Open letter to Liberal Gov’t of Canada RE: Iran — Canada ties

The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau-Prime Minister of Canada:
The Honourable Stéphane Dion- Minister of Foreign Affairs:

When Canada decided to cut diplomatic ties with the Islamic Regime in Iran four years ago, many Iranian Canadians rejoiced that the Islamic Regime’s Embassy in Ottawa also known as the “House of Terror” would finally be shut down.

At the time many in the Iranian Canadian Community referred to the Embassy as the “House of Terror” because the Embassy served as an operation headquarters for attempts to spy on Canadians and manipulate public policy and opinion.  It identified and intimidated pro-democracy activists, with particular regard to Iranian Canadian dissidents whose families in Iran may have been vulnerable. Along with front organizations Embassy personnel penetrated our universities and some “students” boasting embassy connections warned campus democracy activists not to get out of line.

On the eve of the four (4) year anniversary of Canada breaking diplomatic ties with the Islamic Regime in Iran, the Iranian Canadian Congress (ICC) created a petition asking the Canadian Government to re-establish ties with the Islamic Regime in Iran and to re-open the embassy.

It is important to note that ICC does not represent the Iranian Canadian Community as a whole, but only a small numbers of Iranians most of them currently based in Toronto.  It is further important to note that while a fraction of our community may support the re-opening of the Islamic Regime Embassy in Ottawa, there is a large number of us who vehemently oppose it!

There is great concern among our community about Islamic Regime’s systematic human rights violations against women, students, journalists, workers, teachers, religious and ethnic minorities and political dissidents in Iran. We watch in horror as Islamic Regime continues to have one of the highest rates of executions in the world. We are horrified to watch our brothers and sisters as they are arrested, arbitrarily detained and tortured for peacefully protesting or standing up for their rights.

We are also extremely concerned about the health and well being of Iranian Canadians currently detained by the Islamic Regime in Iran, including Saeed Malekpour and Homa Hoodfar. As you are well aware Mr. Malekpour has been detained for over eight (8) years, while Ms. Hoodfar was arrested in June of this year and there are serious concerns with regards to her health.

Lastly as opponents of the Islamic Regime in Iran, and activists who campaigned for years for Canada to cut diplomatic ties with the Regime and shut down its embassy, we have serious concerns about the re-opening of the “House of Terror” and the effects that might have on our safety and safety of our families and friends in Iran, as well as our ability to peacefully oppose the Islamic Regime.

We are urging the Canadian Government to continue to take a strong stand against Iran’s human rights violations, and take into account the safety and security of Iranian Canadians living in Canada.  We urge Canada not to re-engage with Islamic Regime at a time when the Regime is holding Iranian Canadians hostage and brutalizing its own people.

It’s crucial for Canada to take a strong stand and make it clear to the Islamic Regime that torture, rape, public executions and hostage taking of dual citizens will not be rewarded by renewal of diplomatic relations and the re-opening of the Islamic Regime’s Embassy.

Yours truly,

Sayeh Hassan, Criminal Defence Lawyer, Blogger and Pro-Democracy Activist
Mahmood AhmadiWomen’s Rights, Children’s Rights and Worker’s Rights ActivistRadio Payam Canada
Mansoureh Nasserchian, Activist, freelancer
Shabnam Assadollahi,  Human Rights Activist, Freelance journalist, Former Radio Producer and Host
Homa Arjomand, Coordinator of the International Campaign Against Sharia Court In Canada
Avideh Motmaen Far, political activist, journalist
Yad Mahmodi, Secretariat of the international Committee Against Execution
Iraj Rezaei, Council of Iranian Refugees and Immigrants in Toronto
Soheila Dalvand, Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI), Canada branch
David Aram, Iranian, Canadian labour Solidarity, Canada

Al-Qaeda calls on blacks to wage holy war against America

The al Qaeda ploy of manipulating victimhood is stark in its call for blacks to join the mujahideen. Such tactics bear a resemblance to those employed by Louis Farrakhan et al to keep their positions of power in exploiting victimhood, to ensure that blacks are kept oppressed in ghettos and blame whites for it, no matter how society evolves.

Long beyond the abolition of slavery, the establishment of a constitution to protect human and equal rights, and the increase in immigrants of every culture, Farrakhan et al drag the past into the present to manipulate white guilt and fuel black anger. For example, Farrakhan accused whites of persecuting blacks, pointing out that the Qur’an teaches that persecution is worse than slaughter (cf. Qur’an 2:191 and 2:217), thereby justifying the slaughter of the alleged persecutors. Farrakhan then called for a bloody race war when he stated that he was looking for “10,000 fearless men” to “rise up and kill those who kill us; stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling!”

The most effective psychological conditioning a potential black jihadist “warrior” can have is to be kept feeling oppressed and victimized by whites; become increasingly angry about it; then be indoctrinated about ways he can put that rage to “good use.” It’s a kind of harnessing of religiously motivated jihadi zeal. Al Qaeda’s leader Ayman Al Zawahiri said in his statement about blacks in America that whites:

….humiliate the Africans [i.e. African Americans] until this day, and no matter how much they try to reform and obtain their rights according to the law and the [U.S.] Constitution, they will not attain it, for the law is in the hands of the white majority, [who] control it as they wish. And they [i.e. African Americans] will not be saved but by Islam.

Groups such as al Qaeda and the Nation of Islam teach oppressed blacks (and other downtrodden visible minority groups) that they can be empowered and belong to the Muslim brothers, who are fighting in a “good” and “just” religious cause, as Zawahiri stated:

Only Islam can save African Americans in the United States from oppression at the hands of the white majority….

Blacks are drilled and brainwashed to believe that it is white people and Western democracy that are cruel, repressive, and responsible for all black societal problems, and that they can find a newfound empowerment by taking up the jihadi sword. Zawahiri urged Muslims globally to:

…rebel against their leaders and to strengthen their attacks on the U.S., arguing that with the fall of the U.S., many of her allies will fall too.

This kind of manipulation of the downtrodden by Islamic supremacists makes blacks ripe for jihadi recruitment. Not all blacks are downtrodden, but al Qaeda has certainly identified them to be, and is urging them to attack Westerners for the “glories of martyrdom,” making  them believe that they can be winners (in Western terminology), with the goal of bringing down America. What better way to expand a network of sabotaging America’s “miserable house” from within, according to the Muslim Brotherhood plan? Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb outlined a very similar project to cleverly expand its networks by worming its way into other cultures and manipulating the causes that are important to that culture.

Prejudices exist in every society between differing cultural and religious groups, and although America has past sins, it has long since evolved beyond and repented for those sins. Just in case anyone forgot, America voted in a black president (despite the mess he has made of America) for two terms. There are highly influential blacks in political positions, not to mention in the private sector. Just how many blacks hold influential positions in Arab states and in Iran? African refugees have reported that Arabs are more racist than Europeans. In fact, on the continent of Africa, six countries have been identified as being “hostile” toward black people.

It’s common knowledge that Al Qaeda does not get along with its violent jihadi counterpart, the Islamic State, except maybe in applying the adage that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Following the deadly massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, which the Islamic State hailed and took responsibility for, Al Qaeda weighed in and urged lone wolf jihadists to make sure to target white Americans and avoid gays, in order to prevent future jihadi attacks from being labelled as “hate crimes” against gays or others.

Meanwhile, the Islamic State declared that if Muslims ran America, the black slave trade would have continued. Islamic supremacists are no friends to blacks.

