Taxpayers Fund Studies To Learn Who Are Terrorists

Psychiatrists make predictions in courts when  they are in session. Why not employ them to tell who will commit a terrorist act? If they know the future and judges say they are experts? Well?

[From article]
How’d you like to be running a presidential campaign dependent on Muslims not acting up again between now and Nov. 8? It’s getting awfully hard for the media to keep being indignant about Trump’s proposed Muslim ban, as long as Muslims keep blowing things up and shooting people.
I’m assuming here that The Washington Post has not already ruled the Muslims who blew up the Istanbul Airport to be self-hating gays infected by America’s culture of homophobia.
It turns out, Omar Mateen, the Orlando nightclub shooter, also wasn’t a self-hating gay, despite media excitement over that rumor. The FBI has now run down every alleged gay partner of Omar’s, searched his phone and computers, and the alleged gay lovers either had the wrong guy or were lying, and there’s no evidence he was on any gay websites or apps.
As a Muslim immigrant explained in a curbside interview videotaped by Tony Vera at the Los Angeles International Airport recently — before she was arrested — “that’s what we do, we bomb people.”
With impeccable timing, three days before the Istanbul bombing, the liberal Guardian (UK) ran an article sneering at Brexit supporters for wanting out of the European Union before Turkey became a member and the door was thrown open to unlimited migration from this Muslim country that shares a border with Syria, Iraq and Iran.
The article by Liz Cookman was titled, “Turkey, the Brexit bogeyman, is not so different from the UK.”



Liz had a lot of fun with the Brexit-supporting ninnies, so relieved that “the Turks are no longer coming.” She referred to Turkey as “the country whose people Britons are apparently petrified of,” despite the fact that “it turns out Britain and Turkey are not so different after all.”
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As with the British media, the American media keep telling us that all these Muslim terrorist attacks have nothing to do with Muslims, and Donald Trump’s suggestion that we impose a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration is madness, bigoted, racist.
Thank God Hitler didn’t claim “Mein Kampf” was a holy book and the Fuhrerbunker a mosque.
Western governments have devoted incalculable resources to developing some diagnostic test other than “Muslim” to predict terrorism. As the New York Times reported earlier this year:
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Despite millions of dollars of government-sponsored research, and a much-publicized White House pledge to find answers, there is still nothing close to a consensus on why someone becomes a terrorist.”
I have a possible indicator! M-U-S-L- …
After the July 7, 2005, London subway bombing by Muslim terrorists that killed 52 people, the British MI5 undertook its own highly sophisticated study, examining hundreds of cases. But the UK’s security agency discovered that terrorists are a wildly diverse lot. They worshipped at a variety of different mosques, for example.
Some terrorists were very religious Muslims and some barely practicing. Most were men, but some were women. There were young and old terrorists, highly educated as well as uneducated, some loners and some married with children.
So, according to MI5, the predictive power of every factor is very low — other than: Is a Muslim.
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Republicans who are furious with Trump for proposing that we hit the pause button on this one category of Third World mass immigration have nothing at all to say about the census report this week showing Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration act has so transformed the country that a majority of babies born in the United States today are not white.
The only thing Republicans can do is denounce Obama for not using the words “radical Islamic terrorism.” (As long as they brought up Words Politicians Refuse to Use, when will the eunuchs work up the nerve to say “illegal alien,” “anchor baby” and “amnesty”?)
Obama is a hapless fool, but what is so special about the words “radical Islam”? Maybe it’s not radical Islam. Maybe it’s just “Islam.”
The reason Republicans obsess over Obama’s language is that they can’t go on TV and say nothing, and no one but Trump will say anything useful. To wit: Let’s stop dumping a million Muslim immigrants on the country every year, some percentage of whom we know will commit mass murder.

http://humanevents.com/2016/06/29/this-hidden-fact-predicts-terrorism/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

This Hidden Fact Predicts Terrorism

Ann Coulter

Wednesday Jun 29, 2016 3:24 PM

Terrorists Attack Ataturk Airport, Istanbul, Turkey 28-50 Reported Dead, Scores Injured

[From article]
-- At least 28 people have been killed and 60 wounded in a terror attack on Istanbul Ataturk Airport in Turkey, Istanbul Gov. Vasip Sahin said early Wednesday. Three bombers were also killed, the governor said. Another report, from semi-official news agency Anadolu, said six of the wounded are in critical condition. A total of 49 ambulances were sent to the site.
-- There has been no immediate claim of responsibility.
-- Traveler Joe Durand told CNN from the airport that "Police are not letting anyone in ... Hundreds of people are flooding away from airport... People are trying to get away. They're not saying much -- just the look on their face is enough, shock, some of them bleeding..."
"People are walking away bleeding, with bandages on their head."
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Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag earlier said one terrorist "first opened fire with a Kalashnikov then detonated himself" at the airport entrance.
-- In total three bombs exploded, the governor said.
-- One of them was located just outside a terminal on the pavement, while the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport, Bozdag told CNN.
-- A video posted to Twitter shows a view from a camera inside an airport terminal. A few dozen people are walking around when a bright flash and fireball erupt in the background.
-- A Turkish official told CNN that police fired shots at suspects near the international terminal in an effort to neutralize them.
-- Videos posted on social media show travelers sitting on the airport floor. A man shouts, "Get down! Get down!" Someone cries as a gunshot rings out.
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Ataturk Airport is "one of the most secure airports in the world," CNN senior law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes says. But the airport has been "very overwhelmed for several decades with terrorism from PKK."
-- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has put in place a ground stop for any U.S. flights that were scheduled to fly to Istanbul and any flights leaving Istanbul for the United States, CNN's Rene Marsh reports.
-- The Ataturk airport is closed until Wednesday at 8 p.m. local time (noon ET), according to airport spokesman Erhan Ustundag. Incoming flights were diverted to Izmir, Ankara and other cities.
-- The U.S. embassy in Ankara is sending consular officers to the airport to account for any potential U.S. victims. But there are no indications of any American casualties at this point, a senior State Department official told CNN's Elise Labott.
-- The attacks happened on a warm summer night at the airport, east of Istanbul, that is the 11th busiest in the world in terms of passenger traffic. CNN's Ali Veshi says it is a modern, sophisticated airport. "There are all of the major European and American boutiques there," said Velshi, who has traveled through Turkey many times. "... You see people of all shapes and colors, in all sorts of dress. If you want to target the cosmopolitan nature of Istanbul, this is possibly the most cosmopolitan, heavily populated part. You can target tourist areas, but this is the part where the world comes together."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/europe/turkey-istanbul-airport-attacks/index.html

