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		<title>Torture and Police Brutality in a Real Police State</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is Senate and media outrage about brutalized North Koreans?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kj1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247515" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kj1.jpg" alt="kj" width="279" height="157" /></a><em>The police beat them with clubs and metal brushes. Some of the teenagers were beaten so badly that their heads were covered with bald spots because the hair would no longer grow back from the trauma. </em>(“MJ” a missionary who with his wife sheltered North Korean orphans)</p>
<p>On December 10, 2014, Human Rights Day, the American media was salivating over the Senate Democrats’ report about enhanced interrogation of terrorists, raging over the U.S. government’s violation of jihadists’ human rights. At the same time, condemnation of America’s police forces continued to spread throughout the country, leading to well-orchestrated protests this past weekend. Meanwhile, a Capitol Hill <a href="http://www.nkfreedom.org/Events/2014-International-Human-Rights-Day.aspx">press conference</a> sought to open the eyes of the world to true torture and real police brutality.</p>
<p>The press conference, was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.nkfreedom.org">North Korea Freedom Coalition</a> (NKFC), under the chairmanship of Dr. Suzanne Scholte. The NKFC was joined by U.S. Representatives <a href="http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-royce-applauds-house-passage-north-korea-sanctions-legislation">Ed Royce</a> (R-CA) and <a href="http://democrats.foreignaffairs.house.gov/press_display.asp?id=1378">Eliot Engel</a> (D-NY) to focus on the circumstances of <a href="http://www.nkfreedom.org/UploadedDocuments/2014_PhotoLaosNinePhotos.pdf">nine North Korean teenagers</a> who were <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324682204578514772761682396">forced back</a> to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in May 2013 by the Laotian and Chinese governments. Their whereabouts has been unknown since the repatriation, but recent rumors have suggested that at least some of the seven boys and two girls may have been executed as punishment for leaving Kim Jong Un’s wonderland.</p>
<p>The young people are known as the “Laos Nine” because it was from Laos that they were returned to China and repatriated to North Korea. They had been part of the <em>kkotjebbi</em> (homeless North Korean children living on the streets in China). They were taken in by <a href="http://www.nkfreedom.org/UploadedDocuments/2014_Testimonial_MJ.pdf">a missionary “MJ” and his wife</a>, who have saved the lives of many North Korean children, in spite of the risk to themselves.</p>
<p>Police brutality is a daily reality for the <em>kkotjebbi</em> according to MJ. In a statement for the press conference, he revealed that “most of the children were eating what they could find in trash cans and were sleeping in the sewers in freezing conditions,” all the while trying to avoid the notice of the brutal Chinese border patrol guards who beat them with clubs and metal brushes.</p>
<p>MJ said that the children “had no access to medical care and begged on the streets with frostbitten and infected feet.” And yet for North Korean escapees, even facing beatings from the Chinese police and freezing to death are preferable than being caught by the Chinese government and forcibly repatriated to the police state of North Korea.</p>
<p>The missionary couple feared to remain in China with “their children.” Although North Korean defectors are recognized internationally as refugees, China routinely violates its obligations to respect the principle of non-refoulement under international refugee and human rights law and sends North Koreans back to certain imprisonment and probable death. So in April of 2013, MJ, his wife, and the nine teens began a journey from China to North Korea. After they crossed the Chinese/Laotian border they were arrested by the Laotian authorities and instead of accommodating their safe passage to South Korea, the Laotian government collaborated with the Chinese government to send the teens back to China from which they were returned to North Korea.</p>
<p>In February 2014, a <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIDPRK/Pages/ReportoftheCommissionofInquiryDPRK.aspx">report</a> issued by the <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIDPRK/Pages/CommissionInquiryonHRinDPRK.aspx">Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea</a> echoed what human rights organizations have been saying for years. The COI’s report, under the authority of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, thoroughly details the deplorable conditions for the citizens of Kim Jong Un’s regime, and the unspeakable torture that those confined to one of the prison camps in the vast network across the DPRK. In Section 60, “Arbitrary detention, torture, executions, and prison camps,” the report reveals:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>In the political prison camps of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the inmate population has been gradually eliminated through deliberate starvation, forced labour, executions, torture, rape and the denial of reproductive rights enforced through punishment, forced abortion and infanticide. The commission estimates that hundreds of thousands of political prisoners have perished in these camps over the past five decades. The unspeakable atrocities that are being committed against inmates of the kwanliso political prison camps resemble the horrors of camps that totalitarian States established during the twentieth century.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Congressman Royce, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, opened the December 10 press conference on the Laos Nine. He and all of the other speakers referred to COI’s report. Royce echoed the COI’s recommendations that the UN General Assembly consider a resolution to condemn North Korea for human rights abuses and crimes against humanity, and that North Korea be referred to the International Criminal Court. The Chairman also stressed the immediate need for the Senate to take up a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1771?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22H.R.+1771%22%5D%7D">piece of legislation (H.R. 1771)</a> that was passed unanimously by the House of Representatives, calling for strong sanctions against North Korea.</p>
<p>H.R. 1771, the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act, according to the NKFC, “calls for the harnessing of the Treasury Department’s regulatory oversight of the hub of the global financial system, blocking the accounts and revenue streams that sustain Kim Jong Un’s oppression and control of the North Korean people, along with his weapons programs, arms trafficking, proliferation, and money laundering.” The NKFC also says that the bill “blocks the funds of third-country entities that knowingly facilitation North Korea’s crimes against humanity, and its violations of U.N. Security Council sanctions.” If the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee responsible for the recent shameful report really care about human rights and stopping torture, they would work to pass immediately H.R. 1771, the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act.</p>
<p>Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has worked in partnership with Royce for a number of years on a variety of human rights issues. He repeated his House colleague’s call for action in both the United Nations and the U.S. Congress. Engel also noted that the decision of the Laotian government to send the nine orphans back to China and then back to North Korea <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2010/09/north-korea-human-rights-cohen">violates international law</a>.</p>
<p>Thankfully, as the North Korea Freedom Coalition pointed out in a <a href="http://www.nkfreedom.org/UploadedDocuments/2014_NKFCLaos20141210.pdf">letter</a> addressed to Laotian President Lt. Gen. Choummaly Sayasone, since the incident with the Laos Nine, the Laotian government has <em>not </em>forced any other North Korean refugees – either adult or children – back to North Korea. “We urge you to continue this humanitarian policy which is consistent with international refugee law and we urge you to work with the Republic of Korea and other nations on the safe resettlement of North Korean refugees until conditions improve in that country,” the Coalition wrote.</p>
<p>Following the remarks by the members of Congress, NKFC advocates displayed photos of the nine children and told their story as told by missionary MJ. The first speaker, NKFC Vice Chairman, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, declared that it was important for the children and other North Koreans longing for freedom to know that they “are not forgotten.” Cooper held the photo of the oldest of the North Korean orphans, Moon-Chul, who was 19 at the time of repatriation. According to the little bit of biographical information, this young man:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>. . . suffered frostbite on his feet. There was no place where he could receive medical care so he had to cut his own three frostbitten toes off. Despite his difficulty walking due to his injuries and all that he suffered, he always had a kind heart which led him to take care of the young kkotjebbis and give them food that was found first. Because of Moon-Chul’s kindness in caring for Ryu Kwong-Hyuk, who was much weaker, Kwong Hyuk survived.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Another one of the NKFC advocates followed up with a photo of Ryu Kwong-Hyuk, 17 at the time of repatriation, and told of him:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>This young man was unable to beg or steal for food because he felt great shame for his condition. When Moon-Chul found him he was nearly starved to death, but Moon-Chul kept Kwong-Hyuk alive making sure he had food. Kwong-Hyuk’s dream is to get an education and one day serve the poor.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>If the mainstream media is so morally scrupulous that it is appalled by enhanced interrogation of radical jihadists, it should be doubly appalled by the deliberate starvation of human beings by their own government and the imprisonment of 100,000 men, women, and children in political prison camps under horrific conditions.</p>
<p>If the Senate Intelligence Committee could spend some $50 million to condemn the waterboarding of the mastermind of 9/11, who sawed the head of Danny Pearl…could they spare a little compassion for Noh Yea Ji, a 14 year old North Korean orphan girl who was sold as a slave in China three times, rescued along with the rest of the Laos Nine, and who has now disappeared in the torture chamber that is North Korea?</p>
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		<title>Sloppy Thinking About &#8216;Torture&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does the Senate report make America no longer the “city on the hill”?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mccainfein.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247511" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mccainfein-450x282.jpg" alt="John McCain, Dianne Feinstein" width="298" height="187" /></a>Torture is one of those topics that often overwhelm sober reason with lurid emotion. Even people who usually are clear-eyed and rational sink into sloppy thinking and incoherent argument when it comes to torture. Peggy Noonan’s recent <em>Wall Street Journal</em> column about the Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation techniques illustrates this phenomenon perfectly.</p>
<p>Noonan is usually an astute analyst, but her column on the report is riddled with received wisdom and unexamined assumptions. For Noonan, the “important lesson” of the report is <em>not</em> that progressives, as usual, are shameful hypocrites and partisan hacks who will damage their country’s interests for ideological or political advantage. It is not that when fighting a brutal enemy who obeys no laws of war, things are done we’d rather not do in order to save lives. No, her “lesson” is that the enhanced interrogation techniques, “torture” in her view, are “not like us” or “part of the American DNA,” and that, quoting John McCain, such techniques damage “our reputation as a force for good in the world.” These assertions, however, are based on simplistic psychology and flawed reasoning.</p>
<p>First, with very few isolated exceptions, none of the interrogation techniques meets the U.S. Code’s legal definition of torture, which requires the intent to cause severe suffering “other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions,” in the words of the statute. Noonan may think the EITs are “what I believe must honestly be called torture.” But what Noonan, or I, or anyone else “believes” does not trump what the law actually says, and it is the law (<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18">Title 18</a>, <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I">Part I</a>, <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-113C">Chapter 113C</a>, § 2340) that our officials must follow, not subjective perception or even international laws that conflict with our own. As I said before, if people disagree with the law, then there is a political process for changing it.</p>
<p>The begged question that the EITs are torture undermines by itself the rest of Noonan’s argument. But it suffers from other problems as well. She also makes the fuzzy but simplistic statement that it “won’t help us fight it [war against jihadism] to become less like ourselves and more like those we oppose.” This is a version of the progressives’ mantra since 9/11 that the “terrorists win” if we do certain things that the critics believe are immoral or contrary to our “values”––as if our crisis of national identity is more important than destroying the enemy, the only way we “win.”</p>
<p>Noonan’s argument, however, falls to pieces on analysis. First, it ignores critical distinctions, such as intent: the reason why we do what we do, and the moral superiority of our reasons compared to those of the enemy. Again, with a few exceptions, the intent of the interrogators was not to inflict pain just to indulge their sadism, but to extract information to save American lives, which they did. Second, there are critical differences between the techniques used by the CIA––which were vetted by the Department of Justice, usually overseen by physicians, and subject to precise rules governing their application––and the horrific torture going on in countries like Iran. It is childish to fail to recognize that being slammed against a wall or deprived of sleep or confined in a coffin is nothing even close to the genuine torture going on all over the world. I haven’t heard any of the journalists who volunteered to be waterboarded asking to have their fingernails wrenched out with pliers, or electrodes attached to their genitals.</p>
<p>Third, ignoring the different purposes of what a country does in war leads to the facile moral equivalence of the naïve pacifist or the anti-American critic. During World War II the Allies’ strategic bombing campaigns destroyed almost all of Germany’s major cities and killed up to half a million people. Some historians today call the strategic bombing campaigns war crimes. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which probably saved a million American and Japanese lives that would have been lost with an invasion of Japan, remain popular bywords for American brutality.</p>
<p>But the noble purpose of all that destruction was to hasten the defeat of two of history’s most brutal regimes, whose triumph would have created a world deprived of freedom and human rights, a world of oppression and misery. Achieving that purpose required the “awful arithmetic,” as Lincoln called it, the tragic but necessary calculus that some must die now so that more don’t die later. Noonan needs to explain why incinerating and blowing up hundreds of thousands of people––including women, children, and the old––during the “good war” is “like ourselves,” while the CIA’s interrogation program––in which a grand total of two terrorists died––isn’t.</p>
<p>Finally, there is the obsession with our country’s “reputation,” and the implication that we should concern ourselves with “the world’s regard.” Just which country in the world has the moral authority and clean enough hands to sit in judgment on what our country does? Russia? Iran? China? The British, who in India strapped rebellious sepoys to cannon and blew them to pieces? The French, who killed a million and a half people during the Algerian War, and used torture to dismantle the National Liberation Front’s terrorist cells? And does Noonan really care what the thug regimes sitting on the U.N. Human Rights Council think? Or even our so-called allies in Europe, who carp and criticize our behavior even as they enjoy the free security ride we provide because we are willing to spend the money and do the dirty work they get to avoid?</p>
<p>As for the brutal men who run most of the world, our concern for their opinion is a sign not of strength, but of weakness. It is a marker of our cultural failure of nerve, and our doubt about the rightness of our motives and purposes, the reasons why we have to do what we’d rather not do. But the fact is, our rivals and enemies don’t hate us or oppose us because of what we do. That canard is psychologically reductive, as if other nations and peoples don’t have their own interests and beliefs and aims that they actively pursue, but just passively sit around until we provoke them to react to our bad behavior.</p>
