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A leak of classified information last week by a person or persons unknown in the Obama administration compromised the national security of the United States.

The nature of the details which were leaked means that the leak had to have been made by a person or persons occupying a very high position in the administration. Speculation is that the leak was made so that President Obama could take credit for a successful operation which involved an agent infiltrating al-Qaeda and delivering a highly sophisticated and virtually undetectable new underwear bomb it had developed to U.S. officials, a bomb which by all accounts was going to be blown up on an incoming commercial flight to the U.S. and which would have resulted in massive loss of life.

In reality, the American contribution to the operation was minimal…it was a joint British/Saudi Arabian operation, the agent who penetrated al-Qaeda was a Saudi with a British passport and America only got involved in it at the very end and never played any kind of a lead role.

The American, British and Saudi/Arabian intelligence communities are furious because the operational details which were leaked meant that the operation had to be cut short and that it will be much harder to penetrate al-Qaeda in the future and gain first hand knowledge of its methods, capabilities and plans, if it can be done at all. The leak will also make foreign intelligence agencies much more wary of working with their U.S. counterparts. They were already wary because of past leaks and other unfortunate incidents and this leak will only serve to make a bad situation worse.

All of this clearly compromises America’s national security.

Congress is considering several investigations into the leak, the FBI is looking into it and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has ordered an internal review of the 16 agencies he controls, a review which predictably won’t include the White House or National Security Council though. Despite all these investigations it is highly unlikely that the identity of the person or persons who leaked the classified information will ever be known, especially if they are close to Obama. That would reflect very badly on him and therefore cannot be allowed to happen for fear of losing votes. Two things are clear however. He, she or they are very high up on the food chain in the administration and the motive for the leak had to have been to enhance Obama and his administration’s national security credentials in this election year and thus improve his chances of being returned to office. Burnishing Obama’s national security bona fides in the eyes of the electorate…that was the motive for the leak. Never mind that it compromised national security and never mind that America’s involvement in the operation was minimal. The political and public relations value of Obama taking credit for the operation was obvious and it was an opportunity that couldn’t be passed up.

Or so the perpetrator(s) thought.

There are many things that remain unclear about this whole sorry episode though and one of them is the extent of Obama’s involvement or lack of same, whether he authorized it, whether he heard about it and did nothing to stop it or whether he knew nothing about it and found out about it after the fact. We’ll probably never find those things out either, although it seems very odd that there was a press conference planned about the operation before the leak began attracting so much criticism. All things considered it seems inconceivable that he didn’t at least know about it beforehand in some fashion.

Did Obama authorize the leak? Did he hear about it and do nothing to stop it? Did he know nothing about it and find out about it after the fact? Who knows? Who will ever know?

One thing we do know however. He was prepared to take full advantage of the opportunity that presented itself and would have done so like he’s done in the past if he thought that the benefits would outweigh the consequences.

For himself, not the country.

That’s political opportunism of the worst kind.

That’s our President.

Catherine Ashton is the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs e.g. its foreign policy chief. Last Friday she said that she hoped talks with Iran beginning May 23 in Baghdad would form the basis of an agreement for the Iranian’s to abandon their nuclear weapons program. Eventually. At a press conference in Brussels Ashton said “My ambition is that we come away with the beginning of the end of the nuclear weapons program in Iran” and “I hope we’ll see the beginnings of success.”

Its not going to happen. Iran is not going to abandon its nuclear weapons development program and is going to proceed full speed ahead until it becomes a nuclear power in its own right or until it is prevented from developing and possessing nuclear weapons by military force. Talks, diplomacy, negotiations, sanctions, condemnation or empty threats will not do the trick. Iran is hell-bent on becoming a nuclear power and all the talks, diplomacy, negotiations, sanctions, condemnation and empty threats in the world aren’t going to stop it, aren’t even going to slow it down. Ashton should know that because the record is as crystal clear as it can get. None of them have worked in the past and they are not going to work in the future either, regardless of Ashton’s hopes and delusions.

Ashton admitted as much during her press conference. She admitted that Iran has a nuclear weapons program and admitted that talks, diplomacy, negotiations, sanctions, condemnation and empty threats have failed to keep the Iranians from stopping it. When she said that she hoped to see the beginnings of success she really said that there has been no success whatsoever and that all have failed to stop the Iranians from proceeding apace. The words beginning and beginnings are also codes for further meetings, which means that there will be more of the same in the future and the Iranians will have more time to bring their plans to fruition. They have been stringing the West along masterfully from the very beginning of their nuclear weapons development program and they are continuing to do exactly that…they are playing for time is what they’re doing and they’re doing it very well, thanks to the blindness, stupidity, cowardice and hubris of leaders like Ashton, Obama and the rest.

