tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46477780854491164852024-03-12T17:07:09.290-07:00The Clash Of Civilizations: Awaiting The Coming CrusadeA READER ON THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS PRIMARILY BETWEEN THE MUSLIM WORLD AND THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WEST, BUT ALSO THE HINDU, THE CONFUCIAN, THE BUDDHIST AND A MYRIAD OF OTHER FAITHS AND DENOMINATIONS WHO SUFFER AT MUSLIM HANDS.cwarrenrobertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10120739658751425976noreply@blogger.comBlogger3807125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4647778085449116485.post-43075034249465099872012-03-31T23:19:00.003-07:002012-03-31T23:19:31.853-07:00Bear Grylls supports new sharia-compliant girl scout uniform for Muslims<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Posted on <span class="postdate" style="color: #a12a2a;">March 30, 2012</span> by creeping</div>
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<em>Disappointment from Bear Grylls who was a member of England’s special forces. via<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17548263?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed" style="color: #105cb6;">BBC News – Muslim girl scouts get new uniform</a>.</em></div>
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Girl scouts have a new choice of uniform following requests from scout members from the Muslim community.</div>
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The new, specially designed clothing range includes “hoodie” and T-shirt dresses, which are styled on a more modest design.</div>
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<em>Clearly the girl scout uniform worn by infidels was immodest and haram. </em></div>
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Both are knee-length, and include print graphics inspired by scout badges and the spirit of adventure.</div>
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Around 600 Muslim girls are expected to benefit, although the range is being made available to all scouts.</div>
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British designer Sarah Elenany, 27, from London, created the new range out of her fashion label Elenany.</div>
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She said she aimed to make them fun to wear, so that youngsters would relax while doing activities.</div>
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“I wanted the scouts to be really involved in the design process – the girls told me what they wanted to wear and what issues they had with the existing range,” she said.</div>
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<em>It’s about to get Orwellian in here.</em></div>
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The range aims to highlight<strong> how the scouts are modernising</strong>, increasing diversity and responding to members.</div>
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UK Chief Scout <strong>Bear Grylls said: “With this new clothing range, scouting is continuing to move with the times</strong> and adapt to the growing number of people from different communities who are choosing to be a part of the movement.</div>
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<em>Move with the times? If by moving with the times he means the Islamization of England.</em></div>
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“Scouting has something to offer everyone, no matter your religion, ethnicity or belief, and I’m so proud that we offer an environment for people of all backgrounds to come together and enjoy themselves.”</div>
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<em>And Muslims come into that environment and rather than wear the same uniform as the infidel Girl Scouts, they segregate themselves. They might be better off starting their own organization.</em></div>
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<em>What’s next, will the Girl Scouts be promoting child marriages and polygamy?</em></div>
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<em><strong>Note</strong>: There is a reason it’s called a “uniform.”</em></div>
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Secularists attack Christianity as a “surrogate” for their real fear: radical Islam, the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested.<span id="more-5730"></span></div>
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Dr Rowan Williams also said government initiatives tend to treat church vicars and Muslim imams as though they were the same, The Daily Telegraph reports.</div>
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And he criticised those who stereotype religious believers as either a “fanatic” who wants to subvert everyone to their agenda, or a “woolly liberal” who will agree to anything.</div>
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Dr Williams, who will step down from his position as Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of this year, was speaking at a church service in Surrey.</div>
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He was asked about the debate over secularism, “do you think that the real issue for them isn’t necessarily Christianity but actually radical Islam, that it is more of a reaction against radical Islam and we are a surrogate for that?”</div>
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He answered, “I think there is a lot of truth in [that]. It is the last decade that has seen the great rise in anxious secularism, a real suspicion of religion in public.</div>
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“And I think it is 9/11 that has brought that to a head. We are also in a culture where a lot of people simply don’t know how religions work.</div>
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“I sometimes think the problem with a lot of government initiatives is that they assume either that vicars are imams in dog collars or imams are vicars in turbans.</div>
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“[They assume] that there is one way of being religious – either you are a sort of committed fanatic who wants to subordinate the whole of society to your agenda or you are a sort of woolly liberal who can be persuaded to go along with whatever is happening in society.</div>
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“The Church isn’t either of those things”, he said, adding “it is the assembly of Christ’s friends with good news to share”.</div>
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But Dr Williams said the controversies surrounding secularism had led to a “stirring” at the grass roots of Christianity.</div>
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He said he was hopeful because he saw so many good and extraordinary things going on in local churches, saying the church is a place that people can trust.</div>
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<em>Guess who? via <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/women-beach-volleyball-players-don-t-wear-bikinis-152113917.html" style="color: #105cb6;">Women beach volleyball players don’t have to wear bikinis at Olympics | Fourth-Place Medal – Yahoo! Sports</a>.</em></div>
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Women beach volleyball players won’t have to wear bikinis at the 2012 London Olympics. A new rule announced Tuesday says that participants in this summer’s beach volleyball competition can wear shorts and sleeved tops.</div>
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Athletes in the event have exclusively worn bikinis since the sport was introduced at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Competitors could also wear bodysuits in cold-weather events.</div>
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<strong>The change was made to reflect cultural conventions of various participating countries.</strong></div>
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“Shorts of a maximum length of [1.18 inches] above the knee, and sleeved or sleeveless tops,” will now be allowed, according to the new IOC ruling.</div>
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Since the Beijing Olympics, most beach volleyball competitions have changed rules to allow for more modest uniforms. It’s an attempt to broaden the diversity in the sport, which tends to be dominated by athletes from Europe, Brazil and the United States. <strong>Allowing shorts and shirts can encourage participation from countries with more modest cultural beliefs.</strong></div>
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<em>Of course the media won’t dare mention who the rule change is for, but we all know.</em></div>
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ISRAEL BRACED FOR MARCH OF THE JEW-HATERS BUT "GLOBAL MARCH TO JERUSALEM" FIZZLES</h3>
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According to<a href="http://gm2j.com/main/how-will-the-march-take-place/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink"> organisers of the event</a>, one million people are expected to be convoyed from neighbouring Jordan, Eygpt, Syria, and Lebanon to march to Jerusalem (or to the nearest point). (More <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/03/30/global-march-to-jerusalem-blood-will-rain-on-this-parade/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">here)</a></div>
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The worldwide nazi movement suffered a setback today. The call for a march on the Jews fizzled.</div>
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According to <a href="http://cifwatch.com/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">CiF Watch</a>, who have <a href="http://gm2j.co/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">created a website</a> to help expose the truth about the GMJ, the <a href="http://gm2j.co/factsheet-in-english/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">organizers and leading individuals </a>are a global conglomerate of radical Islamist, terrorist, and far left groups (such as Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood & International Solidarity Movement).</div>
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One such senior leader is Ahmad Abu Halabiya, a Hamas MP and GMJ International Central Committee member, who has<a href="http://gm2j.co/ahmad-abo-halabiya/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">previously said</a>: “Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them.”</div>
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Another is Abdul Razzaq Maqri, the GMJ co-ordinator for Algeria and North African, <a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2682.htm" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">who said in</a> 2010 video that “all our blood is Palestine,” adding that “Israel will be annihilated soon.” Maqri was also one of the leaders of the 2010 Gaza Flotilla.</div>
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Defense Minister Barak ordered the IDF to prepare for a wide range of violent scenarios that could break out along the borders, and military sources say troops were under orders to use force to prevent infiltrations.</div>
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<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=264093" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">(JPOST)</a>: The IDF and Israel Police went on high alert Thursday and canceled weekend leave for thousands of soldiers and policemen ahead of the Global March to Jerusalem planned to begin Friday along Israel’s borders.</div>
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the IDF to prepare for a wide range of violent scenarios that could break out along the borders, and military sources said that troops were under orders to use force to prevent infiltrations.</div>
