Sunday, September 26, 2010

September 24, 2010 - Washington, DC

Obama, Saul Alinsky and Lucifer / Will Obama abandon gays or Muslims? / The Defense, Amnesty, Gay, Abortion bill / President Pence? / Texas schools and pro-Islam textbooks / Taking America Back / Muslims burn Bibles / Kenyan missionaries tortured
 
NEW CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - The September 8th edition of my Chairman's Report is now available online in a PDF version. This issue contains new material on the background of those who plan to construct a mega mosque at Ground Zero as well as insight into President Barack Hussein Obama's support of the Islamic insult to the victims of the 911 jihad attack on the United States. Read full Chairman's Report
 
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PRESIDENCY 
OBAMA , ALINSKY AND LUCIFER - President Obama has praised Saul Alinsky and in particular his book, Rules for Radicals. Although Alinksy claimed to be an atheist, he dedicated Rules for Radicals to Lucifer, calling him the "first radical." It is not a far-fetched question to ask why the President of the United States would endorse a book dedicated to Lucifer. (NOTE: this is the same book Hillary Clinton wrote her thesis on in college, giving it much praise.) Because of Barack Obama's admiration of Saul Alinsky we would never expect him to criticize the Rules for Radicals, but would Obama at least step forward and renounce Lucifer? That was the question asked by my good friend Jerry Corsi at the Taking America Back conference in Miami, at which both of us spoke last week. His off-the-cuff remark, asking if Obama would denounce Lucifer, has literally driven the far left insane. Alan Colmes has written a vicious op-ed attacking Corsi, and the Huffington Post has gone over the edge in attacking the idea, as has Media Matters. Why? Because about one in five voters already think Obama is a Muslim, and the majority of voters are not sure that he is a Christian. Most Americans don't know that Alinsky dedicated Rules for Radicals to Satan, and with Obama's endorsement of that statement public, it can only do further damage to the average American's image of him as a non-Christian.  
WILL OBAMA ABANDON GAYS OR MUSLIMS? - A Saudi diplomat has defected to the United States and requested asylum on the grounds of being homosexual. Ali Ahmad Asseri was fired from his post by Saudi royalty after he wrote an article attacking the Saudi religious police. The Saudi government has refused to renew his diplomatic passport, which means he is now in the United States illegally. His grounds for seeking asylum are clearly stated: Because they hang homosexuals in Saudi Arabia he faces certain death. But if he is granted asylum by the Obama Administration, the President will incur the wrath of the Saudis and of the "Muslim world." Which side are you on Mr. President -- the homosexuals or the Muslims?

THE CONGRESS 
NOW IT'S THE DEFENSE-AMNESTY-GAY-ABORTION BILL - The funds for military operations are being held hostage by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who has loaded up the Defense Authorization Act with liberal social agenda amendments. First he added a provision to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military. But that was not enough, so he added the "Dream Act" as an amendment to give a fast track to illegals wishing to become US citizens. That was still not enough, so an amendment was added to allow abortions in military hospitals. With all those radical provisions one would think that even many Democrats would vote against it, but only two did. Sixty votes were needed to move the DOD authorization to a vote, and Reid fell four votes short. The bill authorizing funds for our troops cannot pass as long as Reid insists on adding a radical left agenda to it.  
PRESIDENT PENCE? - On the House side an increasingly visible member of the Republican leadership is Mike Pence of Indiana, who is GOP Conference Chairman. While I was speaking to Tea Party activists in Florida, Mike Pence addressed the Value Voters Summit in Washington, DC which is promoted by the Family Research Council. At the Summit, a straw poll was held for President, and Pence won, with Governor Mike Huckabee a strong second. Pence also won the Vice Presidential straw poll.
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CULTURE AND RELIGION 
TEXAS SCHOOLS AND PRO-ISLAM TEXTBOOKS - On Friday the Texas Board of Education voted to reject textbooks that portray Islam more favorably than Judaism or Christianity. The resolution cited "politically-correct whitewashes of Islamic culture and stigmas on Christian civilization" the Board said it would reject future textbooks that devote more space to teaching about Islam than Christianity, include "sanitized definitions of 'jihad."  
TAKING AMERICA BACK - World Net Daily's "Taking America Back" conference was held in Miami, Florida on September 16, 17, and 18. Speakers included Alan Keyes, Jerry Corsi and former Senator Jeremiah Denton. Aaron Klein and I spoke on Islamic issues and we served on a panel on Islam with Alan Keyes, Chuck Missler and Joe Farah. My speech on the Ground Zero mosque is in three parts at Youtube. Part 1, part 2, part 3. Each segment is about 12 minutes long. The Religious Freedom Coalition also had a "NO 911 MOSQUE" booth at the conference.
NEW OP-ED ON THE MEGA MOSQUE - A new op-ed I have written on the Ground Zero mosque is now posted at WorldNetDaily.com


