“Allah Akbar” again

Depravity in London

Despite being told there is no war on  terror, once again, here is proof positive that such madness exists.

Two Islamic fanatics wielding meat cleavers butchered an off-duty  British soldier, taking their war on the West to a new level of horror. The men were arrested after savagely stabbing and attempting to behead their victim who they executed at the midday scene, witnessed by dozens of passers-by. Throughout the frenzied attack they shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ — Arabic for ‘God is great’ — demanding horrified witnesses film them as they issued threats.

‘We swear by Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reasons we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day. You people will never be safe. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’

“This British soldier is an eye for an eye a tooth for tooth,” they declared. We apologize that women had to see this today, but in our lands our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you. You think David Cameron is going to get caught in the street when we start busting our guns? You think your politicians are going to die? No, it’s going to be the average guy like you – and your children.”

This unspeakable horror, including photos and video is reported by the UK’s Daily Mail.

‘Allah Akbar,” the same praise of Allah accompanying depraved acts of murder was uttered by the mother of the two Boston bombers.  Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, who did not want to be deployed to fight Muslims, shouted “Allah Akbar” before killing 13 people and injuring 32 others at Fort Hood in November 2009. Although FBI and congressional investigations found the shootings to be an act of terrorism, the Obama administration categorized the attack as “workplace violence.” He continues to draw $278000 in salary while awaiting trial.

Janet Napolitano preferred to think that “Right-wing extremists” posed the greatest national security threats.   In January 2008, immediately after his first election, Obama’s administration sanitized our language, putting words such as “Islamist” and “jihadist” off limits. “Global War on Terror” was replaced by the phrase “Global Struggle for Security and Progress.” This was accomplished through the edition of “Terminology to Define Terrorists,” a nine-page, “Official Use Only” memo written in conjunction with Muslim advisers. Associated Press has joined in word policing.

Political correctness will be our undoing, but the left prefers to silence truth.

Cardinal O’Malley: A man to honor on Mother’s Day

A righteous man stands tall for life

Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston, has issued this statement announcing his intention to boycott Boston College’s upcoming commencement ceremony. Enda Kenny, the Prime Minister of Ireland, will be the commencement speaker and is slated to receive an honorary degree at Boston College’s graduation.

Cardinal O’Malley has publicly opposed Ireland’s proposed abortion law, which Kenny has resolutely promoted.

The Cardinal Newman Society reports O’Malley has challenged Boston College for inviting the pro-abortion commencement speaker. He urged Boston College to “work to redress the confusion, disappointment and harm caused by not adhering to the Bishops’ directives,” referencing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops instruction that Catholic institutions not honor those whose views are inconsistent with the Church’s teachings.

By tradition, the Boston archbishop delivers the final benediction at BC’s commencement each spring. The college is scheduled to award Kenny an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the May 20 ceremony. 

In his statement, O’Malley said the church considers abortion “a crime against humanity’’ and he noted that Kenny has been “aggressively promoting abortion legislation’’ despite opposition from church leaders in Ireland.

“Although I shall not be present to impart the final benediction, I assure the graduates that they are in my prayers on this important day in their lives, and I pray that their studies will prepare them to be heralds of the Church’s Social Gospel and “men and women for others,” especially for the most vulnerable in our midst,” Cardinal O’Malley’s statement said.

Cardinal O’Malley’s office number is (617) 254-0100. You might want to call and leave a message of appreciation for this outstanding and principled man.

Pay attention: Cyprus gov’t raids 60% of private accounts

Socialist contagion ripples forward

The tiny island of Cyprus is a stunning example of the ravages of the financial crisis that has ridden like a dark horse through much of Europe. A deal to prevent Cyprus from leaving the shaky European Union and abandon the euro needed financing to overt a catastrophic financial meltdown. The small nation’s hefty banking sector, which is over eight times the size of the economy is reliant for its survival on Germany — the EU’s leading economy. All very complicated. 

First some background: The thrust behind the 1992 treaty that formed the union, was the belief that the 17-nation EU group would grow into a world power based on joint financial strength — with the euro as the controlling currency. That entailed surrendering the national currencies of the union’s members. As an example, France gave up its franc, Italy abandoned the lira and Germany its detusch mark on the promise of this strength.  The EU became the reigning government of the European community with a controlling Parliament and Court of Justice, mutual Foreign and Security Policy, and Justice and Home Affairs  — as the nation states retained little more than their own languages.

