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		<title>Flemish Freedom Party Vlaams Belang Supports Women Against Islamization</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may look like &#8220;Rule 5 Friday&#8221; at first glance, but it&#8217;s way more important than that. Be sure to read the article too! Daily Mail (UK): Belgian politician risks Muslim backlash after using teenage daughter dressed in burka and bikini for campaign against Islam (h/t: Blazing Cat Fur) By Rick Dewsbury Last updated at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>This may look like &#8220;Rule 5 Friday&#8221; at first glance, but it&#8217;s way more important than that. Be sure to read the article too!</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095862/Belgian-Vlaams-Belang-risks-Muslim-backlash-picture-daughter-burka-bikini.html">Daily Mail (UK): Belgian politician risks Muslim backlash after using teenage daughter dressed in burka and bikini for campaign against Islam</a></h3>
<p><em>(h/t: <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2012/02/belang-went-strings-of-mos-heart.html">Blazing Cat Fur</a>)</em><br />
<img src="http://1389blog.com/pix/An-Sofie-Dewinter-poster.jpg" alt="An-Sofie Dewinter in Vlaams Belang burqa-bikini poster" title="Vrijheid of islam? Durven kiezen!" style="margin:0 0 0 5px; float:right;" /></p>
<blockquote><p>By <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Rick+Dewsbury">Rick Dewsbury</a><br />
Last updated at 1:33 PM on 3rd February 2012</p>
<p>A Belgian politician has risked causing uproar among Muslims after starting a &#8216;Women Against Islamization&#8217; campaign featuring his 19-year-old daughter wearing a burka and a bikini.</p>
<p>Filip Dewinter, leader of the far-right Vlaams Belang party, uses a shot of his daughter An-Sofie Dewinter in the dark blue bikini for the political campaign.</p>
<p>The glamorous teenager dons a burka that covers her head and face, while the rest of the Muslim garment is draped over her back.</p>
<p>The provocative image is likely to inflame tensions among Islamic groups and nationalists in the racially-divided country.</p>
<p>The poster shows the words &#8216;Freedom or Islam?&#8217; written on a red bar across Ms Dewinter&#8217;s breasts.</p>
<p>Further down the poster a black panel with the words &#8216;You choose!&#8217; is seen covering the teenager&#8217;s crotch.</p>
<p>The extremist Vlaams Belang party claims that it wants to convince women to take a stand against Islam.</p>
<p>Ms Dewinter told the Belgian press she does not feel used by the party.</p>
<p>She said: &#8216;I&#8217;ve suggested (the poster) myself, I have learned to live with it but I have had everything up to death threats made at me.&#8217;</p>
<p>She said that she &#8216; wanted to make this statement.&#8217;</p>
<p>She added: &#8216;What is the greatest contrast with a niqab? Nude.</p>
<p>&#8216;The campaign fits in perfectly with how I feel about the whole issue. As women, we must choose: freedom or Islam.&#8217;</p>
<p>The teenager claimed that she had been threatened by Muslim groups</p>
<p>She added: &#8216;Death threats and criticism no longer scare me off.&#8217;</p>
<p>Her father, the party&#8217;s leader, said: &#8216;Women are always the first victims of Islam. We want to make clear that they have a choice.&#8217;</p>
<p>The potentially incendiary poster comes after The Islamic fundamentalist group Shariah4Belgium was slammed for its aggressive stance.</p>
<p>The group opened the country&#8217;s first Sharia court, a putting it on a collision course with the country’s nationalists.</p>
<p>Vlaams Belang spoke out against the Muslim courts and said that all legal disputes should be settled in the country’s civil judicial system.</p>
<p><em><strong><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095862/Belgian-Vlaams-Belang-risks-Muslim-backlash-picture-daughter-burka-bikini.html#ixzz1luCvyWkb">More here.</a></strong></em></p></blockquote>
<h3>Let&#8217;s expose some of the <span style="color:#009900; font-style:italic">&#8220;spin&#8221;</span> in the Daily Mail article:</h3>
<p>First of all, there&#8217;s this phrase in the article title: <span style="color:#009900; font-style:italic">&#8220;&#8230;using teenage daughter in burka and bikini&#8230;&#8221;</span> Filip Dewinter is not &#8220;using&#8221; his teenage daughter in this campaign. She suggested the poster; it is not unduly revealing; and, at 19, she is of age to make the decision to be photographed. As a young adult who grew up in a political family, she thoroughly understands and accepts the risks involved. Kudos to her for participating in the Women Against Islamization campaign.</p>
<p><span style="color:#009900; font-style:italic">&#8220;&#8230;likely to inflame tensions among Islamic groups and nationalists in the racially-divided country.&#8221;</span> Yeah, we get it; if you object to the burqa or the niqab, you must be a raaaaacist. Belgium is divided in two different ways, neither of which have to do with race: by region (socialist French/Walloon versus conservative Flemish) and by ideology (Islam versus freedom). Islam is a totalitarian ideology; it is no more a &#8220;race&#8221; than communism is, and non-Muslims have the right to reject it.</p>
<p><span style="color:#009900; font-style:italic">&#8220;Filip Dewinter, leader of the far-right Vlaams Belang party&#8230;&#8221;</span> Here we go again. Patriotism in western Europe has become a dirty word. Any European political party or organization that takes a stand for national sovereignty or against Islamic infiltration will be labeled as &#8220;far-right.&#8221; In the mainstream media, &#8220;far-right&#8221; is a code word for raaaaacist or neo-Nazi. This smear against conservatives is especially misleading in view of the fact that <a href="http://1389blog.com/2012/02/07/hitler-was-a-marxist/">Hitler was a Marxist</a>, always a man of the Left. </p>
<p><span style="color:#009900; font-style:italic">&#8220;The extremist Vlaams Belang party claims that it wants to convince women to take a stand against Islam.&#8221;</span> <em>Extremist</em> is another code word that the mainstream media uses to make a person, group, or idea seem too far outside of the mainstream to be a respectable topic for discussion. On the one hand, jihadi violence is blamed on a &#8220;tiny minority of <em>extremists</em>&#8221; within Islam, rather than on mainstream Islamic doctrine set forth in the Qur&#8217;an, the hadiths, and the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. On the other hand, any party opposing Islamic expansionism is labeled <em>extremist,</em> as a ploy to make the reader feel secretly ashamed for agreeing with it.</p>
<p><img src="http://1389blog.com/pix/VlaamsBelangLogo.jpg" alt="Vlaams Belang logo" title="Vlaams Belang logo" style="margin:0 0 0 5px; float:right;" /></p>
<h3><em>More here:</em></h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.filipdewinter.be/">Filip Dewinter (Flemish language)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.vlaamsbelang.org/">Vlaams Belang (Flemish language)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.flemishrepublic.org/">The Flemish Republic</a></li>
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		<title>Dr. Alan Keyes &#8211; &#8220;Obama is a Radical Communist &#8211; Will Destroy America!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indeed he has. From YouTube: (h/t: Bumr50) Uploaded by sensfaninohio on Feb 22, 2009 Dr. Alan Keyes &#8211; Reagan Statesman, Constitutional Scholar &#8211; Staunch Conservative &#8211; Stead-fast Christian &#8211; Defender of the unborn, the newborn and the elderly &#8212; telling it like it is about our current &#8220;President&#8221; and how he should not be the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><em>Indeed he has.</em></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmujttc0oJc">From YouTube:</a></h3>
<p><em>(h/t: <a href="http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2012/01/31/never-attribute-to-malice-that-which-is-adequately-explained-by-stupidity/#comment-969533">Bumr50</a>)</em><br />
<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2012/01/31/dr-alan-keyes-obama-is-a-radical-communist-will-destroy-america/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p></p>
<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/sensfaninohio">sensfaninohio</a> on Feb 22, 2009</p>
<p>Dr. Alan Keyes &#8211; Reagan Statesman, Constitutional Scholar &#8211; Staunch Conservative &#8211; Stead-fast Christian &#8211; Defender of the unborn, the newborn and the elderly &#8212; telling it like it is about our current &#8220;President&#8221; and how he should not be the POTUS by the one governing law of this land &#8211; The United States Constitution.</p>
<p>Comments [on the YouTube page] are now closed due to over 100 racist, hate-filled, profane and utterly disgusting comments from liberals who felt it their &#8220;duty&#8221; to defecate all over this video clip with their immaturity and inability to read simple English. Not one single liberal managed to speak intelligently without using profanity, racist comments or just trying to incite a flame war. And of the 80+ comments posted, I also had to delete 8 from conservatives who also used profanity &#8211; which I will not allow on here.</p>
<p>Sorry gang but the immaturity of hundreds means you all will have to understand that people can&#8217;t read English and can&#8217;t make an intelligent argument without using profanity and/or racism.</p>
<p>God Bless!</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Willard &#8220;Mitt&#8221; Romney:&#8220;They Call Him Flipper&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Viral Video: Flipper&#8217;s Greatest Flops Starring Mitt Romney &#038; Friends (h/t: Bumr50) Uploaded by EnHaleCentral on Jan 30, 2012 Says Breitbart: This new musical parody explores the many position &#8220;flip-flops&#8221; of Mitt Romney and his supporters. WARNING: Good luck getting the darn song out of your head the rest of the day! Mitt Romney is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WdkEc4mZF0">Viral Video: Flipper&#8217;s Greatest Flops Starring Mitt Romney &#038; Friends</a></h3>
<p><em>(h/t: <a href="http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2012/01/30/the-rise-of-multi-drug-resistant-bacteria/#comment-968825">Bumr50</a>)</em><br />
<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2012/01/31/willard-mitt-romneythey-call-him-flipper/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p></p>
<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/EnHaleCentral" rel="author">EnHaleCentral</a> on Jan 30, 2012</p></blockquote>
<p>Says <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/viral-video-flippers-greatest-flops-starring-mitt-romney-friends/">Breitbart</a>:</p>
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This new musical parody explores the many position &#8220;flip-flops&#8221; of Mitt Romney and his supporters.</p>
<p>WARNING: Good luck getting the darn song out of your head the rest of the day!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Mitt Romney is completely amoral and will say and do anything to get and keep money and power.</strong> It is just as important to defeat Mitt Romney as it is to defeat Barack Hussein Obama. In all too many respects, they are one and the same.</p>
