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Political Correctness Censorship Shields Islamic Terrorists

The government is more interested in playing political games than protecting you.

the FBI’s failure to look carefully and long enough at Tamerlan-the-terrorist has a lot to do with our leaders’ reluctance to call a terrorist a terrorist or to accept the fact that radical Islamist terrorists exist. The people who do counterterrorism shy away from seeing such terrorists, or potential terrorists, because if they point to such people, several bad things (from the investigators’ and analysts’ standpoint) happen. First, the policy makers aren’t going to do anything; second, the investigators and analysts aren’t going to get promoted, or rewarded with bonuses; third, they may get sued or sent to the bureaucratic equivalent of Siberia.

Benghazi - Lying to Protect Terrorists

There's new evidence, obtained by ABC, that the Obama administration did deliberately purge references to "terrorism" from accounts of the attack on the Benghazi diplomatic mission, which killed four people including the US ambassador to Libya.

This is the first hard evidence that the state department did ask for changes to the CIA's original assessment.

Specifically, they wanted this sentence removed: "We do know that Islamic extremists with ties to al-Qa'ida participated in the attack."


http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-22483768

Revolutions are not made by those who desire them, but -- as Tocqueville notes -- by the stupidity of those who least want them to occur.

The idea that Western societies will lie down in the face of an aggressive Islamist movement that threatens their very civilization is ludicrous. Nationalism is one of the greatest and most enduring ideologies known to humanity. Elites might believe in multiculturalism, but to average persons nationalism identifies who and what they are. Threaten that and you mobilize them. All that is required is the arrival of the charismatic leader, a precipitating catastrophic event, and an elite running to the barricades to provide a fatuous explanation on behalf of the perpetrators while ignoring the victims.

When British Prime Minister David Cameron says that the beheading of a British soldier is an insult to Islam, when the police stand by in Stockholm while Muslim youth burn cars, and when President Barack Obama tells us that the Fort Hood massacre was an example of workplace violence, the inadvertent messages they send is that they are more concerned about protecting Islam than protecting everyone else. And the mixture of silence and euphemism with which a compliant media advances these ideas only reinforces public cynicism.

In each of these actions, the government tarnishes and diminishes its own legitimacy. In doing so, it paves the way for an alternative political narrative, one that will say: the truth is what you are not being told; the truth is what is obvious to you but hidden from the public agenda by corrupt elites who will not protect you from the next act of violence perpetrated by radical Muslims.


http://www.americant...the_offing.html

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The Media Makes Celebrities of Terrorists

The media's coverage is weighed down by its old fetish of murder as celebrity. The media covers murderers and celebrities in the same way. It writes exhaustively about them, but rarely meaningfully. The murderer, like the celebrity, is famous for being famous. And fame clips context and suppresses meaning. It becomes its own reference. A thing is famous for being known. It is known for being famous. It enters the common language as a reference. A metaphor.

In the case of the Tsarnaevs, the surface coverage, the endless rounds of interviews with friends and relatives, with anyone who ever met them or retweeted them, is mandatory because it avoids the more difficult question of why they killed.

Boston Bomber on the cover of Rolling Stone

The cover of Rolling Stone magazine has most often been the domain of musicians, actors, comedians, and the occasional politician. But this week, the periodical has raised eyebrows by letting Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev grace the famous front.


http://www.nypost.co...qhoFt5FQYS7uX5N

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This blood is on the hands of Muslim Brotherhood

With its blundering, fickle, late-in-the-day support for whoever appeared to be gaining the upper hand, the Obama administration has managed the remarkable feat of alienating every faction in Egypt. And it’s a sorry day when an American administration abets religious totalitarianism, as this White House did when the “democratically elected” Morsi regime tried to Islamize Egypt’s government and society for keeps.

There was, indeed, a coup. But not all coups involve tanks. The real coup came after Egypt’s premature, badly flawed election, when Morsi and the Brotherhood excluded all non-Brothers from the political process; curtailed media freedoms and jailed journalists; attacked Christians; and rushed toward an Islamist state that the majority of Egyptians did not want.



http://www.nypost.co...89CVqLiPBzOu6OL

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This blood is on the hands of Muslim Brotherhood

With its blundering, fickle, late-in-the-day support for whoever appeared to be gaining the upper hand, the Obama administration has managed the remarkable feat of alienating every faction in Egypt. And it’s a sorry day when an American administration abets religious totalitarianism, as this White House did when the “democratically elected” Morsi regime tried to Islamize Egypt’s government and society for keeps.