INTERNATIONAL 
MUSLIMS BURN BIBLES - On the night of September 18th Muslim mobs burned Holy Bibles, hymnals, wooden crosses and musical instruments in the Nasri Pentecostal Church in Shah Latif Town in the District East of Karachi, Pakistan. Another church in the Cantonment Area of Mardan City, was bombed by Muslims. While police take complaints of the almost weekly attacks on churches, there are never any arrests. The United States gives billions of dollars in aid to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and our reward is the persecution of Christians.  
KENYAN MISSIONARIES TORTURED AND RAPED - In Barack Obama's home away from home, Kenya, Muslims frequently kidnap and rape women. This month was no different as six missionaries, three men and three women, were kidnapped by Muslims. All were tortured and the women were raped. The missionaries were supported by Barnabas Fund. Don't expect a condemnation from the White House or to read about the torture in the Washington Post. Read more.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

OUR GOVERNMENT: WHAT WENT WRONG?

America, the new Amaurot: Utpoia awaits us

First posted July 3rd, 2010

By William J. Murray, Chairman, Religious Freedom Coalition

A short time before the passage of what is now known as Obama Care, I was one of a few people at a private lunch with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN), one of the premiere conservatives in the House. She is pro-life and pro-family, as well as fiscally conservative. She has a firm understanding of how the current entitlement culture is destroying not only the financial foundations, but the social foundations of our nation. During the lunch Congresswoman Bachmann asked me what might seem an odd question to some, unless they knew that I had myself been raised in an atheistic, Marxist home in the 1960’s. She wanted to know why liberals can maintain such an attitude of superiority even when their concepts have been proven wrong so often and have led to such disasters.

I responded to Michele that the liberal mind functions according to “magic thought” which allows them to believe that their very opinions prove they have “evolved” further than other humans. Ultimately, I told her,
they believe they are so intellectually superior that they have the ability to create a utopian existence for all humanity. I gave her as proof, the fact that liberals often refer to those who disagree with them as “Neanderthals.” They actually believe their minds are further advanced. And they sell their ideas with great success to the young, the poor and the uneducated, who are promised they can be part of an intellectually and morally superior movement while also feeling entitled to be taken care of.

My conversation with Michele Bachmann on the subject ended there, but it made me think about where the concept of utopian society comes from. Utopian ideas go back at least as far as Plato’s Republic in which Socrates described a form of government called “timocracy” in which politically disinterested, honorable, wise men would govern society justly. Unlike modern utopians, Socrates understood fallen human nature. He said timocracy, even if attainable, leads inevitably to a state of oligarchy, which is eventually overthrown by a democracy. Lastly, in the democratic state the people themselves become drunk with their own power and entitlements, and society ultimately collapses into a tyranny.

