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Hamas-linked CAIR and other Islamic supremacists will no doubt claim entrapment, but here again, there is simply no way I could be entrapped into funding a jihad terror group. How about you? “Ohio Man Gets Over 6 Years in Terror Funds Case,” by John Seewer for the Associated Press, May…
In the early days of Nazi Germany, the Nazi Storm Troopers (SA) beat and often killed the Nazis’ political opponents. They were especially active on college campuses, in an eerie foretaste of Leftist activity on campuses today, violently attacking anyone who dared oppose Nazism. Now we are seeing this political…
Abdo: Feel the love This thoroughly loathsome jihadist Abdo said in 2010 that he wanted to combat “Islamophobia” and “to try and put a good positive spin out there that Islam is a good, peaceful religion. We’re not all terrorists, you know?” “Fort Hood Bomb Plot Suspect Wears Mask In…
Why? because they confessed to not offering regular prayers during vacation, and she wanted to give them a foretaste of the hell fires they are destined to receive — an even more creative bit of child abuse than last week’s beating of a 5-year-old boy by his Saudi teacher for…
Frankly, My Dear, I Don’t Give A Damn by Sergio Redegalli My sculpture, “Aisha from behind the veil,” has been sold to a private buyer who very quickly bought the artwork even after it was removed from the Glass Artist Gallery because of potential negative ramifications. After 32 years…
What do Muslims and Socialists have in common? Well, first of all, they both define themselves by having pity toward Muslims. And, of course, the Jeeews — not inbreeding (here, here), constant Palestinian aggression and violence, Palestinian schools teaching kids to be suicide bombers or the Quran — must be…
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not…
Is Interpol under Sharia? Maybe — it has helped enforce it in the recent past. “Pakistan turns to Interpol after Twitter declines to help manage ‘anti-Islamic material,’” by Jon Russell for The Next Web, May 21 (thanks to Twostellas): Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Senator Rehman Malik, has taken to Twitter to…
Doesn’t he know that honor killing is a cultural practice that has nothing to do with Islam? No, he doesn’t, because it isn’t. The problem with the “Islamophobia” narrative that Islamic supremacists retail in the West is that it keeps running up against the reality of Islamic teachings and how…
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Religious intolerance: Hindu temple vandalised in Peshawar,” by Riaz Ahmad for the Express Tribune, May 21: PESHAWAR: In a brazen act of vandalism, unidentified men sneaked into a Hindu temple in the capital city of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, smashed a holy figurine and burnt down…
The niqab won’t help Acid attacks are increasingly popular among Islamic supremacists bent on controlling women and punishing them for getting out of line. “Pakistani Women Writers Denounce Islamic Clerics’ Fatwas Against Women’s Use Of Cell Phones And Access To Secular Education,” from MEMRI, May 20 (thanks to The Religion…
Irshad Manji’s expansive and broad-minded Islam is her own creation, with no basis in Islamic tradition. Hugh Fitzgerald said it back in 2008: “Irshad Manji has certainly created her own private Islam. She is the child of Asian refugees from Uganda. She has never lived in a Muslim society. She…
Which of them will win a place of honor in the Islamic world? The Prime Minister of Turkey Erdogan as caliph, or Iranian President Ahmedinejad as the leader of all Muslims, Sunni and Shi’ite? Or someone else altogether? I do not know. Maybe they are going to put together a…
Nahro Farid wrote this to me this morning: “They do this because they know they can get away with it. They know very well that their victims are Christians, thus they won’t be punished. They would never do this to a Muslim shop owner.” “Gunmen attack Assyrian-owned cafe in…
As events unfold in the gripping saga of Chen Guangcheng’s desperate bid to flee Chinese oppressors, trolls for the Chinese government have posted comments on websites that, unwittingly, remind us why he is persecuted: Chen dared to expose the brutal reality of China’s population control program.
This ought to unnerve groups like UNFPA, the U.N. population agency, and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). Both helped implement China’s one-child policy.
Yet they appear unfazed. Their top priority right now is pressuring countries to adopt population policies at Rio+20, a U.N. global summit in Brazil in June. They intend to get world leaders to deal with “population dynamics” and achieve “sustainable development” by agreeing to reduce the number of human beings through reproductive services like abortion.
Chen’s case is a timely warning of what this can mean.
China’s central government sets national population targets and expects local officials to meet them. Chen revealed that local officials, whose careers hinge on attaining goals, forcibly abort women and terrify their families.