Istanbul airport explosions: 28 dead, 60 injured, Turkish official says
By Gul Tuysuz, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 6:29 PM ET, Tue June 28, 2016

U.S. House Speaker Does Not Connect Muslim Immigration With Terrorist Attacks

U.S. Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI) 

[From article]
House Speaker Paul Ryan issued what seems like the blandest of possible statements in response to the radical Islamic terrorist attack in Orlando late on Sunday evening, almost a full day after the attack.
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Outside of a Tweet earlier in the day that did not address the radical Islamic terrorism angle of this, Ryan has not said anything else about the terrorist attack.
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Ryan, of course, as Speaker has facilitated the taxpayer funding of Muslim refugee resettlement and has been publicly clear that he does not agree with billionaire real estate developer and 2016 GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump’s plans for a temporary ban on Muslim entry into America. Trump, on the other hand, has doubled down in the wake of the Orlando terrorist attack in support of a Muslim ban—and has also called on President Obama to resign his office immediately over Obama’s refusal to call radical Islamic terrorism what it is.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/12/paul-ryans-orlando-statement-fails-address-donald-trumps-plan-halt-muslim-migration-threat-obama-resignation-call/

Paul Ryan’s Orlando Fail: House Speaker Ignores Mass Muslim Migration’s Connections to Radical Islamic Terrorism
by MATTHEW BOYLE

12 Jun 2016Washington, DC

Muslim Terrorist, U.S. Citizen, Kills 50 at Gay Dance Club in Orlando, Florida

Christine Leinonen (pictured with her son Christopher Leinonen) drove to Orlando at 4am after learning of the shooting from a friend of her son, who was at Pulse and is missing.

[From article]

These are the victims of the worst mass shooting in American history.
Fifty people were shot dead after a gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando in the early hours of Sunday after pledging allegiance to ISIS.
So far, only seven victims have been officially identified by the city of Orlando on its website.
They are: Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34; Stanley Almodovar III, 23; Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20; Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22; Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36; Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22; and Luis S. Vielma, 22.

Angel Mendez holds up a cell phone photo of his brother Jean C. Mendez, who he is looking for information about outside the hospital.

According to his LinkedIn page, Sotomayor worked as the national brand manager for ALandChuck Travel, a company that specialized in vacations for the gay community.
He was a caring, energetic man known for wearing a silly top hat on cruises, said David Sotomayor, who identified himself as the victim's cousin.
David Sotomayor, who lives in Chicago, told the AP that Edward worked for a company that held gay cruises and often traveled to promote the company's events. 'He was just always part of the fun,' he said.
The pair discovered they were related after meeting at Orlando's annual Gay Days festival around a decade ago. They texted regularly and kept in touch, last seeing each other earlier this year at a filming of the television reality show 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' David said.
David Sotomayor is a drag queen who appeared on a season of the show using the name 'Jade.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3638090/Pictured-victims-Orlando-massacre-named-city-works-contact-families-50-shot-dead.html

The Americans murdered by an ISIS fanatic as they partied: Brand manager, pharmacy technician and theme park employee are among the 50 shot dead by terrorist in Florida gay club slaughter
A gunman with an assault rifle opened fire inside Pulse nightclub, killing 50 before dying in a gunfight with police
Omar Mateen, 29, of Port St. Lucie in Florida, pledged allegiance to ISIS before opening fire early on Sunday
Seven victims have been identified by the city of Orlando on its website, which is working to notify family members
They are: Edward Sotomayor, Stanley Almodovar, Luis Ocasio-Capo, Juan Guerrero, Eric Ortiz-Rivera, Peter Gonzalez-Cruz and Luis Vielma
By KHALEDA RAHMAN IN NEW YORK and LOUISE BOYLE IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 17:29 EST, 12 June 2016 | UPDATED: 20:07 EST, 12 June 2016

Akbar The Skateboarder

Brussels Police Shoot Man With Bomb, Belgium, Germany and France Arrest More Terror Suspects

A bomb robot and a member of a bomb squad inspect the suspicious package at the scene moments after the dramatic stand-off.

