A former career operations officer with the CIA warned that moderation is “not the norm” in the Muslim world. “When people in other bona fide religions follow their doctrines they become better people — Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Jews,” said Claire Lopez, speaking April 30 at the annual President’s Circle program of the Central NJ chapter of the American Jewish Committee. “When Muslims follow their doctrine, they become jihadists.”

NJ Jewish News  “Prayerful Muslims,” she added, speaking at the Princeton home of Rysia de Ravel, “either don’t know this or choose to ignore it as they live out their lives.”

After Lopez spoke, however, AJC NJ regional director John Rosen told the gathering that the AJC believes there are moderate Muslims with whom to dialogue. “Islam is a relatively new religion, and that may be why there are these extreme elements,” he said. “Perhaps we at the AJC can work with Muslims to help them in the maturation process. We believe there are moderates in any religion. Yes, there are some extremists, but we believe there are Muslims we can talk to.”

He later told NJJN that AJC invited Lopez because of her expertise on terrorism, an important topic in the aftermath of the recent Boston Marathon bombing, but was unaware of the exact content of her talk. He said there were parts with which AJC did not necessarily agree.

Lopez is senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the Clarion Fund and vice president of the Intelligence Summit. She was named a member last year of the Congressional Task Force on National and Homeland Security, which is studying the threat posed by a natural or manmade electromagnetic pulse.

Despite the rise of radical Islam, Lopez claimed, the U.S. government agencies are unprepared and unwilling to confront the threat it poses. She said the roots of failed policies go back decades, predicting this “conceptual failure” would eventually have dire consequences.

Already, Lopez said, 80 percent of the mosques in the United States either support from the pulpit or offer literature that endorses extremist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood. Her claim was apparently a reference to a charge made by a California-based sheikh in 1999, and repeated more recently by Rep. Peter King (R-NY). Critics say no independent study has confirmed the 80 percent figure.

Muslim holy texts, including the Koran and the Hadith, and sayings or acts ascribed to the Prophet Mohammed — all of which Lopez said she has read — are filled with contempt for Western ideals of individual freedom and “replete with Jew hatred.”

Plans seized by federal authorities during the investigation of the Holy Land Foundation — whose founders received life sentences in 2009 for funneling $12 million to Hamas — reveal a 100-year plan to “dominate the West” and implement Sharia, or Muslim law, said Lopez.

The documents also outline how to achieve this goal by “stealth,” Lopez said, including through interfaith dialogue. Yet, since 2007 during the administration of George W. Bush, government agencies have been actively “purging” documents and training manuals of language that might be perceived as anti-Islamic — including the word “jihad” — leaving personnel ill-prepared to handle extremism.

Moreover, Lopez claimed, in his 2009 speech in Cairo, President Barack Obama “probably gave the green light” to events occurring over the next two years when he said the United States would not stand in their way if opponents overthrew corrupt governments, allowing the Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist groups to take over.

The Missouri State House gave final approval to legislation that targets the use of Sharia and other foreign laws in the United States, which Democrats also questioned.

StLToday  “We’re talking about the boogey man in Sharia land,” said Rep. Mike Colona, D-St. Louis. “It’s a waste of time. There is no boogeyman out there.”

It’s unclear whether Nixon, a Democrat, will sign the bills, quietly let them pass or try to block the bills from becoming law by veto. Both were approved with slight veto-proof margins.

CONTACT THE OFFICE OF MISSOURI GOVERNOR JAY NIXON AND ASK HIM TO SIGN THE ANTI-FOREIGN (SHARIA) LAW BILL

Contact the Governor Here

SB 267 Specifies how courts may rule in contractual disputes involving the law of other countries and jurisdictional issues involving other countries

Sponsor: Nieves LR Number: 1409S.02T Fiscal Note available Committee: General Laws Last Action: 5/8/2013 – Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed Journal Page: Title: SS SB 267 Calendar Position: Effective Date: August 28, 2013 House Handler: Curtman

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SS/SB 267 – This act creates the Civil Liberties Defense Act. This act mandates that any court, arbitration, tribunal, or administrative agency ruling shall be unenforceable if based on a foreign law which is repugnant or inconsistent with the Missouri and United States constitutions. The act makes contract provisions that choose to apply a foreign law to contractual disputes or to have disputes settled in another country void and unenforceable in Missouri, if the foreign law is repugnant to or inconsistent with the Missouri and United States constitutions. In some cases, a court may refuse to take jurisdiction over matters, where the court believes there is a more appropriate forum for the dispute. This act requires that the court hear the case in Missouri, if a state resident brings the case and if the court finds that not hearing the case in Missouri violates or would likely violate the rights of the person who brought the case.