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“Video: Al-Qaeda Urges Black Americans to Convert to Islam, Threatens More”, by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, September 13, 2016:

Al-Qaeda, echoing previous attempts to stoke racial unrest, called on African Americans to convert to its extremist form of Islam in a video released days from the 9/11 anniversary.
Only Islam can save African Americans in the United States from oppression at the hands of the white majority, argues al-Qaeda, nearly two months after its Yemen-based branch urged its followers to specifically target the white community in the U.S.

In a document, released in late June, the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) called on all Muslims in the United States to attack “areas where the Anglo-Saxon community is generally concentrated” and “avoid minorities.”

The new al-Qaeda 9/11 video, titled “Defiance of the Injustice: On the Occasion of Passing of Fifteen Years of the Raids of September 11th,” was released on September 9 by Al-Qaeda’s media wing Al Sahab, and it featured the terror organization’s current leader Ayman Al Zawahiri in a 20-minute address to Al-Qaeda followers, along with archived footage of the group’s former leader, Osama Bin Laden, reports The Foreign Desk.

“As long as your crimes continue, the events of 9/11 will be repeated thousands of times, by the will of Allah. And we will follow you – if you don’t cease your aggression [against us] – until the Day of Judgment,” declares Zawahiri.

Zawahiri boasted at both the economic and human toll the terrorist attack has inflicted on the American people.

He expressed regret that the fourth hijacked plane, United Flight 93, did not reach its intended target, “The biggest criminals in the White House or the Congress.”

The al-Qaeda leader refers to the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and wounded thousands more as “blessed.”

African American Muslim leader Malcolm X is featured in the video and used to persuade the black community into joining extremist Islam.

Zawahiri urges African Americans to blame the United States for their struggles, adding that “the law is in the hands of the white majority, [who] control it as they wish.”

Al-Qaeda has been targeting the African American community for recruitment for some time.

A video from the Somalian al-Qaeda-linked al Shabaab released in January was aimed at recruiting American blacks to become jihadists, using the messaging of leftist activist group Black Lives Matter.

In the September 9 video, the al-Qaeda leader says:

We inform every weakened [person] in the world: America is the source of calamity and the head of evil in this world, and it is the thief of nations’ ailment, and it is the one who humiliate the Africans [i.e. African Americans] until this day, and no matter how much they try to reform and obtain their rights according to the law and the [U.S.] Constitution, they will not attain it, for the law is in the hands of the white majority, [who] control it as they wish. And they [i.e. African Americans] will not be saved but by Islam.

He urges Muslims around the world to rebel against their leaders and to strengthen their attacks on the U.S., arguing that with the fall of the U.S., many of her allies will fall too….

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Engraved in Stone

The Children of Abraham of the Southern Tier, an interfaith organization in Johnson City, has taken offense at the 9/11 memorial raised in the nearby Town of Owego, New York. This association of misguided multiculturalists and Muslim moderates allege that identifying the perpetrators of the worst individual act of aggression on American soil would encourage Muslim hatred, never once excoriating the very act that resulted in the death and injury to more than 3,000 American victims and 453 responders and boundless grief for their families and for all Americans.

Did the moderates ever attempt to apologize for the horrific crime that forced people to jump to their death rather than be burned alive? Did they express their sorrow for the victims and heroic rescue workers, or atone in a way to benefit the families that suffered such tragic loss? Do they even acknowledge that Islamic terrorists continue their march of evil, putting America and Europe on high alert for 9/11, or that this was part of Islam’s perpetual holy war against every living being on the planet. No.  And the city manager’s overtures were also snubbed.

The Muslim residents of Johnson City may be moderates who never take up a lethal weapon for Allah, but they are engaging in a subtle act of civilizational or settlement jihad. Such people are comparatively discreet in Western society, going about their lives inconspicuously, but effecting regime changes in gradual increments. By their refusal to acknowledge the obvious links between Islam and 9/11, they shield those who spew hatred against America, Israel and democracy; they empower the academics and students who vilify Israel and Jewish students on campus, and they facilitate the crossing of borders for hijra (conquest by increased population).  Under the guise of injured sensibilities, they insist on the removal of anything that may identify those who pursue our destruction and conquest with Islam, hoping to erase the ugly truth that fourteen centuries of barbarism continues unabated in every country where Islam is found.

terrorist-attacks-since-9-11They would have us believe that a tiny minority is to blame, but a recent Pew Research poll shows that 51 percent of American Muslims choose to be governed by sharia; 30% believe it is legitimate to use violence against those who insult Muhammed, the Koran, or Islam; 25 percent believe violence against Americans can be justified as part of the global jihad; and nearly 20% believe the use of violence in the US is justified in order to make sharia the law of the land. When presented with a choice when sharia conflicts with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, 33% say sharia should be supreme. That’s some minority!  Politically, 48% are Democrats, 19 percent Independents, and 19 percent Republicans.

Islam already regulates our speech through our government, our media, and the constant hazard of being damned as Islamophobic to those who dare to speak up. They cover their tracks through leftist academics, a strong BDS movement, and textbooks crammed with indoctrinal and fallacious material.  Continuing along those lines, the Johnson City assemblage is working to remove from future knowledge the history of 9/11 that was carved into the granite. If we fail to yearly observe significant even
ts as the bombing of the World Trade Center, the signing of our Declaration of Independence, our victory in World War II, and more, our youth will be robbed of their identity, their heritage, and America as we know it.  Wisdom is defense. Ignorance of our journey through history is the greatest threat to our survival.

It should be noted that this interfaith group’s complaint was not that they, too, should have paid homage to America’s fallen or, specifically, to Owego’s citizen, Derek Statkevicus, who lost his life that day.  Neither were they inspired to erect a monument in their own city or to join Owego residents in a fight against the greatest scourge of mankind with its unspeakable crimes done in the name of their religion. Rather, they express a phony outrage that the criminals have been identified with Islam! Often enough, other Islamic groups attempt to blame 9/11 on American citizens, on Jews or Christians, but this one is working to eliminate the obvious first, to claim that the 19 were unknown, came out of nowhere, and bombed America for no specific reason.  Removing the offensive truth from the monument will leave room for revisionism later, just as Major Nidal Hassan (Fort Hood Massacre) was called anything but what he was, and his jihad massacre was officially named “workplace violence.”

Instead of condemnation or owning up to the demands for death inherent in the Koran, these individuals hope to gradually erase the event from our memory and from generations to come – just as Islamists have obliterated or renamed many artifacts and historic tombs to create their own narrative, just as their counterparts in Israel are trying to stop archaeological excavations from revealing more of Jewish history.  These Children of Abraham may well be the Islamic families that escaped tyranny but, unfortunately for the rest of us, they nurture their children with intolerance and harshness, creating a new, young generation of jihadists. These offspring may become the young men enticed online to join ISIS’ executioners, or the young women lured to sexual slavery for the Palestinian cause.

We must continue to remind ourselves of the anger, the tears, and the patriotism that were triggered that day of September 11th, fifteen years ago, and realize that we are in more danger now than ever before.  The Middle East has grown bolder and more violent. Islamists are acquiring newer, deadlier weapons, and more of their numbers are making their way into Europe, North and South America, bringing with them new plans to terrorize and infuse their way of life into ours. Islam has been at war with the world since the seventh century. Their holy book is a dedication to brutality and conquest, so that even their own people are condemned to grope in the darkness of oppression and poverty. In the name of their god, they must erase the past to support their own supersessionist narrative, and we must never oblige them.  The more that Americans accommodate such requests and attempt to correct or crush our own speech, the more power we will hand to them.  Unless we weigh the long-term ramifications of the growing adjustments we make to our lives for the sake of theirs, we will lose our freedoms to their tyrannical sharia laws.

