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Cop Pulls Assault Rifle, Threatens Protesters For Their ‘Constitutional Bullsh**’

Evan Perez wrote an exclusive story on CNN highlighting a 2015 DHS Sovereign Citizen report. Part of the CNN storyline stated the DHS report was alarmingly concerned with “right-wing” extremist groups.

Florida City spies on churches, demands licenses:

Florida city’s code-enforcement division, which was subject in 2013 to a scathing audit for falsifying inspections, employing unqualified inspectors and failing to clean up nuisance properties, has now decided to go after churches.

The City of Lake Worth, in Palm Beach County, has taken the position all churches are required to obtain a “business license” to conduct worship services. It is using city employees to covertly attend services and acquire evidence, including video, “for future court presentation

Oregon Democrat confirms amnesty danger to gun rights:

Schraeder’s observation highlights a contention made by Gun Owners of America that amnesty is a threat to the right to keep and bear arms. That position has so far been avoided by other national gun rights groups which refuse to acknowledge the issue, or to score political ratings and endorsements accordingly."

MMR vaccines actually spread measles and cause permanent immune damage, doctor warns

 

Dr. Robert Rowen was fortunate enough to have grown up before the advent of MMR, emphasizing that he was "blessed" to have had natural measles, as well as chickenpox, rubella, mumps and various other conditions as a child. He lived, of course, and now no longer has to worry about ever contracting any of these diseases again, thanks to the lifelong immunity he developed.

 

If Dr. Rowen had been vaccinated with MMR like most children are today, however, he may not have been so fortunate. After the "plastic" immunity, as he calls it, wore off from the vaccine, he would have had a much higher risk of developing and spreading measles and other conditions as an adult, all of which tend to be far more severe later in life. He also would have had to face these diseases with a stunted immune system.

 

"I wrote long ago that we are setting up the younger generation for a potential calamity," said Dr. Rowen. "See, vaccines give you plastic immunity. They build up only one line of your immune system, the antibody system, and put the main immune system (cellular immunity) to sleep. You need both for fully developed immunity,

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sisterthundershow/2015/02/27/lets-talk-about-state-of-america

 

Islam and Norway's Leaking Fish Tank

Islamists such as Arfan Bhatti, Mullah Krekar and Ubaydullah Hussain have openly said they want Sharia law introduced in Norway, and placed above Norwegian law.
With such requests for divisiveness at it core, it is hard to see how Islam can not be in constant conflict with its surroundings.
There simply has been no real debate about the ripple effects created from this cultural collision-course between Humanism and Islamism.
It is probably high time to take a long, critical look at the contents of the Qur'an and see what values and spiritual seeds it can plant in people's minds. Europeans are just starting to face a reality with which Israelis have lived for years.
Here, those who seem "out of line" risk being publicly and privately destroyed by self-appointed "anti-racists," who do their best to sabotage anyone with the audacity to voice an opinion different from theirs.
Either way, this reaction shows that the openness for discussing sensitive issues is not much better in Norway than in Pakistan.
Politicians need to be especially wary of those they choose as advisors. It is so easy to be an extremist in moderates' clothing.

Life is stirring in the fish tank. It is a controlled space, where one cannot see out and is dependent on nourishment from above.
Or undernourishment. It comes from the press, with its censorship; from politicians, with their refusal to acknowledge how the increased presence of Islam is directly connected to the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe, and from the country's "we-know-better" intellectual elite, who pass along "correct" truths. The term "prefabricated fodder" comes to mind. Norway is not the sole purveyor of it in Europe, unfortunately.
In our little fish tank in the north, we have been kept apart from our fellow fish in the ocean. We have been kept apart from the possibility of receiving other opinions (dangerous!) and finding our own nourishment (uh-oh, knowledge). Increasingly, one gets the impression the "establishment" would like to keep us in this hermetically sealed fish tank forever. Here, in this controlled space, it is easy to be scrutinized; and you if you step out of line, heaven help you.
Much of the media, in many of the articles about recent terrorist attacks in Australia, France and Denmark, has started by suggesting that the perpetrators were insane, and then that their acts had nothing to do with Islam.
What is it, then, that makes European media deny a link between the killers' last words -- the familiar "Allahu akbar!" ("Allah is greater") -- and, throughout the world, the horrors one now sees almost daily, all done in the name of Islam?
What seems to be missing is addressing the problem, and the problems that surround it, with a truly hard look, and with discussion. What, for instance, should we in the West really be doing about the many statements by Muslims that they feel "offended" and see themselves as victims -- all coupled with an apparent inability to see that modern-day slavery, the treatment of non-Muslims in Muslim countries, or even Muslims of other sects; not to mention throwing homosexuals off buildings, beheadings, stonings and burning people alive -- might offend others?
In other words, in some Muslims, there often seems to be a pronounced lack of empathy that apparently creates a fluctuation between a mentality that is sometimes passive (victim) and sometimes aggressive (dominating).
These dualisms seem to pervade Islam in other ways as well. Islam appears to divide the world between believers (other Muslims, but only if they subscribe to one's own version of Islam), and the rest of mankind, who are kuffar (non-believers). There is also, in Islamic ideology, the division between Muslim-controlled territory (Dar al Islam, Abode of Islam) and non-Muslim-controlled territory (Dar al Harb, Abode of War ) -- land soon to be "liberated," by force if necessary, for the furtherance of Islam.
With such demands for divisiveness at its core, it is hard to see how Islam can not be in constant conflict with its surroundings. The concept that peace will come if all non-believers convert, submit to Islam as dhimmis or are killed, does not, in the West at least, seem an acceptable solution.
Further, as Muslims have become more numerous in many non-Muslim countries, to what extent should one accommodate those who keep upping demands for their hosts to change their practices, traditions and legal systems to create for them, and often for everyone, a halal (permitted by Islam) environment as opposed to one that is haram (forbidden by Islam)?
Islamists such as Arfan Bhatti, Mullah Krekar and Ubaydullah Hussain have openly said that they want sharia law introduced in Norway, and placed above Norwegian law.