In the past couple of years the situation was further exacerbated by the longstanding socialism that undergirds the European countries. When the mechanism for funding health care and other social benefits upon which the masses had become reliant began to deteriorate, hundreds of thousands rioted in the streets, furious over talk of austerity and government cuts. Great Britain, Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal experienced violent demonstrations. Although plagued  by the same economic problems, Great Britain is not a member of the EU.

The Heritage Foundation’s Foundry notes that Cyprus’s government spending has increased markedly since it joined the EU in 2004. Read more here.

Individual, private bank accounts above 100,000 euros have been seized by the government and earmarked to pay the bailout. The accounts are expected to yield 4.2 billion euros ($5.5 billion). It was previously reported that account holders would suffer an estimated 40% loss of their own assets. Under today’s regulations the news worsens. Depositors in the Bank of Cyprus will get shares in the bank worth 37.5 percent of their deposits over 100,000 euros. The rest of their deposits may never be repaid. The bottom line is that officials now acknowledge that these private account holders will lose 60% of their own money, saved in their own bank accounts — and now confiscated by their own government. Reuters has more here.

After being shutdown for nearly two weeks, banks reopened Thursday as Cyprus negotiated what is being called a ”rescue package.” Cypriots are permitted daily withdrawals of 300 euros.

Think it can’t happen here?  We are seeing the future in Europe. Obama has been laying the groundwork for such a power grab as he demonizes the wealthy and encourages class warfare — while continuing to spend over $11 billion a day and saddling Americans with nearly $17 trillion in debt, with no end in sight.

Check out the U.S. Debt Clock here. By moving your cursor over each set of figures, the sources for the calculations will appear. Arizona’s ticking clock can be viewed here.

Dem official compels students to mock Jesus & Updates

Deandre Javaris Poole, a Florida Atlantic University professor is the subject of national outrage after requiring students in his class to write the name “Jesus” on a piece of paper, then put it on the floor and stomp on it.

And wouldn’t you know? Poole is vice-chairman of the Palm Beach County Democrat Party.  Oddly, he is also a member of Lighthouse Worship Center Church of God in Christ, Fort Lauderdale, FL, where he serves as a member of the usher board.

Ryan Rotela, a junior in Poole’s class said some of his classmates complied with the instructor’s request to denigrate the name of Jesus, but he refused. He has since been suspended from the Intercultural Communication class. Florida Atlantic University is defending the controversial assignment.

According to Florida Atlantic University, Poole was conducting an exercise from the class textbook. 

Paul Kengor, executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, says he’s not surprised by the classroom lesson.

“These are the new secular disciples of ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’ –- empty buzzwords that make liberals feel good while they often refuse to tolerate and sometimes even assault traditional Christian and conservative beliefs,” Kengor said. 

Kengor said classes like the one at Florida Atlantic University demonstrate the contempt many public institutions hold for people of faith. “It also reflects the rising confidence and aggression of the new secularists and atheists, especially at our sick and surreal modern universities,” he said.

The university did not explain why students were only instructed to write the name of Jesus – and not the name of Mohammed or another religious figure

 

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More at WND.

H/T Commenter Euby

The national negative attention has had an effect. This is the message we just located on the Florida Atlantic University’s website:

http://www.fau.edu/explore/homepage-stories/2013_03message.php

Although the university’s message engages in some interesting word games, it concludes with this apology: “This exercise will not be used again. The University holds dear its core values. We sincerely apologize for any offense this caused. Florida Atlantic University respects all religions and welcomes people of all faiths, backgrounds and beliefs.”

March 29, 2013:

FAU Professor In “Jesus Stomping” Incident Placed On Administrative Leave.

No word as to whether or not this “leave” is paid or unpaid. Best guess is this is a paid vacation until the storm over this so-called professor subsides.

 http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/03/29/fau-professor-in-jesus-stomping-incident-placed-on-administrative-leave/

Spring break: Stay safe, keep out of Mexico

Contradicting facts, AZ República promotes Mexico as destination for students

It’s that time again. For many, spring break means fun in the sun and a break from studies. But the Texas Department of Public Safety brings a strong dose of reality to revelers planning a trip to Mexico. “Don’t go.”

