Mark Harding says:

Is Canada in the same position? Of course, as I have said, there is no difference between the teachings and the determination of Islam in Canada or the USA when compared to Islamic societies in Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan or any other Islamic society.

The answer, as a bad a pill as it is to swallow, is to ban Islam from Canada. It is the only sensible solution for the protection of our children and our nations.

Brigitte Gabriel, Indoctrination in US Schools & Universities

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Admins 1389 and CzechRebel agree with the vast majority of Brigitte Gabriel’s speech, with these caveats:

1. There is nothing wrong with maintaining respect for your ancestral homeland by referring to yourself as an [ethnic]-American – as long as you do not indulge in identity politics by demanding special privileges in that regard.
2. English cannot be the sole official language throughout the US, for both historical and practical reasons. For instance, the US territory of Puerto Rico is predominantly Spanish-speaking. The state of New Mexico has always had two official languages, English and Spanish; this has been the case since its inception in 1912.

From the Stand Up America Now website:

Stand Up America Now, will protest concerning the Obama Administration’s handling of Islam.

We will be demonstrating against the lack of information that our government gives to the American people concerning the dangers of Islam, against the untrue justification of Islam to the American people, and against statements President Obama has made about Islam which are lies, for example, “Islam has a long history of tolerance”.

We will use the Koran in a physical way to illustrate and emphasize our disgust for the way our government is hiding and appeasing the dangerous, violent religion, that is Islam.

Also at the end of this demonstration, we will be praying for our nation. We refuse to recognize the government’s law that bans U.S. citizens from praying in front of the White House. This is a free country, even our money is printed with the statement, “In God We Trust”. Thomas Jefferson said, “When injustice becomes law, resistance become mandatory.”

We invite every American to come and join with us on June 9, 2012.

For more information, contact our office at 352-371-2487 or 352-871-2680 (Stephanie Sapp) or info@standupamericanow.org.

Denial is not the answer.

Ezra Levant: Iran’s nuclear threat

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Published on May 14, 2012 by SDAMatt2a
Ezra Levant and John Robson discuss Iran’s race to acquire nuclear weapons and the cluelessness of those who deny it.

Also see:

• 2.0: The Blogmocracy: The War Between Wars

by Hesperado

As of April 26, last month, Diana West posted an article counting 67 dead since November of 2009.

That’s 67 of our men and women (whether Americans or from our Allies) murdered by Afghani soldiers or police or military personnel supposed to be working with us on our side.

And I’m not sure this horrible tally includes that most egregious incident back in 2010 where a trusted Muslim confidante (a “Jordanian physician”!) had fooled a whole team of CIA operatives into letting him into a compound in Afghanistan without being sufficiently searched — and he exploded and took seven of our men and women down with him.

Now we see, yet again — “two British servicemen murdered by members of the Afghan national police force”. And, in that same story, we learn that these “green-on-blue” killings are escalating, now averaging one a week this year.

This brings the tally of Diana West’s “grim toll” at least up to 69 — although there may be good reason to believe this is a generously low figure (see Diana West’s article on this).

So what does the UK Defense Secretary Philip Hammond have to say about this?

He insisted that such attacks are “rare”.

“British forces work alongside Afghan forces every day with thousands of contacts with them every day,” he said.

“This is a country that has an insurgency going on in it and, sadly, occasionally, these events occur.”

Well, of course, not every Afghani on our side is undergoing Islamic combustion and shooting Infidels like a maniac. The rational question is not “are all Muslims doing this?” — usually meant as a dismissively rhetorical question in order to defend our continual naivety with regard to trusting Muslims — but rather should be, “How many Muslims are doing this, and is this number and rate simply too high for us to tolerate anymore?”

Secretary Hammond, like most in the West, has an irrationally high threshold set for tolerating outrageously deadly behaviors from Muslims.

And it’s literally killing us.

‘Is someone REALLY saying nasty things about you?’ It’s a Twitter scam

By Robb Hicken/ chief storyteller

Got a email in my personal account the other day. It read: “Someone is saying nasty things about you on Twitter.”

Come on! I’m not going to fall for that. And, neither should you. Does it really mean that much that someone is saying something nasty about you?

This is a classic phishing scam!

Clicking on the bit.ly link took me to a fake twitter login. It said that my current session had expired. (I don’t remember ever  being knocked off Twitter).

I typed in my login and password, and BBB’s virus scammer stopped me there. “YOU’RE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER THIS PAGE.”

This week I read further about the scam. It explains this was a phishing scam, and installs malware that would send out direct mail from my Twitter account with similar statements.  If anyone received these, my apologies. Our IT department said the virus protector we use should have stopped any items from going out .

A similar Twitter attack was launched in August, October, and December of last year.