Arfan Bhatti, a well-known violent Islamist ex-convict in Norway, wants to introduce sharia law in the country. (Image source: YouTube video screenshot)

Other Islamic scholars, such as Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979), state that Islam's goal is world domination under Islam through the concept of the Caliphate ("successor" to Mohammad) and ummah (Muslim community), by means of jihad (war in the service of Islam).
In Jihad in Islam, just as one example, Maududi wrote: "Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam, regardless of the country or the Nation that rules it. Islam requires the earth -- not just a portion -- but the whole planet."[1] There are many more examples.
Europe is now in the process of handing over not only values and freedoms but also its wealth, through taxpayers' money, to Muslims via the welfare state and mass-immigration (both legal and illegal).
It is hard to think that any non-Muslim desires to live in a Muslim state run by sharia law, but of course, as we see Europeans running to join ISIS, there are exceptions. Meanwhile, many of Norway's -- and Europe's -- mostly cowardly politicians, members of the media, and the politically correct elite, who are still in denial that anything is wrong, seem to be competing to see who can get us to this nightmare as quickly as possible.
Clearly then, Islam does not appear to share Norway's values of Humanism, which forms such a strong part Norway's identity and lies at the heart of the country's education system.
Quranic schools and mosques all over Europe seem to be preaching the opposite of Humanism. Many Muslim families may also be preaching the opposite of Humanism to their children. These people might never have been taught it, or possibly believe that if they prefer it, they will be shunned, physically harmed or spend an eternity burning in hellfire. Kasim Kaz Hafeez, a British man of Pakistani origin who was brought up to hate Jews, supplies a candid account of the power of indoctrination. Now an enthusiastic supporter of Israel, Hafeez's views began to change when he bought a book to disprove what was in it, only to discover that everything he had been taught was not true. How many of us, every day, subtly, unofficially, are also being indoctrinated, not in mosques, but by politicians and the media?
There simply has been no real debate about the ripple effects created by this collision-course between Humanism and Islamism. Rather, there are reports of children, born in Norway to Muslim families, removed from schools and sent for their formative years to their parents' country of origin, to receive an Islamic education, to prevent them from "becoming too Norwegian."
Many Muslims seem unpracticed in, and discouraged from, independent thinking, and many Westerners also seem unwilling to try it.
For years we have heard that we have to look at the Qu'ran "in its original language;" that we have read verses out of context; that the interpretation or the context is wrong, and so on. However, these disparities do not seem to be the problem.
Nothing is likely to happen unless the Europeans or the Muslims, or both, first recognize there is a problem. It is this gap that makes arguments over translation, content, interpretation and context merely irrelevant diversions. It is high time to take a long, critical look at the contents of the Qur'an, and see what values and spiritual seeds it can plant in people's minds. Europeans are just starting to face a reality with which the Israelis have lived for years.
The media, still in denial, and the "anti-racist" lobby -- who still have not woken up to the fact that Islam is not a race -- refuse to believe that others might have views different from theirs but nonetheless legitimate.
Muslims themselves will have to sort out Islam's reform, but we do not have the time to wait for that. What we can and should be doing is protect our democracies and the values of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
Here, those who seem "out of line" risk being publicly and privately destroyed by self-appointed "anti-racists," who do their best to sabotage anyone with the audacity to voice an opinion different from theirs.
Either way, this reaction shows that the openness for discussing sensitive issues is not much better in Norway than in Pakistan. It also shows that the personal risks of being seen to dissent are probably too high -- frankly nothing to be proud of in a country that claims to be a democracy.
We are holding our breath, waiting for a response from the establishment about possible legislative, fiscal and organizational solutions that need to be implemented for both Norway and the rest of Europe. Politicians need to be especially wary of those they chose as advisors. It is so easy to be an extremist in moderates' clothing.
I would like to imagine that all Norwegians, despite their differences, are united in their pride of the country's tradition of Humanism. It is therefore time for all politicians and members of the media to get informed about Islam and address the issues at stake.
After years of hearing that these violent attacks by Muslims have nothing to do with Islam, people are feeling less protected and more disgruntled. At the same time, the laymen's knowledge of Islam has increased enough so that they no longer can be brushed off. What needs to be done so that people feel they are being heard, especially now with the almost daily atrocities meted out in the name of Islam around the world?
Politicians can no longer afford not to act. Muslims worldwide are now facing up to Islam's core issue: How should Islam go forward? One such person is Ahmed Aboutaleb, the Muslim Mayor of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, who says he wants a "we" nation; that if others do not subscribe to the freedoms, tolerance, values or the constitution of the country they have come to by choice, they are free to leave by choice.
Norway is no longer a safe fish tank, controlled, far away from the ocean. Challenges from other corners of the world have crept closer and now are here. The fish tank is leaking; water is bursting out at the seams.