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		<title>Orthodox Christians March for Life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orthodox Christians take high-visibility role in the March for Life WASHINGTON, D.C., January 25, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – At a religious event often dominated by massive presence of Roman Catholics, members of the Eastern Orthodox Church played a more visible role in this year’s March for Life than ever before. For the first time, the opening [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, D.C., January 25, 2012, (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews.com</a>) – At a religious event often dominated by massive presence of Roman Catholics, members of the Eastern Orthodox Church played a more visible role in this year’s March for Life than ever before. For the first time, the opening prayer in front of the Supreme Court was offered by His Eminence Jonah (Paffhausen), Metropolitan of All America and Canada for the Orthodox Church in America (<a href="http://oca.org/">OCA</a>), as well as Roman Catholic prelates Daniel Cardinal DiNardo and Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan.</p>
<p>“We are of one heart and one purpose,” he said as he chanted a litany of life before hundreds of thousands of marchers.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.lifesitenews.com/images/sized/images/news/Met_Jonah-350x232.jpg" alt="Metropolitan Jonah at 2012 March for Life" title="Metropolitan Jonah at 2012 March for Life" width="350" height="232" /><br />
<span style="color:#3000ff; font-style:italic; font-size:90%; line-height:80%">Metropolitan Jonah, primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA),<br />
participates in Monday&#8217;s March for Life in Washington D.C.</span></div>
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The Metropolitan was joined by several of his brother bishops, including Bp. Melchizedek of Pittsburgh, Bp. Matthias of Chicago, and Bp. Michael of New York. At least 15 priests were in his company alone. Several individual representatives of the <a href="http://www.acrod.org/news/releases/2012-march-for-life">Carpatho-Russian Orthodox</a>, Greek Orthodox, and Antiochian Orthodox Churches also participated.</p>
<p>Fr. Chad Hatfield, chancellor of St. Vladimir Orthodox Theological Seminary in Syosset, New York, estimated more than 100 Orthodox Christians came with his group. St. Tikhon’s Seminary in Pennsylvania also brought students to participate in the church’s public ministry.</p>
<p>“The nation should respect life from conception until the moment the person naturally takes his last breath,” Met. Jonah told LifeSiteNews.com. The Orthodox Christian Church, the world’s second largest Christian denomination, dogmatically teaches that life begins at conception and that abortion is a grave sin.</p>
<p>He said throughout the year the faithful should remind women who have had an abortion “that forgiveness and healing are available to them. They should support ministries that care for pregnant women by, for instance, founding crisis pregnancy centers. That is the kind of ministry that will bring an end to abortion in this nation,” he said.</p>
<p>He <a href="http://oca.org/orthodoxy/prayers/sanctity-of-life-petitions-and-prayers">instructed</a> parishes of the OCA to insert prayers for the end of abortion into one of the church’s litanies on January 22, which the OCA proclaimed “Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.”<br />
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<strong><em><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/orthodox-christians-take-high-visibility-role-in-the-march-for-life">Read it all here.</a></em></strong></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Abortion and the Pro-Life Movement in Serbia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortionist Turned Pro-Life Apostle The Mission of Father Michael McGivney Catholic Academy &#124; 12.01.03 &#124; Grzegorz Gorny Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:18:29 PM by Coleus Stojan Adasevic will never forget the day he was organizing the filing cabinet in the doctors’ room. He was a medical student at the time. A number of [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p><small><strong><a href="http://fmmh.ycdsb.ca/teachers/fmmh_mcmanaman/pages/abo.html" target="_blank"> The Mission of Father Michael McGivney Catholic Academy</a> </strong> | 12.01.03 | Grzegorz Gorny</small><br />
<small>Posted on <strong>Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:18:29 PM</strong> by <a title="Since 2001-03-26" href="http://freerepublic.com/%7Ecoleus/"> <strong>Coleus</strong></a></small><br />
<img title="Serbian pro-life advocate Stojan Adasevic" src="http://1389blog.com/pix/adasevic-pro-life.jpg" alt="Serbian pro-life advocate Stojan Adasevic" align="left" hspace="14" vspace="14" />Stojan Adasevic will never forget the day he was organizing the filing cabinet in the doctors’ room. He was a medical student at the time. A number of gynecologists entered the room. Paying no attention to the student crouched over a pile of papers in the corner, they began swapping stories about their medical practice.   Dr. Rado Ignatovic recalled a patient who had come to him for an abortion. The procedure failed because the doctor had been unable to align the cervix. As the gynecologists went on discussing the woman’s history, Stojan, who had been listening in, suddenly stiffened. He realized that the woman under discussion — a former dentist at the nearby clinic — was his mother.</p>
<p><strong>“She’s dead now” — observed one of the doctors — but I wonder what happened to the unwanted child?” Stojan couldn’t resist. “I’m the child!” he said, getting up. Silence fell over the room. Seconds later the doctors were walking out.</strong></p>
<p>Over the years Dr. Adasevic would have cause to recall that event many times. It was perfectly clear to him: he owed his life to the fact of a failed abortion. He would never make such a blunder himself. Many women were referred to him because of difficulty in aligning the cervix. This was never a problem for Stojan. He became the best abortionist in Belgrade. Before long he had surpassed his master in the profession — Dr. Ignatovic, to whose incompetence he owed his life.  “The secret lies in training the hand through frequent procedures” he would say, citing the German proverb: Übung macht Meister (practice makes perfect). Faithful to this maxim, he would perform from twenty to thirty abortions a day. His record was thirty-five abortions in one day. Today he has difficulty reckoning up the abortions he performed in his twenty-six years of practice. He estimates anywhere between 48,000 and 62,000.</p>
<p>For years he remained convinced that abortion, as taught in the medical faculties and textbooks, was a surgical procedure not unlike that of removing an appendix. The only difference was in the organ removed: a piece of intestine in the one case, and embryonic tissue in the other. Doubts began to arise during the 1980s when ultrasound technology came to Yugoslavian hospitals. It was then that Adasevic first saw on the USG monitor what had until then been invisible to him — the inside of a woman’s womb, a live child, sucking its thumb, moving its arms and legs. As often as not, fragments of that child would soon be lying on the table beside him. “I saw without seeing — he recalls today. — Everything changed after I started having the dreams”.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Adasevic’s dreams</strong></p>
<p>Actually, it was the same recurring dream. It haunted him every night, day after day, week after week, month after month. He dreamed he was walking in a sunlit meadow. Beautiful flowers grew all around. The air was thick with colored butterflies. It was warm and pleasant, yet, despite this, some anxious feeling oppressed him. Suddenly the meadow was filled with laughing and running children. They were playing ball. In age, they ranged from three or four to about twenty years. All were strikingly beautiful. One boy in particular, and two of the girls, seemed strangely familiar, but he could not recall where he had seen them. When he tried to speak to them, they ran off in terror, screaming. The entire scene was presided over by a man in a black habit who watched intently in silence.</p>
<p>Every night Adasevic would wake in terror and stay awake till morning. Herbal remedies and pills were useless. One night, he became distraught in his dream and began chasing the fleeing children. He caught one of them, but the child cried out in terror: “Help! Murderer! Save me from the murderer!” At that moment the man dressed in black, turned into an eagle, swept down, and pulled the child away. The doctor woke up, his heart thumping like a hammer in his ribs. The room was cold, yet he was hot, drenched in sweat. In the morning he decided to see a psychiatrist. Since there were no immediate openings, he booked an appointment. That night he decided he would ask the man in his dreams to identify himself. This he did. The stranger said: “Even if I told you, my name would mean nothing to you”. When the doctor persisted, the man finally replied: “I am called Thomas Aquinas”. Indeed, the name meant nothing to Adasevic. It was the first time he had heard it. The man in black continued: “Why don’t you ask who the children are. Don’t you recognize them?” When the doctor said he didn’t, he replied: “Not true. You know them very well. These are the children you killed while performing abortions”. “How is that possible?” countered Adasevic. “These are grown children. I have never killed born children”. Thomas replied: “Do you not know that here, on this side of the eschaton, children continue to grow?” The Doctor refused to yield: “But I have never killed a twenty-year-old boy”. “You killed him twenty years ago” replied the monk, “when he was three months old”.</p>
<p>It was then that Adasevic recognized the faces of the twenty-year-old boy and the two girls. They resembled people he knew well, for whom he had performed abortions over the years. The boy looked like a close friend of Adasevic’s. Stojan had performed the abortion on his wife twenty years ago. In the two girls the doctor recognized their mothers, one of whom happened to be Stojan’s cousin. Upon awaking, he decided he would never perform another abortion in his life.</p>
<p><strong>I held a beating heart in my hand</strong></p>
<p>Waiting for him upon his arrival at the hospital that morning was a cousin along with his girlfriend. They had booked an abortion with him. Four months pregnant, the woman was about to do away with her ninth consecutive child. Adasevic refused, but his cousin was so importunate that he gave in: OK, but this was the very last time.  On the USG monitor he clearly saw the child with its thumb in its mouth. Stretching the uterus, he inserted the forceps, took hold of something, and pulled. In the jaws of the forceps was a little arm. He placed it on the table, but in such a way that one of the limbs’ nerve endings touched a drop of spilled iodine. Suddenly, the arm began to twitch. The nurse standing beside him almost screamed out. Just like frogs’ legs in a physiology lab!  Adasevic shuddered, but went on with the abortion. Again he inserted the forceps, gripped, and pulled. This time it was a leg. Just as he was thinking: “Better not let it touch that drop of alcohol”, a nurse standing behind him dropped a tray of surgical instruments. Startled by the crash, the doctor released the forceps, and the leg landed right beside the arm. It too began to move.</p>
<p>The staff had never seen anything like it: human limbs twitching on the table. Adasevic decided to mash up what was left in the womb, and pull it out in a formless mass. He began mashing, squashing, crushing. Upon withdrawing the forceps, now certain that he had reduced everything to a pulp, he produced a human heart! The organ was still beating. Weaker and weaker it beat, until it stopped altogether. It was then that he realized he had killed a human being.  The world turned dark around him. He cannot recall how long this lasted. Suddenly he felt a tug on his arm. A nurse’s terrified voice called out: Doctor Adasevic! Doctor Adasevic! The patient was bleeding. For the first time in years, the doctor began praying earnestly: “Lord! Save not me, but this woman”.   Normally it could take up to ten minutes to clean the womb of all remaining embryonic matter. This time two insertions of the instrument through the vagina were enough to complete the task. When Adasevic removed his gloves, he knew this was the last abortion he would ever perform.</p>
