Facebook Employees Say Conservative Views Suppressed

[From article]
Facebook is being accused of fiddling with its formulas to suppress conservative news.
That’s what some unnamed former Facebook contractors told the tech site Gizmodo—and it’s an accusation that strikes at the heart of the social network’s credibility.
Facebook relies on computer algorithms to determine what is “trending,” an influential designation that inevitably boosts traffic for what are deemed the hottest topics. But unbeknownst to much of the public, Facebook hires journalists to tweak these formulas, and this is where the question of political bias has erupted.



Gizmodo reports that Facebook “routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers,” according to a former journalist who worked on the trending designations. And several former Facebook “news curators” told the website that they were told to “inject” certain topics into the trending list, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant making the crucial list.
Depending on who was on duty, said the unnamed conservative ex-curator, citing fear of retribution from the company, “things would be blacklisted or trending … I’d come on shift and I’d discover that CPAC or Mitt Romney or Glenn Beck or popular conservative topics wouldn’t be trending because either the curator didn’t recognize the news topic or it was like they had a bias against Ted Cruz.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/09/former-facebook-staffers-say-conservative-news-is-deliberately-suppressed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Former Facebook staffers say conservative news is deliberately suppressed
By Howard Kurtz

Published May 09, 2016

FoxNews.com

Intolerance, Bigotry and Tragedies at Vanderbilt University

[From article]
In case you missed the hoopla, I was almost run off the Vanderbilt University campus in 2015 by student protesters and petitions denouncing me for bigotry and hatred. This was related to an opinion piece I wrote for The Tennessean about the Islamic faith and the need for Muslims to fully integrate themselves into our society. As a high profile, black, conservative woman on the Vanderbilt faculty, I was a conspicuous target.
During my sabbatical last year, I became the target of harassment and a petition demanding that I be suspended until I submitted to mandatory sensitivity training. That’s a rather odd request of a first-generation college graduate and a person who has overcome poverty, attained tenured positions at Princeton University and Vanderbilt, and had her research cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. My Christian faith, not my race and gender, defines me. It shapes the perspective I now share with you about Vanderbilt, where I have taught for the past 16 years.
Vanderbilt has excelled in many ways during my time here, but in other areas, such as those related to religious freedom and free speech, its policies have led to an unhealthy environment, making it more difficult for some students to thrive spiritually and mentally. On top of all that, there has been a series of unfortunate events that secular-minded people will dismiss as coincidental. The campus has been shaken by untimely deaths. So far in 2016 we have had one current student (Taylor Force) and two former students (Justin and Stephanie Shults) killed in separate terrorist attacks abroad just weeks apart. Force died March 8 in a terrorist attack during, of all things, a school trip to Israel. Two weeks later, the Shultses were victims of the Brussels airport bombing.
That must defy any reasonable actuarial tables for one university, especially one in denial about the threat of radical Islam. But there’s more. In the last three weeks, two undergraduate students have been found dead in their dorm rooms. One death occurred on April 22 (Cheryl Alexandra Morris). Another student (Elliot Meister) was found dead on April 27. We grieve the deaths of these young people and pray for their parents and loved ones. Nevertheless, we wonder if more could have done for Cheryl Alexandra and Elliot.
[. . .]
That’s not all that’s happened at Vanderbilt in recent times. Going back just a year or two, we can see where the University has witnessed more than its fair share of tragedy and mishaps, to include the rape case involving Vanderbilt football players. There’s even the quirky: last year, a tree fell and injured several people in a group of prospective students and their parents touring the campus. What are the odds of a tree falling on visiting parents and prospective students on an otherwise calm day? Note: it happened right outside the admissions office. Only God knows if this means anything.
[. . .]
Vanderbilt’s run of bad luck over the years includes problems at its medical school and affiliated hospital as well as an embezzlement case involving an administrator who engaged in inappropriate behavior with a minor. Non-Christians can scoff at all this, ridiculing me for even broaching the possibility of a spiritual connection between the series of unfortunate incidents at Vanderbilt University and its hostility toward orthodox Christians, as evidenced by its 2011 adoption of a “non-discrimination” policy that has resulted in 14 Christian groups losing their recognition as student organizations. The groups no longer recognized on campus gave up their registered group status rather than compromise on Christian values and principles.
[. . .]
I wonder if there is a spiritual connection between Vanderbilt’s treatment of the Christian groups and some of its recent tragedies. We will never know for sure. Nevertheless, I would like to see Vanderbilt University reconsider the policy that deprives its campus of the vibrant Christian influence that existed before the University adopted its 2011 “policy. Darkness flourishes where there is no light.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/darkness_flourishes_at_vanderbilt_university.html

May 14, 2016
Darkness Flourishes at Vanderbilt University
By Carol M. Swain

Harvard Law School Students Demand FBI Expose Student Political Opposition

Few police departments know what to do about computer crimes. Harvard University campus police are notoriously poorly trained. In Cambridge, MA (where Harvard Law School is located) laws are optional. Harvard University faculty and administrators are protected by the Obama-Holder Doctrine: Inconvenient laws may be ignored by a select few. Emails do not travel remaining in one jurisdiction. Campus police jurisdiction ends at the Harvard University property line. They can hardly investigate lawfully. A great book about the coming tsunami of computer and other technology crimes is Marc Goodman's Future Crimes. Hackers stole $80 million almost got a billion from the Bangladesh national bank last week.

[From article]
Emails published on a blog run by activists opposed to a racial justice group at Harvard Law School show that the organization, Royall Must Fall, asked the Harvard administration to investigate the anonymous site and discover who is behind it.
The blog, Royall Asses, grew out of an incident last year where pieces of black tape were placed on the portraits of black law professors. The site claimed that the incident was a false flag operation by members of Royall Must Fall.
One member of the racial justice group claimed to have received email threats. She went to the FBI and asked them to monitor the blog despite the fact there was no evidence anyone connected with the blog had sent the threatening emails.
The group also asked law school administrators to find out who was behind the blog.
[From] Daily Caller:
Royall Asses claims that it came into possession of the two emails because one of the people Williams contacted was appalled that the student activists and Harvard itself would use “Gestapo tactics to invade student privacy.” That student forwarded the emails to Royall Asses.
If Williams’ emails accurately represent Harvard’s actions, then it suggests Harvard attempted to investigate (and potentially expose) its own students simply for running a blog that criticized left-wing elements on campus.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/emails_point_to_investigation_by_harvard_administrators_of_anti_racial_justice_blog_.html

April 25, 2016
Emails point to investigation by Harvard administrators of anti 'racial justice' blog
By Rick Moran

Victims With Closed Minds Dominate Campuses

[From article]
Even President Barack Obama recently lamented the declining state of affairs on America’s college campuses. Essentially, a doctrinaire sense of victimology has descended upon campuses such that free speech, critical thinking, and debate are all but abolished in favor of “Safe spaces.” The complaints are extensive and well-founded. Allan Bloom’s concern in the 1980s about the “Closing of the American Mind” is profound, real, and upon us at today’s university campuses
[. . .]