[From article]
A woman was taken hostage by a terror suspect in a dramatic stand-off at a tram stop in Brussels today.
Witnesses told how heavily armed anti-terror police shot the man in the leg because he was carrying a rucksack they believed contained a bomb.
As police moved in the suspect then grabbed a woman and pulled her to the ground.
In heart-stopping footage captured from a balcony above where the drama unfolded, the man can be seen letting a little girl no older than five go as officers get closer.
The clip then shows specially trained anti-terror police in bullet proof vests gently coaxing the frightened girl to safety as the target grabbed the woman.
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The dramatic scenes come as:
Seven were arrested during police raids in Brussels on Thursday night;
Among those held was convicted ISIS recruiter Reda Kriket;
The 34-year-old French national had been in the 'advanced stages' of planning an attack in France. He was found with heavy weapons and explosives in his apartment;
Two men were held in Germany suspected of being linked to the Brussels bombers;
Claims surfaced that Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam was plotting a machine gun massacre over Easter before he was arrested.
Today’s shootout, in the Schaerbeek area of north Brussels, began with two explosions, which triggered panic in a city still reeling from Tuesday’s bloodbath which left 31 dead and 270 injured.
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A group of women having their hair done at Meshairs hair salon over the road from the tram stop told of the moment they saw officers get the little girl away from the man.
Sabina, a hairdresser, told MailOnline: ‘I heard all this shouting and commotion outside. I looked out the window and saw the police approach, crouched down.
‘The man saw them and grabbed the woman and the child and took them hostage. He let the child go and pulled the woman to the ground and lay on top of her.
‘Then the police shot him in the leg. He was then pulled away by police. The woman was screaming and crying.’
The suspect was ‘neutralised’ and dragged off to a waiting police car, witnesses added.
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With the scene cleared, a bomb robot rolled in and lifted the rucksack, which a bomb disposal expert then inspected.
Photographs taken shortly afterwards showed smoke rising from the backpack, which may have been blown up in a controlled explosion.
Another video clearly showed a man wearing an orange jacket coaxing the child to safety before she was carried away to safety.
Today’s shooting took place in the Brussels suburb of Schaerbeek – the scene of a number of anti-terror raids in the last few days.
Najim Laachraoui, the master bomber who blew himself up at Zaventem airport on Tuesday, killing 14, and whose DNA was found on the suicide vests in Paris, lived in Schaerbeek.
DNA traces of Balal Hadfi, one of the Paris bombers, were also found in a flat in Schaerbeek along with a cache of explosives in December.
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One witness, speaking about today's raid, told local TV station RTBF: 'I heard two explosions, they were shooting. I opened the window and saw a man lying near the tram stop.
Another told La Libre newspaper: 'The police ordered him to show his hands, remove his jacket. They said that if he did not comply, they would use their weapons.'
The Mayor of Schaerbeek, Bernard Clerfayt, later confirmed that 'a person was intercepted by police and suffered a slight leg injury'. He added there had been several small explosions linked to bomb disposal work.
Sources at the scene told MailOnline a man inside the flat carrying explosives may have been about to launch a suicide attack.
It is thought two unmarked cars pulled up outside a house, after which two explosions were heard - one of which is understood to blown open the door. There is speculation that one of the explosions may have been a stun grenade.
[. . .]
It comes as French President Francois Hollande said this afternoon the Islamist militant network behind attacks in Paris and Brussels was being destroyed, but there remained other cells that continue to pose a threat.
'We know that there are other networks. Even if the one behind the attacks in Paris and Brussels is in the process of being wiped out, a threat continues to remain,' Hollande said ahead of a meeting with former Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Meanwhile, there have been separate reports today of another raid in a Belgian town 60 miles south of Brussels.
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Three men of foreign origin were arrested at an 80-bedroom hotel in Dinant and police are searching the evacuated building for explosives.
The town's mayor Richard Fournaux said it was too early to say whether the operation was linked to the bombings earlier this week.
Two suspect packages have been found – one in a car near the building, which was hosting a business conference, and one in a hotel room.
Bomb disposal experts are examining both packages.
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Today's dramatic raid comes after seven people were arrested in Belgium and Paris overnight by masked anti-terror police across Europe in connection with the Brussels massacres and a new terror plot.
Armed police swooped on properties in the Schaerbeek and Jette districts of Brussels and arrested a total of six people, who are thought to be connected to Tuesday's airport and Metro bombings.
German police have also arrested two more people with suspected links to the attackers while a new suspect in the Brussels plot, 28-year-old Syrian Naim al-Hamed, has also been identified.
It comes as it was revealed that the Frenchman arrested in the northern Paris suburb of Argenteuil last night was a convicted ISIS recruiter who was in the 'advanced stages' of planning an attack in France.
[. . .]
It comes as Belgian police admitted a catastrophic police blunder allowed Paris bombings logistics chief Salah Abdeslam to remain at large for more than three months.
A dedicated beat officer gave information about the whereabouts of Abdeslam to superiors on December 7 and urged them to pass it on to the country's anti-terrorist police. But the confidential report was inexplicably not passed onto the federal bureau.
[. . .]
In Germany, it emerged that police had arrested two people they suspect are linked to the Islamist suicide bombers.
It said one of the men, arrested on Wednesday near Frankfurt, received two mobile phone messages shortly before the bombings that included the name of Khalid El Bakraoui, the man Belgian police say blew himself in a Brussels metro station.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3509420/Two-explosions-heard-Brussels-anti-terror-police-launch-fresh-raid-wake-suicide-attacks.html

Armed police shoot man 'carrying a bomb in a rucksack after he takes a woman hostage' at Brussels tram station as they swoop on terror suspects linked to 'imminent attack in France'
Armed police 'neutralised' terror suspect carrying a rucksack in the Brussels neighbourhood of Schaerbeek today
Two explosions were heard at the start of the terror swoop, after which a man was shot in the leg at a tram stop
Dramatic footage shows shot suspect being forced to drop the bag after which it was investigated by bomb squad
Operation linked to arrest in Paris last night of Reda Kriket, who had been in 'advanced stages' of planning an attack
By FLORA DRURY IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM and SARA MALM and JULIAN ROBINSON and NICK FAGGE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:24 EST, 25 March 2016 | UPDATED: 15:33 EST, 25 March 2016

Muslim Terrorists Conduct Psychological Warfare in U.S.

[From article]
the FBI has issued an alert to local law enforcement regarding threats to the family of military, even though these incidents have gone largely unreported by mainstream media.
According to president of AMI Global Security and international security consultant Anthony Mele, this is just another tactic used by jihadists engaging soft targets:
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This is not just a war of inflicting mass casualties; it's a religious war. They are engaging in psychological warfare to force their enemy into submission of their ideology. They are just testing the waters right now in America; we haven't seen anything yet. This is something counter-terrorism professionals have been warning against for some time.
Psychological warfare is the use of propaganda, threats, and other psychological techniques to mislead, intimidate, demoralize, and otherwise influence the thinking or behavior of an opponent. It has been used through the ages as an effective tool against the enemy, and Mele says America is not prepared for it.
While much of the Western world is beginning to see firsthand what these people are capable of, America appears to still be the ostrich with its head in the sand. We carry on business as usual, as if the world is not at war. The American people in general are not prepared in any way for what is foreseen among the intelligence community.
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He believes that the most important thing every citizen should do is exercise his Second Amendment right to arm himself.
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We can't look to our governments to protect us from immediate threats. Even local enforcement can only do so much with response times. Those who believe their local, state or federal government is going to save them, are endangering themselves and could risk their lives with that kind of thinking.
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Other options for defense are home security and self-defense classes.
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How many people could fathom a day where there are multiple rapes and sexual assaults on the streets of a westernized society like Germany? Who would have thought just twenty years ago that individual military family members would be targeted for kidnapping or worse?
Businesses that survive over generations do so not because they keep the same "business as usual" model. They change and adapt with the times and trends. It's time for American citizens to do the same. What worked in previous decades for security and safety no longer works for citizens in this new era of terror.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/terrorists_in_america_engaging_in_psychological_warfare.html

February 21, 2016
Terrorists in America Engaging in Psychological Warfare
By Jamie Hope

