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Make Room for Islamistgate: The Obama Administration’s
Newest, (Biggest?) Scandal
Currently
the Obama administration is facing three big scandals — the IRS targeting, the
bugging of AP and Fox, and Benghazi. Now we have scandal Number Four, just as
large in scope. For the last four years, the Obama administration has conducted
a major “outreach” program to Islamic groups in the United States and in the
Middle East. In a comprehensive article, investigative journalist and PJ Media contributor
Patrick Poole now presents the full scoop and scope of what’s been going
on. His
article — “Blind to Terror: The U.S. Government’s Disastrous Muslim Outreach
Efforts and the Impact on U.S. Policy” — appearing in the new Summer issue of
the MERIA Journal is a game-changer.
You
may think that you know about this subject, but the scandal extends far beyond
what you have heard. The majority of
these groups and individuals promoted by the Obama administration have been
radical Islamists, particularly Muslim Brotherhood cadre, and more than
occasionally were people involved in terrorist activity. Actual
moderate Muslims have been neglected and isolated by this project, which has
helped the radicals, Islamists, and pro-terrorists gain hegemony in the Muslim
community in America. Again, you may think that you know this story — but it is
far more extensive than has ever before been revealed. Often, the White House
and FBI have granted access and worked with those who were simultaneously
being investigated on serious charges of terrorism. The whole “outreach”
program has been a farce, and it would be charitable to describe it as
incompetence on the part of the Obama administration. Patrick Poole pulls all of the
material together for the first time and shows serious flaws that have endangered Americans in
scores of cases. Radicals have been given credentials as moderates, been
provided with information that should have remained secret, and been allowed to
advise and influence U.S. policy. The kind of government mishandling of
terrorist threats that characterize the Fort Hood case and the Boston bombing
has been business as usual.
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FBI expert: Quran is 'revealed word of God'
- Bob
Unruh
Agency
sterilizes records to satisfy Muslim critics.
The FBI has
censored and modified hundreds of pages of materials to satisfy Muslim critics,
including
a change that was made because an agency “expert” insisted the Quran “is the
revealed word of God.” The details come from Judicial Watch, which
obtained documentation of the hundreds of pages of FBI memos, training
documents and other paperwork that the agency purged on the demands of Muslims. “The FBI is rewriting history in order to help
al-Qaida,” said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “This shows that the law
enforcement agency is in need of serious top-to-bottom reform.” Fitton
said a
lesson learned from the Boston Marathon terrorist attack is that the country is
less safe when it allows radical Muslim organizations to tell the FBI how to
train its agents and do its job.
“The
FBI’s purge of so-called ‘offensive’ material is political correctness run
amok, and it puts the nation at risk,” he said. “The Obama administration needs
to stop putting the tender sensibilities of radical Islamists above the safety
of the American people.” The
organization recently released hundreds of pages of documents from the FBI that
demonstrate the effort to purge from anti-terrorism training materials and
curriculum anything that a number of unidentified “subject matter experts”
deemed “offensive” to Muslims. For example, according to Judicial Watch,
one expert insisted that a particular slide in a training program describing
the Quran as the teachings of Muhammad be removed or changed. The
reason? “The Quran is not the teachings of the prophet,” wrote the expert, “but
the revealed word of God.”
According
to Judicial Watch, another criticism was leveled against a particular article because
it “inaccurately argues the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization.” Also,
another document “inaccurately states” that al-Qaida “is responsible for the
bombing of the Khobar Towers and that AQ is ‘clearly linked’ to the 1993
bombing of the World Trade Center.” Judicial Watch got the materials in
two deliveries earlier this year following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
that was filed last July. The original request for the documents, made March
7, 2012, asked for records regarding a Feb. 8, 2012, meeting that FBI Director
Robert Mueller set up with various Muslim organizations.
Judicial
Watch wanted “any and all records setting criteria or guidelines for FBI
curricula on Islam or records identifying potentially offensive material with
in the FBI curricula on Islam.” Judicial Watch explained: “During the February 8 meeting,
Mueller reportedly assured the Islamic groups in attendance that the agency had
ordered the removal of presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices
around the country that were deemed ‘offensive.’ As reported by NPR: ‘The FBI
has completed a review of offensive training material and has purged 876 pages
and 392 presentations, according to a briefing provided to lawmakers.’”
The
Washington Examiner noted that while the Muslim Brotherhood is not on the U.S.
State Department’s official list of international terrorist organizations, some
of its offshoots, including the Palestinian group Hamas, are. In
fact, Mueller himself has described the Muslim Brotherhood as the inspiration
for terror in the U.S. and overseas. Mueller’s comments came in a 2011
House committee hearing, when he was joined by other Obama administration
intelligence and law enforcement officials to discuss the Muslim Brotherhood. The
Brotherhood’s motto is: “Allah is our objective. The prophet is our leader. The
Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest
hope.” The Muslim critics also didn’t like a statement in the FBI
training material that “young male immigrants of Middle Eastern appearance” fit
a terrorist profile. Another document, the objected, “seems to conflate
‘Islamic militancy’ with ‘terrorism.’” The FBI also acted on a claim from one
of its “experts” that the anti-terror training needs to accommodate “the
current political context.”
