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		<title>The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova's new book exposes the leftist enablers of a vicious tyranny. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fg.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-225868" alt="fg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fg.jpg" width="260" height="391" /></a> [<strong>Humberto Fontova will be discussing his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro-ebook/dp/B00DY0KTAO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400490401&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=humberto+fontova"><em>The Longest Romance</em></a>, in Los Angeles this Thursday, May 22. For more info, <a href="http://www.cjhsla.org/2014/05/06/event-humberto-fontova-discusses-the-truth-about-fidel-castro-and-che-guevera-thursday-may-22/">click here</a>.]</strong></p>
<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is <b>Humberto Fontova</b>, the author of three critically-acclaimed and internationally-published books on the Cuban Revolution. He was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954 and escaped from Castro’s communist regime in 1961 with his family.  His father remained briefly in Cuba as a political prisoner while Humberto and his family were accepted as political refugees in the USA.  He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of New Orleans and a Masters Degree in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. Humberto has become FoxNews’ “go-to-guy” on Cuban matters and has been a regular Frontpage Magazine contributor for almost a decade. He is the author of the new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro-ebook/dp/B00DY0KTAO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400490401&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=humberto+fontova">The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro</a>.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Welcome, amigo.</p>
<p><strong>Fontova:</strong> Great to be here, Jamie. Thanks for the invite.</p>
<p><b>FP: </b>Let’s begin with what inspired you to write this book.</p>
<p><b>Fontova: </b>I’m gritting my teeth as I write this, because<b> </b>I normally detest the term &#8220;consciousness-raising,&#8221; —but I simply can’t avoid it here. That’s precisely what I’m attempting with this book, as I have with my previous ones on the so-called Cuban Revolution. Few events in modern history are as misunderstood. Few have been as effectively propagandized. Among historical figures, Fidel Castro wins, hands down, as the most persistently effective liar of modern times. Castro’s colorful cachet as worldwide icon of anti-Americanism and as pioneering beatnik allows his record as a warmonger, racist/Stalinist and the godfather of modern terrorism to be forgiven, ignored and falsified. <em>The Longest Romance</em> exposes this record, the abettors and the falsifiers.</p>
<p><b>FP: </b>So what story does <i>The Longest Romance</i> tell and how is it different from other books on the subject?</p>
<p><b>Fontova:  </b>Well, to begin with, there <i>are</i> no other books <i>precisely</i> on this subject. Yes, biographies on Fidel Castro and Che Guevara abound, but most have been written – to some extent or the other — in collaboration with the regime or using<i> leftist</i> or communist renegade critics of the regime as primary sources. As if the only acceptable histories of the Russian Revolution and Bolshevism should be written by Trotskyites or Mensheviks.  Of course these sources have important material to contribute — but they also have much to hide, namely their own responsibility for the disaster.</p>
<p>In my books, I make it point to include the accounts of people who had Castro and Che’s number <i>from day one.</i> Amazingly, these invaluable sources are habitually shunned. For instance, I wonder how many people realize that the CIA, in collaboration with some of Cuba’s aristocracy, had a major role in helping Castro and Che into power?</p>
<p><b> FP:</b> Expand for us on the evil of Castro and his regime.</p>
<p><b>Fontova: </b>Castro jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror, murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six and came closest of anyone in history to starting a worldwide nuclear war.</p>
<p>In the above process the Castro brothers and Che Guevara converted a nation with a higher per-capita income than half of Europe and a huge influx of immigrants into one that repels Haitians and boasts the highest suicide rate in the hemisphere. Who would guess any of this from reading the mainstream media? Instead we read almost exclusively about how Castro  freed Cuba from the greedy clutches of U.S. robber barons and bestowed his formerly downtrodden countrymen with free healthcare and education.</p>
<p>In fact, as recently as 2011, Newsweek magazine ranked Cuba among “The Best Countries in the World” for its “exceptional quality of life.”</p>
<p>Most Americans would never know this from the major media but an official “state-sponsor-of terror” ( as Cuba is designated by our State department) sits 90 miles from U.S. shores essentially under the same leadership as in 1962 when it craved &#8211; and came within a whisker &#8211; of igniting a worldwide nuclear war.</p>
<p>“What!” Khrushchev gasped on Oct. 28th 1962, as recalled by his son Sergei. “Is he (Fidel Castro) proposing that we start a nuclear war? That we launch missiles from Cuba?&#8230;But that is insane!&#8230;<i>Remove them</i> (our missiles) <i>as soon as possible!</i> Before it’s too late. Before something terrible happens!” commanded the Soviet premier.</p>
<p>It’s really saying something that the man appalled by Castro’s bloodthirstiness was Nikita Khrushchev, who performed faithfully as Stalin’s butcher and enforcer in the Ukraine during the  famine and Great Terror.</p>
<p>“My dream is to drop three Atomic Bombs on New York City (<i>Raul</i> –not Fidel—Castro, Nov. 1960.)</p>
<p>While imprisoned for terrorism in 1955 Fidel wrote to a communist colleague:  “Propaganda is the heart of our struggle. We must never abandon propaganda.”</p>
<p>In his famous diaries published in 1959, Che Guevara revealed: “Much more valuable than recruits for our guerrilla force were American media recruits to export our propaganda.”</p>
<p>Most Cuba-watchers notice that Castro and Che’s propaganda is still being very effectively exported worldwide. Decades before the terms “spin” and “damage-control” entered the political lexicon, Fidel Castro was a virtuoso of both.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> How do you explain the complicity of major U.S. media players in spreading Castro’s propaganda? Can you name some of the major accomplices?</p>
<p><strong>Fontova:</strong> There’s a “coolness” and “hipster” cachet that hovers around the leaders of the Cuban Revolution that simply will not dissipate, despite a half century of Stalinist crimes.</p>
<p><b> </b>“They saw in him (Castro) the hipster who in the era of the Organization Man had joyfully defied the system,” wrote President Kennedy’s adviser Arthur Schlesinger Jr back in 1961.</p>
<p>In fact, the brain-shackled robot the Castro brothers and Che Guevara tried to create with their firing squads, forced labor camps and Stalinist indoctrination makes the Eisenhower era’s Organization Man look like a combination of Jimmy Hendrix and Jack Kerouac.</p>
<p>The notion of Castro’s Cuba as stiflingly Stalinist nation never quite caught on among the “enlightened.”  The regime was founded by “beatniks,” after all. In 1960 Jean Paul Sartre hailed Cuba’s Stalinist rulers as “<em>les Enfants au Pouvoir</em>” (the children in power). A few months earlier Fidel Castro spoke at Harvard the same bill as beat poet Allen Ginsberg. And ever since then, long-haired Che Guevara has reigned worldwide as top icon of youthful rebellion.  The reality, as documented in my book, differs grotesquely:</p>
<p>“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates!” raved Che Guevara in a famous speech in 1961. “The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible,” commanded this icon of Flower Children. “Instead the young must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service<b>.”</b></p>
<p>For close to a decade, over half of what Americans have read about Cuba in the mainstream media has been doctored by Castro-regime “agents-of-influence” working in concert with the Castro regime’s Intelligence service.  To wit: among the mainstreams media’s favorite sources on Cuban matters are The Council on Foreign Relations’ Julia Sweig, and the Cuban Research Center’s Phil Peters.</p>
<p>Well, in my book the Defense Intelligence Agency’s top Cuba spycatcher Lieut. Col. Chris Simmons identifies Ms Sweig as a Cuban “agent of influence.”  In the very acknowledgements to her book, Ms Sweig thanks the “warm friendship” and “support” of six different Cuban spies and terrorists&#8211;three of whom were expelled from the U.S. for terrorism and/or espionage.</p>
<p>My book also includes a court discovery document showing how Phil Peters long received under-the-table payments from one of Castro’s biggest Canadian business partners.</p>
<p>A rising star as “Cuba expert” among the major media is Denver University scholar Arturo Lopez-Levy. In fact my book discloses that his real name is Arturo Lopez-<i>Callejas,</i> a former Cuban intelligence analyst, who is also Raul Castro’s nephew–in-law.</p>
<p>Nobody would guess any of the above from reading the bios or intros to these Cuba “experts “as run by the New York Times of NPR.</p>
<p><b>FP: </b>What do you hope this book will achieve?</p>
<p><b>Fontova:  </b>At least alleviate this grotesque disconnect between the “hipster/health-care” image of the Cuban Revolution and the horrors of a Stalinist police state.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Humberto Fontova, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview. It was an honor to speak with you and thank you for dedicating yourself to telling the truth about communist monsters and those who worship them. We wish you the best.</p>
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		<title>Hollywood&#8217;s Obamacare Zombies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 04:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the consortium of radicals packing prime time TV with the White House's propaganda.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/zombie_doctors-620x413.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207424" alt="zombie_doctors-620x413" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/zombie_doctors-620x413-450x299.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>If you&#8217;re sick and tired of TV news broadcasts spewing pro-Obamacare propaganda, get ready to be inundated with even more progressive health care proselytizing in the dramas and comedies that follow those news shows.</span></b></p>
<p>For this you have the left-wing California Endowment to thank. The radical philanthropy is in the news because it is funding Obamacare public outreach efforts.</p>
<p>As Newsmax <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/hollywood-obamacare-campaigns/2013/10/10/id/530366">reports</a>, the Obama administration is &#8220;turning its focus on prime time television series, using the influential platform and the power of celebrity to spread the word about its healthcare initiative.&#8221;</p>
<p>With the White House&#8217;s blessing, the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Norman Lear Center, which has something called a &#8220;Hollywood, Health &amp; Society program,&#8221; has accepted a $500,000 grant from the left-wing California Endowment to help TV producers condition the masses into supporting Obama&#8217;s Soviet-style health care program.</p>
<p>USC will aim to keep producers, writers, and directors up to speed so they can incorporate the latest information into their storylines. It will also generate public service announcements to match the TV shows&#8217; storylines.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our experience has shown that the public gets just as much, if not more, information about current events and important issues from their favorite television shows and characters as they do from the news media and online resources,&#8221; said Martin Kaplan, head of the USC program. The grant &#8220;will allow us to ensure that industry practitioners have up-to-date, relevant facts on health care reform to integrate into their storylines and projects.&#8221;</p>
<p>The program, which also aids in the spread of Al Gore&#8217;s anthropogenic global warming hysteria, <a href="http://hollywoodhealthandsociety.org/">boasts</a> that its &#8220;storytelling resources&#8221; have contributed to more than 550 &#8220;Hollywood, Health &amp; Society-assisted storylines over the span of three years.&#8221;</p>
<p>It has <a href="http://www.hollywoodhealthandsociety.org/about-us/shows-weve-worked">placed</a> left-wing political propaganda in a plethora of popular broadcast and cable TV shows including &#8220;All My Children,&#8221; &#8220;Boardwalk Empire,&#8221; &#8220;Boston Legal,&#8221; &#8220;Breaking Bad,&#8221; &#8220;CSI,&#8221; &#8220;Desperate Housewives,&#8221; &#8220;Dexter,&#8221; &#8220;Gilmore Girls,&#8221; &#8220;Grey’s Anatomy,&#8221; &#8220;Judging Amy,&#8221; &#8220;Law &amp; Order,&#8221; &#8220;Mad Men,&#8221; &#8220;Malcolm in the Middle,&#8221; &#8220;NCIS,&#8221; &#8220;24,&#8221; &#8220;West Wing,&#8221; &#8220;The Wire,&#8221; and even the alleged CBS News program &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Hollywood, Health &amp; Society program&#8217;s advisory board <a href="http://www.hollywoodhealthandsociety.org/about-us/advisory-board">includes</a> a galaxy of big-name players in the entertainment industry. Among them are: Michelle Alban, a vice president at Telemundo; Kelly Delap, a vice president at Disney ABC Networks Group; David Foster, writer and executive producer of &#8220;House&#8221; on Fox; Vince Gilligan, writer and executive producer of &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; on AMC; Christopher Keyser, president of Writers Guild of America-West; actress Judith Light, best known for her role on &#8220;Who&#8217;s The Boss?&#8221;; Thom Mount, CEO of Reliant Pictures Corp.; actress and left-wing activist Gloria Reuben of &#8220;ER&#8221; fame; and Michael Roberts, executive vice president for current programming at The CW.</p>
<p>With its anti-social left-wing mission, the misnamed Hollywood, Health &amp; Society program can inflict a lot of damage to American culture and the body politic.</p>
<p>The Los Angeles-based California Endowment that is funding the HH&amp;S program has been working to undermine American freedoms for years. The wealthy charitable organization had a little under $3.3 billion in net assets as of March 31, 2012, according to its most recent publicly available tax return (Form 990-PF).</p>
<p>The philanthropy is closely associated with political extremism.</p>
<p>Going back to 1999, the philanthropy <a href="http://capitalresearch.org/2013/10/about-that-radical-funder-the-california-endowment-thats-funding-pro-obamacare-propaganda-in-hollywood/">has given</a> $50.4 million (23 grants) to the notorious neo-Marxist Tides Foundation in San Francisco and an astounding $87 million (187 grants) to its sister organization, the Tides Center, which incubates new leftist groups. The Tides network, whose then-leader Drummond Pike participated in the attempted cover-up of a million-dollar embezzlement at ACORN, has close ties to the preeminent funder of the Left, radical anti-American billionaire George Soros.</p>
<p>Since 2001, the California Endowment has also given $4.9 million (29 grants) to Families USA Foundation, a pro-Obamacare activist group.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s labor secretary, Sharia law <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/obama_to_nominate_sharia_supporter_illegal_immigrant_advocate_as_labor_secretary.html">supporter</a> and immigration amnesty champion Thomas Perez, was <a href="http://freebeacon.com/secretary-for-soros/">a paid consultant</a> to the California Endowment and the George Soros-funded Public Health Institute. Soros, along with Hugo Chavez, the late communist leader of Venezuela, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237">funded</a> Casa de Maryland, an open-borders group <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7583">on whose board</a> Perez served.</p>