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“No one will be marching toward Jerusalem,” one official said</div>
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And indeed they didn't. Land Day, <a href="http://jerusalemworldnews.com/2012/03/30/land-day-global-march-on-jerusalem-pass-relatively-quietly/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">“Global March on Jerusalem” passes relatively quietly</a></div>
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<strong>JERUSALEM</strong> (JWN)—A day of Palestinian protests inside Israel and the West Bank—and joined by several thousand demonstrators “marching to Jerusalem” from beyond Israel’s borders—passed with few disturbances and no serious injuries.</div>
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<li>Several protesters were lightly injured by tear gas inhalation in Hebron, when soldiers dispersed a demonstration that had become unruly.</li>
<li>Dozens of Palestinian protesters approached the closed Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip as part of demonstrations for the Global March on Jerusalem. IDF soldiers drove most of them back with warning shots, but one Gazan was shot and lightly wounded in the leg.</li>
<li>Several hundred Palestinians gathered near Jerusalem’s Nablus Gate, some carrying Palestinian flags. The crowd attempted to stage an illegal procession—a march that was already in Jerusalem, but not global—and was prevented by police. Several protesters were arrested.</li>
<li>Lebanese news sites <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">reported</span> that foreign and Palestinian protesters were making their way toward the Beaufort Castle near the border with Israel, under the understanding that they would proceed no further toward Israel.</li>
<li>Protests took place across the West Bank in Kalandiya, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nabi Saleh, Budrus, and other villages.</li>
<li>At the Kalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem, Palestinian protesters threw rocks and firebombs at security forces and set tires alight. Security forces used tear gas, stun grenades, noise weapons, and foul-smelling water to disperse the protesters, many of whom had arrived at the checkpoint from Ramallah. A number of protesters were lightly injured and taken to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">local</span> hospitals for treatment.</li>
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The Israel Defense Forces had raised its alert level ahead of the anticipated protests at Israel’s borders and West Bank checkpoints during Land Day, which was being joined by the much ballyhooed “march on Jerusalem” from outside the country. IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz toured the West Bank and Syrian border Friday morning ahead of the planned protests.</div>
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Who is behind this genocidal movement? The usual bloodthirsty suspects: Algemeiner has <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/03/30/global-march-to-jerusalem-blood-will-rain-on-this-parade/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">this:</a></div>
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The GMJ “Advisory Board” is no less illustrious, and counts amongst its members George Galloway, an antisemitic former UK politician and supporter of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7939480.stm" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Hamas</a> and <a href="http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9334" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Hizbullah</a>. He has previously <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3122173,00.html#n" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">described</a> Jerusalem as being “raped” by “foreigners.” Those “foreigners” being Israel of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">course</span>.</div>
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One of Galloway’s cohorts on the advisory board is Sheikh Raed Salah, an Israeli-based radical Islamic cleric. In 2005, Salah was<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009453/Sheikh-Raed-Salah-Banned-hate-preacher-arrested-WILL-deported.html" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">convicted </a>in Israel for raising millions of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">dollars</span> for Hamas and having contacts with an Iranian intelligence agent.</div>
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In a fiery Jerusalem sermon in 2008, he also invoked the infamous “blood libel” <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/islamic-movement-head-charged-with-incitement-to-racism-violence-1.238209" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">accusing</a> Jews of using non-Jewish children’s blood to bake bread and <a href="http://cifwatch.com/2011/07/08/sheikh-raed-salah-the-indictments" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">called</a> for an “Islamic-Arab Intifada from ocean to ocean, in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">support</span> of the holy Jerusalem.” Immediately after, the 1,000-plus strong crowd began rioting. You can only imagine what a million-plus crowd would do after a similarly incendiary speech.</div>
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Omnipresent in all this is Iran’s unmistakable web of influence, stoking the flames of violence and unrest.</div>
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The respected Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center produced a detailed <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/iran_e160.htm" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">report</a> outlining how Iran is the primary force behind the initiative, both directly and through its <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">proxies</span> such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.</div>
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The Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, personally proclaimed Iran’s open support for the march, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=263393" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">saying</a>it was an expression of Iran’s policy to strengthen “resistance operations” against Israel.</div>
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Hussein Sheikh-ul-Islam, the Senior Advisor to the Parliament Speaker for International Affairs of Iran, was appointed Secretary of the Board for GMJ in Iran, and promptly <a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010176198" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">proclaimed </a>the march “a symbol… against the occupation, oppression, injustice and Judaization of Jerusalem.”</div>
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Ahmadinejad himself even met with some of the participants of the GMJ in Tehran only two weeks ago and <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4204477,00.html" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">told them</a>, “The Zionist regime is like a malignant cancerous cell,” adding it was no longer legitimate for Israel to occupy any part of Palestine and that “we must prepare for the great day that arrogance will be wiped from the face of the earth.”</div>
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So, let there be no doubt — Iran’s terrorist tentacles are all over this march, down to the very last detail. Should violence ensue, the blood will be solely on the hands of Tehran and those foolish enough to be duped into participating in this Jihadist march to Jerusalem.</div>
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SHARIA IN THE UK: FIVE-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLGIRL COULD BE UK'S YOUNGEST VICTIM OF 'INHUMANE' 'UNACCEPTABLE' FORCED MARRIAGE</h3>
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<strong>Primary schoolgirl aged five could be UK's youngest victim of forced marriage </strong><br />March 30, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2122736/Forced-marriage-British-girl-5-UKs-youngest-victim.html#ixzz1qbtcOjvn" style="color: #003399; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Daily Mail</a></div>
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A girl aged five is thought to have become Britain's youngest victim of forced marriage.</div>
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She was one of an astonishing 400 children helped by the Government's Forced Marriage Unit during the last year, it emerged today.</div>
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The shocking revelations have come to light as a public consultation into criminalising forced marriage ends. Amy Cumming, joint head of the Forced Marriage Unit (FMU), told the BBC that <strong>more than a quarter - 29 per cent - of the cases it handled in 2011-12 involved minors.</strong></div>
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She said: '<strong>The youngest of these was actually five-years-old, so there are children involved in the practice across the school age range.'</strong></div>
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A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) told Mail Online that one in ten of the cases involved victims aged below 15, while 19 per cent of those affected were aged 16 to 17-years-old.</div>
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In the horrific case of the five-year-old girl, the authorities would not say where the marriage took place or give any more details to protect the child.</div>
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Fionnuala Murphy, of the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation, said it deals with an alarming 100 cases of forced marriage every year. She told the BBC: '<strong>We have had clients who are in their very early teens; 11-year-olds, 12-year-olds.</strong></div>
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'The youngest case we had was nine-years-old.'</div>
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The organisation is among many that want forced marriage to be made a criminal offence. The Government said last year that there at least 5,000 to 8,000 cases of forced marriage in England and the number of reported cases is rising annually. At the time, Conservative Party chairman Baroness Warsi said it was a disgrace that forced marriage was only a matter of civil law.</div>
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<strong>The politician said forcing someone to do anything against their will, by violence or by coercion, is 'inhumane and unacceptable'.</strong> She added: '<strong>I have met some of the victims. They speak about wedlock being used as a weapon and the horrors</strong> to which this can lead, such as rape, abuse and unwanted pregnancy.'</div>
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It's the jihad, and there are millions who support this mass murder of non-Muslims and secular Muslims as commanded by the quran. *Lone gunan* -- they think we are morons.</div>
