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		<title>Debbie Wasserman Schultz Shills for Mexico as Captive Marine Suffers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DNC chair leaves Andrew Tahmooressi behind.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Debbie.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234638" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Debbie-450x254.jpg" alt="Debbie" width="317" height="179" /></a>On March 31, 2014, Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi accidentally made a wrong turn from the United States into Mexico. He has been held in prison there ever since. Tahmooressi had been heading to San Diego, California to seek treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD which resulted from his time spent in combat overseas in Afghanistan. He had with him all of his belongings, including three firearms, which triggered the response from Mexican authorities.</p>
<p>Tahmooressi is a recent resident of the South Florida city of Weston; his mother, Jill, still resides there. The congressional representative for Weston is Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Wasserman Schultz is also the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Since Tahmooressi’s arrest, Wasserman Schultz has played a dual game of assisting Tahmooressi, while providing cover for the Mexican government and his captors.</p>
<p>Reports have stated that Wasserman Schultz has been in contact with both the State Department and Vice President Joe Biden regarding the Tahmooressi case. For the head of the Democratic Party and someone who is a phone call away from the President himself, this would seem to be the bare minimum, and it has resulted in no action as Sgt. Tahmooressi continues to languish behind bars in a foreign nation.</p>
<p>On May 28th, Wasserman Schultz took the time to speak with the comedy radio duo, Paul and Young Ron, on Miami, Florida’s Big 105.9. There, she made a few statements that, instead of helping Tahmooressi, made her out to be a shill for the Mexican government and those who have recklessly held him in Mexico for what is now nearly three months.</p>
<p>“The Mexican government has not done anything wrong here, so let’s be clear,” she insistently told the show’s hosts. She then began to speak about how Mexico has laws, which according to Wasserman Schultz, it “appears” he had violated.</p>
<p>Wasserman Schultz has stated that her office is “working diligently with the Mexican Embassy.” She said that she had spoken with the Mexican Ambassador, “who assured me that this is being worked on diligently and that they will do everything they can to expedite the situation.”</p>
<p>When asked if they were treating him well, she replied, “As far as I know, yes they are.”</p>
<p>On May 29th, just one day after the Wasserman Schultz interview, Tahmooressi appeared via phone on Fox News’ On the Record with Greta Van Susteren show. On it, he spoke of the nightmare he went through in Mexico.</p>
<p>He said that his fellow inmates threatened to rape and kill him. He said he was chained to a bed on three separate occasions, including chained standing up, as a form of “punishment.” He told Van Susteren he was punched in the stomach “to the point that I couldn’t breathe.” He said he was struck in his jaw by prison guards so many times his jaw moved out of place.</p>
<p>Wasserman Schultz’s statement that Andrew Tahmooressi was being treated well was either based on complete ignorance of his situation or a way to shield the Mexican government from harm. Considering that she made it a point to say that the Mexican government did nothing wrong – that they should be exempt from criticism – makes one come to the conclusion that it is the latter.</p>
<p>On May 31st, President Barack Obama traded five Taliban commanders for Bowe Bergdahl, an Army troop who had been held captive by the Taliban since June 2009. It was a highly controversial move not only for the violence associated with the terrorist commanders, but for the fact that Bergdahl has been considered by many to be a troop deserter who walked away from his camp.</p>
<p>Sgt. Tahmooressi, on the other hand, has been lauded as a hero for saving at least eight of his fellow troops’ lives in Afghanistan. So while President Obama traded five Taliban leaders for a possible troop deserter, the hero Tahmooressi has been made to suffer behind bars in Mexico with his family’s own government representative doing the least possible to see to his freedom.</p>
<p>Tahmooressi’s mother, Jill, said that never in all his time during four years as a Marine and two tours in Afghanistan was her son treated so badly as he has been in Mexico. But that may only be her opinion, as people like Debbie Wasserman Schultz believe he’s been treated just fine and Mexico did nothing wrong.</p>
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		<title>Cruciphobia at Mt. Soledad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 05:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cross the Left can't bear.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/cross2-525x376.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213924" alt="cross2-525x376" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/cross2-525x376-450x322.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>Consider this: Taylor Swift wasn&#8217;t even born yet when the fight over the Mount Soledad cross began. How much longer will it drag on? Disgruntled atheists first filed suit over the memorial at a veterans park in San Diego in the summer of 1989. The fringe grievance-mongers have clung bitterly to their litigious activities for nearly a quarter-century. It&#8217;s time to let go and bring peace to the city.</p>
<p>The historic 43-foot cross has stood atop Mount Soledad on public land since 1954. The Mount Soledad Memorial Association erected the monument to commemorate the sacrifice of American soldiers who died in the Korean War, World War I and World War II. The cross has long carried meaning for the city&#8217;s residents far beyond religious symbolism. &#8220;It&#8217;s a symbol of coming of age and of remembrance,&#8221; Pastor Mark Slomka of the Mount Soledad Presbyterian Church said years ago when the case erupted. The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board explained that the cross is &#8220;much like the Mission San Diego de Alcala and the cross at Presidio Park, both of which also are rooted in Christianity but have come to signify the birth of San Diego.&#8221;</p>
<p>I first started covering the case as an editorial writer at the Los Angeles Daily News in the early 1990s. A federal judge initially ruled that the landmark cross&#8217;s presence violated the California constitution&#8217;s church-state separation principles. The city of San Diego put the issue before voters, who overwhelmingly approved a practical solution in 2005: Sell the cross and the park to the veterans group for use in a national war memorial.</p>
<p>A pragmatic, tolerant resolution with 76 percent of voters&#8217; support? Heavens, no! The extreme secularists couldn&#8217;t have that. They sued and sued and sued and sued. By 2007, the state Supreme Court — affirmed by a state appellate court — had rejected the atheists&#8217; campaign. The courts affirmed the constitutionality of the San Diego referendum (Proposition A) and the sale of the cross to the Mount Soledad Memorial Association.</p>
<p>The American Civil Liberties Union intervened to suppress and &#8220;de-publish&#8221; the ruling as a way to prevent its use in future litigation. They lost.</p>
<p>Lawyers for the Thomas More Law Center, which represented the memorial association, were relieved: &#8220;This decision protects the will of the people and their desire to preserve a historical veterans memorial for future generations.&#8221; They&#8217;ve fought hard to remind America that the Founding Fathers fought for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.</p>
<p>But still the cross-hunters press on. Fast-forward to Christmas week 2013. U.S. District Court Judge Larry Burns, who earlier had ruled in support of the cross, was forced to rule that it must come down in 90 days in the wake of a liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision overturning his prior decision. In anticipation of new appeals, Burns stayed the order. All eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case last summer.</p>
<p>Rabbi Ben Kamin, who lives in Southern California, responded sensibly to the hysteria of the Mount Soledad cross-hunters who claimed to be irreparably &#8220;hurt&#8221; by the monument: &#8220;After six decades, and hundreds of thousands of visitors, cyclists, hikers, thoughtful folks who simply admire the inspiring vista of land, sky and ocean, the Cross remains simply a beacon, a marker and a landmark.&#8221; Kamin wrote that he &#8220;once lived adjacent to the site, and it did not bother me then, and it does not bother, offend or intimidate me now. I remain much more concerned about the glaring mercantilism that has by now drained all the fall/winter holidays, from Thanksgiving to Hanukkah to Christmas, of any dignity or theological poetry.&#8221;</p>
<p>Amen to that. Militant atheists won&#8217;t rest until every last expression of faith is eradicated from the public square. They don&#8217;t stand for reason or religious liberty. They are vengeful purveyors of cruciphobia. The everlasting good news, of course, is that in the end, hope will triumph over hate. Faith will outlast fear. And God&#8217;s love will prevail long after physical crosses have fallen.</p>
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		<title>A Little Reminder of What a Left-Wing Extremist Bob Filner Was</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His father, Joseph Filner, was a member of the Communist Party. Filner has had a close relationship with the Democratic Socialists of America]]></description>
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<p>As Mayor Bob Filner resigns in disgrace, blaming a lynch mob <a href="http://freebeacon.com/filner-lists-his-accomplishments-in-resignation-speech/">and defending his &#8220;seal poop&#8221; record</a>. No really. &#8220;We protected seals and we protected La Jolla from the poop from the seals and others. &#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to remember that Bob Filner was not just a Democrat. Not just a liberal. But he was nearly as far left as you can get. Filner was on the very left edge of the Democrats. It&#8217;s why he was able to get away with his crimes for so long.</p>
<p>The left protects its own.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1317"> a little tour of Bob Filner&#8217;s politics</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Bob Filner was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in September 1942 and grew up in New York City. His father, Joseph Filner, was a member of the Communist Party USA.</p>
<p>Since at least the mid-1990s, Filner has had a close relationship with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).</p>
<p>In February 2002 Filner was part of a delegation of California congressional Democrats who, in an effort to soften U.S. policy toward Cuba, paid a friendly visit to Fidel Castro in Havana.</p>
<p>On October 26, 2009, Filner spoke alongside fellow Representatives Jared Polis and Jan Schakowsky at a national conference held by J Street, an organization that urges Israel to negotiate with Hamas.</p>
<p>Filner was one of 54 members of Congress to sign a letter asking President Barack Obama to push Israel to end its Gaza blockade, which had been enacted to prevent the flow of deadly weapons into that region.</p>
<p>When the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations were first launched in the fall of 2011, Filner was initially enthusiastic about the movement, describing it as &#8220;very energetic&#8221; and &#8220;very energizing.&#8221; He made several visits to OWS&#8217;s Washington, DC encampment, where he engaged in friendly discussions with the veteran pro-Castro radical Medea Benjamin.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is about as left as you get. And <a href="http://sdjewishworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/filner-says-other-jewish-members-of-congress-feared-to-vote-against-measure-condemning-goldstone-report/">what of Filner&#8217;s views on Israel</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Two of those congressman – California Democrats Lois Capps and Bob Filner – voted against House Resolution 867 that slammed the Goldstone Report and re-affirmed Israel’s right to self-defense.</p></blockquote>
<p>Filner vigorously defended the Goldstone report. When <i>The Audacity of Hope</i> set sail for Gaza in support of Hamas, <a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/breaking_news/reps_call_us_ensure_safety_americans_gaza_flotilla">Filner was one of only six Congressmen </a>to sign a letter urging the US to do everything to keep its passengers safe.</p>
<p>And oh yes&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Congressman Filner has a +4 rating on Arab-Israeli issues by The Arab American Institute, indicating an impeccable pro-Arab and pro-Palestine voting record.</p></blockquote>
<p>Apparently he also had a quite Islamic attitude when it came to women. Or is that progressive? These days it&#8217;s hard to tell.</p>
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		<title>The Other Union Takedown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aura of invincibility government unions have long enjoyed has been irreparably damaged.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PublicPensions.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-134327" title="PublicPensions" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PublicPensions.gif" alt="" width="375" height="242" /></a>While most of the mainstream media focused their attention on Wisconsin and Scott Walker&#8217;s victory Tuesday night, an equally, if not more significant vote occurred in two California cities. Voters in San Diego and San Jose <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-cities-voters-embrace-pension-cuts-16505607">overwhelmingly</a> approved cuts to retirement benefits for city workers. San Diego voters approved &#8220;Proposition B&#8221; by a 66-34 margin. It was even worse for government unions in San Jose, where Proposition B was approved 70-30 percent. &#8220;The voters get it, they understand what needs to be done,&#8221; said San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, a Democrat who has called pension reform his highest priority.</p>
<p>It ought to be. Both cities are being crushed by soaring pension costs. From 1999 to 2012, San Diego&#8217;s contributions to the city&#8217;s retirement fund skyrocketed from $43 million to $231.2 million, an amount equivalent to one-fifth of the city&#8217;s general fund budget that pays for its day-to-day operations. From 2001 to 2012, San Jose&#8217;s pension costs vaulted from $73 million to $245, equal to 27 percent of its general fund budget.</p>
<p>Such expenses resulted in onerous tradeoffs. In San Diego, libraries and recreation centers were forced to cut back their hours of operation. Roads were left to deteriorate, and some fire houses were temporarily forced to share engines and trucks. In San Jose, four new libraries and a police station have never opened because the city cannot afford to operate them&#8211;even though voters approved their financing with construction bonds at the beginning of the last decade.</p>
<p>The real sea-change occurred in San Jose. Unlike reforms adopted elsewhere, including San Diego, reductions do not apply only to new hires. Current government employees will also see reductions in their benefits, a reality that has union members seething &#8212; and suing. Thus, Yolanda Cruz, president of the San Jose Municipal Employees Federation, characterized the approval as &#8220;an unfortunate way to spend taxpayer money fighting it in court because we will definitely take it there. Taxpayer money would be better used getting services back,&#8221; she added. Unions claim that years of court decisions demonstrate that government employers may never decrease current employee pension benefits without offering something comparable in return.</p>
<p>Mayor Reed counters that argument, noting that San Jose is a charter city with the authority to reduce pension benefits not only for future hires, but for current employees remaining years on the job. And even if the unions win in court it&#8217;s a Pyrrhic victory at best. Proposition B calls for the city to take the equivalent savings in pay cuts if that occurs.</p>
<p>Government unions tried their utmost to keep these initiatives <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/us/politics/voters-in-california-approve-pension-cuts-results-suggest.html">off the ballot</a>. The Municipal Employees Association in San Diego filed suit to do so, but was defeated in court. Last month, Association general manager Michael Zucchet attempted to defend the indefensible. “This initiative doesn’t save anything,” he said. “You are basically cutting off your nose to spite your face for pension reform.”</p>
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		<title>Smear Attack Against Israel Defenders at UC San Diego</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 04:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fabricated accusations of harassment leveled against student and professor for their opposition to Israel divestment.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ucsd_030111-thumb-640xauto-2431.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131167" title="ucsd_030111-thumb-640xauto-2431" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ucsd_030111-thumb-640xauto-2431.gif" alt="" width="375" height="248" /></a>The University of California San Diego (UCSD) is the latest campus where false charges have been leveled at Israel defenders in order to advance the genocidal campaign against the Jewish State. A UCSD pro-Muslim student association, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), orchestrated what could be a potentially libelous campaign of false charges against a campus-wide elected member of the student government, Ashton Shahyad Cohen, and pro-Israeli professor, Shlomo Dubnov. What animated the campaign? Despite SJP attempts to obfuscate the issue, both men were targeted because they voted against an SJP-sponsored <a href="http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2012/05/intimidation-and-bullying-tactics.html">resolution</a> demanding that UCSD divest itself of holdings in companies that do business with Israel. The resolution was brought before the UCSD Student Council on February 29, 2012. After seven hours of debate, it was defeated 20-13. Shortly after, both men came under attack.</p>