<p>Soros, incidentally, <a href="https://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1293869054.pdf">has been funding</a> left-wing cinematic propaganda for years. Soros&#8217;s foundation, the Open Society Institute has been underwriting “social justice” documentaries since 1996. In 2001 Soros let actor Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute take over management of his Soros Documentary Fund, which was rechristened the Soros/Sundance Documentary Fund.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, some otherwise mild-mannered lawmakers are losing patience with the architect of the administration&#8217;s Obamacare rollout strategy.</p>
<p>Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), hardly a conservative firebrand, <a href="http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/11/gop-senator-sebelius-should-quit-over-obamacare-fl/">called upon</a> bungling Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to fall on her sword “for gross incompetence” in preparing the legendarily botched initial six-month implementation phase of the online insurance markets required by the Affordable Care Act.</p>
<p>“In the absence of a full repeal of Obamacare, which is my preference, we need new leadership from top to bottom,&#8221; Roberts said last week. &#8220;I am calling on the secretary to resign.”</p>
<p>“Today, we know, the problems with the exchanges are systematic, profound and indisputable,” the senator said. “And yet the secretary won’t shoot straight with the American people.</p>
<p>Sebelius, a former Kansas governor and lobbyist for vulturous trial lawyers, dove deep last year, swimming with the worst of the coprophagic bottom-feeders of the activist Left in a quest <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/community-organizes-mobilize-to-save-obamacare/">to recruit fellow thugs</a> from Al Sharpton&#8217;s gang to help con the American people into supporting Obamacare.</p>
<p>“In our country what we know is healthcare inequality [has been] one of the most persistent forms of injustice but over the past three years, as Rev. Sharpton reminded us, we have begun to turn the tide,” Sebelius told an audience in April 2012. “Now is not the time to turn back.”</p>
<p>“We know that the best way to keep moving in the right direction is to get people the facts. Right now there are a lot of people who are benefiting from this law who don’t even know that’s why they are benefiting.”</p>
<p>By virtue of her post at HHS, a federal agency whose very existence would make the Founding Fathers tremble in anger, Sebelius virtually runs the federal Leviathan.</p>
<p>According to Sebelius&#8217;s <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2013/06/4480.html">testimony</a> before Congress this past June, the proposed budget for the federal fiscal year that began two weeks ago &#8220;totals $967.3 billion in outlays and proposes $80.1 billion in discretionary budget authority.&#8221;</p>
<p>Assuming the $967.3 billion and $80.1 billion are two separate pools of money, as her use of the word <i>and</i> suggests, then the proposed fiscal 2014 budget for HHS is a staggering $1.0474 trillion. That&#8217;s <i>trillion</i> with a &#8216;T,&#8217; or $1,047,000,000,000.</p>
<p>The $1 trillion-plus figure for the welfare agency known as HHS is so huge the Obama administration goes to great lengths to hide it from the public. A <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2014/assets/health.pdf">White House summary</a> intended for public consumption doesn&#8217;t even mention the total proposed annual spending figure for the meddlesome do-gooders at HHS, tiptoeing around the frightening sum, while lovingly laying out the details of the Left&#8217;s we-know-what&#8217;s-best-for-you social programs.</p>
<p>Of course, it&#8217;s difficult to know what&#8217;s really going on in Washington&#8217;s ledger sheets. Government accounting is <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2011/08/01/official-washingtons-crackhead">inherently deceptive</a>, designed to paper over the relentless growth of useless vote-buying programs and the ugly redistributionism that is crowding out civil society.</p>
<p>Sebelius has also <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/acorn-crooks-on-the-march-for-obamacare/">unleashed</a> the leftovers of the radical crime syndicate ACORN, President Obama&#8217;s ally and former employer, on unsuspecting communities. This means that as you read this article community organizers with a track record for fraud and identity theft are getting their hands on important personal information such as income figures and Social Security numbers of those they convince to sign up for Obamacare.</p>
<p>This is the new normal in the Obama era.</p>
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		<title>Wikipedia and Left&#8217;s Propaganda Innovations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen universities worldwide will offer college credit to students who “write feminist thinking” into Wikipedia.]]></description>
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<p>Historically speaking, the left has failed at everything it ever tried to do except destroying countries. The reason that so few know and understand this simple fact is propaganda.</p>
<p>The left is determined to control the future by controlling the past, not to mention the lovely horizontal and vertical parts of your television set. The internet has added new challenges, but the left is responding to them with new techniques, consolidating and extending its power through innovate methods.</p>
<p>While we fall behind.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5028">Case in point. This</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Fifteen universities worldwide — including Yale University, Brown University, and Pennsylvania State University — will offer college credit to students who “write feminist thinking” into Wikipedia.</p>
<p>The program, “Storming Wikipedia,” will be part of the Dialogues on Feminism and Technology online course developed by FemTechNet, an organization of feminist educators and scholars.</p>
<p>“A woman&#8217;s point of view or feminist point of view is not yet expressed in relationship to women in technology in Wikipedia,” she said. “We hope that people engage in this project in respect to other themes as well.”</p>
<p>FemTechNet alleges that many Wikipedia pages are &#8220;skewed now toward male participation,&#8221; citing a 2011 study which found that fewer than 15 percent of Wikipedia contributors were females, according to an article in the Huffington Post.</p></blockquote>
<p>I suspect women are more likely to rely on pseudonyms on Wikipedia, especially considering how nasty edit wars can get.</p>
<blockquote><p>It appears that &#8220;feminist thinking&#8221; is not currently an entry in Wikipedia at all, however there are entries for both &#8220;feminism&#8221; and &#8220;black feminism.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>So why does there need to be one on feminist thinking? Is it distinct from feminism?</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t something that we can duplicate directly because we don&#8217;t control universities, but we do need to think outside the box.</p>
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		<title>Colleges Recruiting Students to Propagandize Wikipedia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 04:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Activism for feminism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/wikipedia.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203069" alt="wikipedia" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/wikipedia.jpg" width="240" height="151" /></a>A new program developed by FemTechNet and <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5028">titled</a> “Storming Wikipedia” will apparently hit fifteen universities, including Yale, Brown, and Penn State, beginning this year. The program gives students college credit for writing “feminist thinking” into Wikipedia entries. There are 300 students registered for the course, according to course facilitator Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies at California’s Pitzer College. Juhasz explained, “A woman’s point of view or feminist point of view is not yet expressed in relationship to women in technology in Wikipedia. We hope that people engage in this project in respect to other themes as well.”</p>
<p>It’s an audacious idea, focusing on the fact that most of the Wikipedia page edits are made by men – a full 85 percent, by some counts. The goal: “to advance feminist principles of social justice in creating educational models and pedagogies for the future.”</p>
<p>It’s genius.</p>
<p>Conservatives ought to take a page from the feminist movement here. Wikipedia has become a political football, with leftists routinely invading the space to propagandize on behalf of their viewpoints. According to an Oxford University study, the single most-edited page on Wikipedia for English speakers was that of George W. Bush. There’s a reason for that: leftists spammed Bush’s pages, Bush fans fought back, and leftists spammed the page again.</p>
<p>This is what conservatives must understand: the left is interested solely and completely in manipulation of the truth. Leftists will use whatever outlets and tools are most readily available. And the open-sourcing of Wikipedia meets those ends. Because Wikipedia is so high-traffic – it is ranked among the top ten sites in the world – that means that a huge number of Americans get their information on specific political issues and figures from random leftists who spend time editing Wikipedia for free.</p>
<p>Conservatives ought to begin their own effort to impact Wikipedia. It is a powerful tool, and a medium in which conservative have been extraordinarily successful. It is also an area in which conservatives are wildly underrepresented – posts trend heavily to the left on Wikipedia. Perhaps Wikipedia’s approved editors will censor conservatives. If so, that’s a fact that Americans ought to know, too.</p>
<p>Instead of complaining about FemTechNet and company, conservatives ought to do something about it. The truth is just a few keystrokes away.</p>
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		<title>ObamaCare Propaganda &#8212;- Hollywood-Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 04:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Obama-Gives-Hollywood-Director-Access-to-Classified-Documents-to-Make-Propaganda-Film.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198129" alt="Obama-Gives-Hollywood-Director-Access-to-Classified-Documents-to-Make-Propaganda-Film" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Obama-Gives-Hollywood-Director-Access-to-Classified-Documents-to-Make-Propaganda-Film.jpg" width="301" height="223" /></a>Back during World War II, Hollywood mobilized at the behest of the Roosevelt administration. The FDR administration even coordinated with Hollywood through the Bureau of Motion Pictures office of the Office of War Information, which worked alongside filmmakers to censor content and develop patriotic fare. Elmer Davis, who directed the OWI, summed up the concept nicely: “The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.” From John Wayne pictures to classics like <i>Casablanca</i>, war pictures were churned out portraying the Nazis and Japanese as the enemy, and the Russians as American friends.</p>
<p>Now, Hollywood has a new enemy: doctors.</p>
<p>That, at least, is the takeaway from the Obama administration’s latest coordination effort with its friends and supporters in Hollywood. The Obama Health and Human Services Department has already reached out to professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA to promote Obamacare, with mixed success. But now they’re finding even more fertile fields, right in the heartland of Tinseltown. This week, Obama top advisor Valerie Jarrett held a meeting at the White House with actors, musicians, writers and producers who “expressed a personal interest in educating young people about the Affordable Care Act.”</p>
<p>The White House is particularly interested in reaching out to young people because they will have to foot the bill of Obamacare. While the older generation gets to pay less for health insurance, group insurance programs will penalize the young and healthy, forcing them into more and more expensive premiums despite the fact that they need less healthcare. Who better to convince young people to endorse their financial destruction than the industry that asks them to fork over $30 for a 3D version of <i>The Lone Ranger</i>?</p>
<p>Attendees at the White House meeting reportedly included a lackey for Oprah Winfrey. Both Funny or Die and the YouTube comedy channel are interested in helping out as well. Funny or Die (die) has already begun “production on several web videos featuring well-known comedic celebrities and actors.” Because what could be more hilarious than cramming down socialized medicine that will bankrupt doctors all over the country and make it more difficult to achieve proper care? Funny or Die’s Mike Farah and YouTube’s Daniel Kellison both showed up.</p>
<p>Amy Poehler, the creative mind behind <i>Parks and Recreation</i> – a show that has taken a severe turn to the left over the last season – showed up. She hasn’t learned her lesson from Tina Fey, who has experienced both television and movie dropoff in the aftermath of her ubiquitous Sarah Palin mocking.</p>
<p>Singer Jennifer Hudson showed up as well, though warbling about the glories of healthcare exchanges will probably pale in comparison to <i>Dreamgirls</i>. So did an assistant to Alicia Keys, who performed a classic rendition of “Obama’s on Fire” at the inaugural ball, to the chagrin of music-lovers everywhere. Bon Jovi and his hair both showed up. And finally, so did former White House staffer Kal Penn, who will be informing young people not to go to White Castle, since the food is full of cholesterol.</p>
<p>The Grammys showed up as well. But that makes sense, since Obama has already won a Grammy for his audio books.</p>
<p>Hollywood is suffering financially. And it’s suffering from a lack of a moral cause, since the Supreme Court so rudely withdrew the liberal <i>raison d’etre</i>, gay marriage. Now Tinseltown can solve both problems at a stroke by pleasing the biggest consumer on the planet: the federal government. All it will take is a bit of wartime propaganda.</p>
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		<title>Is the Expiring Ban on America &#8220;Propaganda&#8221; Really a Problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America has imported large pro-terrorist minority groups who need to be targeted with the kind of broadcasts we would have once sent abroad.]]></description>
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<p>This is <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/07/americans-finally-have-access-american-propaganda/67167/">getting a lot of attention mainly</a> from people who aren&#8217;t familiar with Voice of America or any of the other &#8220;Free&#8221; broadcasting networks.</p>
<blockquote><p> As Foreign Policy&#8217;s John Hudson explains, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 went into effect July 2, and allows government-made news like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks to reach Americans.</p>
<p>Broadcasting Board of Governors spokeswoman Lynne Weil said it&#8217;s actually best for taxpayers to be able to see the propaganda, so they can serve as a check on it.  &#8220;Now Americans will be able to know more about what they are paying for with their tax dollars&#8211;greater transparency is a win-win for all involved,&#8221; she said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The VOA isn&#8217;t remotely in the same league as RT or PressTV or Xinhua. It&#8217;s not propaganda. It&#8217;s generic mainstream media news that&#8217;s hard to tell apart from CNN or NPR or the New York Times. It&#8217;s not particularly pro-American. It&#8217;s basically the same stuff as for-profit companies make which is why it&#8217;s really redundant.</p>
<p>While broadcasting news that comes from the government is not a good precedent, these days it&#8217;s really hard to see the difference between that and the mainstream media. It&#8217;s not as if we have much of an independent media anyway so it&#8217;s hard to get agitated over the government version of CNN or CBS getting some airtime. Especially when Al Jazeera has its own cable news channel.</p>
<p>As long as there&#8217;s a Democrat in the White House, every major American for-profit news channel, except for FOX, will shamelessly take the government line, run government talking points and defend the government position on everything. So as a former head of the State Department once asked, &#8220;What difference does it make anyway?&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>A former U.S. government source with knowledge of the BBG says the organization is no Pravda, but it does advance U.S. interests in more subtle ways. In Somalia, for instance, VOA serves as counterprogramming to outlets peddling anti-American or jihadist sentiment. &#8220;Somalis have three options for news,&#8221; the source said, &#8220;word of mouth, al-Shabab, or VOA Somalia.&#8221;</p>