In the words of Hassan al-Banna, creator of the Muslim Brotherhood (1929), “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its laws on all nations and extend its laws to the entire planet.” If the hate feared by the Children of Abraham does arise, it will be because of Islamists’ deeds, not the attribution on a memorial stone.

Mormons helping Catholic Bishops fundamentally change America with Muslim refugees

Don’t ask me why. Don’t ask me why Mormons want to change Utah and America. Don’t ask me if the Mormons have run out of poor Americans to help. Don’t ask me if the Mormons know that almost all Syrians coming to the US are Muslims. Don’t ask me if they know that Syrians and Somalis can’t be properly vetted. Don’t ask me why the Catholic bishops don’t insist on resettling persecuted Christians.  It is all a great mystery.

What isn’t a great mystery is that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services is 97% taxpayer funded.

Does it need the Mormon money too? (I guess you can never have enough money.)

Here is the good news for the Bishops from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

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Bill Canny

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services is receiving a $1.25 million grant from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to aid in its refugee resettlement efforts once the newcomers arrive in the United States.

The Mormons, as the denomination’s adherents are popularly known, have refugee processing capabilities overseas, said MRS executive director Bill Canny, but do not offer domestic resettlement services.

Canny told Catholic News Service that this is the first time in memory that the Mormons have made such a gift to an agency within the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, although Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas aid and development organization, has received grants from the Mormons dating to the Ethiopian famine more than 30 years ago.

Grants of this nature, of this size, Canny added, don’t often happen, “not often enough.”

Canny said the Mormons had conducted a successful fundraising drive to aid Syrian refugees. Afterward, “they then approached nine resettlement agencies***, offering each of them a gift to help with resettling refugees currently. So they got in touch with us as one of the resettlement agencies. We began to discuss how to distribute the money and the in-kind goods, and we wrote a small project for them, and they agreed to it and gave us the go-ahead.”

Of the $1.25 million, $425,000 is in cash while the remaining $800,000 is an in-kind contribution from the Mormons, according to Canny.

Continue reading here.

You can thank the Bishops for the thousands of Rohingya coming to a town near you! See here. See especially Esar Met, convicted of murder in Salt Lake City, UTAH.

***Since I’ve been writing about the taxpayer funding that the resettlement contractors received in 2014, here is what the US Bishops got.  Screenshot of page 10 from their Annual Report for 2014 (maybe they have a Form 990, but I can’t readily find one).

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If you are checking my math, you need to add the federal grants line to the travel loan collection fees because those fees are really your money too.  The contractors collect the airfare loan money (that you loaned the refugees) and keep a cut of it for themselves. The loan money does not all return to the US Treasury.

By the way, individual Catholic Charities may be getting additional federal/state or local grants.  I suggest you visit USA Spending.gov and look up your local Catholic diocese or Catholic Charities. Click here. You will be amazed at what you find.

Previously I reported that Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service is 95% funded by you, and USCRI, another of the nine federal contractors, is 97% funded by you.

Cut off their federal funding and they would be out of business!

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Obama Welcomes Muslim Refugees to Your Towns and Cities

Warming up the media? Taking advantage of the Muslim holiday and using it to set the stage for his United Nations agenda next week, Obama invites refugees to America.
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Breitbart:

President Barack Obama is reaching out to Muslim refugees, issuing a statement recognizing the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Adha.

“[W]e are reminded of the millions of refugees around the globe who are spending this sacred holiday separated from their families, unsure of their future, but still hoping for a brighter tomorrow,” Obama said.

He told Americans that the United States is determined to welcome Muslim refugees and immigrants into the country.

Are you telling your Washington representatives to Defund the Refugee Admissions Program. Right now, as I write this, your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators are deciding how many billions of dollars to allocate for permanent refugee resettlement to your neighborhoods.

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Deplorable Me

Brietbart’s Charlie Spiering in his column ‘Hillary Clinton’s 47% Moment: Calls Trump Supporters ’Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Xenophobic, Islamophobic’” reported:

During a fundraiser in New York City Friday evening, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton described half of the Americans supporting Donald Trump as a “basket of deplorables” made up of “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” people.

Count me as one of the deplorables.

I have been called racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic long before Hillary’s 47% statement. Let’s look at each of these expressions of contempt and understand why I freely admit to being one of the “deplorables”:

  • RACIST – I am a racist because I have seen in my lifetime the black family destroyed and with it the black community. I weep when I see black single mothers who are dependent on government for their sustenance.  My heart breaks when I see young blacks killing other young blacks. I was angered watching blacks burn down black business in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. I am a racist.
  • SEXIST – I believe it is a woman’s right to choose to get pregnant. I do not believe that once pregnant a woman has a right to choose to kill her baby. I believe every life is precious and the unborn are a gift from God. Therefore it is morally right for a mother to carry her baby to term. If she does not want to raise her baby then others are waiting in line to do so. I believe adoption beats abortion every time! I am sexist.
  • HOMOPHOBIC – I believe that homosexuality is a life style choice, not a civil right. Homosexuality goes against the laws of nature, science and genetics. The color of one’s skin is immutable. Homosexuality is mutable. While I do not agree with this lifestyle, I do not condone the persecution and slaughter of homosexuals as is happening in majority Muslim nation states. I abhor what Omar Mateen did at the Pulse Gay Club in Orlando, Florida. Homosexuals need psychological and medical help because their behaviors are dangerous to themselves, their family and those they have intercourse with. I am homophobic.
  • XENOPHOBIC – I fear those from other countries who break our laws by illegally crossing our borders. Our sovereignty is at risk. Borders are like the front door of my home. I decide who can and cannot enter, so to it is with my country. It is our sovereign right and the duty of the U.S. Congress to decide who comes to America and under what circumstances. Open borders is the inextricable path toward the loss of the America I have known. It is wrong to allow people without respect for the rules and law breakers to come to America. We are a nation of laws, not of men. I am xenophobic.
  • ISLAMOPHOBIC – I have attended fifteen 9/11 memorial ceremonies. I have listened to speakers tell heart breaking stories of their pain and suffering because of what happened on 9/11/2001. But 9/11 was not just one attack by the followers of Mohammed. Since 9/11/2001 there have been tens of thousands of attacks by Muslims against non-Muslims and Muslims alike. September 11th, 2016 was not only the 15th anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, the attack on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the downing of Flight 93. There was also the 9/11 attack which brought down Extortion 17 a helicopter carrying 33 SEAL Team members in Afghanistan in 2011 and the 9/11 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya in 2013. The pattern is clear, to deny it is worse than to be labeled. I see Islam as evil. I am Islamophobic.

Yes, I am a deplorable, a supporter of Donald J. Trump for president.

I am an American worker, mother, father, son, daughter. I am an American soldier, sailor, airman and Marine. I am an American farmer, coal miner, oil rig worker, I have a gun and I am a small business owner. I am a police officer, fire fighter, gold star mother, blue star father. I am a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew, an agnostic, an atheist. I am straight, I am gay. I am not rich. I am not privileged. I am not an NFL quarterback. I do not hate America. I vote my values.

I am deplorable – a badge I wear with honor. I am an unhypenated American!

Toby Keith – American Soldier:

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15 Years after 9-11: Has the Islamic Terror Threat Worsened?

On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists, 19 well educated young men – Saudi, Egyptian, and Yemeni nationals – hijacked four airliners (American Airlines Flight 11 and United Flight 175 from Boston’s Logan airport, American Airlines Flight 77 from Dulles airport and United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark Airport). They were part of a team of 26 Al Qaeda operatives inserted into the US. With captive passengers aboard, they flew into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Brave actions of the 40 passengers and crew aboard Flight 93 led to the first counter-attack within thirty minutes of the sky-jacking. The Flight 93 heroes overcame the Islamic terrorists diverting the aircraft from its ultimate target, either the White House or the Capital building in Washington, crashing into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 50 miles from Pittsburgh.