Bjorn Jansen is based in Norway.

Austria Passes Reforms to 1912 Islam Law

The new law, which the Austrian government says could serve as a model for the rest of Europe, seeks to reduce outside meddling by prohibiting foreign funding for mosques, imams and Muslim organizations in Austria. It also stresses that Austrian law must take precedence over Islamic Sharia law for Muslims living in the country.
The Turkish government has expressed outrage at the financing ban, which it says amounts to "Islamophobia."
"Countries cannot have their own version of Islam. Islam is universal and its sources are clear. ... [E]fforts taken by state leaders to create a version of Islam that is particular to their own countries are futile." — Mehmet Görmez, Head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate.
The massive demographic and religious shift underway in Austria, traditionally a Roman Catholic country, appears irreversible. In Vienna, Muslim students already outnumber Catholic students at middle and secondary schools and are on the verge of overtaking Catholics in elementary schools.
At the same, time Austria has emerged as a major base for radical Islam.

The Austrian parliament has approved controversial reforms to the country's century-old Islam Law (Islamgesetz), governing the status of Muslims in the country.
The new law, which was passed on February 25, is aimed at integrating Muslims and fighting Islamic radicalism by promoting an "Islam with an Austrian character."
Among other changes, the new law seeks to reduce outside meddling by prohibiting foreign funding for mosques, imams and Muslim organizations in Austria. It also stresses that Austrian law must take precedence over Islamic Sharia law for Muslims living in the country.
The Austrian government says the new law is a milestone and could serve as a model for the rest of Europe. But Muslim groups say it is discriminatory and have vowed to challenge it in court.
The new law overhauls the original Islam Law, which dates back to 1912. The original law was passed in order to help integrate Muslim soldiers into the Habsburg Imperial Army after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908. The law recognized Islam as an official religion in Austria, and allowed Muslims to practice their religion in accordance with the laws of the state.
After the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed in the aftermath of World War I, the number of Muslims in Austria was reduced to just a few hundred people. After World War II, however, Austria's Muslim population increased rapidly with the arrival of "guest workers" from Turkey and the Balkans in the 1960s, and refugees from Bosnia in the 1990s.
According to data compiled by the University of Vienna, the Muslim population in Austria now exceeds 574,000 (or roughly 7% of the total population), up from an estimated 340,000 (or 4.25%) in 2001 and 150,000 (or 2%) in 1990.
The massive demographic and religious shift underway in Austria, traditionally a Roman Catholic country, appears irreversible. In Vienna, where the Muslim population now exceeds 12.5%, Muslim students already outnumber Catholic students at middle and secondary schools. Muslim students are also on the verge of overtaking Catholics in Viennese elementary schools.
At the same time, Austria has emerged as a major base for radical Islam. A recent report by Austria's Agency for State Protection and Counterterrorism (BVT) warned of the "exploding radicalization of the Salafist scene in Austria." Salafism is an anti-Western ideology that seeks to impose Islamic sharia law.
Due to its geographic location, Austria has also become a central hub for European jihadists seeking to fight in Syria. In addition to being a transit point for foreigners going to fight with the Islamic State, at least 190 Austrian citizens have become jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
In an interview with Austrian Public Radio Ö1-Morgenjournal, Austria's Minister for Integration and Foreign Affairs, Sebastian Kurz, said the rapid rise of Islam in Austria has rendered the old Islam Law obsolete. A new law is needed, he said, to stipulate more clearly the rights and responsibilities of Muslims living in the country.
The new law (nine-page text in German here) regulates at least a dozen separate issues, including relatively non-controversial matters such as Muslim holidays, Muslim cemeteries, Muslim dietary practices and the activities of Muslim clergy in hospitals, prisons and the army. In this respect, the government has met all of the demands put forth by Muslim groups in the country.
The new law, however, goes far beyond what Muslims had wanted. For example, the law seeks to prevent the growth of a parallel Islamic society in Austria by regulating mosques and the training of imams, who will now be required to be proficient in German. The new law also requires Muslim organizations and groups to terminate the employment of clerics who have criminal records or who "pose a threat to public safety, order, health and morals or the rights and freedoms of others."
More significantly, Paragraph 6.2 of the law seeks to limit the religious and political influence of foreign governments within the Austrian Muslim community by prohibiting foreign countries -- presumably Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states -- from financing Islamic centers and mosques in Austria.
The new restrictions -- including an employment ban for foreign clerics in Austria as of March 31, 2016 -- would apply especially to Turkey: 60 of the 300 Muslim clerics working in Austria are Turkish civil servants whose salaries are being paid for by the Turkish government's Religious Affairs Directorate, the Diyanet.
In an interview with the BBC, Kurz said the reforms were a "milestone" for Austria and were aimed at preventing certain Muslim countries from using financial means to exert "political influence." He said:

"What we want is to reduce the political influence and control from abroad and we want to give Islam the chance to develop freely within our society and in line with our common European values."

