Perhaps this time everyone will notice that the Unindicted-Coconspirator-in-a-Federal-Terrorism-Funding-Trial-and-Front-for-the-Muslim-Brotherhood has no clothes

CAIR exposed again!

As noted repeatedly by everyone paying attention, CAIR, ISNA, MPAC, etc., are either fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood or staffed by their agents.

Which organization has declared its goal of bringing down Western Civilization from within by using our own laws, generosity, and ignorance against us in order to establish shari'a.

In other words, they're waging non-violent jihad.

And rather than doing their homework in defense of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness by investigating the texts, tenets, and time-lines of Islam, our self-appointed arbiters of truth and governmental lap watchdogs in the media run as fast as their treasonous, little feet can carry them to these groups' spokesmen whenever a Muslim is caught butchering an infidel -- or his own daughter -- so that they can make charges of "Islamophobia!" "hate crime!" and "out-of-context! out-of-context!"

One of CAIR's vile henchmen (I know, that's redundant!) has been hovering like a vulture over Rifqa Bary's trial in Florida.  There's not an open microphone or human tragedy they won't exploit for their own propaganda purposes.

So, all you America-hating, anti-Christian, socialist, anarchist, atheistic tyrants who think that by aiding jihad you'll hurt America -- you're right -- are missing one significant, little detail: Islam will destroy you too, and unless you're a groveling, boot-licking coward who's going to convert at the first flash of a scimitar, you're going to be first on the chopping block.

At least Jews and Christians have the option to live in vile subjugation and humiliation.

For you godless, it's "kill the pagans," period.  You'll be the first to go.

So, rather than forfeit the liberties and protections you have in this nation -- liberties and protections founded on Christianity and developed and defended by Christians -- start telling the truth about the jihad waged against us.

And stop lying for your Despot-in-Chief, whose only accomplishment more than giving a speech has been bankrupting and disarming the Republic.

Breaking America's back helps only whom?

So stop listening to the Grima Wormtongues of the treacherous left and their natural allies among the Communists and Muslims.

You can always demonize and ostracize us bitter, racist, God-and-gun-clinging Americans later.  For now, let's work together to preserve Western Civilization.

If we don't fight together for this nation, there won't be any nation left to fight over.

From WND:

Gaubatz, the son of "Muslim Mafia" co-author P. David Gaubatz, eventually wound up working as a volunteer at CAIR's national office in Washington, D.C., alongside leaders Nihad Awad, Ibrahim Hooper and Corey Saylor.

The new book shows CAIR is not the benevolent Muslim civil-rights group it claims to be, with indisputable evidence documenting it and other "mainstream" Islamic groups are acting as fronts for a well-funded conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood – the parent of al-Qaida and Hamas – to infiltrate and destroy the American system.

Duly-elected tyrants serve only themselves, not the public

Our federal and state politicians believe that you exist to provide them power and position, the fruit of your labor, authority over your children, and control over even your bodies, words, and thoughts.

Massive taxpayer-funded salaries, pensions, medical care (no Obamacare for them, that's for the little people!), security, and vacation in the guise of "fact-finding missions" and "international relations."

Confiscatory and oppressive taxation; politician-induced recessions, inflation, and economic crises "not seen since the Great Depression;" colossal, unpayable debt; stifling hyper-regulation of business; and laws punishing words and thoughts they find objectionable (aren't all crimes "hateful"?).

Freedom of speech and the right to bear arms are in jeopardy.

Our elected officials -- there are a few exceptions -- are not public servants seeking your betterment.  They are independent contractors who've learned how to manipulate the business of government to their own benefit, not yours.

They bankrupt and disarm the nation, endanger and enslave our children and grandchildren, and we reward them with . . . re-election.

Until and unless Americans stop voting for tyrants and instead choose people who'll actually obey and defend the Constitution and our Rights, the Republic is doomed.

Obama's Nobel Appeasement Prize

A few quick observations on B. Hussein Obama's recent Nobel Peace Prize:

He's not a "peace" president, he's an "appeasing" president.

The kind of "peace" the Europeans are looking for is the kind that comes when America is bankrupt and disarmed, only it won't be what they expect.

Shari'a is no gentle master.

It is fitting that Obama joins fellow ignobles Jimmy Carter, a raging anti-Semite; Al Gore, a conniving, manipulative, enviro-charlatan; and Yasser Arafat, a two-faced Muslim terrorist, as award recipients.

Will Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, and Muhammad be nominated posthumously?  They did a lot for "peace," too.

As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide

The election of B. Hussein Obama was a self-inflicted wound.

Both time and the courage of the American patriot will tell whether it's mortal or not.

We have the Enemy Within, both the leftist who wants America crippled and disgraced, begging for scraps from foreign masters, and the Muslim -- imported and homegrown -- who seeks to usurp our Constitution and replace it with the most vile, totalitarian, and hellish ideology ever thrust upon the Earth.

In Obama, it looks like we got two-for-the-price-of-one.  What a deal!

Who applauds B. Hussein Obama's Nobel Appeasement Prize? Those are not friends of America cheering his "achievements," which so far have been bankrupting and disarming the Republic; bleeding our military by binding them with suicidal Rules of Engagement; eating ice cream while civilians protesting against Muslim tyranny in Iran are butchered in their streets; responding to our military's request for more troops in order to avoid losing in Afghanistan by going to Denmark to beg for an Olympics that would divert billions in federal money to his fellow criminals in Chicago; and apologizing to, groveling at the feet of, and defiling the sacrifices of more than two centuries of free men in deference to every two-bit, tinpot leftist and Muslim tyrant on the globe.

Stop the bleeding, America. We need in positions of leadership informed and honest men. Tom McClintock understands what makes America great, and what must be done to save it.

From here:

When he was 28 years old, Abraham Lincoln posed this haunting question to the Young Mens Lyceum of Springfield:

He asked, “At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.["]

Today, THIS generation of Americans has arrived at one of the great turning points of history. Upon the outcome of this struggle is nothing less than the question of whether America is to fade away as yet another failed socialist state, or whether this generation of Americans will rescue, redeem and restore the founding principles that made the American Republic the most prosperous and successful in the history of the world.

It has now been nine months since the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States – with all the hope and trust that the American people placed in him for our future.

Think about what has happened in these nine months. And think about how far our country has strayed from what Jefferson called the “sum of good government.” -- what he described as “a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

Last year’s deficit of $450 billion has nearly quadrupled to $1.6 TRILLION.

Let’s put that in perspective. All of the debt accumulated by this nation from the very first day of the George Washington administration to the very last day of the George W. Bush administration, will now double over the next five years and nearly triple over the next ten under the budget that President Obama signed.

Obama advancing Allah's tyranny with shari'a apologist appointee Dalia Mogahed

What a sick, lying, murderous wretch.

Her too.

If Obama is such a smart guy, and he attended Qur'an classes as a Muslim in Indonesia, and he visited "Paw-kee-stawn" (as he likes to intone) as a college student when Americans were not allowed into that country, then how can he not know what shari'a is? What Al-Azhar is about? The meaning of jihad and Islam for non-Muslims?

America, you're being deceived -- and slow-cooked.

From here:

Obama First Female Veiled Islamist Appointee, Dalia Mogahed, Promotes Sharia, Says it's "Misunderstood" - Atlas Shrugs:

Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood Telegraph (hat tip Andrew Bostom)

President Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.

Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was 'oversimplified' and the majority of women around the world associate it with 'gender justice'.

If by "justice" one means rape (including child-rape of victims as young as nine), wife-beating, polygamy, marital rape, starvation, stoning for suspected "lewdness," and legal and economic discrimination, then yes, Islam is all about "gender justice."

