DEFENDING THE WEST
Another rabbi enabler of Islamic oppression
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The controversy over my appearance last month in Canada, after the police pressured a dhimmi rabbi into canceling the initial venue planned for my talk, just keeps roiling. Monday in the Toronto Star, another dhimmi rabbi piled on. Right on the heels of three anti-Semitic attacks in Montreal, another Canadian rabbi saw fit to condemn … a fellow Jew.

Rabbi Dow Marmur wrote that “people engaged in interfaith work should always compare the best in their own religion with the best in that of others. This has helped me not to judge Christianity by the anti-Semitism in some of its teachings and not to condemn Islam because Islamist extremists cause havoc in different parts of the world.”

Rabbi Marmur is stating the problem in false terms. I have never compared Judaism, let alone the best of Judaism, with the worst of other religions. My work is not about condemning Islam; it’s about defending human rights. It may be wrong to judge Christianity by the anti-Semitism in some of its teachings, but it would be equally wrong, or worse, to avoid confronting and challenging Christian anti-Semitism wherever it appears just because some Christians are not anti-Semitic. And genuinely non-anti-Semitic Christians should not object to a challenge to Christian anti-Semites; indeed, they should join in such a challenge. At Vatican II, the Catholic Church repudiated Christian anti-Semitism – why can’t we get Muslims to repudiate jihad, Islamic supremacism, Islamic Jew-hatred, etc.?

If “Islamist extremists” are causing havoc, it is not wrong to challenge them and ask Muslims who supposedly reject “extremism” to address the Islamic teachings that give rise to that “extremism,” and to reject and reform those teachings. And genuinely peaceful Muslims should be calling for the same thing and standing with us.

But Marmur, in contrast, said that he avoided Jews “who compare the best in Judaism with the worst in other religions. In view of recent incidents in Boston, London and Paris, and riots in Stockholm and elsewhere, a lot of people are prone to such distortions of Islam.”

Yeah, and they’re the jihadists in Boston, London and Paris. Each one explained his actions by referring to Islamic teaching. The rabbi is falling into the Islamic supremacist trap of thinking that it’s “Islamophobic” for non-Muslims to point out that jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings to justify their actions, and to call on Muslims who claim to reject this understanding of Islam to do something effective to counter it.

And of course one of the Jews to which Marmur objected was me. He wrote: “Echoing statements by responsible Jewish leaders in the United States, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the immediate past president of the Union for Reform Judaism, has described her in a recent Jerusalem Post column as ‘a bigot and a purveyor of hate.’”

Let me say this, they are going to need a helluva lot more than a petition to stop the savage supremacists in power in Egypt. The Islamic theocrats have Obama's support -- he sent the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt 140,000 canisters of tear gas. And America still gives this tinpot dictator of ours a 50% approval rating (further proof of the enemedia's influence).

15 Million Egyptians Sign Anti-Morsi Petition Pat Dollard, June 11, 2013

Excerpted from ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

Nearly 15 million people have signed a petition to hold early presidential elections, in a campaign seeking to “remove confidence” in Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, Egypt Independent reported.

Tamarod, the opposition campaigned meaning “rebel” in Arabic, was launched in May, attempting to 15 million signatures to outnumber the votes gained by Morsi in last year’s presidential election.

The opposition is campaign “studying the possibility of confidentially submitting the forms to the Supreme Constitutional Court” before June 30,” said spokesperson Mahmoud Badr.

“We are printing the forms on CDs to preserve them,” Badr said.

Morsi’s tenure as president has been marked by severe political turmoil and opposition.

 

Slavery or death - those are the two choices for women in Islam who have "dishonored" the family. his is what happens when honour killings don't take place... 

Sex slaves are allowed by the Qur'an (men may enjoy 'what your right hands own,' 4:3) and Islamic law from among unbelieving women" (here).

Obama say, "respect it!"

