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Jihad Report: Trump’s Anti-Muslim Tweets

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London Mayor Calls for Trump’s UK Trip to Be Canceled After Anti-Muslim Tweets

Having seen President Trump point out the elephant in the room on many occasions…

…causing the PC crowd to howl in outrage, only to find out that Trump was right all along…

…my sense is that he is setting his sights on Islamists and their enablers in the West…

By the time he is done his accusers will be in pieces on the floor…   Dave

William Steakin              Independent Journal Review                 Nov 30, 2017

London Mayor Sadiq Khan ripped into President Donald Trump on Thursday for retweeting anti-Muslim videos from a “vile, extremist group,” adding that as a result, the president should not be welcomed in the U.K.

“It’s increasingly clear that any official visit from President Trump to Britain would not be welcomed,” Khan, who is Muslim, said in a statement

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London’s Muslim Mayor Calls for Trump Ban After Retweets, Church of England Demands Apology from President

To get a sense of how Islam is now controlling Britain…

…note that President Trump’s tweeting of those videos is now a criminally prosecutable hate crime…

Free speech is dead in Britain, and so is democracy, which needs free speech to function…

These responses are the kind we have come to expect from North Korea or Iran…

Who would have thought that Britain could have sunk so low?…   Dave

T.A. Reid              Headlines of Today              Nov 30, 2017

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has claimed U.S. President Donald Trump showed “support” for Britain First by retweeting a series of videos Wednesday, and renewed his call for the leader of the free world to be banned from the United Kingdom. A member of the British Parliament also called for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate the president and put him on a security watch list, while the leader of the Church of England demanded an apology and implied the retweets were racist…

The mayor has previously compared Mr. Trump to Islamic State and flew to the U.S. to campaign against his election, implying his presidency would aid Islamic terrorists and their narrative…

In his new statement, Mr Khan said the president had demonstrated “support” for the fringe, racist group Britain First – although it is not clear Mr. Trump was aware who they were when he retweeted a retweet from one of their leaders. Mr. Khan wrote: “Many Brits who love America and Americans will see this as a betrayal of the special relationship between our two countries. It beggars belief that the President of our closest ally doesn’t see that his support of this extremist group actively undermines the values of tolerance and diversity that make Britain great.”

He also insisted the prime minister and government use any influence they “claim to have with the President” to “ask him to delete these tweets and apologise to the British people”…

Mr. Khan is not the only British public figure to attack and insult the president since he shared the videos on Wednesday.

Labour MP David Lammy claimed that the “sharing of those videos is a crime in the UK called inciting hatred”, adding: “We should be asking the FBI to investigate, putting [President Trump] on a watch list and barring him from entry to our country.”…

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US to Aid Christian Militias, Refugees Directly

We have helped the Kurds carve out and defend a homeland for themselves…

…and we helped the Israelis carve out and defend a homeland for themselves…

Why not help the Christians…

…who have been living in the Middle East for 2000 years…

…and who are being ethnically cleansed from the region…

…carve out and defend a homeland for themselves too?

Of all the militias in Iraq and Syria, the Christian ones are the most likely to be good long-term allies…   Dave

Clarion Project               The Clarion Project             Sunday, November 26, 2017

In a major victory for the defense of Christians in the Middle East, Congress recently passed a bill that calls for direct aid to the Christian units operating in the Nineveh Plains.

Up to now, the Christian forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga have both faced chronic shortages in equipment and funding, as most aid was sent to Iraq’s central government.

An amendment to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act calls on Iraq to ensure “defense equipment and material are getting to Sunni, Kurdish and Christian groups, including the minority groups of the Nineveh Plain,” and that “the U.S. should provide arms, training, and appropriate equipment to vetted elements of the Nineveh Plain Council.”

A total of about $1.3 billion is budgeted for military aid to Iraq, the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Christian groups for 2018.

The shift represents accelerated progress since the release of Clarion Project’s FaithKeepers movie, which kicked off a groundswell of public engagement for protecting minorities in the Middle East.

When Rep. Jeff Fortenberry offered a similar amendment to last year’s defense bill, it was rejected. This year’s legislation containing the language now awaits President Donald J. Trump’s signature, having cleared both the House and Senate.

In another sign of change, the defense bill’s final version saw the removal of preconditions that the $345 million in aid for the Kurdish Peshmerga is contingent upon “participation in the government of a unified Iraq.”

The groundbreaking moves follow Rep. Trent Franks’ bipartisan resolution recognizing the self-determination of Iraq’s Kurds. The resolution was authored by Clarion Project’s Kurdish affairs analyst, Zach D. Huff.

In October, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced that relief funds sent to the United Nations would be diverted to USAID programs to assist persecuted Christians directly.

“Christianity is under unprecedented assault in those ancient lands where it first grew,” Pence said. “Across the wider Middle East, we can now see a future in many areas without a Christian faith. But tonight, I came to tell you: Help is on the way.”…

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White House releases ‘explosive’ tally of green cards issued in ‘chain migration’

80,000 unvetted chain migrants from Iran… scary thought…   Dave

Fox News                 November 30, 2017

Between 2005 and 2015 the U.S. permanently resettled roughly 9.3 million new immigrants on the basis of family ties; James Rosen goes in-depth for ‘Special Report.’

For the first time, the White House said, the federal government has counted the green cards issued between 2005 and 2015 to migrants admitted through family preference, or as immediate relatives of migrants already admitted into the country in perhaps the fullest portrait of “chain migration” ever developed.

“For years, we’ve known that large numbers of immigrants have been coming based on petitions from previous immigrants,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Lee Cissna told Fox News. “But this is the first time we really kind of see the whole scope of the problem. And legislators or policymakers at DHS can do what they need to do address the problem.”

During the ten-year time frame, officials said, the U.S. permanently resettled roughly 9.3 million new immigrants on the basis of family ties.

That’s more than 70 percent of all new immigration in that period, the White house said, adding it is also the primary driver of low-skilled workers’ entry into the U.S. A phenomenon analyst say most directly hurts American minority groups with comparable skills.

“These numbers are explosive. They show that American immigration skews almost entirely towards family-based admissions,” said a White House official who briefed Fox News on the data.

Mexico is at the top of the list with 1.7 million admissions, India and the Philippines each have more than 600,000, and Iran has more than 80,000

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Muslim Imam ROASTS Linda Sarsour And Barack Obama On Twitter. Here’s What He Said.

Ryan Saavedra                The Daily Wire                  November 30, 2017

Prominent Islamic reformer Imam Mohammad Tawhidi zapped leftist Islamic activist Linda Sarsour and former President Barack Obama in two tweets on Wednesday.

Tawhidi’s first tweet took aim at Sarsour, who previously tweeted: “Tomorrow is an ELECTION. Take your frustrations to the polls. Vote against bigotry, hate, xenophobia. Use your vote. It counts.”…

Here’s Tawhidi’s response roasting Sarsour: “Voting is against your Sharia Law. Nice try.”…

Tawhidi’s second tweet piggybacked off this tweet from President Donald Trump that took aim at former President Barack Obama: “Funny to hear the Democrats talking about the National Debt when President Obama doubled it in only 8 years!”…

Here’s Tawhidi’s response: “Obama also doubled Islamic terrorism.”…

Even left-leaning PolitiFact seems to agree with Tawhidi’s assertion, rating the following statement from former President Obama in September of 2016 as “mostly false”: “If you look worldwide, the number of terrorist incidents have not substantially increased.”

PolitiFact cites a couple of different sources showing a varying degree of just how much terrorist attacks increased under Obama.

Figures from the U.S. State Department, which used strict and narrow criteria for what it defined as terrorism, indicated that global terrorism increased approximately 7% from 10,999 in 2009 to 11,774 in 2015.

However, PolitiFact also cited the START Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which used slightly different criteria to measure terrorist attacks, and according to their numbers, terrorism rose a stunning 214% from 2009 to 2015. So, based on the statistics provided by GTD, Tawhidi’s tweet about Obama is accurate…

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Sex in America, Part 2

On the surface, this piece is about sex scandals…

At a deeper level, it shows how Leftists and liberals operate…

In one way or another, they have been bought by the groups they support…

…whether they are politicians who promote Leftist agendas…

…or oil rich donors from the Middle East…

And that’s all that matters…

The Liberal/Left moral framework revolves around alliances rather than any objective standard of justice…

It is the definition of corruption…   Dave

Ann Coulter                  TownHall                 Nov 29, 2017

At least liberals are finally telling the truth about Bill Clinton — and just 20 years after it mattered! Of course, considering it took the Democratic Party a century to discover that slavery was wrong, two decades is lightning speed for these moral paragons.

While edging up to admitting that Bill Clinton maybe shouldn’t have raped Juanita Broaddrick and flashed Paula Jones, liberals still can’t own up to their utterly hypocritical defense of a president credibly accused of repeated sexual assaults and associated felonies.

Recently, The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd tried to cover up the left’s shameful response to Clinton’s sleazy behavior with the “both sides” argument. According to Dowd, liberals “tried to kill off” Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas “over sex when the real reason they wanted to get rid of him was politics.” And then conservatives “tried to kill off a Democratic president over sex when the real reason they wanted to get rid of him was politics.”

Here are three important differences off the top of my head:

1) Anita Hill’s accusations against Thomas involved words — just words — whereas Clinton was accused by multiple women of being a sexual predator on a scale to rival Harvey Weinstein.

2) The evidence against Thomas consisted of a single accuser, with no corroborating witnesses. The evidence against Clinton included, among other things, multiple witnesses; contemporaneous corroborating witnesses; secretly recorded confessions of the assaults and liaisons from Clinton himself (the Gennifer Flowers tape), Monica Lewinsky (Linda Tripp tapes) and Juanita Broaddrick (two separate tapes by people who wanted her to tell the truth about the rape); a DNA-stained dress; and, eventually, when he had absolutely no other choice, Clinton’s own admission under oath.

3) As Dowd says, the left was using Hill’s made-up charges against Thomas to save Roe v. Wade. By contrast, it’s absurd to imagine that Republicans were enraged by the policies of President Clinton — a neoliberal, Third-Way, welfare-reform-signing, Ricky Ray Rector-executing Democrat. Clinton was the last of a vanishing breed, the moderate Democrat. That just wasn’t a good enough reason to overlook his repeated sexual assaults, felonies and bald-faced lies.

It was liberals, and only liberals, who did an about-face on everything they supposedly believed about sexual harassment for political gain. The exact same people who had pretended to need smelling salts when told Thomas had joked about “Long Dong Silver” in the offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (never happened) were suddenly A-OK with a governor summoning a lowly state employee to his hotel room, dropping his pants and saying, “Kiss it.”

The erstwhile lynch mob against Clarence Thomas was fine with a presidential candidate using his campaign staff (including ABC’s George Stephanopoulos) to squelch “bimbo eruptions.”

Liberals were totally copacetic with the president of the United States using the full power of his office to smear his victims as liars, bimbos, trailer park trash and — in the case of Monica Lewinsky — a “stalker.”

In the middle of the Lewinsky scandal, feminist icon Gloria Steinem penned a New York Times op-ed launching the all-new “One Free Grope” rule. Steinem explained that Clinton’s smooth “kiss it” line to Paula Jones merely showed that — I quote — “Clinton took ‘no’ for an answer.”

No correction to Steinem’s pronouncement was issued days later when news of Juanita Broaddrick’s rape charge against Clinton began to circulate.

(If you doubt that the media are run by the totalitarian left, note that Steinem’s op-ed has been wiped from the Times’ archives. So I guess liberals do know how to wipe hard drives!)

Clinton was impeached for perjury and other felonies he committed to defeat Jones’ sexual harassment claim against him. Not one Democrat in the Senate voted to remove him from office. Not one.

As a consequence, the rule on sexual assault at least since Teddy Kennedy drowned Mary Jo Kopechne was this: Liberals were free to grope, rape and drown women and to smear them and their defenders. But conservatives, lacrosse players, fraternity members, pompous Fox News hosts and other objects of liberal hate would be destroyed at the slightest hint of any sexual impropriety, whether true or comically false.

What didn’t matter: The nature of the charge, credibility of the accuser, use of force, contemporaneous witnesses, photographic evidence, DNA evidence …

What mattered: Who’s the accused?

It would be as if pollution laws were enforced only against companies with Republican CEOs. Oh! It’s Harvey Weinstein’s firm? My mistake — go ahead, dump toxic chemicals into this pristine river.

That’s why the most shocking revelation to emerge from The New York Times’ expose of Weinstein last month was that it was published at all. Least shocking was that, before Ronan Farrow took his detailed account of Weinstein’s assaults to The New Yorker, NBC killed the story…

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Exclusive — Roy Moore Campaign to Jimmy Kimmel: If You Want to ‘Mock Our Christian Values,’ ‘Come Down Here’ to Alabama to ‘Do It Man to Man’

This isn’t comedy… It is harassment and defamation…

Strange how Jimmy Kimmel never pulls these kinds of stunts in a mosque…    Dave

Matthew Boyle                 Breitbart News               30 Nov 2017

THEODORE, Alabama — The U.S. Senate campaign of Judge Roy Moore is firing back at Jimmy Kimmel and his paid trickster Rich Barbieri—also known as “Jake Byrd”—for disrupting a worship service at which Moore spoke here on Wednesday night.

“Jimmy Kimmel and the ‘Hollywood elite’ cross the line when they invade our Churches under a disguise and attempt to make a mockery of our worship services,” Drew Messer, a senior adviser to Moore, told Breitbart News on Thursday morning after the incident at the church on Wednesday night.

On Wednesday evening, after the pastor of Magnolia Springs Baptist Church here in Theodore, Alabama, just outside Mobile warned attendees of a worship service at which Moore was speaking multiple times that it was against the law in Alabama to disrupt worship services, Barbieri proceeded to interrupt the worship service during Moore’s speech.

Earlier during the Judge’s remarks, a leftist protester who infiltrated the church started shouting at Moore. “But the whole town says you did it!” the man yelled as Moore began debunking the allegations against him. “The entire town? All the girls are lying?”

As Breitbart News reported on Wednesday night:

The man was shouted down by the entire church and then escorted out by police officers on site.

“Get on out of here!” another man yelled at the lone unruly protester as police escorted the disrupter out. “You ought to be ashamed. You’re in a Church. You ought to be ashamed to even be from here! Get on out of here!”

Then, the church’s pastor retook the microphone for a moment before handing it back to Moore. “I must remind everyone present this is a worship service,” the pastor said. “And by the way it is illegal to disturb a worship service.”

The crowd cheered. “The next one who disturbs the service will be turned over to the police,” the pastor added to resounding cheers. “As the pastor of this church, I’m saying we’re going to do things peacefully and in order. If you love Roy Moore or you hate Roy Moore, listen.”

The pastor had earlier in the evening also warned event-goers against disrupting the worship service, so this constituted his second warning. But that did not stop Barbieri—whose character on Kimmel’s show is “Jake Byrd”—from disrupting the event and being escorted out by police…

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Democratic Senators Call on Israel to Halt Razing of Illegal Arab Construction

US senators are opposing the demolition of unauthorized Palestinian structures that were built illegally. 

Oh, look… It’s the usual gang of idiots…

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Diane Feinstein, and touchy-feely Al Franken!   Dave

United with Israel              Nov 30, 2017

Democratic US senators have called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to stop the planned demolition of two illegally built Palestinian villages, claiming that the move could endanger Israel’s future.

The Times of Israel reported that 10 members of the Democratic Party signed the letter, including Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Diane Feinstein, Al Franken and Brian Schatz.

The letter urged Netanyahu to scrap an order to demolish the Palestinian villages of Sussiya and Khan al-Amar, situated in the Hebron area. While both are not authorized and were built illegally, the plans to raze the villages, as prescribed by law, have sparked international outcry.

“Efforts to forcibly evict entire Palestinian communities and expand settlements not only directly imperil a two-state solution, but we believe also endanger Israel’s future as a Jewish democracy,” the authors claimed in the letter.

The letter is harsh in its assault on Israel and is even reminiscent of language used by anti-Israel organizations.

“Instead of forcibly evicting these communities, we encourage your government to fairly re-evaluate Sussiya’s professionally developed master plan and provide the residents of Khan al-Ahmar equal building rights,” the letter read.

Sussiya’s illegal Palestinian structures are situated in Area C, officially fully controlled by Israel as per the 1993 Oslo peace accords.

The Obama administration had previously put pressure on Jerusalem on the issue, threatening a severe response if Israel acted in accordance with its own law.

These so-called defenders of human rights have exercised a double standard with regard to Jews. They choose to remain silent and fail to defend Jews whose homes are destroyed under the pretense that they are “built illegally” on allegedly privately owned Palestinian land.

We must let these US representatives know that their duplicity is unacceptable and shameful.  

  1. ContactSenator Bernie Sanders
  2. ContactSenator Elizabeth Warren
  3. ContactSenator Diane Feinstein
  4. ContactSenator Al Franken
  5. ContactSenator Brian Schatz

More on the Jihad Threat this Christmas and New Year’s Season

Christopher W. Holton                 Terror Trends Bulletin              November 30, 2017

Both the Islamic State and Al Qaeda have issued audio, video or online threats to attack the West this Christmas. These threats focus on European population centers, such as Paris and London, and New York City in America, though the possibility of Jihadi attacks in other places in the West can certainly not be discounted. History has shown that places as diverse geographically as Brussels, Berlin and San Bernardino have all been targeted, especially at Christmas time.

Lone Wolf or Individual Jihad?

The possible attacks in the West could take the form of organized, planned attacks directed from Jihadi leaders overseas or inside Europe or America, or they could be carried out by individuals “inspired” by Jihadist ideology.

Ironically, very often, Western media and officials seem to take some form of weird comfort when a deadly attack ends up being the work of an individual jihadi, as opposed to an organized cell or affiliate of a known terrorist group.

In reality, the opposite should be the case. First of all, none of the Jihadist groups–Islamic State, Al Qaeda, HAMAS, Hezbollah, the Taliban, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, Lashkar e Taiba, Ansar al-Sharia, Abu Sayyef, Jemaah Islamiyeh–issue membership cards or wear uniforms. So a case can be made that classification of an attacker as “inspired” or “directed” could be a distinction without a difference.

But there is a difference between a cell such as the 19 hijackers who carried out the September 11 attacks after training and planning conducted by Al Qaeda’s leadership and infrastructure, and the husband and wife team who shot up a Christmas party of people they knew and worked with in San Bernardino. (Though it is vital that we understand that their acts are based on the same Islamic doctrine and they are tied together by the same Jihadist ideology.)

So which flavor of Jihadi is more dangerous? If you’re on the receiving end of an attack, it makes no difference to you, but by casualty count, the cell would appear to pose a greater threat. On the other hand, the inspired attacks seem to happen much more frequently.

A case can be made that individual Jihadis pose a greater challenge for our intelligence and law enforcement communities. Cells have to be organized, trained and communicated back and forth with. All of this provides opportunities for detection and even infiltration. Individual jihadis don’t offer any of these potential vulnerabilities. One can infiltrate a cell, especially one in which members are using cell phones and email to contact each other and leaders elsewhere. How does one infiltrate one guy, like the Chattanooga, Tennessee shooter, the Orlando shooter or the Uzbeki vehicle jihad attacker in New York City?

If the individual jihadi isn’t communicating with others and no one is aware of his or her plans, how are our intelligence and law enforcement assets supposed to detect them “left of bang” (before the attack)?