Citizens Must Arm Themselves, Prepare For Terror Attacks

[From article]
we can thank President Obama. So disruptive has his tenure been, so polarizing his rhetoric, that he, one of the most antigun politicians alive, has acted as the greatest gun salesman in human history. Millions of Americans have armed themselves over the past seven years, and not only with handguns, but with military-style long arms.
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Americans have taken the first necessary step by arming themselves, like the patriots of the revolutionary era. Those who are armed need to consider if they have the weapons necessary to overcome a potential Jihadi threat. Those who have not yet purchased such weapons should do so.
After the weapons are in hand, you will need to educate yourself in their functions and capabilities. Americans believe they have an instinctive understanding of weaponry handed down from the frontier epoch. Do not fall for this. Modern firearms are complex mechanisms that can be mastered only through study, repetition, and familiarity. Make the effort. Take courses, read firearms websites, find and question experts.
Learn basic weapons tactics. These are more complex than you may think, and many are counterintuitive. (For instance, a building should not be defended from within. Instead find cover outside and engage attackers from there.)
Learn basic tactics for handling workplace shootings. There are a number of YouTube videos dealing with these in detail. For years, people were told merely to flop over and give up. Today, it’s understood that all present must attack, and attack relentlessly, with whatever weapons are available. (They speak in terms of throwing coffee cups, desk phones, computer keyboards, etc. But 9mms would probably work better.)
Stay informed about Jihadi tactics and targeting. As with anything else, these evolve and change over time.



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Learn the warning signs of Islamist conversion: Muslim clothing, unkempt beards (or niqabs for women), sudden devotion to daily prayers, hostility and belligerence to kaffirs of all types, but Jews in particular.
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When the time comes, it is highly unlikely -- to say the least -- that the FBI, Delta Force, or Homeland Security will appear out of the clouds, so it is best to stand up rather than be relegated to the headlines as a victim of “workplace violence.”
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On arriving, police are likely to be confused, frightened, and flicking through their PC manual to discover what the right move is. Clearly and firmly inform them as to what is happening, point out where the attackers are hidden, and get out of their way. While in some cases, you will be turning control over to incompetents, cowards, and the type of compulsive who needs to tick off every last subclause in the rulebook before taking action (as occurred at Cheshire, Connecticut, resulting in three murders under the most horrifying circumstances imaginable) there is nothing you can do about it.
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On September 24, 2014, in Moore, Oklahoma, Alton Nolen, a convert to Islam, committed an act of jihad that has since been buried deep by the media and government, probably on the grounds that it might provoke bad thoughts in the beta class. Nolen was an ex-con converted in prison that had been released early for unknown reasons. After adequate prayer and study, Nolen struck out at the deadliest enemy of the ummah that he could find, a 54-year-old grandmother who worked with him at Vaughan foods. After beheading her, he was taking out after another woman when he was shot by company’s CEO, Mark Vaughan, a part-time deputy.
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This is how the country was established and maintained for many generations. It is actions like this that cleared the frontier and set the framework of the American republic in place of pure chaos. Actions like this cleared San Francisco of criminal gangs in 1851 and 1856. [. . .] An action like this in 1946 overthrew a criminal gang that had seized the town of Athens, Tennessee while the townsmen were fighting overseas. [. . .] Direct action, taken legally by citizens in support of the general peace, is how Americans do things.
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As time passes, more organized action must be taken against Islamist influence. It is common knowledge that students in schools across the country have been subject to Islamic indoctrination, taken on “tours” of mosques, taught to memorize passages of the Koran, and even led in repeating the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith. All of these have been excused as “multicultural education.” (Try teaching a public school class the Shema or the Pater Noster and see where that gets you.) Clearly, the only way to halt this is to get on the school board and act.
Similarly, many priests and ministers -- and, hard as it to believe, a few rabbis -- have allied themselves with Islamists of various stripes on the grounds of “ecumenism.” These are then utilized as what the Soviets called “useful idiots,” shields for illicit behavior.
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The same must be said about city councils, political committees, public service organizations such as YM/WCA, scouting organizations, and so on. These have been or will be targeted by Jihadi sympathizers and their collaborators.
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Warn your kids -- young girls in particular -- against indoctrination and all other types of approaches. Remember Rotherham, where over a thousand young girls were turned out by Islamic pimps while the government, police, media, and their fathers, uncles, and brothers looked the other way. This is still occurring in Rotherham and other British towns. There will be attempts to duplicate it in the U.S.
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Once again: the government will not protect us. We are on our own. Self-defense is not a crime; reacting to a threat is not paranoia. We are at war -- in war, you do not make excuses.
I was working five blocks away from the WTC in September 2001. Hundreds of people whom I knew -- whom I travelled with, whom I spoke to, whom I worked beside -- were massacred in that apocalypse.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/curtailing_jihad.html

