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		<title>Iran Laughs at America’s “Surrender” – on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mullahs inch toward the Bomb -- while mocking a Radical-in-Chief.]]></description>
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<p>This week’s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Ernie White</strong>, a Civil Rights Activist, <strong>Morgan Brittany</strong>, a Conservative TV and Movie Star, and <strong>Mell Flynn</strong>, the President of Hollywood Congress of Republicans.</p>
<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-americans-have-very-clearly-surrendered-to-irans-might/"><strong>Iran Laughs at America’s “Surrender,”</strong></a> analyzing how the Mullahs are inching toward the Bomb, while mocking a Radical-in-Chief <strong>(starts at 29:15 mark).</strong> The guests also focused on <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/islamic-supremacist-groups-connect-their-jihad-to-ferguson-riots">Ferguson and Islamic Holy War Against America</a>, <em>Obama and the Ferguson Lynch Mob</em>, <em><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/did-obama-just-fire-his-secretary-of-defense-for-being-a-republican/">Bye Bye Hagel</a></em>, and much, much more.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Surrender to Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic Republic moves one step closer to the bomb. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obama_Iran.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246197" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obama_Iran-450x305.jpg" alt="Obama_Iran" width="388" height="263" /></a>The commander of the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps, Iran’s top military force aligned with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, openly mocked the United States for having “clearly surrendered to Iran’s might,” according to a report quoted by the <i>Washington Free Beacon</i>.  “Despite the military embargo on the Islamic Republic, there is no weapon that our military is not able to manufacture,” he added.</p>
<p>The commander, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, was commenting on the Obama administration’s agreement to a further seven-month extension in the talks with Iran over its nuclear program, which were supposed to have expired on November 24<sup>th</sup>. Sadly, Iran’s top military thug is right. The extension gave the Iranians what they have most wanted out of the talks all along – more time within which to further develop their nuclear arms technologies while still gaining some relief from the economic sanctions. Indeed, Iran will continue to get its hands on $700 million per month in frozen assets under the terms of the nuclear negotiation extension.</p>
<p>Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters that “we would be fools to walk away.” As usual, Kerry was being played for a fool. And once again, the United States looks weak under President Obama&#8217;s failed leadership.</p>
<p>Iran’s leaders are out to prove to the world that Iran can be counted on to stand up to the “arrogant powers,” as Iranian leaders like to refer to the U.S. and its allies. So far, they are succeeding.</p>
<p>“In the nuclear issue, America and colonial European countries got together and did their best to bring the Islamic Republic to its knees, but they could not do so – and they will not do so,” said Ayatollah Khamenei on November 25<sup>th</sup> according to his personal website.</p>
<p>The year-long negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have been going nowhere, even as the Obama administration was reportedly willing to allow Iran to maintain its own nuclear enrichment program. Dismantlement of large parts of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, presumably an original goal of the negotiations for the so-called P-5 countries (the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany), is no longer on the table, if it ever really was.  Iran’s missile program never was on the table. Nor were its possible imports of any nuclear materials, technologies and weapons delivery system components from North Korea.</p>
<p>Yet, the Iranians were still not satisfied with the offers they received during the negotiations. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani boasted in a television interview following the announcement of the talks extension that his country’s “centrifuges will never stop.”  He added that “Today we have a victory much greater than what happened in the negotiation. This victory is that our circumstances are not like previous years. Today we are at a point that nobody in the world [in which no one says] sanctions must be increased in order that Iran accept P5+1 demands. No one says to reach agreement we must increase pressure on Iran.”</p>
<p>Rouhani has a history of using negotiations as a delay tactic to achieve by stealth Iran’s strategic objectives. This time, Iran set out, in the words of its Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, to reach a final deal that will result in “a serious and not a token Iranian enrichment program coupled with removal of sanctions. This is the objective that we’re working on and this is the objective we will achieve.”</p>
<p>What additional evidence does the Obama administration need to demonstrate that Iran’s strategic objective is irreconcilable with a deal that would truly protect the world against Iran’s emergence as a nuclear-armed power? Apparently, they have learned nothing from the disastrous results of negotiations with North Korea. Instead of walking away from the talks after a year of futility and immediately reinstituting the full array of economic sanctions that have been melting away over the last year, the Obama administration buckled.</p>
<p>During the next seven months, the Obama administration will be deluding itself and sacrificing the security of the American people if it thinks that Iran will simply stand still and freeze all of its vast nuclear technology and production programs in place. According to Greg Jones, a senior research and nuclear analyst at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, “They have a stockpile now that’ll probably support the production of about four nuclear weapons, and that’s slowly increasing over the course. It’ll probably gain another nuclear weapons worth by the end of June 2015 when this agreement runs out. So certainly that’s been continuing.”</p>
<p>John Kerry remarked that the Obama administration has “earned the benefit of the doubt” in agreeing to the further extension of talks, even though he conceded that “significant points of disagreement” remain. To the contrary, the administration has run out of excuses. Its quixotic quest for an elusive deal with a rogue state that continues to refuse the International Atomic Energy Agency access to all of its sites does nothing but raise more doubts about the administration’s intentions and competence.</p>
<p>For example, Iran has persistently refused to allow international inspectors to visit Parchin, Iran’s military facility where the agency seeks to probe for itself evidence that Iran may have been conducting experiments on nuclear detonators. Just days ago, the agency’s director Yukiya Amano complained that Iran was not cooperating “concerning issues with possible military dimensions.” Mr. Amano also warned that his agency, while able to assess Iran’s compliance with the interim agreement regarding its declared nuclear materials, was “not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”</p>
<p>Yet Kerry’s message to Congress is to hold off on re-imposing or adding any sanctions at this time. Some members of Congress in both parties are understandably frustrated by the lack of concrete results. They believe that preserving the threat of increased sanctions if an acceptable, verifiable deal is not reached by a date certain is the most realistic strategy.</p>
<p>“The cycle of negotiations, followed by an extension, coupled with sanctions relief for Iran has not succeeded,” the outgoing Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in response to the latest extension. “I continue to believe that the two-track approach of diplomacy and economic pressure that brought Iran to the negotiating table is also the best path forward to achieve a breakthrough.”</p>
<p>Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), whom has co-authored a sanctions bill with Senator Menendez, said it was now “critical that Congress enacts sanctions that give Iran’s mullahs no choice but to dismantle their illicit nuclear program.”</p>
<p>The chances for Congressional passage of a sanctions bill will improve next year when the Republicans take control of the Senate. However, President Obama is likely to veto such a bill. If the current extension runs out in June 2015 with no final deal concluded, expect the Obama administration to once again plead for more time so that it can kick the can down the road for the next president to handle – if it is not too late by then. Even worse, in a rush to try and improve his tarnished foreign policy legacy, President Obama may end up accepting just about any bone Iran offers him in a deal that he can spin as a positive achievement. The lethal consequences will be for the next president to worry about while the world becomes much less safe.</p>
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		<title>Don’t Blame Bush for Al Qaeda in Iraq, Blame Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 04:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the Arab Spring, not the Iraq War, that empowered Al Qaeda.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234686" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lk-450x337.jpg" alt="lk" width="322" height="241" /></a>Like Birkenstocks and ironic t-shirts, blaming Bush has never gone out of style on the left. When Al Qaeda’s resurgence in Iraq became so obvious that even the media, which had been pretending that Obama’s claims about a successful withdrawal were true, could no longer ignore them, their talking points were all lined up and ready.</p>
<p>It was all Bush’s fault.</p>
<p>Defenses of the war by pivotal figures like Dick Cheney and Tony Blair only enraged them further. “Why wouldn’t they admit it was all their fault?”</p>
<p>But the left’s lazy talking points about Iraq, like their talking points about the economy, ignore everything that has happened since 2008.</p>
<p>The leading factor behind the resurgence of Al Qaeda in Iraq didn’t come from Iraq. It came from Syria.</p>
<p>From the “Islamic State of Iraq” under Bush to the ”Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant” under Obama, it’s all in the name. The variations of ISIS and ISIL show a regional shift toward Syria. Al Qaeda in Iraq was a vicious terrorist organization before the Arab Spring, but it was not capable of menacing Baghdad with a sizable army while crushing numerically superior forces along the way.</p>
<p>That didn’t happen in Iraq. It happened in Syria.</p>
<p>If you believe liberal supporters of Obama and opponents of the Iraq War, regime change in Iraq disastrously destabilized the region, but regime change in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen and Syria didn’t.</p>
<p>But the theory that turned Al Qaeda into a regional monster didn’t come from Dick Cheney. It came from Obama’s <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/muslim-brotherhood-reveals-obama-ordered-shift-of-support-from-us-allies-to-islamist-groups/">Presidential Study Directive 11</a> which helped pave the way for the Arab Spring. The definitive speech that opened the gates of hell wasn’t Bush’s speech on Iraq, but Obama’s Cairo speech.</p>
<p>That speech and the policy implemented with it led to the fall of allied governments and the rise of Islamist militias aligned with Al Qaeda. The Arab Spring was a regime change operation on a much larger scale than the Iraq War. Unlike the Iraq War, it was completely unsupervised and uncontrolled.</p>
<p>And it favored America’s enemies from the very outset.</p>
<p>ISIS picked up its weapons and manpower as a consequence of the conflicts in Libya and Syria. Obama chose to fight on the side of Al Qaeda in Libya. That led to the murder of four Americans in Benghazi after Islamic militias took over major cities.</p>
<p>Obama chose to facilitate the smuggling of weapons to Islamic militias by Qatar and other Gulf states. The White <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/obama-administration-oversaw-arms-shipments-to-al-qaeda-in-libya/">House endorsed the weapons smuggling</a>, but then claimed to be surprised that the weapons were going to “more antidemocratic, more hard-line, closer to an extreme version of Islam” fighters.</p>
<p>The White House didn’t shut down the smuggling operation. Instead a senior official claimed not to be able to control the Qataris; not to mention the Saudis, Kuwaitis and the rest of the state-sponsored terrorism gang.</p>
<p>After Libya many of the fighters and weapons went to Syria where different factions of Al Qaeda were battling it out with the Syrian government and each other. And some of those weapons didn’t just end up in Syria.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-us-missiles/">US chopper was shot down in Afghanistan</a> using Qatari weapons supplied to the Libyan Jihadists that ended up in the hands of the Taliban.</p>
<p>Despite supposedly learning a lesson from Libya, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/kerry-endorses-qatars-gun-running-to-syrian-jihadistsal-qaeda/">Kerry announced last year</a> that he supported efforts by the same bad actors to arm the Syrian rebels. Occasional noises were made about seeing to it that the weapons ended up in the hands of the “moderates”, but there was an extensive track record showing that such distinctions meant nothing and that the Gulf states would go on arming terrorists.</p>
<p>Even when the weapons didn’t go directly to Al Qaeda, its various affiliates were able to capture them anyway through defections, deals or outright attacks.</p>
<p>Obama failed to crack down on the weapons smuggling that armed ISIS because it was being carried out by “allies” like Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda would be in no position to menace Baghdad if its flow of weapons and recruits had been aggressively cut off.</p>
