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		<title>Will the Left Blame Conservatives and the Tea Party for the Norway Tragedy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sutton Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent tragic events in Norway have saddened the world. It has been reported  that a 32 year old man, Anders Behring Brevivik is believed to be the lone assailant responsible for the shootings at a youth camp on an island in Norway; as well as the Oslo bombing.

Many people lie dead. Numbers extending into [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The recent tragic events in Norway have saddened the world. It has been reported  that a 32 year old man, Anders Behring Brevivik is believed to be the lone assailant responsible for the shootings at a youth camp on an island in Norway; as well as the Oslo bombing.</p>
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<p>Many people lie dead. Numbers extending into the nineties. Most of the dead were young people on summer holiday at a camp on Utoeya Island. The youth group for The Labour Party of Norway, gathered together to learn more about the bombing in Oslo. Dressed as a police officer, Breivik commenced to shooting. Leaving the wounded in heaps. He shot the piled bodies repeatedly, hoping to kill more hiding among the dead.</p>
<p>The vicious assault came shortly after a bomb went off in Oslo. The Christian Post reports that the intended target was Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. He was unharmed.</p>
<p>The gunman labeled as a right-wing Christian fundamentalist has been vocal about his dislike for multiculturalism and Islamists. Often, writing about it in blogs.</p>
<p>Initially, reports were made that this was the act of a Middle Eastern terrorist group. Which later turned out to be incorrect. Criticism about fact checking and speculation are starting to surface. The American Muslim was particularily harsh in it&#8217;s condemnation of news organizations. Calling for readers to check out other articles with words in the titles such as, Why do they hate us and A shameful day in journalism.</p>
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<p>It should be noted that Helpers of Global Jihad claimed involvement upon first hearing about the attack. Jihad Watch details how this group  thought this was punishment for un-believers and retribution for the occupation of Afghanistan. The message was interpreted by Will McCants, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, as well by  Jihad Watch.</p>
<p>Now, that the true culprit, a extemely sun deprived white male with blond hair and blue eyes, has been exposed. Political ideologies such as Conservatism are under assault. The gunman a so called Christian and to the right of Norway&#8217;s Labour Party, (Norway is a social market economy, with a welfare state and an increasing Muslim population) spewed hatred to those he opposed. He can in no way be considered a Christian or a Conservative. As his actions don&#8217;t represent either. As reported by Reuters, Pope Benedict XVI called for Norwegians to resist hatred and conflict.</p>
<p>I think the proper label for this deranged man should be hate monger.</p>
<p>Hatred knows no boundaries. It is my sincere hope that that those in opposition to parties on the right do not place blame. As was done in the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. The Tea Party took a beating for that. It is easy to parlay events, and demonize , but what should be remembered is ,a madman is simply a madman.</p>
<p>My heartfelt sympathy goes out to all the victims and their families.</p>
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		<title>The U.S. Government: Willfully Blind to the Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They knew. Two years before the Fort Hood jihad massacre, the Army knew of jihadis in its ranks &#8212; and did nothing.

Investigative reporter Bill Gertz has revealed: “Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly warned that jihadism — Islamic holy war — was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They knew. Two years before the Fort Hood jihad massacre, the<strong> </strong>Army knew of jihadis in its ranks &#8212; and did nothing.</p>
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<p>Investigative reporter Bill Gertz has revealed: “Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly warned that jihadism — Islamic holy war — was a serious problem and threat to personnel in the U.S., according to participants at a major Army-sponsored conference.”</p>
<p>Over 350 Army officials involved in counterterror efforts attended this February 2008 conference. One of the speakers, Lt. Colonel Joseph Myers, explains the topic of his lecture: “I noted that because of our lack of understanding of Islamic doctrines, Islamic Jihad and my view that our counterintelligence function is broken, outdated and being usurped in some cases by public affairs and equal opportunity officials, we were going to get soldiers killed in America, on our own bases for that professional ignorance.”</p>
<p>And that’s just what happened at Fort Hood.</p>
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<p>What makes this so profoundly disturbing is that it shows that senior level officials knew. They <strong>were explicitly warned that jihadism — Islamic holy war — was a serious problem and a threat to military personnel and civilians alike</strong>. And still they did nothing. Not only did they do nothing, but they left known jihadis like Nidal Hasan, who murdered thirteen Americans at Fort Hood in his jihad attack of November 2009, in place and unsupervised.</p>
<p>They knew. And still they sacrificed Americans.</p>