<p>Of course, our enemies will use our actions as the camouflaging pretext for their own behavior, since they understand that too many Americans are predisposed to believe the worst of their own country and thus will counsel retreat and appeasement, or even damage their own country’s interests and security, as the release of the Senate report has done. Bin Laden was the master of such propaganda, employing a whole specious catalogue of American offenses against Islam as the pretext for terrorist attacks based on his religious beliefs about the divine right of Muslims to dominate the world. But in reality, as the world’s greatest military, economic, and cultural power, we will be envied, resented, and hated no matter what we do or how much we anxiously seek the rest of the world’s high “regard.” Rescuing millions of Muslims from violent oppression in Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan has not cut any ice with the scores of jihadist gangs actively trying to kill us.</p>
<p>Contrary to Noonan and McCain, and despite the dishonest rhetoric from our resentful allies, rivals, and enemies, the Senate report does not diminish America as a “force for good in the world,” a beacon of freedom, tolerance, and opportunity. That is why the U.S. is the emigrant’s favorite destination, why the U.S. is the go-to power for those countries in need when stricken by natural disasters or violent aggressors, and why the basic attitude of most of the world’s peoples is “Yankee go home, and take me with you.” The United States is in fact the “city on the hill,” the only world power in history that has used its power more for good than for ill. To think that reports of interrogation techniques used to save lives challenge the reality of American exceptionalism bespeaks a lack of confidence and faith not in our perfection, but in the fundamental goodness of America and its aims despite our occasional imperfections.</p>
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		<title>Did Muhammad Approve of Torture?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Ahmadi Muslim whitewashes the Prophet.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247438" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/behead.jpg" alt="behead" width="331" height="251" />Did Muhammad approve of torture? For Ahmadi Muslim leader Qasim Rashid, the answer is “no” – a “no” so unequivocal that Rashid holds up Muhammad as an example for the U.S. – newly sullied, in his view, by the just-released torture report – to follow in its treatment of prisoners of war.</p>
<p>This all sounds like a mainstream media dream: a moderate Muslim invoking Muhammad to rebuke the U.S. for its torture practices. The only problem with this gloriously multicultural scenario is that Qasim Rashid is a relentlessly disingenuous writer. Previously he has whitewashed <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/fox-news-publishes-piece-whitewashing-jihad-violence-and-proselytizing-for-ahmadi-islam">the reality of jihad violence</a> and Sharia oppression; dissembled about <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/02/taqiyya-about-taqiyya-in-the-washington-post.html">the Qur’an’s sanction of deception of unbelievers</a>; lied about <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/wapo-do-critics-actually-read-the-koran-uh-yeah.html">the presence of violent passages in the Qur’an</a>; lied about <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/the-islamic-solution-to-stop.html">the Qur’an’s sanction of beating disobedient women</a>; lied about <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/08/huffington-post-whitewashes-sharia.html">the nature of Sharia</a>; and <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/03/us-muslim-calls-for-restrictions-on-free-speech-at-event-hosted-by-obama-appointee.html">called for limitations on the freedom of speech</a> and expression to outlaw behavior and speech some Muslims may find offensive. When challenged about the “facts” he has presented, he (like virtually all other Islamic supremacists) responds with furious ad hominem contempt, but no substance.</p>
<p>But he tells the mainstream media establishment what it wants to hear and fosters the complacency and ignorance of non-Muslims regarding jihad terror, and so his abject inability to defend his preposterous claims is of no import: he continues to be given a platform all over. Here he takes advantage of the controversy over the just-released torture report to claim that Muhammad rejected torture — while cynically refraining from mentioning all the evidence to the contrary.</p>
<p>In “5 Lessons From Prophet Muhammad to Stop Torture” in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qasim-rashid/5-lessons-from-prophet-mu_b_6302084.html">Huffington Post</a> (of course) last Wednesday, Rashid claimed:</p>
<blockquote><p>…Were the world to adopt Muhammad’s example of compassion, tolerance, and civility, such a torture report would not exist, because torture itself would not exist.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, because Muhammad would never have approved of harsh interrogation techniques, would he? Well, let’s see: Muhammad’s earliest biographer, Ibn Ishaq, records that when Muhammad was trying to determine whether or not his favorite wife, Aisha, was guilty of adultery, he asked a slave, Burayra: “So the apostle called Burayra to ask her, and Ali got up and gave her a violent beating, saying ‘Tell the Apostle the truth.&#8217;” (Ibn Ishaq 734) Muhammad is not recorded as having rebuked Ali for violently beating this woman.</p>
<p>Nor was that an isolated incident, as we shall see.</p>
<p>Rashid continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>Here are five lessons the CIA, ISIS and humanity at large can learn from Prophet Muhammad on how to stop torture.</p>
<p><strong>1. Stop engaging in pre-emptive war</strong></p>
<p>Prophet Muhammad forbade pre-emptive war, all forms of terrorism, violently revolting against a government no matter how unjust, and even went to the extent of forbidding civil disobedience lest it lead to violence.</p></blockquote>
<p>All forms of terrorism? But Muhammad is reported as having said: “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror…” (Sahih Bukhari 4.52.220). One may argue that he didn’t mean modern-day terrorism, but given the other incidents that I will recount in this article, the claim that he forbade “all forms of terrorism” is fanciful in the extreme.</p>
<p>While not mentioning that hadith or the Qur’an verse telling Muslims to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (8:60), Rashid plows on:</p>
<blockquote><p>When Muslims faced incessant and brutal persecution in Mecca from 610-620, Muhammad forbade any violent or incendiary response to the governing authorities. He offered his companions three options — remain and bear the persecution, try to change laws through peaceful argumentation, or leave.</p>
<p>Many Muslims left — some to Abyssinia where they sought and received refuge under the righteous Christian King Neghus. Others left to Medina, where they forged a peaceful alliance with the Jews and soon established a unified secular state governed by the Charter of Medina. Fighting was then only permitted in self-defense once Muslims were pursued and attacked, just as the <a href="http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?submitCh=Read+from+verse%3A&amp;ch=22&amp;verse=40">Qur’an 22:40</a> allows: “Permission to fight is given to those against whom war is made, because they have been wronged — and Allah indeed has power to help them.” Once in defensive war, the Qur’an only permits killing active combatants, as elaborated next.</p></blockquote>
<p>Rashid omits all mention of the Qur’an’s teaching on offensive fighting. Ibn Ishaq explains the progression of Qur’anic revelation about warfare. First, he explains, Allah allowed Muslims to wage defensive warfare. But that was not Allah’s last word on the circumstances in which Muslims should fight. Ibn Ishaq explains offensive jihad by invoking a Qur’anic verse: “Then God sent down to him: ‘Fight them so that there be no more seduction,’ i.e. until no believer is seduced from his religion. ‘And the religion is God’s’, i.e. Until God alone is worshipped.” The Qur’an verse Ibn Ishaq quotes here (2:193; cf. also 8:39) commands much more than defensive warfare: Muslims must fight until “the religion is God’s” — that is, until Allah alone is worshipped.</p>
<p>The great medieval scholar Ibn Qayyim (1292-1350) also outlines the stages of the Muhammad’s prophetic career: “For thirteen years after the beginning of his Messengership, he called people to God through preaching, without fighting or Jizyah, and was commanded to restrain himself and to practice patience and forbearance. Then he was commanded to migrate, and later permission was given to fight. Then he was commanded to fight those who fought him, and to restrain himself from those who did not make war with him. Later he was commanded to fight the polytheists until God’s religion was fully established.”</p>
<p>In other words, he initially could fight only defensively — only “those who fought him” — but later he could fight the polytheists until Islam was “fully established.” He could fight them even if they didn’t fight him first, and solely because they were not Muslim.</p>
<p>Nor do all contemporary Islamic thinkers believe that that command is a relic of history. According to a 20th century Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh ‘Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid, “at first ‘the fighting’ was forbidden, then it was permitted and after that it was made obligatory.” He also distinguishes two groups Muslims must fight: “(1) against them who start ‘the fighting’ against you (Muslims) . . . (2) and against all those who worship others along with Allah . . . as mentioned in Surat Al-Baqarah (II), Al-Imran (III) and At-Taubah (IX) . . . and other Surahs (Chapters of the Qur’an).” (The Roman numerals after the names of the chapters of the Qur’an are the numbers of the suras: Sheikh ‘Abdullah is referring to Qur’anic verses such as 2:216, 3:157-158, 9:5, and 9:29.)</p>
<p>As an Ahmadi, Rashid may reject this understanding of the Qur’an and jihad, but it does exist, and he must know it exists. To ignore it entirely and give the impression that it doesn’t exist is cynical and deceptive.</p>
<p>And his cynicism and deceptiveness don’t end there. He continues:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>2. Stop justifying collateral damage</strong></p>
<p>Drone strikes, indiscriminate bombing, and collateral damage have each sadly become part of the American military experience. Prophet Muhammad categorically condemned any act of violence in which civilians, property, or places of worship were harmed.</p>
<p>Following Muhammad’s guidance, <a href="http://www.alislam.org/topics/khilafat/abubakar.html">Abu Bakr the first Khalifa</a> commanded to the Muslim army about to embark on battle,</p>
<p>“O people! I charge you with ten rules; learn them well… for your guidance in the battlefield! Do not commit treachery, or deviate from the right path. You must not mutilate dead bodies. Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man. Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful. Slay not any of the enemy’s flock, save for your food. You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.”</p>
<p>As history’s first major figure to condemn collateral damage in word and in deed, Prophet Muhammad demonstrated a high precedent that even the most advanced nations today cannot match. Today’s leaders can end the war atrocities engulfing our world by following Muhammad’s example of justice and compassion.</p></blockquote>
<p>Collateral damage: “It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him), when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid, said: They are from them.” (Muslim 4321)</p>
<p>There is still more. Rashid says:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>3. Stop indefinite detention for POWs</strong></p>
<p>The Afghan and Iraq wars are long over. Yet, America continues to maintain numerous POWs in Guantanamo Bay, and likely in other undisclosed locations. Prophet Muhammad categorically condemned this practice. After permitting Muslims to only fight in self-defense, the Qur’an 47:5 next commands Muslims to release POWs immediately as war comes to an end.</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually, Qur’an 47:5 says: “Soon will He guide them and improve their condition.” That is not in any clear sense a command to release POW’s immediately as war comes to an end. Ibn Abbas in his commentary on this verse explains: “He will give them success to perform righteous deeds (and improve their state) and improve their condition and intention; it is also said that this means: He will save them in the Hereafter and improve their state and accept their works on the Day of Judgement.” To whom is Ibn Abbas referring? Not to prisoners of war, but (according to his gloss on 47:4) to “those who are killed in obedience of Allah on the Day of Badr, referring here to the prophetic Companions.” Ibn Kathir interprets the verse in a similar way, without any reference to freeing prisoners of war at the end of the war.</p>
<p>Without mentioning this anomaly, Rashid goes on:</p>
<blockquote><p>Maintaining POWs well after the war has ended creates distrust and animosity among allies and enemies alike, and is beneath the standard of a civilized country. Rather than usurp human rights with indefinite detention, rather than provide propaganda material to extremists, rather than violate its own Constitution and international law, we should all learn from Prophet Muhammad’s example, and justly release POWs.</p>
<p><strong>4. Stop mistreating POWs</strong></p>
<p>POWs, during and after the war must be treated with the dignity all human beings deserve. Historian Sir William Muir well records how Prophet Muhammad commanded his companions to treat POWs:</p>
<p>The Refugees had houses of their own, received the prisoners with kindness and consideration. “Blessings on the men of Medina!” said one of these in later days: “they made us ride, while they themselves walked afoot; they gave us wheaten bread to eat when there was little of it, contenting themselves with dates.” It is not surprising, therefore, that some of the captives, yielding to these influences, declared themselves Believers, and to such their liberty was at once granted. The rest were kept for ransom. Such as had nothing to give were liberated without payment; but a service was required… To each were allotted ten boys, to be taught the art of writing; and the teaching was accepted as a ransom.</p>
<p>Mind you, this was at a time in Arabia when Muslims captured during battle suffered the fate of torture and death. Yet, in response, Muslims demanded the ransom of education, fed POWs with their own food and sheltered them with their own shelter. Once war ended, Muhammad immediately released all POWs. This is how he brought lasting peace to a former Arabian wasteland engulfed in constant war.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mistreating POW’s: “When Muhammad saw Hamzah he said, ‘If Allah gives me victory over the Quraysh at any time, I shall mutilate thirty of their men!’ When the Muslims saw the rage of the Prophet they said, ‘By Allah, if we are victorious over them, we shall mutilate them in a way which no Arab has ever mutilated anybody.” (Al-Tabari, vol. 7, p. 133; cf. Ibn Ishaq 387)</p>
<p>And: “Anas reported: Eight men of the tribe of ‘Ukl came to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and swore allegiance to him on Islam, but found the climate of that land uncogenial to their health and thus they became sick, and they made complaint of that to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: Why don’t you go to (the fold) of our camels along with our shepherd, and make use of their milk and urine. They said: Yes. They set out and drank their (camels’) milk and urine and regained their health. They killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. This (news) reached Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and he sent them on their track and they were caught and brought to him (the Holy Prophet). He commanded about them, and (thus) their hands and feet were cut off and their eyes were gouged and then they were thrown in the sun, until they died.” (Sahih Muslim 4131)</p>
<p>Rashid concludes with a dishonest coup de grace:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>5. Stop justifying torture</strong></p>
<p>Nothing justifies the torture the CIA meted out to those 119 human beings. Indeed, in response to those arguing safety, the report concludes that America was not made any safer as a result of these barbaric practices. This was just one among many reasons Prophet Muhammad categorically forbade torture.</p>
<p>For example, as recorded in Sahih Muslim, “Hisham ibn Hakim passed by some people in Syria who had been made to stand in the sun and had oil poured over their heads. He asked, “What is this?” It was said,</p>
<p>“They are being punished for not paying taxes.” Hisham said: I heard Prophet Muhammad say: “Verily, Allah will torture those who torture people in this world.” Likewise, Jabir ibn Abdullah reported that Prophet Muhammad commanded: “Do not torture the creation of Allah the Exalted.”</p>
<p>Indeed, <a href="http://www.alislam.org/library/books/TheBlessedModelAndCaricatures.pdf">Prophet Muhammad’s compassion extended beyond humans</a> as he also specifically forbade torturing animals, declaring, “A woman was punished because of a cat she had imprisoned until it died; thus, she entered Hellfire because of it. She did not give it food or water while it was imprisoned, neither did she set it free to eat from the vermin of the earth.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad, according to Islamic tradition, didn’t just justify torture. He ordered it: “Kinana b. al-Rabi`, who had the custody of the treasure of B. al-Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came (T. was brought) to the apostle and said that he had seen Kinana going round a certain ruin every morning early. When the apostle said to Kinana, ‘Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?’ he said Yes. The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr b. al-Awwam, ‘Torture him until you extract what he has,’ so he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud.” (Ibn Ishaq 515).</p>