"Ain’t no commodity: Woman ‘auctioned by her in-laws’ recovered" By Owais Jafri Published: June 11, 2013,  The Express Tribune (with the International Herald Tribune) thanks to The Armaros

Police on Monday recovered a woman allegedly ‘auctioned’ on the orders of a panchayat in Dera Ghazi Khan on Sunday and arrested the man who had bought her. Fifteen others, including the woman’s husband and panchayat members, were also arrested.   

Kot Chutta DSP Nadeem Butt said the 25-year-old woman, a resident of Darkhawast Jamal Ghuzar- an area along the tribal belt of the district- was accused by her in-laws of immoral activity. The DSP said that her husband and brothers-in-law had claimed of catching her with a man from the neighbourhood several times.

On Sunday night, the DSP said, her husband called a panchayat.

Witnesses told police that the panchayat had ordered the man who she was accused of having an affair with to leave the area.

The man was told he would be stoned to death if he returned to the area.

DSP Butt said the panchayat had ordered the woman’s husband to confine her inside the house, but he had refused to accept her.

“He told the panchayat that he did not want to keep her because she had damaged his ‘honour’. The panchayat then ordered him to sell her,” the DSP added.

He said the woman was sold for Rs350,000 in an open auction. The man who bought her was told not to bring her back in the area.

[...]

The DSP said after the news of the woman’s auction reached the police, the buyer’s home was raided. The woman was recovered and taken to an undisclosed place.

The buyer was arrested. He told police that he was planning to sell her in Balochistan. He said he was not aware of any panchayat decision.

He said, “I just came to know that a woman was being sold in Kaloi area and went to buy her.”

DSP Butt said 15 other men, including the woman’s husband, two brothers-in-law and panchayat members, had been arrested.

 

More tolerance and inter-faith barbarity from the religion of supremacists. Mind you, there are no blaspehmy laws un Ethiopia but then again there are no blasphemy laws in the US but one youtube filmmaker is rotting in prison for a you tube film offensive to Muslims.

Two Christians Unlawfully Arrested in Ethiopia for “Crimes Against Islam”   Persecution.org June 12, 2013 (thanks to Armaros)

6/10/2013 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that two Christian men were arrested in Ethiopia by local police influenced by radical Muslims. In separate incidents, these men were detained by local police for what authorities are calling “crimes against Islam,” even though no such crime exists in Ethiopia’s penal code.

In late March, Alemlayehu Legese was arrested by local police in Dodola, a city located 180 miles south of Addis Ababa, after admitting to owning literature that “discussed the history of Islam from a Christian perspective.” Legese, a student at Dodola Mekane Yesus Bible School, dropped off the literature at a copy shop where a Muslim employee who felt Christians should not be allowed to read about the history of Islam contacted police. “The police officers treated this incident as if it were a terrorist attack,” an ICC representative in Ethiopia said.

Fearful the investigation could lead to widespread violence, the local church advised Legese to report to the police and admit to owning the literature. Upon reporting to the police, Legese was arrested and imprisoned. When ICC asked why Legese was being imprisoned without being formally charged, the local police commander said they were detaining Legese to “cool down the anger of local Muslims.” It has been over two months since Legese was imprisoned, formal charges are yet to be laid against him.

More tolerance and respect from savages.

Muslim slashes two other Muslims after they voiced support for London jihad beheading victim

Clearly Ziko Sulliman thinks that Muslims should never sympathize with Infidels. And like so many other Islamic supremacists, he is ready to use violence to enforce his hard line. So here yet again is another indication of why we don't see more genuine Muslim reformers.

"Man alleged to have slashed friends after they voiced support for Woolwich victim, Lee Rigby," by Neil Hunter for the Darlington & Stockton Times, June 6 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A MAN is facing court over claims he slashed two friends when they sympathised with murdered soldier Lee Rigby.

Ziko Sulliman - from Sudan - is said to have attacked his friends as they chatted days after the gunner's death.

Sulliman appeared in court today (June 6) on charges of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, wounding and having a blade.

The 27-year-old, of Aire Street, Middlesbrough, did not enter any pleas during the five-minute hearing at Teesside Crown Court.

