesn’t matter if even most Muslims don’t think this way, because as history teaches us, the “moderate” element within a movement don’t drive the agenda.  Most Germans during World War II weren’t committed Nazis, but that didn’t prevent Nazism from leading to the deaths of 60 million people.  The same can be said for the Communists in the Soviet  Union and the followers of Mao in China.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Words of wisdom.</p>
<p>So before we go, a final thought?</p>
<p><strong>Gabriel: </strong>Thanks Jamie.</p>
<p>A final thought?</p>
<p>Well,<strong> </strong>let’s face the truth of the dire situation we are facing:<strong> </strong>Islamists are intent on doing us harm, either through violent jihad or stealth and cultural jihad. They are driven by their commitment to the ideology of political Islam, the doctrine of jihad, the supremacy of Islamic shariah law over all other law, and their allegiance to the ummah rather than any one country.  They see this as a state of war between Islam and the “infidel” world, and the practice of everything from deception (taqiyya) to violence is acceptable for their use in fighting this war.  That includes the propaganda techniques employed by organizations like CAIR.  Understanding all of this is essential to understanding how our enemies think and why they do what they do – and what we must do to defeat them.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Brigitte Gabriel, as always it was an honor and privilege to speak to you. Thank you for your courage and nobility. Thank you for your fearless fight for liberty and the truth. The world doesn’t make many people like you.</p>
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<p>What the<em> New York Times</em> chooses to cover in the Arab-Israeli conflict – and what it excludes – is a story in itself. The paper’s silence, as of this writing, about an event that has rocked the Israeli media and public and triggered calls for government action once more raises serious questions about the paper’s news judgment. After all, the <em>Times </em>reports on no other foreign nation as minutely as it does Israel, whether about negotiations, housing permits in Jerusalem, Israeli gravel-use in the West Bank or a Tel Aviv polygamist.</p>
<p>The story being ignored is the Im Tirtzu campaign to expose the New Israel Fund’s connection to the defamatory Goldstone Report via its funding of groups that spurred the creation of and then contributed harsh commentary about Israel to the UN document. Originally founded as a student organization to counter anti-Zionist activity on campus, Im Tirtzu publicized revelations about the NIF-Goldstone ties in provocative ads across the country. The campaign began in January and has already prompted moves in the Knesset to intensify oversight of foreign political entities financing groups in Israel.</p>
<p>According to polls, the Israeli public by a significant margin opposes politically-based foreign funding of activity in Israel.</p>
<p>So why the silent treatment by the <em>Times</em>?</p>
<p>For starters, many of the very same NIF-supported NGO’s under fire for allegedly helping fuel the Goldstone calumnies against Israel are also preferred news sources of the <em>Times</em>, quoted regularly as reliable critics of Israeli society. B’Tselem and Yesh Din, for instance, are favorites, together cited at least 25 <em>times</em> in the last two years, typically charging the Israel Defense Forces or other official bodies with misconduct, and sometimes prompting entire stories focused on the NGO charges.</p>
<p>Gisha, another NIF grantee, has been invoked at least 10 times in the same period as an objective organization demanding “free movement” for Palestinians. Gisha allegations have triggered front page, multi-story coverage.</p>
<p>HaMoked, yet another New Israel Fund-financed NGO, has been cited by the <em>Times</em> denouncing Israel for its handling of residency issues for Palestinians. Still another, Bimkom, has appeared in the <em>Times</em> blasting Israel for the effects on Palestinians of the separation barrier. Two more favored by both the <em>Times</em> and NIF are Physicians for Human Rights and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. The newspaper has cited the former assailing the Israeli military for ethics violations, the latter deploring alleged discrimination in traveling the roads. One more NGO that enjoys both the support of the NIF and the confidence of the <em>Times</em> is Breaking the Silence, which alleges abuses of Palestinians by soldiers.</p>
<p>The claims of all these groups are tainted by ideological bias and factual distortion. As Ha’aretz’s military correspondent notes with regard to Breaking the Silence, “Any organization whose Web site includes the claim by members to expose the ‘corruption which permeates the military system’ is not a neutral observer.” Indicative of the disregard for fairness and objectivity, the soldier “testimonies” posted on its Web site include no dates and no specifics, but are anonymous charges the military cannot investigate – or refute.</p>
<p>B’Tselem, created to “change Israeli policy in the occupied territories” and to monitor treatment of Palestinians there, has produced strikingly skewed and false categorizing of Palestinian casualties. The group has included terrorists such as Abdul Salaam Sadek Hassouneh, who murdered six at a Bat Mitzvah celebration in 2002, as “civilians” killed by Israel. Similar distortions minimizing violence against Israelis color much of B’Tselem’s work.</p>