<p>After his tour de force of disingenuousness, Rashid concludes:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is not a lack of intelligence, but a lack of morality that permitted this barbaric act of torture to occur at all. The CIA, ISIS, and indeed the world at large can learn volumes about compassion, justice, mercy, and morality from Prophet Muhammad, the man who successfully <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw3R8xc1TQ0">brought peace to a warring world</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>The world is warring all over today because of Muhammad’s teachings. It is a peculiar lack of morality that would create this deceptive piece, with its calculated omissions and frankly false conclusion. If Rashid is asked about this post, he will sneer that it is not peer-reviewed; he will not answer any of its substantive refutations of his dishonest claims. He cannot do so — both because the traditions about Muhammad don’t bear out his claims, and because of his own intellectual and moral dishonesty.</p>
<p>Qasim Rashid apparently doesn’t want the world to know that Muhammad commanded and approved of torture. He wants people to think that he forbade it. The effect of this will be to foster ignorance and complacency about the jihad threat. The blood of the next victims tortured by Islamic jihadists will cry out to Qasim Rashid from the ground on which it is spilled.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left revives an old tradition of besmirching the CIA in a time of crisis abroad. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/o-CIA-SYRIAN-REBELS-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247270" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/o-CIA-SYRIAN-REBELS-facebook-450x322.jpg" alt="A man crosses the Central Intelligence A" width="362" height="259" /></a>The Senate’s misleadingly dubbed “torture report,” an executive summary of which was released by the Senate Intelligence Committee, is a shameless and dangerous act of political grandstanding and moral preening. The investigative report of the CIA’s long-suspended interrogation program reflects nothing more than just how firmly the progressive mind is stuck in the old Vietnam War paradigm, their master narrative of American crime and left-wing righteousness. Once more, we see how reactionary is the ideology of the left, their minds unable to accommodate historical change, new ideas, or even coherent thinking.</p>
<p style="color: #313131;"><span style="color: #000000;">Jose Rodriguez, a 31-year veteran of the CIA who ran the interrogation program, has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/todays-cia-critics-once-urged-the-agency-to-do-anything-to-fight-al-qaeda/2014/12/05/ac418da2-7bda-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">detailed</span></a> the hypocrisy and untruths of the report. He reminds us that in the aftermath of 9/11, lawmakers demanded that the intelligence agencies do everything possible to stop another attack. Indeed, Feinstein in May 2002 told the <i>New York Times </i>that “</span><span style="color: #272727;">we have to do some things that historically we have not wanted to do to protect ourselves.” In her comments on the Report’s release, however, Feinstein referred to the Geneva Convention and said, </span>“No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, (including what I just read) whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.” Twelve years later, the political advantages of moral preening have trumped the recognition that hard choices have to be made sometimes to fulfill the federal government’s highest duty, which is to keep the citizens safe.</p>
<p>Rodriguez also explodes the report’s canard that the enhanced interrogation techniques were not legally sanctioned. They were in fact reviewed in 2002 and 2005 by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, and in 2009 were investigated by Eric Holder’s DOJ, which did not file charges. Rodriguez also debunks the claim that the CIA withheld information concerning their use from government officials. Rodriguez should know, since he was there when the CIA briefed Senator Feinstein and House Representative Nancy Pelosi on the techniques. And he exposes the lie that EITs did not yield vital information, an assessment also contradicted by ex-CIA chief Michael Hayden, who said of the charge that it “is so untrue” that it “actually defies human comprehension. We detained about 100 people, we had a Home Depot-like warehouse of information from those people.” Former CIA chiefs James Woolsey, Porter Goss, George Tenet, and, with shrewd equivocation, Leon Panetta, along with ex-Attorney General Mike Mukasey and current CIA chief John Brennan, have confirmed that EITs did provide valuable intelligence.</p>
<p>Yet the central fallacy of the report is that the EITs  “amount[ed] to torture,” as Feinstein announced on the report’s release. But government policy follows the law as written and established by Congress, not what “amounts” to the law in someone’s subjective estimation. Such sophistic language compromises the report’s description of EITs. The techniques cited––threats, sleep deprivation, “physical assault,” stripping detainees naked, putting them in “stress positions”––are all obviously frightening and painful. But they are not “torture” under U.S. law. Nor is waterboarding, Exhibit A in the left’s indictment of U.S. heinous behavior. That’s why Feinstein slyly says that EITs “amount” to torture rather than explicitly calling them torture, and why she cites international conventions on torture rather than the U.S. law.</p>
<p>Just consult the <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002340----000-.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">statute</span></a> covering torture in the U.S. Code, which defines it as “an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control,” and further clarifies “severe mental pain or suffering” as “the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from . . . the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering.” The key words are “intended” and “severe.” As Marc Thiessen concluded in his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Courting-Disaster-America-Barack-Inviting/dp/1596986034/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418248906&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=marc+thiessen"><span style="color: #0433ff;">analysis</span></a> of the EITs and their legality, “The fact is, <i>none</i> of the techniques used by the CIA meet the standard of torture in U.S. law. This is for two reasons: because the CIA interrogators did not <i>specifically intend</i> to inflict severe pain and suffering; second, because they did not <i>in fact</i> inflict severe pain and suffering.” And in 2009 Attorney General Eric Holder agreed, when he testified before Congress that waterboarding U.S. military personnel as part of their training was not torture: “It’s not torture in the legal sense because you’re not doing it with the intention of harming these people physically or mentally.”</p>
<p>This simple legal reality is why Feinstein in her statement depends on imprecise adjectives like “visceral,” “ugly,” “brutal,” and “harsh”––to create a cloud of emotion that hides the fact that EITs were not illegal and were not torture. Furthermore, if Feinstein and other critics think this point is a sophistic evasion and that these techniques <i>are</i> torture, then they should call on Congress to change the law rather than rewriting history to suggest that the CIA did something illegal.</p>
<p style="color: #313131;"><span style="color: #000000;">But fact and reality are not as important as politics and the leftist melodrama of America’s historical crimes. Thus Feinstein said her report reveals behavior that is “</span>a stain on our values and on our history,” and Senator John McCain said they are violations of our “ideals.” So just how is attempting to keep America safe by interrogating terrorists according to the law, with doctors and psychologists present to monitor the terrorist’s well being, a “stain”? In the real world beyond our borders, genuine torture is used daily without the sort of legal limits or oversight imposed on our interrogators. And most of the time, the torture is not used to gain life-saving information, but to punish political enemies, terrorize political opponents, or just indulge sadistic cruelty. That is a real “stain.”</p>
<p style="color: #313131;">As for our “ideals,” such a low bar for indictment as waterboarding––which killed no one, and which several journalists volunteered to undergo––means, <span style="color: #000000;">as Max Boot has suggested, </span>that the Allied strategic bombing of Germany and Japan, which killed 650,000 to a million civilians with high explosives, nuclear bombs, and incendiaries, was an even grosser and more heinous “stain” on our “ideals” than sleep deprivation and scary threats. Where was the investigation of strategic bombing after World War II, or the pontifications on the Senate floor of how we Americans were “better” than such practices? Are we now just morally superior to those Americans who accepted the “awful arithmetic” and defeated 2 racist, brutal, totalitarian regimes? Or how about Obama’s droning to death over 3600 terrorists, including nearly 500 civilians, actions not subject to the legal review the EITs were? Dead terrorists are bad sources of intelligence of the sort gleaned by using EITs. Will we see a future investigation that condemns these drone executions as a “stain on our values and history” and “ideals”? It seems that “values” and “history” are defined by which party is in control of the government and stands to benefit politically by pointing out how they’ve been defiled.</p>
<p><span style="color: #313131;">But apart from politics, this report and its rollout </span>are just another act in the progressive melodrama of America’s sin and guilt for crimes committed when morally superior liberals aren’t running the show. And exhibit number 1 for progressives of a certain age is the Vietnam War. That’s why the conflict in Iraq was shoehorned into the Vietnam paradigm as soon as ambitious Democrats like Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and John Kerry, who had all voted for the war, began noticing the traction Howard Dean was gaining from opposing the war.</p>
<p>Thus the 1964 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Gulf of Tonkin</span></a> resolution authorizing the escalation of the war in Vietnam found its parallel in Bush’s alleged “lies” and “false intelligence” about Hussein’s WMDs (“Bush lied, millions died!”). The charge that Vietnam was benefitting the “military-industrial complex” and its lust for profits and resources was duplicated in allegations that the Halliburton Corporation and Dick Cheney were really after Iraq’s oil (“No blood for oil!”). Anti-war critics like I.F. Stone and the Berrigan brothers were reincarnated as the buffoonish Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. The anti-war movement of the Vietnam era reappeared as International ANSWER, Code Pink, and various other outfits protesting the war in Iraq. Clichés like “escalation” and “quagmire” resurfaced in media commentary, and atrocities like My Lai were searched for in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.</p>
<p>And don’t forget the investigative assault on the CIA by Senator Frank Church’s committee following the 1975 North Vietnamese victory in Vietnam, a report that weakened the CIA and compromised its effectiveness in ways that helped pave the way for the 9/11 attacks. Now it finds a new iteration in the Senate Intelligence Committee report and the dishonest media coverage besmirching the CIA. The immediate result has been to endanger our agents and intelligence assets abroad.  It still waits to be seen how much damage will ensue to the morale and future practice of the brave men and women who try to keep us safe.</p>
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		<title>The Senate CIA Report and Democratic Treachery</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/feinstein.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247160" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/feinstein-432x350.png" alt="feinstein" width="315" height="255" /></a>On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released the 500-page executive summary of the report on the CIA’s enhanced interrogation of terrorist detainees. Democrats, the media and Republican Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) are using it as an opportunity to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/09/politics/cia-torture-report/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">hammer</span></a> the CIA and the Bush administration, while American embassies, military units and other U.S. interests are <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-prepares-security-risks-torture-report-080155482--politics.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">preparing</span></a> for possible reprisals. But adding further threats to Americans already in harm&#8217;s way matters not. Beleaguered congressional Democrats are desperate for a political boon and have turned to an old standby: sabotaging national security and sacrificing American lives.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Since their betrayal of the Iraq war, Democrats, particularly in the Senate, have panned the techniques used by the CIA to garner critical information in the days following 9/11 as “torture,” and have claimed that they yielded no useful intel. Though the use of these techniques was long known to Democrats — with virtual indifference toward them at the outset — many Democrats have since claimed they were unaware of what was occurring, which explains their lack of opposition to their government supposedly engaging in “torture.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Leading the way on the latter fabrication was then-House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Her ongoing denials regarding knowledge of the CIA&#8217;s waterboarding of terrorists were ultimately undone by Pelosi herself in 2009, when she finally <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/pelosi-cia-misled-congress-over-waterboarding/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">admitted</span></a> she had known about the program since 2003. Yet even as she admitted it, she continued to promote the “Bush lied, people died” lie, insisting that &#8220;the C.I.A. was misleading the Congress and at the same time the administration was misleading the Congress on weapons of mass destruction.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those would be the same weapons of mass destruction whose existence was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=3"><span style="color: #1255cc;">acknowledged</span></a> by the <i>New York Times</i> last October.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As for so-called torture, the report <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/world/senate-intelligence-committee-cia-torture-report.html?emc=edit_na_20141209&amp;nlid=23627335&amp;_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">cited</span></a> sleep deprivation, threatening subjects with death, “rectal feeding” or “rectal hydration” described by the CIA&#8217;s chief of interrogations as a way to exert “total control over detainees,” and waterboarding, as in simulating near drowning. The report further stated that former CIA directors George J. Tenet, Porter J. Goss and Michael V. Hayden hyped the value of those techniques in secret briefings with the White House and Congress.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein admitted that she “could understand the C.I.A.&#8217;s impulse to consider the use of every possible tool to gather intelligence and remove terrorists from the battlefield, and the C.I.A. was encouraged by political leaders and the public to do whatever it could to prevent another attack,” but that “such pressure, fear and expectation of further terrorist plots do not justify, temper or excuse improper actions taken by individuals or organizations in the name of national security. The major lesson of this report is that regardless of the pressures and the need to act, the intelligence community’s actions must always reflect who we are as a nation, and adhere to our laws and standards.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The hypocrisy is breathtaking. While the Left wrings its collective hands about “torture,” they remain silent to Barack Obama’s <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">drone program</span></a>. One that has not only killed terrorists, but America citizens, Samir Khan, and Anwar al-Awlaki. Both men were traitors, but they were executed without the due process the Left supposedly reveres so much in the case of terrorist detainees. So was Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, as well as innocents who were victims of collateral damage. No one was reported to have been killed by the Bush administration&#8217;s enhanced interrogation techniques, yet somehow Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney are routinely <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Bush+Cheney+war+criminals&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8"><span style="color: #1255cc;">referred</span></a> to as “war criminals” while Obama largely gets a pass.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The <i>Washington Post’s</i> Bill Gerson cuts right through the double-standard, noting intelligence personnel now being excoriated received the same “direction and protection,” consisting of presidential approval, congressional briefing, lawfulness determined by the U.S. Attorney General and target value determined by the CIA Director as those currently participating in the drone program. &#8220;Some may argue a subtle moral distinction between harshly interrogating a terrorist and blowing his limbs apart,” Gerson writes. &#8220;But international human rights groups and legal authorities generally look down on both. The main difference? One is Obama’s favorite program. A few years from now, a new president and new congressional leaders may take a different view.