The Turkish government has expressed outrage at the financing ban, which it says amounts to "Islamophobia." The head of the Diyanet, Mehmet Görmez, said it was a "huge mistake" that would throw Austria's tradition of tolerance towards Islam "back 100 years." He added:

"Countries come together from time to time on the grounds of security concerns and try to construct a version of Islam peculiar to their own countries, rather than increase the freedoms that would lead to unity and remove obstacles before the religious education and services, and make an effort to remove anti-Islamic sentiments and Islamophobia.
"Countries cannot have their own version of Islam. Islam is universal and its sources are clear. Therefore, religion is not a matter of engineering. I would like to restate that efforts taken by state leaders to create a version of Islam that is particular to their own countries are futile."

Mehmet Görmez (left), head of the Turkish government's Religious Affairs Directorate, denounced Austria's new law and said that Austria should instead "make an effort to remove anti-Islamic sentiments and Islamophobia." Johann Rädler (right), speaking for the Austrian People's Party, said the law "guarantees Muslims more rights, and on the other hand it serves to counteract undesirable developments."

For many, however, the most contentious part of the law involves Paragraph 4.2, which states that Muslim organizations "must have a positive attitude toward society and state" or be shut down. According to the government, this formulation makes it clear that Austrian civil law has priority over Islamic Sharia law. Muslim groups say this is unfair because it casts a "veil of general suspicion" over the entire community.
Kurz has defended the clause: "In Austria there must be no contradiction between being a self-conscious Austrian, while at the same time also being a devout Muslim. That was always the intention behind this law."
Some say the law does not go far enough. The leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party of Austria, Heinz-Christian Strache, says that the law is full of loopholes will be difficult if not impossible to enforce. He also expressed dismay that the law does not include a ban on minarets and burkas.
A spokesperson for the Austrian People's Party, Johann Rädler, said the law is the result of compromises that were made on both sides. He added:

"The goal of this law is to promote an Islam with an Austrian character, without being patronizing and without being dependent upon contributions from abroad. On the one hand, this law guarantees Muslims more rights, and on the other hand it serves to counteract undesirable developments."

Europe Without Jews?

Even if many Muslims came to Europe seeking economic opportunity, they are often defined as victims of racism and oppression. So, the thinking goes, if you are a victim of racism and oppression, how can you be racist yourself?
The Palestinians repeat almost daily that they would like to kill the Israelis, while the Israelis say they would like peace. What follows are usually bitter, politically-motivated denunciations of Israel by Europe, masquerading as human rights.
Despite the increasingly savage state of the world and an openly genocidal Iran -- soon to be nuclear, if it is not already -- Israeli leaders remain the ones Europeans love to accuse, hate and demonize.
The terrorist attacks are denounced by journalists and political leaders, but their denunciations always sound sanctimonious and thin, condemning the "anti-Semitism" they themselves have been encouraging.
In Europe today, slandering Israel is widely conveyed by European Muslims, and if a political leader or journalist does not agree with what they say, he must be a racist.
There are now 44 million Muslims in Europe.