Here's some of that justice:

VIII. MOHAMMED THE PEDOPHILE

Pedophilia as Muslim orthodoxy? In speaking of divorce:

"And for such of your women as despair of menstruation, if ye doubt, their period (of waiting) shall be three months along with those who have it not. And for those with child, their period shall be till they bring forth their burden. And whosoever keepeth his duty to Allah, He maketh his course easy for him" (Qur'an 65:4).

Why? Because Allah ordained it, and his apostle practiced it.

On Mohammed's raping of his nine-year-old "wife":

"My mother came to me while I was being swung on a swing between two branches and got me down. My nurse took over and wiped my face with some water and started leading me. When I was at the door she stopped so I could catch my breath. I was brought in while Muhammad was sitting on a bed in our house. My mother made me sit on his lap. The other men and women got up and left. The Prophet consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old” (Tabari 9:131).

B. Hussein Obama appoints a sexual deviant to keep your kids "safe"

From here:

President Obama has appointed Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) --  which sponsored the conference that produced the notorious “Fistgate” scandal (in which young teens were guided on how to perform dangerous homosexual perversions including “fisting”) --  to head up “Safe Schools” efforts at the Department of Education.

And he calls a supporter of NAMBLA (too vile and disgusting to explain; search for it) his "hero."

Impeach now. Imprison later.

Impeach the treasonous Obama now

In its ignorance, greed, and fear, the American people elected someone who was obviously an America-hating, racist, anti-Semitic, Islamosympathetic (if not covertly still Muslim), narcissistic despot.

No one who was paying attention before the election can be surprised by what the Illegal-Immigrant-in-Chief is doing to bankrupt and disarm the nation, rendering it helpless before our enemies, but I'll bet all of us hoped it wouldn't be this bad this quickly.

Obama is Delilah, and he's just given Uncle Sam(son) a flat-top.

The one good thing about a Hillary/Obama victory last November would have been that the big-government tyranny that would have continued slowly eroding the Rule of Law under a President McCain is now flagrant, obvious, shameless, and accelerated.

Only three questions remain to be answered: First, will the American people wake up in time and with enough sustained patriotic rage to oppose successfully and then reverse not just the recent Statist advances in America, but also the slow descent into tyranny of the last eighty years?

Second, does an American leader exist who will not only obey the Constitution's limits on his or her power, but also understands, can, and will articulate the actual nature of our enemy, which is the totalitarian ideology founded by Muhammad on Allah's command and his own example?

Third, is the Stranger in the White House merely a typical suicidally-stupid Socialist tyrant doing what Hillary would have done (I would think she'd have been a little more protective of and a little less reckless with the welfare of the land of her birth), or is he a malevolent Muslim mole?

Either way, Obama has just this week alone undermined the Republic in these ways:

1) Legitimized the terrorist Organization of the Islamic Conference (including Guyana?) and advanced the global imposition of shari'a at the United Nations by cosponsoring with Egypt the OIC-backed UN Human Rights Council's resolution criminalizing truth-telling about Islam.

2) Threatened to use Unconstitutional Executive Overreach to bypass the Congress -- and the Constitution -- in enacting his agenda.

3) Allowed the surrender of control of the Internet to other nations. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is now going to allow to other nations influence over the Internet making it -- according to one article -- a "virtual UN."

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, both Communist and Muslim tyrants will influence (to what degree remains to be seen) and perhaps censor your Freedom of Speech and the Individual's last forum for the free exchange of information and ideas.

Imagine giving control of the Printing Press to the Ottoman Empire or the Moors of Spain.  It would have been the end of Western Civilization as we know it.

4) Despite the crocodile tears shed during the campaign over "taking our eye off the ball" by going after The Other Hussein's WMD instead of pouring all our resources into Afghanistan, now, when our military leaders are stating publicly that without more troops we will lose to the Taliban and his allegedly-former coreligionists, what does Obama do?  Immediately give to our Best and Bravest the resources and manpower they need to crush satan's spawn?  Rush to the theater to lend moral support to those defending our Life and Liberty?

No, he goes to Denmark to try to get billions in Olympic building-project money for his fellow anti-American cogs in the Chicago Political Machine and ends up shaming himself (again).

Treason.

Obama is bankrupting and disarming the nation.

He's bleeding our military in Afghanistan.

The First Amendment has a scimitar to its neck.

And so do you, America.

Let your sins be strong, for God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners

Be honest about just how bad your sins really are, because Christ paid for them all.

Great news for the wicked, from here:

If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign. It suffices that through God's glory we have recognized the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins?

Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.

--Martin Luther to Philip Melanchthon,
on the day of the Feast of St. Peter the Apostle, 1521

The deceitful Salam Al-Marayati obfuscates for Rifqa Bary's murder

And the Muslims at the site hosting the lie engage in false moral equivalences, ad hominem attacks, and false tu quoques rather than admit that their god and prophet are murderous, vile beasts.

Al-Marayati condescendingly, stupidly, and shamelessly lies regarding murder for apostasy:

"No it's not, sweet little Rifqa. It's not in the Quran. Whoever told you that is either ignorant or a liar. You should look it up yourself before claiming it's in the Quran."

Al-Marayati is going to hell.

His lie is two-faced, like he is: First, death for apostasy is in Qur'an. Second -- and here is where Muslims are so successful at their diabolical, little half-truths -- the ahadiths considered traditionally most reliable by Muslims record clearly that Muhammad commanded that apostates be murdered. Since Allah calls Muhammad a "beautiful pattern of conduct," whatever he said and did "pleases" Allah:

"Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him" (Bukhari Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57).

"They long that ye should disbelieve even as they disbelieve, that ye may be upon a level (with them). So choose not friends from them till they forsake their homes in the way of Allah; if they turn back (to enmity) then take them and kill them wherever ye find them, and choose no friend nor helper from among them" (Qur'an 4:89).

It shouldn't be surprising then when Muslims believe it is their duty to kill those who leave Islam.

Non-Muslims defending Islam demonstrate neither their enlightenment nor tolerance, but their suicidal ignorance

It's like a Jew in 1943 arguing that Hitler's "just like you and me."

Offered to some enlightened individuals posting in defense of multiculturalism and their own self-satisfying sense of moral superiority here:

Why do so many of you here defend "sacralized" genocide? Pedophilia? Mutilation? Rape? Slavery? Extortion? Deceit? Religious and gender apartheid? Murderous anti-Semitism?

For when you ignorantly and blithely vomit lies like, "Christians are just as bad," and, "racist!" you do so in defense of the most hateful ideology in the history of Man.

It is true that there are "bad apples" in every group, but that is not the issue with regard to Islam, for in the case of Muhammad's "religion," his apples are commanded by their god and prophet to enslave or slaughter all who refuse the "invitation" to Allah's barrel.

Rather than demonize those actually defending your Life and Liberty, educate yourselves. Choose the right side of this argument.

For fourteen hundred years, Muslims have enslaved, raped, and slaughtered in obedience to Allah's command and in accord with Muhammad's example:

"fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war) . . . " (Qur’an 9:5).

"The Prophet consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old” (Tabari 9:131).

"The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter . . . " (Qur'an 5:33).

[Ibn Kathir says of this verse: "'Wage war' mentioned here means, oppose and contradict, and it includes disbelief, blocking roads and spreading fear in the fairways. Mischief in the land refers to various types of evil." So, Muhammad requires execution, crucifixion, or cutting off hands and feet from opposite sides for "disbelief."]

And there are many other such passages.

Please, abandon your suicidal ignorance, inform yourselves, and defend our God-given rights while we still have time.

[. . .]

By the way, how can you have a reasonable expectation of trustworthiness from someone whose god teaches:

"War is deceit" (Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 268).

"Let not the believers take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them. But Allah cautions you (To remember) Himself; for the final goal is to Allah" (Qur'an 3:28).

Post scriptum:

If you scan the comments, you'll notice someone arguing in defense of Obama claiming that, "Obama is a Muslim.