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This double standard puts the lie to Democrats’ seriousness toward the claim that the Bush administration engaged in “torture,” illegality and human rights abuses in its mission to thwart terrorist attacks against the homeland. In truth, the campaign against tough interrogation is a political cudgel that Democrats have employed to bludgeon their political enemies, no matter the national security cost. It amounts to nothing less than a revisionist effort to turn those entrusted with protecting the country in the immediate aftermath of the worst domestic attack in American history into pariahs, even as the war remains ongoing. As Gerson so rightly notes, the report’s release is an act of &#8220;exceptional congressional recklessness” engineered by Feinstein, whose &#8220;legacy is a massive dump of intelligence details useful to the enemy in a time of war.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our allies are equally appalled. ”Foreign leaders have approached the government and said, &#8216;You do this, this will cause violence and deaths,&#8221;&#8217; <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/08/house-intelligence-chairman-rogers-report-will-spur-attacks/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warned</span></a> Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. &#8220;Our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged such concerns, but insisted the administration &#8220;strongly supports the release of this declassified summary of the report.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">No doubt. The release neatly coincided with ObamaCare mega-consultant Jonathan Gruber’s Congressional <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/09/politics/gruber-hearing/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">testimony</span></a> regarding his contempt for the American public, and the deception employed to get the ACA passed. Thus, the administration has once again employed a bait and switch effort to distract the public, despite the fact that distraction imperils Americans and our allies.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">CIA veteran Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., who ran the enhanced interrogation program, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/todays-cia-critics-once-urged-the-agency-to-do-anything-to-fight-al-qaeda/2014/12/05/ac418da2-7bda-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">destroys</span></a> the contention that Democrats were out of the loop, and that the enhanced interrogation techniques yielded no useful information. &#8220;The leaders of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees and of both parties in Congress were briefed on the program more than 40 times between 2002 and 2009,” he reveals, noting those same lawmakers &#8220;urged us to do everything possible to prevent another attack on our soil.” He was equally forthright about the intel that was garnered. &#8220;After extraordinary CIA efforts, aided by information obtained through the enhanced-interrogation program, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks, was captured in Pakistan,&#8221; he explains.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">He is especially critical of “hypocritical&#8221; Democrats. He cites Feinstein&#8217;s 2002 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/weekinreview/all-fronts-getting-more-than-one-step-ahead-of-an-attack.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">assertion</span></a> that &#8220;we have to do some things that historically we have not wanted to do to protect ourselves,” as well as an <a href="http://votesmart.org/public-statement/15557/cnn-late-edition-with-wolf-blitzer#.VIdvyifFm3d"><span style="color: #1255cc;">interview</span></a> between CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WVA), then the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. In response to Blitzer’s question about whether Khalid Sheik Mohammed might be turned over to friendly countries with no restrictions on torture, the Senator admitted it was possible. “I wouldn’t take anything off the table where he is concerned, because this is the man who has killed hundreds and hundreds of Americans over the last 10 years,” he replied.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Rodriguez then adds a dose of devastating perspective to the mix. &#8220;If Feinstein, Rockefeller and other politicians were saying such things in print and on national TV, imagine what they were saying to us in private….Our reward, a decade later, is to hear some of these same politicians expressing outrage for what was done and, even worse, mischaracterizing the actions taken and understating the successes achieved,” he states.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Current and former CIA leaders <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/defense/226465-spies-push-back-on-senate-report"><span style="color: #1255cc;">bitterly contested</span></a> the report. Bush-era CIA Director George Tenet labeled it &#8220;biased, inaccurate, and destructive,” adding that it &#8220;does damage to U.S. national security, to the men and women of the Central Intelligence Agency, and most of all to the truth.” CIA Director John Brennan said the agency made mistakes, but insisted &#8220;the record does not support the study’s inference that the agency systematically and intentionally misled each of these audiences on the effectiveness of the program.” A <a href="http://ciasavedlives.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">website</span></a> launched by a number of intelligence officials blasted the report:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The recently released Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Majority report on the CIA&#8217;s Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program is marred by errors of facts and interpretation and is completely at odds with the reality that the leaders and officers of the Central Intelligence Agency lived through. It represents the single worst example of Congressional oversight in our many years of government service.</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Cheney also remains <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/us/politics/white-house-and-gop-clash-over-torture-report.html?emc=edit_th_20141209&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=62431058&amp;_r=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">resolute</span></a> about the necessity and legality of the program. “What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation, and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it,” he said in a telephone interview with the <i>New York Times</i>. “I think that’s all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program.” Cheney also had nothing but praise for those who participated. “As far as I’m concerned, they ought to be decorated, not criticized,” he added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The alternative viewpoint? &#8220;Showing respect even for ones enemies. Trying to understand and in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view,” <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/12/212850-hillary-remarks-beat-enemies-may-just-killed-chances-presidency/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> Secretary of State and likely presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Americans have a choice to make between competing worldviews. The wrong choice will have deadly consequences.</p>
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		<title>Jihadis Display ‘Power of Islam’ on Donkey Victims</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which came first, the infidel or the animal?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/donkey.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233658" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/donkey-391x350.jpg" alt="donkey" width="255" height="229" /></a>Very graphic videos recently appeared on <a href="http://new.elfagr.org/Detail.aspx?nwsId=613994"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Arabic-language media</span></a> portraying Islamic jihadis in Syria slaughtering donkeys in order to consume them.</p>
<p>The main point made by some of these websites is that the jihadis are hypocrites for (again) violating Islamic law, which bans the eating of domesticated donkeys.</p>
<p>In the words of a fatwa, or Islamic decree, titled “<a href="http://islamqa.info/en/85534"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Is it permissible to eat donkey meat</span></a>?”</p>
<blockquote><p>Praise be to Allaah.</p>
<p>It is permissible to eat the meat of onagers (“wild donkeys”) and it is haraam [forbidden] to eat the meat of domesticated donkeys. The first is permitted because of the report narrated by al-Bukhaari (5492) and Muslim (1196) from Abu Qataadah (may Allaah be pleased with him) who hunted an onager and brought a piece of it to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and he ate some of it, and he said to his companions: “It is halaal [permissible], eat it.”</p>
<p>With regard to domesticated donkeys, their meat was permitted at first, then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) declared it to be haraam [forbidden] on the day of Khaybar.</p></blockquote>
<p>Questions of wild or domesticated aside—and the donkeys do appear to be domesticated—this is yet another example of the fact that, for those waging jihad to empower Allah’s word, dispensations are always available.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/sex-jihad-fatwa-permits-incest-in-syria/">As discussed here</a></span>, it is precisely because the strictures of Islamic law are relaxed for the jihadi—often <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/sex-jihad-and-western-disbelief/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">permitting the indulgence of depraved behavior</span></a>—that the jihad has always been an appealing option.</p>
<p>While killing animals for consumption is commonplace, what is notable about these videos is the “supremacist” demeanor of the jihadis towards the donkeys—as if the animals are also “infidels” to be treated with contempt and brutality.</p>
<p>Watching them slaughter the donkeys is like watching them slaughter human “infidels”—with all the triumphant theatrics.</p>
<p>In one video, “Allahu Akbar!” is heard while a donkey is being decapitated.</p>
<p>Jihadis habitually cry “Allahu Akbar” (Islam’ supremacist war-cry, which literally means Allah is “greater”) whenever striking down infidels—especially when ceremoniously beheading them.</p>
<p>But why say it while slaughtering a donkey—an animal—for consumption?</p>
<p>In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEa3smEQgho"><span style="color: #0433ff;">another</span></a> video, the animals are very inhumanely treated—sadistically dumped out of a truck, then struck on the head with a club, followed by decapitation—all to background laughter and snickers (reminiscent of <span style="color: #0433ff;">yet another video</span> of a donkey being set on fire, apparently “for laughs,” in some Arab nation, possibly Algeria.)</p>
<p>Again, why is the act of slaughtering an animal for consumption videotaped and disseminated on the Internet in the first place—and sensationalized as if it were an infidel enemy, not a dumb animal, that was being “overcome”?</p>
<p>Upon further reflection, one begins to realize that the jihadis are not treating the donkeys like infidels, but rather that, because non-Muslims are often seen as <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-racism-muslim-blood-superior-to-infidel-blood/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">subhuman on a par with animals</span></a>—Islam’s prophet reportedly said that women are like horses, “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islam-on-cows-horses-camels-and-women/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">for all are ridden</span></a>”—it is the infidels who are being treated as animals.</p>
<p>As for the sadistic abuse of animals—full of supremacism and power trips—that’s apparently standard, as suggested by <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.563151">this December 2013 report</a>.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Shocking footage of cattle exported from Australia being <i>tortured</i> and killed in the streets of Gaza is being described by an Australian animal rights group as <i>the worst animal cruelty case it has ever seen</i> in the live export industry, The West Australian news reported Thursday.  Footage compiled by Animals Australia shows <i>bulls being “knee-capped by a man armed with an assault rifle, another stabbed in the eye and other having their throats hacked open in the streets</i>.”…</p>
<p>“<i>So acceptable is this brutal treatment to locals that they are cheering and filming the spectacle on mobile phones</i>,” Animals Australia campaign director Lyn White said (emphasis added).</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Remembering Vietnam War Hero Jeremiah Denton</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/denton_jeremiah++defense.gov_.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-222279" alt="denton_jeremiah++defense.gov" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/denton_jeremiah++defense.gov_.jpg" width="317" height="238" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When Jeremiah Denton passed away at 89 on March 28 President Obama issued a statement:  “The valor that he and his fellow POWs displayed was deeply inspiring to our nation at the time, and it continues to inspire our brave men and women who serve today. As senator, he served as a strong advocate for our national security.  He leaves behind a legacy of heroic service to his country.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That presidential tribute was certainly welcome, and perhaps something of a surprise. But the man and his story deserve more detail.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Commander Denton was shot down over North Vietnam on July 18, 1965, and held captive for nearly eight years. Senator John McCain, a POW in North Vietnam for more than five years, said, “as a senior ranking officer in prison, Admiral Denton’s leadership inspired us to persevere, and to resist our captors in ways we never would have on our own. He endured unspeakable pain and suffering because of his steadfast adherence to our code of conduct.” Denton’s heroism also emerges in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Leading with Honor</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, a recent memoir by fellow POW Lee Ellis.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Hanoi and Haiphong were the most heavily defended areas in the world and </span>more than 70 percent of US pilots shot down in the “Rolling Thunder” campaign were pilots and crew members. Denton was one of the first and a prize for the North Vietnamese who sought to use prominent POWs as propaganda tools in staged press conferences. As Ellis describes it:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">CDR Denton endured excruciating torture before agreeing to go before the cameras. Prior to his filming, his captors prepped him for several days on what he was supposed to say about ‘America’s cruel and oppressive war.’ He said ‘whatever my government is doing, I agree with it, and I will support it as long as I live.’</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On camera, Denton blinked out TORTURE in Morse code (video below). When the video went public, Ellis notes, “it was the first time the U.S government had accurate information about the treatment of POWs.” So Denton’s valor was informative and inspiring, but he wasn’t done.</span></p>
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<p>His defiance angered the Vietnamese Communists but they remained unaware of Denton’s encoded communication and put him on display at another staged press conference two weeks later. “This time Denton stood up on camera and walked out.” His Vietnamese Communist captors “put Denton in the rope torture and then beat him until he was unconscious.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Even so, Denton’s policy remained firm: “no writing, no taping, take torture until you’re in danger of losing mental facilities, and then give a phony story. Die before giving classified information. If broken, don’t despair. Bounce back as soon as you can to the hard line. Remember: unity above self.” And Ellis notes that Denton practiced what he preached.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Denton “never hesitated to provide leadership when he was senior ranking officer of a cellblock or camp. Although that made him a prime target for abuse and exploitation by the enemy, he steadfastly pushed himself and the enemy to the limit. He deliberately kept the torture team occupied, so they would have less time to harass his fellow POWs.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So in current parlance, he took more than one for the team, and he prevailed. After the 1973 accords, Denton was the first former POW to step off the plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. But he wasn’t done yet.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Promoted to rear admiral, Denton became commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. He remained a strong anti-Communist, supporting the Nicaraguan Contras in their fight against the Communist pro-Soviet FSLN regime. In 1980 he gained election to the U.S. Senate, the first Republican from Alabama since Reconstruction. Not bad for the son of a hotel clerk who attended 13 different elementary schools.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jeremiah Denton wrote </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">When Hell Was in Session</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about his POW years. In 1979 that book became a TV movie with Hal Holbrook as Denton and Eva Marie Saint as his wife Jane, who raised seven children while her husband was a POW in Vietnam. That movie deserves another shot on television and a full theatrical release. That would be a fitting tribute to Jeremiah Denton and help his valor, as President Obama said, “to inspire our brave men and women who serve today.”</span></p>
