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U.S Secretary of State John Kerry and First Lady Michelle Obama were due to present Egyptian Samira Ibrahim with a 2013 International Woman of Courage Award in Washington today. Ibrahim was going to be given the award for rallying worldwide attention to the Egyptian military conducting “virginity tests” on female protesters in Egypt. It was decided to postpone granting her the award because anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli, terror and terrorist supporting views she expressed on her twitter account became public and granting her the award would have been embarrassing now that Americans knew what she really thought.

Her views are very clear and very blunt and cannot be mistaken for anything else than what they are…anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli and terror and terrorist supporting. Three examples of many will suffice to make the point.

Last July 18 after five Israeli tourists and a bus driver were murdered by a suicide bomber in Bulgaria she tweeted “An explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burqas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news.”

Last August 4 she described the ruling Al Saud family as “dirtier than the Jews” while commenting on demonstrations in Saudi Arabia at that time.

Last September she tweeted while a mob was attacking the United States embassy in Cairo and raising al-Qaeda’s flag after pulling down the American flag “Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning.”

Why not cancel the award altogether and apologize for granting it to her to begin with?

Ibrahim has claimed that her twitter account was hacked and that she disavows and bears no responsibility for the views on the account. This is exceeding dubious because the tweets go back several months and were not removed until they became public and an issue after the award announcement was made. Ibrahim also has a blog which makes her views about the U.S. and Israel crystal clear.

The State Department has postponed granting her the award until an official investigation is conducted and a determination is made about whether or not her account was hacked. If the conclusion is that she was hacked she’ll get the award. If the conclusion is that she wasn’t hacked she won’t.

All things considered, it is virtually impossible to believe that she was hacked…that the views are not her own and that she didn’t express them.

In any event, the matter should have been cleared up before a decision was made to grant her the award in the first place.

Why wasn’t it?

There are only two possible scenarios and both are damning.

The first is that the vetting process is inadequate and that whoever investigated her did a lousy job. That is certainly possible.

The second is that she was vetted and her anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli, terror and terrorist supporting views were acceptable and not enough to disqualify her.

Given the views and the track record of Obama and his administration I’d bet on the second.

Actions speak louder than words after all and the actions of Obama and his administration can rightfully be seen as anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli and terror and terrorist supporting.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much as the saying goes.

Methinks Obama and his administration doth protest too much as well.

Peace in the Middle East between Arabs and Israelis is possible.

A Palestinian state is possible.

Neither are going to happen anytime soon however.

Why?

Because in order for there to be peace between Arabs and Israelis and in order for a Palestinian state to come into existence Palestinians and their fellow Arabs have to recognize Israel’s legitimate right to exist as a Jewish state, accept her existence, quit committing atrocities against her and her citizens, quit demonizing and vilifying her and her citizens, quit trying to wipe her off the map and guarantee the safety and security of Israelis and of Israel itself. Palestinians and their fellow Arabs are neither willing or able to do any of that and it is precisely that unwillingness and inability which makes peace impossible and makes a Palestinian state impossible as well.

Until all of that stops, until all of that changes, peace is simply not going to happen and a Palestinian state isn’t going to happen either. All that will happen is more of the same…more destruction, more bloodshed, more death, more atrocities, more violence, more hatred…more war. Nevertheless, anyone who thinks that Palestinians and their fellow Arabs are going to change their attitudes and behavior in order to bring about peace and a Palestinian state is sadly mistaken. It simply isn’t going to occur, not anytime soon anyway.

The author of the article is correct. Ending the Arab boycott of Israel does make a great deal of sense and would be beneficial to Palestinians and their fellow Arabs in any number of ways. To Israelis too

Don’t hold your breath waiting for it to happen though.

Want peace in the Middle East?

Want a Palestinian state?

Boycotts won’t bring either about.

Getting Palestinians and their fellow Arabs to change their attitudes and behavior will.

In the meantime, the precious few voices in the Arab/Islamic world who are trying to make that happen against all odds deserve our gratitude and congratulations for their efforts.

And courage.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded in 1993 to act in a fundraising and political capacity for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States and to advance the cause of Islam in the U.S., the cause being to turn the United States into an Islamic country governed by Sharia, Islamic law…to make Islam and Sharia all-encompassing in the country and have everyone live an Islamic life according to their precepts and imperatives.