Chen’s transgression was insisting that national officials hold local officials accountable. For that, he’s been jailed, beaten, and imprisoned in his home. His family members are under house arrest.
The message is clear: population control takes precedence over human rights.
Investigations of population control policies reveal an invisible hand of Western elites. Great Britain recently gave $268 million to India even after being warned that the program commits mass coerced sterilizations. UNFPA, whose grants paid for training and equipment like computers to calculate birth quotas, praised China’s one-child policy. Gill Greer, director of IPPF, which includes the China Family Planning Association as a member, said adopting the population “policy is very conducive to China’s development.”
They absolve themselves by arguing that their agencies don’t directly commit coerced abortions and sterilizations. Of course not. The national agencies that they fund and equip do the dirty work.
Why do they continue the partnerships? Here is where the Chinese trolls come in. Check out this striking response to a column by Jonathan Kay:
Here’s a comment in support of China’s one-child policy, that all you dimwitted weirdos can get excited about. In the first place, China’s one-child policy is the law in China. Enforced abortions and sterilizations in very rare extreme cases are legal in China. Yes, naturally, these exceptional events are tragic and ugly, and of course no sane person wants to publicize them. On the other hand, reputable organizations estimate the number of enforced abortions and sterilizations in China over the past 20 years as a few thousand, far below 10,000, not the millions that liars like Kay cite. The overwhelming majority of Chinese couples, far more than 99.9 percent of the population, are much too smart and self-disciplined to selfishly break the law. The number of enforced abortions and sterilizations in Linyi over the 10-year period described was approximately 22. Of course the Chinese government made an example of officials as a PR gesture. Only a sicko would expose such sad and unpleasant events in the first place.
Even so, aiding and abetting common criminals, and accessory to criminal acts, are crimes in virtually every nation, and Chen, probably the most narcissistic, vain, and conceited person ever born on Earth, was fairly tried, convicted, and leniently imprisoned for his crimes. He remains nothing but a common criminal. The one-child policy of China, which almost all Chinese agree is a good and necessary law, merely demonstrates yet again how superior the Chinese are to all other people on the planet, and how superior the Chinese national government is to all other national governments. People who cringe from the facts and the truth merely demonstrate their inferiority.
Fears of overpopulation can drive people, to varying degrees, to justify “necessary” population control.
(Note that publicizing — not committing — forced abortions is the greater offense that drives guys like this batty. In light of that: here is Chen Guangcheng’s report on victims of China’s one-child policy. Jonathan Kay highlights a few cases and elegantly explains the link to decriminalized abortion.)
Not all one-child defenders are Chinese mouthpieces. Believers in overpopulation, or the latest iteration of environmentalism, insist that we must cut down the number of human beings — chiefly those poor and unborn.
UNFPA, IPPF, and their government allies overlook horrific abuses in the greater quest to legitimize abortion and reduce populations.
UNFPA claims it has persuaded the Chinese government to change its ways and adopt voluntary family planning. Chen’s work dramatically proves that UNFPA’s presence in China has not translated into a gentler one-child policy.
Justice for Chen will not end with rescuing him, his family, and associates like He Peirong. It carries on his work to combat population control — both its brutal implementation in places like China and surreptitious policies that legitimize and fund it through the U.N. and international agencies.
Wendy Wright is interim executive director for C-FAM, an institute focused on international social policy.