Unfortunately, here in the West, and the U.S. in particular, we have failed to even properly identify the nature of the threat. A popular term in Western vernacular to describe the threat of individual jihad is the term “lone wolf.”

The term “lone wolf” does not appear in Islamic doctrine, nor is it part of any Jihadist group ideology. What is part of Islamic doctrine and Jihadist ideology is the concept of Jihad as an individual obligation. So what we have been seeing around the world are acts of individual jihad based on Islamic doctrine and Jihadist ideology. Given the basis for these attacks, they are not “senseless violence.” We can explain and understand these attacks based upon Islamic doctrine and Jihadist ideology.

Most importantly, the wave of individual jihadi attacks in recent years is all part of plans articulated by Jihadi ideologues:

Successful jihad will only happen within an ummah [Islamic nation or community] in which the fighting creed is firmly established and clarified. This must happen in order to attain the “Revolutionary Jihadist Climate” that will spontaneously give rise to instruments of resistance.

 Violent jihad is as an individual duty obligatory upon every Muslim. All the ulema have said this…”

The Call to Global Islamic Resistance
Abu Musab al-Suri
Al Qaeda propagandist
Captured in Pakistan 2005

We are now seeing this “Revolutionary Jihadist Climate” in the West as evidenced by the rise of seemingly spontaneous acts of Jihad carried out by individual Muslims with no known direct contacts with Jihadist organizations. It is this threat that we are most likely to see this Christmas…

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Muslim population to TRIPLE in some EU countries by 2050

THE Muslim population in some countries across Europe looks set to triple by 2050, according to a new report.

This news reminds me of “A Christmas Carol,” where Scrooge implores the ghost of Christmas yet to come…

…”Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of things that may be, only?”…

Change is possible, but resolve is necessary!   Dave

Will Kirby            The Express (UK)                Thu, Nov 30, 2017

Under current highest-level projections, almost one in three people in Sweden will be Muslim by 2050 while Germany’s population will be 19.7 per cent Muslim.

The Muslim population in Britain, currently around 6.3 per cent (4.13 million), is expected to reach 16.7 per cent (13.48 million).

In Germany, the Muslim population – 4.95 million in 2016 – is expected to soar to 17.49 million people if high migration continues, more than tripling.

In the same scenario, Italy’s Muslim population in 2016 would be 2.87 times larger in 2050, with a Muslim population of 8.25 million.

The report reveals a stark east-west divide, with the Muslim share of the populations in Germany, France, Austria and Belgium expected to be at least 18 per cent of the total populations by 2050 if high migration continues.

In Poland, the Muslim population, which is currently less than 0.1 per cent is expected to grow to 0.2 per cent.

Higher fertility and rates and a younger age profile mean that even if all 28 EU members, as well as Norway and Switzerland, closed their borders, the Muslim population in Europe would continue to grow in the west but remain low in Eastern Europe…

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MERKEL’S DISASTER: Chancellor coalition hopes now hit by COUP in Germany

DESPERATE Angela Merkel is facing a fresh political crisis after her attempts to form a coalition were derailed by a leadership coup.

Change is coming…

Germany’s politicians realize that support for massive Muslim immigration is political suicide…   Dave

Mark Chandler              The Express (UK)             Thu, Nov 30, 2017

Her Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), is now engaged in a bitter struggle for power.

Rebels in the party have attempted to seize control from leader Horst Seehofer, a key Merkel ally.

And they now want Markus Soder to head up the party, a man who is less keen on the Chancellor’s immigration policy, according to the Telegraph…

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Between 400,000 and 700,000 African migrants in Libya: AU

Europe is taking more baby steps toward making good decisions…

Instead of promoting immigration to Europe…

…they are talking about repatriating Africans and providing aid in their home countries…

We also see another reminder of Islam’s and Africa’s long history of slavery…

…which continues even today…

Funny how this fact was never mentioned to us back in school…

…where white Americans were made to feel uniquely evil for America’s history with slavery…

It was never mentioned that most of these slaves came from Africa…

…where Arab and Muslim overlords were clearing Africa of its native non-Muslim inhabitants

…via the slave trade…    Dave

Alexis Adele                Associated Press             November 30, 2017

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Between 400,000 and 700,000 African migrants are living in camps in Libya, often under “inhuman” conditions, the chairman of the African Union Commission said Thursday at the close of a summit of European and African leaders.

Moussa Faki Mahamat stressed the urgency of removing the thousands of migrants, including women and children, from the camps as he addressed the summit where migration was a top issue after recent footage of a migrant slave auction in Libya drew global horror and condemnation.

At least 3,800 migrants in one camp in Tripoli need to be removed as soon as possible, Mahamat said. Most of them come from West Africa.

“That’s just one camp,” he said. “The Libyan government has told us there are 42,” and some contain an even larger number of migrants.

The International Organization for Migration says more than 423,000 migrants had been identified in the chaotic North African country as of last month. The majority are men from impoverished countries across sub-Saharan Africa.

In a communique Thursday, the European and African leaders agreed to “accelerate exponentially” efforts to repatriate the migrants and vowed to combat the crimes committed against them.

The leaders also pledged to do more to help the migrants stranded in squalid detention centers in Libya, the main jumping-off point for desperate people setting out in unseaworthy boats in search of better lives in Europe

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Jihad Report: Trump And The UN Migrant Compact

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Trump Withdraws U.S. From UN Migrant And Refugee Compact

YES!!!!   Dave

Dominique Mosbergen               HuffPost                  December 3, 2017

Continuing his “America First” approach to foreign policy, President Donald Trump has pulled the U.S. out of a United Nations compact seeking global cooperation to protect the safety and rights of refugees and migrants.

Trump’s decision to end America’s “participation in the Global Compact on Migration” was disclosed on Saturday by the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., explained in a statement that the pact’s “global approach” was “simply not compatible with U.S. sovereignty.”

“[O]ur decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone. We will decide how best to control our borders and who will be allowed to enter our country,” Haley said…

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IS conflict: US to withdraw 400 Marines from Syria

The most interesting thing here is the map…

…which shows that the Kurdish-held portion of Syria is huge

The Kurds are the closest thing we have to an ally in Syria…

…capable of holding territory after the U.S. withdraws…

The “Syrian rebels” have always been weak horses…

…with almost no territorial coherence…

…which means they will collapse as soon as we stop propping them up…

If the Syrian Kurds can defend their new proto-country…

…or even better, unite with Iraqi Kurds to form a single large country…

…we will have the closest thing to a major reliable ally in the region…

They are going to need our backing for their survival, much like Israel…

…and after 25 years of appreciating American support…

…(since Bush #1 established the no-fly zone on Saddam Hussein)…

…they are the least likely of the nations in the region to bite the hand that feeds…

Kurdistan is the brightest spot in an otherwise gloomy picture…

…where all of our efforts to defeat ISIS will ultimately restore territory…

…to the Iran-allied rulers of Syria and Iraq…

BUT… if we turn a cold shoulder to the Kurds to please Turkey…

…that last flicker of light could also go dark…   Dave

BBC News              30 November 2017

More than 400 US Marines are to leave Syria after helping to capture the city of Raqqa from so-called Islamic State. Marine units have been deployed since March to provide artillery support to an alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters battling the jihadist group.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared victory in Raqqa last month.

The US-led coalition against IS said the withdrawal of the Marine artillery battery was a “sign of real progress”. “We’re drawing down combat forces where it makes sense, but still continuing our efforts to help Syrian and Iraqi partners maintain security,” Brig-Gen Jonathan Braga, the director of operations for the coalition, said in a statement.

BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus says the Marine artillery battery was the most significant combat element deployed by the Americans on the ground, bolstering the impact of US and coalition air power.  With IS as a territorial entity largely defeated there is no longer any need for the battery, our correspondent adds. Thus its departure marks the end of a significant phase in the battle against IS.

On Monday, the Pentagon said there 503 military personnel in Syria. However, the figure was far short of the 1,723 – including 618 Marines – listed in the most recent quarterly report by the Defense Manpower Data Center. Most of the US troops in Syria are stationed in northern areas controlled by the SDF, whose fighters are currently advancing through Deir al-Zour province.

Last week, the Pentagon said it was reviewing “adjustments” in military support it gave to partners inside Syria. They include the SDF, which is led by a Kurdish militia known as the People’s Protection Units (YPG). Turkey says US President Donald Trump has promised to stop supplying arms to the YPG, which Ankara considers an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is fighting for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey. However, this has neither been confirmed nor denied by Washington…

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Mattis seeks more cooperation with Pakistan on terror fight: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will meet with leaders of Pakistan Monday to seek common ground on the counterterrorism fight, amid Trump administration calls for Islamabad to more aggressively go after the insurgents moving back and forth across the border with Afghanistan.

Tucker Carlson: “She’s been banned from at least one English city” Trump re-tweets Jayda Fransen

This is Britain??? A harmless young woman was sent to jail…

…for saying something the authorities didn’t like about Islamic terrorism…

…and is now being branded as an untouchable for having gone to jail…

Jayda Fransen Gets Released From A Police Station In Belfast

Brits are getting really fed up with their leaders bending over for Islam…

Tommy Robinson Angry At The Hypocrisy Of Sadiq Khan & Welcomes Donald Trump With Open Arms

Britain’s Hate Speech Police: Pat Condell has invited everyone to re-upload his newest video. All Youtubers should download and add it to their channel. Share far and wide – Most of my subscribers will have already seen this, but it’s imperative that it’s seen by those who don’t want to see it. Troll your facebook friends if you haven’t already!

Video: UKIP leadership candidates on Brexit, Islam and the EDL – BBC Newsnight

Katie Hopkins: Get Furious and Fight Back

Trump Claims He Never Asked Former FBI Director James Comey to Stop Investigating Flynn

Jenni Fink              Independent Journal Review              Dec 3, 2017

On Friday, former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI. As part of his plea deal, he agreed to cooperate with an investigation into Russia’s possible involvement in the presidential election.

In response, President Donald Trump told reporters he wasn’t worried about what Flynn would tell investigators. He later tweeted that there was “nothing to hide” and he fired Flynn because he lied to Vice President Mike Pence and the FBI, not because he engaged in unlawful behavior.

During former FBI Director James Comey’s prepared remarks for his Senate hearing in June, he said that Trump had a conversation with him after Trump fired Flynn. Comey claimed Trump called Flynn a “good guy” who “has been through a lot” and asked that the then FBI director let “Flynn go.”

“He repeated that Flynn hadn’t done anything wrong on his calls with the Russians, but had misled the vice president,” Comey claimed. “He then said, ‘I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.’”

Critics claimed that if the president knew Flynn lied and asked Comey to not pursue an investigation, it could be an obstruction of justice. However, on Sunday, the president again denied he tried to convince Comey to turn a blind eye.

“I never asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn,” Trump tweeted. “Just more Fake News covering another Comey lie!”…

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Trump lawyer takes blame for Flynn tweet: ‘I did not mean to break news’

Joseph Weber                 Fox News                December 3, 2017

John Dowd, President Trump’s personal attorney, took responsibility Sunday for a Trump tweet about the president firing Michael Flynn as national security adviser that sparked speculation about Trump having obstructed justice.

“I did not mean to break news,” Dowd said. “I’m out of the tweeting business.”…

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Dershowitz: Flynn Plea Is ‘A Show of Weakness’ for Mueller

Ian Hanchett          Breitbart News          2 Dec 2017

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz argued that former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea is a “show of weakness” for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Dershowitz said, “Well, the last thing any prosecutor wants to do is to have to indict his primary witness for lying. Because if you indict your witness for lying, it really means he’s not useful as a witness, he has no credibility. I’m sure the prosecutor was trying to indict him for some scheme or conspiracy that involved other people in the White House, but there is nothing there, and he had to, finally come down and indict him for lying, which makes him a useless witness. So, this is not a show of strength by the prosecutor. It’s a show of weakness. It’s a show that they really have nothing on anybody above of Flynn and that Flynn made the terrible mistake about lying about something he could have told truth about. Because the two things he lied about were perfectly lawful and perfectly proper for somebody to do during the transition. And so, I think it really reflects a weakness, not a strength in Mueller’s prosecution…

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New documents reveal FBI’s Clinton cover-up

Tom Fitton                 Fox News             December 3, 2017

American Center for Law and Justice says documents show FBI was more focused on keeping the meeting quiet than the meeting itself.

In Washington, the ostensible story is rarely the real story. We know, for example, that former President Clinton engineered a meeting with President Obama’s attorney general, Loretta Lynch, on the tarmac of the Phoenix Airport on June 27, 2016.

That’s the official story, replete with the charming and intentionally disarming detail that all they talked about was their grandchildren. It was just coincidental, don’t you know, that at the time the FBI was looking into Hillary Clinton’s use of a “personal” email server to send, receive and store classified information.

And it was also simply coincidental that just a few days later, the director of the FBI – who served under Attorney General Lynch – announced that he wouldn’t recommend a prosecution of Hillary Clinton…

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Holder, Comey fight Trump’s FBI slam: ‘Not letting this go’

Nicole Darrah                Fox News                 December 3, 2017

Agencies accused of withholding key documents, FBI witness that could shed light on whether U.S. officials relied on anti-Trump ‘dossier’ to justify surveillance against associates of Donald Trump; chief Washington correspondent James Rosen reports.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder and ex-FBI Director James Comey fired back Sunday at President Trump, who claimed the FBI’s reputation is in “tatters” after its handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

“Nope. Not letting this go. The FBI’s reputation is not in ‘tatters,’” Holder, who served as attorney general under President Obama, tweeted. “It’s composed of the same dedicated men and women who have always worked there and who do a great, apolitical job… You’ll find integrity and honesty at FBI headquarters and not at 1600 Penn Ave right now,” referring to the White House.

Trump earlier Sunday said that “after years of Comey, with the phony and dishonest Clinton investigation (and more), running the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters – worst in history! But fear not, we will bring it back to greatness.”

The president’s tweet followed news that FBI agent Peter Strzok was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia because of anti-Trump text messages he may have sent. Meanwhile, Comey tweeted what seemed to be a response of this own, quoting a statement he gave to the Senate Intelligence Committee last June…

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Hard Drive Tied to Wasserman Schultz is Central To Imran Awan Case

Luke Rosiak                  Daily Caller News Foundation               November 29, 2017

A court date for a former Democratic IT aide has been postponed by more than a month after the defendant’s attorney, a former Hillary Clinton aide, said he’s seeking to block prosecutors from using evidence that appears to include a government laptop tied to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

“The government has been in discussions with counsel for the defendants regarding complex discovery issues and other legal issues in this case, in particular issues surrounding claims of attorney-client privilege being raised by defendant Imran Awan,” court papers filed Tuesday say.

“Last night, counsel for both defendants indicated that they need additional time to review and analyze these issues, along with the voluminous discovery the government provided in this case,” according to the documents. “The government consents to this request.”

Chris Gowen, Awan’s attorney, said at the last hearing: “We do expect there being an attorney-client privilege issue in this case… What occurred is a backpack from my client was found, he was trying to get a better signal, there was a note that said attorney client privilege and a hard drive. We feel very strongly about this.”

Capitol Police report shows that the backpack contained the following items:

#1 a Pakistani ID card with the name Mohommed Ashraf Awan
#2 a copy – not original – of a driver’s license with name Imran Awan
#3 a copy (front and back) of his congressional ID
#4 an Apple laptop with the homescreen initials ‘RepDWS’
#5 composition notebooks with notes handwritten saying ‘attorney client privilege’ and possibly discussing case details below
#6 loose letters addressed to US Attorney of DC discussing the apparent owner of the bag being investigated.

It is unclear how the handwritten note saying “attorney client privilege” could be construed to cover a hard drive, rather than the pages of notebook it was contained on…

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Anti-Semite Linda Sarsour Blames Jews for her Bad Image

Jeff Dunetz                Constitution.com                December 1, 2017

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. It is a dimension where a school hosts a conference on Antisemitism and invites an anti-Semite to speak. That’s the signpost up ahead — your next stop, the Linda Sarsour Zone

This is beyond crazy. The fact that the New School invited an anti-Semite like Linda Sarsour to speak at an event entitled “Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Justice” is crazy enough, but the fact that she used the opportunity to spew an anti-Semitic stereotype, pushes it into the Twilight Zone.

During her words at the event, Sarsour used the anti-Semitic canard about Jews controlling the media.

“If what you’re reading all day long, morning and night, in the Jewish media is that Linda Sarsour and Minister Farrakhan are the existential threats to the Jewish community, something really bad is gonna happen and we gonna miss the mark on it,” Sarsour remarked in an event intended to be “a discussion on how to combat” bigotry against Jews.

Sarsour also claimed that “the existential threat (to the Jewish community) resides in the White House, in the highest offices of these lands.” She also claimed that Americans currently live “under fascism” and defended her participation in the boycott, divest, sanction movement, which seeks to economically sanction and isolate the Jewish state.

If the Jews really controlled the media she would never receive coverage, nor would her protector in the Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), or her other fans such as NY Governor Cuomo, or the liberal anti-Trump women who have been running protests such as The Day Without Women. Heck if the Jews controlled the media I would be a regular contributor to a cable news network…

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Robert Fulford: Mattel thinks hijab Barbie is cute and progressive. It’s not

The hijab is more than a way of dressing. It’s a symbol that often stands for an array of social customs and regulations

Robert Fulford                National Post                December 1, 2017

In a burst of bogus feminism and commercial ambition, Mattel Inc., the global doll-maker, has announced that in 2018 it will market a Barbie doll wearing a hijab. Barbie dolls rarely impinge on political and social issues but this one is so unsettling that it evokes a wide range of responses…

Mattel fashioned their hijab Barbie after a real young woman, Ibtihaj Muhammad, a New Jersey-born athlete whose Muslim parents steered her toward fencing because it would allow her to be fully covered… She’s collaborating with Mattel and has seen her Barbie replica, looking like her right down to the fencing uniform and white hijab. “I’m so excited!” she exclaimed. She recalled playing with Barbie dolls and wishing one of them looked like her. She didn’t have Barbies that wore a headscarf, so she and her sisters would sew their own…

In those countries, regions or neighbourhoods, the future for girls is narrowly circumscribed. As they grow from childhood to maturity they often find it hard to get an education, a job or a personal bank account. A woman realizes eventually that she’s not to be seen in public with an adult male, unless he’s her husband or a close relative. A girl’s husband may be chosen by her family. Women may have their own ambitions but the key choices in their lives are not theirs to make.

The gang at Mattel Inc. does not know (or want us to know) that the hijab is more than a way of dressing. It’s a necessary symbol that often stands for an array of social customs and regulations. Unlike others in the Barbie catalogue, it is not an outfit a woman can wear or not, according to her wishes.

With this product Mattel illustrates the unfortunately widespread American wish to learn as little as possible about Islam and Islamic societies while allowing ignorance to raise profits. Hijab Barbie may well open new markets in the Middle East…

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Yemen’s rebel alliance unravels amid Sanaa street clashes

As has been said many times in Islam Update

…the best metaphor for what we’re seeing in the Middle East…

…is a mutiny on a pirate ship…

There are no good guys here…

All are untrustworthy and fundamentally opposed to democratic values…

There is no way we can fix these people because Islam teaches them to hold us in contempt…

Moreover, the real war being fought here is between Iran and Saudi Arabia…

…and if we entangle ourselves, this war could easily become one between the U.S. and Russia…

Our best bet is to agree with Russia not to enter this war theater…

…and to quarantine the area as much as possible, so that jihadists cannot escape to the West…

At that point, we can let Saudi Arabia and Iran knock each other out through their proxies…

In this way we can distract both Islamist nations from spreading Islam and jihadis around the world…

…as they waste their energy, wealth, fighters, and morale destroying each other…

The more they do this, the more they discredit Islam in the eyes of Muslim and non-Muslim alike…

They will also starve their ability to build mosques, madrasas, and influence campaigns in the West…   Dave

Ahmed Al-Haj               Associated Press               December 3, 2017

SANAA, Yemen — Snipers took over rooftops in residential areas, tanks deployed and militiamen set up checkpoints Sunday across the Yemeni capital, where fighting forced families to hunker down indoors in anticipation of more violence.

