A Man and a Message Whose Time Has Come
K.E. Campbell:
If Mark Levin isn’t the leading conservative of the day, he’s certainly one of them. I contend he is the most articulate and sagacious renowned conservative. A debate between Levin and Barack Obama would be something to behold.
Levin held several positions in the Reagan administration. He’s a constitutional lawyer, an accomplished author, and host of one of the top syndicated radio programs, The Mark Levin Show. He’s also president of Landmark Legal Foundation, which has, among other things, provided support to Virginia in its lawsuit against the Obama Administration over ObamaCare.
After recently re-reading Levin’s best-selling Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, I was struck again by how concise and compelling a case the author makes for conservatism vis-à-vis statism.
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Hudna and Deception in Islam
WALID SHOEBAT:
In Walid’s second interview with CBN a few years ago he explains Hudna and the deceptions in Islam. This interview gives you the key to understanding Islam and its goals, strategy and tactics to destroy Israel and the West.
Over last week we have provided simple lessons on the issues of Islam that can educate you as well as share with others of the dangers we face.
The main stream media fails to expose these crucial pieces of information because of political correctness, including those on the conservative side who choose only to discuss the “explosive acts” which are a symptom of the problem, but not the source of the issues.
Shock: Iran Defense Minister — One of Interpol’s Most Wanted — Meets with U.S.
by ‘Reza Kahlili’:
On Saturday, June 18, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi started his two-day visit to Afghanistan at the invitation of Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak.
Mr. Vahidi, who served as the chief commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit and later as the commander of the Quds Force, has been involved in worldwide terrorism against America and Israel for years. He established ties with al-Qaeda and expanded his network of terrorism, which was then fully established through the auspices of Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. These collaborations resulted in several major terrorist attacks, including the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut in 1983 and the Jewish community center bombing in Argentina in 1994, which earned him a spot on Interpol’s most-wanted list.
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Remembering 1948 through the WaPo’s pro-Arab, anti-Israel lens
Leo Rennert:
In its June 27 edition, the Washington Post runs a huge spread by Jerusalem correspondent Joel Greenberg about plans for a new housing development in a scenic valley at the entrance to Jerusalem that would tower over a crumbling village abandoned by Arabs during the 1948 war. Greenberg’s article, with accompanying maps and photos, takes up more than half of the front page of the World News section.
The headline conveys the flavor of the piece: “Building on history — Israeli plans to redevelop abandoned Palestinian village have stirred painful memories.”
Greenberg reports with much empathy a controversy stirred by preservationists and Palestinian families with ties to the village, who have gone to a court to block the city’s building plans.
He starts by writing that 3,000 people who lived in the village of Lifta fled “during the war that accompanied the establishment of Israel.” That, of course, is an immediate dead-giveaway of Greenberg’s pro-Palestinian bias. The establishment of Israel wasn’t responsible for the 1948 war. That war was launched by half a dozen Arab armies intent on eliminating the nascent Jewish state, in defiance of a UN two-state partition plan.
But Greenberg isn’t interested in real history as much as in conveying a Palestinian agenda to revise history so as to validate Palestinian claims to the land, while discarding Jewish ones.
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East London Mosque breaks its promise on homophobic speakers after just eight days
By Andrew Gilligan:
Earlier this month, reporting the East London Mosque/London Muslim Centre’s latest pledge to ban homophobic preachers, I described how the mosque has repeatedly lied and broken such promises before: waiting a couple of months until the coast is clear, then bringing the extremists back.
This time, however, it has only taken just over a week for the mosque’s bad faith to emerge. The day after tomorrow, 29 June, it welcomes to its premises an organisation called Sex and Relationship Education Islamic (SRE Islamic), one of whose main purposes is to campaign for “the unacceptability of homosexuality which is often portrayed as a lifestyle choice.” That’s a quote from the first sentence of SRE Islamic’s statement of values.
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Pakistan ‘can’t protect atomic arsenal from Islamic extremists’
Rob Crilly:
Their security in a country known for political instability has long been a matter of concern and has taken on added urgency in recent weeks, ever since militants took control of a naval base in Karachi, holding elite troops at bay for more than 16 hours.
Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy, who teaches at universities in Lahore and Islamabad, said there was evidence that the Army had been infiltrated by extremist elements.
“We have reason to worry because the most secure installations, bases, and headquarters of the military have been successfully attacked by Islamic militants who have sympathisers within the military,” he said.
“What is the proof that nuclear installations or weapon stocks would be exempt from this? My worry is not limited to nuclear arsenals because places that deal with fissile materials can also be similarly infiltrated.”
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Israel’s Fate?
by Louis René Beres:
The central truth of being human is the constant love of being alive. We Jews, of course, both in our prayers, and in our sacred rituals, have always understood the unassailable difference between life and death, between the “blessing and the curse.” In consequence, all Jewish survival, individually and collectively, is now closely bound up with the survival of the Jewish State. Quite plainly, for both its too few friends and its too many enemies, Israel’s fate is now that of the individual Jew writ large.
