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Ruth King

DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE ROAD TO OLIGARCHY

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Regardless of how many wars on poverty are declared and how often calls are issued to make the rich pay their fair share, neither the rich nor the poor will be going anywhere anytime soon. The question is what forces will keep the poor impoverished and where the rich will derive their wealth from. […]

State Dept report paves way for Keystone: Environmental Backlash Grows

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/2/state-dept-report-paves-way-keystone-environmental/ While far from a full-throated endorsement, the State Department’s assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline may have paved the way for President Obama to approve the controversial project. The lengthy environmental impact study released Friday makes no recommendation on whether the pipeline should be built, but makes clear that big-picture environmental concerns — such […]

ASSAD ACCUSES THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN OF SUP[PORTING TERRORISM….SEE NOTE

http://news.yahoo.com/assad-accuses-britain-us-supporting-terrorism-092616788.html WELL HILLARY CLINTON ONCE DID CALL HIM A  “REFORMER”….RSK AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Syria’s president harshly criticized U.S. and British aid to rebels and set harsh terms for talking to his opponents in a newspaper interview published Sunday, as fighting raged across the country. On the battlefield, rebels made significant gains in the heavily […]

DIANA WEST: IRONY AND THE AL-QAEDA LIST ****

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2433/Irony-and-the-Al-Qaeda-List.aspx The Atlantic Wire notes the appearance of the above image in Inspire magazine, which may be described as Al Qaeda’s English-language jihad glossy, a naseous-making and surreal propaganda product of global jihad. Not surprisingly, the AQ magazine’s Hollywood-style artwork is nauseous-making and surreal, too. Here we see Al Qaeda, adopting the cartoonish lexicon of […]

NIDRA POLLER: NOT WELCOME AT THE FREE PRESS SOCIETY

http://www.d-intl.com/not-welcome-at-the-free-press-society/ Not welcome at The Free Press Society Ferocious jihad is not a deviation from “true Islam” PARIS. The Copenhagen Post relays, at great length, the complaint of Jihad Taha whose reservation for a Free Press Association meeting was rejected for security reasons. The twenty year-old student says it’s discriminatory–based on his name– and hypocritical […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: MORE OF THE WEEK THAT WAS

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ DEMOCRATS STILL FILLED WITH INSANE LUST FOR WATERGATE AFTER 40 YEARS The mainstream media, that kindly reservoir of common sense, overseen by the modern embodiments of Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart, is very confused and disconcerted by the Republican obsession with Benghazi. “McCain’s Benghazi Appetite Is Insatiable” complains The Atlantic. Why can’t Senator McCain […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ DENIAL IS CONFIRMATION Politicians often seem to deny that one quality about them that everyone knows is true. Obama’s “I Am Not a Dictator” deserves to join “I Am Not a Crook” in the annals of political denials. Obama is finding a dozen different ways to say that he doesn’t wield absolute power. “I […]

ON THE POPE: NO MODERATES PLEASE TOM MCLAUGHLIN SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/no-moderates-please

WHY ARE NON CATHOLICS SO SUDDENLY INTERESTED IN WHAT IS A CATHOLIC ISSUE TO BE SOLVED AND IMPLEMENTED BY CATHOLICS AND SO SILENT WHEN IT COMES TO THE BLOOD LUST OF JIHAD? CATHOLICS ARE NOT OUT TO KILL “INFIDELS”…THEY DO NOT CONDUCT HONOR KILLINGS, AND THEY DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL THEIRS AS THE ONLY RELIGION IN AMERICA….RSK

The Mainstream Media (MSM) get very interested in the Catholic Church when they want it to pick a “more modern” or “moderate” pope. They’re running lots of pieces on what American Catholics want. For one local example, The Portland Press Herald – biggest newspaper in Maine – proclaimed “Maine Catholics hope for a younger, more moderate pope.”

As a Maine Catholic I had to comment, because what the MSM means by “more moderate” is a pope who won’t call abortion “murdering babies.” A “more moderate” pope would play down the Church’s teaching that homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered” and would lift Pope Benedict’s ban on homosexuals being admitted to seminaries. A “more moderate” won’t believe as Pope Benedict does that the Church’s nightmare scandal in America and Europe was a homosexual priest scandal and not a pedophile priest scandal.