<p>There were two paths that led to this current crisis. One was from the Gulf and the other from Iran.</p>
<p>Obama failed to check Iranian power which emboldened Maliki to crack down on Sunnis. The Gulf Sunni states were busy financing the armed and political Jihads of everyone from the Muslim Brotherhood to Al Qaeda. The intersection of these two paths led to the current civil war.</p>
<p>The “Blame Bush” crowd insists that if Saddam had not been overthrown, none of this would be happening. Except that Assad, Saddam’s fellow Baathist dictator, wasn’t overthrown by Bush and he’s still having trouble holding his own against Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>Saddam Hussein might have been less threatened by a Sunni insurgency, but that’s because Al Qaeda in Iraq is allied to and fighting alongside the current head of the Baath Party.</p>
<p>Saddam had supported a number of terrorist groups. Al Qaeda had operated under Saddam Hussein as Ansar Al-Islam and had a Saddam man in its ranks. Today Saddam’s Baathist successors have their own man in ISIS <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/saddam-husseins-son-in-law-and-head-of-baath-party-may-be-behind-al-qaeda-in-iraq/">who chose its current leader</a>.</p>
<p>Saddam and Al Qaeda being on the same team is not some new phenomenon. Saddam helped fund and <a href="http://www.nysun.com/foreign/report-details-saddams-terrorist-ties/72906/">plan operations with Egyptian Islamic Jihad</a> which eventually merged into Al Qaeda and took over its leadership. They both had a common interest when it came to the United States and to Shiites.</p>
<p>If Saddam had not been overthrown, he would probably have become a much more active state sponsor of Al Qaeda once the Arab Spring rolled around.</p>
<p>Obama could have kept Iran and its Shiite allies from pushing the Sunnis into the Baath/Al Qaeda corner by standing up to Iran. Instead he disengaged and pretended that everything was going to be fine. He didn’t believe that, but he didn’t care either. Democrats had been vocal critics of Maliki. Obama repeatedly told Maliki to govern more inclusively as if mere words would somehow change anything.</p>
<p>Power in the Middle East is based on strength, not on teleprompters.</p>
<p>Obama’s withdrawal only meant that everyone would choose a stronger horse. The Shiites chose Iran. The Sunnis chose Al Qaeda. Obama’s failure to do anything about Iran led the Gulf states to require a Salafist horde to keep it at bay. Al Qaeda is their response to the military gap between them and Iran.</p>
<p>Iraq would not have fallen apart nearly as badly without the Arab Spring. Al Qaeda would have gone on killing dozens of people in car bombings, but it wouldn’t have been moving on Baghdad. It wasn’t the Iraq War that turned Al Qaeda in Iraq into a monster that could menace two nations.</p>
<p>It was the Arab Spring.</p>
<p>Obama chose to execute regime change on a much larger scale than Iraq. Al Qaeda’s dominance in Syria and Iraq is only one of the consequences of that disaster.</p>
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		<title>Obama Lied, Americans in Afghanistan Died &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield explains the president's disastrous Afghanistan give-away.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Daniel Greenfield</strong>, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He writes the blog, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/the-point/">The Point</a>, at <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/">Frontpagemag.com</a>.</p>
<p>Daniel discussed &#8220;<span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title yt-uix-expander-head" dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Obama Lied, Americans in Afghanistan Died."><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-lied-americans-in-afghanistan-died/">Obama Lied, Americans in Afghanistan Died</a>,&#8221; outlining the president&#8217;s disastrous Afghanistan give-away.</span></p>
<p>The dialogue also involved an analysis of Obama&#8217;s surrender of Iraq, more revelations on the Benghazi betrayal, the scandalous Taliban-Bergdahl swap, and much, much more:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second <em>Glazov Gang</em> edition, joined by <strong>Dr. Mark Durie,</strong> a theologian, human rights activist, pastor of an Anglican church, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Mark discussed, &#8220;<em>Our Fear of Islam</em>,&#8221; analyzing the different psychological mechanisms the West is now engaged in its surrender to a totalitarian ideology, which includes the &#8220;Tend and Befriend&#8221; response. The dialogue also involved a focus on Islamic female genital mutilation and the world&#8217;s denial about its Muslim theological foundations:</p>
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		<title>Daniel Greenfield on &#8220;How Obama Surrendered Iraq&#8221; &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 04:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freedom Center's Shillman Fellow outlines a Radical-in-Chief's suicidal foreign policy.  ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Daniel Greenfield</strong>, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He writes the blog, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/the-point/">The Point</a>, at <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/">Frontpagemag.com</a>.</p>
<p>Daniel discussed &#8220;How Obama Surrendered Iraq,&#8221; outlining a Radical-in-Chief&#8217;s suicidal foreign policy [<strong>starting at the 8:30 mark</strong>].</p>
<p>The dialogue also involved an analysis of Obama&#8217;s disastrous Afghanistan give-away, more revelations on the Benghazi betrayal, the scandalous Taliban-Bergdahl swap, and much, much more:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second <em>Glazov Gang</em> edition, joined by <strong>Dr. Mark Durie,</strong> a theologian, human rights activist, pastor of an Anglican church, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Mark discussed, &#8220;<em>Our Fear of Islam</em>,&#8221; analyzing the different psychological mechanisms the West is now engaged in its surrender to a totalitarian ideology, which includes the &#8220;Tend and Befriend&#8221; response.  The dialogue also involved a focus on Islamic female genital mutilation and the world&#8217;s denial about its Muslim theological foundations:</p>
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		<title>Brandeis&#8217; Surrender to the Brotherhood on Ayaan Hirsi Ali &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 04:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholar of Islam, David Wood, takes us behind the scenes of a university's shameless surrender to Sharia.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s Glazov Gang was joined by Dr. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007479062157" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100007479062157&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D">David Wood</a>, the host of the Trinity Channel’s live talk show, “Jesus or Muhammad?” He has been in more than 40 public debates with Muslims, and he runs the website <a href="http://www.answeringmuslims.com/">AnsweringMuslims.com</a>.</p>
<p>Dr. Wood discusses <strong><em>Brandeis&#8217; Surrender to the Brotherhood on Ayaan Hirsi Ali</em></strong> and takes us behind the scenes of a university&#8217;s shameless surrender to Sharia:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Frontpage&#8217;s second episode this week was with<strong> Gavin Boby</strong> of the <a href="http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/"><em>Law and Freedom Foundation</em></a>. He shared his fight against <em><strong>Muslim Rape Gangs and Mosque Building</strong></em> in the U.K.:</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Mideast Nightmare</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Radical-in-Chief isolated America in the Middle East.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ali.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222392" alt="ali" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ali.jpg" width="343" height="193" /></a>A man sits holding a cup of coffee in a restaurant. He drops the cup and it cracks. Everyone around him berates him for his thoughtless stupidity.</p>
<p>Then a second man enters and after delivering a fine speech on the virtues of making this into the best restaurant that it can be, begins smashing all the cups and then the plates. He overturns the tables, tears down the curtains, breaks the lights, tumbles all the food to the floor and sets the whole place on fire.</p>
<p>The first man was named George. The second man was named Barack.</p>
<p>During George W. Bush’s last month in office, thirty-one Americans had died in Iraq and Afghanistan. By June, the month of Obama’s infamous Cairo speech, that number had climbed to forty. And by that same time next year, it was at sixty-eight.</p>
<p>When Bush left office at the end of his second term, the region was mostly stable aside from Iran’s nuclear program. By the time Obama had finished his first term, it was in a state of endless war.</p>
<p>It is still in a state of war today.</p>
<p>While Bush only overthrew Saddam, Obama overthrew Mubarak, Ben Ali, Gaddafi and Saleh. The difference lay not only in the scale of their respective regime change operations, but in their relative impacts on regional stability.</p>
<p>Saddam had invaded other countries and cultivated terrorists, while the governments that Obama helped overthrow, aside from Gaddafi, were not expansionistic, were not obsessed with building up WMD’s and had helped maintain regional stability,.</p>
<p>Bush had sought to stabilize the Middle East by removing Saddam. Obama instead destabilized it by trying to remove every government that was in any way friendly to the United States and was not covered by the umbrella of the Saudi GCC.</p>
<p>Bush’s Axis of Evil had consisted of “rogue states”. Obama’s Axis was made up of allied governments. Bush had set out to stabilize the Middle East by clearing out rogue states while Obama set out to empower rogue states by clearing out stable allied governments… which left the rogue states in charge.</p>
<p>The fall of more modern pro-Western governments left the Middle East divided sharply between Sunni and Shiite Islamists in Iran and Saudi Arabia. The Democratic Party’s sabotage of Bush’s efforts to stop Iran had created a regional power imbalance. The Sunnis had numbers, but the Shiites were going nuclear. And a nuclear bomb is a blunt instrument for reducing population numbers by the millions.</p>
<p>Obama’s abandonment of Iraq had pushed it through another violent sectarian split that revived Al Qaeda and combined with his Arab Spring, consumed Syria.</p>
<p>Unable to match Iran on purely military terms and with the United States unwilling to do anything about its nuclear program, the Sunnis turned to insurgency. The Arab Spring had been disastrous for Sunni military powers like Egypt, but helped revive Sunni insurgencies. Syria, with a Sunni majority, was a perfect platform for taking on the Shiite axis and alienating it from the rest of the region.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia tied down Obama’s “regional reforms” in a civil war exchanging his vision of populist Islamist regime change for violent sectarian conflict and killing his “Arab Spring”. Then killing a second bird with that same stone, it dragged Iran into a brutal insurgency, doing to Iran, what it and the Saudis had done to the United States in Iraq.</p>
<p>Except that it was no longer just about Syria. Syria had become a Sunni-Shiite fracture point stretching into Iraq and Lebanon.</p>
<p>Obama’s abandonment of Iraq led to a comeback for Al Qaeda in Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq had always been the most feral Middle Eastern franchise in the Al Qaeda family. The most brutal, the most senselessly violent and the likeliest to kill just for the sake of killing; its members seemed sociopathic even to hardened Al Qaeda leaders. And Bush had succeeded in burying it until Obama dug it up again.</p>
<p>The sectarian split in Iraq and Syria turned Al Qaeda in Iraq from a defeated footnote to a resurgent army with tens of thousands of fighters and a grip on two major countries.</p>
<p>When Obama boasts that the core of Al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, he neglects to mention that the most dangerous part of Al Qaeda is now more powerful than it ever was before. Or that Al Qaeda now has more numbers, more territory and more experience than ever before.</p>
<p>Obama could do nothing meaningful about Al Qaeda in Syria because he feared empowering Assad. And he couldn’t do anything about Assad because he feared alienating Iran. It was a Catch 22 situation forcing him to choose between the Arab Spring and outreach to Iran.</p>
<p>After a long midnight struggle of the soul, he chose Iran.</p>
<p>The Arab Spring had been Obama’s international ObamaCare. It was the project that he was most identified with and the one that he could most take credit for. But by the time the Arab Spring had come down to bombing Syria, it was about as popular as ObamaCare. Russia, Iran and Syria offered Obama a way out. A new, new beginning to replace the old new beginning that had gone wrong in Cairo.</p>
<p>Having sold out Iraq, Egypt and Tunisia, Obama finished the job by dumping the rest of his Sunni allies and taking a ride on the Shiite nuclear express.</p>
<p>Bush had often been blamed for isolating the United States, but it was Obama who thoroughly isolated the United States in the Middle East.</p>
<p>The United States had set out to isolate Iran, but Obama’s nuclear pandering to Iran instead allowed Iran to isolate the United States from its allies. No country in the Middle East still trusts the United States. Egypt despises Obama. The Saudis insult him. The rest don’t even bother to do that much. The Israeli Defense Minister talks of dealing with Iran alone.</p>
