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Filed under: "Islamophobia", anti-Semitism, Barack Hussein Obama, Caliphate, Christianity, Creeping Shari'a, Egypt, Jihad, Lies and more Lies, Mainstream Media, Muslim Brotherhood, Obama, Oppression, Persecution, Progressives, Shari'a Law, Stealth Jihad, Vetting Obama — - @ 3:29 pm
Source Link Investigative Project On Terrorism
H/T FrontPageMagazine
Special to IPT News
Egypt's longtime banned Muslim Brotherhood—the parent organization of nearly every subsequent Islamist movement, including al-Qaeda—has just won the nation's presidency, in the name of its candidate, Muhammad Morsi. That apathy reigns in the international community, when once such news would have been deemed devastating, is due to the successful efforts of subversive Muslim apologists in the West who portray the Brotherhood as "moderate Islamists"—forgetting that such a formulation is oxymoronic, since to be "Islamist," to be a supporter of draconian Sharia, is by definition to be immoderate. Obama administration officials naturally took it a step further, portraying the Brotherhood as "largely secular" and "pluralistic."
Back in the real world, evidence that the Brotherhood is just another hostile Islamist group bent on achieving world domination through any means possible is overwhelming. Here are just three examples that recently surfaced, all missed by the Western media, and all exposing the Brotherhood as hostile to "infidels" (non-Muslims) in general, hostile to the Christians in their midst (the Copts) in particular, and on record calling on Muslims to lie and cheat during elections to empower Sharia:
Anti-Infidel:
At a major conference supporting Muhammad Morsi—standing on a platform with a big picture of Morsi smiling behind him and with any number of leading Brotherhood figures, including Khairat el-Shater, sitting alongside—a sheikh went on a harangue, quoting Koran 9:12, a favorite of all jihadis, and calling all those Egyptians who do not vote for Morsi—the other half of Egypt, the secularists and Copts who voted for Shafiq—"resisters of the Sharia of Allah," and "infidel leaders" whom true Muslims must "fight" and subjugate.
The video of this sheikh was shown on the talk show of Egyptian commentator Hala Sarhan, who proceeded to exclaim "This is unbelievable! How is this talk related to the campaign of Morsi?!" A guest on her show correctly elaborated: "Note his [the sheikh's] use of the word 'fight'—'fight the infidel leaders' [Koran 9:12]; this is open incitement to commit violence against anyone who disagrees with them…. how can such a radical sheikh speak such words, even as [Brotherhood leaders like] Khairat el-Shater just sits there?" Nor did the Brotherhood denounce or distance itself from this sheikh's calls to jihad.
Anti-Christian:
It is precisely because of these sporadic outbursts of anti-infidel rhetoric that it is not farfetched to believe that Morsi himself, as some maintain, earlier boasted that he would "achieve the Islamic conquest (fath) of Egypt for the second time, and make all Christians convert to Islam, or else pay the jizya."
Speaking of Christians, specifically the minority Copts of Egypt, in an article titled "The Muslim Brotherhood Asks Why Christians Fear Them?!" secularist writer Khaled Montasser, examining the Brotherhood's own official documents and fatwas, shows exactly why. According to Montasser, in the Brotherhood publication "The Call [da'wa]," issue #56 published in December 1980, prominent Brotherhood figure Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah al-Khatib decreed several anti-Christian measures, including the destruction of churches and the prevention of burying unclean Christian "infidels" anywhere near Muslim graves. Once again, this view was never retracted by the Brotherhood. As Montasser concludes, "After such fatwas, Dr. Morsi and his Brotherhood colleagues ask and wonder—"Why are the Copts afraid?!"
Lying, Stealing, and Cheating to Victory:
Read it all at Investigative Project On Terrorism
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum
Clinton Overrules Republican Lawmaker's Hold on Palestinian Aid
Filed under: Barack Hussein Obama, Constitutional Law, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Palestine, Progressives, United States Constitution — Tags: Congress, Hillary Clinton, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Representatives — - @ 6:33 pm
Much like her boss Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton has no respect for the Constitutional Laws and the peoples elected officials. Why do we elect representation? Has congress no spine and tell Obama and his Administrative minions they are out of line? W
Source National Journal
Ros-Lehtinen: "Where is the accountability for U.S. taxpayer dollars?"
By Sara Sorcher
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the G8 foreign ministers at the start of a working session at Blair House in Washington on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is allowing U.S. funds to flow to the West Bank and Gaza despite a hold by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., a rare display of executive-branch authority that angered the key lawmaker concerned about protecting her congressional oversight role.
A State Department official said that a letter was delivered on Tuesday to key members of Congress informing them of Clinton's decision to move forward with the $147 million package of the fiscal year 2011 economic support funds for the Palestinian people, despite Ros-Lehtinen's hold. Administrations generally do not disburse funding over the objections of lawmakers on relevant committees.
The funds deliver "critical support to the Palestinian people and those leaders seeking to combat extremism within their society and build a more stable future. Without funding, our programs risk cancellation," the official, who was not authorized to speak about the issue, said in an e-mail. "Such an occurrence would undermine the progress that has been made in recent years in building Palestinian institutions and improving stability, security, and economic prospects, which benefits Israelis and Palestinians alike."
Late last month, Ros-Lehtinen sent a letter to Clinton and U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah, informing them she will lift her hold on some $88.6 million of the Palestinian aid package — out of the full $147 million — under special conditions. Appropriations State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, agreed to release her hold on the full assistance package on humanitarian grounds.
"The U.S. has given $3 billion in aid to the Palestinians in the last five years alone, and what do we have to show for it?" Ros-Lehtinen said on Wednesday in a statement to National Journal. "Now the administration is sending even more. Where is the accountability for U.S. taxpayer dollars?"
Ros-Lehtinen earlier said she was disappointed that the administration "would employ hardball tactics against Congress and threaten to send, over congressional objection, U.S. taxpayer dollars to the Palestinian Authority." She does not want the funds used for assistance and recovery programs in Hamas-run Gaza; road construction projects in the West Bank, unless vital for security; or trade facilitation, tourist promotion, or scholarships for Palestinian students.
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Vetting Obama – Live Birth Abortion Survivor Law – Erosion of Individual Rights
Filed under: Abortion, American Citizen, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Assassination, Barack Hussein Obama, CIA, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Rights, Corruption, Court Records, Eric Holder, Illinois, Injustice, Jihad, Lies, Lies and more Lies, Live Birth Abortion Survivor Law, Murder, Obama, Progressives, Radical Islam, U.S. Citizen, United States Constitution, Vetting Obama, Violation of Laws — - @ 1:24 pm
By Walt Long
This year voting for a President of the United States, it is vital we know more about Barack Hussein Obama. One of the issues that struck me was the attitude of the President concerning a law that would protect an infant that is born after it was aborted from the Mother. Obama refused to sign a law protecting a human life. All the pertinent articles and law are posted below. This should not be a Republican vs Democrat issue, we are talking about a human life,an innocent victim left on a cold slab to die. Obama gave orders to the Doctors and Nurses that they were not to administer to the life of this child…the baby would be left to die;Obama being the dictator of life or death.
We ,the American Citizen, have come to expect losing our individual rights at the hands of Obama and this administration. Our government, such as National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 which gives the U.S. government authority to arrest and indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without charge or trial. If it has been suggested Conservatives are blowing this out of proportion I suggest reading… NDAA a Dangerous Precedent, Even With the Signing Statement.
Another individual right being taken away is the assassination of a United States Citizen without due process of the law, the only hearing allowed is not the Court of Law …but the court of Barack Hussein Obama's law, with Attorney General Eric Holder defending the decision. I am talking about the assassination of, Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, both United States citizens, by a CIA drone attack in Yemen on September 30 2011, authorized by Eric Holder,,Barack Hussein Obama, and a secretive government committee. Anwar al-Awlaki's used Islam for terrorist incitements, yes he was a very evil man, however, by being a United States citizen he should have been allowed his Constitutional rights by a trial before the Court of Law and his peers. If our government can kill two citizens then what would stop them from killing more? It is a very dangerous precedence allowing the assassination of a United States Citizen by any secretive panel of senior government officials,
Documents show Obama cover-up on born-alive survivors bill
Source JillStanek
UPDATE, 4:30p: Ben Smith of The Politico has linked to this post.
UPDATE, 4p: Concerned Women for America has audio of an interview with me on this here.
UPDATE, 10:22a:Michelle Malkin has linked to this post.
UPDATE, 9:50a: Kathryn Lopez of National Review Online is covering the story.
Last week Doug Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee drew my attention to a previously unnoticed January 2008 article by Terence Jeffrey stating Barack Obama actually did vote against a version of the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act that was identical to the federal version, contrary to multiple public statements Obama or his surrogates have made to rationalize his opposition to the IL bill for the past 4 years.
