Who Is to Blame for the Chapel Hill Murders? The Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Industry?

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Over at PJ Media, I explore what’s behind the growing hysteria to get the Chapel Hill murders of three Muslims labeled a “hate crime”:

Muslims are under siege in the U.S. — don’t you know that? Roving bands of Islamophobes routinely harass and threaten innocent Muslims, and a well-heeled Islamophobia Network spends millions to demonize and vilify Muslims in the American public discourse. Things have gotten so bad that pious Muslim women fear to wear their hijabs in public – and when they do, they’re spat upon and worse. The climate of fear and hatred that the Islamophobes have so assiduously whipped up culminated in the horrific murder last Tuesday of three Muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by a psychopath seething with hatred for Muslims.

That’s the way numerous leftists and Muslims see life in Barack Obama’s America, but in reality, that scenario is almost wholly false. A psychopath really did murder three Muslims in Chapel Hill last Tuesday, but the rest is pure leftist myth-making, providing an illustrative example of how the Left and the mainstream media ignore inconvenient facts and bend others in order to further their chosen narrative.

Who is Craig Hicks?

The problems with this narrative are many. From the looks of his Facebook page, Hicks is hardly the right-wing, anti-Muslim Islamophobic redneck of their hysterical fantasies; instead, he is a hardcore leftist and fan of the Huffington Post and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Those two are among his huge and revealing list of “Likes,” which shows him much more preoccupied with Christianity than with Islam. He likes the atheists Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Bill Maher, all of whom have criticized Islam, but his page includes none of their statements about Islam. He likes many anti-Christian groups but no groups that are critical of Islam, and he even likes a group called “Obama Backs Mosque Near Ground Zero: ‘This is America,’” praising Obama for supporting the Ground Zero Mosque.

Other “Likes” from Hicks’ Facebook page include Bill Nye The Science Guy; Sarah Silverman; Penn & Teller: Bullshit!; Stop the World, the Teabaggers Want Off; LGBT / Atheist Alliance; Scary Bible Quote of the Day; World Atheists: Lets Kick Islam and Christianity out of Africa; Merry christmyth; Pass The 28th Amendment – Complete Removal Of The Church From The State; The Rachel Maddow Fan Page; Pissing Off The Religious Right; Keep your Bible out of our Vaginas; Mitt Romney Sucks; Separation of Church and State; Still here? Silly Christians; Jesus McChrist; Denying Evolution Won’t Make Your God Any More Real; Dogs Against Romney; The Atheist’s Bible Commentary; Organization for Educating Misinformed Tea Party Patriots; GOPHypocrisy; Liberals Against Conservative Propaganda; Arrest the Pope and Tax Religion; Not wasting my Sundays at church; Network for Church Monitoring; Dominionism is destroying America; Christians vs. Atheists; Americans United for Separation of Church and State; Stop The Westboro Baptist Church!; and many, many more. Oh, and Gun Toting Liberal.

He likes no anti-Islam groups, and his Facebook page contains no criticism of Islam other than one comparison of “Radical Christians” and “Radical Muslims.” From the looks of all this at least, if Craig Hicks had been planning to commit a hate crime, it seems much more likely that he would have targeted “right-wingers,” Republicans, evangelical Christians, etc., than that he would have targeted Muslims because they were Muslims.

What’s more, Hicks’ wife has said:

I can say with absolute belief that this incident had nothing to do with religion of the victims’ faith, but it was related to a longstanding parking dispute that my husband had with the neighbors.

These killings were over parking, not Islam

The Chapel Hill Police said the same thing: these killings were over parking, not Islam. Karen Hicks added that her husband “often champions on his Facebook page for the rights of individuals. … He believes everyone is equal – doesn’t matter what you look like or who you are or what you believe.” U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand stated Wednesday:

“The events of yesterday are not part of a targeting campaign against Muslims in North Carolina,” and that there was “no information this is part of an organized event against Muslims.”

It is demonic madness to murder people over a parking space, but it is not the seismic event that the cold-blooded murder of three Muslims solely because they were Muslims would be. And so many decided to go with the old adage from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

The father of one of the victims insisted: “This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime. This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before, and he talked with them with his gun in his belt. And they were uncomfortable with him, but they did not know he would go this far.” He said his daughter told him: “Honest to God, he hates us for what we are and how we look.”

Is the sky falling on accusations of Islamophobia?

Curious that Craig Hicks would seethe with such hatred for Muslims that it would move him to murder, and yet never mention this hatred to his wife of seven years or give a hint of it on his Facebook page, where so many of his hates were on abundant display. Nonetheless, it was time to turn the legend into fact: Nihad Awad of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) thundered:

Based on the brutal nature of this crime, the past anti-religion statements of the alleged perpetrator, the religious attire of two of the victims, and the rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in American society, we urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to quickly address speculation of a possible bias motive in this case.

Duke professor Omid Safi (who is so nakedly dishonest that he once claimed that I had threatened to kill him) assumed that speculation was fact as he lamented:

There is a tendency to say, “This is a nice place, these eruptions of violence don’t belong here.” And yet here we are. This is, in all of the heartbreak and violence and sadness, where we are.

