This is much-needed and long overdue. "This joint committee will hold their FIRST meeting on August 21st, at 9:00 am in Room 16 at Legislative Plaza.  It is VITAL that we demonstrate support for the important work of this committee by filling the room with folks that support the 10th Amendment.  The first issue that the committee will take up is the FEDERAL COST SHIFTING OF THE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM. Please make your plans to attend!!"

Tennessee reasserting its rights under the Tenth Amendment, establishes committee, first order of business Refugee Resettlement by Ann Corcoran, Refugee Resettlement Watch, August 17, 2013

Nashville: Legislative Plaza where citizens will reassert their State’s rights on Wednesday, August 21st.  Tennessee patriots need you there!

Update August 20th:  Open borders gang plans to be there in force, here. Also, apologies—I had said in my earlier version of this post that the big meeting is Thursday, that’s wrong it is Wednesday (tomorrow!).

Tennessee is likely the first state in the Nation to set up a model plan for regaining its State’s rights.

Surely some other states are doing their best to begin to wrest control from an over-reaching federal government, but none are coming out of the chute attempting to get under control the federal Refugee Resettlement Program where the US State Department and non-governmental contractors have foisted on the states the cost of caring for destitute people from the third world.

When the framers crafted the 10th Amendment, they surely never dreamed Washington would encroach on the states to the extent it has.

Here is what the 10th Amendment says:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

And surely, the framers could never have imagined a Federal Refugee program placing a financial and social burden on the citizens of certain states.

History will be made on Wednesday, August 21st in Nashville, TN

Below is an action alert from the Tennessee Eagle Forum which I’m posting in its entirety (emphasis is mine).

First for background on the new legislative committee:

Legislators and their constituents have long expressed concerns about the interactions and affects of  federal actions on the manner in which our state government operates, or which could have a potential impact on the rights and privileges of the citizens of Tennessee.

Many had been wrestling  for some time with the best way to address this very important issue of providing  an established venue to examine these actions.

Rep. Judd Matheny (who came up with idea) and Sen. Mike Bell, Chairmen of the respective Senate and House Government Operations Committees went to the respective speakers seeking their support  to establish a subcommittee of the Joint Government Operations Committee that would be authorized to review both introduced and enacted federal legislation, rules and regulations and executive orders, then report any relevant findings to the speakers, members of the General Assembly and Congressional delegation. Then decisions could be made about what actions might be appropriate moving forward.

Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and Speaker Beth Harwell agreed to this plan and the subcommittee was established.  As far as we know, Tennessee is the first state to provide this kind of venue for the review of federal actions.  We can only hope that other states will follow our lead!  You can read the letter of authorization HERE.

Members of this committee are:
Rep. Judd Matheny, Chairman, Rep. John Ragan, Rep. Joe Carr, Rep. Josh Evans, Rep. Mike Turner, Sen. Mike Bell, Sen. Janice Bowling, Sen. Ferrell Haile, Sen. Thelma Harper, Sen. Jim Summerville.

This joint committee will hold their FIRST meeting on August 21st, at 9:00 am in Room 16 at Legislative Plaza.  It is VITAL that we demonstrate support for the important work of this committee by filling the room with folks that support the 10th Amendment.  The first issue that the committee will take up is the FEDERAL COST SHIFTING OF THE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM. Please make your plans to attend!!

Refugee Resettlement has been a hot-button issue and glaring example of where Tennesseans believe the federal government has gone too far. 

The Tennessee Eagle Forum alert continues:

At what level of taxpayer support for an entity do we stop calling that entity a “non-government organization” or a “religious nonprofit”?

Revenue in 2011 for Migration and Refugee Services, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) refugee contracting arm, was more than $72 million, about 98 percent of which came from the taxpayer in the form of government grants or federal contracts. Would it surprise anyone to find it subject to the same incentives and laws of behavior that have driven federal contractors since the birth of the republic?

USCCB’s main source of contracts and grants comes from refugee resettlement. The U.S. resettles nearly three times the refugees as the rest of the industrialized world combined, and the USCCB wants that number increased.

