Christmas in the Middle East. "This is what Islam does to you"

Devout Christians throughout the world attended Midnight Mass last night to celebrate the Birth of Jesus Christ ... or tried to attend at the risk of death or torture. This is something we in America take for granted but in other parts of the world it takes on a very different meaning. Here are some reports from other places where more devout Christians are being turned into martyrs every day for refusing to give up their faith. And yet another story written by a Muslim who has discovered the true meaning of the Qur'an and tries desperately to leave Islam after reading in English what he had been blindly reciting in Arabic all his life without knowing what he said.

Indonesia, via Jihad Watch:

Indonesia's Christmas tradition: Turning a blind eye to persecution and intimidation of Christians

Indonesia saw many similar cases of harassment and intimidation last Christmas, and this year threatens more of the same. "West Java: Islamic extremist groups threaten Catholics, Christmas celebrations at risk," by Mathias Hariyadi for Asia News, December 23:

Jakarta (AsiaNews) - Islamic fundamentalist groups in Parung, Bogor regency, West Java province, are threatening and "warning" the local Catholic community, victims of attacks in anticipation of the holiday season. At the risk of the celebration of Masses and religious services, especially with regard to the faithful of the parish of St. John the Baptist, long the center of a dispute between Christians and Muslims that revolves around the building construction permit.

They celebrated last year's Christmas Mass in a parking lot.

A statement published by the "Parung Society of Muslim" emphasizes the "strong support" of the stance of the Govenor of Bogor regency, who opposes the plan to build a church for the faithful of the parish of St. John the Baptist. Again, the controversy revolves around the infamous IMB - the Izin mendirikan bangunan - essential for any contrustion in Indonesia and even more difficult to obtain when it comes to a place of Christian worship.

Iraq, reported on Atlas Shrugs:

"Midnight Masses canceled in Iraq because of growing security concerns,"

from the Catholic News Service, December 23 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

LONDON (CNS) -- Chaldean Catholic officials have canceled traditional Christmas Eve midnight Masses because of security risks. 

Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk in northern Iraq told the agency Aid to the Church in Need that Christians will spend Christmas in "great fear" because of the risk of new attacks.
All services and Masses have been scheduled for daylight hours, he said in an interview with Rome-based AsiaNews.

"Midnight Christmas Mass has been canceled in Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk as a consequence of the never-ending assassinations of Christians," he said, citing the Oct. 31, 2010, attack on the Syrian Catholic cathedral that left 57 people dead in the Iraqi capital.

Archbishop Sako also expressed concern over the growing conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims vying for political power. He said the conflict has led to growing instability, especially in the days since the pullout of U.S. military troops in mid-December....

Egypt, from a post on Big Peace:

In Egypt, Christians endure their ‘Kristallnacht’

On December 7, Cynthia Farahat, a Coptic writer and human rights activist, testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission about the plight of her people. Farahat’s colleague Michael Mosad was one of the Christian men crushed by a military vehicle during the October 9 Maspero massacre, triggered by Copts protesting the burning of their churches by Islamist thugs. Farahat told the commission:

His legs were nearly severed from his body. As [Michael’s fiancée] sat next to him …soldiers gathered … brutally beating and kicking his motionless body. Vivian threw her body over his to protect him … but military officers beat and cursed her; they called her an infidel, ‘Christian sons of dogs,’ and worse–

Christian persecution is spread throughout the Middle East, I told them. Christians are under siege in Iraq. In Syria, they are clasping tight to Bashir al Assad as a sort of protector, and will be completely vulnerable if – or when – he falls. The Lebanese Christians are threatened by Hezbollah, and the Sudanese Christians lost millions to the Jihad over the last two decades. Christians (and Jews) have been thoroughly “cleansed” from Saudi Arabia already.

Bothaina Kamel, a Muslim TV personality who hid inside a television station during the protests, heard the soldiers and the policemen yelling “Allahu Akbar” as they brutally beat the protestors.

Kamel told the commission she was able to get out of the building only by claiming she was a believing Muslim. She said that she had been warned that the military was inspecting people’s hands, as many Copts had tattoos of crosses. She said to leave the building, she had to trudge through the blood of Christians whom the soldiers had beaten to death.

Pakistan, via a first-person account on Liberated:

Saturday, December 24, 2011

This Is What Islam Does to You

I was born in a very typical Sunni Muslim household, not very conservative like the Arabs, but nevertheless religious enough. I was born in Karachi, Pakistan to a very respectable Mohajjir family (mohajjirs are immigrants from India from the time of the partition in 1947). I moved to another Muslim country with my parents when I was just 10 years old and still live there.