He appeared via a live video-link from Holme House Prison, in nearby Stockton, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and blue jeans.

Saying "yes" each time, he spoke only to confirm his name and to say he could clearly hear the proceedings across the television link.

Judge Peter Bowers remanded Sulliman in custody until a plea and case management hearing which is scheduled for mid-August.

Defence solicitor Andrew Teate said: "He requires an Arabic interpreter and there is no doubt he will need that interpretation for at least the next hearing and then a trial or sentencing exercise.

"It is quite clear his English is extremely limited. It is, quite frankly, impossible to take his instructions and this is not an appropriate time for him to enter a plea.

"At this stage, it would be impossible and unfair to say whether it will be a trial."

Sulliman is alleged to have knifed the two men in Fife Street, Middlesbrough, on May 29 - a week after Drummer Rigby was hacked to death in Woolwich, south London.

Two men have been charged with the 25-year-old soldier's murder, and have been remanded in custody. No pleas have been entered.

One of Sulliman's alleged victims, Zakaria Hamed, suffered a three-inch wound to his cheek and was stabbed in the leg.

And the other, Khalid Osman, is said to have been slashed across the hand....

More of Obama's post-American, post-freedom foreign policy -- brutal and bloody sharia enforcement in previously secular governments. From the Middle East to Africa, Obama is destroying them all. 

He is bringing it here. It's why we protested in Manchester, Tennessee. We are not going to take it. uh uh.

Teacher in Egypt Sentenced for 'Defaming' Islam
Christian fined beyond ability to pay; civil trial looms. By Our Middle East Correspondent

CAIRO, Egypt, June 11, 2013 (Morning Star News) – A judge in Upper Egypt found a Christian teacher guilty of defaming Islam today and levied a massive fine against her after prohibiting her lawyers from presenting a single witness during the trial.
 
Dimyana Obeid Abd Al-Nour escaped jail time, but she was fined 100,000 Egyptian pounds (US$14,270), far beyond her ability to pay.
 
She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, her father, Ebed Abd Al-Nour, told Morning Star News. He said his daughter did nothing wrong.
 
“I am very upset right now by the sentence,” he said. “My daughter is innocent and should not have been given such a sentence.”
 
He then became overcome with emotion and declined to comment further.
 
Al-Nour a 24-year-old, first-year teacher in Egypt, made less than US$300 a month before she lost her position in the wake of the accusations against her. Her family is poor, and she could be sent to jail for failure to pay a court-ordered fine if unable to find the money.
 
Muslims created a clamor in the courtroom that put intense pressure on the judge, said a human rights advocate who was surprised that the guilty verdict did not send her to prison.
 
“I personally was expecting a prison sentence, but thank God she was only given a fine,” said Mohammed Noubi, a human rights advocate with the Luxor office of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). “There was a lot of pressure and uproar inside the courtroom.”
 
On April 10, three elementary schoolchildren at Sheikh Sultan Primary School in the village of Al-Edisat, Luxor Province, along with their parents and some teachers, complained to the school administration that Al-Nour had made blasphemous comments while teaching. Two days earlier, while teaching a class about history and religion, she discussed pharaoh Amenhotep IV, later known as Akhenaten, who did away with all other Egyptian gods in favor of sun worship in ancient Egypt (see Morning Star News, May 15).
 
Al-Nour also reportedly expressed her admiration for the former head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the late Pope Shenouda III, in class. In some versions of the alleged incident, she also made comparisons between Shenouda and Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Three students said she made a gesture expressing disgust with Muhammad.
 
When the complaint was made, a group of head teachers and parents, known as the School Council, conducted an investigation into the allegations. They found there wasn’t any reliable evidence that Al-Nour had committed any offense, according to EIPR sources.
 
When the students were questioned, three of them said she had said or done something wrong. But the three students’ versions of what gesture Al-Nour allegedly made and what she allegedly said did not match up, according to EIPR. Also, the rest of the students in the class, 10 in all, said Al-Nour was blameless and never even mentioned the late pope or Muhammad.
 