Islamic supremacist activist Linda Sarsour said the murder “sends a message to other young people in the Muslim community that the fear is valid.” Abed Ayoub of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) linked the killings to the filmAmerican Sniper (which Craig Hicks actually probably hates):

It may not be directly linked to the film, but the overall way that Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment are moving in this country is portrayed in the words of those who watched American Sniper. The film gave us a look into how these individuals were feeling and for the first time we were getting raw, real messages – and they were frightening.

Read the rest here.

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Lars Vilks Free Speech Event Turns Deadly in Copenhagen

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Vilks Self Portrait

Lars Vilks self-Portrait.

Today’s deadly assault by a masked gunman who sprayed more than 200 rounds of automatic fire into a Café in Northern Copenhagen. The exchange of gunfire by  the gunmen with Danish security police  took the life of one 40-year old man at the Free Speech, Blasphemy and Islam  event  where both Swedish Artist Lars Vilks the honoree and the French Ambassador were present. They were unhurt in the attack. Three security police were injured in the shootout at the Krudttønden Café.

Listen to this BBC recording of a speaker at the Krudttønden Café when gunfire sent everyone to the floor. According to a later reports from AFP, Reuters and BBC:

A  second, perhaps related, incident, close to Copenhagen’s main synagogue in the city center, saw a 55-year old  Jewish man shot in the head, who subsequently died of  wounds,  and two policemen were  injured, police said in a statement early Sunday.  The BBC reported  “early on Sunday, police said they had shot dead a man  who opened fire on them near a railway station in the neighborhood of Noerrebro where they had been keeping an address under observation.”

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt described the assault as “a terrorist attack”, while the United States branded it “deplorable”.

French ambassador to Denmark Francois Zimeray, who had been present at the debate but was not hurt, told AFP the shooting was an attempt to replicate the January 7 attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris which killed 12 people.

“They shot from the outside (and) had the same intention as Charlie Hebdo, only they didn’t manage to get in,” he said by telephone from the venue.

We interviewed  Vilks when he appeared at Rabbi Jonathan Hausman’s Massachusetts synagogue in 2010 during a tour of the US under the auspices of the International Free Press society.  He discussed several attacks on him, including   a firebombing attack by jihadis at his home in Sweden. This followed the publication in 2007 of his Mohammed as a roundabout dog sketches and assault against him at an Uppsala University lecture.   We noted his raison d’être for the Mohammed cartoon:

Vilks created the Mohammed sketch for an exhibition in Sweden entitled “Dog in the Roundabout.” He explained that Sweden’s road/highway system is dotted with roundabouts (rotaries). Often, parks are created in such rotaries or there is simply open area in which people take their dogs for walks. In 2006, there was a national competition to create dogs in roundabouts. With his artist’s eye, Vilks drew dogs in the roundabout. He then began to play with different forms of dogs…solid form, blurry form, different sizes, dogs in different settings, interchanging the body of a dog with the head of a man, Mohammed. Vilks has stated that this series of drawings stirred the ire of the Muslim world. The catalyst for his sketches was the growing violence and changes in Swedish cities caused by Muslim immigrants who displayed unbridled anti-Semitism and anti-Western animus.

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Vilks cartoon Mohammed as roundabout dog.

See a separate interview with Vilks in our collection, The West Speaks. Today’s fatal attack at the Krudttønden Café unfortunately reminds us that blasphemy under Sharia can result in death.

Update from Nidra Poller in Paris:

Now the Danish police are saying there was just one gunman. They have published CCTV photos of him. They describe him as “North African origin.” The event was a tribute to Charlie Hebdo. Debate  is  lively in France and we’re not hearing the “nothing to do with Islam” melody. Europeans are aware that all our liberties are under attack. It’s not just a question of blasphemy. That’s just the beginning. 

The Local in Denmark has updates:

Update, 6.18pm: 

The civilian killed in Saturday’s shooting attack was a 40-year-old Danish citizen, police have said. Police added that they have founded the suspected getaway vehicle but two suspects are still at large.

Update, 6.08 p.m.: Reports of up to 200 shots fired:

The French Ambassdor to Denmark told AFP from inside the venue that shots rang out in the midst of a debate on Islam and free speech in Copenhagen.

“They fired on us from the outside. It was the same intention as [the January 7 attack on] Charlie Hebdo except they didn’t manage to get in,” Francois Zimeray said by telephone.

Swedish artist Lars Vilks, the author of controversial Prophet Mohammed cartoons published in 2007 that sparked worldwide protests was also at the debate.

Three police officers were reported wounded outside the building, Danish media reported, quoting eyewitnesses.

Zimeray said earlier on Twitter that he was not harmed.

“Intuitively I would say there were at least 50 gunshots, and the police here are saying 200,” he told AFP.

“Bullets went through the doors and everyone threw themselves to the floor. We managed to flee the room, and now we’re staying inside because it’s still dangerous. The attackers haven’t been caught and they could very well still be in the neighborhood.”

A Femen activist, Inna Shevshenko, said on Twitter that there were several dozen people in the room.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius condemned the attack, saying in a statement that France “remains by the side of the Danish authorities and people in the fight against terrorism.”

Vilks has been under police protection since his 2007 cartoons were published.

The French president’s office said Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was headed to the scene.