There was, indeed, a coup. But not all coups involve tanks. The real coup came after Egypt’s premature, badly flawed election, when Morsi and the Brotherhood excluded all non-Brothers from the political process; curtailed media freedoms and jailed journalists; attacked Christians; and rushed toward an Islamist state that the majority of Egyptians did not want.



http://www.nypost.co...89CVqLiPBzOu6OL

Come on, here you go again -- linking to the NY Post? If there's a news organization more disreputable than Fox News it has to be the NY Post, but it's the same news organization so I guess they're actually equals.

Only thing worthwhile in the newspaper you seem to actually think is reputable is THIS!

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How hero soldier was fatally shot 12 times as he tried to charge down Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan and end his deadly rampage

Another one of the victims, Private Francheska Velez, was pregnant when she was fatally shot, allegedly by Nidal Hasan
Nidal's attorneys believe he is intentionally trying to sabotage his defense so he'll be given the death penalty and become a martyr





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In the end, no one will be held responsible for Benghazi

An ambassador got killed, as did three other Americans, and as of today the White House hasn’t seen fit to sacrifice even a low-level staffer over it. Either there was something so sensitive happening at the consulate or at the CIA annex that the feds didn’t want to call attention to it by installing a showier security presence or this really was a mind-boggling security vacuum in the heart of Libyan jihadistan despite repeated pleas from Chris Stevens himself to provide more muscle to protect U.S. diplomats. No one’s been fired, no one’s been suspended, no one’s been fined. Mistakes happen. Next.

CNN Video

Jake Tapper usually plays things straight enough as a reporter that it’s hard to detect his feelings about a subject. Not here. Pure incredulity, start to finish.


http://hotair.com/ar...e-for-benghazi/

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Scandinavia’s rising rape figures

aren’t the fault of the police. As everyone without blinders on knows by now, this is a story about failed immigration policies and about Islam, which teaches contempt for infidels – especially unveiled women. As Scandinavia’s Muslim population has risen, so have the rape statistics.

“Sweden now has the second highest number of rapes in the world, after South Africa, which at 53.2 per 100,000 is six times higher than the United States. Statistics now suggest that 1 out of every 4 Swedish women will be raped.” (Another recent study also puts Sweden at #2, but has Lesotho in the #1 spot.)

Over the last seven years, the number of rapes in Sweden has nearly tripled.



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The Muslim Brotherhood’s War on Coptic Christians

The group that “renounced violence” in an effort to gain political power is engaged in a full-scale campaign of terror against Egypt’s Christian minority. Brotherhood leaders have incited their followers to attack Christian homes, shops, schools and churches throughout the country. Samuel Tadros, an Egyptian scholar with the Hudson Institute, told me these attacks are the worst violence against the Coptic Church since the 14th century.

Two security guards working on a tour boat owned by Christians were burned alive. An orphanage was burned down. The Catholic Bishop of Luxor told the Vatican news agency Tuesday that he has been trapped in his home for 20 days by Islamist mobs chanting “Death to the Christians!” “People who reside in the villages of the area that have nothing because food supplies are running out and people are afraid to leave the house,” he said.

http://www.thedailyb...christians.html

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The Muslim Brotherhood’s War on Coptic Christians

The group that “renounced violence” in an effort to gain political power is engaged in a full-scale campaign of terror against Egypt’s Christian minority. Brotherhood leaders have incited their followers to attack Christian homes, shops, schools and churches throughout the country. Samuel Tadros, an Egyptian scholar with the Hudson Institute, told me these attacks are the worst violence against the Coptic Church since the 14th century.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Jimmy Carter: Muslim Brotherhood nothing to fear

Former President Jimmy Carter told an Austin audience Tuesday evening that he expects Egypt to hold elections in September and that he doesn’t worry about the Muslim Brotherhood wielding inordinate influence.

“I’ve known members of the Muslim Brotherhood,” he told an audience at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library. “They’re not anything to be afraid of.”

The 39th president and Nobel Prize winner said he believes the Muslim Brotherhood is likely to form a political party, but polls suggest their support is only about 15 percent. “There’s no possibility at all that they would prevail,” he said. He said he expects to see “a secular, non-religious government.”


http://blog.chron.co...othing-to-fear/

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The president has painted himself into a corner

then-Senator Obama stated to the Boston Globe:

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

Joe Biden:

It is precisely because the consequences of war - intended or otherwise - can be so profound and complicated that our Founding Fathers vested in Congress, not the President, the power to initiate war, except to repel an imminent attack on the United States or its citizens. They reasoned that requiring the President to come to Congress first would slow things down... allow for more careful decision making before sending Americans to fight and die... and ensure broader public support.

The Founding Fathers were, as in most things, profoundly right. That's why I want to be very clear: if the President takes us to war with Iran without Congressional approval, I will call for his impeachment.



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