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Is There Any Hope For Western Europe? An interview with Bruce Bawer, author of ‘While Europe Slept.’ Mark Tapson

By on July 23rd, 2019

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274398/there-any-hope-western-europe-mark-tapson

Years ago as I was awakening from my long Democrat slumber and educating myself about Islam, one of the most eye-opening books that I read was a 2006 page-turner titled While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West From Within, by a gay American living in Western Europe. Not only was it enlightening, but it made me an instant fan of Bawer’s compelling storytelling. In addition to following his subsequent books such as Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom, The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind, and even a thriller about Islamic terrorism called The Alhambra, I was fortunate and honored to become friends with Bruce through our mutual work for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Now Bawer has released a new volume with a stark black cover titled Islam: The Essays, a massive collection of well over three hundred of his articles on this crucial subject dating from the fall of 2002 through the summer of 2018. Though he suggests that the reader undertake the book chronologically in order to understand the evolution of his understanding of the topic (“Early on, for instance, I refer to ‘fundamentalist Islam’; soon enough, I drop the word ‘fundamentalist,’ having realized that Islam itself, properly understood, is fundamentalist.”), Bawer is such an engaging, perceptive writer that one can open the book at random to literally any page and find it impossible to stop reading. A chilling chronicle of the Islamization of multicultural Europe over the last 17 years, Islam: The Essays is a must-have for FrontPage Mag readers and for others in need, like I once was, of awareness and insight into the Religion of Peace™.

Bruce Bawer was able to find time to answer a few of my questions about the book and about the Islamization of Europe today.

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Washington Post Runs Glowing Profile of Libyan Islamist Sanctioned by US Treasury for Rocket Attacks on Ambulance Workers Daniel Greenfield

By on July 23rd, 2019

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274384/washington-post-runs-glowing-profile-libyan-daniel-greenfield

Democracy dies in Islamist propaganda. 

Forget Jamal Khashoggi. The Washington Post, owned by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, found an even worse Jihadist to rally behind.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday it had imposed sanctions on Libyan Islamist commander Salah Badi, accusing him of undermining security by directing attacks on groups aligned with Libya’s U.N.-backed Government of National Accord.

The U.S. State Department said Badi had also been placed under financial sanctions by the U.N. Security Council’s Libya Sanctions Committee, and the listing requires all U.N. members to impose an asset freeze and travel ban

The Treasury said in a statement that Badi’s militia forces had used highly destructive Grad rockets in densely populated areas in the latest round of fighting in the capital Tripoli in September.

Here are the UN sanctions. Here are the Treasury sanctions.

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Tommy Robinson’s Guilty Persecutors The UK wants to snuff out the fighting spirit that Tommy represents. Bosch Fawstin

By on July 23rd, 2019

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274353/tommy-robinsons-guilty-persecutors-bosch-fawstin

The way the UK government operates today makes me believe that the question it most asks itself is: Will this please or displease Muslims?

A few examples: last year, a Muslim “protestor” who cracked a police officer in the skull with his stick at a Tommy Robinson rally was spared jail, which pleased Muslims. Tommy Robinson was thrown in prison – twice – for the trumped up charge of “contempt of court” and “causing distress” to Muslim rapists, which pleases Muslims. Mohammad cartoons were absent from the UK’s Media “Freedom” Conference’s display of censored political cartoons, which pleases Muslims.

Tommy Robinson has been referred to as “the most hated man in Britain”. He’s also loved by many Brits for being one of the only prominent voices in the UK to speak out against Islam – and his country’s submission to it. But about him being the most hated man in Britain: hated by what standard? By the standard of the UK government and of the powerful and influential leaders who knew about and said and did nothing about decades of its young citizens being raped by Muslim gangs, which they euphemistically refer to as “grooming gangs”. They’ve disgraced themselves and their country by doing everything they can to defend Islam, and doing everything they can to vilify, criticize and legally punish Islam critics, exactly as an Islamic dictatorship would do.

Tommy Robinson is a fighter in a country that no longer fights. That’s one of the main reasons why he’s so hated. He’s a fighter in a country where many have given up, and where many are taught to believe that fighting is “uncouth”. His fighting spirit is rejected in a country where many are resigned to allow Islam and leftism to destroy it once and for all. Tommy Robinson is most hated by those in the UK who’ve given up on the UK, and they don’t want to be reminded of it by someone who condemns them for being the sellouts that they are.

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Israeli Court Tells the Truth About Palestinian Authority and Terror Sanctioned and paid to murder. Caroline Glick

By on July 23rd, 2019

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274366/israeli-court-tells-truth-about-palestinian-caroline-glick

On July 9, an Israeli court ruled that the Palestinian Authority was responsible for several attacks by Palestinian terrorist organizations against Israel — a landmark decision that could, and should, have international implications.