According to a recent report from the Washington think tank Migration Policy Institute (MPI), publicly funded private resettlement agencies, USCBB being the largest of nine, “meet with state and local agencies on a quarterly basis regarding the opportunities and services available to refugees in local communities and the ability of these communities to accommodate new arrivals. They also consult with the state refugee coordinator on placement plans for each local site. … If a state opposes the plan, the State Department will not approve it.”   [LOL! In theory!—ed}

A July 2012 GAO report was a little more real world than the MPI report stating that “Most resettlement agencies … consult with some public entities such as state refugee coordinators; however, most public entities such as public schools and health departments generally said that agencies notified them of the number of refugees expected to arrive in the coming year, but did not consult them regarding the number of refugees they could serve…”

Both reports assume a state government role in the resettlement process. The state refugee coordinator evaluates the plans of the private contractors, representing the interests of the taxpayer in the process. That’s the way it is supposed to work, in theory.

In Tennessee, however, the state refugee coordinator is an employee of Catholic Charities, an affiliate of USCCB. Resettlement of the U.N.-selected refugees is Tennessee Catholic Charities’ largest mission and largest revenue item by far.

In 2008, Gov. Phil Bredesen thought he was streamlining the process and saving money by outsourcing the state coordinator function to the contractor. Instead, he gave up the opportunity for the state to have any input in a process that affects the state and set up a textbook illustration of a conflict of interest.

The annual cost of the program to Tennesseans went up immediately after the state handed over the position of state refugee coordinator. Today, Metro Nashville alone resettles more refugees than each of 29 states in the U.S.

Read on!  This is the op-ed published by Don Barnett in The Tennessean ten days ago.

If you are anywhere near Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday, please give your support to the work of the citizen activists and attend this important and history-making event!

For more information on Tennessee, and Nashville specifically, please see our “Nashville” category.  And, be sure to visit this post from this past February about how the contractors, the US State Department, and the religious Left are busy turning ‘red’ states ‘blue’ by changing the demographic make-up of its citizens.

It mirrors the geopolitical landscape during World War II, only this time the US is siding with the Nazis.

Saudi Foreign Minister Sau'd Al-Faisal: The West Is Covering Up And Even Encouraging The Crimes Of The Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt (MEMRI)

The UAE Foreign Minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan, has called for Gulf countries to unite against the Muslim Brotherhood because it “does not believe in the nation state. It does not believe in the sovereignty of the state.”

Allies vs. America in Egypt. Israel, Saudis and U.A.E. Support Military Moves (Wall Street Journal)

Israel warns US: Alienating Egyptian army could risk peace talks Jerusalem Post, August 20, 2013

Daily Beast quotes US senator as saying Obama administration has decided to temporarily suspend military aid to Egypt.

Israel has urged the US to back the Egyptian military, saying losing Egypt to Islamists could pose a risk the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

According to an Israeli official quoted by the paper, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have traditionally played an important role in providing the Palestinians the support to stay in the negotiations and to make concessions, and without them there is a chance the talks will fail.

The paper also reported on a parallel effort by Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to influence the US into backing the Egyptian military.

According to the report, Israel and the US’s Gulf allies are urging the Obama administration to encourage the Egyptian military to confront rather than reconcile with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Israel is interested in an Egyptian government that will aggressively fight the Islamists in the Sinai Peninsula and protect the border, the report said.

The paper quotes an Israeli official as calling anti-Muslim Brotherhood nations “the axis of reason.”

The head of the Israeli-Palestinian Center for Research and Information, Gershon Baskin, is quoted by the paper as saying Israel’s leaders view Islamist president Mohamed Morsi’s overthrow as “an opportune time to give a real blow to political Islam throughout the region and get the more sensible people back in power.”

Allies vs. America in Egypt.  Israel, Saudis and U.A.E. Support Military Moves (Wall Street Journal)

The U.S.'s closest Middle East allies are undercutting American policy in Egypt, encouraging the military to confront the Muslim Brotherhood rather than reconcile, U.S. and Arab officials said.

Egyptian security forces detained backers of ousted President Mohammed Morsi last week in Cairo.

The parallel efforts by Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have blunted U.S. influence with Egypt's military leadership and underscored how the chaos there has pulled Israel into ever-closer alignment with those Gulf states, officials said.

A senior Israeli official called the anti-Muslim Brotherhood nations "the axis of reason."