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So no, President Obama, I will not "respect" this pox on humanity. (Vid hat tip <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2012/03/moderate-muslims-prevented-from.html" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Blazing Cat Fur)</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I was interviewed last night about the situation of Egypt's Christians: "The Plight of Egypt's Coptic Christians," by Wolff Bachner for <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/213172/the-plight-of-egypts-coptic-christians/" style="color: #993333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Inquisitr</a>, March 29:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Most of us in the West have little knowledge of what life is like for Christians in the Muslim world. Take for example, the Coptic Christians, who were once the dominant religious group in Egypt. Previously the mainstay of their nation, Copts are now living as an oppressed minority, denied religious freedom and equal status in Egyptian life. The Copts are routinely denied meaningful employment and may not hold positions in the Egyptian Civil Service. Copts are refused permission to build new churches and even a request to renovate a church that is badly in need of repair can lead to an outbreak of severe Muslim violence against the Copts. Recently, there have even been calls for a return to collecting Jizya from the Copts, a tax that the Qur’an instructs Muslims to charge to all Dhimmis (non-Muslims) whenever Muslims are in power.</span><div style="margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 1.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">To give our readers an accurate picture of the situation in Egypt, we asked Raymond Ibrahim to answer several questions about the Coptic Christians. Raymond is the son of Coptic Christian parents who were born in Egypt and he has first hand knowledge about Coptic life under Islam. Raymond is a highly respected Middle East and Islam specialist, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum. A widely published author, best known for The Al Qaeda Reader (Doubleday, 2007), he guest lectures at universities, including the National Defense Intelligence College. Raymond also briefs governmental agencies, such as U.S. Strategic Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Among other media, he has appeared on Inquisitr.com, MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, PBS, Reuters, Al-Jazeera, CBN, and NPR. Raymond is fluent in Arabic and he has studied the Qur’an and many ancient Islamic historical documents in the original language. You can find Raymond’s latest writings at http://www.raymondibrahim.com.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here is our interview with Raymond Ibrahim:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">1. Who are the Coptic Christians and what is their history?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Copts are the indigenous inhabitants of Egypt, before the Arab/Muslim invasion around 641 A.D.. The the word “Copt” simply means “Egyptian”; however, because all Egyptians were Christian in the 7th century—Egypt was a major Christian center, so much so that Alexandria vied with Rome over ecclesiastical leadership—“Copt” also became synonymous with “Christian.” In short, the word Copt is similar to the word Jew: both words convey a people and a religion. Tradition teaches that St. Mark, author of the Gospel of the same name, proselytized the pagan Egyptians of the 1st century; by approximately the 3rd century, Christianity was the dominant religion; and by the 7th century when Islam burst into Egypt, Christianity was <em>the</em>religion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/213172/the-plight-of-egypts-coptic-christians/" style="color: #993333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Read the rest</a>, including some good observations following the interview by the author, Wolff Bachner.</span><div style="margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
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They've changed the name now, but the substance is the same. They're not concerned about Muslims committing violent jihad in the name of Islam. No, a far greater threat is that of Christians proselytizing Muslims. Islamic Tolerance Alert from modern, moderate Malaysia: "Malaysia in religious row over 'threat of Christianity,'" from AFP, March 29 (thanks to Wimpy):<br />
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KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian state religious and education officials have changed the title of a seminar on "the threat of Christianity" following outrage from non-Muslims in the multiethnic country.<br />
Southern Johor state education officials faced criticism over the school teachers' seminar to be held Saturday that was titled: "Strengthening the faith, the dangers of liberalism and pluralism and the threat of Christianity towards Muslims."<br />
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The furore over the title follows allegations of Christian proselytisation in the Muslim-majority country after religious police raided a Methodist church event last August fearing Muslims were being converted.<br />
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State lawmaker Maulizan Bujang told the Bernama news agency the reference to Christianity would be removed from the title, saying: "The seminar aims to strengthen the faith of Muslims and it does not need to be politicised by any party that claims it (the seminar) is a threat to other religions."<br />
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But co-organisers from the state religious department said the seminar's content would remain the same.<br />
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"The seminar is part of the right of Muslims to defend the faith of its practitioners from any action which may lead to apostasy. It is our responsibility," an official told Bernama.<br />
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Defend in what way? By violence?<br />
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Opposition leaders say the ruling coalition, which is expected to announce national polls this year, is trying to woo back Malay support by using fear of other religions, after a swing vote saw the government lose control of a third of parliamentary seats and four states in 2008 polls.<br />
Reverend Hermen Shastri, general secretary of the Council of Churches of Malaysia, said the government had to take a stand against the seminar.<br />
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"Of course we are disappointed, it derails the whole idea of harmony and mutual respect and understanding each other," he told AFP.<br />
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Malaysia has largely avoided overt religious conflict in recent decades but tensions have simmered since a court ruling in late 2009 lifted a government ban on the use of "Allah" as a translation for "God" in Malay-language bibles.<br />
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The ban had been in place for years but enforcement only began in 2008 out of fear the word could encourage Muslims to convert.<br />
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The 2009 ruling triggered a series of attacks on Christian places of worship using Molotov cocktails, rocks and paint....<br />
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You guessed it. Will the Islamophobia never end? "Iran Threatens Church with Bombing," by Joseph DeCaro for Worthy News, March 30 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):<br />
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TEHRAN, IRAN (Worthy News)– Another church in Tehran was ordered to cease holding services in Farsi, the Iranian national language, otherwise it could be "bombed".<br />
According to Barnabas Aid, ministers from an Iranian interior department dealing with interfaith matters served notice to the Armenian Anglican Church, unofficially threatening that if the order is ignored, the church will be bombed “as happens in Iraq every day”.<br />
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This latest threat comes after both Emmanuel Protestant and St. Peter Evangelical churches were ordered to stop holding services in Farsi on Fridays, which falls on the weekend in Iran where Sunday is just another work day.<br />
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"It now seems likely that the Islamic authorities have imagined that with this new restriction they will somehow hold back the rapid, and evidently extremely worrying, spread of Christianity amongst the people under their yoke," according to a report by the Farsi Christian News Network.<br />
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Iranian security agents have been arresting Christians in a country-wide crackdown since Christmas.<br />
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Posted on <span class="postdate" style="color: #a12a2a;">March 31, 2012</span> by creeping</div>
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<em>via <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/31/204393.html" style="color: #105cb6;">Boy and girl killed in Afghanistan acid attack ‘over friendship’</a>.</em></div>
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A 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy have been killed in an acid attack in Afghanistan, an official said Saturday, with witnesses claiming it was because of their friendship in what is an ultra-conservative country.</div>
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The bodies were discovered on Friday in wasteland in the Esfandi area of Ghazni province in south central Afghanistan, provincial police chief Zorawar Zahid told AFP.</div>
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“Their bodies and faces were burnt by acid,” he said.</div>
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The police chief said officers were investigating the motive for the attack, but witnesses who found the bodies told AFP the two were probably killed because of their friendship.</div>
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No one has claimed the bodies, which are still in Ghazni hospital, police said.</div>
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The attack is the latest incident to highlight the dangers still faced by many young men and women in Afghanistan 10 years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban, notorious for their oppressive policies against women and conservative attitude towards relationships.</div>
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On December last year, a 17-year-old Afghan girl and her family were sprayed with acid, apparently after rejecting a marriage proposal. The girl, Mumtaz, was seriously injured when several masked gunmen broke into her home in the northern city of Kunduz and sprayed acid in her face.</div>
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<em><em>Where is the outrage? Al Sharpton? Jesse Jackson? One elected official? Obama? Clinton? Million Hijab Marchers? Anyone? </em>No they are too busy race-baiting and trying to secure their power and sources of millions of dollars (often your taxes).</em></div>
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FIRST, a note---Below are two recent news items regarding Dr. Jasser's recent appointment to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.</div>
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<br />For those unaware, the usual American Islamist suspects (i.e. <a href="http://www.cairchicago.org/2012/03/28/action-alert-petition-to-dismiss-zuhdi-jasser-as-commissioner-on-the-uscirf/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank">CAIR</a>, <a href="http://www.mpac.org/programs/government-relations/dc-news-and-views/zuhdi-jasser-does-not-belong-on-uscirf.php" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank">MPAC</a>, and their echo chambers) have begun a malignant campaign this week of character assassination through their corrupt dissemination on the web of outright lies, deceptions, and fabrications about Dr. Jasser and the work of AIFD. Their information is intentionally deceptive, factless, and is simply being distributed (to primarily Muslim audiences) in a scorched-earth policy of making an observant Muslim and organization who dares to take them on pay a heavy price within the Muslim community for providing a space for alternative voices.</div>