Since then we have found 2 separate documents proving Barack Obama has been misrepresenting facts.
In fact, Barack Obama is more liberal than any U.S. senator, voting against identical language of a bill that body passed unanimously, 98-0. In fact, Barack Obama condones infanticide if it would otherwise interfere with abortion.
Here is the statement with documentation released by NRLC this morning…
New documents just obtained by NRLC, and linked below, prove that Senator [Barack] Obama has for the past four years blatantly misrepresented his actions on the IL Born-Alive Infants Protection bill.
Summary and comment by NRLC spokesman Douglas Johnson:
Newly obtained documents prove that in 2003, Barack Obama, as chairman of an IL state Senate committee, voted down a bill to protect live-born survivors of abortion – even after the panel had amended the bill to contain verbatim language, copied from a federal bill passed by Congress without objection in 2002, explicitly foreclosing any impact on abortion. Obama's legislative actions in 2003 – denying effective protection even to babies born alive during abortions – were contrary to the position taken on the same language by even the most liberal members of Congress. The bill Obama killed was virtually identical to the federal bill that even NARAL ultimately did not oppose.
In 2000, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act was first introduced in Congress. This was a two-paragraph bill intended to clarify that any baby who is entirely expelled from his or her mother, and who shows any signs of life, is to be regarded as a legal "person" for all federal law purposes, whether or not the baby was born during an attempted abortion. (To view the original 2000 BAIPA, click here.)
In 2002, the bill was enacted, after a "neutrality clause" was added to explicitly state that the bill expressed no judgment, in either direction, about the legal status of a human prior to live birth.
(The "neutrality" clause read, "Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being 'born alive' as defined in this section.")
The bill passed without a dissenting vote in either house of Congress. (To view the final federal BAIPA as enacted, click here. To view a chronology of events pertaining to the federal BAIPA, click here.)
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Iran lawmaker: Country can produce nuclear weapons but will never do so
Filed under: Barack Hussein Obama, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran, Jihad, Lies, National Security, North Korea, Nuclear, Obama, Progressives, Sanctions, Taqiyya, U.S. Weakness, United Nations — - @ 9:10 am
Source FoxNews
| Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has the knowledge and scientific capability to produce nuclear weapons but will never do so, a prominent lawmaker has said.
Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam is a parliamentarian not a government official and his views do not represent the Iranian government's policy. It however is the first time that such a prominent Iranian politician has publicly stated that Iran has the technological capability to produce a nuclear weapon.
His assertion published on parliament's website late Friday suggests that Iran is trying to show unity in its political establishment around its often repeated claims that it seeks world-class technological advances including nuclear expertise, but does not want to develop atomic arms as the U.S. and its allies claim.
The statement comes before planned talks beginning next week with the U.S. and other world powers over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Moghadam said Iran can easily produce the highly enriched uranium that is used to build atomic bombs, but that it is not Tehran's policy to go that route.
"Iran has the scientific and technological capability to produce (a) nuclear weapon, but will never choose this path," he said in remarks carried by the parliamentary website icana.ir.
The U.S. and its allies accuse Iran of using its civilian nuclear program as a cover to develop nuclear weapons. Iran denies the charges, saying its program is peaceful and geared toward generating electricity and producing medical radioisotopes to treat cancer patients.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has repeatedly insisted that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, saying that holding such arms is a sin as well as "useless, harmful and dangerous."
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also asserted that if Iran one day decides to build nuclear weapons, it will do so openly and won't fear anybody. However, he has also emphasized that Iran has no intention to weaponize what he describes as a peaceful nuclear program.
Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper asserted in a January report to the Senate Intelligence Committee that Iran has the means to build a nuclear weapon but has not yet decided to follow through.
U.S. intelligence officials say they generally stand by a 2007 intelligence assessment that asserts Iran stopped comprehensive secret work on developing nuclear arms in 2003. But Britain, France, Germany, Israel and other U.S. allies think such activities have continued past that date, a suspicion shared by the IAEA, which says in recent reports that some isolated and sporadic activities may be ongoing.
However, the IAEA says there is no evidence to prove that Iran's nuclear materials have been diverted towards weapons.
Iran says it is enriching uranium to about 3.5 percent to produce nuclear fuel for its future reactors and also to around 20 percent to fuel a research reactor that produces medical isotopes to treat cancer patients. Uranium has to be enriched to more than 90 percent to be used for a nuclear weapon.
The U.N. nuclear agency has also confirmed that centrifuges at the Fordo site near Iran's holy city of Qom are churning out uranium enriched to 20 percent, and says uranium enriched to that level can more quickly be turned into weapons-grade material.
Moghadam, the lawmaker, said that Iran has the means to produce 90-plus percent enrichment.
"There is a possibility for Iran to easily achieve more than 90 percent enrichment," icana.ir quoted Moghadam as saying.
Islamic Indoctrination in Textbooks
Filed under: anti-Semitism, Barack Hussein Obama, Education In United States of America, Indoctrination, Islam, Lies, Obama, Progressives, Shari'a Law, Stealth Jihad, Teaching Hate, Text Books, United States, Vetting Obama — - @ 3:48 pm
Source TownHall
By Phyllis Schlafly
Political correctness has a double standard when it comes to teaching about religion in public schools. Drop Christianity down the memory hole but give extensive and mostly favorable coverage to Islam.
Even the mainstream media have provided extensive coverage of the steady stream of court cases and threatening letters from the American Civil Liberties Union aimed at removing all signs of Judeo-Christianity from public schools. Not only must prayer be prohibited, a cross and the Ten Commandments removed or covered up, a valedictorian banned from thanking God for his help, a football coach prohibited from bowing his head during a student-led pre-game prayer, singing of Christmas carols banned, and school calendars required to recognize winter holiday instead of Christmas, but there is also the complete omission of the history of the Founding Fathers' public recognition of Christianity.
An organization called ACT for America conducted an analysis of 38 textbooks used in the sixth- through 12th-grades in public schools, and found that since the 1990s, discussions of Islam are taking up more and more pages, while the space devoted to Judaism and Christianity has simultaneously decreased. In 2011, the National Assessment of Educational Progress reported that American 12th graders scored lower in history than in any other subject, even lower than in science, math and economics.
Most of these students are too young to remember 9/11, so current textbook descriptions about 9/11 is all they will learn. In one textbook example of pro-Islamic revisionism, 9/11 is portrayed as "a horrible act of terrorism, or violence to further a cause," without any mention that the attackers were Muslims or that the "cause" was Islamic jihad.
The textbooks generally give a false description of women's rights under Islam. The books don't reveal that women are subject to polygamy, a husband's legal right to beat her, genital mutilation, and the scandalous practice misnamed "honor killings," which allows a man to murder a daughter who dares to date a Christian.
Slavery is usually a favorite topic for the liberals, but historical revisionism is particularly evident in the failure to mention the Islamic slave trade. It began nearly eight centuries before the European-operated Atlantic slave trade and continues in some Muslim areas even today.
Other examples of historical revisionism in currently used textbooks include the omission of the doctrine of jihad or failure to accurately define it. Discussions of Muhammad's life and character are often contrary to accepted historical facts.
Muslim conquests and imperialism are usually omitted or downplayed, and a completely false narrative about the Crusades is given. The books often falsely claim that Islam is tolerant of Jews and Christians.
Another technique is to describe Christian and Jewish religious traditions as mere stories attributable to some human source, whereas Islamic traditions are presented as indisputable historic facts. In one textbook, you can read that Moses "claimed" to receive the Ten Commandments from God but that Muhammad simply "received" the Koran from God.
ACT for America is sending its report to all U.S. school board members nationwide. We hope they read it and tell the publishers the schools won't buy books that contain such errors and biases because that may be parents' only remedy for this indoctrination.
In the year of 9/11, a big controversy erupted at Excelsior public school in Byron, Calif., where seventh graders were being taught a three-week course about the Islamic religion. This course required the kids to learn 25 Islamic terms, 20 proverbs, Islam's Five Pillars of Faith, 10 key Islamic prophets and disciples, recite from the Koran, wear a robe during class, adopt a Muslim name, and stage their own "holy war" in a dice game.
Excelsior was using one of the textbooks that omit information about Islam's wars, massacres, and cruelties against Christians and Jews. Christianity was mentioned only briefly and negatively, linked to the Inquisition and to Salem witch hunts.
The students were given Muslim names and told to recite Muslim prayers in class. They were required to give up things for a day to recognize the Islamic practice of Ramadan, and the teacher gave extra credit for fasting at lunch.