<p>The United States has become a fading shadow in the Middle East; a power vacuum waiting to be filled by a nuclear arms race and battlefields of the dead.</p>
<p>Obama inflicted severe damage on American influence and interests, and on the Middle East, with nothing but an inchoate notion that the Islamists who would take over when he was done would embrace democracy over terrorism.  Instead there is less democracy and more terror than ever before.</p>
<p>Obama’s foreign policy was a self-fulfilling prophecy. The left had insisted for decades that the Arab Street was angry because of the damage wrought by our interference in their domestic politics. And he attempted to “right that error” by interfering so much that the accusation was finally proven true.</p>
<p>The one thing that all the parties in Egypt, that Sunni and Shiite from Syria to Iraq to Lebanon, that Christian, Jew and Muslim can agree on, is that the Middle East would have been better off if Obama had kept his mouth shut and stayed away.</p>
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		<title>Al Qaeda: Bigger, Stronger &amp; More Dangerous Than Ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 05:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago the terrorist group's numbers were few -- now its retaking Fallujah. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/alf.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214848" alt="alf" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/alf-450x299.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>In 2008, Senator Obama wrote an op-ed for the <i>New York Times</i> laying out his plan for Iraq. “I believed it was a grave mistake to allow ourselves to be distracted from the fight against Al Qaeda,” he wrote to explain his opposition to the Iraq War.</p>
<p>Obama’s plan for Iraq consisted of the obligatory Bush-bashing combined with the Democratic Party’s favorite counterintuitive talking point of the time claiming that, “only by redeploying our troops can we press the Iraqis to reach comprehensive political accommodation.”</p>
<p>It was a talking point that Obama would repeat over and over again in the Senate and on the campaign trail. And the more he repeated it, the less sense it made.</p>
<p>Why would the Sunnis and Shiites be more likely to reach an accommodation if American troops were no longer present in Iraq, with Iran leaving over the shoulders of the Shiite majority and Al Qaeda making a comeback as the defenders of the Sunni minority?</p>
<p>Obama never did get around to answering that question. During the Democratic primaries, he insisted that the best way “to pressure Iraq’s leaders to resolve their civil war is to immediately begin to remove our combat troops. Not in six months or one year – now.”</p>
<p>Obama did not withdraw the troops “now.” He did not withdraw them in six months or in one year. He did fudge matters once in office by staging a fake withdrawal and renaming the mission and then staging a real withdrawal on the Bush timeline. And he left with the situation deteriorating to dangerous levels.</p>
<p>In his 2011 State of the Union address, he boasted of Iraq, “Violence is down, and a new government has been formed.” The ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner was belatedly hung and everyone moved on.</p>
<p>Except Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda was hardly present in Afghanistan. But it was heavily present in Iraq. And it didn’t go away just because Obama stopped paying attention to it.</p>
<p>Now Al Qaeda in Iraq is trying to take over two countries at once; Iraq and Syria. It’s a big goal, but it knows that in Syria, Obama will help them and that in Iraq, he won’t do anything to stop them.</p>
<p>The United States has carried out drone strikes against Al Qaeda in Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan. But it hasn’t touched the largest concentration of Al Qaeda in the world in Syria where the Al Nusra Front has as many as 20,000 fighters and ISIS <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/11/us-iraq-violence-al-qaeda-idUSBRE9BA0O820131211">has 12,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria</a></p>
<p>30,000 Al Qaeda terrorists should be the world’s biggest target, but Obama is too busy pretending that they aren’t there.</p>
<p>In response to Al Qaeda in Iraq’s onslaught in that country where the terrorist group has reclaimed Fallujah and parts of Ramadi, the CIA will provide targeting information to the Iraqis while equipping them with surveillance drones and Cessna turboprop planes armed with Hellfire missiles.</p>
<p>It’s a ridiculously complicated way to try and duplicate the drone strikes that have worked so well in Pakistan without actually having a single American aircraft, even unmanned, in the skies over Iraq.</p>
<p>The convoluted workaround is a testament to how much Obama wants to avoid even the appearance of American forces returning to Iraq. Instead of protecting national security by preventing Al Qaeda from gaining the manpower, revenue and weapons to once again seriously threaten the United States, he is putting politics first.</p>
<p>Again.</p>
<p>The Iraq War is extremely unpopular and it was Obama and his fellow Democrats who helped make it that way. It was Obama who shamelessly campaigned on an early withdrawal promise that he had no intention of keeping, pretended that he had made an early withdrawal and eventually skipped out of Iraq rather than reach an agreement which would have alerted the public to his original lie.</p>
<p>The costs of that deceit can be seen in Anbar Province today. Obama claimed that he had a plan for Iraq. But there was no plan. There were only catchphrases and applause lines.</p>
<p>Despite repeatedly calling for a political solution in Iraq, as he now calls for a political solution in Afghanistan, Obama had no plan for achieving it. Instead he looked away from Iran’s penetration of Iraq and the resulting sharp split between Sunnis and Shiites. He ignored the escalation of Al Qaeda attacks and instead created a safe zone for Al Qaeda in Syria by backing the Sunni Jihadists of the Arab Spring.</p>
<p>Obama destabilized Iraq. Then he destabilized Syria. And both countries turned into playgrounds for Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>Obama still has no plan for dealing with that. Secretary of State John Kerry camps out in Jerusalem to pressure Israel into releasing more terrorists. The <i>New York Times</i> describes his larger goal as pushing for a worldwide mandatory Global Warming treaty in 2015. Iraq doesn’t appear anywhere on the list.</p>
<p>Kerry famously told students that if they didn’t get a good education, they would end up stuck in Iraq. American soldiers were offended by the joke, but it turns out that it’s possible to be so overeducated that you end up stuck in Iraq without ever knowing it. That is Kerry and Obama’s problem.</p>
<p>Neither man wants to touch Iraq with a thousand-mile pole, but Al Qaeda suffers from no such scruples.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda in Iraq isn’t <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/al-qaeda-in-iraq-still-threatens-america/">just building bombs anymore</a>. It’s playing around with chemical weapons. And it’s even experimenting with using drones to carry out chemical weapons attacks.</p>
<p>Last spring, Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/al-qaeda-in-iraq-caught-plotting-nerve-gas-attack-in-the-united-states/">were busted in a chemical weapons workshop</a> with nerve gas in a plot to carry out attacks in Europe and the United States. Al Nusra Front terrorists were arrested in Turkey in possession of more nerve gas.</p>
<p>A few years ago, Al Qaeda’s worldwide numbers were miniscule. There were never more than a few dozen Al Qaeda in Afghanistan when Obama redeployed there and sacrificed the lives of over 1600 American soldiers. But there are now tens of thousands of Al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p>With Iraq and Syria, Al Qaeda has gained access to manpower, weapons, both conventional and unconventional, and even oil, making it more powerful than it ever was. Even more powerful than its former Taliban hosts.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda in Iraq’s ranks <a href="http://www.cfr.org/iraq/al-qaeda-iraq-k-islamic-state-iraq-greater-syria/p14811#p5">doubled after the Obama</a> pullout. They have since increased fivefold.</p>
<p>Under Obama, Al Qaeda has not only rebuilt, it has made gains that put it vastly beyond where it was before September 11. All the sacrifices and hard work were undone in a matter of years by Obama.</p>
<p>Back home, Iraq War vets are angry at the sight of Al Qaeda flags rising in Fallujah and Ramadi. More Americans died in Anbar Province than anywhere else. Now <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/06/fallujah-ramadi/4344011/">their sacrifices have been wasted</a>.</p>
<p>Jeremiah Workman, a United States Marine who received the <a href="http://www.homeofheroes.com/valor/08_WOT/nc_workman.html">second-highest award for valor</a> during the fighting in Fallujah, said, &#8220;My heart is aching right now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama has never stopped taking his victory lap over Osama, but Al Qaeda has gained new strength under him. Not only isn’t Al Qaeda on the run, as he falsely claimed during the election, but it is bigger, stronger and more dangerous than ever.</p>
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		<title>The ObamaCare Nightmare &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 05:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The catastrophe that Obama's health care plan is inflicting on America.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/kt.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-213145" alt="kt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/kt.jpg" width="333" height="266" /></a>This week&#8217;s Glazov Gang was joined by <strong>Dwight Schultz</strong>, a Hollywood actor, <strong>Ann-Marie Murrell</strong>, the National Director of <em>PolitiChicks.tv</em> and <strong>Monty Morton</strong>, a Walking Encyclopedia of Facts.</p>
<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <em>The ObamaCare Nightmare. </em>The discussion occurred in <strong>Part I</strong> and focused on the catastrophe that Obama&#8217;s health care plan is inflicting on America.</p>
<p>In <strong>Part II</strong>, the Gang discussed &#8220;<em>Israel Betrayed,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Spencer and Geller Banned from the UK for Pro-Israel Stance&#8221; </em></em>and<em> &#8220;</em><em>Inconvenient Truths About The Knockout Game</em>.&#8221; <em><br />
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		<title>Conversions to Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Solway]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an alarming rate, Westerners strip themselves of their identity and past.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/tamerlan.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-188564" alt="tamerlan" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/tamerlan.jpg" width="282" height="187" /></a>An alarming feature of our current sociocultural world is the striking frequency of conversions to Islam across the entire gamut of Western private and public life: <a href="prisoners">prisoners</a> converting to the religion of peace in record numbers; <a href="http://standpointmag.co.uk/features-may-10-why-do-western-women-convert-julie-bindel-islam-female-conversion">women</a> who crave the emotional comfort and feeling of security that donning the hijab or the niqab purportedly confers; disaffected youth who find purpose and meaning in attending the mosque, often becoming radicalized in the process; African-Americans reacting against Christianity as the white man’s religion and who “<a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/ReachOut/emergence.html">associate conversion</a> to Islam with recovering their ethnic heritage”; political figures who, whether secretly or publicly, swear by the Koran, the most conspicuous recent example being the bizarre spectacle of <a href="http://www.carbonated.tv/news/from-an-islamophobe-to-a-muslim-arnoud-van-doorn-ex-leading-member-in-farright-dutch-politician-geert-wilders-party-accepts-islam">Arnoud Van Doorn</a>, one of the Dutch producers of the uncompromising anti-Islam film <i>Fitna</i> and a former leading member of Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party, <a href="http://www.carbonated.tv/news/from-an-islamophobe-to-a-muslim-arnoud-van-doorn-ex-leading-member-in-farright-dutch-politician-geert-wilders-party-accepts-islam">happily and gratefully</a> converting to Islam. Even a <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/gitmo-prison-guard-converts-from-atheism-to-islam-after-seeing-detainees-wake-each-day-and-smile/">Gitmo prison guard</a> proved unable to resist the seduction of Islam. To read only a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Islam">partial list</a> of notable converts to Islam is chastening.</p>
<p>Such conversions reveal a craving for the collectivist embrace of an explanatory and consoling paradigm, and are a symptom of cultural irresponsibility. Some of these, it is true, remain more or less innocuous, but others lead to the espousal of sanctified violence. Michael Ledeen points out in an interesting <a href="http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2013/05/01/homegrown-terrorist-myth/">article</a> debunking the myth of the “homegrown terrorist” that such people, “motivated by strong ideological or religious beliefs,” have come to identify with foreign doctrines and ideologies that are “anything but homegrown.” The indoctrination they undergo may be learned online, though “more often than not [it] takes place at the feet of foreign teachers and trainers.” They are not to be understood as homegrown terrorists since they have “turned to non-American visions and visionaries.” Reiterating his rejection of the “homegrown” label, Ledeen calls them “converts” who “have taken leave of us to join our enemies.” Of course, the terminology we use may also be a question of semantics. <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Giuliani-US-Grown-Terrorists-Boston/2013/05/05/id/502825?s=al&amp;promo_code=13607-1">Rudi Giuliani</a> has no qualms about using the term “homegrown,” but he means the same thing as Ledeen. He goes wrong, however, in claiming that a significant number of terrorist attacks come from a &#8220;distorted Islamic extremist ideology.&#8221; Such attacks are enjoined in the Koran and validated in the Hadith and derive not from some rarefied or ultraist version of the faith but from Islam proper. There is nothing “distorted” (to echo Giuliani) or deviant about them.</p>