<p>First, professor Dubnov. During the meeting Dubnov, like many others, expressed his opinion against what has become the increasingly familiar issue of divestment. In this particular case, the SJP was attempting to get UCSD to sell its stock holdings in shares of GE and Northrop Grumman, because those corporations manufacture materials used by the Israeli Defense Forces. Two days after the resolution failed, Amal Dalmar, co-chair of the Student Affirmative Action Committee (SAAC), sent an email signed by six other students to the UCSD administration, claiming that as &#8220;students of color,&#8221; they were &#8220;verbally physically and emotionally attacked&#8221; during the debate. After saying they were &#8220;not going to allow such behavior to continue,&#8221; the group demanded the university release $7000 to them so they could bring a pro-divestment speaker to campus.</p>
<p>They then focused their wrath on the professor, whom they accused of racist rhetoric and verbally attacking pro-divestment student Noor El Annan. &#8220;University professor Shlomo Dubnov of the Music department followed a student outside of the 4th floor forum to verbally attack her and tell her that her narrative about surviving  bombings in Lebanon was &#8216;cheap and ridiculous,&#8217;&#8221; the email read. &#8220;They ended their diatribe by calling her a disgrace.&#8221;</p>
<p>The UCSD Office of Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination (OPHD) initiated an investigation. Fortunately for Dubnov, the debate was recorded on videotape, which can be seen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZq7od507AM&amp;feature=youtu.be">here</a>. It reveals that the accusations were a complete fabrication. The video shows that after Noor El Annan gave her speech &#8212; and left the premises &#8212; professor Dubnov remained behind for almost eight minutes, part of which included a conversation with Eyal Raz, a Medicine Department professor, at the back of the room. Furthermore, Raz signed a declaration stating that he and Dubnov continued their conversation for several more minutes outside the room and exited the building together. At no time, Raz added, did he see Dubnov harass a student.</p>
<p>When the OPHD investigation was completed, professor Dubnov was fully exonerated.</p>
<p>On to Cohen. Mr. Cohen, a Persian Jew, became the focus of an <a href="http://forward.com/articles/155644/jewish-student-blasted-for-wearing-mock-arab-outfi/">attack</a> orchestrated in part by the same student activists, Amal Dalmar and Noor El Annan, who targeted professor Dubnov. Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;crime&#8221;? Dressing up in a traditional Arab costume&#8211;for a <em>costume party.</em> Cohen, whose own family includes Muslim members, <a href="http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/19653-Palestinian-Clown-Union-At-UCSD.html">reportedly</a> bought the outfit in Dubai and wore it there when it was hot. At the costume party, Cohen was photographed (seen <a href="http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/19653-Palestinian-Clown-Union-At-UCSD.html">here</a>) posing with three women, two of whom are Muslim. One of the Muslim women posted the photo on Facebook with the caption &#8220;three wives?&#8221; The photo was sent to El-Annan, who posted it on her own Facebook profile, claiming she was “offended and disgusted” by the photo because “something that my grandparents would have worn was funny to him.” Cohen denied the accusation, contending that it was nothing more than “an intimidation tactic because of my vote against divestment.”</p>
<p>Had it ended there it, might have remained a relatively insignificant story. Unfortunately for Cohen, El Annan&#8217;s baseless accusation was <a href="http://issuu.com/ucsdguardian/docs/04.26.12">highlighted</a> in a front-page column in <em>The Guardian,</em> a campus newspaper. The article referred to him as both &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;Islamophobic.&#8221; Both El Annan and Dalmar piled on. El Annan reiterated her &#8220;disgust,&#8221; while Dalmar compared the photo to the Compton Cookout, a racially charged incident targeting blacks that initiated an investigation of UCSD by the federal government. Dalmar inadvertently revealed a certain level of hypocrisy. &#8220;If we as a student body do not react to events like this, anybody&#8217;s culture can be mocked and ridiculed,&#8221; she offered.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jumanah Imad Albahri smears David Horowitz for pointing to the real causes of violence afflicting the black community. ]]></description>
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<p>Ever since she affirmed, with clarity and conviction, that she supports <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6256">Hezbollah</a>&#8216;s candid desire to herd all the world&#8217;s Jews into Israel so as to ultimately make their mass extermination easier to carry out, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6175">Muslim Students Association</a> member Jumanah Imad Albahri has quickly devolved into what can only be described as a pathetic figure.</p>
<p>While the UC San Diego student now <a href="../2010/05/26/genocide-girl%E2%80%99s-chutzpah/">whimpers</a> that she is a victim of “alienation” and “marginalization” – note how well-versed she is in the lexicon of victimology – it has become increasingly obvious that her chief affliction is a profound lack of common sense. This deficiency is made plain by the fact that after Albahri gave <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSvyv0urTE&amp;feature=player_embedded#%21">her recent thumbs-up to genocide</a>, she did not deem it prudent to keep a low profile for awhile – in order to give the foul stench of her bigotry a bit of time to dissipate. Instead, she has persisted in publicly spouting further stupidities, the latest of which brands David Horowitz, who first exposed her unmistakable Jew-hatred at an “Israel Apartheid Week” event earlier this month, as a racist. To “prove” the veracity of her smear, Albahri cites Horowitz&#8217;s supposedly objectionable 1999 article titled “<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1999/08/16/naacp">Guns Don’t Kill Black People, Other Blacks Do</a>.” So offensive was that piece, claims Albahri, that Horowitz “needs to apologize” for having written it. Really?</p>
<p>Horowitz&#8217;s article centered around an <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6160">NAACP</a> plan to file a class action lawsuit against firearm manufacturers because gun violence was snuffing out the lives of young black men in grossly disproportionate numbers. “Firearm homicide has been the leading cause of death among young African-American males for nearly 30 years,” an NAACP press release lamented at the time. Ostensibly to help remedy this problem, the lawsuit aimed to “force” gun makers “to distribute their product” more “responsibly.” The implication was that if only the gun industry would be more concerned about the rivers of blood flowing through black communities, and less preoccupied with the rivers of cash pouring into its coffers, this crisis would either diminish substantially or disappear entirely.</p>
<p>Horowitz rightly pointed out that the NAACP, by focusing on the alleged transgressions of gun manufacturers, was misdiagnosing the cause of the violence that was decimating the black community. He pointed out, for instance, that 90 percent of all gun-related killings of African Americans were perpetrated by other blacks, and that blacks (who constituted 12 percent of the U.S. population) committed 54 percent of all homicides. Was Horowitz, as Albahri implies in her denunciation of the article, simply engaged in an effort to demean blacks by citing these very sobering facts? No. His point was to bring attention on the real cause of the violent epidemic that was afflicting young blacks; without such an honest appraisal, any prescribed “solutions” – such as suing gun manufacturers – would inevitably be misguided and ineffective, perhaps even counterproductive.</p>
<p>Thus, to shed light on the key issue, Horowitz pointed out that seven of every ten black babies in the United States were being born into homes where there were no fathers – a fact that condemned them, statistically, to alarmingly high probabilities of living in poverty and eventually spending time in prison. Harvard Professor Stephan Thernstrom, for instance, reports that the poverty rate for black children living in single-parent homes is nearly five times greater than for those living in married-couple families. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median income of fatherless black families is scarcely one-third as high as for two-parent black families. Unwed mothers, regardless of their race, are four times more likely to live in poverty than the average American. And 85 percent of all black children in poverty live in single-parent, mother-child homes.</p>
<p>The more we study the numbers, the more they boggle the mind. <em>Regardless of race</em>, children raised without fathers comprise an astonishing 70 percent of our nation&#8217;s long-term prison inmates, 70 percent of all young people in state reform institutions, 60 percent of rapists, and 72 percent of adolescent murderers. <em>Regardless of race</em>, each year a boy spends without a father increases his likelihood of future incarceration by about 5 percent. And<em> regardless of race</em>, children from fatherless homes are characterized by much higher-than-average rates of academic failure, placement in special-education classes, behavioral disorders, drug abuse, and such psychiatric problems as depression and anxiety. In other words, growing up without a father is a far better forecaster of a boy’s future criminality than either race or poverty.</p>
<p>Even if all the gun makers in America were unrepentant, bloodthirsty bigots intent on disseminating weapons of death throughout every street and alley of every black neighborhood in the country, they could not harm African Americans nearly as much as the demise of two-parent families has devastated them already. David Horowitz, in his article, was simply pointing out this vital truth – and noting that the NAACP&#8217;s energies and resources would have been better spent addressing that issue, rather than on demonizing gun manufacturers for a crisis they did not create. If Miss Albahri is unable to understand this, that&#8217;s too bad.  Mr. Horowitz communicated the message quite clearly. It&#8217;s not his job to comprehend it for her.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jumanah Albahri, a Muslim UCSD student, endorses genocide -- and it’s everyone else’s fault.]]></description>
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<p>Questioned by David Horowitz, Jumanah Albahri, a Muslim student (and Muslim Student Association member) at the University of California at San Diego, recently <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSvyv0urTE&amp;feature=player_embedded#%21">endorsed a new genocide of Jews</a> – thereby giving voice to the real agenda behind the land-for-peace rhetoric that Palestinian spokesmen generally retail in America. Aware of the enormity of what she had admitted, Albahri tried to quell the controversy by issuing <a href="http://fortruthforjustice.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/ucsd-muslim-student-responds-to-david-horowitz-event/">a statement </a> full of evasions, half-truths, and claims that she was the true victim. Now she has compounded that with a letter to the UCSD student newspaper, the Guardian, complaining about biased press coverage!</p>
<p>Whatever else you can say about Jumanah Albahri, you’ve got to admit she’s got chutzpah.</p>
<p>The new letter is a tour de force of self-righteous victimhood, demonstrating that Albahri has been a dutiful and attentive student of her Islamic supremacist and Leftist mentors, since both camps make such liberal use of this tactic. She begins with a double ad hominem, as the girl who endorsed genocide of the Jews complained that the Guardian’s “abysmal coverage of Justice in Palestine Week and the Horowitz fiasco reeks of Hearstian and Horowitzian journalism.”</p>
<p><em>Hearstian</em>, i.e., yellow journalism a la William Randolph Hearst. <em>Horowitzian</em>, as in David Horowitz, the man who exposed her as a proponent of organized mass murder. Jumanah would have us believe that the real villain is Horowitz, whom we are to see as an irresponsible yellow journalist, not the girl who endorsed genocide. For Jumanah herself is a poor victim of biased reporting: she complains that the Guardian didn’t quote her statement that purports to clarify her pro-genocide remarks: “My opinion of Hamas is not as simple as condemn or condone, for it or against it. I firmly believe that the killing of civilians, even as collateral damage regardless of creed, politics, sexuality, nationality or ethnicity is one of the highest crimes in the eyes of God and is morally reprehensible and abhorrent.”</p>
<p>High-sounding words, but empty ones without an explicit avowal that Jumanah Albahri includes Israeli civilians in her definition of <em>civilian</em>. For many jihadists have declared that there are no civilians in Israel, and that consequently every Israeli citizen was a military target. Jumanah Albahri is probably aware of this, since it is not a fringe view among supporters of the Palestinian cause, and so she could have done her own cause a favor by spelling this out – unless, of course, she preferred to leave it ambiguous.</p>
<p>Albahri then goes on to make a claim about Hamas that is flatly false: “Hamas,” she says, “(regardless of its designation as a terrorist organization by Israel and the U.S.) is neither genocidal nor Holocaust-denying.” Yet Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV in 2008 featured a Muslim cleric, Sa‘d Abu Jleidan, saying that the jihad against the Jews would continue “until their annihilation.” She claims that Hamas “calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state where people of all religions can coexist in peace” – yet the Hamas Charter contains an epigraph from the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hasan al-Banna: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” Albahri doesn’t mention that the Jews that would remain in the Palestinian state that Hamas envisions would not be equal citizens, but subjugated dhimmis, in accord with classic strictures of Islamic law that Hamas spokesmen have spoken about wanting to revive.</p>
<p>The Jumanah turns on David Horowitz with more empty ad hominens, claiming that he was “not invited to present any argument or engage in constructive dialogue — rather, he was brought because of his reputation for racism and hatemongering against Arabs and Muslims.” And the primary victim of this racism and hatemongering? Why, Jumanah Imad Albahri herself, of course: “If anyone can claim alienation or marginalization, it’s me. For the university to allow him to set foot on my campus using my student fees is a slap in my face and a slap in the face of all other non-Jewish minorities on this campus. Need more proof? Google this article: ‘Guns Don’t Kill Black People, Other Blacks Do.’ Tell me: Who needs to apologize now?”</p>
<p>Uh, that would still be the girl who endorsed genocide, Jumanah.</p>
<p>But no, for her it is all the fault of the Jewish-controlled media, that ever-present invention of Nazi and Palestinian paranoia: “The voices of the Palestinian people have been silenced by the mainstream media for too long,” Jumanah asserts, “and I refuse to silence my own voice to appease the twisted politics of the pro-Israel communities on and off campus.”</p>
<p>Clearly Jumanah Albahri’s voice is not silenced. The more she talks, however, the more her allies and supporters may wish it were.</p>
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<p><strong>This article is reprinted from <a href="http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/">GaryFouse.blogspot.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Last week on Fox&#8217;s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glnoerhlXHI&amp;feature=player_embedded">Sean Hannity Show</a>, David Horowitz and UC-Irvine Professer Mark LeVine were interviewed in regards to Horowitz&#8217;s recent <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/18/lies-of-a-truthful-girl/">appearance at UC San Diego</a>, in which a member of the Muslim Student Association made a controversial remark in answer to Horowitz&#8217;s question. This led to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glnoerhlXHI&amp;feature=player_embedded">an angry exchange</a> between LeVine (a Palestinian supporter)and Horowitz, in which charges of dishonesty were thrown back and forth. At one point, Horowitz referred to a seized document purporting to show a connection between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim Student Association. As one who also teaches at UC-Irvine, I watched <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glnoerhlXHI&amp;feature=player_embedded">the segment</a> with more than passing interest.</p>
<p>On October 8, 2008, I attended a presentation at UC-Irvine, which was held in Mr LeVine&#8217;s class (and open to the public)by Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Ibrahim Al-Houdaiby of Egypt. Mr Al-Houdaiby&#8217;s theme was that the Muslim Brotherhood opposes violence, condemned 9-11, is trying to achieve understanding with the West, and is trying to bring democratic reform to Egypt. During the Q&amp;A, I presented Al-Houdaiby with English and Arabic copies of a document seized by the FBI and presented as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial. In this document, a representative from the MB (Mohamed Akram)is writing to the &#8220;North American brothers&#8221; telling them that their role in North America is to work to destroy its &#8220;miserable house&#8221; from within. (It appears that this is the same document Horowitz was referring to on Hannity.) Here is the video of my question to Al-Houdaibi in Mark LeVine&#8217;s class. It was shot by Jonathan Movroydis of Red County Campus Watch and is from Reut R Cohen blog.</p>