Update, 5.57 p.m.:

Police have confirmed that one civilian has died and three police officers are wounded. Police continue to hunting for two suspected gunmen in a dark Volkswagen Polo. The suspects were said to be wearing all black and speaking Danish.

Vilks himself was unhurt in the attack.

Police say they believe Vilks, known for his depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, was the target of the attack. He was attending a debate on the theme of ‘Art, blasphemy and freedom of speech’ at the Krudttønden cultural centre in the Østerbro area of the Danish capital. The attack took place after a speech by the French Ambassador to Denmark.

Delegate Dennis Meyhoff Brink, a satire researcher, told Jyllands Posten that he heard 30 shots over a two minute period. Danish security police then ordered everyone to remain inside. According to reports, the focus of the attack was on the entrance to the building, and the gunman did not enter the main hall.

“[Security police] came running through the room brandishing guns, and they took Lars Vilks out a back door.”

According to Brink, the shots were fired just as the French Ambassador, François Zimeray, had finished speaking. Zimeray immediately took to Twitter to confirm that he was still alive:

Copenhagen police confirmed to the Berlingske newspaper that three officers were wounded in the shooting and that two suspected gunmen were at large. The suspects wore black and spoke Danish.

The meeting was held under tight security, with delegates subject to searches as they entered the building.

The newspaper Ekstra Bladet writes that the police are treating the attack as an act of terrorism.

Helle Merete Blix, one of the organizers of the meeting, told Danish channel TV2 News that the meeting continued following the drama:

“We couldn’t get away, so the debate meeting carried on,” she said.

More soon

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EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in the New English Review. The featured image is of Danish Police Searching for Gunman after Attack on Free Speech event at Krudttønden Café 2-14-15. Source Martin Vesty/Scanpix.

VIDEO: Senator Rand Paul, ‘Republicans need to be boldly for what we are for!’

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Senator Rand Paul (R-TN) delivered a speech in Sarasota, FL on Valentines Day 2015. He asked the gathered members of the Republican Party of Sarasota County (RPOS), “is anyone here a Democrat light?” Watch the response. Senator Paul calls those in Washington, D.C. the “non-productive sector.” He attacks Islam for its blasphemy laws. “Can we project power from bankruptcy court?” asked Senator Paul.

Senator Paul said, “Republicans need to be boldly for what we are for and boldly go where we have not gone before.”

Senator Paul was introduced by Joe Gruters, Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida and Chairman of RPOS. Senator Paul was presented with the RPOS 2014 Republican of the year award.

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Colonel Allen West – “Thomas More Law Center is ‘Tip of the Spear’ in the fight against Islam”

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A private reception this past Friday, hosted by Dr. Walter Knysz, Jr. and his wife Jan, at their Florida home, featured a talk by retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and former US Congressman, Allen West.
During his address, Colonel West, a member of the Thomas More Law Center’s (TMLC) Citizens Advisory Board, characterized President Obama as a Muslim sympathizer.  West condemned President Obama’s remarks at the recent National Prayer Breakfast, where the President found a moral equivalency between the recent barbaric brutality of Islamic terrorists and Christianity and the Crusades fought a thousand years ago.  Colonel West pointed out that a day before the National Prayer Breakfast, Obama secretly met with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which the President has refused to identify by name.
During his remarks, Colonel West reaffirmed his commitment to assisting the Law Center in the fight against radical Islam and the preservation of Our Christian Nation.

Colonel West also discussed TMLC’s defense of Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Matthew Dooley, an outstanding combat officer and a highly qualified military instructor on Radical Islam and terrorism.  LTC Dooley was fired from his teaching assignment and publically condemned by General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after 57 Muslim organizations demanded that all training materials that they judge to be offensive to Islam be “purged” and that the instructors be “effectively disciplined.”

West took a moment to praise TMLC for all of its work defending religious freedom in several areas including fighting for Christian business owners and non-profits against the HHS Mandate.

In the wake of President Obama and his administration’s recent defense of Islamic terrorists, Colonel Allen West spoke about the dangers of the stealth jihad taking place in America and how the Thomas More Law Center is the “tip of the spear” in the fight for our Judeo-Christian heritage.
In closing, Colonel West reminded his audience of the importance of being on offense because those who love Our Nation can no longer wait for the next attack on our military, our religious freedom, or other freedoms.

The Moderate Muslim Vanguard and Islamic Trafficking in Little Girls

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Just when everyone’s attention has been directed toward ISIS and some of the most despicable crimes ever committed, and our government is loathe to war with our planet’s unequaled brutality, Jordan’s King Abdullah assumed the role of world leader. Such activity continues to distract us so that we ignore the evils unfolding within our own country – the war of the Moderates who exploit children in incalculable ways.      

ISIS and Boko Haram, who hope to establish a shared Muslim empire, have lured thousands of American and European children to join their jihad against Western civilization.  The UK mirror reported that, within a single two-week period alone, the Islamic State kidnapped about 3,000 Yazidi women and children, and Boko Haram kidnaps young girls by the hundreds from private schools for sexual slavery.  European teenage boys are persuaded to join ISIS with cash offers, rap videos, and tales of adventure. Young women are enticed by adventure and romance, only to be forced to live in the nude as sex slaves, beaten, shared among friends, and raped to bear the next generation of jihadists. The International Labor Organization estimates 1.2 million children are trafficked for exploitation each year.