Israel knows perfectly well why Iran wants to develop and possess nuclear weapons, even if Ashton, Obama and the others don’t, or won’t admit it if they do. The Israelis know that the Iranians want to develop and possess nuclear weapons so that they can use them against Israel, so that they can use them to commit genocide against the people of Israel and to wipe the country off the map, to remove it from the face of the earth. If the Iranians develop and possess nuclear weapons they will launch them against Israel as their first order of business and the Israelis know it. The Israelis also know that the only way to stop the Iranians from attacking Israel with nuclear weapons is to keep them out of their hands in the first place, that the only way to do that is through a preemptive military strike and that they will have to carry out that strike themselves because no one else has the sense, foresight and courage to do it.

The Israelis know two other things as well. They know that Iran’s second order of business is to use their nuclear weapons against the United States because they hate and despise the United States almost as much as they hate and despise Israel and because they view the U.S. as the major impediment to establishing their hegemony in the Middle East and beyond. The Israelis also know that the Iranians will use their nuclear weapons to coerce and intimidate their other foes in the Middle East and the West into submission and that they will not hesitate to use their nuclear weapons as they see fit.

All in the name of Islam and Allah of course.

Sorry Catherine, the Iranians really are manipulating you and taking you for a ride. Talks, diplomacy, negotiations, sanctions and empty threats haven’t worked in the past, aren’t working now and won’t work in the future.

Don’t worry though, the Israelis are well aware of this and will take care of the Iranians on their own, not for your sake to be sure but to prevent the Iranians from attacking Israel with nuclear weapons and to ensure the survival of themselves and their country. Unlike you, Obama and other Western leaders (useful idiots in the eyes of many, including no doubt the Iranians) they are neither blind, stupid, cowardly or delusional and they know they will have to launch a preemptive, unilateral military strike to prevent Iran from trying to commit genocide against them, to prevent a nuclear holocaust.

Refugee status usually begins and ends with the person involved and does not apply to their descendants. The vast majority of people who call themselves Palestinian refugees therefore aren’t refugees at all. They are refugees in name only.

In the mid to late 1940’s approximately 750,000 people left the territory that would become Israel. These people, or those that remain, are Palestinian refugees. Their descendants aren’t., despite what the Palestinians and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency would have you believe.

UNRWA was set up in the 1940’s to deal exclusively with Palestinian refugees. Its definition of refugee is unique to itself and very much outside the norm. Only UNRWA and the Palestinians ascribe refugee status to a refugees descendants as well, both their immediate descendants and their descendants in perpetuity. That means that the number of people who call themselves Palestinian refugees is growing instead of declining and that the vast majority of them never actually lived in or left the land which eventually became Israel.

It also means that Palestinians are allowed and encouraged to wallow in ongoing feelings of victimhood and that they are allowed and encouraged to blame everyone else for their problems, especially Israelis and Jews. This in turn means that they always feel sorry for themselves and take out their misplaced anger and despair on Israel and Israelis. The violence and destruction that they perpetrate against Israel and Israelis can in many ways be traced to their unwarranted feelings of resentment at losing their land, unwarranted because the vast majority of them were never on the land in the first place and have no personal experience with it or attachment to it. They think of themselves as refugees even though they aren’t and this has profound negative consequences for them.

UNRWA is complicit in this because it has never done anything to disabuse Palestinians of these mistaken notions and has done nothing but reinforce them since it came into existence. That in turn means that UNRWA is complicit in keeping Palestinians poor, dependent and violent and also complicit in all the destruction, death and war that has occurred over the years and which will continue to occur until Palestinians change their attitudes.

They won’t get any help from UNRWA, that’s for sure. UNRWA is a huge bureaucracy which couldn’t exist without perpetuating Palestinian dependence and misery. UNRWA is going to keep on doing exactly that because if it did otherwise it would shrink and eventually cease to exist. Palestinian dependence and misery keeps UNRWA alive and UNWRA is simply not going to substantially change its ways on its own. Bureaucracies never do.

Palestinians are shackled by UNRWA and those shackles will have to be removed if they are ever going to improve their lives, if they are ever going to acquire their own state and make peace with Israel. They’ll have to remove them themselves because no one else will do it for them.