<p>This partially explains the push to allow BBG broadcasts on local radio stations in the United States. The agency wants to reach diaspora communities, such as St. Paul, Minnesota&#8217;s significant Somali expat community. &#8220;Those people can get al-Shabab, they can get Russia Today, but they couldn&#8217;t get access to their taxpayer-funded news sources like VOA Somalia,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;It was silly.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>So America has imported large pro-terrorist minority groups who need to be targeted with the kind of broadcasts we would have once sent abroad.</p>
<p>That says it all. And it&#8217;s a much bigger problem too.</p>
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		<title>State TV in Norway: Paying to Be Propagandized</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shameless lies of Norwegian public broadcasting.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/state-tv-in-norway-paying-to-be-propagandized/nrk2_1165312657-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-174541"><img class="wp-image-174541 alignleft" title="NRK2_1165312657" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/NRK2_11653126571.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="196" /></a>Well, it&#8217;s done. I just made the first of my two compulsory yearly payments to NRK – short for <em>Norsk rikskringkasting. </em>In English it calls itself the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, but believe me, there&#8217;s nothing remotely corporation-like about it. It&#8217;s a fully government-owned and government-operated outfit, and its fealty to the Labor Party worldview is reflected in the nickname by which some of its disgruntled viewers refer to it: ARK, or <em>Arbeiderpartiets rikskringkasting –</em> Labor Party Broadcasting.</p>
<p>As of 2013, the semiannual NRK license fee – which, I should perhaps underscore, is something you pay <em>in</em> <em>addition</em> <em>to</em> whatever you might happen to shell out for your cable and/or satellite service – went up to $240.33, for a total of $480.66 per year. (Out of the kindness of their hearts, they divide the amount in two, apparently realizing that for a lot of people this is no small expense.) It&#8217;s a tax, of course, but it&#8217;s not treated as a tax – which is reflected in the fact that the fee actually <em>includes </em>an eight percent value-added tax. In other words, not only do they charge you a tax on top of your regular income tax to pay for a product that you may never even use – they also tax the tax.</p>
<p>With NRK, as with the BBC, it&#8217;s the license fees that pay the bills and keep the enterprise going. And as I&#8217;ve complained before (and will complain again), what you&#8217;re doing when you cough up this sum is paying to be propagandized. Essentially, that&#8217;s what NRK is: a propaganda operation, designed to ensure that when the Norwegian people get their news about the world, it&#8217;ll be served up to them with just the right spin, in hopes that it&#8217;ll keep them from straying too far from the socialist line they were fed in school. To be sure, ever since 1992, when NRK was finally forced to surrender its TV and radio monopoly, there have been other broadcast news sources in Norway; but old habits are hard to break, and besides, Norwegians have been told all their lives that NRK is the only <em>really </em>serious and <em>truly </em>reliable news source, since, unlike commercial TV channels, which always must look over their shoulders at their advertisers, NRK is undefiled by poisonous capitalistic influences, and is thus able to present them with the pure and unadulterated truth. An amazing number of people actually buy this bull. <em>Dagsrevyen, </em>the national news program that is broadcast every evening at seven, regularly draws around a million viewers in this country of five million.</p>
<p>Still, every once in a while NRK tries to pull something so flagrant in its dishonesty that it actually erupts into something of a scandal. Case in point: the <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa02011213/12-01-2013">January 12 edition</a> of <em>Dagsrevyen </em>featured an eight-minute story about Mirela Mustata, a Romanian gypsy, or Romani, woman who was in a Norwegian prison after having been convicted of “aggravated human trafficking” in a case involving four children. The clear objective of NRK&#8217;s report was to paint Mustata as a victim of cultural prejudice, punished simply for trying to keep her children from starving. To this end, NRK implied that Mustata had done nothing more than put her kids to work selling costume jewelry on the street – which, viewers were instructed, is a harmless, generations-old gypsy tradition. “I did everything I could to take care of my children,” a weeping Mustata said on camera.</p>
<p>What NRK tidily omitted from its report was the actual nature of the offense for which Mustata was convicted: namely, she had taken ten thousand euros in exchange for allowing her eleven-year-old daughter to be pinned down by several men and raped. Mustata exploited the same daughter again in the same fashion when the girl was twelve, and again when she was thirteen. The girl in question, and another daughter whose similar victimization Mustata also arranged for, are now living in foster homes at secret addresses, while two other siblings have been shipped back to Romania to be cared for by the child-protection authorities. None of this was mentioned in the <em>Dagsrevyen </em>report. NRK, in its determination to spin any and every event involving members of certain minorities in such a way as to make them look like virtuous victims, left out everything that mattered.</p>
<p>It says something about the media environment in Norway that the news outlet that called NRK on this outrageously irresponsible piece of reportage was not any one of the big newspapers – pretty much all of which share NRK&#8217;s basic political orientation, and many of which receive government subsidies. No, the <a href="http://www.document.no/2013/01/nrk-de-svakestes-forsvarer/">piece</a> that brought NRK&#8217;s mendacities to light was written by Nina Hjerpset-Østlie of the privately owned news and opinion website <a href="http://document.no/">document.no</a> (which, after the July 2011 Oslo massacre, won a degree of worldwide fame because it was a target of media and political elites eager to silence criticism of Islam). Asked by Hjerpset-Østlie to comment on her piece, NRK refused.</p>
<p>But that wasn&#8217;t the end of it. Hjerpset-Østlie&#8217;s story was picked up by Jon Hustad, who on January 18 wrote about <em>Dagsrevyen</em>&#8216;s twisted reportage in <em>Dag og Tid, </em>one of Norway&#8217;s smaller national newspapers – and one that&#8217;s known for challenging the leftist media consensus. Hustad&#8217;s article, in turn, apparently caught the attention of author and businesswoman Elin Ørjasæter, who on January 19 put in her two cents on her <a href="http://blogg.orjas.no/dagsrevyens-forsvar-av-romfolk/">blog</a> – noting, apropos of NRK&#8217;s benign and exculpatory view of certain “cultures,” that, after all, it&#8217;s also a part of Romani “culture” to keep kids out of school so that they grow up illiterate and end up traveling around with their parents committing organized crimes.</p>
<p>At this point, <a href="http://journalisten.no/">journalisten.no</a>, Norway&#8217;s leading website for journalists, <a href="http://www.journalisten.no/node/39036%20">took notice</a>, and actually managed to get the editor-in-chief of NRK&#8217;s news division, Ole Eivind Henden to step up to the plate and admit that, yes, <em>Dagsrevyen</em>&#8216;s report on Mustata should have mentioned her involvement in a conspiracy to rape her own children. Still, Henden insisted there had been no intention to mislead: the reason NRK had done the report on Mustata, he explained, was that it wanted to highlight the fact “that Romani people are being convicted of human trafficking because their children sell jewelry, among other things.” The little detail that the “other things” in Mustata&#8217;s case included rape just didn&#8217;t fit into NRK&#8217;s story – see? That its news chief could serve up such an excuse with a straight face only proves that skewing the facts in order to sell a specific message – in what is being passed off as an objective news story – is standard NRK practice. (Also interesting is that, as I write this, the <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa02011213/12-01-2013">January 12</a> episode of <em>Dagsrevyen </em>is not available at NRK&#8217;s website – instead, there&#8217;s a message claiming that the “sound or video content is so far not ready.” Curiously enough, the <em>Dagsrevyen </em>broadcasts <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19010713/07-01-2013">from</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19010813/08-01-2013">the</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19010913/09-01-2013">several</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19011013/10-01-2013">days</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19011113/11-01-2013">before</a> and <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa03011313/13-01-2013">for</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19011413/14-01-2013">every</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19011513/15-01-2013">single</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19011613/16-01-2013">day</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19011713/17-01-2013">since</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19011813/18-01-2013">January</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa02011913/19-01-2013">12</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa03012013/20-01-2013">can </a><a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19012113/21-01-2013">be</a> <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa19012213/22-01-2013">viewed</a> without any trouble. NRK, one suspects, can&#8217;t even be honest about why it&#8217;s pulled a video off its site.)</p>
<p>The coverage by <a href="http://journalisten.no/">journalisten.no</a> finally forced at least some major media to acknowledge <em>Dagsrevyen</em>&#8216;s “mistake.” As a result, the daughter whose rape was at the heart of the human-trafficking case got wind of NRK&#8217;s mendacities and announced plans to file a complaint with the Norwegian Press Complaints Commission – which, in any event, isn&#8217;t empowered to do much more than give NRK a slap on the wrist. The prosecutor isn&#8217;t happy either, and has asked whether NRK, after pulling such a stunt, thinks it can get away with a semi-apology published at the relatively obscure <a href="http://journalist.no/">journalist.no</a>, as opposed to a full, public <em>mea culpa </em>on <em>Dagsrevyen </em>itself. It will be interesting to see what happens. Alas, I don&#8217;t expect there&#8217;s a chance in hell that this case, or any number of cases like it, will finally bring about that glorious day of which more than few of us in Norway dream: the day when the NRK license fee is revoked once and for all and these shameless propagandists are forced to stop selling their own version of costume jewelry and earn an honest living.</p>
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		<title>The Best and Worst Political Movies of 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ben-shapiro/the-best-and-worst-political-movies-of-2012/promisedland620/" rel="attachment wp-att-170910"><img class="wp-image-170910 alignleft" title="promisedland620" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/promisedland620-450x254.jpg" alt="" width="252" height="142" /></a>Can you imagine Hollywood making a full-length feature film project with huge stars and a giant budget … about the evils of Planned Parenthood? Of course not. But ask for a budget of $15 million to do a film about a corporation buying land for fracking – a new and exciting form of oil drilling – and you can count Hollywood in. The new film <em>Promised Land</em> stars megastar Matt Damon, John Krasinski (Jim from <em>The Office</em>), and Oscar winner Frances McDormand. And it’s insanely boring.</p>
<p>It’s also propaganda. The film centers around a small town poisoned by the fracking. The townspeople whose town actually starred in the film are enraged at the filmmakers; they were told that the film would treat drilling fairly. Who’s funding this masterwork? Image Nation Abu Dhabi, which is owned by the United Arab Emirates. The UAE, unsurprisingly, relies on the failure of fracking to continue milking their traditional drilling market share.</p>
<p>But <em>Promised Land</em> isn’t the only – or even the most egregious – Hollywood leftist misfire of the year. <em>Killing Them Softly</em>, the Brad Pitt-starring gritty crime drama that imploded at the box office, featured characters uttering lines like, “America isn’t a country – it’s a business.” Pitt, in pitching the film at Cannes, said it was “criminal that there still haven’t been any criminal repercussions” for the 2008 financial collapse. If a movie about hit men that’s really about how much the free market sucks works for you, make sure to hit this one up.</p>
<p>Or how about <em>The Campaign</em>, the utter dud starring dud actors Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis? That film sought to attack the importance of political spending – and, of course, the <em>Citizens United </em>case, which established that corporations could spend cash on campaigns. The movie also singled out the Koch brothers for special consideration – they’re played as the Motch brothers by Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow.</p>
<p>Not your style? Try <em>Bully</em>, Harvey Weinstein’s tour de force about how bullying is bad. For an entire movie. Pushed by the Obama administration. Even though bullying is at an all-time low across the country.</p>
<p>Or maybe you’re in the mood for a retelling of the Biblical story of Noah. Only it’s not about mankind’s libertine sins anymore – it’s about environmentalism. Sure, that film doesn’t come out until 2013. But we can get excited, can’t we? According to an exclusive report on the film from Breitbart News, Noah actually has a crisis of conscience about whether to stamp out the future of humanity in order to save the trees. Or some other such nonsense. That film has a budget of over $100 million and stars Russell Crowe.</p>
<p>But there was a shocking amount of good news from Hollywood, too. It began with perhaps the most conservative big budget epic of all time: <em>The Dark Knight Rises</em>. That film featured a communist revolution in Gotham, corporatists going along with it to get along, an Occupy-style fifth column, and a rich person sacrificing himself and his fortune to save the populace. There are even Stalinist show trials starring demented psychopaths. The movie features a scene in which Catwoman, who had once been a socialist revolutionary type, sees a completely ruined mansion. “This used to be someone’s home,” she says, upset at the destruction. “Now it’s everybody’s house,” her friend replies.</p>
<p><em>The Hunger Games </em>featured a tyrannical government keeping down a subject population. Who clearly need an assault weapons ban to protect them from themselves. <em>Red Dawn</em> featured a fight for American freedom – although the United States wasn’t fighting China, thanks to the Chinese influence on the American movie market, but North Korea.</p>
<p>Then there’s the much-anticipated <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em>, which conservatives suspected would be a paean to President Obama. The Obama administration reportedly gave special access to the filmmakers, with the unspoken proviso that the film show the Obama administration in the most pleasant possible light. Instead, the film takes an accurate look at the impact of enhanced interrogation techniques under the Bush administration, with dramatic credit given to such techniques for crucial information in finding and killing Osama Bin Laden. The Obama CIA has condemned the film’s portrayal of waterboarding – but that’s the Obama CIA.</p>