The public poorly understands how dire the communication culture is on college campuses -- especially in election years like this one. We must seek dramatic reforms to prevent the painful reality check that must await the students of Coddle University. Here are the steps that should be taken:
State legislatures should convene hearings to examine the tax-exempt statuses of universities.
[. . .]



2. 15% of student fee moneys should be spent on student activities that encourage open dialogue and debate: debate teams, public debates, mock trial, and similar student advocacy activities. Most universities raise between $250,000 and $500,000 a year in student fees. In Ohio, I worked at a school where fees went to clubs such as: the masturbation club, the X-box club (they bought gaming consoles), and the California appreciation club.
[. . .]



At issue here are our paramount civil rights found in the First Amendment. Colleges and universities are creating intellectually stifling environments comparable to Jim Crow America. Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition must flow from the citadels of critical thinking that should be American colleges and universities. The reactionary ideology against individual rights that corrodes the minds of our young people since the 1960s must be confronted and reversed.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/reforming_academia_in_2016.html

April 23, 2016
Reforming Academia in 2016
By Ben Voth

Lack of Free Speech On Campuses Is Alarming

[From article]
The disturbing campaign to suppress speech that is purportedly hurtful, unpleasant, or morally distasteful is a troubling and recurrent pattern of behavior by "progressive" leftists and "social justice" advocates from Muslim-led pro-Palestinian groups. Coalescing around the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, this unholy alliance has been formed in a libelous and vituperative campaign to demonize Israel, attack pro-Israel individuals, and promote a relentless campaign against Israel in the form of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. As the ideological assault against Israel and Jews intensifies on university campuses, and pro-Israel individuals begin answering their ideological opponents, the student groups leading the pro-Palestinian charge (including such groups as the radical Students for Justice in Palestine [SJP]) have decided that their tactic of unrelenting demonization of Israel is insufficient, and the best way to optimize the propaganda effect of their anti-Israel message is also to suppress or obscure opposing views.
[. . .]



For instance, a leaked memorandum from the Binghamton University Students for Justice in Palestine chapter revealed that members would be required never even to engage in dialogue with pro-Israel groups on their campus. They would be prohibited from "engaging in any form of official collaboration, cooperation, or event co-sponsorship with [pro-Israel] student organizations and groups." And SJP members "shall in no manner engage in any form of official collaboration with any student group which actively opposes the cause of Palestinian liberation nor with groups which have aided and abetted Zionist student organizations" – meaning, of course, that the so-called intellectual debate that universities purport to promote in exactly this type of discussion will never take place when SJP is involved.
Because they cannot win an honest, open ideological debate about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict – because they deal almost exclusively in misrepresentations and untruths (the allegation of Israeli apartheid being the central example) – SJP has characteristically has tried to insure that no pro-Israel voices are heard, by either disrupting and shutting down pro-Israel events and speakers or urging administrators to disinvite speakers they deem Islamophobic, too pro-Israel, or critical of their own tactics and activism.
The thuggish substitution of event disruption and the shutting down of other people's speech for what is supposed to be two-sided academic dialogue and debate occur with increased regularity. These methods mark another, more pernicious, aspect of the campus campaign against Israel, Zionism, and Jews.



At the University of California, Davis this month, for example, George Deek, a Jaffa-born Arab Christian, planned to give a speech entitled "The Art of Middle East Diplomacy" when some 30 pro-Palestinian activists stood up and blocked Deek with banners and took over the event by screaming, "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free" – meaning an Arab state in place of present-day Israel – and chanting such toxic ditties as "long live the Intifada," "Allahu Akbar," and "When Palestine is occupied, resistance is justified." These activists further employed ghoulish calls for the murder of Jews and "Israel is anti-Black" and "Palestine will be free, fight white supremacy" – an intellectually clumsy way of trying to frame Israel as a racist state.
In February, Bassam Eid, a Palestinian himself and the founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, witnessed how nothing positive said about Israel is allowed to be heard, even from such a credible, though unusual, source as a Palestinian. During his speech, in which he was critical of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority for their failure to seek peace, Eid was verbally attacked by a student attendee, who said in Arabic, "Dr. Bassam, do not dare talk about us [Palestinians] anymore. You have shamed our God … you've shamed us, disgraced us, you are a traitor, you are a traitor, in the name of God you are a traitor. … You are worse than the Jews and we will hunt you down and find you in every place. Be prepared." When it became obvious that his speech would not be able to continue uninterrupted, Eid cancelled the event and had to be escorted off site by the police.
[. . .]
A pro-Israel student group at Columbia University, Artists 4 Israel, was also denied the opportunity to express views during Israeli Apartheid Week, during which the SJP chapter had erected its version of a mock "apartheid wall," emblazoned with anti-Israel slogans and symbols. To counter the display with a pro-Israel one, Artists 4 Israel had set up a 15-foot inflatable figure, a "pro-Israel Pinocchio," replete with a long nose and a sign that read "'Apartheid' Week Compassion Abuse" as an effective, sardonic swipe at SJP's toxic campaign. The chair and vice chair of Columbia's student government, who not coincidentally are members of Columbia's SJP chapter and pro-BDS activists, ordered the removal of the Pinocchio figure, offering the disingenuous justification that Pinocchio's long nose might be construed as anti-Semitic and that the pump used to inflate the figure was too loud for use on the Columbia grounds.
The university officials and student groups who now try to suppress all thought of which they disapprove have sacrificed one of the core values for which the university exists. In their zeal to be inclusive, and to recognize the needs and aspirations of victim groups, they have pretended to foster inquiry, but they have actually stifled and retarded it. As this otherwise noble purpose for the university has devolved, the first victim in the corruption of academic free speech, unfortunately, has been the truth.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/the_lie_of_academic_free_speech.html

March 23, 2016
The Lie of Academic Free Speech
By Richard L. Cravatts

Leaving If Trump Is Elected? Where You Gonna Go?