<p><strong>The pail: instrument of abortion</strong></p>
<p>When Stojan informed the head of the hospital of his decision, there was a considerable stir. Never before in a Belgrade hospital had a gynecologist refused to perform abortions. Pressure was brought to bear on him. They cut his salary in half. His daughter was fired from her job. His son “failed” his university entrance examinations. He was attacked in the press and on television. The Socialist State — they said — had provided him with an education so that he could perform abortions, and now he was carrying out sabotage against the State.   Two years of persecution brought him to the brink of nervous exhaustion. He was on the point of asking the hospital administrator to reassign him to abortion duty, when Thomas Aquinas appeared to him in a dream. Patting him on his shoulder, Thomas said: “You are my good friend. Continue your struggle”. Adasevic did not go to the administrator. He decided to fight on.</p>
<p>He got involved in the pro-life movement. He traveled throughout Serbia, lecturing and giving talks on abortion. Twice he succeeded in airing on Yugoslav state television Bernard Nathanson’s The Silent Scream, a USG recording of an actual abortion. In the early 1990s, thanks largely to Adasevic’s activism, the Yugoslav parliament passed a decree protecting the rights of the unborn. The decree went to President Slobodan Milosevic, who refused to sign it. Then the war broke out, and the decree fell into abeyance.   As for the war, Adasevic wonders: “To what else can we attribute the slaughter that took place here in the Balkans if not our alienation from God and lack of respect for human life”. And to make his point he describes what is common practice in Serbia: “Since our laws protect the life of the child only from the moment of its first breath, that is, from the instant it utters its first cry, abortions are legal in the seventh, eighth, and even ninth month of pregnancy. Actually the word “abortion” has no place here, since it applies more to miscarriages. Beside the birthing seat stands a bucket of water. Before the child has a chance to utter a cry, you stop up its mouth and plunge it under water. Officially this is an abortion, and it is all perfectly legal, since the child never draws a breath”.</p>
<p>Here Adasevic likes to cite Mother Teresa of Calcutta: “if a mother can kill her own child, what is there to prevent you and me from killing one another?”  Today, most abortions are performed in private clinics, which do not release figures on aborted pregnancies. Adasevic estimates that for every twenty-five children conceived barely one live birth results. Twenty-four beings are destroyed.  “What further complicates statistical analysis in this area — he observes — is the use of abortifacients such as the IUD  and the RU-486 pill, which are officially classified as contraceptives. The IUD is an abortifacient; for the coil acts as a sword, which severs the tiny human being from its source of food in the womb. It is a terrible death. A human being dies of starvation in a place that is filled with nourishment.</p>
<p>“This is a real war, waged by the born upon the unborn — he adds. — In this war I have crossed the front several times: first as an unborn child condemned to die, then as an abortionist myself, and now as a pro-life apostle.  “I have also become interested in the life of Thomas Aquinas, about whom I knew nothing before. I have often wondered why he appeared in my dream, and not other saints, especially since he is a Catholic saint, and I am Orthodox. To explain this, I started studying Thomas’ writings.  Guess what I found? According to Aquinas, human life begins 40 days after fertilization in the case of men, and 80 days in the case of women. So what is a child in those preceding days? Nothing? I think what Thomas said gives him no peace in the eschaton. Mind you, it should be stated that Thomas accepted this view from Aristotle. Aristotle was the great authority then. Thomas allowed himself to be influenced by his view, and committed an error.</p>
<p>“It was a long time before I grasped the fact that a child in the mother’s womb is a living person, that it is a living person not from the time it draws its first breath, as the communist professors taught us, but from the instant the human embryo is formed, that is, from the moment the spermatozoon joins with the egg cell”.</p>
<p><em>Grzegorz Gorny</em></p>
<p><em>Originally published in Love One Another Catholic Magazine, No. 1/2004 dedicated to the New Evangelization.  An abbreviated form of this article appeared in the Polish secular daily Rzeczpospolita (1 December 2003).  Used with Permission.</em></p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_dg_n_aLLY">Abortion &#8211; The First Hour Trailer</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2012/01/26/abortion-and-the-pro-life-movement-in-serbia/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/CatholicRadioTVNet" rel="author">CatholicRadioTVNet</a> on Aug 5, 2010</p>
<p>This trailer presents the first <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_dg_n_aLLY#">10:20</a> minutes of the CRTN &#8211; documentary &#8220;Abortion &#8211; The First Hour&#8221;.</p>
<p>Production Date: 2009<br />
Duration: 27&#8242;</p>
<p>Copyright : CRTN<br />
Language: English<br />
Executive Producer: Grzegorz Gorny &amp; Lech Dokowicz<br />
Director: Grzegorz Gorny</p>
<p>Over one billion abortions have been carried out in the last 30 years. Approximately 53 million abortions are carried out every year. In many countries over 70% of women have terminated a pregnancy.</p>
<p>Drawing on interviews with doctors who have performed abortions (Doctor Stojan Adasevic from Belgrade in Serbia has carried out nearly 55000 abortions and Doctor Bleslaw Piecha from Poland has carried out over 1000 abortions) as well as women who have undergone an abortion, the film seeks to show the deep wound abortion commits on humanity &#8211; as well as the hope offered by those who try to stop abortion.</p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKmiiV2EZ3Q">Stojan Adasevic</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2012/01/26/abortion-and-the-pro-life-movement-in-serbia/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/catholicnewsagency" rel="author">catholicnewsagency</a> on Nov 12, 2008</p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnDE5zqcxyI">Otro &#8220;rey del aborto&#8221; convertido en líder pro-vida: Stojan Adasevic</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2012/01/26/abortion-and-the-pro-life-movement-in-serbia/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Acitv">Acitv</a> on Nov 12, 2008</p>
<p>El diario La Razón de España ha dado a conocer el caso de un nuevo &#8220;rey del aborto&#8221; converso: Stojan Adasevic. Este ginecólogo que es ahora uno de los principales líderes pro-vida de Serbia, realizó 48 mil abortos durante 26 años y hasta 35 en un solo día en la Yugoslavia comunista.</p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/serbian-abortion-rate-at-epidemic-proportions">Serbian abortion rate ‘at epidemic proportions’</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>by <a href="/author/tbaklinski/">Thaddeus Baklinski</a> &#8211; Fri Jan 20, 2012 17:32 EST</p>
<p>BELGRADE, January 20, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; According to the Belgrade Institute of Public Health, 23,000 abortions are committed in Serbia annually. However, a report by the <a href="http://www.eurasiareview.com/17012012-serbia-has-highest-abortion-rate-in-europe/">Southeast European Times</a> states that unofficial data suggest that as many as 150,000 abortions are committed every year in the country of just over 7 million inhabitants, giving Serbia the highest abortion rate in Europe.</p>
<p>The current Serbian birth rate is 1.44 children per woman, compared to a European average of 1.6, which is still well below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain a static population.</p>
<p>Since 1969, the year when complete liberalization of abortion came into effect, abortion has been available on-demand until the 10th week of pregnancy, and in cases of rape, incest, psychological trauma and socioeconomic reasons until the twentieth week.</p>
<p>However, according to the SETimes, enforcement of the law is lax, most abortions are conducted in unregulated private clinics, and abortion has become the cultural norm for birth control.</p>
<p>“For many women in Serbia who already gave birth, abortion is considered a regular means of contraception; they do not apply prevention, but undergo an abortion,” gynecologist Jovanka Carevic told SETimes.<br />
[...]<br />
“The large number of abortions could partly be explained by the early liberalization of abortion,” Rašević wrote. “Socio-medical indications were accepted as grounds for abortion from 1952 onwards. In 1969 the law was further liberalized. Abortion was then permitted, without any ‘waiting period’, at the woman’s request up to ten weeks’ gestation and, beyond ten weeks, with the approval of a medical commission.”</p>
<p>“Since 1995 abortion is available, on request, for women aged 16 or over, instead of 18 years and over as was previously the case. To obtain an abortion, women go directly to a gynaecologist who has a legal obligation to carry out this procedure,” the report states.<br />
[...]<br />
Serbian sociologist Dragutin Vasic observed that high unemployment, divorce, a low level of general health education, and lack of direction by health, educational and other institutions have all contributed to high abortion rates.<br />
[...]<br />
<em>The research report by Mirjana Rašević titled “The abortion issue in Serbia” is available <a href="http://informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.3109/13625180903215422">here</a>.</em></p>
<p><em><strong><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/serbian-abortion-rate-at-epidemic-proportions">Read the complete article here.</a></strong></em></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Cultural Jihad in Australia: A New Islamic Museum?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on ACT for Australia. Reprinted with permission. What better way to welcome 2012 than with a new museum: …a hidden trove of performing arts treasures &#8211; a $26 million collection featuring items as diverse as Nick Cave&#8217;s notebooks, Peter Allen&#8217;s maracas, Dame Edna Everage&#8217;s extravagant outfits, and, of course, Kylie Minogue&#8217;s impossibly tiny [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h3><a href="http://www.actforaustralia.com/articles/cultural-jihad-australia-new-islamic-museum">Originally posted on ACT for Australia.</a></h3>
<p><em>Reprinted with permission.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.actforaustralia.com/sites/default/files/austrabiacalling_0.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" title="Austrabia Calling" src="http://www.actforaustralia.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/austrabiacalling_0.jpg" alt="Austrabia Calling" /></a></p>
<h3>What better way to welcome 2012 than with a new museum:</h3>
<blockquote><p>…a hidden trove of performing arts treasures &#8211; a $26 million collection featuring items as diverse as Nick Cave&#8217;s notebooks, Peter Allen&#8217;s maracas, Dame Edna Everage&#8217;s extravagant outfits, and, of course, Kylie Minogue&#8217;s impossibly tiny and impeccably lavish costumes.</p>