“There is an increase in Mexican drug cartel related violence in the northern Mexican border cities. Parents should not allow their children to visit these Mexican cities because their safety cannot be guaranteed,” Texas DPS director Steven C. McCraw has stated. A warning cited violent crime from battling drug cartels as reasons to avoid traveling anywhere south of the border.

“The situation in Mexico today is significantly different than it was just a decade ago,” said McCraw. “Many crimes against Americans in Mexico go unpunished, and we have a responsibility to inform the public about safety and travel risks and threats. Based on the unpredictable nature of cartel violence and other criminal elements, we are urging individuals to avoid travel to Mexico at this time.”

Mexico’s tourism chief Rodolfo Lopez-Negrete denounced the warning. “The DPS has the right to inform as they see fit, but we believe that what they are conveying in the content of the travel alert is not the reality in Mexico.”

Those reading this morning’s Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) are led to believe that all is copasetic. An article by Daniel Gonzales, touting the once popular Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point) as a spring break destination, opens with a quote from a Mexican tourism official declaring Americans are becoming “more confident about safety” in the Sonoran beach town. This foolishness comes despite increases in reported robberies and assaults against U.S. citizens, a violent gun battle on a main street in the town last summer and the June 2010 shooting of the police chief and his body guard.

Even the U.S. State Department, acknowledging the violence, recently updated its traveler warning to Mexico by declaring a lengthy list of states and cities to be dangerous. But the feds dance around their alert, so as not to tangle with Mexican officials who repeatedly deny the danger, since tourism is a major source of revenue for the country. Canada is more forthright in its warnings, advising its citizens against non-essential travel to Mexico and to exercise  extreme caution due to high levels of organized crime and urban violence. However, the Feds clearly state, “U.S. citizens in Puerto Penasco are encouraged to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to bolster their personal security following a July 2012 mid-day gun battle between TCO members and increases in reported robberies and assaults against U.S. citizens.”

Fox News reports on the harrowing experience of 22 Carnival cruise ship passengers who were robbed at gunpoint by hooded bandits while returning from a nature hike near the tourist destination of Puerto Vallarta. Mexico’s tourism board labeled the attack a “rare and isolated incident.”

Last month, six tourists were violently gang-raped for hours in the resort community of Acapulco by armed thugs who broke into their apartment. The rapists celebrated their vicious attacks with mescal and spared one woman because she passed the ‘nationality test’ of being Mexican, the UK’s Daily Mail reports.

In 2009 Seeing Red AZ posted Spring break? Best advice: stay out of Mexico.

Thinking of a spring break destination? Stay away from Mexico was our 2010 post. The only thing that has changed is that criminality is becoming increasingly violent and does not exclude  tourists.

Travel to Mexico: Feds finally acknowledge extreme danger, April 2011 warnings specifically include Northern Sonora and Puerto Penasco.

Spring Break 2013?  Arizona’s own Lake Havasu is the hottest place to be.

Weekend reading guaranteed to make you smarter

We’ve been hearing the term “Common Core” tossed about with greater frequency.  But how many of us actually know the reality behind this insidious scheme to surrender state autonomy on education to Obama administration bureaucrats and promote a nationalized system of education well beyond the appropriate scope of the federal government. In addition, the curriculum associated with Common Core relies on an international perspective instead of traditional studies of American and World History or the study of Western Civilization.

Syndicated columnist and Fox News regular, Michelle Malkin, is writing a continuing series “Rotten to the Core.” Following this fourth installment “The Feds’ Invasive Student Tracking Database,” are others that we recommend to our readers.  If you are a parent or grandparent, even the neighbor of parents with school aged children, consider it your civic responsibility to get up to speed on this invasive governmental expansion and despicable lowering of standards.

These are Malkin’s previous columns on Common Core: (Keep checking back. We will continue to add the latest ones to the top of this list as they become available.)

