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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Obama Still Will Not Say "Islamic" Terror

Obama Admits Terror 'Possible' in California Shooting

Thursday, 03 Dec 2015 12:01 PM

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A mass shooting in California on Wednesday was possibly a terrorist attack, though law enforcement authorities have not yet identified a motive, President Barack Obama said a day after the rampage in San Bernardino that left 14 people dead.

San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan identified the suspects as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27. Both fled the scene of the shooting, a social services center, and were later killed by police in a daytime gun battle in a nearby residential neighborhood.

"At this stage we do not yet know why this terrible event occurred," Obama told reporters in the Oval Office. "It is possible that this was terrorist-related but we don’t know. It is also possible that this was workplace-related."

Farook had been employed by San Bernardino County for five years, most recently as an environmental specialist, and had worked with some of the victims, who were attending a holiday party at the center.

Law enforcement authorities have not ruled out terrorism as a possible motive. Farook and Malik used rapid-fire rifles and were dressed in "assault-style clothing," Burguan said.

Farhan Khan, Farook’s brother-in-law, told reporters he didn’t know what may have driven the couple to attack, at a news conference after the shooting organized by the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Americans Oppose Expansion Of Mosques Wherever They Are

Muslims Tried To Make Huge Move In US Town… But These Guys Had a MUCH Different Plan

WILMOT PROVISO NOVEMBER 21, 2015 AT 6:14PM

A plan to build a new mosque in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was shouted down at a town planning meeting by citizens who were opposed to radical Islam and its connections to terror, WUSA-TV reported.

The Islamic Center of Fredricksburg has, according to trustee Samer Shalaby, outgrown its current building. The group had sought to build a new 8,000 square foot mosque and Islamic center for its growing congregation.

However, at a county planning board meeting on Tuesday — just four days after the Paris attacks left over 130 people dead — citizens in the area let Shalaby have it.

At the meeting, those opposed went off on the Muslims in attendance, saying, ”Every one of you are terrorists!” and “I don’t care what you say, what you think!”

An unidentified man, who said he would do everything in his power to stop the mosque from being built, yelled, “Shalaby, you can say whatever you want, every Muslim is a terrorist, period!” and “Shut your mouth, I don’t want to hear your mouth!”

Other protesters, who were less vitriolic, worried that a new, larger Islamic center might take in refugees from Syria.

Shalaby tried to fight back, saying, “You keep hoping that, as we evolve in this country, that we will not completely put a blanket designation on any group … especially for religion.”

However, the tense meeting was finally broken up after about an hour, without approval for the mosque.

Shalaby said he hoped to have another meeting, but he requested more security and a moderator. If the meeting was only to bash Muslims, Shalaby told The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, “That’s not going to accomplish anything.”

He also didn’t rule out filing a lawsuit.

“I sure hope it will not,” he said, when asked if it the dispute could come to legal action. “We’ve been here in a peaceful fashion for many years. I hope that calm minds will prevail.”

H/T Mad World News

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Ignore The Obvious, Ignore The Facts, Don't Worry, Be Happy--The Mantra Of The Obama Administration

Does Obama really think it can’t happen here?

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Personal Liberty News Desk isis111615

Mouthpieces for the Obama administration spent part of their weekend news junket telling America it’s unlikely that ISIS could stage a Paris-style attack on U.S. soil. Almost everyone who’s not on the White House payroll immediately disagreed.

Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said that the Islamic State’s terrorist aspirations on U.S. soil makes for an apples-and-oranges comparison, viewed alongside the spectacular attack last week in Paris.

Rhodes “told reporters that one big difference between the situation in Europe and that in the U.S. is that ‘thousands’ of fighters have traveled to Syria and then returned to Europe,” reports CNN. “The number being tracked in America is far smaller — around 40, according to an estimate by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper earlier this year.”

In a syndicated report, CNN said the Obama administration is trying to assure Americans that ISIS’ ability to stage a large-scale, coordinated attack in the United States “is limited.”