Chechen Muslims, with their violent history, were responsible for the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, when they captured 1,200 people (including 777 children), terrorized and raped the hostages. The death toll was 331, including 186 children (video below). Palestinian Muslims have bombed Israeli school buses and built terror tunnels that led to children’s dormitories and classrooms.

In America, boys and young men are brainwashed in mosques to join ISIS’s fight for Allah. Schools, such as the Universities of California, have become a hotbed of anti-Semitism not seen since the 1930s.  Given a diet of Islamic propaganda in textbooks and videos, the public schools are now “encouraging” and praising Allah (which leads to wearing complete burqas and forced conversion).

hijabGirls are not born with a sense of modesty.  They are taught to feel unsuitable and subservient, whether through their schooling or the Islamic home environment, where the man dominates in a loveless marriage.  From this environment, the young women will readily accept the burqa and its quality of escape and invisibility. Encumbered by these portable tents, they will also be prohibited from the joys of being American, from all forms of sports and social activities (even friendship between women), and they will learn to accept their captivity. Following these forms of conditioning, or being forced to lie (taqiyyah), they will assert their right to the restrictive dress code.

There is yet another consequence of burqas.  In Islam, the idea of modesty is warped into becoming the woman’s shame of her womanhood, which undermines her security and self-respect. This results in an increase in female genital mutilation, and facial disfigurement by acid (already noted in our local upscale shopping mall when a young woman’s face covering slipped). Those who do not wear burqas will be at risk of being raped; the risk in Islamized Sweden and Denmark has reached epidemic proportions, comparable to Islamic countries.  The more subjugated the women, the higher the overall crime rate in a tyrannical regime.  When news reporters state that we have to defeat the Islamic ideology to win against ISIS, be reminded that we must also defeat the ideology’s permeation into our own lives.

Of the 1.3 billion Muslims in the world, it is estimated that up to 25% may be violent extremists, with the majority of Muslims in most Islamic countries favoring Shari’a law.  Within the populace are the traumatized, fearful and irrelevant women, as well as the mentally challenged, both invariably disposable and “volunteered” for suicide mission.  Another group, a courageous handful who speak out against parts of the Koran and for Islamic reform, has undertaken a daunting and dangerous mission.

And finally we have the Moderates, the comparatively discreet in Western society, who go about their daily lives inconspicuously, never speaking out against terrorism, all the while effecting changes in our land in gradual increments.  They are the non-violent who nevertheless seek to establish a tyrannical regime here, in America.  While citizens are battling the ACLU’s attempt to allow Muslim laws in Oklahoma, a Shari’a court has been established in Texas. New school textbooks are crammed with indoctrinate material about Islam, with little about America and the other major religions, leaving parents in Massachusetts and Florida furious about the deceitful programs inflicted on their children.  It is the Moderates who surreptitiously prepare proselytizing films and school excursions to mosques without prior parental notification, all changes that are meant to create a new generation of devotees and jihadists. Only recently, Florida parents exposed to the media the textbooks that contain several chapters on whitewashed Islam, with 100 pages of Judaism and Christianity missing.

muslim studentsModerates are also the college students who, now brazen and empowered by a quiescent, ignorant, leftist administration, defend terrorist organizations, vilify Israel and call for her annihilation, and unite to attack Jewish students.  Encouraged to invite outside speakers from terrorist groups (Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood), the Muslim Student Union (MSU) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) work together to impose their ideology and establish Shari’a laws and restrictions on their host population.  Their leader, Azka Fayyaz, is now openly promoting violence and Israel’s destruction.  A dedicated anti-Semite, she announced that Hamas and Shari’a have taken over the University of California, and is no doubt responsible for recent Nazi-style graffiti at a Jewish fraternity and Hillel House.

The families that allege to have come to the West in order to escape tyranny reared and nurtured their children in their home culture of intolerance and harshness.  These Moderates are fast becoming the jihadists of tomorrow, eager to replace our way of life with theirs.  They are the new devotees who celebrate the Islamic Eid  with animals that are ruthlessly tortured and slaughtered for sacrifice, and demand particular accommodations from the public schools. They are the bystanders who cheer while non-moderates behead, torch, or throw their fellow human beings off cliffs. They are the ones who happily extend their hands to receive candy distributed on the occasion of a suicide bombing by one of their own.  They are the parents of young women who leave home to join a Palestinian cause and become comfort women to Islamo-fascist barbarians, and are ultimately killed.  They are the Moderates who believe that every punishment meted out in the 7th century Qur’an is acceptable today, against homosexuals, women, apostates, infidels, and more

These are the Moderates who are working to influence and change our children. Their clothes may remain unsplattered, but we may be certain that their hands are soaked in blood.

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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of a young Yazidi girl fleeing from the Islamic State.

Islamic State: “Allah has revealed Islam to be the religion of the sword, and the evidence for this is…profuse”

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Cognitive dissonance: Bush, Obama, David Cameron and a host of others insist that Islam is a religion of peace. The Islamic State, which they claim has nothing to do with Islam, quotes the Qur’an copiously to establish that Islam is actually a religion of the sword that calls for permanent war against Infidels. Would it be permissible to examine the Qur’an to try to determine which claim is more accurate? Or would that be “Islamophobic”?