It’s
just the latest example of the Obama administration’s accommodation of Muslims,
critics say. The administration also has launched a series of Muslim Outreach
Summits so that Muslims can tell federal officials how they better can serve
their community. The administration also is holding educational outreaches to
let people know that Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to
federal prosecution.
Bill
Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, has scheduled an
appearance at an American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee meeting to
“provide input on how civil rights can be violated by those who post
inflammatory documents targeted at Muslims on social media,” according to the
Tullahoma News in Tennessee. “This is an educational effort with civil
rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of
religion,” he said. “This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in
effect and what the consequences are.” Killian said everyone needs to
understand that Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to
federal jurisdiction. He asserted that while some Muslims may blow
up buildings, hijack airliners and kill thousands, there are terrorists of
other religions as well. [which ones?]
The
State Department lent its weight by sending anti-American imam Feisal Abdul
Rauf on a trip to the Middle East for outreach to Muslims. Explained
Judicial Watch: “Over the years, the Obama administration has embarked on a fervent
crusade to befriend Muslims by creating a variety of outreach programs at a
number of key federal agencies.”
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The Religion of Peace on Display: The Epidemic of UK
Muslim Pedophile Rings
The
Oxfordshire child-sex-trafficking ring was allowed by the authorities’
negligence to drug, rape and sell for sex girls aged 11-16 over seven years. Seven gang members, all Muslim, have
been found guilty of a string of sex offences just over two weeks ago.
Consider the following quote:
The
fact is that the vicious activities of the Oxford ring are bound up with
religion and race: religion, because all the perpetrators, though they had
different nationalities, were Muslim; and race, because they deliberately
targeted vulnerable white girls, whom they appeared to regard as ‘easy meat’,
to use one of their revealing, racist phrases.
Indeed,
one of the victims who bravely gave evidence in court told a newspaper
afterwards that ‘the men exclusively wanted white girls to abuse’. But
as so often in fearful, politically correct modern Britain, there is a craven
unwillingness to face up to this reality. Commentators and politicians
tip-toe around it, hiding behind weasel words. We are told that child sex abuse
happens ‘in all communities’, that white men are really far more likely to be
abusers, as has been shown by the fall-out from the Jimmy Savile case. One
particularly misguided commentary argued that the predators’ religion was an
irrelevance, for what really mattered was that most of them worked in the
night-time economy as taxi drivers, just as in the Rochdale child sex scandal
many of the abusers worked in kebab houses, so they had far more opportunities
to target vulnerable girls. But all this is deluded nonsense. While it
is, of course, true that abuse happens in all communities, no amount of
obfuscation can hide the pattern that has been exposed in a series of recent
chilling scandals, from Rochdale to Oxford, and Telford to Derby. In all these incidents, the abusers
were Muslim men, and their targets were under-age white girls.
Moreover,
reputable studies show that around 26 per cent of those involved in grooming
and exploitation rings are Muslims, which is around five times higher than the
proportion of Muslims in the adult male population. To pretend that this is not an
issue for the Islamic community is to fall into a state of ideological denial. But
then part of the reason this scandal happened at all is precisely because of
such politically correct thinking. All the agencies of the state,
including the police, the social services and the care system,
seemed eager to ignore the sickening exploitation that was happening before
their eyes. Terrified of
accusations of racism, desperate not to undermine the official creed of
cultural diversity, they took no action against obvious abuse. Amazingly, the
predators seem to have been allowed by local authority managers to come and go
from care homes, picking their targets to ply them with drink and drugs before
abusing them. You can be sure that if the situation had been reversed, with gangs of
tough, young white men preying on vulnerable Muslim girls, the state’s agencies
would have acted with greater alacrity. Another sign of the cowardly
approach to these horrors is the constant reference to the criminals as
‘Asians’ rather than as ‘Muslims’. In this context, Asian is a completely
meaningless term. The men were not from China, or India or Sri Lanka or even
Bangladesh. They were all from either Pakistan or Eritrea, which is, in fact,
in East Africa rather than Asia.
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Abortionist agrees, Planned Parenthood ‘never listened
to’ nurses about ‘nightmare’ facility
The
nurses who exposed the “meat-market” conditions at a “nightmare” abortion
facility say Planned Parenthood turned a deaf ear to their repeated
complaints and pleas for action. Over the weekend, the abortionist who
worked at the clinic and oversaw the nurses said he agrees. "Planned
Parenthood is partly to blame for all this,” said Timothy Liveright, the
68-year-old abortionist who, according to the nurses and the state
attorney general's office, is responsible for many of the violations in
question. “They've allowed this circus to continue. It's partly because they
never listened to these women to begin with." The abortionist told The
News Journal that he is being made a "scapegoat" for the problems at
the clinic. Joyce Vasikonis and Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich said
they alerted the abortion provider about the unsanitary practices of the
Wilmington, Delaware, Planned Parenthood – where they say instruments were not
sterilized between patients, Dr. Liveright reused bloody gloves, untrained
staff members over sedated women and let them wander around, and women were
rushed onto tables still stained with the blood of the previous patient.