If you did click though, take the following steps:

• Change your Twitter password.
• Verify the email address for your Twitter account was not changed.
• If you’ve used the same e-mail address and password on other web sites, then immediately check them out and change their passwords.
• If your Twitter account is sending out phishing messages, you should also visit the Applications tab in “Account Settings”, and Revoke Access for any third-party application that you don’t recognize.

Remember, you should always be suspicious of links that you are sent in an email, tweet or social networking site. If you are ever in doubt, DON’T CLICK!

[SOURCE]

Afterburner with Bill Whittle: The Sweet Spot

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Published on Mar 16, 2012 by Pajamasmedia

Bill Whittle returns from Bangkok to bring you the truth about world poverty. From prostitution, to the crumbling infrastructure, hear the lessons Whittle learned on his trip to the third world. Notwithstanding the poverty, could the Thai people be experiencing a freedom long lost in the United States? Find out.

John Stossel: Failed Federal Government Fiscal Policy & Gov. Fortuño

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Published on May 12, 2012 by TheJeffSoares

Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño discusses how the territory revived its economy. A US territory can do this but the Fed and California cannot? Pathetic.

 
Notes from an earlier John Stossel show on Luis Fortuño:

Puerto Rican Reforms

Posted by John Stossel | June 10, 2011

The media spent so much time covering union protests in Wisconsin, that I mostly missed a much bigger protest over much bigger (17,000 government workers fired!) cuts in Puerto Rico.

When Luis Fortuño became governor in 2009, Puerto Rico’s economy was a mess.

Or, as he told me:

“Not just a mess. We didn’t have enough money to meet our first payroll.”

But he avoided bankruptcy by getting an emergency loan, and immediately cutting Puerto Rico’s government. For once, government shrank. Fortuño and the conservative legislature:

• Laid off 17,000 government workers
• Froze all salaries in government
• Cut government spending by 20%

The changes were more sweeping than any state’s, so it’s no surprise that the protests were also more ferocious. Demonstrators clashed with the police in front of the governor’s mansion. Some carried signs calling him a fascist and a Nazi. One poll shows that if an election were held today, Fortuño would lose, 47 to 25%.

But the benefits of Fortuño’s small government policies are only starting to be realized. It wasn’t until this January that Fortuño used the savings from his cuts to reduce corporate taxes from 35 to 25%. He also cut state income taxes in half (a change that will be phased in until 2014.)

600 construction permits were issued in last few months. Wal-Mart, CostCo, Coca-Cola, and pharmaceutical companies are moving to or expanding in Puerto Rico. Soon, they will provide thousands of new jobs.

Once people notice that, Fortuño may become popular again. Ronald Reagan, Gov. John Engler of Michigan, and Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico all suffered drops in public support when they pushed for small government – but won re-election when people realized that the cuts helped the economy.

Many of those government workers who were laid off in Puerto Rico now do productive things. In my special, Mayra Gonzalez says she’s now GLAD she was laid off because it got her to start her own company. She named it “Law 7″ – after the law that fired her.

Good things happen when the government gets out of people’s lives.

Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Merchants of Despair

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Published on Mar 29, 2012 by Pajamasmedia

Who is responsible for the current economic malaise? If you ask Bill Whittle, it’s Obama’s pals like David Axelrod, Harry Reid and Tim Geithner, some of the many Merchants of Despair. These merchants are costing taxpayers trillions and creating deep national divides based on class and race. Will the despair continue for another four years? Find out.

See more at http://www.pjtv.com.

Afterburner: The Truth Is Out There

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Published on August 31, 2011 by Pajamasmedia

Bill Whittle has his truth. Pacifica Radio’s Amy Goodman has her truth. Everyone has their own truth. This is the mantra of the left today, and if you think about it, it has to be the mantra of the left. Find out why.

See more at http://www.pjtv.com.

More Bill Whittle videos here.

From Reuters PR Newswire:

WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is being released by Global Strategic Communications Group:

The FATCA law should be scrapped, writes James George Jatras, a Washington-based legislative specialist and expert in international affairs, in a May 8 UPI commentary. Citing “untold costs” versus “trivial revenue recovery,” Jatras shatters the myth that FATCA (“Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act”) is a “done deal” and calls for “first rendering FATCA unenforceable, and then for its final repeal.”

According to Jatras: “FATCA’s vulnerabilities are increasingly evident as a clearer picture emerges of the long list of oxen who will be gored: American expatriates, dual nationals, resident aliens, American consumers of financial and investment services, workers in foreign investment-dependent industries, and anyone who doesn’t want their private financial data shared with who-knows-who,” as well as both American and foreign firms “saddled with costs completely out of balance with FATCA’s supposed revenue purpose.”