The Obama administration first had sought to persuade Egyptian military leader Gen. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi not to overthrow the elected government of President Mohammed Morsi and then to reconcile with his Muslim Brotherhood base.

Gen. Sisi has done the opposite—orchestrating the president's overthrow and a crackdown in which over 900 people have been killed since Wednesday—reflecting his apparent confidence in the Egyptian government's ability to weather an American backlash, U.S. and Arab officials said.

Early Tuesday, state television reported the arrest of Mohammed Badie, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, after security forces detained him in an apartment in the Nasr City district of Cairo.

American officials have voiced frustration with the stance of their regional allies but also played down the broader impact on relations with them. The U.S. relies heavily on Israel and the Gulf states in other critical areas including countering Iran and al Qaeda, containing the civil war in Syria and backing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

"Our ability to influence the outcome in Egypt is limited," said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, the U.S.'s main interlocutor with Gen. Sisi.

U.S. sway in Egypt has long been underpinned by military aid, some of which has been dialed back since Mr. Morsi's ouster and the violence. The U.S. froze the transfer of F-16 fighters and canceled a military exercise.

But U.S. aid amounts, even before these moves, have been dwarfed by new pledges from Arab powers.

Mr. Hagel sought to play down the influence of others. "All nations are limited in their influence in another nation's internal issues," he said.

Neither Saudi Arabia nor the U.A.E. recognize Israel or have formal diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. What unites the three countries is a series of common interests, in particular countering Iran, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Diplomats say the Saudis and the U.A.E. want to deal a blow to the Muslim Brotherhood and undercut the influence of the regional rivals that back them: Turkey and Qatar.

Israel wants an Egyptian government that will aggressively fight Islamists and protect the border. Its leaders see Mr. Morsi's ouster as "an opportune time to give a real blow to political Islam throughout the region and get the more sensible people back in power," said Gershon Baskin, head of the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, a Jerusalem based think tank that advocates for a two-state solution.

Israel isn't coordinating directly with the Gulf states, whereas Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. are coordinating closely, Middle Eastern officials said.

U.S. officials said they underestimated the extent to which the Saudis and the Emirates would double-down in support of the Egyptian military.

Before the military intervened on July 3, Mr. Hagel and other officials tried to persuade Gen. Sisi to give Mr. Morsi more time to engage his opponents. U.S. officials said that message was undermined by Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., which encouraged the generals not to back down.

Secretary of State John Kerry tried to put the Saudis and Emirates "on the same page" as the U.S. both before and after Mr. Morsi's ouster, a senior administration official said. "But clearly they have their own decisions to make about their own policies," the official said.

The message from the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia to the Egyptian generals was, " 'Go get 'em,' and they backed it up with billions of dollars," another senior administration official said.

U.S. officials say the Israeli position isn't as firm, reflecting fears the Egyptian military crackdown could spark an Islamist insurgency that could erode Israeli security. Nonetheless, Israel is pushing Washington not to cut off military support to Egypt, arguing that would jeopardize counterterrorism cooperation and the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace accords.

"Only after stability is restored, only after law and order is enforced, only then can you start to talk about launching a process that leads to more democratic processes," said the senior Israeli official.

When the Egyptian army overthrew Mr. Morsi, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the U.A.E. put together what Gulf analysts called a $12 billion "Marshall Program" aid package. The Saudis transferred the first $2 billion of their $5 billion pledge to Egypt's central bank within days.

That eclipsed the U.S.'s $1.5 billion a year in aid, which comes with strings attached. In light of the overthrow and the subsequent violence, the White House has suspended a shipment of F-16 fighter planes and a military exercise with Egypt.

A decision is expected to freeze a shipment of Apache helicopters to Egypt as soon as this week, according to U.S. officials. Other war materiel, most importantly spare parts, continues to flow from the U.S. to the Egyptian military.

A senior Egyptian official said U.S. economic assistance to Cairo, around $400 million in 2013, looks paltry in comparison with the Arab states' largess, though he recognized the importance of the larger military aid. The official cited "the frustration we've had with aid being used by the U.S. and others as a means to put pressure on Egypt."