“ISIS Upset with Obama, Kerry, ‘Heretics’ for ‘Slogan’ That Islam Is Religion of Peace,” by Bridget Johnson, PJ Media, February 12, 2015:

The new issue of ISIS’ magazine released today takes issue with Western leaders who assert that Islam is a religion of peace.

In the Dabiq magazine article, the writer said the wrongful “slogan” is also being used by “apologetic ‘du’āt’ [beggars] when flirting with the West.”

“They have repeated this slogan so much to the extent that some of them alleged that Islam calls to permanent peace with kufr and the kāfirīn. How far is their claim from the truth, for Allah has revealed Islam to be the religion of the sword, and the evidence for this is so profuse that only a zindīq (heretic) would argue otherwise,” the magazine states….

After a page worth of quotes from the Quran that “revealed the sword against the apostates,” the article asks, “So how can the zanādiqah (heretics) or even those who blindly follow them – Bush, Obama, and Kerry – obstinately claim that ‘Islam is a religion of peace,’ meaning pacifism?”…

It quotes more of the Quran, concluding “it is clear then that salām (peace) is not the basis of the word Islam, although it shares the same consonant root (s-l-m) and is one of the outcomes of the religion’s sword, as the sword will continue to be drawn, raised, and swung until ‘Īsā (Jesus – ‘alayhis-salām) kills the Dajjāl (the Antichrist) and abolishes the jizyah. Thereafter, kufr and its tyranny will be destroyed; Islam and its justice will prevail on the entire Earth.”

“…There will always be a party of Muslims fighting parties of kāfirīn until there is no more fitnah and the religion is completely for Allah alone.”

That’s from the Qur’an: “And fight them until there is no fitnah and the religion, all of it, is for Allah” (8:39).

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Chapel Hill murderer: “Knowing several dozen Muslims…I’d prefer them to most Christians”

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This won’t stop the mainstream media/Islamic supremacist/Obama myth-making, but here is yet more evidence that the psychopath who murdered three Muslims in cold blood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina last Tuesday was not motivated by “Islamophobia,” much as the jihad enablers wish that he had been — because hate crimes against Muslims are so very useful to them.

“Everything We Know So Far About The Alleged Chapel Hill Shooter,” by David Mack, Buzzfeed, February 12, 2-15 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

…In a post on Aug. 19, 2010, debating the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” on XDtalk.com, an account that appeared to belong to Hicks posted that he had known “several dozen Muslims” and believed “that they aren’t what most think of them.”

In a post on Aug. 19, 2010, debating the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" on XDtalk.com, an account that appeared to belong to Hicks posted that he had known "several dozen Muslims" and believed "that they aren't what most think of them."

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When a user took a poll of the forum, the account that appeared to belong to Hicks voted in favor of a response reading, “I am indifferent about the project itself — I can see the arguments both for it and against it. But this is a free country, and the developers certainly have a right to express themselves.

The full post reads as follows

I voted #2 for several reasons.

The first amendment to our constitution guarantees freedom of religion, which takes precedence over any other “feeling” that any of us as Americans may have.

Beyond that though after being in D.C. for a decade and knowing several dozen Muslims for most of that time I can say that they aren’t what most think of them. In fact, I’d prefer them to most Christians as I was never coerced in any way by the Muslims to follow their religion, which I cannot say about many Christians.

While the terrorists who did the 9/11 attacks were Muslims, they were extremists in that faith which isn’t common. I know of many Christian extremists personally, much less the ones we have heard about on the news. People of this country don’t seem to hold that against Christianity though(probably because they’re a majority in this country).

While it may cause problems with those that don’t want it there with vandalizing and such, what if that excuse stopped our forefathers from starting a new nation. Civil rights, suffrage, heck even our own gun rights have been “fought” for at times. On that matter, the vast majority of our own ancestors in this country had to fight for their rights as Americans as most of the ethnic groups in this country were looked down on at some point(some still are).

This country was founded on freedoms, and many forget that one of the biggest freedoms that was fought for was freedom of religion. Then after all was said and done, Americans pushed west and took the lands of the Native Americans, put them on reservations (land that has no use), and stuffed religion down their throat. Their children were often taken from them to be taught Christianity (brainwashed might be a better word). They were not allowed to have their ancestral hair or garments, not allowed to use their given names but had to use the Christian ones assigned to them, and not allowed to speak their native tongue among other things. Funny how during World War 2, the same government that violated the Native Americans 1st amendment rights in the previous century were called upon because of their ancestral language.

With all that being said, I don’t see how anyone who calls themselves American can claim that a Mosque shouldn’t be TWO BLOCKS AWAY from what is known as ground zero.

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Defeating Jihad Summit — Episode 3

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In addition to our third installment of the critically important Defeating Jihad Summit, we bring you our dear friend, Jerusalem Jane, LIVE from the Holy City with an update about her work for the state of Israel and Jewish people. You can contact Jane through her wonderful Face Book page – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel…. DEFEAT JIHAD SUMMIT (Also, Arie Egozi update from Israel)

To watch complete Summit – www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org.

The Center for Security Policy presents this remarkable event in Washington on 11 February. An international summit where the truth will actually be told about the real and growing danger facing our country and the rest of the Free World, a truth that is basically taboo in official circles these days.

