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Islamic supremacism is seeping into every aspect of American life. Islamic jihad groups aren't solely concentrating on terror attacks (although another one of those could come at any moment), but on the creeping encroachment to introduce Islamic law into this country, step-by-step and bit-by-bit, until finally America wakes up to a country transformed into an Islamic state.
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, SIOA, AFDI and SION is "today's "Paulette" Revere and blogger extraordinaire". On the evening of March 19, 2012, in Philadelphia, she gave a talk to a 'full house'. Her topic: "The March of Islamic Supremacists: Implications for America, Israel and the West and How To Stop It". Part 1 is brief introductions, Part 3 is the Q and A
Directed by Brett Sorem & Brad Liber
Cinematography by Brad Liber
Edited by Brett Sorem & Julia Page
Lyrics:
Late one night as I came home
And saw the front door broken in
I grabbed my piece and went inside
To see who lurks within
There we stood face to face
My gun, the thief, and I
Man you should have seen him run
When I cocked that .45
Disarmed our rights will disappear
We won't let it happen here
Chorus:
Its one of my rights as a free man
To protect my home when needed
I demand my right to bear arms
Its one of my rights as a free man
To protect my home when needed
I demand my right to bear arms
The government makes the gun laws
So they can take our right to own
Every citizen un-armed
Is a citizen they control
All they see are weapons
It's the only thing they know
Disarm the voting country-men
And society will fall
You'll never take our guns away
In return for tyranny
Chorus
The people have spoken
We won't let it happen
We won't let it happen here
Holick noted at the time of his arrest, he warned that Islamic law, Shariah, is creeping into American through preferential treatment provided by law enforcement and the courts.
Previously, Holick was arrested by police sharing his religious beliefs on a public sidewalk outside a homosexual festival in the city. He was arrested but, the charges eventually were dropped, and he later brought a civil case against the city.
Christians are penalized for expressing their beliefs. Should Christians be free to exercise First Amendment rights in public without fear of arrest?
#3290 - Former Iraqi PM Ibrahim Al-Ja'fari Responds to GOP Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich: America Has No History
Al-Alam TV (Iran) - January 29,2012 - 01:54
In some countries, people have been blinded by the truth. Many of the [Republicans] candidates in the coming elections scramble to bring Palestine down. Republican candidate Newt [Gingrich] even said that the Palestinians are an invented, artificial people. The Palestinian people is invented?! Palestine, with its thousands of years, since it was the land of Canaan, which evolved into Palestine – that deep-rooted Arab and Muslim country… That is the invented people?! Or is it, with all due respect to the American nation…
I am not a racist, but if I examine the history of the rise of societies, America is not the American people. The American people are the Indians. This is a problem in America. They suffer from a complex, because America has a short history. It has no history. Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. That was yesterday. America was founded only recently. The Arabs and the Muslims, on the other hand, are the pioneers of civilization.
Beckel Responds to West Request for Apology - The Five Panel Weighs In
Today on The Five, Bob Beckel and the panel respond to Lt. Col. Allen West saying this morning on Fox & Friends that Bob owed him an apology for his on-air tirade against him. Bob refuses to do so, and says today is where it ends, although he polls the panel on whether or not he should apologize.
PHOENIX (AP) — A woman who was barred from running for a city council seat in Arizona because she doesn‘t speak English proficiently has appealed the judge’s ruling to the state’s highest court.
Lawyers for Alejandrina Cabrera said they want the matter settled by Wednesday because election ballots will start being printed Thursday. Officials said, however, that the state Supreme Court hasn’t set a briefing schedule as of Monday night.
Yuma County Superior Court Judge John Nelson ruled last week that Cabrera’s name be stricken from the March ballot for San Luis City Council.
The case has brought national and international attention to the southern Arizona city after Mayor Juan Carlos Escamilla filed a court action asking for a determination on whether Cabrera has the English skills necessary to serve a four-year term on the council.
State law requires elected officials to know English, but Cabrera‘s attorneys claim the law doesn’t define proficiency in the language.