Saudi King Abdullah has stepped up the Kingdom's support for what he called Egypt's fight against "terrorism and extremism." President Barack Obama has criticized the crackdown, a message repeated by Mr. Hagel on Monday.

The Obama administration believes the Brotherhood can't be eliminated by force and has warned Gen. Sisi that the crackdown would drive hard-line Islamists underground and possibly ignite a civil war.

Senior Arab officials said Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states haven't been subtle in raising their concerns to the U.S. about what they see as the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood. For much the same reasons, these Mideast powers also opposed Mr. Obama's decision in February 2011 to back the ouster of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak.

This year, a string of Arab leaders, including King Abdullah II of Jordan, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal and the U.A.E's crown prince met with Mr. Obama to press the U.S. to be more wary of the Brotherhood's activities, according to U.S. and Arab officials briefed on the meetings. Arab officials said they told the White House that they were worried that the U.S. is pulling back from their region, and that they can't wait for Washington to be more aggressive in trying to dictate events.

"I don't think that Washington is really in the conversation" on Egypt in a significant way, said a senior Arab official. "We're not going to wait for the U.S. and the Europeans to decide to get more involved."

Don't miss my latest column at Breitbart:

Egypt Moves Against Al Jazeera as CNN Reporters Embrace It by Pamela Geller, Breitbart

The Egyptian Cabinet has “assigned competent authorities to assess the legal status of Al Jazeera,” accusing it of threatening stability and national security. At the same time, CNN veterans Joie Chen and Soledad O'Brien “will lend star power and journalistic gravitas to U.S. offshoot of Qatar-based broadcaster.”

Was there ever a clearer indication of which side the mainstream media is on, or how richly it deserves the sobriquet “enemedia” that I have given it? But it’s true: the New York Daily News report that “CNN vets Joie Chen and Soledad O’Brien are lending their big names to the in-depth documentary show ‘America Tonight,’ and former NBC journalist John Seigenthaler will anchor prime-time’s ‘Nightly News.’”

Chen said: “I really saw it as a completely different kind of opportunity.” The Daily News added that Chen “signed up as anchor for what has been billed as the station’s flagship program after network brass pitched her a show in which storytelling and good journalism would trump sensationalism and fiery opinions.”

Pimps for jihad.

The Egyptian cabinet, of all people, is now exposing terror TV Al Jazeera, while CNN reporters rush to sign on. The ministry of propaganda for the Muslim Brotherhood is being exposed for the jihadist propaganda machine it is by unexpected sources, while the American mainstream media unmasks itself.

The fact is that the U.S. government should designate Al Jazeera a terrorist organization, in the same way that it designated Al Manar (Hezb'Allah TV) a terror organization. What’s the difference between the two?

Al Jazeera is the leading terrorist propaganda organization in the world. Then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the broadcaster’s reporting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable,” and President George W. Bush joked about bombing it.

Jihad murder mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki has praised Al Jazeera, and several years ago one of its most prominent reporters was arrested on terror charges. Al Jazeera also has for years been the recipient of numerous al-Qaida videos featuring Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and American traitor Adam Gadahn.

Al Jazeera members have also provided material support for jihad terrorism. Tayseer Allouni, their correspondent in Afghanistan who interviewed Osama bin Laden following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was sent to prison for being an agent of al-Qaida. Al Jazeera’s first managing director, Mohammed Jassem al-Ali, was exposed as an agent of the Saddam Hussein regime, and the channel promoted the bloody jihad against American forces in Iraq.

Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media has been reporting for over six years the anti-American channel works hand-in-glove with the Muslim Brotherhood and its associated terrorist groups, including al-Qaida and Hamas. Nothing has changed. In fact, Al Jazeera has become more open about its work as a foreign policy instrument of Qatar, including the promotion of al-Qaida-linked terrorist groups in Syria.

As we watch Al Jazeera’s large-scale glossy roll-out in the American market, consider this propaganda video for a jihad terror group. The video is from Latakia in Syria, where Islamic jihadists seized several Alawite and took dozens of women and children hostage. The jihadist featured in the video is a well-known Islamic militant from Germany, and the news crew that he appears to be coordinating and working with is (of course) Al Jazeera.