We have lost a lion It is with great sadness that I must report that my friend David Littman, one of the foremost warriors for human rights of our age, has died today in Switzerland. Longtime Jihad Watch readers will recall his many reports at this site (see here –…
“Far right” in this story and other mainstream media stories means opposition to Islamization and Sharia. “Islamist calls for murder of German far-right party: media,” from Expatica, May 20 (thanks to David): A German Islamist is calling for the murder of members of a far-right party that regularly provokes ultra-conservative…
Still more Arab Spring democracy on the march. “Israel To Remain an Enemy, Says Syrian Rebel Leader,” by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu for Israel National News, May 20 (thanks to all who sent this in): As Syria creeps into total anarchy, rebels also insist that Israel will remain an enemy after…
What are we fighting for? “Obama to urge Afghan president Karzai to push for Taliban settlement,” by Ewen MacAskill in the Guardian, May 20 (thanks to Pamela Geller): Barack Obama is to use the Nato summit to press the Afghan leader Hamid Karzai to engage with greater urgency with…
The leaders listed below are urging other clerics to condemn this fatwa. We shall see if they will. “Fatwa against female NGO workers condemned,” from the Daily Times, May 15 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): LAHORE: Chanan Development Association (CDA) has condemned a fatwa issued by Maulvi Abdul Haleem,…
Arab Spring democracy on the march! “Islamists Threaten Insurgency Should Secularists Win Egypt Election,” by Michael Rubin for the generally reliably dhimmi Commentary, May 20 (thanks to David): …On May 19, Islamic Jihad Organization member Shaykh Usamah Qasim took to the pages of Al-Misri al-Yawm to warn that Islamists would…
Another salvo in the ongoing Islamic supremacist war against the freedom of speech. Twitter must adhere to Sharia, or else. “Pakistan blocks Twitter because of material considered offensive to Islam,” by Zarar Khan for The Associated Press, May 20 (thanks to all who sent this in): ISLAMABAD – Pakistan blocked…
“The subject peoples … are forbidden to build new churches.” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.5). Islamic law also forbids Christians to repair old churches. Sharia Alert from Egypt: “Controversial Church-Building Law a Focal Point for Egypt’s Coptic Voters,” by Luiza Oleszczuk for the Christian Post, May 17: Egypt’s Coptic Christians fear they…
Here is the first video in David Wood’s “Qur’an in Context” series. Muslim spokesmen and apologists routinely claim that non-Muslims are quoting the Qur’an “out of context”; however, this claim is total nonsense according to their own sources. So the nonpareil Wood is planning a series of videos discussing…
Democracy on the march! “UN says al Qaeda behind Syria suicide bombs death toll from civil war reaches 10,000,” from AFP, May 18 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): UN leader Ban Ki-moon has said he believes al-Qaeda committed a major bomb attack in Damascus that left dozens dead, and…
So as to be able to watch and arrest them more easily, in further crackdowns on converts to Christianity. “Iran – Ministry of Intelligence further restricts Farsi-Speaking churches,” from Mohaba News, May 17 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): In addition to the increased restrictions against Iranian Christian converts, the…
Canadian author and Muslim activist Irshad Manji recently visited Malaysia to promote her new book, Allah, Liberty and Love (!). Apparently Muslims here in Malaysia didn’t feel the love and were not amused, angrily demanding that her book be banned and that she never be allowed to set foot in…
Doesn’t he know that all Muslims abhor and despise his hijacking of the Religion of Peace? How then could be possibly think he could or should serve as an example to Muslims? Unless, of course, the situation is different from what the learned analysts, government, law enforcement, and the mainstream…
Kuwaitis are going to have Islamic law whether they like it or not. “Islamist MPs to go ahead with constitutional amendments,” from the Kuwait Times, May 19: KUWAIT: Islamist lawmakers still plan to amend Article 79 of the Constitution with the aim of enforcing religious-oriented laws in Kuwait despite the…
Oh, the rampant Islamophobia! “Maluku, Christian neighborhood attacked,” by Mathias Hariyadi for Asia News, May 16 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Jakarta (AsiaNews) – For the third straight day there have been attacks in Ambon (Moluccas), where last night a group of unidentified persons set fire to houses and motorbikes in…
Will the Islamophobia never end? No Compulsion In Religion Update from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: “Pakistan, appeal for Christian girl kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam,” by Shafique Khokhar for Asia News, May 19 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Faisalabad (AsiaNews) – The family of Mary Salik (fictional name…
Yet another imam gets the religion of peace, tolerance, and respect for women all wrong, wrong, wrong. Why, oh why, does this happen so often? Video thanks to Blazing Cat Fur….
Congratulations to the indefatigable Blazing Cat Fur, who discovered these website postings and made them into an issue for Canada’s multiculti establishment. “Toronto school board pulls permit for madrassah after anti-Semitic postings on website,” by Kristin Rushowy for the Toronto Star, May 16 (thanks to all who sent this in):…
Right-wing extremists, no doubt. “Iraq anti-terror officer, family shot dead,” from AFP, May 19 (thanks to all who sent this in): An Iraqi anti-terror officer, his wife and three children have been shot dead by gunmen in north Baghdad, security and medical officials said on Saturday. The family was murdered…
Getting the true believers in line. “Pro-Brotherhood preacher: Electing liberal or secular president against religion,” from Al-Masry Al-Youm, May 18 (thanks to Wimpy): Muslim preacher Safwat Hegazy, who has been campaigning for the Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate, Mohamed Morsy, said it is against religion to elect a presidential candidate who…
What is the result of the Obama Administration’s purge of the truth about Islam and jihad from all military and intelligence training materials? I received this email this morning from an Army officer: Special Operations Language Training Module (book) 1, Arabic, p. 133: “The Shari’ah (Islamic law) prescribes rules to…
Eli Clifton, Ali Gharib, and Spencer Ackerman remove “Islamophobic” materials from military counterterrorism training But not anymore, of course — at least not officially. The hard Left’s war on the truth continues, with a thorough purge of all truthful material about the jihad threat. In this the Obama Administration and…
Talking surveillance cameras that bark orders at passers-by and can also record conversations are heading for U.S. streets, with manufacturer Illuminating Concepts announcing the progress of its ‘Intellistreets’ system.
