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February 2013

ANDREW McCARTHY: TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE 1993 WORD TRADE CENTER BOMBING

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/341607 Today is the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing. It also marks three weeks since the attempted murder of Lars Hedegaard, the intrepid Danish champion of free speech. These events are not unrelated. Back in 1993, there was a tireless effort to limn the WTC bombers as wanton killers. They were, we […]

ANDREW BOSTOM: MARK STEYN’S “MY SHARIA AMOUR”…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

HOW ABOUT “SHARIA, SHARIA, I JUST MET A CULT NAMED SHARIA, AND SUDDENLY THAT NAME WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN”…RSK

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2013/02/26/mark-steyns-antidote-to-burqa-mandating-texas-teachers-allah-la-la-la-la/

Mark Steyn’s Antidote to Burqa-Mandating Texas Teachers (Allah-la-la-la-la…)

[1]Todd Starnes of Fox News radio reports [2] that Texas State Sen. Dan Patrick, chairman of the senate education committee, is launching an investigation, after outraged parents provided photographic evidence that their Lumberton (Texas) High School children were required to don burqas (and other Muslim garb), as part of an ostensible “geography lesson” on Islam.

Moreover, students, as part of this unabashed Islamophilic indoctrination process at Lumberton High School, were told by their teacher, “we’re going to change the way we perceive Islam,” who then also proceeded to instruct them to compose an essay, according to the report [2], “based on a Washington Post story that blamed Egypt’s troubles on democracy – instead of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Such involuntary Islamic dawa in school must be thoroughly investigated, condemned, and permanently disallowed.

MARCH MIDEAST OUTPOST ONLINE

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The ADL: Missing in Action Rael Jean Isaac

http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/the-adl-missing-in-action-rael-jean-isaac.html
From the Editor Rael Jean Isaac

http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/from-the-editor-rael-jean-isaac-26.html
Our Children at Risk Ed Ziegler

http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/our-children-at-risk-ed-ziegler.html
Promoting Hatred at Brooklyn College Danielle Avel

http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/promoting-hatred-at-brooklyn-college-danielle-avel.html
Diana West on Saudi Influence on Fox News Excerpts from an interview with Ryan Mauro

http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/diana-west-on-saudi-influence-on-fox-news-excerpts-from-an-interview-with-ryan-mauro.html
Meet Ben Hecht, Wisecracking Jewish Hero Stella Paul

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First Ayaan…Now Fiamma Bruce Bawer

http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/first-ayaan-now-fiamma-bruce-bawer.html
Zionism 101 Ruth King

http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/zionism-101-ruth-king.html

Understanding North Korea and Iran by DR. PETER VINCENT FRY ****

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/understanding-north-korea-and-iran?f=puball The West consistently and unwittingly cooperates with North Korea and Iran by underestimating the advancement, sophistication, and strategic implications of their nuclear weapon and missile programs. Despite North Korea’s successful long-range missile test in December 2012, and now its third successful nuclear test on February 12, 2013, the Obama administration and the press keep […]

Obama’s New Libya Update: American and Three Others Arrested in Benghazi for Preaching Christianity by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obamas-new-libya-update-american-and-three-others-arrested-in-benghazi-for-preaching-christianity?f=puball
The latest from “moderate” Libya: Four foreign Christians, including an American with dual Swedish citizenship, have been arrested on suspicion of being missionaries who have been distributing Christian literature. They were apprehended in Benghazi, the jihadist hotbed where U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were murdered in September. The missionaries could face the death penalty under Islam’s sharia law, which forbids the proselytizing of creeds other than Islam, imposes capital punishment on Muslims who convert to Christianity, and similarly discourages any speech that might sow discord among Muslims.

Ray Ibrahim picks up the story from the Guardian, quoting from an official from “Libyan security” – the outfit the Obama administration relied on after the president’s unprovoked, unauthorized war to topple the Qaddafi regime placed Islamists in de facto control of much of the country:

Discussing this case, Libyan security official Hussein Bin Hmeid, trying to justify the Islamic ban on free speech, observes: “Proselytizing is forbidden in Libya. We are a 100% Muslim country and this kind of action affects our national security.” Indeed, Muslim governments-most notably Iran’s-constantly suppress any talk of Christianity, claiming it threatens “our national security.” …

According to Benghazi lawyer and “human rights activist” Bilal Bettamer, Christians should not offend Muslims by trying to share their faith: “It is disrespectful. If we had Christianity we could have dialogue, but you can’t just spread Christianity. The maximum penalty is the death penalty. It’s a dangerous thing to do.”