Jatras also examines the dangers posed by an international “FATCA partnership” requiring American firms “to transfer personal financial information of millions of Americans to foreign governments and eventually to a central international repository.” FATCA, enacted in 2010, may also facilitate efforts to create a “global high-tax cartel and even a supranational financial transaction tax.” The intergovernmental reciprocal “partnership” would also impose costs on domestic American firms, which would be “passed on to consumers, raising expenses for all Americans,” writes Jatras.

Jatras notes that “firms in ‘partner’ countries mistakenly are relieved to be reporting to their own governments, not to the IRS.” But in reality, “firms’ ‘partnership’ costs may turn out to be even greater, with the prospect of reporting on assets from multiple countries, not just one,” he writes. “It’s the IRS who’s really being rescued, with foreign governments’ being ‘allowed’ to do IRS’s job for it.”

Draft FATCA regulations are pending. “FATCA can be and should be repealed,” writes Jatras. “During this election year, presidential and Congressional candidates need to be put on the spot where they stand.”

Twitter @repealfatca

UPI: “Why ‘FATCA’ should be repealed”

For further analysis: “Global Financial Information Regime Looms”

Contact: Global Strategic Communications Group, Darren Spinck, 202-669-4418, darren@gscgrouppr.com

SOURCE Global Strategic Communications Group

Shattering Four Myths about the ‘Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act’:
Why ‘FATCA’ Can and Should Be Repealed

By James George Jatras

For two years, much of the global financial community has been in an uproar about a pending U.S. law that has barely been noticed in the United States. That may soon change as the unacceptable costs of the “Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)” become fully apparent.

Enacted in 2010 as a supposed revenue-raiser pasted into an unrelated bill with almost no debate, FATCA requires every foreign financial institution (FFI) in the world to collect data on American-owned assets it holds and report them directly to the IRS. Any FFI failing to comply will have 30% of its American-derived income withheld. Together with additional complex rules, firms expect aggregate compliance costs in the tens of billions of dollars. In February, the U.S. Treasury Department released 388 pages of draft FATCA enforcement regulations, now being finalized.

At the same time, Treasury announced an agreement in principle with five major European Union governments for a reciprocal “partnership”: instead of requiring FFIs in “partner” countries to report American-owned assets directly to the IRS, they will report to their own governments, who will then pass the information on to Washington. In return, the U.S. will require domestic American institutions (banks, stock and equity funds, pension funds, insurance companies, etc.) to report to Treasury on assets belonging to citizens of the “partner” countries for transmittal to their governments. As additional countries join the initial five “FATCA partners,” a multi-governmental, perhaps eventually a global, financial information-sharing structure is forming.

Draft regulations on U.S. institutions to implement the international “partnership” agreement have yet to be published, and understandably most Americans have not yet noticed FATCA. But as the FATCA boomerang begins its return flight back towards the U.S., myths already well-established abroad are beginning to shatter:

Myth 1: FATCA’s costs will fall only on foreigners, not Americans.

The canary in the FATCA coalmine is the five-million strong American expatriate community, already being treated as financial lepers by FFIs afraid of the 30% withholding penalty. If only a tiny fraction of $21 trillion in foreign investment in the U.S. were pulled out over FATCA fears, the impact on the American economy and jobs could be devastating. Now, with FATCA-like requirements also in the offing for U.S. domestic institutions, costs can be expected to be passed on to consumers, raising expenses for all Americans. Moreover, the “partnership” agreement will require transfers of personal financial information of millions of Americans (starting with dual nationals) and foreign residents with uncertain data protection to foreign governments and, in all likelihood, eventually to a central international repository. FATCA may also facilitate longstanding efforts to create a “global high-tax cartel” and even a supranational financial transaction tax.

Myth 2: By cooperating with the U.S., foreign “partner” governments are rescuing their firms from a crushing compliance burden.

Many firms in the five “partner” countries are breathing a sigh of relief that they will report to their own governments, not to the IRS, and firms in other countries are demanding their governments join in. They are mistaken. Upon examination, it’s clear who really is being rescued here: the IRS. Saddled with the Sisyphean task of extraterritorial enforcement on each and every financial firm (as broadly defined under FATCA) in the entire world, Treasury already had delayed by over two months the release of draft FATCA regulations last year – until it could unveil the “partnership” agreement, which in effect “allows” foreign governments to do IRS’s job for it. While it’s possible the “partnership” may provide foreign firms with some modest respite (and eliminates their terror of FATCA’s withholding provision), compliance costs – under domestic laws and regulations that will parallel the IRS’s 388 pages – may actually turn out to be greater than just complying with the IRS’s mandates. If, as described in the “partnership” announcement, FATCA becomes the “common model for automatic data exchange of information,” FFIs face the prospect of reporting on assets from multiple countries, not just one. In addition, under domestically imposed “partnership” compliance requirements, individual firms could be deprived of the ability to make their own business decisions about maintaining U.S. clients and investments weighed against compliance costs.