January 13, 2016
Curtailing Jihad
By J.R. Dunn

Incompetent Politicians Brought World To Edge Of World War, Domestic Chaos

[From article]
The same weekend the History Channel reran its series on World War I and II, where many leaders hoped for world peace, but instead guaranteed thirty years of war and 100 million deaths. Sadly, it is not in the nature of many maniacal leaders who prefer dictatorial powers to accept a world at peace. They reject a representative republic which is American-inspired. Some of our people think that we are the cause of so much destruction, but we have only been a nation for over two hundred years. We were late to the two World Wars and ended the conflagration.
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The controlled and restrained approach to war-fare that President Obama has chosen in battling Islamic terrorists, whether they are ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, the Taliban, the Islamic mullahs of Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood has not contained the ideology. This appeasement reminds one of Britain’s Neville Chamberlain and his hope to avoid war. It was utterly futile then and will be so now.
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This country is like a large ship. It cannot be swiftly turned around. The act itself renders us vulnerable as we are out of defensive position. No one president can reverse the many ills affecting America. It is time to remove the party bureaucracy and established bosses who have given us the present mess. Our economy is weak; our treasury is depleted through deficit spending, and we cannot manage our foreign policy objectives. The election in 2016 will give the nation the opportunity to end dependency and reverse the destruction of our manufacturing base. Yet, 45% of the nation is prepared at the outset to continue with similar policies (and elect a Democrat).
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most Republican candidates cannot fix what ails our country. They have never created any business assets, personal wealth, maneuvered political obstacles, built anything, created significant numbers of jobs, managed destructive governmental rules, nor provided a national consensus for a new direction.
The election of 2008 was a wave election in which Obama was able to move the nation toward socialism. We must halt this movement to safeguard our Constitution and restore our national purpose.
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Three remaining candidates do have experience as governors. This is a helpful background, but does not guarantee success. There is too much ego and too little statesmanship among our politicians; a far cry from our founding fathers. Ronald Reagan would not recognize this Republican Party
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The effort to restore federalism is far from completed; under this concept, federal government has three competing branches and the states have sovereignty. The national politicians have usurped power over the past 100 years, but the greatness of America lies in its people and ability to renew its institutions as the need arises.
The rise of Trump is not a fluke, but it reflects anger with the establishment. His vocabulary is inflammatory; he is braggadocio to a fault. The establishment opponents do not understand the frustrations of the citizenry. Our conservative leaders have not redeemed their promise to halt Obama’s Executive Orders, his damage to our military, the bleeding of our treasury, the division among the races, illegal immigration at the expense of citizens and states, and loss of national pride and exceptionalism. Our nation is resilient, but our politicians have created this mess.
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A president would be successful if a few of these issues could be corrected. The trajectory could be fixed, which would allow American ingenuity to repair the damage caused by politicians. The Federalist Papers were written to provide the intellectual basis for the Constitution after the failure of the Articles of Confederation was recognized. Our founders understood the desire for ever-increasing power and attempted to mitigate this risk. At various times the Congress and the Supreme Court have exerted their power, but they are overwhelmed by the president in our modern world. The system is subject to the mediocrity of our politicians.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/the_entrenched_parties_have_weakened_america_.html

January 13, 2016
The Entrenched Parties Have Weakened America
By Howard J. Warner

Middle East Muslim Terrorists Using New Technology Creating Global Dangers

Remote controlled car bomb.

Driverless cars, robots, all available as weapons to the terrorist as well as to the wealthy elite as toys.

[link to video embedded]
[From article]
Major Chris Hunter, a former special forces bomb technician, writes that the Islamic State is moving closer to being able to attack commercial aviation and that it possesses weapons expertise that eclipses anything any terror group has ever achieved.
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Hunter notes that the Islamic State’s possession of chemical weapons coupled with these unmanned, remote-controlled vehicles is “truly the stuff of nightmares.”
Stuart Ramsay, Sky News Chief Correspondent, expands on Hunter’s report, confirming that the Islamic State has a cadre of scientists and weapons experts at their disposal who are developing weapons and training jihadists with plans to carry out “spectacular” attacks in Europe along with attacks on passenger jets and military aircraft.
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And it’s a bit disconcerting, to say the least, that a news outlet would possess such valuable intelligence, but Western intelligence agencies would be in the dark.
Sky News came into possession of the training videos after an Islamic State trainer who had the videos was captured in Syria (by what’s left of the Free Syrian Army) as he was traveling through Turkey en route to Europe. The FSA passed the videos on to Sky News. And Sky News passed the videos on to the authorities in the U.K. A weapons adviser to the British military described them as an intelligence “gold mine.”
[. . .]
The Foreign Office responded with a statement: “Daesh will use all measures at their disposal to cause harm, and Britain will never be cowed by such terrorists. Our values are so much stronger than theirs. It will take time but this is an organisation that is losing territory and will be defeated.”
Please tell me I didn’t just read that.
“Our values” are stronger than theirs? Well, yes they are. (Duh.) But right now, the Islamic State is waging war, and the West is indeed “cowed.” The Islamic State is waging war with increasingly sophisticated weapons, and we’re showing up with our values – values that won’t mean a damn thing if we’re all slaughtered.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/isis_reportedly_planning_spectacular_attacks_against_the_west_using_sophisticated_weapons.html

January 7, 2016
ISIS reportedly planning 'spectacular' attacks against the West using sophisticated weapons
By Carol Brown

Israel Kills Convicted Terrorist Released In Exchange For Bodies Of Israeli Soldiers

[From article]
Samir Quntar, one of the most odious men on the planet, was blown to bits by the Israeli air force on Sunday in Damascus, Syria. We ought to cheer this development, and the Israeli airmen who braved advanced Russian antiaircraft missile systems to reach him (though whether the systems were active or not is unknown.) However, the fact that Quntar was alive and living free in Syria is very troubling.
[. . .]
at the age of 16, he led a four-man Palestinian terror team (all the other participants were older) that infiltrated the northern Israeli town of Nahariya by boat. The heavily-armed terrorists killed a policeman and attacked an apartment building
[. . .]
Quntar seized Danny and Einat and fled to the beach with the other members of his terror team. There they were stopped by Israeli soldiers and police who shot and killed a second terrorist. Quntar shot Danny Haran dead in front of his daughter, and then smashed the young girl’s head against the rocky beach with the butt of his rifle, killing her too. Then he and the other surviving terrorist, Ahmed Assad Abras, surrendered.
[. . .]
Israel doesn’t execute terrorists, no matter how vicious, and so Quntar and Abras were sentenced to four life sentences each, but that was meaningless. In 1985 Israel released Abras, along with more than 1000 other militants and terrorists as part of a controversial prisoner swap for three soldiers captured during the First Lebanon War. In 2008 Israel released Quntar and another great gaggle of militants and terrorists in a swap with Hizb’allah, in return for the bodies of two Israeli reservists killed at the outset of the Second Lebanon War.
[. . .]
Quntar returned to Lebanon and was celebrated as a hero. He returned to a life of terror, and actively and effectively organized terror gangs on the Golan Heights.
[. . .]
The refusal of Western nations like Israel and the United States to promptly and justifiably execute convicted terrorists is a security and moral outrage. By keeping these cruel unrepentant criminals alive, we not only devalue the lives of the people they kill or injure, but incentivize other terrorists to free them in hostage swaps.
[. . .]
There is nothing moral about allowing coldblooded murderers like to Samir Quntar to live on unrepentantly in jail, or even worse, freeing them, especially in return for dead bodies. I’m glad that he is finally dead, but it is a moral disgrace that it did not occur 36 year ago.