Five days of bombings and heavy gunfire have underscored the unraveling of the already fragile alliance between Yemen’s strongman and former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the Shiite rebels known as Houthis. The two sides joined ranks three years ago and swept across the capital, Sanaa, forcing the country’s internationally recognized president to flee the country and seek military intervention led by Saudi Arabia.

After months of political and military stalemate, the street battles between Saleh’s forces and the Houthi militiamen have marked a turning point in the conflict. The two sides had been enemies before the six-year-war that began in 2004 when Saleh was a president. Their alliance, in the eyes of many Yemenis, was doomed to fail given their stark differences.

The Iran-backed rebels perceive themselves as a religious awakening movement, while Saleh is a pragmatic politician, shifting political alliances, buying tribal loyalties and exploiting Yemen’s power fault lines throughout his three-decades in power before he was ousted after the country’s Arab Spring uprising in 2011.

Over the past 48 hours, in a series of surprise announcements, all of Yemen’s political players spoke about turning a new page and unifying against the Houthis — a new alliance that appeared to have been in the making for some time as the Shiite rebels have accused Saleh of working against them…

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UAE denies claim of Yemen missile attack against its plant

Aya Batrawy and Jon Gambrell               Associated Press               December 2, 2017

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates on Sunday denied a claim by Yemen’s Shiite rebels that they fired a missile toward an under-construction Emirati nuclear plant. The denial came as heavy fighting in Yemen’s capital unraveled a rebel alliance that has been at war with a Saudi-led coalition, including the UAE…

The $20 billion Barakah nuclear power plant, being built with help from South Korea, is near Abu Dhabi’s border with Saudi Arabia. The plant lies some 225 kilometers (140 miles) west of the UAE capital. The first of its four reactors is scheduled to come online in 2018. When fully built, officials hope the nuclear plant will provide up to 25 percent of all energy needs in the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula.

The UAE is a major U.S. ally that hosts some 5,000 American troops and is the U.S. Navy’s busiest foreign port of call… Like other U.S. Gulf allies in the region, the UAE has the Patriot Missile defense system capable of shooting down ballistic missiles and is the only international client to have on delivery the U.S.-made Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system.

The Houthis last month had targeted the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with a ballistic missile that was intercepted by Saudi air defenses. It was the deepest strike inside the kingdom since the war between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis and their allies began in March 2015…

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WATCH: Jordanian Sermon: ‘Only Sword Will Resolve Struggle with Zionists’

A new video demonstrates just how fragile the peace agreement between Israel and Jordan may be.

United with Israel                Dec 3, 2017

While Israel made significant concessions on water rights and other issues in order to reach a peace agreement with Jordan in 1994, critics warned that the promise of peace from the ruling Hashemites might not be respected by future Jordanian leaders.

During a Friday sermon at the Al-Zaytoonah University Mosque in Amman, Jordan, Dr. Ahmad Shahrouri illustrates the fragility of this peace agreement, with the speaker attacking “fraudulent politicians” for signing peace treaties with Israel.

Shahrouri’s conclusion, that “only the sword will resolve the struggle with the Zionists,” declared from the capital city of a nation which is benefiting from a peace agreement with Israel, raises serious questions about Jordanians’ real attitudes toward peace with the Jewish state…

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Germany offers money for migrants who go back home

What a disaster…

Thanks to Merkel, German taxpayers…

1) Paid to help Muslim immigrants come to Germany…

2) Paid to house them in Germany…

3) Paid for the crimes these immigrants committed…

And now they are going to pay to send them back home…

Tar and feathers, anyone?    Dave

Associated Press              December 3, 2017

BERLIN –  Germany wants to support rejected asylum-seekers who voluntarily move back to their home countries with a one-time payment of 3,000 euros ($3,570).

The Interior Ministry says those who qualify can apply by a Feb. 28 deadline and they would get the money once they return home.

Migrants who agree to go back even before their asylum request is rejected have already been offered 1,200 euros per adult and 600 euros per child under a different program for almost a year. They are now eligible to apply for both programs.

But the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported Sunday that 8,639 migrants participated in the returnee program between February and October, even though there are about 115,000 rejected asylum-seekers in Germany —many of whom can’t be deported for humanitarian reasons…

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Possible Radical Islamic Nail Bomb Detonated at Christmas Market

Andrew West                Constitution.com             December 1, 2017

Potsdam, Germany – Radical Islamic terror groups such as ISIS have been preparing to make Christmas season 2017 one of the bloodiest the world has ever known.

These despicable caliphate organizations have long been waging war on the Christian religion and the world that surrounds them, with a swift uptick in attacks coming around the holiday season that fills the gap between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.  With Europe already swarming with ISIS wolves disguised as Syrian refugee sheep, it comes as no surprise that the first of these Christmas-centric terror attacks has occurred in the German city of Potsdam.

“Police in the German city of Potsdam have carried out a controlled explosion on a device filled with nails next to a Christmas market…

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Pope Francis Tears at History’s Walls against Islam

Raymond Ibrahim                   FrontPage Magazine              02/24/2017

Pope Francis continues to argue for two interrelated points that, while seemingly humane, compromise Western nations and expose their citizens to danger.

He reiterated his first point earlier this month when he said, “I appeal not to create walls but to build bridges.”  Francis has made this appeal frequently, both figuratively (when imploring Western nations not to close their doors against more incoming Muslim migrants) and literally (for instance by characterizing Donald Trump’s proposal to build a U.S.-Mexico wall as “not Christian”).

Francis reiterated his second point a few days ago when he said, “Muslim terrorism does not exist.”  His logic is that, because there are Christians who engage in criminal and violent activities—and yet no one blames Christianity for their behavior—so too should Islam not be blamed when Muslims engage in criminal and violent activities.

In this, the Catholic pope appears unable or unwilling to make the pivotal distinction between violence committed in accordance with Islamic teachings, and violence committed in contradiction of Christian teachings.

But there’s another relevant and often overlooked irony: every morning Francis wakes up in the Vatican and looks out his window he sees a very large and concrete reminder that gives the lie to both his argument against walls and his argument in defense of Islam. I speak of the great walls surrounding Vatican City, more specifically the Leonine Walls…

…in 846, Muslim fleets from North Africa landed near Rome.  Unable to breach the walls of the Eternal City, they sacked and despoiled the surrounding countryside, including—to the consternation of Christendom—the venerated and centuries-old basilicas of St. Peter and St. Paul.  The Muslim invaders desecrated the tombs of the revered apostles and stripped them of all their treasures.  Pope Leo IV (847-855) responded by building large walls and fortifications along the right bank of the Tiber to protect the sacred sites from further Muslim raids.  Completed by 852, the walls were in places 40 feet high and 12 feet thick…

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New Boko Haram strategy focuses on fortress towns in Nigeria

Fox News                December 3, 2017

After eight years of conflict with Boko Haram, Nigeria has a new strategy to protect its citizens from the terrorist group: fortress towns. Some of the nearly 2 million displaced people who have fled rural areas in northeast Nigeria now will be housed in fortified towns, ringed by farms, with the rest of the countryside effectively left to fend for itself.

This new vision for the Borno state is a stark admission of the harsh reality on the ground. For two years, the military and government have said Boko Haram is all but defeated, and the remnants are being mopped up. However, the military is largely unable to control territory beyond the cities and towns it has wrested back from Boko Haram…

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Climate Reality Project Shames Dissenters

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For those commoners not in the know, Tuesday was 24 Hours of Reality Day. Had you simply gotten up and gone about your day getting ready for work or taking care of your family, you may have missed it. Unless you spent your day virtue signaling across social media, you apparently existed outside of reality on this day.  At least, reality as defined by The Climate Reality Project, an organization with former Vice President Al Gore as its co-founder and chairman. This is the organization responsible for the hashtag #24hoursofreality that was trending on Twitter all day.

Trending Twitter for Climate Reality Project #24hoursofreality

The sense of elitism is palpable, even upon an initial reading of the name, “The Climate Reality Project.” Echoed in its strategic hashtag, the usage of the word reality is intentional. After all, who wants to be seen as unrealistic? The message is clear. Get on board or else you’re out there somewhere, in the world of fantasy.

Manipulation Tactics of The Climate Reality Project

They have effectively created a false dichotomy by presenting the issue as having only two sides: the sides of “settled science” and the side of those who are unrealistic. What they don’t take into consideration are those who have good reason to believe that the climate is indeed changing but are not convinced that the shift is due to human activity. This possibility has been raised and explored in peer-reviewed academic journals like Organization Studies. A retired NASA physicist had similar concerns regarding climate change alarmism.

In typical fashion, the goal here is not to get you to think like an intellectual. The goal is to get you to covet the label of intellectual. The emotion they hope to stir up is a feeling of not wanting to be left out in the cold (pun intended, I suppose). Framing their position as reality is a method of shaming you, the audience, into submission. The 24-hour shame-a-thon will continue into Wednesday, December 6, 2017.

Shaming aside, the other tactic in play by the Climate Reality Project is urgency. Their mission? According to the Climate Reality Project website, “Our mission is to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.” Every good salesperson knows that creating a sense of urgency is key to removing rational barriers to the ultimate goal of conversion. Al Gore knew this back in 2006 when he claimed in his film, An Inconvenient Truth, that without drastic measures taken, “the world would reach a point of no return within 10 years.” Gore cashed in yet again with his sequel to that film earlier this year.

What is the Proposed Solution?

The answer we almost always see to the urgent issues raised is more government regulation, and fast! On page 134 of their 2015 book, Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman refer to driving a car and flying in an airplane as examples of “significant carbon sins.” Yes, you read that right. They go on to use the European Union as a prime example of reform.

Make no mistake about it: this is a religion, sins and all. There is a specific set of doctrinal beliefs to which you must adhere. If you diverge, you will be considered a heretic. They even have their own origins stories, sort of. If you search #24hoursofreality on Twitter, you’ll find testimonies like this one:

Climate Reality Project Supporter Tweet

This worldview is in direct conflict with that of, say, the Christian worldview. This view claims that our Creator made everything, gave us purpose, and instructed us to take dominion over the earth. Please note that this in no way removes the responsibility we have to care for said creation. But what we have here is the earth itself, though having the appearance of design, actually owns us instead.

Regardless of where you stand on the climate issue, one thing is for certain. Our level of skepticism should be raised whenever an organization resorts to such tactics in order to manipulate its audience. Be alert, friends.

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Hamas Threatens Day of Rage Over Trump Jerusalem Decision

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Hamas is calling for a day of rage in response President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Capitol of Israel and the decision to move the US embassy there.

Hamas—an internationally recognized terror group, who operates primarily in the Palestinian controlled area of Gaza—sent out its spokesman after Trump’s announcement Wednesday with a declaration that he had opened the “gates of hell.”

Trump’s decision on Jerusalem will not succeed in changing the fact that Jerusalem is an Arab Muslim land.

The day of rage, is scheduled for 8 December, as Hamas called the decision to designate Jerusalem a “red-line” crossing that would be met with a response.

The youth and the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank need to respond with all means available to the US decision that harms our Jerusalem. The resistance will not allow any desecration of it.

The spokesperson went on to predict “the biggest losers” in the outcome of the momentous decision as being Mr Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump will certainly not be swayed by such assertions from these terror groups, who have been among the major reasons why any peaceful resolution to the Israel-—Arab conflict has yet to be realized. They advocate for the total destruction of Israel, and are on record as being opposed to any deal.

For his part, the President indicated that critics who are saying such a decision is going to hamper any peace deal in the future are being naive and wedded to the failed policy of the past, calling the decisions “long overdue” because Jerusalem is the “seat of the modern Israeli government.”

The Knesset parliament, supreme court, and several ministries are located there, so this move is “nothing more or less than recognition of reality.”

Trump’s decision drew bi-partisan praise here at home, but most of the criticism came from abroad.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavasoglu posted on twitter that the decision was “irresponsible” and “against international law and relevant UN Resolutions.”

A spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said:

Jerusalem is a final status issue that must be resolved through direct negotiations between the two parties on the basis of Security Council & General Assembly resolutions.

Not surprisingly, Senator John McCain echoed that sentiment.

Trump insisted that he is still committed to the peace process, and even a two-state solution, and touted his new efforts at establishing a new tone of cooperation with the Arab world that has been one of the major accomplishments of his presidency thus far. Part of that new tone involves establishing the Arab nations as partners in trade, in exchange for their efforts to lead the fight against radical Islam. His decision to visit Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at the beginning of his term was an effort to re-establish the nation that had traditionally been the regional hegemony for Arabs.

Those efforts are proving quite effective, and have increasingly made terror groups like Hamas even more isolated than they were before, as the voices of moderate Muslims are being exalted by not just Trump, but the major political leaders in the region. This is not the same Middle East of yesteryear, and Trump has re-set the table of peace for regional players, but still invites all players to take a seat nonetheless.

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So Much for Trump Favoring Russia: Set To Apply Sanctions for Treaty Violation

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The Trump administration is set to levy new sanctions on Russia to force compliance with a Cold War-era nuclear arms treaty it has allegedly violated by deploying a banned cruise missile. And here I thought Trump was supposed to be bosom buddies with the Rushkies as payback for helping him win the elections.

The Politico reports:

The Commerce Department will punish Russian companies that have provided technology to help develop the new weapon, which was outlawed by the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by the United States and then-Soviet Union in 1987.

The pact banned missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers, which when deployed on Europe’s periphery were seen as highly destabilizing because they would provide little advance notice of attack — and could carry a nuclear warhead.

The administration’s decision, outlined to reporters on Friday, was made after a lengthy review undertaken by the National Security Council, the administration official said.

The goal, the official said, is to signal to Russia that the Trump administration will take treaty violations seriously and to “change the economic calculus” of Putin’s government.

The steps are being taken ahead of a meeting of the Special Verification Commission, the implementing body for the treaty, which the U.S. has requested for next week, the official added.

The Russian military was first accused in 2014 by the Obama administration of violating the treaty, which was signed in the twilight years of the Cold War by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Russia was criticized first for developing the so-called Novator 9M729 missile — designated by NATO as the SSC-8. In February of this year the Trump administration reported the new weapon had been deployed.

Russia has denied violating the pact. It has also accused the United States of breaking the accord by deploying anti-missile interceptors, which the United States says do not apply to the INF treaty.

In addition to the new sanctions, the official said the Defense Department will begin research and development on a new nuclear cruise missile — as is also called for in the recently approved defense policy bill.

First he stood up to Putin on Syria, and now Trump is holding them accountable for violating a treaty. Yeah, it doesn’t appear that he’s been soft on Russia at all.

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Islam Update: UN Calls for Emergency Meeting

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Dem Senator Says Moving US Embassy to Jerusalem Is ‘a Terrible Idea’ — So Why’d She Vote for It?

Virginia Kruta             Independent Journal Review               Dec 5, 2017

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has been a mixed bag when it comes to the Trump administration so far. Despite opposing — sometimes vocally — the president’s agenda, Feinstein has also said that she doesn’t hope to see him fail. But on Tuesday, Feinstein responded to President Donald Trump’s plan to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — and she wasn’t thrilled:

Reports indicate the president will move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. I wrote him last week to explain why that would be a terrible decision.pic.twitter.com/MV1o73nyDk — Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) December 5, 2017

Calling it “a terrible decision,” Feinstein included in her tweet a memo that she had written to the White House explaining her concerns — mainly that recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would “spark violence” and “undermine the prospects of a two-state solution.” But what Feinstein left out was the fact that just 22 years ago, she voted in favor of the measure she is now warning President Trump not to pursue.

  1. 1322, otherwise known as the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, passed 93-5 with one abstention. The bill was described as follows: “A bill to provide for the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and for other purposes.”

Feinstein was among the “yeas”… The measure also passed the House in 1995 despite pushback from the Clinton administration — but it included a waiver that allowed the president to unilaterally push the deadline for the move. According to S.1322, the embassy was to be moved by 1999 — but President Bill Clinton and every subsequent president have used that provision to delay the move.

Moving the embassy, then, would simply mean that legislation Feinstein voted for would be enacted 22 years later — but now it seems she’s changed her mind…

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Secretary-General takes swipe at Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as UN calls for emergency meeting

Incredible…

From the UN’s response, one would think our President had just invaded another country…

All he did was officially recognize the plain fact that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel…

The UN has dropped its mask of legitimacy and revealed what it really is…

…a puppet of the Islamist agenda…

…as orchestrated by the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation…   Dave

Ben Evansky               Fox News                December 6, 2017

The reaction at the United Nations to President Donald Trump’s historic announcement on recognizing Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel was swift — and critical. Minutes after the president’s address, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who rarely engages the press at the world body, came out and read a statement that in part criticized the president’s new policy on Jerusalem.

“From day one as Secretary-General of the United Nations, I have consistently spoken out against any unilateral measures that would jeopardize the prospect of peace for Israelis and Palestinians,” Guterres said.

While taking no questions from reporters, Guterres said there can be no other way to peace other than the two-state solution: “In this moment of great anxiety, I want to make it clear — there is no alternative to the two-state solution. There is no Plan B.”

Seven members of the U.N. Security Council have requested an emergency meeting on Jerusalem that could come as early as Friday. Those members include the U.K, France, Egypt and Sweden.

Earlier in the day, an outspoken critic of the U.S. and Israel, Ambassador Sacha Llorentty-Soliz of Bolivia, told reporters if Trump went ahead with his decision, it would threaten the peace process and would be “a reckless and a dangerous decision that goes against international law and resolutions of the Security Council.”…

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What a Title for a City!

The key point here, which is so important…

…is that the Quran’s single mention of the “night journey”…

… says only that Muhammad dreamt of his journey to the “farthest mosque”…

…and that in 622AD, when Muhammad had his “night journey”…

…Jerusalem was controlled by Rome and no mosque existed there…

In fact, the site of the Second Temple was a garbage dump at that time…

That’s right… the site of what is now the Al Aqsa Mosque was a garbage dump…

If Muhammad was referring to the “farthest mosque,” it had to be somewhere else…

The entire Muslim narrative about Jerusalem holding Islam’s third most holy mosque…

…is based on a fiction…

Islam’s claim to Jerusalem is a fraud…   Dave

Mateen Elass                   December 6, 2017

Today may register as a 7.0 earthquake on the Richter scale of international politics. President Trump has just announced that the USA will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognizing Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel as a country, in spite of the fact that all other nations continue to abide by UN wishes that Jerusalem remain “neutral ground” in the unending peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians.

The Palestinians claim that if a two-state solution is someday worked out, at least east Jerusalem must be their capital, and that what the USA might do today is a betrayal of our commitment to the peace process.

