TURKEY'S NEW JIHAD AGAINST ARMENIANS

Raymond Ibrahim says the jihadis in Turkey have launched new murderous assaults on Armenians in Syria:

Far from being repentant of the Armenian Genocide, Turkey, under the leadership of Prime Minister Erdogan, is again targeting Armenians; is again causing their death and dislocation.

In the early morning hours of March 21, al-Qaeda linked Islamic jihadis crossed into Syrian territory from the Turkish border and launched a jihad on the Christian/Armenian town of Kessab. Among other thing, "Snipers targeted the civilian population and launched mortar attacks on the town and the surrounding villages." Reportedly eighty people were killed.

The jihadis later made a video touring the devastated town. No translation is needed, as the main phrase shouted throughout is Islam's triumphant war cry, "Allahu Akbar" (or, according to Sen. John McCain's translation, "thank God").

Eyewitnesses say the jihadis crossed the Turkish border into Syria, "openly passing through Turkish military barracks. According to Turkish media reports, the attackers carried their injured back to Turkey for treatment in the town of Yayladagi."

About two-thousand Armenians were evacuated to safer areas in neighboring Basit and Latakia. Several of these families are currently living inside the churches of these towns. Ten to fifteen families with members too elderly to flee remained in Kessab, their fate currently unknown.

Syrian troops launched a counteroffensive, but al-Qaeda linked jihadis "once again entered the town of Kessab, took the remaining Armenian families hostage, desecrated the town's three Armenian churches, pillaging local residences and occupying the town and surrounding villages."

So Turkey isn't just moving back to Islamofascism. They're even providing jihadists with a base to launch attacks on kaffirs.

OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY: NAIVE, INCOMPETENT AND AD HOC, OR...

THE HILL: 

The United States is at odds with its three most important allies in the Middle East, raising fundamental questions about the White House’s ability to shape regional events as President Obama arrives in Riyadh on Friday. 

Under Obama, a chill has settled on the U.S. relationships with Saudi Arabia and Israel, which both opposed U.S. efforts to reach a nuclear accord with Iran. And in Egypt, Obama has an uncertain partner, given the toppling of two governments since 2010. 

“A few years ago, with great clarity, you would certainly say Washington’s closest partners included Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt,” said Simon Henderson, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East policy. “But they are at odds with all of them for one reason or another.”

IS THIS CHASM BETWEEN THE USA AND OUR FORMER ALLIES THE RESULT OF NAIVETE AND INCOMPETENCE, OR SOMETHING MORE NEFARIOUS?

THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS THE ANSWER TO THIS ONE:

CUI BONO?

IN EVERY CASE, RUSSIA AND ITS ALLIES BENEFIT.

AND OBAMA SEEMS TO BE HANDING EGYPT AND SAUDI ARABIA TO PUTIN.

AND SCREWING ISRAEL.

NEITHER THE USA OR OUR ALLIES HAVE FARED WELL UNDER OBAMA.

BUT OUR ENEMIES HAVE:

• THE TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN ARE STRONGER AND ON THE MOVE

• AL QAEDA GROWS IN IRAQ AND SO DOES THEIR TERRORISM

• AL QAEDA IN SYRIA ON THEIR HEALS TODAY, BUT ONLY BECAUSE PUTIN IS AIDING IRAN'S PUPPET, ASSAD

• IRAN'S NUKE'S ARE CLOSER THAN EVER

• MADURO EXERCISES HIS MURDEROUS CORRUPT TYRANNY WITH COMPLETE IMPUNITY IN VENEZUELA

• CHINA'S MARCH TOWARD ASIAN MILITARY SUPREMACY CONTINUES UNABATED

• NORTH KOREA IS ENTIRELY UNCHECKED

• LIBYA - UNDER THE EVIL KADDAFY, AN ALLY INTHE WAR AGAINST AL QAEDA - IS IN FREE-FALL

AND SO ON...

THE RESULTS ARE TOO CONSISTENT TO BE MERELY A COINCIDENCE OR THE PRODUCT OF INCOMPETENCE.

THE CONSISTENCY OF THE RESULTS INDICATES THEY ARE THE GOALS OF OBAMA.

AND THE FACT IS THE RESULTS DOVETAIL PERFECTLY WITH THE LONG-HELD TENETS OF POSTMODERN LEFTISM AS ARTICULATED BY OBAMA'S LONG-TIME FRIENDS AND ALLIES:

AYERS, DOHRN, WRIGHT, PFLEGER, KHALIDI, FARRAKHAN, KELLMAN, SAMANTHA POWER, CHARLES FREEMAN, CASS SUNSTEIN, FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, JOHN HOLDREN, KEN ROLLING, DERRICK BELL, MIKE KLONSKY, JESSE JACKSON, CARL DAVIDSON... AND SO ON...

WE  CAN HALT HIM AND STOP THEIR AGENDA THIS NOVEMBER.

IN FACT, IT'S NOVEMBER OR NEVER.

TWO DEMOCRATS AND A POPE WALK INTO A BAR...

EARLIER THAT DAY...

TURKEY'S ERDOGAN CONTINUES TO ENFORCE SHARIA VIA CENSORSHIP OF SOCIAL MEDIA

The modern Turkish dictator shut out use of Twitter and YouTube in the country to further his grip of Islamofascism upon it:

The Turkish government banned YouTube on Thursday, less than a week after Ankara made a similar blackout of the social networking site Twitter, which is estimated to have more than 10 million Turkish users.

Neither website can be reached on Turkish Internet networks.

The crackdown comes just days before Turks are expected to go to the polls in nationwide municipal elections.

The Turkish government said its YouTube block came as a response to the leak of a conversation between top government officials purportedly discussing the possibility of going to war with neighboring Syria.

I'm sure they'd like to do that, but no less disturbing are their intentions of moving Turkey back to the days of the Islamic Ottoman empire, when sharia really had a foothold.