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

December 21, 2015
Israel Captures, Releases and Kills a Terrorist
By Jonathan F. Keiler

White House Tries To Destroy American Civilization

[From article]
Since the beginning of the post World War II era there has been one constant that has been the stabilizing force in the world: the stature, power and influence of the United States. In the matter of a few short years the Obama presidency has deliberately and overwhelmingly eroded that distinction resulting in his goal of global instability.
[. . .]
Mankind always has and always will have as their preeminent trait the need to survive, and to that end human beings are susceptible to committing crimes and exploiting their fellow man. Thus any society will always have many failings, but the key measure of any civilization is what it does to control these tendencies and strive for an equitable culture. No nation or culture in history has done more to advance the well-being of mankind than the United States and Western civilization.
[. . .]



To Obama the radical jihadist movement is the tip of the spear to bring down Europe and the West.
Thus Obama and his fellow-travelers can justify bankrupting the country as well as promoting unfettered legal and illegal immigration as a necessary part of the re-making and absolution of the United States. He has no compunction in forcing Israel, as an outpost of Western civilization, to compromise and bend to all the demands of the Palestinians knowing those concessions will eventually spell the end of the Jewish state.
[. . .]
Any so-called minor terrorist attack within America and Europe is a mere inconvenience and understandable due to the past sins of the United States and the West. Meanwhile he willingly discards old allies in the Middle East while turning a blind eye and tacitly promoting the radicalization of many countries in the region.
[. . .]
The population of the continent is quickly aging as the result of a catastrophically negative birth rate -- the end product of nearly 115 million abortions since 1970. As a potential solution to this dilemma, the countries of Western Europe, over the years, have flung open their borders to immigration from Muslim nations in Africa and the Middle East. Germany is now welcoming with open arms a million and half unvetted Syrian Muslim refugees in the hope they will become assimilated and a source of future labor in order to maintain their economy and ballooning social programs. Yet nowhere in Europe over the past forty years have the Muslim populations truly assimilated nor will the overwhelming majority as their religion is anathema to western culture and values.
[. . .]
The most insidious trait of the world’s so-called “best and brightest” is that they are incapable of admitting their mistakes. Instead of dealing with the harsh realities of the world today, far too many seek shelter in promoting vague climate change theories that may or may not happen in the next 100 years. Until the narcissism and ideology of today’s global ruling class, particularly in America, are replaced by those willing to face reality and act accordingly, the world will continue to become an exceedingly dangerous place.
[. . .]
Instead what is needed is a potential president who can tame the Washington cartel, appreciates that the Constitution is a limit on government, understands that the most immediate enemy on the world stage the nation must confront is Islamic supremacy, and above all has the intelligence, demeanor, and ability to assume global leadership with quiet but firm self-confidence. The only candidate from either party that meets those criteria is Ted Cruz.

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

December 15, 2015
Barack Obama and the End of Western Civilization
By Steve McCann

Liberals Join Hamas Terrorists Broadcasting Character Assassination of Israeli Soldiers

[From article]
BDS lies when they call our brave soldiers “war criminals” and accuse the IDF of “war crimes.”
[. . .]
To emphasize the point, the report states,
“The IDF not only met its obligations under the Law of Armed Conflict, but often exceeded these on the battlefield at significant tactical costs, as well as in the humanitarian relief efforts that accompanied its operation.”
Additionally highlighting the conduct of the IDF and the Israeli soldier the report recorded that,
“Where the high standards of conduct the IDF sets for its personnel have not been met incidents are investigated, including criminal investigations, through an independent mechanism under the oversight of the democratic institutions of the State of Israel. This mechanism clearly meets the requirements of legal recourse, judicial independence and democratic oversight that our own nations set for ourselves.”
[. . .]



The team of overseas military experts reported on Hamas thus,
“Hamas not only flagrantly disregarded the Law of Armed Conflict as a matter of course as part of its terrorist-army hybrid strategic concept, but rather it abused the very protections afforded by the law for military advantage. It embedded its entire military machinery in civilian locations and sensitive sites, including those of the United Nations.
Hamas indiscriminately targeted Israeli civilians throughout the conflict with extensive rocket fire and willfully sought to draw the IDF into battle in a prepared urban stronghold amid the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, for which it located its operational headquarters in Gaza’s main hospital.”
All these are war crimes.
[. . .]
Lost in the malediction of cynical media misreporting and malevolent anti-Israel propaganda disguised as Palestinian human rights concerns is the fact that, during fifty days of war, Palestinian fired 4,564 rockets at Israeli civilian targets. Despite the UN statistics, which were adopted lies provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, a de factor Hamas Gaza, the real Gazan casualty figures show that 60% were men of fighting age, that many of the “children” quoted in the false figures were actually men in their 20s, that many Gazans were killed by Palestinian rockets aimed at Israel short-falling within Gaza and there is video evidence of Hamas conducting public executions of non-compliant Palestinians.
[. . .]
The Israeli Air Force conducted over 5000 sorties over Gaza, IDF artillery mapped out and targeted large concentrations of terrorist activity throughout the Gaza Strip, tanks softened up intense areas of terrorist strongholds in urban areas in preparation for the entry of thousands of infantry soldiers who were forced to destroy booby-trapped buildings alleyways and uncover and destroy miles of terror tunnels, rocket sites, and weapon storage facilities as well as fighting civilian-attired terrorists coming out of houses and public buildings to attack them.

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

December 15, 2015
BDS lies when it calls brave IDF soldiers 'war criminals'
By Barry Shaw

Palestinian Terror Attacks On Israelis Continue

Shocking footage shows the moment a knife-wielding 'terrorist' (circled) was shot dead by an Israeli soldier after three people were wounded by the attacker in the streets of Jerusalem.