<p>Gisha pursues legal measures against Israel charging “segregation” and has signed ads alleging Israel is an apartheid regime. Its reports minimize or ignore entirely the threats against Israel.</p>
<p>And so it goes with all the groups.</p>
<p>Yet the <em>Times</em> promotes their message and their standing, presenting them as mainstream, credible, worthy sources. Indeed, the paper avoids identifying their political hue, which is uniformly well to the left, if not radical. In <em>Times</em> parlance, they are merely Israeli “human rights groups.” Only once, for example, was any tagged correctly as an “Israeli leftist advocacy group” – and this not in a news story, but a summary brief. Perhaps accidentally.</p>
<p>Nor is this pattern regarding political labels applied consistently across the political spectrum. For example, on the few occasions when the Jerusalem  Center for Public Affairs has been quoted, the think tank has repeatedly been termed “conservative.”</p>
<p>Given all this, the absence of attention to the NIF-Goldstone connection is unsurprising, if journalistically indefensible.</p>
<p>The New Israel Fund must, moreover, be grateful for the <em>Times</em> silence; its American donors generally believe they contribute to the betterment of life for rape victims and battered women, for the enhancement of the environment and the strengthening of Israeli education. Most would not likely be happy learning NIF-funded publications had a hand in the Goldstone Report and smear Israel as an apartheid regime.</p>
<p>Most would probably not be contributors if they knew that, according to NGO-Monitor’s Anne Herzberg, there are NIF-funded groups that “demonize Israel at the UN, support boycott and divestment campaigns, promote ‘lawfare’ cases against Israeli officials and even advocate erasing the Jewish character of the state.”</p>
<p>Regrettably, the paper’s affinity for NIF-funded groups that blame Israel for the conflict and related problems is matched by its lack of attention to the genocidal demonizing of Israel in Palestinian society and the wider Arab world. Unmentioned in its pages, for instance, was a recent translation from Arabic by MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) of yet another screed by a Muslim preacher in Nablus who calls Jews Nazis, exhorts his flock to kill all Jews and says:</p>
<blockquote><p>Palestine was subjected to a loathsome occupation of its land and holy places by these neo-Mongols, who perpetrated, on this holy, blessed, and pure land, acts of killing, assassination, destruction, expropriation, Judaization, harassment, and the fragmentation of the homeland. (January 29, 2010)</p></blockquote>
<p>In fact, a number of NIF groups would agree with much of what the preacher at the Bourin mosque had to say. But that only underscores the need for serious investigation of the New Israel Fund and the many politically extreme grantees enjoying millions of dollars of its largesse.</p>
<p>It underscores too the question about the news judgement of the <em>Times</em>, which has drifted increasingly away from objective reporting on Israel, has promoted its defamers, and continues to ignore the onslaught of Palestinian and broader Arab anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate indoctrination.</p>
<p><em>Andrea Levin is Executive Director and President of CAMERA, Committee for Accuracy in </em><em>Middle East</em><em> Reporting in </em><em>America</em><em>.</em></p>
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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> and his site is <a href="http://www.muslimmafiainternational.com/">MuslimMafiaInternational.com</a>.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Dave Gaubatz, welcome back to Frontpage.</p>
<p>Before we begin I would like to describe the picture above that represents this interview. Undercover non-Muslims Stefanie and Charety are siting at the CAIR table. They are speaking to Khalid Iqbal, who was assigned as the CAIR/VA Director at the time. When CAIR/VA  closed due to the Morris Days fraud, Iqbal went to the ADAMS Center.</p>
<p>David, I would like to talk to you today about American heroes like Stefanie and Charety who have done dangerous undercover work inside Islamist organizations, risking their lives to protect this country.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s begin this conversation by talking a bit about your son Chris, who was <a href="../2010/02/24/more-than-a-hero/">recently featured</a> in a Frontpage article by Robert Spencer.</p>
<p>Chris was the lead researcher for your project in which you had several people go undercover inside CAIR National for over 6 months. Tell us a bit about what Chris and others like him have been doing for this nation.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> In 2010, Chris and numerous other Americans are doing what our government and law enforcement are not doing: They are exposing Islamic based terrorist groups working inside our country.</p>
<p>When the term “Islamic terrorism” first began being used in daily conversations after 9/11, we coined another phrase: “Our First Line Defenders.” This was assumed to be our law enforcement and other emergency essential personnel. These people are outstanding and help America, but in reality, in the current situation with Islamic terrorism, they are our “First Line Responders.”</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Please explain.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Well, although many media organizations have tried to keep the truth from the American public, the reality is even the soccer moms and dads are realizing our law enforcement and other emergency crews simply respond to scenes after terrorist events have already been carried out.</p>
