“As the Obama administration continues its sluggish bombing campaign against the Islamic State, ISIS fighters are waging a war directly on the families of U.S. military soldiers.
Last week Angela Ricketts, the wife of an active duty military officer, received a message through her author page on Facebook. At first she assumed it was an average online troll, but after further investigation discovered the message came from an ISIS account. On the same day she received the threat, four other military wives received something similar.
“I read the message and it was terrifying. It threatened my family, it threatened me, it threatened my husband, it said they knew everything about us and where we were and threatened us with Shariah law,” Ricketts said On The Record Thursday night. “This isn’t the mountains of eastern Afghanistan and Paktika province. This isn’t the desert of Iraq. This is here and this is now. This is a brand new world and how are we going to deal with it now that it’s here and these threats are directed towards us?”
“Islam has no mechanism for excommunication. Individuals can leave the ummah and be regarded as apostates (murtad). But no one who swears he is a Muslim can be excluded.
Even very bad Muslims are still Muslims as long as they haven’t thrice publicly rejected the two testimonies. (The two testimonies are accepting the oneness of God and that Muhammad is His Prophet.) Thus, neither Obama nor anyone else is qualified to decide who is a Muslim — or what is “true Islam.”
Islam does allow believers to part ways with anyone they deem misguided or deviant. At the theological level, this is known as Itizal (seeking solitude). At a more mundane level, we have Bira’ah (self-exoneration). The “violent extremists” charge their foes within Islam of Takfir (covering up the truth).
Yet Muslims aren’t using any of these three mechanisms to denounce the Islamic State or other Islamist terror groups. We’ve seen no Bira’ah marches in any Muslim-majority country, nor organized efforts by Muslim “communities” in the West to “exonerate” themselves from the IS throat-cutters.
If Islamic leaders can bring a million people in the streets of Tehran, Islamabad or Cairo to burn the US flag and Obama effigies, how is it that they do not authorize Bira’ah marches against IS?”
“Congressional Republicans are demanding to know how much the White House influenced the Federal Communications Commission while the agency crafted net neutrality rules.
The FCC has until Monday afternoon to produce unredacted email messages, focused on net neutrality rules, between FCC staff and officials with the Obama administration, U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz said in a letter to the FCC Friday. The Utah Republican is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Chaffetz’s committee is “investigating the potential involvement of the White House” in the creation of proposed net neutrality rules that the FCC is scheduled to vote on next Thursday, he said in the letter. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will propose regulations that would reclassify broadband as a regulated telecommunications service instead of a lightly regulated information service.”
I saw the woman who got the threat on FoxNews (O’Rilley or Kelly , I forgot)
She said others have gotten them. But the threat disappears from the SmartPhones. She saved hers somehow. FBI is looking into it.
The USA that I and my ancestors loved ≠ a cradle to grave welfare state that recognizes no limits on what it can tax, regulate and confiscate. That’s the USA that the Obama administration loves.
That’s nice that Muslims formed a human chain in Oslo chanting “no to anti-Semitism, no to Islamophobia.”
In 2013, members of the Muslim Brotherhood formed a human chain around St. George Church, a Coptic Church, in Sohag, Egypt… then burned it down a few months later when Morsi was ousted.
Tychicus, I’ve seen some posts on the Oslo human chain — good for them, I guess.
But I agree, it’s hard for me to take much solace in the symbolism. It strikes me as overly naive — peace gestures were big in our generation, from putting flowers in guns to teaching the world to “sing” in perfect harmony (Oh, wait, that was a Coke commercial).
The gestures are nice as far as they go, perhaps they reflect and encourage some genuine hope toward understanding and changing course, a desire at least to foster good will.
But the division in the world between good and evil is deep (and very real). A human chain doesn’t automatically change that or even make a dent.
“Oslo synagogue ‘peace ring’ organizer blamed Jews for 9/11
One of organizers of solidarity initiative retracts previous statement espousing anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, but reiterates ‘dislike’ for supporters of Israel.”
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Disturbing to say the least….
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/02/20/isis-continues-to-threaten-military-families-online-n1959912
“As the Obama administration continues its sluggish bombing campaign against the Islamic State, ISIS fighters are waging a war directly on the families of U.S. military soldiers.