[From article]
Decades back, there was a popular retort leveled at people who found fault with this country: “America: Love it or Leave It.” The phrase isn’t used much anymore, but the whining of disgruntled citizens continues. In this primary election cycle, the tables seem to have turned. Those who feel unbearably angry now are threatening to leave the United States and settle elsewhere in the event that the presidential election results are not to their liking.
[. . .]
Now that Donald Trump is running for president, the homegrown threats to emigrate to a more palatable environment have accelerated exponentially. Die-hards by the droves, I’m told, have commenced to industriously Google the subject, particularly as it relates to gaining entry into Canada. A stranger I encountered in a salad queue aboard a recent cruise to the Caribbean told me in no uncertain terms that “if Trump is elected, I’m outta here!” Perhaps he was scouting island destinations.
Of course it’s all talk. And even if the defectors were willing to, say, embrace our neighbor to the north, the reverse is not necessarily the case. Still, it’s easier to make promises if they are subject to being overruled by regulations and other mitigating circumstances.
[. . .]
But let’s just pretend that Trump -- or whoever else alarms voters sufficiently -- is, indeed, the GOP nominee and, despite the odds, is elected our next president. Fearing the unspeakable, those who vowed to quit our shores in that eventuality would have only a couple of months before the inauguration to settle their affairs and leave behind the country they once loved.
[. . .]
Resignedly, they might bray about making the sacrifice on principle, for the sake of their children’s future. They might explain how, in conscience, they could not live with the people’s wrong-headed choice. They might wonder aloud what America is coming to, and pity those who must endure its decline. And they would likely expect their shocked friends to simultaneously admire their courage and mourn the ugly prospect of their departure -- even though Canada is not really all that far away.
[. . .]
I don’t know how to say this diplomatically, but Canada doesn’t really want them. And neither do the other nations of the world. The would-be émigrés may have championed porous borders and illegal immigration for America sympathetically, but it doesn’t work that way elsewhere. Nor would they be able to overstay a restricted visa and remain under the radar in another country. The fact is that the legal immigration policies of other lands are far lengthier, intimidating and strictly enforced than our own.
To begin with, nobody in our neighbor nation to the north would take seriously a “political refugee from the United States.” Too many millions of Canadians –including Ted Cruz – have left that country and traveled south with the intention of seeking a more promising future, regardless of politics. Nor does being a hard-working, upstanding citizen here automatically translate into being welcomed elsewhere.
[. . .]
Unfortunately, there’s no “easy” way to quit the States for good and gain citizenship somewhere else. All desirable venues, including Canada, have restrictive, bureaucratic immigration laws. There is often a “point” system and a long wait
[. . .]
And forget Denmark, which this year voted to seize the assets of asylum seekers above $1,400 to help cover their expenses. On top of that, the worldwide job market for non-citizens doesn’t look all that rosy. Canada has a policy that discourages giving a job to an “outsider” unless it cannot be filled by a Canadian citizen. Peter Jennings, for example, may have moved to the United States from Canada and become a highly-paid news anchor. But that good fortune is less likely to happen going in the other direction.
[. . .]
If would-be American émigrés are upset with election results, perhaps they should consider that being disenfranchised is far worse. Our system of democratic elections cannot satisfy all the people all the time. But being an American citizen is a distinct privilege coveted by millions around the globe. Anyone who would seek to abandon it based on the election of a president for a four-year term is an unappreciative, petulant fool.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/my_way_or_ill_hit_the_highway__north.html

March 13, 2016
My Way or I’ll Hit The Highway … North!
By Doris O'Brien

American Freedom Defense Initiative Producing Film About Muslim Attack On Free Expression In Texas

AFDI'S MUHAMMAD MOVIE

We’re setting the record straight about our Garland free speech event – and telling the truth about the war on free speech.

It was a day that changed America. And now we’re making a movie to tell the truth about what happened on that day, and why. Hollywood will never tell this story. The media will never tell this story. Our public schools and universities will never teach our children what happened. The truth must be told.

One of the plotters of the attack on our free speech event in Garland, Texas last May is on trial now – and a great deal that wasn’t previously known about the attack is coming out.

The media is still not telling the American people the whole story. They’re still reporting that it was our fault that devout Muslims “with Islamic flags and semi-automatic weapons” tried to slaughter hundreds of people standing up for the First Amendment in Texas at our free speech event. By doing this, the media has given its approval to the death penalty for blasphemy under Islamic law.



The fact is — at Garland, in defense of freedom, we saved lives.
— This jihad cell was planning a Super Bowl bomb plot two years ago.
— This jihad cell had been going to remote areas in the city for target practice early in 2014.
— They began conspiring with ISIS in June 2014 (the Garland attack took place in May 2015).
— One of the members of the trio exchanged more than 100 messages through social media with an overseas terrorist in the days leading up to the attack in Garland, according to FBI Director James Comey.
— “I believe the shooters were motivated by what they thought was the Islamic State, but I’m not sure they were directed by the Islamic State.” What’s the difference? The were conspiring with ISIS regularly days before the attack.
— Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem accessed an Islamic State database of U.S. military service members’ home addresses.

The bottom line is that these devout savages meant to carry out an unspeakable act of jihad.

We are determined to stand for free speech and show that at least some Americans were not ever going to give in to the violent threats Islamic jihadists have issued against those who draw cartoons of Muhammad. Giving in to a bully only encourages more bullying. I made a stand for free speech, and the jihadis failed to stop me.

What was truly shocking, however, was what happened next. Even as I received a death fatwa from ISIS, instead of standing with me for the freedom of speech, the mainstream media and even many towering figures on the right lined up to denounce me. It was no surprise that the likes of Alisyn Camerota of CNN would spar with me in a contentious interview over the propriety of not kowtowing to Sharia blasphemy laws, as she would have me do. It was more surprising that Bill O’Reilly would denounce my event, and even more so that Laura Ingraham would do so. Most surprisingly of all, Donald Trump crudely and rudely censured me for daring to draw Muhammad. All these and other supposed stalwarts of the right showed that they had no idea how seriously free speech is imperiled, and how crucial it is that we stand and defend it now.



My event was smeared as “needlessly provocative,” and I was accused of grandstanding and even inviting the jihad attack. It was the jihadis, not I, who made the cartoons a flash point. If we surrender on that point and stop drawing Muhammad, we’ve established a precedent of surrendering to violent Sharia enforcement, and once established, we will be made to reinforce it again and again.

It’s time to set the record straight: I’ve begun preparing a new documentary on the Garland attacks – a follow-up to my acclaimed 2011 documentary, The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks.

This much-needed new documentary won’t just give you the inside story of what happened in Garland and why. It will lay out the full and appalling details of the all-out assault on the freedom of speech that is taking place today – and why this may be the most crucial battleground today in the war for the survival of the United States of America as a free republic.

This documentary will feature new and exclusive interviews with me, Dutch freedom fighter Geert Wilders, who was the keynote speaker at the Garland event, and Muhammad cartoon contest winner Bosch Fawstin. These will reveal events at Garland and its aftermath that have never before been revealed to the public.

The movie will also be packed with seldom-seen news footage and revealing details not only of the Garland event and the jihad killers who wanted to wage jihad there, but also of the many other battlegrounds in the war for free speech that led up to the Garland attack, including the death fatwa issued in 1989 by the Islamic Republic of Iran against Salman Rushdie for his supposed blasphemy inThe Satanic Verses; the assassination of Theo Van Gogh by a Muslim on an Amsterdam street in November 2004 for his alleged blasphemy; the Dutch newspaper Jyllands Posten’s cartoons of Muhammad, published in September 2005, which touched off international riots and killings by Muslims – and most disturbing of all, calls in the West for restrictions on the freedom of speech; the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s years-long struggle at the UN to compel the West to criminalize “incitement to religious hatred” (a euphemism for criticism of Islam); and the U.S. under Obama signing on to UNCHR Resolution 16/18, which calls on member states to work to restrict incitement to religious hatred.



We’ll cover lesser-known skirmishes in the war against free speech as well, such as Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris’ “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” in 2010, after which Norris was forced to go into hiding and change her identity after threats. And we’ll trace out what immediately led up to my Garland event – most notably, the January 2015 massacre of Muhammad cartoonists at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris and the subsequent “Stand with the Prophet” event in Garland, at which Muslim groups gathered in the wake of that massacre not to defend free speech, but to complain about “Islamophobia,” while I led AFDI members and supporters in a protest outside.