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<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Make no mistake, the apoplexy of these Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups to Dr. Jasser's appointment and their resultant dissemination of false and deceptive information is simply a desperate corrupt act of theocrats for too long now used to dominating American Muslim discourse in the United States with little to no palpable opposition.</strong></div>
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AIFD has long welcomed mature debate with groups like MPAC and CAIR. Their latest barrage of vile fictitious attacks this week demonstrate groups not interested in professionalism or real debate but rather in doing whatever necessary (the ends justifying the means) to maintain their stranglehold over Muslim voices in the US. The depths of the levels of their attacks demonstrate the true character of groups like <a href="http://www.cairchicago.org/2012/03/28/action-alert-petition-to-dismiss-zuhdi-jasser-as-commissioner-on-the-uscirf/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank">CAIR</a> and<a href="http://www.mpac.org/programs/government-relations/dc-news-and-views/zuhdi-jasser-does-not-belong-on-uscirf.php" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank">MPAC</a>.</div>
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[One example is MPAC's stated summary of our position on Sharia- here are <a href="http://www.aifdemocracy.org/news.php?id=7060" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank">the facts on record from AIFD</a>. Instead they link to an unrelated hit piece]</div>
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<strong style="font-weight: bold;">For our supporters we ask you to hold these Islamist groups accountable to facts and expose to Americans of all faiths their deceptions and methods they are demonstrating this week. Let members of Congress, media, and others know if you support our work and make them hold these Islamists publicly accountable for their behavior and methods in the public square.</strong></h3>
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WASHINGTON, March 29, 2012 /<a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ca0505; font-family: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Christian Newswire</a>/ -- Two religious liberty advocates appointed this week to serve as Commissioners on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) are being met with sharply differing responses. Both Dr. Robert P. George of Princeton University and Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy were met with enthusiastic approval from the Institute on Religion and Democracy's religious liberty director, while the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the liberal think tank Center for American Progress sharply criticized the appointments.</div>
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<br style="font-family: inherit;" />George has a high profile arguing for traditional marriage while Jasser is a critic of radical Islam. Both appointees are experienced in combating threats to religious liberty. George was appointed by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner. Jasser was appointed by U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.<br style="font-family: inherit;" /><br style="font-family: inherit;" />George, who is Roman Catholic, is a board member emeritus of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. Jasser is Muslim. His organization advocates 'for the preservation of the founding principles of the United States Constitution, liberty and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state.'<br style="font-family: inherit;" /><br style="font-family: inherit;" />An independent U.S. government commission, the USCIRF was created by the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act in 1998. The commission was threatened in 2011 when re-authorization was held up in the Senate.<br style="font-family: inherit;" /><br style="font-family: inherit;" />IRD Religious Liberty Program Director Faith J.H. McDonnell commented:</div>
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"The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is critical to U.S. advocacy for those who are persecuted for their faith around the world. George and Jasser are both men of great integrity and courage. They will be tremendous assets to the Commission.<br style="font-family: inherit;" /><br style="font-family: inherit;" />"George has been a leader in battling threats to religious freedom on the domestic front, but this has not led him to the myopia that sometimes appears to afflict those involved in that set of issues. George's appreciation for and the value he places in the religious freedom guaranteed under our Constitution and universality of human rights as given by God makes him a passionate defender of international religious liberty.<br style="font-family: inherit;" /><br style="font-family: inherit;" />"As a Muslim who seeks to confront 'the ideologies of political Islam' and openly counter 'the common belief that the Muslim faith is inextricably rooted to the concept of the Islamic State (Islamism),' Jasser will provide great insight as the Commission investigates human rights violations that stem from adherence to this very concept."</div>
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(CNSNews.com) - An independent statutory body advising the U.S. government on international religious freedom issues is undergoing a process of change across the board, with the bulk of its commissioners - including some who have served for a decade - being replaced.</div>
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The first two newcomers on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) appointed by Republican congressional leaders and named Monday, are Princeton University professor Robert P. George, a conservative Roman Catholic thinker; and M. Zuhdi Jasser, an observant Muslim and "anti-Islamist" activist.</div>
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Six of the USCIRF's nine unpaid commissioners are due to depart by May, as a result of a requirement inserted into reauthorization legislation in December, limiting commissioners to two, two-year terms.</div>
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The struggle for reauthorization went right down to the wire,<a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/11th-hour-senate-re-authorizes-us-religious-freedom-commission" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2f6ed4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">being finalized</a>just three days before the commission would have had to close. Commission chairman Leonard Leo had appealed to lawmakers not to shut down the body, warning that doing so "would signal to the world that the United States is retreating from the cause of religious freedom."</div>
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Among commissioners already gone as a result of the congressional requirement are the two Republican appointees being replaced by George and Jasser - Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; and Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute's Center on Religious Freedom.</div>
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Land served on the commission since 2001, with a one-year absence; Shea has been a commissioner since the body was established in 1999 under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA).</div>
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Three Democratic appointees have also left in recent days - Elizabeth Prodromou, international relations professor at Boston University; Don Argue, chancellor of Northwest University; and Felice Gaer, director of the American Jewish Committee's human rights institute. Prodromou has served on the USCIRF since 2005, Argue since 2007 and Gaer since 2001. Their replacements have yet to be named.</div>
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Finally Leo, the current chairman, is due to leave on May 14, when his second full-term ends, a commission spokesperson confirmed Monday. Leo, executive vice-president of the Federalist Society, has been on the USCIRF since 2007.</div>
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The enforced departure of the six leaves just three commissioners with experience on the watchdog. They are Democratic appointees Azizah al Hibri, a Muslim law professor, and William Shaw, a Baptist pastor and former National Baptist Convention president; and Republican appointee Ted van der Meid, former counsel to GOP congressional leaders.</div>
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New commissioner George is professor of jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton. He has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.</div>
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In 2009, George co-authored the<a href="http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/the-declaration/read.aspx" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2f6ed4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Manhattan Declaration</a>, a document initially signed by more than 150 Christian leaders - and many more since - who said that civil disobedience may be needed to defend life, marriage and religious freedom in the United States.</div>
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George, who was appointed to the USCIRF by House Speaker John Boehner, told CNSNews.com Monday he was grateful for the opportunity to serve on the commission "at a time when religious liberty and the rights of conscience are under assault both at home and abroad."</div>
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"The commission has done valuable work in the past to defend religious liberty, and its legacy is something to maintain and building upon," he said. "One area I wish to prioritize is promoting interfaith understanding and cooperation as a way of both protecting religious freedom and reducing suspicion and animosity among people of different religious traditions."</div>
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The second new commissioner, Jasser, is president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, an "anti-Islamist" non-profit group that describes its mission as advocating "for the preservation of the founding principles of the United States Constitution, liberty and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state.</div>
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The U.S.-born son of Syrian immigrants and a physician practicing in Phoenix, Ariz., Jasser was appointed to the USCIRF by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.</div>
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"I am looking forward to serving and providing my perspective on the issues that come before the commission in order to protect and bring awareness to the abuse of religious freedom," he told CNSNews.com.</div>
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"I believe USCIRF's mission is vital to bringing true national security to the United States and freedom to people all around the world. I am looking forward to working with my fellow commissioners to develop an agenda that brings open and transparent discourse on religious issues."</div>
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A key function of the USCIRF is to make recommendations to the government about designating "countries of particular concern" (CPCs) for egregious violations of religious freedom. Under the IRFA, such countries may face sanctions or other measures designed to prod governments to making improvements.</div>
