http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/hamas-nazis-and-their-american-supporters/ “For our struggle against the Jews is extremely wide-ranging and grave,” the introduction to the Hamas Charter states. That isn’t the right way to say it of course. It’s supposed to say Israelis or Zionists. That way there would be plausible deniability. That way Thomas Friedman and Roger Cohen could look at it and […]
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Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Brigitte Gabriel, the author of two New York Times Best Sellers “Because They Hate” and “They Must Be Stopped.” She is also the founder and president of ACT! for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S. with over a quarter of a million members, 750 chapters nationwide and a full-time lobbyist on Capital Hill. She just issued a report titled: Education or Indoctrination? The Treatment of Islam in 6th through 12th Grade American Textbooks.
FP: Brigitte, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Congratulations on issuing your new report, Education or Indoctrination. What inspired you to embark on this project?
Gabriel: When I was doing research for my second book “They Must Be Stopped,” I came across numerous instances where information that was being put in school textbooks or taught in classrooms was inaccurate, sometimes outright false, and at times sounded more like indoctrination than education. ACT! For America Education executive director and I discussed this at length in 2009, because when we traveled and spoke to groups about this they were very concerned. We investigated the issue more closely and found there had been a handful of previous studies done on this, but we believed much more needed to be done. We also knew that if we did a report, we could leverage its impact by drawing on the strength of our growing grassroots organization. So by late 2009 we drafted a plan, created the budget to do it, and embarked on the research in early 2010.
FP: How broad was your research?
Gabriel: We retained a top-notch team of experts with years of experience in this area. They selected 38 textbooks based on how widespread they are used in the schools and how much they address the topic of Islam. To give you an example of the breadth of the research, our team spent two years conducting the research, and comparing what they found with credible historical sources as well as Islamic sources. The results were astonishing, even to those of us who are familiar with this issue.
In some books the errors were less frequent and egregious, but in most of the books errors of the commission and omission occurred with such frequency that it was clearly evident the average student today is receiving a rewrite of history that paints a rose-colored picture of the history and central doctrines of Islam that is not supported by the facts. The report is painstakingly and thoroughly documented, with nearly 375 footnotes and a bibliography of nearly 275 sources.
FP: What type of topics do you address in your report?
Gabriel: The report examines everything from the founding of Islam and its early history, up through modern times. The report addresses a broad range of topics such as:
– Muhammad and Jerusalem
– Relationship between Muhammad and the Jews of Medina
– Sharia law
– Status and treatment of Jews and Christians under Islam
– Jihad and the early Islamic conquests
– Islam and women
– Islam and slavery
– Islamism
– The Crusades
– The Holocaust
– The Arab-Israeli conflict
– Terrorism
– 9/11
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The hypocrites in Hollywood are running scared after a mentally ill 20-year-old, Adam Lanza, invaded Sandy Brook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and proceeded to murder 20 small children. Their first reaction, of course, was that guns were to blame. Mia Farrow blasted away on Twitter: “I don’t want to hear one idiotic word out of the NRA.”
Rashida Jones of Parks and Recreation tweeted, “Gun control is our only road to freedom. Freedom from the fear of senselessly losing children. I’m so saddened. WE NEED LAWS NOW.”
Perez Hilton took a break from using Microsoft Paint to dab fake bodily fluids on starlets’ mouths long enough to write, “I’m trying to be more positive these days but people who say ‘Guns don’t kill people, people kill people’ – those people are fucking morons!”
But there was a problem for the Hollywood contingent: Connecticut is one of the most heavily regulated states in the union on guns. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) pushes for a federal assault weapons ban, but Connecticut already has a state assault weapons ban in place. And no liberal can suggest a single gun law short of repealing the Second Amendment that would have prevented the Sandy Brook massacre.
The truth is that Hollywood, for all the current hand-wringing, makes more money off gun violence than the gun industry does. Take a visit to your local Blockbuster and check out the action titles; virtually every one of them depicts a muscular male carrying a piece of heavy weaponry.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/double-standards-on-death/ “No single law, no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society,” President Obama said at the memorial service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, “but that can’t be an excuse for inaction. Surely we can do better than this. […]
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2012.12.17 (Baghdad, Iraq) – Islamic Army of Iraq bombers slaughter eleven people at a car dealership.
2012.12.17 (Jamrud, Pakistan) – Five boys and two women are among seventeen civilians dismantled by Religion of Peace bombers at a bus stop.
2012.12.17 (Khaznah, Iraq) – A community of Shabak religious minorities is the target of a Sunni car bomb that leaves seven dead.
2012.12.17 (Tikrit, Iraq) – An Fedayeen suicide bomber kill five Iraqis.
2012.12.16 (Narathiwat, Thailand) – A 26-year-old Buddhist woman is murdered by Muslim ‘separatist’ gunmen.
2012.12.16 (Kirkuk, Iraq) – Determined Sunni bombers set a series of bombs outside two Shia mosques that leave eight worshippers dead.
