What’s news today?
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The unhealthy alliance between the Obama admin and Muslim radicals continues to drive policy.
Fox, hen house
From Breitbart
“Over the last several years, the presence of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) operatives working inside the federal government advising our senior leaders has been definitively documented (see articles here , here and here). This penetration of our system is shocking and constitutes an immediate danger for American citizens. The success of the MB’s influence operation from within our government is now manifesting itself with national and global implications for the security of America and its citizens.”
“How was Imam Magid vetted to speak at CIA Headquarters? And who vetted him?
The ADAMS Center is a Muslim Brotherhood front organization. It was founded by some of the most senior Muslim Brothers in the United States, to include Ahmed Totanji, who still resides in Herndon, Virginia. Its website proclaims “[ADAMS] is a membership organization registered in the State of Virginia as a non-profit, tax exempt corporation and is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).”
Imam Magid is the Executive Director of the ADAMS Center. He is also the President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the largest Muslim Brotherhood organization in the U.S. which was found to be a financial support entity for Hamas in the largest terrorism financing and Hamas trial in U.S. history (US v Holy Land Foundation, Dallas, 2008). Having Magid advise and teach U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials can only be aptly described as insane. According to officials at Langley who were willing to speak on the condition of anonymity, this is an outrage – but none of the leaders on the inside seem to understand the gravity of this threat. To say the fox is in the hen house would be an understatement.”
And that’s not all.
From TheBlaze
“Is the man the Obama administration appointed on October 4 as key investigator for the terror attacks in Benghazi an Islamist-sympathizer? According to recently published reports, the new chairman of a State Department’s “Accountability Review Board,” which is heading the federal investigation into the Benghazi terror attacks, has been accused of being an “apologist for Islamic terrorism who has a cozy relationship with Iran.”
What’s more, the man in question — former Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering — has documented ties with the controversial group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR, of course, is a documented Muslim Brotherhood affiliate and was named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation trial — the largest terror-funding trial in U.S. history.
To make matters worse, Pickering is also co-chairman of the board of George Soros’ International Crisis Group who has ties to other Islamic organizations as well, including the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), which has been described as pro-Iran “front group.”
And yes, there’s more. Much more.
This has a very comprehensive listing of the ties, with lots of links.
“A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials.”
“Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations.
The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor log entries. IPT compared the visitors’ names with lists of known radical Islamists.”
And now it’s easy to see the reason Obama’s MidEast policy seems to favor radicals over Israel.
Oh, and not weeks, not days, but 2 hours. That’s how long it took for the Obama admin to know it was a terrorist attack in Benghazi. Just further proof they lied. 300-400 people in the admin received the email, including the WH.
From Reuters
“Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.”
Wandering Views 
A real danger is that if/when elected, Romney will not clean out the fifth columnists among us.
I just searched my list of books read since I came here, but couldn’t find it, is a book detailing how G.W. Bush left lots of Clinton appointees in strategic positions in government.
That’s one of the things presently wrong, Bush didn’t houseclean.
Here’s hoping Romney will do it.
If Obama gets reelected, it’s over.
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Tom Pickering was appointed Ambassador by both Republican and Democratic Administrations. He led the organization in the UN for the first gulf war as George HW’s Ambassador to the UN. He was appointed Ambassador to Israel by President Reagan. But the Blaze, Breitbart and the other crap producing news outlets wouldn’t care about that. Oh no, not when they can smear a person with innuendo and besmirch a person’s reputation. This is foul and putrid stuff.
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And another thing from the excrement filled pieces on Pickering, there is again the often heard right wing slam on the State Department. Good to see them returning to form after a false bout of sympathy for people who work in the field and do risk their lives carrying out US policy. Sorry to see you going along with that Chas.
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OK CB,
Suppose I give you Pickering, what about all the rest? And you can get mad all you want, but a more useful way to make your point would be to explain how all his relationships with radical groups aren’t an issue. But instead, you attack the messengers. Not surprising, but not gonna work either.
This is the same tactic always used when people don’t want to address the real issue. It’s tired and old. How about you tell us why all these ties to radical groups and radical people in the Obama admin are really no big deal? Defend them, show where this stuff is wrong. Attacking the messengers, again I might add, is not making your point. I kinda wish I was wrong, and that these radicals are nothing to fear. But you never make that case.
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Chas, It was over the day Reagan picked Big Bush as his VP. Reagan gave us an 8 year Indian Summer of American Greatness. It has been all downhill ever since.
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AJ
Suppose you tell me what you know about the International Crisis Group aside from the Soros funding? Any idea what they do? No? Suppose you tell me why it was ok for President Bush’s people to have contact with CAIR and ISNA and now things are different? It was the Bush Administration that decided not to indict CAIR, why? I really don’t know. I do know that on the internet the groups that call into question Thomas Pickering and Huma Abedeen all come from the same trough.