A survey of the staff at the school revealed that she was widely respected by her colleagues, according to EIPR.
 
The School Council’s report was turned into the provincial governor’s office and to the legal department of the local office of the national Ministry of Education, which then conducted its own investigation; like the School Council, it found no crime had been committed. By chance, a school inspector happened to be monitoring the class Al-Nour was teaching but found nothing wrong with her instruction.
 
The case likely would have been dropped, but two attorneys representing the parents of one student went directly to the prosecutor’s office, obligating officials to conduct their own investigation. In what are known as “hisba cases,” Egyptian law allows citizens to file lawsuits against anyone who has transgressed the “exalted right of God.” Many blasphemy cases are filed in such a manner.
 
In court, Al-Nour’s lawyers were prepared to bring three crucial witnesses, including Mustafa Mikki, principal of the school. In an interview with the Coptic weekly Al-Watani, Mikki, a Muslim, said that those who brought the charges against Al-Nour were “fanatics.”
 
He also confirmed that none of the stories of the three children who accused Al-Nour matched. But the judge in Al-Nour’s case, Muhammad Al-Tamawy, would not let Mikki or anyone else testify on her behalf.
 
Noubi, who has helped Al-Nour’s legal team for EIPR, said that in addition to the fine, Al-Nour has now been referred to a civil court, as one of the complaining parents has filed a lawsuit against her. In order for damages to be awarded in the civil case, Al-Nour first must have been convicted of a crime. It is unknown how much money is sought in the civil case.
 
Al-Nour, who has attended only one of her hearings, remains in hiding. According to EIPR, the courtroom and surrounding area was swarming with conservative Muslims protesting against her during the hearing she attended.
 
Since then, she has been too sick to attend any of the hearings, according to human rights activists and her family. Al-Nour was arrested and held for two days, until her family was able to post bail with the help from the church.
 
Noubi said her lawyers plan to appeal.
 
The accusations against Al-Nour reflect a growing trend in Egypt of disproportionate use of the nation’s blasphemy statutes against members of Egypt’s Christian minority since the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi came into power in June 2012, according to human rights advocates.

 

A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that "retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right." However, "not subject to retaliation" is "a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law.

As Robert Spencer notes: "Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that 'retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.' However, 'not subject to retaliation' is 'a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring.' ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour 'provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.' And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that 'Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.'"

16-Year-old Turkish Girl Buried Alive in “Honor Killing” by Family By sharia unveiled

Police in Kahta, Turkey say they have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say relatives buried alive in a so-called "honor" killing as punishment for talking to boys. Here, a young Turkish woman peers from behind her veil. Photo: CreativeCommons: etrenard

Police in Kahta, Turkey say they have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say relatives buried alive in a so-called "honor" killing as punishment for talking to boys.

Turkish police found the girl's corpse after following up on an anonymous tip. The tipster told police that the family killed the girl shortly after deciding her fate at a family council meeting. Her body was then buried under a chicken pen.

The girl's family then reported her missing to the police. Police say that the girl had complained two months earlier that her grandfather beat her for talking to boys. Police, who identified the girl only by her initials, M.M., said she had significant amount of soil in her stomach and lungs, indicating she had been buried while still alive. "The autopsy result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl - who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood - was alive and fully conscious when she was buried," one source reported. Police have arrested the girl's father, mother and grandfather. The mother has been released, but the father and grandfather remain in jail awaiting trial. The case is expected to bring highlight the issue of so-called "honor" killings in Turkey. Official statistics show that more than 200 such killings occur each year, accounting for nearly half of all murders in Turkey.

This weekend was glorious. Danita Kilcullen and Jack Gillies of Tea Party Fort Lauderdale invited me to speak to their dynamic organization this past Saturday. The event sold out, and so many notables and great patriots were in attendance.

