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Monday, June 15, 2015

We Are At War With Radical Islam. Too Bad The US Leadership Will Not Acknowledge The Fact!

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Pam Geller
Pam Geller
In an exclusive statement to WND, Pamela Geller has a message for Americans about the latest threat against her by the terror group ISIS.
“ISIS is here. The war is here,” warned Geller. “And they aren’t just coming for me. They are coming for anyone who does not submit.”
Despite the changes to her daily life because of pending threats and attempts on her life, Geller says she takes comfort in the determination and grit of everyday Americans who join her in this fight. She said she “stands with and for” the millions of people like herself who “will not relinquish our inalienable rights to devout savages.”
As WND reported, Geller’s home address was tweeted out this week by an ISIS account believed to be linked to an Islamic State jihadist kingpin in Britain. The account has since been suspended.
The tweet that drew so much attention said “#GoForth.” It then revealed Geller’s New York City address very specifically, including her apartment number. The threat came on the heels of the arrest of a third man linked to the plot to behead Geller.
Geller, along with her group the American Freedom Defense Initiative, hosted a “Draw Muhammad” event in Garland, Texas. As WND reported, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi of Phoenix responded to a call to “avenge the prophet” and traveled to Garland, where they were shot and killed by a security guard after opening fire in an apparent attempt to get into the building. The guard was wounded in the attack.
Islamic radicals have since called for Geller’s head, and vow to kill anyone who “blasphemes” Muhammad.
On Monday, WND reported Geller’s monthly security bill is $30,000.
Geller is concerned Americans do not understand the scope of the ISIS plot.
She told WND, “The left, the RINOS and the Islamic apologists say I am ‘provocative’ for standing against Sharia. Were the Jewish children murdered in cold blood by a devout Muslim at a Jewish Day School in France ‘provocative’? Was Daniel Pearl ‘provocative’? Were James Foley, Steve Sotloff or Alan Henning ‘provocative’? Were the shoppers at the kosher deli, Hyper Cacher, ‘provocative’? Are the Yazidi and non-Muslim girls gang-raped and sold into slavery ‘provocative’? Is the existence of Israel ‘provocative’? Are the millions of non-Muslims being ethnically cleansed across the Middle East ‘provocative’? Were the World Trade Center towers ‘provocative’? Were the soldiers in Fort Hood Texas ‘provocative’? Was beheading victim Colleen Hufford in Oklahoma ‘provocative’?”
According to Seacoast Online, Jerry DeLemus, a resident of Rochester, New Hampshire, is planning to hold another “Draw Muhammad” contest later this year despite the terror attack during Geller’s Texas event. He told International Business Daily, “I’m not worried about taking a risk, it’s more important to defend our way of life in this country, our constitutional rights, for everybody.”
DeLemus said he recognizes the events are considered blasphemous to Muslims, but he says he is not concerned. Like Geller, he says the issue of free speech is more critical than any associated risks in hosting another “Draw Muhammad” event.
Twelve people were killed in a terror attack in January at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine that published Muhammad cartoons.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/pam-geller-devout-savages-at-war-with-u-s/#CPiIDtsr0YegGSl2.99

Friday, September 19, 2014

Paying Ransom Is NOT Smart. It Only Leads To More Kidnapping, However, Did Obama Do Enough To Free Foley And Sotloff?

Is President Obama An Accomplice To Murder?

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Is President Obama An Accomplice To Murder?
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Diane Foley talked to CNN's Anderson Cooper about the death of her son, James Foley.