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<p>Here is <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf">the link</a> to the document, both in Arabic and English. On page 18, there is a list of affiliated organizations, which includes the Muslim Students Association (number 2).</p>
<p>Mr. Al Houdaiby denied the authenticity of the document and stated it must have been a forgery. In his remarks and subsequent comments to my below-linked article, he referred to Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna and Muslim Brotherhood scholar and writer, Yusef Al-Qaradawy, as being against terrorism. Here is <a href="http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2008/10/muslim-brotherhood-speaker-appears-at.html">my posting</a> from October 8, 2008.</p>
<p>Subsequently, I wrote another post entitled, &#8220;Where is Ibrahim El Houdaiby?&#8221;. That led to another exchange of comments (<a href="http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2008/10/where-is-ibrahim-el-houdaiby.html">click here</a>).</p>
<p>Another previous posting of mine featured<a href="http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2010/02/professor-mark-levine-comments-on-uci.html"> LeVine&#8217;s written statemen</a>t of defense of the Muslim Student Union members who were arrested for disrupting the speech by the Israeli ambassador on February 8, 2010.</p>
<p>I write this because much of the exchange between Horowitz and LeVine revolved around alleged connections between the MB and the Muslim Students Association and anti-Israel events on college campuses. (Israel Apartheid Week just recently concluded at UC-Irvine.)</p>
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<p>At first blush, the suggestion that a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6979">Nobel Peace Prize</a> winner would have anything in common with a pack of unabashed, poison-tongued Jew-haters seems preposterous. But Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, who in 1984 won the coveted Nobel award for his campaign against apartheid in that country, is today one of the most celebrated supporters of the “Divest from Israel” movement. Particularly widespread on university campuses across America, this movement routinely offers a high-visibility propaganda forum for some of the most rabid, combative anti-Semites of our time.</p>
<p>At its heart, the campus divestment movement aims to cripple Israel&#8217;s economy by compelling universities to withdraw whatever funds they may have invested in Israeli-based or -affiliated corporations. These efforts are founded on the premise that Israel is guilty of practicing apartheid and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people. According to the divestment movement&#8217;s leaders, the human rights violations perpetrated by Israel are on par with those of the former apartheid regime in Desmond Tutu&#8217;s South Africa; many critics go so far as to liken modern Israel to Nazi Germany. When the Associated Students of UC Berkeley recently expressed their wish to have the university divest its money from Israel, Tutu praised their “principled stand” against the “injustice of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and violation of Palestinian human rights.” “[I]t is always an inspiration when young people lead the way and speak truth to power,” said Tutu.</p>
<p>The philosophy underlying the divestment movement has been displayed in stark relief recently at a number of University of California campuses, where Muslim student groups sponsored events under the banner of “Israeli Apartheid Week: A Call to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Israel.” At a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=250">Muslim Students Association</a> (MSA) event at UC San Diego, for instance, one MSA member <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/david-horowitz-exposes-genocidal-student-activists">explicitly affirmed</a> that she supported <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6256">Hezbollah</a> leader <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1257">Hassan Nasrallah</a>&#8216;s <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CEEDB1F3CF930A15756C0A9629C8B63&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=2">assertion that </a>“if Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us [jihadists] the trouble of going after them worldwide.” Meanwhile, UC Irvine&#8217;s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7382">Muslim Student Union</a> promoted its own “Israeli Apartheid Week” festivities by featuring, as <a href="http://www.msuuci.com/?p=2098%20">guest speakers</a>, such luminaries as <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2204">Norman Finkelstein</a> (who asserts  that the Holocaust has been exaggerated and exploited by Jews to justify Israeli human-rights violations and crimes against humanity); <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2096">Hedy Epstein</a> (who contends that the only “lesson” Jews “learned from the Holocaust” was how to “become the persecutors” of vulnerable people like the Palestinians); <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2173">Hatem Bazian</a> (who, at an <a>American Muslim Alliance</a> conference promoting the creation of an Islamic State of Palestine, approvingly quoted a <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hadith">hadith</a> calling on Muslims to “come and kill” the Jews); <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1599">Alison Weir</a> (who characterizes the Israeli-Arab conflict as nothing more complex than a battle between “the brutalizer and the brutalized”); and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2102">Amir Abdel Malik-Ali</a> (an open supporter of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6204">Hamas</a> and Hezbollah who has warned that he and his fellow Muslims “will fight” the Jews “until we are either martyred or until we are victorious”). (Note: the Alison Weir referred to here is not to be confused with the British historian and author <a href="http://alisonweir.org.uk/">Alison Weir</a>)</p>
<p>Such are the worldviews and sentiments of the leading lights in today&#8217;s “Divest from Israel” movement. By no means, however, is it surprising that Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu would support such bellicose rhetoric, given his own long history of condemning and smearing Israel and the Jews. Noting that divestment campaigns helped bring about the end of apartheid in South Africa, a development he calls “one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century,” Tutu is delighted that a “similar movement” now aims to put “an end to the Israeli occupation” in the Middle East. Notably, Tutu makes no call for divestment from any other Middle Eastern nation &#8211; though the political oppression, human rights abuses, and barbaric atrocities characterizing life throughout much of that region dwarf anything that the Palestinians have ever suffered in Israel, to which Tutu refers as America’s “client state.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/apr/29/comment%20">Tutu informs us</a> that his heart breaks whenever he sees “the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks,” and he explains that their evident “suffering” evokes memories of what South African blacks once experienced “when young white police officers prevented us from moving about.” Asserting that “Israel is like Hitler and apartheid,” Tutu has urged Americans to oppose Israeli “injustices” as fervently as they once opposed Nazism and South Africa’s system of racial separation. Putting his contempt for the Jewish state in still fuller context, he once said: “The [South African] apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists. Hitler, Mussolini, <a>Stalin</a>, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust.”</p>
<p>In an October 2007 <a href="http://www.zoa.org/sitedocuments/pressrelease_view.asp?pressreleaseID=208%20">op-ed piece</a>, Tutu lamented that because of unnecessarily restrictive Israeli policies, the Palestinian people “cannot move freely from one place to another”; that “a wall separates them from their families and from their incomes”; and that “they are arbitrarily demeaned at checkpoints and unnecessarily beleaguered by capricious applications of bureaucratic red tape.” These things, said Tutu, were reminiscent of “the yoke of oppression that was once our burden in South Africa.” Absent from his lamentations was any recognition that Israel&#8217;s checkpoints and security barrier had been established in direct response to the Palestinians&#8217; relentless campaign of genocidal terrorism. Instead, Tutu reminded his readers that “God’s dream begins with this mutual recognition – we are not strangers, we are kin.” But there again, he had nothing to say about the wholesale rejection of so-called “kinship” by Hamas, the terrorist group whose <a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm">founding charter</a> explicitly calls <em>jihad </em>“an individual duty [that is] binding on every Muslim man and woman,” while it condemns “the Nazism of the Jews” and calls for their extermination.</p>
<p>Tutu&#8217;s morally inverted worldview is not confined solely to matters involving Israel. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, for instance, he described America&#8217;s retaliatory military campaign (against the Taliban and <a>al-Qaeda</a>) as an “utterly reprehensible” exercise in “vengeance” rather than justice. He explained that the hijackers had been “willing to pilot a plane and go to their deaths” because they were making a desperate plea for relief from the “poverty, hunger, and disease” that plagued the people of their homelands. Condemning America&#8217;s greed and self-absorption, Tutu suggested that “a minute fraction of [U.S.] defense budgets would ensure that God’s children everywhere would have clean water, enough to eat, a decent home, a proper education, and accessible and affordable health care.” The terrorists, in other words, were trying to strike a blow for charity and social justice, not Islamic <em>jihad</em>.</p>
<p>While Tutu has been relentless in ridiculing Israel and the United States, he has been far more forgiving of Winnie Mandela, South Africa&#8217;s so-called “Mother of the Nation,” whom the former archbishop professes to love “very deeply.” Prominent in the Soviet-sponsored African National Congress (ANC), which was closely aligned with the South African Communist Party, Mrs. Mandela used her notorious bodyguards in a protracted reign of terror, torture, and murder during the 1980s. The ANC committed innumerable atrocities in the name of liberation, prompting a 1988 Pentagon Report to list it as one of the world&#8217;s “more notorious terrorist groups.” Many ANC victims were physically pummeled and brutalized to death – some of them on the direct orders of Mrs. Mandela. Among the ANC’s preferred methods of torturing suspected political opponents was “necklacing” – a barbaric practice where automobile tires were tied around the necks of victims, filled with gasoline and lit on fire. It is estimated that some 1,000 people were set ablaze in this manner. “With tires and matches we will liberate this country,” crowed the celebrated “Mother” of Tutu&#8217;s nation.</p>
<p>To recap: Desmond Tutu “loves” Winnie Mandela “deeply”; he blames the United States for provoking the 9/11 attacks; and he supports worldwide divestment from a purportedly “Nazi”-like nation that gives its Arab citizens more rights and freedoms than they would be able to enjoy anywhere in the Arab world. These views prove conclusively that honorific titles and prestigious awards do not necessarily correlate with sound moral judgment in their recipients.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 04:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why UC San Diego administrators won't censure calls for genocide of Jews on their campus. ]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.latimes.com">Los Angeles Times</a></strong></p>
<p>We are taught to believe that ideology is the enemy of free thought. But that&#8217;s not right. Ideology is a mere checklist of principles and priorities. The real enemy of clear thinking is the script. We think the world is supposed to go by a familiar plot. And when the facts conflict with the script, we edit the facts.</p>
<p>So, for instance, David Horowitz is a stock villain on U.S. campuses because he deviates from the standard formula of coddling the usual victims and lionizing the usual heroes. Once a committed left-wing radical, Horowitz now resides on the right. Two of his favorite targets are academia and radical Islam. He leads an extensive network of websites, books, lecture series, pamphlets and conferences aimed at exposing the folly and dangers of both. Horowitz&#8217;s detractors, and even some of his friends, sometimes roll their eyes at his confrontational tactics and rhetoric.</p>
<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s wrong. Horowitz recently spoke at UC San Diego. You can find an excerpt from  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=8fSvyv0urTE">his appearance on YouTube</a>. In it, a young Muslim student from UCSD, Jumanah Imad Albahri, asks Horowitz to back up his attacks on the Muslim Students Assn. Horowitz turned the tables on her. In less than two minutes, she revealed herself as a supporter of the terrorist group Hamas. Horowitz then noted that Hezbollah, another terrorist organization, wants all Jews to return to Israel so they can be more conveniently liquidated in one place. Horowitz asks Albahri whether she&#8217;s for or against that proposition. She is &#8220;for it.&#8221;</p>
<p>I asked UCSD, via e-mail, whether the woman in question was censured in any way for endorsing bigotry and genocide, or if the video was somehow misleading. In response, I received boilerplate about how, in the tradition of Aristotle, UCSD treasures &#8220;discourse and debate&#8221; and how &#8220;the very foundations of every great university are set upon the rock-solid principles of freedom of thought and freedom of speech.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg-censor-20100518,0,5167137.column">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jumanah Imad Albahri, who endorsed Jewish genocide, tries to cover her tracks.]]></description>
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<p>Jumanah Imad Albahri, the Muslim student at the University of California at San Diego who last week <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSvyv0urTE&amp;feature=player_embedded#!">endorsed a new genocide of Jews</a>, has now issued <a href="http://fortruthforjustice.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/ucsd-muslim-student-responds-to-david-horowitz-event/">a statement </a>– and as is characteristic also of jihadist communiqués these days, it’s a masterpiece of disingenuousness and attempts to claim victim status.</p>
<p>Albahri started out by saying – apparently unequivocally – that she wasn’t for what she said she was for last week:  “Allow me to begin by stating that I do NOT condone murder, I do NOT condone genocide, and I do NOT condone racism under any circumstance whatsoever against Jews or anyone else.” And what’s more, “these accusations are lies that I refuse to allow David Horowitz and his allies to perpetuate in their irresponsible and hateful smear campaign against those who disagree with or differ from them.”</p>
<p>Lies? What lies? It’s useful at this point to recall how Jumanah Albahri rocketed to fame in the first place: it all started when David Horowitz, during the question-and-answer period after his talk at UCSD, asked Albahri: “The head of Hizballah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally. For or Against it?” Albahri, enunciating her words clearly and forcefully, responded with a forthright endorsement of genocide: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSvyv0urTE&amp;feature=player_embedded#!">“For it.”</a></p>
<p>But now that she has become the poster child for Islamic neo-Nazism, the idea that she condones genocide is a “lie” and David Horowitz is perpetrating a “smear campaign.”</p>
<p>Poor Jumanah, smeared by her own words!</p>
<p>Albahri’s disingenuousness and finger-pointing only increases as her statement goes on. She dismisses as “ridiculous” the charge that she is anti-Semitic. Why? Because, Jumanah Albahri piously informs us, “I am a Semite.”</p>
<p>Very well. Let’s not waste our time arguing over nomenclature. Albahri is herself a Semite, and so could not be anti-Semitic? Fine. Allow me, then, to pose the question in a slightly different way: is Jumanah Albahri a Jew-hater? Would it be reasonable to think that she is, after her avowal of the fact that she wants to see the Jews gather in Israel so that Muslims don’t have to hunt them down elsewhere? Or would that be “ridiculous”?</p>
<p>Displaying her own fine grasp of the ridiculous, Albahri goes on to portray David Horowitz as the real villain of the piece: the problem, you see, is not that she endorsed genocide, but that “Mr. Horowitz spent an hour indiscriminately attacking liberals, students, Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians, utilizing verbiage that completely departed from an academic tone and delved into hate speech—especially labeling groups and individuals that support Palestinian rights ‘terrorists.’” One might think that given Albahri’s own endorsement of mass murder on a global scale, she might be more understanding about Horowitz’s use of the word “terrorists,” but she is apparently not that self-reflective.</p>
<p>After several paragraphs of puffery, filled with ad hominem attacks against David Horowitz and Palestinian claims to victim status, Albahri finally offers an explanation of how a poor victim soul such as she was manipulated by the demonic Horowitz into endorsing genocide:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Towards the end of the exchange, I became emotional. I could no longer hear Mr. Horowitz speaking and so did not even hear his injection of Hezbollah’s credo of ‘rounding up’ Jews in his last tangent.  I could no longer contain my anger at being implicitly and improperly labeled a terrorist, an anti-Semite, and a proponent of genocide. The answer I was coerced into giving grossly misrepresented my beliefs and ideologies.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Those who are tempted to believe Albahri’s claim that she was “coerced” into saying she favored the mass murder of Jews should at this point watch the video again. Watching it makes it impossible to believe that she could not hear what Horowitz was saying, or that she was coerced in any way into answering the way she did. Perhaps sensing this, she goes on to attempt yet another explanation: she did say it, but she didn’t mean it:</p>