Photo: Karen Vaughn speaks as Danita Kilcullen looks on. Eric Vaughn's photo in the background

Karen and Billy Vaughn, parents of fallen Navy Seal Eric Vaughn, were there. Karen and Billy were part of the press conference last month that revealed that military brass invited a Muslim cleric to their children’s funeral in 2011 — an imam who "damned to hell" our fallen soldiers. Video here.

NAVY SEAL TEAM VI FAMILIES TO REVEAL GOVERNMENT’S CULPABILITY IN DEATH OF THEIR SONS IN FATAL HELICOPTER CRASH IN AFGHANISTAN FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL RAID ON BIN LADEN’S COMPOUND

• Obama and Joe Biden improperly revealed the identities of the Navy SEALs who were on the mission to assassinate Osama bin Laden, thereby putting “a target” on the backs of the SEALs.
• The Chinook helicopter was “inadequate,” as was its pilot.
• When the Chinook was attacked by the Taliban, our side “couldn’t return fire” and was “handcuffed.”
• At the funeral in Bagram Airfield in Kabul, Afghanistan, for our servicemen, Jesus’ name couldn’t be mentioned but instead an imam prayed.

The Vaughns have started a remarkable organization for children who lost their fathers in the war, Operation 300. It is a non-profit foundation designed to create a week-long experience for children who have lost their fathers as a result of service to our country. The camp provides these childen with the opportunity to participate in activities that embody the spirit of adventure that characterized the lives of their absent fathers, while fostering a culture of courage, strength, freedom, endurance, honor and godly morality embodied by fearless patriots throughout the history of our American Republic. 

Please contribute to this extraordinary cause here.

The event was powerful. It followed the Florida premiere of Hating Breitbart, where I introduced the film maker, Andrew Marcus (below). Maura Flynn, the film's producer, is to his right.

Bumper sticker in the movie parking lot.

Also in attendance was South Florida talk show favorite Joyce Kaufman, Doug Giles and his daughters, "Clapper Memo" author Bob McCarty, Band of Mothers leader Bev Perlson, J Mark Campbell, Tom Trento, Jack Oliver, and so many others. Special mention to Jeannie Morris -- SIOA Florida -- who helps me enormously.

I will post the video if someone uploads it. I was blown away when two signs of my Atlas banner were auctioned off.  Close to $3,000 was raised for our ad campaigns. When Big Fur Hat of IOTW suggested it, I laughed. It was his idea of auction off a signed Atlas banner. And he was right. New ads go up in San Francisco this week, thanks to these wonderful people. Special props to  J. Mark Campbell for raising the bidding -- it was  a brilliant moment.

More and more accommodation ......

REPORT: University of Chicago removed pews from 88-year old chapel to accommodate Islamic prayers Campus Forum, June 10, 2013 (hat tip snake)

University of Chicago (UC) administrators permanently removed pews from an 88-year old chapel on campus in order to accommodate Islamic prayers, according to a local news report.

A photograph of the chapel before the pews were removed last year.

Chicago NPR affiliate, WBEZ news, reported on May 23, the pews, which are now part of display at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, were “removed in order to provide Muslim students a place to pray.”

Literature describing the artwork that was created by UC Director of Arts and Public Life Theaster Gates, also describes the removal of the pews as symbol of religious tolerance.

“The pews were recently removed from the chapel in order to offer Muslim students a place to pray, a symbolic gesture of religious tolerance,” according to an official description of the exhibit which includes a “set of repurposed pews from the University of Chicago’s campus church.”

A spokesperson for UC also appeared to confirm the reason for the pews’ removal in a statement emailed to Campus Reform on Friday.

“The benches were removed... to make Bond Chapel a more appropriate comfortable space for its many uses: ceremonial, spiritual, and artistic,” said Susie Allen.

Allen, however, said the primary purpose for the change, which was part of a broader renovation, was to “accommodate the installation of a Boroque-style organ.”

The UC Muslim Student Association (MSA) also announced in its 2012-2013 edition of The Complete Muslims Guide to UChicago that Friday prayers would be held in the chapel once renovation was complete.

“Bond Chapel is where Friday prayers will be held once construction is over,” it says.