As we first reported last year, high tech street lights with “homeland security applications” are now being installed in major U.S. cities.
The street lights also have loudspeakers that can give audible warnings to individuals, mimicking the talking surveillance cameras in the UK that shout out orders through microphones telling people to pick up litter or leave the area.
A recent press release put out by Amerlux announces the company’s partnership with Illuminating Concepts to further advance the rollout of ‘Intellistreets’.
The announcement confirms that the street lights will have a number of “homeland security features” including a loudspeaker system that will be used to “engage captive audiences”.
“The built-in speaker can broadcast emergency information,” states the press release, adding, “SmartSite luminaires can be equipped with a variety of cameras and sensors to ensure real-time 24/7-security coverage.
The sensors detect a variety of threats that enable rapid response from emergency personnel or help prevent crime and gain control of the streets.”
The press release adds that the SmartSite system developed to operate the ‘Intellistreets’ surveillance hubs is intended not only for street lighting but also for “retail malls, sports venues, on college campuses, and in new construction,” and “might well become commonplace” in the near future.
Not only can the street lights, now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh with Department of Energy backing, act as surveillance cameras, Minority Report-style advertising hubs, and Homeland Security alert systems, they are “also capable of recording conversations,” according to a report by ABC 7.
The ABC video clip, featured at the end of this article, includes creepy footage of the street lights being used to transmit Orwellian security alerts, including “pay attention please….please stand by for a public safety announcement,” and “this is a security alert”.
Illuminating Concepts responded to the controversy over ‘Intellistreets’ last year by ludicrously claiming the system did not represent a “big brother” intrusion, as if talking surveillance cameras that also record private conversations are a perfectly normal concept.
The company also denied that it had received funding from the Department of Homeland Security yet subsequent reports confirmed that owner Ron Harwood is now “working with Homeland Security” to implement the high tech network, which is connected via a ubiquitous wi-fi system.
In reality, the system represents Big Brother on steroids – George Orwell’s worst nightmare come to life with interconnected wireless ‘telescreens’ blanketing America, all in the name of safety and security.
Over at Gatestone Institute (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I chronicle the many abuses Christians suffered under Islam in the month of April — several occurring on Easter Sunday. Some “highlights” follow:India: Muslims stormed and terrorized a home where a Christian prayer meeting was being held, beating the Christians, including a 65-year-old widow….
But some are concerned that such slogans reveal too much to the stupid Infidels in the West who are so eager to believe their pipe dreams about “Arab Spring” democracy. “Syria – Islamist slogans under criticism,” by Khaled Soubeihi for Sapa-AFP, May 18 (thanks to Twostellas): The use of Islamist…
Here is an interesting anecdote of taqiyya—the Islamic doctrine that permits lies and hypocrisy whenever Muslims fear their stronger adversaries, including fellow Muslims: Soon after the clash between Egypt’s military and Islamists at al-Abbassia, Sheikh Hassan Abu al-Ashbal, one of the leaders of the Salafi party, declared a full-blown jihad…
Over at FrontPage Mag (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I discuss Muslim reactions to Coptic Pope Shenouda’s recent death, and show how they, once again, expose Islam’s hate for all things non-Muslim. Snippets follow:…While Ghoneim engaged in the usual lies and projections—saying the Pope wanted to create a Coptic state and “set Egypt…
He dared to insult Muhammad, and you know, that’s illegal. What’s that? The First Amendment? Pah! Eisenstein has violated multiculturalist sensibilities (and Islam’s blasphemy laws, which coincide neatly with those sensibilities). Sharia Alert from Purdue University: “Prof sues over Muslim tiff,” by Charles Wilson for the Associated Press, May 18…
Swedish State TV (SVT) has made its own Undercover Mosque as part of the investigative series call Uppdrag. Translated from Swedish by Nicolai Sennels, Sydsvenskan, May 16: “Women advised not to report to the police”: With hidden cameras and secret telephone recording equipment, two women went to the country’s ten…
Since the Muhammad cartoons, one of Denmark’s best-known export products is criticism of Islam. This drawing was recently printed in one of the biggest national newspapers, Ekstrabladet: Dane: Remember, that free speech allows us to criticise our press, our leaders and even our religion… Muslim: It is the same in…
Sweden’s population grew from 9 million to 9.5 million in the years 2004-2012, mainly due to immigration from “countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia”. 16 percent of all newborns have mothers born in non-Western countries. Employment rate among immigrants: 54 percent. Price per young unaccompanied asylum seeker: up to 2,300…
They say that Iran is under financial and economic sanctions, but is that true? The longer these imaginary sanctions continue, along with talks and political games revolving around Iran’s Islamic nuclear capability, the more muffled the voice of freedom and free speech and human rights are by the cries of…
The federal government is moving quickly to open the skies over America to drones – both for commercial and government purposes – and respected Washington Post and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer is forecasting “rifles aimed at the sky all across America.”