<p>The murders at Ft. Hood by a U.S. military officer are a prime example. Our law enforcement, emergency crews, and politicians could not get to the microphones fast enough to boast about how well they are handling the situation at Ft. Hood. Our FBI even came on board within 5 minutes and declared the murders were not a terrorist act. Hell, it takes longer for a State Trooper to give a speeding ticket than it did for our leading law enforcement agency to come to the conclusion that <em>we had not</em> suffered another Islamic-based terrorist attack.</p>
<p>I believe this was a focal point when the moms and dads of America finally woke up and realized the true nature of the Islamic Jihadist ideology. The jihadi groups are dangerous, they are capable, they have the desire, and they have the weapons and people who are fully prepared to kill innocent people at any given time they desire, and there is little our law enforcement can do, little our politicians (for the most part) will do, and they know our media is now influenced by ‘big money’ from various sources and they will report whatever the “big money” tells them to report.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What impact has your best-selling book, <em>Muslim Mafia</em>, had on all this?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> <em>Muslim Mafia</em> has been put into the hands of very important people who now see the truth of how Islamic terrorists operate. These people I am referring to are everyday Americans who have always depended on our law enforcement and politicians to protect them. Our book has opened their eyes. They now see there has been ample evidence for many years that Islamic terrorist groups and their supporters are operating freely inside America, and often with the support of politicians and our Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The terrorist supporters hide under the blankets of non-profit organizations and are given a do-as-you-will-stamp of approval by the IRS.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Who are America’s true heroes then?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> The heroes in our country remain the same as they have for over 200 years. They are your autoworkers, plumbers, secretaries, retailers, farmers, waiters/waitresses, moms, dads, grandparents.  They are the people who politicians, law enforcement work, military, and yes Mr. President, even you work for the people of our country.</p>
<p>To first overcome and defeat Islamic terrorist groups and their supporters such as the Muslim Brotherhood (CAIR and ISNA) we must go through a transformation and realize the American people are the heroes when they begin to do the job our politicians should have been insuring has been done (securing our country for our children).</p>
<p>The true heroes are indeed people like Chris and my other counter-terrorism researchers like Charety and Stefanie, the two women you mentioned earlier who are in the picture used to represent this interview. Also Daniel and Marylyn. They went inside the belly of the beast within the Muslim Brotherhood. They risked their lives to obtain evidence exposing the Muslim Brotherhood operation, which is alive and well in our country. They had numerous people behind the scenes (everyday Americans) providing intelligence on a daily basis that helped me as the Director of the Project to make the day to day decisions to insure they were conducting the undercover work in a professional and legal manner. Some of these people I can only mention by first name. They are our heroes: Mira, Steve, Wendy, Christine, Frank, David, and many more.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Tell us some more about Charety and Stefanie. It must be a lot more trickier and dangerous for women to do undercover work among Islamists.</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Charety and Stefanie truly were outstanding. These two young ladies had no prior training in counter-terrorism and knew virtually nothing about Islam, yet they were able to accomplish more than seasoned law enforcement veterans.  I trained them to the level that they needed to be at so that they would fit in with CAIR and as Muslims. These ladies put their lives on the line to infiltrate a Muslim “civil rights” organization that actually shares the same violent ideology as al-Qaeda and Hamas. Charety and Stefanie were able to meet the Executive leaders within CAIR, both at the recently closed CAIR/VA office and CAIR National.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What was the most important thing Charety and Stefanie did within CAIR?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Charety and Stefanie began working inside CAIR National well before Chris did. They paved the way for Chris to begin working inside. Both of these ladies did what I needed accomplished the most. They provided me with the intelligence about the makeup of the CAIR National office in regards to personnel, daily operations, and their internal/external security measures.</p>