The ruling by Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Drori – which he submitted as he went into retirement – regarded lawsuits submitted on behalf of Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism against the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and senior PLO and PA leaders.

The main question that the lawsuits raised was whether or not the PA was directly responsible for Palestinian terrorist attacks carried out against Israelis. The lawsuits related to 17 different Palestinian terrorist attacks which cumulatively murdered 34Israelis. The attacks occurred in 1996 and between 2000 and 2002.
The question of the PLO/PA’s direct role in terrorism is one that Israeli and U.S. officials have shied away from since the PLO and Israel embarked on the so-called peace process in 1993. The PLO, which was founded in 1964, and its component organizations were the architects of modern terrorism.

The peace process between the PLO and Israel was predicated on the assumption that the PLO would abandon terrorism and advance the cause of peaceful coexistence with Israel. Only then could Israel recognize the legitimacy of the PLO as a peace partner, and begin transferring control over land in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza to the PLO and its leader, Yassir Arafat.

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NYU Brademas Center Panel Claims “Islamophobia” is “White Supremacy” The dry rot afflicting prestigious academic and policy-making institutions.Andrew Harrod

By on July 23rd, 2019

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274281/nyu-brademas-center-panel-claims-islamophobia-andrew-harrod

“Take a deep breath…This topic is heavy,” stated Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC) cofounder Namira Islam on June 26 at New York University’s (NYU) Washington, DC, center. Speaking on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s upholding of President Donald Trump’s temporary travel restriction, Islam’s panel presented “Islamophobia” as exemplary of an nonredeemable, bigoted America.

Alongside Vanessa Taylor, whose views I have previously discussed, Namira Islam, during the event “Beyond the Ban: Resisting Structural Islamophobia,” claimed that the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision “reflected a longer history of structural systems of oppression.” Considering “immoral policies” such as Trump’s falsely described “Muslim ban” prompted her to call upon the auditorium audience of about 40 to perform deep breathing relaxation exercises. These listeners included like-minded leftists including Institute for Policy Studies Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow Khury Petersen-Smith and National Religious Campaign against Torture Executive Director Ron Stief.

Islam’s jargon references to “undocumented [i.e. illegal alien] Muslims” and how in America “certain communities become white over time” reflected both the panel’s and MuslimARC’s sectarian ideologies. MuslimARC’s “Anti-Racism Guide for White Muslims” screams strident racial shibboleths with statements concerning how Americans “live in a society where all people are racialized from the time we are born.” White Americans “have been socialized as white people, with messages from our families, teachers, media and society about whiteness under an umbrella of white supremacy, both subtle and overt.”

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Free Tuition and Forgiving Student Debt will Not Save Radical College Faculty By Robert Weissberg

By on July 23rd, 2019

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/free_tuition_and_forgiving_student_debt_will_not_save_radical_college_faculty.html

Americans are keen supporters of higher education and Washington has traditionally generously concurred. But, in the 2020 presidential Democratic primary, several prominent potential nominees have endorsed once-unimaginable levels of government aid for college students. Elizabeth Warren, for example, recently announced that if elected she would spend $1.5 trillion (raised by higher taxes on the very rich) to eliminate up to $50,000 in student loan debt for those in household with incomes below $100,000 with smaller cancellations for households earning less than $250,000.  Her plan would also abolish tuition at all public colleges while offering government grants for non-tuition expenses. Meanwhile, a $50 billion fund would help financially struggling historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).

Some 42 million Americans would benefit, especially 75% of those with federal government-funded college debt. Washington would also encourage non-government debtholders to further eliminate student debt. What’s more, her plan would require an “annual equity audit” to ensure that low-income and students of color were proportionately represented in both admission and graduation. 

Warren’s plan ostensibly helps poorer students and minorities climb up the economic ladder into well-paying middle-class jobs, but left unsaid is that college professors and administrators would appear to be even greater beneficiaries. After all, cancelling student debt and free tuition at public colleges may help millions of American youngsters obtain diplomas and be debt-free, but the parchment hardly guarantees a good job. By contrast, opening the floodgates to BA seekers via government subsidies will, it would seem, create yet more academic jobs.

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Let’s Talk about Real Discrimination By Eileen F. Toplansky

By on July 23rd, 2019

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/lets_talk_about_real_discrimination.html

“Just look at the plight of the Palestinians — not from Israel, but from other Arabs.”