For the final exam, the students had to write an essay about Islamic culture. The essay assignment warned students in these words: "Be careful here; if you do not have something positive to say, don't say anything!!!"
Parents naively thought they could appeal to the courts to uphold their right to reject this class for their children, which was really not education but behavior modification. They didn't realize that federal court decisions have ruled consistently against parents' rights and in favor of the authority of public schools to teach whatever they want.
The parents lost in court. And on Oct. 2, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider the parents' appeal from the lower court decision against them.
Phyllis Schlafly has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. Phyllis Schlafly has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when Phyllis Schlafly started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum. In a ten-year battle, Phyllis Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. An articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement, Phyllis Schlafly appears in debate on college campuses more frequently than any other conservative. Phyllis Schlafly was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies' Home Journal.
Screenshots from a YouTube Video Titled "Kill The Jews!" Muslim Children Memorize and Recite Antisemitic Messages on Egyptian TV Channel
Whitewashing Islamic Terror in Toulouse
Filed under: "Islamophobia", anti-Semitism, Creeping Shari'a, France, Jihad, National Security, Progressives, Shari'a Law, Stealth Jihad, Terrorism — - @ 1:09 pm
In His Own Words- Dividing Not Uniting
Filed under: Barack Hussein Obama, Liberal Violence, Lies and more Lies, Mainstream Media, Obama, Playing the Race Card, Progressives, Racism, Racism against Whites — Tags: Al Sharpton, Jessee Jackson, Louis Farrakham — - @ 9:59 am
Over the years I have always expected Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrahkan to pimp for media attention (Mainstream media is always glad to help) and their racist remarks thus stirring up hate and division in America. The Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrahkan's of the world have become the Judge and Executioner when someone is of a lighter skin does something to someone of the darker skin. BUT, to come from the President of the United States really shows his bigotry for White America, and does nothing more than divide our great country. I have to ask where are Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrahkan and Barack Hussein Obama when Black Teens Douse 13 Year Old With Gasoline, Set Him on Fire Or this news item from Barack Hussein Obama, Jessee Jackson and Louis Farrakhan town of Chicago Total bloodbath in Chicago: 10 dead, 40 wounded, below is a video about the bloodbath and a picture of the little girl, but then maybe it is because she looks to white for all of these so called leaders, (Obama, Jackson, Sharpton and Farrakhan).
Photo of Aliyah Shell murdered by Chicago, IL Gangbangers
"They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or * antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
This statement by Obama concerning rural America, small town people from the midwest and Pennsylvania are racist, by the definition of antipathy, most of the rural area of Pennsylvania and the Midwest are white. This statement clearly shows who really is the bigot, and it sure isn't all of small town USA…
*an·tip·a·thy
[an-tip-uh-thee] Show IPA
noun, plural -thies.
a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion.
an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling.
an object of natural aversion or habitual dislike.
1595–1605; < Latin antipathīa < Greek antipátheia. See anti-, -pathy
an·tip·a·thist, noun
1. disgust, abhorrence, detestation, hatred.
After the arrest of Henry Louis Gates , a black professor and long time friend of Obama's who verbally abused the police.
"Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home,"
Obama's most recent comment concerning the Trayyon incident in Sanford FL
"When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids," he said. "I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative to investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together – federal, state and local – to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened. But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin: If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon. And I think they are right to expect that all of us as Americans are gonna take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened."
Related article's Witness counters Trayvon Martin media narrative and Zimmerman was on the ground being punched when he shot Trayvon Martin
Just in case you think I am taking any of these atrocities lightly you are wrong, anytime there is murder they all should be looked at as equal and not what color of their skin was, as well as we should not allow the Trial by Media interfere with the TRUTH of the whole mishap in it entirety. Walt
The Global March to Jerusalem: Part of the International Campaign to Delegitimize Israel
Filed under: Israel, Jerusalem, Progressives — - @ 6:05 pm
Israel Warns Neighbors Over March to Jerusalem
Filed under: anti-Semitism, Arab Nations, Arabs, Israel, Jerusalem, Liberal Violence, Progressives — - @ 9:44 am
Source Link: Arutz Sheva
Israel warns neighbors that it will forcefully respond to attempted breaches of its borders during the 'Global March to Jerusalem'.
By Elad Benari, Canada
As activists are planning to lead a Global March to Jerusalem next Friday, Israel has warned neighboring countries that it would forcefully respond to attempted breaches of its borders.
The Global March to Jerusalem initiative aims at getting over one million Arabs and their supporters to attempt to infiltrate Israel's borders on March 30th. A spokesman for the march said last week the initiative "demand[s] freedom for Palestine and its capital Jerusalem."
The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) has presented information that Iran is behind the initiative and openly supports it. The march has also been endorsed by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who was U.S. President Barack Obama's pastor for 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Diplomatic sources told the London-based Asharq Alawsat newspaper on Friday that Israel has sent messages to the governments of Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, the Hamas government in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority regarding the planned march.
The report said that in the messages Israel made it clear that anyone who will come near its borders would be considered an infiltrator and the IDF will act against him with full force.
Israel also reportedly demanded that Arab countries not allow an escalation of the tension in the region through marches toward its borders.
Channel 10 News, which cited the Asharq Alawsat report, said that the Israeli Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister's Office refused to comment on the report.
Earlier this week, radio host Aaron Klein of WABC radio in New York offered $50,000 to an organizer of the Global March to Jerusalem, if he could name one city in the Middle East, outside of Israel, that has more freedom than Jerusalem. The activist was unable to do so.
(Arutz Sheva's North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
Muslim Persecution of Christians
Filed under: "Islamophobia", Christianity, Dhimmitude, Iraq, Islam, Jihad, Muslim, Persecution, Progressives, Shari'a Law — - @ 5:45 pm
The following article was originally published by the Stonegate Institute.
Half of Iraq's indigenous Christians are gone due to the unleashed forces of jihad, many of them fleeing to nearby Syria; yet, as the Assad regime comes under attack by al-Qaeda and others, the jihad now seeps into Syria, where Christians are experiencing a level of persecution unprecedented in the nation's modern history. Likewise, some 100,000 Christian Copts have fled their native Egypt since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime; and in northern regions of Nigeria, where the jihadi group Boko Haram has been slaughtering Christians, up to 95 % of the Christian population has fled.
Meanwhile, the "big news" concerning the Muslim world in the month of February—the news that flooded the mainstream media and had U.S. politicians, beginning with President Obama, flustered, angry, and full of regret—was that copies of the Koran in Afghanistan were burned by U.S. soldiers because imprisoned Muslim inmates were using them "to facilitate extremist communications."
Categorized by theme, February's batch of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed in alphabetical order by country, not severity.
Church Attacks
Algeria: Armed men raided and ransacked a church formally recognized since 1958, dismantling the crucifix above the premises. The pastor and his family, trapped inside, feared that "they could kill us." The pastor "has been repeatedly threatened and attacked since being ordained as pastor in 2007. In the summer of 2009 his wife was beaten and seriously injured by a group of unknown men. Then, in late 2011, heaps of trash were thrown over the compound walls while an angry mob shouted death threats."
Egypt: Thousands of Muslims attacked a Coptic church, demanding the death of its pastor, who, along with "nearly 100 terrorized Copts sought refuge inside the church, while Muslim rioters were pelting the church with stones in an effort to break into the church, assault the Copts and torch the building." They did this because a Christian girl who, according to Islamic law, automatically became a Muslim when her father converted to Islam, fled and was rumored to be hiding in the church.
Iran: Iran's Ministry of Intelligence has ordered the last two officially registered churches holding Friday Farsi-language services in Tehran—Farsi being the nation's language—to discontinue the language: "Friday services in Tehran attracted the city's converts to Christianity as well as Muslims interested in Christianity, as Friday is most Iranians' day off during the week." Banning church use of Farsi prevents most Iranians from hearing the Gospel.
Kazakhstan: A new report notes that "Churches are being raided, leaders fined and Christian literature confiscated as the Kazakh authorities enforce new laws intended further to restrict religious freedom in the country."
Kuwait: A parliamentarian is set to submit a draft law banning the construction of churches. Originally, Osama al-Munawer announced on Twitter his plans on submitting a draft law calling for the removal of all churches in Kuwait. However, he later "clarified," saying that existing churches can remain, but the construction of new ones must be banned.
Macedonia: A two-century-old Christian church famed for its valuable icons was set on fire in response to "a carnival in which Orthodox Christian men dressed as women in burkas and mocked the Koran." Earlier, "perpetrators attacked a[nother] church in the nearby village of Labunista, destroying a cross standing outside" and "also defaced a Macedonian flag outside Struga's municipal building, replacing it with a green flag representing Islam."
