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As we look around the world at the countries that practice Islam as a state religion, it is almost incomprehensible that the left should defend Islam so fervently. We don't have to look to the radicals in the Taliban or Hamas to see issues that most Americans would question. Sharia Law is practiced by most Islamic centric countries, and it is in almost direct opposition to the principles on which America was established and in direct contrast to the agenda of the left in America. What is important to realize is that Sharia Law isn't an outlier, practiced by radicals...

/snip/ So we have made our case for the Progressive Marxofascists using Islamophobia to advance their agenda, just as they did the women's and civil rights movements of the 60's and 70's, as political viruses within them, to take them over and pervert them for momentum in their treasonous cause. But there is more. Although much has been made of millions being given by George Soros to Media Matters, Huffington Post, and NPR, there is another side to this, much less reported. Just as if the song, You're So Vain, was written to them, Glenn Beck and Fox think it...

//snip// Mr Farrakhan has the same freedom of speech and religion as the next American, even though his ideas are repugnant to most liberty loving, tolerant Citizens. His freedom resulted, Tuesday, in his choice of a quiet dinner with a couple of his allies -- allies who are very interested in shutting down liberty and even life itself, for those who disagree with their theocratic and antisemitic dogma. //snip// "Once dinner was over and guests had been shepherded upstairs, Ahmadinejad walked in without fanfare. He appeared happy and upbeat, chatting and even posing for photos with guests as bodyguards stood...

Leaked U.S. Intel documents listed the names and villages of Afghan collaborators—and the Taliban is starting to retaliate. After WikiLeaks published a trove of U.S. intelligence documents—some of which listed the names and villages of Afghans who had been secretly cooperating with the American military—it didn’t take long for the Taliban to react. A spokesman for the group quickly threatened to “punish” any Afghan listed as having “collaborated” with the U.S. and the Kabul authorities against the growing Taliban insurgency. In recent days, the Taliban has demonstrated how seriously those threats should be considered. Late last week, just four days...

A member of the German parliament who was on the ferry Mavi Marmara when it was attacked by Israeli special forces has called on the World Council of Churches and other church organisations to get more actively involved in lifting the Gaza blockade. "I really hope that the Christian community and the WCC and others will really support us peace-loving people in the world to protest against this massacre and to really support our demands to lift the blockade to Gaza and see the Israeli security penalised who shot innocent people," Annette Groth, a member of the Bundestag, the lower...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez once again condemned Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. In a speech broadcast on Venezuelan television, Chavez said, "Israel is a cursed, terrorist murderer, long live the Palestinian people." He also criticized the American response to the raid, which he said was too soft. "The Obama administration condemns terror, as long as it is not carried out by the US or Israel," he said.

"One of the worst human-rights violations in the world today" – this is how Nelson Mandela has characterized Israel's naval blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, and the defensive actions the Jewish state's soldiers were forced to take onboard a Gaza-bound ship. The Mavi Marmari was one in a flotilla of six ostensible aid ships headed to Gaza in contravention of the naval blockade. And I know this how? Norman Finkelstein, another of Hamas' effective spokesmen – left-liberal, Jewish academics often are – has galvanized Mandela for moral suasion in condemning Israel's actions. The fact that Mandela made the condemnation in his...

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, called Wednesday on President Barack Obama "to call Israel to an accounting" for its attack Monday on a Turkish ship that was traveling in international waters laden with humanitarian goods for Gaza. Israel's conduct "constitutes an act of belligerence against Turkey, which at one time Israel considered an important ally," the Ohio Democrat wrote. "It also undermines United States troops' efforts in Iraq, since your administration's efforts to achieve stability in the region and to withdraw troops from Iraq has depended upon Turkey's cooperation through use of its air bases." He called for the United States...

"....we're going to be talking for a half hour or so to Andrew McCarthy, who has written a book. It's The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. It is especially timely given what's happening in Israel via this flotilla, the misreporting regarding the Israelis with this flotilla incident over the weekend. The Israelis and the Egyptians set up blockades to prevent more weapons from getting to Hamas in Gaza. It was purely and simply that. The Turkish government, which is now aggressively throwing in with Iran and even Hugo Chavez, led this provocation. ...." "Islamists have taken...