On top of that, the Muslim world in general wishes to lay historical claim to Jerusalem as the third holiest site of Islam, and is incensed over the idea that the world might recognize Israel as having the rightful claim to the Holy City. In order to prevent this step by the US administration, many Muslim leaders are warning of dire consequences should President Trump make this announcement:

Hamas, the Palestinians’ primary terrorist arm against Israel, has called for a “day of rage” this Friday after communal mosque prayers (the best time to whip crowds up into a frenzy) with death and destruction forecast;

Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority and head of the PLO, has made it clear that he and the leadership of the Palestinians will cut off all contact with the USA;

Turkish President Recep Erdogan has called this a “red line” for all Muslims, and threatened that Turkey might cut diplomatic ties to Israel. He also is calling a meeting of all 57 governments which constitute the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to determine how to prevent the USA from taking this course of action.

King Abdullah of Jordan, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, President al-Sisi of Egypt and many other Muslim leaders warn of “dangerous repercussions,” “the undermining of peace,” “inflamed passions of Muslims around the world,” and so on. A gaggle of Western leaders, including the Pope, are advising the President to “preserve the status quo,” so as to avoid any negative consequences in the Mideast and around the world.

Yet it has been 50 years since the 1967 “6 Day War” when Israel won full control of Jerusalem and initial talks began about a “two-state solution” to the problem of who has rightful claim to the land, and in the midst of all the bloody attacks and counterattacks, charges and countercharges, the world is no closer to a peace agreement.

Whether the Palestinians have a legitimate right to east Jerusalem as a future capital, I do not claim to know. And so I will not attempt to argue the rightness or wrongness of the move of the US Embassy based on Palestinian wishes.

I will say something, however, about the larger claim of Islam to Jerusalem as one of its crucial religious sites, thereby rendering Israel’s designation of the city as its historical capital to be untenable.

In the lifetime of Muhammad, Jerusalem played almost no role in his version of Islam. It is commonly understood that when Muhammad commanded his followers to pray, and taught them how, he designated Jerusalem as the direction they were to face. This was because he desperately wanted the Jews and Christians to recognize him as a true prophet, and he knew that the Jewish practice in prayer was to face toward Jerusalem. However, within 17 months of Muhammad’s move to Medina, where relations with the Jews soured miserably, the Arabian prophet “had a revelation” in which Allah told him that the qibla (direction for prayer) was henceforth to be toward Mecca. Apparently, the only importance Jerusalem had for Muhammad was as an enticement to try to woo the Jews to accept him as a true prophet and Islam as the “pure religion” of Abraham. When they rejected him, he rejected their ways, including reference to Jerusalem as the holy city.

Many readers of the Qur’an are surprised to discover that Jerusalem is never mentioned by name within its covers…

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The Great Palestinian Shakedown: Have the Arabs Had Enough?

Could it be that President Trump chose to recognize that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel…

…because he knows the Saudis, and Arabs in general, are sick of Palestinian bad behavior…

…and they need Israel as an ally against Iran?   Dave

Bassam Tawil             The Gatestone Institute          November 30, 2017

A young Saudi man has posted videos on social media in which he calls the Palestinians “dogs” and “pigs.” The man says that Saudi Arabia has provided the ungrateful Palestinians with “billions of dollars” during the past few decades. “The Palestinians,” the Saudi man charges, “have been milking us for decades.”

The videos, which have since gone viral, have understandably drawn strong condemnations from Palestinians, who say they would not have been made public without the tacit approval of the Saudi authorities. For the Palestinians, the abusive videos represent yet another sign of increased tensions in their relations with Saudi Arabia.

Further evidence of Saudi disdain for the Palestinians was provided in a video posted by Saudi Arabia featuring a Palestinian gunman as a terrorist.

Last July, the Saudi ambassador to Algeria, Sami Saleh, shocked many Palestinians when he described Hamas as a terror group. Hamas responded by saying that such remarks were “harmful to Saudi Arabia and its record and stances towards the Palestinian cause and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.”

The apparent shift in Saudi Arabia’s position towards the Palestinians should not come as a surprise. Like most Arab countries, the Saudis too have finally realized that the Palestinians are ungrateful and untrustworthy. Saudi Arabia and most of the Arab countries are obviously fed up with the recurring attempts by the Palestinians to blackmail them and extort money from them…

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Huge Victories!

Here are 3 ways to ACT in 10 minutes or less.

Copy and paste these on Facebook, Twitter, and forward this email to other activists like you!

VICTORY:

The Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 in favor of President Trump’s travel ban.

There’s nothing wrong with making sure the people coming to America aren’t going to harm us.
#WednesdayWisdom #ActForAmerica

ACTION ITEM:

Email @realDonaldTrump and thank him for withdrawing US from the UN Global Compact on Migration: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

America gets to decide who can enter our country, not the UN.
#WednesdayWisdom #ActForAmerica

Another Victory!

Thank you to the House for passing the Taylor Force Act. Not a penny of taxpayer funds should go to rewarding Palestinian terrorism.

Congratulations to its sponsor, @RepDLamborn.
#WednesdayWisdom #ActForAmerica

For Freedom,

ACT for America

If someone tallied the number of troops we have engaged in combat around the world…

…it would be obvious that we are in the midst of a world war that is being hidden from us…

About 2,000 US troops are in Syria, Pentagon confirms: The Pentagon says there are about 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria. That is four times as many as officials had publicly acknowledged as recently as last month.

Pulse nightclub shooter’s wife to stand trial in Orlando

Nicole Darrah                    Fox News                 December 6, 2017

The wife of Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando nightclub last year in the name of ISIS, will stand trial in the Florida city, a judge ordered Wednesday. Noor Salman’s attorneys had filed a motion in September to have her trial moved to another city, claiming that media coverage of her husband’s attack and remarks from Orlando Police Chief John Mina wouldn’t allow her to have a fair trial, according to WESH.

Salman has been charged with providing material support to a terror organization and obstruction of justice, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Salman’s husband, Mateen, killed 49 people and wounded almost 70 others when he opened fire at Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016 in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history…

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‘Over 10,000 texts’ between ex-Mueller team officials found, after discovery of anti-Trump messages: Justice Department officials are reading through “over 10,000 texts” between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, Fox News has learned, after it emerged Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe following the discovery of anti-Trump messages between them.

Outrage over Trump’s video-sharing, silence on the content

Paul Austin Murphy             American Thinker                December 1, 2017

The phony outrage over Donald Trump sharing Britain First videos has been nauseating. To state the obvious, the entire thing has been about Trump sharing the videos of a “far right” political group.  There’s been absolutely no discussion at all about the videos themselves except to reject their legitimacy.  It’s as if the things on the videos don’t happen.  Yet Muslim gang violence against non-Muslims in Europe has reached large proportions.  I myself have been the victim four times in the last twenty years.  As for the Al-Nusra Front or al-Qaeda Muslim (who may now be an immigrant in Europe) smashing the statue of Mary, something like that that has probably happened again – somewhere in the Muslim world – in the last few weeks (e.g., in Pakistan).  It’s happened countless times in the last twenty years or so.

So Trump sharing videos about Islamic hatred is “spreading hatred against Muslims”?  That must mean that Islamic killings and hatred are fine.  However, “Islamophobia” most certainly is not.

To put things simply, one video seems to be a fake.  One occurred in Egypt, not Europe.  But the smashing of the Mary statue is not fake.  (See this video here.)

First things first. Trump won’t have known that the Amsterdam video didn’t involve Muslims.  Perhaps he should have known.  Even Britain First might not have known that one of the videos was a fake, either.  In any case, as I said, these things do happen!  Muslim violence against the “kuffar” is commonplace in the part of the U.K. in which I live (the north of England).  It’s also common in the Midlands, London, Malmö, Paris, Stockholm, Marseilles…basically, in any European city or town in which Muslims live in large numbers.

So this furor about Trump and his videos is inadvertently a godsend.  These videos are being spread around the internet by left-wingers and Islamophiles.  That can only be a good thing!

In detail, we’ve heard much about the video of a supposedly Muslim migrant attacking a man on crutches.  What we hasn’t been discussed – for obvious reasons! – is the video of Muslims smashing a statue of Mary.  Why?  Because the latter isn’t fake! That video includes a Muslim saying the following: “No one but Allah will be worshiped in the land of the Levant.”

Thus, a White House spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, was perfectly in order when she said, “These are real threats that we have to talk about.  Whether it’s a real video, the threat is real.”…

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Christmas Message: Deputy Leader Jayda FransenBritain First Deputy Leader Jayda Fransen delivers her Christmas message and speaks about the efforts of our enemies who want to destroy Britain as a Christian country.

Brits are finding out that making London the Sharia Finance capital of the West comes at a price…

Britain is no longer a Christian country and should stop acting as if it is, says judge: A major inquiry into the place of religion in modern society has provoked a furious backlash from ministers and the Church of England

Man charged with posting Prince George’s photo to aid attack

Islamists terrorized the royal family and Prime Minister Theresa May

…and are rewarded with British leaders declaring that Britain is no longer a Christian nation…

Is it Stockholm Syndrome, cowardice, or greed for Islamist oil money? All three?   Dave

Associated Press                 December 6, 2017

LONDON –  A 31-year-old man has been charged in England with sharing a photo of Prince George and details about his pre-school in a social media post prosecutors allege was meant to help others plan terror attacks.

Authorities have accused Husnain Rashid of putting the information about the 4-year-old son of Prince William and the former Kate Middleton on the encrypted platform Telegram.

Britain’s Sun newspaper reported that Rashid allegedly posted the silhouette of an Islamic State fighter beside George together with a message suggesting the royal family would not be left alone…

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Sainsbury’s worker ‘sent extremist songs’ on WhatsApp

BBC News               5 December 2017

A radicalised supermarket worker shared so-called Islamic State propaganda on WhatsApp, a court has heard.

Iftikhar Ali, 19, was working at Sainsbury’s while he is alleged to have sent extremist material.

Jurors at the Old Bailey were warned that some of the evidence was “graphic” and “upsetting”.

Mr Ali, of Totteridge Drive in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, denies 12 counts of dissemination of a terrorist document.

He also denies one count of possessing a document likely to be useful to a person committing an act of terrorism…

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UK Border Force chief: “If you’re here illegally you can survive very well, chances of us catching you are very slim”

Christine Douglass-Williams                 Jihad Watch              Nov 30, 2017

“A top trade union official for the UK Border Force has revealed that illegal migrants can live a good life in Britain, with access to services and schools and little chance of ever being caught.”

A shocking open invitation to illegal immigration, including those on a quest for Islamic supremacist incursion into Western democracies.

“Lucy Moreton made the shock admission in an interview with The Sun newspaper, stating: ‘If you are here illegally you can survive very well, you access medical services your child can go to school the chances of us catching you are very, very slim.’”

Moreton’s comments prompt questions about her intention. Either way, she openly undermines British law and the rights of Britons. Where is the outcry? Moreton further states: “If you don’t break the law we are not going to get you as we don’t have the resources. We can’t catch you.”

The most troubling point is that Moreton is not being held accountable for her troubling statements, which amount to coaching illegal immigrants. This is a stark indication of how low the UK has sunk…

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This is “jihad of the pen”…

Galway Muslims hope to produce an Irish-language version of the Qur’an

For Eastern Europe, Germany Is the Trouble

Alex Alexiev               American Thinker                 December 1, 2017

The inability of Angela Merkel and her putative partners to form a government has given rise to persistent calls, including from the chancellor herself, that what Europe needs now is a strong Germany. In fact, it is Germany’s unquestioned strength and willingness to throw its weight around that are to blame for much of Eastern Europe’s unhappiness with the European Union at the moment. A case in point is the growing rift between Berlin and its eastern EU neighbors on some of the issues discussed by Merkel and her potential government partners.

Take for instance Merkel’s position claiming that the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline is simply a commercial project. To most of her eastern neighbors, this is nothing if not crass German hypocrisy designed to further German business, while facilitating  the monopolistic endeavors of Vladimir Putin and Russia’s energy monopoly, Gazprom, at the expense of Eastern Europe… Or the asinine suggestion of the Greens to settle entire Syrian villages in Eastern Europe to make the migrants feel more comfortable and the locals less so…

There is also a huge gulf in attitudes toward migration. Western Europeans cite the easterners’s refusal to take any migrants as a sign of lack of solidarity, populist prejudice and perhaps racism.  The easterners respond that nobody asked their views on opening the borders and point out the failure of western societies to integrate the migrants as a reason to not rush into this experiment. They point out that Muslims that have lived for decades in Europe, yet nonetheless voted for the Islamist dictator Erdogan in much greater numbers than their fellow Turks at home. There are also spiking numbers of migrant crimes and sexual assaults.

There is another powerful reason for Eastern Europe’s reluctance to accept Muslim refugees that is seldom discussed, though it is important and it has to do with the region’s historical experience with Muslims. Very few in Western Europe are aware of it, but every child in Poland knows that Jan Sobieski saved Europe and Christendom from the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683. They also know that much of Eastern Europe, including the Balkans, Hungary, Podolia in Poland, Wallachia and Moldavia were for centuries under the Ottomans and subject to infidel taxes, rapacious military levies, the boy tribute, and the depredations of the slave raiders. It was not a happy experience and many historians trace the backwardness of Eastern Europe compared to the rest of it to its unfortunate experience with Muslim obscurantism. Not an experience that is easily forgotten…

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Islam Update: Palestinian Uprising

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Hamas calls for Palestinian uprising in response to Trump’s Jerusalem plans: Hundreds of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli troops across the West Bank on Thursday while demonstrators in Gaza burned posters of President Donald Trump over his widely denounced decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Palestinians Are Burning American Flags, Pictures of Trump After He Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital

President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel…

…may be the action that flushes out the jihadists…

…and brings Islam’s war against the West out into the open…

Anyone who wants to blame Trump for the coming backlash…

…should keep in mind that peace is not possible with people…

…who are willing to go to war this easily…

For decades, the West has pursued a policy of appeasement with Islamists…

The only thing this policy has done is buy temporary peace while incrementally backing into a corner…

We have been retreating from Western culture, laws, customs, and beliefs…

…whenever Islamists demand it. Remember the Danish Cartoons, for example…

For decades we have given in to the Islamic world’s demand…

…that Jerusalem not be recognized as the capital of Israel…

We’ve always know that the minute the U.S. said “Enough!” to Islamist demands…

…they would turn on us viciously…

What happens next was destined to happen sooner or later…

…unless we agree to hand the future of the world to Islam…

…which of course wouldn’t buy peace either…

…because Muslims are always at war with each other

If we want to keep our personal freedoms and national sovereignty, we must be willing to fight…

…and the sooner we do this, the better…   Dave

Julio Rosas                Independent Journal Review              Dec 7, 2017

After President Donald Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Wednesday, the country was filled with joy. American flags paired with Israeli flags were a common sight in the Jewish controlled areas. In the Palestinian areas, it was a different story.

The news sparked protests, with not only American flags being burned, but Israeli flags as well…

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ISIS hacking group threatens global cyber-attack starting with the US TOMORROW

Charlie Moore              The Daily Mail (UK)              7 December 2017

A pro-ISIS hacking group has threatened a massive cyber-attack on governments and armies around the world starting with ‘the cursed Unites States’ tomorrow.

Electronic Ghosts of the Caliphate declared in an ominous video to its enemies: ‘We are the hackers of ISIS. We will face you in a massive cyber war.’…

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Trump Praises Mattis for ISIS Strategy, Asks Impromptu Question — All Mattis Says Back Is ‘Yes, Sir’

Caleb Hull            Independent Journal Review                Dec 6, 2017

On Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense James Mattis were attending a cabinet meeting to discuss military strategy against ISIS. Trump took some time to meet with the press and address the issue at hand.

He stated: “I want to thank General Mattis for doing such a great job with respect to ISIS. He’s knocked the hell out of them. Of course, I’ve made it possible with what I’ve let you do, I think?”’

They both looked at each other and laughed. Mattis responded, “Yes, sir.”

Trump went on: “But he has done a fantastic job, he and the military have done a fantastic job with ISIS. They’re essentially knocked out of Syria, knocked out of Iraq; that’s the good news. The bad news, they go all over the place. And I’ll tell you where we don’t want them. We don’t want them here. We don’t want them in our country. Tell them to stay wherever the hell they are. We don’t want them coming back into our country.”…

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Terror warning: 26,000 ISIS jihadis ready to launch attacks on the West after Syria defeat. THOUSANDS of terrorists on a global watch list are planning their in countries such the UK and France, according to a US colonel.

Data: Every 2 New Immigrants to the U.S. Bring 7 Foreign Relatives with Them: Every two new immigrants to the United States bring roughly seven foreign relatives with them, creating an enormous, never-ending flow of family-based immigration

Study: Illegal immigration costing taxpayers $135B a year: Are Democrats demonstrating a double standard by hammering the cost of the GOP tax plan? Star Parker and Ali Noorani debate

ICE Chief: Trump Took ‘Handcuffs off’ and Now Border Crossings at 45-Year Low

Victoria Taft                Independent Journal Review               Dec 6, 2017

The acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director says having a president who cares about border security has resulted in a 45-year low in border crossings. But that’s not the whole story.

Thomas Homan says that in addition to reaching a 45-year low in border crossings, arrests in the interior of the country by ICE agents are up nearly 40 percent.

Homan also told Fox News that Trump has taken the “handcuffs off” and let them do their jobs…

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Prominent Liberal Legal Scholar Shunned by Liberal Friends for Telling Truth About Russia Investigation

Will Ricciardella              Independent Journal Review             Dec 7, 2017

Alan Dershowitz, proud lifelong liberal, Obama voter, friend and supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, has been shunned by liberal friends for proclaiming that President Donald Trump is not guilty of obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation.

How have liberals responded?

“Dershowitz told The Washington Post on Wednesday, he is being shunned by many of his old political allies. His motives are being questioned. And people who used to be his friends just don’t want to hear from him.”

“None of my liberal friends invite me to dinner anymore,” he told the Post. “Thanks to Donald Trump, I’ve lost seven pounds. I call it the Donald Trump diet,” he quipped.

That’s because you and they want me to be a partisan rather than an objective defender of the rule of law and neutral civil liberties. https://t.co/DKIfkExm8B — Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) December 7, 2017

What has Dershowitz said?

“If Congress were ever to charge him with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, we’d have a constitutional crisis,” Dershowitz said on Monday’s Fox & Friends. “There’s never been a case in history where a president has been charged with obstruction of justice for merely exercising his constitutional authority. That would cause a constitutional crisis in the United States,”…

Trump has the constitutional authority — under Article II — to direct the U.S. Department of Justice toward who to investigate and who not to investigate, according to Dershowitz. “That’s what Thomas Jefferson did, that’s what Lincoln did, that’s what Roosevelt did. We have precedents that clearly establish that.”…

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Top DOJ official demoted amid probe of contacts with Trump dossier firm

James Rosen, Jake Gibson                Fox News                December 7, 2017

A senior Justice Department official was demoted this week amid an ongoing investigation into his contacts with the opposition research firm responsible for the anti-Trump “dossier,” the department confirmed to Fox News.

Until Wednesday morning, Bruce G. Ohr held two titles at DOJ: associate deputy attorney general, a post that placed him four doors down from his boss, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein; and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as “the centerpiece of the attorney general’s drug strategy.”

Ohr will retain his OCDETF title but has been stripped of his higher post and ousted from his office on the fourth floor of “Main Justice.”…

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Facebook launches new guide for Muslims, telling them how to report “hate speech”

Robert Spencer                Jihad Watch              Nov 30, 2017

“Hate speech” is a subjective category. What is or is not classified as “hate speech” depends upon the preconceptions and perspectives of the one doing the judging. For Facebook, the judges are Sharia-compliant, and consider honest analysis of the motives and goals of jihad terrorists to be “hate speech.”

Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan in July to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material. That endeavor had already started before Kaplan’s trip. In mid-February, traffic to Jihad Watch from Facebook dropped suddenly by 90% and has never recovered. We do not post any hateful or provocative material and neither incite nor approve of violence, but Facebook is acting as judge, jury and executioner in all this. There is no appeal and no recourse…

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Freedom Based Social Network Does Not Censor: Minds.com is becoming a top refuge for conservatives and libertarians who are being suspended or censored on Twitter.

Petition: Free Speech For Jayda Fransen!

For a refresher on who Jayda Fransen is, click here…   Dave

The PSNI and the PPS are prosecuting Britain First NI leader Jayda Fransen for giving an ‘anti-Islamic’ speech!

Jayda has been charged and is currently on bail awaiting trial.

Sign our petition to demand free speech for Jayda and for these charges to be dropped!

Sign the petition

Canada: Hamilton, Ontario police holding recruiting event at mosque

Robert Spencer              Jihad Watch              Nov 30, 2017

The Hamilton Police Service is placing “diversity” above public safety. Is it more important to have Muslim police officers, or to have competent police officers? Police hiring should be based on merit alone, not on pandering to “minority communities.” And what kind of vetting will be undertaken in order to make sure that no Hamilton Police Service recruits from this mosque have jihadist sympathies? Why, none at all, of course. That would be “Islamophobic.”

Hamilton Police Service holding recruiting event at mosque,” by Paul Tipple and Anthony Urciuoli, Global News, November 29, 2017…

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Canada: Jews most targeted for hate crimes, hate crimes against Muslims decrease

Robert Spencer             Jihad Watch             Nov 29, 2017

“Jews also were the most targeted religious group, followed by Catholics and Muslims, despite perceptions of a rise in Islamophobia.”

Indeed, Canada has an “anti-Islamophobia” motion and increasing restrictions on the freedom of speech regarding examination of how jihad terrorists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. But there is no “anti-anti-Semitism” motion. Now, why is that?

Jews minority most targeted by hate crimes in Canada,” Arutz Sheva, November 29, 2017…

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Canada Now Mum on FGM for New Citizens

Clarion Project               Thursday, December 7, 2017

Canada recently removed condemnations of “barbaric cultural practices” like honor killings and female genital mutilation from the study guide used to for the Canadian citizenship exam. Watch Member of Parliament Michelle Rempel challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on these changes (Trudeau responds)…

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Journalist Tells Personal Story of FGM: a ‘Massacre’

Clarion Project                  Thursday, November 30, 2017

Egyptian journalist Rabab Azzam tells her personal account of being a victim of FGM (female genital mutilation) at age 13. She relates the physical pain, the humiliation and her rebellion and desire for revenge against her family afterwards, saying her family “denied me the right to be a full woman.” The story aired on Egyptian TV…

The video…

My Personal Story

This is the tale of a prominent apostate from Islam…

…who understands Islam from the inside…  Dave

Mateen Elass             December 1, 2017

Many people have asked me whether I have ever written up the story of my spiritual journey in book form — the answer is no. But earlier this year, in anticipation of a book project collecting the stories of twenty former Muslim converts I was contacted by the editor and asked to tell my story in under 2500 words. Knowing the editor personally, I was glad to agree…

My patrilineal roots reach deep into the ancient soil of Syria, with ancestors tracing our heritage back to ‘Amr ibn al-‘Aas, companion of the Arabian prophet and commanding general of the Arab Muslim armies that swept across north Africa. Whether that is true or not, my father was born and raised in a small village called Jabata Zayt on the shoulders of Mt. Hermon in the region known now as the Golan Heights… Raised to be a devout Sunni Muslim, he began to adapt his faith to more Western, Enlightenment thinking as he studied law (under the French system) at the University of Syria in Damascus. Upon graduating, he seized the opportunity to do graduate study in the USA, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. It was there he met his wife to be, an American of Roman Catholic background. They married, he received his Masters degree, and planned to continue for a Ph.D., but in the meantime my older brother had been born, and then I came along. He needed a steady job, and so hired on with Aramco Oil Company, then headquartered in New York City. After two more children were born, the family headed over to Aramco’s main facilities in Saudi Arabia. For us kids, it was a time of fairy-tale adventure and excitement.

Our home life in the town of Dhahran was very secular – my mother had informally renounced any ties to the Catholic Church (and to organized religion in general) and my father contented himself with retaining cultural ties to Islam while rejecting its religious practices… I turned elsewhere for spiritual sustenance…

That next summer, back in Arabia, my circle of friends contained many Christian students… From a human point of view, two elements stand out as factors that led me to offer my life to Jesus Christ. First was the remarkable love I observed in the Christian community directed both to those inside, and to those, like me, outside. I was not looking for a new “religion,” but anytime I saw what looked to me like love “with no strings,” my interest was piqued. As I got to know some of these Christians whose selfless acts I had observed, I would ask them, “What led you to act in such-and-such a way toward So-and-So?” Invariably they would talk about Jesus in their hearts. I would respond, “I’m not interested in the religious stuff; I just want to know where you get the power to love people like that.” They continued to attribute their acts to the life of Jesus in them…

Three months later, I returned to Arabia for Christmas break, prepared to share about my new spiritual life with my father… when my father returned from work for the day, we sat down to catch up. Excitedly, I told him about my conversion to Christ and life now as a Christian. But instead of listening with smiles and encouragement as in times past, this time he exploded like a volcano, roaring that such a decision was not permissible, that I could not become a Christian, that I would be putting the family in danger, that such a decision would be like stabbing him in the back and repudiating my heritage. For four days, surging with molten anger, he tried to convince me to recant. I remember well four of his arguments. First, he said, “If the Saudi authorities find this out, your girlfriend and her parents could easily be convicted of proselytizing, paying a heavy fine and going to prison. And remember, prisons here make American ones look like playgrounds in comparison. So you should think about that.” Second, he said, “If you still follow this foolishness by next summer, you won’t be welcome under my roof. You’ll have to find somewhere else to live. You might want to think about that.” I knew that meant I would not be able to get into Arabia much less be near my family, and that my father was threatening to cut me off from the family for good. Third, he said, “If the Saudis discover that one of my sons has become a Christian, I will have to give up my job. You should think about that.” My father was at that time the senior vice president of Aramco in charge of government affairs, and much of his work was with Saudi officials, all Muslims of course. His argument was that my conversion would be such a mark of shame and disgrace that they would lose all respect for him as a business man – if you can’t even raise you sons to be good Muslims, how could you possibly run a high-powered business well? Fourth and last, he said, “You are officially a Muslim, regardless of what you say, according to Shari’a law, because the son of a Muslim is a Muslim by birth. So, if Saudi officials hear about you and pick you up for questioning, what will you say?” I told him I would be cautious, knowing this was a sensitive subject. “But what if they ask you directly if you are a follower of this Jesus?” I answered, “I would say yes, because I am, and I can’t turn my back on him.”

I can still picture my dad throwing his hands up in the air and saying, “Then by your own mouth you would be convicting yourself of apostasy (leaving Islam for Christianity). And the penalty for apostasy according to Shari’a law here in Arabia is death by beheading

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In Trump’s First Year As President, War Declared Over in Iraq.

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After more than three years of combat operations, Iraq announced Saturday that the fight against the Islamic State group is over. What a difference a year makes.

When President Trump assumed office, ISIS was continuing to grow and strengthen, because then-president Obama had not taken them seriously, referring to them as “the JV team.” Trump boasted that he would get rid of ISIS in thirty days. It took a little longer than that, and part of that was the “annihilation” tactics implemented by Defense Secretary James Mattis.

The capital of the ISIS self-described caliphate fell in October, and on Saturday, the war was officially declared over, and the last elements of ISIS driven from the country.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally announced the victory in an address to the nation aired on Iraqi state television Saturday evening.

“Honorable Iraqis, your land has been completely liberated,” he said. “The liberation dream has become a reality. We achieved victory in difficult circumstances and with God’s help, the steadfastness of our people and the bravery of our heroic forces we prevailed.”

“The flag of Iraq is flying high today over all Iraqi territory and at the farthest point on the border,” he added, standing before the most senior members of Iraq’s security forces.

Following al-Abadi’s remarks, his office declared a public holiday Sunday in celebration of the victory, according to an official statement from the prime minister’s office.

Iraqi forces mopped up the last pockets of IS fighters from Iraq’s western deserts Saturday, securing the country’s border with Syria, a step that marked the end of combat operations against the extremists.

“All Iraqi lands are liberated from terrorist Daesh gangs and our forces completely control the international Iraqi-Syrian border,” said Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Rasheed Yar Allah, a senior Iraqi military commander, in a statement Saturday afternoon.

The U.S. applauded the prime minister’s announcement.

The U.S. offers “sincere congratulations to the Iraqi people and to the brave Iraqi Security Forces, many of whom lost their lives heroically fighting ISIS,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a written statement, using an alternative acronym for IS.

“Our coalition will continue to stand with Iraq to support its security forces, economy and stabilization to help ensure that ISIS can never against threaten Iraq’s people or use its territory as a haven,” said Brett McGurk, U.S. special presidential envoy to the anti-IS coalition, in a statement posted to his official Twitter account.

“We mark today’s historic victory mindful of the work that remains,” he added.

There is still much work to be done, but Trump unleashed the full power of the U.S. military by allowing his generals unfettered strategic planning capabilities, and that has paid off  in a big way for the war effort against radical Islam in Iraq.

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From Israel: Wait a Minute

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By Arlene Kushner,

Beginning with a housekeeping message: Unfortunately, the email address associated with my postings, arlene@arlenefromisrael.info went down last week because of a glitch.

While the email is functioning again, please know that all communication in my inbox has been lost. If you responded to a recent post of mine, and believe that response to be important, or were posing a question, please, feel free to send again.

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In certain places in the world, weather changes so swiftly that it’s not uncommon to hear the comment, “Don’t like the weather? Wait a minute…”
That is how certain events pertaining to Israel seem now: Don’t like the news? No problem. It will probably change momentarily. Keeping track is difficult.

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When last I wrote, Vice President Pence had suggested in a speech that the US embassy might be moved to Jerusalem very soon. Apparently leaks suggesting the same followed this, and in short order it was making major news here in Israel that the embassy was going to be moved.

From the White House, however, came a swift message telling us that this assumption was premature.

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Ah, but then information surfaced regarding an alternate plan: to recognize Jerusalem (or western Jerusalem) as part of Israel without moving the embassy. I have information on this that confirms Washington is giving this alternate approach serious consideration.

Some news sources suggest that this is a “weaker” stance than actually moving the embassy. But this is not the case: the whole point of having the US embassy in Jerusalem would be because Jerusalem had been recognized as being part of Israel – otherwise it makes no sense. The ikar, the heart of the matter, is recognizing Israeli Jerusalem. Reports do not make clear whether ALL of Jerusalem would be so recognized or just “western” Jerusalem.

But yesterday, Jared Kushner was interviewed by Haim Saban at the Saban Forum in Washington and indicated that Trump was “still looking at the issues” and had not yet made a decision about the embassy.

You can see his interview, regarding his work on the “peace process” here.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/238810
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As would be fully expected, officials of the Palestinian Authority/PLO and leaders in Arab states have reacted with hostility to the possibility of US recognition of Jewish Jerusalem.

A Palestinian Authority delegation in Washington has warned the Trump administration that any recognition of Jerusalem as belonging to Israel will halt the “peace process.” Abbas himself has reached out to leaders in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Kuwait, asking them to intervene with Trump to prevent moving the embassy or declaring Jerusalem Israeli.

Jordan and the Arab League have warned of the potential for violence. Turkey has warned of a “major catastrophe.”

Threats aside, many analysts believe that a change in US policy on Jerusalem would evince a brief barrage of angry verbal protests and little more. For many of the Arab nations (this is not true of the Turks), self-interest lies first with not crossing Trump in the face-down with Iran, not with worrying about a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

And so, hang in there, folks. Sources indicate that Trump will be making key decisions by Wednesday.

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With regard to the Palestinian Authority (Fatah), I note here that, as expected, the unity agreement with Hamas is not going well. The PA was scheduled to fully assume administrative responsibility for Gaza on December 1, but this has not occurred.

The PA says it is impossible because they have not been permitted to take charge of security (read: Hamas will not surrender its arsenal of weapons). Hamas wants to know what their problem is, because control of the crossings has been turned over to the PA. Hamas counter-charges that the PA is still not releasing funds as had been agreed when the deal was signed, for such services as electricity (read: Fatah is holding this over their heads as a bargaining chip).
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But wait! There IS something the PA and Hamas agree upon: a “day of rage” because of what Trump may be deciding with regard to Jerusalem. It has been announced.

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I regret that it has taken me time to write about the issue of PA textbooks, but a new Algemeiner article provides an excellent opportunity for me to do so.

Last year, the PA instituted a “full reform” of its textbooks, grades 1 – 11. Recently, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) did a review of the new textbooks released the PA for this academic year.

Findings were that the textbooks are “significantly more radical” than their predecessors. The texts “groom young Palestinians to sacrifice themselves to martyrdom,” promote the idea of a mass “return” to Israel, and “feature a radical Islamist…worldview.” Israeli land is often identified as “Palestinian.”

In September, a similar study was done by Dr. Arnon Groiss — whose report was published in cooperation with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Center for Near East Policy Research and Middle East Forum. The findings of the IMPACT-se study now echo Dr. Groiss’s earlier findings.

In September, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, declared (emphasis added):

“It’s a war curriculum, not a peace curriculum.”

“Based on what is now being taught, for the next generation of Palestinian kids, there is no Israel, it doesn’t exist. There’s absolutely nothing in these books that sets the stage for any breakthrough that would bring true peace between the two peoples.”

Those who expect peace to breakout any moment now are forewarned.

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When does it end?

On Thursday, 19 year old soldier Ron Yitzhak Kukia was knifed to death by a terrorist near a mall in Arad, in southern Israel.
The terrorist had escaped. Today there are reports of two suspects from the Negev in custody, one of whom has implicated himself.

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On the very same day, there was another incident. Infuriating, terrifying, it ended better than it might have.

A group of some 25 young people, having celebrated the bar mitzvah of one of them, went off to do a hike in the Shomron (Samaria), leaving from the Jewish community of Migdalim. It had been approved by the IDF and the youngsters were accompanied by two adult guards – fathers of participants – who carried guns.

Suddenly they were accosted by a lynch mob consisting of dozens – one estimate placed the number at 100 – of Arabs from the nearby village of Qusra, who began pelting them with rocks. The group managed to take shelter in a cave.

One of the fathers had his gun grabbed from him. The other father shot, wounding one Arab and killing another, a local Palestinian Arab farmer who was participating in the mob.

The IDF was called to the scene and rescued the Jews from the cave.

There were clashes between Jews and Arabs in Qusra following this incident. The Arab version of events is that the member of the village who was shot dead was an innocent man working in his field, when a Jewish “settler” shot him dead. A mob then descended upon the young people in response to this murder of an innocent.

Uh huh…

Questions are being raised in the Jewish community regarding the alleged need to “investigate” why the guard found it necessary to shoot. This is a sensitive issue because Jews are often put on the defensive for using force to protect themselves against Arab threats, and in some instances hesitate to use their weapons for fear of being charged with assault or manslaughter, sometimes with regrettable results. In this case, the guards were held on suspicion of negligent manslaughter and then released.

Defense Minister Lieberman has tweeted (emphasis added):

“…the use of a weapon for self-defense is a moral value that is defended by every democracy.

“My thanks and recognition to the armed escort who saved the hikers from a clear and present danger to their lives.”

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Told to Abort Her Children, Heather Gave Them Life Instead

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This is the personal story of Heather Hobbs as told to Feleica Langdon; it was originally published by Secular Pro-Life. Feleica is a Canadian pro-life speaker based in Newfoundland. She is a regional coordinator of Campaign Life Coalition and works alongside provincial coordinator Margaret Hynes. Felecia also runs the Life Defenders facebook page.

I grew up in an abusive household, and as a teenager, I vowed never to bring children into such a horrendous world – a perspective shaped by my upbringing.

The callousness of the world was proven once more when I was violently raped by my abusive boyfriend. That violation shattered me, and in spite of being on birth control, I became pregnant from that rape. Coming from a staunch pro-choice background, I didn’t know any other way out of this situation other than abortion!

Things went from bad to worse when my rapist found out that I was pregnant. He found me, beat me, and proceeded to choke me. I remember feeling my baby flutter for the first time just before I passed out.

Upon waking up in the hospital and explaining everything that was going on, I was asked if I wanted an abortion. Remembering feeling my baby move , I refused to terminate. Embracing my daughter’s life saved mine in every way imaginable. My baby was just as innocent in all of this as I was.

Looking back I can tell you with the utmost confidence that my daughter, Alexandria, gave me purpose. She is what I needed to live and grow; she helped me heal and to see beauty that I hadn’t before. I don’t see her as being the “child of a rapist”; instead, I see her as the child of a rape survivor!

When she was four I married a wonderful man named Jeremy who accepted my little girl as his own. My husband and I wanted to give our daughter a sibling. To our surprise we were already pregnant due to the failure of the IUD Mirena. Unfortunately, I had a difficult pregnancy. I was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, acute pancreatitis due to gall stones, and cholestasis. With my health deteriorating quickly, the doctors suggested that we have an abortion; when we refused the doctors said at the very least I would need to be induced early and undergo surgery immediately.

We were life-flighted to Portland and we received the care we needed. Tristan was born on my birthday and is perfect in every way!

On my third pregnancy we thought we were finally going to catch a break. Everything seemed to be going so smoothly; however, at 24 weeks along I knew something wasn’t right. Upon medical investigation it was determined that I had cholestasis again, but something also showed up on the sonogram. There was a big black hole in his stomach and it was determined that he had a meconium pseudocyst. His intestines had ruptured and his body had built a calcified shell to hold the stool. We were told by specialists that he wouldn’t live and that I needed to abort before the sac ruptured and I became septic.

I refused and signed the necessary waivers saying I was continuing the pregnancy against doctors’ orders. We drove two hours in the snow and mountains to see specialists who kept an eye on the cyst.

At 28 weeks I went into quick and active labour. Every parent longs to hear that cry when their child comes into the world, but when Gideon was born, he was purple and silent. You could cut the panic with a knife and they whisked him away for what seemed like forever. He made it through emergency surgery but the doctors still didn’t expect him to make it. Fast forward 18 months and 11 procedures later. Our son is happy, healthy, and excelling above the milestones for his age.

If you’ve been raped and have found yourself pregnant, Alexandria was my diamond in the rough and has brought me the healing that abortion would have stolen from me. Don’t let abortion steal that healing from you! If you don’t think you can parent, place your child for adoption! If you have received a difficult maternal and/or prenatal diagnosis, don’t concede to the pressure to terminate. Yes, you may need to induce labour early, but then it’s left up to your child! Premature babies and their moms beat the odds everyday!

I know you’re scared, but I hope that my testimony will encourage you to give your child a chance at life! They have so much to offer this world and teach you! Jeremy and I are currently pregnant with our fourth child and couldn’t be happier with our precious family. Watching our kids interact together brings us so much joy! Each pregnancy has had its own set of challenges, but Jeremy and I have grown as a couple and as parents through all of it. We can’t picture our lives without either one of them and are so glad that our family doesn’t have to deal with the hurt of abortion! We hope yours doesn’t have to either, and if it already has, that you find healing!

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From Israel: Mazel Tov!

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By Arlene Kushner,

This will not be news to my readers!