Nigeria: A Muslim suicide bomber forced his way into the grounds of a major church, killing two women and an 18-month-old child during Sunday morning service; some 50 people were injured in the blast. In a separate incident, Muslims detonated a bomb outside a church building, injuring five, one critically: "The bomb, planted in a parked car, was left by suspected members of Boko Haram, which seeks to impose sharia (Islamic law) throughout Nigeria."
Pakistan: A dozen armed Muslims stormed a church, seriously wounding two Christians: one man was shot and is in critical condition, the other risks having his arm amputated; another church member was thrown from the roof, after being struck repeatedly with a rifle butt. "The extremist raid was sparked by charges that [the] church was trying to evangelize Muslims in an attempt to convert them to Christianity. The community several times in the past has been the subject of assault and the pastor and his family the subject of death threats." As usual, the police, instead of pursuing the perpetrators, have opened an investigation against the pastor and 20 other church members.
Syria: Some 30 armed and masked jihadis attacked a Catholic monastery—unprecedented in Syria's modern history—demanding money. According to the Catholic Archbishop of Damascus, "the situation in the country is spiraling out of control as the armed opposition spreads its influence to different regions of the state."
[General Abuse, Debasement, and Suppression of non-Muslims as "Tolerated" Citizens]
Bangladesh: Three American Christians were injured after their car was attacked by a Muslim mob that suspected they were converting Muslims into Christians: at least 200 angry locals chased the missionaries' car and threw stones at it, leaving three with cuts from broken glass.
Egypt: Rather than punishing the perpetrators who opened fire on and ran tanks over Christians protesting the constant destruction of their churches, the government arrested and is trying two priests in connection to the Maspero massacre. And although Egypt's new parliament has 498 seats, only six are Copts, though Copts make up at the very least 10% of the population, and so should have approximately 50 seats. Finally, evincing how bad the situation is, Coptic protesters organized a demonstration in front of Parliament to protest "the disappearance and abduction of Coptic girls."
Indonesia: The Islamist Prosperous Justice Party complained about the Red Cross' symbol of a cross, saying it is too identifiable with Christian culture and traditions. Red Cross volunteers and activists rejected the claim, saying that any changes to the logo would be "tantamount to giving in to the extremists."
Iran: A pastor of a major house church movement began serving a five-year prison sentence for "crimes against the order." According to one activist, "His 'crimes' were being a pastor and possessing Christian materials." He is being beat in jail and getting sick, to the point that his hair has "turned fully gray."
Israel: A mob of some 50 Palestinian Muslims stoned a group of Christian tourists atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount, wounding three Israeli police officers in the process. The attack is believed to have been instigated by the former Muslim mufti of Jerusalem.
Pakistan: Yet another Christian woman, a teacher, has been targeted by Muslims due to allegations that she burned a Koran. A mob stormed her school in an attempt to abduct her, but police took her into custody. Also, a Christian student who missed the grade to get into medical school by less than 0.1% would have earned 20 extra points if he had memorized the Koran—though no bonus points for having similar knowledge of the Bible.
Turkey: A new report notes that "Christians in Turkey continue to suffer attacks from private citizens, discrimination by lower-level government officials and vilification in both school textbooks and news media," adding that there is a "root of intolerance" in Turkish society toward adherents of non-Islamic faiths: "The removal of this root of intolerance is an urgent problem that still awaits to be dealt with."
Turkmenistan: A 77-year-old Christian man was detained and questioned by police for six hours after he tried to print copies of a small book of Christian poetry. He was forced to write a statement and banned from travelling outside his home region while the case is being investigated.
Uganda: Not long after a pastor was attacked with acid and blinded by "Allahu-Akbar" screaming Muslims, his friend, another pastor, was shot at by "Islamic extremists,"
in what is being described as "a new wave of persecution against Christians in Uganda."
Murder, Apostasy Issues, and More
Egypt: Two Christians were killed "after a Muslim racketeer opened fire on them for refusing to pay him extortion money." The local bishop "hold[s] security forces and local Muslims fully responsible for terrorizing the Copts living there, who are continuously being subjected to terror and kidnapping."
Iran: After enduring five months of uncertainty in a prison, a Christian convert who was arrested in her home by security authorities has been sentenced to two years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. Authorities further arrested six to ten Christian converts from Islam while they were meeting for worship at a home in the southern city of Shiraz.
And Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani awaits execution for refusing to renounce Christianity.
Nigeria: A 79-year-old Christian woman and choir singer was found dead at her home, her throat slit with a note in Arabic left on her chest reading: "We will get you soon," a message believed to be directed at her son, a pastor at a local church.
Somalia: Al-Shabaab Muslims beheaded a 26-year-old Muslim convert to Christianity who had worked for a Christian humanitarian organization that the terrorist organization had banned. He is at least the third apostate to Christianity to be beheaded in Somalia in recent months.
Turkey: A 12-year-old boy, Hussein, publicly professed his Christian faith by wearing a silver cross necklace in school. Accordingly, Muslim classmates began taunting and spitting on him. When the boy threatened to report one of the bullies, the bully's father threatened to kill him. His religion teacher beat him severely: "Like in most Islamic countries, students of all faiths are required to attend Islamic studies in school. Those who refuse to recite the Koran and Islamic prayers are often beaten by the teacher. And so it was for Hussein. He said he was punished regularly with a two-foot long rod because he wouldn't say the Islamic Shahada."
About this Series
Because the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its way to reaching epidemic proportions, "Muslim Persecution of Christians" was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of Muslim persecution of Christians that surface each month. It serves two purposes:
Intrinsically, to document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, Muslim persecution of Christians.
Instrumentally, to show that such persecution is not "random," but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Sharia.
Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam; apostasy and blasphemy laws; theft and plunder in lieu of jizya (tribute); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed "dhimmis" (barely tolerated citizens); and simple violence and murder. Oftentimes it is a combination thereof.
Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the west, to India in the east, and throughout the West, wherever there are Muslims—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.
Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the DHFC, is a widely published author on Islam, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum. Join him as he explores the "Intersection"—the pivotal but ignored point where Islam and Christianity meet—including by examining the latest on Christian persecution, translating important Arabic news that never reaches the West, and much more.
'People yawning, developing goose bumps could be terrorist' says US Homeland Security
Filed under: Barack Hussein Obama, Dhimmitude, Hillary Clinton, Janet Napolitano, Jihad, Lies, National Security, Obama, Progressives, Radical Islam, Shari'a Law, Terrorism — - @ 9:57 am
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A US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document aimed at raising awareness on how people can help combat terrorism, has warned that passengers yawning, developing goose bumps and appearing fidgety could all be potential terrorists.
A presentation tilted 'Terrorism Awareness and Prevention' released by the New Jersey office of the agency, said it aims to educate the public on recognizing potential threats in any environment including at work and in the community as well as how to report them.
The document said the 'signs will become particularly evident in a person's eyes, face, neck and body movements.'
According to the report, if an individual has a cold stare, 'trance-like gaze' or wide 'flashbulb eyes,' he/she might be a terrorist.
The document also said if somebody seem to exaggerate yawning in conversation, repeatedly touch their face or ears, or excessively watch a clock or fidget, these may be indicators of a terrorist, The Daily Mail reports.
If passengers pace, tremble, perspire or have goose bumps, the department's report states that these also may be indicators.
The report also states that 'citizens should never use race or religion as factors for reporting suspicious activity.' (ANI)
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How To Spot A Terrorist
The US Department of Homeland Security has brought out a presentation that aims to educate people on recognising terrorists and how to report them.
The report titled "Terrorism Awareness and Prevention" warned that people yawning, developing goose bumps and appearing fidgety could all be potential terrorists, according to the Daily Mail.
It said the "signs will become particularly evident in a person's eyes, face, neck and body movements".
If an individual has a cold stare, "trance-like gaze" or wide "flashbulb eyes", they may be a terrorist, according to the report.
If they seem to exaggerate yawn during conversation, repeatedly touch their face or ears, or excessively watch a clock or fidget, these may also be indicators of a terrorist.
If they pace, tremble, perspire or have goose bumps, these also may be indicators.
Doctors have linked goose bumps to an individual's mentality, be it anxiety or fear.
"The described indicators are not fool-proof. They are not guarantees of terrorist activities or the lack thereof," the report said.
"However, if you encounter an increasing number of indicators, common sense would tell you that increased attention and thought should be placed on reporting your observations," it added.
The report, however, said citizens "should never use race or religion as factors for reporting suspicious activity", but instead report only facts to authorities.
Protestors Decry Presentation on "Islamophobia" at JCC
Filed under: "Islamophobia", Lies, Phyllis Chesler, Progressives, Shari'a Law, Stealth Jihad — - @ 7:48 am
Source Article Link Arutz Sheva
Over 30 protestors gathered in front of the JCC in Manhattan to express their outrage over a forum entitled "Combating Islamophobia."