<p>During my many years with an elite investigative agency (AFOSI), we found that in order to penetrate any organization you must have the “target” come to you. This tactic alleviates the majority of the concerns our law enforcement agencies have today. If you try to infiltrate a criminal organization, the leaders are very cautious of new people &#8212; unless they were referred by someone they trust.</p>
<p>Nihad Awad, Hooper, Saylor and other leaders within CAIR knew and trusted both Stefanie and Charety. Stefanie determined CAIR National had several weak areas. Essentially, CAIR did not even follow their written procedures in regards to security. Some people would sign into CAIR, but on numerous occasions it just came down to who was working the front desk at CAIR.  Chris was able to transfer into CAIR National because of CAIR’s internal problems and because Stefanie did a fantastic job. Chris was allegedly Stefanie’s brother. Chris, Stefanie, and Charity worked various CAIR events and they were all praised by Nihad Awad and others for their outstanding performance. Little did CAIR know that everyday Stefanie and Charety were obtaining very valuable intelligence on their organization.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Wow, this sounds like incredible and daring stuff. These truly are heroes. What a catastrophe and tragedy that our common citizens have to do this kind of thing, since the government and law-enforcement are failing to do so on so many realms.</p>
<p>Let’s touch on a few other issues. The charge has been made against you, as expected, that you have a grudge against Muslims. How would you respond?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Anyone who says I do not like the Muslim people or do not care for them was not with me in Iraq (2003) and are either politicians trying to stay on the most popular side of the fence or media who support terrorists more than they do Americans who fought terrorists.</p>
<p>It is well documented by U.S. government records and a good friend (Mohammed Rehaeif, Iraqi lawyer who helped rescue Private Jessica Lynch in Nasiriyah, Iraq) and his family of how I risked my life for many Muslims to prevent them from being killed by Islamic terrorists in Iraq.</p>
<p>Often so-called investigative journalists who make ridiculous claims that I do not care for the Muslim people should ask themselves where they were at the start of the war in Iraq. Were they safe at home while many Americans like me were in Saudi and Iraq willing to give their lives for the Muslim people? The answer is 99.9% were safely at home while I was in Iraq. My wife, son, and daughter are the only ones I need to convince of my caring for all people, regardless of race, religion, or culture. If you are a terrorist or terrorist supporter I have openly said, “I do not want you in America and will legally do everything to expose your group and the treasonous actions you support.”</p>
<p>A good question for all politicians and media is: Do they agree or disagree with my statement?</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> That is an important question that was touched on by Eric Stakelbeck of CBN during his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iVyRiiWZTg">recent interview</a> with the radical Islamic leader, Anjem Choudhary, in the UK.</p>
<p>Your thoughts on Islam and the argument that it is a “Religion of Peace”?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> Eric Stakelbeck did an outstanding job during his interview and raised many important issues pertaining to Islamic based terrorism. CBN did not have to travel though to another country to find Islamic leaders with the same thought process and ideological beliefs as Choudhary.</p>
<p>During our undercover research with CAIR National and during our research at over 200 Islamic Centers in America, we found that there are numerous Choudharys residing amongst us. They are in most cities and organizations such as CAIR.  Many times these are the type Islamic leaders CAIR invites to their fundraising events, such as Ahmed Sakr, Siraj Wahaj, Zaid Shakir. These are examples of Islamic leaders/scholars who share the same ideology as Choudhary, but after 9/11, they are seldom as vocal as Choudhary is. They simply use the common deception tactic of using materials such as DVD’s and literature to say the exact things Choudhary does openly.</p>
<p>Now, the question of Islam being a Religion of Peace? It is really not as important what any individual person believes or doesn’t believe unless he/she has evidence to support their belief.  For most of my adult life I have worked intelligence and counter-terrorism issues.  I was trained by our government to analyze information and material evidence in order to come to an analytical conclusion about potential threats to our country.</p>
<p>Again, this is well documented by government records. Based on what I have seen and evidence I have obtained for many years on behalf of our government and during private counter-terrorism research, Islam is based more on a political, economic, and military ideology than on a religious ideology, and therefore the question of Islam being a “Religion of Peace” is secondary.</p>
<p>Islamic leaders worldwide have tried, and continue to try, to explain this point I am making to non-Muslims almost on a daily basis. Saddam tried to explain this, the Iranian leader is currently trying to explain this, Choudhary is trying, al-Qaeda is trying, and the Taliban are trying to explain this to the world. The sad fact is, we just do not want to listen.</p>