<p>“Imagine,” <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/calling-islam-islam/">writes</a> former Muslim Bosch Fawstin, “if…we used terms such as ‘Radical Nazism’…and ‘Militant Communism.’ The implication would be that there are good versions of those ideologies, which would then lead some to seek out ‘moderate’ Nazis. Those who use terms other than ‘Islam’ create the impression that it’s some variant of Islam that’s behind the enemy that we’re facing.” He continues by stressing the undeniable fact that Islam “is a political religion; the idea of a separation of Mosque and State is unheard of in the Muslim world. Islam has a doctrine of warfare, Jihad, which is fought in order to establish Islamic (‘Sharia’) Law, which is, by nature, totalitarian. Sharia Law calls for, among other things: the dehumanization of women; the flogging/stoning/killing of adulterers; and the killing of homosexuals, apostates and critics of Islam. All of this is part of <i>orthodox</i> Islam, not some ‘extremist’ form of it.” Many, if not most, converts appear serenely unaware of the central tenets and imperatives of their adopted faith, and never seem to ask themselves the obvious question: was Mohammed, with his program of military conquest and his many sanguinary injunctions, a “moderate Muslim” or an Islamist?</p>
<p>What we are dealing with is a local subset of V.S. Naipaul’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Belief-Islamic-Excursions-Converted/dp/0375706488/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1367603669&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=v.s.+naipaul+beyond+belief"><i>Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples</i></a>. Naipaul treats of the tragic effects of Arab imperialistic conquest of four Asian nations, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan and Indonesia. He writes: “The cruelty of Islamic fundamentalism is that it allows only one people—the Arabs, the original people of the Prophet—a past, and sacred places.” Converted peoples “have to strip themselves of their past…It is the most uncompromising kind of imperialism.” Naipaul’s stories about his travels and the people he met are often heartrending and testify to the confusion and dislocation he sees in their lives and the desertification of mind and spirit that Islam has visited on these countries—the most “retrograde force” in the world, as Winston Churchill described Islam in <a href="The%20River%20War"><i>The River War</i></a>.</p>
<p>Naipaul is speaking chiefly of massive, forced conversions, but the same is true, <i>mutatis mutandis</i>, of the inroads that the religion of peace has carved into the West where voluntary conversions seem to have attained <a href="http://www.newsnet14.com/?p=78870">near-epidemic proportions</a>. Islamic supremacy operates through various complementary means: fear triggered by outright violence and the threat of violence; infiltration of administrations at the municipal, regional and national levels; the suborning of a debauched and obeisant media apparatus; the abject scrivenings of a submissive intellectual class; the pervasive compliance of the entertainment industry; and the corruption of the academy with the willing assistance of university syndics, professors and student unions—a perfect illustration of the Gramscian long march through the institutions. The evidence is pouring in from everywhere, dutifully ignored by those who have a stake in the multicultural fiction. Bruce Bawer, our point man in Norway, has abundantly <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/norwegians-outsiders-in-their-own-country/">chronicled</a> the ongoing Islamic conquest of the country that proceeds with the willing complicity of media, academic and political elites. “One way to avoid warfare,” he quips, “is to surrender,” and tells of a representative youngster, a terrified native Norwegian schoolboy menaced by Muslim gangs, who “alone knows five people who have converted.” Multiply by a correlative census coefficient and the picture darkens considerably.</p>
<p>When all these factors are assembled, abetted by the growing phenomenon of conversion, Islam is virtually assured of subverting vast segments of Western social, cultural and political life. Indeed, as if to rub salt into the wound, Islamic speakers are increasingly hosted in our auditoriums, public venues and places of worship while those who oppose the surrender of our rights and liberties to an alien and hostile creed are vigorously repudiated.</p>
<p>To take only the most recent instances of such blatant ignominy, in the immediate wake of the horrific Boston Marathon bombing and the <a href="terrorist%20plot">terrorist plot</a> to blow up a VIA rail passenger train over Niagara Falls, the anti-semitic director of the <a href="http://igcs.binghamton.edu/">Institute of Global Cultural Studies</a> at SUNY-Binghamton, Ali Mazrui, is to be <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/05/anti-semite-ali-mazrui-honored-by-alwaleed-bin">honored</a> at Georgetown University, and Leila Shahid, a convicted terrorist, airline hijacker and spokesperson for the Palestinian mafia, has been invited to speak by satellite link at the University of British Columbia. At the same time, Pamela Geller’s speech at a Toronto synagogue has been <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/free_speech_under_fire_in_canada.html">cancelled</a>, owing to <a href="police%20pressure">police pressure</a> and a flexible rabbi who caved before it, determined, no doubt, to retain his police chaplaincy. Geller is thus deprived of the opportunity to tell the truth about sharia, jihad, honor killing, female genital mutilation, blasphemy laws and all the other gifts showered upon us by Islamic advocacy. But Ali Mazrui and Leila Shahid will be offered the occasion and the forum to fire up sympathy for and make a few more enthusiastic converts to the religion of peace.</p>
<p>The longer we insist on ignoring the dromedary in the room, the sooner the acropolis of the West will be invested and despoiled. The drift toward political and cultural capitulation signaled by such callow genuflections as we have noted here is one of the most important issues of our time. The specter of conversion in particular is the sign and stamp of a successful imperial campaign. Once it acquires the force and sweep of a movement, it is too late for a biopsy. The disease has entered its final stages. It is, perhaps, only a matter of one more generation before the curtain comes down—two if we are lucky. To adapt T.S. Eliot’s famous aphorism, this is how a culture dies, not with a bang but a simper.</p>
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		<title>Will Obama Come For The Guns? &#8212; on The Finch Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A frightening glimpse into the Radical-in-Chief's agenda for his second term. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/the-shattered-republican-spine-on-the-glazov-gang/gyu/" rel="attachment wp-att-173104"><img class=" wp-image-173104 alignleft" title="gyu" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gyu-450x245.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="172" /></a>Don&#8217;t miss this special episode of The Glazov Gang in which Mike Finch, Chief Operating Officer at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, fills in for Jamie Glazov and hosts a fascinating discussion with Bill Whittle, Dwight Schultz and Paul Croshaw.</p>
<p>In <strong>Part I</strong>, the Gang focuses on <em>The Republicans&#8217; Shattered Spine. </em>In <strong>Part II</strong>, the Gang looks at <em>Will Obama Come For The Guns?</em> See both parts of the two part series below:</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real war is much bigger than Gaza.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/middle-east-burning/protest-4/" rel="attachment wp-att-165826"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-165826" title="Protest" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Protest-450x254.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="152" /></a>It is in the nature of the media beast that anything that happens in or around the Jewish State gets far more attention than anything that happens throughout the rest of the region. Israel has also created a safe zone for reporters. It is one of the few places in the Middle East where reporters can write what they like without having to worry about receiving a visit in the middle of the night and a ride inside the trunk of a black car.</p>
<p>But the time-honored obsession with Jews, which even the stiffest BBC or Guardian correspondent isn’t immune to, may also be a factor. Far more people recognize Sabra and Shatila than Hama, and if Assad survives, his current killing spree will quickly fade into distant memory by those who will go on invoking Deir Yassin as if it happened last week. No one would buy a book complaining about the Norwegians or the Syrians; and the same goes for the news stories that the media chooses to run on a daily basis.</p>
<p>But the media’s myopic focus on Israel also distorts the coverage of the region. Like Pavlov’s dogs, reporters reflexively reduce the Middle East to a conflict between Israel and the Arabs, Jews and Muslims, the people that they hate and the people that they like. Asking them to cover anything more complicated than that is also asking them to do too much.</p>
<p>The press handled the Arab Spring by resorting to a simple narrative of dictators and rebels. Now that the rebels have become the dictators, the men and women of the press in their pressed khakis have no idea how to cover them. Syria, where Sunnis and Shiites keep killing each other, is even more baffling to them. Even after all the revelations about the Free Syrian Army, the massacres of Christians and the flights of refugees escaping the Islamist militias, the press strains to return to its old comfortable narrative of brave rebels resisting a vicious dictator.</p>
<p>But dictatorship is a permanent feature of life in the region. And it doesn’t matter much whether a new tyranny is reached through the ballot box or the bomb. The media is unable to reach beyond its simplistic narratives to see that it isn’t merely Gaza or Syria that are burning, but the entire Middle East.</p>
<p>The flames of the Middle East have been lit by a larger regional struggle that has been going on, in one form or another, for generations. It’s not a struggle over big ideas, but over very little ones. Even the fighting between Sunnis and Shiites has its roots in a simple tribal dispute between the family members and successors of Mohammed. Much of the rest of the fighting comes down to equally crude tribal power struggles, which when stripped of their rhetoric, are reduced to battles over racial rivalries and clan ambitions.</p>
<p>After the Arab Spring, the Middle East is far more polarized and on edge than ever. A Post-American Middle East has become a much more dangerous place with little to keep Sunnis and Shiites from battling to the death over the region.</p>
<p>Obama’s premature withdrawal from Iraq tipped that country into the Shiite camp, next to Iran and Syria. Not satisfied with that, his intervention in the Arab Spring tipped Egypt, Libya and Tunisia into the Sunni Islamist camp. Both sides are now playing for Syria, in what is being described as a rebellion, but is actually a repetition of an old religious war.</p>
<p>The Syrian Sunni Jihadists and the Syrian Alawite government are proxies for the larger Shiite and Sunni powers hoping to remake the region in their own image. Whichever one of them wins, the conflict will be far from over. Wars never really end in the Middle East, except with massacres, and as long as there are any survivors left, then the old rivalries will flare to life again sooner or later.</p>
<p>The Muslim world is not terribly good at fighting wars. Certainly not wars of the modern kind. But it is quite good at supplying insurgencies and finding bands of fighters willing to engage in hit and run attacks. With many of the insurgents and factions switching sides more often than the wind changes, all the elements for an endless war are already in place.</p>
<p>Sunni and Shiite militias are already pouring into Syria. But Syria is only the appetizer for the main dish on the menu. Iraq. During the Iraq War, Syrian fighters were crossing into Iraq. These days’ Iraqi fighters are crossing into Syria. But it can just as easily switch around again. A decade of wars has built up a sizable reserve of Jihadists eager and willing to go anywhere for a fight.</p>
<p>Iraq has a sizable amount of oil wealth and is a much sweeter prize than Syria. And despite the media’s refusal to cover anything that doesn’t have the word “Israel” in it; the Iraq War never ended. Instead Maliki is uncomfortably at odds with the Sunnis and Kurds, and the real fighting is likely to begin soon enough, even not counting the usual bursts of Al Qaeda terror.</p>
<p>Iraqi Jihadists found their way to Libya during the Benghazi attack. Now Libyan Jihadists are headed over to Syria. If Syria dies down, they will move on to the next conflict. This reserve of fighters, funded by oil money, is the single biggest development in the region. Each war inflates their totals and their availability starts new wars.</p>
<p>The media insists on trying to see regional developments through the familiar lens of democracy, but in a region separated by inflexible differences, democracy is only another tool of power, no different than the suicide bomber or the massacre. Democracy in the Muslim world is nothing but a means of majoritarian supremacy, not a new stage of moral and political development.</p>