I really wish there were a way I could freely live in a free society where I could follow the religion that I want without any compulsion. So far, I am not really sure what I am. I just know that I am not an atheist, because I do believe in a God, but that God cannot be the Allah of Mohammed. God is kind and merciful, not evil, cruel, mean and sadistic, as is Allah.

Have you ever read the Quran in English? I never did, I mean all my life I just recited the Quran in Arabic without understanding a single word until August of this year, when I purchased a copy of the English Quran and read the translation for the first time. Previously I had read some parts of it in English, but never the whole thing. But this year in August I read it from cover to cover, and then also read other references on the internet. Then I finally reached the conclusion that this book is the most evil thing on the face of this earth. It teaches nothing else except hatred and violence. I can no longer be a part of a cult which subjugates its followers, making them mere blind puppets with no mind of their own.

Please read the rest of the story written by this brave person who wants so much to leave Islam and convert to Christianity while living in Pakistan. And may I suggest you also read some of the comments posted by a few Muslims who threaten the writer.

And leading up to our joyous Christmas Season here is another compilation of incidents directed at Christians throughout the Islamic world showing once more how the Religion of Peace got its name. This article comes from Raymond Ibrahim over at Hudson NY. I have begun my quote in the middle of the article and strongly urge you to read the full story and the entire list of atrocities against Christians.

Muslim Persecution of Christians: November, 2011

by Raymond Ibrahim
Hudson New York
December 21, 2011

Meanwhile, it was revealed that "Christians are being refused refugee status [in the U.S.] and face persecution and many times certain death for their religious beliefs under Sharia, while whole Muslim communities are entering the U.S. by the tens of thousands per month despite the fact that they face no religious persecution."

Categorized by theme, November's batch of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed according to theme and in alphabetical order by country, not necessarily severity.

Churches

Ethiopia: More than 500 Muslim students assisted by Muslim police burned down a church, while screaming "Allahu Akbar" (and thus clearly positing their attack in an Islamic framework); the church was built on land used by Christians for more than 60 years, but now a court has ruled that it was built "without a permit."

Indonesia: Hundreds of "hard-line" Muslims rallied to decry the "arrogance" of a beleaguered church that, though kept shuttered by authorities, has been ordered open by the Supreme Court. Church members have been forced to hold services on the sidewalk, even as Indonesia's leading Muslim clerics warned Christians that it would be "wise and sensible" for the church to yield to "the feelings of the local believers, specifically Muslims."

Iran: The nation's minister of intelligence said that house churches in his country are a threat to Iranian youth, and acknowledged a new series of efforts to fight the growth of the house church movement in Iran.

Nigeria: Islamic militants shouting "Allahu Akbar" carried out coordinated attacks on churches and police stations, including opening fire on a congregation of "mostly women and children," killing dozens. The attacks occurred in a region where hundreds of people were earlier killed during violence that erupted after President Jonathan, a Christian, beat his closet Muslim rival in April elections.

Turkey: The ancient Aghia Sophia church has been turned into a mosque. Playing an important role in ecumenical history, the church was first transformed into a mosque in 1331 by the jihadist Ottoman state. As a sign of secularization, however, in 1920 it was turned into a museum. Its transformation again into a mosque is a reflection of Turkey's re-Islamization.

So to my fellow Christians in America, while you are looking forward to the after-Christmas sales and gift exchanges, many more Christians are just looking for a peaceful place to simply observe their faith. To Christians everywhere I wish you all a Joyous and Blessed Christmas.

 

Merry Christmas, everyone.

To my Christian friends I wish you all a most Blessed and Merry Christmas and to my Jewish friends I wish you all a Happy Hanukkah.

 

Liberal news media and Democrats fault NYPD anti-terrorist surveillance program.

Ever since the Islamic inspired attack on 9-11 the New York City Police Department has been conducting the most intense surveillance program of any U.S. city on its Muslim population. It was the Associated Press that uncovered a lengthy training manual developed by the NYPD to assess the dangers. Here is a link to the 90-page report published on the NYPD web site NYPDSHIELD.

Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat Prepared by: Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt Senior Intelligence Analysts NYPD Intelligence Division 

Yet, in a story published today, the Associated Press blames the NYPD for the ineffectiveness of the program even though in the opening paragraphs they acknowledge that two radicalized Muslim terrorists came out of mosques located in NYC.