I thought only Islamophobes said things like that.

What's next?

Someone will say that Obama's middle name is "Hussein"?  That he demands we respect Islam?  That he bowed to the tyrant of Dar al-Islam?  That he's abandoned Israel and other good allies but supports Terrorists with Nukes and Third-World, Tin-pot Dictators?

For all those who don't believe that any decent world religion could exalt child rape, you're absolutely right

Which is why unspeakable depravity such as that detailed below can occur only in Islam.

It occurs because Allah ordained Muhammad's raping little, prepubescent Aisha:

"My mother came to me while I was being swung on a swing between two branches and got me down. My nurse took over and wiped my face with some water and started leading me. When I was at the door she stopped so I could catch my breath. I was brought in while Muhammad was sitting on a bed in our house. My mother made me sit on his lap. The other men and women got up and left. The Prophet consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old” (Tabari 9:131).

"Narrated 'Aisha [Mohammed's six-year-old "bride" and nine-year-old sexual "partner"]: 'Allah's Apostle said (to me), "You were shown to me twice in (my) dream [before I married you]. Behold, a man was carrying you in a silken piece of cloth and said to me, 'She is your wife, so uncover her,' and behold, it was you. I would then say (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.'"'" (Bukhari Volume 9, Book 87, Number 139 and 140).

Sunnis can try to escape blame by scapegoating Shiites ("it's not us!"), but Sunni Islam is just as guilty of "sacralizing" child rape as the Ayatollah-in-hell.

From here:

"'A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine other sexual act such as forplay rubbing kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not comitted a crime but only an infraction if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl however is permanently damaged the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man s four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl[']s sister.'"

Speaking of 'Umdat al-Salik:

"There is no doubt that this translation is a valuable and important work, whether as a textbook for teaching Islamic jurisprudence to English speakers, or as a legal reference for use by scholars, educated laymen, and students in this language." Dr. Taha Jabir al-'Alwani, International Institute of Islamic Thought (Herndon, VA; December 1990)

"...We certify that this translation corresponds to the Arabic original and conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community (Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'a)." al-Azhar, the Muslim world's most prestigious institution of higher Islamic learning (Cairo; February, 1991).

Only real American generosity can end the threat of Islamophobia-induced resistance

We have been too self-centered.

Too xenophobic.

Too fascist, too racist, too Euro-centric.

America needs to look beyond itself and consider how others view the world.

We need to stop assuming that everyone else thinks the way we do.

I propose that, instead of trying to fit others into our pathetic, self-absorbed, can't-see-past-who's-left-on-American-Idol, little box, we try to see things as they do, especially those who seek to harm us for what many of our more-enlightened and clearly-more-sophisticated betters tell us are legitimate grievances.

I've begun to do just that.

Over the last several years I've been really listening -- without preconditions -- to what those obviously-innocent adherents of the Great World Religion -- victims of capitalist, racist, American prejudice -- are saying.

You know what I've discovered?

America is stingy.  If we want peace with others, if we want to regain the world's respect and rebuild bridges, if want to lead the world into a more peaceful future, we need to start giving people what they really want, not what we think is necessary.

Consider the facts:

-We've offered up only a few thousand of our best and bravest in protecting "innocent" "South Asian" lives.

-Despite America's vast wealth, we've withheld all but around a trillion in treasure trying to win the hearts and minds of "youths," the "poor," the "non-integrated," the "disenfranchised," and the "oppressed."

-We've only recently elected to the leadership of our nation someone who is clearly more understanding of Muslim sensibilities than anyone who's never been a Muslim could be.

(His mild-to-moderate anti-Semitism?  Yes, 1930's Germany did better, but Europe is always ahead of us.  Give the guy a break!  You can't expect perfection after only a few months on the job.)

To enhance this new-and-improved worldview (as someone perceptively pointed out to me once, I need to walk in someone else's moccasins before I can judge them!) I've been studying the texts, tenets, and history of those currently fighting the global Zionist/Crusader conspiracy against Muslims.

Now I see clearly:

It's my fault for resisting the rape, enslavement, mutilation, and slaughter of non-Muslims, apostates, women, and little girls.

It's my fault for denying two basic, self-evident truths: I am "the worst of creatures," and Muslims are "the best of people" who deserve my total subjugation and humiliation.

I know!  How narrow-minded and bigoted I've been!

So, what can we do?  How can America atone for its willful blindness?

I propose that we give those who want to kill us what they really want.

A Muslim's ultimate goal is paradise, and I've found one certain way to give that to them.

In Qur'an 9:111 (only a fearful hatemonger would see 9/11 in that citation, racist!), Allah promises eternal bliss -- including dozens of perpetual virgins and boys "like pearls" -- to those who kill and are killed for him.

What more expedient, more efficient, more generous way to help as many Muslims as possible realize their ultimate dream, their hearts' deepest desire, than to give to Mecca and Medina the same "travel package" we gave to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?  (We would have given the same to Berlin if Hitler and his freedom fighters had held out a little longer; if you doubt that, then you must be unaware of what Dresden received.)

We can give sufficient advanced notice so that only the most devout, the most zealous, the most righteous Muslims get to cash in on Allah's guarantee; those apostates who want to stay here and collude with the Zionists and Crusaders will have time to flee.

It's a win-win situation.

We get to make up for past sins, Muslims of conscience can be free of Islam, and the devout get their cosmic brothel (though I don't think it will be exactly what they expected).

Seventy-eight percent of Muslims in Pakistan Islamophobic . . . the other 22% thought the poll was part of the Zionist-Crusader conspiracy to defame Islam

Since everyone knows that only racist, fear-mongering fascists claim that Islam requires violence.

No, Rifqa Bary is in no danger at all. Though everyone conspiring to return her to her to Ohio will share responsibility for her murder if her parents or their coreligionists are successful in fulfilling the commands of Allah and its monster Muhammad.

More "moderate" Islam, this time from Pakistan where, according to Andrew Bostom, a recent survey shows that 78% of one nation receiving our billions support death for apostates.

They also happen to support burying women alive for "honor."

Here's why:

"A manual of Islamic law certified by Al-Azhar as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy says that 'retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.' However, 'not subject to retaliation' is 'a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring.' ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2)."

Calvin a spiritual successor to Muhammad

I knew it!

Not only the conflating of destiny and omniscience, which in Calvin's case destroys men's souls by making the only Savior into a capricious monster, but other expressions of Islamic barbarism had to have warped the Christian culture it oppressed for centuries.  One institution completely alien to the Scriptures -- but in line with Allah's malevolence -- was the Spanish Inquisition.

Though its evils have been exaggerated by those with an axe to grind against Christianity and Roman Catholicism, and though it was government that did the dirty work, the idea that people should be punished temporally for belief is foreign to the New Testament texts, but inherent to Islam's.

Bad theology always causes problems.

On Muhammad's influence on Calvin, from the great Diana West:

One of the most fascinating essays I've ever read about Islam in all these many years since 9/11 (when I first started reading essays about islam) is in the essential book, The Legacy of Jihad, by Andrew G. Bostom.

It is by the French theologian Jacques Ellul and it is called "The Influence of Islam." The essay discusses the influence of Islam on Christianity -- namely, what was "imported into Europe" from Islam that took root in Christianity.

Among other things, Elllul links the elevation of canonical law, the entrenchment of the divine right of kings, and the emergence of "holy war" as evidence of what he notes was a one-way cultural exchange propelled by contact, competition and war with Islam. Islamic influence was an import into Christendom, but there was no reciprocal export of Christian influence into Islam.