<p>Through a Western lens, a democratic election is a form of progress, but through an Eastern lens it is a means for the majority to assert its power over the minority, leaving the minority with few options but to flee or turn to violence. That is what we have seen throughout the region after the Arab Spring.</p>
<p>Democracy in the Middle East is not a sign of progress, but a precursor to violence, which is exactly what is coming about in Egypt and Tunisia. An election, like a suicide bombing, is a warning that a power struggle has broken out and that the outcome will not be pretty.</p>
<p>The Middle East is burning and the bright flares of the rockets rising over Gaza are only sparks of a hotter flame. The flame is meant to fill the power vacuum left behind by a decadent American policy of soft power. And rather than calming the Arab Street, Obama’s Post-American policies have lit its fuse and set it to blow.</p>
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		<title>A Future Without Criticism of the Prophet Muhammad &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nancy Bonus, Josh Brewster and Rob Nelson analyze Obama's dreams of Sharia.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/obamaislam2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-147054" title="obamaislam" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/obamaislam2.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="170" /></a>On this week’s <em>Glazov Gang</em>, Dr. Nancy Bonus, Josh Brewster and Rob Nelson gathered to discuss <em>A Future Without Criticism of the Prophet Muhammad. </em>The dialogue, which occurred in <strong>Part I</strong>, focused on Obama&#8217;s dreams of Sharia. <strong>Part II</strong> deals with <em>The Truth About Libya</em>, focusing on what the administration knew about the recent terrorist attack and when it knew it<em>.</em><strong> </strong>Below are both parts of the two part series.</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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		<title>Bowing and Scraping, Scandinavia-Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In search of the ultimate in dhimmitude?  Look to Norway!]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/surrender.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-145232" title="surrender" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/surrender.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="198" /></a>In 2006, when politicians at the highest level of the Norwegian government bullied a newspaper publisher into publicly apologizing to a roomful of imams for having reprinted the Danish Muhammed cartoons, I hoped never to witness a more shameful spectacle of official dhimmitude in Norway.   That this was a vain hope was confirmed by the obscene orgy of multicultural cringing that followed the atrocities of July 22 of last year, when Norway&#8217;s prime minister and crown prince found it necessary to visit mosques and fall all over themselves singing Islam&#8217;s praises.  Even that disgraceful spectacle, however, pales alongside – well, let me set this one up for you.</p>
<p>The setting: Oslo&#8217;s largest mosque, the catchily named Central Jamaat-e-Ahl-eSunnat.  The date: Friday, September 14, 2012.  The speaker: Oslo police chief Erik Andersen, who is present to address congregants about the film <em>The Innocence of Muslims, </em>which a great many of their coreligionists around the world have been using as an excuse to engage in violent mayhem.</p>
<p>“O.K., people, listen up,” the Oslo police chief growls.  “We&#8217;re not going to tolerate any of that kind of subhuman behavior here in Norway.  Stay in line, and make sure your friends stay in line, or next thing you know you&#8217;ll all be on a plane back to whatever hellhole you came here from, where you can be as backward and bloodthirsty as you want.”</p>
<p>Alas, he didn&#8217;t really say that.  Sorry.  What he said, I&#8217;m afraid, falls under the category of dhimmitude.  Breathtaking dhimmitude.  Dhimmitude <em>par excellence, </em>in fact.  There&#8217;s been a lot of dhimmitude going around, of course, in the last few weeks.  The responses by U.S. officials, from Obama on down, to the worldwide tantrum over <em>The Innocence of Muslims </em>have done a splendid job of showing us all just what it means to be a dhimmi.  But for an illustration of dhimmitude in its very purest form – pitiful, pathetic, pusillanimous – one could hardly do better than Andersen&#8217;s truly repulsive remarks at that Oslo mosque, as recorded for posterity on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBadj-3Ahdc%20">this</a> YouTube video.</p>
<p>“Salaam alaikum,” Andersen says by way of greeting, before adding a hello in Norwegian and claiming to be “sad” about <em>The Innocence of Muslims</em>.  Then he offers this: “I personally, the Oslo police district, the police in Norway and the Norwegian society completely reject the movie that has been made by an individual in the USA.”  In other words, just as Hillary Clinton has taken it upon herself to denounce <em>The Innocence of Muslims </em>on behalf of Americans, Andersen has done the same thing on behalf of Norwegians.  This, of course, is not part of the job description of either a Secretary of State or a police chief, at least not in a free country.  Nobody ever gave them the right to say such things.  In the U.S., for a public official to even venture into such territory is to trample upon the First Amendment.  Aside from which, only thugs and totalitarians want or expect such denunciations from public officials.  And only toadying cowards provide them.</p>
<p>In his speech, Andersen repeats that he was saddened to learn about <em>The Innocence of Muslims</em>.  He doesn&#8217;t say he was sad because he feared that this obscure film would provide barbarians with yet another excuse to pillage and murder; no, the clear implication is that he was saddened out of sheer empathy for his Muslim fellowmen, being familiar, as he is, with their extraordinary sensitivity to slights directed at their Koran and Prophet.  The insincerity of this statement is, needless to say, transparent.  Honor killing, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, Muslim gang violence, Muslim gay-bashing, Muslim Jew-bashing, Muslim rape, acts of spousal abuse that are countenanced and even encouraged by Muslim authorities – such offenses, with which Norwegian police have become increasingly acquainted in recent years, are the kinds of things that one can well imagine making a Norwegian cop sad, if not downright angry.  Murderous mob violence across the Muslim world – this should make a decent-minded Norwegian cop furious and disgusted.  It&#8217;s safe to say that Andersen&#8217;s audience knew very well that he hadn&#8217;t really been saddened by <em>The Innocence of Muslims.  </em>But so what?  Andersen&#8217;s speech wasn&#8217;t about the honest communication of real feelings and opinions, and nobody present thought it was.  It was a dhimmi ritual, and both Andersen and his audience understood that serving up such deferential formulas, however disingenuous, is an obligatory element of that ritual.  A good Muslim, after all, doesn&#8217;t care what a dhimmi really thinks or feels – all that matters is that he knows his place and bows and scrapes properly.</p>
<p>Andersen goes on, in the video, to talk about what happened on and after July 22 of last year, when “we became a strong entity.  We became a people&#8230;.we handled that tragedy in a magnificent and calm way&#8230;.we were calm, we talked together.  We created a good dialogue, and we solved things in a calm way.” What&#8217;s Andersen referring to here?  Simply this: that after Anders Behring Breivik killed all those people and it turned out that he was an opponent of multiculturalism and Islamization, Norway&#8217;s higher-ups began acting as if he&#8217;d shot up a mosque and not a Labor Party youth camp.  Repeatedly, they poured out heartfelt reassurances that Norwegians thoroughly abhorred Breivik&#8217;s views.  Repeatedly, they showered Muslims with effusive praise for not using Breivik&#8217;s atrocities as an excuse to riot.  Across Norway, the message was sent out loud and clear: if you want to prove you don&#8217;t harbor the same opinions as the monster Breivik, the best thing you can do is hug an imam.</p>
<p>This is what Andersen is referring to when he speaks of the “magnificent” and “calm” way in which the Muslims and non-Muslims of Norway “solved things.”  In truth, nobody solved a damn thing – there wasn&#8217;t anything to solve.  That whole business last year was nothing more than an absurd display of multicultural mush-mindedness, and once it was all over, more than a few Norwegians were embarrassed by the way they&#8217;d been sucked in by all the irrational forced sentimentality about “our new countrymen.”  Yet Andersen, speaking at the mosque, wishes to resurrect the illusion that, as he puts it, “you as Muslims and we as Norwegians became a much more tightly knit group” after July 22.  Yet note the distinction here between “Muslims” and “Norwegians”: even as he&#8217;s professing to consider them and him members of a single people, he pointedly avoids referring to them as Norwegians.  Why?  Because he thinks they&#8217;d be insulted?  Or is this an unconscious slip, showing that he really <em>doesn&#8217;t </em>think of them as fellow Norwegians?</p>
<p>“I can easily understood,” Andersen says, “that some can become, to put it bluntly, pissed off at what has happened.  But I wish to encourage you to use reason – ”  (Reason?  You mean that offensive, un-Islamic concept promoted by the iniquitous, ungodly Enlightenment?)  “ – to use the right means of communication and do things that are within the law.  Solve it together, stick together and things should end well&#8230;.I want you to know, as I mentioned at the start, that you have our deepest sympathy and enjoy our highest respect.”  Respect?  For what?  Breathing?  I haven&#8217;t seen <em>The Innocence of Muslims.  </em>But this three-minute YouTube video of Andersen sucking up to Muslims – and on my behalf – is one film that most assuredly offends me to the core.  When, I wonder, can I expect him to drop by my home to express his “deepest sympathy” and “highest respect” for me in my thoroughly understandable outrage?  Oh, I forgot: in Norway, as was demonstrated in the case of Fjordman, people who openly take offense at Islam and at those who truckle to it are not offered expressions of “sympathy” and “respect” but are treated like criminals – their homes invaded, possessions ransacked, and computers searched.</p>
<p>As if Andersen&#8217;s cringing display weren&#8217;t enough to make you tremble as you wondered how long a country can last with such weak-kneed bootlickers in charge, a week later two other leading figures in Oslo had a chance to do some ignominious fawning of their own.  On Friday, September 21, the Islamic Council of Norway arranged a mass <a href="http://www.osloby.no/nyheter/3500-demonstrerte-mot-Muhammed-filmen-pa-Youngstorget--6997761.html%20">protest</a> against <em>The Innocence of Muslims </em>in a major Oslo square called Youngstorget.  Among the several thousand persons in attendance was Oslo mayor Fabian Stang, a member of the Conservative Party, and Oslo bishop Ole Christian Kvarme, a leader of the conservative wing of the Church of Norway.  Their remarks at this event seemed designed to demonstrate that dhimmitude in Norway is not confined to the political left.</p>
<p>Stang, addressing the crowd, first quoted the line often attributed to Voltaire about strongly disagreeing with what you say but being willing to die for your right to say it, then – as if to prove that he contains multitudes – slammed those “who abuse their freedom of speech to hurt other people&#8217;s feelings.”  The bishop offered this nugget of namby-pamby nonsense: “Today we have gathered together because we are outraged, but also because we want to strengthen and protect the great sense of fellowship among us.  The filmmakers wished to provoke and stir up hate, and unfortunately they have succeeded in this.  Today we stand together in protest against such offensive acts.”  Like Andersen, Stang and Kvarme did enjoin their listeners not to get violent, but they did so not from a position of unquestioned authority but from a position closer to that of a scared child begging not to be struck; moreover, their anger, real or feigned, was reserved not for the Muslims around the globe who have committed savage acts of destruction, but for a Coptic Christian, transplanted from Egypt to America, who had done nothing more than exercise the freedom of speech guaranteed him by the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>I will close merely by noting that while this craven V.I.P. groveling was underway at Youngstorget, a smaller, more vitriolic protest was going on elsewhere in Oslo, namely outside the American embassy.  To the cheers of about a hundred Muslims, the arranger of the event, Ubaydullah Hussain, said some of the usual vile things about Jews, declared that Theo van Gogh had gotten what he deserved, and pronounced that “This world needs a new Osama!”  A couple of quick questions came to mind: do you think several thousand Muslims will fill a large square in Oslo next Friday to protest <em>him?  </em>Do you imagine Andersen&#8217;s police-department colleagues will look into Hussain&#8217;s residency status, or that of any of the unsavory characters who applauded his sanguinary remarks?  Or, more likely, are the authorities already busy trying to figure out exactly how far they need to go to placate this creep, too?  Is a hug from the King in the works?</p>
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		<title>When The First Amendment Died</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Allen Bell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam, free speech and double standards.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/statue-of-liberty-crying.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-145642 alignleft" title="statue-of-liberty-crying" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/statue-of-liberty-crying.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="330" /></a>First of all I just want to give a big shout out to the savage sadists, who <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/10-million-rupee-reward-placed-on-eric-allen-bells-head/"><strong>put a bounty on my head</strong></a> for insulting their precious little “prophet.”  You’re going to be hearing a lot more from me in these days.  So, get used to it, because my free speech and I are not going anywhere and you fascist fanatic freaks will be hunted down and prosecuted, Insha’Allah.</p>