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		<title>Lessons on the New Left from the Hanoi Hilton</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 05:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A POW's memories of communist torture camp collaborators Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/fondapic1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219907" alt="fondapic1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/fondapic1-450x321.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb recently interviewed Lee Ellis, author of </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Leading-Honor-Leadership-Lessons-Hilton/dp/098387932X">Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton</a>.</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> The book is a valuable primer on history that many Americans have forgotten or know only in part. </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Leading with Honor</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> is also an introduction to characters all Americans should get to know better, such as Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda. Ellis came to know the pair under different circumstances.</span></p>
<p>In November of 1967 Ellis was shot down on a mission to destroy the guns that protected the Quang Khe ferry that supplied the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In the Hoa Lao prison, which POWs dubbed the Hanoi Hilton, Ellis learned firsthand about North Vietnam and its systematic torture of American POWs. As the author notes, the North Vietnamese tortured more than 95 percent of American POWs including eight tortured to death. Ellis describes the “Pretzel,” one of the regime’s favorite tortures:</p>
<blockquote><p>After the prisoner’s legs were tied together, his arms were laced tightly behind his back until the elbows touched and the shoulders were virtually pulled out of joint. Then the torturer would push the bound arms up and over the head, while applying pressure with a knee to the victim’s back. During the torture, the circulation is cut off and the limbs to go sleep but the joint pain continues to increase as the ligaments and muscles tear. When the ropes are finally removed, circulation surges back into the &#8220;dead&#8221; limbs, causing excruciating pain.</p></blockquote>
<p>POW Mike McGrath provides a sketch of the practice. The North Vietnamese also used handcuffs that could be ratcheted down tighter until they cut off circulation, even cut into the muscle and on some men, “deep enough to expose bone.” But the torture wasn’t all physical.</p>
<p>The captors piped in propaganda and, Ellis explains, “the afternoon broadcasts were especially disheartening because they featured Americans spouting words that could have been written for them in Moscow and Hanoi.” American <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1334">Tom Hayden</a> “was a regular speaker,” later joined by his wife “film star Jane Fonda.” For this pair, the American POWs were war criminals and their reports of torture were lies.</p>
<p>Ellis charitably calls Fonda an “anti-war activist,” but she and Hayden were not against war in general. They only opposed American participation in a war against the North Vietnamese regime they served as propagandists. Hayden was their voice in the cells of the Hanoi Hilton and Fonda partied it up with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft squad. But unlike “Axis Sally,” Mildred Gillars, who served jail time for broadcasting Nazi propaganda, “Hanoi Jane” suffered not at all. Her money and prestige helped Hayden gain public office in California.</p>
<p>The war in Vietnam continued after the United States pulled out in 1973 and in 1975 South Vietnam fell to the Communists.  Hayden and Fonda celebrated the victory and remained uncritical of a Stalinist regime more repressive than its Soviet sponsors. Fonda even sought to slam the door on the “boat people” who fled the regime. Hayden called their defenders, such as Joan Baez, tools of the CIA.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, one of Tom Hayden’s comrades, John Froines, was recently the subject of a <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/24/5938492/dan-morain-from-an-obscure-panel.html">glowing profile in the <i>Sacramento Bee</i></a> describing him as a “social justice and civil rights advocate” but a stickler for facts and completely impartial.</p>
<p>Froines was a minor Zelig-like figure in the New Left but achieved a measure of fame for disrupting the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was acquitted on rioting charges and, armed with a PhD in chemistry from Yale, went on to work for the federal government. He later landed in California, where his Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants used suspect data to impose an onerous regulatory regime that punishes California workers</p>
<p>Froines’ panel championed a study by Hien Tran of the California Air Resources Board, who claimed to have a PhD from UC Davis. Actually, Tran bought his degree from a diploma mill in a New York UPS office. Froines also fought epidemiologist James Enstrom of the UCLA School of Public Health, who exposed Tran’s fakery and pointed out problems in his study.</p>
<p>Even so, Froines was duly reappointed to the panel by Assembly Speaker John Perez who claimed to have earned a degree from UC Berkeley, a claim backed by state officials and federal Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. But that too was wrong. Perez, a “Chicano Studies” major, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Assembly-Speaker-John-Perez-a-Cal-dropout-not-2371239.php">did not earn a degree at UC Berkeley</a>. In politically correct California, a virtual one-party state, the falsehood hurt him not at all.</p>
<p>The California Environmental Protection Agency honored John Froines in a private ceremony and the Italian city of Capri gave him the prestigious Ramazzini Award as a “public health hero.” New Left hero Tom Hayden went on to teach at UCLA and Occidental College. And Jane Fonda of course remains a Big Star.</p>
<p>To find out how Tom and Jane came across from the cells of the Hanoi Hilton, and to learn what kind of regime they defended, readers might consult <i>Leading with Honor</i> by Lee Ellis. Yes, there’s a lesson or two in there somewhere.</p>
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		<title>Jihadist Ritual Murder &amp; Mutilation at the Mall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawn Perlmutter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sacred acts against the enemies of Islam revealed.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/nrb.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205720" alt="nrb" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/nrb.jpg" width="280" height="183" /></a>During the four-day siege in Kenya’s Westgate shopping Mall, al-Shabaab jihadists raped, tortured, beheaded, dismembered, castrated, gouged out eyes, amputated fingers and hung hostages on hooks from the roof. According to a forensic medical doctor, “They [the al-Shabaab attackers] removed eyes, ears, noses. Fingers are cut by pliers, noses ripped by pliers”… “Those are not allegations. Those are f****** truths,”… “They removed balls, eyes, ears, nose. They get your hand and sharpen it like a pencil then they tell you to write your name with the blood. They drive knives inside a child’s body. Actually, if you look at all the bodies, unless those ones that were escaping, fingers are cut by pliers, the noses are ripped by pliers.” There were also reports that hostages were beheaded and their heads thrown out of the windows.</p>
<p>This inexplicable savage violence is typically attributed to psychological warfare, military tactics or individual acts of brutality but for Jihadists they are justifiable sacred acts against the enemies of Islam. They are ritual murders that are consistent with a growing global Jihadist method of operation [MO]. Similar acts of torture, rape, beheading and mutilation regularly occur in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Syria and other countries. The Westgate Mall massacre is comparable to the mass murder of 166 people by members of the Islamist Jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, in ten coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India on November 26 -29, 2008. During their siege operation the LeT Jihadists also took the time to sexually humiliate, torture and mutilate some of the victims before shooting them dead.</p>
<p>The Jihadist M.O. is also evident in murders, honor killings and war crimes. On June 20, 2006 in al-Yusufiyah outside of Baghdad, Iraq, the bodies of American soldiers Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, members of the 101st Airborne division, were found mutilated beyond recognition. Like the hostages in the Westgate shopping Mall there were reports that their eyes were gouged out, they were castrated, their ears and noses were cut off and they were beheaded.  Jihadist murders that involved throat slashing, multiple stabbings and body desecration also occurred in London and in Waltham, Massachusetts. On May 22, 2013 on the streets of London two jihadists used meat cleavers to publicly behead and disembowel a British soldier while shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221;. On September 11, 2011 in Waltham, MA the suspects in the Boston Bombings and their Chechen friend are suspected of ritually murdering three men by slitting their throats from ear to ear with such force that they were nearly decapitated and of desecrating their mutilated corpses. [Read the entire case at Prelude to the Boston Bombing http://www.meforum.org/3618/boston-bombings-prelude]. These are just a few examples of dozens of Islamist ritual murders that involve torture, dismemberment and mutilation.</p>
<p>Islamist mutilation entails a specific kind of ritualistic crime; a collective, provocative and incendiary desecration of the enemy. Mujahideen throughout the world expend extra effort brutalizing the enemies of Islam including women and children.  To understand the significance of these violent ritualistic acts they have to be analyzed in the context of Islamist honor and shame. The primary motivations of Islamist atrocity is an irrepressible impulse to alleviate shame and a sacred duty to restore honor, serve vengeance, preserve purity, maintain tradition and save face. For Islamists honor is signified by stereotypical male characteristics such as courage, bravery, heroism, power, virility, and strength; dishonor is signified by stereotypical female characteristics such as weakness, vulnerability, helplessness and submissiveness.</p>
<p>Honor is what defines Islamists as men and psychologically is experienced as dignity and pride; conversely dishonor is indicated by female traits of weakness experienced as humiliation and shame. Islamists are in a constant struggle with fear of disgrace and maintaining manhood particularly those that are living in countries that they consider to be occupied or run by ‘un-Islamic regimes’. Emotions of weakness, helplessness, shame are always just below the surface triggered by a hypersensitivity to any real or perceived act of humiliation. Even a sideways glance can be misinterpreted as a questioning of manhood. Islamist recruitment and indoctrination functions to cultivate the honor shame paradigm so that boys will grow to be ruthless soldiers that require blood vengeance to restore honor and maintain power.</p>
<p>The fear of even the appearance of weakness or vulnerability provides one explanation for the torture of men, women and children. For Mujahideen mercy, compassion, sympathy and kindness symbolize weakness; cruelty, brutality, violence and atrocity symbolize strength. This explains incomprehensible cruel violent acts.  Jihadists want to evince their strength and alleviate feelings of shame. Through murder and mutilation these Islamist jihadists experience relief from a sense of humiliation.  Psychologically they equate their relief with violent atrocity. Symbolically blood cleanses their impurity. Culturally the violence is sanctioned and they are viewed as heroic. It becomes natural and moral to punish disrespect with torture, mutilation and ritual murder.  Strategically it sends a message that there is no mercy for infidel unbelievers.</p>
<p>From a Western behavioral science perspective torture, murder and mutilation are categorized as pathological acts of violence. However, from the jihadist worldview these seemingly inexplicable acts of violence are neither random nor pathological.  Atrocity has historical and theological precedents in Islam, is a socially acceptable punishment for infidels and significantly is a projection of cultural taboos. For Islamists the blood of enemies washes away dishonor, disrespect and the Western impurities that have polluted Islam.  A symbolic analysis of the types of mutilation reveals jihadists motivations. Mutilating the body is a deliberate act of defilement, impurity and stigmatization. Islamists torture hostages to humiliate and shame them. Cutting off fingers, hacking off noses, cutting out tongues, castration, and dismemberment represent power and control of the body at the moment of death. The slow destruction of the body prevents the person from having any dignity in death.</p>
<p>Rape and gang rapes are a common form of Islamist punishment including men raping other men. The symbolic meaning of male on male rape is that the victims are being turned into women, which in a machismo and homophobia culture is one of the worst forms of humiliation. Similar to prison culture the victims become their bitch. For the same reason castration is the archetypal sign of dishonor and signifies that the victim is no longer a man.  Another common form of Jihadist mutilation is gouging out eyes and/or chopping off parts of a person’s face such as lips, ears and most often the nose. It was reported that all of these atrocities were inflicted on the hostages in the Westgate Mall.  Disfigurement has historical, symbolic and theological meaning in the context of Islamism. In fact mutilation is a form of judicial corporal punishment that occurs in many Islamic countries and includes among other things amputations, floggings, beheadings and stoning to death. In Saudi Arabia and Iran eye gouging is considered a legitimate judicial punishment. Surgically removing one or both eyes is based on the literal interpretation of lex talionis, the law of retaliation or best known from the formulation &#8220;an eye for an eye&#8221;.  There are hundreds of women in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Turkey and other countries who are mutilated for dishonoring their families and men accused of being traitors, spies or simply designated as infidel unbelievers who are victims of similar atrocities.</p>
<p>Victims of torture and mutilations are always potential witnesses to jihadists unspoken and often imagined shame. The Somali jihadists had to gouge out the hostages eyes so they could not mock them, cut out their tongues so they could not talk about them and cut off their ears so they could not hear of their offenses. They were indoctrinated to believe that non-Muslims disregard them and think of them as less than. This imagined disrespect is experienced as shame that originates and resides in the eyes of the innocent people who unfortunately went to the mall that day. Killing the hostages kills shame, without witnesses shame no longer exists. Honor, purity and respect is restored. Torture felt good.</p>
<p>Simply shooting the hostages would have demonstrated weakness and sympathy. Similar to gang initiations and narco cults the Somali jihadists earned their status by brutalizing victims.  Dismemberment, eye gouging, castration, beheadings, and body desecration are marks of jihad, what genteel people use to refer to as unspeakable acts. The members of al Shabaab were able to torture and mutilate because Sharia law sanctions atrocities committed against infidel enemies of Islam. Ritualizing violence legitimizes it as acceptable punishment allowing the Somali jihadists to murder in the name of Islam.  According to Sharia Law mutilation is not a barbaric act, the violence is prescribed so brutality is transformed into a sacred ritual that cleanses impurities through bloodshed. For the al Shabaab jihadists torture and murder was not immoral but righteous blood vengeance that restored honor to Somali Muslims. Through murder and mutilation the jihadists acquire strength, alleviate dishonor and achieve heroic status as ruthless Mujahideen warriors. Torturing and killing the hostages transformed them from men ashamed of their status in life into badass Mujahideen, soldiers of Allah, respected by Islamists all over the world.</p>
<p><i>Dawn Perlmutter, Director and founder of Symbol &amp; Ritual Intelligence and Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum, is considered one of the leading subject matter experts (SME) in the areas of symbols, unfamiliar customs, ritual murder and religious violence.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 04:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human rights record of Israel's "peace partners." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Gaza-Hamas-Body-Drag.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203859" alt="Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles as they drag  the body of a man, who was suspected of working for Israel, in Gaza City" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Gaza-Hamas-Body-Drag-450x334.jpg" width="270" height="200" /></a>On November 20, 2012 six Palestinian civilians, accused of collaborating with Israel, were <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/20/hamas-kills-six-suspected-aiding-israel-drags-body-through-streets/">dragged</a> from their homes in Gaza City by Palestinian gunmen. The butchery that followed represented depravity in the extreme, even by Palestinian standards. The six were summarily executed before an approving crowd that included children and at least one was dragged through the city streets, tethered to a motorcycle. There was no trial, no jury, no judge, no defense attorney and no prosecutor, only thugs armed with AK-47s. Welcome to “Palestine,” the sweetheart of the misguided, adoring left and the neo-fascist right.</p>