CAIR is well-known for undermining and attacking American values, principles, institutions and the American way of life and for fermenting and inciting discontent, lawbreaking and civil disobedience among Muslims in the U.S. The organization is suffused with a rogues gallery of Islamists, terrorists and their apologists and always has been and its nefarious activities and ties to terrorist organizations are beyond dispute. It has tried to portray itself as benign but the public record is very different and exposes it for the malignant growth on the body politic and American life that it really is.

CAIR wants to bring about the downfall of American freedom, democracy, secularism, pluralism, the American way of life and everything America stands for and has always stood for and replace them with Islam and Islamic law. It has been working to do exactly that from the very beginning. The ongoing Islamization of the United States is testimony to its efforts and to say that it seriously threatens American freedom, democracy, secularism, pluralism, the American way of life and everything America stands for and has always stood for is no exaggeration whatsoever.

CAIR’s Chairman is on record as saying “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran…should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”.

The Executive Director of CAIR’s Dallas-Fort Worth branch just told a rally for Islam in Austin Texas that members of the faith should not be bound by American law. Mustafa Carroll said “If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land”.

Those two statements and CAIR’s track record present a clear picture of what CAIR is all about and what it is trying to achieve.

Can’t get any more anti-American than that, can you?

Now what are Americans going to do about it?

Will they show Carroll and CAIR that they aren’t above the law of the land, that in America no one is?

Will they stand up for themselves and their country and excise the malignancy?

They have every legal means necessary but will they actually do so?

They better if they want their freedom and their way of life to survive.

Soon.

President Obama just signed off on a series of budget cuts which will take eighty-five billion dollars out of the federal budget in the United States this year.

The cuts could have been avoided if Obama was willing to compromise with Republican Congressional leaders but since compromise isn’t in his vocabulary and he was therefore totally unwilling to compromise on tax hikes over and above the ones he was granted on January 1 he signed off on the budget cuts last Friday. The Republicans compromised on several occasions during the negotiation process but Obama refused to do so and he was forced by law into signing off.

The cuts will be across the board rather than carefully targeted and will negatively impact everything the federal government funds, including national defense and homeland security, because Obama rejected a Republican plan which would have given him flexibility to carefully allocate the eighty-billion dollars rather rather than cutting across the board.

No one really knows why he did this but there is speculation that he did it to avoid personal responsibility for any of the individual cuts and the impact they will have…he is also trying to avoid personal responsibility for the overall cuts by blaming the Republicans for the impasse, which is of course nonsense because he could have and should have kept them from happening, because his total intractability and pigheadedness caused them to happen in the first place.

That along with his narcissistic personality and socialist, big government ideology.

Sorry Barack, you can’t avoid responsibility for the cuts and the impact they will have because they are entirely of your own making. This ones on you, nobody else, just you. You can blame anyone else you want to but its your fault and yours alone.

In fact, your stewardship of the economy has been utterly disastrous for America and Americans and you can’t avoid responsibility for that either.

That’s on you too.

The Supreme Court of Canada just took away Canadian’s right to express themselves fully and freely by placing limits on their freedom of speech and freedom of expression.

If Canadians express themselves in any way, shape or form that may expose an aggrieved person or group to hatred or that may lead to an aggrieved person or group being harmed they may be hauled before a Human Rights Commission and suffer terrible consequences, including financial and emotional ruin. Note the word may and take note of how vague it is…in fact, in this day of thin skins and political correctness run amuck even the most innocuous or innocent descriptive expression about anyone or anything can be construed as exposing them to hatred or exposing them to harm in some way…and will be too.

As for questioning, criticizing, refuting, exposing , speaking out against or fighting against someone or something Canadians can forget about doing any of that no matter how knowledgeable they are about the subject and no matter whatever they express is true or not Questioning, criticizing, refuting, exposing, speaking out against or fighting against someone or something can also be construed as possibly exposing an aggrieved person or group to hatred or possibly leading to an aggrieved person or group being harmed in some way and anyone who does anything like that can easily have their life ruined by the Human Rights Commission apparatchiks.

As for mocking, ridiculing, satirizing or joking about someone or something…any of that is now verboten in Canada.as well.