Another aspect of this influence that I remember being quite struck by when I first read the essay some years ago had to do with the emergence of Christian notions of "providence," which, as Ellul writes "is never a biblical word" or concept, but was helped into Christian doctrine by the Islamic concept of submission, particularly the Muslim formulation mektoub, "It was written." He writes:

From now on destiny and divine omniscience are conjoined. Believers can live in perfect peace because they know that everything was written in advance. The very formula "It was written" could only come from a religion of the book. Yet the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels never use such a formula. Thanks to it, the idea of predestination that was already haunting philosophical and Christian thinking received confirmation, forcibly established itself, and came to include double predestination (in Calvin), which, whether we want it or not, transforms the biblical God into destiny, Anamke, etc. And this derives from Muslim thinking.

More eloquence in two sentences than in all of Obama's teleprompters

More truth, too.

So am I.

Did Nancy Pelosi admit Obama's ineligibility to serve as president?

WND has more evidence of Obama's failing to satisfy the Constitution's citizenship requirements for the presidency.

Two documents with Pelosi's signature. The second "form obtained by Williams appears identical, although the signatures are different, including the same strategic typographical error. But in this one, the verification of eligibility under the requirements of the U.S. Constitution is gone."

 

 

Are there no depths to which Liberals will sink in order to achieve and maintain power?

Remembering 9/11*

While it is fitting and proper that we should remember those who fell on 9/11 and their families and continue to support our political, law enforcement, and military personnel who work to defend us, to continue to lie about or deny why the attack occurred is suicidal.

The command of Allah and the example of Muhammad require the faithful to use [any] means necessary, including violence, to establish the rule of Allah over all mankind (see for yourself here).

Muhammad offered non-Muslims three options: Conversion, slavery as dhimmis, or death.

Nowhere do you hear our political, media, or academic elites state this basic fact. Instead, you've got the president of the United States apologizing to Islam (in a "speech" from Al-Azhar University, whose president endorses suicide bombings), bowing to Muslim tyrants (the Saudi king), and negotiating with Islamic terrorists working to secure nukes (Iran), all while abandoning the only decent, free nation in that part of the world, Israel.

Islamic tyranny and intimidation must be resisted.

Islamic obfuscation and propaganda must be exposed and dispelled.

It is not racism to evaluate a set of beliefs. It is not phobic to state facts about what a text says. It is not intolerant to expose and condemn genocide, murder, pedophilia, rape, slavery, vandalism, extortion, theft, deceit, and religious and gender discrimination [carried out] in the name of a "god."

Many resources are available on-line. Jihad Watch is highly recommended. [I happen to like this site also.]

Here is just a taste of what Muhammad and his allah intend for you, and whether out of ignorance, cowardice, deceit, or simple human decency, the fact that Muslims you know do not advocate such behavior does nothing to negate what Muhammad [commanded] and practiced:

"kill the pagans wherever you find them" (Qur'an 9:5).

"Fight against . . . the People of the Book [Jews and Christians] . . . until they feel themselves subdued and pay the jizya" (Qur'an 9:29).

Remember 9/11, but not with helpless, limp-wristed, self-indulgent expressions of ignorance and confusion.

Remember 9/11 with an accurate understanding of the enemy, an ancient foe which seeks to devour all that you hold dear.

Remember 9/11 and honor our dead by determining to expose, denounce, and punish all who through ignorance, perversion, malfeasance, or deceit would hamper our efforts at effective self-defense.

Fourteen hundred years of global jihad.

Fourteen thousand terrorist attacks in Allah's name since 9/11 alone.

Innocent victims of Muhammad's bloodlust (and lust) cry out around the world.

What will you do when they want to put your children in the oven?

*Will Obama be eating ice cream, playing golf, or playing the fiddle?

Update 9/12, 12:29 AM: It turns out he was painting a wall and urging interfaith dialogue,
but not for Muslims until after Ramadan.

Rifqa Bary faces death at hands of own murderous Muslim parents; WFTV pulls the video from YouTube and hides it at their site

This is Islam. Monsters.

Notice the young lady's clear statement: Her parents' devotion requires them to kill her.

"If they love Allah more than me, then they have to do it."

"Religion of Peace! Religion of Peace!"

This is what the Leader of the Free World demands you respect, that to which he bows and apologizes:

Update 9/8/09 5:23 PM: The video is no longer available through YouTube, so I sent the following e-mail to everyone I could find at WFTV.com:

Why have you pulled the video of Rifqa Bary's desperate plea for help? She is in fear of her life at the hands of her Muslim parents. The media are quick to air propagandists for jihad like CAIR's agents (CAIR happens to be an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal terrorism funding trial), but you deny the public footage that might save her life? Why are you siding with Islamic terrorism? Why are you aiding the implementation of shari'a, Islamic law, in America? Whose side are you on?

"Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him" (Bukhari Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57). "They long that ye should disbelieve even as they disbelieve, that ye may be upon a level (with them). So choose not friends from them till they forsake their homes in the way of Allah; if they turn back (to enmity) then take them and kill them wherever ye find them, and choose no friend nor helper from among them" (Qur'an 4:89).

Tell the truth. Save Rifqa Bary's life, do not become an accomplice in her honor killing, her murder for apostasy.

To which Craig Mazer, WFTV.com Executive Producer, replied:

I have no idea why you would accuse us of taking down that video. You can still, as always, find it here:

http://www.wftv.com/video/20359480/index.html

So I responded:

It was removed from YouTube.com, a site with considerably more visibility than yours. When I searched your site for "Rifqa Bary," it did not turn up. Thank you for the link. By the way, attached is a screenshot illustrating my point:

Notice the search results from their site: "Older than 30 days" returned nothing; "Last 30 days" turns up the attempted murderers' obfuscations. Who's serving as an accomplice to Muslim murder at WFTV? Update 7:13 PM: Thanks to Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs, here is the video from another source: Link: The ads are intrusive, but that's a small price to pay for getting Ms. Bary's story out.

Originally posted 8/18/09 at 3:39 AM

Two thousand words on the decline and fall of the American republic

Speaking of arrogance . . .

And that's no joke.

A real American

A few million more like this one, and it's game over for the socialists.

And the jihadists.

Discovered at this excellent site.

The play is the tragedy, "Man," and its hero, the Conqueror Worm

The Conqueror Worm

LO! 't is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years.
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight,
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.

Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly;
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their condor wings
Invisible Woe.

That motley drama—oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased for evermore
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot;
And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.

But see amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude:
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes—it writhes!—with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And over each quivering form
In human gore imbued.

Out—out are the lights—out all!
And over each quivering form
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–1849

California's avoidable Greek tragedy

Tom McClintock would have been a much better choice as California's governor, as will become obvious upon reading his recent comments below.

California needs him as its chief executive -- and unless the current revolt against socialist tyranny grows permanent, the nation will need him too.

In the present political climate, with the Governator and the liberal Legislature breaking the Golden State and the Disaster-in-Chief's bankrupting and disarming the nation, Tom McClintock seems prescient and a God-send.

Congressman Tom McClintock offered the following remarks in Washington, D.C. last Friday to the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Pacific Research Institute that clearly illustrate why California is facing such a large fiscal mess.

[. . .]

“I know that everybody likes to poke fun at California – but I can tell you right now that despite all of its problems, California remains one of the best places in the world to build a successful small business. All you have to do is start with a successful large business.”

[. . .]

Laugh if you will, but let me remind you that when these policies finish wrecking California, there are still 49 other states we can all move to – and yours is one of them.

I should also warn you of the strange sense of déjà-vu that I have every day on the House floor as I watch the same folly and blunders that wrecked California now being passed with reckless abandon in this Congress.

We passed a “Cash-for-Clunkers” bill the other day – we did that years ago in California.

Doubling the entire debt every five years? Been there.

Increasing spending at unsustainable rates? Done that.

Save-the-Planet-Carbon-Dioxide restrictions? Got the T-Shirt.

To understand how these policies can utterly destroy an economy and bankrupt a government, you have to remember the Golden State in its Golden Age.

A generation ago, California spent about half what it does today AFTER adjusting for both inflation and population growth.