The epithet “racism” is bandied about so much these days that most people using the term have no concept about what it really entails.  The R-word as used by the Left and its jihadist accomplices is meant to silence anyone who disagrees with their principles.  Thus, it is imperative that the lies perpetuated by these nefarious groups be continually highlighted.

In fact, real discrimination is at its height in the Muslim Middle East.  The discrimination against the Palestinians in Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, Libya, and Gaza should be headlined every day in all the major news outlets.

Don’t hold your breath.

Did you know the following?

Palestinians are not allowed to become citizens of Arab countries, in accordance with Arab League Decree 1547 for 1959, “in order to preserve the Palestinian entity and Palestinian identity.” Even in Jordan they can no longer become citizens.

Palestinians face severe travel restrictions throughout the Arab world. They do not receive passports and their travel documents are only accepted by a few countries.

Palestinians cannot vote or run for office in national elections in the Arab world.

Children born to Palestinians do not get citizenship in their host countries[.]

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Civil Rights, Then and Now By Abraham H. Miller

By on July 23rd, 2019

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/civil_rights_then_and_now.html

“The civil rights movement evolved from non-violence, to directed resistance, and finally to outright violence.”

The civil rights movement was in full swing. Governor George Wallace had stood in the doorway at the University of Alabama only to be finessed by President John F. Kennedy federalizing the Alabama National Guard. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech from the Lincoln Memorial.

It was a hot muggy summer in the early 1960s, and a Midwestern university was holding a special graduate program. Students came from all over, including the South.

We looked upon the Southern students with suspicion and inquisitiveness. The particular group of four white males were always impeccably dressed.

They weren’t quite viewed as the enemy, but certainly their Southern drawl seemed to grate on our sensitivities about racial justice.

It took a while to get to know them. It started out like those middle-school dances where the boys congregate at one end of the dance floor and the girls at the other.

Maybe we felt more comfortable with them when the humidity chased after the temperature and the sportscoats and ties came off; the neatly pressed khakis and the white, short-sleeve dress shirts remained.

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Trump’s Diabetic Shock The reality behind Bernie’s wailing about the price of insulin.

By on July 23rd, 2019

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-diabetic-shock-11563838601

Bernie Sanders has been registering his outrage about the price of insulin, and the presidential candidate thinks government-run health care is the solution to high drug costs. But almost no one noticed last week a Trump Administration move that could make the diabetes treatment more affordable for more Americans. In any event the insulin story is more about perverse incentives than corporate greed.

The Trump Administration put out an IRS guidance last week for high-deductible health plans that are paired with a health-savings account. Millions of Americans, typically with modest health expenses, prefer these arrangements because they allow an individual or family to control more of their own money and decisions while insuring against a serious illness like cancer.

The previous guidance said such plans could only cover certain “preventive” services before the patient met the deductible—which can run several thousand dollars for a family. So folks have to shell out a pretty penny for treatments for chronic conditions like diabetes or asthma before insurance kicks in.

This makes little sense because a drug like insulin is preventive care. A diabetic who maintains his insulin regimen is much less likely to suffer awful and expensive complications like amputations or blindness. The same dynamic is true for keeping asthmatics in good supply of inhalers. This spending reduces costs over time, but insurers couldn’t offer the benefit on these plans because of a curiosity in government regulation.

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Trump’s Hesitant Embrace of Human Rights Highlighting China’s religious persecution is good politics, at home and abroad. By Walter Russell Mead

By on July 23rd, 2019

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-hesitant-embrace-of-human-rights-11563835208

The big news from Washington is that Woodrow Wilson is back. From Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Vice President Mike Pence and even, if somewhat hesitantly, President Trump, senior American officials are putting human-rights concerns front and center in American foreign policy.

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has condemned Chinese repression of Muslims in Xinjiang, hosted a conference of 106 countries to discuss religious freedom around the world, and announced the formation of the International Religious Freedom Alliance. Mr. Pompeo called China’s mass repression of the largely Muslim Uighur people “the stain of the century.” On Wednesday Mr. Trump met at the White House with 27 people from around the world who have faced persecution for their religious beliefs.

At first glance, the embrace of human rights by the Trump White House seems odd. Mr. Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the idea that promoting human rights overseas should be a major theme of American foreign policy. Outreach to leaders such as Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Mohammed bin Salman is predicated on the president’s willingness to overlook their dismal records on human rights. And that an administration whose domestic supporters attack an opponent by chanting “Send her back!” should head a global drive for human rights strikes even many Republicans as improbable.

But the political logic behind the administration’s Wilsonian pivot is strong. Team Trump needs to unify its populist and conservative supporters in the U.S. even as it builds a coalition against Chinese overreach in Asia and beyond. Incorporating a vision of human rights focused on religious liberty helps on both fronts.

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