For a religion that does not welcome other religious viewpoints and has no boundaries between Church and State, Islam is a threat to America and all Americans …

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Muslims in America: A Clear and Present Danger to Democracy Posted: 01 Apr 2014 07:23 PM PDT For a religion that does not welcome other religious viewpoints and has no boundaries between Church and State, Islam is a threat to America and all Americans … Announcing the formation of the US Council of Muslim Organizations Eight* major national American Muslim organizations held a news conference today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to announce the formation of the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella group that will serve as a representative voice for Muslims as that faith community seeks to enhance its positive impact on society. The new national council's first priority will be to build on Muslim citizenship rights by conducting a census of American Muslims to create a database that will be used to enhance civic and political participation in upcoming elections. Other priorities were also considered by the new Council to empower the American Muslim community, amplify its voice, and unify its efforts. * The founding members of the US Council of Muslim Organizations are: Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Circle of North American (ICNA) Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) The Mosque Cares (Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed) American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA) Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA). Other organizations immediately joined the US Council include: American Muslim Alliance (AMA) and The Mosque Foundation (Chicago) This has been characterized by reputable media sources as an outreach of the radical Muslim Brotherhood and an attempt to build a political force in America. Complete with massive donations looking to purchase political power from corrupt politicians. Especially those located in and around major Muslim population centers. Using our own laws against us … There is little doubt in my mind that those who pursue jihad, overtly or covertly, are using our laws against us. One, to shelter their activities from criticism by manipulating the progressive mainstream media into carrying their anti-Islamaphobe campaign and labeling people as bigots, haters, deniers, and ‘phobes of one sort of another. Two, to collect funds using our tax-exempt policy for political and social foundations and other charitable works. This can be amply demonstrated by the FBI’s prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation. In the year 2000, HLF raised over $13 million. According to the United States Department of Treasury, HLF supported Hamas activities through direct fund transfers to its offices in the West Bank and Gaza that are affiliated with Hamas, and transfers of funds to Islamic charity committees ("zakat committees") and other charitable organizations that are part of Hamas or controlled by Hamas members. The Department of Treasury also reported that HLF funds were used by Hamas to support schools that served Hamas's ends by encouraging children to become suicide bombers and to recruit suicide bombers by offering support to their families. <Source> And three, to subvert corrupt U.S. politicians who are willing to take money from any source. About some of the players from Investor’s Business Daily … Muslim Brotherhood Launches Own U.S. Political Party Front and center is the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, the catalyst behind this Trojan horse jihadist political party. CAIR is linked in federal criminal court documents to the terrorist group Hamas, the Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. CAIR's chief Awad, who announced the USCMO at the National Press Club, is so radioactive, the FBI refuses to do outreach with him and his so-called Muslim-rights group until it can "resolve whether there continues to be a connection between its executives and Hamas." Equally troubling is the Muslim American Society, another founding member of the USCMO. MAS was formed as "the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States," a 2007 Justice Department court filing states. A 2011 MAS press release praised Osama bin Laden as "a visionary who believed in an Islamic state in Afghanistan." The list of bad actors doesn't end there. The chairman of America's new Islamist party is none other than Oussama Jammal, who once headed the notorious Bridgeview Mosque in Chicago. One of that mosque's leaders was arrested and jailed for funneling millions to Hamas. And one of its most honored guests was bin Laden's spiritual mentor, the late Palestinian cleric Abdullah Azzam. Some of Azzam's relatives are Bridgeview members. "The walls were covered with Hamas posters and recruiting literature showing masked gunmen brandishing automatic weapons. . . . You could see daggers plunged into Jewish hearts wrapped up in American flags," said Steve Emerson, describing the mosque in his book "American Jihad." "They even had a library filled with terrorist videos." As Bridgeview's president, Jammal blasted the FBI for arresting terrorist members and even expressed doubts that al-Qaida was responsible for 9/11. Not to worry. As head of the USCMO, he'll see to it that the council places "premium" importance "on defining the common good based on the Quran and the model of the prophet (Muhammad), and coordinating institutions to implement that common good in American society." Jammal and his equally checkered Brothers have a 30-point "policy platform" for "promoting Islam's core universal principles to benefit American society" — none of which includes combating radicalism within the Muslim community. Can any Muslim join USCMO? Nope. First you must fill out a four-page application and pass Brotherhood inspection. Then you have to cough up $1,000 a year — $3,500 if you want a voting membership. Source: Muslim Brotherhood Launches Own Political Party In America - Investors.com Tolerance? Saudi Arabia declares all atheists are terrorists in new law to crack down on political dissidents Saudi King Abdullah, whose royal decrees have declared atheists and political dissidents as "terrorists" no different from violent militant groups. Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. In a string of royal decrees and an overarching new piece of legislation to deal with terrorism generally, the Saudi King Abdullah has clamped down on all forms of political dissent and protests that could "harm public order.” Yet last month further regulations were issued by the Saudi interior ministry, identifying a broad list of groups which the government considers to be terrorist organisations - including the Muslim Brotherhood. Article one of the new provisions defines terrorism as "calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based." "These regulations dash any hope that King Abdullah intends to open a space for peaceful dissent or independent groups," Mr Stork said. The organisation said the new "terrorism" provisions contain language that prosecutors and judges are already using to prosecute and convict independent activists and peaceful dissidents. <Source> Bottom line … It is about time that we took a closer look at some of these fundamental Muslim groups in America, in particular those funded with Saudi money and teach virulent Whabbism, and those allied with the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. And as a start, we might want to purge the progressive socialist democrats – especially those who belong to the Congressional Black Caucus and have Muslim sympathies – before they sell America out to our enemies, both foreign and domestic in return for a few campaign dollars and voter support. -- steve Related articles A Message From Our Muslim Enemies: Please Don't Hate Us, Surveil Us or Interfere With Us As We Subvert Your Nation From Within Obama Administration: Free Pass for Islamic Radicalism in the United States? American Islamist Coalition Launches With Empty Rhetoric American Islamist Coalition Launches with Empty Rhetoric A detailed look at 'the purge' of U.S. counter-terrorism training by the Obama administration Muslim-Americans form umbrella group Newly Formed Muslim (Brotherhood) Coalition Seeks Greater Clout in U.S. Elections Major Muslim Groups Launch New Council at D.C. News Conference CAIR Officials: Muslims Shouldn't Serve in U.S. Military

