I am against bullying of all kinds—even in the animal world—and it’s especially disheartening that this tabby tyrant is egged on by a group of spectators, much like kids would do in a playground fight.

Some are already holding this cat up as a hero and believe that this is an isolated incident of a brave feline going up against great odds because he was hungry and didn’t want the ‘gator to eat all of the chicken. People who think this can be thankful that there are investigative reporters like yours truly who take the time to delve into the matter to discover what’s really going on.

Through extensive research, I’ve uncovered more videos that show this is not an isolated incident and I now believe that it was the cat who put out the chicken to lure the ‘gator out of the water to persecute it.

Doubt me? Check out this video of what I believe to be the same gray tabby cat picking on other alligators:

Need more evidence? Then watch this video of the SAME cat. It was reportedly taken shortly after the LSU Tigers had thrashed the Florida Gators 41-11 back in October. The feline, I have learned, was “cat calling” the alligator and going on about how much his team sucks when the reptile finally decided to stand up for himself.

The ‘gator came out of the water—this is what the cat wanted all along—and walked over to the cat to ask him what exactly his problem was. The cat then bitch-slapped him with no real provocation.

This clip has a couple of curse words in it, so it might not be safe for work. It’s not the cat or ‘gator cursing, sadly the foul language comes from others who are once again cheering the cat on as he picks on yet another innocent alligator:

So what can be done about this? Are we to sit idly by while this pussy-cat makes victims out of more ‘gators?

Fortunately, President Obama has already taken the initiative to stop bullying. The president is right when he says it’s a responsibility that we all share and to take on this important issue between rounds of golf and lamenting that Warren Buffet secretary can’t report her $200,000 annual salary as capital gains like her boss does.

If you think that it’s hard being a kid ( or a billionaire’s secretary) that is being bullied, imagine how hard it is being an alligator—an animal that has constantly found itself on and off the endangered species list—to have to endure the shame of being picked on by a kitty.

The White House, under the direction of Obama, has even created a tax payer supported website to address bullying, stopbullying.gov.

Here are some tips from the White House to help those who are being bullied. I have updated them so that they also apply to alligators—an overlooked minority that is often the victim of bullies. I know that this is a wide-spread problem because I watch “Swamp People.”:

• Your Feelings are Important. Do not blame yourself. It is easy to question whether you are the problem. But no matter what someone says or does, you should not be ashamed of who you are or what you feel. Be proud of who you are. No matter what they say, there are wonderful things about you. Keep those in mind instead of the disrespectful messages you get from the people (or cats) who are bullying you. Alligators should take pride in the fact that they are a species that have been around for 2oo million years and are Lousiana’s state reptile. Not too shabby.

• Do not be afraid to get help. Sometimes it helps to just talk to someone who is not personally involved. Teachers, counselors, and others are there to help. Seeing a counselor or other professional does not mean there is something wrong with you. Alligators are cautioned against seeking help from Cajuns in fishing boats, especially ones followed by camera crews.

• Walk away. Do not let them get to you. If you walk away or ignore them, they will not get that satisfaction. Alligators should just swim away. Cats hate water.

• Find a safe place. Go somewhere that you feel safe and secure like the library, a favorite teacher’s classroom, or the office. Alligators should probably just hide under a cypress stump somewhere. The presence of large carnivorous reptiles tend to disrupt libraries and classrooms. 

While Obama has not specifically addressed the problems of cats bullying alligators, we should all work to explain to our pets how wrong it is to pick on animals that are different from them as a way of dealing with their own insecurities.

Of course, the alligators could just eat cats that taunt them. That would work too.

The Bible, after all, teaches that Jesus is God, the maker of all creation.

I have a hard time believing that he would waste time wandering in the mire of the early 21st Century politics of the U.S.A. I imagine God would have better things to do, if he chose to appear in human form in our times.

Apparently, not everyone believes as I do.

The American Values Network, a leftist Christian non-profit, has created a soon-to-be released animated Internet movie, depicting Christ as a tea party leader.