Myth 3: FATCA is only about making “fat cats” pay their fair share.

The Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation estimates FATCA’s revenue benefit to the U.S. Treasury at less than $1 billion yearly, out of yearly tax revenues of about $2 trillion a year. No cost/benefit study ever has been conducted about the comparatively trivial revenues FATCA stands to “recover” versus untold costs of compliance (soon to be extended to domestic U.S. firms and consumers under the “partnership”), administrative costs to the Treasury, and foreign investment withdrawn from the U.S. (and consequence job loss and reduced tax revenues), not to mention the incalculable impact of creating an international financial data fishbowl.

Myth 4: FATCA is set in concrete – all we can do is live with it.

Absolutely not! FATCA’s vulnerabilities are increasingly evident as a clearer picture emerges of the long list of oxen who will be gored: American expatriates, dual nationals, resident aliens, American consumers of financial and investment services of any sort, workers in foreign investment-dependent industries, and anyone and everyone who doesn’t want their private financial data shared with who-knows-who – not to mention American and foreign firms (notably those in countries inclined to resist joining the “partnership”) saddled with costs completely out of balance with FATCA’s supposed revenue purpose. To the trained Washington eye, FATCA presents what military planners call a “target-rich environment,” for first rendering unenforceable the “partnership” agreement and the FATCA regulations (slated to be phased in beginning in January 2013), and then for final repeal of this monstrosity. During this election year, presidential and Congressional candidates need to be put on the spot where they stand on FATCA.

James George Jatras is a Principal of Squire Sanders Public Advocacy, a Washington-based government relations firm, and specializes in international issues. He previously served as a policy analyst for the U.S. Senate Republican leadership and as an American Foreign Service Officer. He can be reached at james.jatras@squiresanders.com.

Al Qaeda Bombmaker Designs Bombs to Hide in Cameras, Hard Drives and Pets

At the age of only 30, the al Qaeda bombmaker behind the foiled plot on U.S-bound planes has emerged as the most feared face of terror for American authorities, a master technician with a fierce hatred for America and ingenious plans for hiding hard-to-detect bombs inside cameras, computers and even household pets.

Again and again, Ibrahim al-Asiri has created bombs that get past security screening — the underwear bomb targeting a Detroit-bound jet in 2009, bombs hidden in printer cartridges set to explode over Chicago, even a bomb hidden in the body of a younger brother who was sent on a suicide mission against a Saudi official.

A Saudi citizen who studied chemistry in college, al-Asiri’s parents say he became radicalized after the death of a brother.

“It makes him dangerous,” said Rep. Mike Rogers, R.-Alabama, chair of House Homeland Security Committee, “and it’s clear that we want to make sure that he doesn’t have the opportunity to A, to continue to do, to build any device whatsoever, or impart his knowledge to anyone else who wants to build these devices.”

U.S. authorities tell ABC News that al-Asiri’s latest designs involve bombs surgically implanted in terrorists, as well as bombs hidden in pets to be carried on aircraft, cameras, and external hard drives that would explode when plugged into a laptop computer.

More here.

Sean Hannity Interview Geert Wilders About Radical Islam (FOX NEWS)

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Published on May 1, 2012 by Marc10205

Geert says it all.

The fact that he has to live the way he does proves his point about Radical Islam!

Unbelievable that people don’t seem to ‘get’ this part.

On GBTV Geert Wilders Sits down w/ Glenn Beck and Talks Europe, Islam, Terrorism, & America

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Published on May 3, 2012 by GlennBeckBookList

http://www.GlennBecksBookList.com — For the book “Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me” click here: http://www.amzn.to/GeertBook

On May 3rd Dutch Parliament member Geert Wilders sat down with Glenn Beck and talked about the state of Europe, America and the impact Radical Islam and Terrorism are having upon the world.

Marked for Death

Fanatics, terrorists, and appeasers have tried everything to silence Geert Wilders, Europe’s most controversial Member of Parliament—from putting him on trial to putting a price on his head. But Wilders refuses to be silenced—and one result is the book you have in your hands.

For years, from his native Netherlands, Wilders has sounded the alarm about the relentless spread of Islam in the West. And he has paid a steep personal price, enduring countless death threats and being forced into a permanent state of hiding.

Now, for the first time, Wilders offers a full account of his long battle against the zealots who have already slaughtered his countryman Theo van Gogh—whose killer also threatened to murder Wilders himself.