<p>Begun in 1975, the Performing Arts Collection has expanded to 450,000 items. The problem is, only a tiny fraction of the collection can ever be shown…But Arts Centre chief executive Judith Isherwood wants to end the collection&#8217;s days in the bunker and give it the prominence it deserves &#8211; housing it in a big, new museum, that would become another significant cultural building for Melbourne and could cost up to $100 million. She has been lobbying governments, state and federal, to persuade them of the collection&#8217;s national significance, and of its need for a permanent home, a stand-alone building that would be the world&#8217;s first dedicated performing arts museum.</p>
<p>A spokesman for Premier Baillieu said that the Victorian government was aware of the proposal for a performing arts museum, but had &#8220;no plans to proceed&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Any future consideration of this proposal would be made in the context of a number of many competing budget demands,&#8221; the spokesman said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/from-rush-hour-with-love-with-help-from-bazza-20111213-1ot7a.html#ixzz1gSQXITCU">Link here.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>So don’t go popping the champagne corks, as this Museum is unlikely to get off the ground, given the State Government’s lacklustre response to the project.</p>
<p>But if one Museum might never see the light of day, another – <strong>the Islamic Museum</strong> <strong>of Australia</strong> – is surging ahead, with an agenda to persuade the public that Islam had a prior presence in Australia and made a vital contribution to this country:</p>
<blockquote><p>Muslim fishermen and traders first came to our shores in the seventeenth century, or even earlier, from the eastern islands of modern Indonesia. They sailed their prahus along our north and north-western coast fishing for trepang and trading with the Aborigines; a cross-cultural interaction that carried on for more than three centuries.</p>
<p>Between 1870 and 1920 approximately 20,000 camels and 2,000-3,000 cameleers landed at ports around Australia…and proved invaluable on numerous expeditions hastening to map the continent, carted wool to ports, and water to drought ridden areas, and transported mail, equipment and stores at a time when railway construction was in its infancy. They played a significant role in facilitating the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line by carting equipment, material and supplies. Without their services Australia’s inland development would have lagged behind…</p>
<p>In the wake of the Afghan and Indian cameleers came the hawkers and later the Malay pearl divers; they in turn were followed by the early Albanians and Turks, and other Muslims from many different countries who were all part of early Australian history…at last this hidden history…can be told.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">AUSTRALIAN MUSLIM STORIES</span></strong></p>
<p>Living as Muslims in Australia today provides fresh and unique insights to be shared with all. A host of Australian Muslim authors, comics, media personalities and charity workers have written books, made TV shows and led interesting lives which highlight the Australian Muslim experience.</p>
<p>This gallery will also profile a number of prominent Muslim Australian sports stars and business identities such as, Ahmed Fahour, John Ilhan, footballer Hazem Masri and cricketer Uthman Khawaja.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.islamicmuseum.org.au/australian-muslims-today/">Australian Muslims</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Indoctrinating our young people is firmly on the agenda:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Islamic Museum will conduct educational tours for School groups. These interactive and informative tours will provide a fascinating insight into Australian Muslim life, art, history &amp; civilisation.</p>
<p>The tours will be led by Sherene Hassan, who has addressed over 500 primary and secondary school groups over the last 10 years…<a href="http://www.islamicmuseum.org.au/school-visits/">Education Kits will be prepared by our team of registered teachers with years of experience in Australian schools.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Sherene Hassan is part of the Hamas and Hezbollah-supporting ICV, and a master of taqiya, like when she said she <em>“deplores that Islam is often linked with misogyny and is doing her utmost to confront this belief”. </em>Scary to think that our government is funding the spread of false reassurance about Islam.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.islamicmuseum.org.au/about/">The museum’s Mission is to:</a></strong></p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>…provide educational and cross-cultural experiences and showcase the artistic and cultural heritage of Muslims in Australia and in Muslim societies abroad.</li>
<li>…foster community harmony and facilitate an understanding of the values and contributions of Muslims to Australian society.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/planned-museum-hopes-to-shed-light-on-islam-20110501-1e363.html#ixzz1gSSKZlD1">Al Age enthuses:</a></strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Maysaa and Moustafa Fahour, founders of the Islamic Museum of Australia…hope it can break down misunderstandings…and dispel stereotypes of the often misunderstood religious minority.</p>
<p>…the idea for a precinct emphasising heritage and art drawn from the more than 60 ethnicities who identify as Muslim here was developed by Macquarie banker Moustafa Fahour and his wife Maysaa.</p>
<p>The venture has been granted charity status by the ATO and has the personal endorsement of Victoria&#8217;s Multicultural Affairs Minister Nick Kotsiras.</p>
<p>Land has been acquired at a Thornbury industrial site…Darebin Council had signalled that an Islamic museum would be welcome in the neighbourhood.</p>
<p>The museum will include a permanent exhibition featuring basic information about Muslims&#8217; religious beliefs provided in a digestible form to the public.</p>
<p>School groups are also expected to tour on a daily basis.</p>
<p>&#8220;As a mother, I love the NGV and Scienceworks and have my kids participate in knowledgeable activities. Nowhere was there something about Islam …It struck me as something to really strive for,&#8221; said Mrs Fahour.</p>
<p>Apart from a six-member board…an advisory committee includes SBS board member Hass Dellal, Immigration Museum manager Padmini Sebastian and ABC personality and politics lecturer Waleed Aly.</p></blockquote>
<p>Alarmingly, the Victorian Government follows the Islamic narrative:</p>
<blockquote><p>Nicholas Kotsiras welcomed the establishment of the Islamic Museum of Australia…saying that world cultures, traditions, religions, arts and crafts were the bridge linking civilisation and humanity.</p>
<p>&#8220;This brings people together and helps build Victoria&#8217;s reputation as a thriving, cohesive and cosmopolitan State. It will educate all Victorians on the complexity and diversity of Muslim identities. It will dispel myths and misconceptions, and work towards creating an understanding, compassionate and cohesive society. It is a noble vision; it is a worthy vision.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/1330-coalition-govt-welcomes-islamic-museum-to-victorias-cultural-landscape.html">Victorian Premier welcomes it!</a></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Disturbing that our Government welcomes an Islamic museum, which will undermine our free society, yet refuses to consider a Performing Arts museum, which would celebrate the fruits of our freedom and creativity.</strong></p>
<p>The Islamic Museum plans to host visiting exhibitions, such as <strong><em>“The 1001 Islamic Inventions exhibition currently touring the U.S.A.”</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Sadly, apart from suicide belts, I can’t think of too many other Islamic inventions!</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>“The recent Australia’s Muslim Cameleers exhibition at the Immigration Museum is another example of the type of exhibition the <a href="http://www.islamicmuseum.org.au/galleries/">Islamic Museum</a> aims to attract.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I went to this exhibition, which perpetuated the myth of Muslims&#8217; huge contribution to Australia.</p>
<p>It came with an education kit, <a href="http://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/14462/cameleers-teacher-notes.pdf">ensuring our kids were indoctrinated, as well as the teacher</a> Personal Development programme, explaining how to brainwash young minds:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The exhibition offers an opportunity for students to engage with the diversity of individual experiences in our nation’s history and the contribution to the Australian identity and values in relation to issues of respect, tolerance and social harmony.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Philip Jones eulogised these &#8220;pioneers&#8221;, suggesting that our failure to appreciate them was due to our <strong>‘Islamophobia’</strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The cameleers pioneered a network of camel-pads and tracks that later became roads across outback Australia. The homesteads, mines, missions and townships linked by this network depended upon the cameleers for their viability.</p>
<p>One thinks of the energy and resources directed towards preserving the records and memory of Australia&#8217;s Chinese pioneers who provided commercial infrastructure for the Victorian goldfields, or the heritage associated with the contribution made by the post-war migrants to the Snowy River Scheme. How is it that the legacy of the cameleers has been so neglected?</p>
<p>It would be easy to suggest the oversight had to do with the <strong>cameleers&#8217; adherence to Islam…</strong> But the cameleers did not come to Australia to proselytize…their religious observances rarely impinged on their remarkable capacity to deliver goods intact across vast distances of the Australian interior. For these achievements they earned the general respect of their European neighbours.</p>
<p>Little remains of the heritage of <a href="http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_2_no2/notes_and_comments/australias_muslim_cameleer_heritage/">Australia&#8217;s Muslim cameleers</a>. Many of these fine men &#8216;died in the jungle&#8217; with little recognition or understanding from the wider community.</p></blockquote>
<p>Bill Seager, curator of South Australia&#8217;s Museum, continues this theme:</p>
<p><em>…This exhibition leaves no doubt that <a href="http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_2_no2/exhibition_reviews/australias_muslim_cameleers/">camels, cameleers and Australia&#8217;s first Muslim community helped shape Australia&#8217;s outback.</a></em></p>
<p><em>Their stories…integrate a history of Indigenous Australians that is interpreted outside of the typically marginalised and violent confines of the colonial frontier.</em></p>
<p>If we don’t get the message that Muslims share with Aborigines the claim to be the indigenous people &#8211; unlike the White colonial invaders – a bit of visual art should do the trick:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The exhibition ends with a 2003 work by Aboriginal/Afghan artist Ian Abdulla titled Afghanistan Blood in Him like Me.</p>
<p>It is a work that seeks to reconnect Abdulla with his Afghan past.</p>
<p>The image reminds us of the exhibition&#8217;s relevance for Australian visitors today.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Our <strong>dhimmi</strong> Government reinforces this message:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/muslims_in_australia.html">Muslims in Australia have a long and varied history that is thought to pre-date European settlement.</a> Some of Australia’s earliest visitors were Muslim, from the east Indonesian archipelago. They made contact with mainland Australia as early as the 16th and 17th centuries.</p>