What seems to be happening here, in my view, is that Al Jazeera is coordinating and working with jihad groups, including those designated as terrorist groups by the State Department, while they commit what appear to be war crimes.

How much more proof do we need to keep the Muslim Brotherhood Ministry of Propaganda off American airwaves? At least 22 staffers at the Al Jazeera network in Egypt have quit in protest of the pro-jihad network’s coverage. The staffers who have quit assert that Al Jazeera brass forced them to take a pro-Muslim Brotherhood stance on the air during the recent anti-Muslim Brotherhood uprising in Egypt.

This jihadist ministry of propaganda is being challenged in Muslim countries, but leftist lords like Al Gore are bringing this seditious poison to American airwaves.

If you missed the video of my remarks about keeping Al Jazeera off American airwaves, go here. It isn’t too late: urge the House Homeland Security Committee to convene hearings into the national security threat posed by Al Jazeera on American soil by calling 202-226-8417.

We are at war. And there are many theaters in any given war, but the war in the information battle-space is key to conquest and colonization. The Muslim Brotherhood understands this. It has its own ministry of propaganda: Al Jazeera. Muhammad said, “War is deceit.”

Good observations on Seattle Transit's sharia enforcement:

"Senseless in Seattle: Pamela Geller anti-terror ad causes new fireworks" by Joe Saunders, Biz Pac Review, August 19, 2013

Activist Pamela Geller is in a new tangle over public transportation advertising after Seattle Transit in King County, Wash., refused to run her ad showing the FBI’s most wanted terrorists – an ad identical in all meaningful ways to one it accepted a month ago.

In an article posted on Breitbart.com, Geller writes that Seattle Transit turned down ads her American Freedom Defense Initiative wanted to put on the system’s buses to replace similar ads the FBI had purchased but then removed because of political pressure from Seattle’s Democrat congressman Jim McDermott.

The 16 “Most Wanted Terrorists” featured on the ad are all Muslims, from various parts of the world, including the United States, according to Geller’s account.

That fact, and Seattle Transit’s policies of political correctness, make the ad unacceptable, Geller wrote.

Seattle Transit informed Geller’s group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, that it would not take the ad because it violated the transit system’s advertising policies in three ways: that it was “false or misleading”; that it was “demeaning or disparaging”; and that it was “harmful or disruptive.”

Two out of three of these reasons are nonsense, Geller writes. The ad is true – the 16 men pictured in it are the FBI’s most wanted terrorists. The ad is only demeaning or disparaging to a group of people only in that they might share the same faith as those pictured, which is a little like saying a picture of Bernie Madoff as a con man is automatically demeaning to Jews.

The third reason is the one that counts, and it’s the worst reason of all.

Seattle Transit determined that the ad “so objectionable that it is reasonably foreseeable that it will result in harm to, disruption of or interference with the transportation system.”

“So, in other words,” Geller writes, “they won’t run this ad depicting the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists because those Most Wanted Terrorists might blow them up. And so Seattle bows down before the terrorists. It isn’t the first time, and won’t be the last.”

Geller’s incendiary approach to Islamic terrorism has gotten her into fights over advertising before, and she’s on the right side again. It’s a twisted logic that rejects material that accurately depicts some Muslims as being terrorists because it reflects badly other Muslims, while at the same time justifying the rejection as saying it could cause violence from other Muslims.

It’s classic liberalism in action again: denying reality at the same time as accepting it, and all the while denying you’re doing either.

There’s no other word for it. It’s crazy.

#MB Morsi supporters killed a taxi driver who had a Christian cross on his dashboard, then torched his taxi. #Egypt pic.twitter.com/VSbulptdBd

— Lisa Graas (@CatholicLisa) August 15, 2013

Is anyone out there waiting for Obama say, "If I had a son he would look like this taxidriver"?

Lisa Graas (hat tip Holly)

My friend Ahmad in Egypt sent this to me to show US media that the Egyptian people believe they were duped by Morsi and that they support their military. Please share this far and wide. The people of Egypt need our help in social media to get the truth out. They love their country, abhor bloodshed, and just want peace, freedom, and a good economy for their citizens. No more, no less.