By Phyllis Chesler & Fern Sidman
On Wednesday evening, March 14th ,over 30 protestors representing both Jewish and human rights organizations gathered in front of the Jewish Community Center on Manhattan's upper west side to express their outrage over a forum entitled "Combating Islamophobia."
Moderated by former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, the panelists included Rabbi Marc Schneier, co-founder of the Foundation For Ethnic Understanding, which fosters "twinning" programs between mosques and synagogues and Imam Shamsi-Ali, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York and the chairman of the Al-Hikmah mosque in Astoria.
Holding aloft signs and banners reading "What Are Muslims Doing for Peace???", "Burning Churches, Honor Murdering Women. Where is the Muslim Protest?", "Sharia Equals Death", "Since 9/11, Radical Islamists Committed 11,961 Attacks, Killed 75,038, Injured 115,255", "Wake Up! Islam's Goal: Destruction of Our Way of Life", "Stop Billions of Saudi Oil Monet Funding Worldwide Radical Islamic Intolerance and Terror", "The Right of Jews to a Jewish State in Israel," "The Right of Muslims to Convert to Other Religions," the protestors took aim at what they perceived to be the hypocrisy that this event represented.
Narain Kataria, the President of the Indian American Intellectual Forum, declared, "We should not be talking about Islamophobia but about whether Islam is a religion of peace. This should be debated all over the country. We Hindus have suffered at the hands of radical Islamists. I believe that somehow the organizers of the conference on Islamophobia have been either heavily funded or misguided by Muslim organizations into believing that Islam if the religion of peace."
Joining Kataria was protestor Dr. Arish Sahani who declared, "Shame on our intellectuals! Why don't they teach their students that for 1400 years Muslims have been persecuting non-Muslims?"
Helen Freedman, the executive director of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI), said, "The JCC, in sponsoring 'Combating Islamophobia', is suggesting that it is un-American to fear Islam. Our liberal upbringing causes us to be offended by the accusation that we are racist when it comes to Islam, but isn't there ample justification for concern about a political agenda disguised as a religion which promotes hatred of infidels and women? The radical, militant, hate-filled Islam that has spread across the world, butchering and maiming millions in its path, deserves to be feared and eradicated."
Speaking of the recent controversy that has swirled around New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly for authorizing police surveillance of mosques in the New York area and for using the documentary entitled "The Third Jihad" as a training tool for his department, protestor Marion Dreyfus, addressed the gathering passionately, "Commissioner Kelly is defending us. He should not be castigated. He should be admired and supported."
(On the JCC panel, Imam Shamsi Ali, a very soft-spoken Indonesian, called for Muslim consultants to supervise the training materials for the NYPD where terrorism is concerned).
Continue reading the entire article at Arutz Sheva
Religious Persecution in Islamic Middle East "Acquiring Genocidal Characteristics"
Filed under: Barack Hussein Obama, Christianity, Dhimmitude, Islamist, Jihad, Lies, Muslim Brotherhood, Obama, Persecution, Progressives, Shari'a Law, Terrorism — - @ 7:45 am
Source Article Link: Christian Solidarity International (CSI)
To: FOREIGN, NATIONAL AND RELIGION EDITORS
Christian Solidarity International Seminar Series on the Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East
WASHINGTON and BERN, Switzerland, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Historian Daniel Pipes, the President of the Middle East Forum, warned yesterday at a CSI seminar in Bern, Switzerland, that the persecution of minorities in the Islamic Middle East is "acquiring genocidal characteristics."
The video of Pipes' 25-minute address on "Religious Minorities in an Increasingly Intolerant Middle East" can be viewed on CSI's website, www.csi-usa.org.
Pipes stated that in medieval times, Islam was, "in relative terms, quite tolerant of religious minorities," despite occasional persecution and permanent second-class "dhimmi" status for conquered non-Muslims. However, during the past hundred years, he said, persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in the Islamic Middle East has become "more systematic," eventually leading to the destruction of the region's Jewish communities. Christians and other non-Muslim minorities are now also in danger of eradication.
According to Pipes, conditions for minorities in the region have dramatically worsened in the past year. He cited "unprecedented examples" of anti-Christian violence in the region, including the sentencing to death of an Iranian pastor, Youcef Nadarkhani, and the Egyptian security forces' recent massacre of Christians in Cairo's Maspero Square. "This kind of persecution," Pipes said, is leading to "the fairly quick exodus of Christians from the Middle East."
"The message is clear," Pipes said: "Christianity is not welcome."
Pipes declared that the recent anti-minority violence reveals "the beginning of an eliminationist and genocidal impulse" that has not always been characteristic of the Islamic world. He quoted a member of Egypt's Islamist Al-Nur Party as saying: "As long as Copts [Egyptian Christians] are alive, there will never be peace."
Pipes concluded, "The challenge before us is to find a set of policies that allow Western governments to stand up against this persecution." To achieve this goal, Pipes said that the spirit of "Christian Solidarity International" needs to become more widespread throughout the Christian world.
Dr. John Eibner, CEO of CSI-USA, concluded the event by stating that the aim of CSI is to foster a "coincidence of interests" between the United States and the Middle East's Christians and other religious minorities.
CSI has issued a Genocide Warning for endangered religious minorities in the Islamic Middle East, and has called on President Barack Obama to make their survival a priority as the United States responds to the Middle East's ongoing political turmoil.
CSI is an international, Christian human rights organization, campaigning for religious liberty and human dignity, and assisting victims of religious persecution, victimized children and victims of catastrophe.
CONTACT: Joel Veldkamp, 515-421-7258
Israel Only Place in Mideast Christians Aren't Endangered
Filed under: Barack Hussein Obama, Christianity, Israel, Jihad, Lies, MIddle East, Muslim Brotherhood, Persecution, Progressives, Shari'a Law — - @ 3:51 pm
Source Article Link: Israeli National News
Ambassador Oren: As 800,000 Jews were once expelled from Arab countries, Christians are forced from lands they've inhabited for centuries.
Israel has become the only safe haven for Christians in the Middle East, Ambassador to the United State Michael Oren wrote in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday.
"As 800,000 Jews were once expelled from Arab countries, so are Christians being forced from lands they've inhabited for centuries," Ambassador Oren stated, comparing the expulsion of Jews in the twentieth century with the Arab countries' current treatment of their Christian minorities.
Oren explained that the population of Christians in the Middle East has significantly decreased, dropping from 20 percent a century ago to less than 5 percent today, with the numbers still diminishing.
"In Egypt, 200,000 Coptic Christians fled their homes last year after beatings and massacres by Muslim extremist mobs. Since 2003, 70 Iraqi churches have been burned and nearly a thousand Christians killed in Baghdad alone, causing more than half of this million-member community to flee. Conversion to Christianity is a capital offense in Iran, where last month Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani was sentenced to death. Saudi Arabia outlaws private Christian prayer," Oren explained.
He noted that while Christians are granted full rights and privileges within Israel's borders, the treatment they receive by the 'Palestinian' population is quite different, noting that "[s]ince the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, half the Christian community has fled."
"Christmas decorations and public displays of crucifixes are forbidden. In a December 2010 broadcast, Hamas officials exhorted Muslims to slaughter their Christian neighbors," Oren said. He then went on to give the example of Rami Ayad, owner of Gaza's only Christian bookstore, who was murdered and whose "store [was] reduced to ashes.
"The only place in the Middle East where Christians aren't endangered but flourishing is Israel. Since Israel's founding in 1948, its Christian communities (including Russian and Greek Orthodox, Catholics, Armenians and Protestants) have expanded more than 1,000%," Oren affirmed.
"Christians are prominent in all aspects of Israeli life, serving in the Knesset, the Foreign Ministry and on the Supreme Court," he continued.
While the ambassador explained that the Christian minority may, occasionally, encounter intolerance, Israel remains committed to its Declaration of Independence, which pledges to "ensure the complete equality of all its citizens irrespective of religion" and guarantees free access to all Christian holy places.
The Arab countries in the Middle East, however, do not seek to uphold any such rights and the hatred of Christians is only "ignored or encouraged."
"The extinction of the Middle East's Christian communities is an injustice of historic magnitude. Yet Israel provides an example of how this trend can not only be prevented but reversed. With the respect and appreciation that they receive in the Jewish state, the Christians of Muslim countries could not only survive but thrive," Oren wrote.