Many of you will be tempted to feel sympathy for this woman. Don’t. Secret Service agents were doing their job while she fancies herself a ‘victim’ rather than the face of America’s greatest enemy. She may, in fact, be a physician (Dr. Ayman Zawahiri leader of al-Qaeda is) and an American citizen, but so are Muslim terrorists.  If she can’t deal with that she really should relocate to the Muslim country of her choice. We have the right to protect ourselves from people who look just like her and believe what she believes.

Don’t discount the Muslim penchant for exaggeration and self-aggrandisement, of which this piece is loaded. Note to Seema, it isn’t the color of your skin that’s the problem, it’s the threat from your beliefs. You really need to become a little less self-important.

Huffington Post  The faux red carpet had been laid out for the famous and the wannabe-famous. Politicians and journalists arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, bedazzled in the hopes of basking in a few fleeting moments of fame, even if only by osmosis from proximity to celebrities. New to the Washington scene, I was to experience the spectacle with my husband, a journalist, and enjoy an evening out. Or at least an hour out. You see, as a spouse I was not allowed into the actual dinner. Those of us who are not participating in the hideous schmooze-fest that is this evening are relegated to attending the cocktail hour only, if that. Our guest was the extraordinarily brilliant Oscar-nominated director ofBeasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin. Mr. Zeitlin’s unassuming demeanor was a refreshing taste of humility in a sea of pretentious politicians reeking of narcissism.

As I left the hotel and my husband went to the ballroom for the dinner, I realized he still had my keys. I approached the escalators that led down to the ballroom and asked the externally contracted security representatives if I could go down. They abruptly responded, “You can’t go down without a ticket.” I explained my situation and that I just wanted my keys from my husband in the foyer and that I wouldn’t need to enter in the ballroom. They refused to let me through. For the next half hour, they watched as I frantically called my husband but was unable to reach him.

Then something remarkable happened. I watched as they let countless other women through — all Caucasian — without even asking to see their tickets. I asked why they were allowing them to go freely when they had just told me that I needed a ticket. Their response? “Well, now we are checking tickets.” He rolled his eyes and let another woman through, this time actually checking her ticket. His smug tone, enveloped in condescension, taunted, “See? That’s what a ticket looks like.”

When I asked “Why did you lie to me, sir?” they threatened to have the Secret Service throw me out of the building — me, a 4’11″ young woman who weighs 100 pounds soaking wet, who was all prettied up in elegant formal dress, who was simply trying to reach her husband. The only thing on me that could possibly inflict harm were my dainty silver stilettos, and they were too busy inflicting pain on my feet at the moment. My suspicion was confirmed when I saw the men ask a blonde woman for her ticket and she replied, “I lost it.” The snickering tough-guy responded, “I’d be happy to personally escort you down the escalators ma’am.”

Like a malignancy, it had crept in when I least expected it — this repugnant, infectious bigotry we have become so accustomed to. “White privilege” was on display, palpable to passersby who consoled me. I’ve come to expect this repulsive racism in many aspects of my life, but when I find it entrenched in these smaller encounters is when salt is sprinkled deep into the wounds. In these crystallizing moments it is clear that while I might see myself as just another all-American gal who has great affection for this country, others see me as something less than human, more now than ever before.

When I asked why the security representatives offered to personally escort white women without tickets downstairs while they watched me flounder, why they threatened to call the Secret Service on me, I was told, “We have to be extra careful with you all after the Boston bombings.”

I explained that I am a physician, that my husband is a noted journalist for a major American newspaper, and that our guest was an esteemed, Oscar-nominated director. They did not believe me. Never mind that the American flag flew proudly outside of our home for years, with my father taking it inside whenever it rained to protect it from damage. Never mind that I won “Most Patriotic” almost every July 4th growing up. Never mind that I have provided health care to some of America’s most underprivileged, even when they have refused to shake my hand because of my ethnicity.

I looked at him, struggling to bury my tears beneath whatever shred of dignity that remained. They finally saturated my lashes and flood onto my face. Shaking with rage, I said, “We are all human beings and I only ask that you give me the same respect you give others. All I am asking is to be treating with a dignity and humanity. What you did is wrong.” They stared straight ahead, arms crossed, and refused to even look at me. Up came the cruel, xenophobic, soundproof wall that I had seen in the eyes of so many after 9/11. Their eyes, flecked with disdain and hatred, looked through me.