All other things being equal, this practice of air-brushing out of presidential pronouncements, national strategies and the Obama administration’s public events any accurate depiction of the enemy or its ideology will be much in evidence at the “Countering Violent Extremism Summit” to be held at the White House on 18 February.

In the belief that the American people deserve better and, specifically, that they have a need-to-know who it is we are fighting and why, a small but representative sample of patriots and freedom fighters drawn from the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel and Australia will be joining forces for the “Defeat Jihad Summit.”

This invitation-only event will be conducted in a roundtable discussion format involving some 35 distinguished counter-jihadists. Among the eminent participants will be: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Representatives Steven King and Mike Pompeo, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, Danish free speech advocate Lars Hedegaard and Britain’s Lord Malcolm Pearson.

In the course of the program, we will explore the reality that we confront not simply the Islamic State or al Qaeda, but what is truly a Global Jihad Movement – and the totalitarian, Islamic supremacist ideology that animates it: shariah. We’ll examine rigorously the adequacy of the measures taken to date by the United States and other Western nations to contend with this threat. And we’ll consider alternative strategies that may be considerably more effective in defeating jihad.

In that regard, we commend to you the Secure Freedom Strategy the Center for Security Policy rolled out on 16 January. It is modeled after the one President Reagan used to destroy the last totalitarian ideology that sought to vanquish us: Soviet Communism and the “Evil Empire” it begat.

A two-page paper outlining the Strategy’s highlights can be at www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org.

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Britain’s last Guantanamo Detainee: The real story behind Shaker Aamer

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HJS looks at the al-Qaeda suspect who may be eligible for a payout thought to be worth approximately £1,000,000,  and for whom even the Prime Minister is campaigning.

Last Sunday, for the second week in a row, The Henry Jackson Society has been featured prominently in The Sunday Telegraph. After our initial, front-page success in highlighting the number of terrorists using human rights legislation to stay in the UK, we turned our attention to the case of the last remaining British resident still held at Guantánamo Bay, Shaker Aamer.

HJS Research Fellow Robin Simcox once again provided the ammunition for this exposé, summarizing his research in our latest briefing Britain’s Last Guantánamo Detainee: Who is Shaker Aamer? In conjunction with The Sunday Telegraph, we have sought to ensure this ongoing story continues to receive much-needed attention, pushing back on the narrative built by the supporters of what could become one of the most potent spokespeople for the forces that seek to harm us and our allies.

The briefing behind the piece details the allegations made by U.S. and other officials, examining Aamer’s activities leading up to his incarceration by the U.S. as well as during his time at Guantánamo Bay (where he was described by one guard as the camp’s ‘Bon Jovi’ for his celebrity status and power over other inmates).

The briefing raises several issues around Aamer’s activities, including:

  • Seven separate sources at Guantánamo attested to Aamer’s connections to either al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden.
  • The charities that Aamer said he has worked for in the past have been listed by the United Nations and U.S. Treasury as al-Qaeda support groups.
  • Aamer is suspected of fighting at Tora Bora, Afghanistan, as the U.S. and its allies attacked al-Qaeda and Taliban forces there towards the end of 2001. Multiple detainees at Guantánamo Bay have identified Aamer as the commander of the Juhanya Centre in Tora Bora (Abu Juhanyah was one of Shaker Aamer’s aliases).
  • Fellow Guantánamo detainees have claimed Aamer became the de facto emir of a group of detainees on the strength of his personal charisma, making others swear loyalty to him and spreading civil unrest.

Robin Simcox, Research Fellow at The Henry Jackson Society and author of the briefing, commented:

“The U.S. government has clearly had a multitude of good reasons to detain Shaker Aamer on the basis of his suspected connections to al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and other jihadists. Furthermore the charities that Aamer said he worked for are known to be al-Qaeda support groups.  Aamer’s formidable reputation among the other detainees at Guantánamo Bay shows that he remains highly influential. There is far more to Aamer than the benign image his supporters portray.”

Britain’s Last Guantánamo Detainee: Who is Shaker Aamer? is available to download here

Is the Council on American Islamic Relations ‘Islamophobia website’ a ‘Hit List’?

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No one can argue the Council On American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has a public relations problem here in the United States and United Arab Emirates(UAE).

In November of 2014, the UAE designated CAIR a Terrorist Organization. That means Muaaz Hassan, Hassan Shibly, Ibrahim Hooper, Nihad Awad, Corey Saylor, Randall ‘Todd’ Royer, Bassem Khafagi, etc… are all Terrorists.

They may not be carrying AK 47’s and RPG’s but they are still terrorists with their propaganda, money, and Shariah Islamiyya compliant initiatives.

In this video we focus on Muaaz Hassan who is CAIR’s Islamophobia and Communication’s Director and Liar in residence.

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Muaaz Hassan. Source: CAIR Florida.

What that means is Muaaz is responsible for putting together CAIR’s Hit List of Americans who challenge Islamic Doctrine and Theology. CAIR has painstakingly named and identified those who they believe slander Islam.

This CAIR Hit List takes on new importance since the UAE designated their former benefactors, CAIR, an active Terrorist Organization.