<p>There are many Muslims who do want peace, education for their children, medical care for their families, and employment to support and care for their families. But to the millions of Muslims who believe exactly as Choudhary, they are not acting in accordance with Sharia law if they do not seek to physically fight their enemies. And the enemies of Islam are currently the people of Israel and anyone or country that supports them and anyone/country that they consider to be oppressors of Islam. All non-Muslims are deemed as enemies and that belief is rooted in Islamic theology.</p>
<p>CAIR’s Nihad Awad and Ibrahim Hooper would be the first to say Islam is being oppressed throughout the world. And the oppressors are non-Muslims. One need only review the documents we obtained (ones they were preparing to shred) during our undercover research. A sampling is in our book, <em>Muslim Mafia</em>.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> CAIR has filed a lawsuit against you for conducting the undercover research in their organizational headquarters and CAIR/VA. Can you provide an update?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> There have been recent legal updates on the lawsuit and WND has covered them in their articles. We have expected the lawsuit because we understand how terrorist supporters operate more than they do themselves. We have the best attorneys (Martin Garbus, Daniel Horowitz, and others). CAIR (Muslim Brotherhood) have always used lawsuits against corporations and people who cave in to their terrorist tactics.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Will you be putting together any other counter-terrorism research projects?</p>
<p><strong>Gaubatz:</strong> I will devote my time and resources to uncover terrorism issues that are being ignored by many politicians and senior law enforcement executives. When the FBI and other organizations begin doing the job they are paid to do (protect our country) and there are no longer any terrorist threats in America, I will retire from counter-terrorism research. Until then I will have teams in the field, as long as resources are available.</p>
<p>I would like to conclude with statements made by Islamic leaders who CAIR and other Islamic organizations support:</p>
<p>[1] “Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it.  Islam requires the earth—not just a portion, but the whole planet. Towards this end, Islam wishes to press into service all forces which can bring about a revolution and a composite term for the use of all these forces is ‘Jihad.’”</p>
<p>· Pamphlet: “Jihad in Islam,” pp.9 -10.  Syed Abul A’al Maududi (founder of JI terrorist organization).</p>
<p>[II] “Slay the disbelievers whenever you find them. The disbelievers should be killed in whatever month or time they are found”.</p>
<p>· Book: Ma’ariful Qur’an, Vol 1, p.534.</p>
<p>[III} “Islam is a revolutionary ideology and program which seeks to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenants and ideals.”</p>
<p>· Pamphlet: Jihad in Islam, by Syed Abul A’la Maududi, p.8.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Dave Gaubatz, thank you for joining us.</p>
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<p>He is not his father’s son.</p>
<p>In a stunning revelation, the son of a Hamas founder told an Israeli newspaper this week that he once served as an Israeli intelligence agent. Mosab Hassan Yousef, 32, told the Israeli daily <em>Haaretz</em> that he spied for more than ten years on the Iranian-backed terrorist organization that has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007.</p>
<p>In his role as Israeli informant, Yousef is credited with helping arrest high-ranking terrorists. Much more important, however, is that he also saved the lives of “hundreds of innocent people” with the information he provided the Israeli intelligence service, Shin Bet, about pending suicide attacks. “So many people owe their lives to him and don’t even know it,” Yousef’s unidentified <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7039011.ece">Shin Bet handler</a> told <em>Haaretz</em>.</p>
<p>Yousef’s Israeli handler went on to relate how the “Green Prince” – Yousef’s codename, taken from the color for Islam – personally picked out a suicide bomber in a Ramallah square and followed him until an arrest could be made.</p>
<p>Next week, Yousef’s memoir about his experiences in the terrorist organization will be published in the United   States. Aptly named <em>Son Of Hamas</em>, the book is described on Yousef’s <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Son-of-Hamas-by-Mosab-Hassan-Yousef/307067657791?ref=search&amp;sid=667025095.3752447674">Facebook site</a> as “a gripping account of terror, betrayal, political intrigue, and unthinkable choices.”</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>A tale of terror: Mosab Hassan Yousef’s memoir will be released next week.</em></p>
<p>Besides offering a uniquely intimate glimpse into the murderous world of Islamic terrorism, Yousef’s revelation of his Israeli spy past represents another serious blow to Hamas. This week, police in Dubai indicated the senior Hamas operative killed in his hotel room in the emirate last month, reputedly by an Israeli hit team, may in fact have been set up with information provided by the terrorist organization itself.</p>