In Marked for Death, Wilders reveals: How—and why—liberal politicians, including Barack Obama, downplay the Islamic threat The systematic suppression of free speech through lawsuits, prosecutions, threats, and violence meted out against Islam’s critics The untold story: how Islamic groups are redefining human rights to suppress non-Muslims everywhere The true, bloody history of Islam’s spread throughout the world How the West can defend itself against an existential enemy determined to conquer the globe

Expelled from Britain, banned from Indonesia, denounced by the UN Secretary General, prosecuted in court for his beliefs, forced into government safe houses, and constantly threatened with death, Geert Wilders is unbowed and unapologetic. Marked for Death is a stark warning about a growing threat to our liberties written by a man who has lost his freedom—and would not see the rest of us suffer the same fate. (amazon.com)

Stakelbeck on Terror Show: A Conversation with Geert Wilders

On this week’s edition of Stakelbeck on Terror, we sit down for a wide-ranging interview with Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders.

Al Qaeda wants him dead. The British government once labeled him a security risk. Even in his own country, some want him thrown in prison–or worse.

Such is the price today for speaking out against Islamic jihadists.

Wilders, who leads the Freedom Party, Holland’s third largest, has been called “Islam’s Public Enemy Number One” because of his bold stance against the Islamization of Europe.

In his new book, Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me, he describes his personal ordeal and lays out his case against Islam and multiculturalism.

Also see:

• Fjordman: Geert Wilders: Marked for Death
• The Spirit of Geert Wilders: A foreword by Mark Steyn to Wilders’ Marked for Death.

Please read the article “Repeating History,” that prompted me to respond to this ugly and nasty article.

Syrian News Agency: Analysis: Syria safe havens? They failed in Bosnia

It is an article that perpetuates the Serbs as the bad guys. Also for your information, the editors did not want to publish my letter but I pestered (nagged!) them until they did, Originally, I sent in AS I SEE IT – on 18 April which is a forum that allows over 600 – 700 words – since I had not heard from the editors, I sent them an email asking what I had written that may have offended them and the importance of responding to the anti-Serb article – What began was an exchange between me and the editor of The Patriot-News – first telling me that she didn’t publish my AS I SEE IT, because it exceeded the 250 word limit. I then fired back saying that what I submitted was an Op-Ed piece and not a letter – days went by when I finally heard from the editor saying that she would take another look as what I had written but to submit it as a letter – I revised my AS I SEE IT (reluctantly) down to 250 words – and this is my letter published today which comes to 220 words – their having edited several sentences from my letter. Now remember, our back and forth tug of war started on 18 April and finally ended today, 6 May.

If I was anything to them, I was a thorn in their side.

Stella

P.S. I don’t want any lip from anyone!

Anti-Serbian accounts distort true global picture

Published: Sunday, May 06, 2012, 1:02 AM

An old adage states, “Truth is the first casualty of war.”

A perfect example is, “Repeating History?” of March 10 that falsely compared our intervention in Bosnia to today’s situation in Syria, a comparison that works only if you believe the one-sided, pro-Bosnian, anti-Serbian reporting by U.S. media for the last two decades.

Before accepting the premise of “Repeating History,” consider the following:

The myth of the safe areas: Mr. Yasushi Akashi, former U.N. representative in Bosnia, admitted that “It is a fact that Bosnian government forces have used the ‘safe’ areas of Srebrenica, [as well as other cities] for training, for recuperation and refurbishing their troops.”

In other words, the so called “safe areas” were used as military posts to train Mujahedin fighters from the whole Islamic world.

Srebrenica was the excuse for NATO to bomb the Serbs, but to understand Srebrenica, it is necessary to know what occurred prior to the Serbian attack on that city when Nasir Oric, the dreaded Muslim commander in Srebrenica, mounted commando raids against surrounding Serbian villages whose remaining population were mainly elderly Serbs who refused to leave their homes.

Even a Muslim member of the Bosnian Parliament testified that the betrayal of Srebrenica “was consciously prepared … to sacrifice Srebrenica in order to gain the sympathy of the West.” And it worked.

STELLA L. JATRAS, Camp Hill

This is my original letter. Red indicates what they edited out.

The Patriot-News
Letter to the editor,
27 April 2012

An old adage states, “Truth is the first casualty of war.” A perfect example is, “Repeating History?” of 10 March which falsely compared our intervention in Bosnia to today’s situation in Syria , a comparison that works only if you believe the one-sided, pro-Bosnian, anti-Serbian reporting by the U.S.media for the past two decades. Before accepting the premise of “Repeating History.” consider the following:

The myth of the Safe Areas: Mr. Yasushi Akashi, former UN Representative in Bosnia admitted that “It is a fact that Bosnian government forces have used the ‘safe areas’ of Srebrenica, [as well as other cities,] for training, for recuperation and refurbishing their troops.” In other words, the so called “safe-areas” were used as military posts to train Mujahedin fighters from the whole Islamic world, free to commit their treachery by attacking Serbian villages and returning back to the safety of their UN protectors who conveniently looked the other way to these violations.