<p>The level of brutality witnessed on that November day is not confined to areas controlled by Hamas nor is it an aberration. The Palestinian Authority, which is dominated by the rival Fatah gang and which controls some 40% of Judea &amp; Samaria (the West Bank) routinely engages in <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301682/Hooded-hanged-left-agony-hours-end-Palestinian-security-chief-tells-tormented-suspects-MI6s-knowledge--reveals-Britain-helps-pay-33m-foreign-aid.html">systematic torture</a>, suppression of free speech, arbitrary jailing, incitement to violence and discriminatory practices against its ever-decreasing minority Christian population. Its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, is an unelected, <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/exposing-abbas-5335">Holocaust-denying</a>, autocrat who is adept at deceiving Western audiences but expresses positions supportive of Hamas when addressing Arabic listeners.</p>
<p>David Keyes, in an insightful <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/opinion/palestines-democratic-deficit.html?_r=0">Op-Ed piece</a> for the New York Times, correctly noted that how a nation abides by the treaties it signs with its neighbors can be measured by how it treats its own citizens. Judging by the Palestinian Authority’s abysmal human rights record (not to mention that of Hamas) it does not look encouraging.</p>
<p>There are currently twenty-one Arabic countries, all in various states of dysfunction. Iraq, wracked by internecine warfare, is swiftly unraveling with 1,000 of its citizens murdered in sectarian conflict just in the past month. Syria, whose leader recently used Sarin to gas his own people, has long since ceased to be a country, having fractured along ethno-religious lines. And Egypt, always regarded as the premiere Arab state, is just barely functioning and teetering on the brink full-fledged civil war. The rest of the Arab world is in no better shape and there appears to be no end in sight to Arab internal conflict and its brutal consequences.</p>
<p>If past performance is any indicator, the Palestinian state, should it ever come to fruition will almost certainly end up like the rest of the Arab lot and devolve into a stateless, lawless region marked by extremism, violence and terror. Such an entity will pose a direct challenge to regional stability. Indeed, the clan-based ethno and religious schisms that currently exist within Palestinian society are not new and date back to the 1930s and 40s when the Husseini and Nashashibi clans violently battled each other for Palestinian leadership roles.</p>
<p>The bloody 2006 Gaza clashes between Fatah and Hamas that left Hamas in control of Gaza was, like the Husseini-Nashashibi clashes, nothing more than a power grab with a religious twist. Palestinian society has not changed or evolved since the turn of the century. The transition of power is still effectuated through the barrel of an AK-47 and the democratic process is conceptually as alien to them as it was to Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge and other despotic, fascist movements.</p>
<p>It is also worthwhile to note past aberrant Palestinian reactions to the suffering and misfortune of others. After the 9-11 attacks that resulted in the deaths of 3,000 civilians, Palestinians were seen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRA0NKQ0k6E">gleefully cheering</a> and handing out sweets. Other suicide attacks carried out by Palestinian Arabs in Israel garnered similar perverted reactions. There were reports suggesting that <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/gaza-arabs-celebrate-boston-marathon-attack-with-dance-candies/2013/04/17/?src=ataglance">Palestinians cheered</a> after the Boston Marathon outrage as well. During the 1991 Gulf War Palestinians <a href="http://forward.com/articles/6546/blood-lines/">sickeningly cheered</a> as Scud missiles fired by Saddam Hussein landed in heavily populated urban areas of central Israel.</p>
<p>As the circumstances in Egypt, Syria and Iraq have taught us, the world can ill-afford the creation of yet another dysfunctional, undemocratic Arab state. The creation of such an entity will almost certainly invite regional instability. Moreover, a society that instinctively cheers as civilians are maimed and murdered and whose charter still calls for the dismantling of another U.N. member state is undeserving of statehood. It is time for the Palestinian-obsessed E.U. to shift gears, overcome its cognitive dissonance and take up a more worthy cause for a stateless but unique and indigenous people infinitely more deserving of statehood than the so-called Palestinians. The Kurds come to mind.</p>
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		<title>Victims of Muslim Brotherhood Describe Torture, Electric Shocks, Murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 02:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Obama and McCain insist that the Muslim Brotherhood must be part of the new Egypt. <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/08/egypt_s_islamists_turn_violent?wp_id_n=1148787409">This is the vision that they have for that new Egypt</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;They stamped on his face,&#8221; said his cousin, Aly al-Masry, 20, who told Sabet&#8217;s story from his bedside as he drifted in and out of consciousness. &#8220;He has three stab wounds, a bullet hole through his leg and stick marks all over his body. There are bruises where he was dragged along the asphalt.&#8221;</p>
<p>There is now mounting evidence that some Brotherhood loyalists within the pro-Morsy sit-ins  &#8212; which up until now had remained largely peaceful &#8212; are indeed armed, and have committed what some human rights groups describe as torture against their political opponents. In interviews, multiple Egyptians who clashed with or observed the pro-Morsy sit-ins describe being beaten and fired on by Morsy supporters.</p>
<p>Amnesty International released a <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/egypt-evidence-points-torture-carried-out-morsi-supporters-2013-08-02" target="_blank" rel=" noreferrer">report</a> on Aug. 2 in which anti-Morsy protesters recount being &#8220;captured, beaten, subjected to electric shocks or stabbed&#8221; at the Islamists&#8217; two encampments in the Cairo districts of Nasr City and Giza. Ten citizens have reportedly filed torture complaints at local police stations, Amnesty reported. And the violence has even claimed lives: &#8220;[W]e were told by the morgue five bodies bearing the marks of torture were found near both camps,&#8221; says Mohamed Lofty, an Amnesty researcher.</p>
<p>The body of 32-year-old tuk-tuk driver Amr, whose family requested that his full name not be published,<b> </b>was one of those found bearing signs of torture near a pro-Morsy sit-in. Amr&#8217;s corpse was dumped naked and mutilated by a metro station near the Giza encampment on July 20.</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know my own brother from the body in the morgue. You could see the burn marks,&#8221; said his sister Samah, 35. &#8220;He was beaten by sticks everywhere from his head to his feet, and they electrocuted his face and his chest.&#8221;</p>
<p>Amr was on his way to the neighborhood near the encampment when he went missing on July 17.Days later, the police tracked Amr&#8217;s phone to a man based in the Giza camp, who said he had found the phone in the sit-in and claimed Amr had been accused of spying and stealing by the protesters. Samah believes Amr was tortured to death inside<b> </b>the sit-in.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile Obama Inc. is warning Egyptian authorities not to crack down on the so-called sit ins. Because they&#8217;re not supposed to disrupt another branch of the Morsi torture-and-murder factory.</p>
<p>But there are people that the Muslim Brotherhood still knows are on their side.</p>
<blockquote><p>Cameraman Shehab Eldin Abdel Razeq, 23, who works for ONTV, a television channel widely perceived to be anti-Morsy, was one of the victims of the protesters&#8217; anger. He sustained head injuries after he was beaten with sticks in the Nasr City sit-in on the day of Morsy&#8217;s ouster. &#8220;They took me to a tent where there were five other people, bound and in a mess,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I had to pretend that I worked for an American network.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>American networks get better treatment from the Brotherhood than Egyptian ones. Anyone want to take a stab as to why that might be so?</p>
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		<title>Soros-Funded Religious Left Group Targets Gitmo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 04:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark D. Tooley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But silence on Sudan's chief torturer being welcomed to Washington.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/torture-banner-5x71.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-188939" alt="torture-banner-5x7" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/torture-banner-5x71-450x340.jpg" width="270" height="204" /></a>The chief torturer of Sudan’s Islamist regime is soon to visit the U.S., igniting not a peep of concern from left-leaning church officials ostensibly very concerned about “torture.”  Instead, a long list of prominent church honchos is instead demanding President Obama close Guantanamo Bay detention center because of its reputed history of “torture.”  Their letter was organized by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, which has received over $1 million from George Soros.</p>
<p>“Guantanamo Bay is a place where our government tortured prisoners, and it continues to be a place where many are detained indefinitely without trial,” the church activists wrote Obama.  “We believe that our government has a moral obligation to close the prison at Guantanamo. We hope that you share this belief and that you will act expeditiously to close Guantanamo.”</p>
<p>The letter was signed by old-line Protestant officials with groups like the National Council of Churches and United Methodist Board of Church and Society, with old leftist Catholic lobbies like Pax Christi and Sister Simone Campbell’s “Nuns on the Bus” NETWORK, plus the Islamic Society of North America of course.</p>
<p>The prelates and activists are “deeply concerned” about Guantanamo’s persistence and the &#8220;indefinite detention without trial of many of the people imprisoned there” at the “nation’s most visible and painful symbol of torture and indefinite detention,” exemplifying America’s “deep moral wound.”</p>
<p>Church officials are particularly troubled by 86 “cleared detainees” who remain there, without mentioning that a chief problem is finding countries willing to accept them.  They also don’t mention the released inmates who have returned to murder and terror.  And they’re troubled by the “desperation and hopelessness felt by many of the detainees” that has “recently sparked a hunger strike,” “highlighting the growing human tragedy of the detention center.”</p>
<p>The church activists complain about a proposed nearly $200 million upgrade for Guantanamo, which does sound pricey.  But their complaint showcases how the Religious Left is only concerned about costs when related to national security, for which nearly any price is too much.  They want to start “transferring prisoners” but don’t say where or how.  Presumably they want them, if not released, moved to the U.S. and into the domestic criminal justice system.</p>
<p>For the Religious Left, Guantanamo is important as an unwanted symbol of the War on Terror, which for them does not or should not exist.  For them, the U.S. largely has no enemies who were not provoked or cannot be ameliorated through good will and reparations.  For them, detainees are more victims than dangerous terrorists or terror sympathizers.</p>
<p>This denunciation of Guantanamo comes courtesy of George Soros’ philanthropy.  The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) (by the U.S.) received over $1 million from 2007 to 2011, the last available reporting year.  Soros’ Open Society Foundations in 2010 hosted a NRCAT conversation on 9-11’s anniversary to spotlight the giving outreach of the philanthropy’s <a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/usprograms/focus/security">National Security and Human Rights Campaign</a>.  Participants were NRCAT chief and Presbyterian minister/activist Richard Kilmer, former <a href="http://www.isna.net/">Islamic Society of North America</a> president Ingrid Mattson, Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster of <a href="http://rhrna.org/">Rabbis for Human Rights – North America</a>, and former National Association of Evangelicals chief lobbyist Richard Cizik, now head of <a href="http://newevangelicalpartnership.org/">New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good</a>.  Cizik boasted of NRCAT’s “Shoulder to Shoulder” campaign against “anti-Muslim bigotry,” whose purpose was evidenced, he said, by Congressman Peter King’s 2011 Homeland Security Committee hearings on what Cizik dismissed as alleged “radicalization of the American Muslim community,” but which he said actually exemplified the “marginalization and typecasting of a religious community.”</p>
<p>NRCAT itself was formed in 2006, in response to the Abu Ghraib photos, by Princeton University theologian George Hunsinger “to examine how religious communities could respond to the U.S. military’s use of torture against 9/11 detainees.”  NRCAT fights “torture” by the U.S., or by implication any government that may help the U.S., but not by anybody else.  NRCAT also combats “anti-Muslim bigotry,” which is laudable, except that “bigotry” often includes any substantive concern about radical Islam.</p>
<p>June will be NRCAT’s annual “Anti-Torture Month” when local religious congregations are enlisted to oppose the U.S. War on Terror, of which “torture” is presumed to be central, and which includes a film called <a href="http://www.nrcat.org/post-911-detainees/fact-not-fiction-campaign/a-study-for-people-of-faith"><i>Ending U.S.-Sponsored Torture Forever</i></a>.  There are even anti- torture prayer and sermons for a complete worship experience devoted to opposing “torture” by the U.S., but not really by anybody else, especially America’s adversaries.</p>
<p>So don’t expect any NRCAT or wider Religious Left concerns about the impending U.S. visit of former Sudanese chief torturer <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/26/world/fg-sudan26">Nafie Ali Nafie</a>, once head of the genocidal Islamist regime’s notorious intelligence service and still a top presidential advisor infamous for personally having tortured opposition leaders, for which he expresses no regret when asked.   Any protests against him might stoke anti-Muslim bigotry (although most of that regime’s victims are themselves Muslim) and distract attention from the far more vital mission of endlessly spotlighting U.S. detention abuses, real and alleged, of mostly 10 years ago.</p>
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		<title>An American Christian’s Letter from an Iranian Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Pastor Saeed Abedini is brutalized in Evin Prison for his infidel faith, what exactly is our administration doing about it?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/an-american-christians-letter-from-an-iranian-prison/pastor-saeed-abedini/" rel="attachment wp-att-183087"><img class=" wp-image-183087 alignleft" title="pastor-saeed-abedini" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pastor-saeed-abedini.jpg" alt="" width="266" height="160" /></a>Thanks to <a href="http://aclj.org/iran/pastor-saeed-after-beatings-torture-did-not-recognize-myself" target="_blank">a letter</a> received by his family last week, new details have emerged about Pastor Saeed Abedini, an American citizen and Christian convert from Islam, who <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/22/american-pastor-jailed-in-iran-says-was-beaten-refused-treatment-because-his/#ixzz2OOLDOTeM">has been held</a> in Iran’s brutal Evin Prison since September of last year and was sentenced in January to eight years in prison for “evangelizing and threatening national security.”</p>
<p>Written probably weeks ago on the margins of scraps of newspaper, it is only the third letter Abedini has been able to get to his family during his imprisonment. In it he gives damning details of the abuse he has received solely for his infidel faith:</p>
<blockquote><p>I was blindfolded and a guard was holding my hand guiding me. He asked “what are you here for? What is your crime?” I said “I am Christian pastor.” All of the sudden he let go of my hand and said, “So you are unclean! I will tell others not to defile themselves by touching you!” He would tell others not to get close to me.</p></blockquote>
<p>A nurse and doctor too told him the same thing when he asked for relief from the pain he had suffered from beatings. “In our religion we are not supposed to touch you,” the nurse told him. “You are unclean.” Abedini wrote: “She did not treat me and that night I could not sleep from the intense pain I had. According to the doctor’s instructions, they would not give me the pain medication that they would give other prisoners because I was unclean.”</p>
<p>He also wrote that he could not fall asleep one night because of the pain, as he listened to the sound of “dirty sewer rats with their loud noises and screeches.” At one point he said hello to his own reflection in an elevator mirror “because I did not recognize myself. My hair was shaven, under my eyes were swollen three times what they should have been, my face was swollen, and my beard had grown.” The pastor explained in the letter how he is trying to focus on forgiveness, and how he forgave the interrogator who beat him as well as those who refused to give him the pain medication.</p>