“Insha'Allah, Jumuah prayer will be held in Bond Chapel every Friday this quarter,” reads another announcement on the MSA Chicago website. 

Free Speech Battle in Small-Town Tennessee Robert Spencer, FrontPage Magazine

Last Tuesday, Bill Killian, U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Tennessee, FBI Special Agent Kenneth Moore, and Zak Mohyuddin of the American Muslim Advisory Council hosted an event called “Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society” in the town of Manchester, Tennessee. My American Freedom Defense Initiative colleague Pamela Geller and I called for a protest of what was clearly an event designed to intimidate Americans into being afraid to criticize the elements of Islam that give rise to violence and supremacism – and patriots turned out in numbers far beyond what we expected.

Nearly 2,000 protesters assembled at the Manchester Convention Center to register their disapproval of this latest Obama Administration attempt to silence criticism of jihad and Islamic supremacism, and to stigmatize the critics. When the event started, the room was filled way beyond capacity, with people filling the aisles and standing in the doorways – while many hundreds more continued to rally outside and wait for news of what went on.

The event, predictably, was all about hate crimes, hate speech, and how Tennesseans needed to be more inclusive and welcoming of the increasing numbers of Muslims in their midst. Mohyuddin, Killian and Moore all spoke with extraordinary condescension to the crowd, as if it were taken for granted that their only reason for being suspicious of Muslims was the color of their skin (Killian said exactly that) and cultural differences. The audience, however, was having none of it, and frequently shouted responses to the various (and numerous) disingenuous and manipulative assertions coming from the speakers.

That gave the mainstream media their take on the event. In a peculiar move coming from those who would seem to have a good bit to lose if the freedom of speech were entirely subverted, mainstream media reporting on the event uniformly portrayed the pro-free speech protesters as a gang of racist, bigoted thugs, shouting down the valiant paladins of tolerance.

Nicole Young’s report in the generally hopeless Nashville paper, The Tennessean, was a case in point: “The interruptions,” it claimed, “were so intense at times that attendee Elaine Smith, 55, of Bedford County, said she was afraid of other audience members. ‘I came here because I wanted to learn something … but I couldn’t hear because the audience was so disrespectful,’ she said. ‘I cried when I got here. It makes me really sad especially because these people say they’re Christians. The God I worship doesn’t teach hate.’”

The claim that someone in the crowd was “afraid” of the other audience members, as if these patriots who came out to defend the freedom of speech were some gang of menacing thugs, bent on silencing their foes by force, was utterly preposterous – this was not, after all, a meeting of United Against Fascism or some other genuinely thuggish Leftist group. But this, of course, is how the mainstream media always portray those who oppose jihad and Islamic supremacism, and the facts be damned.

Pamela Geller’s questions are apposite: “The enemedia supporting the suppression and restriction of free speech in America presents an interesting paradox. Are they so clueless or self-important that they think they will be spared? Didn’t the Obama administration spying on the AP and other news organizations teach them anything?” Good questions for Nicole Young to ponder.

The Tennessean report, like Bill Killian, Kenneth Moore, and Zak Mohyuddin at the “Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society” event, completely ignores the genuine concern that people have about jihad and Islamic supremacist activity, and the fact that Muslim groups (aided and abetted by Barack Obama) use claims of “hate” and “bigotry” to shut down honest discussion of how jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism.

Killian and Moore expatiated at length about how “inflammatory” speech could violate civil rights laws, and how Arab and Muslim children were being taunted in school, and how Tennesseans should be more welcoming. But no one, of course, was there to defend the taunting of Muslim or Arab schoolchildren. No one was there because he hated foreigners. No one was there to defend sending people violent threats. The protesters turned out in such unexpectedly high numbers because they knew that truthful and accurate exploration of Islam’s violent teachings has been deemed “inflammatory” by both Muslim groups and the Obama regime — and that leaves us unable to examine the motives and goals of jihad terrorists, or to defend ourselves adequately against them. That’s why everyone was so upset with Killian, Moore, and Mohyuddin, but the media were either oblivious to that fact or intent on ignoring it.