WHERE WE ARE TODAY

Currently our government borrows $1.2 million every minute to finance itself. Most of that $1.2 million a minute is spent on entitlements the people of our “democracy” have demanded at the voting booth. The entitlements include funds for millions of people receiving free medical treatment through Medicaid and other programs; funds for schools and universities including everything from free lunches to transportation; funds for the “arts;” welfare payments including food stamps and subsidized housing; and, of course corporate welfare that includes bailouts. The gold plated retirement payouts for government employees add trillions to the future debt of the nation. Social Security and Medicare have a $32 trillion unfunded mandate, bills that come due in the future, for which the only possible source of funding is additional borrowing. Under the Obama-Pelosi regime this has been expanded to assisting with everything from mortgage payments to waiving the payments for student loans. The people have become “drunk” with their entitlements, and to buy votes the political class is willing to offer even more. If every billionaire in the world had all their assets taken from them, the sum would not pay for one year of the entitlements the American people have voted for themselves.

UTOPIAN PHILOSOPHY

The liberal mind would make a wonderful land in which to live. It is a place where times of imagined perfection from history are placed in a perfect order to form a utopia that far exceeds that of the city of Amaurot in Thomas More’s Of a republic’s best state and of the new island of Utopia. Although a devout Catholic who probably wrote a satire about a perfect society as a means of criticizing Protestant thought at the time, Thomas More accidentally produced the model for utopians from Karl Marx to Al Gore.

Utopians pick certain moments in history and imagine them as ideal situations that can somehow be recreated in the present to form a perfect society. World peace will ensue they say, and Muslims will embrace both Judaism and Christianity if the border of Israel is reset to its exact 1948 position. And should the United States destroy all its nuclear arms and return to its pre-World War II status, no other nation in the world will ever again pursue nuclear weapons. The proper world temperature was reached sometime in the late 1800’s, according to Al Gore, and any variant from that is caused by the evil actions of mankind. The perfect population of the planet is just a few million, according to the environmentalists, and the ideal for all nations would be villages of just a few thousand people each, much like in Sir Thomas Malory’s Camelot of feudal times.

The belief that a perfect, static environment can be realized is a hallmark of liberalism. Like all the utopians before them, President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi envision a government that can provide all the basic needs of the people including housing, food and medical care. All those in need should be supplied their needs by government. This is “social justice” just as conjured up in More’s fantasy island of the 16th century.

In Thomas More’s utopian society a central warehouse held all the staples necessary to life, and each person withdrew only what was required. Oddly, no one took more than he needed. The philosophers and educators, of course, could have the better stocks. Only the hilosophers could make the rules and run the perfect society. No one had a kitchen; all ate in harmony in communal dining halls. Everyone worked just six hour a day. Travel was restricted by internal passport to make sure that there were no population shifts because the society had to remain static at 6,000 per town to remain utopian.

Sound familiar? “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” was the phrase made popular by utopian philosopher and political writer, Karl Marx.

The fantasy persists today with the liberals who gave us Obama Care: Need medical care? Don’t worry, you can take from the medical warehouse according to your need and those who have the ability will pay for it. Your children need an education? No problem, take according to your need from government and those who have the ability will be taxed. Didn’t provide for your retirement? No problem, take only what you need and those who have ability and can still work will be taxed to supply your need. Can’t find a job you like? Take from the warehouse according to your need and those with ability will provide for you through the benevolence of government. Want to enjoy the natural beauty of the planet? Hold off on that; only the educated environmentalists can travel to the “protected areas.” And don’t drive that SUV because it could change the perfect temperature of the planet from what it is “supposed” to be. Forget that single family home if you are just one of the masses; an apartment will do less damage to the utopian environment.

There is a reason Thomas More coined the term Utopia; it comes from the Greek meaning “no place.” The main river in his fantasy island was called “Anydrus” meaning “no water.” The narrator in the novel was named Hythlodaeus meaning “dispenser of nonsense.”

Utopia may have been a fantasy for Thomas More, but it is a very real place for Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi; it is a place they believe they can create through their superior intellects right here on Earth. They join other utopians who believed, honestly, that they could create a perfect society. They include the anarchist leaders of the bloody French Revolution, as well as Napoleon Bonaparte, Kaiser Bismarck, Karl Marx, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot and Chairman Mao. All believed that using their superior intellect they could manipulate mankind to produce a static and perfect society in which all would be provided for.