<blockquote><p>My answer, “for it,” in the context in which it was said does NOT mean “for” genocide. I was referring to his initial question that asked me for my position on Hamas, a topic that for his own political reasons he was relentless in pursuing. “For it” was not a legitimization of Hezbollah’s or anyone else’s credo for that matter that Jews should be exterminated. In fact, Mr. Horowitz’s intent was to entrap me with his barrage of questions so that he could avoid answering my question, and construe <span style="text-decoration: underline;">any</span> answer that I would provide as anti-Semitic, genocidal hate speech in order to further his political agenda.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here again, watching the video makes this position impossible to sustain. Horowitz formulated his question clearly and pointedly. Albahri shows no signs of confusion or disorientation, and answers Horowitz’s question as deliberately and forcefully as he asked it.</p>
<p>And so finally, does Jumanah Albahri condemn Hamas? She does not. “My opinion of Hamas,” she explains, “is not as simple as condemn or condone, ‘for it’ or ‘against it.’” She opposes “the killing of civilians,” without explaining whether she endorses the common Muslim view that there are no civilians in Israel, and concludes:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I condone Hamas in its ambition to liberate the Palestinian people. I condone Hamas as the duly elected representative government of the Palestinian people granted governance in an election overseen by our ex-President Jimmy Carter; and characterized as fair, open, and fully democratic. I condone Hamas in its desire to end the inhumane siege of the Gazan people. I condone Hamas in its struggle to free the 10,000 Palestinian men, women, and children unjustly locked away in Israeli prisons.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Albahri sums up: “It seems that in Mr. Horowitz’s logic, my support of freedom, peace, and justice makes me a ‘terrorist.’”</p>
<p>No, Jumanah. Your support of genocidal Jew-haters makes you a terrorist, or at very least a terrorist sympathizer.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the UC-San Diego chapter of the Muslim Student Association also felt it necessary to <a href="http://www.ucsdmsa.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1:msa-press-release">issue a “clarification,”</a> but their entry only muddied the waters further – and raised questions about the prevalence of Islamic anti-Semitism and supremacism among Muslims in the United States.</p>
<p>The Muslim Student Association is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamic organization that is dedicated (in its own words as recorded in a captured internal document) to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.” And so it is perhaps not surprising that the MSA’s press release reeks of disingenuousness and damage control, but doesn’t get around to condemning Hamas and Hizballah (as Horowitz had asked Albahri to do), or even to condemning Albahri’s endorsement of genocide.</p>
<p>The USCD MSA did manage to condemn “all groups or organizations, whether state or non-state actors, who target civilians or target a civilian population to impose collective punishment.” Was it condemning attacks like September 11, or the July 7, 2005 bombings in London? Not necessarily. Once again, jihadists have said that “there are no civilians in Israel.” Thus a genocide of Jews there would not, according to this twisted logic, constitute the targeting of a civilian population. And it did seem as if the MSA had Israel in mind, since after explaining how the Koran forbade killing anyone “unjustly,” the MSA statement added: “It is for this very reason that MSA has organized events such as our annual Justice in Palestine Week.”</p>
<p>That sentence makes it clear that the MSA meant in its statement to condemn alleged Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians. They were <em>not</em> condemning Hamas or Hizballah, any more than did Jumanah Albahri.</p>
<p>The MSA statement is full of such weaseling. It quotes the Koran’s condemnation of one who “kills a human being unjustly” (5:32), without getting around to explaining what would constitute a <em>just</em> killing of another human being. It also condemns “the loss of all innocent lives, as well as all groups, whether state or non-state actors, that advocate and perpetuate the killing of innocent civilians.”</p>
<p>Then at last we get to some particulars: “Specifically, we condemn all Palestinian factions that have rejoiced in the killing of innocent Israeli civilians just as much as we condemn the indiscriminate murder of hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians during Israeli military aggression. We reject the current apartheid system in Palestine-Israel that discriminates against people based on their ethnicity and race.”</p>
<p>The key word in that passage is “innocent.” Many Muslims consider no non-Muslim to be innocent, in accord with the Koran’s picture of them as being always and everywhere in bad faith &#8212; and even larger numbers of Muslims consider no Israeli to be innocent. Thus to condemn the killing of innocent civilians in Israel is quite possibly to condemn no killing at all.</p>
<p>And that’s not surprising. Genocidal statements are common from Muslim leaders today. On January 29, Palestinian Authority TV broadcast a mosque sermon saying: “The Prophet says: ‘You shall fight the Jews and kill them, until the tree and the stone will speak and say…‘Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah — there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ Except for the Gharqad tree, which is the tree of the Jews. Thus, this land will be liberated only by means of Jihad.”</p>
<p>If that jihad involves Muslims murdering Jews en masse, then what’s to prevent a pious young lady like Jumanah Imad Albahri from believing that genocide is a good thing?</p>
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<p>UC-San Diego student<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/12/i-want-a-holocaust/"> Jumanah Imad Albahri</a> last week, under questioning from David Horowitz, refused to condemn Hamas and Hizballah and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/12/i-want-a-holocaust/">endorsed a genocidal statement</a> by Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Many were shocked. Albahri’s statement is being treated as a singular utterance, a lapse that has nothing to do with the Muslim Students Association of which she is a part, and certainly not with Islam as a whole.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Albahri’s support for genocide of the Jews doesn’t reveal that she is a closet Nazi, but that she is an entirely mainstream Muslim. Genocidal statements are painfully common from Muslim leaders today. On January 29, Palestinian Authority TV, which is controlled by the ostensibly moderate Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, broadcast a Friday mosque sermon containing this reference to the notorious genocidal hadith in which Muhammad says that the end times would not come until Muslims started murdering Jews: “The Prophet says: ‘You shall fight the Jews and kill them, until the tree and the stone will speak and say: “Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah”’ — the tree and the stone will not say, ‘Oh Arab,’ they will say, ‘Oh Muslim.’ And they will not say, ‘Where are the millions?’ and will not say, ‘Where is the Arab nation?’ Rather, they will say, ‘Oh Muslim, Oh servant of Allah — there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ Except for the Gharqad tree, which is the tree of the Jews. Thus, this land will be liberated only by means of Jihad.”<strong> </strong></p>
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<p>In the original hadith, Muhammad says that “the last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews” (Sahih Muslim 6985).</p>
<p>If the “last hour” will not come until Muslims start murdering Jews wholesale, then what’s to prevent a pious young lady like Jumanah Imad Albahri from believing that speaking approvingly of the mass-murder of Jews, as Nasrallah did, is a holy and pious act?</p>
<p>Clearly other Muslims do. On January 12, a top Iranian official, Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, declared on Al-Manar TV: “We have manufactured missiles that allow us, when necessary, to replace Israel in its entirety with a big holocaust.” And on December 29, 2009, Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub, an Islamic cleric, dashed hopes for the usefulness of interfaith discussions when he said this on Egypt’s Al-Nas TV: “The Jews are our enemies. Allah will annihilate them at our hands. This is something we know for certain. We know this for certain – not because I say so, but because Allah said so. ‘You shall find that the people strongest in enmity to the believers are the Jews and the polytheists.’”</p>
<p>Yaaqub was quoting from the Qur’an (5:82).</p>
<p>Ahmad Al-Barqawi, professor of philosophy from Damascus University, joined the genocidal chorus on Syria TV on December 15, 2009: “If the enemy reaches a stage in which it feels that it is paying a heavy price for its occupation – both in terms of human lives and in terms of resources – it will give up. Without this, there is no chance of reconciliation with the enemy. Therefore, I believe that the annihilation of Israel is easier than reconciliation with it. Annihilating Israel is easier than reconciling with it, because annihilating Israel through a long-term and consistent effort may bear fruit in a society that feels it is alien to this [Arab] world, and does not want to remain in a world that rejects by force.”</p>
<p>None of this should come as any surprise. The genocidal hadith quoted on Palestinian TV is just one element of an anti-Semitism that is deeply rooted in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and which runs through Islamic history with a remarkable consistency. The Qur’an portrays the Jews as the craftiest, most persistent, and most implacable enemies of the Muslims. Three notorious Qur’anic passages depict an angry Allah transforming Jews into apes and pigs: 2:63–66; 5:59–60; and 7:166. The first of those passages depicts Allah telling the Jews who “profaned the Sabbath”: “Be as apes despicable!” It goes on to say that these accursed ones serve “as a warning example for their time and for all times to come.” The second has Allah directing Muhammad to remind the “People of the Book” about “those who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath, those of whom some He transformed into apes and swine, those who worshipped evil.” The third essentially repeats this, saying of the Sabbath-breaking Jews that when “in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions,” Allah said to them, “Be ye apes, despised and rejected.”</p>
<p>In traditional Islamic theology these passages have not been considered to apply to all Jews. However, that hasn’t stopped contemporary jihadists from frequently referring to Jews as the “descendants of apes and swine.” The implication is that today’s Jews are bestial in character and are the enemies of Allah, just as the Sabbath-breakers were. The grand sheikh of Al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the most respected cleric in the world among Sunni Muslims today, has called Jews “the enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs.” Saudi sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Sudayyis, imam of the principal mosque in the holiest city in Islam, Mecca, said in a sermon that Jews are “the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs.”</p>
<p>Another Saudi sheikh, Ba’d bin Abdallah al-Ajameh al-Ghamidi, made the connection explicit: “The current behavior of the brothers of apes and pigs, their treachery, violation of agreements, and defiling of holy places … is connected with the deeds of their forefathers during the early period of Islam—which proves the great similarity between all the Jews living today and the Jews who lived at the dawn of Islam.” A 1996 Hamas publication says that today’s Jews are bestial in spirit, and this is a manifestation of the punishment of their forefathers. In January 2007, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas stated, “The sons of Israel are mentioned as those who are corrupting humanity on earth,” referring to Qur’an 5:64.</p>
<p>Likewise, Sheikh ‘Atiyyah Saqr, writing in Islam Online, declares of Jews that “Almighty Allah told us that He’d send to them people who’d pour on them rain of severe punishment that would last till the Day of Resurrection.” Then comes a threat: “All this gives us glad tidings of the coming victory of Muslims over them once Muslims stick to strong faith and belief in Allah and adopt the modern means of technology.”</p>
<p>Modern means of technology? Perhaps a nuclear bomb exploded in Tel Aviv? If that happened, Jumanah Imad Albahri would by no means be the only Muslim who would thank Allah for his bounties.</p>
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<p>On Monday, May 10, Editor-in-Chief David Horowitz gave a talk at UC San Diego to counter the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6175" target="_blank">Muslim Students Association</a>’s <a href="http://www.msuuci.com/?p=2098" target="_blank">Israeli Apartheid Week</a>. (Horowitz made a point to properly describe the event as “Hitler Youth” week.) He was literally giving his speech at the same time as <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2204" target="_blank">notorious anti-Semite</a> <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2204" target="_blank">Norman Finkelstein</a>.</p>
<p>During the Question and Answer period Horowitz had a chilling exchange with a member of the MSA in which he prodded her to reveal the depraved depths of her <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=145&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">Jew-hatred</a>. What’s shocking is not so much that she holds such views, but rather that she was willing to admit it:</p>
<p><em>(Watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSvyv0urTE&amp;feature=player_embedded#!">video here</a>.)</em></p>
<p><strong>Transcript:</strong></p>
<p><strong>MSA member:</strong> Good evening, I just wanted to say thank you for coming to campus tonight and presenting your point of view, its always important to have to sets of, ah, views going on at the same time. Um, very useful.  My name is Jumanah Imad Albahri and I’m a student here at UCSD. Ah I was reading your literature, I found that much more interesting than your talk, and I found some interesting things about the MSA, which is an organization that is very active on campus and is hosting our annual “Hitler Youth” week, you should come out to those events. Um, if you could clarify the connection between the MSA and Jihad terrorist networks, because last time I checked, we had to do our own fundraising, and we never get help from anyone.  So if you could clarify the connection between UCSD’s MSA or if you don’t have such information, if you could connect other MSA’s on UC’s, because the connection wasn’t to clear in the pamphlet, just if you could clarify.</p>
<p><strong>Horowitz: </strong>Okay.  Will you  condemn Hamas, here and now?</p>
<p><strong>MSA member:</strong> I’m sorry, what?</p>
<p><strong>Horowitz:</strong> Will you condemn  Hamas?</p>
<p><strong>MSA member:</strong> Would I condemn  Hamas?</p>
<p><strong>Horowitz:</strong> As a terrorist  organization.   Genocidal organization.</p>
<p><strong>MSA member: </strong>Are you asking me  to put myself on a cross?</p>
<p><strong>Horowitz: </strong>So you won’t.  I have actually had this experience many times.  You didn’t actually read the pamphlet, because the pamphlet is chapter and verse. The main connection is that the MSA is part of the Muslim Brotherhood Network as revealed…</p>
<p><strong>MSA member: </strong>I don’t think you understood what I meant by that.  I meant if I say something, I am sure that I will be arrested, for reasons of homeland security.  So if you could please just answer my question.</p>
<p><strong>Horowitz:</strong> If you condemn  Hamas, Homeland Security will arrest you?</p>
<p><strong>MSA member: </strong>If I support Hamas,  because your question forces me to condemn Hamas.  If I support  Hamas, I look really bad.</p>
<p><strong>Horowitz: </strong>If you don’t condemn Hamas, obviously you support it.  Case closed.  I have had this experience at UC Santa Barbara, where there were 50 members of the Muslim Students Association sitting right in the rows there.  And throughout my hour talk I kept asking them, will you condemn Hizbollah and Hamas. And none of them would.  And then when the question period came, the president of the Muslim Students Association was the first person to ask a question. And I said, ‘Before you start, will you condemn Hizbollah?’ And he said, ‘Well, that question is too complicated for a yes or no answer.’  So I said, ‘Okay, I’ll put it to you this way.  I am a Jew.  The head of Hizbollah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally.  For or Against it?</p>
<p><strong>MSA member:</strong> For it.</p>
<p><strong>Horowitz:</strong> Thank you for  coming and showing everybody what’s here.</p>
<p>*******</p>
<p>This is the reality of what we’re facing today. We are in a global struggle with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=183&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">Islamic Nazis</a> who brazenly, openly advocate a second holocaust. We are at war with a totalitarian enemy that seeks world domination.</p>
<p>There is really only one question that’s relevant after you’ve watched this video: What are you going to do about this? How are you going to participate in the fight against Nazism? What are you going to do so that “Never Again” really means <em><strong>Never Again</strong></em>?</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Thanks to Pamela Geller who linked and <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/05/unmasked.html" target="_blank">who has more on the truth about the “Palestinian Cause”</a> at <em>Atlas Shrugs</em>.</p>