And yet, we had the finest highway system in the world and the finest public school system in the country. California offered a FREE university education to every Californian who wanted one. We produced water and electricity so cheaply that many communities didn’t bother to measure the stuff. Our unemployment rate consistently ran well below the national rate and its diversified economy was nearly recession-proof.

One thing – and one thing only – has changed in those years: public policy. The political Left gradually gained dominance over California’s government and has imposed a disastrous agenda of radical and retrograde policies that have destroyed the quality of life that Californians once took for granted.

The Census Bureau reports that in the last two years 2/3 of a million more people have moved out of California than have moved it. Many are leaving for the garden spots of Nevada, Arizona and Texas.

Think about that. California is blessed with the most equitable climate in the entire Western Hemisphere; it has the most bountiful resources anywhere in the continental United States; it is poised on the Pacific Rim in a position to dominate world trade for the next century, and yet people are finding a better place to live and work and raise their families in the middle of the Nevada and Arizona and Texas deserts.

I submit to you that no conceivable act of God could wreak such devastation as to turn California into a less desirable place to live than the middle of the Nevada Nuclear Test Range. Only Acts of Government can do that. And they have.

You can trace the collapse of California’s economy to several critical events: the rise of environmental Ludditism beginning in 1974; the abandonment of constitutional checks and balances that once constrained spending and borrowing; and the rise of rule by public employee unions . There are other factors as well: litigation, taxation, illegal immigration – but for the sake of time let me concentrate on the big three.

The first was the rise of environmental Ludditism with the election of a radical new-age leftist named Jerry Brown as governor of the state – an election that also produced overwhelming liberal majorities in both legislative houses.

Like Obama today, Brown lost little time in pursuing his vision of California – an incoherent combination of pastoral simplicity, European socialism and centralized planning. At the center of this world view was a backward ideology that he called his “era of limits” — the naïve notion that public works were growth inducing and polluting and that stopping the expansion of infrastructure somehow excused government from meeting the needs of an expanding population.

Conservation replaced abundance as the chief aim of California’s public works, and public policy was redirected to developing irresistible incentives for the population to concentrate in dense urban cores rather than to settle in suburban communities.

Brown infused his vision into every aspect of public policy, and it is a testament to his thoroughness and tenacity that its basic tenets have dominated the direction of California through both Republican and Democratic administrations.

He cancelled the state’s highway construction program, abandoning many routes in mid-construction. He cancelled long-planned water projects, conveyance facilities and dams. He established the California Energy Commission that blocked approval of any significant new generating capacity. He enacted volumes of environmental regulations that created severe impediments to home and commercial construction, empowering an incipient no-growth movement that began on the most extreme fringe of the environmental cause and quickly spread.

This movement reached its zenith with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the enactment of AB 32 and companion legislation in 2006. This measure gives virtually unchecked authority to the California Air Resources Board to force Draconian reductions in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020.

This has dire implications to entire segments of California’s economy: agriculture, baking, distilling, cargo and passenger transportation, cement production, manufacturing, construction and energy production, to name a few.

We, too, were promised an explosion of “green jobs,” but exactly the opposite has happened.

Up until that bill took effect, California’s unemployment numbers tracked very closely with the national unemployment rate. But since then, California’s unemployment rate began a steady upward divergence from the national jobless figures. Today, California’s unemployment rate is more than two points above the national rate, and at its highest point since 1941.

The second problem is structural: the collapse of the checks and balances and other constitutional and traditional constraints on government spending and borrowing.

Let me mention a few of them.

The State Supreme Court decision in Serrano v. Priest severed the use of local revenue for local schools and invited the state take-over of public education. AB 8 of 1979 – the legislature’s response to Proposition 13 – essentially did the same thing to local governments generally.

This means that vast bureaucracies have grown up over the service delivery level, wasting more and more resources while hamstringing teachers in their classrooms, wardens in their prisons and city councils in their towns.

Next, constitutional constraints on fiscal excesses began to fall. In 1983, Gov. George Deukmejian approved legislation to remove the governor’s ability to make mid-year budget corrections without having to return to the legislature. The loss of this provision exposed the state to chronic deficit spending by removing any ability of the governor to rapidly respond to changing economic conditions.

In 1989, Deukmejian sponsored Proposition 111 that destroyed the Gann Spending Limit that had held increases in state spending to inflation and population growth. If that limit had remained intact, California would be enjoying a budget surplus today.

The disastrous tax increases by Pete Wilson in 1991 and Arnold Schwarzenegger this year were made possible by this tragic blunder.

Finally, we’ve watched the constitutional budget process that had produced relatively punctual and relatively balanced budgets for nearly 150 years collapse in favor of an extra-constitutional abomination called the big five.

That new process, that began under Pete Wilson and has culminated under Arnold Schwarzenegger bypasses the entire legislative deliberative process in favor of an annual deal struck between the governor and legislative leaders behind closed doors and handed to the legislature as a fait accompli.

This short-circuits the separation of powers that is designed to discipline fiscal excess and it literally bargains away the line-item veto authority of the governor. It is a process that allows legislative leaders to extract concessions from the executive that would not be possible if the separation of powers were maintained.

With the checks against excessive spending broken down, borrowing became the preferred method of public finance. The Constitutional requirement that all taxpayer-supported debt be approved by voters began to erode in the 1930’s, when a depression-era Supreme Court decision allowed the state to run a temporary deficit in the event of an economic down-turn — as long as the shortfall was addressed in the following fiscal year. This practice was narrowly construed until the Wilson administration began using it to justify spreading out a single year’s budget deficit over several years.

During the 1980’s, Gov. Deukmejian began employing a legal fiction called a “lease revenue bond,” to circumvent constitutionally required voter approval.

Although Proposition 13 still protects property owners from unsustainable increases in their property taxes, most of the other fiscal constraints are now gone, and California has entered a period of unprecedented public debt to finance an unprecedented expansion of state government.

The third factor that also can be traced back to the 1970’s was the radical transformation that took place in the nature and power of the state’s public employee unions. Until that time, state law prohibited public employee strikes against the public and prohibited collective bargaining or closed shops.

During the Jerry Brown era, a series of collective bargaining acts handed to public sector unions all the rights and powers of private sector unions – but without any of the natural constraints on private sector unions. The unions soon brought these newly-won powers to bear to elect hand-picked officials to state and local office.

Today, political expenditures by public employee unions exceed all other special interest groups, while they hold compliant majorities in the state legislature and most local agencies.

The result has been radically escalating personnel costs and radically deteriorating performance.

The impact on governmental services has been devastating. Despite exploding budgets, service delivery is collapsing. Firing incompetent teachers has become a virtual impossibility, adding to the deterioration of educational quality. Essential services can no longer be performed because labor costs have made it impossible to sustain those services.

Today, California is like the shopkeeper who leased out too much space, ordered too much inventory, hired too many people and paid them too much. Every month the shopkeeper covers his shortfalls with borrowing and bookkeeping tricks. Ultimately, he will reach a tipping point where anything he does makes his situation worse. Borrowing costs are eating him alive and he’s running out of credit. Raising prices causes his sales to decline. And there’s only so much discretionary spending he can cut.

That’s the state’s predicament in a nutshell. California’s borrowing costs now exceed the budget of the entire University of California and it is increasingly likely that it will fail to find lenders when it must borrow billions to pay its bills at the end of this month.

Ignoring dire warnings, Gov. Schwarzenegger and legislators from both parties earlier this year imposed the biggest state tax increase in American history.

And I can assure you that the Laffer curve is alive and well. In the first two months after the tax increase took effect, state revenues have plunged 33 percent.

Although there are many obsolete, duplicative or low priority programs and expenditures that the state can – and should – do without, there aren’t enough of them to come anywhere close to closing California’s deficit.

