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WikiLeaks : U.S. secretly sought to 'empower' France's Muslims
WND ^ | DECEMBER 3, 2010 | Aaron Klein

Posted on 12/03/2010 7:11:44 AM PST by RobinMasters

JERUSALEM – The U.S. State Department directed its staff to "engage" and help to "empower" France's Muslim minorities, according to classified documents released by WikiLeaks and reviewed by WND.

The cables reveal U.S. government staff were instructed to use the French media to educate that country's public on minority issues and to improve the lot of French Arabs and Muslims. The process called for "considerable discretion, sensitivity and tact."

A cable dated January 2007 and directed to various U.S. missions in France outlined that the U.S. government must show it "takes seriously the threat of disenfranchised and disadvantaged minorities around the world, including in France, and we are committed to empowering minorities as part of our fundamental belief in participatory democracy."

The directive accused the French news media of "falling short both in its coverage of discrimination towards them (French Arab and Muslims) and of juvenile delinquency among them."

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


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To: RobinMasters
I swear that more and more everyday I fell like I have been transmitted to a parallel universe. Things look the same but $hit just works in a different way.
21 posted on 12/03/2010 7:23:28 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (V for Vendetta.)
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To: RobinMasters

Ah, so Obama and Hillary have been caught meddling in France’s internal affairs! Sarkozy is probably not happy right now.


22 posted on 12/03/2010 7:23:33 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: RobinMasters

Unbelievable!


23 posted on 12/03/2010 7:23:48 AM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

And Bush 43 and Condi too, I see!


24 posted on 12/03/2010 7:25:43 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: RobinMasters

Hmm...insiders setting up Bush to look bad? Like “outing” the so-called CIA spy?


25 posted on 12/03/2010 7:28:48 AM PST by ryderann
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To: WILLIALAL

Good catch.

... An earlier cable, from August 2005, lectured, “France not only has a problem with integration or immigration; it also needs to act to give Muslims a sense of French identity.” [snip]

Condi Rice: Secretary of State from:

January 2005 – January 2009

[Pro-aborts are fundamentally flawed.]


26 posted on 12/03/2010 7:30:02 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: RobinMasters

Well this doesn’t compare at all to Obamas bring ing them here by the planeload....ie: NASA and all the other organizations bringing them into our country.