Each attempt at creating a utopian society has resulted in nations awash in human blood. In the case of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao, millions were murdered to supply the needs of others. In every case of an attempt at creating a utopian society one group of individuals had their wealth taken from them and distributed to others. Most often those managing the redistribution of wealth lived like story book kings and queens, much like Nancy Pelosi or Al Gore with their mansions, private jets, high dollar liqueur cabinets and fine organic foods. In Thomas More’s Utopia this was true as well; the intellectuals, who never actually worked a day in their lives, ruled with “wisdom” and took from the best stores of the warehouse.

Every attempt to manage human productivity and consumption, including central bank manipulations in so called “free market” nations, has ended in disaster. Communities and nations reach their pinnacle when the people are the least burdened and the least governed. Utopian society is as impossible today as it was when Thomas More conjured up “no place” yet there are still those today that seek the fantasy as reality. Unfortunately, those seekers of utopian fantasy are currently governing the United States.

THE FUTURE

Currently about one-third of the money our government borrows comes from foreign sources. The biggest sovereign holders of our debt are the governments of China and Japan; most of the rest of the debt is held by the despotic royal families that rule the Middle East. China uses its vast wealth in US dollars to buy natural resources all over the world. China has purchased the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal and its state run oil companies have bought the rights to drill for oil within just 60 miles of our border. Beside Caribbean oil reserves, China recently bought the offshore oil rights in Angola and other African nations.

If China were to “dump” the holdings it has in US government issued bonds and fail to buy more, our nation would go into a financial tailspin. It is not just families and businesses in the United States that are hooked on debt; the nation itself cannot pay its bills, not even its payroll, without borrowing. Keep in mind the figure given above: The United States government borrows $1.2 million dollars a minute to pay its bills. Therefore, for our government to survive there has to be a willingness of others to loan our government $1.2 million a minute.

In March of 2010 bonds issued in the two to five year range by the United States received a “weak” reception. The US government was forced to offer a higher interest rate than expected to sell the bonds. Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said it was a “canary in the mine” warning and that, “I’m very much concerned about the fiscal situation …” which he said was caused by “…this huge overhang of federal debt which we have never seen before.”

THE CONNECTION TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

By now you may be asking yourself why the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition would be so concerned and spend so much time writing about national financial concerns and the utopian dream world of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. In reality the debt of the United States, caused for the most part by utopian thought, is directly affecting the liberties of hundreds of millions of people. Because the United States is a “debtor nation” it cannot tell those it borrows from to allow liberty. When China cracks down on religious liberties our government says nothing. Our government takes no action to help the repressed Christian minorities in the Middle East. Indeed the United States, wanting to appease rich Middle East royalty, gives immigration preference to the Muslims who repress freedom while turning its diplomatic back on persecuted Christians.

The United States has such a huge debt that it has just about destroyed our international influence altogether. We can’t wag our finger in the face of anyone, not even Mexico. Indeed, about the only nation left in the world we can threaten is our small ally which is the only democracy in the Middle East –and that is Israel.

President Barack Obama walked out of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March to have dinner privately. The PM and his aides were directed out of the Oval Office to the Roosevelt Room, which is rather small, to wait and confer. The Israeli delegation, fearing that their conversations were being recorded, said little of importance to each other while waiting for Obama to dine. After Obama finished dinner he summoned Netanyahu back to the Oval Office and further insulted him by refusing to have their pictures taken together. Obama has no problem doing cuddly smiling photos with murderous Saudi royalty who trample the rights of their citizens or with Chinese communists. The reason is rooted in the Word of God and I have expressed this before:

Proverbs 22: 7 says clearly:

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. (KJV)

Sadly, the United States is no longer a rich nation. Real wealth is created by mining, manufacturing, and agriculture. We have virtually no manufacturing base remaining and the environmentalist mindset of those in power will not allow us to mine our most important resources including oil. What little manufacturing we have is for the most part assembly work. Clothing in our stores is made in nations such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan where Christians are repressed and murdered. Most imports into the United States come from nations that repress freedom such as Vietnam and China. Because we are a debtor nation, there is not much we can say or do as we watch repression and murder. We are the borrowers, and as such we are the servants of the lenders.