<p>Major Hasan’s June 2007 <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/11/10/GA2009111000920.html">power-point presentation</a>, which he presented to fellow doctors on grand rounds instead of giving the lecture on psychiatry they had been expecting, is accurate as a description of how mainstream Muslims have always understood Islamic jihad. It reflects the absolute rules of Islam that have been established by scholarly consensus. It is an accurate religious document, reflecting accurately Islam’s absolute law. Hasan got nothing wrong.</p>
<p>Christianity does not teach its adherents jihad. The objective of Christianity or Judaism is not rooted in the murder of non-believers and the absolute mandate to murder, maim and destroy until the world lives under their religious law. That is Islam. That is its goal. Muslims know this. That is why you do not see blowback and protest and outrage from the Muslims against the horrible unrelenting Islamic attacks across the world. That is why you do not hear Muslims calling out for the violence prescribed in the Qur’an to be expunged. Islamic tradition says that the end times won’t come until Muslims murder Jews wholesale: religiously mandated genocide.</p>
<p>If I know this, why don’t our senior level officials at the Pentagon, the FBI, and the CIA know this?</p>
<p>Last month the Pentagon released its report on Major Nidal Hasan’s Fort Hood massacre. The report described the massacre as a systemic breakdown within the military that permitted this Muslim Army psychiatrist, now charged with killing thirteen people, to advance through the ranks despite concerns from his superiors about his anti-American, pro-jihad statements and actions.</p>
<p>There is nothing wacky or extreme or radical about Hasan’s devotion to Islam. What is wacky, extreme and suicidal is the Pentagon’s review of Hasan’s jihad without mentioning or addressing Islam, and the objective of our mortal enemy – to establish Dar al Islam in Israel, Europe, and America. Nowhere does the Pentagon’s Fort Hood report discuss jihad and the ideology that mandates and commands good Muslims to wage jihad against non-Muslims.</p>
<p>This is surrender. And it isn’t limited just to the Fort Hood report. Did you know in the FBI’s Counter-Terrorism Manual, the word jihad is not to be found? Not once.</p>
<p>This is no accident. This is happening because for decades the Muslim Brotherhood (i.e., the Muslim American Society, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, etc.), has infiltrated every agency and institution at the highest levels, and they control what is said and how it can be said.</p>
<p><em>Islam has achieved absolute intellectual dominance.</em> The Muslim Brotherhood groups in the United States control the narrative. They control information and how it is processed at senior levels of the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, and the various branches of the military.</p>
<p>And so they knew about the jihadis in the ranks, and did nothing. Will the thirteen dead at Fort Hood move the American people to rise up and demand an end to the Muslim Brotherhood influence in our government? If that happens, they will not have died in vain.</p>
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		<title>The Incredible Shrinking CAIR</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Gaffney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, right after the Fort Hood shootings by Major Nidal Malik Hasan that killed thirteen people and wounded thirty, the Council on American Islamic Relations showed up on PBS and MSNBC with their three standard talking points, here paraphrased:

So sorry about the dead and wounded, but&#8230;
The media&#8217;s real concern should be the possible backlash [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week, right after the Fort Hood shootings by Major Nidal Malik Hasan that killed thirteen people and wounded thirty, the Council on American Islamic Relations showed up on PBS and MSNBC with their three standard talking points, here paraphrased:</p>
<ol>
<li>So sorry about the dead and wounded, but&#8230;</li>
<li>The media&#8217;s real concern should be the possible backlash that could maybe happen sometime against Muslim Americans&#8230; and most important&#8230;</li>
<li>IT IS FORBIDDEN to report or analyze the shooter&#8217;s  jihadist motivations!</li>
</ol>
<p>Or as Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7m-f1bGPSY">instructed MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px">“I’m really not happy to see that his religion is becoming the subject…even if this guy uttered the words Allahu Akhbar or God is great, so what?  It tells me that this is an isolated incident…We need to find out how he thinks and what he did, but I will NEVER come to the conclusion that religion is the motive…&#8221;</p>
<p>Media outlets like leftwing MSNBC and PBS give  CAIR airtime because of the group&#8217;s claim to the title of “America&#8217;s largest Islamic civil liberties group.” But that claim rests on a smoke and mirrors illusion of political support from Muslim Americans and the U.S. Congress.  That political support for CAIR seems to be diminishing and indeed nearing the vanishing point.  In fact,  much of their current support appears to derive from foreign sources.  As a matter of stated policy, CAIR openly solicits and accepts donations from foreign embassies, foreign organizations and individuals from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and other Middle Eastern states.</p>
