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How do you turn a dollar into thirty cents? Give it to the government. It’s not Obama’s fault.It’s a function of government. That’s why we need less government.

The wanton waste of taxpayer dollars for folly and fraudulent cronyism profit has been going on for decades. That won’t change much, regardless of who is at the wheel. Who doesn’t remember a time when stories such as the military buying $2,300 toilets were commonplace, regardless of who was president?

When President Obama took office, he promised to create sweeping changes in the federal government that would cut costs and make us more efficient. From About.com: “But I will also go through the federal budget line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less, because we cannot meet 21st-century challenges with a 20th-century bureaucracy.”

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3002/media-whitewash-muslim-persecution-christians While the MSM may report the most frugal facts concerning Christian persecution, they utilize their entire arsenal of semantic games, catch phrases, and convenient omissions that uphold the traditional narrative—that Muslim violence is anything but a byproduct of the Islamic indoctrination of intolerance. When it comes to Muslim persecution of Christians, the mainstream media […]

http://www.translatingjihad.com/2012/04/mainstream-american-muslim-group-warns.html
Mainstream American Muslim Group Warns Muslims Against Working in Law Enforcement, Becoming “Pleased with a Legal System That Does Not Come from Allah”
Posted by Translating Jihad
The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) cautioned American Muslims in a 22-page Arabic-language paper in 2008 against working in law enforcement in countries which do not rule by Allah’s dictates. One of their main concerns was that such work might cause Muslims to gain love and respect for secular laws:

…there are many evils which result from working in law enforcement, the greatest of which is compelling people to obey rulings which do not come from Allah. It could also cause reverence and love for these rulings to enter the heart of the police officer, and perhaps spread to the hearts of his family members and other Muslims who see him at the mosque or even Muslims in general. They could lose conviction of governance by Allah, and become pleased with a legal system that does not come from Allah. (italics added)

AMJA provided some allowances for Muslims to work in certain law enforcement professions, fearing that a lack of Muslim representation in this sector could bring negative effects for the Muslim community. They also reasoned that Muslims working as police officers might be able to use their positions to help the Muslim community, such as helping out with traffic near their mosques and protecting their mosques. Still, there was concern that some of these might be required to enforce laws contrary to the shari’a, such as “arrest[ing] a Muslim man whose wife said he ‘raped’ her.”

The AMJA paper specifically forbade Muslims from working for the FBI or in national security positions, due to their alleged arbitrary targeting of certain Muslims for “their political beliefs, charity work, or some of their convictions under the shari’a”–an apparent reference to counterterrorism investigations against Muslim suspects.

The paper also made clear that Muslims are to seek justice not in secular courts, but in Islamic courts which are compliant with their shari’a: “It is not permissible to pursue justice in the man-made (i.e. non-Islamic) judiciary, except where there is an absence of a shari’a-compliant substitute capable of restoring one’s rights and working out one’s grievances” (see my translation of another AMJA paper on working in the judiciary here).

Throughout the paper it is made clear that the duty of Muslims is not to uphold and respect the laws of the land in which they reside, but rather to do everything in their power to make the laws of Allah–the shari’a–supreme:

[Muslims are] to seek through legal means which exist in the countries in which they reside to make it possible for themselves to seek legal recourse in their shar’ia, and (not only) for personal affairs.

The duty to make Islam supreme comes above all, even preserving one’s life:

We must remember that preserving the religion comes before preserving one’s self, mind, wealth, honor, or offspring. […] But if saving [the individual’s] life destroys Islam, then saving Islam comes first, even if it means the individual is destroyed. This is the case with jihad against the infidels, and the killing of apostates, and so forth.