It was at that AFDI protest in Garland that I conceived the idea of holding the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in the same venue: to show that there were some people who would not submit to (and thereby encourage) violent intimidation and voluntarily accept Sharia blasphemy laws. This film will set all that out, and will also include footage from the event itself, including remarks from me, Wilders, and Fawstin.

Above all, We’ll set out the media firestorm that followed, as well as the attempts to kill me, and explain why the event’s detractors were all missing the point: the freedom of speech doesn’t apply only if you like the message; it applies to everyone. And if it is gone, so is a free society.

A documentary of this scope isn’t easy to make. Will you help us?

The implications of my Garland event are far larger than the event itself. The reaction to our event indicates how advanced the Islamic war on free speech is, and how close the leftist and Islamic supremacist authoritarians are to final victory and the death of free speech.

This film is an attempt to stop them before they achieve final victory. What will America choose? Freedom or submission? The choice is before her now. Please help us make this film. Your donation to the American Freedom Defense Initiative is tax-deductible, and may be the most important donation you will make this year. The darkness is setting in. We’re shining a light. And we need your help.



Please contribute to this crucial project here, NOW.

Or send a check to:

AFDI
Attention: Pamela Geller
1040 1st Avenue
#121
New York, NY 10022

Contrary To Misguided Journalists, Religious and Political Leaders, Islam is Not a Religion As Christianity Is

[From article]
“I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here … and … around the world, that there is a ‘clash of civilizations.'”
So said Hillary Clinton in Saturday night’s New Hampshire debate.
Yet, that phrase was not popularized by Donald Trump, but by Harvard’s famed Samuel Huntington. His “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order” has been described by Zbigniew Brzezinski as providing “quintessential insights necessary for a broad understanding of world affairs in our time.”
That Clinton is unaware of the thesis, or dismisses it, does not speak well of the depth of her understanding of our world.
[. . .]



Did the worst attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor, 9/11, have nothing to do with the Islamic faith?
Did Fort Hood and the San Bernardino massacres, the London subway bombings and the killings at Charlie Hebdo, as well as the slaughter at the Bataclan in Paris, have nothing to do with Islam?
Does the lengthening list of atrocities by terrorist cells of ISIS, Boko Haram, al-Qaida, al-Shabaab and the Nusra Front have nothing to do with Islam? Is it really illiberal to inquire “into the religious opinions” of those who perpetrate these atrocities? Or is it suicidal not to?
There has arisen a legitimate question as to whether Islamism can coexist peacefully with, or within, a post-Christian secular West.
[. . .]
As of 1960, the Great Wave of immigration into the United States from Southern and Eastern Europe had been halted for 35 years.
And the children of these millions had been largely assimilated and Americanized.
Yet, 50 years after the Turkish gastarbeiters were brought in the millions into Germany, and Algerians and other North Africans were brought into France, no such wholesale assimilation had taken place.
Why not? Why are there still large, indigestible communities in France where French citizens do not venture and French police are ever on alert?
[. . .]



Iran holds presidential elections every four years, but is a Shiite theocracy where the Ayatollah is a virtual dictator. Saudi Arabia is a Sunni kingdom and home to Wahhabism, a Sunni form of puritanism.
Those ruling regimes are rooted in Islam.
[. . .]
Where Islam is the ruling faith, the Quran is secular law.
[. . .]
Historically, Christianity came to dominate the Roman Empire through preaching, teaching, example and martyrdom. Islam used the sword to conquer the Middle and Near East, North Africa and Spain in a single century, until stopped at Poitiers by Charles Martel.
And this is today’s crucial distinction: Islam is not simply a religion of 1.6 billion people, it is also a political ideology for ruling nations and, one day, the world.

http://buchanan.org/blog/islam-and-the-west-an-irreconcilable-conflict-124463

Islam and the West: An Irreconcilable Conflict?
Monday - December 21, 2015 at 10:11 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan

Two Yale Professors Stop Teaching Due To Student Intolerance, Harassment and Censorship

Yale University faculty member Erika Christakis will not teach at the school from the spring semester.

[From article]
Two Yale professors have resigned after protests condemning the wife's comments that students should be free to push boundaries with Halloween costumes.

Faculty member Erika Christakis, who runs courses on child development and psychology, has decided not to teach classes from the start of the spring semester, the Ivy League university announced via its website on Monday.
'I have great respect and affection for my students but I worry that the current climate at Yale is not, in my view, conducive to the civil dialogue and open inquiry required to solve our urgent societal problems,' Mrs Christakis said in an email to The Washington Post.
[. . .]
After the march, dozens of faculty members contributed to an open letter showing support for Christakis.
University President Peter Salovey held a four-hour forum with students to hear their grievances and then sent a campus-wide email saying he was deeply troubled by the atmosphere there.


One student launched into a expletive-ridden rant at Nicholas Christakis (above), after he was trying to tell her why he felt the university should not censor what people wear with regard to Halloween costumes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3350471/Yale-teacher-resigns-offensive-Halloween-costume-email.html

Husband-and-wife Yale professors resign in the wake of Halloween costume scandal: Couple driven out of politically correct campus
Faculty members Nicholas and Erika Christakis have chosen not to keep teaching their courses, the university announced
Mrs Christakis came under attack in October for her response to a request from a campus group that students avoid wearing insensitive costumes
She wrote an email saying students should be be able to wear any costume
Her husband, a professor of social and natural science, defended her when confronted by students in an incident that was caught on video
Was one of several incidents that prompted large protest march last month
By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 23:16 EST, 7 December 2015 | UPDATED: 17:31 EST, 8 December 2015

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[From article]
The school is ultimately responsible for the chill on free speech, according to Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
"While Yale did eventually get around to issuing a statement in favor of free expression, it’s hard to imagine that Erika or Nicholas Christakis would have decided to quit teaching at Yale and take a sabbatical, respectively, had Dean Holloway or President [Peter] Salovey consistently shown their support for free expression through their words and actions on campus," said FIRE's Robert Shibley.
The issue of free expression on campus has come into sharp relief on several campuses, with students calling for “safe zones” and speech codes where words and deeds deemed offensive are barred. Erika Christakis provoked outrage when she sent an email to Silliman residents questioning the desire to find offense in Halloween costumes.
“Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious… a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?” Christakis wrote. “American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.”