CHET NAGLE: IT’S NOT THE BULLETS, BABY

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/its-not-the-bullets-baby In 2008 candidate Obama said, “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Listen to it. After he was elected in 2008, President Obama […]

EUROPE: A CONTINENT IN FLIGHT BRUCE BAWER

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/europe-a-continent-in-flight/print/ Different parts of Europe, same story. Let’s start with France, where a new report by a Jewish community group, Service de Protection de la Communauté Juive (SPCJ), says that anti-Semitism in that country has gotten so much worse in the wake of last year’s Toulouse school massacre that the number of Jews who are […]

CAIR Director Calls For Islamic Inquisition — on The Glazov Gang

On this week’s Glazov Gang, PJTV’s Alfonzo Rachel joined Hollywood actor Dwight Schultz and PolitiChick warrior Ann-Marie Murrell to discuss CAIR Director Calls For Islamic Inquisition. The discussion occurred in Part II and focused on CAIR St. Louis Director Faizan Syed’s solution for the problem of people publishing “anti-Islamic” views on the internet. The segment also dealt with the nightmares posed by John Brennan, Chuck Hagel and John Kerry. Part I focused on The Left’s Chris Dorner Romance as well as on Obama’s Obedient Media. Watch both parts of the two-part-series below:

Part I:

(Until YouTube resolves its “Playlist” issues, if Part I appears as Part II for you above, watch Part 1 here.)

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Inside the Muslim Student Association Conference, Part 2 By Mark Tapson

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/inside-the-muslim-student-association-conference-part-2/print/

To read Part I, click here.

In the previous installment of this short series on the recent 15th Annual Muslim Student Association (MSA) West Conference, which I attended at the University of California, Santa Barbara, I gave a general overview of the conference. The article summarized its pro-Palestinian political agenda, its preoccupation with hyping the threat of Islamophobia, its appeal to political activism in addition to its emphasis on strengthening one’s Muslim faith and community, and its support from some of the most influential Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America. Now let’s look at some of the principal individual speakers involved and their messages.

The conference featured a range of professors, imams, businesspeople, media representatives, linguists, and even engineers. The biggest names were Imam Siraj Wahhaj and Edina Lekovich, Director of Policy and Programming for MPAC, the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Lekovich, a prominent Islamic face in the mainstream media, has claimed in the past that Muslims are everywhere being slaughtered by “Zionists,” and she edited a UCLA Muslim student paper that cast doubt on Holocaust claims and praised Ayatollah Khomeini and bin Laden as freedom fighters. At the UCSB conference her topic was “Beyond the Muslim Bubble,” which emphasized the very innocuous-sounding aim of “integrating ourselves into American society” to “build bridges with non-Muslims”: “We weren’t made to sit on the sidelines and not play an active role in society.”

Siraj Wahhaj, the imam of the Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, spoke at two main sessions at the conference: “Messengers of the Messenger,” about committing oneself to carrying forth the message of Muhammad today, and “Cultivating Our Own Spring,” about “actualizing our potential” to create a concrete foundation and strategy for the future. Both of his presentations were very vague and rambling. In the program booklet’s biography of Wahhaj, it wasn’t mentioned that he had been named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and had invited the infamous Blind Sheikh to address his congregation several times. It neglects to point out that he advocates replacing the U.S. government with an Islamic caliphate, and has supported violent jihad. “You don’t get involved in politics because it’s the American thing to do,” Wahhaj said in 1991. “You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.” A few years later he stated that “In time, democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam.”

The cagey Wahhaj and Lekovich said nothing so controversial in the course of their MSA West conference sessions, however. After all, in addition to avoiding exposing their radical message to outsiders like myself, they are also keen to seduce into the Brotherhood fold any naïve Muslim students who might be in attendance. But the mere presence of Wahhaj and Lekovich, as well as the involvement of Brotherhood legacy groups, as I mentioned, confirm the radical underpinnings of the MSA West conference.

SMEARING TED CRUZ: MATTHEW VADUM

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/smearing-ted-cruz/print/ Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is not disappointing his conservative supporters. In his first few weeks in the world’s most sclerotic deliberative body, Cruz has already come under intense fire from the Left, and surprisingly, from a few corners in the GOP. Leftist Obama sycophant Greg Sargent, the Washington Post‘s in-house ideological purity enforcer, confers […]