WE MUST STAND

We cannot count on our government to help a single repressed minority in the world and certainly we cannot expect a government led by Barack Obama to help repressed Christians. We must work on our own to help ourselves and our brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the world.

UTOPIAN SOCIETY WILL FAIL

Here are some core philosophical arguments on why the current trend in the United States to create a government centered utopian society will fail.

Both Barack Obama and I were both raised in Marxists homes. Both of us had mothers with questionable morals who believed in the Marxist utopian dream in which human nature could be altered and all selfishness abolished, resulting in equal materialistic benefits for all. While Barack Obama attended private schools and Ivy League universities free of charge because of his racial and political background, I went into a life of private enterprise and discovered that the harder I worked the more I earned. While Barack Obama learned to live off of tax money, I learned to live off my own labor and I turned away from my Marxist upbringing. Barack Obama did not. He is still at his core a utopian dreamer, someone who believes government can provide for all the needs of the people by managing their lives and their labor.

There is not much room in a utopian society for free speech, particularly religious free speech that is Christ centered. The conflict is between Judeo-Christian beliefs which center on God, and utopian thought which centers on government. Christianity promises that God will fulfill the needs of the faithful for eternity, whereas the Marxist utopians promise to fulfill all material human needs now. Freedom of religion and Marxist utopianism are not reconcilable.

Those who labor and suffer for Christ cannot wear the yoke of government and accept Caesar as equal to Christ.

Our brothers and sisters in Christ are being repressed, tortured and murdered in Muslim nations such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and elsewhere. Their churches are bombed, their homes burned and their daughters stolen. The United States and Western Europe do nothing to stop the carnage because of their debt. The entitlements that support the West are paid for by money borrowed from those who persecute Christians.

As Christians we have Christ to rely upon, not government. We must do what we can to help each other. Right now the Religious Freedom Coalition is working to replace the water system at Camp Gilead in Jordan. It is a small step, but we will furnish clean water to the Christian kids at camp this summer in the Muslim nation of Jordan. Perhaps next year we can do more. But, we cannot wait for our government to assist the persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Our government will not step forward to help because as a nation we are too far indebted to those same Muslim nations that persecute believers.

I leave for the Middle East to inspect our projects and deliver further aid in just about two months. Please pray for the success of the mission and please pray about what you may be able to do to help Christians in Muslim nations.

Editor’s note: William J. Murray is the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition (www.rfcnet.org ) 601 Pennsylvania Ave, NW #900 , Washington, DC 20004 * (202) 543-0300). Blog located at www.MurrayontheHill.com .

Sunday, September 19, 2010

September 17, 2010 - Washington, DC


Obama bypasses Congress again / Harvard radical to control banks? / Obama's stimulus debt / The Defense Authorization (and Gay Immigration) Bill / Taking America Back conference / No 911 mosque / Need a wife, send a child
 
NEW CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - The September 8th edition of my Chairman's Report is now available online in a PDF version. This issue contains new material on the background of those who plan to construct a mega mosque at Ground Zero as well as insight into President Barack Hussein Obama's support of the Islamic insult to the victims of the 911 jihad attack on the United States. Read full Chairman's Report
 
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PRESIDENCY 
OBAMA BYPASSES CONGRESS AGAIN - President Obama was warned even by Democrats that Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren was too radical to be confirmed by the Senate to virtually any post. Taking this advice, he created a new title and post for her, thus allowing him to give her control of a vast agency without Senate confirmation, Republican congressmen Darrell Issa and Spencer Bachus in a letter last Friday to the White House general counsel said, "By giving Professor Warren responsibilities at both the White House and the Treasury Department, he is undermining Congressional oversight while giving her substantive authority over the CFPB. This is unprecedented." In this post at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Warren will have vast control over the banking industry.  
OBAMA'S STIMULUS - In just two years nearly two trillion dollars in debt has been generated to "stimulate" the economy. Much of that money has been borrowed from wealth producing nations such as China and Saudi Arabia. How much is a trillion? If the United States paid back just one trillion dollars at a dollar a second it would take 32,000 years for the payback. It is now virtually impossible for the United States to repay its outstanding obligations. If the 40,000,000 babies that have been aborted since Roe v. Wade been allowed to be born, there would be no revenue problem in the United States at all. Liberals like Obama champion killing the future taxpayers of the nation while spending wildly.