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<p>In 1695, the Puritan divine Timothy Cruso, after whom Defoe may have titled his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Surprising-Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Mariner/dp/1434622894/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268581986&amp;sr=1-5">famous novel</a>, <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/5633298">wrote</a>: “The days wherein we live are extremely evil, but we have yet a sad and doleful prospect of the next age becoming worse…We see such crowds and swarms of young ones continually posting down to hell, and bringing up so much of hell in the midst of us…we cannot but use some Christian endeavors to open the eyes of these <em>mad prodigals</em>, and to fetch them home.”</p>
<p>Christian endeavors aside, such fears and imprecations are fashionable in every age and testify as much to the unavoidable incompatibility of the generations as to the progressive regression of history. Nevertheless, I sometimes wonder if a time does not eventually come in which the apocalyptic cliché manifests as ineluctable fact, in which the fears of troubled parents are ultimately realized in their refractory offspring.</p>
<p>This was certainly how it was during the student revolution of the 1960s, when university campuses were turned into raucous boot camps for a new generation of political radicals, utopian socialists and psychedelic epicureans—an incoherent “rainbow coalition” that did some good (the Civil Rights Movement) and much harm (rampant drug addiction, anarchic turmoil and rioting, neo-Marxist blueprints for a “better world.”) This sense of entitlement ballooned into the intrusive policies of the welfare state.</p>
<p>Some observers feel that the ideological residue of these “mad prodigals” was on the whole beneficial. Morris Dickstein, for instance, in a beautifully written memoir, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Eden-American-Culture-Sixties/dp/0674341554/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268600251&amp;sr=1-1">Gates of Eden</a></em>, feels that “the culture of the sixties had a liberating effect on many of our lives.” True, he cautions that “while we need to remain free, we don’t need to be perpetually liberated,” but, in the final analysis,  concludes that “Utopian hopes may be disappointed but can rarely be forgotten.” Todd Gitlin goes even further in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sixties-Years-Hope-Days-Rage/dp/0553372122/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268668934&amp;sr=1-1">The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage</a></em>, which is not nearly as temperate as Dickstein’s book. The late Canadian historian and broadcaster Pierre Berton, in his <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/1967-Canadas-Turning-Pierre-Berton/dp/0770427766/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268914989&amp;sr=1-2">1967: A Chronicle of Canada’s Centennial Year</a></em>, comments that we “were all high in 1967, like somebody who had just won the lottery,” and asks rhetorically, “Without that great adventure, what kind of people would we be now?”<em> </em></p>
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<p>Peter Collier and David Horowitz, however, are not so sanguine. In<em> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Destructive-Generation-Second-Thoughts-Sixties/dp/1594030820/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268600363&amp;sr=1-1">Destructive Generation</a></em>,<em> </em>they meticulously chart the disruptive legacy of the period. The generation of the Sixties are now in their sixties. They no longer live in communes but occupy positions of influence in the media, the universities and government, instructing their epigones to continue the struggle to consolidate a political religion built on the “luminous” precepts of equality, fraternity and “social justice.” This is the platform of the New Left, which has issued in the disorder of multicultural relativity in which we are now immersed, the malign dogma of political correctness, the globalizing of resentment, the “unholy alliance” with Islamic extremism, and the postmodern dismantling of the concept of discoverable truth.</p>
<p>It also engendered a social activism that has infiltrated the judiciary, sponsored the uninformed and sanctimonious meddling of the swarming NGOs and polluted the writing of history, transforming it, à la Howard Zinn, William Blum and Noam Chomsky, into a species of disinformation and overt propaganda. <em>Destructive Generation</em> reminds us of “the ability of the Left to wage a culture war after its international commitments [i.e., its advocacy for Communism] had been revealed to be bankrupt. The Sixties created the victim groups that now tear at the fabric of the American enterprise.”</p>
<p>These strictures and insights resonate with me. I was at UC Berkeley at around the same time as Horowitz, participated in the student takeover of Sproul Hall, and fellow-traveled with the leaders of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement">Free Speech Movement</a>. We reveled in our self-proclaimed status as rebels with a cause, who would remake America and the West in our own bearded image. Of course, not everyone in the revolutionary cadres was <em>politically</em> committed to the dismemberment of society as we knew it. Many came along for the jubilant sex, the acid trips and the music, as did the Woodstock hordes and the plankton-like, free-floating hippies who were content to “let it all hang out.” Visiting Belgrade in the late Sixties, I recall keeping company with a group of young Serbian drop-outs, one of whom spent hours every day listening to British shortwave and taping Beatles and Rolling Stone songs. When I asked him about the political situation in Yugoslavia and his sentiments regarding Marshal Tito, he replied, “Politics is for old men.” But back in Berkeley, and especially in <a href="http://www.marxists.org/history/france/may-1968/">Paris in May 1968</a>, this was definitely not the case.</p>
<p>For, apart from the hangers-on and hangers-out, we saw ourselves as the new <a href="http://www.exlibris.org/nonconform/engdis/fifthmonarchists.html">Fifth Monarchy Men</a>, a <a href="http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/new_model_army.htm">New Model Army</a> of youthful saints marching toward the dawning millennium, chasing our quixotic dream that conflict, hatred, inequality and injustice could be abolished once and for all and replaced by an idyllic world in which the economy would be regulated by an enlightened class of sages and benefactors, poverty would cease to exist, racial prejudice and social disparities would be a thing of the benighted past, everyone over thirty would be put out to pasture, and we would all make love, not war.</p>
<p>Greil Marcus in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lipstick-Traces-History-Twentieth-Century/dp/0674535812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268600188&amp;sr=1-1">Lipstick Traces: A Secret history of the Twentieth Century</a></em> remembers those days fondly. “In the fall of 1964, in Berkeley,” he writes, “I was, day after day, for months, part of the crowd that made up the Free Speech Movement…It was a period of doubt, chaos, anger, hesitation, confusion, and finally joy—that’s the word…This event formed a standard against which I’ve judged the present and the past ever since.” Facing the disappointment of a movement fragmenting into dead ends, into “situations without a future” (a quote from French philosopher Guy Debord), Marcus subsequently found an anticlimactic reminiscence and justification of “this public life in punk,” in Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols. What a comedown! More importantly, I believe Marcus was wrong in his premature obsequies. As Collier and Horowitz attest, the future of the 1960s is all around us in the present of the 2000s.</p>
<p>The “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Confederacy-Dunces-John-Kennedy-Toole/dp/0802130208/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268673365&amp;sr=1-1">confederacy of dunces</a>” that we were did incalculable damage to that future. A patchwork collection of Marxists, socialists, Ayers-type guerillas, professional demonstrators, street warriors, Black Panthers and Pantherettes, erotic hedonists, druggies, neo-Rosicrucians, pseudo-<a href="http://www.maharishi.org/">Maharishis</a> and, to make a very long story short, utter narcissists, gave us the inchoate and largely brain-dead Western world we now call home. The belief in the redistribution of income and the leveling of hierarchical structures of rank and privilege energized us in the Berkeley and Paris days. At the same time, particularly among the politically engaged core, we embraced the conviction that society’s ills could be cured by the wise rule of a patrician caste of far-seeing legislators and philosopher-kings—namely, us. That these two axioms were in blatant contradiction with one another escaped our sagacity entirely. We were, as the French say, <em>mi-figue mi-raisin</em>, half fig half raisin. In effect, ideological blivets.</p>
<p>What were we reading then? Aside from the pap productions of the Beats—mainly Jack Kerouac’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Road-Penguin-Great-Books-Century/dp/0140283293/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268755423&amp;sr=1-1">On the Road</a></em> and Alan Ginsberg’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Other-Poems-Lights-Pocket-Poets/dp/0872860175/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268755199&amp;sr=1-1">Howl</a></em>, as well as Henry Miller’s printed wet dreams, J.D. Salinger’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-J-D-Salinger/dp/0316769177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268755766&amp;sr=1-1">The Catcher in The Rye</a></em>, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/TIBETAN-Natural-Liberation-Through-Understanding/dp/0553370901/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268756516&amp;sr=1-1">The Tibetan Book of the Dead</a></em>, Carlos Castaneda’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teachings-Don-Juan-Yaqui-Knowledge/dp/0520256387/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269290629&amp;sr=1-1">The Teachings of Don Juan</a></em> and Timothy Leary’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Ecstasy-Leary-Timothy/dp/1579510310/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268755996&amp;sr=1-6">The Politics of Ecstasy</a></em>, all <em>de rigueur</em>—our hallowed texts were Plato’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Plato-Republic/dp/0872201368/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268746357&amp;sr=1-1">Republic</a></em> and <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Plato/dp/1605125296/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268746405&amp;sr=1-1">Laws</a></em>, Hegel’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_5?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=hegel+phenomenology+of+spirit&amp;sprefix=hegel">Phenomenology of Spirit</a></em>, Marx and Engel’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/German-Ideology-including-Feuerbach-Philosophy/dp/1573922587/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268745407&amp;sr=1-1">The German Ideology</a></em> and <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Communist-Manifesto-Complete-Published-Prefaces/dp/1599869950/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268746285&amp;sr=1-1">The Communist Manifesto</a></em>, and, of course, our beloved guru Herbert Marcuse’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Dimensional-Man-Ideology-Advanced-Industrial/dp/0807014176/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268745889&amp;sr=1-1">One-Dimensional Man</a></em> and his seminal essay “<a href="http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm">Repressive Tolerance</a>.”</p>
<p>The more popular and less onerous bibliography inspired us during our vedic moments, of which there were many. From our revered philosophical ancestors, we drank the heady potion of social revolution, dialectical materialism and the imperative to restructure our world to consort with our political delusions, which, as I’ve suggested, were both pyramidical and egalitarian. From Marcuse, who taught at UC San Diego, we learned the value of epistemic subversion, which meant imposing a moratorium on conservative thought and instead teaching leftist and socialist doctrines to the exclusion of all others. The current Academy with its panoply of culturally destabilizing and intellectually frivolous “studies” programs is the lineal heir of that ostensibly “liberating” but patently oppressive ideology, as is the statist political establishment in most Western countries today.</p>
<p>The more serious curriculum we undertook obviously demanded a certain kind of specialized intelligence which did not prevent a certain kind of generalized stupidity from taking hold of our minds. Though in one sense we were all different from each other, at any rate in terms of the maquillage we sported, in another sense we were all the same, practicing what Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Leftism-Sade-Marx-Hitler-Marcuse/dp/0870001434/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268829801&amp;sr=1-5">Leftism: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse</a></em><strong> </strong>called “identitarian” politics, as we all moved massively to the Left. Tony Judt in his just-released <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ill-Fares-Land-Tony-Judt/dp/1594202761/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269305234&amp;sr=1-1">Ill Fares the Land</a></em> gets it wrong, as he does most things, when he dismisses the collectivist impulse of the Sixties radicals, whom he believes were concerned only with their individual “needs and rights.” As I indicated above, one can be a narcissist and a communitarian at the same time without registering the contradiction. One elevates one’s sense of self-importance by identifying with the masses and speaking on their behalf while magnanimously assuming the burden of leadership. The real problem was that we understood Hegel and Marx—or at least thought we did—but had absolutely no comprehension of the empirical world and of how politics and economics actually work. We were blinded by our vision.</p>
<p>No less distressing, it was as if we had suffered what I’ve elsewhere called a <em>chronosectomy</em>, a temporal amputation, released from the concrete dynamic of history and oblivious of what had come before. We did not believe in the substance of past time, which we regarded as an undifferentiated fantasy or macabre nightmare from which we had suddenly awakened, but invested our faith in the flux of the present and the halcyon future that must inevitably emerge from it. The past was not something to pore over and profit from but to ignore or even expunge from the record, except insofar as it conformed to the theoretical armature of thesis-antithesis-synthesis we had imbibed from Hegel and Marx. In short, we were the generation that sprang from the forehead of Zeus, without parents, without an archive, befuddled by theory and living wholly in present time. We then proceeded to make a holy mess of things.</p>
<p>Some Sixtiers were lucky enough or smart enough to escape the great dumbing-down: Morris Dickstein, for example, for all his nostalgia, takes a measured look back, David Horowitz experienced an intellectual metamorphosis, as he recounts in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Son-Generational-David-Horowitz/dp/0684840057/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268674123&amp;sr=1-1">Radical Son</a></em>, and others have, early or belatedly, managed to pull themselves out of the mental quicksand that swallowed an entire generation and its descendants. The erstwhile “good” communist Milovan Djilas’ prerequisite book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Class-Analysis-Communist-Harvest/dp/015665489X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268748446&amp;sr=1-3">The New Class</a></em>, provided a much-needed corrective, showing how leftist thinking had created a realm of autocratic “managers” and powerful bureaucrats that led to the corruption and overthrow of democratic principles. At one point considered Tito’s successor, he was in a position to know. In the light of what is happening all around us at this very instant, Djilas’ book, for which he spent many years in prison, makes indispensable reading.</p>
<p>Though we are still capable of various exploits—technological innovation and expertise, administrative complexity, the circulation of grievances, the planning of agendas—the lamentable fact is that we have become a society of adroit manipulators locked inside an obsolete world-view, “posting down to hell, and bringing up so much of hell in the midst of us.” Barring a miracle, I see no satisfactory solution to the quandary we are in. Perhaps George Steiner is right when he <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bluebeards-Castle-Towards-Redefinition-Culture/dp/0300017103/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268599777&amp;sr=1-8">places his hope</a> in small, monastic flares of intellectual light dotted here and there across the cultural landscape, reviving Max Weber’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Weber-Political-Writings-Cambridge-History/dp/0521397197/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268599681&amp;sr=1-7">notion</a> of frail enclaves of enlightenment as the last resort of a civilization sinking into darkness. One thinks, too, no doubt a tad melodramatically, of Walter M. Miller Jr.’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Canticle-Leibowitz-Walter-Miller-Jr/dp/0060892994/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268601156&amp;sr=1-1">A Canticle for Leibowitz</a></em> with its obscure abbey in the Utah desert where historical knowledge is kept alive in a blighted world, even if it’s only a sacred shopping list. But is this a feasible scenario? For as Barry Lopez says in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Dreams-Barry-Lopez/dp/0375727485/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268599638&amp;sr=1-1">Arctic Dreams</a></em>, “The good minds still do not find each other often enough.”</p>
<p>It may be necessary to start looking harder.</p>