<p>…Afghan camel drivers…were vital in the early exploration of inland Australia and in the establishment of service links.</p>
<p>Since the 1970s, Muslim communities have developed many mosques and Islamic schools and made vibrant contributions to the multicultural fabric of Australian society.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Vibrant contributions indeed &#8211; vicious gang rapes of teenage girls, criminalizing free speech, and the push for sharia law, including polygamous marriages!</strong></p>
<p>Perhaps the most astonishing feature of the exhibition was the whitewash of the first terror attack in Australia, with a display of the 2 firearms used by <strong>Gool Mahamed</strong> and Mullah Abdullah in their attack on the picnic train passengers near Broken Hill.</p>
<p>But lest we think they were terrorists (they were!), we are told:</p>
<blockquote><p>After Federation in 1901, negative sentiment towards ‘coloured races’ was expressed in the White Australia Policy….</p>
<p>These factors, and the alignment of Ottoman Turkey against Britain during the First World War, help to explain the extraordinary events at Broken Hill on New Year’s Day, 1915. On that morning, two cameleers flying the Turkish flag fired on a picnic train as it left the town. At the close of the resultant gun battle, six people, including the two assailants, lay dead.</p></blockquote>
<p>So our <strong>racism</strong> caused them to feel alienated and kill people!</p>
<p>The exhibition described some colourful Muslim characters:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.cmss.uwa.edu.au/welcome/about/history_of_the_bux_family/muslim_australian_contributions__bux_family_as_a_case_study">Mohammad Bux</a> built up a successful business career in Western Australia…he was able to call his father and cousin to join him in Perth. The process of facilitating the arrival of his extended family members did not cease…Mohammad remained the most successful of the Bux family due to his sharp business acumen and high standards of business ethics.</p>
<p>He brought his wife and a seven years old daughter to live with him…As a practicing Muslim woman…his wife observed purdah and did not come out in public. The practice got him into trouble when some neighbours reported him to the police for imprisoning a woman. Only when an English man well versed in Islamic law explained to the court did the judge dismiss the case. The judge ordered that Bux take his wife daily for a walk at night!</p>
<p>Throughout the three decades of his life in Perth, Mohammad Bux retained his Muslim identity…The spirit of serving the community also helped his country of origin.</p>
<p>When back in Lahore, he helped build the Australia Mosque…</p></blockquote>
<p>Shocking to hear that even then a judge ignored the law in favour of sharia.</p>
<p>Purdah must <strong>NEVER</strong> become acceptable in Australia!</p>
<p>No woman ‘observes’ purdah, just as she doesn’t ‘observe’ honour killing or fgm.</p>
<p>These Islamic barbarities are an affront to our egalitarian values and to civilised norms.</p>
<p>And if Bux came here to make money, then took it back to Lahore, how did this help Australia? He came here illegally, but instead of being deported, he brought hordes of his relatives here.</p>
<p>Both museums portray fantasy: the Museum of Performing Arts would have showcased our vibrant arts scene and been a great tourist attraction, while the Islamic Museum will portray a fantasy that Islam is benign and shares our values.</p>
<p>Mind you, there is a precedent for ‘Museum jihad’.</p>
<p><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/12/nyc-taxpayer-funded-childrens-museum-to-hold-muslim-program-.html">Atlas Shrugs comments on New York City’s Muslim Program in its Children’s Museum:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Thousands of years of cultural heritage that has come from the Muslim world.&#8221; Will the Children&#8217;s Museum have exhibits on the hundreds of millions of victims of over a millennium of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements? Will it have video on the over <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/" target="_blank">18,000 Islamic jihad attacks</a> since 911, each one done with the imprimatur of a Muslim cleric? Will it showcase the ongoing jihad against the Jews and Christians and Hindus and Sikhs?</p>
<p>And &#8220;Muslims in America&#8221;? I look forward to seeing the profiles of the 9/11 hijackers, explaining how they were motivated to kill by the quran…</p>
<p>There could be more exhibits dedicated to the stealth jihad &#8212; to exposing, for example, grifter Gamal, radical Rauf and Daisy the Con, and their sinister and deceptive Ground Zero Mosque project, and all the Islamic supremacist initiatives to assert Islamic law over American law all over the country.</p>
<p>All this could serve as a warning to non-Muslims to be resolute in defense of freedom against jihad.</p>
<p>But you and I know this exhibit will showcase none of that. Instead, it will be another Hamas-tied CAIR attempt to portray Muslims as the victims of &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221; At the taxpayers&#8217; expense.</p></blockquote>
<p>A glance at those behind the Australian museum gives cause for concern: those involved with ICV are not moderate, nor are any who advocate sharia law.</p>
<p>The Board includes Maysaa and Moustafa Fahour, Sherene Hassan, Anisa Buckley, with Ahmed Fahour as Patron. ICV’s Hass Dellal and Waleed Aly are part of the advisory committee. Could Anisa Buckley be a moderate? To those claiming sharia oppresses women, she replies:</p>
<blockquote><p>This argument (against sharia) is also misguided for several reasons, mainly that the absence of such a system hurts Muslim women more than the presence of it.</p>
<p>Whatever reservations we may have of religious laws, people in liberal democracies will turn to them if they think it is to their benefit.</p>
<p>And there are many helpful and beneficial aspects to <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/should-we-allow-sharia-law/story-e6frfifo-1111115515479">Sharia law.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>As for the <a href="http://www.corrs.com.au/news/corrs-cohosts-australia-post-ceo-ahmed-fahour-crescent-club/">Fahours, Ahmed</a> was CEO of Bahrain’s Islamic investment bank Gulf Finance House, and cooperated with Macquarie Group to offer a broad range of wholesale <a href="http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=6&amp;section=0&amp;article=128000">Shariah compliant financial services</a>.</p>
<p>Moustafa Fahour is a Board member of Crescent Wealth, which recently launched a sharia-compliant superannuation option. Last month, a Sydney legal firm co-hosted an event with The Crescent Club, with Ahmed Fahour, as the guest speaker:</p>
<p><strong>Sounds to me that the Islamic Museum has an awful lot of sharia connections!</strong></p>
<h3>An Age opinion piece laments the lack of support for cultural, as opposed to sporting, endeavours:</h3>
<blockquote><p>The Performing Arts Museum would cost an estimated $100 million – not even a third of the cost of reconditioning Melbourne Park. Ms Isherwood, along with the collection&#8217;s patron, Barry Humphries, and actor and long-time Melbourne resident Geoffrey Rush have been lobbying Ted Baillieu, in his Arts Minister costume, and his federal counterpart, Simon Crean, to attract support.</p>
<p>In truth, the proposal…would bring hundreds of thousands of examples of cultural memorabilia out of storage…and up into the light, where they belong. <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/editorial/why-not-give-culture-a-sporting-chance-too-20111214-1ouu0.html#ixzz1hdXT1JLR">This wide-ranging collection, an intrinsic part of Melbourne&#8217;s heritage, is of priceless national and international significance.</a></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>But it seems not all culture is neglected.</strong></p>
<p><strong>If it’s Islamic, our governments will rush to help!</strong></p>
<p><strong>By <a href="http://islammonitor.org/">Cassandra</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Is Feminism Deaf to the Women in Islam? &#8211; Updated</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Feminism is defined thus: Date: 1895 1 : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes 2 : organized activity on behalf of women&#8217;s rights and interests Who can ever forget the iconic cover of &#8220;The Female Eunuch&#8221;, by Germaine Greer? It was everywhere when it [...]]]></description>
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<p>According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Feminism is defined thus:</p>
<p><em>Date: 1895</em></p>
<p><em>1 : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes<br />
2 : organized activity on behalf of women&#8217;s rights and interests</em></p>
<p>Who can ever forget the iconic cover of &#8220;The Female Eunuch&#8221;, by Germaine Greer?</p>
<p>It was everywhere when it was first published in 1970.</p>
<p>It was virtually the next best thing that had happened to women since <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pankhurst_emmeline.shtml">Emmeline Pankhurst</a> and her Suffragettes worked to get women the vote. So we were told.</p>
<p>And certainly you cannot deny the benefits and progress that have come from these two women, and the many others who have taken over the baton and changed the lives of millions.</p>
<p>Many of today&#8217;s other famous feminists are living very comfortably on self-earned wealth: fine with me, it&#8217;s well-deserved.</p>
<p>They have turned their politics and activism into income sources by working in journalism and other media.</p>
<p>People listen to them.</p>
<p>They have power, enormous power.</p>
<p>Camille Paglia is but one of many whose opinions are highly respected, and it is easy to see why.</p>
<p>Germaine Greer is still going on strongly about all kinds of issues.</p>
<p>Gloria Steinem is another member of this esteemed crowd and there are also very many not-so-famous feminists.</p>
<p>These feminists are in almost all professions from politics to pianists, parents and yes, prostitutes &#8211; the oldest &#8220;profession&#8221; of them all!</p>
<p>Then of course there are the other women in the world who don&#8217;t occupy this rarefied space but who have decided, and yes, it is a decision now, to become homemakers and mothers. Some of them decide to resume successful careers and some chose not to.</p>
<p>But I wonder if we all really received so many benefits from all these feminists? Some of us didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>With all that is good and liberating in human progress there are often side effects and &#8220;unintended consequences&#8221;.</p>
<p>Sadly there are goals that have not, and will not, be achieved.</p>
<p>Certainly many of us get equal work for equal pay nowadays, but not all of us.</p>
<p>Then there are those who chose to be wives and mothers, who are often scorned, or looked down upon, for their choices.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;They had jobs, but feminists weren&#8217;t satisfied; every other woman had to get one too. So they opened fire on homemakers with a savagery that still echoes throughout our culture. A housewife is a &#8220;parasite,&#8221; [Betty] Friedan writes; such women are &#8220;less than fully human&#8221; insofar as they &#8220;have never known a commitment to an idea.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>And&#8230;.</p>
<p><em>Housewives, not men, were the prey in feminism&#8217;s sights when Kate Millett decreed in 1969 that the family must go. Feminists do not speak for traditional women. Men cannot know this, however, unless we tell them how we feel about them, our children, and our role in the home. </em></p>