THE CONGRESS 
THE DEFENSE IMMIGRATION BILL? - Radical Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes that Republicans have to vote for the defense authorization bill no matter what it contains, so he has added a fast path for illegals in it. Reid believes this will secure him the votes of Hispanics in his tight race for reelection in Nevada. To secure the votes of homosexuals, he also plans to add an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill to allow homosexuals to "serve openly" in the Armed Services
 : This week I have been at conferences out of Washington, DC including the Take America Back conference in Miami, and have not had access to my normal congressional contacts. See religion and culture below
MAKE COMMENTS - You can make comments on this and other articles in these updates at www.MurrayOnTheHill.com

CULTURE AND RELIGION 
TAKING AMERICA BACK - World Net Daily's "Taking America Back" conference was held in Miami, Florida on September 16, 17, and 18. Speakers included Alan Keyes, Jerry Corsi and former Senator Jeremiah Denton. Aaron Klein and I spoke on Islamic issues and we served on a panel on Islam with Alan Keyes, Chuck Missler and Joe Farah. My speech on the Ground Zero mosque is in three parts at Youtube. Part 1, part 2, part 3. Each segment is about 12 minutes long. The Religious Freedom Coalition also had a "NO 911 MOSQUE" booth at the conference.  
NEW OP-ED ON THE MEGA MOSQUE - A new op-ed I have written on the Ground Zero mosque is now posted at WorldNetDaily.com
WWW.NO911MOSQUE.ORG Visit our new Internet site dedicated to stopping the Ground Zero Mosque.


INTERNATIONAL 
NEED A WIFE, SEND A CHILD - Because of polygamy there is a shortage of Muslim women. As a result, the kidnapping of Christian, Hindu and Buddhist women is common in many countries. A new tactic has arisen in Eqypt to kidnap Coptic Christian women. A child is sent to a Christian neighborhood to cry and act lost. The small child then approaches a young woman asking for help to return home and hands her a small piece of paper with his address on it. If the woman is sympathetic and assists the child to the address, she is pulled into the house, raped, and then forced into a Muslim marriage. Kidnapping Christian women in Egypt continues as a problem. Just recently a Coptic Christian priest's wife was kidnapped by a Muslim seeking a wife.
 
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

September 11, 2010 - Washington, DC

REPORTING FROM GROUND ZERO - The rally against the Ground Zero mosque / Geert Wilders speaks at Ground Zero rally / A day at Ground Zero / Obama reaffirms Ground Zero mosque / Obama: "Sweetest sound I ever heard" / New evangelical center at Ground Zero planned / More Ramadan violence / Congress - Just 11 days in session?
 
I was driving past the Pentagon on 9-11 as Islamic fanatics crashed flight 77 into it. Each year I publish my personal remembrance of that fateful day. Click here to read.


THE PRESIDENCY 
SEE NO EVIL - As Ramadan ended on September 11th the number of dead bodies hit a record high. In just 30 "holy days" there were 226 terror attacks on civilians killing 1028 and wounding thousands more. Although for the most part Muslims killed other Muslims during their "holy month," Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and others were murdered as well. The attacks were spread all over the world and included Nigeria, Thailand. Pakistan, Yemen, Mali, India, Tajikistan, Dagestan, China, Egypt, Indonesia and Ethiopia. President Obama calls the sunset call to Muslim prayer, "The sweetest sound I have ever heard." There seems to be a disconnect with President Obama and the reality of Islamic terror 
OBAMA REAFFIRMS GROUND ZERO MOSQUE - The day before the 9th anniversary of the 911 jihad attack against the United States President Barack Obama reaffirmed his support for a Ground Zero mosque, saying, "This country stands for the proposition that all men and women are created equal; that they have certain inalienable rights. One of those inalienable rights is to practice their religion freely. And what that means, is that if you could build a church on a site, if you could build a synagogue on a site, if you could build a Hindu temple on a site, then you should be able to build a mosque on the site." The President's statement came just one day after Imam Faisal Rauf told CNN that there would be worldwide violence if he were not allowed to build a mega mosque at Ground Zero.