Sunday September 11, 2016 will be the 15th commemoration of the Al Qaeda suicide sky-jackings at the fateful twin towers in Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon in Northern Virgina and the diverted crash in Pennsylvania that took the innocent lives of nearly 3,000 Americans and others. Many who survived could tell stories about the valiant heroes from the storied ranks of New York’s Finest and Bravest.

Among the valiant fallen was Rick Riscorla, former Army officer, who survived the Battle of the Ia Drag valley in Viet Nam. He shepherded many hundreds of investment firm employees to safety on 9/11. He did not survive. There was the ironic case of John P. O’Neill, Former Deputy Director of the FBI, who had successfully investigated and brought to justice Ramzi Ahmed Yousuf and blind Sheik Abdul Rahman, the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, a precursor to 9/11. He had warned about a possible 9/11-type attack. However, his warnings were ignored. Ironically he was killed on 9/11, his first day on the job as the World Trade Center Security Director. O’Neil’s quixotic counterterrorism effort and fate on 9/11 was memorialized in Lawrence Wright’s 2006 best seller, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.

Memorials will be held in lower Manhattan at the National 9/11 Museum in the shadow of the Freedom Tower that replaced the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC). Others will occur at the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial and the Flight 93 9/11 Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Saturday, September 10th, a memorial was held in the southern tier New York State community of Owego to honor one of its own, who perished on an upper floor of the WTC towers. The memorial plaque in Owego cites Islamic terrorists as the perpetrators of this heinous crime on unsuspecting victims. It was objected to by Muslim advocates in the region. They wanted to expunge the reference to “Islamic terrorists” instead replacing it with either “terrorists” or “Al Qaeda terrorists.” The request was denied by the Owego town manager on the grounds that altering the plaque would be acceding to politically correct objections that were both historically and factually inaccurate.

What a number of us called the Pearl Harbor of the 21st Century was perpetrated by Sunni extremist Jihadists, facilitated in part by the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxy Hezbollah. The 2016 memorial comes at a time when there is rising concern over global Islamic terrorism. In America we have experienced attacks perpetrated by Jihadist US citizens and immigrants in several massacres in Boston, Chattanooga, San Bernardino and Orlando. The Orlando massacre was the most significant mass shooting in American history. Over $1 trillion in taxpayer funding has been spent to create new homeland security and transportation safety agencies, and establish counterterrorism intelligence sharing among domestic and international groups. The FBI is tracking over 1000 cases of ISIS sympathizers.

A recent FoxNews poll revealed a heightened sense of unease among Americans who feel less secure after 9/11. Among the poll’s findings were:

Some 54 percent think the United States is less safe now than before the September 11 attacks. Thirty-nine percent say the country is safer. Last year, it was 53-38 percent. Prior to September 2014, more voters than not said the country was safer

Most voters, 80 percent, think it’s at least somewhat likely a major attack “causing large numbers of American lives to be lost” will happen in the near future.

What is concerning is that there has been a shift in the Islamic terror paradigm away from the costly, carefully planned, well executed and financed spectacular events like 9/11 to ones that are ideological driven by self-actualized fundamentalists. They are among thousands in a global network spawned by the Salafist Islamic State. They are attracted by the self–declared Caliphate’s conquest of territory in Syria and Iraq and the ability to “freely” practice a pure form of totalitarian political Islam. All in a territory administered under strict Islamic Shariah law by “Caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi based on the example of the “Prophet” Mohammed. It is replete with rape, pillage, slavery and massacres of kuffars,unbelievers. These include Christians and other non-Muslim minorities including non-Sunni Muslims and even Sunni Muslims who dare to contest the Islamic State fundamentalism. They are deemed heterodox and subject to summary execution.

In this article we will explore what has given rise to this dangerous shift in Islamic terrorism and why it has arisen. Al Qaeda, still a threat, is consternating counterterrorism efforts both here and elsewhere in the West. We will also address possible bio-weapon and dirty bomb threats that have surfaced in discussions about ISIS. Then there is the matter of Iranian links to 9/11 compounded by the problematic nuclear deal, the JCPOA.

9/11- the Al Qaeda “Blessed” Event

As if on cue, Al Qaeda Central head, Aymen al-Zawihiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden, issued a 20 minute video message on the 15th commemoration. He said:

We mark in these days the passage of nearly 15 years since the blessed invasions in Washington, New York and Pennsylvania.

According to a MEMRI translation, Al-Zawahiri:

focused on al-Qaeda’s reasons behind the 9/11 attacks and its impact on the U.S. He urged his followers to focus on targeting the U.S. and its allies, while bringing the battle to their own soil. Zawahiri also appealed to non-Muslim African-Americans calling on them to convert to Islam.

Al–Zawahiri’s whereabouts, while not verified, may be somewhere in Pakistan or possibly, in one of their North African affiliates. However, as events have worked out, Al Qaeda has been eclipsed by its affiliates that have operated independently – most dramatically by its offspring, the Islamic State, formerly Al Qaeda in Iraq.

The Rising Toll of Jihad in the US and Globally

With the constellation of Jihadi events in the run up to this 15th commemoration of 9/11, the cumulative number of deaths in U.S. since 9/11 due to domestic Jihadists is 94. The prosecution of Jihadists since 9/11 has climbed to 364 versus 184 for so-called non-jihadist extremist cases. In 2015, the Heritage Foundation reported more than 70 terrorist plots have been foiled since 9/11. The rise of ISIS as a self-declared Caliphate in the conquered territory in Syria and Iraq motivated many of the recent murderous Jihad attacks in North America and in Europe, The New York Times reported that the casualty toll of ISIS in the West had climbed to over 1,200 victims. The attacks in Paris, Nice, Rouen and Brussels raised the specter of bombing and other attacks from ISIS super cells among large émigré Muslim communities. Add to that, the threat from returning foreign fighters, trained by the Islamic State and also infiltrating the massive stream of refugees and migrants fleeing conflict zones from Syria and across the Muslim Ummah in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. The Europol chief Rob Wainwright reported that upwards of 5,000 returning ISIS fighters are at large in Europe.

The irony of the rise of the Islamic State is that it was spawned by Al Qaeda in Iraq and now surpasses the parent organization that launched its successful mass terror operation in the West on 9/11. Some analysts indicate the rise of the Islamic State has diminished the original trans-global jihadist creed of Al Qaeda Central as the former holds territory and practices a pure form of Islam under Shariah. That has been the major attraction for the thousands of foreign fighters from across the Ummah teeming to join it. The Nigerian terror group Boko Haram which has pledged fealty to the Islamic State as the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) is rated by the Global Terror Index (GTI) as the world’s largest Islamic terror group surpassing the barbarous record of the Islamic State. Since 2009, Boko Haram has murdered over 15,000 since 2009, 7,619 in 2014 alone. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan accounted for nearly four fifths (78%) of the 32, 685 deaths attributed to terrorists in 2014. A majority of these deaths are afflicted on Muslims. The takfiri Islamic doctrine of Salafist terror groups like the Islamic State considers them inadvertent casualties in the necessary pursuit of Jihad. They are the equivalent of non-Muslims or kuffars, if they reject ISIS’ fundamentalist doctrine.