Srebrenica was the excuse for NATO to bomb the Serbs, but to understand Srebrenica, it is necessary to know what occurred prior to the Serbian attack on that city when Nasir Oric, the dreaded Muslim commander in Srebrenica mounted commando raids against surrounding Serbian villages whose remaining population were mainly elderly Serbs who refused to leave their homes. Bill Schiller of The Toronto Star described Oric “as blood-thirsty a warrior as ever crossed a battlefield.” Even a Muslim member of the Bosnian Parliament testified that the betrayal of Srebrenica” was consciously prepared . . . to sacrifice Srebrenica in order to gain the sympathy of the West.”

And it worked!

Stella L. Jatras

I recently watched AILA attorney Francisco Hernandez (who didn’t seem very Hispanic to me) debating ALCJ attorney Jay Sekulow about whether we should call “illegal” immigrants “illegal” or not. It was very pathetic debate and I found myself agreeing and disagreeing with both lawyers . . . but mostly disagreeing.

For the record we at 1389 Blog (which was originally called 1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech) are primarily concerned about two aspects of immigration:

1. How Jihadi terrorists are entering the US and Canada to commit acts of terror; and
2. How aliens are taking the jobs of American technical workers.

But we just had to say a word or two about this open area of misconception.

So, Should We Call Foreigners Without Proper Papers “Illegal” or Not?

What a question! What does the word “illegal” mean? In the general vernacular, it denotes an unlawful act. It is illegal to marry a brother or sister. It is illegal to rob a bank. It is illegal not to stop at a stop sign or red light. In other words, we are speaking of someone who has committed a crime.

But, what do we mean by the term “illegal alien”? The general consensus seems to be that the alien did something illegal, but what was the illegal act? The majority of undocumented aliens (the preferred term by those who object to the term “illegal alien”), are just that: foreign nationals without up-to-date paper work. For example, they enter on a tourist visa, but stay too long. Does that make them a bad person? Maybe, maybe not! For some, it is a mistake, a mere oversight. For others, they never intended to leave when the visa expired, as their “tourist visas” were pure fraudulent, as they never intended to leave. So, it gets a bit murky here.

Of course, the public tends to focus on the most flagrant violations of US immigration law, those who enter without inspection. These are the people who cross from Mexico into the US, sometimes in the most dangerous ways. Certainly, those people are illegal . . . or are they?

Is it a crime to enter the United States without inspection? It doesn’t seem to violate the criminal code. Most Americans would not want to feed, clothe, and house in prison large numbers of people who have entered without inspection, because it would cost the government too much. US prisons are overcrowded already! What the law requires is that they go back home. And, having entered without inspection does make it more difficult for them to be in the US legally in the future.

Of course, Mr. Sekulow did not clear this up. He just kept using the word “illegal” and alienating those who disagree with him. Too bad Mr. Sekulow couldn’t have used his excellent talent to make a plausible argument as to why we should call people whose immigration paperwork is out of status. It would sure be nice to have a solid legal argument for using that term.

Why Don’t These Bums Just Come Here Legally, Like Our Ancestors Did?

You have heard it before. It always seems that these second, third, and even fourth generation people of ethnic stock speak of how their ancestors immigrated legally, and how that was so different from what is happening now. I have relatives who, as far as I know, came to the US legally. However, can we be 100 percent sure? That is not always so clear. I have a relative who MAY have been born here, but has no birth certificate to prove it. (Sounds pretty bad, but these days, such an individual could be president!) However, the mother of this individual once told a census worker (or the census worker put down incorrect data, we will never know) she came to the US a full three years after the relative in question was born. Another female relative may or may not have ever become a citizen. We know she came with an older sibling, but her status was never too clear. Perhaps, she was never technically “legal” throughout her long life! I grow up with other friends of ethnicity who had stowaway grand parents. So, did those stowaways ever get to be “legal”? Good question! We all hope that our ancestors were legal, but some of us can never be 100 percent sure.

Getting back to today, just how does a good law-abiding Mexican national immigrate to the US? Well, there are three basic legal ways to do so:

1. Have a very close relative who is already here legally. This rules out most everyone. But don’t take my word for it; check with any good immigration lawyer.
2. Have a trade and/or skills that would allow him to have a great life in Mexico. While this avenue may be open to more people, most would be fools to give up a good life in Mexico for often much more difficult and austere life in the US. How many successful accounts, engineers, doctors and the like want to leave their good life and families behind for a somewhat chancy life in the US? Again, don’t take my word for it; ask someone with a lot of contacts in the Mexican-American community.
3. Get to the US any way that you can, support yourself whatever way you can, and wait for the next amnesty. (Not too long ago, single individuals could simply marry a US citizen or lawful resident to stay, but that has gotten to be more complicated.)