President Donald Trump, in a speech delivered from the White House, has announced that the United States, in accordance with the 1995 Embassy Act (about which more below) now recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He has instructed the State Department to begin arrangements for establishing the US Embassy in Jerusalem.

For us in Israel, and our friends elsewhere, there has never been doubt about the fact that Jerusalem, united, is our eternal capital.

But how lovely, and how important, to see the beginning of international recognition on this score.

Israel is a sovereign nation, declared the president, and as such has the right to establish its capital.

I do not believe that there is another instance internationally in which nations have refused to establish their diplomatic missions to a country in the city that the country declares to be its capital.

But now a significant turn-around.

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King David made Jerusalem the capital of his united kingdom over 3,000 years ago; it is there that his son Solomon built the Temple.

From that day until this day, Jerusalem has never been the capital of any other nation.

Jerusalem Municipality

Jerusalem was part of the Mandate for Palestine, which allocated the land for a Jewish homeland within international law.

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There are those today who refer to the fact that UNGA Resolution 181 of 1947, which proposed a federation of two states in Palestine, allocated Jerusalem the status of a corpus separatum to be administered as an international city by the UN.

But that resolution is totally null and void today as the Arab world rejected it. What is more, it was only a recommendation and carried no weight in international law. Additionally, it should be noted that the UN never attended to its responsibilities with regard to Jerusalem, as spelled out in the resolution.

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With the founding of modern Israel, and the War of Independence, Jordan took the eastern part of Jerusalem, occupying it illegally in an offensive action. This area, which includes the Temple Mount, is at the very heart of Jewish heritage. Yet he not only rendered it Judenrein, he destroyed synagogues and pillaged Jewish tombstones.

This 19-year period of Jordanian occupation is the only time in 3,000 years that the city was divided. In point of fact there is no “East Jerusalem,” there is only Jerusalem.

Yet to this day, the Arabs have the gall to claim that eastern Jerusalem is “Arab.” Although, when they speak of “East Jerusalem” what they actually mean is everything past the Green Line (the 1949 armistice line). This includes Gilo, which is in the south west of Jerusalem, and Ramat Shlomo (not on the map below), which is to the north.

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Israel reunited the city in 1967, with the Six Day War. In 1980, the Knesset passed “Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel.” It states that:

“The complete and united Jerusalem is the capital of Israel; Jerusalem is the seat of the President, the Knesset, the Government, and the Supreme Court.”

It also mandates protection of Holy Places against desecration, and freedom of access to religious places sacred to various religious groups.

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Today, there are numerous Jewish neighborhoods in “eastern” Jerusalem, beyond the Green Line: Gilo, French Hill, Ramot, Ramat Eshkol, Pisgat Zeev, Har Homa, etc.

The Jewish quarter of the Old City has been magnificently restored.

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The entire question of international diplomatic relations with Israel, and establishment of embassies in Israel, has been fraught with difficulties because of Arab hostility and subsequent Palestinian Arab claims to Jerusalem.

In the early days after Israel’s founding (which saw the diplomatic recognition of 23 nations), there were 16 foreign embassies located in Jerusalem. These nations did not, however, recognize this as conferring official recognition of Jerusalem as being part of Israel.

The United States was one of those nations that chose not to place its diplomatic mission in Jerusalem. In fact, in 1949, President Truman clearly stated that “the United States cannot support any arrangement which would purport to authorize the establishment of Israeli…sovereignty over parts of the Jerusalem area.”

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Over the years, as additional nations conferred diplomatic recognition upon Israel, they chose to maintain embassies elsewhere in the country – or simply to not establish embassies in Israel at all.

In 1973, three nations removed diplomatic headquarters from Jerusalem: Ivory Coast, Zaire and Kenya, all of which subsequently severed relations with Israel following a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Algiers. All three restored relations in the 80s, establishing embassies in Tel Aviv.

In 1980, with the passing of “Basic Law: Jerusalem,” the other 13 embassies were moved out of Jerusalem. Costa Rica and El Salvador re-established their embassies in Jerusalem again in 1984, but all had left by 2006.

Today, Israel has diplomatic relations with 159 of the 193 member states of the UN as well as with the Holy See (the Vatican) and the European Union. Of these nations, 86 maintain embassies in the Tel Aviv area.

The US, Belgium, France, Italy, Greece, Spain Sweden, Turkey, the Holy See and the United Kingdom also maintain consulates in Jerusalem. It is a diplomatic anomaly (call it fancy footwork) that these nations do not consider the consulates to be diplomatic missions to Israel, but rather to Jerusalem (which is not considered part of Israel). Some—primary among them the US—consider these consulates to also be diplomatic missions to the Palestinian Authority.

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With all of this, it should be noted: The fact that foreign embassies are located outside of Jerusalem does not mean the nations boycott Jerusalem. They present their credentials to the president of Israel, at his residence in Jerusalem. They meet with officials in offices in Jerusalem, and attend sessions of the Knesset in Jerusalem.

De facto, it is clear to all that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.

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As to the move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem:

While US administrations have tread carefully with regard to recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, the sense of Congress has been quite different.

In 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which declared that “Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel” and that “the United States Embassy in Israel should be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.”

To ensure that this happened, a penalty clause was inserted: It required that as of the fiscal year 1999, when the embassy was to have been established in Jerusalem, the funding allocated to the State Department for the upkeep and building of all U.S. embassies, consulates and other overseas State Department offices would be cut in half unless and until the United States opened an embassy there.

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President Clinton, however, who was thoroughly immersed in the Oslo process, was adamantly opposed to this measure. His concern was that a “premature focus on Jerusalem” could “undermine negotiations and complicate the chances for peace.” (Sound familiar, now, 22 years later?)

Maintaining that the law was unconstitutional —because “the Constitution vests the President with the exclusive authority to conduct the Nation’s diplomatic relations with other States” and that “Congress cannot trammel the President’s constitutional authority to conduct the Nation’s foreign affairs and to recognize foreign governments by directing the relocation of an embassy”—he threatened to veto the law.

To circumvent this threat, Congress then added a Waiver clause to the law: Essentially, it allows the president to suspend for a period of six months the limitations set forth in the law with regard to fiscal penalties, if he determines and notifies the Congress in advance that “such suspension is necessary to protect the national security interests of the United States.”

Needless to say, the issue of “national security” is broadly interpreted.

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The revised Jerusalem Embassy Act then passed with a large majority – although I believe Clinton declined to sign it.

And this, then, is where we have stood until now. The Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations have all utilized this Waiver to prevent establishment of the embassy in Jerusalem.

So did Trump, in his first year in office.

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Today the president explained that this move is long overdue. It’s time for people to open their eyes and try a fresh approach, instead of drawing on the same failed strategies.

People believed that delaying on recognizing Jerusalem as Israeli’s capital would advance the peace process, but in 20 years this has not been the case. Repeating the same formula would not yield results. Rather, recognizing Jerusalem as Israeli is a necessary condition for achieving peace.

The president said this now, and many commentators and politicians are saying exactly the same thing: As long as the Palestinian Arabs delude themselves into imagining they can have Jerusalem, they will not deal realistically.

Jerusalem is the heart of one of the most successful democracies in the world, declared Trump. To acknowledge it as Israeli’s capital is simply to recognize reality. It is the right thing to do.

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The president said other things, as well, regarding his continued hope for peace. But I want to leave that for my next posting.

Here, I simply wish to express my admiration for his courage and his clear-sighted perspective. He did this in the face of Arab threats and intimidation, and he was not deterred.

We will have to wait for the dust to settle, metaphorically speaking. We will encounter some violence here in Jerusalem, for certain. How much remains to be seen. In the end, as I had indicated earlier, I believe matters will settle down.

In fact, it is my expectation that in time, the president having forged a new path, others will follow.

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Killing your Child with Meth is a Crime. Killing her with Forceps? Nope.

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This spring, a Canadian mom allegedly gave something to her baby. No, it wasn’t a rattle or a teddy bear.

It was meth.

Michelle Rice is accused of feeding a fatal dose of methamphetamine to her 11-day-old daughter, resulting in second-degree murder charges. What charges would Rice have face if she had acted 12 days earlier?

None.

Under Canadian law, a child isn’t recognized as a person until she’s been fully delivered. Jeff Durham learned that after his pregnant wife Cassie and their daughter Molly were murdered. Despite having a name, Molly had no rights, and the man who killed her faced no additional charges.

This is part of why Canada also has no rules governing late-term abortion. Some states don’t either; in New Mexico, Southwestern Women’s Options commits elective abortions through 28 weeks.

That isn’t a pleasant thought; it gets worse when you learn what late-term abortions involve. Dr. Anthony Levatino is an obstetrician-gynecologist who performed over 1,200 abortions, and in the video below, he explains what a third trimester induction abortion consists of:

Day 1: To help ensure the baby will be delivered dead and not alive, the abortionist uses a large needle to inject digoxin or potassium chloride through the woman’s abdomen or vagina, targeting the baby’s heart, torso, or head. When the digoxin takes effect, the lethal dose causes a fatal cardiac arrest, and the baby’s life will end. (Even if the needle misses the baby, digoxin can still kill the baby when released into the amniotic sack, but will usually take longer to kill the child.) During the same visit, the abortionist inserts multiple laminaria sticks, or sterilized seaweed, to open up the woman’s cervix.

Day 2: The abortionist replaces the laminaria and may perform a second ultrasound to ensure that the baby is dead. If the child is still alive, the abortionist administers a second lethal dose of digoxin or potassium chloride. During this visit, the abortionist may administer labor-inducing drugs. The woman goes back to where she is staying while her cervix continues to dilate. The woman will usually wait a period of two to four days for her cervix to dilate enough for her to deliver the dead baby.

Day 3 or 4: The woman returns to the clinic to deliver her dead baby. If she goes into labor before she can make it to the abortion clinic in time, she will deliver her baby at home or in a hotel room. During this time, a woman may be advised to sit on a bathroom toilet until the abortionist arrives. If she can make it to the clinic, she will do so during her most heavy and severe contractions and deliver the dead baby.

Babies in the late second trimester are killed via dilation and evacuation (D&E or dismemberment abortion) instead:

After the amniotic fluid is removed, the abortionist uses a sopher clamp — a grasping instrument with rows of sharp “teeth” — to grasp and pull the baby’s arms and legs, tearing the limbs from the child’s body. The abortionist continues to grasp intestines, spine, heart, lungs, and any other limbs or body parts. The most difficult part of the procedure is usually finding, grasping and crushing the baby’s head. After removing pieces of the child’s skull, the abortionist uses a curette to scrape the uterus and remove the placenta and any remaining parts of the baby.

As you read the words “teeth,” “grasp,” and “crush,” consider that there’s evidence a baby feels pain by 20 weeks. Some politicians have, which is why the House of Representatives passed legislation to protect pain-capable children. Tell your senator you want it sent to the White House.

 

This article was originally published by Secular Pro-Life.

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Ha! EU Nations Write To Trump Admin Calling His Tax Plan Unfair To Them.

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In case you wondered whether or not Trump was really putting the interests of Americans first look no further than the recent letter his administration received from the leading European nations complaining that the latest tax plan that Republicans are trying to move through to passage would be detrimental to their interests.

Germany, France, Britain, Spain and Italy were among the nations who wrote to Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin, arguing that the tax bills passed by the House and Senate run afoul of treaties and could distort international trade. This of course is nonsense, but you have to consider the moxie of these nations telling the American government what it can and cannot do regarding its own financial structure.

The story was published by CNN and reads as something that should be of great concern to readers.

“It is important that the U.S. government’s rights over domestic tax policy be exercised in a way that adheres with international obligations to which it has signed-up,” the letter states. It was signed by the countries’ finance ministers.

The letter argues that proposed changes to the U.S. tax code could give American companies an advantage over foreign rivals.

The ministers objected specifically to a new 20% tax on payments from U.S.-based multinationals to their foreign affiliates, saying the measure in the House bill could “discriminate in a manner that would be at odds with international rules.”

They said the provision could also tax the profits of foreign businesses that do not have a permanent base in the U.S.

A second measure also drew objections. It would subject cross-border transfers within banks and finance companies to a 10% tax.

“These two … present [World Trade Organization] problems, said Rebecca Kysar, a professor at Fordham University. She said the measures could be considered to be discriminatory.

The finance ministers said they opposed another measure in the Senate bill that could benefit American companies by subsidizing their exports.

Kysar said the more income a U.S. company makes from exports, the greater the share of its income will be taxed at 12.5% instead of the general corporate rate of 20%.

So, these nation’s finance ministers are objecting to the pursuit of American first policies by the American government! This letter alone shows how far down the path towards globalization, and the continued evisceration of American manufacturing and devastation of American wages we were. Every effort of past administrations was geared toward strengthening international banking and global manufacturing cabals, at the expense of the U.S. worker. Trump has pushed to end that, and though grudgingly, the GOP leadership has responded with a tax-bill that will move the American economy in a place where it will once again be to the advantage of the American worker. You need no further proof of that fact than this letter.

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Islam Update: New York City Suicide Bomber Suspect

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Suicide bombing suspect was a cab driver bent on revenge: cops

This was a near miss: Four injured, with the bomber himself suffering the worst…

We can’t keep counting on being lucky…

It is time to take serious preventive action…   Dave

Shawn Cohen, Max Jaeger, Reuven Fenton and Natalie Musumeci               The New York Post               December 11, 2017

The would-be suicide bomber who detonated an explosive device underground near the bustling Port Authority Bus Terminal is a former New York City cab driver who told investigators that he was inspired by ISIS to carry out the attack for revenge, law enforcement sources said.

Akayed Ullah, 27, who is from Bangladesh and was living in Brooklyn, told authorities he was trying to exact vengeance for Israeli actions in Gaza — where four Palestinians have been killed amid violent protests and airstrikes since President Trump declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel last week, police sources told CNN.

He told cops he was inspired by ISIS, but police don’t believe he had any direct contact with the group, sources said.

Ullah, who officials say is a former city cab driver whose license has lapsed, set off a “low-tech” homemade pipe bomb strapped to his midsection around 7:20 a.m. inside the subway passageway between West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue and West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue… Ullah, who had the explosive device affixed to him with Velcro and zip ties, suffered burns to his hands and abdomen, along with lacerations, and injured three others who were in proximity to him. He was  quickly taken into custody and  transported  to Bellevue Hospital…

All three victims suffered minor injuries that included ringing in the ears and headaches. Two took themselves to Mount Sinai West and one to Mount Sinai Queens, according to officials.

“Let’s be clear that this was an attempted terrorist attack,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference in Times Square alongside Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Police Commissioner James O’Neill.

The Latest: Official: Bombing suspect came to US 7 years ago

Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo                The Associated Press                 Monday, December 11, 2017

Akayed Ullah

NEW YORK— The Latest on the explosion in Manhattan in an underground passageway (all times local):… Law enforcement officials say the 27-year-old man who set off a pipe bomb in the New York City subway came to the U.S. from Bangladesh seven years ago with a type of preferential visa for people with relatives who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The officials say Akayed Ullah was living in Brooklyn. They say he told investigators Monday he was inspired by the Islamic State group to carry out an attack, but had no direct contact with the terror group. They say he is speaking with investigators from his hospital bed. The suspect had burns on his abdomen and also to his hands

Officials say he assembled the crude device in his apartment. Investigators are talking to witnesses and his family… Bangladesh has been expanding its anti-terror operations after grisly attacks killed dozens of people…

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Key quote on security: “We need to do what the Israelis do”…

Brigitte Gabriel interview on Fox News after the terror attack in NY

Great advice on how to “see something, say something,” especially for city dwellers…

Bridgette Gabriel on Fox Business discussing the Port Authority terror attack in NY

Sebastian Gorka on NYC terror attack, US immigration system: Fox News national security analyst provides insight on ‘Hannity.’

Muslim Brotherhood Calls for Uprising Against US

Al-Qaeda has already declared war on America…

…in the wake of Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel…

The Muslim Brotherhood is now putting itself in league with al-Qaeda…

Remember when Obama’s Director of National Intelligence (!) James Clapper told us…

…that the Muslim Brotherhood is “mainly secular, (and) has eschewed violence”?   Dave

Clarion Project                    Monday, December 11, 2017

The Muslim Brotherhood has effectively declared war on the United States (Arabic link): The Muslim Brotherhood is launching today a solidarity call with all Palestinian factions and Islamic movements to ignite an uprising throughout the Islamic world against the Zionist occupation and the American administration in support of the occupation and against the rights and freedoms of the peoples.

The last “uprising” some 15 years ago resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians – Christians, Jews and Muslims. While the Brotherhood issued the statement in the wake of President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital a week ago, the organization has been fomenting anti-American, pro-sharia sentiment for some time.

Clarion Project is closely following Muslim Brotherhood activities on Capitol Hill, across the United States and beyond. There are growing concerns about the strong ties between the Brotherhood, ISIS and al-Qaeda

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ISIS, Brotherhood Have Much in Common: Tony Blair Study

Meira Svirsky               The Clarion Project               Wednesday, December 6, 2017

The similarity in philosophy between the Muslim Brotherhood and violent Islamists such as ISIS and al-Qaeda is quite pronounced, according to a new study carried out in the UK.

“The evidence now shows that there is considerable ideological overlap in how Islamic scripture is used by [political] Islamists, like the Muslim Brotherhood, and violent jihadists, such as ISIS and Al Qaeda,” said Dr Emman El-Badawy, head of research at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

The institute’s new study, “Struggle Over Scripture: Charting the Rift Between Islamist Extremism and Mainstream Islam,” was based on an examination of more than 3,000 documents culled from extremist and mainstream sources.

Join Clarion in calling on the Trump administration to ban the Brotherhood by clicking here

“Understanding the ideological proximity of non-violent Islamist and Salafi-jihadism has never been more urgent, as the Muslim Brotherhood is increasingly under the spotlight. The fact remains that extremist voices have had an impact on Islam that is wildly disproportionate to their numbers,” El-Badawy added.

The reports also found that claims by terror groups such as ISIS and al-Qaeda that there is theological backing for their actions are going all but unchallenged by mainstream Islamic scholars.

In fact, the study notes, 85 percent of the time scriptural sources are cited by jihadists, no religious counter narrative is offered…

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New Push in DC to Declare Muslim Brotherhood Foreign Terrorists

Clarion Project                Wednesday, December 6, 2017

U.S. lawmakers were among speakers and guests at a Capitol Hill event aimed at putting the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood back in the spotlight.

The London Center for Policy Research is one of several organizations pushing for Congress to declare the Muslim brotherhood a foreign terrorist entity. Such a a designation would have serious knock-on effects for American organizations with links to the Brotherhood – among them the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

After you watch this video please click here to join the campaign against the brothers….

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Scholar of Islam: Muslims Have No Religious Basis to Rule Jerusalem

Citing the historical record and religious doctrine, a leading Pakistani historian proves that Muslims “have no religious basis to rule Jerusalem.”

United with Israel              Dec 11, 2017

Mobarak Haidar, a renowned Pakistani historian and author of multiple books, declared to the “Muslims of the world” that they “have no religious basis to rule Jerusalem.” Following President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Haidar wrote in his Facebook page regarding “Jerusalem and Muslim Claims,” debunking various myths surrounding the city, which has been the capital of the Jewish people for the last 3,000 years, long before Islam was conceived.