I doubt the Foley and Sotloff families foresaw this outcome. Granted, their sons, combat correspondents James Foley and Stephen Sotloff, worked as combat correspondents. So the families knew — or should have known — about the occupational hazards inherent in reporting from the “shootier” parts of the globe. Nonetheless, no parent actively imagines his own child’s demise — unless he works for Planned Parenthood or NARAL, in which case such unnatural thinking probably earns him a paycheck. But the idea of losing a son to the medieval brutality of a bloodthirsty death cult like the Islamic State (aka ISIS or ISIL) isn’t unnatural; it’s insane, especially centuries after such madness became passé in the civilized world.
Even if the Foleys and Sotloffs did consider the shocking way in which their sons met their fates, I find it highly dubious that they expected to see videos of the murders on the Internet. The digital age has made life vastly simpler, easier and even more fun. Unfortunately, the animals who slaughtered Foley and Sotloff define “fun” differently than do the Foleys, the Sotloffs or even the Obamas. Even now, following the efforts by major social media networks to scrub the ISIS murder videos from their sites, they remain available to any budding jihadi with an Internet connection and a dream.
Even if the Foleys and Sotloffs — knowing the dangers inherent in meeting journalistic deadlines while dodging personal deadlines in places where “deadline” and “flatline” mean roughly the same thing — actually expected their sons to end up as props in islamofascism’s endless theater of the macabre, I’d throw a pile of cash at the idea that they’d spare absolutely no expense in trying to save their sons’ lives. Given a chance to pay a ransom to ISIS or lose their sons to some expat-Brit jihadi with an overdeveloped medulla oblongata and underdeveloped cerebrum, I’m sure the Foleys and Sotloffs would have begged, borrowed, stolen, mortgaged their homes and/or sold their own kidneys to scrape up the cash.
And even if the Foleys and Sotloffs somehow managed to look into the future far enough not only to catch a glimpse of their children’s misadventures but to construct a response plan involving avoiding more than a few off-ramps from the information superhighway while simultaneously scrounging up enough dough to buy their sons’ freedom in the event they were abducted by Muslim serial killers, I am close to 100 percent certain that they never planned for their efforts being thwarted by a Nobel Peace Prize-winning president of the United States.
That’s precisely what happened. Both the Foley and Sotloff families faced cajoling, harassment and outright threats from an Obama regime bent on keeping them from negotiating for their sons’ releases.
James Foley’s mother, Diane, recounted the rough treatment she faced for her efforts. “I was surprised there was so little compassion… We were told we could do nothing… meanwhile our son was being beaten and tortured every day.”
And a spokesman for the Sotloff family tells a similarly horrifying tale. “We had meetings with the administration… and basically he [an official] bullied and hectored them [the family], and they were scared.”
Think about what that means: Obama secretly — and very illegally — traded islamofascist serial killers for alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl, even though Bergdahl willingly sought out his Taliban captors. But when Foley’s and Sotloff’s parents tried to raise private funds to save their sons from a terrorist group that Obama helped arm, Obama threatened them with prison.
I’m sure the Foleys and Sotloffs dreamed of success for their sons. I’m sure they prayed for safe, healthy, comfortable lives filled with love, work and — if they’re anything like my parents — grandbabies, lots and lots of grandbabies. In retrospect, I’m sure they would prefer the relative security of life as a convenience store clerk in Detroit over the risk of spending too much time too close to an army made up of some of the darkest souls outside a maximum security prison. But I’d wager all the money George Soros plans to donate to the Democrats in his life that they never thought they’d lose their children to islamofascists, that those islamofascists would be armed by the President of the United States and that the President of the United States would intervene in order to stop them from saving their sons’ lives.
Foley’s mother recently told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “Our country let Jim down.” She was being kind. From my angle, the President of the United States is an accomplice to her son’s murder.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Another Beheading By ISIS. First Brit Meets The Knife.

Isis video claims to show beheading of British hostage David Haines

David Haines
The aid worker was taken while working for Acted in Syria in March 2013.
Militants with the Islamic State jihadi group have released a video that appears to show the beheading of a British hostage, David Haines, an aid worker who was captured just days after he arrived in Syria last year.
British government officials were seeking to authenticate the video which purported to show the final moments of Haines, who was 44.
In the video, entitled A Message to the Allies of America, a masked man is shown carrying out the beheading of Haines, whose life had earlier been threatened in a film showing the murder of American journalist Steven Sotloff. The video, which runs to two minutes and 28 seconds, ends with a warning that a second British hostage would be the next to die.
Haines is the third western hostage and the first Briton to be killed in this fashion by the Islamic State (Isis) – the first, US journalist James Foley, was murdered in a video released on 19 August.
The British prime minister, David Cameron, issued a statement   denouncing the killing. “This is a despicable and appalling murder of an innocent aid worker. It is an act of pure evil. My heart goes out to the family of David Haines who have shown extraordinary courage and fortitude throughout this ordeal.
“We will do everything in our power to hunt down these murderers and ensure they face justice, however long it takes.”
The US president, Barack Obama, also condemned the killing. “The United States strongly condemns the barbaric murder of UK citizen David Haines by the terrorist group Isil,” he said, using his administration’s preferred acronym for Isis. “Our hearts go out to the family of Mr Haines and to the people of the United Kingdom. 
“The United States stands shoulder to shoulder tonight with our close friend and ally in grief and resolve. We will work with the UK and a broad coalition of nations from the region and around the world to bring the perpetrators of this outrageous act to justice, and to degrade and destroy this threat to the people of our countries, the region and the world.”
The recording features a voice over delivered by an Isis militant, whose voice and accent closely resembles that of the killer in both the Sotloff and Foley videos. The killer directly addresses Cameron, saying that Haines “has to pay the price for your promise” to arm Kurdish peshmerga fighters against Isis.
Speaking to the camera, the hostage, composed but clearly under duress, and wearing an orange jumpsuit, reads out a statement in which he says that Cameron is “entirely responsible for my execution” for entering into a coalition with America.
Haines, who was in the Royal Air Force for 12 years before moving into aid work, addresses Cameron, saying: “You entered voluntarily into a coalition with the United States against the Islamic State, just as your predecessor, Tony Blair, did, following a trend amongst our British prime ministers who can’t find the courage to say no to the Americans. 
“Unfortunately, it is we, the British public, that will in the end pay the price for our Parliament’s selfish decisions.”
The killer, swathed in black, then makes a statement in which he makes a direct reference to the British government’s aid to Kurdish fighters.
He says: “This British man has to pay the price for your promise, Cameron, to arm the Peshmerga against the Islamic State. Ironically, he has spent a decade of his life serving under the same Royal Air Force that is responsible for delivering those arms.
“Your evil alliance with America which continues to strike the Muslims of Iraq and most recently bombed the Haditha Dam will only accelerate your destruction. And playing the role of the obedient lapdog, Cameron, will only drag you and your people into another bloody and unwinnable war.”
At the end of the latest video, another hostage – apparently British – is paraded.
The US carried out at least nine air strikes last week on Isis militants threatening the Haditha dam. The bombing was cited by Haines’s killer in the video.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office in London said: “We are aware of the video and are working urgently to verify the contents.”
Isis had threatened to kill Haines, a father of two, in a video that emerged 11 days ago in which Sotloff was murdered. Less than 24 hours before the latest video emerged, the Haines family had made a plea to the jihadists to respond to their efforts to make contact. 
The family statement, which was released by the Foreign Office and addressed the militants directly, said: “We are the family of David Haines. We have sent messages to you to which we have not received a reply. We are asking those holding David to make contact with us.”
Haines was born in East Yorkshire but raised in Perthshire, and before his capture was living in Croatia with his second wife Dragana. 
He had a 17-year-old daughter with his first wife Louise, and a four-year-old daughter with Dragana, who has described him as a “fantastic man and father”. He was kidnapped while working for the aid organisation Acted, having previously worked in Libya and South Sudan.
A meeting of the British government’s emergency committee, Cobra, is expected to be called imminently and the prime minister’s attentions will be diverted from the referendum on Scottish independence, due to take place on Thursday.
Haines had worked for aid agencies in some of the world’s worst trouble spots, including Libya and South Sudan. 
He was in Libya during its civil war in 2011, working as head of mission for Handicap International, which helps disabled people in poverty and conflict zones around the world.