The comments from Krauthammer, who won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1987 after serving as a speechwriter for Vice President Walter Mondale and then beginning his journalism career at The New Republic, were on “Special Report” with Bret Baier.
“I would predict, I’m not encouraging, but I predict the first guy who uses a Second Amendment weapon to bring a drone down that’s been hovering over his house is going to be a folk hero in this country,” Krauthammer said.
The conversation arose as the federal government announced it is beginning to allow public safety agencies to fly unmanned aircraft – drones – with fewer and fewer restrictions.
According to yesterday’s report from Bloomberg, police, fire and other government agencies now are being allowed to fly drones weighing as much as 25 pounds without special approvals previously needed.
The Federal Aviation Administration said on its website that the move was an interim step until the agency finishes rules that will open the door for commercial operation of drones, as well as those uses for government purposes.
Congress has adopted the position of encouraging more drone flights, with the “goal of adapting technology used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
The FAA said it had gotten requests from 61 police departments, agencies or universities to fly drones, including the Army, Air Force, Navy and others.
The move toward drones, which will offer virtually unlimited spy options to watch U.S. citizens, has raised all sorts of privacy concerns, about which Krauthammer expressed an unreserved horror.
“I’m going to go hard left on you here. I’m going to go ACLU. I don’t want regulations. I don’t want restrictions – I want a ban on this. Drones are instruments of war. The Founders had a great aversion to any instruments of war, the use of the military inside of the United States. They didn’t like standing armies, It has all kinds of statutes against using the Army in the country.
“A drone is a high-tech version of an old Army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don’t want to see it hovering over anybody’s home.”
His said there’s a difference from other technology applications.
“Yes, you can say we have satellites, we’ve got Google Street. And London has a camera on every street corner. But that is not an excuse to cave in on everything else and accept a society where you are always under – being watched by the government. This is not what we want. I would say ban it under all circumstances.
“And I would predict, I’m not encouraging, but I predict the first guy who uses a Second Amendment weapon to bring a drone down that’s been hovering over his house is going to be a folk hero in this country.”
On the panel too was Mara Liasson, of National Public Radio.
“I don’t know if you can do that. Arean’t they awfully high up?”
No problem, Krauthammer suggested.
“You may have to use a lot of them. You may have to use a very high powered one. You may have to use a bazooka. I’m not encouraging. I’m simply making a prediction.”
Baier pointed out that a drone already has been used in a criminal investigation in America, with the case of a North Dakota man arrested for activities observed with a drone.
Krauthammer was allowing no compromises.
“I don’t think we want a society where if there are these objects hovering over, streaming real-time information about you, your family, your car, your location. We know it’s going to be abused. Yes, you say sure, we’re going to start restricting here, so we can save maybe $80,000. It’s not worth it.”
“Stop it here, stop it now,” he said.
He said otherwise, there would be “rifles aimed at the sky all across America.”
Also raising concerns is the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which has told the Federal Aviation Administration there needs to be transparency and accountability in drone operations.
The organization has recommended the development of privacy protections before drones are used widely in the nation’s airspaces.
EPIC said it was part of a coalition of more than 100 organizations, experts and others who petitioned the FAA to conduct a formal rulemaking procedure on the privacy implications of domestic drone use.