27 posted on 12/03/2010 7:31:31 AM PST by caww
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To: PetroniusMaximus
YOu bet! This stuff doesn't make the headlines either: Obama is IMPORTING MOSLEM IMMIGRANTS into our country under a redfined "refugee" status 80,000 of them! Europe is trying to get rid of them as we usher them in. OBAMA AUTHORIZES 80,000 “REFUGEES” TO ENTER COUNTRY Mr. Obama says that the increase in Muslim immigrants “is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.” The following “goals” for new immigrants has been set as follows: Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 East Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,000 Europe and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 Latin America/Caribbean. . . . . . . . . . . 5,500 Near East/South Asia. . . . . . . . . . . 35,500 Unallocated Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 (LOOK at the MOSLEM countries that we are recruiting from.) Refugee Resettlement Watch and other organizations have expressed grave concern that Mr. Obama is allowing so many immigrants into the country while so many Americans remain out of work and living in poverty. According to the US Department of Labor, 14.8 million Americans remain unemployed. 6.1 million have been out of work for 27 weeks or over. ... The U. S. Census Bureau shows that the median household income for Americans has fallen to $49,777 – - a decline of 0.7% in the past year. One in seven Americans no longer can feed themselves. According to The Wall Street Journal, 14.3% of the American people live in abject poverty. ... However, the definition of refugee is ‘fudged’ in several cases. “Refugees” who have not left their country due to persecution, according to Mr. Obama’s determination letter, can still be called “refugees” if they are from Iraq, one of the Islamic countries of the former Soviet Union, or Cuba. According to Section 413 (a) of the Immigration and Nationalities Act, the Office of Refugee Resettlement is required to submit an annual report to Congress on the activities of the refugees. The report is supposed to include the number who are on public welfare programs. But no report has forthcoming from the Office of Refugee Resettlement since 2007. ... http://thelastcrusade.org/2010/10/22/obama-authorizes-80000-“refugees”-to-enter-country/ LOOK AT WHAT IS COMING! They are ALL Moslems! Obama is determined to wipe out the WHITE MAN, Christianity and any CIVILIZED INFLUENCES and make us a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. Obama HATES WHITE people. Obama HATES capitalism. Obama WANTS the BLACK people to have the WHITE people as their “whipping boys”. Obama also wants them to shore up the VOTE for him. Please, I can’t do it, POST what these people look like. A picture is worth a thousand words. http://thelastcrusade.org/2010/10/22/obama-authorizes-80000-“refugees”-to-enter-country/ These people are uncivilized and will forever alter our civilization HERE. Meanwhile Moslems SLAUGHTER Christians and they get NO "refugee" standing. NONE. We cater to pure EVIL. Nothing good will come of this as we import EVIL and literally pay for evil. NOtice how the main stream media says NOTHING about this. This SHOULD be known by now ... Obama endorse Moslem Comic Book Cartoons ... However, no matter how edifying the comic books may be for Moslem families, it is bizarre to see the President of the United States, endorsing such religiously-inspired products. The POTUS should normally be upholding the Establishment Clause of the Bill of Rights, and not be promoting a particular faith, but this president seems to think his desire to create good feelings in Moslems over-rides his need to abide by the First Amendment. The endorsement of Naif Al-Mutawa and The Ninety-Nine can be watched below: President Obama Gives Naif Al-Mutawa and THE 99 A Shout Out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xULeq3JrAEk&feature=player_embedded ... The new media outlet, called The Hub, will officially start airing on October 11, with veteran broadcaster Margaret Loesch running the schedule. And on the schedule of The Hub network will be an animated series called “The 99”, which will bring to life the Islamic cartoon superheroes. This is the first time that I am aware of where a religious cartoon series has been broadcast and aimed at the general viewing public. ... In Kuwait, the Ninety-Nine has been seen as educational and instructional, and has not been criticised. But it does seem strange that Islam – dressed up in the form of cartoon superhero characters – should be presented on the screen. Are we going to see ass-kicking Christian superhero nuns, called Faith, Hope and Charity, whooping sinner’s butts and sending Satan into Hell? It is doubtful. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7470/pub_detail.asp Even Jay Jay the Jet Plane had to have ALL Christian overtones and verses REMOVED. And he hit the ground running to bring Moslems INTO OUR GOVERNMENT. STAFFERS WRITE THE BILLS!

Obama gets list of top Muslim Americans

Denver Post Wire Report

Posted: 03/27/2009 12:30:00 AM MDT

Updated: 03/27/2009 12:58:19 AM MDT

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12006596

More here:

CHANGING OF THE GUARD

Obama seeks Muslims for White House posts

45 Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 execs,government


officials submitted for look

Posted: March 28, 2009 11:55 pm Eastern

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93251

Most recently, THIS caught my attention:

Shariah-Compliant Finance Advisor Picked by Obama as White House Fellow

by Zombie

Pajamas Media

June 25, 2010

On Tuesday, President Obama announced the appointment of this year’s “White House Fellows,” a prestigious program in which outstanding Americans are chosen to work in the White House and receive “first hand, high-level experience with the workings of the Federal government.” According to a White House Press release, one of this year’s Fellows is a young lawyer named Samar Ali:

Samar Ali is an Associate with the firm Hogan Lovells US LLP. She is responsible for counseling clients on mergers & acquisitions, cross-border transactions, Shari’a compliant transactions, project finance, and international business matters.