NYPD's spying programs produced mixed results

* By MATT APUZZO, ADAM GOLDMAN and EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - When New York undercover officers and informants were infiltrating a mosque in Queens in 2006, they failed to notice the increasingly radical sentiments of a young man who prayed there. Police also kept tabs on a Muslim student group at Queens College, but missed a member's growing anti-Americanism.

Those two men, Najibullah Zazi at the mosque and Adis Medunjanin at the school, would go on to be accused of plotting a subway bombing that officials have called the most serious terrorist threat to the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.

Ever since The Associated Press began revealing New York Police Department spying programs on mosques, student groups, Muslim businesses and communities, those activities have been stoutly defended by police and supporters as having foiled a list of planned attacks.

Read more: http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/national/nypds-spying-programs-produced-mixed-results#ixzz1hN2M6ePA

While the AP story mixes the NYPD's accomplishments with mistakes it clearly paints a picture that something is very wrong. The story is also published on Fox News at this link:  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/23/nypds-spying-programs-produced-mixed-results-1054645946/

Buried down in this story is the revelation that Democrats in Congress have been very much against the NYPD program, most likely because it has been so effective.

After House Democrats circulated a letter signed by 34 members of Congress recently asking for a federal review of the NYPD's intelligence programs, King, the New York Republican, accused them of smearing the police department.

The Justice Department under Eric Holder repeatedly has sidestepped questions about what it thinks about the NYPD programs revealed by the AP. Some Democrats in Congress have asked prosecutors to investigate. Since August, the department has said only that it is reviewing those requests.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/23/nypds-spying-programs-produced-mixed-results-1054645946/#ixzz1hNFjVyEV

While the U.S. Dept. of Justice has successfully prosecuted the terrorist funding trial of the Holy Land Foundation and proved in Federal Court in Dallas, Texas that CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, was part of the Muslim groups funneling charitable donations to the Hamas terrorist group, Barack Hussein Obama has approved of several Muslim appointments to his White House staff and to the Dept. of Homeland Security.

 

December 21, 1988, the beginning of the end of Pan American World Airways.

Some say it was the Airline Deregulation Act that was pushed through during the Jimmy Carter administration that signaled the end of Pan Am. As a political comment, it always seems that Democrats have a unique talent for mucking things up, supposedly for the benefit of the people but in the end for the benefit of no one. When something works don't try to fix it.  Before that dramatic change Pan Am was a profitable company content on flying its international routes but Pan Am was much more than just an international airline. During its glorious history Pan American World Airways was a pioneer company that explored airline routes across the globe and, literally, built some of the airports it would fly into in many far away places. Pan Am’s influence was behind the development of jet travel with, first, the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8 and later, the Boeing B747 jumbo jet.

Pan American World Airways began in 1927, founded and run by Juan Trippe. I only came on board in 1962 and am proud to have been a part of this great company for almost half of its life as I stayed until the end in 1991. I felt the pride shared by my fellow employees as being part of the world’s most experienced airline. I felt the pride in working for a company that had the highest brand recognition second only to Coca Cola and the first in almost every new achievement in aviation history, as pointed out by former Pan Am Stewardess Helen Davey in her story Collapse of a World on the Huffington Post.

“On December 4th of this year, former Pan Am employees all over the world sadly acknowledged the twentieth anniversary of the death of their beloved company. And on December 21, they, along with the families and loved ones of the victims of Flight 103 that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, will be remembering that sad day when their lives were forever changed. For Pan Am employees, that day 23 years ago has been called, "the day that the heart of Pan American died" (Gandt,1995).”

I felt the pride when Stanley Kubrick portrayed Pan Am as the operator of the Space Shuttle Orion in his film.

I also felt the pain that our historic significance around the world made us a symbol of the United States of America and a target of every Middle Eastern terrorist who wanted to fight our government and chose us as the most convenient target. Such it was on December 21, 1988 when Libyan terrorists working for dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi constructed a bomb that was put in a baggage container on board Pan Am Flt 103 that was detonated at 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Wikipedia account of the the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103

“Until 2003 Libya had never formally admitted carrying out the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. On 16 August 2003 Libya formally admitted responsibility (but did not admit guilt) for Pan Am Flight 103 in a letter presented to the president of the United Nations Security Council. Felicity Barringer of The New York Times said that the letter had "general language that lacked any expression of remorse" for the people killed in the bombing. The letter stated that it "accepted responsibility for the actions of its officials".”