One wonders who decided to hold an event like this in small-town Tennessee, rather than some higher-profile area, in the first place. Did the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s office think that their new suggestion that civil rights laws could be used to silence criticism of Islam would escape notice if it were held in a place that is usually outside the relentless gaze of the mainstream media? Did they hope to float a trial balloon and see if their anti-free speech initiative would be met with indifference and complacency in Manchester, Tennessee, which might be an indication that it wouldn’t encounter serious resistance in Nashville or Dallas or New York or Washington, either?

Whatever the real reason may be, their efforts failed. The patriots who came to the Manchester event demonstrated to the Obama Administration that their efforts to subvert the First Amendment will not go unchallenged. That evening showed that the children and heirs of those who were responsible for the Boston Tea Party and other manifestations of resistance to tyranny have not all become willfully ignorant and complacent. And resist tyranny we will, once again.

People Power Against the Department of Justice Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media, June 7, 2013

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and its allies, the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Southern Poverty Law Center, are on the defensive after thousands of people turned out in Tennessee on Tuesday night to protest a scheme to censor criticism of Islam.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a key component of a network of Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the U.S., called the turnout a “mob” and praised the Obama/Holder Justice Department for standing up to local residents.

CAIR said “a large group of protesters heckled and interrupted speeches by Bill Killian, U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Tennessee, and by Kenneth Moore, FBI special agent in charge of the Eastern Tennessee District.”

In fact, the DOJ had provoked the reaction by announcing beforehand that people using the Internet to criticize Muslims might be prosecuted for civil rights violations and that the meeting on “public discourse in a free society” in Tennessee would examine this alleged problem.

Killian had announced in advance that he would address “how civil rights can be violated by those who post inflammatory documents targeted at Muslims on social media.”

In order to explain how the censorship campaign would work, Killian and the local FBI agent, Kenneth Moore, had worked with the American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) to schedule the event at the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center in Manchester, Tennessee, on the night of June 4.

The center was completely filled, however, and hundreds more had to rally outside, where Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who co-founded Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), spoke to the crowd. Videos show Geller and Spencer rallying the people on behalf of freedom of expression.

“I talked with many of the people who had driven hours to get to the rally—a farmer and his son, an orthodox Jewish family, World War II veterans and many more,” said James Lafferty, chairman of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force (VAST), who was on the scene. “They all said the same thing—the Justice Department is trying to curtail free speech by promising increased scrutiny of any Internet posts which mention Islam.”

He said the angry reactions inside the conference center followed “a heavy dose of jihadist propaganda by the AMAC folks.”

He explained, “A long video about Islam in Shelbyville, Tennessee, followed the usual B movie story line—Muslims come to town, ignorant locals react badly. Muslims demonstrate that they are honorable and just, ignorant locals and Muslims are now the best of friends and there is a lesson here for anyone else who doubts Islam’s noble intentions.”

He said the film footage of a few angry people at the June 4 event “gave the stereotypical ‘angry mob’ scenario for the hostile media,” but that Killian’s presentation was itself “very condescending and provocative” because of the implication that local residents had no right to complain about the spread of radical Islam in their state.

An Islamic Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee features “Strong Islamic studies,” a term that implies Sharia, or Islamic law.

Lafferty said it was entirely predictable that when Killian mentioned the name of the Attorney General, Eric Holder, who is neck-deep in several scandals, people in the audience booed. “Every mention of Holder had the same effect,” he noted.

Killian’s speech, Lafferty said, was that “Muslims are misunderstood and they are no different than you or me” and any criticism of Islam is “hate-mongering and bigotry.”

“The biggest story of the event was the crowd,” Lafferty said. While some people were angry and animated in their reactions to Killian’s lecture on “hate crimes,” he said there was intimate knowledge of Islamic practices and that when Muslim speakers at the podium with Killian talked about Islam as a peaceful religion which valued good citizenship, people interrupted with the word “takiya,” a reference to the Islamic concept of deception.