Left out of the press release is that she also previously worked as an intern and received training at the Islamic International Arab Bank; according to her staff bio at the Hogan Lovells law firm,

Samar’s experience includes advising a Middle Eastern university in the potential establishment of a Foreign Aid Conventional and Shari’ah Compliant Student Loan Program. … Before joining Hogan & Hartson, Samar worked as a summer associate for the firm and as a legal intern for the Islamic International Arab Bank.

Read the complete original version of this item...

http://www.islamist-watch.org/4300/shariah-compliant-finance-advisor-picked-by-obama

And of course where else could be put the MOSLEM influence using a USEFUL LEFTIST IDIOT? Yes, The United States Supreme Court! Elena Kagan’s Work to Make Constitutions More Shariah-Compliant To expand Harvard’s capacity to sell Shariah law, Kagan hired Noah Feldman in 2007, and in 2008 Feldman published his valentine to Shariah: “The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State,” which argues for democratically elected “Islamist” (aka Muslim Brotherhood) parties to take control of Muslim states in order to govern under Shariah law. Kagan rewarded Feldman’s Shariah advocacy by giving him the endowed Bemis Chair in International Law on September 16, 2008. His speech accepting the Bemis chair advocated an “experimental Constitution” that “embraces international institutions.” The New Republic’s Leon Wieseltier devastating critique of Feldman’s shilling for Shariah included this insight: In his discussion of Islamism, Feldman, who knows a lot more about Islam than I do, no longer rises to uphold the liberty of conscience. Instead he explains warmly that “to the Islamist politicians who advocate it or for the public that supports it, Shariah … is expected to function as something like a modern constitution.” He compares Islamic law to nothing less than “the American constitutional balance of powers.” Philadelphia! …. Feldman is weirdly at peace with the increasing popular support that Islamism enjoys in Egypt, Pakistan, and Jordan …. His offer of a shinier sharia is just another barter of rights for authenticity. This is not gradualism, it is pessimism. …. Feldman is shilling for a soft theocracy–for other people, naturally. This is, among other things, hypocritical.” Kagan and Shariah Amendments to Constitutions Two months after giving Feldman his Bemis chair, from November 12-14, 2008, Kagan spoke at and presided over a conference titled The Constitutional Judiciary in the Muslim World: Its Influence on the Interpretation of Constitutional and Legislative Texts 1970 to 2008 . To a large extent, the “Constitutional Judiciary” discussed in this conference was in fact the Shariah Judiciary, which was (and is, thanks in part to Feldman) being written into national constitutions in Muslim countries as a guiding principle. The Conference program is here including abstracts, with a summary report here. Like Feldman’s book, this Conference was upbeat on the prospects of introducing Shariah law into Constitutions. Feldman was said to have been the advisor in Iraq who insisted on putting a clause in the Iraqi constitution requiring legislation comply with Shariah law. In the main, the conference participants appear to have treated the introduction of Shariah amendments into national constitutions as progress – a good thing. The Rise of the Islamic State… That theme of Kagan’s conference was captured by Baber Johansen, acting Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, in his opening presentation on “The introduction of the ‘principles of the Islamic Shari’a’ as a source of the national legislation in the constitutions of major Muslim countries (1970-2008).” Johansen’s abstract states: “The introduction of constitutional amendments in the 1970s and 1980 that made “the principles of the Islamic Shari’a” a major or even the major source of national legislation has, on the one hand, given a new Islamic dimension to constitutional law, it has, on the other, raised the question of the relation between this amendment and the other articles of the constitution. Is the Islamizing amendment an article above or in the constitution? Do all other articles of the constitution have to be interpreted in its light or is the constitution one body in which the new amendment has to be interpreted in a way that guarantees the rights and freedoms protected by the constitution? In the last instance the question is how, if the Islamizing amendment is above the rest of the constitution, the constitution can guarantee its [ie the amendment's] status as being above the positive law and the constitution.” No mention of the Shariah laws against civil liberties, the lack of rights for women and non-muslims and apostates and gays, the requirement for violent jihad and so on. Just a technical discussion of the mechanics of making Constitutions comply with Shariah law. After Johansen’s presentation, Kagan spoke – but no record exists of what she said. She is listed on the program, and a photo of her at the conference was published in the June 2009 Islamic Legal Studies Program newsletter. That same newsletter, on the last page (”Objectives and Principles”) states that Kagan’s Islamic Legal Studies Program seeks “to promote a deep appreciation of Islamic law as one of the world’s major legal systems.” And that’s the problem. We know that Elena Kagan has a “deep appreciation” of Islamic law and international law. Americans are increasingly skeptical that she has a similarly deep appreciation for the US Constitution. According to Gallup polls, 44% of Americans support her nomination, 34% oppose her, and 22% don’t know. The only other nominees whose public support was less than 50% at this time were never confirmed: Harriet Miers and Robert Bork. Bork had 1% more of the public opposing him than Kagan; Miers had 2% less of the public supporting her than Kagan. It’s that close. Americans can still raise their voices on this, if they’ll raise them loud. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Kagan’s nomination this week, with the full Senate voting later this summer. http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/07/19/elena-kagans-work-to-make-constitutions-more-shariah-compliant/#more-7606 And it goes on and on and on.