And now AJ, you are asking me to prove a negative, which as you know is almost impossible to do which is why Breitbart’s smear tactics work so well.
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AJ
I’ll use Breitbart’s same tactic in explaining their motives for publishing — attacking the messenger in Tom Pickering and slamming state as a hot bed of muslim sympathizers will allow Breitbart to flay whatever report comes out of the investigation and keep this issue alive and as something you should be angry about for years. Creates alot of hits for their website. Now, prove that my interpretation is wrong.
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The reason the US is now dealing with Muslim radicals is that Little Bush and the Neocons thought Arab democracy was a great idea. Obama simply followed down that same path. Guess who wins elections in Arab countries? Muslim radicals! Surprise! Surprise!
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Ricky
That is what the freedom agenda was all about. And we could see how it could go when hamas beat fatah. There are tremendous downsides, but in the long run I continue to think the freedom agenda is the right way to go. A Romney win willl not change the policy. I noted his comment that more needed to be done to support civil society in places like Egypt and that is the core of the freedom agenda.
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CB,
Yes Bush talked to them as well. But Obama isn’t just talking is he? No, he has allowed them to hold positions of power. Hillary’s right hand woman and her questionable ties is a perfect example. Did Bush allow these groups to change and help write FBI and CIA training materials? No, but Obama did. Did Bush allow them to sucessfully implement their stated “infiltration jihad”? No, but Obama has.
Did Bush allow them unfettered access to himself and numerous other’s, repeatedly I might add, to his staff and himself? No he didn’t, but Obama has.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/david-meir-levi/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/
Also,
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/live_presser_today_andrew_
mccarthy_on_muslim_
brotherhood_infiltration_and_the_grand_jihad.html
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I found a good post on the Presidential Prayer Team website about what was left unsaid in the debates. Here is the link:
http://www.presidentialprayerteam.com/opinion
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There you go again, Aj. Several Republicans ha e come to the defense of Abadein. And the articles you cite, just like the ones on Pickering have this insidious implication. These articles are barely more sophisticated then a headline telling you to fear all muslims because they are all your enemy. The underlying moral value in these articles are the antithesis of Jesus’ message.
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Would you rather be ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood or Bill Maher?
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CB,
I get the impression you’re not reading many of these links. I could be wrong, but I don’t know. I don’t see how this stuff is no big deal, especially given Obama’s willingness to pander to them.
And I get the idea of speaking with moderate, if there is such a thing, Islamists. But as has already been pointed out by others,
‘Islamic Democracy’ Does Not Make Statesmen out of Terrorists … or Politics out of Jihad
http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/01/islamic-democracy/?singlepage=true
“The Obama administration will not explain how it came to issue a visa to Hani Nour Eldin, a known member of the Egyptian terrorist organization Ga’amat al-Islamia, the Islamic Group (IG). The explanation is not forthcoming because what it portends is even more sinister than this one infuriating incident.
To call the IG a “terrorist organization” is not just purple prose. The IG is a terrorist organization that has carried out actual mass-murder attacks. There is a formal legal process under which such groups are “designated” as terrorist organizations. The IG has long been formally designated under that process. Once that process has occurred, any American citizen who tries to provide material support to members of a designated terrorist organization — i.e., any American citizen who tried to do what the Obama administration has done for Eldin — would be in jeopardy of being convicted of a serious federal felony worth upwards of 15 years’ imprisonment.”
“And Hani Nour Eldin is, indisputably, a member of the IG — we are not speculating here. Eldin is quite proud of his membership. He has been unabashed about it. The Obama administration, moreover, does not even attempt either to deny that Eldin is an IG member or to suggest that the issuance of a visa to him — to say nothing of the subsequent meetings he was invited to have with top American national security officials — was the result of some misunderstanding or monumental screw-up. Eldin was very intentionally brought to Washington. Despite the fact that the leader of his organization — the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar Abdel Rahman — is responsible for massive terrorist attacks against American civilians, Eldin was hosted here as if he were a politician rather than a terrorist.
So what does the administration tell us about how this could have happened — how it could be that hordes of American citizens, as to whom there is not the slightest suspicion of terrorist sympathies, are forced by the Department of Homeland Security to undergo an appallingly intrusive physical search just to board an airplane, yet a known member of a designated terrorist organization is intentionally invited to board a plane so he can enter our country, be admitted into highly secure government buildings –like the White House — where top national security officials work, and be consulted as if he were a foreign dignitary rather than a jihadist?”