Claims of responsibility
"According to a CIA analysis dated 22 December 1988, several groups were quick to claim responsibility in telephone calls in the United States and Europe:

    * A male caller claimed that a group called the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution had destroyed the plane in retaliation for the U.S. shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 in the Persian Gulf the previous July.
    * A caller claiming to represent the Islamic Jihad Organization told ABC News in New York that the group had planted the bomb.

After finishing this list, the author stated, "We consider the claims from the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution as the most credible one received so far". The analysis concluded, "We cannot assign responsibility for this tragedy to any terrorist group at this time. We anticipate that, as often happens, many groups will seek to claim credit"."

    * On 22 February 2011 during the 2011 Libyan civil war, the ex Minister of Justice Mustafa Abdul Jalil stated in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Expressen that Muammar Gaddafi had personally ordered the bombing."

Former Pan Am employees are now scattered around the globe, most are retired as I am, but they all share our pride of once being part of such a great enterprise. We acknowledge that Pan Am is gone but not forgotten.

 

On the 220th anniversary of the signing of The Bill of Rights, a Eulogy to mark its passing.

From Wikipedia: The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These limitations serve to protect the natural rights of liberty and property. They guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. While originally the amendments applied only to the federal government, most of their provisions have since been held to apply to the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment.

            The amendments were introduced by James Madison to the 1st United States Congress as a series of legislative articles. They were adopted by the House of Representatives on August 21, 1789, formally proposed by joint resolution of Congress on September 25, 1789, and came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15, 1791, through the process of ratification by three-fourths of the States. While twelve amendments were passed by Congress, only ten were originally passed by the states. Of the remaining two, one was adopted as the Twenty-seventh Amendment and the other technically remains pending before the states.

            Originally, the Bill of Rights included legal protection for land-owning white men only excluding African Americans and women. It took additional Constitutional Amendments and numerous Supreme Court cases to extend the same rights to all U.S. citizens.

            The Bill of Rights plays a key role in American law and government, and remains a vital symbol of the freedoms and culture of the nation. One of the first fourteen copies of the Bill of Rights is on public display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C..

From this blog: See the left margin for my permanent display of this most important document.

From The Campaign for Liberty newsletter, received today:

Dear Nelson,

Today marks the 220th anniversary of the day the Bill of Rights were officially added to the Constitution.

Ironically, the U.S. Senate is set to kill the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments of that Bill of Rights later today.

Last night, the U.S. House approved the Conference Report version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes provisions that would allow the President to throw American citizens in jail and keep them there indefinitely.

The Senate is set to vote on this bill around 4 pm eastern today, so I need your immediate help if we are to stop this dangerous legislation.

You can find your senators' contact information here. 

Please, call them right away and demand they stand up for the Bill of Rights on its 220th anniversary by voting "No" on the NDAA Conference Report.

In Liberty,



Matt Hawes
Vice President

Lowe's Home Improvement attacked by terrorist funding group CAIR for pulling ads from TLC All-American Muslim.

The title of this post says it all and the devil is in the details. Here are three stories combined to fully illustrate the extent of the problem, but some background is in order in case you are not aware of what is going on. TLC, The Learning Channel, viewed on the Discovery cable television network has been showing a program called All-American Muslim which has been trying to portray 'ordinary' Muslims in America as being just as much like every other American. It is nothing more than a propaganda piece packed with lies to cloud a very important issue. It is extremely controversial, to say the least. And one of the major sponsors of the show, Lowe's Home Improvement, has decided to pull their ads. Taken along with other recent news such as my repost of the Jihad Watch story on Monday, December 12, 2011,  Three independent studies show majority of U.S. Mosques promote hatred of Jews and Christians.  that revealed that 80% of the mosques in America were found to carry  hate literature, there would seem to be no doubt about the controversy in this show. To fully grasp the extent of the mosque investigation you must read the entire story. Here is a small sample of the facts.

" In 1998, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi leader, visited 114 mosques in the United States. Then he gave testimony before a State Department Open Forum in January 1999, and asserted that 80% of American mosques taught the "extremist ideology." "

" Then there was the Center for Religious Freedom's 2005 study, and the Mapping Sharia Project's 2008 study. Each independently showed that upwards of 80% of mosques in America were preaching hatred of Jews and Christians and the necessity ultimately to impose Islamic rule."

"And in the summer of 2011 came another study showing that only 19% of mosques in U.S. don't teach jihad violence and/or Islamic supremacism."