28 posted on 12/03/2010 7:31:51 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
And Bush 43 and Condi too, I see!

I am not fan of Bush, but this fits Dr. Rice to a tee. I wish these people would not only go away, but that they had never been in power.
29 posted on 12/03/2010 7:33:46 AM PST by Tzfat
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To: RobinMasters

Disgusting. Not all these leaks are a bad thing, the American people have a right to know about this.


30 posted on 12/03/2010 7:34:28 AM PST by MissTed ( Do women in burqas have fun tagging each other in Facebook photos?)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

A cable dated January 2007


31 posted on 12/03/2010 7:35:36 AM PST by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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To: RobinMasters; All

I’ll bet probably originated from the ‘Pottery Barn’ Powell’s brilliant idea, bending backwards to accommodate mooooslems worldwide to show how sensitive we are.

Condi Rice is supposed to reign in the rogue State Dept, but she’s been corrupted/brainwashed.


32 posted on 12/03/2010 7:35:55 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
... An earlier cable, from August 2005, lectured, “France not only has a problem with integration or immigration; it also needs to act to give Muslims a sense of French identity.” [snip]

That's make some sense. Having ghettos full of poor, unemployed, angry Muslims who see themselves as outsiders is just begging for trouble. If they are employed, geographically separated, and are too busy with their free time doing French stuff rather than attending madrassas there is a chance to dilute their poisonous influence in France.

Their immigration is a problem, but it would be far better for the ones who are already there to see themselves as Frenchmen who happen to be Muslims rather than Muslims who are living in France.

33 posted on 12/03/2010 7:36:27 AM PST by KarlInOhio (All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. -Frederic Bastiat)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
You bet! Sorry about the formatting.

This stuff doesn't make the headlines either:

Obama is IMPORTING MOSLEM IMMIGRANTS into our country under a redfined "refugee" status 80,000 of them! Europe is trying to get rid of them as we usher them in.

OBAMA AUTHORIZES 80,000 “REFUGEES” TO ENTER COUNTRY

Mr. Obama says that the increase in Muslim immigrants “is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.”

The following “goals” for new immigrants has been set as follows:

Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000

East Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,000

Europe and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . 2,000

Latin America/Caribbean. . . . . . . . . . . 5,500

Near East/South Asia. . . . . . . . . . . 35,500

Unallocated Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000

(LOOK at the MOSLEM countries that we are recruiting from.)

Refugee Resettlement Watch and other organizations have expressed grave concern that Mr. Obama is allowing so many immigrants into the country while so many Americans remain out of work and living in poverty.