<p>However, even that foreign support can&#8217;t conceal the reality that CAIR is a rapidly shrinking organization that may be approaching obsolescence.   A look at just three printed programs distributed in 2006, 2008 and 2009 to attendees at CAIR’s annual fundraisers, and their most recent publicly available IRS tax documents, shows an unrelenting downward trend  in their public support over the last five years.  The numbers don&#8217;t lie, and they are drawn from CAIR&#8217;s own public documents.</p>
<p>So you don’t have to wait for Hollywood&#8217;s remake next year of <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7iqJo2-6M8"><strong>The Incredible Shrinking Man</strong></a></strong> ; a real-life remake is going on in Washington starring the controversial lawfare and lobbying group, The Incredible Shrinking Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23174" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/shrinking_man_02.png" alt="shrinking_man_02" width="400" height="222" /></p>
<p>Let us count the ways that CAIR is shrinking:</p>
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<li>CAIR&#8217;s annual fundraisers for the national organization were reported in the most recent available IRS tax returns as <em>unprofitable</em>;</li>
<li>By 2006, CAIR membership had dropped to less than 10% of the membership numbers from 2000, according to the Washington Times;</li>
<li>Between 2004 and 2006, CAIR&#8217;s membership dues fell from an already surprisingly low 5% of their total revenues, to a tiny 1% of their total revenues;</li>
<li>Between 2006 and 2009, members of Congress attending CAIR&#8217;s annual fundraiser fell from 23 to 4, and FBI and Police representatives from 2 to zero;</li>
<li>Between 2006 and 2009, even the number of foreign embassies and groups attending CAIR&#8217;s annual fundraiser fell from 9 to 4.</li>
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<p><strong>1. The Incredible Shrinking Number of CAIR Annual Fundraiser Donations</strong></p>
<p>One myth essential to CAIR’s illusion of credibility is the success of their annual fundraisers.  These are depicted as well-attended affairs that raise large sums; the recent 2009 fundraiser was advertised as being &#8220;sold-out.&#8221;  Never mind that a significant source of donations for these events apparently comes from foreign donors &#8211;  according to the 2009 event registration form and printed programs from 2006, 2008 and 2009, even from the embassies of foreign governments.</p>
<p>Furthermore, CAIR&#8217;s  three most recent publicly available IRS 990 tax returns show a large net loss of $107,216 in “special events revenue” for “annual dinner” in 2004 (page 11 in the .pdf file) and a similar loss of $59,494 2005 (page 14), and – an alert here to agency officials &#8211; incomplete information for 2006 (page 16).</p>
<p><img src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/Losses_on_Annual_Fundraiser_Events.jpg" alt="Losses_on_Annual_Fundraiser_Events" width="350" height="152" /><br />
You can download the original  990 Tax Forms for 2004, 2005 and 2006 here:</p>
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<a href="/files/2009/11/cair-990s.pdf">CAIR 990s (PDF 2MB)</a>
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<p><strong>2. The Incredible Shrinking CAIR’s Declining Membership</strong></p>
<p>CAIR has consistently claimed apparently inflated membership numbers in their 15 years of existence.  For example, a document released January 19, 2007 claimed (page 6) that CAIR had “some 50,000 members.” The facts of CAIR’s  shrinking support were presented on June 11, 2007, when Audrey Hudson of the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jun/11/20070611-034232-5919r/">Washington Times published an article</a> based on tax documents showing that CAIR’s membership had dropped from a high of 29,000 in 2000 to a mere 1,700 in 2006.</p>
<p>You can compare the two documents: the <a href="http://www.cairsd.org/UrbanLegendsAboutCAIR.pdf">CAIR 2007 document</a> claiming 50,000 members, and the  <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jun/11/20070611-034232-5919r/">2007 Washington Times article</a> showing 1,700 members:</p>
<p>And here’s the graph:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23178" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/membership.jpg" alt="membership" width="400" height="278" /></p>
<p>And we know from their 2004, 2005 and 2006 IRS 990 tax forms (above) that their reported membership revenue fell from $119,029 in 2004 to $41,383 in 2006:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23182" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/dues.jpg" alt="dues" width="400" height="234" /></p>
<p>Even more disturbing, as CAIR’s membership dues from their Muslim American supporters have drastically fallen, their reported total revenue has increased.  Not that membership dues were ever a significant part of their support – between 2004 and 2006, Muslim American membership dues fell from an already tiny 5% of CAIR’s total revenue, to a miniscule 1%.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24786" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/11/revenue_members.jpg" alt="revenue_members" width="450" height="91" /></p>
<p>And that falling support from Muslim American members was reported <em>before</em> 2007 &#8211; that is, before CAIR had been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the terrorism finance trial, before CAIR had been sued in 2008 by Muslim, African-American and Hispanic families for fraud in a case now on appeal,  and before CAIR had ties severed by the FBI, as announced in 2009.  So it’s possible the support has fallen even more in the last three years, perhaps to well below 1%.</p>
<p>This graph shows that downturn from 5% to a mere 1% of membership dues, as a percentage of total revenue:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23186" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/members.jpg" alt="members" width="400" height="263" /></p>