<p>Hollywood movies still spilled out the typical liberal tropes – evil corporations (<em>Looper</em>), nasty Wall Street types (<em>Arbitrage</em>), nihilism (<em>The Grey</em>), loveable Democratic presidents (<em>Hyde Park on the Hudson</em>), and the like. But overall, Hollywood moved away from as much open propaganda – hell, even Spielberg and radical Tony Kushner couldn’t push their politics into <em>Lincoln</em> to any great extent. That’s a win for Americans.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 04:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice and media “monitor” coordinate attacks against administration enemies.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/holder_houston_071012.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-144596" title="holder_houston_071012" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/holder_houston_071012.gif" alt="" width="375" height="238" /></a>The Obama administration apparently has yet another burgeoning scandal to add to its already long list. Emails obtained by the Daily Caller <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/18/emails-reveal-justice-dept-regularly-enlists-media-matters-to-spin-press/">reveal</a> that there has been regular collaboration between Department of Justice staff and the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America<em>.</em> Dozens of <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/106208610/Daily-Caller-FOIA-DOJ-and-Media-Matters">communications</a> that the Caller obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request demonstrate that DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler was coordinating efforts with Media Matters to attack reporters who covered various DOJ scandals. &#8220;We received a massive amount of these communiques that indicate direct coordination between the Obama Justice Department&#8230;and Media Matters to subvert news stories,&#8221; Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/18/emails-show-justice-working-with-media-matters-to-target-critics/">said</a> Tuesday. &#8220;This proves coordination.&#8221;</p>
<p>The first attempt at such subversion concerns the New Black Panther voter intimidation case that was dropped by the DOJ, a move subsequently revealed as blatantly political. So much so that a judge <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/06/Court-Rules-DOJ-Politicized-Black-Panther-Case-Awards-JW-Court-Fees">awarded</a> attorney fees to Judicial Watch because the DOJ had stonewalled the release of documents demonstrating that political appointees within the Department squelched the case, and that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez lied under oath when he denied it during a hearing conducted by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.</p>
<p>The dropping of that case led former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/30/justice-dept-lawyer-accuses-holder-dropping-new-black-panther-case-political/">tender</a> his resignation in protest of the DOJ&#8217;s &#8220;racially motivated&#8221; reasons for doing so. The DOJ was also heavily criticized by Hans A. von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former Federal Election Commission commissioner, who also <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262396/new-black-panther-fix-hans-von-spakovsky">concluded</a> that the &#8220;fix was in at the Justice Department in its internal investigation of the New Black Panther Party case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Emails sent in September and November 2010 show Schmaler working with Media Matters staffer Jeremy Holden, who obliged Schmaler with an article published Sept. 20, 2010 criticizing both men for what he called an attempt “to reignite the phony New Black Panther Party scandal.” Prior to his posting of that article, Holden received several emails from Schmaler detailing ways to attack the men. Holden reiterated his attack against Adams in a subsequent article November 18, 2010. Former DOJ attorney Christopher Coates, who, like Adams, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/24/christopher-coates-testifies-against-justice-department-over-new-black-panther-case/">testified</a> before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that the dismissal of the Black Panther case was racially motivated, was also attacked by Holden. In response, Schmaler sent Holden an email titled “Great piece…”</p>
<p>The next scandal that needed squelching was the Fast and Furious gun-walking fiasco. The DOJ allowed guns to &#8220;walk&#8221; into the hands of Mexican drug cartel members, and Border Agent Brian Terry was killed as a direct result of that malfeasance. The subsequent investigation into who knew what and when remains ongoing, due to the DOJ&#8217;s <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/top-doj-official-refuses-fast-and-furious-subpoena/">refusal</a> to hand over documents subpoenaed by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The standoff burgeoned into a full-blown confrontation, when President Obama <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/white-house-invokes-executive-privilege-on-fast-and-furious-documents/">invoked</a> executive privilege to prevent the documents from being released, and Attorney General Eric Holder was subsequently <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/politics/fast-and-furious-holder-contempt-citation-battle.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_moc.semityn.www">held</a> in contempt of Congress.</p>
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		<title>The Islamic Feminism of All-American Muslim</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Once upon a time there used to be billboards for Virginia Slims cigarettes with the slogans, &#8220;You&#8217;ve come a long way, baby.&#8221; The billboards are gone now, but in their place are billboards for All-American Muslim which substitute the hijab for the cigarette. The same left which was outraged at a company marketing cigarettes as a form of female empowerment is completely supportive of marketing 7th century Islamic misogyny as female empowerment.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Fast and the Furious,&#8221; the second episode of TLC&#8217;s All-American Muslim, plays out like a hijab commercial, along with a pitch for the Ramadan fast. But what is missing is any acknowledgement of the violent means by which the hijab is imposed on Muslim and non-Muslim women around the world. For many women, even in North America, the consequences of not wearing the hijab can be fatal.</p>
<p>Sixteen-year-old Aqsa Parvaz was strangled to death by her father because she refused to wear a hijab&#8230; not somewhere in Pakistan, but in Ontario. In that same city, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/canada-father-accused-in-multiple-honor-killings-says-were-they-to-come-to-life-i-would-do-it-again.html">Mohammad Shafia</a> killed his three daughters, ranging in age from 13 to 19, over their refusal to wear hijabs. There is no way to know if Virginia Slims or the hijab killed more women, but we do know that today it is unacceptable to show women smoking, but it is acceptable to promote treating them as chattel.</p>
<p>All-American Muslim had set out to show that Muslims weren&#8217;t terrorists, that they are just the neighbors next door. What a pity then that the second episode features a terrorist supporting cleric providing hijab counseling to one of the show&#8217;s stars.</p>
<p>Imam Abdul Latif Berry <a href="http://www.shiatv.net/view_video.php?viewkey=9f7f0857260404eab4d4">spoke at a 2009 commemoration ceremony</a> for the Ayatollah Khomeini which took place at his own<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/07/detroit-thousands-mourn-designated-terrorist-hizballah-cleric.html"> Islamic Institute of Knowledge</a>. And he&#8217;s also quite a feminist. His website features an opinion that a husband can deny his wife a divorce if she does not return the dowry and in another <a href="http://www.imamberry.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=149:questions-from-issue-68&amp;catid=52:islamic-times-newspaper&amp;Itemid=177">appears to justify marital rape</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>So, the wife must obey her husband by giving him his physical rights which he asks from her; she has to make herself available to him when he wants her; she has no right to abstain unless she has her period, a medical condition, or a difficulty that keeps her from responding favorably to him.<strong> </strong>If he demands his right and obliges her, this would not be rape in the Islamic Law, but something basic in the concept of marriage contract<strong>.</strong> Otherwise, what would marriage be without mating?</p></blockquote>
<p>What about beating your wife? <a href="http://www.imamberry.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=151:questions-from-issue-70&amp;catid=52:islamic-times-newspaper&amp;Itemid=177">Imam Abdul Latif Berry has the answer</a> for how to deal with a wife who won&#8217;t perform her &#8220;marital duties.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>When all peaceful methods have been exhausted and attempts to fix the problem have failed, and if this is the only means for reform, practice disciplinary confrontation with the rebellious wife. Again, Islam poses extreme conditions on this last step. The confrontation must not lead to injury or leave bruises. It must not be done in revenge or be based on hatred which trespasses the set limits, but instead be prescribed like the bitter medicine with calculated dosages to speed reform while still protect from harming the self and others.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>All-American Muslim: A Programmed Deception</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TLC unveils its whitewash of Islam.]]></description>
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<p>Ten years after the worst terrorist attack in American history, the Muslim terrorist is almost entirely absent from movies and television shows. He will show up on the evening news, when there&#8217;s no way around it, but when it comes to entertainment, the American TV viewer is fed a steady diet of movies and shows featuring positive depictions of Muslims. And that&#8217;s not just liberal bias at work.</p>
<p>I have <a href="../2011/09/29/the-defense-contractors-of-islam/">written about</a> <a href="../2011/07/15/prince-of-lies/">Unity Productions in the past</a> and its pernicious PBS propaganda machine, and another UPF project is MOST (Muslims on Screen and Television) which partners with a number of American useful idiot groups to promote positive depictions of Muslims on television. Another force working toward promoting Muslim propaganda on television is the Muslim Public Affairs Council&#8217;s Hollywood bureau, which helped reshape 24 from a show concentrating on the War on Terror into Muslim propaganda. MPAC began life as a Muslim Brotherhood project. Its attempts to control American television programming are in line with the Brotherhood&#8217;s mission.</p>
<p>Seen against that backdrop, All-American Muslim, the new unreality show meant to promote the myth that Muslims are just another minority fully integrated into America with the same goals and dreams as the rest of us, is part of a larger agenda. The one that gave us Aliens in America and HBO&#8217;s Koran by Heart.</p>
<p>All-American Muslim cuts to the chase pretty quickly with an American undergoing conversion to Islam. While the show tries to present members of its Dearborn Muslim families as individuals and non-conformists, in the final analysis Jeff, an Irish-American who wants to marry in, must conform and submit to Islam. When Jeff pronounces the Shahada, proclaiming that there is no god but Allah and turning his back on his Catholic faith, viewers are supposed to celebrate.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am surprised how easy it is to convert to Islam,&#8221; Jeff says. What the show neglects to mention is that while it is very easy to convert to Islam, it is quite difficult to leave. Having converted in a nationally televised event, should Jeff leave when the marriage goes south it will be considered apostasy which carries a death sentence. It&#8217;s easy to play So You Want to be a Muslim, so long as you don&#8217;t mind choosing between losing your freedom of choice&#8230; or your life.</p>
<p>The theme of All-American Muslim is that Muslims are just like us. It&#8217;s the same message that Hollywood has been blasting at us for ten years as if anyone were under the impression that Muslims are aliens from another planet.</p>
<p>Muslims are like us; that&#8217;s the problem. The Nazis were like us too. So were the Communists. They were and are what we are capable of becoming if we fall under the sway of a totalitarian ideology that insists it has the right and duty to enslave the human race. And so we&#8217;re treated to endless scenes of normalization. Muslim women care about their looks. Muslim men like sports. Muslims hold down jobs and deal with the same issues that we do.</p>
<p>If reality shows like Jersey Shore and Real Housewives regale us with freaks and orchestrated drama, All-American Muslim goes in the other direction to assure us once again that there&#8217;s absolutely nothing freakish about Islam. Just good ordinary people who submit to Allah and wear Hijabs in order to be closer to Allah.</p>
<p>But the effect isn&#8217;t really what Shed Media, responsible for such great entertainment as My Transsexual Summer and Basketball Wives, had in mind. The more All-American Muslim tries to reassure us how normal and ordinary it is, the more surreal it becomes. Like the pod people, All-American Muslim only highlights the unnaturalness of the core ideology of Islam by dressing it up in the ordinary everyday minutia of American life.</p>
<p>The more All-American Muslim tries to “defuse stereotypes” with Muslim businesswomen and a tattooed self-proclaimed hillbilly, the more we&#8217;re reminded of the true status of women under Islam. Every time All-American Muslim insists on how free and liberated Muslim women are, it&#8217;s a lie that takes place under the shadow of a Muslim world where women have few rights.</p>
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<p><em>[Editor&#8217;s note: This is the second installment of a four-part series. To read Part I of &#8220;Pro-Palestinianism: A Movement of Hate,&#8221; click <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/10/a-movement-of-hate-pt-i/">here</a></em><em>. For later segments, click: <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/12/a-movement-of-hate-pt-iii/">Part III</a></em><em> and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/13/a-movement-of-hate-pt-iv/">Part IV</a></em><em>.</em><em>]</em></p>
<p>The pro-Palestinian movement is profoundly undemocratic with regard to dissenting views. All contentious issues have at least two points of view. A level of reasoned discussion is often required to bring about a fair resolution to a given issue. While most of us can have strong reactions to the opinions of others when they are unpalatable, we still recognize they are entitled to have differing opinions. The need for free speech is meaningless if we all agree with each other, and it is a necessary characteristic of having a free, open society. However, nowhere more so than with the Israeli-Palestinian debate does a genuine belligerence occur when there is a divergence of opinion away from the predominant pro-Palestinian narrative of the conflict. Whenever anyone endorses an opinion in the media or on the internet that is even mildly critical of the Palestinians or mildly supportive of Israel they are typically subjected to extreme criticism. Palestinian sympathisers often use a variety of dishonest methods of argumentation. One common method of counter-argument largely avoids confronting the issue at hand. A pro-Israel article dealing with a particular topic is broadly dismissed but typically, issues are cited that are beyond the scope of said article and as a consequence, vitriolic scorn is often heaped upon it. Even lengthy articles can only deal with a limited number of topics in a limited number of words, and can only address a limited number of responses. Yet they are typically attacked to such an extent it comes across as an attempt, wherever possible, to discredit articles supporting Israel.</p>