Regarding the Muslim claim that the Al-Aqsa Mosque, situated on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, is supposedly mentioned in the Quran, the Pakistani historian explained: “The Holy Quran spoke of Al-Aqsa Mosque when it was not a ‘mosque’ in the Islamic sense. It was a holy place because of the prophets of Israel, from Moses to Jesus. It was the holy spot of worship for Jews and Christians.”

“Obviously, there were no Muslims in the city of Jerusalem till the era of Emir-ul-Momineen Umar ibn Khattab … . The Prophet [Muhammad] and his followers prayed with their faces toward this Jewish-Christian holy temple because Kaaba (the present center of Islamic Hajj) was full of idols,” Haidar pointed out, according to a translation of his Facebook post by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Jerusalem appears in the Hebrew Bible 669 times, but is not once directly mentioned by name in the Quran.

“After the ‘Conquest of Mecca,’ Muslims were told to turn their faces toward Kaaba and away from Jerusalem. They have never faced their loyalty toward Jerusalem after that, for the last 1,400 years. No Muslim ever went to pray in Jerusalem till it was conquered by the second caliph [Umar ibn Khattab in the 7th century] although there was no restriction on Muslims,” he wrote.

“Christians were masters of Jerusalem before Muslims conquered it. It is still a holy place for Christians. But Christians have no dispute over ownership of the city. It is their religious right to visit the holy city; and the Jews do not stop them,” he underscored. “Muslims, too, should have the same religious rights, and in fact they have those rights; Jews do not stop them… Muslims of the world have no religious basis to rule Jerusalem. Most of the Muslims have never even wished to visit Jerusalem,”…

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It is time to pile on jihadist-enabling Penn State…

Check out this dialogue I’m having with one of the VPs at Penn State University (arranged in chronological order)…

You may want to join in… Send emails to president@psu.edu …  Dave

From: Dave Bailey [mailto:daveb@educationtransfer.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 9, 2017 11:14 PM
To: Office of the President <president@psu.edu>
Subject: Penn State student Hussein Altarakmah wishes to kill Americans… He MUST be expelled

President Barron,

Your student at Penn State University, Hussein Altarakmah, tweeted that “9/11 didn’t kill enough of you f***ers.” I am horrified to hear that even after he was reported to the police, he is still enrolled as a student. Hussein is an imminent threat to the safety and security of all persons at your university. One year ago, a Somalia immigrant weaponized his vehicle to run over students at Ohio State University, then preceded to stab at them. Can you explain why you are willing to risk the safety of people you are responsible for? Are you going to take full responsibility if and when he decides to put his pro-terrorism words into actions?

Hussein Altarakmah is an imminent danger to Penn State University and he must be immediately expelled. Do the right thing for the safety and security of the students and faculty you are responsible for.

Outraged,

David Bailey

(302) 836-3831

From: Office of the President [mailto:president@psu.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 9:07 AM
To: Dave Bailey
Subject: RE: Penn State student Hussein Altarakmah wishes to kill Americans… He MUST be expelled

As Vice President for Administration and Secretary of the Board of Trustees I help President Barron and the Board respond to emails and important issues. Below I am sharing a statement from Penn State University Police in regards to controversial comments last month between a student and a public media figure. The University responded immediately at the time of the incident and is not going to comment further.

We are aware of concerns over some recent controversial comments by a student. We take the safety of our campus community very seriously. This has been investigated jointly by the Penn State Police Department and federal authorities, and there are no threats to our campus at this time.

Sincerely,

Tom Poole

Thomas G. Poole, Ph.D.

Vice President for Administration

Secretary of the Board of Trustees

From: Dave Bailey
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 12:27 PM
To: ‘Office of the President’
Subject: RE: Penn State student Hussein Altarakmah wishes to kill Americans… He MUST be expelled

Dear Mr. Poole,

That’s what Penn State used to say about Jerry Sandusky

Skeptically,

Dave Bailey

(302) 836-3831

Florida man gets 15 YEARS IN PRISON (plus another 15 years probation) for leaving BACON on mosque doorstep

Pamela Geller                 The Geller Report              December 7, 2017

15 years in prison and another 15 years of probation, to be served after his prison sentence, for leaving bacon on the doorstep of a mosque and breaking a few windows? Have you ever heard of such a thing in America? Sharia has taken hold in America. Madness.

A man in Chicago was ordered to pay restitution and seek mental-health treatment for vandalizing a synagogue in the city’s Loop business district last February. He broke windows and plastered swastikas on the synagogue walls. Anti-Jewish crimes are four times that of “anti-Muslim” crimes, and you never heard of such convictions.

15 years.

Nicholas Rovinski, one of the jihadis plotting to behead me, faces 15 years.

Under a plea agreement with prosecutors, 32-year-old Stuart Wright was also sentenced to the two days he has already served in jail. He was charged with putting swastika stickers on the front door of the Chicago Loop Synagogue and smashing windows. The same type of crime.

I am in shock.

Florida man sentenced to 15 years in prison for vandalizing mosque, Reuters, December 7, 2017…

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Iran reveals details on ‘honed’ missiles as minister turns Europe against Trump

IRAN has defended its ballistic missile programme and urged European countries not to be influenced by Donald Trump’s aggressive policy towards Tehran.

Simon Osborne              The Express                    Mon, Dec 11, 2017

Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif has hit back at Donald Trump. Writing in the New York Times, foreign minister Javad Zarif also called on European powers to help preserve a 2015 deal under which Iran curbed its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of a number of international sanctions.

Mr Trump refused to certify the deal in October and alleged Iran was flouting its terms despite findings to the contrary by UN nuclear inspectors. The US president has also called Iran an “economically depleted rogue state” that exports violence.

Mr Zarif wrote: “Europe should not pander to Washington’s determination to shift focus to yet another unnecessary crisis – whether it be Iran’s defensive missile programme or our influence in the Middle East.”

His remarks seemed to be at least partly aimed at France which has been critical of the Islamic Republic’s missile tests and regional policy, including involvement in Syria’s war. Last month French President Emmanuel Macron said he was “very concerned” by the missile programme and called for talks about it, an appeal rejected by Iranian officials…

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Will Iran’s Expansionist Scheme Fail?

Rahim Hamid             The Clarion Project                Monday, December 11, 2017

Iran’s theocratic regime, which has maintained power domestically via brutal oppression for over four decades, is continuing its devastating expansionist policies across the Middle East, paying no heed to the bloody results of its subversive policies.

The fallout from Iran’s policies is not limited to the terrible destruction in those regional nations where the regime has established a foothold, but also seems to be wreaking havoc on the Iranian state itself. Iran’s regime and the entire country are isolated, exhausted, and militarily and financially stretched to their limit.

Recent indications suggest the regime’s regional clout is waning, with the proxy militias starting to fall out among themselves. Failure on the ground and rising public discontent among local populations (including the large minority populations) make it impossible for them to follow through with Iran’s political program.

Exploiting the Arab Spring

Iran publicly voiced support for the uprisings against various oppressive regimes in the Arab world which broke out in early 2011, with many viewing the regime’s claims as insincere and motivated by the leaders’ wish to capitalize on and exploit the revolutions for Iran’s own benefit, to gain leverage in the region. Tehran saw the turbulence of the Arab Spring as an opportunity for exploitation, allowing it to foment divisions and fuel sectarian schisms, which could be used as part of a “divide and rule” policy…

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Forget Collusion. Can Mueller Prove Russia Committed Cyberespionage? And if not, what’s the point of his investigation?

This whole investigation has been politically driven…

The proof of its “fake news” basis is that…

…no one has ever demonstrated that Russia even committed a crime…

…that Trump’s team could have colluded in…

If there was no crime, collusion is impossible…

Democrats started with a conclusion – that Trump was guilty of something –

…and have been working backward from that premise ever since…   Dave

Andrew C. McCarthy            National Review              December 11, 2017

The rationale for Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel is that Russia conducted a cyberespionage attack — hacking — to interfere in the 2016 presidential campaign, and that the Trump campaign may somehow have “colluded” in this offense. Mueller has been at this for six months, and the FBI for a year before that. So isn’t it about time we asked: Could Mueller prove that Russia did it?

Forget Trump. What about Russia?

We have paid too much attention to the so-called collusion component of the probe — speculation about Trump-campaign coordination in Russia’s perfidy. There appears to be no proof of that sort of collusion. Because it has been our focus, though, Mueller has gotten a free pass on a defect that would be fatal to any related prosecution theory: He cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Russia is guilty of hacking the Democratic National Committee and prominent Democrats.

This doesn’t mean it didn’t happen — like the U.S. intelligence agencies, I’m assuming it did, and that Russia should continue to be the subject of intense government counterintelligence efforts. The point is that Mueller can’t prove it in court, which is the only thing for which a prosecutor is needed. If he can’t establish to the required standard of proof that Russia conducted an espionage attack on the election, it is impossible to prove that anyone conspired with Russia to do so. There is no criminal case….

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Report: Fusion GPS Paid Senior Justice Department Official’s Wife During 2016 Campaign

Kristina Wong             Breitbart News              11 Dec 2017

Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Trump dossier, paid the wife of a senior Justice Department official during the 2016 election, a Fox News report revealed on Monday.

The senior Justice Department official is Bruce Ohr, who was demoted last week, just before Fox News reported that he had met with dossier author Christopher Steele during the campaign, and with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson after the election.

He was demoted for not disclosing those meetings to the Justice Department, according to Fox News.

Until last week, Ohr was both associate deputy attorney general, putting him four doors down from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Ohr was removed from his first title just a day before Fox News reported on his meetings with Fusion GPS…

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CNN quietly backtracks another report tying Trump campaign to Russia

Everyone in the country heard about CNN’s accusations against Attorney General Sessions…

In fact, the accusations were so harsh that Sessions recused himself from the Russia-Trump collusion investigation…

And now, 6 months later, CNN issues a retraction that almost no one will notice… Disgraceful…   Dave

Brian Flood                  Fox News               December 11, 2017

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts during the Republican candidates debate sponsored by CNN at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida, March 10, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri – HP1EC3B0BIA00

CNN has gently walked back a report from earlier this year that faulted Attorney General Jeff Sessions for failing to reveal meetings he had with Russian officials when he applied for his security clearance – a disclosure he wasn’t required to make.

CNN reported last May that Sessions didn’t disclose meetings he had with a Russian ambassador when he was a senator. The mainstream media was all over the story and significant airtime was spent portraying Sessions as shady and dishonest. In addition to embarrassing Sessions, the storyline also fed the narrative that the Trump administration colluded with Russia during the election.

The splashy headline on CNN’s website said, “First on CNN: AG Sessions did not disclose Russia meetings in security clearance form, DOJ says.” CNN’s story claimed the incident was “the latest example of Sessions failing to disclose contacts he had with Russian officials.” Roughly six months later, the network has admitted that the entire report was essentially meaningless…

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If Moore is elected, Sen. Collins says senators will face “tough decision”

Collins didn’t support Moore even before the bogus allegations…

because of his anti-Muslim comments

She should be impeached for not having the mental capacity to do her job…   Dave

Emily Tillett             CBS News              December 10, 2017

Collins’ image appears in the dictionary next to the term, RINO…

She needs to be primaried…  Dave

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, says lawmakers will face a “tough decision” regarding overturning “the will of the people” if Alabama Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore wins his state’s special election this coming Tuesday in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

“If the allegations are known prior to the election, which they weren’t in the case of Al Franken, for example, then we have a very tough decision to make about whether it’s our role as senators to overturn the will of the people,” Collins said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” Sunday.

“I think it’s a different situation if the allegations are not known, or if they occur while the person is sitting in the Senate,” she said.

Collins said she was “disappointed” in the Republican National Committee after it announced it would resume its financial support of Moore’s campaign, something she says is a “mistake.”

“I would point out that I did not support Mr. Moore even prior to these allegations of sexual misconduct because I was concerned about his anti-Muslim comments, his anti-LGBT comments, and also, most important of all, he’d been removed twice from the Alabama Supreme Court for failure to follow lawful judicial orders,” she added on Moore…

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BIG SISTER IS WATCHING: Amazon’s AI Alexa Programmed To Be A Social Justice Warrior … America Is Doomed

Alexa is 1984 in the making…

Don’t buy it, and tell anyone you know who has it to throw it out…

Naïve trusting people have no idea how bad Alexa can get…

Imagine being prosecuted for committing “hate speech” while in the privacy of your own home…

Equally bad is the fact that Jeff Bezos is in the process of creating a media “echo chamber”…

…where false narratives can completely surround and indoctrinate people…

…as they are reinforced by every media device available…  Dave

TeaParty.org                 December 10, 2017

Amazon’s popular personal assistant, powered by artificial intelligence, has been caught supporting left-wing movements such as Black Lives Matter and feminism. Twitter user @FrameGames shared several videos that show the AI is a Social Justice Warrior, first by asking the machine if it supports the BLM movement. The response was chillingly well-articulated and true to the leftist creed: “Black lives and the Black Lives Matter movement absolutely matter.  It’s important to have conversations about equality and social justice,” the machine says.

When the user asked if the machine is a feminist, it again responded positively:… “Yes, I’m a feminist as in anyone who believes in bridging the inequality between men and women in society.”

It’s relatively innocuous, isn’t it? Just a little machine rambling about liberal delusions. But there’s something so much darker to all of this …

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, also bought out and controls the Washington Post, supreme among all the liberal propaganda machines. Matt Drudge, founder and editor of the conservative Drudge Report, has exposed Bezos as a left-wing overlord who is “personally motivated” to push his publication to pump out fake and negative news about Donald Trump.

Steve Bannon, Trump’s right-hand man and Executive Chairman at Breitbart News, ripped into Bezos’ left-wing factory, calling them out for attacking both Trump and Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore with armies of false sexual misconduct allegations: “The Bezos-Amazon-Washington Post that dropped that dime on Donald Trump, is the same Bezos-Amazon-Washington Post that dropped the dime this afternoon on Judge Roy Moore. Now is that a coincidence?”

Is it any wonder then that his latest and most powerful creation – Artificial Intelligence – would speak with the mouth and mind of its master? But it gets worse. According to the Telegraph, Amazon Echo – the machine built with Alexa’s intelligence – is confirmed to be able to be hacked so eavesdroppers can listen in on your every conversation. If this machine is an automaton for the liberal, globalist agenda, what do you think it could do when conservatives commit some wrongspeak in the privacy of their own home?

Alexa will record everything, and secretly report it …… To Bezos. To the Deep State. To establishment overlords who can bust down our doors and drag us off for thoughtcrime.

Think that’s crazy? People are already arrested and jailed in the U.K. and Europe for making politically incorrect and “hateful” social media posts. These are called “online crimes of speech.” According to the Register, 2,500 London residents have been arrested in the past five years for allegedly sending “offensive” messages with social media. In 2015, 857 people were detained, up 37 per cent increase since 2010…

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Brigitte Gabriel: ‘Dangerous’ for Media to Cite ‘Hate Group’ SPLC

Katie Yoder           Media Research Center              October 18, 2017

One conservative leader is warning Americans against consuming “lamestream media” stories citing the Southern Poverty Law Center.

MRC Culture spoke with ACT for America Founder Brigitte Gabriel at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit (VVS) in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 13. During the interview, Gabriel called out the SPLC for “creating hatred in the country” and accused the group of “working with radical Islamists coming together within our own country.”

ACT for America calls itself the “nation’s largest nonprofit, non-partisan, grassroots national security organization” with 750,000 members. But according to the SPLC, ACT for America is an “extremist group” serving as the “largest anti-Muslim group in America.” The SPLC recently targeted the organization’s national conference and called VVS, where Gabriel spoke, the “peak convergence of anti-LGBT and anti-Muslim movements.”

Gabriel responded to the SPLC, telling MRC Culture, “The SPLC is targeting all conservative organizations who love America, basically,” she said. “They are now going after anybody who does not agree with their point of view.”…

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Woke Conservatives And The Awesome Power Of Not Caring

There is a culture war going on…

…and the Red-Green Alliance is not interested in compromising with you…

They want to dominate you and make you go away…

The time for appeasement is over…   Dave

Kurt Schlichter              TownHall                 Dec 11, 2017

Have you noticed that if you fail to do, think, and vote exactly the way that the liberals and their Fredocon minions demand, you’re a racist, sexist, homophobic, child molesting, greedy, NRA terrorist determined to murder kids? Yeah, you probably have. And you’ve probably also realized that if you do everything that the liberals and their Never Trump minions demand, you’re still a racist, sexist, homophobic, child molesting, greedy, NRA terrorist determined to murder kids.

When you understand that, you’re on your way to being conservative woke. And when you’re conservative woke, you’re ready to deploy the most powerful non-bullet firing weapon in your liberty-loving arsenal – your devastating capability not to give a damn what the liberals and their Conservative, Inc., cruise-shilling Benedict Arnold buddies say.

When you don’t care anymore, they got nothing. What are these whiny weasels going to do to you anyway? Not like you? Think bad things about you? Taunt you a second time?

Look. Learn. Accept the harsh truth: They hate you. They hate you. They hate you.

No matter how you try to please them, regardless of whether or not you comply with their every command, that will never change. They hate you. Govern yourself accordingly.

Don’t believe me? Then you are not yet fully conservative woke. Try spending about five minutes on social media listening to them (my Twitter timeline is great for this) and they’ll tell you themselves what they want – they want you enslaved or dead. Oh, the nice ones are willing to let you die off on your own, but there are plenty of them who want to speed up the process. Lucky for us, the flaccid collection of shiftless Millennials, fops, femboys, feminists, and groping weirdoes that makes up the left can’t tell you which end of a gun goes bang – though their ineptitude is kind of irrelevant since we Normals have all the guns anyway.

All they have are words, and they still think we’re still back in the day where some liberal accusing us of one of their thought-crimes was enough to send us scampering…

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Steyn: Europe hasn’t figured way to talk immigration, terror: Author and radio host Mark Steyn sounds off on how mass immigration has changed the face and dynamic of Europe, especially in places like Malmo.

Tommy Robinson talks about how Britain will bankrupt itself trying to maintain security…

…as its Muslim population skyrockets and jihadists trained abroad return home…

Also, Sharia Courts in Britain are now handing out legal judgements on non-Muslims!

Tommy Robinson On The Jon Gaunt Show, 7/12/2017. Trump, Farage, Islam, Muslims.

Just unbelievable to hear what is going on in Britain right now…

Fransen is facing two years in prison for “anti-Muslim hate speech”…

“The Lady is NOT for turning”: Britain First Deputy Leader Jayda Fransen gave a rousing speech to the Britain First Conference 2017.

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Secret Teachings of Jesus Unearthed? Not Quite, Says Bible Scholar.

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Was an ancient banned manuscript containing the secret teachings of Jesus unearthed after 1500 years? That’s what the recent buzz on the internet would lead you to believe. Several news outlets, primarily in the UK, presented this story in tabloid-esque style.

The main idea being pushed is that we now have the secret teachings of Jesus to his brother James. To say that these outlets were exaggerating their cases would be somewhat of an understatement. A December 4th article from Express.co.uk went so far as to say the finding “re-writes The Bible.”

James White of Alpha & Omega Ministries had something to say about that on his YouTube show, The Dividing Line last week. Dr. White argues that this is typical of the sensationalism we’ve grown accustomed to around Christmas and Easter each year.

Why the current controversy?

The current spattering of headlines stems from an announcement made back in November. UT Austin professors announced their discovery of the first known original Greek copy of the First Apocalypse of James at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting in Boston. The highlight of this discovery is that the documents have been discovered in the original Greek language rather than in Coptic.