Palestinian refugees? Nonsense. The vast majority of people who call themselves Palestinian refugees aren’t really refugees at all. What they are are useful idiots who have been manipulated and taken advantage of by bureaucrats and ideologues who don’t care about them at all and keep them downtrodden for their own ends. UNRWA and its definition of refugee has been disastrous for the Palestinians and it is long past time for them to recognize and understand this and take remedial action, to get rid of the bureaucrats and ideologues who have done them so much harm.

An Islamic school operating out of a public high school in east end Toronto has been teaching its students to hate Jews and commit jihad, Jew hatred being Jew hatred and jihad being fighting and warfare meant to coerce or force non-believers to submit to Islam and its dictates and to live under Islamic law (Sharia). This is not surprising to anyone who knows anything about Islam and its reality and history. Jew hatred and jihad are at the very core of Islam and cannot be separated from it…both are an integral, fundamental part of Islam, part of its essence, part of its being. Trying to separate Jew hatred and jihad from Islam is like trying to separate the Resurrection from Christianity…it can’t be done.

Students in Islamic schools wherever they exist are being taught to subscribe to Islam and the Islamic narrative and to become Islamists (believers) and are being taught to hate Jews and commit jihad, by definition. It is impossible for them not to be taught those things. The denials and protestations of officials, administrators, teachers, religious figures and apologists are nothing more than lies meant to mislead and deceive those who raise objections or express concern, lies which are permitted, sanctioned and required by Islam.

This means that if there is an Islamic school in your neighborhood or community its students are being taught this bilge and their minds are being poisoned, no matter what Islamists, apologists for Islam or anyone else might say to the contrary.

That’s why its pointless to say that Islamic schools must shun jihad, must shun Jew hatred. That is not possible. If they shun jihad and shun Jew hatred they would be shunning Islam itself. This they cannot do. Islam won’t permit it and there are terrible consequences under Islamic law for believers who turn away from it, who question or reject its precepts and obligations or decide not to live under their yoke. You cannot have an Islamic school without teaching Islam and you cannot teach Islam without teaching Jew hatred and jihad…not teaching about them as abstract concepts, but teaching them as Islamic obligations.

That is also why there is one alternative and one alternative only for those who think students should not be indoctrinated with this hate, who think students should not be obliged to act it out, who think students minds should not poisoned with this bilge, who see it for what it is…sick, racist, destructive, dangerous and unacceptable in secular, pluralistic, civilized societies.

Islamic schools in the West must be shut down because they cannot help but teach Jew hatred and jihad and oblige their students to carry them out. If they are allowed to remain open it means that Jew hatred and jihad have been condoned by the wider society. Since both are abhorrent and not acceptable in most Western countries, for now anyway, the schools must close.

Including those in Canada.

Including those in Toronto.

President Obama’s recent announcement that he is in favor of gay marriage carries no weight because he is not taking any concrete action to support his position. The position is also a complete reversal of earlier ones he has taken stating most emphatically that marriage can only be heterosexual, that only men and women can marry, not men and men or women and women.

Americans have to question the sincerity of his current position in light of this reversal, particularly since this is an election year. Obama desperately wants to be returned to office for a second term and needs every vote he can get because his track record since the last election is uniformly awful and he has no real accomplishments to run on. He obviously made a political calculation that there were more votes in coming out in favor of gay marriage than there were in coming out against it or in not saying anything at all.

That’s very cynical on his part and very typical as well. It means that he doesn’t really have the courage of his convictions, whatever they are, and that he will make decisions based on political calculations in order to get elected again, as he has done so often in the past. It means that he won’t make hard decisions based on the country’s best interests if those decisions might prove unpopular and cost him votes. It means that no one can trust him about anything or know what he really believes or stands for because everything he says or does is politically expedient. It means that misleading voters is acceptable and so is outright lying or simple glossing over. It means that he will jettison or latch on to anyone or anything to get returned for a second term. He has done all of these things in the past, he’s doing them now and he’s going to keep on doing them in the future.

So what concrete action can Obama take to convince American voters that his current stance on gay marriage is sincere? He can see that the upcoming Democratic National Convention is moved from Charlotte, North Carolina, that’s what. Why? Because last week voters in North Carolina overwhelmingly approved a measure outlawing same sex marriage and any form of civil union for gays as well. It was a clear, unambiguous, unmistakeable repudiation of gay marriage in any form and the polar opposite of what Obama’s current belief is. There is already considerable pressure among Democrats to move the convention because of this and if Obama pushed for a move to a more gay friendly location it would really be putting his money where his mouth is so to speak.