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<p>Everything you need to know about President Obama&#8217;s commitment to fiscal responsibility and cost containment can be summed up in two words: Andy Stern. The profligate, corruption-coddling head of the powerful Service Employees International Union was named to the White House debt commission last week. If Obama thinks Stern holds the cure for our government spending woes, you can be certain his latest <a href="http://www.creators.com/opinion/michelle-malkin.html#" target="_blank">health care</a> prescription will be fiscal hemlock.</p>
<p>Obama extolled Stern and his other federal debt panel appointees as &#8220;distinguished individuals&#8221; who&#8217;ll bring a &#8220;sense of integrity&#8221; to the job. Tell that to rank-and-file SEIU members across the country who have watched their hard-earned dues go down the tubes under Stern&#8217;s thugocracy. While fat-cat union bosses toss hundreds of millions of dues into Democratic coffers, low-wage SEIU members&#8217; pension funds are eroding and the organization&#8217;s debt is piling up. And federal prosecutors are reviewing requests that the union be investigated for potential illegal lobbying activities at the White House.</p>
<p>More damning: As head of the 2.2 million-member labor union, Stern directly installed a cadre of labor management stooges embroiled in financial scandals across the country.</p>
<p>SEIU crony Tyrone Freeman, like Obama, began his career as an urban community organizer. In 1994, Stern plucked Freeman from Georgia and set his loyalist up as head of Local 6434, the sprawling home-care workers&#8217; chapter in southern California that represents an estimated 160,000 workers who make about $9 an hour caring for the elderly and disabled. Stern then named him a national vice president. It was part of Stern&#8217;s grander plan to consolidate power by merging locals into statewide chapters.</p>
<p>An extensive investigation by the Los Angeles Times exposed how Stern&#8217;s protege siphoned off hundreds of thousands of dollars in dues money for his personal enrichment and pleasure. Moreover, the paper alleged, Stern helped cover up the scandal. Freeman lived large — piping $600,000 in union contracts to his wife&#8217;s video production and entertainment ventures. The local also paid his mother-in-law $8,000 a month to babysit his daughter and other union employees&#8217; children; footed a $13,000 bill for membership at a Beverly Hills cigar club; and forked over $8,000 in union dues to cover expenses for Freeman&#8217;s Hawaiian wedding.</p>
<p>Stern&#8217;s handpicked flunky also created a nonprofit training shop called the &#8220;Homecare Workers Training Center&#8221; — ostensibly to provide educational opportunities for nurses.</p>
<p>In practice, the nonprofit served as a conduit to subsidize a childcare business operated by Freeman&#8217;s mother-in-law. Freeman&#8217;s local also paid another $106,000 to Hollywood talent agency William Morris for &#8220;advice and counsel.&#8221;</p>
<p>SEIU&#8217;s top officials were warned of Freeman&#8217;s plundering six years before the paper blew the whistle. After dragging its feet and being forced to act to quell public embarrassment over the Times investigations, SEIU finally threw Freeman under the bus. He rebounded with a new career as a Los Angeles sports agent.</p>
<p>Rickman Jackson, another Stern administration protege and former chief of staff to Freeman, headed Michigan&#8217;s largest SEIU chapter before being &#8220;reassigned&#8221; for three years to a staff organizing job after the revelation of financial shenanigans tied back to Local 6434. While collecting a six-figure annual salary in Michigan, Jackson was drawing a second salary in California and accepted $33,500 in housing payments on a residence listed as the business address of Freeman&#8217;s bogus nonprofit housing corporation.</p>
<p>Another Stern administration protege, Annelle Grajeda, rose to power after Stern installed her as president of the 80,000-member Local 721 in Los Angeles. She ascended to positions on the union&#8217;s state council and international executive board. Like Freeman and Jackson, Grajeda had been voted onto Stern&#8217;s official administration at the SEIU convention in 2008.</p>
<p>Whistleblowers detailed how Grajeda&#8217;s ex-boyfriend, SEIU official Alejandro Stephens, collected multiple salaries and consultant fees from the union while also pocketing a salary as a Los Angeles County health services employee. Grajeda arranged for her ex-lover to get an eight-month leave of absence from the job. He was fired after he refused to return to work.</p>
<p>Grajeda quit her California posts after catching public flak and found a new job — as special assistant to SEIU secretary-treasurer (and Obama stimulus panel appointee) Anna Burger in Washington, D.C. Grajeda now oversees efforts to &#8220;partner with the Obama administration&#8221; to secure more public funds for SEIU projects involving infrastructure and core public services, including care for the elderly, health care, education and social services.</p>
<p>More recently, San Diego SEIU Local 221 came under fire last month for squandering dues on a cozy $107,000 severance package and consultancy deal for Stern&#8217;s former appointee Sharon Frances-Moore.</p>
<p>Freeman, Jackson, Grajeda and Moore were all groomed by Stern and personally appointed by him to the posts they exploited. Like Obama, Stern has managed to pass the buck while pretending it stopped at his desk. These fiscal responsibility fraudsters now back a massive expansion of government&#8217;s role in health care that they promise will rein in costs and root out fraud. Insert laugh track here.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest in scientific malpractice from climate change alarmists.]]></description>
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<p>Recent history has been unkind to those who maintain that human activity is leading to catastrophic climate change.</p>
<p>Two months ago, we had “Climategate,” the scandal that revealed how the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit had conspired to manipulate data and to bully scientific publications in order to silence scholarship that failed to affirm the global warming gospel. Last month, the failure the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to reach any kind of meaningful agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions dealt another hammer blow to the cause. The latest setback came last week, when the world was presented with a new climate scandal: Glaciergate.</p>
<p>In the latest case, it turns out that the IPCC employed shockingly sloppy science to suggest that, as a consequence of global warming, Himalayan glaciers were on the verge of destruction. Specifically, the IPCC fabricated a non-existent link between climate change and natural disasters. In its 2007 report, IPCC claimed that:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;…glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world, and if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That statement, it turns out, was not based so much on science as on speculation. It was based on a report published by the World Wildlife Fund in 2005. That report in turn was based on an article published in <em>New Scientist</em> in 1999, which had no scientific grounding at all. Glaciers don’t – can’t – melt that fast. If the current rate of melting continues, Himalayan glaciers <em>might</em> disappear in hundreds of years, not twenty five, which is the kind of “rounding error” that seems to permeate climate science.</p>
<p>The IPCC should have known better that to publish anything so patently ridiculous, and there were plenty of skeptics who told them so. &#8220;The absurdity was obvious to anyone who had studied the scientific literature,” Patrick J. Michaels, a senior fellow in environmental policy at the libertarian Cato Institute said. “This was not an honest mistake. IPCC had been warned about it for a year by many scientists.&#8221;</p>
<p>The chair of the IPCC, railroad engineer Rajendra Pachauri, acknowledged the grievous error in a press release, stating that the report presented:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;…poorly substantiated rates of recession and date for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers. In drafting the paragraph in question, the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Obviously <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/01/the-ipcc-is-not-infallible-shock/">this is an isolated incident</a>, NASA scientist and global warming apologist Gavin Schmidt wrote at his website, realclimate.org. Replace Gavin’s “The IPCC Is Not Infallible” header with “The IPCC Is Not Credible” and he might be a bit more believable. The more we learn about the way the IPCC does things, the less reason to entrust the future of the planet to this organization.</p>
<p>Speaking of “isolated incidents”, the 2007 IPCC report also said:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Once the data were normalized, a small statistically significant trend was found for an increase in annual catastrophe loss since 1970 of 2% a year. Once losses are normalized for exposure, there still remains an underlying rising trend.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This statement form the basis for alarmist claims that global warming is causing more severe weather around the world. We now know that this statement was <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7000063.ece?token=null&amp;offset=12&amp;page=2">based on a research paper</a> authored by Robert Muir-Wood of Risk Management Solutions of London, a paper that was <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/dailypolitics/andrewneil/2010/01/the_dam_is_cracking.html">not actually finalized until 2008</a>, a year <em>after</em> IPCC 2007 was published. And this will come as no surprise: the Muir-Wood concluded that there is no linkage between natural disasters like hurricanes, tornados, etc. and “climate change”.</p>
<p>Again, many scientists have dismissed the supposed causal relationship between the two for a long time. &#8220;All the literature published before and since the IPCC report shows that rising disaster losses can be explained entirely by social change,” Roger Pielke professor of environmental studies at Colorado University said. “People have looked hard for evidence that global warming plays a part but can&#8217;t find it. Muir-Wood&#8217;s study actually confirmed that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Which brings us to the United States’ very own version of Climagate. Legendary meteorologist John Coleman hosted <a href="http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/81583352.html">a special broadcast</a> aired by San Diego television station KUSI last week. According to Coleman and the Weather Channel’s Joseph D&#8217;Aleo NOAA has altered its method of representing global temperatures in order to inflate temperature increases. Coleman and D’Aleo say that NOAA reduced the number of global weather stations it uses from over 7,000 to less than 1,500 in order to artificially inflate temperatures. Consider one telling example from the broadcast: NOAA records temperatures in California based on weather stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles only. Weather stations located in the cooler, more upland regions of the state are no longer part of the data set.</p>
<p>NOAA <a href="http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/">doesn’t see any problems</a> with its methodologies, relying heavily on the techniques developed by NASA’s Dr. James Hansen to estimate worldwide temperatures. Of course, the fact that Hansen is one of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Storms-My-Grandchildren-Catastrophe-Humanity/dp/1608192008/">the nation’s most ardent global warming alarmists</a> makes one wonder why anyone would entrust him with the task of proving a theory he has already declared to be irrefutable. According to the NOAA:</p>
<blockquote><p>The analysis method was documented in Hansen and Lebedeff (1987), showing that the correlation of temperature change was reasonably strong for stations separated by up to 1200 km, especially at middle and high latitudes.</p></blockquote>
<p>“Reasonably strong?” Not exactly a ringing endorsement. Nor does NOAA explain why, when trying to take the temperature of an entire planet, less data is better than more. It all strikes this scientist as very suspicious. But then this is the same NOAA that has simultaneously claimed that 2009 is one of the <a href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20100121/">warmest years on record</a> and that the summer of 2009 is the <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/11/noaa-summer-temperature-below-average-for-u-s/">34st coolest season recorded</a>. The CRU scandal; disappearing glaciers that remain stubbornly in place; relying on research that doesn’t actually exist; more fun and games with temperature data – how many more blows can the alarmists take?</p>
<p>Three years ago, thirty eight per cent of Americans thought that global warming should be a top policy priority. The <a href="http://people-press.org/report/584/policy-priorities-2010">most recent Pew survey</a> now pegs the number at twenty eight percent. Himalayan glaciers won’t disappear in the next twenty five years, but the more fragile science upon which global warming theory is built comes to light significant public support for alarmism may melt away in a tenth of the time.</p>
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		<title>CAIR’s Fort Hood Idol</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki recruiting leaders of CAIR?]]></description>
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<p>Following the November massacre that took place at Fort Hood, Texas and the failed terrorist plane attack by the so-called ‘underpants’ bomber, all eyes have been focused on Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born al-Qaeda leader who had been in contact with the perpetrators of both acts. Statements from those involved show al-Awlaki’s influence played a key role in the violence. If indeed that is the case, how many other souls has al-Awlaki been able to fanaticize? And could one be a leader of a local branch of one of the largest Muslim groups in the U.S.?</p>
<p>Anwar Nasser al-Awlaki, a regional commander for al-Qaeda in Yemen, has been suspected of having direct participation in a number of past terrorist attacks against the United States and elsewhere. However, these attacks have not garnered nearly the amount of worldwide attention for al-Awlaki as that which occurred recently by the hands of two others.</p>
<p>On November 5, 2009, Nidal Hasan, a 39-year-old soldier in the U.S. Army, opened fire in a military processing center, murdering 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounding 30.</p>
<p>On December 25, 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian national, attempted to blow up a U.S. airliner using explosives found hidden in his underwear.</p>
<p>Subsequent to the violence, reports surfaced that both perpetrators had formerly been in contact with al-Awlaki. According to al-Awlaki, prior to the Fort Hood attack, Hasan had e-mailed him to discuss the subject of murdering American troops. And according to Yemeni authorities, it is believed that Abdulmutallab was fitted with his bomb at a home being used by al-Awlaki.</p>
<p>Question: How many more people has al-Awlaki been able to inspire in this way?</p>
<p>Hasan and Abdulmutallab were not the only ones taken in by him. Abdulmutallab said there were <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/08/cbsnews_investigates/main6073415.shtml">20 more like himself</a> still at large, and al-Awlaki’s charisma reached thousands, as evidenced by his popular (now defunct) Facebook fan page.</p>
<p>One possible recruit of al-Awlaki’s is a leader from the Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Los Angeles), Affad Shaikh. Shaikh has written about how, following the September 11th attacks, he began “listening to” al-Awlaki.</p>
<p>He wrote, “I would not say that I became practicing [sic] becasue the I felt bad for the treatment by, as you say it, &#8220;kafrs&#8221;… But the deal was that there was a lack on connecting and community for me there that shared or [sic] experianced what I went through after 9/11. It was not easy for me to brush it aside… At first I didnt want to be [the ‘token Muslim’], but gradually with the treatment and [sic] pervalent atmostphere, I just went from one book to another, started with Espisito and Armstrong, went to Kotob and reading classical translations of Ghazzali and Ibn Taymiyya, and listening to people like Anwar Awlaki and Suhaib Webb.”</p>
<p>The “Kotob” whom he is referencing is Sayyid Qutb, a Muslim Brotherhood icon who is considered by many to be the father of the modern Islamic extremist movement. Certainly, it is well known that it was his ideology that was adopted by al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>Suhaib Webb is a popular speaker at various radical Muslim functions throughout the U.S. and abroad.</p>
<p>Shaikh’s quote is in reference to a piece he had penned in September 2006 for his personal blog, entitled ‘<a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Five_Years_Ago_an_American_Muslim_was_born.html">Five Years Ago an American Muslim was born</a>.’ In it, he discusses how 9/11 transformed him into a fundamentalist Muslim. He said that, prior to 9/11, he “had no desire to be involved in” radical Islamic groups such as “the Muslim Student Association or the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”</p>
<p>Indeed, soon Shaikh became involved with both organizations – the latter, CAIR, having major ties to Hamas and its global leader Mousa Abu Marzook.</p>
<p>At the time, Shaikh was residing in San Diego, a former stomping ground to al-Awlaki and two of the 9/11 hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, whom witnesses claim al-Awlaki became close with.</p>
<p>Another individual close to al-Awlaki was Edgar Hopida, the current Public Relations Director of CAIR-San Diego. Hopida attended al-Awlaki’s San Diego mosque, Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami, where al-Awlaki trained Hopida in the Islamic religion shortly after he converted from Catholicism. Hopida told a local television station that <a href="http://www.10news.com/news/21566748/detail.html">al-Awlaki was a “respected imam”</a> and that people should not jump to conclusions regarding his terrorism ties.</p>