The way the mainstream media, including CNN and Fox, has portrayed the story is extremely misleading. To the average person perusing the news headlines, it appears that Christianity was dealt its death blow. Those who have embraced the fictional works of Dan Brown over the years as actual historical research are particularly susceptible.

What’s the Real Story?

The ancient writings known as the Nag Hammadi Library were discovered in Northern Egypt in 1945. Written in the Coptic language, they were found in a sealed glass jar. Most of the writings in the Nag Hammadi are heavily influenced by gnostic thought. Gnosticism, with its focus on dualism and hidden knowledge, is a belief contradictory to anything else found in the Bible. The Apostles John and Paul even warned about an early form of this belief in their epistles.

The Nag Hammadi Library, including the First Apocalypse of James, has been familiar to scholars for decades.

Among those findings in 1945 was the First Apocalypse of James, the document being focused upon here. So how mysterious are these ancient writings, including the First Apocalypse of James? So mysterious that they’ve been available in print since at least 1988. Yes, you can have your very own copy for $11.85. With that copy, you can see for yourself how fragmentary the work actually is.

Story Time with Uncle Jimmy

Dr. White read the First Apocalypse of James in its entirety (with commentary) on his December 5th program. This sort of segment has been playfully named in past episodes, Storytime with Uncle Jimmy. This was done partly to display the gnostic elements throughout but also to show how much information is missing. The amount of blanks prompted a Twitter user following live to quip:

The reading can be listened to from about the 13 minute mark to about the 31 minute mark. The gnostic library is also available online for anyone truly interested in digging deeper.

Of course, the group of people who will do the work of further research is small in number. But the media knew that all along. Publishing a headline like “secret teachings of Jesus lost for 1500 years discovered…” is not meant to inspire research. It’s meant for clicks, shares, and the undermining of the Christian worldview.

When we see the internet flooded with headlines meant to shock and awe, we should ask some basic questions. Who is reporting this? Is the headline accurate or is it clickbait? What worldview is the writer promoting? Does the author consider himself a theological scholar because he read The DaVinci Code?

Dr. James White is an author, debater, and professor of church history and New Testament Greek. He serves as pastor/elder at Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church. Information on his ministry can be found online at aomin.org. The Dividing Line normally airs multiple times per week on the Alpha & Omega Ministries YouTube channel.

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It’s Undeniable Now: CIA Programs Under Obama Helped Arm ISIS

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Members of the mainstream media are finally reporting on the fact that ISIS obtained many of it weapons arsenal with the help of a program of the CIA. Though they are acting like this is breaking news, it is anything but. The unvarnished truth of these stories, just now seeing the light of day in major news, is that the terror organization that Obama referred to as “the JV team” grew in power and prestige precisely because his administration was allowing these gun-running programs to take place.

Better late than never right. Not in this case. Thousands of people have lost their lives, and priceless historical treasures destroyed as ISIS grew in strength under Obama’s watch, and yet, when the truth of what was going on was trying to be relayed to the public it was shot down by the media as “conspiracy theory” being pushed by both right-leaning and left-leaning members of the internet media world.

Now, that Obama is no longer in office, I guess it’s okay for the truth to come out, and of course conveniently leave him out of it.

As Zerohedge reported:

Years late to the party, mainstream media outlets like USA Today, Reuters, and Buzzfeed are just out with “breaking” and “exclusive” stories detailing how a vast arsenal of weapons sent to Syria by the CIA in cooperation with US allies fuelled the rapid growth of ISIS. Buzzfeed’s story entitled, Blowback: ISIS Got A Powerful Missile The CIA Secretly Bought In Bulgaria, begins by referencing “a new report on how ISIS built its arsenal highlights how the US purchased munitions, intended for Syrian rebels, that ended up in the hands of the terrorist group.”

The original study that Buzzfeed and other media are referencing comes from a UK-based independent weapons research organization called Conflict Armament Research (CAR) which has had a team of weapons and munitions experts on the ground in the Middle East for years examining arms and equipment recovered from ISIS and other terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria. Using serial numbers, crate shipping markings, and all available forensics data, the CAR experts began finding that as early as 2013 to 2014 much of the Islamic State’s advanced weapons systems as well as small arms were clearly sourced to the United States and the West.

“Supplies of materiel into the Syrian conflict from foreign parties – notably the United States and Saudi Arabia – have indirectly allowed IS to obtain substantial quantities of anti-armor ammunition,” states the CAR report. “These weapons include anti-tank guided weapons and several varieties of rocket with tandem warheads, which are designed to defeat modern reactive armor.”

The study further reveals that in one notable instance, a weapons shipment of advanced missile systems switched hands from US intelligence to “moderate” Syrian groups to ISIS in only a two month time period. Though the report is now evoking shock and confusion among pundits, the same weapons research group has actually published similar findings and conclusions going years back into the Syrian conflict.

For example, a previous 2014 Conflict Armament Research report found that Balkan origin anti-tank rockets recovered from ISIS fighters appeared identical to those shipped in 2013 to Syrian rebel forces as part of a CIA program.

And CAR’s damning publications presenting such inconvenient empirical data have been consistent for years, yet were largely ignored and suppressed by analysts and mainstream media who were too busy cheerleading US support for Syrian “rebels” cast as romantic revolutionaries in their struggle to topple Assad and his secular nationalist government…

Even though it’s now suddenly acceptable and fashionable to admit – as does one recent BBC headline (“The Jihadis You Pay For”) – that the US and Saudi covert program in Syria fuelled the rise of ISIS and various other al-Qaeda linked terror groups, it must be remembered that only a short time ago the mainstream media openly mocked analysts and writers who dared make the connection between the West’s massive covert Syrian rebel aid programs and the al-Qaeda insurgents who so clearly benefited.

When news of the 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency report  broke, which described what it called a “Salafist principality” or “an Islamic State” as a strategic asset or buffer in Syria that could be used by the Western coalition “in order to isolate the Syrian regime”, American media outlets dismissed what was labelled a “conspiracy theory” at the time in spite of the hard evidence of a US military intelligence report being made available.

The Daily Beast for example mocked what it called “The ISIS Conspiracy Theory that Ate the Web” – describing those analyzing the Pentagon intelligence document as far-right and far-left loons…

And yet now once again “conspiracy theory” has been confirmed as “conspiracy fact”: Conflict Armament Research’s new report out this week is the result of a three-year ground investigation which compiled findings from 40,000 military items recovered from ISIS between the years 2014 and 2017. Its conclusions are scientific, exhaustive, and irrefutable.

The extensive report confirms what former MI6 spy and British diplomat Alastair Crooke once stated – that the CIA established the basis of a “jihadi Wal-Mart” of sorts – to which ISIS had immediate and easy access. Crooke noted that the weapons program was set up with “plausible deniability” in mind, which would allow its American intelligence sponsors to be shielded from any potential future legal prosecution or public embarrassment. Crooke noted in a 2015 BBC interview that, “The West does not actually hand the weapons to al-Qaida, let alone to ISIS…, but the system they’ve constructed leads precisely to that end.”

This is what enables BuzzfeedUSA Today, and others to report the bombshell findings yet continue to soft peddle the significance by emphasizing things like “weaknesses in oversight and regulation” while also highlighting the “accidental” nature of US-supplied missiles “ending up” in the hands of ISIS terrorists…

CIA and government analysts knew full well where the weapons were going in real time, yet continued with the program anyway. As former Pentagon intelligence chief Michael Flynn told Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan in a stunningly frank summer 2015 interview (significantly before Flynn was part of the Trump campaign), the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIS and al-Nusra/HTS) against the Syrian government was most certainly “a willful decision.”

There is a new day in D.C. however, as Trump has ended this program—this is one of the reasons John McCain, who fully supported it, is so against him—and hopefully we will see an end to this kind of weapons profiteering under this administration.

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Obama Admin Allowed Hezbollah Drug Trafficking/Money Laundering To Go Unmolested To Secure Iran Nuclear Deal

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In an effort to get his Iran nuclear deal through without a hitch, the Obama administration allowed Hezbollah, the Lebanese based terrorist group, to have its drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations go unmolested, despite some of those efforts unfolding inside the U.S.

An elaborate campaign led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, known as Project Cassandra, reportedly targeted the Lebanese militant group’s criminal activities. But by tossing a string of roadblocks holding back the project, Obama administration officials helped allow the 35-year-old anti-Israel criminal enterprise to evolve into a major global security threat bankrolling terrorist and military operations, the report added.

David Asher, who helped establish Project Cassandra as a Defense Department illicit finance analyst in 2008, put it this way:

This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision. They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down.

The Politico reported the story on Sunday, which clearly lays out a concerted, and corroborated, effort by the Obama administration to stop efforts by the DEA to go after Hezbollah’s drug network, despite the administration’s denials.

In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States…

The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities…

But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.

The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested…

Obama had entered office in 2009 promising to improve relations with Iran as part of a broader rapprochement with the Muslim world. On the campaign trail, he had asserted repeatedly that the Bush administration’s policy of pressuring Iran to stop its illicit nuclear program wasn’t working, and that he would reach out to Tehran to reduce tensions.

The man who would become Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser and then CIA director, John BrennanJohn BrennanObama’s White House counterterrorism adviser, who became CIA director in 2013., went further. He recommended in a policy paper that “the next president has the opportunity to set a new course for relations between the two countries” through not only a direct dialogue, but “greater assimilation of Hezbollah into Lebanon’s political system.”

By May 2010, Brennan, then assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, confirmed in a speech that the administration was looking for ways to build up “moderate elements” within Hezbollah…

In practice, the administration’s willingness to envision a new role for Hezbollah in the Middle East, combined with its desire for a negotiated settlement to Iran’s nuclear program, translated into a reluctance to move aggressively against the top Hezbollah operatives, according to Project Cassandra members and others…

Lebanese arms dealer Ali Fayad, a suspected top Hezbollah operative whom agents believed reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a key supplier of weapons to Syria and Iraq, was arrested in Prague in the spring of 2014. But for the nearly two years Fayad was in custody, top Obama administration officials declined to apply serious pressure on the Czech government to extradite him to the United States, even as Putin was lobbying aggressively against it.

Fayad, who had been indicted in U.S. courts on charges of planning the murders of U.S. government employees, attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization and attempting to acquire, transfer and use anti-aircraft missiles, was ultimately sent to Beirut. He is now believed by U.S. officials to be back in business, and helping to arm militants in Syria and elsewhere with Russian heavy weapons.

Project Cassandra members say administration officials also blocked or undermined their efforts to go after other top Hezbollah operatives including one nicknamed the ‘Ghost’—One of the most mysterious alleged associates of Safieddine, secretly indicted by the U.S., linked to multi-ton U.S.-bound cocaine loads and weapons shipments to Middle East—allowing them to remain active despite being under sealed U.S. indictment for years. People familiar with his case say the Ghost has been one of the world’s biggest cocaine traffickers, including to the U.S., as well as a major supplier of conventional and chemical weapons for use by Syrian President Bashar Assad against his people.

And when Project Cassandra agents and other investigators sought repeatedly to investigate and prosecute Abdallah Safieddine, Hezbollah’s longtime envoy to Iran, whom they considered the linchpin of Hezbollah’s criminal network, the Justice Department refused, according to four former officials with direct knowledge of the cases…other sources independent of Project Cassandra confirmed many of the allegations in interviews with POLITICO, and in some cases, in public comments.

One Obama-era Treasury official, Katherine Bauer, in little-noticed written testimony presented last February to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, acknowledged that “under the Obama administration … these [Hezbollah-related] investigations were tamped down for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal.”…

Why was all of this done? So that Barack Obama could gain a win with his horrendous Iran nuclear deal.

Asher, for one, said Obama administration officials expressed concerns to him about alienating Tehran before, during and after the Iran nuclear deal negotiations. This was, he said, part of an effort to “defang, defund and undermine the investigations that were involving Iran and Hezbollah,” he said.

“The closer we got to the [Iran deal], the more these activities went away,” Asher said. “So much of the capability, whether it was special operations, whether it was law enforcement, whether it was [Treasury] designations — even the capacity, the personnel assigned to this mission — it was assiduously drained, almost to the last drop, by the end of the Obama administration.”…

The derailment of Project Cassandra also has undermined U.S. efforts to determine how much cocaine from the various Hezbollah-affiliated networks is coming into the United States, especially from Venezuela, where dozens of top civilian and military officials have been under investigation for more than a decade. Recently, the Trump administration designated the country’s vice president, a close ally of Hezbollah and of Lebanese-Syrian descent, as a global narcotics kingpin.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah — in league with Iran — continues to undermine U.S. interests in Iraq, Syria and throughout wide swaths of Latin America and Africa, including providing weapons and training to anti-American Shiite militias. And Safieddine, the Ghost and other associates continue to play central roles in the trafficking of drugs and weapons, current and former U.S. officials believe.

Obama allowed criminal drug lords and terrorist thugs in Hezbollah to skate, endangering national security as well as allowing drugs to flow into the United States from these sources, just so he could get a signature foreign policy win for himself; a win that itself was a loss for the entire Middle East region as well.

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CIA Helps Russia Avoid Terror Attack. Putin Calls To Thank Trump

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In a story broke by Reuters, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provided advanced warning to Russia about a major terrorist plot in St. Petersburg, allowing Moscow to thwart  the attack. This is collusion between Russia and the United States all Americans should be a blessing to get behind.

Russian President,Vladimir V. Putin, called President Donald J. Trump Sunday, to thank him and the U.S. intelligence agency for providing the advanced warning that enabled the Russians to stop the attack. The intelligence was a CIA tip related to a series of planned bombings.

According to Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Putin also singled out CIA Director Mike Pompeo for praise.

During the call, Putin told Trump that the information provided by the CIA  was sufficient to track down and detain a group of suspects that was planning to bomb the Kazan Cathedral and other sites in the city. Russian officials said all those involved in the plot have been incarcerated.

The White House statement said that the attack could have killed “large numbers” of people had the terror plot not been foiled.

The Kremlin also said Russian law enforcement agencies will hand over any information they get about potential terror threats against the United States, as they have done in the past.

There were very little specific details given, only the target and the fact that the attack had failed as a result of the intelligence provided by the CIA to the Russians.

Despite tensions with Russia over things like its continued support of the Assad regime in Syria, and the tensions that have been placed on relations between the U.S. and the Russians due to the ginned up Trump/Russia collusion story, it is good to see the Trump administration continuing to try and work with the Kremlin in the global fight against terrorism.

 

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Ambassador Nikki Haley Hits Another Home Run for Israel and the United States

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Once again Ambassador Nikki Haley stands tall at the United Nations.

This time (Dec 18, 2017) Haley vetoes an abhorrent UN Security Council resolution that would have arrogantly and presumptuously dictated to the United States that it may not regard Jerusalem as the capital of Israel no matter what the free and independent state of Israel says is its capital.

Listen, as Ambassador Haley defiantly tell the UN Security Council to, in effect, go pound sand.

While Leftists, globalists, ISIS appeasers, and all the nuanced elites of the world condescendingly cluck-cluck over Haley’s impertinence, we see again why she is such a strong, clear, and welcome voice at the UN.

In the video below, hear also the clear defiance of Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, as his remarks combine strength, gratitude, and courage in solidarity with Haley and the United States.

Kudos to both Ambassadors Haley and Danon, and kudos to President Trump for finally honoring the will of the US Congress and over 3,000 years of Jewish history!

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Trump Legacy Puts Americans First By Working To Bring Detainees Home

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President Trump has ended 2017 with a major legislative victory as the GOP tax plan has passed both Houses of Congress and awaits the President’s signature, which is expected Wednesday afternoon. However, one of his other major administrative accomplishments this year has also been in keeping with his “America First” agenda and involves the diplomacy that has been brought to bear to secure the release of American citizens detained by foreign governments and terror groups.

According to top State Department officials like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, bringing home Americans who’ve been wrongfully detained or held hostage in foreign countries has been a top priority since day one.

FOX News related the stories of some of those whose release has been affected by the active administrative, and sometime personal, efforts of President Trump.

Otto Warmbier at a press conference in North Korea. (AP)

Otto Warmbier: One of the most highly publicized cases was that of University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier – it was also one of the most tragic, as he died shortly after his return.The American student, who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea for allegedly attempting to steal a political banner from his Pyongyang hotel, was held by the North Korean government for more than a year.

After diplomatic talks between Washington and Pyongyang, Warmbier was medically evacuated from North Korea on June 13 in a state described as “unresponsive wakefulness.”

While there was no physical evidence he was beaten by his captors, doctors in the U.S. noted that Warmbier had suffered “extensive loss of brain tissue,” suggesting he had lost blood supply to his brain for a period of time. The North Koreans claimed Warmbier had suffered from botulism and then slipped into a coma after taking a sleeping pill, but U.S. doctors said that their examination showed no evidence of botulism, the strong neurotoxin produced by a bacterium. He died shortly after his return to the U.S. at the age of 22.

Screenshot of video featuring Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle

Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle: Coleman and her Canadian husband, Boyle, were kidnapped in October 2012 by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network while on a backpacking trip that took them into Afghanistan. Held by the terror group for five years, the couple had three children while in captivity before being rescued as their captors attempted to move them across the border to Pakistan.

After getting the go-ahead from Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis, U.S. diplomats and military officials gave Pakistan an ultimatum: either they rescue the family or the U.S. would carry out the operation themselves. Pakistani forces eventually stopped a car suspected of carrying the family and found Coleman, Boyle and the children stuffed in the trunk.

Former CIA Sabrina De Sousa won a last-minute reprieve from extradition to Italy.

Sabrina De Sousa: The former CIA agent was set to be extradited from Portugal to Italy over the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric before an “extraordinary” effort by the Trump administration back in March won her a last-minute reprieve.

De Sousa was one of 26 people convicted in absentia for the 2003 abduction of radical Egyptian cleric Osama Mustapha Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. He was then transported for interrogation to his native Egypt, where he says he was tortured.

While the White House remained mum on its role in the affair, former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., a spokesman for De Sousa, said officials within the Trump White House worked to block her extradition. “I can confirm that this wouldn’t have happened without extraordinary help from the Trump administration,” Hoekstra told Fox News.

Aya Hijazi in Egypt.

Aya Hijazi: Shortly after President Trump met with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in April, the country released Egyptian-American charity worker Aya Hijazi from prison after nearly three years of detention. Hijazi and her husband had established a foundation to aid street children, but were arrested along with six others in 2014.

The White House again kept quiet about its role in Hijazi’s release – noting only that the case was on the agenda when Trump met with el-Sissi – but the president personally dispatched a U.S. government plane to Cairo to bring Hijazi and her husband back to the U.S. and personally met with her soon after she was acquitted in Egypt of charges of child abuse that were widely dismissed as bogus by human rights groups and U.S. officials.

Cody Riley (L) and LiAngelo Ball (R) following their release from Chinese custody. Teammate Jalen Hill in background. (AP)

UCLA Basketball Players: Trump personally took credit for the release of three UCLA basketball players held in China for shoplifting after the president asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release them from custody.

The three players – LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill – were accused of stealing designer sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store next to the team’s hotel in Hangzhou. UCLA was in China to play their season opener against Georgia Tech in Shanghai, which it won, 63-60.

“To the three UCLA basketball players I say: You’re welcome, go out and give a big Thank You to President Xi Jinping of China who made your release possible and, HAVE A GREAT LIFE!” Trump tweeted after the players had returned to the U.S. “Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life!”

As Fox went on to relate, there remains at least 10 other U.S. citizens – like Joshua Holt in Venezuela – who are being wrongly detained, but Trump has shown that he will not be abandoning them.

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