The movie was produced in order to make the point that Jesus’ teachings in no way coalesce with what the tea party believes. The American Values Network was created by Burns Strider, former senior advisor and director of Faith Based Outreach for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign when she ran for president in 2008.

In the movie, words are changed in Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount” in a “Sermon on the Mall”—meaning the National Mall–to disparage the tea party.

Jesus is flanked by so-called tea party leaders (his disciples) including Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Ayn Rand, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

Here’s the trailer:

My first reaction to this is did I miss something? I have been following the tea party since it’s inception and never saw it as a religious movement or one that proclaimed that they are doing the Lord’s work. Of course, there is a strong Christian contingent of the tea party—that’s a given.

I have been to many tea party meetings, both as news reporter and as a participant. Working as a political columnist, I often opined favorably about the tea party. I saw it as a Constitution advocacy group and I agreed with it.

Unbeknownst to me, I was chosen as political liaison for the American Patriot Tea Party—a tea party group out of Franklin Parish—because I was deemed a friend of the movement.

After I was told and accepted the position, my job was to update the group on political happens in local, state and national government and I performed that duty at meetings. I don’t think there was ever a Jesus liaison.

I seem to remember a prayer opening every meeting, but after the prayer religion wasn’t on the agenda.Tea partiers seemed much more concerned with saving the country than saving souls.

Franklin Parish is an ultra-religious region of Louisiana, a state that sits firmly in the Bible Belt—excluding New Orleans, of course. I have also been to other tea party meetings around the state, including one in Alexandria that consisted of tea party groups throughout Louisiana. I don’t even recall if that one was opened with a prayer, but I know that religion wasn’t anywhere near the forefront of discussion, which centered on reducing government, getting real conservatives into office and educating the young about the Constitution.

If the American Values Network knows something that I don’t know about the tea party, I would be surprised. I doubt that any member of the group has actually been to a tea party meeting.

More likely, they are relying on tired, old stereotypes of conservatives as narrow-minded Bible thumpers who want to shove The Good Book down people’s throats if they don’t see things their way. They also think that conservatives are basically evil, greedy people who hate the poor.

Here is their rewriting of the Sermon on the Mount from the movie:

Jesus: Blessed are the mean in spirit, for theirs in the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for lower taxes, for their own pockets shall be filled.

Blessed are those who follow my prophet Ayn Rand and disparage the merciful, for they shall never have to show mercy.

Blessed are the pure in ideology, for they can demonize any who disagree.

Blessed are those who refuse to compromise, for their obstinacy will obstruct progress

Blessed are those who are persecuted for the Right’s sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you when you revile and persecute and utter all kinds of evil falsely.. Rejoice and be glad. Great is your reward, for in the same way the prophets Beck and Limbaugh have persecuted others before you.

You have heard it said, “Turn the other cheek, and love your neighbor as yourself,” but I say to you, demonize your enemies and never forger their slight against you.

You have heard it said to leaders in ancient times, “If you do away with malicious talk and spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and oppressed, then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your night shall become like the noonday.” But I say, malicious talk is what generates ratings and the only thing that shall rise from governments caring for the hungry and oppressed are more parasites to feed.

You have heard that it was said to government leaders , “Seek justice, rescue the oppressed, plead for the widow, defend the cause of the poor and needy,” but I say run as fast as you can from churches preaching social justice, and seek only your individual interest.

For any who believe our governments should help the poor show contempt for their Maker and whoever ignores the needy honors God.

You have heard it said, “Don’t swear falsely,” but I say to you, if uttering falsehoods furthers our cause, it is righteous.

Therefore, if your eye causes you to sympathize with parents who have lost their jobs, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your eyes than for your whole body to go into socialist hell. If you are tempted to extend your right hand to help a neighbor in need, cut it off and throw it away; it’s better to lose one hand than to help someone who clearly doesn’t want to work.

Beware of the Old Testament prophets who came in sheep’s clothing but inwardly were socialist wolves. You shall know them by their fruits , for in the name of God they commanded government leaders to defend the cause of the poor and needy. But we all know such things are un-American and threaten our economic freedom.