<p><em>The Guardian</em> newspaper has been for some time a notoriously biased publication when it comes to matters of the Middle East. Any article that doesn’t roundly condemn Israel is subjected to extreme prolific criticism below in the Comment is Free (CIF) internet comment sections that is often very abusive in nature. Furthermore, rather than just criticising the content of the article, many comments can be extremely personal in nature. An author’s reputation can be put into disrepute by claiming he or she is a “holocaust denier,” under the control of “Zionist paymasters” etc. The moderators of the Comment is Free section often allow deeply anti-Semitic views to also be expressed. The criticism is very prolific, with comments sometimes numbering in the thousands. The Comment is Free section is an extreme example from a mainstream newspaper but this sort of activity is nonetheless very common. It should be clear that this sort of behaviour represents an attempt to intimidate and essentially shout down any dissenting opinions. This does not only happen on the internet. One discussion shows the same often occurs, and in mainstream publications few moderate articles on the conflict ever go unanswered (forcefully) in letters pages. From colloquial evidence, many that defend Israel are sometimes subjected to serious threats, which needs to be discussed openly.</p>
<p>The mainstream media throughout the world bears a great deal of responsibility for promoting the pro-Palestinian movement. With Operation Cast Lead, the frenzied media continually misrepresented the importance of Hamas’ attacks. Many journalists said Hamas was wrong to attack but didn’t take the consequences of the matter seriously. This gave a false sense of balanced journalism while relentlessly exaggerating the actions of the IDF in Gaza and downplaying efforts to minimise civilian casualties. Very basic notions of journalistic balance are flouted with the corrupting of facts, the misrepresentation of opinions as facts, and a remarkable inability to seek alternative views. In recent years, inflammatory news coverage has been shown to result in increased violence towards Jews, such as in France where some news reports were proven to be faked. Given the evidential material and the depth of this bias, it is plausible to assert there is a certain level of genuine collusion between the Palestinians and the media but it is hard to say how common. Media bias is nonetheless so profound it can be asserted the Western media have some responsibility for promoting Palestinian terrorism. Little wonder Israel refused journalists access during Cast Lead.</p>
<p>It appears that most Palestinian propaganda is believed uncritically in the media even though it is very well known that Palestinian terrorist groups have been economical with the truth for a very long time. Profoundly dishonest reporting of casualty figures is a defining characteristic of Palestinian propaganda, and within a short time of the Israeli ground attack in January 2009, Hamas was claiming 300 children had been killed. As with previous conflicts involving Israel, the BBC and many other news institutions that should have known better repeated such figures verbatim even though it is widely known that the Palestinians can play fast and loose with such facts. The figures only increased to just under 400 after weeks of fighting on the ground which indicates the implausibility of such a death toll yet it continued to be a main feature of news coverage in 2009. To illustrate the depth of such bias, Irish Broadcaster RTE even mentioned the “1,300 Vs 13” death toll in an introduction to a story related more to Bin Laden, instead of referring to the many thousands he is personally responsible for murdering.</p>
<p>While the international media has become to an extent a sort of agency for Palestinian propaganda, the internet is perhaps an even more useful tool for disseminating anti-Israeli/anti-Semitic propaganda. Any nutcase can start a blog or site that can be seen around the world. This has led to a popular Western movement of hardcore support for Palestinian terrorism. Judging by the very prolific use of the Internet by pro-Palestinian groups it must be an ideal platform to attack Israel. The intent can clearly be seen even in the names of such sites e.g. “<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/">electronicintifada.net</a>”.</p>
<p>A defining characteristic of the anti-Israel movement is its tireless dedication to propaganda of a most opportunistic kind. For example, when the film “Blood Diamond” about the horrors of the illegal African diamond trade was released, pro-Palestinian groups started picketing jewellers that stocked diamonds from Israel. “Apartheid,” a very emotive term, is a real favourite of pro-Palestinians, e.g. Israel Apartheid Week. This is a sheer absurdity in a state with universal suffrage where minority interests are protected. During the 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, they protested about the security barrier or “Apartheid Wall” as they prefer to call it. The wall that has saved hundreds of lives, and with less terrorism, economic progress in towns like Bethlehem was possible. Meanwhile few Arab Christians remain due to Islamic intimidation clearly assisted by the Palestinian authorities. Pro-Palestinians even hijack the memory of the Holocaust, e.g. with events leading to Holocaust Memorial Day. “Activists” and “internationals,” as they like to call themselves, go to the region armed with video cameras to hopefully film and write about the latest supposed Israeli atrocity. Many videos, as seen on pro-Palestinian websites, feature grandiose descriptions of Israeli brutality that display an extraordinary divergence from the reality presented in said videos. Many, as found on YouTube, actually demonstrate the restraint of the Israeli military. If these people confronted in a similar fashion the troops of nations that were genuine human rights abusers many would meet an unpleasant end.</p>
<p>Many of these supposed “activists” attempt to cause diplomatic incidents to embarrass Israel. One example is the repeated attempts to break the embargo on Gaza since the election of Hamas. In 2008, a ship carried 5,000 balloons to <em>lift</em> the spirits of the unfortunate people of Gaza. In 2009, the amusingly titled “Spirit of Humanity” attempted to barge into Gaza. It was, of course, known that the ship would be detained if it didn’t turn back. Not only did the ship break maritime law, but all shipping to Gaza is restricted primarily due to the transit of arms particularly from Iran. If aid was the true aim of these people it could have been supplied through border crossings. Pro-Palestinian groups milked the event for all it was worth and when those on the ship were released they wasted no time peddling lies that were at times breathtaking. For example, British minority newspaper <em>The Voice</em> (July 20<sup>th </sup>2009) featured an interview by Jamaican/British filmmaker Ishmail Blagrove in which he compared the low security prison where he was detained with a Nazi concentration camp. He said hundreds of black people were taken off the streets of Israel seemingly on a daily basis and imprisoned by authorities, redolent of the worst excesses of Apartheid South Africa.</p>
<p>Within the pro-Palestinian movement there is a profound lack of ownership of the fact that its own activities are clearly giving rise to anti-Semitic feeling and crime towards Jewish people generally. During the protests in response to the Israeli invasion of Gaza in January 2009 there were many anti-Semitic incidents. One of the more notorious occurred in Amsterdam where there were chants of “Hamas Hamas, Jews to the gas.” In the UK, many felt such a profound sense of menace that a reclaim the streets march was organised in response to the frequent Pro-Palestinian demonstrations which were heavily policed out of necessity. These are just the tip of the iceberg. There are many reports of an array of unsubtle anti-Semitic slogans and placards being waved about at such marches. Is any campaigner concerned about placards carrying messages like “Death to the Jews” as seen in numerous photos? Whilst some organisers may attempt to distance themselves from such sentiments, to my knowledge there have never been any strong condemnations or any real efforts to weed out such elements from demonstrations. Indeed it is surely not lost on the organisers that many if not the majority of those attending such rallies hold these opinions.</p>
<p>In the UK there was an three-fold increase in overtly anti-Semitic crime. Besides violent assaults, Jewish businesses and synagogues were attacked. Even Jewish primary schools were targeted. In stark contrast to the wave of support shown to the Muslim community principally by left wingers after the 7/7 terrorist attacks on London, hardly a word of concern has been uttered about rising anti-Semitism. Indeed left-wing groups, who tend to adopt all the concerns of ethnic minorities as their own, have been leading the charge of defaming Israel. Little wonder then that the same groups would not be terribly worried if the Jews in their midst are concerned for their safety. The problem of rising anti-Semitism is felt keenly in many parts of Europe (e.g. Paris and Malmo, Sweden) and increasingly in the US.</p>
<p>Besides the increased anti-Semitic crime rate, many independent surveys in recent years have shown considerable increases in anti-Semitism around the world. In supposedly enlightened Europe a very substantial number of people stated they blamed the Jews for the current financial crisis! Pro-Palestinian supporters strongly reject all accusations of anti-Semitism and continually assert they are only anti-Zionist. However, if they were sincere in their expressed intentions they would surely acknowledge the harm being done to Jewish communities. In various countries pro-Palestinians have notably targeted Jewish shops with no link to Israel as locations for campaign posters, sometimes daubed messages on windows (a la Nazi Germany), and sought boycott of similarly unassociated businesses. These and other examples of Jews being singled-out further disproves their activity has nothing to do with anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>The figure of 300 child deaths in Gaza has been bandied about by the pro-Palestinian movement throughout 2009, along with inflammatory imagery of child murder, for example a poster of a Palestinian child clutching a teddy bear while an Israeli helicopter fires missiles at it. As with other Palestinian propaganda the image draws upon old blood libel motifs, in this case the Jew as child murderer. Witness the paranoid speculation of Israeli/Jewish conspiracies, e.g. the notion that Jews control the media and are limiting criticism of Israel. A recent example is the absurdity that British-Jewish-Israeli lobbying is having an undue influence on the British establishment and is controlling the UK media. This, like other theories advanced by pro-Palestinians, requires an absurd inverted down-is-up understanding of reality. Such cases demonstrate a will to hate and defame Jews regardless of fact. This is no different to the past.</p>
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<p>Yesterday morning, I had an encounter on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. with Julia Tarver Mason — a lawyer who represents several accused terrorists.</p>
<p>I found that Ms. Mason is more willing to speak with terrorists then reporters.</p>
<p>My interest in Ms. Mason began two nights ago, when I read the investigative piece <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704131404575117611125872740.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular">by Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn</a> in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> regarding 400 American lawyers from high priced law firms who have “volunteered” their time to personally wage “lawfare” on behalf of enemy combatants held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. One of the premier firms involved is Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison, which boasted in 2007: “Paul, Weiss achieves more victories for Guantanamo detainees.” Ms. Julia Tarver Mason is a partner in the firm.</p>
<p>In 2006, Mason was banned from Guantanamo Bay by the base commander and the U.S. Department of Justice for secretly passing on anti-American propaganda and operational detention details to her “client.”</p>
<p>This client was Majeed Abdullah Al Joudi. Al Joudi, a Saudi member of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, was captured in Afghanistan in 2001. In 2004, it was <a title="disclosed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majeed_Abdullah_Al_Joudi">disclosed</a> at his combat status review tribunal that he was “was captured with al-Qaeda surveillance evasion reports and after-action reports.”</p>
<p>The anti-American propaganda Mason secretly passed on to Mr. Al Joudi was a slick, inflammatory 18-page color brochure — written entirely in Arabic — that slammed American detention policy as “that of anti-Arab, anti-Islamic, and other racist abuse.” It was filled with pictures of masked, bound, and kneeling prisoners, and according to the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, “included pictures of what appeared to be detainee operations in Iraq.”</p>
<p>Ms. Mason had been secretly sending incendiary materials to her client through a system called “legal mail,” which is supposed to be strictly legal correspondence between a lawyer and the enemy combatant. According to Burlingame and Joscelyn, a 2004 protective order by federal Judge Joyce Hens Green forbids the lawyers to give out any information on political news, current events, or the names of U.S. government personnel.</p>
<p>Ms. Mason and her other Paul, Weiss lawyers were banned by Major General Jay W. Hood, then commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo. General Hood said — in a sworn affidavit submitted to the D.C. District Court, obtained by Burlingame and Joscelyn under the Freedom of Information Act — that the pamphlet aided and abetted the terrorists there:</p>
<blockquote><p>The very nature of this document gives tremendous moral support to those who would strike out against our country.</p>
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<p>It is not a factual report.</p>
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<p>[Photos] were staged, inflammatory photos from Iraq [with] provocative story captions.</p>
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<p>When Irish Colonel Desmond Travers eagerly accepted an appointment to the Goldstone Commission, he was hell-bent on revenge against Israel based on paranoid fantasies and hard left anti-Israel propaganda.  He actually believed, as he put it in a recent interview, that “so many Irish soldiers had been killed by Israelis,” with “a significant number who were taken out deliberately and shot (in southern Lebanon.)”  This is of course complete and utter fantasy, but it was obviously part of Colonel Travers bigoted reality.</p>
<p>Travers came to the job having already made up his mind not to believe anything Israel said and to accept everything Hamas put forward.  For example, Israel produced hard photographic evidence that Gaza mosques were used to store rockets and other weapons.  Other photographs taken by journalists, also proved what everybody now acknowledges to be true: namely that Hamas, as its leaders frequently boasted, routinely use mosques as military munitions depots.  When confronted with this photographic evidence, Travers said “I don’t believe the photographs.”  Of course he doesn’t since they don’t comport with his politically correct and ideologically skewed world view.  This is what he had previously said about why he didn’t believe that Hamas used the mosques to store weapons:</p>
<blockquote><p>“We also found no evidence that mosques were used to store munitions.  Those were a Hamas operative the last place I’d store munitions would be in a mosque.  It’s not secure, is very visible, and would probably be pre-targeted by Israeli surveillance.  There are a [sic] many better places to store munitions.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But that is exactly what Hamas did, despite Travers insistence on paraphrasing Groucho Mark’s famous quip, “Who are you going to believe?  Me, or your lying eyes?”</p>
<p>Most disturbing, however, was Travers’ categorical rejection of Israel’s claim that it attacked Gaza only after enduring thousands of anti-personnel rockets intended to target Israeli civilians, mainly schoolchildren.  In fact, Hamas rockets hit several schools, though fortunately the teachers had dismissed the students just before the rockets would have killed dozens, perhaps hundreds, of them.  This is what Travers said about Hamas rockets.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Hamas rockets had ceased being fired into Israel and not only that but Hamas sought a continuation of the ceasefire&#8230; and Israel said no.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Travers then claimed that Hamas had fired <em>no</em> rockets at Israel in the month leading up to the Israeli invasion:</p>