However, CAIR and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) insisted that local residents, as well as Geller and Spencer, were at fault for reacting to the DOJ campaign against the First Amendment. This became the story line of much of the coverage of the event.

The SPLC works hand-in-glove with the Obama/Holder Justice Department, smearing opponents of radical Islam as “Islamophobes.”

But Lafferty of VAST said the focus was “that a special meeting was being conducted to talk about the Department of Justice’s commitment to protect the rights of one religious group—Islam.”

Lafferty and others question why the Justice Department has singled out Muslims for special protection and that such a practice reflects adherence to Sharia, or Islamic law, over and above American law and the Constitution.

He noted that the DOJ based this meeting on the fact that a local Tennessee politician had posted a stupid gag on Facebook about targeting Muslims, and that the incident was “being used as the pushing off point for Justice to scrutinize every statement about Islam on the Internet.”

“Both Pamela Geller and the incomparable Robert Spencer spoke brilliantly about free speech and the threat posed to it by government suppression,” Lafferty said.

Iraq hit by wave of bombings; dozens dead. Jihadists struck cities across Iraq on Monday with car bombs, suicide attacks and gun battles....

....... officials blame much of the violence that has killed nearly 2,000 people since April on Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda's local wing.

Most of the apparently coordinated violence hit the north of the country and included at least eight suicide blasts and gun battles at military bases or checkpoints.

Iraq-Based Jihadi Group Ansar Al-Islam Launches Official Twitter Account

On June 3, 2013, Ansar Al-Islam, a jihadi group based in Iraq, announced it had launched an official Twitter account, @ansar_al_islam, in order to "expand its distribution scope through various certified platforms." According to the announcement, which was posted on the leading jihadi forum Al-Fida', the new account was named after Abdalla Khlaifani, a martyred commander, to "recognize his status."

"All statements, productions, etc. which are published [in this account]," the announcement states, "will be official and issued by the group."

And the thing is, they are. Muslims from around the world -- the US, Europe, Africa, Asia -- are joining the jihad in Syria to fight for Islamic conquest and supremacism. Religious minorities are being annihilated by the jihadists, and yet another nation will fall to this brutal and bloody ideology.

Obama is aiding the jihadists; McCain is sneaking into Syria to pose for pics with them. The former is complicit, the latter is clueless. The outcome is the same.

Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri Calls Upon Muslims To Join The Jihad In Syria As Means To Restore Caliphate, Defy U.S., Liberate Palestine MEMRI

In a 23-minute audio message titled "65 Years after the Creation of the Occupying State of Israel," Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri calls the creation of Israel a crime and attacks the US for its consistent support of this country. He also urges Muslims to join the jihad in Syria in order to free Palestine and restore the Islamic Caliphate.

Online jihad operatives associated with Jabhat Al-Nusra interpreted the message's content as the Al-Qaeda leader's arbitration in the dispute regarding the effort by Al-Qaeda in Iraq to incorporate Jabhat Al-Nusra into the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. They contend that Al-Zawahiri's message officially divided between the Syrian and Iraqi jihad arenas, and allowed Jabhat Al-Nusra to maintain its organizational independence.

The following are the main points of Al-Zawahiri's message, which was released on June 5, 2013 by Al-Qaeda's media company Al-Sahab and was posted on leading jihadi forums.

Syrian Opposition Sources: Nephew Of Nouri Al-Maliki Killed Fighting On Behalf Of Regime In Syria

In recent days Syrian opposition sources reported on Facebook that the nephew of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki had died while fighting in Damascus on behalf of the Syrian regime, and that his body had arrived in Iraq. Members of the Jihadi forum Al-Fida cited these reports.

A female member on the forum cited a report that was published May 31, 2013 on the Facebook page "'Umawi Live Syria" under the heading: “The Nephew of the Rafidi Zoroastrian Iraqi Prime Minister Has Been Trampled in Al-Saida Zainab [Tomb] in Damascus."