All then who hear these words of mine and act on them shall be like the wise people who built their nation on individual interest. Threats came from poor children wanting better schools, from billionaires saying they shouldn’t pay lower taxes than their maids, from regulators wanting to keep Wall St. and oil companies in check. But the nation rejected all of these and did not fall, because it was built on self-interest.
But all who hear these words of mine and do not act on them shall be like a foolish people who built their nation on a belief that our neighbor makes us stronger. They wasted their money on Social Security and Medicare for the elderly, on government jobs for teachers and cops, and on repairing crumbling bridges and roads. And so that nation fell—and great was its fall!

The idea that the tea party would be receptive to a speech like this speaks volumes about the American Values Network’s ignorance of the movement.

The tea party focuses on adherence to the Constitution and limiting the size of government and, for the most part, tries to steer clear of social-conservative issues.

I’m sure there are exceptions, but there are exceptions in any groups of people that unit around a movement.

I have known pro-life people, and abortion is a central issue among religious conservatives, who are part of the tea party who don’t want the issue brought up at tea party meetings because they feel it distracts from the larger message of smaller government.

And saying that the tea party is “mean in spirit” is just lie.That’s not the case. The American Values Network can produce all the questionable photos it wants of tea party people carrying pictures of President Obama with a Hitler mustache, but we know the truth. If these people exist, they are the rare exception to the rule. In most cases, they would be asked to leave any tea party rally.

In a parting shot to the American Values Network, I don’t think that y’all quite have a handle on the philosophy of Jesus that you seem to think you have.

Jesus said “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” If Jesus believed what you think he did, he would have said, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars, so Caesar can go out and do God’s work for him.”

Jesus taught salvation on an individual level and not as part of some great collective in which the government taxes people so that corrupt officials can decide the best way to distribute it to accrue power for themselves. The last 100 years can attest to how that system has lead to the wholesale slaughter of millions around the world.

As Tom Paine wrote,”Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” Evil really ain’t the Jesus way.

As you gather with friends and family this year around the warm glow of Christmas tree lights to celebrate the birth of Our Savior, be reminded that if Jesus were here today he would strap dynamite around his waste and send a bus load of Israeli children to hell while shouting “Allahu Akbar”.

If you didn’t know it, Jesus wasn’t a Jew. He was actually the first Palestinian martyr and a Muslim prophet. That’s what the Palestinian Authority is telling us:

I wonder what else that Zionist- tool, Ms. Gurdy Johnson–my old Sunday School teacher at the First Baptist Church–never let me know!

Thankfully, we have a reliable source like the PA to finally set us straight about who Jesus was…a follower of Mohammed. These are the same people that have clued us into other lies like the Zionist Holocaust hoax. Six million massacred by the Nazis? Oh, what those wacky Jews won’t come up with for a little sympathy and attention, like telling us that Jesus was actually a Jew from Judea.

It’s interesting that Jesus could be a follower of Mohammed when Mohammed, the founder of Islam, lived about six hundred years after Jesus. He is Jesus after all, so I guess he can do whatever he wants to do —praise Allah.

These revelations about Jesus is welcome news on the heels of the Fort Hood massacre carried out by Major Nidal Hasan–certainly not a terrorist–being listed by the White House as simply another case of workplace violence.

We all know how stressful it can be to deal with a bunch of unruly co-workers after staying up late reading articles on how to build bombs and answering e-mails from Anwar al-Awlaki, the Islamic cleric who was unjustly killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen a couple of months back. Just makes you want to grab a semi-automatic pistol and waste 13 of them.

So, we owe a debt to the PA and Obama Administration for helping clear up so many misconceptions, which are obvious ploys of the Zionist media and their lackeys, like old Ms. Gurdy.

I’ll bet those cookies that she used to bring to Sunday School were really made from cut-up Palestinian children—the horror of it all.

It’s a great country, sure. But we need to work on our standards.

It’s weak. It doesn’t seem to have the punch of all the celebrity mau-mau videos from two years ago – if for no other reason that outside of Alyssa Milano, Ron Livingston and Eriq La Salle it’s a bunch of D-List nobodies on the video. But it will likely put some sheeple into polling booths. Make sure they’re not there before you are.