In Europe, evoking the memory of Auschwitz has become difficult; tomorrow, it may be impossible.
The ceremony marking the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp was held on January 27 -- and will likely be the last commemoration of its kind. The Nazis wanted a Europe without Jews. They killed six million, but in their ultimate goal, they failed.
Three hundred survivors were invited; all were more than eighty years old. Although filmed testimonies will remain, there may be no more direct witnesses.
While European political leaders speak of Auschwitz with the solemn formula of "never again," it increasingly seems meaningless. Surveys show that in most European countries, including Germany, a growing number of people want to turn the page, and say they want forget about the Holocaust in a way they do not say they want to forget about, for instance, the Crucifixion.
When articles on the Holocaust are published in major European magazines, an increasing number of people leave comments to point out that the Holocaust was just one genocide among others, and there is no reason to insist on this one in particular.
When other genocides are evoked, the fate of the Palestinians also quickly takes center stage, even though the Palestinians repeat almost daily that they would like to kill the Israelis, while the Israelis say they would like peace. The Israelis have never said they would like to kill the Palestinians.
What follows are usually bitter, politically motivated denunciations of Israel by Europe, masquerading as human rights.
Despite the monstrous crimes committed by the Islamic State, Boko Haram or Iran; despite two hundred thousand dead in Syria; and despite the massacres of Christians and Yezidis in Iraq, for European journalists, the Jewish state remains, it seems, the favored prime target.
Where else in the middle east but Israel can a journalist lead a comfortable life, file a story along the only lines his editor will like by noon, go to the beach, and have dinner with his family? Maybe if he bashes Israel enough, his story will even make the front page, and he will receive an award for courage in journalism. So, in the international media, Israeli Jews are often libelously described as criminals who simply are doing to other people what was done to the Jews seventy years ago.
Despite the increasingly savage state of the world, with an openly genocidal Iran -- soon to be a nuclear, if it is not already -- and with the squalid brutality of dictators such as Bashar al-Assad, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Kim Jong Un and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, Israeli leaders remain the ones many Europeans love to accuse, hate and demonize.
The desire to forget the past, to hurl degrading charges against Israeli Jews, to slander the Jewish state, and to demonize Israeli leadership displays a growing animosity against Jews, in addition to encouraging renewed anti-Jewish violence on European soil.
Often anti-Israeli demonstrations are punctuated with explicit slogans targeting Jews. These demonstrations then lead to riots and physical attacks against synagogues and Jews.
The attacks are denounced by journalists and political leaders, but their denunciations always sound sanctimonious and thin, condemning the "anti-Semitism" they themselves have been encouraging. Most European journalists and political leaders claim to fight anti-Semitism. Most do not.[1] They almost never address the harsh words used about Israel, Israeli Jews or Israel's leaders. They speak and act as if those words had no influence. Their denunciations therefore always sound devious and glossy.
The long, persistent, European hatred of Jews, which led to Auschwitz, was a crime so sickening that, for a few decades, Europeans were crushed with shame. Since then, they seem to have sought unceasingly to alleviate this burden.
One attempt, Holocaust denial, merely sparked outrage and horror for a while. Attempts to trivialize the Holocaust persist. The growing desire in many Europeans to forget about those events could even be making trivializing the Holocaust a success.
Another attempt is to slander Israel. If falsely accusing it of being a criminal state; and Israeli Jews of being unacceptable; and Israeli leaders of having dark plans, then Europeans can see themselves as less criminal and allow themselves to feel less guilt.[2]
Slandering Israel in Europe is also effective because, although it comes from both extremes, it mostly comes from the "left."[3]
The "left" portrays itself as "anti-fascist"; anyone who does not agree with their views must therefore be a fascist.
They describe Palestinian Arabs as victims, which they are – but not because of Israel. No Palestinians are now governed by Israelis, only Arabs. Israel forcibly evacuated all the Jews from Gaza in 2005, so it could be, for the Palestinians, a "Singapore on the Mediterranean." Israelis left greenhouses in perfect condition for them, so the Palestinians could start out with a solid economy. The Palestinians destroyed the greenhouses within hours. Hamas threw Fatah members off the tops of buildings until Fatah ran away. Hamas now rules Gaza in a unity government with Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority. Support for Abbas's Fatah is support for Hamas.
But many Europeans – even now, faced with the same terror attacks Israel has faced for years -- do not let such facts get in their way. Never mind that the Palestinians had built secret death-tunnels for surprise attacks to kidnap and murder Jewish civilians Never mind that the Palestinians continually call for the death -- not just of Israelis -- but of Jews. Never mind that Palestinians rejected every partition, land or peace offer, granting them 98% of what they asked, since 1947. Many Europeans still describe Israeli Jews as fascist torturers, sometimes comparable to the Nazis.[4]
Slandering Israel is effective in Europe today because there has been a shift in its population. Millions of Muslim migrants have come there. Now they are European citizens. Even if many originally came to Europe seeking economic opportunity, they are often defined by Europeans as victims of racism and oppression. So, the thinking goes, if you are a victim of racism and oppression, how can you be racist yourself?
Many Muslims have been indoctrinated from childhood to hate Israel, hate the Jews and hate the West.[5] This view is helped along by genocidal Islamic texts; the Palestinian media, both Hamas and Fatah; the international media, who only accept articles that have an anti-Israeli angle, and European-funded, non-governmental organizations which pretend to defend "human rights" but instead are dedicated to the political agenda: trying to dismantle Israel.
European governments and the European Union each year spend hundreds of million of euros– transparency and accountability rigorously kept hidden -- for the political agenda of trying to bring Israel to its knees, diplomatically and economically. This international agenda is spurred on with the encouragement of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [OIC], composed of 56 states plus "Palestine," and which makes up the largest bloc at the deeply corrupt United Nations.
In Europe today, slandering Israel is widely conveyed by European Muslims, and if a political leader or journalist does not agree with what they say, he must be a racist.
Hatred of Israel so permeates the European atmosphere that almost no journalists or political leaders -- with the exception of a courageous few, who are immediately and harshly punished -- seem prepared to confront it in a way that might actually bear results.
A few years ago, attacks against Jews in Europe could be violent, but rarely led to assassinations. But all this started to change in 2006, when a group in Paris kidnapped and tortured a young Jew, Ilan Halimi, for three weeks before finally killing him. In 2012, the man who attacked the Jewish school in Toulouse also wanted to kill Jews, and did. The man who attacked the Brussels Jewish Museum in 2014 wanted to kill Jews, and did. He did. The man who entered kosher supermarket in Paris on January 9 wanted to kill Jews, and did. The man who attacked a synagogue in Copenhagen on February 14 wanted to kill Jews; perhaps to his disappointment, he killed only one.
In response to the attacks, some extremely praiseworthy Muslims were among the 1,000 people in Norway, who, in solidarity with the Jews, formed a "ring of peace" around the main synagogue in Oslo. "We do not want individuals to define what Islam is for the rest of us," said one of the demonstration's organizers, Zeeshan Abdullah. But more attacks in Europe will follow.
European populations remain passive and inert. They reacted in Paris on January 11 mostly because famous cartoonists were killed two days earlier than the attack on the kosher store. Had it been only Jews that were killed, there probably would have been no crowd reaction at all. There were no crowds after the Toulouse or Brussels killings. There was also, before the Muslim ring in Copenhagen, a small crowd reaction after the murder there – most likely because the killer had also attacked a meeting on free speech.