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Who Can Take On ISIS?

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Now that even Barack Obama has conceded ISIS is a genuine threat to the Middle East and to America’s national security – and not just a JV basketball team, as he previously suggested – everyone is scratching their heads about how to destroy the head-chopping fanatics.
Few want to send American military personnel to Iraq, again – especially under the direction of a “commander in chief” who spends most of his waking hours on the golf course or blaming his predecessors for every new problem he himself creates. Personally, and let me be brutally honest, I don’t trust Obama with any further use of the military – anywhere, anytime.
We all know there will be no international coalition formed to fight ISIS.
We all know the United Nations option would be totally ineffective – except for the possibility that ISIS forces would die laughing at the sign of “peacekeepers.”
We also know that no Arab military is going to take them on. If Syria, with the help of Iran, can’t chase ISIS out of its own country, that’s simply not a realistic scenario.
So who then?
There is an answer – an obvious one. But the world isn’t going to like it. The Arab world isn’t going to like it – even if it, pardon the expression, saves their bacon. The U.N. won’t like it. The anti-Semites of Europe won’t like it.
The one military in the Middle East that could do the job would be the Israeli military. And Israel is properly motivated to take on the task if the world asked nicely, especially after the beheading of American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff, a Jewish descendant of Holocaust survivors. ISIS is hitting close to home with Jerusalem – everyone knows their ultimate target, along with New York and Washington.
Even the “doves” in Israel know that.
Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog had this to say recently: “ISIS’ growing power and its proximity to Israel could pose a strategic threat to Israel.” That’s an understatement because ISIS is inching closer to its borders both in Syria and by threatening Jordan and, even worse, with more homegrown support for the Islamists in neighboring states and among the Palestinians. ISIS flags have been spotted in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and even Jerusalem.
Last week, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon signed an order officially outlawing ISIS, a move that would make it a crime to raise money or otherwise express support for the jihadist movement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to drive home the point that Hamas, Israel’s No. 1 enemy of the moment, and ISIS are virtually one in the same – both Sunni Islamist organizations spawned by the Muslim Brotherhood and both sworn to Shariah law through murder and terror. In fact, Hamas has also been behind the recent executions of American-Israeli citizens, like 16-year-old Naftali Frenkel.
But the world chooses to see Israel as an aggressor because it fights fire with fire – defending itself ably against Hamas’ unceasing barrage of rockets fired at the Jewish state’s cities and towns.
Is there a chance the world would see the light now that ISIS has made it clear to everyone its intent to establish a caliphate through sheer brute force?
Don’t hold your breath.
There’s something behind the anti-Israel mentality of so much of the world that defies logic, rationality and even self-interest. It’s a kind of Satanic anti-Semitism that has been at the root of Jewish persecution from time immemorial. It comes in waves over time – and the tide is coming in in the 21st century.
Still, for my money, this is the best option we have. Israel is, if anything, overly cautious about the use of force – especially when the lives of innocents and collateral damage are at risk. It’s true right now in Gaza, though the world refuses to see it.
Israel could take care of ISIS. I’m not sure any other power on Earth can right now.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/want-to-destroy-isis-heres-how/#coPhXPztDq2tkk23.99