Muslim Brotherhood, Geopolitical amnesia

Commentary: Arnaud de Borchgrave, UPI Editor-at-large

The “Big Cairo Fire” destroyed 30 banks and major companies, 13 hotels, 310 stores, 92 bars, 40 movie theaters, eight automobile showrooms. Not last week, but 61 years ago. And the arsonist was the same -- the Muslim Brotherhood.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The powers that be in the nation's capital, including the dominant media culture, are suffering from collective geopolitical amnesia.

CBS's Ned Calmer and this reporter (for Newsweek) arrived in Cairo Jan. 25, 1952, acting on a tip picked up in Tunis, that something "big" would soon take place in Cairo.

Next day, Cairo erupted in what became known as "Black Saturday" and the "Big Cairo Fire." It was huge. Some 300 buildings were torched, including the old Shepherd's Hotel where we were staying.

Martial law was decreed throughout Egypt. Losses to fire included 30 major companies and banks (including Barclays), 310 stores, 117 residential units, 92 bars, 73 coffee shops, 13 hotels, 40 movie theaters, either automobile showrooms, 10 weapons stores and 16 clubs.

Casualties were comparatively light -- 26 killed and 552 injured.

It was the handiwork of the banned Muslim Brotherhood. The plan was to create maximum chaos as a way of forcing a degenerate King Farouk and a weak coalition government to bow to the "religious saviors."

Three weeks before the big fire, Muslim Brotherhood terrorists torched three Christian churches in the Suez Canal zone, under British control until 1956. The Egyptians blamed the British, always reluctant to take on the Muslim Brotherhood.

The terrorists assigned to torch buildings were well-prepared. A jeep with four men pulled up in front of the gleaming modern Air France building. Alerted about what was already being set ablaze in other parts of Cairo, the French Ai France manager was hovering near the front door of his building with a bundle of dollars.

He noticed the arsonists were consulting a list and then looking up at the building. He raced down the steps and asked them in Arabic how much they had been paid to set fire to his building. Ten Egyptian pounds, they replied. He gave them each 50 and they drove off mission unaccomplished. It was one of the few modern buildings spared from the Big Cairo Fire.

The Turf Club, where King Farouk dropped in occasionally for a game of bridge, was also leveled. Fire engines were in desperate short supply, and many buildings burned to the ground.

By noon that day, we had made the rounds of several major fires and decided to walk back to the Shepherd's Hotel to write a story for Newsweek's Sunday deadline (moved eventually to Saturday for Monday publication).

By the time we got to the Shepherd's, it had been leveled almost to the ground by the fire. No typewriter, no clothes. Pandemonium in all directions. All communications with the outside world had been shut down. Ned Calmer and I then moved to the Semiramis Hotel on the Nile to figure out our next move.

Finally linked up with Newsweek's regular Middle Eastern correspondent, Sam Souki. My plan was to get a suit from anywhere that hadn't been torched, a tarboosh (truncated cone shaped cap with a tassel, also known as a fez), a dark suit, and an impressive Packard limo from the hotel.

I decided my best bet was to get to the Suez Canal zone and file from Tel el Kebir, a huge British base 110 kilometers northeast of Cairo and 75 south of Port Said. Partly hidden by a wide open Arabic newspaper I was pretending to read, an unlit cigar firmly clenched in my mouth, we drove off.

Ned Calmer suggested I would be stopped and turned back at the first roadblock on the way out of Cairo.

Comfortably ensconced in the back of my Packard, I peered around the paper to see why we weren't moving. I could see a few Egyptian soldiers in a small cluster, oblivious to what must have looked like an official car. We were waved on.

There was one more roadblock before speeding to the British Canal Zone. At the first British roadblock, a young British officer asked me who I was and when I replied "Newsweek's chief European correspondent based in Paris," he cast a skeptical look at my tarboosh and asked me to step out of the limo.

My passport didn't say I was a foreign correspondent and my SHAPE press credentials out of Paris were six months out of date.

Mercifully, there was a dog-eared copy of Newsweek in the officers' mess and a check of the masthead cleared me. My story about the Muslim Brotherhood's "Big Cairo Fire" was the only one that got out of Cairo that weekend.