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The commission's CPC recommendations have not always gone smoothly. The State Department can - and frequently does - ignore the advice. For example:</div>
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--Pakistan has never been named a CPC, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/administration-s-list-religious-freedom-violators-excludes-pakistan-despite-blasphemy" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2f6ed4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">despite USCIRF recommendations</a> to that effect every year since 2002 and deep concerns about its notorious <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fresh-calls-us-blacklist-pakistan-religious-freedom-violator" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2f6ed4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blasphemy laws</a>.</div>
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--After overruling the recommendation for three consecutive years, the Bush State Department in 2004 designated Saudi Arabia as a CPC, but both it and its successor<a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/religious-persecution-saudis-get-another-reprieve" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2f6ed4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">waived sanctions</a>, despite the urging of the USCIRF.</div>
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--Vietnam's CPC designation was lifted in 2006 - prematurely, in the view of the commission, which amid<a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-ties-vietnam-strengthen-despite-communist-nation-s-crackdown-dissidents" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2f6ed4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">continuing abuses</a> continues to call for it to be restored.</div>
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--Of 16 countries which the USCIRF in its 2012 report says deserve CPC status, only eight are designated as such by the State Department. They are Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan. The eight that are not are Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.</div>
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In recent days, a USCIRF recommendation that Turkey be named a CPC for the first time caused deep divisions in the bipartisan commission.</div>
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Typically all nine commissioners agree on a recommendation, or one or two may dissent. In the case of Turkey, however, four of the nine opposed the recommendation. A fifth tried at the last minute to change his position from support to dissent - <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/state-dept-intervenes-us-body-recommends-turkey-be-designated-religious-freedom" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2f6ed4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">following intervention by the State Department</a> - but his request was ruled as being too late.</div>
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Turkey's foreign ministry slammed the recommendation, saying it showed the commission "lags behind comprehending the steps taken in Turkey recently in the field of protecting religious freedom and the rights of non-Muslim minorities."</div>
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The Turkey recommendation currently stands, but - coincidentally - the three surviving commissioners, al Hibri, Shaw and van der Meid, were all in the dissenting group.</div>
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He has been<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zuhdi-Jasser-is-a-Clown-and-an-Uncle-Tom-Muslim/209962402350872" id="yui_3_2_0_75_1332988364714407" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="" id="lw_1333168095_2">smeared</span></a> as an Uncle Tom, a clown and even a "sock puppet" for anti-Muslim forces. So when it was<a href="http://www.uscirf.gov/news-room/press-releases/3710-two-uscirf-commissioners-appointed.html" id="yui_3_2_0_75_1332988364714410" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="" id="lw_1333168095_3">announced</span></a> Monday that Jasser had been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Islamists frothed with hyperbolic excess.</div>
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called the appointment "farcical" and urged supporters to sign a petition protesting the move. An "<a href="http://www.cairchicago.org/2012/03/28/action-alert-petition-to-dismiss-zuhdi-jasser-as-commissioner-on-the-uscirf/" id="yui_3_2_0_75_1332988364714413" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="" id="lw_1333168095_4">action alert</span></a>" mailed to its listserv also steered supporters to the petition, "calling on community members and people of conscience to sign a petition for" Jasser's ouster.</div>
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The Muslim Public Affairs Council directed its Twitter followers to the petition, too, copying its claim that "Zuhdi Jasser Does Not Belong on the USCIRF." In a separate action alert, MPAC<a href="http://www.mpac.org/take-action/action-alert-voice-concern-about-dr.-jassers-appointment-to-uscirf.php" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">urged supporters</a> to protest to their elected officials, calling the appointment "an affront to all Muslims."</div>
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Jasser is a Muslim. It's doubtful the move is an affront to him.</div>
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A group called the Muslim Peace Coalition issued a statement similarly calling supporters to protest the appointment, calling it "a huge insult to the American Muslims and it will have consequences in terms of demonizing Muslims abroad ... This is a guy who has made a living advocating to curb religious liberties for Muslims RIGHT HERE in the US. The contradiction and hypocrisy of this action could not be more underscored."</div>
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Jasser joining the USCIRF board is "like appointing David Duke as chair of NAACP," wrote Fida Mohammed on the petition page.</div>
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The federally-funded commission is tasked with monitoring and advocating "for religious freedom abroad wherever that right is being abused."</div>
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Jasser, an Arizona physician and Navy veteran, founded the <a href="http://www.aifdemocracy.org/" id="yui_3_2_0_75_1332988364714416" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="" id="lw_1333168095_5">American Islamic Forum for Democracy</span></a>, advocating the separation of mosque and state and taking on Islamist groups he sees as working to slowly inculcate religious practice and dogma into public policy. The United States offers Muslims the greatest freedom to practice their faith because it maintains the separation.</div>
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In contrast, "The theocratic 'Islamic' regimes of the Middle East and some Muslim majority nations use Islam as a way to control Muslim populations, not to glorify God as they portend," the AIFD <a href="http://aifdemocracy.org/about/" id="yui_3_2_0_75_1332988364714419" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="" id="lw_1333168095_6">web page</span></a> says. "The purest practice of Islam is one in which Muslims have complete freedom to accept or reject any of the tenants or laws of the faith no different than we enjoy as Americans in this Constitutional republic."</div>
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But those contesting his appointment cast Jasser as an opponent of religious liberty. His sin? Disagreeing with them while accepting funding from conservative sources, supporting law enforcement counter-terror efforts and publicly criticizing the proposed Ground Zero mosque.</div>
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<strong id="yui_3_2_0_75_1332988364714562" style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"How can an individual who supports the curbing of Muslim civil and religious liberties at home be trusted as a 'commissioner' to review and analyze violations of religious freedoms abroad?" a</strong> <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/zuhdi-jasser-does-not-belong-on-the-uscirf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">web page</a><strong style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> featuring the petition says.</strong></div>
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With the appointment, the USCIRF "is telling the American Muslim community and Americans of conscience, 'we are happy to insult your intelligence by pretending not to know the link between Zuhdi and some of the most vile anti-Muslim funders and entities in the country, and that we do not mind the contradiction between having him preach to the world about religious liberties while simultaneously advocating to curb YOUR liberties in THIS country,'" CAIR-Chicago Director Ahmed Rehab wrote on the petition site.</div>
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Writer Reza Aslan, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, posted a link to the petition on his Twitter feed, dismissing Jasser as "Glenn Beck's favorite Muslim." CAIR national spokesman Ibrahim Hooper echoed Rehan when he <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/muslims-call-new-religious-freedom-appointee-a-puppet-for-islam-foes/2012/03/27/gIQAdH6meS_story.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">claimed</a> Jasser has no credibility among Muslim Americans. "He has long been viewed by American Muslims and the colleagues in the civil liberties community as a mere sock puppet for Islam haters and an enabler of Islamophobia."</div>
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In an interview, Jasser said his views are being grossly distorted. Though he opposed the proposed Ground Zero mosque, his record and that of his family has been in helping build mosques in Wisconsin and Arizona. In none of the releases and Twitter posts issued this week is Jasser quoted saying anything against religious liberty or Muslims.</div>
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"If I'm such a Muslim hater, they can't find one quote from Zuhdi Jasser?" he asked. "It's like something out of Pravda or the Syrian media."</div>
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The level of vitriol directed at Jasser, and the accusation he is anti-Muslim, "is not based on anything rational. It's just name calling," said Qanta Ahmed, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/In-Land-Invisible-Women-Doctors/dp/1402210876" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom</em></a>. Like Jasser, Ahmed is a Muslim American physician who stands against radical elements of her faith and against Islamist political movements.</div>
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Disagreement with the national groups automatically triggers a backlash and accusations of bigotry, Ahmed said, all emanating from "monstrous organizations that want to drown out diversity."</div>
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Jasser has repeatedly <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/2330/jasser-reveals-cair-wahhabi-agenda" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">taken on</a> CAIR and its <a href="http://www.nypost.com/f/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_muslims_must_look_in_the_mirror_g6HY8SYPEtYo8gHubxnNhI" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">positions</a>. In response, CAIR has tried to diminish his views, arguing he runs a small operation with a modest following. That was the line CAIR Governmental Affairs Director Corey Saylor took last March in criticizing Jasser's appearance before a House committee hearing on radicalization within the Muslim-American community.</div>