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CB,
The only thing insidious are these people and their ties. I could care less if some R’s support them.
As for moral value? Please. I read news stories for facts and info, not morals. I have a Bible for moral values and lessons if I’m looking for info on those.
Islam is the antithesis of Christian teachings. The way it treats it’s women and children are reprehensible. The way they treat their neighbors, even if muslim, is barbaric. The way they treat unbelievers to their false religon is as well. Same goes for their treatment of Israel. You can defend these barbarians if you like, and give them and what they say and do a value they’re undeserving of, but I will not.
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Sometimes this makes me so tired. I am often interested in a look into how the other side views the world…but it seems so pointless to endlessly argue…
Some people just won’t get it…
CB – just so we are clear, Jesus’ message was(in part), that He is THE way to heaven, not A way. He would certainly want us to witness to Muslims…but as they want to kill those who do that, I would say that makes them somewhat of an enemy. Additionally, we are not to be accepting of those who come bearing false gospel…
Here comes the” but that is not ALL Muslims” argument…
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My question is, what would it look like if we were trying to figure out how to manage government relationships with countries that are heavily Muslim-run?
CB has a point. Perhaps all these administrations have been trying to find diplomatic ways to deal with increasingly erratic regimes whose experience with Democracy has not been positive.
No one wants to go to war, no one likes to have to keep their military on alert all the time. So, how would you be handling these challenging despots?
It’s not enough to throw stones, we need the diplomatic corps to smooth the way.
I suspect it’s always been so, but we were not privy to back door, smoke-filled rooms before. Now there are no secrets, which ha s to make a difficult task even worse.
I’m now applauding the current administration–remember, the hostages were only released by Iran when the Carter administration warned their negotiating partners it would be worse with Reagan. I think we need creativity, tact, wisdom and God’s mercy.
Which is not to say I approve of potential quoins in the government, but where else are you oing to find people who speak the language and understand the mindset?
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CB, the truth about Pickering is that he headed the Soros backed International Group that has backed the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.. Do you have any hard evidence to the contrary.
Simply saying that Breitbart and Blaze are full of “crap” is hardly a rational argument.
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IPad typing, grrr.
Now= not
quoins=quislings
Oing=going
Sigh, I’m going to go walk my dog.
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Sails
You have no hard evidence on the International crisis group. Baseless accusation is what yyou have and like Aj are asking me to prove a negative. Great but flawed debating technique.
Aj,
So that love your enemies and do goood to those who persecute you stuff in the NT was nonsense? Right, I forgot, Jesus central message was to be a christian soldier which must mean killing your enemies. No?
Michele
What we need to be able to do is help countries move into modernity. Romney notes support for civil society and Obama the need to stop discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities in the newly democratic countries. I think both of them are right and that it will take long, determined diplomacy and that there will be setbacks.
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Wow CB,
I think you read way more into my comments than was really there. Killing them? REALLY?
Throwing them out of positions of power and not allowing them undue influence is not even close to that. I think maybe you’ve confused me with the muslims. I don’t know any Christians who advocate that killing them is acceptable, unless our military is engaging them in war.
And loving your enemies means you pray for them, and you show them the love of Christ, and yes, help them when you are able. It doesn’t mean you submit to them and their ungodly ways. Love and submission are not the same, at least not in this case.
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Janice,
I liked that piece from Mr. Ray.
Thanks for posting it.
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Meanwhile, in other news….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/suspect-in-shooting-at-family-research-council-indicted-on-terrorism-charge/2012/10/24/ab195792-1e09-11e2-b647-bb1668e64058_blog.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
“The man, who authorities say shot an unarmed security guard while trying to get inside the conservative Family Research Council in August, has been indicted on new charges, including committing an act of terrorism, according to D.C.’s U.S. attorney’s office.
Prosecutors said the superceding grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday against Floyd Lee Corkins II is the first time a suspect has been charged under the District’s Anti-Terrorism Act of 2002. Corkins could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison on that charge alone.”
And this, another state has told the UN affiliated OCSE what it thinks of their poll watching. From Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
https://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagnews/release.php?id=4195
“Dear Ambassador Everts:
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will reportedly dispatch election observers to the State of Texas to monitor the November 2012 general election. While it remains unclear exactly what your monitoring is intended to achieve, or precisely what tactics you will use to achieve the proposed monitoring, OSCE has stated publicly that it will visit polling stations on Election Day as part of its monitoring plan.
In April, you reportedly met with a group of organizations that have filed lawsuits challenging election integrity laws enacted by the Texas Legislature. One of those organizations, Project Vote, is closely affiliated with ACORN, which collapsed in disgrace after its role in a widespread voter-registration fraud scheme was uncovered. In September, a federal appeals court rejected Project Vote’s challenge to the State’s voter-registration regulations and allowed Texas to continue enforcing laws that were enacted to protect the integrity of the voter-registration process.