"December 12, 2011 – New York, New York: A leading international peer-reviewed journal specializing in the empirical study of terrorism has published a study that found that 80% of U.S. mosques provide their worshippers with jihad-style literature promoting the use of violence against non-believers and that the imams in those mosques expressly promote that literature."

So, now comes a campaign by a conservative Florida group to bring some pressure on the sponsors of All-American Muslim to get them to cancel their ads. And many of them did, including Lowe's Home Improvement. A spokeswoman for Lowe's was quoted on the broadcast news the other day explaining their reason for pulling the ads. She said that Lowe's doesn't want to involve their company with such a controversial program. But that didn't go well with the leading spokes-group for American Muslims, CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR has joined a handful of liberal Democrat politicians in trying to bully Lowe's into sponsoring the All-American Muslim program. Here is a bulletin from ACT! for America on a petition drive they have started to support the decision by Lowe's.

Sign Our Petition supporting Lowe’s right to

end advertising on TLC’s TV show

“All-American Muslim”

Dear Nelson,
Imagine for a moment that the propaganda arm for Hamas in the United States, CAIR, was viciously attacking an American company for its decision to stop running commercials on a television show highlighting a CAIR community organizer.
And imagine that a California State Senator took to the media airwaves to call this American company "bigoted, shameful and un-American." Imagine further that he even suggested he would propose a law to make what the company did illegal.
Rewind.
No longer are we in an America of imagination. This is today’s reality. Lowe’s Home Improvement made a lawful business decision to end its advertising on TLC’s TV show, “All-American Muslim.” The available evidence is that Lowe’s did so because the show’s ratings had tanked so badly it hardly had any viewers. It’s not uncommon for businesses to stop advertising on shows with low ratings.
But CAIR and its radical allies have claimed something more sinister is going on. They have joined voices in a chorus of vicious allegations, name-calling, and outrageous demands—all intended to bully an all-American company, Lowe’s Home Improvement, into submission to their radical agenda.
This is an outrage.
If CAIR and its radical allies succeed in bullying Lowe’s into submission, consider the message this intimidation will send to businesses across America.
We are calling on you to join us TODAY in encouraging Lowe’s to resist this intimidation campaign. Please add your name HERE in SUPPORT of Lowe’s Home Improvement and its right to make decisions regarding when and where it will advertise.
Remember, CAIR is a front organization for the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR is an organization that was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in our country’s largest terrorism financing trial in history. CAIR and its radical allies must not be allowed to impose their agenda on Lowe’s—or any other company in America.
So please exercise your freedom today and sign our petition in support of Lowe’s.
Thank you!

But the liberal mainstream news media, as usual, doesn't tell the full story. So here is the Who, Where, What, When and Why rule that journalist's used to apply to every fact-based story. Another  story in the news that explains just what the Islamic mouthpiece CAIR is really involved in comes after a Texas Appeals Court recently upheld the convictions of five Muslims including "a member of the founding board of directors of the Texas branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ghassan Elashi, who is serving a 65-year sentence." for funneling charitable donations to the Holy Land Foundation to the terrorist group Hamas, that was reported on WND.com. 

Appeals court affirms Muslim Brotherhood not 'moderate' Judges uphold Hamas-financing conviction of CAIR leader, others
Posted: December 10, 2011

Five jihadists behind a Texas-based scheme by the Muslim Brotherhood to channel millions of dollars to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas under the guise of a charity have had their convictions upheld by a federal appeals court.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday against organizers of the Holy Land Foundation, which at one time was the largest Muslim charity in the U.S. It was shut down by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks.

The Justice Department named CAIR's national organization, based in Washington, D.C., an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case.

In conclusion, one must ask the obvious question. Just what is a genuine All-American Muslim? Are they like those in the puff-piece that is being spewed out on TLC being defended by a group that has been identified in Federal court to be a sponsor of terrorism or are they like the tens of thousands of American Muslims who attend hundreds of mosques found to be spreading hatred across America? And don't forget those famous words spoken by a true representative of Islam, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is a leader of the Islamic-oriented Welfare Party, said in 1998, "The mosques are our barracks, the domes are our helmets, the minarets are our swords, and the faithful are our army."

Whenever I hear Muslims claim to be a 'Religion of Peace' I am also reminded of those famous words by a cold-war expert who once said: "Peace to a Communist means the absence of resistance to Communism."  Is this what "Peace" means to Muslims? The absence of resistance to Islam? If it does then there's going to be hell to pay.

    

Three independent studies show majority of U.S. Mosques promote hatred of Jews and Christians.

From today's bulletin from Jihad Watch. 