Don’t hold your breath though. Obama will do what he’s always done. Stick his finger in the air, measure the political wind and act expediently…expediently for him, not for anyone else or for the country. Obama never has been any good at putting his money where his mouth is and he won’t be this time either.

Does Obama really believe in gay marriage? Who knows-who will ever know?

Principles? They’re either impediments or tools and can be cast aside or hauled out and used as required.

This whole episode has nothing to do with gay marriage. It has to do with Barack Obama’s character, or more specifically, Barack Obama’s lack of character.

Cynical, typical and very, very sad. Americans deserve much, much better.

President Obama doesn’t believe in taking personal responsibility for the horrible condition of the American economy. He constantly blames external factors and everyone but himself for the country’s economic mess. His excuses are many and varied and absolve him of any blame for the parlous economic state America and Americans are in.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner has compiled a list of the top 13 excuses that Obama has used to explain away the the economic catastrophe which has occurred on his watch. These include economic “headwinds”, ATM usage, unmanned airport ticket kiosks, speculators, the Arab spring, the Japanese tsunami, European economic problems and the ever reliable George Bush. They are laughable, pathetic, false and very, very sad.

Its true that Obama doesn’t take personal responsibility for America’s economy, or for anything else that reflects poorly on his performance since being elected for that matter. On the other hand, he is quick to take credit for the very few positive things that have taken place, even if it was unwarranted and even if it jeopardized national security and the lives of American military personnel such as when he released operational details of Osama bin Laden’s death and the foiling of the most recent underwear bomb plot.

You can’t have it both ways Barack. If you’re responsible for the good things, you’re responsible for the bad things too, no matter how hard you try to mislead Americans and convince them otherwise.

To paraphrase Harry Truman ‘The buck really does stop with you’.

For everything.

Americans take heed and don’t let him fool you. It really is his fault and it really isn’t going to get any better. Look at him and look at his track record and you’ll know its so.

If you think things are bad now, wait and see what happens if you elect him to a second term.

You ain’t seen nothing yet, as the saying goes.

France just elected a socialist President whose policies will do nothing to solve its economic and social problems. What foolishness.

The French people voted him in because they live in a fantasy world. They believe they can continue to enjoy life in a country with one of the highest standards of living in the world without having to work for it. They believe they can retain exceedingly generous state benefits of all kinds without having to pay for them. They believe they can keep France from becoming an Islamic country governed by Islamic law by turning a blind eye to the entirely negative effect that Islam and Islamists are having on their country and refusing to take meaningful steps to deal with them, including coming to grips with immigration and immigrants whose values and way of life are decidedly non-French.

Francois Hollande, the newly elected President, won because he told the French that they could continue to keep their eyes closed to the reality all around them, because he made no demands on them whatsoever, because he absolved them of any responsibility for dealing with the economic and social mess France is in and because they were foolish and ignorant enough to believe this hokum. The socialists aren’t going to make things better in France, better for ordinary French men and women. They are going to make things much much worse.

Making things worse is what socialism does and has always done and the French should have known that. They should have known that sooner or later bills have to be paid and that a person or a country cannot keep on running them up without a serious reckoning, without serious consequences. France has been running up bills and failing to deal with, even acknowledge, its endemic economic and social problems for many years and putting socialists in power will do nothing but bring that reckoning and those consequences much closer. The French may think they can keep on running up bills and keep on not paying them but they are wrong and they will soon find out that putting socialists in power will lead to financial and social chaos and collapse.

Socialism as a solution to a countries economic and social ills, to France’s economic and social ills…talk about living in a fantasy world. It doesn’t cut it, won’t cut it and will never cut it.

Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician who has been speaking out forcefully against the scourge and the horror of Islam in Holland, Europe and the West for many years. He is arguably the world’s foremost defender of Western values and principles and has been unrelenting in pointing out how Islam’s reality is changing the nature and face of the Netherlands and Europe and how it is threatening to do the same in the United States and the rest of the free world, about how Islam must be opposed and the Islamization of Western societies stopped and reversed if freedom, democracy and Western civilization are to survive.