The next affront came quickly thereafter. “You were here last year, weren’t you? You caused trouble here last year too. I know you,” they claimed, accusing me of being a party-crasher. Completely confused, I explained that this was my first time here and that I had no idea what he was referencing. Clearly, he had assumed all brown people look the same and had confused me for someone else.

I wonder what their reaction would have been to a well-dressed white woman trying to reach her husband. Would she have struggled for over an hour while they watched and offered to escort others in? Would they not have extended an offer to help, bended over backwards to offer assistance, just as they did with the woman who “lost her ticket”? Would the Boston bombings even be mentioned to a white woman?

Let’s stop this facade that we are a beacon of tolerance. I don’t need you to “tolerate” me. I don’t want you to merely put up with my presence. All I ask, all I have ever asked, is to be treated as a human being, that bigoted jingoism is not injected into every minute facet my life, that there remains at least the illusion of decency.

Despite being a native English speaker who was born in New Orleans and a physician who trained at a prestigious institution, all people see is the color of my skin. After this incident, I will no longer apologize, either for my faith or my complexion. It is not my job to convince you to distinguish me from the violent sociopaths that claim to be Muslims, whose terrorism I neither support, nor condone. It is your job. Just like when a disturbed young white man shoots up a movie theatre or a school, it is my job, as someone with a conscience, to distinguish them from others. It’s not my job to plead with you to shake my hand without cringing, nor am I going to applaud you when you treat me with common decency; it’s not an accomplishment. It’s simply the right thing to do. Honestly, it’s not that hard.

This year, Quvenzhané Wallis took the world by storm with her staggering performance in Beasts of the Southern Wild. At several award ceremonies, reporters refused to the learn the accurate pronunciation of her name, and one reporter allegedly told Wallis, “I’m gonna call you Annie,” because her name was too difficult to pronounce. If reporters can learn to pronounce Gerard Depardieu and Monique Lhuillier then surely they can take the time to learn how to pronounce Quvenzhané. It’s not hard; it’s just not deemed worthy of your energy because she is someone of color.

A school child recently threatened my 12-year-old niece claiming, “I’m going to kill you Miss Bin Laden.” Again, it is not my job to teach your children manners and social justice, to remove the disgusting threads of racism that you have woven into their hearts with your insecurities. Last week, a 39-year-old Muslim American cab driver who served in the Iraq war was attacked and had his jaw broken in a hate crime. The assailant, an executive from an aviation company, told the veteran “I will slice your fucking throat right now.” I suppose the “support the troops” rhetoric by the right only applies to white veterans.

It wasn’t enough that I have had to prove my “American-ness” at every step of my career, but now the next generation is suffering as well. It wasn’t enough that I was asked whether my father taught me how to make bombs, or that I was told that I was doomed to the seventh circle of hell during my medical school interviews. I was also asked whether I would wear a burqa or if my parents would arrange my marriage during interviews. It is outrageous that I have to actually prove to the world how horrified I am that an 8-year-old boy was brutally murdered by a terrorist bombing. Any normal human being feels this agonizing grief with the rest of the country. I do not have to prove to you that, I, too, find it morally reprehensible. Of course I do. I have a heart. I am human.

So, I no longer want a seat at your restaurant, where you serve me begrudgingly, where I am belittled for asking for food without pork, where I endure your dirty looks at my hijabi friend. I want my pride intact, I want this struggle of mine to be recognized, for you to look me in the eye and acknowledge that yes, this tumor called bigotry is indeed rivering through your veins, polluting your mind, and is so malignant that it compels you to squash my dignity.

It’s the little indignities that slowly devastate your soul. The ones where your guard is down, and you just expect to dress up, look pretty, and enjoy an evening as a newlywed, or at the Oscars, but instead end up humiliated and snubbed. The ubiquitous racist slap in the face is thinly veiled just beneath the carefully crafted façade. This filthy, highly infectious plague is transforming our nation into one of unwarranted suspicion and anguish inflicted on disenfranchised, voiceless people of color. And now, it is no longer my job to enlighten you. To quote what you so often tell ethnic communities, “It’s time for you to step up to the plate, take responsibility, and stop taking what I have earned,” my integrity, my dignity.

An e-mail from a powerful Missouri lawmaker attacking Muslims is drawing fire from Christian ‘dhimmi’ pastors in the lawmakers St. Louis County hometown. State Representative Rick Stream of Kirkwood chairs the house budget committee. He sent out an e-mail from his official state account a week ago, attacking Muslims. Please use the contact information at bottom to thank Rep. Rick Stream for his courage.