According to the US Department of Labor, 14.8 million Americans remain unemployed. 6.1 million have been out of work for 27 weeks or over.

...

The U. S. Census Bureau shows that the median household income for Americans has fallen to $49,777 – - a decline of 0.7% in the past year.

One in seven Americans no longer can feed themselves.

According to The Wall Street Journal, 14.3% of the American people live in abject poverty.

...

However, the definition of refugee is ‘fudged’ in several cases. “Refugees” who have not left their country due to persecution, according to Mr. Obama’s determination letter, can still be called “refugees” if they are from Iraq, one of the Islamic countries of the former Soviet Union, or Cuba.

According to Section 413 (a) of the Immigration and Nationalities Act, the Office of Refugee Resettlement is required to submit an annual report to Congress on the activities of the refugees.

The report is supposed to include the number who are on public welfare programs.

But no report has forthcoming from the Office of Refugee Resettlement since 2007.

...

http://thelastcrusade.org/2010/10/22/obama-authorizes-80000-“refugees”-to-enter-country/

LOOK AT WHAT IS COMING!

They are ALL Moslems!

Obama is determined to wipe out the WHITE MAN, Christianity and any CIVILIZED INFLUENCES and make us a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY.

Obama HATES WHITE people. Obama HATES capitalism. Obama WANTS the BLACK people to have the WHITE people as their “whipping boys”. Obama also wants them to shore up the VOTE for him.

Please, I can’t do it, POST what these people look like. A picture is worth a thousand words.

http://thelastcrusade.org/2010/10/22/obama-authorizes-80000-“refugees”-to-enter-country/

These people are uncivilized and will forever alter our civilization HERE.

Meanwhile Moslems SLAUGHTER Christians and they get NO "refugee" standing. NONE. We cater to pure EVIL. Nothing good will come of this as we import EVIL and literally pay for evil. NOtice how the main stream media says NOTHING about this.

This SHOULD be known by now ...

Obama endorse Moslem Comic Book Cartoons ... However, no matter how edifying the comic books may be for Moslem families, it is bizarre to see the President of the United States, endorsing such religiously-inspired products. The POTUS should normally be upholding the Establishment Clause of the Bill of Rights, and not be promoting a particular faith, but this president seems to think his desire to create good feelings in Moslems over-rides his need to abide by the First Amendment. The endorsement of Naif Al-Mutawa and The Ninety-Nine can be watched below:

President Obama Gives Naif Al-Mutawa and THE 99 A Shout Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xULeq3JrAEk&feature=player_embedded

...

The new media outlet, called The Hub, will officially start airing on October 11, with veteran broadcaster Margaret Loesch running the schedule. And on the schedule of The Hub network will be an animated series called “The 99”, which will bring to life the Islamic cartoon superheroes. This is the first time that I am aware of where a religious cartoon series has been broadcast and aimed at the general viewing public.

...

In Kuwait, the Ninety-Nine has been seen as educational and instructional, and has not been criticised. But it does seem strange that Islam – dressed up in the form of cartoon superhero characters – should be presented on the screen.

Are we going to see ass-kicking Christian superhero nuns, called Faith, Hope and Charity, whooping sinner’s butts and sending Satan into Hell? It is doubtful.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7470/pub_detail.asp

Even Jay Jay the Jet Plane had to have ALL Christian overtones and verses REMOVED.

And he hit the ground running to bring Moslems INTO OUR GOVERNMENT. STAFFERS WRITE THE BILLS!