Sadly, California has reached the terminal stage of a bureaucratic state, where government has become so large and so tangled that it can no longer perform even basic functions.

Fortunately, we have a model that we know works. A generation ago, it produced a high quality of public service at a much lower cost. It maximized management flexibility and it required accountability at the service delivery level. It recognized that only when commerce and enterprise flourish can we finance the basic responsibilities of government.

Restoring this efficiency will require a governor and a legislature with the political will to wrestle control from the public employee unions, dismantle the enormous bureaucracies that have grown up over the service delivery level, decentralize administration and decision making, contract out services that the private sector can provide more efficiently, rescind the recent tax increases that are costing the state money and roll back the regulatory obstacles to productive enterprise.

Alas, we don’t have such leaders and even if we did, the systemic reorganization of the state government can’t be accomplished overnight. Restructuring the public schools would take at least a year; prisons at least two; and health and welfare three to five years before serious savings could be realized.

This brings us to the fine point of the matter. What Churchill called history’s “terrible, chilling words” are about to be pronounced on California’s failed leadership: “too late.”

A federal loan guarantee or bailout may be the only way to buy time for the restructuring of California’s bureaucracies to take effect, but the discussion remains academic until and unless the state actually adopts the replacement structures, unburdens its shrinking productive sector and presents a credible plan to redeem the state’s crushing debt and looming obligations.

Without these actions, federal intervention will only make California’s problems worse by postponing reform, continuing unsustainable spending and piling up still more debt.

In short, if California won’t help itself, the federal government cannot, should not and must not.

And before anyone gets too smug at California’s agony, remember this: Congress is now enacting the same policies at the national level that have caused the collapse of California. So whistle past this cemetery if you must, but remember the medieval epitaph: “Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I; as I am now so you will be.”

The good news is there is still time for the nation to avoid California’s fate. If anything, the collapse of California can at least serve as a morality play for the rest of the nation – unfortunately in the form of a Greek tragedy.

If Muhammad lied in order to advance Islam, then you shouldn't be surprised when Muslims do too

On what basis can a non-Muslim trust a Muslim, exactly?

Since Allah called Muhammad a "beautiful pattern of conduct for those who want to please" him, the best that you can hope for from one of his devotees is apostasy, heresy, or ignorance.  What else can a reasonable person expect?

Here, once again, is our good friend Ibn Kathir exposing Muslim deceit -- both the individual's practice of it in denying taqiyya and the "divine" mandate for such deception -- in his explanation of a chunk of Sura 3:

"(unless you indeed fear a danger from them) meaning, except those believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers. In this case, such believers are allowed to show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda' said, 'We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.'' Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, 'The Tuqyah [taqiyya] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.''"

Chains of Liberty

It's time for another American Revolution.

Thomas Jefferson warned:

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

Break out those chains if you want to preserve the liberties you possess still.

Socialism is slavery.  It makes dependent those who receive the fruit of their fellow citizens' labor, whose time and talent -- in the form of their treasure -- are confiscated at the point of a gun.

Humanly-speaking -- for we can merit nothing before God, Christ is our Merit -- if the State takes your wealth and uses it even accidentally for an occasional benevolent purpose, then it is no longer to your credit.

And what of when politicians hundreds and thousands of mile away use your wealth for immoral purposes?  Regarding that, Jefferson observed:

"to compel a man to furnish ... money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical."

Politicians are not engaged in charity when they take your money and limit your freedom "for the public good."  They're thieves using your resources to maintain their position.  They think you exist to provide them power.

They work for you.

Government is Leviathan.  If it is not restrained, it will devour us all.

It's time to start over as our Founders intended.  Remove all the filth politicians have codified into law and begin again from just the United States Constitution.

Let's also add term limits for Congress, end their benefits, and certify place of birth for presidential candidates, while we're at it.

The great Larry Elder nails it:

Assisting the needy in health care is a "moral imperative" – not a constitutional right. The two are as different as a squirt gun and an Uzi.

If something is not permitted under our Constitution, the federal government simply cannot do it. Period. The Founding Fathers vigorously debated the role of the federal government and defined it in Article I, Section 8 – spelling out the specific duties and obligations of the federal government. Most notably, this included providing a military for national security, coining money, establishing rules for immigration and citizenship, establishing rules for bankruptcy, setting up a postal system, establishing trademark and copyright rules, and setting up a legal system to resolves disputes, in addition to a handful of other matters.

Charity is not there.

Congress began ignoring its lack of authority for charity before the ink dried on the Constitution. When Congress appropriated $15,000 to assist French refugees in 1792, James Madison – a Founding Father and principal author of the Constitution – wrote, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution, which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

But what about the Constitution's general welfare clause?

Madison said: "With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers (enumerated in the Constitution) connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."

And consider government welfare's effect on people's willingness to give. During the Great Depression – before the social programs that today we accept as givens (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) – charitable giving increased dramatically. After FDR began signing social programs into law, charitable giving continued, but not at the same rate. People felt that they had given at the office and/or that government was "handling it."

Government "charity" is simply less efficient than private charity. Every dollar extracted from taxpayers, sent to Washington, and then routed to the beneficiary "loses" about 70 cents in transfer costs – salaries, rent and other expenses. The Salvation Army, by contrast, spends 2 cents in operating costs, with the remainder going to fundraising and the beneficiary. They achieve this, among other ways, by relying on volunteers to do much of the work.

Following Hurricane Katrina, private companies, including The Home Depot and Wal-Mart, provided basic needs, such as water and shelter, faster than did government. What were their motives? Generosity? Positive public relations – a form of "selfishness"? Does it matter?

What about the issue of "moral hazard"? Does government welfare distort behavior and cause people to act irresponsibly? In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson launched a "War on Poverty." "Anti-poverty" workers literally went door to door to inform women of their "right" to money and services – provided the recipients were unmarried and had no men living in their houses. Out-of-wedlock births skyrocketed. In 1960, before the "War on Poverty," out-of-wedlock births accounted for 2 percent of white births and 22 percent of black births. By 1994 – just three decades after Johnson began his "War" – the rates had soared to 25 and 70 percent, respectively.

Numerous studies conclude that children of "broken homes" with absentee or nonexistent fathers are more likely to commit crimes, drop out of school, do drugs and produce out-of-wedlock children. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times asked both the poor and non-poor the following question: Do you think those on welfare have children to get on welfare? More poor people (64 percent) said "yes" to that proposition than did non-poor (44 percent).

If not taxation, how then?

In 1871, the city of Chicago burned to the ground. Contributions, with virtually no money from government, rebuilt the city. After 9/11, so many Americans gave money that the Red Cross used some contributions for non-9/11 purposes. Christianity Today wrote in January 2002: "Suddenly awash in a sea of money, relief agencies such as the Salvation Army need help. So much money – $1.5 billion so far – has come in that charities are having a hard time spending it." And Americans donated an even greater sum to those affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Three in four families donate to charity, averaging more than 3 percent of their income, with two-thirds going to secular charities. In total, Americans give more than $300 billion a year – more than the gross domestic product of Finland or Ireland. More than half of families also donate their time.

Absent (unconstitutional) government programs, individuals and charitable organizations can, will and – in many cases – already do provide services to the needy. A limited government – one that taxes only to fulfill its permissible duties – would allow even more disposable time and money.

People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more humane and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary. People can and would readily satisfy society's "moral imperative."

Obama was as much a socialist as he was Muslim

Which is to say, entirely.

As if his policies were not enough, Obama participated in a socialist party:

President Obama participated in a controversial 1990s political party with a socialist agenda, recalls a major member of the organization known as the New Party.

WND previously reported on newspaper evidence showing Obama was a member of the New Party, which sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda.

Now a former top member of the New Party recounted in a WND e-mail interview Obama's participation with his organization.