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The mass murderer Nidal Hassan is still unpunished.
In light of the tragedy of the past week, and all the legitimate outrage regarding mass shootings, where is the demand for the swift and measured justice of another mass murderer, Major Nidal Hassan?
What miracle protects Hasan from this rightful outrage resulting from other mass murders? Where is his swift punishment? What of the victims and families of victims that died at his hand? What of the public demand for justice in his case?
Somehow Jared Lee Loughner, the insane gunman who shot up Representative Gabby Giffords and others while klling 6, has been tried and sentenced. The Arizona shootings happened on January 8, 2011. Yet Hassan remains untried and unpunished even though his mass murder spree occurred on November 5, 2009, 14 months prior to the Arizona shootings.In the past, military justice moved expeditiously. Yet the Fort Hood incident and the prosecution of this murderer seem to warrant special considerations of a delaying nature. The Loughner case litigated more quickly than the Hasan military preceding. In a contest between cases of a similar nature, that is likely unprecedented.
We should sustain the same outrage seen in today’s news, and maintain it upon an equally nefarious perpetrator who is hidden from the news stream. The normal and proper time allotment dedicated to proper procedure and due process has long past for Major Hasan . Delay in the pursuit of justice is not a virtue, as Goldwater noted. Additionally, having a justice system that acts diligently in one case, but behaves in an inconsistent and politically protracted fashion in another, is inherently subjective and unfair.
Friends, this is an amazing interview with Dwight Schultz by Josh Brewster, whose super interviewing skills bring out priceless things out of Dwight…..Dwight talks about his persecution by leftists in Hollywood, and how he finally decided to come out of the closet and fight back. Much never before incredible heard stuff from him. Really powerful. Don’t miss it.
The All-New Hollywood Closet — on The Brewster Gang
by JD Brewster
Actor Dwight Schultz opens up about the punishment for thought crimes in an unforgiving industry.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/josh-brewster/dwight-schultz-life-acting-and-conservatism-on-the-brewster-gang/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324407504578185482575542960.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLESecond South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley named Charleston Rep. Tim Scott to replace Sen. Jim DeMint, who announced this month that he is retiring in January to head the Heritage Foundation, a think tank. Mr. Scott, a Republican first elected to Congress in 2010, was the front-runner for the post, though the GOP governor reportedly […]
The Senate’s only African-American will be a Republican.
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Liberals tend to overemphasize racial diversity, especially in politics, but the diversity lobby was notably missing in action Monday after South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s announcement that she chose Tim Scott to replace departing Senator Jim DeMint. It is a striking moment nonetheless.A Republican Governor who is the daughter of immigrants from India appointed a Republican who will become the only sitting African-American Senator in the 113th Congress. Mr. Scott, who was born in 1965, the year the Voting Rights Act passed, defeated the son of the late Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond in a GOP primary for a House seat in 2010. The former businessman represents Charleston, where the Confederacy fired the first rounds of the Civil War, and he will be the first black Senator from the Deep South since Reconstruction.Mr. Scott’s appointment requires him to stand for a special election in 2014, though he has a record as a House conservative in sync with Palmetto State values and emerged with the Tea Party. It’s also worth noting that the movement deplored by liberals as retrogressive has done more than anything in years to increase diversity in politics—and not merely of thought. Think Marco Rubio of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas, Susana Martinez of New Mexico, Brian Sandoval of Nevada, Ms. Haley herself.
The best news is that Senator-designate Scott’s story isn’t about racial grievance and preference. It’s a measure of personal achievement, political conviction and the opportunities available in modern American politics.
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“In the mid-1960s, many of the killings would have been prevented because the severely mentally ill would have been confined and cared for in a state institution. But today, while government at most every level has bloated over the past half-century, mental-health treatment has been decimated. According to a study released in July by the Treatment Advocacy Center, the number of state hospital beds in America per capita has plummeted to 1850 levels, or 14.1 beds per 100,000 people.”
Has the rate of random mass shootings in the United States increased? Over the past 30 years, the answer is definitely yes. It is also true that the total U.S. homicide rate has fallen by over half since 1980, and the gun homicide rate has fallen along with it. Today, Americans are safer from violent crime, including gun homicide, than they have been at any time since the mid-1960s.
Mass shootings, defined as four or more fatalities, fluctuate from year to year, but over the past 30 years there has been no long-term increase or decrease. But “random” mass shootings, such as the horrific crimes last Friday in Newtown, Conn., have increased.
Alan Lankford of the University of Alabama analyzed data from a recent New York Police Department study of “active shooters”—criminals who attempted to murder people in a confined area, where there are lots of people, and who chose at least some victims randomly. Counting only the incidents with at least two casualties, there were 179 such crimes between 1966 and 2010. In the 1980s, there were 18. In the 1990s, there were 54. In the 2000s, there were 87.
If you count only such crimes in which five or more victims were killed, there were six in the 1980s and 19 in the 2000s.