Turkey's political elite has been battered by a campaign of wiretap leaks recorded by unknown operatives and distributed daily for more than a month on the Internet.

I'm not sure if this was a case of communist-style spying on citizens, but Erdogan's MO is offensive regardless. Unfortunately, if estimations are correct, Erdogan's already made sure to fix the election results like in other Islamist regimes, so I doubt the coming election will have a result for the better.

Here's more about the issue on the UK Independent.

NYTIMES: OBAMA'S POLICIES HAVE SEVERED ONCE CLOSE TIES WITH THE SAUDIS

NYTIMES:

CAIRO — Over seven decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia forged a strategic alliance that became a linchpin of the regional order: a liberal democracy and an ultraconservative monarchy united by shared interests in the stability of the Middle East and the continued flow of oil. 

But with President Obama arriving in Riyadh on Friday, the rulers of Saudi Arabia say they feel increasingly compelled to go their own way, pursuing starkly different strategies from Washington in dealing with Iran, Syria, Egypt and the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the region. 

“Their view of Mr. Obama is that his entire understanding is wrong,” said Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Geneva-based Gulf Research Center who is close to the Saudi monarchy. “The trust in him is not very high, so he will not have an easy ride, and a lot of hard questions will be put on the table.”

RTWT.

OBAMA HASN'T IMPROVED THE USA FOREIGN POLICY OR OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS; IN FACT, UNDER OBAMA OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS HAVE GOTTEN MUCH MUCH WORSE.

OBAMA HAS BEEN AN ABYSMAL FAILURE... FOR US AND OUR ALLIES.

THEN AGAIN: IF HE'S REALLY A DOUBLE AGENT WORKING FOR PUTIN, THEN HE'S BEEN AN UNBELIEVABLE SUCCESS!

OBAMA CALLS POPE'S BLUFF?

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRAT HAS ALLEGED TIES TO WEAPONS TRAFFICKING TO JIHADISTS

Big Government has the alarming news that a Democrat senator named Leland Yee has been investigated by the FBI for connections with arms trafficking to jihadists in the Phillipines:

One arms trafficker Yee allegedly discussed sourced weapons from Russia. Another trafficker, in an alleged meeting with Sen. Yee, political consultant Keith Jackson, and the FBI informant on March 11, 2014, allegedly discussed arms to be obtained from the Philippines. The affidavit claims the arms trafficker claimed personal relationships with Islamic rebels in the Philippines, though the weapons were supposedly to be obtained from sources inside the Philippine military.

Throughout the document, a portrait emerges of a politician who is not only allegedly cavalier about campaign finance limits but who allegedly associates with violent criminals and drug traffickers.

Truly horrific, and the bizarre thing is that Yee's been an advocate for gun control. If he had any involvement with such repulsive monsters, then the FBI should really press serious charges against him.

UK TELEGRAPH READER SAYS LAW SOCIETY SHOULD WITHDRAW ITS APPROVAL FOR SHARIA

A correspondent to the UK Telegraph speaks truth to power, but for now, it could all be wishful thinking:

SIR – Sadikur Rahman expresses concern at the Law Society’s choice to issue a practice note to solicitors for drawing up “sharia-compliant” wills that conform to Islamic law. If we are serious about having the same law for all, then parallel legal systems must be prohibited, including all religious courts and tribunals.

Sharia laws are inherently discriminatory. This was recognised by Britain’s highest court in 2008, when the government attempted to remove a woman and child to Lebanon. In a 5—0 ruling, the Law Lords argued that there was no place in sharia for the equal treatment of the sexes and it would be a “flagrant breach” of the European Convention on Human Rights for the government to remove a woman to Lebanon, where she would lose custody of her son because of sharia-inspired family law.

Unfortunately, in the same year, Lord Chief Justice Phillips, who later became President of the British Supreme Court, mistakenly argued the opposite during a speech, “Equality before the law”, at the East London Muslim Centre: “There is no reason why principles of sharia law, or any other religious code, should not be the basis for mediation or other forms of alternative dispute resolution.” This doubtless encouraged advocates of sharia-compliant laws and the Law Society.

The Law Society must withdraw its discriminatory and divisive guidance.

But alas, knowing how this country works, it could all be wishful thinking. The National Secular Society says this step by the Law Society is only creating division, and the UK Mirror says it only means less human rights, especially for women.

LEV TAHOR FUGITIVES IN GUATEMALA ALLOWED TO REMAIN FOR 3 MONTHS

As expected, the child abusing fugitives from Canada managed to manipulate the legal system in Guatemala to their favor:

The Lev Tahor family that left Canada for Guatemala in early March is allowed to stay there with no special conditions — for now.

Uriel Goldman, the spokesman for the Lev Tahor group living in Chatham, Ont., confirmed Wednesday that the family no longer has to go to the Canadian embassy in Guatemala City as a condition of its stay in Central America.

The family is now permitted to stay in the country for up to three months, as stipulated by the Guatemala’s immigration and visa rules. [...]

A previous judgment rendered by a Guatemalan court prevented Canadian and local authorities from seizing the children on an existing order from Canada. Judge Mariela de Leon ruled there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a removal order.

Very sad they're being given all the time they need, that could easily be used to flee the jurisdiction of Guatemala as well. The concerned parties are going to have to work harder now to ensure the children will be saved from the cult's clutches.

In related news, the cult's also been trying their own PR, but according to the following news, they aren't doing it well, and that could be their undoing:

An investigation into allegations of child abuse leading to an apprehension order for 14 children of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor –and the placement of several children in foster care–has prompted the community to launch a public relations strategy of their own.

Lev Tahor claims parents have done nothing wrong and are the victims of religious persecution. They’ve hired a “media planner” who began sending out emails calling the apprehension of families in Trinidad a “religious genocide” and saying that three of the eight children now in foster care are on a hunger strike until they’re returned to their parents. (The latter has yet to be confirmed by children’s aid workers or hospital staff).