More surprising is that the Muslim Brotherhood's Big Cairo fire circa 1952, didn't rate a mention in all the background stories about the current Cairo fires -- done by the same organization that is now cast as the misunderstood innocents who won an election fair and square only to be deprived of the spoils by a supreme commander, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Sisi was born in 1954, two years after Black Saturday in Cairo. But he knows that a Muslim Brotherhood government would be neither democratic nor enlightened. He has told visitors the Brotherhood would set Egypt back to the dark ages. The business community agrees.

Sisi also knows it was the Muslim Brotherhood upheaval in January 1952 that triggered seven months later the Free Officers military coup July 23 led by Gamal Abdel Nasser who abolished a totally corrupt monarchy and dispatched King Farouk on his yacht to exile on the French Riviera. And when Nasser died of heart disease Sept. 13, 1970, his deputy Anwar Sadat became president until assassins (Brotherhooders) gunned him down Oct. 6, 1981.

Sadat's successor, President Hosni Mubarak, was arrested in 2011, after almost 30 years in power. The Muslim Brotherhood was part of the group of Islamist extremists that advocated a trial -- and the death sentence. Mubarak may soon be a free.

It seems as if CNN and terror TV Al Jazeera are interchangeable. Ex-CNN Joie Chen & Soledad O'Brien to work/pimp for terror TV Al Jazeera  “I really saw it as a completely different kind of opportunity,” says Joie Chen, who signed up as anchor for what has been billed as the station’s flagship program after network brass pitched her a show in which storytelling and good journalism would trump sensationalism and fiery opinions. Pimps for jihad and Jew-hatred. 

Al-Jazeera Commentator, Former Muslim Brotherhood Official, Gamal Nassar: Al-Sisi Is Jewish, Implementing Protocols Of Elders Of Zion In Egypt

Following are excerpts from a statement made by Gamal Nassar, former media secretary to the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, which aired on the Al-Jazeera network on August 17, 2013.

Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV.

Gamal Nassar: "I was trying to figure out Al-Sisi's origins. I wanted to know more about him. I was surprised to learn, from the Algerian Al-Watan newspaper, that Al-Sisi is of Jewish origin. His mother is called Mulaika Titani, and her brother was a member of the Jewish Haganah organization. Thus, we see that this man, by any standard, is implementing a Zionist plan to divide Egypt.

[…]

"This man, who heads the armed forces today, is committing a crime, in the full sense of the word. Many massacres have taken place. In my opinion, if decisive measures are not taken, the massacres will continue. Al-Sisi has come to destroy everything.

[…]

"Within the framework of his plot, he wants to ignite civil war, in order to portray himself as trying to protect state institutions, while he, in fact, is the one who is burning them down. He portrays himself as trying to defend national security, while he, in fact, is undermining it. In short, he wants to set the state of Egypt ablaze.

"This is a Zionist plot, and I am willing to be held responsible for what I say. Whoever reads The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the writings of [the Jews], including those who were writing in the U.S., realizes that this plot was premeditated."

[…]

I am scheduled to speak in Toronto on September 17th with Robert Spencer. You may recall that back in April, I was scheduled to speak at the Toronto Chabad synagogue when the Rabbi was strongarmed by sharia-compliant police to cancel my event. The event was moved, and I spoke to a standing room only crowds (hundreds were turned away). And the police officer and chief that tried to shut down the event are currently under investigation.

Fast forward. We are scheduled to speak September 17th. Muslim Brotherhood groups, upon hearing that we would be speaking, went into Brotherhood mode, threatening, intimidating and spreading lies and libel in order to scare good folks into canceling this much-needed event. Here is the letter that was sent to the venue where the JDL is hosting the event:

The Muslim Brotherhood thugs are on a jihad against the truth. Truth begets hate -- CAIR defines that Latin axiom.

They go after everyone who does not submit to the blasphemy laws under the sharia. Their agenda is the same as that of the genocidal Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The brother of a CAIR leader in the US was killed fighting alongside the MB in Egypt in Thursday. This is war. And they are winning. No one is safe unless we fight back.

Muslim Brotherhood CAIR attempts to takes down anyone who resists.

The Jewish Defense League, the group that invited us, responded with this letter:

Obama is working for the Muslim Brotherhood. This is akin to FDR siding with the Nazis.