Study Shows U.S. Mosques Repositories of Sharia, Jihad, and Muslim Brotherhood Literature and Preachers

In 1998, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi leader, visited 114 mosques in the United States. Then he gave testimony before a State Department Open Forum in January 1999, and asserted that 80% of American mosques taught the "extremist ideology."

Then there was the Center for Religious Freedom's 2005 study, and the Mapping Sharia Project's 2008 study. Each independently showed that upwards of 80% of mosques in America were preaching hatred of Jews and Christians and the necessity ultimately to impose Islamic rule.

And in the summer of 2011 came another study showing that only 19% of mosques in U.S. don't teach jihad violence and/or Islamic supremacism.

And now here is more on the latter study:

Study Shows U.S. Mosques Repositories of Sharia, Jihad, and Muslim Brotherhood Literature and Preachers Peer-reviewed study most extensive empirical examination of U.S. mosques to date

December 12, 2011 – New York, New York: A leading international peer-reviewed journal specializing in the empirical study of terrorism has published a study that found that 80% of U.S. mosques provide their worshippers with jihad-style literature promoting the use of violence against non-believers and that the imams in those mosques expressly promote that literature.

The study also found that when a mosque imam or its worshippers were “sharia-adherent,” as measured by certain behaviors in conformity with Islamic law, the mosque was more likely to provide this violent literature and the imam was more likely to promote it.

The abstract for the study summarizes the research findings:

A random survey of 100 representative mosques in the U.S. was conducted to measure the correlation between Sharia adherence and dogma calling for violence against non-believers. Of the 100 mosques surveyed, 51% had texts on site rated as severely advocating violence; 30% had texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and 19% had no violent texts at all. Mosques that presented as Sharia adherent were more likely to feature violence-positive texts on site than were their non-Sharia-adherent counterparts. In 84.5% of the mosques, the imam recommended studying violence-positive texts. The leadership at Sharia-adherent mosques was more likely to recommend that a worshipper study violence-positive texts than leadership at non-Sharia-adherent mosques. Fifty-eight percent of the mosques invited guest imams known to promote violent jihad. The leadership of mosques that featured violence-positive literature was more likely to invite guest imams who were known to promote violent jihad than was the leadership of mosques that did not feature violence-positive literature on mosque premises.

The study was published in December 2011 by Perspectives on Terrorism, a scholarly international journal of the Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI), a global initiative that seeks to support the international community of terrorism researchers and scholars through the facilitation of collaborative projects and cooperative initiatives. TRI was established in 2007 by scholars from several disciplines in order to provide the global research community with a common tool than can empower them and extend the impact of each participant's research activities.

The mosque study had previously been published by the Middle East Quarterly in September 2011, an academic peer-reviewed journal which specializes on Middle East regional issues. Because of the ground-breaking nature of the study, which brings a rigorous empirical methodology to the question of home-grown jihadists, MEQ granted permission to Perspectives on Terrorism to publish a more extensive analysis of the study’s conception, methodology, and results.

The study’s authors, Professor Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University in Israel and David Yerushalmi, who serves as general counsel to the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., have both published widely on terrorism, Islamic law and its underlying doctrines of jihad and violence against unbelievers.

The study may be accessed here at the Mapping Sharia website.
The study may be accessed here at MEQ.
The study may be accessed here at Perspectives on Terrorism.

Posted by Robert on December 11, 2011 8:32 PM 

CFACT kills UN's International Climate Court at COP17

CFACT kills UN's International Climate Court at COP17

Dear Nelson,

CFACT promised to attend COP17 on your behalf as a vigilant watchdog, to protect your freedoms from overzealous UN bureaucrats. In the final days of the conference, we did just that by defeating a nascent plan to impose an "International Climate Court of Justice" on America and the rest of the developed world.

Late last week, CFACT became aware that a long list of radical ideas -- including the Climate Court, "Rights of Mother Earth," and other Green favorites -- were part of the draft final agreement the UN was working towards in Durban. Recognizing the danger of allowing such radical ideas to be codified and agreed to by the U.S. and the rest of the world, CFACT broke the story early Friday morning on Climate Depot with Lord Monckton's exclusive special report.

The story spread like wildfire, getting picked up by Fox News, Drudge (via Infowars), and many others.

We caught the UN off-guard, as they don't expect anyone to actually report on the substance of the negotiations. They rely on the media to coddle them with adulatory coverage that repeats the party line. With their true agenda exposed to the world, they quietly removed the International Climate Court from the working documents. In other words, they turned tail and ran.