<blockquote><p>“…the number of rockets that had been fired into Israel in the month preceding their operations was something like two. The Hamas rockets had ceased being fired into Israel and not only that but Hamas sought a continuation of the ceasefire.<strong><em> </em></strong>Two had been fired from Gaza, but they are likely to have been fired by <span style="text-decoration: underline;">dissident groups</span>, [i.e. groups that were violating a Hamas order not to fire rockets].”  (emphasis added).</p></blockquote>
<p>Again, Travers’ rendition defies the historical record and tells us more about Travers than it does about what actually provoked Israel into finally taking action to protect a m il lion civilians who were in range of the thousands of Hamas rockets that had been fired at its civilians.  In fact Israel complied with the cease fire under whose terms Israel reserved the right to engage in self-defense actions such as attacking terrorists who were in the process of firing rockets at its civilians.</p>
<p>Just before the hostilities began, Israel offered Hamas a carrot and a stick: it reopened a checkpoint to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.  It had closed the point of entry after the checkpoint had been targeted by Gazan rockets  Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, also issued a stern, final warning to Hamas that unless it stopped the rockets, there would be a full-scale military response.</p>
<p>This is the way Reuters reported it:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Israel reopened border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Friday, a day after Prime Minister warned militants there to stop firing rockets or they would pay a heavy price.  Despite the movement of relief supplies, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">militants fired about a dozen rockets and mortar shafts from </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Gaza</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> at </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Israel</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> on Friday</span>.  One accidentally struck a house in Gaza, killing two Palestinian sisters, ages 5 and 13.&#8221; (emphasis added)</p></blockquote>
<p>Despite the opening of the crossings, the Hamas rockets continued—not none, not “something like two,” but many—and Israel kept its word, implementing a targeted air attack against Hamas facilities and combatants.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, Travers said that he “rejected…entirely” Israel’s claim that its “attack on Gaza was based on self-defense.”  Instead, he compared Israel’s attack on Hamas to the unprovoked Fascist bombing of “Guirnica.”</p>
<p>Travers has repeatedly claimed that “no substantive critique of the [Goldstone] report has been received.”  This is an out and out lie.  I have read dozens of substantive critiques and have written <a href="http://www.alandershowitz.com/goldstone.pdf">a 49 page one myself</a>.  The truth is that Travers has studiously ignored and refused to respond to these critiques.  And of course he blames everything on “Jewish lobbyists.”</p>
<p>Nor was Travers the only member of the commission with predetermined views and an anti-Israel agenda.  Christine Chinken had already declared Israel guilty of war crimes before seeing any evidence.  Hina Jilani had also condemned Israel before her appointment to the group, and then said that it would be “very cruel to not give credence to [the] voices” of the victims, apparently without regard to whether they were telling the truth.  And then there is Richard Goldstone, who told friends that he too took the job with an agenda, which he says was to help Israel!  Why any reasonable person would pay any attention to a report written by four people who had prejudged the evidence and came to their jobs with agendas and biases is beyond comprehension.</p>
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		<title>Manufacturing Consent in Iran</title>
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<p>Iran – or more accurately the Iranian government – this week celebrated the 31<sup>st</sup> anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. In preparation for the tightly orchestrated event, the government unleashed the full might of its security forces – including riot police, the Revolutionary Guard and the Basij, the civilian militia corps – to suppress the opposition protestors who have poured onto Iran’s streets since last summer’s fraudulent election.</p>
<p>Armed with live ammunition, knives and teargas, the security forces set upon anyone identified as opposition protestors. When not resorting to violent repression, the government tried to thwart the opposition by disrupting internet, telephone and text messaging service inside the country. For propaganda purposes, the government also staged its own mass rally in Tehran’s Freedom Square, an occasion capped by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s defiant declaration that Iran is now a “<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250127/Iran-Revolution-day-protests-Islamic-Republic-nuclear-state.html#ixzz0fEV1nsnR">nuclear state</a>,” capable of producing its own weapons-grade uranium.  </p>
<p>To discuss this week’s events and the state of the Iranian opposition movement, <em>Front Page</em> turned to exiled Iranian dissident Amir Abbas Fakhravar. Jailed for five years in Iran’s notoriously brutal Evin Prison after participating in anti-government student riots in 1999, Fakhravar now heads the Confederation of Iranian Students, an organization committed to non-violent regime change in Iran.</p>
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<p><strong>FP</strong>: The government clearly tried very hard this week to deter opposition protestors from making themselves heard. Instead, it has put on a mass rally, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250127/Iran-Revolution-day-protests-Islamic-Republic-nuclear-state.html#ixzz0fEV1nsnR">complete with Iranian flags pro-government pro-Khameini signs</a>, to create the illusion of national unity. What can you tell us about these “pro-government” demonstrations?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar:</strong> The government knew that there was a plan from the protest movement to hold demonstrations in Tehran on the anniversary of the Islamic revolution, so they spent money to bring in about 200,000 Basij from cities all across Iran on the night before the anniversary celebration. The Basij – these are the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8509765.stm">masses</a> of men and women you see attending the pro-government protests – were paid $250 each to show up at the demonstrations, which is a lot of money in Iran, when you consider the bad state of the economy. They spent all night covering Freedom Square with the Basij. The government also spent a lot of money on propaganda. They printed posters of Ayatollah Khameini; they even gave the Basij frozen chicken after the demonstration was over.</p>
<p>But that didn’t stop the opposition protestors from showing up. If the government can get 200,000 people out of the 70 million in Iran, that means nothing. Across Iran, I believe there were some 2 million people who showed up to protest the government. And the protestors will come back stronger and stronger. The reason is this: The Basij fight for their salary; the people fight for their freedom. That’s why, on Tuesday, when Ahmadinejad gave his big speech, you could hear chants of “Death to the Dictator!” coming from a distance.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: Reports in the foreign press have portrayed this week’s events as a defeat for the reform movement and a victory for the government. In their accounts, the protestors were overwhelmed by the security forces and outnumbered by the pro-government demonstrators. What do you think explains the slant of this coverage?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar:</strong> First, I want to correct you. This is not a reform movement. This is an opposition movement, a revolution against the government. The people want regime change. That is why in front of the Basij and the Revolutionary Guard you heard chants of “Death to the Dictator” and “Death to Khameini.” That is also why the most popular chant was “Referendum.” By this the protestors mean a referendum on the Iranian government. The last time Iran had a referendum was when the Islamic republic came to power in 1979. Referendum means they want regime change. The people are saying to Khameini, “We don’t want an Islamic republic anymore!”</p>
<p>As for the coverage, it may be explained by the fact that the government invited 300 reporters from foreign countries to cover the pro-government demonstration. Yet, they didn’t let them go anywhere. They were only allowed to watch the main demonstration at Freedom Square in Tehran – nowhere else. They never saw the side streets where the opposition protests were taking place.</p>
<p>It should also be noted that the strength of the pro-government rallies is overstated. You can tell the opposition protestors from the government demonstrators because only the protestors carry handmade signs. The Basij carry the posters of Kahmeini or other placards that are printed and distributed by the government. Because all the print shops in Iran are under government control, and are carefully monitored, it’s not easy for protestors to print signs. All the people holding up the printed signs are paid by the government to hold them up. (We have a joke that if you see an ugly woman at an Iranian demonstration, she is with the Basij.) When the demonstrations are over, they just drop the signs and walk over them.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: The government seems to fear the protestors’ use of new media like Facebook and Twitter to organize their movement. Hence the regime’s attempts to restrict internet and text messaging and its announcement this week that it will <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-14552-Social-Media-Examiner~y2010m2d10-Iran-bans-Google-mail-permanent-suspension-of-Gmail-in-effect">permanently ban Google mail</a> in favor of a “national email service for Iranians.” What do you make of this clampdown on new media, and how big of a threat is it to the opposition movement’s ability to mobilize against the government?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>The government’s primary goal was to shut down YouTube, but they were not successful. The intelligence services called in protestors to tell them that they were being watched and that they should not participate in the anniversary day protests. But we still get hundreds of videos from Iran. That means the government has failed to shut down the new media.</p>
<p>There are some 30 million Iranians who have access to the internet and the new media. Just a few months ago, it was 17 or 20 million. This is a sign that, right now, people are hungry for information from the internet. One of the most useful things that the U.S. could do to help the opposition movement would be to support new media and alternative media, whether it’s the internet or satellite services.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: How would you describe the Obama administration’s position? Has it done anything to aid the opposition movement?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>The Obama administration’s approach seems to be to keep an eye on the protestors to see if they keep coming out on the streets even amidst the government repression. That’s wrong. It’s also wrong for the administration to continue to pursue diplomatic negotiations with the Iranian government. The government has no legitimacy inside Iran; it has no legal standing with the Iranian people. The people are saying, “This is not our president,” but Obama is saying, “I want to talk to him.” I don’t understand why the Obama administration would want to give legitimacy to a regime that has no legitimacy in the eyes of the Iranian people.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: Perhaps the most notable incident from this week’s pro-government rally in Tehran was Ahmadinejad’s boast that Iran was now a full-fledged nuclear power. What has been the reaction to his remarks inside Iran and why do you think he chose to make the announcement?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>There were several reasons he said that. First, he wanted to distract attention from the counter-protests and the opposition movement. It is also the government’s way of telling some of the stupider people in Iran, “If we spend a lot your money, eventually we will get what we want!”</p>
<p>For most Iranians, though, Ahmadinejad’s speech was a cruel joke. The funniest part was when he bragged that the regime successfully sent some animals – roaches, worms, mice and turtles – into space. This <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/03/iran.space.satellites/index.html">actually happened last week</a> and the government had a lot of propaganda about it. Ahmadinejad was trying to show that Iran was very successful and that the world covets our technological knowledge. But most Iranians cynically said, okay, we sent animals into space – Thank God we’re not hungry or anything.  </p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>: What’s the best thing that the United States and the international community can do to support the Iranian protest movement?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>It’s very simple: Stop buying oil from the mullahs. If you cut off their oil funds with sanctions, they won’t have money to pay the Revolutionary Guard, or to buy friends in Latin America Russia and China, or to sponsor Hezbollah, or to continue the nuclear program. That would solve the problem.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What’s next for the Iranian opposition movement?</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>The next step in a protest is March 16, which is the last Wednesday in the Persian calendar. I am optimistic. I’ve lived in Iran all my life and I’ve never seen this much courage from the Iranian people. This is their last chance for freedom and they don’t want to give it up.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Amir, thank you very much for joining us.</p>
<p><strong>Fakhravar: </strong>Thank you for the interview.</p>
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		<title>Collaborators in the War Against the Jews: Jennifer Loewenstein</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For this professional Israel-basher, Hamas is really just a peace movement.]]></description>
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<p>Modern academia has become a welcome place for full-time anti-Israel propagandists. They churn out diatribes bashing Israel and misrepresent this as scholarship and research. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=2363">Jennifer Loewenstein, an associate director of the Middle East Studies program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is just such a</a> fulltime professional Israel basher – and an archetypal example of the erosion of academic standards.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/apologists.php">Loewenstein’s professional field is actually</a> supposed to be “business communications.” She came to the University of Wisconsin originally as a lecturer in business administration. Yet, she has never published a single academic article about “business communications” or business administration. Indeed, Lowenstein has no PhD at all, (which does not stop her from listing herself regularly as “Professor” and “Doctor”).</p>
<p>No less significant is that she has no training at all in Middle East studies. On the other hand, Loewenstein has published scores of anti-Israel articles in the radical <em>Counterpunch</em> web magazine. It is a reflection of the magazine’s political inclinations that it endorses anti-Semitic conspiracy “theories” and increasingly publishes Holocaust Denier columnists. Some of its columnists moonlight as writers for Neo-Nazi web sites and organizations.</p>
<p><em>Counterpunch</em> is Loewenstein’s main forum for her political venting. She also publishes regularly in other extremist venues. These include “Global Research,” a web site run by <a href="http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/favicon.ico">Canadian Neo-Nazi Michel Chussudovsky</a>, which claims that a Jewish cabal was really behind the 9/11 attacks on the US. Loewenstein is active in several anti-Israel organizations, and <a href="http://www.olywip.org/site/page/article/2007/04/06.html">has promoted</a> the pro-terror “<a href="http://www.stoptheism.com/">International Solidarity Movement</a>.”</p>