<p><em>Men must understand that our feelings towards them and our children are derided by feminists and have earned us their enmity. Whether or not this understanding garners men&#8217;s support, traditional women must defend ourselves because the feminist offensive is, most essentially, a breach of solidarity with us, a disavowel [sic] of the obligation to honor the Women&#8217;s Pact [that religious celibates, professional women, and homemakers respect each other] that women in the movement owed to us&#8221; </em><a href="http://www.friesian.com/feminism.htm">(Source).</a></p>
<p>Oh yes, this site has more. Feminism today goes on and on, intellectualising and re-defining feminism to the extent where it is almost too difficult to follow, let alone comprehend.</p>
<p>Quite frankly I am more interested in the practical day-to-day realities.</p>
<p>I take the two definitions at face value and I note it doesn&#8217;t specify any nationality, political allegiance or religion.</p>
<p><em>1 : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes</em><br />
<em>2 : organized activity on behalf of women&#8217;s rights and interests</em></p>
<p>It is true a lot of this has happened in the West but rather than have Greer et al espouse &#8220;intellectual yada yada&#8221; I would rather see these women get militant again and do something to help their long-suffering sisters who live in Islamic countries, and who can but only dream of the lifestyle many of their famous feminist sisters enjoy.</p>
<p>All too often I see stories of honour killings, rape<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2009/09/28/will-you-help-save-a-girl-from-mutilation/">, female genital mutilation</a>, subservience, domestic (and other) violence, forced marriage and utter discrimination perpetrated against women in Muslim countries and now also in the West.</p>
<p>Some women are getting <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1822297,00.html">hymenoplasties</a> and buying repair kits before they marry.</p>
<p>Some are being recruited as <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/09/female-jihadmartyrdom-bomber-blows-herself-up-on-chechen-capitals-putin-street.html#comments">homicide bombers.</a></p>
<p>One is punished for <a href="http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&amp;id=18284">drinking beer</a>, others <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/courts/to-avoid-100-lashes-and-prison-woman-retracts-plea-in-sex-case">face lashings</a> or <a href="http://www.stop-stoning.org/">stonings</a>.</p>
<p>Recall the recent case of <strong><a href="http://www.actforaustralia.com/articles/stoning-woman-sakineh-mohammadi-ashtiani-could-be-hanged-instead">Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani</a></strong>. Fate not yet known, but not looking promising. Here I admit many westerners got under the skin of the Iranian Mullahs. At least they tried.</p>
<p>An Australian Islamist tries to justify <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/why-should-polygamy-be-a-crime-20091002-gfdg.html">poligamy</a> for everyone. Why not? Let&#8217;s normalise this situation, let&#8217;s legitimise it. How do you suppose women would fare in such a relationship that is so one-sided in favour of the male gender?</p>
<p>There are women who suffer terribly from <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3114323.stm">acid attacks</a> quite frequently.</p>
<p>Women in Gaza are not allowed <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/07/hamas-bans-women-riding-motorbikes">to ride motorcycles</a>, and Somali women are being <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568200,00.html">scrutinised for wearing a bra!</a></p>
<p>Where&#8217;s Germaine when you need her, or would this make her happy I wonder?</p>
<p>Yet in spite of these incidents feminists like Naomi Wolfe manage to defend discrimination towards women in Islam and it then takes a compassionate feminist, <a href="http://pjmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/09/03/chesler-wolf-glazov-round-three/">Phyllis Chesler</a>, who has actually lived in a Muslim country, to sort it out for her!</p>
<p>I know many feminists, and women in general, can be fearless fighters.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&amp;type=3">Code Pink</a>, for example, have gone to Iraq and Afghanistan. True, they are an anti-war movement, but perhaps, just perhaps, they could have drawn some attention to the women who live and suffer in the war zones they are so adamantly against.</p>
<p>They could have easily added one more mission statement to what is on their website which mentions &#8220;social justice&#8221; &#8211; an insidious phrase which bears investigating.</p>
<p>How about some <strong>&#8220;equal justice&#8221;</strong> instead?</p>
<p>Indeed, any other anti-war group could easily have done the same. I know they do not define themselves as feminists per se, but why not do more?</p>
<p>Could they not have met with <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/malalai-joya-the-woman-who-will-not-be-silenced-1763127.html">Malalai Joya</a> and offered some help?</p>
<p>Now of course, in hindsight, one knows far more about <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6149">Code Pink</a>. They are not an anti-war movement at all. They have been helping orchestrate the &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; in Egypt.</p>
<p>Together with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/search/?cx=013255222075609514560%3Avfcebs4vcuo&amp;q=Bernadine+Dorn&amp;sa=Search&amp;cof=FORID%3A11&amp;cx=013255222075609514560%3Avfcebs4vcuo&amp;siteurl=www.discoverthenetworks.org%2Fsearch%2F">Bill Ayres and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn</a> they are political activists of a rather nasty kind &#8211; and I am being polite here!</p>
<p>And they have the full backing of the Obama Administration.</p>
<p>When I read about the case of <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/01/tortured-child-bride-15-rescued-from-toilet-prison-after-husbands-family-mutilated-her-for-refusing-.html">Sahar Gul, 15 years of age</a>, I wonder how these feminists can sleep at night.</p>
<p>(Warning &#8211; very graphic images.)</p>
<p>Not to mention the wife of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16201961" target="_blank">Rafiqi Islam</a> who had her fingers chopped off because she wanted an eduction!</p>
<p>I would like to see some of our famous feminists, female politicians and celebrities who spend so much time choking on their own venom over <a href="http://www.sarahpac.com/">Sarah Palin</a> instead do something useful for the women in Islam.</p>
<p>Are they afraid? &#8220;You betcha!&#8221; as Sarah Palin would say. Afraid and gutless!</p>
<p>Or are they simply not interested in the women&#8217;s issues of today because they think it is another culture and therefore they shouldn&#8217;t interfere when they often stick their noses where they may not be wanted.</p>
<p>They know it isn&#8217;t right but they can turn a blind eye to it, even as it happens under their noses, and in their own backyards.</p>
<p>How can one respect these women anymore?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a cop-out.</p>
<p>The improvement of the condition of women in Islam is, to me, a far loftier goal than getting to wear trousers, getting equal pay, getting an abortion on demand, and having a man treat a woman more like a man!</p>
<p>This was definitely an &#8220;unintended consequence&#8221; for me: trivial as it may seem.</p>
<p>I am much heartened by the fact that progress is being made, albeit in small steps.</p>
<p>Kuwati women in parliament <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/kuwait/6307598/Kuwaiti-women-MPs-refuse-to-wear-hijab-in-parliament.html">refuse to wear the veil.</a> How long will they be able to keep it up?</p>
<p>An Egyptian Cleric wanted to <a href="http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/10/top-egyptian-cleric-bans-face-veils-in.html">ban burquas and other facial coverings</a>.</p>
<p>Not going to happen anymore with the Muslim Brotherhood in charge!</p>
<p>The women in any country controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood are going to have it worse than ever before.</p>
<p>Strict Sharia Law will prevail.</p>
<p>Honour killing or Honourcide is <a href="http://pjmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/10/12/western-justice-for-honor-killers/">getting more attention</a>. The tragedy of this is that we are <a href="http://www.actforaustralia.com/articles/islamic-sharia-law-germany-holland-and-britain">seeing it in the West</a> more and more and little is being done about it.</p>
<p>Lubna Hussein got a lot of media attention over her <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/5956721/Whip-me-if-you-dare-says-Lubna-Hussein-Sudans-defiant-trouser-woman.html">sentence for wearing trousers</a>.</p>
<p>Najwa Bin Laden and her son, Omar, wrote a book about their now late husband and father, Osama, <a href="http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/10/osama-bin-laden-book-lifts-lid-on.html">and seem to be fearless about it.</a> They have provided a fascinating insight into this man as well.</p>
<p>I think the real &#8220;feminist&#8221;heroines now are the ones who have literally put their lives on the line, not only for women in Islam but for the world in general.</p>
<p>Their goals and commitment are what is truly deserving of our respect and support.</p>
<p>I am referring to women like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafa_Sultan">Dr Wafa Sultan</a>, <a href="http://theahafoundation.org/">Ayaan Hirsi Ali</a>, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/author/nonie-darwish/">Nonie Darwish,</a> <a href="http://www.irshadmanji.com/">Irshad Manji</a> and women like them.</p>
<p>Although Ms Manji has not left Islam it is still worth noting she has put herself out there and for this she deserves credit.</p>
<p>There is another one who would have possibly made it to this list &#8211; the face of the Iranian Green Movement: &#8211; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/middleeast/23neda.html">Neda Soltan</a> -</p>
<p>Tragically she cannot, but in spirit she can inspire so much. I feel she deserves a mention among these brave, dedicated and fascinating women.</p>
<p>This is my challenge to today&#8217;s feminists. Use your power again.</p>
<p>I am not a celebrity, a journalist or a politician. I do not have your platform and power.</p>
<p>Justice and equality for women in Islam is indeed a most worthy cause to support and fight for now more than ever.</p>
<p>First Published on &#8220;<a href="http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-feminism-deaf-to-women-in-islam.html">Muslims Against Sharia&#8221;</a>.</p>
<p>This is the updated version with permission from the author.</p>
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		<title>How Much Did Mitt Romney Pay You? &#8211; An Open Email to Ann Coulter</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>Our readers have a simple question for you: How much did Romney pay you for your endorsement? Please don&#8217;t lie.</strong></p>
<p>Or are you hoping that Romney will ensure four more years of Obama? Obviously, you could sell many more books and speaking engagements with Obama in office than you could with President Ron Paul, President Rick Santorum or President Newt Gingrich. All three would make much better presidents than Romney ever could. But ONLY Romney can afford to pay for these endorsements.</p>
<p>Yes, the Republicans have three credible candidates this year and a real loser&#8211;true, he is a rich loser&#8211;in Romney.</p>
<p>While all of the candidates have some baggage, Romney is by far the worst. He created the blueprint for Obamacare. He has been on both sides of too many issues (the same was true of his father). He will simply say and do ANYTHING to get elected.</p>