Unfettered freedom of speech and freedom of expression are two cornerstones of free countries. No country can call itself free and no free country will remain free for long if limits are placed on its citizens right and ability to express themselves fully and freely. The Supreme Court of Canada just removed Canada from the ranks of free countries by placing these limits on Canadians. The decision is beyond disgraceful, idiotic, shortsighted and abhorrent…it is also suicidal. Canadians better do everything they can to get it overturned because if they don’t freedom and democracy will disappear entirely from the country, because whatever freedom they have left won’t be around for long.

What’s next, taking away Canadians right to think, their freedom to think?

Not that Human Rights Commission apparatchiks or their apologists and other useful idiots, like the Supreme Court Justices who stripped Canadians of their right to express themselves fully and freely, do think though.

Fools.

Oops.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is orchestrating a campaign of violence, destruction, bloodshed and death against Israel and Israelis because he is chagrined that the world isn’t paying much attention these days to Palestinian grumbling and complaining and because he wants U.S. President Obama to make Palestinian issues a focal point of his visit to Israel and the region in March, rather than focus on Syria, Iran and a multiplicity of other topics as the White House said he would do.

Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are using violence and the threat of violence to try and grab the world’s attention and grab Obama’s attention too. So far the violence has been relatively low-key but it will escalate and could easily turn into a full-fledged intifada at his instigation if he doesn’t get his way. He is manufacturing reasons for Palestinians to feel aggrieved and encouraging them to react violently when they do. If the violence provokes the Israelis to reply in force and defend themselves all the better as far as he is concerned. That would certainly grab the world’s attention and Obama’s as well, especially if it happens just before he arrives or even during his visit.

Abbas’ actions are cynical, cold, calculating, manipulative and utterly devoid of concern or respect for human life, Israeli or Palestinian. They are blackmail of the worst kind. The results have to lie squarely on his shoulders and he should be held fully accountable for them.

Even Obama should know that.

Even Obama should know that the blackmailing won’t stop if Abbas and the Palestinian Authority succeed, that it will just get worse and worse because that is the nature of the beast.

Abbas and the Palestinian Authority don’t think he does though or else they wouldn’t be orchestrating and carrying out the campaign.

Or maybe they think he doesn’t care.

We’ll see if they’re right.

In the meantime look for the violence and everything that goes along with it to continue and to escalate.

Talk about cynical, cold, calculating, manipulative and utterly devoid of concern or respect for human life, Israeli or Palestinian…Abbas and the Palestinian Authority embody all of that and more.

If Obama had an ounce of sense and an ounce of morality he wouldn’t fall for their ploy for a minute.

If he does that would make him just like them, wouldn’t it?

All over Europe people are fleeing before the onslaught of Islam and Islamists.

They are fleeing their homes, their neighborhoods, their cities and their countries because they have become Islamic, dangerous and violent…because their culture and way of life is being overwhelmed, negated and replaced by Islamic hordes…because Islamists have forced or are trying to force Islam and its imperatives down their throats…because everything has changed for the worse and they can’t live normal lives anymore…because living where they are isn’t safe for them anymore.

Europe is not an Islamic continent quite yet, but it is more than well on the way to becoming one and is getting close. Islam being Islam and Islamists being Islamists Jews and Christians are particularly vulnerable and have suffered the most, but all of Europe is being rapidly Islamized and unbelievers lives are being changed and their cultures attacked and wiped out at the hands of Islamic hordes throughout the continent.

Some people speak out and fight back but those that do put their lives on the line. A large and growing number of people have decided to vote with their feet and leave instead. Who can blame them? If things keep on going the way they are it is as plain as day that Europe will soon become an Islamic continent…that Judeo-Christian values and culture will disappear… that they will have to live Islamic lives under Sharia, Islamic law, or suffer terrible terrible consequences.

Fight, flee or live under Islam and Islamists and be governed by Sharia, Islamic law. That’s the choice Europeans are faced with, that’s the choice unbelievers in Europe, especially Jews and Christians, have to make.

You might as well say unbelievers, particularly Jews and Christians, in every country in the West too, Australia, Canada, the United States, every one. All of them are under assault by Islam and Islamists and all of them are being Islamized to one degree or another, with much more to come unless the tide is turned. Europe is just the most extreme example of the Islamization of the West but it is a serious and growing problem everywhere and unbelievers, particularly Jews and Christians, have decisions to make wherever they live.

So what will you do?

Better hurry up and decide.

Soon.