<p>However, if in fact al-Awlaki was involved in the above individuals’ lives more than merely knowing them, then those in charge <em>need to jump to conclusions</em> and quickly move to examine every individual that has ever had a connection to him.</p>
<p>Today, Affad Shaikh is the Civil Rights Manager of CAIR-Los Angeles, the main chapter of CAIR-California. He has held this position for nearly four years, since April 2006.</p>
<p>Within this time, in July 2008, Shaikh was stopped with others at the U.S./Mexico border by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents. According to Shaikh, the agents, whom he described as “ignorant, incompetent and inhuman,” had reason to believe that Shaikh and his associates were <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31921">plotting to assassinate President Bush</a>. Shaikh complained that he was held for “three hours” at the checkpoint.</p>
<p>As well, Shaikh’s radical views tend to mimic those of violent extremists overseas. He has <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/press_releases/PR-ShaikhCrusaders.php">referred to Americans in Iraq as “Crusaders,”</a> and he has said that “the United States is among the least peaceful nations in the world.”</p>
<p>Concerning Nidal Hassan, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and the 9/11 hijackers, warning signs <em>and actual warnings (in the case of Abdulmutallab’s father),</em> which could have possibly averted disasters, were overlooked. These signs must not be overlooked with regard to Affad Shaikh and the like.</p>
<p>In the name of national security, precautions need to be taken. About Anwar al-Awlaki, a.k.a. Abu Atiq, we cannot say we weren’t warned.</p>
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		<title>CAIR: Fort Hood Co-Conspirator &#8211; by Paul Sperry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blood of dead soldiers also on terror front group's hands.]]></description>
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<p>With the FBI cutting off ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations and now subpoenaing some 12,000 internal CAIR documents under temporary restraining order as part of the bureau&#8217;s ongoing criminal investigation of CAIR, the terrorist front group is suddenly cooperating with the FBI &#8212; or at least making a show of it.</p>
<p>Suddenly CAIR, an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, is acting like a good citizen. Suddenly it&#8217;s concerned about young Muslim-American men going on jihad. Suddenly it&#8217;s concerned about &#8220;certain&#8221; passages of the Quran inspiring jihadists.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all too little, too late.</p>
<p>Thanks to CAIR, 42 brave American soldiers were gunned down by an Islamic nut in Texas. That&#8217;s right, thanks to CAIR.</p>
<p>How so? For starters, it was the intimidating and ruthless CAIR that almost single-handedly created a climate of fear of reporting any suspicious anti-American behavior on the part of Muslim soldiers like Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.</p>
<p>The CAIR-induced mass silence led to mass murder.</p>
<p>Fear in the military of being seen as anti-Muslim also blocked intellectually honest discussion of violent Islamic ideology in the ranks.</p>
<p>Thanks to CAIR, the military along with everyone else in government is terrified of associating terrorism with Islam. No one dares utter the M word, lest they be sued for discrimination or branded an &#8220;anti-Muslim bigot&#8221; or &#8220;Islamophobe&#8221; by CAIR&#8217;s smear merchants.</p>
<p>&#8220;There were definitely clear indications that Hasan&#8217;s loyalties were not with America,&#8221; said Lt. Col. Val Finnell, one of the Army doctors who served with Hasan. But nobody said anything because &#8220;there&#8217;s a political correctness climate in the military,&#8221; and everybody&#8217;s &#8220;afraid of an equal opportunity lawsuit.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAIR&#8217;s lawyers have filed thousands of EEOC complaints and lawsuits since 9/11. They&#8217;ve even gone after John Doe citizens who alerted airline crew to Muslim men behaving as menacingly and suspiciously as the 9/11 hijackers. CAIR&#8217;s &#8220;Flying While Muslim&#8221; anti-profiling campaign has had a chilling effect throughout the aviation security industry.</p>
<p>CAIR gulled non-Muslims into the kind of see-no-evil dhimmitude that allowed Hasan to carry out his alleged terror. Had anyone dared officially protest Hasan&#8217;s extremist views, they would have not only risked their military careers but potentially faced a lawsuit sponsored by CAIR.</p>
<p>Hasan was treated with kid gloves because CAIR demanded it.</p>
<p>Thanks to CAIR, a dozen soldiers lay dead, along with 29 wounded, some so severely they&#8217;ll never be deployed in the war on terror again, which is just fine by CAIR.</p>
<p>Since 9/11, the Saudi-funded front group has consistently and vehemently protested the war, even in Afghanistan, while defending the Taliban and other terrorists.</p>
<p>CAIR is the No. 1 generator of the false narrative that America is at war against Islam, which is the single-most compelling force motivating homegrown terrorists such as, allegedly, Hasan, who said as much in his PowerPoint diatribe and comments to colleagues. In fact, the chosen topic of his presentation was, &#8220;Is the War on Terror a war on Islam?&#8221;</p>
<p>Around the same time, CAIR&#8217;s then-chairman answered his question: &#8220;The United States is at war with Islam itself.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thus CAIR is the primary Muslim NGO fueling anti-American hostilities and extremism in the Muslim community.</p>
<p>CAIR at the same time has mocked concerns over growing Islamic extremism in America, effectively lowering our collective guard against attack.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is an isolated incident,&#8221; CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said of the Fort Hood terrorist attack, even though it came on the heels of some 70 arrests of Muslims involved in homegrown terrorism over the previous 12 months.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t foresee a rise in religious extremism in the Muslim community,&#8221; CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper sniffed in 2007.</p>
<p>That same year, CAIR mounted a PR offensive against a prescient report from the intelligence branch of the NYPD. Entitled &#8220;Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat,&#8221; the report warned that seemingly law-abiding young Muslim men in America can be turned into terrorists through jihadi indoctrination.</p>
<p>CAIR quickly condemned the report as racist. And a confidential CAIR memo reveals its New York operatives feverishly lobbied NYPD officials to amend the report by softening its conclusion that young Muslim men pose a high security risk.</p>
<p>Following the Muslim Brotherhood playbook to Islamize in America, CAIR effectively has shut down all critical debate. CAIR and the Brotherhood are the enemy. And they are winning the propaganda war.</p>
<p>As part of their disinformation campaign, CAIR whitewashes the threat from jihad during Islamic-sensitivity training for the military, while pressuring brass to erect mosques to serve Muslim soldiers (and convert others), including the new one at Quantico. Its sister organization ISNA, meanwhile, goads the military into recruiting more Muslims, while certifying radical chaplains and lay leaders to counsel them.</p>
<p>No wonder commanders are blind to the jihadist threat in their midst. CAIR and the Muslim Mafia have thrown sand in their eyes. They run and control the Muslim racket in the military.</p>
<p>Hundreds of thousands of Muslims &#8212; including even some U.S. military officers &#8212; engage in or support jihad. It makes little sense that they all could misunderstand their religious obligations. Yet that&#8217;s the load of<br />
manure CAIR is cramming down the throats of U.S. authorities, as it privately engages in and supports jihad itself.</p>
<p><strong>CAIR and the 9/11 Mosque</strong></p>
<p>In addition, CAIR has long supported the radical 9/11 mosque where Hasan worshipped, and still protects it from the investigative scrutiny (and bulldozers) it deserves. Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., is a known breeding ground for terrorists, including:</p>
<p>* Fugitive Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook, a former mosque leader to whom CAIR funneled at least $40,000.</p>
<p>* Top al-Qaida fundraiser Abdurahman Alamoudi, a one-time CAIR director now serving 23 years in federal prison for terrorism.</p>
<p>* Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the would-be al-Qaida presidential assassin who trained with a cell led by a former CAIR official.</p>
<p>* Mohammed al-Hanooti, a current mosque leader and unindicted co-conspirator in both the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and recent Holy Land Foundation terror finance case.</p>
<p>* Ismail Elbarasse, a founding mosque member and leader who was arrested for allegedly casing the Chesapeake Bay bridge for attack.</p>
<p>* Abdelhaleem Ashqar, mosque leader and suspected Hamas operative recently convicted for obstruction of justice.</p>
<p>* Abdullah bin Laden, nephew of the al-Qaida kingpin whose name appears on the federal terrorist watchlist.</p>
<p>*  Hani Hanjour, 9/11 hijacker and Saudi national who flew the jumbo jet into the Pentagon.</p>
<p>* Nawaf al-Hazmi, 9/11 hijacker and Saudi national who joined Hanjour  on the Pentagon flight and acted as second in command of the entire al-Qaida operation behind hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta.</p>
<p>After 9/11, investigators found the phone number for Dar al-Hijrah in the Hamburg, Germany, apartment of one of the planners of the 9/11 attacks &#8212; Ramzi Binalshibh, a Gitmo detainee who will soon stand trial in Manhattan, if the Obama administration has its way.</p>
<p>Constructed with $5 million from the Saudi Embassy and run by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, Dar al-Hijrah is a terror mill and a direct threat to national security. Yet the only thing standing in the way of the mosque and justice is CAIR, which also happens to be a threat to national security.</p>
<p>CAIR maintains a booth at the mosque, and coordinates fundraising with it. Last year the group listed Dar al-Hijrah among its main supporters &#8212; along with the Saudi Embassy. The mosque&#8217;s leaders are listed as VIP contacts in CAIR&#8217;s executive Rolodex.</p>
<p>And once a month, Dar al-Hijrah&#8217;s lead imam &#8212; Shaker Elsayed &#8212; meets with top CAIR officials on the first floor of their D.C. headquarters. Elsayed has said that Muslims have the right to use violence. &#8220;We do have license to respond with all force necessary to our attackers.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also says he believes in the teachings of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, which he describes as &#8220;the closest reflection of how Islam should be in this life.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a sample of what the late al-Banna taught: &#8220;Islam wishes to do way with all states and governments anywhere which are opposed to this ideology and program of Islam. Islam requires the earth &#8212; not just a portion, but the entire planet.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also joining the monthly CAIR breakfast: Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, the nation&#8217;s first Muslim member of Congress.</p>
<p>Another imam at the mosque, Johari Abdul Malik, has preached to American Muslims that they are within Islamic law to &#8220;blow up bridges&#8221; and other infrastructure. &#8220;You can do all forms of sabotage,&#8221; he said in a 2001 Hamas conference.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s also called for Islamic supremacy in America.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will see the day when Islam, by the grace of Allah, will become the dominant way of life,&#8221; Malik told his flock in 2004. &#8220;You will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America to being the first<br />
religion in America.&#8221;</p>
<p>Malik is a close friend of the former Dar al-Hijrah imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, who privately ministered to the 9/11 hijackers. After the attacks, Awlaki fled to London, where he gave a sermon extolling the virtues of martyrdom.</p>
<p>In an interview with me, Malik defended his friend&#8217;s sermon, arguing Muslims who die while fighting unbelievers in the cause of Allah are no different from U.S. Marines fighting and dying for America in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the same thing as telling Marines in this country <em>semper fidelis</em>,&#8221; Malik said. &#8220;Telling people to give their all for their faith is not an unusual idea.&#8221;</p>
<p>His mosque handled the funeral services of Maj. Hasan&#8217;s mother when she passed away in 2001. It was then that Hasan fell under the spell of Dar al-Hijrah cleric Awlaki, aka Aulaqi.</p>
<p><strong>CAIR and the 9/11 Imam</strong></p>
<p>One of al-Qaida&#8217;s top Western recruiters, Awlaki is considered a rock star among jihadists, and has cultivated fans among CAIR officials. Hooper&#8217;s protege Ismail Royer and his terrorist cell chauffeured Awlaki around<br />
Washington as he looked for new terrorist recruits. Prosecutors also found his phone number stored on their cell phones.</p>
<p>Currently heading his booster club within the organization, with Royer now behind bars, is the civil-rights coordinator for CAIR&#8217;s Los Angeles chapter, Affad Shaikh, who has listened to Awlaki&#8217;s lectures and posted links to his Web site on his blog Muslamics.</p>
<p>Shaikh, who in 2008 was questioned by Homeland Security agents near San Diego, appears to have a death wish.</p>
<p>&#8220;In death there is something to celebrate,&#8221; he recently wrote on his blog in a post titled &#8220;Celebrating Death.&#8221; The essay mirrors one Awlaki previously posted on another Web site titled &#8220;Why Muslims Love Death.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our culture of martyrdom needs to be revived,&#8221; the imam preaches, &#8220;because the enemy of Allah fears nothing more than our love of death.&#8221;</p>
<p>Global Islamic domination is the goal.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will implement the rule of Allah on earth by the tip of the sword whether the masses like it or not,&#8221; Awlaki has written.</p>
<p>In the final slide of Hasan&#8217;s 50-slide PowerPoint screed on Islam, he borrowed a page from Awlaki&#8217;s hatebook, warning fellow Army doctors: &#8220;We love death more than you love life.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also wrote: &#8220;If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against injustices of the &#8216;infidels&#8217;: ie: enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary ie: suicide bombing, etc.&#8221;</p>
<p>He no doubt had Muslim groups like CAIR in mind, which have certainly accomplished that goal through radical propaganda and the financing of suicide bombings through charitable fronts groups.</p>
<p>Al-Qaida&#8217;s Awlaki, whom Hooper describes simply as &#8220;a former Virginia imam,&#8221; has spoken at Islamic conferences with longtime CAIR director and fundraiser Siraj Wahhaj.</p>
<p><strong>Establishing an Islamic State</strong></p>
<p>Army doctors recall Hasan declaring Islamic law trumped the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Muslim first and I hold the Shariah, the Islamic law, before the United States Constitution,&#8221; he<br />
said.</p>
<p>Hasan also encouraged Muslims to fight to &#8220;establish an Islamic state&#8221; in America.</p>
<p>Where have we heard this before? From none other than CAIR&#8217;s founding chairman, Omar Ahmad, who once told a Muslim audience: &#8220;Islam isn&#8217;t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran should be the highest authority in America.&#8221;</p>
<p>And we&#8217;ve also heard it from CAIR communications director Hooper, who last decade let it slip out that: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t want to create the impression that I wouldn&#8217;t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAIR and Hasan share the same radical agenda.</p>
<p>CAIR may bill itself as a &#8220;civil-rights advocacy group,&#8221; but the FBI says<br />
that far from being a benign nonprofit, it&#8217;s a front group for Hamas<br />
terrorists and the radical Muslim Brotherhood in America. And the bureau<br />
last year cut off formal ties to CAIR&#8217;s national office in Washington and<br />
all 30 of its branch offices across the country.</p>
<p>CAIR at the time blamed the severance policy on the &#8220;right-wing&#8221; Bush administration, and confidently predicted that a Democrat administration would restore relations. No such luck. Nearly a year into the Obama administration, CAIR remains frozen out. Even the Muslim-friendly President Obama has not helped CAIR, much to its chagrin.</p>
<p>At the same time, the Justice Department has blacklisted CAIR as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator in the largest terror finance case in U.S. history, the Holy Land Foundation trial. It ended in convictions on all<br />
108 counts.</p>
<p>Prosecutors have also connected CAIR to the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide<br />
jihadist movement that seeks to institutionalize Shariah law (think:<br />
Taliban) in America and the West through immigration, coercion and political<br />
infiltration.</p>
<p>&#8220;From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists,&#8221; assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg stated in a court filing.</p>
<p>The Brotherhood is the parent of Hamas and al-Qaida. They share the same goals but use different methods to achieve them. &#8220;The only difference between the guys in the suits and the guys with the AK-47s is timing and tactics,&#8221; explains an FBI official in Washington.</p>
<p>The FBI last year severed ties to CAIR, citing court evidence that its leaders were participating in an &#8220;ongoing&#8221; conspiracy to support terrorists. Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York has requested that the FBI&#8217;s anti-CAIR ban &#8220;should be government-wide policy.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>CAIR&#8217;s Proven Ties to Terrorists</strong></p>