World leaders link arms at the Paris anti-terror rally on January 11, 2014. Guy Millière writes that had it been only Jews that were been killed, there probably would have been no rally at all. (Image source: RT video screenshot)

Israeli leaders, deciphering the situation, have for years denounced the rising anti-Israel atmosphere in Europe, and accurately predicted what the violent consequences would be.
Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has repeated that at least now there is a Jewish state where Jews can live freely.
More than 60,000 Jews have left Europe during the past decade, and thousands are still leaving.
While there were 9.8 million Jews in Europe in 1939, there are now 1.4 million: 0.2% of the population.
There are now 44 million Muslims in Europe. The number of those who are radicalized is on the rise, and the number who hate Israel and Jews is high.
Seventy years after Auschwitz, a Europe without Jews now seems a possibility.

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[1] Manfred Gerstenfeld, Demonizing Israel and the Jews, RVP Publishers, 2013.
[2] Gabriel Schoenfeld, The Return of Anti-Semitism, Encounter Books, 2005
[3] Robert Wistrich, From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
[4] Robert Wistrich, op.cit.
[5] Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West, Anchor Books, 2010.

Being "Protected" in Turkey

You wonder why rape has become a malady in Turkey? Ask your government deputy and he will explain: Popular Turkish soap operas!
Last November, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tasked shop owners with "protecting their neighborhoods and the country themselves." A shopkeeper in Istanbul stabbed a journalist in the chest and killed him because a snowball had hit his window. A few hours earlier, the journalist had bought cat food from the shop.
Imagine a country where taking public transport or merely going to school (especially for young women) or playing with snowballs in the street can be categorized as sports of extreme danger.

If Turkey were a person instead of a country, law enforcement authorities would probably require it to have psychiatric therapy. Pundits are asking: "What has become of us?" Good question. No one has offered a good answer.
Earlier this month about 70 members of parliament spoke at a special parliamentary session. Each speaker, from government or opposition seats, condemned the widespread violence against women in the country. The audience applauded every speaker, from government or opposition seats. There was peace in the house. Three hours after the session closed, the deputies gathered to debate a controversial security bill. Chaos ensued as a brawl broke out. The session ended after five MPs were hospitalized.

Turkish members of parliament in a violent brawl, February 17, 2015. (Image source: YouTube video screenshot)

The fighting broke out after two Kurdish female MPs (opposition) walked to the speaker's bench to protest an alleged breach of house rules. When asked to explain the bruises the women had shown to journalists, a senior government deputy, Mustafa Elitas said: "They beat themselves up."
You wonder why rape has become a social malady in Turkey? Ask your government MP and he will explain. Ismet Ucma from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has blamed popular Turkish soap operas for the visible rise in rape cases and argued that "such series are ruining the nature of the Turkish family structure." In earlier remarks, Ucma had proposed that couples should get a "license" in order to get married; and that local residents should act to "protect the honor of their neighborhoods."
The Turks indeed protect their neighborhoods in bizarre ways. A shopkeeper in Istanbul stabbed Nuh Koklu, a journalist, in the chest and killed him because a snowball had hit his window. Several hours before being murdered, the journalist had bought cat food from the same shop.
Apparently, it was not just a petty crime committed by an insane shopkeeper. Last November, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tasked shop owners with "protecting their neighborhoods and the country themselves:"

"Tradesmen and craftsmen are not people involved in economic activity ... in our civilization and in our national soul, [they] are soldiers if needed; they are martyrs, veterans, and heroes who protect their country when needed. [They are] police who restore public peace when needed; [they are] the judges who provide justice," Erdogan said. [].

The shop owner who stabbed the journalist Koklu to death proved how "heroic" Turkish tradesmen can be. Tradesmen soldiers at your orders, Mr. President!
Apparently, it is not only Turkish shop owners who can act as the soldiers of an Islamist government. The vice-principal of a high school in southern Turkey caused loud laughter and embarrassment when she suggested creating "harassment teams" in her school to prevent female students from wearing short skirts.
News reports said that the vice-principal of a high school in Antalya province proposed, at a meeting with class presidents, that "male students could follow girls who wear short skirts to make them feel uncomfortable, after which the girl students would eventually have to dress 'properly.'" The proposal was then debated at a teachers' meeting after some class presidents told other teachers about the idea. At the meeting with other teachers, the vice-principal admitted having made the suggestion and defended the idea.
The head of the local teachers union accused the vice-principal of encouraging students to commit crimes. He said: "Female students are being targeted. Principals and deputy principals do not have the right to say such things. Telling male students to 'harass' amounts to provocation."
The good news was that the vice-principal, after having hit the headlines in the secular (not pro-government) media, was "punished" by the city's education authorities. The bad news was that her punishment was merely a reassignment to another school in the same city where she will be "teaching German language."
"Is this the way you punish a teacher with eccentric ideas, or the students at the school she will now be teaching?" asked a European ambassador in Ankara, looking puzzled.
Turkey is becoming an increasingly bizarre place to live in. Imagine a country where taking public transport or merely going to school (especially for young women), or playing with snowballs in the street (for everyone) or just being an opposition member of parliament can be categorized as high-adrenaline sports of extreme danger.