Via Fatima Aly of Egypt via "Voice of the Copts" FB page: (thanks to Holly)

Dear U.S. citizen and Aruban
Do you flow Egypt situation in Egypt last days
Do you know MB burned more than one hundred churches in Egypt
And burned 220 Houses and shops of the Copts
Terrorism killed more 1000 peoples Civilians and police
Despite all this, Obama and EU support Terrorism of the Muslim Brotherhood
Interestingly that al-Qaeda and the Taliban also support MB terrorism
That means USA, EU, Taliban and al-Qaeda in the same side one hand
Does your conscience relieved, are you happy with your government policy

Senator: Obama Administration Secretly Suspended Military Aid to Egypt The Daily Beast, August 19, 2013

The White House hasn’t officially called Egypt’s military takeover a coup. But it has nonetheless quietly put a hold on military aid to the country, Josh Rogin reports exclusively.

The U.S. government has decided privately to act as if the military takeover of Egypt was a coup, temporarily suspending most forms of military aid, despite deciding not to announce publicly a coup determination one way or the other, according to a leading U.S. senator.

In the latest example of its poorly understood Egypt policy, the Obama administration has decided to temporarily suspend the disbursement of most direct military aid, the delivery of weapons to the Egyptian military, and some forms of economic aid to the Egyptian government while it conducts a broad review of the relationship. The administration won’t publicly acknowledge all aspects of the aid suspension and maintains its rhetorical line that no official coup determination has been made, but behind the scenes, extensive measures to treat the military takeover of Egypt last month as a coup are being implemented on a temporary basis.

More pearls of wisdom from Obama's favorite antisemite. Islamic Jew-hatred - it's in the quran.

Turkish Prime Minister: Israel Behind Egypt Coup By Ari Soffer, Israel National News 8/20/2013 

Recep Tayyip Erdogan's latest comments entirely consistent with a history of anti-Semitic remarks and conspiracy theories.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Israel is behind the removal of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi by the Egyptian military.

“Israel is behind the coup in Egypt, we have evidence,” Erdogan declared to members of his party meeting in Ankara on Tuesday, according to the Turkish Today's Zaman.

Erdogan reportedly cited an unnamed French intellectual who he claims said in 2011 that the Muslim Brotherhood won’t be in power even if they are elected because “democracy is not the ballot box.” Erdogan stressed that the intellectual was Jewish, the implications of which are consistent with a long string of anti-Semitic comments and conspiracy theories issued by the Islamist Prime Minister, whose AKP party is sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood

Last month, in reference to both the upheaval in Egypt and anti-government protests in his own country, Erdogan stated cryptically that:

“The origin of the incidents in both countries is the same. I will declare what that origin is when the time comes. It is saved in our memory cards."

The previous month he claimed that “those against whom we said ‘one minute’ are now delighted,” at the unrest in Turkey. Erdogan was referencing his reaction to Israeli President Shimon Peres during the 2009 Davos Forum, in which he uttered "one minute" before storming off stage. That incident preceded a serious diplomatic crisis between the two countries, as Edogan's Islamist government sided with Hamas during Israel's Operation Cast Lead counter-terrorism operation.

Erdogan added that "even if not in such a manner, we had foreseen these events as a series of conspiracies three months ago. We had received some intelligence reports."

But Erdogan and his associates have made far more overtly anti-Semitic statements as well.

Erdogan's Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay previously claimed that the “Jewish Diaspora” was behind the "Gezi Square" protests in Turkey.

In 1998, the Jewish Policy Research reported that Erdogan, who was serving as mayor of Istanbul at the time, stated that: “the Jews have begun to crush the Muslims in Palestine, in the name of Zionism. Today, the image of the Jews is no different than that of the Nazis.” 

Apart from anti-Semitism, Erdogan - the leader of a NATO-member state and a man US President Obama has described as one of the few leaders with whom he has developed bonds of trust - has also made overtly racist remarks about black people.

In June, Commentator Magazine reported Erdogan's criticism of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the center-left and secular Republican Peoples Party (CHP).

Using an offensive term for black people ("Zenci") Erdogan said:

“Kılıçdaroğlu is striving every bit he can to raise himself from the level of a black person to the level of a white man.”