Last week Angela Ricketts, the wife of an active duty military officer, received a message through her author page on Facebook. At first she assumed it was an average online troll, but after further investigation discovered the message came from an ISIS account. On the same day she received the threat, four other military wives received something similar.
“I read the message and it was terrifying. It threatened my family, it threatened me, it threatened my husband, it said they knew everything about us and where we were and threatened us with Shariah law,” Ricketts said On The Record Thursday night. “This isn’t the mountains of eastern Afghanistan and Paktika province. This isn’t the desert of Iraq. This is here and this is now. This is a brand new world and how are we going to deal with it now that it’s here and these threats are directed towards us?”
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Obama’s elementary errors on Islam.
http://nypost.com/2015/02/20/obamas-elementary-errors-on-islam/
“Islam has no mechanism for excommunication. Individuals can leave the ummah and be regarded as apostates (murtad). But no one who swears he is a Muslim can be excluded.
Even very bad Muslims are still Muslims as long as they haven’t thrice publicly rejected the two testimonies. (The two testimonies are accepting the oneness of God and that Muhammad is His Prophet.) Thus, neither Obama nor anyone else is qualified to decide who is a Muslim — or what is “true Islam.”
Islam does allow believers to part ways with anyone they deem misguided or deviant. At the theological level, this is known as Itizal (seeking solitude). At a more mundane level, we have Bira’ah (self-exoneration). The “violent extremists” charge their foes within Islam of Takfir (covering up the truth).
Yet Muslims aren’t using any of these three mechanisms to denounce the Islamic State or other Islamist terror groups. We’ve seen no Bira’ah marches in any Muslim-majority country, nor organized efforts by Muslim “communities” in the West to “exonerate” themselves from the IS throat-cutters.
If Islamic leaders can bring a million people in the streets of Tehran, Islamabad or Cairo to burn the US flag and Obama effigies, how is it that they do not authorize Bira’ah marches against IS?”
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Good.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2886968/republican-lawmakers-investigate-white-house-net-neutrality-push.html
“Congressional Republicans are demanding to know how much the White House influenced the Federal Communications Commission while the agency crafted net neutrality rules.
The FCC has until Monday afternoon to produce unredacted email messages, focused on net neutrality rules, between FCC staff and officials with the Obama administration, U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz said in a letter to the FCC Friday. The Utah Republican is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Chaffetz’s committee is “investigating the potential involvement of the White House” in the creation of proposed net neutrality rules that the FCC is scheduled to vote on next Thursday, he said in the letter. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will propose regulations that would reclassify broadband as a regulated telecommunications service instead of a lightly regulated information service.”
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I saw the woman who got the threat on FoxNews (O’Rilley or Kelly , I forgot)
She said others have gotten them. But the threat disappears from the SmartPhones. She saved hers somehow. FBI is looking into it.
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Kerry is the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. He speaks loudly and carries a twig.
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The USA that I and my ancestors loved ≠ a cradle to grave welfare state that recognizes no limits on what it can tax, regulate and confiscate. That’s the USA that the Obama administration loves.
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That’s nice that Muslims formed a human chain in Oslo chanting “no to anti-Semitism, no to Islamophobia.”
In 2013, members of the Muslim Brotherhood formed a human chain around St. George Church, a Coptic Church, in Sohag, Egypt… then burned it down a few months later when Morsi was ousted.
http://mideasti.blogspot.com/2013/08/mb-salafi-attacks-on-churches-across.html?m=1
The lesson learned: When it’s all said and done, photo-ops and symbolism mean very little…
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Tychicus, I’ve seen some posts on the Oslo human chain — good for them, I guess.
But I agree, it’s hard for me to take much solace in the symbolism. It strikes me as overly naive — peace gestures were big in our generation, from putting flowers in guns to teaching the world to “sing” in perfect harmony (Oh, wait, that was a Coke commercial).
The gestures are nice as far as they go, perhaps they reflect and encourage some genuine hope toward understanding and changing course, a desire at least to foster good will.
But the division in the world between good and evil is deep (and very real). A human chain doesn’t automatically change that or even make a dent.
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Yeah….. about that……
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.643633
“Oslo synagogue ‘peace ring’ organizer blamed Jews for 9/11
One of organizers of solidarity initiative retracts previous statement espousing anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, but reiterates ‘dislike’ for supporters of Israel.”
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