Ah, I see. This is what the cult is claiming, but no confirmations have come from the social workers and medics. That aside, calling revocation of custody "genocide" is offensive in the extreme. The authorities are not trying to physically murder the children, but to rescue them from an abhorrent, abusive lifestyle by would-be parents who've raised the children - girls and also boys - under terrible conditions such as bad hygiene and undernourishment, all the while corrupting Judaism by putting Islamist tactics into their vision. In which case, who is it who's really endangering the children's lives? What a shameful bunch Lev Tahor really are.

One Lev Tahor mother started a website of her own with photos and her own explanations for why child services agencies are involved; community members have taken to wearing yellow Stars of David and making similar comparisons to the Nazi persecution of the Jews.

Using accusations of racism as a cover for child abuse is, as noted before, offensive and repellent in the extreme, and even if Shlomo Helbrans is manipulating them into doing this, it's disgraceful, and they should be ashamed.

But these actions may be less about influencing outside opinion and more driven by a fear that losing control of their message will lead to dissension within the community, according to associate director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication Josh Greenberg.

“Radical or fringe religious groups are typically less worried about public perceptions than they are the perceptions of their own adherents — the target of communication is internal to the extent that it’s about maintaining control over the beliefs and ideological commitments of members, not to influence the values or opinions of outsiders,” said Greenberg in an email to Global News.

Greenberg, who specializes in social movements and crisis management, said the use of such propaganda techniques is “old as religion itself” but not necessarily successful in this situation. He noted most social media traffic related to Lev Tahor is made up of links to news articles that “reinforce an image of the sect as ideologically extreme.”

“Twitter posts, Facebook discussions, blogs and reader comments on news sites offer little evidence of the community or its supporters actively driving any discussion at all,” he said.

And rather than a situation of crisis management, he believes this is “crisis construction” on the part of Lev Tahor. He said the use of the star of David (which has angered many Jews and Jewish organizations) is likely to create fear in the community so adherents will “turn inward in an act of self-preservation.”

This could describe some Haredi clans in Israel too, that they care less about outside perceptions and only care what their own members think.

When it comes to the definition of freedom of religion, says University of Waterloo sociologist Lorne Dawson, courts must weigh religious rights against the laws, so if the religious right conflicts with public interest or rights of another group, then the right to religious expression isn’t “absolute.”

In the case of Lev Tahor, where allegations of abuse have centred around the treatment of the children, Dawson points to the fact that child-rearing practices are an extremely important part of most religions.

“Religions only survive to the extent that they can pass on their beliefs to their children,” he said.

Actually, what Lev Tahor's worried about is that their definition of Judaism survives to the aforementioned extent.

Dawson said it’s common for child-rearing practices of orthodox religious groups to clash with public practices in Canada’s increasingly liberal society.

“The odds are overwhelming that any of these kinds of groups are probably going to have standards of child rearing including modes of punishing … that are at odds with current norms in secular society,” he said.

I would argue that, depending what kind of orthodoxy we're discussing here, that's when it'll clash with Canada's values, and Israel's. After all, Lev Tahor's backwards, isolationist MO, which is an insult to the brains of their clan members, is a form of abuse that gives orthodox Judaism a bad name.

Dawson said the counterargument about religious freedom will probably only carry so much weight in family court, which is based primarily on protecting the interests of children.

“Probably if this goes to court, the religious group will say, ‘We have to engage in certain practices with our children–whatever it is: not sending them to school, homeschooling them, having them married by age 15, 16 … because this is what our religious beliefs tell us, what our scripture or what God wants us to do.’ That’s where it gets a bit dicey because the courts don’t want to get into the business of telling any religious group what God does or does not want them to do.

“So the courts always act like they’re not talking about theology, but the trouble is in the end, if you take the kids away and say, ‘You can’t do that,’ then you are basically saying, ‘We know what’s right and God as you understand him doesn’t.’ So there’ll be push and shove on that.”

I understand this concern, but truly, it is the overlords of Lev Tahor who don't understand what God wants, and are disrespecting God with their vicious, oppressive customs. That's what the courts should really be telling them, but alas, they probably won't.

BRAVO: FARAGE CLOBBERED CLEGG IN EU DEBATE

BBC: In a YouGov poll of 1,003 voters, some 57% thought that Nigel Farage had performed best in this evening's LBC debate and 36% Nick Clegg.

UPDATE: THE GUARDIAN: 

The full data are more revealing. Here are the key points. 

• Farage won by an even bigger margin amongst those actually watching the programme.  

The raw figures were 65% saying Farage won, and just 28% saying Clegg won. But YouGov found that those actually watching the debate contained a disproportionate number of Ukip supporters. It weighted the results, to make them politically representative of the UK as a whole, to produce the 57/36 figures. 

• Those judging Farage the winner included 69% of Conservative supporters, 42% of Labour supporters, 20% of Lib Dem supporters and 30% of those in favour of staying in the EU. 

• Farage's victory only made a slight difference to the number of viewers saying they favoured leaving the EU.  

Before the debate 42% of those polled favoured withdrawal. Afterwards it was 44%, with 47% favouring staying in. 

• Farage's approval ratings went up noticably during the debate, from 40% of people saying they had a positive view of him beforehand to 52% afterwards.  

Clegg's ratings also went up, but by less, from 31% to 35%.

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS HERE.

COMPLETE DEBATE HERE.

VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE BLATANTLY COMMENDS 9-11 MOSQUE

Investors Business Daily reported that Virginia's state legislature did the public a grave disservice:

Political Correctness: The only thing more revolting than building a mosque next to the World Trade Center would be honoring the mosque that helped the 9/11 hijackers. Yet that's just what Virginia has done.

Outrageously, the Virginia state legislature has passed a Democrat-sponsored resolution "commending" the notorious 9/11 mosque — Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center — "as an expression of the General Assembly's admiration for the" center.