It is worth stressing once again that AMJA–whose stated purpose is to “clarify the rulings of the sharia which are relevant for those who live in America”–is a mainstream American Muslim organization. Their membership list contains a large number of highly-influential American imams and Muslim leaders, including Muhammad al-Majid of the Adam Center in Virginia; Hussein Hamed Hassan, director of the financial consultancy firm which advises Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and other large American banking institutions; Zulfiqar Ali Shah, former president of Islamic Circle of North America and current executive director of the Fiqh Council of North America; and the author of this paper, Dr. Hatem al-Haj, MD, PhD, a fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics, and founder and president of “Building Blocks of Islam.”

A longer list of some of their prominent American members follows:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=265765
Into the Fray: Stop calling a “spade” a “manually operated tool for producing elevation differentials in earth’s crust.”

There is something frankly silly to me about a Jewish community that feels so self- confident in how our values apply in Bosnia, the former Soviet Union and Darfur, but is so timid in talking about how our values apply in [Israel] the place we care about most. – Peter Beinart, Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, June 21, 2010

Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year …was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby (September 17, 2011)…. The powerful pro- Israel lobby in an election season can force the administration to defend Israel at the UN, even when it knows Israel is pursuing policies not in its own interest or America’s. (13 December, 2011) – Tom Friedman, New York Times

Jonathan Pollard: Clemency Long Overdue
by Jerrold L. Sobel

THE ARGUMENT IS NOT ABOUT POLLARD’S GUILT….MY OWN VIEW IS THAT HE IS NO HERO, WAS GUILTY AND DESERVED PUNISHMENT….BUT 26 YEARS, MANY IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, IS TOO LONG AND TOO HARSH ……RSK

Back on New Years Day of this year, the Tea Party Tribune published, “Jonathan Pollard: Revisited Again and again,” the third of three articles I had written about Jonathan Pollard and the wrongful sentence he received for the crime he committed. Some of my dear readers wrote to me me “he’s a traitor,” “he should rot in hell,” and so on. Interestingly, I was accused of being a leftist for stating Pollard had engaged in criminal behavior; me being accused of being a leftist, that’s a new one, others on the right called for my head because I advocated for his release. In all my years of writing I can’t remember another situation having to defend my position to both sides of the political spectrum. What castigators on both sides fail to recognize, this is not about left or right, it’s not about Pollard being Jewish; although the veracity of this statement could come into question, it’s not even about Pollard. It’s about a modern day injustice which has kept a man incarcerated for an inordinate amount of time despite protestations from those most closely related to this action.

For those interested in the facts of this case and not just gut feelings, you may wish to read the article.
Jonathan Pollard: Revisited Again and again
http://www.teapartytribune.com/2012/01/05/jonathan-pollard-revisited-again-and-again/

However, mitigating circumstances aside; and there are many, the question begs, why after 26 long years; many of which served in solitary confinement hasn’t Pollard been granted clemency? Many, many people have done far worse and in times of war but have been either pardoned or granted clemency, why not Pollard? Let’s review some of them.

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/15510/Climate-Depot-Exclusive-Climategate-professor-Michael-Mann-may-be-moving-back-to-the-University-of-Virginia–Reportedly-offered-chaired-professorship-at-UVA – By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Climate Depot has learned that Climategate professor Michael Mann, who has been at the center of a legal firestorm, may be moving back to the University of Virginia. Climate Depot has heard that the UVA Environmental Sciences department has just offered Mann a “chaired professorship”. Sources tell […]

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Nigeria: Christians stream southward after Muslim attacks
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Turkey: Evangelical church assaulted by Muslim activists
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Kenya: Christians killed in grenade attack by Islamists
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Beheadings benight the Arabian Peninsula
A witch was beheaded in Yemen, and two murderers beheaded in the Oil Kingdom.
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Saudi Arabia: Woman to be flogged for cursing

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Gray And Blue Jews Of The Civil War Yonatan Grossman-Boder

TODAY, AMERICAN JEWS ARE FIGHTING A RATHER UNCIVIL WAR OF WORDS AND IDEOLOGY ABOUT ISRAEL AND AMERICAN DOMESTIC POLICIES…..RSK

Passover was just around the corner that spring in 1862 when J.A. Joel, like so many other Jews, sought fixings for his seder. But it was a little harder for Joel, who was stationed at Sewell Mountain in eastern Fayette County, W.Va., with the Union’s 23rd Ohio Infantry.

