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  • Jihad and America: The Land that Cried Sheep

    By Selwyn Duke

    People were shocked when Major
    Nidal Malik Hasan brutally targeted fellow servicemen at Texas’ Fort Hood
    with pistol fire, murdering 12 and wounding 31.  Yet, there is an aspect of this story that is
    far more shocking — or, at least, one that would be considered so in a sane
    society.

    We
    now know that Major Hasan did not hide his true loyalties, often expressing
    pro-Islamist sentiments.  For example, the
    Telegraph quotes
    former Hasan colleague Col. Terry Lee as saying, “[Hasan] was making outlandish
    comments condemning our foreign policy and claimed Muslims had the right to
    rise up and attack Americans,” that Hasan admitted to being “happy” upon
    learning of the Muslim who killed a soldier at an Arkansas military recruitment
    center and that he once said “maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and
    go to Time Square.”  Chron.com reports
    that Hasan had created “Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and
    other threats” and that “One of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a
    blog that equates suicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade
    to save the lives of his comrades.”

    Read the rest here.

  • Member of Major Hasan's Mosque: "I honestly have no pity for them [the Fort Hood victims]"
    http://youtube.com/v/npAvM-VWwhc

    By Selwyn Duke

    Here is a BBC interview with "Duane," a member of the Fort Hood shooter's mosque. A good example of the jihadist mentality harbored by some within our borders, he says that he won't "condemn" Nidal Malik Hasan because the murderer is a "brother."

    In all fairness, the interviewer, Gavin Lee, points out that Duane's was a minority view at the mosque. Still, though, we have to wonder how many jihadist-minded Muslims there are in our nation. And how many others are sympathetic enough to remain silent?

    An even better question is: How many leftists who facilitate anti-American movements and encourage the invasion of our nation are there?

    Answer: tens of millions.

    A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. — Marcus Tullius Cicero, 58 B.C.

  • The Blasphemy Resolution Story: A Clarification

    Silenced Girl By Selwyn Duke

    Recently I wrote a piece titled "Obama Pushing Secular UN Anti-Free Speech Resolution," wherein I reported on Barack Obama's support of a Muslim-inspired United Nations anti-blasphemy resolution. In it I cited a liberal professor named Jonathan Turley, who wrote the following:

    While attracting surprisingly little attention, the Obama
    administration supported the effort of largely Muslim nations in the
    U.N. Human Rights Council to recognize exceptions to free speech for
    any "negative racial and religious stereotyping." The exception was
    made as part of a resolution supporting free speech that passed this
    month, but it is the exception, not the rule that worries civil
    libertarians…. It is viewed as a transparent bid to appeal to the
    "Muslim street" and our Arab allies, with the administration seeking
    greater coexistence through the curtailment of objectionable speech.
    Though it has no direct enforcement (and is weaker than earlier
    versions), it is still viewed as a victory for those who sought to
    juxtapose and balance the rights of speech and religion.

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  • The Fort Hood Massacre: Is it Really True that All Mainstream Religions are Peaceful?

    1063641_low An apparent Muslim jihadist
    strikes again — this time at Texas’ Fort Hood.

    By Selwyn Duke

    We’ve all heard about yesterday’s
    tragedy at Fort Hood military base in Texas. At 1:30 p.m., army psychiatrist Major
    Nidal Malik Hasan went on a rampage, targeting fellow soldiers and others
    for destruction at the base’s Soldier Readiness Processing Center and the
    adjacent Howze Theater. Using two semi-automatic handguns, Hasan claimed 12 lives
    and wounded 31 people before being shot multiple times by local police (it
    appears the other soldiers weren’t armed). The gunman was then taken into
    custody and brought to a local hospital. It’s said his life is not in
    danger. 

    While
    there’s no “official” word on Hasan’s motives, it’s not hard to connect the
    dots. A man of Jordanian descent and a pious Muslim, the major’s loyalties didn’t
    seem to lie with the nation he’d sworn to protect. Instead, he had often expressed
    support for Islamic jihadists, once saying that Muslims needed to “rise up”
    against the aggressors (presumably the U.S. and the West in general). Expanding
    on this, Philip Sherwell at the Telegraph
    reports on the testimonials of retired officer and former colleague of Hasan’s
    Col. Terry Lee, writing:

    Read the rest here.