Burak Bekdil, based in Ankara, is a Turkish columnist for the Hürriyet Daily and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Netanyahu, Churchill and Congress
Trying to Avert War

There are striking similarities between the objectives of Churchill's speech nearly 75 years ago and Netanyahu's today; both with no less purpose than to avert global conflagration. And, like Churchill's in the 1930s, Netanyahu's is the lone voice among world leaders today.
There is no doubt abut Iran's intent. It has been described as a nuclear Auschwitz. Israel is not the only target of Iranian violence. Iran has long been making good on its promises to mobilize Islamic forces against the US, as well as the UK and other American allies. Attacks directed and supported by Iran have killed an estimated 1,100 American troops in Iraq in recent years. Iran provided direct support to Al Qaeda in the 9/11 attacks.
Between 2010 and 2013, Iran either ordered or allowed at least three major terrorist plots against the US and Europe to be planned from its soil. Fortunately, all were foiled.
Iran's ballistic missile program, inexplicably outside the scope of current P5+1 negotiations, brings Europe into Iran's range, and future development will extend Tehran's reach to the US.
It is not yet too late to prevent Iran from arming itself with nuclear weapons. In his 1941 speech to Congress, Churchill reminded the American people that five or six years previously it would have been easy to prevent Germany from rearming without bloodshed. But by then it was too late.
This vengeful and volatile regime must not in any circumstances be allowed to gain a nuclear weapons capability, whatever the P5+1 states might consider the short-term economic, political or strategic benefits to themselves of a deal with Tehran.

In a few days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the US Congress for the third time. The only other foreign leader to have had that privilege was Winston Churchill. Like Churchill when he first spoke to Congress in December 1941, Netanyahu is taking a risk.
For Churchill the risk was to his life -- he had to make a hazardous transatlantic voyage aboard the battleship HMS Duke of York through stormy, U-boat infested waters. For Netanyahu the risk is to his own political life and to his country's relationship with the United States, given the intense presidential opposition to his speech.
But like Churchill was, Netanyahu is a fighting soldier and, like Churchill, a tough political leader, unafraid to shoulder such risks when so much is at stake. And in both cases, the stakes could not be higher, greater than their own lives, political fortunes or rivalries and affecting not just their own countries and the United States, but the whole of the world.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of U.S. Congress on May 24, 2011. (Image source: PBS video screenshot)

There are striking similarities between the objectives of Churchill's speech nearly 75 years ago and Netanyahu's today: both with no less a purpose than to avert global conflagration.
Speaking days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Churchill summarized the course of the war thus far but then concluded with a dramatic appeal to the American people for Anglo-American unity to prevent conflict in the future, reminding them that "twice in a single generation, the catastrophe of world war has fallen upon us."
"Do we not owe it to ourselves, to our children, and to mankind," he asked, "to make sure that these catastrophes do not engulf us for the third time?"
No less profound, and no less far-reaching, will be Netanyahu's appeal for American-Israeli unity in the face of a new danger. A danger perhaps even greater than Churchill was able to comprehend in pre-nuclear 1941. Whereas Churchill spoke of a future, as yet unknown peril, Netanyahu will focus on the clear and present threat to world peace if Iran is allowed to produce nuclear weapons.
And like Churchill in the 1930s, Netanyahu's is a lone voice among world leaders today.

In pursuit of both uranium and plutonium tracks to a bomb, as well as the development of long-range ballistic missiles, there is no doubt about Iran's intent. It has been described as a nuclear Auschwitz.
It is Netanyahu's duty to sound the alarm against such a prospect. It is Israel's survival that is at stake. It is Israel that will have to conduct military intervention if the US will not. And it is Israelis who will die in any subsequent regional conflagration.

But this is not only an existential threat to Israel -- it is a danger to other states in the Middle East and to us all. Doubtful of Western resolve, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey are already investigating the development of their own nuclear capabilities.

An agreement that leaves Iran with the potential to achieve nuclear breakout will trigger a Middle East arms race that will exponentially increase the risks of global nuclear war, a risk multiplied by the vulnerability of regional governments to overthrow by extremists.
Iran's ballistic missile program, inexplicably outside the scope of current P5+1 negotiations, brings Europe into Iran's range, and future development will extend Tehran's nuclear reach to the US. The world's number one sponsor of terrorism, the regime of the ayatollahs would have no qualms about supplying their terrorist proxies with nuclear weapons.