<p>Now then, with all of the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>death threats directed at me</strong></a> and others, who are simply <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/"><strong>telling the truth</strong></a> about Islam, one has to wonder, what are the leaders in Islam trying to hide?  It’s a belief system and we should be allowed to question it, criticize it, to question it and even mock it.  In fact, come to think of it, we are allowed to do all of those things.  This is America, land of the free and home of the brave – also home of the First Amendment, a freedom which keeps the rest of the free world free.  And free is how we intend to remain, no matter what the cost.</p>
<p>But if America is a free country then why is a New Jersey Islamic cleric, Mohammad Qatanani, leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County (<a href="http://icpc.com/" target="_blank"><strong>ICPC</strong></a>) <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/free-speech-that-mocks-islam-is-national-security-threat-for-u-s-prominent-nj-imam-tells-theblaze/"><strong>saying this</strong></a>? “Americans, have to put limits on freedom of speech,” and “Americans may <em>have</em> the freedom to speak their mind, ultimately, they have no <em>right</em> to talk about Muslim holy issues” and things of that nature.  Has he forgotten where he is?  Or is he in America to try to change things for the benefit of Islam?</p>
<p>Moronic Muslim messages such as this one, here in America, are in no short supply.  In fact lately, Islamist leaders and many so-called “moderate Muslims” seem to be <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>feeling somewhat emboldened</strong></a> by the recent wave of global fascist fist shaking and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>showing their true colors</strong></a>, at last.</p>
<p>It’s probably worth mentioning that the Department of Homeland Security charges that this enemy of free speech, Imam Mohammad Qatanani, in applying for a green card, failed to disclose that in 1993 he was arrested in Israel and<a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31225"><strong> convicted of aiding Hamas</strong></a>.  Qatani also has admitted to being a <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31225"><strong>member of the Muslim Brotherhood</strong></a> which is the parent organization of Hamas.  How Islamophobic of me really though to even bring this up.  There must be some kind of a misunderstanding actually because <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/09/chris-christies-friend-new-jersey-imam-mohammed-qatanani-wants-sharia-blasphemy-laws-criminalizing-c.html"><strong>New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie</strong></a> keeps calling this terrorist-tied enemy of the American Constitution his “friend”.</p>
<p>Speaking of people and organizations that are here to change America to accommodate Islam &#8211; I could not help but notice that CAIR, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations#Criticism"><strong>Council on American Islamic Relations</strong></a>, was using social media in a rather irresponsible way.  Recently, “<a href="http://www.facebook.com/CAIRNational"><strong>CAIR National</strong></a>” a Hamas front group, decided to distribute an article, which tries to connect me to the making of a film that I clearly did not make:</p>
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<p>This <a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/eric-allen-bell1/0019374"><strong>article</strong></a> also seems to imply that the threats are probably made up, and even if they are real, <a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/eric-allen-bell1/0019374"><strong>I probably have it coming, given what I wrote on this last 9/11</strong></a> day of remembrance.  The continuous advancement, of <a href="http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a-curious-connection/0019357"><strong>this concocted rumor</strong></a>, has resulted in a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/10-million-rupee-reward-placed-on-eric-allen-bells-head/"><strong>bounty of 10 million Rupees being placed on my head</strong></a> by Islamic terrorists.  Someone seems to have a lot invested in fanning the flames and keeping this “misunderstanding” alive in the Pakistani press and the online Islamo-blogosphere – also known as the “Islamosphere” or “<em>the place where so-called Islamophobia researchers signal to Jihadists whom they should target for death threats and/or assassination</em>”.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eric1_edited-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-145636 aligncenter" title="eric1_edited-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/eric1_edited-1.jpg" alt="" width="357" height="403" /></a><em>Pictured Above: An Islamic bounty on my head of 10 million Rupees.<br />
Does the head shot on the right make me look fat?</em></p>
<p>Anyway, I’ll cycle back to the issue of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jaan-qurban-sipah-e-sahaba-dera-ismail-khan/189445077783153"><strong>Islamic terrorists calling for my assassination</strong></a> in a moment. But first I want to expose, once and for all, the followers of Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>“Jesus Christ” is a recurring character on Fox’s hit comedy series, “Family Guy”.  In the now legendary episode called, “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dream_of_Jesus#Reception"><strong>I Dream of Jesus</strong></a>” Peter discovers Jesus working at a record store and tries to help him make a comeback, by booking Jesus on the Jay Leno Show.  The character of Jesus then skyrockets to fame, goes on tour, blinged out in gold chains and designer sunglasses, while backed by a band of bikini-clad back-up singers.  He calls his act “Jesus Christ and the Pussy Cat Dolls”.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/4-Family-Guy-I-Dream-of-Jes.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-145637" title="4-Family-Guy-I-Dream-of-Jes" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/4-Family-Guy-I-Dream-of-Jes.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="301" /></a><em>Pictured Above: The most-watched episode of “Family Guy” in America called “I Dream of Jesus”</em></p>
<p>Strangely however, I don’t see followers of Jesus Christ storming embassies, burning flags, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/mark-tapson/the-sexual-pathology-of-the-libyan-attackers/"><strong>gang raping an Ambassador</strong></a>, rioting in the streets chanting “death to America!” or putting a bounty on anybody’s head.  I’m not a follower of Jesus Christ personally, but I did grow up in a family that was a big part of his fan club.  And I do recall from years of Sunday school that Jesus did teach something about forgiveness and loving your neighbor.  Come to think of it, he set bar pretty high, because he said to love your neighbor as yourself.  And unlike the illiterate, blood-thirsty savage Muhammad, he never said to “<a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/023-violence.htm"><strong>strike terror into the hearts of the unbelievers</strong></a>”.  And what holy man would utter such belligerent nonsense unless he was riddled with insecurities and scared to death of being found out for being a con artist, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha#Age_at_marriage"><strong>child rapist</strong></a> and a thief?</p>
<p>So why are the followers of Muhammad so touchy?  Do they suffer from the same insecurities that Muhammad did?  Why do their fragile feelings get hurt so easily?  Why do so many of Muhammad’s deeply delusional followers demand we respect their imaginary “prophet” or else face death threats, rioting, violence and destruction?  Why are we expected to pretend that this self-proclaimed “prophet” is beyond criticism and to roll over when his followers attack our First Amendment right to free speech?</p>
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<p>What is it about Islam that makes it so opposed to free speech, and why do its leaders keep telling us that Islamic Law (also known as Sharia Law) is compatible with our Constitution?  If <a href="http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/the-threat-of-sharia-and-the-leadership-of-america-s-two-parties-"><strong>Sharia Law</strong></a> denies the right to free speech, then clearly it is not compatible with the Constitution. Why all <a href="http://ca.cair.com/losangeles/event/banquet"><strong>the lies</strong></a> and double standards?</p>
<p>Could it be that <a href="http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/islam_unbelievers.html"><strong>Islam commands that it is superior</strong></a>?  It’s hard to believe that a severely indoctrinated culture, suffering from such insufferable insecurity could expect us to believe something so absurd, but actually they do.  In the muddied minds of the Muslim masses this is not a double standard at all.  In fact this is central to the belief system of Islam – that Islam is superior and that the whole world must submit to the laws of Islam.</p>
<p>In the best-selling fictional thriller, “The Hoy Quran,” poorly ghost-written by an illiterate desert filthy old man, using the pen name “Allah,” the character “Muhammad” arrogantly gives everyone who does not follow his delusional ideology three options: either you convert, subjugate or be killed.  Furthermore, the Islamic scriptures command that Mohammad is the highest moral example in Islam – the man to be followed and imitated.  <a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/mohammed/"><strong>According to Islamic Scholar and author, Dr. Bill Warner</strong></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The importance of studying Muhammad is found in the Koran itself. Over 30 times the Koran says that every human being is supposed to do everything in their life patterned after Muhammad. Then it turns around and says over 40 times that if you don&#8217;t do everything like Mohammed did it, you will go to hell. Everything has to be done the way Muhammad did. Muhammad is the perfect pattern of life for all peoples for all time.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>1,400 years of following the horrific example of “The Prophet” has created a culture of fear, violence, Jew hatred, women hatred, homicide of homosexuals, prohibition of critical thinking and endless wars, tyranny and an absolute intolerance for free speech.  It grows like a giant wicked beast, which reaches out its poisonous tentacles into numerous climate regions of the planet and brainwashes the minds of the most frightened, least educated, poorest people, the ones who are most vulnerable, promising them paradise and scaring them into submission with the threat of hell, making them all the “slaves of Allah”.  Its tyranny must end.  But other than that, Islam is peace.</p>
<p>At least, that is what we are told by our Petroleum-compromised past President, our Islamist appeasing current Commander and Chief, Mullahs, Muftis, clerics and Imams around the world and the Council on American Islamic Relations.</p>
<p>So, if Islam is peace, then why did an Islamic cleric place a Fatwa on Salman Rushdie to be assassinated after the publication of the award-winning novel, “The Satanic Verses”?  Why did the Danish Cartoonist, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Westergaard#2010_attack"><strong>Kurt Westergaard wake up to a Somali Muslim, armed</strong></a> with an axe and a knife, who had broken into his home to murder him for drawing “the prophet” Muhammad?  Why is it that the filmmaker of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submission_(2004_film)"><strong>the 11 minute film “Submission”</strong></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director)"><strong>Theo van Gogh</strong></a>, was shot several times in broad daylight, and then had a sword rammed into his heart with a note to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali"><strong>his co-filmmaker</strong></a> (causing her to go into hiding), denouncing the “mocking of the prophet”?</p>
<p>What do these artists and many others like them have in common?  They have used the arts to lampoon Muhammad.  So, given that Muhammad is the “highest moral example” to his followers, what would Mohammed have done?  According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%ABra"><strong>Islamic scriptures</strong></a>, Mohammed did find out about some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_%27Afak#Ibn_Sa.27d.27s_account"><strong>poets who were lampooning him</strong></a> and he had all of them murdered for it.  Those who seek the death of artists who lampoon Muhammad are simply being devout Muslims, by following the numerous commands which state that Muhammad is the highest moral example in Islam.  The word Islam literally means “submission” and those violent deranged individuals who carry out violence in the name of Allah (Jihad) are merely submitting to Islam.  Islam is a mental illness, it’s contagious and its only remedy is truth.</p>
<p>As I mentioned earlier, I was recently accused of being the filmmaker behind the hit YouTube Islamo-Comedy “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmodVun16Q4"><strong>The Innocence of Muslims.</strong></a>” I haven’t seen a movie this bad since, “He’s Just Not that Into You.”  However, <strong>I did not make “The Innocence of Muslims”.  I had nothing to do with the making of “The Innocence of Muslims”.  I am not the filmmaker</strong>.  Here, I’ll print it in Arabic:</p>