<p><strong>3. The Incredible Shrinking Number of CAIR Supporters in Congress, the FBI and Police</strong></p>
<p>CAIR’s annual banquets held in Arlington, Virginia are an opportunity to showcase their illusion of political power, with speakers and letters of support from Congress, the FBI and local police.  But the printed programs for their annual fundraisers show that after 2006, CAIR’s reputation and power rapidly deteriorated.  The result has been a prudent withdrawal of support by members of Congress and other agencies.</p>
<p>Here are CAIR’s printed programs for their annual banquets from 2006, 2008 and 2009, with the greatest drop in 2008:</p>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/15535130/CAIR-Banquets-2006-2009">CAIR Banquets 2006-2009</a> &#8211; </span></p>
<p><strong>Those programs document the Incredible Shrinking CAIR’s</strong><strong> Loss of Support From Congress, FBI and Police:</strong></p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23190" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/congress_fbi_police.jpg" alt="congress_fbi_police" width="400" height="270" /><br />
</strong></p>
<p>More revealing, here are the names behind those numbers: the list of members of Congress, by year, who had written letters of support for the 2006 printed fundraiser programs &#8211; and who in most cases later did <em>not</em> provide that support in 2008 and 2009.  Names of speakers at the fundraisers, from Congress, the FBI and the Fairfax County Virginia Police Department, are shown in capital letters:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong> Incredible Shrinking CAIR’s</strong><strong> Loss of Named Supporters From Congress, FBI and Police</strong></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24790" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/11/congress_support.jpg" alt="congress_support" width="450" height="495" /></p>
<p><strong>4. Incredible Shrinking CAIR’s Loss of Support from Foreign Embassies</strong></p>
<p>If Muslim American memberships are 1% or less of total revenue, and the annual fundraisers are reported to the IRS as unprofitable, how is CAIR funded?  The Departments of Justice and Treasury know that CAIR has received foreign contributions in the thousands and even millions, since Steve Emerson, Paul Sperry, Joe Kaufman, Andrew Whitehead, the Department of Justice prosecutors, the mainstream U.S. and Arabic press and others have publicized those foreign donations and pledges for over a decade.  At their website, CAIR  encourages foreign embassies to purchase tables at their fundraisers, as we see in their registration options for the recent October 24, 2009 event:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26126" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/11/cair_oct24_2009_banquet_registration_page.png" alt="cair_oct24_2009_banquet_registration_page" width="500" height="380" /></p>
<p>Yet even this foreign support has declined as CAIR’s power has faded, from the 2006 peak of 9 embassies and foreign groups, to the recent 2009 event&#8217;s total of  just 4 embassy supporters as listed in their 2009 printed program.</p>
<p>Here’s the graph:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23194" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/embassy_groups.jpg" alt="embassy_groups" width="400" height="254" /></p>
<p>And here are the names of embassy and foreign groups listed as supporters, showing the drop-off in attendance each year, based on the embassies listed in the printed program:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23130" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/Foreign_Embassy_and_Groups.jpg" alt="Foreign_Embassy_and_Groups" width="350" height="462" /></p>
<p>The one bit of good news for CAIR at the 2009 event &#8211; well, in addition to their announcement that their fundraiser was &#8220;sold out&#8221; &#8211; came from Libya. Not only did the ambassador himself attend the October 24, 2009 event, but “The People’s Bureau of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya” also took out a full-page ad in the printed program.  CAIR can take comfort knowing that at least Muammar al-Gaddafi cares for CAIR.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23094" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/200px-muammar_al-gaddafi_at_the_au_summit.jpg" alt="200px-muammar_al-gaddafi_at_the_au_summit" width="200" height="301" /></p>
<p>To be continued…..</p>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow: hidden; width: 1px; height: 1px;">Eddie Murphy is <a href="http://login.vnuemedia.com/hr/login/login_subscribe.jsp?id=JwgPPVfVmcksd4TtPuM3gvMrl1huoS1n41WGBMtipDBHyP416NfmcYCfx50GCg1dx6%2F2W5%2FgQPvc%0Ak7zApGPXqN2I1fgF7bguWbbyyJi%2FA7sbcNcNGMix7Qw%2BJvO8QjqZjq8kcNPDs0glnmyz2I8MIdwT%0AS1Wlvcvv2GXBbIfxofJ1OoZlRvl0KLCaDWz6ywZj0H%2BZLhORD7EUymF77NTUBOO006N0ReMlujPW%0AzyyKuDbAGQC6K74HJnYKudkINf%2FJS%2BKBTdwuzeNdsFtWMIG6rv64obsRohgIXEkOdTAi7l9nfn6f%0Adme0%2Fux3uwNxOp8vBnyB4EiKYqvRmUMl2rtEt%2BL0Kt1kejH8N2wkfSJiE3E%3D">reportedly</a> doing a remake of the 1957 science fiction movie classic <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7iqJo2-6M8"><strong>The Incredible Shrinking Man</strong></a>.  But you don’t have to wait for Hollywood; a real-life remake is going on in Washington starring the controversial lawfare and lobbying group, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).  CAIR is best-known for being named in 2007 by Justice Department prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial.</div>
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