This video show that Muaaz Hassan is a liar and may have an acute obsessive compulsive disorder based on his excessive teeth cleaning in a public place.

Muaaz Hassan’s blatant lies, caught on this video, bring shame and dishonor on CAIR. The obsessive teeth cleaning raises Mr. Hassan’s visibility to the level of laughable, socially embarrassing, and a big clue that Muaaz Hassan has no control over his apparent obsessive compulsive disorder.

Yet, Muaaz Hassan is a liar with possible OCD who is the public face for Hassan Shibly and Nihad Awad.

Is it any wonder Muaaz Hassan and Hassan Shibly are laughing stocks with many in the FBI and Law Enforcement.

CAIR makes a cottage industry of violating the civil rights of most everyone who challenges Islamic Doctrine and Theology. Muaaz Hassan is a national level player in CAIR’s propaganda efforts trying to destroy all who expose them as the Terrorists they are.

So once you get past the absurdity of Muaaz Hassan’s lies and inappropriately embarrassing teeth cleaning, this film exposes some fatal flaws that have been plaguing CAIR’s ability to effectively hide the fact that they are buffoonish Terrorists.

Here’s a gem from Muaaz Hassan’s FB Page: “Muaaz Hassan The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is our Frankenstein. The United States after a decade of war in Iraq pieced together its body parts…”

Muaaz displays some serious anti American tendencies expressing the views above.

Muaaz owes the world an apology for for his lies and to all who had to watch his teeth cleaning in public.

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Israel’s Republican Governor?

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This morning I opened up a Ynet.com  Op ed, “Israel’s Republican Governor”,   by Tel Aviv University Professor Aviad Kleinberg, a member of the History Faculty and according to the information on him, a medievalist by specialization with interests in  religion and philosophy. Kleinberg conclusion was:

Despite his declarations, Netanyahu is thinking less about Iran and more about politics – both Israeli and American. While the Republicans are deriving pleasure from the slap in Obama’s face, the price will be paid by us.

Kleinberg starts off  trying to hoist PM Netanyahu with these comments:

“While there are those who are focusing on protocol or politics, a bad deal with Iran is being formed,” Benjamin Netanyahu has declared. The remedy for this bad agreement, it turns out, is a speech which the prime minister will deliver in Washington, D.C.

Netanyahu is suggesting the following equation: It’s true that this speech faces a strong opposition in the United States. It’s true that it is infuriating the administration and will create high tensions between Israel and US President Barack Obama. It’s true that there is a good chance that the administration will punish Netanyahu (i.e., the State of Israel) because delivering the speech is perceived as breaking the acceptable rules of the game between countries (a head of state does not make an official visit when the head of the state he is visiting makes it explicitly clear that he is not interested in the visit). It’s also true that to an innocent bystander, it seems like cynical attempt to grab the spotlight in order to advance the guest’s interests in the election campaign. But all that pales into insignificance in the face of the fundamental achievement – stopping the bad agreement with Iran.

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Times of Israel 2015 Election PollProfessor Kleinberg’s trust in President Obama’s effort via the P5+1 negotiations to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear breakout and producing weapons is not reflected in the latest Times of Israel  (TOI) poll of Israeli views on the upcoming Knesset election issues and party list candidates released yesterday.  The TOI headline was, 3 in 4 Israelis don’t trust Obama to keep Iran from nukes.

The TOI poll findings were:

Asked whether they trust the U.S. president to ensure Iran not get the bomb, an overwhelming 72% do not, compared to 64% in our January 2014 survey.

Israeli voters give Obama a 33% favorable and 59% unfavorable rating, The Times of Israel’s survey also shows. Still, the president’s favorable and unfavorable ratings (33%/59%) aren’t much worse than those of several of Israel’s politicians such as Moshe Kahlon (45%/32%), Netanyahu (41%/54%), Isaac Herzog (38%/43%), or Naftali Bennett (38%/52%). Obama is on par with Yair Lapid’s current rating of 34% favorable and 59% unfavorable, and has a better perception than Tzipi Livni (29%/64%) and Avigdor Liberman (31%/61%).

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Here is what I posted as a comment on the Ynet.com in response to Professor Kleinberg’s Ynet.com opinion:

Professor Aviad Kleinberg of Tel Aviv U’s history department betrays his expertise as a medievalist when it comes to opining on American politics. He of all people should recognize this less than Machiavellian ploy by the Obama West Wing seeking to dis Bibi for accepting Speaker Boehner’s invitation to speak before a Joint Session of Congress about Iran’s nuclear hegemony agenda and Radical Islamists on your borders.

One only need look at polls in the U.S. on the matter of the PM speaking before a Joint Session of Congress to realize that he has the backing of 50 % of Americans respondents.. Methinks the Professor protests too much in light of the agitprop by the Presidents’ media minders in the West Wing seeking to provide support for the so-called Zionist Union in the March 17 snap Knesset elections. Which has been revealed in both the liberal NY Times and Washington Post.

If Bibi ran as a Republican Governor here in the Sunshine State he’d win hands down. Can’t say that for ‘Democrats’ Tzipi and Bluji who can hardly match the PM’s Churchillian cadence nor his gravitas on mutual national security interests of concern to Israel and the West.