So, in 2008 when 4 Black Panther members enacted this exact hypothetical, it would only seem right that questions be raised.  The Bush Administration did what any responsible administration would have done given the facts: they filed a voter intimidation lawsuit.  Let the United States justice system do its job, right?  Innocent until proven guilty.

Well, unfortunately, as we all know, a man was elected to office that same year who has no apparent desire to comply with the standards of this country.  While the voter intimidation would in no way have affected the outcome of the election, a rule is a rule, and violators should be punished.  Again, obviously I live in a different world than the man who currently runs our country, because his administration seems to think otherwise.  The newest fallout from the lawsuit comes, unsurprisingly, in the form of a lack of government transparency:

The Justice Department has tried to hide the involvement of high-level political officials in the dismissal of a controversial voter-intimidation lawsuit against members of the New Black Panther Party, a federal commission concluded in a draft report.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights also weighed in on the news break:

The department’s reversal in the case, which drew criticism from conservatives, indicates that its Civil Rights Division is failing to protect white voters and is “at war with its core mission of guaranteeing equal protection of the laws for all Americans.” 

So, there will be no lawsuit, and we will never know who dismissed the lawsuit.  Does anyone else have a serious problem with that?  The facts speak for themselves.  I’m not exactly sure how the Justice Department can “justify” dismissing a lawsuit with obvious documented evidence to support the prosecution’s case….

I mean, there is video of these guys standing outside a polling station with military uniforms and nightsticks….and somehow a lawsuit aimed at uncovering the truth of what happened is dismissed?

This issue is systemic with the Justice Department and Democrats in general.  The first aspect of this case is the preservation of minority rights.  Translation: minorities are exempt from prosecution in all political situations.  Period.  The second is a lack of transparency.  Whoever made this decision needs to stand behind it…but again, left-wingers and politicians live ina different reality than the rest of the world.  Because when I make a decision, I stand by it, and if it’s wrong I admit it.  I guess it’s really wrong of me to hold politicians to the same standards that citizens of this country are held…

Then you have the underlying issue to all of this madness and obscurity, which is Democratic voter fraud.  If you look at every election in the history of this country, fraud has run rampant.  If you look at the election 4 days from now, it is happening as we speak.

Examples?  Harry Reid offering free food for people coming to the polls.  Voting machines in Nevada mysteriously checking Harry Reid’s name before the voter goes behind the curtain.  Machines checking all Democratic candidates when the button for selecting all Republican candidates is pressed….4 out of 5 times.  “Street money”admitting being doled out in Pennsylvania, bribing poor voters to go to the polls.  Democratic legislators running the polls in Illinois.

Black Panthers standing outside polling stations in paramilitary uniforms, wielding nightsticks.

We look down on Afghanistan for their voting fraud?  Are you kidding me?  At least they can admit they have an issue, and at least their voting fraud is not a product of stealth and subversion.  At least politicians are transparent, even if they are corrupt. We’re just as corrupt as any nation in world in terms of electoral fraud, but our situation is made so much worse because we pretend it doesn’t exist.  We can’t even address this issue without offending minorities or upsetting the oh-so-important unspoken rules allowing Democrats to carry out illegal voting measures.

A Washington Post article suggested much the same:

The case tapped into deep divisions within the Justice Department over whether the agency should focus on protection of historically oppressed minorities or enforcement of laws without regard to race.

Every aspect of this case speaks to the corruption of the Justice Department, to the corruption of politically correct democrats, and to the corruption of our electoral system.  It’s just a matter of accepting the facts, and The Left is historically opposed to facts that contradict their reality.  It’s a nonexistent reality.  So the facts are almost always against them.  Apparently, that doesn’t really matter though….

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The ad included the words, “Christian roommate wanted,” along with the woman’s contact information. Had the ad not included the word “Christian,” Haynes said, it would not have been illegal.