Wilders knows whereof he speaks and is no gadfly, dilettante or garden variety Islamophobe. He has fought against Islam by trying to show us what it really is, totalitarian, supremacist, hateful, violent, misogynistic, racist and very, very cruel and by trying to stem the tide of Islamization in his native country and the rest of the West. He has paid a very high price for his activities but carries on because of his commitment to freedom and democracy and because he knows perfectly well that there is no possibility of Western civilization surviving under Islam and Islamic law, because he knows that all of our freedoms will disappear under Islam, because he knows that Islam is making deep and serious inroads throughout the West and because he knows that this process of Islamization cannot be allowed to continue because if it does Western civilization is doomed.

Wilders just published a book entitled “Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me” (Regnery Publishing, available through Amazon) which lays out his case in exquisite detail. It explains how Islam has marked him for death and Western civilization too. The book should be required reading for everyone that treasures freedom, democracy and Western civilization and wishes to preserve and protect them, for everyone who finds the reality of Islam unacceptable in free, democratic, civilized societies, for everyone who knows that Western values and the Western way of life are completely incompatible with Islamic values and the Islamic way of life.

What is the reality of Islam you ask? Read Wilder’s book, read the Koran and look around, especially if you live in Europe, the United States or anywhere else in the West for that matter. Do your homework, examine Islam in depth and see it for what it really is and how it manifests itself in the world. Your world. If you’re not an Islamist and have any conscience at all and any instinct for self-preservation you’ll be horrified and terrified. And one more thing. Don’t pay any attention to Islamists and other apologists for Islam while you’re doing this…they’re just lying through their teeth and trying to trick and mislead you, which Islam permits and sanctions by the way.

Would that more people had the wisdom and courage of Geert Wilders. The survival of freedom, democracy and Western civilization depends on it.

Wilders is quoted as saying “I will never keep silent because we must not let violent fanatics dictate what we say and what we read. We must rebel against their suffocating rules and demands at every turn. We must, in the words of Revolutionary War veteran Gen. John Stark, “Live free or die.””

Amen to that.

Liberty in America means that Americans possess certain inalienable rights. These include the right to speak freely, the right to express themselves freely, the right to subscribe or not subscribe to religion in general or a given religion in particular, the right to assemble, the right to move, the right to accept or reject whatever orthodoxies and ideologies which are thrust upon them, the right to live their lives as they see fit, the right to be governed by democratically elected representatives of the people and so on…in short, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The key word in this is ‘to’… Americans are free to make their own decisions and live according to their conscience and principles. That is what liberty in the United States means. It is the freedom to do or not do something, anything, the freedom to make choices and act them out.

Liberty means freedom ‘to’ and always has in the United States. It is why the country was founded in the first place and why people from all over the world are doing everything they can to come to its shores and have throughout its history. It goes without saying that the freedom ‘to’ has served the country and its people exceedingly well over the years and that the U.S. became the most prosperous nation in the history of the world because of it. People were, are, free to make something of themselves and those that wanted to badly enough and were willing to work hard enough have always done exactly that. America truly is the land of opportunity and it is because people in America are free ‘to’.

Left wing ideologues in the United States, the most prominent of whom is that well known socialist President Obama, are trying to change all of that. They are trying to change the notion and reality of individual liberty in the U.S. to freedom ‘from’ instead of freedom ‘to’. Freedom ‘from’ want and need is the new mantra and centralized big government which controls and pays for everything is seen as the solution to everyone’s problems, especially their financial problems. Personal responsibility for one’s life is viewed as a quaint notion because if one’s life is unsatisfactory it is the fault of someone or something else, bankers, Wall Street traders, capitalists, capitalism, anyone or anything. Blame is the name of the game and centralized big government is the magic pill which will supposedly solve all of societies problems.

These left wing ideologues want nothing more than to turn America into a nation of subservient, dependent robots unable and unwilling to think or act for themselves. That in turn will mean that the ideologues will be free to do whatever they want to with the country, which is really their ultimate goal. Freedom for me but not for thee is what its actually all about…turning the United States into a giant socialist bureaucracy which ultimately controls everything and everyone with themselves at the top of the heap is really where the ideologues are attempting to take us.

Never mind that the capitalist, free market system in the U.S. has done more good for more people than any other economic system in the history of the world. Never mind that American freedom and democracy have brought more benefits to more people than any other political system in the history of the world. Never mind that capitalism, the market economy and freedom and democracy would be destroyed in America if the socialist, left wing ideologues got their way. Never mind that what they want to do would close doors for most people, not allow or enable people to open them. Never mind that what they want to do is impossible financially and can only lead to financial collapse on an unprecedented scale. None of that is the point.

The point is that left wing ideologues think they know better than the rest of us and want to get themselves in power to repudiate our history and way of life and turn the United States into a socialist country with themselves making the decisions and everyone else dependent on their largesse.