<p>Yousef’s admission, coming so soon after the Dubai reversal, will likely cause Hamas members to wonder how deeply their ranks have been penetrated by informers. History shows that terrorist organizations, such as the pre-revolutionary Bolshevik Party in Russia, suspecting such infiltration among their membership, sometimes carried out murderous purges that often claimed the innocent as well as the guilty. A few more such Israeli intelligence coups may see the same thing occur inside Hamas.</p>
<p>Shin Bet recruited Yousef in an Israeli prison in 1996. Thanks to his competence and professionalism, he came to be regarded as a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/24/world/AP-ML-Israel-Hamas-Spy.html">very valuable asset</a>, his existence known to only a handful of Shin Bet operatives. “His grasp of intelligence matters was just as good as ours – the ideas, the insights. One insight of his was worth 1,000 hours of thought by top experts,” said his former handler.</p>
<p>But what struck the Israelis the most was that in the shadow world of terrorism, where most things have a price, Yousef did not accept any<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7039011.ece"> payment</a>. “The amazing thing is that none of his actions were done for money,” said the handler. “He did things he believed in. He wanted to save lives.”</p>
<p>The probable reason for a Muslim terrorist’s unusual regard for the sanctity of human life may prove to be as interesting a story as Yousef’s spying activities with Hamas. Over a decade ago, Yousef, who now lives in California, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7039011.ece">converted to Christianity</a>.</p>
<p>While the conversion of Muslims to Christianity is less well known than from Christianity to Islam, it does occur. One of the reason Christian groups often keep them secret, or don’t keep statistics, is that Muslim apostates are subject to the death penalty under Islam’s Sharia law. So, even if Yousef had never worked for Israeli intelligence, his life would still be in peril. But the fact that a high-ranking Hamas member with such a sterling terrorist pedigree (his father is currently serving a six-year sentence in an Israeli prison) would convert, while highly unusual, is not unknown. There are reports that even members of the Muslim Brotherhood have abandoned their Islamic faith.</p>
<p>One such Brotherhood member, who once burned a church in his Middle Eastern country, converted after he was asked by a senior Brotherhood member to read the New Testament and write an anti-Cristian tract. Instead of producing the assigned anti-Christian screed, however, he was so drawn to Christ&#8217;s personility and the Bible&#8217;s central messages of love and forgiveness, that he not only converted but became an evangelist with another Brotherhood convert. In a grim warning to Muslim apostates, both were later hunted down by their former coreligionists and savagely murdered.</p>
<p>In discovering his new faith, Yousef appears also to have discovered a new value for human life. In particular, he has become an outspoken advocate of Israel’s security interests. Besides his life-saving work for Shin Bet, Yousef has strongly apposed any effort by Israel to exchange imprisoned terrorists for the Israeli soldier, Gilad Schalit, whom Hamas kidnapped three years ago.</p>
<p>Yousef knows probably better than anyone more people will be killed in terrorist attacks if the prisoners are released. He has already blamed Hamas for killing Palestinians and not Israel. His opposition is such that he told <em>Haaretz </em>he was willing to “put on an army uniform and join Israel’s Special Forces in order to liberate Gilad Schalit.” As Yousef puts it, “We wasted so many years with investigations and arrests to capture the very terrorists that they now want to release in return for Schalit. That must not be done.”</p>
<p>As for those who continue to counsel Israel to bend to the terrorists’ demands, Yousef speaks a hard truth founded on years of personal experience: “Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels.” Those are hardly the words one would expect to hear from the son of a Hamas founder, but Mosab Hassan Yousef’s tale is extraordinary – not least because he has lived to tell it.</p>
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<p>In an effort to distance itself from the massive, shameful scandals of ACORN&#8217;s national organization, the Arkansas chapter of ACORN has announced that it is re-forming itself under the name Arkansas Community Organizations (ACO). Just six weeks ago, ACORN’s California chapter took a similar step, changing its name to the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7499">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment. </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968"><strong>To view a comprehensive profile of ACORN, its major scandals, and its close connections to Barack Obama, click here.</strong></a></p>
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<p>On February 14th, all of the major Palestinian terrorist factions met at the offices of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for peace talks. But this was not about peace with the Israelis. No, this was a meeting to reconcile differences, in order to direct all energies in a violent manner <em>against Israel</em>. While the West has been obsessed with locating a “peace partner” for the Jewish state, none would be found here.</p>
<p>The Palestinian people, for the most part, can be divided into two camps: one, a religious terrorist camp and two, a secular/nationalist terrorist camp. Members of Palestinian society usually side with one or the other, whether it’s through politics, community affairs or violence. There is little grey area, in this respect.</p>