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Yale couple flees classroom amid free speech chill
Published December 08, 2015

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Muslim Intolerance Not Understood By Westerners

[From article]
During his sermon, al-Munajjid said that “some [Muslim] hypocrites” wonder why it is that “we [Muslims] don’t permit them [Western people] to build churches, even though they allow mosques to be built.” The Saudi sheikh responded by saying that any Muslim who thinks this way is “ignorant” and
…wants to equate between right and wrong, between Islam and kufr [non-Islam], monotheism and shirk [polytheism], and gives to each side equal weight, and wants to compare this with that, and he asks: “Why don't we build them churches like they build us mosques? So we allow them this in return for that?” Do you want another other than Allah to be worshiped? Do you equate between right and wrong? Are Zoroastrian fire temples, Jewish temples, Christian churches, monks’ monasteries, and Buddhist and Hindu temples, equal to you with the houses of Allah and mosques? [. . .] And Prophet Muhamad said: “By Him in whose hand is the life of Muhamad (By Allah) he who amongst the Jews or Christians hears about me, but does not affirm his belief in that which I have been sent, and dies in his state (of disbelief), he shall be of the residents of Hellfire."
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Indeed, not only does Islam, like traditional Christianity, assert that all other religions are wrong, but under Islamic law, Hindus, and Buddhists are so misguided that they must be warred against until they either accept the “truth,” that is, converting to Islam, or else being executed (Koran 9:5).
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the late Osama bin Laden once wrote that “Battle, animosity, and hatred -- directed from the Muslim to the infidel -- is the foundation of our religion. And we consider this a justice and kindness to them” (The Al Qaeda Reader, pgs. 42-43).
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terrorism, extortion, sex-jihad, etc., will continue to be rationalized away as ugly but necessary means to altruistic ends: the empowerment of, and eventual world conversion to, Islam.
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On the one hand, Muslims, who believe in truth -- that is, in the teachings of Islam -- will continue attacking the “false,” that is, everything and everyone un-Islamic. And no matter how violent, Islamic jihad -- terrorism -- will always be exonerated in Muslim eyes as fundamentally “altruistic.” On the other hand, Western secularists and multiculturalists, who believe in nothing and deem all cultures and religions equal, will continue to respect Islam and empower Muslims, convinced that terrorism is an un-Islamic aberration destined to go away -- that is, they will continue disbelieving their own eyes.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/the_logic_of_islamic_intolerance.html

December 3, 2015
The Logic of Islamic Intolerance
By Raymond Ibrahim

Cambridge City Council Candidate's Past Expression Enrages Other Candidates

"'based on this information, that’s not something we want to be a part of,' said Councilor Marc McGovern," a social worker in diversity saturated, conformist Cambridge, MA. He says he works with the most vulnerable population. Who is more vulnerable in Cambridge, MA than a person who holds different views than the majority, 10-20 years ago or even at present? There is no support for offensive speech, called hate speech, which is protected by the US and the Massachusetts Constitutions, in this allegedly tolerant city. There is also no compassion from this politically motivated social worker who shows lack of support for the Constitution he swore to protect. Under the Civil Rights statute of Massachusetts MGL Ch. 265, Sec 37, intimidating a person in the free exercise of a constitutionally protected right is a felony. Stormfront promotes nationalism, not supremacy. Notice the Chronicle's neutral recognition of a black separatist organization, whose forum was attended by most of the city council and school committee candidates in Cambridge last week. Use of the word supremacism, may more properly be applied to the Cambridge chapter of black separatists and nationalists who ran that candidate forum.

[From article]
John Sanzone has withdrawn from the Cambridge City Council race after the Chronicle revealed he had participated as a teenager on a major white supremacy website.
The Chronicle learned that Sanzone, now 27, wrote more than 120 posts back in 2004 and 2005 under his own name on the racial hate forum, Stormfront, mostly on the subject of white nationalism.
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[Sanzone] It’s very shameful that I would ever think or talk that way.
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“I feel that every race and ethnicity should be pure, and have their own nations to themselves.”
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the Chronicle revealed Sanzone’s former affiliation with the white supremacy forum,
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based on this information, that’s not something we want to be a part of,” said Councilor Marc McGovern,
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horrible things I said and posted online from my younger days
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I am not a racist, nor homophobic, and am in fact firmly progressive and take these issues very personally and aim for a city government that takes them very politically. However, the revelations of these confused, misguided, nonsensical writings from my past---which I wholeheartedly own up to, and condemn---have made me untouchable.
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the city I have come to love deeply and intimately.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151026/NEWS/151026521

BREAKING: Cambridge council candidate withdraws after past online hate speech revealed
By Amy Saltzman
asaltzman (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Oct. 26, 2015 at 5:51 PM
Updated at 6:47 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

United States Is A Nation Based On Judeo Christian Values

[From article]
When I heard that Obama had let in 280,000 Muslims into the United States in the last year alone, I didn't think refugees. I thought population transfer. At that rate, Muslims, already a sizeable presence in places like Dearborn, Michigan and Paterson, NJ, will create metropolitan caliphates all across the US before long.
Which started me thinking: is it important for America to be still a Judeo-Christian nation? Our founding was not based on the teachings of the Koran. Sharia law was not embedded in our Constitution. The basis of our Constitution, as well as the Declaration of Independence, is Judeo-Christian values. That means a respect for private property, individual liberties, freedom of choice, and above all, religious tolerance.
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We have no state religion which forces people to believe anything, and we do not kill people who fail to believe in any particular religion.
Because we have equality of the sexes, and respect for the individual, women can work if they choose and wear whatever they like.
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Private property rights provide more protection for the individual, and the rule of law provides stability that enables millions of people to seek better lives.
Sadly, the free market barely exists in most Muslim countries, keeping millions in poverty. Incitement is the rule, whether it is incitement against Jews, or Christians, or even different kinds of Muslims.
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We have seen the results in Europe, the no-go zones in Great Britain, the hunting down of Jews in France, the assassination of politicians in the Netherlands and cartoonists in Denmark. We have already seen a number engage in terrorism here in America, like the Boston bombers. If we are to continue being an open, tolerant nation, is that compatible with admitting large numbers of Muslims? If not, why won't any candidate speak out on that?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/09/is_it_important_for_america_to_be_a_judeochristian_nation.html

September 16, 2015
Is it important for America to be a Judeo-Christian nation?
By Ed Straker

Disagree With A Liberal, Psychiatry Will be Unleashed On You

The Goldwater Rule is no longer enforced. Today many psychologists, psychiatrists and for those who do not make diagnoses of unseen people, there are always journalists, police and academic consultants. Crazy is as anyone says. In extreme cases of omniscience some add dangerous to the crazy analysis. 

[From article]
The main point to keep in mind is that your op-ed is not intended to elucidate, educate or amuse. These are status pieces meant to strike a pose, signaling that you are a good person.
After reading your op-ed, readers should feel the warm sensation of being superior to other people — those who don’t agree with you. The idea is to be in fashion. It’s all about attitude, heavy on eye-rolling.
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I am obsessed with Donald Trump. I wish I could cancel my book tour and just lie in bed watching his speeches all day long. I’m like a lovesick teenager studying Justin Bieber videos. And I’ve never seen Trump look angry.
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Psychoanalysis has been liberals’ go-to move forever.
Following the 1964 presidential election, the American Psychiatric Association was forced to issue “the Goldwater rule,” prohibiting shrinks from psychoanalyzing people they’d never met, after a few thousand of them had issued their professional opinion that Barry Goldwater was nuts.
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It’s not very interesting, but, again, the sole purpose of your op-ed is to assure the status-anxious that they are better than other people.
(2) The perfect hack phrase is to say conservatives are “frightened of the country changing around them.”
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If the Democratic Party were a reality TV show, it would be called “America’s Got Grievances!”
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Times writers are like personal shoppers for people too lazy to form their own opinions. Just don’t imagine that this is good writing, comedy or art.

http://humanevents.com/2015/09/02/how-to-write-a-new-york-times-op-ed-in-three-easy-steps/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

How to Write a New York Times Op-Ed in Three Easy Steps

Ann Coulter

Wednesday Sep 2, 2015 4:26 PM

Hate Speech of The Day September 2, 2015

[Posted on American Thinker, in response to my defense of disabled persons who are perceived as crazy. The rage and threats indicate omniscience, classism, limited vocabulary, intolerance and no concern for vulnerable persons. He appears to be confused, promoting guns, and making threats on behalf of extremist leftists. Does that happen often to prison volunteers? He appears to think I am a liberal. Not the first time a paranoid right winger expressed misguided thoughts.] 