The Saudi Embassy-funded, Muslim Brotherhood-owned mosque is universally known by federal and local law enforcement — and even the media — as a turnstile for terrorists. Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan once worshipped there, and the 9/11 hijackers who led the Pentagon attack got help there with housing and IDs.

Al-Qaida cleric Anwar Awlaki preached there. He stepped down after the feds connected him to the hijackers. Even so, the mosque tried to hire him back. [...]

There's little doubt the resolution's Democrat author — Virginia Del. Alfonso H. Lopez — knows Dar al-Hijrah's history. His district includes Falls Church. Yet he chose to pander to the growing number of Muslim votes in his district. Lopez should be ashamed. [...]

Let's hope the good citizens of Virginia — most especially 9/11 families of Pentagon victims — loudly demand this resolution be revoked. At a minimum, it should be roundly condemned as public support of terrorism, and all those who voted for it ought to be cited for criminal negligence.

Those who voted in favor of that virus should be banished from the US. They have no business representing a country they have no respect for.

SAUDI CLERICS BAN THE 99 COMICS AND CARTOONS

If there's any place in the world where the Kuwaiti-based Islamic propaganda comics have been declared haram (taboo), it's in the most Islamist bastion of all, Saudi Arabia:

Saudi Arabia’s top clerics have declared an Islam-inspired cartoon series, which earned praise from US President Barack Obama, a “work of the devil” that Muslims should not watch.

The television version of superhero comic book “The 99″ is being aired by Saudi-owned satellite channel MBC3, based in Dubai in the neighboring United Arab Emirates.

But in a religious decree carried by Saudi websites on Monday, the clerics ruled the series blasphemous because the superheroes of its title are based on the 99 attributes ascribed to Allah in the Koran.

“The 99 is a work of the devil that should be condemned and forbidden in respect to Allah’s names and attributes,” the clerics, led by the kingdom’s mufti, Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, said.

The original comic strip version, first released in 2006, had already ran into opposition from Muslim hardliners not only in Saudi Arabia but also in neighboring Kuwait, where it was created and produced by media executive Nayef al-Matawa.

That's interesting how, even in the publisher's very own country, it met with scowls of disapproval. One reason could be because at least one of the female characters in the comic doesn't wear a burka, and a lot of Islamofascists detest the idea of depicting women even remotely as heroines.

This shows that no matter how pro-Islam the comic and cartoon are, many Islamofascists will still shun the product. Al-Mutawa must be feeling very bewildered yet incapable of understanding how censorship works under his own religion.

Q'S OTD: INSTAVISION ON THE ECONOMY

• GLENN: "INFLATION ISN'T A PROBLEM UNLESS YOU SHOP FOR FOOD AND DRIVE A CAR."

QUESTION: WHAT'S OUR BEST HOPE FOR A BETTER ECONOMY?

• ANDREW: "2016."

VIDEO - WTWT.

OBAMA FLEXES HER MUSCLES

OBAMA LIES HIS EFFIN' ASS OFF IN THE HAGUE

Huff Post:

It's been several weeks since the invasion happened. Crimea has been annexed. The world community has responded with sanctions and isolation. But few see the Russian president reversing course. Romney himself has felt secure enough to take the equivalent of a victory lap -- first with a Wall Street Journal op-ed saying that Obama's tentativeness was to blame for a bevy of world crises; then with an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," in which he waxed critical about Obama's "faulty judgment" and "naivete with regards to Russia." 

The told-you-so-ism has frustrated a number of Democrats who argue that people are either ignoring the vaster complexities of world affairs and/or seeing a largely regional conflict in more alarming terms. Russia, after all, invaded Crimea when Putin ally, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, was forced to flee that country because the masses had turned against Russia and toward Europe. How does that make Russia the world's foremost geopolitical threat? As Slate's Brian Beutler wrote:

[T]he fact that this supposedly great adversary keeps making a menace of itself in bordering, former Soviet republics more or less demonstrates the opposite of what the revisionists think it proves.

At a press conference at The Hague on Tuesday, Obama echoed this exact point. Asked if Romney had been right all along, he responded:

With respect to Mr. Romney's assertion that Russia is our number one geopolitical foe, the truth of the matter is that America has got a whole lot of challenges. Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors not out of strength but out of weakness. Ukraine has been a country, [over] which Russia had enormous influence for decades, since the breakup of the Soviet Union. We have considerable influence on our neighbors; we generally don't need to invade them in order to have a strong cooperative relationship with them. The fact that Russia felt compelled to go in militarily and lay bare these violations of international law indicates [that they have] less influence, not more.

And so my response then continues to be what I believe today, which is Russia's actions are a problem. They don't pose the number one national security threat to the United States. I continue to be much more concerned, when it comes to our security, with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan, which is part of the reason why the United States, showing its continued international leadership, has organized a forum over the last several years that has been able to help eliminate that threat in a consistent way.

Calling Russia a "regional power" was, in all likelihood, a well-intentioned slight. As for the other part of the response, this wasn't the president simply declining to say that his 2012 opponent had it right. This was him saying that Romney missed the point and continues to do so.

BULLSHIT!

Calling Russia "a regional power" was no mere "slight"; it was a huge baldfaced LIE.

Russia brokered the Syrian Chemical weapons deal and supplies Iran with all their nuclear materials. 

They are elbowing their way into the other former USSR satellites, and Egypt, Afghanistan, and have more influence in Venezuela and Cuba now than they've had for DECADES! 

They have enough nuclear bombs to demolish all life on Earth many times over - more than the USA. 

THEY ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE ENTIRE EU AND CHINA - AND THEY CAN KINETICALLY PROJECT THAT POWER.

THE USA HAS NO MORE POWERFUL MILITARY FOE THAN RUSSIA.

Drew M. at Ace:

"A regional power"?
I'm going to guess Obama has never looked at a globe and noticed that Russia stretches across many regions...Europe, it's very near the Mideast and encompasses central Asia and reaches to the Pacific.
As Greg Pollowitz notes, if you have a fleet of ICBMs, you're pretty much by definition beyond "a regional power".
They are also making noises about establishing bases in Latin America.
Is Russia a hyper-power like the US or even the superpower it was during the, dare I say, "original", Cold War? Not really. But that doesn't mean they aren't capable of making trouble in many parts of the world for the US.