How, then, shall the State of Israel survive? From their very beginnings, and even long before the United Nations conferral of statehood in 1948, Jews in Israel have faced war, terror and extinction. Now, Israel faces existential destruction from two main and mutually reinforcing sources: (1) the fully constituted state of Iran; and (2) the still-aspiring state of “Palestine.” Together, largely in various unrecognized and unimagined synergies, the interactive effects of these two mega-threats portend incontestable reason for concern.
The situation is made more worrisome by President Obama’s persistent support of a “Two-State Solution,” and by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s reciprocal acceptance of a Palestinian state that has allegedly been “demilitarized.” This is because the Palestinian side (Hamas, Fatah, it makes little difference) seeks only a One-State solution (on their maps, Israel is already drawn as a part of “Palestine”), and because a demilitarized Palestine would never actually “happen.” After all, any post-independence abrogation of earlier pre-state agreements to demilitarize by a now-sovereign Palestinian state could be permissible under international law.
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Why Can Academics Study ‘Islamophobia’ But Not Anti-Semitism?
by Phyllis Chesler and Nathan Bloom:
Recently, Yale shut down its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA). Some claimed that the center was perhaps too “political.”
Almost simultaneously, on June 23, 2011, the University of California at Berkeley’s Center on Race and Gender issued its first annual “Islamophobia” report. The report is a project of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project (IRDP), whose mission statement says: “The IRDP focuses on a systematic and empirical approach to the study of Islamophobia and its impact on the American Muslim community. Today, Muslims in the U.S., parts of Europe, and around the world have been transformed into a demonized and feared global ‘other,’ subjected to legal, social, and political discrimination.”
In our view, “Islamophobia” hardly deserves any academic attention compared to the much more serious phenomenon of anti-Semitism.
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George Soros and the Muslim Brotherhood
by Mark Tapson:
In a recent interview with prominent TV journalist Christiane Amanpour, who never misses an opportunity to promote repellent moral relativism about fundamentalist Islam, Middle East analyst Marwan Muasher declared, “The Muslim Brotherhood has been used for a long time as a scare tactic” (emphasis added). This eyebrow-raising dismissal of legitimate concerns about the world’s largest Islamist movement went unchallenged by Amanpour – no surprise there – although Muasher did weakly concede this: “that is not to say they don’t have designs.”
“Designs” indeed. Nothing less ambitious than the downfall of the West and the establishment of a medieval dystopia known as the worldwide caliphate.
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Soros-CPI Agenda in Play at Politico
By Jeffrey Lord:
That the George Soros-funded “Center for Public Integrity” is in the pocket of the far-precincts of the American Left, there can be no doubt.
In addition to taking $651,650 from the Soros “Open Society Institute” (in 2009 as reported at Fox News.com by the Media Research Center’s Dan Gainor) the CPI has other far-left partnerships. It has jumped into content-sharing deals with the left-wing Newsweek and the Daily Beast as well as “revenue generating partnerships” with the far left MSNBC and the owner of something called Dan Rather Reports. Yes indeed, that Dan Rather. (The latter two deals are extolled in this CPI video, which also boasts of having its content favorably promoted by the hard core leftists over at the Daily Kos.)
No surprise for a group whose board currently includes Arianna Huffington, ABC’s Christiane Amanpour, and Ellen McPeake, the latter the former chief operating officer of Greenpeace. Not a conservative in the bunch.
Not a problem, of course, if one advertises that one is a liberally-funded liberal special interest group specializing in investigating conservatives. No one at the Nation claims to be non-partisan. CPI just boldly lies, saying it is an “independent…. nonpartisan investigative journalism organization.” It’s left to the Media Research Center and Fox News to mention that, oh, by the way, CPI took $651,650 in Soros money just in 2009 alone.
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THE CHURCHS’ SOFT-CORE PAGANISM
By Lee Duigon:
A colleague of mine who is involved in missionary work says there’s a new fashion in the mission field. Missionaries now are telling potential converts that they can become Christians and still live entirely within the bounds of their culture. It’s a good deal: they get personal salvation, but they don’t have to change their way of life. Missionaries in Muslim countries have found it’s much safer to be a Christian if everybody thinks you’re still a Muslim. In some of those places, it’s a capital offense to convert to Christianity.
So today’s missionaries seek to create an “insider movement”—that is, the new Christians remain “inside” their native culture, whatever it may be. If it were only a matter of personal safety, who would blame them?
But Christ commands us to teach His doctrine and make disciples everywhere (Matthew 28:19-20), to be salt and light to the pagan culture all around us (Matthew 5:13-14)—indeed, to change that culture into a Christian culture by being the one lump of yeast that leavens the whole loaf (Matthew 13:33). Instead, the missionaries teach the new Christians that they can just keep on keeping on: all they have to do is pop into church now and then to get a dose of Christianity.
They get saved. But the culture that’s around them doesn’t.
That’s what the new missionaries learn in seminary.
In other words, the missionaries are handing out the same kind of shy, pietistic, selfish, feeble, limp-wristed, slack-jawed “Christianity” as is being dispensed by all too many of our churches here at home.
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