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Jasser, Saylor said, "is not representative of the mainstream Muslim community and not connected to the activities of the Muslim community to one - cooperate with law enforcement, and two - secure the civil liberties of our community."</div>
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One might say the same about CAIR. <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3078/vast-majority-of-muslim-americans-dont-identify" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">A survey</a> released last summer by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center found just over 10 percent support for CAIR among Muslim Americans. CAIR's true following is difficult to gauge. In June 2007, the <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Washington Times</em> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jun/11/20070611-034232-5919r/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">reported</a> that CAIR membership had plummeted 90 percent since 2001.</div>
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Records show the group sought millions of dollars from donors in <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/270.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">Saudi Arabia</a> and the <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/271.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">United Arab Emirates</a> in 2006, and <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/2709/cair-officials-sought-gaddafi-money" id="yui_3_2_0_75_1332988364714581" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">millions more</a> from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2009.</div>
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The group failed to file tax returns in the past three years which would show the amount of revenue from membership fees. That move prompted the IRS to <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/2990/cair-loses-irs-status" rel="nofollow" style="color: #234786; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">strip CAIR</a>of its tax exempt status last spring.</div>
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"This proves that they operate under the assumption that they represent all Muslims by virtue of calling themselves 'Islamic' or 'Muslim' in their names," Jasser said. "And if anybody disagrees with the cause of their existence, which is Islamism, they somehow are anti-Muslim."</div>
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His appointment stands to threaten that monopoly the Islamist groups wish to maintain. Jasser believes quieter lobbying has been used against him in the past with mixed results. Last July, groups opposed his appearance at a briefing on the uprising in Syria, where Jasser's family came from. One Islamist group tried to remove him from the panel, telling a congressional office it "would give him too much credibility." Jasser participated in the briefing.</div>
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But later in the summer, Jasser appeared to be sailing toward confirmation for a White House appointment to the State Department's Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. He cleared all the background checks and the vetting process, but the appointment was rescinded at the 11<sup style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">th</sup> hour without explanation.</div>
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Despite the "scorched earth attack" against him, Jasser said he is eager to start work with the USCIRF advocating for religious freedom for all faiths, including Muslims living under dictatorship and other repressive conditions.</div>
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The campaign against him is meaningless. There is no mechanism to undo the appointment, so it appears to be all about tainting his image. "I'm not surprised," Jasser said. "They lie and deceive about my work on a daily basis."</div>
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012</h2>
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THE OBIN REPORT</h3>
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When I went to Paris back in 2005 to visit with an old friend who lived there, I visited the Jewish day schools. I was struck by the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">fences</span>, the gates, the fortress-like apparitions surrounding the schools. It stuck out in pretty Paree. It reminded me of the <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/08/the_lessons_of_.html" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">schools constantly under attack in Sderot</a> in Israel (but no bomb shelters, and the gates at the French schools were makeshift at best).</div>
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I wrote <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2005/07/im_baaaaak.html" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this</a> at the time:</div>
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<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/img_0294.JPG" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Img_0294" border="0" height="150" src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/images/img_0294.JPG" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px;" title="Img_0294" width="200" /></a>The Jewish quarter is alive and thriving, religious, orthodox. I could not go into the synogogues (see sign on the left on the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">front doors</span> of the synogogues) or Jewish day schools, as security is elevated there (as it should be) because the Paris that surrounds them thinks the sun is shining and it's all going to be fine -- denial, major denial......... Honestly, I wish those Jews weren't there.</div>
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And that was before the horrifc torture and <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2005/07/im_baaaaak.html" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Islamic ritual murder of Ilan Halimi.</a> Front Page Magazine has <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/26/au-revoir-les-enfants/2/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">this</a> (thanks to Jane):</div>
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Several years ago, the French Ministry of Education appointed a team led by one Jean-Pierre Obin to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">investigate</span> the impact of Islam on the country’s schools. Obin and his colleagues traveled to sixty-one schools around France, observed <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">student life</span>, interviewed school <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">employees</span> ranging from the principal to the cook in the cafeteria, and produced a report entitled “The Signs and Manifestations of Religious Affiliation in Educational Establishments.” Their conclusions were so sensational that the ministry, instead of releasing the report to the public, shelved it. Fortunately, there exists such a thing as the Internet, and in March 2005, the report – dated July of the previous year – was leaked online. It is now <a href="ftp://trf.education.gouv.fr/pub/edutel/syst/igen/rapports/rapport_obin.pdf" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">available</a> at the ministry’s <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">own website</span>.<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;">
Every one of the 18,000 words in the Obin report is worth reading. And sobering reading it is. As I observed in my 2006 book<a href="http://www.amazon.com/While-Europe-Slept-Radical-Destroying/dp/0767920058/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1332612391&sr=1-1" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><em>While Europe Slept</em></a><em>,</em></div>
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The report was in large part a catalog of refusals: increasingly, Muslim students were refusing to sing, dance, participate in sports, draw a face, or play an instrument….They refused to eat school cafeteria food that isn’t halal (that is, prepared according to sharia law) and refused to draw a right angle in math class because it looks like part of the Christian cross. They refused to swim because they didn’t want to be polluted by “infidels’ water.” They refused to read Enlightenment authors such as Voltaire and Rousseau because they’re antireligion, <em>Cyrano de Bergerac</em> because it’s too racy, <em>Madame Bovary</em> because it promotes women’s rights, and <em>Chrétien de Troyes</em>because it’s, well, <em>chrétien.</em> They refused to accept basic facts of Christian and Jewish history and they rejected outright the existence of pre-Islamic religions in Egypt.</div>
Many Muslim students refused, quite simply, to identify themselves as French: when told that they were French, they said that this was impossible – they were Muslims! They explicitly rejected <em>laïcité</em> (the concept of public secularism that is at the very heart of modern French society), calling it anti-religious. Indeed, they rejected Western values <em>tout court. </em>And they had deliberately disrupted moments of silence for the victims of 9/11 and of the 2004 train bombings in Madrid, many of them openly expressing admiration for Osama bin Laden.<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;">
But perhaps the most sobering revelations contained in the Obin report concerned the attitudes of Muslim students toward Jews, and the effect of this on their Jewish classmates. In history classes, Muslim students objected to anything having to do with Judaism. Holocaust denial was common. And of course the entire history of the Middle East, especially the Israeli-Palestine question, was a minefield. Aside from a “routine” use in schools of the words<em>Jew </em>and <em>fuij </em>(kike) as insults, Obin and his colleagues reported an increase in threats and assaults directed “by students of North African origin” against classmates known or suspected to be Jewish. “In the testimonies we collected, events in the Middle East as well as a chapter of the Quran are frequently cited by students to justify their words and aggression.” Muslim kids spoke positively about the persecution and extermination of Jews; praise of Nazism and Hitler was “not unusual”; anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas, abounded.</div>
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As a result, in some cities, Jewish students were separated from their classmates and transported to and from school together for their own safety. In many cases, at the request of Jewish parents, only the school principal was informed of their children’s Jewish identity, which was concealed from teachers and other students – although, as Obin and his team noted, “the surnames of students do not always allow” for such concealment. (Seen <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092593/" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><em>Au revoir les enfants</em></a>lately?) In drawing their conclusion about the effect of all this on Jewish students, Obin and company did not mince words. I will first <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-size: 13px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">quote</span> from the original French: “<em>Il est en effet, sous nos yeux, une stupéfiante et cruelle réalité : en France les enfants juifs – et ils sont les seuls dans ce cas – ne peuvent plus de nos jours être scolarisés dans n’importe quel établissement.” </em>In other words: “It is, in effect, in our view, a stupefying and cruel reality: in France, Jewish children – and this statement applies only to them – can today no longer be educated at any institution.”</div>