Thomas+M.+Kelly

"We" are the populace. As I stated quite clearly above, people buy guns to protect themselves because of people like you. I spent several years doing volunteer programs in the local correctional center. You had better stay in your Ivory Tower protected by a system which you disdain, if you are even aware it exists. The inmates, or Occupy Wall Street, or Black Lives Matter, would pick up your "unsubstantiated tautology" and beat you to death with it. Of course while it's happening you will be able to comfortably contemplate that "life is just a concept."

8:18 a.m., Wednesday Sept. 2 | Other comments by Thomas+M.+Kelly

Muslim Supremacists Promote Intolerance

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Islamic doctrine – which teaches that Muslims are superior to non-Muslims, who are further compared to dogs and cattle – imbues Muslims with this sense of supremacy over the rest of mankind. And a good portion of Islamic history – when Muslims were for centuries on the warpath, subjugating large swathes of the Old Word – further enforced it.
This Islamic supremacism was dramatically humbled after European powers defeated and colonized much of the Muslim world.
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Today, however, as Western peoples willingly capitulate to Islamic mores – in the name of tolerance, multiculturalism, political correctness, or just plain cowardice – Muslims are becoming more emboldened, making more demands and threats, as they realize they need not militarily defeat the West in order to resuscitate their supremacist birthright. (More appeasement from the bullied always brings about more demands from the bully.)
To understand all this, one need only look to Muslim behavior where it is dominant and not in need of pretense – that is, in the Muslim world. There, non-Muslim minorities are habitually treated as inferiors. But unlike the many Western appeasers who willingly accept a subservient role to Islam, these religious minorities have no choice in the matter.
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The Conditions of Omar, a foundational medieval Muslim text dealing with how subjugated “infidels” must behave, spells out their inferiority vis-à-vis Muslims. Among other stipulations, it commands conquered Christians not to raise their “voices during prayer or readings in churches anywhere near Muslims” (hence the axe attack in Pakistan). It also commands them not to display any signs of Christianity – specifically Bibles and crosses – not to build churches, and not to criticize the prophet.
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So the next time you hear that Muslim rage and terrorism are products of grievance – from cartoons to territorial disputes and everything in between – remember that this is absolutely true. But these “grievances” are not predicated on any human standards of equality or justice – only a supremacist worldview.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/the_supremacist_roots_of_muslim_grievances.html

May 17, 2015
The Supremacist Roots of Muslim 'Grievances'
By Raymond Ibrahim

Updated: Garland, TX Police Shoot Dead Two Gentlemen, Who Shot At Officer, Outside Free Speech Event

Posted May 4, 2015 12:02 AM ET; Last updated May 4, 2015 4:59 AM ET



[From article]
An American jihadi allegedly called for Charlie Hebdo-style attacl at a Texas 'draw Muhammad' event more than a week before it was attacked by two gunmen.
Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, a 25-year-old fighter with the Al Shabaab terrorist group in Somalia, is thought to have posted messages urging violence against the event in the city of Garland, pre-empting the eventual attack.


'Called for attack': Mohamed Hassan, 25, is thought to be behind a tweet calling for violence at the 'draw Muahmmad' event where two attackers were killed.

The two armed men were shot dead by security after they opened fire outside the Muhammad Art Exhibit event, where participants were told to draw the Islamic prophet - considered blasphemy by his followers - for the chance of a $10,000 prize.
Hassan is believed to have posted a message on Twitter calling for the violence on April 23.
A twitter account believed to be his wrote: 'The brothers from the Charlie hebdo [sic] attack did their part. It's time for brothers in the #US to do their part.'
This was followed by a hyperlink to a news story describing the event, which took place at Garland's Curtis Culwell Center Sunday night.
The account which posted the message was named Mujahid Miski, believed to be Hassan's jihadi alias.
Both the message and the account have now been removed from Twitter, but the call for an attack was recorded in passing by an article by Foreign Policy magazine published on April 27.
It noted in the piece that the account, @Hoor_Watermelon, claimed it was the 31st such page run by the same user after previous iterations were shut down.
According to the International Business Times, Hassan lived in Washington state and Minnesota before leaving the United States in 2008 to join Al Shabaab in Somalia.
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Dead Suspect Roomates, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi.

The affiliations of the attackers remained unclear Sunday night. Law enforcement have yet to identify those involved, or give an idea of their motive.
However, the founders of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which organized the event, linked it strongly to agents of the Islamic State.
Robert Spencer, who also runs the Jihad Watch website, said the attack 'was to enforce Sharia', the Islamic system of law.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3066897/It-s-time-brothers-U-S-American-jihadi-allegedly-called-attack-Texas-Muhammad-drawing-contest.html

'It's time for brothers in the U.S. to do their part': American jihadi allegedly called for attack on Texas Muhammad drawing contest
Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, 25, thought to have urged allies to violence
Twitter account thought to be his called for Charlie Hebdo-style massacre
Two men opened fire at 'free speech' event in Garland, Texas, on Sunday
Were killed by security - identities and motives remain unknown
By KIERAN CORCORAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 00:20 EST, 4 May 2015 | UPDATED: 01:24 EST, 4 May 2015

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'Extreme free speech': Geller's group was behind the contest that awarded a cash prize for a drawing of Muhammad in Garland, Texas on Sunday. The 56-year-old blogger has made a name for herself with such headline-grabbing 'extreme free speech' tactics. ['Extreme free speech' in this case refers to protected speech, by the United States Constitution.]

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[From article]
The organizers of a provocative exhibition dedicated to depicting the prophet Muhammad where two alleged attackers were shot dead tonight said before that they 'knew the risks'.
Pamela Geller, the co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), vowed that she wouldn't be swayed from holding the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Texas, despite anticipating that an attack was possible.
Shots were fired at the event Sunday night, and two armed suspects, who were allegedly carrying explosives, were shot dead by event security after they opened fire.
In a post on her organization's website in late March, Geller insisted that the event was necessary to fight back against what she described as 'the jihad against freedom'.
On AFDI's website in late March, Geller said: 'We know the risks. Of course, this event will require massive security.
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Any depiction of Muhammad is considered blasphemous and extremely offensive by Muslims.
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Many media outlets do not publish any images of the prophet. Publications who do print such images are often subject to threats, or, in the case of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, actual attacks.
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'But this exhibit has to be staged. If we don’t show the jihadists that they will not frighten us into silence, the jihad against freedom will only grow more virulent.
'And we hope that this event will give others the courage to stand up as well and show the world that they aren’t going to submit to intimidation.
'Otherwise, it is no exaggeration to say that all will be lost.'
Geller had faced opposition to the event, which she deliberately staged at the Curtis Culwell Center in the city because it had previously hosted a pro-Islam gathering.
According to the Dallas Morning News, locals in Garland said they were upset with the exhibit being held in their town, and tried to convince the city council to intervene.
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The event had already been the subject of disapproval from further afield, according to ForeignPolicy.com.
The site obtained a letter from congressmen Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) and André Carson (D-Indiana) sent to John Kerry and Homeland Security asking them to bar a speaker for the event from entering the United States.
They asked that Geert [de] Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament, be stopped at the border if he tried to attend.
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In the end he was allowed to attend, and shots were fired just after he made a speech.
Boasting of his invitation ahead of the event, Geller had called [de] Wilders 'one of the very few politicians on the international scene who dares the speak the truth about the jihadist threat'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3066821/Extreme-free-speech-group-refused-cancel-provocative-Muhammad-Art-Exhibit-despite-protests-told-world-know-risks.html