This is the greatest threat the world faces today. Yet all the signals suggest that the P5+1, driven by President Obama's apparent desperation for détente with Tehran, is already set on a path towards 1930s-style appeasement that will end with Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons.
The view that Cold War style containment and mutual deterrence could prevent this apocalyptic, fanatical regime from using its nuclear weapons is dangerously naïve. Yet the Western leaders who seem to be on the verge of reaching an agreement are not naïve. Lacking the moral strength to face down Iran, they see deception and appeasement as the only way out of their dilemma.
To gauge their intentions, we do not need to rely just on frequent Iranian threats, such as those of General Hossein Salami, who said recently, with negotiations still under way: "As long as the US continue to use the Islamic world as the scene for their regional policies, all the forces of the Islamic world will undoubtedly be mobilized against them." In the same interview, he threatened Israel too: "The very existence of the Zionist entity and its collapse are of crucial importance."
Iran's determination to bring about the violent collapse of the "Zionist entity" is continuously manifested in its directing and funding of armed attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians at home and overseas, by proxies including Hizballah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The Gaza conflict last summer, for example, owed much to Iranian funding and weaponry.
Just a few weeks ago, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Mohammad Allahadi was operating with senior Hizballah commanders to set up a new front on Syrian territory in the Golan, from which to launch attacks against Israel. He was killed by an Israeli air strike while visiting his planned area of operations.
Israel is not the only target of Iranian violence. Iran has long been making good on its promises to mobilize Islamic forces against the US, as well as the UK and other American allies. Attacks directed and supplied from Tehran killed an estimated 1,100 American troops in Iraq in recent years. Strikes have been facilitated in Afghanistan, killing US, British and other Coalition soldiers.
Iran provided direct support to Al Qaeda in the 9/11 attacks and continues to harbor Al Qaeda terrorists. Between 2010 and 2013, Tehran either ordered or allowed at least three major terrorist plots against the US and Europe to be planned from its soil. Fortunately, all were foiled. Direction, support and facilitation to both Sunni and Shia terrorist groups in planning attacks against the US and its allies continues today.

This vengeful and volatile regime must not in any circumstances be allowed to gain a nuclear weapons capability, whatever the P5+1 states might consider the short-term economic, political or strategic benefits to themselves of a deal with Tehran.
Even before the world's first experience of nuclear bombing in August 1945, Churchill and Roosevelt both understood the dangers of allowing their enemies and potential enemies to acquire such capability. When Allied intelligence identified a Nazi uranium production plant in Oranienburg in eastern Germany, 612 bombers destroyed it in a single raid in March 1945 with 1,506 tons of high explosives and 178 tons of incendiary bombs, to prevent it falling into the hands of advancing Russian troops.

Only a strong stand by the West, and rejection of an agreement that allows development of nuclear weapons, will ensure that such action does not in the future become necessary against Iran. In his 1941 speech to Congress, Churchill reminded the American people that five or six years previously it would have been easy to prevent Germany from rearming without bloodshed. But by then it was too late, and the world was engulfed in unprecedented violence.
It is not yet too late to prevent Iran from arming itself with nuclear weapons. The American people, the American government and the West as a whole must heed Netanyahu's clear warning not to reach a deal that will allow the mendacious and malevolent Iranian regime to acquire nuclear weapons. Instead, sanctions that stand a chance of compelling Tehran to abandon its world-threatening ambitions must be maintained, and if necessary, increased.

Colonel Richard Kemp spent most his 30-year career in the British Army commanding front-line troops in fighting terrorism and insurgency in hotspots including Iraq, the Balkans, South Asia and Northern Ireland. He was Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan in 2003. From 2002 - 2006 he heading the international terrorism team at the Joint Intelligence Committee of the British Prime Minister's Office.

WHERE ARE THE  TRUE CHRISTIANS :  are we fighting or are we sleeping?

Sunday march 1, 2015 at 12:00noontime PST if, YOU  are a Christian stand- up today, stand- up for OUR LORD... we must help our brothers and sisters...Here is number to call-in at (347) 826-7353

Muslims Go On Christian-Killing Spree ... Christians wind up being killed. ... As we remain completely silent while genocide of Christians is going on...

President Barack Obama is itching to go to war in Syria over the deaths of Muslim "rebels," many of whom are members of al-Qaida and their supporters.

Yet, there is a virtual genocide going on in Syria and other parts of the Muslim world against Christians, with churches targeted by bombs and missiles or simply burnt to the ground.

Christians have been beaten, raped and murdered in the most gruesome ways, including the dismembering of a young girl while she was still alive.

Christians are dying at the hands of Muslims wherever Islam has the upper hand, and the last two administrations have done nothing but aggravate the situation.  Consider, also, while Obama brings into this (once) Christian nation as many Islamists as he can, Christians are being slaughtered under the noses of U.N. “Peace Keepers” in many places in Africa and in every country affected by the Muslim Spring where U.S. policy has been to back the Islamists over dictators who were much more friendly to Christian citizens.

 

Message from Christian’s youth to his ‪#‎Eminence Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah

 His Eminence Sayyed, we are a group of Christians youth... we are fed up seeing our people, our religion are being killed, our archbishops being kidnapped, our girls being raped and the Cross instilled in their mouths by the hands of these barbarians, the ‪#‎Salafis and ‪#‎Takfiris who are not related to Islam in anything. The smell of death is smelting from everywhere. They are bringing destruction to our Middle East and all this is happening under the eyes of United Nations and the Christian of Europe

 

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