<p>After coming under criticism for neglecting to specifically address the case at a recent meeting in Geneva on Iran’s human rights record, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, the U.S. representative on the U.N. Human Rights Council, said:</p>
<blockquote><p>We repeat our call for the government of Iran to release Mr. Abedini, and others who are unjustly imprisoned, and to cease immediately its persecution of all religious minority communities. The United States also repeats its call for the government of Iran to provide without delay the urgent medical attention Mr. Abedini needs.</p></blockquote>
<p>An attorney for the Abedini family called it the “first pro-active statement by&#8230; our administration” in the case. The State Department also declined to provide a witness to testify last week during a Capitol Hill hearing where Mrs. Abedini spoke.  In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Rep. Frank Wolf and other lawmakers urged him “in the strongest possible terms, to make this case and the broader issue of religious freedom a priority as Secretary of State.”</p>
<p>Kerry did finally make a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/22/kerry-calls-for-immediate-release-american-from-iranian-prison-after-letter/#ixzz2OOSKlvKo">statement</a>, in which he said he was “deeply concerned” and “disturbed by reports that Mr. Abedini has suffered physical and psychological abuse in prison, and that his condition has become increasingly dire”:</p>
<blockquote><p>I am also troubled by the lack of due process in Mr. Abedini’s case and Iran’s continued refusal to allow consular access&#8230;  I welcome reports that Mr. Abedini was examined by a physician and expect Iranian authorities to honor their commitment to allow Mr. Abedini to receive treatment for these injuries from a specialist outside the prison.</p></blockquote>
<p>Too little, too late? At least international outrage from other quarters has pressured the Iranian authorities to promise Abedini medical treatment – a promise no one is confident will be kept.</p>
<p>Nina Shea, Director of the Center for Religious Freedom, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/03/23/Sec-State-Kerry-s-Statement-on-Christian-Pastor-Detained-in-Iran-Fails-to-Sufficiently-Elevate-the-Case">expressed</a> her disappointment with Kerry’s press release, and her cynicism about its “outrageous” timing, as “it was included in the Friday night ‘document dump’ – released at 6:01 pm, it appears that it was deliberately held until just after the close of the work week.” In addition,</p>
<blockquote><p>[i]t fails to mention that Abedini is a Christian pastor and that he is imprisoned for his Christian faith. Religious freedom is a basic human right, set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and one that is of special importance to the United States both in the Constitution where it is enshrined as the first clause of the First Amendment, and as a pillar of foreign policy in the International Religious Freedom Act.</p></blockquote>
<p>Unfortunately, the religious freedom of Islam’s victims is <em>not</em> of special importance to the Obama administration; if it were, the administration wouldn’t be ignoring Christians in danger of extermination everywhere in Islamic territories, or financially and ideologically supporting the supremacists committing the genocide.</p>
<p>“The persecution of Christians has increased,” <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/22/nursing-mothers-imprisoned-un-report-details-iranian-persecution-non-muslims/">said</a> Ahmed Shaheed, the UN’s expert on human rights in Iran. “It seems to target new converts and those who run house churches.” His report, the latest evidence that Iran’s leaders are actively stamping out religious freedom for minorities and dissenters in the Islamic Republic, claims that at least 13 Christians are currently in detention centers across Iran, and more than 300 Christians have been arrested since June 2010. There is a “new Islamization in part of the government” that might explain the spike in repression targeting Christians, Shaheed added. In addition to Christians, the nation’s 350,000 Baha’i, Iran’s largest non-Muslim faith, are suffering repression.</p>
<p>Mohammad Reza Noroozpour, spokesman for Iran&#8217;s High Council for Human Rights, insists that freedom of expression is tolerated “except where there is infringement of the basic tenets of Islam or public rights.” Note the telling phrase, e<em>xcept where Islam is infringed upon</em>.</p>
<p>But as <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/22/nursing-mothers-imprisoned-un-report-details-iranian-persecution-non-muslims/">Fox News reports</a>, Dwight Bashir, deputy director for policy at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, said, “Over the past year, the Iranian government has stooped to new lows by incarcerating infant children with their Baha&#8217;i mothers and more brutally, clamping down on Christian converts from Islam.”</p>
<p>It is Pastor Saeed Abedini’s misfortune that he is a Christian persecuted by Muslims solely for his faith, because if he were a Muslim fundamentalist imprisoned in a Western country for an actual crime – like, say, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1685">the Blind Sheikh</a> – then the Obama administration would move heaven and earth to free him.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s New Libya</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/obamas-new-libya-2/libya_jihad/" rel="attachment wp-att-181162"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-181162" title="Libya_Jihad" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Libya_Jihad-450x333.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="200" /></a>Remember all the hoopla the Obama administration engaged in after helping Libya’s “freedom fighters” oust (and sodomize and murder) the nation’s former president, Muammar Gaddafi? Remember the rationale used by Obama to justify using the U.S. military to help Libya’s “opposition”?  In his March 28, 2011 speech, he spoke of “our responsibilities to our fellow human beings,” adding that not assisting them “would have been a betrayal of who we are.”</p>
<p>Although it was common knowledge that al-Qaeda and other fiercely anti-American forces were involved in the Libyan jihad, this did not shake Obama’s “responsibilities” to his “fellow human beings.” Predictably, the thanks the U.S. received was an al-Qaeda attack on the American consulate in Benghazi and the murders of four American officials, including Ambassador Chris Stevens (an attack the Obama administration tried to frame as a product of an amateur YouTube video that had “offended” Muslims).</p>
<p>Beyond the attack on Libya’s American embassy, there has been no end of examples of the true nature of the “New Libya” Obama helped create. On Sunday, December 30, an explosion rocked a Coptic Christian church near the western city of Misrata, where a group of U.S.-backed rebels hold a major checkpoint, killing two. Two months later, on February 28, another Coptic Christian church located in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked by armed Muslim militants, resulting in serious injuries for the priest and an assistant.</p>
<p>On February 10, four foreign Christians were arrested in Benghazi, including one with American citizenship, on the claim that they were “missionaries.”  Three days later, two more Christians from Egypt were arrested. Three days after that, a seventh Christian, also from Egypt, was arrested. Then, on February 27, Benghazi forces raided another Coptic church rounding up some 100 Coptic Christians, accusing them of being missionaries—simply because they were found in possession of Bibles and other Christian “paraphernalia.” Many of these Christians have been tortured, some with acid.</p>
<p>Indeed, it was just revealed that one of these Christians was literally tortured to death by the terrorists Obama helped empower.  A March 12 <a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/1304-coptic-solidarity-call-for-demonstration-at-libyan-embassy-on-march-14">Coptic Solidarity</a> press release has the details:</p>
<blockquote><p>Coptic Solidarity condemns in the strongest terms the unlawful acts by the group Ansarul Sharia [“Supporters of Sharia”] in Libya to arrest, torture and detain dozens of Copts; and the detention by Libya&#8217;s Preventive Security department in Tripoli of the Coptic man Ezzat Hakim Atallah for ten days till he died on March 9 under torture, and the detention of his Coptic colleagues … and others who are still being subjected to torture inside the Preventive Security building.</p></blockquote>
<p>And what has the response of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-led government been to the murder of a fellow Egyptian citizen at the hands of Libyans?  The press release continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>Coptic Solidarity condemns in the strongest terms the Egyptian authorities, especially the foreign minister, the ambassador in Libya and the Consul in Benghazi, for their failure to defend their fellow citizens. In contrast, the [Egyptian] presidency and the foreign ministry had enthusiastically rushed to defend a Muslim Brotherhood cell that was arrested in the United Arab Emirates on charges of threatening the country&#8217;s national security. The attitude of the Egyptian authorities in dealing with the Coptic citizens is shameful.</p></blockquote>
<p>Once again the Muslim Brotherhood—whose former General Guide declared “the hell with Egypt”—show that their true loyalty is to Islam and fellow Muslims, even if foreign, and not to non-Muslims, even if fellow Egyptians.   Nor is this surprising, since Egypt, Libya, and any number of Arab nations continue edging towards the resurrection of a global Muslim caliphate.</p>
<p>And Obama’s only response has been to continue empowering jihadis—now in Syria, where the “opposition” he supports has, among other atrocities, been making the lives of the nation’s Christian minority a living hell.   Such are the policies of the man a majority of Americans voted for; a man who—in our postmodern world and in the words of the ancient prophet—apparently “calls evil good and good evil.”</p>
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		<title>Mass Arrest and Torture of Christians in Libya</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/mass-arrest-and-torture-of-christians-in-libya/hands_holding_cruc_2484086b-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-179521"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-179521" title="Hands_holding_cruc_2484086b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Hands_holding_cruc_2484086b1-450x324.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="194" /></a><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/death-for-preaching-christ-in-liberated-libya/">Last week’s news</a> of four Christian missionaries in Libya placed under arrest, possibly facing the death penalty for “proselytizing,” is apparently the tip of the iceberg.  Yesterday, Arabic media reported that over 100 Christian Copts from Egypt, who have been living and working in Libya, were recently arrested in Ben Ghazi—also on the accusation, or pretext, of being “Christian missionaries.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=BbPuoXHfhYY">One video</a>, apparently made by the Libyan militia interrogators—most of whom look like Islamic Salafis, with long beards and clipped mustaches—appeared on the Internet yesterday.  It shows a room full of detained Copts.  They sit hunched over on the floor—with all their hair shaven off, looking like dejected, or doomed, concentration camp prisoners.  According to one source, <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/65844/Egypt/Politics-/Egyptian-Copts-allegedly-detained,-tortured-in-Lib.aspx">many of these Copts have been tortured</a>.  Some have had the famous Coptic cross often tattooed on the wrists of Copts burned off with acid.</p>
<p>Next, the camera-man zooms in on the material which got them in this predicament: atop a table, several Bibles, prayer books, and pictures of Jesus, Mary and other saints appear spread out.  The Libyan interrogators being video-taped complain about how these Christians could dare bring such material into Libya, and that they, their abductors, are sure that the Copts were going to such Christian materials to proselytize Libya, to sporadic ejaculations of “Allah Akbar!” from across the room.</p>
<p>What is going on in Libya?  Do these reports—first of four foreign missionaries, including one American, now of more than 100 Christians from neighboring Egypt—indicate that Christian missionaries recently decided to flood Libya in droves?  Or are these ongoing reports an indication that post-Gaddafi Libya is simply intolerant of any Christian presence?</p>
<p>Concerning the four foreign missionaries whom the Western media picked up on earlier, it is difficult to say who they are and what they were doing, since they basically have been swallowed up by the Ben Ghazi prisons; their names and identities have not even been revealed.  As for the 100 Egyptian Copts, it is hard to believe they were proselytizing.  Christians in Egypt do not dare proselytize to their fellow Muslim citizens, who speak the same dialect and share the same Egyptian culture.  It is a dangerous thing to do.  Is it reasonable, then, to believe that some 100 dispossessed Copts decided to proselytize to Muslims in Libya—where it is common knowledge that the Obama-supported jihadis reign?</p>
<p>Even the Coptic Church in Egypt made statements to this effect.  According to Coptic Bishop Pachomios, &#8220;This is a very serious incident, in which Egyptian citizens were arrested on the mere suspicion [of proselytizing] and tortured while in detention.&#8221;  The bishop confirmed that these imprisoned Egyptian Christians were working in Libya, adding that &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t make sense that as many as 100 Egyptian Copts had decided to engage in proselytizing activities in another country.&#8221;  Other Coptic activists in Egypt also cast doubt on the proselytism charge.  Naguib Gabriel, head of the Cairo-based Egyptian Union for Human Rights, “expressed his dismay over the reports. He, too, voiced doubt that the Egyptians in question had been proselytizing in Libya,” while correctly pointing out that, &#8220;Even if this were proven to be the case, they should not have been detained because of it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Moreover, a recent <a href="http://global.christianpost.com/news/libyan-authorities-torture-arrested-coptic-christian-accused-of-proselytizing-90784/#7BjC1wtvtu1Ue2GE.99">Christian Post</a> article points out the inconsistencies in official statements from Libya, including how the number of Christian material being found on these alleged missionaries keeps inflating.  For instance, one Christian arrested under the accusation of having 30,000 Bibles in his possession, was later described by police as having 45,000 Bibles.</p>
<p>It is becoming clear that these arrests are increasingly less about actual Christian evangelism to Muslims, and more about Muslim hostility to Christians.  The Western media, when it reported about the four foreign missionaries, pointed out that the anti-proselytism law comes from the Gaddafi era.  Yet, under Gaddafi, one did not hear of such back-to-back arrests of alleged missionaries—just as one did not hear of attacks on Christian churches in Libya, such as the one that took place only two months ago, leaving two Christians dead.</p>
<p>Here, then, is yet another indicator of the true significance of the “Arab Spring” and the Obama administration’s wholesale support of it—hate and hostility for Christians.</p>
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		<title>Hollywood Libs Push Boycott of ‘Zero Dark Thirty’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/hollywood-libs-push-boycott-of-zero-dark-thirty/zero-dark-thirty1/" rel="attachment wp-att-174572"><img class=" wp-image-174572 alignleft" title="zero-dark-thirty1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/zero-dark-thirty1.jpg" alt="" width="266" height="173" /></a>According to Hollywood, investigations of  Hollywood communists is one of the worst blights on America’s record. Over and over again, like a child picking a scab, Hollywood revisits the horrid days of McCarthyism. In <em>The Majestic</em>, Jim Carrey plays a writer dragged up before McCarthy on charges of communism; in <em>The Way We Were</em>, Barbra Streisand plays a Marxist whose politics damages her husband’s screenwriting career; in <em>Good Night and Good Luck</em>, Hollywood relived the saga of Edward R. Murrow attacking Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Tinseltown can’t get enough of reliving how the right supposedly violated its First Amendment principles in order to persecute the poor little Soviet fellow travelers who were throwing their weight around in the industry.</p>
<p>But when it comes to today’s liberals persecuting non-liberal thought in Hollywood, Hollywood doesn’t bat an eyelash.</p>
<p>Take, for example, director Kathryn Bigelow of <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em>. Bigelow is no right-winger – when she made <em>The Hurt Locker</em>, many on the right were upset at what they perceived to be an anti-military bias. But now, the left wants a full-scale awards season boycott against <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em>. Why? The movie depicts American intelligence utilizing harsh interrogation techniques – techniques harsher than those actually used – in order to obtain information about Osama Bin Laden.</p>
<p>This challenges the left’s contradictory view of torture: either torture is so brutal that its immorality outweighs the gains obtained, or torture doesn’t work at all. Bigelow’s film depicts brutal torture – placing terrorists in boxes, hanging people from chains, waterboarding with buckets – but it also shows that the intelligence gathered was valuable in finding Bin Laden. And Hollywood can’t handle that.</p>