"A subcommittee met with (Obama) to interview him to see if his stand on the living wage and similar reforms was the same as ours," recalled Marxist activist Carl Davidson.

"We determined that our views on these overlapped, and we could endorse his campaign in the Democratic Party,' Davidson said.

Obama creating a second Great Depression

Never let a crisis go to waste.

Vox Day articulates clearly where our politicians' priorities lie. The FDIC is broke:

If there is one thing that has been made clear by the response of the monetary and fiscal authorities to the economic crisis, it is that they will not lift a finger to help the general public. When they could have spent millions to prevent homeowners with mortgages from falling into default and foreclosure, they instead chose to spend billions to reduce the impact of the failed mortgages on the giant zombie banks. If one looks closely at the mechanisms underlying the Homeowner Stability Initiative, the Making Home Affordable plan and the Cash for Clunkers program, one will see that they are not designed to help the homeowner or the car buyer, but rather the banks that finance the purchases.

Given recent history, it would appear to be most unwise to assume that the federal government will do much more than permit the FDIC to borrow the additional $70 billion by which its credit line was increased in May, especially should depositors become aware of the increasingly fragile state of the banking system and begin to withdraw their funds from it. Banking holidays and other restrictions on the public's ability to access its money are probably more likely than an outright bailout, especially since a bailout will cost around $225 billion merely to maintain the status quo if Meredith Whitney's calculation of 300 bank failures is correct. In any case, the ability to ask permission to borrow from an unpredictable institution already $11.7 trillion in debt and expecting a further $9 trillion in deficits is not insurance nor can it reasonably be described as a guarantee of any kind.

Walter Cronkite and his fellow apologists for tyranny stained anew with the blood of innocents

The sacrifices made by Americans in Vietnam (and Korea) matter to the victims of Communism, then and now.

The atrocities noted below are what stupid, treasonous, America-hating leftists helped bring about by attacking our military in defense of Communism/Socialism.

To all who opposed America's efforts in Vietnam and helped bring them to an end: You have the fresh blood of innocents on your hands.

Walter Cronkite and his fellow useful idiots stole from innocent people their only defense against savagery, barbarism, and brutality worthy of Hitler, Muhammad, and hell itself.

Here's the end of the Left's utopian dream, one example of what Cronkite and his fellow propagandists helped forge: 2-month-old killed to stifle 'religious' dissent.

Will Jim Webb have the integrity and the guts to condemn this? Or will he follow Dear Leader Obama's lionhearted example in the face of brutal tyranny: Bow, grovel, obfuscate, and apologize?

An international Christian group has reported a horrifying episode of Christian children being abducted and killed in an apparent effort to stifle "religious and political" dissidents in Laos during the runup to a visit by U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.

Webb, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, recently visited several nations, including some that often have earned high rankings among nations that persecute Christians. His trip included visits to Burma, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

Now comes a report from International Christian Concern about the newest atrocities.

"International Christian Concern has just learned that Lao soldiers captured, mutilated and decapitated a two-month-old girl during recent military attacks against Hmong and Laotian civilians," the group said. "Survivors of the attack said the infant was used for target practice."

ICC cited reports from the Center for Public Policy Analysis that claimed eight children were captured and 26 Hmong and Laotian civilians were murdered during a series of four major attacks over the past month – apparently designed to stifle "religious and political dissidents" ahead of the visit from Webb.

"Christian Hmong were most certainly among those attacked as they are often targeted specifically by the regime," the report said.

The report included a statement from Vaughn Vang, the director of thet Lao Hmong Human Rights Council.

"We are told, by some of the Lao Hmong survivors of the recent military attacks in Laos, that the LPDR (Lao Peoples Democratic Republic) soldiers of the LPA (Lao Peoples Army) used the … Lao Hmong girl, while she was still alive, for target practice … once she was captured and tied up; they mutilated her little body and continued to fire their weapons, over and over … until her head just eventually came off after so many bullets severed her head."

The rest of the children, ranging up to 8 years old, remain missing and Vang's concern is that they likely would be tortured and killed by soldiers.

The ICC report said the decapitated child's body was found next to her mother, also a torture victim of the soldiers.

"Unfortunately," the ICC said, "this level of brutality against women and children is not uncommon for Lao soldiers. It is standard procedure for soldiers to surround and isolate pockets of Hmong people and starve them out to be killed when they venture out to forage.

"Philip Smith, the Executive Director of CPPA, told ICC of video footage smuggled out of Laos in 2004 that documents the aftermath of the killing and brutalization of five Hmong children, four of them girls, on May 19th of that year. That footage was used in an extremely graphic documentary, "Hunted Like Animals," by Rebecca Sommer," the report said.

The videos are available at RebeccaSommer.org, but ICC warns the clips are "highly graphic." The website warns that no children should view the clips.

[. . .]

According to the RebeccaSommers.org website, the Hmong people of southeast Asia, many of whom cooperated with American forces during the Vietnam War, still are hunted and killed for actions of four decades ago.

Open Doors USA ranks Laos No. 8 on its 2009 World Watch List of nations that persecute Christians.

[. . .]

"It is certainly not a shock that North Korea is No. 1 on the list of countries where Christians face the worst persecution," said Carl Moeller, president of Open Doors USA. "There is no other country in the world where Christians are persecuted in such a horrible and systematic manner."

The organization estimates 100 million Christians worldwide suffer interrogation, arrest and even death for their faith in Christ, with millions more facing discrimination and alienation.

Islam. Nazism. Communism. Any form of totalitarianism. "Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again."

B. Hussein Obama's new health care plan* unveiled

Finally, some of that much-hyped, often-promised, but impossible-to-find transparency!



This also happens to be his strategy for dealing with the elderly, Independents who skew downward his public opinion polls, country music fans, babies, the Founding Fathers, military veterans (American, not jihadist prisoners-of-war, they get a dream vacation in the Caribbean, relocation in the newly-expanded federal witness protection program to somewhere in the continental United States, and a position in his administration), everyone who refuses to address him as "Your Highness," and other "right-wing extremists."

When asked what he'd do if this proposal is rejected also by Americans-Who-Are-Paying-Attention, he admitted with a smirk that he did have a fallback plan, one that would strive "To Serve Man."

The President denied charges from Obviously-Racist-Republican-Operatives that he's taking his domestic policy ideas from Rod Serling.

*Our God-given, unalienable rights are never "obsolete."

Obama is god

The blaspheming tyrant has done it again.

And you thought Rush was only joking.

Being "ready to rule from Day 1," was bad enough, for with that, Obama made himself a king over free men.

Now, he's made himself equal with God:

"We are God’s partners in matters of life and death . . . ."

This is evidence of Obama's pathological, self-deifying narcissism.

It's also proof that Obama thinks that the devout are idiots to be manipulated.

Isn't this also an expression of the fact that liberals worship the State as god? Power above all else?

Good news, for now, for Rifqa Bary

Despite the efforts of jihad's propagandists, outright liars like Mohamed Fadly and BMZ who obfuscate and silence the truth about Muhammad, and Islam's Useful Idiot dhimmis, like Rory Graycrow Underclass, Dovod, and the entire Western Political-Media Complex, one life has been snatched from the gaping maw of hell, from her own Muslim parents, at least temporarily.

Note also the example of Wafa Sultan. Raised Muslim, she recognized the "violent, hateful Islamic doctrines embedded in the Shariah," rejected Islam, and now works for human rights in order to save Muslims and non-Muslims alike from Islam.

And I am criticized for pointing out what the texts say, what Wafa Sultan recognizes, for exposing the most hateful ideology in the history of man, one that sends Muslim souls to hell and for non-Muslims, creates hell on Earth.