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That was in 2004. I have no illusion that the situation for Jewish children in France has improved in the slightest since that report was written – on the contrary, I am sure that things have only gotten worse. I imagine that this is at least part of the reason why some Jewish parents send their children to Jewish schools such as the one in Toulouse: presumably they think their children are safer there than they are in public schools. Perhaps the parents of at least one of the children slain in Toulouse enrolled their child in that school for precisely that reason. But this massacre, carried out by a young man (aged 23) who was himself presumably only a few years out of the classroom, only confirms that Obin was absolutely correct: there is no school in France – not even a Jewish school! – where Jewish children are safe from the pernicious evil of Muslim Jew-hatred. It also underscores the fact that, in all the years since Obin sounded the alarm, nothing significant has been done by French authorities to address the atrocious state of affairs he on which Obin and his co-workers so boldly pulled back the curtain. After Toulouse, the question is this: Will anything be done <em>now </em>to make it possible for Jewish children to receive a safe education in France? What’s your guess?</div>
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Color me skeptical on this "hate crime" of the brutal murder of a Muslim mom in El Cajon, California. It doesn't add up. A glass window or, in other news reports, a glass door is broken, and the mom is beaten to death with a tire iron. Her daughter is upstairs in this rather small house and she hears nothing? The daughter's interview is strange. No tears. Lots of theater. The girl does not seem at all upset by the death of her mom.</div>
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Was there a history of abuse in the family? There is no history of any racial division in this town, according to law enforcement. Perhaps the murderer is counting on a 'Fatima Abdullah' reaction: where a woman is honor murdered and law enforcement fears classifying it as an honor killing so as not to enflame the Muslim community. That was why Fatima Abdullah's honor murder was classified as a suicide, according to an informant in the medical examiner's office.</div>
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The Muslim Brotherhood groups, CAIR et al, are banging the victim war drum, as victimhood is their battle cry. And big media, nationally and internationally, is picking up on the hate crime rampant in El Cajon, despite the fact there have been no incidents of any hate or religious bias. NONE.</div>
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Was there a history of of abuse in the house?<br />Were the police ever called to the house?<br />Were there marital problems?</div>
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Most victims know their murderers. If Shaima Alawadi was murdered by someone in her family, nothing they present as evidence can be true. The fact that a Muslim family would use "hate crime" to cover for an honor murder shows how pervasive that ficticious meme has become in our culture. They knew the media would eat it up like sharks to chum. And they did.</div>
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<strong>Her slaying was being compared to that of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teen shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/shaima-alawadi-body_n_1379629.html" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">said </a>Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.'</strong></div>
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"Trayvon was black wearing a hoodie. Shaima was wearing a hijab," Walid said. "It's the same racist principle at play that killed both of these individuals."</div>
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Here's the CAIR alert:</div>
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Video: Police Probe Beating Death of Calif. Muslim Woman (CAIR)<br />CAIR: FBI Assisting in Murder Investigation (Reuters)<br /><br />WHAT: Memorial Service for Shaima Alawadi<br />WHEN: Tuesday, March 27, 4 p.m.<br />WHERE: Islamic Center of Lakeside, 10390 Mountain View Lane, Lakeside, CA 92040<br />CONTACT: CAIR-San Diego Executive Director Hanif Mohebi, 858-774-9991, E-mail: hmohebi@cair.com; Director of Public Relations Edgar Hopida, 619-913-0719, E-mail: ehopida@cair.com<br /><br />WHO:<br /><br />* A member of the Alawadi family<br />* Members of the Islamic Center<br />* Hanif Mohebi, executive eirector of the Council on America-Islamic Relations, San Diego (CAIR-San Diego)<br />* A representative of the government of Iraq</div>
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There is much more to this story. Let's make sure law enforcement fully investigates this murder. If it were LA, I would be less hopeful, as the LAPD has been completely co-opted by the Muslim Brotherhood.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/murder-iraqi-mom-isolated-incident-danger-iraqis-police/story?id=16014827#.T3I5D79VsXw" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">ABC News</a><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/murder-iraqi-mom-isolated-incident-danger-iraqis-police/story?id=16014827#.T3I5D79VsXw" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">:</a> Iraqi Mom's Murder an 'Isolated Incident'</strong></div>
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<strong>Despite a hate-filled note found at the murder scene of an Iraqi mother in California, police today are emphasizing that other evidence found during the investigation has them convinced the killing was an isolated incident that poses no danger to other Iraqis.</strong></div>
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<strong>Police in El Cajon, Calif., said they will still look into whether the murder of 32-year-old Shaima Alawadi could be classified a hate-crime, but Police Chief James Redman said that "based on the evidence thus far, we believe this is an isolated incident."<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0168e94f86fd970c-pi" style="color: #006699; float: right; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Alawadi" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c60bf53ef0168e94f86fd970c" src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0168e94f86fd970c-300wi" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 300px;" title="Alawadi" /></a></strong></div>
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The beating death of the Iraqi mother of five sent shock waves through the community of El Cajon, which has one of the largest concentrations of Iraqi immigrants in America. Twitter and F<strong>acebook users created hashtags and pages in Alawadi's honor, comparing the targeting of Alawadi for wearing a hijab to that of Florida teen Trayvon Martin for wearing a hooded sweatshirt. Police, however, have not said that Alawadi was targeted for wearing a hijab.</strong></div>
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<strong>"I want to stress there is other evidence in this case that we are looking at, and the possibility of a hate crime is just one of the aspects of this investigation,"</strong> Redman said today.</div>
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Nazanin Wahid, a friend of Alawadi's family who is acting as the family spokeswoman, said today that the family is in the midst of the traditional Iraqi three-day mourning process, and is waiting to hear more about hte investigation from police.</div>
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<strong>"It's been suggested that there was a hate crime, but until the evidence is more clear, we can't jump to conclusions either," </strong>Wahid said. "It could be an isolated event. Who knows what it could be?"</div>
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The beating was first reported last Wednesday when <strong>Alawadi's daughter contacted police around 11:15 a.m. to report finding her mother in a pool of blood with head injuries, </strong>police Lt. Mark Coit told ABC News.</div>
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Alawadi's daughter told local news station KUSI that she found a note next to her mother that read, in part, "go back to your own country, you terrorists." Police would not confirm the contents of the note, though a fingerprint was reportedly found on the note, according to ABC affiliate KOGO.</div>
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Alawadi's family told police that <strong>they had received a note simliar to the one left at the murder scene a week earlier, but Alawadi had laughed it off as a prank and did not report it to police. The family did not have the note to show police, C</strong>oit said.</div>
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<em><strong>Why didn't they reprot it to the authorities? And they don't have it? I would have.</strong></em><strong> </strong></div>
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Alawadi was taken off life suport on Saturday and died shortly after.</div>
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According to police, Alawadi's husband had left the house earlier that day to take their younger children to school. The police have conducted interviews with all of the family members, Coit said.</div>
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<strong>The FBI is assisting El Cajon police in the investigation.</strong></div>
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Wahid, the family spokeswoman, noted that the family has struggled to communicate because of language barriers during the investigation.</div>
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Wahid said she had known Alawadi for many years, since both of their families had emigrated to the United States and began attending the same mosque, and had watched each other get married and have children.</div>
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<strong>"She stood out to me tremendously from lot of people I know because she's very bright, had a warm personality, always had a smile, a big TV smile, and a lot of warmth,"</strong> Wahid said. "She always showed warmth and affection, which makes it even more heartbreaking. I gave condolences to one of her sisters, and she said 'she always talked about you,' which hurt even more.</div>
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The tight-knit immigrant community has been shaken by the incident, Wahid said.</div>
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<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/no-racial-hostility-in-el-cajon-before-fatal-beating-of-woman-police-say.html" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self"><strong>Police: Iraqi Woman's Death Appears To Be 'Isolated Incident'</strong></a><br />Body Of Shaima Alawadi To Be Flown To Iraq; El Cajon Police Look Into Possibility Of Hate Crime</div>
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El Cajon police Chief Jim Redman told reporters Monday afternoon that investigators had not yet identified any "persons of interest" in the case.Redman disclosed that one window in the house the victim shared with her husband and children had been broken and confirmed that a note was found near her body. He declined to reveal what was in the message.</div>
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<strong>"Based on the contents of this note, we are not ruling out the possibility this may be a hate crime," </strong>he said. "At this time we are not revealing the contents of the note, but it was threatening in nature.</div>