All American Muslim's Very Special Tribute to Sept 11
Filed under: 9/11, All American Muslim, anti-Semitism, Corruption, Creeping Shari'a, Dhimmitude, International Religious Freedom, Muslim Brotherhood, National Security, Obama, Progressives — - @ 4:14 am
The End of Religious Freedom
Filed under: anti-Semitism, Christianity, Dick Durbin, International Religious Freedom, Islam, Jihad, Lies and more Lies, National Security, Nina Shea, Obama, OIC, Persecution, Phyllis Chesler, Progressives, Shari'a Law, United Nations, Women in Islam — - @ 5:10 pm
"In an age when the persecution of Egypt's Coptic Christians is more bloody than ever the bill to continue funding the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was held up by just one man, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill)."
By Phyllis Chesler
Time has run out for the cause of worldwide religious freedom. On November 18, 2011, America chose not to extend any further lifeline to persecuted religious minorities around the planet. On that day, the U.S. government shut down the work of an important and unique American effort: the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
Oddly enough, the mainstream media does not seem to have covered this story. I certainly did not know about it. Did you? The only article about this appeared at CNS News.
In 1998, the U.S. government passed the Religious Freedom Act and this commission was one of the results. Since then, it has sent delegations abroad to meet with minority religious leaders in Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia, and released reports about their work. In 2011, their Annual Report (PDF copy provided below) covered countries such as Afghanistan, Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Indonesia, and Iran.
In 2011, Nina Shea, the head commissioner, presented testimony before members of Congress about Christian minorities under attack in Iraq and Egypt. In this hearing, Shea reported:
USCIRF has found serious, widespread, and longstanding human rights violations against religious minorities as well as disfavored Muslims. Confronted by these violations, the Egyptian government has failed to take the necessary steps to halt the discrimination and repression against Christians and other minorities. Too often, it has failed to punish the violators.
Shea discussed the New Year's Day bombing in Alexandria, which led to the worst attack targeting Christians in a decade. Carefully, without saying that Muslims or the Egyptian Muslim police were the perpetrators, she refered to the "Coptic Christmas shooting that killed six innocent Christians in Naga Hammadi." Over the last two years, the Egyptian government, media, and network of mosques have systematically engaged in violence and in the coverup of that violence against Christians.
In an interview with PJ Media, Shea said,
With the onslaught of the Arab Winter and the threat of newly politically empowered Islamists suppressing the freedoms of religious minorities and even carrying out religious cleansing campaigns against them, USCIRF is needed more than ever. Its voice carries official weight and it has vigorously and consistently raised it within and outside the government on behalf of a broad array of persecuted minorities and individuals around the world. At this time, USCIRF is winding down its work, as it is legally bound to do, since its authorization ends on December 16. As reported in the Congressional Quarterly, Senator Durbin of Illinois has blocked the USCIRF reauthorization for several months, reportedly in order to get an earmark to fund a prison in his state. He has been intractable. President Obama — who served with Mr. Durbin in the Senate before becoming president and who has expressed an interest in using the prison at issue for holding detainees from Guantanamo Bay – must speak up, if USCIRF is to continue. President Obama can make this happen and I appeal to him to do so.
Why would the American government shut down USCIRF now? Some might say that we are in an economic recession and must care fo our own before we can help others. Some secular Americans might simply want freedom from religion rather than of religion. They may not care about the choice to practice one's religion or whether or not people are being persecuted for doing so. And some Americans may agree with the UN view that Muslims and Islam are not to be criticized and that any accurate portrayal of Muslim behavior may be treated as a crime.
Next: The USCIRF's opponent still pursues its totalitarian aims with the blessing of the global community…
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Durban Follies, constitutes a permanent delegation to the UN. The OIC was established in 1969. Its position is as follows: it seeks to
pursue as a matter of priority a common policy aimed at prevented defamation of Islam perpetrated under the pretext and justification of the freedom of expression in particular through media and internet.
In 2011, the 38th Conference, held in Kazakhstan, stated "deep concern over any activities carried out by certain governmental and non-governmental organizations supported by governments in order to attack OIC member states for political purposes and to further their foreign policy objectives in international forums." The conference also denounced "media campaigns and fabrications made by some quarters in non-member states regarding the mistreatment of non-Muslim minorities and communities in the OIC member states under the slogans of religious freedoms and so on."
In other words, attempting to help a Christian escape genocide in Egypt, Iraq, or Pakistan would be outlawed as would all work that reports on religious persecution. What I'm writing here would be criminalized. The Muslims who drafted this document want to do their gender cleansing without being exposed, stopped, or held liable for it. That's the OIC at the UN.
The United States, to its credit, shunned the UN's Durban III conference. However, in 2009, the Obama administration eliminated the phrases "Islamic extremism," "Islamic terrorism," and "terrorism" from national security strategy documents. We have also seen a quantum increase in fears about a non-existent "Islamophobia" and a similar quantum decrease in "official" fears about an escalating anti-Semitism which in the Middle East is potentially genocidal.
Many European politically correct/anti-racist governments agree with the OIC Conference. For example, European governments have prosecuted "thought crimes" which involve criticism of Islam or any objective presentation of Islam (honor killing, honor related violence, forced marriage, daughter and wife beating, etc.) that some Muslim somewhere finds offensive — in Holland, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Iceland etc. I myself have called this the death of free speech in Europe.
Recently, I was involved in the case of a Pakistani apostate, Khalid Saheed, who sought and was denied political asylum in Sweden. Predictably, he and his family have received death threats from Islamic fundamentalists. If Saheed and his family are sent back to Pakistan, they will be murdered for leaving Islam. This is the true state of religious tolerance in the Muslim world. There is no such freedom and USCRIF has boldly exposed and published this truth.
Finally: What does Dick Durbin have to do with the death of the USCRIF?
Read the entire article at PJMedia
All-American Muslim: The Perils of Propaganda
Filed under: All American Muslim, Creeping Shari'a, Dhimmitude, Progressives, The Learning Channel, TLC, Women in Islam — - @ 1:08 pm
by Daniel Greenfield
All-American Muslim is on its last legs. Not only was the last episode of the show the lowest rated show in its time slot, losing again to Homeland, but it was also the lowest rated show of the night among the top 100 cable shows aimed at adults. While Homeland has improved its ratings, All-American Muslim has dropped so low that it's hovering above the abyss.
Just to bring out the vultures, Discovery Communications is being sued by Visionaire Media which accuses it of stealing its idea for an "American Muslim Show" without compensation. At this point Discovery Communications, which oversees the disaster areas that are TLC, The Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and several other learning channels that have turned into minor variations of each other serving up the same Reality content, might consider letting Visionaire have the credit for All-American Muslim which a month later looks more like blame.
The media which enthusiastically embraced All-American Muslim has nothing more to say about it. There are hardly any more stories on it and those few that show up make it clear that the writer did not watch the show beyond the premiere episode. The deadly secret of All-American Muslim is that not even the liberals in the media want to watch it.
That is the problem with propaganda, it isn't very interesting. Negative propaganda can be entertaining, positive propaganda is stifling. All-American Muslim promotes Islam with weak reality show theatrics that are inferior in drama and entertainment value to the competition. It is so determined to promote its agenda that it utterly fails to be interesting.
With All-American Muslim's fourth episode, Friday Night Bites, the show continues its obsession with making its women dress in the Imam approved fashion and with promoting the Islamic makeovers to general audiences. The birth of a child to one of the couples leads to a spotlighting of the Muslim call to prayer and the adventures of Fordson High School's religiously cleansed team continues with more Ramadan than ever.
It would be a stretch to call any of this interesting. Watching All-American Muslim is like watching an extended commercial in which smiling people use a product and talk up its virtues, discussing it at length, in order to convince you to start using it. It's no wonder that audiences are fleeing the show faster than infidels from the Middle East.
The target audience for All-American Muslim is someone who is extremely interested in Islam, but completely disinterested in any dimension or depth, who wants to see women modeling Hijabs and discussing how they deal with fasting, but isn't at all interested in how the religion reconciles its claim of being peaceful with the violent tendencies in its midst, or who doesn't care about the larger context of such things as guilting women into wearing Hijabs or forcing non-Muslims to work around the Ramadan schedules of Muslims.
These things are quite explosive subjects in Europe, and they are developing into serious issues in the United States, but All-American Muslim presents them enthusiastically and without any context. To anyone who is at all familiar with terrorism, watching the show is a little like tuning in to a classic cigarette commercial and feeling a little discomfort with the enthusiasm with which the narrator pitches the virtues of smoking a Camel. No matter how you feel about smoking, there is the sense that a serious issue is being ignored. That nagging feeling haunts All-American Muslim which takes audiences on a promotional tour of Muslim life without explaining some of the more problematic side-effects which include the systematic repression of women, the religious persecution of minorities and the criminalization of dissent.