Cabrera told the Yuma Sun that she needs to improve her command of English but said her language skills are adequate for serving the border city of San Luis, where Spanish is used as often as English. She also told the newspaper that she will keep campaigning during the appeal.
Cabrera, who last year launched two unsuccessful attempts to recall Escamilla as mayor, was one of 10 candidates who filed petitions to run for the council.
Nelson’s ruling was based on tests administered by a sociolinguistics expert, as well as her inability to respond to questions posed to her in English at last week’s hearing in Yuma. The removal of Cabrera from the ballot also stemmed from a Dec. 14 complaint made by former mayor Guillermina Fuentes that Cabrera isn’t fluent in English, according to The Sun.
Fuentes claimed she has acted as an interpreter for Cabrera.
Sociolinguistics expert William Eggington presented the court with results of three different tests he administered to Cabrera, who graduated from Kofa High School in Yuma. One measured her English-speaking skill, another was to determine if she reads the language, and the third was to assess her level of English comprehension.
Eggington‘s report said Cabrera’s English skills did not meet the level of language proficiency needed to serve on the council.
Cabrera’s lawyers said the action against their client was politically motivated because of her efforts to recall Escamilla. Cabrera began circulating petitions to recall the mayor in April after the council hiked utility rates and approved the layoffs of 12 city employees as part of spending cuts.
Congressman Allen West, speaking at a Lincoln Day dinner, is catching heat for saying the ideas, the “message” of Senator Harry Reid and Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of “equality of achievement,” and “enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of America” should “get the hell out of the United States of America.” Bob Beckel goes apoplectic in that particularly gaseous Liberal way of his, and while shooting off his mouth again, accuses West of doing the same. Nevermind, that Debbie Schultz repeats again, one year after the event, that the Tea Party is responsible for the shooting of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabbie Giffords. Beckel says West is “disgraceful,” but then says, disgracefully, West is “lucky” to hold the District 22 House seat. There was no “luck” in the people of Florida choosing this America hero to represent them in Washington, D.C.
Beckel is furious that West wants the Democrat message of Reid, Pelosi and Schultz to leave our shores. He defends the Democrat right to that message, while denying West the same right.
The Five groupies have sharp retorts based in reality. I’m reminded of Congresscritter Maxine Waters saying in a House hearing with oil company execs testifying she would:
“The Liberal would be all about socializing, basically, government taking over and running all of your companies.”
That’s a message that should have no home in the House or in the U.S.
"Had that portion of the decline in the labor force participation rate since 2007 that is attributable to neither the aging of the baby boomers nor the downturn in the business cycle (on the basis of the experience in previous downturns) not occurred, the unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2011 would have been about 1¼ percentage points higher than the actual rate of 8.7 percent" translation: CBO just admitted that the BLS numbers are bogus and real unemployment is 10%. Thank you
#3287 - Sunni Scholar Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: Islamic Law Should Be Implemented Gradually in Egypt; There Should Be No Chopping Off of Hands in the First Five Years
Al-Nahhar TV (Egypt) - January 26, 2012 - 02:12
Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: "I think [the shari'a] should be implemented gradually. This is a law of the shari'a and a law of nature. […]
"We should do things gradually. We should prepare the people, teach them. People have to learn. We have to make an effort to teach people the truth about Islam. […]
"People do not understand the shari'a properly. We have to teach people the laws of the shari'a and explain them, before anything else.
"I think that in the first five years, there should be no chopping off of hands. This period should be dedicated to teaching things.
"A transitional phase… This should be a period in which we teach people the true laws of the shari'a.
"When we find food for all the hungry, schools for all the pupils, hospitals for all the sick, homes for all those who want them, wives for all the bachelors – then we can discuss the punishment for theft. […]
"All the [presidential] candidates are good, but I support the candidacy of our brother Abd Al-Mun'im Abu Al-Futuh."
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Irwin, Robert, Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents;
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A tax on toilet paper; I kid you not. According to the sponsor, "the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act will be financed broadly by small fees on such things as . . . products disposed of in waste water." Congress wants to tax what you do in the privacy of your bathroom.
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