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EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in the New English Review. The featured image is of U.S. House Speaker Boehner and Israeli PM Netanyahu taken on May 24, 2011 before his speech to a Joint Session of Congress. Source: NER.

World’s Largest Pro-Israel Group is ‘3 Million Strong’ with Mike Huckabee

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JERUSALEM, February 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — United with Israel, the world’s largest grassroots pro-Israel movement, has reached a significant milestone with 3 million supporters and counting.

Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas who will likely run for the Republican nomination in the 2016 US presidential election, will officially become number 3,000,000, when he attends UWI’s “Three Million Strong” celebration in Jerusalem on February 18, 2015.

In 2012, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “honored to be the one millionth United withIsrael fan!”

Founder Michael Gerbitz remarked, “It is truly amazing that, at a time when governments around the world are united in their condemnation of the State of Israel, we’ve been able to connect with millions of people – many in some of the most anti-Semitic countries – who are proud to stand united with Israel. We make sure that the truth about Israel reaches every corner of the globe.”

About United with Israel

United with Israel is a global, grassroots movement comprised of individuals who are deeply committed to the success and prosperity of Israel. Using social media and the latest web technology, UWI has built a massive network of pro-Israel activists in order to promote positive Israel news, unity with the People, Country and Land of Israel.

“There is a huge market of Israel supporters around the world that wasn’t being reached,” Gerbitz says. “The exponential impact of social-media powered outreach is dramatic when our direct reach of 3 million supporters gives us access to half a billion people. This is what’s needed to fight and win Israel’s battle of public opinion, from congregations to cafes to universities throughout the world.”

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Are Bombs Hidden Throughout America?

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Is it possible Islamic terrorists have planted radioactive or biological bombs in cities across America?  I think it is highly probable.  Never before in the history of America have political leaders been so reluctant to fight our enemy (Islam and Muslim Terrorists).

Of course we do have a very weak leader as President and this has to factor into our passive reaction to Islamic terrorism.  Although Obama is weak, there are still Islamic terrorists who would have an advantage in America if they could blackmail U.S. politicians.

It is not very difficult to hide bombs with enormous explosive energy inside a small place.  It is not beyond the mindset of Muslim terrorists to plan ahead for mass casualties of their enemy. Remember the Boston Marathon bombing? A small yet very effective attack by Muslims.

Can Americans imagine what would happen if a dirty radioactive or biological bomb was planted in schools across the United States in shopping malls, or in major sports stadiums?

In 2011 CBS Reported on 160 Nuclear Bombs Hidden in America:

Attorney Tracy Rizzo was the recipient of one of 25 threatening letters claiming there are nuclear bombs hidden all over the country.

Attorney Tracy Rizzo was alarmed. A number of days ago, an envelope, with a Chicago postmark and a hand-written address to her private investigations firm, came in the mail.
The letter inside said, “The Al-Qaeda organization has planted 160 nuclear bombs throughout the U.S. in schools, stadiums, churches, stores, financial institutions and government buildings.” It also said, “This is a suicide mission for us.”

This theory is not a new concept or threat from Muslim terrorists.  If bombs are already planted in America, this of course hinders our ability to effectively fight Islamic based terrorism.

Hopefully a trustworthy journalist from a trustworthy media network will investigate this theory in greater detail and report the results to the American public.  The only hindrance is that America has few trustworthy journalists and even fewer trustworthy media outlets.

VIDEO: On the UK Muslim Rape Gangs

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I joined Steve Malzberg on NewsMax TV to discuss my column in FrontPage Magazine “Hundreds More Muslim Rape Gang Cases Discovered in UK“:

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Defeat Jihad Summit — Part 2

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The Center for Security Policy presented this remarkable event in Washington on 11 February. An international summit where the truth will actually be told about the real and growing danger facing our country and the rest of the Free World, a truth that is basically taboo in official circles these days.

All other things being equal, this practice of air-brushing out of presidential pronouncements, national strategies and the Obama administration’s public events any accurate depiction of the enemy or its ideology will be much in evidence at the “Countering Violent Extremism Summit” to be held at the White House on 18 February.

In the belief that the American people deserve better and, specifically, that they have a need-to-know who it is we are fighting and why, a small but representative sample of patriots and freedom fighters drawn from the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel and Australia will be joining forces for the “Defeat Jihad Summit.”

This invitation-only event will be conducted in a roundtable discussion format involving some 35 distinguished counter-jihadists. Among the eminent participants will be: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Representatives Steven King and Mike Pompeo, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, Danish free speech advocate Lars Hedegaard and Britain’s Lord Malcolm Pearson.

In the course of the program, we will explore the reality that we confront not simply the Islamic State or al Qaeda, but what is truly a Global Jihad Movement – and the totalitarian, Islamic supremacist ideology that animates it: shariah. We’ll examine rigorously the adequacy of the measures taken to date by the United States and other Western nations to contend with this threat. And we’ll consider alternative strategies that may be considerably more effective in defeating jihad.

In that regard, we commend to you the Secure Freedom Strategy the Center for Security Policy rolled out on 16 January. It is modeled after the one President Reagan used to destroy the last totalitarian ideology that sought to vanquish us: Soviet Communism and the “Evil Empire” it begat. (A two-page paper outlining the Strategy’s highlights can be at www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org.