Extreme 'free speech' group refused to cancel provocative 'Muhammad Art Exhibit' despite protests - and told the world they 'know the risks'
Muhammad Art Exhibit event in Garland, Texas, was attacked on Sunday
Gunmen opened fire at event held by American Freedom Defense Initiative
Organizer Pamela Geller had written before that she knew there were risks
But insisted event had to go ahead to oppose 'the jihad against freedom'
Garland residents and Democrat congressmen opposed the event
By KIERAN CORCORAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 21:08 EST, 3 May 2015 | UPDATED: 01:36 EST, 4 May 2015

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Geller has spearheaded campaigns to post controversial ads in the New York City transit system since 2010.


Also in Philadelphia: An ad from AFDI is seen on a Philadelphia bus featuring a 1941 photograph of Hitler and supporter Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a Palestinian Arab nationalist, in April.

[From article]
The controversial 56-year-old blogger, who was quick to call the shooting a 'war on free speech,' has made headlines over the years for her tactics.
Most recently when AFDI paid to have ads posted to New York City buses with the quote 'Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah' plastered all over.
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'This is a war,' Geller wrote on her blog, Atlas Shrugs. 'This is war on free speech. What are we going to do? Are we going to surrender to these monsters?'
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When a Chicago-based nonprofit held a January fundraiser in Garland designed to help Muslims combat negative depictions of their faith, Geller spearheaded about 1,000 picketers at the event.
One chanted: 'Go back to your own countries! We don't want you here!' Others held signs with messages such as, 'Insult those who behead others,' an apparent reference to recent beheadings by the militant group Islamic State.
The AFDI is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a watchdog organization that describes Geller as 'prone to publicizing preposterous claims
[Southern Poverty Law Center, is an extremist leftist organization, that attempts to silence conservative  organizations, as the IRS did for many years, with the help of lawless Obama-Holder.]
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An ad with the quote 'Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to Allah' was denied because it could incite violence, the MTA said at the time.
In the ad, a man's menacing face wrapped with a checkered scarf is shown next to the quote, which is attributed to 'Hamas MTV.' It is followed by the words: 'That's his Jihad. What's yours?'
Judge John Koeltl said in a decision made public in April that the incendiary ad is speech protected under the First Amendment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3066882/This-war-Woman-Muhammad-cartoon-contest-targeted-Texas-attack-long-history-anti-Islam-activism-including-controversial-NYC-transit-ads.html

'This is a war': The woman behind anti-Islamic Muhammad cartoon contest and her long history of hatred
Blogger Pamela Geller, 56, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, has been highly critical of Islam for years
Geller's group was behind anti-Islamic ads that began appearing on New York City buses and subway entrances last year
She said Sunday that the shooting showed how 'needed our event really was'
By AP and JOSH GARDNER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:44 EST, 3 May 2015 | UPDATED: 03:06 EST, 4 May 2015

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Members of the Garland Police Department stand guard inside the Curtis Culwell Center in the aftermath of the shooting

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[From article]
The bodies were not immediately taken from the scene because they were too close to the car, which police feared had incendiary devices inside. Residents later heard an 'explosion', suggesting a bomb was detonated by law enforcement on site, with some reports saying this was done using an Electronic Magnetic Pulse (EMP).
The SITE Intelligence Group reported that an Islamic State (IS) fighter claimed on Twitter that the shooting was carried out by two pro-ISIS individuals.
In a series of tweets and links, a jihadist named as Abu Hussain AlBritani, which SITE said was British IS fighter Junaid Hussain, claimed that '2 of our brothers just opened fire' at the Prophet Muhammad exhibition in Texas.
'They Thought They Was Safe In Texas From The Soldiers of The Islamic State,' added the tweet.
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Those inside started to sing patriotic songs, including the national anthem and God Bless America, and said a prayer for the injured security guard after one woman pulled out an American flag form her bag.
The two suspects pulled up in a vehicle with with explosives, before getting out and firing at the officer, identified as 57-year-old Bruce Joiner, who was employed by the independent school district and wearing a 'police-style uniform'.
Mr Joiner was taken to hospital in a stable condition and was released later on Sunday evening.
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Garland Mayor Douglas Athas told CNN the first suspect was shot immediately while the second was wounded when he reached for his back pack, and then shot again.
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'We are here in defiance of Islam to stand for our rights and freedom of speech,' he said during his speech shortly before the building was shut down. 'That is our duty.'
His remarks were met with a standing ovation. He then told the audience that most terrorists are Muslims, and 'the less Islam the better.'
In 2009, he sparked controversy for showing a controversial film which linked the Koran to terrorism and has previously said the Netherlands is being taken over by a 'tsunami of Islamisation'.
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The outspoken leader of Stop Islamisation of America then wrote on her personal website: 'This is a war. This is war on free speech. What are we going to do? Are we going to surrender to these monsters?'
In a post in late March, she insisted that the event was necessary to fight back against what she described as 'the jihad against freedom'.
[. . .]
The group spent $10,000 on 40 additional security officers, aware of potential threats they may attract, while Garland Police officers were fully prepared to deal with any issues that arose.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3066779/Police-officer-suspect-said-injured-shooting-outside-art-anti-Muslim-exhibition-art-depicting-prophet-Muhammad.html

Two gunmen 'carrying explosives' attack anti-Islam art contest in Texas: Suspects dead and security guard wounded at 'draw Muhammad' event that offered $10k prize
Two suspects were gunned down after shooting the guard in the leg outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland
Building and surrounding area was placed on lockdown by a SWAT team with around 100 attendees still inside
Reports suggest the pair were carrying explosives as they approached the building in the Dallas suburb
Garland Mayor Douglas Athas said the second suspect was shot as he turned to reach for his backpack
The American Freedom Defense Initiative event offered a $10,000 prize for the best caricature of the prophet
Involved a keynote speech from far-right Dutch politician Geert [de] Wilders, who has linked the Koran to terrorism
ISIS fighter claimed on Twitter that the shooting was carried out by two pro-ISIS individuals
By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and TED THORNHILL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 19:39 EST, 3 May 2015 | UPDATED: 03:24 EST, 4 May 2015