Time To Opt Out of Creepy Fed Ed Data-Mining Racket

Attention, parents: Common Core opt-out form now available

Rotten to the Core, Part 3: Lessons from Texas and the Growing Grassroots Revolt

Rotten to the Core, Part 2: Readin’, writin’ and deconstructionism

Rotten to the Core, Part 1: Obama’s War on Academic Standards

Then, as a bonus, watch Michelle Malkin being interviewed by Megyn Kelly as she busts Oberlin College for its history of ridiculous hate crime hoaxes:

Basebrawl in Chase Field: WBC Mexico-Canada

Worldwide goodwill, sportsmanship fly out the window

Sporting News MLB reports on the riotous baseball brawl that took place earlier this afternoon at Phoenix’ Chase Field. The vicious fight involved several players — and even fans — as the melee erupted in the ninth inning of Canada’s 10-3 clobber of Mexico in the World Baseball Classic.

The event was reminiscent of the June 2011 melee, as Mexican fans — most of whom resided in America — jeered the U.S. team and chanted obscenities at the goalkeeper, as they blared air horns and bounced beach balls during the playing of our national anthem at the Gold Cup Final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The U.S. team was roundly booed as a vast majority of attendees supported Mexico in the U.S.-Mexico soccer match. It was regarded as a Mexican “home game” held on U.S. soil.

The attendance of 93,420 was the largest for a Gold Cup game in the United States. Shamefully, the entire post-match ceremony was conducted in Spanish. The U.K. Daily Mail’s incredulous report on that pathetic event can be read here. Be sure to scroll through the shocking photos.

CPAC rejects conservative Pamela Geller & Update

Republicans: Eating our own once again

Pamela Geller is the author and publisher of Atlas Shrugs blog, President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and Stop Islamization of America, and a regular columnist at WND. A dedicated conservative, she has bravely exposed fundamentalist Islamic extremism and taken on encroaching sharia law, here and abroad. In short Geller is wise to the ways of the influence of radicalized Islamism in America and willing to shine a bright light on the issue.

American Thinker shares these thoughts. The Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, has already has earned headlines for narrowing the conservative tent this year. CPAC is refusing to allow Pamela Geller to have a booth or rent rooms to conduct events. This, after five straight years of packed house audiences attending her featured speaker and discussion events.

Breitbart.com also questions CPAC’s actions.  More shock here at Marooned in Marin, which poses the question, “Why Is A Conservative Conference Silencing Pamela Geller?”

Geller calls her annual appearance at CPAC is “a must-see event, addressing issues that the Grover Norquist/Suhail Khan cabal refuse to address (jihad, sharia, the war on freedom in the West).”  Norquist, well-known as the president of Americans for Tax Reform, became an outspoken Republican opponent of politicizing the Ground Zero mosque issue, calling it a “distraction.”

CPAC’s three-day conference begins March 14 in Washington, D.C. Some of this year’s featured speakers include prominent figures such as Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry and WND columnist and former presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

In an article titled “Khan Job” this past issue of FrontPageMag provides further information regarding Grover Norquist and his ally Suhail Khan, whose viewpoints have undeniable clout at CPAC. Norquist’s troubling ties to Islamic supremacists and jihadists have been widely known for years. He and his Muslim Palestinian wife, Samah Alrayyes, formerly director of communications for his Islamic Free Market Institute until their 2005 marriage, are very active in “Muslim outreach.”

That would exclude Pamela Geller.

Powerline blog has a powerful post, titled “CPAC’s idea of a worthwhile discussion of immigration reform.” All five of the presenters on the panel “Respecting Families and the Rule of Law: A Lasting Immigration Policy,” support the amnesty scheme masquerading as Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

We urge you to read Powerline’s post. Author Paul Mirengoff concludes, “In short, the fix seems to be in.”

It’s difficult to disagree.

Dennis Rodman: Proof athletes should stick to sports & Update

Diplomacy requires intelligence

Flamboyant former NBA celeb Dennis Rodman is notorious for a lot of things.  Brilliance and international diplomacy are not among them.

During a recent trip to the repressive, communist-controlled dictatorship of North Korea, Rodman dined, drank and watched a basketball game with the country’s leader Kim Jong Un — apparently unconcerned that the head of the totalitarian regime has sworn to annihilate the United States. Last month’s third nuclear test and intensified long-range rocket launches are clearly saber-rattling aimed at the United States — which the despotic government has described as the “sworn enemy of the Korean people.” 