Overtime

After going into 36 hours of overtime, COP17 became the the longest climate conference in history. 

India was the last big holdout. "Am I to write a blank check and sign away the livelihoods and sustainability of 1.2 billion Indians?” asked India's Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan. Just when it seemed there would be a hung conference, South Africa's foreign minister called a “huddle” and ten minutes later the language India had fought for to protect its progress was replaced by Brazil with the words, “an agreed outcome with legal force,” which is last minute UN speak for “binding agreement.” At 3:30 AM the Durban roadmap entitled “The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” was agreed to and the U.S., China and India were locked in.

So what did Obama and the rest agree to?
CFACT told you at the beginning and we remind you now. If you want to understand the genuine threat posed by the UN climate process – follow the money.

The Kyoto protocol winds down in 2012. Its demise would be an end for the carbon targets which provide the muscle behind massive guarantees and subsidies to alternative energy investors, An end to Kyoto's carbon trading markets would deny a fortune to “carbon traders” and send them out in search of gainful employ. An end to the green climate fund and the REDD agreement would mean a lean Christmans for a host of slick western middlemen and developing nation bureaucrats counting who feel entitled to your tax dollars.
The UN's Durban agreement keeps the money flowing to the climatecrats and profiteers and even if you accept the UN's position on climate science (which CFACT strenuously challenges) does nothing for the climate. No one credibly believes that the massive transfer of wealth that the delegates in Durban pledged to continue will alter the world's thermostat in any meaningful way.

So the money game goes on.

The rest is far more nebulous.

The Durban agreement calls for a full treaty by 2015 to come into force by 2018

The principal American objection in past conferences was that the developing world refused to agree to carbon restrictions on its own industry. The future treaty is supposed to include carbon restrctions for all, though the developing nations would face no meaningful restrictions before 2020. Considering the wealth China and manufacturing edge has amassed in the last eight years, it now has eight more years to cement its position.

The “green climate fund's” $100 billion per year in redistribution to developing nations remained in the agreement, but the funding mechanism did not. Two proposals, both devastating to America and its allies were put forward and both could come back to haunt us. The first would place a tax on every foreign currency transaction in the world. The second would place a huge tariff on international shipping. These can both be seen as ways to get around a U.S. Congress which is not about to vote for a massive handout to the UN. Keep a close eye here. Finding a creative way to get us to pay for the green climate fund will be a major UN goal over the days and months ahead.

So long as there are billions being made on it, the international global warming industry will not go away. Chief U.S. climate negotiator Todd Stern conceded that, “there is plenty the U.S. is not thrilled about.” That is an understatement.

CFACT is the preeminent organization challenging global warming orthodoxy at the UN. We remain your eyes, ears and voice at these crucial negotiations. The Durban agreement underscores the dire threat this process poses to our freedom and prosperity. The forces of global warming could not get a treaty in Durban, but they kept their money. They'll keep trying to come back for more. We must counter them every step of the way. CFACT stands ready.

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P.S. Greenpeace staged an occupy Durban protest in the hallway outside the plenary session and got kicked out of the conference. In contrast, CFACT parachuted (literally) into Durban with a tough message about Climategate 2.0. We boldly spread our banner (literally) 20 feet across our UN press conference. Unlike Greenpeace, however, we did our homework and got all our permits lined up. CFACT played by the rules and could not be stopped. Greenpeace went lawless and paid the price. Like the broken clock that is right twice a day, even the UN occasionally gets it right!

British government says wearing a cross or crucifix is not a requirement of a Christian's faith.

Europe and Great Britain, in particular, have always been way ahead of America in practicing political correctness. Is this what we can expect to see here in America any time now? Muslims here have already complained of crosses on display in a Catholic University. Macy's won't ban cross-dressing perverts from women's fitting rooms.

Ministers won't back cross-ban Christians: Ex-archbishop condemns 'illiberal' assault on faith 

By Jonathan Petre
Last updated at 10:31 PM on 10th December 2011

The Government was slammed last night for refusing to support a group of Christians fighting for their rights in the European courts.

Four individuals who have been disciplined at work or lost their jobs after refusing to remove crosses or to conform to gay rights laws are attempting to overturn the decisions of British courts and tribunal.

They had hoped for support from Ministers after a former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, appealed to Prime Minister David Cameron on their behalf.

But the Government told the European Court of Human Rights that it backed the British judges and does not accept that the Christians have suffered discrimination.