KUSA-TV: Mystery object nearly causes mid-air collision over Denver
Several members of Congress also have expressed to the FAA their concerns over the privacy implications of drone use. In a letter to the FAA, the congressmen said, “There is … potential for drone technology to enable invasive and pervasive surveillance without adequate privacy protections.”
EPIC noted that because of their design and technology, drone surveillance “often occurs without the knowledge of the individual being monitored.”
“These vehicles can gather detailed information on individuals,” the organization reports.
The federal government already has issued 78 certificates for commercial drone operations, along with 273 active government licenses.
Among the specifics: “The Miami-Dade Police Department in Florida used federal grant money to purchase a small drone vehicle. Reports dating back to 2008 explain that Miami was seeking to use a small drone … ‘to gather real time information in situations which may be too dangerous for officers.’ However, police have admitted that the drone can be used to look into houses,” EPIC reported.
EPIC documented that “the increased use of drones poses an ongoing threat to every person residing with the United States. Companies are developing ‘paparazzi drones’ in order to follow and photograph celebrities. Private detectives are starting to use drones to track their targets. Google, Inc., has deployed street-level drones in other countries to supplement the images of Street View. Criminals and others may use drones for purposes of stalking and harassment.”
The organization warned, “The consequences of increased government surveillance through the use of drones are even more troubling. The ability to link facial recognition capabilities on drone cameras to the FBI’s Next Generation Identification database or DHS’ IDENT database, two of the largest collections of biometric date in the world, increase the First Amendment risks for would-be political dissidents. In addition, the use of drones implicates significant Fourth Amendment interests and well established common law privacy rights.”
The units, EPIC documents, can peer “inside high-level windows, and through solid barriers, such as fences, trees, and even walls.”
Breitbart.com published the extraordinary revelation Barack Obama’s agents published a promotional book in 1991 with a bio of Obama saying he was born in Kenya.
Two police reports written the night that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin have finally been made public and both said that Zimmerman had a bloody face and nose. What does this mean for the prosecution’s case against Zimmerman?
Culinary Workers Local in Las Vegas is going after nonprofit groups doing business with the non-union Station Casinos. The group is now going after the nonprofit Tony Hawk Foundation, which builds skateparks in low-income areas to help at-risk youth because of its association with Station Casinos.
When a delegation of Syrian Kurdish rebels recently visited Washington, D.C., the Obama administration urged them to join the Syrian National Council (SNC), which is led by the Muslim Brotherhood. Why is Obama strengthening Islamist forces while fragmenting the rebels?
Better than 400 people in Madison County turned out for the National Day of Prayer on May 3, and they ranged in age from those just starting out their school careers to some who could likely teach us all a thing or two about faith. More than 30 churches in all gave testament to importance of the day in Madison County with attendance at one of the major events. That feeling of unity provided a blessing that was surely felt by young and old around the area. “As organized as it was, there was a lot of spontaneity and fellowship that is difficult to describe,” Joe Williams, committee chair for the National Day of Prayer event at Bedias Baptist Church, said. “I look forward to it next year, and pray that the Spirit we left it with will continue on until next year.” The theme for the National Day of Prayer this year was “One Nation Under God,” and Madison County represents just one of thousands of communities across America where the faithful gathered May 3 to seek God on behalf of their families, towns, counties, states and nation.French Economists Unhappy About Hollande – May 09, 2012 (The Wall Street Journal)
The following was signed by 21 French economists ahead of last Sunday’s presidential elections, in which Francois Gerard Georges Hollande beat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. The authors attest that they belong to no political party, and the views expressed here are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of their institutions. “Francois Hollande and his Socialist friends are a particularly mendacious and destructive sort of demagogue: They are purporting to help us by increasing our minimum wages rather than liberating our energies; they will punish the rich rather than encourage all of us to engage in productive efforts; they say they will spend more to stimulate ‘growth’ – effectively, to buy more consumers – instead of letting us choose the best uses for our own resources. Socialism has never succeeded in its extreme form, communism. As the past several years in Europe have shown, it does not work in its milder form of social democracy either. If European history teaches us anything, it is that prosperity is closely correlated to economic freedom…” [To read the rest, see Title link.]Blind Chinese Dissident to Study in US – May 09, 2012 (The New York Times)