Another Obama Lie: More than 7 Million enrollees in Obamacare? Posted: 01 Apr 2014 04:51 PM PDT Can you believe anything the White House says? They lied about employment statistics prior to the election They lied about Benghazi when four Americans died They lied about the IRS scandal And they certainly lied when they told you that you could keep your doctor and healthcare plans if you wanted to – PERIOD! These are not lies by some low-level functionary, they are lies knowingly put forth to the public by the President of the United States, Barack Obama. So can you trust Obama and his minions when they tell you about enrollments? More Than 7 Million Americans Have Enrolled in Private Health Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act Today, the White House announced that more than 7 million Americans signed up for affordable care through the Health Insurance Marketplace during the Affordable Care Act's open enrollment, which ended on March 31. The number, announced during Press Secretary Jay Carney's briefing, means that millions of Americans across the country now have access to quality, affordable care. And as numbers continue to come in from states that run their own Marketplaces, that number will continue to rise. Later today, President Obama will deliver a statement on the Affordable Care Act in the Rose Garden -- you can watch on WhiteHouse.gov/Live at 4:15 p.m. ET. Though HealthCare.gov got off to a rocky start in October, the open enrollment period ended with soaring interest -- including a record-breaking 4.8 million visits to HealthCare.gov, and around 2 million calls to CMS call centers. Throughout this weekend, Americans across the country were literally lined up around the block at local enrollment centers. It's important to remember that 7 million represents only part of the total number of people who have received coverage under the Affordable Care Act: millions more have been covered by state Medicaid expansions, and around 3 million Americans under 26 are now covered under their parents' plans. Source: More Than 7 Million Americans Have Enrolled in Private Health Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act | The White House Bottom line … Sad to say, you cannot trust the President of the United States, Barack Obama, or his cadre of progressive socialist democrats to tell you the truth about anything connected with politics. In this particular case, what the President is NOT saying is more important than what he is saying … Total sign-ups means absolutely nothing unless the process was completed, insurance issued, and the premium was paid and acknowledged by the insurer. Signing up unhealthy individuals or those who are heavily subsidized will not provide the funding needed to keep the Affordable Care Act afloat without major increases in premiums, deductibles, and taxpayer funds. Many of the rules and regulations governing the Affordable Care Act have yet to be written so we still do not know what is in it, in spite of Nancy Pelosi telling Congress that you have to pass the legislation to find out what is in it. So much money is being wasted on insurer guarantees, fixes and patches to a broken system, and other administrative functions that the actual provision of healthcare will be suffering in the future. There is no leadership in sight and those who purport to be the leaders are hyperpartisan progressive socialist democrats who are inept, incompetent, lack subject-matter knowledge, and cannot exhibit  any form of leadership. We are so screwed. Something to remember when you think about voting for another progressive socialist democrat in the upcoming election. -- steve