THE CONGRESS 
BUT THEY JUST GOT BACK - The House just returned from an extra long summer recess on Tuesday and was to remain in session until Oct. 8th. However, with the majority party in real trouble, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated she may break early on October 1st to allow her minions to campaign for the November general election. This would mean there would be only 10 or 11 more days in session before the elections.
 
GROUND ZERO AND THE MEGA MOSQUE 
THE GROUND ZERO RALLY - At 3:00 PM thousands of people rallied at Park and Broadway to protest the building of a huge Islamic center at Ground Zero. For hours before the rally city officials set up a dramatic police presence that included more than 100 police cars, hundreds of officers and several buses for transporting arrested protesters. Rally planner Pamela Geller had planned on 1,000 participants, but as many as three times that showed up. People stood shoulder to shoulder, filling up three full blocks of Broadway. GEERT WILDERS AT GROUND ZERO RALLY - The key note speaker at the no mosque rally at Ground Zero was Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who is perhaps the most protected politician in the world after President Barack Obama because of his outspoken opposition to the Islamization of Europe. He has numerous death threats posted against him by Islamic groups as well as arrest warrants from Muslim nations accusing him of "blasphemy." Wilders said, "A tolerant society is not a suicidal society. It must defend itself against the powers of darkness, the force of hatred and the blight of ignorance. It cannot tolerate the intolerant - and survive." Video and transcript versions of Geert Wilders address.
AT GROUND ZERO - This update was delayed one day because I am in New York for the anniversary of the 911 jihad attack on the United States and I wanted to be able to report on the day's activities including the rally agaisnt the Ground Zero mosque. New York is a huge city and one in which life goes on regardless of anything, and today was a typical example. The area set aside for the public sat across Broadway from Zuccotti Park where the families gathered. Broadway was not closed and cars, taxis, trucks and city buses passed by in front of those who gathered from all over the world to remember the events of the 911 jihad attack. The setting was designed by Mayor Bloomberg to discourage public participation which reminds all of us of the Islamic terror attack on this city.
GROUND ZERO SUNDAY SERVICES - On Sunday morning, the 12th, my wife Nancy and I attended a newly established church service at the Marriott Hotel directly next to Ground Zero. The service is organized by evangelist Bill Keller and is a precurser to establishing an evangelical, Gospel preaching church presence at Ground Zero

CULTURE AND RELIGION
NEW CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - The September 8th edition of my Chairman's Report is now available online in a PDF version. This issue contains new material on the background of those who plan on constructing a mega mosque at Ground Zero as well as insight into President Barack Hussein Obama's support of the Islamic insult to the victims of the 911 jihad attack on the United States. Read full Chairman's Report  
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INTERNATIONAL 
PETITION TO HILLARY CLINTON ON IRAQI CHRISTIANS - Read and sign the Internet petition to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The petition urges Clinton to direct our embassies to assist Christians who have fled Islamic terror in Iraq. The petition is located at www.iraqichristianrefugees.org.
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Saturday, September 4, 2010

September 3, 2010 - Washington, DC


Why do so many believe Obama is a Muslim / Why is Obama attacking Sheriff Joe? / Congress in recess as news for Democrats gets worse / Taking America Back / The men behind the mosque / Ramadan attacks continue / Imam calls to behead Geert Wilders
 
NEW AUGUST 18, 2010 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT NOW ONLINE- The August 18, 2010 Chairman's Report is now available online. This issue contains: Complete information on the planned mega-mosque at Ground Zero. The real reasons for the mosque's construction are examined.
 