A “more moderate” pope would be “worth a bucket of warm spit,” as Vice President John Nance Garner said about the vice presidency. Revelation 3:16 says “So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.” A moderate pope is what the Catholic Church absolutely does not need, especially at this critical juncture. So-called “moderate” Catholics are people like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry, to name just a few and there is no shortage of their counterparts in the Vatican.

I’m fine with a young pope, as long as he is on fire in his faith. He’ll need energy to cope with the “moderates” from Europe and the United States because he’ll have a tough time with them. My advice to those who want the Catholic Church to moderate itself? Leave. Join the Episcopalians or the Unitarians.

JOHN KERRY LEARNS FROM THE ENEMY: ROBERT SPENCER

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/john-kerry-learns-from-the-enemy/print/

Secretary of State John Kerry is reading up, learning that Islam is “not represented by a lot of jihadists and others,” but is, rather, “a beautiful religion.” He said this a few days ago in Berlin:

And unfortunately, in too many parts of the world, some religions – not – and I’m not just speaking of one religion or another. You have intolerance in a number of different kinds of religions or points of view in different things. I know that Islam is not represented by a lot of jihadists and others. I know it’s a beautiful religion. I’ve read more and more about it.

I’ve been reading a book recently called No god but God, which is the history of the Prophet and where he came from and how it developed as a religion. It’s fascinating. If I went back to college today, I’d probably go back and be a comparative religion major and a comparative literature major, because those are the things that help you understand what makes people tick and how they’re working and how they think. But the important thing is to have the tolerance to say you can have a different point of view.

What could possibly go wrong? This: No god but God is a whitewash of Islam written by none other than the childish Islamic supremacist pseudo-academic Reza Aslan. Aslan is Board member of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). In 2008, NIAC chief Trita Parsi sued Seid Hassan Daioleslam for defamation after Daioleslam’s investigative reporting exposed Parsi’s and NIAC’s deep and incontrovertible ties to high-level agents of the Iranian regime. Parsi lost the case, and NIAC was establish as a front group for the bloody mullahcracy in Tehran.

According to Iranian human rights activist Arash Irandoost, “Trita Parsi contributes to the regime’s agenda and serves the interests of those in power in the Islamic Republic of Iran, not the Iranians, nor the Iranian-Americans.” And the Progressive American-Iranian Committee says that when NIAC received funding for various projects from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), “NIAC’s projects were approved and welcomed by the Iranian regime.” NIAC coordinated its work inside Iran with Hamyaran, a “government initiated agency incepted [sic], initiated, founded and managed by the Iranian regime.” NIAC even lobbied the U.S. Congress to “stop appropriating funds for independent democratic movements and NGOs that were not under Hamyaran or regime’s control.”

Yet Reza Aslan remains on its Board.

Is it really wise for John Kerry to be learning about Islam from a Board member of an Islamic Republic front group?

Not only that. Reza Aslan has called for the vandalism of our AFDI ads — that is, the forcible denial of our freedom of speech by thugs.

Is it really wise for John Kerry to be learning about Islam from an enemy of the freedom of speech and endorser of the “heckler’s veto”?

It is no surprise in light of Aslan’s NIAC connection that he has tried to pass off Iran’s genocidally-minded President Ahmadinejad as a liberal reformer. He has called on the U.S. Government to negotiate with Ahmadinejad himself, as well as with Hamas — that is, with two of the most barbaric, genocide-minded and murderous adherents of Sharia.

Aslan has even praised the jihad terror group Hizballah as “the most dynamic political and social organization in Lebanon,” as well as the anti-Semitic, misogynist, Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, which is dedicated in its own words, according to a captured internal document, to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.” Aslan wrote: “The Muslim Brotherhood will have a significant role to play in post-Mubarak Egypt. And that is good thing.” He has not revised this view despite the Muslim Brotherhood regime’s increasing authoritarianism and brutality toward its opponents, or its escalating persecution of Egyptian Christians.

Is it really wise for John Kerry to be learning about Islam from a man who has praised the ascendancy of the brutal Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt?

ANDREW McCARTHY: THE SEQUESTER AND THE ARAB SPRING

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/342017 ‘Sequester” may be your word for the week, but it’s not mine. I’ve been diverted from the Beltway theater by an enterprise equally fraudulent, the “Arab Spring.” No, the plot line does not feature an Armageddon of budget slashing after which, somehow, Leviathan manages to land on his drunken feet and binge up an […]