Obama gets list of top Muslim Americans

Denver Post Wire Report

Posted: 03/27/2009 12:30:00 AM MDT

Updated: 03/27/2009 12:58:19 AM MDT

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12006596

More here:

CHANGING OF THE GUARD

Obama seeks Muslims for White House posts

45 Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 execs,government


officials submitted for look

Posted: March 28, 2009 11:55 pm Eastern

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93251

Most recently, THIS caught my attention:

Shariah-Compliant Finance Advisor Picked by Obama as White House Fellow

by Zombie

Pajamas Media

June 25, 2010

On Tuesday, President Obama announced the appointment of this year’s “White House Fellows,” a prestigious program in which outstanding Americans are chosen to work in the White House and receive “first hand, high-level experience with the workings of the Federal government.” According to a White House Press release, one of this year’s Fellows is a young lawyer named Samar Ali:

Samar Ali is an Associate with the firm Hogan Lovells US LLP. She is responsible for counseling clients on mergers & acquisitions, cross-border transactions, Shari’a compliant transactions, project finance, and international business matters.

Left out of the press release is that she also previously worked as an intern and received training at the Islamic International Arab Bank; according to her staff bio at the Hogan Lovells law firm,

Samar’s experience includes advising a Middle Eastern university in the potential establishment of a Foreign Aid Conventional and Shari’ah Compliant Student Loan Program. … Before joining Hogan & Hartson, Samar worked as a summer associate for the firm and as a legal intern for the Islamic International Arab Bank.

Read the complete original version of this item...

http://www.islamist-watch.org/4300/shariah-compliant-finance-advisor-picked-by-obama

And of course where else could be put the MOSLEM influence using a USEFUL LEFTIST IDIOT? Yes, The United States Supreme Court! Elena Kagan’s Work to Make Constitutions More Shariah-Compliant

To expand Harvard’s capacity to sell Shariah law, Kagan hired Noah Feldman in 2007, and in 2008 Feldman published his valentine to Shariah: “The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State,” which argues for democratically elected “Islamist” (aka Muslim Brotherhood) parties to take control of Muslim states in order to govern under Shariah law. Kagan rewarded Feldman’s Shariah advocacy by giving him the endowed Bemis Chair in International Law on September 16, 2008. His speech accepting the Bemis chair advocated an “experimental Constitution” that “embraces international institutions.” The New Republic’s Leon Wieseltier devastating critique of Feldman’s shilling for Shariah included this insight:

In his discussion of Islamism, Feldman, who knows a lot more about Islam than I do, no longer rises to uphold the liberty of conscience. Instead he explains warmly that “to the Islamist politicians who advocate it or for the public that supports it, Shariah … is expected to function as something like a modern constitution.” He compares Islamic law to nothing less than “the American constitutional balance of powers.” Philadelphia! …. Feldman is weirdly at peace with the increasing popular support that Islamism enjoys in Egypt, Pakistan, and Jordan …. His offer of a shinier sharia is just another barter of rights for authenticity. This is not gradualism, it is pessimism. …. Feldman is shilling for a soft theocracy–for other people, naturally. This is, among other things, hypocritical.”

Kagan and Shariah Amendments to Constitutions

Two months after giving Feldman his Bemis chair, from November 12-14, 2008, Kagan spoke at and presided over a conference titled The Constitutional Judiciary in the Muslim World: Its Influence on the Interpretation of Constitutional and Legislative Texts 1970 to 2008 . To a large extent, the “Constitutional Judiciary” discussed in this conference was in fact the Shariah Judiciary, which was (and is, thanks in part to Feldman) being written into national constitutions in Muslim countries as a guiding principle. The Conference program is here including abstracts, with a summary report here.

Like Feldman’s book, this Conference was upbeat on the prospects of introducing Shariah law into Constitutions. Feldman was said to have been the advisor in Iraq who insisted on putting a clause in the Iraqi constitution requiring legislation comply with Shariah law. In the main, the conference participants appear to have treated the introduction of Shariah amendments into national constitutions as progress – a good thing. The Rise of the Islamic State…

That theme of Kagan’s conference was captured by Baber Johansen, acting Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, in his opening presentation on “The introduction of the ‘principles of the Islamic Shari’a’ as a source of the national legislation in the constitutions of major Muslim countries (1970-2008).” Johansen’s abstract states:

“The introduction of constitutional amendments in the 1970s and 1980 that made “the principles of the Islamic Shari’a” a major or even the major source of national legislation has, on the one hand, given a new Islamic dimension to constitutional law, it has, on the other, raised the question of the relation between this amendment and the other articles of the constitution.