Why the Islamic Terror Threat had Grown

Just before this 15th 9/11 commemoration, a symposium was held on the threat of Islamic terrorism at a conference of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) in Washington, DC. As reported by the Washington Times, current director of the National Counterrorism Center (NCTC), Nick Rasmussen noted:

The dramatic rise of Islamic State and its ability to expand around the world presents a danger that is “considerably less predictable” than those posed by al Qaeda at the height of their power, shortly after the 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

The diverse and decentralized nature of the Islamic State has allowed the group to carry out attacks “much more quickly and with much less warning” than previous terror groups.

Islamic State’s dependence on so-called “lone-wolf” attackers, individuals either loosely affiliated or inspired by the group’s virulent jihadi ideology, has particularly confounded the U.S. intelligence community.

The lack of  linkages in contrast to those of sleeper cells of Al Qaeda central, especially by lone wolf attackers who were inspired by Islamic State’s impressive online propaganda operation, has opened up “a size and scale of the [U.S.] population” susceptible to radicalization.

Former NCTC director Michael Leiter suggested, “This will be a challenge for the incoming Administration.”

Further he noted:

The nature of the threat has become more complicated, the evolving methods used by Islamic State for its attacks on the U.S. and Europe are also posing its own set of challenges.

Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda successors tried unsuccessfully — so far — to replicate the spectacular high-profile attacks of 9/11. Those types of attacks took immense amounts of planning, communication, financing and coordination and came with a high risk of failure.

Islamic State has shifted that paradigm. The group pursued far more basic tactics, such as last year’s mass shooting at an office party in San Bernardino, California, or the July attack in Nice, France, where an Islamic State operative used a truck to run down revelers at the seaside resort town.

Islamic State planners realized they did not need to hijack a plane or plant a truck bomb in Times Square to be effective. A heavy truck or easy access to semi-automatic weapons “is all you need” to carry out an attack.

The Shift in Fundamentalist Islamic Doctrine ‘inspiring’ US ISIS Jihadi Attackers

The Al Qaeda perpetrators came from Middle East countries heavily influenced by Muslim Brotherhood extremist doctrine such as that propounded by Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian theological ideologue, who provided intellectual groundings for the trans-global jihad movement. The perpetrators of terror attacks in Garland, Texas, San Bernardino and Orlando, Florida were émigrés or immigrants from South Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. They attended mosques espousing the anti-Western Deobandi and Tablighi Jamaat creeds. In our August 2016, New English Review article on DHS whistleblower Phillip Haney, he connected the TJ ideology of the perpetrators in both the San Bernardino and Orlando massacres.

The TJ movement sprang from the Deobandi-influenced clerics from India and Pakistan. Haney indicated that TJ Islamic doctrine is the equivalent of ISIS Salafism or Saudi Wahhabism. The TJ movement aimed at proselytizing other Sunni Muslims and gaining converts from other religions. It is estimated to have between 70 to over 120 million adherents globally. Their influence spawned the Taliban and radical terrorist groups like Lashkar e Taiba, Army of the Righteous, whose adherents perpetrated the Mumbai jihad massacre of 2008. In the US, the TJ has a beehive Madrassa; the International Islamic Education School based in Chicago and affiliated with the Bridgewater Islamic Center. Haney suggested that the designation of mosques as “centers” usually was a tip off that it was a TJ doctrine group.

When news broke of the Orlando massacre, Haney went through an intelligence exercise. He demonstrated the TJ network that encompassed the Fort Pierce Florida “center” attended by perpetrator Omar Mateen and his father’s membership on the board. The Fort Pierce masjid or mosque had connections to the IIE in Chicago. Which in turn, had connections to the San Bernardino Dar-al-Uloom al-Islamiya of America mosque where terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook worshiped. The imam, Roshan Zamir Abbassi, a Pakistani, told FBI investigators that he barely knew Rizwan and his wife Tashfeen Malik. Malik had been a convert to TJ Deobandism while attending the al Hulda women’s seminary in Pakistan. Haney further noted that the choice to return to the US and with his Pakistani bride via Chicago and given their appearance in Sharia compliant attire was purposeful. It was deemed a safer port of entry than Atlanta.

The Deadly Threats of Bio-Terrorism and Dirty Bombs

Dr. Jill Bellamy, noted bio-defense expert and member of the UN Counterterrorism Task Force, warned that ISIS may be in possession of laboratories, staffed by scientists and backed by the caches of Saddam Hussein’s CBW weapons stockpiles. All funded by $2 billion in revenues from oil smuggling profits, taxes on conquered populations and illegal antiquities sales. There has been evidence that ISIS may have used chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq, as well as on civilians. Because an ISIS super cell planned to attack Belgian nuclear research facilities, she also drew attention to the possibility of terrorists obtaining radioactive materials for the creation of dirty bombs. There have been several arrests made in Moldova of nuclear materials smuggling rings that were alleged to be fulfilling orders for Middle East sources. The bio-weapon threat loomed in the wake of 9/11 when several were killed in anthrax attacks via mail and a US Senate Office Building and several US Postal Service facilities were shut and decontaminated costing several hundred million dollars.

Former National Security Administration (NSA) and ex-CIA director General Michael Hayden revealed in a Daily Beast interview, that many in his agency were concerned after 9/11 about “chatter” from Al Qaeda suggesting a possible nuclear attack in the metro Washington area. They also thought the NSA headquarters complex located at Fort Meade midway between Baltimore and Washington might be a vulnerable target for a possible Al Qaeda nuclear attack. In October 2001, Hayden had gone to the extent of contacting his opposite official at the UK NSA equivalent, GCHQ, regarding setting up transfer of global electronic intelligence surveillance as a contingency.

The bio-weapon attack and dirty bomb terrorist threats were the only plausible threats post- 9/11 raised by Steven Brill in an Atlantic article,”Is America Any Safer?”

Brill wrote about an inadequate bio-defense capability:

An [independent blue ribbon] panel offered a stinging indictment of America’s bio –terrorism security apparatus based on some simulations of terrorist attacks:

The report was written by an all-star bipartisan panel organized by Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who now works at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. As Vice President Dick Cheney’s national-security adviser, Libby led the country’s bioterrorism-defense initiatives following 9/11 and the anthrax attacks.

What a difference 15 years makes. The bioterrorism threat hasn’t receded; if anything, as the panel pointed out, advances in science and technology have made it easier to launch these kinds of weapons. But the nation’s attention has receded—which is emblematic of the roller-coaster way our democracy and its leaders deal with risks. As suggested by the report’s rhetoric about “failures of imagination,” our imagination is limited to the day’s headlines. Policy makers fight the war that made those headlines, not the war that might come next.

On the matter of the dirty bomb threat, Brill addressed the dysfunctional regulations by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of radioactive materials widely used in hospitals and in industrial applications, most prominently in the nation’s oil and pipeline industries. Note this comment from one critic of the current regulatory model and the attitude of the head of the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards office:

It’s just a matter of time until someone puts two and two together and sees that you don’t have to go to Syria or Iran for this material, that you can get it in New York.

Watch this PBS News Hour Interview with Steven Brill on these threats.

Someone whom Brill respects, former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, was interviewed on Yahoo News about the dirty bomb terrorist threat. He believes it is the “greatest threat” in the hands of a terrorist group. He considers it plausible and dangerous, not because of its immediate lethality, rather, he points out that a dirty bomb is an area denial weapon that could bring a bustling business center like Manhattan to a complete stop and make it a virtual deserted town while reclamation takes decades. Moreover it is cheap to make, something that ISIS knows and has worked on. It has, as Kelly points out, a devastating economic terror impact. Watch this Yahoo News video interview with former NYPD Commissioner Kelly.