<p>So actor David Clennon, who is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, launched a campaign to stop <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em> from receiving any awards. Wrote Clennon:</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Motion Picture Academy clearly warns its members not to disclose their votes for Academy Awards.  Nevertheless, I firmly believe that the film <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em> promotes the acceptance of the crime of torture, as a legitimate weapon in America&#8217;s so-called War on Terror. In that belief, following my conscience, I will not vote for <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em> in any category … I cannot vote for a film that makes heroes of Americans who commit the crime of torture.</p>
<p>Now Clennon has been joined by Martin Sheen and Ed Asner. Sheen, who has long been an ardent leftist – President Josiah Bartlet! – says he opposes any awards for <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em>. Asner, who declared himself an open socialist long ago – even as he rakes in cash from voice work in films like <em>Up!</em> – said, “I would like to condemn the movie.” According to the press, both actors want voters to “factor in matters of conscience when casting awards votes.”</p>
<p>And yet Hollywood has no problem feting movies that excuse Nazism (<em>The Reader</em>), fete Communism (<em>Reds</em>), and create sympathy for pedophilia (<em>Little Children</em>).</p>
<p>While those in Tinseltown like to claim that their ultimate god is the almighty dollar – an odd defense from a group of folks who consider themselves to be leftists – the truth is that they are cause-driven ideologues. And it’s astonishing how little non-liberal content it takes to turn Hollywood against you. Originally, <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em> was slated to be a sycophant session for Obama as bin Laden-killer. Then it was great. But when Bigelow produced an accurate depiction of the role of enhanced interrogation techniques – even as a side point in the main story – the left turned on it. And then the left claims, ridiculously, that there’s no bias in Hollywood.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/suppressing-zero-dark-thirty/zero-dark-thirty__121106175531/" rel="attachment wp-att-172151"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-172151" title="Zero-Dark-Thirty__121106175531" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Zero-Dark-Thirty__121106175531.jpg" alt="" width="242" height="198" /></a>For anyone still skeptical of just how influential Hollywood’s movie messages are in the cultural and political realms, one need look no further than the political football called <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em>.</p>
<p>After appearing in limited release late last year, the film <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em> goes wide in theaters this month. Created by screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow, the filmmakers behind the 2010 Oscar-winner <em>The Hurt Locker</em> about a bomb-defusing adrenaline junkie in the Iraq war, <em>ZD30</em> dramatizes an even more controversial subject – the real-life takedown of elusive terrorist icon Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>Once word got out earlier last year that the Obama administration had granted the filmmakers access to classified information about the military operation, and that the film would be released just prior to the presidential election, conservatives cried foul and worried that the movie would exaggerate Obama’s role and serve essentially as an extended campaign ad for him. This concern was understandable considering that Hollywood was already doing everything in its power, onscreen and off, to reelect their Messiah. The left in turn dismissed these complaints as Republican paranoia.</p>
<p>But it didn’t quite turn out that way. First, the filmmakers avoided any seeming political impropriety by releasing the film after the election. Then, once the movie hit theaters and began garnering reviews, the left was aghast to discover that it opened with a graphic and extended scene depicting the waterboarding of a terrorist suspect, a scene that seemed to affirm what many conservatives had been insisting all along – that the hotly debated enhanced interrogation under President George W. Bush produced results that contributed to the intelligence which ultimately led us to bin Laden.</p>
<p>Suddenly, left-leaning reviewers were falling all over themselves to denounce the film. The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-l-carle/zero-dark-thirty-torture_b_2395939.html?utm_hp_ref=politics"><em>Huffington Post</em></a> dismissed it as “torture hagiography” and declared that the movie’s message “corrodes our culture.” Meanwhile, reviewers on the right were embracing it. The <em>New York Post</em>’s Kyle Smith, for example, <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_lesson_of_zero_dark_thirty_SCajSstz6mhANEFnny0m0I">declared</a> that <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em></p>
<blockquote><p>is a clear vindication for the Bush administration’s view of the War on Terror. Moreover, ‘ZD30’ subtly presents President Obama and by extension the entire Democratic establishment and its supporters in the media as hindering the effort to find bin Laden by politicizing harsh interrogation techniques and striking a pose against them that was naive at best.</p></blockquote>
<p>The left, which had worked very hard to demonize Bush over the issue of enhanced interrogation, quickly took politically intimidating action to squelch any suggestion that Bush’s “torture” worked. Democrat Senators Dianne Feinstein and Carl Levin, and RINO John McCain (who had <em>actually</em> been tortured in captivity during the Vietnam war), <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/senators-call-zero-dark-thirty-405613">sent</a> a letter to the movie’s distributor, Sony Pictures, calling <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em> “grossly inaccurate and misleading,” and urging Sony to add a disclaimer to that effect: “We believe that you have an obligation to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film’s fictional narrative”:</p>
<blockquote><p>We understand that the film is fiction, but it opens with the words ‘based on first-hand accounts of actual events’… [T]he movie clearly implies that the CIA’s coercive interrogation techniques were effective in eliciting important information related to a courier for Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>… [T]he fundamental problem is that people who see <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em> will believe that the events it portrays are facts. The film therefore has the potential to shape American public opinion in a disturbing and misleading manner.</p></blockquote>
<p>The senators concluded that the filmmakers and the studio “have a social and moral obligation to get the facts right.” Actually, what the Senators want is for the filmmakers to revise <em>inconvenient</em> facts. They are also launching an investigation into the filmmakers’ ties to the CIA. Had <em>ZD30</em> supported the left’s stance on enhanced interrogation, of course, none of this would be happening.</p>
<p>In a statement of their own, director Bigelow and screenwriter Boal countered that their film is not political and does not take a position on whether torture led to the location and killing of bin Laden:</p>
<blockquote><p>This was a 10-year intelligence operation brought to the screen in a two-and-a-half-hour film. We depicted a variety of controversial practices and intelligence methods that were used in the name of finding bin Laden. The film shows that no single method was necessarily responsible for solving the manhunt, nor can any single scene taken in isolation fairly capture the totality of efforts the film dramatizes.</p></blockquote>
<p>CIA Director Michael Morell then <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/acting-cia-director-disputes-zero-406258">waded</a> into the controversy with a letter to CIA personnel stressing that “<em>Zero Dark Thirty</em> is not a documentary” and “the film takes significant artistic license, while portraying itself as being historically accurate.”</p>
<blockquote><p>The film creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques that were part of our former detention and interrogation program were the key to finding Bin Ladin. That impression is false. As we have said before, the truth is that multiple streams of intelligence led CIA analysts to conclude that Bin Ladin was hiding in Abbottabad. Some came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques, but there were many other sources as well.</p></blockquote>
<p>Notice how Morell doesn’t deny that waterboarding was one of those useful streams of intelligence. He finished by noting ambiguously that “whether enhanced interrogation techniques were the only timely and effective way to obtain information from those detainees, as the film suggests, is a matter of debate that cannot and never will be definitively resolved.”</p>
<p>When Hollywood’s axis deviates even slightly from its usual leftward tilt, the progressive powers-that-be leap to correct its course. Look for example at the controversial 2006 miniseries <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/05/18/cia-vindicates-path-911-clinton-claim"><em>The Path to 9/11</em></a>, which Clinton alumni felt made them look soft on terrorism. Democrat lawmakers led by Harry Reid threatened to pull ABC’s license if the miniseries aired, which it only managed to because minor cuts were made that placated the left. The miniseries never aired again and still cannot be obtained on DVD because the studio’s head honcho is a friend and supporter of the Clintons.</p>
<p>Now, a film that the left smugly assumed would bolster Obama’s hagiography is actually empowering the right on Bush’s legacy and the issue of enhanced interrogation – and the party of censorship is once again pulling out all the stops to intimidate and suppress.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 04:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real face of the “moderate” Brotherhood.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/mark-tapson/inside-the-muslim-brotherhood-torture-chambers/muslim-brotherhood-torture-chambers-discovered-obama-supports-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-169139"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-169139" title="muslim-brotherhood-torture-chambers-discovered-obama-supports" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/muslim-brotherhood-torture-chambers-discovered-obama-supports1.jpg" alt="" width="259" height="196" /></a>As <em>New York Times</em> critics wring their hands over the depiction of “enhanced interrogation” in <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em>, the upcoming film about the raid that eliminated bin Laden, the newspaper glosses over the very <em>real</em> torture taking place at the hands of President Obama’s allies in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, whom the <em>Times</em> <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/07/new-york-times-cairo-bureau-chief-muslim-brotherhood-is-moderate-regular-old-political-force/">continues to describe</a> as “moderate politicians.”</p>
<p>According to journalist Mohamad Jarehi at the Egyptian newspaper <a href="http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/al-masry-al-youm-goes-inside-brotherhood-s-torture-chambers">Al-Masry Al-Youm</a>, who spent three hours in the facilities with other journalists, the Muslim Brotherhood operates a network of torture chambers designed to violently intimidate President Mohammed Morsi’s opposition. This report comes a week after <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/02/muslim-brotherhood-paying-gangs-to-go-out-and-rape-women-and-beat-men-protesting-in-egypt-as-thousands-of-demonstrators-pour-on-to-the-streets/">word surfaced</a> that the Brotherhood is paying thugs to sexually assault women and beat men protesting in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2012/12/muslim-brotherhood-egypt-torture-chambers.html">English translation</a> at the Middle Eastern media website Al-Monitor, Jarehi described iron barriers and the government’s Central Security Forces (CSF) standing guard in front of the Brotherhood’s central torture facility in the suburb of Heliopolis:</p>
<blockquote><p>There are brigades and police officers in military uniforms, as well as others in civilian clothes from al-Nozha police station, who oversee the beatings, whippings and torture. Fifteen others from the group, distinguished by their strong bodies, are supervised by three bearded and well-dressed men who decide who will be in the chamber and who may leave, even if the person is a member of the Brotherhood.</p></blockquote>
<p>The process begins once a demonstrator, or <em>suspected</em> demonstrator, is arrested:</p>
<blockquote><p>Then, the group members trade off punching, kicking and beating him with a stick on the face and all over his body. They tear off his clothes and take him to the nearest secondary torture chamber…</p>
<p>Before the interrogation process starts, they search him, seize his funds, cellphones or ID, all the while punching and slapping his face in order to get him to confess to being a thug and working for money… As long as this person denies the allegations, they beat him and insult his parents.</p>
<p>After a while, the detainee is transported from the secondary torture chamber to the central one. On his way, the beatings and insults continue. Every time the prisoner encounters a member of the Brotherhood, that person gets in his share of the insults and beatings.</p></blockquote>
<p>Once ten people are arrested, they are taken to the nearby al-Nozha police station, and another group of prisoners is brought in. Jarehi said he observed numerous detainees whose health condition was “very bad.” Some were bleeding all over their bodies, extremely exhausted, and unable to speak. Few received any medical assistance during their ordeal.</p>
<p>Egyptian political activist Cynthia Farahat <a href="http://cynthiafarahat.com/2012/12/09/cairogate-egyptian-diplomat-survives-mb-torture-says-it-was-like-a-nazi-camp/#more-325">reports </a>that the Brotherhood kidnapped former Egyptian Ambassador to Venezuela Yehyia Najm, who was protesting against Morsi. In Ms. Farahat’s translation of videos on her website, Najm describes his ordeal:</p>
<blockquote><p>They attacked me and started violently beating me, there were tens of them, they stood with their shoes on my head and my chest and kept jumping crushing my chest like they were jumping on a trampoline, while calling me an agent of the U.S. and an enemy of Allah; all we want is freedom and rights, constitutional rights.</p>
<p>They almost killed me, until one of them sympathized with me and asked them to have mercy, but they continued and they sprayed pesticides in my eyes. While this was going on, an ambulance came that wanted to take me and the MB prohibited them… they dragged me 100 meters in the street to the fence of the presidential palace with my hands and feet tied as I bled, there were others tied and bleeding with stab wounds, including a pharmacist who was lying next to me, with a stab wound across his chest.</p>
<p>They kept throwing bodies at us; it was like a Nazi concentration camp, until there were 49 of us, with our hands and legs tied like hostages. A doctor came at dawn &#8230; just to put antiseptic on some of the people’s wounds, but others needed sutures and blood transfusion, and the doctor kept begging them to send us to a hospital and they refused. There was a 14-year-old child with stab wounds, there was another man whom they attempted to mutilate his hand.</p>
<p>The doctor left, and came another, I asked him to help me, but the doctor said: “No, the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood ordered us not to nurse you.” Another doctor came, she was a woman, she kept kicking me and telling me: “You Zionist, you agent,” and the usual accusations, as she took pictures of our faces while threatening us until a guard came out of the palace and asked her to treat us with some humanity… yet they continued to insult, photograph and intimidate us.</p></blockquote>
<p>“We were abducted and tortured by the Muslim Brotherhood, and this is my testimony before God,” said Najm. As the Muslim Brotherhood interrogators continued to abuse him and others, he said, they randomly abducted more people passing by in the street. Finally he was taken to a prison cell in the Central Security Forces prison, “where I spent the night on the floor with a blanket on Thursday, until we were released at dawn on Saturday.”</p>
<p>This is the same Muslim Brotherhood that Obama helped rise to power, and to which he is now sending tanks and fighter jets. Why aren’t all the leftists who denounced the waterboarding of a few terrorists under the Bush administration now directing their outrage at Obama for supporting the violently oppressive Brotherhood’s torture of protesters?</p>
<p>Upon leaving the Brotherhood’s torture chambers, Mohamad Jarehi and the other journalists found blood flowing on the palace sidewalk. Someone had tried to cover it up with soil. “However,” Jarehi wrote, “no one will be able to clean the image of this blood from the memory of Egyptians for hundreds of years.”</p>
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		<title>How Islam Ruined My Life &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amani Mustafa, Anni Cyrus and Nonie Darwish share the horrors they endured under Islam.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/slavery2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-136423" title="slavery2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/slavery2.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a>This week we are replaying a <em>Glazov Gang </em>from our summer season that received massive interest and feedback. In this episode, Amani Mustafa, Anni Cyrus and Nonie Darwish gathered to share the horror and torture they endured under Islam. Below is <strong>Part I</strong> of a three part series. We will run <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/escape-from-sharia-on-the-glazov-gang/">Part <strong>II</strong></a> in tomorrow&#8217;s edition.</p>
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