According to a letter that Project Vote and other organizations sent to you, OSCE has identified Voter ID laws as a barrier to the right to vote. That letter urged OSCE to monitor states that have taken steps to protect ballot integrity by enacting Voter ID laws. The OSCE may be entitled to its opinions about Voter ID laws, but your opinion is legally irrelevant in the United States, where the Supreme Court has already determined that Voter ID laws are constitutional.”
And also this,
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/politics-elections/263883-gop-threatens-subpoenas-in-probe-of-health-laws-pr-campaigns
“House Republicans on Wednesday threatened to subpoena the Obama administration over public-relations contracts to promote President Obama’s healthcare law.
It’s the third healthcare-related subpoena threat in two weeks. This one came from Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee, who said they haven’t received a response to their inquiries about public-relations contracts.
The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has signed at least 2 PR contracts to promote the president’s landmark Affordable Care Act. HHS signed a $20-million deal to raise awareness of new coverage for preventive services, and a separate $3-million contract is focused on the federally run insurance exchange, which will begin operating in 2014.”
Claims of Executive Privilege! in 3….2….1…..
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Aj
Sorry, guess I sensationalized your response with an unfair inference …
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That’s OK CB,
I love ya’ anyway.
🙂
And as I told you before, even though we don’t agree sometimes, I still value and listen to what you have to say. I learn more sometimes from those I disagree with, than those I do agree with. You have the right to your opinion, as I do mine. That’s how it’s supposed to work.
🙂
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This is on Drudge:
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
October 25, 2012 12:56 pm
The Washington Free Beacon has obtained a report soon to be released by the United Nations that calls for an international campaign of legal attacks and economic warfare on a group of American companies that do business in Israel, including Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar Inc., and Motorola Solutions Inc.
The Human Rights Council (HRC), a body dominated by Islamic countries and known for its hostility to, and heavy focus on, the Jewish State, issued the report. The George W. Bush administration refused to participate in the HRC, but President Barack Obama joined it soon after taking office, .Members of the HRC include infamous human rights abusers such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Libya, China, and Cuba.
http://freebeacon.com/u-n-human-rights-council-calls-for-boycott-of-u-s-companies/
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Here is something from Herman Cain if anyone is interested:
http://www.caintv.com/Presidentwhoknowsheslosingstep-625
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Chas,
The FrontPageMag link I left above deals with that as well.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/david-meir-levi/jihadist-infiltration-they-are-winning/
“Less obvious, but no less perilous, is the quiet, gradual and peaceful infiltration of Muslim operatives and their supporters into our social, legal, educational and political systems under the guise of legitimate democratic activism in the form of the Divestment movement, the BDS movement, the “One-State Solution” proponents, lawyers implementing “Lawfare,” those who seek to legitimize Sharia law, and a host of socio-political organizations including “Jewish Voice for Peace” and other “Peace and Justice for Palestine” groups.
The Divestment movement, which sought to pressure institutions (mostly churches and universities) to divest their retirement funds from companies doing business with or in Israel, began more than twenty years ago and soon became a nation-wide phenomenon gaining support and followers in churches, on campuses, and in a variety of other institutions holding substantial retirement funds. While few assets were actually divested, the real purpose of the movement was achieved: create a new podium from which to demonize Israel and by means of which to grab public attention and mainstream media coverage. Over time interest in divestment waned, and presenters found themselves preaching to the choir. So the movement morphed into” BDS,” boycotts, divestment, sanctions. By including calls for boycott and sanctions, the proponents of this movement created a wider panoply of audiences, since boycotts and sanctions do not need investment funds that can be divested. And as was the case with the divestment movement, the BDS movement cut a swath through college campuses enjoying large audiences on accommodating campuses with little opposition. Later, as audience interest diminished and presenters found themselves again preaching to the choir, the forces waging the campus war against Israel re-organized to create the newest front, the “One-State Solution” movement. Starting at the top, “One-State Solution” conferences were recently held at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard University, schools of international repute whose status lent credence and legitimacy to this new venue for Israel-bashing. None of this could have happened were there not already on campuses a cadre of willing enablers, student and faculty activists and complicit or complacent administrative leadership, who energetically support these anti-Israel and anti-Jewish efforts.”
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Lawfare against Israel is a real international problem and its important that the US stand firm and oppose efforts to delegitimize Israel. Personally I can see the Bush admin view of not goign to the HRC and the Obama admin view of going and putting on record US objections and preventing international consensus. Both approaches have positives and negatives.
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