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He added, "I want to stress there is other evidence in this case that we are looking at, and the possibility of a hate crime is just one of the aspects of this investigation. We are still in the very early stages of this investigation and have not drawn any conclusions at this point."</div>
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Another menacing note had been received by the family in recent weeks,<strong> but they did not report it to authorities, </strong>Redman confirmed.The victim's teen daughter, Fatima Al Himidi, told 10News her mother dismissed the first note, found outside the home, as a child's prank.</div>
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<strong>Deputy district attorney Oscar Garcia, who prosecutes hates crimes, said offenders sometimes commit vandalism but rarely write notes. "It is a little unusual,"</strong> said Garcia, who added that his office has been in contact with El Cajon police. Garcia declined to talk specifics about the case<strong>. "Based on the evidence thus far, we believe this is an isolated incident," </strong>said Redman.</div>
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"I encourage anyone in the community who has information regarding this case to please contact the El Cajon Police Department.<strong>"Redman added that he could not detail "the reasons why we believe it's an isolated incident, other than to just assure the community that that's our strong belief.""</strong></div>
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Any further discussion on the evidence would compromise this investigation, so I really have to stress that we can't go any further into the evidence in this case," Redman told news crews.He said all members of the victim's immediate family had been interviewed.</div>
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Alhimidi told reporters her mother had been beaten with a tire iron and that the note left in the home read, in part, "go back to your country, you terrorist."<strong>Redman said the ECPD had never before recorded a hate crime against Iraqis or Chaldeans, tens of thousands of whom live in the East County. In response to a reporter's question, the chief said police also had seen no indications of any notable "hostility" toward that segment of the local population."</strong></div>
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<strong> </strong>Officials with the FBI have offered "any assistance we may need, and we will be utilizing their resources as appropriate," Redman noted, adding that solving the case was a "number-one priority for us."At the request of police, the county <strong>Medical Examiner's Office has sealed its reports about the slaying.</strong></div>
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<strong><em>Remember Fatima Abdullah and the medical examiner's role in that cover-up.</em></strong></div>
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<em>Listen to the neighbor at minute 1:35. The neighbor says the glass door was shattered out (not into the house). The door was not busted in, it was busted out across the porch. (thanks to Fern)</em></div>
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I posted earlier today about what may very well be <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/03/honor-killing-in-california-.html" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">an honor killing in California (here)</a>. I found the daughter's interview to be fake and strange. No tears, no emotion, bad drama. The police are saying that other evidence found during the investigation has them convinced that the killing was an isolated incident that poses no danger to other Iraqis. The family has called it a hate crime and the Muslim Brotherhood operatives have been feeding the lie from their propaganda mills that media so readily eats up.</div>
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The police have executed a search warrant at the Alwaladi home.</div>
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<strong> </strong><a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/27/203513.html" style="color: #006699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Al Arabiya has published this startling interview</a> with the family. How did they know so much? Read it.</div>
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In their first interview with the media, the family of Iraqi-American woman Shaima Alwadi, who was beaten to death in San Diego, decided to break their silence and recount the details of the murder that has sent shock waves across the United States and brought back worries of rising Islamophobia in the West.<br /><br />“My wife was a victim of xenophobia,” <strong>Alwadi’s widower Qassem al-Hamidi told Al Arabiya in a phone interview Tuesday</strong>. Hamidi said he and his wife are both from the city of al-Samawa in the governorate of al-Muthana in southern Iraq.<br /><br />“We got married in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia.”<br /><br />Hamidi and Alwadi had five sons and daughters, aged 17, 16, 13, 12 and eight.</div>
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Hamidi, 48, said he could not go on talking and explained that he was in a bad state before passing on the telephone to his wife’s cousin Hussein Alwadi.<br /><br /><strong>“I saw her body in the dinning room a few minutes before the police arrived,” her cousin told Al Arabiya.</strong><br /><br /><strong>He said the murderer snuck into the house on Wednesday morning from the back garden.</strong><br /><br /><strong>“The garden has no fence so he was able to break the glass of the kitchen window right away and apparently he did so without making a noise.”</strong><br /><br /><strong>Hussein added that the attacker then reached for the window handle, opened it, and got inside.</strong><br /><br /><strong>“He did so after watching Shaima’s husband drive away with four of the children he was taking to school. Only Shaima and her eldest daughter Fatima stayed in the house. Fatima was asleep.”</strong><br /><br /><strong>The murderer, Hussein recounted, saw Shaima in the dinning room and attacked her with an iron rod or a spanner.</strong><br /><br /><strong>“He first hit her on her forehead then on her right ear. The third strike was on the back of her head. This was followed by five fast and consecutive strikes on her head and shoulders.”</strong></div>
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<em>Really? How could they know that?</em></div>
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<strong>Shaima, Hussein said, lost consciousness, upon which the attacker left the house.</strong><br /><br />“Because the attack was fast, the eldest daughter Fatima, who was asleep in the upper floor, did not hear a thing and only found out when she woke up and went downstairs to see her mother’s body drenched in blood.”<br /><br />Hussein added that they immediately transferred Shaima to the hospital, where she died three days later after doctors failed to save her life and had to take her off life support.<br /><br />“We got her body and are taking the necessary procedures to take it to Iraq, where she will be buried.”<br /><br /><strong>In addition to the calamity that has befallen the family after Shaima’s death, Hussein noted, they have also been subjected to a smear campaign that has caused them a great deal of emotional hurt.</strong></div>
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<em>Smear campaign from whom? Why? Because the media said he worked with US forces?</em></div>
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<strong>“The media said that Shiama’s husband was a cultural advisor at the U.S. Army and that he used to train American soldiers heading to the Middle East.”</strong><br /><br /><strong>According to Hussein, Qassem al-Hamidi has been unable to work for the past 18 years.</strong><br /><br />“He had a complete kidney failure and one of his brothers had to come from Sweden to donate one of his kidneys to him.”<br /><br /><strong>Hussein added that Hamidi has had refugee status since he came to the United States and that Social Welfare pays his rent and his family’s expenses.</strong><br /><br /><strong>“Shaima did not work so they had no source of income.”</strong><br /><br />Hussein Alwadi was a taxi driver at San Diego Airport and is currently working at the administration of a well-known supermarket in the city of El Cajon, where he lives with his wife and four children.<br /><br />Hussein said that he and his family were at the same refugee camp where Shaima and her husband got to know each other. The camp, which in 1991 sheltered more than 32,000 Iraqis who fled Saddam Hussein’s regime, was located in the town of Rafha in northern Saudi Arabia.<br /><br />Both families stayed in the camp for four years before immigrating to the United States.<br /><br />In 1995, they all left to the United States including Shaima’s seven brothers, some of whom currently live in San Diego and neighboring cities and others in Texas with Shaima’s mother.<br /><br />Shaima’s father, Islamic preacher Sayyed Nabil Moaad Alwadi, was in Iraq when he got a phone call about his daughter’s death.<br /><br />“He will stay there to receive her body and burry [sic] her,” Hussein concluded.<br />Looking forward to reader comments.</div>
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Policy Issues and Opportunities for Intervention: Clare Lopez, Dr. Ashraf Ramelah, Juliana Taimoorazy, Keith Roderick, US Congressman Walsh<br /><br />The Center for Security Policy welcomes you to Faith Under Fire. In Islamic countries, Christians and other reli-gious minorities are deprived of fundamental rights and sidelined from public life; they endure violent attacks against their churches and homes. In a year's time, we have witnessed an escalation in the violence, bloody attacks, murder of Christians and the destruction of their churches and homes throughout the Middle East and Africa. Religious and eth-nic cleansing of indigenous Christian communities in Islamic countries is a reality in 2012. We are witnessing events which may precipitate a foreseeable genocide of these indigenous communities in the near future. Proactive engage-ment on these matters by citizens in the US and our Congress is crucial, as we must be a Voice for the Voiceless!</div>
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</div>cwarrenrobertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10120739658751425976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4647778085449116485.post-55121561332500563692012-03-27T23:19:00.002-07:002012-03-27T23:19:24.494-07:00Joy Brighton: Goldman Sachs caught in a Sharia Catch-22<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Joy Brighton: Goldman Sachs caught in a Sharia Catch-22</h1>
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The intrepid and illustrious Joy Brighton weighs in on Goldman Sachs’ ridiculous foray into the world of Shariah-Compliant Finance. This is an excellent article that regretfully we previously overlooked…</div>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In September 2011, Goldman Sachs announced it would issue a $2 billion Shariah Compliant Islamic Bond derivative known as a “Sukuk” to finance its current business operations.</em></div>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, by Feb. 15, 2012, despite Goldman Sachs’ many acts of obeisance in the service of capital, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank’s Shariah scholars decided that Goldman Sach’s Islamic bond program was “noncompliant with Shariah.”</em></div>
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