Other than that, there are not any significant legal ways into the US from Mexico. Mr. Hernandez alluded to this problem briefly, but didn’t really try to drive the point home.

What Does This Have to Do With Our Counterjihad Activities?

A lot more that you might think! Fifteen or twenty years ago, Latin America seemed to be off limits to Middle Easterners. At one tourist spot, a local was joking about how we gringos, Europeans, Japanese, Israelis, Australians, and people from all over world came there, but not Arabs. That has all changed. The same people who smuggle Mexicans over the border for a small fee, will gladly shuttle jihadis over the same border for a much larger fee.

How did this happen? Failed US immigration policy. The US government has made it clear that only those with a very close family member in the US, and people who already have good educations and substantial resources in Mexico can immigrate easily. So there is a market for those who can get in some other way. Many overstay legal non-immigrant visas, such as tourist, student, or temporary worker visas. Others are brought in by those “coyotes” – often connected with Latin American drug cartels – who do the smuggling. It is a great pipeline for terrorists!

Of course, there is no substantial barrier to entry. You have hear the slogan, “Where’s the fence?” So, US government polices have created a high demand for clandestine entry through bone-headed immigration policy and a low barrier to entry as a result of lax enforcement. The terrorists have used it to their advantage.

And where is the policy debate? Oh, yes! We are worried about whether it is proper to call those foreigners who lack up-to-date papers “illegal” or not!

Given that this the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, one wonders whether the above-mentioned attorneys–had they been alive in 1912–might have staged a debate as how to best polish the Titanic bell and how to re-arrange her deck furniture.

Yes, Muslim slave-trading of black Africans (and not only of black Africans) continues to this day. If you think that Islam is any friend of black people, or of the oppressed, think again! As Pamela Geller points out, “Under Islam all black peoples are called abeed, plural for slaves.”

Islam and Slavery

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When doing research on African slavery I came across this video and was surprised about the slave trade in the Middle East, especially around North Africa. This explains the current genocide that is going on in Darfur and the Sudan. I could see the link with the past that this has been going on for 14 centuries. This person wrote this book about slavery in Islamic states: John Alembillah Azumah. The book is called Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-Religious Dialogue. This book reveals the dark secret of Islam and slavery of black people in Africa and the history of how Arab Muslims went to war on and captured black men, women and children and turned them into slaves. While slavery only lasted 3 centuries in the west, it has lasted 14 centuries in the Middle East and exists today in many Muslim countries. He explains the book in this short video and it is very interesting. It explains that when Arab slave traders would raid black villages to the south they would kill the adults and kidnap the children. The boy children were indoctrinated into an Islamic army for the Arabs and the girls were taken as household and sex slaves. The reason their were not that many black descendants in the middle east is because the black male children were castrated so they could not reproduce. There were a few black Africans who grew up and because they curried favor with their masters were allowed to also be slave traders. A very interesting history of black African slave trade and the Muslim Arab world. People need to know this history, BUT instead sadly people will never get enough of watching Souljah Boy dance dude, 50 cent, old Tupac Shakur Rap videos, Britany Spears and other videos and never know the truth, especially white and black converts or reverts. This is part of the legacy of slavery that most African American people should know. Many black converts or reverts do not know this history before they converted believing that they were originally Muslim before they were sold into slavery. They were not. People should research their history before they convert or revert.

Islamic jurisprudence has always justified slavery, and it still does. In Muslim countries, de facto enslavement commonly takes place even when there are secular laws against it.

Activists Arrested in Mauritania after Burning Islamic Jurisdiction Books Legitimizing Slavery

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Activists Arrested in Mauritania Following Burning of Islamic Jurisdiction Books Legitimizing Slavery – Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai/Saudi Arabia) – April 30, 2012
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Transcript of MEMRI Clip No. 3429, April 30, 2012:

Activists Arrested in Mauritania Following Burning of Islamic Jurisdiction Books Legitimizing Slavery

Following are excerpts from a report on the movement for abolishing slavery in Mauritania, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on April 30, 2012 :

Reporter : The issue of slavery has taken center stage in Mauritania once again. A human rights organization fighting slavery burnt books of the Maliki school of jurisprudence, prevailing in Mauritania, claiming that they provide a religious justification for continuing slavery. The act took place at the end of a special prayer of slaves, which emphasized their right to lead Muslims in prayer. The burning of the books sparked fury among the public.

Sheik Hamad Ould Al-Tah, head of the Islamic Scholars Association in Mauritania : There has not been much slavery in Mauritania for a long while. A fatwa that was issued by the country’s scholars, and was ratified by the authorities, abolished slavery.