<p>That Loewenstein can often be found sharing editorial real estate with cranks and conspiracy theorists is no coincidence. Loewenstein herself <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein10082004.html">rants about the Zionist bogeyman</a> in “control” of the US. For instance, she has written that:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Powerful pro-Israel organizations within the United States, including but not limited to the organized mainstream American Jewish community are allowed to prevail over our opinions with their increasingly vicious and racist propaganda against Arabs and Muslims.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To underscore the point, Lowenstein embellishes one of her blog entries with a large Nazi swastika <a href="http://palestinianpundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/gazan-holocaust.html">with Jewish stars carried on each</a> of its arms. The Nazi analogy is a running theme of Loewenstein’s attacks on the Jewish state. To Loewenstein, Israel is a Nazi-like entity that perpetrates a genocidal “Holocaust” in Gaza. <a href="http://www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node/621">She cannot look</a> at a passing Israeli soldier without seeing a Nazi storm trooper, someone she says “looks like the stereotype of a Nazi soldier.” In a quote that could easily have been printed by the Nazi newspaper <em>Der Sturmer </em>in the 1930s, she adds:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Neo-Jewish Masters and their allies in the United States&#8230; have no intention of making a just peace with the lower forms of life in their midst.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In Loewenstein’s take on reality, Israel engages in state terror while operating a cabal that enslaves the American government and dictates its policies.</p>
<p>Loewenstein is Jewish-born, but she seems interested in her Jewish roots only to the extent that they can be used as a bludgeon against Israel and its supporters in the Jewish community. Even <a href="http://www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node/623">Yom Kippur for her is nothing</a> more than an excuse to attack her two favorite targets.</p>
<p>John Perazzo has described her thus:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Though Jewish, Loewenstein harbors a caustic hatred for Israel, a nation she views as an illegitimate entity with no right to exist. At the same time, she sees Palestinians as innocents, relentlessly oppressed and brutalized by violent, sadistic Jews.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Loewenstein harbors a similarly bitter animus against America. Frequently denouncing what she calls <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein08102006.html">American “imperialism</a>,” she describes the war in Iraq in typically conspiratorial fashion:</p>
<blockquote><p>“100,000 dead Iraqis so that we can control Iraqi oil….So that a few wealthy businessmen and women in the United States can continue to gain huge profits at the expense of the American people.”</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein02282003.html">Elsewhere, she describes</a> the campaign in Iraq thus:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Our war-mongering, rapacious actions have turned a chaotic, suffering region into an even greater hell.”</p></blockquote>
<p>On what scholarly authority does Loewenstein render these judgments in the Middle East? Loewenstein claims to have “worked” in Beirut, Gaza and Jerusalem. She did spend a few months once at <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/al_mezan_center_for_human_rights">the al-Mezan Center</a> “for human rights” in Gaza. But this is little more than a Hamas front group <a href="http://peoplesgeography.com/2009/01/16/al-mazen-press-release-i">that churns out anti-Israel propaganda</a>.</p>
<p>Loewenstein also claims to have spent some time as a “visiting research fellow” at the Oxford University Refugee Studies Center. The center’s claim to fame is that it publishes a magazine called <em><a href="http://www.fmreview.org/GuidingPrinciples10.htm">Forced Migration Review</a>.</em> Representative of the magazine’s editorial perspective is its claim that there is a Jewish cabal to “police thought” about the Middle East on American campuses.</p>
<p>The one thing Loewenstein insists is beyond questioning or challenge is her insistence that Hamas has nothing at all to do with “terror,” a word Loewenstein invariably writes with scare-quotation marks. These same terrorists are labeled the resistance by her, a word she never writes with quotation marks. Hamas’ behavior also has nothing at all to do with provoking Israeli anti-terror reprisals, she insists. Indeed there is no such thing as Arab terrorism in Loewenstein’s universe. Every mass murder by Arab terrorists is resistance. When the Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians, some of which killed Israeli Arabs, <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein08102006.html">that too was resistance, she insists. </a></p>
<p>Loewenstein insists that Hamas rockets do not “count” because they are “technologically primitive.” Writing in <em>Counterpunch</em><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein01012009.html">, Loewenstein insists that</a> the Hamas is a harmless amusement, certainly nothing that could excuse Israel defending itself. <em><a href="http://97.74.65.51/Printable.aspx?ArtId=33759"> In her words</a></em>,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Meticulously and clinically thought through even before the first rocket from Gaza claimed a life inside Israel, the slaughter in Gaza today has nothing to do with rockets or with Hamas.”<em> </em></p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, Loewenstein <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein06122006.html">insists that the Hamas is actually</a> nothing more than a peace movement, embracing a “two-state solution” in which Israel will survive – a solution which incidentally she opposes – and is simply working to nudge Israel back to its pre-1967 “Green Line” borders. <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein02242006.html">Here she is</a>, in <em>Counterpunch</em>, explaining why Palestinian terrorism is dandy, the most justified act since Lincoln freed the slaves:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;While they are being stomped, shot, beaten, demolished, assassinated, intimidated, robbed, despoiled, starved, uprooted, dispossessed, harassed, insulted and killed with bullets, missiles, armored bulldozers, tanks, helicopter gun-ships, cluster-bombs, fleshettes (sic), fighter-bombers, semi-automatic submachine guns, sonic booms, tear gas, electrified fences, blockades, closures and walls, they must renounce violence so that the hoodlums won&#8217;t get hurt. If they defend themselves they lose.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>When Israel builds a security fence to keep the terrorists from mass murdering its children, <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein11152006.html">here is Loewenstein’s conclusion</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“This neo-fascist, Stalinist, gulag Guantanamo is there to keep you out, to keep you from even trying, from even wanting, to go in.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Loewenstein cannot type more than a few words without accusing Israel of perpetrating “genocide” of Palestinians. Since the number of Palestinians has actually grown rapidly under Israeli “occupation,” <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33730">John Perazzo has commented</a> caustically, “Genocide does not typically lead to the tripling of a population.” Loewenstein also regularly insist that Israeli leaders take great pleasure in the murder of Jews by terrorists, since this allows Israel to pursue its inhuman policies.</p>
<p>That Loewenstein has joined the growing ranks of professional Jew baiters and Israel bashers in academia is perhaps unsurprising. That an otherwise serious institution like the University of Wisconsin should keep such a person employed on its Middle East Studies staff is nothing short of bewildering.</p>
<p><strong>Articles in Frontpage’s Collaborators series:</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/05/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-ian-lustick-by-steven-plaut/">Ian Lustick</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="../2010/01/05/2009/11/18/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-sara-roy/">Sarah Roy</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="../2010/01/05/2009/12/04/2009/10/21/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-howard-zinn/">Howard Zinn</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="../2010/01/05/2009/12/04/2009/11/18/2009/10/16/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-joel-beinin-%E2%80%93-by-steven-plaut/">Joel Beinin</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="../2010/01/05/2009/12/04/2009/11/18/2009/10/14/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-mark-levine-%E2%80%93-by-steven-plaut/">Mark LeVine</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="../2010/01/05/2009/12/04/2009/11/18/2009/10/13/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-neve-gordon-by-john-perazzo/">Neve Gordon</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36406">Norman Finkelstein</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36238">Tony Judt</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36178">Michael Lerner</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36028"><strong>Marc H. Ellis</strong></a></strong></p>
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<hr /><strong><em><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">[Editors’ note: The following is an introduction to, and summary of a new investigative report </span></em><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">by </span><a style="color: #2a5db0;" href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Huff-Watch</span></a></em><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">: </span><strong>&#8220;The Stimulus And The (Approved) Response: Anti-Semitism and Israel-Hatred on Huffington Post.&#8221;</strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Click </span><a style="color: #2a5db0;" href="http://frontpagemag.com/full-report-anti-semitism-and-anti-israel-hatred-on-the-huffington-post/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> for the full report.]</span></em></em></strong></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In its four years of existence,<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/" target="_blank">The Huffington Post</a> (aka <span style="text-decoration: underline;">“HuffPost”</span>) has grown from obscurity into the world’s <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/technorati.com/pop/blogs/');" href="http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/" target="_blank">most-visited blogsite</a>, and <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1886214,00.html');" href="http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1886214,00.html" target="_blank">one of America’s most popular news sites</a>. It now has <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004022708');" href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004022708" target="_blank">more monthly visitors</a> than the <em>Washington Post</em>, and is supported by some of the largest advertisers in the world. Its representatives have been allowed to <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1878625,00.html?iid=tsmodule');" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1878625,00.html?iid=tsmodule" target="_blank">ask questions</a> at presidential press conferences, and one was even given <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0609/Obama_calls_on_HuffPost_for_Iran_question.html');" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0609/Obama_calls_on_HuffPost_for_Iran_question.html" target="_blank">preferential treatment</a>. It now enjoys access to, and influence over, the top levels of the U.S. government. Top members of the U.S. Senate are among HuffPost’s official bloggers, including <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry" target="_blank">John Kerry</a>, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-carl-levin/');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-carl-levin/" target="_blank">Carl Levin</a>, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-dodd');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-dodd" target="_blank">Chris Dodd</a>, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-barbara-boxer');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-barbara-boxer" target="_blank">Barbara Boxer</a> and others.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A significant reason for HuffPost’s success and “legitimization” are its claims that it is <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22861.html');" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22861.html" target="_blank">a</a> <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22861.html');" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22861.html" target="_blank">nonpartisan “newspaper,”</a> dedicated to <em><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167');" href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167">“ferret(ing)</a> <span style="font-style: normal;"><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167');" href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167"><em>out the truth,”</em></a> and <em><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/');" href="http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/" target="_blank">“debunking</a> <span style="font-style: normal;"><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/');" href="http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/" target="_blank"><em>the left-right way of thinking.”</em></a></span></em></span></em></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HuffPost also <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/comment/policy/');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/comment/policy/" target="_blank">claims</a> to be non-partisan in its moderation of user comments. <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2010');" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2010" target="_blank">Arianna Huffington</a>, the site’s founder and Editor-In-Chief, claims HuffPost has <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bill-oreilly-needs-to-en_b_92646.html');" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bill-oreilly-needs-to-en_b_92646.html" target="_blank"><em>“a zero tolerance policy”</em></a> for hate speech, and that it acts vigilantly to keep its comment threads free of offensive content, 24-7.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, HuffPost consistently “frames” news stories in such a way that incites anti-Israel perceptions and hatred. Further, in violation of its own policies, it approves and tolerates user comments submitted in response to these stories that contain incendiary, hate-filled libels against Israelis and Jews, as well as links to anti-Semitic hate websites.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Given the fact that an estimated 135,000 of Huffington Post’s unique monthly visitors reside in Iran and Pakistan, there is great concern among informed observers that its incitement against Israel influences perceptions far outside the United States.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This report, the result of three years of observation, documents:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Numerous examples of Huffington Post’s incitement of anti-Israel perceptions, and the defamatory user comments that have appeared on the site in response, with special focus on Israel’s recent Operation Cast Lead.
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fact that many of the most egregious violators of Huffington Post’s stated policies, including some of its most prolific anti-Semitic propagandists, remain active users – some, with tens of thousands of comments in their archives.
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fact that contrary to Huffington Post’s public statements, since at least March 2008, it has been pre-moderating all user comments, meaning that all of the hateful and defamatory comments that appear have been approved by its moderators.