President Obama is planning to make deep cuts to America’s nuclear weapons arsenal, on top of deep cuts that have already been made.

Eighteen former military officers and civilian national security officials of the highest rank recently wrote to Obama and advised him not to go ahead with the cuts because they would seriously jeopardize the national security of the United States.

They also advised Obama to modernize and upgrade America’s nuclear weapons arsenal because it badly needs both and failing to do so would also place the national security of the United States in jeopardy.

Signatories include two former Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency, a former Ambassador to the United Nations, a former Commandant of the Marine Corps, a former Chief of Naval Operations, a former Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff, a former Commander of the Eighth Air Force, Strategic Air Command, a former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative and so on…all hardheaded, experienced people who live in the real world and know what they are talking about, who know that cutting America’s arsenal and failing to modernize and upgrade what’s left will make her far more vulnerable to attack and virtually guarantee that she will be attacked.

You can be sure that many, many other former military officers and civilian national security officials of the highest rank think exactly the same and so do current, serving people who are unable to express their opinion publicly because they are serving and those who contradict Obama are penalized and suffer the consequences, which aren’t pretty by any means.

What do America’s enemies think?

Does North Korea want Obama to make cuts to America’s nuclear weapons arsenal and not modernize and upgrade what’s left?

Absolutely.

Does Iran want Obama to make cuts to America’s nuclear weapons arsenal and not modernize and upgrade what’s left?

Absolutely.

Does Russia want Obama to make cuts to America’s nuclear weapons arsenal and not modernize and upgrade what’s left?

Absolutely.

Does China want Obama to make cuts to America’s nuclear weapons arsenal and not modernize and upgrade what’s left?

Absolutely.

What about America’s other enemies, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, assorted terrorists, terrorist organizations and terrorist states, the lot, whoever and wherever they may be-do they?

Absolutely.

So why do the North Koreans, the Iranians, the Russians and the Chinese in particular want Obama to make cuts to America’s nuclear arsenal and not modernize and upgrade what’s left even though all four are working very diligently to increase their nuclear weapons capability…why do the North Koreans, the Iranians, the Russians and the Chinese want Obama to make cuts to America’s nuclear weapons arsenal and not modernize and upgrade what’s left, even though they are all rapidly improving and expanding their own capabilities even as this is being written?

Four reasons really…because without the deterrent effect of nuclear weapons it gives them impunity to attack America itself and/or American interests and assets abroad…because it makes it easier to threaten and intimidate America into acting the way they want it to, makes it easier to impose their will on America…because it gives them free rein to impose their will on America’s friends and allies…because they smell blood.

What do America’s friends and allies think about the plans to cut America’s nuclear weapons arsenal and to not modernize and upgrade what’s left?

They are appalled, angry, mortified and frightened and busily working to modernize and upgrade their own defenses.

Americans should also be appalled, angry, mortified and frightened by these cockamamie plans and should do everything they can to make sure they aren’t implemented.

A weak America invites bloodshed, death, destruction and war.

A weak America makes bloodshed, death, destruction and war dead certain..

A weak America makes it dead certain that she will be attacked, that American blood will be shed and that America lives will be lost, at home and abroad.

A weak America makes it dead certain that America’s friends and allies will be attacked too.

The signatories, America’s enemies and America’s friends and allies know all that.

To bad Obama doesn’t know any of it.

Or doesn’t care.

Anyone who examines Islam dispassionately, objectively, knowledgeably and honestly, anyone who examines Islam’s historical record dispassionately, objectively, knowledgeably and honestly, anyone who examines how Islam manifests itself in the world and has always manifested itself in the world, knows that it is far more than a religion…they know that it is a completely proscribed way of life that is full of hatred and intolerance towards unbelievers and their ways, wherever or however they live…they know that it is supremacist and expansionist and seeks to make everyone subject to its dictates, to make everyone practice it and live an Islamic life under Islamic law…they know that freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, hell, freedom of any sort, has no place in it and that freedom disappears wherever it takes root…they know that conquest and submission of unbelievers are at its core and that it is constitutionally incapable of respecting or accepting others, constitutionally incapable of respecting or accepting the other…they know that it is by nature, essence and practice violent, bloody, cruel, misogynistic and dare I say sadistic and brooks no dissent of any kind, or of anything that can remotely be seen as dissent no matter how innocuous or innocent it may be…they know that it spreads by the sword and lives by the sword and has since it first came into existence 1,400 odd years ago…they know that there isn’t a country in the West that isn’t under heavy assault by Islam and Islamists, that Western countries are becoming rapidly Islamized, that Islam and Islamists are changing the face of Western countries and that the Islamization of Western countries, the United States, Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, virtually every Western country there is, is well and truly underway.