Haynes is the Executive Director of Michigan’s Fair Housing Center.  Her explanation of the allegation is as follows:

It’s a violation to make, print or publish a discriminatory statement,” Executive Director Nancy Haynes told Fox News. “There are no exemptions to that.”

If you read it and you were not Christian, would you not feel welcome to rent there?” Haynes asked.

Um. Ok.  First of all if I wasn’t a Christian, I wouldn’t have even seen the ad because I wouldn’t have been in a Christian church….where the ad was posted…

This allegation is outrageous.  People have preferences about who they want to live with.  Is that not reasonable?    If someone is uncomfortable living with a person of another faith, I would think it best to voice that discomfort.  For one thing, if she didn’t express that in the ad, she almost certainly would have said so at any meeting with a potential roommate.

Her attorney voices a similar argument:

“Clearly this woman has a right to pick and choose who she wants to live with,” he said. “Christians shouldn’t live in fear of being punished by the government for being Christians. It is completely absurd to try to penalize a single Christian woman for privately seeking a Christian roommate at church — an obviously legal and constitutionally protected activity.”

People don’t seem to realize that Constitutional freedoms no longer exist. Political correctness has taken the place of the First Amendment.   If you say anything protected by the First Amendment , consider your days numbered.  If you want to tell the truth, a la Juan Williams, or if you want to express your opinions, you will be punished.   Its not politically correct to tell the truth, and obviously its wrong to be politically incorrect, right?

Juan Williams knows the price of telling the truth.  This woman knows the price of exercising her individual freedoms.  Unfortunately, too many others will come to know that price as well.

The problem is not that this law exists.  The fact of the matter is that it is necessary.  Some people are racist, and people of all faiths, skin colors, and handicaps need to be entitled to the same freedoms.  The problem is the way it was enforced.

The Fair Housing Act prevents people from publishing an advertisement stating their preference of religion, race or handicap with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling.

The rule makes sense to prevent discrimination.  I’m not opposed to it on principle.   But come on.  It should not apply to individuals who are looking for someone to split their rent.  I could understand it applying to landlords or people selling property.  But when you’re looking for someone to live with you should be able to pick the person based on any criteria.   Would a Muslim really want to live with a Christian woman who is uncomfortable with someone of another faith?  I would doubt that.  So why does it matter?

It doesn’t mean you’re a racist.  There are logistical, personal, and basic quality of life issues that lead a person to post an advertisement of this sort.  Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, right?  Obviously, this woman would be happier living with a Christian roommate.  Obviously, she is not in entitled to her pursuit of happiness.  But, its ok, she’s entitled to be politically correct…..

So, because this woman expressed a preference for who her roommate should be, she is about to pay the piper.  Her punishment:

Depending on the outcome of the case the woman could face several hundreds of dollars in fines and “fair housing training so it doesn’t happen again.”

She should be outraged at the very thought of a “several hundred dollar fine,” and every resident in the state of Michigan should be outraged by “fair housing training” unless they like throwing their tax money into a garbage disposal.  What a waste of tax payer money…..seems like there’s quite a bit of that happening these days….

Juan Williams said it best:

Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don’t address reality.

Oh…. did he got fired for saying that?

The price of the truth….very costly indeed.

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WASHINGTON, DC: On October 21, 2010, the Center for Security Policy sent urgent alert notices to Juan Williams, news analyst for Fox News and recently fired news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR); Vivian Schiller, President and CEO, NPR; Roger Ailes, President, Fox News Channel; Bill O’Reilly, Fox News Channel; and the Inspector General of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), regarding a possible violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), warning that they may have been the target of an influence operation by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which resulted in the firing of Williams.

 
On October 18 on the Fox News program “The O’Reilly Factor,” Williams stated “I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.” Two days later on October 20, CAIR issued a press release calling on NPR to take action against Williams. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad called Williams’ comments “irresponsible and inflammatory” and complained that “media commentators who launch rhetorical attacks on Islam and Muslims normally do not suffer the professional consequences.”  CAIR’s Awad called on NPR to “address” Williams’ statements.  NPR publicly announced the termination of Williams’ contract the following day, October 21.
 