<p>The religious terrorist camp is made up of organizations which spawned from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun, a group created in the 1920s that merged fundamentalist Islam with an extremist political agenda. Palestinian organizations that fit into this category include Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). PIJ, while deriving its existence from the Brotherhood, however, was established in 1979 with a greater attachment to the more violent methods of the Iranian Revolution of the same year.</p>
<p>The secular terrorist camp consists of groups that fall under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The two main groups that make up the PLO are the Palestinian National Liberation Movement or Fatah and the <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/PFLP_website.html">Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine</a> (PFLP). Unlike Fatah, though, which uses some Islamic imagery, the PFLP operates solely as a Marxist-Leninist organization.</p>
<p>All four of these organizations, in addition to nine others, held a joint meeting this month at the PFLP headquarters. The meeting came at the foot of an Egyptian initiative for reconciliation between the parties and what was being termed a “restoration of national unity.”</p>
<p>But according to the PFLP, this was less about restoring unity among the Palestinian groups and more about fighting Israel <em>as a unified force</em>.</p>
<p>As stated by PFLP leader Rabah Muhana, following the meeting, “An atmosphere of placing national interest ahead of factional interest had prevailed. All of the factions agreed on the urgent need to end division in order to confront the occupation.”</p>
<p>To be sure, there is no love lost between many of the groups, primarily Fatah and Hamas. In June 2007, Hamas launched a bloody coup against Fatah, throwing out the PLO group from the Gaza Strip, whilst brutally executing some 400 individuals associated with Fatah. And as this author writes, the homepage of Fatah’s official website contains a graphic of Hamas leaders Khaled Meshaal, Mahmoud al-Zahar and Ismail Haniya with their <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Fatah_Hamas_Leaders_in_Blood.html">faces covered in drops of blood</a>.</p>
<p>Now, it appears the two are coming together, as it has been reported that all of the Palestinian terror factions have voiced support for the Egyptian plan.</p>
<p>Of course, this does not bode well for those who have been hell-bent on finding a “peace partner” for Israel. Regarding the United States and the European Union (EU), the only one that fits that bill, at least according to them, is Fatah.</p>
<p>The names of three of the four organizations mentioned previously as representing the Palestinian people, Hamas, PIJ and the PFLP, can be found on <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/US_and_EU_Terror_List.html">terrorism lists compiled by both the US and the EU</a>. Fatah appears to be the only one that has been left off the lists – but that appearance is somewhat deceiving.</p>
<p>Toward the top of both lists is found the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AMB), the self-described “military wing” of Fatah. It was named to the US list in March 2002 and the EU list in October of the same year. Indeed, the group has a history of targeting civilians via such means as suicide bombings and has, in the past, worked with the likes of Hamas and PIJ.</p>
<p>While government agencies admit to an affiliation between AMB and Fatah, they also act to put distance between the two, in what seems to be an attempt to separate Fatah from the terrorism. But there is no separation between Fatah and AMB, for they are essentially the same organization.</p>
<p>AMB’s website addresses, <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Al-Aqsa_Martyrs_Brigade_Websites.html">kataebaqsa.org and kataebaqsa.ps</a>, remain active, but the content from them has been entirely removed. That’s not a problem for AMB, because the group shares the official website of Fatah, fateh.org. On any given day, one can see the AMB logo on the Fatah site homepage along with a link to the AMB’s most recent terror communiqué, discussing its latest attack and referring to Israel as the “enemy.”</p>
<p>Atop all of the Fatah website pages, including AMB’s terror communiqués, is a large picture of the head of Fatah and the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas. This is the same Mahmoud Abbas who, less than two months ago, <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=1524">honored three fallen AMB murderers</a> of 45-year-old Israeli Rabbi Meir Avshalom Hai as “Shahids” or holy martyrs. Hai, who was gunned down during a December 24th drive-by attack, left a wife and seven children. Abbas visited and offered condolences to the families of the dead perpetrators of the attack.</p>
<p>When the 13 Palestinian terrorist groups met at the PFLP headquarters, they did so with an understanding – that even though they might have personal differences with each other, they are <em>all</em> united by an intense hatred of Israel.</p>
<p>It is this understanding that drives them to choose violence over peace, and it is this understanding that will always foil those who act to downplay terrorist groups and who push Israel into a treaty with entities, like Fatah, that wish for her destruction.</p>