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[From article]
GARLAND, Texas — Shots rang out this evening at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas during the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest. A law enforcement officer was shot and both suspects have been killed. Officers on the scene said that it is possible that explosives are in the area.
Attendees were immediately forced into lockdown by police, including three Breitbart News reporters. Sources say event organizer Pamela Geller and keynote speaker Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, are safe. Breitbart Texas was conducting a live video interview with Geller at the moment of the attack.
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GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Two armed men who opened fire on a security officer outside of a provocative contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad have been killed, authorities in the Dallas suburb of Garland said Sunday night.
The City of Garland said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Sunday night that two men drove up to the Curtis Culwell Center and began shooting at a security officer.
Garland Police Department officers engaged the gunmen, who were both shot and killed, the statement said.
The statement did not say whether the shooting was related to the event. The security officer’s injuries were not life-threatening, the city said.
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The New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative had been hosting a contest at the center that would award $10,000 for the best cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
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Pamela Geller, president of the AFDI, told the AP before Sunday’s event that she planned the contest to make a stand for free speech in response to outcries and violence over drawings of Muhammad.
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Two men have been shot by police outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas Sunday afternoon, Garland police have confirmed. Police said two men pulled up in a vehicle and shot a Garland ISD Police officer outside the building. The men were then shot and killed by Garland police.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/05/03/officer-and-two-suspects-down-in-gunfight-at-islamic-cartoon-contest-in-texas-possible-explosives-found/

SHOTS FIRED AT MOHAMMED ART CONTEST: OFFICER DOWN, TWO SUSPECTS DEAD, REPORTS CLAIMS EXPLOSIVES IN ARE
by BRANDON DARBY AND KATIE MCHUGH

3 May 2015

Rise of Intolerance in Obama-Holder America

[From article]
Explaining later why Bork needed to be cast as the devil, anti-Bork activist Ann Lewis acknowledged that an open debate “would have deep and thoughtful discussions about the Constitution, and then we would lose.” Hence, Kennedy’s outrageous claim that in Bork’s America, “women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters.”
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera wrote, “The line from Bork to today’s ugly politics is a straight one.” Toxic political discourse is now standard, as dissenters are isolated, scorned and even silenced. To paraphrase George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” these days it’s hard to tell man from pig.
[. . .]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears less esteemed by the Obama administration than Iran’s “Death to America”-spewing Ayatollah — and is persona non grata at the White House for doubting the emerging Iranian nuclear deal.
To oppose the coerced participation of service providers in same-sex weddings is deemed anti-gay, the label attached to former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich who lost his job last year for believing that marriage is between a man and a woman.
[. . .]
As a columnist, I’m a target for vilification that attempts to escort contrarians from polite society. I’ve been branded a bigot for applying Abraham Lincoln’s “absence of malice” vision to our culture’s civil wars; an extremist and warmonger for asking, “Why coexist with a mortal Iranian threat?” and an elitist leech for decrying our economy’s uneven playing field, warped by cronyism. For breaking with “settled science” orthodoxy, pitchforked prosecutors urged my editors to censor me.
[. . .]
Though jeopardized, the open, diverse and vibrant society we’ve become is the source of America’s creativity, prosperity, generosity … and decency. We’re still the greatest continuing experiment in human history, founded on the unique idea that people from different places with differing backgrounds and values could forge a civilized and free nation. It’s an idea that all Americans have a responsibility to sustain.

http://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/16016489-113/sturm-our-era-of-reputational-beheadings

Melanie Sturm
Think Again
April 23, 2015

Obsessed With Sex

This essay is another indication that advocates and practitioners of homosexual sex, are obsessed with sex. There is no way around this. The author who uses the title Reverend suggests that heterosexual persons are offended by the idea of homosexual public sexual expression. Nonsense. I am a heterosexual. I never had any desire to have sex with a man. It offends me to think about it. That did not stop the FBI, Communists, police and crime families from saying "He's a homosexual." for about 40 years in mostly three states. It did wonders for my social life. Seeing a man kiss a woman in a film, or on the street is offensive to me. Why should I enjoy watching two men kiss or two women? I do not like to watch. People who define themselves by how they have sex, indicates that they are intolerant of people who do not share their obsession with sex. Get over it. We know what you like to do. Go do it. Why do we have to watch or hear you boast about it, or have you rub our noses in your obsession? Do you know how to do anything else? After 5,000 years of homosexual sex being a crime and a sin, the Supreme Court of the United States said it is no longer a crime, especially in Cambridge. Why not ban heterosexuals?

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150327/NEWS/150327064

Faith in Action column: The love that dare not speak its name
By Rev. Irene Monroe

Posted Mar. 27, 2015 at 8:13 AM

CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Oklahoma University Student Fraternity Banned For Offensive Speech

Students protest the racist comments Monday.

Photo: AP
Still no definition of what racism is. Is it a crime? Is it offensive speech? What is the purpose of the First Amendment? To protect speech that we love? Wah. I don't like what he said, throw him off campus.

[From article]
The University of Oklahoma closed a fraternity linked to a video of students singing racial epithets, ordered its members to move out of the house and labeled the actions of those involved “disgraceful.”
“Effective immediately, all ties and affiliations between the university and the local SAE (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) chapter are hereby severed,” University President David Boren said on Monday.
Members have until midnight on Tuesday to vacate the premises and people could be seen loading goods into moving trucks behind the fraternity house.
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“To those who have misused their free speech in such a reprehensible way, I have a message for you. You are disgraceful,” Boren said.
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“We apologize for the unacceptable and racist behavior of the individuals in the video, and we are disgusted that any member would act in such a way,” Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s national headquarters said in a statement after verifying its OU members were involved.

http://nypost.com/2015/03/09/fraternity-shut-down-after-video-of-racist-chant-surfaces/

Fraternity members ordered off campus after racist video surfaces

By Reuters
March 9, 2015 | 9:42am
New York Post

Misguided Priorities Among Liberal Activsits

[From article]
the president has chosen Ron Klain to be the Ebola czar. Because for Obama the best man for the job is always a political fixer.
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With Obama, we are spared the amazement. He spends all his time doing politics, raising money and dividing people, and sensibly resting up on the golf course in between his exhausting fund-raising gigs. To hell with governing.
It's not surprising that this average product of an Ivy League education thinks and acts this way. The whole culture of the modern university confirms the president in his worldview.
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A universal feature of this activism culture is that after the activist has provoked the local mob into burning down the local economy, after he's bonked the local babes, after he's ginned up a local civil war, then he heads out of town, off to his next activism gig, leaving the local community in ruins.
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In practice, activism means the graduates of our secular seminaries, the little darlings of the ruling class, going out and demonstrating on behalf of other little darlings of the ruling class: African Americans, Hispanics, Moslems, women, and gays. They call it speaking truth to power.
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Let's give the liberal activist enforcers of the ruling class a name that tells our fellow Americans who they really are: “liberal fascists.”

http://americanthinker.com/2014/10/this_is_what_you_get_when_you_reduce_everything_to_activism.html

October 21, 2014
This is What You Get When You Reduce Everything to 'Activism'
By Christopher Chantrill

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Here's an example of how these fascist victims operate.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/10/this_lesbians_daughter_has_had_enough.html

October 20, 2014
This Lesbian's Daughter Has Had Enough
By Rivka Edelman