OBAMA KNOWS THIS SO ONE MUST CONCLUDE HE IS LYING.

HE IS LYING FOR ONE OF TWO REASONS:

• TO COVER UP HIS NAIVE INCOMPETENCE...

... OR...

• TO COVER UP HIS COMPLICITY WITH PUTIN.

THERE'S NO DENYING THAT RUSSIA HAS BENEFITED MORE FROM OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY THAN THE USA OR OUR ALLIES HAVE.

RUSSIA HAS SO CONSISTENTLY BENEFITED, THAT I FEEL THE LATTER MUST BE THE CASE: OBAMA WORKS FOR PUTIN.

THINGS WON'T IMPROVE UNTIL WE WIN THE SENATE AND ARE IN A POSITION TO FORCE OBAMA TO OBEY OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR LAWS ND DEFEND OUR NATIONAL INTEREST AN THE INTERESTS OF OUR ALLIES.

FRANK GAFFNEY IS RIGHT: DON'T GIVE AWAY THE INTERNET

Gaffney, one of the best voices on these issues, spoke about Obama's disturbing plans on Big Peace:

It is not clear precisely how the U.S government will be able to assure such outcomes having already announced that it is terminating the present arrangement. Businesses and non-governmental organizations that have endorsed this initiative with the caveat that they expect these conditions to eventuate are either kidding themselves or deceiving the rest of us.

That is especially so given that it is a safe bet ICANN will fall under the effective, if not de jure, control of the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Should that happen, neither the security, stability, nor resiliency of the Internet’s Domain Name System can be assured. Indeed, this sort of arrangement has long been demanded by such enemies of freedom and free expression as the governments of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran; multi-national groups like the Organization of Islamic Cooperation; and the UN bureaucracy.

Gaffney says that the US Congress must do its part to ensure the Net will not fall into the hands of all these dictatorships, and the Center for Security Policy has a petition you can sign to protest this too. The UN is definitely not a movement that should be allowed to control the Net.

RICHARD FALK FINALLY GONE FROM THE UN

The New York Daily News tells that one of the creepiest, most bigoted members of the UN in recent memory has left his post:

In a world body too often dominated by wrongos, Richard Falk has been a standout among crazies.

An emeritus law professor at Princeton, Falk on Monday ended a six-year stint monitoring the Palestinian territories for the United Nations Human Rights Council.

He is a man who:

Repeatedly accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing,” of having “genocidal tendencies” and of “state terrorism,” even claiming that Israel was “slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust.”

Said Israel’s 2009 offensive in Gaza — to root out terrorist bases — seemed to constitute “a war crime of the greatest magnitude.”

Promoted the writings of 9/11 “inside job” conspiracy theorists.

Blamed the Boston Marathon bombings on “the American global domination project.”

Good riddance.

I fully agree. He showed nothing but pure hatred for victims of jihadism, and should be banished from the USA and other civilized countries altogether.

BY CUTTING THE MILITARY AND SHACKLING THE NSA, OBAMA IS MAKING US WEAKER AND MORE VULNERABLE

• http://freebeacon.com/obama-to-kill-tomahawk-hellfire-missile-programs/

• http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/report-obama-give-nsas-phone-call-sweep-23044956

IS THERE ANYTHING OBAMA HAS DONE THAT HAS MADE US STRONGER?

NOPE.

HE'S ON THE OTHER SIDE.

90 REASONS WHY NOT TO CREATE A STATE FOR THE PLO

Moshe Phillips and Benjamin Korn make clear why forming a palestinian state would be dangerous:

Last week, a shipload of advanced Iranian weapons would have reached its destination Gaza, were it not for the last-minute intervention of the Israeli Navy. And last week, 90 rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel.

Now let’s imagine how the actions of the Gaza Palestinians would have looked if they had been West Bank Palestinians, acting from inside a Palestinian state.

Despite the felicitous turn of phrase, there is no such thing as “a de-militarized Palestinian state.” An independent state controls its own borders. “Palestine” would be free to open its borders to truckload after truckload after truckload of Iranian (and Syrian and North Korean) weapons.

If Israel tried to intervene, it would be accused of violating Palestinian sovereignty, denounced at the United Nations, and threatened with international sanctions.

Now about those 90 rockets. A Palestinian state in Judea-Samaria would mean that the border with Palestine would reach the outskirts of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Those 90 rockets might have been aimed at the Western Wall, the Azrieli Towers, or airplanes landing at Ben-Gurion airport.

The shooters would quickly vanish behind the civilian shields of Palestinian orchards, tunnels and safe houses. The government of Palestine would declare that the attacks were “regrettable,” but “of course, we cannot control every extremist element.”

All the while, Palestine would continue to amass a huge arsenal of weapons – just as Hamas has done in Gaza and Hezbollah has done in southern Lebanon – and Israel would be helpless to stop it, without launching a pre-emptive war and inviting the wrath of the international community.

That's the main reason why it's dangerous if such a horror came to fruition.

NY MAGAZINE'S PUFF PIECE ABOUT G. WILLOW WILSON

New York Magazine's Vulture section wrote a sugary interview with G. Willow Wilson about her Muslim Ms. Marvel propaganda. At the beginning, they say:

...even though we’re only on issue No. 2 (both issues are on sale now), the character has caused a remarkable uproar of support: Kamala already has a devoted online following, has coverage in major media outlets, and is selling in droves.

Anyone who looks at those charts they pointed to and sees how it sold so little compared to many other mediums - little more than 50,000, and that's only the first issue - is going to wonder what they're talking about. Nor do they admit most of that fawning coverage is by leftists who think the lead's being a Muslim is newsworthy.