Yet on Friday Rodman called Kim Jong Un an “awesome guy” and said his father and grandfather were “great leaders.”

In an airport interview on his way to Beijing, Rodman said it was “amazing” that the North Koreans were “so honest.” Along with calling Kim Jong-il and Kim il-Sung, North Korea’s founder, “great leaders,”  Rodman proclaimed Kim Jong Un “a friend for life.”

“He’s proud, his country likes him — not like him, love him, love him,” Rodman said of Kim Jong Un. “Guess what, I love him. The guy’s really awesome.”

Does the cross-dressing, woman-beating, alcoholic who is behind nearly $1 million in child support payments have any idea that if North Koreans don’t “love him” they don‘t get a second chance?

Jonathan Kay writing for Canada’s National Post reports on the hideous gulags in the country where torture, lack of basic necessities and starvation are a way of life. We urge you to get the information our MSM often neglects to provide.

H/T Associated Press video

The grossly pierced and tattooed Dennis Rodman apologized on behalf of North Korea’s repressive leader during an interview today with George Stephanopoulos on ABC‘s This Week.  Kim Jong Un, who can’t pick up the phone himself, told Rodman he “wants Obama to call him.” Rodman’s minuscule mind focuses on “He’s a great guy….He loves basketball…Obama loves basketball.  Let’s start there.”

How about we start here: According to North Korea Freedom Coalition, an estimated 3 million North Koreans have perished under the country’s brutal dictatorial regime since the mid-1990s. Families continue to starve to death as the North Korean government withholds food rations to entire regions of the nation. The government arbitrarily detains, tortures, and executes its citizens, including children, in a large network of prison and forced labor camps.

Listen closely as Rodman responds to Stephanopoulos’ questions about forced labor prisons, by saying. “We do the same thing here.”  

 “Guess what?”  “Guess what?” “Guess what?” says deep thinker Rodman.

SSM Political Correctness reigns: Where’s Johnny Mc?

An amicus brief, or friend-of-the-court, has been filed with the U. S. Supreme Court, deceptively arguing that same-sex marriage (SSM) promotes family values by allowing children raised by such couples to grow up in two-parent homes, and that it advances conservative values of “limited government and maximizing individual freedom.”

As of Tuesday, 75 Republicans signed on, petitioning the Supreme Court to grant constitutional protections to SSM. Hollingsworth v. Perry is the appeal by proponents of California’s Proposition 8, which upholds the state‘s Defense of Marriage Act.  This is the amicus brief filed in support of the traditional definition of marriage by faith-based organizations.

In 2008, Arizona voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 102, the Marriage Protection Amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, by a vote of 56-44 percent. At the time, the crafty word-twisters at the Arizona Republic, defined the issue as the “Gay Marriage Ban.”

Yet, sticking a finger in the eye of Arizonans, in 2010, while their husband and father was a candidate, both Cindy and Meghan McCain signed on as poster women (scroll down for their photos) with the NOH8 campaign (No Hate, get it?) promoting the very issue that had been voted down in their home state.

In making the brief’s argument that SSM bans are discriminatory, the signatories are at odds with the House Republican leadership, which has authorized the defense of  the 1996 marriage law. Federal law defines marriage as a legal union of a man and a woman. As expected, Barack Obama has weighed in, urging the overturning of the law.

Proposition 8, the Defense of Marriage Act,  was passed by California voters in Nov. 2008, overturning a ruling by the California Supreme Court which had authorized same-sex unions.

Oral arguments in ” Hollingsworth v. Perry are scheduled for March 26.

Jon Huntsman, former Utah Governor and unable-to-gain-traction presidential candidate, doing his best imitation of an anything-goes guy, writes of his acceptance of SSM, illogically calling the issue a conservative cause: “The party of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan has now lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. The marketplace of ideas will render us irrelevant, and soon, if we are not honest about our time and place in history,”  Huntsman says.

The Roman Empire collapsed in large measure due to the breakdown of economic, cultural and social institutions — in effect decaying from within. Huntsman and the Republicans who have abandoned their reason at the altar of political correctness, need to reacquaint themselves with the Judeo-Christian, biblical-based values that define the greatness of this nation.