Good news, for now, for Rifqa Bary:

Geller reported the girl's friends had accompanied her to the school counselor after they noticed bruises covering her arms and legs that allegedly resulted from beatings by her father and brother. "The middle school, in a serious dereliction of duty, did not report these beatings to child welfare services," Geller reported. "Beatings were random, violent, unprovoked. Take, for example, when Rifqa and her father Mohamed were driving in the car. He would force her to wear the hijab (head covering), which she hated. In her discomfort she would slouch down, embarrassed, and her father would haul off and sock her in the face so that she never forgot to sit up straight in her costume. The beatings were regular and so much a part of the landscape of Rifqa's life, she became inured to them …"

Geller said the teen's case "is a public relations nightmare for Islamist groups, as her plea validates everything that scholars such as Ibn Warraq, Robert Spencer, Dr. Andrew Bostom, Wafa Sultan, etc., have written and said."

Sultan, a Syrian-born psychiatrist, human rights activist and author, wrote on JihadWatch.org that the case "highlights the danger of creeping jihad in the Western world. "This is not only because of the imminent danger the teenage girl may face right here in the U.S., had the court decided to have her return to her parents' home, but also because of the mainstream media's weak response to the severity of this case.

"I was born and raised as a Muslim in Syria. I practiced Islam for thirty years of my life. Now I am a known human rights activist striving to save our future Muslim generations from the impact of the violent, hateful Islamic doctrines embedded in the Shariah," she continued.

"My life is also threatened, not only by my own extended family, but bycountless men who consider themselves devout Muslims. Under Shariah, if a Muslim leaves Islam or converts to another religion he/she is an 'apostate,' to be killed. Under Shariah every Muslim has the right to kill such an apostate without any questions asked," she warned.

Obama now scared of own shadow -- and the elderly

Instead of being concerned about Muslims seeking to overthrow the Constitution through both violent and non-violent means, he's worried about "right-wing extremists," which in his mind include our military, those who oppose slaughtering the unborn, the Founding Fathers, and -- Grandma.

In other words, the "President" of the United States is worried about American citizens expressing their concern over the expansion of government his power at the expense of their own God-given rights (yes, I realize that's redundant: You can't have an expansion of government without a proportionate loss of Liberty).

We don't want Nazi Germany. We don't want the Soviet Union. We don't want the Caliphate. We don't want the Twilight Zone's "Obsolete Man."

We want America.

All this just goes to show how depraved the Media are: While most Americans are up in arms over Obama going so far left into socialist tyranny, the media are upset that he hasn't gone far enough!

Chris Matthews will have to find someone else to make him tingle. It's so retro, but perhaps, Adolph Hitler?

From here:

Media coverage of Obama has taken a sudden sour turn over the past few days – especially from the more unapologetically leftist crowd – since the president hinted over the weekend that the so-called 'public option' could be scrapped from his health care reform plans.
"How did we get here?" objected MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. "How did we get to the foretold 'death' of the public option? ... We got here through a collapse of political ambition."
In an eight-minute advocacy piece for government-run health care, blasting Big Business and free market insurance coverage, Maddow turned her ire on the president and congressional Democrats for backing down from drafting a socialized health care system like those adopted by some European nations.

We know that Jesus is the Son of God because that is what He said of Himself

When Someone Who committed no sin, spoke only the truth, healed the sick, raised the dead, died for the sins of the whole world, and overcame death by His resurrection makes an objective truth claim, you ought to listen to Him.

Alen writes in defense of Muhammad:

How? Show us your proof. How cna messenger/prophet Jesus be a son of god? And how come there is a clear difference between Jesus and God in The Bible, NT?
Jesus was a human, he was put in the womb of the virgin Mary, got born, lived, delivered The Message from God and was raised to Heaven.
Jews think they crucified him.
Oops.

A few quick points

1) It is a bit ironic that someone who believes that a blaspheming, genocidal, murdering, raping, mutilating, enslaving, vandalizing, extorting, thieving, lying pedophile was a prophet of the living God is asking for "proof."

What proof do you have for believing Muhammad? Is it the gratuitous beheadings, chronic child rape, or rampant slavery?

2) It is not "a" son of god, it is the Son of God.

3) It is not a "clear difference between Jesus and God," but a clear distinction made between God the Son and God the Father.

4) YHWH created the universe. Is incarnation too difficult for Him?

5) Everyone who witnessed Christ being crucified thought Christ was crucified because . . . Christ was crucified.

6) You do know that early in Islam's history, variant readings of Qur'an were collected and destroyed? That Muhammad tried to change revelations?

Proof

We know that Jesus is the Son of God because that is what He said of Himself.

His Father, the Prophets, and the Apostles all testify to this.

Your false prophet correctly stated that what Moses, the Prophets of YHWH, and Christ preached originally was true. His error was in claiming that Jews and Christians had corrupted those revelations.

Christ referred to the Biblical texts of His day (the Old Testament) as perfect and permanent -- "Father, Your word is truth" and "the Scriptures cannot be broken."

Muhammad has a problem: We have reliable -- not "corrupted" -- copies of the original inspired and perfect Old and New Testament documents, including written records of what Christ actually said and did.

Since we know what Jesus said, you must listen to Him.

The trustworthiness of Scripture

We have copies of Old Testament texts dating to more than a century before Christ, including a complete scroll of Isaiah from around 125 B.C. These demonstrate that the Sacred Texts have been transmitted faithfully down through the centuries to us.

In fact, the body of manuscripts is so reliable that the Bible we possess today is nearly 99% pure. Remaining issues involve mainly spelling errors, word omissions (articles, conjunctions, etc.), and other copyists' mistakes. None of these copying errors affect doctrine.

What do the uncorrupted, reliable Biblical texts say about the Son of God and His crucifixion?

Contrary to your claim, there is no distinction between Christ and God in the New Testament making Jesus only human.

Since "God" in the New Testament refers usually to God the Father, the distinction being made in those cases is between persons of the Trinity, between the Son of God and His Father.

By the way, Christ refers to God as "my Father" dozens of times in the Gospels.

A true prophet, Isaiah, foresaw that the promised Messiah would be God Incarnate:

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6).

Note that in this statement alone, the Child to be born is given the name of God the Father ("Everlasting Father"), God the Son ("Prince of Peace"), and God the Holy Spirit ("Wonderful Counselor").

And as Moses stated, "Hear O Israel . . . the LORD is one," so too the Messiah will be called "Mighty God."

Isn't that odd? The Triune God named in the Old Testament.

Both Isaiah and David foretold the Messiah's torturous scourging and crucifixion, to which there were many witnesses:

"He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

"But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:3-6).

"For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet-- I can count all my bones-- they stare and gloat over me; they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots" (Psalms 22:16-18).

More on the deity of Christ

The Apostles testified to Christ being God. Here is the opening of John's Gospel. Note the distinction between the Father and the Son: Two distinct persons, one nature:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men . . . He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth . . . from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known" (John 1:1-18).

Jesus used the name by which the One, True God, YHWH (not Allah) revealed Himself to Moses:

"So the Jews said to him, 'You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?'

"Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.' So they picked up stones to throw at him . . . " (John 8:57-59).

The religious leaders would not have tried to stone Him for blasphemy unless He were claiming to be YHWH.

Notice in the next passage both that Christ calls God "My Father" and that the religious authorities wanted to kill Him for "making Himself equal with God.":

But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working." This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God" (John 5:17-18).

The Father says directly of His Son:

"And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, 'This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him'" (Luke 9:35)!

"And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, 'This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased'" (Matthew 3:16-17).

One last proof of Christ's deity: In Revelation 22 we find GOD speaking:

"And he who was seated on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true." And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment" (Revelation 21:5-6).

And in the very next chapter, we read:

"Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end" (Revelation 22:12-13).

Who is speaking in the second passage? Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

If Jesus was only a man as you claim, then how in the world would He have the same name as the omnipotent GOD?

Many other passages show Jesus Christ to be the Son of God.

Trust in Christ, Who forgives your sins freely, not Muhammad.