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PRESIDENCY 
ATTACKING SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO - The Obama Justice Department is convinced that Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is Hispanic, is discriminating against other Hispanics. With no proof other than the extreme far left media's ravings, the Justice Department set up a toll free number in Arizona for people to file anonymous complaints against him. They have demanded all the Sheriff's records, without any criteria, so they can search for proof of the accusations of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. For months the Department of Justice has spent tens of thousands of man hours trying to find something that Sheriff Joe has done wrong. All the while they were ignoring drug smugglers and human traffickers on our borders. Rather than to fight crime, the Obama Administration has posted signs in Arizona warning honest citizens to stay clear of large areas of the state.  
OBAMA A MUSLIM? - A recent Newsweek Magazine poll indicated that 24%, or nearly one in four Americans, think President Barack Obama is a Muslim. The day he was sworn in as president, just 9% believed he was a Muslim. The change over less than two years is so striking that I have been invited on numerous radio shows to discuss the statistics. I was even asked about this issue on the very liberal Pacifica Radio network. Perhaps President Obama has bowed just once too often to Muslim royalty and Muslim demands.

THE CONGRESS 
CONGRESS IN RECESS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 14th? - Because of a fairly unusual occurrence of Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah falling in the same week, Congress will not reconvene until late on Tuesday, September 14th. 
BAD NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS - The poll numbers for congressional Democrats are dropping at an increasingly rapid pace. Much of the drop has to do with arrogance and total disconnect with the majority of the American people. While 70% of Americans are against the Ground Zero mega mosque, Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi not only supports it, but wants those who are outspoken against it to be investigated. Investigated for what -- free speech?

CULTURE AND RELIGION 
TAKING AMERICA BACK - Conservative Internet giant World Net Daily will be holding a conference in Miami, Florida on September 16th, 17th and 18th, and large numbers of Tea Party supporters are expected to be present. On Friday I will be speaking at 2:00 on the proposed Ground Zero mega mosque and I will also participate in a panel at 2:30. The Religious Freedom Coalition will have a large display on hand all three days and our TV commercial about the intolerance of Islam will be featured as well as our new Internet site at www.no911mosque.org  
THE MEN BEHIND THE MOSQUE - Sharif el-Gamal, the real owner of the property for the proposed Ground Zero mosque, refuses to say where he obtained the $4.8 million cash he paid for the building. He has also refused to pay the City of New York $227,000 in taxes on the property. It has also been revealed that this devout Muslim has been arrested for several assaults, DWI and soliciting a prostitute. Meanwhile the writings of the front man, Imam Faisal Rauf show that he promoted signing an Arab-Israel peace treaty as a way to pacify the enemy while preparing for war. He stated that in the end Israel would be Muslim state with a Jewish minority.
NEW OP-ED ON THE MEGA MOSQUE - A new op-ed I have written on the Ground Zero mosque is now posted at WorldNetDaily.com

 
WWW.NO911MOSQUE.ORG Visit our new Internet site dedicated to stopping the Ground Zero Mosque
 
INTERNATIONAL 

RAMADAN ATTACKS CONTINUE - By the end of the 22nd day of the Muslim "holy month" of Ramadan, there had been 162 Islamic terror attacks against civilians, killing 669 people and wounding many more. Although for the most part Muslims killed other Muslims during their "holy month," Christians, Buddhists and others were murdered as well. The attacks were spread all over the world and included Nigeria, Thailand. Pakistan, Yemen, Mali, India, Tajikistan, Dagestan, China, Egypt, Indonesia and Ethiopia.  
BEHEAD GEERT WILDERS - Netherlands MP Geert Wilders is one of the great heroes of Europe who has stood up and boldly said that Islam is a danger to the European way of life. The Kingdom of Jordan has issued an arrest warrant for him for committing the crime of "apostasy," and now an Australian imam named Feiz Mohammad has issued a fatwa calling for him to be beheaded. This is the same imam who said Australian girls who are raped deserve it because of the way they dress. We need a mega mosque at Ground Zero to preach this kind of hate here as well?

CHRISTIAN INTERNET STORE 
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