Reporter : Demonstrations erupted throughout the country in condemnation of what was perceived as an affront to [Islam's] sanctities. The president of Mauritania met with the protestors, and promised to implement the [penalties] of Islamic law upon the leaders of the manumission movement, who burnt the books. The president ordered them arrested and handed over to the courts.

The anti-slavery movement apologized to the Mauritanians for the burning of the Maliki books. The movement explained that this was a symbolic act, in order to draw attention to jurisprudent views legitimizing slavery.

Human rights activist : We hereby apologize to the people of Mauritania and to all good Muslims who felt affronted by this act. We call upon them all to contemplate the feelings and dignity of the thousands of slaves.

Reporter : The activists deemed the reactions to the burning of the books to be extremist, and said that [the protestors] failed to see the connection between some religious texts and the suffering of slaves in Mauritania.

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Anti-slavery activist Abeid Ould Amigin : I cannot accept the claim that slavery does not exist. After all, a slave-owner was found guilty, a few months ago, of enslaving two minors. I cannot accept that slavery does not exist, when the state legislated a law in 2007 criminalizing slavery. A state does not legislate laws for things that do not exist.

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This news report from Bayerischer Rundfunk explains in detail the cooperation between the Nazis and the Muslim Arab leaders during WW2.

It goes on to explain how high ranking heads of the SS fled to the Arab world and carried on their activities under the protection of leaders such as President Nasser and how modern Islam has adopted a Nazi style ideology of hate and conspiracy against the Jews.

Thanks to the Editrix (www.editrixoffice.com) for providing the translation and revealing this ray of light in the darkness of vitriolic reporting about Israel in the German media.

Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference (highlights)

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Published on May 1, 2012 by atlasshrugs2000
Pamela Geller’s impassioned introduction and selected clips from the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights conference in Dearborn, featuring clips from the American Arab Institute’s pro-honor killing counter demonstration.

Robert Spencer denounces pro-honor-killing Dearborn imam

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Published on May 2, 2012 by atlasshrugs2000
Robert Spencer calls out Imam Hasan Qazwini of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn for tacitly endorsing honor killing by holding an “Islamophobia meeting” to create a smokescreen for murderers who kill Muslim girls and divert attention from the Jessica Mokdad Human RIghts Conference.

Michael Coren of Sun TV (Part One) @ Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference

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Published on May 4, 2012 by atlasshrugs2000
Sun TV host Michael Coren connects the dots between recent honor killings in Canada and global jihad.

Michael Coren of Sun TV (Part Two) @ Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference

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James Lafferty @ the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference

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James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force speaks to activists in Dearborn about his organization’s efforts to monitor and counter jihadists in America.

Robert Muise @ the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference (Part One)

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Robert Muise, co-founder of the American Freedom Law Center, speaks at the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference about how the United States legal system is being used for jihadist lawfare, giving very real examples of the clear and present danger that Sharia law presents to our Constitutional freedoms.

Robert Muise @ the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference in Dearborn (Part Two)

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David Wood of ACT 17 Apologetics @ the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference

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Published on May 3, 2012 by atlasshrugs2000
David Wood — once arrested in Dearborn, MI and tried for SWC (speaking while Christian) — joins Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer for a conference on the conflict between Sharia law & the U.S. Constitution, the honor killing of Muslim girls and the religious inspiration for that grisly practice.

Pamela Geller and Darwin Jiles @ the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference

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Pamela Geller describes the double life and constant fear of Muslim girls facing the threat of death if they dishonor their family. Darwin Jiles gives harrowing first hand testimony of how that barbaric code lead to the murder of his friend Jessica Mokdad.

Nonie Darwish at the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference in Dearborn, MI

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Published on May 3, 2012 by atlasshrugs2000
Nonie Darwish, author of “The Devil We Don’t Know: The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East”, gives personal testimony about the fear and terror that Muslim girls under the threat of honor killing face.

Hypocrites and Liars: Islamic supremacism at Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference

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Published on May 3, 2012 by atlasshrugs2000

There are videos going around by Islamic supremaicts claiming they were refused entry to the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference. Every attendee had to register and we were overbooked.

Once again, the subject matter, the subjugation, oppression and slaughter of women is discarded and ignored, much like their plight. And a distraction created to avoid the bloody truth.

In a ridiculous email exchange, I wrote to pro-honor killing “journalist” (for the Arab Institute), Omar Baddar Ah, I see, Muslim women not getting into a sold out conference (which they did not register for) is far more newsworthy and significant than Muslim girls being slaughtered for wanting to live a free life of their own choosing. Got it. lml

The point of registering guests was to avoid the chaos and attempted shutdown of our event at Temple University.

Any Muslim girl that needs help to escape gender terrorism can contact us. We will get them safe harbor.

Complete video playlist from the conference here.