As soon as those statements went public, everyone from law enforcement to members of the mainstream press — including CNN’s own Jake Tapper, who interviewed Rhodes — did a double-take.

“If this is what ISIS looks like ‘contained,’ I shudder to think what ISIS looks like ‘uncontained,’” said Tapper, referencing President Obama’s unfortunately timed remarks, given only a day before last Friday’s attack. “We don’t seem to be one step ahead of any terrorist group these days.”

New York police commissioner Bill Bratton, who knows a thing or two about working under a progressive leftist administration, said Monday he doesn’t buy the White House line that ISIS can’t wreak massive violence on Americans where they live.

“[D]o you disagree with the White House, who this past weekend seemed to say that an attack on the United States wasn’t possible?” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough asked Bratton. “They [the Obama administration] said they [ISIS] didn’t have the capability to attack here.”

“Oh, I don’t believe that,” Bratton replied. “We work every day based on the premise that they have that capability. What we just saw in Paris, why do we think that wouldn’t happen here?”

Obama has been stubbornly reluctant to acknowledge the Islamic State’s reach. He sniped at a reporter Monday for asking whether the president really understands the Islamic State “well enough to defeat them and to protect the homeland,” and continues to emphasize a “hate the sin; not the sinner” approach to Islamist extremism.

But naming the enemy — as well as its ideology — and recognizing his ability to cause harm is nothing but simple good sense, as Examiner’s Kareem Grant observed Monday.

It’s “not fear mongering” to admit that to the American people, writes Grant; it’s “simply stating the facts, because the fact of the matter is that terrorist groups like ISIS and Boko Haram, the group responsible for killing 2,000 people in Nigeria, are becoming a dangerous threat to the world, and it’s time to stop living in a land of false comfort and acknowledge this threat.”

Will Europe Awaken To Their Invasion Or Will They Continue Their Politically Correct Denial Of The Obvious

Europe is on Fire

By Dr. Phyllis Chesler November 17, 2015 , 10:00 am

Islamists have just massacred hundreds of civilians in Paris. This horrendous deed is being celebrated by ISIS. The President of France has announced that these six separate but coordinated attacks were perpetrated by ISIS.

Whether it was planned by Al-Bagdadi himself; whether a dozen lone wolf internet junkies decided to act on his behalf; whether these assassins were French citizens trained in the Arab Middle East; whether they belonged to another Jihadist group and “jumped ship” and joined ISIS’s march back to the 7th century is irrelevant. These attacks bear ISIS’s signature of the cold-blooded execution of captives, one by one. However, the fact that the killers were themselves not masked reminds me of Al-Qaeda and confirms that they were on suicide killer missions.

These are death artists who specialize in simultaneous “blitzkrieg” or killer bee swarm attacks. They are men who live in the shadows until they are all over their targets.

Some of us, myself included, have been warning about the inevitability of just such attacks. We were not heeded by our colleagues or our leaders.

Thus, despite the exceedingly criminal behaviors of Muslims in France, the “city of lights” may not have been prepared for the fifth-column sleeper cells within its midst, the radicalizing effect of hate propaganda via cellphone, satellite, and within French mosques; it may not have comprehended, fully, the grand territorial ambitions of ISIS and the full-force nature of its aggression.

Have no doubt that such a tragic terrorist attack in France means that Israel is more, not less, vulnerable to similar attacks. Israel and America are the “grand prize.” Europe is merely an already softened-up launching pad. Europe has hoisted itself on its own petard in terms of its multicultural relativism–and its failure to demand that immigrants, especially from Muslim and Arab countries, assimilate or leave.

Lately, horrifyingly, Israelis have been stabbed, one by one. They have not been blown up or shot down in the hundreds as was once the case in the early twenty-first century. This must be due to Israel’s counter-terrorism savvy, vigilance, and genius.