Center for Security Policy President Frank J. Gaffney Jr. said, “CAIR’s position that journalists like Williams should normally ‘suffer the professional consequences’ apparently created a hostile climate which may have led to Williams’ firing.  Since CAIR’s beginnings in 1994, they have conducted targeted influence operations in the U.S. attempting to censor any criticism of Islam, jihad, and Islamic Shariah law.  Their targets have included dozens of reporters, elected officials and ordinary citizens, but they have never registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.”
 
The Center’s CAIR Observatory project tracks CAIR’s apparent violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).  The FARA states that organizations paid by a foreign principal to engage in activities to “influence any agency or official of the Government of the United States or any section of the public within the United States” must register as a foreign agent and report such activity to the Department of Justice.  CAIR has never registered.

CAIR received $325,000 from the Saudi Arabia-based Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to demand opposition to speech that they consider “Islamophobic.”  The OIC’s “Ten Year Plan” calls on the U.S. government and other nations to enact laws “including deterrent punishments” to counter this so-called “Islamophobic” speech.  The U.S. government funds NPR, which fired Williams, through Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants.

According to Gaffney, “The foreign payment of $325,000 to CAIR, and the OIC ‘Ten Year Plan’ guidance to CAIR to demand ‘deterrent punishments’ – or as CAIR’s Nihad Awad put it, ‘professional consequences’ -  appear to have directed CAIR’s influence operation targeting NPR, which may have led to NPR firing Williams.”
 
The CAIR Observatory project documents CAIR’s receipt of $6.6 million in contributions and $54.5 million in pledges from foreign principals in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iran, over 40 cases of meetings and coordination with those principals, and nearly 100 influence operations against government agencies, military and law enforcement, elected officials, candidates, media outlets and private corporations.
 
Alert notices were sent to Juan Williams, Vivian Schiller, Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, and the CPB Inspector General on October 21st, and formal notifications will be sent on October 22nd.  Copies of this correspondence will be provided to the Department of Justice’s Counterespionage Section in the National Security Division, which is responsible for enforcing FARA and prosecuting violations of that act.
 

 
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Overnight, America was greeted with the news that NPR (National Public Radio) analyst Juan Williams had been fired because he admitted on the Fox News Channel that he sometimes felt uncomfortable on an airplane when Muslim wearing traditional garb were on board.

Williams’ feelings are no doubt shared by millions of other Americans, as well as citizens of the West. After all, the vast majority of terrorist incidents in recent years have been carried out by Muslim Jihadists who invoke Islam to justify their actions. No example hits home more than the September 11^th terrorist attacks.

Some observers in the West may claim that the September 11^th hijackers were “radicals” or “violent extremists” who had hijacked a peaceful religion.

However, this misses the point. It doesn’t matter at all what motives we assign to our enemies. What matters are the motives that they themselves assign to their actions. In warfare, your enemy’s reality becomes your reality—or at least it better, if you want to have a chance at defeating him. As Sun Tzu said: If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

The fact is, the Jihadists go to great lengths to justify their actions based on Islamic Shariah law, the Quran and the Hadiths.

Williams didn’t say anything unusual. Many Americans feel the same way. The only difference is that Williams made his statement on national television and, in the current atmosphere of political correctness, it cost him his job.

But now we also know that this is just part of the story.

It appears that NPR came under pressure from a Muslim hate group with ties to HAMAS: the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

CAIR petitioned NPR to punish Williams for exercising his First Amendment rights under the U.S. constitution.

As it turns out, CAIR and NPR have a pretty cozy relationship, something American taxpayers should be concerned about:

NPR Compares Palin, Gingrich to Historic Anti-Semites, Sympathizes with Former CAIR Publicist

National Public Radio is strongly urging America to get over its apparently rabid case of Islamophobia. On Sunday night’s All Things Considered newscast, anchor Guy Raz played audio clips of Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin opposing the Ground Zero Mosque, and then launched into how much this resembles historic anti-Semitism…

What Raz does not point out is that Rabiah Ahmed is a former publicist and prominent national spokesperson for the Council for Islamic-American Relations (CAIR), a group named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in a terrorist funding case. Raz didn’t so much conduct a news interview with Rabiah Ahmed as much as he joined her in condemning the sad and bigoted state of America today:   

The fact that NPR would act at the behest of CAIR is disturbing, given what we know about CAIR.

CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) organization, the Muslim Brotherhood being the original Jihadist organization founded in 1928 in Egypt. The MB is the political wing of the global Jihadist insurgency, with groups like Al Qaeda, HAMAS, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Abu Sayyaf, and Jemmah Islamiyah being the military wing of that insurgency.

To make an analogy, Al Qaeda is the equivalent of the Waffen SS and the Muslim Brotherhood is the equivalent of the Nazi party.

CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest successful terrorism financing prosecution in U.S. history, the U.S. versus the Holy Land Foundation.

CAIR was co-founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, both of whom were working for the now-defunct Islamic Association for Palestine, which was the Jihadist terrorist group HAMAS’ American affiliate.

Ahmad is infamous for this quote in a 1998 interview:

“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”

CAIR opened its first office with seed money provided by the Holy Land Foundation, the same Muslim charity later shut down for terrorism financing activity.

CAIR is often associated with its spokesman, a guy named Ibrahim Hooper,  who once uttered this gem:

“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”

Outrageous quotes from people associated with CAIR are not at all unusual in fact. One of CAIR’s board members, Ihsan Bagby, once said:

“Muslims can never be full citizens of this country because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country.” 

But people affiliated with CAIR have done far worse than just say outrageous things. The excellent web resource Discover the Networks has documented some of the activities of CAIR’s personnel:

• In September 2003, CAIR’s former Community Affairs Director, Bassem Khafagi, pled guilty to three federal counts of bank and visa fraud and agreed to be deported to Egypt. Federal investigators said that a group Khafagi founded, the Islamic Assembly of North America, had funneled money to activities supporting terrorism and had published material advocating suicide attacks against the United States. Khafagi’s illegal activities took place while he was employed by CAIR.

• In July 2004, Ghassan Elashi, a founding Board member of CAIR’s Texas chapter, was convicted along with his four brothers of having illegally shipped computers from their Dallas-area business, InfoCom Corporation, to Libya and Syria, two designated state sponsors of terrorism. That same month, Elashi was charged with having provided more than $12.4 million to Hamas while he was running the Holy Land Foundation. In April 2005, Elashi and two of his brothers were also convicted of knowingly doing business with Hamas operative Mousa Abu Marzook, who was Elashi’s brother-in-law. Elashi’s illegal activities took place while he was employed by CAIR, whose Dallas-Fort Worth chapter depicted the Elashis’ indictment as “a war on Islam and Muslims.”

• FBI wiretap evidence which was introduced during the 2007 trial of the Holy Land Foundation (a trial that explored and proved HLF’s financial ties to Hamas), proved that CAIR co-founder and CEO Nihad Awad had attended a 1993 Philadelphia meeting of Hamas leaders and operatives who collaborated on a plan to disguise funding for Hamas as charitable donations.

• Randall Todd Royer, who served as a communications specialist and civil rights coordinator for CAIR, trained with Lashkar-I-Taiba, an al Qaeda-tied Kashmir organization that is listed on the State Department’s international terror list. He was also indicted on charges of conspiring to help al Qaeda and the Taliban battle American troops in Afghanistan. He later pled guilty to lesser firearm-related charges and was sentenced to twenty years in prison.  Royer’s illegal activities took place while he was employed by CAIR.

• Onetime CAIR fundraiser Rabih Haddad was arrested on terrorism-related charges and was deported from the United States due to his subsequent work as Executive Director of the Global Relief Foundation, which in October 2002 was designated by the U.S. Treasury Department for financing al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.  

• Abdurahman Alamoudi, one of CAIR’s former directors, is a supporter of both Hamas and Hezbollah, and is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for terrorism-related convictions.