the loving God who has blessed this land and thus made us a good and caring people should never have been expelled from America's classrooms.

One more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving God who has blessed this land and thus made us a good and caring people should never have been expelled from America's classrooms.

RONALD REAGAN

9/20/1983

Putin runs rings around Obama's foreign policy... SM1 Asks, "What ^%#}>*#} Foreign Policy?"

“The United States does not view Europe as a battleground between East and West, nor do we see the situation in Ukraine as a zero-sum game. That’s the kind of thinking that should have ended with the Cold War.”

— Barack Obama, March 24

Should. Lovely sentiment. As lovely as what Obama said five years ago to the United Nations: “No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.”

That’s the kind of sentiment you expect from a Miss America contestant asked to name her fondest wish, not from the leader of the free world explaining his foreign policy.

The East Europeans know they inhabit the battleground between the West and a Russia that wants to return them to its sphere of influence. Ukrainians see tens of thousands of Russian troops across their border and know they are looking down the barrel of quite a zero-sum game.

Obama thinks otherwise. He says that Vladimir Putin’s kind of neo-imperialist thinking is a relic of the past — and advises Putin to transcend the Cold War.

Good God. Putin hasn’t transcended the Russian revolution. Did no one give Obama a copy of Putin’s speech last week upon the annexation of Crimea? Putin railed not only at Russia’s loss of empire in the 1990s. He went back to the 1920s: “After the revolution, the Bolsheviks ... may God judge them, added large sections of the historical South of Russia to the Republic of Ukraine.” Putin was referring not to Crimea (which came two sentences later) but to his next potential target: Kharkiv and Donetsk and the rest of southeastern Ukraine.

Putin’s irredentist grievances go very deep. Obama seems unable to fathom them. Asked whether he’d misjudged Russia, whether it really is our greatest geopolitical foe, he disdainfully replied that Russia is nothing but “a regional power” acting “out of weakness.”

Where does one begin? Hitler’s Germany and Tojo’s Japan were also regional powers, yet managed to leave behind at least 50 million dead. And yes, Russia should be no match for the American superpower. Yet under this president, Russia has run rings around America, from the attempted ingratiation of the “reset” to America’s empty threats of “consequences” were Russia to annex Crimea.

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Annex Crimea it did. For which the “consequences” have been risible. Numberless 19th- and 20th-century European soldiers died for Crimea. Putin conquered it in a swift and stealthy campaign that took three weeks and cost his forces not a sprained ankle. That’s “weakness”?

Indeed, Obama’s dismissal of Russia as a regional power makes his own leadership of the one superpower all the more embarrassing. For seven decades since the Japanese surrender, our role under 11 presidents had been as offshore balancer protecting smaller allies from potential regional hegemons.

What are the allies thinking now? Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and other Pacific Rim friends are wondering where this America will be as China expands its reach and claims. The Gulf states are near panic as they see America playacting nuclear negotiations with Iran that, at best, will leave their mortal Shiite enemy just weeks away from the bomb.

America never sought the role that history gave it after World War II to bear unbidden burdens “to assure the survival and the success of liberty,” as movingly described by John Kennedy. We have an appropriate aversion to the stark fact that the alternative to U.S. leadership is either global chaos or dominance by the likes of China, Russia and Iran.

But Obama doesn’t even seem to recognize this truth. In his major Brussels address Wednesday, the very day Russia seized the last Ukrainian naval vessel in Crimea, Obama made vague references to further measures should Russia march deeper into Ukraine, while still emphasizing the centrality of international law, international norms and international institutions like the United Nations.

Such fanciful thinking will leave our allies with two choices: bend a knee — or arm to the teeth. Either acquiesce to the regional bully or gird your loins, i.e., go nuclear. As surely will the Gulf states. As will, in time, Japan and South Korea.