And yet, lost in all that clamor is the remarkable story of Wilson, the writer behind Kamala. Born in New Jersey herself, Wilson was a white kid with no religious upbringing, but converted to Islam during the height of the War on Terror. She’s lived in Egypt, done foreign correspondence for the New York Times, penned a memoir, written an acclaimed novel, and labored in relative obscurity within the mainstream comics industry for years. But now that she has a bona fide hit on her hands, we reached out to her to talk about her unusual life, the struggle to make comics more inclusive, and why Islam and geekdom make a perfect pairing.

It's just like them not to admit such a small sum is not a hit by any stretch. But this does tell when she converted, possibly around the time of the raid on Iraq. And again, it's laughable how they compare a title selling so low to a blockbuster movie.

What’s surprised you most about the media and reader response to Ms. Marvel?
Well, I have never, ever before written any comic book where there was fan art before the book was even released. That has never happened to me. That really — that really floored me. As soon as we started releasing character designs, there was stuff on Twitter, Tumblr, T-shirts ... it was amazing. Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in. And it's because it's a fringe medium! We're used to, on some level, grappling with ideas that the mainstream doesn't wanna grapple with. I mean, you look back at Sandman [which began publication in 1989], for example: There were positive portrayals of gay relationships in Sandman years before they occurred in mainstream television. In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

A bit further down the interview, she says she didn't make a good atheist. But, as some of the opinions by Muslims themselves tell, they could say she doesn't make a good Muslim either because of her ostensibly accepting view on homosexuality.

Her assertion that comics are "fringe" is insulting because it sounds like she thinks it's great. But truly, it's not. We have a lot of pathetically incompetent marketeers to blame for comics becoming fringe medium, of course, because they insist on sticking with an outmoded pamphlet format that's not working anymore. I don't like how she infers we comic buffs are all "weird" because that's just what makes the wider public distrusting of our psyches, thinking we're some selfish cellar-dweller nerds who don't care about real life and making ourselves useful to the world. Ghetto mentality doesn't help comics any more than it would other mediums.

And who says the mainstream doesn't want to deal with the ideas you see in comics? Some of those past ideas actually followed the examples set by movies and television of the times, whether it be drug trafficking, race relations and the battles with communism. Even homosexuality was something that came up in films and later made its way into comics, as far back as the late 70s.

What’s unique about writing a female Muslim superhero in 2014, as opposed to 10 or 20 years ago?
Well, I think if we had written Ms. Marvel ten years ago, Kamala’s religion would probably have to be an even bigger part of the conversation than it is today, because closer to 9/11, there was a lot more scrutiny placed on the actions of everyday American Muslims. But today, now that there's a bit of distance — particularly for the younger generation, for whom 9/11 happened when they were small children — there's a greater desire to see more well-rounded stories. Being a Muslim is really only one part of her overall arc, her overall journey.

Sorry, but it's clear already that it comprises a large part of her arc. She probably wouldn't admit it, but the reason it'd be a bigger part of the conversation is because plenty of people could be offended that a religion she's not willing to admit is violent was being given an otherwise positive platform.

In your memoir, The Butterfly Mosque, you wrote that, in Islam, "the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman’s body, Heaven.” So does Islam lend itself to superhero masks and secret identities?
In a certain sense. Certain writers in the Muslim world have started to make a connection between wearing a mask — as one often does in a superhero costume — and, for example, covering the face. And so we've seen, just in the past couple of years, the emergence of two separate veiled superheroines in different parts of the Muslim world. In Egypt, there's Qahera, who goes around the streets of Cairo defending women from the notorious sexual harassment there. There's the Burka Avenger in Pakistan, a schoolteacher who dons a burka to fight corruption and religious extremism.

I had absolutely no idea those things existed.
Both were created in the past couple of years. Qahera started in the wake of the revolution in Egypt, and Burka Avenger started maybe a year ago. The cadre of Muslim superhero writers is pretty small. [Laughs.]

Predictably, much like the other writers she speaks of, she won't admit the Koran's beliefs are the cause of the sex crimes in many Muslim societies. And that's pretty blatant how she draws comparisons between superhero costumes and veils. Besides, don't supervillains also wear masks, some of which also cover the face?

How do you keep Kamala’s faith from being a distracting part of a superhero story?
It's pretty easy, actually. I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.

In that case, let’s flip the question on its ear. Do you pressure yourself to write Islamic aspects into your scripts?
Not particularly. Again, we were going for authenticity. For example: We very early on decided she was not going to cover her hair — simply because the majority of American Muslim women don’t cover their hair.

Once again, she falls back on the taqqiya (deception) of Muslims in America not covering their hair. What about Shaima Alawadi, a victim of an Islamic honor murder 2 years ago? Once again, Wilson acts oblivious to reality.

Kamala’s an avid fan-fiction writer. Why did you put that into the story?
Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom. Part of that is outsider culture: When you're growing up as a minority and you feel somewhat alienated from the mainstream, you're going to seek out other people who feel that way. That's what geek culture is traditionally about.

And also, I wanted her to be fleshed out and have a real personality, rather than being a model minority. Plus, if you lived in a world where there were actual superheroes? Especially in a place like Jersey City, where you'd literally probably see Daredevil in the streets or Thor flying overhead or whatever. It made sense to me, in that situation, that Kamala would grow up looking up to these actual real-world superheroes and becoming a fan-fic writer.

Oh, do tell us about it. What about minorities who were enslaved under Islam? Has she ever wondered how they feel about being minorities under an oppressive religion? And did it ever occur to her that some Muslims shun both mainstream and geek culture? But even in the non-mainstream, not many Muslims are bound to seek out gays and lesbians to form a geek culture with.