And that is why people of stout heart and good conscience who are free and want to remain free in the West have to stand firm against Islam and Islamists, have to stand firm against the hatred, intolerance, violence, cruelty, misogyny, supremacism and expansionism that are inbred in Islam, have to stand firm against the Islamists who would take their freedom away, make them live Islamic lives and turn their nations into Islamic countries governed by Islamic law. If Westerners don’t stand firm and defend and fight for their freedom and way of life, their freedom and way of life will disappear and Islam will reign supreme.

It is as simple as that.

Sound hateful and intolerant does it?

Examine Islam dispassionately, objectively, knowledgeably and honestly, examine Islam’s historical record dispassionately, objectively, knowledgeably and honestly, examine how Islam manifests itself in the world and has always manifested itself in the world dispassionately, objectively, knowledgeably and honestly and you’ll see what hatred and intolerance really are, you’ll see that Westerners cannot tolerate it if they want their freedom and way of life to survive.

So…go out and examine and learn…be appalled…get mad…and fight like mad.

For your own survival.

While you still can.

Two Coptic Christian students from Egypt studying in the United States were beheaded in New Jersey earlier this week by a 28 year old Muslim man named Yusuf Ibrahim…he also cut off their hands in accordance with Islamic Law… “When Allah was revealing to the angels, ”I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so cut above the necks, and cut every finger of them!”-Quran 8:12”

Their bodies were buried behind a home in Buena Vista Township, New Jersey and the heads and hands were buried separately at a different site.

ABC News has reported that the two men were targeted, mutilated and murdered because they were Coptic Christians.

This is consistent with the terrible conditions Coptic Christians live under in Egypt.

Approximately ten percent of Egyptians are Coptic Christians. They have always been the victims of persecution in Egypt because of their unbelievers’ status. Their situation in Egypt has always been egregious, but it is particularly egregious today under the current Islamist government, under Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Under Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood Coptic Christians are routinely beaten, mutilated, raped and murdered…their property and churches are vandalized, burned and destroyed…they are forced to renounce their religion and convert to Islam…all at the behest and instigation of the government, all with the encouragement, support and collusion of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood…all in the name of Islam…all because they are unbelievers’.

Unbelievers’ like you and me.

Hany Tawardros and Amgad Konds, the two Coptic Christians murdered and butchered in New Jersey must have been exceedingly relieved at being able to come to the United States, at being able to escape the terrible conditions Coptic Christians live under in Egypt. Being slaughtered in New Jersey is more than tragic, it is also very ironic because Tawardros and Konds must have thought they would be safe in the U.S.

Little did they know.

Little do most Americans know.

While Islamic beheadings and behandings are virtually unheard of, so far, in the U.S. Islamic violence most certainly is not. It is a large and growing phenomenon in the Islamic community itself and is also spilling over into the wider, non-Islamic population as the Islamic community becomes larger, more prickly, more assertive and more…Islamic. Islam by its very essence and nature, is violent, cruel, misogynist, intolerant, supremacist and expansionist and as its influence and power grow in America the Islamic community is feeling more and more entitled, is becoming more and more emboldened and is becoming less and less hesitant about carrying out Islam’s imperatives, like suppressing unbelievers’ or ignoring the law of the land or establishing the supremacy of Islam and Islamic law or forcing conversions or any number of other things, violently if necessary. To say that Islam and Islamists are a serious threat to freedom, democracy and civil liberties in the United States is no exaggeration…to say that the threat is growing day by day and that Islam and Islamists are changing the character and reality of the country as we speak aren’t exaggerations either. Americans are beginning to wake up to Islam’s reality and the threat it poses to them and the American way of life but the country as a whole remains more or less somnolent.

Perhaps this horrible, disgusting, ghoulish oh so Islamic incident will open peoples eyes.

Beheadings and behandings on American soil in the name of Islam…what a loud and clear wake-up call that is.

God help us all if we don’t hear it.

And act on it.