[From article]
A Palestinian attacker has been shot dead after stabbing an Israeli in the West Bank just hours after a knife-wielding 'terrorist' went on the rampage.
Dramatic footage has emerged showing a 21-year-old man walking towards a soldier before he falls to the ground amid gun fire.
The shooting in Jerusalem came after police said three people were 'lightly wounded' by the attacker.
In a separate confrontation just hours later, officers said a Palestinian man stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli in the West Bank city of Hebron before being shot dead by security forces.
[. . .]
'The terrorist, apparently a 21-year-old resident of east Jerusalem, was killed by the gunfire,' the statement said.
Emergency services evacuated two of the injured to hospital for treatment. The third did not require medical attention.
In the Hebron attack, paramilitary border police fatally shot the assailant after he stabbed an Israeli man several times in the upper body, a police spokeswoman said.
The wounded man was taken to hospital in Jerusalem in critical condition, medical officials said.
The attacks are the latest in more than two months of 'lone wolf' assaults by Palestinians challenging Israel's control over the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.
[. . .]
Israel says the current spate of violence is due to incitement by Palestinian leaders over the Jerusalem holy site as well as videos encouraging violence spread on social media.
Palestinians are frustrated by the failure of decades of peace talks and the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and many have also lost faith in their political leadership.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3349267/The-shocking-moment-knife-wielding-terrorist-shot-dead-Israeli-soldier-crazed-attacker-wounded-three-people-streets-Jerusalem.html

Palestinian attacker is shot dead after stabbing an Israeli in the West Bank just hours after a knife-wielding 'terrorist' went on the rampage in Jerusalem
Footage shows an Israeli soldier shooting a 21-year-old knife attacker dead
Video shows him falling to the ground before four more shots are fired
Came after Jerusalem police said three people were wounded by attacker
Palestinian attacker shot dead after separate stabbing incident in Hebron
See more of the latest news updates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By JULIAN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:19 EST, 7 December 2015 | UPDATED: 14:58 EST, 7 December 2015

Updated: MIT's Lori Berenson Returns To United States, Apologized for Aiding Rebels in Peru

Posted August 16, 2010 5:17 PM ET; Last updated December 4, 2015 3:55 PM ET


Dec. 3, 2015: Lori Berenson, who completed a 20-year sentence in Peru for "collaboration with terrorism" in aiding the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, walks with her uncle Ken Berenson after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. 
(AP)

[From article]
An American woman sentenced to 20 years in a Peru prison for conspiring with a leftist rebel group in the 1990s returned to New York on Thursday, smiling as she walked through the doors at Kennedy Airport with her uncle.
Lori Berenson, 46, has been living quietly in Lima with her 6-year-old son since her 2010 parole because she was barred from leaving the country until her sentenced lapsed. Her son, Salvador, left the airport earlier with his grandparents.
"I'm very grateful to all the people who helped me over the years, and I'm glad to be with my family, thank you very much," Berenson said. She had no other comment.
Berenson was questioned by federal officials for hours at the New York City airport, but the U.S. ambassador to Peru, Brian Nichols, told reporters that she did not face any charges in the United States.
A daughter of college professors, Berenson dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and headed to Latin America to support leftist movements, working for rebels in El Salvador before traveling to Peru in late 1994.
[. . .]
She was initially convicted of treason in 1996 by a court of hooded military judges and sent for nearly three years to a frigid prison at 12,700 feet altitude, where her health suffered. She was convicted of "collaborating with terrorism" for assisting the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement as it prepared in 1995 to seize congress and take lawmakers hostage.


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/12/04/american-woman-returns-home-after-spending-years-in-peruvian-jail/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

American woman returns home after spending years in Peruvian jail
Published December 04, 2015
Associated Press

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/american_apologizes_for_aiding_rebels_upHbIA2hUUS2tPTbH56myI


Lori Berenson

REUTERS
Lori Berenson waits for the start of a hearing which reviews her parole at an anti-terrorism court in Lima, Peru.
NY woman apologizes for aiding rebels in Peru
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:20 PM, August 16, 2010
Posted: 12:20 PM, August 16, 2010

Homeland Security Hires Terrorists on Their Own Watch Lists, Just Keeping People Safe

[From article]
Back in August, we did an investigation – the inspector general did – of the Department of Homeland Security, and they had 72 individuals that were on the terrorist watch list that were actually working at the Department of Homeland Security. The director had to resign because of that. Then we went further and did and eight-airport investigation. We had staffers go into eight different airports to test the Department of Homeland Security screening process at major airports. They had a 95-percent failure rate. We had folks – this was a testing exercise, so we had folks going in there with guns on their ankles, and other weapons on their persons, and there was a 95-percent failure rate.



http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/72_employees_at_dhs_on_terror_watch_list.html

December 4, 2015
72 employees at DHS on terror watch list
By Carol Brown

Liberal Journalists Publish Misguided Propaganda Narrative Regarding Terrorist Threats

PRAKASH MATHEMA
AFP/Getty Images

[From article]
The most basic, primitive honor a nation owes to its dead is to fight to defend itself—to defeat the enemy and win. And yet the West won’t.
The West is hanging on by a thread and doesn’t even know it. We are living off the fumes of the accomplishments of our forefathers and those who fought and died in the cause of freedom and individual rights. But the thread is wearing thin. Time is just about running out.
After the murderous jihad attacks in Paris comes the predictable Western response: not resolute self-defense, but weepy candlelight vigils, protestations of unity, and hashtags. After the jihad attacks in Garland, Texas, Chattanooga, the University of California Merced, and scores of arrests of American Muslims working for ISIS (the FBI has 900 ISIS-related investigations currently ongoing), our top priority should be to crush the enemy.
[. . .]
The Boston city government refused repeatedly to run our American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) counter-jihad ads, but run vicious Jew-hatred ads regularly. We are en route to the Supreme Court compelling Boston to run our ads. What’s strong about Boston? What stand did Boston take against jihad?
Equally revolting is the Eiffel Tower peace symbol that is circulating around. Do the leftists think the ISIS jihadis will see this and lay down their arms? If the Christians and Yazidis in Syria make the peace sign, will all be well? If the kidnapped schoolgirls—now sex slaves—make the peace sign, will they be freed? Such idiocy is an affront to every freedom-loving human being.
[. . .]
The United States of America is the most charitable nation on earth. That is who we are
[. . .]
What no one is talking about is taking on these savages. That is what is so morally depraved about our response. The idea that we’re not allowed to take the appropriate measures to defeat the Islamic State is obscene. The idea that the United States of America cannot defeat the Islamic State or al-Qaeda is absurd, and the whole world knows it. But we choose not to use our strength. We choose to be victims. It’s shameful.
And clearly, since everybody knows that we are not physically weak, where is the basic dignity that any nation should have, to stand up for its own values? If nothing else, when we find ourselves involved in a war, we should fight it and finish it. You either win or you will be defeated.
Obama has aligned with the jihad force. In Syria, Egypt and Libya, and worst of all, now Iraq. He has blood on his hands. He has the blood of hundreds of thousands of Christians, the blood of our soldiers. By abandoning Iraq, he takes on his hands the death of every soldier who gave life and limb in Iraq to defend this country. Whether you agreed with the Iraq war or not, we did it. We went in and asked the native population to help us. You cannot just withdraw and abandon those people.
[. . .]
When Muslims attack, the left attacks us. MSNBC, the Guardian, and Salon all ran pieces blaming the “right-wing” for the Paris attacks. Outrageous, but not surprising. The enemedia is aligned with the jihad force.
[. . .]
They want to destroy our freedom. They want to destroy our country. They want to steal our children. That’s war. There is no one on the right who has the correct philosophy about this. The left demands the right to lie, and they are lying to the American people on a massive scale, even to the extent of making people think there is something wrong with loving and defending our nation.
[. . .]
Even worse, as if that weren’t bad enough, you have a presidential candidate saying that climate change is responsible for terrorism. And the very serious talking heads in the mainstream media are reporting this with a straight face.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/15/geller-the-west-has-lost-the-will-to-live/