<p>Romney could NEVER get the pro-life community behind him. In the latest primary in South Carolina, his support from people who considered ending abortion their primary concern, Romney finished <em>dead last</em>. In fact, his support was in single digits. Clearly, the massive pro-life faction of the Republican electorate will stay home, vote third-party, or even vote for Obama, so they can put a pro-life President in the White House four years up the road. For that reason alone, it will be almost impossible for Romney to beat Obama!</p>
<p>So, please, let us know. How much does Romney pay for these endorsements?</p>
<p>One other thing, please don&#8217;t ever call yourself a &#8220;conservative&#8221; again. Your endorsement of Romney proves you are NOT a conservative and never were.</p>
<p><em>CzechRebel<br />
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		<title>Think You Know Mitt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia Fears Canada&#8217;s Oil Sands</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawfare attorney Rahool P. Agarwal exposed! Ezra Levant: Saudi Arabian Fascists Threaten Free Speech In Canada! Uploaded by blazingcatfur on Sep 19, 2011 This is the entire episode of The Source for Sept. 19th 2011, in which Ezra Levant reveals the sinister effort by Saudi Arabia to Silence EthicalOil.org for this commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9z2FVmVb14. Ezra&#8217;s guests [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><span style="color:#3000ff; font-size:150%; font-style:italic">Lawfare attorney Rahool P. Agarwal exposed!</span></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AvHBmpoVaI">Ezra Levant: Saudi Arabian Fascists Threaten Free Speech In Canada!</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2012/01/17/saudi-arabia-fears-canadas-oil-sands/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/blazingcatfur">blazingcatfur</a> on Sep 19, 2011</p>
<p>This is the entire episode of The Source for Sept. 19th 2011, in which Ezra Levant reveals the sinister effort by Saudi Arabia to Silence <a href="http://EthicalOil.org">EthicalOil.org</a> for this commercial <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9z2FVmVb14">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9z2FVmVb14</a>. Ezra&#8217;s guests are Tom Ross, Alykhan Velshi, Brooke Goldstein &#038; Daniel Pipes.</p>
<p>Background: Ethical Oil group squares off against Saudi Arabia over TV ad</p>
<p>An advocate for Canada&#8217;s oil sands is thumbing his nose at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which wants anti-Saudi TV ads suppressed.</p>
<p>&#8220;We caught this foreign dictatorship trying to undermine freedom of the press here in Canada and trying to export its own contempt for democracy, its own contempt for freedom of the press here in Canada,&#8221; Alykhan Velshi, founder of the group Ethicaloil.org, told the Toronto Sun.</p>
<p>The TV spot, set to start running on the Sun News Network Monday, argues against importing oil from Saudi Arabia because of its poor human rights record.</p>
<p>More: <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/ethical-oil-group-squares-off-against-saudi-arabia-181524198.html">Ethical Oil group squares off against Saudi Arabia over TV ad</a></p></blockquote>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t subscribed to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/blazingcatfur">Blazing Cat Fur&#8217;s YouTube channel</a>, you are missing a lot!</p>
<h3><em>Also see:</em></h3>
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<li><a href="http://1389blog.com/2011/09/27/the-ad-saudi-arabia-wants-to-stop-you-from-seeing/">The Ad Saudi Arabia Wants to Stop You From Seeing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.thelawfareproject.org/">The Lawfare Project</a></li>
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		<title>Alfonzo Rachel Won&#8217;t Be Voting for Ron Paul</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Paul&#8217;s 9/11 Insanity: Why Ron Paul Is the Jeremiah Wright of the Right Uploaded by Pajamasmedia on Dec 21, 2011 Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) is surging in the polls, but that doesn&#8217;t prevent Zo from telling you why he isn&#8217;t supporting this Texas congressman&#8217;s presidential bid. Hear more. One minor quibble: we at 1389 [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Pajamasmedia">Pajamasmedia</a> on Dec 21, 2011</p>
<p>Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) is surging in the polls, but that doesn&#8217;t prevent Zo from telling you why he isn&#8217;t supporting this Texas congressman&#8217;s presidential bid. Hear more.</p></blockquote>
<p>One minor quibble: we at 1389 Blog believe that rescinding Roe v. Wade and giving control over abortion back to the States would be a good step toward rolling back abortion throughout the US. That said, Ron Paul doesn&#8217;t seem to want to alienate his libertarian (or perhaps <em>libertine</em>) base by unequivocally coming out against abortion.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2011/12/31/saturday-at-the-movies-alfonzo-rachel-edition/">More at 2.0: The Blogmocracy.</a></h3>
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		<title>Christmas Killer in Santa Claus Costume was a MUSLIM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the mainstream media doesn&#8217;t want to tell you&#8230; Muslim Father Aziz Yazdanpanah Honor-Massacres Entire Family . . . in Texas I watched this story more than a dozen times on the news over the past couple of days. I didn&#8217;t see a single program that noted the obvious honor-killing elements of this massacre. Yazdanpanah [...]]]></description>
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<h3><a href="www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/12/muslim-father-aziz-yazdanpanah-honor.html">Muslim Father Aziz Yazdanpanah Honor-Massacres Entire Family . . . in Texas</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>I watched this story more than a dozen times on the news over the past couple of days. I didn&#8217;t see a single program that noted the obvious honor-killing elements of this massacre. Yazdanpanah had lost control of his family. His wife had left him. His daughter was dating a non-Muslim. And he killed them all.</p>
<p>Just as the Ft. Hood Massacre was attributed to &#8220;Post Traumatic Stress Disorder&#8221; and &#8220;Workplace Violence,&#8221; you can expect this massacre to be attributed to &#8220;Holiday Blues,&#8221; &#8220;Depression,&#8221; &#8220;Stress,&#8221; etc.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/tarrant-county/headlines/20111226-neighbors-horrified-at-news-of-familys-slayings-in-grapevine.ece">GRAPEVINE</a></strong> — Aziz Yazdanpanah seemed to be losing control of his life in recent months — his wife left him, his house was in foreclosure, and his 19-year-old daughter was dating a young man he didn’t like.<br />
<img src="http://1389blog.com/pix/Aziz-Yazdanpanah-mass-murderer.jpg" alt="Muslim mass murderer Aziz Yazdanpanah" style="margin:0 0 0 5px; float:right;"  width="220" height="140" border="0" /><br />
Even so, the 58-year-old former real estate agent from Colleyville seemed to be holding it together. Neighbors say he would smile and wave as he drove through his middle-class neighborhood. Recently, he was seen raking leaves in his yard.</p>
<p>“He was very friendly, a very good neighbor,” said Carrie Stewart, who lives across the street. “He was out here often doing yard work and he even watched our house for us when we went to Colorado.”</p>
<p>Yazdanpanah, a volunteer high school debate coach described as a doting father, is the focus of suspicion a day after a Christmas morning massacre in which a man dressed as Santa Claus killed six relatives and then committed suicide.</p>
<p>Grapevine police arrived at the Lincoln Vineyard Apartment Homes a few minutes before noon and discovered bodies sprawled among opened presents and wrapping paper. The victims were ages 15 to 58. . . .</p></blockquote>
<p><em><strong><a href="www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/12/muslim-father-aziz-yazdanpanah-honor.html">Read it all.</a></strong></em></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Now this is disgusting.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1389 Blog is all about hard news, focusing on the Counterjihad. On a holiday or any other day, if you visit 1389 Blog, hard news is what you will find. This hard news is very hard indeed. It goes far beyond any wrongdoing that you might expect to find on &#8220;Santa&#8217;s naughty list&#8221; for 2011. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>1389 Blog is all about hard news, focusing on the Counterjihad. On a holiday or any other day, if you visit 1389 Blog, hard news is what you will find. This hard news is very hard indeed. It goes far beyond any wrongdoing that you might expect to find on &#8220;<strong><a href="http://1389blog.com/category/christianity/sveti-nikola/">Santa&#8217;s</a></strong> naughty list&#8221; for 2011.</p>
<p><span style="color:#3000ff; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold">Follow each link to learn the details &#8211; not for the fainthearted:</span></p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=111244">IOTW has this story on Muslim corruption of children:</a></strong><br />
&#8220;Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian schools teach children how to cut off a thief’s hands and feet under Sharia law, it has emerged…&#8221;</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=110693">IOTW asks: <em>Seriously, Civilization, What Is Our End Game Here?</em></a></strong><br />
&#8220;Dutch TV hosts resort to cannibalism to survive… in the ratings.&#8221;</li>
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<p><strong>Taboos are taboo for a reason.</strong> The continued functioning of civil society requires that violators of such taboos be punished severely.</p>
<p>Human existence in communities and societies that condone or promote such heinous behavior becomes solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.</p>
<p>Some jurisdictions lack specific laws against cannibalism, simply because no legislators foresaw that anybody in the modern world would be perverse enough to commit it.</p>
<p><strong>You may ask</strong>:  <span style="color:#3000ff; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic">What does cannibalism have to do with the Counterjihad?</span></p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2011/12/15/un-backed-report-pakistani-taliban-fighters-cut-breasts-off-woman-seen-breastfeeding-ask-other-women-to-eat-the-pieces/">Weasel Zippers has the story on jihadi cannibalism:</a></strong> &#8220;UN-Backed Report: Pakistani Taliban Fighters Cut Breasts Off Woman Seen Breastfeeding, Ask Other Women To Eat The Pieces…&#8221;</li>
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<p><strong>More Muslim violence:</strong></p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.hudson-ny.org/2676/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">Muslim Persecution of Christians: November 2011 &#8220;Everyone is Born a Muslim&#8221;</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=3226">No visitation allowed to blasphemy victim Asia Bibi in jail on Christmas</a></strong>:<br />
&#8220;Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five children, sentenced to death on blasphemy and waiting for her appeal in Lahore High Court LHC in high security cell in District Jail Seikhupura will not be able to offer Christmas services or to see her daughters and husband as it is not permitted by authorities in Punjab.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/43334">Sultan Knish on Rafiqi Islam</a></strong><br />