Read the rest of the article at FrontPageMag
Deadly 'Diversity'
Filed under: "Islamophobia", Homosexual, Islam, Norway, Oppression, Progressives, Shari'a Law — - @ 3:48 pm
Source Link: FrontPageMag
By Bruce Bawer
The neighborhood of Grønland in Oslo, Norway, is not terribly large. It's on the east side of town, adjacent to central Oslo, and has traditionally been a place of working-class flats and unpretentious pubs. Ever since Norway began to be the destination of immigrants from the Muslim world, however, Grønland has been home to an increasing number of Muslim families and businesses. In recent years, furthermore, it has become an attractive residential area for young Norwegian singles and families, for many of whom part of the lure of living in this part of town was that they wanted to be part of a "multicultural" community. As a result of the influx of these these young people – including no small number of gays – a number of hip restaurants and cafes have sprung up in the area.
Of late, however, as the city's Muslim population has boomed, Grønland has been undergoing a transition from a mixed neighborhood to an essentially Muslim one.
In an Aftenposten article in January 2010, Olga Stokke and Hilde Lundegaard cited one Grønland resident's observation – which is consistent with my own and that of many of my friends and colleagues – that since 9/11 the neighborhood has taken a sharply negative turn. More women are wearing hijab, if not burkas; and there has been a rise in what the Aftenposten article's headline called "[m]oral control in Oslo's immigrant streets." For example, a young social worker who was chowing down on a somosa one day on his way home from work through a Grønland street was confronted by two aggressive young men who demanded of him in a bullying tone: "Don't you know it's Ramadan? You should know better!"
Once upon a time, gays in Oslo thought of "multicultural" Grønland as gay-friendly. No more. In the fall of 2009, a gay couple walking in Grønland were kicked and yelled at by a man who told them that they were in a Muslim neighborhood where their kind was unwelcome.
This was not an isolated incident: as Stokke and Lundegaard wrote, "many others…experience an at least equally strong sense of control" in Grønland by self-appointed moral police. Muslim girls who would prefer not to wear hijab, for example, do so in Grønland simply to avoid being rebuked. The Aftenposten article quoted Fatima Tetouani, who when she moved in 2000 from Morocco to Oslo to live with her Norwegian husband, "expected a Western, open society." "But Grønland is more Muslim than Morocco," she told Aftenposten. "I had never seen a burka before I came here. And I had never experienced nasty looks if I ate or drank a cup of coffee during Ramadan."
Tetouani's son had been scheduled to attend a school where over 95 percent of the students were non-Norwegian speakers. She said no. "All the girls were covered. I felt like I was in a mosque. My son will not be bullied because he has a father who eats pork and is not circumcised." Tetouani had worked at a local day-care center, where she heard an Algerian mother chastize her son for playing with Norwegian children: "You know they eat pork and are going to hell!" Tetouani's verdict was blunt: "they are trying to take over this neighborhood."
While Tetousani from Morocco was clear-eyed about what was going on in Grønland, Michael Hartmann from Bergen, after five years in the neighborhood, was still in something of a fog. The self-described anti-racist, who "moved to Grønland precisely in order to experience the cultural diversity," was now being regularly tormented by his neighbors for being gay. This left him disillusioned; he feared being beat up. "I was very naïve when I came here," he admitted. But somehow, it appeared, he still didn't get it: "We can't give up the diversity. As minorities we really should be standing together and helping one another."
Hans Rustad, on his indispensable website, document.no, described the Aftenposten article as "pathbreaking," and predicted that it would have repercussions in the offices of government, academia, and the culture generally.
But nothing has changed.
Cut to late 2011. While Oslo has been undergoing a wave of violent rapes, robberies in Grønland have been skyrocketing. A recent article in Aftenposten reported on this year's 351st victim of a robbery in Grønland. Musician Sturla Nøstvik, reported Arild M. Jonassen, was on his way home from a late-night gig when a pistol was slammed against his forehead. Two men demanded his wallet and iPhone. Blinded by blood, the gun at his back, he was forced into an underground passageway, thorough a hole in a fence, and into a clump of bushes; along the way he was struck several times by his attackers, who in bad Norwegian and bad English demanded the pin codes to his bank cards, after which one of them went off to empty his accounts. They then threatened to kill him and his girlfriend if he reported them to the police; then they said that if he did report them, he should say they were not dark-skinned but white. Sturai, who is now blind in one eye, came to Oslo 14 years ago from a small town up north, and had always felt safe; now he hardly dares go out after dark.
This is a city which in living memory was one of the safest and most civilized urban centers on the planet. Now all is changed, changed utterly. This practice of dragging victims off the sidewalk, through fences, and into thickets or whatever while emptying their bank accounts is now commonplace, according to Oslo police. "We have lost the city," Nøstvik was told by the officers who handled his case. The night he was attacked, they informed him, they had only two patrol cars out in all of downtown Oslo.
A few weeks back, the wave of rapes in Oslo inspired a torchlight rally and the formation of after-dark civilian patrols intended to make the streets safe for potential rape victims. But the rapes have continued. So have the robberies. Norwegians, like so many other Western Europeans, are up against a veritable army of culturally alien men living in their midst who have no scruples when it comes to raping native women or robbing native men. There is, after all, no crime – no shame – in attacking the infidel. The nature of the set of beliefs by means of which these perpetrators justify their violent offenses is perfectly clear. But the Norwegian response to these marauders is still, all too often, that of Michael Hartmann: "We can't give up the diversity." Unfortunately for them, the "diversity" to which they are so devoted involves seeking a modus vivendi with a brutal, inflexible ideology that has marked their own society, culture, and moral code for annihilation.


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Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe vs. Pure Storage FlashArray
Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe vs Pure Storage FlashArray comparison
Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report
Read 16 Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe reviews.
Manager of Platform Software at a healthcare company
Proactive and responsive support, straightforward to set up, highly scalable in terms of performance and capacity
Performance-wise, this product is faster than pretty much anything we've seen. In terms of the density and how it compares, what we have in-house... Read more →
Abdul-Salam
Sr. Manager - System Analyst (Datacenter Infrastructure) at Sohar International
Built-in SRDF helps reduce our bandwidth requirements, through compression and dedupe capabilities
The main improvement for us is that we have seen up to 12x performance improvements after moving from earlier, mid-range Dell EMC storage to... Read more →
SajithEruvangai
IT System Specialist - Operations & Infrastructure at a insurance company
User-friendly, fast performance, good data compression and deduplication capabilities
One of the requirements from our developers and test and development team is that from time to time, they want to clone the production environment.... Read more →
Free Report: Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe vs. Pure Storage FlashArray
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe vs. Pure Storage FlashArray and other solutions. Updated: January 2022.
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features." "We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN." "There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The SRDF site-to-site replication for the volumes is the most important feature for us. That enables us to do site recovery and replication for our VMware infrastructure." "We find the service level option to provision storage very valuable. The ability to define different service levels for storage groups helps us in prioritizing our workload at the infrastructure level." "We like the compression, dedupe, and I/O on the PowerMax. They are better than on the XtremIO." "We removed the need to observe whether we ran into issues with the performance of disks or number of IOPS. Previously, our Oracle Database would throw us performance errors. Now, with PowerMax, everything runs smoothly." "Technical support has been excellent." "The solution's snapshot capabilities and replication are very good features. Snapshots are allowing us to quickly build analytical models directly from production data. This gives us amazing insights into market trends and allows us to build more effective trading algorithms. Replication offers us unparalleled levels of resilience." "There is no management overhead involved in optimizing performance. It does it so well on its own. We don't have to manage much at all. It really is like a set it and forget it solution. My storage engineers love the system. It is a lot less work than our previous systems, which weren't bad by any means. There is not nearly as much management as before. So, we are saving dozens of hours per month for our storage team, and that is a real cost in our business." "The performance is very good on our servers. It's superior. And the QoS capabilities for providing work congestion protection are also important because about 99 percent of our servers are production servers."