KPLR  Representative Stream has refused to comment, but Christian ministers in Kirkwood are saying plenty. Representative Stream sent an e-mail from his office to all other Republican representatives, senators, and staff personnel in the general assembly.

The e-mail quoted an 1899 speech from Winston Churchill attacking Muslims and Islam.

Full Winston Churchill Quote:

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient
Rome.”

Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 London)

Some of the quotes from the dhimmi pastors are as follows:

“I think that kind of stuff is generally destructive and incendiary. I want to look at Muslim brothers and sisters, especially the ones who are American citizens as just that,” stated Associate Pastor Rocky Marlowe of United Methodist Church of Kirkwood.

Churches are being torched by Muslims all over the Muslim world

“What you did is an embarrassment and I am ashamed to be considered part of your area of representation. You should be ashamed,” said Reverend Maureen Killoran of Eliot Chapel Unitarian Church.

“This just seems to be so over the top and aggressive in a really weird way. I would just invite him to just sit back and think about what he’s doing,” said Pastor David Holyan of First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood.

This is what happens to Muslims who convert to Christianity in the Muslim world

Email your appreciation to Rep. Stream:

 Email your disdain for these so-called Christian leaders:

• Pastor Rocky Marlowe – (314)966-8167, x135 | rockymarlowe@hotmail.com

• Reverend Maureen Kiloran – (314)821-0911 | mkilloran@eliotchapel.org

• Pastor David Holyan – (314)965-0326 | dholyan@kirkwoodpress.org

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Ignorant fool. Everyone knows there is no such thing as radical Islam or moderate Islam. Islam is Islam, just ask the prime minister of Turkey. Maybe Hall is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. No wonder FOX axed her, she sounds exactly like the Muslim apologists at MSNBC.

Crooks&Liars  In a Sunday discussion on CNN, host Howard Kurtz noted that after briefly coming together in the aftermath of the tragedy in Boston, the media had returned to its “ideological sniping.” Current TV (al-Jazeera) host Cenk Uygur told Kurtz that Fox News had led the charge in making the airwaves more vitriolic by “talking about Muslims.”

“I think that Fox is practically waging a campaign to link the words ‘radical’ and ‘Islam’,” Hall agreed. “I don’t think radical Islam is a religion. (No, but Islam is a religion that is inherently radical, misogynistic, anti-semitic, anti-Christian, and extremely violent  in its teachings) I think what happens can be a perversion, from what I understand, of religion. But I think there is a difference endlessly linking this and saying, you know, helpfully having visuals that say radical Islam with these young men’s pictures.”

Hall pointed out that Fox News guest Ann Coulter had said that Tsarnaev’s wife should have been imprisoned for wearing a headscarf and Fox News host Bob Beckel had called to suspend all student visas from Muslim countries.

“We don’t know what happened here and yet there is a rush to tar all Muslims with radicalism,” she observed. “I really think if you look at it, it’s across a lot of different shows on Fox.”

Some wiseass Muslims thought it would be cute to throw their Muslimness in the faces of New Yorkers right after the Muslim terrorist attack in Boston.

Army vet walks by and flips them the bird. They call him a racist prick. (What race is Islam?)

While leftist dhimmis and tourists smiled and took pictures of the boys holding their sign that read ‘Meet a Muslim’ one man had a much more aggressive reaction. An alleged veteran walked past the camera man and said ‘I’ve killed them when I was in the army, I don’t need to meet them.’ (Oh, how I wish I had been there)

Barry West, Tennessee County Commissioner, doesn’t see anything wrong with a Facebook post he put up that led to Muslims feeling threatened.

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Think Progress  “I’m prejudiced against anyone who’s trying to tear down this country, Muslims, Mexicans, anybody,” he said in an interview with the local Tullahoma News, adding, “If you come into this country illegally or harm us or take away benefits, I’m against it.”

The photo was posted to Coffee County commissioner Barry West‘s Facebook page, drawing consternation from Muslim groups who came across the image. In the photo, seen at the right, a double-barreled shotgun is pointed at the viewer with the caption “HOW TO WINK AT A MUSLIM.” The image soon went viral, causing West to take down the original post from his page.

The Tennessean reached out to West and the commissioner not only isn’t sorry about posting the picture, he doesn’t believe he deserves to be singled out. West responded with this email: “No I did not Twitter this … no I did not create this picture … yes I shared it … so why am I being singled out?”