Hillary Clinton’s intervention ultimately resulted in an arrangement to allow blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to study at New York University but not to seek asylum, which the Chinese considered an affront. Under terms that have not been disclosed, Mr. Chen is expected to leave the US Embassy in Beijing in days. The outcome, said several officials who recounted the story, reflected a maturing relationship now able to weather a fraught diplomatic entanglement. The officials would discuss diplomatic talks only on the condition of anonymity.Pro-Life Measures Dropped Chile’s Maternal Mortality Rate – May 09, 2012 (Life News)
A new study conducted on behalf of the Chilean Maternal Mortality Research Initiative (CMMRI) reaffirms that legalized abortion does not reduce the rate of maternal mortality. To the contrary, since Chile enacted a law protecting unborn children in 1989, the maternal mortality rate has dropped significantly. The study included analysis covering 50 years of maternal mortality data (1957-2007) from Chile’s National Institute of Statistics. The analysis found that the most important factor in reducing maternal mortality is the educational level of women. “Educating women enhances women’s ability to access existing health care resources, including skilled attendants for childbirth, and directly leads to a reduction in her risk of dying during pregnancy and childbirth,” according to Dr Elard Koch, epidemiologist and leading author of the study.Magnetic Bacteria May Build Hard Drives – May 07, 2012 (BBC News)
Magnet-making bacteria may be building biological computers of the future, researchers have said. A team from the UK’s University of Leeds and Japan’s Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have used microbes that eat iron. As they ingest the iron, the microbes create tiny magnets inside themselves, similar to those in PC hard drives. The research may lead to the creation of much faster hard drives, the team of scientists say. The study appears in the journal Small. As technology progresses and computer components get smaller and smaller, it becomes harder to produce electronics on a nano-scale. So researchers are now turning to nature – and getting microbes involved.May Day Protests – May 01, 2012 (Fox News)
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn says he’s making an emergency declaration allowing police to confiscate items that can be used as weapons following violent May Day protests that left storefronts and car windows shattered. Police said officers made at least three arrests after hundreds of people marched through downtown Tuesday afternoon. A 23-year-old man was arrested for vandalism and a 19-year-old man with a knife was also arrested. Protestors dressed in black clothing smashed windows of retail stores and banks, and spray-painted parked cars, reported Q13 FOX News. NikeTown, American Apparel, HSBC, and Wells Fargo were among the businesses protesters vandalized.Pro-Abortion Groups Mum On China’s Forced Abortions – May 02, 2012 (Life News)
Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng was reportedly pressured to leave the US Embassy in China where he had been seeking refuge and accept a deal struck by the United States and the Chinese government. Chen became a target of Chinese government after repeatedly exposing the forced abortions and forced sterilizations taking place under the One Child Policy. The Chinese government had threatened to kill Chen’s wife and family members if Chen did not vacate the embassy and accept the deal. The case of Chen Guangcheng has sparked international outcry. However, there are some groups in the United States that remain conspicuously silent on the issue. Groups like Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America and NOW, which purport to support women’s rights have remained silent on Chen and his activism on behalf of the women of China faced with the forced abortions of their children.Father of Benjamin Netanyahu Dead at 102 – April 30, 2012 (Haaretz)
The father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, died Monday morning in his Jerusalem home at the age of 102. Benzion Netanyahu was an Israeli historian and professor emeritus at Cornell University and was a Revisionist leader in the Zionist Movement in the United States. He will most likely be remembered for his great influence on the worldview of his son, Benjamin. He believed that the extermination of Jews had not ended and long warned against the threat of Islamic extremism. Please pray for the peace of the Netanyahu family and for the peace of Jerusalem.China Launches Two Satellites With One Rocket – April 30, 2012 (Ria Novosti)
China successfully launched two satellites into space for its Beidou global navigation and positioning network, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. The Beidou-2 satellites were lifted into space by a Long March-3B carrier rocket and have entered the scheduled orbit. It is the first time China has launched two navigation satellites, the 12th and 13th of its indigenous global navigation and positioning network, with one rocket.From Watergate To Redemption: Remembering Chuck Colson – April 24, 2012 (The Washington Post)