Is the Islamizing amendment an article above or in the constitution? Do all other articles of the constitution have to be interpreted in its light or is the constitution one body in which the new amendment has to be interpreted in a way that guarantees the rights and freedoms protected by the constitution? In the last instance the question is how, if the Islamizing amendment is above the rest of the constitution, the constitution can guarantee its [ie the amendment's] status as being above the positive law and the constitution.”

No mention of the Shariah laws against civil liberties, the lack of rights for women and non-muslims and apostates and gays, the requirement for violent jihad and so on. Just a technical discussion of the mechanics of making Constitutions comply with Shariah law.

After Johansen’s presentation, Kagan spoke – but no record exists of what she said. She is listed on the program, and a photo of her at the conference was published in the June 2009 Islamic Legal Studies Program newsletter.

That same newsletter, on the last page (”Objectives and Principles”) states that Kagan’s Islamic Legal Studies Program seeks “to promote a deep appreciation of Islamic law as one of the world’s major legal systems.”

And that’s the problem. We know that Elena Kagan has a “deep appreciation” of Islamic law and international law. Americans are increasingly skeptical that she has a similarly deep appreciation for the US Constitution.

According to Gallup polls, 44% of Americans support her nomination, 34% oppose her, and 22% don’t know. The only other nominees whose public support was less than 50% at this time were never confirmed: Harriet Miers and Robert Bork. Bork had 1% more of the public opposing him than Kagan; Miers had 2% less of the public supporting her than Kagan. It’s that close.

Americans can still raise their voices on this, if they’ll raise them loud. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Kagan’s nomination this week, with the full Senate voting later this summer.

http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/07/19/elena-kagans-work-to-make-constitutions-more-shariah-compliant/#more-7606

And it goes on and on and on. Obama truly has a THIRD WORLD MINDSET. He has a THUG, THIRD WORLD administration.

34 posted on 12/03/2010 7:36:55 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: ryderann
Hmm...insiders setting up Bush to look bad? Like “outing” the so-called CIA spy?

Probably not so much that as lower-tier, career staffers doing what they think "is right" under the table because their bosses (political appointees) "just don't get it".

I want to see the whole chain of authority on this one.
35 posted on 12/03/2010 7:42:40 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: penelopesire
The state department has been out of control and filled with leftists for decades.

There is a Ribbentrop in every tyrannical government.

36 posted on 12/03/2010 7:46:57 AM PST by GingisK
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To: MissTed
-Disgusting. Not all these leaks are a bad thing, the American people have a right to know about this.-

I'm beginning to agree with you on this. At first I was angered by the release, but as more comes to light, its an insight into how our government elite really run things. I'm all for the release of the bank documents. Lets see some more insider transactions facilitated by our so called government.

37 posted on 12/03/2010 7:48:44 AM PST by WILLIALAL
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To: RobinMasters
The Ugly American lives on!

But now, in the age of Hopey-Change, they all work for the US government.
So their meddling in the affairs of other countries is government approved.

(File under: More Reasons Why The French Hate Us)


38 posted on 12/03/2010 7:52:40 AM PST by Iron Munro (This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back.)
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To: RobinMasters

I bet the French folks whose cars were burned for Winter Solstice really appreciated our TAX DOLLARS being spent to whup up their rioters.


39 posted on 12/03/2010 7:54:10 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: RobinMasters

Just as they have sought to “empower” muslims everywhere else, like “empowering” muslims to burn down Israel, Indonesia, Greece, US, France.... you didn’t *really* think all those wildfires in recent years were all lightning strokes, did you??


40 posted on 12/03/2010 8:05:44 AM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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