Now, here's where she turns to more taqqiya without even telling what verses the Koran has inside:

Even though you and Kamala are both Muslim women, there’s one huge difference between creator and character: You were born outside the faith. How did you end up converting to Islam?
I tried to be an atheist but I just wasn't very good at it. I grew up without any particular religion. I had no idea, really, what Islam was. I knew maybe a handful of Muslims growing up, but I had no idea what it was all about. So I was exposed to it sort of by accident by studying the Crusades in a history class, ironically. I read the Koran and it was a profoundly moving experience for me. I probably would've converted sometime in the fall of 2001, had not a … very particular world event occurred that caused me to rethink my entire attraction to the religion. It took a couple of years of study after that before I was convinced that, in fact, what happened on 9/11 was not endorsed by Islam, that it was in fact criminal according to the religion. At that point, I had an opportunity to move to Egypt [to teach English], which seemed like destiny at work. My only exposure to the religion had been through books, at that point. I had maybe $200 to my name. And it was 2003, the very beginning of the Iraq War.

Ah. So, not exactly a fun year to tell your friends and family you’ve converted to Islam.
[Laughs.] Yeah. Well, I didn't tell anybody. I kept it a secret for months. I just didn't want to have that conversation. But once I sat down and thought of it, it was like, There's no way I can get through 30 days a year of no eating or drinking without people noticing. [Laughs.]

She may know a lot more than she's telling. As noted before, she may not have made a good atheist, but based on characterizing Khan as interested in non-Halal "infidel" meat, there's Muslims out there who'd say she's not very good at being a Muslim either. She also resorts to a classic apologia that Islam was "hijacked by extremists" without offering a single quote to prove otherwise. But, here's a number of verses, such as Sura 3:151 that tell a much different story than what Wilson does.

When did you start to notice that women and minorities were underrepresented in the superhero comics you loved so much?
It never occurred to me as a kid. As a kid, you accept whatever you're given, and it's tough to know what you don't know. But when I got older — I remember, in college, there was a phase when I was lurking online in the very new message board forums that some creators had set up. I noticed that, in order to be taken seriously, many of the female fans had to post boob shots. [Laughs.] This was the way to get attention! I think it's only really within the last couple of years that the conversation has gone truly mainstream and become something that everybody agrees we all need to tackle together. I think that's because fandom has reached a critical mass of people who are minorities but who make up a higher and higher percentage of fandom. Nowadays, when you go to a convention, it's pretty much a 50-50 split between male and female attendees. You have more and more LGBT people who want better and more accurate representation, more and more people of color who are interested in comics.

No, you have LGBT who want one-sided, positive portrayals only, and simultaneously, I'm not sure there's many Muslims who'd consider her great if she's fine with homosexuality. And her claim that more people of color, as she puts it, are taking interest, isn't so accurate either if modern sales are the pits. If whites aren't interested in today's mainstream products, then blacks and Latinos aren't either. Come to think of it, neither are LGBT people.

At the same time, there have been a lot of infamous incidents in the past few years — mainly at Marvel’s rival, DC Comics — that progressive readers have jumped all over. Is there a “one step forward, two steps back” situation here?
Oh, gosh. So many other people have done such a better job of documenting this stuff than I have. Like, there's a Tumblr called the Brokeback Pose, which is dedicated to archiving every single incidence of comics where a woman is on the cover or a scene with her butt pointing out while she's looking over her shoulder in an anatomically impossible way, just so there can be a butt shot. And there was, recently, that infamous Superman/Wonder Woman cover where Wonder Woman is wearing this unbelievably tight-fitting leotard and appears to have razor-burn in particularly sensitive areas. [Laughs.] It was like, "Who okayed this coloring job?" It's about blind spots. Not overt hostility. Everybody wants to believe they're doing the right thing, but we're not super-good at looking in the mirror and making an objective call about whether we're doing that. But with the power of the internet, where everything is critiqued in five minutes, it's easier to hold up that mirror and say, "Hey, you need to take a second look at this."

I think she's only bringing this one up for brownie points. If she's going to take the apologist route for a religion that condones honor murders, she's in no position to argue about some silly butt shots on covers.

Marvel has made some remarkable strides toward greater inclusivity in their comics in the past few years. In what you’ve seen while working for them, does that appear to be a conscious effort?
I think some of it is coming from the top. They take it so seriously that, just this past year, Marvel launched a bunch of different female-led books. Black Widow has her own book now, Captain Marvel [a series historically starring a man with that title, but now starring a woman named Carol Danvers] has the devoted and incredible "Carol Corps," which is everywhere. In the case of Ms. Marvel, for example, I would never have dreamed of pitching a concept like that to Marvel, in a million years. [Laughs.] That just never would have occurred to me. So to get a call like that from two very well-respected editors saying, "This is something we want to do" was stunning to me.

What's Marvel done to be more inclusive lately? I still see no Bulgarians, no Portuguese, no Lithuanians, no Basque from Spain, and come to think of it, even their other launches with female leads aren't given the best promotion. What's so serious about that? Most of their so-called inclusive steps are still very obvious, selective and symbolic at best.

So again, Wilson's done nothing more than continue her propaganda routine, and show how she's both a very poorly informed person and not a reliable source on serious issues. Bosch Fawstin was right when he spoke about how mainstream comics are oblivious to the facts.

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BRITAIN IS ENSHRINING SHARIA IN THEIR LEGAL SYSTEM

Though at this point, after all I've read about their mindlessly run country, I'm inclined to call it the "illegal system". The UK Independent says that:

Islamic law is to be effectively enshrined in the British legal system for the first time under guidelines for solicitors on drawing up “Sharia compliant” wills.

Under guidance produced by The Law Society, High Street solicitors will be able to compose Islamic wills that refuse women an equal share of inheritances and discount non-believers entirely, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

The recommendations can also prevent illegitimate children, as well as those who have been adopted, from being included in an inheritance.

Nicholas Fluck, president of The Law Society told the newspaper that the document, which would be recognised by Britain’s courts, would promote “good practice” in applying Islamic principles in the British legal system.

But some lawyers have described the recommendations as “astonishing” and campaigners have warned that the move marks a step towards a “parallel legal system” for Britain’s Muslim communities.