<p>No fewer than 15 CAIR officials have been convicted or implicated in terrorism investigations since 9/11 &#8212; including its founding chairman, Ahmad, and acting executive director, Nihad Awad. The two Palestinian<br />
refugees participated in a secret Hamas meeting (wiretapped by the FBI) whereby a plot was hatched to disguise payments to suicide bombers as charity. Millions subsequently were funneled to Hamas through the Holy Land charity.</p>
<p>And the CAIR co-founders remain under government suspicion, as a result of evidence emerging from the Holy Land terror trial.</p>
<p>&#8220;During that trial, evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and its Executive Director) and &#8230; HAMAS,&#8221; wrote assistant FBI Director Richard Powers in an April 2009 letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.</p>
<p><strong>Tipping Off Terror Targets</strong></p>
<p>Meantime, CAIR and its surrogates are spying on the FBI. The group has cultivated spies inside a Washington-area law enforcement agency, which resulted in at least one Muslim cop representing CAIR on the force searching a classified federal database and then tipping off a fellow Muslim who had been under FBI surveillance as a terrorist suspect.</p>
<p>CAIR also is aggressively lobbying to deny law enforcement tools needed to crack down on terrorists and protect the nation from another 9/11.</p>
<p>CAIR is a tax-exempt nonprofit bound by IRS rules restricting lobbying activities; yet in one year alone, internal records show CAIR officials made 72 separate trips to Congress to lobby to kill the USA Patriot Act.</p>
<p>Concerned members of Congress led by intrepid Rep. Sue Myrick have asked the IRS to audit CAIR and its shady financing. Americans should know the following about this unregistered foreign lobbyist:</p>
<p>* CAIR&#8217;s major funding comes from Persian Gulf sources, including Saudi Arabia, and not from grass-roots domestic supporters as it publicly claims (in fact, membership dues now account for a puny 1% of CAIR&#8217;s total revenue).</p>
<p>* CAIR leaders, including spokesman Hooper, travel frequently to the Middle East to personally raise cash.</p>
<p>* Bank wire records published exclusively in &#8220;Muslim Mafia&#8221; show a Saudi royal family member recently transferred more than $110,000 directly into CAIR&#8217;s bank account at Citibank, for example.</p>
<p>* After 9/11, the ruler of Dubai took a nearly $1 million stake in CAIR&#8217;s headquarters, just three blocks from the U.S. Capitol, and has pledged millions more.</p>
<p>* &#8220;Do not think about your contributions [to CAIR] as donations,&#8221; CAIR&#8217;s former chairman told CAIR&#8217;s UAE patrons. &#8220;Think about it from the perspective of rate of return. The investment of $50 million will give you<br />
billions of dollars in return for 50 years.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAIR is selling its services to the UAE and Saudi governments by doing their ideological and commercial bidding.</p>
<p>Yet CAIR is not registered as a foreign agent, as required by the Justice Department. And it has never disclosed its foreign funding or relationships with countries tied to 9/11 and potentially still hostile to U.S. interests.</p>
<p>CAIR says it&#8217;s the Muslim ACLU. But it&#8217;s the Muslim ACORN &#8212; only more dangerous because it&#8217;s backed by Arab governments, supports terrorism, and ultimately seeks to convert the U.S. into an Islamic police state modeled after Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Make no mistake. Do not be fooled by the moderate mask. Or the belated patriotic rhetoric. CAIR wants the same demise for America as al-Qaida does.</p>
<p>CAIR helps terrorists, and hates the FBI.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because CAIR is one of the bad guys.</p>
<p>CAIR is America&#8217;s enemy.</p>
<p>CAIR is <em>your</em> enemy.</p>
<p><strong>Sperry, a Hoover Institution media fellow, is author of &#8220;Infiltration&#8221; and co-author of the new book, &#8220;<a href="http://www.muslimmafia.com">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That&#8217;s Conspiring to Islamize America</a>.&#8221; Email: <a href="http://ca.mc882.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Sperry@SperryFiles.com">Sperry@SperryFiles.com</a>.</strong></p>
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<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation has presented its Community Leadership Award to Imam Mohamed Abdul-Azeez, spiritual leader of the SALAM (Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims) Islamic center in the capital city of California. Drew Parenti, the FBI special agent who nominated Abdul Azeez for the award, struck up a friendship with the imam in the wake of a local terrorist case, and holds the local leader in high regard.</p>
<p>“The award is for preventing violence, creating understanding, bringing people together, and that&#8217;s what Mohamed Azeez brings,” Parenti told reporters. “He&#8217;s a dynamic community leader, irrespective of religion. Sacramento is truly blessed to have a leader with the vision, energy and compassion demonstrated by Mr. Azeez.”</p>
<p>The special agent in charge of the FBI’s Sacramento office also said that “it’s no secret there is a degree nationally of mistrust, misunderstanding and miscommunication between not just the FBI but the federal government in general and the Muslim community. Imam Azeez should be commended for his willingness to engage in meaningful dialogue.”</p>
<p>Irfan Haq, president of Council of Sacramento Valley Islamic Organizations, called Abul-Azeez “a truly outstanding man who represents mainstream Islam and has done a tremendous amount of outreach work.” Haq also told the <em>Sacramento Bee</em> that “It is also very healthy for the FBI to recognize there are those in the Muslim leadership making an effort to build bridges and reach out and help build a better and safer society. . . There is a certain climate of tension with the FBI on the national level.”</p>
<p>Special agent Parenti has been a friend of Mohamed Abdul-Azeez since a recent terrorism case in Lodi, California. In 2006, American-born Hamid Hayat was sentenced to 24 years for supporting terrorism. He had traveled to Pakistan for jihad training in firearms. His father, Umer Hayat, also a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to lying to customs agents while carrying $28,000 into Pakistan. He also admitted to FBI agents that he approved of the killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl.</p>
<p>Drew Parenti became head of the FBI’s Sacramento office shortly after the arrest of the Hayats. He inherited the case, which Abdul-Azeez said would not have happened under a more cooperative approach with the FBI.</p>
<p>“It&#8217;s not us against them,” Abdul-Azeez told the <em>Sacramento Bee</em>,  “and by working together, it&#8217;s having a profound effect on preventing another 9/11. Prevention&#8217;s not about phone-tapping and visiting people at 3 a.m. It&#8217;s about being friends with the community.” Parenti, a veteran of anti-drug operations in Mexico, filled that role.</p>
<p>Parenti made no apology for the way the Lodi case was conducted or prosecuted, but he went the second mile to calm local Muslims, and for a time even kept a Muslim prayer rug in his office. He visited mosques in the Sacramento area.</p>
<p>“The overwhelming majority” of Muslims, Parenti told the <em>Sacramento Bee</em> last year, “want the same things we all want &#8212; they want safety for themselves, for their family. . .<strong> </strong>They want the freedom to express their views and pursue their faith without fear of retribution or harassment. . .  There&#8217;s the same exact sense of shared American values that everybody else has.”</p>
<p>The agent’s campaign met with approval from local representatives of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic relations. No cases similar to the Hayats have surfaced in Sacramento but the federal government is moving to seize the Qoba Foundation Islamic Center in nearby Carmichael, charging that it is a front for the Iranian government. Those who worship at the center claim to know nothing about any Iranian connection.</p>
<p>Sacramento is also one of four American cities with branches of As-Sabiqun. (The others are Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Philadelphia.) The group, based in Washington DC, defends Ford Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan as a victim, supports Hamas and Hizbullah, and calls for an “Islamic State of North America” by 2050.  A report by the Investigative Project on Terrorism quotes As-Sabiqun leader Imam Abdul Alim Musa that “America is finished” and that “the war is already won. They just have to fall over.”</p>
<p>No news stories have appeared about FBI dealings with the Sacramento branch of this organization. They do not appear to share “the same exact sense of American values that everybody else has,” that FBI agent Drew Parenti finds in the vast majority of Muslims, and Imam Mohamed Abdul-Azeez in particular.</p>
<p>Abdul-Azeez will receive his Community Leadership Award in March, in Washington, from FBI director Robert Mueller. The agency appears to believe that people should be rewarded for what they should be doing as a matter of course. Whether that approach will help avoid terrorist recruitment or attacks remains to be seen.</p>
<p>Mueller, meanwhile, is conducting an investigation into the November 5 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, involving Major Nidal Malik Hasan, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32. This investigation has been portrayed as difficult but it is already known, among other things, that the Army psychiatrist did not share the same American values as everybody else.</p>
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		<title>The Threat at Home &#8211; by Ryan Mauro</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing trend among Somali immigrants in the West.]]></description>
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<p>As the United States turns its attention to security threats abroad, the disturbing trend of extremism in America’s Somali communities is a reminder that there are also real and present dangers at home.</p>
<p>A growing body of evidence suggests that Somali communities in the Unites States have become fertile ground for terrorist groups to recruit and implant operatives. On November 23, the federal government <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/23/us/AP-US-Missing-Somalis.html">announced</a> eight more indictments of Somali-Americans in Minnesota on charges of recruiting members of their community to join the al-Shabaab terrorist organization in Somalia. This brings to 14 the number of Somalis from Minnesota who have been indicted for helping the Al-Qaeda-linked group.</p>
<p>Of the eight indicted, only one has been arrested; the rest are currently outside of the United States. Four of those previously arrested have pled guilty and two have been released while they wait to be tried. The government believes that about 20 Somali-Americans have left the state to join al-Shabaab’s jihad in Somalia, at least three of whom have <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575850,00.html">died</a> since departing. One, Shirwa Ahmed, died when he became the first American suicide bomber.</p>
<p>Several of those indicted attended the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in St. Paul, as did many of those who were recruited. The mosque released a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529796,00.html">statement</a> in March saying that “Abubakar Center didn’t recruit, finance, or otherwise facilitate in any way, shape, or form the travel of those youth.”</p>
<p>Somali gangs are also becoming an issue in Minnesota. Shukri Adan, a former Somali community organizer, said in 2007 that there 400-500 members of his community were involved in gangs. <em>The Associated Press</em> <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/-muslim-gangs-get-foothold-in-minnesota-.html">reported</a> in July that</p>
<blockquote><p>“Despite anger and despair over the killings in Minnesota’s Somali community—the nation’s largest—police and prosecutors have struggled to catch and try the killers. Few witnesses have stepped forward because of a fear of reprisal and deep-rooted distrust of authority.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The concern over extremist elements in the Somali community is not limited to Minnesota. The FBI is <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&amp;pageId=98997">worried</a> about the community of 6,000 living in the Washington D.C. area. The Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, which was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573050,00.html">attended</a> by two of the 9/11 hijackers and the Fort Hood shooter, has many Somali attendees. The former imam of the mosque has acted as an Al-Qaeda recruiter and may be part of the group’s <a href="http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/awlakishebab1208.pdf">efforts</a> to help al-Shabaab. The FBI’s investigation into disappearing Somalis who may have joined the terrorist group <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509839,00.html">includes</a> Seattle, Columbus, Cicinnati, Boston and San Diego.</p>
<p>Brian Moseley, a reporter for the <em>Shelbyville Times-Gazette</em>, won an award for documenting of the inability of Somali immigrants in Shelbyville, Tennessee, to assimilate, causing a culture clash in the town. Moseley <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/15124/sec_id/15124">described</a> how law enforcement and fire department personnel had described to him how the immigrants were hostile to them, and how police officers were often reluctant to patrol areas where they live when it is dark. I also broke a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=97946">story</a> in May about how counter-terrorism expert Dave Gaubatz and his researchers had found extremist material at a mostly Somali mosque in Nashville. Gaubatz and his team collected evidence of child abuse and accused the Department of Child Services of failing to act.</p>
<p>A similar clash was caught on tape when on June 27, 2009 a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfW9inRkTpU">video</a> was uploaded to YouTube showing about 15 Somali youth harassing and throwing rocks at a homosexual man leaving the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis.</p>
<p>Terrorism researcher Patrick Poole <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/homeland_security_snoozes_whil/">wrote</a> in November 2007 that an organization tied to radical Islamic militants in Somalia was holding conferences in Falls Church and Minneapolis, where those attending were instructed on how to send money overseas without being detected. Poole <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33399">wrote</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“…there exists an active recruiting and transportation network in the U.S., including Minneapolis, for Somali-run terrorist training camps, many of which have recently reopened. In many instances, these same Somali leaders purporting ignorance and innocence for the local media are not only aware of these recruiting operations, but have actively participated in them.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Al-Shabaab’s ranks have been swelled by the addition of non-Somalis. The president of Somalia’s government has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/02/fbi-director-al-qaeda-linked-somali-group-attack/">said</a> that up to 1,100 foreign terrorists have joined the group, which now is operating training camps in the East African country. The terrorist group has a wide international network and its training of foreign operatives means it has sympathizers willing to act in the West.</p>
<p>One Somali-American from Minneapolis was <a href="http://www1.voanews.com/somali/news/news-makers-in-english/Somali-Man-Arrested-in-the-Netherlands-on-Terrorism-Charges-69769692.html">arrested</a> in November in the Netherlands for financing the transportation of American recruits to Somalia. Up to five Somalis living in Canada <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2230011">disappeared</a> in November as well and are believed to have traveled together to their homeland via Kenya. Previously, a Toronto-based businessman was killed in 2008 after he joined Somali terrorists fighting Ethiopian troops who had invaded the country to stop extremists from coming to power. British intelligence has <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5741300.ece">said</a> that dozens of people have gone to Somalia and received terrorist training and returned to the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab has taken large control over large swaths of territory, including parts of Mogadishu, potentially allowed Al-Qaeda to replicate the safe harbor and reverse some of its most major losses since the war in Afghanistan began. Already, Somalia is being used as a base to export terrorism. Saudi Arabia has <a href="http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/22531.htm">captured</a> Somalis that were helping the extremist Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and were planning attacks in the Kingdom.</p>
<p>Of course, not all Somalis are sympathizers with extremism. There has been outrage in the Somali community over these developments. On June 11, Somali-Americans in Minneapolis <a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/47883727.html?elr=KArksUUUU">protested</a> the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which they accused of encouraging members of their community not to cooperate with the government’s investigation. The <a href="http://terrorfreesomalia.blogspot.com/">Terror-Free Somalia Foundation</a>, which closely tracks events related to al-Shabaab, is led by Abdurahman Warsame, a Somali-American activist.</p>
<p>The failure to integrate these Somali immigrants into American society is causing strife and has proved to be an asset to al-Shabaab. The majority of the immigrants oppose such extremism. But it doesn’t take many sympathizers to create a network of support for terrorists. The current focus of al-Shabaab is Somalia, but when the day comes that they change their focus to the U.S., they will have American recruits ready for action.</p>
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