<p align="right"><strong>لم</strong><strong> </strong><strong>أكن</strong><strong> </strong><strong>جعل</strong><strong> </strong><strong>فيلم</strong><strong> &#8220;</strong><strong>براءة</strong><strong> </strong><strong>المسلمين</strong><strong>&#8220;. </strong><strong>لم</strong><strong> </strong><strong>يكن</strong><strong> </strong><strong>لدي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>أي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>علاقة</strong><strong> </strong><strong>مع</strong><strong> </strong><strong>هذا</strong><strong> </strong><strong>الفيلم</strong><strong>. </strong><strong>لم</strong><strong> </strong><strong>يكن</strong><strong> </strong><strong>لدي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>أي</strong><strong> </strong><strong>اتصال</strong><strong> </strong><strong>لهذا</strong><strong> </strong><strong>الفيلم</strong><strong>.</strong></p>
<p>Unfortunately, an estimated 2/3 of Musims cannot read.  And as for those who can, so far 3 Pakistani newspapers name me as “the filmmaker” (<a href="http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Sep/18/sikh-body-condemns-anti-islam-film-51.asp"><strong>here</strong></a> and <a href="http://kashmirmonitor.org/09182012-ND-sikhs-condemn-blasphemous-film-33818.aspx"><strong>here</strong></a> and <a href="http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/13909/enemies-of-pakistan-now-on-facebook/"><strong>here</strong></a>).</p>
<p>And now a Pakistani government official <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/22/Pakistan-minister-offers-bounty-for-anti-Islam-film-maker" target="_self"><strong>put a bounty on the head of “the filmmaker</strong></a>” without naming anyone in particular.  Soon after, a <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/437494/anti-islam-film-amid-protests-rs10-million-bounty-offered-for-filmmaker/"><strong>Pakistani Islamic cleric put a bounty of “10 million Rupees</strong></a>” (where have I heard that before?) on “the filmmaker” without naming anyone by name.   It’s as if this were to insure that there be no future filmmakers who create YouTube videos which “mock the prophet”.</p>
<p>Someone <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>purposefully planted the false story that I made the film</strong></a>, even though the real filmmaker has clearly been identified.  Again, if I ever do make a film which “mocks the prophet” I will stand behind it.  Whoever is behind this plot, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/islamists-seek-to-settle-score-by-framing-filmmaker/"><strong>planting this story</strong></a> and trying to fan the flames to get me assassinated, is trying to exact revenge, to silence me.  Given the number of Islamists I have exposed, for their terrorist ties, in my articles online, figuring out “who done it” is like something right out of an Agatha Christie novel, if Agatha Christie was wearing a burka and the property of some Muslim man.  So why is that?  Have I hit a nerve?  Who would have the resources, the connections and the drive to keep this false rumor alive?</p>
<p>Whoever is behind this plot to silence or kill me, it doesn’t matter.  Because I will not be silenced.  I will not submit – and neither should you.  I will continue to share information which exposes Muhammad for the vile, disgusting, pedophile, rapist, homicidal sadistic maniac, blood thirsty tyrant, hiding a desperately fragile ego – and so should you.</p>
<p>Islam’s dirty little secret regarding the truth about Muhammad must be exposed consistently.  Now is not the time to recoil, dazed in a state of shock, paralyzed with fear, just because you see savages rioting on your TV screen.  I speak to the FBI several times a day, from the confines of a safe house, where I have been advised not to walk next to any windows.  And I am not afraid.  And neither should you be afraid.  For Islam is just a scared little man &#8211; a scared little man whom we can and must defeat.</p>
<p>This is our time.  The time is now.  The time has come.  Islam is making a major move, a power grab – not as a sign of confidence, but because in fact Islam is a dying idea, desperately clawing at anything to survive.  But it cannot.  Islam cannot survive the information age.  Islam cannot stand up to critical thought, to reason, to factual analysis, to being outnumbered by rational sane and civilized people willing to speak up.  If you are suffering from the delusion that you are a Muslim, seek psychiatric attention from a trained professional immediately.  But if you are a lover of liberty than now is the time – now more than ever – this is your time and my time and our time to stand up and say ENOUGH.  Truth is the enemy of Islamic brutality.  Spread it.  Spread it like Napalm.</p>
<p>Peace,</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/EricAllenBell" target="_blank"><strong>Eric Allen Bell</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Caving To Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Turner]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragedy of Obama's foreign policy continues.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/hillaryclinton.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-139251" title="hillaryclinton" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/hillaryclinton.jpg" alt="" width="276" height="166" /></a><em>&#8220;This morning, I spoke by telephone with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar. I once again reiterated our deepest regrets for the tragic incident in Salala last November.  I offered our sincere condolences to the families of the Pakistani soldiers who lost their lives.  Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives. We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military.  We are committed to working closely with Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent this from ever happening again. As I told the former Prime Minister of Pakistan days after the Salala incident, America respects Pakistan’s sovereignty and is committed to working together in pursuit of shared objectives on the basis of mutual interests and mutual respect.”</em></p>
<p align="right">Secretary of State Clinton <a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/07/194502.htm">Statement</a> – July 3, 2012.</p>
<p>Thanks to this apology, and along with a <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/03/154961/pakistan-to-reopen-supply-routes.html">promise</a> of extra money, the Obama Administration, and Secretary of State Clinton, was able to repair our “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/obama-pakistan-relations-strained_n_1381948.html">strained relations</a>” with Pakistan.  As a result of this, it has been announced that Pakistan was reopening its supply lines into Afghanistan, which had been closed to the U.S. after the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike.  This is admittedly cost effective, as the <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/07/03/u-s-pakistan-relations-still-bizarre/#more-798770">closure</a> of the “GLOC” (Ground Line Of Communications), although it did not stop NATO operations in Afghanistan, was still costing an extra $100 million a month to ferry goods from Central Asia.  But was it a good idea overall?  What sort of precedent does it set?</p>
<p>Keep in mind that the attack which precipitated the airstrike in question was initiated by Pakistan.  The U.S. military completed its investigation of the incident, which <a href="http://www.aco.nato.int/pakistan-border-incident-investigation-concluded.aspx">described</a> how Pakistan not only did not inform the U.S. of the position of the Pakistani soldiers, but also confirmed that these Pakistani border guards fired on U.S. and Afghan soldiers first.  Afghani officials have <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/11/27/142829824/afghan-officials-fire-from-pakistan-sparked-attack">agreed</a> with the U.S. description of the incident.  In fact, the incident may well have been deliberately initiated by Pakistan.   After all, “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/alan-w-dowd/chaos-in-pakistan/">(g)iven</a> that Taliban, Haqqani and al Qaeda forces have no helicopters, the Pakistanis cannot claim to be doing this by mistake.”  And Pakistan has a long <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/asia/pakistanis-tied-to-2007-attack-on-americans.html?pagewanted=all">history</a> of firing first on U.S. and NATO troops, and the number of such incidents seems to be <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-20126772/u.s-troops-shot-at-from-pakistan-more-often/">increasing</a>.</p>
<p>So why are we giving Pakistan an apology and the promise of more money?</p>
<p>I have already written two separate columns on our erstwhile “allies,” the Pakistanis.  I have written about their duplicity and unfaithfulness to the United States <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/adam-turner/top-10-reasons-to-kick-pakistan-off-the-dole/">here</a>.  I have also tackled their “blasphemous” human rights record <a href="http://www.legal-project.org/1344/blasphemy-in-pakistan">here</a>.  I apologize for repeating myself, but apparently, what I have to say needs repeating.  We should not be supporting Pakistan financially, let alone apologizing to them, in any way, shape, or form.  Consider just these three important facts:</p>
<ul>
<li>At least some elements of the Pakistani government knowingly sheltered Osama Bin Laden – who murdered 3000 Americans on 9/11/01 – for more than a few years.</li>
<li>The Pakistani government has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/29/shakil-afridi-osama-bin-laden-pakistan-doctor-prison_n_1635753.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular,pakistan">thrown</a> in jail the Pakistani doctor who UNWITTINGLY helped the U.S. find Bin Laden.  And Pakistani public opinion approves of this, as they consider the doctor to be a traitor.</li>
<li>The Pakistani government sponsors terrorist groups which regularly kill American soldiers.</li>
</ul>
<p>Looking at these simple facts makes it readily apparent that Pakistan, of course, is really an enemy of ours, not an ally.  This makes the Pakistan apology yet another example of the Obama Administration’s <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2011/12/navigating-the-new-middle-east-the-obama-administration-is-lost-at-sea-and-on-the-rocks/">noted</a> foreign policy of “rewarding enemies and punishing friends.”  And because Pakistan is really an enemy, the Obama administration strongly believes in utilizing a “carrots and sticks” approach to it, as long as “sticks” are limited to only general ambiguous threats followed by no concrete steps.  This policy is, as Barry Rubin notes, “wrong, dangerous, and likely to lead to defeats for the United States, the weakening of its allies, the strengthening of its enemies, and the spawning of future crises.”</p>
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		<title>The Hammerman Jews</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evan Sayet]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Once one gets beyond the self-serving sloganeering of the Democratic Party &#8212; the notion that they and only they are “compassionate” or that they and only they “like air and water” &#8212; and addresses the actual policies and values of the different parties, it becomes clear that there is absolutely nothing Jewish about the Democrat Party.  In fact, the Democratic Party is antithetical to Jewish moral beliefs.</p>
<p>Jewish values reside in the Republican Party, which is the reason that the more Jewish a person is by belief and practice, the less likely he is to support the Democrats.  Secular Jews are overwhelmingly likely, Reform Jews somewhat less likely, Conservative Jews less likely than that and Orthodox Jews not at all likely to put their faith in the party of faithlessness.</p>
<p>So why, then, do <em>any </em>Jews vote for a party that stands in total opposition to Jewish values?  The answer can be found, at least in part, in the writings of Rabbi Joshua Hammerman:</p>
<blockquote><p>Emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning mosques, bashing gays and indiscriminately banishing immigrants.</p></blockquote>
<p>Many Jews – I’ll call them the “Hammerman Jews” &#8212; have made a Faustian bargain.  Fearful of what “emboldened” faithful might do, they have betrayed their own faith in exchange for the temporary safety they believe can be found in the arms of the faithless.</p>
<p>The attraction the Hammerman Jew has for the Democratic Party is found in its entirety in a rather shallow, objectively false and logically fallacious conviction that those with no religion are closer to Jewish belief than are those from a <em>different</em> religion. The idea is that Christians are, by being people of a faith not Jewish, more of a threat to Judaism than are those antipathetic to any and all faith equally.  It’s as illogical and self-destructive as it sounds.</p>
<p>But the Hammerman Jew has signed onto the non-Jewish, wholly liberal conceit that it is not <em>what </em>someone believes but the existence of <em>any </em>beliefs that is the threat to world peace in general and the safety of the Jews in particular.  Only those who have beliefs, the argument goes, can become so emboldened in those beliefs as to be willing to burn down a mosque or bash a gay or, by extension, start a pogrom or support a holocaust.</p>
<p>The way to prevent the next holocaust, then, isn’t to stand up for good and rightful values, it is to join with those with no values, allied with them in their war against belief.</p>
<p>How frightened of the faithful are these Hammerman Jews?  Consider the impetus for Hammerman having raised the alarm with his piece<em> </em>in the first place.  What had set Hammerman off to become fearful enough to warn the world was not a gathering of the Ku Klux Klan or a meeting of the Neo-Nazis, it was the possibility that Tim Tebow might lead his team to the Super Bowl.  I kid you not:</p>
<blockquote><p>If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful, and emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning mosques, bashing gays and indiscriminately banishing immigrants…<em></em></p></blockquote>