  • Catholic Bishops: The Faithful Should Not Support Current Healthcare Reform Bills

    954801_blog By Selwyn Duke

    Upset about the inclusion of abortion funding and mandates in the
    healthcare reform bills currently before Congress, the United States
    Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is blanketing 19,000 parishes
    across the nation with a bulletin insert instructing the faithful to
    oppose the bills in their present form.

    The USCCB relates the substance of the insert in a news release, writing:

    "Health care reform should be about
    saving lives, not destroying them," the insert states. It urges readers
    to contact Senate leaders so they support efforts to "incorporate
    longstanding policies against abortion funding and in favor of
    conscience rights" in health reform legislation.

     "If these serious concerns are not addressed, the final bill should be opposed," it adds.

    Read the rest here.

  • Reader Email: Agenda 21 for Dummies

    By Savant Noir

    Sustainable Development is a framework of thought to "save
    our planet" by harmonizing eco-systems with industry and population. In
    its most modern iteration (inasmuch it has been around a long time), it is the
    outcome of the Earth Summit, and is organized around "climate
    change," man's impact on environmental resources and the organic biosphere
    we live within. It is currently getting notoriety as the United Nations
    Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which is the Treaty that
    legally binds all nations to Agenda 21. Although much larger than this, we
    could summarize that it is the outcome of the Rio Earth Summit where Al Gore
    unveiled his Inconvenient Truths. It is a blueprint to radically change the
    entire world in the name of Economic, Social, and Environmental equity.

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  • The School Where Minorities Weren’t Punished for Fear of “Racism” Charges

    By Selwyn Duke

    Recently I wrote about the Tucson Unified School District, where the powers-that-be decided that punishment should be meted out based on racial quotas. And during the last couple of days I posted videos of British citizens being punished for expressing politically incorrect ideas (one couple ran afoul of the "law," to use the term loosely, because they had the temerity to debate religion with a Moslem).  Now there is another story out of the U.K. that's in the same vein.  It concerns a school named Ridgeway, a place in which the administrators were so afraid of being branded "racists" (among the other psychological problems with which they, being thoroughly modern liberals, are no doubt afflicted) that they refused to hold minority students accountable for misbehavior.  What was the result?

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  • Guest Commentary: The Importance of Values and Principles

                   Hope comes from the Great State
    of Tennessee

    American Flag By Marilyn Barnewall                                        

    A copy of Susan Lynn’s email came last Thursday. She is a member of the Tennessee
    General Assembly and serves on the Commerce Committee. She is Chairman of the
    Government Operations Committee and also chairs the American Legislative
    Exchange Council’s Commerce Task Force.

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  • Elderly Woman Persecuted for Expressing Christian Beliefs
    http://youtube.com/v/h0MV3Ls1-BM
    This is yet another story about an English Christian being persecuted for voicing her beliefs. In this case the victim is Pauline Howe, who received a visit from the police after writing a letter to local authorities expressing displeasure with a homosexual parade.

  • Free Speech is Dead in England – Conquered by Islam
    http://youtube.com/v/5PTBIGxJb5A

    Could you imagine being brought up on criminal charges simply for debating religion with a Moslem? Well, that's exactly what happened to the two English Christians featured in this news report.

    After Ben And Sharon Vogelenzang engaged in a debate about faith with an Islamic woman, the latter complained that she felt "offended" by their beliefs. This led to the arrest of the couple, who now face a criminal trial on December 8.

    Sadly, this is not that unusual in the U.K., as numerous Englishmen have been arrested for "hate speech," specious "racial offenses" or some variation thereof. In fact, I will shortly post a second video about another U.K. Christian who was persecuted for expressing her beliefs.

    This should serve as a shot across the bow to all of us. Make no mistake, unless something upsets the apple cart (which is likely), we'll see hate-speech laws in the U.S. in the not-too-distant future.

    Oh, would anyone like to hazard a guess on whether or not the Moslem woman in this case was arrested? Well, I guess all offense is equal, but some is more equal than others.

    Paging George Orwell.

    Hat tip: Shaun, a frequent reader.

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