He is the Emirati Muslim who cut off his wife&#8217;s fingers to stop her from getting an education.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://actforamerica.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/british-court-denies-philandering-biological-father-custody-of-his-daughter-to-prevent-honor-killing/">ACT For America: British Court Denies Philandering Biological Father Custody of His Daughter to Prevent Honor Killing</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://actforamerica.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/groomed-for-sex-then-thrown-into-a-canal-and-killed-life-for-man-who-murdered-white-girl-for-shaming-asian-family/">ACT For America: Groomed for sex then thrown into a canal and killed: Life for man who murdered white girl for ‘shaming’ Asian family</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/uk-muslim-illegal-alien-who-hacked-off-his-neighbours-head-with-a-meat-cleaver-has-his-sentence-cut-by-six-years/">BNI: UK MUSLIM illegal alien who hacked off his neighbour’s head with a meat cleaver has his sentence CUT by six years</a></strong></li>
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<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2011/12/08/robert-spencer-on-cair-honor-killings-hijab-clad-somali-gangs-nativity-scenes-and-stupid-judges/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
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<p>Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch joins Michael Coren to discuss jackass English judge Robert Brown who gave a gang of muslim attackers a suspended sentence &#8220;after hearing mitigation that as Muslims, the women were not used to being drunk.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Iron Curtain Begins Descending onto the United States of America</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have said before that I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the USA and Australia never have any more elections. I base this on the fact that neither of these governments seem to care about their poll numbers, nor about what their constituents think. They are far too busy pushing their own agendas. I hope I [...]]]></description>
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I have said before that I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the USA and Australia never have any more elections.</p>
<p>I base this on the fact that neither of these governments seem to care about their poll numbers, nor about what their constituents think.</p>
<p>They are far too busy pushing their own agendas.</p>
<p>I hope I live to see the day when they will be held to account in an appropriate manner!</p>
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As Barack Hussein Obama’s real (internal) poll numbers continue to plummet  into oblivion, Obama and his increasingly complicit Congress secretly pass laws  that will enslave, incarcerate and even murder their fellow Americans–for the  explicit purpose of those who are currently in power remaining in power.  It is  now becoming clearer and clearer that both the Marxist-Democrats and their RINO  brothers and sisters may not allow the 2012 elections to occur.</p>
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The latest anti-liberty and unconstitutional atrocities include but, are not  limited to, some of the following items:</p>
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<em><strong>1. </strong></em> DHS still lists Christians, anti-abortionists,  homeschoolers, libertarians, conservatives, and military rank and file as  terrorists.  <strong><br />
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<strong>Note:</strong> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Islamists are still not included on the  list</span></p>
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<em><strong>2. </strong></em> Christian preachers are now being arrested, and  often beaten up, by police.   A few preachers who have been arrested include two  Houston pastors who were arrested for (legally) preaching against homosexuality  on the same corner for the past two years.  One of the police officers told them  that they were ‘doing nothing wrong’.  That was just before the cops grabbed  their video camera, forced them to the ground, placed them in handcuffs and took  them to the station.</p>
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The charges against them are unclear but, appear to include preaching a  message the Houston cops didn‘t like.  However, WND reports:    “Their hearing  will be in Houston Municipal Court, which is run by [lesbian] Barbara E. Hartle,  who, according to the Dallas Voice, is listed by the Gay and Lesbian Victory  Fund as “one of only a few out members of the Texas judiciary.”</p>
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WND also reports that Pastor Michael Marcavage, founder of the evangelistic  Repent America ministry, was placed on the FBI’s terrorist watch list for  “nonviolent religious speech which government officials perceive as [merely]  controversial.”  Controversial?  Being controversial is now a crime?  In another  incident, Pastor Rives Grogan and his 11 year old son were illegally arrested  for preaching against abortion in a public (and allowed) free-speech zone.</p>
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<em><strong>3. </strong></em> The most recent and titanic infringement on the rights of <em>all</em> US citizens is a bill (National Defense Authorization  Act-NDAA).  Although Section 1032 subsection (b) (1) and (2) of S 1867 (passed  in secret and behind closed doors) states that US Citizens and legal resident  aliens are not subject to military incarceration, <span style="font-weight: bold;">US Senators (including now self-outed Marxist Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham)</span> are gleefully  interpreting Section 1031 to include <em>all</em> US citizens being subject to  “Detention under the law of war without trial until the end of the hostilities authorized by the <em>Authorization for Use of Military Force.”</em></p>
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In other words, we may now experience what those recently nationwide  refurbished FEMA camps look like.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">This is no longer conspiracy theory, folks. </span>
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Senators Carl Levin (D-MI), John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) amongst  many others have now not only threatened all of us with arrest but, are  threatening the very foundations of what used to be <em>our</em> country.  The  masks have come off of our elected officials and most of them now resemble  either Josef Stalin or Adolph Hitler.</p>
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<strong><u>Every totalitarian government starts out in almost the identical  way.</u></strong> </p>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">First, it begins with some sort of political correctness indoctrination,  then it begins taking away liberties a little at a time, then it explains that  it can make decisions (including your money) for you better than you can.  It  decides that it can not only indoctrinate you children better but, can raise  them better that you.  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said:  “Give me four years to teach  the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”</span></p>
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The next to final step of all of these brutal and repressive governments is  to make scapegoats of law-abiding citizens and raise up the lawbreakers as  “acceptable.”  <strong><br />
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<strong>Note</strong>:  The TEA Party vs. #OWS comparison comes  readily to mind.</p>
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The final step is the incarceration and, ultimate, genocide of those who  oppose their own enslavement.
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We now stand in the beginning of the final  phase-solution of the existence of the United States of America.
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The Executive  and Legislative branches of our government are now consistently operating  outside of US law and have firmly become the enemy of We-the-People.
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You may  not want to hear this.
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The truth often cuts deeply.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The government has moved  beyond rogue and has now entered the complete and final Dictatorial Tyranny  stage.  Will you stand and fight or will you lie down and die?  The choice is  still yours…but, not for much longer.</span></p>
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The Iron Curtain has now almost fully descended onto the borders of the  United States of America.</p>
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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving  their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of  Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to  alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation  on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem  most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate  that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient  causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more  disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by  abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of  abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to  reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to  throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future  security</p>
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We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement  here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have  conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations,  which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too  have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore,  acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we  hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.”</p>
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–The unanimous Declaration [of Independence] of the thirteen united States of  America</p>
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By <span class="author vcard"><a title="Posts by Sher Zieve" href="http://gulagbound.com/author/sher-zieve/" rel="author">Sher  Zieve</a></span></p>
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<span class="author vcard"><a title="Posts by Sher Zieve" href="http://gulagbound.com/author/sher-zieve/" rel="author"></a></span></p>
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Sher Zieve is an author and political commentator. Zieve’s op-ed columns are  widely carried by multiple internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard  news.</p>
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Her columns have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Sacramento  Sun, in international news publications, and on multiple university websites.  Sher is also a guest on multiple national radio shows.</p>
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Sher can be reached at <a href="mailto:Sher_Zieve@yahoo.com">Sher_Zieve@yahoo.com</a> .</p>
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<span class="author vcard">With thanks to <a href="http://gulagbound.com/23455/iron-curtain-begins-descending-onto-the-united-states-of-america/">Gulag  Bound</a></span></p>
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<span class="author vcard">Cross-posted at <a href="http://www.actforaustralia.com/articles/iron-curtain-begins-descending-united-states-america">Act  For Australia</a></span></p>
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