The Iran Links to 9/11

Earlier, we made reference to Iran’s links to 9/11. In December 2011, New York Federal District Court judge George Daniel handed down a ruling awarding claims to survivors of victims of 9/11. In March, 2016, Daniels entered a default judgment against Iran on behalf of these plaintiffs in the amount of $10.5 billion. It was the subject of a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece by former US Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman, Senator Joe Lieberman, “Remember Iran’s Role in 9/11.”  This Wall Street Journal commentary by former Senator Lieberman corroborates Iran’s complicity in a Washington, DC federal court trial concerning survivors of victims in the 1998 bombings of the US Embassies in East Africa.  Iran and its proxy Hezbollah were actively engaged in the training, transportation and harboring of the 9/11 Al Qaeda operatives and the bin Laden family in Iran prior to and following 9/11. That was part of the evidentiary record of the Iran 9/11 links case, Havlish et al versus Osama bin Laden, Iran, et al. heard before the NY federal district court in Manhattan with findings of Iranian complicity in the 9/11 attack and awards handed down in 2011. Fiona Havlish, the lead plaintiff in the matter, was the wife of one of the 9/11 victims.

Affidavits were presented by experts like Ken Timmerman and others, including Iranian intelligence defectors presented during the trial. One of those involved in the training of the Al Qaeda “musclemen” engaged in over powering crews on board the ill fated sky-jacked flights was Hezbollah terrorist mastermind, Imad Mughniyah. He was involved with the 1983 Marine Corps Beirut barracks attack, the 1992 Israeli Embassy and 1994 AMIA Jewish Center bombings in Buenos Aires, and the 1996 Khobar Towers Bombing to name a few of his murderous exploits. Prior to 9/11, Mughniyah was the terrorist mastermind at the top of the FBI’s most wanted list. He was taken out in a 2008 bombing of his Mitsubishi Pajero SUV after he left the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, where he was celebrating the 1979 Islamic Revolution in February 2008, allegedly by Israel’s Mossad.

Extremist Muslim Shiite Iran has worked hand in glove with extremist Sunni Muslim Al Qaeda terrorists when they had a common enemy in their gun sights: the US, aka the “great Satan” and “little Satan,” Israel. As former Senator Lieberman pointed out, Iran is using funds released under the JCPOA nuclear deal to support terrorism in Syria and Iraq, wherever the Islamic regime in Tehran needs to threaten the US or Israel.

Conclusion

This 9/11 we must recall those who have lost their lives in the attack by Al Qaeda Islamic terrorists 15 years ago. We are now confronting a vastly more complicated threat than the well planned, coordinated and financed attack that took the lives of 3,000 innocent victims. It may be a terror war of a thousand cuts by ISIS sympathizers, not currently on counterterrorism watch lists. Moreover, these ISIS network sympathizers need only have access to readily available weapons, or crudely made dirty bombs to produce mass casualties. We expect that whatever Administration succeeds the current one after November’s election, it will need to undertake a thorough review of these threats and the means of preventing terror plots against us.

EDITORS NOTE: Also see Jerry Gordon’s collection of interviews, The West Speaks.

On Hillary Clinton’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’

frc-logoWASHINGTON, D.C. /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump became the first GOP presidential nominee to address Family Research Council Action’s (FRC Action) Values Voter Summit.

Hours later, Hillary Clinton spoke at an LGBT fundraiser where she indirectly referenced the Summit and smeared half of Donald Trump supporters as belonging to a “basket of deplorables.”

GOP Vice-Presidential Candidate Mike Pence responded to Clinton’s deplorables statement at the Family Research Council’s Action Values Voter Summit:

Family Research Council Action President Tony Perkins released the following statement:

“Hillary’s use of the phrase ‘deplorable’ is as revealing as it is insulting. Hillary Clinton’s foundation has received donations from countries all over the world that imprison and even execute those they deem ‘deplorable.’ Christians and other Americans who refuse to embrace the Obama/Clinton vision of America should be very concerned and should ask what Hillary Clinton has planned for those she deems ‘deplorable?’

“Clinton’s view of her fellow Americans shouldn’t be a surprise. The policies of Obama/Clinton are rooted in their shared contempt for the traditional values of tens of millions of Americans. In the last eight years, this administration has increasingly tried to marginalize those who do not surrender to a progressive agenda.

“Clinton’s comments provide yet another contrast between her and Donald Trump. Donald Trump has treated Democratic voters, like those who supported Bernie Sanders, with respect by inviting them to join him in restoring Americans’ freedoms, where Clinton has shown utter contempt,” concluded Perkins.

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VIDEO: Fifteen Years

Five years ago, on September 11, 2011, The United West produced a unique ten-year reflective video that artistically compared Hitler’s evil system of hatred during the 1930’s and 40’s with another evil system that is impacting the world today. This comparison is frightening and graphically illustrated by the attack on America by religiously devout Muslims, September 11, 2001.

On this 15th Memorial Anniversary we re-release our 10-year memorial video, which is even more relevant today.

Please watch and share this unique piece with other patriotic Americans.

PODCAST: Obama Gave Iran $33.6 Billion in cash and gold? Trump On Putin!

A new report just out speculates that the Obama administration may have paid Iran $33.6 billion in cash and gold from the period of January 2014 and January 2015. Remember the considerable press that the $400 million cash ransom payment received? That, it seems, was just a drop in the bucket. Never doubt who Obama, and Valerie Jarrett, ultimately answer to…

Meanwhile, a presidential candidate forum this week sparked new controversy over Donald Trump’s comments regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin. We’ll do our best to demystify the media’s anti-Russian obsession. For a reminder of what really threatens the United States, just re-read the previous paragraph – billions in cash and gold to a state which refers to the USA as the “Great Satan.”Join us Saturday for these topics and more…

Topics of Discussion:

  • Obama’s alleged $33.6 billion payment to Iran
  • Trump’s take on Putin and Russia – What’s really going on here?
  • Wells Fargo’s massive account fraud
  • Obama admin’s international drone strike regulations
  • Handling the Clinton Foundation scandal – a suggestion
  • Mahmoud Abbas’s history as a KGB agent in Damascas

And more…

How Phyllis Schlafly profoundly changed America

She created the modern pro-family movement and was its greatest activist. Her book changed the Republican party. What most pro-family conservatives today probably don’t know…

Outside of the White House during the Carter administration.

Phyllis Schlafly, who passed away at age 92 this week, actually created the pro-family movement. She was the greatest and most successful pro-family activist in its history. That is not hyperbole; it is fact. Everyone else is miles behind. We at MassResistance are grateful to have known her and occasionally worked with her.

Unfortunately, most pro-family conservatives under a certain age really don’t know that much about her, or appreciate the enormity of her contributions, which continued up until her death. In our opinion, the numerous obituaries in the conservative and mainstream media about her haven’t done her justice.

A revolution within the GOP

She broke into national prominence in 1964 by publishing a book. Titled “A Choice, Not an Echo” It brilliantly described how for decades the GOP establishment and donor class had been selling out the principles held by average Republican voters and controlling the political process. It’s chilling to realize how much similar it was to the situation that has fueled the rise of Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016. She saw the problem clearly back in the 60s.

At first she felt no publisher would take the book, so she sold it out of her garage. It really caught on, eventually selling over 3 million copies. It changed the history of the Republican Party.

The book that changed the course of the Republican Party.

“A Choice Not an Echo” is credited by many with igniting much of the Republican voter base and propelling Barry Goldwater’s nomination for president in 1964 over the will of the party establishment, and opening the door for Ronald Reagan’s run. Her book was that powerful.

Barry Goldwater for president campaign button.