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of the following anti-Semitic user comments were published <em>after</em> HuffPost <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/4.bp.blogspot.com/_XLVZ0IbIMas/SitxMK82x6I/AAAAAAAAAGs/PJo1Q3VmAAY/s1600-h/03Mar08BRODIGAN_1.jpg');" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XLVZ0IbIMas/SitxMK82x6I/AAAAAAAAAGs/PJo1Q3VmAAY/s1600-h/03Mar08BRODIGAN_1.jpg" target="_blank">announced</a>, in March 2008, that the only comments that would appear on its site are those that a human moderator had reviewed, approved and made the decision to publish. Ms. Huffington <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167');" href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&amp;aid=147167" target="_blank">confirmed</a> this fact, several months later.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“Jews are evil. Israel runs the world. Lets kill ‘em all and give the land back to Islam; result-perpetual peace. Seig Heil.”<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “pedrothemigrant,” 5/23/08</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“Funny how [Israelis] had NO problem with wiping the [Palestinians] off the face of the earth until they discovered they might actually be able to strike back in a meaningful way. proof that bullies like this are nothing but cowards.”<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “peacekitten,” 1/2/09</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“There’s a reason they [Jews] have been the most problematic group for thousands of years.”<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “Amennyc,” 1/4/09</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“[W]omen holding limp little bodies of children in their hands, crying, as an Israeli soldier aims an AK.-47 at her head. With each civilian casualty Israel gets closer to the regime in Germany that provided the impetus for the creation of Israel.”<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “SkepticHume,” 1/3/09</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with Jooooz [Jews]“<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “JamesR.,” 11/22/08</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>“They [Jews] all need to be rounded up and gassed.”<br />
<em><span style="font-weight: normal;">By “markoze,” 12/30/08</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps more shockingly, all of these comments were posted by users whose accounts are <em>still active</em> (they have not been banned), some of whom HuffPost has allowed to post thousands of additional comments. This stands in stark contrast to the fact that HuffPost routinely bans other users who don’t violate its policies — some after as few as <em>six comments</em> — but dare to challenge or mock the radical leftists that the site attracts.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These comments are representative of thousands of others containing anti-Semitic and Israel-bashing libels, hate and propaganda that have been published on HuffPost in recent years. Columbia University professor Lincoln Mitchell recently <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lincoln-mitchell/the-shooting-anti-semitis_b_214140.html">claimed</a> that on nearly every HuffPost news story concerning international affairs, <em>regardless of the topic,</em> he and his friends usually find that it takes no more than <em>ten comments</em> before its users are finding a way to blame Jews.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most incendiary of these comments are usually submitted in response to “news” stories that HuffPost publishes regarding Israel, which it consistently “frames” in ways that incite inaccurate and unjustifiably negative perceptions of the Jewish state, and particularly its military. HuffPost does this primarily through the use of inflammatory, decontextualized headlines and headline imagery, and biased “news” sources. Examples of this incitement include:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its daily depiction of Israel’s incursion into Gaza in December 2008, in which it cast Israeli soldiers as thuggish villains, Palestinian civilians as their targets, and Hamas terrorists (often labeled as <em>“security forces”</em>) as victims. One example of this was its headline on 12/29/08 that featured a picture of a dead Muslim toddler, alongside text that claimed, <em>“Israeli assault targets symbols of Hamas power.”</em>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its headline story on 3/11/09 featured Charles Freeman’s claims that a Jewish conspiracy led him to withdraw his nomination to a national security post.<em> HuffPost did not post any indication of the broad, bipartisan opposition to his nomination.</em>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It uncritically uses biased Arabic “news” sources – including the <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32867_Al_Jazeera-_The_Network_That_Praises_Child_Killers');" href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32867_Al_Jazeera-_The_Network_That_Praises_Child_Killers" target="_blank">jihadist-celebrating</a> al Jazeera (also a past HuffPost <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUSN1738968120090218');" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUSN1738968120090218" target="_blank">advertiser</a>) – as single-sources for its headlines. One example was its 5/29/09 article that used a little-known Arabic “news” source’s account of what it described as an “activist” that was killed by the Israeli military. 24 hours earlier, the “activist” was identified by CNN as a suspect in several deadly terror attacks, and that the Israeli military had attempted to arrest him. Instead, he opened fire on them, and was killed.<em> None of this was covered in HuffPost’s depiction of the incident.</em>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its prominent positioning on 8/19/09 of a blood libel against Israel — that it murders Palestinians in order to harvest their organs — even though the “reporter” behind the story <em>admitted in the article </em>that he has <em>“no idea… no clue”</em> if the allegations are true or not. <em>Soon thereafter, credible sources determined that these allegations were physically impossible, and further discredited the “reporter.” Yet HuffPost gave these stories little to no “play” (certainly nowhere near the prominence of the original blood libel).</em></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Given the growing <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-70335677156278639');" href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-70335677156278639" target="_blank">resurgence</a> of anti-Semitism worldwide, HuffPost — like every other “legitimized,” advertiser-supported “newspaper” — is obliged to ensure that its “news” stories concerning Israel are fact-based and contextual. Further, HuffPost is obligated to enforce its nonpartisan comment moderation policy. In both of these regards, HuffPost is failing profoundly.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is hoped that<strong> </strong>this detailed report will spur HuffPost to take corrective measures to ensure that it is living up to its self-proclaimed standards, particularly in regards to Israeli and Jewish affairs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Click <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/full-report-anti-semitism-and-anti-israel-hatred-on-the-huffington-post/">here</a> to read the full report.</strong></em></span></p>
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		<title>Obama’s New Year Gift to the Saudi King &#8211; by Nonie Darwish</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the KSM trial in New York will boost Muslim clerics’ call for hate and justifications for 9/11.]]></description>
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<p>Islam is in trouble at the heart of its birthplace, Saudi   Arabia, and consequently in other Muslim countries. Muslim leaders and media are desperately trying to regain control both internally and externally. Muslims are starting to openly and defiantly ask questions about their religion and rulers; while the international image of Islam is being tarnished daily with by every act of Islamic terror, hate speech and calls for jihad from the pulpits of mosques. The traditional Muslim call for violence and jihad that Islam got away with for centuries is now under increasing &#8212; scrutiny especially after 9/11. Islam is now under the microscope. That is the quagmire of Muslims today. How can they continue teaching their basic religious jihad education but still save Islam’s reputation in a culture where image and honor is everything?</p>
<p>The West is not fully aware of what is happening in the Muslim world today, where taboo topics are being discussed by brave Muslim reformists and former Muslims. There are ground-breaking Arabic TV and internet shows aired inside homes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, etc, discussing what ordinary Muslims were never allowed to hear before.</p>
<p>The brilliant Rachid Hmami, a former Muslim-turned-Christian and originally from Morocco, has a show, Suaal Garii ‘Daring Question,’ that is making shock waves across the Middle East. Another equally effective show is that of the brave Coptic priest, Father Zakareya Botros, who was imprisoned in Egypt for proselytizing to Muslims. Father Botros’s show is a huge success in exposing tyranny, contradictions and weaknesses in Islam. Muslims who call in are often shocked by what they hear for the first time about their own religion, yet another proof that the Muslim establishment intentionally spreads misinformation and ignorance about basic Muslim doctrines to Muslims. Many Muslims, even from Saudi Arabia, call in to renounce Islam.</p>
<p>Unprecedented defiance is happening in the heart of the Muslim world. Recently a prominent Egyptian female attorney and human rights advocate, Nagla Al Imam, announced she left Islam and became a Christian and insists that she will remain in Egypt, in defiance of Islamic law condemning her to death. She is now under intense 24-hour security. Islam is in trouble from within.</p>
<p>Both King Abdullah, custodian of the two Holy Mosques of Islam in Mecca and Medina, and the Islamic establishment everywhere, are extremely alarmed by the status of Islam today. Their power to control Muslims, trained for centuries to blind submission, is slipping away. Huge sums of oil money dedicated to rescue Islam’s image, is not enough to do the job.</p>
<p>That is where Obama’s services come to the rescue of King Abdulla. Obama’s bow to the king was no small matter, but of great significance in Muslim culture. It is a Muslim symbol of subjugation and inferiority.</p>
<p>Liberals argue that Obama’s decision to hold a trial in New York of the confessed mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, and the rest of the Guantanamo detainees, is proof of the US’s just legal system. But the Muslim world already knows that. Not one Muslim country demanded such a trial or claimed the KSM was innocent. To the contrary, the Muslim public, in general, think that Americans are stupid for opening their country to such terrorists and giving visas to terrorists while often denying it to legitimate travelers. Recently, my daughter innocently asked: Why is America trying to tame untamable terrorists? It is like “having a pet shark”.</p>
<p>The claims that such a trial will give an opportunity to the terrorists to justify their actions and hate propaganda, is true, but it is much more than that. Such a trial will vindicate and justify mainstream Islamic education of hatred and will help the Muslim establishment tighten their screws. It will greatly boost the status quo in Muslim counties and an opportunity for Arab media and Muslim clerics to justify 9/11, their hate propaganda, incitement to violence and outright lies. This trial will be a setback to Muslim reformers, human rights activists and Arab feminists. It is telling them there is a good reason for Islamic violence dictated by Sharia law.</p>
<p>This trial will create unnecessary sympathy among the many uninformed Western citizens to Islamist fictitious ‘causes’ and finger-pointing Muslims have been taught and believed in since birth.</p>
<p>Knowingly or unknowingly, Obama has given a great gift for the New Year to the custodian of Islam, King Abdullah; a self-imposed trial by the victim nation of 9/11, a free televised propaganda machine from ground zero, to rescue mainstream Islam’s reputation. Protecting the image of Islam is one of the basic duties of Muslim leaders and the utmost obligation of every Muslim who is obliged by Islamic law to lie, cheat and kill for its sake.</p>
<p>By holding such a trial in New York, America, intentionally or unintentionally, will be contributing to reforming Islam’s image, supporting its old ways of doing business and suppressing the brave reformation movements across the Muslim world, a true New Year’s gift to King Abdullah.</p>
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		<title>Radical Imam Tied to Terror Plots Has Gone &#8216;Operational&#8217; in Yemen &#8211; FOXNews.com</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[he radical Yemeni-based cleric connected to two violent plots in the U.S. has &#8220;gone operational,&#8221; a senior U.S. official told Fox News, suggesting Anwar al-Awlaki is becoming an increasingly significant figure in Arabian Peninsula terror networks. Al-Awlaki was thought to have been killed in an air strike by Yemeni forces last week, but that is [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>he radical Yemeni-based cleric connected to two violent plots in the U.S. has &#8220;gone operational,&#8221; a senior U.S. official told Fox News, suggesting Anwar al-Awlaki is becoming an increasingly significant figure in Arabian Peninsula terror networks.</p>
<p>Al-Awlaki was thought to have been killed in an air strike by Yemeni forces last week, but that is now unconfirmed. The senior U.S. official told Fox News that the cleric, an American citizen now living in Yemen, had previously been devoted to &#8220;propaganda and spiritual guidance,&#8221; but went operational in the past year.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/29/radical-imam-tied-plots-gone-operational-yemen/">FOXNews.com &#8211; Radical Imam Tied to Terror Plots Has Gone &#8216;Operational&#8217; in Yemen</a>.</p>
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		<title>Much Ado About CAIR &#8211; by Deborah Weiss</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book exposes the dirt on the notorious “civil-rights” Muslim organization.]]></description>
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<p>Is it a mainstream Muslim civil rights organization, an illegal lobbying firm, a terrorist front group or all of the above?</p>
<p>In the eye-opening new book titled <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize/dp/1935071106">Muslim Mafia</a>, former federal investigator Dave Gaubatz and Paul Sperry (author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Infiltration-Muslim-Subversives-Penetrated-Washington/dp/1595550038">Infiltration:  How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington</a>) provide an inside look into the controversial tax-exempt organization known as Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).</p>
<p>In a brazen display of courage, Dave’s son, Chris, feigned conversion to Islam and loyalty to its radical tenets.  After winning over the trust of CAIR’s top leaders and inner circles, Chris Gaubatz aka David Marshall became privy to the private meetings and secret documents of this notorious organization.  <em>Muslim Mafia</em> tells the story of what Chris and his cohorts discover when they infiltrate the infiltrators.</p>
<p>During a six month sting operation, during which time he earned an award from CAIR, Chris was tasked with shredding confidential documents.  But instead, he brought them home for examination.  He taped conversations, researched court documents, and investigated the organization’s finances, goals, strategies and key players.  What he found is both fascinating and frightening.</p>
<p><em>Muslim Mafia</em> portrays CAIR as nothing less than America’s fifth column.  It is part of a network of organizations including ISNA, NAIT, MSA, and others which front for the Muslim Brotherhood and conspire to incrementally Islamize the west.  The Muslim Brotherhood’s goal is to sabotage the United States from within, and its main weapon is deceit.</p>
<p>The book demonstrates that CAIR is anything but a true civil rights organization.  Rather, it constitutes a turnstile for terrorist-supporters and victimizes mainstream Muslims who seek its aid.  It has penetrated major US institutions, derailed counterterrorism training programs, placed moles in law enforcement agencies, and advised mosque-goers to remain silent in the face of FBI investigations.</p>
<p>Sadly, political correctness in collusion with Islamic radicalism has weakened America’s national security.  Indeed, some in the FBI notified CAIR in advance of its raids, rendering the raids useless.  And until recently, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies employed CAIR to provide “sensitivity training” to their agents, teaching them how to refrain from offending terrorist suspects held in custody.  Field agents complained that higher ups seemed more concerned about appeasing organizations with terrorist ties than actually investigating them.</p>
<p>Recently, in the largest terrorism trial in the US, where several defendants were convicted and sent to jail, CAIR and ISNA were named unindicted co-conspirators.  Despite this, aspects of law enforcement persist in “Muslim outreach” to these same organizations.</p>
<p>Political correctness is also causing America to lose control of framing the issues for the war on terror.  And generally, those who frame the debate win it.  Yet, succumbing to Islamist propaganda, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center have distributed memos to their employees dissuading them from using a host of words and phrases ranging from “jihad” to “Islamic terrorism”.  If America can’t name her enemies and discuss them, neither can she produce a strategy to defeat them.</p>
<p>It is progress that the FBI finally cut ties with CAIR subsequent to the Holy Land Foundation trial.  It is also encouraging that some Congressmen are calling for an investigation of CAIR.  However, much work remains.  Muslim Brotherhood fronts are still infiltrating other areas of society including corporations, banks, courts, academia and media.  Their persuasion tactics range from political donations and carefully crafted public relations messages to lies, propaganda, economic boycotts, name-calling, bogus lawsuits and veiled threats.</p>
<p>For example, CAIR affiliates have managed to obtain congressional staff positions.  CAIR still works closely with some congressional offices, drafting legislation and otherwise targeting key committees to influence policy.  Among its goals are to strip America of her counterterrorism tools, eliminate immigration restrictions from high risk Muslim countries, outlaw profiling, criminalize criticism of Islam, abolish aid to Israel, and withdraw US troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan. Some politicians share CAIR’s anti-freedom and anti-national security sentiments.  Others have been the recipients of purposeful disinformation campaigns by various Muslim Brotherhood front groups that pose as mainstream.</p>
<p>The Pentagon’s Muslim Chaplain program exemplifies another Muslim Brotherhood success story.  It was started by Alamoudi, then-head of the Muslim American Society, while he simultaneously raised money for Al-Qaeda.  The program provided the Pentagon’s stamp of approval to radical imams.  Though Alamoudi now sits in jail, the program he started remains in place.</p>
<p>The Treasury Department and Wall Street are the next targets for Islamists.  They are pushing for sharia-compliant financing, the instruments of which are precluded from dealing with alcohol, pork, and any business with Israel.  Dispute resolution must be handled by sheiks who are expert in sharia law, rather than by the SEC.  The goal is to create a parallel financial system at odds with American values and lacking government accountability.  Worse, a portion of the earnings from sharia-compliant financing goes to “Islamic charities” many of which are questionable at best.  Never-the-less, the Treasury Department offered its first course titled “Islamic Banking 101” earlier this year.</p>
<p>Allowing Muslims and others of all faiths to immigrate to America and enjoy her way of life is the American way.  But America cannot allow her freedom of religion to be turned on its head and used against her.  She ought not accommodate radicals who demand respect for the intolerant, attempt to reduce national security, restrict freedom of speech or ultimately seek the merging of mosque and state.</p>
<p>America must do more than merely defend herself from her enemies.  She must be pro-active.  America cannot wait for another 9/11 or until CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups achieve their objectives before learning their true motivations.   She must act now before it is too late.</p>
<p><em>Muslim Mafia</em> is a fascinating read which, at a minimum, raises critical issues that demand to be asked and answered.  To support its claims, it details copious citations from court records, declassified FBI documents, interviews with government officials, counterterrorism expertise, and internal CAIR memos.  Get the book and become informed.  America’s freedom and national security depend on it.</p>
<p><strong>To order Muslim Mafia, <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize/dp/1935071106">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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