After Chuck Colson passed away on Saturday, obituaries naturally remembered him first and foremost as the lawyer and Watergate conspirator who went to jail for obstructing justice. They also noted that, while in prison, he found Christ and dedicated himself to prison ministries. Colson took literally Christ’s command to visit and comfort those in prison, a ministry that middle-class congregations had previously ignored. He got prisons to set aside wings or buildings for inmates who wanted to live in a structured, faith-based environment. He got congregations to see it as part of their mission to partner with prisons and individual inmates, leading prison programming aimed at turning men’s lives around. Most of all, he got law-abiding citizens on the outside to encounter inmates, face to face, not as nameless, faceless threats but as their brothers to be redeemed. And, in doing so, Colson changed the terms of debate.Miracle ‘Baby Sam’ Found Abandoned On Anthill Now Graduating – April 23, 2012 (The Palm Beach Post)
What look like little more than chickenpox pockmarks on Young’s face are the physical reminders of the way his life began. It was the story that spread across the country: A newborn baby, umbilical cord still attached, left to die in a Martin County orange grove, near an anthill. But his story took an unexpected turn. Found covered in ant bites by a passerby, raised by a Riviera Beach foster family desperate to raise a child, Nick Young – named only Sam when he was rushed to Martin Memorial Medical Center – will walk across the stage as a graduate of Florida A&M on Saturday. Born at 6 pounds, 5 ounces, Baby Sam was six weeks old when he came to live with Carl and Dorothy Young. Dorothy Young looked at the baby with the eyes of a mother. When he was 2, the family adopted him. When it was time to choose a name, the Youngs, practicing Christians, decided on a biblical name. They chose Nicholas Emmanuel, which means “God is with us.”Three West Bank Communities To Be Legalized – April 24, 2012 (Arutz Sheva)
A ministerial team that had been appointed by the government on Sunday announced on Monday that three communities in Judea and Samaria will be legalized. The three communities are Sansana, Rechelim and Bruchin. All three communities were built in the 1990s based on decisions of previous governments. The announcement means the communities will receive a legal status which hadn’t been given to them until now. Some were cautious about the announcement, though. “There is a fear that today’s message regarding the legalization came to prepare the ground to destroy Migron, the Ulpana neighborhood in Beit El and Givat Assaf. Netanyahu must know that no one among those who are faithful to the Land of Israel will buy more of these tricks,” said MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union)
Will the Islamophobia never end? Islamic Tolerance Alert from modern, moderate Indonesia: “Hardliners in Bekasi Throw Stones at Ascension Day Service,” by Camelia Pasandaran for the Jakarta Globe, May 17 (thanks to Twostellas): A mob of Islamic hard-liners threw stones and bags of urine at the HKBP Filadelphia congreagation of…
But of course he doesn’t mean it — we all know that. We know the Israel/Palestinian conflict has nothing to do with Islam. It has to do with land, and a negotiated settlement will soon save the day. Everyone in Washington tells us so, so it must be true, right?…
These crimes are not race-based, as Hindu and Sikh girls were victimized along with “white” girls. They were religion-based: preying on non-Muslim girls as sex slaves is in accord with Islamic law. But the British press, like the American press completely unwilling to examine the root causes of this kind…
I tried to tell you. More Arab Spring Democracy On the March in Egypt: “Israel becomes a target in Egypt’s presidential vote,” by Edmund Blair for Reuters, May 17 (thanks to Voice of the Copts): (Reuters) – Israel has become a punchbag for politicians vying for votes in Egypt’s presidential…
The Melkite Greek Patriarch Gregory III denounces the silence of the Western press on the escalating persecution of Christians in Syria. “Christians are under pressure in Syria, the patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church Gregorios III denounces the silence of the Western Press,” from MFS – The Other News,…
A turbulent ascension Wishing all the Christians around the world who are celebrating the Ascension today a moment of peace in these times of strife and persecution….
First there was a push to legalize “death-sex,” now there is a push to ban offensive children’s toys, including a toy gun that reportedly “when you shoot, it says ‘shoot Sayyida Aisha,’ wife of Islam’s prophet Muhammad.” Egypt’s new Islamist-dominated parliament continues exposing its priorities for the world to see….
In Saudi Arabia, it was recently revealed that a 5-year-old boy was “severely beaten” and whipped by his teacher, with “wounds appearing on various parts of his body.” According to Garaa News, it is unknown why the teacher scourged the child, and the teacher’s identity has been withheld to protect…
From Yahoo News: NEW YORK, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The prominent human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program, along with Former Muslims United (FMU) will be hosting the first-ever “Summer Night for Human Rights” Town Hall dedicated to defending…
Dr. Hatem Elhagaly, aka Dr. Hatem al-Haj, is a Muslim jurist who has stated this: The ruling on circumcision: Scholars have differed on the ruling on circumcision. They have agreed on its legitimacy for both sexes, but beyond that they have differed. Some–most famously the Shafi’ites–believe that it is obligatory…
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