Joel turned to his fellow Jews in the regiment — 20 in all — to acquire the necessary items. With some foraging, the group found eggs, chickens and cider. Also, the group members procured matzoh and haggadot from their Jewish regimental merchant.

Unfortunately, they could not find horseradish. However, Joel recounted they “found a weed, whose bitterness, I apprehend, exceeded anything our forefathers ‘enjoyed.’” They also obtained a lamb. Though uncertain which part to use for the seder, Joel wrote that “Yankee ingenuity prevailed, and it was decided to cook the whole and put it on the table.”

With matzoh, egg, maror (bitter herbs), a shank bone and wine in hand, the men of the 23rd celebrated the Festival of Freedom in grand style. Joel was proud of their accomplishment and wrote to a local newspaper, “There, in the wild woods of West Virginia, away from home and friends, we consecrated and offered up to the ever-loving G-d of Israel our prayers and sacrifice.”

During the Civil War, J.A. Joel was one of approximately 10,000 Jews who fought in the armies of the Union and Confederacy. His story reminds us during this sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War that the history of the Jews in the United States is part of the larger story of American history.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128823/Archbishop-sparks-outrage-saying-Jews-intellectually-morally-inferior.html

By RICK DEWSBURY

Australia’s most senior-ranked Catholic official has risked an international backlash by claiming that Jews are ‘intellectually and morally inferior’.Cardinal George Pell said ‘the little Jewish people’ were shepherds who lacked intellectual development during a debate with atheist Richard Dawkins.
He went on to claim that Germans had suffered more than the Jews during the horrors of the holocaust in the Second World War.

The remarks came during a televised debate with Dawkins on Australian TV in which the pair became locked in a heated discussion on religion and evolution.
‘I’ve got a great admiration for the Jews but we don’t need to exaggerate their contribution in their early days,’ Cardinal Pell said during the debate on ABC television.

‘They weren’t intellectually the equal of [the Egyptians or Persians] – intellectually, morally … The poor – the little Jewish people, they were originally shepherds. They were stuck. They’re still stuck between these great powers.’

Cardinal Pell said Jews had been stuck between the Egyptians and Babylonians, and that this reflected their intellectual development. He said this included Jesus.

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/41523#CurDomainURL#/blog.cfm

POSTED BY JERRY GORDON

It is this right – I would even say duty – to describe, criticise and oppose a totalitarian ideology that I have tried to exercise to the best of my ability.My speech and my writings have had no other purpose than to alert my fellow citizens to the danger inherent in the Islamic concept of the state and the law.I have made no secret of the fact that I consider this fight for our liberties to be the most important political struggle of our time.I would not be able to live with my guilty conscience if – out of fear of public condemnation and ridicule – I refrained from telling the truth as I see it.And regardless of the outcome of this trial, I intend to continue my struggle for free speech and against totalitarian concepts of any stripe.

Today, Friday, April 13th, a Supreme Court Hearing was held for Danish Free Press President and heroic free thinker, Lars Hedegaard arising from his prior convictions and fines imposed at the Eastern Superior Court in Copenhagen in May, 2011. He was accused of “racism” for criticizing Islamic doctrine and treatment of Muslim Women. He was denied under Danish law something that we take for granted in the US, the defense of the truth based on facts. Our interview with Hedegaard is included in the recently publish collection, The West Speaks.

We noted at the conclusion of our recent post on the background of Hedegaard’s Surpeme Court Hearing in Denmark:

In the Epilogue after noting the predicament of Hedegaard and other free thinkers, we concluded:

By recognizing the courageous actions of these free thinkers and advocates, we might follow their example thereby informing and emboldening others to rise up and avert the severe decree of Islamic conquest by Grand Jihad.