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"The solution offers amazing performance." "One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table." "I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand." "At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way." "The code upgrades are very smooth." "The most valuable feature is replication." "Support has been helpful." "This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"I would like to see the management layer improved." "In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented." "The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"It's a relatively new product, but for the next release I would like to see higher bandwidth on the front-end adapters. This would allow even greater scalability for critical workloads and consolidation for non-critical workloads. The hosts may not require that level of I/O performance today. However, it allows us to scale physical non-cloud environments without large investment." "I would like a more informative CloudIQ for iOS. What you can see via the web UI significantly differs from what you can see via the web application." "They can make the GUI better, especially for the ones that come out of the box. We did encounter a bit of difficulty in setting up the storage. We had to deploy Solutions Enabler on a Linux machine to be able to fully interact with the storage. They need to upgrade the web interface for the management of the storage that comes out of the box. The management interface for NFS is also a bit old and not very intuitive." "We would like more documentation, a guide to the features of the PowerMax." "If the solution had more power-saving capabilities, it would be quite nice." "I think management is where PowerMax is weakest. We're still managing it like we managed EMC arrays in the early 2000s. There's a slicker, fancier GUI that does more things, but at the end of the day, you still have to dig into the command line and issue a lot of the same commands that we still were using almost 20 years ago." "Firmware updates are a bit painful because you have to involve their support, as opposed to having the ability to do it yourself." "We brought up this question to the implementation engineer. We were comparing use cases where a customer is using RecoverPoint, then goes to PowerMax. In our previous setup with XtremIO, we were using RecpverPoint and keeping snapshots for 30 days, every few seconds. With PowerMax, I requested this for every 15 minutes, keeping it for a week. The engineer's answer was, "There will be too many snapshots. It might slow down the system." This is specifically for the use cases where there is RecoverPoint. While PowerMax works with RecoverPoint, and you can use it, there should be some way where you can have even more snapshots and not to worry about performance and system cache."
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"The integration capabilities could be improved." "Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see." "We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance." "The solution is not cheap." "The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in." "Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure." "FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool." "Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"We hope that with the combination of both NVMe and SCM the next PowerMax will be much cheaper that the one which we acquired."
"Negotiate hard and consider the commercial advantages/benefits to Dell EMC for onboarding your product."
"One area for improvement, one that everybody always comes to, is price... it's still quite expensive to purchase these big arrays... For us, the pricing doesn't make Dell EMC uncompetitive."
"In terms of price-performance, it beat out other competitors when we were taking a look and comparing it to the market. That was one of the biggest driving points for us."
"The labor savings and support have been significant. If we're talking 100 hours of labor every three months, that is 100 hours of a database engineer costs. There are performance latency numbers as well as costs associated with recovering data that gets lost, and this system doesn't lose data. You can look at numbers that go around the cost of downtime, if data is not available. This system doesn't go down. Everyone's ROI is going to be unique, but the dependability and performance of the system combined with its ease of operation will definitely save businesses of all sizes money."
"Its price is competitive, but they need to have a different price for West Africa. They can do better with the price point to allow us to scale even more. We wanted to migrate our entire storage infrastructure to PowerMax, which would require us to buy more capacity, and from the price point, it didn't attract us."
"The PowerMax appliance pricing was reasonable. Dell EMC quoted us a substantial discount."
"Support pricing is very high. Our support contract is about to expire and Dell EMC provided us with an extremely high renewal quote. It was four times more than the support contract for our previous EMC VNX solution."
More Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe Pricing and Cost Advice →
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Dell EMC PowerMax is the world's fastest storage array. It delivers new levels of performance and efficiency with a future-proof architecture that features end-to-end non-volatile memory express (NVMe) and a built-in machine learning engine. PowerMax is built on the comprehensive functionality and proven resiliency of Dell EMC's flagship storage platform. It is designed for six-nines of availability and offers data-at-rest encryption (D@RE), massive scalability, and best-in-class data protection with Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), the gold standard in remote replication.
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Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 16 reviews while Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 33 reviews. Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe is rated 9.0, while Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe writes "CloudIQ ensures that all our arrays are properly communicating so we can see performance and storage capacities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Provides protection against ransomware threats with immutable snapshots, and it is well known for its scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades". Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series and Dell EMC XtremIO, whereas Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage and HPE 3PAR StoreServ. See our Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe vs. Pure Storage FlashArray report.
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In his article, in remembrance of the 1917 revolution in Russia and temptations of communist ideology, Roman Joch mentioned an episode of an unsuccessful resistance against Bolsheviks by cadets and women volunteers. Communism believed to liberate the oppressed and to emancipate women started by killing just women and children.
The best-known examples of women political leaders in recent history are Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, or Bena zir Bhut to. In Europe today, it is Angela Merkel who has just won her fourth term as German chancellor. As the Merkel phenomenon is remarkable and exceptional, we have asked Matthew Qvortrup, an author of her biography, to write about her leadership style.
The fact is that women are underrepresented in traditional functions and institutions of power, in politics and business. During the second half of the 20th century there were less than 4 percent women at the helm of their countries. Although a number of women in managerial positions in the US (less in Europe) has increased in that period, an average ratio of women in national parliaments still appears around 15 percent. In this context, we are proud to feature a piece by Dita Přikrylová, our Young Leaders Program Alumna, presenting Czechitas that she founded to break a gender barrier in IT education.
We keep our focus on Central Europe. Robert Schuster asks to what extent Central Europe presents a microcosm of the whole Europe. Ivan Mikloš claims that it is "fundamentally important for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to remain within the core of a multi-track European Union" and for Zsoltán Kiszelly the EU is the best available framework for modernization for Visegrad countries.
During the upcoming international conference "The Shape of (Central) Europe" we will present expert findings regarding competitiveness, education, governance, security, and quality of life to facilitate more structured and fact-based debate about the role Central Europe could play in shaping Europe's future.


A much needed loooonnngggg break from working just happened.
Why? Because I spent time with the kids and Beau doing family things, and tried to find a groove of doing family things, all while trying to also live our day-to-day busy lives.
Good news! We found one (a groove that is). Now that the groove is set (word!) the blog is "back in business" and I couldn't be more stoked.
Stoked to be so excited to bring you so many changes, good ones of course, to Flip Flop Kitchen over the next few months (did you notice the new website design?!?!). So sit back, relax, and get ready to read all about our private lives and scrumptious recipes. But, in the meantime I bring you this cowboy caviar, my friends.
There really isn't any caviar (AKA fish eggs) in it.
It literally takes under 10 min to make.
Everyone that eats it will want the recipe.
This recipe was devoured at Nanette Lorraine's 3rd birthday party. It was a huge hit. We served it with blue and white tortilla chips. Gotta give people options. Ya feel me? ;) Peeps kept asking what it was and how it was made- in between bites and mouthfuls of it, of course.
So, what exactly is in this cowboy caviar, you ask? Alright. I'll tell. I'll tell.
Dressing- olive oil, red wine vinegar, fresh lime juice, dried oregano, dried basil, red chili flakes, cilantro, and salt & pepper.
If you are making ahead of time place ingredients in one bowl and make dressing in another bowl. Don't mix the dressing with the dip until serving.
IF there is any leftover (or if you make a double batch like we do) this makes for a great easy weekday meal. Throw the leftover cowboy caviar in a crockpot with your favorite kind of chicken. Serve over rice and top with sour cream. Easy peasy.
Use fresh ears of corn (2). Pop them in the microwave with husks on for 2 min per ear.
Delicious dip that is a hit at any special occasion. Cowboy caviar takes less than 10 min to throw together. Serve with tortilla chips.
Dressing: whisk all dressing ingredients into small bowl. Set aside.
Prep Ears of Corn: leaving husk on, microwave both ears of corn together for 4 minutes. Let cool. Cut corn off of cob. Place in large bowl.
Dip: Add all dip ingredients to large bowl with corn.
Combine: right before serving pour the dressing into the large bowl with the dip. Toss gently to combine.
- 2 Tablespoons lime juice is equivalent to 1 large lime or two small- If you are making ahead of time place ingredients in one bowl and make dressing in another bowl. Don't mix the dressing with the dip until serving.- Store in fridge for up to 5 days or freeze in ziplock bag.
Show me how you chef like-a-boss. Snap a pic and hashtag it #flipflopkitchen when you make this. I'd ❤ to see how you made it!


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Q: Hide cursor from objects on the webpage I want to hide my mouse cursor whenever someone goes over the object tag. But cursor:none is not working for objects while it works with rest of the page.
Here is what i am using but i am failing do it.
<object id="obj" class="obj" style="cursor:none;" data='bla-bla.pdf'
    type='application/pdf'
    width='1000px'
    height='640px'>

cursor:none is not working. Please tell me any way to do this.

A: Just use an overlay; <object>s can act funny.
HTML:

    <object id="obj" src="blablabla.pdf"></object>

CSS:
#obj_container{
    position:relative;
}
#obj{
    position:absolute;top:0;left:0;
    z-index:2;cursor:none;
}

See this JSFiddle demo for more complete code.

A: Yes try using div:
Your HTML:

    <object id="obj" class="obj" data='bla-bla.pdf' type='application/pdf'
     width='1000px' height='640px'>

A: How about something like this: http://jsfiddle.net/ZBv22/
It applies a mask over the object element where you specify cursor:none.
The only issue is if you need the object to be clickable/interacted with. Depending on your targeted browsers (modern, IE11+), you could add pointer-events: none to address that.
http://caniuse.com/pointer-events

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