Despite all of this baggage, CAIR was able to influence NPR, a quasi-government agency supported by taxpayer dollars, to end the employment of someone who only said something that CAIR did not like – and not even on NPR’s air.

Denial of free speech is a common tactic of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Shariah law.

Shariah law does not provide for nor protect free speech.  Criticism of Islam, Allah or Mohammed is a criminal offense.  When Muslims attempt to suppress free speech critiques of Islam they are abiding by shariah law, and insisting that we non-Muslims bow before shariah law as well.  NPR has fallen into line obediently in this case.

Given some other information that we know about NPR, this should come as no surprise.

One of the producers of NPR’s morning show is a woman named Asma Khalid.  In 2009, Khalid served on a panel of journalists for ISNA (Islamic Society of North America).

For a journalist with a taxpayer-supported entity such as NPR to be cozy with ISNA is worrisome indeed.

ISNA is a Muslim Brotherhood organization and, like CAIR, was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. ISNA was co-founded by Sami Al-Arian, the U.S. leader for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who was convicted on terrorism charges and sentenced to 57 months in prison, after which he will be deported. ISNA is largely funded by Saudi Wahhabi money. Through its subsidiary, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), ISNA holds the mortgages of between 27% and 80% of the mosques in the USA.

One of the mosques that ISNA owned was the Islamic Society of Boston, which was founded by someone we already mentioned above, Abdurahman Alamoudi. Alamoudi, who was also a Director of CAIR, was the Washington DC regional representative for ISNA.

Today, Alamoudi is serving a 23 year sentence in federal prison after being convicted on terrorism charges.

Finally, this is not the first time that NPR has done CAIR’s bidding.

In the September 26^th 2001, article entitled “Despite Terror Attacks, NPR maintains blacklist of Leading Terror expert” written by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) they state that Steven Emerson, expert on terrorism and Islamic extremism is that since 1998 publicly funded National Public Radio has blacklisted Mr. Emerson. Ironically enough, NPR’s ban came to light just after US cruise missile strikes against Osama bin Laden’s organization, which had been implicated in suicide bomb attacks on US embassies in Africa.

Covering the strike, NPR’s Talk of the Nation program on August 20, 1998 briefly interviewed Emerson, spurring an immediate and furious reaction from CAIR and its followers. One of those followers, Chicago-based activist Ali Abunimah, had, after a previous Emerson appearance on NPR, received assurances that Mr. Emerson would be banned from the network.

As NPR’s Michael Fields put it, Emerson’s appearance had been a “mistake” and “it won’t happen again.”

When, on August 20 Emerson did again appear, Abunimah e-mailed NPR producer Ellen Silva, stating that he was:

“shocked and disappointed that TOTN had Steven Emerson on its call in show today as a guest. Mr. Emerson is a well-documented anti-Arab, anti-Muslim racist. … Last time, I accepted the explanation that it had been an innocent error. But how many errors can be innocent? This is a very serious matter and will require an appropriate response…. We will be listening very carefully, and pursuing this matter further. Ali Abunimah.”

The next day Ms. Silva sent the following servile reply:

“thank you for your letter. our executive producer was in charge of that decision…not me… i take your point and extend an apology to you from the staff of totn. please take care, -ellen”

When Abunimah objected that an apology was not enough, NPR’s Silva did not disappoint the pro-Arab activist, assuring him:

“… you have my promise he [Emerson] won’t be used again. it is npr policy.”

After this correspondence came to light, senior NPR official Jeffrey Dvorkin (now the network’s ombudsman) insisted that Silva misspoke, and that:

“… there never was and never will be a policy of banning or blacklisting at NPR… Mr. Emerson is not “banned”, and in fact we anticipate that he will be on NPR again at an appropriate time.”

The “appropriate time” apparently has yet to arrive, for, even now, after Emerson’s warnings have come true, and we have seen thousands of Americans killed by Islamic-extremists, NPR’s defacto blacklist is still in effect. In the last few days Emerson has been interviewed by CBS, Fox News, MSNBC and many other media outlets, but not NPR, depriving the publicly-funded network’s listeners of his unique insights into the grave problems that our nation must now confront.

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