To the dismay of Lord Carey, the Government even said that wearing a cross or a crucifix was not a ‘generally recognised’ Christian practice – even though Church leaders say it is a hugely significant symbol.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072555/Ministers-wont-cross-ban-Christians-Ex-archbishop-condemns-illiberal-assault-faith.html#ixzz1gLCXaKqI

The Democrats Hate Crime Bill two years later: From cross-dressing men allowed in women's fitting rooms at Macy's, to outlawing criticism of Islam.

Never mind that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was OK for the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas to picket military funerals with signs that said "Thank God for dead soldiers" because they had their right to free speech "no matter how hateful". Now we are facing the fallout from the Democrats Hate Crimes Act commonly referred to as the Pedophile Protection Act, H.R. 1913 and the Senate version S. 909 they passed in 2009.

Now, no one is allowed to discriminate against anyone who conforms to any of the perversions, specifically the 547 paraphilias listed by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as I wrote in my blog on Thursday, August 25, 2011,

This is what happens when the Democrats legitimized pedophilia.

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), when confronted with a list of 547 paraphilias from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, including pedophilia, he declared that “all of these philias and fetishes and isms that were put forward – need not live in fear because of who they are.”

A recent story hit the news about a Macy's store clerk who was fired from her job because she refused to let a man dressed as a woman from entering the women's fitting room. Seems that Macy's has adopted a policy that permits a zero tolerance against discriminating against any form of perversion directed at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community.

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

“Excuse, me, but men cannot use the women’s fitting room. The women’s fitting room is for women only.” That’s what Natalie Johnson politely told a young man wearing lipstick who entered the women’s fitting room and undressed. And for that, Macy’s fired her because the store’s absurd policy actually allows men to use the women’s fitting room. Liberty Counsel is now helping Natalie get her job back, and even more importantly, we’re asking Macy’s to change this ridiculous policy that places women at risk. Please read my important update on this fast-developing story below – Mat.

Natalie Johnson’s story is generating international news coverage and drawing widespread attention to Macy’s dangerous “Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) policy.”

When Natalie politely told the cross-dressing young man he could not use the women’s fitting room, he and the attorney with him said that Macy’s is “LGBT friendly” and began shouting expletives. Then they demanded to see Natalie’s supervisor.

Natalie’s stand and subsequent dismissal have become international news. Most media outlets are characterizing it as yet another example of the escalating aggressiveness of radical LGBT activists who deceitfully call their disruptive actions a “civil rights” struggle.

Now another story on a slightly different subject has been reported on Jihad Watch about an upcoming meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the United Nations representative from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to discuss outlawing criticism of Islam. Now that the Democrats got their collective foot in the door on Hate Crimes, we can possibly look forward to almost anything fitting that category. Gee, maybe if Obama gets reelected it will be against the law to criticize the Democratic Party. I think he may be looking forward to this since he has already got the concentration camps built for all those enemies of America.

Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America

It couldn't happen here, right? We have the First Amendment, right? Well, look at how the Second Amendment has been interpreted almost out of existence in some areas. The same thing could happen to the First -- and the process is already underway. "Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America," by Clare M. Lopez for Family Security Matters, December 8 (thanks to all who sent this in):

Six years later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to host OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Washington, DC in mid-December 2011 to discuss how the United States can implement the OIC agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam. Cloaked in the sanctimonious language of Resolution 16/18, that was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in April 2011, the WDC three-day experts meeting is billed as a working session to discuss legal mechanisms to combat religious discrimination (but the only religion the Human Rights Council has ever mentioned in any previous resolution is Islam). The UN Human Rights Council, which includes such bastions of human rights as China, Cuba, Libya, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, introduced Resolution 16/18 to the UN General Assembly (UNGA), where it was passed in March 2011.

The Resolution was presented to the UNGA by Pakistan (where women get the death penalty for being raped and "blasphemy" against Islam is punished by death). Ostensibly about "combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and…incitement to violence against persons based on religion or belief," the only partnership mentioned in the text is the one with the OIC. The U.S., whose official envoy to the OIC, Rashad Hussain, helped write Obama's Cairo speech, actively collaborated in the drafting of Resolution 16/18.

Read the rest here:  http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/criticism-of-islam-could-soon-be-a-crime-in-america.html

Guess it is OK to exercise Free Speech against dead American soldiers but it may not be OK to criticize the radical religion that has killed them and thousands of other innocent Americans. We can thank the Democrats for all of this. And lets not forget that politically correct "zero tolerance" policy that is putting 6-year old school children in handcuffs for throwing spitballs.