Stopping the radical ERA from transforming America

But Phyllis (everyone we knew called her by her first name) is best known for her work stopping the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Today, many pro-family activists take on big causes. But no one else ever took on anything like the ERA single-handedly and won.

Constitutional amendments must pass two-thirds of both houses of Congress, and then three-quarters of the state legislatures (38 states) within seven years after that.

The Equal Rights Amendment was considered by everyone to be impossible to stop. In 1971 it blew through the US House of Representatives by 354-24. It then passed the Senate by 84-8. In 1972 was sent to the states for ratification. Within the first year, 30 state legislatures had ratified it. It was on a very fast track to become a Constitutional amendment.

Phyllis could see that the ERA was being sold to Americans as a noble “equal rights” cause, but it was really a Trojan horse being pushed by the most radical elements of society, particularly lesbian activists.

In her correct analysis, the ERA would be used to draft women for the military, force taxpayer-funded abortions and homosexual “marriage”, promote a constitutionally mandated breakdown of Judeo-Christian morality, push a new sexual revolution, re-write divorce laws, and much more. Far from helping women, it would make women’s lives much, much worse.

Women are different from men, she said, and “feminism” is a false ideology that tries to make man and women the same.

Straight talk. A key part of her attack was that unlike the wimpy mainstream pro-family movement of today, Phyllis was willing to tell the sordid, uncomfortable truth about the ERA and forces behind it – calmly, unemotionally, and fearlessly – refusing to water it down into mushy platitudes. This infuriated the Left and annoyed the establishment Republicans. She was definitely not “politically correct.”

The forces that lined up aggressively promoting the ERA were overwhelming. This included the full Democratic and Republican establishments, including enthusiastic support from Presidents Gerald Ford and later Jimmy Carter,  and their wives. It included virtually all of Hollywood, with major TV and movie stars doing endorsements, support from major corporations, and of course aggressive support by the entire mainstream media.

Like many conservatives, Phyllis was hated by the Left with a visceral passion. During her anti-ERA battle she was screamed at, swore at, spat on, had things thrown at her, and even had pig’s blood poured on her. The infantile emotions of liberals haven’t changed at all. The fact that she routinely out-debated them made it even worse!

It had eerie similarities to today’s huge “culture war” battle.

In 1972 Phyllis began her fight to stop the ERA. She was not only an incredibly articulate writer, speaker, and political thinker, but she was also an unbelievable organizer. She brought together and mobilized a very formidable army of thousands of women, mostly housewives, from across the country. This was before the Internet or even fax machines existed! And she taught them how to go to their state legislatures and lobby strategically and effectively despite the opposing them. Legislators had never seen anything like it.

Barnstorming state legislatures across America.

She also created hard-hitting pamphlets, wrote countless newspaper columns, gave speeches across the country, and appeared on numerous television interview shows — usually against a stacked deck, but still coming out on top.

Over the next eight years, five more states ratified ERA. But also during that time five other states – under pressure from Phyllis and her forces – rescinded their ratifications.

A year before the 1979 deadline Congress voted to extend the ratification deadline three more years, until June 30, 1982! But it didn’t work. The Schlafly army kept enormous pressure on any other states from ratifying it.

In the end, the ERA fell short by three states.

The larger story of this impossible victory is really fascinating for activists today.In 2009 Phyllis made this exciting video discussing it in detail. (It’s 43 minutes long, but worth watching.)

Creating the modern pro-family movement in America

The ERA battle and was the beginning of the modern pro-family movement in America.

Then as now, the Left  had enormous, seemingly limitless funding. Phyllis and her group, called the Eagle Forum had only what the members could pull together. They paid for their own travel and supplies.

Phyllis had an almost supernatural ability to focus on success. This is a quality that is almost completely lacking in today’s pro-family movement, which seems to fold its tent at the first sign of trouble.

In the 1980s, the Moral Majority, Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family, and other groups organized nationally and took on political battles – and more large national pro-family groups blossomed in the 1990s. But Phyllis had paved the way. And none of those other groups has changed America the way she did.

Phyllis’s list of other accomplishments over the years is monumental. You can read about most of them in this Human Events article.

The Eagle Forum

After the stunning victory over ERA, Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum organization blossomed. It has chapters across America and at one point, according to reports, had nearly 100,000 members. Over the years, Phyllis would tirelessly visit chapters around the country and speak at their banquets and work with their leaders.

Interestingly, the chapters had and still have a reputation for being much more “moderate” and non-confrontational in their approach to political action than Phyllis herself, although they are completely loyal to her ideas and philosophy and do not compromise on core pro-family principles.

This is probably because the women who take on the chapter leadership positions tend to be more “organizers” rather than firebrands, and are often married to wealthy husbands who can help with the chapter’s expenses. This is completely understandable, but has sometimes caused confusion to other conservatives expecting a more aggressive approach. And as a result, the chapters have rarely been as successful as Phyllis herself in stopping destructive liberal forces.

We believe that her independent approach also allowed Phyllis to build an independent fundraising network outside of the unreliable and mushy “mainstream” pro-family donor community.

Making the Republican Party pro-life

A lot of people today just assume that the Republican Party has always been pro-life. But after the Supreme Court abortion decision in 1973, the GOP establishment had little interest taking a stand. The pro-life platform was predominately the force of will of Phyllis Schlafly, who attended every GOP national convention since 1952, and got her people on the platform  committee.

Phyllis and today’s national pro-family movement

As the “culture wars” began to heat up in the 1990s, Phyllis never seemed to fit in with the emerging national pro-family establishment in America. And she was rarely invited to their national conferences or asked to participate in major events or planning sessions.

We consider that a mark of high distinction for Phyllis. It appears to us that she recognized that the national pro-family movement had become like the GOP establishment – a double-dealer to its supporters. Over time the pro-family “establishment” has consistently compromised the core principles of the larger base. It’s happened on homosexuality, civil unions, gay marriage, comprehensive sex-ed, and most recently transgenderism. They do it to appease the more moderate conservative donor class and avoid confrontations with the LGBT movement and the liberal media. Phyllis has consistently refused to play that dishonest game.

That “mild” approach would never have won the ERA battle. Phyllis never wavered on her core principles on any of the increasingly incendiary “culture war” issues. Instead, she held her own annual pro-family conference where she took on the issues she felt important, honored the politicians who deserved honor, and did it her way.

MassResistance and other front-line groups

Especially in the last 15 years (while she continued her heavy schedule of writing books, newspaper columns, and newsletters, Phyllis was a beacon of steadfast core pro-family and constitutional principles in a sea of compromise and uncertainty.

She aligned with true conservative politicians, not just the popular GOP luminaries. She welcomed and supported the work of front-line pro-family groups, including MassResistance, and numerous pro-life first-time political candidates.

Brian Camenker of MassResistance with Phyllis Schlafly in Washington DC, 2006.

Brian Camenker of MassResistance met her in 1997 when she came to Boston and gave him a special award for “dedicated work for God, Family, and Country” at her Eagle Forum annual banquet.

She later interviewed Camenker on her national radio show.  Camenker also worked with her at a national gathering in Washington, DC in 2006. She received the regular MassResistance email updates and occasionally emailed us a comment on them. She personally donated to MassResistance – quite thrilling in itself.

In 2009 she invited Camenker to be a featured presenter at her annual conference in St. Louis on the topic of “How to counter the radical homosexual extremist movement.”

Placcard outside presentation by Camenker of MassResistance at Phyllis Schlafly’s national conference, 2009.

How many “mainstream” pro-family groups would dare talk about this?