I must note that when such Paris-like terrorist attacks were unleashed against Israeli civilians in the past–for example, in 2001-2002–western media and western leaders quickly scapegoated Israel for having “provoked” them and routinely assumed that Israel could easily stop such assaults if only….Israel gave up more land or collectively jumped into the sea.

Journalists always referred to “cycles of violence,” “the justice of Palestinian resistance,” and the Israeli use of “disproportionate force.”

No one is describing the terrorist attacks in Paris in this way. (They may soon do so in terms of French involvement in Syria).

Jean Raspail saw it all coming and wrote about it in 1973 for which he was attacked as a racist.

In his book, The Camp of the Saints, Raspail imagined a flotilla of millions of immigrants traveling from the Ganges to France. An all-powerful multi-culturally “correct” intelligentsia that had taught Europe that it must atone for its racist, colonial guilt, welcomes the invasion. Europe, (European culture) is destroyed, both from within and without. The novel is raw, thrilling, overwhelming, ironic, cruel, bitter and every bit as brilliant as George Orwell’s 1984.

I wrote about Raspail’s prescient vision in my 2005 book The Death ofFeminism. I doubt that politically correct thinkers ever read it.

Europe did not wake up after 3/11 (Madrid) or 7/7 (London) nor did it factor in the Mumbai massacres in which a small band of jihadists overwhelmed hundreds of civilians all at once and targeted only the religious Jews for torture. Europe did not believe that the attacks against Israel could happen to them. On the contrary. Europe acted as if by sacrificing Israel they would be spared.

Clearly, that is not the case. Will Europe now understand that Muslim jihadists have declared war—real war—against infidels and against the West? That it is both a new and a very old kind of war, one characterized by extra-state actors attacking civilians and hiding behind civilians in order to gain territory—and, at the same time, slowly, carefully, strategically acquiring nuclear weaponry.

Yes, Ghenghis Khan now has chemical and potentially nuclear weapons.

What is President Obama, who called ISIS the JV team, who recently insisted that ISIS was no longer a threat–going to do about it? When is he going to state that the war is against fundamentalist Islam, not against “terrorism,” not against “extremism?” Obama understands that this attack was launched “against all humanity.” He has never understood this when Israel has been under attack.

What is President Hollande going to do about it?

Now, I am going to say something cold-hearted, something that I began thinking about as the people were being murdered in Paris.

If I were in charge of Israeli intelligence I would not share it with anyEuropean country until or unless the EU rescinds its vote on labelling/boycotting goods from Judea and Samaria; until and unless it directed its media to tell the truth about Israel instead of defaming it; until or unless the EU puts Palestinian terrorists on trial for the murder most foul of Israeli civilians.

Reprinted with author’s permission from Israel National News

Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/54002/europe-is-on-fire-opinion/#Bg2Q4kD1beCLy6kt.99

Iraq Is A Mess, Libya Is A Disaster, Syria Is A Tinderbox, Just Like Obama Wants

Giuliani: We Should've Had 30,000 to 40,000 Troops in Iraq

Rudy Giuliani (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

By Greg Richter | Monday, 16 Nov 2015 08:07 PM

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The United States should have left a significant number of troops in Iraq which would have stopped the rise of ISIS and prevented such acts as the Paris terror attacks that left 129 dead, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says.

"I've been very sad all weekend," Giuliani said Monday on MSNBC's"Hardball." "Friday night and Saturday was tough, emotionally living through September 11 reminded me so much of it. And I thought we put this behind us. And, of course, we haven't."

The Paris attacks shouldn't have happened, he said, and wouldn't have if a residual force had been left behind after the Iraq War.

"I don't care about public opinion; I care about the national security of the United States," Giuliani said. "We should have 30,000 or 40,000 troops in Iraq. If we had had them there consistently, ISIS would never have emerged."

A remaining force would have picked up information on the Paris attack immediately, he said.

"John McCain warned five years ago we've got to go in. We've got to go into Syria. We've got to close this vacuum," Giuliani said.