Even Ukrainians are expressing regret at having given up their nukes in return for paper guarantees of territorial integrity. The 1994 Budapest Memorandum was ahead of its time — the perfect example of the kind of advanced 21st-century thinking so cherished by our president. Perhaps the captain of that last Ukrainian vessel should have waved the document at the Russian fleet that took his ship.

Charles Krauthammer is a syndicated columnist

During the Civil War, on MARCH 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer:

 

American Minute with Bill Federer MAR. 30- 'We have forgotten God'- Abraham Lincoln During the Civil War, on MARCH 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer: "Whereas, the Senate of the United States devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of nations,  has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for national prayer and humiliation; and Whereas, it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow  yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history: that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord; And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisement in this world,  may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?  We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity.  We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.  But we have forgotten God.  We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us;  and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.  Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness. Now, therefore, in compliance with the request and fully concurring in the view of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer.  And I do hereby request all the people to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion. All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the nation will be heard on high and answered with blessing no less than the pardon of our national sins and the restoration of our now divided and suffering country to its former happy condition of unity and peace. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of March, A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. Abraham Lincoln. By the President: William H. Seward, Secretary of State." Lincoln's National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer was observed April 30, 1863.  Two days later, a freak accident occurred which changed the course of the war - one of the South's best generals was accidentally shot by his own men. Get the book, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations Lt. General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was considered one of the greatest tactical commanders in history.  He refused to let his men give ground at the First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861), standing there "like a stonewall." Often outnumbered 7 to 3, Jackson successfully fought the Shenandoah Valley Campaign: Battles of McDowell (May 8, 1862),  Front Royal (May 23, 1862),  Winchester (May 25, 1862), and  Port Republic (June 9, 1862); and  Seven Days Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862),  Second Battle of Bull Run (August 28-30, 1862),  Antietam (September 17, 1862),  Fredericksburg (December 11-15, 1862) and  Chancellorsville (April 30-May 2, 1863). On May 2, 1863, after successfully attacking the Union flank in the Battle of Chancellorville, Jackson surveyed the field and returned to camp at twilight.  Suddenly, one of his own men shouted, "Halt, who goes there," and without waiting for a reply, a volley of shots were fired.  Two bullets hit General Jackson's left arm and one hit his right hand.  Several men accompanying him were killed, in addition to many horses.  In the confusion that followed, Jackson was dropped from his stretcher while being evacuated. His left arm had to be amputated.  General Robert E. Lee wrote to Jackson: "Could I have directed events, I would have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead."  General Lee sent the message through Chaplain B.T. Lacy: "He has lost his left arm but I my right... Tell him that I wrestled in prayer for him last night...as I never prayed for myself." Jackson injuries resulted in him contracting pneumonia. Growing weaker, Jackson said, May 10, 1863: "It is the Lord's Day; my wish is fulfilled. I have always desired to die on Sunday." A few moments before he died, as he was losing consciousness, he said: "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."  Civil War historians hold the opinion that had General Stonewall Jackson been alive and commanded two months later at the Battle of Gettysburg, the South may have won the battle, and possibly the war. Jackson's death was difficult to reconcile, as he was exemplary in faith and virtue. Loyal to Virginia, he was against slavery and freed the slaves he inherited from his wife's estate.  Beginning in 1855, Jackson participated in civil disobedience every Sunday by teaching a Colored Sunday School class at the Lexington Presbyterian Church. Though a Virginia law forbade teaching slaves to read, Jackson taught both slaves and free blacks, adults and children, to read the Bible. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated, September 17, 1937: "I came into the world 17 years after the close of the war between the States... Today...there are still many among us who can remember it... It serves us little to discuss again the rights and the wrongs of the long 4-years' war...  We can but wish that the war had never been. We can and we do revere the memory of the brave men who fought on both sides...  But we know today that it was best...for the generations of Americans who have come after them, that the conflict did not end in a division of our land into two nations.  I like to think that it was the will of God that we remain one people." At the Confederate Memorial in Arlington Cemetery, President Coolidge said, May 25, 1924: "It was Lincoln who pointed out that both sides prayed to the same God.  When that is the case, it is only a matter of time when each will seek a common end.  We can now see clearly what that end is.  It is the maintenance of our American ideals, beneath a common flag, under the blessings of Almighty God." 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