<p>When a man is so terrified of people of faith that he’s convinced the next holocaust is always just a field goal away, you can understand why he might chuck all of his values and blindly sign on with the enemy.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank">Click here</a>.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>To get the whole story on why leftist Jews side with those who plan to do them harm, read Jamie Glazov’s book, </strong><strong><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602">United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror.</a></em></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Moran]]></dc:creator>
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<p>You&#8217;ve got to hand it to President Obama. To be able to look the camera <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/obamas-iraq-speech-video_n_170565.html">square in the eye </a>and declare that retreat from Iraq is victory, failure is success, and emboldening an implacable enemy is in our national interest, is a feat worthy of a snake oil salesman.</p>
<p>What the president is selling, however, is a far more potent and deadly poison: the nonsensical belief that the vital interests of America should be subsumed to the nebulous doctrine that Iraq &#8212; and by extension the rest of the Middle East &#8212; will be a better, more secure place without American troops. This, despite ample evidence that the influence of Iran will be unchecked in what is still a nascent democracy, struggling with divisions and factions that leave it particularly vulnerable to the machinations of the mullahs in Tehran.</p>
<p>In short, the president thought it more important to keep a campaign promise than protect the hard-fought gains of our military, ignoring facts on the ground and even the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/iraqi-leaders-want-us-trainers-reject-immunity-195323886.html">private pleas </a>from Iraqi leaders in the process.</p>
<p>Now those hollow words and sentiments spoken by the president at a <a href="http://www.startribune.com/politics/132318443.html">snap news conference </a>called last Friday are going to be put to the test by history. And one needn&#8217;t be an expert to envision how, in going against the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/key_general_labels_obamas_iraq_pullout_absolute_disaster.html">advice of his generals</a> on the ground (something he railed against President Bush for doing during the 2008 presidential campaign) to maintain a strong US military presence in Iraq, the president&#8217;s blunder will lead to an unmitigated disaster to US strategic interests in the region.</p>
<p>Unnecessarily, the president has elevated Iranian prestige to <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/206456.html">new heights,</a> cheering Tehran&#8217;s allies in Syria and Turkey who see any retreat by America in the Middle East as a boon to their hegemonic designs. And while Saudi Arabian ambivalence toward the Shia majority government in Iraq is <a href="http://sundaytimes.lk/110731/Timestwo/int14.html">hard to miss</a>, the Saudis nevertheless fear Iranian designs on their oil fields, and the large Shia minority that inhabits that area of the kingdom. Other Sunni-majority Gulf states look with <a href="http://sundaytimes.lk/110731/Timestwo/int14.html">equal trepidation</a> on an emboldened Iran. The retreat of American troops from Iraq is as much a disaster for them &#8212; even if they would never admit it publicly &#8212; as it is for the Iraqi people.</p>
<p>An independent Iraq <a href="http://blog.american.com/2011/10/obama-abandons-iraq/">will not survive</a> the president&#8217;s perfidy &#8212; a betrayal of those who fought, those who died, and those who worked so long to build a civil society shattered by war and sectarian conflict. It is breathtaking in its totality. With one stroke, the administration has assured an enemy who will almost certainly possess nuclear weapons in the near future, a base from which its terrorist proxies will be able to operate. The Iraqi government, which already has demonstrated it can&#8217;t &#8212; or won&#8217;t &#8212; <a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/12/01/131733517/Cables-Shed-Light-On-Iran-s-Influence-In-Iraq">resist Iranian interference </a>in its internal affairs, will now achieve full satellite status; an appendage of Iranian policy no more independent than a Medieval vassal state.</p>
<p>The question that we should be asking is how serious was the president in his negotiations with Baghdad to keep a sizable force to train the Iraqi army, and help protect the country from being overwhelmed by the Iranians? According to Josh Rogin at <em>Foreign Policy&#8217;s</em> <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/blog/11505">Cable blog,</a> a deal was to be had on the touchy subject of immunity for our soldiers from the capriciousness of the Iraqi justice system, but the administration bungled the negotiations. Rogin quotes Marisa Cochrane Sullivan, managing director at the Institute for the Study of War, as saying, &#8220;From the beginning, the talks unfolded in a way where they [were] largely driven by domestic political concerns, both in Washington and Baghdad. Both sides let politics drive the process, rather than security concerns,&#8221; she said.</p>
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<p><strong>Excerpts from the Harry Reid profile:</strong></p>
<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was born in December 1939 in Searchlight, Nevada&#8230;.</p>
<p>Over the course of his political career, Reid has been implicated in several serious ethics scandals&#8230;.</p>
<p>Reid has been one of the Senate&#8217;s most vocal critics of the Iraq War. In April 2007, shortly after President Bush had initiated a &#8220;surge&#8221; that sent 21,000 additional troops to combat the insurgent violence in Iraq, Reid, counseling American surrender, <a style="color: maroon; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Harry%20Reid%20Loser.html">stated publicly</a>: &#8220;I believe &#8230; that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything.&#8221;</p>
<p>On the environmental front, Reid strongly believes that human industrial activity is destroying the planet. In June 2008, he <a style="color: maroon; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.542/pub_detail.asp">said</a>, &#8220;Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. And this global warming is ruining our country. It&#8217;s ruining the world.&#8221; &#8230;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as the New Left was anti-anti-Communist, the Moore Left is anti-anti-Sharia.]]></description>
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<p>Does everyone remember what happened when we withdrew from Vietnam?</p>
<p>David Horowitz has <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/horowitz100101.asp">a good summary</a> and notes that the surrender of South Vietnam to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue">communism</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>… resulted in the imposition of a monstrous police state, the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent South Vietnamese, the incarceration in reeducation camps of hundreds of thousands more and a quarter of a century of abject poverty imposed by crackpot Marxist economic plans, which continue to this day. This, too, is the responsibility of the so-called antiwar movement of the 1960s.</p></blockquote>
<p>But who’s going to expect the Left to properly understand history?</p>
<p>No, in <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=899">neo-communist filmmaker</a> <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=899">Michael Moore’s</a> new <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/an-open-letter-to-preside_b_373457.html">open letter</a> to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511">President Barack Obama</a> (published at, where else, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7129">Huffington Post</a>) he urges a withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan, completely blind to the consequences:</p>
<blockquote><p>Don’t be deceived into thinking that sending a few more troops into Afghanistan will make a difference, or earn you the respect of the haters. They will not stop until this country is torn asunder and every last dollar is extracted from the poor and soon-to-be poor. You could send a million troops over there and the crazy Right still wouldn’t be happy. You would still be the victim of their incessant venom on hate radio and television because no matter what you do, you can’t change the one thing about yourself that sends them over the edge.</p>
<p>The haters were not the ones who elected you, and they can’t be won over by abandoning the rest of us.</p>
<p>President Obama, it’s time to come home. Ask your neighbors in Chicago and the parents of the young men and women doing the fighting and dying if they want more billions and more troops sent to Afghanistan. Do you think they will say, “No, we don’t need health care, we don’t need jobs, we don’t need homes. You go on ahead, Mr. President, and send our wealth and our sons and daughters overseas, ’cause we don’t need them, either.”</p></blockquote>
<p>We can abandon Afghanistan and it can revert to being an <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catId=50&amp;type=ind">Islamist</a> police state run by the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/New%20Taliban%20Military%20Commander%20Mansour.html">Taliban</a>. It can return to being a safe haven for those who want to destroy America, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=145&amp;type=issue">exterminate the Jewish race</a>, and create a world in which <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36336">marrying children</a> and <a href="../2009/11/25/a-survivor%E2%80%99s-battle-against-female-genital-mutilation-by-jamie-glazov/">mutilating women’s genitals</a> are the norm.</p>
<p>War is indeed hell — not that I’m in any way qualified to make that judgment. (<a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/12/01/open-letter-to-reporter/">Read Karen Northon to get a more informed view</a>. Patriotic heroes like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Hell-Journey-Leo-Thorsness/dp/159403236X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1259685124&amp;sr=8-1">Leo Thorsness </a>also have a thing or two to say on the matter.) But which is worse: war or a totalitarian police state? Which was worse in the ’60s and ’70s: the Vietnam war or the Communist police state which followed? Which is worse today: the Afghanistan War or an Islamist police state?</p>
<p>Here’s the confrontation that needs to be had. Moore and other so-called “progressives” consider conservatives to be “greedy.” The Left thinks we should withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and Iraq and then spend that money on <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=180&amp;type=issue">universal healthcare</a> and federal jobs programs. To do otherwise is to be “greedy.”</p>
<p>The practical result of this would be Islamists being empowered. More women would be shoved into forced marriages, <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/11/23/under-the-islamic-veil-faces-disfigured-by-acid/">their faces mutilated with acid</a>, and <a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/09/02/no-naomi-wolf-you-apologize/">their lives spent hidden in burqas</a>. <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28325">More gays would be executed for being gay</a>. An ideology bent on world domination would be further empowered. And why would this happen? Because “progressives” want government to give them money and make their lives easier.</p>
<p>And conservatives are the “greedy” ones? How does that work?</p>
<p>*****</p>
<p>Because I’m an ex-leftist I know what some of the responses are going to be to the above argument. So let’s just preempt a few of them them right now:</p>
<p>1. The Marionette argument: “Dave, we can’t be Team America World Police. We can’t afford to send troops everywhere to stop every dictator.” Well duh. And no conservative is saying that we should. But we can recognize that the Islamist ideology is a threat that we cannot allow to grow stronger by retreating in Afghanistan. Are the US and Afghanistan better off with us continuing to fight? Or is it better for both countries that we surrender and head home so that ? There is an obvious answer here.</p>
<p>2. The Chickenhawk argument: “Oh yeah? You think we should fight in Afghanistan? Then you go over there and fight.” This is, of course, <a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/09/20/salon-screeches-intellectual-ad-hominems-in-smear-of-beck-horowitz-and-conservatism/">an ad hominem logical fallacy</a>, but as I’ve demonstrated before true believers of all ideologies fail to grasp the difference between this and legitimate intellectual discussion. Upon encountering the Chickenhawk argument you should immediately realize that you’re dealing with someone who is unable to think rationally.</p>
<p>3. The Oversimplification argument: “Come on Dave, you’re oversimplifying when you talk about the Left. It’s not one monolithic entity and not all progressives think one way.” This is correct, but beside the point. There are plenty of dissenting views on the Left. (See this <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2009/nov/30/michael-moore-obama-afghanistan">Michael Tomasky piece</a> in which he goes after Moore for his open letter.)</p>
<p>And when I’m critiquing leftist activists and polemicists I’m not generally attacking citizens who merely identify with the Left, watch <a href="http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&amp;site=newsrealblog.wordpress.com&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.discoverthenetworks.org%2FindividualProfile.asp%3Findid%3D1690">Keith Olbermann</a>, and occasionally donate to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6201">MoveOn.Org</a>. The <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catId=46&amp;type=ind">radical core</a> is significantly different than the by-and-large apolitical masses. This is a subject I hope to address at greater length at some point in the future.</p>
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