Women
"could be at risk of getting hepatitis, even AIDS,” said Vasikonis.
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Christian America
In
Peter’s first epistle he wrote, “Be subject to every ordinance of man
for the Lord’s sake” (1 Pet. 2:13). If one were to borrow words from
modern vernacular, one might simply say, “Obey the laws of the land.” However,
in a society that seems to be pushing further and further away from God, is it
possible to still do so and maintain our faithfulness and ultimately promote
righteousness? The answer might seem difficult at first glance, but really,
it’s simple, YES! Then, the question becomes how?
As
Christians living in a postmodern world where the access to sin is quite
literally right at our fingertips, how do we maintain our faithfulness? Paul
made the statement when writing to the church at Rome to “present your
body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual
service. And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable
and perfect will of God” (Rom. 12:1-2). To maintain our Christian values
in the midst of an ever-changing government, we must first understand the
severity of our commitment to the Lord. Paul uses explicit language here, and
he ultimately said to give God our highest prized possession, ourselves!
He followed through with the details pertaining to such a sacrifice by telling
us to be holy. The idea of holiness is often defined as set-apartness,
sanctification, consecration; it also carries with it the idea of being pure
and blameless. Then the apostle went further to say that we are not to be
fashioned according to this world but rather to be transformed by the renewing
of our minds.
We
are to bear the marks of Christ. When it comes to our faithfulness, there
should never have to be a compromise. Do you recall the question that
was asked of Jesus concerning paying tribute to Caesar and His response to it?
He said, “Render to Caesar that which is Caesar and to God that which
is God’s” (Luke 20:25). Was it the questions that drew this response
from Christ? No, the answer, Jesus says, is found in the details of the coin.
In the previous verses, Jesus made reference to possession by calling out the
image and superscription of the coin. We are to bear the marks of a Christian
before we bear the marks of anything else, and that includes our governmental
responsibilities. This is why it is in His image that we are to be fashioned
and not that of the world. This could very well be why Jesus reminded
us that we are not of the world but that He has chosen us out of the world
(John 15:18-19).
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EPA Also Targeting Conservative Groups?
Does
the Obama tyranny have no limits? There are also stories about the ATF doing
the same sort of thing. It’s a sad state for freedom. It’s not just the IRS. A second federal agency is facing a probe and
accusations of political bias over its alleged targeting of conservative
groups. The allegations concern the
Environmental Protection Agency, which is being accused of trying to charge
conservative groups fees while largely exempting liberal groups. The fees
applied to Freedom of Information Act requests — allegedly, the EPA waived them
for liberal groups far more often than it did for conservative ones. The
allegations are under investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee
and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is also holding
hearings on the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups.
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Meet the campaign manager
"A
clue as to whether the targeting by the IRS of Tea Party and other conservative
groups was discussed at the 157 meetings that former IRS Commissioner Douglas
Shulman had at the White House may be found in remarks by Stephanie Cutter,
deputy manager for President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, in a recent
appearance on Jake Tapper's show 'The Lead' on CNN. ... Cutter attempted to
dismiss charges they were political meetings but admitted she had attended
meetings with Shulman at the White House. ... Well, if they were not political
meetings, why was she there at all? Was she there to offer her health care or
tax code expertise? ...
When she appeared on CBS' 'Face the Nation' to defend the president's new
campaign slogan 'Romnesia,' she went on to say that Republican nominee Mitt
Romney was 'severely conservative' and had run as the 'ideal' Tea Party
candidate. She said this as she was sitting in meetings with the head of an IRS
that was charged with implementation of ObamaCare as it was targeting groups
that were created to oppose ObamaCare. Though she denies it, Cutter was also deeply
involved in the ads run by the pro-Obama super-PAC Priorities USA in
which steelworker Joe Soptic recounted how his wife died of cancer after he
lost his health insurance when his plant was shuttered after a takeover by Bain
Capital and other companies working with Romney's private equity firm. ... Cutter
should be called to testify under oath before the House Oversight Committee to
explain why a key Obama campaign operative was in on meetings to discuss
ObamaCare implementation with an IRS official whose agency was targeting groups
opposed to it." --Investor's Business Daily
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"On the other hand, the duty
imposed upon him [the president] to take care, that the laws be faithfully
executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he
will "preserve, protect, and defend the constitution." The great object
of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be
the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for
offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of
rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the
Constitution, 1833
"No country can be called free
which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an
absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will
be the same to the people." --Thomas
Paine, Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, 1776
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