[video] In an an extraordinary interview prosecutor Andrew McCarthy says Obama has more in common with the radical left and Islam than might be imagined. He states that there is "no doubt that Obama is the ideal partner for the global Islamist movement." He adds, "Islamists now have an administration that's extraordinarily friendly and wants to be perceived as friendly to not just Islam at large, but to the Islamist movement. Obama can speak in a unique way both to the Islamists and to the left. He is a dyed-in-the-wool member of the hard left, but he also has significant...

Most Americans who have some passing acquaintance with the term "Salafist" assume it is a label for terrorists. Therefore, in the public mind, Salafists are the real bad guys, to be sharply distinguished from the ubiquitous Muslim "moderates" -- who are purportedly "moderate" because they allegedly "reject terrorism," not because their views are actually benign. This is a hopelessly ill-conceived construct, but leftists -- who dominate policy circles, the academy and the media -- are delighted to have us see things this way. With Americans in the dark, Islamists freely pass themselves off as moderates. That makes it politically palatable...

THE GOVERNMENT, political parties, NGOs and members of the public roundly condemned the killing of the humanitarian activists by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) in international waters in the early hours of yesterday. President Demetris Christofias condemned both the naval blockade of Gaza, which he said violated international law, and the attack. "The killing of people is condemnable for everyone and the killing of non combatants constitutes a criminal act,” he said. “No one is happy, first of all with continuing blockade, which followed the attack against Gaza in December 2008 with its catastrophic results on Palestinians.” The continuing of...

<p>The US president's national security strategy is to highlight homegrown terrorism for the first time, an adviser to Barack Obama says.</p> <p>John Brennan said the document being unveiled on Thursday explicitly recognised the threat posed by "individuals radicalised here at home".</p>

While it cannot be proven, there is little reason to doubt that many on the Left are disappointed that the Times Square bomber didn't turn out to be the "white male" he was originally identified as. This allegation may be wrong, but it is made on the basis of compelling evidence.There is a perfectly clear pattern on the Left -- the normative Left, not just the "far" Left -- that denies the obvious when it comes to Islamic terrorism. Take, for example, Maj. Nidal Hasan, who murdered 13 fellow soldiers and tried to murder the 32 others whom he wounded...

In May of 2009, Elena Kagan, as US solicitor general, filed papers with the US Supreme Court encouraging it not to listen to arguments in a lawsuit against the Saudi Arabian government. The suit was filed by thousands of family members and victims of the 9/11 terror attacks on the US.

Franklin Graham, Honorary Chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, 2010, tells the gospel truth... YouTube Video On This Page ...but he need not be so pessimistic about our future, if Americans are willing to wake up and "repent," i.e., turn to the truth, and yield ourselves to it (hence, the word under-stand). That is how to truly become aware and strong. And people who do this will fulfill the responsibilities with which God charges them. Those who are Sovereign Citizens of America will carry out our responsibilities to govern our nation and influence our culture. For example,...

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There was no joy in liberal land when the prime suspect in the Times Square bomb plot turned out to be a Pakistani-American. The right-wing terrorist boogeyman vanished. Leftist racial and ethnic profiling failed again. The widely distributed videotape of a lighter-complected suspect near the attack scene - almost universally reported as a "white man" - raised expectations in some quarters that this could be the work of right-wing extremists, maybe even - oh dare it be hoped? - a Tea Party Republican.

Meet Faisal Shahzad. As a wannabe mass murderer, he is kind of a zero. Then again, so is his political hero: President Obama. You see, Mr. Shahzad meets all of the criteria for the modern day Democrat; 1) He was from overseas. Just like George Soros, that awful Huffington Puffington woman, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos and, quite frankly, our President, Faisal's connection to the US was rudimentary at best. 2) Faisal was an anti-Bush zealot. The Wall Street Journal reports that the alleged terrorist spoke out passionately about one issue: his hatred of President Bush. Who did he...

Pakistan-Born Shahzad Faced Foreclosure in Connecticut and Disliked President Bush; an Invisible Man at His University Faisal Shahzad was losing his Connecticut home to foreclosure, disliked President George W. Bush, and was an almost invisible presence at the American university where he earned two degrees. Those are some of the details in the still-emerging portrait of the man who authorities say has implicated himself in the botched Times Square bomb plot. Mr. Shahzad was born in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, according to Pakistan's U.S. embassy. He worked at a Connecticut marketing firm until 2009, the same year he became a...