An intellectual dynamo until the end

Most people slow down when they become elderly. But Phyllis was an exception. She never missed a beat. Through her eighties she continued to be a forceful and dynamic speaker on the college circuit – often taking considerable abuse from “liberal” audiences while continuing to dish it out.

Right up until her death she continued to write books, columns, and articles that were simply outstanding. And it’s utterly amazing to watch the videos her interviews of her sharp analysis of current events from even weeks before her passing.

And the liberals hated her even in death. The Boston Globe called her “polarizing.” The wave of hateful and odious tweets and posts from the mindless liberal pundits and celebrities is a testament to her power over them.

There will never be another Phyllis Schlafly. She was the best. RIP.

VIDEO: Donald Meets Jesus in Detroit — Receives Two Gifts from God

This is the second video report on Donald J. Trumps visit to the Great Faith Ministries International church located in Detroit, Michigan. During his time at Great Faith Donald Trump received two special gifts from Bishop Wayne T. and Dr. Beverly Y. Jackson Senior Pastors – a shawl and a Bible.

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Watch and learn the religious significance of this visit to all Christians and Jews:

MISSION STATEMENT OF THE GREAT FAITH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL

Teach the word. Equip the saints. Demonstrate the power. Impact the world
  • TEACH: Give knowledge & wisdom with clarity that leads to understanding.
  • EQUIP: Give people the tools & platform to grow. By excercising what they’ve been taught.
  • DEMONSTRATE: Actively & continually assert & affirm the beliefs & principles established.
  • IMPACT: Get results, share results, reproduce results.

Learn more: http://www.greatfaith.org/index.cfm

Here is the full sermon of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to members of the Great Faith Ministries in Detroit reaching out to African-Americans:

VIDEO: Donald Meets Jesus in Detroit

Will Donald J. Trump be successful in getting the black vote? Watch Jesse Jackson endorse the Donald and much more.

‘Thou Shalt Not Speak…’

Not to bear false witness is the Ninth Biblical Commandment, and for journalists it should be the first; yet, 10 words used daily and even hourly by the media have for decades permeated the written and spoken word, all of them patently false:

  1. “settlers”
  2. “Palestine”
  3. “West Bank”
  4. “died”
  5. “attacker”
  6. “Palestinians”
  7. “occupied territories”
  8. “refugee camps”
  9. “settlements”
  10. “insane.”

Instead, the accurate terms are:

  1. “Jews” or “Israelis,” referring to people building permanent residences, neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, businesses, public amenities, and houses of worship
  2. “Israel,” being the only independent nation in the particular area, with a long-established body of laws, history of commerce and industry, and being formally recognized by the countries of the world (No independent nation of “Palestine” has ever existed in history.)
  3. “Judea and Samaria,” being the legal names for the regions of Israel where Jews have lived for thousands of years
  4. “murdered,” referring to Jews from infancy through elderly whose lives are ended through acts of Arab or Muslim violence committed upon them
  5. “Islamic terrorist,” being a person whose religious ideology compels him to commit acts of violence against persons of other religions and their property
  6. “Arabs” or “Muslims,” referring to stateless peopleliving in the region of present-day Israel  and whose fellow Arabs and Muslims slaughtered and/or rejected their entry into existing Arab and Muslim nations, with sizes many hundreds of times larger than the tiny State of Israel
  7. “Judea and Samaria,” being regions administered by Israel through her victory in the defensive 1967 War and lawfully recognized under international law, historical precedent, and Biblical rights
  8. “cities” and “towns,” referring to the places where the Arabs and Muslims rejected for generations by their own people live in apartments and homes with full amenities and standards of living often better than in American inner cities
  9. “communities,” being areas of development for residential and commercial purposes under the laws of the State of Israel, including public governmental institutions, medical facilities, well-maintained neighborhoods, public utilities, private enterprises, and international industries
  10. “Islamist,” referring to a person whose religious doctrines drive him to commit acts of violence against those who are not of his own Muslim persuasion, their family members of all ages, and their property.

“Thou shalt not bear false witness” against the Jewish State through fallacious and inflammatory terms that re-write history and re-define a miraculous nation and its People, Divinely established and blessed, using words and images to make news rather than to report it as it truly is.  In truth, every news coverage that uses the word “Palestine” is ab initio false; since no nation of “Palestine” ever existed. Likewise, every news report about the “West Bank” has renamed geographic regions of Israel legally called “Judea and Samaria.”

When reporters have become falsification wordsmiths and historical revisionists, the world loses, as is certainly the case in this epoch of time.  Words matter, and history matters.  Lies matter especially when they determine history.

Lest we forget the horrific lessons of history’s lies, all of us, be we journalist or not, must use the words of truth to tell Israel’s story.  As it was explained to me by my student, Robbyn, like Joshua and Caleb, who corrected the false reports of their 10 fellow spies sent by Moses to survey the Holy Land before entering it to give an accurate assessment to the Jewish People, “We have to correct a bad report …. We have an obligation to fight a bad report” lest we will wander and be buried in a desert of lies.  

Trump, Pence to Address 11th Annual Values Voter Summit

values voter summit logoWASHINGTON, D.C. /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Friday, September 9, 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will speak at the 11th annual Values Voter Summit, an event that draws thousands of grassroots activists to the nation’s capital. The next day, Vice Presidential Candidate Mike Pence will address the Summit. This will be the first time a GOP presidential ticket has addressed the event. Both major party nominees have been invited to make their case to social conservative voters.

“As the 2016 presidential election approaches, there is a growing realization among voters that the future of our freedoms and even our identity as Americans hangs in the balance. I am certain that Donald Trump and Mike Pence will underscore not only the importance of this election, but the important role conservative Christian voters have in influencing the outcome of the November election. The fact that this is the first GOP presidential ticket to attend since the Summit’s inception in 2006, demonstrates an understanding of the importance of values voters in the general election and a desire to work with them in addressing the critical issues facing our nation,” said Family Research Council Action President Tony Perkins.

Confirmed speakers also include Senators Tim Scott and James Lankford, along with Governor Matt Bevin, and U.S. Reps. John Fleming, Jim Jordan, Marsha Blackburn, and Louie Gohmert. Additionally, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, Dr. James Dobson, actor Jon Voight, actor Kirk Cameron, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Oliver North, Duck Dynasty’s Al Robertson, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Allen West, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Lt. General (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, Sebastian Gorka, Philip Haney, and Zuhdi Jasser are among many other speakers to address attendees.

The 11th annual Values Voter Summit will be held from September 9-11 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel inWashington, D.C. FRC Action’s Values Voter Summit is co-sponsored by AFA Action, American Values, First Liberty Institute, The D. James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship, United in Purpose, 2nd Vote,Oklahoma Wesleyan University, and Family Research Council. An exhibit hall, book signings, radio row, media row, and much more will be packed into this three-day conference.

On Saturday evening, FRC will present the Vision and Leadership Award to Dr. Bill Bennett at the Faith, Family, and Freedom Gala dinner. Governor Doug Ducey, Senator Tom Cotton, and Fox News’ Kimberly Guilfoyle will be speaking in honor of Dr. Bennett at the gala dinner.

ABOUT THE VALUES VOTER SUMMIT

Values Voter Summit was created in 2006 to provide a forum to help inform and mobilize citizens across America to preserve the bedrock values of traditional marriage, religious liberty, sanctity of life and limited government that make our nation strong. It has drawn over 3,000 plus attendees from around the nation and foreign countries. Garnering national and international media attention, CNN named it “one of the conservative movement’s marquee annual events” and Sean Hannity called it “the premier conservative event now in the country.”

For a schedule and more information on this year’s Values Voter Summit, please visit: http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/

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