Baroness Cox, a cross-bench peer leading a Parliamentary campaign to protect women from discrimination authorised on the basis of religion, including from unofficial Sharia courts in Britain, told the Sunday Telegraph it was a “deeply disturbing” development.

And she pledged to raise the issue with ministers. “This violates everything that we stand for,” she said.

Sometimes, I've wondered if they really do stand for anything. Of all the sharia compliant steps turning up in the UK, this is one of the worst. Breitbart London says:

The Law Society is officially a trade organisation for solicitors but in reality it has a much wider scope. It regulates Lawyers and can ‘strike them off’ its register, making it impossible to practice.

Lawyers are required to pay a membership fee to the Society, whether they agree with its stance on things like Sharia or not.

That sounds an awful lot like a socialist tactic - if you take a position they don't agree with, they can deny you the right to build a career. The UK is clearly not a country worth getting a job in.

PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED COURT TRANSCRIPTS ON LEV TAHOR CASE RELEASED BY COURT

The Toronto Star received transcripts initially kept confidential but which the court later decided to make public about the Islamicized Haredi cult:

Newly released documents from the Lev Tahor child welfare case reveal a scene of confusion — and of community members seemingly playing defence — when child protection officials discovered 14 children had fled the country days before their families were to appeal an apprehension order.

The documents also show workers with Chatham-Kent Children’s Services suspected the families would once again flee to avoid an Ontario court order to place the children in the care of children’s aid services in Quebec. [...]

Chatham-Kent Children’s Services workers discovered the children were missing after they arrived at the Lev Tahor compound in Chatham-Kent around 2 p.m. March 4. At the home where some of the children lived, they found no one.

The first sign something was wrong, child protection worker Ted Heath testified, was that the home was unusually silent. “Usually when we do visits we can hear lots of people inside,” he said.

Officials then attempted to enter a nearby school, where they spoke to an adult who would not tell them what was happening or if he had seen the family. They were not permitted to enter the school.

“It took 15 minutes of talking to him to finally for him to say he hasn’t seen them today,” Heath said.

Heath said he tried to speak to one of the community leaders, Uriel Goldman, about the children’s whereabouts. But he and two other community members, Nachman Helbrans and Mayer Rosner — who Heath described in his testimony as controlling essentially everything in the community — moved to run away.

“We noticed Mr. Goldman got into his . . . minivan, and Mr. Rosner yelled ‘Nachman, get in the van,’ ” said Heath. They did.

“It was very odd to have them all leave the community at the same time and not be on site while we’re there,” he said.

Heath testified Chatham-Kent Children’s Services suspected Lev Tahor members would consider fleeing prior to the court date. He and another worker saw some of the 14 children on March 1 — three days before the group fled — and cautioned them not to leave.

Heath said he reminded one of the families they were expected in court March 5 for their appeal of an apprehension order involving the 14 children.

He said the parents, who cannot be identified due to a court-ordered publication ban, answered: “Yes, we know, we will be there, no problem.”

Heath said he and another worker, Jennifer Doran, searched the home for signs they would possibly leave, but found the clothes all hung in closets.

“It did not look like they were fleeing,” he said.

Child welfare officials returned to one of the homes the morning of the hearing.

“There was packing tape on the door,” Heath said. “It was just kind of down the seam of the door and we weren’t sure why that would be there, but it was all quiet inside and we heard nothing.”

At the March 5 hearing, child protection officials also spoke more generally about their recent communications with the community, specifically with Helbrans, Goldman and Rosner.

“Decisions in the community go through these individuals,” Heath said. “If we’re to be let into the home, it goes through these individuals. If they are not to let us into the home, it goes through these individuals.”

Documents show there had initially been a spirit of co-operation between Lev Tahor and the child welfare workers, but relations began to sour after a Jan. 27 meeting with the three community leaders.

At the meeting, they admitted to one case of underage marriage within the sect, though details of what was said were redacted from the court transcript.

The meeting was prompted after staff began receiving letters from family members indicating they were no longer willing to co-operate with authorities.

Speaking of which, here's an extra report about how the men in the cult made all the decisions:

The care of the Lev Tahor kids who settled in Chatham last fall seemed to be controlled by community leaders, not their own parents, an Ontario court heard earlier this month. [...]

Ted Heath of Chatham Kent Children’s Services testified at the hearing that most of the agency’s concerns revolved around the lack of education for girls in the community and arranged underage marriages.

The children appeared clean, fed and unbruised, he said.

There was always food in the fridges of the families who moved to Spurgeon’s Villa last November.

There were toys, too — though they were usually kept in boxes or appeared “staged” and not age-appropriate for the kids in the home — but that seemed to be the doing of three men who act as community spokespeople, Heath said.

“They control food in the community, the way (others) dress,” he testified.

“The leaders pay their rent. It seems to be up to the leaders, not up to the parents to provide (for children),” Heath said. “(Community members) don’t have the freedom of choice.”

That’s why the sight of those leaders — Uriel Goldman, Mayer Rosner and Nachman Helbrans — jumping into a van and driving away, moments after family service workers arrived March 4 to check on families who had been ordered to stay put, raised red flags, Heath said.

“Usually all three are there and make the decisions,” he said.

It looks like, when the cult leaders realized the authorities were on to their dirty tricks, they started feeding at least some of the children so their abuse wouldn't look too obvious. And it's even more obvious the 3 ringleaders control decisions within the community, right down to money issues, and nobody has free will, or they're brainwashed enough so that Helbrans is their pagan deity. Regardless of whether the children were abused, such a society is extremely distasteful and cannot be supported.

PUTIN DOES THE OBVIOUS

Ukraine crisis: Moscow threatens to cut gas supplies to Europe in retaliation for sanctions (dated March 23, 2014)

And Europe will fold.

Furthermore, Putin is determined to build a Russian bloc.

Obama, the kumbaya-singing community organizer, is incapable of handling this crisis.