<p><em>Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of </em><a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/"><em>Americans Against Hate</em></a><em> and the founder of </em><a href="http://www.youngzionists.org/"><em>Young Zionists</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, the Director of </em><a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/"><em>Militant Islam Monitor</em></a><em>, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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<p>I said it at the Geert Wilders event at CPAC 2009, and it is still an accurate observation: we live in such a cheap and tawdry age that all one needs to do to be a hero is tell the truth &#8212; and yet there are so few heroes.</p>
<p>That is indeed the case, and it means that Chris Gaubatz is something much greater than a hero. In our day when cowardice positively defines our political and media elites, Chris Gaubatz put his life on the line for the defense of free people and free societies against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism. As detailed in the breathtaking book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935071106?ie=UTF8&amp;seller=AFYG8QLDDI5CM&amp;sn=kate_ramsay87">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America</a></em>, Chris assumed the identity of a convert to Islam. Posing as a new convert to Islam named David “Dawud” Marshall, he secured a position as an intern in the Washington, DC, office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Hamas-linked pressure group that uses legal intimidation and a marionette mainstream media to dominate the discourse about Islam in the U.S., manipulate clueless government and law enforcement officials, obfuscate the role of Islamic doctrine in recruiting and motivating jihad terrorists, and resist anti-terror efforts.</p>
<p>Chris was in extreme danger. If he had been caught, there is no telling what might have happened &#8212; and as the book detailed, he had some extremely close calls, such as when CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, “Honest Ibe” himself, told him to watch out for&#8230;Chris Gaubatz!</p>
<p><em>Muslim Mafia,</em> by Chris’s father Dave Gaubatz and Paul Sperry, shows the fruits of Chris’s risky labors. He was able to carry out of CAIR headquarters 12,000 pages of documents and even audiotapes of CAIR officials. These showed the group’s unsavory associations, connections to corrupt politicians (see the list of top recipients of Muslim cash on page 195), and more.</p>
<p>All this made CAIR so nervous that the group went to court to get the documents back. When <em>Muslim Mafia</em> hit bookstore shelves, CAIR did not deny any of its allegations, resorting instead to its tried-and-true tactic of shooting the messenger, defaming the Gaubatzes and Sperry as “hatemongers” and suing to recover the documents, claiming that the material had been stolen and even that Chris Gaubatz had trespassed on CAIR property.</p>
<p>A court ruled in CAIR’s favor, but just as CAIR was about to regain control of the documents, the FBI stepped in with a subpoena, taking the documents for its own hitherto unknown investigation of CAIR.</p>
<p>There had been no public indication that CAIR was under investigation at all until December, when the controversy over the <em>Muslim Mafia</em> documents precipitated the revelation. But now it has been revealed that the FBI is indeed finally investigating CAIR, after years of working with the organization and ignoring its ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>For <em>Muslim Mafia</em> confirms what veteran CAIR-watchers have long suspected: that CAIR is an integral part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s apparatus in the U.S. The Brotherhood is an international Islamic organization, the parent group of both Hamas and Al-Qaeda, that is in its own words dedicated in America to “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house.” In line with this, <em>Muslim Mafia </em>contains details of how CAIR has tried to block anti-terror investigations &#8212; and has meanwhile insinuated itself into the highest levels of power in Washington.</p>
<p>As a result of the revelations in <em>Muslim Mafia</em>, last fall Representatives Sue Myrick (R-NC) Trent Franks (R-AZ) Paul Broun (R-GA) and John Shadegg (R-AZ) wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder, requesting that he “provide each Member of Congress a summary of the evidence and findings by the DOJ and FBI which led them to name CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism trial.” To date, Holder has not publicly complied, but CAIR is by no means out of the woods yet.</p>
<p>Buttressed with never-before-seen documentation, <em>Muslim Mafia</em> lays out the whole truth about the thugs and Islamic supremacists of CAIR, detailing how it has obstructed anti-terror efforts under the rubric of cooperating with authorities, co-opted Congressmen with cash, enabled the infiltration of Muslim Brotherhood operatives into high levels of government, and much more. It should be essential reading for every FBI agent and anti-terror analyst in the United States &#8212; and the fact that it isn’t only shows again how successful CAIR and its ilk have been in blunting the force of our defense against the global jihad.</p>
<p>Free citizens owe Chris Gaubatz an immense debt of gratitude. If we get through all this, he will stand as one of the heroes of the age &#8212; and as much more than a hero.</p>
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