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November 4, 2015

Houston’s Got No Problem: City Voters Reject Unequal-rights Ordinance

By Selwyn Duke

It was not an idea too big to fail. And it failed big. Voters in Houston, Texas, rejected the controversial and misnamed “Houston Equal Rights Ordinance” (HERO) by a wide margin yesterday. The measure would have extended “special protections” to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and so-called transgender people, along with those in other “protected categories,” while leaving Americans outside those groups without such protections.

Yet what really drove opposition to the ordinance was that it would have allowed “transgender” people to use the bathroom of their choice based on actual or perceived “gender identity.” In other words, men claiming to be women could use women’s bathrooms.

So while the vote was expected to be close, HERO turned out to be a zero, failing by a whopping margin of 61 percent to 39 percent.

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November 4, 2015

Muhammad Had ‘British Values’?

By Robert Spencer

How best to fight against the global jihad? The claim is increasingly common in the West that the best way is…more Islam.

“This is a golden opportunity,” wrote the Muslim activist Sajda Khan in the U.K.’s Independent, “to develop within our schools a curriculum based upon the biography of Prophet Muhammad, which clearly demonstrates and embeds what are now also considered British values. This is what will develop a strong sense of identity within our youth and dismantle the perverse understanding of Islam peddled by a few. We must be brave enough to say that being a British Muslim is not an oxymoron; it is the most natural thing in the world.

This is just the sort of thing the addled Leftists of the Independent eat up by the truckload. But let’s look into some of the British values that Islamic tradition holds Muhammad as having taught.

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November 4, 2015

Purging Christianity to Please Muslims: German Schools Nix Christian Festival

By Selwyn Duke

One critic calls it the “Islamic conquest of the West.” Others say it’s a sign of a collapsing West. But on the heels of a story about European churches removing crosses to accommodate Muslim migrants comes another in the same vein: Some German primary schools and daycare centers are renaming a traditional Christian festival to avoid “offending” Islamic newcomers.

This latest victim of political correctness is St. Martin’s Day, also known as the Feast of St. Martin. Held on November 11 after the harvest, it’s a traditional autumn event on the Christian calendar. But just as how American school calendars long ago renamed the Christmas and Easter breaks, respectively, “winter” and “spring” breaks, secular forces in Germany see fit to further de-Christianize their nation. And the new committee-worthy name they’ve chosen for the feast day is the “Festival of Lights.”

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November 3, 2015

Condemned to Death for Being Christian

By Selwyn Duke

You probably haven't heard the name Asia Bibi. After all, she isn't a thug who attacked a cop and had Barack Obama and other agitators leap to her defense. She's a Christian mother of five living in Pakistan — barely living, actually, as she's sick and has been is solitary confinement for four years awaiting execution. Her crime?

Being Christian.

Her story is told below by Jamie Glazov, managing editor of FrontPage Magazine. You can also read a good American Thinker article about her plight here. The only thing I'll add is that the quite incompetent Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, recently said while defending her suicidal Muslim-migration policy, “Who are we to defend Christians around the world if we say we won’t accept a Muslim or a mosque in our country?” Defending Christians? I haven't noticed much of that. Mosques built all over the West and Muslims flooding in to fill them? Yeah, that I've noticed.
November 3, 2015

Students Protest: Bring Back Officer Who Got Physical With S.C. Girl

Selwyn Duke

Deputy Ben Fields has been condemned in the media and called names. He has been fired from the Richland County Sheriff's Department. And the federal government has launched a civil-rights investigation into his apprehension of a defiant student who was disrupting her class last Monday. Yet some of the people who know him best are rallying on his behalf: students at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, where Fields was the school resource officer.

On Friday, approximately 100 students walked out of class at around 10:00 a.m. to protest the termination of Fields. They were back in their classrooms after about 10 minutes in response to a diplomatic request from their principal, but not before their voices were heard.

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November 3, 2015

Shocking Video: Egyptian TV Host and Historian Concur: Burning Is the Only Solution for the Jews

By Selwyn Duke

In the video below you have two men who appear sophisticated on the surface, all decked out in formal Western attire. Yet what are they discussing and what is their conclusion? The title gives it away, but it's something to behold.

Note: They appear to be peddling misinformation about the Crusades. To the best of my knowledge — and I've studied the Crusades and wrote a long magazine essay about them — events such as those described by the "historian" below never occurred. But that he'd support a revolting agenda with revisionist history is no surprise.

This interview aired on Al-Rahma TV channel in Egypt on October 27. And, for those interested, my piece on the Crusades is found here: "The Crusades: When Christendom Pushed Back."
November 3, 2015

Should Churches Remove Crosses to Make Muslim Migrants Feel at Home?

Selwyn Duke

While Islamic terrorists in various parts of the world are burning churches and executing Christians, crosses are being removed from some European churches — by church officials themselves.

And it’s being done in deference to Muslim sensibilities.

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November 1, 2015

GOP Media Takedown: A Recipe for Victory

By Selwyn Duke

It’s long been known that a leader can gain power by rallying the people against a boogeyman.

And it helps when that boogeyman is real.

When CNBC’s GOP debate moderators couldn’t help but be sanctimonious, supercilious, and self-important Wednesday night, they did more than provoke a response from their intellectual superiors. They did more than further reveal the Establishment Media as a left-wing monolith, further discredit themselves, and further cement in minds that they’re comic-book versions of journalists.

They quite literally revealed a strategy for GOP electoral gains.

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October 29, 2015

S.C. Cop Who Got Physical With Girl Was Right, Says Expert

By Selwyn Duke

Officials have used terms such as "outrageous,” "reprehensible," and "shamefully shocking" to describe what they see in a video about a police officer who enforced rules on a girl. But do such reactions best characterize the cop’s behavior — or the girl’s?

By now millions of people have seen the viral video of Senior Deputy Ben Fields using physical force Monday on an unnamed Spring Valley High School student in Columbia, South Carolina. As the initial footage shows, the officer tells the 16-year-old girl to come with him, she refuses, and after a couple more requests he drags her out of her chair to enforce compliance. And the public reaction was swift. There was condemnation across the Internet for using such actions on a “child” and a “girl”; Fields’ boss, Sheriff Leon Lott, said that the initial “snapshot” of the incident made him want to “throw up”; the DOJ and FBI are conducting investigations into the event; and Fields has been accused of racial bias (he’s white, the girl is black). Moreover, it has just been reported that Fields has been terminated by the Richland County Sheriff’s Department. But has common sense also been terminated?

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October 28, 2015

President’s Lies Matter: Obama Defends Black Lives Matter Movement

By Selwyn Duke

It’s a phenomenon that has led to riots and the killing of police officers. But that didn’t stop Barack Obama from defending the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement last Thursday at a White House criminal-justice forum. It was an action that, critics say, reinforced divisive misconceptions — ones that have contributed the murder and mayhem.

While Obama paired his defense of BLM with praise for the “overwhelming majority” of police who want “to do the right thing,” he also spoke of “a specific problem that's happening in the African-American community that's not happening in other communities.” Yet he wasn’t referring to the black community’s 72 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate or that blacks are approximately 50 percent of the United States’ homicide victims (while only 13 percent of the population) — or that 90 to 93 percent of these victims are killed by other blacks. Rather, referencing the notion that an inordinate number of black suspects are shot by police officers, the president said, "We as a society, particularly given our history, have to take this seriously. And one of the ways of avoiding the politics of this and losing the moment is everybody just stepping back for a second and understanding that the African-American community is not just making this up. It's not just something being politicized.”

The truth, however, is that made up and politicized describe BLM’s claims perfectly.

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