Geller: The West Has Lost the Will to Live
by Pamela Geller
15 Nov 2015

Israeli Doctors Save Lives of Palestinians, Who Threaten to Kill Them All

[From article]
the 16-minute video released on October 23, 2015 by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In it a masked terrorist, armed with a rifle and speaking fluent Hebrew, threatened to slaughter Israelis and Jews everywhere. He promised his viewers that soon there won’t be a single Jew left in Jerusalem or in the whole country. Tens of thousands of these Islamic terrorists would soon be on the way to slaughter Jews and throw them into the garbage.



Israel’s humane behavior does not resemble garbage, as Palestinian leaders obviously know. On October 20, a few days before the video, the brother-in-law of President Abbas underwent a successful life-saving heart surgery at a private hospital, Assuta Medical Center, in Tel Aviv. Israel has similarly helped other patients. One is the wife of Abbas who in 2014 was also treated at Assuta in a private room with security guards to maintain her privacy. Another was the sister of a senior Hamas leader, Moussa Abu Marzouk, who was treated for advanced cancer. Marzouk was listed as a specially designated terrorist by the U.S. Treasury Department. This was in addition to the Israeli treatment of relatives of other Hamas figures. Among them were the daughter, mother-in-law, and granddaughter of Ismail Haniyeh, another senior Hamas leader.
[. . .]



The Muslim countries in the Middle East are characterized by religious groups subject to religious intolerance and hostility and the accompanying political, economic, and ethnic suffering.
Israel, by its Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, establishes freedom of religion, and the legal protection for religious freedom is enforced. The Israeli Supreme Court has upheld that freedom, including freedom of conscience, faith, religion, and worship, regardless of the religion of an individual. Though Israel is described as a “Jewish and democratic state,” freedom of religion and conscience and legal political equality exist regardless of religious affiliation.
[. . .]
After [Saddam Hussein] fell in 2003, the Shia Muslim majority, under PM Nouri al-Maliki, acted against the Sunnis, preventing peaceful protests, mistreating Sunni citizens and prisoners, and limiting the number of Sunnis in government and security positions. A major result of this was the entrance of ISIS, which now controls considerable parts of northern and central Iraq.
[. . .]



All religious communities who do not accept that ideology [ISIS] have been subjected to extraordinary abuses, including expulsion from their historic homelands, forced conversions, rape, enslavement of women and children, torture, beheadings, and massacres.
After it captured Mosul in June 2014, ISIS issued an ultimatum that all Christians, whose community dates back 1,700 years, must convert to Islam, leave Mosul, pay a tax, or be killed.
[. . .]
The once vibrant Jewish community in Egypt has now disappeared, but nevertheless, anti-Semitic publications and cartoons still appear.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/murderous_religious_intolerance_in_the_middle_east.html

October 25, 2015
Murderous Religious Intolerance in the Middle East
By Michael Curtis

ISIS Terrorists Kill Five in Saudi Arabia

A meeting in hussainiya in the coastal town of Qatif, 400kms east of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Friday. A gunman opened fire at the meeting, state TV said. 
Photo - AFP

[From article]
"A person who opened fire on a husseiniya was killed, and the attacker was in his twenties," reported government-run channel, Al Ekhbariya TV.
A resident reached by telephone told Reuters that the assailant approached the meeting hall in the eastern city of Saihat in a taxi but was stopped at a checkpoint manned by volunteers protecting the site.
Police arrived and a gunbattle broke out, which the resident said injured several people and left the shooter dead.
IS, an ultra-violent group based in Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted online.
[. . .]
IS has launched a series of deadly attacks inside the kingdom in recent months, aiming to stir sectarian confrontation on the Arabian peninsula and bring about the overthrow of Gulf countries' ruling dynasties.
A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people in an attack on a mosque used by members of a local security force in southwest Saudi Arabia in August and two separate suicide bombings on mosques in May killed 25 worshippers.
Groups of volunteer security guards have been formed around sites of the kingdom.
http://www.timesofoman.com/article/69715/World/GCC/Gunman-opens-fire-at-meeting-kills-five-in-Saudi-Arabia-attack-claimed-by-IS-militant-group

Gunman kills five in Saudi Arabia attack claimed by IS militant group
October 17, 2015 | 3:29 PM
by Reuters

Politicians Often Clueless About What They Speak

Bashar al-Assad

According to this report US taxpayers are funding military efforts for and against Assad. What a White House.



[From article]
Claiming to be lining up a coalition to fight the Islamic State, Putin is also aligned with Iran and Iraq to keep the butcher of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, in power.
This axis of evil would be trouble anywhere, but the involvement of Iraq adds a unique dimension. We are helping to prop up that government and launching airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq, an effort that involves giving Iraq’s military our intelligence data.
But The Wall Street Journal reports that Iraqi officials say they will now give that data to the Russian military. That means our intelligence will be used to keep Assad in power.
So more than four years after Obama demanded that Assad resign, the Syrian dictator not only survives, he has gained powerful allies. And we have effectively become one of them, even as Obama still insists Assad must go.


http://nypost.com/2015/09/30/de-blasio-proves-hes-clueless-about-the-homeless-crisis/

De Blasio proves he’s clueless about the homeless crisis
By Michael Goodwin
New York Post
September 30, 2015 | 12:37am