Will they get away with it? Time will tell.

So will how authorities react to the upcoming riots and destructive activities of the Occupy movement, otherwise known as the Something for Nothing Movement. The signs won’t be good if Occupiers are allowed free rein to try and bring down our economic, political and social systems and to wantonly destroy personal and public property and threaten, intimidate and beat up people in the process. They’ll be much better if authorities react to lawlessness accordingly, with force if necessary, and don’t allow the useful idiots in the Occupy movement to hold the rest of us hostage.

The results of the Presidential election this coming November will also be telling. If Obama gets elected again the left wing ideologues have an awfully good chance to succeed. If not, there’s hope for us yet.

Islam is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy and the American way of life that there is. It is a religion of hatred, violence, cruelty, misogyny and intolerance that is 1,400 years old, backward, atavistic, frozen in time and completely incompatible with 21st century liberal democracies like the United States. It is supremacist in thought and action, does not permit dissent of any kind (no matter how innocuous) and submission of non-believers to its practices and requirements is at its core.

Islam’s apologists and adherents in the United States are trying to make it predominant in the U.S. and turn America into an Islamic country governed by Islamic law. They are well on the way to doing exactly that. Islam has already made deep and serious inroads into American life and is making more even as we speak. It is changing the nature and character of the country and its deleterious effects are being felt everywhere. Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, freedom of rejection, freedom to choose, freedom and democracy period…none of those things exist in Islam or Islamic life and all are being suppressed outside the Islamic community. Islam and its apologists and adherents are at war with the United States and everything it stands for and if they win America and Americans will find themselves living under Islamic law in an Islamic country and their freedom, democracy and way of life will have disappeared in the sands of time.

If they live at all that is, death and Islam being synonymous.

Fortunately, a small but growing number of Americans are beginning to recognize and understand this and to expose and speak out about Islam and the damage it is doing to the country and its people. They are heroes and heroines in the best sense of those words. Speaking out against Islam, exposing it for what it truly is as opposed to what its apologists and adherents say it is and trying to prevent or reverse its depredations takes a great deal of courage and fortitude. It is not an easy thing to do at all. Those that do can expect vicious personal and professional attacks, can expect to be labelled racist, bigoted, ignorant, Islamophobic or otherwise slandered and can expect to have their lives and the lives of their families threatened.

Some of those heroes and heroines held an event entitled the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference on Honor Killing in Dearborn, Michigan last weekend.

Dearborn is home to the Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in the United States. It has the largest single concentration of Muslims in North America, roughly 32,000 people or about 1/3 of the population. It is common to see signs and billboards in Arabic and Islam has become part of the fabric of the community. This has caused a great deal of tension over the years as Islamists seek to expand its influence and freedom of speech, expression, choice and assembly, among other things, have been attacked by them with regularity.

Jessica Mokdad was the victim of an honor killing in April, 2011, just over a year ago. She was a 20 year old Muslim woman who was murdered because she left home and stopped practising Islam. She rejected and tossed off Islam’s shackles and was killed because of it, because in the eyes of her family that brought shame and dishonor on them, shame and dishonor which could ultimately be dealt with in one way only. Her stepfather tracked her over four states before murdering her. Honor killing is a large and growing phenomenon in the Islamic community in the United States and her case is all too typical. It is often covered up and hidden but there is no doubt that it exists and exists on a large scale.

The conference was organized and sponsored by the America Freedom Defense Initiative and Stop Islamization of America, an AFDI program and an affiliate of Stop Islamization of Europe. Pamela Geller, AFDI and SIOA Executive Director, said “Our goal is to raise awareness about the phenomenon of Islamic honor killing in order to help bring a stop to it. These girls have rights too. They’re human beings, and yet they’re completely forgotten in our politically correct culture. We’re standing for the human rights of girls like Jessica Mokdad.”

The conference certainly succeeded in raising awareness. Hundreds of people attended and there was a full house for all of the presentations, despite attempts by Islamists and assorted useful idiots to disrupt the proceedings.

Conference speakers included Ms. Geller, Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, David Wood, Robert Muise, Michael Coren, James Lafferty and Simon Deng, all of whom are at the forefront of the effort to preserve freedom, justice, human rights and the American way of life, in the effort to keep Islam and Islamists from taking over the United States.

Heroes and heroines every one.

The more of them the better, that’s for sure.

The more events like the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference on Honor Killing the better too.